The Ground Shots Podcast

Jul 13 2024 84 ep. 95 mins 118

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The Ground Shots Podcast is an audio project exploring our relationship to ecology through conversations and storytelling with artists, ecologists, farmers, activists, story-tellers, land-tenders and more. How do we do our work in the modern age, when the urgency of ecological and social collapse feels looming? How do we creatively and whole-heartedly navigate our relationships with one another and the land?

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We all eat the Colorado River: this watershed is a microcosm of our society with Jeff Wagner

Jul 13 2024 123 mins

full shownotes and maps to reference in this episode: groundshots.substack.com Episode #84 of the Ground Shots Podcast is a conversation with Jeff Wagner out of Paonia, Colorado, director of Groundwork, a regional nonprofit educating about food systems in a changing world and more. Sign up for my August 2-8 high country field ecology and ethnobotany course in Western Colorado on th

Callie Russell on tending ecosystems with goats

Jun 18 2024 130 mins

for full shownotes to this episode, go to our website post here or our substack post here Episode #83 of the Ground Shots Podcast is a conversation with Callie Russell, an interview recorded in the field on a goat walk in New Mexico this past March. You may know Callie from the Alone show, though I have never watched it. We have known each other for many years and this past Sprin

Jason Hone on biblical ethnobotany and ecology of the holy lands

Jan 21 2024 123 mins

Episode # 82 of the Ground Shots Podcast is a conversation with Jason Hone on medicinal herbs of biblical times and the historical ecological transformation of the holy lands. Jason Hone practices as a holistic provider for patients of all walks of life. He has worked in various disciplines of healthcare since 1996. His experience includes emergency and sports medicine, wildernes

81: Ethan Bonnin on Ecological Degradation at the Borderlands

Jan 03 2024 175 mins

Ethan graduated from Humboldt State University with a degree in Wildlife Biology and Conservation. Currently, he works in the advocacy world for habitat protection and restoration on public lands that face various resource extraction industries. He homesteads on a piece of desertified land In southern Arizona and is attempting to reverse desertification processes to help build food

Elizabeth Yaari on regenerating desert land at the Night Owl Food Forest in Paonia, Colorado

Dec 10 2023 98 mins

read ful show notes here Together with the insects, animals, plants and elements Elizabeth Yaari is transforming a dry patch of semi arid desert into a thriving regenerative seven layered food forest. “Anything is possible”, she says “even when you have 6 1/2 inches of rain a year.” To spend time with Elizabeth is to enter a realm where depth matters and play reigns. Her d

Samantha Zipporah on radical fertility & the politics of birth

Nov 12 2023 131 mins

full shownotes here Samantha Zipporah is a midwife, author & educator in service to healing & liberation. Sam’s path rises from an ancient lineage of midwives, witches, & wise women with expertise spanning the continuum of birth, sex, & death. She is devoted to breaking the spells of oppression in reproductive & sexual health by connecting people with the innate pleasure, power,

Jacquie Hill on the medicine of Ponderosa Pine and botanical research ethics

Oct 30 2023 115 mins

See full show notes here Family loving, community enthusiast Jacquie Hill is a plant person doing planty things on the Western Slope of Colorado. After practicing her blend of story-rich, folk herbal medicine for 10+ years, she took her studies to academia, earning a bachelor’s degree in botanical sciences from Bastyr University in 2019. While there she made the most of the oppor

Calyx Liddick of Northern Appalachia School on the historical connection between ecological conservation and eugenics

Jul 27 2023 174 mins

Episode #76 is a conversation with Calyx Liddick of Northern Appalachia School in southern Pennsylvania. (trigger warning, this episode may contain content that could be triggering to some as we address the history of scientific racism and the eugenics movement) read full show notes and resources here Calyx Liddick is a bioregional herbalist, ethnobotanist, holistic nutritionist,

Sylvia Poareo on Planting Seeds of Collective and Inclusive Regeneration

Jul 20 2023 152 mins

Read extended show notes here (photo of Sylvia taken by Ricardo Nagaoka, used with permission from photographer. ) Episode #76 of the Ground Shots Podcast is a conversation with Sylvia Poareo from Connecting Within, out of Ashland, Oregon. Sylvia Poareo is a gentle Curandera/Consejera (healer/spiritual counselor) whose work is rooted in guiding and supporting each individual in the

Kelly solo on teaching riparian ecology, preparing for a season on the land

May 14 2023 28 mins

Hey ya’ll, This is a quick and dirty solo podcast episode where I update you on some of the things I’m doing this summer including offering in-person ecology immersions in western Colorado on the Grand Mesa. I give a little overview of some of what we did in my last immersion that was 4 days, focused on riparian ecology. Talk on travel, loneliness post-pandemic, the grief of ec