Here Come the Zombies, I Eat Weeds with Diego Bonetto

05/12/24 • 78 min

Scarcity mindsets + scrofulous zombies are no match for nature’s weedy abundance! So says Diego Bonetto, wild food advocate and forager with a heart of greenish-gold.

Diego calls Wiradjuri Country, NSW, home and leads foraging workshops, seasonal edible adventures, community art projects, wild storytelling events, makes more weedy media appearances than I can list here and is the author of the excellent Eat Weeds: A Field Guide to Foraging.

I’m utterly enamoured of Diego’s teachings and this conversation, filled with the language of plants, the wisdom of place, forest communions, not-quite-closed loops, ecological hypocrisy and pretty good reasons to never ever ever mow your lawn.

Find links to Diego’s wonderful work listed below.

Diego’s home on the web

Diego’s book ~ Eat Weeds

Diego on Instagram

Diego on the Futuresteading podcast

Marnee Fox

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Scarcity mindsets + scrofulous zombies are no match for nature’s weedy abundance! So says Diego Bonetto, wild food advocate and forager with a heart of greenish-gold.

Find links to Diego’s wonderful work listed below.

Diego’s home on the web

Diego’s book ~ Eat Weeds

Diego on Instagram

Diego on the Futuresteading podcast

Marnee Fox

***Support Reskillience on Patreon!***

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Never Totally Lost with Tristan Gooley

Couldn't find your way out of a cardigan? Get into natural navigation with Tristan Gooley, award winning and bestselling author, expedition leader, and nicknamed “The Sherlock Holmes of Nature” by the BBC.

What I love about Tristan is that he is first and foremost a practitioner of fun, about how great it feels to notice nature’s signs and clues, about the fizzy thrill of uncorking our ancestral problem solving skills.

If you, like me, long to read the landscape and find your way through nature, Tristan’s books and courses will be your faithful guides.

I particularly loved his podcast The Pursuit of Outdoor Clues, which, in just six episodes, soothed my jangled nerves and taught me so much about nature’s whispers.

I’ll leave you to explore Tristan’s back catalogue if you haven’t already – and maybe we’ll run into each other in his online Natural Navigation course?

Tristan’s home on the web

Tristan’s books

Tristan’s Natural Navigator courses

Tristan’s podcast ~ The Pursuit of Outdoor Clues

Get on Tristan’s mailing list!

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Vinyl For Climate with Lauren + Oberon Carter

Did you know that women represent less than one third of artists in the music industry? And just 12.6% of songwriters? I’m quoting my guests here, Lauren and Oberon Carter of Spiral Garden and, lately, Suffragette Records in Hobart, Lutruwita.

Suffragette Records stocks music made by women only, not for the sake of exclusion but to rebalance the scales. Because who and what we listen to patterns our thinking, beliefs, communities and civilization. When women aren’t part of our cultural soundscape, we miss out on stories and messages and melodic teachings from a whole portion of the population.

I was delighted to unpack Lauren + Oberon’s new-ish adventures in vinyl, how the’ve embedded permaculture ethics into their business, the day to day experience of running a record shop as a family of five, and the heartfelt chats they’re having with old dudes about music, climate change, the matriarchy and everything in between.