Reseed
Thoughtful conversations about repairing our relationship with nature. The guests of Reseed are the RE generation: people who are embracing redesign, reduction, repair, reuse, and regeneration, and cultivating a world rooted in care, justice, and well-being. Join farmers, builders, designers, artists, and makers to delve into our collective journey from takers - to caretakers.
Episodes
45 episodes
The Hummingbird Who Lost His Way
A small hummingbird flew over 1,900 kilometres, and ended up in a Saskatchewan backyard before a cold winter. The hummingbird – later called Yosemite Sam in national news stories – had performed something called reverse migration, a phenomenon ...
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Season 3
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Episode 42
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40:26
Reconnecting with Soil - Antonious Petro
Each of us is deeply connected to soil, whether we see or feel soil directly. It is the source of our food, medicine, and clothing, and is critical to the liveability of our ecosystems and to our lives. Healthy soil can also help us rise to mee...
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Season 3
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Episode 41
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44:37
Our Tenderness Needs to Match the Brutality – Kerri ní Dochartaigh
We are midwives of a transformation, in a time of crises and grief. Now is a moment to find our most expansive definitions of motherhood, nature, and ancestry in order to equip us for this moment. This episode of Reseed explores mothering in th...
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Season 3
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Episode 40
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55:41
Birds, Imagination, and the Tyranny of Clocks
We all have times of silence — when momentum slows down, we turn inwards, or we cannot rush and produce. These wintering times, as Katherine May calls them, can allow us to rest and heal, but they can also lead to big changes. T...
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Season 3
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Episode 39
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59:12
Reconnecting with Land and Community through Slow Fashion
In the darkness of solstice season, a slim and nourishing light begins to return, imperceptibly, like the small and steady reconnections we are making to the earth and each other. This conversation explores how we can reconnect wit...
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Season 3
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Episode 38
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46:47
The Pursuit of Old Growth Giants - Amanda Lewis
A journey to track giants - the biggest old growth trees in British Columbia - teaches us about the relationships we have with forests, and the threats our trees face, from runaway wildfire to old growth logging to climate change. This journey ...
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Season 3
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Episode 37
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56:29
Turn Towards Each Other: A Collective Climate Justice Movement - Tori Tsui
Collective action can lead to real, tangible victories, like halting an offshore oil project proposed by Big Oil, reminding us that collectives of people have the power to challenge destructive and powerful forces. Instead of the individualisti...
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Season 3
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Episode 36
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52:28
Witnessing the Lives and Deaths of Animals Among Us - Amanda Stronza
Our lives interconnect closely with the lives of animals. From the raven to the honey badger to the snake to the fox, we live in relationship with the animals, our neighbours and creaturely kin. When the convenience of our modern life causes an...
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Season 3
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Episode 35
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58:03
Season 3 Trailer
The human animal lives at a fragile moment on Earth. But, even as the world we know erodes, many people leave the comfort of denial and inaction to rise and face a changing world with generosity and brave, active hope. In season three o...
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3:35
Revealing Why Women Grow Gardens - Alice Vincent
Why do we grow in our gardens? Are we searching for closeness to the mystery and magic of the natural world, or perhaps working towards self-sufficiency by feeding ourselves? Do we grow to create habitat for pollinators or enrich precious soil?...
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Episode 34
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57:24
On Location in Colorado: Regenerative Ranch, Regenerative Economy - Hunter Lovins
This mini-documentary chronicles the journey of host Alice Irene Whittaker in 2019, when she traveled pregnant with her third child to Colorado to interview acclaimed environmental economist and regenerative rancher Hunter Lovins. Around a kitc...
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Episode 33
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1:04:59
Local Food Reinvented with Tech - Eddy Badrina
How do we feed everyone, how do we feed cities? How do we tackle food deserts and food injustice? And what if there is not one answer to these questions - but many?This experiment of how humanity tackles environmental breakdown...
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Episode 32
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47:34
Reawakening into Something Better - Larissa Crawford
In these dark winter days at the beginning of a new unknown year, this reflective episode invites us to be quietly awake: awake to our true selves, awake to who we are in relationship with, awake to how we honour our responsibilities, and awake...
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Episode 31
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54:03
Relocalizing Our Food Future - Barbara Swartzentruber
Imagine creating a food future where all people have access to nourishing affordable food, growing practices are regenerative, and our food systems transition from being global and fragile to regional and resilient.This conversation loo...
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Season 2
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Episode 30
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52:06
Media, Stories, and Culture Reclaimed - Sara Lopez
Communicating the Anthropocene is an art and a science. Multiple messages, tactics, messengers, and channels can be harnessed to convey climate change problems and solutions to citizens. Environmental communications are one of the most underuti...
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Season 2
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Episode 29
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58:50
Remembering We are Stewards - Tao Orion
Looking at species in a landscape, we can see the stories of each creature and what role it plays in that ecosystem. So, what is our role in our landscapes? Are we an invasive species? Too often we hear that we are doomed to be takers, ...
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Season 2
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Episode 28
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55:08
Rewilding the Ocean - Charles Clover
The ocean - which has always held mystery for us human beings - also holds powerful solutions to climate change and biodiversity loss. By rewilding our oceans and protecting the forests of the sea, we can bring back essential biodiversity, redu...
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Season 2
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Episode 27
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51:32
Reclaiming Food Sovereignty, Remembering Women Farmers - Leticia Ama Deawuo
Food justice is interwoven with conversations about our women ancestors and motherhood in this episode of Reseed. Food is interconnected with human health, planetary health, water, soil, animals, culture, and care. At its worst, the production ...
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Season 2
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Episode 26
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50:46
Rejecting Fossil Fuel Narratives, Rewriting Climate Futures - Grace Nosek
Fossil fuel narratives seep into our culture, media, politics, and minds like pesticides through soil, water, and food. It can be hard to know where these pervasive and damaging narratives started, or how to extricate them from our lives. Fortu...
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Season 2
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Episode 25
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56:40
Season 2 Trailer
Oceans, cities, farming, media, storytelling, seeds, soil, and activism are being reimagined and revolutionized by the captivating guests who join season 2 of Reseed. Host Alice Irene Whittaker delves into thought-pr...
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Season 2
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2:43
Reigniting Creativity for a Caring World - Rebeka Ryvola de Kremer
We protect our gentle hearts and our fearful brains by saying things cannot change, telling ourselves it isn’t as bad as it is, or just ignoring environmental and social breakdown all together. Our disillusionment can be a slow erosion of imagi...
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Season 1
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Episode 24
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1:06:23
Rewilding Science and Stories - Kai Chan
From the wonder of watching tiny, wild critters to the grand, complex world of international environmental research, this conversation spans worlds. It navigates the often-separate disciplines of science and stories, threading them together. Gu...
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Season 1
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Episode 23
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59:15
Rewriting Joy Amidst Crisis - Danielle Daniel
How do we balance joy with sorrow in the midst of ongoing crises? Seeking freedom is not frivolous but rather essential, so that we are able to care for ourselves as we protect wild places, and so we can be resilient in the face of environmenta...
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Season 1
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Episode 22
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44:20
A Web of Relationships - Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
We live as part of a wondrous planet, an intricate web of interconnections and relationships. We have been taught, though, to think not in wholes and connections, but rather to break everything into simple, easy-to-digest pieces. What is often ...
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Season 1
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Episode 21
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57:34
Witnessing Waste, Restoring Scrap - Stacey Tenenbaum
There is a strange and haunting beauty to the discarded massive objects like ships, planes, cars, and phone booths that sit in waste graveyards around the planet. These relics of the past and symbols of our disposable culture are spotlighted in...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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47:22