WorldWild Podcast

43 | Hungry Hearts with Fred Gillam

Journey with us into the biochemistry of reward, addiction’s evolutionary role, and life-supporting mechanisms, plus how they can be subverted by mechanised systems. We also discuss bee-keeping, de-organisming things, foraging as normal human behaviour, and being human when we are less than fifty-percent human cells. Joining us is Fred Gillam, medicinal mushroom teacher and forager, as we seek out a north star to guide us towards well-being...

42 | The Super Curious with Eleonora Matarrese

We need to know the other living things around us. The work of remembering and documenting these intricate and intimate relations is one that receives little fanfare and even less funding. What Eleonora Matarrese is doing, then, is a deep unearthing of these relations through historical documents and literature. It is this that informs her cooking and the approach she takes in her restaurant in the mountains in Northern Italy, bringing forth remembrances to communicate through wild food...

41 | Wild Solitude with Leanne Townsend

What happens when you become your own datum? Social scientist and forager Leanne Townsend finds herself turning into her own study subject as she looks at the lifestyles and practices that make up modern foraging. What comes to the surface time and again are the relational aspects of our ways of being; that which tells us where our beliefs, our practices, and our sense of self comes from is often rooted just below the surface. We dig a little deeper to find out more...

40 | Foraging with the Family with Kate Blincoe

We've been grounded and before we take another journey around our room we should take a look at what's growing in the front garden, you might be surprised how many edible plants can go in a salad of many wild things just under your nose! In this episode we're joined with Kate Blincoe, author of The No-Nonsense Guide to Green Parenting, to discuss how we can all stay grounded in these trying times and inspire the next generation at the same time...

39 | The Janus-Faced Present with Adrian Boots

What can we do in and around our homes to revitalise our relationships; with our landscapes, our communities, our bodies? Joined by wild food and outdoor adventure guide, Adrian Boots, we endeavour to come up with ways to weave ourselves into the fabric of life. One-eye backward, one-eye forward, with our feet firmly in the present...

38 | Starting with One Plant with Robin Harford

Learning is empowering, that much we know. So how do we go about teaching whilst lessening the grip of authority and control - thereby empowering the individual to be their own authority, to embrace their own experience and to develop a relationship with a wild plant as commonplace as a dandelion. We are talking with Robin Harford, the man behind EatWeeds and author many foraging guide books, about what we can do right now to be more at home in nature and to embrace the sensory experience...

37 | A Feminine Landscape with Alys Fowler

When all things seem uncertain we take solace in that which connects us to ourselves, to each other, to the land. When we are forming we learn to eat through the hospitality of the feminine; the womb, the breast, what the mother eats the child does also. And the land is the greatest mother of all, its abundant provisions are given over and over to us. We are speaking this week with Alys Fowler, horticulturist and journalist, about what we can do to confront issues of power, dominance, control, and what the wild provisions can tell us about the relationships we need the most right now...

36 | Wild Ways of Being with Fergus Drennan

Fergus Drennan is a wild food experimentalist and educator who once ate only wild food for three months, he also crafts and teaches on wild paper-making and natural dyes and paints. Miles and Fergus go back over fifteen years; they talk about their early days driving to London to sell their foraged goods and Fergus recounts the story of how he managed to shut a major street down with police surrounding his wild food-filled car after making a delivery to The Ivy...

35 | Mental Health in the Kitchen with Andrew Clarke

Mental health in the hospitality industry has become more recognised and spoken about in recent years. Andrew Clarke, chef and mental health ambassador, is working with restaurants to build spaces where people can share their struggles in a nurturing environment. Going through his own bout of depression a few years ago he began the hard work on himself. Now he wants to share his experience and to create a healthier and more fulfilling work-life for those in the same position...

34 | Reimagining Ourselves with Bruce Parry and Nicola Burgess

Bruce Parry has visited with many indigenous tribes throughout his career in television and film. Now he has come to a point of wanting to put what he has learned of egalitarian values and land-based culture into action in his own life. Joining the conversation is forager, expedition leader and traditional crafts teacher Nicola Burgess for an open discussion of what kind of society we want to live in...