Episodes
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Return to the Village with Kate Nottingham (or: how to be that fearless person who facilitates togetherness)
BONUS EP three days early whaaaaat I’m bringing you this inspiring chat with Kate Nottingham (founder of the Off Grid Living Festival and director of the 2027 Permaculture Convergence/Return to the Village Festival) ahead of schedule because it contains time sensitive information! Last minute…
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How to read nature's clues to predict & respond to emergencies (aka. the disaster preparedness pep talk you need to hear!) with Chris Gilmour
I tell a story about a freak storm that flattened our summer crops before sharing a super inspiring convo with Chris Gilmour, an emergency and disaster preparedness expert who believes that deep nature connection is key to surviving and thriving through uncertain times. 🦌 In this episode:...
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Kinking Collapse, Urgent Gratitude & Future Seeds with Shane Simonsen
I tell a story about my inability to change before chatting with a guy who's obsessed with changing everything! Dr Shane Simonsen of Recombination Nation is a biochemist, research scientist and experimental farmer who is shaking up agriculture-as-usual by breeding plants that require ZERO INPUTS....
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The climate-resilient nature-entangled way to garden with Duncan Cocking
Planting guides and sow-what-when calendars are great and all, but what happens when the seasons don't play nice? When spring arrives earlier, frost hits later, or heatwaves burn your crops to a crisp? There's no controlling the weather, but with tools like phenology, you can make better...
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Breathwork for grief, connection & coming to your senses with Ella Maryska
NOTE: I’ve done breathwork every day since this interview and – you gaias! – it’s really helping me human. Meet today’s guest Ella Maryska, who is responsible for getting me into this breathwork thing that I am the last person on the planet to know about. Ella is 21 years old, wise as the hills…
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On Slowing Down & Looking Up with Kirsten Bradley
“In a time of fracturing seasons, when everything’s going awry, there are still cycles that we can set our hearts by.” It's Kirsten Bradley of Milkwood! She's writing a new book about the moon, penning love letters to parsley and currawongs on Substack, and here to share all about her daily…
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Use less compost, make less money & follow your passion 100% with Steve Solomon
BYO wheelbarrow to load up on Solomon’s wisdom, cos today we’re chatting with the grandaddy of beyond-organic gardening himself, Steve Solomon! If you don’t know Steve, he’s a bit of cult hero in food growing circles thanks to his deep research into soil remineralisation and why it is absolutely...
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The Holy Fool, Hallowed Weeds & How To Just Start Writing Already with Helen Lehndorf
I share a GRIPPING TALE about a droplet of water before sitting down with Helen Lehndorf, who is a radical forager, author, anarchist, poet and plenty more wonderful things besides. I loved her memoir A Forager's Life so much! Helen and I dive straight into the weeds about permaculture life...
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Emotionally Processing Peak Oil & Em-Powering Community Action! with Nathan Surendran
We built this city on rock n roll! And cheap oil. And it’s currently running out… so what happens now? This week I chat with Nathan Surendran to get a foothold on the fossil fuel crisis (which is the Everything Crisis) and how we can keep our balance, together. Nathan is a systems thinker,...
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How to practice hybrid permaculture (and worry less about the news) with Ian Lillington & Marita Zeh
Ever wish you could sit down with permie elders to hear their take on the current chaos; what to do, where to live, and whether it’s really that bad in the grand scheme of things? Well just call me Genie cos this convo with permaculture educators and radical homemakers Ian Lillington and Marita…
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Prioritise Spiritual Prepping with Emily Coats
I tell a story about my grandpa’s deathbed song request before having a heart-to-heart with Emily Coats, a deep nature connection facilitator, ancestral skills practitioner, threshold-crossing guide and dreamworker. In this convo: Shakespearean activism What the world needs right now (hint: not...
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Can you be collapse aware and still want kids? w/ Jem Bendell
In 2018 Professor Jem Bendell published an academic paper that went viral; pretty weird for a piece of scholarly writing. The topic? Societal collapse caused by runaway climate change. The timeline? Soon. Deep Adaptation presented a frank, delusion-free framework for facing the end of the world…
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How to cut loose from the industrial food system & forage 100% of your noms w/ Robin Greenfield
I tell a story about Jar Power before sitting down with Robin Greenfield, an incredible fella best known for his radical experiments in simple living, food reclamation, waste minimisation and wild foraging. He has been called “the Robin Hood of our times”, “the Forrest Gump of ecology”, and “the...
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Solo Elk Huntress w/ Christie Green
Christie Green spends days at a time in the mountains, in the snow, tracking elk, solo. Her hunting journey began at 40 as a practical way to feed herself and her family, and became a fierce and fluid exploration of womanhood, motherhood, stewardship, intuition, listening and kinship. Christie...
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You don't need willpower, you need PERMACULTURE w/ Cecilia Macaulay
You’ve heard of swales… but what about swales in the brain to slow and deepen our human experience? Join me and Cecilia Macaulay for one of those special convos that gets to the heart of life’s gnarliest struggles; our biggest messes, our greatest failures, our everyday chaos… and uses…
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PLACE AS ELDER w/ QUINIE
Big personal shares at the top of the ep (preview: podcasting terrifies me) before an utterly delightful conversation with Scots folk singer Josie Vallely aka. Quinie. Quinie's album Forefowk, Mind Me was named The Guardian's best folk release of 2025, but don't worry if you're not into bagpipes...
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It ain't over till the blackbird sings
A garden drama unfolds during a heatwave, and I share my summer solstice/New Year wishes for you. Thanks for tuning into another year of Reskillience! We'll be back later in January full of fresh questions and custard. Shout out to my love Jordan Osmond for helping produce this episode. Sound...
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The Courage to Follow Your Path (and how to talk to animals) with Lisa Podosin
Cor blimey, we're getting equiney! Cast aside your Saddle Club trauma and learn how horses can help us be better humans and stewards of nature in this rich convo with Lisa Podosin. Lisa is a horse listener, advocate and author who swapped Hollywood for a tiny home on shared land with a herd of...
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"It's going to be a blast... and scary as hell." Dave Pollard on Collapse
You want it, you got it: an open discussion about the cracks in our civilisation, and how to catch each other when it all falls apart. Dave Pollard has been writing about culture, complexity, deep ecology and collapse for longer than some of us have been alive. While he continues to cheer on...
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This Moneyless Life with Jo Nemeth
Could you live without money? No support payments, no savings account, no secret benefactors? Jo Nemeth has been doing so for the past decade, and reckons she is less stressed and more secure in her moneyless life (in which she shares a home with eight other humans and plays the role of house...
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The Viking Approach to Pest Management (plus ALL the horticultural sorcery) with the Weedy Garden's David Trood
I tell a story about becoming a gardening influencer before sharing an animated and long-awaited conversation with David Trood aka. The Weedy Gardener! Weedy, Jord and I discuss: 🌱 Creative land access 🌱 Body as compost 🌱 Hearing nature's call 🌱 Being an eye cell for humanity 🌱 Showing your...
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The Felt Sense of Success with Laura Jean
I tell a story about the ironic demise of my keepcup, and the difference between light green and deep green choices, before a pot-of-tea-convo with Laura Jean. Laura is a renegade business coach, dietician and permaculturalist who will help you see VALUES in a whole new light, and how to use them...
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The Way of the Owl with Morag Gamble
Three unbelievable stories about owls, and how to be a myceliating, possibilitarian practivist with the phenomenal Morag Gamble. Morag has cornflower blue eyes and a glorious crop of hair that curls at the ends like pea shoots. She consorts with broad beans and leafy greens in bare feet, and has...
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Save the World by Becoming the World with John Seed
Can birdsong heal your hearing? Can a rainforest recruit humans to protect it? What is deep ecology, anyway? Of all the approaches to “saving the world”, this one has my heart. Join me in conversation with elder John Seed as we get to the marrow of the environmental crisis, from the illusion of...
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Meditation, Interbeing & Emotional Upskilling with Suzie Brown
Friends! Here’s a D&M (Dharma & Meditation) conversation I recorded with mindfulness meditation teacher and founder of Australian Parents for Climate Action Suzie Brown while visiting Narara Eco Village last week. If you’ve ever felt anxious, unsure how to process difficult/obstinate emotions, or...
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Know this about people pleasing, olive pressing and apocalypse skills
It's the RESKILLIENCE ROADTRIP where I'm intercepting all sorts of good sorts along Australia's east coast! First up is Ceilidh Meo who teaches no less than 80 apocalypse skills (!!!) while also growing olives, shoring up the food system and being casually shamanic. This is a ROMP of a convo that...
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Love in the Time of Collapse with Jordan + Catie
It's a Jordan + Catie double bill for the Season Four finale 🎊 Join us for a fireside D&M as two humans just tryna digest the microplastic casserole of modernity… and make something better. You’ll hear about my secret storytelling anxiety, Jord’s new award nominated film, my other boyfriends…
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Cabin in the Woods with Imogen Ive
I share a recipe for de-zombifying your life before chatting with Imogen Ive, Director at Mittagundi – a remote 520 acre farm and off grid education centre built by and for young folks in the high country. This convo is a reminder that sometimes hard is good, together is better and a pack horse,...
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End of Life Matters with Pippa White
Shrug off the cloak of secrecy and awkwardness around death with palliative care nurse Pippa White. I’ve been wanting to bring a death convo to the airwaves for ages, because there’s a huge imbalance between light/dark, above/below, waxing/waning, growth/decay, possessing/relinquishing energies…
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Growing Against the Odds with Katie Finlay
Do not listen to this unless you want to reawaken your dormant farming desires and throw yourself into a life on the land. I tell a story about being a grub, before having an animated chat with rural woman of the year Katie Finlay about staunching the loss of small farms in Australia and…
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Finding God in the Compost Pile with Gareth Devenish
It’s colder than a penguin’s big toe here in Djaara Country, so we’re cosying up by the fire for a yarn with Gareth Devenish. I call Gareth the Snoop Dogg of permaculture, he calls himself a sovereign man walking in Country, subject to natural lore, seeking a connection with the cosmos. Call off...
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Quit Your Job & Work in Reciprocity with Linda Cockburn
I tell a story about making bugger all money but feeling filthy rich, before being joined by the incredible Linda Cockburn (pronounced “Co’burn” cos it’s Scottish) who explains why Capitalism is a death cult, and ways to crowd it out with reciprocity. Ample brain fodder and fiery inspiration…
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Loving What's Left with Tessa Campisi
Hello! I have been away in the bush for three days and three nights with just a tarp, sleeping bag and water to my name. No tent, no pillow, no torch, NO BREAKFAST. Off the back of this deeply moving ritual (which I'll tell you about soon), I wanted to release this equally as moving and foresty...
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Permaculture on the Spectrum with Anna Matilda
Me ranting about Couple Power and the Urban Nanna being brilliant. May all the single, neurospicy permies find ample inspiration in today’s interview with Anna Matilda! Teacher of traditional skills, crafts and non-judgey sustainability. Anna is a breath of fresh air in the stale bedchamber of…
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How To Grow Crazy Resilient Vegetables with Gregg Mueller
Today we're exploding the sanctity of heirloom seeds and exploring the world of adaptive gardening! Gregg Mueller is here to tell us how (and why) to breed wacky new varieties of veggies like red snow peas, rainbow carrots and miniature melons in the name of climate-proof food. We also talk about...
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What if It's Not Dystopia? With Permaculture Elder Linda Woodrow
It’s Permaculture Week, friends and phascogales! And what better way to celebrate than a big old heart to heart with permie elder Linda Woodrow. Linda is the author of 470, The Permaculture Home Garden, and the Witches Kitchen blog which is now in its 17th year. She is humble and extraordinary…
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The Health Episode // Sensitivity As Resilience with Anthia Koullouros
A story about a free bottle of French perfume and whether sensitivity makes us more or less resilient. With esteemed and ever-so-lucid naturopath, herbalist & author Anthia Koullouros of Apothēca Organic Teas & Apothecary. * What’s making us all so sick? * How to untangle complex & confounding...
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Slow Textile Revival with the makers of The Nettle Dress
One of today’s guests spent seven years spinning a dress from stinging nettles and the other spent five years documenting the process. The result was the incredibly moving documentary The Nettle Dress — which I have now seen twice — co-created by Dylan Howitt and Allan Brown. It’s a love letter…
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Altered States, Imaginal Realms & Co-Becoming with Dr Maya Ward
Today’s subject matter is so slippery and mysterious that even my guest, Dr Maya Ward, finds it hard to describe, though she’s swimming in it. It concerns the aliveness of rivers and the rivers inside us; the nature of reality and realms invisible yet objectively real. It’s about catching the...
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The Pursuit of Discomfort & Pirate Bananas With Charlie McGee
Real good fun with this one! Join me and Formidable Vegetable’s kind and charismatic frontman Charlie McGee for a swashbuckling convo about pirate bananas, working the edges, growing up in Arnhem Land, dumpster diving to feed your art, staying in your integrity (while saying yes to flying), the...
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Home As Habitat, Garden As Wild with Tanya Loos
I tell a story about how Jord and I narrowly avoided getting shot before introducing Tanya Loos – local treasure and legendary naturalist – for a deep and meaningful chat about wild life, and all life. We cover: How to be a nature positive pet owner Are cats evil? How to save a bunch of lives...
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Jord & Catie interview each other in the back of a van
It's the season three finale with me and my man Jordan Osmond! We’re cranking the content couple cringe in this convo which covers our individual intentions for 2025, and chatting them through like a pair of old codgers. Jordan is one half of Happen Films, sharing stories for a more beautiful...
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Life, but Make It Herby with Caroline Parker
The episode that nearly didn’t happen for reasons almost too embarrassing to share… but what else is the intro for? 🤷♀️ Today we’re hanging out with CAROLINE PARKER ~ The Cottage Herbalist ~ bigtime girl crush and quite possibly the love child of a 1950s rock star and wiccan goddess. Caroline…
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It's the little things with Kat Lavers
After countless requests I present to you: Kat Lavers 🐈⬛ Wicking buckets, magic bug buttons, interspecies adventures, listener questions and more! Kat and I recorded this convo at her kitchen table, surrounded by ferments and preserves and garlands of dried chilli. At just 1/14th of an acre,...
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Natural Beekeeping Magic with Adrian Iodice
Are bees a mammal in many bodies? Why do conventional beehives leave bees cold, stressed and defensive? How can beekeepers deal with varroa mite without any chemicals? Do European honeybees even belong in Australia? What is Australia’s best honey and where to get it? All this and more in today’s...
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Release Your Inner Bat Shit Crazy Bird Nerd with Andrew Turbill
If you prefer nature to people, birdsong to screeching tyres and secretly want to crash the economy via mass workplace dropout due to a bird language contagion, you will go absolutely crackers for this convo. Andrew Turbill aka. THE BIRD GUY is here to share his epic and somewhat perilous birding...
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Rewild Christmas Lunch! with Eva + Will of Wild Beings
If you're sick of ham sandwiches and Love Actually, why not bring spear throwing and possum skinning to Chrissy lunch? Eva and Will of Wild Beings have some cracking ideas for rewilding family gatherings -- and every other facet of modern existence, for that matter. These two intrepid humans lead…
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Lucy Richards' 10 Ways To Regenerate Self, Soul & Business Strategy
Things to know about this episode: 🪶 It was recorded on Lucy's bedroom floor, smushy carpet under-butt and steaming cups of dandy tea in hand. 🪶 It’s a day spa for your weary weary soul, the one who yearns for alignment between what you love and what you earn. 🪶 It includes a grounding…
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Blake Boles' 10-or-11 Dirtbag Rich Resolutions
FOR ONCE IT'S NOT A PERMIE 😱 Please enjoy this fun-as-fuck conversation with Blake Boles, who, in an unexpected deviation from regular Reskillience programming, is not a permaculture educator and is in fact a renegade unschooler, vagabonding wordsmith, teen travel leader, bikepacking blogger,...
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Artist As Family's 10 Ways To Be Rich, Feral and Free
This episode was recorded while sitting on Artist As Family's living room floor, glowing embers in the belly of the fire, cups of hawthorn and artichoke tea on the coffee table, and Meg’s famous ferments watching over us from the shelves. You’ll hear us accidentally knocking the microphones, some...