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Daniel takes on the profound challenge of a bear hunt with fellow hunter and houndsman, Sam. He also explores traditional methods for harvesting delicious wild rice with Arthur, Avani and Sara.

Black Bear & Wild Rice

Daniel takes on the challenge of turkey hunting and learns the traditions of foraging fiddleheads and leeks with Avani, Arthur and Sara

Wild Turkey, Ramps & Fiddleheads

Daniel heads out on a South Carolina gator hunt and then learns about an ancient American caffeine crop called Yaupon being rediscovered in Georgia.

Alligator & Yaupon Tea

Daniel and Arthur angle for lake white fish with their wives Avani and Sara and gather wild salad ingredients on a remote lake in Maine.

Lake Whitefish & Wild Salad

Daniel helps tackle an alien invasion — green iguanas — in the Florida Keys and learns a down home way to prepare them. He also enjoys some fresh ways to prepare local coconuts

Iguana & Coconuts

On a very special episode, Daniel fishes halibut, lobster and forages seaweed for the most important dinner of his life -  Avani and his wedding!

Halibut, Lobster & Seaweed

Daniel navigates the rugged terrain of mountain stream beds to fish wild brook trout and forages milkweed flowers for a camp meal hard won from the wild.

Brook Trout & Milkweed Flowers

Far from the urban jungle Daniel teams up with chef Alan Bergo to hunt the original poultry — pigeons, and forages for mushrooms and greens from the Wisconsin landscape.

Pigeon & Wild Mushrooms

Daniel and Avani harvest cranberries on a floating peat moss island and he finds some long range hunting in the dense north eastern deer woods. field to table

Whitetail Deer & Cranberries

Daniel joins lifelong friends on a frozen lake to fish below the hard water for landlocked Atlantic salmon and searches high in the trees for a chaga mushroom

Landlocked Salmon & Chaga

Daniel heads to Kentucky to Harvest 17-year periodical Cicadas with entomologist, Dr. Jonathan Larson. Chef Patrick Roney prepares a Kentucky Bourbon paired Cicada feast, as Daniel is welcomed by Outdoorsman Austin Musselman at Ashbourne Farms.

Cicadas & Mulberries

Daniel travels to the Bamberger Ranch Preserve outside of Austin to hunt Feral Hogs at night. This invasive species problem is threatening the land restoration project but leads to an unforgettable dinner cooked up by Chef Jesse Griffiths.

Texas Hog and Beautyberry

Daniel embarks on an epic journey to the Standing Rock Reservation and visits the largest native-owned Bison ranch in the country. He and his wife Avani are invited to experience the Bison hunt and share in a traditional Dakota meal.

Bison and Chokecherries

Daniel travels to Canada's easternmost point of land, the island of Newfoundland, where he connects with local game cook and forager Laurie McCarthy who guides him through this wild food paradise.

Newfoundland

Daniel teams up with Mike Kimmel aka "The Python Cowboy" for a night expedition to combat the Burmese Python invasion in the Florida Everglades. Alligators and snake bites aren't enough to stop him from having a python dinner.

Python & Saw Palmetto

In the most challenging episode of the season, Daniel learns how hard it is to catch a giant Atlantic Tuna. His unrelenting perseverance ends in an epic sushi dinner.

Tuna & Sea Salt

Daniel puts down the rifle and picks up his bow as he heads off to the high desert of Arizona is search of Javelina. Along the way he'll sample several desert plants, including ephedra and juniper in a quest to make a backcountry meal.

Javelina and Ephedra

Daniel joins Maine Guide Randy Huntley as they trap beaver in freezing temperatures. Randy, Daniel, and his wife, Avani, are welcomed to Chef Kate Gooding's home as she prepares a favorite recipe from her Cookbook, 50 Ways To Eat A Beaver.

Beaver & Rose Hips

Chef Tony Seichrist hosts Daniel in Savannah, Georgia to hunt invasive hogs, fish for sheepshead and sea bass, and to taste his their way around the region.

Georgia Hog and Fiddler Crab

Daniel and his wife, Avani, team up to create one of their favorite meals, acorn-fried squirrel. To do it, Daniel hunts his way through the oak woods as Avani gathers acorns. Join them as they turn these iconic fall ingredients into a meal you won't soon forget!

Squirrel and Acorn

It's Daniel's wife Avani's first hunt! She's after a Maine turkey. Daniel forages Brackenfern to pair with her bird in a classic home cook neither of them will ever forget!

Turkey and Brackenfern

Daniel dives into some Maine traditions, competing with bald eagles to catch alewives and tapping birch trees for a dinner steeped in centuries of traditions. Can he win over the locals who think alewives are no good to eat?

Alewives and Birch Syrup

Daniel embarks on an epic journey to Molokai, Hawaii, where he meets up with Ku Keanini to understand the land and battle some bad juju to earn an epic meal. Ethnobotanist Nat Bledder takes Daniel into a lush valley to forage exotic plants for an incredible salad made from the jungle.

Black Buck and Wild Salad

Daniel heads back to North Dakota for another hunt with Travis Goodbull Man Condon to harvest two overlooked ingredients hiding under the Dakota soil. Linda Black Elk leads Daniel on a forage with her family and cooks an unforgettable meal anchored in the indigenous ingredients of North America.

Prairie Dog and Prairie Turnip

Daniel steps into the wild food world of foraging great Sam Thayer and the culinary universe of Chef Alan Bergo to explore the biodiversity and flavors of Wisconsin. They pick berries, forage underwater for shoots, and chase crayfish to create a once and a lifetime meal!

Wisconsin Crayfish and Cattails

Back on Molokai, Daniel and Ku are culling the island's Axis Deer herd, capturing crabs with Ku's grandmother, making sea salt on the cliffs and bringing all their ingredients back to a classic Hawaiian Luau with friends and family.

Axis Deer

A hundred miles out, over the continental shelf, Daniel chases swordfish on the Primary Search, and Captain Austin Ensor takes him crabbing and clamming on Maryland's coast. Daniel pushes inland for the largest fruit in North America, the famous, if not slightly strange, paw paw.

Swordfish and Maryland Fish and Crabs

Maine's expanded archery zone is a small coastal region dotted with islands. Daniel heads out to an uninhabited island in search of whitetails, and into the forest to gather some coveted fall mushrooms in the hopes of an unforgettable autumn meal.

Archery Deer, Mackerel and Mushroom

In early winter, Daniel and friends head out for a sea duck hunt on Maine's Atlantic shores. Battling the elements, they pull out all the stops for a truly unforgettable duck hunt and pair their birds with the invasive but delicious autumn olive.

Sea Duck and Autumn Olive

Winter in Maine has Daniel and Chef Tony Seichrist chasing snowshoe hares with beagles in the cold. A final dinner pairs them with black walnuts Daniel harvests in Missouri with a 3rd generation company devoted to wild food.

Snowshoe Hare and Black Walnuts

Daniel heads to Washington State to harvest a giant member of the saltwater clam family.

Geoduck, Morels, and Porcini

Daniel is joined by Phil Spahn and Pete Caldwell as they hunt Himalayan tahr through the rough back country of New Zealand's South Island.

Tahr and Urban Foraging

A rare peek into the secretive world of eel trapping puts us in touch with one of the most mysterious creatures in the water.

Glass Eel, Fiddleheads, and WIld Leeks

Daniel fires up the airboat and tracks down an enormous rodent in the Louisiana bayou.

Nutria and Groundnuts

Daniel joins Rachel and Wade, a husband and wife team who are fishing an often misunderstood fish in the Potomac Creek of Virginia.

Snakehead and Shiso

Daniel and Phil head out onto High Peak Station, culling a deer population on a generationally protected piece of land.

Fallow Deer and Elderflower

Black bear season in Maine has Daniel and Lawrence trying every trick in the book to harvest an especially clever animal.

Black Bear and Wild Oregano

Daniel travels to the North island of New Zealand to hunt a bird like no other. He's joined by Phil Spahn, a serious homecook and hunter who makes an unforgettable meal.

Peacock and Watercress

An invasive fish widely considered to be inedible is given second life in a meal no one thought was possible.

Carp and Cattail

Daniel joins Toa, a Maori hunter-gatherer, on the North Island of New Zealand for an unorthodox deer hunt with the Tuhoe people.

Red Deer and Mamaku Fern

Daniel taps his backyard trees to make maple syrup and sugar, then heads to South Dakota to hunt snow geese on their spring migration back to the Arctic.

Snow Goose and Maple Sugar

On the rocky coast of Maine, Daniel fishes for striped bass with his wife, Avani and forages daylilies and cucumber root for a seaside meal.

Striped Bass and Daylilies

Daniel heads to Michigan in search of black squirrels and delicious hickory nuts before bringing them to a chef duo who turns them into a world class meal.

Black Squirrels and Hickory Nuts

Floating Alabama's Flint Creek by canoe, Daniel harvests America's forgotten fruit, the pawpaw, before pairing them with elderberry and catfish caught off the dock.

Paw Paw and Catfish

Daniel paddles the lakes and rivers of Alabama after what is possibly America's most underutilized food - The American lotus nut. And, with no hunting seasons open, Daniel has to eat crow.

Lotus Nuts and Crow

Daniel and his wife, Avani, challenge themselves to make a meal from wild ingredients harvested completely from their backyard. Native trout, strawberries, and even... grasshoppers!

The Wild Backyard

Chasing behind European truffle dogs, Daniel is introduced to the little-known Blue Ridge truffle, which our guest chef pairs with whitetail deer harvested in Maine.

Truffles and Whitetail Deer

In the thick uninhabited forests of Northern Maine, Daniel is on the hunt for two elusive upland game birds - woodcock and ruffed grouse - which pair perfectly with New England's feral apples.

Grouse, Woodcock, and Apples

On a small family ranch in the South Texas brush country, Daniel helps manage exotic nilgai and scimitar oryx; he also forages the landscape for ingredients to make a wild foraged pasta.

Nilgai, Oryx, and Wild Pasta

Daniel helps to save the endangered and forgotten American chestnut and fishes the frozen hardwater of Northern Maine for a pristine population of native salmonids.

Ice Fishing and American Chestnut

Modern-day hunter-gatherer Daniel Vitalis takes us on an exciting culinary journey, reminding us of a time when communities relied on each other and the landscape for their food. From the mountains to the sea, and all the terrain in between, Daniel is joined by his friends and family to hunt, fish and forage hard-won ingredients from the wild. With the help of expert hunters, native cooks, and trained chefs, each adventure becomes more than a meal - it’s a glimpse into the wildlife, gear, cooking, and culture that embodies the rapidly growing wild foods way of life.

The Best Seasons of WildFed

The Best Seasons of WildFed

Season 1

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Season 3

Season 4

Season 5