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My trip to the doctor Asher Wolff shares ares ngly his life of seemingly endless office visits
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o, yeah, you u guys wanted hat the doctor’s to know what office is like.. Well, you guys probably bly have been there unless you’re one of those vaccines-causeseautism types (as much as they hurt, they don’t re-ally cause autism, trust me). It used to be that the doc would give you herbal medicines or antibiotics, but now it’s more like this: Doc: Okay now, kid,, gimme your arm. Kid: Waaahhhhh! So, yeah, that’s basi-cally the story of how they cure people, and if your parents said can’t say that this doctor is a comforting doctor. Last time I went in he said: s otherwise then sorry, Hi, Asher. kid, better luck next Ready to get a needle stuck in yo your arm? Twice. time. Then he asked me a series of awk awkward questions ry. Okay, back to the story. such as: Hey, Asher, you got a girl girlfriend. Then he So I walk into the waiting ing room. offered me a pamphlet about puberty pub for boys. I Kids are screaming. One kid is getexplained that my day already h had already been ting an allergy test and I heard that graced with the pamphlet’s pres presence, and that I hurts like heck, and that hat kid’s not would rather eat garbage out of a broccoli rabe g. A trickle of salad. He stuck a huge needle into i about to prove me wrong. my arm. d. A few minot sweat falls over my head. At least he wasn’t like this other doctor who utes go by. I find a few pamphlets on was new on the job when I was two. bedwetting and such. I say to my sisShe was like: Ready? ter: Look! It’s you! Me: No. We go around making g fun of a few Her: Shut up, I want my payc paycheck. Then she le across one pamphlets until I stumble jabbed the needle in my arm. called “The HPV vaccine� ne� and one Outside, of course, there ther were all those called “Puberty for Boys.� s.� Wow, 13 cheesy posters about abou how tetanus umatized. and now freaking traumatized. shots and rabies sh shots in the stomA few more beads of sweat eat roll ach aren’t that bad. bad down my forehead. I wish I could show you guys My sister is like: Oooo!! Watthe poster. cha got there? And then of course there is the cou Me: a big frickgiving of candy after you get stabbed in’ load of candy! WIMPY KID ILLUSTRATION BY JEFF KINNEY/AMULET BOOKS by pins and needles. I’ve always won-
dered what would happen if you went to the doctor to be tested for diabetes and it came out positive: Would you be banned from candy? What if the diabetic patient got mad and grabbed a needle and stabbed the doctor’s arm and his bones crumbled and he burned to death by the hands of the chemotherapy juice inside of the needle? Sorry, that was me overreacting. We teenagers have lots of weird fantasies and urges. On the bright side, my doctor is located close to my favorite game store, so I can stop there, buy some Pokemon cards and video games, go to a Pokemon card league (I play competitive style so don’t even bother bringing a big pile of ancient bootlegged cards over to my house and being like: Duhhhh, my card can do 80 damage or, Duhhhhmy card has more HP so it’s stronger (Man, I sure hate newbs). So yeah, that’s the upside and the downside of the doctor’s office. That’s all, folks.
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Milo’s birthday present Paul Smart is intrigued by his son’s DNA tests
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NA. Cool letters, cooler idea. Inside all of us, my rudimentary knowledge of science tells me, are the basic instructions on how we develop. The specifics, which tell stories about who we are, can trace us back to pasts we never knew we could be attached to. They can prove paternity, maternity, and who an adopted kid’s relatives may be. Which is what got my family into the science, modern-day business, and extending the metaphor of DNA. My wife’s wanted to do a DNA test on our boy, picked up two days after he was born in a Brooklyn hospital a little over ten years ago, ever since we visited a museum exhibit about ancestries. All we had to go on was that his birth mom was herself adopted, and thought herself of Scandinavian background. The dad, she surmised, was a handsome Hispanic one-night stand. And our boy, Milo, looked Asian enough as a baby that he’s long identified himself as Chinese, with a memory of his life across the globe in those two days before he came home with us. Which ended up making me interested in DNA testing, too. Milo is now attending an urban school where his fellow students are Irish/Puerto Rican, Jewish/Scandinavian and other hybrids. The kids are talking. Milo brings up the idea of working on a project, with his classmates, to trace his family. And I’m finally shedding my aversion to tying identity back to old racial stereotypes, trying to tackle Ta-Nahisi Coates’ concept of “whiteness” as a false American concept. My mother asks what Milo wants for his birthday. He’s unequivocal. He wants a DNA test. Researching what’s out there on the market, we identify four basic options, all costing in the $150 to $200 range. There’s National Geograph-
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Brill. www.thejoyfulforager.com. Christopher Rowley, a science fiction and fantasy author and resident of the Hudson Valley since 1992, is a local journalist and author of the new book, “The Shared Origins of Football, Rugby, and Soccer.” Robert Rubsam is a writer and photographer from Red Hook. His work has been published in Roads & Kingdoms, Crux, Flavorwire, and all around the Hudson Valley. Paul Smart, a writer and editor for Ulster Publishing of two decades’ standing, has edited a number of other regional weekly and biweekly newspapers. He lives in Greene County. Asher Wolff, 13, who lives in Hudson, loves Pokemon and making friends online. His mother is poet/editor Rebecca Wolff, a contributor to Ulster Publishing along with his sister, Margot. This issue’s cover employs images from the animal locomotion studies by the 19th century British-born photographic pioneer Eadweard Muybridge, as adapted.
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Ulster Publishing Co. ic, which feeds into a big project being done by a non-profit recently bought, in part, by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation. A couple of others are connected to genealogical outfits used mainly for tracing ancestry connections. And there”s the British-based 23andme.com, which comparisons and reviews indicate is most used for adoption searches. We send off for the test and get a box with several test tubes and instructions. Got Milo to do a spit test into one of the tubes (not that easy with a kid as you’d think). After registering the materials online, we wait. And wait. We are notified online that things were taking so long because we’d asked that every one of some 30 tests be applied to Milo’s spit. “So am I Chinese?” Milo asked excitedly the day the results were announced online. No, I had to tell him. You’re 79 percent European. You have fair skin and a tendency to freckle. You’re not prone to any of the diseases you were tested for, but you do have to watch yourself in the sun. My son’s black eyes under high eyebrows dipped in his brown face as he looked over all we’d been sent, outlined in graphs and percentages that were hard for him to understand.
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few weeks later I contacted the DNAtesting people to ask whether there could have been some mistake. I mean, the materials said that testing should be on people over a certain age. Had we made a mistake testing our ten-year-old? Could we get a re-do? We were told to look more closely at the results, which showed large percentages of Southern European background, with about seven percent North African heritage and a smaller percentage of Asiatic background, indicating the South or Central American genealogy we’d been told about. We checked in with my goddaughter, working her first job at the Yale School of Medicine’s genetics department, where she’s writing new mathematical codes for diving deep into DNA code. She gets back to us. “I look at full genome sequencing data [mostly of mice], and 23andme
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uses the same technology, but instead of reading out the entire genome they look for specific known variants related to disease [and] ancestry,” she writes. “Overall, I think the tests are pretty accurate, and in relation to ancestry I have no problems with them. They can map the patient’s DNA to a reference genome well, and they know the variants that are associated with different regions. So there’s still room for error, but because there are more factors involved in getting a disease than looking at if a variant is more common in people from a certain region. I’d say it’s a pretty reliable thing. And there’s less detrimental side effects of telling someone their ancestry than if they have a disease.” Lina, a Poughkeepsie Day School graduate, tells us how important genetic testing is for our understanding of DNA, noting how more accurate these tests are with more information from individuals. “Almost all of the human genome has been sequenced, with genes mapped to different chromosomes, etc.,” she tells is, “so I can imagine these companies use their clients information to look for more and more variants and make stronger correlations once they find them.”
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ater, I hear Milo speaking about the subtleties of his background with his friends, who have all agreed to start researching their own exact parentage when they get to sixth grade in a couple of years. In the meanwhile, I start looking at the terrain I drive through each week. Is there some code to it? Might our human need to understand what ails us, the scourges we bring upon ourselves, be tied to some basic underlying geography? Or is the geography within ourselves? In the end, I figure that such lines of thought, while entertaining, aren’t necessarily healthy. I read what others have to say about how they stay healthy. And I reread how my goddaughter ended her letter explaining the basic concepts of DNA and genealogy: “I think genetic testing can give some insight into one’s self,” she write, “but I’d say the key thing to remember is that there isn’t this one-to-one straightforward relationship of genetic variation to an effect, disease [or] ancestry, and definitely not to discount environmental factors.”
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The dragon in our midst Harry Matthews knows more than most about getting clean and staying clean
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itting in the waiting room of my doctor’s office recently, I overheard a man talking to the receptionist about the spike in the drug problem plaguing the Hudson Valley. He reminded her that he worked in a nearby sheriff ’s office and thus “knew” what was at the heart of it. In a loud, blustery know-it-all voice he told her that heroin was now cheaper and stronger than ever before, even cheaper than weed. He went on to say, amongst other things, that it could be gotten almost anywhere, from high-school parking lots to village greens for as little as $5 a bag. Almost everything he said, to a point, was not merely arrogantly overstated but patently untrue. “These druggies make me sick,” he said with a snarl of disdain. And herein lies the real issue: the debilitating stigma that comes with being an addict, and the misunderstanding that such attitudes engender. This, I believe, is one of the reasons heroin addicts have so much trouble getting clean and staying clean. The fact is that seemingly out of nowhere opiates, and heroin in particular, have smashed into our quiet little villages, our sleepy towns, wreaking havoc amongst our families, our friends, ourselves. Communities throughout the Hudson Valley and Western Massachusetts right up to Vermont and New Hampshire are being terrorized by a plague that once seemed faraway and only a big-city problem. Not so long ago that was true. The inner city was the only place one could find heroin and be an active junkie. Now it seems that hardly a week goes by that we don’t hear of some local dealer getting busted with hundreds of bags, or more tragically an overdose death of some bright young soul. All the politicians and police can pretend that they know why this is happening, telling us it’s the fault of the dealers seeking new markets, or Big Pharma plying us with heroin-strength painkillers that were supposedly non-addictive, but the real cause, in my estimation, goes much deeper than this. It goes to the heart of the family, the damning stigma attached to addiction, and our
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raditionally, heroin has never been as deadly as, say, alcohol or cigarettes. To paraphrase William Burroughs in his novella “Junkie,” an addict with enough money and a clean supply of dope can live a very long life. (Keith Richards might be a perfect example.) In reality there seem to be two main reasons people overdose on heroin. The first is that they got a bad batch, most often cut with the painkiller Fenta-
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ment/blocker Suboxone and the overdose-halting Narcan. Both of these need to be more available. Addicts die when they are left on waiting lists because the state hasn’t provided enough Suboxone and methadone programs to fill the need.
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A ball-and-stick model of the heroin molecule, as found in the crystalline state. it all really comes down to is not why someone has become addicted but how to deal with their addiction before it kills them. Half the indictment I am leveling is against the insurance companies and the subsequent medical treatment an addict who needs help might receive. We can no longer look at an addict and write them off as lacking will power or being less than human for having succumbed to the power of this drug, but instead we must look at what we need to do about it now. For whatever reasons of money-grubbing need, insurance companies don’t want to pay for the necessary and life-saving needs an addict’s recovery demands. They often provide only the merest level of care they can get away with. It has been shown time and again in studies by the AMA, the NIH, and most addiction experts that an opiate addict needs a minimum of 30 to 60 days in an inpatient facility to break the bondage of addiction, with a minimum of five days in a detox facility beforehand. Most insurance companies will give, at most, two days detox and a week or two in an inpatient facility. This kind of help will just lead to a dope-sick addict still in withdrawal to go right back to the only thing that will make them feel better, heroin. If this were cancer, god forbid, they would be kept for as long as needed. But the stigma of a self-inflicted “disease� like addiction, something that the sufferer does to him
or herself, doesn’t warrant the same need as other more “important� diseases. Some small strides have been made on the medical side, particularly with the opiate replace-
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e may stand a chance if we as a society can demand that our politicians take this epidemic as seriously as we take cancer or diabetes and force the insurance companies to provide the proper care needed for an addict to recover. But that is just the beginning. It’s then up to the families and friends to step up and provide the love and support necessary for the addict’s recovery, even if they relapse repeatedly. Ultimately it comes down to an addict’s own decisions. Do they want to make the needed changes to stay clean? If they do, they are not alone. There are amazing twelve-step recovery groups, like Narcotics Anonymous, in almost every community that can truly work. If the addict is not ready to do what needs to be done, all the arrests, rehabs, overdoses and deaths won’t make them stop. In the end, there’s only so much anyone can do to stem the tide of this deadly scourge. We can call upon each other and upon our better angels to take action against this misery and still not see the least bit of headway made, to the bitter frustration of us all. Or we can learn to stand up with love and care for each other, without judgment, without prejudice, with knowledge and understanding, and perhaps save lives in so doing.
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Only natural Jennifer Brizzi on the Governor's new call for food purity standards
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ood labeling is not quite what it seems. Descriptors like “all-natural” can be deceptive about the purity of the products within. You’d think that such a label could only be used for foods with minimal intervention, as nature intended, as close to their origin as possible, with minimal tweaking and processing. And Merriam-Webster’s defines “natural” as “existing in nature and not made or caused by people; coming from nature; not having any extra substances or chemicals added; not containing anything artificial.” Actually, not only is the term “natural flavoring” one of many aliases for monosodium glutamate, but the label of “all-natural” on a food carries no clout and can be claimed by anyone. Although the term connotes pure ingredients like whole grains and vegetables fresh from the earth, that’s not the reality. Here in New York State, that’s about to change. Governor Cuomo’s state-of- the-state address on January 13 promised an initiative he called the New York State Certified High Quality program, in which the state health and agriculture departments will refine and define the “vague standards” for food labels, followed by regular inspections to assure compliance. Although participation in the program is voluntary for producers and farmers, it is hoped that it will help us know exactly what we’re getting on our dinner plates. “Consumer confidence is lacking,” said Cuomo. “Many of the labels…on…products are virtually meaningless and they have no standard and they have no legal definition. Labels like all-natural or no-antibiotics actually have no legal definition... So consumer skepticism is justified. To reassure and inform consumers, and provide an opportunity for New York farms, we will initiate the first program to certify the bona fides of natural products.” Along with reassurances to consumers about
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over the ridge and then back. There’s the Catskill Mountain 100K in August. Jennings said, “This used to be a relay race, but we introduced a 100K version. It’s a road race, but it’s all running between the hills. That one has drawn people from Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and even from Virginia.” The runners can be seen as a good example of a community drawn by their sport. Others who bring economic benefits to the Mid-Hudson region include the bicycle groups and the kayakers. Jennings noted that a survey of Rock the Ridge runners at Mohonk found they spent an average $300 apiece in Ulster County.” Eco-friendly lodging facilities, Airbnb-like lodging and multipurpose hotels will complete the sort of circuit that our entrepreneurs are thinking of and provide invaluable word of mouth, encouraging more of the 23 million to think about recreation in the great outdoors in the region.
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In a sense he’s right in the heart of this group of issues. “They most definitely are coming here to run,” he says. Jennings and his partner, Ken Posner, founded Shawangunk Adventures in 2012 to organize and manage interesting, exciting and adventurous runs. “Our general audience, they live in New York City,” said Jennings. “And they get tired of just running in the parks. How many times can you trail run to the Bridal Path in Central Park? So, they look around, and we are putting a lot of effort into promoting the Gunks for runners. It’s a goldmine in terms of exploring.” The Shawangunk Ridge already features several notable running events, like the Shawangunk Ridge Trail Run, which can be up to 70 miles long, the Mohonk “Rock the Ridge,” And the legendary “Wagathon.” “We put on an inaugural race on Schunnemunk Mountain, which has similar terrain to the Gunks,” said Jennings. “There’s a hard conglomerate, the pudding stone, which has multi-colored pebbles that cap the mountain. So we have mini-Gunkstyle ridge run, eight miles, and that will become part of our portfolio of these kind of races.” Ellenville will he holding its running festival on July 30, which will include some tough runs
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Health briefs Growth through affiliation The state Public Health and Health Planning Council this winter approved a formal affiliation between Columbia Memorial Health and Albany Medical Center. Both organ izations describe the partnership as “a regionally integrated, locally governed health network that will provide the full spectrum of care to people throughout the region.” It will have particular benefits to those living in Columbia and Greene counties, where there are hospital campuses in Valatie, Hudson and Catskill. Greene Medical Arts is affiliated with medical centers in Greene County in Cairo, Coxsackie and Windham, plus senior housing called Kaaterskill Commons. Under the agreement, Albany Med would have final approval over budgets and strategic plans, agreements with service providers and insurance companies, and appointments to the board of directors. Albany Med would also be the parent company and co-operator of CMH’s health system. Columbia Memorial will maintain a separate board, oversee its own management structure and medical staff, and continue to negotiate and maintain union contracts and employment policies, according to a statement by the hospital.
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Local Zika precautions Eleven positive cases of Zika virus infection have been identified among New York State residents, all returning travelers from countries where the Zika virus is ongoing. Plus, Pope Francis raised eyebrows by suggesting the possible use of contraceptives for stemming the new virus’ spread. The state health department has said it will expand its free Zika virus testing program for all pregnant women who have traveled to areas where the infection is ongoing, regardless of whether they exhibit symptoms. Additionally, the state has issued a health advisory to local health departments, healthcare providers and hospitals to further coordinate Zika response efforts in New York State. Expanded testing, the state has said, will help alleviate the fears of those who find it hard to pinpoint the mild symptoms of Zika, as well as give scientists a better understanding of the Zika virus, for which little data currently exists. Additionally, the federal Center for Disease Control is now recommending that pregnant women abstain from sex or utilize condoms for all sexual activities for the duration of their pregnancies if their male partner has traveled to or lives in an area with active Zika virus transmission. The new NYS DOH information line is 1-888-364-4723. “It’s not a merger or consolidation,” Columbia Memorial CEO Jay Cahalan explained in a statement. “It’s not a sale, and it’s not an acquisition or a takeover. It’s most accurately described as an affiliation of our respective organizations that allows us to take advantage of one another’s strengths.” Columbia Memorial had been losing money on its operations, with an operating loss of roughly $500,000 last year and a net positive margin of about $780,000 when donations and investment income are included. Albany Med posted net income of more than
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Is golf a winter sport? February days in the fifties. Bright skies and no snow melt. Could this be the season for golf becoming an all-season sport in the Hudson Valley? Despite noting die-hard golfers out on courses here and there in recent weeks, a quick survey of public and private courses resulted in most course managers not really wanting to talk, and those that did — at Red Hook, for instance — noting that while they’d set a few flags up, they still weren’t “really” open, and had had few takers for what has been available.
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ners acute-care hospitals, and Columbia Memorial Hospital. The restrictions include a new maximum of two visitors permitted in a patient’s room at any one time, a prohibition of children twelve and under visiting patients’ rooms, and the prohibition of visitors with rash, diarrhea or respiratory symptoms including fever, sore throat, cough, shortness of breath. The hospitals are urging all visitors to use hand-washing stations before entering and upon leaving a patient’s room, as well as additional visitation restrictions for those visiting special care units. While no Mid-Hudson hospitals have as yet instituted similar restrictions at hospitals in Kingston, Rhinebeck, or Poughkeepsie. according to their websites, the capital district institutions noted that the same guidelines announced in recent weeks were developed and temporarily implemented in previous years to address earlier influenza outbreaks.
HealthAlliance still waiting Health Quest expands into mall Health Quest’s Medical Practice Division has relocated to a new 15,000-square-foot, $1.8-million location in Kingston Plaza. The new Kingston primary-care offices, which will be opened March 14, were designed to fit the American Academy of Family Physicians’ “Ideal Medical Practice” model, which will have the ability to accommodate same-day appointments, proactive management of chronic conditions, and the use of new technologies under one roof. It is being trumpeted for pairing established ob/gyn and primary-care practices offers with care for older adults with chronic illnesses, so patients don’t have to rely on “retail walk-in clinics or urgent-care centers.” Health Quest has established 13 primary-care clinics throughout the mid-Hudson Valley, including offices in Boiceville, Carmel, Fishkill, Highland, Hopewell Junction, Hyde Park, LaGrangeville, Millbrook, Modena, Poughkeepsie, Rhinebeck and Woodstock, as well as affiliations with Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Northern Dutchess Hospital and the Putnam Hospital Center. Its new location in Kingston Plaza will be staffed by two internal medicine physicians and one family medicine physician, with space to add six additional primary-care physicians; three ob/gyns, four midwives; a rheumatologist, 30 exam rooms, and easy access to major bus routes and highways. Plans are for a full-service laboratory and X-ray capabilities. Grand opening events will include tours, refreshment and giveaways between 4 and 6 p.m. on March 14. Health Quest’s new president, Robert Friedberg, will be on hand. garding what can be done to prevent health insurance catastrophes like Health republic’s. The original idea behind the insurance cooperatives had been that the nonprofit insurers would provide less expensive coverage to consumers. As it turned out, low prices, a lack of adequate government funding, restrictions on the use of federal loans for marketing, and other stumbling blocks created financial challenges that led state regulators to order many such plans to cease offering coverage. Now various trade groups, including the Healthcare Association of New York State and the Greater New York Hospital Association, have started advocating for the establishment of a health insurance guarantee fund to protect New York consumers and providers in the event of a health insurer’s insolvency or liquidation, as well as to reform the insurance-rate approval process. Bills are being proposed. Segments of the insurance industry are lobbying against them.
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The joy of foraging JJ Murphy wants people to learning to think of wild plants as potential food
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patch of deep green stretched out ahead of me as I walked down the street. Chickweed and quickweed were growing in abundance behind a low fence, out of the doggie zone. I always carry a small folding scissors and waxed paper bags. In 15 minutes I collected enough for a salad and a side dish. I’m used to foraging in rural and suburban areas, but having recently relocated to New York City I had no idea urban foraging would be this convenient. If you walk for any reason — to your driveway, exercising your dog, or taking your children to school — you are walking past delicious, healthy edible wild plants which you can harvest for free. Yes, free! How do I know I’m not going to poison myself? The same way I can tell the difference between escarole and frisee. I look at the shape, color and growing pattern of the leaves. I feel their texture, I sniff and eventually put a leaf in my mouth. Isn’t that a lot like what we do when shopping at the store? I certainly won’t purchase any produce that looks or feels limp, is discolored, smells moldy, or is unpleasant on my tongue. Who would? Have you ever plucked a clover or honeysuckle blossom and savored the sweetness on a hot summer day? That’s foraging. You may be surprised to learn that you already know several wild edible plants. You just haven’t learned to think of them as food yet. Let me introduce you to three easily identifiable wild plants.
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. Field garlic (Allium vineale) looks like chives, smells like onion, and tastes like garlic. Often one of the first green plants to emerge in spring, it has long, tubular leaves. Nothing else looks and smells like it. You can simply trim the green tops and use like chives in any recipe. You can also uproot this plant. If you wait until after a rainstorm, it’s easier to pull. Clean the tiny, garlic-like cloves, and use as you would garlic. For me, field garlic a harbinger of spring. When it is newly emerging and tender, I’ll eat it raw as a trail nibble. Once the hot weather sets in, this plant becomes tough and chewy, so cut the leaves, tie them in a knot, and use as a bouquet garni to add flavor to stews and soups.
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. Quickweed (GALINSOGA QUADRIRADIATA) is a member of the daisy family, with tiny flowers. It grows in flower pots, gardens or anywhere else there is light, warmth and space. The leaves and stems of this plant are covered in soft hairs, so cook it as a spinach substitute. Unlike most greens, quickweed does not lose its volume when cooked. My appreciation of quickweed came while laughing out loud at the story told by a Maine farmer of his challenge growing spinach in the short season where he lives. As he tore up armloads of the quickweed taking up half of his garden bed, he decided to cook it and eat it. He realized at that moment he could work smarter, not harder.
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. Japanese knotweed (FALLOPIA JAPONICA), can be used in salads, dessert recipes and to make cocktails. The emerging green, red-flecked stalks of Japanese knotweed in early spring is the ideal harvest time. New growth, shaped like asparagus, emerges among the dried stalks of the previous season, which bear a strong resemblance to bamboo. Ironically, Japanese knotweed is more closely related to buckwheat than asparagus or bamboo. Japanese knotweed is extremely invasive and will spread like a battalion of advancing soldiers. It has a sour taste, like rhubarb. Marinated, it makes
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Japanese knotweed. a savory addition to a salad. You can also cook it with sweet fruits in a compote or dehydrate as fruit leather. Look for stalks that are as wide around as asparagus spears and flexible. Whether raw or cooked, peel the rind-like skin and use the flesh of the stalks. This plant has a short harvesting season, but you can freeze the tender stalks without having to cook them. If you find Japanese knotweed on your property, do your best to dig it up. It is a bully of the plant world. While field garlic and quickweed will grow with other plants, Japanese knotweed will kill everything in its path. Eating it may be the only way to eradicate it. Field garlic. Foraging has many other benefits, besides delicious free food with a short time from field to table. It’s more fun than shopping. I’ve calculated the amount of time it takes to travel to the store, paw through produce that is several days old and has been handled by several people, negotiate past shopping carts, wait on line to pay, and travel home. Even when I try to shop at Whole Foods or Trader Joe’s, I end up frustrated, stressed and broke. And the food never really tastes fresh unless I add spices or other flavors. Farmers’ markets are an option, but farmers have to harvest a day in advance and travel more than two hours in many cases to get to market and set up in order to sell their produce. In the 15 minutes it took me to trim enough tender quickweed tops for a meal, I was relaxing and decompressing. When I forage, I’m not only less stressed, but I’m also exercising the same muscles I’d use in a gym, carrying less equipment around and in the end truly healthy. I rarely go to the doctor and I take no medication. Having fun, staying fit, feeling good and money in my pocket. What’s
not to love about foraging? I’m a lazy forager. In addition to getting the tastiest parts of my foraged plants by trimming the tender tops, I’m ensuring that the roots stay intact, which means the plant keeps producing. That’s even easier than gardening or farming. For details on my harvesting methods, visit me at www.thejoyfulforager.com and check out the article “Tender Tops: My Clean and Easy Technique for Harvesting Wild Edibles.” I have a dehydrator and a deep freezer, so that everything I forage is harvested in season, at peak flavor and then preserved for future use. Does foraging account for 100 percent of my diet? No. But with the money I save collecting my own wild vegetables, fruits and mushrooms in season, I can afford to buy eggs from free-range chickens, wild game from responsible hunters, meat and dairy from humanely farmed animals, as well as the nuts and whole grains I need for a balanced and delicious diet. My “recipe revamps” show you how you can save 30 percent or more on the cost of a meal by swapping out foraged items for purchased items. Send me your recipe and I’ll show you how to revamp it with foraged ingredients. When learning something new, it’s helpful to find recognizable features. JJ Murphy has been eating wild foods since her farmer-parents pulled weeds from the veggie garden and she ate the weeds. JJ regularly forages in urban, suburban and rural settings with her peers, including television host Wildman Steve Brill, Gary Lincoff and Leda Meredith. She lives in the Inwood section of New York City.
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Bears don’t need bagels Elisabeth Henry writes about the relationship of animal lovers and owners with their veterinarians
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was disoriented. In my absence — why was I away so long? — the entire physical premises had been remodeled and redecorated. And where was Beloved Deb, who never got my name right but always gave me appointments when I needed them? Who was that intruder in a lab coat (she was a receptionist, for the love of Mike!) summoning my vet on an intercom!? An intercom! Where were we? The Pentagon? My vet stepped out of his office, and by his demeanor I knew what was to come. His eyes, behind his bifocals, were downcast. His broad shoulders sloped. His lips trembled at the corners. “What happened?” I whispered weakly, indicating the contours of the plush new waiting room. Where were the wooden chairs? The dogeared copies of Cat Fancy, circa 1999? Where was Deb? “I’m retiring,” he said softly. He then left to perform an ovariectomy on a monkey. I felt faint. A good vet is hard to find. My ardor for my vet may seem overdone to people who see a vet once a year for routine vaccinations and a checkup. Let me explain. I need vets all the time. At any moment one of my dogs, cats, horses, sheep, pigs or chickens could find that bit of rusting barbed wire left in the forest when it was field in the 1900s, wrap himself or herself up in it, and require stitches and shots. My vet was ready for anything and tolerated me. My vet corrected my ewe’s prolapsed uterus and delivered a set of twin lambs in about the time it takes to pour a hot cup of coffee and add milk. My vet used just the right amount of anesthesia to drop a cocky young colt on the barn floor, relieve him of his testicles, clean up, pack up, and drive away, all the while whistling “Free Bird.” My vet stuck his arm up to his shoulder in the anus of my mare to feel the developing fetus in her uterus below. My vet (and Beloved Deb) accommodated me when I showed up after closing one night with a bitch in whelp. I was sure she had one last pup in there, and was too exhausted to deliver it. My vet gave her shot to make her contract, and that pup was born into my hands. It looked lifeless. My vet offered to dispose of the remains for me. “I feel life!” I insisted. And I did. Like a little buzz in my palm. My vet, now very tired, of the day, of me, of emotional clients who see what they want to see, accommodated me yet again and gave the tiny form a shot of something. The little nipper gasped for air and began to nose around, looking for Mama. And my vet came to my house one Sunday when my tough little Labrador told me she’d had enough. She had suffered three cancer operations. I called the office to make an appointment for Monday. My vet came Sunday and gave me time with her. Her passing was quick. Her eyes were full of sorrow, but she was unafraid. These layers of experience, at moments of death and birth and all stops along the way, took years. In them I forged a true collaboration with my vet. A witness to all that vets do and endure gives me profound respect for the profession. But, now that my vet has absconded, Happy As Larry, golfing and sunbathing in parts unknown, I must forge again. It is in that spirit that I write this, as I search.
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f the holistic approach is interesting to you, Earth Angel Veterinary Practice In Wappingers Falls is a full-service integrative practice. This means that Dr. Alexandra Barrientos evaluates her patients, makes a diagnosis, and chooses the best method of treatment from all that holistic and conventional veterinary medicine have to offer. Hers is a small-animal practice. That means no horses, no heifers, no rams, bison or elk. Dr. Alex has a solid following, comprised of peo-
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The staff at Dr. Alexandra Barrientos' new, holistic Earth Angel Veterinary Practice in Wappingers Falls, which specializes in small animals only.
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Friends of the Feathered and Furry Wildlife Center, run by Missy Runyon, has used images of some of its successful rehab animals, like this young fawn, as part of its ongoing rowdsourced fundraising over the past year. ple smitten by her charm and her skill with their pets. Trust is the operative word here. February has been Dental Health Awareness Month. Dr. Barrientos is emphatic that dental health is essential to overall wellness in the dog or cat, and she encourages people to educate themselves about it. “Doggy breath is not business as usual. Doggy breath means there is a need for dental hygiene. Not only is it unpleasant, bacteria and infectious matter in the mouth lead to health problems in the rest of the anatomy. Your veterinarian should be able to provide regular cleanings,” said Dr. Barrientos. This spring, construction begins on a new hospital facility for Earth Angels. It will encompass nine acres, some fenced-in paddock areas, a dog-boarding facility, and of course the hospital. It will be on St. Nicholas Avenue in Wappingers Falls, very near the Dutchess County Airport. Dr. Barrientos hopes to keep two mini-horses in one of the paddocks. While Earth Angel Veterinary Hospital is categorized as a small-animal practice, Dr. Barrientos’ training and concern extends to animals of all kinds. “We routinely take
in sick or injured wildlife,” she said, “and once we stabilized them, we connect with one of the wonderful registered wildlife rehabilitators to complete the care.”
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issy Runyon is just such a rehabilitator. Missy is the director of FFF Wildlife Center in Lexington in Greene County. At any given time, Missy is caring for deer, coyotes, eagles, hawks, squirrels, opossum, porcupines, all
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variety of birds, mice, fox, reptiles and amphibians. Even snapping turtles. “I began in veterinary medicine doing domestic pet rescue in New York City,” she says. “When we moved to the country, I noticed what a great need there was for help with wildlife. I began to take classes, got certified in various areas, and continued to grow with it. I know I love it, because all I want to do is get better at it. Daily.” She’s pretty darn good at it now and has earned a place in her community, and among her peers, as an expert. “Part of what resonates with me is that these creatures don’t need us,” she said. “They are fully equipped to live on their own, as long as we don’t interfere. I will help them, heal them, give them a place to recuperate, but they are not pets. ‘Let Wild Be Wild.’ That’s my motto.” So it is with very evident anger that Missy talks about people who feed wildlife, particularly those species that suffer so directly from that practice. “If you feed a bear or a coyote, drawing them into areas where there is vehicular traffic, you are inviting tragedy for the animal and for people,” she said. “If the bear or the coyote or fox becomes a nuisance, it’s going to be shot. Period. None of these animals need us to feed them. For instance, the gut of the deer changes with the season. They cannot digest corn in winter. Bears have an amazing capacity to get fat on ferns and berries and wild nuts. They don’t need bagels. It is especially harmful to feed bear, because they learn that dependency and teach it to their young instead of teaching them to exist on wild fare.” Missy’s advice, if you encounter a creature needing care, is to call the DEC, or her. She and her volunteers will travel to pick up an animal. They have logged many, many miles doing so. Missy is in demand in most of New York State. You can go to her website or Facebook page and see albums of wild animal and wild-bird releases that will bring tears to your eyes. What animal intrigues her most? I was surprised when she answered “the porcupine.” “It’s a challenge to figure out new ways to deal with those suckers,” she states, eyes twinkling. Missy’s love for wild creatures is not expressed in sentimental language, or rehearsed poses of “beauty and the beast.” She’s a pragmatist whose focus is on quality of life. Sometimes that means that an animal, once healed, will have no quality of life, but mere existence. Such was the case when an eight-pound bear cub was hit by a car. Its jaw was split in half. A well-meaning healthcare worker put a pin in the jaw, but all that did was destroy the teeth buds and guarantee that the jaw would forever remain small and undershot. Missy had to euthanize that baby. She donated it to a museum for educational purposes, once taxidermy was complete. “I do what is necessary, not what might play well as a made-for-TV movie.” she said. I once brought a snapping turtle to her facility. It had a crushed shell, probably from being hit by a car. Two months went by, and I got a call. “Come get your turtle. She’s fit as a fiddle and trying to bite me,” giggled Missy. Indeed, the turtle’s shell was intact. Missy had performed surgery, and bonded it. The turtle was duly peeved and hissing when I dropped her off creekside where my son had found her.
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s I write this now, the wind is picking up and the temperature is dropping. Tonight will not be fit for man or beast. My oldest mare of 32 years died the first week in January. It was a blessing. She did not know this cold in her last days. The wild things get through it somehow, but dogs and cats will not. A dog tethered outside on a night like this will freeze to the ground. Cats make tasty meals for coyote and especially owls. My crew will be cozy in billows of straw, or on my couch or bed. We will hunker down and think fondly on our old vet, but note, with some pride and gratification, that every one of the professionals we interviewed is female. This was not preplanned. It just happened. As we watch the fire and wait for springtime, what it might portend for the globe’s future, for the future of man and beast, is flickering in the flames.
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