Colin Austin's guest appearances

Colin Austin

The Urban Farm Podcast with Greg Peterson

BBC Good Food Show Winter - Birmingham NEC 28 November - 1 December 2019

Sam Jones

Paul Kelly

Deanna Cook

Michael Phillips

Jason Mraz

Sam Houston

Ken Berry

James Martin

Ed Bacon

Nick Green

Chris Harrison

Bill Bezuk

Niki Jabbour

Garrett Hill

Tiffany Panaccione

OwlTail

BBC Good Food Show Winter 2019 - Colin Austin - Peckish Kitchen

Colin Austin - Peckish Kitchen

211: Colin Austin on Wicking Beds and Healthy Food Examining wicking garden beds and bio-intensive vegetables.In this Podcast: We get to meet a gardening pioneer when Greg talks to Colin Austin who is known world-wide as the man who engineered a simple but highly popular garden bed called a wicking bed.  Greg learns why Colin was motivated to create the beds and how the wicking process works. Then they go further to talk about why healthy food is so important to him and his family.Many years ago, at the birth of the computer revolution Colin learned to write code and set-up a company which grew to become Australia’s leading exporter of technical software.  Then twenty years ago, Colin developed a growing system, which is known today as wicking bed technology and has gone feral worldwide. He runs a website WaterRight.com.au and a newsletter which are leading sources of information on wicking bed growing technology around the globe.Colin’s wife was very healthy and after moving to Australia from China she developed diabetes when she transitioned to a Western style diet.   Consequently, he has spent many years studying the causes and remedies for diabetes.  This complex disease involves many factors such as genetics and life style stress but the dominating one of course is diet.  As a result of this research he is developing a new farming technology for growing in nutrient dense soil which is very biologically.  He says living soils are based on recycling waste and are regenerative.  He believes we have been destroying our soil and that we are now approaching peak soil.Go to https://www.urbanfarm.org/2017/03/21/colin-austin/ for more information, photos and links on this podcast and to hear from our other great guests.

211: Colin Austin on Wicking Beds and Healthy Food Examining wicking garden beds and bio-intensive vegetables.In this Podcast: We get to meet a gardening pioneer when Greg talks to Colin Austin who is known world-wide as the man who engineered a simple but highly popular garden bed called a wicking bed.  Greg learns why Colin was motivated to create the beds and how the wicking process works. Then they go further to talk about why healthy food is so important to him and his family.Many years ago, at the birth of the computer revolution Colin learned to write code and set-up a company which grew to become Australia’s leading exporter of technical software.  Then twenty years ago, Colin developed a growing system, which is known today as wicking bed technology and has gone feral worldwide. He runs a website <a href="http://www.WaterRight.com.au" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">WaterRight.com.au</a> and a newsletter which are leading sources of information on wicking bed growing technology around the globe.Colin’s wife was very healthy and after moving to Australia from China she developed diabetes when she transitioned to a Western style diet.   Consequently, he has spent many years studying the causes and remedies for diabetes.  This complex disease involves many factors such as genetics and life style stress but the dominating one of course is diet.  As a result of this research he is developing a new farming technology for growing in nutrient dense soil which is very biologically.  He says living soils are based on recycling waste and are regenerative.  He believes we have been destroying our soil and that we are now approaching peak soil.Go to <a href="https://www.urbanfarm.org/2017/03/21/colin-austin/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.urbanfarm.org/2017/03/21/colin-austin/</a> for more information, photos and links on this podcast and to hear from our other great guests.

211: Colin Austin on Wicking Beds and Healthy Food