Wild Honey Collective

In this special episode, our guest Gabe Huck maps a critical questioning of the American conscious over his own lifetime, from the civil rights era to the U.S. war in Iraq. His life’s work as a publisher in a small wing of peace-driven theological literature has instilled in him a great respect for knowledge, while a lifetime of stepping into the frontlines of the nation’s fights for racial justic...

For this magnetic, insightful conversation, I am joined by Andrea Russel, your local artisan baker and somatic arts practitioner, who came on the show one moon ago to speak about exploring grace, place, and facing oneself through the lens of her thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail. She curates the platform somahikes, where she has shared on instagram the living and evolving story of her hike that k...

Recipes are great, but one recipe can’t work for everyone, and that applies to the kitchen and to life. In Amanda Presgraves new book, The Nonrecipe Book: Designing for Whole Self Nourishment, she guides you through a thought process for following your senses and your imagination, to help you get confident feeding your belly and your self belief: of course, with the help of a little secret sauce....

Let's talk REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE 5 months after Roe v. Wade was overturned with Steph Nash, Co-Executive Director of Movement Building and Engagement at Blue Ridge Abortion Fund. We'll talk about the personal and the political realities and histories surrounding access to reproductive healthcare, and how race, class, and religion play a role. LEARN: Blue Ridge Abortion Fund  GET INVOLVED: Volunteer...

HOW TO LIVE YOUR MOST WILDLY DELICIOUS LIFE! Just like a fruit tree, we have to focus our energy and give ourselves time if we want to see our fruits ripen and become their fullest, most delicious selves. This episode unpacks some of the reasons WHY the things we desire seem risky, and how to assess when to take the risk and when to stay comfortable. Spoiler: the things that are equal parts compel...

A nourishing conversation with Sam Weinberg, Dr. of Oriental Medicine, licensed acupuncturist, astrologer, and founder of Classical Chinese Medicine of Virginia-a classical acupuncture and herbalism clinic in Harrisonburg, Virginia. We dive deeper into this fascinating, complete philosophy on striving for wholeness through the modalities of acupuncture & acupressure, herbalism, our relationship to...

She’s back. This week’s episode with poet/philosopher/somatic practitioner/earth-to-my-water Andrea Russell is just a straight-up healthy dose of philosophical conversation about what it means to be whole in a dismembered society-exploring how we find our purpose, what it means to be and connect to wildness, and to hold the complexity of contradiction as we seek to stay true to relationship and th...

"Let no one ever say that I fell in love; I rose in it." -Toni Morrison TW: mention of childhood abuse.  Choosing the people that become family, for those whose family backgrounds have warped the experience of being and knowing that you are loved, is a revolutionary, healing act. In this poignant conversation about rising in love, Navy Graber describes her experience of building chosen family acro...

Talibah Atiya Najee Aquil is a multifaceted teacher, facilitator, artist, and healer,  but at the center of everything she does is a story of self and society-and helping others learn how to reclaim that story for themselves. This is getting to the root of healing work. Decolonizing perceptions, thoughts, and narratives about what it means to be Black in America, and in the world. She is founder o...

Christine Harrel is an ayurveda and yoga practitioner and founder of a mindful movement and leadership program for people who are incarcerated called Virginia Community Yoga. She also owns and operates an apothecary and spa called Apothecafe Botanicals, where she shares her passion for holistic natural healing and ayurvedic body treatments. This episode is all about empowering ourselves to find se...

Where does healing really come from, and how can we recognize it as a more holistic vision than the easily recognized signals of health or disease given by our bodies? Sia Alexander is a healer, an entrepreneur, a curator, and (you might say) a pollinator of spiritual consciousness. Her answer to this question takes the shape of Pure Lagos: an Afropolitan experience in Norfolk, VA. Weaving togethe...

Welcome to season 2: a season all about healing work. This episode sets the tone by unpacking the question: what is healing work about?

Ecovillages. Intentional Communities. Communes. Cohousing communities. There's a whole world of communal living structures that seek to reimagine what it means to find home...together! There are many different definitions of these kinds of communities, but today I speak with Emiliano Espinosa of NextGEN North America (NextGENNA): a youth-focused ecovillage network that focuses on connecting young...

**note: this conversation took place during a time when my guest, Hyacinth, was going by a different name. As the iconic Drag Queen RuPaul says, "You're born naked and the rest is drag."  Queer community has a lot to teach itself. Born out of a struggle to claim the right to exist, queer expression, community-building, and love becomes acts of resistance to oppression. Friendly City Safe Space is...

“We do not have to reinvent fire; it’s already burning. We just have to keep it burning.” Professor of Sociology and peace building a Ashoak Xavier has traveled the world alongside his partner in life and in work Florina Xavier advising and consulting with projects related to human rights advocacy refugees displaced people HIV and AIDS patients and Royal farmers of the Dalit caste in his native In...

*Sound warning* there are times in our recording where the wind or passing background noise interfere a bit with our sound. Think of it as the wind adding its voice to the conversation. Where does collective growth begin, if not with fertile, living soil? My guest today is writer, facilitator, teacher, and farmer Jonathan McRay, of Silver Run Forest Farm here at the foot of Massanutten along Cub R...

Children are hard-wired for play. And approaches to early childhood education that create nurturing spaces for learning through play are taking new shapes in the spectrum of options increasingly available for pre-school and elementary education. In this conversation with Kristen Drake, lead-teacher and director of Fern Hollow Forest School, we explore the ways that traditional education models, es...

Mill Song Bakery bakes naturally leavened breads stone-milled on site with local grains from the Chesapeake Bay watershed. 80% of their grains come from Rockingham County, right where they bake their delicious bread. Stone-milled, naturally leavened bread was once a specially curated art that was passed down over generations and regionally adapted to the conditions of a certain place. People would...

In this episode, we *finally* dive deep into how social structures of the honey bees actually work, who they are, and how their artful communication forms inspired me to make this podcast. We talk about the structures of hive society, bee communication, the wonders of the waggle dance, bee myths around the world, and how human interference and is contributing to mass-scale harm in bee world. This...

Nari Sharif, robotics scientist, poet, inventor, philosopher, and student of a rich diversity of Eastern spiritual teachings, takes us through an adventurous dialogue between the binaries of the mind and the heart, tracing their harmonies in response to the persistant belief that they are irreconcilable.

What is climate grief? Many of us carry a lot of grief that we are part of a culture that we can't live into a more wholesome and life-giving framework for how to exist. We need a way to live that will allow us to process the anguish of knowing that we are a part of harmful ways of living, and even maintain our  sanity in the face of those hard truths. And for Ben Wyse (Wyse Cycles), the bicycle i...

Conversation is an intentional practice that invites us to discover ourselves and the world in which we seek to express our authenticity. In this episode with host of the pod Jive Talkin with Kevin Leaven, we dig into Kevin’s insights into the art of conversation as a Master of Communication & advocacy and an artist. Specifically, we get into the role of listening, cultural conditioning, intention...

TODAY! We have Olivia DiNucci, with the women-run anti war group CODEPINK on the pod to talk about her experience working to both confront systems rooted in war and nurture collectives rooted in peace. Olivia’s story is illuminating-not only because it shows us that we can fall into inspiring professional paths by following our authentic direction first; but she also lifts up frontlines struggles...

How do we align ourselves with the natural rhythm of the season of winter to feel more nourished by what many of us feel is a challenging season? Prepare. Nourish. Surrender. We’ll talk about nourishing your roots with what they need to replenish and grow, and how to take a whooooole season to do it. No guests today, just us. Note: the book I mentioned was The 5 Second Rule by Mel Robbins

This DYNAMIC episode is all about finding healthy expression through food, movement, and creating a brave body space where we can listen and learn from our lifelong conversation with ourselves and the world-through food. Amanda Presgraves is author of the Nonrecipe Book: a new spin on the traditional cookbook that encourages us to engage our senses and explore in the kitchen and in life. Weaving i...