Best Sam Betteridge Podcasts (2025)

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S2. The [~#%^S-tripl-P^%#~] 1:43

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The thoughts continue to pile up as I prepare for a new education endeavour. Let’s Get Dis. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/solarpunkpermaculture/message

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Carbon Gardens: Part 8 - Community 2:03

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CommunityI’m writing this text for Community. I’m writing this text for the Earth System.I’m writing this text for the gardeners, market growers, forest fillers, regen rangers, loggers, land clearers, guerillas and grand scale permaculturalist of our planet.Without community, we have nothing in common.In this tale of forest thoughts, we have relish…

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Carbon Gardens: Part 7 - Preservation 2:21

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Preservation“All that yield. ALL OF THAT FOOOD!So much produce and beauty to preserve.” - I think to myself.There are no preservatives in the aisle of your syntropic agroforest. Not the store-bought shelf types anyway. This is good! We like it this way. A system in syntropy is a system of self-sorting.More or less preserving its own beauty over tim…

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Carbon Gardens: Part 6 - Edible Carbon Gardens 2:20

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Edible Carbon GardensEver since your run-in with the forest mage, you've been racking your brain tryna remember seeing any limes in the forest.After a few days, the thought gradually catches up with you - *There aren't usually that many edible species in a natural growth forest system. Not many you know of with limes anyway.In our day and age, frui…

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Carbon Gardens: Part 5 - Stratification 1:50

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StratificationPicture me this. - A garden full of umbrellas.Umbrellas are exactly how the forest mage wants you to think of trees.When you first stumble upon his buttress root, he looks at you with such an intensity, you wonder if he is of this time.His intensity also lets you know his forest observations are legit.The old guy brings forth a wisdom…

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Carbon Gardens: Part 4 - Nursery 2:45

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NurseryNursery work is plant work. If you're working or playing w/ plants, you're in the nursery game.Now the genie is off your back and you've begun pushing solar panels into the sky via billions of little green blades. You look around at the iridescent green magic carpet beyond your toes.Seems bare, right. Seems like you need some plants to grow.…

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Carbon Gardens: Part 3 - Seeds 2:51

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SeedsSeeds are like eggs. Hard outer shell with a proto-life form, armoured at its core.If the character traits for seeds were not realised in the manner that they are today, who knows what sort of genetic response the embryonic stage of plants would have evolved to protect itself.Either way… I’m stoked we have seeds as they are. Super interesting …

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Carbon Gardens: Part 2 - Groundcover 2:04

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GroundcoverThe term ground cover is a funny one. When I first heard it I went straight to the idea of a carpet on the ground… not the natural type either.When you first meet the ground cover genie, he asks you, “What are you looking for?”Stunned and unsure about this blue cloud of vapor that has appeared in your yard, you and he eventually get to y…

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Carbon Gardens: Part 1 - Soil 2:15

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SoilThere is a good reason to start with the soil. Apart from it being the interface between seed and plant - The part you're most interested in if you're into plants. It's literally the engine of the garden.This is why you have to create good soil before anything else will happen. No soil, no seed germination. No soil, no nutrient or substrate for…

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Carbon Gardens: Regenerative tales for our Earth System - INTRODUCTION 2:23

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Introduction What if I told you that your green waste bin was a waste of time? What If I told you that all the fertiliser you spent money on was unnecessary. What If told you that most people who call themselves gardeners are possibly better described as miners. Really!? You might say. Surely not miners… It's sadly true. Most of the methods used in…

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Dr. Martin Freney - Sailing toward our SolarPunk future on an Earthship 1:04:04

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Dr. Martin Freney has spent the past decade+ invested in the concept of the Earthship. Inspired by books written in the 1980s by Michael Reynolds - founding father of the eco-home movement, Martin dove headfirst into this solutions-based construction niche in search of a better way to steward our planet. After living in, building, and studying Eart…

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Reflections - How life has changed over recent times. 13:40

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In this episode I take the opportunity of an hour commute to reflect on recent changes in my professional life. I speak on the integration of the built and biological fields and how the Permaculture ethics has shaped the way I navigate life on our beautiful planet. I reflect on the means by which the ethic of Fair/Future care manifests in my life a…

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Justin Hartley: No-till, no dramas. The Duckfoot Model 1:19:37

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Justin is a small-scale regenerative agriculturist, looking after a number of parcels of land in the southern highlands of Sydney. Inspired by hands-on experience and the no-till market gardening methodologies of the ever-inspiring Charles Dowding, Justin has set out on a hero's journey to bring nutrient-dense food to the community in a regenerativ…

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Shubhendu Sharma - Hyperspeed Afforestation Now 2:29:54

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Shubhendu is a special human being with an inspiring story. After attending a lunchtime workplace presentation, his life took a sudden U-turn away from the manufacturing of cars on a Toyota production line, towards the entrepreneurial pursuit of earth and people care via afforestation. For it was this chance event that Shubhendu was introduced to t…

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Laura Ryan - The Seemingly 'Impossible' SolarPunk House 1:11:37

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Laura is a woman on a mission. In my mind, she is a true SolarPunk. Fed up with the snail pace speed of development seen in the city of Sydney, in which we both reside, Laura has taken on the seemingly impossible project of retrofitting her Newtown workers cottage and turning it into an urban off-grid oasis. Seeking to use 'The Impossible House' as…

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Andrew Millison - Pure SolarPunk Permaculture. Right now, on Planet Earth. 1:51:50

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Andrew is a Senior University Instructor at the Oregon State University. Teaching mainly online courses at OSU, it's his youtube videos that have helped me and millions of other people around the globe better understand the concepts and principles of Permaculture design. His well-illustrated lightbox clips and the AR sandbox, an augmented reality t…

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Lauren & Oberon - Life in a waste-free Spiral Garden 1:31:54

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Lauren and Oberon are living a conscious lifestyle that places Permaculture ethics at the centre of their living arrangements. As true Permaculturalists, they share with the world how & why living 'simply' is an achievement to strive for. With relationship-building at the centre of their family ethos, they have changed their behaviour to live a was…

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Byron Birss - Creating Paradise in the Bay of Plenty 1:46:11

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Byron is a community creating, fun'n'sun-loving Food Forester, openly practicing Agroforestry and Permaculture for the whole world to perceive. He spent some of his younger years immersed in nature at the Jane Goodall Environmental Middle School, a charter institute developed in honour of our favourite English Primatologist. Moving on to study envi…

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Aaron Mears - The Living Classroom Legend of Lulu's Perch Permaculture 1:43:57

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Aaron is a Permaculture and Highschool Educator with an inspiring and eclectic story. Having worked as a mental health nurse for a decade, he found himself searching for answers for the people in his care. Who would've guessed the answers would be found in the deserts of Jordan, w/ Permaculture heavy hitter; Geoff Lawton. Additionally, through the …

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Dustin Jacobus - Illustrations of a SolarPunk future 1:28:26

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Dustin Jacobus is an artist exploring the SolarPunk futures our heart's desire, primarily through his strengths as an artist. In this conversation, we discuss how his illustrations help to fill a void many of the SolarPunk enthusiasts may feel today, as they search the internet looking high and low for depth and a better understanding of what a hig…

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Lauren Nissen - Landscape Architect and Urban Designer of the future! 53:34

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Lauren Nissen is a Landscape Architect and Senior Associate at ASPECT Studios in Sydney Australia. Growing up w/ a keen interest in science and having a natural creative flair has taken Lauren on a Journey that most SolarPunks and Urban Permaculturists would only dream of. She has helped design and worked on some of the most progressive and forward…

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Andreas - A systems thinker, an ecological philosopher & a SolarPunk Farmer 1:11:01

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Andy is a father and lifelong gardener living in Los Angeles. Working as a professional aquaculturist and a student of the environmental sciences, he thinks about the world in a deeply insightful manner. Drawing upon theories of Social Ecology, Andy inspired me with his Youtube Channel - The Solarpunk Farmer where he shares his knowledge and expert…

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SolarPunk Permaculture (Trailer) 0:39

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