In our latest video we give an insight into the philosophy and structure of our bush school, Forest & Free, which we established several years ago. This is a 'school' built upon gifts, with few organisational costs, little administration, and a whole bunch of community trust, where the principal teacher is Mother Country.

For those turning away from the polarity trap of AI schooling and the neoliberal-transhuman programmes attached to it, and you'd like to start your own community-based learning group, you may find some useful things here.

As always, your comments are not just welcome but appreciated. We'd love to hear your thinkings and doings as you push further away from the global culture of hypertechnocivility and lean further into your local culture of magic making.

Patrick is guest on Tyson Yunkaporta's podcast The Other Others. In Tyson's words this is an "[i]ntimate yarn between two friends from two different families, cultures and online communities who ended up in... let's say incompatible algorithms, during Covid lockdowns, resulting in horrendously oppositional worldviews. Nothing we can't sort out with a good yarn. Because a yarn is almost like a 'conversation' but without the bullshit. Nobody is 'just asking questions' in a yarn, because you talk from your relation, not your position. The end result is not a resolution, compromise or any of that crap. It's... nah I'll let you listen through and find out for yourself."

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In this video we take you on a tour of the top 10 medicines that keep us outside the industrial medical complex. If you've never considered this list as medicines before, we ask you open to this next half hour as we reveal our story of health and well-being, and why our family hasn't required a medical centre or a doctor for many years.

As always your comments and additions are heartily welcomed.

Patrick shares some thoughts on diversity and inclusivity.

We had the pleasure of hosting Uncle Charles Davison, Jen Ridley and their youngest children, Minya and Yindi at the School of Applied Neopeasantry last week. Patrick, Jen and Charles made some room for a kitchen table chat for our podcast.

Jen and Charles' inner strength and wisdom to respond to colonialism within the sovereignty of family and community bonds while keeping a close eye on the continual threats and incarcerating mechanisms of white institutions – colonial spaces that continue to contrive to enclose, limit and construct minds of scarcity and fear – is empowering to behold.

We hope you enjoy this conversation and you appreciate that Jen and Charles' voices are not widely heard Indigenous perspectives within the highly conformed publishing environment of neoliberal (mainstream) media. We elevate them here in a spirit of a truer diversity and call for your deep listening.

The video we made with Jen and Charles can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0VPTcjjqAU&t=183s

Our latest missive. For references related to this piece head to https://artistasfamily.is/2023/01/12/the-body-politic-youngtimer-edition/

In this podcast, recorded a month ago on her birthday, Meg reflects on the intimate, the big picture, and everything that stitches them together. We hope you enjoy this hour with Meg Ulman, chief executive witch at the School of Applied Neopeasantry.

How do we transition from neoliberalism to something more beautiful, even as the Empire falls apart and takes so much life with it? An excerpt from Ryan Dickerson's interview of Patrick on his podcast Sacred Lab.

A new Artist as Family song to celebrate Meg on her birthday, featuring Maya Green on fiddle. See our blog for the written recipe...

Join Patrick as he asks timely questions of Bei Yin and Jashan Singh. Bei and Jashan's stories offer clarity, warmth, honesty and generative responses to the discussion of how we might reclaim the local village.