Birth, Death & The Ethics of Killing with Arthur Haines — WildFed Podcast #049

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In this episode:

Arthur Haines | Botanist, Forager & Maine Guide

Podcast discussion:

• On miscarriage and the loss of a newborn

• Being a predatory species

• The new risk averse generations

• Bear hunting — an ancestral human practice

• Reverence for mature animals

• The way you do anything is the way you do everything

• Bear hunt stories

• A deep relationship with bears

• Working with Arthur

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Episode Resources: 

• Arthur Haines | Wilder Waters Community

• Arthur on Facebook

• Wilder Waters Community on Facebook & Instagram @wilderwaterscommunity

• Ancestral Plants Facebook Group

• Wilder Waters Hunter-Gather Apprenticeship Program

• Arthur’s classes & Wilder Waters Community events

• Arthur Haines’ books:

  • A New Path: To Transcend the Great Forgetting Through Incorporating Ancestral Practices into Contemporary Living

  • Ancestral Plants: A Primitive Skills Guide to Important Wild Edible, Medicinal, and Useful Plants of the Northeast (Volume 1)

  • Ancestral Plants: A Primitive Skills Guide to Important Wild Edible, Medicinal, and Useful Plants of the Northeast (Volume 2)

• A Unifying Theory of Food & Why You Should Eat Blueberries with Arthur Haines — WildFed Podcast #033

• Becoming a Modern-Day Hunter-Gatherer with Arthur Haines — WildFed Podcast #021

• Black Bears and Wild Rice with Arthur Haines — WildFed Podcast #015

• Mount Kinio

• Neuralink

• The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy - What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny by Neil Howe and William Strauss

• Seal Hunting: Newfoundland's Heritage with Clare Dawn Fowler & Lori McCarthy — WildFed Podcast #048

• First ever preserved grown up cave bear - even its nose is intact - unearthed on the Arctic island

• Sámi people

• High Peaks Alliance

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Meet Arthur Haines

Arthur Haines is a Maine hunting and recreation guide, forager, ancestral skills mentor, author, public speaker, and botanical researcher. Arthur runs the Delta Institute of Natural History in Canton, Maine, where he teaches human ecology, focusing on the values of foraging, wildcrafting medicine, and primitive living skills. In 2017, he authored “A New Path”, a comprehensive work on nature connection and rewilding, detailing how to incorporate ancestral practices into modern living. As a research botanist for the Native Plant Trust, he completed an inclusive flora of the New England region titled “Flora Novae Angliae” and has authored over twenty publications in peer-reviewed journals and books, including naming species of plants new to science. His series of YouTube videos has inspired thousands of people interested in foraging wild edible and medicinal plants. Learn more at ArthurHaines.com.

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