Feed us with trees. Elspeth Hay and Morag Gamble

About this episode

Elspeth Hay discusses her book on the potential of nut trees as a food source and the importance of recognizing food in our forests.

What if the forest you walk through is already a food garden, and the real work is remembering how to see it that way? In this episode of Sense Making in a Changing World I am in conversation with writer and public radio host Elspeth Hay about her beautiful new book Feed Us with Trees: Nuts and the Future of Food. Elspeth calls in from her home on Cape Cod and shares how one simple realisation changed everything for her: acorns ARE food. From that moment she began following nut trees back thr...

People in this episode

Host: Morag Gamble

Guest: Elspeth Hay

Topics covered

• food forests
• nut trees
• sustainable food
• permaculture
• food security

Keywords

• food gardens
• acorns
• sustainable agriculture
• forest ecology
• permaculture education

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Feed Us with Trees: Nuts and the Future of Food

Places: Cape Cod

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