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Welcome to Cultivating Justice! Our 6-part series in collaboration with Land In Our Names (LION) and Out on the Land (OOTL, part of The Landworker’s Alliance) which weaves together interviews, conversations, music and reflections from Black people, people of colour, trans people, queer people and women, on their relationships with land, growing, and identity.

Our host for episode 5 is Marcus MacDonald – Land in Our Names member, grower, tour manager and organiser. Marcus takes us on an auditory journey centring on the banjo, and we learn why this instrument is intricately connected to Black culture, food growing and justice.

We sit in on a banjo lesson with Marcus and his friend and teacher Bianca Wilson, aka Island Girl. They play together, chat about country music, and discuss the history of the banjo, including how this instrument from African and Caribbean culture became mainstreamed in white culture throughout Europe and the United States. Marcus talks about how growing gourds to make banjos has become an important part of his cultural identity.

Next, we hear from Hannah Mayree – grower, herbalist and founder of the Black Banjo Reclamation Project, which aims to re-appropriate Black culture by returning banjos, instruments of African origin, to the descendants of their original makers. Hannah talks to us about how the project works, and how growing gourds to build banjos can be an immensely healing practice.

The Cultivating Justice podcast series is made by Sam Siva, Katie Revell, Hester Russell, Dora Taylor, Abby Rose and Nadia Mehdi. This episode featured conversations with Marcus Macdonald, Bianca Wilson and Hannah Mayree. 

Our series music is by Taha Hassan. Our artwork is by @Blkmoodyboi.

Thank you to our funders, Farming the Future and the Roddick Foundation. And a big thank you to everyone who’s contributed in any way!

Visit landworkersalliance.org.uk/cultivating-justice/ to find out more.

Cultivating Justice: Episode 5

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Permaculture's Solution to the Refugee Crises 
Podcast interview with Rhamis Kent, focussing on land degradation and it's impacts on global security, refugees, and the solutions that can be found through Permaculture. Rhamis has worked in Somalia, Yemen, and throughout North Africa and Southern Europe. He is really tuned into the conditions and challenges of regions that are viewed as "unstable" by the Western world, and has a great deal of insights about how Permaculture can assist people, and solve the refugee crisis through large scale land restoration.

Rhamis's Links:
https://permacultureglobal.org/users/51
http://permaculturenews.org/author/rhamiskent/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Mur0Nz9W3Q

SEE RELATED EPISODE 008 - Rhamis Kent: Land Degradation and the Roots of ISIS 
https://soundcloud.com/user-193856180/episode-008-rhamis-kent-land-degradation-and-the-roots-of-isis

Rhamis's full biography:

Rhamis Kent is a consultant with formal training in mechanical engineering (University of Delaware, B.S.M.E. ’95) and permaculture-based regenerative whole systems design. He has previously worked for the renowned American inventor and entrepreneur Dean Kamen at DEKA Research & Development, with subsequent engineering work ranging from medical device research and development to aerospace oriented mechanical design. After taking an interest in the design science of Permaculture, he sought extended training with permaculture expert and educator Geoff Lawton at the Permaculture Research Institute of Australia. This led to his involvement with design work connected to the development of Masdar City in UAE after Mr. Lawton and his consulting company (Permaculture Sustainable Consultancy Pty. Ltd.) were contracted by AECOM/EDAW to identify solutions which fit the challenging zero emissions/carbon neutral design constraint of the project.

Episode 001 - Rhamis Kent: Permaculture's Solution to the Refugee Crises

Regular contributor Joel Rodker is creating a market garden from scratch and recording a diary for Farmerama as he goes. Here's is his report from May 2018

Shorts: Harvest Barn market garden May

Regular contributor Joel Rodker is creating a market garden from scratch and recording a diary for Farmerama as he goes. In this report he lets us know what he's been up to during the month of June. Time have been tough but he's enjoying being outside and working in the English summer sun.

Shorts: Harvest Barn market Garden June

This month, we chat with compost pioneers in the USA about compost’s role in building microbial life and how to produce a more fungally dominated compost. Abby has some thoughts on soil health and soil carbon, and we share a rallying cry from a member of La Via Campesina to get us all in action growing food. Next, we give you a teaser with one of the characters from our upcoming series, CEREAL, which uncovers the secrets behind the bread we eat. Finally, we hear about a community project growing and brewing their own beer.

51: Compost, soil carbon vs soil health, a call to farm, CEREAL, and community beer

November 18th marks the start of #SeedWeek - a great opportunity to celebrate and raise awareness of local, organic and open pollinated seed. In this special short Katie Hastings, Wales coordinator for the Gaia Foundation’s Seed Sovereignty Programme, takes us on a walk with Gerald Miles, a Welsh organic farmer who recently protested the planting of GM crops by driving his tractor down to London. Katie and Gerald talk about growing black oats, and the work of Llafyr Ni to trial new oat varieties and strengthen seed resilience.

This short was recorded by Katie Hastings, and produced by Jo Barratt, Hanna Soderlund and Abby Rose.

Shorts: Celebrating #SeedWeek with seed sovereignty champions Katie Hastings and Gerard Miles

Farmerama Radio is an award-winning podcast sharing the voices behind regenerative farming. 

We are committed to positive ecological futures for the earth and its people, and we believe that farmers of the world will determine this.

Each month, we share the experiences of grass roots farmers instigating radical change for the future of our food, our health, and the planet. Tune in to hear how these producers are discovering a more ecological farming future and to learn how their decisions can have a positive impact on us all. This is regenerative farming in action.

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