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Today we’ll explore wild nature while staying in the city; thanks to our guest, we’ll learn more about medicinal plants and their benefits, and about mushrooms found in public parks, sometimes within reach.
I met Christophe de Hody while taking a walk in the Bois de Vincennes. I already knew his videos where he invites us to make elderberry drinks and to nibble on dandelion leaves.
Guest: Christophe de Hody
Christophe founded “The Path of Nature” in 2011.
An herbalist, botanist and field mycologist, he has been leading walks, workshops and training sessions for over 12 years about wild plants, mushrooms and their culinary and medicinal uses.
He has brought together a team of professionals with complementary skills, which has enabled him to consolidate his knowledge and develop training programs to raise public awareness of the wild nature around us.
His YouTube (440K subscribers), Facebook (627K), Instagram (345K) and TikTok (188K) accounts are full of educational videos about plants, mushrooms and their uses.
My questions
- How did you come up with the idea to launch “The Path of Nature”?
- What do you enjoy teaching about wild plants?
- You organize workshops in the Bois de Vincennes, Buttes Chaumont, Bois de Boulogne… For example, which edible or even medicinal plants are present around us here in Saint-Mandé, in the Paris suburbs?
- What could be done to have more of them?
- What precautions should you take when foraging wild plants?
- What are their nutritional benefits?
- Which wild plants are people cooking right now (it’s March at the time of recording, a few days before spring)?
- What are your favorite wild plants and mushrooms, and why?
- What questions come up most often in your training sessions?
- And finally, a recipe and a nutritional tip for the listeners?
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A podcast presented by Louise Browaeys with technical production by Matthieu Brillard.
