UK Youth for Nature

Your Wild Streets

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A podcast about wilding the places we live,: one verge, garden and crack in the pavement at a time. Hosted by Alena and Roisin, Your Wild Streets is a new podcast from UK Youth for Nature exploring how we can bring nature back into our everyday spaces and why it matters now more than ever. From gardens to councils, backyards to policy change, each episode weaves together seasonal reflections, guest interviews and action to inspire a wilder, more biodiverse world. Whether you’re planting wildflowers on your windowsill or pushing your council to ban pesticides, Your Wild Streets offers a space t...

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Soil, Soul and Society with Satish Kumar 22.12.2025 39:05

As we cross the threshold of the winter solstice, Alena is joined by Satish Kumar - former Jain monk, peace pilgrim, and one of the UK’s most influential ecological thinkers - for a deeply grounding conversation about how we live, what we value and how we care for the world around us. From walking 8,000 miles for peace without money, to his guiding philosophy of soil, soul and society, Satish refl...

The Politics of the Pavement (part one) with Jack Wallington 17.10.2025 39:38

Politics of the Pavement (Part 1) with Jack Wallington In this first half of our Politics of the Pavement two-parter, we prise up the paving slabs and look at how our streets and gardens became so obsessively neat and what we’ve lost along the way. From Victorian ideals of respectability to the post-war pesticide boom, this episode traces how control and order were built into our landscapes. We ex...

Wilder Ways to Garden with Mary Reynolds 29.08.2025 58:16

In this episode, we’re joined by the brilliant Mary Reynolds - former Chelsea Flower Show gold medal winner turned rewilding activist and founder of the We Are The ARK movement. Mary shares her powerful journey from designing pristine gardens to championing wild, messy, life-filled outdoor spaces and challenges us to stop seeing ourselves as gardeners and start seeing ourselves as guardians. Befor...

Welcome to Your Wild Streets 26.06.2025 23:49

In this first episode of Your Wild Streets , we’re setting the scene from glyphosate-sprayed verges to messy, life-filled corners of our gardens. Hosts Alena and Roisin share their own journeys into campaigning, swap garden fails and introduce the growing movement calling for pesticide-free, biodiversity-rich public spaces across the UK. In this episode: A round-up of recent nature news: the good,...