Ellie Lawton-Smoller
Keeping Up with the Wiscos
Wisconsin, we've got another packed house for you for this episode! We've got First Hunt Wisconsin's state director Alex Ezell and deputy state director Megan Salazar. Also along for the ride is friend of the show, Gator Gal, and First Hunt Wisconsin's Share the HERitage representative Ellie Lawton-Smoller. From the shadows, friend of the show Rob Brennecke. All together, it's a recipe for laughs AND safety! Remember friends, you are NEVER too cool to brush up on safety!
This week's recipe will leave you pheasantly surprised and wishing you could grab a pie through a podcast!
From all of us at Raised in Wisco, we wish you very happy holidays, we'll catch up with you in the new year!
Gator Gabbing
Helloooo Wisconsin! This week, Raised in Wisco takes a southern turn as Joel, Danielle, and Ellie Lawton-Smoller share their tales of hunting in central Florida. The team primarily journeyed south to hunt alligators. However while there, they figured they'd do their level best to help with the wild hog problem as well. Tune in for this episode to hear successful hunt stories from Danielle and our friend Ellie Lawton-Smoller.
What goes through a hunter’s mind
Wisconsin, we are currently spoiled for choice when it comes to hunting. Whatever species you're choosing to hunt or fish this week, bring us along for the ride! This week, Ellie Lawton-Smoller joins Joel and Danielle to talk about what it means to bring a new hunter (Producer Jess) into the fold. In just a few weeks, Joel will take Jess out for her very first hunt (turkey). We talk together about what goes through a hunter's mind when they're ready to pull the trigger. This week's recipe is a new twist on a gyro- with gator! Look forward to next week, when the team will regale you with their tales of gator hunting in Yeehaw Junction Florida. Yes, Yeehaw Junction. It's a a real place, even if Producer Jess thought they were yanking her chain...
Spain Edition!
We're all Raised in Wisco, but this week Joel is in Spain! Through the wonder of modern technology, we're able to record a show across the Atlantic Ocean. It should surprise no one that one of Joel's primary reasons for being in Spain is hunting. Joel enjoys traveling the world to experience the many unique hunting cultures this world offers. He shares how much he learns and the appreciation he brings back for the ways in which people interact with their environments. He also brings hats. Four of them in this episode alone.
Even with Joel in Spain, we've got Weekly Wiscos to share! And stay tuned for a recipe that's wrapped in goodness.
Some people meet in coffeeshops. Others meet in the blinds.
Hunting isn't just a physical act. It more easily reduces to a social experience than to the act of potentially killing an animal. Jeff Prizl joins Joel, Danielle, and recurring guest Ellie Lawton-Smoller of First Hunt Foundation's Share the HERitage. Jeff is the deer program specialist at Wisconsin DNR. When you ask him to describe his job, he mentions the math involved in determining harvest number for the year. He'll also talk about learning the biology of the animals that we hunt. But the most important element of his job is to learn and engage with the social aspect of hunting.
Joel, Danielle, and Ellie wrapped up a very successful turkey hunt immediately before recording this episode of Raised in Wisco. However, it didn't all go as planned... They did however secure plenty of turkey meat to make their TWO shared recipes of the week! You're gonna gobble 'em up!
Hey is it deer and turkey season yet? JUST BEARLY
Wisconsin, the Fall Turkey and Deer hunting seasons are active NOW! Ellie Lawton-Smoller of First Hunt Foundation's Share the HERitage division and Mike Kretschmer, a friend of the show, join Joel and Danielle to talk excitement for the open seasons. Joel and Ellie went goose hunting last week and had a great time. They share important reminds about safety- it's cool to be safe y'all! Mike shares his bear hunting story. He waited 11 years for his application for him to receive a tag. Even if he was a bit underwhelmed by the quantity of bear, the quality of the experience was more than bear-able.
Our Weekly Wiscos this week will drive you up a wall... Stick around for our weekly recipe: goose birria tacos!
Tagged? Check. Bagged? Well, the season hasn’t started, hold on!
Wisconsin, in mere hours, it is going to be early goose and Teal duck season. Joel is quick to remind us however, that the hunting season has actually already begun- because SO much of hunting happens before you pull the trigger. It starts with building relationships with land owners and conservationists, scouting locations for future hunts, and obtaining gear and learning how to use it. All things that Producer Jess is now learning, as she prepares for her first ever hunt. With Joel and Danielle's help, Jess now has her first hunting tag (fall turkey) and is preparing- mentally and physically- for this new experience.
Well, thank goodness we had a friend from First Hunt Foundation, Share the HERitage, Ellie Lawton-Smoller on to talk through some pre-hunt concerns! Also joining us today, hunting entrepreneur Jonny Baumann, creator of Tagged and Bagged, a specialized bagging system that protects hunted specimens for taxidermy.
