Episode notes
I chat to the irrepressible Pollyanna Darling in a wide-ranging conversation on the theme of Regeneration. Not the least of these was regenerating her body and mind after being bedridden, crippled with spinal injuries and told by specialists that things would only get worse - to a few years later, discovering standup paddleboarding and despite her chronic pain, going on to win a national championship.
We also cover the global women's reforestation charity, Treesisters; the importance of acknowledging grief; and touch on regenerative agriculture and the importance of the microbiota - the bacteria, fungi and yeast that are the heart and soul of the soil, the forest, the animals. and ultimately of us.
We ask the question - can we regenerate entire communities, breaking us out of our apathy and frozen states by tending to the place and ...