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Nicki's Wonder List

Nicki's Wonder List

By: Nicki Youngsma
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Nicki's Wonder List is a podcast about books and bold ideas. This podcast examines art, society, and culture and will pique your interest in a wide array of topics. Each interview-style episode clears space for stories to emerge from guests who are writers, activists, educators, artists, entrepreneurs, community organizers, and creative people. Solo episodes focus on book recommendations to expand your horizon and depth of knowledge about a subject of focus.

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  • Book Talk on Plant Breeding & Seed Saving
    Feb 4 2025

    Nicki’s Wonder List
    Show Notes
    “Book Talk on Plant Breeding and Seed Saving”
    Season 02, Episode 05

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    In this book talk episode, Nicki shares a few titles on plant breeding and seed saving.

    Book list on Bookshop.org

    Book Titles

    Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties: The Gardener's and Farmer's Guide to Plant Breeding and Seed Saving, 2nd Edition (Revised and Expanded) by Carol Deppe (Author)

    Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners, 2nd Edition (Revised) by Suzanne Ashworth (Author)

    Will Bonsall's Essential Guide to Radical, Self-Reliant Gardening: Innovative Techniques for Growing Vegetables, Grains, and Perennial Food Crops by Will Bonsall (Author)

    The Seed Garden: The Art and Practice of Seed Saving by Shanyn Siegel (Editor) Lee Buttala (Editor)

    Return to Resistance: Breeding Crops to Reduce Pesticide Dependence by Raoul A. Robinson (Author). Not available on Bookshop but can be found at the following:

    • Purchase paperback from Greenhorns.org
    • Download free ebook or PDF from IDRC
    • Read PDF on Google Books
    • Purchase paperback on Amazon



    Further Reading & Links

    Sierra Seeds & Rowan White

    “USDA Report Highlights Harms of Seed Consolidation and Restrictive IP” in Food & Power



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    Connect & Support

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    Exploring story in a time of collapse

    Signup for Updates - at nickiswonderlist.com

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    17 mins
  • Book Talk on History of Capitalism & Colonization
    Jan 7 2025

    Nicki’s Wonder List
    Show Notes
    “Book Talk on History of Capitalism & Colonization”
    Season 02, Episode 04

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    In this book talk episode, Nicki shares a few titles on the history of capitalism and colonization.

    List on Bookshop.org

    Book Titles

    Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Updated and Expanded by David Graeber (Author)

    Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation by Silvia Federici (Author)

    Decolonizing Wealth, Second Edition: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance By Edgar Villanueva (Author)

    My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem (Author)


    Further Reading & Links

    The Book on Fire Podcast - podcast season about Caliban and the Witch


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    Connect & Support
    Nicki's Wonder List

    Exploring story in a time of collapse

    Signup for Updates - at nickiswonderlist.com

    Buy Books - from our storefront on Bookshop.org

    @nickiswonderlist on Instagram

    @nickiswonderlist on Facebook

    #nickiswonderlist



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  • Community Rights with Michelle Holman
    Dec 10 2024

    Nicki’s Wonder List
    Show Notes
    “Community Rights with Michelle Holman”
    Season 02, Episode 03

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    In this episode, Nicki is joined by Michelle Holman, an activist in the Community Rights movement in Lane County, Oregon.

    Michelle Holman has lived in Deadwood, a community in Western Lane County’s Coast Range, for more than 40 years and has been active in the anti-herbicide struggle since the late 1970’s. After many years of her community’s unsuccessful fight to stop government-protected aerial spraying of toxic chemicals by private logging companies, she renounced traditional activism and joined the Community Rights movement. She is a founder of Community Rights Lane County and the Oregon Community Rights Network. She has served on the Mapleton School Board for 35 years, where more than 20 years ago, the school district stopped using toxic chemicals on school grounds.

    In this conversation, Nicki and Michelle talk about the Community Rights Movement and the Rights of Nature.

    This interview was recorded in May 2023.


    Further Reading & Links

    “Box of Allowable Activism” from Community Environmental Legal Defence Fund (infographic)

    Eco-Jurisprudence Monitor - tracking Rights of Nature Movement and Earth-based laws

    Public Interest Environmental Law Conference in Eugene, Oregon: “Protecting Our Vital Watersheds, Rights of Nature, a New Paradigm” 2023.

    Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF)

    Oregon Community Rights Network (ORCRN)

    Community Rights Lane County

    Protect Lane County Watersheds - mission & Bill of Rights



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    Connect & Support

    Nicki’s Wonder List

    Exploring story in a time of collapse

    Signup for Updates - at nickiswonderlist.com

    Buy Books - from our storefront on Bookshop.org

    @nickiswonderlist on Instagram

    @nickiswonderlist on Facebook

    #nickiswonderlist



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    43 mins

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