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In this episode, we are uplifting some of the ideas in Elspeth Hay’s remarkable book, Feed Us with Trees: Nuts and the Future of Food. After starting with Sara Jolena offering a summary of some of the big ideas in the book, we move into a conversation with author Elspeth Hay and a few of the many people whom Elspeth has mentioned in the book: Ron Reed, Karuk tribal member and cultural biologist; Joanna Brooks, settler scholar and author of Why We Left; and Gale Pettifer, commoner and scholar of the New Forest in England. Together they trace a set of histories that turn out to be deeply entangled: Indigenous land dispossession in California, the enclosure of the English commons, the suppression of cultural burning, the erasure of ancestral foodways — and the folk songs, forest laws, and buried memories that survived all of it.
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Finding ReEnchanting: how I reluctantly had a spiritual awakening in India while searching for better solutions to climate change… and learned the power of reEnchanting as critical for re-creating regenerative cultures
