Wild tending series / Michael Ridge of Walking with Western Wildflowers on living nomadically year-round wild-tending on horseback

The Ground Shots Podcast

Episode #41 of the Ground Shots Podcast features a story documenting my visit with Michael Ridge of Walking with Western Wildflowers August 2019 in Kamiah, Idaho, Nimiipuu country. In this episode with Michael we talk about:

the importance of ecological participation as a way to belong to place

Michael's way of wild-tending nomadically on horseback across the west

planting the seeds of wild food and medicine plants to diversify genetics

some of the plants Michael tends like Sego Lilies, Biscuitroots, different stone-fruits, Camas, Yampah and more.

Links:

Michael's instagram: https://www.instagram.com/walkingwithwesternwildflowers/?hl=en

Michael’s facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/walkingwithwesternwildflowers/

Michael’s Paypal: http://www.paypal.me/MRidge711

Amanda's instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/mountain.manders/

‘Tending the Wild’ by Kat Anderson https://www.amazon.com/Tending-Wild-Knowledge-Management-Californias/dp/0520280431

The Native Seed Pod podcast https://www.nativeseedpod.org/ features some conversations about wild tending hosted by native folks interviewing native folks.

A few links to learning about colonization in Nimipuu territory :

Flight of the Nez Perce: https://isreview.org/issue/73/flight-nez-perce

Nez Perce / Nimipuu tribal website https://www.nezperce.org/

book by Nimipuu elder: “A Little Bit of Wisdom: Conversations With a Nez Perce Elder” by Horace Axtell https://www.amazon.com/Little-Bit-Wisdom-Conversations-Perce/dp/0806132698

“A People's History of the United States” by Howard Zinn: https://www.amazon.com/Peoples-History-United-States/dp/0060838655

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