An Anthology of the Anthropocene
For The Wild is a slow media studio dedicated to land-based protection, co-liberation, and intersectional storytelling. We are rooted in a paradigm shift away from human supremacy, endless growth, and consumerism. Our work highlights impactful stories and deeply-felt meaning making as balms for these times.
New Episodes
This episode traces the shifting contours of Italian food culture amid tourism, commercialisation, convenience, and the global appetite for an imagined “Italian cuisine.” What happens to taste when food becomes spectacle, an export or a brand? And, what tastes are lost? Can they ever be reclaimed?
Focusing on women’s stories, histories, and layers of expectations around femininity, the body, and even the earth, that come from this, the conversation considers the complexities of lived and inherited wisdom; how they might be at odds, and where they may be reconciled.
Fat of The Land
Embracing hunger, desire, and a calling for connection, Fat of The Land is a five-part audio series recorded in rural Italy that explores what it means to cultivate authentic relationship between people, land, and each other through slowness, nourishment, and shared life. Each episode traces what happens when we follow this desire. Listen in and pique your appetite.
New story bites served up each Thursday
In our final episode, we move between ancient memory and rituals made at the dinner table that reflect on the legacy of slow food. It is about the way we attend to Earth and care for its continuity, asking not what we can take from it, but what we can give in return.
This episode traces the shifting contours of Italian food culture amid tourism, commercialisation, convenience, and the global appetite for an imagined “Italian cuisine.” What happens to taste when food becomes spectacle, an export or a brand? And, what tastes are lost? Can they ever be reclaimed?
Focusing on women’s stories, histories, and layers of expectations around femininity, the body, and even the earth, that come from this, the conversation considers the complexities of lived and inherited wisdom; how they might be at odds, and where they may be reconciled.
Through reflections on patience and the wisdom of living within natural cycles, we are invited to imagine beyond a world of instant gratification. As Mila reminds us, “nature needs time.” What kind of fulfillment becomes possible when we learn to move at nature’s pace?
What does it mean to be independent as growers and gardeners while also recognizing our deep interconnectedness with both the land and each other across time? This opening episode grounds us in Sicily with Carlo and Jessie at Slow Life Family Farm.
Dr. Báyò Akómoláfé’s
Slow Study II
Join us as we break, compost, and remake our sense of the world
For The Wild is elated to bring you our secondSlow Study with Dr. Báyò Akómoláfé, We Will Dance with Mountains: VUNJA!—a learning journey for you to explore from home at your own pleasurable pace.
FEATURED PLAYLISTS
Deeply Rooted
Inviting relief, balance, and abundance back into our lives…
Penniman guides us through an adaptation of a Haitian prayer from her maternal lineage that honors the forces of nature and our ancestors. Leah’s gracious offering invites us to open ourselves to the elements of the Earth that shape our lives.
Lyla June gifts us with a poem that rides with the rushing current of Creation and beckons us to wade into the ever-moving stream of life. Allow Lyla’s poem to wash over you, to uplift your capacity to find strength, forgiveness and connection in times of adversity.
Kailea offers a poetry reading woven with simple movements to reawaken our inseparable connection to all of Creation. This offering honors the hard-working mothers and caregivers who provide care so generously, and who are so deserving of moments to cultivate wellness.
Milla invites us to root ourselves through the very soil, minerals, water and air of our own bodies. Listen in as we shed what is old and give ourselves to the stream of life pulsing through the body of nature.
brontë velez transports us through revolutionary prayer– an incantation to ignite your creativity and fill up your inner well with joy, strength and peace.
Earthly Reads
Find grounding with beloved authors…
Offering embodied insight into the ways in which healing manifests in our personal and collective lives, Prentis brings a thoughtful and empathetic perspective to this crucial conversation that fosters deeper belonging with each other and the Earth.
Gumbs speaks to her understanding of Lorde’s work as “geological,” following the connection Lorde draws between Blackness and graphite—and our existence at every layer of Earth’s interior. Gumbs shares lessons for reciprocity, earthly embodiment, and the poetry of living.
Sharing stories from her childhood in Lebanon, Céline (founder of Slow Factory) gives us a look at what it means to be a hakawati (storyteller) and asks listeners what it means to have faith in times of crisis and how to commit to your morals in the face of suppression.
Ayana and Marcia discuss Marcia’s new book, Turning to Stone, and contemplate a life lived in conversation with the very Earth that holds us. Marcia offers us her grounding presence and her awareness of geologic time cycles that churn beyond human perception.
Sharing sweet balm from her new book We Will Rest! The Art of Escape, Tricia reminds us of the art of being alive. In this meditative episode, Tricia asks listeners what it might mean to have faith in mystery and to begin without knowing the full course.
adrienne shares more about her new book Loving Corrections and reminds us of what it means to value relationships and reflection across humanity. Adrienne speaks to the call to choose the Earth, the muscle and soul required to hold oppositional energy, and the beauty that comes from being willing to look back at ourselves with honesty.
Wisdom Keepers
Some of the most revered voices featured on For The Wild…
Dr. Vandana Shiva joins us to discuss how we are being set up to become accessories to the digital world and how we can reclaim our intellectual freedom and sovereignty from the hands of digital dictatorship– a powerful reminder that we are meant to live beautiful lives as sovereign beings, not as digital appendages.
This week we rebroadcast Pua Case’s interview in honor of the heart of a mountain and the rising of a Nation.
Dr. Shiva explores how systems of domination have been artificially constructed, the pervasiveness of GMOs in our food, the roots of violent agriculture, the importance of seed saving, cultures of violence, economies of care, and the role of women in changing paradigms.
Ayana and Kalani discuss an “all hands on deck approach” to addressing human behavior and developing personal preparedness.
Stephen joins us to discuss how the debts of generations past have accrued to us, but not the wisdom. Our inheritance of obligation, of reciprocity, has been broken and we are left with what is dying, but without any understanding of how to be with it.
Stephen Jenkinson is an activist, teacher, author, and farmer. His book Die Wise recently received the Nautilus Book Award. He has a masters degree in theology from Harvard University and a masters degree in social work from the University of Toronto.
Dr. Kimmerer is active in efforts to broaden access to environmental science training for Indigenous students, and to introduce the benefits of traditional ecological knowledge to the scientific community, in a way that respects and protects indigenous knowledge.
Dr. Susan Murphy Roshi is a writer, radio producer and film director, film professor, as well as the founding teacher of Zen Open Circle in Sydney Australia. She has a special interest in the way Zen and Indigenous Australian sense of 'care for country' come together.
In our final episode, we move between ancient memory and rituals made at the dinner table that reflect on the legacy of slow food. It is about the way we attend to Earth and care for its continuity, asking not what we can take from it, but what we can give in return.