Becoming a Modern-Day Hunter-Gatherer with Arthur Haines — WildFed Podcast #021

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In this episode:

Arthur Haines | Botanist, Forager & Maine Guide

Podcast discussion:

• Arthur's background in hunting, fishing & foraging

• Navigating the complexities of modern-day hunting & gathering

• Getting started — increasing competency in the field

• Thoughts on ballistics and developing marksmanship

• Developing a good relationship with your game warden

• Non-toxic ammunition for all species — a conversation on using lead ammunition

• Choosing your weapon

• On bow hunting

• Upcoming hunts

• Protecting wild lands

• How to work with Arthur

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WildFed Podcast is brought to you by:

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Episode Resources: 

• Arthur Haines | Wilder Waters Community

• Arthur on Facebook

• Wilder Waters Community on Facebook & Instagram @wilderwaterscommunity

• Ancestral Plants Facebook Group

• Wilder Waters Hunter-Gather Apprenticeship Program

• Arthur Haines’ books:

  • A New Path: To Transcend the Great Forgetting Through Incorporating Ancestral Practices into Contemporary Living

  • Ancestral Plants: A Primitive Skills Guide to Important Wild Edible, Medicinal, and Useful Plants of the Northeast (Volume 1)

  • Ancestral Plants: A Primitive Skills Guide to Important Wild Edible, Medicinal, and Useful Plants of the Northeast (Volume 2)

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

• Boston Globe article featuring Daniel and WildFed

• First Peoples in a New World: Colonizing Ice Age America by David J. Meltzer

• Taran Tactical

• North Woods Law

• Waterfowl Identification: The LeMaster Method by Richard LeMaster

• Benelli shotguns

• Remington Model 870

• Diamond Archery

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Meet Arthur Haines

Arthur Haines is a Maine hunting and recreation guide, forager, ancestral skills mentor, author, public speaker, and botanical researcher. Arthur runs the Delta Institute of Natural History in Canton, Maine, where he teaches human ecology, focusing on the values of foraging, wildcrafting medicine, and primitive living skills. In 2017, he authored “A New Path”, a comprehensive work on nature connection and rewilding, detailing how to incorporate ancestral practices into modern living. As a research botanist for the Native Plant Trust, he completed an inclusive flora of the New England region titled “Flora Novae Angliae” and has authored over twenty publications in peer-reviewed journals and books, including naming species of plants new to science. His series of YouTube videos has inspired thousands of people interested in foraging wild edible and medicinal plants. Learn more at ArthurHaines.com.

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