
Joshua Sparkes
Head gardener at Birch Farm in Devon pioneering natural farming, regenerative horticulture, and syntropic agriculture; formerly served in RAF.
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Jul 27, 2026
Ep75: A Good Ol' Chit-Chat With... Joshua Sparkes
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15:26BearHOST
But for

Joshua SparkesGUEST
me, so for me... is we you know we we know our climate is changing like it's it's coming like we can we can argue is it us or is it just the world whatever but whatever you know there it's happening it's changing and we we went past a lot we went past the first threshold last year which is the the coral reefs will begin to die back until eventually we lose our coral reefs there's nothing we can do about that now there's no return there's nothing that we can actually do to return that So I very much see it as we are, there's a mountain and there's a marble at the top and it's just going to roll down this hill and get bigger and bigger and bigger or snowball effect down.

Joshua SparkesGUEST
Will we live in this like Arctic area or will we go hot? But generally what seems to be happening is the pattern is we are getting hotter.

Joshua SparkesGUEST
And, you know, with this super El Nino that is currently hitting us, We're going to have an incredibly cold winter as well.
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56:00BearHOST
but it says a lot about your team the fact that you persevered despite your existential crisis but that everyone trusted you and said yep josh okay we're we're there we're behind you on this and they hung on in there as well because it takes faith doesn't it because it's it's not a short period of time yeah yeah yeah