Podcast Episodes

Mandy from Incredible Vegetables

Season 2 Episode 4

Mandy operates a fantastic nursery in England specialising in a mind blowing diversity of perennial vegetables. Shane interviews her about her collec…

4 months, 3 weeks ago

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Amateur Plant Biotech with Sebastian Coccioba

Season 2 Episode 3

Shane talks to Sebastian Coccioba about his obsession with plant biotechnology, and how his determination to build his own home laboratory (including…

4 months, 4 weeks ago

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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 th…

5 months ago

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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 th…

5 months, 1 week ago

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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 q…

6 months, 3 weeks ago

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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 c…

6 months, 4 weeks ago

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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 wh…

7 months ago

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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…

7 months, 1 week ago

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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 del…

7 months, 2 weeks ago

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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, …

7 months, 3 weeks ago

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