CCC S2E12 with Greg Hart (Mangarara Farm)
Episode 12 features well known regenerative farmer Greg Hart from Mangarara Farm in the Hawkes Bay region. Dylan has known about Greg and his tree planting for many years and met Greg at the Undergrou...
27 Jul 36min
CCC S2E11 with Shakēd From
Shakēd is involved in a large variety of endeavours and we talk about these for awhile before biochar comes up, but hopefully you will still find it all interesting!We chat about a 3 year black soldie...
18 Jul 45min
CCC S2E10 with Phil Stevens (Slow Farm)
Dylan's first face to face podcast with an update from Phil in Ashhurst about what he is up to (S1E2 here). We had just returned from Hamilton with John after Fieldays 2026 and I was spending two days...
20 Jun 14min
CCC S2E9 with Lydia Thomsen (Pickled Compost)
Episode 9 with Lydia from the Wairarapa covers the relationship between soil health, plant nutrition, and human health. Lydia is a qualified nutritionist on a mission to pickle household food scraps u...
26 Mai 42min
CCC S2E8 with John Valentine
Episode 8 with John explores his recent discovery of biochar for his compost and his method of making it in a stainless steel bucket. This takes some work to do, but in a social context such as hangin...
14 Mai 30min
CCC S2E7 with Stephen Newman
Episode 7 features Stephen who lives just north of Auckland on 23 acres. He is one of the farmers who receives food waste from the City To Farm project featured in Season 1 Episode 6. We talk about ho...
27 Apr 38min
CCC S2E6 with James McNally
Episode 6 featured James from the Hawkes Bay. We talk about his current role as a tutor at Land Based Training where he hopes to incorporate biochar into the horticulture courses.James' passion for bi...
20 Apr 34min
CCC S2E5 with Anni Kurze (Soil Stewards)
Anni talks to Dylan about her life journey from Germany to Portugal to settling in New Zealand in 2012. She and husband Ron homestead on 50 acres in Maheno in North Otago and besides homeschooling 3 c...
27 Mar 52min
