A Unifying Theory of Food & Why You Should Eat Blueberries with Arthur Haines — WildFed Podcast #033

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In this episode:

Arthur Haines | Botanist, Forager & Maine Guide

Podcast discussion:

• Describing our interview location

• Introducing Arthur Haines

• Arthur’s primitive skills gathering, Dawnland

• Meeting your meat — introducing people to respectful killing of an animal

• The magnificent Crimson Lobelia

• Are hominids responsible for the shrinking of mammal size?

• Does raking harm the blueberry plant?

• A wild berry review

• The range of blueberry

• The function of blueberry in the diet

• Cultivated vs wild

• How blueberries effect salmon

• Arthur’s favorite species of wild blueberry

• Harvesting & processing best practices

• Grant’s first time out blueberry harvesting

• What determines when blueberries are ripe?

• Conservation through use

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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’s classes & Wilder Waters Community events

• 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)

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

• Penobscot

• Passamaquoddy

• Nezinscot Farm

• Lobelia

• In 200 Years Cows May Be the Biggest Land Mammals on the Planet

• Northern blueberry, Vaccinium boreale

• Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures by Nick Pyenson

• The Women Who Kill Lions

• Maine Wild Blueberries

• Shadbush, Amelanchier

• Black chokeberry, Aronia

• Huckleberry

• Black huckleberry, Gaylussacia baccata

• Crowberry, Empetrum nigrum

• Cranberry

• Whales, Whaling and Whalecraft: An Illustrated Handbook by Paul Giambarba

• The President's Salmon: Restoring the King of Fish and its Home Waters by Catherine Schmitt

• Lowbush blueberry, Vaccinium angustifolium

• Velvetleaf blueberry, Vaccinium myrtilloides

• Hubbard Rake Company

• Sam Thayer

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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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