Peppermint, White Lightning, and a Whole Lot of Common Sense

This episode is pure Appalachian gold, the survival skills our people lived by and nobody teaches anymore.Mandy takes you deep into the mountain knowledge that raised her, reading weather signs, counting August fogs, waiting for the first frost, canning food like security, peppermint and white lightning remedies, hog killin time in Morganton, canning sausage with Danny Man, hand milled cornmeal up on Bear Branch, snappin beans on the porch, catching crawdads for fish bait, and her full rant about the Hellbender salamander and kids losing their wild childhoods.It is a love letter to the way we were raised, tough, resourceful, rooted, and free.A reminder that country folks really can survive.