Podcast appearances and mentions of sam thayer

We talk to Wisconsin forager Sam Thayer about food you don't have to grow. And then in the second hour PJ Liesch is in to talk about garden insects.

It's 2024 and we're back! Marie Viljoen is our first guest on season four of the podcast. Join us as we discuss some of the underutilized edibles featured in Marie's book Forage, Harvest, Feast: A Wild-Inspired Cuisine. Marie Recommends: https://integrationacres.com/ to find spicebush listed as "Appalachian Allspice" Sam Thayer's Field Guide to Wild Edible Plants as a fantastic resource for foraging information. Marie's Links: Forage, Harvest, Feast + 66 Square Feet (Books) https://www.instagram.com/marie_viljoen/ 66 Square Feet (Blog) Relevant literature regarding urban foraging and pollutants, particulates, etc: Food safety considerations of urban agroforestry systems grown in contaminated environments Particulate Matter Accumulation on Apples and Plums: Roads Do Not Represent the Greatest Threat

On this episode of Publicly Challenged we get a chance to talk with Sam Thayer from The Foragers Harvest. Widely regarded as one of the most knowledgeable foragers in the country we had him on to talk about another passion of his: Hunting. Not widely regarded as a hunter but listen in as he schools you in all manner of critter catching. An episode not to miss! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One of the things I love most about this podcast is getting to have conversations with amazing people who love to dive deeply into their chosen field of study.  Some of these individuals do work that greatly improves the entire field of study, like Dr. Kersey Lawrence with Tracking, or Mark Elbroch and Sam Thayer with Field Guides.  These contributions have far reaching consequences that help us all to grow and learn and 'do better'. In this interview, Sam Coffman shares his journey with plants & gardening in childhood with his parents and native peoples, to becoming a Special Forces Medic, and then deep into Botany and Herbology.  He's woven a life filled with a love of martial arts, awareness, survival skills, wild foods and search & rescue and shared it with students from all different walks of life for decades. As an actively practicing 'herbal medic', he offers us a way to be connected to nature while also holding a commitment to excellence that can have lasting impact for healing and growth for us all. Connect with Sam: Website:   https://www.herbalmedics.clinic/#home Book Link :    https://herbalfirstaidgear.com/product/the-herbal-medic-book/ Instagram:  @HerbalMedicSam Connect with Ricardo: https://www.foresteducator.com/ https://www.theforestboxforkids.com/ https://www.hawkcircle.com/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ricardo-sierra-5980931/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wolverineway/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RicardohawkSierra

Find Aron McNicholas at: www.hartwoodherbals.weebly.com Aron McNicholas is a Functional Medicine Practitioner and Clinical Herbalist. He began his herbalism journey by studying with Constance Ferry of Hobbit Gardens in Fillmore, Indiana. Later, he went on to study with 7Song at the Northeastern School of Botanical Medicine, focusing on clinical herbalism and plant identification. In order to provide a scientific background to natural remedies, Aron completed his Masters in Functional Medicine and Nutrition through the University of Western States. He has enjoyed attending workshops and trainings through Sam Thayer, Morley Robbins, Thomas Easley, and many more.​Today, Aron serves the community by offering wildcrafted herbal medicine through his company Hartwood Herbals and conducts plant walks, monthly classes, and one-on-one consultations.  Follow him on Facebook, or Instagram --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hogsandhens/support

"Being in nature and being more connected to the environment has made me more whole as a person." Hosts Tseganesh and David speak with Dr. Karoline Lange about foraging. About the guest: Karoline Lange is an internist and primary care physician at Allina. Dr. Lange grew up in Germany and completed medical school in Goettingen, Germany. Being a dual citizen, she decided to move to Minneapolis for internal medicine residency at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in 2014 and completed residency in 2017. She enjoys spending time in local parks hiking, mountain biking, and cross country skiing. She loves being in nature with her husband, and she has a particular enthusiasm for getting to know the local flora, fauna and, of course, fungi! More resources on foraging: North American Mycological Association https://namyco.org/ Alan Bergo - Foragerchef https://foragerchef.com/ Alan Bergo‘s Book - https://foragerchef.com/the-forager-chefs-book-of-flora/ Sam Thayer - https://www.foragersharvest.com/ Mushrooms of Upper Midwest handbook - https://namyco.org/mushrooms_of_the_upper_midwest.php Braiding Sweetgrass - book by Robin Wall Kimmerer https://milkweed.org/book/braiding-sweetgrass To see images of Dr. Lange's recent foraging finds, click here. Support for Doctor+ has been provided by the American College of Physicians. Doctor+ is hosted by Dr. David Hilden and Dr. Tseganesh Selameab and is produced by Julie Censullo. For more information, visit doctorpluspodcast.com.

Sam Thayer says you can eat local all year round in Wisconsin, despite our frosty weather. He's best known for writing guide books on edible native plants in Wisconsin, like The Forager's Harvest. He's speaking about local nuts, roots, fruits and more at the Madison Herb Fair at Olbrich Botanical Gardens in Madison this Saturday, November 4th. Molly Stentz sits down with him to learn what's cookin'.

This is episode #40 of The Awaken Indy Podcast. This week, Aron will be doing a solocast on hormone health. Aron has studied herbalism with notables such as 7Song, Constance Ferry, and Jim McDonald. Later he went on to further understand holistic healthcare by completing his Masters in Functional Medicine & Nutrition through the University of Western States. He has enjoyed attending workshops and trainings through Sam Thayer, Morley Robbins, Dr. Jennifer Daniels, and many more. Today, Aron serves the community by offering wildcrafted herbal medicine through his company Hartwood Herbals and conducts plant walks, monthly classes, lab work interpretation, and one-on-one consultations. In this episode, Aron covers:Questioning biology and current lab testing. Pleomorphism.What really causes disease.Male and female hormone physiology.Dutch testing vs. other labs. Dietary, herbal, and supplemental strategies for hormone health. The etheric component of hormones. And much more!If interested in connecting with events at Georgetown Market, please visit https://georgetownmarket.com/awakenindypodcast/ If interested in connecting with Aron and his company Hartwood Herbals, here's how:Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/hartwoodherbals/Email- hartwoodherbals@gmail.comWebsite- https://hartwoodherbals.weebly.com/We also appreciate it if you could like and share today's episode. Also, please subscribe to the show so you can receive updates when episodes come out. If you have any questions or recommendations, email us podcast@georgetownmarket.com. Enjoy!This episode by all means not a replacement for medical advise. Aron is not a doctor. If an emergency does arise, please contact the appropriate medical services. Link: https://georgetownmarket.com/awakenindypodcast/ 

I think most stream anglers are interested in foraging, since we're immersed in nature all day long and although we watch for fish and insects and birds, many of us don't pay attention to the plants. And there are many delicious plants along trout streams you can take home for dinner—most of which will be more nutritionally dense than what you buy in the store—and free. If you have done any foraging at all, you have probably read some of more of Sam Thayer's [40:38] books. In our household his books are the primary source. I was lucky enough to spend some time talking to Sam about why foraging along streams is especially good, and what we can expect to find there.  In the Fly Box this week, we have no phone calls but some great questions via e-mail, including: Why do trout in small streams take flies more readily when the water is high? Where do you recommend I go trout fishing in the East in July when I visit this summer? A great story about a listener getting generous advice from a famous angler along a trout river. A tip for keeping rod sections together using clothespins. What is the best streamer reel, line, and leader for a 7-weight rod? What do you do when there is a very heavy hatch and almost too many natural insects? I am having trouble hooking fish using the hand-over-hand retrieve when striper fishing. What can I do to increase my hooking rate? What are three things a novice dry-fly angler should pay attention to? Do you ever tie up dry/dropper rigs at home prior to going fishing? Will my 8-weight be enough rod for fishing for striped bass from a boat? What are some tips on picking flies for striped bass fishing at night?

Mulberries are a well known and popular wild urban edible that a lot of foragers come to know early in the development of the craft. They are easily identifiable, taste great, and prolific in urban and peri-urban environments which means lots of people can get to know them. Not only are there an abundant of Mulberry trees out there, each fruit producing tree makes buckets of fruit that litter the sidewalks for a month if the birds, squirrels, Raccoons and humans don't get at them first. And while Mulberries don't seem like a political focal point in the world of conservation, I am learning that they can be as well. I got to visit with my friend Matt Soltys (The Urban Orchardist) to discuss Mulberries and their ecology. We sat in a small backyard cabin adjacent to his Mulberry tree to keep out of the rain and got into some big questions : How many species actually grow around the Great Lakes bioregion? Where does hybridization come in clutch in the context of global change and massive anthropogenic disturbance of the landscape? Are conventional conversations around conservation xenophobic and colonial or do they uplift and support decolonial efforts to retain ancestral cultural and land based relations? While we don't have the answers, I think these are important questions to be asking. Additionally, near the end of the podcast we discuss Sam Thayer's new book Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants of Eastern and Central North America⁠ out now from Forager's Harvest. Big thanks to Matt Soltys of The Urban Orchardist for taking the time to be on the show and sharing his research and ideas. To learn more : The Urban OrchardistMatt's InstagramSam Thayer's Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants of Eastern and Central North America

Captain Dumper Dan Welsch reports on Spaceport Sheboygan and says there is great coho action now off Sheboygan on Lake Michigan. (facebook.com/DumperDanCharters) Wild foods expert Sam Thayer talks about his new Guide to Edible Wild Plants of Eastern and Central North America and offers tips on what to harvest in spring. (foragersharvest.com) In the Madison Outdoors Report, Pat Hasburgh, proprietor of D&S Bait, Tackle and Fly Shop, reports good action for bass, walleyes and panfish on the Madison lakes. (dsbait.com)

Join us for our discussion with Linh Aven, regenerative farmer and chef extraordinaire. Linh has a fascinating background in both molecular biology and gastronomy, which she applies to her current practice as a regenerative farmer. Today we learn about her story and how it brought her to forest farming in Nottingham, New Hampshire. In today's episode, we cover a wide variety of topics including the layout and design of Dandelion Forest Farm, what a csa box from the farm looks like, the agroforestry products Linh has been working on, Linh's farm to table dinner series, and much more. You can find Linh on instagram and facebook at @dandelionforestfarm, and us on instagram at @forestgardenpodcast. Linh's links: https://www.dandelionforestfarm.com/ Links to topics discussed in the episode: https://route9cooperative.com/ https://www.regenerativedesigngroup.com/ http://www.twisted-tree.net/ (Akiva Silver) https://www.perfectcircle.farm/ (Buzz Ferver) https://www.eco59.com/ (CT local ecotype project) https://edgewood-nursery.com/ (Aaron Parker, local ecotype seed) https://www.riverhillsharvest.com/ (American Elderberry) https://www.facebook.com/BigRiverFriend/ (Big River Chestnuts, Jono Neiger) https://www.foragersharvest.com/store/p240/HickoryNutOil.html (Sam Thayer, hickory nut oil) https://www.yellowbud.farm/ (Jesse Marksohn + co., hickory nut oil) https://northeastpermaculture.org/ (PAN)

My guest today is Akiva Silver of Twisted Tree Farm in Spencer, New York. He joins me to talk about his life and the experiences that lead to his book Trees of Power from Chelsea Green Publishing. You can find Akiva, his farm, and work at twisted-tree.net and you can find his book, Trees of Power, at chelseagreen.com. Resources Twisted Tree Farm Trees of Power (Chelsea Green) Tom Brown Jr. Tracking School The Graves Tree - Arthur Graves Chestnuts Empire Chestnut Company (Route 9 Cooperative) Related Interview: Foraging with Sam Thayer

Aron McNicholas is a Functional Medicine Practitioner, Clinical Herbalist, and owner of Hartwood Herbals. Aron began his herbalism journey by studying with Indiana's own Constance Ferry of Hobbit Gardens. Later, he went on to study with 7Song at the Northeastern School of Botanical Medicine. More recently, Aron completed his masters degree at The University of Western States in Functional Medicine and Nutrition. Aron has completed several other foraging and clinical programs with notable teachers such as Morley Robbins and Sam Thayer. Aron currently teaches classes at Georgetown Market, conducts local plants walks, wildcrafts herbal medicine, and offers one on one consultations. If you're interested in connecting with Aron, please reach out to hartwoodherbals@gmail.com.What we talked about:5:40- Introduction to Aron10:15- What herbal medicine is13:40- Foraging15:20- Digestive bitters25:10- What to look for when foraging for mushrooms32:50- Aron's top 5 favorite plants for herbal medicine46:40- Wrap-upShow notes:The Plant Revolution RegistrationContact Stacey:staceyheinyliving@gmail.com Theherbanfarmacy.comSchedule a call to work with me: calendly.com/theherbanfarmacyConnect with Stacey:Stacey on InstagramStacey's WebsiteJoin The Herban Farmacy Facebook GroupShop Beautycounter for Black FridayJoin as a Beautycounter advocateSandyBoy Productions Shows:Why is Everyone Yelling?The Illuminate PodcastI'll Have Another with Lindsey HeinThe Ready to Run Podcast

My guest for this episode is Sam Thayer, the expert forager and author. You can find Sam's personal experience working with wild foods in his books, The Forager's Harvest and Nature's Garden. Resources  Sam Thayer The Forager's Harvest Nature's Garden Edible Wild Plants: Wild Foods from Dirt to Plate

Activist and author Nick Vander Puy discusses his new book, Water Protectors: How the H.E.L.P. Campaign Saved the Penokees. (facebook.com/nick.vanderpuy/) Wild foods educator Sam Thayer talks about mentoring his children on a successful deer hunt. (facebook.com) Dan Quesnell, principal of Divine Savior Holy Angels High School in Milwaukee, invites listeners to the 26th annual winter camp in Oconomowoc. In the Madison Outdoors Report, Jim Kusuda reports good bluegill action on the Madison chain but warns the ice on some waters is still not safe. (facebook.com/dsbaitandtackle/)

This episode inspired me so much! Wow. Jordan and Silvan have found some innovative ways to live off the land without actually owning any land! They also go into this seasonal challenge that they do, their staple crops, how and where they grow, and so much more.  Jordan and Silvan are experienced farmers and sustenance gardeners who specialize in small-scale food production in an urban environment. After running a small organic CSA farm in North Carolina for a couple of years, Silvan and Jordan relocated to Pittsburgh and focused on making their home garden and community garden plots a source of abundant food and education. In addition to their popular Instagram and TikTok profiles where they share their journey eating what they grow, forage and hunt, Silvan and Jordan both write freelance gardening articles for the online publication Wild & Whole. They also just finished their comprehensive online gardening and preserving course, The Complete Guide to Growing Your Own Food.  Link to their gardening course & website: https://homegrownhandgathered.retrieve.com/store/#/general/the-complete-guide-to-living-off-your-garden https://homegrownhandgathered.com/   Their handle for both Instagram and TikTok is @homegrownhandgathered.   Books mentioned Farming the Woods by Ken Mudge https://amzn.to/3UZfmUS   The No-Till Farm by Daniel Mays https://amzn.to/3hrpcRR   Incredible Wild Edibles by Sam Thayer https://amzn.to/3FQh7j5   For more info on The Kitchen Garden Society: www.thekitchengardensociety.com This is Bailey's monthly gardening subscription where we get you your best season yet! It's where gardening meets life, saves you time, and keeps you inspired.     

We're back with our regularly scheduled Wednesday episode to talk about acorns! Many of you may already be familiar with the acorn as a food as we go a little bit into how to process it, how we've enjoyed it, and its nutritional qualities but there may still be a few resources you might not have known! Not included in the show, but was intended to be, was some resources on where to find acorn processing detailed step-by-step. The classic gold standard for years has been found in a chapter on acorns in Sam Thayer's book "Nature's Garden". An extra tip from Ellen Zachos @thebackyardforager is to use cold leeching whenever possible because hot leeching will cook the starches in acorns, and we need what starches it has to stay intact until cooking with the final product. Thanks to Brett Westcott for our music and to Laura Feller for our logo and always to you, the listener for supporting us! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/michael-baker62/support

This episode was recorded at the event ‘Planting the Future: Medicinal Plant Conservation in the Driftless Region' hosted by United Plant Savers on August 12, 2017 in Wisconsin.  Thank you to Sam Thayer and Susan Leopold for sharing this! Beyond, sustainable harvest, we look at the long-term future of our landscape, and the special role that plant gatherers have in maintaining its ecology and prosperity. We'll talk about the threats and historical changes to our ecosystems, and discuss strategies to work and grow past them. We can do more than just "reduce our impact"—we can be a positive force to create and maintain vibrant and diverse communities of native plants that are at once productive for us and a paradise for wildlife. Nurturing the land that nurtures us. The Driftless Area will be used as an example for ecological and management concepts that apply everywhere. We'll explore some traditional, mutually beneficial relationships between Native peoples and the plants that support them, and discuss practical techniques for implementing this kind of harmony on our own sacred gathering grounds. BECOME A MEMBER OF UNITED PLANT SAVERS

This episode was recorded at the event ‘Planting the Future: Medicinal Plant Conservation in the Driftless Region' hosted by United Plant Savers on August 12, 2017 in Wisconsin.  Thank you to Sam Thayer and Susan Leopold for sharing this! Beyond, sustainable harvest, we look at the long-term future of our landscape, and the special role that plant gatherers have in maintaining its ecology and prosperity. We'll talk about the threats and historical changes to our ecosystems, and discuss strategies to work and grow past them. We can do more than just "reduce our impact"—we can be a positive force to create and maintain vibrant and diverse communities of native plants that are at once productive for us and a paradise for wildlife. Nurturing the land that nurtures us. The Driftless Area will be used as an example for ecological and management concepts that apply everywhere. We'll explore some traditional, mutually beneficial relationships between Native peoples and the plants that support them, and discuss practical techniques for implementing this kind of harmony on our own sacred gathering grounds. BECOME A MEMBER OF UNITED PLANT SAVERS

This episode was recorded at the event ‘Planting the Future: Medicinal Plant Conservation in the Driftless Region' hosted by United Plant Savers on August 12, 2017 in Wisconsin.  Thank you to Sam Thayer and Susan Leopold for sharing this! Beyond, sustainable harvest, we look at the long-term future of our landscape, and the special role that plant gatherers have in maintaining its ecology and prosperity. We'll talk about the threats and historical changes to our ecosystems, and discuss strategies to work and grow past them. We can do more than just "reduce our impact"—we can be a positive force to create and maintain vibrant and diverse communities of native plants that are at once productive for us and a paradise for wildlife. Nurturing the land that nurtures us. The Driftless Area will be used as an example for ecological and management concepts that apply everywhere. We'll explore some traditional, mutually beneficial relationships between Native peoples and the plants that support them, and discuss practical techniques for implementing this kind of harmony on our own sacred gathering grounds. BECOME A MEMBER OF UNITED PLANT SAVERS

This episode was recorded at the event ‘Planting the Future: Medicinal Plant Conservation in the Driftless Region' hosted by United Plant Savers on August 12, 2017 in Wisconsin.  Thank you to Sam Thayer and Susan Leopold for sharing this! Beyond, sustainable harvest, we look at the long-term future of our landscape, and the special role that plant gatherers have in maintaining its ecology and prosperity. We'll talk about the threats and historical changes to our ecosystems, and discuss strategies to work and grow past them. We can do more than just "reduce our impact"—we can be a positive force to create and maintain vibrant and diverse communities of native plants that are at once productive for us and a paradise for wildlife. Nurturing the land that nurtures us. The Driftless Area will be used as an example for ecological and management concepts that apply everywhere. We'll explore some traditional, mutually beneficial relationships between Native peoples and the plants that support them, and discuss practical techniques for implementing this kind of harmony on our own sacred gathering grounds. BECOME A MEMBER OF UNITED PLANT SAVERS

Our guest today is none other than Sam Thayer. If you're serious about wild foods, you've probably read Sam's incredible books — The Forager's Harvest, Nature's Garden, and Incredible Wild Edibles. They've become the gold standard in plant foraging by setting a new benchmark for what readers should expect from authors on the topic. Sam set the record straight on several plants but also chose to only write about plants with which he had lots of real world experience. These aren't simple, one-paragraph entries saying such-and-such plant is edible, rather, these were in-depth monograph-type chapters that gave foragers tools for finding, identifying, and really eating these species. Up until then, most foraging literature was more about trail nibbling or novelty than it was about making these foods a serious part of your diet. We were recently in Sam's home state of Wisconsin filming with him for an episode of Season 3 of the WildFed TV show, and we got to sit down and talk about our time together, about wild foods and foraging, but also, about another academic interest of his: the shocking origins of anthropology and why something he calls agrocentrism was perhaps the most important underlying belief that allowed for the marginalization of hunter-gatherer peoples by the agents of colonialism. This is essentially the belief that farming is what makes us human, and that foraging peoples — hunter-gatherers — were a primitive form of human or even subhuman. Now, of course, this sounds pretty repugnant today, and biologically untrue, but it was a well-accepted belief amongst the European intellectual elite at the time when anthropology was first becoming a credible field of science. It not only permeated the field but is recorded, as will be shown in a forthcoming book that Sam is working on, in the writings of many of the foundational thinkers of that time. While these ideas seem outmoded today, one doesn't have to look far to see that the shadow of these ideas is still very present in our world, as folks interested in wild foods well know. After all, it's no mystery that the general public thinks of hunting and gathering as something from the past, for the poorest peoples of the world, or something you do in a survival situation. Certainly, it's not a viable way to live anymore. Agrocentrism is an implicit bias, and those that hold it aren't usually aware of it, rather, it's something that they just assume to be true without any conscious thought. But, rethinking what we believe about human food acquisition could be critical to finding truly ecologically-sound, sustainable, and human-healthy food systems in the future. Sam has presented the idea of ecoculture as an alternative approach to agriculture, and there's a great essay about that in his book, Incredible Wild Edibles. We highly recommend reading that if you haven't already. Lastly, we'll just say that Sam is a man of many talents, and this goes beyond mere plant identification, writing, teaching, and philosophizing on the origins of agriculture. It turns out, he also has a knack for song — as anyone who has spent an evening around the campfire with him already knows. It took some convincing, but he performed a great piece for us, rather impromptu, at the end of the interview, so stick around cuz you won't want to miss that! View full show notes, including links to resources from this episode here: https://www.wild-fed.com/podcast/147

How are nettles prepared and eaten traditionally? Which are some tasty wild water plants and what considerations insure safe harvest? How can learning the plant families facilitate developing identification skills and expand culinary possibilities? Alan Bergo explores foraging and the incredible culinary potential of wild plants! Opening tune: Waterplant Waltz by Carmen Porter (https://carmenporter.com (https://carmenporter.com)) Alan Bergo amazing website: https://foragerchef.com/ (https://foragerchef.com/) Alan Bergo's book 'Flora' in Sam Thayer's shop: https://www.foragersharvest.com/store/c2/Books (https://www.foragersharvest.com/store/c2/Books)

In episode 5, a meditation on what happens when we look more closely at the world around us and participate in something humans have been doing since they began walking the Earth: gathering wild food. Author and edible plant expert Sam Thayer discusses how the small miracles you witness while out gathering food reveals the sacredness of the forest and how tending the wild can lead to a spiritually rewarding relationship with nature.

This week's interview is with Brian Hammons, CEO and President of Hammons Black Walnuts — the country's largest commercial producer of finished black walnuts. Black walnuts, of course, are a wild food very different from the English Walnuts most of us are familiar with, and sourced from nut trees native to North America. Each year Hammons buys millions of pounds of Black Walnuts from foragers all over the middle of the country, through an innovative network of buying and hulling stations they set up each harvest season. Brian is passionate about Black Walnuts, just like his father, and his father's father were. He and his company embody the noble, but not so common traits, of hard work and work ethic, good stewardship, family tradition, and transparent business practices. And all of that comes through in the way he talks about what they do at Hammons. We often quote the writer and foraging icon Sam Thayer here on the show. He talks about what he calls “Ecoculture” as a more ancient and sustainable alternative to Agriculture. He's quick to point out that with the right shifts in landscape management, viable wild food sheds are possible on a scale we can't really imagine at present. To us, Hammons represents a company that's been doing precisely that — creating a viable market for a wild food, sustainably, for decades. Not only that, but it's a win-win-win, because as the customer gets a healthy, sustainable wild food, Hammons prospers and so do the foragers who supply them with their raw materials. Supporting companies like theirs moves us towards a new — or perhaps old — way of engaging the landscape for our food needs. It's exciting to us, and it opens up a world of possibilities! Here's to happy foraging! View full show notes, including links to resources from this episode here: https://www.wild-fed.com/podcast/104

Illinois forager/educator Michael Baker (@edible_illinois) is back on the show, this time to teach us about a cool mushroom called Hen of the Woods (A.K.A. Maitake). Join us as Michael shares his love of this fascinating polypore, while Meredith giggles at all his jokes. His enthusiasm is contagious! Keep up to date with his projects and classes at www.edibleillinois.com. Use his favorite mushroom knife, @opinelofficiel on your next foraging quest. Midwest Wild Harvest Festival shoutouts: Sam Thayer and Melissa Price (Facebook) Alan Bergo (@foragerchef) Tim Clemens (@mnforager) Dwight Zietlow (find on FB) Linda Black Elk (@linda.black.elk) Check out the Next Ingredient website at www.nextingredientconsulting.com. Take a peek at the blog while you're there: nextingredientconsulting.com/blog. Maybe you're more of an Instagram person: @nextingredient Thank you for listening! Please feel free to contact us with questions or comments, or if you would like to be a guest on the show. This podcast is meant to be a survey and celebration of natural ingredients. Please remember that health topics mentioned in these episodes are general. This is not to be considered one-on-one consulting with Next Ingredient, and does not replace a partnership with a trusted healthcare practitioner. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/next-ingredient/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/next-ingredient/support

Topics covered include increasing the diversity of our diet with wild foods, how the relative nutrient and chemical density of wild foods naturally signals our body to stop eating when full, and why we should all be eating more greens. This was recorded at our spring Wild Health Summit. We'll be doing it again this fall! Sign up at wildhealthsummit.com.

Most of us think plants you can eat only exist in a garden or grocery store, but did you know that more than half of the plants we see outdoors in daily life are also edible? I did not know that before this episode! I’m here with Sam Thayer, foraging expert, to go deep on …

Most of us think plants you can eat only exist in a garden or grocery store, but did you know that more than half of the plants we see outdoors in daily life are also edible? I did not know that before this episode! I’m here with Sam Thayer, foraging expert, to go deep on …

It's our honor and great pleasure to have Sam Thayer on the show. Sam is probably North America's most well-known and respected voice in foraging today. Anyone who's serious about foraging in the US or Canada likely has, and prizes, his three-book series in their library. Sam is an extremely well-rounded ecologist too — in possession of tremendous place-based knowledge and experience that goes well beyond just hunting and gathering. In our opinion, he's truly one of the great ecological minds of our time. In this interview, we discuss the way our enculturated minds — with what he calls an agrocentric worldview — have prevented us from understanding the original wild foodists, the hunting and gathering peoples of the world. In particular, the way their incredible, functional, and sophisticated ecological management strategies created food abundance on their landscape. So, today we'll be discussing agrocentrism. What it is, where it comes from, and how it keeps us from a truly intimate and sustainable relationship with the natural world. View full show notes, including links to resources from this episode here: https://www.wild-fed.com/podcast/090

Brief Summary of Show:   Travis speaks with Hank Shaw who is a James Beard Award-winning author and chef who focuses all his energies on wild foods: foraging, fishing and hunting.    Travis and Hank discuss a wide array of topics including what causes some meats to taste gamey, strategies or game care, tips for the new hunter, angler and forager and how Covid has affected the landscape of wild food collection.  Hank tells us about his most recent book, with is more of a life project, Hook, Line and Supper.    Pre-order Hook, Line and Supper through Amazon or https://honest-food.net/hank-shaw-books/     Topics discussed in this episode:   Intro [00:00:00 - 00:02:05] Increased attention / interest during COVID [00:02:05 - 00:04:10]  Mushroom picking, hunting squirrels & the bubonic plague [00:04:10 - 00:07:45] Hanks background of foraging, gardening, angling & hunting [00:07:45 - 00:08:18] What brought Hank to write his books in the order that he did [00:08:18 - 00:16:44] Spanish classes & Mexican cooking [00:16:44 - 00:23:58] Peoples fear of food, and sharing spots to mushroom pick or crab, etc. [00:23:58 - 00:32:14] Shane Mahoney & having ‘skin in the game' as a hunter, angler or forager [00:32:14 - 00:39:47] Tips for late onset hunters [00:39:47 - 00:50:37] Small game vs. big game and gamey meat & game care [00:50:37 - 01:08:17] Hanks new book & his social media platforms [01:08:17 - 01:12:56] Outro [01:12:56 - 01:13:47]   Explore these Resources In this episode, we mentioned the following resources which may be beneficial to you:   Silvercore [00:00:10] [00:00:21] [00:00:24] [00:00:31] [00:00:46] [00:01:22] Ultimate Firefighter Tuition Giveaway [00:00:47] Training Division [00:00:49] [00:01:02] Gwar [00:01:33] [00:01:37] [00:22:57] Hank Shaw [00:01:34] [00:15:09] April Vokey [00:28:48] [00:28:51] MeatEater [00:29:02] [00:29:59] Steve Rinella [00:06:09] [00:30:02] [00:53:17] Hook, Line and Supper [00:08:33] [00:43:38] Duck, Duck, Goose [00:09:36] [00:10:35] Buck, Buck, Moose [00:09:42] [01:09:00] Pheasant, Quail, Cottontail [00:09:45] Honest Food [00:15:11] [01:11:40] [01:11:40] James Beard [00:15:55] Rio Grande Turkey [00:17:12] Eastern Wild Turkey [00:17:22] Nixtaco [00:21:35] Control Machete [00:23:00] [00:23:04] Kinky [00:23:13] [00:23:14] El Gran Silencio [00:23:15] Plastilina Mosh [00:23:20] [00:23:22] Point Reyes National Seashore [00:31:27] Shane Mahoney [00:32:17] [00:34:16] [00:34:33] [00:41:28] Cod Sounds [00:32:36] Conservation Visions [00:33:24]  The Wild Harvest Initiative [00:33:26] D'Artagnan [00:41:38] Sam Thayer [00:45:51] René Redzepi [01:04:46] Magnus Nilsson [01:04:50]   Hunt, Gather, Cook (book) [01:11:52] HuntGatherCook.com [01:12:04] Hunt Gather Cook (Facebook Page)   Follow us: Podcast YouTube Newsletter Instagram Facebook Follow our Host Instagram: @ Bader.Trav   Learn More about Silvercore Silvercore Club Online Training  Other Training & Services  Merchandise CORE Training Management Resources (TMR)  Blog Page

Hunting and gathering is in our DNA. Very few of us in America subsist on doing either one these days. Major disruptions raise the profile of both activities. COVID 19 has not only reduced income for tens of millions of Americans it has also led to shortages of staple foods. An increase in the number headlines and of books published on growing your own food and foraging suggests that some of us want to take food self-reliance to the individual level.  I explored the idea of growing of your own food last year in a dedicated Talk to Me About Food episode. In that story I looked at examples of a food forest, or forest garden, where humans plan out, plant and harvest from perennial food sources like fruits, nuts, edible greens, and mushrooms. I was also intrigued by the idea of foraging in the wild; of harvesting what life produces on its own and leaves us for the taking, season after season, year after year.I recently reached out to two expert foragers who forage very different ecosystems. Twila Cassadore lives in Arizona. Sam Thayer is in Wisconsin. They share with me how they got into foraging, what they get out of it – which goes beyond better taste, higher nutritive density, and cost -- and how many of us can also benefit from harvesting what nature sows.

Sam Thayer was born in Wausau, Wisconsin, where he first learned to gather wild food in vacant lots, backyards, city parks, and at the edge of town. Later, his family moved to rural southern Wisconsin, and then to Madison. Sam's first presentation on edible wild plants was to his seventh grade science class, demonstrating the foods that he collected regularly on his three-mile walk to school. He began "survival camping" at fourteen and led his first wild food walks when he was 19. After graduating from high school, he moved near the south shore of Lake Superior and built a rustic log cabin on an abandoned farmstead, chasing his childhood dream of "living off the land" while working part-time at a variety of jobs.Since 2000, when he won the Hazel Wood National Wild Foods Cooking Contest, Sam has been teaching regularly on edible wild plants, giving workshops across the United States. In 2002 he was inducted into the National Wild Foods Hall of Fame at North Bend State Park in West Virginia. His first book, The Forager's Harvest, has won a Midwest Book Award, IPPY Book Award, and was a finalist for the USA Book News Best Books 2007 award. It has been a steady Amazon category best-seller and has sold more than 100,000 copies. His second book, Nature's Garden, has received similar acclaim and sold over 75,000 copies. Incredible Wild Edibles was released November 1, 2017.He currently lives in the woods of northwestern Wisconsin with his wife, Melissa, their daughters, Myrica and Rebekah and son, Joshua. Along with speaking and writing, he is also a maple syrup producer, wild rice harvester, owns a small organic orchard, and has been revitalizing a lost tradition of making hickory nut oil.Besides wild food foraging, Sam is an all-around naturalist with particular interest in reptiles, amphibians, bird watching, botany, and mammals. His passion for wild food extends to studying the origin of cultivated plants and the socio-economic history of the human diet.Connect with Sam:WebsiteBooksShopConnect with Jacob:InstagramFacebookWebsiteSupport AAA:ListenRate / Subscribe / ReviewWatch / Subscribe on YouTubeDonate PayPal / VenmoShop through our Amazon PortalSubscribe on PatreonMusic by Jacob Gossel / DPLV

This episode was recorded at the event ‘Planting the Future: Medicinal Plant Conservation in the Driftless Region’ hosted by United Plant Savers on August 12, 2017 in Wisconsin.  Beyond, sustainable harvest, we look at the long-term future of our landscape, and the special role that plant gatherers have in maintaining its ecology and prosperity. We'll talk about the threats and historical changes to our ecosystems, and discuss strategies to work and grow past them. We can do more than just "reduce our impact"—we can be a positive force to create and maintain vibrant and diverse communities of native plants that are at once productive for us and a paradise for wildlife. Nurturing the land that nurtures us. The Driftless Area will be used as an example for ecological and management concepts that apply everywhere. We'll explore some traditional, mutually beneficial relationships between Native peoples and the plants that support them, and discuss practical techniques for implementing this kind of harmony on our own sacred gathering grounds. BECOME A MEMBER OF UNITED PLANT SAVERS Join our community! Subscribe to the Mountain Rose Herbs newsletter Subscribe to Mountain Rose Herbs on YouTube Follow on Instagram Like on Facebook Follow on Pinterest Follow on Twitter Read the Mountain Rose Herbs blog Follow on TikTok Strengthening the bonds between people and plants for a healthier world. Mountain Rose Herbs www.mountainroseherbs.com

This episode was recorded at the event 'Planting the Future: Medicinal Plant Conservation in the Driftless Region' hosted by United Plant Savers on August 12, 2017 in Wisconsin.  Thank you to Sam Thayer and Susan Leopold for sharing this! Beyond, sustainable harvest, we look at the long-term future of our landscape, and the special role that plant gatherers have in maintaining its ecology and prosperity. We'll talk about the threats and historical changes to our ecosystems, and discuss strategies to work and grow past them. We can do more than just "reduce our impact"—we can be a positive force to create and maintain vibrant and diverse communities of native plants that are at once productive for us and a paradise for wildlife. Nurturing the land that nurtures us. The Driftless Area will be used as an example for ecological and management concepts that apply everywhere. We'll explore some traditional, mutually beneficial relationships between Native peoples and the plants that support them, and discuss practical techniques for implementing this kind of harmony on our own sacred gathering grounds. BECOME A MEMBER OF UNITED PLANT SAVERS Thanks for listening! HerbRally www.herbrally.com Breitenbush Herb Conference www.herbalconference.net

In the Hupy and Abraham Outdoor Report, wild foods expert Sam Thayer talks about gathering spring greens for nutritious meals. (foragersharvest.com, hupy.com) Dave Janiszewski, creator of the RipALip University smartphone app, explains how this app can help anglers and boaters fine-tune their marine electronics while on the water. (ripalipuniversity.com) Great Wisconsin Birdathon coordinator Sarah Cameron invites listeners to participate in this fundraising event that supports programs funded by the Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin. (www.wisconservation.org, wibirdathon.com) In the Madison Outdoors Report, McFarland guide Ron Barefield says walleye action should be good on opening weekend on the Madison chain and says water levels are good on Lake Wisconsin and the Wisconsin River. Look for updates on boat landing access on the DNR website. (dnr.wi.gov) This week's giveaway is two RipALip University smartphone app pro upgrades. To enter the drawing, call 414-297-7554 or email dsoradio@gmail.com.

In the Hupy and Abraham Outdoor Report, wild foods expert Sam Thayer offers advice for gathering wild edibles to supplement your diet during the health emergency. (www.foragersharvest.com, www.hupy.com) Ben Jones, CEO and president of the Ruffed Grouse and American Woodcock societies, tells listeners how Covid-19 is impacting the work of the societies. (https://ruffedgrousesociety.org/). Pat Ready, president of the Bluebird Restoration Association of Wisconsin, talks about the current status of bluebirds in Wisconsin. (http://www.braw.org/) In the Madison Outdoors Report, McFarland guide Ron Barefield reports on his recent ice fishing trip to South Dakota and open-water fishing opportunities in the Madison area. Send us your comments and ideas. Call 414-297-7554 or email dsoradio@gmail.com.

In this episode Sam Larson speaks with the Lebron James of foraging, Samuel Thayer. Sam Thayer is best known for his 3 books, Forager’s Harvest, Nature’s Garden, and Incredible wild edibles. He has sold hundreds of thousands of books, and they were super inspirational to me. I’m going to put links to those books in the show notes as well. Buy them if you can. You won’t regret it! I don’t “hard recommend” that many things, but if you don’t have Sam’s books, what are you waiting for? These books changed my entire worldview on foraging, and what is truly possible regarding plant foods. Buy two of each, and give the other to a friend! They’re available wherever you buy books most likely. Definitely available at foragersharvest.com and amazon.

Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast My guest today is the adventurer, activist, and humanitarian Rob Greenfield. Rob joins me to talk about the Food Freedom project he launched in Orlando, Florida, where he is growing and foraging for all of his nutritional needs. Make a One Time Donation Become a Patreon Supporter Visit our Affiliate Partners During the conversation Rob shares what brought him to the project, some of his choices along the way, just how strict he is when he says he grows or forages all his food, and the potential to accomplish these goals, of a 100% self-procured local diet, in other climates. Find out more about Rob, his work and other projects, including those mentioned during his introduction, at RobGreenfield.TV.  In this conversation, I mentioned one of my favorite authors for growing our own food, Steve Solomon, and his book Gardening When it Counts. Because of the influence of that book on my views over the years, I'm giving away a copy over at Patreon.com/permaculturepodcast. That giveaway starts on May 8th and runs through May 18th, 2019, so head over there and leave a comment today to enter. As Rob also encourages us to forage, I'm also giving away a copy of Sam Thayer's The Forager's Harvest. Sam remains one of my favorite foraging authors and educators as his books stem from years of practice and refinement on the land and in the landscape. You'll also find that giveaway at Patreon.com/permaculturepodcast starting on May 18th and open for at least 10 days. Two things continue to resonate for me as I worked on editing this interview, and as I put the finishing touches on the show. The first is the project-based approach that Rob takes in these deep immersions, whether for this particular take on food, or when he wore all the trash he created as part of his bike journey, which you can see in the initial picture at his website RobGreenfield.TV. This project focused exploration is something all of us can use as a model to dive into a subject we're interested in, whatever that may be. We can pick one thing and see what we can learn about it, how far we can go, and the lessons we can pick up in a fixed amount of time. Maybe we want to spend the rainy season for our location learning to harvest water. Or to take a growing season to explore a particular plant from seed to harvest in different conditions in our garden. Or to take a year and see how little electricity or fossil fuels we can use. By creating conditions that test ourselves, we can learn more about our wants, needs, and limits, safely and productively that will, hopefully, lead us to better ways to honor the ethics of permaculture when our time with a given experiment comes to an end. The other side that sticks with me is from near the end where we talked about replicating this project in different climates. Given that humans populated the globe long before the prevalence of agriculture and subsisted through hunting, foraging, and, to borrow the language from M. Kat Anderson, tending the wild, why can't we procure all of our food from our local environment? Yes, if this were a full-time endeavor, as Rob is going through, it may mean we spend a lot more time on growing, gathering and preparing food, but what if we use that as an end goal and work our way back to where we are in the moment? To start by buying from our farmer's markets and co-ops while learning what we can about wild and forageable foods. To take the suggestions of Sara Bir and look for the abandoned fruit trees in our neighborhoods, or ask our neighbors if we can harvest from what they have. Each step brings us closer to a local, nutritious diet. If we find we cannot gain much of our food in this way, why not? What are the legal, environmental, or social factors keeping us from doing so? What can we do to change these limitations, personally and within our community? What are your thoughts on seeking 100% of your own food? Can you imagine doing this in your local environment? What skills or resources would you need to obtain to make these choices? Let me know by leaving a comment in the show notes or dropping a letter in the mail. The Permaculture Podcast The Permaculture Podcast From here the next episode is my interview with spoon carver and Christmas Tree coppice farmer, Emmet Van Dreische, about his work and new book Carving out a Living on the land. Resources Rob Greenfield Growing and Foraging 100% of My Food - Day 111 Update (YouTube) National Farmers Market Directory (USA) Trash Me Green Riders Free Ride Orlando Permaculture Meetup Group Shad Qudsi / Atitlan Organics  

Is shopping at the grocery store inevitable in today's world, or is there another way? In November, two families with kids will embark on a year-long adventure to source all of their food from foraging, growing, fishing, hunting, or buying locally (within 50 miles of source). Come along with us as we go to 100%! This Episode's Action Points: Join the Movement! -- Join us in the 100% Project by choosing your own %. We won't officially launch until November, but you can begin now. Sign up for The 100% Project Newsletter for inspiration, wild food ideas, and more! Learn One New Wild Edible a Week -- Choose once a week, once a month, whatever. Then hold yourself to learning and introducing into your diet one new wild edible per period. Eat the Weeds is a great online resource, and if you're in the U.S. Midwest, Sam Thayer's books will teach you tons. Less Trash -- Imagine that any trash you have will be dumped in your front yard instead of hauled away to be dumped somewhere else. Now, whenever you buy something, ask yourself if you want that trash in your yard. If not, consider whether you really need that thing, or if there is a way to buy it (or something similar) without the packaging. Design Your Own 100% Project -- It doesn't have to be food. Maybe it's learning a new skill, like a language, and you try to add 10% each month until you can do a full day with only your second tongue. Or maybe it's learning to do a handstand or a goal to lose a certain amount of weight. Taking the long game by only holding yourself to a certain percent per month means that you'll set the new habits in deeply and have a better chance of making lasting change. These podcasts are 100% supported by people like you! Keep them coming by becoming a patron through Paypal or Patreon at rewildu.com. Love to you!!

Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast My guest today is Akiva Silver of Twisted Tree Farm in Spencer, New York. He joins me to talk about his life and the experiences that lead to his new book Trees of Power from Chelsea Green Publishing. Starting with his beginning as a tracker and forager, we move into his work on getting his farm started, and some of his favorite trees. Among those, we dig in deep about chestnuts and hickories. We also touch on what we mean by the word farm. Creating his families on-farm income on three-quarters of an acre. How foraging and tending the land extends the space we might consider our farm. How we can harvest more food than we can imagine by going to those places and spaces where others might not consider looking for food. Akiva also shares the joy of propagation and the many ways we can do this from cuttings to grafting to layering, and how we can significantly diversify our plant genetics by growing out our selection from seeds. Whether you are growing, planting, or just enjoy trees, there is a lot to learn from this interview. Trees of Power Giveaway You can find Akiva, his farm, and work at twisted-tree.net and you can find his book, Trees of Power, at chelseagreen.com. You'll find links to those and many of the resources Akiva mentioned, such as Empire Chestnut Company, in the Resources section of the show notes. Though Akiva runs a farm that propagates thousands and thousands of trees each year, what stands out for me is the passion that comes through in his voice from his connection to Earth that he developed that through foraging and tracking. His experience shows that we can use these skills as a way to foster and deepen that connection. I feel that doing this is essential because we need to love something to care for it. If we can have that experience at a younger age, it can lead to a lifetime of meaningful action on our part to take responsibility for our choice and the impact on Earth, other people, and our ability to return the surplus. Foraging is one of the best skills for this that we can learn, and also share with others, especially children. Time and time again I see this in my own kids, as my daughter seeks out violets and my son the brambles, to harvest flower and berries from the yard or when we go for a hike. It instilled a curiosity to wonder what this mushroom is, and can they eat it? To borrow my camera to take a picture so we can find out more about that little bush we've never seen before. This started when they were pre-school age and continues now as they prepare for their pre-teen years. Anyone can benefit from learning to forage. As a hobby, it is simple and low-cost that can reap incredible rewards and is worth taking your time to, even if it's only for a few hours on a couple of weekends a year. If you'd like to learn more about foraging, though I know some great foragers locally, the best person working in our broader region of the United States and writing about their experiences is Sam Thayer. As Akiva mentioned, Sam wrote the forward to Trees of Power and has appeared on The Permaculture Podcast in the past. His books are just incredible and take you through many of the different ways you can make use of a wide selection of plants, beyond only the edible parts. Even if you don't live in areas where the particular plants he details grow, his thoughts on foraging ethics and what to consider while walking the land make each book worth much more than the cover price. Sam Thayer is at foragersharvest.com, and you can find a link to our interview below. Donate online to the Winter to Spring Fundraiser Along the way on this or any of your journeys, if I can ever help, please let me know. Email: Write: The Permaculture Podcast The Permaculture Podcast From here the next interview is a conversation with Tim Krahn about the essentials of Rammed Earth construction. Until then, spend each day creating the world you want to live in by foraging, propagating trees, and taking care of Earth, your self, and each other. Resources Twisted Tree Farm Trees of Power (Chelsea Green) Tom Brown Jr. Tracking School The Graves Tree - Arthur Graves Chestnuts Empire Chestnut Company (Route 9 Cooperative) Interview: Foraging with Sam Thayer

There are many aspects to care for the Earth, experiencial & experimental. Sam Thayer of Forager's Harvest in one of the preminent experts in harvesting from the Earth's bounty. He shares here the concluding essay of his new book, 3rd in a series, called Incredibile Wild Edibles: 36 Plants That Can Change Your Life, speaking of Ecoculture instead of Agriculture. Our second guest is Crispin Pierce, Prof of Environmental Public Health at UW-EC, and member of Eau Claire's Sustainability Advisory Committee, speaking of his research & paper on Monitoring of Airborne Particulates Near Industrial Silica Sand Mining & Processing Facilities.

Miles Irving, author of The Forager Handbook and founder of Forager Ltd, introduces the World Wild Podcast and talks to Sam Thayer, world-renowned forager and author of The Forager's Harvest and most recently Incredible Wild Edibles.

Wild food forager Sam Thayer talks with Katy Bowman about how he began foraging out of necessity, but now his body craves the nutrition—and nutritious movement—he only gets from foraging. Plus, he runs us through the physical work involved in making maple syrup and harvesting wild rice. Mileage for those who want to listen on the go: This podcast clocks in at around 75 minutes… so head out for a six-miler and let Katy and Sam keep you company. Sam Thayer: https://www.foragersharvest.com Billy Joe Tatum’s cookbook: https://www.amazon.com/Billy-Tatums-Foods-Field-Cookbook/dp/0911104771 Euell Gibbons: http://wildfoodadventures.com/about/john-kallas/wild-food-adventurer/wfa-by-volumeyear/euell-gibbons/

This episode was recorded at the event "Planting the Future: Medicinal Plant Conservation in the Driftless Region" hosted by United Plant Savers on August 12, 2017 in Wisconsin.  Thank you to Sam Thayer and Susan Leopold for sharing this! Beyond, sustainable harvest, we look at the long-term future of our landscape, and the special role that plant gatherers have in maintaining its ecology and prosperity. We'll talk about the threats and historical changes to our ecosystems, and discuss strategies to work and grow past them. We can do more than just "reduce our impact"—we can be a positive force to create and maintain vibrant and diverse communities of native plants that are at once productive for us and a paradise for wildlife. Nurturing the land that nurtures us. The Driftless Area will be used as an example for ecological and management concepts that apply everywhere. We'll explore some traditional, mutually beneficial relationships between Native peoples and the plants that support them, and discuss practical techniques for implementing this kind of harmony on our own sacred gathering grounds. BECOME A MEMBER OF UNITED PLANT SAVERS

Samuel Thayer — internationally recognized authority on edible wild plants — was one of our very first guests on ReWild Yourself Podcast (way back in Episode #2!), and I’m so honored to have him back on the show for Episode #152 to discuss a fundamental topic for the conscientious forager: Ecoculture. Sam has authored two award-winning books on foraging, Nature’s Garden and The Forager’s Harvest, and he’s soon-to-be-releasing a third volume in his Forager’s Harvest series, Incredible Wild Edibles. He has taught foraging and field identification for more than two decades. Besides lecturing and writing, Sam is an advocate for sustainable food systems who owns a diverse organic orchard in northern Wisconsin and harvests wild rice, acorns, hickory nuts, maple syrup, and other wild products. For Sam, hunting and gathering is not just a passion he pursues on the side, it is life. That may sound unattainable in our modern world, but tune in, and you’ll see that Sam’s approach is practical, comprehensive and well within reach. In today’s show, we delve into "the management of natural ecosystems to enhance their production of useful products," or as Sam calls it, Ecoculture. Think “agriculture” and “permaculture,” but rather than tending to crops, we foragers tend the wild. Nature is productive, resilient and, perhaps most importantly, it includes humans. Rooted in our ancestry, hunting and gathering is how we cultivate relationship with our ecology, gain sovereignty from the agriculturally-dominated food system and protect the biodiversity of our planet for future generations. Tune in as Sam guides us through the principles of Ecoculture, and learn how you can get started stewarding your local landscapes right now. EPISODE BREAKDOWN: Show Introduction: SurThrival re-introduces Yaupon! Hunt + gather updates: Clamming, shadbush, milkweed & blueberries Q&A: Does blueberry raking harm the plant? ReWild Yourself Podcast spotlight: Ask a Mortician - Caitlin Doughty #146 Introducing Sam Thayer How Sam became an authority in the foraging world Integrating wild food into your daily life The divide between foragers and hunters How the foraging demographic has changed over the years Hunting and gathering as life vs a part of life What is Ecoculture? Replacing our agro-centric creation myth Domestication of plants — who’s in control? Nature is productive and resilient Human impact on nature and “leave no trace” principles Can 7 billion people forage? The role of hunter gatherers in protecting biodiversity How to get started in landscape stewardship Sam’s hopes for the legacy of his work Sam’s prognosis for the future of the human species How to work with Sam

Well Hello! We've missed you... Frank and I are back after a bit of a hiatus wherein we chose... to live our lives ;) We've both moved into new homes and we're both facing serious change. Some would say, Adventure. That's how I'm approaching life anyway. Speaking of change - it's Springtime. Things are most definitely changing outside. Trees have leaves, lawns everywhere are facing mowers, and farmer's markets are in full force in my neck of the woods. In this episode, we begin our journey into the relatively unknown by starting with what we do know, in this case, about veggies. I'd wager that most everyone can identify lettuce, broccoli, carrots, and potatoes. Why is that? Well, these are foods that our parents and teachers ate, foods that we can buy in the grocery store and at the farmer's market. They are commonly cultivated in large quantities in a field, or even in small quantities in a backyard. But why is it that when we look outside, all we can identify is grass vs. weeds? OK, maybe we have a few things down, like dandelions and pine trees and daisies... but, the rest of 'nature' is full of weeds? Answer: We weren't born into a society that uses them as food anymore. We are absolutely unfamiliar with the edible 'weeds' around us. Frank and I chat a lot about this in this show. We're both fledgling foragers - beginning to actually incorporate wild foods into our lives. And there are sooo many reasons why. This show is probably a Part 1 show - where we do a little compare and contrast between veggies in the store, and wild foods from nature (nutritionally, economically, ecosystem-ally). We hope to create awareness about the treasure-trove of free, nutrient dense foods that are probably in your yard (that you might be trying to get rid of). This show is begging for a Part 2 where we talk about where to start your foraging adventure. I give a shout out to a show that I did with Sam Thayer on The Roots of Health. And I even butcher the titles of his books, Nature's Garden and Forager's Harvest. Have a listen - send us some feedback or tell us about your favorite wild food. We'd love to try it! Cheers! Meredith & Frank

Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast Enjoy this episode? Become a Patron. My guest today is Lisa Rose, author most recently of Midwest Foraging, which was supposed to be the basis of our conversation and we do touch on that some, but also spend our time telling stories about family traditions; place and the lands we each feel connected to; and how foraging and food can return seasonality to our lives, along with a host of new flavors, once we leave the grocery store behind. There's also a digression in the middle about nocino, an Italian sipping liquer, which you can find a recipe for at Lisa's site, Burdock and Rose, and pick up a copy of her book at Timber Press. When it comes to Midwest Foraging I agree with the quote from Sam Thayer that graces the cover, “A beautiful book that any forager in the Midwest will want to own.” As there is an overlap in plants from this book to where I am in the Mid-Atlantic, it's a good addition to those book shelves as well. The layout and format leads to a book that you can, as Dan De Lion recommended, spend time with to leisurely browse and read to build a familiarity with plants which you can then begin to recognize as you go about your daily walks or journeys into the landscape.The entries, which are arranged alphabetically around a common name, include the latin binomial name, very important for proper discussion and identification, along with which parts are edible, a short introduction, and one to a few color pictures. Common features you'll find in many field guides include descriptive text, how and what to gather, how to eat the plants, and, where necessary, cautions about poisonous plants that have similar identifying features. Where this book stands out from some earlier field guides is the inclusion of information on where and when to gather, very important for knowing the right time of year to look for a particular plant; and notes about future harvests. This latter portion in particular caught my attention because using those entries we can wildcraft ethically to insure plants are available for ongoing use and so we can tend to Zone 4 and the wild places. With 115 plants included, Midwest Foraging covers a lot of ground and is a good first choice for a beginning forager in the region covered. For more experienced folks with a larger library this is a valuable companion to include with your other field guides. Add a copy to your library by ordering from Timber Press or your local retailer, where the book lists for $24.95. If you enjoyed this conversation with Lisa and would like to add your thoughts to the discussion, or your own review of Midwest Foraging, leave a comment below. You can also contact me if you have any questions or if there is a way I can assist you on your permaculture path by emailing The Permaculture Podcast or calling . As this episode comes out a reminder that there is less than a month until the drawing for the Permaculture Design Course at Joshua Peaceseeker's farm Verdenergia in Costa Rica. You still have time to enter, but as this is limited to not more than 50 entries, get yours in today! An update on those show notes for mobile users. Whether you use iTunes, Stitcher, Podcast Addict, or another podcast catcher, thanks to some feedback from listeners you will now see the complete show notes in the episode feed. That includes links to make browsing and connecting easier when you are on the go. Part of that update did required a change to the RSS feed for the podcast, so if you go into your app you will now see it includes the 75 most recent episodes available, or a little over a year of content. If you want to explore deeper into the past shows, you will find the available past episodes on the archives page. If you haven't heard the episode yet, I recently announced more information about the book I'm writing with Ethan Hughes. If you like his work and want to support that creation, more information is available at www.thepermaculturepodcast.com/book. Another book in need of our assistance is from past guest and good friend of the show Adam Brock who is writing his treatise on social permaculture, People and Patterns. That campaign is at: https://igg.me/at/peoplepattern From here for the next interview Peter Michael Bauer returns to discuss human versus conservation rewilding. Until then, eat some wild foods, learn about plants, and spend each day creating the world you want to live in by taking care of Earth, yourself, and each other.

Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast Like this podcast? Support it on Patreon. My guests for this episode are Violet Brill and her father “Wildman” Steve Brill. Violet and Steve are foragers from New York. Violet assists her father on his plant tours, leading groups of people and teaching them about wild edibles. “Wildman” Steve, in addition to his tours and workshops, is the author of multiple books on foraging including Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants in Wild (and Not So Wild) Places, The Wild Vegan Cookbook, and Foraging with Kids. We use beginning foragers, including children, as the focus for this interview. We mostly discuss plants and mushrooms that are easy to identify and do not have any poisonous look-similars. We do include an example, which is wild carrot versus poison hemlock, to show that with care and a firm understanding of a plant you can identify and safely harvest edibles. We must pay attention however to do so. As this is part of the series on foraging and wild foods, once you've listened to this episode I recommend going back through the archives and listening to the other shows including those with Dan De Lion, Sam Thayer, and Arthur Haines. Together they will provide you with a well rounded perspective on how to come to a knowledge of plants in the wild. You can find out more about Violet and Steve at wildmanstevebrill.com. Also, if you have an iOS or Android smartphone, check out Wild Edibles and the Foraging Flashcard series. They are reasonably priced ways to begin learning more about wild plants wherever you are, and Wild Edibles is a go-anywhere field guide. This interview reminds me of the role that a teacher can play in building confidence for a student to explore further. It was a friend of mine who mentioned Steve during a conversation she and I were having about foraging plants to make wild teas, as she had taken a class from him. Going on a foraging trip like this can allow you to taste some of these wild foods in a safe way and begin to have an understanding of the plants, without just grabbing a field guide and just trying to go out to eat. You get that first experience and can then learn and research more before going out solo. So slow down, take a few classes, spend time with your field guides, and then get started on your own. I also like Steve's approach to not forcing Violet to share his diet, but allowing her to explore her options while ensuring that she eats good healthy foods along the way. I see this as also extending to the way we teach our children. Include them in your activities, but also include yourself in theirs and encourage and support them to pursue their own interests, or help them to find mentors and teachers who can. In this conversation Steve also provides solid simple encouragement to gradually begin eating this way. This reinforces slow and small solutions in all that we do, from dietary to landscape changes. Take a few bites of something, see whether you enjoy it or it causes a bit of upset, then decide whether more is right for you. Finally, there was Steve's story of Joe foraging for mushrooms and the importance of asking if we can harvest something. In the more specific sense, by contacting a landowner, but also by observing the plants around us and asking ourselves whether or not this is the right environment to harvest from. If there are only one or two plants, then perhaps we should leave them alone, or if they are rare encourage growth by dispersing seed and coming back in later years to see if there is enough to harvest. From a permaculture perspective one of the reasons I love foraging as an activity comes from my exploration of the environmental education writers such as David Orr or David Sobel. Both of them talk about establishing a sense of place, a connection to where we live. Rather than teaching children, or for that matter adults, about the plights of far off places, let us foster an understanding of our own bioregion and biome. Foraging is an active activity that gets us out into the world looking at what grows there. While trying to identify one plant, by slowly reading and integrating our field guides, we are likely to begin to recognize non-edible plants, as well as rare or interesting medicinals. We begin to know, understand, and then care for this space more fully by returning to nature and the wilder world, and in the process begin to rewild ourselves. From this conversation, next week is Peter Michael Bauer, of Rewild Portland, to discuss rewilding. We touch on that topic as the overarching theme, and also explore the impacts of civilization and how to prepare for the collapse we currently inhabit. It is a rather intense, but enjoyable, interview. If you haven't already you should join in the Traveling Permaculture Library Project by emailing your name and address to Matt Winters, who is the new librarian for the project. You can reach him at: librarian@thepermaculturepodcast.com By doing so you will receive a random book related to permacutlure, the natural world, and environment. All I ask is that once you receive a book and read it, to email Matt back and pass it along. Each book includes a sticker in the front cover with more information to make this process easier. If at any point along the way I can help you, get in touch. or Email: The Permaculture Podcast. I'm also continuing to look for opportunities to take the show on the road and to record more live in-person interviews. Use that phone number or email address to get in touch if you would like to host or have someone in mind to get in touch with. Finally, a few announcements before drawing this episode to a close. This show, as I mention in the introduction to each show, is completely listener supported. So I need your help to keep the show on the air. The best way to do that right now is through recurring contributions with Patreon. Because this show exists in a digital world, I've reworked the rewards and the goals to make them more reasonable and clear, including the goal of raising $2700 a month to make this show a full time endeavor. I'm want to reach that goal by June 1 of this year, and am currently at $68 a month. Please sign up if you are able as all support is now on a monthly rather than per episode basis and you can become a patron of the podcast for as little as $1. That entry level support allows allows you to receive episodes early and without commercials. You won't hear announcements like this in the Patreon episodes, or from sponsors should I take any on. You can find out more about that, as well as where I'm at and what my goals are, at Patreon.com/permaculturepodcast If you are not in a place to give, I completely understand. I'll keep on keeping on as long as I can, and you can always lend a hand by sharing links with your friends. Retweet or reply to tweets on twitter, where I am @permaculturecst, or join in the conversations on facebook. Facebook.com/thepermaculturepodcast. From here I have a class announcement for my friends and colleagues Wilson Alvarez and Ben Weiss. They're running a Permaculture Design Course in Harrisburg Pennsylvania beginning in April 25 and running on weekends through October. I'm also looking to go back through the archives and re-release some more “Best Of….” episodes with new introductions and endings to share some of the more popular guests in new ways. Let me know if there are any particular episodes that stand out to you that you would like to hear as part of that series. That about covers it for now. Until the next time, spend each day creating a better world, the world you want to live in, but taking care of earth, your self, and each other. Resources Wildman Steve Brill Wildman Steve Brill's Books Dan De Lion's Interview Sam Thayer's Interview Arthur Haines' Interview (1) Arthur Haines (2)

Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast Like this podcast? Support it on Patreon. My guest for this episode is Dan De Lion, a forager, teacher, and permaculture practitioner from New Jersey who runs the excellent website ReturnToNature.us. During our conversation today Dan and I discuss the intersection between foraging and gardening, cultivated foods and wild human nutrition, and how we can bring about a slow revolution by trading our time and money for our well-being and that of our community in a way that starves the more destructive elements of our culture of the nutrients it needs. That sounds like a lot to cover, and it is, but the pace is a steady and even one thanks to Dan's measured and thoughtful consideration of each point that we cover. You can find out more about Dan and his work at ReturnToNature.us. Check out his schedule of upcoming classes and if you get a chance, consider taking one. One of the points that stuck with me from this conversation is that we are all still members of the natural world, even as much as we feel separated from it at times. We can use foraging and permaculture to reconnect to natural systems and cycles by shifting our time and energy away from commercial production and consumer anesthetics to nourishing traditions of food and community. Along the way we can foster relationships with plants so that as much as we use them, they use us to scatter seed and disturb soil. As we improve our understanding of the natural world, by building up our mental database of plants, including their uses, we foster knowledge and ethics that allow us to move more intentionally through our actions which encourages ever slower and smaller solutions. As I mentioned during the interview, permaculture and the change necessary to make a lasting difference will take lifetimes and be delivered upon the generations we will never meet, but we must begin today if we haven't already. I'll be reposting Matt Winter's The Gift for release this Saturday, March 7 for folks to listen, as a reminder of the get rich slowly approach we should have when making design choices, including what it is we will put into our bodies as food or medicine. If there is any way I can assist you on your path, please get in touch. Call: Email: The Permaculture Podcast Write: The Permaculture Podcast The Permaculture Podcast Finally, Jen Mendez of Permiekids.com, who I will be interviewing and getting interviewed by in turn in a few weeks, has an upcoming Edge Alliance on Sunday March 29, 2015 from 7 to 8PM Eastern. Join Jen to discuss Rites of Passage for Young Children. Next week I return with an interview with Stephen Barstow, author of Around the World in 80 Plants. Until the next time spend each day building a better world by taking care of earth, your self, and each other. Resources: Dan's Website https://www.returntonature.us Dan's Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/ReturntoNatureSkills Sam Thayer's Books https://foragersharvest.com/books/ Sam Thayer's Interview https://www.thepermaculturepodcast.com/2013/samthayer/ Arthur Haines' Books https://www.arthurhaines.com/books/ Arthur Haines Interviews https://www.thepermaculturepodcast.com/2013/arthur-haines/ https://www.thepermaculturepodcast.com/2014/arthur-haines-2/ Steve Brill's Books https://www.wildmanstevebrill.com/Books.Folder/Books.page.html Leda Meredith's Northeast Foraging https://ledameredith.net/wordpress/northeast-foraging-120-wild-and-flavorful-edibles-from-beach-plums-to-wineberries/ National Audubon Society Field Guide to Edible Mushrooms https://www.amazon.com/National-Audubon-Society-American-Mushrooms/dp/0394519922 Peterson's Guide (Recommended with Reservations) https://www.amazon.com/Field-Guide-Edible-Wild-Plants/dp/039592622X Newcomb's Wildflower Guide https://www.amazon.com/Newcombs-Wildflower-Guide-Lawrence-Newcomb/dp/0316604429

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.

In this episode of ReWild Yourself! podcast, I talk with Samuel Thayer, author of The Forager's Harvest and Nature's Garden. Episode breakdown: * Sam’s beginnings in foraging * How foraging effects your world view * How to get started foraging * How much wild food can you live on realistically * Is foraging sustainable for the future? * Sam’s favorite springtime wild foods

Sam Thayer's 1st book was Forager's Harvest and his new book is Nature's Garden, invaluable info on getting to the heart of nature through our stomachs. Jim Backus has released 4 books this past year with stunning photography and simple, compelling prose, leading us to connect with the Earth and its animals. In December he released 2 Voyage Into Nature collections and New Pack on the Prairie, a children's story based on photographs of a wolf pack in North Dakota.