Today we have a brilliant, thought-provoking, challenging and just all round awesome episode for you all! Vedic meditation teacher Laura Poole is in conversation with Meg Ulman of Artist as Family. Meg lives with her partner Patrick, their sons Woody and Zephyr and their dog Zero in Daylesford, Victoria on a ¼ acre permaculture plot. It’s home to their ‘School of Applied Neopeasantry’ at Tree Elbow University on Djaara peoples' country. They live a life of deep connection to Nature and community, teaching radical neo-peasant homemaking, community economy making and other accountable living skills.

What we talk about

• How to get started living a permaculture life
• Unlearning, growing up and up-skilling
• Unschooling our kids
• Teaching ecological literacy to the next generation
• The magic of compost
• Learning from our first peoples and their connection to country
• The importance of dismantling patriarchy
• Capitalism and neo-liberalism to reclaim community and connection
• The complexity of living on unceded land
• Divesting from capitalist systems
• The one thing you can do right now to begin the change

Check out our journal post for the full interview + all the resources mentioned

Connect with Meg + Artist is Family

• Artist as Family Instagram
• Artist as Family Blog
• Artist as Family YouTube
• Permaculture Living Course at the School of Neopeseantry
• Read ‘The Art of Free Travel’ inspired by their 400 day journey on bikes from Daylesford to Cape York and back
• Watch their episodes on Happen Films

Websites

• Retro Suburbia
• Holmgren Design
• Permaculture Principles
• Permaculture Australia
• Transition towns
• HRN – Hepburn Relocalisation Network
• Milkwood Permaculture
• Happen Films - @happenfilms
• Wim Hof

Documentaries

• The World According to Monsanto
• Bullshit – Vandana Shiva
• King Corn
• The Need to Grow
• Kiss the Earth

Books

• The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is

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