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Let’s Hope The Weather Holds
by Let’s Hope the Weather Holds
Interviews with characters I meet as a travel, outdoor and agricultural journalist and photographer.
Episodes
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Pay a Kiwi farmer a salary to grow your own food
I speak to Fokko van der Schans and Sabrine van Rossum from Harvest Collective about their idea of starting a farm near Wellington where +- 200 families get together and employ a farmer to grow food in a way that respects nature. On their website they say “Our big dream is to have a Harvest...
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Dr. Finn Ross - The Pole of Inaccessibility, mountain rescues and seaweed
I speak to Dr. Finn Ross about the mountain rescue of Riley Meason, reaching the Pole of Inaccessibility, New Zealand's most remote spot, The Weekend Mish, regenerative agriculture and changing mindsets, his PhD and how seaweed is a climate solution. Find him here
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Elephant seals - climate impact, dark intraspecific extinction and more.
I speak to Associate Professor Nic Rawlence, Director of the Otago Palaeogenetics Laboratory in the Department of Zoology at the University of Otago about elephant seals. He tells me about a recent paper published titled Postglacial Recolonization of the Southern Ocean by Elephant Seals Occurred...
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NZ birds now face similar conditions faced at the end of the ice age
I speak to Pascale Lubbe, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Molecular Ecology, at the University of Otago about how current loss of forests, loss when people arrived in New Zealand and loss of forest during the ice age have an effect on native birds and on bird colonisation. An interesting read is...
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Everything Antarctica with Jonny Harrison
I speak to Jonny Harrison who has done three trips to Antarctica as an electrician and group leader. He also hosts the Everything Antarctica podcast with Matty Jordan. Jonny tells me about how water is sourced, how you get a job in Antarctica, staying alive and more. Podcast link YouTube:...
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Fonterra's net zero farm
Fonterra and Nestle are running a project trying to achieve a net zero farm. The pilot, run with Dairy Trust Taranaki, aims to create New Zealand’s first commercially viable net zero dairy farm within ten years. Since 2022, the Fonterra-owned 290ha farm has achieved an approximate 27% reduction…
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Duck decoy obsession with Jacob Smythe
I speak to Resource Management Officer at Southland Fish & Game Jacob Smythe about his duck decoy collection. We talk handmade decoys, the gear you want vs. the gear you need, old shotguns, perceptions about abundance, habitat and more. I suggest visiting my Instagram to look at the photos of the...
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Fishing Mongolia with Rob Vaz a.k.a Rob Fish
Rob Vaz is a well known New Zealand fishing guide. He talks to me about his background and a trip he recently took to fish Taimen, the biggest Salmonid in the world, known as river wolves, in Mongolia. He talks fly gear for Taimen, how crazy the trip was, and lots more. Rob's website...
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The sportspersons nutritionist - Mikki Williden
This episode is basically a consult by legendary sports nutritionist Mikki Williden as she advises me about nutrition as I train for the Luxmore Grunt 27km trail run. Topics we cover is her background and her own adventures, nutrition for older athletes and those upping their game, sugar, protein...
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The roe deer guy
This podcast is another collaboration between myself and Ryan O'Connor from the Stag Roar podcast. In this episode Ryan talked to Ben who previously worked as a hunting guide/culler in Scotland. Ben's instagram page is a way of getting people to appreciate the necessity for responsible wildlife...
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Rescue in the mountains - Land Search and Rescue NZ
This podcast is from two interviews I did with local Land Search and Rescue team members based in Queenstown. I spoke to Tarn Pilkington, a volunteer with Wakatipu Search and Rescue Alpine Cliff Rescue team about a rescue he was involved in when two climbers needed help on the Remarkables in poor...
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Dr Gary Fettke, orthopedic surgeon on food, being cancelled and why you eat what you eat
This podcast is a content collaboration with Ryan O'Connor who runs the Stag Roar Podcast. The Stag roar is interviews Ryan has with people about how they become successful and the challenges they face. This is a recording of an interview he did in 2019 with Orthopedic Surgeon Dr Gary Fettke....
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Ryan O'Connor from the Stag Roar podcast - A life less ordinary
I speak to optometrist Ryan O'Connor from the Stag Roar podcast about podcasting, optometry, what tech will change the way we see, starting hunting later in life, the western diet and its influences on different cultures, I admit to being a chocoholic, we talk Seventh Day Adventists influence on...
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Canoeing Kiwi saves dog and gets stalked by wolves on 5000km Canada canoe trip
Kiwi Tom Hudson speaks to me from Winnipeg where he is taking a few days break from a 5000km canoe and land trip across Canada. We talk about how he became a traveler, being stalked by wolves, being in bear country, the time he saved a dog from sure death and ended up on Canadian news, and more....
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Deane Parker on adventure film-making and regenerative farming
What does regenerative farming and adventure film making have in common? It has Deane Parker in common! Deane talks about bikerafting, the film festival scene, regenerative dairy farming and healthy soils. Check out his Instagram...
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Jurgen Schwaneke - hunting, poetry, pest control and film making.
Jurgen Schwaneke talks to me about hunting in New Zealand, back country poetry, guiding hunts in the USA, his work as pest controller and the challenges the industry faces and outdoor film making. His YouTube channel Strider Media has some cool philosophical ramblings on hunting and good outdoor...
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Erin Forsyth - the natural history illustrator
In this episode botanical and wildlife illustrator Erin Forsyth talks about how artists can be facilitators for better understanding of nature, we talk about indigenous, christian and science perspective of nature, she walks me through her process, she tells me how she thinks of her work as part…
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45 Tahr Pink eye project with Francesco Formisano
Veterinarian Francesco Formisano tells me about the Pink eye project where, with the help of New Zealand hunters acting as citizen scientists, the prevalence and spread of Infectious Keratoconjunctivitis in New Zealand Tahr herds were studied. Franco also tells me about hunting roe deer in…
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44 Better grazing means better meat, milk, soil and animal health
In this episode Pablo Gregorini, Leader of the Lincoln University Pastoral Livestock Production Lab, tells me about a trial where animals were given a choice of what to eat and how it improved animal health, soil health, the quality of meat and milk, and was also better for consumers.
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43 Tracking a whale carcass
Research Fellow in Marine Science, at Griffith University in Australia Olaf Meynecke talks to me about tracking a whale carcass around the ocean to map how wind and tides affect its movement. This research will hopefully be used so that beached whales are not taken to landfill but that they can…
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We desire GMO food, said no consumer ever!
In this interview Hans Eisenbeis, Director of Mission & Messaging at the Non-GMO Project talks about farms and farmers in the US, how the Non-GMO Project operates, disagreements in science about the health of GMO's, how systems transitions look, he talks about the unique position New Zealand is…
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Takahe, merganser, dodgy museum practices and evolution of birds
Associate Professor Nic Rawlence, director of the Otago Palaeogenetics Laboratory, talks to me about the extinct fish eating merganser duck and Takahe research, dodgy museum collecting practices of the 1800’s, how New Zealand has a much more cosmopolitan makeup of biodiversity than previously...
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Slaughtering a bison with stone tools
In this episode Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Kent State University in Ohio, USA, Metin Eren tells me about how he, his department and the Meateater crew slaughtered a bison with clovis tools. The trial was followed by a paper that describes their techniques, questions and…
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#39 The biggest fight for NZ hunting in 60 years - The Forest & Bird lawsuit
I speak to Roy Sloan, General Manager of the Fiorldand Wapiti Foundation about the lawsuit Forest & Bird has brought against the foundation and against the Department of Conservation, and about the consequences it might have for all hunters in New Zealand. All deer species are introduced into New...
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#38 Book on Chamois to reveal new DNA and historic evidence - Gwyn Thurlow
I speak to Gwyn Thurlow, Chief Executive Officer and General Counsel at the New Zealand Deer Stalkers, about new DNA evidence on the origin of New Zealand chamois, and new historic finds on the history and practicalities of their translocation after local and Austrian newspapers were digitized....
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#37 Frederic Leroy - The campaign against meat
Podcast live. The campaign against meat. In this episode I speak to Prof. Dr. Frédéric Leroy about the campaign against meat. Frederic is part of a research group in industrial microbiology and Food Biotechnology at the Department of Bioengineering Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit in Brussels.…
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#36 Category 3 fly company - work your fingers to the bone
In this episode I talk to Sean Andrews, founder of the New Zealand based Category 3 Fly Company. C3 supplies flies world wide. He tells me about ice fishing for trout with flies and a hand line in Sweden, how he learned to fly fish on chalk streams in the UK as child on the same rivers Frank...
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#35 Cactus Outdoor - Outdoor gear meant to last
I speak to Ben Kepes from Cactus Outdoor about making hard wearing outdoor gear locally, how climbing bums become business owners, 30 years of Cactus Outdoor, their ethos of gear that last vs. gear that has to be constantly replaced, a ethical business model that is not seasonal, his outdoor...
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#33 Fish & Game CEO Corina Jordan
I speak to Corina Jordan, chief executive of New Zealand's Fish & Game. She tells me about shotguns that kick, training deer and pheasant dogs, the work Fish & Game does to rehabilitate create and save habitat for fish and game birds, what type of horse she wants for hunting, taking time out to…
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#32 Johann du Preez fishing artist
Artist, fly fisherman, fly guide and conservationist Johann du Preez talks about fishing mad spots like Sudan, Sette Cama and Guyana. We talk about conservation, tropical diseases, having your passport taken, sucking as a client, the Indifly Corps, creating livelihoods for small communities and…
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#31 Is precision fermentation and alternative proteins coming for milk?
In this episode I talk to Navigate founder Anna Benny about her view that precision fermentation is a threat to the New Zealand dairy industry. We talk about how changing climate policies play a role in the possible disruption of the dairy industry. We talk about why meat possibly won't face a…
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#30 Catching rabbits with ferrets
Ferreter James Curry tells me how he uses ferrets to catch rabbits in New Zealand where rabbits are an introduced pest. He talks about how he got into ferreting, training ferrets, how an obsession became a job, getting permits to transport ferrets, that are also an introduced pest and why his...
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Cassava needs a place amongst rice and potatoes
I speak to Prof. Emmanuel Bobobee from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi in Ghana. We talk about his cassava harvester, the challenges smallholder farmers face with cassava production, the need for governments in Africa to support mechanisation and processing. We talk…
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What are the threats to New Zealand hunting and how to train a deer dog
General manager for the New Zealand Game Animal Council Tim Gale speaks to me about the days when his dad used to supply deer farms with wild caught hinds. He gives me tips on training a dog to hunt deer. We lament that we don't get out enough. He tells me about his horse wrangling and hunting...
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Native New Zealand eel thrive in hunter created duck ponds
In this episode I speak to Fish and Game field officer Cohen Stewart about research done in Southland in New Zealand about how native eel thrive in hunter created duck ponds. Cohen talks about how the study came about, the methods they used, and their findings. He also talks about his passion for...
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Ciao Andrea - the Italian fly fishing New Zealand
Andrea Mattioli quickly became a legend under fly fisherman in Auckland when he began working at a local shop Rod and Reel. When the shop closed everyone missed his no nonsense approach, humour and willingness to talk fishing for hours. In this podcast he tells me about growing up in Italy and...
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The Thrasher of hunting magazines - bird hunting with Project Upland magazine
I speak to editor and founder of Project Upland magazine A.J. DeRosa about bird hunting in the USA, his dogs, how he started the magazine despite being told it won't work and how punks can also hunt. He talks about hunters getting involved in politics, how to use climate change to get funding to...
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Selling 2000 rhino and rhino conservation in South Africa
In this episode I speak to Pelham Jones, president of the Private Rhino Owners Organisation about what it takes to conserve rhinoceros in South Africa, the sale of almost 2000 rhinoceros by John Hume, the human and animal toll rhino poaching takes, why South Africa is not allowed to legally sell...
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Homesteading in New Zealand
Homesteading in New Zealand is growing, especially after recent floods and the Covid pandemic. I speak to Michael Andrew, editor of Lifestyle Block magazine about homesteading in New Zealand. We ask are preppers crazy? (No they're not!) We talk self sufficiency, hunting, fishing, bartering,...
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The Golden Mole - lost to science for almost 100 years and rediscovered
The De Winton’s golden mole was last seen in 1937 and was declared lost to science. But a team of researchers recently used environmental DNA to find it again and also managed to get hold of one of the moles and take DNA sample swabs. I speak to Dr. Samantha Mynhardt, a Conservation Genetics...
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Hunting with The Weekend Mish
What is better than a weekend hunting mission with mates? So, in this episode I speak to Riley Meason and Gabe Ross from The Weekend Mish. They talk about how they started hunting, building a YouTube channel brand, their participation in the reality TV show Tracked, how they handle criticism…
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Use less fertiliser, make more money, and have healthier animals
In this episode farm nutrient advisor Melinda Turner and Barrie Riddler talk about their theory that using less fertiliser on New Zealand farms will mean more profit for farmers and better animal health. They talk about their deep frustrations with the idea that maximum production means maximum...
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The sheep rustler who became a legend - James Mackenzie
In the 1800's New Zealand sheep thief James Mackenzie became a legend for stealing large flocks of sheep with just the help of his dog, he took them over 100's of kilometres of mountains to a piece of land he wanted to stake a claim on. He later had a whole area of the country named after him:...
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The battle against wool
The fight against wool - a story of lawsuits, bad science and political kowtowing In this episode I speak to Greg Smith, CEO of wool carpet manufacturer Bremworth, about how regulations and selective science is showing wool is somehow worse for the planet than synthetic materials. We delve into...
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New Zealand needs a food strategy
In this episode I speak to CEO of Eat New Zealand Angela Clifford. We talk about why New Zealand needs a food plan and strategy, how introduced species like deer and trout play a role in a food plan, we touch on food waste, regenerative agriculture, we bemoan how white bait is managed, and we…
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Could you fly fish for the extinct New Zealand grayling
In this episode I talk to Dr Nic Rawlence director of the University of Otago's Palaeogenetics Laboratory and PhD student Lachlan Scarsbrook, based at Oxford University in the UK, about the extinct New Zealand grayling. I also talk to Ross Bailey, an Australian fly fisherman who has in the past...
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Glyphosate, your hormones, cancer, and why all the previous science was wrong but also right with Ian Shaw.
I speak to Professor Ian Shaw an international expert on food safety. We talk about glyphosate as an environmental estrogen, estrogen mimicry, ideas on non-genotoxic carcinogenicity and how former research was right and then turned out to be completely wrong, long term inflammatory effects and...
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Eat what you kill with Tim Kavermann
How do you build a social media community that shares recipes of food they harvested? How would you market wild meat to a townie consumer? How do you give wild meat value in a country like New Zealand that declares some sources of game as pests? What is ethical spearfishing? How does the outdoors...
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The Hunter‘s Journal with editor Cam Henderson
Cam Henderson started the Hunter's Journal magazine in a time when print is supposedly dying. He kicked that theories behind. We speak about getting a magazine started. Being cold outdoors. How good Kiwi hunters have it. Why hunt photography has become so freakn good. And how awesome that first...
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Ethics of hunting with Francesco Formisano
I talk to Francesco Formisano from Altitude and Trails about the ethics of hunting. We explore how we lost our spiritual connection to the animals we hunt and eat. Why some cows are clever. We talk about tahr in New Zealand. His project to study animal pathologies in the New Zealand tahr...
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