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Meet Dina Falconi, herbalist, teacher, and author, of Feasting and Foraging. In this episode, we hear about her journey toward leading a meaningful, healthy life and finding natural medicine through food. Specializing in permaculture and herbal healing, Dina explores about how we can make changes in our everyday lives to improve our physical, mental, and spiritual health. Topics discussed: Dina's journey with plants beginning at age 11 in the East Village of NYC Micky Carter, Dina's early mentor Worked and studied at an herb company with Pam Montgomery, https://www.wakeuptonature.com/about/ William Lassasier--herbal teacher Earthy Bodies and Heavenly Hair Dina's work in the Hudson River Valley, NY creating virtual teachings with her son and filmmaker Sam Falconi How Dina shares content on digital media without a cellphone Dina talks about living without a cellphone Claire Dunn Episode Dina's clinical herbalist is connected to food activism and foraging How do city dwellers experience wild foods? Ecosystem stewardship and land care are big themes for foragers A discussion about invasives Mugwort The process of creating Foraging and Feasting Wendy Hollender / illustrator for Foraging and Feasting Plant foraging and healing with herbs as a growing topic of interest/ the "hipster wave" Knowledgeable foraging can create more biodiversity and abundance in the landscape Slow living as plant literacy, observing nature's processes Botanical Arts Press Dina Falconi's YouTube Channel In the Wild Kitchen Connect with Dina Falconi  Instagram @foragingandfeasting Facebook @ForagingFeasting Dina's Website, www.botanicalartspress.com Foraging and Feasting by Dina Falconi, Illustrated by Wendy Hollender This Episode is Sponsored by Ettitude: ettitude.com/thegooddirt ^Use code THEGOODDIRT for $25 off your first order! About Lady Farmer: Our Website @weareladyfarmer on Instagram Join The Lady Farmer ALMANAC Leave us a voicemail! Call 443-459-1950 and ask a question or share what the good dirt means to you! Email us at thegooddirtpodcast@gmail.com Original music by John Kingsley. Our technical partner for this series is CitizenRacecar, Post-Production by Alex Brouwer and José Miguel Baez, Coordinated by Gabriela Montequin and Mary Ball. The Good Dirt is a part of the Connectd Podcasts Network. Statements in this podcast have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration and are not to be considered as medical or nutritional advice. This information is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease, and should not be considered above the advice of your physician. Consult a medical professional when making dietary or lifestyle decisions that could affect your health and well-being.

Meet Dina Falconi, herbalist, teacher, and author, of Feasting and Foraging. In this episode, we hear about her journey toward leading a meaningful, healthy life and finding natural medicine through food. Specializing in permaculture and herbal healing, Dina explores about how we can make changes in our everyday lives to improve our physical, mental, and spiritual health. Topics discussed: Dina's journey with plants beginning at age 11 in the East Village of NYC Micky Carter, Dina's early mentor Worked and studied at an herb company with Pam Montgomery, https://www.wakeuptonature.com/about/ William Lassasier--herbal teacher Earthy Bodies and Heavenly Hair Dina's work in the Hudson River Valley, NY creating virtual teachings with her son and filmmaker Sam Falconi How Dina shares content on digital media without a cellphone Dina talks about living without a cellphone Claire Dunn Episode Dina's clinical herbalist is connected to food activism and foraging How do city dwellers experience wild foods? Ecosystem stewardship and land care are big themes for foragers A discussion about invasives Mugwort The process of creating Feasting and Foraging Wendy Hollender / illustrator for Feasting and Foraging Plant foraging and healing with herbs as a growing topic of interest/ the "hipster wave" Knowledgeable foraging can create more biodiversity and abundance in the landscape Slow living as plant literacy, observing nature's processes Botanical Arts Press Dina Falconi's YouTube Channel In the Wild Kitchen Connect with Dina Falconi  Instagram @foragingandfeasting Facebook @ForagingFeasting Dina's Website, www.botanicalartspress.com This Episode is Sponsored by Ettitude: ettitude.com/thegooddirt ^Use code THEGOODDIRT for $25 off your first order! About Lady Farmer: Our Website @weareladyfarmer on Instagram Join The Lady Farmer ALMANAC Leave us a voicemail! Call 443-459-1950 and ask a question or share what the good dirt means to you! Email us at thegooddirtpodcast@gmail.com Original music by John Kingsley. Our technical partner for this series is CitizenRacecar, Post-Production by Alex Brouwer and José Miguel Baez, Coordinated by Gabriela Montequin and Mary Ball. The Good Dirt is a part of the Connectd Podcasts Network. Statements in this podcast have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration and are not to be considered as medical or nutritional advice. This information is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease, and should not be considered above the advice of your physician. Consult a medical professional when making dietary or lifestyle decisions that could affect your health and well-being.

Dina Falconi is a clinical herbalist, educator, food activist, and the author of Foraging & Feasting, A Field Guide and Wild Food Cookbook.In this conversation with Dina we discuss:What Nature and the Land has taught herWhy she says "who" and not "what"How a Weston A. Price book completely changed her trajectoryIndividualism vs TribalismThe herbs she recommends people take during the "cold" season You can learn more about Dina at Botanical Arts Press, on YouTube and on Instagram.Terrain Theory episodes are not to be taken as medical advice. You are your own primary healthcare provider.If you have a Terrain Transformation story you would like to share, email us at ben@terraintheory.net.Learn more at www.terraintheory.net.Music by Chris Merenda

Make friends with wild plants so you feel at home and a little more powerful everywhere you go.   Foraging as a path to slowing down, being present, and getting into a long term relationship with nature.  Let nature teach you how to be messy and beautiful at the same time.  Dina invites you into her rich, textured and alive relationship with life through herbs and wild foods.  About Dina: Dina Falconi is a clinical herbalist with a strong focus on food activism and nutritional healing. An avid gardener, wildcrafter, and permaculturist, Dina has been teaching classes about the use of herbs for food, medicine, and personal care, including wild food foraging and cooking, for more than thirty years. She offers online courses at www.InTheWild.Kitchen. She produces Falcon Formulations natural body care products and Earthly Extracts medicinal tinctures. She is the author of Foraging & Feasting: A Field Guide and Wild Food Cookbook and Earthly Bodies & Heavenly Hair: Natural and Healthy Personal Care for Everybody.  Please check out her website: www.botanicalartspress.com  And there is her full stocked YouTube channel for your educational viewing pleasure: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGaikA4Vq0S00kNOhm3uPyg?sub_confirmation=1  IG: https://www.instagram.com/foragingandfeasting/ Music credit: "Song We Came To Sing" by Living Roots livingrootsmusic.com

Seg 3: Dina Falconi  www.BotanicalArtsPress.com Website: https://thewisconsinvegetablegardener.com/Email your questions to Gardentalkradio@gmail.comOr call 24/7 leave your question at 1-800 927-SHOWSponsorsProclamation CO of https://www.proclamationgoods.com/ Hot-line sponsorProplugger of https://proplugger.com/Rootmaker of https://myrootmaker.com/  Use coupon code Radio22 at checkout and save 15% off your orderChapin Manufacturing Inc. of https://chapinmfg.com/Pomona pectin of https://pomonapectin.com/Iv organics of https://ivorganics.com/  Use radio10 to save 10% off your orderWaterhoop of https://waterhoop.com/Phyllom BioProducts of http://www.phyllombioproducts.com/home.html Use code Gardentalk10 to save 10% off ordersHappy leaf led of https://happyleafled.com/ Use code JoeyHolly to save 10% off orders of $90.00 one time useDripworks of https://www.dripworks.com/Deer defeat https://deerdefeat.com/ use code Radio at check out to save 10% on ordersBlue ribbon organics http://blueribbonorganics.com/Chip Drop of https://getchipdrop.com/Walton's Inc of https://www.waltonsinc.com/  Us code grow50 &  save 10% off your order of $50 or more & get free shippingTree Diaper of http://www.treediaper.com/Timber Pro Coatings of https://timberprocoatingsusa.com/products/internal-wood-stabilizer/Bloomin easy plants of https://bloomineasyplants.com/Iron Wood Tool Company of https://www.ironwoodtools.com/Natural green products of https://www.natgreenproducts.com/ use promo code WEEDS & buy 3 get 1 Free sold by the gallon. or use promo code GREENTHUMB10 for 10% off your purchase ofany size No More BugsBale buster of https://strawbalegardens-com.myshopify.com/collections/balebuster-bale-preparation-formulaRescue of https://rescue.com/Big tool rack of https://www.bigtoolrack.com/ save 5% of your order use code myrack5Hot Bin Composting of www.hotbincomposting-us.comTree-Ripe of https://www.tree-ripe.com/Dr Zymes of https://doctorzymes.com/  use https://mailchi.mp/doctorzymes/gardentalk to get 2 free samplesJung Seeds of https://www.jungseed.com/ use code 10GT22 to save 10% off ordersCovers and all of https://www.coversandall.com/ use Code GARDEN25 to save 25% off ordersAlgae Men of https://www.algaemen.com/Johnny Apple Seed of https://www.johnnyappleseed.com/milkweed balm of  https://milkweedbalm.com/Simple Grow of https://www.simplegrow.com/Finding Nectar of https://findingnectar.com/Fleet Farm of http://www.fleetfarm.com/Nut Wizard of https://nutwizard.com/The Gardening with Joey and Holly Radio Show March – Oct weekly heard on:Joy 1340 AM & 98.7 FM Milwaukee, WI Saturdays 7-8 AM CST Replay 7-8 PM CST https://tunein.com/radio/Joy-1340-s30042/WAAM 1600 AM & 92.7 FM Ann Arbor, MI Sundays 7-8 AM EST https://tinyurl.com/p68cvftKTNF 950 AM Minneapolis, MN Saturdays 7-8 AM https://www.am950radio.com/listen-live/KFEQ 680 AM at 95.9 FM St. Joseph/Kansas City, MO Saturdays 6-7 AM CST replay Sundays 10-11 AM CST http://www.680kfeq.com/live-stream/WMBS 590 AM & 101.1 FM UniontownPittsburgh/Morgantown Saturdays 6-7 AM EST Replay Mondays 6-7 PM EST https://www.radio.net/s/wmbsKYAH 540 AM Delta/Salt Lake City, UT Saturdays 9-10 AM MST Reply Sundays 1-2 PM MST https://tunein.com/radio/KYAH-540-s34223/KHNC 1360 AM Denver Saturdays 7-8 AM PST replay Sundays 12-1 PM https://onlineradiobox.com/us/khncam1360/WCRN 830 AM Boston, MA Saturdays 8-9 AM EST replay Sundays 5-6 AM EST https://tunein.com/radio/WCRN-AM-830-Full-Service-Radio-s1112/WOGO 680 AM & 103.1 FM Chippewa Falls, WI Sundays 9-10 AM CST https://www.christiannetcast.com/listen/player.asp?station=wogo-amWNAX 570 AM, South Dakota, upper Midwest Sundays 10-11 AM CST https://onlineradiobox.com/us/wnax/?cs=us.wnaxWHKW 1220 AM and 96.9FM Cleveland, OH Saturdays 9-10 AM EST Replay 5-6 PM EST https://thewordcleveland.com/listenliveKFNS 590 AM ST. Louis, MO Sundays 8-9 AM CST https://tinyurl.com/5dhzppdm

Seg 1: best trees for you Seg 2: dangerous bugs in  backyardSeg 3: Dina Falconi www.BotanicalArtsPress.com Seg4: Garden questions answeredWebsite: https://thewisconsinvegetablegardener.com/Email your questions to Gardentalkradio@gmail.comcall 24/7 leave questions at 1-800 927-SHOWSponsorsProclamation CO of https://www.proclamationgoods.com/ Hot-line sponsorProplugger of https://proplugger.com/Rootmaker of https://myrootmaker.com/  Use coupon code Radio22 at checkout save 15% off orderChapin Manufacturing Inc. of https://chapinmfg.com/Pomona pectin of https://pomonapectin.com/Iv organics of https://ivorganics.com/  Use radio10 to save 10% off your orderWaterhoop of https://waterhoop.com/Phyllom BioProducts of http://www.phyllombioproducts.com/home.html Use code Gardentalk10 to save 10% off ordersHappy leaf led of https://happyleafled.com/ Use code JoeyHolly to save 10% off orders of $90.00 one time useDripworks of https://www.dripworks.com/Deer defeat https://deerdefeat.com/ use code Radio at check out  save 10% on ordersBlue ribbon organics http://blueribbonorganics.com/Chip Drop of https://getchipdrop.com/Walton's Inc of https://www.waltonsinc.com/  Us code grow50 & save 10% off ur order of $50 or more & free shippingTree Diaper of http://www.treediaper.com/Timber Pro Coatings of https://timberprocoatingsusa.com/products/internal-wood-stabilizer/Bloomin easy plants of https://bloomineasyplants.com/Iron Wood Tool Company of https://www.ironwoodtools.com/Natural green products of https://www.natgreenproducts.com/ use promo code WEEDS & buy 3 get 1 Free sold by the gallon. or use promo code GREENTHUMB10 for 10% off purchase ofany size No More BugsBale buster of https://strawbalegardens-com.myshopify.com/collections/balebuster-bale-preparation-formulaRescue of https://rescue.com/Big tool rack of https://www.bigtoolrack.com/ save 5% off ur order use code myrack5Hot Bin Composting of www.hotbincomposting-us.comTree-Ripe of https://www.tree-ripe.com/Dr Zymes of https://doctorzymes.com/  use https://mailchi.mp/doctorzymes/gardentalk get 2 free samplesJung Seeds of https://www.jungseed.com/ use code 10GT22  save 10% off ordersCovers and all of https://www.coversandall.com/ use Code GARDEN25  save 25% off ordersAlgae Men of https://www.algaemen.com/Johnny Apple Seed of https://www.johnnyappleseed.com/milkweed balm of  https://milkweedbalm.com/Simple Grow of https://www.simplegrow.com/Finding Nectar of https://findingnectar.com/Fleet Farm of http://www.fleetfarm.com/Nut Wizard of https://nutwizard.com/The Gardening with Joey and Holly Radio Show March – Oct weekly heard on:Joy 1340 AM & 98.7 FM Milwaukee, WI Saturdays 7-8 AM CST Replay 7-8 PM CST https://tunein.com/radio/Joy-1340-s30042/WAAM 1600 AM & 92.7 FM Ann Arbor, MI Sundays 7-8 AM EST https://tinyurl.com/p68cvftKTNF 950 AM Minneapolis, MN Saturdays 7-8 AM https://www.am950radio.com/listen-live/KFEQ 680 AM at 95.9 FM St. Joseph/Kansas City, MO Saturdays 6-7 AM CST replay Sundays 10-11 AM CST http://www.680kfeq.com/live-stream/WMBS 590 AM & 101.1 FM UniontownPittsburgh/Morgantown Saturdays 6-7 AM EST Replay Mondays 6-7 PM EST https://www.radio.net/s/wmbsKYAH 540 AM Delta/Salt Lake City, UT Saturdays 9-10 AM MST Reply Sundays 1-2 PM MST https://tunein.com/radio/KYAH-540-s34223/KHNC 1360 AM Denver Saturdays 7-8 AM PST replay Sundays 12-1 PM https://onlineradiobox.com/us/khncam1360/WCRN 830 AM Boston, MA Saturdays 8-9 AM EST replay Sundays 5-6 AM EST https://tunein.com/radio/WCRN-AM-830-Full-Service-Radio-s1112/WOGO 680 AM & 103.1 FM Chippewa Falls, WI Sundays 9-10 AM CST https://www.christiannetcast.com/listen/player.asp?station=wogo-amWNAX 570 AM, South Dakota, upper Midwest Sundays 10-11 AM CST https://onlineradiobox.com/us/wnax/?cs=us.wnaxWHKW 1220 AM and 96.9FM Cleveland, OH Saturdays 9-10 AM EST Replay 5-6 PM EST https://thewordcleveland.com/listenliveKFNS 590 AM ST. Louis, MO Sundays 8-9 AM CST https://tinyurl.com/5dhzppdm

The research of women's health issues is an underserved area of study. Many women resort to becoming citizen scientists to sort out their symptoms in an effort to put the puzzle pieces together to achieve wellness. Conventional medicine rarely uses natural methods or plants to help women achieve proper wellness, opting instead for pharmaceuticals, which normally only serve to hide symptoms. To get to the root of women's wellness, Positive Psychology Podcast Host Lisa Cypers Kamen speaks with two women authors who prescribe a natural form of health outside of conventional medicine. Aviva Romm has been a healthcare practitioner for over 30 years. She shares key takeaways from her book, Hormone Intelligence: The Complete Guide to Calming Hormone Chaos and Restoring Your Body's Natural Blueprint for Well-Being, and details her unique journey through medical school. Clinical Herbalist, Dina Falconi describes how she treats patients with whole foods and herbs she has collected in the wild and incorporated into everyday recipes. Her book, Foraging & Feasting: A Field Guide and Wild Food Cookbook offers tips for wild food identification, collection, and culinary use.

Dina Falconi and Wendy Hollender discuss how they wrote and illustrated their award-winning book, "Foraging and Feasting: A Field Guide to Wild Food Cookbook." They also discuss how they launched a  successful Kickstarter campaign to raise money for their project.Dina Falconi is a clinical herbalist, author, and teacher. Her specialty areas are food activism and nutritional healing. Wendy Hollender is a botanical artist, illustrator, and author. She is one of the world's leading experts in using colored pencils and watercolor in detailed botanical illustrations. LINKSForaging and Feasting: A Field Guide to Wild Food Cookbook (Botanical Arts Press)Kickstarter CampaignForaging and Feasting on InstagramForaging and Feasting on FacebookDina Falconi on YouTubeWendyHollender.comDrawBotanical.comWendy Hollender on YouTubeTalaterra on YouTube Theme music for the podcast is provided by:Jahzzar, So Far So Close, CC By 4.0 US (Episode 16 - onward) 

Dina is an herbalist, permaculturist, author and educator from New York. We speak with her about growing up in New York City, the forgotten memories of her early childhood in Mexico, becoming serious about food as medicine at the age of 11, her mentors and teachers, how important diet is to health, and much more! We had a blast, and hope you enjoy the episode! She'll be opening registration for her online courses from April 10 to April 17th. To access online course sale one would go to this site: https://www.inthewild.kitchen/ And this is her other site specific to Foraging & Feasting book, blog, events calendar, etc: www.botanicalartspress.com And check out our patreon at Patreon.com/PlantCunning --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/plantcunning/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/plantcunning/support

Lydia Willoughby, Founder & General Manager of Sassafras Mercantile comes from a family of pine tree farmers and geologists in South Carolina. As shopkeep and general manager Lydia (she) has always been drawn to plant life and soil. With her Moon in the 12th House, and Sun in the 8th House, Lydia's work revolves around exchange and nurturance in integrating the unknown and the mysterious into accessible platforms for transformation and resolution built on systems of care. Lydia offers tarot readings from a queer, trauma-informed perspective that engages the cycle of life, death, and rebirth through the collective human experience. She studied herbalism with Dina Falconi, and studied tarot in person with Lindsay Mack and Audrey Gilbert. Lydia completed a permaculture design certification course with Sowing Solutions in Shelburne Falls, MA. Sassafras Mercantile was founded with an interest in connecting community knowledge to personal liberation, and convening a beautiful, inclusive, queer, feminist, anti-racist space that asks questions with curiosity and answers with a full heart and a little bit of magic in the City of Kingston, NY.Today we chatted about Lydia's background and relationship to land and trees, how she got into the work she does today which is very multifaceted but also naturally connected and aligned. She shares a new project at Sassafras, the monthly wellness subscription box, how Tarot fits into her life and how she offers it to others, and a whole lot more. Stay tuned for more cool community collaboration and offerings from Lydia and her crew!Today we heard music by Shana Falana including "Right Now is All We Know" from her most recent album, Darkest Light.Today's show was engineered Manuel Blas from radiokingston.orgFeel free to email me, say hello: she@iwantwhatshehas.orgLeave me a voicemail with your thoughts or a few words about who has what you want and why! (845) 481-3429** Please: SUBSCRIBE to the pod and leave a REVIEW wherever you are listening, it helps other users FIND IThttp://iwantwhatshehas.org/podcastITUNES | SPOTIFY | STITCHERITUNES: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/i-want-what-she-has/id1451648361?mt=2SPOTIFY:https://open.spotify.com/show/77pmJwS2q9vTywz7Uhiyff?si=G2eYCjLjT3KltgdfA6XXCASTITCHER: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/she-wants/i-want-what-she-has?refid=stpr'Follow:INSTAGRAM * https://www.instagram.com/iwantwhatshehaspodcast/FACEBOOK * https://www.facebook.com/iwantwhatshehaspodcastTWITTER * https://twitter.com/wantwhatshehas

Did you know that wild plants offer a variety of nutritional, medicinal and ecosystem benefits? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and registered dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview with Dina Falconi, clinical herbalist, wildcrafter, and author of Foraging & Feasting: A Field Guide and Wild Food Cookbook. Falconi describes her personal journey into the joys of foraging, and benefits of appreciating nature’s therapeutic and beautiful plants. Related website: www.foragingandfeasting.com

In today’s episode we’ll hear a chat between herbalists and authors Rosalee de la Forêt and Emily Han. Rosalee and Emily have spent the past couple of years collaborating to write the book Wild Remedies: How to Forage Healing Foods and Craft Your Own Herbal Medicine. And that’s what we’ll get to hear about in this episode! You’ll learn about the origins of the book, the writing process and so on. They also cover a few of the featured plants from the book such as chickweed, violet, elder, and more. Emily and Rosalee also teach us about harvesting techniques and even give us some recipes.  To celebrate the release of their book, they’re offering a few awesome bonuses to go along it! BONUSES Four part docuseries with 12 herbalists including Rosemary Gladstar, Dina Falconi, Dr. Rocio Alarcón, Guido Masé, 7Song and Tiffany Robbins Wild herb and recipe labels The Wild Spring Feast - 60 minute video lesson And one lucky person will win the THE WILDCRAFTING TOOLS GIFT BASKET! This custom basket was personally designed by Rosalee & Emily and includes… Fiskars pruning shears Sickle Hori hori Botany loupe Cotton harvesting bags Botanical Drawing: A Beginner’s Guide by Wendy Hollander A one-year membership to United Plant Savers CLICK HERE to learn more about the book and the bonuses!  Thanks for listening! HerbRally www.herbrally.com Breitenbush Herbal Conference www.herbalconference.net 

Today my guests are the author and illustrator of the award-winning book "Foraging & Feasting: A Field Guide and Wild Food Cookbook."Dina Falconi is a clinical herbalist, author, and teacher. Her focus is on food activism and nutritional healing.Wendy Hollender is a botanical artist, illustrator, author, and instructor.Together Dina and Wendy own Botanical Arts Press, a publishing company formed to handle all aspects of the marketing and distribution of their book and related products.How long has Dina worked on this cookbook?How did Dina and Wendy create the contents of this book?How did they launch a successful Kickstarter campaign without having an extensive online presence?Let’s find out. LINKSBotanical Arts PressWendyHollender.comDrawBotanical.comForaging & Feasting on FacebookForaging & Feasting on TwitterForaging & Feasting on Instagram

Welcome to Season 3 of the Body Wisdom Podcast with Dr. Michele. This season the podcast will be focusing on healthy habits. As your host, I’ll be recording solo episodes which will answer some of the most common questions I’m asked as a physician such as “how do I build a new habit?” "which habits are essential to get healthy again?" "what can I do to lose weight?" "how can I look and feel younger again?" "how can I start exercising again if I haven't done it in years?" and more. I will also be coaching patients and clients live on-air, and conducting interviews with other health & wellness experts. Of course, I am always open to new topic ideas, so if there is a topic you would like me to address or if there is a question you would like answered, please reach out. Email me directly at dr.michele.colon@gmail.com. Today Dr. Michele discusses "The Benefits of a Plant-Based Diet." I hope you enjoy the show! About Dr. Michele: As a physician & surgeon, certified Ayurvedic and Autoimmune health coach, yoga/anatomy teacher, and overall health & wellness expert, Dr. Michele Summers Colon is an Advocate for Women's Health. Her passion is helping women help themselves to heal their body. She is the author of Body Wisdom: 10 Weeks to Transformation, the creator and host of the Body Wisdom with Dr. Michele Podcast, and the leader of the Body Wisdom Membership Program. She has been interviewed and quoted in many prominent publications including USA Today, US News & World Reports, Health Magazine, Yahoo! Makers, and Bloomberg BusinessWeek. One of Dr. Michele’s greatest strengths is her ability to help women create balanced, healthy lives by looking at the whole picture. She combines the best of Eastern and Western medicine to create individualized health & wellness plans for her patients and clients. For over 24 years, Dr. Michele has dedicated herself to maintaining a private medical practice and providing exceptional care to her patients while at the same time studying holisitic and integrative medicine. Dr. Michele believes that food is medicine and that yoga, Ayurveda, and meditation are the keys to perfect health. Dr. Michele has a Bachelor’s degree in Physiology from UCBerkeley, a Master’s degree in Biomedical Sciences and a Doctorate degree in Podiatry from Barry University, and graduated from a Foot & Ankle Surgical Residency in Los Angeles. Dr. Michele is also certified in Ayurvedic as well as Autoimmune Health Coaching, Yoga, Reiki, Reflexology, and Laser Therapy. Dr. Michele specializes in Yin Yoga, Restorative Yoga, and Therapeutic Yoga to provide the most healing, relaxation, and rejuvenation to her patients and clients. Dr. Michele has studied Ayurvedic Medicine extensively and has worked with some of the best practitioners throughout the United States to bring Ayurveda to the forefront of medicine. Combining yoga, Ayurveda, and meditation is one of Dr. Michele’s passions so that she can spread the word to as many people as possible that this is the path to perfect health. Show Notes: This season we are going to be talking about Healthy Habits so that we can feel younger and healthier. When we talk about what we eat, we all seem to have a method and an opinion. We are in the day and age of personalization — and this extends to diet. “I’m a vegan,” or “I’m into paleo,” or “I need to eat animal flesh to function.” Around here, we’re less interested in labels and we’re more interested in the relationship between humans and the plants that feed us. In this habit, we turn our attention to taking your relationship between plants and your body to the next level of integration. Eating a plant-based diet is about the relationship between our outer ecosystem, where our food grows, and our inner ecosystem. How you source your body’s energy and what you build your body’s tissue out of is of obvious importance. We each have the opportunity to nourish and nurture ourselves from the outside in... and from the inside out. The first activity is to check out where you are in the spectrum of how you feed yourself. Once you know where you are starting, the next action step reveals itself on your path to a healthier and more conscious body. Next, investigate your relationship between your body and where you source your energy. You’ll become more aware of the exchange of consciousness, energy, and nutrients between the bodies of plants and your body. It’s a process full of nourishment — not deprivation. This relationship with our food and nature is very deeply tied to stress. Nature is trying to feed you. If we have the world view that life itself is nourishing, then we can’t really experience stress. The more connected we are to nature, the more connected we are to the plants, and the more nourishing we are to plants, then the more we understand that nature is trying to feed us. Foraging and Feasting: A Field Guide and Wild Food Cookbook by Dina Falconi describes the lost art of turning locally gathered wild plants into nutritious, delicious meals - a tradition long practiced by our ancestors but neglected in modern times. Do you know which local plants and flowers are edible in your local ecosystem? Eat the poppies. They're edible. It’s like “Wow, there is more! Nature is trying to feed me. All I have to do is tap in and get connected.” Where do you feel it in your body? When you go to the grocery store or to the farmers market to shop for your fruits and vegetables, go to the ones that are calling you. Go to the ones that you feel in your body that you want, and then buy those. “Your body knows before your mind does.” Connection Economy is all about your connection, your nourishment. At different levels of consciousness, we start to desire different levels of consciousness from our food. Let’s talk about programming and patterning: How many of us were programmed, at a young age, to accept some really damaging things, like “eat everything that you’re served”, “don’t waste food because there are starving kids in Africa”, “you can’t leave the table until you’ve finished everything on your plate”, “eat it even if you don’t like it because I made it for you”, “if you don’t eat the food I made for you then you must not love me or care about me”, “I slaved all day cooking for you so you better eat all of it”? Do any of these ring true for you? Do you feel nourished by your diet? Has it always been this way? Was there a pivot? What was one of your pivots? When we talk about nourishment, connection, and abundance, most of us were not taught this. We were taught so many words that don’t have immediate resonate with our bodies; they’re words that the sensual body doesn’t communicate with such as calories, carbs, vitamins, minerals, proteins, and fats. Let’s review the six tastes in Ayurveda. They are sweet, salty, sour, pungent, bitter, and astringent. When your doshas are out of balance, these six tastes can help you repair this imbalance. If you are healthy, Ayurveda advises you to include each of these six tastes in your diet. These six tastes will bring you into contact with the five elements and, in turn, these elements are the components of your body and your entire nature. If you’re missing a taste in a meal, you won’t feel nourished. And then you will crave that taste later, leading to snacking between meals and over eating. Plants want to nourish us. As they nourish us, we nourish them. Plants can help heal us. As they do, we can help to provide a thriving environment for the plants. It’s a co-creative communal connecting relationship. Dirt is a good movie. It explores the relationship between humans and soil, including its necessity for human life and impacts by society. Forks Over Knives is another good movie. It advocates a plant-based diet as a way to avoid or reverse several chronic diseases. People don’t feel that nourished. Some people have fear around food. They are so disconnected that they react to foods. They can’t change anything. Their immune systems are more broken down. The 3 stages of diets: In stage 1, the Standard American Diet, you eat vegetables, fruit, meat, dairy, wheat, processed foods, refined sweeteners, and standard whole foods. You may use alcohol, caffeine, marijuana or nicotine on daily basis. Most food comes from outside your ecosystem, from mega farms. GMO’s and petrochemicals are in the foods, which create internal pollution and cellular confusion. There is a large carbon footprint per nutrient value. There is a lot of disconnect and addiction. When we bless our food, we feel connected. When we don’t feel connected, we often have addictions to try to help us feel connected. Did you grow up saying grace at mealtimes? In Ayurveda, it is typical to bless the land for providing the food, to bless the farmers for growing the food and collecting it from the crops, to bless the person who cooked the food for us (if we didn’t cook it ourselves). This is done at each meal along with taking a moment to close our eyes, take a deep breath in and out, and say “Namaste” (the light in me sees the light in you). In stage 2, the Whole Foods Diet, you eat less and less processed food over time. You’re steering away from canned, packaged and frozen foods, and you’re choosing fresh foods more often. You know how to prepare food that is simple and nourishing. You are curious about adding different plants to your diet. You eat fruits and vegetables daily. You may garden or sprout to get fresher nutrients. You may be involved in a CSA, food co-op, or farmer’s market. In stage 3, the Plant Based Diet, you may eat mostly green vegetables, root vegetables, fruits, seeds. You may eat some grains, legumes, nuts, and animals — but in less quantity over time. You prepare most of the food you eat — and intuitively know what your body wants and needs. You get food at farmer’s markets, or a CSA. You know what plants thrive in your ecosystem and extend their immune system to you. You know where your food comes from. You eat what makes your body feel good regardless of the social situation. You find you don’t need as much food as you get older. You leave room for space while eating and between meals. You like to sprout your sprouts, culture your veggies, and grow edible plants in or in and around your home. You enjoy learning from people who are playing their edge with diet. When we are eating from our own ecosystem, those plants are healing. They are hardy and they make us feel more hardy. They make us feel more safe and more relaxed. They boost our immune system, and we don’t have to get flu shots. We are building strength from our ecosystem. Are you feeling nourished, and are you eating from your own ecosystem? Ask yourself if you can you identify each part of the plant in everything you ate yesterday. If you can’t, then it’s processed. What are some of the mental and emotional patterns associated with this? It’s like a war going on in your head. “I know I shouldn’t eat this” but some part of your body accepts it. There are so many chemicals added that there is an addiction. There is so much confusion. You may need a detox. The easiest way to detox is to start adding more of the good stuff, the greens. Basically, more plants and less processed foods.  Are you starting to feel a shift toward automation with your habits? Good habits are not decisions, but rather are automatic routines based on prior conscious decisions. Automation frees up a lot of energy. Resistance comes up all the time. The resistance isn’t you, it comes from outside of you. It is probably negative and not in alignment with your fundamental goals. It doesn’t matter what the resistance or the physical body says, for example, it’s time to get up and exercise. The payoff worksheet goes deep to help you see why some habits are harder to change and what their relationship is to the resistance. For podcast listeners, I have created an awesome download to help you keep track of the plant species you eat. This will help you add more species into your diet, slowly but surely, which is the way we build healthy (and sustainable) habits. And, as promised, I have a second download for you, listing the benefits of eaing a plant-based diet. This would be a good one to print out and display in a place where you will see it at least once a day, helping you to build your habit of eating more of a plant-based diet. Click here your Plant-Based Diet downloads. Namaste, Dr. Michele ****************************** If there is a topic you would like me to address or if there is a question you would like answered, please reach out. Email me directly at dr.michele.colon@gmail.com or schedule a coaching call with me so we can dive deeper to find out what is going on and come up with a plan of action for you: drmichele.com/schedule Today’s show was brought to you by the Body Wisdom Membership Program. For more information, head on over to my website drmichele.com and click on the JOIN NOW or WORK WITH ME tab. All of the information is there about my group programs as well as 1:1 coaching. If you have questions about your health that you would like me to answer on air, you can email them to me or go to my website drmichele.com/get in touch to contact my team. If you have questions you’d like to discuss with me directly, sign up for a coaching call at drmichele.com/schedule.     Contact Information and Important Links for Dr. Michele: Dr. Michele can be found online or by email. Dr. Michele is currently accepting new 1:1 coaching clients as well as new members into her Body Wisdom Membership Program.  If you have questions about the Body Wisdom Membership Program or about how you can make lifestyles changes to improve your health, check out the Dr. Michele website or sign up for a coaching call with Dr. Michele here: drmichele.com/schedule Namaste, Dr. Michele Here's Where You Find Dr. Michele: website - drmichele.com email - dr.michele.colon@gmail.com twitter - @doctormichele facebook - @doctormichele instagram - @drmichele

This week I talk with forager and wild plant expert Dina Falconi, author of Foraging And Feasting: A Field Guide and Wild Plant Cookbook. It's almost spring, so if you're interested in learning about the wild edibles growing outside your door, give a listen. She's wise, funny, and tells a good story. 

I've said it before — Americans have a horrible relationship with food. But our Guest Heretic Dina Falconi doesn't. Join us for a sensuous walk where we'll forage for delicious wild edibles, liberate ourselves from a broken food system, and nourish our souls using her gorgeous book Foraging & Feasting: a Field Guide and Wild Food Cookbook. Dina Falconi invites you to identify wild edible plants with instructive, botanical illustrations; harvest & cook them into delicious food with her recipes.

We explore common wild edible plants found at this time of year (late August) and delve into recipes that turn them into tasty delicious food!Dina Falconi is a clinical herbalist with a strong focus on food activism and nutritional healing. An avid gardener, wildcrafter, and permaculturist, Dina has been teaching classes about the use of herbs for food, medicine, and pleasure, including wild food foraging and cooking, for more than twenty years. She produces Falcon Formulations natural body care products and Earthly Extracts medicinal tinctures. She is a founding member of the Northeast Herbal Association, a chapter leader of the Weston A. Price Foundation, and an organizer of Slow Food-Hudson Valley. She is the author of Earthly Bodies & Heavenly Hair: Natural and Healthy Personal Care for Everybody and Foraging & Feasting: A Field Guide and Wild Food Cookbook. www.botanicalartspress.comSupport the show (https://www.natureevolutionaries.com/donations)

Dina Falconi is a practicing herbalist with a strong focus on food activism and nutritional healing. She is the author of Earthly Bodies & Heavenly Hair, owner of Falcon Formulations, a natural body care product business, co-creator of Earthly Extracts, a line of medicinal tinctures, and a founding member of the Northeast Herbal Association. She offers workshops and consultations throughout the Northeast. Dina is Chapter Leader of the Hudson Valley Weston A. Price Foundation, on the steering committee of Slow Food- Hudson Valley Convivium, and organizes the Family Farm Festival, a sustainable agriculture festival in High Falls, NY, held the Sunday after Labor Day. In this episode, we mainly discuss questions from many HerbMentor.com members.

Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast Enjoy this episode? Become a Patron. In 2015 I released 55 episodes. Followers to the show on Facebook and Twitter more than doubled, and listenership is now at over 15,000 per episode, also doubling since the start of the year. This episode is a best of and overview of the preceding twelve months. In preparing the list of what to include, it became a survey of what was popular on the podcast, and in our particular slice of the permaculture community represented by where things have gone, and your interests in reaching out to have certain guests on the air. If you're new to permaculture or this podcast, the various interviews reviewed here and listed in the Resource section at the bottom of the show notes page provide a beginning to explore the archives, which contain hundreds of hours of interviews with a broad cross section of permaculture practitioners, authors, scientists, and others who are all dedicated to creating a better world. Every time I sit down to look over the year that came before, I always toss around different ideas of what to include and how to best represent the trends and ideas, without giving a blow by blow of every topic and conversation. I really enjoy every interview and episode that gets released, so would just list them in order if I had my druthers, but that's not that interesting. Instead, I have to use some kind of metric or decision making process to decide what to share. That might be something like total listens to a given episode, but that gives preference to something that was released earlier in the year. Comments are great, but vary widely, and the more polarizing a guest is leads to more feedback. Even with that feedback, what source to judge from? Though some replies are left on the website, most of the responses continue to come directly to me via email, but some interviews, like that with Jason Godesky, generate a lot of interest on Facebook. So for this year I'm going to look at the topics that trended as the most popular subjects on the show, include a few of my personal favorites, and close with the guest who continues to be the most popular on the show. By far the topic that got the most attention was foraging and rewilding. Every time this subject came up new suggestions poured in for people to reach out to for interviews, other books and articles to read, or different angles to address this idea of primal reconnection to ourselves and the land. The two conversations with Peter Michael Bauer were some of the most downloaded and commented on interviews of the year. Peter's first conversation in March, providing an introduction to human rewilding and the intersection with permaculture, was so well received that he returned in November to explore the difference between rewilding the land and how that differs from un-domesticating ourselves. Dina Falconi, author of Foraging and Feasting, was the other guest garnered a lot of attention. Her discussion of food as medicine, the idea of developing and using master recipes, and the distinction between a plant as food or a culinary addition resonated with many people. From the landscape and the self we move to human society and our cultural stories, which played a big part this year in the discussions about social permaculture. Where these most connected were when many voices came together as one in the round table recordings. Repeatedly I've heard from you that you listened to those over and over again, including the two conversations with Ben Weiss and Dave Jacke, one of which included Charles Eisenstein; the journey to the Riverside Project in West Virginia where Nicole Luttrell, Jesse Wyner, Ashley Davis, and Diane Blust joined me for another two pieces that started talking about permaculture, but settled into a what it means to call a place home; and then the largest round table yet, with the Clear Creek community outside of Berea, Kentucky. Though each one touched on very different ideas the space created by coming together felt like you were invited to be a part of the circle to sit, ask questions, and listen. In some case we were able to do that by including your questions as you tweeted or posted comments to Facebook while the interviews were recorded. Along with those, the social and cultural side were pushed to the edge in the discussion of with Jason Godesky. Though on the surface we talked about narrative, mythmaking, and how we can accomplish that through games such as his own The Fifth World, there was a deeper exploration of push-pull experienced between waking up and turning on lights and having on demand hot water and how to live a life that isn't just a reduced consumption that is still damaging, but something more regenerative. I'm thankful for the voice Jason brought to the table that day, after we'd already had a long weekend at Save Against Fear, and were still able to look at the difference between the modern versus the traditional; holistic compared to reductionist; and personal responsibility versus systemic hegemony. Moving outside of the topics of interest, there are three episodes I feel deserve mentioned here as ones you should listen to if you haven't heard them, or listen to them again if you have. The first is Joshua Peaceseeker Hughes and our overview of modern permaculture that resulted in the first episode explicitly looking at the need for Transitional Ethics during this time of transformation. His personal story created an acknowledgement that we can do more, but that doing so involves making an active choice. To embody permaculture and live it intentionally, but not to abuse ourselves for being citizens of the world we find ourselves in. The second was when I returned to the Faith and Earth Care series through the interview with Dillon Cruz. I was initially a little hesitant about releasing the conversation because this series as a whole usually generates a lot of feedback, often negatively. Dillon's time on the air did bring a number of replies, often private via email, but in a different way. His raw voice and self awareness lead to responses that stretched across a variety of religious traditions, and gave form to an expression of faith as a way to tend the world we are given that is a personal pursuit compatible with designing the world we want to live in. There was no hatemail this time around for covering spirituality within permaculture, but, then again, this wasn't that kind of conversation. The final of the stand-alone, stand-out episodes, comes from time spent with Eric and Victoria of Charm City Farms, in Baltimore, Maryland. In particular it was Victoria's personal journey that opened a space to hear a voice that sounded similar to our own. She came from a place where she could make any of a number of choices towards the life she lived, and worked through the struggles of what path lead to a sense of self and right livelihood. Every time I sit down with a microphone I never know what will wind up being recorded or where the interview will go. That day in Baltimore lead to something special and I'm grateful to Victoria for allowing me to share that with you. Now that I've covered the episodes I heard from you about, there are two that were some of my personal favorites. Those were with Holly Brown of Island Creek Farm, and talking with Toby Hemenway about The Permaculture City. Holly means so much to my own journey as a permaculture practitioner not only for the content of the conversation you can listen to, but also because of the way that we spent our the time together the day we met. She was the last stop on my journey through Virginia visiting with permaculture farmers and homesteaders, that started with Lee and Dave O'Neill of Radical Roots several days earlier. That morning, as I drove out to her farm, I found myself a little road weary and ready to start the trek back up North on Interstate 81 to Pennsylvania. I love to drive, it's something instilled in me by my father at a young age as I sat in the back of classic American muscle, and later Swedish GT cars, and then my own life as a gear-head behind the wheel of Japanese sports cars and GT cars of my own, but I despise getting on I-81 for more than an hour or so, and the thought of four hours from Virginia back home that day felt like a stretch of my own personal hell laid out in asphalt. While winding my way through back roads, already running late after sitting in traffic while trying to leave Roanoke, I began to question this last stop of the day, and whether to reschedule with Holly for another time. The closer I got to the farm the roads got narrower and the speed limits much lower, and I still didn't know what I would find, or how this last conversation would close out a whirlwind journey, my first time taking the podcast on the road to visit, talk, and document in person. Finally, after nearly two hours in the car for what should have taken less than an hour, I rounded  the last turn and came to the Island Creek. After backing up a bit because I missed the lane, for the first time I saw why Holly and her farm were recommended as a place to visit. The site was gorgeous, and there, out in the fields, were a pair of souls working the land with their hands, skin deeply tanned from time spent out of doors. Shortly they would be revealed as Holly and one of her farm interns. Within moments of meeting, after Holly and her intern finished the harvesting and business for the day, Holly and I stepped into the small home she shares with her husband and children, a home built by their hands on land donated to their family as a wedding gift, and ate a lunch of vegetable curry, topped with yogurt she made from raw milk sourced from another nearby farm, and paired with a salad of her own variety of mixed greens. Before the interview, we sat and talked about children, family, and life. Afterwards, while touring the farm where I got to eat my first fresh fig right, pulled right off the tree, we discussed the politics of being a permaculture farmer in an area with a conservative view of farming that views modern, industrial drive agriculture as the only way; and how to make the choices required to have a successful permaculture farm that runs counter to those ideas that others see as norms, reinforced by our society we live in. Though that all happened outside of the conversation you can listen to on the show, many of the tenets and tone you'll find there. Holly is someone I look forward to visiting again to sit down and continue to push the edges of what it means to embody permaculture as a small-scale farmer working the land, fueled by calories not fossil fuels. The impact of that day is also why you'll see the picture of Holly's farm as the cover image of this episode. On the other side of that, looking at living in a rural setting, was Toby Hemenway. Well known and carrying high regarded within our community, I'd chased him off and on through the years for an interview, but we never quite connected. I'll admit to never being a fan of Gaia's Garden, but The Permaculture City was like talking with an old friend, which was what the resulting interview felt like. Warm and gracious, but a bit heretical because Toby did the math and raised questions about the practicality and sustainability of the permaculture dream of going off-grid, returning to the land, and seeking self-sufficiency. As he says in the book, he's done subsistence farming, and it isn't a joy by any sense of the imagination, it's hard work that many of us are not realistically ready for, so what can we do to do us and what we are ready for and good at? This latest work also took permaculture a step further out of the landscape, to areas where there may be no soil to grow in, or if we're not suited to it, may honestly be a waste of our time and energy. What then? What do we do to still live in a regenerative manner, during this period of transition, to lessen our consumption and impacts, when the answer is counter to so many years of conversation and literature on what we're told permaculture is supposed to be, and what it is supposed to look like? Deep down we've known the truth, the answers, we've heard it before through people like Bob Theis imploring that we don't go out and inflict ourselves on a piece of land that doesn't need us, or Dave Jacke addressing that what we called Invisible Structures for so long need to be framed for what they are, social and economic systems. And here in his book and conversation with me,  was the number one selling author on the subject of permaculture calling all of that into question, and asking us to examine our own choices. Here were some of my doubts about the permaculture narrative given a voice. Was my mind blown? Yeah, just a little, and it's what has taken me a road to continue to stand in two worlds and create a place, through the podcast, to look at these bigger pictures and questions so we can build permanent culture, rather than just insuring we achieve permanent agriculture. With all those voices and conversations and the others in the archives, can you guess who the number one guest of all time on the show is out of the last five years, and so receives an honorable mention? Are you shocked at all if I say Ethan Hughes? His insight and thoughts continue to connect with so many people, including to my surprise, a number of folks from Australia and New Zealand. The work of his, to embrace and embody permaculture in a way that is personally fulfilling, but non-proselytizing, shows a different way forward. I might not ever to live the way he does, because as Eric Toensmeier and I have talked about I like electricity and the ability to communicate worldwide instantaneously via the internet,  his actions help me get a little bit closer to where I want to be every time we talk or I listen back over the public interviews. It's why I picked up the phone and called him to talk about my desire here in Pennsylvania to create an urban demonstration site and semi-intentional community. As that phone call drew to a close, and he'd shared a number of insights in how to start a project like that, the conversation lead to us talking about writing, in particular a book about his personal journey, but with the practical insights necessary so anyone can create change where they are, as conventionally or radically as they like. Even more to my surprise, Ethan asked me to be his partner on the project, which resulted in what we're calling The Possibility Handbook. As a new year dawns, so does a new project, and I leave for The Possibility Alliance on January 15, 2016 to sit down, off-grid, and record with Ethan. If you would like to learn more about The Possibility Handbook in particular, visit the thepermaculturepodcast.com/book. There you can listen to a short interview with Mr. Hughes discussing the contents we'll cover, and what he hopes to accomplish by bringing this into the world. You'll also find information and links on how to take part in a listener-only crowdfunding campaign where you'll  receive early access to the book materials as they become available, and exclusive content that will not be offered anywhere but there. If you'd like to contribute to the show in general visit https://thepermaculturepodcast.com and click on the support tab to find out how you can help. In drawing this to a close, I want to say thank you to everyone who has been a part of the the show over the years by donating, sharing links, and reaching out to me via email or phone, or by taking the time to put a letter in the mail. All of it has made this podcast a success in ways that I never imagined in October of 2010 when I  first sat down with an inexpensive USB headset and an old Linux laptop to start talking about Permaculture.   Thank you.   [caption width="960" align="aligncenter"] Photo Source: Rewild Portland[/caption] Resources: Episode 1506: Island Creek Farm with Holly Brown Episode 1513: Rewilding Permaculture with Peter Michael Bauer Episode 1516: Foraging and Feasting with Dina Falconi Episode 1524: Right Livelihood with Ben Weiss, Dave Jacke, and Charles Eisenstein Episode 1526: Getting right with ourselves & building community featuring Ben Weiss & Dave Jacke Episode 1530: Urban Permaculture in Baltimore, Maryland (Charm City Farms) Episode 1532: The Permaculture City with Toby Hemenway Episode 1538: Community Building (Clear Creek Round Table) Episode 1540: Myth Making and Storytelling with Jason Godesky Episode 1541: The Riverside Project Round Table (Part 1) Episode 1543: Transitional Ethics with Joshua Peaceseeker Hughes Episode 1544: Home (The Riverside Project Round Table Part 2) Episode 1546: Human vs. Conservation Rewilding Episode 1548: The Greatest Commandment with Dillon Cruz

Dina Falconi returns to HerbMentor Radio to give us a great foundation in harvesting wild edibles and preparing them into delicious dishes. Dina is author of the new book, Foraging and Feasting: A Field Guide and Wild Food Cookbook. We start the interview with the fascinating way Dina self-published this book under her own publishing company. This is informative to anyone who might have an herbal product idea. Then, Dina gets into the basics of wild foods foraging, such as plant ID, where and when to harvest, safety, how you can get started. Then Dina shares some amazing tips for turning your wild foods bounty into amazing meals, appetizers and beverages. Dandelion root bisque soup sound good? How about garlic mustard horseradish? Looking for more creative ways of using all that lemon balm? Learn how to be a “plant detective” and turn any recipe into a wild foods delight.

Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast Like this podcast? Support it on Patreon. Hello and Welcome to The Permaculture Podcast with Scott Mann, a listener supported program. My guest for this episode is Dina Falconi, an herbalist from the Hudson Valley of New York and author of the gorgeous book Foraging and Feasting, which you'll find at botanicalartspress.com. During our conversation today Dina shares her background as a forager and herbalist, and her background as a permaculture practitioner which began with a design course taught by Geoff Lawton. We also discuss the plants she chose for the book, the difference between edible and culinary plants, and the distinction about historical and modern food safety. This interview is part of the ongoing series on rewilding and foraging. I have links to the earlier episodes in the show notes. Start with this interview and work your way back through theses podcasts to learn more about wild foods, edible plants, and how we can improve the gifts we receive from them and our relationships with those plants. As usual from an interview, I walk away with from this interview with more thoughts that build and expand my repertoire as a permaculture practitioner. The first is that I am adapting the recipes from the book into a series of lessons to use in my own cooking to teach my children a variety of basic formulas so they can be prepared to cook with whatever they have on hand, whether wild, picked from the garden, or bought at market. That leads to the moment that Dina and I talking about master skills. Cooking is definitely something that everyone should learn to some degree. To that we also include foraging. To that list of I would add creating fire, tool making, building, such as carpentry or masonry, and permaculture design. That is a very basic list, but I wonder what you would add to it based on where you live and what you do. What are the basic master skills you would teach to build a permaculture community? One that truly cares for earth, the individuals, and the culture? I wonder how teaching those skills now, to interested adults and children, can influence the way we live. Will we find greater personal and community freedom by having more self-reliance? How will that change the culture we create and live in? I'd like to hear your ideas. Get in touch. Email: The Permaculture Podcast Of write if you would prefer: The Permaculture Podcast The Permaculture Podcast You can also leave a comment in the show notes, send a tweet to @permaculturecst, or join in the conversations on facebook. Facebook.com/thepermaculturepodcast. From here, a few class announcements. Tradd Cotter contacted me about an event he's teaching at the end of the month. If you are near Keswick, Virginia, April 24 - 26, 2015, join him along with Mark Jones and Ethan Levesque, for a course called, “Cultivating Kingdom Fungi: Mushrooms for People and Planet.” Find out more about this at: https://www.sharondalefarm.com/workshops/ Ben Weiss and Wilson Alvarez begin teaching a new course on permaculture in an urban environment as well, in Harrisburg, PA. You can find this course on Facebook by searching for Downtown Harrisburg Permaculture Course, or through the link in the show notes. Ben and Wil are also looking for scholarship sponsors for this course. Contact susq.permaculture@yahoo.com if you would like to donate. Finally, as I draw this to a close, this show depends on your ongoing support to stay on the air. Though it looks like I'll be moving to a full time job this summer, as my life now requires that I have an income that can support a family, I'm going to do everything I can to keep the show going and continue to release new episodes and remain a resource for anyone who takes the time to email, call, or write a letter. You can help me keep going by using the paypal link on the front page of the show at thepermaculturepocast.com to make a one time, direct contribution, or by becoming a recurring member via Patreon at patreon.com/permaculturepodcast. Know that I am here with you, wherever your journey takes you. Until the next time, take care of earth, yourself, and each other. Resources: Botanical Arts Press Dina's Website Past Interviews on Foraging and Rewilding Peter Michael Bauer Violet and Steve Brill Dan De Lion Sam Thayer Arthur Haines 1 Arthur Haines 2 Wilson Alvarez and Ben Weiss Classes: Cultivating Kingdom Fungi with Tradd Cotter Downtown Harrisburg Permaculture Course

Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast Like this podcast? Support it on Patreon. My guest for this episode is Jen Mendez, the founder of PermieKids. As this episode comes out I've known Jen for over a year, beginning with some conversations via phone and email about parenting and permaculture and then digging in on discussions of different pedagogical approaches and the changes in curriculum between primary and secondary education, and then getting a chance to sit down together and talk for a while last year at the Mother Earth News Fair (which is where the picture for this episode comes from). Those experiences reinforced our interest in working together as we both have areas of education that we focus on. Mine is definitely towards adults, both young and older, and she has a fantastic ability to work with young children and families. That focus on children and families forms the framework for this conversation as we talk about the various ways that Jen applies permaculture to teaching children and engaging family members and other mentors in order to provide the best experience possible for everyone involved by reconnecting those who care about children and the children themselves with their education. Hers is not a one size fits all approach and it shows. You can, of course, find out more about her and her work at PermieKids.com and via the links in the resources section below. My conversation with her is set to go live at PermieKids on Thursday, April 8, 2015. I like Jen's approach because her techniques empower us, like all of permaculture practices, to actively and intentionally participate in the work that we do, in this case the teaching of children. As a parent myself and having few role models to turn to when my two youngest were born I would have loved to have had a mentor like Jen to help answer some of my questions about early childhood development and milestones in a more academic, though friendly way. Since I was rediscovering permaculture at the time this would have been most valuable. Times have changed and we adapted to include both private and public schools to handle the early childhood education with my children, while supplementing with family activities, yet every time I talk with Jen I'm given new tools, such as her very visual child friendly Me-Map, that I can use now even though we are not homeschooling. When it comes to education in general I don't like the idea of specialized education before college. I want everyone, particularly permaculture practitioners and their children, to be polymaths. There is a line I turn to time and time again from the author Robert Heinlein that expresses my thoughts rather succinctly. “A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.” Though I might lean away from the more violent aspects of that quote, the general tenor of it holds true to what I see as the role of education. We're not cogs in a machine. We don't have just one job in this life where we push a button repeatedly to create the same thing over and over again. We are, all of us, capable of incredible things. We are more than the sum of our parts. I'm not just a podcast creator. I'm also a father, an artist, a partner, a teacher, a bad karaoke singer, an even worse gardener (but I can raise strawberries, onions, children, and cats), a woodsman, a philanthropist, a writer, a son, a cousin (though not a brother, I'm an only child, which also means I'm not an uncle, or an aunt), a nephew, a student, a gentleman, a swordsman, a scholar. And those are just the roles I can rattle off at a moments notice. If given the task to write down all the things I am now or ever was the list would take volumes. The same is true for each of you. Who you are, and your education, matters. Teach yourself something new today. Then teach someone else what you've learned and keep this cycle going. If you need help along the way, get in touch with Jen and she will be there to give you a hand. Or get in touch with me and I will do the same. This is our community. By tuning in to this show you are a part of it too. Email: jen@permiekids.com if you would like to get ahold of her. Email: The Permaculture Podcast if you would like to get ahold of me, or you can call me: I'm not going anywhere and will be with you for as long as I can. You can also send me a letter if you would like. I think postal mail may be my favorite way of hearing from someone, as I have a box where I keep everything I receive. That address is: The Permaculture Podcast The Permaculture Podcast Also to help you along that way, sign up for the traveling permaculture library project. Send an email to Matt Winters with your name and address and he'll get you added to that generous cycle of sharing, all we ask is that once you are done reading a book that you agree to mail the book along to someone else involved in the project. There's a sticker in the front of each book we send out with more information. librarian@thepermaculturepodcast.com To support that and other projects, I do ask for your help. In keeping in-line with the gift economy of this show I heavily limit any advertisers to only people and products that I believe in and that have contacted me directly for assistance. For that reason, I rely almost entirely on listener contributions to keep this show going and on the air. Please consider becoming a member of the show by signing up at patreon.com/permaculturepodcast, or if you would like to make a one time contribution you can do so via the PayPal button at www.thepermaculturepodcast.com, or by sending something in the post to the address above. You can also help me by taking two minutes and doing two things. First, leave a review on your favorite podcast site, such as iTunes. Second, share a link to your favorite episode on Facebook, Twitter, or your favorite social media of choice. Get the word out there and we can help more people create the world they want to live in. Until the next time, when Dina Falconi author of Foraging and Feasting joins me, spend each day doing something new that takes care of Earth, your self, and each other. Resources PermieKids PermieKids Podcasts PermieKids Edge Alliances PermieKids Educational Design

Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast Like this podcast? Support it on Patreon. My guest for this episode is Grant Curry, a permaculture practitioner from the Four Corners region of Colorado who heads up Permaculture Provision Project. Grant and I have known one another for some time conversing via email and phone to discuss issues of faith and permaculture, and to explore the genesis of the Permaculture Provision Project and how he is using that as a model to explore restoration work with indigenous populations, particularly the Navajo Nation. It is this latter subject, and how he is working with the tribal government and others to raise awareness of the issues impacting the people and lands within the sovereign borders that forms the bulk of our conversation today. You can learn more about Grant and his work at the Permaculture Provision Project Facebook page, which you'll find a link to in the notes below. I like Grant and his enthusiasm, but realize how this conversation rubs hard against the issue of respecting other cultures. I'm glad for his perspective that this is about working along side the government and the people in the community, rather than forcing a particular vision upon those who are there already working in that space. That this is about elevating that work that and bringing in people who have the sensitivity to not impose external values on the practitioners. Though I know there are people like Grant or Peter Michael Bauer doing this work of honoring native traditions, it is something that I only understand on a cursory level and certainly need to do a lot more reading and research on to even begin to alleviate my ignorance. If this is an area that you are familiar with and can share any insights, I would greatly appreciate it if you could let me know. One other piece of the puzzle I would like to hear about are your Aha moments. I want to know how your personal story, your life, connect you to permaculture. What is the part of your experience that made you give a damn about the world we live in and wanting to take an active role in doing something that will make a difference? Mine comes from when I was around nine years old and wandering with my friend Josh through the farm fields behind his house, building forts on every rock outcropping with sticks we found. His mother would dress us up in his father's old marine corps BDUs and roll up the sleeves and pants legs so that we didn't trip over them, using her deft seamstress hands to add a quick stitch here and there so they would stay in place through hours of play, and send us out to get wet, muddy, and safe to trapse through cow pies. We'd slither along stream banks, watch birds, throw dirt clods at each other, look for snakes, but rarely find them, look for spiders, and find them all the time, and generally be a part of nature. Two boys with acres and acres of semi-wild places that we lived in for days on end, only coming in long enough to grab a quick bite to eat before heading out until the sun set, then up the next day for breakfast and to do it all again. Though in recollection it seems like I spent years and years out there in those fields exploring, and dozens more as a cub scout and boy scout, my time in those fields was little more than two seasons. The spring and summer of 1989. That fall I changed schools and did not see Josh again for many years. When I did we were a little bit older, but no longer close, just existing in the memory our friendship and never able to reconnect again. Though I lost my childhood friend, I never lost my love of Earth. That connection sat there, germinating, as I left the wild places and took a road more civilized. As a teenager I sat at a desk and learned how computers worked and how to program. From time to time I would go camping and hiking, some of those human scale outdoor recreational activities. Then as I had children I took them on nature walks and to talks about salamanders. As I showed my daughter the unbuilt environment, the blueberries and the butterflies, I found that love for Earth I had for so long taking root again. With it came permaculture and an interest in how I interact with the built environment, a desire for smaller spaces, and less stuff. As time passes, I turn away from that world built by humanity and look to the soil, the trees, the plants, the animals, and the people (but not their civilization), and ask myself, how do we save all of this? If you have an answer, or just more questions, I'm here to be with you as long whenever our paths cross, or for as long as they run parallel with one another. Get in touch. Email: The Permaculture Podcast Or you can send me a letter: The Permaculture Podcast The Permaculture Podcast As I say at the beginning of every episode, this podcast is listener supported. The show seems to be getting big enough now that I'm being contacted by marketers and publishers who want me to run native advertisements and corporate written editorials on the website, but I'm not going to do that. Yes, it would certainly help the financial side of the show, a lot, but as I said at the end of the episode with Peter Michael Bauer, I'm tired. I'm tired of business as usual, and so I refuse those offers. I'm not going to be a shill. It's why, though I may make announcement from time to time for someone to advertise on the podcast, there is no “advertise here” button on the web page, and there won't be. I'm only going to talk about and share things that I really believe in and think will make creating the world you want to live in easier and better for all of us. With that said I need your help to keep this podcast going. The best way to do that now is through a recurring membership using Patreon. At patreon.com/permaculturepodcast you can find information on that various goal and reward levels for supporting the show in that way. You can also make a one time donation via the PayPal button on the main page for the show at thepermaculturepodcast.com or by sending something in the mail at the address above. Coming up on April 7 is Jen Mendez of PermieKids.com joins me to talk teaching children with permaculture. On April 15 is Dina Falconi the author of Foraging and Feasting. Spend each day creating the world you want to live in by taking care of Earth, your self, and each other. Resources Permaculture Provision Project The Colorado Permaculture Convergence (Information and Registration) Navajo Nation John Liu John Liu's Green Gold

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