Spontaneous Vegetation

Stephen is an interdisciplinary, independent scholar, polymath, and author or 23 books (and working on others), numerous articles, and essays and have achieved some mastery in a variety of subjects a few being bacterial ecology, resistance dynamics; plant intelligence and ecology, human psychology and psychotherapy, biological self-organization; nonlinearity; contemplative spirituality, transcultural epistemology and more. www.stephenharrodbuhner.com Contains mild profanity. An edited version of this interview was aired on Lumpen Radio, in two parts.

Stephanie Gottlob is a somatic improvisational movement artist. In 2019 she bought a truck camper and has been on the road for three years, exploring movement improvisation, somatic experience, and creative process throughout the various natural biomes of North America - deciduous forest, lake, tundra, swamp, grasslands, river, desert, temperate rain forest, and boreal forest.

Angela is the current supervisor of the Onondaga Nation Farm. The farm practices all aspects of Food Sovereignty for their community. She is also one of the original organizing members of Braiding the Sacred, an all indigenous group of Traditional Corn Growers across Turtle Island. Her many passions include Haudenosaunee Traditional Agriculture, Seed Caring, Bee Keeping, Foraging, Traditional Cooking Methods, Knowledge Sharing, Haudenosaunee Nutrition Education, Youth Mentorship, & Traditional Hide Tanning.

Uncle Bear Klein is a Content Creator, Trainer, Life Coach, and Designer of Powerful Life Transformational curriculum. He/they have over 20+ years of experience leading workshops in Chicago and across the country. Uncle Bear seeks to facilitate and witness transformation and unite the head with the heart while at the same time savoring the honey of Life! He strives to live and create work honoring his five Core Values: Connection, Courage, Compassion, Curiosity, and Creativity. Cover image via http://www.unclebearsrodeo.com

School for the Ecocene hosts programs and is also an eco-social network for sharing resources, inspiration and actions for planetary liberation. The Ecocene is an emergent geologic era where all beings are living in relation and reciprocity with their ecosystems again. Sarita and Este are two of its stewards transforming the School into a worker-owned Cooperative www.ecocene.net

Margaret Bardell and her husband manage Chestnut Cliff Farm. The farm aims to raise the highest quality specialty organic produce, maple syrup, free-range eggs, grass-fed beef, herbs, foraged foods such as mushrooms and wild plums, unique cut flowers, and more. They are located in Freeport, Illinois at the edge of the Driftless and are converting to no-till, regenerative methods to support soil biology. Chestnut Cliff Farm - Bardell Family - Market Garden - Organic @chestnutclifffarm

George Johnson is a 96 year old elder who has had a long practice of native prairie restoration and preservation. He is a library of history of the confluence of human use of land, native prairie and agriculture in northern Illinois.

Gwyneth Zeleny Anderson is an artist based in Chicago, living where the Ojibwe, Odawa, Potawatomi, Miami, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Sac, Fox, Kickapoo, and Illinois Nations have called home. She animates out of devotion to the fluidity and multiplicity of everything, focusing on sensations and experiences of isolation that are avoided by dominant culture. As a depressive person, the animation process is a crucial, steady reminder that nothing is really stuck or alone. Every project is a spell to transform the violence of isolation, and celebrate each other as interconnected, weird phenomena. She has presented work in galleries, forests, and empty lots around the northern hemisphere. https://gwynethvzanderson.com/section/89319.html gwynethvzanderson.com

Cathi Schwalbe is a maker of objects including mixed media, sculpture, found objects, bronze & iron, installation & site specific works, and a deep social practice, all centered around issues and aesthetics related to food systems, water, agriculture, reuse, connection, and being human. @casbah3d and www.casbah3.com

Nance speaks with four staffers of Chicago's independent newspaper, South Side Weekly: Editor-in-Chief Jacqui Serrato, Managing Editor Martha Bayne, Imigration Editor Alma Castillo and Politics Editor. www.southsideweekly.com

Inkmaker Thomas Little of A Rural Pen Thomas is an amateur ink historian and ink maker, based in Sampson county, NC. He makes and sells iron based pigments derived from firearms processed in his makeshift laboratory in the woods. He is currently working on other applications for his pigments, including recording sound in black magnetite ink stripes. He has taught several workshops and curated an exhibit on historic pigments and ink, and was a speaker at the first Pigments Revealed Symposium. His interests in the alchemy of images and substances informs his work. @a.rural.pen

Tao Orion is the author of Beyond the War on Invasive Species: A Permaculture Approach to Ecosystem Restoration (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2015). Tao holds a degree in agroecology and sustainable agriculture from UC Santa Cruz, She lives with her husband, two children, and an array of fruits, vegetables, seeds, nuts, and animals on her southern Willamette Valley smallholding, Viriditas Farm. Tao consults on holistic farm, forest, and restoration planning through her company Resilience Permaculture Design, LLC. www.resiliencepermaculture.com

Originally from Karachi, Pakistan, Tahereh Sheerazie know as ‘the plant artist' is a garden designer, fabric artist and hiker in Pasadena, CA. Her work focuses on studying and using native plant communities and earth works to support wise water use in the increasingly drying west. http://www.theplantartist.com @the_plant_artist

Lena Welker is a metis woman of Anishinaabe descent. She and her husband run Blue Heron Outdoor School. Her herbal path began 40 years ago with her German mother in law who had grown up working with medicinal plants. She has been fortunate to have studied with many herbalists over the years in both Western and indigenous traditions. She believes that we are meant to be in balance, We are meant to be healthy. We are meant to be empowered. http://www.medicinelakeherbals.com

Jeanine Moy has devoted the last two decades to the study of natural ecosystems. Her range of experiences include managing an agroforestry research and demonstration site in upstate New York, conducting plant field studies in the greater Yellowstone region, guiding rock climbing in Colorado, and teaching outdoor science to youth in Oregon. She graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. in Applied Ecology, and from Southern Oregon University with a M.S. in Environmental Education. As a naturalist, educator, creative, activist, and backcountry adventurer, Jeanine draws on a diverse background for the foundation of the Vesper Meadow Education Program. vespermeadow.org

This interview is with the 3 founding members of INGA books. INGA is a Chicago bookshop with a focus on self-published independently distributed artists' book on design, art, film, theory and more. They program events semi frequently including readings, lectures, and performances in conjunction with the shop's interests and stock. They also publish books, bookmarks and other additions. https://i-n-g-a.com/

Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle have collaborated together since 2002. They are founders of the “ecosex movement” where they aim to make the environmental movement more sexy, fun and diverse through film, art, performance and writing. They were official documenta 14 artists (2016-17) where they premiered their film, “Water Makes Us Wet”, had a visual art exhibit, and performed several Ecosex Walking Tours. They were named 2019 Eureka Fellows. Their book, “Assuming the Ecosexual Position: Earth as Lover” will be available in July 2021 from the University of Minnesota Press. This is the *uncut and uncensored* interview - contains some profanity. spinklestephens.ucsc.edu

Carter O'Brien is the sustainability officer at the Field Musem's Office of Strategic Science Initiatives. He works to institutionalize sustainable principles such as recycling, food operations, alternative transportation, urban agriculture, community gardening, and renewable energy. A 49 year old Chicago native, he is the vice president of the Chicago Recycling Coalition, a tree keeper, as well as an avid cyclist, musician and martial artist.

Dr. Suzanne Pierre is a scientist, educator, and social organizer dedicated to the liberation of human beings through deep understanding of and communion with the natural world. Suzanne is trained as an ecosystems ecologist and biogeochemist focused on global environmental change and critical ecological study. Through her scientific research on the global cycles of matter and energy between plants, microbes, and the non-living environment, Suzanne has begun to explore how oppression, supremacist ideologies, and extractive societies have shaped the past and present natural environment at the micro and macro scales. She investigates and promotes this novel perspective on environmental and climate change through the work of her research and social change collective, the Critical Ecology Lab. www.suzannepierre.com www.criticalecologylab.org

Michelle Matthews is a BIPOC environmentalist, artist, designer, and photographer, who was born in Iran to a Chinese/Vietnamese mother and a Black/Caucasian father, and her family was among the last ones to be airlifted from Iran during the Islamic revolution in February of 1979. Traveling back and forth between her home in Hawthorne, CA and her high school in West Los Angeles, Michelle noticed how the quality of the landscape impacts the quality of life. She has spent most of her career working as a creative at nonprofits such as the ACLU, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and Sundance Institute, host of the Sundance Film Festival. She is proud to bring her non-profit creative vision and landscape management experience together in her role as Executive Director of Arlington Garden, a free public garden in the heart of Pasadena, CA. http://www.arlingtongardenpasadena.org

Phillip Franses works to find the edge where science and spirit meet. He holds a degree in Mathematics from Oxford University, teaches Holistic Science as Senior Lecturer across the world and applies these principles in the field as Director Strategy with The Flow Partnership (www.theflowpartnership.org). He is developing Waterways (www.waterways.world) - an online water school that enables community action globally through traditional methods of reviving landscapes. Philip is the chief editor of the Holistic Science Journal and the current issue In Dialogue (www.holisticsciencejournal.co.uk). Philip is also the author of Time, Light and the Dice of Creation published by Floris Books.

Spontaneous Vegetation airs on second and fourth Sundays on Lumpen Radio, 5-6pm. Champoy is an interdisciplinary artist, educator and performer. In his own words: "Born in the highlands of Bukidnon, a landlocked province in the island of Mindanao which is located in the Southern Philippines. I have been based in the US/Turtle Island since immigrating in 2002. My drawings and paintings exhibit varied elements from comix, organic patterns and a humorous sense that is lifted from personal cosmology and ancestral visions mixed with a commentary on advertising and consumer culture. The site-specific installations that I create are personal inventories of fragments from a historical perspective that is constantly shifting. Usually starting off from points where the colonized and colonizer blurs out, they then become improvisational sites in which the constructed and the readymade are used to question materiality and our making of the world through language and knowledge. My arrangements strategically invites the viewers to look deeply into what is made present or absent, visible and not visible, and to move into the space with a heightened awareness of their body and senses. My current work is centered around merging installation, line, video, and performance in countering the dominant narratives of empire mainly through uplifting my own stories. This ethno-autobiographical approach allows me to inquire and look deeply into the multitudes that I inhabit and the complexities that come with it -to see and be seen as someone who not only produces objects but is also produced as the object.

Spontaneous Vegetation airs on second and fourth Sundays on Lumpen Radio, 5-6pm. Emily Constantine Mercurio is the CEO and cofounder at CivicMapper. Emily grew up in Pennsylvania coal country and at a young age became interested in geoscience , maps and the interplay of nature and humans activity. Her career has centered on creating innovative, data driven, and tangible solutions to support decisions at the intersection of our natural and built environment. She leverages more than 25 years of experience with earth science data and geospatial technology in the development of civic mapper's products and services. Emily has a PhD in geology and is a licensed professional geologist.

Spontaneous Vegetation airs on second and fourth Sundays on Lumpen Radio, 5-6pm. Virginia Montgomery is a seeker, healer, music maker and visual artist. Her hope is that we are all seeking and or mentoring for the sake of a future that makes sense to us. When it comes to body work, the quest is to be IN OUR BODY enough to feel that we can be in connection with our highest self. We are so much stronger than we give ourselves credit for and it's time we graciously see this truth and never give away our power. We have to know ourselves better before we can expect others to know us. Some of this comes through knowing our own bodies and it's messages when we are in pain. It's a time of many questions.

Spontaneous Vegetation airs on second and fourth Sundays on Lumpen Radio, 5-6pm. Claudia Bernardi, installation artist and printmaker whose artwork is impacted by war and the post war period. Born in Argentina, Bernardi was affected by the military junta (1976-1983) that caused 30,000 “desaparecidos”. Bernardi participated with the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team exhuming mass graves in investigations of human rights violations. In 2005 Bernardi created the School of Art and Open Studio of Perquin, El Salvador, a community-based art project where children, youth and adults work collaboratively. Bernardi is a Professor at the California College of the Arts where she designs classes on art and human rights in Latin America.

Rust Belt Riders is nearly a worker owned cooperative of people inspired by what we do with food when we're done with it. They do the dirty, often sloppy work of collecting food from people, businesses, schools and organizations, and mixing them with woody materials and high quality compost to make organic potting mix to help recapture carbon on our degraded landscapes. All this while growing healthy food and community. Another world is possible (and it will be delicious).

Nance Klehm, Radical Ecologist — Dr. Nalini Nadkarni is a Professor of Biology and forest ecologist at the University of Utah. She studies the plants and animals that live in rainforest canopies, with support from the National Science Foundation and the National Geographic Society. She has written over 130 scientific papers and three books. She is passionate about sharing her knowledge about trees with all sectors in society. She has collaborated with modern dancers, poets, and creative writers to communicate the beauty and complexity of forests to arts audiences, and partnered with corporations to convey the importance of trees to public groups who might not otherwise be interested in forests. She has brought science lectures, conservation projects, and nature imagery to the incarcerated in prisons across the country. Her work has been featured in journals ranging from Science and the Journal of Ecology to Glamour and Playboy Magazine. Her recent national awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the AAAS Award for Public Engagement, the William Julius William Award for Achievement in Social Justice, and the Archie Carr Medal for Conservation. www.nalininadkarni.com

Nance Klehm, Radical Ecologist — Maureen weaves threshold vessels, tends willow and tends decomposition in baskets - bending water, shape shifting, remembering how to be human as a white, cis woman, as a soft and fierce student of birth/death/burial/blood mysteries, reverent farmer, full spectrum doula, and collaborative/interdisciplinary creatress. She is a guest here on S’Klallam land in rain shadowed Port Townsend, Washington where cormorants dive and eagles tell glacial memory sky stories with ancestral lines from the west coast of Ireland and Main River lands in Germany. woventhresholds.com

Nance Klehm, Radical Ecologist — Ashé Om is a singer, songwriter and producer born and raised on Chicago’s South Side. He is currently on a mission to lift, inspire and nurture space for collective healing through his art. Along with music Ashe has developed a fascination for nature and our relationship with it, recognizing the spiritual benefits of being in touch with the land. He plans on deepening his understanding through structured studies of herbalism in these coming times. @OmasheOm

Nance Klehm, Radical Ecologist — Spontaneous Vegetation airs on second and fourth Sundays on Lumpen Radio, 5-6pm. Kelly Pope is a genderqueer organizer with a background in fine arts and cultural criticism. They are based in their hometown of Jacksonville, Florida. They’re passionate about low tech biochar production, bioregional herbalism, somatic healing for grief and trauma, Florida natural history, and workers’ health and safety. They would not call themselves an artist; they utilize the arts as a means of opening lines of communication and ideas/exploration. As a scorpio and social chameleon they have a lived experience in liminality that informs their interest in all things transitory. And now, as an essential worker during a global pandemic, they have even more urgency around sharing their perspective and vision of the world. This episode aired on July 12, 2020. It includes clips from two separate interviews with Kelly, conducted in May 2020.

Nance Klehm, Radical Ecologist — Kumu June was born in Laupahoehoe on the Hamakua (Breath of the Ancestors) Coast on Hawaii Island. She began hula classes at age 6 with Louise Beamer and then danced off and on with other teachers like George Naope and Newton Hitchcock. She began studying seriously in 1988 with Kumu Hula Michael Pili Pang in his Halau Hula Ka No’eau (HHKN) in Waimea. Kumu June went through traditional ʻuniki ritual and graduated as ‘Olapa (Dancer) in 1994, ‘Olapa/Ho’opa’a (Dancer/Keeper of the Chants) in 1996 and Kumu Hula (Master Teacher) in June 2000. She also studied with Native Hawaiian elder and master la’au lapa’au (Hawaiian medicinal plants and spirituality) practitioner Henry Allen Auwae for five years until his death in 2001. She is the founder and director of Halau I Ka Pono hula school also a co-founder of the Zen Life & Meditation Center, Chicago with her husband Roshi Robert Joshin Althouse and was fully empowered as a Zen priest and Sensei (teacher) in the White Plum Lineage in 2014. www.halauikapono.org

Nance Klehm, Radical Ecologist — Jen Walling has been the executive director of the Ilinois Environmental Council since January 2011. She oversees the stragegic development and management of the organization and lobbies decision makers on environmental issues. Jen is obsessed with building the power of the environmental community to build policy outcomes that protect the environment. Over the last decade Jen has worked to grow IEC five-fold in terms of staffing, budget, and member affiliateswith a laser focus of representing over 90 affiliated organizations. Jen helped secure IEC partnership with the League of Conservation Voters which has helped IEC network and build on a national level with similar organizations. Jen holds a Bachelor's and Master's in natural resources and Environmental Science from UIUC. She received a JD from University of Illinois College of Law and is an attorney licensed to practice law in Illinois.

Nance Klehm, Radical Ecologist — Catatumbo Cooperative Farm is a worker owned collective run by three immigrant queer, nonbinary women, located in South Chicago. CCF uses a community supported agriculture model to provide culturally relevant food for community members in Little Village, Englewood, and South Chicago neighborhoods. CCF officially begun operations in the fall of 2018 but was conceived in 2017 when the three worker owners attended Soul Fire farmers immersion program. It can be argued that the seeds for Catatumbo Cooperative Farm were planted long before that, through their families’ histories and relationship to agriculture, migration, and community-building. https://www.facebook.com/pg/CatatumboCooperative

Nance Klehm, Radical Ecologist — Ben Kessler is, or was, a school teacher, biologist, gardener, and nursery man. He used to work with birds who eat mammals who eat plants, and so became interested in botany by process of elimination. Ben is a worker partner with Little Bluestem, a worker-directed nonprofit that propagates and distributes plants native to central Virginia. Ben lives in a little holler in Nelson County where the water runs sweet. https://www.littlebluestem.net/

Nance Klehm, Radical Ecologist — A curiosity for the natural world has sustained Zach from an early age. This solidified into a passion as he came of age, and dirtied his hands through horticulture, ethnobotany, permaculture, and native plants. Learning native plant propagation, things came together in a very real way, when he realized that the forager's perspective and the propagator's understanding went hand in hand. His path has led him to wild tending, an imperfect word for an ethic of relating to nature, based on reciprocity. Wildtending sets itself as an alternative to the troubled colonial legacy which created the contexts away from which we are presently emerging. Zach is a native of the mid Atlantic Piedmont and is currently based out of the lower Susquehanna river region. His profiles and writing can be found at nomadseed.com

Nance Klehm, Radical Ecologist — Rikki Longino is the founder of the Mobile Moon Co-op and Vice Chair of the Utah Permaculture Collective. She biked from Salt Lake City to New York State in 2016, where she met Nance Klehm and Oona Goodman at the Radical Mycology Convergence. She continued to bike around the country and eventually came home to start a mobile botanical apothecary for women and queers in a converted school bus. Now she has found a 1/2 acre lot to park the bus, grow herbs, and build capacity for Permaculture movement in so called Utah (Occupied Ute, Goshute, Paiute territory). Rikki is also working on creating a mushroom-infused tarot deck with Oona Goodman, wherein each of the major arcana are represented by a unique edible, medicinal, or poisonous fungus. www.mobilemooncoop.com

Nance Klehm, Radical Ecologist — Kari Lydersen is a Chicago-based reporter, author and journalism instructor. She is a lecturer in the graduate program at the Medill School of Journalism, at Northwestern University, where she leads the Social Justice & Investigative Specialization and is co-director of the Social Justice News Nexus, a fellowship program that brings together graduate students and professional reporters. Kari writes for Midwest Energy News, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Chicago Reader and In These Times, with a focus on environment and energy; housing; the opioid crisis; and labor. Her work has appeared in publications including Discover Magazine, Crain's Chicago Business, The Economist, Newsmax, People Magazine, the Christian Science Monitor and High Country News. http://www.karilydersen.net/ https://www.medill.northwestern.edu/directory/faculty/kari-lydersen.html

Nance Klehm, Radical Ecologist — This interview is part 2 of a 2-part series. Çaca Yvaire (He/Li) is a sovereign poet, designer, and tracker. Sharp and coastal sensibilities applied to systems of climate migration, wild law, environmental security, and more-than-human personhood. Li is developing strategies for critical planetary action. He is co-director at Northeast Farmers Of Color. https://nefoclandtrust.org/

Nance Klehm, Radical Ecologist — This interview is part 1 of a 2-part series. Çaca Yvaire (He/Li) is a sovereign poet, designer, and tracker. Sharp and coastal sensibilities applied to systems of climate migration, wild law, environmental security, and more-than-human personhood. Li is developing strategies for critical planetary action. He is co-director at Northeast Farmers Of Color. https://nefoclandtrust.org/

Nance Klehm, Radical Ecologist — Mario Ceballos is a Chicanx from Kumeyaay territory also known as San Diego CA. Mario is a stay at home parent of three children, and when they aren't braiding hair or making lunch they are thinking of ways to heal their community. Whether that be by using medicinal Fungi, direct action, smashing the patriarchy, or painting rocks with kids. Mario advocates for all marginalized people and looks to indigenous ways and models for organizing community and cultivating resilience. Growing up in a " border town" , Mario has been forced to navigate two different worlds, with family on both sides of the border, they have first hand experience with the devastating effects of colonization and the re-traumatization of a increasingly militarized border. In a attempt to mitigate appropriation of traditional medicine and to increase access and representation for people of color, Mario created the POC Fungi Community. https://www.facebook.com/pocfungicommunity1/

Nance Klehm, Radical Ecologist — Abbe Turner is the creative force behind Lucky Penny Creamery in Kent, Ohio where goats’ milk is handcrafted into artisan cheeses and award-winning candies. As a seasoned entrepreneur, Abbe is recognized as a leader in dairy and of women in agriculture. She is also the author of The Land of Milk And Money: Lessons Learned And Business Earned From Women In Dairy. www.luckypennyfarm.com

Nance Klehm, Radical Ecologist — Antonia Perez is a clinical herbalist born and raised in NYC. They have apprenticed with several herbalists around the Northeast, South America and the ArborVitae School of Traditional Herbal Medicine in NYC They graduated from Bard College where they studied environmental and urban studies. They are a community organizer, gardener, food and environmental justice educator. They are also the co-founder of collectives: Brujas and Herban Cura. They are passionate to share their knowledge with other folks especially in urban centers, in order to interrupt notions of individualism and separatism from nature and grow towards collaborative and symbiotic communities. www.herbancura.org

Nance Klehm, Radical Ecologist — Monica Eng is a reporter at WBEZ, Chicago Public Radio and the co-host of the podcast Chewing. Currently she reports for the Curious City show and Worldview show on issues of Chicago, health, food and sustainability. She has worked in Chicago journalism for three decades, mostly as an editor and reporter at the Chicago Sun Times and Chicago Tribune. Over the years her reporting has focused on Chicago culture, ethnic communities, health, sustainability and food. Her children are fourth generation Chicago Public School graduates. In this episode, Monica discusses the history of lead pipes in Chicago, preserving old trees in Andersonville, and Mayor Lightfoot's environmental strategy. #Chicago #Environment #Politics #EnvironmentalJustice

Nance Klehm, Radical Ecologist — TODAY'S GUEST on SPONTANEOUS VEGETATION- Vivien Sansour of the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library Listen Live to Spontaneous Vegetation from 5-6pm CST on WLPN 105.5 FM (Chicago) or stream on lumpenradio.com Vivien Sansour is an artist and conservationist who uses image, sketch, film, soil, seeds, and plants to enliven old cultural tales in contemporary presentations and to advocate for the protection of biodiversity as a cultural and political act. As the founder of Palestine Heirloom Seed Library and the Traveling Kitchen project, she works with farmers to promote seed conservation and crop diversity. She is co-director with Riad Bahour of the feature film El Bizreh Um El Fay, which was awarded best project at RamallahDoc 2015 and will be released in 2020. She has presented her work as an artist at the Jerusalem Fund Gallery, Washington, DC; SALT Art Center, Istanbul; and the 2019 Venice Biennale. Born Jerusalem; lives in Bethlehem, Palestine and Los Angeles, USA

Nance Klehm, Radical Ecologist — Mushroom Ecologist, Cultivator and Author, Willoughby Arevalo is my guest on my next Spontaneous Vegetation Show! Sunday 5-6pm CST 105.5 FM Chicago or stream at lumpenradio.com Willoughby Arevalo is passionate about the ecology of fungi, the ways they shape our world and the ways we shape theirs. His lifelong friendship with fleshy fungi has led him down a mycelial pathway – from a start in field identification and mushroom hunting, branching into cuisine, DIY cultivation, farming, education, writing and eco-arts. In his thirty years of self-mtivated inquiry and intmate lived experience with fungi, he has spent the last decade prioritizing sharing mycology with people in communities across North America This has manifested in numerous presentations, art projects, teaching tours, collaborations, gatherings, and his new book, DIY Mushroom Cultivatioon, out now from New Society Publishers. Between the mycology and art work, and caring for his kid, Uma, he works part time on an organic vegetable farm. Originally from Arcata, California (Traditional Wiyot and Yurok Territory), he lives as a guest on Unceded Coast Salish Territory in Vancouver, Canada. #mycology, #mycoecology, #lumpenradio, #coprosperitysphere, #willoughbyarevalo, #fungi

Nance Klehm, Radical Ecologist — Lynn Fang, MS specializes in soil and compost ecology for community compost and urban farming projects in the Los Angeles, CA area. She has helped start pilot projects in the Pomona and Claremont area that are rooted in ecological design and increasing community access and connection. Her work bridges healthy soils and healthy communities, making ecological education fun and accessible for everyone. She recently launched an online class series called Soilify!

Nance Klehm, Radical Ecologist — Heidi Gustafson is an artist, pigment worker and ore whisperer based in rainy, volcanic Cascade foothills of northern Washington. Her intuitive and highly collaborative ochre and iron research projects include work with award-winning scientists, paleontologists, anthropologists, linguists, citizen foragers, artists and friends around the planet. She’s a graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art, studied forensic art/science at the University of Baltimore and holds an MA in Philosophy and Religion from the California Institute of Integral Studies.

Nance Klehm, Radical Ecologist — Elise Pepple is the GM of Marfa Public Radio in Far West Texas. She believes in the power of storytelling to shape and animate who we are, where we live, and how we relate. Elise spent the last decade learning the contemporary branches of oral storytelling apparent to her: oral history, radio, live storytelling, and podcasting. She got her start in radio when she brought StoryCorps to her small town in rural Alaska. She studied radio at the Salt Institute for Documentary Study. She used to produce fun projects like The Other AK: an experiment in narrative tourism and Portland Brick, a project building public memory. She also used to host a live storytelling series called Hear Tell where everyone would end up laughing and crying together. She also also used to teach college students. Now she fills out a lot of paperwork, deals with lightning strikes to a transmitter on a mountain, and raises money.

Nance Klehm, Radical Ecologist — On this episode Nance chats with Beatrice Scescke, Samara Reigh, and Dr. Tulia Rubero from Blue Island Traditional Medicine, a women-owned, worker-owned holistic health clinic. The trio chats about acupuncture, chiropractic medicine, changing attitudes and more.

Nance Klehm, Radical Ecologist — Myriam Fallon has been an environmental activist for 10 years. She has worked in community organizing, campaign communications, activist training, and most recently as a crew member on board the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise. Over the years she has worked on a variety of issues from local fights to shut down old coal plants, to global campaigns to get toxic chemicals out of clothing manufacturing and to reform the global fishing industry. Through her work with Greenpeace she's been able to work with activists around the world to tackle some of the biggest environmental issues of our times. Myriam has recently come home to Chicago, where she was born and raised.

Nance Klehm, Radical Ecologist — Trinity Pierce is a nature steward based in the Chicago area. She began her restoration journey during barefoot summers exploring woodland, bogs, and roadside wildflowers of northern Wisconsin. With a formal background in history and landscape architecture, Trinity thrives on leading and learning alongside volunteers of all ages. She has designed and implemented restoration projects from the mountain west to the midwest; from rural to urban ecosystems.