Savage in the Wild: Episode 14 - Wild Food Summit III

Join Sunny Savage on the White Earth Reservation in Northern Minnesota for the third annual Wild Food Summit. In this video, part 3 of 3 about the Wild Food Summit III, Sunny continues her interview Sam Thayer.

Sam Thayer lives in Ogema, Wisconsin and has been teaching about edible wild plants for over 10 years and recently published The Foragers Harvest: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting and Preparing Edible Wild Plants. He was editor for The Forager, a wild food periodical. Check out his website: http://www.foragersharvest.com.

Sam and his wife Melissa recently challenged themselves to eat solely wild foods for one month. Sam actually continued on longer than the one month time period and said he really enjoyed the experience. Although he already eats a diet comprised of many wild foods, taking the leap to exclusively wild was a fun process.

Sunny's wild food television series Hot on the Trail with Sunny Savage airs on Veria Network (DISH channel 218 and Verizon FIOS channel 162).
See http://veria.com/hot-on-the-trail.html for show times and more information.

Learn more about wild food plants:

Sunny's web blog at http://sunnysavage.com

Sunny's wild food site at http://wildfoodplants.com

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[charronfamilyconnect]

Hey Sam, I saw your comment on amazon about the book entitled, "the emperor wears no clothes". I guess you really meant what you said huh? I thought hemp was a good plant if used properly but you seem to totally agree with the villification of this plant. What is so wrong with the potential uses of Hemp man? I by the way dont believe in smoking the marijauna variety of it. I bought two of your books by the way and enjoy it. I just wonder why you knock Jack Herer so much & dismiss him as a dope?

[sutrar]

@sutrar Regarding the eggs, I was talking about the daily dose of PROTEINS, not calories! The so important thing about that is, that while calories (needed as fuel for our body) can be supplied in many ways using plants only (sugars, carbohydrates like starch...) , we need animal PROTEINS to allow our body to repair and maintain its tissues using them as building blocks. Eating 1-2 eggs daily does give us all the needed PROTEINS so we don't have to waist CALORIES for chasing after animals...

[sutrar]

Concerning the eggs I talked about proteins, not calories...

[Tossdart]

@sutrar Just so you understand I'm all for permaculture & using up mono culture land so forth. I am just commenting on your thoughts about 6.5 billion currently naturally foraging. We can't even walk in a park without wrecking it. Also to put a hunter gatherer life style into perspective for you I mention the North. The truth now is not even in the middle. Certainly permaculture within cities is a good thing so forth but you said everybody natural harvesting. No way trampled & depleted.

[Tossdart]

@sutrar Lol after 3 years I get this reply. Did you read my comment? Take it from me okay. I lived most of my natural life in the Northern Bush. One egg ehe so that is 70-90 calories. To live in north you will need 4000 unless you don't cut wood. As 8 months of the year there is nothing but freezing cold ice & snow & all garden, berries & such is harvested in but a few days one can almost say that for at least 11 months of a Northern bush year is meat alone! Not to mention clothes! 6.5 B.

[sutrar]

@Tossdart I was lucky enough that my father got a girlfriend living in a village. I learned many things already. One simple chicken of ours makes an egg nearly every day. We have three of them and we are four. If you look at the daily recommended minimum dosage of proteins and check how much is in one egg, one chicken can supply nearly all protein to one human. Plus, we let the chickens roam free - they forage their food on their own most of the year and give us part of it in the form of eggs!

[sutrar]

There are two many people to sustain everyone no matter how hard everyone tries. It may be hard to hear, or hard to accept, but more than one half of the world's population will have to starve to death when the change comes... only the strongest and wisest will live - doesn't that sound familiar?

[ROBISDISTURBED]

Any good books on this subject ? please recommend thank you.

[LoveVanillaRose]

AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET US FREE

[Lettermark]

simple, direct, and totally sensible. We do need people who love nature, and who have an intimate relationship with it.