Podcast Episodes

Julian Gough

Season 1 Episode 36

Shane talks with Julian Gough, philosopher turned cosmologist, about his stunning theory extending Smolin's Cosmic Natural Selection. If organisms and ecosystems can evolve, then perhaps entire unive…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Cimbri

Season 1 Episode 35

Shane and long time fan of the show Cimbri talk about reclaiming our ancestral human potential, the past and future of human evolution (both biological and cultural) and the challenges of being a you…

Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago

Samuel Lewis

Season 1 Episode 34

Shane chats with Samuel Lewis, a self described 21st century hoe farmer from Brittany, France, who has been growing his staple calorie crops with zero inputs along with many other rural ventures, plu…

Published on 6 months ago

Richard Bartlett

Season 1 Episode 33

Shane talks with Richard Bartlett about his remarkable passion for decentralised social organisations and the cultures and norms which make them thrive.

You can read the book Shane mentions in the ep…

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago

Alex Tanke

Season 1 Episode 32

Shane talks to temperate tree crop breeder Alex Tanke about his work with persimmons and pecans/hickories, plus a whole bunch of other topics related to tree crops and the development of diverse and …

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago

Justin Senryu Williams

Season 1 Episode 31

Shane talks to Justin Senryu-Williams about his extraordinary work to breed resilient, low input tomatoes for the soggy British climate through extensive outcrossing to wild tomato relatives.

You can…

Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago

Thomas Stoughton

Season 1 Episode 30

Shane talks with Thomas Stoughton about his extensive field work studying the spring beauties (Claytonia species) a diverse group of plants with enormous untapped domestication potential and a host o…

Published on 7 months ago

Gus Le Breton

Season 1 Episode 29

Shane talks to Gus Le Breton about his lifetime of exploring and promoting the vast array of useful edible and medicinal plants that grow Southern Africa and Madagascar. You're in for a rare ethnobot…

Published on 7 months, 1 week ago

Weston Adams

Season 1 Episode 28

Shane talks to Weston Adams about his fascinating work breeding crops at Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, including an ambitious project producing intergeneric hybrids of sunflowers.

You can reach out to W…

Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago

Nathaniel

Season 1 Episode 27

Shane talks with Nathaniel from the Ozark Mountains about his extensive work adapting Korean Natural Farming practices to his corner of the world, scaling sorghum as a zero input staple crop, and the…

Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago