Food, Culture, Place with Lori McCarthy — WildFed Podcast #116

In this episode:

Lori McCarthy | Cultural Food Ambassador

Podcast discussion:

  • Lori’s new book — Food, Culture, Place

  • The uniqueness of Newfoundland

  • Clay shooting and bird hunting

  • The evolving culture of wild food in Newfoundland and nostalgia for the good old days

  • Lori's passion for sharing the culture of Newfoundland with visitors

  • Recapping Lori's recent moose hunt

  • On deer hunting

  • The resilience of the older generation

  • Closing thoughts

WildFed Podcast is brought to you by:

 

SACRED HUNTING

Hunting can be an incredible tool for personal transformation. Helping you discover more about yourself, your environment, the animals you share the world with, and even helping you develop a deeper understanding of life and death itself. Hunting can help you find your place in the community of life.

But you could hunt all your life and never find that kind of transformation. It takes deliberate practice, awareness, and sometimes… even initiation.

That’s why our friend Mansal Denton created Sacred Hunting.

Sacred Hunting brings new or experienced hunters out onto the landscape to stalk, harvest, and field dress animals in a retreat-type setting — in conjunction with sweat lodges, entheogenic plant-medicine ceremonies (held on separate days from the hunt of course) and strong intention setting that prepares hunters for a life long spiritual relationship with themselves, the land and the animals they hunt.

If you want to learn to hunt in this way, check out SacredHunting.com.

Mansal and his team will guide you through beginner hunts and more experienced hunters will find unique opportunities available across the country and globe. Like Axis deer hunts on Molokai in Hawaii and even a Northern Siberia hunt with the Nenets people coming up in 2022.

There are only a few spots available per hunt, so go to SacredHunting.com and complete their 2 minute application. Discounts are available when you let them know you heard about them on The WildFed Podcast. Learn more about Mansal and Sacred Hunting on episode 59 of The WildFed Podcast.

 

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Meet Lori McCarthy

 
 

Lori McCarthy identifies fiercely as a Newfoundlander, which means more than just geographical location of birth to her. Her passion for the land is matched only by her passion for food culture. Deeply rooted here, the skilled chef and outdoorswoman is guided by a sense of responsibility to place. The ethics of conservation and sustainability inform her every move, and she is as serious about protecting Newfoundland culture, resources and food ways as she is about sharing them.

To be an innovative chef, forager, hunter, educator , and enthusiastic outdoorsperson is less unusual amongst Newfoundlanders than you might think. The provinces culture is based on the values of resourcefulness and working with what the land provides. But Lori has made it her life, becoming a leader and advocate in a back to the land approach where traditional food culture is central. She's committed to keeping the wild game and foods of this province on our plates for generations to come, and passing on the pride she learned at her own mother’s knee to her own children who will inherit this islands abundant bounty.

Website | Instagram @foodcultureplace

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