Year of Plenty: Traditional Foodways – Détails, épisodes et analyse

This episode is a conversation with Robin Greenfield, activist, forager, and author of Food Freedom. Robin has spent years experimenting with what it means to step outside the industrial food system, first by growing and foraging all of his food for a year, and now by eating only wild food. In this conversation, we explore what food freedom actually looks like in practice, the role of community, and why food sits at the center of ecological and personal resilience.

Episode Overview:

• Robin’s background and journey away from the industrial food system
• Why food became the central focus of his activism and life experiments
• What “food freedom” meant during his year of growing and foraging all of his food
• The real challenges of food freedom, including time, processing, and preservation
• Why community support is essential for living closer to the land
• What motivated Robin to take the next step and eat only wild food for an entire year
• How he plans calories, protein, fat, and nutrients on a wild food diet
• Key wild food staples including wild rice, venison, fish, nuts, fruits, greens, and herbs
• The hardest parts of eating wild food, including fat scarcity and food storage mistakes
• How seasonality and travel shape his wild food strategy
• Ethical foraging and reciprocity, including harvesting invasive species
• Why learning individual plants matters more than following blanket foraging rules
• How foraging can deepen connection, purpose, and gratitude for the natural world
• Practical advice for beginner foragers who want to start building food resilience

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Poldi and Lindey are joined by Orion (Forage Colorado), Tim (Ironwood Foraging Co.), and Bryan (Healing Ecosystems) for a relaxed, end-of-year conversation about wild food. We’ll reflect on how the season unfolded, what the harvest was like, lessons learned from the land, and the traditional food projects and skills we practiced along the way. We’ll also share our foraging goals and intentions for the year ahead.

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This episode is a conversation with Savanna aka Foraging_KY who is a lifelong forager passionate about mushrooms, gardening, and native plants. We chat about some of her favorite spring mushroom to forage for and do a deep dive into Pheasant Back (aka Dryad Saddle) mushrooms.

Episode Overview:

• Learn about spring mushrooms like morels, pheasant back, scarlet ear cup, woods ear mushrooms, lions mane, and more.
• How to safely forage for pheasant back mushrooms
• Fun ways to use pheasant back mushrooms in the kitchen
• Where to find pheasant back mushrooms in the US and the habitat it likes to grow in
• And more

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This episode is a conversation with ethnobotany enthusiast and wild food instructor, Kyle Chamberlain. Stick around until the end of the episode to learn who won the hand-forged damscus steel cleaver.

Episode Overview:

• Kyle's journey into the world of plants
• We discuss various wild edible plants, especially berries
• Ethnography and how people have processed wild plants into food throughout history
• Land Stewardship and cultivating wild food sustainably
• Harvesting road kill animals

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This episode is a conversation with Marty Kendall who runs the popular blog called Optimizing Nutrition.

Episode Overview:

• Marty's journey and why he started his blog
• We dive into what it means to eat a nutrient-dense diet
• We go over the different categories of nutrients out there
• Why we should even focus on nutrients in the first place
• We talk about how seeking out nutrient-dense foods allows us to reach a state of satiety and how that can be beneficial
• Then we get into how nutrient density can be measured and what nutrients we need more of!
• At the end we get into some of the steps you can take to start eating this way
• And then finally, we talk a little bit about fasting and how you can optimize your fasts by focusing on high nutrient re-feeds!

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This week's episode is a conversation with Lora Lea and Rick Misterly who run a small farm in Northeastern Washington State.

Episode Overview:

• Ricks and Lora Lea’s journey, how the farm got started
• The evolution of the local food movement as Rick and Lora Lea have witnessed it
• Raising goats for dairy
• Raw vs pasteurized milk
• How cheese is made
• Aging cheese
• Importance of preserving traditional cooking methods
• Successfully running a small farm
• Raising ducks

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This week's episode is a conversation with Bruce McGlenn, founder of Human Nature Hunting School. I actually worked for Bruce out at his school in the beautiful mountain range of North Eastern Washington over the summer. It was a fun time! This is also when we recorded this episode! Bruce is one of the few people who has made it his mission to teach others a holistic approach to hunting and turn his students into stewards of the land.

Episode Overview:

• Bruce’s background as a hunter
• The Human Nature Hunting connection
• His holistic approach to teaching hunting skills
• Philosophy and how to become a steward of the land
• Cooking wild game

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This episode is a Foodies’ Roundtable conversation with Connor Schuler and Chip Ramsden.

Episode Overview:

• Talking Scotch and Bourbon
• News about Future Food
• Recipes/Foods we recommend trying at home

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Resources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehnKpEEXmE4&feature=youtu.be
https://theherbalacademy.com/nutritional-value-edible-wild-food/
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/advanced-plant-habitat.pdf
https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/crops/corn-and-other-feedgrains/feedgrains-sector-at-a-glance/#:~:text=Corn%20is%20the%20primary%20U.S.,grown%20in%20the%20Heartland%20region
https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/Highlights/2014/Highlights_Farms_and_Farmland.pdf

In this episode, I share what we know about the origins of cattle domestication and how they spread throughout the world.

Episode Overview:

• The two places in which cattle were first domesticated
• Taurine vs indicine cattle, and how they migrated
• The wild ancestor of cattle

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Sources:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2012/mar/dna-traces-cattle-back-small-herd-domesticated-around-10500-years-ago
https://www.ancient.eu/Neolithic
https://www.britannica.com/event/Neolithic
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120327124243.htm
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2016.05.008
https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-the-domestication-of-cows-170652
https://www.pnas.org/content/93/10/5131.short
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/evan.20267?casa_token=UDL9Y-b7_fgAAAAA%3AXoDl4h03bGeNIBm0_xqOSaXsqCD5N_-2ykcGsgKcnvKVL6Qa8wA3wwVC89vhUMNsr9GFM3h6l8XBa-2_
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6304694/
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/uwlax/reader.action?docID=836599&ppg=18
http://www.cambridgeblog.org/2016/02/cattle-domestication-from-aurochs-to-cow/
https://www.wired.com/2012/03/cattle-ox-origins/
https://extension.missouri.edu/adair/documents/Livestock/History%20of%20the%20Animal%20Science%20Industry.pdf
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/domestication/

This episode is a recording of the Live Stream I did on Instagram a couple days ago. It was all about Fall Scouting for Wild Asparagus!

Episode Overview:

• The Fall scouting process for Wild Asparagus
• What to look for in October and November
• When and How to Harvest

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