Aloha* I love this planet we call home, and enjoy sharing that love with others. I see wild food as a way to connect us more deeply with place, with ourselves, and as a catalyst for our rapidly changing world. Life takes us many places, but the plants are a constant for me. Please use the information on this website and build upon it, making it better, sharing it with others.
Born to back-to-the-lander parents in the middle of the Smoky Hills State Forest, I spent my early years without electricity and running water. I obtained my bachelor’s degree in Dietetics, and my Master’s degree in Nutrition Education. My Master’s work focused on the antioxidants of wild greens. I taught native nutrition at the White Earth Tribal & Community College for 3 years up in northern Minnesota and made it to every continent before the age of 30. My ancestry includes pirates, diplomats, farmers, to writers of the French constitution. I’ve always loved the story of my ancestor Thomas Savage, who arrived in Jamestown on the second boat at 13. Shortly after arriving he was part of a political exchange that ended in him spending the next several years living with Chief Powhatan and his famous daughter Pocahontas.
I founded Savage Designs, Inc …an eco-conscious clothing and design company working with tribal villagers, who still sustainably wildcraft Giant Himilayan Nettle (Girardinia diversifolia). The fibers are processed completely by hand with love and care every step of the way.
Join me on an adventure in untaming your life in the television series Hot on the Trail with Sunny Savage. This 26-episode series airs on Veria, a natural lifestyle network on DISH channel 218, and Verizon FIOS channel 162, and are in no way affiliated with this website.
Tune in on Mon/Tues/Wed at 1:00 PM and 9:30 PM, Thursday at 8:00 PM, and Fri/Sat/Sun at 3:30 PM. Times are listed for EST (eastern standard time).


Hi
This a a interesting web site, I also work with food and healing herbs and would be interested in your future events…thanks louise
Comment by louise benally — December 11, 2008 @ 10:37 am
Hi Sunny! I met you at the Wentworths last year and you were a link from a link that was on a website of survival workshops in Maine. I am to be traveling with a friend this Spring and will probably be in the West all of next Summer. Would be wonderful if we could attend an event or meet you for coffee or something.
Comment by Cassie — December 29, 2008 @ 12:38 pm
[...] edible plant expert and naturalist, Sunny Savage gives us the 411 on harvesting california black walnuts. Learn how to identify the walnut tree, [...]
Pingback by 24/7 Garden Television Channel » “Wild Living With Sunny Savage” Video Series — January 1, 2009 @ 5:35 pm
i saw some of your episodes about desertharvesters and wanted to share some of the work that we are doing in Peru with a local cousin of the mesquite – the guarango (prosopis pallida) also known in the north as the algarrobo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xxyCWTJqYA
please have a look, and share it with anyone who might find it of interest.
saludos,
kathi
Comment by kathi huber — February 11, 2009 @ 5:42 pm
Aloha!
Are you related to Gretchen Jones from the show called Project Runway?
Uncanny resemblance.
By the way, v. exciting blog.
Thanks,
Leilani
Comment by Leilani — October 28, 2010 @ 8:28 am
love your show, love your website, love your work! Here in the Finger lakes of NY, we have a wonderful, vibrant, growing community of wild food lovers, herbal and medicinal plant practicioners, and simple living, permaculture folks. If anybody wants to immerse themselves in a supportive community of plant loving co-voyagers, this is the place to look. If you just like to be in nature, there are 1000 gorges within 100 miles of our Ithaca NY, which is the capitol of our tiny landlocked Kingdom!
Comment by frank muller — January 13, 2011 @ 4:47 am