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Today we will explore the wild nature while staying in the city, thanks to our guest, we will learn more about medicinal plants and their virtues, and about the mushrooms found in public parks, sometimes within arm’s reach.
I met Christophe de Hody while taking a walk in the Bois de Vincennes. I was already familiar with his videos where he invites us to make elderflower drinks and graze dandelion leaves.
The guest: Christophe de Hody
Christophe founded “Le chemin de la nature” in 2011.
A herbalist, botanist, and field mycologist, he has been leading walks, workshops, and training for over 12 years about wild plants, mushrooms, and their culinary and medicinal uses.
He gathered around him a team of professionals with complementary skills thanks to whom he has consolidated his knowledge and developed training to raise public awareness of the wild nature surrounding us.
His YouTube (440K subscribers), Facebook (627K), Instagram (345K), and TikTok (188K) accounts are filled with educational videos on plants, mushrooms, and their uses.
My questions
- How did you come up with the idea to launch “Le chemin de la nature”?
- What do you enjoy sharing about wild plants?
- You organize workshops in the Bois de Vincennes, Buttes Chaumont, Bois de Boulogne…. What edible or even medicinal plants are, for instance, present around us here, in Saint-Mandé, in the Paris suburbs?
- What could be done to have more of them?
- What precautions should be taken when collecting wild plants?
- What are their nutritional virtues?
- What wild plants are being cooked at the moment (we are in March at the time of recording, a few days before spring)?
- What are your favorite wild plants and mushrooms, and why?
- What are the most frequently asked questions in your training sessions?
- And finally, a recipe and a nutritional tip for the listeners?
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