In this special edition of DarkHorse, we begin with excerpts from a piece on gifting traditions across time, space, and species, and then mention and recommend the following things as potential gifts: Girl Meets Dirt: heritage preserves, shrubs, bitters: https://www.girlmeetsdirt.com Giant Herbs and Teas: amazing chais, bitters, and more, and they come with wit and humor: http://www.giant-herbs.com Slowdown Farmstead Substack: honest, beautiful writing about life and love, food and family: https://www.slowdownfarmstead.com/about Possets Perfumes: Unique, hand-made, oil-based, indie: https://possets.com Farrow Life: Skin care products built with lard: https://farrow.life Orrery (beautiful planetary orrery models of the solar system handcrafted from natural semi-precious stone, brass, and hardwoods): https://scienceart.com DarkHorse merch including epic tabby, First against the wall club, Pfizer breakthroughs, Lie to a tyrant, and more at our store: https://www.darkhorsestore.org Our book: A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century: https://www.amazon.com/Hunter-Gatherers-Guide-21st-Century-Challenges/dp/0593086880/). Signed copies available here: https://darvillsbookstore.indielite.org Book darts: https://www.bookdarts.com Initial reading: “From Silk to Pastries” on Natural Selections: https://open.substack.com/pub/naturalselections/p/gifting Find the Patron only conversation we mentioned at the beginning at Heather’s Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/heatherheying. And more conversations here: https://www.patreon.com/bretweinstein ***** Find more from us on Bret’s website (https://bretweinstein.net) or Heather’s website (http://heatherheying.com). Like this content? Subscribe to the channel, like this video, follow us on twitter (@BretWeinstein, @HeatherEHeying), and consider helping us out by contributing to either of our Patreons or Bret’s Paypal. Looking for clips from #DarkHorseLivestreams? Check out our other channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAWCKUrmvK5F_ynBY_CMlIA Theme Music: Thank you to Martin Molin of Wintergatan for providing us the rights to use their excellent music.