The Regenerative Journey with Charlie Arnott

Charlie attended the recent 'Farming Matters' conference organised by the awesome crew at Land to Market, and did a series of quick interviews with some of the presenters and attendees. In part one Charlie speaks with Tony Hill, Executive chair of Land to Market, CEO of Maia Grazing Peter Richardson, Brian Wehlburg the prolific Holistic Management educator, and Rachel Ward, Australian actress, producer, director and passionate regenerative farmer and advocate. Episode Links :  2021 'Farming Matters' Conference organised by Land to Market Australia. Report by Soils to Life  Interview 1 (00:05:21) | Tony Hill ( Exec Chair) - Land to Market Australia   Interview 2 (00:21:21) | Peter Richardson (CEO) - Maia Grazing Interview 3 (00:32.15) | Brian Wehlburg (Founder) - Inside Outside Management  Interview 4 (00:50:58) | Rachel Ward - Australian actress/film maker and passionate regenerative farming advocate.  Rachel was interviewed by Charlie for The Regenerative Journey podcast in 2020 (Ep 17)

Charlie's guest this week is Aaron Mckenzie, the movement & lifestyle coach. Aaron Mckenzie has been on a lifelong regenerative journey, and has been committed to supporting others in their own health journeys since the age of 19. Charlie and Aaron delve deep into the catalysts for his change, his quick tips for lifelong wellness and the importance of regenerative agriculture in restoring not just the environment but human health. Episode Takeaways: Mind, body & spirit are the pinnacles of Aarons health philosophy, being one of a few 'fitness instructors' who focus as much on food as physicality | He left high school at 13, and spent his time skateboarding | After a period of suffering bad skin and lack of direction a Naturopath and whole food eating turned his life around, and he completed his Higher School Certificate | At age 18-19 Aaron started his current work with clients | Some quick tips to good health - get plenty of sleep, wind down every night before bed, enjoy every mouthful when eating, retain good relationships, stretch daily, keep hydrated, work and focus on your breath and breathing | Aaron ate 1 full cow and 2 lambs over 10 months including their organs | He consumed 800g/day of meat which was approx. 2-2,500 calories a day | Plants have chemical defences to stop them being eaten and the culinary arts are a way to deal with these | Everything a human needs to be healthy is in an animal | Aaron monitored his changes via blood tests and other markers | Sleep helps regulate the hormones that regulate appetite. Less sleep = more cravings and snacking | Aaron advocates daily fasting of 14-16 hrs | Learning to say no and learning to prioritise are the 2 biggest positive steps one can take to reclaiming their life. Episode Links:  https://www.originofenergy.com/ - Aaron’s website  Origin of Energy - Aaron’s YouTube channel Fuelled by the Sun - You Tube short doco by Aaron when he visited Hanaminno Nov ‘19

Charlie was able to grab the very busy Neil Perry for a quick interview at his iconic Sydney restaurant Rockpool Bar and Grill. Neil is a cornerstone of the Australia restaurant industry, with many chefs hats under his belt, a rich history of contribution to the trade and a keen supporter of farmers and artisan producers for many years. Topics covered include his early appreciation of the seasonality of food, development of his unique culinary skills, the impact of Covid-19 on the food industry and the opportunity he sees food playing in the indigenous reconciliation process. Episode Takeaways: Neil Perry is best known for his signature Rockpool restaurants | He has been and still is a mentor to many | Whilst now he spends much of his time away from the pans he still loves getting into the kitchen, the smell of open cooking fires and the energy of the kitchen | Neil’s Father was a butcher and Neil lived on George’s river Near Sydney, NSW where fresh seafood is in abundance | Neil grew up with fresh eggs, chickens, veggies, and was immersed in seasonality and freshness from a young age |'Great chefs of France' cookbook was Neil's first inspiration, including chef Michel Gerard | Neil was the chef at Barrenjoey House at Pittwater, Sydney at the end of 1982 and one of the first chefs to reference the producers on his menu | The best dish starts with best ingredients | His genius is getting best out of people | Reconciliation has gone off the rails in recent years and Covid-19 has over run the climate movement | Australia has a wonderfully diverse culture, and this is represented in its food culture | Rockpool Foundation is Neil's charity that raised the money to fund Hope Delivery which  | Finding staff is the only matter Neil is concerned about right now when opening a new restaurant due to lack of international students, and work visa holders as a consequence of Covid-19 and the restrictions on travel | There is a movement away from importing overseas produce as Australia is growing more of these once hard to find products | Neil uses vegetable or peanut oil when cooking Asian food otherwise he uses olive oil | Copper pots are beautiful to cook with! | His Qantas involvement is increasing as flight restrictions ease and more 'bubble flying' will take place | Neil’s new cookbook is due for release in October 2021| Neil reckons Aust. Domestic flights food is some of the best in the world! | If Neil could put a sign on a major highway it would say 'We are one' | Neil is a firm believer in the mantra of 'Community comes first'. Episode Links: Neil Perry - Chef Rockpool Bar & Grill - Neil’s restaurant Margaret - Neil’s new restaurant opening soon in Double Bay, Sydney Neil’s Qantas collaboration - Forbes Interview (2018) 'Great Chefs of France' - Book by Anthony Blake John Susman - An Early Collaborator of Neil’s   Hope Delivery - Part of the Rockpool Foundation. Feeding 5000 people weekly. Served 300,000 meals in 9 months in 2020

In this episode Charlie interviews regen farming's powerhouse couple Mitch & Nina Bray. Charlie caught up with Mitch and Nina at their Noosa Hinterland farm midway through an Introduction to Biodynamics workshop that they were hosting. It was a lively conversation and is in fact the 'first' couple Charlie has interviewed for the podcast. Prior to meeting Mitch and Nina had led interesting and quite different lives. On meeting their pathways transected & their regenerative journey together began. Through environmental and health challenges they have been transitioning from conventional to regenerative cattle, crop and vegetable farming with great success. Episode Takeaways :  Bought property in Noosa hinterland in response to a changing climate and seasonal pattern at their property at Ellangowan near Toowoomba in SE Qld, presents the opportunity to grow more food with the greater rainfall, and also presents challenges | Have a licence to grow hemp | Great rapport with a very like minded community on the coast, found their tribe | Together since 2010, Nina is a trained nurse and grew up on a farm, Mitch diesel fitter, who’s family is originally from Condobolin | Started on his small block with Nina | Underlining urge to farm even though both had chosen careers away from farming | Started with an independent agronomist and in the conventional farming space - with sheep, then cattle however due to flooding and trashing of fences decided to focus on cropping | The birth of their first child was the catalyst for change as Nina realised that her choices had far reaching impacts on her family and this was also true for their farming choices | Gained Organic certification for their home farm in 2014-15 which was essentially a trial block using more natural practices | Transitioned half their farm first | First organic crop was wheat | Organic corn out yielding conventional corn | An organic farm can still yield in dry years when conventional might struggle to produce, and in the dry years prices are better | Input costs are lower than conventional | Liquid injection great technique to add inputs | They won the Allan Brimblecombe Shield for the Highest Yielding Variety in a Cotton Seed Distributors (CSD) Variety Dryland Trial 2017 - 2018 | 11.7 bales/ha using their more natural biological inputs like fish and kelp emulsions and compost teas | ‘Less inputs more often’ is a principle that has worked well for them | They are growing on corn, soy sorghum, wheat barley millet, vetch, mung beans on their organic farm | The have tried ‘Relay Cropping’-eg sowing a legume into an already established wheat crop | Tip for farmers wanting to transition to more natural farming practices-stop expecting a clean paddock, managing a mixed of plants has benefits for nutrition and beneficial insects | They use Integrated Pest Management (IPM) techniques to manage insect pests | Livestock are great at targeting unwanted plants in a cropping rotation system | Nina uses homeopathics on the cattle, trough dose-NZ business called Simillimum Health and Homeopathy | They use Buffalo fly traps and a ‘Bos Bag’ w diatomaceous earth | Cattle often get a shower in the yards of saline water, and they also use sulfur to help manage buffalo fly and ticks | Dung beetles came back when they removed much of the synthetic chemicals out of their system | Their Noosa Hinterland farm is 400ac and in conversion to organic now | They both attended our Introduction to Biodynamics workshop in 2018 where their love and use of Biodynamics on their farms started | In 2018 Mitch was very sick, having suffered an occlusion (similar to a stroke), and his speech and movement was impacted - he was in bed for 3 months, and too no medications – Mitch did everything naturally | Biodynamics makes your farms vibrant. Its energetic, palpable and you can almost feel the life force that comes from using Biodynamics | Biodynamics is a way of life. You can’t un-see it once you have seen it. Mitch and Nina think that whatever they grow someone will be healthier from it | Biodynamics is about growing together and working together | They don't believe you have to be a purist to incorporate Biodynamics into your farming practice. Episode Links:  Bray Farms - Mitch & Nina Bray website  FB - Bray Farms  IG - Bray Farms / IG -  The Beach Farm, Noosa  Introduction to Biodynamics Workshops | Charlie Arnott & Hamish Mackay Biodynamics - Short read | Charlie Arnott  Integrated Pest Management (IPM)  Simillimum Health and Homeopathy - NZ animal health company Bos bag - Fly control measure  John Feahan  - Australian dung beetle expert  Kandanga Farm Store -  Mary Valley, Sunshine Coast QLD  

Kate Nelson is a passionate and outspoken advocate of educating people to the ills and insidious nature of plastics in our environment and our bodies. Charlie and Kate touch on her journey into the world of activism and the many ways that plastics impact our lives. Her book 'I Quit Plastics' is a wonderful guide to navigating a world where plastics are everywhere but avoidable if one changes one's perspective and behaviours around plastic.  Episode Takeaways :  Currently living on 5 ac in an 1890s house | Climate awakening 2 years ago in an agricultural context | Grew up in Minnesota with much involvement in the lakes and water as a canoe camp leader | Environmental focus at college on philosophy and ethics | She volunteered for Jean - Michael Cousteau’s NFP and met oceanographer Dr. Andrea O’ Neill of USGS | Learning of the ingestion of micro plastics by marine life was shocking to Kate and set her on a path of advocacy | Initially very outspoken and was urgent to change the world! | Aggression and forcing people doesn't work | Contributed to the 'Save the Mermaids' campaign banning plastic shopping bags in California and helped influence government policy in California | Was the marketing director Tiki activewear in LA whom recycle plastic into activewear | Recycling is a many headed beast with greenwashing prevalent | Plastic is insidious and can be found everywhere, as ingredients in many products and as the packaging of many products | Plastic flakes and degrades into micro plastics, and it leaches into food and liquids it is packaged in | Plastic is also released with use - into the air, onto your food. It’s in clothing, in tyres...  | The average person eats a credit card worth of plastic a week | Plastic is very functional product hence why it’s everywhere | Plastic bonds are loose so the chemicals it is made up of are released into the environment | Temperature and age of plastics will determine how quickly it breaks down | Off gassing is the airborne release of a chemical, a chemical in vapor form which happens with new plastic | Plastic is attracted to fat - lipophilic, which can accelerate how quickly it leaches | Some plastics are estrogenic, the pseudo-estrogens in plastic tell our bodies we’re pregnant and this growth response is linked to obesity and autism | Other medical and epigenetic impacts are cancer and heart disease, man boobs, and genital changes | The recycling industry didn’t develop at the same rate as the Plastics industry which has created the huge plastics in the environment problem | The disposable nature of current plastics is reflective of our ever increasing need for external gratification… and products are poorly made | Kate’s mentors include -Dr. Andrea O'Neill, Captain Charles Moore discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Sea Bin CEO Pete Ceglinski, Senator Pete Whish-Wilson, Maria Westerbos founder of Plastic Soup Foundation and Helena Norberg-Hodge founder and director of Local Futures | Plastic ash is 30x more toxic than actual plastic | Kate hosts many retreats for plastic free supporters. Episode Links:  www.iquitplastics.com - Kate’s website Mercast podcast - Kate’s podcast  I Quit Plastics - Kate Nelson’s book https://www.boomerangalliance.org.au/ https://algalita.org/ https://plasticfreebyron.com/ Ocean Futures Foundation - Jean - Michael Costeau’s NFP Dr. Andrea O’ Neill - Oceanographer w/ USGS The Plastic Soup Foundation - The Plastic Soup Foundation studies plastics and its impact on the environment founded by Maria Westerbos Estrogeneration - book by Anthony Jay Captain Charles Moore - Oceanographer and boat captain  Pete Ceglinski - Sea Bin CEO   Senator Pete Whish-Wilson - the 'surfing senator' Helena Norberg-Hodge, founder and director of Local Futures and director of 2011 doco.  'The Economics of Happiness'

In this episode Charlie interviews Grant Hilliard. Grant has been at the forefront of the paddock to plate scene in Sydney for many years, providing a vital link between curious and passionate 'eaters' in the city with the farmers who are producing regeneratively and ethically grown meat. Charlie and Grant traverse the line between government regulation, consumer sentiment and farming behaviours in exploring the current food system, its short comings and opportunities. Episode Takeaways: Grant operates a wholesale and retail butcher shop in Marrickville, Sydney, selling meat  and cuts of meat not usually seen in butcher shops eg. 3-4 year old beef, sourcing direct from producers | Buying direct from farmers is Feather and Bones point of difference | Grant grew up in suburban Melbourne with little time on farms | At Primary school he did a farm trip for a week to a dairy, and witnessed the slaughter of a sheep for food, which had profound formative effect on him | He was a vegetarian for a couple years whilst living in a remote nature reserve | Grant studied communications in Sydney and was involved in the making of a number of films | Whilst studying he worked as a waiter to pay the bills,  the famous Tony Bilson was one of his first bosses | He was the sommelier at Sean’s Panaroma in Bondi when he visited vineyards that got him interested in the location of food production | Information on the source of food was very scarce back then. He went looking for lamb, and found the rare Southdown breed near Oberon in the Central tablelands of NSW | He sold 3 different lambs to 3 different chefs, which was the beginning of his journey into sourcing good food direct from producers | The wool industry in Australia has pulled the meat sheep industry out of shape, with the wool breed Merino being used to produce most of the lamb available as a cross bred lamb | Grant visits every farm to understand them and provide that special link between farmers, not just between farmers and consumers | Whilst focused on rare breeds initially, Grant also now appreciates genetic diversity and the interconnection of things | Phenotype of an animal ( the influence of its environment such as food available) is just as important as it’s genotype |  Feeding of animals in a restricted environment (such as in feedlots) restricts their ability to source a full profile of nutrients | A diverse diet produced in a diverse landscape produces a diverse nutrient profile in the product | Angus cattle as a breed are highly genetically meddled with | Grant only sells one Angus producer’s beef and it originates from an old closed herd from the US with original Aberdeen Angus type genetics | The breed has been genetically commoditized | The current beef available is a reflection on the convenience for processors with little regard for consumer access to quality produce | One needs less of the meat that Grant sources and it goes further with more variety of cuts and a shorter supply chain creating a more diverse and resilient business model | 3 main challenges the food system in Australia faces incl. incorporating indigenous wisdom into food production, recognizing and accounting for the true cost of food & creating  government policy that recognizes we can't keep farming on a declining fertility plain | Political departmental disparity is challenging the effectiveness of food policy | A super department of health, land, environment & water would help address this! | Grant suggests if farmers are thinking about supplying good meat direct to wholesalers they need to consider their distance from processors and the overall logistics, and the quality of the water supplied to their livestock | Grant’s message of hope is that land can be rehabilitated and there is plenty if evidence of that happening at a rate faster than anticipated under the appropriate regenerative management. Episode Links :  Grant Hilliard -  Sydney Morning Herald article  Feather and Bone - 8/10-14 Lilian Fowler Place, Marrickville, Sydney, NSW 2204 The Ethical Omnivore - Grant Hilliard’s book  From the Feather & Bone website ‘The Ethical Omnivore is a user-friendly recipe and handbook that will open your eyes to a better way to buy, cook and eat.  this book to answer the questions we're asked every day in our butchery and it's an unapologetic paean of praise for regenerative agriculture and the importance of community.  We live in an affluent era marked by an increasingly fraught relationship to food, and meat is arguably the most controversial ingredient. There is a communal ache for authenticity, for a way forward with good conscience. Our book explores the solution: living with a conscience; asking the right questions of whomever sells you meat or of the labels you read; and learning how to respect the animal so much that you're willing to cook something other than chicken breast. We hope that it shows all of us how to live with less impact on the animals and environment that support us. Seans Panorama  - Restaurateur Sean Moran Phion water device - NSW, Aus

My guest for Episode 26 of the Regenerative Journey is Cyndi O'Meara. Cyndi has been an advocate for healthy food production and consumption for many years. Her training was inspired by the need to understand why humans have survived for millennia and now are in the middle of a global health crisis. Cyndi is outcomes driven and an advocate for food production and processing transparency. She is particularly critical of the use of Glyphosate in farming and its insidious infiltration throughout our environment and our bodies causing much of the current ill health and chronic disease seen in our populations today. Her Nutrition Academy offers people protocols and practices to renew and manage their health and wellbeing ( **Use discount code CHARLIE100 to receive a $100 discount for the Functional Nutrition Course) To start a dialogue and converse more about topics raised in this podcast, please visit The Regenerative Journey Podcast Facebook Group.  Episode Takeaways:  Cyndi had wanted a farm since a teenager, and to marry a farmer and have 12 children! | Her intention for buying her current farm was to help people get well using the farm as a retreat | She then decided that she didn't want to put the capital into the farm to create this kind of business, and instead changed the vision to the grazing cattle, using permaculture and syntropic farming practices | Her grandfather was an organic corn farmer in the US in the 1950s and her mum was the oldest of 11, and a member of the largest haemophilic family in world | Cyndi’s other grandfather was a NZ organic farmer | Cyndi attended University of Colorado and studied about food and culture, to help answer the anthropological question of how did man survive? | She studied to be dietitian in Australia but this study didn’t align with the anthropology she had studied | Cyndi started writing for a local paper where she was able to express her thoughts, until her articles began to conflict with conventional thinking and commercial interests - these articles later became her book | She offers programs and protocols for food and health in her Nutrition Academy program |She calls out fake foods, GMO 'food' and advocates for food system transparency | Synthetic biology and genetic modification is used to produce a myriad of food and fibre products, with horrendous consequences when eaten, worn or when they ‘escape’ in to Nature | Food irradiation to sanitize food is a problem, killing biome and nutrient value, and is being used more often in Australia to 'make food more safe'! | Health problem stem from problems in the paddock where food is grown, especially where glyphosate is used | The driver of human ill health is Big Ag, not the need to regenerate human health | Imprinting of diet when baby is in utero and the children will seek out that same food (and drugs) once born | Cyndi’s father was a pharmacist then chiropractor which meant he understood mechanism then moved to an understanding of vitalism | Dr Don Huber is a Glyphosate expert Cyndi has worked with. Glyphosate stops the critical shikimate pathway which is essential for amino acid metabolism and kills good microbes in soil and in our guts. It kills the good microbes that are needed to make essential amino acids | Chronic disease now everywhere can be attributed to the use of Glyphosate and other agriculture sprays such as arsenic, lead and DDT | In the1960s 4% of people had a chronic disease, now 38-40% of children have a chronic disease, for 65 years + and above the figure is 80% | Not just food important, lifestyle, mental state, exercise, following passion etc | Cyndi home schooled her children  | Currently incensed by the governments poor understanding human health  | If Cyndi was in government she would slowly remove all fake foods | Her genius is deciphering info and put it thru a vitality and a cultural history perspective  | Cyndi is outcomes focused, the outcome of creating well being in her client | Conversations of change often happen around the kitchen table sighting  an example of her friend who moved to an outback station and changed the food and cooking ethos of the men there with outstanding results | One of her inspirations is Dr Natasha Campbell Mcbride |  Better to put effort now in the kitchen than put the time into the docs waiting room later | Episode Links:  Changing Habits - Cyndi O’Meara’s website Lab to Table - book |  New version of Cyndi’s original book Changing Habits  Nutrition Academy - Cyndi’s online nutrition course (* Use CHARLIE100 to receive $100 discount on signing up the Functional Nutritional Course) Land to Market - Australian Holistic Management project Breathe - book by James Nestor Dr. Don Huber - Professor Emeritus of Plant Pathology at Purdue University ‘What the Bleep do we Know !’ - documentary  ’Manifesting Matisse’ - book by Michelle Nielsen The Hidden Messages in Water -   book  by Masaru Emoto Joe Dispenza - chiro and author   Bridging Science & Spirit - book by Bruce Lipton Biology of belief - book by Bruce Lipton Dr Natasha Campbell Mcbride  The Fat Emperor Podcast -  Ivor Cummins  The Highwire Podcast - Del Bigtree  Evolve w/ Pete Evans Podcast - Pete Evans London Real Podcast - Robert F Kennedy Jnr  Up for a Chat podcast - Changing Habits 100 Not Out Podcast - Marcus Pearce & Damian Kristof Gemtree Wines - McLaren Vale, SA

Charlie's guest for Episode 25 is David Pocock. David has been named one of the best rugby players of all time, however his skills and interests go far beyond the international Rugby stage. Growing up on a Zimbabwean farm David's interest in human and Natural ecology has been nurtured from a young age. When his family fled Zimbabwe in 2008 he brought that love of the landscape to Australia with him. David has since juggled his rugby career and advocacy for the protection of environments and rural community development, both here in Australia and back home in Zimbabwe. Episode Takeaways: Dave grew up on a flower, vegetable and beef farm in middle of Zimbabwe | Alan Savory the well known and controversial farmer and politician was an inspiration, as was Johann Zietsman who both challenged the traditional mindset | Dave was always interested in nature and human ecology and wanted to be a park ranger | Both Dave’s parents are from farming families | Zimbabwean reform program in 1999-2000 was badly executed which led his family to be kicked off their farm and their emigration to Australia | Dave spent 3 years in high school in Brisbane and threw himself into sport in 2008-9 | In Zimbabwe, some of the projects that Dave has participated in, target food and water security issues, through organisations such as ‘Farming Gods Way’ | Dave advocates connecting with the Australian landscape by spending time outside and  in nature developing one’s  Ecological and landscape literacy | The somewhat necessary control of invasive species such as horses is controversial | Dave is completing a Masters of Sustainable Agriculture at Charles Sturt University | His father has been a significant mentor, as was his mothers father | Reading has played a big part in David’s connecting to Australia | Alan Savory was an outspoken politician against the Rhodesian gov ref. apartheid, and it seemed that it was his ( Alan’s ) moving away from Africa that allowed him to amplify his wisdom and Holistic Management (HM) education to a wider global audience | Dave doesn't feel fully accepted as a Zimbabwean now | Technology has brought us benefits but it has also brought us closer to the cliff edge | South Zimbabwean Project aims to support ag and community development to create thriving people and ecosystems as part of UNDP. Episode Links : David Pocock - Official website and Linktr.ee links IG - David Pocock In Our Nature - Book by David & Emma Pocock  Alan Savory - Zimbabwean ecologist, livestock farmer, and president and co-founder of the Savory Institute Savory Institute - The Savory Institute equips land managers with innovative tools and curricula and conducts research on the ecological, social, and financial outcomes associated with Holistic Management Johann Zietsman - South African cattle farmer & practical scientist Zimbabwes Land Reform  Farming God’s Way - A resource given to the wider body of Christ, to equip the poor and break the yoke of poverty first pioneered in Zimbabwe in 1984.  MA Sustainable Agriculture - Charles Sturt University Call of the Reed Warbler - Book by Charles Massy Dark Emu - Book by Bruce Pascoe A Sand County Almanac - Book by Aldo Leopold Holistic Management - Definition  Moorlands Lamb - Biodynamic lamb producer Vince Heffernan , Yass NSW  Climate Change Adaptation Program (Zim) - UNDP

In the first Episode of Series 3 our podcast host Charlie Arnott picks up the mic and shares his thoughts and insights into the world of regenerative agriculture currently and identifies some key trends and areas of growth to watch in 2021. The episode also includes a preview of what's in store in the upcoming series. If the growing interest in the regen movement is anything to go by, then you would be strongly advised to fasten those seat belts and get ready for a powerful & life altering Series 3! Episode Takeaways:  Charlie talks about activity on his farm 'Hanaminno' and compares January 2021 with that of 2020 | The growing consumer interest  in the origins of the food they are eating | Simple concept - the impact of and the outcome of people being more curious about their food has a global significance | The role parents play in setting a good example - children are appreciating this and getting onto the band wagon, setting wonderful examples for life | Men are good at looking for solutions, it’s women who are good at getting the stuff done | Organic or non chemically produced food should be the normal and the chemically produced should be labelled ‘chemical’, turn it around | Re: the financial sectors growing interest in regen 'Formulating a value based on not the infrastructure. What hasn't been looked at until now is what's under the ground. What you can’t see is some of the most important real estate we have | More consideration should be given to how and who should be farming the land.  Episode Links: www.charliearnott.com.au Patreon page for the Regenerative Journey podcast  RCS - Grazing for Profit Course Growing Nutritious Food in your Backyard w/ Biodynamics Urban Taster session w/ Hamish Mackay & Charlie Arnott - March 2021 It's in the Soil - Harris Farm Markets regen campaign Feb 2021 Odonata - Nigel Sharp / Sam Marwood Cultivate Farms - Sam Marwood Venture Organic - Adam Gibson The Big Little Farm - film and film director John Chester

In Part 2 of Charlie's interview with Tommy Herschell, Tommy dives further into the workshops he facilitates, runs through his 'Form guide for a fella', and pulls apart the myth of the 'male code' or 'mens lore' using his own experiences and insights. To start a dialogue and converse more about topics raised in this podcast, please visit The Regenerative Journey Podcast Facebook Group.   Episode Takeaways: Tommy facilitates both men’s and boys workshops where he encourages them to tell their story and/or listen | The number 1 skill to learn from these workshops is that it’s ok not to be going good...’ | Form guide for a fella 1. Drop anchor - Stop for 60 secs, 2. Take stock-assess the situation, 3. Get out of the queue - step away from old paradigms and actions, 4. Road test -what’s another way to handle the situation, 5. Kill the pig - challenge yourself, 6. Eat the frog - delay gratification, 7. Chew the fat but don’t spin the yarn | People from the land are honest | Neil Pringle legend rugby league player mentor of Tommy’s | Find a mate you can talk to | Read a hard book Episode Links:  Tommy Herschell  – you can contact Tommy via his website / email & tel. # are at footer of page. Find ya feet - You Tube / Mahindra collaboration Raise - Tommy is an ambassador Tomorrow Man - reinventing masculinity