WildFed Podcast — Hunt Fish Forage Food
177 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 241 ratingsHosted by Daniel Vitalis, The WildFed Podcast is about deepening your connection with the natural world through hunting, fishing, foraging, and, of course, food. It’s about the wild food that’s freely available on your landscape, at the edges of your town or city, and sometimes just outside your door. The podcast consists of interviews with biologists, authors, wildlife managers, foragers, hunters, anglers, chefs, friends, and plenty of educational and inspirational solo shows too. WildFed — Food Is All Around You.
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Conclusions, The Final Episode with Daniel Vitalis & Grant Guiliano — WildFed Podcast #174
March 28, 2023 13:43 - 1 hour - 158 MBIt's the final episode of The WildFed Podcast, and Daniel and our show producer Grant Guiliano get together to reflect on the last few years of podcasting together, tie a bow on some of the recurring themes we've discussed on the show, as well as look to the future of WildFed. They chat about the value in reconnecting with the species in your landscape, their thoughts on the future regulations of hunting and foraging, imposter syndrome, plans for a future podcast + a few teasers for Season...
In the Shadow of Extinction with Dan Flores — WildFed Podcast #173
March 21, 2023 13:57 - 1 hour - 146 MBWell, it’s finally here. The last interview of the WildFed Podcast. We'll be back next week with our producer Grant to do a final wrap-up, but as far as guest appearances go, who better to take us out than Dan Flores, and on what better topic than his new book, Wild New World. The book is incredible, even, dare we say, required reading for anyone who’s been following the journey of this podcast. It’s not just a history of North America and the animals that live here now — the extant animals ...
Uncommon Perspectives with A.J. DeRosa — WildFed Podcast #172
March 14, 2023 04:34 - 2 hours - 224 MBA.J. DeRosa is the founder of Project Upland — a multi-media operation that produces, in addition to video and web-based content, a quarterly, subscription-based premium print magazine. He’s also the author of the deer hunting cult-classic, The Urban Deer Complex. An accomplished hunter, rabid conservationist, and success in the hunting industry, he is not your typical hunter. Whether it's his politics, which are woven as a through-line throughout his unique positions, or his insistence on...
The HogFather with Jesse Griffiths — WildFed Podcast #171
March 07, 2023 04:14 - 1 hour - 95.8 MBIf anyone in America is deserving of the illustrious title of HogFather, it's Jesse Griffiths. He’s a hunter, fisherman, cook and co-owner of Dai Due Butcher Shop & Supper Club and New School of Traditional Cookery in Austin Texas. He’s also the author of the Afield, A Chef's Guide To Preparing and Cooking Wild Game and Fish, as well as his most recent publication, The Hog Book, A Chef's Guide To Hunting, Preparing, and Cooking Wild Pigs. The Hog Book is one of the best species-specific h...
Agents of Dystopia with Donnie Vincent — WildFed Podcast #170
February 28, 2023 04:31 - 2 hours - 167 MBWell, it was bound to happen eventually. But we'll admit, we weren't expecting it to be in this interview. Our guest today is hunter, conservationist, naturalist and filmmaker Donnie Vincent. Someone Daniel was tremendously inspired by — and still is today — when he first set out to get involved in hunting and outdoor media. Donnie is an iconoclast, standing out amongst successful hunting personalities in the way he hunts, looks, speaks, and for his uniquely thoughtful and artistic approac...
Breaking Bread Together with Andrew Zimmern — WildFed Podcast #169
February 21, 2023 07:19 - 1 hour - 95.5 MBOur guest today is Andrew Zimmern, who you may know from the long-running cable TV series Bizarre Foods or most recently on Outdoor Channel, Andrew Zimmern’s Wild Game Kitchen (which you can watch free on outdoorchannel.com). Daniel has been a fan of Andrew's shows for a lot of years. In fact, they were some of his early inspiration for creating the WildFed TV show. Aside from his television work, Daniel didn’t know much about Andrew, and this was his first time talking with him. Like Da...
Allergic To Hare with Tony Seichrist — WildFed Podcast #168
February 14, 2023 05:47 - 1 hour - 97 MBToday’s episode is with our good friend Tony Seichrist. Daniel first met Tony at his restaurant, The Wyld, in Savannah, Georgia where he cooked Alligator for Season 1 of WildFed. Since then, he's been featured in two episodes of Season 2, and he was just with us for an episode of Season 3 — making him our most frequent guest on the WildFed TV show. Tony is one of Daniel's favorite people. They share a lot of ideas, opinions and stances on things, yet both help one another to think in new a...
The Right to Hunt with Ellary TuckerWilliams — WildFed Podcast #167
January 16, 2023 22:19 - 1 hour - 83.4 MBAs someone that came to hunting late in life, someone that wasn’t raised understanding the intricacies and nuance of the North American conservation model or how our wildlife resources are allocated and ultimately utilized, Daniel was very impressed with the scope and breadth of our opportunities here in the United States as he started to take advantage of them. The more he participated, the more clearly he saw just how blessed we are here to have the ability to participate in this imperfect...
Hunting New Zealand with Philipp Spahn — WildFed Podcast #166
January 10, 2023 02:29 - 1 hour - 91.2 MBPhilipp Spahn and Daniel have been chatting on Instagram for years. Like Daniel, he's a modern-day hunter-gatherer who loves to pursue wild foods in many diverse ways, across the landscape where he lives. Also, like Daniel, he arrived at wild foods through a background in health, nutrition and exercise, and like Daniel, he’s also documenting what he does in video form, which he presents on his YouTube channel The Wild Table. Unlike Daniel, he’s in New Zealand, which has a radically differe...
40,000 Generations of Hunters with Dan Flores — WildFed Podcast #165
January 03, 2023 03:45 - 1 hour - 137 MBIt’s our privilege today to have author Dan Flores on the podcast. Dan Flores is A. B. Hammond Professor Emeritus of Western History at the University of Montana. A distinguished historian of the American West, he is the author of the best-selling books Coyote America and American Serengeti. Daniel had the opportunity to interview him back when those books were published, and he's pleased to be talking with him now about his latest book, Wild New World, The Epic Story of Animals and People i...
All Over The Place with Tim Clemens — WildFed Podcast #164
December 20, 2022 04:51 - 1 hour - 140 MBOur guest today is Tim Clemens of Ironwood Foraging, back for his second appearance. And this one is a lot of fun. In fact, Daniel was enjoying this conversation so much that he had to pull himself away to make his next appointment. They kind of range all over a pretty broad topic set just having fun and seeing where the conversation led them. We think you’ll appreciate the outcome. Otherwise, we're going to be brief today, and let this conversation speak for itself because the grid is dow...
Can We Save The Seas? with Dr. Ann Cleveland — WildFed Podcast #163
December 13, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 108 MBDaniel met Dr. Ann Cleveland back on Halloween of this year, when he was invited to give a guest lecture at the Maine Maritime Academy where she’s a Marine Biology Professor. Her husband, Dr. Alan Verde, who is also a professor there, was a guest on our show back on episode #160. While they were there, Ann gave Daniel and his wife a tour of the campus, and they had the opportunity to talk a bit about her work there, and he thought it would be great to get her on the show to discuss it. We ...
Nautical Nonsense with Daniel Vitalis & Grant Guiliano — WildFed Podcast #162
December 06, 2022 04:01 - 1 hour - 112 MBThanks for tuning in today! Every once and a while it's fun to take a break from interviewing and just have a conversation between Daniel and our producer and editor Grant — musing, rambling, and recounting our recent adventures and shenanigans. If you’re new to the show, maybe go back an episode to hear our typical format. Otherwise, behold the obnoxious characters who bring you these shows each week, as they sound when not speaking to their betters. Here in Maine, we are beginning the ...
Too Many Deer, Too Many Earthworms with Dr. Bernd Blossey — WildFed Podcast #161
November 29, 2022 05:22 - 1 hour - 112 MBWe've got a really important episode for you today. At least, important to us, and probably to you too if you’ve been listening to this show for a while. In fact, in some ways, it feels like it helps to make sense of a couple of important themes we’ve explored again and again here over the last 160 episodes. Most notably, those of wild game conservation — who funds it and where its efforts have been focused, as well as invasive species — and in particular, how significant the threat from the...
Corals, Cucumbers, and Jellies (Oh My) with Alan Verde PhD — WildFed Podcast #160
November 22, 2022 05:13 - 1 hour - 116 MBWho doesn’t love Marine Biology? Daniel recently had the opportunity to give a talk at the celebrated Maine Maritime Academy, addressing a class of marine biology and oceanography students. While he was there he met today’s guest, Dr. Alan Verde. Alan is a biologist and diver who specializes in corals, anemones, jellyfish, sea cucumbers and octopus. Alan, along with the school where he teaches, is training the future generations of young people who will eventually contribute to the steward...
The Turkey Whisperer with Dr. Mike Chamberlain — WildFed Podcast #159
November 14, 2022 20:10 - 1 hour - 106 MBIf you haven’t been already, we're thrilled to introduce you to Dr. Mike Chamberlain. Somehow, over our years of making this show, we weren't aware of this man or his incredible work on turkeys. Now we feel like we've been stumbling around in the dark. Ok, that’s probably an overstatement, since we’ve had some great mentors, and we’ve had several excellent and very informed turkey hunters and biologists on the show over the years. But Mike seems to possess a meta-knowledge of these birds, se...
Who Hunts, Who Doesn't & The Politics of Why with Paul McCarney PhD — WildFed Podcast #158
November 08, 2022 03:28 - 1 hour - 136 MBWe're talking today with Paul McCarney, PhD. Paul’s an environmental social scientist, hunter, and conservationist that lives in Canada’s remote Yukon. You could think of it as our northern neighbor’s Alaska. He’s in Whitehorse, which is north of Juneau but east of Anchorage. Most recently, Paul hosted the HuntToEat Podcast, where he covered topics that, until recently, haven’t been part of the typical hunting or conservation conversation. Like Daniel, Paul’s an adult-onset hunter. Comin...
Urban Foraging with Lisa Rose — WildFed Podcast #157
November 01, 2022 03:03 - 1 hour - 108 MBOur guest today is Lisa Rose, author of the new book: Urban Foraging, Find, Gather, and Cook 50 Wild Plants, as well as a few other titles on foraging and food. Though urban foraging doesn’t come up much on this show, it's always been important to Daniel. It was how he first started foraging, finding plants that grew in his backyard, snacks that grew up through the cracks in his sidewalk, or most importantly, harvesting fruits from neighborhood trees and abandoned lots around town. So we w...
Wild Turkeys and Black Swans with Fred Bird — WildFed Podcast #156
October 25, 2022 02:30 - 1 hour - 116 MBAs eaters of wild turkey meat, maybe we're a little biased, but we're huge believers in the National Wild Turkey Federation’s mission. Turkeys were Daniel's gateway into hunting itself, and he has initiated several other new hunters by bringing them out for their first birds too. We're of the opinion that stewarding turkeys and turkey habitat is, in a way, caring for lots of other species too. Turkey habitat is, after all, deer and bear habitat. They share the woods with lots of other ga...
Foraging Microbes with Pascal Baudar — WildFed Podcast #155
October 18, 2022 03:42 - 1 hour - 155 MBPascal Baudar is a legend in the world of wild foods, constantly advancing the practice of foraging into new and unexplored terrain. While many of us focus on calories or medicinal plants, Pascal is uncovering the terroir hidden in places most of us just don’t think to look. Sure, there’s been a lot of work done on fermentation in the last decade, but nothing quite like what Pascal has been doing. He marches to the beat of his own drum, and if he’s drawing off of other influences, we certa...
Human Dietary Variability with Kristen Gremillion PhD — WildFed Podcast #154
October 10, 2022 20:35 - 1 hour - 96.7 MBOur interview today is with Kristen Gremillion, PhD — Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Ohio State University. She wrote a book in 2011 called Ancestral Appetites, looking at the archeological evidence and ethnographic knowledge we have about human diet throughout our species' history. We love interviewing folks like Kristen because deep historical context sets the stage for clearer thought and makes it abundantly obvious just how profoundly confused we’ve become about what ...
Dreams, Archetypes & Becoming A Predator with Philippe Grenade-Willis — WildFed Podcast #153
October 04, 2022 14:52 - 1 hour - 147 MBOur interview today is with Philippe Grenade-Willis, someone Daniel's been working with for a few years now on various art projects for both WildFed and Surthrival. Philippe is an incredible illustrator with a passion for the outdoors and the creatures that live there. In a nod to Daniel's former podcast, ReWild Yourself, today’s episode is a bit more esoteric than most of the content we curate here, but it’s also a LOT of fun. Daniel and Philippe talk about art, dreams and archetypes. Abo...
Shifting Baseline & Genetic Pollution with Dylan Tomine — WildFed Podcast #152
September 27, 2022 16:43 - 1 hour - 108 MBWhat a fun and thoughtful conversation today with Dylan Tomine. In addition to working at Patagonia as a Fly Fishing Ambassador, and recently releasing a book under Patagonia's publishing house called “Headwaters,” Dylan Tomine has traveled the world fly fishing and writing about it. His writing is engrossing and almost lyrical, each short chapter feeling almost like a dream you’ve had about some distant adventure on the water. He really captures the feelings of being there, somehow communic...
A Range of Edibility with Daniel Vitalis & Grant Guiliano — WildFed Podcast #151
September 20, 2022 01:08 - 1 hour - 117 MBIt’s always fun for Daniel to sit down with his good friend — WildFed producer and cinematographer Grant Guiliano — to podcast without a guest. Just them, talking behind the scenes. Daniel and Grant are currently filming Season 3 of the WildFed TV show for Outdoor Channel, which means they're on the road a lot — flying, driving, boating, hunting, fishing, and foraging, and, of course, filming it all. It’s a lot of hotels, AirBnBs, and time away from home. One constant is the time they end up...
Pawpaw, An American Treasure with Michael Judd — WildFed Podcast #150
September 13, 2022 02:30 - 1 hour - 108 MBThe pawpaw is a North American native, growing wild in 26 States! But you wouldn’t know it by seeing or tasting it. About the size of a small to medium-sized mango, with a custardy flesh that ranges from creamy white to pumpkin pie orange, you’d swear it's a tropical fruit. But, you’d be wrong, since it is, in fact, a temperate species. Despite its more mild climatic preference, it still boasts quintessential tropical flavor notes. Mango and papaya, pineapple and banana, caramel and some aro...
Boat to Table, Know Your Fisherman with Molly Lutcavage, PhD — WildFed Podcast #149
September 06, 2022 14:52 - 1 hour - 155 MBWe’re back today with our good friend Molly Lutcavage, Oceanographer, Bluefin Tuna and Sea Turtle Physiologist, and the Director of Large Pelagics Research at the University of Massachusetts. Her last appearance on the show was back on episode 16 of this podcast, The Truth About Bluefin Tuna, making her one of our earliest podcast guests! She was also featured in Season 2 of the WildFed TV show on Outdoor Channel, in our Atlantic Bluefin Tuna episode. Her ground-breaking work on Atlantic B...
The Fad-Free Diet: Oxalates, Superfoods & Common Sense with Dr. Bill Schindler — WildFed Podcast #148
August 30, 2022 03:11 - 1 hour - 113 MBWe’re back today with internationally-known archaeologist, primitive technologist, and chef, Bill Schindler. Bill’s been on the show once before to discuss his book, Eat Like A Human, and he’s back today to talk about the human diet, through the lens of his professional focus of ancestral human foods, food acquisition, and the traditional processing techniques we once used to make our food edible or more nutritious. After our recent episode with Sally Norton, which was episode #142 “Are ...
Herbicide, Habitat & Edibility with Sam Thayer — WildFed Podcast #147
August 23, 2022 02:39 - 1 hour - 109 MBOur 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, ...
Fire Ecology, Why We Need More Fire with James Agee, PhD — WildFed Podcast #146
August 16, 2022 03:21 - 1 hour - 103 MBDr. James Agee knows fire and is one of the nation's leading minds, voices, and advocates for its ecological use on the landscape. He’s an emeritus professor of forest ecology at the College of Forest Resources at the University of Washington, Seattle. Before that, he was a forest ecologist and research biologist for the National Park Service in Seattle and San Francisco. Agee received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1973. He is the author of more than 100 technic...
Let Molokai Change You, Hunting Axis in Hawaii with Ku Keanini — WildFed Podcast #145
August 09, 2022 03:34 - 1 hour - 136 MB10 days on Molokai, hunting, gathering, and connecting with local people to learn a bit about their culture and life there. We couldn’t be more grateful to have had this kind of experience! Unlike Waikiki Beach in Oahu’s Honolulu, Molokai isn't cluttered with high-rise hotels and high-end shopping centers. You have the distinct impression you're on people's home turf. The infrastructure that’s there is for the people who live there. The island is small, just 10x38 miles, and it’s been thro...
The KavaCast, Foraging Honolulu with Nat Bletter, PhD — WildFed Podcast #144
August 02, 2022 13:06 - 1 hour - 121 MBWelcome to today’s episode with Nat Bletter, PhD, which we’re jokingly calling “episode 1 of the KavaCast”, since Nat, an ethnobotanist, prepared kava kava, or what the Hawaiians call 'awa for Daniel and Grant just prior to recording. Kava is the root of Piper methysticum, a member of the black pepper family, with mildly intoxicating properties that have been used deep into antiquity by Polynesian people throughout the South Pacific. Since it’s often used to facilitate conversations, meeti...
Foraging Arizona with Chef Brett Vibber — WildFed Podcast #143
July 26, 2022 03:31 - 1 hour - 112 MBArizona is one of Daniel's favorite places on earth. He first started going while he was in his 20’s visiting a hot spring there several times a year, which was once the healing grounds for Geronimo and the Apache who rode and raided with him. Over the years he's gone often, from the Mexican border up to the Grand Canyon, from the high-altitude, forest canopies of the Sky Islands to the arid low-lying Sonoran desert. He's even spent a couple of winters in Sedona, which has to be one of the p...
Are Oxalates Destroying Your Health? With Sally K. Norton — WildFed Podcast #142
July 19, 2022 12:40 - 1 hour - 159 MBToday’s show is a bit of a departure from our typical conversation here on the podcast, but it's one we've been wanting to have for quite some time. Our guest is Sally Norton, and she’s become really well known for talks she’s given on Oxalic Acid and Oxalates — compounds and even crystalline structures frequently found in plant foods, and often present in some of our most cherished wild plants and commercially available superfoods. We've been aware of oxalates and oxalic acid for a long...
100 Trees with Adam Haritan — WildFed Podcast #141
July 12, 2022 03:22 - 1 hour - 99.1 MBOur guest today, back now for his second time, is Adam Haritan of LearnYourLand.com. He’s probably best known for his fantastic YouTube channel by the same name. He’s got over 175 videos there that teach folks how to identify and use the wild species all around them. Recently he launched a tree identification course that caught Daniel's eye, and we thought it would be fun to talk with him about trees from a wild food perspective. Trees provide us with so much, and it’s easy to take that ...
Alewives and Other Tales with Daniel Vitalis & Grant Guiliano — WildFed Podcast #140
July 05, 2022 18:13 - 1 hour - 122 MBToday Daniel's sitting down with his good friend, WildFed Cinematographer and Producer Grant Guiliano to talk a bit about what we've been up to this year and to give you a behind-the-scenes look at our upcoming third season of the WildFed TV show on Outdoor Channel. We’re currently filming ten new episodes that’ll debut this coming winter, so we’ve been in the woods and on the water, but also in the air and on the road too. Grant and Daniel don’t get to do too many shows like this one, j...
The Meadow Doctor with Tama Matsuoka Wong — WildFed Podcast #139
June 28, 2022 04:05 - 1 hour - 90.1 MBOur guest today is Tama Matsuoka Wong, AKA the Meadow Doctor. She’s a commercial forager, weed eater, lawyer and mother of three, as well as the developer of a commercial wild food-beverage made with staghorn sumac — which we’ll discuss in the episode. She’s also the author of the backyard field guide and cookbook Foraged Flavor, which was nominated for a James Beard award back in 2013. Her story is really unique in that prior to her life as a commercial forager she was a Harvard Law Sch...
Prairie Dogs & Prairie Turnips with Travis 'Good Bull Man' Condon — WildFed Podcast #138
June 21, 2022 05:38 - 1 hour - 101 MBYou may remember that last September we had the honor and privilege of going out to the Standing Rock Reservation to harvest a buffalo — or bison for those who prefer the scientific name — for the second season of the WildFed TV show. Our friend Travis hosted us, showed us around, and introduced us not only to the buffalo, but to the people and the Dakota culture too. He was with us for the hunt, and he and Daniel broke that buffalo down together on the prairie too. It was an incredible ex...
The Most Taboo Hunt with Jen Shears — WildFed Podcast #137
June 14, 2022 04:20 - 1 hour - 136 MBWe've got a great show for you today, but first, we think a little context is important. Please listen to Daniel's monologue in the introduction to this podcast. As a podcaster, Daniel's always been interested in topics that flirt around the edges of the taboo. And today’s episode certainly qualifies. Hunting itself has become controversial in our modern era, which, given that this was our primary food acquisition method for something like 300,000 years — in other words, our entire existe...
The Future Is Nuts! Designing Living Systems with Michael Judd — WildFed Podcast #136
June 07, 2022 04:31 - 1 hour - 118 MBMichael Judd is a really cool guy. He lives, and has lived, a very inspiring life. Today his focus is on, as he calls it, “designing for neglect.” That is, creating living food systems that function like natural ecosystems, providing long-term food security with very little input. Many of the species he works with are cultivars of plants we mostly think of as wild species, like America’s iconic and only tropical fruit, the Paw Paw. While governments are busy trying to regulate cow farts...
Hunting, Ritual & Rites of Passage with Mansal Denton — WildFed Podcast #135
May 31, 2022 04:59 - 1 hour - 111 MBOur guest, here for his second appearance, is Mansal Denton. Mansal is a very unique voice in today's hunting culture, working at the intersection of trans-cultural ceremonial shamanism and hunting, seamlessly blending the two in a program — and brand — he calls Sacred Hunting. Of course, it's not that other hunting isn’t sacred, but rather, that often this ancient and fundamentally human part of the hunt is forgotten by our modern culture, in favor of more gear, tech, or trophies. And tha...
Just One Leaf? With Clay Bowers — WildFed Podcast #134
May 24, 2022 02:25 - 1 hour - 128 MBOur guest today is Clay Bowers of NoMiForager.com — Clay is a wild food enthusiast and educator in Northern Michigan, who teaches foraging classes and workshops, and writes about foraging on his blog and social media. He’s come on the show today to discuss the increasingly contentious issue of ramp foraging, or wild leeks as we like to say in our neck of the woods. This plant is probably one of the best-known wild edibles in the US, for both foragers but also culinary professionals, who pay ...
No Turning Back with Avani Vitalis — WildFed Podcast #133
May 17, 2022 04:58 - 1 hour - 134 MBToday’s episode is a very special one for Daniel. Not just because our guest is his brilliant and beautiful wife Avani Vitalis, but also because they're talking about her very first hunt. Until this spring turkey season, Avani never really imagined herself hunting. She’s been incredibly supportive of Daniel as a hunter, not just cheering him on, but helping with both practical and logistical aspects. Whether it’s been paddling the canoe on his squirrel hunts or cleaning the grinder and cut...
Feeding Cahokia, Diet of the Mound Builders with Gayle Fritz PhD — WildFed Podcast #132
May 10, 2022 04:37 - 1 hour - 128 MBIf you’ve been listening in lately, you’ve no doubt heard Daniel and a few of our guests mention Cahokia, an ancient North American city near present-day St Louis, that, at its peak habitation, may have been home to some 14-18K thousand people. The largest, and believed to be the most influential city of the Mississippian culture, it was first inhabited around 1050 and eventually disbanded by 1350 CE, something like 142 years before the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the so-called “New...
Food, A Trojan Horse for Knowledge with Tim Clemens — WildFed Podcast #131
May 03, 2022 00:29 - 1 hour - 104 MBTim Clemens, AKA @MNForager on Instagram, is the founder of Ironwood Foraging Co, a Minnesota-based wild food and foraging education company, and someone Daniel's been writing back and forth with on social media for some time now. He was formerly the president of the Minnesota Mycological Society, which gives him deep expertise on edible fungi, and he also has a degree in anthropology and archeology, so his perspectives on foraging are firmly grounded in an understanding of big human histo...
Diet Defines Us: Food, Culture & Our Past with Robyn Cutright PhD — WildFed Podcast #130
April 25, 2022 21:25 - 1 hour - 115 MBWe finally get to share this episode with you today! Daniel has been eagerly awaiting an opportunity to interview Robyn Cutright, PhD, author of The Story of Food in the Human Past. If you listen to the show regularly, you’ve probably been hearing him reference this book a lot lately, and you know we like to geek out on big human history! In particular, that stretch of time before the advent of agriculture, but especially, before industrialized food systems. We're fascinated by what we e...
Ike Jime: How to Kill a Fish with Andrew Tsui — WildFed Podcast #129
April 19, 2022 05:31 - 1 hour - 149 MBAndrew Tsui is the founder of the Ike Jime Federation, and… he’s on a mission. He aims to change the way we, as commercial and recreational anglers, handle the fish we harvest. We’ll set euphemisms aside for a moment and say it clearly, Andrew wants to change the way we kill fish. In fact, he believes in what he calls A Considered Kill. First, we should say, Ike Jime is a traditional Japanese technique for killing fish. As an island nation, Japan has always relied heavily on ocean fish for...
Indigenous Food Systems & the Zombie Apocalypse with Linda Black Elk — WildFed Podcast #128
April 12, 2022 02:49 - 1 hour - 111 MBOur guest today is Linda Black Elk, an ethnobotanist specializing in the traditional foods and medicines of the Great Plains and the Director of Food Sovereignty at United Tribes Technical College in Bismarck, ND. She’s also the mother of three Lakota sons. There's a lot of overlap in Linda and our philosophies around foraged foods and medicines, particular in how we see each species as more of a “who” than a “what,” since getting to know them is more like getting to know another person th...
Fishing the Wild Waters with Conor Sullivan — WildFed Podcast #127
April 05, 2022 04:40 - 1 hour - 115 MBFishing the Wild Waters is the new book from today’s guest Conor Sullivan. He was one of our earliest podcast guests here on WildFed, and at that time he’d mentioned he was writing this book, but it was still an early manuscript. Well, the book is out, and we've had the pleasure of reading it. This book is certainly a proud addition to our fishing library, a genre that we haven’t always found very useful. But Conor’s book is different. It's part memoir, with really inspiring and informative ...
Spring Greens, It’s Like Going to the Supermarket with Alan Bergo — WildFed Podcast #126
March 29, 2022 05:06 - 1 hour - 106 MBThe early spring green foraging season is upon us — or at least it's drawing very close now — and who better to talk to than the Forager Chef himself, Alan Bergo. Alan is a long time guest and friend of the show — both the WildFed podcast and TV show — and one of today’s most prolific wild food writers and recipe developers. His website — ForagerChef.com — is the web’s largest wild mushroom cookery resource, but it's so much more, with incredible recipes and musings on plants as well. Al...
So, You Wanna Turkey Hunt? With Carter Heath — WildFed Podcast #125
March 22, 2022 03:49 - 2 hours - 198 MBOur guest today is Carter Heath, Regional Director for the New England and New York chapters of the National Wild Turkey Federation and longtime guest and friend of the show. He’s also bi-lingual, speaking both English as well as wild turkey, in which he’s quite fluent. Not just at cutting and gobbling, but even in Jake calls and gentle hen purrs too. The man simply exudes wild turkey vibes as if he were wrapped in a turkey atmosphere. And he gets to share this passion as his profession, whi...