The following podcast was written in discussion with my friend N, some months before she died.  I have tried to be true to her words and experience. I present it with love and gratitude for the time we shared. ‘Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal.’  Erkhart Tolle ‘there’s a […]

When too much soil biology is not enough! More of the good news about fungi and some great information from soil biologist, Dr Christine Jones with some down-to-earth words from Vasse’s own compost and worm king, Brent Burns from Landsave Organics.

Ron Watkins is the Australian national hero you have never heard of – he is a prophet for our times. Ron and Sue have been working out how to farm using natural processes in the Great Southern region of WA since the 1970’s.  Payneham Vale Organics, the Watkin’s 560 hectare farm, is a textbook example of the […]

What does a meeting between Aboriginal and colonial descendants in Midland, Perth have to do with the state of Organic farming in WA and Australia? Listen – and all will become clear.

A tale of opportunity lost and potential opportunity recognised, in a corner of the wheatbelt.

The BS – Podcast 15 – In which Amanda reflects on the way language is adapting to reflect the changing landscape of health and wellbeing thinking and practices.

From Geraldton heading south-east to Buntine and Dandaragon where two different farmers help expand Amanda’s understanding of the nuances involved in working with the land – the stuff that the human mind, for all its complexity and cleverness – has trouble grasping.

Amanda, the not so hidden ‘I’ of this story, makes a decision to become a nomad which leads her to musings on a great-uncle she can relate to from the colonial past.

Writing in the third person – which enables her to avoid saying ‘I’ ‘and loosens the storytelling  – Amanda takes a break from agricultural matters to talk about a period in her life where she sheds a carapace and travels a different road .

Amanda talks to more WA based regenerative agriculture champions, meets a NZ soil expert and draws strong parallels between agriculture and medicine as she engages with a health modality called BodyTalk.   ‘Morag’s Sketch’