Nut Trees, Democracy & The More Than Human World with Zach Elfers — WildFed Podcast #111

In this episode:

Zach Elfers | Ethnobotanist

Podcast discussion:

  • Introducing Zach

  • Reciprocal ecological relationships

  • Zach's projects

  • The real meaning of Manhattan

  • The history of tending the wild

  • Indigenous vs colonial land management paradigms

  • A return to traditional ecological knowledge

  • Where to find Zach's work

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Red Kill Mountain is home to New York state’s largest wild apple savannah. Overlooking the East Branch of the Delaware River is a beautiful hillside covered in wild apples grown from seed.

These apples aren’t the named varieties of grafted clones you get in the store — these are wild, seed-grown apples.

The apple season is just about over, but Red Kill Mountain Homestead Farms is shipping their wonderful dried apples, apple molasses, apple spread, and bourbon barrel maple syrup.

I get really excited about their apple molasses — also known as cider syrup. Apple molasses was a traditional sweetener used in homestead kitchens before the availability of inexpensive sugar products, and today it’s listed by the Slow Food Ark of Taste as an endangered food. Red Kill Mountain is one of only 3 producers left in the country!

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Meet Zach Elfers

 
 

Zach Elfers was raised in the piedmont of the mid-Atlantic but has travelled widely around the lower 48. He is a student of the plants who has learned from mentors, elders, and most importantly, from living outside spending as much time as possible with the more-than-human world. His areas of interest include ancestral ways of subsisting, living, and knowing, and his work is focused on growing and promoting bioregional plants as food, medicine, and the foundations of our subsistence economies, rather than the imported and ecologically destructive colonial agriculture.

Website | Instagram @woodlandrambler

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