This is the first year that I've attempted to deliver an episode once per week. It is a little tricky for me to come up with interesting expedition episodes at this time of year. Ice fishing and small game hunting are available of course. Usually, though, we don't do a lot of ice fishing, and when we do, it is in March. This previous week I had ambitions to get out and do some hare hunting. But life got in the way and firewood collection became the priority.

In the interest of keeping my word on the publication of weekly podcast episodes, I came up with the idea of putting together some highlights of episodes from season four. 

I am always surprised, looking at the podcast stats, that so few people go back and listen to the old episodes when they first find the show. I am hopeful that this is a good way to introduce some memories and a little context to new listeners, as well as keep you regular listeners entertained!

This first highlight episode takes us from Kevin and I whitetail hunting in the wall tent, right up until the Tombstone Lake episode. I hope you enjoy some fond memories from season four. Thanks for your support! 

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Welcome back to the Food Afield Podcast, this will be the final director's commentary episode for a while. I've enjoyed a three-week winter holiday and am anxious to get back to recording in the field!

Kevin and I had a few laughs with this episode, S2E2 "Two Miles". It was nearly a disaster in more than one way! Before the gale blew in, taking Jeff and his jacket with it, we managed to catch some amazing perch and walleye on Lesser Slave Lake in Alberta. 

This was season two of the From The Wild series, Kevin is noticing some drastic changes in the way he is filming and editing by this stage. That is also interesting, to hear Kevin commenting behind the scenes about his popular show. I do hope you enjoy this one. 

Happy New Year!

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Thank you to our listeners, especially. We love to see that the Food Afield Podcast is resonating with folks who wish us success and want to contribute to our growth. Sharing the show by word-of-mouth and leaving reviews are crucial to the show's sustainability. Thanks again! 

Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food.

Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.
Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.
Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!

Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

The second From The Wild episode that I appeared in. Way back in 2015. "Smith Dorrien" was an episode where Kevin, Jeff, and myself ventured out onto the groaning, crackling ice of Spray Lakes in search of Lake Trout.

Kevin and I have so much fun sitting and re-watching these old episodes. I hope you enjoy listening to all the behind-the-scenes stories that happen on-location while filming From The Wild. You can access this award-winning web series at fromthewild.ca and then listen to the director's commentary episodes in simulcast!

These director's commentary episodes are great for filling in the podcast release weeks when I haven't been out on any expeditions. We'll run several of these in a row until the next wild food adventure of ice fishing later this month.

Have a wonderful 2023!

Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food.

Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.
Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.
Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!

Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

Merry Christmas 2022! The Christmas Day episode has become a tradition and launches season five of the Food Afield Podcast. This one is pretty special, I loved recording and editing it for you.

With me this week, in the living room of the strawbale farmhouse, is Kevin Kossowan, the creator of the award-winning web series, From the Wild. We thought it would be fun to go back in time and re-watch some of the old FTW episodes together and record our comments.

Kevin is almost at the one-hundred-episode mark of his show, so we knew it was time to reminisce and record some commentaries on the From The Wild episodes that I've been a part of over the past 10 years. To do this, we go back all the way to episode eleven of season one, "Tin Foil and Matches".

The beginning of the episode is a little rough, as I get an insane scratching in my throat and Kevin schools me on not being able to pause these particular episodes. Pure retro Bob and Doug McKenzie. It's all there, with the curses bleeped. So, have a laugh at my expense. Happy New Year!

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Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food.

Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.
Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.
Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!

Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

It is early December, one week after the big game season has closed locally. It is a perfect time to hang out with friend Lisa and do some small game hunting at Nana and Papa's old farmstead.

Lisa is an adult-onset hunter who has never hunted before! She is excited to be learning new ways to be able to connect with her surroundings and explore wild food ingredients. We do a little shooting with the .22 and she fires a shotgun for the first time also!

It is so rewarding to be able to hang out with Lisa, and new hunters in general. The exuberance and excitement wear off on me and take me back to a time when I struggled to figure out how to make wild food happen. This episode is full of questions and chats about being new to hunting, topics I take for granted nowadays. It was so much fun to record and edit and hopefully, this helps new hunters get started. I am also hopeful that this episode should be a guide for us old-timers to be able to mentor folks more effectively.

This episode takes you out into the bush with us as we search for hares and grouse. As darkness falls, we find ourselves embraced by towering spruce trees and the brightness and warmth of a campfire. Donairs and a nice wine are on the menu too!

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Thank you to our listeners, especially. We love to see that the Food Afield Podcast is resonating with folks who wish us success and want to contribute to our growth. Sharing the show by word-of-mouth and leaving reviews are crucial to the show's sustainability. Thanks again!

Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food.

Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.
Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.
Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!

Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

This year, a little confused about the need versus the want to bowhunt, John's season gets a very late start. This was partly by design though. It was fun to have a week of bowhunting to look forward to, and I suspect that it will be replicated in future seasons. This concentrated effort was slightly thwarted by some extreme weather that blew in for the last 4 days.

This episode is also a bit of a breakthrough with recording in the field during a hunt. This is the first time I've recorded content while in the treestand or ground blind. The wind wreaked some havoc on the audio quality from time to time, but some new kit has been ordered from Germany that should take care of that issue moving forward.

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Thank you to our listeners, especially. We love to see that the Food Afield Podcast is resonating with folks who wish us success and want to contribute to our growth. Sharing the show by word-of-mouth and leaving reviews are crucial to the show's sustainability. Thanks again!

Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food.

Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.
Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.
Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!

Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

A simple little episode that I recorded while preparing my mule deer buck for a so-called "euro mount". This is the second time I've performed this home taxidermy procedure. The first time was under the excellent tutelage of Kevin Kossowan while cleaning my big whitetail buck last year. That skull turned out amazing.

Since recording this episode of the Food Afield Podcast, I've come across many knowledgeable folks who have different ways of cleaning the skulls, which I think is wonderful! I hope I never grow tired of learning new skills and different ways of accomplishing tasks. This episode should not be considered a how-to, but perhaps more of a "how-I".

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Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food.

Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.
Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.
Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!

Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

The last day and night at the Grasslands Shack for Kevin and John. This episode focuses on Kevin's success with his antlerless draw tag. A very long stalk ends in a great way for us!

This episode has a lot of chat about age-class choices regarding targeting animals for food outcomes. You also get to listen in on our typical morning routine when we're in the field, but this time, we're freezing cold!

This will be the last episode of the grasslands series for 2022, so I hope you enjoyed hearing about our prairie adventures this past fall.

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This episode is brought to you by our friends over at Folding Mountain Brewery, Kitchen, and Taproom. Folding Mountain is located near the gates of the world-famous Jasper National Park in Alberta Canada. My favourite is their lager, which recently won a gold medal at the 2022 Alberta Beer Awards!

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Thank you to our listeners, especially. We love to see that the Food Afield Podcast is resonating with folks who wish us success and want to contribute to our growth. Sharing the show by word-of-mouth and leaving reviews are crucial to the show's sustainability. Thanks again!

Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food.

Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.
Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.
Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!

Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.

The last day and night at Grasslands Shack for Kevin and John. This episode focuses on Kevin's success with his antlerless draw tag.  A very long stalk ends in a great way for us!

A lot of chat about age-class choices as far as targeting animals for food outcomes in this episode. We also have you hang out with us for our typical morning routine when we're in the field, but this time, we are freezing cold!

This will be the last episode of the grasslands series for 2022 so I hope you enjoy it! Make sure to check out the member's feed over at www.foodafieldpodcast.com There are some tremendous benefits to being a member, not the least of which is that you will be helping the show to continue, and grow!

This episode is brought to you by our friends over at Folding Mountain Brewery and Kitchen at the gates of the world-famous Jasper National Park in Alberta Canada. 

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Part two of the Mule Deer expedition continues in this episode of the Food Afield Podcast. Kevin and John are in the grasslands and the blizzard hits hard! The temperatures plummet to minus 18 degrees Celsius, but that doesn't matter too much. There are two deer, including John's big buck, skinned and hanging in the shack, and the woodstove is working hard.

This episode continues John's story on the first morning and picks up as the doe and the big buck are headed straight towards him. Kevin and John re-tell the story that evening while the blizzard howls and cocktails are poured. They also tell about Kevin's whitetail gift as they were loading up John's buck! 

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This episode is brought to you by Folding Mountain Brewery. The brewery, taphouse, and kitchen are located near the gates of Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada. 

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The next time you visit the world-famous Jasper National Park, be sure to stop in at Folding Mountain for a meal and an award-winning brew. Folding Mountain is located near the gates of the park. Be sure to order my favourite, and the beer I exclusively buy, the Lager. This beer rece

Something new! We've launched a YouTube channel... "John Schneider's Wild Life". Follow along as John transitions to living aboard a sailboat on the Pacific Coast, living a self-sustainable lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and foraging for wild food.

Please be sure to check us out on Instagram. If we've earned it, give us a follow and share the account with your friends and family.
Another great way to access more of our content is at the website. There are some great how-to articles along with recipes and gear reviews revolving around traditional bowhunting, back-country camping, fly fishing, and other wild food adventures.
Wild food ingredients and how to collect them. Thanks for all of your support!

Subscribe to the Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and when you are at the checkout, place the code "foodafield" for a bonus edition of the magazine.