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WYLDE, the podcast about foraging and herbalism in Europe

Lieve Galle

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Frequency: 1 episode/35d. Total Eps: 23

I'm Lieve Galle, a Belgian herbalist and wild plant forager since 2002 and host of the Wilde Wieven podcast (in Dutch). In this WYLDE Podcast I talk to fellow herbalists and foragers in Europe. We deal with different plant species and different cultural approaches towards plants, but what we have in common is that we all want to transform plant blindness into plant wisdom. Together we can have a greater impact on restoring the ancient link between people and plants. If you're ready to find out what you've never been told, but what your soul already knows, then welcome to WYLDE.

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#7 Herbalism in Finland with Henriette Kress

Episode 7

Tuesday, October 1, 2024 • Duration 01:04:13

Henriette Kress is a very experienced herbalist from Finland. Her website is a landmark in the field of herbalism, and she's also the author of several books on herbalism.

It was an absolute pleasure to talk to her, so I hope you also enjoy listening to our conversation.

About how she was introduces to herbs by her grandmother.

About going to the US to study herbalism at the Southwest School of Botanical Medicine in Arizona and how that made everything fall into place.

About herbalism in Finland and the most significant plants and herbs in Finnish herbalism.

About local traditions involving plants.

About which herbal preparations are most common in Finland.

About the ginger shots hype, the tea tree oil craze and other herbal trends.

About the legal framework around herbalism in Finland.

About debunking herbal myths and the danger of herbal books written by AI.

And lots more.

You can find more information about Henriette and her work on the website:
https://www.henriettes-herb.com/

Make sure to check it out, because It's one of the oldest and largest herbal medicine sites on the internet. It's been online since 1995.

Henriette also wrote two books: Practical Herbs 1 and Practical Herbs 2

Support us so we can continue the WYLDE Podcast series, a living archive for foragers & herbalist across Europe.

https://whydonate.com/fundraising/wylde-podcast-donation

I'm looking for more interesting guests to talk about European herbalism and foraging in Europe. If you know anyone that would be perfect for this podcast, please let me know.

You can find me on Instagram @wildplantforager, and on Facebook.
You can also find more about me or contact me through my website www.wildplantforager.com
But please don't hang around online for too long. Go outside, and follow your wild heart

music by Eva LaRuna

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The information in the WYLDE podcast has been compiled with the utmost care. We try to keep it as current, complete and accurate as possible, yet no rights can be derived from this podcast episode.
We accept no liability for: direct or indirect damages resulting from possible errors and omissions, the content of linked websites, or the opinions of interviewed guests.
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The content of this podcast in no way replaces personal medical advice or treatment by doctors and other medical professionals.

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#6 Regenerative herbalism in Poland with Lyra Alves

Episode 6

Tuesday, September 3, 2024 • Duration 01:32:59

Lyra Alves is a very experienced herbalist who is originally from Brazil, but she lived in Belgium for 17 years, and is now living in Poland.
She's not only a phytotherapist but also an amazing wizard with plantbased ingredients as a vegan chef.
Enjoy our lovely talk!

About being lucky to grow up in a house with a big garden and spending vacations in the countryside.

About being fascinated by the ancient healers or curandeiros as a child, but also needing the more rational knowledge from books.

About how science is catching up with things that were used to be called witchcraft or mumbo jumbo.

About the differences between Brazil, Belgium and Poland regarding general plant knowledge and legal framework.

About the importance of keeping herbal knowledge alive and passing it on to the next generations.

About typical Brazilian plants that she misses in Europe, and new plants she discovered here.

About regenerative herbalism on different levels and the Healing Weeds project.

And lots more.

You can find more information about Lyra and her work on the website:
https://healingweeds.blogspot.com/

Or follow her on Instagram @regenerative.herbalism or via the Facebook page of Healing Weeds.

Lyra mentions these books by Michael Tierra:

The Way of Herbs

#5 Foraging in Norway with Mari Jerstad

Episode 5

Tuesday, August 6, 2024 • Duration 57:27

Mari Jerstad has a degree in organic agriculture and herbal medicine. She is a forager, a storyteller, and a herbal medicine practitioner. Her journey with plants started as a child, spending time outside with the plants, just enjoying their beauty and their relation to the sun, which now has brought us here, having a beautiful and warm conversation.

About being inspired by her great aunt, who looked at herbs from a practical point of view as a nurse, but also as something spiritual.

About what triggered Mari to become a herbalist and her studies in Norway and England.

About how chemistry can be beautiful and fun.

About how people in Norway look at herbalism and herbal medicine, and the legal framework around it.

About the Herb Garden Community in Oslo and how this project helps to reconnect people and plants.

About dealing with Norweagian winters as a forager and a herabist and the blessings of different seasons.

About working with refugees and how she got involved in the mobile herbal clinic in Calais.

And lots more.

You can find more information about Mari and her work on the website:
https://marikaape.no/

Or follow her on Instagram @markaape.

The organisation Mari travels to Calais with, is Mobile Herbal Clinic. You can find more information about their work here:
https://mobileherbalclinic.org/

Support us so we can continue the WYLDE Podcast series, a living archive for foragers & herbalist across Europe.

https://whydonate.com/fundraising/wylde-podcast-donation
I'm looking for more interesting guests to talk about European herbalism and foraging in Europe. If you know anyone that would be perfect for this podcast, please let me know. You can find me on Instagram , and on .You can also find more about me or contact me through my website But please don't hang around online for too long. Go outside, and follow your wild heart music by

#4 Discovering the world through plants with François Couplan

Episode 4

Tuesday, July 9, 2024 • Duration 01:18:55

François Couplan is a forager, ethnobatanist, wild chef, traveller, and published author of more than 120 books on wild edible plants, herbal medicine and culinary botany.
He has 50 years of experience as a teacher, and over 70 years of life experience.
Even as an infant, he was already turned on by plants, so that's where his journey with plants begins, and where we start our conversation.

About growing up in Paris, and seeing green everywhere, even in the city.

About how it's always easier to relate with plants than it is with people.

About being young in the 60s and 70s and developing an interest in a different, more psychedelic kind of plants.

About how he discovered botany and ethnobotany and how he started teaching and writing books.

About dropping out of society, living in the woods and evaluating your basic needs.

About how nature is always there, even when we are destroying it.

About the problem with cultivating plants and agriculture, and how everything is humanized.

And lots more.

You can find more information about François and his work on the website:
https://couplan.com/
Most of his books are available in the webshop, including my favourite: https://couplan.com/livres/remedes-et-recettes-a-lortie/

Or follow him on Instagram @harmonie_plantes_sauvages

François also mentions the book "Food for free" by Richard Mabey. A complete guide to help you safely identify edible species that grow around us, together with detailed field identification notes and recipes.

#3 Western Master Plants with Anki Paulssen

Episode 3

Tuesday, June 11, 2024 • Duration 01:23:26

Anki Paulssen is the founder of Plant Spirit Guru. She has over 25 years of experience working with Western Master Plants, which offers profound insights and initiate a personal transformation that leads to emotional healing, spiritual growth, and self-discovery.

Her journey with the plants started when she was a child, growing up in the apartment above her grandparents' bakery, with a small garden in the back which had only one tree. She could see that tree from her bedroom window and started having conversations with it.

And that eventually brought us here, having an amazing conversation.

About moving from the Netherlands to Australia and feeling an immediate connection to the land and the plants.

About her travels to Peru and discovering ayahuasca, plant dietas and plantsongs.

About what a plant dieta is and Anki's first experience with it.

About talking from spirit to spirit with a plant and how it helps you get back into your body.

About the timeless wisdom of plants, singing over them, and asking permission to use them.

About regional and cultural differences when it comes to basic plant knowledge and the use of medicinal plants and herbs.

About the future relationship between plants and people.

And lots more.

You can find more information about Anki and her work on the website:
https://plantspirit.guru/ (in English) or https://plantspiritguru.nl/ (in Dutch)

Or follow her on Instagram @plantspiritguru.

Anki talks about the book "Plant Spirit Medicine", that was written by Eliot Cowen, not Pam Montgomery as mentioned. The book that Pam wrote is "Plant Spirit Healing". Both are must reads!

#2 Wild & Tamed with Isabel Openshaw

Episode 2

Tuesday, May 14, 2024 • Duration 48:31

Isabel Openshaw is a forager, a researcher at Kew Gardens in London, and a medicinal plant walk guide. She always loved spending time outside, and was inspired by her grandmother, her mother, and the abundance of elder plants around her, to become a forager herself. Her experience with elderberries and elderflower unlocked the world of medicinal plants, and got her thinking about what else there was out there.

And here we are now, having a very inspirational conversation.

About her favorite places to go foraging.

About honouring what you bring home by preserving it well.

About meditating on raisins and connecting with the lifecycle of where our food comes from, and feeling the connection to our ancestors.

About how the UK can seem like a herbal paradise compared to the situation in Belgium.

About the average botanical knowledge in the UK and the difference between the countryside and cities.

About the concept of "the commons".

About the impact of industrial agriculture on our planet and rewilding projects to turn farmland back intro wild nature.

About the work Isabel is doing in Kew Gardens and the role of botanical gardens in the 21st century.

And lots more.

You can find more information about Isabel on the Kew Gardens website:
https://www.kew.org/science/our-science/peope/isabel-openshaw

Or follow her on Instagram @iza.herbalremedies.

Support us so we can continue the WYLDE Podcast series, a living archive for foragers & herbalist across Europe.

https://whydonate.com/fundraising/wylde-podcast-donation
I'm looking for more interesting guests to talk about European herbalism and foraging in Europe. If you know anyone that would be perfect for this podcast, please let me know. You can find me on Instagram , and on .You can also find more about me or contact me through my website But please don't hang around online for too long. Go outside, and follow your wild heart music by

#1 Foraging in Sweden with Lisen Sundgren

Episode 1

Tuesday, April 16, 2024 • Duration 01:20:52

Lisen Sundgren is a herbalist, forager, nature and forest therapy guide, and author from Sweden. As a child she already went foraging and was taught the botanical names of plants by her grandfather.
Later on in life, after suffering a burnout and moving back from New York to Sweden, the herbs took her into their world. She started studying the healing effects of nature, edible and medicinal plants and became a professional herbalist.

We had a wildly interesting conversation.

About why children should learn about wild plants in school, like it used to be in the time of our grandparents.

About how we are part of nature and how we need plants for our survival.

About what it's like to work as a herbalist in Sweden.

About how foraging became more popular again since the introduction of the New Nordic Cuisine, and even more so during the pandemic in 2020.

About being in the here and now while foraging and the link with mindfulness.

About the Swedish "Right of Public Access", or 'Allemansrätten', which gives everyone the freedom to forage everywhere with respect for nature and animals.

About the use of medicinal plants in Sweden.

About foraging in different seasons and how the long cold and dark winters affect foraging.

And lots more.

You can find more information about Lisen, her work and her books on her website:
https://www.lifebylisen.com/

Or follow her on Instagram @lifebylisen

Support us so we can continue the WYLDE Podcast series, a living archive for foragers & herbalist across Europe.

https://whydonate.com/fundraising/wylde-podcast-donation I'm looking for more interesting guests to talk about European herbalism and foraging in Europe. If you know anyone that would be perfect for this podcast, please let me know. You can find me on Instagram , and on .You can also find more about me or contact me through my website But please don't hang around online for too long. Go outside, and follow your wild heart music by

#8 Herb women in Bulgaria with Annelies Buggenhout & Lora Moiree

Episode 8

Tuesday, November 12, 2024 • Duration 01:34:31

Lora Moiree is a practitioner of green magic and occult botany, she's Bulgarian and was always drawn to plants and felt guided by nature spirits all her life.
Annelies Buggenhout is a permaculture teacher and a forager, she's Belgian and her history with plants and herbs is more recent, it all started when she moved to Bulgaria about 10 years ago.

Two different stories, but what they have in common is they love nature, just like you and me.

Enjoy our talk in this podcast episode!

About how Annelies experienced an eco-awakening while living in the forest for the first few months after arriving in Bulgaria.

About how Lora received all her knowledge of plants and herbs from nature spirits.

About the different perceptions Lora and Annelies have, one being native Bulgarian and the other being a Belgian immigrant.

About how civilisation has taken away the magic of nature.

About typical Bulgarian herbal traditions and how their Pagan roots are strongly preserved.

About the relationship between humans and nature spirits and how plants changed the relationship both women have with themselves.

About the freedom to forage in Bulgaria without any legal framework.

And lots more.

You can find more information about Annelies here: https://www.monadmindfoundation.org/
Or follow her on Instagram @monad_mind

Lora can be found on Instagram @moiree.flower.magick and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Moiree.flower.magick

We mention the books of Stephen Harrod Buhner, they are a must read if you are a plant person.
https://www.stephenharrodbuhner.com/books/

#11 Foraging, farming, and culinary creativity with Swiss chef Rebecca Clopath

Episode 11

Tuesday, April 1, 2025 • Duration 01:03:34

Rebecca Clopath is an acclaimed chef from Switzerland, known for her innovative approach to sustainable gastronomy. She combines foraging, farming, and culinary creativity to create dishes that not only tell a story but also honour the land where they come from.

Let us inspire you to rethink your relationship with food and nature with this delicious conversation.

About her deep connection to local terroir and nature.

About a mindful eating philosophy that goes far beyond the plate.

About slow learning and getting to know all about 2 or 3 plants each year.

About the catch 22 of nature preservation in Belgium.

About discovering exotic flavours in local ingredients and the plants that have surprised Rebecca when creating dishes.

About the challenges and advantages of foraging in the Swiss mountains.

And lots more.

You can find more information about Rebecca and her culinary adventures here: https://rebecca-clopath.ch/
You can also follow her on Instagram: @rebeccaclopath
Or connect with her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-clopath/

Photos of Rebecca by Claudia Link

Support us so we can continue the WYLDE Podcast series, a living archive for foragers & herbalist across Europe.

https://whydonate.com/fundraising/wylde-podcast-donation

I'm looking for more interesting guests to talk about European herbalism and foraging in Europe. If you know anyone that would be perfect for this podcast, please let me know. You can find me on Instagram , and on .You can also find more about me or contact me through my website But please don't hang around online for too long. Go outside, and follow your wild heart music by

#10 Herbs and chronic illness with Anita Wasik

Episode 10

Tuesday, March 4, 2025 • Duration 01:01:19

Anita Wasik is a Polish medical herbalist and biomedical scientist, based in Finland.
She specialises in chronic illness, with areas of focus including environmental illness, digestive problems, hormonal disbalance, pain and fatigue, and mental health problems such as anxiety and depression.
Always with a personal and holistic approach.
And it all started with being chronically ill herself, as she will tell you in this inspiring conversation.

About how herbs were always a part of her life and childhood memories of her grandparents using them as first aid.

About her career path from medical science to herbal medicine.

About the traditional Polish herbal practices that influenced her and how Polish folk medicine blends herbalism and spirituality.

About the need for more scientific research into herbs and plants.

About the different political and legal approach to herbal medicine in Western and Eastern EU-countries, and more specifically the differences between Poland and Finland.

About the importance of observing and listening to get to the root cause of chronic illness.

About the process of healing and not providing quick fixes.

And lots more.

You can find more information about Anita and her work here: https://www.anitawasik.com/
Or you can follow her on Instagram: @dranitawasik

Support us so we can continue the WYLDE Podcast series, a living archive for foragers & herbalist across Europe.

https://whydonate.com/fundraising/wylde-podcast-donation

I'm looking for more interesting guests to talk about European herbalism and foraging in Europe. If you know anyone that would be perfect for this podcast, please let me know. You can find me on Instagram , and on .You can also find more about me or contact me through my website But please don't hang around online for too long. Go outside, and follow your wild heart music by

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