D. Firth Griffith is a writer, teacher and land-based practitioner whose work sits at the intersection of ecology, myth and lived relationship with the natural world.

He is a father, horse handler, sacred butcher and leather tanner, as well as an award-winning independent author of books on kincentric ecology, mythology, fantasy, horror and language. His writing has appeared in publications including The Stockman Grassfarmer, Resilience.org and the Permaculture Research Institute. His books have received several honours, including Independent Publisher Book of the Year in Fantasy and the National Indie Excellence Award in Nature Writing.

Across his books and countless conversations, Daniel has challenged many of the assumptions that underpin modern agriculture, food systems and even contemporary environmentalism. His work asks difficult questions: What does it mean to eat with honour? What has been lost when food becomes commodity rather than a relational, animistic consent-based approach?

This conversation felt particularly alive for me because last year we field harvested one of our own cows within our community’s farm. The experience stirred reverence, grief, gratitude, responsibility and many questions that continue to unfold within me.

Daniel's work offers a language for some of those questions, while also opening many more.

What follows is a conversation about food, consent, ceremony, kinship, grief, horror, foraging, hope and what it might mean to become fully answerable to the places and beings that feed us.

Firth has generously offered a fortnight of a 75% discount code for any and all of his books, which is for the patrons of this podcast and also for our paid subscribers on Substack. Daniel’s Award-winning Irish Myth “Rimwalker” series now has three books, all available on his website. And if you want to learn more about kincentric rewilding, he also has that book available (I recommend it).

The music in this episode is from Ojhro and Cynefin.

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