Episode 29: Wild Food, Foraging & Omnivory with Jenna Rozelle
Episode 29 – Wild Food, Foraging & Omnivory: Jenna Rozelle
What you should know about Wild Food, Foraging & Being an Omnivore:
This week, wild food educator, forager and hunter Jenna Rozelle from western Maine joins us on the podcast. We’re talking about wild food, mentoring, and conservation. Jenna is a Chapter board member for New England Backcountry Hunters & Anglers and is also a Hunt To Eat Ambassador.
Are you interested in learning more about wild foods and foraging? Here’s what you’ll learn when you give this a listen:
- Jenna’s background growing up in rural Maine & her mom’s influence;
- Her lifestyle as a wild food educator and off grid homesteader;
- Get started with foraging wild foods like mushrooms;
- Become comfortable and familiar with one species at a time;
- Build confidence;
- Squirrel hunting & whitetail deer doe tags;
- Omnivory;
- New England BHA’s hunting mentorship program;
- Understanding your food’s ‘food’;
- Strawberry & Japanese Knot Weed Pie
Omnivore (/ˈɒmnɪvɔːr/) def. Wikipedia:
A consumption classification for animals that have the capability to obtain chemical energy and nutrients from materials originating from plant and animal origin.
Recommended Books:
Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms of New England and Eastern Canada: A Photographic Guidebook to Finding and Using Key Species by David Spahr – Click HERE
The Forager’s Harvest: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants by Samuel Thayer – Click HERE
Follow Jenna Rozelle on Instagram & Facebook. If you’re in New England, you’ll want to sign up for one of her Wild Food Classes.
To go back to the East to West Hunting Home Page, click HERE
