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Nikki takes us through her journey from teaching at agricultural colleges in England to running a small farm based on Holistic Management principles in Scotland, creating community and regenerating ecosystems along the way. She also gives us a peek inside what is coming up soon for The Wee Mob!

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In this episode you will learn about agroforestry, rotational grazing, organising with regenerative women on the land, managing a small farm and stewarding the land alongside other streams of income. It is of particular interest if you have thought about having a go at farming livestock but don't know where to start.

Nikki Yoxall - https://www.grampiangraziers.co.uk/

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Music:

Permanent Holiday, Mike Love

Motherland, Helen Yeomans

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Kt Shepherd was an experienced hill Farmer and Palliative Care Nurse for many years, until everything went wrong...she took a Permaculture Design Course! Kt takes us through her journey from abandoning a PhD in End of Life Care, to supporting LGBTQ people to plan better deaths, to redesigning her livelihood with permaculture.

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After contracting Lyme's Disease, Kt's farming passion had to come to an end after 20 years. Kt fostered her hope - a key quality of any palliative carer - through redesigning her life and her livelihood around her new condition using permaculture as her launching point, eventually finding value in teaching and sharing permaculture through her artwork and through mentoring on the Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design.

In this episode you will learn about the value of a planned death; how to apply your design skills to new and uncomfortable scenarios; taking an intersectional approach to ecological design and, of course, the importance of finding your niche in crafting your own unique, regenerative livelihood.

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Visit hodmedods.co.uk for 15% off all food products with REGEN15 at checkout - till end of April

Music:

Permanent Holiday, Mike Love

Motherland, Helen Yeomans

Join Finn for another episode reflecting on some of the symptoms of Too Many Ideas Syndrome (TMIS), this time focusing on bringing awareness to patterns of thought (with potentially quasi-colonial origins) that may be tripping you up when imagining your ideal regenerative livelihood idea.

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Big thanks as always to Mike Love for his song Permanent Holiday.

Finding it hard to focus on a particular cause? Unsure whether or not you are effectively serving your cause?

This can be a regular feeling for activists and purpose-driven entrepreneurs, and it is a feeling that can be disabling and disorientating. Finn shares one particular framework he finds useful to find focus and also to explore the root of a particular passion or cause to which you have created an attachment.

Finn also shares some of his own journey in exploring purpose, cause and focus.

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With thanks:

Mike Love - Permanent Holiday

Carol Sandford, for her frameworks

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Josiah Meldrum is a co-founder of Hodmedod's, a side hustle gone wrong that now keeps him and many others in more than full-time employment. Josiah has a background in ecology and agricultural co-operatives, but his Masters in International Development led him to focus on regenerating the strength of local supply webs in Britain.......

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After writing a report on a just food transition commissioned by East Anglia Food Link, Josiah and co became obsessed with the disconnect between the crops in the fields and the communities that lived beside them, and thus Hodmedod's was born. The daily work of Hodmedod's is to bring farms, farmers, consumers and the food on your plate into closer connection through facilitating sales of British-grown staple foods, such as the mighty fava bean.

In this episode you will learn about a disruptive enterprise interupting business-as-usual arable farming of commodity crops; You will learn about the history of the broad bean in Britain; You will learn about how to create a sense of place thruogh regenerative supply webs; The novel idea of the Agroecological Premium as well as the Future Crops Fund; and a few insider tips on how to get going on your own regenerative business idea.

Quote of the episode:

"I prefer to think that we’re a node that brings transparency to a network and that we’re facilitating a relationship between the farm and the food on your plate...There needs to be a much more diverse picture and at the moment it’s a monoculture...of our minds, but also of the business models that are used to deliver food to us.”

Music:

Permanent Holiday, Mike Love

Unto This Land, Helen Yeomans

This podcast will not be releasing episodes regularly because lockdown, burnout, depression and little red wiggly worms have won over my attention.

Thank you for your continued support of me and of the show, I will get it back up and running as soon as the alignment of the stars and planets allow for it.

If you want this show back sooner rather than later please send affectionate scented letters to my email inbox, or find your way to https://www.patreon.com/regenerativelivelihoodpodcast and enjoy the view.

You're wondyful x

Merry Solsticemas!!

In my last episode of the year I am sharing a slow and reflective episode to be enjoyed with a full belly on a long, frosty walk. My guest Dan Palmer is the lead author and "practical design process philosopher" behind the Making Permaculture Stronger project, a mix of blogs and podcasts which I HIGHLY recommend looking into. He has a PhD in Systems Thinking but much prefers chickens, and over the last ~15 years he has set up and co-founded several exciting happenings such as the (now international) Permablitz movement, a hugely successful design & build firm Very Edible Gardens, and the education-focused Holistic Decision Making and Designing For Life projects.

We talk about decision making, design and design process, and taking the reflective path of inquiry into what we might be looking for on our path towards a more regenerative livelihoods: a way of living that nourishes the soul, the land and our community, both on a deep and a mundane level.

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