Jade Miles is the founder of Futuresteading - a movement, outlook and practical guide to living like tomorrow matters. Through her work as an author, speaker and podcast host she shares how to build your seasonal rhythm, expand your earth-skills and live your life in deep care and respect for the earth.
Together with her husband Charlie, Jade runs Black Barn Farm — an ‘intentionally slow’ orchard and nursery in North East Victoria. The farm is deeply entrenched in community, permaculture & regenerative practices. Throughout the year they offer workshops, events, tours, and pick-your-own produce days. All with the hope to get people more engaged and connected to the food we eat and the food systems that it comes from.
Jade is somebody who truly walks her talk, who is deeply embodied and entrenched in her values and her commitment to the earth, to people, to community and to living like tomorrow matters. And she does so in an incredibly practical and tangible way.
In our conversation together, we talk about:
➳ Key experiences that paved Jade’s path in the work she now does
➳ What is Futuresteading? And how can it change the world?
➳ Seasonal living - including the rituals & celebrations and the details Jade's attuned to in the shifting seasons.
➳ The SIX seasons that Jade follows throughout the year (and how this aligns with the wheel of the year)
➳ Why Place-making is deeply important in our ability to connect with the world, with the land, and to live in a way that values tomorrow
➳ Jades shares beautiful wisdom around the power of Mutual Obligation in our world, as well as the call for being more open-source with our skills and our knowledge
➳ The importance of Community in a world that is built on systems that are unsustainable - especially the likes of our food systems and food sovereignty. We need each other and we need to know how to practice and build Community. Jade shares her thoughts and experience around this, especially for those of us who feel uncomfortable, afraid, introverted.
➳ Where to start and HOW to start if you feel called to grow your own food on any scale
☾ Plus so much more ☾
EPISODE RESOURCES
Jade's Futuresteading podcast - start with this episode on Place-making!
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Wilding: A Journey Back to Life by Meg Berryman (small print - find next publishing drop here)
CONNECT WITH JADE
Instagram @black_barn_farm
Over on her website - workshops, store, farm visiting hours and more
Buy the Futuresteading book
Thank you so much for listening to this episode of the Weaving the Wild podcast. I’m so honoured that you’re here and would be SO grateful if you could leave me a review on Apple podcasts, that way we can inspire even more people together. ♥︎
