Natasha discusses the necessity of finding non-human guides, the responsibility we have to make room for plants, anthropomorphism, restoration ecology, and reconfiguring our relationship to the future.
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An ode to this “talisman of adaptation and creativity,” our interview with Rowen circles Native seeds, the myth of individual self sufficiency, the cultural dimensions of biodiversity, biocolonialism and safeguarding agricultural heritage against patenting, seed work as slow work, and reweaving cultures of belonging.
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Ayana and Linda discuss what will be left in the wake of COVID-19, how will we tend to the wounds of disposability? What systems will endure? What must we dismantle and what will we grow? How can we deepen our actions so that they are not just a response to fear, but are rooted in the promise of collective wellbeing?
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Milla invites us to root ourselves through the very soil, minerals, water and air of our own bodies. Listen in as we shed what is old and give ourselves to the stream of life pulsing through the body of nature.
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Layla and Ayana explore borderless ecologies, stories from the SWANA* region, what it looks like to embody relationship- rather than performance- culture, native plant revival, and the wealth of diasporic memory.
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With great heart and tenderness, Ayana and Wolf explore folk herbalism as a green portal and agent of holistic wellness, the visceral personalities of place, tending unique bioregional cultures and ecologies, unbounding judgement from our mistakes, the potency of gratitude, and discovery within the weedy margins.
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Beginning with fungal diversity, our conversation with Christian grows to discuss the global mushroom market, migration patterns, and invasive versus native fungi.
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Sefra and Ayana look into the culture of seed saving, the importance of diversity in the global food supply, the grave impacts of seed relief on local agro-economic systems, undermining seed oligarchies, and the ways in which being in relationship with seeds offer us a deeper connection to all dimensions of life
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Ayana’s conversation with Kerry spans the dreamiest of worlds, from the surreal and psychedelic presence of lichens to the magic of creating life post-capitalism.
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Steven and Ayana explore the ideas of co-creative integrated polyculture, living reciprocally with the land, autonomous evolution of nature, invasive species, and the origins of our food and medicine plants.
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Together with Rob, we explore what it could look like to move beyond the “build it and they will come mentality” towards a more inclusive “let’s build it together” paradigm of collectives and cooperation.
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Buhner is the earth speaking on behalf of themselves. He beautifully and scientifically challenges us to give ourselves fully and humbly in our relationships with our more than human elders and kin, he asks us to walk our talk when it comes to unlearning human supremacy and civilized consumptive conditioning through relationship to plants.
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Dr. Kimmerer is active in efforts to broaden access to environmental science training for Indigenous students, and to introduce the benefits of traditional ecological knowledge to the scientific community, in a way that respects and protects indigenous knowledge.
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Meet Ron Finley, an artist, designer and a South LA “gangsta” gardener who made the change he wanted to see in his own neighborhood. Together, we learn about how people power and community agitation can facilitate change. As more communities organize to shape their own lives, hope spreads like a seed on the wind.
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Drawing on groundbreaking new discoveries, Peter Wohlleben studies the social life of trees, how they rely on one another and build communities. Our tree elders have so much to teach us about relationship building and community.
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In conversation with Radical Mycology’s Peter McCoy we invoke the powers of fungi in Earth healing and into our delicate and compromised biosphere including a discussion of cutting-edge uses of fungi for personalized medicine, myco-remediation in confronting industrial agriculture, extractivism and other major pollution.
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Today we welcome back Peter McCoy, who speaks on behalf of the fungi, the most overlooked and misrepresented organisms in the web of life.
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Dr. Kimmerer is active in efforts to broaden access to environmental science training for Indigenous students, and to introduce the benefits of traditional ecological knowledge to the scientific community, in a way that respects and protects indigenous knowledge.
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Rosemary Gladstar joins us to discuss her activism in protecting and restoring medicinal plants and their habitats. She is a pioneer in the herbal movement and has been called the 'godmother of American Herbalism'.
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We return with Stephen to explore these questions… What has the role of psychedelics been in human and plant evolution? What is the ecological function of art? How is science changing as it moves out of reductionism? What do the heart, the brain, and the gut have in common?
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