Exploring Local | Cooking Wild
Wild Pantry is an open channel for connection, curiosity and rediscovery. We are co-weaving a community to amplify the wild foods of South Africa, sharing local stories, knowledge and learning along the way.
Producing and engaging long and short form video content, podcasts and other useful resources. We celebrate the power of wild food to heal disconnected relationships with nature and the land.
Exploring Local Cooking Wild
Wild Pantry is an open channel for connection, curiosity and rediscovery. We are co-weaving a community to amplify the wild foods of South Africa, sharing local stories, knowledge and learning along the way.
Producing and engaging long and short form video content, podcasts and other useful resources. We celebrate the power of wild food to heal disconnected relationships with nature and the land.
Join us on an exciting journey with indigenous foods, traditions and flavours.
Ready to Roll
We have been developing a 52 min docu-reality series based in the Greater Cape Floristic region. It is production-ready and has the perfect ingredients for fresh entertainment and discovery. If you would like to partner with us or invest in this project, please contact us here.
Created with support from the National Film and Video Foundation.
Ready to Roll
Created with support from the National Film and Video Foundation.
Listening to stories, discovering plants and places.
Explore & Support
Wild Events
Workshops, wild walks & knowledge sharing.
(Watch this space)
Wild Resources
Merch
Things to buy to support our cause. (Watch this space)
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Get Involved
Collaborate with us
Contribute to our project
Join the community
Who We Are
We are a passionate team sharing the stories of forgotten foods, reconnecting people with land, knowledge and tradition. Through exploration, storytelling and collaboration, we seek to revive indigenous food practices, celebrate local wisdom, and inspire a deeper relationship with the landscapes that sustain us. By bringing these stories to light, we hope to nourish both people and place, and contribute to a more grounded and resilient future.
We are a passionate team sharing the stories of forgotten foods, reconnecting people with land, knowledge and tradition. Through exploration, storytelling and collaboration, we seek to revive indigenous food practices, celebrate local wisdom, and inspire a deeper relationship with the landscapes that sustain us. By bringing these stories to light, we hope to nourish both people and place, and contribute to a more grounded and resilient future.
Loubie Rusch
Content Producer / Presenter
Exploring wild ingredients and sharing people’s stories to build a movement.
Zolani Mahola
Presenter
Bringing music, curiosity and joyful experimentation into the wild kitchen.
Gershan Lombard
Presenter
Reconnecting my lineage to the land through ancestral nutrition and wisdom.
Jemima Spring
Weaving the threads between plants, people and the stories that bind them.
Loubie Rusch
Content Producer / Presenter
Exploring wild ingredients and sharing people’s stories to build a movement.
Zolani Mahola
Presenter
Bringing music, curiosity and joyful experimentation into the wild kitchen.
Gershan Lombard
Presenter
Reconnecting my lineage to the land through ancestral nutrition and wisdom.
Jemima Spring
Co-producer and co-director
Weaving the threads between plants, people and the stories that bind them.
Lara Taylor
Co-producer and co-director
Always asking: what’s growing here and when can we eat it, please?
Rae Human
Keeping the wild adventure organised enough to actually get filmed.
Denisha Anand
Researcher
Digging up the stories, histories & plant knowledge behind every ingredient.
Rudi Lippert
Prod. Manager / Asst. Director
Enriching the soil of the production and keeping the team on track.
Lara Taylor
Co-producer and co-director
Always asking: what’s growing here and when can we eat it, please?
Rae Human
Line Producer
Keeping the wild adventure organised enough to actually get filmed.
Denisha Anand
Researcher
Digging up the stories, histories & plant knowledge behind every ingredient.
Rudi Lippert
Prod. Manager / Asst. Director
Enriching the soil of the production and keeping the team on track.
Who We Are
We are a passionate team sharing the stories of forgotten foods, reconnecting people with land, knowledge and tradition. Through exploration, storytelling and collaboration, we seek to revive indigenous food practices, celebrate local wisdom, and inspire a deeper relationship with the landscapes that sustain us. By bringing these stories to light, we hope to nourish both people and place, and contribute to a more grounded and resilient future.
Loubie Rusch
Content Producer / Presenter
Exploring wild ingredients and sharing people’s stories to build a movement.
Zolani Mahola
Bringing music, curiosity and joyful experimentation into the wild kitchen.
Gershan Lombard
Connecting my lineage to the land with ancestral nutrition.
Jemima Spring
Weaving the threads between plants, people and the stories that bind them.
Lara Taylor
Always asking: what’s growing here and when can we eat it, please?
Rae Human
Keeping the wild adventure organised enough to actually get filmed.
Denisha Anand
Researcher
Digging up the stories, histories & plant knowledge behind every ingredient.
Rudi Lippert
Production Manager / Asst. Director
Enriching the soil of the production and keeping the team on track.
We are creating a space where wild food becomes part of how we live, eat and relate to the land around us.
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We are creating a space where wild food becomes part of how we live, eat and relate to the land around us.