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• Finding God in the Compost Pile with Gareth Devenish

  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 POOSGareth’s tree nursery ~ The Farm Tree Nursery (ships around Aus!)Gareth’s email ~ [email protected]🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon (plz don’t use the app it takes a fee, go desktop) 🧡

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• Quit Your Job & Work in Reciprocity with Linda Cockburn

  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 POOSLinda’s booksThe 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 LifeLinda’s articles in Organic Gardener magazineA kickass essay by Linda ~ My Planet Saving SuperpowersLinda on InstagramThe Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight by Thom HartmannSeed Freaks ~ open pollinated seeds TasmaniaDavid Holmgren’s RetroSuburbia: The Downshifter’s Guide to a Resilient FutureSound credit: Bruny Island Ambience by guyburns License: Attribution 4.0🧡🧡🧡 support Reskillience on Patreon (plz don’t use the app it takes a fee, go desktop) 🧡🧡🧡

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• Loving What's Left with Tessa Campisi

  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 webTessa's (online) exhibition ~ Framings of Wombat ForestArticle of interest ~ Reflections on forest gardening by Cam Walker https://www.melbournefoe.org.au/galk_galk_dhelkunyaPaper of interest ~ History of Environmentalist-Indigenous alliances and conflictsEssay of interest ~ The Trouble with Wilderness by William Cronon*** Become a Reskillience supporter on Patreon!***

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• Permaculture on the Spectrum with Anna Matilda

  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 teachersOut ya come, Captain AnxietyFeeling out of step with the whole worldThe stress and physical fallout of maskingPersonal energy that can be budgetedThe Fuck It WaveFYI: You don’t need a compost toilet or a goatGuide Beside learning (Nanna education)Is permaculture uniquely attractive to people on the spectrum?For the single women renters!Spoon TheoryBuilding community with a capital CGiving and receivingBanking energy and goodwill in people, in communityCommunity as forestSkills as securityMudhuts TheoryRevelling in knowing nothingCan we change?Swedish wisdom ~ lagom & mysigJapanese wisdom ~ kintsugi & shishiko embroidery🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOSAnna’s new book is out now! Everyday Permaculture ~ Anna MatildaThe Urban Nanna’s on the interwebsThe Urban Nanna on Instagram⭐ Reskillience on Patreon ⭐

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• How To Grow Crazy Resilient Vegetables with Gregg Mueller

  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 POOSGregg’s seed shop ~ Useful SeedsGregg on InstagramGregg on FacebookThe Open Source Seed InitiativeThe Central Victorian Adaptive Crop Breeding Group on FacebookGoing to Seed ~ International Community of Adaptive Crop Breeding📕 READCarol Deppe ~ Breed Your Own Vegetable VarietiesJoseph Lofthouse ~ Landrace Gardening[free eBook] Raoul A Robinson ~ Return to ResistanceNoel Kingsbury ~ HybridCONTACTSend Gregg an email ~ [email protected]🧡🧡🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon 🧡🧡🧡

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