Shantell Powell<p>Years ago, I once posted a recipe for chokecherry jam and a guy flipped out on me, telling me that chokecherries are deadly poison. I told him that he was wrong, and that chokecherries were eaten by my ancestors for thousands of years. They are an ingredient in pemmican. Dude went off the fricking rails so hard he had me second-guessing myself. And I grew up foraging. </p><p>I wonder why that triggered him so hard? People are weird. <a href="https://c.im/tags/chokecherries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chokecherries</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/pemmican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pemmican</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/IndigenousFood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousFood</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/foraging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>foraging</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/forager" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>forager</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/WildCraft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WildCraft</span></a></p>