heatherwitch:

This Fall I went out and harvested 14 pounds of blue elderberries in the mountain and now I’m making homemade elderberry syrup and selling it.

There’s a man I know who owns a local farm and I buy sausage from him. He asked to buy my biggest jar of syrup (worth $32) and I proposed a trade for $30 worth of sausage and he provides a jar for the syrup. He agreed and I don’t know what aesthetic/lifestyle I’m living right now but it’s great.

I just love the feeling of bartering and trading hardwork + specialties instead of exchanging paper made at jobs we don’t care about.