Random Nature Podcasts

Plug In To Grow is brought to you by Ecosource; an environmental education non-profit empowering youth and growing green communities. Co-hosted with local urban youth, we explore the stories, people and drivers that are shaping local food, urban agriculture and sustainability in the Region of Peel – the fastest growing municipality in the Golden Horseshoe, Ontario. This podcast is generously supported by the Ontario Trillium Foundation and TELUS Friendly Futures Foundation. We would like to acknowledge that the land on which this podcast was developed is part of the Treaty Lands and Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit. We recognize this land and pay our respects to the Anishinaabe past, present and future. Visit ecosource.ca to learn more.

Categories: Arts

Tags: community, environment, Food, local, nature, sustainability, youth

Fossil fuels, intensive farming, deforestation, waste disposal, overconsumption, pollution, the 6th mass extinction, climate change is all on everyone’s mind. But what can we do? How do we make a difference? What do we have to change now? The How to Be Good podcast asks these questions. Join Gareth and Anca as we speak to specialists, scientists, activists, providers and more, and ask what we can do in our everyday lives to make a difference and debunk many of the myths and misinformation.

Categories: Science, Society & Culture

Tags: climate change, climate crisis, conservation, environment, Extinction, nature, one planet, regeneration, sustainability

Somewhere deep inside, you know what your gift, purpose, and mission are. Boyd Varty, a lion tracker and life coach, reveals how the wisdom from the ancient art of tracking can teach you how to recognize these essential ingredients in a meaningful life. Know how to navigate, don’t worry about the destination, and stay alert. These are just a few of the strategies that contribute to both successful lion tracking and a life of fulfillment. Trackers learn how to use all of their senses to read the environment and enter into a state of “greater aliveness.” When we learn to find and follow our inner tracks, we learn to see what is deeply important to us.

Categories: Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

Tags: Boyd Varty, nature, personal development, safari, south africa, storytelling, tracking, wildlife

A narrowboat-based audio journal on canal life, living aboard, the elements, and the night. Perfect late-night listening for dreamers, insomniacs, night owls, nocturnalists, drifters, and nomads. For lovers Fagen’s ‘Nightfly’, Auden’s ‘Night Mail’, Hopper’s ‘Nighthawks’ and the ‘drifting sea-dark streets’ of Dylan Thomas. For all those who used to listen to the transistor under your pillow, love the sound of distant trains and rain against the windowpanes, canals and drover’s tracks, lost music, splashed puddles, fireflies and bats, hares by moonlight, windsong among pines, owl-light, the shipping forecast, and all the wonderful, terrifying, grand and tawdry avenues of the night. Cosy listening for bedtimes.

Categories: Society & Culture

Tags: canal, Elements, inland waterways, liveaboard, Narrowboat, natural world, nature, night, weather

Mythozoologist Sebastian Verwood travels the world studying magical creatures.

Categories: Arts, Fiction

Tags: Adventure, animal, animals, bisexual, creature, cryptid, exploration, explore, fae, fairies, fairy, fantasy, folklore, gay, horror, Legend, Legends, lesbian, lgbt, monster, MYSTERY, myth, mythology, Myths, naturalworld, nature, science

This podcast explores the neuroscience of Hacking Human Nature to find better ways to make breakthroughs and unlock your true potential in life and work. UPWIRE is presented by Robert Cooper, Ph.D., a neuroscientist, leadership advisor, New York Times bestselling author (with over 4 million books sold), and founder of the acclaimed 12 Leaders® program. UPWIRE will feature stories and wisdom from Dr. Cooper, along with his latest thoughts and ideas, interviews, and newest research findings. Cooper provides compelling insights drawn from his work with elite performers and top leaders using neuroscience to get the most out of their brains, their time, and their performance.

Categories: Business, Health & Fitness

Tags: behavior, best, brain, cooper, hacking, Human, Insight, leadership, life, nature, neuroscience, potential, research, Robert, Strategic, unlock, upwire

Volcanoes. Trees. Drunk butterflies. Mars missions. Slug sex. Death. Beauty standards. Anxiety busters. Beer science. Bee drama. Take away a pocket full of science knowledge and charming, bizarre stories about what fuels these professional -ologists’ obsessions. Humorist and science correspondent Alie Ward asks smart people stupid questions and the answers might change your life.

Categories: Comedy, Science, Society & Culture

Tags: alie ward, Alternative Comedy, Comedy, environment, feral audio, mental-health, natural history, nature, ologies, science, self help, slumber party, slumber party with alie and georgia, slumberparty, stem, trivia, wildlife

Dream Interpreter and Symbolic Intuitive Jefferson Harman talks about all things metaphysical and holistic in this entertaining and informative series. Enjoy interviews with a wide array of practitioners, artists and healers as well as episodes of Jefferson’s radio shows. Recommended for followers of all things metaphysical and holistic.

Categories: Arts, Religion & Spirituality

Tags: Body, dream, dreams, environment, everyday, harman, Healing, holistic, interpretation, intuitive, jefferson, metaphysical, mind, natural, nature, Pagan, phobia, phobias, Podcast, seahorse, ship, spirit, spiritual, symbol, symbolic, symbolism, symbology, workshop

Isabella Bird began travelling while in her early twenties to help alleviate illness that had plagued her since childhood. She was a single woman in her early forties when she made her treck through the Rocky Mountains. A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains details this fascinating account of her travels through a series of letters written to her sister, Henrietta. These letters are filled with beautiful, vivid descriptions of the scenery, the people she encountered, the way of life, and a mountain man named Jim Nugent, that was as rough as they come, but a complete gentleman with Ms. Bird. She has the distinction of being the first woman to become a member of the Royal Geographical Society in 1892.

Categories: Arts, Society & Culture

Tags: A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains, audio books, audiobook, Biography, ebooks, Essay/Short nonfiction, fiction, free audio books, History, Isabella L. Bird, Loyal Books, loyalbooks.com, Memoirs, nature, Non-fiction, travel

Welcome to The Urban Farm Podcast, your partner in the Grow Your Own Food revolution! This audio only podcast features special guests like Rosemary Morrow, Zach Loeks, and Andrew Millison as we discuss the art and value of growing food in urban areas. We’ll explore topics such as gardening basics, urban beekeeping and chicken farming, permaculture, successful composting, monetizing your farm, and much more! Each episode will bring you tips and tricks on how to overcome common challenges, opportunities to learn from the experience of people just like you, and plenty of resources to ensure you’re informed, equipped, and empowered to participate more mindfully in your local food system… and to have a great time doing it! Support our Podcast and listen Ad-Free! Visit www.urbanfarm.org/patron for more information and see what else we include.

Categories: Arts, Education, Leisure

Tags: agriculture, animals, aquaponics, backyard, Beekeeping, bees, breeders, business, Canning, change, chicken, community, compost, Concepts, cooking, Crop, Crops, design, dirt, Ducks, Education, Eggs, empower, entrepreneur, family, farm, farmers, farmsteading, Food, forest, fowl, friends, Fruit, garden, gardening, Green, gregpeterson, grow, Guest, gut, Harvest, Harvesting, health, herbs, homesteading, hyrdroponics, inform, Inspired, Kids, local, Market, mushrooms, nature, nutrition, Orchard, organic, Permaculture, Peterson, plants, pollenator, pollinator, poultry, prepping, Regenerative, resource, respect, saving, school, Season, seed, small, soil, success, sustainability, sustainable, theurbanfarm, tomato, trees, urban, urbanfarm, vegan, vegetables, vegetarian, water, worms

A trip down the garden and country lane with nature enthusiasts and gardeners chatting about the flowers and trees, and birds and bees and more.

Categories: Education, Leisure, Science

Tags: birding, Birds, conservation, Countryside, fields, flowers, gardening, heritage, nature, Northumberland, vegetables, wildlife

Two years, two months and two days! This is what forms the time line of one man’s quest for the simple life and a unique social experiment in complete self reliance and independence. Henry David Thoreau published Walden in 1884. Originally drafted as a series of essays describing a most significant episode in his life, it was finally released in book form with each essay taking on the form of a separate chapter. Thoreau’s parents were in financial straights, but rich intellectually and culturally. The young Henry was educated in the best of schools in their home town, Concord, Massachusetts and went on to graduate from Harvard, where he read history, philosophy, theology and literature. He commenced working as a school master in Concord but soon quit when he discovered that he was not ideologically suited to methods employed in those days which included corporal punishment. During this time, a chance meeting with the great philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson marked a turning point in his life. Deeply influenced by Emerson’s ideas and his Transcendentalism cult, Thoreau embarked on the Walden experiment. The Transcendentalism movement was an amalgam of Buddhism, German and English Romanticism, Hindu teachings, Confucianism and placed great emphasis on emotional wellbeing, self reliance and personal truths rather than social norms. It rejected society’s dominance over the individual. Walden Pond was located in a property owned by Emerson. Here, Thoreau built a cabin and proceeded to live a completely self sufficient life, gathering his own food and preparing it, sleeping and reading and appreciating nature as the whim took him. He meticulously recorded every experience and this forms the body of work known as Walden. The book received a lukewarm reception when it first appeared, but went on to gather cult status with the advent of the Flower Power generation, the anti-establishment movements against the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights movement. The concepts of individual freedom and individual choice became ingrained in the American psyche as a new generation of Americans re-discovered Walden. Walden’s main appeal lies in its exploration of themes like solitude, economy, the simple life and the Higher Laws that he describes which relate to man’s relationship to nature. Thoreau’s style is attractive and easy, full of nuggets of folksy wisdom. Modern proponents of simplifying life, those who oppose our over reliance on technology and advocates of inner spiritual awakening are sure to find Walden a valuable and rewarding read. More great books at LoyalBooks.com

Categories: Arts, Society & Culture

Tags: audio books, audiobook, Biography, ebooks, free audio books, Henry David Thoreau, History, Literature, Loyal Books, loyalbooks.com, nature, Non-fiction, Philosophy, science, walden

The official podcast of Rocky Mountain National Park. Get the inside scoop on what goes into making a national park work through on-site interviews with rangers, researchers, and visitors like you.

Categories: Uncategorised

Tags: backpacking, hiking, mountains, national park, National Park Service, national parks, nature, nps, outdoors, Rocky Mountains, travel

Nature and Nourish is a podcast by mother, herbalist and forager Becky Cole. Based on an small farm in Northern Ireland this podcast is for anyone craving a more natural, nourishing way of life and a slice of slow living.

Categories: Leisure

Tags: ethical, natural, nature, nourishing, slowliving

I’m an author, broadcaster, speaker and champion of intuition and its rightful place in our lives – and that includes business. Join me on a fascinating journey of exploration into what can happen when we blend intuition and logic to become ‘whole-brained …’

Categories: Religion & Spirituality

Tags: intuition, intuitivedevelopment, naturalcycles, nature, naturespowerpoints, seasonalcelebrations

An interview-based podcast exploring the world of backpacking by covering topics such as thru-hiking, hunting, mountaineering, nutrition, conservation, personal development, and more. Each episode promises a refreshing and humbled approach to the outdoors and will leave you feeling encouraged to pursue the adventures you’ve been dreaming of.

Categories: Education, Society & Culture, Sports

Tags: Adventure, backpacking, camping, hiking, Hunting, nature, outside, thru-hiking, wild camping, Wilderness

Jinny Blom, the landscape gardener and writer, speaks to guests including Brian Eno and Tim Walker to uncover what inspires us to work with plants, what connects us to the land, and the complex constellation of ideas, experiences, thoughts and senses that make a garden.
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Categories: Arts, Leisure

Tags: architecture, art, Books, cooking, design, fashion, Food, gardening, Literature, music, nature, photography

Audible Mount Diablo is an invitation to adventure. Its free multimedia tours combine lively interviews and music with the rush of wind and the chirps, howls, and growls of wildlife. Naturalists heighten visitors’ appreciation of the sights and sounds at each stop, tell tales of the mountain’s past, and suggest what to look for around the next bend. Perfect to prepare for your first–or your hundredth–trip up the mountain. Sponsored by Save Mount Diablo and the Mount Diablo Interpretive Association Produced by Audio Guides to the Outdoors

Categories: Society & Culture, Sports

Tags: animals, backcountry, bayarea, botany, California, Diablo, diablorange, Education, Fauna, flora, guide, hiking, History, mountdiablostatepark, naturalist, nature, outdoors, recreation, science, Wilderness, wildflowers, wildlife