Tales from the Wild Table - Connie Green #155

ReWild Yourself

Daniel Vitalis

Health & Fitness

4.8 • 924 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2017

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

What a pleasure it was to speak with lifelong forager and pioneer in sustainable commercial wild food and mushroom foraging, Connie Green. Connie founded one of the very first and largest wild food businesses in the U.S., Wine Forest, where she still resides as “head huntress,” overseeing a beautifully rich and diverse selection of wild foods furnished to top chefs, restaurants, retailers and consumers. Friends of the forest, Connie and her team believe that wild food harvesting goes hand in hand with a love and respect for the ecosystems where these delectable wild edibles grow.

In this episode, Connie takes us back in time through the landscape of foraging over the past few decades and shares how she got her start in the commercial foraging business. She illuminates the commercial side of the foraging world with a focus on what she considers to be the secret ingredient in bridging the ancestral practice of hunting and gathering with modern gourmet cooking: sustainability and ethical harvesting practices.

We also explore some tactical “in the field” topics, such as Connie’s indispensable foraging equipment and her recommendations for how to get started foraging. Tune in and be inspired — or re-inspired — to participate in your local ecology by hunting and gathering from your landscape!

EPISODE BREAKDOWN:

Show Introduction:
- Got a question for Kim Anami about healthy human sexuality?
- Hunt + gather updates: Freediving in Florida
- Q&A: Back support on long car rides
Introducing Connie Green
How Connie came to this way of life
The landscape of foraging over the decades
On Euell Gibbons - the great grandfather of foraging
Wild food in restaurants
Crossroads between wild foods and agriculture
Eating invasives
The sustainability of hobbyist and commercial foragers
Level of processing for the commercial forager
Connie’s indispensable foraging equipment
Plant people, mushroom people, animal people
Getting started foraging
A message to aspiring foragers
Connie’s prognosis for the future of the human species
Where to find Connie’s work

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