Sara Woods Kender
Sara Woods Kender, an herbalist and wild forager from New Hampshire, shares her experience living off-grid, growing her own food, and using plants for medicine. Through her apothecary, Sacred Tree Herbals, she empowers others to achieve self-sufficiency in food and health.
Kender emphasizes the importance of decentralizing the food system, growing local food, and learning skills like canning, fermentation, and seed-saving to ensure food security and resilience. She explains how her family lives off-grid, powered by solar energy and supported by a rain collection system. She highlights their use of a grow dome to cultivate food year-round, from kale to tomatoes, and shares insights into her medicinal garden, which includes herbs like echinacea and elderberry for immune health.
Kender stresses that growing food doesn’t require a lot of land, while encouraging people to connect with local farmers or join CSAs as additional options.
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