Reseed

In difficult times, people are often drawn to make and create with their hands. Throughout the pandemic, activities like baking bread, gardening, and sewing have resurfaced as small acts of resistance to a culture that celebrates overabundance and digital distraction, and as joyful acts that help to restore our mental health. Mending has been widely embraced as a practice that subverts throwaway c...

Our relationships with animals and land, and our decisions around food, vary vastly from person to person. Most of us have grappled with these relationships, as well as how we want to live in right relationship to land, food, and animals. With curiosity, this conversation delves into complexities and nuances of veganism, going beyond easy answers to explore intersections of animal rights, social j...

How can we deepen our care and respect for our family of creatures on this wondrous planet? How can we truly feel a sense of belonging here? How can we be better kin? Gavin Van Horn and John Hausdoerffer join Reseed for a conversation about kinship. Along with Robin Wall Kimmerer, they co-edited Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations , a beautiful collection of five books that looks at the way...

Imagine if our clothing was grown, designed, dyed, created, worn, passed on, and eventually composted in our own region, similar to farm-to-table food? This is the idea behind a fibershed, a regenerative, restorative, and resilient fashion system in one bioregion. In a fibershed, the way we make our clothing is carbon beneficial, regenerates soil, is healthy for our bodies, and restores livelihood...

Fashion is a connector of land, labour, culture, and personal expression. Through a decades-long project of fast fashion, we have forgotten and become disconnected from regional, regenerative fashion systems that can exist. There have been beneficial fashion systems embraced by many cultures throughout history and today, where clothing is an expression of place. Natural dyes come from the landscap...

Music can help us make sense of, and deeply feel, our climate grief. Tamara Lindeman’s acclaimed album Ignorance about climate grief struck a chord with citizens and critics. Performing as The Weather Station, Lindeman’s 2021 poetic, thoughtful, and highly danceable album was named album of the year by The New Yorker and Uncut. Tamara joins Alice Irene Whittaker, the host of Reseed, for a conversa...

Originator of Land Back and Labrador Land Protector Bryanna Brown joins Reseed host Alice Irene Whittaker to explore reinforcing Indigenous leadership in the climate movement. This conversation examines how Indigenous climate leadership is inherently interconnected to the Land Back movement, and Indigenous sovereignty. Bryanna and Alice Irene explore reconnecting with our own voices while also amp...

How do we find freedom from the relentless demands of capitalism? How do we cultivate rest as a radical act of resistance and revolution? How do we learn from, centre, and support Indigenous sovereignty? How do we learn from Black organizing and resistance, and see Indigenous and Black liberation as coexisting side-by-side? How do we avoid the co-opting of grassroots movements, and stay clear head...

This is a story of children’s clothing, textiles, time passing, and the valiant confrontation of overconsumption. While it would be easier to buy cheap and new - and for those cute disposable clothes to end up in relentlessly growing landfills that our planet cannot sustain - there is a quiet, under-recognized network of women who care for and re-cycle children’s clothes. They lovingly organize, c...

Delicious, usable foods are being thrown out every day, with food waste soaring at the same time that people go hungry. Our preference for pretty produce contributes to that food waste - but instead of going to the garbage, imperfect fruits and vegetables can be transformed into new foods, cutting down on food waste while nourishing people. With the work and love that goes into growing, nurturing,...

How do we redefine environmentalism so that it includes everyone? How do we embed justice and belonging into our relationship to the natural world? How can we include cities and modernity in our definitions of nature? What is the role of our ancestors in environmentalism and activism? These questions are explored in a conversation between Chúk Odenigbo, a Founding Director of Future Ancestors, and...

How do we remake fashion so that it is regenerative, fossil-free, inclusive, and equitable?  Fashion and textiles are where climate change, waste, labour rights, and social justice all come together. Every single one of us interacts with clothing in our everyday lives, and fashion is currently one of Earth’s most polluting industries. We have an opportunity to remake our fashion system, so that it...

Meet the woman who digs through and documents Manhattan’s waste, to divert from landfill, raise consciousness, and create systemic change. Anna Sacks, aka the Trash Walker, creates viral TikTok and Instagram videos that shed light on the brand new merchandise that luxury brands deliberately destroy, as part of their continued efforts to fuel the relentless pace of a fashion system that is wasteful...

Reseed is about repairing our relationship to nature. It is the guide in a journey from taking - to caretaking. The podcast explores stories of uprooting extractive systems and rooting the future in community and care. Reseed offers in-depth, thoughtful conversations with citizens of the RE generation: people embracing redesign, reduction, repair, reuse, rewilding, resistance, and regeneration. Gu...