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Laura Silverman is a writer, branding consultant, and Founding Naturalist of The Outside Institute, which aims to foster a greater connection between individuals and the natural world. Before creating The Outside Institute in 2017, Laura wrote Glutton for Life, which was a blog exploring Catskill living. She also regularly contributes to Edible Hudson Valley, The River Reporter and WJFF, and was a speaker (“On Foraging”) at Bitten 2018. Laura regularly hosts foraging 101 workshops as well as botanical mixology and woodland walks. She is the author of The Outside Institutes Field Guides, which offer practical information about the flora and fauna of the Hudson and Upper Delaware Valleys.

Resources:

• The Outside Institute
• Euell Gibbons
• AborVitae School of Traditional Herbalism
• The Outside Institute’s Field Guides
• Shinrin-Yoku

Connect with Laura Silverman:

• The Outside Institute
• Laura Silverman’s Instagram
• The Outside Institute Instagram

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SHOW NOTES <<<<

• What foraging is and where it originated
• Why it’s important to understand the total ecology of an area before you forage
• How Laura got into foraging
• A naturalist is a student of the natural world
• Laura’s relationship with nature - from a childhood spent in northern california to eventually moving to upstate NY
• How to connect with the natural world even in the middle of a city
• Is dumpster diving urban foraging?
• The first rule of foraging: When in doubt, throw it out
• Why having a mentor or consulting a field guide is so important
• The Outside Institute’s Field Guides
• Why you might not want to forage in the city
• Laura’s passion for botanical mixology and why moving to upstate NY helped expand her skills in cooking and making cocktails
• Making probiotic beverages from foraged flowers
• What foraging has brought to Laura’s life
• The healing benefits of comfrey for your bones
• Why eating seasonally is the key to health
• The Outside Institute - what it is and why Laura created it
• Why getting outside helps us understand nature and understand ourselves
• What Laura would say to someone who feels intimidated or overwhelmed by the natural world
• Why plants and trees are documented to help with blood pressure and mood
• All about Shinrin-Yoku - the Japanese practice of forest bathing
• What gets Laura out of her house and into nature every single day
• Where to find the Outside Institute on the interwebs

THE LAST 5 QUESTIONS:
1. What is your favorite place in nature?
The woods across the street from my house.
2. What is the animal, mineral or plant that resonates with you the most?
I love a black birch tree...It’s just a beautiful strong tree.
3. What is one thing we can do right now to connect with the natural world and bring more harmony into our lives?
Take a walk in nature. Whether that’s in a city along a river or in a park, just allow yourself to relax and observe what’s around you and get a bit granular with these observations.
4. What’s the greatest lesson nature has taught you?
Every aspect of the human condition is mirrored in nature. Nature is so filled with metaphors. You can take any sorrow or trouble or worry into nature and find solace.
5. Nature brings me…
Joy.

Teressa Siu​ is a health advocate on and off camera. She helps people be healthy and happy through holistic and sustainable resources. One of her most passionate subjects is how food matters to health. She appears in media interviews advocating for food as medicine based on Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda and Western nutrition principles. Along with being an acclaimed journalist, Teressa has a vast array of qualifications as a Wellness Coach, Soul Link Practitioner and an Integrative Health Coach, just to name a few. She discovered that both her passion and her ambition could become her life purpose. She loves being a wellness consultant and a lifestyle educator as she is serving the wider community. Teressa has made a lifelong commitment to loving herself and this has given her peace and harmony in her daily life. She encourages us to put ourselves first and to remember that if we can also give to others, that is a beautiful place to be. Teressa is authentic and generous in all that she does. She has done a lot of personal development work on herself to get to a place where she is able to share her wisdom with others.

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On today’s episode of THE FOOD SEEN, we consider Will Horowitz a naturalist, which all fishermen/foragers should be. Whether you have a legacy of French-trained chefs and/or traditional Jewish Delicatessens or not, which Horowitz has on both sides of his family tree, he argues we as people must strive towards a sense of “living alongside” nature. Much of Horowitz’s culinary education is based in symbiosis, whether it’s serving food saved through heritage techniques (smoking, curing, fermenting) at Ducks Eatery, or stocking us with permaculture provisions at Harry & Ida’s Meat Supply Co. Yes, Horowitz makes a mean pastrami sandwich, and you may have heard about the Smoked Watermelon “Ham”, but past the gimmick, there’s stratagem in his sustainability. Horowitz teaches us how dry-cure and brine, dehydrate and preserve, stocking our pantry for recipes on either side of the growing season in his book SALT SMOKE TIME.

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In this episode of Wild Lives by Faunographic we catch up with naturalist and photographer James Rogerson, whose wild work has taken him everywhere from Finland to the Seychelles, across his native United Kingdom and Africa and, more recently, to the tiger stronghold of Kanha National Park, in Central India.

During his time in Kanha, James got to know some of the reserve’s more famous wild tigers, including Munna, Chota Munna and Umaparni, so he’s got some fascinating stories about them. Plus, his tales of the area’s incredible birdlife and endangered barasingha peel back the many layers of Kanha to reveal why it’s such unique place to explore.

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Mystic-Skeptic Radio produces programs such as Uncensored & Raiders of the Unknown. Some of the ongoing series are: Jesus The Israelite, Anti-Semitism Rising & Paul's Legacy (all available on our YouTube channels). In the past 8 years we have featured academics (Amy Jill Levine) , presidential candidates( Howie Hawkins), Commentators (Jay Michaelson) , Advocates (Vanessa Guillen), Scholars(John Dominic Crossan) and Holistic Healers (Rosemary Gladstar). We have taken deep dives on the topics of human trafficking, ancient civilizations, demonology and the occult, social movements, controversial topics and many of the current affairs affecting our society. Join us as as we explore the mystic-skeptic mind space…

Terry Tempest Williams is a naturalist and writer, a biologist by training with a literary mind, who comes from a long Mormon lineage in Utah. She draws political, spiritual, and creative inspiration from her experience of the interior American West. She offers stories of neighborly collaboration that turns into environmental protection, and the value that comes from vitriolic disagreement inside families. See more at: onbeing.org/program/vitality-struggle/233

Terry Tempest Williams is a naturalist and writer, a biologist by training with a literary mind, who comes from a long Mormon lineage in Utah. She draws political, spiritual, and creative inspiration from her experience of the interior American West. She offers stories of neighborly collaboration that turns into environmental protection, and the value that comes from vitriolic disagreement inside families.

Author Robert Frank of Cornell University talks about economic education and his recent book, The Economic Naturalist. Frank argues that the traditional way of teaching economics via graphs and equations often fails to make any impression on students. In this conversation with host Russ Roberts, Frank outlines an alternative approach from his new book, where students find interesting questions and enigmas from everyday life. They then try to explain them using the economic way of thinking. Frank and Roberts discuss a number of the enigmas and speculate on the future of economics and education. The topics discussed include tuxedos vs. wedding dresses, the level of civility (or lack thereof) in New York City, the difference between vending machines for soda and newspapers, the tragedy of the commons, and the economics of love.