Futuresteading

Summer is for going slow with your people. We're making the most of this too here at FS HQ. But don't worry,  we've created a short & sexy summer season  of thought provocation by delving  into the archives & reloading some of the best conversations we've recorded over the last two years. Get to know the wild, wise and wonderful Steph Phillips (aka Green and Growing Thi...

Summer is for going slow with your people. We're making the most of this too here at FS HQ. But don't worry,  we've created a short & sexy summer season  of thought provocation by delving  into the archives & reloading some of the best conversations we've recorded over the last two years. Warning: this episode with Rob Greenfield might make you want to do something craz...

Summer is for going slow with your people. We're making the most of this too here at FS HQ. But don't worry,  we've created a short & sexy summer season  of thought provocation by delving  into the archives & reloading some of the best conversations we've recorded over the last two years. Have you spent much time in the bush on your own? Do you listen to your heart when...

Summer is for going slow with your people. We're making the most of this too here at FS HQ. But don't worry,  we've created a short & sexy summer season  of thought provocation by delving  into the archives & reloading some of the best conversations we've recorded over the last two years. Kirsten Bradley has dedicated the last 13 years (in cahoots with partner Nick Rita...

Summer is for going slow with your people. We're making the most of this too here at FS HQ. But don't worry,  we've created a short & sexy summer season  of thought provocation by delving  into the archives & reloading some of the best conversations we've recorded over the last two years. This week, Sadie Chrestman that beautiful soul from Fat Pig Farm shares her story...

Much has changed since we last spoke with this  illustrating educator.  She shares the ins & outs of life in a house truck, seeking ‘normalcy’ while building her new home in WA & her lived experience of life in intentional communities all over the world.   She delights at her recent discovery of sociocracy as a tool for empowering  and engaging individuals and we delve into her efforts to...

Tyson Yunkaporta is an Apalech man who is an academic, researcher arts critic & father. He is also the author of Sand Talk ,  an extraordinary reading experience.  Like many of Australia’s First Peoples, he has a complex identity and history but it's this that gives him authority to write and speak in a way which connects the wisdom of the past to the needs of the future.  The way he thin...

Jo Smith is a self proclaimed generalist who juggles life as a twin mama, market gardener, yoga therapist & active contributor to her tiny Tasmanian community on Bruny Island. Jade & Jo shoot the breeze about farming life & decide that despite the hardships, she wouldn't trade it for the world - even the wind. Join them for tangents & truths of this beautiful, grounded, physic...

Absorb permaculture wisdom from an elder who encourages us to look up to the sky and then act out across the earth, in unison with others and with dirt beneath our bare feet.  Su Dennett lives at Meliodora a 2.25 acre, 35 year old  permaculture demonstration property she has established with her partner David Holmgren.  She is a force - as strong as she is  soothing. This conversation pushes us to...

A story teller for change, voice for young people and founder of Humiform. Megan became a professional dancer at 14, a fair fashion advocate who walked across South East Asia to share stories of good in her early 20’s and now has turned her efforts to working with kids in a way that gives them agency and a connection to the outside world. She speaks not only from her lived experience but also from...

Hannah Maloney: Our fave IT girl is back in your ears to share her message of radical hope, living a life of joy and pushing past the overwhelm at the state of the world despite being furious at current politics. In her usual effervescent manner, we chat about all the hard things including her 'unlearning journey' and the power of self reflection. As charismatic and breathtaking as she i...

Clare is so much more than her MS diagnosis but when she contacted us, eager to share how living like tomorrow matters  plays out after a diagnosis, we realised we'd never considered her perspective on the show and in that, our privilege became acutely apparent. 40% of Australians have a chronic illness yet so often it goes unacknowledged. With a pod of her own and a young family she is build...

Our most downloaded backyard adventurer is chatting with us again but this time with better sound and more sleep under his belt so  we are witness to a  more true version of this humorous, odd character.  A self titled 'polyjobist; a generalist at many things, he shares the challenge of writing a book after a decade in academia, worrying about breaking the law to make films and shares why he...

Sharing her evolution from academic keyboard warrior to her current reality of being an agroecological pork and beef farmer who's pretty darned handy with the butchers knife and equally as sharp of mind in her contributions to the UN small scale farming policy initiatives. Tammi Jonas is indeed a force of the natural world, never backwards in coming forwards but mellowing with every decade an...

You might remember this pocket rocket from Masterchef,  perhaps you've heard her on the wireless, has she entertained you at a conference or was she the genius who convinced your kids to love their veggies via 'phenom-e-nom '. Alice-in-frames loves life and doesn’t take herself too seriously but definitely has multi dimensional attributes.  A poly-math who's mischevious pixie l...

Next season will kick off next Monday but in the meantime, we are satisfying your insatiable hunger with throwbacks to our fave episodes from season 1. Enjoy these wonderous humans and all their brilliance. Before you ask, yes this is Charlie Showers of Black Barn Farm - Jade's other half. Charlie is a fair food advocate, holistic orchardist, landscape scientist and insatiable reader, with an...

Next season goes live Monday 11th October. Until then  we've selected four of our faves to share with you again - they are just SOOOOO good, they're worth hearing again so enjoy having these wonderous humans back in your ears! If you've never met a Perma Pixie, prepare to be delighted.  Taj, aka. The Perma Pixie , is bringing a little old school witchcraft and spades of permaculture...

    Next season kicks off on Monday 11th October - until then, enjoy having these humans of wonder back in your ears! ARCHIVE 2 of 4 Dan Palmer is co-founder of Permablitz , Landed , Holistic Decision Making , Making Permaculture Stronger and Very Edible Gardens . He has a PhD in systems thinking and contagious levels of enthusiasm for supporting the journeys of others. He recently moved with his...

So we don't leave you twiddling your braincells while we record the next season, we've done you the favour of going waaaaaaaay back into the archives of season one and dusting off four our our faves for you to stick in your ears for your weekly dose of inspiration.    Next season kicks off on Monday 11th October - until then, enjoy these humans of wonder! ARCHIVE 1 of 4  If you’re lookin...

Strap in for a fast paced chat with this natural born story teller.  From the heady heights of top restaurants, starring in his own reality tv program and radio shows to his definition of “enough” - which  begins with rude health and healthy kids before settling with sovereignty of time and community belonging.  As practical and grounded as he is charismatic with a touch of aussie larrikin, ‘Westy...

Bec Shann (who you might know from Think Big Live Simply) used to lead a pretty conventional life working in science, making rational decisions, and following the prescribed path towards success. But then she saw an ad for Milkwood Permaculture's Design Course -- and the rest, as they say, is compost. From taking on a commercial-scale market garden with no prior experience, to building a humb...

Emily Ehlers describes herself as an illustrator, writer, environmentalist + very bad dancer. We know her as the lass whose witty and poignant pieces combine art and activism in the greatest possible way.  Today Em speaks with Jade about writing a book about hope as a self-proclaimed anxious person, humour as a tool for resilience, mental health truths, value stacking and all kinds of good stuff t...

Jade speaks with Lisa Wells , award-winning poet, essayist and author. In her new book, Believers: Making A Life At The End of the World , Lisa seeks out and learns from trailblazers and outliers around the world who are pursuing radically hopeful lifestyles -- even in the face of climate despair. There's so much to glean from this conversation: stories and lessons from those living the chang...

Damon Gameau  - A call to arms for storytellers!   It's time to shine the spotlight on our story tellers; the creatives,  film makers, artists, poets, chefs, writers and musicians. "If our storytellers cannot find a way then the way cannot be found".  Join Jade & Damon in this conversation about defying the attention economy, ways to avoid being numbed but the inertia of the sys...

If climate reports and dystopian vibes are getting you down, this conversation with Meg Berryman might just lift you (gently) from the tiles. Meg is the host of the Regenerative Life podcast, where she holds activating and catalysing conversations about social change, sustainable business, holistic wellbeing, personal development and regeneration, creating ripples of change from the inside out. Sh...