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8 Black, White and Organic
Soil and Human Health
English - February 22, 2018 05:18 - 23 minutes - 53.8 MBDocumentary Society & Culture Science Natural Sciences Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
John Thompson, descendant of convict and settler colonials and John Mogridge, a Bibbulman Boodja man call a series of meetings in Midland, Perth offering conversation to better understand local Aboriginal culture.
I sit through a first meeting, cycling through emotions from delighted to enraged and finally, days later, after a bit of a think, get with the program, learning something about my pressing need to drop the ego in the face of an invitation to truly listen and trust .
Then I head down south to do the volunteer thing on a few farms and manage to find intriguing synergies between the de-colonisation process and the situation of organic producers, both in contemporary and pre-industrial chemical farming days, and my own propensity for martyrdom.
I find myself asking that vital question, not once, but twice: Are we there yet?