S1E7 Matt Swarbrick - Henbant Permaculture Farm - Part One
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Release Date: 10/09/2020
S2E6 Stewarding the Land and Regenerating Ecosystems With Heritage Cows, with Nikki Yoxall
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S2E4 Designing your death and a livelihood with permaculture - Kt Shepherd
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S2E3 Small and Slow (Then Grow)
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Join Finn for another episode reflecting on some of the symptoms of Too Many Ideas Syndrome (TMIS), this time focusing on bringing awareness to patterns of thought (with potentially quasi-colonial origins) that may be tripping you up when imagining your ideal regenerative livelihood idea.
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S2E2 Find Your Focus
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Finding it hard to focus on a particular cause? Unsure whether or not you are effectively serving your cause?
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S2E1 Regenerative Supply Webs with Hodmedod's Josiah Meldrum
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Plague Hiatus (Welcome to 2021)
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This podcast will not be releasing episodes regularly because lockdown, burnout, depression and little red wiggly worms have won over my attention.
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S1E12 Dan Palmer on Regenerative Livelihoods and Holistic Decision Making
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Merry Solsticemas!!
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S1E11 Matt Swarbrick - Henbant Farm - Part 2
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Matt and I continue the conversation from Episode 7 with lots of laughter, some open-hearted chat and reflections on the Holistic Decision Making work we have been learning together.
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S1E10 Reflections with Finn - November 2020
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I embark on a reflective journey in Episode 10 of The Regenerative Livelihood:
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Storytime with Finn - #1?
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BONUS EPISODE!! Take a break from hard thought. Join me for a reading of The Big Brag by Dr. Seuss, then eat some custard creams or something.
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Today's conversation is with Matt Swarbrick, owner of Henbant Farm in north-west Wales. As well as a farmer Matt is an ecologist, former documentary producer with the BBC and a permaculture designer, and his project of a lifetime is to breathe life back into a derelict hill farm and its surrounding community by farming ecologically, holding courses, hosting campers and designing his regenerative livelihood within the landscape.
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This episode is the first of many with Matt, as we share with each other our respective journeys of carving out a regenerative livelihood. In this interview we get to know a bit about Matt's past, his present, and try to dig a bit at what it might be that defines Matt's essence, what makes him a truly unique individual, which we'll unpack a bit more of when we embark on our Part Two later on this year.
Through this mini-series, Matt and I are going to attempt to document our processes, and our reflections on those processes, on our journeys to discover what it means to live and work regeneratively. This means we'll be asking questions about, well, what does this MEAN in the first place? What does it feel like, when it's happening? And what does it look like, in practice? Excited? I am!
Every moment speaking with Matt was a moment joyfully lived, and I look forward to recording Part Two in the weeks to come!
Quote of the episode:
"In my head, the future of civilisation is in the hands of farmers. If anyone can turn us away from that cliff edge that society is heading towards, it's within the farming community...What could be a better job?! To produce stuff that's healthy, to be part of an ecosystem that's growing and understand that ecosystem, to be able to build that richness in it...Like, it's such a gift of a job!"
Music credit: Permanent Holiday by Mike Love