Food Afield with John Schneider

Alex Nadeau and I are in the tent alongside a creek in the Yukon high country. We tell the amazing story of our first-night connection with a huge bull Moose and then we get into a discussion on staying positive while in the field on long hunts. You can watch videos from this trip on our new YouTube channel, John Schneider's Wild Life. Alex and I share some of the tips and tricks we've learned about staying comfortable while glassing and performing other sedentary activities when we're hunting. Cold and discomfort can affect your success in a huge way. More time spent on the mountainside glassing means more likelihood that you will spot the animal that you are after. There is a definite skill involved with staying in a positive mindset in the wild. Loneliness, stiffness, and other discomforts will all present themselves as obstacles to success we're hunting...at some point along the way. Here are some ideas to help you spend more time in the field. Enjoying the adventure. Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food. Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

Sitting in a tent alongside a small river in the Yukon Territories of northern Canada on a rainy afternoon, Alex tells us the story of his recent successful sheep hunt. Maybe you will never get a chance to hunt thinhorn sheep in your life, but it is pretty cool to hear the story from someone who does just that on a regular basis. The Yukon is a special place.Also in this episode is an update from me on the show rebrand and where we are headed on our journey of wild food exploration. I've purchased a boat, or I should say that we have purchased a boat. It is an emotional story that is best told by Sass herself. You can head over and subscribe to our YouTube channel "John Schneider's Wild Life" and catch up on the episodes there to hear the whole story. Thanks for sticking with us on this re-brand break. We're back and we'll post new episodes on a slightly reduced schedule until I can afford to hire some content managers as part of the team. Cheers!JohnSomething new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food. Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

This is a good episode! I recently had the chance to chat with Pope & Young Club's past President, Jim Willems. Jim is an outstanding traditional bowhunter whose passion for bowhunting takes him far and wide. He's taken numerous world-class animals with his recurve and speaks eloquently about taking back the word "trophy hunter". That discussion alone, and hearing his take on hunting big bucks and bulls, is enough to make this episode great, but then we get to talking about ways that folks can access hunting opportunities around them. It is one thing to pick up a new bow and get geared up and proficient with arrow accuracy, and then it's a whole other thing to actually get out hunting. Hopefully, this episode helps you with that. Welcome to the Traditional Bowhunter's Journey...brought to you in cooperation with the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine.This episode is also brought to you by the fine folks over at Novem Archery. I am shooting one of their finger tabs right now, and I like it a lot. Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food. Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

First off, May, Kevin, and I are at a favourite stream for a few days of fly fishing and wild food fun. The weather has been tumultuous, and the stream is running wildly and is the colour of skim chocolate milk! The fishing is challenging and even getting up and down the mountain river to the next hole is not without its hardships. The raging currents have changed the riverbed. The water is high on the banks, leaving sheer drop-offs along our path. It is a fun trip!Fly fishing in tough conditions requires adaptive fishing strategies and perseverance. We talk about some of those strategies and get into a few fish. Enough for a wonderful fish-fry breakfast and some smoked Rocky Mountain Whitefish.  May is with us for the first leg of this fishing trip and caught a little bit of the fly fishing bug. A few days after we were home, I got a call from her that she wanted some assistance in choosing her first gear. So, we headed to Reid's Fly Shop, and the owner, Reid Otto helped her select a beautiful combo that she'll be able to pass down to next generations of fishers. Enjoy!Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food. Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

Clay Newcomb was super helpful to me when I wanted to publish a story in Bear Hunter Magazine about my big bear in '21.  At the time, he was the owner of the magazine and I didn't know it then, but he was mostly complete with his discussions with Steve Rinella and the Meat Eater company. It wouldn't be long after that that the magazine was sold, and he became a full-time content creator for Meat Eater and the Bear Grease Podcast Clay took some time out of his day to join us on the Traditional Bowhunter's Journey podcast. I wasn't certain which series this interview belonged to. I know Clay from his youtube videos where he close-hunted black bears with his traditional archery gear. We did chat a bit about bows, but mainly I was interested in his take on hunting tools and the philosophy that we share when it comes to deciding on which equipment to take with us in the field.I do hope you enjoy hearing some of the behind-the-scenes stories from Clay Newcomb on the path he took and how he became a part of the Meat Eater crew. Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food. Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

Here is a delightful episode from a day spent fishing in the East Kootenays of British Columbia with Paige Johnstone and Lisa Tink. This starts as a lovely day on a small stream. It was so nice to be back in BC and spend time with friends. I had planned this episode immediately after I met Paige last summer while fishing with Curtis Hall. The little stream we fished is in Paige's backyard. She grew up here, long before she became a fly fisher. Paige has been fishing for three years now. Her attraction to fly fishing though goes back to when she was a young girl fishing with her father and watching folks fly casting elsewhere. Then she met Curtis, a professional fly fishing guide, and the rest is history. She is now very accomplished for someone relatively new to the sport. She talks like a guide and acts like one too. I'm not surprised though. Paige reminds me of me...she wants to figure something out and then does it. Unlike me, however, she does things very well indeed! As we fished up and down the shady little stream, she offered advice to Lisa and showed off a few of her special fishing spots. It was simply wonderful. Then the conversation turned towards some issues that she's faced in her fly fishing journey. As a teacher, she is good at verbalizing her thoughts, and it was really interesting to listen to her and Lisa chat about issues that newcomers to the lifestyle might face. I love this episode, and I hope you will too!Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food. Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

This episode is a good one. Johnathan and his family have a wonderful story of how they have grown 3Rivers Archery into the company that it is today. We chat about that origin story and all of the ways that this family-owned business can help you get started with your own traditional archery journey. There are some incredibly innovative aspects of the 3Rivers Archery website that will help you make equipment decisions that are right for you. We also spend a good amount of time hearing about Johnathan's best hunting memory...it is a unique one. Now I am stoked to give this hunt a try. If nothing else, just to be able to make Gator Nuggets! Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food. Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

Humanity and its preoccupation with fear, carrying bear spray, and why we hunt big animals. A little bit of everything in this episode including exclusive information on some plans that Shawn James has for his show, My Self Reliance. Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food. Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

Part one of my recent conversation with Shawn James. For those that don't know, Shawn is the creator of the My Self Reliance channel on YouTube. He has over two million followers, while our channel is pretty close to that...at almost 200. In this episode, Shawn and I chat about the current state of hunting, and social media, and perhaps dish out a little controversy with our opinions on such things. It was supposed to be a discussion on his spring hunting success, but happily turned into something equally interesting and perhaps more insightful. Of course, whenever Shawn is on the show I have to be a fanboy and ask for some details of what is happening behind the scenes with his YouTube channel. Shawn is always gracious in sharing what he is thinking as he produces his videos and what future plans he has for the project he is working on. Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food. Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

Tim Lewis has written six books and published many articles, mostly to do with traditional bowhunting. This week on the Traditional Bowhunter's Journey Dr. Lewis joins us to discuss the topic of following up after the shot on big game. Getting to the point of getting a shot at a deer or other large animal is difficult. Now we have to do the right things in the correct order to be able to recover the animal for the freezer.Following up on a recent article that he published in the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine "Traditional Bowhunting 101 column", Tim and John discuss blood trailing and a few other good habits you need to know after making the shot.Sorry for some of the distortion when Tim speaks, it was not a great connection at times. But still, the quality of Tim's wisdom and the words he speaks makes it easy to pay no attention to the odd glitch in transmission. I did my best to clean it up in post-editing. You can get Tim's books at 3Rivers Archery or by emailing him directly at timlewis@cfl.rr.comSomething new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food. Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

I wanted to hear the stories of Mark's successful turkey hunts after I left turkey camp this spring. But, the conversation started off with an essential discussion on some respective mental health challenges we've both recently faced. Not easy conversations to have, but they are terribly important to share. Just talking about these things can help. If nothing else, you will quickly realize that you are not alone when you feel down. Everyone faces these challenges from time to time. We thought it was an important conversation to share. The solution for both of us seemed intuitive as well...hopefully, this helps others find their own answers.We also had a chance to get to those turkey stories! I had left turkey camp and Mark still had several weeks of the season left. He was able to be there when his Daughter connected on a Tom and then got one himself a week later. Hearing those stories of success got me anticipating next spring already! Turkey hunting is addictive. Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food. Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

This week has been a little weird. I've been recording a ton of Traditional Bowhunter's Journey episode content along with all of the other day-to-day tasks that I have. That, along with a mix-up for an outing to fly fish for Pike means that I had no Food Afield Podcast episode lined up for this week. Yesterday I got out of the office and took the new mountain bike for a spin at Nana and Papa's farm. I rode the old gas lease road down to the slough. I needed a hazel branch for a new landing net project and it was a good day to multi-task and record some content for this week's show. Here is an update of what I am working on, along with what is planned for the future. Now I am back to the editing suite to work on next week's episode which will be released while Lisa and I are fly fishing in southern BC and Alberta! Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food. Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

David Tetzlaff is back on the show. David is the Co-editor of the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine. This makes him one of the key people in our lifestyle of traditional archery and bowhunting. He is in nearly constant communication with all of the expert authors and industry leaders involved in our passion for hunting with traditional and primitive archery gear. He is also the Past President of the Traditional Bowhunters of Florida and has been involved with hunter education as a way to give back to the traditional bowhunting community. In this episode of the Traditional Bowhunter's Journey, we chat about hunter education and the important role it can play in making your hunting experience enjoyable, ethical, and safe. Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food. Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

Josh Kirchner is passionate about bowhunting, especially backpack bowhunting. He has spent years devoted to learning and experiencing all that he can in this regard, and he has written a book called, "Becoming A Backpack Bowhunter". Josh is highly respected for his expertise in the world of backcountry bowhunting. He has written many articles on the subject and his YouTube channel @DialedInHunter is filled with spectacular video productions from his adventures. When it comes to learning exactly how to go about backpack bowhunting, you could do a lot worse than to follow Josh on his various platforms including Instagram @dialedinhunter and his website, www.dialedinhunter.comOf course, you can also learn a great deal on the subject by listening to this podcast episode! Join us over at Instagram too and follow along with our wild food adventures. Mentioned in this episode:Folding Mountain Brewery, Kitchen and TaproomThe next time you visit the world-famous Jasper National Park, be sure to stop in at Folding Mountain for a meal and an award-winning brew. Folding Mountain is located near the gates of the park. Be sure to order my favourite, and the beer I exclusively buy, the Lager. This beer recently won a gold medal at the Alberta Beer Awards! CreditsThank you to our listeners, especially. We love to see that the Food Afield Podcast is resonating with folks who wish us success and want to contribute to our growth. Sharing the show by word-of-mouth and leaving reviews are crucial to the show's sustainability. Thanks again! Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food. Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

Jeff and I go way back. We were in our 20's when we started hanging out, guiding, and outfitting big game hunts. Today, Jeff owns Primitive Outfitters and we are both considered "old-timers" in traditional bowhunting. It was great to visit with Jeff, to reminisce about some of the good old days of our lives, to tell a few stories, and to discuss some things we'd have done differently when it comes to shooting tradbows in our youth. I hope you'll enjoy this conversation between two old friends talking about traditional bowhunting and past hunts. Cheers!Mentioned in this episode:Traditional Bowhunter MagazineHeritage. Lifestyle. Community. We at Traditional Bowhunter Magazine strive to provide the best traditional experience for you. Our goal is to encourage a welcoming community focused on a lifestyle that honors the heritage of the traditional bow.In the bi-monthly magazine issues, you can read about hunts in faraway places and close to home, wild game cooking, How-to's, technique advice, beginner-friendly articles, and wisdom from our beloved experts. You will also find businesses that have the tools you need to get out into the woods.Want to start reading now? Download the app and enjoy the digital magazine for $10 per year. Just search Traditional Bowhunter Magazine in your favorite app store. Want a print subscription? Subscribe online at Tradbow.com and don't forget to place the code “foodafield” at the checkout. We're on YouTube and InstagramThe Instagram account needs a boost! Help us out by checking it out and giving us a follow. And we're now over on YouTube as well. @foodafieldpodcast on both of those platforms. Thanks!CreditsThank you to our listeners, especially. We love to see that the Food Afield Podcast is resonating with folks who wish us success and want to contribute to our growth. Sharing the show by word-of-mouth and leaving reviews are crucial to the show's sustainability. Thanks again! Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food. Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

Fly Fishing for Arctic Grayling in the Yukon!Welcome to the Food Afield Podcast, and the conclusion of our fishing expedition north of the 60th parallel with Alex Nadeau and Erin Flaherty. Anticipation filled the air as we bumped down the dusty two-track road, leading us closer to the valley's heart. With the river's water levels just right, Alex, armed with his experience as a wildlife biologist, anticipated that the Grayling would be there. And indeed, they were—in great numbers. A small bridge spanned the tiny river and once we were above the water, we could see the Grayling, by the dozens, maneuvering in the currents. After several days of immersing ourselves in the grand northern landscape, the absence of fish tested our patience. But, our perseverance was about to be rewarded. Adventure with us into the Yukon, sit by the campfire, and wade the cold northern waters as we land trophy Arctic Grayling and enjoy backcountry camping. Mentioned in this episode:CreditsThank you to our listeners, especially. We love to see that the Food Afield Podcast is resonating with folks who wish us success and want to contribute to our growth. Sharing the show by word-of-mouth and leaving reviews are crucial to the show's sustainability. Thanks again! We're on YouTube and InstagramThe Instagram account needs a boost! Help us out by checking it out and giving us a follow. And we're now over on YouTube as well. @foodafieldpodcast on both of those platforms. Thanks!Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food. Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

We'll take a break between the Yukon Grayling episodes this week. I've been trying to get James Alofs on the show for over a year. We've been friends for several years and chat on a regular basis. He is hilarious and we always get each other going when we speak. This episode is a fairly radical departure from the serious tone that I usually follow, which is weird because I've always loved making folks laugh and was continually in trouble in school for trying to be the class clown. Here is a raunchy, raw, and colourful conversation with James. Just two guys, full of crap, having fun chatting about wild food and outdoor wild food endeavours. This episode has some language, so not one for the car with the kids. James and I chat about his youtube channel, the cabin he is building along with his random Chinese life, and being the host for the Backstreet Boys Reunion live stream that had tens of millions of viewers! James is an interesting guy, to say the least. This isn't a new direction for the show. It's just a fun episode with a friend that made me laugh out loud. I hope it makes you laugh too. Cheers!Mentioned in this episode:We're on YouTube and InstagramThe Instagram account needs a boost! Help us out by checking it out and giving us a follow. And we're now over on YouTube as well. @foodafieldpodcast on both of those platforms. Thanks!Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food. Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

Check out the Food Afield Podcast on Instagram! Follow along for all of our wild food adventures.Beka Garris is a busy person. Her two young children, outdoor activities, and writing career mean her time is precious. I was grateful then that she set aside a little of her time to chat with us about her tradbow journey here on the podcast. Beka faces a lot of barriers when it comes to being out in the woods with her bow. However, she was determined to keep that part of her life intact and to share it with her kids. Relocating the family, not having access to private land, and naysayers trying to knock her down, it didn't matter to Beka. She is just out doing her thing with a traditional bow in one hand and her daughters in the other. The entire focus of traditional bowhunting for Beka is food, but perhaps even more important, at least right now, is showing her two daughters this sustainable lifestyle. Having young children is not forever, one day she will have all of the time in the world to be out hunting on her own. Right now, that is not the case. The decision is simple, take the kids hunting, or don't go hunting. I admire her focus and determination in this regard. Most of us don't have these limitations. As she says, "If I can do this, so can anyone." Welcome to this traditional bowhunter's journey. Don't forget to visit the Food Afield Podcast website and help keep the show sustainable with the purchase of a $5 membership. Mentioned in this episode:Support the show, become a member!Membership dollars are the only source of income for us. Your membership helps keep the show going and be a part of the improvements you hear! Dollars are reinvested into audio gear and various internet-related hosting fees.Traditional Bowhunter MagazineHeritage. Lifestyle. Community. We at Traditional Bowhunter Magazine strive to provide the best traditional experience for you. Our goal is to encourage a welcoming community focused on a lifestyle that honors the heritage of the traditional bow.In the bi-monthly magazine issues, you can read about hunts in faraway places and close to home, wild game cooking, How-to's, technique advice, beginner-friendly articles, and wisdom from our beloved experts. You will also find businesses that have the tools you need to get out into the woods.Want to start reading now? Download the app and enjoy the digital magazine for $10 per year. Just search Traditional Bowhunter Magazine in your favorite app store. Want a print subscription? Subscribe onlineSomething new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food. Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

Come and listen to the Food Afield Podcast episode about fly fishing the wonderful Arctic Grayling in Canada's far north with Alex and Erin. The days were already getting noticeably longer that far north, but it still took us a few days to find spring, let alone the fish. Here is the first part of our trip, an introduction to the Yukon and some of the beautiful scenes that we experienced on our journey. We started off in great anticipation of big Grayling jumping from crystal clear waters. Those visions were quickly dashed as our boat confronted a mass of ice, still frozen across the lake. Intrepidly, we carried on. We fished hard. We had a blast.Hey...we are currently trying to grow our Instagram account! Will you go have a look and see if it's worthy of your follow? Here's the link. Food Afield Podcast. Let us know what you think...and don't forget about our website which has a whole lot more content that is unavailable anywhere else. Thank you!Mentioned in this episode:Support the show, become a member!Membership dollars are the only source of income for us. Your membership helps keep the show going and be a part of the improvements you hear! Dollars are reinvested into audio gear and various internet-related hosting fees.CreditsThank you to our listeners, especially. We love to see that the Food Afield Podcast is resonating with folks who wish us success and want to contribute to our growth. Sharing the show by word-of-mouth and leaving reviews are crucial to the show's sustainability. Thanks again! Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food. Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

Monty Browning is an author and traditional bowhunting legend. He is one of the old guard within our traditional bowhunting heritage. His inexhaustible ability to tell fascinating hunting stories is just plain fun. This conversation could've gone on for hours. If you're lucky enough to have met Monty in person, you know exactly what I'm talking about here. Monty's longevity in bowhunting is a definite theme in his life. At 73 years old, he is still climbing one hundred-foot trees with a chainsaw for his arborist business. He is also still chasing big game with his recurve bow in faraway places, something that he has done almost his entire life. He holds, or has held multiple world records for Cape Buffalo, Water Buffalo, and Alaskan Brown Bear despite the fact that "he has never packed a duffle bag with the idea of killing a world record animal". You can purchase Monty's first book, "Bowhunting: A Passion For Life" right here. Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food. Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

Around the 14-minute mark of this recording, an exciting moment occurred. Initially, this was just a segment from one of the turkey hunting episodes, recorded during an evening with Mark Hall in the wall tent. If you're ever unsure how to explain your passion for hunting to those who don't understand it, this could be the ideal resource for you.This was the second night of my recent turkey hunt, and the conversation that took place was too special to be overlooked. We continued a discussion from earlier that day, and it quickly became apparent that this conversation deserved to be its own episode.Catching the perfect moment on tape is always thrilling, and in this case, we were able to capture it with an H4N Pro recorder and some stereo microphones.The darkness outside was filled with the calls of geese and loons from the nearby lake, and the wood stove crackled in the background as we sipped whiskey. Whenever I find myself in these types of situations, it always leads to engaging conversations.As we release this regular episode on Wednesday, John and Erin are busy packing their bags for their upcoming trip to the Yukon. They'll be fly fishing for huge Arctic Grayling above the 60th parallel, and we can't wait to share their experience with you. We hope you find this recording helpful and entertaining enough to share!Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food. Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

Part two of our great Merriam's Turkey hunt in the East Kootenays of British Columbia with Mark Hall.We could see them in the darkness in their roost trees on multiple days...but could we get close enough to get set up for a shot? Is there a proper way to hunt these birds? We chat about some hunting ethics when it comes to turkey hunting and we also arrive at some realizations about the timing of this particular hunt. We had a long power outage here at the farm today which delayed the release of this episode. Here is the episode on a Wednesday...late, but Wednesday nonetheless. I hope you'll join Mark and me in the wall tent at 4 am and follow us up onto the fir and pine ridges of the Rocky Mountains as we get set up to call. We're hunting mountain turkeys! Mentioned in this episode:Listen and Share on Goodpods! A great tool for finding the podcasts that your friends listen to. A true social media app for podcast listeners. Cool!CreditsThank you to our listeners, especially. We love to see that the Food Afield Podcast is resonating with folks who wish us success and want to contribute to our growth. Sharing the show by word-of-mouth and leaving reviews are crucial to the show's sustainability. Thanks again! Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food. Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

How To Be A Better BowhunterEthan Rodrigue is part of the Stickboys Podcast crew and was kind enough to join us on the latest episode of the Traditional Bowhunter's Journey, brought to you by the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine. Ethan is all about the trad bow and bowhunting. He is extremely knowledgeable about the issues surrounding the current state of hunting and the "industry". He is also very much involved in the PBS and we chatted about that great organization and how they are helping folks get involved in the traditional bowhunting lifestyle.The Traditional Bowhunting LifestyleIn this episode, Ethan made several points that surprised me with their clarity. His insights made me rethink my approach to hunting and have definitely inspired me to try to become a "better bowhunter".What I appreciated most about Ethan's message was his focus on the basics. In today's age of social media and instant gratification, it's easy to get lost in the noise and forget the fundamentals. But as Ethan pointed out, the pioneers of traditional bowhunting did important work in the 40s, 50s, and 60s to make this sport what it is today. We owe it to them to keep their woodsmanship, devotion, and ethics alive in order to honor their legacy.So what does it mean to be a better bowhunter? According to Ethan, it's about having respect for the animal and the laws, being observant, and being willing to spend a lifetime of learning from the natural world around you. It's about taking responsibility for your actions and understanding that hunting is not just about the kill, but about the experience as a whole.I found Ethan's message to be a refreshing change from the sensationalism and bravado that sometimes dominates hunting culture. He reminded me that at its core, hunting is a pursuit that requires discipline, humility, and a deep connection to nature. I hope that more hunters will embrace this approach and carry on the traditions of our forefathers.Mentioned in this episode:Traditional Bowhunter MagazineHeritage. Lifestyle. Community. We at Traditional Bowhunter Magazine strive to provide the best traditional experience for you. Our goal is to encourage a welcoming community focused on a lifestyle that honors the heritage of the traditional bow.In the bi-monthly magazine issues, you can read about hunts in faraway places and close to home, wild game cooking, How-to's, technique advice, beginner-friendly articles, and wisdom from our beloved experts. You will also find businesses that have the tools you need to get out into the woods.Want to start reading now? Download the app and enjoy Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food. Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

The first Food Afield Podcast expedition episode of '23! I've just gotten back from a week of turkey hunting with Mark Hall. Mark is the creator of the Hunter Conservationist Podcast and has been hunting the birds around his home for 20 years or more. I had never been hunting turkeys before so this was a learning experience to be sure. The country that these birds inhabit is so beautiful, and breathtaking, especially for these flatlander lungs. We interacted with birds every single day of the hunt. I tried my best to capture the audio of the hunt, the birds, the camp, and the wildlife that surrounded us constantly. I had an amazing time in these mountains, hunting these mountain birds and I simply cannot wait for next year already. Mentioned in this episode:CreditsThank you to our listeners, especially. We love to see that the Food Afield Podcast is resonating with folks who wish us success and want to contribute to our growth. Sharing the show by word-of-mouth and leaving reviews are crucial to the show's sustainability. Thanks again! Support the show, become a member!Membership dollars are the only source of income for us. Your membership helps keep the show going and be a part of the improvements you hear! Dollars are reinvested into audio gear and various internet-related hosting fees.Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food. Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

Inspired by an Instagram message from Jillian, I got on the phone with Kevin and we recorded some thoughts on our decade-long tradition of spotting and stalking bears. We go over the how-to's and when-to's of bear hunting as we have grown to know them over the years. What to look for as far as sign and feed are concerned. This will cover bear hunting in the northern boreal forests and similar areas. There is a lot of information here. I hope that we've given folks a few things to ponder if they're interested in bears and bear hunting. We also go over a few ideas on bear meat as a wild food ingredient. Bear meat is definitely a favourite in our kitchens! For those of you who aren't familiar with Kevin Kossowan, he is the creator of the award-winning wild food web series, From The Wild. Episodes are available for purchase on his website for $3.35 each CAD! You can also purchase the entire season(s), there are nine of them. Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food. Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

We are on a roll as far as episodes go with this new traditional bowhunting series. This is a tremendous learning opportunity, and an entertaining conversation with Cody Greenwood. Cody's profession is investigative analytics and he loves applying his science to help people find their way in selecting the proper traditional archery gear for them. You will find so many useful tips in the discussion with Cody. He is an absolute wealth of knowledge. You can find him on Instagram at @thetradlabWe all have our opinions on things that we're passionate about...this episode may challenge some of those viewpoints. But it's all good...we're all about the science and the data here with this second episode in the new series with the Traditional Bowhunter MagazineWelcome to the Traditional Bowhunter's Journey! Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food. Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

Getting to know Shawn James, the quiet man behind the hit YouTube series, My Self Reliance. We chat about hunting, fishing, and some of the environmental changes we've witnessed in our lifetime that we find interesting. Shawn is an accomplished traditional bowhunter who has a passion for getting as close as he can to the animals...including touching them! Welcome to part two of the story of Shawn James on the Food Afield Podcast. Mentioned in this episode:Traditional Bowhunter MagazineHeritage. Lifestyle. Community. We at Traditional Bowhunter Magazine strive to provide the best traditional experience for you. Our goal is to encourage a welcoming community focused on a lifestyle that honors the heritage of the traditional bow.In the bi-monthly magazine issues, you can read about hunts in faraway places and close to home, wild game cooking, How-to's, technique advice, beginner-friendly articles, and wisdom from our beloved experts. You will also find businesses that have the tools you need to get out into the woods.Want to start reading now? Download the app and enjoy the digital magazine for $10 per year. Just search Traditional Bowhunter Magazine in your favorite app store. Want a print subscription? Subscribe online at Tradbow.com and don't forget to place the code “foodafield” at the checkout. CreditsThank you to our listeners, especially. We love to see that the Food Afield Podcast is resonating with folks who wish us success and want to contribute to our growth. Sharing the show by word-of-mouth and leaving reviews are crucial to the show's sustainability. Thanks again! Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food. Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

Shawn James and I have recently connected on Instagram and I messaged him about being on the show. I'm honoured that he agreed to join us here on the Food Afield Podcast! A special episode, actually two episodes, as we sit and talk about Shawn's hit YouTube channel, My Self Reliance. For the most part throughout the conversation, we chat about the things that we both love doing in the outdoors, but a big part of Shawn's life is that channel so it enters the conversation often.Shawn's love and devotion to his family and the outdoors became very clear the longer we spoke. The stories he has from decades of intense wilderness experiences are phenomenal and it was fun to hear of his hunting, fishing, and wild food beginnings as well as how the YouTube channel got its start. Please go ahead and share this episode with friends and family who know Shawn's channel, or anyone who loves the world of wild food ingredients, and how to collect them. John SchneiderMentioned in this episode:CreditsThank you to our listeners, especially. We love to see that the Food Afield Podcast is resonating with folks who wish us success and want to contribute to our growth. Sharing the show by word-of-mouth and leaving reviews are crucial to the show's sustainability. Thanks again! Traditional Bowhunter MagazineHeritage. Lifestyle. Community. We at Traditional Bowhunter Magazine strive to provide the best traditional experience for you. Our goal is to encourage a welcoming community focused on a lifestyle that honors the heritage of the traditional bow.In the bi-monthly magazine issues, you can read about hunts in faraway places and close to home, wild game cooking, How-to's, technique advice, beginner-friendly articles, and wisdom from our beloved experts. You will also find businesses that have the tools you need to get out into the woods.Want to start reading now? Download the app and enjoy the digital magazine for $10 per year. Just search Traditional Bowhunter Magazine in your favorite app store. Want a print subscription? Subscribe online at Tradbow.com and don't forget to place the code “foodafield” at the checkout. Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food. Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

For those who don't know, Randy Cooling is a hyper-accomplished bowhunter who has traveled the world with his traditional bow in hand. It is difficult to imagine someone who is more dedicated to barebow shooting techniques. This episode is full of tips and tricks to break down your archery form and function. From there, with some advice from Randy, I suspect that anyone could improve their accuracy with the recurve or longbow. Randy is careful to communicate that there are many ways to accomplish a high level of competency with traditional archery gear and never comes close to saying that his way is the best way. But, I can admit that I will be approaching my practice sessions with a lot more diligence and care from now on with his advice.That is the beauty of this pastime. After all of the decades that I've carried a bow, I can easily learn new ways that add to the challenge and enjoyment of archery.Welcome to the first episode of the Traditional Bowhunter's Journey. Brought to you by The Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and Food Afield Podcast. The world of traditional and primitive archery and bowhunting. How to get started. How to get better. A series filled with the tips, techniques, and strategies from long-established traditional bowhunting experts. Mentioned in this episode:CreditsThank you to our listeners, especially. We love to see that the Food Afield Podcast is resonating with folks who wish us success and want to contribute to our growth. Sharing the show by word-of-mouth and leaving reviews are crucial to the show's sustainability. Thanks again! Traditional Bowhunter MagazineHeritage. Lifestyle. Community. We at Traditional Bowhunter Magazine strive to provide the best traditional experience for you. Our goal is to encourage a welcoming community focused on a lifestyle that honors the heritage of the traditional bow.In the bi-monthly magazine issues, you can read about hunts in faraway places and close to home, wild game cooking, How-to's, technique advice, beginner-friendly articles, and wisdom from our beloved experts. You will also find businesses that have the tools you need to get out into the woods.Want to start reading now? Download the app and enjoy the digital magazine for $10 per year. Just search Traditional Bowhunter Magazine in your favorite app store. Want a print subscription? Subscribe online at Tradbow.com and don't forget to place the code “foodafield” at the checkout. Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food. Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

Wade Out There Fly FishingIn this episode, we get to meet Jason Shemchuk who is an interesting guy. Jason is a watercolor artist, fly fisher, and former military pilot. He is also a great guy to get to know and I am so happy I reached out to him. Wade Out There is the place to go to see his artwork and read his beautiful stories about time spent in the riffles of western mountain streams. Aside from being entertained on his website, you can also visit the Wade Out There podcast. That show is available in the usual places and is a terrific source of fly fishing knowledge. Jason has guests on his show with some serious intel on fly fishing in various situations. I hope you enjoy this episode. We are getting so close to being back into the wilderness with our adventure-style shows. April 15th is coming fast and I'll be on a ridge top somewhere in BC looking for turkeys with Mark Hall. You be along for that journey with us! Please remember to share the show with friends and family. Word of mouth is still the most effective way that the Food Afield Podcast grows...despite the attempts by various algorithms. Mentioned in this episode:CreditsThank you to our listeners, especially. We love to see that the Food Afield Podcast is resonating with folks who wish us success and want to contribute to our growth. Sharing the show by word-of-mouth and leaving reviews are crucial to the show's sustainability. Thanks again! Listen and Share on Goodpods! A great tool for finding the podcasts that your friends listen to. A true social media app for podcast listeners. Cool!Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food. Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

Don Thomas is a legend in the outdoor hunting and fishing community. He is widely considered to be amongst the best outdoor authors in the world and his traditional bowhunting, fly fishing, and wingshooting adventures span the globe. Don has written more than 20 best-selling books and countless articles; and, he always tells a great story. This episode is one of the "lost episodes" of my show. It was recorded when I was on another hosting platform and contained those watermarks. Because of that, it was not circulated properly. I've re-edited this version and am re-releasing it! I finally get a chance to catch up with Don after a long spell of losing touch. We chat about cooking wild game, and old times, dogs and cats; and, then the stories really get rolling about bow-hunting bears, including several intense encounters Don has had over the years (yes, the Russian Brown Bear story is in here).We have plans to have Don back on the show sometime soon and I'm trying to talk Lori into joining us too. Enjoy!Mentioned in this episode:Traditional Bowhunter MagazineHeritage. Lifestyle. Community. We at Traditional Bowhunter Magazine strive to provide the best traditional experience for you. Our goal is to encourage a welcoming community focused on a lifestyle that honors the heritage of the traditional bow.In the bi-monthly magazine issues, you can read about hunts in faraway places and close to home, wild game cooking, How-to's, technique advice, beginner-friendly articles, and wisdom from our beloved experts. You will also find businesses that have the tools you need to get out into the woods.Want to start reading now? Download the app and enjoy the digital magazine for $10 per year. Just search Traditional Bowhunter Magazine in your favorite app store. Want a print subscription? Subscribe online at Tradbow.com and don't forget to place the code “foodafield” at the checkout. Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food. Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

Kevin and I are having fun watching the old From The Wild shows and recording our reactions to watching ourselves almost 10 years ago! This is our Pike ice fishing adventure from season 2 of Kevin's show. Mostly a bunch of lessons on what not to do when ice fishing for Pike, but you get to learn from our early mistakes. The episode ends in spectacular fashion in Blair's restaurant Rge Rd. Have fun!Mentioned in this episode:CreditsThank you to our listeners, especially. We love to see that the Food Afield Podcast is resonating with folks who wish us success and want to contribute to our growth. Sharing the show by word-of-mouth and leaving reviews are crucial to the show's sustainability. Thanks again! Folding Mountain Brewery, Kitchen and TaproomThe next time you visit the world-famous Jasper National Park, be sure to stop in at Folding Mountain for a meal and an award-winning brew. Folding Mountain is located near the gates of the park. Be sure to order my favourite, and the beer I exclusively buy, the Lager. This beer recently won a gold medal at the Alberta Beer Awards! Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food. Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

This episode is an exploration of some of the barriers to entry for new fly fishers today. I speak with a friend, Eric Leslie, who owns Driftstone Fly Fishing and runs his YouTube channel @EricLeslie. We get a little salty with the haters and point out that obvious barrier, along with some of the things that ordinary beginner fly fishers go through, including ourselves. Everything from gear to fish handling in this episode. Join us as we share some of the struggles, past and present, that we face when doing our thing on the trout streams. This is a candid conversation meant to reduce some of the anxiety that might go along with your beginnings in the Fly Fishing Lifestyle. Mentioned in this episode:CreditsThank you to our listeners, especially. We love to see that the Food Afield Podcast is resonating with folks who wish us success and want to contribute to our growth. Sharing the show by word-of-mouth and leaving reviews are crucial to the show's sustainability. Thanks again! Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food. Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

David Tetzlaff is my guest on this episode of the Food Afield Podcast. David is the co-editor of Traditional Bowhunting Magazine and a heck of a nice guy! His work background and adult-onset hunting career are fascinating. We have a great conversation about getting started with the trad-life and the magazine. You know it's going to be a good episode when Beka Garris, Ted Nugent, TJ Conrads, E. Donnall Thomas, and Tarzan's stunt double all come up in casual conversation! How to get started in traditional bowhunting and so much more on this episode. Mentioned in this episode:Traditional Bowhunter MagazineHeritage. Lifestyle. Community. We at Traditional Bowhunter Magazine strive to provide the best traditional experience for you. Our goal is to encourage a welcoming community focused on a lifestyle that honors the heritage of the traditional bow.In the bi-monthly magazine issues, you can read about hunts in faraway places and close to home, wild game cooking, How-to's, technique advice, beginner-friendly articles, and wisdom from our beloved experts. You will also find businesses that have the tools you need to get out into the woods.Want to start reading now? Download the app and enjoy the digital magazine for $10 per year. Just search Traditional Bowhunter Magazine in your favorite app store. Want a print subscription? Subscribe online at Tradbow.com and don't forget to place the code “foodafield” at the checkout. CreditsThank you to our listeners, especially. We love to see that the Food Afield Podcast is resonating with folks who wish us success and want to contribute to our growth. Sharing the show by word-of-mouth and leaving reviews are crucial to the show's sustainability. Thanks again! Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food. Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

This week I am playing a little catch-up with all of you wonderful listeners. Just letting you know what we are up to with the show, where I feel like we're falling down, and the plan to not do that anymore. There are projects around the farm here right now that need attending in preparation for the upcoming "podcast recording season"! Here, I let you in on some of the plans we have, and invite you to share your input on where you want the show to go! Have a great week everyone. JohnAnd in the interest of SEO. Wild Food. Hunting podcast. Fly fishing podcast. IYKYKSomething new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food. Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

It is always a good day when I get to visit with Blayne Prowse. Blayne has become a good friend and we have plans to spend some time together this year at his home on the island of Haida Gwaii off of the BC coast. We'll be fly fishing for Coho Salmon and sea-run cutthroat, and I heard him mention deep-sea fishing for Tuna. I sure hope that can happen. I've never caught Tuna before. In the first eight minutes of the episode I get to indulge my fascination with riding on ferries and listeners will get re-acquainted with Blayne and what he is all about over at Stumpstalker Archery. Then we get into the plans for my visit in September. The last half of the show is focused on getting started in primitive archery and sharpening broadheads for bowhunting success. There is quite a bit of information in this episode if you've ever been curious about how to get started with primitive archery and bowhunting. Blayne is a treasure trove of information on bowhunting with selfbows and wood arrows! A fun episode of fly fishing, archery, and getting your broadheads hunting sharp. Give Blayne a shout for your arrow and broadhead needs. His website is stumpstalker.caMentioned in this episode:CreditsThank you to our listeners, especially. We love to see that the Food Afield Podcast is resonating with folks who wish us success and want to contribute to our growth. Sharing the show by word-of-mouth and leaving reviews are crucial to the show's sustainability. Thanks again! Listen and Share on Goodpods! A great tool for finding the podcasts that your friends listen to. A true social media app for podcast listeners. Cool!Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food. Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

The second half of the turkey hunt primer with Mark Hall. Mark is the creator of the Hunter Conservationist Podcast and a few others. Please be sure to check out his shows on the Hunter Conservationist website.Mark has been hunting wild turkeys near his home in southern BC for the past twenty years and loves to share his knowledge. He also offers a Turkey Hunting masterclass that is comprehensive enough to get you started chasing these magnificent birds. That class is available here.In this episode, Mark discusses some of the hunting tools we can use and how to set them up. Patterning shotguns is something that should be done more often than it is by most of us. What are the appropriate turkey loads for the different shotguns? We also chat about some of the hunting situations and setups that Mark and Curtis have employed over the years and how we might set up in an attempt to record the audio for the actual hunt episode in April. There are a couple of fun hunting stories in this episode. Finally, we chat about some of the ways to enjoy eating wild turkey...and the dangerous companions we might encounter during the hunt. Welcome to the Food Afield Podcast, a hunting and fishing wild food journey!Mentioned in this episode:Listen and Share on Goodpods! A great tool for finding the podcasts that your friends listen to. A true social media app for podcast listeners. Cool!CreditsThank you to our listeners, especially. We love to see that the Food Afield Podcast is resonating with folks who wish us success and want to contribute to our growth. Sharing the show by word-of-mouth and leaving reviews are crucial to the show's sustainability. Thanks again! Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food. Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

Remember the episode of Schitt's Creek where they take David turkey hunting? I think I'm more prepared than he was, but perhaps not.This episode is about me getting ready to hunt wild turkey for the first time in my life. I have next to no idea what calls I need or how to use them, and that's just the bare minimum of what I need to know. It's about time I had Mark Hall on my show, and the timing is perfect as I begin to get ready for April 15, the opening day of the Merriam's Turkey season in BC. Mark is the host of the Hunter Conservationist Podcast and has been pursuing these birds in the hills around his home for more than two decades. He also offers a masterclass on hunting turkeys in the ponderosa pine ridges of southern BC. That course is available here. Mark's knowledge of turkey biology and behaviour, and how to put them on his table, is matched only by his enthusiasm. The two of us will be hiking a pre-dawn rocky mountain ridge on opening day, shock-calling for roosted turkeys, and I simply cannot wait. There is much to prepare and this episode goes a long way to help with that task.Part two of this episode will come out on Monday, Feb 13, 2023. Big announcement coming up shortly on a new way to reward subscribers with free Food Afield gear! Support the Food Afield Podcast, become a member subscriber today! Mentioned in this episode:CreditsThank you to our listeners, especially. We love to see that the Food Afield Podcast is resonating with folks who wish us success and want to contribute to our growth. Sharing the show by word-of-mouth and leaving reviews are crucial to the show's sustainability. Thanks again! Listen and Share on Goodpods! A great tool for finding the podcasts that your friends listen to. A true social media app for podcast listeners. Cool!Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food. Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

A few of the best bits from the hunting episodes of season four. We start off with a father/son grouse hunting trip into both the boreal forest and familiar farmland around our home. The hunting was tough, but whenever that occurs, it presents an opportunity for some good hunting stories by Dad. Stories of good dogs and near-miss hunting accidents. From the grouse brush, we head down into the grasslands of the Canadian prairies. We're still focused on birds, but this time you get to listen in as Kevin successfully stalks a flock of Sandhill Cranes in a field! Spot and stalk crane on the menu as a unique wild food ingredient!After the bird hunting is over, Kevin and I find ourselves back in the wolf-willows and scrub brush of that same prairie landscape. We are after mule deer now. Join me and my pounding heart as the biggest muley buck of my life makes a critical mistake on morning one of our hunt, and then Kevin connects with his target animal, a doe. Wild food ingredients and how to acquire them! Mentioned in this episode:Listen and Share on Goodpods! A great tool for finding the podcasts that your friends listen to. A true social media app for podcast listeners. Cool!CreditsThank you to our listeners, especially. We love to see that the Food Afield Podcast is resonating with folks who wish us success and want to contribute to our growth. Sharing the show by word-of-mouth and leaving reviews are crucial to the show's sustainability. Thanks again! Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food. Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

I thought I could fit the rest of season four highlights into this second episode, but as I listened to last year's fly fishing content, I realized it would be an episode of its own. We'll need a third "best of" episode at some point in the future. For now, I trust that you will enjoy this one. We start off at a favourite stream with Kevin and Mel. Mel catches her biggest fish ever, and it is a beautiful Cutthroat! From there we hang out with Erin and Lisa for their first time fly fishing on a trout stream. There was a lot of laughing in that particular episode. After that, it is Joel and I fishing his home stream and then we end up with Curtis and Paige fishing the famous Elk and Bull Rivers in BC for big Cutthroat Trout. All the best fly fishing scenes from Season Four of the Food Afield Podcast! We'd love it if you would leave a review of the Food Afield Podcast wherever you are listening. Thank you!Catch us over at Instagram and find out why becoming a member might be a good idea for you. Mentioned in this episode:Listen and Share on Goodpods! A great tool for finding the podcasts that your friends listen to. A true social media app for podcast listeners. Cool!Support the show, become a member!Membership dollars are the only source of income for us. Your membership helps keep the show going and be a part of the improvements you hear! Dollars are reinvested into audio gear and various internet-related hosting fees.Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food. Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

This is the first year that I've attempted to deliver an episode once per week. It is a little tricky for me to come up with interesting expedition episodes at this time of year. Ice fishing and small game hunting are available of course. Usually, though, we don't do a lot of ice fishing, and when we do, it is in March. This previous week I had ambitions to get out and do some hare hunting. But life got in the way and firewood collection became the priority.In the interest of keeping my word on the publication of weekly podcast episodes, I came up with the idea of putting together some highlights of episodes from season four. I am always surprised, looking at the podcast stats, that so few people go back and listen to the old episodes when they first find the show. I am hopeful that this is a good way to introduce some memories and a little context to new listeners, as well as keep you regular listeners entertained!This first highlight episode takes us from Kevin and I whitetail hunting in the wall tent, right up until the Tombstone Lake episode. I hope you enjoy some fond memories from season four. Thanks for your support! Mentioned in this episode:CreditsThank you to our listeners, especially. We love to see that the Food Afield Podcast is resonating with folks who wish us success and want to contribute to our growth. Sharing the show by word-of-mouth and leaving reviews are crucial to the show's sustainability. Thanks again! Listen and Share on Goodpods! A great tool for finding the podcasts that your friends listen to. A true social media app for podcast listeners. Cool!Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food. Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

Welcome back to the Food Afield Podcast, this will be the final director's commentary episode for a while. I've enjoyed a three-week winter holiday and am anxious to get back to recording in the field!Kevin and I had a few laughs with this episode, S2E2 "Two Miles". It was nearly a disaster in more than one way! Before the gale blew in, taking Jeff and his jacket with it, we managed to catch some amazing perch and walleye on Lesser Slave Lake in Alberta. This was season two of the From The Wild series, Kevin is noticing some drastic changes in the way he is filming and editing by this stage. That is also interesting, to hear Kevin commenting behind the scenes about his popular show. I do hope you enjoy this one. Happy New Year!Mentioned in this episode:CreditsThank you to our listeners, especially. We love to see that the Food Afield Podcast is resonating with folks who wish us success and want to contribute to our growth. Sharing the show by word-of-mouth and leaving reviews are crucial to the show's sustainability. Thanks again! Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food. Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

The second From The Wild episode that I appeared in. Way back in 2015. "Smith Dorrien" was an episode where Kevin, Jeff, and myself ventured out onto the groaning, crackling ice of Spray Lakes in search of Lake Trout. Kevin and I have so much fun sitting and re-watching these old episodes. I hope you enjoy listening to all the behind-the-scenes stories that happen on-location while filming From The Wild. You can access this award-winning web series at fromthewild.ca and then listen to the director's commentary episodes in simulcast!These director's commentary episodes are great for filling in the podcast release weeks when I haven't been out on any expeditions. We'll run several of these in a row until the next wild food adventure of ice fishing later this month. Have a wonderful 2023!Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food. Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

Merry Christmas 2022! The Christmas Day episode has become a tradition and launches season five of the Food Afield Podcast. This one is pretty special, I loved recording and editing it for you. With me this week, in the living room of the strawbale farmhouse, is Kevin Kossowan, the creator of the award-winning web series, From the Wild. We thought it would be fun to go back in time and re-watch some of the old FTW episodes together and record our comments. Kevin is almost at the one-hundred-episode mark of his show, so we knew it was time to reminisce and record some commentaries on the From The Wild episodes that I've been a part of over the past 10 years. To do this, we go back all the way to episode eleven of season one, "Tin Foil and Matches". The beginning of the episode is a little rough, as I get an insane scratching in my throat and Kevin schools me on not being able to pause these particular episodes. Pure retro Bob and Doug McKenzie. It's all there, with the curses bleeped. So, have a laugh at my expense. Happy New Year! 5q1zztQjH8diqNPHV0sxSomething new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food. Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

It is early December, one week after the big game season has closed locally. It is a perfect time to hang out with friend Lisa and do some small game hunting at Nana and Papa's old farmstead.Lisa is an adult-onset hunter who has never hunted before! She is excited to be learning new ways to be able to connect with her surroundings and explore wild food ingredients. We do a little shooting with the .22 and she fires a shotgun for the first time also! It is so rewarding to be able to hang out with Lisa, and new hunters in general. The exuberance and excitement wear off on me and take me back to a time when I struggled to figure out how to make wild food happen. This episode is full of questions and chats about being new to hunting, topics I take for granted nowadays. It was so much fun to record and edit and hopefully, this helps new hunters get started. I am also hopeful that this episode should be a guide for us old-timers to be able to mentor folks more effectively. This episode takes you out into the bush with us as we search for hares and grouse. As darkness falls, we find ourselves embraced by towering spruce trees and the brightness and warmth of a campfire. Donairs and a nice wine are on the menu too! Mentioned in this episode:CreditsThank you to our listeners, especially. We love to see that the Food Afield Podcast is resonating with folks who wish us success and want to contribute to our growth. Sharing the show by word-of-mouth and leaving reviews are crucial to the show's sustainability. Thanks again! Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food. Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

This year, a little confused about the need versus the want to bowhunt, John's season gets a very late start. This was partly by design though. It was fun to have a week of bowhunting to look forward to, and I suspect that it will be replicated in future seasons. This concentrated effort was slightly thwarted by some extreme weather that blew in for the last 4 days. This episode is also a bit of a breakthrough with recording in the field during a hunt. This is the first time I've recorded content while in the treestand or ground blind. The wind wreaked some havoc on the audio quality from time to time, but some new kit has been ordered from Germany that should take care of that issue moving forward. Thank you to the folks who've chosen to support the show through the subscription of Food Afield membership. You can achieve member benefits too by visiting www.foodafieldpodcast.com Your membership helps us grow the show and produce better content. It is greatly appreciated and we're committed to increasing member benefits over time to show our thanks. Mentioned in this episode:CreditsThank you to our listeners, especially. We love to see that the Food Afield Podcast is resonating with folks who wish us success and want to contribute to our growth. Sharing the show by word-of-mouth and leaving reviews are crucial to the show's sustainability. Thanks again! Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food. Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

A simple little episode that I recorded while preparing my mule deer buck for a so-called "euro mount". This is the second time I've performed this home taxidermy procedure. The first time was under the excellent tutelage of Kevin Kossowan while cleaning my big whitetail buck last year. That skull turned out amazing. Since recording this episode of the Food Afield Podcast, I've come across many knowledgeable folks who have different ways of cleaning the skulls, which I think is wonderful! I hope I never grow tired of learning new skills and different ways of accomplishing tasks. This episode should not be considered a how-to, but perhaps more of a "how-I". This week I will post some photos on the member's feed article so you can have a better idea of what I am trying to explain in the audio. At any rate, I hope you enjoy the show! Don't forget to sign up for the member's feed at foodafieldpodcast.com Members enjoy several benefits including ad-free and member-exclusive episodes along with blog articles and recipes. We're not finished with ideas to enhance the membership experience, so hang on for that! Join today for less than the cost of a latte per month.

The last day and night at the Grasslands Shack for Kevin and John. This episode focuses on Kevin's success with his antlerless draw tag. A very long stalk ends in a great way for us!This episode has a lot of chat about age-class choices regarding targeting animals for food outcomes. You also get to listen in on our typical morning routine when we're in the field, but this time, we're freezing cold!This will be the last episode of the grasslands series for 2022, so I hope you enjoyed hearing about our prairie adventures this past fall. Please check out the member's feed over at foodafieldpodcast.com There are some great benefits to being a member, not the least of which is that you will be helping the show to continue, and grow. This episode is brought to you by our friends over at Folding Mountain Brewery, Kitchen, and Taproom. Folding Mountain is located near the gates of the world-famous Jasper National Park in Alberta Canada. My favourite is their lager, which recently won a gold medal at the 2022 Alberta Beer Awards!

Part two of the Mule Deer expedition continues in this episode of the Food Afield Podcast. Kevin and John are in the grasslands and the blizzard hits hard! The temperatures plummet to minus 18 degrees Celsius, but that doesn't matter too much. There are two deer, including John's big buck, skinned and hanging in the shack, and the woodstove is working hard. This episode continues John's story on the first morning and picks up as the doe and the big buck are headed straight towards him. Kevin and John re-tell the story that evening while the blizzard howls and cocktails are poured. They also tell about Kevin's whitetail gift as they were loading up John's buck! The Food Afield Podcast now offers Membership benefits! For less than the cost of a latte per month, you can help the show to continue and grow. Members receive exclusive recipes, how-to articles, and behind-the-scenes stories that don't come across on the episodes themselves. These articles and stories are located on the blog. Additional benefits include downloadable Member's Episodes that are ad-free and otherwise unavailable on the regular listening platforms. This episode is brought to you by Folding Mountain Brewery. The brewery, taphouse, and kitchen are located near the gates of Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada. Visit the Food Afield Podcast website for great member-only benefits! We're also over at Instagram, Vero and Twitter! #foodafieldpodcast

This episode of the Food Afield Podcast finds John and Kevin in the newly established Grasslands Shack where they are looking for both antlered and antlerless mule deer.Kevin has spent a good deal of time and energy getting the shack set up on some property in the grasslands where his family has hunted since he was young. This was our second visit to the shack and we installed the chimney for the woodstove, just ahead of an incoming blizzard. This episode begins inside the shack, a wood fire crackling in the background, with the guys chatting about wild food and Folding Mountain Brewery beer. The conversation turns to mule deer hunting before too long though and suddenly we are in the field with John as he first encounters the big mule deer buck! This hunt will continue over a few episodes. It was a great trip and we are so glad to share it with you! This episode is sponsored by Folding Mountain Brewery. The award-winning beer they produce is served around Alberta. The taproom and kitchen are located at the gates of Jasper National Park. Their Lager recently won the gold medal at the Alberta Beer Awards and has been John's favourite beer for a couple of years now. If you are interested in sponsoring an episode of the Food Afield Podcast, please contact John directly at: john@foodafieldpodcast.comVisit the Food Afield Podcast website for great articles, recipes, and much more. While you're there, don't forget to sign up for the monthly (at most) newsletter that provides access to exclusive content and offers. We're also over at Instagram, Vero and Twitter!

The 50th episode of the Food Afield Podcast. Happy Halloween! This episode finds Kevin Kossowan and me in the familiar surroundings of the northern boreal forest. We've decided to multi-task with some wild food ingredient procurement this day. It is a long day, many hours, and many kilometers of hiking, but we accomplish a few things. The first task is for Kevin to set up his three trail cameras. This has become a fun pastime for us in recent years. We get to see some pictures of game that we wouldn't get the chance to do otherwise. Sometimes, there are some pretty interesting photos that come from these cameras. These photos, and the times that they are taken also help us to make some decisions once hunting season comes around. Should an area be hunted in the morning vs afternoon for instance? Mostly though, it is just for fun. The other reason for being in the boreal at this time of year is for the Ruffed Grouse hunting. Last year, the populations of grouse were through the roof! You get to hear us finally achieve some success on these birds. They are right up there for me as far as the quality of meat is concerned. Lastly, I fill up the bed of the pickup with dry tamarack firewood for the house. While I'm cutting wood, you can hear Kevin sighting in his antique 303 in the background. With this firewood, the strawbale house stays warm and comfortable all winter, and we get to cook with it also. This was a quality day spent in the woods. I invite you to come join us in the woods here on the Food Afield Podcast! Visit the Food Afield Podcast website for great articles, recipes, and much more. While you're there, don't forget to sign up for the monthly (at most) newsletter that provides access to exclusive content and offers. We're also over at Instagram, Vero and Twitter!