Menu
Learn ABOUT (deep listening, information)
1. Pearl went hunting with her dad, how did that help her to learn about getting food for her family?
2. Pearl’s family ate rabbit, beaver and raccoon — (“tastes like pork”) — what other kind of wild game is found in South Dakota?
3. How does watching a relative prepare food help others to learn how to do it?
4. Pearl shares that right now we could survive off the land…what kinds of foods can be found in nature that would allow people to survive today?
5. How is drying food different from using refrigeration? Is drying food still an option for preservation today?
6. How were meat, squash and chokecherries dried to preserve them for the year?
7. How has food preservation changed over the years?
Learn FROM (deep sharing, transformation)
1. What is your experience with hunting or fishing or finding food in nature to eat?
2. How close are you to the origin of your food? Do you know where most of the things you eat come from?
3. How does eating food right from nature differ from eating processed foods?
4. How easy would it be for you to “survive off the land?”
5. In what ways has your diet changed over the years?
6. Are there certain things you ate as a child that you no longer eat now? Why?