GinaRae LaCerva

GinaRae LaCerva is an acclaimed writer, geographer, and environmental anthropologist with an intense wanderlust. She loves to learn and teach us foraging traditions, we’re in conversation about restoration approaches, humility, and the interesting and complicated question of how to create multi generational conservation processes that are also equitable.

GinaRae’s first book, “Feasting Wild: In Search of the Last Untamed Food,” traces our complex and storied relationships to wild foods. In this wide-ranging book, she explores diverse foraging, hunting, and land use practices. Her culinary adventures untangle how forces such as colonialism, extraction, and extinction have left wild spaces in ruin. Receiving her undergraduate from Vassar College, she also holds a Master of Environmental Science from Yale University's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and a Master of Philosophy from the University of Cambridge.

Show Notes:

• Feasting Wild: In Search of the Last Untamed Food
• Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
• The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
• The Peregrine by J. A. Baker
• Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

Greenhorns works nationally and locally to create a welcoming and hospitable culture for new entrants in regenerative agriculture. We produce cultural and educational media, programming and publications including the New Farmer’s Almanac, as well as films, radio and the occasional art stunt. Our summer programs and projects address the practical and social concerns of those living close to the land. We emphasize agroecology, skill-building, networking and intersectional dialogue, and working to repair this landscape we share. Visit us at greenhorns.org to learn more!

This interview features GinaRae LaCerva, as interviewed by Severine von Tscharner Fleming. Production is by Mary Ball, and editing is by Rachel Darke. Our intro and outro music is The Fly, by Cosmo Sheldrake. Thank you for listening!