Death in The Garden

This week on the “Death in The Garden” Podcast, we share our interview with Connor Jones, permaculture designer & educator, and owner of the permaculture homestead, East End Eden in Ojai, California. We met up with Connor at the beginning of the summer and were enchanted by his property and equanimity. In this episode we discuss permaculture, the viability of a vegan diet, the emotionality of killing, how to truly not be “anti-science”, and the importance of nuance in the process of shifting cultural paradigms. Please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts, and check out our website for more information about our project.Editing: Jake MarquezMusic: Daniel Osterstock This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit deathinthegarden.substack.com/subscribe

This week on the podcast, Jake and Maren discuss the recent storming of the US Capitol, Charles Eisenstein’s “Story of Separation” as described in The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible and The Ascent of Humanity, and how we move forward in these uncertain times through the framework of embracing spirituality and interconnectedness. Additionally, we discuss the “Cult of Personality” we are witnessing currently with Trumpism, the pathological “metanarratives” our society functions under, the importance of mythology, and how through shadow integration (individually and collectively) we may be able to move forward toward the world we long for.Please rate, review, and subscribe if you appreciate what we are doing!Find us on Instagram @deathinthegarden and deathinthegarden.org. Editing: Jake Marquez Music: Daniel Osterstock This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit deathinthegarden.substack.com/subscribe

This week on the “Death in The Garden” podcast, we have the honor of sharing our interview with our friend, Christopher Ryan. Chris Ryan is the profoundly insightful writer of best-selling books Sex at Dawn and Civilized to Death, and host of the fascinating podcast, “Tangentially Speaking.” We delve into the origins of our civilization, the accidental & turbulent process of its evolution, how civilization has affected our psyches, why it’s totally normal to feel that there is something deeply wrong with society in modernity— and how we can escape its harmful influence by learning from hunter-gatherers and understanding prehistory.Check out our book review of Civilized to Death for more information!Please rate, review, and subscribe if you appreciate what we are doing! Check out our website and Instagram for more information about our project.Editing: Jake Marquez Music: Daniel Osterstock This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit deathinthegarden.substack.com/subscribe

On this week’s episode of “Death in The Garden”, Jake and Maren share their interview with Derrick Jensen: a prolific writer (Endgame, A Language Older Than Words, What We Leave Behind, to name a few books he has written), eco-philosopher, and radical environmentalist. This episode is rich with information and soul, covering plant sentience, the importance of protecting ecology, the rise and fall of civilizations, how modernity affects our psyches, and how we got to this critical point with our society and environment. We feel this podcast deeply aligns with the direction of our project and the philosophical/anthropological lens we are attempting to see the issue of climate change through. Derrick Jensen is an incredible person, and it was such a gift to be able to sit down with him. Find him at his website and Youtube for more!If you enjoy this podcast, please rate, review, and subscribe! Check out our website and Instagram for more information about the project! Music: Daniel OsterstockEditing: Jake Marquez This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit deathinthegarden.substack.com/subscribe

This week on “Death in The Garden”, we had the wonderful honor to sit down with our dear friend, Anya Kaats, creator of the podcast “A Millennial’s Guide to Saving the World”. Anya is an incredibly passionate millennial on a quest to “rally a generation labeled and groomed as lazy, triggered, and entitled and invite us all to write a new story— one of a generation that’s willing to challenge the status quo, reject black and white thinking, and opt out of each and every repressive system & box that we’ve been placed in.” We talk about initiation, growth, the misguidedness of modern social justice, archetypes, masculine & feminine, and so many other fascinating topics. We hope y’all enjoy this conversation as much as we did, and go give Anya’s podcast a listen: you won’t regret it! Find out more about Anya at her website, and give her a follow on Patreon.As always, please rate, review, and subscribe! If you want information about the project, please visit our website and Instagram for more.Music: Daniel OsterstockEditing: Jake Marquez This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit deathinthegarden.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome back to “Death in The Garden"! This week, we share our fascinating interview with the author of The Vegetarian Myth, Lierre Keith. This episode is full of crucial information about climate change, civilization, agriculture, food, health, and grief— as well as visceral emotion and even a wild visitor. We hope you enjoy this conversation with this incredibly empathic, intelligent, and genuine woman. This conversation was so informative and means so much to us, so please give it a listen!Please rate, review, and subscribe if you like what we do! Visit our website and Instagram for more information about the project.Music: Daniel OsterstockEditing: Jake Marquez This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit deathinthegarden.substack.com/subscribe

On this episode of "Death in The Garden," Jake and Maren go into detail about why they were so inspired to do this multimedia project. Jake talks about his multi-year experiment with his diet to achieve optimum “human health, planetary health, animal welfare, and a sense of spirituality”, which lead him to a raw vegan diet, where he discovered that veganism was an easy, false answer to the incredibly complex problem of climate change. Maren describes her journey with these things as well, differentiating between the apathy of misery and empathy of grief: and how important it is to truly experience grief to heal ourselves so we can heal the planet.Please rate, review, and subscribe! Visit our website and Instagram for more information about the project. Music: Daniel OsterstockEditing: Jake Marquez  This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit deathinthegarden.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome to another episode of our podcast for our multimedia project, "Death in The Garden!" In this episode, Jake and Maren talk about social media and how it’s plaguing society, ecological and analytical literacy, the importance of the awareness of living within ecosystems, and then finally we talk to Cody Spencer of Sweetgrass Bison, about bison and their incredible keystone function, as well as their important and fascinating history in relationship with the First Nations tribes in North America. We talk about regenerative agriculture, civilization, hunter-gatherers, and what we hope the future looks like in these wild times.Please rate, review, and subscribe, and visit our website and Instagram for more information about our project! Music by: Daniel OsterstockSound editing by: Parker Burningham  This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit deathinthegarden.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome to the “Death in The Garden” podcast! In this episode, Jake and Maren introduce the multimedia project “Death in The Garden” and talk about their experience witnessing a bison “field harvest” at Roam Ranch in Fredericksburg, TX.We talk about regenerative agriculture, climate change, the costs and consequences of eating food, the experience of witnessing something being killed for sustenance, and how we make sense of all of it.To learn more about the project and to help support us please check out our website deathinthegarden.org and give us a follow on Instagram @deathinthegardenPlease like and subscribe on whatever podcast platform you use.Editing: Jake MarquezMusic: Daniel Osterstock This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit deathinthegarden.substack.com/subscribe