Lieve Galle
23 episodes listed below
European plant wisdom, slowly gathered.
WYLDE follows careful conversations with European herbalists and foragers about the plants people still gather, cook, dry, protect, and remember. It suits listeners who like field knowledge with human texture: family habits, local rules, seasonal eating, folk remedies, and the slow work of noticing.
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WYLDE is a European foraging and herbalism interview series with a slow, attentive center. It is not built around quick tips. Lieve Galle gives guests room to tell how plant knowledge entered their lives, where it was kept, and what changed when modern routines pulled people away from it. The conversations often begin in memory. A guest may describe childhood food, mountain households, city hillsides, family olive trees, or a first experience of noticing plants as individual beings. From there, the show widens. It asks how people gather without taking too much, how local rules shape harvesting, and how herbal medicine survives in places where official systems may not fully recognize it. The mood is warm and companionable. It can also feel quietly urgent, because ecological loss and cultural forgetting sit underneath many of the stories. Episodes linger on practical details such as thyme, nettle, dandelion, hops, comfrey, wild rucola, olives, orchids, and seasonal greens. They also spend time with less measurable things: trust, attention, reciprocity, vitality, and community. One conversation follows the healing effect of slowing to walking pace and seeing past the green wall of plants. Another traces wild food, gut health, clarity, and the challenge of carrying a more feral diet back into modern life. The Croatia episode turns harvesting rules into an ethic of leaving plants for pollinators, seed, and future growth. The Greece conversation finds wild greens in Athens, balcony growing, farmers markets, and family ties to village land. The Romania thread remembers mountain households where herbs were not alternative medicine but ordinary medicine. WYLDE’s strength is its patience. It lets knowledge stay local, personal, and sometimes unfinished. The result is a grounded, intimate show for listeners drawn to ethnobotany as lived relationship rather than abstract expertise.
Made for: For listeners interested in foraging, herbalism, ethnobotany, folk medicine, seasonal food, and the cultural memory of plants. It especially fits people who prefer patient interviews over polished how-to audio.
What sets it apart: WYLDE stands out by treating European plant practice as a lived cultural web: rules, landscapes, family habits, health stories, and harvesting ethics all matter. Its conversations feel rooted in relationship rather than performance.
I'm Lieve Galle, a Belgian herbalist and wild plant forager since 2002 and host of the Wilde Wieven podcast (in Dutch). In this WYLDE Podcast I talk to fellow herbalists and foragers in Europe. We deal with different plant species and different cultural approaches towards plants, but what we have in common is that we all want to transform plant blindness into plant wisdom. Together we can have a greater impact on restoring the ancient link between people and plants. If you're ready to find out what you've never been told, but what your soul already knows, then welcome to WYLDE.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
WYLDE connects wild plants, personal wellbeing and ecological responsibility through grounded conversations about how European foraging knowledge is practiced and preserved.
Lieve Galle treats foraging as a meeting point between personal health, inherited knowledge and care for the land. Her conversations move through distinct European settings, from harvesting greens around Athens to meadow-cutting rules in Croatia and memories of household herbal…
Wild plants stop being green wallpaper once Lieve Galle shows you how Europeans read them.
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Foraging is treated as a discipline of attention, body awareness, and slower looking.
Lieve Galle frames this conversation with Liam O'Brien around a simple but lasting idea: foraging begins with attention. The episode asks listeners to slow down, notice individual species, and stop seeing plants as a single green blur.
Gut health is tied here to plant access, community eating, and European foraging rules.
This episode treats gut health as a doorway into a broader case for plants, place, and belonging. Lieve Galle, who has worked as a herbalist and wild plant forager in Belgium since 2002, reflects on how foraging has shifted across Europe, with some countries licensing the work…
Practical foraging rules give the episode its strongest, most grounded point.
Lieve Galle's conversation settles on the practical ethics of foraging: what can be picked, what should stay in the meadow, and how local rules shape those choices.
A patient look at Greek herbalism as everyday life, not a niche hobby.
The conversation treats Greek herbalism as something lived, not theorized from a distance. It moves through village houses, rooftop growing, weekly market runs, and the habit of gathering what is already nearby.
Herbal knowledge, lived memory, and a quiet case for turning to plants earlier.
The piece treats herbalism as a lived practice, moving through Belgium, Romania, and Ireland to consider what plant knowledge can still offer when waiting lists grow long.
Funny, fervent botany for tree-curious minds.
Close listening from the living world.
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Lieve Galle opens by asking for support and frames the show as a move from plant blindness toward collective plant wisdom.
Lieve Galle opens by asking listeners to support Wild so it can stay free and accessible.
The host opens on plant wisdom.
Lieve Galle talks with a guest about herbalism and plant knowledge in Greece.
Wild opens with a reminder that the show stays free because listeners choose to support it, then moves into a conversation about herbalism, foraging, and shared plant wisdom.
Lieve Galle interviews herbalist Rita Roquette about her work with plants in Portugal, exploring cultural differences and plant wisdom.
Lieve Galle interviews Gabriele Resch about herbal remedies in Austria and Germany, exploring cultural differences and plant wisdom.
Lieve Galle introduces the podcast and discusses the importance of sharing traditional herbal wisdom across different cultures, with a focus on Cyprus and Miranda Tringis.
Lieve Galle interviews François Couplan about discovering the world through plants, exploring foraging, herbalism, and cultural approaches to plants in Europe.
Lieve Galle introduces the podcast's mission to transform plant blindness into collective plant wisdom and previews a conversation with Anki Paulssen about Western master plants.