104. Futuresteading, Seasonal living & Place-making with Jade Miles (Black Barn Farm)

Jade Miles is the founder of Futuresteading - a movement, outlook and practical guide to living like tomorrow matters. Through her work as an author, speaker and podcast host she shares how to build your seasonal rhythm, expand your earth-skills and live your life in deep care and respect for the earth. Together with her husband Charlie, Jade runs Black Barn Farm — an ‘intentionally slow’ orchard and nursery in North East Victoria. The farm is deeply entrenched in community, permaculture & regenerative practices. Throughout the year they offer workshops, events, tours, and pick-your-own produce days. All with the hope to get people more engaged and connected to the food we eat and the food systems that it comes from. Jade is somebody who truly walks her talk, who is deeply embodied and entrenched in her values and her commitment to the earth, to people, to community and to living like tomorrow matters. And she does so in an incredibly practical and tangible way.' In this episode we talk about: ➳ Key experiences that paved Jade’s path in the work she now does ➳ What is Futuresteading? And how can it change the world? ➳ Seasonal living - including the rituals & celebrations and the details Jade's attuned to in the shifting seasons. ➳ The SIX seasons that Jade follows throughout the year (and how this aligns with the wheel of the year) ➳ Why Place-making is deeply important in our ability to connect with the world, with the land, and to live in a way that values tomorrow ➳ Jades shares beautiful wisdom around the power of Mutual Obligation in our world, as well as the call for being more open-source with our skills and our knowledge ➳ The importance of Community in a world that is built on systems that are unsustainable - especially the likes of our food systems and food sovereignty. We need each other and we need to know how to practice and build Community. Jade shares her thoughts and experience around this, especially for those of us who feel uncomfortable, afraid, introverted. ➳ Where to start and HOW to start if you feel called to grow your own food on any scale ☾ Plus so much more ☾ EPISODE RESOURCES Jade's Futuresteading podcast - start with this episode on Place-making! Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer Wilding: A Journey Back to Life by Meg Berryman (small print - find next publishing drop here) «««« ⎊ »»»» CONNECT WITH JADE Instagram @black_barn_farm Over on her website - workshops, store, farm visiting hours and more Buy the Futuresteading book CONNECT WITH RACHEL ⁠Download my FREE Womb Clearing Guide⁠ ⁠Follow me on Instagram⁠ ⁠Work with me⁠ «««« ⎊ »»»» COSMIC WEAVINGS - MEMBERSHIP Your map and compass to the new/full moon, monthly energies and seasonal celebrations. NEW: Access monthly soul expanding calls and recordings! Sign up to Cosmic Weavings here!  «««« ⎊ »»»» THE GROUNDED FEMININE MENTORSHIP Apply now for 1:1 coaching Limiting spaces available. «««« ⎊ »»»» Rate + review on Apple Podcasts to support the show even further! I'll send you a special thank you gift (one of my guided meditations!) if you screenshot and send me your review! Simply send your pic to [email protected] OR dm it to me on instagram @therachelhodgens Remember to share this episode with a friend, loved one or on social media to spread to love ♥︎