"As long as you go with someone who knows botany and can tell you which plants to stay away from," she points out. "I don't want to have to deal with cases of poison ivy, but if you go with me, I'll teach you how to tell the difference."

She heads into the woods every morning to harvest what she can find anyway. Teaching someone else how to tell the difference between the good plants and the bad ones will definitely be a good use of her time.

"Of course I will," she says warmly. "Gardening is a skill we all can use here. As is medicine. Anything I know that you want to learn, I'd be happy to teach you. We can start with the plants we find in the wild and move up to medicinal uses as we go. How does that sound?"