Eat From Where You Live - Daniel Vitalis
It couldn’t be more perfect that for this last episode of Uncivilize, my guest is the very person who inspired me to start the show: Daniel...
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Uncivilize is a journalistic exploration of the human rewilding movement—bringing you the stories of pioneers who have “left” our modern industrialized world behind to forge radically altern...
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20 of 35 episodesThe Journalist-Farmer - AC Shilton
This week, I bring you the delightful AC Shilton , the investigative journalist of Netflix’s “The Innocent Man” fame who recently added farm...
The Journey to Wild Abundance - Natalie Bogwalker
I had a big birthday on Tuesday, and one of my wishes is to travel to the mountains of Southern Appalachia to take Natalie Bogwalker’s immer...
How the Bow and Arrow Changed Everything - Victor Kühn
I’m so excited to share this fascinating conversation I recorded last spring with Victor Kühn , a master traditional bowmaker and primitive...
The Outdoors Does Not Have to Be Uncomfortable - Wes Siler
In this premiere episode of our third (and final!) season, I talk with outdoor adventure journalist extraordinaire Wes Siler, who runs Outsi...
Civilization Is an Ecological Phenomenon - Peter Michael Bauer
As rewilding has reached the mainstream (or the word rewilding , anyway), it’s come to encompass many tenets: land conservation, nature imme...
Cohousing and the Return to Communal Living - Karin Hoskin
I know many of you, like me, dream of decamping the modern existence to live in the solace of the woods or on a bucolic homestead—just as ma...
On the Hadza and Human Metabolism - Herman Pontzer
I am so excited to bring you this interview with one of my favorite guests to date: Herman Pontzer , a biological anthropologist at Duke Uni...
A Homestead Built on Faith - Kip Smyth
Happy New Year! I’m coming back to you from winter hiatus later than anticipated, due to an extended illness and the now-historic teacher’s...
The Birth of an Explorer - Alegra Ally
This week, I bring you this much anticipated conversation with ethnographer and award-winning photographer and explorer Alegra Ally . Via he...
A Year of Autonomous Eating - Rob Greenfield
This week’s guest is adventurer and environmental activist Rob Greenfield , whose societal-boundary-pushing projects have ranged from biking...
The Woman and the Little Cabin That Could - Ayana Young
In her mid-20s and a few years past her ecology studies at Columbia University, Ayana Young’s life had the makings of an off-the-grid fantas...
The Biophilic Nature of Serenbe - Steve Nygren
In this first episode of our second season, I interview Steve Nygren, the founder of Serenbe —a microcosmic urban utopia set on 65,000 acres...
The Everwild Way - Amanda Caloia and Elizabeth Wells
Our Season 1 finale is here! I can't imagine a more fitting close to our six-month journey than this interview with Amanda Caloia and Elizab...
The Astonishing American History of Cesarean Section - Jacqueline H. Wolf
In 19th-century America, cesarean section was a treacherous, last-ditch surgery that nearly always resulted in death of the infant and, half...
Emulating Our Wild Progenitors: A New Path - Arthur Haines
We want to believe that we are living at the pinnacle of human existence; that since hominins first walked on two legs, man has been marchin...
Wild Beer and The Ale Apothecary - Paul Arney
Meet Paul Arney, the mad genius behind The Ale Apothecary , a wild-ferment brewery housed in a cabin in the woods of Bend, Oregon. Paul is a...
The Freedom of Forest Kindergarten - Erin Kenny
I am so excited to bring you this thought-provoking conversation with naturalist and educator Erin Kenny, an international leader in the for...
Re-creating the Village - Rachel Natland and Chris Morasky
For 99 percent of our human history, we lived in small, likely egalitarian societies —tight-knit hunter-gatherer bands of a couple dozen peo...
Eating Unprocessed and the Path to Food Sovereignty - Megan Kimble
Meet today’s guest, who might be called the Michael Pollan for the millenial generation: award-winning food writer Megan Kimble , now senior...