Weekly foraging, hunting and fishing podcast from Wild Food People - hosted by Richard Prideaux and Amy Green.We talk about all aspects of authentic, sustainable and ethical wild food - plus conservation, ecology, land management and the future of food.We cover wild food news items from around the world, interview guests and share expert advice on acquiring wild food yourself via the Wild Food Essentials episodes.
Latest episodes
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58 min
14: What's in a Year with John Miller
John Miller is a nature writer, outdoorsman and a board member of both the Atlantic Salmon Trust and Curlew Action. We sat down with John in his beautiful reclaimed wood garden roo…
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13: Cheshire Wild Venison with Steve McGuigan
We visited Steve at Cheshire Wild Venison to talk about venison as a meat, deer management, and how he started in this business in the first place.After showing us around his premi…
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59 min
12: The Man who Smokes Bees and Folds Hedges - Phil Lewis
Phil Lewis is a hedgelayer, market gardener, beekeeper, scyther and much more, who straddles the border of England and North Wales. As darkness fell in the woods, we sat around a c…
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46 min
11: The Long Lost Truffles of North Wales with Jonathan McGowan
At the end of September we met up with Jonathan McGowan and Tembo to try our luck at Truffle hunting in North Wales.Jonathan is in the truffle hunting business and last year he fou…
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10: Wildfowling in Wales with Gethin Jones
We ventured over to the coast of North Wales to meet up with Gethin Jones, a Welshman who has been harvesting wild food from the coast since he was 4 years old.From digging up bait…
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1 h 11
9: Preparing for Autumn Foraging
This episode was recorded at the end of August with autumn just around the corner; Richard and Amy discuss the species highlights to look out for over the next few months.Wild frui…
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1 h 22
8: Gender, generations and unfair access to wild food with Whitetail Abigail
We welcomed Abi (aka Whitetail Abigail), creator and host of The Grit podcast, to our little corner of North Wales. We sourced some wild food, cooked over a fire and recorded this…
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49 min
7: Talking hunting, wild food and conservation at the UK's biggest hunting festival
We recorded this episode live at the 2024 Game Fair at Blenheim Palace, where Richard Prideaux wandered around holding a sign on a stick and invited the public, wild food celebriti…
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41 min
6: Should deer be left to rot on the hill?
This episode sees the brief return of Wild Food News, brought to you by the 'silly season' of UK press.We talk about the study that suggests that deer carcasses should be left behi…
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45 min
5: The (actual) Idiots Guide to The Game Fair.
Next weekend (26th -28th July 2024) will see The Game Fair return to Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire.Dubbed 'Glastonbury for the green welly brigade' it is a festival of the British…
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25 min
4: How to not die when foraging - Wild Food Essentials
A short podcast episode about how to not poison yourself through foraging - the link to the video version of this podcast is available below.Being wary of foraging is fairly sensib…
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3: Nature Friendly Farming with Huw Foulkes
Huw Foulkes is a 4th generation dairy farmer in the Vale of Clwyd in North Wales. Since bringing the farm back into their own management, he has been developing the family's acres…
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1 h 08
2: Foraging on Clarkson's Farm
In this episode: You can't eat Woodpeckers in the UK; The motives behind a recent Morel foraging warning issued by Montana State; Australian's told to steer clear of wild mushrooms…
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1 h 04
1: Scottish deer management and trendy urban foragers
In this episode: The recent changes to deer hunting seasons in Scotland and implications of Deer Management Nature Restoration Orders on the mental wellbeing of land managers and p…