{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Kaatscast: the Catskills Podcast","title":"Heather Houskeeper, the Botanical Hiker: Plants, Trails, and Belonging","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/d2807fe3\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2004,"description":"Kaatscast walks a stretch of the Finger Lakes Trail in Delaware Wild Forest with Heather Houskeeper — herbalist, long-distance hiker, author, and founder of the School of Plant and Place Connection — to talk about foraging, plant medicine, and what it means to truly belong in a landscape.Along the trail, Heather identifies edible and medicinal plants including garlic mustard, jewelweed, and dandelion, and explains how to approach foraging safely, ethically, and with a spirit of reciprocity. She also shares how a post-thru-hike sense of helplessness in the woods sent her to herbal medicine school, how she built a career around botanical hiking, and why she believes our innate knowledge of the plant world isn't quite lost — maybe just dormant.Find Heather at thebotanicalhiker.com and schoolofplantandplaceconnection.com.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/kC2tDKp5AiGoaoITLgiKh3BkshBRrteoATu8VF0pa0c/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80YTAy/ZGM2YzEzZjM2N2Vj/MGNjNzU2NmJmNDQ4/Y2U0OC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}