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The Ground Shots Podcast

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

Nov 30, 2019

Episode #30 of the Ground Shots Podcast features a conversation with Laura Pendell, writer, artist and partner of the late ethnobotanist Dale Pendell.

Laura and I got together after several meet-ups last year to record this conversation in their shared library and studio in Penn Valley, California this past summer. We...

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

Nov 12, 2019

Episode #29 of the Ground Shots Podcast features a conversation with Marc Williams, who is based out of Asheville, North Carolina. I took a trip to the Southeast this past September, where I visited my folks in southern Virginia and friends in Asheville, NC. Marc and I met up for an interview in West Asheville, NC, in...

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

Oct 28, 2019

Episode #28 of the Ground Shots Podcast features a conversation with Tamara Wilder, who is based out of Ukiah, California.

Tamara has been teaching various ancestral skills from wild foods preparation, primitive fire-making, hide tanning, cordage and more for several decades.

She co-wrote the book 'Buckskin: The...

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

Oct 10, 2019

Episode #27 of the Ground Shots Podcast features a conversation with Katie Russell, the founder of the Buffalo Bridge Project on the ongoing work of the Buffalo Bridge Crew. We sat down to chat in my camper behind the laundromat in Twisp, Washington while we ate cherries and saskatoon berries.

Katie Russell lives in...

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

Sep 26, 2019

Hey ya’ll, Episode #26 of the Ground Shots Podcast is a mixtape of work composed by the musician and ecologist Lisa Schonberg influenced by soundscapes from the land where she does scientific research. Lisa is featured in conversation in Episode #25 of the podcast. Listen to our conversation about Lisa’s music and...