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Hosted by Patrick McGregor · 🇺🇸 US · EN-GB · 34 episodes
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The New Orchard is a place where we explore and investigate pragmatic ideas that help us live informed, healthy, connected and consequently more meaningful and fulfilled lives. Our guests are uniquely insightful people who seek genuine solutions and alternatives in an ever-expanding landscape of globalised complexity and who wish to inspire others to action. If you have any questions or guest recommendations please contact us at: theneworchard@proton.me
Patrick McGregor hosts The New Orchard, a education show with 34 episodes published.
Title: Playing God Subtitle: Fatherhood, Down Syndrome and the New Eugenics Guest: Alex Story Modern medicine has given us extraordinary power. We can detect genetic conditions before birth, edit DNA with increasing prec
Title: Catholic Land Movement | Building Communities Where Stewardship, Work, Worship & Family Belong Together Guest: Michael Thomas - Executive Director and co-founder of the modern Catholic Land Movement Recorded: Apri
Title: The Raw Milk Dilemma: Mark McAfee on Food Safety, Pasteurisation & Raw Milk Guest: Mark McAfee - Founder & CEO, Raw Farm and Founder & Chairman, Raw Milk Institute (RAWMI) Recorded: May 2026 For most of human hist
Title: Cultivate Farms - Rebuilding the Pathway to Farm Ownership Guest: Sam Marwood Recorded: April 2026 My guest today is Sam Marwood, founder of Cultivate Farms — an Australian farm transition organisation attempting
Title: The War Against the Sun Guest: William B. Grant Recorded: April 2026 For millions of years humans evolved under direct sunlight — skin, hormones, immune systems, and even our DNA all tuned to it. Yet modern dermat
Title: The Burden of Culture - Why Money Can't Fix Australia's Indigenous Divide Guest: Gary Johns Recorded: January 2026 In this podcast episode, Gary Johns, a former Labor politician and author of The Burden of Culture
Title: Roots Over Screens – Farm Life as The Cure for Urban Nature Deficit Guest: Jake Wolki Recorded: October 2025 "Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independe
Title: After Virtue - Why the West Risks Collapse Without Heeding MacIntyre's Moral Wake-Up Call Guest: Tom Angier Recorded: October 2025 A couple of years ago, an algorithm on a book-selling website recommended a title
Title: Moving Towards Wholeness - Holotropic Breathwork®, Shamanism And The Dance Of Healing Guest: Sharanya Naik Recorded: September 2025 Couple of months ago I had the privilege of interviewing Kylea Taylor, A key figu
Title: Jim’s Journey - Startup Struggles, Success Secrets, and Solving Society's Declining Birth Rates Guest: Jim Penman Recorded: September 2025 Imagine a young man in 1980s Australia, fresh from his history PhD, armed
Title: The Great Poisoning - The Hidden Abuses in Queensland's Fire Ant Eradication Program Guest: Trevor Hold Recorded: September 2025 My guest today is Trevor Hold, a farmer in Queensland and a leading voice in opposit
Guest: Kylea Taylor Recorded: July 2025 Every moment, without thinking about it, we breathe. But hidden inside this seemingly unconscious rhythm is a mysterious portal, an almost forgotten technology of healing and limit
My guest today is Sofia Karstens and the reason why I wanted to interview her is her editorial titled “Neurodiversity Is a Strawman” published on brownstone.org in April 2025. In the editorial Sofia argues that the conce
Couple of months ago a book by Frank Furedi titled First World War: Still No End In Sight landed in my lap. An acquaintance of mine recommended it without giving me much detail. He just said that I would have appreciatio
Starting a school from the ground up in Australia requires navigating an extremely strict regulatory framework, securing serious funding, convincing parents, meeting accreditation standards, which may explain why fewer e
The New Orchard Essay Series Today we’re publishing an essay from an emerging thought leader in the realm of motherhood, culture, family life, and how our culture is often getting it wrong. It’s a slightly different form
Guest: Cheree Harvey classicalconversations.com.au Let’s be honest—something’s not working in mainstream education. Despite this show being quite new I’ve already published a couple of interviews probing this subject mat
Parenting in the modern world can feel overwhelming—so much so that many parents find themselves simply trying to survive rather than thrive. But why is that? What societal pressures, personal histories, and unresolved t
Matt Wong, founder of Discernable, joins The New Orchard Show to share his original insights on his remarkable transition from a media entrepreneur to a regenerative farmer. What began as a quiet contemplation on benefit
Education shapes the next generation, but are we setting students up for success? In this thought-provoking conversation, Kevin Donnelly, a veteran educator and policy expert, dissects the current state of education in A
Mark McAfee
Founder & Chairman · Raw Milk Institute
1 appearance on this show
Jim Penman
founder and owner · Jim's Franchise
1 appearance on this show
Sam Jockel
award-winning social entrepreneur and founder · ParentTV
1 appearance on this show
Matt Wong
Founder of Discernable · iFLY Indoor Skydiving Queenstown
1 appearance on this show
Sabin Howard
artist and sculptor of the new World War I memorial in Washington, D.C.
1 appearance on this show
Danny Goler
1 appearance on this show
Michael Thomas
Catholic Land Movement
1 appearance on this show
Sam Marwood
Cultivate Farms
1 appearance on this show
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