Daniel Vitalis
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Hosted by Daniel Vitalis, The WildFed Podcast is about deepening your connection with the natural world through hunting, fishing, foraging, and, of course, food. It's about the wild food that's freely available on your landscape, at the edges of your town or city, and sometimes just outside your door. The podcast consists of interviews with biologists, authors, wildlife managers, foragers, hunters, anglers, chefs, friends, and plenty of educational and inspirational solo shows too. WildFed — Food Is All Around You.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Daniel Vitalis connects wild-food practice with hunting history, conservation, cooking, and the policies that determine who may harvest from a landscape.
WildFed Podcast - Hunt Fish Forage Food follows Daniel Vitalis from the pursuit of wild food into the history, policy, and ethics surrounding it.
Daniel Vitalis takes you from a dogs' hare chase to a rabbit that resists the braise.
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A farewell episode that makes a case for keeping wild food skills in reach.
The final WildFed episode feels like both a sendoff and an argument for keeping hunting and foraging alive as practical skills, not museum pieces. The hosts say the podcast is ending, that the stories will keep going through the TV show, and that a new podcast is on the way.
A hunting conversation that uses New Zealand to think about ecology, self-reliance, and what feeds us.
New Zealand is presented as more than a hunting destination; it becomes a place where ecology, history, and self-reliance meet. The discussion moves from year-round hunting, no licenses, and exotic game to the moa's disappearance, then widens into the question of how people stay…
A deep-time hunting argument that links human identity to a long history of big-game hunting.
Dan Flores and WildFed frame hunting in deep time, tying extinction, coastal archaeology, and human evolution into an argument that big game has never been a side note.
Dan Flores links Pleistocene extinction and native kinship ethics in one argument: what survives depends on restraint.
Dan Flores joins the Wildfed host to trace the Pleistocene extinction, when modern Homo sapiens arrived in the Americas with a hunting sophistication the megafauna had no experience countering, and the ten thousand years of native stewardship that followed.
A hare hunt that turns into a clear-eyed look at speed, patience, and cooking what the hunt brings in.
WildFed keeps this episode close to the ground: hare versus rabbit, the chase, the dogs, the small window before a shot finally comes. Then it shifts to the kitchen, where hare is braised and rabbit gets a few different treatments.
A clear look at how state politics can protect or narrow the right to hunt.
Ellery Tucker Williams steers the conversation toward the legal scaffolding that keeps hunting, fishing, and trapping in place, and the episode treats that structure as something that needs active defense.
A blunt, practical look at wild hogs, wild food, and the problem of making use.
It treats wild hogs as a food problem, not a novelty. The conversation keeps moving between the scale of the infestation, USDA inspection facilities, breeding cycles, prized pork fat, and the plain fact that some animals smell too rank to salvage whole.
Wild food becomes a way to talk about culture, responsibility, and common ground.
Andrew Zimmern uses WildFed to treat wild food as something larger than a novelty. The episode links it to food culture, public responsibility, and the way people manage to live together, while keeping the focus on why that framing matters.
Boston chatter with a running start.
Faith, grit, Scripture, and hard talk.
Recovery talk with the rough edges left in.
Gaming arguments with a lived-in party-chat pulse.
Daniel Vitalis interviews Ellary TuckerWilliams from the Congressional Sportsman's Foundation about protecting hunting rights through state constitutional amendments and policy work.
Dan Flores joins the WildFed host to trace two ruptures in North American ecological history: the Pleistocene extinction, when Homo sapiens arrived with a predatory sophistication the megafauna had never encountered, and the European contact period, when a continent maintained through thousands of years of careful, cosmologically grounded stewardship began to be treated as a storehouse of extractable resources.
The episode opens by separating hares from rabbits.
Daniel Vitalis interviews historian Dan Flores about his book 'Wild New World,' exploring the deep-time story of animals and humans in North America from the dinosaur extinction to the present.
Daniel Vitalis interviews Philipp Spahn, a hunter-gatherer in New Zealand, exploring differences in hunting cultures, regulations, and species.
WildFed closes its podcast run with a long farewell and a clear sense of transition.
WildFed speaks with Andrew Zimmern about wild food, food TV, and the social meaning carried by what people eat.
The show takes up the claim that all wild hogs are inedible and pushes back hard.