Welcome to Lifeworlds - a podcast series that explores how to orient your life around nature. Join me on this intimate journey into the eyes and minds of other species; learn from our guests how they’re living deeply in relationship with ecologies; be electrified by the possibilities of partnering with nature and the beauty it can bring to your life. Episodes launch fortnightly from 19th July, with meditations, poems, readings, and other snippets of inspiration in between.There's also a website brimming with resources at lifeworld.earth.Music: The Rising by Tryad CCPL & Electric Ethnicity by Igor Dvorkin, Duncan Pittock, Ellie Kidd Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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1. Unexpected Agricultures – The Human in the Food Web
With Lyla June Johnston & Michael Ableman. We’re going to kick off the season by getting our feet down in the soil to talk about agriculture! Our two guests present a compelling vision of how agricultural systems offer humans a deeper sense of purpose that goes beyond the provisioning of food.This is because farmers and producers often spend their days immersed in the lifeworlds of the land — in the delicate stalks of green, the humming of pollinators, the beating of bird feathers and the pungent smells of sprouting crops. Their survival depends on them paying very close attention, seeing and interpreting the world through other eyes, and by doing so a whole other human psychology unfolds.Lyla June Johnston is an indigenous scholar, public speaker, artist, and poet of Diné, Tsétsêhéstâhese and European lineages. Lyla studied human ecology at Stanford and is writing her PhD on Indigenous Food Systems Revitalization. She describes millennia-old methods of agriculture that were ingeniously designed to harness nature’s flows, ranging from expansive clam gardens in the Pacific Northwest to the American grasslands. You’ll hear about governance systems and worldviews required to cultivate such abundant landscapes and how we can restore our relationship to farming and food.Michael Ableman has been an organic farmer for over 50 years and is considered one of the pioneers of the organic farming and urban agriculture movements. He founded North America’s largest urban farm located in Vancouver, that employs people who have been impacted by long term addiction and mental illness. This experience has proven to Michael how farming can support profound healing, and with us he shares his intimate approach to farming, dropping hints as to how you can also listen to the land.Episode Website Link: lifeworld.earth/episodes/unexpectedagricultures Show Links:Lifeworlds Resource Page: AgricultureArchitects of Abundance: Indigenous Food Systems and the Excavation of Hidden HistoryCultivating Food Forests with Indigenous WisdomLyla’s websiteMichael’s websiteSole Food Street FarmsLook out for meditations, poems, readings, and other snippets of inspiration in between episodes.Music: Electric Ethnicity by Igor Dvorkin, Duncan Pittock, Ellie Kidd & The Rising by Tryad CCPLPhoto Credit: Rob Kesseler Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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[Full Interview] Unexpected Agricultures – with Lyla June Johnston
Lyla June Johnston is an Indigenous public speaker, artist, poet, scholar and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages. She blends her studies in human ecology at Stanford University, graduate work in Native American Pedagogy at the University of New Mexico, and the indigenous worldview she grew up with.Lyla and I got together to discuss her brilliant PhD research on Indigenous Food Systems Revitalization. In this interview we discuss what 6000-year-old clam gardens in the Pacific Northwest, buffalo prairies, kelp forests, hemlock boughs, and herring eggs all have in common; the role of reciprocity in food systems; human beings as a keystone species; the reclamation of our own food production; land fragmentation, and thinking like a watershed.Guided by indigenous values and understandings, this conversation charts the path to how we can restore our relationship to farming and food, and how these ancient ingenious systems can help us rethink our broken food systems.Episode Website Link: lifeworld.earth/episodes/unexpectedagricultureslylajune Show Links:Lifeworlds Resource Page: AgricultureArchitects of Abundance: Indigenous Food Systems and the Excavation of Hidden HistoryCultivating Food Forests with Indigenous WisdomForgotten Fires: Native Americans and the Transient Wilderness - M. Kat AndersonBraiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall KimmererLyla’s podcast and websiteSeeing Like a State - James C. ScottAgrarian TrustPacific Sea GardensLook out for meditations, poems, readings, and other snippets of inspiration in between episodes.Music: Electric Ethnicity by Igor Dvorkin, Duncan Pittock, Ellie Kidd Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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[Full Interview] Unexpected Agricultures – with Michael Ableman
Michael Ableman is a farmer, author, photographer and urban food systems activist. Michael has been farming organically since the early 1970s and is considered one of the pioneers of the organic farming and urban agriculture movements.He founded North America’s largest urban farm in downtown Vancouver, that employs people who are experiencing long term addiction and mental illness. Michael lives on his farm on Salt Spring Island, which I can only describe as the most glorious farm I have ever visited.His story will inspire you to get dirt under your nails, to communicate and walk with the land in a whole new way, and to gain a greater understanding of how the act of farming can heal a divided society. Michael is exceptionally rare in his ability to blend the most pragmatic and captivating elements of farming with profound reflections on philosophy and life.Enjoy this soulful and illuminating interview.Episode Website Link: lifeworld.earth/episodes/unexpectedagriculturesmichael Show Links:Lifeworlds Resource Page: Agriculture Michael AblemanSole Food Street FarmsFoxglove FarmLook out for meditations, poems, readings, and other snippets of inspiration in between episodes.Music: Electric Ethnicity by Igor Dvorkin, Duncan Pittock, Ellie Kidd Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Practice | Sensing Place
This is the first of the Lifeworlds ‘bonus’ episodes, designed to help us tune in somatically to the living world. We need to be grounding our connection to other lifeworlds into our very bodies for them to become lasting and real. Here we discover how to access these states through things like mindfulness, art, wilderness practices and poetry.Today's exercise is about understanding the ground we stand on. The place that we call home. After a brief introduction, I present a series of prompts for you to do in your own time, over several weeks and months. It involves mapping out ecosystems, following trails of water, making a calendar of minute shifts in nature's ebbs and flows, and tuning in to the humming frequencies of what's around you.Download the list and practice on: https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes/practicesensingplaceA useful tool for identifying species: https://www.inaturalist.org/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
A podcast series that explores how to orient your life around nature. We discover the mindsets, skills and actions that are required to partner wisely with other forms of life and engage in acts of brilliant restoration. Join me on this intimate journey into the eyes and minds of other species; learn how our guests are living in deep relationship with ecologies; be electrified by expanding your field of reality, and let these stories spark your reconnection to nature’s multiverse.By restoring our relationship with nature, and learning what it is to be nature, we begin to restore ourselves.www.lifeworld.earth Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.