It's a pleasure to share this chat that I had with Tim Sallin about the work happening across Florida to help shift garden habitats at scale in support of biodiversity.

The Outside Collab brings together many minds with an aim to reshape Florida's landscapes in response to growing pressures from huge population growth and the impacts this has on resources, community and climate.

It's a unique context but with insights that could be relevant to so many of us worldwide.

We Talk About:

• Garden management in new housing developments
• The impact of native flora on irrigation needs
• Gardens that heal biodiversity & climate
• Supporting homeowners in creating native gardens

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Episode Links:

Tim is the host of the podcast, 'The Ground Up' - you can learn a lot more from him by delving into some episodes! https://linktr.ee/thegrounduppodcast

And learn more about the Outside Collab here: https://outsidecollab.com/

Watch the animation mentioned at the end of this episode: https://www.wearecarbon.earth/our-experiments/

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Episode Timestamps:

11:57 - Role of garden management in new developments

17:38 - Property management for native gardens

21:54 - Ecological impact from gardens

24:29 - Homeowner responses & needs

29:11 - Research - Native plant garden designs & benefits

34:00 - Gardens to heal biodiversity crisis

36:54 - One step to regenerate?

38:02 - Learn more and connect

Adam Smith brings a fabulous perspective on the food system which comes from years of witnessing the enormous problem of waste and exploring varied angles trying to address it.

Issues in the food system are complex to say the least, but Adam brings a clarity through his determination to find the root cause of all of this waste. He says we're over producing food; all fueled by demand for continued economic growth.

So, how do you start to address that over production? Well it seems it's another conversation where the themes of community and localisation emerge through.

Adam is the founder and non-executive director of Surplus To Purpose, a revolutionary catering enterprise that utilises food destined for waste, by safely redistributing it through cooked meals, products and provisions to families.

We talk about:

• Food waste & overproduction
• Why 'sustainability' doesn't work
• Dignity & community
• Challenging the supermarkets with a new model of supply

Learn more about Adam:

Surplus to Purpose website - https://www.surplus2purpose.com/about-us

Surplus to Purpose Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/surplus2purpose/

Adam's Journey (includes media links) - https://www.surplus2purpose.com/meet-adam

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You can support We Are Carbon by exploring our new range of art prints created by Helen: https://www.wearecarbon.earth/art-prints-for-regeneration/

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Episode Timestamps:

00:00 - Intro

04:14 - A system that creates waste

12:30 - I don't like sustainability!

24:55 - Overproduction

31:37 - An alternate future - for community not shareholders

If you're a poet, artist, photographer, writer or budding creative of any kind then you might like to listen extra closely to this one!

Jamie Nix is the co-founder of Plants & Poetry whose work shares and nurtures connection to the natural world through a collaborative approach to curating published works. Alongside her poetry Jamie's career is focused on agroforesty and soil health and she has a keen interest in supporting regeneration through place based learning.

We talk about:

• Weaving plants, science and poetry
• Connecting to place & community
• The role of sharing story (for regeneration)

Learn more about Plants & Poetry here: https://www.plantsandpoetry.org/about

I'm excited by an emerging co-creation between Plants & Poetry and We Are Carbon.

We'll be creating an inspiring anthology together and I'd love to invite you to help us to fill the pages!

It's very early on but if you head over to the website you can subscribe to email updates from We Are Carbon and I'll keep you updated! https://www.wearecarbon.earth

Timestamps for this conversation:

00:00 - Intro

04:55 - Weaving plants, science and poetry

11:54 - Connecting to place & community

19:20 - The role of sharing story (for regeneration)

24:07 - Next steps for Plants & Poetry

30:30 - Collab with We Are Carbon?

34:12 - More from Plants & Poetry