What if It's Not Dystopia? With Permaculture Elder Linda Woodrow

Me ranting about Couple Power and the Urban Nanna being brilliant. May all the single, neurospicy permies find ample inspiration in today’s interview with Anna Matilda! Teacher of traditional skills, crafts and non-judgey sustainability. Anna is a breath of fresh air in the stale bedchamber of the status quo, sharing openly about how she does permaculture solo, in the city, in a rental property, with limited energy and Captain Anxiety occasionally taking the wheel.Mistakes as teachersOut ya come, Captain AnxietyFeeling out of step with the whole worldThe stress and physical fallout of maskingPersonal energy that can be budgetedThe Fuck It WaveFYI: You don’t need a compost toilet or a goatGuide Beside learning (Nanna education)Is permaculture uniquely attractive to people on the spectrum?For the single women renters!Spoon TheoryBuilding community with a capital CGiving and receivingBanking energy and goodwill in people, in communityCommunity as forestSkills as securityMudhuts TheoryRevelling in knowing nothingCan we change?Swedish wisdom ~ lagom & mysigJapanese wisdom ~ kintsugi & shishiko embroidery🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOSAnna’s new book is out now! Everyday Permaculture ~ Anna MatildaThe Urban Nanna’s on the interwebsThe Urban Nanna on Instagram⭐ Reskillience on Patreon ⭐

Today we're exploding the sanctity of heirloom seeds and exploring the world of adaptive gardening! Gregg Mueller is here to tell us how (and why) to breed wacky new varieties of veggies like red snow peas, rainbow carrots and miniature melons in the name of climate-proof food. We also talk about seed monopolies and sovereignty, open source seeds, permaculture pitfalls aaaaaand sad and depressed garlic with no sex drive.🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOSGregg’s seed shop ~ Useful SeedsGregg on InstagramGregg on FacebookThe Open Source Seed InitiativeThe Central Victorian Adaptive Crop Breeding Group on FacebookGoing to Seed ~ International Community of Adaptive Crop Breeding📕 READCarol Deppe ~ Breed Your Own Vegetable VarietiesJoseph Lofthouse ~ Landrace Gardening[free eBook] Raoul A Robinson ~ Return to ResistanceNoel Kingsbury ~ HybridCONTACTSend Gregg an email ~ [email protected]🧡🧡🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon 🧡🧡🧡

It’s Permaculture Week, friends and phascogales! And what better way to celebrate than  a big old heart to heart with permie elder Linda Woodrow. Linda is the author of 470, The Permaculture Home Garden, and the Witches Kitchen blog which is now in its 17th year. She is humble and extraordinary, and I think you’ll dig what she has to say about finding our niches, neighbours, purpose and freedom in the throes of collapse.🧙‍♀️LINKY POOSLinda Woodrow’s home on the webLinda Woodrow’s blog The Witches Kitchen470 ~ Linda WoodrowThe Permaculture Home Garden ~ Linda WoodrowPermaculture: A Designer’s Manual ~ Bill MollisonRetroSuburbia ~ David HolmgrenPermaculture One ~ Bill Mollison & David HolmgrenDonut Economics ~ Kate Raworth***Show Reskillience some love on Patreon***

A story about a free bottle of French perfume and whether sensitivity makes us more or less resilient. With esteemed and ever-so-lucid naturopath, herbalist & author Anthia Koullouros of Apothēca Organic Teas & Apothecary.* What’s making us all so sick?* How to untangle complex & confounding health crises* Polyvagal theory & nervous system truths* Practitioner perspectives: holding space for uncertainty* What a regulated nervous system isn’t* Resisting business growth & hustle cultureLINKY POOS 🧙‍♀️Anthia’s home on the webAnthia’s Autumn reset [Starts March 17!]Anthia on InstagramAnthia on SubstackWhat is polyvagal theory?🧡🧡🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon 🧡🧡🧡

One of today’s guests spent seven years spinning a dress from stinging nettles and the other spent five years documenting the process. The result was the incredibly moving documentary The Nettle Dress — which I have now seen twice — co-created by Dylan Howitt and Allan Brown. It’s a love letter to old skills, hand crafts and everything that cannot be hurried; to fibersheds, foraged threads, gentle stories, and the magic of following your heart.Dylan Howitt is a BAFTA nominated filmmaker whose roll call includes BBC, Netflix and Discovery. Allan Brown is a textile artist and subject of the film whose steady commitment to disrupting consumer culture is contagious.It’s hard to sing The Nettle Dress’s praises highly enough without shattering a window, but I truly hope you’re moved to watch it after this conversation, perhaps with a posse of pals and a cauldron of nettle soup.🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS ***Watch The Nettle Dress***The Nettle Dress’s home on the webThe Nettle Dress on InstagramShort film & group ~ Nettles for TextilesFlaxland UK**Support Reskillience on Patreon***

Today’s subject matter is so slippery and mysterious that even my guest, Dr Maya Ward, finds it hard to describe, though she’s swimming in it. It concerns the aliveness of rivers and the rivers inside us; the nature of reality and realms invisible yet objectively real. It’s about catching the whispers and shouts of the world with pen and paper. It’s shamanic, ecstatic and emphatically esoteric. It’s bloody wild – and I suggest bringing your passport because the places this convo will take you are far out. But also, deep within. If you love all things complex, paradoxical and perspective-shifting, I dedicate this episode to you 🙌After we recorded, Maya sent this thoughtful epilogue:We are innately of the world, yet we are also this witness consciousness, experiencing separation. Forgetting, then remembering. “Inside human beings is where God learns”, said Rilke. Does separation itself create the possibility of learning? In my exhibition, on the wall, I have a quote from Robert Bringhurst: “Language is not for talking about the world – that's for dilettantes. Language is for talking with the world.” I wish I'd said that.***Support Reskillience on Patreon!***🧵ThreadsA new old way to introduce ourselvesOriginal meanings of yin and yangThe right ratio between humans and more-than-humanThe role of the artist and poetEcstatic and mystical experiences in natureBuilding beauty and vernacular architectureWhere a lack of trust in the system takes youInitiated vs. uninitiated ways of beingSmall, potent workThird wheeling the love affair between sun and earthAltered state workThe imaginal realmSufi mysticismThe danger of unwitnessed initiationAutomatic/shamanic writingReclaiming ‘esoteric’Acknowledgement of Country spellcasting🧙‍♀️LINKY POOSMaya Ward’s home on the webMaya’s events, workshops & exhibitionsMaya’s book: The Comfort of WaterNature Based Leadership TrainingCERESWilliam WordsworthTyson YunkaportaHenri CorbinCarl JungRudolf SteinerPlatoWouter Jacobus HanegraaffGregory BatesonBook: Songspirals ~ Gay’wu Group of WomenAlfred North Whitehead

Real good fun with this one! Join me and Formidable Vegetable’s kind and charismatic frontman Charlie McGee for a swashbuckling convo about pirate bananas, working the edges, growing up in Arnhem Land, dumpster diving to feed your art, staying in your integrity (while saying yes to flying), the deep discomfort of home ownership and remembering your interconnectedness.🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOSFormidable Vegetable’s home on the webGrow Do It (Charlie & Brenna's hub of ecological goodness) Find secret track Pirate Banana on Formidable Vegetable’s Micro Biome CD, only available in person at gigs!Vandana ShivaBill Mollison & David Holmgren ~ Permaculture One***Become a legendary supporter of the podcast on Patreon***

I tell a story about how Jord and I narrowly avoided getting shot before introducing Tanya Loos – local treasure and legendary naturalist – for a deep and meaningful chat about wild life, and all life. We cover: How to be a nature positive pet owner Are cats evil? How to save a bunch of lives Gardens as habitat The housing crisis facing possums (and other critters) How to recklessly pursue your passion and make it your profession GETTING THE ANIMALS ON THE ARK How to avoid roadkill (even frogs) Bee feelings + monogamous lizards The intersection between conservation, permaculture & animal welfare Patreon Qs 24/7 nature connection Beetle PaceLINKY POOS 🧙‍♀️Tanya Loos’ home on the webTanya on InstagramLiving with Wildlife ~ Tanya LoosDaylesford Nature Diary ~ Tanya LoosTanya on ABC Radio ~ Backyard Critters (every second Friday 9.50am)Paradise Bookshop DaylesfordWild Neighbours ~ Ian TembyCampaspe Valley LandcareGerald DurrellConnecting CountryZoos Victoria Safe Cat, Safe WildlifeAlison PouliotiNaturalist***Support Reskillience on Patreon***Frog sounds care of markushablizel -- https://freesound.org/s/32394/ -- License: Attribution 4.0 THANKS M8

It's the season three finale with me and my man Jordan Osmond!We’re cranking the content couple cringe in this convo which covers our individual intentions for 2025, and chatting them through like a pair of old codgers.Jordan is one half of Happen Films, sharing stories for a more beautiful world, and precisely one year ago we recorded a Reskillience interview which was later to become our first date.Back with new eps in three weeks or less 💥Big love to all the legends supporting the show on Patreon <3

The episode that nearly didn’t happen for reasons almost too embarrassing to share… but what else is the intro for? 🤷‍♀️Today we’re hanging out with CAROLINE PARKER ~ The Cottage Herbalist ~ bigtime girl crush and quite possibly the love child of a 1950s rock star and wiccan goddess.Caroline is an author, speaker, grower, educator, forager, herbalist and award-winning teasmith who is just TOO COOL.We bask in her garden eating elderflower cookies talking about treat-os, herbal speed dating, what to cook when you CBF cooking, the cuppa that Caroline would serve to power hungry pollies and why she’s not a prepper.🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOSCaroline’s witchy little home on the webCaroline aka. The Cottage Herbalist on InstagramCaroline’s book baby ~ The Medicinal GardenCaroline’s upcoming workshops[FILM] The Nettle Dress***Support Reskillience on Patreon!*** Make a garden tea Make herby sauce Make pesto! Make herbal infused oils Make a garden balm Get into the garden! Make time for thyme Yarrow, yarrow, yarrow Make people in power a cup of love Garden with others