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Gorgeous Gorgeous Panelists: GABRIELLE Cerberville
JIM McDonald .craft
CHRIS Gavin
SEAN Zera
Pretty Pretty Panel Hosts: JB Douglas
STEVE Cantu
Huge thanks to Rachel and the Will Forage For Food team for making the GLFG happen every year, it is truly one of our very favorite events to attend and participate in! Join the "Will Forage For Food" Facebook group to be a part of the amazing community!
Photo stolen from Terecia Harris on Facebook
We had the pleasure of being accepted to host a panel at the Great Lakes Foragers Gathering in Michigan! While at the event, Steve had the opportunity to sit down with several attendees and chat about foraging, origins, and their activities that weekend. You'll hear from , 12-year old Josette, & Tim Coddington!
Enjoy this short-form episode and we'll be back next week with the full panel episode with several VERY COOL GUESTS!!!!
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WEWP #76: Dr. Liz Kozik ()
"Re-peopling Prairie: History, Ecology, & How They Can Bettter Inform Prairie Science" is available for pre-order on Dr. Liz's Etsy page so give her a follow to keep up with her exploits and awesome art!!
We're back from "Summer Break" (AKA Michael had a baby) with an awesome interview with Dr. Liz Kozik about her incredible comic dissertation: "Re-Peopling Prarie". Her dissertation is full of incredible information about Illinois' past as "The Prairie State" and suggests directions moving forward that harmonize with the pre-colonial history of this land. Not only that, it is only of the most visually stunning and comprehensive works of science we have consumed with our own eyes.
Congrats on successfully defending your thesis and we are so grateful you are sharing your work with the rest of us!!
Mike Snyder is a passionate mushroomer and educator in Missouri with his wife, Cara, and daughter!
We were psyched to have him on the show- Michael met Mike at the Flyway Fungi Festival in 2023 and they connected on sheer love of nature and passion for sharing. We delve deep into Snyder's origin story and how he feels called to educate folks on mushrooms.
Mike teaches log innoculation classes and has his own product line with nourishing body butters and balms for whatever ails ya! Check out everything they do at !!
Happy 2nd anniversary episode!
In this loose and silly episode, Steve and Michael discuss their gratitude for the past two years of the show and set out some goals and plans for what they'd like to see in the future for the show! This episode has almost nothing to do with foraging but we wanted to take a moment to feel so lucky to be able to make this show where we get to meet and work with so many awesome and talented folks. Love you guys! here's to two more years!!!
Wish WEWP a happy birthday in the comments :)
Ben ( ) is a chef in Missouri that overcame the difficulties during the pandemic by wielding foraged ingredients to create a baked good/fermented beverage pop-up out of his kitchen. Most recently he helped start and lead Temperence Kitchen, a dining experience whose proceeds are forwarded to "Ben's Friends" an awesome organization that offers support to members of the food and beverage industry that struggle with substance abuse or addiction.
Ben is such an inspiration and we hope you find his message as hopeful and encouraging as we do! Check out the new episode on all streaming services (yes ALL) and give Ben a follow!
Black Locust: "I'm fast as f&@$, boiiii"
Danny Pejsa is a Chef working in the Lansing, MI area! Chef Danny is passionate about close-to-source dining and there's plenty of overlap with foraging within that scope. We also chat about his experience cooking with previous guest Alan Bergo at the Midwest Wild Harvest Festival in 2023.
Say "YES, CHEF!" to this episode of WEWP!!
Photos by Chef Danny Pesja
1. Danny with a young pheasant back in 2023
2. Morel and ramp french omelet
3. Morels and violets with a shrimp emulsion broth and egg noodles
4. Ramp rice with violets and chicken apple sausage
5. Homemade chorizo, persimmon salsa, dried ramp salt, and then wild grape jelly
6. Coconut creamed Dames rocket garlic mustard and Ramps with szechuan shrimp and saffron rice
The Terrible Three
Spencer Lowery is the Treasurer for the Alabama Mushroom Society and a lifelong forager. We got to know Spencer more in our conversation, like his favorite mushrooms to eat and his upcoming mushroom events!
He's not on Instagram, but catch him on TikTok or Patreon at "foragenorthamerica" to follow his exploits and recipes across the country!
It was awesome to chat with Spencer and if YOU want to talk to us about foraging, hit us up!!!
From the Romeoville IL public library website:
Happy Earth Day! We are celebrating with local foragers, Michael Baker and Steve Cantu who will walk us through the basics of responsible suburban foraging. They will discuss useful tools, resources, and laws that go into foraging, as well as highlighting several easy to identify plants and some examples of delicious recipes you can create with your foraged foods! We'll have time for a Q&A session so bring your own stories to share and hear more about Michael's and Steve's personal experiences.
Please register at the website
https://whiteoak.librarycalendar.com/event/earth-day-foraging-wild-food-wild-edible-world-401
We had the distinct pleasure of chatting with Orion about cheeseburgers and books... I mean foraging!!! Nah, we cover it all in this awesome episode with ; content creation, his natural resources degree and occupation, his favorite mushrooms, and of course some of his best foraging stories!! Orion is the best- but if you are in the online foraging community already you probably already knew that!
Listen to the new episode out now wherever you find wild podcasts :)
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Come with us on a culinary journey exploring Biagio DiSalvo's past and current experiences with foraging. We discuss his history in science, his favorite recipes to make and, of course, all about his foraging path!!
Follow him at
We can't wait to see what else he cooks up and maybe a future collab?? 👀
Love you guys, thanks for listening!!!
Let's play "Hide your nuts"!!!
Allen is a pure spore force and is obsessed with eliminating food waste. In this fresh new episode, Michael and Steve talk about Allen's history in Big Mushroom and what foraged ingredients he's currently into. Allen is also an integral part of Colorado Essence Festival with several other major mushroom creators!! We hope you enjoy this dope episode and check out Allen's projects!
No new episode today- instead consider going back in our archive to exactly 1 year ago where Steve and Michael give you the deets on daylily!!
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WEWP #67: Colter Barnes (ALONE season 8)
We have an episode from the WEWP VAULT today- here's a previously unreleased phone call we had with the dynamite Colter Barnes from History's ALONE season 8! We talk a lot about his foraging during the show, the adversity he faced, as well as his lifestyle and plans in Alaska!! This is such a good episode and went on the shelf for a while due to the less-than-desireable audio quality. However, listening back through this Colter has amazing insight, and hindsight, on nature and his time on the super popular survival show and this will prove to be another valuable episode of our show. Thanks to everybody for listening and extra thanks to for chatting with us, sorry it took forever to release! super triple thanks to for being a sponsor of the show and for making this connection!!
Everybody's laughing until you say "everything's edible... once"
Shout out to host for this absolutely blazing hot meme
Fresh batch of memes and we saved the best for last 👀!! Time for a long-overdue episode where Steve and Michael talk about SCRUMPING* and taste-test several wild varieties of apples and compare them to a few "control" grocery store apples.
This is an ASMR-heavy episode with just the boys out in the woods that will leave y'all wanting to go scrumping!! This is a late release meaning it was recorded in the fall, during peak apple season.
*Scrumping is a term used to describe the act of collecting wild apples.
is a wetlands scientist and reached out to talk to your two favorite foraging hosts! In this new episode WEWP #65 with Brad Earnest we chat about his favorite and least favorite plants, his experience with helping homeowners burn or select plants for wetland restoration, and more! Of course we asked what his first foraging memory was!!
We met at a local library to chat so enjoy this NPR-vibe heavy episode, haha!!
A few images shared by Brad:
1: Brad at Cahokia Mounds!
2: a controlled burn he organized for a client
3. Lyman Woods, referenced in the episode
Thanks for listening, we love you!!
THROWBACK to our maple sirup episode. Check back to episode 38 where we talked with & all about their work on Illinois' very own large-scale maple sirup operation!
New episode with a restoration scientist tomorrow!
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Get pecan crazy!! We talked with Farmer Dave of about the diversity in pecans and how accessible and beneficial nut trees are to our environment, our bellies, and even our pocketbooks!
WEWP #64 David Hughes of Rock Bridge Trees. Dave is such an inspirational nursery grower with a lot history and personality and we barely scratched the surface with this interview!
Pic 1 is pecans, pic 2 is a rad groundnut harvest, pic 3 is a ground nut the size of a softball, pic 4 is a snapshot of the nursery rootstock, and pic 5 is of our very modest guest!
Hope you all enjoy the new episode and get the urge to plant some nut trees! As they say, the best time to plant a tree is 30 years ago but the second best time is today!
We're back to our classic format!! Interviewing foragers is fun and all but we wanted to bring it back to our core with just Michael and Steve this episode. A couple of sweeties discussing a sweet sweet plant: the honey locust!
Listen to them discuss the visual varieties this tree possesses as well as the awesome sweetness it contains!! Hope you enjoy it!
Remember to support our show by visiting our merch store and checking out our awesome custom t-shirts and seasonal hot sauce!! Thanks so much for being the coolest listeners in the podcast world. We love you!!!
Douglas Patterson lives in the Chicago suburbs and wanted to call in to chat with your resident foragers Michael and Steve about raising Icelandic sheep, foraging, and finding new passions!! We love chatting with our listeners!
WEWP #62: Douglas Patterson! Douglas doesn't have a social media @ but still streams our show (thanks Douglas!!!) and sent us a bunch of photos of his different projects which will be featured in this post!
Enjoy the new episode, we're slowly but surely working behind the scenes to bring you a better and more accessible show this year so thank you all for listening!!
WEWP #61: Shane Edwards WOWEE-WOW were we excited to chat with Shane Edwards ! Shane is a multifaceted forager and artist in the Chicago suburbs so he met up with Michael and Steve for little to talk plants!
Check out his art on his website and his myriad of videos on his socials, Shane is super cool!
Didn't get what you wanted for the holidays? Don't worry, we still have tons of hot sauce and shirts in stock at a new low price to celebrate the New Year and any order over $35 gets free shipping!
Wowee-wow we love y'all- show support for your favorite free foraging education podcast!!!!
In episode 60 (!!) Chef Lorenzo Tavani schools Michael and Steve on his history in the culinary field and his inspirations to start foraging. Lorenzo has all sorts of dinner events in Colombus throughout the year so follow his IG and check his website for scheduling updates!! You're definitely going to want to gobble up his food AND his videos!!! Cheers to your PASSION, chef!!
WEWP #59: Sean Rowe. The fellas had an awesome call with musician and forager Sean Rowe about, you guessed it, foraging! Sean has a deep history with music and foraging and the two come together with his new YouTube series "Can I Eat This, Sean?" where he hosts a fellow musician through a new foraging experience and then have a jam session. He's certainly one of the coolest foragers out there with a wealth of experiences to draw from. Listen to the new episode and get groovy!
All photos pulled from episode 1 & 2 of "Can I Eat This, Sean?"
The boys had a long chat with Wade Fox, , about all things Koji, fermentation, the maillard process, and of course foraging!!
Wade is an absolute creative force of nature and weilds his skills like a master in the kitchen, yet humbly and hungrily learns from his peers.
We can't wait to taste more of his wizardry - listen to the episode and get inspired to build your own alchemical flavors!!!
WEWP #57: Grab bag episode!
In this episode, Steve and Michael sit down with a couple pieces of mail they've received over the last couple of weeks and talk about the talented folks we share this community with!!
In the second half they discuss the new merch and taste the new hot sauce on air!
Extra thanks to
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Look forward to Wade being on out show next week to talk about all the inspiring work he does with Koji and the maillard reaction!!
Keep on scrumpin', folks.
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Y'all ever seen a candy ad from a podcast go this hard?? I bet not. Listen to our newest episode where we chat with Cade @viridescencecandyco about his magical candy creations!! We had such a blast and his creations are exquisitely of Earthly design. @viridescencecandyco @foragerdad
WEWP#39: Moss. If you've been following @edible_illinois for any time, you know he loves moss. In this episode, Michael and Steve speak generally on mosses, how they feel, their edibility, and their expansiveness. In the second half, the boys take you out on the trail for a moss tasting and some ASMR action, WEWP-style. Hope you enjoy the episode!!
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