Episode description
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