Reskillience

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.🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOSCaroline’s witchy little home on the webCaroline aka. The Cottage Herbalist on InstagramCaroline’s book baby ~ The Medicinal GardenCaroline’s upcoming workshops[FILM] The Nettle Dress***Support Reskillience on Patreon!*** 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 POOSKat’s home on the webKat on Instagram (which she doesn’t really use)Wildlife Homestead YouTube Channel[BOOK] Once ~ Annie Raser-RowlandReskillience with Annie Raser-RowlandThe Group Work Center ~ Groups + Facilitation training***join the Reskillience community on Patreon***

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 websiteAdrian on InstaAdrian’s courses & workshopsAdrian’s Kenyan Top Bar hivesAdrian’s YouTube channel – so many how-tosEmbody BeeSave the Bees AustraliaBiodynamics – Tobias MagerTim Malfroy ~ Malfroy’s GoldNatural Beekeeping Australia***Support Reskillience on Patreon!***

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 KimmererAndrew Turbill’s online nest Andrew on ABC Radio NationalYou were once a Bird Language Samurai, and can be again ~ Andrew TurbillMegalania goanna!!!Jon YoungVoices of birds page on Andrew’s websiteUpcoming Bird Language events + retreats****support Reskillience on Patreon****