Living in a Lichen Wonderland with Felicity Roberts — WildFed Podcast #032

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In this episode:

Felicity Roberts | Lichen Expert, Forager & Herbalist

Podcast discussion:

• Introducing Felicity

• Classifying lichen

• Who are lichenologists?

• Are lichens cosmopolitan?

• There's nothing simple about lichens

• Different types of lichens

• The many uses of lichens

• Poisonous lichens

• Do lichens draw off the substrate they grow on?

• Salvage botany — sustainable lichen harvesting

• Dyeing with lichens — how Felicity got into lichen art

• The growing popularity of lichens

• Lichen as indicators of the health of the ecosystem

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Episode Resources: 

• Tour Newfoundland with Felicity!

• Lichen articles by Felicty:

  • Know Your Lichens: Episode 1- Lobaria Pulmonaria, The Lungs Of The Forest

  • Know Your Lichens- Episode 2: Elegant Xanthoria, Colour Changing Nitrophile

  • Newfoundland and Labrador is rediscovering its lichens

• Felicity’s articles at The Overcast

• Lori McCarthy

• Newfoundland, Food Is Who We Are with Lori McCarthy — WildFed Podcast #011

• Cultural Heritage, Food Security, and COVID-19 with Lori McCarthy — WildFed Podcast #027

• Clare Dawn

• Troy McMullin

• Common Lichens of Northeastern North America: A Field Guide by Troy McMullin

• Bryoria

• Letharia

• Crustose lichen

• Lichens of North America by Irwin M. Brodo, Sylvia Duran Sharnoff, Stephen Sharnoff

• Fruticose lichen

• Usnea

• Rock tripe

• Caribou moss, Cladonia rangiferina

• Video: They call it 'old man's beard'

• Cladonia

• Fogo Island

• Fogo Island Inn

• Shorefast

• Marlene Creates — environmental artist

• Dr. Yolanda Wiersma — landscape ecology

• Dr. Irwin M. Brodo — world authority on the identification and biology of lichens

• The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

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Meet Felicity Roberts

Felicity Roberts is a rural Newfoundlander, certified herbalist, farmer, writer, wild food advocate, and self-described relic. Most comfortable on the barrens cutting heather to dye wool or hanging off the edge of a cliff harvesting rare berries, she specializes in both culinary and medicinal applications of local flora and the folklore surrounding them. While living and working in the capital of St. John's, Felicity has made it her goal to explore every rural museum, abandoned site,

and cool rock formation she can find around her home peninsula, the Avalon, and she occasionally writes about travel.

Learn about touring Newfoundland with Felicity here.