In this months episode we chat with Chris Smaje; he is an aspiring woodsman, stockman, gardener, and peasant in Somerset, southwest England. Chris is also an author who writes urgently about the need for a small farm future, making the case for organising communities around small scale local agroecological farming in order to meet both the environmental and political challenges of our times.

Chris is the author "Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future" and "A Small Farm Future".

Chris has just finished a new book "Finding Lights in a Dark Age: Sharing Land, Work and Craft". It will be released on the 11th of November 2025. It can be pre-ordered here.

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Become a member of AFSA: https://afsa.org.au/join-us/

Chris Smaje: https://chrissmaje.com/

This month we chat with Jacob Birch, he is a Gamilaraay man, a member of AFSA's first peoples sub committee, academic and Churchill Fellow who is doing incredible work in reawakening native grain food ways.

Unfortunately we had some technical issues with the audio and lost the last section of the interview but we still managed to capture the majority of the conversation.

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Links:

Become a member of AFSA: https://afsa.org.au/join-us/

Yaamarra and Yarral: https://www.yaamarraandyarral.com.au/about/our-people

Jacob Birch Churchill Fellow: https://www.churchilltrust.com.au/fellow/jacob-birch-qld-2022/

This months episode we chat with AFSA's focal point for farmers Tammi Jonas. Tammi has been farming on unceeded Dja Dja Wurrung country for close to 15 years at Jonai Farms and has long been engaged in activism. Tammi and Lucy chat about Jonai farms, the language of "peasant" in Australia, how the food sovereignty movement has grown over recent years and more!

Follow this link to help fund this podcast:

https://buymeacoffee.com/agroecologyradiohour

Links:

Become a member of AFSA: https://afsa.org.au/join-us/

Jonai Farms: https://jonaifarms.com.au/