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Wild Food Plants

When we think about important food plants, we think about the agricultural staples that make up the diets of most societies across the world today. However, all human societies depended on gathering a diversity of wild plants and animals for thousands of years and wild food plants continue to play important roles in all agricultural societies today. This episode discusses the use of wild food plants in the past, using Hawaii as an example, and then examines the multiple roles that wild food plants play in our lives today.

Production Credits

Presented by:

Tamara Ticktin

Themes and Content by:

Isabella Abbott
Al Keali'i Chock
Will McClatchey
Mylien T. Nguyen
Tamara Ticktin
David Webb

Special Presentations and Content by:

Tony A.B. Cunningham
Catherine Davenport
Orou Gaoue
Lisa X. Gollin
Y. Han Lau
Spencer Leinweber
Mark Merlin
Levon ‘ohai
Joseph Ostraff
Melinda Ostraff
Orlo Steele
Clay Trauernicht
Art Whistler
Namaka Whitehead
Kawika Winter

Post Production Critique by:

Al Keali'i Chock
Momi Kamahele
Kiope Raymond
Botany 105 Students (Fall 2005)

Camera Work by:

David Reedy
David Strauch
Michael B. Thomas

Video and Sound Editing by:

Markus Faigle
David Reedy
David Strauch
Michael B. Thomas

Audio Production by:

Will McClatchey
David Reedy

Consulting by:

Edo Biagoni
Kim Bridges
Pauline Chinn
Valerie McClatchey
Hae Okimoto
Nelda Quinsell
Ingelia White

Funding provided by:

University of Hawai'i, Department of Botany
University of Hawai'i, Information Technology Services
University of Hawai'i, College of Natural Sciences
University of Hawai'i, Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs
National Center for Academic Transformation
University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Chancellor

Inspiration from:

Isabella Abbott
Michael Balick
Brad Bennett
Brent Berlin
Paul Cox
Memory Elvin-Lewis
Timothy Johns
Beatrice Krauss
Walter Lewis
Richard Evans Schultes
Gail Wagner
The Society for Economic Botany