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Trading Spouses
Frazier and Zandi
George Frazier, Zeb and Clyde harvesting wild plum flowers at Goods From The Woods Organic Farm in Licking Mo.
One should always work with their own style.
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TURKEY DINNER
Clyde was purchased in 2001 for Thanksgiving dinner. He
endeared himself to us in many ways including his penchant for self
gratification- must have been the pine nuts. Rather than a planned
Thanksgiving dinner, Clyde became our farm mascot.Clyde became an food for thought
for millions. WAY TO GO CLYDE!
We did NOT do Clyde in for the show, but when the opportunity
arose in the course of filming, there were 100 reasons to want to share
Clyde.
People really forget where their food comes from, or they
just don't want to know. Clyde was free range and treated ALWAYS with
respect by our family. He was purchased as food, but stayed with us
because he was a very special bird.
our blog is mixture of news about certified organic wild harvests and our lives. Marge gets plenty of discussion space. It provides information about the business of wild harvests and our lives on our wild crops farm.
POVERTY AND POINT OF VIEW
I have gotten feedback about our income levels and our family being represented as poor. Reality is a point of view. We grow much of what we eat. I would rather spend money on land than new cars, I would rather buy books over $75.00 skate shoes. The lessons of living in and with the wild are priceless. We chose to live in an area where the demographic represented "low income" people. We continue to strive to create resources rather than income. We live in an area where there is much to be said for "doing more with less."

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Bear with us!!!!
George
and I are sort of self directed
type personalities. You would have to kind of look around at our
lives to understand.
We
did television
and radio in Alaska from our
log cabin near Homer. Before
that, George had been a Securities Runner,
I was a litigation paralegal
in Las Vegas 80's . We began working with wild products as a mechanism for conservation in the 90's, taking on land use policy on 68 million acres of public lands with pinon pine nuts. For the new century we settled down to sale wild nuts on the internet
from Licking
Mo. We purchased our farm, sight unseen over the internet in 1999. Our whimsical hearts loved the earthy delight of selling nuts from Licking. 
Pine nuts are historically aphrodisicas.
In 2002, we certified our land wild crop
organic and spent time learning about all the species that lived on
our 12 acres in Licking. We found we enjoyed being in the woods
harvesting wild plants and distilling them. So we went about developing
a business model for helping
people keeping biodiversity through earning a living with it.
We are both pretty good at doing our own
thing. When Trading Spouses came along and invited us to do the
show, we flew with it.
By now, most folks have figured
out we are kind of a jokers. The production people pretty much let us
have a free rein. Bless their hearts, on the Licking side of production, people had a very good time.
I have to say this was an extraordinarily wonderful opportunity and we
could not be happier. Well, we would have loved the camera crew and the
raw footage to add another hour. There were lots of wonderfully
fun things that went that week, which could not be included. But,
life is too rich to spend time with what you don't have. There is
something to be said for making the most out of what you do. |
Double
Entendres
in Trading Spouses
EXTREME
P.I.T.A.
vrs.
Nuts
from Licking, Mo!
My Notes on the episode
When this first
aired, lots of people in our rural farm community mistook
P.I.T.A. for P.E.T.A . But, P.I.T.A. is, of course, a common on-line
acronym. So, once people got that joke (and casting was brillant in
"pitting" us together) people started to understand layers humor of this
episode.
favorite parts��
100 year old bed
filled with nuts, leaves and clothing
Come on - the television cameras
were coming (as was "the other woman").
George
and his giant nut bag,
wicked, wicked man
and with a straight face,
Zeb - "I
guess I will have to get a job."
Time to do work, son!
there is not a straight lace to be found.
The production
company let us loose, without rules and we were free to create whatever
WE wished. This was the dream venue for creativity and we worked hard to create an experience that was interesting and full of phun.
A bare foot ritual
was a fun way to judge a person's comfort level with something new and
unexpected to measure creativity, flexibility and self confidence.
It
was also a tool that worked with my bear slippers (a gift from my hubby
- the symbol of my greatest fears) hence the fear of bears..to bare
ones "soul".
Speaking of flexibility... the gym thing: One does not
have be drop dead beautiful to have
sensuality as part of her being.
There is a great deal of playing around with the whole idea of pine nuts as aphrodisicas. The brighter people seemed to understand the puns, whereas folks that weren't so hip, couldn't connect the dots.
Traci
Zandi and her beautiful boys are simply top notch! I hope in retrospect
she understood what I was trying to do with the $50,000.000
The Earth has the
power to heal any ailment of the human condition.
$50,000.00
is a lot of money and a tool which can have a huge impact upon people's
lives. I took some heat on how the $$$ was used, but I wanted to offer
the family motivation to connect in a different
venue. It was my
hope to offer a choice and an opportunity for lasting change.
There
was no punitive intent, just a financial motivation for choices in
change. For me, the $50,000.00 was a tool given to me, by the
production company, not a wage or a prize.
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International
This show has been on
television in several countries
We have gotten emails
from Singapore, South Africa, Ireland, New Zeland, Austrialia, and
several Middle Eastern Nations.
We always wonder how
other cultures experience this trade:
Favorite
International Review Quote:
"Theirs is a World without reserve other with
the World itself. "
Republic of Slovenija!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That is a powerful walk, but to tell the
truth...I am not quite there.
That is so cool, since reading that review I
have dreamed of going to Slovenija. They sure have a way with words and
ideas.
Penny Frazier zapusti kaos
družinske hiÅ¡e in se s taksijem odpelje proti letaliÅ¡Äu,
daleÄ od kokoÅ¡i, petelinov in zdravilnih zeliÅ¡Ä. Na
letaliÅ¡Äe v Arizono, kjer jo priÄaka Ray Zandi, prispe v
vijoliÄastih copatih in Ray jo odpelje proti Scottsdalu. Traci Zandi
pa med tem prispe v Missouri, kjer jo priÄaka George Fraizer. Meni,
da je videti kot Charles Manson. Na poti proti domu priÄne podrobno
opisovati svoje delo, zaradi Äesar se Traci pot zdi neskonÄno
dolga. Ko Penny vstopi v hišo Zandijevih, je osupla nad njeno
lepoto, medtem ko je Traci osupla nad preprostostjo hiše
Fraizerjevih, ko stopi vanjo.
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So,our family wanted to know about the people of Slovenia. In
translating the text describing the show we found some great
descriptions!
Upon landing-ground within Arizono , whitherward her to await
Ray Zandi , to win one's way within violet slipper .
And this: within tribe Fraizerjevih withal vernacular ovipara
family.
(As we figured this - our tribe is common bird people)
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(That is such a powerful way to describe our lives)
Finally: most mu salve at work in the field. Videlicet zanjo
unfairly želi yourself homeword.
(We think this says, that Tracy had to work like a slave in
the field and wanted to go home.)
If you can help with a better translation (especially for
part II **what is the meaning of "coal-fish") |
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My favorite United States Review:
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P.S. As you might have guessed, I am a sucker
for a good pun!
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� With whom we would
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�Rob and Big!!!!
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Time to do work! |
Clyde was hit by a vehicle and killed while we were engaging in the
Trading Spouses Experience. The first bird we lost to the road over 7
years . It had to be cosmic.
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