Why You Should Strive to Become a Wild Food Generalist with Caleb Kasper and Dylan Baldassari

This episode is a conversation with my good friends and fellow outdoorsmen Caleb and Dylan. Both of them spend a lot of their free time either hunting, fishing, foraging, or all of them together. They are also grad students at the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse, where they are studying with, and learning from, world-class mycologists. Needless to say, being a conscious participant in nature is their greatest passion.

Episode Overview:

• Benefits of treating hunting, fishing, and foraging as holistic practice
• Nootropics - mushroom powders and a Chaga alcohol extract
• New wild edibles we have been pursuing
• Our experience tapping birch trees and turning the birch water into honey mead
• Harvesting wild plums and making plum wine
• Golden oysters and how they made it to the US - The La Crosse mycology lab was the epicenter for research on this invasive mushroom species
• Whitebark pine trees and why they might all be gone soon
• Tasty recipes we have been trying out
• Duck hunting from a beginner’s perspective
• Prehistoric evidence of humans hunting wild horses 20K years ago
• Ostrich Fern Fiddleheads and some of the confusing literature about its potential toxicity
• Some of the top wild mushrooms to go after
• Wild parsnips and why you should learn about it

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