Meg speaks with artist and friend Ruth O’Leary about her journey of mothering three boys, home educating them with her partner Tyson, and homesteading together as a family. Ruth weaves a rich story of courage-finding, as she flings aside career-centric industrial liberalism and reclaims something older, more primal and connected.
Listen to the audio here (55 mins),
or watch here.
You can head here to find out more about Ruth’s art, and for more on women’s business, you may like Patrick’s conversation with permaculturist-midwife, Eleanor Young, Recovering birth from the industrial biomedical complex. Eleanor recently published this paper on women’s experiences of free-birthing.
This week Patrick spoke with researcher, permaculturist and midwife Eleanor Young. Here at the School of Applied Neopeasantry, we are still brimming from sharing virtual space with this sensitive, thinking and wise scholar-practitioner advocating for women-centric birthing.
Make yourself a cuppa, turn off notifications, and settle in for a beautiful, generative and unfolding hour of yarning. We guarantee nourishment for those on a path back into the cosmology of Mother Country and Grandmother Gaia. Here is the audio only version:
You can watch the conversation here (and please let us know if you’re having troubles accessing our CommonsTube page, fingers crossed it streams for you):
If you’d like to get in touch with Eleanor, please let us know and we can hook you up.
Your stories of birth, underworlding or reclaiming your wild health are most welcome here, and all is welcome – the beautiful, the tragic, and the sublime.
Sending this with Mother Countrying love,
Magpie and Blue Wren
