Podcast Episodes

Restoring Lost Crops with Professor David Shields

Season 2 Episode 8

Professor David Shields is most often known for his work restoring Carolina Golden Rice to prominence in his native South Carolina, but this conversa…

9 months, 2 weeks ago

View Episode

Resource Limits with the Honest Sorcerer

Season 2 Episode 7

The Honest Sorcerer is an engineer from Eastern Europe with a passion for studying the resource limits squeezing our global industrial economy. We ta…

9 months, 3 weeks ago

View Episode

Bruce Steele

Season 2 Episode 6

Bruce Steele works with resilient, low input staple crops (including oaks for flour) and breeds heritage mangalitsa pigs in Southern California.

Chec…

9 months, 4 weeks ago

View Episode

Archdruid John Michael Greer

Season 2 Episode 5

John Michael Greer is a historian of religion, the occult, and every aspect of history that typical historians overlook. In this conversation we expl…

10 months ago

View Episode

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…

10 months, 1 week ago

View Episode

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…

10 months, 2 weeks ago

View Episode

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…

10 months, 3 weeks ago

View Episode

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…

11 months ago

View Episode

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…

1 year ago

View Episode

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…

1 year ago

View Episode