In this episode of EARTHLIFE Severine interviews Indra Shekhar Singh, director of the Indian seed association and journalist.

Evan Strusinski is a legend among foragers and mycophiles. For years Evan sold wild mushrooms and foraged edibles to the top Chefs in NYC, now many of those restaurants are closed for COVID. Join for a meandering stroll into the ethics, naturalism, lifestyle and prognostications of cool myco-cat Evan. A true expert, he finds, identifies, harvests, and transports over 300 species of wild and rare plants and fungi found in the mid-Atlantic and the Northeast. He spends his springs, summers, and falls in the woods where his deep knowledge, intuition, and attentive senses guide him to alluring wild foods.

GinaRae LaCerva is an acclaimed writer, geographer, and environmental anthropologist with an intense wanderlust. She loves to learn and teach us foraging traditions, we’re in conversation about restoration approaches, humility, and the interesting and complicated question of how to create multi generational conservation processes that are also equitable.

Juan Escalona Meléndez is a chef and culinary philosopher based in Mexico City, we talk together about slow and indigenous foodways, self determination and allyship, and especially about cooking mushrooms!

In this first episode of EARTHLIFE, we talk with author and fungal biologist Merlin Sheldrake about what’s going on between the roots. How is fungal thinking good for us?