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
166 episodes
EP 167 Meg Berryman, regenerative wisdom birthed on the bathroom floor - Summer Days throwbacks 2025
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
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Season 11
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Episode 4
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56:17
EP 166 Flora Fauna and Fungi with Dr Saphire McMullen-Fisher - Summer Days Throwback 2025
Catie chats with Dr. Sapphire McMullan-Fisher, an ecologist with a special interest in biodiversity conservation, particularly macrofungi and mosses.Sapphire is a renowned scientific researcher, speaker, teacher and author with a knack ...
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Season 11
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Episode 3
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59:19
EP 165 - Courtney Young finding ways to change the grain landscape - Summer Days Thowbacks 2025
Do you know where your grain comes from... the farmers name... how they grow it? Woodstock flour are doing their level best to change the last frontier via the power of building relationships and connecting. Join Jade and Courtenay as they get ...
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Season 11
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Episode 2
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57:30
EP 164 - Gabrielle Chan "We are all making it up" - Summer Days Throwback 2025
Recorded just days after the Federal election, Gabrielle Chan doesn't mince words - even when bone tired. A celebrated journalist with the Guardian, outspoken advocate for rural Australia and encourager of individual agency. "Our system has bee...
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Season 11
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Episode 1
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51:52
Ep 163 Yarning with Mindy Woods from Karkalla on sisterhood, eldership + native foods
Sign out of 2024 with this lively mastermind who suggests we take country into our body ! How?Build routine around food,Go barefoot to boost immunity, Stop seeing food as an inconvenienceCook & eat with family ...
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Season 10
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Episode 17
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1:00:58
Ep 162 Helen Rebanks - In honour of the Farmers Wife!
What started as a throw away title while supporting her husband James Rebanks on his book tours, Helen Rebanks now proudly refers to herself as the farmers wife - a title that has very much become her identity & set in her a burnin...
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Season 10
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Episode 16
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42:23
Ep 161 Carolyn Parker - Living her daydream, waking up to the sunshine & pushing past deep shyness
SummaryAs a super quiet, observing kid, Carolyn often had her head in a book or went adventuring on her own. As an adult this lead to naturally hermitty behaviour before she actively decided to show others that shy characters can do ...
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Season 10
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Episode 15
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58:52
Ep 160 Manda Scott - Asking how we became accidental gods of this land & seeking connection to it with humility not control
SummaryIf we are going to lay the foundations of a world we are proud to leave as a legacy we need to be comfortable to move into elderhood - for Manda Scott this is about getting comfortable with emergence and asking the living web ...
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Season 10
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Episode 14
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1:12:19
Ep 159 Alice Zaslavski - Serving your 'A 'game with salad & learning English with Big Ted
Hungry? How bout a salad…trust me, after todays convo, you’re going to want to eat salad for breakfast, lunch & dinner. Not just the limp lettuce & store bought dressing kind of salad but one that tickles all your gastronomic sens...
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Season 10
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Episode 13
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51:16
Ep 158 Matilda Brown - When hard things fill your heart w joy & husbands make the best business partners
This is a pour-a-cuppa kinda convo - Matilda Brown is a rare kind-of open book where nothing is off limits and despite not actually being her friend you get the distinct feeling that you must be. Flipping a childhood acting career f...
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Season 10
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Episode 12
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58:48
Ep 157 Cynthia Jurs - Sacred Activism, Earth Treasure Vases & Combatting Atomic Bombs
SummaryLife is impermanent. Precious but not entitled to length. The past is behind us, the future is unknown & all we have is this moment. Our role is to meet the moment.Being overwhelmed with the assignment of bringing heal...
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Season 10
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Episode 11
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46:03
Ep 156 Shane Simonsen - Taming the apocalypse, exploring a post industrial world & maize making people mad
SummaryThe age of short termism now dominates - Todays guest however takes long termism the way we all take breakfast (those not on a fasting regime anyway) Apparently he was born this way. In his recently released book <...
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Season 10
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Episode 10
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1:11:50
Ep 155 Anisa Rogers & Michaela from the Degrowth Network - Downsizing for perpetuity in a new world!
SummaryIn a world dominated by a striving for endless growth, it can be hard to see that while a drive towards money and individualism is great for the economy, it is fundamentally destructive for humanity, community & ecology. T...
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Season 10
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Episode 9
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59:10
Ep 154 Paulette Whitney - For the love of food, flowers & spring loaded seeds!
As a food grower, lover of the natural world, cook and wizened plant expert, todays conversation meanders between the veggie patch & the kitchen, the garden shed & the pickling shelf. A reverence for the food we eat was planted...
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Season 10
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Episode 8
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50:29
Ep 153 Satyajit Das - Are we just Neanderthals' living with smart phones?
This gent who goes by the name of Das is eccentric, passionate, articulate & intelligent so strap in for this fast paced, heady conversation framed through the lens of equal rights for species other than humans to the very resources we are ...
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Season 10
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Episode 7
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58:53
Ep 152 Charlie Showers - Farming as his laboratory for life + initiating boys into manhood
Meet Jades husband - Charlie Showers. Perched at the kitchen table, this conversation is steered by questions received from listeners. For an oft reserved gent, Charlie emotionally opens the doors about why he leans into the 'uncomfortabl...
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Season 10
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Episode 6
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1:14:06
Ep 151 Dani Wolff - Mashing earth wisdom + mama wisdom
Dani Wolff is a roll-your-sleeves-up-&-get-shit-done kinda girl who oozes earth wisdom and mama wisdom but most of all she personifies what it means to be collaborative. From her years in an intentional community to her globe t...
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Season 10
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Episode 5
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51:25
Ep 150 Digby Hall - The power sits in the many so it's time to collect your huddle
No-one else is coming in to solve the human induced problems & it's not about us anymore - we all have a responsibility to do something for the generations still to comeDigby Hall reckons that if joined together we have wisdom...
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Season 10
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Episode 4
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1:02:34
Ep 149 Matthew Evans - The Man is Mad about Milk
MILK…despite the fact that 6 billion people on the planet drink it and we have been for 10,00 years, most of us rarely give it a moments thought. Todays conversation with Matthew Evans takes us swimming in vats of the stuff.M...
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Season 10
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Episode 3
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53:13
Ep 148 Hannah Churton - The Worm Monger, creating community over kitchen scraps
How do you create community and influence people? Hannah Churton made friends over bucketloads of kitchen scraps and believes that compost can salve climate anxiety? It’s not simply the creation of black gold that returns the goods - it’s the s...
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Season 10
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Episode 4
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45:10
Ep 147 Leah Rampy - The trees teach resilience - Beginning & ending in silence
"When did we start othering earth to be overused & under-respected"?We humans are the younger brother & sister of other beings who have been here for longer than us & have more experience. Now it's time for humans to have...
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Season 10
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Episode 1
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1:07:07
Ep 146 Winter Windbacks 2024 Anthony James - Powerful Regen-narration w words
As the host of the the 'regen-narration podcast, listening, learning and storytelling is this mans lens. Join us in getting comfortable sitting in silence while we wait for the insightsWith an intent for working collaboratively and cr...
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Season 10
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Episode 6
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1:03:09
Ep 145 Winter Windbacks 2024 Alex Elliot the firecracker from Cornersmith defying perfection
Bugger off dogmatic rules - who wrote those anyway. Push off unfaltering sustainable existence - you're leave us feeling guilty. Shhhh up incessant Instagram perfection - it's not real! Tune in to this fire cracker of fresh air to recalib...
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Season 10
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46:57
Ep 144 Winter Windbacks 2024 - Beaudy Miles an odd storyteller
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 'polyjobis...
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Season 10
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Episode 4
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51:20
