Welcome to Season Two!

09/14/21 • 1 min

Join us for our second season of the Floriade podcast. This season we discuss "The Future of Flowers".
Hosted by renowned Canberra voice Dan Bourchier, Floriade: The Future of Flowers podcast will feature special guests including Matthew Evans, Jade Miles and more over the next 7 episodes.
Covering a range of topics including traditional indigenous foods, soil health through to backyard bees and 'Futuresteading', this seven part series will be released this Spring from Saturday 18 September 2021.

Previous Episode

Grow Your Food with Phil Dudman

Looking to boost your gardening skills and increase backyard production? Join Ashley Feraude as he talks with Phil Dudman in this Floriade: Reimagined podcast and benefit from his 25 years’ experience.
Learn about the amazing productivity you can achieve when applying some of the systems Phil has put into practice in his patch. This session will explore top tips for soil fertility, saving time and increasing food production to help you bring your backyard to life to grow more of your own food.
Guest - Phil Dudman
Phil is a horticulturist and garden designer with a passion for organic gardening and teaching others how to grow their own food. He also has a way with words as a gardening writer, presenter on radio and TV and a passionate environmental and organic gardening campaigner.

In the past 20 years, Phil has contributed to many of Australia’s leading gardening magazines, written three books for ABC Books and worked as a TV Presenter on channel nine’s Garden Guru’s. He is currently the Horticultural Editor of ABC’s Gardening Australia magazine and host of ABC Radio’s Good Gardening program.

He hosts monthly Grow Your Food workshops in his backyard patch, in Lismore, Northern NSW, giving participants the opportunity to spend time in a thriving and productive suburban garden and learn from the simple and effective methods Phil has developed in over 25 years of growing his own food.
Host - Ashley Feraude
Ashley Feraude is creative consultant, music producer, interior design series author and podcast host.

Under his creative consultancy Sound Technique, he provides award-winning services ranging from design, content development, event music direction and artist scheduling. He also authors an interior design editorial series called Home Stories on HerCanebrra and hosts the Behind the Bio podcast series.

As the equally award-winning music artist Magnifik, he produces original music filled with electronic soul and performs melodic disco DJ sets at numerous nightspots, events and festivals.

So, is he suffering from split personality disorder and has an obsession over pointy awards? Not really ... all these ventures are united by a common passion for creative communications. Plus, he likes being really busy.

Next Episode

Adam Shipp on connection to Country, traditional plants and bushfoods

Welcome to the first episode of season two, Floriade: The Future of Flowers, where Dan Bourchier is joined by Adam Shipp as they discuss connection to country, traditional plants, bush foods and medicine.
Yuraby is a business that has been running since 2018 and showcases traditional plants and plant use. Adam has passion and love for traditional plant use as plants help to provide deep connection to land and country.
About Adam Shipp
Adam Shipp is a proud Wiradjuri man, his father's family originally from Dubbo NSW. Adam was born and raised on Ngunnawal country in Canberra. Adam is passionate about traditional Aboriginal plant use. Through his business Yurbay, Adam showcases this passion in a variety of ways including through interactive workshops, talks, walks and garden creation. In his workshops you will learn in-depth knowledge of how his people have used plants for thousands of years and tips on how you can incorporate these flavours in your own diet or grow these plants in your gardens at home.
About Dan Bourchier
Dan Bourchier is a multi-award-winning multi-platform broadcaster with the ABC, accomplished company director on commercial, and in-demand public speaker and event MC and facilitator.

Dan anchors ABC Canberra’s flagship 7pm news, and as well as being a member of the University of Canberra Council, Dan has extensive experience in governance, leadership, strategy and strategic communications, and Indigenous affairs.

Dan grew up in the remote Northern Territory town of Tennant Creek, where he was mentored by elders from around the region, while coming to understand his own Indigenous heritage from his mum’s side of the family in coastal and inland parts of Victoria.

He was driven to news and reporting from an early age, and began a traineeship at the Tennant and District Times as a teenager still at school. Dan has worked as a radio broadcaster, newspaper reporter, video journalist, foreign correspondent, political reporter, and social commentator.

As a broadcaster, Dan is driven by giving voice to the voiceless, holding to account those in positions of power, and telling really great stories - while his work as a company director is underpinned by cultural and ethical governance.