Podcast appearances and mentions of Thomas J Elpel

Thomas J. Elpel is the director of Green University LLC in Montana. He is the author of nine books, including Botany in a Day and Foraging the Mountain West, plus the Shanleya's Quest I & II books and games that teach plant family patterns to children. He has also written books on wilderness survival, alternative construction, green economics, and consciousness. Thomas and Jiling discuss the patterns method of plant identification, “deer botany,” some of the plant families found in Botany in a Day, Thomas' canoeing adventures, writing process, and more! Visit Thomas Elpel at:

I've known Thomas Elpel for several years, and was really excited to have the chance to talk with him again. Tom sat down with me to discuss how a basic understanding of botany can be helpful for herbalists, but our conversation went way beyond that. While not strictly an herbalist, Tom is definitely a plant person through and through, and his curiosity about the natural world is infectious!Tom has written many books about a variety of subjects. His book Botany in a Day, which can help you learn to recognize and identify plants through their botanical families, was transformative for me when I was first learning to identify plants! Tom has shared a sample page from Botany in a Day about the oleaster plant family with us; you can download your copy here: https://bit.ly/40PkFNr By the end of this episode, you'll know:► How learning to recognize plants by the patterns of their botanical families can be useful to herbalists and other people who work with plants► Why it's so important to actually go out and experience the natural world – the way the deer do!► Why “invasive plants” is a complicated term, and how working to eradicate plants with this label can sometimes do more harm than good► Four ways that plants in the oleaster family can benefit the environment around them► and so much more…For those of you who don't know him, Thomas J. Elpel is the director of Green University in southwest Montana, and is the author of nine books ranging in topics from wilderness survival to consciousness. He is best known for his book Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identification. With his background in wilderness survival skills, Tom applied a self-sufficiency ethic to all aspects of his life, from living in a tent and building his own stone and log home to later launching his own publishing company. Tom has produced two card games that teach plant family patterns and one that teaches wildlife ecology. He is presently writing a book about the ecology of the American West.I can't wait to share our conversation with you today!----Get full show notes and more information at: herbswithrosaleepodcast.comFor more behind-the-scenes of this podcast, follow @rosaleedelaforet on Instagram!The secret to using herbs successfully begins with knowing who YOU are. Get started by taking my free Herbal Jumpstart course when you sign up for my newsletter.If you enjoy the Herbs with Rosalee podcast, we could use your support! Please consider leaving a 5-star rating and review and sharing the show with someone who needs to hear it!On the podcast, we explore the many ways plants heal, as food, as medicine, and through nature connection. Each week, I focus on a single seasonal plant and share trusted herbal knowledge so that you can get the best results when using herbs for your health.Learn more about Herbs with Rosalee at herbswithrosalee.com.----Rosalee is an herbalist and author of the bestselling book Alchemy of Herbs: Transform Everyday Ingredients Into Foods & Remedies That Heal and co-author of the bestselling book...

The Serviceberry (Amelanchier spp.) is a widely distributed edible fruit tree which fills my heart as much as my belly. It's just sweet enough, with berries just big enough, just in reach to make me so happy to come across. Sometimes we happen upon them wandering through the woods, sometimes we go visit our favourite individuals, sometimes we make detailed extensive maps of every tree the city has planted… or maybe I just do that. To eat something builds relationship in a very particular way, which I appreciate, especially when that edible is shared by many species. We really become part of the broader ecosystem when we participate as other animals do, and if we choose to enter into that relationship in a reciprocal way we can begin to tend and propagate the ones we care for. Serviceberries, Juneberry, Shadbush, Saskatoon, whatever we call them, our affinity with them grows as we get to know them more. That's what this episode is all about - learning some of those more meticulous details to compliment our own personal relationships with the plants we hold so dear in our hearts… and bellies. To learn more : Fruit and Seed profile of AmelanchierShrubs of Ontario by James H. Soper and Margaret L. Heimburger. Royal Ontario Museum, 1982.The Book of Forest and Thicket by John Eastman. Stackpole Books, 1992.American Wildlife & Plants : A Guide to Wildlife Food Habits by Alexander Martin, Herbert Zim, and Arnold Nelson. Dover, 1951.Growing Trees from Seed by Henry Kock. Firefly Books, 2016.Botany in a Day by Thomas J. Elpel. HOPS Press, 2006.

Join us for a discussion of identifying plants by family using Thomas J. Elpel's Botany In A Day! We coin a couple words, and attempt to explain how to identify over 45,000 plants! No promises that this is only a day-long project, but we dip our toes in the wonderful world of plant families and basic botany with you today! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Join us this week for another foraging episode! This time, we are covering some common plants that are perfect to harvest right now! Learn to identify these wonderful plants, what they are used for, and recipes on how to use them. *** Disclaimer*** Please consult your physician before using any of these plants internally or for medicinal purposes. Consult an expert to confirm identification of plants before use. This week's shout out goes to the incredible Homeless Garden Project in Santa Cruz, California! Their model is admirable and could benefit any community. Show they some support at Home - Homeless Garden Project. And be sure to check out the video on their new farm at Home - Pogonip Farm - HGP Campaign (homelessgardenproject.org) As always, you can reach us at milkmaidspodcast@gmail.com Join us on the MilkMaids Preservation Challenge! Be sure to tag us in your photos with the hashtag #preservewithmilkmaids Weekly Resources: - "Mountain States Medicinal Plants" by Briana Wiles -"Foraging the Mountain West" by Thomas J. Elpel and Kris Reed -"The Lost Book of Herbal Remedies" by Nicole Apelain PhD and Claude Davis - "Picture This" Plant Identifying App - Alexis Nicole @blackforager --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/milkmaids/message

Thomas J. Elpel is a personal hero of mine - I've learnt so much from his resources, both before I began my formal training and then again during my plant identification unit during Tafe. In this episode, I'm so excited to introduce all of you to the work he's best known for, which is identifying plant families using flower patterns. Make sure you check out his links so that you can experience what I've experienced!EPISODE LINKSStart with the Botany In A Day video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1DePlU15z4Go through his Plant Families Gallery on the Wildflowers & Weeds website: http://www.wildflowers-and-weeds.com/Plant_Families/Plant_Families_Index.htmlBuy the Botany In A Day book, as both Ben and I have long before we recorded this episode, as well as his other books: http://www.hopspress.com/Books/Botany_in_a_Day.htmCheck out the Green University: http://www.greenuniversity.com/ Watch another of Tom's videos before committing to attending his Green University: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgAGbhdqWIk FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIATwitter: @PlantsGrowHere / Facebook: @PlantsGrowHerePodcast - Join our Facebook group!VISIT OUR WEBSITEYou'll find heaps of educational blog articles, including Identifying Plants With Leaves, Flowers And Beyond, Plant Scientific Names: A Guide To Start Learning, and our 25-part series on native and exotic plant families, subfamilies and genera that are commonly seen in Aussie gardens.LET'S WORK TOGETHERAre you in the industry or an enthusiast with something of value to share? We're always on the hunt for interesting people, doing interesting things. If you'd like to work with us send a message via our online form or a direct email to plantsgrowhere@gmail.com.

Trees and Weeds, what more could you want to know ;) We are mixing it up this time to talk FORAGING! Who else is ready for spring!? Tara & Steph talk some general foraging rules as well as highlight our favorite early spring plants- spoiler alert, they are trees and weeds. In honor of Black History Month, this week's shout out goes to Black Cotton! Farmer Julius is rebranding cotton and taking the history of cotton and making it his own. He has some beautiful decor pieces available too! Go support them at BlackCotton https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1295428429916049416?s=20 Recommended Resources this week: Books: -"Mountain States Medicinal Plants" by Briana Wiles -"Foraging the Mountain West" by Thomas J. Elpel and Kris Reed -"Herb Fairies" Series By Kimberly Gallagher Others: "Picture This" Plant Identification App "Wildcraft!" boardgame Wildcraft: An Herbal Adventure Game – LearningHerbs Alexis Nikole @blackforager As always, you can email us at milkmaidspodcast@gmail.com Please rate, review, subscribe- it really helps us out! Happy Milking! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/milkmaids/message

You get to hear me talk with Nicole Handfield on this episode about the magical practice of the Nature Notebook and drawing in it, along with a few other topics, too. Nicole has generously shared with us a huge stockpile of resources for nature lore books, nature journaling, and some inspiring ideas as to WHY we do this. Listen in! In A Large Room Retreat: https://www.inalargeroomretreat.com/ What Nicole has written at CMP: http://charlottemasonpoetry.org/author/nicolehandfield/ Nicole on social media: @handfieldshalom, #keeperofglory on Instagram The story of writing and compiling “Charlotte Mason’s Great Recognition”: https://sageparnassus.com/the-story-of-charlotte-mason-and-grea/ ---- Follow me on Instagram at: @bestowingthebrush Like Bestowing The Brush on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bestowingthebrush/ Send comments, questions, & Fésole Club entries to: bestowingthebrush@gmail.com --- Nicole’s Wonderful recommendations for Nature Lore & Nature Study Resources: “Handbook of Nature Study” by Anna Botsford Comstock The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling: https://johnmuirlaws.com/product/the-laws-guide-to-nature-drawing-and-journaling/ John Muir Laws FREE science curriculum: https://johnmuirlaws.com/journaling-curriculum/ Eyes and No Eyes, Arabella Buckley “The Year Out of Doors” Dallas Lore Sharp, a series Your Local Field Guides A Nature Study Guide & Countryside Rambles, by W.S. Furneaux https://www.amazon.com/Nature-Study-Guide-Yesterdays-Classics/dp/1633340384 “Botany in a Day” by Thomas J. Elpel “Exploring Nature with Children” - a resource for getting to know your Handbook of Nature Study by Comstock- Not written as a CM method resource (more of a unit study) https://raisinglittleshoots.com/2015/08/14/exploring-nature-with-children-a-complete-year-long-curriculum/ “Handbook of Nature Study” by Dietrich Lange --- Special Thanks to: Nancy Kelly at https://sageparnassus.com/ Ambelside Online at https://www.amblesideonline.org/ Art Middlekauff at http://charlottemasonpoetry.org/ --- Intro and outro music: Hard Boiled- Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Photo credit: Heather Hall Photography

How can we reestablish our fundamental connection with nature, in the context of a culture so thoroughly disconnected from the ecosystems that sustain it?According to Thomas J. Elpel, founder of Green University and the Outdoor Wilderness Living School, it starts by empowering people of all ages to learn to read the external signals and cues we receive from our environment; to discover how to tune in to the frequency of Mother Nature, always buzzing all around us no matter what kind of landscape we find ourselves moving through.For episode 54 of the Good Life Revival Podcast, I had the pleasure of chatting with Tom to learn more about his latest project, the “dynamic ecology card game” called Wildlife Web.“Wildlife Web simulates the dynamics of a real world ecosystem with astonishing accuracy. With fifty animals to choose from, players can become anything from a mouse to a moose or a bird to a bear, each foraging or hunting for food to mate and reproduce while trying not to become food themselves. The game is fun, competitive, and addictive!”Beyond this latest project, Tom is also the author of more than half a dozen books on topics ranging from botany and plant ecology, to natural building, to wilderness survival skills and more. He is perhaps best known for his indispensable Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identification, a book that I cannot recommend highly enough.We had a great conversation about the card game and the challenges of teaching ecological literacy; we explore some of Tom’s experiences as a wilderness living instructor; and we also touch upon some other common threads of interest, like frugal living and how and why to try to escape the rat race of modern society.If you think Wildlife Web sounds as cool as I do, I hope you’ll join me in backing it on Kickstarter so that it will become a reality! EDIT: I just got word that the project has been fully funded! Still, you can and should preorder a copy today!

"We are all on one great survival trip trying to figure out how to meet our needs for shelter, fire, water and food, preferably without destroying the planet in the process. That is really the bottom line. How can we sustainably meet our needs for shelter, fire, water and food without consuming all the earth’s resources, without altering the climate and without being enslaved to a meaningless job until we die?" This is a quote from my next guest’s speech, The New Era of Self Sufficiency, shared at the Alaska Bioneer's Conference. He is the author of a wealth of books on wilderness survival skills, sustainable living, sustainable building, botany and relating to the natural world. He founded a Green University for young adults and an Outdoor Wilderness Living School for children. Just by spending an evening indulging in his website, hollowtop. com, I became even more knowledgeable, more inspired and more impressed by this man’s passion and commitment to really living and really living in harmony with nature and with each other. Here to talk to us about botany, getting back in communication with nature and affordable ecological housing is the author, entrepreneur and eco-philosopher, Thomas J. Elpel. Learn More About Thomas J. Elpel here. Learn More About Alison Ramsay here.https://www.facebook.com/alisonramsay.nz/ You can catch the full transcript to this interview here.

Thomas J. Elpel is an author, builder, conservationist and a pioneer in experiential education. Inspired by his childhood adventures exploring and foraging the wild lands of Montana with his grandmother, Thomas developed a passion for the natural world at a very young age. He has dedicated his life to igniting this same passion in others and is a living example of the ReWilding lifestyle. In this episode, Thomas and I discuss the importance of developing a deep and interactive relationship with nature. He elaborates on a concept we often discuss on ReWild Yourself Podcast — conservation through use. In order to be true advocates for conserving ecology, we must participate in it; not just observe it. Thomas shares how we can foster our connection to nature and find our place in the ecosystem through hunting, gathering and learning primitive skills. He also shares a bit about life as a hunter-gatherer in Montana, including a fascinating story about a wild bison harvest in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. I hope this interview inspires you to get out there and connect with YOUR local ecology! Enjoy! EPISODE BREAKDOWN: Show Introduction: A note of gratitude Pine pollen sale at Surthrival Hunt + Gather updates: Milkweed, Tenkara fishing & hunting dogs Q&A: A four-element approach to a healthy nomadic lifestyle Introducing Thomas Elpel How Thomas became interested in nature-based living How his book Botany in a Day came to be Nature school immersion and the loss of nature connection Participating in nature to fuel conservation How to procure wild protein at a low cost Mushroom and plant foraging in Montana Balancing modern and primitive Recounting a Yellowstone wild bison harvest Thomas’s prognosis for the future of the human species