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Soggy day here in the rainforest 🌿Planted a jackfruit with some of he’s friends, including: coco yams, papayas, beetle l...
23/02/2022

Soggy day here in the rainforest 🌿

Planted a jackfruit with some of he’s friends, including: coco yams, papayas, beetle leaf, cranberry hibiscus, pigeon pea, pineapples. YUM!

Cardboard from the dumpster, banana trunks from 1meter away, goat manure 100meters away, camphor mulch delivered locally. Boom.

This is adjoining to a mini food forest planted in my zone 1 outside my caravan.

Perennials returning to their rightful place instead of the grass!














💚 Sharing some heart felt goodness in the form of:~ Feeding sugar cane to the children ,the next generation of earth ste...
22/02/2022

💚 Sharing some heart felt goodness in the form of:

~ Feeding sugar cane to the children ,the next generation of earth stewards
~ Processing veggies (and life) with my farm team
~ Skys lit by the fairy gods & goddesses
~ Yesterday’s zone 1 harvest of persimmons, strawberry guavas and figs!

There was a time not too many years ago when I wasn’t living this kind of life.
I was unconsciously numbing out with drugs & alcohol.
I was repressing my feeling body with distractions and avoidance.
Basically I wasn’t living in my truth.

One day I answered an internal calling to pack up and leave my life as I knew it behind.

That was my first big initiation into manhood & adulthood.

It didn’t disappoint ✊🏽

Life unfolded like an orchestra to the ears.
Like a barrelling reef break to a surfer...

When I said yes to life - life said yes to me.

Now I live to dance the sweet dance of life... leaning in to my edges, speaking my truth & sowing seeds to nourish those yet to come.

Tomorrow I am not the man I am today. Just as I am not the man you once knew.

I extend a hand to those willing to walk beside me and an embrace to those that are not.

We are all journeying together. None of us getting out alive.

May we meet in truth, integrity & love.

Big hugs xx














Hellooo lovely humans ☀️Saturday 22nd & Friday 28th Jan 22’ - come journey through an establishing food forest here in B...
15/01/2022

Hellooo lovely humans ☀️

Saturday 22nd & Friday 28th Jan 22’ - come journey through an establishing food forest here in Byron bay and feel the beauty and abundance this earth has on offer!

With views to mt Wollumbin west and the lighthouse on the east, this agroforestry garden has some of the best realestate in the nation!

Kids come free, while parents can come to learn, to explore and to remember what it is to be a forest dwelling human. To eat straight from the vines in amongst the birds and the bees 🌿

Book your spot today as spaces are limited 💚🌴🌲🍍

See you soon ~ Jack xx
Space made available by the work of 🌱

🌿 Day three of implementation 🌿We finished of the pattern of this sloping forest with more sheet mulching, amending and ...
18/09/2021

🌿 Day three of implementation 🌿

We finished of the pattern of this sloping forest with more sheet mulching, amending and logs on contour.

Once the pattern was complete we added some detail by planting short to mid term plants like cassava, bananas, coffee & tea (Camellia sinensis).

I’m most holes we seeded a variety of plants to fill a variety of functions.

In this pic I sowed corn, pigeon pea, cosmos and pumpkin in the same hole by the banana pup.
Collectively they will serve a shorter and longer term function. They will also add food, bio mass, flowers, ground cover and fix nitrogen from the atmosphere!

Thanks to brother Matt for all your sweat, laughs and stewardship 🙌🏽
















Freedom is not earned, it is our birthright.Freedom to think, imagine, create and see it into form...into life.Many moon...
16/07/2021

Freedom is not earned, it is our birthright.

Freedom to think, imagine, create and see it into form...into life.

Many moons ago I gave away my power every day.

I looked for help outside of myself.
I trusted the GP to heal me.
I looked to the pharmacy for relief.
I shopped at big chain supermarkets for nutrition.
I watched tv, listened to radio and read newspapers for information and news.

All of these I now for the most part consciously choose to avoid.
Why?

This way of living was passed on through family and culture. I just did as those did before me. I wasn’t consciously choosing and I sure as hell wasn’t living in alignment with my inner truth.

My returning to self was guided through the land. I began growing nourishing organic food, which in turn became also my medicine, my doctor and my pharmacy.

I disconnected from the bombardment of fear based media and began to recalibrate my internal compass. I thought, why would the news be sooo heavy on death, violence, r**e, destruction and chaos? Is the opposite not equally as true? Why would anyone want to put myself and my people in constant fear? on the hour every hour (radio news).

It began making sense..

When I’m in fear I am a number of things....impressionable being one, easily manipulated being another (with activated sympathetic nervous system). The most potent realisation was that when I’m in fear, I am not living in my fullest expression. I’m not empowered and I’m sure as hell not living to my potential.

Now I have taken back my birthrights. My freedom to think and my freedom to feel.

I choose to think independently of what western culture as implanted in me. I look back now and see that fork in the road.

F**k I am grateful to have chosen the path with the higher grass, the one less trodden...the one that is waiting for many more brothers & sisters to walk..no..to dance freely in the winds. Spreading seeds of change.

We each have the opportunity in every moment to be different. To break free from the moulds cast before us. To stand up for what is right. Not what society or culture says is right. But that inner knowing.

When is enough, enough?

The grass is greener when nourished by truth.

🍃 This messaged is approved by seed & soil 🍃I believe there is a time, place & circumstance for everything...and a lush ...
20/05/2021

🍃 This messaged is approved by seed & soil 🍃

I believe there is a time, place & circumstance for everything...and a lush lawn can exist in a consciously designed space. However the ideology around the “perfect lawn” and competing with Mr & Mrs Jones next door needs some radical attention!

Lawns take up astonishing amounts of resources! Precious water, soil destroying pesticides, herbicides, fertilisers, countless hours of human labour and of course all the machinery that comes with.

The diversity of species in the commonly desired lawn is all but one. One species 🤯

Truth bomb 💣 ~ many moons ago there came an industrial revolution, from this came the industrial / chemical driven agriculture we see, feel & eat today. Out of this came large corporations with strong desires to monopolise sectors and capitalise of the average home owner.

What were once diverse and highly productive green garden/lawn spaces were then strategically marketed with a reductionist mentality to create a romanticised view of the “perfect lawn”.

With this came dependability on certain seed stock, fertiliser routines, pesticides, fungicides and antibiotic sprays (anti-life) like ‘roundup’.

The emotions of the public were then targeted to generate the desired results (ego boost for grade A lawn / subtle but true feelings of unworthiness is you have a D grade lawn). Smart business really...if your moral compass hasn’t yet found its true North that is... 🧭

And here we are circa 2021 in the western society. Same land. Same management. Same results.
(Blanket generalisation yet true as just that).

This is a code we can carry on...or name it up, and leap beyond.

We are all stewarding this earth whether we want to or not.

So let the conversations flow I say! Let the food flourish in the streets all the radish & the beets...and come morning time, just on dawn..get out that chipping hoe and remove some lawn... ✌🏼💚🥦😆🌿🍃🌱⚡️🥦🌽🍇🍆🥑🍏🌼🥒🌶🫑🍠🌻

🌿 Delicious + nutritious food for sale 🌿Grown regeneratively on beautiful red soil here in byron bay we have a diverse r...
16/05/2021

🌿 Delicious + nutritious food for sale 🌿

Grown regeneratively on beautiful red soil here in byron bay we have a diverse range of perennial crops on offer. Herbs, greens, root crops & more 🍃

Proudly offering some of the best this subtropical climate has on offer! Harvested fresh (sometimes right in front of you). Come down and engage, ask questions and learn from your local growers.

After all, growing food doesn’t have to destroy ecosystems. It can regenerate them!! 💚

Monday 17/5/21
Minimum order $30
What’s extra epic this week = Sugar bananas $5kg 🍌🍌 🍌


Growing food in community ~Is like a bee to a flower,a bird to flight,heat to the flame.It just feels right 🌱Location .a...
13/05/2021

Growing food in community ~
Is like a bee to a flower,
a bird to flight,
heat to the flame.
It just feels right 🌱
Location .agroforestry
For a day of last spring 🪶🌿🔥⚡️









Syzygium trunk roughly 150mm. Lopped to let light into an understory planting of palms, ferns, monstera & other low stra...
04/05/2021

Syzygium trunk roughly 150mm. Lopped to let light into an understory planting of palms, ferns, monstera & other low strata plants.
The pruning pulse subsequently feeds the surrounding plantings with higher nutrient availability and new potentials for biological associations to be made...AND spoon making as a by-product!! Oiling still to come ✌🏼










Here’s a picture of a tree that I slept in last month. 🌿While on retreat learning bush craft & survival skills this beau...
15/04/2021

Here’s a picture of a tree that I slept in last month. 🌿
While on retreat learning bush craft & survival skills this beauty of a eucalyptus had seemingly been struck by lightning and left an open nook.
Pile some grass debris on top of a few upright sticks for structure and there’s a simple shelter that retains warmth and also it kept the rain out which was absolutely bucketing down!
Would I recommend? Definitely. It was worth trying for many reasons, such as leaning into discomfort. A huge theme in my life at the moment. Although I was crammed in there with knees bent and avoiding the process of relieving myself (which while raining and tucked in was a task).... I felt super safe & held. It was as if I had returned to the womb of the mother.
Physically & metaphorically.
🪶🌳🌿🌱💚⚡️✨





Autumn you are delicious!Yesterday was all hands on deck as the sun is shining and the deep wet has subsided.After a chu...
15/04/2021

Autumn you are delicious!
Yesterday was all hands on deck as the sun is shining and the deep wet has subsided.
After a chunky morning setting up irrigation, weeding and bed prepping with the team and awesome vollies we had close to 100 land stewards come out who fly boldly under the banner of “Regenerative agriculture” students at Southern cross university.
& led one group dropping their learnt wisdom in plant growing while other groups explored soil , long term tree systems and bees. These are some of the foundations of life on this rock and critical to learn, observe and harmonise with.
🥕🥦
🌴🌳









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