Farming, Self Care & Ceremony with Charlie Showers

Are bees a mammal in many bodies?Why do conventional beehives leave bees cold, stressed and defensive?How can beekeepers deal with varroa mite without any chemicals?Do European honeybees even belong in Australia?What is Australia’s best honey and where to get it?All this and more in today’s GLORIOUS conversation with leading natural beekeeper Adrian Iodice. Such a special one folks 🐝🐝🐝LINKY POOS 🧙‍♀️The Beekeeping Naturally websiteAdrian on InstaAdrian’s courses & workshopsAdrian’s Kenyan Top Bar hivesAdrian’s YouTube channel – so many how-tosEmbody BeeSave the Bees AustraliaBiodynamics – Tobias MagerTim Malfroy ~ Malfroy’s GoldNatural Beekeeping Australia***Support Reskillience on Patreon!***

If you prefer nature to people, birdsong to screeching tyres and secretly want to crash the economy via mass workplace dropout due to a bird language contagion, you will go absolutely crackers for this convo.Andrew Turbill aka. THE BIRD GUY is here to share his epic and somewhat perilous birding quests for 2025, from stalking Logrunners to sidestepping fascists and recording a full blown predator attack in the sky.F****** fabulous listening for anyone under the spell of birds. Andrew’s 2025 to-do list find out where our local superb lyrebirds (well, at least 1 lyrebird anyway) nest and get an audio recording of the young bird begging or alarm calls get a decent photo of a logrunner build an elevated sit spot platform in the forest spend more time in the forest socialising with songbirds and less time doom-scrolling about the callous and cruel manifestations of psychopaths, narcissists and fascists record audio of a full-sequence aerial predator attack keep my bird baths full 365 days of the year devise a way to dissuade catbirds and fairy-wrens from mercilessly pummeling my windows at dawn throughout spring and summer find someone desperate enough to make some walking-around money to enter 30 years of my naturalist seasonal field observations into a data base or excel spreadsheet so i make some effing sense of them take on a bird language apprentice visit my mum more oftenLINKY POOS 🧙‍♀️Robin Wall KimmererAndrew Turbill’s online nest Andrew on ABC Radio NationalYou were once a Bird Language Samurai, and can be again ~ Andrew TurbillMegalania goanna!!!Jon YoungVoices of birds page on Andrew’s websiteUpcoming Bird Language events + retreats****support Reskillience on Patreon****

If you're sick of ham sandwiches and Love Actually, why not bring spear throwing and possum skinning to Chrissy lunch? Eva and Will of Wild Beings have some cracking ideas for rewilding family gatherings -- and every other facet of modern existence, for that matter.These two intrepid humans lead a radically connected life on/in/with the land, and inspire others to do the same. Tracking, hunting, foraging, tanning, weaving, bush medicine and bird language... this conversation harks back to the OG roots of Reskillience; re-membering that old, wise body of ecological knowledge and running with it... into the shrubbery.🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOSWild Beings’ home on the webWild Beings on InstagramSeasonal Earth Skills Gathering[book] Wild Food Plants of Australia ~ Tim Lowe[book] Wondrous World of Weeds – Pat Collins***Show Reskillience some love on Patreon***

Things to know about this episode:🪶 It was recorded on Lucy's bedroom floor, smushy carpet under-butt and steaming cups of dandy tea in hand.🪶 It’s a day spa for your weary weary soul, the one who yearns for alignment between what you love and what you earn.🪶 It includes a grounding practice & ways to attune to your evolutionary purpose.🪶 It’s kinda like a personal session with a business strategist, social entrepreneur, poet, writer and regenerator… in podcast form.🪶 It’s a brave and nuanced take on capitalism, less about poisoning it with roundup, more about seeing it as part of the garden we humans have grown and can therefore gently, intentionally supplant.❤️ Listen right to the end for a poetry reading.🧙‍♀️LINKY POOS🏡 Lucy’s home on the web🏝️ Lucy’s Instagram📕 Lucy’s book ~ Divine Postal Service​🌕 Lucy’s full moon Substack***Support Reskillience on Patreon (but don’t use the Patreon app cos Apple will charge yo ass a fee. GO DESKTOP)***

FOR ONCE IT'S NOT A PERMIE 😱Please enjoy this fun-as-fuck conversation with Blake Boles, who, in an unexpected deviation from regular Reskillience programming, is not a permaculture educator and is in fact a renegade unschooler, vagabonding wordsmith, teen travel leader, bikepacking blogger, tango maestro and passionate spokesperson for the Dirtbag Rich life.We romp through topics such as quitting school, defying relocalisation, AI playdates, post-app dating and failure resumes. 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS The Dirtbag Rich podcast!Blake’s home on the webDateblakeBlake on SubstackA bit more about Dirtbag RichnessCouchsurfing.comWarmshowers.orgSemi-rad.comTim Mathis ~ The Dirtbag’s Guide To Life

This episode was recorded while sitting on Artist As Family's living room floor, glowing embers in the belly of the fire, cups of hawthorn and artichoke tea on the coffee table, and Meg’s famous ferments watching over us from the shelves. You’ll hear us accidentally knocking the microphones, some quality heavy breathing and Zero the dog dreaming and yipping away on the couch. And it's our first audio quartet! Meg, Patrick and twelve-year-old Woody offer their list of ten permaculture neopeasant provocations as a whole family; a huge highlight was hearing Woody share wisdoms from his unconventional upbringing complete with knives and chainsaws and flames and the freedom to learn lessons the hard way.  LINKY POOS 🧙‍♀️[EVENT] Artist as Family’s all day house + garden tour ~ Sunday November 17 in Central VicArtist as Family’s nook on the webArtist as Family on Substack[FILM] A Day in the Life of Woody ~ Happen FilmsPaul Kingsnorth on Substack

You already know today's guest. You’ve admired her art, chortled at her pithy permaculture puns and perhaps even listened to her rhyme along with Formidable Vegetable, those eco-funk, full of beans, electro-radish rockers. It's the perennially brilliant Brenna Quinlan! Illustrator and educator who brandishes her watercolour brushes at the world’s gnarliest problems, and paints beautiful alternatives.In this convo:🪺 All about Brenna & Charlie’s three year build.🪺 The stories in the walls of their strawbale home.🪺 Intentional community living.🪺 Teasing out the finer strands of what brings you joy in groups, work, life.🪺 What’s next for Brenna?🪺 Brenna's 10 things! Not gonna tell you what they are.🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOSBrenna’s home on the webBrenna on InstagramGrow Do It ~ Permaculture + Sustainability EducationFormidable Vegetable ~ Kimchi[COMING SOON] Costa’s Garden ~ Costa Georgiadis & Brenna QuinlanGoodies Farm ~ Straw farmerBrenna on FuturesteadungKirsten Dirksen/Sandor Katz

🪶 MONDAYS FROM NOVEMBER 4 We’ve got a jazzy new format and just a couple of months till 2025, so let’s set some new years resolutions...Reskillience style!Over the next ten weeks, ten guests will share lists of ten things that are close to their hearts......things to try, or consider, or start...…that will spark all kinds of inspiration.Come and hang out with permie legends, renegade unschoolers and regenerative leaders as they talk us through 100 magical prompts for reskillient living.What'll you take into 2025?The groovy jingle is thanks to UNIVERSFIELD with their track Positive Energy Groove (30s) License: Attribution 4.0 

Don’t you love it when science geeks get spiritual? I do, because when highly rational folks admit that the world is far more mysterious than it is predictable, it’s intensely validating for us intuitive hippies who’ve believed in magic all along.This is one of those beautiful and surprising conversations with one of my farming idols Charlie Showers from Black Barn Farm that’ll have you rethinking everything. And/or thinking you want to get into apple growing. DO IT.Charlie is a geological engineer, agricultural researcher, bushfire and natural disaster expert, fruit tree grafting jedi, permaculture ninja, dad, husband, unapologetically ritualistic bloke and bloody legend.We traverse:🍏 Eldership🍏 The meaning of life🍏 Men’s circles + gatherings🍏 Permaculture farming🍏 Orchard rituals🍏 First gen farming🍏 Losing freedom, gaining depth🍏 Schooling regrets🍏 Father/son rites of passage🍏 Self care for men🍏 Recharging as an introvert🍏 Advance sleep phase disorder🍏 Charlie’s #1 most important skill (surprising)🍏 Anti-fragility🧙‍♀️LINKY POOSBlack Barn Farm’s home on the webBlack Barn Farm on InstaBlack Barn Farm fruit treesWendell BerryBook ~ The Complete Book of Self Sufficiency by John SeymourCastlemaine Rites of Passage ProgramOrganisation ~ The Men’s TableMenergy ~ Men’s GatheringNon-Violent CommunicationSociocracyBook ~ AntiFragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas TalebConcept ~ Ask vs. Guess Culture***support Reskillience on Patreon***

*Recorded outdoors under a passionfruit vine with wind in the banana leaves*This is one of those conversations that’ll shake you up, rattle your cage and light a fire under your butt to make change – because today’s guest reckons we need to upskill, now! It might just be the greatest pep talk in Reskillience history, from one of the most passionate permies in the movement. It’s Brett Cooper from Limestone Permaculture.Brett, his wife Nici and fam live on Worimi Country, mid-coast NSW. Not too long ago their one acre block was just grass and hoofprints in a sleepy little rural town. Now there are over 550 fruit and nut trees, 80-140 chooks, ducks and turkeys, veggies galore, herbs, medicines, outdoor classrooms, 4.4 million litres of stored water and one legendary pizza oven. Oh, and some bangin’ community resilience.Over three million viewers have devoured Brett + Nici’s farm tours on YouTube, pointing to more than just a fetish for gardening content but a deep yearning for the health, abundance and connection that overflows at Limestone Permaculture.🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS 🧙‍Visit Limestone PermacultureOr peruse their upcoming eventsThe Limestone PDC+HC!Central Vic permie calendar4 Day Residential Permaculture Retreat with David Holmgren, Beck Loew + Su Dennett ~ November 1 - 5The Rocklyn Ashram PDC ~ Feb 2025Good stuff we mentionedBook: Roots Demystified ~ Robert KourikBook: Earth Restorer’s Guide to Permaculture ~ Rosemary Morrow (currently on sale at Permaculture Principles!)Book: Permaculture A Designer’s Manual ~ Bill MollisonBook: Permaculture One ~ Bill Mollison + David HolmgrenEastern NSW***join the Reskillience fam on Patreon***