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Continuing our Farming For Health series, today I am again joined by Alasdair Bednall. Alasdair is the chief educator and consultant with Entangled Edible Ecosystems, A syntropic agroforestry, food forest and permaculture consultancy organisation, based near the Blue Mountains in NSW.

He joins me today to discuss grasslands and forests. We cover what succession is, why certain farming practices are better suited for either grasslands or forests, why disturbance is so important to the health of an ecosystem, what the aims of Syntropic Agroforestry are, the nuances of context, the issues with forcing  practices onto land, the various macro trends determining if land wants to be a forest or a grassland and much more.

You can find Alasdair on Instagram or Facebook at Entangled_Edible_Ecosystems and stay up to date for when his next workshop will be.

This is a great information rich and important conversation. I hope you enjoy.

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Thanks to Alasdair for joining me for part three of our Farming For Health series.

On The Sacred Lab front, I have put out a new blog post on the substack, sacredlab.substack.com, called Step 1, breath - where I make the case for implementing a breathwork practice into our lives and list out some of the ways I have benefited. It is a new series I am starting and this is part 1 of step 1, part 2 will be out on Wednesday the 21st, which will be more about the science of breathing and the psychological, physiological and spiritual changes that an intentional practice brings.

I also released a reading of part 1 of my Spirit In The Everyday series, the first part being Altars. You can find that where you are currently listening to this.

As always, thank you so much for being a part of this show and for engaging with this material. Together let us solve the woes of the world, apprenticing to wise folk, like Alasdair Bednall.

Enjoy this conversation, which was recorded at my property in the Dandenong Ranges. Next week I will release the video recording portion.

Without further ado, here is Farming For Health part 3.


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As always, thanks to the amazing Maggie Alley for the theme music!

Now, this week we are getting into part two of our Farming for Health series, looking at farming through a Syntropic lens with Alasdair Bednall.

In the first part of the series we cover what nature wants, what the human ecological niche is and how we can fill it.

Part two is about context - the where and how of regenerative practices and why these are important, we also cover the pitfalls of trendy regenerative agriculture, why your neighbours waste stream is a fraught input for your land, what Alasdair's tenets of regenerative agriculture are and much more.

If you want to catch up on everything Alasdair is doing, courses he is holding or if you want to watch or read his posts about syntropy, agriculture and ecology - search for entangled edible ecosystems on facebook or Instagram, give him a follow and if available to you, get to one of his courses on an introduction to syntropic gardening, Alasdair is a wealth of knowledge, a kind and gentle teacher and it is with great pleasure that I welcome him back for part 2 of farming for Health.

Enjoy the discussion.



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In the first part of our series on Farming For Health, we look through a Syntropic lens with Alasdair Bednall. He takes us through what Nature desires and the Human ecological niche.



You can find Alasdair on Instagram @entangled_edible_ecosystems and on Facebook here.

Alisdair has upcoming courses on backyard Syntropic Gardening. You will find the information on the facebook page.



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