Anna Ribbeck isn’t like different Swamp Folks. She’s younger, new to looking, and desperate to revolutionize alligator looking.
When most of us hear “swamp folks,” we don’t essentially consider cutthroat alligator hunters. It’s extra doubtless that we consider smelly fantastical troll-like creatures who dwell in swamps all day and all evening, however that’s not what the phrase really means. Previously decade, the Historical past Channel has reminded us that the time period comes from a fiercely unbiased group of people that dwell and work within the swamps, pictured of their actuality sequence, Swamp Folks.
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Now 15 seasons in, Swamp Folks options a big solid of alligator hunters who get their strenuous and harmful work achieved in September and October. A latest addition to the solid is Anna Ribbeck, who solely joined in Season 14. Regardless of her quick tenure, she’s making massive waves, and we don’t simply imply within the swamps.
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‘Swamp Folks’ star Anna Ribbeck is about 30 years previous and grew up in south Louisiana.
Anna hasn’t been a public determine for lengthy, however that doesn’t imply that she hasn’t made her mark. One of many followers’ favourite issues about Anna is how she not solely hunts but additionally forages, and she or he hunts and gathers every little thing that she eats. It’s a fairly spectacular technique to dwell and proves that she’s on her technique to dwelling completely off the grid if she needs to. As a substitute, nevertheless, she shares ideas and methods on social media about how she lives her distinctive way of life.
Her web site states, “AnnaTheArcher was born and raised in south Louisiana. She grew up enjoying basketball, ditch fishing, and consuming crawfish. Opposite to well-liked perception, she was not launched to looking or archery till her early twenties.”
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Her story then goes on to her school years, from 2011–2016 when she studied at Louisiana State College and was first launched to archery. In line with Anna’s LinkedIn, she graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Horticultural Science, so it is smart that she went into the character business. She first acquired into it by competing in native 3D archery tournaments after which labored with Bear Archery Manufacturing unit in Gainesville, Fla., earlier than transferring again to Louisiana.
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As soon as she moved again and began moving into gator looking, a pal of hers acquired her in contact with the producers of Swamp Folks. However gator looking wasn’t Anna’s major supply of revenue. “[It was] a passion,” she advised The Advocate earlier than her first season aired. “I’ve pals and we’ll exit and ‘gator hunt they usually promote the ‘gators.”
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‘Swamp Folks’ hunter Anna Ribbeck has a boyfriend and a facet job.
It’s clear that gator looking isn’t Anna’s solely ardour. Except for foraging and archery, Anna works as an assistant communications specialist for LSU AgCenter to assist curate their social media and model advertising and marketing. She additionally completed her Grasp of Science at LSU in Plant, Environmental, and Soil Research in 2023.
And based on her Fb, though we don’t meet him on the present, Anna is relationship Ry Smith, a fellow hunter. In a 2022 Fb publish, she gave him a shoutout for being “superior and [her] everlasting arrow caddy.” Whereas she retains him off her socials for probably the most half, he shared an journey of them looking in February 2024, so the chances are high that they’re nonetheless going robust!