Recombination Nation

Professor David Shields is most often known for his work restoring Carolina Golden Rice to prominence in his native South Carolina, but this conversation goes further to explore parallel projects returning a wide range of preindustrial crops to the local food system. We also explore the culture impact of food, and its essential role as a touchstone for identity and belonging.

Read more of David's work at his blog: https://davidsanfordshields.substack.com

Check out his many books starting here:

https://www.amazon.com/Southern-Provisions-Creation-Revival-Cuisine/dp/022614111X

https://www.amazon.com/Ark-Taste-Delicious-Distinctive-Define/dp/031647732X

He can be reached through his university: https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/artsandsciences/english_language_and_literature/our_people/directory/shields_david.php

Find more of Shane's work at Substack: https://recombinationnation.substack.com

Read his book, Taming the Apocalypse, about the future of post industrial biological technology: https://www.amazon.com/Taming-Apocalypse-Shane-Simonsen-ebook/dp/B0D2XCLJ85/

The Honest Sorcerer is an engineer from Eastern Europe with a passion for studying the resource limits squeezing our global industrial economy. We talk about the intersections between advancing technology, eroding resources, deflating demographics and scrambling politics along with many other topics usually considered in isolation. The discussion peaks with a survey of the geopolitics of all the major regions of the planet.

Read more of The Honest Sorcerer on Substack: https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com

Find more of Shane's work at Substack: https://recombinationnation.substack.com

Read his book, Taming the Apocalypse, about the future of post industrial biological technology: https://www.amazon.com/Taming-Apocalypse-Shane-Simonsen-ebook/dp/B0D2XCLJ85/

Bruce Steele works with resilient, low input staple crops (including oaks for flour) and breeds heritage mangalitsa pigs in Southern California.

Check out Bruce's substack: https://steeleb.substack.com

Learn more about Bruce's farm: https://www.winfieldfarm.us

Read Shane's weekly blog for free, or support his work with a paid subscription to get access to his audiobook and archive of past posts: https://recombinationnation.substack.com

John Michael Greer is a historian of religion, the occult, and every aspect of history that typical historians overlook. In this conversation we explore the cultural impact of industrialisation and deindustrialization, and the many ways the future will be weirder and more wonderful than expected.

Read John's weekly blog posts: https://www.ecosophia.net

John's dreamwidth journal: https://ecosophia.dreamwidth.org

All of Johns many and varied books can be found here and at other distributors: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B001IOFELW

Find more of Shane's work at Substack: https://recombinationnation.substack.com

Read his book, Taming the Apocalypse, about the future of post industrial biological technology: https://www.amazon.com/Taming-Apocalypse-Shane-Simonsen-ebook/dp/B0D2XCLJ85/

Mandy operates a fantastic nursery in England specialising in a mind blowing diversity of perennial vegetables. Shane interviews her about her collecting and breeding projects, the challenges of running a commercial nursery, the advantages of buying rural land as a collective and loads of other topics.

Learn more about Mandy's nursery : https://incrediblevegetables.co.uk/about-us/

Find more of Shane's work at Substack: https://recombinationnation.substack.com

Read his book, Taming the Apocalypse, about the future of post industrial biological technology: https://www.amazon.com/Taming-Apocalypse-Shane-Simonsen-ebook/dp/B0D2XCLJ85/

Shane talks to Sebastian Coccioba about his obsession with plant biotechnology, and how his determination to build his own home laboratory (including a gun that shoots genes into plants) paid off. Also includes a survey of all the techniques an independent scientist could consider mastering.

Read more of Sebastian's work at his open lab book : https://binomicalabs.notion.site/?v=cc508bd627a64aa7bf84512445e87e8e

Follow Sebastian's updates : https://x.com/ATinyGreenCell

Find more of Shane's work at Substack: https://recombinationnation.substack.com

Read his book, Taming the Apocalypse, about the future of post industrial biological technology: https://www.amazon.com/Taming-Apocalypse-Shane-Simonsen-ebook/dp/B0D2XCLJ85/

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Shane grills Simon Michaux on the key resource limits preventing the promised renewable energy transition and his comprehensive plans to develop a thorium powered alternative.

Read more about Simon's work at:

The complex systems limits threatening industrial civilisation: https://www.simonmichaux.com

The plan to build an alternative civilisation: https://www.promethean-nexus.com

The plan to develop sustainable thorium energy: https://www.vulcancatalyst.com

Follow Shane's work at Substack: https://recombinationnation.substack.com

Read his book, Taming the Apocalypse, about the future of post industrial biological technology: https://www.amazon.com/Taming-Apocalypse-Shane-Simonsen-ebook/dp/B0D2XCLJ85/

Thomas Picard is a landrace cucurbit breeder from France who works with melons, watermelon, pumpkin and kiwano.

You can read more about his work at the Going to Seed forum- https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/thomaspicard/summary

Links to the Going to Seed conference will be added once they are available.

Follow Shane's work at his Substack blog: https://recombinationnation.substack.com

Read his book, Taming the Apocalypse, about the future of post industrial biological technology: https://www.amazon.com/Taming-Apocalypse-Shane-Simonsen-ebook/dp/B0D2XCLJ85/

In this final episode of season 1, I outline plans for the podcast, Substack and planned YouTube channel in the coming year, then answer a stack of questions from followers of my work.

The podcast will be relaunching in November as Recombination Nation, so stay subscribed while I take a break and prepare for a stellar second season.

Find more of Shane’s work at:

Zero Input Agriculture blog

Taming the Apocalypse audiobook

Our Vitreous Womb

Shane talks with Harriet Mella, an independent soil scientist from Austria about the complexity and resilience of the life beneath our feet and its critical role in supporting crop health (in parallel with crop breeding).

Check out Harriet's soil science web course launching soon: http://agricurls.com/

Find more of Shane’s work at:

Zero Input Agriculture blog: https://zeroinputagriculture.substack.com

Taming the Apocalypse audiobook - https://www.kobo.com/au/en/audiobook/taming-the-apocalypse-2

Our Vitreous Womb - https://www.amazon.com/Our-Vitreous-Womb-Book-1-4-ebook/dp/B0C7H9N1K3/