Podcast Episodes

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.

The Comm…

Published on 7 months, 3 weeks 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 8 months, 1 week 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 8 months, 2 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 8 months, 3 weeks 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 8 months, 4 weeks 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 9 months 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 9 months, 1 week ago

Fedor Steeman

Season 1 Episode 19

Shane talks to Fedor Steeman about the limits of evolving and engineering life itself.

Check out more of Fedor's amazing videos on speculative biology at Phrenotopia-

https://www.youtube.com/@Phrenotop…

Published on 9 months, 2 weeks ago

Salvatore Ceccarelli

Season 1 Episode 18

Shane talks to Salvatore Ceccarelli about his incredible contribution to the preservation and reinvigoration of ancient landrace crop genetics in the Middle East and Europe, putting diverse mixes of …

Published on 9 months, 3 weeks ago

Book Review- The One Straw Revolution

Season 1 Episode 17

Shane revisits an old substack post reviewing Fukuoka's "One Straw Revolution", comparing his experiences as an experimental farmer to those of one of the founders of this philosophy.

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Published on 10 months ago