Trailer: Reseed

Launching December 2021. Trailer transcript below.

Reseed is a podcast about people who are repairing our relationship with nature and creating a world rooted in justice, wellbeing, and care. 

Reseed explores a range of topics covering the uprooting of systems that harm us and nature, and those rooting ways of being that live in reciprocity with the natural world and community. The themes of justice, wellbeing, care and resilience are threaded throughout each episode. 

The guests of Reseed are leaders of the RE generation. These are the people embracing redesign, reduction, repair, reuse, and regeneration. Guests include farmers, builders, designers, artists, makers, writers, and activists. Each episode will delve into their stories and how they meet the grief, fear, and despair of our moment with heartfelt, handmade solutions that are growing a world rooted in care. 

Reseed is the embodiment of a movement, and it is a conversation for our current moment. People of all ages and backgrounds are undertaking the journey of transforming from takers in an extractive system to caretakers in a reciprocal system. The host, Alice Irene Whittaker, narrates from her experience of rejecting an exhausting, commuter city life and moving her family to a cabin in the woods, while working to dismantle a history of perfectionism and instead cultivate a life of relationship and care.

Reseed welcomes listeners into a community where host, guests, and audience are connected in a shared journey from being takers to caretakers. 

Reseed cover art by Rebeka Ryvola.

Trailer Transcript

Alice Irene Whittaker: Welcome to Reseed - a podcast about repairing our relationship with nature. Reseed tells the stories of a RE generation: the people embracing repair, redesign, reuse, and reduction. The people who are uprooting the extractive status quo and rooting the future in justice, wellbeing, resilience, and care.

Chúk Odenigbo: Nature and the environment is integrated into everything. Yet we, as a society have tried to silo it out.

Alice Irene: Through in-depth conversations, we explore our relationships with nature.

Anna Sacks: We're living out of bounds with the planet, and we need to be comfortable with less. Hopefully for people, it will be a welcome change, because I feel so many of us are just overwhelmed with stuff.

Alice Irene: We explore justice.

Chúk: In recognizing that upholding the power structures that oppress other people is also upholding the power structures that oppress you.

Sophia Yang: Fashion is a woman's rights and feminist issue in every corner of the world.

Anna: I think from every stop there's like discounting of people's humanity.

Alice Irene: We explore what we can do to uproot and receipt.

Jad Robitaille: I don't think it's about being perfect, and I don't think it's about being perfectly zero waste. But I think it's really important to ask yourself questions. It's kind of like an awakening, in some way.

Chúk: Do you hold power? Where do you hold influence and what can you do to change those legacies and change those power structures? And ideally dismantle it. And in doing all of that, you're doing your part. And if we all do our part, things will be better, and things will be more interesting. And things will be more fun, and colorful, and vibrant. You know, I think we owe it to the next generation to leave them a world where things are more colorful, fun, and vibrant.

Lisa Binns: That's the seed story. You know, when you can see the beauty of what could potentially be, if you plant this little seed.

Alice Irene: This is a podcast for those of us who are re-imagining our relationship to the natural world - and to each other. I am Alice Irene, the host of Reseed. Together, let's plant the seeds that transform us from being takers to caretakers.