The Ground Shots Podcast

This special extra episode of the podcast features a conversation with Sam Sycamore of the Good Life Revival Podcast. He hails originally from Kentucky, but has also traveled at different times across the U.S., farmed in Indiana, and now currently lives off-grid in Santa Cruz, California where he runs his podcast, is tending permaculture gardens, makes music and teaches an online foraging course....

Episode 14 of the Ground Shots Podcast.   This episode of the podcast features a conversation with radical visual artist and printmaker Aimee Joyaux who runs Cornmeal Press in Petersburg, Virginia. We recorded this conversation when I visited Aimee in October 2018, before doing a multi-week printmaking residency in her studios. I met Aimee while doing an immersive eight-week artist book, printmaki...

Episode 12 of The Ground Shots Podcast.   This longer *bonus* episode of the Ground Shots Podcast features a conversation with Turtle T. Turtlington on all things mead making while we drink several bottles of homemade mead Turtle brewed. Turtle was previously a guest on episode four of the podcast, where he chronicles his walk across the width of California.     We talk about :   instructions on h...

Episode 11 of the Ground Shots Podcast.     A conversation recorded by the south fork of the Trinity River in Hyampom, California with ancestral skills instructor Woniya Thibeault.     We talk about: connecting to the wild through ancestral skills, the pros and cons of farming, wild tending, having cultural sensitivity around ancestral skills and an awareness of colonization, various fibers for sp...

Episode Ten of the Ground Shots Podcast.    Episode ten is part field recording, part interview done while walking with Adam Stolte and his goat herd (plus the pig Ragnar) this past September in Hood River, Oregon. On our evening walk through Douglas Fir groves, Scotch Broom died back and Hazelnut, we discuss a number of topics related to goats, pastoralism, public lands, nomadism, connecting to t...

   Episode nine of the Ground Shots Podcast.     A conversation with artist and designer Christiana Hedlund on her art and craft practice, the feeling of color, place informed design, her Signal Fire experience, and more.      We talk about:      Christiana's study of painting and craft in the Pacific Northwest, the Southwest, France and Mexico. Colors and how they affect people differently and of...

Episode eight of the Ground Shots Podcast.     A conversation with Naturopathic doctor and herbalist Mario Tarasco on working with low-income & at-risk populations as a Naturopathic doctor, taking the harm reduction and non-shaming approach to working with addiction, the current opiate crisis in the U.S., herbal apprenticeships and more.       We talk about:   How Oregon's laws make it easier than...

Episode seven of the Ground Shots Podcast.   A conversation with folk herbalist, teacher, witch and forager Rebecca Beyer of Blood and Spicebush, out of Barnardsville, NC.       We talk about:   a few plants in the southern Appalachia and the folklore around them different ways to think about how to responsibly teach about Appalachian folk herbalism acknowledging the erasure of the contributions o...

Episode six of the Ground Shots Podcast.   A conversation with artist Tilke Elkins on the investigation of color through natural pigments and experiential art.       We talk about:     harvesting and processing natural pigments navigating moral questions surrounding settlers harvesting natural pigments for art, craft or to sell the historical invention of synthetic pigments and how it affected art...

Episode Five of the Ground Shots Podcast. A conversation with artist Ryan Pierce out of Portland, Oregon on the work of the organization Signal Fire, which aims to connect artists and activists to wild spaces through unique programming.   We talk about:      How Signal Fire started, it's mission and evolution as a unique non-profit that blends wilderness retreats, artist residencies and environmen...

Episode four of the Ground Shots Podcast.   Interview with Sky Turtle, gardener and artist currently based in Nevada City, California.   Bio from the Plants and Healers International website , an organization that Turtle co-leads trips with, and serves as a board member: "T.T. Turtlington   is a gardener, artist and teacher.  He lived for seven years at Earthaven EcoVillage in Black Mountain, Nort...

Episode Three of the Ground Shots Podcast.   Interview with Laurie Quesinberry, 'granny root digger' and founder of Bear Alchemy  out of Laurel Fork, Virginia, a small community in southern Appalachia.  We talk about:   the complexity of traditional Appalachian root digging the complicated nature of wildcrafting, especially in the southern Appalachia alternatives to digging highly sought after App...

Episode Two of the Ground Shots Podcast.   Interview with Emily Stock, founder of Sundial Medicinals, an apothecary in Moab, Utah.   We talk about: growing up in Moab, Utah with a tarot reader and herbalist grandmother Emily's study of astronomy and astrology and how it influences her medicine making practice how staying put in one place can give us insights about climate change how Emily slowly g...

Our first episode of the Ground Shots Podcast! Interview with Samuel Bautista Lazo, a Zapotec Weaver from the Oaxaca region of Mexico.  the power of weaving the good/bad effects of tourism and globalization on Samuel's village and community the concept of being responsible for land as a village vs. private land ownership a little bit on the history of colonialism in Oaxaca how weaving has helped p...