The Healing Medicine of the Forest

So why forage when you can go into the grocery store? It's much easier, it's faster, doesn't require any of your time. Why? What's the benefit of it? Sure, the supermarket is easier, but the supermarket doesn't have necessarily the sorts of things that we would be foraging for. While a trip to the grocery store can be a lovely social occasion, if you happen to bump into a few friends, you're not in nature. Right. There is healing, medicinal healing for us when we step into the forest. And this has long been documented, loads of research. If you've ever heard of forest bathing, something the Japanese came up with, it's now come to North America and essentially it's taking a walk in the forest. There's medicine in the forest, there's. The oxygen levels are different, the air is different. When you're immersed in the forest, when you can see the forest for the trees, when you know what it is that you're looking at and it's not just a big green blur, you're connecting on a level that you're not going to do in the grocery store, you know, it's a whole different experience.