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It’s colder than a penguin’s big toe here in Djaara Country, so we’re cosying up by the fire for a yarn with Gareth Devenish. I call Gareth the Snoop Dogg of permaculture, he calls himself a sovereign man walking in Country, subject to natural lore, seeking a connection with the cosmos. Call off your obligations for the next hour because Gareth’s crackling mix of irreverence and truth telling is something really special.
🔥 How to yarn
🔥 Why land ownership is a furphy
🔥 Native vs. exotic trees and colonial malaise
🔥 What is our responsibility to Country?
🔥 Nomadic agriculture
🔥 Quantum physics, free will and a post-truth era
🔥 Useful jobs in the time of AI
🔥 Why peacemaking with first nations people should be our #1 priority
🔥 Pay the rent!
🔥 Finding god in the compost heap
🔥 Does consciousness even exist?
🔥 Tips for planting and growing healthy trees
🔥 The best way to learn new skills
🔥 The scars which make us beautiful
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Gareth’s tree nursery ~ The Farm Tree Nursery (ships around Aus!)
Gareth’s email ~ [email protected]
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I tell a story about making bugger all money but feeling filthy rich, before being joined by the incredible Linda Cockburn (pronounced “Co’burn” cos it’s Scottish) who explains why Capitalism is a death cult, and ways to crowd it out with reciprocity. Ample brain fodder and fiery inspiration here, folks!
We cover:
🪶 Being unmade by successive tragedies.
🪶 Quitting employment to work in the home economy.
🪶 Going six months without spending a dollar.
🪶 How to grow your own toilet paper!
🪶 Will politicians ever “solve” climate change?
🪶 Why you can’t question capitalism
🪶 How the growth imperative works
🪶 Changing the narrative through language
🪶 The debt treadmill for “developing” nations
🪶 The closest thing we’ve had to utopia in human history!
🪶 Old and new indigeneity through storytelling
🪶 Hitting bodily limits
🪶 How to get owwwfff the hamster wheel
🪶 Riches without an income
🪶 The Eudaimonia Index & Reciprocity
🪶 Black Soldier Fly Revolution!
🪶 How to share even when you’re a scoundrel only child like me
🪶 Why it feels great to give your best stuff away
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Linda’s books
The Quiet Revolution (basically why & how to decouple from the death cult of capitalism & start giving back to all life)
Eat My Shadow (hopeful and instructive collapse fiction!)
Living the Good Life
Linda’s articles in Organic Gardener magazine
A kickass essay by Linda ~ My Planet Saving Superpowers
Linda on Instagram
The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight by Thom Hartmann
Seed Freaks ~ open pollinated seeds Tasmania
David Holmgren’s RetroSuburbia: The Downshifter’s Guide to a Resilient Future
Sound credit: Bruny Island Ambience by guyburns License: Attribution 4.0
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Hello! I have been away in the bush for three days and three nights with just a tarp, sleeping bag and water to my name. No tent, no pillow, no torch, NO BREAKFAST. Off the back of this deeply moving ritual (which I'll tell you about soon), I wanted to release this equally as moving and foresty interview with Tessa Campisi.
Tessa is a writer, poet, audio visual artist, activist and radio host who speaks with the timbre of an old growth tree and tells stories that will rustle your leaves.
In this chat:
🌳 What it's like to live through a catastrophic flood
🌳 How anarchic networks can rise to meet a crisis, fast
🌳 What happens when forest conservationists are at loggerheads with traditional owners?
🌳 Strawman vs. steelman arguments
🌳 A new approach to deep listening to those you disagree with
🌳 What traditional activism gets wrong and how to be a more effective change agent
🌳 How and why to love the scraps of our beautiful, broken world
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Tessa's home on the web
Tessa's (online) exhibition ~ Framings of Wombat Forest
Article of interest ~ Reflections on forest gardening by Cam Walker https://www.melbournefoe.org.au/galk_galk_dhelkunya
Paper of interest ~ History of Environmentalist-Indigenous alliances and conflicts
Essay of interest ~ The Trouble with Wilderness by William Cronon
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Me ranting about Couple Power and the Urban Nanna being brilliant. May all the single, neurospicy permies find ample inspiration in today’s interview with Anna Matilda! Teacher of traditional skills, crafts and non-judgey sustainability. Anna is a breath of fresh air in the stale bedchamber of the status quo, sharing openly about how she does permaculture solo, in the city, in a rental property, with limited energy and Captain Anxiety occasionally taking the wheel.
Mistakes as teachers
Out ya come, Captain Anxiety
Feeling out of step with the whole world
The stress and physical fallout of masking
Personal energy that can be budgeted
The Fuck It Wave
FYI: You don’t need a compost toilet or a goat
Guide Beside learning (Nanna education)
Is permaculture uniquely attractive to people on the spectrum?
For the single women renters!
Spoon Theory
Building community with a capital C
Giving and receiving
Banking energy and goodwill in people, in community
Community as forest
Skills as security
Mudhuts Theory
Revelling in knowing nothing
Can we change?
Swedish wisdom ~ lagom & mysig
Japanese wisdom ~ kintsugi & shishiko embroidery
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Anna’s new book is out now! Everyday Permaculture ~ Anna Matilda
The Urban Nanna’s on the interwebs
The Urban Nanna on Instagram
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Today we're exploding the sanctity of heirloom seeds and exploring the world of adaptive gardening! Gregg Mueller is here to tell us how (and why) to breed wacky new varieties of veggies like red snow peas, rainbow carrots and miniature melons in the name of climate-proof food. We also talk about seed monopolies and sovereignty, open source seeds, permaculture pitfalls aaaaaand sad and depressed garlic with no sex drive.
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Gregg’s seed shop ~ Useful Seeds
Gregg on Instagram
Gregg on Facebook
The Open Source Seed Initiative
The Central Victorian Adaptive Crop Breeding Group on Facebook
Going to Seed ~ International Community of Adaptive Crop Breeding
📕 READ
Carol Deppe ~ Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties
Joseph Lofthouse ~ Landrace Gardening
[free eBook] Raoul A Robinson ~ Return to Resistance
Noel Kingsbury ~ Hybrid
CONTACT
Send Gregg an email ~ [email protected]
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It’s Permaculture Week, friends and phascogales! And what better way to celebrate than a big old heart to heart with permie elder Linda Woodrow. Linda is the author of 470, The Permaculture Home Garden, and the Witches Kitchen blog which is now in its 17th year. She is humble and extraordinary, and I think you’ll dig what she has to say about finding our niches, neighbours, purpose and freedom in the throes of collapse.
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Linda Woodrow’s home on the web
Linda Woodrow’s blog The Witches Kitchen
470 ~ Linda Woodrow
The Permaculture Home Garden ~ Linda Woodrow
Permaculture: A Designer’s Manual ~ Bill Mollison
RetroSuburbia ~ David Holmgren
Permaculture One ~ Bill Mollison & David Holmgren
Donut Economics ~ Kate Raworth
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A story about a free bottle of French perfume and whether sensitivity makes us more or less resilient. With esteemed and ever-so-lucid naturopath, herbalist & author Anthia Koullouros of Apothēca Organic Teas & Apothecary.
* What’s making us all so sick?
* How to untangle complex & confounding health crises
* Polyvagal theory & nervous system truths
* Practitioner perspectives: holding space for uncertainty
* What a regulated nervous system isn’t
* Resisting business growth & hustle culture
LINKY POOS 🧙♀️
Anthia’s home on the web
Anthia’s Autumn reset [Starts March 17!]
Anthia on Instagram
Anthia on Substack
What is polyvagal theory?
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One of today’s guests spent seven years spinning a dress from stinging nettles and the other spent five years documenting the process. The result was the incredibly moving documentary The Nettle Dress — which I have now seen twice — co-created by Dylan Howitt and Allan Brown.
It’s a love letter to old skills, hand crafts and everything that cannot be hurried; to fibersheds, foraged threads, gentle stories, and the magic of following your heart.
Dylan Howitt is a BAFTA nominated filmmaker whose roll call includes BBC, Netflix and Discovery. Allan Brown is a textile artist and subject of the film whose steady commitment to disrupting consumer culture is contagious.
It’s hard to sing The Nettle Dress’s praises highly enough without shattering a window, but I truly hope you’re moved to watch it after this conversation, perhaps with a posse of pals and a cauldron of nettle soup.
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***Watch The Nettle Dress***
The Nettle Dress’s home on the web
The Nettle Dress on Instagram
Short film & group ~ Nettles for Textiles
Flaxland UK
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Today’s subject matter is so slippery and mysterious that even my guest, Dr Maya Ward, finds it hard to describe, though she’s swimming in it. It concerns the aliveness of rivers and the rivers inside us; the nature of reality and realms invisible yet objectively real. It’s about catching the whispers and shouts of the world with pen and paper. It’s shamanic, ecstatic and emphatically esoteric. It’s bloody wild – and I suggest bringing your passport because the places this convo will take you are far out. But also, deep within. If you love all things complex, paradoxical and perspective-shifting, I dedicate this episode to you 🙌
After we recorded, Maya sent this thoughtful epilogue:
We are innately of the world, yet we are also this witness consciousness, experiencing separation. Forgetting, then remembering. “Inside human beings is where God learns”, said Rilke. Does separation itself create the possibility of learning? In my exhibition, on the wall, I have a quote from Robert Bringhurst: “Language is not for talking about the world – that's for dilettantes. Language is for talking with the world.” I wish I'd said that.
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🧵Threads
A new old way to introduce ourselves
Original meanings of yin and yang
The right ratio between humans and more-than-human
The role of the artist and poet
Ecstatic and mystical experiences in nature
Building beauty and vernacular architecture
Where a lack of trust in the system takes you
Initiated vs. uninitiated ways of being
Small, potent work
Third wheeling the love affair between sun and earth
Altered state work
The imaginal realm
Sufi mysticism
The danger of unwitnessed initiation
Automatic/shamanic writing
Reclaiming ‘esoteric’
Acknowledgement of Country spellcasting
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Maya Ward’s home on the web
Maya’s events, workshops & exhibitions
Maya’s book: The Comfort of Water
Nature Based Leadership Training
CERES
William Wordsworth
Tyson Yunkaporta
Henri Corbin
Carl Jung
Rudolf Steiner
Plato
Wouter Jacobus Hanegraaff
Gregory Bateson
Book: Songspirals ~ Gay’wu Group of Women
Alfred North Whitehead
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Real good fun with this one! Join me and Formidable Vegetable’s kind and charismatic frontman Charlie McGee for a swashbuckling convo about pirate bananas, working the edges, growing up in Arnhem Land, dumpster diving to feed your art, staying in your integrity (while saying yes to flying), the deep discomfort of home ownership and remembering your interconnectedness.
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Formidable Vegetable’s home on the web
Grow Do It (Charlie & Brenna's hub of ecological goodness)
Find secret track Pirate Banana on Formidable Vegetable’s Micro Biome CD, only available in person at gigs!
Vandana Shiva
Bill Mollison & David Holmgren ~ Permaculture One
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I tell a story about how Jord and I narrowly avoided getting shot before introducing Tanya Loos – local treasure and legendary naturalist – for a deep and meaningful chat about wild life, and all life. We cover:
How to be a nature positive pet owner Are cats evil? How to save a bunch of lives Gardens as habitat The housing crisis facing possums (and other critters) How to recklessly pursue your passion and make it your profession GETTING THE ANIMALS ON THE ARK How to avoid roadkill (even frogs) Bee feelings + monogamous lizards The intersection between conservation, permaculture & animal welfare Patreon Qs 24/7 nature connection Beetle PaceLINKY POOS 🧙♀️
Tanya Loos’ home on the web
Tanya on Instagram
Living with Wildlife ~ Tanya Loos
Daylesford Nature Diary ~ Tanya Loos
Tanya on ABC Radio ~ Backyard Critters (every second Friday 9.50am)
Paradise Bookshop Daylesford
Wild Neighbours ~ Ian Temby
Campaspe Valley Landcare
Gerald Durrell
Connecting Country
Zoos Victoria Safe Cat, Safe Wildlife
Alison Pouliot
iNaturalist
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Frog sounds care of markushablizel -- https://freesound.org/s/32394/ -- License: Attribution 4.0 THANKS M8
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It's the season three finale with me and my man Jordan Osmond!
We’re cranking the content couple cringe in this convo which covers our individual intentions for 2025, and chatting them through like a pair of old codgers.
Jordan is one half of Happen Films, sharing stories for a more beautiful world, and precisely one year ago we recorded a Reskillience interview which was later to become our first date.
Back with new eps in three weeks or less 💥
Big love to all the legends supporting the show on Patreon <3
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The episode that nearly didn’t happen for reasons almost too embarrassing to share… but what else is the intro for? 🤷♀️
Today we’re hanging out with CAROLINE PARKER ~ The Cottage Herbalist ~ bigtime girl crush and quite possibly the love child of a 1950s rock star and wiccan goddess.
Caroline is an author, speaker, grower, educator, forager, herbalist and award-winning teasmith who is just TOO COOL.
We bask in her garden eating elderflower cookies talking about treat-os, herbal speed dating, what to cook when you CBF cooking, the cuppa that Caroline would serve to power hungry pollies and why she’s not a prepper.
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Caroline’s witchy little home on the web
Caroline aka. The Cottage Herbalist on Instagram
Caroline’s book baby ~ The Medicinal Garden
Caroline’s upcoming workshops
[FILM] The Nettle Dress
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Make a garden tea Make herby sauce Make pesto! Make herbal infused oils Make a garden balm Get into the garden! Make time for thyme Yarrow, yarrow, yarrow Make people in power a cup of love Garden with others -
After countless requests I present to you: Kat Lavers 🐈⬛
Wicking buckets, magic bug buttons, interspecies adventures, listener questions and more!
Kat and I recorded this convo at her kitchen table, surrounded by ferments and preserves and garlands of dried chilli.
At just 1/14th of an acre, Kat's urban homestead The Plummery has been known to pump out 428kg of fresh produce in any given year, meeting almost all the fruit/veggie requirements for two people. I M P R E S S I V E S T U F F.
Kat is a beloved permaculture educator, passionate gardener, and sustainable food system furtherer whose compassion for all living things could fill five football stadiums, whilst also being the poster child for small wonders.
You may have seen Kat featured on Gardening Australia, Happen Films, myriad permie/green media channels, and in this one-and-a-bit hour yarn we plumb the depths of her mind, heart and utterly delightful psyche through her list of 10 things.
LINKY POOS
Kat’s home on the web
Kat on Instagram (which she doesn’t really use)
Wildlife Homestead YouTube Channel
[BOOK] Once ~ Annie Raser-Rowland
Reskillience with Annie Raser-Rowland
The Group Work Center ~ Groups + Facilitation training
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Are bees a mammal in many bodies?
Why do conventional beehives leave bees cold, stressed and defensive?
How can beekeepers deal with varroa mite without any chemicals?
Do European honeybees even belong in Australia?
What is Australia’s best honey and where to get it?
All this and more in today’s GLORIOUS conversation with leading natural beekeeper Adrian Iodice. Such a special one folks 🐝🐝🐝
LINKY POOS 🧙♀️
The Beekeeping Naturally website
Adrian on Insta
Adrian’s courses & workshops
Adrian’s Kenyan Top Bar hives
Adrian’s YouTube channel – so many how-tos
Embody Bee
Save the Bees Australia
Biodynamics – Tobias Mager
Tim Malfroy ~ Malfroy’s Gold
Natural Beekeeping Australia
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If you prefer nature to people, birdsong to screeching tyres and secretly want to crash the economy via mass workplace dropout due to a bird language contagion, you will go absolutely crackers for this convo.
Andrew Turbill aka. THE BIRD GUY is here to share his epic and somewhat perilous birding quests for 2025, from stalking Logrunners to sidestepping fascists and recording a full blown predator attack in the sky.
F****** fabulous listening for anyone under the spell of birds.
Andrew’s 2025 to-do list
find out where our local superb lyrebirds (well, at least 1 lyrebird anyway) nest and get an audio recording of the young bird begging or alarm calls get a decent photo of a logrunner build an elevated sit spot platform in the forest spend more time in the forest socialising with songbirds and less time doom-scrolling about the callous and cruel manifestations of psychopaths, narcissists and fascists record audio of a full-sequence aerial predator attack keep my bird baths full 365 days of the year devise a way to dissuade catbirds and fairy-wrens from mercilessly pummeling my windows at dawn throughout spring and summer find someone desperate enough to make some walking-around money to enter 30 years of my naturalist seasonal field observations into a data base or excel spreadsheet so i make some effing sense of them take on a bird language apprentice visit my mum more oftenLINKY POOS 🧙♀️
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Andrew Turbill’s online nest
Andrew on ABC Radio National
You were once a Bird Language Samurai, and can be again ~ Andrew Turbill
Megalania goanna!!!
Jon Young
Voices of birds page on Andrew’s website
Upcoming Bird Language events + retreats
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If you're sick of ham sandwiches and Love Actually, why not bring spear throwing and possum skinning to Chrissy lunch? Eva and Will of Wild Beings have some cracking ideas for rewilding family gatherings -- and every other facet of modern existence, for that matter.
These two intrepid humans lead a radically connected life on/in/with the land, and inspire others to do the same. Tracking, hunting, foraging, tanning, weaving, bush medicine and bird language... this conversation harks back to the OG roots of Reskillience; re-membering that old, wise body of ecological knowledge and running with it... into the shrubbery.
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Wild Beings’ home on the web
Wild Beings on Instagram
Seasonal Earth Skills Gathering
[book] Wild Food Plants of Australia ~ Tim Lowe
[book] Wondrous World of Weeds – Pat Collins
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Things to know about this episode:
🪶 It was recorded on Lucy's bedroom floor, smushy carpet under-butt and steaming cups of dandy tea in hand.
🪶 It’s a day spa for your weary weary soul, the one who yearns for alignment between what you love and what you earn.
🪶 It includes a grounding practice & ways to attune to your evolutionary purpose.
🪶 It’s kinda like a personal session with a business strategist, social entrepreneur, poet, writer and regenerator… in podcast form.
🪶 It’s a brave and nuanced take on capitalism, less about poisoning it with roundup, more about seeing it as part of the garden we humans have grown and can therefore gently, intentionally supplant.
❤️ Listen right to the end for a poetry reading.
🧙♀️LINKY POOS
🏡 Lucy’s home on the web
🏝️ Lucy’s Instagram
📕 Lucy’s book ~ Divine Postal Service
🌕 Lucy’s full moon Substack
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FOR ONCE IT'S NOT A PERMIE 😱
Please enjoy this fun-as-fuck conversation with Blake Boles, who, in an unexpected deviation from regular Reskillience programming, is not a permaculture educator and is in fact a renegade unschooler, vagabonding wordsmith, teen travel leader, bikepacking blogger, tango maestro and passionate spokesperson for the Dirtbag Rich life.
We romp through topics such as quitting school, defying relocalisation, AI playdates, post-app dating and failure resumes.
🧙♀️ LINKY POOS
The Dirtbag Rich podcast!
Blake’s home on the web
Dateblake
Blake on Substack
A bit more about Dirtbag Richness
Couchsurfing.com
Warmshowers.org
Semi-rad.com
Tim Mathis ~ The Dirtbag’s Guide To Life
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This episode was recorded while sitting on Artist As Family's living room floor, glowing embers in the belly of the fire, cups of hawthorn and artichoke tea on the coffee table, and Meg’s famous ferments watching over us from the shelves. You’ll hear us accidentally knocking the microphones, some quality heavy breathing and Zero the dog dreaming and yipping away on the couch.
And it's our first audio quartet! Meg, Patrick and twelve-year-old Woody offer their list of ten permaculture neopeasant provocations as a whole family; a huge highlight was hearing Woody share wisdoms from his unconventional upbringing complete with knives and chainsaws and flames and the freedom to learn lessons the hard way.
LINKY POOS 🧙♀️
[EVENT] Artist as Family’s all day house + garden tour ~ Sunday November 17 in Central Vic
Artist as Family’s nook on the web
Artist as Family on Substack
[FILM] A Day in the Life of Woody ~ Happen Films
Paul Kingsnorth on Substack
- Visa fler
