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Daniel Vitalis

Hosted by Daniel Vitalis, The WildFed Podcast is about deepening your connection with the natural world through hunting, fishing, foraging, and, of course, food. It’s about the wild food that’s freely available on your landscape, at the edges of your town or city, and sometimes just outside your door. The podcast consists of interviews with biologists, authors, wildlife managers, foragers, hunters, anglers, chefs, friends, and plenty of educational and inspirational solo shows too. WildFed — Food Is All Around You.

WildFed Podcast — Hunt Fish Forage Food

Welcome to the inaugural episode of The WildFed Podcast! In this episode, our host Daniel Vitalis introduces WildFed, shares a little bit about who we are and discusses what you can expect from WildFed, both the podcast and the forthcoming Video Show.
 
View full show notes, including links to resources from this episode here: https://www.wild-fed.com/podcast/001

Who We Are with Daniel Vitalis — WildFed Podcast #001

A lively fireside chat with Arthur Haines, Sara Moore, William Orne and Daniel Vitalis after a weekend spent fishing for lake whitefish in Northern Maine. Topics discussed include what’s changed over the years in the North Maine Woods, fishing regulations and staying legal, the history of whitefish and Bill’s moose calls.
 
View full show notes, including links to resources from this episode here: https://www.wild-fed.com/podcast/002

Tastes Like Chicken, A Roundtable with Arthur Haines — WildFed Podcast #002

Deb Perkins, bear biologist, and now “The Personal Ecologist” inspires us to bring “exquisite attention” to our interactions in nature to foster a deeper connection to our local ecology. She shares fascinating stories from her years as a field biologist studying bears all over North America, and we chat about her work in ecological habitat design.
 
 View full show notes, including links to resources from this episode here: https://www.wild-fed.com/podcast/003

Mean Jean, Pizzlies and Habitat Design with Deb Perkins — WildFed Podcast #003

After a week in Wisconsin with Alan Bergo — @foragerchef — we sat down to talk about what he calls “the final frontier of food”. With an emphasis on foraging for flavor — rather than calories — Alan shares how we can paint our plate with a new palette of unique flavors. Wild foods like meristematic pine cones and sweet fern — examples, he says, of “real plants doing real plant things”. On the cutting edge of wild food cuisine, Alan will make you rethink how you use wild foods in the kitchen with his innovative & practical advice.
 
 View full show notes, including links to resources from this episode here: https://www.wild-fed.com/podcast/004

The Final Frontier of Food with Chef Alan Bergo — WildFed Podcast #004

It was such a pleasure to chat all things wild food with Jenna Rozelle — Maine-based wild food educator & board member of the New England chapter of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers. Jenna is passionate about fostering relationships between people and their local landscapes. An active and conscientious hunter, fisher & forager, she’s a true ambassador for this lifestyle. In this interview, we cover a wide range of topics — and have a lot of laughs along the way — including the future of foraging, plant people vs. animal people, veganism, hunter's orange, following the rules, posting land and so much more.
 
 View full show notes, including links to resources from this episode here: https://www.wild-fed.com/podcast/005

A Reason to be Outside with Jenna Rozelle — WildFed Podcast #005

Best-selling author and lifelong fisherman Paul Greenberg gives us a briefing on the health of our world’s fisheries and their sustainability into the future. Paul wrote a trio of books — Four Fish, American Catch and most recently, The Omega Principle — that take an investigative look at healthy, sustainable seafood and our relationship to the fish on our plate. We delve into each of Paul's books, get to the root of fish flavor perceptions, take an in-depth look at the sushi fish, get the lowdown on the science and startling truths of Omega-3s and get Paul's big picture outlook on the sustainability of our ocean's ecosystem into the future. This is an important listen for those who care about the state of our oceans and the conservation of our wild fisheries.
 
 View full show notes, including links to resources from this episode here: https://www.wild-fed.com/podcast/006

On Oceans, Seafood & Sustainability with Paul Greenberg — WildFed Podcast #006

Have you been wanting to get into wild foods but run into significant barriers to entry? Are you looking to expand on your current hunting, fishing, or foraging practice? In this solo episode of The WildFed Podcast, our host Daniel Vitalis — an adult-onset hunter/gatherer himself — will guide you through his top strategies for getting started finding your niche in the world of hunting, fishing & foraging. You'll hear tips on identifying your optimal foraging range, the value in finding species that are easily harvested without a lot of technical skills & equipment, the steps you can take to get started hunting, fishing & foraging right now, and so much more. This episode will help the beginner develop their wild food niche and offer some fresh perspective on developing wild food culture for the more advanced wild food enthusiast.
 
 View full show notes, including links to resources from this episode here: https://www.wild-fed.com/podcast/007

Finding Your Niche: Developing a Wild Food Practice with Daniel Vitalis — WildFed Podcast #007

Take a deep dive into the surprisingly complex life of seaweed with Jessica Muhlin, Ph.D! Jessica is an intertidal ecologist and associate professor of Marine Biology in the Corning School of Ocean Studies at Maine Maritime Academy. Her passion for marine macroalgae (aka seaweeds) is contagious. In this conversation, Jessica shares her extensive knowledge on seaweed reproductive ecology, the many applications of seaweed, the sustainability of seaweed harvesting in Maine, and much more. She also shares some helpful tips on seaweed foraging so you can start incorporating this wild protist into your own diet!
 
 View full show notes, including links to resources from this episode here: https://www.wild-fed.com/podcast/008

The Secret Life of Seaweed with Jessica Muhlin, Ph.D — WildFed Podcast #008

In this episode of The WildFed Podcast, Daniel talks with award-winning journalist and author of The Last Whalers, Doug Bock Clark. Doug spent three years living in Indonesia with indigenous subsistence whalers — a people-group known as the Lamalerans — and recounts everything from his first-hand accounts of being on whale hunts to the experience living with hunter-gatherers. This story is powerful, gripping, poignant, and especially interesting and inspiring for modern subsistence hunter-gatherers. We'd love to hear what you think and feel about it!
 
 View full show notes, including links to resources from this episode here: https://www.wild-fed.com/podcast/009

Living with Indigenous Whalers with Doug Bock Clark — WildFed Podcast #009

Jim Knutson — owner of Reel Identity Fishing Charters in the Florida Keys — is an avid and lifelong hunter and fisherman. Jim and Daniel met by chance in a tackle shop in Marathon Key talking iguana hunting, and they now enjoy offshore fishing & iguana wrangling together every year. Jim is full of riveting and hilarious stories from a lifetime of hunting and fishing, and he shares some of them with us in this interview — from tickling trout to freediving for abalone to a story about learning to hunt deer you have to hear to believe.
 
View full show notes, including links to resources from this episode here: https://www.wild-fed.com/podcast/010

Wrangling Iguanas & Diving for Abalone with Jim Knutson — WildFed Podcast #010

Nikaline Iacono is the owner and visionary behind Vessel & Vine — an eclectic bar and bistro in Maine with a focus on locally-sourced cocktails and cuisine. We sat down with Nikaline at "The Vine" for a wide-ranging conversation over foraged cocktails. Be warned: We traverse a lot of territory in this interview — some of it taboo — including the complex horse-human relationship, how to make a Chaga Toddy, invasive species, and even eugenics. Enjoy & cheers!
 
View full show notes, including links to resources from this episode here: https://www.wild-fed.com/podcast/023

Foraged Cocktails and Other Taboos with Nikaline Iacono — WildFed Podcast #023

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