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Unleash Your Life Episode 16, The 100% Project

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Is shopping at the grocery store inevitable in today's world, or is there another way? In November, two families with kids will embark on a year-long adventure to source all of their food from foraging, growing, fishing, hunting, or buying locally (within 50 miles of source). Come along with us as we go to 100%!

This Episode’s Action Points:

Join the Movement! — Join us in the 100% Project by choosing your own %. We won’t officially launch until November, but you can begin now. Sign up for The 100% Project Newsletter for inspiration, wild food ideas, and more!

Learn One New Wild Edible a Week — Choose once a week, once a month, whatever. Then hold yourself to learning and introducing into your diet one new wild edible per period. Eat the Weeds is a great online resource, and if you’re in the U.S. Midwest, Sam Thayer’s books will teach you tons.

Less Trash — Imagine that any trash you have will be dumped in your front yard instead of hauled away to be dumped somewhere else. Now, whenever you buy something, ask yourself if you want that trash in your yard. If not, consider whether you really need that thing, or if there is a way to buy it (or something similar) without the packaging.

Design Your Own 100% Project — It doesn’t have to be food. Maybe it’s learning a new skill, like a language, and you try to add 10% each month until you can do a full day with only your second tongue. Or maybe it’s learning to do a handstand or a goal to lose a certain amount of weight. Taking the long game by only holding yourself to a certain percent per month means that you’ll set the new habits in deeply and have a better chance of making lasting change.

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5 thoughts on “Unleash Your Life Episode 16, The 100% Project”

  1. Thanks, Kenton & Rebecca, for another great podcast! Love Mirabelle’s idea of envisioning waste from an item in the front yard before purchasing. Also, I’ve been wanting to learn more about foraging and so appreciate the recommended resources. For a future podcast idea, would love ideas on “sustainable” foraging, as I have heard that some species are dwindling in supply (ramps, elderberry). Some are being over-harvested for use in supplements. We need to be mindful to take only what we will use and learn how to leave enough seed/root to ensure future abundance. Thanks again ~

    1. Susan, we’re so glad you liked it! And that’s a great idea for a podcast — we will put it on our list!!

      Love,
      Kenton and Rebecca =)

  2. Looking forward to watching you two (and the girls) learning a new environment! That means videos!
    Reduce, reuse, recycle. My grandma had that down long before recycling became popular! She never had trash pickup. My parents didn’t either and I’ve refused to pay someone else to haul my trash away. What will burn gets burned. Milk jugs become maple sap containers. We haul tin cans in to the recycling place with other scrap metals. I makes me pay more attention to the environment so friends think I’m crazy when I want them to put paper with paper and cans with cans.
    We’ve always had a garden. Kids will eat their veggies when they can pick them right off the plants!
    And foraging. Something new I’m learning. So much fun. Some of the things I’m finding to munch on the kids love. Others they’re not so sure about. It’s going to take some doing to figure out what percentage of wild food I am eating. I would like to increase it, but sometimes it’s a challenge to find the time. I guess I need to spend less time watching Haphazard Homestead on YouTube!

  3. Thanks for the info on foraging. It’s something I have become more interested in lately. I do harvest dandelions from my back yard (because I know they are clean) and have used the greens in salads and also sauteed with garlic and olive oil. I’ve also made tea from the flowers.
    We get about 90% of our veggies from the garden throughout the summer. I extend the season as long as I can using low tunnels and covers.
    My goals to grow things through the winter so we can at least have some fresh produce all year around.

    1. Rob, for a long time now we’ve been trying to figure out how to grow effectively in the winter in our climate. Now it seems we’ll just get to switch climates! Those dandelion greens in garlic and olive oil . . . yum!!!

      Love to you!
      KaRaMaL =)

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