Plant Cunning Podcast

In this episode we dig deep into spiritual ecology with Pam Montgomery, talking about plants as elders, who can help guide us towards right relationship with the Earth, the Spirits of plants, nature spirits, and the whole more than human world. She also gives some very practical advice for plant communication, and shows how you can work with Plant Spirit Allies using many different modalities.  You can find Pam's website at wakeuptonature.com and be sure to get her classic book Plant Spirit Healing (which you can do at her website!) And you can find part two at patreon.com/plantcunning for Patrons of $9 + Pam Montgomery is an herbalist, author, international teacher and plant spirit healing practitioner who has passionately embraced her role as a spokesperson for the green beings and has been investigating plants and their intelligent spiritual nature for more than three decades.  She is the author of two books one of which is the highly acclaimed Plant Spirit Healing; A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness. She teaches internationally and virtually on plant spirit healing, spiritual ecology and co-creative partnership with nature. She is a founding member of United Plant Savers and more recently the Organization of Nature Evolutionaries or ONE. Her latest passion is to engage ceremonially in full symbiosis within the plant/human matrix where the elder common plants initiate and guide us into being truly human.

In this episode, AC and Isaac talk about plans for the podcast, the wonderful harvest season and all the globular fruits (puffballs, apples, pumpkins, potatoes, hawthorns, etc), the amazing daikon radish, the amazing wine cap stropheria, some of our favorite master recipes (hot and sour soup, "palaak paneer", pesto), the glorious sun, and cleaning out the barns! Let us hear your feedback by emailing plantcunning at gmail.com And join our fantastic patrons at Patreon.com/PlantCunning

We have a great time with Mountain Mel, talking about each of our plant paths, how to run an herbal business (she has a successful one!), and what's in our herbal library. Check her out at: The Herbalists's Path Support us at Patreon.com/PlantCunning

We welcome the village witch of Asheville back to the podcast and have a lovely, but deep and heavy chat about seasonal celebrations, cycles, death, loss and acceptance. This is part 1 of the interview, part 2 is available for our $9 and up patrons at Patreon.com/plantcunning. Find Seasons of a Magical Life:A Pagan Path of Living at any local bookstore! Byron on IG @ByronBallard5789 on Facebook, Twitter and MyVillageWitch.com

In this episode we speak with Neal Peterson, who has devoted over 40 years to breeding pawpaws (Asimina triloba). We talk about how he first fell in love with this delicious fruit, how he tracked down the remnants of the early 20th century pawpaw collections just in time, and selected 7 superior pawpaw cultivars out of 1,500 seedlings. You can find his website at: Petersonpawpaws.com And support the podcast at: Patreon.com/plantcunning

In  this episode we speak with Eric about some more of his favorite plants, including sweet potato, hickory and chestnut, about how to start a DIY nursery, selecting genetics for nursery stock, the secret of how to eat sunchokes so you don't gas out all your friends, and some very important appropriate technologies. You can find him on facebook as Eric Joseph Lewis, and on Instragram at @ericjosephlewisplants, and the nursery he is affiliated with is Plant Path Nursery You can support the podcast at Patreon.com/plantcunning

In this episode we speak with Eric about getting interested in plants after finding out he was living in a field of lowbush blueberries, the influence of Frank Cook, natural male birth control with Papaya seeds, and some of his favorite plants. You can find him on facebook as Eric Joseph Lewis, and on Instragram at @ericjosephlewisplants, and the nursery he is affiliated with is Plant Path Nursery You can support the podcast at Patreon.com/plantcunning

We speak with esotericist, author and director of studies for the Institute for Hermetic Studies, Mark Stavish, about alchemy and spagyrics, always keeping the end goal in mind, the purpose and the future of esotericism, the importance of group work, and how to build an effective group.

The number 42 is AC's fav and we talk about why briefly. We draw inspiration from some of our previous episodes and dive a bit deeper into some topics discussed like diversity, dissensus (and do-ocracies), climate crisis, grief and how to throw mud at walls. Of course, discussing plants is also a big part of the episode. We talk about wild flowers, weeds, cottage gardens and dumpstered potatoes. 

In this episode we speak with Siv about the wide world of the "smalls", how to interact with microbes as people, where humans ends and bacteria begins, horses, and lots more fun. You can find Siv at https://www.microanimism.com/ and you can support the podcast at Patreon.com/PlantCunning