Youth Deer Hunting/Maori Abalone/Squamish Rice Roots: Host Steve Sxwithul'txw travels to Manitoulin Island in eastern Canada to see how the Wikwemikong First Nation is training its youth to hunt sustainably. Then Steve heads to Porangahau on New Zealand's north island to learn how a Maori community harvests and cooks abalone. Down2Earth's ethnobotanist Leigh Joseph visits an estuary in Western Canada and learns about the Squamish Nation's rice root project.

Filmmaker Bio: Barbara Todd Hager is a writer, producer and director. Her family traces its Métis ancestry to Red River, Fort Pitt and St. Paul des Métis Settlements. In 1999 she launched Aarrow Productions and it has grown into one of Canada’s leading Indigenous-owned media companies.