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When modern plant knowledge conflicts with family foraging traditions

My mom and I used to bond over gathering wild herbs for her traditional remedies, but since I started questioning some of her plant knowledge with what I'm learning from modern sources, we've stopped going out together and there's this weird tension neither of us knows how to address.

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New learning is threatening old wisdom, and both generations are losing the relationship in their effort to be right.

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