Podcast Episodes

Simon Michaux

Season 2 Episode 2

Shane grills Simon Michaux on the key resource limits preventing the promised renewable energy transition and his comprehensive plans to develop a thorium powered alternative.

Read more about Simon's…

Published on 2 hours ago

Thomas Picard

Season 2 Episode 1

Thomas Picard is a landrace cucurbit breeder from France who works with melons, watermelon, pumpkin and kiwano.

You can read more about his work at the Going to Seed forum- https://goingtoseed.discour…

Published on 1 week, 1 day ago

Ask Me Anything with Shane

Season 1 Episode 47

In this final episode of season 1, I outline plans for the podcast, Substack and planned YouTube channel in the coming year, then answer a stack of questions from followers of my work.

The podcast wil…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Harriet Mella

Season 1 Episode 46

Shane talks with Harriet Mella, an independent soil scientist from Austria about the complexity and resilience of the life beneath our feet and its critical role in supporting crop health (in paralle…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Cimbri returns

Season 1 Episode 45

Shane and Cimbri resume their conversation, pivoting back to the all too common challenge of young people living in urban or suburban environments who want to escape to less crowded places, plus all …

Published on 2 months ago

Greg Willkeen from Bactelium

Season 1 Episode 44

Shane talks to Greg Willkeen about his Bactelium project, aiming to develop a suite of food safe microbial communities that can provide food security from the most basic feedstock resources. We also …

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Brad Neil

Season 1 Episode 43

Shane talks with Brad Neil, an expert in the improved English writing system called Quikscript and all round conscript and conlang enthusiast. We delve into the history of spelling and writing reform…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Darren from Herbalistics

Season 1 Episode 42

Shane talks to his not too distant neighbour Darren, from Herbalistics nursery, about his amazing work crossing Australian crop relatives of citrus, sweet potatoes and a long list of medicinal plants…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Dr Eugene McCarthy again

Season 1 Episode 41

Shane talks to Dr Eugene McCarthy for a third time, delving into the implications and applications of hybridisation driven change in organisms.

You can read more detail about Eugene's theory here: htt…

Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago

Klaus Lotz

Season 1 Episode 40

Shane has a deep discussion with Klaus Lotz from PermaDynamics, a syntropic farmer from New Zealand whose origin story traces back to working with the originator of this fascinating method in Brazil.…

Published on 3 months ago