Reskillience

A garden drama unfolds during a heatwave, and I share my summer solstice/New Year wishes for you. Thanks for tuning into another year of Reskillience! We'll be back later in January full of fresh questions and custard.  Shout out to my love Jordan Osmond for helping produce this episode. Sound credit: BlackbirdFiltered.wav by acclivity [https://freesound.org/s/13531/]  🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/c/Reskillience] 🧡

Cor blimey, we're getting equiney! Cast aside your Saddle Club trauma and learn how horses can help us be better humans and stewards of nature in this rich convo with Lisa Podosin. Lisa is a horse listener, advocate and author who swapped Hollywood for a tiny home on shared land with a herd of seven horses. We get real deep on topics of: 🐴 not putting off till retirement what you wanna do today 🐴 choosing freedom over security at any age 🐴 land sharing gifts and tips (single women supporting women!) 🐴 how horses as prey animals reveal our inner misalignment 🐴 moving beyond control-based strategies (bridles, saddles, whips) and towards trust 🐴 how to be agents of liberation for both the more-than-human world and our own wild souls 🐴 learning interspecies communication 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS 🧙‍♀️ Lisa's home on the web [https://onewithhorses.com/] Pre-order Lisa's book [https://onewithhorses.com/book] 🧡🧡🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon (and join our December meetup) [https://www.patreon.com/c/Reskillience] 🧡🧡🧡 Thanks for the birdsong straget [https://freesound.org/people/straget/sounds/432091/?]! Blackbird.wav by straget | License: Attribution 4.0

You want it, you got it: an open discussion about the cracks in our civilisation, and how to catch each other when it all falls apart. Dave Pollard [https://howtosavetheworld.ca/] has been writing about culture, complexity, deep ecology and collapse for longer than some of us have been alive. While he continues to cheer on radical 'deep green' activists, he no longer believes that that we can change or reform The System. This convo is about what to do instead. [first aired in 2023] 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS 🧙‍♀️ Dave's writings [https://howtosavetheworld.ca/] Dave's recommended reading list ~ The Books That Have Influenced Me Most [https://howtosavetheworld.ca/2021/12/15/the-books-that-have-influenced-me-most/] Dave's article ~ How Do We Teach the Critical Skills Needed to Face Collapse? [https://howtosavetheworld.ca/2022/09/10/how-do-we-teach-the-critical-skills-needed-to-face-collapse/] Molly Housch Gordon's piece ~ How to Survive the End of The World [https://mollyhoushgordon.medium.com/how-to-survive-the-end-of-the-world-61f5119fcce2] [watch] The New Peasants by Happen Films [https://www.happenfilms.com/films/the-new-peasants]

Could you live without money? No support payments, no savings account, no secret benefactors?  Jo Nemeth [https://jolowimpact.wordpress.com/] has been doing so for the past decade, and reckons she is less stressed and more secure in her moneyless life (in which she shares a home with eight other humans and plays the role of house keeper/manager/grower/frugavore).  This is a truly radical tale of a woman who went the whole hog and gave up the bacon 💰 to invest in relationships and reciprocity. We cover: What is poverty/wealth? Why live without money? Jo has no hope! Less money = more freedom Why to be a home economist Issues in a nine person household The deliciousness of aligning your actions with your values Moneyless gift giving, cravings, medical and more Waste food seagull mode Receiving is harrrrd Kids + collapse On taking care of things Collapse priorities Growing locally adapted food 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS 🧙‍♀️ Jo's home on the web [https://jolowimpact.wordpress.com/] Jo on Instagram ~ @jolowimpact [https://www.instagram.com/jolowimpact/?hl=en] Jo in the Guardian [https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/feb/01/meet-the-woman-who-lives-without-money-i-feel-more-secure-than-when-i-was-earning] Mark Boyle ~ The Moneyless Man [https://www.worldofbooks.com/en-au/products/moneyless-man-book-mark-boyle-9781786075994?sku=GOR010143080&gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=17920610358&gbraid=0AAAAADFDvN0dB-PefieiFKHxw5txjzZow&gclid=CjwKCAiA8bvIBhBJEiwAu5ayrMl5bQBWKtYsFjuhuu6C2vQxk5cCAAqnVUlneDZlCdmrDZJiH6_SdBoCW_kQAvD_BwE] + The Way Home [https://www.booktopia.com.au/the-way-home-mark-boyle/book/9781786077271.html?source=pla&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21618361565&gbraid=0AAAAA-Ia9hNfX40zPbcSPid12Fkj4QSfe&gclid=CjwKCAiA8bvIBhBJEiwAu5ayrCe7q_b4gjH5t_8jTJBScFucyS2a_64p4SV1bZcdrKZhTD1uGE7-VxoC8r8QAvD_BwE] Eaarth ~ Bill McKibben [https://billmckibben.com/books/eaarth/] Luke Kemp ~ Goliath's Curse [https://www.penguin.com.au/books/goliaths-curse-9780241741245] Artist As Family [https://artistasfamily.is/] The Art of Frugal Hedonism [https://au.permacultureprinciples.com/product/the-art-frugal-hedonism/] ~ Annie Raser-Rowland & Adam Grubb The really really free market [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Really_Really_Free_Market] Just Collapse [https://justcollapse.org/] Sound credits: first raven [https://freesound.org/people/shaunie_p/sounds/807467/], flock of ravens [https://freesound.org/people/dbache/sounds/555187/]. 🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/c/Reskillience] 🧡

I tell a story about becoming a gardening influencer before sharing an animated and long-awaited conversation with David Trood aka. The Weedy Gardener [https://www.youtube.com/c/theweedygarden]!   Weedy, Jord and I discuss: 🌱 Creative land access 🌱 Body as compost 🌱 Hearing nature's call 🌱 Being an eye cell for humanity 🌱 Showing your failures 🌱 Why to love the small stuff 🌱 The all important nutrient cycle 🌱 Decomposing cane toad 🌱 Pest management, the Viking way 🌱 Rhizophagy 🌱 Nitty gritty on why organic produce is healthier 🌱 From grandpa bod to garden god 🌱 Weedy Garden Makeovers 🌱 Sacred social media spaces 🌱 Why garden? 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS 🧙‍♀️ The Weedy Garden on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/c/theweedygarden] The Weedy Garden online [https://www.theweedygarden.com/] 🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/c/Reskillience] 🧡