Hairy Banknotes

There’s an interesting trend these days out past the end of the paved roads and old-time traditions are creeping back. For many rural folks who harvest the bounty not cultivated by hands but by old Ma Nature, these skills never disappeared. Who among us doesn’t know of a wild berry patch or nut tree, or where the mushrooms sprout up?

Fishing and hunting are seeing a resurgence as more country folk take advantage of this healthy food source. But there is another traditional wild harvest farmers once used to put money against the grocery bill. It might surprise you, but a hundred years ago, nearly every farm