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>preparing for winter
fermented food. make holes in the ground, cover them in clay and fire the clay. if you have salt or vinegar you can safely pickle food. you can make vinegar in the same type of hole. the salt or acid prevents pathogens from growing while the lactobacillis develops and starts to secret its own acidic defences. good pickles still have lacto in them and will tingle on your tongue. a little bit of mold on the top can be skimmed off. if it smells rotten or has mold inside you did something wrong and you should throw it out.
you can pickle/ferment almost any kind of food you find in the wild. dandelion greens, fiddleheads, bird's eggs, meats, etc. the important part is keeping a low temperature, so dig a hole in the shade and cover it once you're done. this way the fermentation will happen over months instead of days.
many roots can just be sun dried and will keep indefinitely. to be healthy in the winter you should eat meat and fat. as far as scurvy goes, remember that uncooked meat is high in vitamin C. meat can be cut into very thin strips, dried by sun/fire and pounded into powder between two hides. this powder should then be mixed with rendered fat and perhaps a few dried+powdered berries to make pemmican. to get the lard, boil meat scraps and bones for some time and scrape the layer off the top once it cools. put the pemmican in an animal hide and seal it with sap or wax. there should be too much fat for anaerobic bacteria to develop. as usual, if it tastes and smells bad/rotten, it is.
a steady diet of what they now call probiotics will make it harder for food pathogens to hurt you: competing bacteria kills other microbes and if every surface of your gut is covered in probiotics there's no room for parasites to attach themselves without being genocided by your right wing bacterial colonies. it's like having tiny cossacks inside your body, ready to kill communists in whatever parasitic form they appear. you may already know that the bacteria in your gut talks to you by secreting hormones to affect your mood and regulate your diet.
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