Charles Massy has a plethora of personal experience and researched knowledge when it comes to regenerative agriculture: Working on his farm in the Snowy Mountain regions of Australia, completing his Ph.D. on Human Ecology and traveling the globe to meet like-minded farmers who have also shifted their farms and lifestyles towards regenerative agriculture methods. He takes you on a mind-altering journey in his recent book “The Call of the Reed Warbler”. In this interview, Charles shares about his own journey of “uncuffing” Mother Nature and learning to read his landscape and to “listen” to what ..read more

With 45 years of scientific research into the life inside the soil, Dr Elaine Ingham is one of the worlds best people to come to when you want to know exactly what’s going on inside your soil.  Today we explore what lead her to a life of discovering the fascinating microbes in the soil, what the soil food web is, what some of her most favourites microbes unusual behaviour is, and how possibly microbes play a part in The Living Supplement garden. Join us for an adventure that might just change your opinion of the brown stuff like never before! Check out Dr. Elaine Inghams Soil Food Web her ..read more

This week's episode is all about microbes and my exploration of how my personal rice pollen allergy (Hayfever) I believe is linked to microbes inside my gut. Further to this, I explore the possibility of how to build on my microbes using the living supplement garden by growing a “grain box”. Let’s go down the rabbit hole of gut health and soil health into the world of microbes. Gut Health Playlist: Here Join the conversation Here Find more on YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCopkUzGtNNffoRA1-LP9tLg Join Instagram: https://instagram.com/thrivingwithnature  Follow on Facebook: https ..read more

Buying fruits and vegetables is something we do every day. What if doing the same thing could actually reverse climate change, improve your health, and help change the entire food system? If there was a device that could tell you which fruits or vegetables had the highest nutrition, then you would naturally buy them. That would incentivize farmers to move to practices that aligned with Nature to improve their produce’s nutrition density. Well, guess what, there is! Dan Kittredge of the Bionutrient Food Association talks with me today about this revolutionary new device that is already in use ..read more

Life in the soil is like another world!! And it’s this life in the soil that ensures the health of the entire planet, let alone the plants!.  Don Smith is a speaker and teacher from Kiss the Ground, who not only looked after millions of worms, but also is extremely knowledgeable about the microbial life in the soil and how truly regenerating it can reverse climate change! So what makes up this life in the soil? Well alongside the amazing microbes which you can only see with a microscope - Earthworms live and do many magical things to help the soil and plants thrive. Having a worm compost ..read more

What is the difference between Regenerative and Sustainability? In this episode, Hayley shares her why she chooses to aim for a regenerative lifestyle rather than sustainable. She discusses the topic of regenerative agriculture and also introduces Syntropic Agroforestry. These topics are discussed in regard to how if we move our agricultural methods more in those directions we could help reverse climate change and even improve our health. Episode Notes: https://thrivingwithnature.com/2020/01/20/regenerative-vs-sustainable-living Website: thrivingwithnature.com  Instagram: https://instag ..read more

It’s moving week and all things are happening. Everything is all over the place, all my plants are outside now and the house feels different. Nature makes a difference in our presence… it feels more alive and homely when there is life inside. I believe we thrive in nature because we are nature. And I don’t think people “don’t have green thumbs” it’s just an understanding… and the more we connect with nature we will start to understand more and our green thumbs will reveal themselves… I hope we connect more with nature to help our physical health and our planet's health. I am part of the Heal T ..read more

In 1979 James Lovelock published a book called Gaia. It hypothesised that planet earth was a macro-organism that regulated itself across the millions of smaller systems that made up the whole. As a whole, we, as a human race, are almost compared as a virus or disease that needs to be healed otherwise we will cause the whole thing to collapse… or at least make ourselves extinct so Gaia can get back into balance. For us to get to a better place we need to shift our mindset from listening to our Primal Brain and start to plan and follow through with our Prefrontal Cortex. In today’s episode I d ..read more

Nature is beautiful and spectacular. It has serene energy - most of the time. But there is the crux or apex where Nature’s beauty all comes crashing together in the moment of life and death. For one species to survive it often has to eat or kill another. Not necessarily annihilate the entire species but just eat one here and there for it’s own survival. Life and Death must occur for the greater good of the whole ecosystem. The branches and leaves of the trees, as they die they become food for the microbes who in turn, alchemise them into nutrients for the plants around there. There is a beaut ..read more

From that Plastic Exchange was born and it’s not only changing the environment, but the dignity of the humans getting involved as well as feeding them! It’s powerful! The stories he shares in the interview are inspiring! To learn more about Plastic Exchange and donate your $1 head to www.plasticexchange.org  Want to learn more about how you can become part of the solution and help nature thrive just by adjusting your lifestyle? Grab the Thriving with Nature Checklist here: https://thrivingwithnature.com/checklist  Website: https://thrivingwithnature.com Instagram: https://instagram.c ..read more