Futuresteading
This is a conversation about the future. About creating a culture that values tomorrow. We reckon a slower, simpler, steadier existence is the first step - one that’s healthier for humans and the planet. We call it Futuresteading. Each week we chat to community builders, ritual makers, food growers, health wizards and environmental wisdom keepers, gathering practical advice and epic solidarity - so we can all nut this thing out together. Join our nitty, gritty, honest and hopeful convo every Monday during our 16 episode seasons. Support the pod by shouting us a cuppa >>> buymeacoffee.com/futuresteading
Episodes
206 episodes
Ep 206 James McLennan From Playground to Paddock: Farming the Future of Education by creating 2.2 kms of garden bed in 24 hours
Come with us for a wander through the fertile grounds of possibility with James McLennon, the visionary behind Farm My School. Todays ep unearths how a patch of school soil can become so much more than a playground—it ...
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Season 12
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Episode 207
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50:06
Ep 205 Dalee Ella - Connecting Humanity to the Inward and Outward Energies of Creativity
Jade and Dalee wander through the tender terrain where creativity, womanhood, and everyday life meet. Speaking openly about the way our inner cycles shape what we make and how we show up in the world — and how hard it can be to hold spac...
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Season 12
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Episode 206
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2:07:49
EP 204 The Passage of Self: Dance, Grief, and Heart Wisdom with Eclectica (Demi Lee)
In this episode, Demi Lee takes us deep into the story of Eclectica — a movement, a community, and a living expression of embodiment and transformation. Together, we explore how dance becomes a language for healing, how grief can ...
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Season 12
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Episode 205
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1:08:00
Ep 203 Meg Ulman - The Beautiful Weight Of Living a Neo Peasant Life
In this conversation, Jade sits down with Meg Ulman (sadly not in person) — heart led writer, mother, educator, maker & one part of Artists as Family — to unpick what it really means to live on your own terms.They trace the ...
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Season 12
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Episode 204
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1:09:41
Ep 202 Navigating community - Life in an eco village with Suzie Brown
What does it really look like to live inside the dream of community? To share walls & gardens, decision-making & dinner tables — & to raise children in a village that actually lives its values?In this conversation, w...
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Season 12
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Episode 203
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1:05:01
Ep 201 Tim Pilgrim - Creating Wild Spaces: The Art of Natural Design & The Interplay of Landscape & Storytelling
Today we wander into the layered world of Tim Pilgrim—a landscape architect and gardener who sees soil, water, and wildness as teachers. Tim invites us to connect with the land rather than control it, to design gardens that honour both human ne...
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Season 12
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Episode 202
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59:00
Ep 200 Sarah Firth - The Polyhuman Experience: Embracing Complex Curiosity as a Catalyst for Connection
Today we wander into the wild tangle that is Sarah Firth’s world—a place where curiosity is currency and difference is pure gold. Sarah calls herself a polyhuman, and you’ll feel why as she opens up about neurodivergence, the grit and ...
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Season 12
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Episode 200
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1:09:30
Ep 199 Debra Silverman - Understanding Nature Through the Four Elements & Knowing 'The Angels Aren't Having Orgasms!
SummaryToday we slip into a cosmic campfire chat with Debra Silverman based in Colorado—where psychology shakes hands with the stars & the four elements (wind, earth, fire and water) become our guides. Debra’s journey weaves s...
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Season 12
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Episode 200
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1:03:06
Ep 198 Stephen Jenkinson -The Mother of a Culture, When You’re Asked to Make it "Real"
In this episode, we welcome Stephen Jenkinson—writer, teacher, storyteller, and founder of the Orphan Wisdom School. Stephen is known for breaking open the marrow of language and returning it in all its poetic weight. His work on elderhood, gri...
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Season 12
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Episode 199
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1:05:29
Ep 197 Gregg Muller - Creating Climate Resilience with Community Saved Seeds!
Lets dig into the quiet, radical world of seeds with plant breeder & seed keeper Gregg Muller. Gregg’s journey has been about more than growing food — it’s about safeguarding diversity, resilience & flavour in the face of a changi...
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Season 12
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Episode 198
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42:17
Ep 196 Angela Clifford - Long Term Thinking in a Short-Term World, Empowering Food Citizens for Change
Today we’re pulling up a chair with Angela Clifford — farmer, food activist & founder of Eat New Zealand — to talk about the stuff that really matters: food, culture, community & the future our kids will inherit. Together we wande...
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Season 12
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Episode 197
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55:41
Ep 195 Jaclyn Crupi - Getting messy outside for birds, bees & butterflies (+ anything else that wants to move in!)
Spring is peeking through here in Southern Australia, and today we’re heading into the garden — but not just for veggies. We’re going a little wild for the birds, bees, and butterflies. Our guest, Jaclyn Crupi, lifelong gardener and many ...
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Season 12
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Episode 196
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55:52
Ep 194 Jade Miles - Building Small Circles & Shared Rituals To Change the World
It’s about time Jade Miles takes the mic so we can pick her brain and her heart about ‘huddling’ for the future of all! We chat about what is our ecological work to do, our soul work to do as we come together in all kinds of communities....
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Season 12
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Episode 195
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1:02:51
Ep 193 Tanned Hides, Bark Brews & the Wild Within - Will & Eva from Wild Beings
Ever wondered what lines a deer’s stomach? Or how to turn bark into tincture—or tea into a gateway to your primal self?Meet Will and Eva: barefoot, leather-clad rewilders who traded ‘normal’ for firelight, foraging, and full-blown nature...
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Season 12
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Episode 193
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59:29
Ep 192 Jane Hillard "Enoughness" - Do you have it? - Winter Windbacks 2025
When did having twin basins and three toilets become the norm? As an architect who bucks the idea of bigger-is-better Jane Hilliard uses the principle of “Enoughness” as a design principle for the built environment. Its bet...
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Season 12
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Episode 1
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52:09
Ep 191 Helena Norberg Hodge - Localism that Heals & Creates Oneness - Winter Windbacks 2025
Helena Norberg-Hodge is a writer, filmmaker, international speaker and leader of the global localisation movement. She’s been promoting an economics of personal, social and ecological well-being for more than 40 years, and i...
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Season 12
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Episode 6
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55:13
Ep 190 Rosemary Morrow - A Lifetime of Global Permaculture Service - Winter Windbacks 2025
SummaryAkin to a cuppa while flicking through photo albums, this conversation is rich with stories of her lived experiences across every continent & through many decades. This wisdom holder has offered her life in ser...
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Season 12
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Episode 3
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47:15
Ep 189 Joost Bakker - The Darling of Waste Free Living - Winter Windbacks 2025
We know that Western culture lives excessively, endlessly seeking the newest and shiniest new thing. Its shocking that 40% of our food goes to waste, one third of our building materials are never even used. But this way of life will be sh...
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Season 12
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Episode 4
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29:46
Ep 188 Nat Wilmott - Living the Dream, Her story! Winter Windbacks 2025
This homeschooling mum of three spends her days foraging, growing, swapping & upskilling all in the name of continuing to live her version of normal in an abnormal world where we've lost touch with our food, medicine & the natural world...
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Season 12
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Episode 3
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56:50
Ep 187 Sarah Wilson - Having less F%$# s to give - Winter Windbacks 2025
Described as 'all striving no arriving…' Sarah thrives in the early stages of a movement - feeling her way into the zeitgeist of now & unpacks in ways that resonate with reality. Ultimately driven by curiosity & shunning gro...
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Season 12
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Episode 2
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53:48
Ep 186 Cade McConnell - Living With Intention, Initiation & More Earth In The Kitchen
Fire has long been a revered force, respected for its ceremonial holding, practical contribution to feeding, sterilising, warming, lighting and yarning around. These days though, few of us interact with fire regularly despite it connectin...
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Season 11
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Episode 187
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58:40
Ep 185 Elspeth Hay - Feeding Ourselves With Trees + Singing Our Way to a New Culture
"Living as modern humans we are disconnected, out of place and don't belong in the same way as other species""If you're feeling called to do something larger than you - you should follow that"Summary
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Season 11
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Episode 186
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1:01:05
Ep 184 Simon Mustoe - Surviving The Next 100 Years by Valuing A Whale At $3 Million Dollars
“We’ve lived fantastic lives because we’ve taken for granted the ecological damage we’ve done. Now we owe a debt"Well respected ecologist Simon Mustoe has written a new book
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Season 11
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Episode 185
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59:33
Ep 183 Matt Defina - Rethinking Purpose: From Lost to Liberated
Have you ever had that moment where you question - but there MUST be another way?Well in this conversation, Hayley and Matt Defina explore the journey of finding purpose and reprogramming our outdated ways or patte...
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Season 11
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Episode 184
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