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
215 episodes
Ep 128 Kirsten Bradley Brings us back for season 9 - 'HUDDLE'
Kirsten Bradley is one half of permacultures favourite educators MILKWOOD and she joins us as our opening night (very early morning actually) star in the spectacular line up of season nine guests.We've had her in our ears before but not...
Ep 129 What shade of green are you? with Dr Kate Luckins
Dr Kate Luckins asks what shade of green are you? The answer is of little consequence and will most certainly ebb with the hokey poke of life - finding your own shade, in your own way is the secret…along with an audit or two of your cupboards, ...
Ep 130 Hannah Maloney - Love, Small Potato Fame & Putting Yourself in The Way of Opportunities
Join Jade and the tall, smiling pink haired gem as she ponders the many right ways of doing things - when care, intellect & heart goes into the building of skills, earth care & people care we need to honour the effort which is mor...
Ep 131 Maria Konecsny - Nourishing Your Kinfolk
Maria Konecsky refers often to her ancestral memory. For her the way back to those who came before her has been through food. She says “Our food lines, hold our story, no matter what it is, whether its pretty or ugly, grand or...
Ep 132 Jamie Loveday - Sowing seeds for food deserts in the city
The majority of us are living in cities, and the sad truth is that these highly inhabited hubs are food deserts. Places where food certainty is uncertain and what we do have available is a rapidly homogenising food landscape. The Food Lab...
Ep 133 Billa - The Woman at the Wild School shares her earth wisdom
SHOW SUMMARYJoin Billa, co founder of the Wild School, as we navigate back into our custodial selves. Where we use head, hands & heart to rebuild the connective processes that help us become deeply connected people to place &...
Ep 134 Brenna Quinlan - Celebrities at funerals, shared mulberry trees & dried fruit for Halloween
Illustrator extraordinaire is back to chat! Brenna's talent lies in taking hairy, complex systemic issues and distilling them into bite-sized, actionable messages using just her pencil (& of course her magnificent capacity for critica...
Ep 135 Casper Ter Kuile - (rhymes with smile) - Ritual, relationship covenants & why we can practice sacred reading with any book
Summary: In a world of consumption & content this chat ponders which containers for connection are going to hold us in relationships that are strong enough to navigate sickness & health, vitality & misery &...
Ep 136 Sarah Andrews - Huddling by design + doing what it says on the box
Sarah Andrews has this way of stripping back the noise & replacing hustle with humility. A gentle woman, who describes herself as '90% introvert', she has crated beautiful spaces by considering them her palette to tell stories & t...
Ep 137 Jane Stevens - By The Grace of Gaia Goes She!
Jane Stevens is passing on the knowledge from her lifelong poly passions of gardening, herbalism, astrology and moon cycles as a gift to the world in the from of a book (one that carries a Chelsea green publishers mark on the ...
Ep 138 Osprey Oriel Lake - The Story Is In Our Bones, Together We Will Rewrite It!
How do we become a life enhancing species?How do we remember in our bones our earth lineage?Osprey asks us to consider 'How are we each ‘efforting’ towards a different way of being? If you said Together...SNAP. Whi...
Ep 139 Sadie Chrestman - Farm schools, sharing white goods & building bloody great partnerships
This episode is akin to being a fly on the wall as you overhear a convo… a warm, convivial, personal conversation to round out season nine. Listening back, while editing - with the Sunday roast cooking - it felt intimate to be p...
Ep 117 Joost Bakker - The Darling of Waste Free Living
SummaryWe 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 w...
Ep 118 Ginny 1000 hours outside - Replacing Screen time with Green Time
What if all the memories you made as a kid had been replaced by screens? When an aha moment makes you realise that its time to reframe childhood and embrace an analogue life - one that stimulates creativity, imagination and experiences that ins...
Ep 119 Sarah Wilson - Feeling through humanity's dissonance, humans hunger for hard work & avoiding the diet version of life
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...
Ep 120 Just Collapse - The illusion of techno-solutions “We can’t swallow horses to solve this problem”
This conversation is difficult to process but important to hear. It asks: "How does Socioecological justice prevail in the face of an irreversible collapse"?Its time to accept that infinite growth on a finite plane...
Ep 121 Nat Wilmott - Living the dream. Her story!
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 w...
Ep 122 Hayley Morris - Leading the investment world away from extraction & into their hearts
SUMMARYWe need an economic system based on values and trust to see genuine change in this critical decade. This intuition led powerhouse is collaboratively leading the thinking for philanthropy & impact investment to shift away fr...
Ep 123 Megan Grant - Futuresteading artist following her gut + noticing the weeds at the service station
The talented Megan Grant bought the futuresteading book to life with her vibrant depictions of a seasonal, intentional and ritual rich life. After a year of being asked, this introvert who dreams and thinks in colours and pictures&nbs...
Ep 124 Tammy White - The one woman farmer from Wing & a Prayer creating community wherever she goes
"Apple pie without cheese is like a kiss without a squeeze" and what's the point in that. Life as a shepherd in Vermont USA can be lonely but farm time provides opportunity for reflection & cup filling so there's more energy to give to comm...
Ep 125 Jane Hilliard - "Enough-ness" do you have it?
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 better fo...
Ep 126 Ella Noah Bancroft - Dispossession, living an ancestrally connected life & finding your feminine power
Summary"We’ve never been sicker as a species, we've never experienced such high levels of extinction and its time to look past the ‘machine that’s working’ and actively choose not to contribute to it. Instead, its time to share ances...
Ep 127 Catie Payne - Bookending 8 seasons of Futuresteading w her trademark wit, charm & oddball intellect
Remember this beautiful human? She spent some time in your ears way back in series one & two before heading off for a life of adventure & learning in the intellectual home of permaculture. Catie Payne is a courageous one-of-...
Ep 109 Artists As Family. How brave are you? - Summer days throwback 2023
This family of four live a largely non-monetary existence on a quarter-acre permaculture plot on Djaara peoples' country/Daylesford. They describe themselves as neopeasants, defined by the gardens & forests they tend, the resources they...
