Travel with Les Stroud and Chef Paul Rogalski on a foraging and culinary journey through the wilds of North America. Experience breathtaking landscapes, learn about unexpected wild edibles, and witness the wild harvest become extraordinary and delicious cuisine.
Explore with Les, as he shares his wisdom and takes you on an adventure, foraging and gathering wild edible ingredients in rugged terrain and places closer to home than you might imagine. Learn from how to recognize the culinary possibilities around you and find your own wild harvest.
Follow along with Chef Paul as he discovers the tastes and textures of curious and sometimes peculiar ingredients and takes on a culinary challenge in each episode. With his years of experience and culinary training, a little ingenuity and just a dash of luck, Paul creates remarkable and unique dishes featuring unknown and surprising ingredients.
Chef Paul Rogalski is a renowned and passionate gastronomic leader and artist. He finds his inspiration in locally sourced ingredients, the natural environment and the great people he works with every day. As co-owner and Chief Culinary Officer, Chef Paul leads the culinary vision and kitchen team at Calgary’s acclaimed Rouge Restaurant. With his vision, the team achieved placement on the prestigious World’s 50 Best Restaurants list – the only Alberta restaurant to ever do so. Today, Rouge remains the top ranked Canadian restaurant in the past 10 years.
Paul’s passion has kept him busy as a speaker and guest chef both locally and internationally. Events like Cook it Raw, Terroir Symposium, and the Cayman Cookout fill his spare time. He has also served as a judge for The World’s 50 Best Restaurants for the past five years.
His freestyle approach, unexpected ingredients, and culinary techniques grounded in his international experiences are all part of every dish Chef Paul creates. His recipes include quality, and often simple ingredients, focusing on the delivery of an exceptional culinary experience.
Chef Paul’s Knife Roll is expertly crafted by the artisans at JRE Industries. They have been producing all of our leather sheaths since 2013. This Knife Roll features genuine leather with a live edge so that each roll is unique. The soft suede inside carefully cradles the knives during transport. The custom Kydex inserts are are carefully molded to each knife and are completely removable for easy cleaning. The removable strop will keep that amazing edge tuned with the impregnated compound. It features an adjustable and removable strap an well as a paracord laced handle for additional cordage.
Chef Paul’s Signature Collection Knife Roll
(knives not included) $375.00 +S&H
Chef Paul’s Chef Knife is 1/8″ AEB-L stainless steel with our distinctive Grind Thru Cutlery where the entire knife is tapered from the spine to the cutting edge and then is chisel ground to make a very powerful cutting geometry. The burlap handles are both chemically and mechanically attached to the knife with marine grade epoxy and stainless screws and brass nuts. The knife measures 13 5/8 inches overall with a 8 3/8″ sharpened edge. The height of the blade is 2 3/8 inches. The knife comes with the Wild Harvest logo on the Presentation side and Paul’s initials on the opposite side. Finally we add thumb scallops to this professional grade tool.
Chef Paul’s Signature Collection Chef Knife
$290.00 +S&H
Chef Paul’s Slicing Knife is 3/32″ AEB-L stainless steel with our distinctive Grind Thru Cutlery where the entire knife is tapered from the spine to the cutting edge and then is chisel ground to make a very powerful cutting geometry. The burlap handles are both chemically and mechanically attached to the knife with marine grade epoxy and stainless screws and brass nuts. The knife measures 15 inches overall with a 9 7/8″ sharpened edge. The height of the blade is 1 1/4 inches. The knife comes with the Wild Harvest logo on the Presentation side and Paul’s initials on the opposite side. Finally we add thumb scallops and aeration holes to this professional grade tool.
Chef Paul’s Signature Collection Slicing Knife
$277.00 +S&H
Chef Paul’s Boning Knife is 3/32″ AEB-L stainless steel with our distinctive Grind Thru Cutlery where the entire knife is tapered from the spine to the cutting edge and then is chisel ground to make a very powerful cutting geometry. The burlap handles are both chemically and mechanically attached to the knife with marine grade epoxy and stainless screws and brass nuts. The knife measures 11 inches overall with a 5 7/8″ sharpened edge. The height of the blade is 1 inch. The knife comes with the Wild Harvest logo on the Presentation side and Paul’s initials on the opposite side. Finally we add thumb scallops to this professional grade tool.
Chef Paul’s Signature Collection Boning Knife
$267.00 +S&H
Chef Paul’s Turning Knife is 3/32″ AEB-L stainless steel with our distinctive Grind Thru Cutlery where the entire knife is tapered from the spine to the cutting edge and then is chisel ground to make a very powerful cutting geometry. The burlap handles are both chemically and mechanically attached to the knife with marine grade epoxy and stainless screws and brass nuts. The knife measures 6 1/2″ inches overall with a 2 1/8″ sharpened edge. The height of the blade is 3/8 inches. The knife comes with the Wild Harvest logo on the Presentation side and Paul’s initials on the opposite side. Finally we add thumb scallops to this professional grade tool to make a delicate slicer.
Chef Paul’s Signature Collection Turning Knife
$185.00 +S&H
Les Stroud has Produced/Executive Produced/Hosted over 100 documentaries and released his 20th Anniversary Collection on Valentine’s Day 2020. Les set a brand-new pace for adventure filmmaking with his groundbreaking series Survivorman and subsequently created a whole new genre of TV: Survival TV. His critically acclaimed indigenous culture series Beyond Survival hit some of the highest ratings on TV even beating the massive and difficult to beat sports viewing. His camera work and editing techniques have been studied in numerous film-making college and university courses and he has been nominated a record 27 times for Canadian Screen Awards (Directing/Hosting/Series/Music/Editing) winning three for writing and camera. His works are shown in over 100 countries and on several networks including Discovery Channel, National Geographic, The Science Channel, NHK and Canadian Television.
Les Stroud’s SURVIVORMAN machete has undergone over two years of prototyping and testing to make sure it was worthy of wearing the SURVIVORMAN label and after all of that testing we have a tool that anyone would be proud to use! This 3/32″ 1075 high carbon steel professional grade tool is dual convex ground with a higher slicing convex near the handle that fades into a more robust chopping convex at the belly thru the tip. The high carbon steel is protected by our food safe two stage patina. The machete measures 19 1/4″ overall with a 12 7/8″ sharpened edge. The natural canvas micarta is both chemically and mechanically attached to the knife with marine grade epoxy and stainless screws and brass nuts. We included a forward lanyard hole for additional safety when chopping and the contoured handle fits comfortably in the hand. All of this comes wrapped in a gorgeous JRE Industries ambidextrous sheath with a removable belt loop and multiple lashing points
Les Stroud’s SURVIVORMAN Machete
$269.00 +S&H
Les Stroud’s Wild Harvest Field Knife had some very big demands placed on the design. It needed to fill the gap between the Foraging Tool and the Machete and Les feels this knife does so perfectly. This 5/32″ A2 tool steel professional grade tool is flat ground with a clip point. The A2 tool steel allows for an all-around performer with amazingly easy field sharpening. The knife measures 11 1/2″ overall with a 6″ sharpened edge. The brown burlap micarta is both chemically and mechanically attached to the knife with marine grade epoxy and stainless screws and brass nuts. The knife comes with the Wild Harvest logo on the Presentation side and Les’s signature on the opposite side.
Les Stroud’s Signature Collection Field Knife
$335.00 +S&H
Les Stroud’s Wild Harvest Foraging Tool needed the perfect accessory to add to the functionality of this amazing tool so the leather wizards at JRE INdustries developed this blade cover to protect the blade while allowing the addition of a Swedish dangler for those that choose to add the tool to their belt. This 8oz vegetable tanned leather is the same leather we use in our knife sheaths . The double stitching and open grommets mean years of service can be expected. The added bungee loops will secure the Foraging Tool in the blade cover during the most vigorous activity. The optional Swedish Dangler is easily added to allow you to snap the loop around your belt without removing it.
Les Stroud Signature Collection Foraging Tool Blade Cover
Foraging Tool not included Starting at $50 +S&H
Les Stroud’s Wild Harvest Foraging Tool started life as a traditional Hori-hori and continued to evolve into this unique tool. This 5/32″ A2 tool steel professional grade tool is saber ground with a false clip to plunge into the dirt. The A2 tool steel allows for a robustness that is only eclipsed by its ease of field sharpening. The foraging tool measures 11 1/2″ overall with a 5 3/4″ sharpened edge. The brown burlap micarta is both chemically and mechanically attached to the knife with marine grade epoxy and stainless screws and brass nuts. The knife comes with the Wild Harvest logo on the Presentation side and Les’s initials on the opposite side.
Les Stroud’s Signature Collection Foraging Tool
$336.00 +S&H
