#FROMTHEWILDTABLE is a Slow Food Edmonton initiative, placing Alberta’s wild foods into the hands of our world-class chef talent, and onto the plates of the public. The purpose is to create awareness, taste education, and seasonal celebration around culturally important foods native to our ecosystems.
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FTW: S2E4 Trap Trailer
From The Wild continues with an early spring journey to the far north of Alberta to explore trapping of beaver, for both fur and food.
FTW: Smith Dorrien Trailer
The ‘Smith Dorrien’ is the most westerly main road in Kananaskis country, Alberta, connecting many less well known rocky mountain lakes with healthy trout populations. Couldn’t imagine a better spot to start season two.
Cook It Raw Pt. III: One Story
Alessandro Porcelli, founder of Cook It Raw, brings together a group of talented people to an island where everyone sheds their daily lives, and leave behind technology and other distractions to work together as a team. The group draws from the spirit of the past from a culture that relied on sustainability to survive in the wilderness.
Duck Hunting In Alberta
The Fowled Reality crew is in Alberta. And the shooting is as good as it gets.
Cook It Raw Alberta Part 2
Alessandro Porcelli, founder of Cook It Raw, explains the concept of bringing together a group of people to share and experience the ancestral ways of life. Stripping away the daily noise and grind of life, this group of people hunt, fish, forage and prepare food on a basic, bare bone level.
Matches & Tinfoil Trailer
A culinary gig lands Kevin, Jeff, and former hunting guide John Schneider near Taber hunting waterfowl and upland game birds – but the trip is short circuited and they end up in Alberta’s badlands. “72 hours of crazy” was a working title for a while.
The Last Ten Yards Trailer
S1E9 is part one of two – Kevin and Jeff’s first bow hunt in the grasslands for mule deer, on Kevin’s dad Ian’s home turf. Wildlife, everywhere.
Bear Climbs Huge Pole
How far will you go for a meal? This hungry bear goes to the extreme for his next meal to survive in the wild. Video and pictures taken by Linda Powell in Alberta, Canada at a bison camp.
Alberta Pea Field Duck Hunt
Duck hunters dream of hunting in Canada. It’s the breeding grounds for waterfowl, birds are abundant, and they haven’t received much hunting pressure yet. Farming practices are much different than here in the US which has both positives and negatives.