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Hello and welcome to For the Wild podcast. I'm a young, a young.

Today I'm speaking with Tusha Yakoleva.

That's a similar question as what memories do we need to cherish for the sake of our

of adjusted reciprocal future. And it's really hard for me to imagine that

the memories of categorizing the more than human world into binaries are good and bad,

especially during a time of great biodiversity loss will hold much wisdom for generations

yet to come. Tusha Yakoleva is an educator, gatherer, and ethno-boteness,

whose work revolves around generating strong, respectful relationships between plants and people.

Tusha's botanical knowledge is rooted in rural and urban lands within northern temperate forests

across two continents. The foundations of her lifelong foraging practices come from her family

and first home, the Volga River watershed in Russia, where tending to uncultivated plants and

mushrooms for food and medicine is its common purpose. Tusha's efforts in growing rest

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