Lifeworlds Podcast Episode, Unexpected Agricultures with Lyla June Johnston (Full Interview)
Podcast Episode by Lifeworlds, an intimate dialogue with our planet’s ecologies. They explore the mindsets, skills and actions required to partner with other forms of life, describing multiple ways to engage with the earth in this time of mutual healing.
About Episode
“Lyla June Johnston is an Indigenous public speaker, artist, poet, scholar and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages. She blends her studies in human ecology at Stanford University, graduate work in Native American Pedagogy at the University of New Mexico, and the indigenous worldview she grew up with.
Lyla and I got together to discuss her brilliant PhD research on Indigenous Food Systems Revitalization. In this interview, we discuss what 6000-year-old clam gardens in the Pacific Northwest, buffalo prairies, kelp forests, hemlock boughs, and herring eggs all have in common; the role of reciprocity in food systems; human beings as a keystone species; the reclamation of our own food production; land fragmentation, and thinking like a watershed.
Guided by indigenous values and understandings, this conversation charts the path to how we can restore our relationship to farming and food, and how these ancient ingenious systems can help us rethink our broken food systems.
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About Lifeworlds Podcast Series
A podcast series that explores how to orient your life around nature. We discover the mindsets, skills and actions that are required to partner wisely with other forms of life and engage in acts of brilliant restoration.
Join me on this intimate journey into the eyes and minds of other species; learn how our guests are living in deep relationship with ecologies; be electrified by expanding your field of reality, and let these stories spark your reconnection to nature’s multiverse.
By restoring our relationship with nature, and learning what it is to be nature, we begin to restore ourselves.
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