Links & Resources
Rachael West - Foraging Author/Educator and Wild Food Chef offers foraging certification programs, foraging walks, wild food events, and destination dinners. Rachel has recieved several awards for her events, and can be seen bimonthly on KOLR 10's progarm Ozarks First.
She has been integral in developing a thriving community around sustainable foraging
Kelly Hock offers ID walks and wild food education in the Joplin Area, and occasionally works with Wildcat Glades Nature Group. Kellly graduated from our Foraging Certification Course in 2023.
Our 26th year for the largest primitive skills/knap-in event in the Midwest! 60+ knappers from a 20-state area, and a pool of highly qualified instructors teaching various workshops and foraging classes for the 3-day event.
Cina Canada offers various art classes on two continents using natural materials for children and adults, and wild food events and education near Springfield MO. She is currently developing a wheelchair-accessable wild plant teaching garden, see the fundraiser on her page to help support it.
Tasha Vaughn offers wildcrafting, foraging walks and wild food events in SWMO. Tasha is another of our Foraging Certification Course graduates.
Bo's Music and First Earth Wilderness School
Hogmolly - Hickadelic Jazzgrass on Pandora
Blackberry Winter Band with Marideth Sisco -Still Standing
Howie & the Hillcats - Roadside Oddities
Video Links
Bo's YouTube Channel (includes a video of my native mentor Jim Fire Eagle Boose)
​K26 TV Harrison interview:
https://youtu.be/Le5nE-P8xdU?si=DV1eu0_gPr56U3eI
MSU Ozarks Heritage Fest -blowgun dart
https://youtu.be/M68b6p4WwBk?si=UJqhV67fwgGnfv9S
VOX magazine interview by Sam Gauss
https://youtu.be/-GMr4mxUXa8?si=w8np8bSZakHnwspl
First Person Initiative – See How it’s Done – Flintknapping
https://youtu.be/Qd4KdCYcUqs?si=s3-QqcepVjYg0XiB
ONSC Edible Plant Walk – 2020
https://youtu.be/TehE_vXcm9s?si=6hV-Y1L4dU6ljhi5
Ozarks Podcast, part 1 – “The man who wrote the book” Foraging the Ozarks
https://youtu.be/7QkolpoPbpA?si=toKN7RVGX5GUtjJX
The Ozarks Podcast, part 2 – Could you survive out in the Ozarks wilderness?
Mike and Cara Snyder are based near Rolla MO and offer ID walks and programs on medicinal and culinary uses of fungi. Mike is a superb mycoeducator and runs the wild mushroom certification course for MO. Look for a schedule of Bo and MIke's classes, as well as a full calendar of Wildwilse Botanicals events.
Based in Warrenton MO,
Cindy Trotter offers fitness classes, aromatherapy, medicinal plant education & products, and wild food events. Cindy is a 2023 graduate of our Forager's Certification Course.
Graduates of Rachel's Forager's Certification Course, Jamie Hamilton and Shanna Watson offer foraging walks and programs in regional mid-Missouri.