Welcome to Episode 32 of Eco Convos with Dan, where I chat with two guests - Chris Henderson and Cyril Bourke.
CHRIS FROM BIO-LIGHT AND DIAGNOSTIC HEALTH SOLUTIONS
Having experienced health challenges when in his late teens, Chris was determined to find alternatives to the medication that was making him sicker. This journey would take him to juice fasting health retreats, biologic dentists to remove mercury amalgam fillings safely, reiki and energy healers and from a practising vegan all the way to Paleo diet principles to rediscover his health.
Chris is a qualified ‘Functional Diagnostic Nutrition’ practitioner coaching clients through diet, rest, exercise and stress reduction principles including their exposures to light and how this effects the bodies natural sleep, hormonal and circadian rhythms. Light became an important part of his health equation when in 2016 he used natural light therapy combined with blue light reduction at night to reverse eye-sight issues that had arisen years early from working under artificial lighting and on screens in a busy office environment. This powerful combination helped him reduce his need for prescription glasses to read or work and eventually get rid of them for ever!
Chris believes that too much exposure to ‘Fake Junk Light’ from LED screens and lighting can cause a myriad of adverse symptoms including eye strain, headaches, sleep problems, concentration, behavioural issues and fatigue, as well as contribute to more serious conditions such as cognitive degeneration and cellular health challenges. What most of us don’t realise is that our eyes, brain and skin are tuned to receive very subtle energies, frequencies and colour spectrums from sunlight, and these activate very specific chemical and electrical functions in our bodies to maintain optimal health. Discover how both natural and artificial light can have massive impacts on your health including how to maximise Vitamin D levels, use light for therapy and cho
Good morning Eco Convos Crew!
Check out this video with Cyril Bourke from EMF Safety and Health Express World, ahead of our episode tomorrow. Feel free to check them out at http://emfbusters.com.au/ 😊
Interesting stuff!!
G'day everyone! How's your weekend? 🌞 🌱
This Monday the 17th we're releasing Episode #32 of Eco Convos with Dan (can you believe it!) with guests Christopher Henderson and Cyril Bourke. These guys are awesome - check out this video with Chris (and be sure to check out Cyril's video tomorrow!) 😃
Check out the links below and be sure to keep en eye out for the promo code in tomorrow's episode!
https://bio-light.co/
http://www.diagnostichealthsolutions.com.au/
Welcome to Episode #31, with Mandy Schultz from LuvaBerry. What an incredible, down-to-earth woman! Mandy radiates enthusiasm, passion and humour - this is a great chat!
Mandy Schultz is a naturopath with 25 years clinical experience. She has worked for leading brands, as a clinician and pharmacy trainer for Bullivants Natural Health Products, and as the Naturopathic Services Manager for Greenridge Botanicals. She spent 6 months working in Hong Kong training staff and clinic, and is experienced in training and seminar presentations. Passionate about health, Mandy was inspired to find a solution to the problem of fresh fruit waste and to create healthy strawberry snack products free from sugar and preservatives: LuvaBerry’s freeze-dried products were born. If you haven’t already, give these products a go… you won’t be disappointed!
A little more about LuvaBerry -
LuvaBerry are unique, not unique within farming, but unique within the strawberry industry. They are a small family farm – a small fish amongst big fish – and have been producing juicy red Queensland strawberries for thirteen years. Strawberries that taste like they used to – sweet, delicious and packed with flavour.
LuvaBerry have been in the farming business for almost two decades and grow everything from strawberries and herbs to native finger limes. From July through to September/October you can visit them on weekends for a family fun day out (pick your own strawberries, morning yoga with breakfast, Panda’s Playtime for the kids etc.) and they even have some special events organised (Art & Dine - an afternoon early evening event - and the new exclusive Luvaberry Supper Club). Whilst visiting the farm, tea and coffee will be available for a gold coin donation, plus ice cream and a selection of Luvaberry Farm Friend products to buy. Feel free to bring a picnic to enjoy overlooking one of our dams! Check out their website for more information.
LuvaBerry’s achievements include
* Queen
Good morning everyone, how are you all after the rain we've had??
Today we bring you Episode #31 with Mandy Schultz from LuvaBerry. We hope you enjoy this Visit Video as a little prelude to the Episode 😊
Happy New Year everyone and welcome to Episode #30. In this episode, we speak with the amazing Morag Gamble!
Morag first discovered permaculture in her teens, and it felt like an immediate natural fit… what better way to care for the earth and care for the people! Permaculture is a way to make a positive contribution, and create ripples of positivity in the world - it’s a positive life purpose.
Morag’s work and life are totally interwoven through the connecting fabric of permaculture. She is an expert and advocate for community gardens and food systems, ecovillage living, permaculture education, school gardens and creating a permaculture livelihood.
Morag has traveled the world to study with leading ecological thinkers and teachers, to learn with women elders, traditional communities, activists and scientists, to explore sustainable living in action, and to look deeply at new ways of education and communication. This informal and in-depth education in the world has given her deep insights to advise leaders, communities and government on living a sustainable life.
Among her colourful CV of life Morag started Northey Street City Farm in Brisbane with friends and the Australian City Farm and Community Garden Network, then school gardens, university gardens and later her own award-winning permaculture property in the subtropical ecovillage where she lives with her family today, Crystal Waters. She has woven permaculture design thinking into everything she does - the design of her work, her house and garden, her children’s education.
Over the past two decades Morag has been invited to teach at leading ecological education centres like Schumacher College, Torri Superiore, The Farm, Findhorn, Damanhur, Centre of Alternative Technology, UCBerkeley, Center for Ecoliteracy, The Green University and many more. Morag has lectured in Food Politics and introduced many students to permaculture.
About permaculture, Morag says: “I’m raising awareness of permacu
Welcome to Episode 29 with Graeme Sait of Nutri-Tech Solutions. Graeme is often described as “passionate and charismatic”, and his presentations "inspirational" and "life-changing”. After listening to this episode, we are sure you will agree. You may even need to listen the interview more than once to take in the amount of information he shares… listening to Graeme is like drinking from a firehose (his words!) 🤣
Graeme is the inspirational co-founder of Nutri-Tech Solutions (NTS), author of "Nutrition Rules!" and host of podcast ‘Nutrition Farming with Graeme Sait’. His passion is soil, plant, animal, human and planetary health; with a particular interest in humus and carbon sequestration. Graeme is a recognised world leader in sustainable agriculture/horticulture.
In this episode we talk about nutrition, natural health, the carbon cycle, humus, the biodegradation of chemicals using fulvic acid, soil testing and common findings (and solutions!), composting, worms, biodiversity, the dangers of chemicals (and natural solutions!) and so, so much more. We even touch on ‘autophagy’ and 16:8 method.
We hope you enjoy.
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Mentions:
* Nutri-Tech Solutions (NTS)
https://www.nutri-tech.com.au/
Nutri-Tech Solutions
* BOOK: ‘Nutrition Rules’, by Graeme Sait
https://www.nutri-tech.com.au/sign-up
* PODCAST: ‘Nutrition Farming with Graeme Sait’
https://anchor.fm/nutrition-farming/
Movie:
‘Kiss The Gr
Hi Eco Convos Crew, I hope everyone had a great weekend!
I'm really looking forward to releasing Episode 29 tomorrow, where our guest is Graeme Sait of Nutri-Tech Solutions. Take a look at this sneak peek... such great advice!! 🪱 🌱
Welcome to Episode 28 with Mac Lyon of Stories Told and The Foot Collective (TFC) Australia. This is an awesome chat.
Mac is a truly passionate guy who finds happiness in sharing people’s stories through film… and believes in the power of outdoor, bare-foot play! #PlayIsTheWay
In previous years you may have seen Mac on Channel 7 as a news reporter, but these days he’s enthusiastic about Stories Told and The Foot Collective Australia; a “health education company”.
The Foot Collective Australia was started by Mac’s physiotherapist friend James (“Jim”) Dooner, and aims to build strong, resilient and pain-free feet from the ground up. Jim believes that “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”, and he provides people with the knowledge, skills and tools needed to look after their bodies.
The Foot Collective Australia sell items such as balance beams, toe spacers, mobility balls, hacky sacks, ground living tables, shoes, socks, clothes and more… and you will also find a number of educational videos on their YouTube channel too! They have partnered with Reforest Now, donating $5 from every order over $50 to help restore Australian forests by planting one tree.
The Foot Collective Australia is so passionate about the outdoors that they also have a few projects on the go - Rewilding In Suburbia and TFC Bush 1, to name two. Information from their website is as below:
Rewilding In Suburbia
Have the recent world events uncovered within you a deep yearning to connect more with the natural world? Are you tired of being surrounded by electronics, artificial lights or find it challenging to escape to the natural world? We hear you! We feel it too, deeply. That's why TFC Foot Nerd Georgina Davies and her family have collaborated to bring this resource to you. After returning to Melbourne in 2018, after 4 years of country living, they made it a priority to create their suburban life still strongly connected to nature. They share th
Welcome to Episode 27 with Wayne Zwar from Natural Swimming Pools Australia. Natural Swimming Pools Australia recreate the experience of swimming in crystal clear, living water - without the use of chemicals - in your own backyard!
Natural swimming pools are characterised by their simple and natural design, rounded forms and pool edges that merge with their surroundings. Each unique design creates an oasis of tranquillity in your own backyard. Aquatic plants can even be added to Natural Swimming Pools, providing a safe eco system for all.
Natural Swimming Pools Australia partners with the BIOTOP network, based in Austria. BIOTOP are the world leaders in the Natural Swimming Pools industry with over 85 partners across the globe.
Wayne and his “better half” Annika strive to provide their clients with a natural and beautiful swimming experience by creating sustainable and chemical free swimming pools that complement and enhance the natural surrounds, and by providing support in terms of design and construction, as well as the lifecycle of the pool. Each project is individually designed to enhance the beauty of its setting, turning your garden into a work of art. They can even assist you in converting your chlorine pool to a Natural Swimming Pool! Be sure to check out their website and socials for more information.
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Natural Swimming Pools Australia
www.naturalswimpools.com.au
Natural Swimming Pools Australia (F
Today we sat down and had a great chat with Dean and Mason Mayne from Piggy in the Middle. They were a bit nervous to start with but got more comfortable as the convo went on. We chatted about their farm in Kilkivan and how they got started, but more importantly, WHY they got started. As cousins, working together with their families has brought great joy, and that passion for their products and what they are doing to regenerate their land comes through in spades. The difference between their property and others around is clear in the abundance of pasture and quality of the soils and its potential to hold water and harvest carbon. Ultimately, the importance here is to ensure that the quality of their meat and eggs, along with the well-being of their animals is at the forefront of their processes.
Piggy in the Middle is a partnership between two families, the sixth-generation farmers - Dean and Mason Mayne – along with their wives Kate and Krystal, and their young families. They are passionate about the land and their livestock. Therefore, they utilise regenerative farming practices to produce great-tasting, chemical-free, pork, lamb, chicken, and eggs. All of the animals are free-range and pasture-raised, free to forage and behave instinctively, in a natural stress-free habitat.
Piggy in the Middle's main objective has always been to employ ethical farming principles and practices. Primarily, this applies to the way their animals are treated and the land is farmed. As regenerative farmers, they utilise farm management systems to improve our land. This involves their animal's grazing in the same way they would naturally. Eating and foraging in one area, before moving on to another, fertilising, aerating, and improving the topsoil as they go. As a result, they produce chemical-free products that are of the highest quality. Proteins that are better for you nutritionally, and that have great natural flavours.
Certainly, using ethical farming practices is more diffic
Hey everyone, this week's guests are Dean and Mason from Piggy In The Middle. These guys are based in Kilkivan and specialise in pasture raised, chemical free lamb, pork, poultry and eggs.
Check out their Premium Heritage Bred, Free Range, Pasture Raised, Wood Smoked Ham for Christmas! 🤤
To order, simply click the link below:
https://piggyinthemiddle.com.au/product/christmas-hams/
Did you miss my chat with Bilko and Ali from Zinc 96 yesterday? Check it out below! Love these guys!!!
Welcome to Episode 25, where we chat with Agroecologist; Sarah Fea of BEAR Biologics. Sarah grew up on the land, and established BEAR Biologics in 1995. She is an experienced Principal Consultant with a demonstrated history of working in the farming industry, displaying skills in negotiation, sustainable development, business planning, farms, and rural development. Sarah studied a Bachelor of Rural Science at the University of New England.
BEAR Biologics stands for ‘Bare Essential Agricultural Resource’ (management) - Biologically, and focuses on consults, events, courses and coaching. They consult on topics such as:
* Soil Health
* Holistic Management
* Agricultural Consultant
* Soil to Plate to Health
* Agricultural Education
* Soil Food Web Advisor
* Biological Management
* Biological Farming Systems
* Organic Farming Systems
Sarah is also a part of a coaching community called ‘Small Restoration Farmers’. She is passionate about supporting farmers, and believes that we need to appreciate the role that farmers play in our every day lives.
Check out her upcoming event on Friday the 3rd of December!!
https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing?eid=835215&fbclid=IwAR1GOkESiKppYwXfhiR5wD2jSD4DxaT9tzd_QZ1hqwoKBmbGbW_bOPCDkWo
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Mentions:
BEAR Biologics
www.bearbiologics.com.au
BEAR Biologics
* Professor Don Huber
* Graeme Sait
Book -
‘Minerals for the Genetic Code’ by Charles Walters
https://www.booktopia.com.au/miner
Today's convo is with the incredibly passionate Tammi Jonas. What the Jonas family are doing on Jonai Farms has been very well documented in print, television and radio, so we touched on this only a little to give some background before delving deep into discussing agroecology, their involvement with the Food Sovereignty Alliance, CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) and where things are headed in the future. The passion she has for her farm, family, and the community is undeniable and it is an exciting vision for the future of agriculture.
The Jonai (aka Tammi, Stuart, Oscar, Antigone & Atticus Jonas) tired of choosing between saving the world or savouring it, so figured out a way to do both.
In May 2011, they left their rather farm-like suburban Melbourne environs behind, took a shortcut across America to glean wisdom from a range of ethical farmers, and landed some months later on Dja Dja Wurrung country at what would become Jonai Farms, 69 acres at Eganstown, just outside the beautiful town of Daylesford, to raise happy, tasty, heritage-breed Large Black pigs on pasture.
Jonai Farms enacts food sovereignty, which asserts everyone's right to culturally appropriate, nutritious and delicious food grown in ecologically sound and ethical ways, and our right to collectively determine our own food and agriculture systems.
They are a resilient, diverse family farm that focuses on living a life in common with nature, and managing animals for optimum soil health as multiple species are rotated around the farm to grow fertility and diversity on the paddocks.
After being the first farm in Australia to crowdfund major infrastructure in 2013 to build a licensed butcher’s shop on the farm, they succeeded again in 2014 and built a licensed curing room and commercial kitchen to make farmstead cured meats and a range of charcuterie, as well as bone stocks and lard-based soap, to ultimately deliver a full nose to tail no-waste offering. ‘Waste’ from the boning room in
A very good morning to everyone!
Today our guest on the show is Tammi Jonas from Jonai Farms 🐖🐓🌳🔪
Check out her Visit Video, courtesy of DEMAND.FILM TM.
See you soon 🌞
Hi everyone! Whether you enjoyed our podcast episode with Dr. Jason Hiller, or have ever considered Communal Living, THIS is the workshop for you!
* One day only
* Saturday the 11th of December
* 9:30am - 4:30pm AEST
* Held @ 350 Old Maryborough Rd, Araluen, QLD, 4570
For more information, check out:
https://events.humanitix.com/living-collaboratively-basics-gympie
Today's convo is a special one with a gentleman I am proud to call a friend. Dr. Jason Hilder is on a mission "to live, play and work with others to co-create holistic communal living arrangements and local community ventures and share knowledge in alignment with regenerative global outcomes." While that might seem like a mouthful, he comes at it with a kind and open heart and we discuss the benefits and potential pitfalls of communal living whether it be in large or small groups of people. We share the belief that on the whole, as people we want the best of our global community and our planet, so we also discuss the need and desire of people to look at things a little differently along with the need for local, state, and federal governments to work towards different ideas regarding our current housing crisis.
The idea of intentional communities is not a new one, but there has certainly been some stigma built up over the years. We work together to dispel some of the myths and misconceptions while looking at why they have cropped up.
Originally coming from a small crop farming family Jason studied Rural Management and that lead him to work in the Landscape industry. Dismayed with the focus upon industrialisation and chemical reliance, he left that career and traveled to Europe intending to explore and ended up working for multinational organisations. This corporate rite-of-passage showed him how the economic world functions and he learned that it is more often than not, dysfunctional. While there, Jason had the good fortune to visit Findhorn Foundation in Scotland, which was a life and mind changer. Returning to Australia, he again studied, this time the interplay of urban design and urban forestry with a realisation of the urban forests dying under hard surfaces of housing sprawl throughout much of Australian cities and towns.
The lightbulb sparked… we needed to plan our cities, towns, and villages to support food production and the regeneration of forests wher
Hi everyone, yesterday we went and had a chat with Dr Jason Hilder about Communal Living and learnt a very valuable technique when greeting people... 💓
Welcome to Episode #22 with Shane Joyce from Kilkivan Community Farm… where we got much more than we bargained for! Shane has a background in the beef cattle industry but is a jack of all trades - he’s an incredibly diverse, passionate man with an awesome sense of humour!
Topics of our chat include reforestation, syntropics (shout out to Thiago Barbosa), agricultural land trusts (shout out to Sam Marwood) and community farming... to name a few. Shane's plan is to put his farm at Kilkivan into 'community' ownership... what an inspiring concept! He’s a “big picture” kind of guy who practices an “attitude of gratitude” and believes that “living in the question” is the the key to happiness and success.
We hope you enjoy this episode with the enthusiastic Shane Joyce of Kilkivan Community Farm. Make sure you get in touch with them for more information.
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Credits: Production by 'MAV marketing'
Hosted by Dan Vanderhoek - Eco & Lifestyle Property Specialist
Guest was Shane Joyce from Kilkivan Community Farm
Music by Daniel Raymxnd
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Mentions:
* Kilkivan Community Farm
> https://kc-farm.wixsite.com/kilkivan-farm
> Kilkivan Community Farm
* Agricultural land trusts (Sam Marwood)
> https://www.cultivatefarms.com/about
* RCS - Resource Consulting Services
> "Profit Probe"
* Gympie & District Landcare
* Mary River Catchment Coordinating Committee (MRCCC)
* Koala Action Gympie Regionn
* “Living in the question”
> “How does it get any better than this?”
> “What else is possible?”
* Living with an “attitude of gratitude”
Books:
* ‘The Intention Experiment’ by Lynne McTaggart
* ‘The Field’ by Lynne McTaggart
