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Root beer is the tastiest thing ever! But like all comforts and pleasures, it comes with a cost. How do we love something that's not good for us or for our planet?

For an account of my adventures brewing my own traditional root beer with foraged ingredients check out this article that wrote for the fantastic Northern Woodlands magazine. And if you want to read more about my early adventures in foraging, check out my old blog, The Foraging Family.

If you're interested in foraging yourself, I highly recommend the incomparable works of Samuel Thayer as a place to get started.

Check out this New York Times Magazine article on the barbaric history of sugar.

Here's a source for John Muir's quote, "Eat bread in the mountains ..."