Kelly Kindscher's guest appearances

Kelly Kindscher

Wild Plant Culture

WildFed Podcast — Hunt Fish Forage Food

Paul Saladino

David Meltzer

Ben Greenfield

Luke Storey

Daniel Vitalis

Paul Greenberg

Doug Duren

Karl Malcolm

Robert Kelly

Donnie Vincent

Hank Shaw

Lori McCarthy

James Agee

John Slattery

Sally K. Norton

OwlTail

We’ve got a great show for you today with Kelly Kindscher, PhD. He’s the author of Edible Wild Plants of the Prairie, a senior scientist at the Kansas Biological Survey and a Professor in the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Kansas. His research specialties are plant community ecology, conservation biology, restoration ecology, botany, and ethnobotany. His passion is for wild prairies, wild plants, and wild landscapes. If you’ve got questions about the ecology of the prairie, Kelly Kindscher is your guy. And, we've got questions about the prairie! We love interviews like this, deep dives on specific topics — especially getting to explore the big history of landscapes and their ecology. In our short lifetimes, we get such a brief glimpse into the places we live or visit, so drawing upon the incredible history and science to piece together a big-picture story, to us, is both revelatory and thrilling. Today, of course, we’re talking about the prairie, how it was formed — which, most interestingly, had strong anthropogenic influence — and what happened from the first settlement there, up to European contact, and right up to the present. Having visited the prairie last year, not for the first time, but for the first time with intentionality, Daniel is keenly interested in this ecological treasure. And, having eaten from what it provides, in the form of bison, chokecherries, and prairie turnips, we really value the message that Dr. Kelly is sharing. That our prairie restoration efforts must include edible and medicinal plants if we hope to make a lasting change in how modern Americans relate to this crucial ecotype. Trying to rebuild it, exclusive of people just means people forget about it. Out of site, out of mind. But creating landscapes that humans can interact with, particularly at the gustatory level — which incidentally is likely the reason the prairies were built by humans in the first place — means that people, rather than forgetting, will instead be interacting. What we care about we protect. It’s a beautiful and timely message about a place whose importance can’t be overstated. And of course, this same thinking can be applied to any and all landscapes. Like Kelly, we think tending wild landscapes for food and medicine is the missing component that gives modern people a reason to care. The answers are already there, they just need to be implemented. View full show notes, including links to resources from this episode here: https://www.wild-fed.com/podcast/120

We’ve got a great show for you today with Kelly Kindscher, PhD. He’s the author of Edible Wild Plants of the Prairie, a senior scientist at the Kansas Biological Survey and a Professor in the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Kansas. His research specialties are plant community ecology, conservation biology, restoration ecology, botany, and ethnobotany. His passion is for wild prairies, wild plants, and wild landscapes. If you’ve got questions about the ecology of the prairie, Kelly Kindscher is your guy. And, we've got questions about the prairie! We love interviews like this, deep dives on specific topics — especially getting to explore the big history of landscapes and their ecology. In our short lifetimes, we get such a brief glimpse into the places we live or visit, so drawing upon the incredible history and science to piece together a big-picture story, to us, is both revelatory and thrilling. Today, of course, we’re talking about the prairie, how it was formed — which, most interestingly, had strong anthropogenic influence — and what happened from the first settlement there, up to European contact, and right up to the present. Having visited the prairie last year, not for the first time, but for the first time with intentionality, Daniel is keenly interested in this ecological treasure. And, having eaten from what it provides, in the form of bison, chokecherries, and prairie turnips, we really value the message that Dr. Kelly is sharing. That our prairie restoration efforts must include edible and medicinal plants if we hope to make a lasting change in how modern Americans relate to this crucial ecotype. Trying to rebuild it, exclusive of people just means people forget about it. Out of site, out of mind. But creating landscapes that humans can interact with, particularly at the gustatory level — which incidentally is likely the reason the prairies were built by humans in the first place — means that people, rather than forgetting, will instead be interacting. What we care about we protect. It’s a beautiful and timely message about a place whose importance can’t be overstated. And of course, this same thinking can be applied to any and all landscapes. Like Kelly, we think tending wild landscapes for food and medicine is the missing component that gives modern people a reason to care. The answers are already there, they just need to be implemented. View full show notes, including links to resources from this episode here: <a href="https://www.wild-fed.com/podcast/120" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.wild-fed.com/podcast/120</a>

Prairie Restoration, Food, Medicine & History with Kelly Kindscher, PhD — WildFed Podcast #120

Prairie Ethnobotanist

Thanks for tuning in to the Wild Plant Culture Podcast! This episode features a conversation with ethnobotanist Kelly Kindscher. Kelly is an unusual combination, a skilled field ecologist deeply interested in the cultural uses of plants, historically and in contemporary application, spanning ethnobotany to chemical analysis. Kelly is a professor at University of Kansas, and Plant Ecologist for the Kansas Biological survey. He's a passionate advocate for native plants and wild places, and the author of several books, includingEchinacea: Herbal Medicine with a Wild History, Medicinal Wild Plants of the Prairie: An Ethnobotanical Guide, and Edible Wild Plants of the Prairie: An Ethnobotanical Guide. We talk about Kansas prairies, long-lived forbs and grasses, Floristic Quality Assessment and remediation of damaged sites, the reciprocal relationship native peoples had with Tipsin (prairie turnip),as well as plants such as American plum, wild bergamot, and groundnut, about early ethnobotanist Melvin Gilmore, and lots about echinacea.

Thanks for tuning in to the Wild Plant Culture Podcast! This episode features a conversation with ethnobotanist Kelly Kindscher. Kelly is an unusual combination, a skilled field ecologist deeply interested in the cultural uses of plants, historically and in contemporary application, spanning ethnobotany to chemical analysis. Kelly is a professor at University of Kansas, and Plant Ecologist for the Kansas Biological survey. He's a passionate advocate for native plants and wild places, and the author of several books, including Echinacea: Herbal Medicine with a Wild History, Medicinal Wild Plants of the Prairie: An Ethnobotanical Guide, and Edible Wild Plants of the Prairie: An Ethnobotanical Guide. We talk about Kansas prairies, long-lived forbs and grasses, Floristic Quality Assessment and remediation of damaged sites, the reciprocal relationship native peoples had with Tipsin (prairie turnip),as well as plants such as American plum, wild bergamot, and groundnut, about early ethnobotanist Melvin Gilmore, and lots about echinacea.

Episode 008 - Dr. Kelly Kindscher, Prairie Ethnobotanist