Miles Irving - Foraging and the Kindness of Creation (N252)
Nomad Podcast
Tim Nash
4.7 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2021
⏱️ 102 minutes
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Summary
Miles Irving has been foraging since childhood. Having journeyed through Pentecostalism, he returned to his first passion for wild foods, and began to discover that our relationship to what we eat bears deeply on our relationship to everything.
In this episode, Miles and David Blower spend a day eating nothing but foraged food and talking through the joys, trials and transformations that come of eating what grows out of the soil where we live.
Interview starts at 15m 15s
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Welcome back to Nomad Podcast. I'm Tim Nash and this is musician, poet, an eater of squirrels, David Benjamin Blower. |
| 0:45.9 | Hello there. Nice to be here. How are you, mate? I'm all right. I'm a little bit stiff, actually. I've been doing some parkour. Have you really? Yeah, I mean, I don't want to be |
| 0:56.2 | mistaken for somebody who knows how to do parkour. That's not the case at all. Jumping from rooftops and |
| 1:01.3 | things. Oh, good Lord, no, certainly not. No. So my son is really excited about it. So, you know, |
| 1:09.0 | we've been doing a bit of that together. But yeah, no, |
| 1:11.5 | we haven't been doing anything death-difying. You're just sort of looking for bits of interesting, |
| 1:17.8 | jumpable concrete about the city. It's cool because you sort of build a bit of a new relationship |
| 1:24.4 | with your environment. It's just looking around everywhere for something |
| 1:27.5 | to jump off. Yeah. You never struck me as, you know, I hope this doesn't come across as kind of |
| 1:32.6 | offensive, but you never struck me as a particularly athletic sort of person. No, yeah, no, I'm |
| 1:37.7 | sort of happiest in a chair with a book, aren't I? But then I love doing stuff like that when it comes |
| 1:43.0 | up, but it never occurs to me off my own steam. |
| 1:45.6 | I tend to be goaded into it. |
| 1:49.8 | But yeah, my legs are killing me. |
| 1:54.5 | What's the weather like with you? |
| 1:55.7 | It's quite chilly and moist here in Nottingham today. |
| 1:58.8 | Same here, like proper, like, |
| 2:05.5 | um, hound of the Baskerville's English weather, isn't it? It's like grey, cloudy. |
| 2:06.2 | Yeah. |
| 2:07.0 | Uh, raining. |
| 2:09.9 | Yeah, I'm, I'm all right with that today. |
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