All Episodes

#90: Wind Clearwater. 20 years of permaculture in the desert

#89: Morgan Sjogren on advocating for western lands through immersive journalism

#88: Trevor Warmedahl of Sour Milk School & Milk Trekker on the necessity of reclaiming pastoralism

#87: Samuel Bautista Lazo and Mandalin Sattler on becoming good food for rock woman in Oaxaca, Mexico

Episode #86: Wild Tending Series/ Samuel Bautista Lazo & Damián Jiménez Martínez on Tseé Xigie radio - ecology, wild tending, land politics (Español/English)

#85: Dr. Cara Judea Alhadeff: Viscous Expectations: Justice, Vulnerability, The Ob-scene

We all eat the Colorado River: this watershed is a microcosm of our society with Jeff Wagner

Callie Russell on tending ecosystems with goats

Jason Hone on biblical ethnobotany and ecology of the holy lands

81: Ethan Bonnin on Ecological Degradation at the Borderlands

Elizabeth Yaari on regenerating desert land at the Night Owl Food Forest in Paonia, Colorado

Samantha Zipporah on radical fertility & the politics of birth

Jacquie Hill on the medicine of Ponderosa Pine and botanical research ethics

Calyx Liddick of Northern Appalachia School on the historical connection between ecological conservation and eugenics

Sylvia Poareo on Planting Seeds of Collective and Inclusive Regeneration

Kelly solo on teaching riparian ecology, preparing for a season on the land

Alex Zubia on the importance of good food, community and love in Fresno, California

Kelly solo on borders, rising to the occasion, weaving ecologies and land immersion

Lisa Ganora on molecular level connection, the magic of herbal constituents

writer, botanist, Susan Tweit on being a walking ecosystem, writing the deserts of the West

#70: Sarah Galvin: internal and external landscape tracking to address trauma, mothering in the modern world

Nikki Hill with Sigh Moon on Botany as Archaeology, to Stop a Lithium Mine

Wild Tending Series / A conversation in a Camas meadow. Adam Larue of Sharpening Stone on tending wild plants in southern Oregon

Ted Packard on bodies as a multiplicity, coyote-trickster troubadour-ing, music as ecological channeling, kids and nature connection, & creating communities of mutuality

An ode to Doug Elliott, Appalachian storyteller, herbalist and naturalist

#65: Wild Tending Series / Janet Kent and Dave Meesters of the Terra Sylva School of Botanical Medicine on disempowering the engines of disruption through intentional land-tending

#64: Mary Morgaine Plantwalker of Herb Mountain Farm on care-taking a botanical sanctuary in Appalachia

Living in the wilderness, fermenting on the road and facing the immediacy of death with Marissa Percoco

Chama Woydak of Homegrown Families on birth, death, and land connection

Jillian Ashley aka. Jill Trashley on the origins of the NOHM collective, nomadic business, community & plant tending across ecologies

#60: Land Diary / Southern Appalachia and Nettles in Spring

Is there such a thing as an "Invasive Species"? A conversation with Matt Chew Ph.d. hosted by Kollibri terre Sonnenblume, Nikki Hill and Gabe Crawford

A conversation with Sean Croke of the Hawthorn School of Plant Medicine

Gabe Crawford interviews Angela Moles P.h.D. on the rapid evolutionary responses of plants due to climate change, challenging scientific dogma

Dan Nanamkin part two: Gabe Crawford catches up with Dan on how his indigenous community stepped up to Covid, updates on the Young Warrior Society

Téo Montoya part two: the role of indigenous futurism in world building

Sarah Galvin of House of Yore on the need for madness and chaos medicine in our culture

Wild Tending Series / Gabe and Kelly on ecological history, anthropogenic landscapes and the negative side of conservation

Kelly speaks about her upbringing and the Ground Shots Podcast origins

Wild Tending Series / Ali Meders-Knight on integrating Traditional Ecological Knowledge into landscape management

Anna-Marija Helt on poisonous plants of the southern Rockies, bridging tradition and science in herbalism

Wild Tending Series/ Forest Farming in the Ozarks with Wren Haffner and Ini Giesbrecht of Mountain Jewel Center for Earth Connection

Kelly & Gabe with Téo Montoya on the Colorado Trail: indigenous futurism, finding sacredness in all places

47 : Sharon Kallis in Vancouver, BC on creatives as unique problemsolvers for ecological issues, using invasive plants in community building through craft

Kelly and Gabe reflect from mile 300 of the Colorado Trail on Texas Creek, west side of the Collegiate Loop

John Mahkewa on the wisdom of clay

Ramona Moonflower on protecting the Redwoods in the 90's, using forest therapy to re-connect to place

Kelly and Gabe reflect on the first six segments of their Plant-a-go on the Colorado Trail

Charity Cimarron of Mother Marrow out of Asheville, NC on intentional creativity in connection to the land

Wild tending series / Michael Ridge of Walking with Western Wildflowers on living nomadically year-round wild-tending on horseback

Samuel Bautista Lazo on coming back to the Corn during pandemic, destructive corporate intrusion on indigenous communities in Mexico

Dan Nanamkin on the importance of indigenous led skill-share with sovereignty camps

Jim Croft with Brien Beidler in Santa, Idaho on making books and paper from the ground up

Wild Tending Series / Dara Saville on riparian regeneration in the Southwest with the Yerba Mansa Project

Wild Tending series / Zach Elfers of Nomad Seed on experiential ethnobotany, propagating bioregional wild foods in the eastern woodlands and prairies

Kollibri terre Sonnenblume on the Failures of Farming and the Necessity of Wildtending

Hannah Schiller of Foliage Botanics on bioregional herbalism, place-based medicine making, the importance of letter writing

Wild Tending series / Nikki Hill and Gabe Crawford on re-thinking the concept of invasive plants

Brien Beidler and Mary Sullivan on the importance of the crafts of bookbinding and papermaking

Wild Tending series / Nikki Hill and Gabe Crawford on the basics of wild-tending

Laura Pendell on the work of the late Dale Pendell: ethnobotanist, poet and writer who conducted unique and important research on 'power plants'

Marc Williams on the Green Path, the urgency of 're-localizing' and accessibility issues around learning land-based skills

Tamara Wilder on wild foods in northern California, animal processing, wild tending and the importance of ancient technologies

Katie Russell on building political and cultural bridges with the Buffalo Bridge Project outside of Yellowstone National Park

Acoustic Ecology mixtape with Lisa Schonberg: using sounds from the Brazilian Amazon, Hawai'ian islands

Lisa Schonberg on using acoustic ecology to study ants in the Amazon and endemic bees in Hawai'i, making science accessible through musical composition

A musical ode to the Arrowleaf Balsamroot: a morning with Epona and Rainan Heathen at the Saskatoon Circle Gathering, in the Methow Valley, Washington

Steven Edholm of Paleotechnics and Skillcult on bark-tanning leather naturally

A candid evening of conversation in Santa, Idaho with Alyssa Sacora of the Patchwork Underground on The Ground Shots Project, travel, trauma, love, old ways of making things, connecting to the land through our work

Alicia Toldi on promoting accessible artist residencies with the Piney Wood Atlas project, spoon carving and post-permaculture training reflections

Freddie Mango Roots on Korean Natural Farming in Hawai'i, growing up in the deep south, culturing culture and a Kaua'i Food Forest plant walk

Hannah Smith on hut caretaking in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, writing as an act of noticing, giving care to a dying earth

Amy Armantrout of Scavenge Magic out of Eugene, OR on infusing planetary grief into garments with Black Walnut, scavenging to shift land relationships

Ep. 17: The Kaua'i Food Forest and subtropical agroforestry with Paul Massey and Rob Cruz

Ep. 16: Lindsey Leach on trauma informed council for children, systematic racism in Richmond, VA, revisioning history

Ep. 15: The road, death and common ground: Sam Sycamore of the Good Life Revival Podcast

Ep. 14: Aimee Joyaux of Cornmeal Press out of Petersburg, VA on processing our times through radical art making

Ep. 12: Turtle T. Turtlington on mead making, changing culture through fermentation, working with edgy plants, alchemy, alcohol and the poison path.

Ep. 11: Woniya Thibeault on connecting to the wild through ancestral skills, farming, hide tanning and cultural sensitivity, Woniya's book projects and more.

Ep. 10: Adam Stolte and his Goats. Thoughts on modern day pastoralism, domestication, Pacific Northwest plants for goat forage, and more.

Ep. #9: Christiana Hedlund on her art and craft practice, the feeling of color, place informed design

Ep. 8: Mario Tarasco, N.D., on navigating accessibility of care in Naturopathic medicine, harm reduction approaches working with addiction, the opiate crisis and more.

Ep. 7: Rebecca Beyer on syncretism in Appalachian Folk Herbalism, moral questions surrounding wildcrafting, cultural appropriation and more.

Ep. 6: Tilke Elkins on Investigating Color with Natural Pigments, Questions Surrounding Pigment Harvest, Defining Wilderness

Ep. 5: Ryan Pierce on the work of Signal Fire, an organization that unites art, activism and the outdoors

Ep. 4: Turtle T. Turtlington on the TransCalifornia Trail, the importance of pilgrimage and remembering the late Frank Cook

Ep. 3: Laurie Quesinberry on traditional Appalachian root digging in Laurel Fork, VA, issues around wildcrafting woodland medicinals and more.

Ep. 2: Emily Stock on being an herbalist in Moab, medicine making using the stars, Bear's Ears National Monument and public lands issues in Utah

Ep. 1: Samuel Bautista Lazo on weaving in Oaxaca, colonialism and the importance of making things from the land