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.
2026 will be our 28th year! Hosted by Bo & Don Brink, it's the largest primitive skills/knap-in event in the Midwest. 60+ knappers and wildcrafters from a 20-state area demonstrate and sell their work, and a pool of expert instructors teach 3 full days of various workshops & foraging classes.
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.
Graduates of Rachel's Forager's Certification Course, Jamie Hamilton and Shanna Watson offer foraging walks and programs in regional mid-Missouri.
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 the calendar of Wildwise Botanicals events, Bo & Mike's Plant and Fungi walks, and info for Mike's upcoming Falcon Guides book Foraging Mushrooms in the Ozarks.
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.
Bo's Music and Media Appearances
Hogmolly - Hickadelic Jazzgrass on Pandora
Blackberry Winter Band with Marideth Sisco -Still Standing
Howie & the Hillcats - Roadside Oddities
​The Undergrass Boys 1981 Album
The Undergrass Boys 2010 Reunion Show at Juanita K. Hammons Hall
Video Links & Podcasts
Bo's YouTube Channel (includes a video of my native mentor Jim Fire Eagle Boose)
MSU Ozarks Heritage Fest -blowgun dart
VOX magazine interview by Sam Gauss
First Person Initiative – See How it’s Done – Flintknapping
Plans and Provisions Homesteading Podcast
Foraging with Bo Brown
Ozarks Podcast, part 1 – “The man who wrote the book” Foraging the Ozarks
The Ozarks Podcast, part 2 – Could you survive out in the Ozarks wilderness?
​The Nature Conservancy podcast It's in our Nature: Foraging the Ozarks, a conversation with Bo Brown.
In 2025, I was one of four people receiving the Missouri Living History Fellowship Award from MIssouri Humanities, Ozarks historian/author Kaitlyn McConnell conducted this interview on behalf of the award. My dear friend and bandmate Marideth Sisco (RIP) also won the award, her interview follows mine on their youtube page.