STEPHEN HARROD BUHNER

Nance Klehm

Stephen is an interdisciplinary, independent scholar, polymath, and author or 23 books (and working on others), numerous articles, and essays and have achieved some mastery in a variety of subjects a few being bacterial ecology, resistance dynamics; plant intelligence and ecology, human psychology and psychotherapy, biological self-organization; nonlinearity; contemplative spirituality, transcultural epistemology and more. www.stephenharrodbuhner.comContains mild profanity. An edited version of this interview was aired on Lumpen Radio, in two parts.

Stephen is an interdisciplinary, independent scholar, polymath, and author or 23 books (and working on others), numerous articles, and essays and have achieved some mastery in a variety of subjects a few being bacterial ecology, resistance dynamics; plant intelligence and ecology, human psychology and psychotherapy, biological self-organization; nonlinearity; contemplative spirituality, transcultural epistemology and more. <a href="http://www.stephenharrodbuhner.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.stephenharrodbuhner.com</a> Contains mild profanity. An edited version of this interview was aired on Lumpen Radio, in two parts.

Nance Klehm with Stephen Harrod Buhner

Stephanie Gottlob

Stephanie Gottlob is a somatic improvisational movement artist. In 2019 she bought a truck camper and has been on the road for three years, exploring movement improvisation, somatic experience, and creative process throughout the various natural biomes of North America - deciduous forest, lake, tundra, swamp, grasslands, river, desert, temperate rain forest, and boreal forest.

Nance Klehm with Movement Artist Stephanie Gottlob

Angela Ferguson

Angela is the current supervisor of the Onondaga Nation Farm. The farm practices all aspects of Food Sovereignty for their community. She is also one of the original organizing members of Braiding the Sacred, an all indigenous group of Traditional Corn Growers across Turtle Island. Her many passions include Haudenosaunee Traditional Agriculture, Seed Caring, Bee Keeping, Foraging, Traditional Cooking Methods, Knowledge Sharing, Haudenosaunee Nutrition Education, Youth Mentorship, &amp; Traditional Hide Tanning.

Nance Klehm with Indigenous Farmer Angela Ferguson

Uncle Bear Klein is a Content Creator, Trainer, Life Coach, and Designer of Powerful Life Transformational curriculum. He/they have over 20+ years of experience leading workshops in Chicago and across the country. Uncle Bear seeks to facilitate and witness transformation and unite the head with the heart while at the same time savoring the honey of Life! He strives to live and create work honoring his five Core Values: Connection, Courage, Compassion, Curiosity, and Creativity.Cover image via http://www.unclebearsrodeo.com

Uncle Bear Klein is a Content Creator, Trainer, Life Coach, and Designer of Powerful Life Transformational curriculum. He/they have over 20+ years of experience leading workshops in Chicago and across the country. Uncle Bear seeks to facilitate and witness transformation and unite the head with the heart while at the same time savoring the honey of Life! He strives to live and create work honoring his five Core Values: Connection, Courage, Compassion, Curiosity, and Creativity. Cover image via <a href="http://www.unclebearsrodeo.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.unclebearsrodeo.com</a>

Nance Klehm with Life Coach Uncle Bear Klein

School for the Ecocene hosts programs and is also an eco-social network for sharing resources, inspiration and actions for planetary liberation. The Ecocene is an emergent geologic era where all beings are living in relation and reciprocity with their ecosystems again. Sarita and Este are two of its stewards transforming the School into a worker-owned Cooperative www.ecocene.net

School for the Ecocene hosts programs and is also an eco-social network for sharing resources, inspiration and actions for planetary liberation. The Ecocene is an emergent geologic era where all beings are living in relation and reciprocity with their ecosystems again. Sarita and Este are two of its stewards transforming the School into a worker-owned Cooperative <a href="http://www.ecocene.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.ecocene.net</a>

Nance Klehm with School of the Ecocene

Margaret Bardell

Margaret Bardell and her husband manage Chestnut Cliff Farm. The farm aims to raise the highest quality specialty organic produce, maple syrup, free-range eggs, grass-fed beef, herbs, foraged foods such as mushrooms and wild plums, unique cut flowers, and more. They are located in Freeport, Illinois at the edge of the Driftless and are converting to no-till, regenerative methods to support soil biology. Chestnut Cliff Farm - Bardell Family - Market Garden - Organic @chestnutclifffarm

Nance Klehm with Margaret Bardell of Chestnut Cliff Farm

George Johnson

George Johnson is a 96 year old elder who has had a long practice of native prairie restoration and preservation. He is a library of history of the confluence of human use of land, native prairie and agriculture in northern Illinois.

Nance Klehm with Prairie Elder and Restorationist George Johnson

Gwyneth Zeleny Anderson

Gwyneth Zeleny Anderson is an artist based in Chicago, living where the Ojibwe, Odawa, Potawatomi, Miami, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Sac, Fox, Kickapoo, and Illinois Nations have called home. She animates out of devotion to the fluidity and multiplicity of everything, focusing on sensations and experiences of isolation that are avoided by dominant culture. As a depressive person, the animation process is a crucial, steady reminder that nothing is really stuck or alone. Every project is a spell to transform the violence of isolation, and celebrate each other as interconnected, weird phenomena. She has presented work in galleries, forests, and empty lots around the northern hemisphere. https://gwynethvzanderson.com/section/89319.html gwynethvzanderson.com

Gwyneth Zeleny Anderson is an artist based in Chicago, living where the Ojibwe, Odawa, Potawatomi, Miami, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Sac, Fox, Kickapoo, and Illinois Nations have called home. She animates out of devotion to the fluidity and multiplicity of everything, focusing on sensations and experiences of isolation that are avoided by dominant culture. As a depressive person, the animation process is a crucial, steady reminder that nothing is really stuck or alone. Every project is a spell to transform the violence of isolation, and celebrate each other as interconnected, weird phenomena. She has presented work in galleries, forests, and empty lots around the northern hemisphere. <a href="https://gwynethvzanderson.com/section/89319.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://gwynethvzanderson.com/section/89319.html</a> <a href="https://gwynethvzanderson.com/section/89319.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">gwynethvzanderson.com</a>

Nance Klehm with Multimedia Artist Gwyneth Zeleny Anderson

Cathi Schwalbe

Cathi Schwalbe is a maker of objects including mixed media, sculpture, found objects, bronze &amp; iron, installation &amp; site specific works, and a deep social practice, all centered around issues and aesthetics related to food systems, water, agriculture, reuse, connection, and being human. @casbah3d and www.casbah3.com

Cathi Schwalbe is a maker of objects including mixed media, sculpture, found objects, bronze &amp; iron, installation &amp; site specific works, and a deep social practice, all centered around issues and aesthetics related to food systems, water, agriculture, reuse, connection, and being human. @casbah3d and <a href="http://www.casbah3.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.casbah3.com</a>

Nance Klehm with Cathi Schwalbe

Nance speaks with four staffers of Chicago's independent newspaper, South Side Weekly: Editor-in-Chief Jacqui Serrato, Managing Editor Martha Bayne, Imigration Editor Alma Castillo and Politics Editor. www.southsideweekly.com

Nance speaks with four staffers of Chicago's independent newspaper, South Side Weekly: Editor-in-Chief Jacqui Serrato, Managing Editor Martha Bayne, Imigration Editor Alma Castillo and Politics Editor. <a href="http://www.southsideweekly.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.southsideweekly.com</a>

Nance Klehm with South Side Weekly

Join host Nance Klehm for long format conversations with folks who find the cracks, break up the compaction, remediate the contamination and leave the soil (metaphorically or literally) better for us all.Spontaneous Vegetation airs on Lumpen Radio (WLPN-LP Chicago) on 2nd and 4th Sundays 5-6pm CST.

This show has great guests and Nance Klehm is a gem of a host.

Lots of star power

Join host Nance Klehm for long format conversations with folks who find the cracks, break up the compaction, remediate the contamination and leave the soil (metaphorically or literally) better for us all. Spontaneous Vegetation airs on Lumpen Radio (WLPN-LP Chicago) on 2nd and 4th Sundays 5-6pm CST.

Spontaneous Vegetation

Sophia ("So") Sinopoulos-Lloyd is a queer Greek-American who grew up in the northern hardwood forests of Alnobak/Abenaki territory (central Vermont). Much of So's work is animated by a study of how personhood and spirituality are interwoven with geography and can be further informed by intimate knowledge of place through naturalist study. Along with their spouse Pinar, So runs Queer Nature and develops nature-based programming for LGBTQ+ people.queernature.org #queernature

Sophia ("So") Sinopoulos-Lloyd is a queer Greek-American who grew up in the northern hardwood forests of Alnobak/Abenaki territory (central Vermont). Much of So's work is animated by a study of how personhood and spirituality are interwoven with geography and can be further informed by intimate knowledge of place through naturalist study. Along with their spouse Pinar, So runs Queer Nature and develops nature-based programming for LGBTQ+ <a href="http://people.queernature.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">people.queernature.org</a> #queernature

Queer Nature Sophia ("So") Sinopoulos-Lloyd on Spontaneous Vegetation!

Eileen Myles

Eileen Myles came to New York from Boston in 1974 to be a poet, subsequently a novelist, public talker and art journalist. A Sagittarius, their twenty books include evolution (poems), Afterglow (a dog memoir), a 2017 re-issue of Cool for You, I Must Be Living Twice/new and selected poems, and Chelsea Girls. Eileen is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Andy Warhol/Creative Capital Arts Writers grant, four Lambda Book Awards, the Shelley Prize from the PSA, and a poetry award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. In 2016, Myles received a Creative Capital grant and the Clark Prize for excellence in art writing. In 2019 they'll be teaching at NYU and Naropa University and they live in New York and Marfa, TX.Photo by Shae Detar

Eileen Myles came to New York from Boston in 1974 to be a poet, subsequently a novelist, public talker and art journalist. A Sagittarius, their twenty books include evolution (poems), Afterglow (a dog memoir), a 2017 re-issue of Cool for You, I Must Be Living Twice/new and selected poems, and Chelsea Girls. Eileen is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Andy Warhol/Creative Capital Arts Writers grant, four Lambda Book Awards, the Shelley Prize from the PSA, and a poetry award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. In 2016, Myles received a Creative Capital grant and the Clark Prize for excellence in art writing. In 2019 they'll be teaching at NYU and Naropa University and they live in New York and Marfa, TX. Photo by Shae Detar

Nance Klehm with Poet and Novelist Eileen Myles

Beatrice Scescke

Tulia Rubero

Samara Reigh

On this episode Nance chats with Beatrice Scescke, Samara Reigh, and Dr. Tulia Rubero from Blue Island Traditional Medicine, a women-owned, worker-owned holistic health clinic. The trio chats about acupuncture, chiropractic medicine, changing attitudes and more.

Nance Klehm with Beatrice Scescke, Samara Reigh, and Dr. Tulia Rubero from Blue Island Traditional Medicine

Antonia Perez

Antonia Perez is a clinical herbalist born and raised in NYC. They have apprenticed with several herbalists around the Northeast, South America and the ArborVitae School of Traditional Herbal Medicine in NYC They graduated from Bard College where they studied environmental and urban studies. They are a community organizer, gardener, food and environmental justice educator. They are also the co-founder of collectives: Brujas and Herban Cura. They are passionate to share their knowledge with other folks especially in urban centers, in order to interrupt notions of individualism and separatism from nature and grow towards collaborative and symbiotic communities. www.herbancura.org

Antonia Perez is a clinical herbalist born and raised in NYC. They have apprenticed with several herbalists around the Northeast, South America and the ArborVitae School of Traditional Herbal Medicine in NYC They graduated from Bard College where they studied environmental and urban studies. They are a community organizer, gardener, food and environmental justice educator. They are also the co-founder of collectives: Brujas and Herban Cura. They are passionate to share their knowledge with other folks especially in urban centers, in order to interrupt notions of individualism and separatism from nature and grow towards collaborative and symbiotic communities. <a href="http://www.herbancura.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.herbancura.org</a>

Nance Klehm with Herbalist Antonia Perez of Herban Cura

Monica Eng

Monica Eng is a reporter at WBEZ, Chicago Public Radio and the co-host of the podcast Chewing. Currently she reports for the Curious City show and Worldview show on issues of Chicago, health, food and sustainability.She has worked in Chicago journalism for three decades, mostly as an editor and reporter at the Chicago Sun Times and Chicago Tribune. Over the years her reporting has focused on Chicago culture, ethnic communities, health, sustainability and food. Her children are fourth generation Chicago Public School graduates.In this episode, Monica discusses the history of lead pipes in Chicago, preserving old trees in Andersonville, and Mayor Lightfoot's environmental strategy.#Chicago #Environment #Politics #EnvironmentalJustice

Monica Eng is a reporter at WBEZ, Chicago Public Radio and the co-host of the podcast Chewing. Currently she reports for the Curious City show and Worldview show on issues of Chicago, health, food and sustainability. She has worked in Chicago journalism for three decades, mostly as an editor and reporter at the Chicago Sun Times and Chicago Tribune. Over the years her reporting has focused on Chicago culture, ethnic communities, health, sustainability and food. Her children are fourth generation Chicago Public School graduates. In this episode, Monica discusses the history of lead pipes in Chicago, preserving old trees in Andersonville, and Mayor Lightfoot's environmental strategy. #Chicago #Environment #Politics #EnvironmentalJustice

Nance Klehm with Reporter and Journalist Monica Eng

David Fenster

This week's guest on Spontaneous Vegetation is filmmaker David Fenster.David Fenster is a filmmaker based in Marfa, Texas. His films link the cultural and historical with the ecological and mystical - celebrating the specificity of a particular place. His work has shown at the Museum of Modern Art, Sundance Film Festival, the New York Times, HBO, the Hammer Museum, and many other museums, festivals and media outlets.

This week's guest on Spontaneous Vegetation is filmmaker David Fenster. David Fenster is a filmmaker based in Marfa, Texas. His films link the cultural and historical with the ecological and mystical - celebrating the specificity of a particular place. His work has shown at the Museum of Modern Art, Sundance Film Festival, the New York Times, HBO, the Hammer Museum, and many other museums, festivals and media outlets.

Nance Klehm with Filmmaker David Fenster

Lynn Fang

Lynn Fang, MS specializes in soil and compost ecology for community compost and urban farming projects in the Los Angeles, CA area. She has helped start pilot projects in the Pomona and Claremont area that are rooted in ecological design and increasing community access and connection. Her work bridges healthy soils and healthy communities, making ecological education fun and accessible for everyone. She recently launched an online class series called Soilify!

Nance Klehm with Compost Ecologist Lynn Fang

Ayako Kato

Ayako Kato is a Japanese-native and award-winning Chicago-based dancer, choreographer and improviser who has performed extensively in Europe, Japan and the United States. Influenced by a Japanese view of nature and the philosophy of Tao, Ayako's ongoing practice is to embody the intangible, the beauty of being as it is, as “The Way” of nature through movement. www.artunionhumanscape.netIn this interview, Nance and Ayako discuss the Tao, the radioactive disaster in Fukishima, collaborating with live musicians and her ritual of foot massage.

Ayako Kato is a Japanese-native and award-winning Chicago-based dancer, choreographer and improviser who has performed extensively in Europe, Japan and the United States. Influenced by a Japanese view of nature and the philosophy of Tao, Ayako's ongoing practice is to embody the intangible, the beauty of being as it is, as “The Way” of nature through movement. <a href="http://www.artunionhumanscape.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.artunionhumanscape.net</a> In this interview, Nance and Ayako discuss the Tao, the radioactive disaster in Fukishima, collaborating with live musicians and her ritual of foot massage.

Nance Klehm with Dancer and Choreographer Ayako Kat

Vivien Sansour

Vivien Sansour is an artist and conservationist who uses image,sketch, film, soil, seeds, and plants to enliven old cultural tales incontemporary presentations and to advocate for the protection ofbiodiversity as a cultural and political act. As the founder ofPalestine Heirloom Seed Library and the Traveling Kitchen project, sheworks with farmers to promote seed conservation and crop diversity.She is co-director with Riad Bahour of the feature film El Bizreh Um ElFay, which was awarded best project at RamallahDoc 2015 and will bereleased in 2020. She has presented her work as an artist at theJerusalem Fund Gallery, Washington, DC; SALT Art Center, Istanbul; andthe 2019 Venice Biennale.Born Jerusalem; lives in Bethlehem, Palestine and Los Angeles, USA

Vivien Sansour is an artist and conservationist who uses image, sketch, film, soil, seeds, and plants to enliven old cultural tales in contemporary presentations and to advocate for the protection of biodiversity as a cultural and political act. As the founder of Palestine Heirloom Seed Library and the Traveling Kitchen project, she works with farmers to promote seed conservation and crop diversity. She is co-director with Riad Bahour of the feature film El Bizreh Um El Fay, which was awarded best project at RamallahDoc 2015 and will be released in 2020. She has presented her work as an artist at the Jerusalem Fund Gallery, Washington, DC; SALT Art Center, Istanbul; and the 2019 Venice Biennale. Born Jerusalem; lives in Bethlehem, Palestine and Los Angeles, USA

Nance Klehm with Seed Conservationist Vivien Sansour

Willoughby Arevalo

Willoughby Arevalo is passionate about the ecology of fungi, the ways they shape our world and the ways we shape theirs. His lifelong friendship with fleshy fungi has led him down a mycelial pathway – from a start in field identification and mushroom hunting, branching into cuisine, DIY cultivation, farming, education, writing and eco-arts. In his thirty years of self-mtivated inquiry and intmate lived experience with fungi, he has spent the last decade prioritizing sharing mycology with people in communities across North America This has manifested in numerous presentations, art projects, teaching tours, collaborations, gatherings, and his new book, DIY Mushroom Cultivatioon, out now from New Society Publishers. Between the mycology and art work, and caring for his kid, Uma, he works part time on an organic vegetable farm. Originally from Arcata, California (Traditional Wiyot and Yurok Territory), he lives as a guest on Unceded Coast Salish Territory in Vancouver, Canada. #mycology, #mycoecology, #lumpenradio, #coprosperitysphere, #willoughbyarevalo, #fungi

Nance Klehm and Mushroom, Ecologist and Cultivator Willoughby Arevalo

Elisa Pepple

Elise Pepple is the GM of Marfa Public Radio in Far West Texas. She believes in the power of storytelling to shape and animate who we are, where we live, and how we relate. Elise spent the last decade learning the contemporary branches of oral storytelling apparent to her: oral history, radio, live storytelling, and podcasting. She got her start in radio when she brought StoryCorps to her small town in rural Alaska. She studied radio at the Salt Institute for Documentary Study. She used to produce fun projects like The Other AK: an experiment in narrative tourism and Portland Brick, a project building public memory. She also used to host a live storytelling series called Hear Tell where everyone would end up laughing and crying together. She also also used to teach college students. Now she fills out a lot of paperwork, deals with lightning strikes to a transmitter on a mountain, and raises money.

Nance Klehm and Radio Manager Elisa Pepple of Marfa Public Radio

Akilah Martin

Dr. Akilah Martin is a Chicago-based environmental scientist rooted in the practice of enhancing soil, water, and overall environmental quality that contributes to a more sustainable NOW. As a scholar and professor, she crafts impactful learning experiences that in turn offer opportunities to create a more just and equitable society.In this episode, Nance and Akilah discusses Akilah's lifelong involvement with the Sciences as a woman of color.

Dr. Akilah Martin is a Chicago-based environmental scientist rooted in the practice of enhancing soil, water, and overall environmental quality that contributes to a more sustainable NOW. As a scholar and professor, she crafts impactful learning experiences that in turn offer opportunities to create a more just and equitable society. In this episode, Nance and Akilah discusses Akilah's lifelong involvement with the Sciences as a woman of color.

Nance Klehm with Environmental Scientist Dr. Akilah Martin

Sol is the founder and co-director of Fraternal Forest, a wilderness and adventure school in Chicago. In a previous life, Sol was working in the Sciences. Now a mother of two children she believes that by treating children 'like sourdough' and exposing them constantly to the natural environment, they will get some forest spores deposited in their souls, and when they mature, in 30-something years, they are part person/part forest. As we all should be.Kathleen is an educator with the Fraternal Forest, and a naturalist, meddler, instigator enthusiast from Chicago with ten years of experience working with children in the field of outdoor education. She is especially interested in figuring out how the children of the 21st century will grow into the role of earth stewardship.

Sol is the founder and co-director of Fraternal Forest, a wilderness and adventure school in Chicago. In a previous life, Sol was working in the Sciences. Now a mother of two children she believes that by treating children 'like sourdough' and exposing them constantly to the natural environment, they will get some forest spores deposited in their souls, and when they mature, in 30-something years, they are part person/part forest. As we all should be. Kathleen is an educator with the Fraternal Forest, and a naturalist, meddler, instigator enthusiast from Chicago with ten years of experience working with children in the field of outdoor education. She is especially interested in figuring out how the children of the 21st century will grow into the role of earth stewardship.

Nance Klehm with Educators Sol Hinami-Mayorga and Kathleen Soler of Fraternal Forst

Dreadsen aka "Media Skeptic" is a direct action trainer, organizer and long-term power-building consultant for the many grassroots organizations in Chicago and nationally. Recently, he organized the first IWW recognized railroad union in 80+ years which resulted in a strike in multiple rail yards through Illinois and Wisconsin and brought the largest National Labor Relation Board settlement in IWW's history. Currently, Dreadsen runs a critical media literacy site: www.mediaskeptic.net

Dreadsen aka "Media Skeptic" is a direct action trainer, organizer and long-term power-building consultant for the many grassroots organizations in Chicago and nationally. Recently, he organized the first IWW recognized railroad union in 80+ years which resulted in a strike in multiple rail yards through Illinois and Wisconsin and brought the largest National Labor Relation Board settlement in IWW's history. Currently, Dreadsen runs a critical media literacy site: <a href="http://www.mediaskeptic.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.mediaskeptic.net</a>

Nance Klehm with Direct Action Trainer and Organizer Dreadsen

Weshoyot Alvitre is a female illustrator and comic book artist. She has a BA in fine art and studied illustration and animation. She is Tongva &amp; Scottish. She has contributed to many award winning books including the Eisner award winning Umbrella Academy (Darkhorse Comics) and Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream (Locust Moon press). Her most recent projects include art for Codetalkers Volume 1 (Native Realities Press), Moonshot volume 2 (AH comics inc), Rosebud magazine #61 and including work in several gallery shows across the country to bring awareness to the fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline. www.weshoyot.com #Weshoyat

Weshoyot Alvitre is a female illustrator and comic book artist. She has a BA in fine art and studied illustration and animation. She is Tongva &amp; Scottish. She has contributed to many award winning books including the Eisner award winning Umbrella Academy (Darkhorse Comics) and Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream (Locust Moon press). Her most recent projects include art for Codetalkers Volume 1 (Native Realities Press), Moonshot volume 2 (AH comics inc), Rosebud magazine #61 and including work in several gallery shows across the country to bring awareness to the fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline. <a href="http://www.weshoyot.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.weshoyot.com</a> #Weshoyat

Nance Klehm with Illustrator and Comic Book Artist Weshoyot

Trinity Pierce

Trinity Pierce is a nature steward based in the Chicago area. She began her restoration journey during barefoot summers exploring woodland, bogs, and roadside wildflowers of northern Wisconsin. With a formal background in history and landscape architecture, Trinity thrives on leading and learning alongside volunteers of all ages. She has designed and implemented restoration projects from the mountain west to the midwest; from rural to urban ecosystems.

Nance Klehm with Nature Steward Trinity Pierce

Eli Brown

Eli Brown is an interdisciplinary artist working in living media (side note – does this mean mushrooms and plants?), drawing, sculpture, performance, video and participatory projects. His projects explore the histories and futurities of queer and trans subjectivities, communities and intimacies and deal with anthropocentrism as it relates to conceptions of evolution and species. He is a 2018 recipient of the Boston Foundations Collaborate Boston Grant and Culture Push’s Fellowship for Utopian Practice.

Nance Klehm with Trans Interdisciplinary Artist Eli Brown

Heidi Gustafson is an artist, pigment worker and ore whisperer based in rainy, volcanic Cascade foothills of northern Washington. Her intuitive and highly collaborative ochre and iron research projects include work with award-winning scientists, paleontologists, anthropologists, linguists, citizen foragers, artists and friends around the planet. She’s a graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art, studied forensic art/science at the University of Baltimore and holds an MA in Philosophy and Religion from the California Institute of Integral Studies.

Nance Klehm with Pigment Forager Heidi Gustafson

Eiren Caffall

Eiren Caffall is a writer and musician based in Chicago, born in New York, and raised in New England. She has been the recipient of a Social Justice News Nexus fellowship in environmental journalism at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and a Frontline: Environmental Reportage residency at The Banff Centre for the Arts, studying with Naomi Klein.Her work on loss and nature, glaciers and extinction has appeared in The Rumpus, The Chicago Reader, Tikkun Daily, The Nervous Breakdown, The Manifest Station, Punk Planet, the book The Time After, and the forthcoming collection 21/21Chicago.She has also released three albums of original music, Prairie Music, Civil Twilight, and Slipping the Holdfast. Her work has been adapted into the short film Become Ocean, which was accepted into the Sidewalk Film Festival and the Wild and Scenic film festival in 2018.

Eiren Caffall is a writer and musician based in Chicago, born in New York, and raised in New England. She has been the recipient of a Social Justice News Nexus fellowship in environmental journalism at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and a Frontline: Environmental Reportage residency at The Banff Centre for the Arts, studying with Naomi Klein. Her work on loss and nature, glaciers and extinction has appeared in The Rumpus, The Chicago Reader, Tikkun Daily, The Nervous Breakdown, The Manifest Station, Punk Planet, the book The Time After, and the forthcoming collection 21/21Chicago. She has also released three albums of original music, Prairie Music, Civil Twilight, and Slipping the Holdfast. Her work has been adapted into the short film Become Ocean, which was accepted into the Sidewalk Film Festival and the Wild and Scenic film festival in 2018.

Nance Klehm with Writer and Musician Eiren Caffall

Michael Swierz

Michael Swierz is a writer, land steward and participatory ecologist born in Chicago, IL. His work synthesizes aspects of poetry, farming, wildcrafting, ecological restoration and interspecies communication. He lives on a rural homestead with a 15-acre native prairie reconstruction, 72 miles southwest of Chicago as the crow flies.In this episode Nance and Michael discuss the perennial joys and challenges of stewarding land and that humans can have a meaningful and positive ecological footprint on landscape despite the institutional resistance.

Michael Swierz is a writer, land steward and participatory ecologist born in Chicago, IL. His work synthesizes aspects of poetry, farming, wildcrafting, ecological restoration and interspecies communication. He lives on a rural homestead with a 15-acre native prairie reconstruction, 72 miles southwest of Chicago as the crow flies. In this episode Nance and Michael discuss the perennial joys and challenges of stewarding land and that humans can have a meaningful and positive ecological footprint on landscape despite the institutional resistance.

Nance Klehm with Land Steward Michael Swierz

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