Today we are blessed by the presence of Adam Haritan, founder of Learn Your Land. Adam started the famous Learn Your Land platform in 2014 out of a desire to connect naturalists with people who wanted to learn from naturalists. Learn Your Land is an advertisement-free media channel, helping people to improve their nature skills one species at a time. He spends most of my days either looking for mushrooms/plants/trees, researching mushrooms/plants/trees, filming mushrooms/plants/trees, or editing videos and content around mushrooms/plants/trees. Before his life became dedicated to this project, Adam studied classical piano and euphonium, toured as a drummer with a heavy metal band until his academic pursuits led him to study nutrition and dietetics at the University of Pittsburgh. I’m excited to probe the depths of a naturalist who has dedicated so much time and effort to help us all learn more about the land under our feet.

Topics Covered:

Charting a New Life Course Through Nutrition
Learning from Mentors and Naturalist Groups
Western Pennsylvania Mushroom and Wild Food Community
Finding Purpose in Sharing Information About Nature
Foraging in Western Pennsylvania
Connection with Land as Essential to Human Health
Tips for Other Educators
Content Creation as a Disciplined Learning Process
Foraging Wild Water, Medicine and Food
Land and Belonging
Transcending Dystopian Futures
Significance of Land Trusts & Giving Back to Natural Spaces
Learning Each Mushroom that Crosses Your Path
Future Projects for “Learn Your Land”

Episode Resources:

Learn Your Land Website: https://learnyourland.com/
Learn Your Land YT: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcbf8wnyVJl631LAmAbo7nw
Learn Your Land IG: https://www.instagram.com/learnyourland/
Western Pennsylvania Mushroom Club: https://wpamushroomclub.org/
Echinoderma asperum (Fungus): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echinoderma_asperum

Ep. 68: Learn Your Land - Connecting to Natural Spaces, Finding a Sense of Belonging (feat. Adam Haritan)