Episode #68 of the podcast is a conversation with Adam Larue of Sharpening Stone Gathering, out of Grants Pass, Oregon.
Adam and I recorded this conversation in a Camas meadow adjacent to his land after I taught wild-tending and critical ethnobotany plant plant walks for a week at the Sharpening Stone Earthskills Gathering, which Adam helps run.
In this episode with Adam, we talk about:
How Adam got the land that he lives on and runs the Sharpening Stone Earthskills Gathering
Some of the methods and madness of logging in Oregon which happens all around Adam’s private inholding near Umpqua National Forest, the herbicide spraying and GMP tree planting replacing forest diversity
the downfalls of profit-centered thinking vs. ecological centered thinking
some info about the Sharpening Stone Earthskills Gathering which takes place on the land we do the interview on
Re-wilding as a hot topic and trend right now
dancing with modern technology while trying to reconnect to land
The Camas meadow
Chocolate Lily Fritillaria from Adam’s land which we tended during classes at the gathering this year
Meadow Camas flowering in the Camas meadow we did the interview in
Fawn Lilies from the land just past flowering
logged zones around Adam’s land. There were lots of interesting plants coming up in these zones.
Yampah leaf up close, from the Camas meadow where we did the podcast interview
Mariposa Lily from the logged land around Adam and Sarah’s property
Mahala Mat Ceanothus creeping along the ground on the property
