Podcast Episodes

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 5 months, 3 weeks 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.

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Published on 5 months, 4 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 6 months ago

Mark W Kidd

Season 1 Episode 26

Shane talks to Mark W. Kidd about preserving the cushaw squash in Appalachia, growing crops with minimal inputs in remote rural areas, and revitalising communities in the wake of contraction.

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Published on 6 months, 1 week ago

Kahlil Corazo

Season 1 Episode 25

Shane talks to Kahlil Corazo, a writer, thinker, entrepreneur and former agricultural researcher from the Phillipines about psychofauna, technocapital, the past and future of cacao and a whole bunch …

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago

Michael Longfield

Season 1 Episode 24

Shane talks to Michael Longfield about his extensive work developing syntropic agriculture systems in the central USA, tapping into an impressive range of local and introduced plant genetics.

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Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago

Nikomiko

Season 1 Episode 23

Shane interviews Nikomiko about his involvement in the creation of Viossa, a pidgin language that was constructed in online chat rooms through playful interaction in any language except English and w…

Published on 7 months ago

Richard Goerwitz

Season 1 Episode 22

Shane talks to Richard Goerwitz about his remarkable role as head gardener for the East Wind Intentional Community. Richard's work occupies an unusual niche, somewhere between home gardener and marke…

Published on 7 months, 1 week ago

Eugene McCarthy Returns

Season 1 Episode 21

Shane talks to Dr Eugene McCarthy once more, delving into his astonishing theory about the possible hybrid origin of humans (and not the recent discoveries about mixing of modern humans with neandert…

Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago

Gregg Muller

Season 1 Episode 20

Shane talks to Gregg about his long journey through breeding a wide range of crops in his challenging Mediterranean climate in southern Australia. We also compare notes on the challenges of creating …

Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago