The climate-resilient nature-entangled way to garden with Duncan Cocking

Planting guides and sow-what-when calendars are great and all, but what happens when the seasons don't play nice? When spring arrives earlier, frost hits later, or heatwaves burn your crops to a crisp? There's no controlling the weather, but with tools like phenology, you can make better predictions and grow more food! Duncan Cocking (of Leaf, Root & Fruit [https://www.leafrootfruit.com.au/about/]) is an amazing gardener and educator from Kyneton in Southern Australia. He helps people tune into more-than-human patterns and cycles to build their own hyper-local and climate resilient gardening calendars, and has a wealth of wisdom about living more joyfully too. In this convo: Why spring is two weeks earlier this year Duncan's early years immersed in nature and connected to country Why he's not that interested in working hard Mid-30s career change Pattern recognition in the veggie patch How to use phenology Nature based indicators to tell you went to plant The two most critical aspects of gardening!!! Connection through failures Why to RELAXXXXX about how to garden Wood ducks tell you when you plant tomatoes Crazy record keeping How the hell to collate so much data Habits of the highly observant How do nature's patterns work, NO LIKE, HOW? Being conversant with the land Duncan is an ostrich Disconnecting from the World Wide Web How to preserve your mental health with a hyper-focus on local Getting kids into the garden Give your kids scary tools Garden gimmicks How to grow avos in cold climates Spring gardening to-dos RIGHT NOW 🧙‍♀  LINKY POOS Duncan's home on the web [https://www.leafrootfruit.com.au/] Leaf, Root & Fruit on Substack [https://leafrootfruit.substack.com/] Leaf, Root & Fruit on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/leafrootfruit/] Andrew Turbill, the bird guy [https://andrewthebirdguy.com/] 🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/cw/Reskillience] 🧡 ☕ Buy Me A Coffee [https://buymeacoffee.com/reskillience] (or an avo or a loaf of bread) ☕ Gratitude to the field recordist Romuald Mikusek, XC935811. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/935811.