Amanda travels to the southwest to investigate a new WA company trialling bold new agricultural models that have the potential to inject new energy into the shrinking communities and tired earth of the wheatbelt.

In this episode, Amanda discovers a healing system called BodyTalk and adds another layer the vision of earthly wellness she is moving towards. “Another nice episode here from Amanda. Very unique and interesting insight.” – HMOG

The summer tests of 2017 and 2018 are over. As usual I listened to hours of radio coverage supplied by ABC Grandstand – and this time there was a woman in the commentary box. This podcast is dedicated to Alison Mitchell, pioneer broadcaster.

[ note: drug references] Confessions of a pot smoker. In which Auntie Amanda fesses up to her (now) late teen nephews about her long and enthusiastic relationship with marijuana. Adapted from a letter written to my nephews a few years ago, I wrote it both to set the record straight and out of interest, to give them […]

Amanda takes a look at the catastrophic consequences for farmers and animals of the 2011 incident that led to the shutdown of the live animal trade. Along the way she takes a swipe at moralising Vegans while examining the role that Animal Liberationists played in the shutdown.

Amanda asks the question: Why doesn’t Western Australia have a flourishing industry based around the meat and skin products of malu – the ubiquitous and delicious red kangaroo?

Amanda attends a Growing the Grower workshop in November 2017 run by the Australian Native Food and Botanicals group at Muresk Agricultural College near Northam and encounters her own white privilege – again – and finds more to muse about on the subject of Euro/Aboriginal cultural overlay.

From Landscape to land. For many non-indigenous Australians, our country is still viewed through a European mindset.This cultural overlay still dictates the way we deal with the land in our pastoral industry. In this podcast Amanda examines the triggers that led to her own awakening to a different way of thinking about land in response […]

How I came to be in station country and the start of a hunt for edible seeds.