Reskillience

Apr 13 2025 48 ep. 70 mins 36
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Reskillience is a podcast about the hard, soft and surprising skills that'll help us stay afloat if our modern systems don't. Hosted by Catie Payne, released weekly.

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Permaculture on the Spectrum with Anna Matilda

Apr 13 2025 68 mins  
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 the status quo, sharing openly about how she does permaculture solo, in the city, in a re

How To Grow Crazy Resilient Vegetables with Gregg Mueller

Mar 30 2025 70 mins  
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 seed monopolies and sovereignty, open source seeds, permaculture pitfalls aaaaaand sad

What if It's Not Dystopia? With Permaculture Elder Linda Woodrow

Mar 23 2025 57 mins  
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, and I think you'll dig what she has to say about finding our niches, neighbours, purpose

The Health Episode // Sensitivity As Resilience with Anthia Koullouros

Mar 09 2025 63 mins  
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 [https://apothecabyanthia.com/] of Apothēca Organic Teas & Apothecary. * What's making us all so sick? * How to untangle complex & confounding health crises * Polyvagal theory & nervous system tru

Slow Textile Revival with the makers of The Nettle Dress

Mar 02 2025 65 mins  
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 [https://www.nettledress.org/] — which I have now seen twice — co-created by Dylan Howitt and Allan Brown. It's a love letter to old skills, hand crafts and everything that cann

Altered States, Imaginal Realms & Co-Becoming with Dr Maya Ward

Feb 23 2025 72 mins  
Today's subject matter is so slippery and mysterious that even my guest, Dr Maya Ward [https://www.mayaward.com.au/], 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 whispers and shouts of the world with pen and paper. It's s

The Pursuit of Discomfort & Pirate Bananas With Charlie McGee

Feb 16 2025 67 mins  
Real good fun with this one! Join me and Formidable Vegetable [https://formidablevegetable.com.au/]'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 deep discomfort of home ownership and remembering

Home As Habitat, Garden As Wild with Tanya Loos

Feb 09 2025 66 mins  
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 * Gardens as habitat * The housing crisis facing possums (and other critte

Jord & Catie interview each other in the back of a van

Jan 13 2025 76 mins  
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 [https://happenfilms.com/], sharing stories for a more beautiful world, and precisely one year ago we recorded a Reskillience

Life, but Make It Herby with Caroline Parker

Dec 29 2024 58 mins  
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 [https://www.thecottageherbalist.com.au/] ~ The Cottage Herbalist ~ bigtime girl crush and quite possibly the love child of a 1950s rock star and wiccan goddess. Caroline is an author, speaker, grower, edu