Recombination Nation

Rebecca Burgess is the executive director and founder of the slow clothing cooperative Fibreshed, centred in California. She has developed a world leading network of growers, processors, craftspeople and designers pioneering the paddock to wardrobe movement.

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Stewart Waine is a passionate berry breeder from England who is doing incredible work with bramble berries, strawberries and gooseberries, extending his expertise as a chef into the garden to produce all the flavours that are so hard to buy in the shops.

Check out Stewart's inspiring posts on Twitter.

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James Shapiro has spent a life time studying the evolvability of life and its capacity to change itself and the mechanisms by which it changes on multiple different levels with countless mechanisms.

For an in depth read on his theories check out Evolution: A View from the 21st Century

Or explore his website The Third Way- Evolution in the Era of Genomics and Epigenomics,

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Andrew Cutler started out researching LLMs and the analysis of the fundamental elements of human personality but has since branched out into explorations of the evolutionary origin of modern human consciousness (hinted at in countless oral histories shared by multiple cultures today).

Check out more of his work at Vectors of Mind on Substack.

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Jacob Wolki is an innovator and advocate for regenerative farming, running a direct to consumer mixed livestock farm in rural Australia. We talk about the impact of animal genetics on the viability of such operations, and the impact of new technology on the perpetual challenge of marketing and sales.

Check out Wolki Farms website

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Ashley Fitzgerald took the path less travelled, through a PhD on subsistence agriculture in the USA, to a stint of idyllic rural life in Uruguay, then back into the bubbling cauldron of American suburbia.

We discuss the lessons learnt from this life of creative and hopeful responses to the challenges of our time,

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Stefan Schmitz is the executive director of Crop Trust, an international non-profit working to preserve crop genetic diversity and support food security across the globe. The organisation was a key contributor to the Svalbard seed vault along with countless similar organisations in less dramatic locations. We discussed the potential for amateur crop breeders to collaborate with large institutions.

Learn more about Crop Trust on their website and YouTube channel.

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Emily Robison turned her lifelong passion for textile arts into a journey across the planet learning about diverse spinning and weaving traditions from Micronesia to the remote corners of the Mediterranean. We talk in depth about her experience exploring the dying craft of sea silk (spun from the holdfast threads of clams) and her efforts to adapt these techniques to new species in North America.

Check out an array of beautiful creations on Emily's Instagram.

Read more about the Sea Silk Project.

Check out the new short documentary film about my experimental farm.

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Tom Wagner is a legendary tomato and potato breeder who is eager to pass on his knowledge and material to other folks keen to carry on the tradition.

If you have some crop breeding experience and would like to take your practice to the next level, Tom is looking for serious collaborators to pass the torch onto. He is also interested in creating podcasts or video documentaries to capture his expertise and vision for the future. Tom is hoping to take on an assistant in Washington State and other locations he visits to facilitate this work. If this opportunity sounds interesting get in touch with Tom at thoswagner at yahoo dot com.

Check out Tom's potato forum at Tatermater

And the sister forum on Tomatoville

Check out the new short documentary film about Shane's experimental farm.

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Damon Zumbroegel left behind a successful career in architecture in the USA to find the living roots of civilisation in rural Burma and the mountains of Nepal. We discuss how he inspired the locals to revive an exhausted piece of land on the banks of the mighty Irrawaddy river, the design principles behind monasteries and high end hotels, and the diverging fates of Nepal (which westernised) and Burma (which sustained its traditions).

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Check out the new short documentary film about my experimental farm.

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Read Shane's book, Taming the Apocalypse, about the future of post industrial biological technology.