Plants & People: An Ethnobotanical Journey Through The Plant Kingdom
- Autor: Vários
- Narrador: Vários
- Editora: Podcast
- Duração: 32:46:34
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Sinopse
An audio journey through the wonderful wild world of plants. Episodes cover modern and ancient ways wild plants have been used in human culture as food, medicine and utilitarian uses.
Episódios
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EP31: The Importance of Ethnobotany - An Interview with Mark Nesbitt
21/08/2020 Duração: 28minEthnobotany is the study of the interrelationship between people and plants, historically and cross-culturally, particularly the role of plants in human culture and practices, how humans have used and modified plants, and how they represent them in their systems of knowledge.
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EP30: Edible City - Urban Foraging During Lockdown
13/04/2020 Duração: 01h03minJohn Rensten (author of Edible City) discusses how to keep foraging in a city during the coronavirus lockdown. How to stay safe, keep your distance and why foraging is vitally important for mental and physical wellbeing.
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EP29: Calm Ease
20/03/2020 Duração: 11minA discussion on foraging, stillness and mindfulness as a way to work with difficult feelings during the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic.
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EP28: Introducing Plant Talk
04/03/2020 Duração: 04minIntroducing Plant Talk, a new supplement to the regular Eatweeds podcast show that encourages and prompts you to deepen your relationship with plants.
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EP27: Be Your Own Authority - A Forager's Perspective
13/12/2019 Duração: 35minChris Holland (Talks With Tellers) interviews wild food author and forager Robin Harford. They discuss the importance of restoring vital connection to the ecosystem. Teaching plants through the power of story. Empowering self and community through sensory-based nature connection practices and more.
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EP26: Herbalism With Attitude
03/12/2019 Duração: 50minIt’s round two with the Seed Sistas. Britain’s most irreverent herbalists.For the past few years, they have been making waves in the plant community.Overthrowing the colonialism that has turned herbalism from something we all used to do, into a profession where you’d think you need a PhD just to touch a plant!Colourful, fun and full of vim (No, not the cleaning product), they discuss: why plant medicine is for the people. how they got threatened with jail time for selling a herbal balm. why educating people in self-care and herbal rebellion is a revolutionary act. Always a laugh, never tame and with firecracker energy that makes the Y2K firework display look positively drab.The Seed Sistas are a joy to listen to and an inspiration for anyone who wants to wrestle control of their health back from Big Pharma, and government control.Hold on to your knickers. Here we go…
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EP25: Edible Acorns - The Forgotten Food
17/09/2019 Duração: 56minAcorns are a massive, under-utilised and forgotten food source. Join Robin Harford (your host) and Marcie Mayer (Europe's foremost acorn food producer), as they explore the edible uses of acorns as a food and in cooking. How to properly process acorns to remove tannins. Long term food storage. Acorns nutritional content, as well as establishing community acorn festivals around the country, plus much more.
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EP24: Nutritional Cultural Identity
12/08/2019 Duração: 40minMasanobu Fukuoka's one-straw revolution inspired Krishna McKenzie to start his own organic farm in Auroville, Tamil Nadu, India. In this interview he talks about the importance of nutritional cultural identity, wild food volunteer plants, soil fertility, and collective wellbeing.
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EP23: Wild Tea Ceremonies & Celebrations
17/06/2019 Duração: 21minHow to create your own local wild tea ceremonies and celebrations for community building and wild wellbeing.
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EP22: Foraging The Future, Sustainability & Vital Connection
12/11/2018 Duração: 49minAn interview with Miles Irving, author of the Forager Handbook and creator of The Wildbox, on why we must include humans in our conservation models in order to look after wild spaces. Why foraging is sustainable. How foraging can help feed an ever growing population, and how we can restore our vital connection to Land.
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EP21: From 19th Century Famine Potherb to 21st Century Hipster Food
05/11/2018 Duração: 01h02minLukasz Luczaj presents Kew’s 19th Annual Distinguished Ethnobotanist Lecture.
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EP20: Discovering New Wild Edible Plants With Łukasz Łuczaj
26/10/2018 Duração: 24minA poisonous plant in one culture can be a food plant in another. In this rare interview, one of Europe’s leading ethnobotanists, Łukasz Łuczaj shares his passion for wild food plants. Prolific in his research, Łukasz reveals some surprising facts about what is considered ‘food’.
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EP19: The Future of Farming is Foraging
05/10/2018 Duração: 41minHilltown Organics are revolutionising how we farm. Incorporating wild edible plants into their polyculture farming systems, they grow high-nutrient food plants that are sold at farmer’s markets. According to soil scientists, their revolutionary farming practices have produced some of the richest soil found anywhere in the UK.
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EP18: The Wild Art of Fermentation
31/05/2018 Duração: 44minFermented foods are a delicious and rich source of nourishment. The fermentation process can transform the flavour of food from the plain and mundane in to delicious flavours enlivened by colonies of beneficial bacteria and enhanced micronutrients. In this episode I talk with former plant biochemist Viola Sampson turned "fermentation passionista" on the benefits of wild fermented foods.
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EP17: New York's Notorious Vegan Forager
26/02/2018 Duração: 35minNotorious New York vegan forager Steve Brill was busted by the cops for picking a dandelion. In this interview the father and daughter double-act discuss their foraging antics around New York. While revealing how to craft delicious vegan cuisine from their foraged finds. Including some truly unique ways to use wild edible plants.
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EW16: Herbalists Without Borders
09/11/2017 Duração: 41minAn interview with Becs Griffiths and Annwen Jones from Herbalists Without Borders (Bristol) - talking about social justice, radical herbalism and providing free healthcare to people fleeing conflict, persecution, and intolerable living conditions.
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EP15: The Handmade Apothecary
24/10/2017 Duração: 24minIn this episode I talk with two amazing herbalists about why we need to build ‘health resilience’ using herbal medicine, in an age of NHS cuts and a national health crisis. When is the best time to self-medicate, and when should you visit the doctor? Why modern medicine isn’t always evil, and what our grandparents could have taught us about how plants, herbs and other foods can empower us.
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EP14: Why The Balsam Bashers Might Be Wrong: A New Way Of Looking At Invasive Plants
11/07/2017 Duração: 43minRobin Harford discusses with Pete Yeo from Future Flora why invasive plants may actually be good for the environment. Does the science stack up in favour of the balsam bashers? As well as the parallels and phobia over ‘immigrant plants’ with nationalism and the racist hysteria of ‘foreigners’. Is there such a thing as a native plant?
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EP13: Absinthe Alchemy: The Forgotten Story of an Outcast Spirit
05/07/2017 Duração: 41minT.A. Breaux, one of the world leading experts on the distillation of absinthe, reveals its forgotten history, sings its praises and dispels the common myths of this much maligned liquor.
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EP12: Passion Potions: Herbalism and the Radical Heart Revolution
10/05/2017 Duração: 52minThe Seed Sistas (radical herbalists extraordinaire) discuss passion potions, wild herbalism, wellbeing, resilience, anarchy, connection, community and activism.