Recombination Nation

The Race to Save Crop Diversity with Stefan Schmitz from Crop Trust

Stefan Schmitz is the executive director of Crop Trust, an international non-profit working to preserve crop genetic diversity and support food security across the globe.

Spinning Silk from Shells with Emily Robison

Emily Robison turned her lifelong passion for textile arts into a journey across the planet learning about diverse spinning and weaving traditions from Micronesia to the

A Lifetime of Potato and Tomato Breeding with Tom Wagner

Tom Wagner is a legendary tomato and potato breeder who is eager to pass on his knowledge and material to other folks keen to carry on the tradition. If you have some cr

Architecture and Agriculture in Burma and Nepal with Damien Zumbroegel

Damon Zumbroegel left behind a successful career in architecture in the USA to find the living roots of civilisation in rural Burma and the mountains of Nepal. We discuss

Three Floating Staple Crops

In my second solo episode I explore the potential for floating aquatic plants to produce staple carbohydrates, fat and protein in a way that could create a new kind of in

Experimental Farming for the Win with Tanja Eskildsen

Tanja Eskildsen fell in love with plants in chilly Denmark but unleashed their potential through low-input experimental farming on the sunny island of Majorca. We retrace

Evolving Beyond Hope with Sci-Fi Author Peter Watts

Peter Watts is a notorious science fiction author with a fascination of the outer edges of biology, fractured minds and a taste for the dark and confronting. We dive into

Applying Ethnobotany to Regen Ag with Ryan Huish

Associate Professor Ryan Huish is an experienced ethnobotanist with experience in both North America and the South Pacific, who also runs his own experimental low input f

New Zealand, Energy Limits and Resilience with Nathan Surendran

Nathan Surendran is an Engineer who moved from the UK to New Zealand in response to the terrible creaking sound coming from the heart of the world's industrial systems. T

A Route to Beaver Domestication

In Shane's first solo episode, we explore the possible route to the domestication of the beaver and the potential benefits of developing a close relationship with this po

Agricultural Magic with the Cunning Farmer Todd Elliott

Todd Elliott is an experience market farmer who followed his passion for agricultural spiritual traditions deep into history, applied those lessons to his own surrounding

The Russian Outlook on Industrial Decline with Dmitry Orlov

Dmitry Orlov was a prominent voice in the early 2000s peak oil movement in response to his book "The Five Stages of Collapse", comparing the recent collapse of the USSR w

Zach Elfers- Tree Crops and the Organisations That Love Them

Zach Elfers is a superstar in the agroforestry community, helping multiple innovative organisations develop both the crops and their uses. We talk about his work with hic

Buddhism, Monasteries and Existential Threats with Soryu Forall.

Soryu Forall is a meditation teacher and spiritual leader dedicated to bringing all beings to enlightenment. He teaches that ethical behavior is the beginning of the path

Avocado, Carob and Golden Chinquapin with Nicholas Mallonee

Nicholas is a passionate rare tree grower in the blessed lands of California where just about everything seems to grow. He has tapped into the growing diversity in avocad

Eons of Life, Both Future and Past, with Professor Peter Ward

Peter Ward is a palaeontologist and prolific author with books covering a vast range of the deep past and distant future of life on Earth (and beyond it). His book "Futur

Creating a Seed Farmer Community with Edmund Frost

Edmund Frost founded a collective of seed growers and breeders who sell their selection of seeds suitable for the humid southeast USA as Common Wealth Seed Growers. He li

Orbiting The Biological Singularity with Arnold Schroder

Arnold Schroder, from the Fight Like an Animal podcast, is an ecological anarchist who bridges the world between biology and politics across the depths of time. Check ou

Julia Dakin and Anna Mieritz- How "Going to Seed" Germinated

Julia Dakin and Anna Mieritz are key members of the "Going to Seed" organisation, which brings adaptation crop breeding to numerous communities in the USA. In this two p

Cultural Evolution with Roger's Bacon

Roger's Bacon is an evolutionary biologist who turned his tool set on the related problem of how cultures mutate, compete, hybridise and evolve. He writes fascinating de