THE REGENERATIVE HOUR: Can we turn the 2020s into ‘The Regenerative Decade’? In this series of interviews about what that would imply, we talk ecology, deep adaptation, grief, compassion and passion, connecting with nature, resilience, revitalisation, restoration, revolution… – the bigger picture, in other words.

“A dance between hope and grief”

In the 23rd Regenerative Hour, Mik meets the 23-year-old artist, musician and environmental consultant Quinn Earth Child at his home in the suburb Norlane in northern Geelong.

On his latest EP, ‘Cinnamon Dream Boat’, Quinn explores five “solistalgic indie folk-landscapes” – songs which he says arose from a childhood contemplating the threats of civilisation to their environment. Accompanied by Quinn’s illustrations these tracks are, as described on the EP cover, “a dance between hope and grief”.

Quinn explains how his surname Earth Child came about, how has become inspired to work as a permaculture teacher, about the concept of ‘permablitz’, and about the work his is doing together with groups such as The Farm Next Door and Transition Norlane.

→ Quinn Earth Child’s Facebook page and Instagram page

→ Listen to Quinn’s music on his Bandcamp page

“Start where you are, use what you have, and do what you can… Pick up a shovel – and let’s start working towards the future we want to see in everything we do.”

View this post on Instagram Thank you so much to the #Transition Norlane #Community for the 1st Northern Backyard #WorkingBee (which happened pre-covid), here at EarthChild #Cottage! Seriously thank you from the bottom of our hearts! This is an example of #social #permaculture, feeding a permaculture demonstration site so that it can feed the people in turn. This last back half of the #garden has been an innaccessable sea of cooch grass between old fruit trees for most of my life. This last area of the cottage to be implemented has come at a perfect time; As we are beginning to see the fragile lines of our globalised post-industrial food systems shocked in the face of this pandemic. This scenario shines the light on the deadly necessary #resilliance of #bio-regional, small-scale,