THE EMERALD PODCAST

BYRON JOEL'S WORK IN REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE

BYRON'S MUSIC

In this episode we explore:
- Californian geomantics
- Jung
- The astrology of our age
- Tolkien
- The nature of the Imaginal
- The meaning of history
- Re-enchanting the human worldview
- Hope and despair in the Great Turning, and much more...

BECCA'S WEBSITE

EXCERPT OF JOANNA MACY, PRODUCED BY TIM WILSON AT PERSONA MEDIA

JOANNA MACY'S WEBSITE

BYRON JOEL'S WORK IN REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE

BYRON'S MUSIC

-Yowie Hunters Website

-Yowie Hunters: Witness Audio Reports

-Yowie Thermal Camera Footage Examination Video

-Sapiens Life Amongst Other Hominins: Youtube Video

-Thinker Thunker Youtube Channel

Today we discuss:
-Our mutual concerns about the increasing normalisation of censorship in a post-covid world
-The strange polarity flips between conventional political positions
...and a little bit about permaculture

David's Website

BYRON JOEL'S WORK IN REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE
www.oaktreedesigns.com.au

BYRON'S MUSIC

In today's chat we discuss:

-Nick's growing up in remote Australia
-The beginnings of his musical adventures
-Leaving Tame Impala
-Magical Antenna Erections
-Ursula Le Guin and synchronicity
-Unicorn semen
-Cerebral assholes

POND'S MUSIC

FIRST FOOTPRINTS DOCUMENTARY

BYRON JOEL'S WORK IN REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE

BYRON'S MUSIC

Outside of her farming endeavours on leased land, She is currently looking to purchase a location (in Virginia) to plant a tree crops repository for the Southeastern US. The ultimate goal is to assemble as many genetics as possible to create a nearly endless fruit, nut and leaf drop scheme that will substantially or completely offset the cost of grain needed to raise livestock in the Southeast.

In today's gobsmackingly good episode, we discuss:

-The joys of botanical adventuring
-The deep value of perennial staple crops
-The tragedy of the grand American Chestnut
-The mystical White Oak
-Silvicultural hero - J. Russell Smith
-Indigenous land cultivation and stacks more aye...

SHOW NOTES
 

BYRON JOEL'S WORK IN REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE
www.oaktreedesigns.com.au

DEHESA AUSTRALIS

BYRON'S MUSIC

We wax lyrically about:

-The effect of environment upon creativity
-World building
-Californian geomantics
-The current, acute bifurcation of world views
-Discord and resolution in US politics
-Joe's creative adventures and more...

Outro music: Water On The Brain - Byron Joel

JOE'S WEBSITE
https://www.joemckee.xyz/

SNOWMAN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-cArYNR4ps

BYRON JOEL'S WORK IN REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE
www.oaktreedesigns.com.au

BYRON'S MUSIC

Lore de Angeles is an indigenous Catuvellaun/Briganti knowledge holder, with strong genealogical taproots of Scandinavian, Irish and Breton ancestry, and is learned in the landscapes and story of these living people and species. She is a scholar and a defender of culture, language, freedom of speech, gender diversity, equality, parity, homeland and right-to-respect.

During this discussion we explore:

-The power of language
-Etymology
-Lore's personal story of being sold and bought as a child
-The indigenous Britains 
...and frankly, more than I can recall at this point.

SHOW NOTES
Lore's website
https://loredeangeles.com/

For others, he is the curator of Rune Soup, a blog and podcast about magic and a thriving member community of people right across the world interested in the doing of magic; the intellectual and performative understanding of magic; and the improvement of our lives using magic. When not charming the pants off of the international magic community, Gordon presides over Permaculture Tasmania, all of this from his 5 acre permaculture homestead in southern Tasmania.

In this episode we muse sassily about...

-Sleep paralysis
-Growing up weird
-Gordon's magical path
-Connecting to country
-What the fuck to "do" with colonialism
-Future iterations of permaculture
-Perceived, energetic activation of the Australian landscape
-Finding right-relationship with the haunting of Australia

Music: "Magick Pen" by me.

SHOW NOTES
www.runesoup.com

BYRON JOEL'S WORK IN REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE
www.oaktreedesigns.com.au

BYRON'S MUSIC

Before graduate school he spent two years as a resident athlete at the Colorado Springs Olympic Training Centre, competing in the sport of Modern Pentathlon. Once an Olympic hopeful, he competed on the World Cup circuit in countries such as Mexico and Egypt, and at the 2015 World Championships in Berlin.

Nowadays he is the co-founder and Chief Investments Officer at Propagate Ventures, based in Hudson, New York.

Propagate Ventures assists land managers to integrate profitable tree crops into working farms by bridging the capital and operational gaps needed to plant and manage productive agroforestry systems. 

We rap about:
-Dirty Dancing (finally!)

-The ecology of New England

-Harry's background in finance

-The economic viability of agroForestry and Harrys projects with Propagate Ventures

-J. Russell Smith

 ...and I rant about Australian Ecology (again)

SHOW NOTES
www.propagateventures.com

BYRON JOEL'S WORK IN REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE
www.oaktreedesigns.com.au

BYRON'S MUSIC

We discuss:

-Richard's time in Berlin
-The differences and similarities between Australian and U.S culture
-Mental health in relationship to place
-The inherent existential tensions of modernity
-Humans as keystone species
-Rewilding and more...

BYRON JOEL'S WORK IN REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE
www.oaktreedesigns.com.au

BYRON'S MUSIC

David is a valued member of the Permaculture Sustainable Consulting team headed up by Geoff Lawton.

He is a master of practical and logical mainframe permaculture design which allows him to give his extensive experience of life and the cost involved to change a site.

He has majored in the design water harvesting and storage earthworks which frames all regenerative farming.

David has the distinction of being Registered Teacher #5 with the Permaculture Research Institute of Australia.

We discuss:

-David's life growing up old-school
-His work in Morocco
-Japan
-Australian vs American folk culture
-Passion for the natural world

SHOW NOTES

DAVID'S WEBSITE

BYRON JOEL'S WORK IN REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE
www.oaktreedesigns.com.au

BYRON'S MUSIC

How are they represented in different cultures? Are they merely myth or is there a physical reality to them? And if so, why the disparaging gap between the bountiful anecdotal evidence and meagre physical?

In this talk we discuss the elusive creatures and the surrounding phenomena from a historical, Jungian, mythological, paleo-anthropological, and even modern forensic perspective  as to what may lie behind this cross cultural folklore and unrelenting sightings.

SHOW NOTES
The Mythopoetics of Extra-sapiens Hominids: Youtube Video

BYRON JOEL'S WORK IN REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE
www.oaktreedesigns.com.au

BYRON'S MUSIC

He works as a consultant having co-authored a monograph with economist Owen Stanley, Land Use and Resources in Desert Homelands, and has written over ninety reports and twenty-five published papers about Aboriginal cultural heritage, community life and relations to land. This long-standing interest in Aboriginal people, their culture and heritage led to Scott’s involvement with the Spinifex People of the Great Victoria Desert in 1992 and, in turn, to the documentation and definition of their customary land tenure and the recognition of their native title.

He has lived long periods of time with the desert people of Australia, including some of the last hunter-gatherers. He is the author of Pila Nguru: The Spinifex People. He appeared in the 2013 ABC TV documentary, First Footprints and authored the accompanying book of the same title. The documentary won the 2013 Walkley Award for excellence in documentaries.

We discuss:
-Human evolution
-Sahulian ecology
-Memory devices
-Mnemonics
-Giant, mysterious spirals in the desert
-Megafuana
-Indigenous Australia

...and probably loads more stuff that is worth noting but I can't remember right now.

SHOW NOTES

Scott's Book: "First Footprints"

The "First Footprints" Documentary series

BYRON JOEL'S WORK IN REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE
www.oaktreedesigns.com.au

BYRON'S MUSIC

In collaboration with various disciplines across the Sciences and the Humanities, Monica's research aims at expanding our perception of animals, plants and more generally Nature. In the process of learning how to do this, she has pioneered the brand-new research field of plant bioacoustics and extended the concept of cognition to plants, re-igniting the discourse on plant subjectivity, sentience and ethical standing.

Monica is a Research Associate Professor in Evolutionary Ecology at the Biological Intelligence (BI) Lab, Southern Cross University, a Research Associate Professor (Adjunct) at the University of Western Australia, a Research Affiliate at the Sydney Environment Institute, University of Sydney & an all round, swell human bean.

We also tip-toe through the following proverbial tulips:
-Indigeneity
-Linear time
-Astrology
-Ethnobotany
-Science Vs Scientism
-New, old and novel epistemologies
and like HEAPS more...

SHOW NOTES

Monica Gagliano
https://www.monicagagliano.com/

https://www.themindofplants.com/

The Bard McKenna
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22F6pZU_PC8

BYRON JOEL'S WORK IN REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE
www.oaktreedesigns.com.au

BYRON'S MUSIC

Syntropic Agriculture is, as the listener will discover, tricky to define. It's simplest definition is a systematised approach to agroforestry based on the principles of ecological succession and, perhaps more than most regenerative agricultural modalities, takes thorough, constructive advantage of aligning with natural function (this is not just word salad lip service).

Syntropic Agriculture has been developed from the work of Swiss-Brazilian botanist Ernst Gotsch, and his insight and observation of how living systems, particularly forests grow naturally. By mimicking these systems and applying them to agriculture, we are able to create beautiful, abundant, healthy farms that are 100% organic and regenerative in nature, with minimal external inputs.

SHOW NOTES

Scott Hall's Website
www.syntropia.com.au

Ernst Götsch's Website
agendagotsch.com

BYRON JOEL'S WORK IN REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE
www.oaktreedesigns.com.au

BYRON'S MUSIC

As well as a surfer, farmer, father & Cancer survivor, Pat is an avid musician, offering a diverse blend of American folk-rock, country, blues, and reggae, Pat’s music is flavored with a traditional Hawaiian influence. Pat's music expresses simple messages of conscious, social & environmental revolution.

When not playing music Pat is exploring the lesser travelled nooks on his home island of Maui's, where he, his friends and family are actively re-connecting to the country and reviving the island's profoundly productive traditional agriculture systems known as Ahupua`a.

We tread such tantalising topics as:
-Evergreen State University
-Maui history
-Traditional Island eco-agricultural systems
-Terence McKenna
-Psychadelics
-Hawaiin Sovereignty

SHOW NOTES

PAT'S WEBSITE
patsimmonsjr.com

PAT'S INSTAGRAM
instagram.com/patsimmonsjr

BYRON JOEL'S WORK IN REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE
www.oaktreedesigns.com.au

BYRON'S MUSIC

Mark has been living and working extensively in the Kimberley for 27 years and started out as a camera operator with adventure film maker Malcolm Douglas. His curiosity led him into the edit suite and then into developing stories and creating films with deep underlying messages that reflect his very special part of the world.

The Kimberley is regarded as the greatest cultural landscape on Earth which houses tens of thousands of rock art sites and millions of heritage sites. It's natural beauty and dramatic coastlines are a cinematic dream. It is little wonder Mark has chosen to call this place home and raise his family.

We explore such lofty subjects as:

-Malcolm Douglas
-Pigmy dolphins
-Ayuhuasca
-Indigenous Australian ethnobotany
-Healing genetic trauma
-Magnetic pole shifts
-Limitless Human potential

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SHOW NOTES

Mark's website
www.markjonesfilms.com.au

BYRON'S WORK IN REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE
www.oaktreedesigns.com.au

BYRON'S MUSIC

Following on from his presentation on the global “Wild Man” phenomena, in this talk researcher Byron Joel explores the fascinating topic of Homonid (modern Humans and their relatives) history in the Australasian and South East Asian regions. From Homo erectus in Java as long as 1 million years ago, the Hobbits of Flores, the Red Deer Cave People, the Denisovan DNA heritage within contemporary Australasian peoples and even the folklore describing mysterious non-sapiens hominids still living in the Australasian wilderness.

SHOW NOTES

Link to the youtube video with associated slides *RECOMMENDED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmWnUMofpPU&list=PLJDf3pCXH9kRB9xOXjqmMTvahPXMH9_Gg&index=3

SECRETS OF SAHUL FACEBOOK GROUP
https://www.facebook.com/groups/secretsofsahul

CRYPTO-HOMONOLOGY PLAYLIST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nWxYJ27dxs&list=PLJDf3pCXH9kRB9xOXjqmMTvahPXMH9_Gg

BYRON'S WORK IN REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE
www.oaktreedesigns.com.au

BYRON'S MUSIC

He was cofounder and Director of the Al Baydha Project in Saudi Arabia, where he lived and worked with tribes of bedou to convert deserts into savannahs.  He founded the webinar series Sustainable Design Masterclass, and has taught and consulted in the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas.  He is passionate about the connection between ecologies and wealth.

Neal is an alumnus of Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.

In this episode we discuss:
- The Permaculture Voices conferences
- The ecology of the pre-industrial Middle East & North Africa regions
- Pleistocene Rewilding
- Lost agricultural systems of ancient Petra
- Neal's techniques for greening the desert
- Regenerative Agriculture as Human soul food

SHOW NOTES

The Story of Al Baydha: A Regenerative Agriculture in the Saudi Desert.

Regenerative Resources Corporation

Byron's Company: Oak Tree Designs
www.oaktreedesigns.com.au

In todays show we discuss:
-Home made mustard
-Darren's Irish heritage
-The early years of permaculture in Australia
-The pedagogy of regenerative agriculture
-Australian folk culture (or lack-there-of)
-Darren as emperor (This was parodical illustration. Only a fool would take it seriously)

SHOW NOTES

Regrarians.org

CREAM TOWN
https://shop.cream.town/ct-hub/

BYRON'S WORK IN REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE
www.oaktreedesigns.com.au

THE OCTARINE TREE: YOUTUBE
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1HzW66O3K0Rou3wvQ-0ccw

BYRON'S MUSIC

In this talk we discuss the fascinating potentials held by these elusive phenomena. Different types known by many names around the world, Sasquatch, Yowie, Yeti, Alma, Orang Pendek and more. He will explore the phenomena from a historical, Jungian, mythological, paleo-anthropological, and even modern forensic perspective  as to what may lie behind this cross cultural folklore and unrelenting sightings.

SHOW NOTES

Link to the youtube video with associated slides *RECOMMENDED
An Introduction To The Relict Hominoid Hypothesis

BYRON'S WORK IN REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE
www.oaktreedesigns.com.au

BYRON'S MUSIC

We explore...
- the potential of an extra-sapiens homonid crossing the Wallace Line onto the Australian mainland before Homo sapiens.
- Sapiens life amongst numerous other homonid species during the Pleistocene.
- the Relict Hominoid hypothesis.
- the probable diversity of now extinct hominid forms...
...and much more.

SHOW NOTES

Dr Meldrum's Journal
THE RELICT HOMINOID INQUIRY
www.isu.edu/rhi/

YOWIE HUNTERS
http://www.yowiehunters.net/

THE OCTARINE TREE 'CRYPTO-HOMONOLOGY' PLAYLIST
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nWxYJ27d…XjqmMTvahPXMH9_Gg

BYRON'S WORK IN REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE
www.oaktreedesigns.com.au

BYRON'S MUSIC
https://soundcloud.com/byrn-jaoel 

This has been a LONG time coming. The content of this first episode speaks for itself. I look forward to sharing further explorations into topics that I find personally invigorating. 

Further interests:

BYRON'S WORK IN REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE
www.oaktreedesigns.com.au

BYRON'S MUSIC
https://soundcloud.com/byrn-jaoel