A beautiful and surprising conversation with farming idol Charlie Showers from Black Barn Farm that’ll have you rethinking everything.

Charlie is a geological engineer, agricultural researcher, bushfire and natural disaster expert, fruit tree grafting jedi, permaculture ninja, dad, husband, unapologetically ritualistic bloke and bloody legend.

It’s Mara Ripani of Village Dreaming and Orto cooking school, a force of and for nature with a passion for greening cities, growing food, permaculture, preserving food, baking bread and sowing seeds.

Meet Amelie Vanderstock – science communicator, artist, musician, native bee pHD and total ray of sunshine.

Amelie has a passion for pollinator-friendly cities, and raises awareness through workshops, collaborative art and obscenely catchy songs that celebrate weeds, bees and bin chickens.

Are bees a mammal in many bodies? Why do conventional beehives leave bees cold, stressed and defensive?

What is Australia’s best honey and where to get it?

All this and more in today’s GLORIOUS conversation with leading natural beekeeper Adrian Iodice. Such a special one folks 🐝🐝🐝

Gregg Mueller is here to tell us how (and why) to breed wacky new varieties of veggies like red snow peas, rainbow carrots and miniature melons in the name of climate-proof food. We also talk about seed monopolies and sovereignty, open source seeds, permaculture pitfalls aaaaaand sad and depressed garlic with no sex drive.

Reawaken your dormant farming desires and throw yourself into a life on the land. An animated chat with rural woman of the year Katie Finlay about staunching the loss of small farms in Australia and supporting emerging growers to step up – even and especially if they don’t own land. (What even is land ownership?)

Katie and Hugh Finlay are black belt orchardists whose online program is just brilliant for anyone who wants to obtain a yield from fruit trees (with an organic and holistic tilt, of course).

Green Harvest is an Australian organic seed supplier offering green manure seed mixes for cover cropping and soil fertility building. Green manure crops add organic matter, fix nitrogen, and suppress weeds — a core practice in no-dig and soil-building approaches. Green Harvest’s range also covers vegetables, herbs, and other open-pollinated varieties.

An essay arguing that garden-scale food production represents a radical improvement in water efficiency over broadacre agriculture. Holmgren makes the case that intensive household and community food gardens can produce more food per litre of water than conventional farming.

Drawing from decades of experience at Melliodora and other suburban homesteads, this RetroSuburbia chapter shows how ordinary backyards can outperform industrial farms in productivity per square metre — while building soil, beauty, and self-reliance. Includes bonus chapter on seed saving and backyard nursery.

Plant scientist and gardener Carol Deppe combines organic growing experience with scientific research to address food production in the face of personal and systemic disruption.