Episodes
Kelly speaks on paying attention to details of place and how those moments of attention become stories of reverence, Nettles and other small observations of Spring in Southern Appalachia.
Published 06/02/21
Kollibri terre Sonnenblume, Nikki Hill and Gabe Crawford interview Matt Chew Ph.d. from the University of Arizona on novel ecosystems, the history of invasion biology, the shortcomings of invasion biology research, and the social culture around invasion biology today.
Published 05/04/21
A conversation with Sean Croke of the Hawthorn School of Plant Medicine out of Olympia, Washington on running an herb school during the pandemic, learning plants by getting hands-on connection, prioritizing the propagation of wild plants, Sean's recent book project and more.
Published 04/24/21
Gabe Crawford interviews scientist Angela Moles on plant responses to climate change, rapid evolution in introduced plants, the Global Herbivory Project and more.
Published 04/09/21
Gabe Crawford guest hosts and catches up with Dan Nanamkin, previous guest on Episode 39 of the podcast. They chat about the Young Warriors Society, organic food access issues on the reservation, barriers indigenous folks face when trying tend their traditional gardens, Covid, Dan's new podcast, and more.
Published 03/28/21
This episode of the Ground Shots Podcast features a second and more in-depth conversation with Teo Montoya of the Indigenous Futures Podcast. We talk about technology, religion, indigenous futurism, land connection, writers like Octavia Butler, and more.
Published 03/15/21
Sarah Galvin on the need for chaos medicine in our culture, living remotely in Alaska, pastoralism, climate change in the north, and more.
Published 02/18/21
Kelly and Gabe chat about the connection between institutional religion and the suppression of land-based spirituality, European ethnocentrism and racism in relationship to interpreting historical accounts of agriculture and land tending practices on Turtle Island, the lack of acknowledgement of the vastness of anthropogenic landscapes in academic literature on history and ecology, problems in the conservation field, the historic timeline of invasive biology and its influences, and more.
Published 01/04/21
Kelly speaks about her upbringing in the south and the influences on her creation of the Ground Shots Project and Podcast including a pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago back in 2007, her grandmother's homesteading activities, rad barefoot professors, meeting people on the road, other wandering ethnobotanists, and more.
Published 12/15/20
This episode of the Ground Shots Podcast features a conversation with Ali Meders-Knight on Traditional Ecological Knowledge, the need for indigenous led and informed land management, the problem of disaster capitalism, TEK Chico's goals, and more.
Published 12/01/20
Episode #50 of the Ground Shots Podcast is a conversation with the clinical herbalist Anna-Marija Helt Ph.D., who lives in Durango, Colorado. We chat about tending Osha, Osha substitutes to use medicinally, some poisonous plants in the Rockies, & bridging science and tradition in herbalism.
Published 11/12/20
This episode of the Ground Shots Podcast features a conversation with Wren Haffner and Ini Giesbrecht of Mountain Jewel Center for Earth Connection, an 18 acre homestead in the Ozarks. We chat about forest farming, natural building in a humid place, letting the land lead, the unique ecology of the Ozarks, land race seeds, and more.
Published 10/28/20
This episode of the Ground Shots Podcast is the last recording Gabe and I conducted on our 2020 Colorado Trail Plant-a-go walk. It documents a few conversations Gabe and I had with our friend Téo Montoya who came to hike with us for a brief stint. We chat about wildcrafting, indigenous futurism, finding the sacred in modern technology and the urban, and more.
Published 10/22/20
Episode #47 of the Ground Shots Podcast features a conversation with community engaged environmental artist Sharon Kallis. We talk about creative folks as bridge builders and ecological problem-solvers, community garden projects in Vancouver, BC, working with Nettle, Flax, Fireweed and more.
Published 10/04/20
This episode of the Ground Shots Podcast features a conversation between Gabe Crawford and Kelly Moody tuning in around mile 300 of their ‘Plant-a-go’ thru-hike walk on the Colorado Trail this summer. They speak to redefining 'wildness', understanding moderate disturbance, the myth of the solitary man, the struggles of walking, land observations and more.
Published 09/12/20
This episode of the Ground Shots Podcast features a conversation with the potter and artist John Mahkewa, Hopi-Tewa elder currently living in Yuma, Arizona.   John and I met a few years ago at the Buckeye Gathering, an ancestral skills gathering that usually occurs in the Spring in Concow, California. Since this gathering where I met John and took his pottery class, the Buckeye Gathering has been on sabbatical, due to the Paradise fire and the Covid-19 pandemic.   I decided to take John’s...
Published 08/26/20
Ramona Moonflower on protecting the Redwoods, forest therapy, and more.
Published 08/11/20
Episode #42 features a conversation between Kelly Moody (podcast host) and Gabe Crawford, previous podcast guest. In this episode of the podcast, we discuss our observations on the first six segments or first 100 miles or so of our Colorado Trail Plant—a-go walk. We talk about the nature and spectrum of small to extreme disturbances on the land We look at how disturbance can be a good thing in some situations and bad in others We talk about some of our favorite areas and some of the...
Published 07/29/20
A conversation with Charity Cimarron of Mother Marrow on music and land connection.
Published 06/27/20
Michael Ridge of Walking with Western Wildflowers on ecological participation, living on horseback, getting to know plants through observation and engagement.
Published 06/25/20
Samuel Bautista Lazo on coming back to the Corn and the Milpa food system during the pandemic, destructive corporate intrusion on indigenous communities and the environment in Mexico, environmental racism, how rain feeds the spirit and more.
Published 06/13/20
In this conversation with Dan Nanamkin, we talk about the importance of indigenous led skill-shares, why land skills are important for indigenous sovereignty, Dan's Sovereignty Camp skill-share project in Washington state and more.
Published 06/05/20
This episode of the Ground Shots Podcast features a conversation with Jim Croft, medieval era bookbinder, hand papermaker and wonderful storyteller.
Published 05/28/20
In this conversation on the Ground Shots Podcast, we speak with herbalist Dara Saville on recovering and reconnecting to the riparian ecology in Albuquerque, New Mexico with the Yerba Mansa Project. We speak to how the model used by the project could be mirrored in other riparian ecologies in the Southwest currently threatened by climate change and irresponsible development.
Published 05/16/20
Ethnobotanist Zach Elfers speaks on the Nomad Seed Project, fire-stick farming, the importance of growing bioregional wild foods, ethical foraging through wild-tending, choosing love over fear in a time of collapse.
Published 04/22/20