This is an amazing story, thanks for sharing! One of the main reasons I love HN is coming across gems like this, and people like you. When I was young, I would

This is an amazing story, thanks for sharing! One of the main reasons I love HN is coming across gems like this, and people like you. When I was young, I would visit a great-aunt in the mountains of rural Transylvania every summer and would help harvest crops, fish, hike, and forage for mushrooms and berries with my grandmother. Now I live in LA and work in tech, often missing that bucolic lifestyle. I just couldn't stop reading about 100 pages straight of One-Straw Revolution this evening -- it reminded me of a simpler, better, time.