Farming, Self Care & Ceremony with Charlie Showers
10/05/24 • 77 min
Don’t you love it when science geeks get spiritual? I do, because when highly rational folks admit that the world is far more mysterious than it is predictable, it’s intensely validating for us intuitive hippies who’ve believed in magic all along.
This is one of those beautiful and surprising conversations with one of my farming idols Charlie Showers from Black Barn Farm that’ll have you rethinking everything. And/or thinking you want to get into apple growing. DO IT.
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.
We traverse:
🍏 Eldership
🍏 The meaning of life
🍏 Men’s circles + gatherings
🍏 Permaculture farming
🍏 Orchard rituals
🍏 First gen farming
🍏 Losing freedom, gaining depth
🍏 Schooling regrets
🍏 Father/son rites of passage
🍏 Self care for men
🍏 Recharging as an introvert
🍏 Advance sleep phase disorder
🍏 Charlie’s #1 most important skill (surprising)
🍏 Anti-fragility
🧙♀️LINKY POOS
Black Barn Farm’s home on the web
Book ~ The Complete Book of Self Sufficiency by John Seymour
Castlemaine Rites of Passage Program
Organisation ~ The Men’s Table
Book ~ AntiFragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Don’t you love it when science geeks get spiritual? I do, because when highly rational folks admit that the world is far more mysterious than it is predictable, it’s intensely validating for us intuitive hippies who’ve believed in magic all along.
This is one of those beautiful and surprising conversations with one of my farming idols Charlie Showers from Black Barn Farm that’ll have you rethinking everything. And/or thinking you want to get into apple growing. DO IT.
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.
We traverse:
🍏 Eldership
🍏 The meaning of life
🍏 Men’s circles + gatherings
🍏 Permaculture farming
🍏 Orchard rituals
🍏 First gen farming
🍏 Losing freedom, gaining depth
🍏 Schooling regrets
🍏 Father/son rites of passage
🍏 Self care for men
🍏 Recharging as an introvert
🍏 Advance sleep phase disorder
🍏 Charlie’s #1 most important skill (surprising)
🍏 Anti-fragility
🧙♀️LINKY POOS
Black Barn Farm’s home on the web
Book ~ The Complete Book of Self Sufficiency by John Seymour
Castlemaine Rites of Passage Program
Organisation ~ The Men’s Table
Book ~ AntiFragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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One Billion Ways To Make Life Better with Brett Cooper
*Recorded outdoors under a passionfruit vine with wind in the banana leaves*
This is one of those conversations that’ll shake you up, rattle your cage and light a fire under your butt to make change – because today’s guest reckons we need to upskill, now! It might just be the greatest pep talk in Reskillience history, from one of the most passionate permies in the movement. It’s Brett Cooper from Limestone Permaculture.
Brett, his wife Nici and fam live on Worimi Country, mid-coast NSW. Not too long ago their one acre block was just grass and hoofprints in a sleepy little rural town. Now there are over 550 fruit and nut trees, 80-140 chooks, ducks and turkeys, veggies galore, herbs, medicines, outdoor classrooms, 4.4 million litres of stored water and one legendary pizza oven. Oh, and some bangin’ community resilience.
Over three million viewers have devoured Brett + Nici’s farm tours on YouTube, pointing to more than just a fetish for gardening content but a deep yearning for the health, abundance and connection that overflows at Limestone Permaculture.
🧙♀️ LINKY POOS 🧙
Or peruse their upcoming events
Central Vic permie calendar
4 Day Residential Permaculture Retreat with David Holmgren, Beck Loew + Su Dennett ~ November 1 - 5
The Rocklyn Ashram PDC ~ Feb 2025
Good stuff we mentioned
Book: Roots Demystified ~ Robert Kourik
Book: Earth Restorer’s Guide to Permaculture ~ Rosemary Morrow (currently on sale at Permaculture Principles!)
Book: Permaculture A Designer’s Manual ~ Bill Mollison
Book: Permaculture One ~ Bill Mollison + David Holmgren
Eastern NSW
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It's the season three trailer!
🪶 MONDAYS FROM NOVEMBER 4
We’ve got a jazzy new format and just a couple of months till 2025, so let’s set some new years resolutions...Reskillience style!
Over the next ten weeks, ten guests will share lists of ten things that are close to their hearts...
...things to try, or consider, or start...
...that will spark all kinds of inspiration.
Come and hang out with permie legends, renegade unschoolers and regenerative leaders as they talk us through 100 magical prompts for reskillient living.
What'll you take into 2025?
The groovy jingle is thanks to UNIVERSFIELD with their track Positive Energy Groove (30s) License: Attribution 4.0
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