Episodes
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In his final episode, Shane interviews himself to help launch his new solo podcast: Zero Input Agriculture. Shane outlines his breeding work, successes with shifting to a zero input agricultural mindset, and efforts and experiences in building networks of local growers to start the long process of reviving agriculture that can stand the test of time.
To keep listening to the new podcast, and read about Shane's never ending stream of results on his experimental farm, sign up for free at www.zeroinputagriculture.substack.com for weekly updates in your inbox.
You can also read Shane's exploration of the past and possible future of agriculture in "Taming the Apocalypse" and his biological science fiction in "Our Vitreous Womb".
Drop Shane an email at [email protected] if you have a suggested podcast guest, or just to say hi.
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Shane talks with Paul Ward as he reflects on a lifetime of experience breeding maize, tepary beans, landrace wheat in temperate Australia and a whole bunch of other side topics.
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Shane Simonsen talks to Reville Saw about his work rehabilitating degraded land in West Papua using syntropic principles, the indigenous agriculture surviving in Papua, and his own extensive efforts breeding bananas from original species, lima beans, restoring fertility to ginger, breeding better biomass plants, and a bunch of other topics.
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Richard Paul Watson talks to Shane about his efforts growing and breeding a wide range of vegetable crops in windy New Zealand, and his successes in building a network of seed growers to create a collective seed sales organisation, the Sentinels Group.
Check out more of Richard's work at https://www.sentinelsgroup.co.nz
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Farmer and educator William DeMille talks to Joseph and Holly about permaculture, biodynamics, silvopasture, holistic management and georgics and how they apply to his farm in northern Nevada.
Check out more of Williams work below
https://www.thegeorgicrevolution.com/
https://www.amazon.com/Worry-Free-Eating-William-John-DeMille/dp/B0BW2Y4GLZ
https://www.amazon.com/Ditch-Rider-William-DeMille/dp/154509053X/
https://www.instagram.com/gardening_with_william_demille/
https://www.facebook.com/william.demille.50
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Shane chats to Austin Vaughn about his experiments developing landrace carrots and a range of other crops in his difficult Texas clay.
Check out more of Austin's work at the Going to Seed discourse forum https://goingtoseed.discourse.group
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Taylor Chance talks to Shane about his many crop breeding projects, including Chinese yams (Dioscorea polystachya), ancestral cucurbits and interspecies goji berry hybrids.
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Shane Simonsen talks to Padraic Flood about his work to domesticate the lost tuberous pea crop of Europe, Aardaker, also known as Lathyrus tuberosus.
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Shane talks to Dr. Darren Abbey about breeding blue beans, white tomatoes, storage tomatillos and so much more.
Read more about Darren's work - https://the-biologist-is-in.blogspot.com/
Find him on Twitter (@thebiologistisn), Mastodon (@[email protected]), Bluesky (@thebiologistisn), Threads: (@thebiologistisn), Instagram (@thebiologistisn) and Tiktok (@thebiologistisn).
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Joseph and Holly reminisce and discuss plans for the year ahead.
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This episode features traditional farmer Yevgenii Berben-Zycki, managing his farm with his family in the middle of an active war zone in Ukraine. He outlines his family's work selectively breeding hazelnuts over the last four generations, and how they are reconnecting with historic farming techniques.
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Shane and Joseph talk to Raphael Maier about breeding cold hardy passionfruit and other fascinating projects.
Check out Raphael's book- https://www.amazon.com/Breeding-Hardy-Passion-Fruit-Developing/dp/B0C12P63RK
And Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/imperatorplantae/?hl=en
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Shane Simonsen talks to Bruce Pascoe about revitalising Australian Indigenous foods (including kangaroo grass and vanilla lily among many other species). Check out Bruces work at the following links:
Black Duck Foods https://www.blackduckfoods.com.au
Trailer for the Dark Emu Story https://youtu.be/Z1Vq7rrTsY0?si=pw6AQBtWDwRA3o0W
Full Documentary- The Dark Emu Story https://iview.abc.net.au/show/dark-emu-story
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Shane Simonsen and Joseph Lofthouse talk to Mark Shepard about restoration agriculture and breeding staple tree crops with mass selection.
Check out Mark's work at the following links: restorationag.com www.forestag.com
Mark is speaking at the Restoration Agriculture Conference very soon! https://events.acresusa.com/e/2023-eco-ag-conference-trade-show/tickets
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Joseph Lofthouse chats to nomadic farmer Evan Sofro about heritage grains, biophilia and land artistry.
See more of Evan's work at- www.instagram.com/regenerative_earth_art/
Contact Evan at- [email protected]/
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Going to Seed Podcast- Shane Simonsen talks to Damien Beaumont about raspberry-strawberry hybrids and other fascinating topics. Check out Damien's work at his blog - http://living-mudflower.blogspot.com Contact Shane with guest suggestions at [email protected]
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Joseph Lofthouse Interviews William Schlegel about promiscuous tomato breeding and other projects. https://osseeds.org/ossi-breeders/wil...
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Shane Simonsen talks to primitive permaculturalist David Lauterwasser. Find out about the diverse agricultural systems in tropical Thailand, and hear discussions about breeding jackfruit, tropical mustard greens and aquatic tomatoes. Read more of David's work at his substack- https://animistsramblings.substack.com Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/feunfoo.permaculture.rewilding/
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Joseph Lofthouse Interviews Mark Reed about Sweet Potato Breeding, broccolish and a bunch of other fascinating projects. Check out Mark's broccolish project in more detail here- https://youtu.be/7tgfpo28fhc?si=blPDSVnQT-uOrp8u
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Shane Simonsen talks to experimental crop breeder Thulahn about his exciting new project to domesticate silverweed (Argentina anserina). Read more about Thulahn's work at his substack: https://urbanfoodforest.substack.com https://linktr.ee/foodforestadventurer
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