Saltgrass
Created on Djaara Country. Salt of the earth people. Grassroots change. Find out more at saltgrasspodcast.com
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Local stories, global issues.
Although the show is made in Castlemaine and features people from this region, this movement is truly global. What one community is doing in rural Australia is what many communities are doing all around the world. What is possible here is possible elsewhere. What we have learned from watching and listening to other communities, others may learn from us.
After all, a grass roots movement is just a bunch of people who decided to get together, discuss ideas and then do something.
Episodes
Tuesday Oct 11, 2022
Tuesday Oct 11, 2022
Back in March 2022 Zoe Scoglio joined Allie live on MAINfm and shared some interviews she had collected for a Castlemaine Commons Collective project. Beautiful conversations about community, connectedness and resilience.
Episode 4 includes interviews with:
Allison Nye from Country Womens Association (CWA)
Carolyn Neilson about the Murnong Community
Tuesday Sep 27, 2022
Tuesday Sep 27, 2022
Back in March 2022 Zoe Scoglio joined Allie live on MAINfm and shared some interviews she had collected for a Castlemaine Commons Collective project. Beautiful conversations about community, connectedness and resilience.
Episode 3 includes interviews with:
Madz from Community Lunch and Growing Abundance and
Lorraine from MASDAG
Tuesday Sep 13, 2022
Tuesday Sep 13, 2022
Back in March 2022 Zoe Scoglio joined Allie live on MAINfm and shared some interviews she had collected for a Castlemaine Commons Collective project. Beautiful conversations about community, connectedness and resilience.
Episode Two includes interviews Zoe did with two locals; author Robyn Annear and ecologist Karl Just.
Song referenced: Sunset Village by Beverly Glenn-Copeland
(Sound quality starts out with some interference, but improves through the episode)
Tuesday Aug 30, 2022
Tuesday Aug 30, 2022
This is the first of four episodes created in collaboration with The Castlemaine Commons Collective and artist Zoe Scoglio. They were recorded live at MAINfm in March 2022.
Zoe had been collecting local stories of community organising and collective care. Each episode in this series includes short edited excerpts from some of the conversations held by Zoe. We hope this can inspire further conversations, and so we can learn from each other about how to navigate these increasingly precarious times together brought on by the pandemic and climate crisis.
Tuesday Aug 16, 2022
Tuesday Aug 16, 2022
Allie and some other podcasters got together last year at the NonfictioNow Conference and had a long chat about what it is to make media and try to communicate about climate change. In this second part of the discussion we explore why we make our shows and the various problems we grapple with as we try to make the complexities of the climate crisis accessible.
Featuring:
Allie - Saltgrass
Jess and Ash - Heaps Better
Tessa - The Nature Between Us
Mark - Climactic
Friday Aug 05, 2022
Friday Aug 05, 2022
Allie and some other podcasters got together last year at the NonfictioNow Conference and had a long chat about what it is to make media and try to communicate about climate change. In this first part of the discussion we interview each other about our shows - what our shows are, how they came about and what we hope to achieve with it.
Featuring:
Allie - Saltgrass
Jess and Ash - Heaps Better
Tessa - The Nature Between Us
Mark - Climactic
Friday Aug 05, 2022
Friday Aug 05, 2022
A short message from Saltgrass host and producer Allie to close season four including some clues about what is coming soon.
Sunday Jul 03, 2022
Sunday Jul 03, 2022
This is part two on Djakitj Larr - Eating Country Healthy.
Please listen to the previous episode first to hear the full story.
In 2019 Bendigo was designated a UNESCO Creative City and Region of Gastronomy.
In early 2021 about 100 people gathered at a winery just outside of Harcourt. Djakitj Larr was an afternoon of food, performance and creative conversation that allowed people to connect and reflect, and generate ideas for building sustainable food systems on Djaara Country.
In this two part podcast Allie shares audio from the day and also an interview with the creators.
Djakitj Larr creative team:
Jodi Newcombe, executive producer and director
Sam Thomas, creative development, sound design, stage manager: animate objects
Will Tait, co-producer, performer and MC
Rebecca Phillips, creative development, performer, advisor on Djaara knowledge
Charlie Ahrens, creative development, stage manager: inanimate objects
Anna Knight, Bendigo City Council
Alex Perry, Situate Dining
Ira Barker, Murnong Mummas
Mitch Boney, sound scape in performance
Wednesday Jun 01, 2022
Wednesday Jun 01, 2022
In 2019 Bendigo was designated a UNESCO Creative City and Region of Gastronomy.
In this episode we discuss what that means and also deep dive into an event called Djakitj Larr which explores all the reasons why our region was chosen for this.
In early 2021 about 100 people gathered at a winery just outside of Harcourt. Djakitj Larr was an afternoon of food, performance and creative conversation that allowed people to connect and reflect, and generate ideas for building sustainable food systems on Djaara Country.
In this two part podcast Allie shares audio from the day and also an interview with the creators.
Djakitj Larr creative team:
Jodi Newcombe, executive producer and director
Sam Thomas, creative development, sound design, stage manager: animate objects
Will Tait, co-producer, performer and MC
Rebecca Phillips, creative development, performer, advisor on Djaara knowledge
Charlie Ahrens, creative development, stage manager: inanimate objects
Anna Knight, Bendigo City Council
Alex Perry, Situate Dining
Ira Barker, Murnong Mummas
Mitch Boney, sound scape in performance
Tuesday May 17, 2022
Tuesday May 17, 2022
Today I’ll be taking you along for the ride as my 14 year old Nephew Oliver and I head into Melbourne and take part in the student strike for climate that happened on the 25th of March. It was a global day of action so there were similar events not just around Australia, but around the world. We joined a huge crowd in the city and marched several city blocks, we disrupted traffic and made a lot of noise. I chatted to some of the young people there to hear what made them want to join the march.
Then later in the episode you will hear from another student strike, this one happened just this week in Castlemaine. The student strike movement in Australia was rallying again as they wanted to make sure that climate is an election issue, with just days to go before our federal election. So again strikes were organised right across the country.