Food Afield
Food Afield is a documentary podcast about wild ingredients — where they’re found, how they’re gathered, and the places that shape them.
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We Came to the Yukon for Grayling — Part One: Too Early (opens the original)
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I flew up to the Yukon with my friend, Erin. We joined my other friend, Alex, who lives there and has fished the Grayling up there more than most folks. A former fish biologist, Alex knows where to go for both scenery and Arctic Grayling!
Your Brain Hates Big Targets (opens the original)
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Your brain is a powerful piece of kit that you take with you most places you go throughout the day. Everyone knows that with traditional archery and instinctive shooting your brain plays a crucial role, along with your eyes, fingers, arms, and shoulders. <img
Podcast Episode - Learning the Grasslands (opens the original)
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Grasslands birds and Cranes. Listening back to this episode recorded a few years ago, I can hear an earlier version of Food Afield. The production is simpler, the conversations wander a little more, and I’m still figuring out exactly what this podcast wants to be. But I can also hear many of the ideas that continue to shape Food Afield today.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!g5Bf!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubst
Journal - The Shellfish Can Wait (opens the original)
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There was a time when I walked a beach with a destination in mind.I covered ground quickly, eyes fixed on the places where I hoped to find clams or crabs, convinced that success belonged to the person willing to search the hardest. If a beach didn’t produce something within a few minutes, I simply kept moving, certain that the next cove might hold the answer.It wasn’t impatience so much as purpose.I thought I was there to gather food.Somewhere over the years, without really noticing, that change
Journal - I Hunt Landscapes (opens the original)
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There is a curious thing that has happened to me over the years. The longer I’ve hunted, the less time I’ve actually spent looking for the animals. Coincidentally, my success has also increased.That sounds almost ridiculous when I see it written on the page, rather like admitting that a fisherman doesn’t spend much time looking for fish. Yet somewhere along the way my attention drifted away from antlers and ears and movement, settling instead on the country itself. These days, if you were to pee
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