The Octarine Tree

For those who have already been introduced to him, Gordon White needs no introduction.

For others, he is the curator of Rune Soup, a blog and podcast about magic and a thriving member community of people right across the world interested in the doing of magic; the intellectual and performative understanding of magic; and the improvement of our lives using magic. When not charming the pants off of the international magic community, Gordon presides over Permaculture Tasmania, all of this from his 5 acre permaculture homestead in southern Tasmania.

In this episode we muse sassily about...

-Sleep paralysis
-Growing up weird
-Gordon's magical path
-Connecting to country
-What the fuck to "do" with colonialism
-Future iterations of permaculture
-Perceived, energetic activation of the Australian landscape
-Finding right-relationship with the haunting of Australia

Music: "Magick Pen" by me.

SHOW NOTES
www.runesoup.com

BYRON JOEL'S WORK IN REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE
www.oaktreedesigns.com.au

BYRON'S MUSIC

Harry Greene is an agroforestry economist, a land steward, and an athlete. 
He strives to awaken human capacity by planning and planting the trees that improve our lives and our landscapes.

Before graduate school he spent two years as a resident athlete at the Colorado Springs Olympic Training Centre, competing in the sport of Modern Pentathlon. Once an Olympic hopeful, he competed on the World Cup circuit in countries such as Mexico and Egypt, and at the 2015 World Championships in Berlin.

Nowadays he is the co-founder and Chief Investments Officer at Propagate Ventures, based in Hudson, New York.

Propagate Ventures assists land managers to integrate profitable tree crops into working farms by bridging the capital and operational gaps needed to plant and manage productive agroforestry systems. 

We rap about:
-Dirty Dancing (finally!)

-The ecology of New England

-Harry's background in finance

-The economic viability of agroForestry and Harrys projects with Propagate Ventures

-J. Russell Smith

 ...and I rant about Australian Ecology (again)

SHOW NOTES
www.propagateventures.com

BYRON JOEL'S WORK IN REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE
www.oaktreedesigns.com.au

BYRON'S MUSIC

Richard Weller is an Australian landscape architect and academic. He is Professor and Chair of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He also holds the Martin and Margy Meyerson Chair of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania, is on the Board of Directors of the Landscape Architecture Foundation, Washington D.C. Weller was formerly a Winthrop Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Western Australia, and director of the Australian Urban Design Research Centre.

We discuss:

-Richard's time in Berlin
-The differences and similarities between Australian and U.S culture
-Mental health in relationship to place
-The inherent existential tensions of modernity
-Humans as keystone species
-Rewilding and more...

BYRON JOEL'S WORK IN REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE
www.oaktreedesigns.com.au

BYRON'S MUSIC

Having taught and worked on various projects extensively within Australia and internationally, such as Morocco, Jordan, Palestine and New Caledonia, David Spicer has covered a broad array of different soil types, topography and climatic zones.

David is a valued member of the Permaculture Sustainable Consulting team headed up by Geoff Lawton.

He is a master of practical and logical mainframe permaculture design which allows him to give his extensive experience of life and the cost involved to change a site.

He has majored in the design water harvesting and storage earthworks which frames all regenerative farming.

David has the distinction of being Registered Teacher #5 with the Permaculture Research Institute of Australia.

We discuss:

-David's life growing up old-school
-His work in Morocco
-Japan
-Australian vs American folk culture
-Passion for the natural world

SHOW NOTES

DAVID'S WEBSITE

BYRON JOEL'S WORK IN REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE
www.oaktreedesigns.com.au

BYRON'S MUSIC

Of all the myths and stories we find shared ubiquitously around the globe one of the most persistent and captivating is that of hairy, wild, human-like creatures living in the wilderness.

How are they represented in different cultures? Are they merely myth or is there a physical reality to them? And if so, why the disparaging gap between the bountiful anecdotal evidence and meagre physical?

In this talk we discuss the elusive creatures and the surrounding phenomena from a historical, Jungian, mythological, paleo-anthropological, and even modern forensic perspective  as to what may lie behind this cross cultural folklore and unrelenting sightings.

SHOW NOTES
The Mythopoetics of Extra-sapiens Hominids: Youtube Video

BYRON JOEL'S WORK IN REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE
www.oaktreedesigns.com.au

BYRON'S MUSIC

Scott Cane, Australian archaeologist and anthropologist, grew up in southern Tasmania before moving to Canberra to study at The Australian National University. There he completed his PhD examining the relationship between human behaviour and material culture among Ngarti and Kukatja people living in the Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia.

He works as a consultant having co-authored a monograph with economist Owen Stanley, Land Use and Resources in Desert Homelands, and has written over ninety reports and twenty-five published papers about Aboriginal cultural heritage, community life and relations to land. This long-standing interest in Aboriginal people, their culture and heritage led to Scott’s involvement with the Spinifex People of the Great Victoria Desert in 1992 and, in turn, to the documentation and definition of their customary land tenure and the recognition of their native title.

He has lived long periods of time with the desert people of Australia, including some of the last hunter-gatherers. He is the author of Pila Nguru: The Spinifex People. He appeared in the 2013 ABC TV documentary, First Footprints and authored the accompanying book of the same title. The documentary won the 2013 Walkley Award for excellence in documentaries.

We discuss:
-Human evolution
-Sahulian ecology
-Memory devices
-Mnemonics
-Giant, mysterious spirals in the desert
-Megafuana
-Indigenous Australia

...and probably loads more stuff that is worth noting but I can't remember right now.

SHOW NOTES

Scott's Book: "First Footprints"

The "First Footprints" Documentary series

BYRON JOEL'S WORK IN REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE
www.oaktreedesigns.com.au

BYRON'S MUSIC

In todays episode we speak with groundbreaking botanical researcher Monica Gagliano.

In collaboration with various disciplines across the Sciences and the Humanities, Monica's research aims at expanding our perception of animals, plants and more generally Nature. In the process of learning how to do this, she has pioneered the brand-new research field of plant bioacoustics and extended the concept of cognition to plants, re-igniting the discourse on plant subjectivity, sentience and ethical standing.

Monica is a Research Associate Professor in Evolutionary Ecology at the Biological Intelligence (BI) Lab, Southern Cross University, a Research Associate Professor (Adjunct) at the University of Western Australia, a Research Affiliate at the Sydney Environment Institute, University of Sydney & an all round, swell human bean.

We also tip-toe through the following proverbial tulips:
-Indigeneity
-Linear time
-Astrology
-Ethnobotany
-Science Vs Scientism
-New, old and novel epistemologies
and like HEAPS more...

SHOW NOTES

Monica Gagliano
https://www.monicagagliano.com/

https://www.themindofplants.com/

The Bard McKenna
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22F6pZU_PC8

BYRON JOEL'S WORK IN REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE
www.oaktreedesigns.com.au

BYRON'S MUSIC

Scott Hall is a 5th Generation Grain Farmer, Market Farmer, Holistic Management Consultant and leader within the Australian syntropic agriculture movement.

Syntropic Agriculture is, as the listener will discover, tricky to define. It's simplest definition is a systematised approach to agroforestry based on the principles of ecological succession and, perhaps more than most regenerative agricultural modalities, takes thorough, constructive advantage of aligning with natural function (this is not just word salad lip service).

Syntropic Agriculture has been developed from the work of Swiss-Brazilian botanist Ernst Gotsch, and his insight and observation of how living systems, particularly forests grow naturally. By mimicking these systems and applying them to agriculture, we are able to create beautiful, abundant, healthy farms that are 100% organic and regenerative in nature, with minimal external inputs.

SHOW NOTES

Scott Hall's Website
www.syntropia.com.au

Ernst Götsch's Website
agendagotsch.com

BYRON JOEL'S WORK IN REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE
www.oaktreedesigns.com.au

BYRON'S MUSIC

Pat Simmons Jr. was born on the Northern California coast but was raised from age 6 on the north-shore of Maui, Hawai’i; a life full of organic farming, surfing, skateboarding, exploring the country, and playing music. He also grew up on tour with his father’s band The Doobie Brothers.

As well as a surfer, farmer, father & Cancer survivor, Pat is an avid musician, offering a diverse blend of American folk-rock, country, blues, and reggae, Pat’s music is flavored with a traditional Hawaiian influence. Pat's music expresses simple messages of conscious, social & environmental revolution.

When not playing music Pat is exploring the lesser travelled nooks on his home island of Maui's, where he, his friends and family are actively re-connecting to the country and reviving the island's profoundly productive traditional agriculture systems known as Ahupua`a.

We tread such tantalising topics as:
-Evergreen State University
-Maui history
-Traditional Island eco-agricultural systems
-Terence McKenna
-Psychadelics
-Hawaiin Sovereignty

SHOW NOTES

PAT'S WEBSITE
patsimmonsjr.com

PAT'S INSTAGRAM
instagram.com/patsimmonsjr

BYRON JOEL'S WORK IN REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE
www.oaktreedesigns.com.au

BYRON'S MUSIC

Mark Jones: Filmaker. Mystic. Ranga.

Mark has been living and working extensively in the Kimberley for 27 years and started out as a camera operator with adventure film maker Malcolm Douglas. His curiosity led him into the edit suite and then into developing stories and creating films with deep underlying messages that reflect his very special part of the world.

The Kimberley is regarded as the greatest cultural landscape on Earth which houses tens of thousands of rock art sites and millions of heritage sites. It's natural beauty and dramatic coastlines are a cinematic dream. It is little wonder Mark has chosen to call this place home and raise his family.

We explore such lofty subjects as:

-Malcolm Douglas
-Pigmy dolphins
-Ayuhuasca
-Indigenous Australian ethnobotany
-Healing genetic trauma
-Magnetic pole shifts
-Limitless Human potential

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SHOW NOTES

Mark's website
www.markjonesfilms.com.au

BYRON'S WORK IN REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE
www.oaktreedesigns.com.au

BYRON'S MUSIC