Reskillience

Hello! I have been away in the bush for three days and three nights with just a tarp, sleeping bag and water to my name. No tent, no pillow, no torch, NO BREAKFAST. Off the back of this deeply moving ritual (which I'll tell you about soon), I wanted to release this equally as moving and foresty interview with Tessa Campisi. Tessa is a writer, poet, audio visual artist, activist and radio host who...

Me ranting about Couple Power and the Urban Nanna being brilliant. May all the single, neurospicy permies find ample inspiration in today’s interview with Anna Matilda! Teacher of traditional skills, crafts and non-judgey sustainability. Anna is a breath of fresh air in the stale bedchamber of the status quo, sharing openly about how she does permaculture solo, in the city, in a rental property, w...

Today we're exploding the sanctity of heirloom seeds and exploring the world of adaptive gardening! Gregg Mueller is here to tell us how (and why) to breed wacky new varieties of veggies like red snow peas, rainbow carrots and miniature melons in the name of climate-proof food. We also talk about seed monopolies and sovereignty, open source seeds, permaculture pitfalls aaaaaand sad and depressed g...

It’s Permaculture Week, friends and phascogales! And what better way to celebrate than  a big old heart to heart with permie elder Linda Woodrow. Linda is the author of 470, The Permaculture Home Garden, and the Witches Kitchen blog which is now in its 17th year. She is humble and extraordinary, and I think you’ll dig what she has to say about finding our niches, neighbours, purpose and freed...

A story about a free bottle of French perfume and whether sensitivity makes us more or less resilient. With esteemed and ever-so-lucid naturopath, herbalist & author Anthia Koullouros of Apothēca Organic Teas & Apothecary. * What’s making us all so sick? * How to untangle complex & confounding health crises * Polyvagal theory & nervous system truths * Practitioner perspectives: hol...

One of today’s guests spent seven years spinning a dress from stinging nettles and the other spent five years documenting the process. The result was the incredibly moving documentary The Nettle Dress — which I have now seen twice — co-created by Dylan Howitt and Allan Brown.  It’s a love letter to old skills, hand crafts and everything that cannot be hurried; to fibersheds, foraged threads,...

Today’s subject matter is so slippery and mysterious that even my guest, Dr Maya Ward , finds it hard to describe, though she’s swimming in it. It concerns the aliveness of rivers and the rivers inside us; the nature of reality and realms invisible yet objectively real. It’s about catching the whispers and shouts of the world with pen and paper. It’s shamanic, ecstatic and emphatically esoteric. I...

Real good fun with this one! Join me and Formidable Vegetable ’s kind and charismatic frontman Charlie McGee for a swashbuckling convo about pirate bananas, working the edges, growing up in Arnhem Land, dumpster diving to feed your art, staying in your integrity (while saying yes to flying), the deep discomfort of home ownership and remembering your interconnectedness. 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS Formidable...

I tell a story about how Jord and I narrowly avoided getting shot before introducing Tanya Loos – local treasure and legendary naturalist – for a deep and meaningful chat about wild life, and all life. We cover: How to be a nature positive pet owner Are cats evil? How to save a bunch of lives Gardens as habitat The housing crisis facing possums (and other critters) How to recklessly pursue your pa...

It's the season three finale with me and my man Jordan Osmond! We’re cranking the content couple cringe in this convo which covers our individual intentions for 2025, and chatting them through like a pair of old codgers. Jordan is one half of Happen Films , sharing stories for a more beautiful world, and precisely one year ago we recorded a Reskillience interview which was later to become our firs...

The episode that nearly didn’t happen for reasons almost too embarrassing to share… but what else is the intro for? 🤷‍♀️ Today we’re hanging out with CAROLINE PARKER ~ The Cottage Herbalist ~ bigtime girl crush and quite possibly the love child of a 1950s rock star and wiccan goddess. Caroline is an author, speaker, grower, educator, forager, herbalist and award-winning teasmith who is just TOO C...

After countless requests I present to you: Kat Lavers 🐈‍⬛ Wicking buckets, magic bug buttons, interspecies adventures, listener questions and more! Kat and I recorded this convo at her kitchen table, surrounded by ferments and preserves and garlands of dried chilli. At just 1/14th of an acre, Kat's urban homestead The Plummery has been known to pump out 428kg of fresh produce in any given year,...

Are bees a mammal in many bodies? Why do conventional beehives leave bees cold, stressed and defensive? How can beekeepers deal with varroa mite without any chemicals? Do European honeybees even belong in Australia? What is Australia’s best honey and where to get it? All this and more in today’s GLORIOUS conversation with leading natural beekeeper Adrian Iodice . Such a special one folks 🐝🐝🐝 LI...

If you prefer nature to people, birdsong to screeching tyres and secretly want to crash the economy via mass workplace dropout due to a bird language contagion, you will go absolutely crackers for this convo. Andrew Turbill aka. THE BIRD GUY is here to share his epic and somewhat perilous birding quests for 2025, from stalking Logrunners to sidestepping fascists and recording a full blown predator...

If you're sick of ham sandwiches and Love Actually, why not bring spear throwing and possum skinning to Chrissy lunch? Eva and Will of Wild Beings have some cracking ideas for rewilding family gatherings -- and every other facet of modern existence, for that matter. These two intrepid humans lead a radically connected life on/in/with the land, and inspire others to do the same. Tracking, hunting,...

Things to know about this episode: 🪶 It was recorded on Lucy's bedroom floor, smushy carpet under-butt and steaming cups of dandy tea in hand. 🪶 It’s a day spa for your weary weary soul, the one who yearns for alignment between what you love and what you earn. 🪶 It includes a grounding practice & ways to attune to your evolutionary purpose. 🪶 It’s kinda like a personal session with a busin...

FOR ONCE IT'S NOT A PERMIE 😱 Please enjoy this fun-as-fuck conversation with Blake Boles, who, in an unexpected deviation from regular Reskillience programming, is not a permaculture educator and is in fact a renegade unschooler, vagabonding wordsmith, teen travel leader, bikepacking blogger, tango maestro and passionate spokesperson for the Dirtbag Rich life. We romp through topics such as quitt...

This episode was recorded while sitting on Artist As Family's living room floor, glowing embers in the belly of the fire, cups of hawthorn and artichoke tea on the coffee table, and Meg’s famous ferments watching over us from the shelves. You’ll hear us accidentally knocking the microphones, some quality heavy breathing and Zero the dog dreaming and yipping away on the couch.  And it's our fi...

You already know today's guest. You’ve admired her art, chortled at her pithy permaculture puns and perhaps even listened to her rhyme along with Formidable Vegetable, those eco-funk, full of beans, electro-radish rockers.  It's the perennially brilliant Brenna Quinlan! Illustrator and educator who brandishes her watercolour brushes at the world’s gnarliest problems, and paints beautiful alte...

🪶 MONDAYS FROM NOVEMBER 4  We’ve got a jazzy new format and just a couple of months till 2025, so let’s set some new years resolutions...Reskillience style! Over the next ten weeks, ten guests will share lists of ten things that are close to their hearts... ...things to try, or consider, or start... …that will spark all kinds of inspiration. Come and hang out with permie legends, renegade un...

Don’t you love it when science geeks get spiritual? I do, because when highly rational folks admit that the world is far more mysterious than it is predictable, it’s intensely validating for us intuitive hippies who’ve believed in magic all along. This is one of those beautiful and surprising conversations with one of my farming idols Charlie Showers from Black Barn Farm that’ll have you rethinkin...

*Recorded outdoors under a passionfruit vine with wind in the banana leaves* This is one of those conversations that’ll shake you up, rattle your cage and light a fire under your butt to make change – because today’s guest reckons we need to upskill, now! It might just be the greatest pep talk in Reskillience history, from one of the most passionate permies in the movement. It’s Brett Cooper from...

🌼 A spring equinox special 🌼 Meet Amelie Vanderstock – science communicator, artist, musician, native bee pHD and total ray of sunshine. Amelie has a passion for pollinator-friendly cities, and raises awareness through workshops, collaborative art and obscenely catchy songs that celebrate weeds, bees and bin chickens. This ain’t just an interview about invertebrates – though, there’s plenty of i...

The first time I saw Anisa Rogers (who was basking on the grass reading a book) I thought: this person looks hekkin relaxed, has a tan consistent with living in reality, and the brightest blue eyes I’ve ever seen. We got talking and I learned that Anisa is involved in all kinds of system-disrupting mischief in Naarm, Melbourne, as part of the Degrowth Network – and so many social justice, environm...

My guest today is Joel Meadows, a phenomenal human who happens to be a permaculture teacher, rocket oven engineer, energy geek, green tech sceptic, sculptor, illustrator, musician and composting ninja. This is one epic episode that encompasses: 🌟Are renewables really all that? 🌟Why we’re using more fossil fuels than ever *cry*. 🌟Smart phone free life. 🌟Being deliberately abnormal. 🌟ROCKET OVE...