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] 🧡

I tell a story about the ironic demise of my keepcup, and the difference between light green and deep green choices, before a pot-of-tea-convo with Laura Jean [https://www.dietitianvalues.com/]. Laura is a renegade business coach, dietician and permaculturalist who will help you see VALUES in a whole new light, and how to use them to illuminate the life/business/world you really want. Prepare to cry tears of recognition and possibility. 🐝 Building trust in yourself for changes that take courage 🐝 Eating disorder shares and healing strategies 🐝 The very worst thing that can possibly happen 🐝 Body check for making decisions 🐝 Do we change, or choose? 🐝 Laura's values 🐝 Why we recreate the same old shit even when living "alternatively" 🐝 Figuring out your Bare Ass Minimum 🐝 The felt sense of success 🐝 Money as a tool to enact your values 🐝 Three steps towards a regenerative business 🐝 Commerce vs. capitalism 🐝 Activities for clarifying your values 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS 🧙‍♀️ Laura on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/dietitianvalues/] Laura's podcast  [https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/dietitian-values/id1569166478] Dietician Values [https://www.dietitianvalues.com/] Gundaroo Growers Canberra Environment Center [https://www.canberraenvironment.org/] 🙏 Yellow-tailed black cockatoo sound credit [https://freesound.org/people/guyburns/sounds/336002/?attribution=javascript%3Avoid%280%29%3B]🙏  🧡🧡🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/c/Reskillience] 🧡🧡🧡

Three unbelievable stories about owls, and how to be a myceliating, possibilitarian practivist with the phenomenal Morag Gamble. Morag has cornflower blue eyes and a glorious crop of hair that curls at the ends like pea shoots. She consorts with broad beans and leafy greens in bare feet, and has sent no dig gardening viral on YouTube. This convo was recorded at Crystal Waters Eco Village [https://crystalwaters.org.au/] where Morag lives with her family and 200+ other humans on 640 acres shared with a teeming assortment of subtropical wildlife. 📝 SHOW NOTES Building your livelihood around the seasons of your life How to find your flow and live with intention More than human helpers and teachers "I am the garden gardening" Ways to access land when accessing land is insane Myceliating ideas around the world Why aren't permaculture villages everywhere? Possibilitarianism Nourish threads of connection rather than fighting the fight How the new unfolds through collapse of the old The vital role of the arts How are we to live? What is enough in these times? Why permaculture is everything Gift economy how-to Do you have what it takes to be a permaculture teacher? Integrating permaculture with your profession Morag is a beloved permaculture teacher and designer, founder of The Permaculture Education Institute, pioneer of urban permaculture projects like Northey Street City Farm, and an international changemaker who has led changemaking programs in 22 countries. 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS Morag's home on the web [https://ourpermaculturelife.com/] Morag's podcast ~ Sense-making in a changing world [https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/sense-making-in-a-changing-world/id1517044365] Morag on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/c/MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife] Become a permaculture teacher ~ The Permaculture Education Institute [https://permacultureeducationinstitute.org/] Rob Hopkins [https://www.robhopkins.net/] Jeremy Lent [https://www.jeremylent.com/] Schumacher College [https://www.schumachercollege.org/] Vandana Shiva Arne Ness Helena Norberg-Hodge Fritjof Capra 🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/c/Reskillience]🧡

Can birdsong heal your hearing? Can a rainforest recruit humans to protect it? What is deep ecology, anyway? Of all the approaches to "saving the world", this one has my heart. Join me in conversation with elder John Seed as we get to the marrow of the environmental crisis, from the illusion of separation between human beings and nature, to the rituals, ceremonies and stories that can heal it. About John Seed Just last year at age 79 John was arrested for strapping himself to logging machinery in the Bulga State Forest, and has been awarded the Order of Australia medal for his services to the environment. John launched the Rainforest Information Center, has initiated global rainforest action networks and campaigns, developed The Council of All Beings with Joanna Macy, co-authored Thinking Like A Mountain with Joanna Macy Pat Fleming and Arne Ness, and spent decades facilitating experiential deep ecology workshops. IN THIS CONVO John's story of being called into service by Nature Collaborating with Joanna Macy The root of the planetary crisis Community therapies to heal civilisational wounds Business As Usual, The Great Unravelling, The Great Turning The Work That Reconnects Activism as ceremony The antidote to cultural amnesia Why John loves podcasts! How not to judge gross human behaviour Honouring our pain for the world Feelings as ancient intelligence Can anyone run a grief circle? The council of all beings The cosmic walk 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS John Seed's home on the web [https://johnseed.net/] The Rainforest Information Center [https://www.rainforestinformationcentre.org/] [read online] Thinking Like A Mountain by John Seed, Joanna Macy, Pat Fleming & Arne Ness [https://www.deepecology.org.au/philosophy/thinking-like-a-mountain-towards-a-council-of-all-beings/] Deep Ecology  [https://www.deepecology.net/] The Work That Reconnects [https://workthatreconnects.org/] 🧡Support Reskillience on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/c/Reskillience]🧡 Field recording credit: Thrushes, golden whistlers, yellow faced honeyeaters and a spotted marsh frog by Afro408 [https://freesound.org/s/815260/] License: Attribution NonCommercial 4.0

Friends! Here's a D&M (Dharma & Meditation) conversation I recorded with mindfulness meditation teacher and founder of Australian Parents for Climate Action Suzie Brown while visiting Narara Eco Village [https://nararaecovillage.com/] last week.  If you've ever felt anxious, unsure how to process difficult/obstinate emotions, or sad for no reason, this episode will provide ample tools for stilling the mind and relating to yourself – and the world – with kindness.  On that note, I start the ep with an emo travel diary entry, and how a snaggy creek helped me see my internal struggles in a whole new light. IN THIS CONVO 🕊️ When you feel sad for no reason despite the trappings of success 🕊️ Can we *really* choose happiness? 🕊️ The pleasant/unpleasant emotional pinball machine 🕊️ The magic of noticing 🕊️ Name it to tame it 🕊️ Kindfulness 🕊️ How to establish a non-militant meditation habit 🕊️ Rejigging negativity bias 🕊️ The R.A.I.N practice for difficult emotions 🕊️ Dharma + ecodharma explained 🕊️ How interbeing can solve the polycrisis 🕊️ Long Shower Syndrome 🕊️ Resource guilt 🕊️ Parents for Climate! 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS Insight Meditation Australia [https://www.insightmeditationaustralia.org/] Sydney Insight Meditators [https://www.sydneyinsightmeditators.org/] Suzie's teaching profile [https://www.insightmeditationaustralia.org/suzie-brown.html] Banyan Together [https://banyantogether.com/] Weekly online (by donation) Sky Sangha Meditation gathering [https://events.humanitix.com/hello-sky-sangha] Australian Parents for Climate Action! [https://www.parentsforclimate.org/] Give Suzie a hoy at hello@suziebrown.au 🧡Support Reskillience on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/c/Reskillience]🧡

It's the RESKILLIENCE ROADTRIP where I'm intercepting all sorts of good sorts along Australia's east coast! First up is Ceilidh Meo who teaches no less than 80 apocalypse skills (!!!) while also growing olives, shoring up the food system and being casually shamanic. This is a ROMP of a convo that is INSPIRING ME TO USE CAPS. Such fun. Such depth.  I also share about the caravan park we've just checked into. 🔥 WITHIN  GEEK OUT ON MICRO NICHE OLIVE PRESSING An antidote to the olive oil crisis Cooperation is not the same as collaboration! POMMUS The gross truth about imported olive oil THE FIVE C FRAMEWORK When knowledge ain't power Systems design thinking for avoiding monumental fuck ups WHY 40s ARE THE BEST DECADE Yay for confirmation bias! Loyal soliders of the psyche Birth story REWRITE Learning types Manifestation vs. MAGIC Where does the need to know everything come from? Do more of what you're already good at, or challenge your comfort zone? Not here to consume, but to create! 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS Connect with Ceilidh ~ CIVILITAS [https://www.civilitas.online/] Ceilidh's olive oil ~ Apulia Grove [https://apulia-grove.com.au/] The Long Road Olive Coop [https://www.instagram.com/longroadolivecoop/] Art exhibition + workshops ~ Ancient Roots in the New World [https://www.ancientroots.art/] Mel Robbins ~ The Let Them Theory [https://www.melrobbins.com/book/the-let-them-theory/] School of Shamanic Womancraft  [https://schoolofshamanicwomancraft.com/] Happen Films ~ The New Peasants screening tour [https://www.happenfilms.com/films/the-new-peasants] 🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/c/Reskillience] 🧡

It's a Jordan + Catie double bill for the Season Four finale 🎊   Join us for a fireside D&M as two humans just tryna digest the microplastic casserole of modernity… and make something better.  You'll hear about my secret storytelling anxiety, Jord's new award nominated film, my other boyfriends, law breaking, roadkill harvesting, why we took the Good Death-i-vore Pledge, sacred hunting, how to really give a shit about your ecosystem AAAAAND turning baboozlement into useful skills.  ⚠️ A warning for sensitive ears, we swear a lot in this episode. LINKY POOS 🧙‍♀️ Jord + Happen Films' newest doco ~ The New Peasants [https://www.happenfilms.com/films/the-new-peasants] The New Peasants Australian screening tour (come meet us!) [https://www.happenfilms.com/films/the-new-peasants] Film ~ In My Blood It Runs [https://inmyblooditruns.com/] Film ~ Honeyland [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeyland] Best show ever ~ Bruce Parry's TRIBE [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribe_(British_TV_series)] Cal Newport  [https://calnewport.com/] Richard Telford's DIY mini biochar kiln [https://www.abdallahhouse.com/2025/06/how-to-make-mini-biochar-kiln.html] Dylan Graves' biochar podcast ~ Char Chit Chat [https://www.youtube.com/@CharChitChat] The Do with Su zine [https://hub.holmgren.com.au/lp/do-with-su/zine/numero-uno/] ~ Su Dennett + Catie Payne (inc. the Good Death-i-vore Pledge) David Holmgren [https://holmgren.com.au/] Bill Mollison [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Mollison] 🧡🧡🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon 🧡🧡🧡 [https://www.patreon.com/Reskillience]

I share a recipe for de-zombifying your life before chatting with Imogen Ive, Director at Mittagundi [https://www.mittagundi.org.au/] – a remote 520 acre farm and off grid education centre built by and for young folks in the high country. This convo is a reminder that sometimes hard is good, together is better and a pack horse, tent and sense of adventure beats air conditioned comfort any day. In the conversational cauldron: 🍯 Setting up a working farm and outdoor ed centre in the middle of nowhere 🍯 Living without modern comforts, electric tools, phones or watches 🍯 Wilderness adventures for young folks from all walks of life 🍯 An oh-snap safety vs. risk reframe 🍯 The dilution of outdoor ed in schools 🍯 How to facilitate confidence and capacity in young people 🍯 Why we don't try new things, and how to hack our fear of failure 🍯 Bringing off grid flavours to the urban palate LINKY POOS  Mittagundi Outdoor Education Centre [https://www.mittagundi.org.au/] Mittagundi on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/mittagundi/] 🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/c/Reskillience]🧡 ✏️ Leave Reskillience a written review like a big old legend [https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/reskillience/id1723090226] ✏️

Shrug off the cloak of secrecy and awkwardness around death with palliative care nurse Pippa White. I've been wanting to bring a death convo to the airwaves for ages, because there's a huge imbalance between light/dark, above/below, waxing/waning, growth/decay, possessing/relinquishing energies in our culture (and I'm the first person to perpetuate it). Shout out to everyone who sent frank and thoughtful questions for Pippa to answer – you'll hear them towards the end of the ep. Pippa White is a palliative care nurse and death care advocate and educator in the Anthroposophical tradition. We discuss: 🖤 What is Anthroposophic philosophy? 🖤 Death care rituals, balms and vigils 🖤 Windows into the reality of spirit from people in transition 🖤 Why to "do the work" at the eleventh hour 🖤 Soothing suffering without drugs 🖤 How painful is death? 🖤 Different ways to relate to pain 🖤 Small, slow solutions to dying (tiny local end of life retreats) 🖤 Pet euthanasia, yay or nay? 🖤 How to deal with loved ones in denial? 🖤 Can you make a living in end of life care? 🖤 How do you document/cherish a life? 🖤 What folks find difficult when dying? 🖤 Grieving to breathe and to love 🖤 Birth and death thresholds LINKY POOS 🧙‍♀️ Pippa White [https://ndan.com.au/palliative-care/pippa-white] Anthroposophical Society Australia [https://www.anthroposophyau.org.au/] What is Advance Care Planning? [https://www.advancecareplanning.org.au/understand-advance-care-planning/advance-care-planning-explained] Wedgetail Retreat [https://www.tweedpalliativesupportandwedgetailretreat.com/] Martín Prechtel [https://floweringmountain.com/] Stephen Jenkinson [https://orphanwisdom.com/] [poem] Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46569/do-not-go-gentle-into-that-good-night] 🧡🧡🧡 Show Reskillience some love on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/c/Reskillience] 🧡🧡🧡

Do not listen to this unless you want to reawaken your dormant farming desires and throw yourself into a life on the land. I tell a story about being a grub, before having an animated chat with rural woman of the year Katie Finlay about staunching the loss of small farms in Australia and supporting emerging growers to step up – even and especially if they don't own land. (What even is land ownership?)  🍎 AND ALSO Katie and Hugh Finlay are black belt orchardists whose online program Grow Great Fruit [https://growgreatfruit.com/] is just brilliant for anyone who wants to obtain a yield from fruit trees (with an organic and holistic tilt, of course). It gives me great joy to connect you with their work. This is their Dream Orchard Masterclass [https://growgreatfruit.com/product/design-your-home-orchard-registration-0625/] starting REAL SOON on June 12. 🧙‍♀️LINKY POOS Grow Great Fruit [https://growgreatfruit.com/] Harcourt Organic Farming Coop [https://hofcoop.com.au/] Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA)  [https://afsa.org.au/] Tess Sellar ~ Sellar Dairy  [https://sellardairy.com.au/] 🧡Support Reskillience on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/c/Reskillience] 🧡

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 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS Gareth's tree nursery ~ The Farm Tree Nursery [https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Farm-Tree-Nursery/61560006326952/] (ships around Aus!) Gareth's email ~ garethdevenish@gmail.com 🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/c/Reskillience] (plz don't use the app it takes a fee, go desktop) 🧡

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 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS Linda's books The Quiet Revolution [https://www.togetherpress.com.au/product/the-quiet-revolution/] (basically why & how to decouple from the death cult of capitalism & start giving back to all life) Eat My Shadow [https://www.togetherpress.com.au/product/eat-my-shadow-pb/] (hopeful and instructive collapse fiction!) Living the Good Life [https://publishing.hardiegrant.com/en-au/books/living-the-good-life-by-linda-cockburn/9781740663120] Linda's articles in Organic Gardener magazine [https://www.organicgardener.com.au/author/linda-cockburn/] A kickass essay by Linda ~ My Planet Saving Superpowers [https://greenagenda.org.au/2024/06/my-planet-saving-superpowers/] Linda on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/_the_quiet_revolution_/] The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight by Thom Hartmann [https://www.penguin.com.au/books/the-last-hours-of-ancient-sunlight-9781742747323] Seed Freaks [https://seedfreaks.com.au/] ~ open pollinated seeds Tasmania David Holmgren's RetroSuburbia: The Downshifter's Guide to a Resilient Future [https://retrosuburbia.com/] Sound credit: Bruny Island Ambience by guyburns [https://freesound.org/s/321466/] License: Attribution 4.0 🧡🧡🧡 support Reskillience on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/c/Reskillience] (plz don't use the app it takes a fee, go desktop) 🧡🧡🧡

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 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS  Tessa's home on the web [https://www.tessacampisi.com/home] Tessa's (online) exhibition ~ Framings of Wombat Forest [https://www.framingwombatforest.com.au/] Article of interest ~ Reflections on forest gardening by Cam Walker [https://www.melbournefoe.org.au/galk_galk_dhelkunya] https://www.melbournefoe.org.au/galk_galk_dhelkunya Paper of interest ~ History of Environmentalist-Indigenous alliances and conflicts [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299345081_Unstable_relations_A_critical_appraisal_of_indigeneity_and_environmentalism_in_contemporary_Australia] Essay of interest ~ The Trouble with Wilderness by William Cronon [https://www.williamcronon.net/writing/Trouble_with_Wilderness_Main.html] *** Become a Reskillience supporter on Patreon!*** [https://www.patreon.com/c/Reskillience?redirect=true]

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 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS Anna's new book is out now! Everyday Permaculture ~ Anna Matilda [https://theurbannanna.com/book/] The Urban Nanna's on the interwebs [https://theurbannanna.com/] The Urban Nanna on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/theurbannanna/] ⭐ Reskillience on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/c/Reskillience?redirect=true] ⭐

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. 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS Gregg's seed shop ~ Useful Seeds [https://www.usefulseeds.com/] Gregg on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/useful_seeds/] Gregg on Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/gregg.muller.3/] The Open Source Seed Initiative [https://osseeds.org/] The Central Victorian Adaptive Crop Breeding Group on Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/groups/3158403817763371/] Going to Seed ~ International Community of Adaptive Crop Breeding [https://goingtoseed.org/] 📕 READ Carol Deppe ~ Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties Joseph Lofthouse ~ Landrace Gardening [free eBook] Raoul A Robinson ~ Return to Resistance [https://bradyt.ca/garden/Return-to-Resistance.pdf] Noel Kingsbury ~ Hybrid CONTACT Send Gregg an email ~ gregg.muller@gmail.com 🧡🧡🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/c/Reskillience] 🧡🧡🧡

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. 🧙‍♀️LINKY POOS Linda Woodrow's home on the web [https://www.lindawoodrow.com/50-things-about-me/] Linda Woodrow's blog The Witches Kitchen [https://witcheskitchen.com.au/] 470 ~ Linda Woodrow [https://au.permacultureprinciples.com/product/470/] The Permaculture Home Garden ~ Linda Woodrow [https://au.permacultureprinciples.com/product/the-permaculture-home-garden/] Permaculture: A Designer's Manual ~ Bill Mollison [https://tagaripublications.com/product/permaculture-a-designers-manual/] RetroSuburbia ~ David Holmgren [https://au.permacultureprinciples.com/product/retrosuburbia/] Permaculture One ~ Bill Mollison & David Holmgren [https://au.permacultureprinciples.com/product/permaculture-one-ebook/] Donut Economics ~ Kate Raworth [https://doughnuteconomics.org/about-doughnut-economics] ***Show Reskillience some love on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/c/Reskillience]***