In this episode we return to one of my favourite topics - that microscopic life that lives in the soil. After recognising the significance of soil life for supporting the climate, Daniel Tyrkiel set about exploring solutions that would support farmers to support and work with the biology in soil. The desire was to create a plug and play solution; something easy and accessible that allows farmers to shift from chemicals to biology without a need for heavy learning or investment. Daniel's company ...
Jun 26, 2025•52 min•Season 4Ep. 7
I was thrilled to be able to chat with Jordy Johnson during an unexpected visit I took to &Soul Southall earlier this year. Jordy is the head of community for &Soul who describe their West London community hub as an entire village in a building; a place where they are reimagining urban existence. It was wonderful to immerse in this very unique environment and I was thrilled to be able to chat with Jordy whilst there so I could share his insights with you all. Jordy brings a very heart ce...
Jun 19, 2025•40 min•Season 4Ep. 6
It's a pleasure to share this chat that I had with Tim Sallin about the work happening across Florida to help shift garden habitats at scale in support of biodiversity. The Outside Collab brings together many minds with an aim to reshape Florida's landscapes in response to growing pressures from huge population growth and the impacts this has on resources, community and climate. It's a unique context but with insights that could be relevant to so many of us worldwide. We Talk About: Garden manag...
Jun 12, 2025•40 min•Season 4Ep. 5
Adam Smith brings a fabulous perspective on the food system which comes from years of witnessing the enormous problem of waste and exploring varied angles trying to address it. Issues in the food system are complex to say the least, but Adam brings a clarity through his determination to find the root cause of all of this waste. He says we're over producing food; all fueled by demand for continued economic growth. So, how do you start to address that over production? Well it seems it's another co...
Jun 05, 2025•42 min•Season 4Ep. 4
If you're a poet, artist, photographer, writer or budding creative of any kind then you might like to listen extra closely to this one! Jamie Nix is the co-founder of Plants & Poetry whose work shares and nurtures connection to the natural world through a collaborative approach to curating published works. Alongside her poetry Jamie's career is focused on agroforesty and soil health and she has a keen interest in supporting regeneration through place based learning. We talk about: Weaving pl...
May 22, 2025•36 min•Season 4Ep. 3
At the start of April I managed to catch back up with Peter Byck for this chat which feels well timed not just because it was a rare pause in his ongoing schedule of travels, but because there's a lot being rolled out right now by the whole 'Roots So Deep' team to scale up the impact that the docu-series has already seeded. We talk about: Touring with Roots So Deep The importance of taking action (for regeneration) Food resilience and nutrient density Community, scaling & next steps for Root...
May 15, 2025•32 min•Season 4Ep. 2
I hope you enjoy this weave of inspirational voices. Each clip is brought in from our longer interviews. I've created this episode as an example piece that starts to compile the huge range of wisdom and knowledge that our guests have generously shared over the past few years. There's so much potential packed into our library and I wish to keep exploring the possibilities of sharing regenerative understanding in new accessible formats suited to different styles and places of learning. If this epi...
May 13, 2025•14 min•Season 4Ep. 1
I'm excited to be kicking off Season Four! I hope you enjoy listening through this little intro where I share about what's to come, why we're shifting gears and how I'm eager to step forward in building the vision together. Learn more over at the website: Explore the new art print range and matching greetings cards - the foundation for our experiments together Subscribe to email updates to learn about our experiments as they unfold Get in touch - if you have any ideas, questions or would like to...
May 12, 2025•6 min
I'm delighted to be joined by Diana Denke who has generously offered to bring us an overview of what can be done to bring more financing towards nature. For generations wealth and financial markets have benefited from the extraction and depletion of the natural world to the extent that we're globally facing a crisis of biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse. There is a firm recognition of the need to protect, support and regenerate nature for the multi-faceted benefits that it brings to our ec...
Sep 10, 2024•1 hr•Season 3Ep. 17
Join me for a group chat with four practitioners of Wayapa Wuurrk exploring the relevance of Indigenous wisdom & nature connection in our modern world. There are many reasons that our lives today have caused disconnection between us and the people and environments around us. And it's too easy to over look the importance of this. I'm joined by three guests in Australia, Jem Stone, Rebecca Dunn and Sara Jones , along with Debbie Mace in the UK. They've all come together to share about the powe...
Aug 27, 2024•1 hr•Season 3Ep. 16
It's a pleasure to be joined by Niels Corfield who shares insights from his concept of 'The Weatherproof Farm'. It's hard to not have noticed the increase in standing water across farmlands in recent years; fields appearing to contain vast lakes during our wetter seasons. Whilst we might consider ourselves to be at the mercy of changing weather this conversation helps to underline why the cause and solution to this standing water can be much more within our control. Having monitored the soil and...
Aug 13, 2024•56 min•Season 3Ep. 15
From Our Food ForestsDiscovering Climate Action in Our Gardens & CommunitiesJoin us as we embark on a learning journey of regeneration from our growing spaces across the globe. From Our Food Forests is a new light touch network hosted by Helen Fisher for connection and co-learning Read the newsletter on LinkedIn Subscribe to the newsletter on LinkedIn Join us for our monthly live call – find the latest sign up link at the website Contact me to share ideas & explore opportunities | email:...
Jul 30, 2024•3 min•Season 3Ep. 14
Jackson Buzingo is a multi-generational small holder farmer who grew up facing the challenges of a changing landscape in Tanzania, East Africa.As he witnessed rivers running dry and crops failing he set out to find a solution. In Season 1 of the podcast Jackson shared his journey of learning about regenerative practices in agriculture. He brought his passion to the communities around him, educating hundreds of small holder farmers and establishing small demonstration farms and food forests that ...
Jul 09, 2024•45 min•Season 3Ep. 13
Join me for a conversation with Peter Byck exploring the incredible opportunity that land offers to us as a tool for re-balancing the climate. Peter is the director of the four part documentary series Roots So Deep (You Can See The Devil Down There) There's a huge contrast that we often talk about on this show; how regenerative farming can tip all the detriments of conventional practises on their head and actually turn agriculture into one of the biggest healing tools for the planet. And this is...
Jun 25, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Season 3Ep. 12
Join us in this special episode that brings together a range of voices to explore their developing collaborative project; The Power of Food. Together these four guests bring a diverse range experiences and knowledge to unite around the common goal of building social cohesion by harnessing the connective power of food. Connecting with where our food comes from, and also with community, with health, with nature and with the world around us. Holistic and expansive. It was a delightful conversation ...
Jun 11, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Season 3Ep. 11
Watch a short video from the food forest here: https://www.wearecarbon.earth/food-forest-small-project-of-regeneration In a change from our usual conversations this episode introduces my own small project of regeneration at my food forest in Lincolnshire, UK. Winglewood is both my home and place for imagination & I started the food forest before reaching out to start any of the conversations for this podcast. After learning so much from my time spent here co-creating with Nature I'd like to ...
May 27, 2024•12 min•Season 3Ep. 10
Join me for a conversation with Sharon Kallis who brings us thought provoking insights from her work exploring the place of textiles within our lives. Inspiring us to reconnect with ourselves, community and heal the world around us through rediscovering the materials which we wrap around ourselves and our homes. Sharon is the founding director of EartHand Gleaners Society Alongside her artistic and practical endeavours transforming fibres into clothing, Sharon's work also includes community proj...
May 14, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Season 3Ep. 9
It was a great pleasure to spend some time discussing a new paradigm for our built environment with David Nicholson ; considering how the construction of our buildings can actually support the drawing down of carbon. David is the director of Natural Building Systems His work not only explores how we can transform the impact of our buildings upon the climate, but how the use of natural materials is key to both creating and maintaining a healthy living environment for ourselves too. Natural Buildi...
Apr 30, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Season 3Ep. 8
I had the wonderful opportunity to chat with Serenity Hill about building an alternative, fairer and more resilient path within our food systems. Serenity is the co-founder of The Open Food Network. She comes from a long line of farmers on both sides of her family and has grown up with a keen awareness of the challenges and contradictions of balancing the needs of nature and the needs of farmers within a centralised food system that does a poor job of supporting either. We talk about the motivat...
Apr 16, 2024•48 min•Season 3Ep. 7
I was delighted to be joined by Daniel Deniaud-Powell for a conversation about the wonderful potential of our gardens for supporting both biodiversity and food production, and exploring the practical steps we might take to bring such enrichment into our own green spaces and lives. Daniel co-owns and runs 'Des Heures Dehors' with his wife Hélène. His passion and connection to nature is clear, and he has a wide range of experience producing food, designing gardens and food forests and running uniq...
Mar 19, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Season 3Ep. 6
It was wonderful to be joined by Jason Freeman for a conversation that brings insights from his experience running a farmer owned co-op & organic retail brand which address the challenges of bringing fairer and more transparent connections between organic food producers and consumers. We discuss why our current large scale systems of agriculture and food supply create a barrier for transitioning to more sustainable farming approaches, along with the obstacles it causes for consumers who are ...
Mar 07, 2024•54 min•Season 3Ep. 5
This episode brings my own personal dialogue exploring our farming system through a regenerative lens. A stark realisation of not only how bizarre it is, but of the potential we have as humans to step in, turn the tide and become a beneficial element from this place forward. This journey is given life and rooted down by the insights and experiences of three wonderful guests from the podcast. Learn more from our guests: Agroforestry producer Bernadette Millard helps us appreciate the potential of...
Feb 22, 2024•41 min•Season 3Ep. 4
It was a great pleasure to be joined by Patrick Holden for a conversation exploring the challenges and paths to creating food and farming systems that work in closer harmony with nature. Patrick is the founder and CEO of 'The Sustainable Food Trust' and he has a great range of insights to offer around this topic. We discuss what our diets would need to look like if we were to achieve a transition to sustainable and regenerative farming across the whole of the UK, along with the problem of dishon...
Feb 06, 2024•51 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Welcome to this new additional format for the podcast! We'll still be having fresh interviews alongside but today's episode is a bit different; a personal dialogue that I've written and recorded to (hopefully) help birth an appreciation of soil through the lens of whole systems thinking. I'm joined throughout with guests from our other episodes - You'll hear from Tony Rinaudo and his struggles trying to reestablish life in the degraded soils of Africa, along with his development of F.M.N.R that ...
Jan 23, 2024•46 min•Season 3Ep. 2
I'm delighted to be joined by Claire Mackenzie for a conversation focused on soil! Claire is the producer of the documentary 'Six Inches Of Soil' and she helps us to get a grasp of this significant topic. We discuss why the way that we farm impacts our soils, and why the health of those soils is so important to our futures. We also touch on some politics, the challenges and need for change and the joy and transformation that regenerative farming can bring to people alongside the land. For a furt...
Jan 09, 2024•55 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Connect with Joshua: Email: joshua(@)weareblacksheep.org (without the brackets) Joshua's LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-hughes-68a338169/ Support the products: https://rewildorganics.org/ Spend time in Costa Rica! https://www.verdenergia.org/ ---- A recycler and activist from Oregon, Joshua arrived in Costa Rica almost two decades ago to begin an agroforestry project that has evolved in multiple directions. It's a location that just sounds like paridise but it hasn't always...
Oct 03, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Season 2Ep. 18
Anete and Kristjan are combining a blend of legal and financial expertise to bring forward a for profit company that's large in both scale and in benefits for people and planet. One Million Tonne Nation (1MTN) is focused on land restoration across East Africa, where deforested sites are being planted with bamboo polycultures as a starting point to establish new growth for the local economy, habitat and community. It's an ambition that involves accelerating the development of carbon markets for n...
Sep 19, 2023•57 min•Season 2Ep. 17
In this interview I'm joined by Taimur Malik to hear about the journey that brought him to founding Drawdown Farm in Pakistan, and the work they're doing there to produce foods regeneratively despite the challenges of desert soils and an arid climate. Taimur's background is not in farming. His move to develop regenerative agriculture in Pakistan is his response to having his eyes opened to the mix of crises surrounding him in the world; from climate to biodiversity loss, and even the roots of ci...
Sep 04, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Season 2Ep. 16
Episode Links: Sheila's work: https://www.3lm.network/ TED Talk by Allan Savory: https://www.ted.com/talks/allan_savory_how_to_fight_desertification_and_reverse_climate_change Video version of this episode: https://www.wearecarbon.earth/podcast-episode/holistic-management-transition-mindset-farming/ ----------------- In this interview I'm joined by Sheila Cooke to gain an overview of the concepts of holistic management, and learn how this whole systems thinking approach is supporting a transitio...
Aug 21, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Season 2Ep. 15
Episode Links: Find this episode and links through to additional mentioned resources on the We Are Carbon website: https://www.wearecarbon.earth/podcast-episode/local-sustainable-food-ecosystems/ Related episode: https://www.wearecarbon.earth/podcast-episode/localise-lincolnshire-food-system/ ------------------ In this interview I'm joined by Duncan Catchpole to learn of the work being done in Cambridge, England to build new sustainable networks for local food supply. There are so many incredibl...
Aug 08, 2023•54 min•Season 2Ep. 14
