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Going Wild with Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant

From Foraging to Fame: How Alexis Nikole Nelson Became @blackforager

Going Wild with Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant

WNET

Science, Pets & Animals, Nature, Kids & Family, Natural Sciences

4.9636 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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For more NATURE, sign up for our newsletter: https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/newsletter/ Alexis Nikole Nelson, better known to her millions of fans as @blackforager, was raised by a mother who is an avid gardener and a father who loves to cook. Foraging allowed Alexis to fuse her love for wild plants and food from a very young age. But before Alexis became the @blackforager we all know today, there was a period in her life where Alexis lost that love and connection to foraging, and where food became very much the enemy. By rediscovering her childhood love of foraging and falling back in love with food and plants, Alexis has inspired millions of her fans to discover the abundance growing freely around them and rethink their own relationship to food. Thanks for listening to Going Wild. We're really excited to share the rest of this season with you! You can learn more about season four HERE and catch up on seasons one through three HERE.  If you want to support us, you can follow Going Wild on your favorite podcast-listening app. And while you're there, please leave us a review. It really helps. Follow PBS Nature and Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant on Instagram, TikTok, X, and Facebook. You can find more information on all of our guests this season in each episode's show notes. And you can catch new episodes of Nature, Wednesdays at 8/7 Central on PBS, pbs.org/nature, and the PBS app. Going Wild is a podcast by PBS Nature. NATURE is an award-winning series created by The WNET Group and made possible by all of you. Views and opinions expressed during the podcast are those of the individuals expressing them and do not necessarily reflect those of THIRTEEN Productions LLC/The WNET Group.

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0:00.0

When I was foraging in Japan, I was minutes away from a run-in with a bear.

0:08.0

And that bear had just pooped a ton of ginkgo nuts.

0:12.0

Okay, you gotta tell that story, Alexis.

0:15.0

You said the magic word. You said bear.

0:18.0

I'm Dr. Ray Wyn Grant, and this is a you said bear.

0:28.1

I'm Dr. Ray Wyn Grant, and this is a different kind of nature show, a podcast about the human drama of saving animals.

0:31.6

This season, we're talking to all kinds of nature advocates, from a paleoanthropologist who hunts fossils in conflict zones

0:40.2

to someone who helped save an endangered species while in prison. We're going to hear from

0:46.1

real-life heroes with widely different expertise and life experiences about what led them to be champions

0:53.2

for the natural world. What transformation

0:56.0

did they go through to create change within themselves, their community, and the world?

1:01.0

Together, we'll find out how these ordinary people fell in love with nature and became their most

1:08.0

extraordinary selves. This is Going Wild.

1:15.8

Today I'm talking to the Internet's favorite forager and my new friend, Alexis Nicole Nelson,

1:25.5

also known as Black Forager. If you're not one of the millions of people who follow her on the internet,

1:31.3

Alexis is a James Beard Award-winning forager,

1:35.3

vegan food concocter, environmental science enthusiast,

1:39.3

and a soon-to-be cookbook author.

1:42.3

As Black Forager, Alexis has over 6 million followers

1:46.9

on TikTok and Instagram,

1:48.4

where she regularly posts videos teaching people

1:50.7

how to identify, harvest, and cook

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