Reskillience is a podcast about the hard, soft and surprising skills that'll help us stay afloat if our modern systems don't. Hosted by Catie Payne, released weekly.
Kinking Collapse, Urgent Gratitude & Future Seeds with Shane Simonsen
I tell a story about my inability to change before chatting with a guy who's obsessed with changing everything! Dr Shane Simonsen of Recombination Nation [https://recombinationnation.substack.com/] is a biochemist, research scientist and experimental farmer who is shaking up agriculture-as-usual by breeding plants that require ZERO INPUTS. No fertiliser, no pest protection, no weeding, no watering! We talk about how to run your own kinky plant breeding experiments at home, as well as:
Why humans still have 50 million years left on the planet
Shane's POV on GMO
Low tech gene transfer you can do today!
Are we addicted to working harder not smarter?
Moving towards irrigation-free gardening
Yet another neurodivergent superpower
Being a plant snob
Cities versus country towns during collapse
Survival foods for the future
How & why to take on projects that will outlive you
CROSSING BRUSH TURKEYS & ASTRALORPS?
Impermaculture
Blessings on the internet
SOLID real estate advice
Where to buy crazy seeds
🧙♀️ LINKY POOS
Shane on Substack ~ Recombination Nation [https://recombinationnation.substack.com/]
Shane's podcast ~ Recombination Nation [https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/recombination-nation/id1777033551]
Shane's book ~ Taming the apocalypse [https://www.amazon.com.au/Taming-Apocalypse-Shane-Simonsen-ebook/dp/B0D2XCLJ85]
Folklore Pictures' film with Shane ~ Seeds for the Future [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apdB2H-y8c4&t=52s]
Australian Grain Seed Bank
Central Vic seed grower we love ~ Greg Mueller of Useful Seeds [https://www.usefulseeds.com/]
🧡🧡🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/c/Reskillience] 🧡🧡🧡
Sound credit ~ cheers Nicholas Allan! [https://xeno-canto.org/265181]
6 Sept 2026
The climate-resilient nature-entangled way to garden with Duncan Cocking
Planting guides and sow-what-when calendars are great and all, but what happens when the seasons don't play nice? When spring arrives earlier, frost hits later, or heatwaves burn your crops to a crisp? There's no controlling the weather, but with tools like phenology, you can make better predictions and grow more food!
Duncan Cocking (of Leaf, Root & Fruit [https://www.leafrootfruit.com.au/about/]) is an amazing gardener and educator from Kyneton in Southern Australia. He helps people tune into more-than-human patterns and cycles to build their own hyper-local and climate resilient gardening calendars, and has a wealth of wisdom about living more joyfully too.
In this convo:
Why spring is two weeks earlier this year
Duncan's early years immersed in nature and connected to country
Why he's not that interested in working hard
Mid-30s career change
Pattern recognition in the veggie patch
How to use phenology
Nature based indicators to tell you went to plant
The two most critical aspects of gardening!!!
Connection through failures
Why to RELAXXXXX about how to garden
Wood ducks tell you when you plant tomatoes
Crazy record keeping
How the hell to collate so much data
Habits of the highly observant
How do nature's patterns work, NO LIKE, HOW?
Being conversant with the land
Duncan is an ostrich
Disconnecting from the World Wide Web
How to preserve your mental health with a hyper-focus on local
Getting kids into the garden
Give your kids scary tools
Garden gimmicks
How to grow avos in cold climates
Spring gardening to-dos RIGHT NOW
🧙♀ LINKY POOS
Duncan's home on the web [https://www.leafrootfruit.com.au/]
Leaf, Root & Fruit on Substack [https://leafrootfruit.substack.com/]
Leaf, Root & Fruit on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/leafrootfruit/]
Andrew Turbill, the bird guy [https://andrewthebirdguy.com/]
🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/cw/Reskillience] 🧡
☕ Buy Me A Coffee [https://buymeacoffee.com/reskillience] (or an avo or a loaf of bread) ☕
Gratitude to the field recordist Romuald Mikusek, XC935811. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/935811.
25 Aug 2026
Breathwork for grief, connection & coming to your senses with Ella Maryska
NOTE: I've done breathwork every day since this interview and – you gaias! – it's really helping me human.
Meet today's guest Ella Maryska, who is responsible for getting me into this breathwork thing that I am the last person on the planet to know about.
Ella is 21 years old, wise as the hills, a certified breathwork instructor, and brings a fresh and youthful perspective to the pod which has been sorely absent to date (sorry sorry sorry).
In this sweet convo, you'll hear about the geeky physiology of breathwork; how it rebalances our nervous system, changes circulation to our brain, oxygenates tissues and connects us to plants, as well as Ella's own experience as a young person living through the polycrisis, navigating novel life paths as the old routes fall away.
I learned so much from Ella. Let me know if you're on the breathwork bandwagon, a brilliant tool for staying steady in the tumult.
🧙♀️ LINKY POOS
Ella's home on the web [https://cominghomebreathwork.com.au/#services]
Ella/Coming Home Breathwork on IG [https://www.instagram.com/cominghome_breathwork/]
Tuesday evening group class [https://cominghomebreathwork.com.au/#services]
Guided breathwork sesh on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-K1QWcr1VE]
[book] Atlas of the Heart ~ Brené Brown [https://brenebrown.com/book/atlas-of-the-heart/]
Catie's natto [https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dcc_NetzJPJ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsi=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==]
Reskillience live recording at Words in Winter [https://events.humanitix.com/reskillience-the-art-of-release]
The Australasian Permaculture Convergence [https://www.returntothevillage.com.au/]
🧡🧡🧡 Join the Reskillience community on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/c/Reskillience] 🧡🧡🧡
Catie on Substack [https://catiepayne.substack.com/]
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