Podcast appearances and mentions of katrina blair

In this Living World Conversation, Katrina Blair explains how commitment to authentic community health is a dependable North Star, a navigational beacon of clarity, beneficial to all—to oneself, others and the entire Earth.

On May 12, 2023, Katrina Blair of Bee Happy Lands, an organic stewardship company based in Durango, visited Carbondale to train town staff on her methods. Katrina was contacted following public discontent over a decision to spray sections of Delaney Nature Park, also a popular dog park, with chemical herbicides as a treatment for Canada thistle and yellow toadflax. The Sopris Sun recorded her demonstration as a public archive.

Living World Conversation with Katrina Blair about thistle. Katrina explains when engaged with the wisdom of connection she is aligned with the forces of nature.

My guest for this episode is Katrina Blair, author of the wonderful book The Wild Wisdom of Weeds from Chelsea Green Publishing. Katrina lives in Durango, Colorado at Turtle Lake Refuge, home to the Turtle Lake Community Farm and Wild Food CSA, and Local Wild Life Cafe.

It's so exciting to have such a big inspiration to me, Katrina Blair, on the podcast! Katrina will share about the importance of cultivating a relationship with the wild plants around you, the importance of alkalizing our bodies, and the incredible abilities of plants and mushrooms to remediate the soil and heal our bodies. Find Katrina at TurtleLakerefuge.org. Opening and closing music by Lena Belle

As a young teenager, Katrina Blair, learned to listen to plants and live off of the land. Today she knows when she ingests wild plants, their resilience and brilliant ways of being help her adapt to change.

Katrina Blair talks about her commitment to health and a living world. She explains how the Durango Turtle Lake Community aligns with these commitments through Talking Circles and cooperative action.

Katrina Blair, founder of Turtle Lake Refuge and organics parks advocate, tells us about the importance of using organic fertilizers in our public parks. She tells us about the Dandelion Festival, celebrating May 1st at Rotary Park. Filmed and Edited by Tucker Cocchiarella. Sponsored by FASTSIGNS and The Timbers at Edgemont Highlands. 

Will Evans speaks with Katrina Blair about how she celebrates the connection between personal health, wild lands, and source water.

Episode #59 of the Ground Shots Podcast is a conversation with Professor Matt Chew, and is hosted by Kollibri terre Sonnenblume, Nikki Hill and Gabe Crawford.   Dubbed a ‘gadfly of invasion biology' by Scientific American, Matt Chew is known for critiquing ecology's overreliance on societal metaphors and conservationists' misapplication of notions like ‘nativeness'. Dr. Chew has a B.S. Environmental Interpretation and an M.S. Range Science (Ecology) from Colorado State University, and a Ph.D. in Biology from Arizona State University. As statewide Natural Resources Planner for Arizona State Parks, he coordinated their Natural Areas Program, researched wildlife issues, and served on interagency committees, one of which also included his future wife, plant ecologist Julie Stromberg. Julie was recently featured as a guest on Kollibri terre Sonnenblume's podcast, Voices for Nature and Peace. With Julie's encouragement, he abandoned government work to earn a biology Ph.D. based entirely on historical research. Currently employed at Arizona State University, Dr. Chew conducts a field course in ‘novel ecosystems,' lectures in ‘history of biology' and ‘biology and society', and works with postgraduate students. He was awarded an Oxford research fellowship in 2014. His articles in "Nature," "Science" and other publications have been cited in over 200 different journals.   Former podcast guests, Kollibri terre Sonnenblume, Gabe Crawford, and Nikki Hill host this episode.     Nikki Hill has a degree in environmental science and has worked in restoration and agriculture. Currently she invests her energy in wildtending efforts. Nikki and Kollibri co-authored a zine together called, "The Troubles of 'Invasive' Plants," which you can download for free on Kollibri's blog, linked in the show notes.     Kollibri terre Sonnenblume is a writer, photographer, podcaster, tree hugger, animal lover, and cultural dissident. Past experiences include urban bike farmer, Indymedia activist, and music critic. Kollibri holds a BA in “Writing Fiction & Non-fiction” from the St. Olaf Paracollege in Northfield, Minnesota. Kollibri hosts and curates the Voices for Nature and Peace Podcast. You can read his writings focused on ecology and politics at Maska Moskska press, linked in the bio.   Gabe Crawford was raised on a small homestead outside of Durango, Colorado and started learning about plants from an early age. He got launched on his plant journey by studying with Katrina Blair at the Turtle Lake Refuge in Durango. He moved to Sandpoint, Idaho where he worked with Twin Eagles Wilderness School and Kaniksu Land Trust mentoring kids. Through this, he started naturalist training which opened him up to the world of wild tending, Traditional Ecological Knowledge and the ancient and intricate relationships between humans and ecology. Gabe spent time with Finisia Medrano learning about the ancient wild gardens of the west that were and still are tended by indigenous peoples and was taught how to tend these first foods and plant back for future abundance. He collects the seeds of native foods plants, fruit trees, berries and other exotics to plant feral orchards and wild gardens.   In this conversation, Kollibri, Nikki and Gabe take a deep dive into the history of "invasion biology" and reveal its scientific shortcomings and its cultural biases.   This is a crossover episode with Kollibri's podcast, Voices for Nature and Peace, so we are airing it on both podcasts at the same time. I highly recommend checking out Kollibri's guests and the breadth of what he has been covering lately visiting the intersections of social action, politics, the environment, animals rights, land justice and more. Also check out Kollibri's weekly column read out loud on his platform Radio Free Sunroot. You can also find Voices for Nature and Peace on most mainstream podcast streaming platforms.     Links:   Kollibri's website where you can find his writings, zines and more: Macska Moksha Press   Radio Free Sunroot and the Voices for Nature and Peace Podcast   Gabe Crawford on instagram: @plumsforbums   Nikki Hill's website, Walking Roots   Voices for Nature and Peace Patreon page     Call the podcast and leave a message (while you're there, if your ok with us airing it on the podcast, give us verbal permission):   1-434-233-0097     Support the podcast on Patreon to contribute monthly to our grassroots self-funding of this project    For one time donations to support this work:   Paypal : paypal.me/petitfawn   VENMO: @kelly-moody-6   Cashapp: cash.app/$groundshotsproject    Our website with an archive of podcast episodes, educational resources, past travelogues and more: http://www.ofsedgeandsalt.com    Our Instagram pages: @goldenberries / @groundshotspodcast   Join the Ground Shots Podcast Facebook Group to discuss the episodes   Subscribe to our newsletter for updates on the Ground Shots Project   Theme music: 'Sweat and Splinters' by Mother Marrow   This episode hosted by: Kollibri terre Sonnenblume, Nikki Hill and Gabe Crawford   Produced by: Kollibri terre Sonnenblume and Kelly Moody

"No Such a Thing as an 'Invasive Species'?" feat. Prof. Matt Chew Dubbed a ‘gadfly of invasion biology' by Scientific American, Matt Chew is known for critiquing ecology's overreliance on societal metaphors and conservationists' misapplication of notions like ‘nativeness'. Dr. Chew has a B.S. Environmental Interpretation and an M.S. Range Science (Ecology) from Colorado State University, and a Ph.D. in Biology from Arizona State University. As statewide Natural Resources Planner for Arizona State Parks, he coordinated their Natural Areas Program, researched wildlife issues, and served on interagency committees—one of which also included his future wife, plant ecologist Julie Stromberg, who was a guest in an earlier episode of this podcast. Currently employed at Arizona State University, Dr. Chew conducts a field course in ‘novel ecosystems,' lectures in ‘history of biology' and ‘biology and society', and works with postgraduate students. He was awarded an Oxford research fellowship in 2014. His articles in "Nature," "Science" and other publications have been cited in over 200 different journals. In this episode, I am joined by two co-hosts, Gabe Crawford of the Groundshots Podcast, and Nikki Hill. Nikki has a degree in environmental science and has worked in restoration and agriculture. Currently she invests her energy in wildtending efforts. We co-authored a zine together called, "The Troubles of 'Invasive' Plants," which you can download for free at my blog. Gabe Crawford was raised on a small homestead outside of Durango, Colorado and started learning about plants from an early age. He got launched on his plant journey by studying with Katrina Blair at the Turtle Lake Refuge in Durango. He moved to Sandpoint, Idaho where he worked with Twin Eagles Wilderness School and Kaniksu Land Trust mentoring kids. Through this, he started naturalist training which opened him up to the world of wild tending, Traditional Ecological Knowledge and the ancient and intricate relationships between humans and ecology. Gabe spent time with Finisia Medrano learning about the ancient wild gardens of the west that were and still are tended by indigenous peoples and was taught how to tend these first foods and plant back for future abundance. He collects the seeds of native foods plants, fruit trees, berries and other exotics to plant feral orchards and wild gardens. In this conversation we take a deep dive into the history of "invasion biology" and reveal its scientific shortcomings and its cultural biases. Prof. Chew's profile at Arizona State University: https://www.sols.asu.edu/matthew-chew Papers by Prof. Chew at academia.edu: https://asu.academia.edu/MattChew This is a crossover episode with the Groundshots Podcast, which was created by Kelly Moody. Groundshots is an audio project exploring our relationship to ecology through conversations and storytelling: How do we do our work in the modern age, when the urgency of ecological and social collapse feels looming? How do we creatively and whole-heartedly navigate our relationships with one another and the land? These and other questions are explored by Kelly & Gabe with a wide range of guests. Find out more at Of Sedge & Salt: https://www.ofsedgeandsalt.com/ Music in episode introduction is "Loop Mix" by Flavio Concini https://freesound.org/people/deleted_user_4397472/sounds/470763/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwYgc5cG9tazDqsvEwqKpYQ RADIO FREE SUNROOT: Podcasting by Kollibri terre Sonnenblume https://radiofreesunroot.com KOLLIBRI'S BLOG & BOOKSHOP: https://macskamoksha.com/ ONE-TIME DONATION: http://paypal.me/kollibri https://venmo.com/Kollibri KOLLIBRI'S PATREON: Get access to members-only content https://www.patreon.com/kollibri Support Voices for Nature & Peace by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/voices-for-nature-and-peace This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-a50345 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Voices for Nature & Peace.

Idaho Matters learns about the importance of bee pollinators from Melanie Kirby, a queen bee breeder with Zia Queenbee Company and biologist and farmer Katrina Blair.

Katrina Blair began studying wild plants in her teens when she camped out alone for a summer with the intention of eating primarily wild foods. She gained an MA from John F Kennedy University in Orinda, CA in Holistic Health Education and - as she tells us in the podcast - went on to found Turtle Lake Refuge in 1998, a non-profit organisation whose mission is to celebrate the connection between personal health and wild lands. She teaches sustainable living practices, permaculture and wild edible and medicinal plant classes locally and internationally. She is the author of two books, one a raw food cook book's 'Recipes for Living Deep' and The Wild Wisdom of Seeds (linked below). The Mission Statement of Turtle Lake Refuge says that it exists to celebrate the connection between personal health and wild lands.  We are inspired to promote and practice sustainable ways of living, honouring wild nature and the evolution of community. Examples of our work include growing, harvesting and preparing local, wild and living food for the community, educating about the great values of the wild edible and medicinal abundance available in our area, providing local micro greens for the public schools, restaurants and stores and educating about organic land stewardship practices through our project Bee Happy Lands. Links: Turtle Lake Refuge: http://www.turtlelakerefuge.orgRecipes for Living Deep: http://www.turtlelakerefuge.org/rawfoodcookbookThe Wild Wisdom of Weeds: http://www.turtlelakerefuge.org/wild-wisdom

Please donate to The National Bail Fund Network! On this Horticulturati, Colleen teaches us the best way to build a compost pile; Leah forages far and wide and lives to tell the tale.  Visit our website for images from this ep.   Mentioned:  The City of Austin’s Home Composting Rebate Program; Mantis Compostumbler; Soil, a novel by Jamie Kornegay; The Telluride Mushroom Festival; The WIld Wisdom of Weeds by Katrina Blair; Turtle Lake Refuge in Durango CO; Stalking the Wild Asparagus by Euell Gibbons

Please donate to The National Bail Fund Network! On this Horticulturati, Colleen teaches us the best way to build a compost pile. Leah forages far and wide and lives to tell the tale.  Visit our website for images from this episode.   Mentioned:  The City of Austin’s Home Composting Rebate Program; Mantis Compostumbler; Soil, a novel by Jamie Kornegay; The Telluride Mushroom Festival; The WIld Wisdom of Weeds by Katrina Blair; Turtle Lake Refuge in Durango CO; Stalking the Wild Asparagus by Euell Gibbons

Nature is inherently abundant. No one has to spray the forests or plant the wetlands in order for them to thrive in perfect balance. As such, food gathered from the wild has the highest potential to nourish us on a deep level. When we realize that we have access to this bounty without having to intervene and sweat and toil (the original definition of agriculture!)…when we truly know this, then we can begin to release our scarcity mentality, relax our grip, our need to control. This shift is particularly liberating. Katrina Blair began studying wild plants in her teens when she camped out alone for a summer to embrace a wild foods diet.  She later wrote “The Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants of the San Juan Mountains” for her senior project at Colorado College.  She completed a MA at John F Kennedy University in Holistic Health Education.  She founded Turtle Lake Refuge in 1998, a non-profit, whose mission is to celebrate the connection between personal health and wild lands.  Turtle Lake Refuge includes a wild living foods café, sustainable education center and community farm.  Katrina teaches permaculture and wild edible and medicinal classes locally and globally.   She is author of several books including: “Local Wild Life- Turtle Lake Refuge’s Recipes for Living Deep” and “ The Wild Wisdom of Weeds: 13 Essential Plants for Human Survival. In this episode… Early influences and experiences with plants On beginning a conservation-focused nonprofit that manages parks and open spaces organically How plants can teach us from the inside out The life-changing impact of cultivating space — in your day, in your diet, in your mind How wild foods affect your mind, body, and spirit When we realize that we’re part of Nature, and Nature is inherently abundant…something shifts inside us and we can release our scarcity story Resources Turtle Lake Refuge The Wild Wisdom of Weeds: 13 Essential Plants for Human Survival by Katrina Blair The Essene Gospel of Peace The Hippocrates Diet and Health Program by Ann Wigmore

Wild Weed Wisdom: Gather and GiveGuest: Katrina Blair, Founder of Turtle Lake Refuge and Author of The Wild Wisdom of the Weeds This episode of the Story Walking Radio Hour will explore an innovative approach to food security – the foraging of wild weeds. Wild plants are an abundant and unrealized source of nutrition and sustenance. Various roots, shoots, leaves, flowers and seeds can be prepared in a number of ways. They are flavorful and rich in protein, vitamins, minerals and an untold number of beneficial phytonutrients. They can nourish our bodies and our soils. When we start to dig deeper into this topic, we discover the amazing science and bioregulatory ability of wild weeds. This episode will begin with a story walk among wild plants. Then our guest, Katrina Blair will lead us further into the wild and wonderful world of weeds. Katrina Blair is the founder of Turtle Lake Refuge, a nonprofit organization in Durango, CO, that celebrates the connections between personal health and wild lands. Katrina earned her undergraduate degree in Biology from Colorado College and her masters in holistic health education from John F. Kennedy University in Orinda, CA. She is the author of several books including The Wild Wisdom of the Weeds, a forager's guide to food security, which is an entertaining and educational read that blends storytelling with loads of practical knowledge and new recipes for food, medicine and self care.INFORMATION RESOURCESStory Walking Photo Blog and Wild Weed Learning Resources - https://netwalkri.com/blog/f/ecodetectives-in-the-weedsTurtle Lake Refuge Website - http://www.turtlelakerefuge.orgThe Wild Wisdom of the Weeds - https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/the-wild-wisdom-of-weedsLearn more at www.storywalking.com , or https://netwalkri.com email wendy@netwalkri.com or call 401 529-6830. Connect with Wendy to order copies of Fiddlesticks, The Angel Heart or Storywalker Wild Plant Magic Cards.Subscribe to Wendy’s blog Writing with Wendy at www.wendyfachon.blog. Join Wendy on facebook at www.facebook.com/groups/StoryWalkingRadio

Katrina Blair grew up in Durango and became enamored with wild plants and wild places. She moved away for college, but returned to fall in love with the land and its people. She took up residence in a tepee to live close with the Earth. David Siegrist lives in a 750-square-foot yurt near Turtle Lake. He has had an interest in alternative living styles since he was a child, and he says that living in a yurt has allowed him to connect with his surroundings and the weather in a unique way. Shana Little was born and raised on a cattle farm in rural Texas but has moved a number of times, always wanting to live in small confines. For Little, tiny living represents three things: a love of small spaces, great interior design and being debt-free. She has been able to design the home of her dreams – a tiny home built by Rocky Mountain Tiny House.

Episode #33: Wild Tending series / Nikki Hill and Gabe Crawford on re-thinking the concept of invasive plants     Episode #33 of the podcast features another conversation with Nikki Hill and Gabe Crawford recorded on the hillside at Small Potatoes Farm in Paonia, Colorado. Listen to episode #31 with Nikki and Gabe on the basics of wild-tending, here.       Gabe Crawford was raised on a small homestead outside of Durango, Colorado and started learning about plants from an early age. He got launched on his plant journey by studying with Katrina Blair at the Turtle Lake Refuge in Durango. He moved to Sandpoint, Idaho where he worked with Twin Eagles Wilderness School and Kaniksu Land Trust mentoring kids. Through this, he started naturalist training which opened him up to the world of wild tending, Traditional Ecological Knowledge and the ancient and intricate relationships between humans and ecology. Gabe spent time with Finisia Medrano learning about the ancient wild gardens of the west that were and still are tended by indigenous peoples and was taught how to tend these first foods and plant back for future abundance. He collects the seeds of native foods plants, fruit trees, berries and other exotics to plant feral orchards and wild gardens.     Nikki Hill can be found chasing wildflowers throughout the western US. She is not sure when her adoration of plants began, but they share a kindred spirit. Nikki earned a bachelors degree in environmental science and botany which led her to the field of habitat restoration nearly 16 years ago. Disillusioned by methodology that focused on eradication, she struck off on her own. She spent six years growing food and medicine, first as an urban farmer and then as a nomadic rural farmer, and co-founded Daggawalla, a seed and herb company. Since 2014, she has been exploring her feral roots as a wildtender, planting gardens outside agricultural boundaries. Her hope is to foster habitat resilience by sowing a living seed bank for the future, in a spirit of collaboration with the non-human world. Her website can be found at www.walkingroots.net. In this episode with Nikki and Gabe, we talk about: unpacking the common use and colonialist origins of war-making language when talking about 'invasive' and 'native' plants the political influences at play in the current narrative around invasive plants the relationship between migration and climate change the economic commodity associated with the 'war' on 'invasives' or 'illegal aliens' how even 'native' plants are called 'invasive' based on cultural and economic agendas informed by capitalism how the desire to protect sage grouse and sagebrush habitat is being turned against other native plants like pinon juniper forests how native juniper trees are treated as invasive and 'encroaching' because it is thriving during climate change and expanding it's range succession changing when the conditions change – a place for invasives scapegoating invasives instead of facing the massive fragmentation and devestation we've caused the environment in the past few hundred years the influence of bias on ecological and restoration research how and why people and other animals, birds move plant species including invasive species around considering deep time when thinking about what is 'native' or 'natural' or what the land is supposed to look like moving forward in time how awesome Russian Olive is! using 'invasive' plants as medicine how 'invasive' plants often mend and remediate damaged soil, water, air some ways to integrate Traditional Ecological Knowledge into invasive species interaction   Links: ‘Tending the Wild' by Kat Anderson Tending the Wild Broadcast special on YouTube Finisia Medrano on Youtube Gabe's instagram @plumsforbums Gabe's facebook page, where he occasionally share wild-tending info Nikki's facebook page, where she occasionally shares wild-tending info Nikki's website: http://www.walkingroots.net/ ‘The Failures of Farming & the Necessity of Wildtending' by Kollibri terre Sonnenblume ‘The Troubles of ‘Invasive' Plants' by Nikki Hill & Kollibri terre Sonnenblume, free zine download, or buy a hard copy in the store on Kollibri's website Support Gabe via Paypal for his wild-tending efforts: paypal.me/johnnyslug Support Nikki via Paypal for her wild-tending efforts: paypal.me/nikkiphill ‘Invasive Plant Medicine' by Timothy Lee Scott ‘Healing Lyme' by Steven Buhner A few plants mentioned in the podcast, and links for further study: Russian/Persian Olive Japanese Knotweed Salt Cedar/ Tamarix Kudzu/Kuzu   Support the podcast on Patreon to contribute to our grassroots self-funding of this project.  Support the Ground Shots Project with a one time donation: paypal.me/petitfawn    Our website with backlog of episodes, plant profiles, travelogue and more: http://www.ofsedgeandsalt.com  Our Instagram page @goldenberries Join the Ground Shots Podcast Facebook Group to discuss the episodes Subscribe to our newsletter for updates on the Ground Shots Project Theme music: 'Sweat and Splinters' by Mother Marrow Interstitial Music: ‘Nijidema' by Joe Hedges Learn more about the story behind Joe Hedges' piece ‘Nijidema,' which is one out of five pieces in a work influenced by Joe's time in a small village in China: https://joehedges.bandcamp.com/album/nijidema Extra banjo tunes by Gabe Crawford Produced by: Opia Creative

Episode #31 of the Ground Shots Podcast is a conversation with Nikki Hill and Gabe Crawford, recorded on a sunny day in Paonia, Colorado on the wild edges of Small Potatoes Farm this past November.   Gabe Crawford was raised on a small homestead outside of Durango, Colorado and started learning about plants from an early age. He got launched on his plant journey by studying with Katrina Blair at the Turtle Lake Refuge in Durango. He moved to Sandpoint, Idaho where he worked with Twin Eagles Wilderness School and Kaniksu Land Trust mentoring kids. Through this, he started naturalist training which opened him up to the world of wild tending, Traditional Ecological Knowledge and the ancient and intricate relationships between humans and ecology. Gabe spent time with Finisia Medrano learning about the ancient wild gardens of the west that were and still are tended by indigenous peoples and was taught how to tend these first foods and plant back for future abundance. He collects the seeds of native foods plants, fruit trees, berries and other exotics to plant feral orchards and wild gardens.   Nikki Hill can be found chasing wildflowers throughout the western US. She is not sure when her adoration of plants began, but they share a kindred spirit. Nikki earned a bachelors degree in environmental science and botany which led her to the field of habitat restoration nearly 16 years ago. Disillusioned by methodology that focused on eradication, she struck off on her own. She spent six years growing food and medicine, first as an urban farmer and then as a nomadic rural farmer, and co-founded Daggawalla, a seed and herb company. Since 2014, she has been exploring her feral roots as a wildtender, planting gardens outside agricultural boundaries. Her hope is to foster habitat resilience by sowing a living seed bank for the future, in a spirit of collaboration with the non-human world. Her website can be found at www.walkingroots.net.   In this conversation with Nikki and Gabe, we talk about:   exploring the concepts of 'wild' and 'wild-tending' what it means to participate in a cultured landscape seeing the fabric of the landscape as a mosaic of gardens how wild-tending practices can challenge and/or reinforce certain accepted mainstream narratives around sustainable wild-crafting re-looking at what 'wild-crafting' even means in the context of prioritizing planting back the connection between mental health and wild-tending a brief introduction to some specific wild-tending techniques like seed collection and replanting, root division, burying branches and more. 'poop' talk – the importance of poop in wild-tending and planting back how anyone can wild-tend anywhere       Links: ‘Tending the Wild' by Kat Anderson Tending the Wild Broadcast special on YouTube Finisia Medrano on Youtube Gabe's instagram @plumsforbums Gabe's facebook page, where he occasionally share wild-tending info Nikki's facebook page, where she occasionally shares wild-tending info Nikki's website: http://www.walkingroots.net/ ‘The Failures of Farming & the Necessity of Wildtending' by Kollibri terre Sonnenblume ‘The Troubles of ‘Invasive' Plants' by Nikki Hill & Kollibri terre Sonnenblume, free zine download, or buy a hard copy in the store on Kollobri's website Support Gabe via Paypal for his wild-tending efforts: paypal.me/johnnyslug Support Nikki via Paypal for her wild-tending efforts: paypal.me/nikkiphill     Support the podcast on Patreon to contribute to our grassroots self-funding of this project.  Support the Ground Shots Project with a one time donation: paypal.me/petitfawn    Our website with backlog of episodes, plant profiles, travelogue and more: http://www.ofsedgeandsalt.com    Our Instagram page @goldenberries Join the Ground Shots Podcast Facebook Group to discuss the episodes Subscribe to our newsletter for updates on the Ground Shots Project Theme music: 'Sweat and Splinters' by Mother Marrow Interstitial Music: ‘Furnace Creek' by Marisa Anderson Extra banjo tunes by Gabe Crawford Produced by: Opia Creative  

Katrina decides to hike from Durango to Silverton, Colorado by following the waterways and eating wild foods along the way.

Katrina remembers a snow cave adventure with her father and his passion for a quartzite tombstone. Told at the Raven Narratives "cold feet" story SLAM on January 13th, 2018, at the Durango Arts Center.

Episode 24: Thistles! To many of us, they are those annoying, prickly plants that "bite." Classified as a noxious weed in many areas, thistles are the topic of this podcast with Thistle admirer Katrina Blair, author of the book The Wild Wisdom of Weeds, 13 Essential Plants for Human Survival.  What does Katrina do for Thistle weed control? She eats them!   In this episode Katrina Blair talks about the many uses of this weedy plant. Thistles regenerate liver cells, are full of minerals, and their leaves make an alkaline drink.  You can make flour out of thistle seeds, chew the flowers and white fluff as a gum, and use large amounts of fermented thistles as a substrate for growing oyster mushrooms. Other edible parts of Thistles include the root which Katrina makes into a Chai Tea or eats like a potato and the stalk which is sweeter than celery. Katrina's favorite Thistle variety is the Musk Thistle: Carduus nutans.   To learn more about Katrina's work, visit her website: Turtle Lake Refuge.org. To hear a longer interview with forager, chef, writer, and plant lover Katrina Blair on Sustainable World Radio, click here. 

Episode 23: Katrina Blair, author of the Wild Wisdom of Weeds, shares the many medicinal, culinary, and cosmetic uses of Mallow. We focus on Malva neglecta, a common weed found around the world. In many places, Malva is known as an invasive species, so why not utilize this ubiquitous plant?  In this episode, Katrina gives her recipes for a sweet Mallow Milk and a "living" body lotion. She also talks about the medicinal uses of Malva (it's great for sore throats and laryngitis) and how to prepare it like a vegetable.  This was recorded at the Heirloom Expo. Sorry folks for any background noise!  Katrina Blair is a forager, chef, writer, and plant lover who runs the nonprofit Turtle Lake Refuge whose mission is to celebrate the connection between personal health and wild lands. If you'd like to learn more about Katrina's work and get her recipe for Wild Marshmallows, check out her book on our Links Page. To hear a longer interview with Katrina Blair on Sustainable World Radio, click here. 

Today on The Urban Farm Podcast we have Katrina Blair of Turtle Lake Refuge to talk about her experience with edible weeds.  Katrina Blair began studying wild plants in her teens when she camped out alone for a summer to focus on eating wild foods.  She later wrote “The Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants of the San Juan Mountains” for her senior project at Colorado College.  In 1997 she completed an MA at John F Kennedy University in Orinda, California in Holistic Health Education.    She founded Turtle Lake Refuge in 1998, a non-profit, whose mission is to celebrate the connection between personal health and wild lands. Turtle Lake Refuge is a wild harvested, locally grown and living foods café and sustainable education center for the community.  Katrina teaches sustainable living practices and wild edible and medicinal classes.  She has authored two books: Local Wild Life - Turtle Lake Refuge's Recipes for Living Deep and The Wild Wisdom of Weeds: 13 Essential Plants for Human Survival, which was published by Chelsea Green 2014.

This week, Lost Arts Radio welcomes a longtime world leader in the effort to educate the public to the dangers of GMO food and genetically engineered organisms in agriculture, so that informed consumers can turn the tide and remove GMO's from the food supply by voting with our dollars. Jeffrey Smith is the author of "Seeds of Deception and Genetic Roulette", and is the founder of Institute for Responsible Technology (www.responsibletechnology.org). He also has a new movie coming out, "Secret Ingredients", and support is needed to finish production. Please go to www.secretingredientsmovie.com, to see how you can help hasten its urgently needed public release. Jeffrey is here to explain to us how the battle for GMO free and pesticide free food is being won by the rise in consumer awareness and the change in buying patterns, even as the biotech companies with a complicit and cooperative Congress do their best to promote GMO's and protect them from the constituents they are supposed to serve. Next we move from our hopeful news in the GMO fight, to insights into the beauty and health benefits of wild foods and a lifestyle in harmony with nature, from one of the great proponents of natural living who demonstrates what she teaches in her own life. Katrina Blair, founder of the Turtle Lake Refuge (www.turtlelakerefuge.org), takes us on an imaginary journey to meet the thirteen common wild plants that can be found throughout most of the world, and refers us to their pictures and more details on her website. Turtle Lake Refuge has inspired local government in the area to forsake some of their chemical methods of park management in favor of the organic methods Katrina and the devoted Turtle Lake Refuge personnel have been able to demonstrate for them.

In this episode, we talk about the weeds that surround us with forager, chef, writer, and plant lover Katrina Blair. Author of the book The Wild Wisdom of Weeds, 13 Essential Plants for Human Survival Katrina talks about the wild integrity of weeds, their medicinal and nutritional value, and how to harvest and prepare them. Katrina shares recipes for their cosmetic and culinary use. Some of the plants that we cover include Mallow, Dandelion, Mustard, Clover, Purslane, and Thistle.  Katrina Blair also runs the nonprofit Turtle Lake Refuge whose mission is to celebrate the connection between personal health and wild lands.   

Katrina Blair & The Wild Wisdom of Weeds : This week on Sharp & Hot, Emily Peterson is joined by Katrina Blair author of .The Wild Wisdom of Weeds, the only book on foraging and edible weeds to focus on the thirteen weeds found all over the world, each of which represents a complete food source and extensive medical pharmacy and first-aid kit. More than just a field guide to wild edibles, it is a global plan for human survival. This program was brought to you by Whole Foods Market.

Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast Like this podcast? Support it on Patreon. My guest for this episode is Katrina Blair, author of the wonderful book The Wild Wisdom of Weeds recently released by Chelsea Green. Katrina lives in Durango, Colarado at Turtle Lake Refuge, home to the Turtle Lake Community Farm and Wild Food CSA, and Local Wild Life Cafe. In this interview we discuss her book and the thirteen plants for human survival and her criteria for selecting these specific plants. We also talk about food and the inclusion of wild plants for human health and nutrition, and plants as medicine. Katrina also shares with us how she uses community celebration and festivals as a way to promote positive change, rather than having to fight directly about an issue. She also answers listener questions on which plant has the most potential to feed the world, what is the fourteenth plant she would include on her list, and what to do with bindweed also known as wild morning glory. If you are interested in wild foods this is a great interview and book to start with. Katrina's inclusion of recipes throughout the book make eating any of these thirteen plants easier. No digging through internet forums wondering how to prepare dandelion root, or what to pair with your chickweed. All of that is included here. Once you have begun exploring these foods then I recommend you listen to Sam Thayer and Arthur Haines (Part 1) (Part 2) to learn more about foraging and harvesting wild plants to include more in your diet. You can meet Katrina, in addition to the annual Dandelion Festival, at the Northeast Organic Farming Association Winter Conference on January 31st. Then she'll be at the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture Farming for the Future conference. That event is from February 3 - 7, 2015. You can find out more about the book by reading the New York Times review. If you are interested in the 5 DVD set mentioned by Markus Rothkranz it is Free Food and Medicine. Read Katrina's work and investigate the world around you to learn about the plants we call weeds. The ones that grow in disturbed soil but have potential to heal earth and our bodies. As we eat better and feel better and reconnect with a sense of place we can move from destruction to sustainable, to regenerative practices. A first step could be a forkful of wild, wonderful weeds. Wherever you are on your path I am here to assist you in whatever way I can. Get in touch. Email: The Permaculture Podcast Write: The Permaculture Podcast The Permaculture Podcast I would like to end by thanking everyone who helps to keep this podcast running, as I depend on your generous gifts to pay for web hosting, software, equipment, and to provide a small income from the work that goes into this show. You make all of this possible. If you are in a place to assist the show please do so by going to www.thepermaculturepodcast.com/support and making a one-time or recurring donation.

Edible weeds are a free resource ready for the picking and the pickling. Branden is joined by Katrina Blair, the author of The Wild Wisdom of Weeds, to inspire you to incorporate weeds into your diet and home fermentation. Show notes: [The Wild Wisdom of Weeds: 13 Essential Plants for Human Survival by Katrina Blair Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1603585168/fermup-20) Get your copy of the book on Amazon or your local bookstore. Turtle Lake Refuge - Durango, Colorado Visit Turtle Lake Refuge’s website to learn more about Katrina’s local work in Durango, CO. This is also where you will find her upcoming events. Turtle Lake Refuge on Facebook Be sure to like the Turtle Lake Refuge on Facebook as well! Rate us on iTunes. Thanks for your support! Send your feedback to podcast@fermup.com or connect with us on Twitter, Facebook or Google+.