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The thoughts continue to pile up as I prepare for a new education endeavour. Let’s Get Dis.

Carbon Gardens: Part 8 - Community

Community I’m writing this text for Community. I’m writing this text for the Earth System. I’m writing this text for the gardeners, market growers, forest fillers, rege

Carbon Gardens: Part 7 - Preservation

Preservation “All that yield. ALL OF THAT FOOOD! So much produce and beauty to preserve.” - I think to myself. There are no preservatives in the aisle of your syntropic

Carbon Gardens: Part 6 - Edible Carbon Gardens

Edible Carbon Gardens Ever since your run-in with the forest mage, you've been racking your brain tryna remember seeing any limes in the forest. After a few days, the th

Carbon Gardens: Part 5 - Stratification

Stratification Picture me this. - A garden full of umbrellas. Umbrellas are exactly how the forest mage wants you to think of trees. When you first stumble upon his butt

Carbon Gardens: Part 4 - Nursery

Nursery Nursery work is plant work. If you're working or playing w/ plants, you're in the nursery game. Now the genie is off your back and you've begun pushing solar pan

Carbon Gardens: Part 3 - Seeds

Seeds Seeds are like eggs. Hard outer shell with a proto-life form, armoured at its core. If the character traits for seeds were not realised in the manner that they are

Carbon Gardens: Part 2 - Groundcover

Groundcover The term ground cover is a funny one. When I first heard it I went straight to the idea of a carpet on the ground… not the natural type either. When you first

Carbon Gardens: Part 1 - Soil

Soil There is a good reason to start with the soil. Apart from it being the interface between seed and plant - The part you're most interested in if you're into plants. I

Carbon Gardens: Regenerative tales for our Earth System - INTRODUCTION

Introduction What if I told you that your green waste bin was a waste of time? What If I told you that all the fertiliser you spent money on was unnecessary. What If to

Dr. Martin Freney - Sailing toward our SolarPunk future on an Earthship

Dr. Martin Freney has spent the past decade+ invested in the concept of the Earthship. Inspired by books written in the 1980s by Michael Reynolds - founding father of t

Reflections - How life has changed over recent times.

In this episode I take the opportunity of an hour commute to reflect on recent changes in my professional life. I speak on the integration of the built and biological fie

Justin Hartley: No-till, no dramas. The Duckfoot Model

Justin is a small-scale regenerative agriculturist, looking after a number of parcels of land in the southern highlands of Sydney. Inspired by hands-on experience and the

Shubhendu Sharma - Hyperspeed Afforestation Now

Shubhendu is a special human being with an inspiring story. After attending a lunchtime workplace presentation, his life took a sudden U-turn away from the manufacturing

Laura Ryan - The Seemingly 'Impossible' SolarPunk House

Laura is a woman on a mission. In my mind, she is a true SolarPunk. Fed up with the snail pace speed of development seen in the city of Sydney, in which we both reside, L

Andrew Millison - Pure SolarPunk Permaculture. Right now, on Planet Earth.

Andrew is a Senior University Instructor at the Oregon State University. Teaching mainly online courses at OSU, it's his youtube videos that have helped me and millions o

Lauren & Oberon - Life in a waste-free Spiral Garden

Lauren and Oberon are living a conscious lifestyle that places Permaculture ethics at the centre of their living arrangements. As true Permaculturalists, they share with

Byron Birss - Creating Paradise in the Bay of Plenty

Byron is a community creating, fun'n'sun-loving Food Forester, openly practicing Agroforestry and Permaculture for the whole world to perceive. He spent some of his young

Aaron Mears - The Living Classroom Legend of Lulu's Perch Permaculture

Aaron is a Permaculture and Highschool Educator with an inspiring and eclectic story. Having worked as a mental health nurse for a decade, he found himself searching for

Dustin Jacobus - Illustrations of a SolarPunk future

Dustin Jacobus is an artist exploring the SolarPunk futures our heart's desire, primarily through his strengths as an artist. In this conversation, we discuss how his ill