Saltgrass

End Season 4 - short message

A short message from Saltgrass host and producer Allie to close season four including some clues about what is coming soon. 

S4 E18 Djakitj Larr - part 2

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

S4 E17 Djakitj Larr - Eating Country Healthy

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

S4E16 The Youth Are Rising

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.

S4 E15 Democracy For Dinner

Today we are going to be chatting with Castlemaine local Bryn Davies and a group he has been a part of called Democracy for Dinner. I thought it was a very pleasant sounding enterprise and an example of how we can, where ever we are, get together in a grassroots kind of way and start to take it upon ourselves to understand all of the above mentioned complexities and opportunities. Because, just like with climate change, it is easy to feel like it is way bigger than us and way beyond our control.
 
Links coming soon
 
 

S4 E14 A Library of Seeds

The Castlemaine Seed Library has been running for over five years with people 'borrowing' seeds to plant and grow food, and then 'returning' seeds once the plants have run their course.
 
In this episode Seed Library founder Grace McCaughy and coordinator Eliza-Jane Gilchrist talk about the value of seeds and all that we can learn from them.
 
We discuss how the seed library began and how it works as well as big ideas like the value of local seed banks in a changing climate, multinational seed trade, the resonances between seed collecting and art, and how we can foster a love of gardening and appreciation of all the cycles of nature in the next generation.
Resources and Links
The Castlemaine Seed Library                                          
Eliza-Jane Gilchrist – artist             
Castlemaine Library              
The Hub Foundation                                               
Castlemaine Community House Community garden                  
Growing Abundance                          
International peasants movement         
Useful seeds Bendigo                            
CSIRO soil science book for children       
Entangled Life – book       
Lost Seeds NSW seed company                      
Scale Free Network                        

S4E13 Futures with Alex Kelly and John Wiseman

I was lucky enough to have a wonderful conversation about possible climate futures, not through a lens of disaster and doom but gritty possibility, radical hope and extraordinary courage.
Alex Kelly and John Wiseman joined me recently to talk about their futuring practices. John has just published a book called Hope and Courage in the Climate Crisis and Alex is a co-creator of The Things We Did Next.
 
Links:
The Planting
The Things We Did Next
West End Resilience Group
The Orchard Keepers
In My Blood It Runs
The Next Economy
This Changes Everything
The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imaginationand their book
Tim Hollo essay “There’s no time left not to do everything”
Jennifer Mills -Dyschronia
Nancy McDinny - digging up parliament house Darwin
Victor Steffenson
N.K. Jemison - The Broken Earth Trilogy 
Kim Stanley Robinson - Ministry for the Future 
Refuge  
Robin Wall Kimmerer - Braiding Sweetgrass 
Rebecca Solnit - A Paradise Built in Hell 
“Hope with teeth” China Miéville
“New stories” George Monbiot
Claire G Coleman
Occupy Sandy
Station 11

Podcast listeners, I haven’t forgotten you!

Hello podcast crew, I haven't forgotten you  even though there has been a bit of radio or podcast silence over the last month. This very short message is just to explain what has been going on and what is coming up soon. Hope all is well in your world! Allie

S4E12 Water with Steven Healy from Coliban Water

Steve Healy is Executive General Manager of Climate and Population Adaptation at Coliban Water. 
Climate change predictions for our region point to hotter and drier weather patterns and when it rains it is going to be more extreme, big dump kind of events. So water is on a lot of people’s minds when they think about how we might be able to keep living here through climate change.
We discuss how water works in our region, in the past, in the present and into the future. 

S4E11 Getting to Know You with Kathryn Coff

Kathryn Coff is a committed community leader and she joins us to discuss race, privilege and power, which are themes that she lives with and grapples with every day of her life. She shares a beautiful way of getting to know people that opens us up so much more than 'and what do you do?'
 
Links:
Kathryn's speech at the Black Live's Matter rally in 2020
 
Kathryn is the CEO of Nalderun
 
Introduction method was borrowed from the work of Mishel McMahon and Leroy Little Bear