Today’s final stanza from our visit to Kachana Station features a very personal conversation with the pioneering regenerative pastoralist, Chris Henggeler. It felt akin to a kind of life statement in the end. It wasn’t scripted that way, of course. It just seemed to be the culmination of having spent ten rich days together, which also included the looming deadline to shoot the donkeys, Chris’s birthday, and the birth of his third grandchild Ava.

We end up talking about things like the viability of regeneration, true wealth, and changing tack. And as Chris looks to hand over the reins, he invites the next generations of land doctors to realise the ultimate potential of the restoration of life’s self-organising processes everywhere.

Join us, as we sit down at the homestead and press record on our last conversation from this visit - a portrait of abundance against a profile of extinction.

Dedicated to Ava, the third grandchild of Chris and Jacqueline, who was born while we were at Kachana.

Title slide: Chris Henggeler, as a younger bloke (supplied).

Music:
Stones & Bones, by Owls of the Swamp.

Find more:
You can hear more of Chris and I in conversation in the main episode: ‘Wanted Land Doctors: Re-hydrating landscapes, reversing desertification & rebuilding wealth’.

You’ll find a series of links in the show notes there too (including to a special Extra out where the donkeys do their work). And an extensive selection of photos.

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100 Part 2. The Value of Life: A personal reflection on regeneration, viability, wealth & change