Hey everybody this is Daniel Vitellis and I want to welcome today's guest

someone for me who's kind of a real inspiration and that's Samuel Fair

author of The Forges Harvest and Nature's Garden.

He has written a couple of books that are really, I want to say genre defining.

You know, before his books, most of the wild food books that I saw were more of like an

identification guide really but didn't really offer a lot on how the forager

can actually identify the plants that they're looking for in the right season,

harvest the correct parts, how to process them, how to use them.

And Sam wrote these books where he dedicated a chapter to each plant and

really digs in, shows us how to do this and what that made

really clear to me was that we're dealing with somebody here who's a real forger

who's a real modern day gatherer and I think gives him a really unique voice. So I just want to say hey

welcome Samuel thank you so much for taking the time with us today I know you're really

busy so we'll keep it short today thanks Thanks for taking the time out.

Hey, well, thanks for calling me,

and I love talking with people that are interested in foraging.

We're so interested in it, you know,

and just a little background on this community

is we have this belief and I've developed

this along with my friend Arthur Haynes who I know you're friends with this idea

that modern humans are really a domesticated subspecies of wild humans, wild foragers, right?

So we like to say that Homo sapiens are the wild foraging people of the world,

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