“Earth Eats,” WFIU’s weekly podcast and radio show about food and farming, is launching a special nine-part series dedicated to foraging.

“Eats Wild” will share stories meant to inspire listeners to notice their surroundings, pay attention to subtle seasonal changes and engage in memorable experiences with the natural world.

The series features “Earth Eats” host and producer Kayte Young in conversation with knowledgeable foragers. She joins wild food experts out in the field and in kitchen sessions to learn how to prepare wild foods. Young encourages listeners to go foraging themselves and try the recipes at home.

“The embodied learning that happens when we search for plants and mushrooms, when we learn to notice the characteristics that allow us to identify them, and when we prepare them and taste them — that kind of learning stays with us and maybe changes us,” Young said.

The first episode in the series premieres at 7 a.m. March 29 on WFIU and will also be available as a podcast.

The episode features an interview about spring foraging with Monique Philpot, founder of Soulcraft Bloomington. The episode also follows Philpot’s wild edibles classes at Soulcraft, which is Indiana’s first forest and folk school, and Indiana University.

Two more spring foraging episodes will be released April 5 and 12. The series will return June 21 and 28 and July 5 for three episodes on summer foraging. The final three episodes on fall foraging will air Sept. 13, 20 and 27.