In the second hour of Foggy Notion, DJ Zoestress chatted with Christie Green, author of Moonlight Elk: One Woman’s Hunt for Food and Freedom, and Erika Howsare, author of The Age of Deer.

With a complementary playlist of songs, they explore topics of interdependence, living off the land, fair hunt, celestial connections, self sufficiency, and the inner voice.

Foggy Notion airs every Wednesday, 2 – 4 p.m., on 91.1 FM and streaming on wtju.net.

“Animals and dreams, lunar partners, choreograph Green through time and space. She longs to dream, toil, live and love at the edges of the fertile ecotones where she can withdraw inward, retreat like an animal into hiding, and then come into full, radiant view on her own terms. . . In the process, Green eclipses western society’s definitions of her as a woman, mother, lover, and entrepreneur, courageously birthing her own independence through a profound connection to the animals and the places they call home.” —about Moonlight Elk

“The Age of Deer blends Howsare’s personal story with literary analysis and in-depth reportage . . . It is this tension between kinship and stewardship that shapes Howsare’s book, a conflict that produces a third way that collapses the traditional hierarchy. What if deer have something to teach us, not just to give us in the forms of their beauty and their bodies?” —Annie Berke, Washington City Paper

Tags: Author Conversation, Christie Green, Erika Howsare, Fair Hunt, Homesteading, Moonlight Elik, Nature, Survival, The Age of Deer, Wilderness