The conversation revolves around the concept of sustainable, nature-driven farming practices. Teresa Lubano reflects on her father's farm in Kitale, emphasizing a less intensive, more natural approach to farming. Described is a rotational grazing system for cattle, allowing them to graze freely on various paddocks, which results in meat perceived as more organic and flavourful. The farm also includes indigenous trees, which support biodiversity and produce high-quality honey. She argues that this method, which involves minimal human intervention, aligns with natural cycles and is a form of kindness to nature. She concludes by advocating for this approach (nature-driven farming) to be studied and taught as a blend of science and art, suggesting it as a more sustainable and ethical way of farming.

Get the link to the full article here: https://medium.com/@teresalubano/treat-nature-with-kindness-761f73daf727

Treat Nature with Kindness

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The White Wolf and the Full Moon

Regardless of the fact that I’ve been a DJ for more than a quarter of a century, it took me decades to truly connect with my body. Here’s a soundtrack capturing how I finally succeeded this past year. Music to sink into your body. To float out of your mind. To dance through the grass. To frolick over the mountains. I believe that by learning to rewild our minds and love our bodies, we can create a better, more joyful, and more just world. Together.

Lessons in Love #5 - To regenerate

A recording from 2023 of a nightingale, captured whilst carrying out a survey for this species.

Nightingale Survey at Knepp Wilding

Short recording of the fallow deer rut at Knepp Wilding

Deer Rut at Knepp Wilding

The toads have come early to the Dew pond at Waterhall rewilding site outside Brighton. Glorious and unlikely squeaks of the toad mating calls backed by  rhythmic photosynthesis bubbles.

Audio captured from (nearly) permanent live stream being created for Wild House project with Soundcamp, kindly funded by Ecological Citizen Network +

Toads and photosynthesis

Wolfy O'Hare visits the opening of Feral Art School's 'Unfolded' exhibition at the Brynmor Jones Library, University of Kingston Upon Hull. 

Unfolded - Feral Art School Rewilding Programme - An Exhibition at Brynmor Jones Library

As animals, our brains float above the planet’s surface. We were made to be mobile and carry our intelligence with us. A huge leap for mankind is happening right now. Contained within our minds and everything around us is the solution to our anxiety. Ecologist and naturalist Simon Mustoe shows us how to consume a more balanced variety of knowledge to become healthier and happier by reconnecting with nature. The key to avoiding disaster is to work within the natural balance of our beautiful world. Cats can make us too conservative (or just enough). Grasshoppers, eels and blue gropers teach us to solve global obesity and food crises. Simply saving wildlife in our own backyards can reduce cost of living by sixty or seventy times.
How to Survive the Next 100 Years unlocks the power of our relationship with animals and nature and shows us we are already on our way to rebuilding a healthy, habitable planet.

In this episode Gregory Dobbs chats to Simon Mustoe about how our consumption of negative news about the environment can affect our hope for the future of the planet, how animals and re-wilding can change our environment in a very short space of time, and how positive change is happening at all levels – from the corporate down to your local environment.

Simon Mustoe on unlocking the power of nature in 'How to Survive the Next 100 Years'

The Wild Academy creates space amid life's many pressures and expectations to reconnect with the natural world and discover who you truly are. Through practical teaching and soulful self-exploration, our courses, communities, and ceremonies draw on seasonal and cyclical wisdom to help you unearth the wild within.

Purchase-The Rewilding Yearbook (out 14th Oct) - https://www.thewildacademy.co.uk/the-rewilding-yearbook

Connect with Eleanor & Maddy 
https://www.thewildacademy.co.uk/

https://thewildacademy.substack.com/


Where to connect with Andrea
Website: https://andreaclaassen.com/
Instagram: https://instagram.com/seasonalandrea
Perimenopause Support Quiz: https://quiz.tryinteract.com/#/681d3069f79fde0015c88d8c
Sacred Seasons: https://andreaclaassen.com/sacred-seasons
8 Week Perimenopause Reset https://andreaclaassen.com/8-week-perimenopause-program

Andrea Claassen Bio

Andrea Claassen is an Ayurvedic Wellness Counselor, RYT 500 hour yoga teacher, and personal trainer who has been in the wellness space since 2007. She specializes in cyclical living. Her mission is to help women learn how to slow down, tune in and connect to their inner wisdom.

The three pillars she focuses on are movement, mindfulness & mother nature through an Ayurvedic lens. You can hear more from Andrea on her Peaceful Power Podcast where she aims to deliver actionable takeaways for you to live a more holistic lifestyle. Connect with Andrea on her website at www.andreaclaassen.com 

Eleanor & Maddy on Rewilding Through the Seasons

In episode 4 of Extracts, hosts Sarah Comyn and Megan Kuster are in conversation with forest-maker Aghmad Gamieldien about his work.

Aghmad Gamieldien is the founder of Mzanzi Organics, a social enterprise focusing on small-scale farming, and the creation of pocket forests in and around Cape Town, South Africa. His holistic approach to forest making and rewilding deals with the past of Apartheid in South Africa, including the country's complex history around land. Looking to the future and focusing on connecting people as a way to deepen relations with the earth, Aghmad also advocates for food sovereignty and indigenous trees. Preserving traditions, embracing renewal, and cultivating community, his forest-making work includes - 'District Six Heritage Forest' on Table Mountain, 'Khoi First Nations Forest', and 'Langalibalele Forest.' 

For more information on Aghmad Gamieldien's work check out Mzanzi Organics website:  https://www.mzanzi.org and also on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mzanziorganics/mzanziorganics

The conversation with Aghmad was recorded on 7 January 2025. 

About Extracts

EXTRACTS is a podcast series about how artists are working to reimagine the potential futures of mined, excavated, and extractivist landscapes hosted by Sarah Comyn and Megan Kuster.

The music is from the South African performance art ensemble ‘The Brother Moves On’. We gratefully acknowledge the UCD Humanities Institute and UCD’s College of Arts & Humanities Research Strands Seed Funding scheme for funding this project.

The music is from the South African performance art ensemble ‘The Brother Moves On’.
We gratefully acknowledge the UCD Humanities Institute and UCD’s College of Arts & Humanities Research Strands Seed Funding scheme for funding this project.


Extracts - Episode 4. Aghmad Gamieldien

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Georgie weaves together guided-meditation and visualisation along with self-reflection and Nature-connection practices to create journeys that serve to deepen our ways of relating to ourselves, to the rest of Nature and to ourselves as Nature. These journeys of rich self-enquiry and inner exploration inspire outward action and evoke insight, connection and change.
Creating spaces for nourishment and renewal, Georgie’s passionate rootedness and carefully curated offerings reawakening the wild within, calling us home to our belonging and service to the earth.

The Peaceful Power Podcast focuses on living a holistic lifestyle in an East Meets West Way.  We will discuss Ayurveda, hormone health, and blending the spiritual to the mind body approach in wellness. 

Every week there will be a guest or a solo show diving deeper into a holistic wellness practice geared to give you take away nuggets you can implement into your lifestyle as soon as you listen.  
 
Andrea Claassen is an Ayurvedic Wellness Counselor, Personal Trainer, 500 hr Yoga Teacher, and Author. Her mission is to help you start to live a cyclical life by living in alignment with your natural flow. 

She does this by teaching her Peaceful Power Practices centered around movement, mindfulness & mother nature using Ayurvedic techniques. You can hear more from Andrea on her Peaceful Power Podcast where she aims to deliver actionable takeaways to live a more holistic lifestyle. 

To learn more about Andrea and her holistic outlook on life head over to www.andreaclaassen.com or at www.instagram.com/seasonalandrea

DJ. Father. Author. Disco lover. Stotteraar. Wandelaar. Fungi fan. Mountain dancer. Curating music from Mozart to Mister Fingers &ME. Deeply inspired by the joy and abundance nature offers us.

Book talk and author interviews aimed at helping you discover your next favourite read, presented by Good Reading Magazine.

Recordings of academic lectures and papers from workshops, conferences and seminars in the University College Dublin Humanities Institute. The Institute provides a creative architectural and conceptual space for interdisciplinary research in the humanities and allied disciplines.

The podcasts are recorded and managed by Real Smart Media. https://soundcloud.com/real-smart-media

Alice Eldridge works with sonic systems, acoustic, ecological and informatic. 
This is a backyard space for sharing sonic experiments. 


Older field recordings and things are here: 
https://soundcloud.com/aliceeldridge-1

http://soundcloud.com/collectress
http://collectress.co.uk
http://soundcloud.com/duot/
http://rothkoveil.bandcamp.com/
http://www.maryhampton.org/

New tracks tagged #Rewilding