season 1, episode 1 - welcome to snort & cackle

welcome to the snort & cackle podcast! meet your host, ash alberg of sunflower knit, in today's inaugural episode. ash is a natural dyer and knitwear designer by profession, and by life they are a queer femme, fibre witch, hedgewitch, and parent to the resident coven pooch, willow.

ash helps fibre witches to connect, create, and get confident through an online community, online courses, and curated collection of products for makers by makers, all available via their website ashalberg.com. follow ash @sunflowerknit and @fromfieldtoskin and find them online at ashalberg.com and fromfieldtoskin.com.

with the snort & cackle podcast, ash will be chatting with some of their favourite fellow boss witches and witchy-adjacent professionals about how ritual and magic impact both their professional work and their personal lives. expect serious discussions about intersections of privilege and oppression, big-c versus small-c capitalism, ritual, sustainability, astrology, ancestral work, and a whole lot of snorts and cackles. each season we read a new book about witchcraft practices around the world with the #snortandcacklebookclub, with a book review by ash and the occasional guest helping us close out the season. this season's #snortandcacklebookclub read is "witchcraft in early modern poland 1500-1800" by wanda wyporska.

take the fibre witch quiz at ashalberg.com/quiz. follow us on instagram @snortandcackle and be sure to subscribe via your favourite podcasting app so you don't miss an episode!

seasons 1-3 of snort & cackle are generously supported by the manitoba arts council.