2024 was an Amazing Year! We could also call it "The Year of Expansion"! Selling our teas by the cup this year was a major hit! Sales of our teas went so well over the course of 2024, that we are doing our first ever Top Five Tea Report!!! We are now looking at our calendar and figuring out just how much more foraging will need to be done to prepare for the fairs we want to attend this year! As it is, some of our ingredients got dangerously low that we harvested last year, which may mean putting various limited-run teas on our table if the growing season starts out slow again. Do keep an eye on our web calendar. There are a number of fairs pencilled in offline that will begin appearing once they are registered for. We were asked multiple times about advanced foraging workshops, which will be headed up by Marilynn from her Biblical Natural Health Coaching website, if this interests you, drop her a line at bnhc@naturalhealthcoaching.ca and she'll send you the draft list that you can share your feedback and months you'd like to attend. Various homeschooling parents have also shown interest in our introductory foraging workshop as well. If those interest you too, send an email to Marilynn as well. We have a feeling that 2025 is going to be a busy year for Ashtree Wildcrafting! We wish you the best of health this year, and look forward to seeing you in person at a fair or event. Click through to read the full report and see a few pics: https://ashtreewildcrafting.ca/wp/blog/2025/01/04/2024-year-in-review/

The following is a sobering account of the challenges we faced in 2024, which were marked by the government’s never-ending power grabs and relentless assaults on our civil liberties. 2024 saw a continued rise in government overreach and abuse of power. The militarization of police forces continued unabated, with local departments increasingly resembling extensions of the military. Schools, meant to be places of learning and growth, became more prison-like with the implementation of “safety” measures that criminalize minor infractions and create an environment of fear. The right to private property was further eroded, with the government increasingly empowered to seize assets under various pretexts. The plight of the homeless worsened, with cities criminalizing homelessness and implementing policies designed to make their lives even more difficult. Military veterans, once hailed as heroes, were increasingly treated with suspicion and subjected to surveillance. https://www.activistpost.com/the-deep-states-triumph-2024-and-the-erosion-of-liberty/

Terrorists open fire on a Jewish girls’ school... for a third time! Bais Chaya Mushka Girls Elementary School has been targeted by three shootings in as many months. What has been the federal response? A few perfunctory tweets. 🇨🇦 #NoMoreLiberalsAndNDP 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 #SayingTheQuietPartOutLoud 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 #resigntrudeau 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 #JustSayNoMore 🇨🇦 https://www.rebelnews.com/ezra_levant_show_december_20_2024

Russia’s Duma passed a bill yesterday banning children who are not proficient in Russian from attending school. The law takes aim at migrant children, who must now pass a Russian language proficiency exam. The State Duma, which passed the bill 409-1, is the lower house of Russia’s Federal Assembly. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/moscow-moves-ban-migrant-kids-school-unless-proficient-russian

Residential school skeptics should be jailed, says Trudeau advisor! Special Interlocutor Kimberly Murray endorsed a private New Democrat bill to jail residential school ‘denialists’ for two years. 🇨🇦#NoMoreLiberalsAndNDP 🇨🇦 🇨🇦#SayingTheQuietPartOutLoud 🇨🇦 🇨🇦#resigntrudeau 🇨🇦 🇨🇦#JustSayNoMore 🇨🇦 https://www.rebelnews.com/residential_school_skeptics_should_be_jailed_says_trudeau_advisor

New Brunswick's new premier will allow schools to hide gender pronoun changes from parents - LifeSite 🇨🇦 #NoMoreLiberalsAndNDP 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 #SayingTheQuietPartOutLoud 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 #resigntrudeau 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 #JustSayNoMore 🇨🇦 https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/new-brunswicks-new-premier-will-allow-schools-to-hide-gender-pronoun-changes-from-parents

UN educators EXPOSED for ‘deep links’ to Islamic terror groups, says report! IMPACT-se, an Israeli non-profit organization, analyzed five Gazan schools, two of which Hamas tunnels were found under. At these schools, students are taught ‘violent narratives’ and deny Israel’s existence. 🇨🇦 #NoMoreLiberalsAndNDP 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 #SayingTheQuietPartOutLoud 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 #resigntrudeau 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 #JustSayNoMore 🇨🇦 https://www.rebelnews.com/un_educators_exposed_for_deep_links_to_islamic_terror_groups_says_report

TDSB requests nearly $22 million to construct new “decolonized” and “fully Indigenized” school 🇨🇦 #NoMoreLiberalsAndNDP 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 #SayingTheQuietPartOutLoud 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 #resigntrudeau 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 #JustSayNoMore 🇨🇦 https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1704504279391277061?referrer=john_f_burke via @truenorthcentre

TDSB requests nearly $22 million to construct new “decolonized” and “fully Indigenized” school 🇨🇦 #NoMoreLiberalsAndNDP 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 #SayingTheQuietPartOutLoud 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 #resigntrudeau 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 #JustSayNoMore 🇨🇦 https://tnc.news/2024/11/15/tdsb-construct-decolonized-indigenized-school/ via @truenorthcentre

Trudeau promotes abortion in speech to high school students in New Brunswick - LifeSite 🇨🇦 #NoMoreLiberalsAndNDP 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 #SayingTheQuietPartOutLoud 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 #resigntrudeau 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 #JustSayNoMore 🇨🇦 https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/trudeau-promotes-abortion-in-speech-to-high-school-students-in-new-brunswick