Regenerative Revolution Podcast

By Jennings Ingram

Welcome to the experimental learning vehicle of the Regenerative Revolution Podcast! Exploring all the juicy, fascinating facets of the earth regeneration movement, such as food forestry, mycology, an... more

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September 20, 2022 Regenerative Rituals Beta: You're invited! 👀 (Listen before 9/29)
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9min
September 13, 2022Reforesting Our Minds & Decolonizing Our Relationship with Plant Medicine with Amanda Michele of Activated Living
Today Amanda Michele, a.k.a. @activatedliving shares with us her worldview as an indigenous Guarani sister, bridging our western world with indigenous thought and perspective. We discuss decolonizing our minds and worldviews, how important it is to decenter humanity as superior & how “earth is dying” rhetoric is a colonial construct. We also unpack the problems with the “permaculture” framework and how it doesn’t acknowledge active & living ancestral/native land care practices, mental/philosophical history of colonization & the importance of reforesting our minds. She gives us a lens on the current craze of pathological application of psychedelic plant medicines outside their historical cultural context, how they’re used in the Guarani culture, and how we can approach both plant medicine and our relationship with the planet in a better way.
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Show Notes:
Brazilian indigenous activist running for Congress who coined the term "reforesting our minds:" Sonia Guajajara

“Earth is dying” is a colonial construct: climate destruction as a natural progression of what’s happening. “Mother earth is dying” rhetoric - that idea and thought is a very colonial construct

There is a vast diversity of indigenous views and that they all support the fact that we are part of nature, not separate from it.

Permaculture as a framework is creating a bit of a problem - narrative of these ancestral/native land care practices as lost practices. This is completely wrong because they’re still active and still alive, still actively being used re: land connection, farming, harvest. It's erasing the native, indigenous, first nation practices that are still here.

Jennings coming to terms with having lived on colonized land her whole life & it barely having been mentioned or spoken about, or referred to.

The point of colonization is to forget that there were original peoples of the land that actually had its own systems & in order for us to create something. Decolonizing seeps into all areas of our lives.

Colonizers didn’t have mindset of relationship with land - so seeing lush, beautiful spaces were seen as uninhabited rather than intelligently managed, which created a mindset for clearing of the land and the people there.

Plant medicine now being utilized as a pathological way of healing, vs. reforesting our minds& decolonizing our minds before diving into plant medicines, native/indigenous gardening practives or things of that nature

We got here from how we are thinking and how we view the world. Giving the mic to native/indigenous people, honoring those voices & perspectives is essential.

& so much more!
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59min
August 26, 2022 Syncing Ancient Goddess Culture w/ Modern Regeneration: It's all about the cycles!
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I’ve been reading and learning so much about ancient goddess culture, and seeing so many insersections between that and this movement we’re all being tasked with engaging with right now.
Soo, in this mini episode we’re exploring these parts of our lost psychic heritage together: the mythical, cultural origins of nature-based, life & goddess worshiping societies, and how we can re-honor those by working with cycles in this modern moment. (!!)
Sometimes I feel like such a weirdo approaching this planetary regeneration work, like I’m walking in both the worlds of femininity/goddess culture + earth care … so this historical context is SO affirming to learn about.
We only get to dive into a small slice of what exists here, such as ancient Minoan culture in Crete, which was “a society in which the whole of life was pervaded by an ardent faith in goddess nature: the source of all creation and harmony.” (!!)
Especially as the recognition of our oneness with nature & honoring of natural cycles is re-emerging as a prerequisite for our ecological survival, reconnecting to both our mythic past and what we can do about it today is sooo empowering. I hope you find this intersection as juicy and fascinating as I do!

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21min
August 13, 2022Restoring the Water Cycle as a Viable Career Path with Zach Weiss of Water Stories
Today we sit down with Zach Weiss, protege of legendary Sepp Holzer, to talk about the vital importance of rehydrating the Earth’s body with “blood” (water) and how this is a growing and viable career path. Only 4-20% of global heat dynamics are regulated by carbon, and between 70 & 90% regulated by water; so why isn’t restoring the water cycle central to the climate change discussion? How we treat the natural world has led us into the watershed death spiral, and we have the tools and knowledge to reverse that. (Every place in the world receives enough rain, it’s just a matter of how many times that rain is used before it leaves & setting up landscape to receive the rain rather than reject it.) Restoring a healthy water cycle is the major civilizational redesign needed by humanity at this time, and Water Stories works to make it accessible & viable. There are multiple pathways to joining with this movement, including getting trained up by Zach in their core course, joining the community and sharing information and stories with others passionate about this work, creating decentralized water retention features on your own land & becoming a water advocate. We dive into all this together and I’m so excited for you to listen, learn, and act by joining the movement!
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Show Notes:
Around the world we are either dealing with horrible drought, wildfire, flood - climatic patterns are becoming more erratic and extreme, also temperatures. This is a direct result of our previous management decisions - how we treat the natural world has led us into the watershed death spiral.

Other side of spectrum: humans can have reverse impact, creating healthy abundant environments with lots of food and water when we have a different relationship with water, earth, and the natural environment.

⅓ earth’s surface has been desertified in last 10,000 years - but the same powerful energy that’s been used to destroy can be used for repairing and reconnecting and telling better stories. Enough people making the choice to say I want the earth to become healthier each year will turn this around.

Possibility for regenerated water cycle: every place in the world receives enough rain, it’s a matter of how many times that rain is used before it leaves - setting up landscape to receive the rain rather than reject it.

How to start to have a neutral water footprint: DIY Infiltration features

What can we do? Engage with the platform to learn about and connect with others to actively participate in water restoration, whether as a profession and as on the ground work or as an advocate, working on policy.

Before & after dramatic community transformations: In India, 9 ha of ag scaled up to 650, cost of dam paid off in first year in agricultural productivity, caused reverse of migration of young people out of the village. (¼ cost of what yielded in 1 year changed permanently for better). Another india example: Revived 250k wells, reviving 7 rivers & reducing temp 2 degrees.

Talking about water and how disrupting it is disturbing the climate requires us to rethink a lot of things: how we’re developing places, destroyin rivers, draining wetlands - more interconnected discussion that’s more complex than 1 simple problem we need to take care of. Addressing carbon isn’t enough - it’s lack of water and conflicts that arise from that that people will die from.

And sooo much more!
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52min
July 27, 2022Redesigning Ourselves Into the Landscape & Syntropic Living with Klaus & Frida of Permadynamics
WATCH FIRST: This amazing mini documentary on Permadynamics for context
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Klaus, Frida, and their family run Permadynamics, a massively inspiring intergenerational syntropy & permaculture-based research farm and education center in New Zealand. They've taught over 2,000 students about caring for the soil, sequestering carbon, cycling water, cherishing diversity, orchestrating succession dynamics and achieving natural abundance within a creative livelihood. We dive into how they're living this amazing place-based, regenerative, thriving lifestyle as a family, their advice for people looking to create lives like this for themselves, all that's available to us when we live this type of lifestyle (so much more than money!), and the importance of redesigning human presence into the landscape in a positive way. Plus sooo much more! Their family is really living the example so many of us are wanting to move towards at this time, and it's an incredible opportunity from people who have gone for this dream and are thriving in it.
Show notes:
How permadynamics was formed with them as a family: permanently dynamic flowing structure with emphasis on foundation in syntropy and permaculture

Klaus’s introduction to studying this with Ernst Gotsch, originator of syntropic agroforestry & learning over time/through his mistakes & continued study of ecological literacy, and his experience helping transition slash-and-burn farmers to syntropic perennial cash crop farmers in the Amazon

How this lifestyle works for them to make a living: It’s hard work, and they utilize the 8 forms of capital: experiential, intellectual, spiritual, social, material, financial, living and cultural capital

Designing people INTO the landscape instead of out of it (most modern agriculture designs people out of it, which is problematic on many levels). Being empowered in our capability as positive changemakers in our environment!

Using syntropic agroforestry to turn depleted land around & increase land capital (plus the ability to buy land that’s in bad shape often gives you a better deal & makes this more financially accessible).

Life in syntropy video showing Ernst Gotsch's work: They're keeping that ball rolling! (Syntropy as the reverse of entropy & it's their main tool for repairing damaged and degraded soils.)

Thinking in time in relationship to vegetation - what is the current vegetation preparing the soil for? How is succession working? (The earth wants to be covered with plants!) Our role participating in the system is to bring vegetation to its fullest expression & shape it to feed us.

Advice for people with limited land access/stuck in apartment living: unwise to run out of the city to buy land or join an ecovillage right away, suggest to form relationships with local farmers and visit/learn from them/help on your days off. And see if they have some small piece of land you can work with/will get food/get experience steering vegetation, etc.

Integrating your expertise and existing experience and passions to the movement - don’t feel like you have to totally change what you do and who you are! It’s about adding all our skill sets together.

Ways people can learn from them, in-person and online!
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55min
July 13, 2022 Going from Lonely & Broke to Thriving via Aligning with Nature (my story!) & The Huge Opportunity in Energy Descent Culture
Holding this deep belief of higher/more rooted/regenerative possibility for humanity can feel soo lonely, especially in a culture built around materialism and consumption! When I started on this path 6 years ago, my life was extremely different from how it is now. In this episode I tell my personal story of going from being depressed and alone under the covers with a laptop working in ways I hated, just starting learning about permaculture online, to my life now: living in the tropics, helping so many amazing people create thriving foodscapes and creating content to help advance the movement. Happy, provided for and plugged in! I know it's possible, because I'm living it.
We also dive into how my modestly growing success in this niche is representative of this HUGE (and so far drastically underserved!) need for transition of our culture as we move further and further into the reality of energy descent. This need for transition can be a source of doom/gloom/distress, but when we shift our lens and frame the solutions as modalities that can be learned, and structural shifts as opportunities for business structures ripe for creation, we see what's happening as the HUGE window of opportunity that it is.
I'm here to support you, whether you just want to grow healthy food with your family or if you're wanting to dive into the creation of these types of paradigm-shifting businesses! Green Guidance sessions come with plenty of research and resources done for you ahead of time, lots of ideas and insights, and are affordably priced for accessibility. It's time to shift our paradigm of existence on this planet to one that honors and works with life, and you're invited to be part of it! Email [email protected] or DM me on IG @foodforestgoddess to start myceliating.
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35min
June 11, 2022Self Reliance & Reproductive Autonomy with Atchie Bernstein
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Working with the living systems of our bodies for female bodied people is a critical area for education & empowerment at this moment in time. As we’re all painfully aware, in the US we’re currently under threat of the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling being overturned (!!). This ruling established women’s rights to access abortion, and if it’s overturned, it could potentially leave a lot of people who can get pregnant (especially in midwestern and southeastern states) without access to abortion clinics. In this potentially gnarly moment in history for bodily autonomy, the good news is that we have a lot of options regardless of what’s happening in politics! This includes, of course, the birth control we’re familiar with, as well as some options we may not be educated on, such as practicing the fertility awareness method and accessing certain aid networks for abortion. We’re joined by fertility awareness educator Atchie Bernstein to dive into these topics & help us step back into our power!
Links:
Aid Access
Atchie’s website & booking contact or reach out to her on Instagram
Samantha Zipporah’s Please Bleed book & Fruit of Knowledge platform
Medicine stories Cycle tracking episode

Show notes:
Interweaving bodily autonomy & sustainability: Lowering our waste, self-reliance without need for potentially unavailable medical system, becoming more self reliant beings within more self reliant systems

The Fertility Awareness method: understanding our window of fertility using a sympto-thermal method (tracking basal body temperature & cervical mucus). The fertility awareness method & the rhythm method are two distinctly different methods. FAM gives us a powerful window into overall hormonal health, conscious contraception - can use chart to know if time of sperm exposure & gives time to choose early appropriate methods for contraception - in much earlier window to make decisions for yourself!

Knowledge is power: being aware of our choices & fully informed on all options is the way to go.

Femtech & the dangers of relying on an app to give us a red or green light

Connecting with our cycles & giving our moon blood back to nature: the only bloodshed that's not through violence

Taking our power back: This is a powerful form of resistance to go against these stigmas & taboos that tell us our cycles are to be feared.

Dealing with an unwanted sperm exposure: being prepared by charting, Plan B isn’t effective if you’ve already ovulated (it only works to delay ovulation, which gets you outside of the window in which sperm could survive),

Plant options for implantation inhibitors (more detail in the Medicine Stories episode & by consulting an herbalist) include Queen Anne’s lace

Medication pregnancy release options: available without any contact with medical professionals or clinics through Aid Access (can now order in advance in case you need them) or local networks of people with access to those medications such as abortion doula networks with confidential contacts. Reach out to Atchie for these contacts if you need contacts.
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43min
June 03, 2022 7 Lessons from 29 Years of Existence (a.k.a. part of the user guide I wish I got when incarnating as a human)
Growing up in America was... really strange. In a culture where many of us can viscerally feel that things aren't what they seem, where we can feel that so much is left out, we're basically left to our own devices to cope with that weirdness and find meaningful ways to be in the world. My (often very humbling) experience navigating this strange landscape for a solid 29 years now is what's led me to this work in food forestry, permaculture, systems thinking, and now podcasting. It's been like discovering clues as shiny threads as I've gone along, collecting them, and starting to weave something that resembles a life that I actually like. During one of those nights where the ideas keep coming instead of sleep, I realized there are several key things I REALLY wish someone would have told me about being a person from the get go. And the decision to record those is where this episode is coming from: an attempt at a partial mini manual about being incarnated as a person that's radically different from what we're taught in school and socialized into by the media.
Dana Meadows on Visioning
To Be Magnetic (Inner child/shadow meditation resource)
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37min
May 17, 2022Collective Ecosystem & Community Restoration with John D. Liu
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Unconditonal Freedom Project (Prison self development & garden program)

John D. Liu, ecologist, filmmaker and founder of the Ecosystem Restoration Camp movement joins us to talk about this approach to accessible, participatory large scale restoration of degraded landscapes (and how he learned this was possible by filming the restoration of the legendary Loess plateau in China!), and how this revitalizes livelihoods, society, biology, and the human spirit when done well. We also talk about how the concept for this model came to him through his dreams (!), correcting current systemic dysfunction by re-aligning our consciousness and societies with the equation of how Earth actually works, sacred texts & cosmology pointing us to this knowledge, the evolution of the human brain, and so much more!
Everyone listening is invited to engage deeply in this work by joining or starting up their own living laboratory, a.k.a. Ecosystem Restoration Camp. Each camp is autonomous, self-organizing, and self-governed; the organization just links the network for outreach, knowledge and resource sharing. If youre feeling disconnected and wanting to make a change in your life, gain community, and gain skills, head to https://ecosystemrestorationcamps.org, pick the camp you want to go to, and reach out!
Show notes:
How John learned that large scale ecosystem restoration is possible & how the model for this organization came to him through his dreams

Current systemic dysfunction of grinding up the Earth to make ruins people will find in the future while harming nature's life support systems

Physics as the natural laws that regulate Earth systems

The importance of using the advances of technology for to spread useful knowledge, such as: hydrological cycle, carefully tending paradise, soil health, etc.

Broad scale disconnection & the collective dream

The potential landmates, businesses, friendships that are there to be connected with at these camps

Valuing the living systems of earth: rediscovering what the native/indigenous cultures have known and lived by for millennia and how ridiculous it is that colonizers from Europe didn’t recognize they were consciously, intelligently managing all these life systems

Establishing restoration camps with integration/deference to & involvement of the culture & people of the place

Social ecosystems: Central kitchens integrated with locally grown produce, means of production for woodworking/metal working/mechanics/ sewing/ceramics/art/etc. as a way to engage people in what needs to be done instead of focusing on making money. And cultural stages for music/theater/education (needs: healthy physical/emotional lives, meaningful work, and to transmit the culture)

Applying this work to refugee situations & prisons (The Unconditional Freedom Project) & using prison time as an opportunity for inmates to upskill in propagation & species preservation to prepare them for meaningful work after release.

So much more!
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1h 14min
April 20, 2022Feminine Food Forest Design & Higher Possibility for Humanity with Ash Coombs
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In this interview with food forest designer Ash Coombs, we dive into how she’s created a thriving career for herself in this (literally!) growing industry, and the importance of restoring our direct relationship to the master artist of Earth. Cultivating this direct relationship through food forests reconnects us with the ability to meet our own basic needs, a crucial step for humanity in this global moment. We flesh out the vision of this higher possibility for empowered society, as well as going into the practical steps of how Ash has educated herself and started her business. Ash shares with us resources she recommends for anyone wanting to get into or advance in this line of work (she even has a mentorship program!) and the whole episode will help you remember our power as co-creators in shifting from being consumers to producers!
Show notes:
Definition of a food forest: An assembly of plants that mimics the ecosystem with layers of edible and medicinal plants, that’s also closed-loop, self-sustaining and symbiotic.

Meeting our needs for food, oxygen, medicines, and construction material so that we don’t have to travel far away for or import.

Holding the vision, streets lined with trees dripping gemstone fruit and how there’s such a thin barrier between our current reality and this higher possibility

Ash’s practical steps to establishing her business: utilizing free educational resources & on the ground training, doing Geoff Lawton’s PDC, formulating the template of her business by asking herself what she would want from a business & writing it down - includes questionnaires to clarify goals (lighthouses to keep us on track), costs & how to work it out in phases (starting with longer lived perennials that should go in ASAP & ending with shrub/herbaceous layer), 3 different package options for people with different levels of cost and engagement

How to implement food forests on a large scale: Discussing why it’s important & naming understanding and motivation for change as the biggest weak spots of humanity

Food forest growing as the experience of miracles & magic, and as a team sport!

So much more!
Resources from Ash for onboarding into this career:
This podcast!
Geoff Lawton’s Permaculture Design Course (online or in person)
Book: Gaia’s Garden by Toby Hemenway
Masanobu Fukuoka’s One Straw Revolution
Bill Mollison’s lectures on Youtube
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57min

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