Reskillience Podcast – Farming, Self Care & Ceremony with Charlie Showers

Catie Payne

A beautiful and surprising conversation with farming idol Charlie Showers from Black Barn Farm that’ll have you rethinking everything.

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.

Reskillience Podcast – Magpie Tears with Meg Ulman

Catie Payne

Listen to this conversation with Meg Ulman of Artist as Family to hear what a radically connected lifeway is all about.  We cover a lot of ground in this episode from growing up Jewish and getting intentional about time, to forest names, bush kids, menopause and grief.

Reskillience Podcast – Toughen Up with Beck Lowe

Catie Payne

Not going to coat this one in plum sauce and call it “spare ribs” – today Beck Lowe and I go the whole hog on keeping animals, killing animals, and why to hone that skill if you LOVE animals. Get around it.

Reskillience Podcast – Village Dreaming with Mara Ripani

Catie Payne

It’s Mara Ripani of Village Dreaming and Orto cooking school, a force of and for nature with a passion for greening cities, growing food, permaculture, preserving food, baking bread and sowing seeds.

Reskillience Podcast – Green Tech Fact Check with Joel Meadows

Catie Payne

Joel Meadows is a phenomenal human who happens to be a permaculture teacher, rocket oven engineer, energy geek, green tech sceptic, sculptor, illustrator, musician and composting ninja.

Reskillience Podcast – Big Bug Energy with Amelie Vanderstock

Catie Payne

Meet Amelie Vanderstock – science communicator, artist, musician, native bee pHD and total ray of sunshine.

Amelie has a passion for pollinator-friendly cities, and raises awareness through workshops, collaborative art and obscenely catchy songs that celebrate weeds, bees and bin chickens.

Reskillience Podcast - Artist as Family's Ways to be Rich, Feral and Free

Catie Payne

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.

Reskillience Podcast - Natural Beekeeping Magic with Adrian Iodice

Catie Payne

Are bees a mammal in many bodies? Why do conventional beehives leave bees cold, stressed and defensive?

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 🐝🐝🐝

Reskillience Podcast - How to Grow Crazy Resilient Vegetables with Gregg Mueller

Catie Payne

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.

Reskillience - Growing Against the Odds with Katie Finlay

Catie Payne

Reawaken your dormant farming desires and throw yourself into a life on the land. An animated chat with rural woman of the year Katie Finlay about staunching the loss of small farms in Australia and supporting emerging growers to step up – even and especially if they don’t own land. (What even is land ownership?)

Katie and Hugh Finlay are black belt orchardists whose online program is just brilliant for anyone who wants to obtain a yield from fruit trees (with an organic and holistic tilt, of course).