In this first episode of Season 2 on the Shambhala Living Podcast, I, Craig Hubbard, sit down with the incredible Heidi Merika, a passionate herbalist and author of Wildcraft and her latest release, From the Wild. Heidi shares her profound knowledge about wild plants, their medicinal benefits, and how we can reconnect with nature's wisdom. We dive into her recent workshop at Shambhala Farm, where I learned firsthand the healing powers of the wild weeds growing all around us. Heidi reveals how to...
Oct 02, 2024•1 hr 52 min
This episode, we gonna share about the 8 billion mark that we just past this month and what does it mean and where to from here...
Nov 19, 2022•18 min
This episode is all about growing big harvest from tiny gardens and it's inspired by a recent video that went live on the YouTube the channel Living Big In A Tiny Home , Bryce came out to an episode with one of our tenants on the farm, Vicki, and from that it really inspired me to share with people just how smaller garden can have big harvest... https://youtu.be/G6QD4hk6gz0...
Nov 04, 2022•19 min
In this his episode, I want to share some questions and answers or one particular question that came in today and the answer about practicalities of building out a garden bed...
Oct 07, 2022•37 min
I'm sitting in the garden this afternoon, the sun is going down, there's a little wind around and birds are getting ready to bunk it down for a night and go to sleep, we've just chopped our wood ready and we've got our suit on, harvest on and I thought I'd come out here and share some of my thoughts...
Sep 16, 2022•18 min
This episode I've got some really excited news to share, it is about the markets it's a closing over chapter of a decade that has taking me a long time to make this decision and I've love to share that with you and why and also what has what to do with you had could that benefit you...
Sep 09, 2022•19 min
In this episode, we gonna be talking gardening and magic and nature... This was an email I wrote in preparation for call with Sam Powers, a friend and Australia’s top magician and illusionist who I was seeking advice from. I am considering making my way back in some fashion to my own magic career and exploring in what capacity I could bring some ideas together. Some background of the why and what I’m looking to achieve. As you may or may not know Ace McDermott (r.i.p) was my main inspiration to ...
Sep 02, 2022•15 min
This is part 2 of the talk about in search for land...
Aug 26, 2022•34 min
In this episode, I'm driving down the highway from the Sunny Coast down to the Northern Rivers. It got me thinking about the time that I was doing a lot of traveling between Sydney and Sunshine Coast in search of land, what I was thinking about and all the lesson I had since. I also share about a lot of the questions that I get asked when someone is looking to buy a land or wanting to start a farm.
Aug 11, 2022•36 min
In this episode, we're gonna talk about something exciting that's been going on at the farm and home...
Aug 05, 2022•28 min
This episode I'm gonna talk about, Blockchain and CSA. So community on economy and community on food system coming together...
Jul 29, 2022•29 min
In this episode, we're gonna talk about soil, survival, the fate of civilization and also an excerpt from the movie "The Big Short"...
Jul 22, 2022•35 min
In this episode, we're gonna discuss the backyard food sufficient challenge that we're doing at home, right now. We're transforming our backyard into a place that we can grow all of our food...
Jul 15, 2022•12 min
In this episode, we're going revisit an old fable, the story of the golden goose, because I think it's gonna lot to do what's going on right now in the world...
Jul 08, 2022•14 min
In this episode, we're gonna talk about intuition, your heart and how to tap into this amazing inner GPS system...
Jul 02, 2022•21 min
This episode is on a concept that flashed to me today when I was driving. I was listening to a long audio book, a long form book from David Attenborough on Our Planet and it was pretty heavy about where we're heading as civilization. I had this flash and it was prepare for impact but in both the good and the bad. I wanna open that out cause this flash hit me like a both from my scary point and from my inspiring point of what can we do, how can we leave..
Jun 24, 2022•28 min
So today, on the day I'm recording this is Earth Day 2022. So whenever you're listening to this it could be nice time to check in with Earth Day today! Cause everyday can be Earth Day...
Jun 17, 2022•24 min
In this episode we're gonna discuss compost tea. This is a more practical episode so we gonna talk about what is compost tea and how to make your own compost tea to use in your garden...
Jun 03, 2022•26 min
In this episode is all about, slowing down and coming back to into the centre...
Jun 01, 2022•17 min
In this episode, we explore the micro biome and the connection that has with it in our intuition...
May 30, 2022•36 min
In this episode we're gonna talk about a little practice, it's making a huge different in my life and I wanna share with you..
May 27, 2022•27 min
In this episode, we explore living with the end in mind. We come at it from a different perspective, a perspective of fantasy, a little bit of magic and imagination...
May 22, 2022•21 min
This episode is gonna be about flowers, sunflowers and marigolds and that's what's growing in abundance at the farm at the moment and experience I had recently...
May 21, 2022•19 min
In this episode, I talked about a time when I used to be a magician, and how that is connected to my journey now as a regenerative and organic farmer...
May 20, 2022•39 min
I ask you a challenge in this episode and this could be the tap on the shoulder this opportunity to take your life to whole other level..
May 19, 2022•18 min
In this episode, I wanna share with you the experience I had this morning out in the ocean with the dolphins and what that has to do with growing foods...
May 13, 2022•19 min
In this podcast we gonna talk about wealth, the real wealth what's worth more than the trillion dollar industry out there and it's right beneath our feet...
May 06, 2022•23 min
This episode is a little bit different, its recorded in 2020 just after Birdie Skye was born. We were walking around the farm, I had my mic on and we just went for a deep dive through lots of different topics in the areas of sustainable living, regenerate living, the magic of photosynthesis and so many other concept..
Apr 29, 2022•44 min
In this episode, I'm on the outside late at night, under the stars and we explore stars our place in this universe and what a call one breath meditation practice...
Apr 22, 2022•10 min
In these episode, we're gonna discuss s eed saving and how can you setup your own seed bank to protect the future of your plants your food and your health for your family...
Apr 08, 2022•19 min
