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

At the start of April I managed to catch back up with Peter Byck for this chat which feels well timed not just because it was a rare pause in his ongoing schedule of travels, but because there's a lot being rolled out right now by the whole 'Roots So Deep' team to scale up the impact that the docu-series has already seeded.

We talk about:

• Touring with Roots So Deep
• The importance of taking action (for regeneration)
• Food resilience and nutrient density
• Community, scaling & next steps for Roots So Deep

For more background about Roots So Deep you can check out my previous interview with Peter: https://www.wearecarbon.earth/peter-byck-roots-so-deep/

Or head to their website where you can watch the trailer, rent the series and explore their new Patreon & podcast: https://rootssodeep.org/

Check out the special compilation from We Are Carbon which also features Peter:

It's called "Time to Look At It Differently - Because Carbon Builds Life". Find it here: https://www.wearecarbon.earth/because-carbon-builds-life/

Timestamps for this episode:

00:00 - Intro

02:14 - Touring with Roots So Deep

06:43 - Importance of taking action

11:20 - Resilient food & nutrient density

17:50 - Regenerative grazing at a global context

24:00 - Scaling with community and next steps

I hope you enjoy this weave of inspirational voices.

Each clip is brought in from our longer interviews. I've created this episode as an example piece that starts to compile the huge range of wisdom and knowledge that our guests have generously shared over the past few years.

There's so much potential packed into our library and I wish to keep exploring the possibilities of sharing regenerative understanding in new accessible formats suited to different styles and places of learning.

If this episode prompted an idea for bringing knowledge to your own community or classroom do please reach out to explore that together! https://www.wearecarbon.earth/contact/

And if you enjoyed this piece and would love to support the creation of more like it, you can find a growing range of ways to do that including purchasing or distributing our art prints and greetings cards. Explore them here: https://www.wearecarbon.earth/art-prints-for-regeneration/

A huge thank you to each of our guests, who are (in order of appearance):

• Caroline Grindrod - founder of Roots of Nature and trainer of Regenerative agriculture. Full interview here: https://www.wearecarbon.earth/podcast-episode/caroline-grindrod-regenerative-agriculture/
• Peter Byck - Director of Roots So Deep and wrangler of scientists. Full interview here: https://www.wearecarbon.earth/peter-byck-roots-so-deep/
• Diana Denke - co-founder of Fair Carbon and expert on nature based solutions. Full interview here: https://www.wearecarbon.earth/nature-based-solutions-diana-denke/

And be sure to subscribe as we'll be catching up with each of these guests alongside hearing from many new voices as we get moving into this new season of We Are Carbon!