this small work closes season three. patrons can look for part III of the printable, downloadable book this autumn. thanks for listening, thanks for sharing, thanks for your support.if you’d like to continue an immersion in these ideas, conside

when we choose to live closely bonded with the land –

Sep 10th, 2023 4m 36s

this small work barely made it out from underneath all the pears, apples, grapes, plums and asian pears that we've been turning into every sort of preserve we can think of. still, here it is, smelling of cool september mornings and warm fruit c

coming of age –

Sep 3rd, 2023 5m 34s

this small works looks at the converging crises we face as a moment for stepping into a different kind of responsiveness, one that makes us all the parents of another future. with thanks to the appleturnover members. if you missed it last week,

Bonus

an interview: the art of living well: a creative life on the land –

Aug 27th, 2023 40s

pausing the small works as harvest season hits one of its peaks in the food forest, but not to worry, appleturnover has a treat for you: a conversation with manda scott over at the inimitable 'accidental gods' podcast, called, The Art of Living

having awoken –

Aug 20th, 2023 6m 1s

like active hope, this small work touches the bleakness of our deep concern and the terminal prognosis of the state we are in, but moves forward into looking at what's possible from a perspective that takes into account the deep capacities of o

what happens when we pause to listen –

Aug 13th, 2023 3m 54s

this small work listens so closely to what's needed, it turns inward to hear the messages that come from a world in great need of our attention and our considered action. thank you to the radio + film members at appleturnover. if this work is u

our kith and kin surround us –

Aug 6th, 2023 5m 19s

this small work is a meditation on being and how we might reimagine who we are, before we begin to imagine how we can be in the world in a way that makes more life. i may have lulled my own self into 'soft fascination' with this one. if you'd l

the generations returning to the land –

Jul 30th, 2023 6m 37s

this small work looks at our fluencies as we reskill and reconnect with heritage and resilience, while repatterning another future, one based in collaboration. if you like this work you might like to look at, if you aren't already familiar, 'br

the recipe –

Jul 23rd, 2023 4m 51s

the small work, ‘the recipe’ – looks at relocalising food for a resilient future, elisa rathje reads aloud from the journal of small work*. if you have the journal of small work* book, this is a reading of the fourth piece in part 3 of the seri

the suggestion –

Jul 16th, 2023 11m 2s

this small work looks at the fundamental patterns that need to shift within so that a world in crisis can regenerate.thanks to the appleturnover patrons! if you’d like to get the book-so-far as well as supprting the show, join appleturnover her

getting things done –

Jul 9th, 2023 6m 43s

this small work looks at the flow state as a way to unplug from the productivity-mindset that has us see ourselves and time as something to extract from, and instead move into a way of being based on our inherent worthiness.thank you to the app

the critical work of our time–

Jul 4th, 2023 4m 2s

this small work looks at how we might overcome the obstacles to taking small steps that reverberate out into big, lasting, profound and urgently needed change.welcome to season three of the readings from the journal of small work*.if you have t

the most restorative act of the day –

Dec 4th, 2022 7m 36s

and so we end the year as we began it, thinking about writing as a tool for orienting ourselves to the future we are co-creating with our daily actions. clarifying where we have been and preparing for where we may be going, reimagining possible

within our influence–

Nov 27th, 2022 7m

how we reduced our electricity use by 70%, and all the many small ways we went about it, here in the appleturnover farmhouse. this small work* is a close cousin to the journal of small work* films, "wood stove" and "pulley airer". find those on

shifting a life into harmony –

Nov 13th, 2022 5m 37s

this small work* agrees that moving into positive futures requires great inner transformation, which in turn demands gentleness and compassion. practicing this on a small scale prepares us, even if it is granular and everyday, even if it's just

the knowledge and skill to make what we need –

Nov 6th, 2022 5m 19s

on reviving the thrifty, self-reliant skills of home as resistance and reinvention, a reimagining of what our future could be like. this small work* is a friend of the appleturnover film, 'grain mill', and in particular, of making fresh pasta b

immersed in living systems–

Oct 30th, 2022 7m 13s

becoming fluent in interdependence, and the multiple, humble acts that revive the commons that connect us, and move us toward positive futures. this small work* is a piece from a series of letters sent to patrons at patreon.com/appleturnover.

like a gardener creates the conditions –

Oct 23rd, 2022 4m 45s

this tiny piece looks at what works in our culture, to find the patterns that help us to leave behind frameworks of competition and scarcity, for a fundamental shift toward collaboration and sufficiency for all, as a response to converging cris

when the treetops crash to the earth –

Oct 16th, 2022 4m 48s

culturing what is. the small work* is a radio companion piece to a future film about tree pollards and wood cutters. it looks at the tiny spheres of our influence over time, and how we might engage with the materials of the everyday to create p

it's as if we all have culture shock –

Oct 9th, 2022 4m 29s

picturing possible, compelling futures. this small work* is a moment spent in seeing where we are now, how we are transfigured by recent years, acknowledging the profound change that is happening and connecting to each other and the greater wor

the world is procrastinating -

Oct 2nd, 2022 4m 38s

finding our way into good-enough action. this small work* looks at some ways that we can counter, within ourselves, the pattern of perfectionism that shows up in a world stuck in procrastination on the kind of cultural transformation that can m

picture if you will -

Sep 25th, 2022 4m 36s

on habitat as a pattern for possible futures. this small work* is a companion piece to our first film, 'deep litter' which looked at the practices we follow to create a safe, healthy habitat for our food-forest-ranging flocks, which is in every

in our experiments with how to live -

Sep 18th, 2022 4m 17s

on what is necessary, what is sufficient. this small work* is a friend and relation of my short film, *pulley airer*, which looks at appropriate technology and downshifting. in a word, simplicity. what if the future was not deprived, but simply

picturing climate change as a healing response -

Sep 11th, 2022 4m 2s

this micro-episode looks at how we see the earth in crisis and how we might culture a way of living that collaborates with the healing-responses of life itself. like season 1 before it, this new season of companion pieces to the journal of smal

living on a smallholding like this one-

Jul 10th, 2022 4m 40s

this small work* is a radio companion to my new film 'coldframe', which looks at adaptation and relocalisation as frameworks for a future we want to live in. living on a smallholding like this one - paints a picture of some of the old fashioned