Death in The Garden

On this episode of “Death in The Garden,” Jake and Maren interview carnivore ecologist and conservation writer Dr. Mordecai Ogada . He is the Executive Director of Conservation Solutions Afrika , which aims to transform conservation in Africa to a model that includes humans in relationship to the land and wildlife. Ogada, alongside journalist John Mbaria, wrote the book The Big Conservation Lie in...

On this episode of “Death in The Garden,” Jake and Maren interview renowned author Charles Eisenstein. Charles has written a number of incredibly impactful books, such as Sacred Economics , Ascent of Humanity , The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible , and, most recently, Climate: A New Story . He also writes incredible essays available on his website , such as “Extinction and the Rev...

This week on “Death in The Garden” we return from our hiatus to share our interview with Jesse Smith , Director of Land Stewardship at White Buffalo Land Trust , a Savory Hub in Santa Barbara, CA. This was a pivotal interview which planted innumerable seeds in our heads, all of which have since germinated into such a deeper understanding about the direction of our project: "regeneration as self-pr...

On this episode of “Death in The Garden,” we had the honor to interview Steven Donziger in his Manhattan apartment on his 623rd day of house arrest for the baseless misdemeanor charge of criminal contempt. For 27 years, Steven has been fighting for the indigenous & rural peoples of the Ecuadorian Amazon who, from 1967 to 1992 suffered cancer causing abuses and atrocities at the hands of the oil co...

On this episode of “Death in The Garden,” we interview Paul Kingsnorth, author ( The Wake , Beast , Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist , and most recently, Alexandria , to name but a few) and creator of The Dark Mountain Project . The Dark Mountain Project is a cultural movement through storytelling, writing and art, centered around the Dark Mountain Journal. We spoke with Paul about wha...

On this episode of “Death in The Garden,” we share our interview with Abbey Smith, an amazing mother, Global Network Coordinator for the Savory Institute , and director of the Jefferson Center for Holistic Management . We talked to Abbey about holism and the necessity of viewing life as complexly as possible — whether it be a question of our physical/mental health, the health of the land, the heal...

On this episode of “Death in The Garden,” we share our interview with our friend Bobby Gill, Director of Development and Communications at the Savory Institute . We talk about regenerative agriculture, and how a holistic management & having a holistic context can (and should) be translated to all aspects of life — from managing livestock, to our mental and physical health, and ultimately to the tr...

On this episode of "Death in The Garden," Jake and Maren talk about the cultural memes and mythologies that permeate every aspect of modern life. Drawing inspiration from  Ishmael  and  The Invisibility of Success by Daniel Quinn, we discuss the narratives and fallacies that have driven our culture to devour planet Earth, and we challenge our audience to confront the mythologies that dominate our...

This week on “Death in The Garden,” Jake and Maren share their interview with Dr. Greg Stone, a renowned oceanographer, deep sea diver, conservationist, author ( Ice Island , Soul of the Sea ), and host of the podcast “ The Sea Has Many Voices .” Greg founded the Ocean Health Index and created the world’s first ocean protected area, the Phoenix Islands Protected Area , which is a UNESCO World Heri...

This week on “Death in The Garden,” Jake and Maren had a deep conversation with James Connolly, producer of the documentary Sacred Cow ( Diana Rodgers and Robb Wolf , 2020) and guest host of the podcast “Sustainable Dish” also by Diana Rodgers. We talk about the mythos of civilization, critiques of the commodifying education system, the designed hierarchy of society, the religion of science, our p...

This week on the “Death in The Garden” podcast, we’re sharing our interview with Evan Walbridge, project coordinator & land steward at White Buffalo Land Trust, an up-and-coming Savory hub in Southern California. We talk about how designing the built world in relation to ecology is one of the greatest changes we can make as a species, the importance of having a continual relationship with the cycl...

This week on the “ Death in The Garden ” Podcast, we share our interview with Connor Jones , permaculture designer & educator, and owner of the permaculture homestead, East End Eden in Ojai , California. We met up with Connor at the beginning of the summer and were enchanted by his property and equanimity. In this episode we discuss permaculture, the viability of a vegan diet, the emotionality of...

This week on the podcast, Jake and Maren discuss the recent storming of the US Capitol, Charles Eisenstein’s “Story of Separation” as described in The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible and The Ascent of Humanity , and how we move forward in these uncertain times through the framework of embracing spirituality and interconnectedness. Additionally, we discuss the “Cult of Personality”...

This week on the “Death in The Garden” podcast, we have the honor of sharing our interview with our friend, Christopher Ryan . Chris Ryan is the profoundly insightful writer of best-selling books Sex at Dawn and Civilized to Death , and host of the fascinating podcast, “Tangentially Speaking.” We delve into the origins of our civilization, the accidental & turbulent process of its evolution, how c...

On this week’s episode of “Death in The Garden”, Jake and Maren share their interview with Derrick Jensen: a prolific writer ( Endgame , A Language Older Than Words , What We Leave Behind , to name a few books he has written), eco-philosopher, and radical environmentalist. This episode is rich with information and soul, covering plant sentience, the importance of protecting ecology, the rise and f...

This week on “Death in The Garden”, we had the wonderful honor to sit down with our dear friend, Anya Kaats , creator of the podcast “A Millennial’s Guide to Saving the World” . Anya is an incredibly passionate millennial on a quest to “rally a generation labeled and groomed as lazy, triggered, and entitled and invite us all to write a new story— one of a generation that’s willing to challenge the...

Welcome back to “Death in The Garden"! This week, we share our fascinating interview with the author of The Vegetarian Myth , Lierre Keith. This episode is full of crucial information about climate change, civilization, agriculture, food, health, and grief— as well as visceral emotion and even a wild visitor. We hope you enjoy this conversation with this incredibly empathic, intelligent, and genui...

On this episode of "Death in The Garden," Jake and Maren go into detail about why they were so inspired to do this multimedia project. Jake talks about his multi-year experiment with his diet to achieve optimum “human health, planetary health, animal welfare, and a sense of spirituality”, which lead him to a raw vegan diet, where he discovered that veganism was an easy, false answer to the incredi...

Welcome to another episode of our podcast for our multimedia project, "Death in The Garden!" In this episode, Jake and Maren talk about social media and how it’s plaguing society, ecological and analytical literacy, the importance of the awareness of living within ecosystems, and then finally we talk to Cody Spencer of Sweetgrass Bison, about bison and their incredible keystone function, as well a...

Welcome to the “Death in The Garden” podcast! In this episode, Jake and Maren introduce the multimedia project “Death in The Garden” and talk about their experience witnessing a bison “field harvest” at Roam Ranch in Fredericksburg, TX. We talk about regenerative agriculture, climate change, the costs and consequences of eating food, the experience of witnessing something being killed for sustenan...