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Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

What Is Foraging? with Alexis Nikole Nelson (aka BlackForager)

Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

Sony Music

Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Comedy, Education

4.921.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

If you’re on TikTok or Insta, you’ve probably seen Alexis Nikole Nelson aka BlackForager sharing a recipe for acorn flour, or demonstrating how to identify onion grass. We’re obsessed with her, and we NEED to know more about foraging. So on this week’s episode, we’re getting answers to the questions we’re dying to know: what can we forage based on where we live? What are dangerous plants we should avoid? And what’s the history behind America’s foraging laws? Alexis Nikole Nelson is a forager and outdoor educator using her platform to yell about all the edible plants hiding in plain sight! Her foraging tips, recipe videos, and food history lessons have led Alexis to amass over 5 million dedicated fans across platforms. Her mom said she had to list her accolades so she’s awkwardly going to put them here: James Beard Award for “Best Social Media” 2022, Forbes 30 Under 30, TikTok Tastemaker, Fortune Magazine’s Creator 25 2021. You can follow Alexis on Instagram @blackforager, YouTube @BlackForager and Tiktok @alexisnikole Follow us on Instagram @CuriousWithJVN to join the conversation. Jonathan is on Instagram @JVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Find books from Getting Curious guests at bookshop.org/shop/curiouswithjvn. Our senior producers are Chris McClure and Julia Melfi. Our associate producer is Allison Weiss. Our engineer is Nathanael McClure. Production support from Julie Carrillo, Anne Currie, and Chad Hall. Our theme music is “Freak” by QUIÑ; for more, head to TheQuinCat.com. Curious about bringing your brand to life on the show? Email podcastadsales@sonymusic.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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Is it like a gorgeous like two bedroom suite instead of a one bedroom

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so you don't have to like hear them doing whatever with what they're doing in your

0:41.9

guys's room is it like really

0:44.2

adulting oh I love adulting and you know what else I love is not waiting to make

0:50.2

smart financial decisions I also love paying my credit cards often full every month

0:55.2

because like yes good credit so let's like do try to do that and like making responsible decisions

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1:17.0

Curious people.

1:20.0

How are you darling? I'm Jonathan Banes and welcome to getting

1:27.1

curious. Oh my God, was that so fun? It was a new intro. Oh my God, I freaked out, I did it.

1:30.4

I went for it. You guys love it. Okay, I have been curious about, well honestly, so much of the source of my curiosity is what I find on my FYP and explore pages Pages and one person that I found in the last few years on my

1:46.7

Tik-Toc who I have become obsessed with and love and I'm so excited to get to talk to

1:50.8

her is Black Forager, honey.

1:53.7

She's at Alexis Nicole on Tik-Tok.

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