Foraged - Meet Your Forager.

Foraged Market wanted to kick off a series that showed the various types of food purveyors on their site.

This one felt like a simple solution to me: showcase some of the most interesting foragers on the platform and tell their stories. So that’s what I did. I grabbed a good friend and even better shooter, Beau Hauser, and we flew out to shoot with three different foragers to tell their story and show consumers where they get their food from. Along with us was JB Douglas, who functioned as the face of Foraged.

This was an incredible experience and one where I met friends for life. The goal was to capture the energy of each forager and run that feeling through every little detail. I think we did just that.

All shooting was done by Beau and myself (as second cam) and all post-production was done by me.

Mushbloom Gardens

Sam and Cam are partners and co-founders of Mushbloom Gardens. Cam is basically an encyclopedia of every type of mushroom there is and Sam writes the book on common names. They forage together, cook together, cultivate together, and just have an overall good time.

You’ll notice in this one, the style of the title card and animations throughout—these were done by hand and they change for each one of these three stories based on the vibes of every forager. They all had their own energy and I wanted that to be shown through every detail.

The Forager Chick

Or that’s what Anne-Marie calls herself. She lives in the hills of Georgia and has such a beautiful estate. She makes it a goal to live off the land she has and the land she has access to (she has a lot of friends, so it’s a lot of land access). She is kind and generous and knows more than I thought was possible about plants.

Randle Wild Mushrooms

So above, I lied a little bit, on this one I wasn’t a second shooter. That’s because I was skateboarding and I herniated two discs in my cervical spine (something that can apparently happen when you’re 30 years old). But this was one I was SO upset to have missed. At least looking back through all the footage and hearing all the conversations made me feel like I was right there with Beau (and this time Andy from Foraged). Hopefully you can feel like you were there too so none of us had to miss out.

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