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EP62: Why your body knows things about trees that your mind will never understand
A guided contemplative practice. Lean your back against a tree for five minutes of sensory presence. Robin opens with Tommy Cooper's "pick a card, any card." It become...
EP61: Robin Reads - After The Great Forgetting
In the 17th century, Descartes, Galileo, and Newton transformed a living world into mechanical clockwork. Descartes drew the fatal line between mind and matter, rend...
EP60: Connecting Children and Families to the Wild - with Chris Holland
Chris Holland has spent over three decades helping people - young and old - find their way back to the natural world. In this warmly personal conversation, Robin and C...
EP59: Storytelling, Plants and the Feminine - with Clare Viner
Robin Harford meets storyteller Clare Viner beneath a flowering hawthorn tree in Devon to explore the living tradition of oral storytelling. Clare shares how stories b...
EP58: What Is Domei
Show Notes: Understanding Domei This episode explores Domei, a contemplative practice designed to bridge the gap between humans and the living world through sensory e...
EP57: The Poor Man's Herb
In this new short-form episode, Robin Harford challenges our relationship with common sorrel (Rumex acetosa) – a plant we've dismissed for centuries simply because it ...
EP56: Plants, People & Memory
In this episode of the Eatweeds Podcast, Robin Harford is joined by Dr Sarah Edwards, ethnobotanist at the University of Oxford. Together they explore the 400-year hi...
EP55: The Wild Power of Mushrooms
Tom Baxter is the founder of Bristol Fungarium, the UK’s first organic-certified medicinal mushroom farm. A former organic vegetable grower and forest school leader, T...
EP54: Wild Ayurveda
In this episode, herbalist and Ayurvedic practitioner Jo Webber joins Robin Harford to explore how Ayurveda — the world’s oldest system of natural health — can be root...
EP53: Crafting Herbal Teas
In this episode of the Eatweeds Podcast, Robin Harford sits down with Vivien Rolfe, a herbalist and researcher with a fascinating background in both science and herbal...
EP52: Indigenous Plant Practices in India
In this episode of the Eatweeds podcast, Robin Harford is joined by filmmaker Nirman Choudhury to explore the deep connection between India’s indigenous communities an...
EP51: Green Recovery - Beyond Sexual Trauma
In this powerful episode, host Robin Harford welcomes Hannah-May Batley, founder of Hedge School, to discuss her groundbreaking work in plant-based healing and communi...
EP50: The Sound of Trees
Welcome to Episode 50 of the Eatweeds podcast, where host Robin Harford takes us on an auditory journey into the world of sound art and ecoacoustics with guest Jez ril...
EP49: So You Want To Be A Herbalist
In this episode, #49 of the Eatweeds podcast, I sit down with Helen Kearney at the Betonica herb school on a lazy Summer day in the Devon countryside. We dive into the...
EP48: The Car Free Forager - An Interview With Andy Hamilton
In this episode of the Eatweeds podcast, Robin Harford invites the seasoned forager, Andy Hamilton, for a deep and meaningful conversation about the evolving world of ...
EP47: Foraging, Sustainability and Culinary Exploration with Matthew Pennington
In this episode of Eatweeds, host Robin Harford interviews Matthew Pennington, co-owner of The Ethicurean restaurant. Matthew discusses the restaurant's philosophy of...
EP46: Foraging In Italy
This week on the Eatweeds podcast, we travel to the remote, idyllic region of Abruzzo, Italy, a haven for foragers, to meet our special guest, Marta Udalowa. Originall...
EP45: Hawthorn Harmony - A Tale of Foraging, Wildcrafting, and Connection
Join us for a breath of fresh air with episode 45 of 'Eatweeds,' a podcast dedicated to celebrating the joy and richness of wild food. Our host, Robin Harford, transpo...
EP44: A Year on Wild Food
My guest for this episode of the Eatweeds podcast is the remarkable Mo' Wilde. An author and experienced foraging teacher, Mo' has done something few could even contem...
EP43: Plants, Enchantment and Wild Words
Embark on a captivating journey in this episode of the Eatweeds Podcast as host Robin Harford welcomes Zoe Gilbert, a talented fiction author and folklore expert. Imme...
EP42: Medicinal Forest Gardens
In this episode, I talk with Anne Stobart, who set up the Medicinal Forest Garden Trust, about why we need to grow medicinal and food trees instead of just ornamental ...
EP41: It’s Not Just For You Human
A short audio essay on sustainable harvesting and ethical wildcrafting. Spoken by Robin Harford from Eatweeds.
EP40: Plants & Colour with Flora Arbuthnott
In this episode I talk with natural plant dye artist, Flora Arbuthnott. We discuss her fascination with using wild plants to create beautiful art and how the practice ...
EP39: What's That Plant
Mark Duffell is one of Britain's foremost botanists and ecologists. We discuss... The best way for beginners to learn plant identification. Why the ecology of a plant...
EP38: Let's Talk Trespass
Nick Hayes author of the 'Book of Trespass' discusses the reason why Right to Roam is so important to the nation's mental health and wellbeing. Why access to the coun...
EP37: Sound Walks
Emma Welton, a musician who lives locally to me discusses listening as a nature connection practice. How active listening can develop a deep empathic relationship with...
EP36: Nettle Eater
Tom Hirons is a nature based poet and storyteller. In this interview we discuss his work and how as creative humans we can all express our inherent wildness through cr...
EP35 Plant Talk: Silver Wattle, Darwin's Barberry and Catkins
A quick plant talk on silver wattle, Darwin's barberry and catkins which I found a few hundred metres from my house.
EP34: Prison Plants
Nicole Rose runs Solidarity Apothecary which materially supports revolutionary struggles and communities with plant medicines to strengthen collective autonomy, self-d...
EP33: Foraging, Rewilding and Nature Connection
Lucy O'Hagan takes us on a journey exploring ancestral ways and rewilding, foraging and nature connection. Why do it and how relevant is it in a hyper connected digita...
