Listen to our elders. Listen to the earth. That’s what Rebecca Sullivan aka. Granny Skills urges us all to do.

This fast-paced conversation delves into Rebecca's commitment to local food systems, regenerative agriculture and Warndu, the Indigenous food farm and educational business she concocted with her hubby in South Australia's North West.

With a son on the way, Rebecca shares how she plans to help him - and all youngsters - avoid eco-anxiety: listen, ask questions, act without fear and always be kind - to yourself, to others, to mother earth. 

We reckon you’ll love this mama-to-be, regen farmer and food educator’s sound advice, vast experience, incredible life story and infinite warmth just as much as we did. 

Let’s hear it for Granny Skills!

SHOW NOTES

• Rebecca chats about her formative years, early entrepreneurship and audacity to sell tampons to Santa Claus. 
• How she came to appreciate the influence and importance of our elders. 
• Her experience of tree and soil farming, and hopes to leave a land legacy.
• How she strikes a balance between urgency and legacy in her work.
• Her approach to being an ambassador (i.e not selling out to get free shit)
• How she’s slowly learning to build daily rituals.
• Why the seasons scare her.
• How she brings people on her journey.
• How we can build more native food forests.
• How she’s taken her brand Warndu, an Australian native plant food business, to the world - as a white girl.
• How to redefine success by listening and adapting to the bigger power out there.
• Why her contribution to society is valid and important - everyone’s is! 
• The importance of embracing failure.
• How to find pleasure in the simplest of things.
• Letting joy come from lessons learned.
• How to manage eco anxiety to ensure we can still feel hope.
• Helping people break habits and form better ones.
• Why food is a powerful tool to discover more about Aboriginal culture.
• The power of childlike curiosity, asking questions and listening.

LINKS YOU'll LOVE

• Rebecca Sullivan
• Books: “The art of Natural Beauty”, “The art of Natural Cleaning”, “The art of herbs for health”, “The art of edible flowers", “Warndu Mai, Good Food”
• Insta: Granny Skills + Warndu

Support the show