vegetarian to raw freegan to raw foodist :D

[chessxcore]

Hi everyone!

I'm Tim, 24 and have been vegetarian since i was 12 years old. When i was 18 my girlfriend at the time and I decided we were going to travel/hitchhike/train hop our way around the country for 4 years. During that time we were both raw vegetarian freegans. And now for the last 2 years I've turned my food focus to raw superfoods, locally grown organic produce, jing tonics and local wild-crafted foods.

[spicyfull]

I wish you everything you need to Stay RAW..........Welcome to MY World.

[jesslcochran]

Hi Tim! I had wanted to travel around (either the US or Europe) but never got the chance. Oh how that would've been awesome!

Welcome to the forum. :) I'm still new here but the people I've met are so friendly and helpful.

BTW...what's a "freegan"?

*hugs*
Jess

[Dimond]

Welcome Tim.

[juliebove]

Hi Tim! I had wanted to travel around (either the US or Europe) but never got the chance. Oh how that would've been awesome!

Welcome to the forum. :) I'm still new here but the people I've met are so friendly and helpful.

BTW...what's a "freegan"?

*hugs*
Jess

I just read about this on another forum. A Freegan doesn't pay for their food. They get it from free, and that could mean (not saying specifically in this case) out of dumpsters.

[Colorawdo girl]

I would love to live in a climate where the fruit trees are full of wonderful fruits and people love it if you pick them and clean up the yard. What a lunch break that would be!!!! Freegan.

I see it in my future.Sitting under my own vine and my own fig tree. Ahhhhh.

[freshlight]

Welcome! Freegan sounds interesting...

[chessxcore]

thanks all for the welcome!

In my experience traveling and being freegan nature/the earth could supply us with the food we needed. there were times that we has to dumpster dive. mainly Food Not Bombs were out main source of food. Obviously if a dumpster was nasty looking we wouldn't get in lol.. but boy would you be surprised all the perfectly good everything that people get rid of daily.

In 4 years we were able to see 44/50 states. And we did it with 0$ we would either sleep in out tent or squat. Also when i was 17 i lived in Europe for 11 months.

But i have gone from Urban foraging to forest foraging free wild crafted foods are the best!

[SweetTangerine]

That sounds so exciting! Have you written about your experiences?

[chessxcore]

I did journal/write all through my 4 years of traveling. I wish i had done it even more though.

[Frugal Raw]

Welcome!! I wish you the best of rawesome health!!

[xinmywayx]

Welcome! Two questions....1) Where in PA are you from? and 2) Are you Straightedge or is the "x" in your name just there because you wanted it to be?

[selina_k]

Welcome!

I could google, but I'll rather ask, what is a jing tonic?

[mattshor]

welcome, looking forward to sharing your journey with you.

[Moretta]

Welcome and good luck on your RAWNESS journey.

[Veganforlife]

Welcome! You will have fun on this healing journey!

[chessxcore]

My Jing Tonics lately has been consisting of cordyceps ho-shou-wu and reishi.. basicly its a extremely restoring tonic. Very good for staying and feeling young. Truth Calkins speaks best on Jing. :D here's a link of him talking about jing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIb3oMHCdJ8

And my chessXcore represents me being a hardXcore chess player. I actually have a tattoo of 3 chess pieces :P

I live in Jefferson county PA... small town called Brookville.

Also if it weren't for san pedro, and certain wild crafted mushrooms I would be straight edge >.<

Thanks again all for the welcomes!

[gs4life]

welcome to the forum :)

[amanda]

Hi everyone!

I'm Tim, 24 and have been vegetarian since i was 12 years old. When i was 18 my girlfriend at the time and I decided we were going to travel/hitchhike/train hop our way around the country for 4 years. During that time we were both raw vegetarian freegans. And now for the last 2 years I've turned my food focus to raw superfoods, locally grown organic produce, jing tonics and local wild-crafted foods.

that's so awesome! I saw a video about freeganism and many pictures of great looking food thrown away :(

[amanda]

I would love to live in a climate where the fruit trees are full of wonderful fruits and people love it if you pick them and clean up the yard. What a lunch break that would be!!!! Freegan.

I see it in my future.Sitting under my own vine and my own fig tree. Ahhhhh.

Oh!! Me too. Snow is just coming down here, I'm at we're supposed to get 8 inches of snow! Definitely missing the VItamin D too.

[xinmywayx]

=) it's cool, at least you're "hardcore" something. chess is as good as anything! i used to live in lancaster and philadelphia, pa. so, i figured i'd ask!