Wild Kraft

Wild Ginger interviews Ranger Kacie Hallahan of the Bureau of Land Management Area King Range Wilderness. Topics include hiking the Lost Coast Trail, hiking shoes and of course, all the large animals you might encounter on the trails!

Wild Ginger interviews friend Venessa Kay from the SCARF (Shelter Cove Arts and Recreation Foundation) about the 2026 watercolor classes she is co hosting with Darcie Maassen. Sponsored by the California Arts Council, each class this summer and fall will incorporate a guest speaker and a different water color technique as the participants are encouraged to paint native plants and animals of the Kings Range Wilderness.

Wild Ginger croakes up facts on native pacific tree (chorus) frogs. She interviews KMUD talk show host and board of directors member Charley Custer on his chorus frog habitat restoration success.

On Wild Kraft this time, Wild Ginger interviews Elise Sauer of the "Sauer Power Fermentation Hour" a new quarterly show on KMUD about fermentation. However, today Elise is discussing the power of stinging nettle. Listen in and learn more about the many ways stinging nettle can be a plant ally for you! You won't want to miss this enlivening conversation!

On this edition of Wild Kraft Wild Ginger did some homework and learned all about porcupines. These illusive little cuties may be a threatened species in our community and we don't even know! Learn all the facts and hear them talk too! You won't believe it. Just another adventure down the rabbit hole with Wild G.

In this episode of Wild Kraft WG discusses HBM Society's 47 years of informing locals on mushrooms including: mushroom hunting, mushroom forays, mushroom fairs, mushroom dying and even mushroom swag. Morels, chantrelles and cordyceps oh my!

Wild Kraft today was a discussion with executive director of Friends of the Lost Coast, Justin Crellin. We discuss future events FOLC is putting on including mushroom, moss and liverwort lectures and a hike for mushrooms in the King Range. So much to enjoy in the Lost Coast!

In this Wild Kraft Wild Ginger interviews musician Uno Lady aka Christa Ebert about her musical adventures in nature and next project using a synthesizer to capture the energy trees emit and create music with it. She even records some coast redwoods in Rockafeller Forest!

In this interview Wild Ginger meets with Danielle with Microdosing Humboldt about medicinal psilocybin mushrooms. Learn about attending a workshop, a private micro or macro dosing event, growing your own and even neurological disorders and how psilocybin may help.

Wild Ginger interviews Sea Witch, a 25 year seaweed harvesting veteran, about sustaining our ocean’s bounty.

Interviewing Kevin Huntley, a Humboldt local entomologist about native and non native praying mantises in your garden!

In this episode of Wild Kraft, Wild Ginger speaks with Master Herbalist Maria Strouss about common weeds in the garden and what uses they have have in the kitchen and the first aid kit! Dandy lion, plantain and more...never judge a weed by its name!

Wild Ginger discusses redwood moths with local insect entomologist, Kevin Huntly.

Wild Ginger interviews Lee Neher as he discusses golden eagle flight patterns and GIS mapping. He explains how they wear tiny backpacks with solar panels on them!

Zoe Danckla is a research graduate with Cal Poly Humboldt's Marine Mammal Education Research Program discussing her study of Seals in Humboldt Bay.

Kevin Huntley explains how to protect moth from common street lights.

In this episode of Wild Kraft Wild Ginger freaks out about how cool flying squirrels are! You won't even believe the mad squirrel skills these arborial acrobats achieve!

Wild Ginger interviews master herbalist Maria Strouss about herbs that help reduce anxiety.

Jessi Lea of Hera Has a Heart discusses her adoration with the Hawthorn tree in her neighborhood and performs live in studio. Wild Ginger interviews Jessi Lea of Hera Has a Heart and Namberpams. They discuss the hawthorn plant, plant art, wild harvesting and hear live performances of three of her unqiue songs~