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/]

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]***

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 [https://apothecabyanthia.com/] 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 [https://apothecabyanthia.com/] Anthia's Autumn reset [https://akademeiabyanthia.thinkific.com/courses/the-21-day-autumn-cleanse-health-reset] [Starts March 17!] Anthia on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/anthia.koullouros.naturopath/] Anthia on Substack [https://anthiakoullouros.substack.com/] What is polyvagal theory? [https://www.polyvagalinstitute.org/whatispolyvagaltheory] 🧡🧡🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon 🧡🧡🧡

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 [https://www.nettledress.org/] — 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 [https://www.dylanhowitt.com/] is a BAFTA nominated filmmaker whose roll call includes BBC, Netflix and Discovery. Allan Brown [https://www.instagram.com/hedgerow.couture/?hl=en] 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. 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS  ***Watch The Nettle Dress [https://www.nettledress.org/watch]*** The Nettle Dress's home on the web [https://www.nettledress.org/home] The Nettle Dress on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/nettledressfilm/?hl=en] Short film & group ~ Nettles for Textiles [http://www.nettlesfortextiles.org.uk/wp/] Flaxland UK [https://www.flaxland.co.uk/] **Support Reskillience on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/c/Reskillience]***

Today's subject matter is so slippery and mysterious that even my guest, Dr Maya Ward [https://www.mayaward.com.au/], 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. ***Support Reskillience on Patreon! [https://www.patreon.com/c/Reskillience]*** 🧵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 🧙‍♀️LINKY POOS Maya Ward's home on the web [https://www.mayaward.com.au/] Maya's events, workshops & exhibitions [https://www.mayaward.com.au/events/] Maya's book: The Comfort of Water [https://www.mayaward.com.au/the-comfort-of-water/] Nature Based Leadership Training [https://school.ceres.org.au/adult-learning/nature-based-leadership-training/] CERES [https://ceres.org.au/] William Wordsworth [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/william-wordsworth] Tyson Yunkaporta [https://emergencemagazine.org/conversation/deep-time-diligence/] Henri Corbin Carl Jung Rudolf Steiner Plato Wouter Jacobus Hanegraaff Gregory Bateson Book: Songspirals ~ Gay'wu Group of Women [https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Gay%27wu-Group-of-Women-Songspirals-9781760633219] Alfred North Whitehead

Real good fun with this one! Join me and Formidable Vegetable [https://formidablevegetable.com.au/]'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. 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS Formidable Vegetable's home on the web [https://formidablevegetable.com.au/] Grow Do It [https://www.growdoit.org/] (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 [https://vandanashivamovie.com/] Bill Mollison & David Holmgren ~ Permaculture One [https://au.permacultureprinciples.com/product/permaculture-one-ebook/] ***Become a legendary supporter of the podcast on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/c/Reskillience]***

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 Pace LINKY POOS 🧙‍♀️ Tanya Loos' home on the web [https://tanyaloos.com/] Tanya on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/tansnaturediary/] Living with Wildlife [https://tanyaloos.com/living-with-wildlife/] ~ Tanya Loos Daylesford Nature Diary [https://tanyaloos.com/daylesford-nature-diary/] ~ Tanya Loos Tanya on ABC Radio ~ Backyard Critters [https://tanyaloos.com/media/] (every second Friday 9.50am) Paradise Bookshop Daylesford [https://www.instagram.com/paradise.bookshop.daylesford/] Wild Neighbours ~ Ian Temby [https://citruspress.com.au/portfolio-view/wild-neighbours/] Campaspe Valley Landcare [https://www.landcarevic.org.au/groups/northcentral/campaspe-valley/] Gerald Durrell [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Durrell] Connecting Country [https://connectingcountry.org.au/] Zoos Victoria Safe Cat, Safe Wildlife [https://www.safecat.org.au/] Alison Pouliot [https://alisonpouliot.com/] iNaturalist [https://www.inaturalist.org/] ***Support Reskillience on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/c/Reskillience]*** Frog sounds care of markushablizel -- https://freesound.org/s/32394/ -- License: Attribution 4.0 THANKS M8

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 [https://happenfilms.com/], 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 [https://www.patreon.com/c/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 [https://www.thecottageherbalist.com.au/] ~ 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 POOS Caroline's witchy little home on the web [https://www.thecottageherbalist.com.au/] Caroline aka. The Cottage Herbalist on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/thecottageherbalist/] Caroline's book baby ~ The Medicinal Garden [https://www.thecottageherbalist.com.au/general-9] Caroline's upcoming workshops [https://www.thecottageherbalist.com.au/workshops] [FILM] The Nettle Dress [https://www.nettledress.org/] ***Support Reskillience on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/c/Reskillience]!*** 1. Make a garden tea 2. Make herby sauce 3. Make pesto! 4. Make herbal infused oils 5. Make a garden balm 6. Get into the garden! 7. Make time for thyme 8. Yarrow, yarrow, yarrow 9. Make people in power a cup of love 10. 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 [https://www.katlavers.com/] Kat on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/kat.lavers/] (which she doesn't really use) Wildlife Homestead YouTube Channel [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0-zdr3jj_vxqiM1zJOe0fkcYBQDS6Oka] [BOOK] Once ~ Annie Raser-Rowland [https://grattanstreetpress.com/books/once/] Reskillience with Annie Raser-Rowland [https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/reskillience/id1723090226?i=1000660267758] The Group Work Center ~ Groups + Facilitation training [https://www.groupwork.com.au/] ***join the Reskillience community on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/c/Reskillience]***

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 [https://www.beekeepingnaturally.com.au/]. Such a special one folks 🐝🐝🐝 LINKY POOS 🧙‍♀️ The Beekeeping Naturally website [https://www.beekeepingnaturally.com.au/] Adrian on Insta [https://www.instagram.com/beekeeping_naturally/] Adrian's courses & workshops [https://www.beekeepingnaturally.com.au/courses/] Adrian's Kenyan Top Bar hives [https://www.beekeepingnaturally.com.au/buy-kenyan-topbar-beehives-australia/] Adrian's YouTube channel – so many how-tos [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIJ1b81t5kmvd6V5cXKaerw] Embody Bee [https://embodybee.com/] Save the Bees Australia [https://www.beethecure.com.au/] Biodynamics – Tobias Mager [https://ecoss.org.au/portfolio-items/silvertine-farm/] Tim Malfroy ~ Malfroy's Gold [https://malfroysgold.com.au/pages/product-collections] Natural Beekeeping Australia [https://www.naturalbeekeeping.com.au/home.html] ***Support Reskillience on Patreon! [https://www.patreon.com/c/Reskillience]***