In the Sugarbush: Your Guide to Maple Syrup with Arthur Haines — WildFed Podcast #068

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In this episode:

Arthur Haines | Botanist, Forager & Maine Guide

Podcast discussion:

  • Introducing Arthur

  • Developing confidence in the cycle of seasonal wild harvesting

  • How much maple syrup Arthur typically collects

  • The trifecta of wild food staples

  • On the genus Acer

  • How maple sap flow works

  • Where do maples live?

  • Indigenous methods of maple syrup harvesting

  • Managing a sugarbush

  • Nutrient profile of maple syrup

  • Gratitude for wild food

  • Advice for getting started & simple maple syruping equipment

  • Getting to know the trees on your landscape

  • Upcoming spring hunts and forages

  • Arthur’s wild food classes

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Meet Arthur Haines

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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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