Let’s Hope The Weather Holds

Interviews with characters I meet as a travel, outdoor and agricultural journalist and photographer.

Let’s Hope The Weather Holds is a sports podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 61 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts Let’s Hope The Weather Holds, a sports show with 61 episodes published.

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  Episode #62

  Pay a Kiwi farmer a salary to grow your own food

  Jun 11, 202550 minS0

  <p>I speak to Fokko van der Schans and Sabrine van Rossum from Harvest Collective about their idea of starting a farm near Wellington where +- 200 families get together and employ a farmer to grow food in a way that respects nature.<br> On their website they say “Our big dream is to have a Harvest Collective farm in every community of people in Aotearoa that want to grow food in harmony with nature.”<br> The idea works in The Netherlands, why not here.</p>

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  Episode #61

  Dr. Finn Ross - The Pole of Inaccessibility, mountain rescues and seaweed

  May 12, 202543 minS0

  <p>I speak to Dr. Finn Ross about the mountain rescue of Riley Meason, reaching the Pole of Inaccessibility, New Zealand's most remote spot, The Weekend Mish, regenerative agriculture and changing mindsets, his PhD and how seaweed is a climate solution.</p> <p>Find him here</p>

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  Episode #60

  Elephant seals - climate impact, dark intraspecific extinction and more.

  May 5, 202548 minS0

  <p>I speak to Associate Professor Nic Rawlence, Director of the Otago Palaeogenetics Laboratory in the Department of Zoology at the University of Otago about elephant seals.</p> <p>He tells me about a recent paper published titled Postglacial Recolonization of the Southern Ocean by Elephant Seals Occurred From Multiple Glacial Refugia.</p> <p>We discuss climate impact on elephant seals in the past and in the future.</p> <p>The effect of commercial hunting and traditional harvest.</p> <p>Dark intraspecific extinction.</p> <p>We touch on how animal numbers looked in New Zealand when humans arrived, how to save...

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  Episode #59

  NZ birds now face similar conditions faced at the end of the ice age

  Mar 28, 20251h 4mS0

  <p>I speak to Pascale Lubbe, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Molecular Ecology, at the University of Otago about how current loss of forests, loss when people arrived in New Zealand and loss of forest during the ice age have an effect on native birds and on bird colonisation.</p> <p>An interesting read is the article Pascale collaborated on that was published in The Conversation. </p>

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  Episode #58

  Everything Antarctica with Jonny Harrison

  Dec 16, 20241h 2mS0

  <p>I speak to Jonny Harrison who has done three trips to Antarctica as an electrician and group leader. He also hosts the Everything Antarctica podcast with Matty Jordan.</p> <p>Jonny tells me about how water is sourced, how you get a job in Antarctica, staying alive and more.</p> <p>Podcast link</p> <p>YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EverythingAntarctica</p> <p>Link to, a book Jonny says is a must read  'The Worst Journey in the world' </p>

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