Explore Soldiers Delight Natural Environment Area in Owings Mills, MD and discover another world! This globally rare serpentine ecosystem is home to lots of endemic and rare species. We haven’t always been the kindest to this land but we’re re-learning what it means to care for the places we call home. Show Notes: https://www.mudkitchenpod.com/show-notes/2024/episode-11Credits: Created & Hosted by Zoe Roane-Hopkins Theme Music by Zoe Roane-Hopkins & Logan Staley Email me at [email protected] Follow the podcast on instagram @mudkitchenpod Sign up for the mailing list! www.mudkitchenpod.com

Mike Hill is a landscape architect with the US Forest Service working with the Sites of Civil Rights and Resistance program. He works to connect communities to the layered histories of our National Forests and increase accessibility for the public to experience these special landscapes. Show Notes: https://www.mudkitchenpod.com/show-notes/2024/episode-10Check out the ArcGIS map Credits: Created & Hosted by Zoe Roane-Hopkins Theme Music by Zoe Roane-Hopkins & Logan Staley Email me at [email protected] Follow the podcast on instagram @mudkitchenpod Sign up for the mailing list! www.mudkitchenpod.com

Ready to join the supply chain counter culture? Hear from industrial designers Justin Beitzel and Fernando Ramirez. They're BFFs and co-founders of Common Object Studio talking about what it takes to create a piece of furniture that gives more to the planet and community than it takes. Follow Common Object Studios on insta at @commonobjectstudio and visit www.commonobjectstudio.com Follow Okaterra on insta @okaterra and visit www.okaterra.com Show Notes: www.mudkitchenpod.com/show-notes/2024/episode-09Credits: Created & Hosted by Zoe Roane-Hopkins Theme Music by Zoe Roane-Hopkins & Logan Staley Email me at [email protected] Follow the podcast on instagram @mudkitchenpodSign up for the mailing list! www.mudkitchenpod.com

Public Art! Placemaking! Painting on the Street! It’s the 4th International Placemaking Week Conference and this year it’s right here in Baltimore! Let’s learn about placemaking and Join Graham Projects and Sol Raya Public Space at Boone Street Commons and learn how they install public art and what it means to use public art as a placemaking conduit. Show notes: https://www.mudkitchenpod.com/show-notes/2024/episode-07 Credits: Created & Hosted by Zoe Roane-Hopkins Theme Music by Zoe Roane-Hopkins & Logan Staley Email me at [email protected] Follow the podcast on instagram @mudkitchenpod Sign up for the mailing list! www.mudkitchenpod.com This episode contains content that I do not own but I mention that in the episode

Rock climbing! Community building! Shark tagging! Bri’Anna Horne is the founder and president of Pigtown Climbs, a non-profit based out of the Pigtown neighborhood in Baltimore, MD. She’s here to spread joy through rock climbing, and is currently working to build a climbing gym on Washington Blvd in the heart of Pigtown. Follow Pigtown Climbs on instagram @pigtownclimbs and visit their website www.pigtownclimbs.org/ Follow Bri’Anna Horne on instagram @bri_nice_bri_kind Follow Ordo Displays on instagram @ordo.displays Show Notes: https://www.mudkitchenpod.com/show-notes/2024/episode-07Credits: Created & Hosted by Zoe Roane-Hopkins Theme Music by Zoe Roane-Hopkins & Logan Staley Email me at [email protected] Follow the podcast on instagram @mudkitchenpod Sign up for the mailing list! www.mudkitchenpod.com Cover image courtesy of Bri’Anna Horne

Kayaking! Bald Eagles! Climate Change! Join Zoe and her friends, Logan, Ben, and Ned on a kayaking adventure at Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge. Learn why it’s called Blackwater and how this critical ecosystem is connected to the Underground Railroad. Show Notes: https://www.mudkitchenpod.com/show-notes/2024/episode-06 Credits: Created & Hosted by Zoe Roane-Hopkins Theme Music is Electric Mud Pies by Zoe Roane-Hopkins & Logan Staley Email me at [email protected] Follow the podcast on instagram @mudkitchenpod Sign up for the mailing list! www.mudkitchenpod.com

Giant acorn gazebo! Shiny springs! Unearthed institutionalized racism! Explore Acorn Park in Silver Spring, MD to learn what that big acorn means and how a misguided attempt to add diversity into murals depicting the history of the city revealed the need to shift how stories are told and who gets to be in them. Show Notes: www.mudkitchenpod.com/show-notes/2024/episode-05 Credits: Created & Hosted by Zoe Roane-Hopkins Theme Music by Zoe Roane-Hopkins & Logan Staley Email me at [email protected] Follow the podcast on instagram @mudkitchenpod Sign up for the mailing list! www.mudkitchenpod.com

Design landscapes for real human beings! Be optimistic and angry! Connect with people! Kelley Oklesson talks about her journey through landscape architecture, starting her own firm (Groundsmith Collective), and changing the culture of landscape architecture to foster kindness, collaboration, and support. Follow Groundsmith Collective on Instagram @groundsmithcolletive Visit https://groundsmithcollective.com Show Notes: https://www.mudkitchenpod.com/show-notes/2024/episode-04Credits: Created & Hosted by Zoe Roane-Hopkins Theme Music is Electric Mud Pies by Zoe Roane-Hopkins & Logan Staley Email me at [email protected] Follow the podcast on instagram @mudkitchenpod Sign up for the mailing list! www.mudkitchenpod.com

Produce your own heat! Smell like decomposing flesh! Fight against the foragers! It’s the first installment of Species with Spunk, and today we're deep diving on Eastern Skunk Cabbage. Join Zoe, Ben, and Logan on an adventure through Baltimore's Cylburn Arboretum to look for skunk cabbage and learn some fun facts along the way! Show Notes: https://www.mudkitchenpod.com/show-notes/2024/episode-03 Credits: Created & Hosted by Zoe Roane-Hopkins Theme Music is Electric Mud Pies by Zoe Roane-Hopkins & Logan Staley Email me at [email protected] Follow the podcast on instagram @mudkitchenpod Sign up for the mailing list! www.mudkitchenpod.com