What if wild, not domesticated, should be our normal instead of factory-farmed lives? What if you could cultivate fulfilling lives and contribute to a healthy natural world? The Wild Minds podcast is brought to you by me, Marina Robb, an author, entrepreneur, Forest School and Nature-based Trainer and Consultant, and pioneer in developing Green programmes for the Mental Health service in the UK. I am the founder of https://www.circleofliferediscovery.com (Circle of Life Rediscovery CIC) and https://www.theoutdoorteacher.com (The Outdoor Teacher) and creator of practical online Forest School and nature-based training for people working in mental health, education and business. Tune in for interviews, insights, cutting-edge and actionable approaches to help you to improve your relationship with yourself, others, and the natural world. https://www.geoffrobb.com (Music by Geoff Robb)
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What if wild, not domesticated, should be our normal instead of factory-farmed lives? What if you could cultivate fulfilling lives and contribute to a healthy natural world? The Wild Minds podcast is brought to you by me, Marina Robb, an author, entrepreneur, Forest School and Nature-based Trainer and Consultant, and pioneer in developing Green programmes for the Mental Health service in the UK. I am the founder of https://www.circleofliferediscovery.com (Circle of Life Rediscovery CIC) and https://www.theoutdoorteacher.com (The Outdoor Teacher) and creator of practical online Forest School and nature-based training for people working in mental health, education and business. Tune in for interviews, insights, cutting-edge and actionable approaches to help you to improve your relationship with yourself, others, and the natural world. https://www.geoffrobb.com (Music by Geoff Robb)
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June 15, 2026
Getting to Know the Plants
<p>In this reflective solo episode, Marina explores how getting to know the plants around us can deepen our sense of connection, belonging and wonder. Drawing on a day spent teaching in the woods, she shares simple ways to slow down, engage the senses and discover the food, medicine, stories and lessons hidden within the plants we often overlook.</p><p><strong>Key Takeaways</strong></p><ul><li>Why learning the names and qualities of individual plants changes how we relate to the natural world.</li><li>How simple sensory activities can help us slow down and pay closer attention.</li><li>The powerful "Meet a Tree" exercise and what it reveals about uniqueness and connection.</li><li>Marina's woodland day of foraging, fire-lighting, whittling and plant-based practices.</li><li>The medicinal and nutritional benefits of pine needles, including vitamin C and antioxidants.</li><li>How to make an infused pine and elderflower tea and immunity-supporting syrup.</li><li>The importance of safe foraging, correct identification and awareness of lookalike species.</li><li>Ethical harvesting practices that ensure enough is left for wildlife and future growth.</li><li>Insights from Mo Wilde's foraging work and the impact of wild foods on gut health and the microbiome.</li><li>The remarkable benefits of common plants such as nettles, often dismissed as weeds.</li><li>Creative ways to use plant study across science, geography, history, literacy and art.</li><li>An invitation to choose just one local plant, observe it through the seasons, and discover the richness of relationship it can offer.</li></ul><br/><p><strong>Show Notes:</strong></p><p><a href="https://theoutdoorteacher.com/podcasts/episode-94-getting-to-know-the-plants/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://theoutdoorteacher.com/podcasts/episode-94-getting-to-know-the-plants/</a></p><p><strong>Music by Geoff Robb:</strong> <strong><a href="https://www.geoffrobb.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.geoffrobb.com</a> </strong></p><p><strong>Please Rate, Review, & Follow on Apple Podcasts</strong></p><p>If you have enjoyed today's episode, <strong><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-wild-minds-podcast/id1688914563" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">please consider rating and reviewing my show!</a></strong></p><p>This really helps me to spread the word to more people like you, and to empower more people to take their practice outdoors!</p><p><strong><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-wild-minds-podcast/id1688914563" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Click here</a></strong>, scroll to the bottom, tap to rate with five stars, and select “Write a Review.” Then let me know what you loved most about the episode!</p><p>Also, if you haven’t done so already, "follow" the podcast, as if you’re not following, there’s a good chance you’ll miss out.</p>
June 8, 2026
The Wilderness Cure: What Happens When We Eat the Wild with Mo Wilde
<p>In this episode, I’m speaking with Mo Wilde - forager, research herbalist, ethnobotanist, author of The Wilderness Cure, and founder of the Wild Biome Project.</p><p>Mo has spent decades learning from plants, fungi, seaweeds, medicine, soil and the seasons. Her relationship with the wild began in childhood, and has grown into a life’s work exploring not only what plants can offer us, but what happens when we remember ourselves as part of the living world.</p><p>In 2020, Mo began an extraordinary experiment: for a whole year, she ate only wild food. No supermarket food, no farmed food, no quick stops for coffee and cake — just what could be foraged, gathered, hunted, exchanged, preserved, fermented or found within the landscape around her.</p><p>But this conversation is not really about survivalism. It is not about going “backwards” or romanticising the past. It is about relationship.</p><p>What happens when we begin to notice the green world in detail again? What happens when the body is nourished by wild plants, fungi and microbes? What happens to our gut, our sense of belonging, our imagination, our resilience — when food stops being just a product and becomes a relationship with place?</p><p>Together, Mo and I explore foraging, wild food, food security, children’s ecological literacy, the intelligence of plants, the Wildbiome Project, and the deep shift from scarcity into abundance.</p><p>This is a conversation about the wilderness cure — and the question at the heart of it is: what happens when we eat the wild?</p><p>In this conversation with Mo Wilde, we explore wild food not simply as foraging, but as a way of remembering our place inside the living world.</p><ul><li>Mo begins with gratitude for plants, reminding us that through photosynthesis they transform sunlight into the energy that makes all life on Earth possible.</li><li>She describes a wild plant as one that is not directly tended or controlled by humans, inviting us to think about wildness as relationship rather than separation.</li><li>During her year of eating only wild food, Mo found far more abundance than she expected, with most of her food coming from within 15 miles of her home.</li><li>Her wild diet included hundreds of plant species, seaweed, mushrooms, shellfish, game, and even wasp larvae, revealing the astonishing range of foods still present in the landscape.</li><li>The experiment was not about survivalism or proving toughness, but about asking whether the land around her could truly feed her.</li><li>Mo speaks beautifully about the practical intelligence of preservation, celebrating the jam jar as one of humanity’s great inventions for fermenting, storing, and carrying abundance forward.</li><li>She challenges the idea that foraging requires some rare talent, suggesting that humans already can notice detail - we have simply trained that attention on brands, logos, and consumer culture instead of plants.</li><li>The conversation touches on how children can naturally learn plants when they are shown them, and how much ecological literacy could return if this knowledge was woven through childhood.</li><li>Mo reflects on food insecurity, Brexit, Covid, and her own teenage experience of feeding younger siblings in Malawi, all of which shaped her interest in resilience and local food.</li><li>What begins as a question about food becomes something deeper: Mo describes moving from a mindset of scarcity to an experience of abundance, gratitude, fragility, and being held by the living world.</li><li>As a herbalist, she reminds us that healing is not only something we seek when we are ill, but something that happens daily through nourishment, relationship, and the complex intelligence of plants.</li><li>Through the Wild Biome Project, Mo is exploring how eating wild food changes the gut microbiome, opening up questions about whether health can be understood not by isolating one molecule, but by seeing the larger patterns between bodies, bacteria, plants, soil, and place.</li></ul><br/><p><strong>Shownotes:</strong></p><p><a href="https://theoutdoorteacher.com/podcasts/episode-93-the-wilderness-cure-with-mo-wilde/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://theoutdoorteacher.com/podcasts/episode-93-the-wilderness-cure-with-mo-wilde/</a></p><p><strong>Music by Geoff Robb</strong>: <strong><a href="https://www.geoffrobb.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.geoffrobb.com</a> </strong></p><p><strong>Please Rate, Review, & Follow on Apple Podcasts</strong></p><p>If you have enjoyed today's episode, <strong><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-wild-minds-podcast/id1688914563" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">please consider rating and reviewing my show!</a> </strong></p><p>This really helps me to spread the word to more people like you, and to empower more people to take their practice outdoors!</p><p><strong><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-wild-minds-podcast/id1688914563" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Click here</a>,</strong> scroll to the bottom, tap to rate with five stars, and select “Write a Review.” Then let me know what you loved most about the episode!</p><p>Also, if you haven’t done so already, "follow" the podcast, as if you’re not following, there’s a good chance you’ll miss out.</p><p>Mentioned in this episode:</p><p><strong>How to Teach Climate Change</strong></p><p>https://theoutdoorteacher.com/climate </p>
June 1, 2026
Climate Anxiety Is Not the Problem
<p>In this week's episode I am discussing how climate anxiety is not the problem. I will explore how we educate, support and practice in a time of climate breakdown without overwhelming young people or asking them to numb themselves to reality.</p><p><strong>Topics include:</strong></p><ul><li>Climate anxiety is not the problem; unsupported climate anxiety is. </li><li>Climate education cannot just give young people facts - it has to help them emotionally metabolise what they know. </li><li>Emotional literacy needs to include the body, not just naming feelings. </li><li>Adults and teachers need to do their own emotional work, otherwise they may shut down young people’s grief, anger or fear. </li><li>Climate anxiety can be a sign of care, intelligence and relationship with the world, not pathology. </li><li>The “Goldilocks zone” is really useful: enough feeling to care and act, not so much that people collapse. </li><li>A climate breakdown risk-benefit assessment feels like one of your most original contributions. </li><li>The neutrality/politics section is one of the most interesting: teachers do not need to be party-political, but silence and false balance are not neutral. </li><li>Resilience should be framed as community, belonging and collective capacity, not individual toughness. </li><li>Nature connection is not just a well-being add-on; it is part of repairing the relationship that created the crisis. </li><li>The ending around possible futures, imagination and agency is important because it offers hope without false reassurance.</li></ul><br/><p><strong>Show Notes:</strong></p><p><a href="https://theoutdoorteacher.com/podcasts/episode-92-climate-anxiety-is-not-the-problem/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://theoutdoorteacher.com/podcasts/episode-92-climate-anxiety-is-not-the-problem/</a></p><p><strong>Music by Geoff Robb:</strong> <strong><a href="https://www.geoffrobb.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.geoffrobb.com</a> </strong></p><p><strong>Please Rate, Review, & Follow on Apple Podcasts</strong></p><p>If you have enjoyed today's episode, <strong><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-wild-minds-podcast/id1688914563" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">please consider rating and reviewing my show!</a></strong></p><p>This really helps me to spread the word to more people like you, and to empower more people to take their practice outdoors!</p><p><strong><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-wild-minds-podcast/id1688914563" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Click here</a></strong>, scroll to the bottom, tap to rate with five stars, and select “Write a Review.” Then let me know what you loved most about the episode!</p><p>Also, if you haven’t done so already, "follow" the podcast, as if you’re not following, there’s a good chance you’ll miss out.</p><p>Mentioned in this episode:</p><p><strong>How to Teach Climate Change</strong></p><p>https://theoutdoorteacher.com/climate </p>
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