In this episode, we talk to Conner Habib, novelist and host of the podcast Against Everyone With Conner Habib. Conner’s debut novel, Hawk Mountain (July, 2022 ), pairs instances of human violence, and animal violence throughout the book, inviting comparison. We talk about that, and also discuss whether the natural…

Episode Art: Turkey 2025, North Carolina – Ink on Paper by Sarah C. Rose. In this episode, Sarah and I give updates on our creative projects, including speaking at the 250th anniversary celebration of naturalist William Bartram, to starting a new Substack journal, and visiting our first paranormal event. We transition…

Episode art by Sarah Rose, mixed media on paper. Dr. Robert Michael Pyle is a naturalist and the author of 28 books, including Chasing Monarchs, Where Bigfoot Walks, Wintergreen, Nature Matrix, Butterflies of the Pacific Northwest, the novel Magdalena Mountain, and four collections of poetry. In this episode, we talk…

Episode art by Sarah Rose, indigo milkcap mushroom latest, ink and stained water pooling in the wound of a sweetgum tree root. At the Equinox, the blood root are blooming, big brown bats are chittering in the sky overhead at dusk. Red maples, winged elm and spicebush are blossoming. The…

Raven episode art by Sarah Rose, Ink and Mixed Media Nature writer Lyanda Fern Lynn Haupt joins us to talk about bird synchronicities, the communion of saints, and love for Earthsea, etymology and corvid culture. Lyanda is the author of six incredible books, including most recently, Rooted: Life at the Crossroads…

Art by Sarah, ink on tinted paper. In this Episode, we visit Little Tennessee River guides Brent Martin and Angela Faye Martin of Alarka Expeditions in Cowee, North Carolina. Brent is the Director of the Blue Ridge Bartram Trail Conservancy and Angela is a musician. They share stories about supernatural…

Welcome to Season 2 of The Campfire’s edge. This episode features new art from Sarah (pen, colored pencil and paint on black paper) of a barred owl eating a worm snake in front of one of our trail cameras. In this episode, Sarah and I talk through the chronology of…

Episode art featuring a traffic-killed cougar collected and drawn by Sarah Rose (tagged by NM Game and Fish), pen and ink on paper Sarah and Matt interview paranormal adventurer and podcast host Timothy Renner from Strange Familiars. Tim is an author of several paranormal books, and co-author of Where the…

This episode’s art is a mono-print by Matt featuring a deer-skull wreath we created for our solstice ritual. In this episode, Sarah and Matt chat with Gordon White, a Tasmanian chaos magician, about the connection of hunting and animism, and his personal experiences with the supernatural in the wild. Gordon’s books have…

Gel print of white bigfoot by Matt. In this episode, Matt and Sarah interview Jason Carbajal, snowboarder and angler, about his experience meeting a white-pelt bigfoot on a quiet street in rural Illinois in a summer lightning storm. We also discuss our experience at the North American Bigfoot Center. Email…