Evolved to Do This: Primitive Skills, Modern World with Natalie Bogwalker — WildFed Podcast #055
In this episode:
Natalie Bogwalker | Founder and Director of Wild Abundance
Podcast discussion:
Introducing Natalie
Why it's important to keep ancestral skills alive
Natalie's car accident
Natalie's relationship to wild foods
Community involvement in food harvesting and processing
All about buckskin
The history of brain tanning
The science behind brain tanning
Ins and outs of hide tanning
How Natalie's online hide tanning course works
What you need to get started in hide tanning
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Episode Resources:
Natalie on Instagram @wildabundance and Facebook
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Meet Natalie Bogwalker
Natalie is the visionary behind Wild Abundance, as well as the founder, director, and a primary instructor for many classes. Natalie is passionate about teaching and sharing skills to help all kinds of people live in an empowered and Earth-centered way.
In 2008 Natalie founded the Firefly Gathering, an earthskills gathering focused on bringing people together to teach and learn. Under Natalie’s management, Firefly became the most well-attended event of its kind in the country, and the only one that was led by a woman. Natalie felt a strong desire to see the impact of sharing these skills with people throughout the year, not just at a once-a-year event, so in 2010 she founded Wild Abundance.
Natalie and her family live at the Wild Abundance homestead campus in the Southern Appalachians. She balances her time between managing the logistics of the school, teaching, tending the garden, building, playing with her daughter and partner, visiting wild places, connecting with her community, and basking in the beauty of nature. Click here to read more about Natalie’s life and adventures.
Website | Instagram @wildabundance | Facebook