Your resource for a variety of topics on Permaculture.
Agroforestry and Food Forests with Byron Birss
In this episode, Byron Birss speaks with Mary and Andrew as they talk about Byron’s transformation from someone with no knowledge of permaculture or gardening into a professional designer and food forest aficionado in just a few years. Growing up in the United States, Byron moved to New Zealand nearly a decade ago for a change of life that wound up being a life-changing experience.
Resources
Backyard Paradise
Byron Grows (YouTube)
Byron Grows (Instagram)
Larry Santoyo - Exploring Permaculture
25-8-2024 • 48 minuten, 49 seconden
Natural Resources Conservation Service with Rebecca Anderson
Rebecca Anderson joins Mary and Andrew to discuss her work with National Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), and government body under the purview of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Steeped in Permaculture, with a degree in Environmental Science and Resource Management, and time as a Woofer, Rebecca shares what the NRCS provides and what she does in her job to support anyone interested in conserving soil, water, and other natural resources with technical and financial support.
As a permaculture practitioner, I recommend listening to this conversation because assistance from NRCS is free and isn’t just for farmers and it’s easy to start the process. All you need to do is contact your local NRCS office.
Resources
Natural Resources Conservation Service
NRCS Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP):
Environmental Quality Incentives Program | Natural Resources Conservation Service (usda.gov)
National Payment Schedules:
Payment Schedules | Natural Resources Conservation Service (usda.gov).
Recommend navigating to individual states and choosing the EQIP link. Definitely overwhelming regarding choices for each practice, which is why working with a local planner is super key.
NRCS Service Center Locator:
Service Center Locator | Natural Resources Conservation Service (usda.gov)
NRCS Solutions for Small-Scale Farms Fact Sheets:
Solutions for Small-Scale Farms | Natural Resources Conservation Service (usda.gov)
Additional National Funding Sources
AgWest Farm Credit New Producer Grant:
https://agwestfc.com/about/community-engagement/grants/new-producer-grant
American Farmland Trust Brighter Future Fund: https://farmland.org/brighter-future/
Farm Service Agency Farm Loan Programs: https://www.fsa.usda.gov/programs-and-services/farm-loan-programs/index
Farm Service Agency Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program: https://www.fsa.usda.gov/programs-and-services/disaster-assistance-program/noninsured-crop-disaster-assistance/index
National Young Farmer Coalition Young Farmer Program: https://www.youngfarmers.org/young-farmer-grants/
Natural Resources Conservation Service Conservation Innovation Grants: https://cig.sc.egov.usda.gov/
RAFI FOCN Infrastructure Fund Grants: https://www.rafiusa.org/programs/farmers-of-color-network/farmers-of-color-network-infrastructure-fund-grants/
Rodale BIPOC Famer Micro Grants: https://rodaleinstitute.org/education/bipoc-farmer-micro-grants/
Rural Development Rural Energy for America Program (REAP):Rural Energy for America Program Renewable Energy Systems & Energy Efficiency Improvement Guaranteed Loans & Grants | Rural Development (usda.gov)
Rural Development Value Added Producer Grant: https://www.rd.usda.gov/programs-services/business-programs/value-added-producer-grants
USDA Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production Grants: https://www.usda.gov/topics/urban/grants
USFWS Partners for Fish and Wildlife: Partners for Fish and Wildlife | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (fws.gov)
Additional Washington State Funding Sources
Tilth Organic & Sustainable Farming Grant:
https://tilthalliance.org/our-work/wa-farming-agriculture/washington-state-organic-sustainable-farming-fund/
Western WA Food Systems Partnership Project Accelerator:
https://wwfsp.org/food-systems-project-accelerator/
Washington State Conservation Commission (WSCC) Grant Programs:
Grant Programs (wa.gov)
Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) Farm to School Program:
https://agr.wa.gov/departments/business-and-marketing-support/farm-to-school/wsda-farm-to-school-program
WSDA Local Infrastructure Grant:
https://agr.wa.gov/departments/business-and-marketing-support/small-farm/infrastructure-grant.
Note: Most states will have a state department of agriculture that funds programs like this whether it’s for infrastructure, beginning farmers, etc.
10-8-2024 • 55 minuten, 26 seconden
Introducing Andrew Tuttle
In this episode, Andrew Tuttle sits down with Mary Marshall as she draws out his story: what brought him to Permaculture and why this work matters; what he’s up to currently, and what he sees in the months and years ahead. Throughout, we hear his stories, directly, in his own, unique voice.
Find out more about Andrew and his design and educational work at EdgePerma.com, and our new community at skool.com/thepermaculturecollective.
Listen to his initial interviews on The Permaculture Podcast, sitting with Mary Marshall as his co-host, using the links below.
Creating a Permaculture Life and Livelihood with Michael Judd
Functional Hedgerows with Jude Hobbs
Exploring Global Permaculture with Andrew Millison
Inspiration Farm with Brian Kerkvliet and Alexandra King
27-7-2024 • 1 uur, 2 minuten, 33 seconden
Introducing Mary Marshall
In this episode, Mary Marshall sits down with Andrew Tuttle to talk about her history, what brought her to Permaculture and design, and Mary’s thoughts about the future. Along the way, they share the stories from their time together, over many years, as partners in many aspects of life traveling, living, and creating with one another.
Find out more about Mary and her design work with Andrew at EdgePerma.com, and our new community at skool.com/thepermaculturecollective.
Resources
Interviews from Mary and Andrew
Creating a Permaculture Life and Livelihood with Michael Judd
Functional Hedgerows with Jude Hobbs
Exploring Global Permaculture with Andrew Millison
Inspiration Farm with Brian Kerkvliet and Alexandra King
24-7-2024 • 48 minuten, 34 seconden
Podcast Update: July 2024
Welcome to the Podcast Update for July 2024. In this episode, I’ll let you know about the future of the show as it currently stands including:
- How things are going with the co-hosts Mary and Andrew of Edge Perma.
- Plans for new episodes.
- Welcoming you to our new, free community.
- An update on my personal recovery.
Resources
The Permaculture Collective
Interviews from Mary and Andrew
Creating a Permaculture Life and Livelihood with Michael Judd
Functional Hedgerows with Jude Hobbs
Exploring Global Permaculture with Andrew Millison
Inspiration Farm with Brian Kerkvliet and Alexandra King
22-7-2024 • 4 minuten, 30 seconden
Inspiration Farm with Brian Kerkvliet and Alexandra King
In this episode Mary and Andrew sit down to interview Brian and Alexandra of Inspiration Farm to talk about their journey with their farm and permaculture, starting in 1994 when they moved to the land and named the farm, to their encountering Permaculture for the first time 12 years later. Throughout, you’ll hear how they create a thriving, viable, farm, on a little less than 9 acres, with perennials and annuals with an ever-evolving experimental blend of enterprises growing food, producing art, and teaching others. With this work, Brian and Alexandra are also deeply involved in their local and regional communities, drawing in like-minded people, supporting one another, and providing ongoing inspiration.
Resources
Inspiration Farm
Salish Seed Guild
Whatcom Permaculture
Regenerate Cascadia
29-6-2024 • 56 minuten, 14 seconden
Exploring Global Permaculture with Andrew Millison
Today’s episode is a new interview with Andrew Millison, recorded by Mary Marshall and Andrew Tuttle.
Starting with Andrew's history with permaculture, in 1996 through to the present, first with ecological landscape design and construction in Arizona and how it has bloomed into a broader outreach through not only his teaching, but also through his work as a videographer documenting projects around the world. Throughout, he discusses the problems we face, on global, local, and personal scales and the realities of what it is to do this work, and to do it well.
Resources
Andrew Millison
AndrewMillison.com
YouTube Channel
Instagram
OSU Permaculture Design Certificate Program
Natalie Topa
Profile at Permaculture Women’s Guild
Natalie’s YouTube
15-6-2024 • 56 minuten, 34 seconden
Functional Hedgerows with Jude Hobbs
In today's episode, co-hosts Mary Marshall and Andrew Tuttle sit down with Jude Hobbs of Cascadia Permaculture to talk about functional hedgerows.
Listen for another new interview from Mary and Andrew, where they talk to Andrew Millison about his work and journey as a content creator and educator. That episode is out in a few weeks.
Until then, spend each day expanding your knowledge and deepening your understanding, while taking care of Earth, yourself, and each other.
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Resources
Jude Hobbs
Cascadia Permaculture
Current Courses and Trainings
What Are Hedgerows?
The Functions of Hedgerows and Living Fences
Multi-Functional Hedgerows: A Book in Progress
Multifunctional Hedgerows (PDF Download)
Earlier Material with Jude Hobbs
Jude Hobbs - What is a Permaculture Teacher Training? (2015)
Review: The Permaculture Teacher Training (2011)
Jude Hobbs Defines Permaculture (2011)
Other Resources
Salmon-Safe
29-5-2024 • 52 minuten, 27 seconden
Creating a Permaculture Life and Livelihood with Michael Judd
Today’s episode is a new interview with Michael Judd, recorded by Mary Marshall and Andrew Tuttle, of Edge Perma.
During this conversation, Michael shares a quick sketch of his background for listeners who aren’t familiar with him and his work, including time at the Bullock’s Permaculture Homestead Brother’s Farm on Orcas Island in Washington State. Michael then leads us through how he came to his permaculture career and how suggestions on how he makes it work for him and his family, from his early days as an edible landscaper and designer to his current role as a nurseryman, educator, and an event planner focusing on regenerative systems and education. Throughout, he shares stories and personal anecdotes as only he can.
Ten years ago, in 2014, I traveled from my home in Pennsylvania and journeyed down to Michael’s family home and homestead to record my first in-person interview, ever, with him, meeting his wife, and his son Wyatt, who was still a babe in arms at the time. Since then, we’ve recorded multiple interviews together, he was a keynote speaker at the Mid-Atlantic Permaculture Convergence, and I’ve attended his Paw Paw festival.
Throughout this decade knowing Michael, personally and professionally, what I’ve always loved is his ability to take what he knows, examine where his life is at the moment, decides where he wants to go, and pivots in that direction. However he changes his life he does that with intent, while remaining rooted in his mindset as a permaculture practitioner and the lessons he learned during his time in Nicaragua with Project Bona Fide.
If you’re working on the next steps of your journey, I highly recommend listening to Michael’s earlier conversations with me and hear more about his journey. You’ll find numerous useful insights that connect to the ones he shared today, that you can apply to your journey, wherever you want to go.
Resources
Michael Judd
Ecologia Design
Instagarm - Permaculture Life (@permacultureninja)
Youtube - @permacultureninja
Michael’s Books
Fruit Patch iOS App
Earlier Interviews with Michael Judd
Edible Landscaping (3.2014)
Starting Out and Getting Involved in Permaculture (8.2014)
MAPC Keynote Address (8.2016)
Honoring the Dead and Holding the Dying: Natural Burial (1.2018)
For the Love of PawPaws (9.2019)
Other Projects and Resources
Project Bona Fide
Bullock Brother’s Homestead
Punta Mona Center (Stephen Brooks project in Costa Rica)
15-5-2024 • 49 minuten, 25 seconden
The Future of The Permaculture Podcast
An update on what to expect from the show through the end of 2024.
8-11-2023 • 4 minuten, 37 seconden
Help Scott Save His Liver (and Heart)
A few days before my 44th birthday, I received the news managing my Celiac Disease and family history of diabetes had damaged my liver and made my non-alcoholic liver issues worse. So much so, that I am at a significant risk of liver failure in my lifetime. In a follow-up with my doctor about that news, I was also diagnosed with High Blood Pressure (Hypertension 2). To manage these health issues, I need to step away from the show, indefinitely, in the near future.
To ensure that the podcast website, archives, and email address remain available, and the lights stay on for the show through these ups and downs without having to worry about where the money will come from, I've created a GoFundMe campaign to cover the show's expenses for the next 15 months while my team of doctors, specialists, and I work on creating and implementing a treatment plan that is manageable and will get me back to good health.
Donate to the Crowdfunding Campaign: bit.ly/liver2024
Until the next time, spend each day caring for your self, so that you can keep caring for Earth and each other.
25-9-2023 • 2 minuten, 25 seconden
The Regenerative Landscaper by Erik Ohlsen
A review episode of The Regenerative Landscaper: Design and Build Landscapes That Repair the Environment by Erik Ohlsen, with a foreword by the great Penny Livingston.
Show Notes
The Regenerative Landscaper (Synergetic Press)
Related Interview: Erik Ohlsen - Professional Permaculture
Related Interview: Erik Ohlsen - Professional Permaculture Education
15-9-2023 • 5 minuten, 57 seconden
The News - 4 September 2023
This Episode of The News includes two updates from the podcast, a look at rescheduling Marijuana under the Controlled Substances Act, concerns over the shrinking supply of freshwater in the United States, and close with an opportunity for permaculture practitioners.
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Donate to the Backup Fundraiser
Using PayPal: PayPal.me/PermaculturePodcast
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Show Notes
Rescheduling Marijuana
America is Using Up Its Groundwater Like There’s No Tomorrow
Enter the 2024 PINA Design Contest!
5-9-2023 • 7 minuten, 22 seconden
The News - 28 August 2023
In this episode of The News from The Permaculture Podcast are updates on the growing investment into sustainable and regenerative agriculture, how agrivoltaics is bridging the political divide in America, and on rewilding efforts in Argentina.
Show Notes
Farmland LP
Farmland LP launches $250M fund focused on organic and regenerative agriculture
Agrivoltaics Is Making Friends Across Partisan Lines, Thanks To Farmers
Rewilding Argentina
The return of the wild in Argentina's Patagonia Park
Cities in the Wilderness: A New Vision of Land Use in America
28-8-2023 • 7 minuten, 21 seconden
Inclusion in Permaculture - Rosemary Morrow
When sitting down with a storyteller like Rosemary Morrow for a series of open conversations about her life and work that spans decades, and results in more than 10 hours of recordings, it's never clear what will emerge. Today's episode is a great example of that, as in a few moments while we discussed other things, Rowe mentioned working with the folks at Perma Queer and shared her thoughts on how to use one’s position, role, and respect within a community to make space for marginalized voices, and the importance of inclusion in permaculture as part of the teachings.
If you have any thoughts, questions, or follow-up on this episode:
Get in Touch
Resources
Earth Restorer's Guide to Permaculture
Permaculture Principles
Perma Queer
Related Interview: Why Practice Permaculture? - Rosemary Morrow
Related Interview: Rosemary Morrow's Journey to Permaculture
27-8-2023 • 4 minuten, 24 seconden
The News - 21 August 2023
Welcome to The News for the week of 21 August 2023, from The Permaculture Podcast. In this episode we have a look at a climate solution in Toronto, recently released books of interest to permaculture practitioners, and an announcement from our friends at Permaculture Principles.
Show Notes
2024 Permaculture Calendar Early Bird Offer
Toronto’s Deep Lake Water Cooling
RetroSububia Bushfire Resilience - Free Download
Books
Salt and the Art of Seasoning by James Strawbridge
The Art of Fermentation by Sandor Katz
The New Wildcrafted Cuisine by Pascal Baudar
The Organic Medicinal Herb Farmer, Revised Edition, by Jeff Carpenter with Melanie Carpenter
Related Interviews
The Art of Wild Fermentation
The New Wildcrafted Cuisine
The Wildcrafting Brewer
21-8-2023 • 7 minuten, 10 seconden
Permaculture News #6 - 15 August 2023
In this edition of The News from The Permaculture Podcast, for 15 August 2023, are a Permaculture Design Contest, a friend of the pod in the news, and how we can help their farm, along with two updates from the podcast.
Show Notes
Save 20% from Rewild Organics
Donate to The Permaculture Podcast
Using PayPal: PayPal.me/PermaculturePodcast
Via Venmo: @permaculturepodcast
PINA
2023 Permaculture Design Contest (Submissions are open from 1 Sept. to 1 Oct. 2023)
Blacksheep Regenerative Resource Management / Rewild Organics
World Wildlife Fund - Reducing Greenhouse Gases with Incentives at the Farm (Pp. 14 - 15)
15-8-2023 • 7 minuten, 35 seconden
Q&A #1 - Is Technology Anathema to Permaculture?
In this Q&A episode, I address a question from Duncan, who reached out and asked:
Is technology anathema to permaculture?
Software That Can Be Used While Designing
Adobe Creative Cloud
AutoCAD
Google Earth
Google Meet
Google Slides
Procreate
ShapeWorks
Sketchup
Two Drones I Like
DJI Air (I flew the 2 for a Summer. The 3 is now out)
Skydio 2+ (Recommended to me by a friend who is a professional drone pilot for a Made-in-the-USA alternative to DJI.)
12-8-2023 • 9 minuten, 53 seconden
Permaculture News #5 - 07 August 2023
Today’s News of the World includes a rewilding project, a surge in a nation’s move towards renewable energy, and a look at how Unbuilding can help limit the impacts of climate change on our communities.
Resources
Rewilding
How an Iberian rewilding plan aims to repopulate ‘empty Spain’
Rewilding Spain
Books
Eager by Ben Goldfarb
Coyote America by Dan Flores
Bringing Back the Beaver by Derek Gow
Interview: Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
Renewable Energy and Climate Change
China on course to hit wind and solar power target five years ahead of time
How ‘Unbuilding’ Can Help Weather Climate Disasters
7-8-2023 • 6 minuten, 37 seconden
Permaculture News #4 - 31 July 2023
Show Notes
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Michael Judd
Replacing Your Lawn? Instead of a Meadow, Consider a Food Forest
Interview: Edible Landscaping
Interview: Starting Out and Getting Involved with Permaculture
Interview: Honoring the Dead and Holding the Dying: Natural Burial
Interview: For the Love of PawPaws
Interview: MAPC Keynote Address
Review: Edible Landscaping with a Permaculture Twist
Rewilding
Prince William to expand Duchy of Cornwall’s temperate Rainforest
1-8-2023 • 6 minuten, 48 seconden
Permaculture News #3 -24 July 2023
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The 2023 Venie Holmgren Environmental Poetry Prize
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Ben and bEartha
Watch the Trailer!
The Regenerative Landscaper by Erik Ohlsen
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Facing a Future of Drought
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Gardening for Dummies Bundle
Brought to us from the great folks at Humble Bundle
Charity:Water
Geoff Christou
GeoffChristou.com
Utopia: A Permaculture Vision
Our Interview: We Are Time Scouts, Designing for the Future
24-7-2023 • 7 minuten, 56 seconden
What Holds You Back?
What Holds You Back? Is it:
An issue of education, such as taking a permaculture design course, a bachelor’s degree, or returning to school as a non-traditional student?
An issue of information, such as the right book or resources that helps make sense of an issue you’re stuck on?
A matter of access to land, whether a garden plot, backyard, homestead, or farm, and trying to find land where you live?
A financial problem, such as having the income to support your work or project while it grows, to rent, lease, or buy land, or acquiring the tools you need to work it?
A technical issue, such as setting up the right business structure for your work, or an on-the-ground problem an expert could help you solve?
A community problem, where you don’t have the folks around you or the right social groups to help you overcome your obstacles?
Let me know by sending me a direct message using the contact form.
In your message, tell me about yourself to the extent you are comfortable, answer as many of the questions as you care to, and, if you’re sharing information about a specific project, be sure to include:
The name of the project.
The names of the founder or leadership team
Contact information, including email, phone, and a website if there is one.
A brief description of what the project does.
A list of the project’s needs.
15-7-2023 • 5 minuten, 14 seconden
Permaculture News #2 - 10 July 2023
Dan Palmer’s Legacy
Watch David Holmgren’s Video: “Dan Palmer’s Legacy”
Interview: David Holmgren’s Design Journey (Part 1)
Interview: David Holmgren’s Design Journey (Part 2)
Interview: Allan Savory - Managing Complexity
David Holmgren’s Live, Online PDC
Class starts on July 13th, 2024, so register today!
Storytelling for Climate Change
Project Drawdown
I’m planning to be there on July 19th at 12 Noon, Eastern, so, register now and I’ll see you there!
Do with Su
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10-7-2023 • 6 minuten, 13 seconden
Permaculture News - 1 July 2023
The Pemaculture Podcast Patreon
Terraso
Terraso
Terraso’s YouTube Channel
EcoAgriculture Partners
1,000 Landscapes for 1 Billion People
Costa Rican Permaculture
VerdEnergia
Black Sheep Regenerative Resource Management
Interview: Creating a Regenerative Supply Chain - Rewild Organics | Joshua Hughes
Interview: Joshua Hughes - Regenerative Investing
Just Action
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
Just Action by Richard Rothstein, Leah Rothstein
Geologist’s Primer
Geologist’s Primer Kickstarter
Interview: Anna Urbanik - Herbalist’s Primer
Scott’s Appearances on The Urban Farm Podcast
743: Scott Mann On The Ripples Of Permaculture Pt 1.
744: Scott Mann On The Ripples Of Permaculture Pt 2.
1-7-2023 • 7 minuten, 13 seconden
Natural Aquaponics
Eddy Garcia of Living Earth Systems joins me to discuss Natural Aquaponics and how we can create beautiful, functioning systems whether we prefer to nerd out on the numbers or learn through observation and experience.
Find out more about Eddy and his work at Living Earth Systems and view these systems in action on Instagram.
28-5-2023 • 36 minuten, 29 seconden
Earth Skills and Wild Abundance
My guest is Natalie Bogwalker, the visionary behind Wild Abundance, a permaculture skills center and homestead near Asheville, North Carolina. As a primary instructor at Wild Abundance, she teaches a variety of classes, including tiny house building workshops, women's carpentry, and permaculture design courses. She likes to share her passion with others to help them live in an empowered and Earth-centered way.
Find out more about Natalie and her classes at WildAbundance.net.
21-5-2023 • 38 minuten, 12 seconden
Changing Direction
After more than a decade producing long-form, guest-driven, interview-based episodes, there are changes coming to The Permaculture Podcast.
Listen to find out what's happening and how you can be a part of this transition.
18-5-2023 • 6 minuten, 35 seconden
Rammed Earth Construction
My guest today is Tim Krahn, a Canadian engineer, builder, and author of Essential Rammed Earth Construction from New Society Publishers.
Tim joins me to share his thoughts and experiences with rammed earth as a natural building method. This includes the distinction between raw and stabilized rammed earth and how rammed earth can reduce the amount of cement required for a long-lasting wall. Tim also gives an estimate of the price difference between stick-built walls and professionally installed rammed earth, while acknowledging that natural building is a growing but still niche field. We close with a discussion of the importance of valuing our time when considering the cost of erecting a building or other project to come to the real price for any of our work.
You can find his book, Essential Rammed Earth Construction at NewSociety.com.
14-5-2023 • 41 minuten, 36 seconden
Social Forestry
What does it mean to go back to the ground and learn the fading skills necessary to work the forest with our hands? To read the land assisted by tools we sight with our own eyes? To create new visions of old roles, such as a land steward or cottager?
I explore those thoughts and more with my guest today, Hazel, who some of you may know as Tom Ward.
You can find out more about Hazel and his work at siskiyoupermaculture.com.
Resources
Hazel's Collected Videos and Recordings
Heartwood Institute
Brock Dolman - Occidental Arts & Ecology
Traditional Aboriginal Burning (Cool Burning)
Recommended Reading
Beyond the War on Invasive Species by Tao Orion
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Daughters of Copper Woman by Anne Cameron
Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Brown
Keeping it Living by Nancy Turner
The Shallows by Nicholas Carr
The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram
Tending the Wild by Kat Anderson
World Without Mind by Franklin Foer
7-5-2023 • 56 minuten, 48 seconden
Mushroom Mycology
My guest today is Lindsey Bender, the chief mycologist for Field and Forest Products, Inc., a mushroom spawn and supply company located in Wisconsin.
Find out more about Lindsey and Field and Forest Products, Inc. at fieldforest.net.
28-4-2023 • 43 minuten, 4 seconden
Essential Rainwater Harvesting
Rob Avis, of Verge Permaculture, joins me to talk about rainwater harvesting.
This conversation is based on his book from New Society Publishers, Essential Rainwater Harvesting. Rob wrote this book along with his wife and Verge Permaculture Partner, Michelle. Though they began their professional careers as engineers designing solutions in the oil fields, they now live on a productive permaculture homestead in Alberta, Canada, and use that experience to create and share all the formulas, calculations, and components needed to create a productive system for capturing clean, healthy water.
You can find more about Rob's work at VergePermaculture.ca, and his book, Essential Rainwater Harvesting at NewSociety.com.
Resources
Rainwater Harvesting Toolkit
Peter Coombes - Urban Water Cycle Solutions
Dr. Anthony Spinks PhD Thesis on Biofilms and Sludges American Rainwater Catchment Systems Association (ARCSA) North American Rainwater Harvesting Code
21-4-2023 • 44 minuten, 59 seconden
Municipal Recycling at Scale
This episode is a look at the large-scale operations at D.C. Water to turn municipal waste into fertilizer and energy at the Blue Plains Waste W10ater Treatment Plant and looks at ways we can take the principles of permaculture and move them from the home to the community scale.
The audio of the interview comes from a video which you'll find on the podcast's YouTube Channel at: YouTube.com/thepermaculturepodcast
You can view the video directly by visiting: bit.ly/bloomsoil
18-4-2023 • 21 minuten, 42 seconden
Theory U and the Emerging Future
In this episode Co-host David Bilbrey continues to explore the edge between permaculture, business, and social change by sitting down with Dr. Otto Scharmer. Together they talk about Dr. Scharmer’s work on Presencing and Theory U, the development of effective organizations, and how each of us can become more powerful changemakers.
Resources
Otto Scharmer
Presencing Institute
Theory U Books
MITx u.Lab
Peter Senge
The Limits to Growth (Wikipedia)
Club of Rome
EdX
Transforming Capitalism Lab
14-4-2023 • 57 minuten, 20 seconden
Why Practice Permaculture?
In her storytelling way, Rosemary Morrow joins me to share why, after all these years, she continues to practice permaculture and finds this design system so important to our present and the future.
Her newest book is Earth Restorer’s Guide to Permaculture, which you can find in the store at PermaculturePrinciples.com.
Listen to the first conversation with Rosemary: Rosemary Morrow's Journey to Permaculture
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11-4-2023 • 0
Water Harvesting
My guest for this episode is Brad Lancaster author of the Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond series.
In this episode, Brad and I discuss the value of infiltrating water into the soil so that it becomes a resource that we invest during water-rich times and withdraw from that bank only when needed during dry times. As Brad’s work includes more than just drylands the conversation also includes ideas for storing water in rich areas. Along the way we also look at several listener questions including fog harvesting, using living systems to hand wet basements, and observing to find the right match for plants suitable to wet clay soils. What I really enjoyed about this conversation was Brad’s continued reference to creating and using living systems.
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Other resources of interest
Brad's blog post on Fog Harvesting
David Eisenberg and the Development Center for Appropriate Technology
Zephaniah Phiri Maseko's biography at National Geographic.
7-4-2023 • 42 minuten, 53 seconden
Cultural Emergence
Looby Macnamara, with Delvin Solkinson, joins me to discuss Looby's work on Cultural Emergence, her vision for our work as permaculture practitioners, and the tools she's developing to help facilitate this transition.
Find out more about Looby and the Cultural Emergence deck at Cultural-Emergence.com.
Delvin is at VisionaryPermaculture.com.
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31-3-2023 • 21 minuten, 11 seconden
Drawing Down Carbon
How do we limit the damage of the greatest terrestrial environmental disaster ever, climate change? By drawing down carbon.
How we do that, and the most effective ways possible, form the base of this conversation with Eric Toensmeier, as he shares his ongoing research about the impacts of agriculture and how we can use agroforestry to increase productivity and sequester carbon.
Find out more about Eric at perennialsolutions.org, and The Carbon Farming Solution at ChelseaGreen.com.
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Resources
The Carbon Farming Solution Project Drawdown
Perennial Solutions
The Center for Agroforestry at the University of Missouri Agroforestry at Virginia Tech
IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Trees on Farms by RJ Zomer, et al. (PDF)
Savanna Institute
Steve Solomon - Gardening When It Counts
John Jeavons - Grow Biointensive
Legal Pathways to Carbon_Neutral Agriculture by Peter Lehner and Nathan Rosenberg (PDF)
Diet for a Small Planet
Related Interviews
Dr. Laura Jackson - Modern Agricultural Systems
Keefe Keeley - The Savanna Institute
Jean-Martin Fortier - The Market Gardener
Dave and Lee O'Neill - Radical Roots Farm
Jerome Osentowski - The Forest Garden Greenhouse
28-3-2023 • 51 minuten, 13 seconden
Farming and Foraging a Complete Diet
My guest today is the adventurer, activist, and humanitarian Rob Greenfield. Rob joins me to talk about the Food Freedom project he launched in Orlando, Florida, where he is growing and foraging for all of his nutritional needs.
Find out more about Rob, his work and other projects, including those mentioned during his introduction, at RobGreenfield.TV.
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Resources
National Farmers Market Directory (USA)
Trash Me
Green Riders
Free Ride
Orlando Permaculture Meetup Group
Shad Qudsi - Atitlan Organics
21-3-2023 • 41 minuten, 24 seconden
Trees of Power
My guest today is Akiva Silver of Twisted Tree Farm in Spencer, New York. He joins me to talk about his life and the experiences that lead to his book Trees of Power from Chelsea Green Publishing.
You can find Akiva, his farm, and work at twisted-tree.net and you can find his book, Trees of Power, at chelseagreen.com.
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Resources
Twisted Tree Farm
Trees of Power (Chelsea Green)
Tom Brown Jr. Tracking School
The Graves Tree - Arthur Graves Chestnuts
Empire Chestnut Company (Route 9 Cooperative)
Related Interview: Foraging with Sam Thayer
14-3-2023 • 48 minuten, 42 seconden
Kochia
In this guest episode, the final in this series, naturalist and writer Shane Sater, shares his insights and thoughts on kochia as it relates to sparrows; a reflection on how an introduced plant species create novel ecosystems and adaptations.
And that was Shane Sater. You can read more of his nature writing and view the photographs from his journey in the natural world at WhatsGoingOnBlog.org.
7-3-2023 • 13 minuten, 38 seconden
The Understory
In this episode, Chris Knapp, one of the founders of Maine Local Living School in Temple, Maine, returns to talk about their immersive educational experience, The Understory.
During our conversation, Chris shares how this program came to be, his influences, and the knowledge, skills, and encounters he and his fellow instructors seek to impart to students during the multi-week, onsite program.
If you are interested in permaculture and what permaculture education can look like beyond the Permaculture Design Course, or you are an instructor looking to build upon your existing curriculum and offerings, this is an interview to dive into.
Find out more about Chris, the school, and The Understory at MaineLocalLiving.org.
28-2-2023 • 54 minuten, 2 seconden
Maine Local Living School
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My guest today is Chris Knapp, an instructor and one of the founders of Maine Local Living School, a homestead and education center in Temple, Maine.
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21-2-2023 • 35 minuten, 49 seconden
To Glimpse an Ancient Murrelet
This is the second in a series of three guest episodes from Shane Sater.
A naturalist and writer based in Montana, USA, Shane shares his deep passion for nature and community through writing and recordings like this one, bringing together his education in environmental science, botany, and field biology with his experiential work in community, integrating the wonder embodied relationship with nature to the human experience. In addition to this work and with a love for all creatures, Shane feels a special affinity for silk moths, stinging nettles, cottonwoods, and meadowlarks.
Read more of Shane's nature writing and view the photographs from his journey in the natural world at WhatsGoingOnBlog.org.
17-2-2023 • 10 minuten, 12 seconden
Foraging
My guest for this episode is Sam Thayer, the expert forager and author.
You can find Sam's personal experience working with wild foods in his books, The Forager's Harvest and Nature's Garden.
Resources
Sam Thayer
The Forager's Harvest
Nature's Garden
Edible Wild Plants: Wild Foods from Dirt to Plate
14-2-2023 • 56 minuten, 9 seconden
Beginning Foraging
My guests for this episode are Violet Brill and her father “Wildman” Steve Brill. Violet and Steve are foragers from New York. Violet assists her father on his plant tours, leading groups of people and teaching them about wild edibles.
You can find out more about Violet and Steve at wildmanstevebrill.com.
7-2-2023 • 48 minuten, 49 seconden
The Fruit Forager’s Companion
Chef and writer Sara Bir joins me to share her work as a foodie and author of The Fruit Forager’s Companion, from Chelsea Green Publishing.
Using her book and those experiences as a place to start, we explore her interest in wild fruit and foods, including first falling in love with the paw paw, and about how shared experiences, in the forest or around the table, bring us together. You can find Sara on her website sausagetarian and her book at Chelsea Green. I also recommend following her on Instagram, if you’re on there, as she posts some really great pictures about food. Just as with her website, you’ll find her there as sausagetarian.
Resources
Sara Bir (sausagetarian.com)
Sara on Instagram
The Fruit Foragers Companion (Chelsea Green)
28-1-2023 • 47 minuten, 26 seconden
Into The Night on Furry Wings
This episode is the first in a series of guest permabytes from Shane Sater.
Shane, a naturalist and writer based in Montana, USA, has a deep passion for nature and community which he explores through his writing where he brings together his training in environmental science, botany, and field biology with his lived experiences in his community, speaking to wonder and the embodied relationship with nature that all of us can have. Throughout his journeys, Shane feels a special affinity for silk moths, stinging nettles, cottonwoods, and meadowlarks - among many other of Earth’s creatures.
Read more of Shane's nature writing at: https://whatsgoingonblog.org/
25-1-2023 • 13 minuten, 46 seconden
Mushroom Cultivation and Mycoremediation
My guest for this episode is Tradd Cotter, a microbiologist, and mycologist who, along with his wife Olga, owns and operates Mushroom Mountain near Greenville, South Carolina. He is also the author of the book Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation from Chelsea Green Publishing. In this interview, we talk about his book, the science of microbiology and mycology, entrepreneurship, and also touch on the power of mushrooms for remediation.
28-12-2022 • 47 minuten, 32 seconden
Eager
My guest for this episode is Ben Goldfarb who joins me to talk about his book, Eager: the surprising, secret life of beavers and why they matter. Drawing from his work and our experiences in resource management, conservation, and environmental education we talk about the role beavers had in creating and shaping the landscape, history, and people of the United States, and the importance of reintroducing and protecting beavers to return the world to the wetter, boggier place it once was.
Resources
Ben Goldfarb
Eager
The Methow Beaver Project
Thinking Like a Mountain - Aldo Leopold
The Beaver Institute
Worth a Dam
21-12-2022 • 38 minuten, 8 seconden
Wild Fermentation
My guest for this episode is Sandor Katz, author of Wild Fermentation, The Art of Fermentation, and The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved.
If you’ve practiced any kind of fermentation and went looking for a recipe, a reference, or just read about the wee yeasties and bacteria that transform our foods with their microbial magic, then you’ve probably read something by Sandor, and I recommend reading even more.
Resources:
Wild Fermentation (Sandor's Website)
Wild Fermentation (The Book)
The Art of Fermentation
The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved
14-12-2022 • 39 minuten, 58 seconden
Surviving the Future
This is the second half of the conversation with Shaun Chamberlin, editor of Lean Logic and Surviving the Future, on the work of David Fleming.
This time we focus on Shaun including his background, current activities, and what it means to bear David's Legacy. Along the way, the conversation touches on a variety of subjects related to our work in the modern world, including the role of education, the apolitical need for action in the future, and what we can do to live inexpensively and with directed intent. This is candid, on both of our parts, as we share more of our own private stories as much as the public.
Find out more about Shaun and his work at DarkOptimism.org.
Resources
Lean Logic (Chelsea Green Publishing)
Surviving the Future (Chelsea Green Publishing)
Dark Optimism (Shaun's Site)
Schumacher College The Moneyless Manifesto - Mark Boyle
The Dark Mountain Project
The Transition Timeline
The Happy Pig (Permaculture Magazine UK)
The Power of Time Off (TED Talk)
7-12-2022 • 58 minuten, 43 seconden
Lean Logic - The Life and Work of David Fleming
Shaun Chamberlin, the editor of Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It and Surviving the Future, joins me to discuss the life, work, and importance of the late David Fleming (1940 - 2010).
Resources
Lean Logic (Chelsea Green)
Surviving the Future (Chelsea Green)
David Fleming (Wiki)
Shaun Chamberlin
The Transition Timeline
Rob Hopkins and The Transition Town Movement (Interview)
Transition Network
Transition US
Richard Heinberg
Michael Meacher (Former UK Environment Minister)
Ron Oxburgh
LeanLogic.net (First publication of David’s manuscript)
The Dark Mountain Project
Jonathon Porritt
30-11-2022 • 47 minuten, 50 seconden
Climate Change and the Path Ahead
Giulianna Maria Lamanna, of The Fifth World, drops a huge two-part question in this episode:
Are there people in the permaculture community talking about climate change and the impact of global warming on invasive species?
Is it our responsibility as permaculture practitioners to create new ecosystems for the changing climate?
This leads to a conversation where we discuss:
Preserving native ecosystems
The creation of novel ecosystems
The role of exotic species
The influence of human disturbance
The impacts of erosion.
We’re also asked to examine our role in tending the wild, and what responsibility, if any, we have to domesticated species such as chickens.
In doing so, can we take back the stewardship of our own habitat?
(A remastered episode. Original Release: 25 May 2017)
20-11-2022 • 39 minuten, 8 seconden
The Soil Food Web
Today's guest, in an interview recorded by co-host David Bilbrey, is the microbiologist and soil researcher Dr. Elaine Ingham. In this episode they look at:
The microbiology of soil
The impact of this life on the health of our plants and agricultural system
How we can be citizen scientists
The power of a microscope to bring all these ideas together, right in front of our eyes.
All wrapped in a framework so we can understand the importance of healthy, living soil for human well-being, as individuals, participants in a community, and citizens of the world.
Find out more about Dr. Ingham's work on soil microbiology at soilfoodweb.com.
Her classes and other work with Environment Celebration Institute at environmentcelebration.com.
Related Interviews
Dan Kittredge - Nutrient Dense Foods
Stephen Harrod Buhner - The Citizen Scientist
Elizabeth Farnsworth - GoBotany! and Citizen Science
Resources
Dr. Ingham’s CV
Soil Food Web
Environment Celebration Institute
Dr. Ingham's Online Classes
Ecological Monograph (1985 - PDF)
EcoThinkIt
10-11-2022 • 1 uur, 12 minuten, 44 seconden
The Power of Fiction to Create Permanent Culture
Over more than a decade, The Permaculture Podcast has explored the landscape-based practices which lead to permanent agriculture, as well as the invisible structures necessary, as individuals and in our community, to create permanent culture.
Today’s episode examines our ability to create culture and continues the 12th-anniversary celebration of The Permaculture Podcast, as Alasdair Stuart joins me to share his insights on how media and culture influence the community and countries we live in, and how those stories shape who we are and our experiences. Through those lenses, Alasdair and I look at representation in media, the importance of inclusion and diversity as creators and consumers of fictional works, the importance of cultivating kindness, and changing outlooks on mental health.
We also share how we find hope through storytelling, on the page or through the screen, as we face an uncertain future, and invite you to join us on that journey.
If you’re not familiar with Alasdair, he is the co-owner of Escape Artists Incorporated, which produces the wonderful short-fiction podcasts Cast of Wonders, EscapePod, PodCastle, and PseudoPod. Alasdair is also the regular host of the horror podcast PseudoPod, where he not only introduces the author, narrator, and fright to follow but also shares his commentary and critique on the story for each episode and how that unique tale fits into our lives and world.
As you might imagine when a pair of media-loving folks who grew up immersed in comic books, TV shows, movies, and games of all kinds come together to talk about how those works create our society and a vision for the future, it leads to nearly continuous references to the personal and pop culture that shaped us and that we see as continuing to mold current generations. If you love anything like Dr. Who, video games, Terry Pratchett, Tik Tok, Henry Rollins, Heavy Metal, or George Carlin, there is each of those and so much more somewhere in today’s interview.
You can find Alasdair's at alasdairstuart.com. While you are there, be sure to sign up for his newsletter, The Full Lid. He is also on Twitter @alasdairstuart
Escape Artists Incorporated and their amazing slate of podcasts are at EscapeArtists.Net.
I’d also like to give a big thank you to the artist SerHawke for allowing me to the drawing of Alasdair in a She-Hulk T-shirt as the cover image for this episode. Their commissions are open and you can find them on Twitter @serhawke.
I enjoyed this conversation with Alasdair because of how he points to the ways media, in whatever form it might take from TV shows to spoken word albums to podcasts, can have an impact on us as individuals and help us develop or change our worldviews. How media as a shared experience can create a culture or subculture we feel at home in and want to be an active participant in. Media can create a cultural zeitgeist that changes a country or the world.
As we permaculture practitioners share our vision of the future through fiction, such as Utopia by Geoff Christou 470 by Linda Woodrow, it shows others what is possible. As we share the stories of our lives and experiences through podcasts or memoirs, we link the past to the present and share them with others. This work, of telling our stories with voice, body, and bones, is vital to what permaculture has to hold now and for future generations.
If you have a story inside of you, find a way to tell it. Your voice matters.
Before closing this episode, I’d like to give a hearty thanks to Alasdair for joining me, as this conversation was a special one for me, as it’s been a dream of mine to interview Alasdair after hearing his voice—both his literal, spoken voice and voice as an expression for his point of view and talent as a writer—all those years ago when I downloaded my first episode of PseudoPod. It was a pleasure to have this experience and chat like old friends.
I continue to tune in to PseudoPod and remain a dedicated listener because I am inspired by Alasdair’s message that we can shine a light into the darkness and find hope, even when we face real monsters in the world. That hope, along with a story well told, reminds me that we are not alone, that there are others like us in the world, and we can stand together with others, whatever comes in the days, years, and decades to come.
Until the next time, listen to an episode of PseudoPod while you spend each day discovering the media that inspires you while creating a culture that takes care of Earth, your self, and each other.
31-10-2022 • 57 minuten, 2 seconden
Rosemary Morrow’s Journey to Permaculture
For nearly 40 years, Rosemary’s work as a teacher has brought permaculture directly into the lives of her thousands of students. As an author, she has touched innumerably more. As her students became teachers and other teachers used her works in their classrooms, her ideas and methods continue to ripple through the world and reach even more.
With this reach, her work touched has touched my own, first as a student, through her book Earth User’s Guide to Permaculture, and later as an instructor, when I used that book as one of the student texts for the course paired with the companion book to that, Earth User’s Guide to Teaching Permaculture.
Now, we celebrate Rowe’s newest book, from Melliodora Publishing, Earth Restorer’s Guide to Permaculture, with a series of conversations covering her thoughts on the breadth of permaculture as a practice, interwoven with stories from throughout her journey.
To start things off, I knew a lot about Rowe’s writings, but not about her early life, how she came to permaculture or her career as a teacher and author. So, we begin where so many interviews do on The Permaculture Podcast, with a conversation about her biography and background, which includes some insights into the development and growth of permaculture over the years, the kinds of character and teacher Bill Mollison was, and how Rowe reframes permaculture education into a local, lived experience, whether she’s teaching in Australia, Vietnam, or Cambodia.
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As we close this conversation and prepare for the others which will follow, I’d like to re-extend the invitation for you to answer Rowe’s questions:
What is your country?
Do you speak a language from there?
Do you know how the indigenous peoples lived on that land?
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21-10-2022 • 42 minuten, 49 seconden
Farmers Markets, Figs, and The Kale Yard
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In this episode, an old friend returns. Together, we relax and celebrate the 12th anniversary of The Permaculture Podcast with Scott Mann.
Erin Harvey, and I met one another and became friends in 2010 when we took our Permaculture Design Course with Ben Weiss and Dillon Naber Cruz in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. After graduating, Erin returned to Ohio to begin her own farm, The Kale Yard.
Erin was one of the first guest on the show, back in early 2013, when we talked about how she started The Kale Yard. If you haven’t heard that, you’ll find a link to that interview in the show notes.
Today, we talk about how life has changed over the last decade, including The Kale Yard transitioning from a Market Garden to a nursery business, and Erin’s current role as a farmers market manager and what that means for both her, the farmers, and the community they serve. We also spend some time on her interest in propagating figs and other plants; the role of a hoop house and greenhouse on her farm; and what Erin sees in her future.
Related Episode
Starting a Small Scale Farm - Erin Harvey
Resources
The Kale Yard
Keller Market House
14-10-2022 • 40 minuten, 27 seconden
Starting a Small Scale Farm
This month marks the 12th anniversary of The Permaculture Podcast with Scott. To celebrate this latest milestone, I asked my friend Erin Harvey to join me again to discuss how her life and work have changed since we graduated from our Permaculture Design Course on October 10th, 2010, and the show began.
In preparation for that new conversation, here is my first interview with Erin, recorded and released in the Winter of 2013.
Note: This is from the earliest days of interviews on the podcast and does not benefit from later improvements in microphones or recording tools.
Resources:
The Kale Yard
The Organic Farmer's Business Handbook (Chelsea Green Publishing)
10-10-2022 • 1 uur, 58 seconden
Creating a Miraculous Abundance
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Today's guest is Perrine Hervé-Gruyer author, along with her husband Charles, of Miraculous Abundance: One Quarter Acre, Two French Farmers and Enough Food to Feed the World.
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6-10-2022 • 35 minuten, 26 seconden
Wild Fermentation
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My guest for this episode is Sandor Katz, author of Wild Fermentation, The Art of Fermentation, and The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved. If you’ve practiced any kind of fermentation and went looking for a recipe, reference, or just read about the wee yeasties and bacteria that transform our foods with their microbial magic, then you’ve probably read something by Sandor, and I recommend reading even more.
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30-9-2022 • 40 minuten, 41 seconden
Building Soil
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In this episode, Natalie Bogwalker shares her technique to quickly build soil for growing food in a temperate climate.
You can watch the video of Natalie’s work on soil building at Wild Abundance, which is where today’s audio comes from, at: YouTube.com/ThePermaculturePodcast
Find out more about Natalie, her work, and Wild Abundance at: WildAbundance.Net
2-9-2022 • 9 minuten, 7 seconden
Bee the Change
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The guest for this episode is John Kotab to discuss his book Bee the Change, a travelogue about his discovery of what we can do to save bees and other pollinators.
Find John, his permaculture consulting business, and his books at:
cotabconsulting.com
26-8-2022 • 24 minuten, 54 seconden
Alley Cropping with Eric Toensmeier
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In this episode, Eric Toensmeier returns to share some of his research on alley cropping, from his forthcoming book on this subject which he is writing in cooperation with Interlace Commons, an organization spreading the benefits and evidence of agroforestry, including alley cropping, with farmers.
Resources
Perennial Solutions
Eric's Patreon
Interlace Commons
Kernza Perennial Grain
Agroforesterie (Book)
AGROOF (French Agroforestry Organization)
Alley Cropping (Univ. of Missouri Center for Agroforestry Training Manual - PDF)
Savanna Institute
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Related Interviews
Stream Restoration and Riparian Corridors - Dr. Bern Sweeney
The Savanna Institute - Keefe Keeley
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12-8-2022 • 36 minuten, 37 seconden
Remembering Dan Palmer
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CW: Death, Grief, and Loss
It is with a heavy heart that I share the tragic news that Dan Palmer, of Making Permaculture Stronger, passed away suddenly in the first week of August, 2022.
Dan was an activist, designer, permaculture practitioner, and teacher. He was also the driving force behind numerous events and organizations including permablitz, Very Edible Gardens, Holistic Decision Making, the still-in-progress film Reading the Landscape, and his blog and podcast.
I knew Dan half as well as I would have liked, but am thankful for the many long hours we spent in conversation over the years, separated by half the world, asking what we could do to make one another, and by extension permaculture, stronger.
My thoughts are with his partner, children, and other loved ones. If you are someone who prays, I ask you to offer words into the universe for those who are hurting.
You can also use the link above to donate to a GoFundMe for his family during this time of transition.
10-8-2022 • 2 minuten, 34 seconden
Natural Farming and Masanobu Fukuoka
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This episode begins with a history lesson on Natural Farming and the work of Masanobu Fukuoka and leads into a conversation comparing and contrasting that method and his ideas to Permaculture, delivered in the voice and words of someone who was present in both movements from their earliest days, the late Larry Korn.
Resources
The One-Straw Revolutionary
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5-8-2022 • 35 minuten, 5 seconden
Terra Preta and Biochar - Mark Ervin
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The guest for this episode is Mark Ervin of GreenGro Biologicals. He joins me to share his passion for terra preta soil and biochar and how he turned that love into an entrepreneurial business bringing a regenerative product to market. Along the way, he shares the difference between simply burning something and calling biochar versus creating a carbon-rich, mineralized biochar, the importance of nutrient ratios for sustainable growing, and much more.
More Information on Terra Preta and Biochar
Terra Preta (Wikipedia)
Biochar (Wikipedia)
The Biochar Solution by Albert Bates
Burn by Albert Bates and Kathleen Draper
Related Interviews
Dr. Elaine Ingham - The Soil Food Web
Eric Toensmeier - Drawing Down Carbon: Agroforestry and Climate Change
Permabyte: Biochar, Gasification, and Woodlot Management
Mary Johnson - An Introduction to Nutrient Dense Farming
Connor Stedman - Carbon Farming - Soil
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29-7-2022 • 24 minuten, 16 seconden
Rachel Kaplan - Urban Homesteading
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This episode on Urban Homesteading with Rachel Kaplan is the conversation that started me down the road of what the show has become known for: long-format, interview-driven, guest-focused conversations you won’t hear anywhere else. It is also the first interview I ever recorded for The Permaculture Podcast so, unless you were here in the early days of the show or took a deep dive into the archives at thepermaculturepodcast.com in later years, it’s one you’ll hear for the first time, today.
Resources
Urban Homesteading
Rachel Kaplan - EcoSomatic Action
K.Ruby Blume - Rogue Ruby
The Institute of Urban Homesteading
Daily Acts
North Bay Institute of Green Technology
Grey Water Action
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22-7-2022 • 30 minuten, 39 seconden
Chris Salisbury - Wild Nights Out
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Our guest for this episode is Chris Salisbury, author of Wild Nights Out. He joins us to share his work acclimating people of all ages to nature through experiences and encounters in a world shrouded by the dark, so we may do the same for others in our lives, whether as professional educators, parents, or community members. Throughout the interview, Chris shares ways to find nature all around us and extends an invitation so that we can discover, or rediscover, the joy, majesty, and mystery of night.
Resources
Wild Wise
Wild Nights Out
Wilderness Awareness School
8 Shields Institute
The Art of Mentoring
Sharing Nature
Institute for Earth Education
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15-7-2022 • 41 minuten, 26 seconden
Andrew Magazine - Craft Butchery
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This episode is a guest interview from my friend Drew Grim of Schoolhouse Life, as he sits down with Andrew Magazine to discuss the art and craft of whole animal butchery, as it applies to the homestead. Throughout, Andrew shares tips from his professional experience as a craft butcher on setting up one’s workspace, how to select the right tools and equipment for this work, and how raising and butchering our own animals is an act of care, compassion, and an ethical way to include meat in our diet.
Resources
Applied Anatomist (Website)
Applied Anatomist (Instagram)
Wonderland Hollow (Andrew's Farm with Christina Chumbley)
The Schoolhouse Life Podcast
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1-7-2022 • 37 minuten, 12 seconden
Katy Bowman - Nutritious Movement
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Caring for Earth includes caring for ourselves.
To help us find ways to stay active throughout our lives, I’m joined by Katy Bowman as she shares her work on the importance of incorporating regular, whole-body movement throughout the day, with a focus on stacking activities to make sure we stretch, flex, reach, push, and pull, during our regular routine. In this way, we can express a full range of motion, inhabited in our bodies, without needing to worry about making time to go to the gym, unless we want to. Throughout the conversation, she includes numerous ways to redesign our current habits into ones with more use of our body, while framing the conversation as one not of exercise but with movement as a form of nutrition and how we can look for and address any deficits we may find.
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17-6-2022 • 31 minuten, 35 seconden
Dr. Dennis vanEnglesdorp - Bees
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40% of all insect species have declined globally in recent decades, and a third of those are considered endangered. The impacts that wild insects have on our lives are incalculable, while the benefit to humanity by domesticated honeybees is measured in the hundreds of billions of dollars.
With this decline in insect populations, including the bees that pollinate our food, what can we do? Searching for answers and to understand what was leading to a bee decline, several years ago I reached out to Dr. Dennis vanEngelsdorp, a research scientist and associate professor of entomology at the University of Maryland and the former Chief apiarist for Pennsylvania to find out more.
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In this episode I sit down with my friends Jill Cloutier, of Sustainable World Radio, and Oliver Goshey, of Regenerative Skills, as we have a round-robin conversation about what brought us to the permaculture community and why we started and continue to produce our respective shows. This is an introduction not only to ourselves but also a collaborative project we’ve been working on for more than a year, the Regenerative Media Alliance.
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In today’s episode, co-host David Bilbrey continues his exploration of business and permaculture as he sits down to hear from Mark Simpson about how Mark applied the ideas of Holacracy and Self Management to a hierarchical business. This resulted in a flattening of that vertical organization into a vastly more horizontal one that creates empowerment and opportunity for employees to influence their work and direction.
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The title for this episode is based on a quote from Bill Mollison that my guest, Geoff Christou, paraphrases in the middle of our conversation today about how Utopian literature, the need to imagine the future, and sharing that vision with others through stories, can help our work as permaculture practitioners. That we can create more abundant designs by first sitting down and thinking about what we want in the place where we live, in our relationships with Earth and other life, and in the wider world. By knowing those stories deeply—to inhabit them—we can teach others to yearn for a vast, bountiful, and regenerative life.
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This episode marks 10 years of The Permaculture Podcast with Scott Mann, the longest-running English language podcast dedicated to the breadth and depth of permaculture.
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A common refrain in permaculture is about our need to develop a sense of place. To have an understanding of where we currently live, where we come from, and to find a connection to the land under our feet or where we call home.
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Permaculture practices begin in the landscape, with the training of a permaculture design course focusing on how to design in a way that restores soil, grows food and creates spaces for human needs, and cares for Earth, in ever-expanding zones. During our time in that class, we may spend some of the conversations on alternative economics and governance if the course uses Bill Mollison’s Designers’ Manual for the curriculum and discusses the material found in Chapter 14. Outside the PDC, many authors and practitioners have added to how to have an impact in our day to day lives as we apply design and systems thinking to where we live, work, and play.
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Today’s interview was originally recorded by the Australian podcaster Dan Palmer for an episode of his excellent, Making Permaculture Stronger. I’ve known Dan since before he started his show and as I recall it was at 1 or 2 AM on the East Coast of the United States when we connected over Skype several years ago to talk about his plans for starting a new podcast with a deep focus on the design process as it applies to permaculture, and what we can learn from experts within and without the community.
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My guest today is John Kempf, the author of the recently released Quality Agriculture. A farmer, teacher, and entrepreneur from Northeast, Ohio, John has spent more than 15 years developing a nutrition and farm management program that quickly restores soil health and maximizes plant resistance to disease and insects, while reducing costs and increasing profits for farmers who adopt these methods. Already applying these processes to millions of acres of farmland, his current mission is for these regenerative models to become adopted globally by 2040.
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My guest today is Laura Oldanie, a permaculture practitioner and the author behind the website Rich and Resilient Living, which focuses on how we can live a life and make financial decisions that lead to a regenerative future.
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My guest today is Jeff Speck. Jeff is the author of Walkable City and Walkable City Rules. As an urban planner and city designer he specializes in, and advocates for, human modes of transportation: first and foremost walking, but also biking.
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My guest today is Rony Lec of the Mesoamerican Permaculture Institute (Instituto Mesoamericano de Permacultura – IMAP) in Guatemala.
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My guest for this episode is Rob Hopkins the creator of the idea of Transition Towns, a way for us to move from oil dependency to local resilience. That lead to his writing The Transition Handbook, something every permaculture practitioner should have in their library and which serves as a good introduction, along with Toby Hemenway’s The Permaculture City, to look at how we can move from the landscape to the people space.
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In today’s episode, David Bilbrey returns to the host seat with Fred Kirschenmann. Fred joins us again to share more about his work at the Aldo Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University and Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture and how those two places are working to allow us to plan not only for the world we have now but also for our descendants. The solutions come in multiple forms, from the ways we can use plants in our fields to increase yields while regenerating soil, and the cultural changes that are coming as the children and grandchildren of the Baby Boomer generation reject consumerism and focus on a more community-centered life.
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This weekend I was talking with a friend in the permaculture community when we realized we'd had the same experience.
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My guest today is Eloisa Lewis. Eloisa is an American permaculture consultant, community building artist, activist, and healer. With her work as a project manager and educator, she helps guide communities of individuals into holistically regenerative paradigms and specializes in communal practices of decolonization.
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My guest today is William Padilla-Brown, a mycologist, teacher, and social permaculture practitioner. I’ve known William for a long time and as you’ll hear us mention, we’ve wanted to do this interview for years. I’m thankful that we finally had the opportunity. He has a unique background as a citizen scientist and educator working to propagate mushrooms, study them using molecular biology, and to share what he learns with the world through classes and an annual mushroom and arts festival, Mycofest.
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My guest today is Chris Gilmour. A permaculture practitioner and emergency manager, Chris works with individuals and organizations to map their community assets and help prepare for uncertain events
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To honor the release of Pascal Baudar’s new book, Wildcrafted Fermentation, I’ve re-mastered and re-released our conversations about his earlier works. Today, you can listen to our interview about The Wildcrafting Brewer. The episode posted last week covered his first book, The New Wildcrafted Cuisine.
Thanks to the great folks at Chelsea Green Publishing, who publish Pascal’s three amazing books, I am giving away a copy of Wildcrafted Fermentation through Saturday, March 21st.
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Author, teacher, and forager Pascal Baudar joins me to discuss his exploration of primitive brews and fermentation, the basis for his book The Wildcrafting Brewer.
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To celebrate the release of Pascal Baudar’s new book, Wildcrafted Fermentation, this and the next episode are about his earlier works, The New Wildcrafted Cuisine and The Wildcrafting Brewer. As this episode comes out, all three books are on sale at ChelseaGreen.com.
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In this episode from 2014, one of my favorite people from the permaculture community, Karryn Olson-Ramanujan, joins us to share a pattern language she’s identified for women in permaculture, which we can use to create a constructive permaculture movement so that together we can design a world with ever greater beauty, abundance, and inclusivity.
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Joel Salatin shares his thoughts on farming, the importance of experience, and the role of mastery over ourselves and our chosen discipline.
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My guest for this episode, which originally aired in 2014, is Mark Shepard, owner of New Forest Farm and author of Restoration Agriculture. This is the final piece in a series of three interviews Mark and I recorded to talk about Restoration Agriculture practices and to answer listener questions.
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My guest for this episode is Mark Shepard, author of Restoration Agriculture. As you might expect from this show we start with his biography and background, work our way through a call to action for permaculture practitioners and a need to be realistic in our efforts, and finally wrap up this conversation by discussing his work of restoration agriculture.
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Fred Provenza - Nourishment and Reclaiming our Nutritional Wisdom
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The renowned animal behaviorist Fred Provenza joins me to talk about how we can reconnect with the foods that feed our bodies and reclaim our nutritional wisdom.
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10-1-2020 • 5 minuten, 13 seconden
Shaun Chamberlin - Surviving the Future
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Today is part two of the conversation with Shaun Chamberlin (Part 1 ), editor of Lean Logic and Surviving the Future, on the work of David Fleming.
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10-12-2019 • 1 uur, 3 minuten, 25 seconden
Ethan Hughes - What about Christmas?
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This episode is a permabyte with Ethan Hughes. In this conversation, which arises from a listener question posed by Amelia, Ethan shares ways that we can transform our holiday experience from a consumption-driven exchange, to one where gifts are given based on need or in service to others.
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1-12-2019 • 9 minuten, 41 seconden
Shaun Chamberlin - Lean Logic: The Work of David Fleming
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My guest today is Shaun Chamberlin, the editor of Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It and Surviving the Future, both of which are based on the work of the late David Fleming (1940 - 2010).
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25-11-2019 • 55 minuten, 37 seconden
Climate Change and The Path Ahead
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Giulianna Maria Lamanna, of The Fifth World , drops a huge two-part question on us in this episode, a continuation of the MAPC 2016 Q&A.
1. Are there people in the permaculture community talking about climate change and the impact of global warming on invasive species?
2. Is it our responsibility as permaculture practitioners to create new ecosystems for the changing climate?
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12-11-2019 • 44 minuten, 39 seconden
Interview: David Holmgren - RetroSuburbia (Part 2)
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This episode looks at what brought David Holmgren to the present moment and writing RetroSuburbia. From David Bilbrey’s questions, David Holmgren shares the past and ongoing influences that guided the development of permaculture from those first days in the 1970s through to how this work continues to grow to the current day.
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29-10-2019 • 1 uur, 2 minuten, 37 seconden
Interview: David Holmgren - RetroSuburbia
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In this episode recorded by co-host David Bilbrey, David Holmgren returns for the first of a two-part conversation about his latest book RetroSuburbia.
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10-10-2019 • 49 minuten, 59 seconden
Interview: Michael Judd - For the Love of PawPaws
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Today, Michael Judd joins me to discuss his newest book: For the Love of PawPaws: A Mini Manual for Growing and Caring for PawPaws - From Seed to Table.
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30-9-2019 • 56 minuten, 19 seconden
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My guests for this episode are Joshua Hughes and Amanda Wilson of VerdEnergia Pacifica and Blacksheep Regenerative Resource Management.
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19-9-2019 • 59 minuten, 55 seconden
Broad Impact Permaculture
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"What have you seen through your lived experience and via your increasing network that gives you not only aspirational hope, but also 'perspirational' perspective & confidence of moving past demonstration projects and moving toward broader-scale impact?"
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31-7-2019 • 6 minuten, 58 seconden
The Adaptive Habitat Program
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Today I’m joined by Rob Avis and Takota Coen, two Canadian permaculture designers and teachers, who, working together, created a systemized approach to permaculture and landscape design. This process, called The Adaptive Habitat Program, reduces drudgery and simplifies complexity by using the best information and techniques currently available from permaculture and related disciplines.
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5-7-2019 • 27 minuten, 8 seconden
Rising Earth Immersion
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In this episode, my guests are Meg Toben, the co-founder and director of The Eco-Institute at Pickards Mountain, and Jimi Eisenstein, one of the facilitators for the Rising Earth Immersion course. They join me to discuss this ten-week, on-site intensive offered at The Eco-Institute, located near Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
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29-5-2019 • 41 minuten, 13 seconden
Emmet Van Driesche - Carving Out a Living on the Land
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My guest is Emmet Van Driesche, author of Carving Out a Living on the Land: Lessons in Resourcefulness and Craft from an Unusual Christmas Tree Farm. He joins me to share his life transitioning to farming. How he became a Christmas tree farmer, who coppices softwood balsam firs rather than cutting and replanting. How he earns an additional on-farm income through spoon carving. And we end with his thoughts on planning for long-term succession, both of the land as he considers how to leave this patch of earth for future generations, and the process of transitioning a farm between non-family members, as he took over responsibility and ownership of the Christmas tree farm from his mentor Al.
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20-5-2019 • 42 minuten, 56 seconden
Rob Greenfield - Farming and Foraging a Complete Diet
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My guest today is the adventurer, activist, and humanitarian Rob Greenfield. Rob joins me to talk about the Food Freedom project he launched in Orlando, Florida, where he is growing and foraging for all of his nutritional needs.
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10-5-2019 • 43 minuten, 57 seconden
Melissa Peet, Ph.D. - Tacit and Embodied Knowledge
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In this episode, David Bilbrey sits down with Melissa Peet to talk about her work in learning to trust one’s inherent knowledge. As the first of a two-part conversation, she provides the background to her research and establishing trust in our personal understanding; that which we already know and that which others might draw out of us through education or transformational experiences.
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30-4-2019 • 46 minuten, 19 seconden
Kevin Jones - Regenerative Business and Impact Investing
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This episode continues co-host David Bilbrey’s exploration of regenerative business and permaculture as he sits down with Kevin Jones to talk about Gather Lab, Transform 19, and the need to create something more than a conference, but rather events that include action. In the case of Transform 19 those are modeled in the form of various labs where participants come together to assist organizations and businesses ready to launch, expand, or go to scale. Kevin and David also talk about Impact Investing, which focuses on mission-oriented investing so we can think like a philanthropist while acting as an investor.
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20-4-2019 • 47 minuten, 47 seconden
Horn Farm Center Q&A
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In this conversation moderated by Ben Weiss of Susquehanna Sustainable Enterprises and Robyn Mello of Edenspore, Jon Darby, Alyson Earl, and Wilson Alvarez discuss their work at Horn Farm Center and regenerating the land. This includes how they came to sustainable agriculture; the dream projects they’re working on; how their ancestral and cultural history impacts their work and thought processes; and close by taking questions from the students assembled for the ecological design course.
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10-4-2019 • 44 minuten, 35 seconden
Tim Krahn - Essential Rammed Earth Construction
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My guest today is Tim Krahn, a Canadian engineer, builder, and author of Essential Rammed Earth Construction from New Society Publishers.
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30-3-2019 • 44 minuten, 26 seconden
Akiva Silver - Trees of Power
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My guest today is Akiva Silver of Twisted Tree Farm in Spencer, New York. He joins me to talk about his life and the experiences that lead to his new book Trees of Power from Chelsea Green Publishing.
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20-3-2019 • 50 minuten, 47 seconden
Ryan Rising and Leah Song - Permaculture Action Network
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Today’s guests are Ryan Rising, of Permaculture Action Network, and Leah Song, of Rising Appalachia, who join me to talk about how they use the work on-stage and off to organize communities to participate in a permaculture action day. How they blend permaculture and activism with music and merriment.
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10-3-2019 • 47 minuten, 10 seconden
Zev Friedman - Co-Operate WNC, Mutual Aid, and the Scale of Collaboration
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My guest today is Zev Friedman, founder of Co-Operate WNC, a mutual aid organization in Western North Carolina.
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28-2-2019 • 50 minuten, 22 seconden
Kirsten Lie-Nielsen - So You Want To Be A Modern Homesteader
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Kirsten Lie-Nielsen, author of So You Want to be a Modern Homesteader, joins me to share her journey in becoming a modern homesteader and the advice she has for anyone interested in pursuing a similar path. Residing in Maine, I like her story because of how she and her partner had this dream and began on the land they were on. Continuing to develop their skills, in a space that was definitely not a farm, they spent this time seeking out the right piece of property for their goals.
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20-2-2019 • 44 minuten, 18 seconden
Rob Avis - Essentials of Rainwater Harvesting
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Rob Avis, of Verge Permaculture, joins me to talk about rainwater harvesting.
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10-2-2019 • 46 minuten, 6 seconden
Propagate Ventures
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In this episode co-host David Bilbrey sits down for a group interview the co-founders of Propagate Ventures, with Ethan, Jeremy, and Harry. Together they share how they bring agroforestry to existing farms using direct investment. Through these efforts they also show that farming, agriculture, and regenerative business hold a place in the portfolio of the investment class, allowing those who practice Earth care to take advantage of the resources that might not be available to them otherwise.
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30-1-2019 • 1 uur, 21 seconden
Warren Brush - Fostering a 500 Year Vision
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In this interview by co-host David Bilbrey, Warren Brush returns to the show to share his work about fostering a vision for the next 500 years. During their time together Warren walks us through the mentorship he’s received, the mentoring he provides, and his own discoveries of how to live a fulfilling life now and for future generations, all told through an interwoven, connected story of self, place, and meaning.
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20-1-2019 • 1 uur, 11 minuten, 52 seconden
Rhonda Baird - Organizing and Supporting Our Communities
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Rhonda Baird, the editor of Permaculture Design Magazine and teacher and designer at Sheltering Hills Design, LLC., joins me to continue our conversation about creating change. In our first interview, we spoke about the way that we can work on ourselves as individuals. Today we move from the inside to the out with how we can organize and support others and our community.
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Where has our relationship with money and capital gone wrong as individuals and as a society? What do we have to do to get right with that relationship? In the last interview of the year, co-host David Bilbrey sits down with Joel Solomon to examine those questions and talk about how we can change the dominant economic system.
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20-12-2018 • 59 minuten, 32 seconden
1839 - Reclaiming our Nutritional Wisdom: Nourishment with Fred Provenza
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My guest today is the renowned animal behaviorist Fred Provenza, who joins me to talk about how we can reconnect with the foods that feed our bodies and reclaim our nutritional wisdom.
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Drawing on decades of research with animals, upon retirement from Utah State University he turned his lens towards human beings to pull together the best studies and his own personal journey to provide a way we can begin to eat well for ourselves by outlining where we’ve gone wrong and what we can do to make a positive change.
You can find Fred's book, Nourishment, at chelseagreen.com.
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Resources
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10-12-2018 • 53 minuten, 40 seconden
Lindsey Bender - Mushrooms and Mycology
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My guest today is Lindsey Bender, the chief mycologist for Field and Forest Products, Inc., a mushroom spawn and supply company located in Wisconsin.
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30-11-2018 • 44 minuten, 44 seconden
Karl Treen - Permaculture Play and Design Considerations
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My guest today is Karl Treen of Food Forest Card Game. He joins me to share where his life has gone since our interview last year.
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20-11-2018 • 35 minuten, 18 seconden
Kanyon Coyote Woman - Indian Canyon, Decolonizing, and Indigenous Value Systems
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In this episode co-host David Bilbrey sits down with the teacher, activist, and permaculture practitioner Kanyon Sayers-Roods, also known as Coyote Woman, to talk about her work on the land at Indian Canyon, California to educate and inspire others in their understanding of the natural world, the connections between individuals and communities, and what we can do to approach our interactions with humility.
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10-11-2018 • 1 uur, 4 minuten, 9 seconden
Clare Kenny of The Mudgirls - Natural Building, Community, and Opportunity
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Clare Kenny of The Mudgirls Natural Building Collective joins me to continue our conversation about how she and the other of the group come together to create community and opportunity with natural building, and the lessons they share through The Mudgirls Manifesto, a book they wrote together which was released earlier this year.
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30-10-2018 • 41 minuten, 24 seconden
Joshua Hughes - Permaculture Politics and a Compassionate Future
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This is an atypical episode of the show as you can probably tell from the title. In this conversation, I sit down with Joshua Hughes of VerdEnergia Pacifica and Blacksheep Regenerative Resource Management to talk about the intersection of permaculture and politics to engage, get involved, and change the system to create the world we want to live in.
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20-10-2018 • 51 minuten, 50 seconden
Jereme Zimmerman - Brew Beer Like a Yeti
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My friend Jereme Zimmerman, who joined me in 2015 to talk about Make Mead Like a Viking, returns today for this anniversary episode to talk about his latest book, Brew Beer Like a Yeti.
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10-10-2018 • 49 minuten, 25 seconden
Mother Earth News Fair 2018
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In September I had the opportunity to attend the 2018 Mother Earth News Fair in Seven Springs, Pennsylvania. While there I recorded two in-person interviews, a full-length conversation with Jereme Zimmerman about his new book Brew Beer Like a Yeti, which is the 8th-anniversary release out on October 10th. Cyndi Ball of National Ladies Homestead Gathering also took a few minutes to catch up with me as a follow-up to our video interview last year. I’ve included that conversation with Cyndi at the end of this episode.
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5-10-2018 • 13 minuten, 6 seconden
Hunter Lovins - A Finer Future
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Today guest host David Bilbrey sits down with Hunter Lovins to talk about Natural Capitalism Solutions and Hunter’s new book, A Finer Future - Creating an Economy in Service to Life.
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30-9-2018 • 55 minuten, 55 seconden
Jessi Bloom - People & Permaculture: Trauma Informed and Radical Self Care
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Nearly every episode of the podcast, including this one, ends with the final statement, “Until the next time, spend each day creating the world you want to live in by taking care of Earth, yourself, and each other.” What does it mean, however, to take care of ourselves, or one another, in a meaningful way?
That question forms the central point of this interview with ecological landscape designer, speaker, and author Jessi Bloom.
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30-8-2018 • 41 minuten, 22 seconden
Gregory Landua - Regen Network, The Blockchain, and Transparency for Regenerative Enterprise
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Today co-host David Bilbrey sits down with Gregory Landua to talk about Regen Network and how they are using blockchain technology to create transparency and accountability for regenerative businesses. This allows those who use these systems to decentralize how to account for the use of natural resources and how we can, with these tools and others emergent ideas, allow farmers, designers, and others to retain and generate more of their own wealth, in whatever way they value that capital.
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20-8-2018 • 1 uur, 5 minuten, 11 seconden
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
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Ben Goldfarb joins me to talk about his new book,Eager: the surprising, secret life of beavers and why they matter. Drawing from his work and our experiences in resource management, conservation, and environmental education we talk about the role beavers had in creating and shaping the landscape, history, and people of the United States, and the importance of reintroducing and protecting beavers to return the world to the wetter, boggier place it once was.
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10-8-2018 • 41 minuten, 16 seconden
Essential Earthbag Construction with Kelly Hart
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Our guest for this episode is the carpenter, architect, and builder Kelly Hart. He joins me today to talk about Earthbag Construction, the subject of his recently published book Essential Earthbag Construction from New Society Publishers.
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30-7-2018 • 38 minuten, 8 seconden
A Moment of Need
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For the last several years I’ve run a Summer-to-Fall fundraiser in order to ask those listeners who can to donate to the show and keep the podcast freely available and frequently updated.
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25-7-2018 • 1 minuut, 38 seconden
Pascal Baudar - The Wildcrafting Brewer
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Author, teacher, and forager Pascal Baudar joins me to discuss his exploration of primitive brews and fermentation, the basis for his latest book The Wildcrafting Brewer.
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20-7-2018 • 49 minuten, 52 seconden
Regenerative Business: Thrive Natural Care
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In this episode co-host David Bilbrey continues to explore the intersection between permaculture, regenerative business, and the paradigm of capitalism by speaking with Alex McIntosh and Mario Garcia of Thrive Natural Care. Together they talk about how a company with a strong ethos can influence their competitors in the marketplace, while still caring for their business partners and customers. Listen to this conversation to learn more about how we can change the system from the inside, by modeling our preferred actions for others.
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15-7-2018 • 1 uur, 5 minuten, 46 seconden
Victoria Redhed Miller - The Art of Craft Distilling
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My guest today is Victoria Redhed Miller, who joins me for the second part of our conversation on Craft Distilling, this time to talk about the art of the process which turns fermented sugars, whether from grains, fruit, molasses, or honey, into tasty, tasty liquor.
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10-7-2018 • 54 minuten, 22 seconden
The Fruit Forager’s Companion
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My guest today is Sara Bir, chef, writer, and author of The Fruit Forager’s Companion, from Chelsea Green Publishing.
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30-6-2018 • 49 minuten, 56 seconden
Leslie Crawford - Sprig the Rescue Pig
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My guest today is Leslie Crawford, author of Spring the Rescue Pig, a children’s book about the journey of a pig on his trip from industrial agriculture to a sanctuary, and Rory, the child who helps him along the way. Using that book and story as a starting place, Leslie and I talk about agriculture, food activism, parenting, and the lessons we as adults can learn from children.
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25-6-2018 • 30 minuten, 56 seconden
Dr. Elaine Ingham - The Soil Food Web
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Today's guest, in an interview recorded by co-host David Bilbrey, is the microbiologist and soil researcher Dr. Elaine Ingham.
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20-6-2018 • 1 uur, 15 minuten, 16 seconden
ReGen18: Kevin Jones - What is Regenerative Business?
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In this short interview, David Bilbrey sits down for an in-person interview with Kevin Jones, recorded at the ReGen18 conference in May 2018.
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15-6-2018 • 24 minuten, 24 seconden
The Mudgirls Natural Building Collective
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My guests today are five members of the Mudgirls Natural Building Collective, a Canadian women-owned and operated group of builders who focus on materials and techniques like cob, earthen plaster, earthen floors, and livings roofs, and authors, together, of the recently released Mudgirls Manifesto from New Society Publishers.
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10-6-2018 • 52 minuten, 39 seconden
ReGen18: Joel Solomon - Politics and The Clean Money Revolution
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In this short interview David Bilbrey, co-host of The Permaculture Podcast and founder of EcoThinkIt.com, sits down for an in-person interview with Joel Solomon, recorded at the ReGen18 conference in May 2018.
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5-6-2018 • 21 minuten, 39 seconden
Victoria Redhed Miller - The Legality of Craft Distilling
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My guest is Victoria Redhed Miller author of Pure Poultry and her latest From No-Knead to Sourdough. These books pull on her experiences as an off-the-grid homesteader in the Pacific Northwest and are available from New Society Publishers.
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30-5-2018 • 40 minuten, 43 seconden
ReGen18: Stuart Cowan - Director of Regenerative Development for The Capital Institute
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In this short interview David Bilbrey, co-host of The Permaculture Podcast and founder of EcoThinkIt.com sits down for an in-person interview with Stuart Cowan, recorded at the ReGen18 conference in May 2018.
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27-5-2018 • 12 minuten, 16 seconden
Paul Hellier - Reducing our Footprint by Eliminating Single-Use Plastic
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My guest today is Paul Hellier of Fair Food Forager, who joins me to begin an ongoing series of conversations to talk about what we can do reduce waste, change our consumptions patterns, and decrease our ecological footprint.
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20-5-2018 • 41 minuten, 25 seconden
Dr. Otto Scharmer - Theory U and the Emerging Future
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In this episode Co-host David Bilbrey continues to explore the edge between permaculture, business, and social change by sitting down with Dr. Otto Scharmer. Together they talk about Dr. Scharmer’s work on Presencing and Theory U, the development of effective organizations, and how each of us can become more powerful changemakers.
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10-5-2018 • 59 minuten
Rhonda Baird - Being Present for Ourselves and Others
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My guest for today is Rhonda Baird, editor of Permaculture Design Magazine, and designer and educator at Sheltering Hills Design, LLC.
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30-4-2018 • 43 minuten, 19 seconden
Oliver Goshey - Designing for Disasters with Natural Building
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My guest today is Oliver Goshey, founder of the regenerative design and natural building company Abundant Edge, and host of the Abundant Edge podcast.
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20-4-2018 • 55 minuten, 25 seconden
Amy Stross - The Suburban Micro-Farm
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My guest for this episode is Amy Stross, blogger at TenthAcreFarm.com and author of The Suburban-Microfarm. I wanted Amy to join me for an interview to hear her perspective on creating integrated spaces where people are and will continue to live for the foreseeable future: in cities and suburbs.
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10-4-2018 • 1 uur, 1 minuut, 44 seconden
Philip Ackerman-Leist - A Precautionary Tale
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My guest for this episode is Philip Ackerman-Leist, the author of A Precautionary Tale: How One Small Town Banned Pesticides, Preserved Its Food Heritage, and Inspired a Movement, from Chelsea Green Publishing.
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30-3-2018 • 1 uur, 9 minuten, 23 seconden
Julie Mettenburg - Holistic Management and The Tallgrass Network
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Co-host David Bilbrey returns to speak with Julie Mettenburg of Tallgrass Network, a hub of the Savory Institute that serves 25 million acres across Kansas and Missouri once dominated by the tallgrass prairie.
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20-3-2018 • 55 minuten, 27 seconden
Brad Lancaster and Jill Lorenzini - Eat Mesquite and More!
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My guests for this episode are Jill Lorenzini and Brad Lancaster of Desert Harvesters, here to discuss the new bioregional cookbook Eat Mesquite and More! We use that as a frame to talk about how to learn more about our natural world, invite ourselves into wild spaces, and deepen our sense of place through connection to the land, plants, and the meals that bring us together.
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10-3-2018 • 48 minuten, 40 seconden
Karen Lanier - The Woman Hobby Farmer
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Karen Lanier shares what she learned while writing The Woman Hobby Farmer, a book that helps us look inside of ourselves and to decide whether we are ready to farm and to ask the question, “Why do I want to farm?”
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28-2-2018 • 51 minuten, 4 seconden
Avery Ellis - Aquaponics, Water Harvesting, and Creating the Laws We Need
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Avery Ellis, of Colorado Greywater, joins me to talk, in a conversation recorded live at a local coffee shop, about aquaponics, water harvesting, and his entry into the world of community politics when he joined the stakeholder process that changed the laws around how people can collect and use water in Colorado.
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20-2-2018 • 41 minuten, 59 seconden
Emma Huvos: Riverside Nature School and Connecting with the Other-Than-Human
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“We will not fight to save what we do not love.” Emma Huvos joins me to talk about her role as an educator who blends together her time as a classroom teacher with the forest and outdoor school models of Europe to create a hands-on, experiential, student-driven early-childhood learning experience that is Riverside Nature School.
Resources
Emma Huvos
Riverside Nature School
No Better Classroom Than Nature: Re-Imagining Early Childhood Education
Balanced and Barefoot by Angela Hanscom
Balanced and Barefoot Blog
Forest Kindergarten (Wikipedia)
What is a Forest School? from Forest School Association
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10-2-2018 • 49 minuten, 3 seconden
Jacqueline Smith - Animal Agriculture, Regenerative Enterprise, and Central Grazing Company
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Co-host David Bilbrey sits down with Jacqueline Smith, the founder of Central Grazing Company, to talk about her entry into the world of animal agriculture, after having no previous experience with farming or even family ties to a farm or the land.
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30-1-2018 • 52 minuten, 45 seconden
Michael Judd - Honoring the Dead and Holding the Dying: Natural Burial
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How do we prepare for the end of life? How do we honor the dead? How do we care for the living, through our rites and rituals, after a loved one passes? Michael Judd joins me to answer these questions as he shares the very personal story of his father’s passing, and how his family went about establishing a home cemetery.
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20-1-2018 • 1 uur, 11 minuten, 11 seconden
Wilson Alvarez - Biomimicry, Landcare, and The Reintegration Project
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How did animals and people influence the landscape for hundreds of thousands, and even millions of years, before the rise of civilization?
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10-1-2018 • 56 minuten, 33 seconden
An end of one year and the beginning of another.
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A highlight of the year behind, the current state of the show, and what's coming up.
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30-12-2017 • 22 minuten, 51 seconden
Maddy Harland - Permaculture in Perspective: Fertile Edges
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To know where we are headed, it’s important to know where we are and where we come from. As Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote in his book Strength to Love, “We are not makers of history; we are made by history.”
With that in mind, in the conversation that follows Maddy Harland provides a 25 year retrospective on permaculture as viewed through her role as the longtime editor of Permaculture Magazine, which has been encapsulated in her new book Fertile Edges.
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20-12-2017 • 44 minuten, 48 seconden
John Seed - Permaculture as Activism: Saving the Los Cedros Reserve
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As I was reminded of in a recent conversation with Emma Huvos, we protect what we love. As the ethics of permaculture call for us to care for Earth and people, then practicing permaculture can be a political act requiring activism.
In this conversation facilitated by guest host David Bilbrey, John Seed shares his work of nearly 40 years to preserve landscapes all over the world, beginning first in New South Wales, Australia to save rainforests.
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10-12-2017 • 36 minuten, 9 seconden
Eric Toensmeier - Drawing Down Carbon: Agroforestry and Climate Change
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How do we limit the damage of the greatest terrestrial environmental disaster ever, climate change? By drawing down carbon.
How we do that, and the most effective ways possible, form the base of this conversation with Eric Toensmeier, as he shares his ongoing research about the impacts of agriculture and how we can use agroforestry to increase productivity and sequester carbon.
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With smartphones, tablets, and other always-on, always-connected devices at our fingertips, finding a piece of information becomes easier and easier, if we have a few keywords to search for. When it comes to a subject as off the well-trod path as permaculture, how can someone find this information? As practitioners, what outlets do we have to share these ideas with our more mainstream friends or family? Of all the media available, the least expensive and most accessible are magazines.
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20-11-2017 • 39 minuten, 12 seconden
Kai Sawyer - Peace, Permaculture, and The Gift
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Image: Kai Sawyer at the Peace and Permaculture Dojo. (Source:YouTube: Peace and Permaculture Dojo Tour)
“The more generous we are, the more relaxed we’ll be, the more wealthy we’ll feel, and the more gifts these will cycle.” - Kai Sawyer
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10-11-2017 • 39 minuten, 54 seconden
Karl Treen - Teaching with Games: Food Forest Card Game
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My guest today is Karl Treen, the creator of Food Forest Card Game, a deck of cards designed to teach the needs, yields, and connections of plants and animals within a food forest and within nature, so players can then take what they learn and apply them to gardens and the world around them. All while cooperating, having fun, and subversively learning a message about how to care for Earth.
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30-10-2017 • 1 uur, 1 minuut, 49 seconden
Lisa Stokke - Next 7
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This interview contains a conversation on Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy) beliefs reflective of popular rather than historical views. For more detailed information on the history and culture of these First Americans visit: https://www.haudenosauneeconfederacy.com/
In this episode, David Bilbrey returns to sit in the host chair during this conversation with Lisa Stokke, one of the founders of Food Democracy Now!, to talk about her latest project, Next 7, which focuses on bringing people together who believe in advocating ideas and solutions to benefit the next 7 generations.
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20-10-2017 • 57 minuten, 28 seconden
Viktor Zaunders - Local Food Nodes
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My guest today is Viktor Zaunders, one of the creators of localfoodnodes.org, a website designed to directly connect food producers and consumers. During the conversation, he shares with us the background for this project, the importance of building relationships in our food system, and how you can get involved and start your own food node.
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10-10-2017 • 39 minuten, 33 seconden
Gianaclis Caldwell - Mastering Cheesemaking
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Gianaclis Caldwell is the author of a modern classic on cheese production, Mastering Artisan Cheesemaking from Chelsea Green Publishing, and her new book to help get anyone started, Mastering Basic Cheesemaking from New Society Publishers.
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30-9-2017 • 46 minuten, 2 seconden
Paul Hellier - Fair Food Forager
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My guest for this episode is Paul Hellier, part of the team creating the website and app by the same name, designed to help us make better decisions about what we buy, where we buy it from, and the ecological impacts of those choices. Fair Food Forager does this by providing listings of businesses that align with various ethical choices across thirteen different categories. Some of those include reduced waste or composting, reduced plastic, vegetarian, and chemical-free or organic.
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20-9-2017 • 49 minuten, 25 seconden
Joel Salatin - Farming, Experience, and Mastery
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The author, speaker, and farmer of Polyface Farms Joel Salatin joins me to talk about farming, the importance of experience, and the role of mastery over ourselves and our chosen discipline.
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10-9-2017 • 58 minuten, 32 seconden
Gianaclis Caldwell - Holistic Goat Care
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My guest is the author, cheesemaker, and goatherd Gianaclis Caldwell of Pholia Farm Dairy. She joins me to talk about her latest book Holistic Goat Care from Chelsea Green Publishing.
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30-8-2017 • 49 minuten, 17 seconden
Adam Brock - Change Here Now
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How do we create the world with the social and economic structures we desire? How do we distill the problems that we see over and over again in that context so they are easy to understand, that lead to solutions with a universal application?
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20-8-2017 • 50 minuten, 14 seconden
Together Resilient
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How do we intentionally live together in those communities? How do we create those communities? What training should we have if we already living in or planning to move into an intentional community?
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10-8-2017 • 52 minuten, 27 seconden
David Holmgren - Revising Permaculture
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avid Holmgren joins me to talk about his work on revising his now-classic text, Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability. His focus in doing so was to give the book greater clarity, to make it more accessible, and a little easier for a novice to approach. Starting in that space, we also talk about the evolution of Permaculture principles in general, whether we should talk about resilience as a principle or system characteristic, before moving on to talk about the security that comes from growing our own food.
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30-7-2017 • 1 uur, 1 minuut, 35 seconden
Permaculture Magazine, North America
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Hannah Apricot Eckberg, the editor of Permaculture Magazine, North America, joins me to share her role in the creation and launch of the latest North American permaculture periodical. Along the way, we talk about how permaculture practitioners, especially media producers whether they are publishers or podcasters, can engage in some cooperatition, a friendly form of cooperative competition, and cooperation to strengthen the community and our own individual work. That there is room for more producers.
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20-7-2017 • 58 minuten, 37 seconden
Permabyte: Matt Winters - The Gift
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This episode is a story written and recorded by Matt Winters, a listener to the show and a participant in the first PDC I ever taught.
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17-7-2017 • 8 minuten, 40 seconden
Eddy Garcia - Natural Swimming Pools
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Eddy of Living Earth Systems returns, this time joined by his partner Sam, to continue discussing the ways we can work naturally with living systems to create clean water. The first time he joined us was to share his natural aquaponics system, but this time around talks about how we can use those same ideas to create natural swimming pools.
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10-7-2017 • 43 minuten
Tao Orion - Beyond the War on Invasive Species
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My guest for this episode is Tao Orion, author of Beyond the War on Invasive Species. Her book and the concepts of war and invasion form the basis of our conversation today.
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5-7-2017 • 55 minuten, 7 seconden
Nomad Seed Project
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My guest for this episode is Zach Elfers ofNomad Seed Project. We sat down to talk about his work and how it relates to seed saving; landscape management; landscape restoration; geophytes - the plants that made us human; and our own epoch: The Anthropocene, or as E.O. Wilson calls it "The Age of Loneliness."
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25-6-2017 • 46 minuten, 39 seconden
Fred Kirschenmann - Planning for Future Generations
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In today’s episode, David Bilbrey returns to the host seat with Fred Kirschenmann. Fred joins us again to share more about his work at the Aldo Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University and Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture and how those two places are working to allow us to plan not only for the world we have now but also for our descendants. The solutions come in multiple forms, from the ways we can use plants in our fields to increase yields while regenerating soil, and the cultural changes that are coming as the children and grandchildren of the Baby Boomer generation reject consumerism and focus on a more community-centered life.
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15-6-2017 • 59 minuten, 9 seconden
David Holmgren - On Permaculture
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5-6-2017 • 52 minuten, 31 seconden
1716 - Climate Change and The Path Ahead
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Giulianna Maria Lamanna, of The Fifth World , drops a huge two-part question on us in this episode, a continuation of the MAPC 2016 Q&A.
1. Are there people in the permaculture community talking about climate change and the impact of global warming on invasive species?
2. Is it our responsibility as permaculture practitioners to create new ecosystems for the changing climate?
This conversation leads to thoughts on preserving native ecosystems, the creation of novel ecosystems, the role and influence of exotic species, human disturbance, and the forces of erosion. We're also asked to examine our own role we have in tending the wild, and what responsibility, if any, we have to domesticated species such as chickens?
In doing so, can we take back the stewardship of our own habitat?
Voices you'll hear include:
Eva Taylor of Ironwood Farms
Zach Elfers of Nomad Seed Project
Ben Weiss of Susquehanna Permaculture
Jason Godesky of The Fifth World
Nicole Luttrell of Wind Song Farm
Claudia Joseph of New York Permaculture Exchange
Seppi Garrett of Seppi’s Place
Dale Hendricks of Green Light Plants
Dr. Christopher Huvos
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Resources
MACP 2017 Event Information and Tickets
Timothy Lee Scott , author of Invasive Plant Medicine
Tao Orion (Her Facebook Page)
1535 - Beyond the War on Invasive Species , my interview with Tao.
1321 - David Homgren on Permaculture. An Interview.
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MAPC 2017 is nearly upon us, so to give you an idea of what you might hear at this year's event, while also digging into some permaculture questions with diverse voices. Here is part of the question and answer session recorded at the inaugural event on June 17, 2016.
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10-5-2017 • 24 minuten, 17 seconden
Patricia Daly - The Ketogenic Kitchen
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Patricia Daly, on the left in the picture above, joins me to talk about her book The Ketogenic Kitchen, and the possible health benefits of a high fat, moderate protein, low carbohydrate diet. Her work with this diet come from her own experiences as a cancer patient seeking complimentary therapies. Through information emerging in Europe she found research showing a ketogenic diet as effective when combined with traditional therapies, which in her case were radiation treatments. Undertaking this diet while continuing radiotherapy she was able to, as you will hear, quite literally see the results.
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30-4-2017 • 49 minuten, 22 seconden
Andrew Mefferd - Protected Culture: Growing in Greenhouses and Hoophouses
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My guest today is Andrew Mefferd, author of The Greenhouse and Hoophouse Grower's Handbook. Drawing on his years of research working at Johnny's Selected Seeds, he shares what it means to grow plants in an environment we can control, be that a cold frame in our backyard, an unheated hoophouse, or a heated greenhouse.
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20-4-2017 • 52 minuten, 43 seconden
Warren Brush and Jesse Peterson - What Sustains You?
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What is wealth?
How do communities define wealth?
What sustains you?
Are you disconnected from the sources of sustenance?
Where are our leverage points?
How do we make use of those places to create change?
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10-4-2017 • 1 uur, 8 minuten, 15 seconden
Eddy Garcia - Natural Aquaponics
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Eddy Garcia of Living Earth Systems joins me to discuss Natural Aquaponics and how we can create beautiful, functioning systems whether we prefer to nerd out on the numbers or learn through observation and experience.
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30-3-2017 • 38 minuten, 6 seconden
Annie Raser-Rowland - The Art of Frugal Hedonism
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Can you live an enjoyable, self-indulgent life while remaining thrifty and at the same time not overtaxing Earth's resources? To have all of that sounds too good to be true.
If you follow what Annie Raser-Rowland suggested in her book The Art of Frugal Hedonism, however, the answer rings out as a resounding Yes!
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20-3-2017 • 44 minuten, 44 seconden
Ethan Roland Soloviev - Regenerative Agriculture
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Ethan Roland Soloviev joins me to share one of his current projects to define the phrase Regenerative Agriculture in an open way, via the website Regenerative Agriculture Definition. This site takes an Open Source / Creative Commons approach to defining a phrase that, much like our beloved Permaculture, can be a bit hard to pin down based on who you are talking to and their experiences with the term and in the act of doing the work.
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10-3-2017 • 28 minuten, 48 seconden
Jen Mendez and Matt Bibeau - Place Based Education and IPEC (Part II)
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In this interview my friend Jen Mendez, of PermieKids.com , returns to continue the conversation with Matt Bibeau of Institute of Permaculture Education for Children (IPEC). During their time together they explore the remaining three Zones of Service and Action for Place-based Social Organizations: Community Education; National Education; and International (Global) Education.
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28-2-2017 • 48 minuten, 31 seconden
Botho Willer - Plant Buddies and Open Education
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How do we make sustainability, permaculture resources, and education more accessible? Are free and open source tools a way to answer that question?
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20-2-2017 • 27 minuten, 6 seconden
Bryan Welch - B Corporations: Business as a force for good.
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How do we engage in the world in a positive way?
How do we do that with business?
David Bilbrey, of EcoThinkIt.com, returns to the host’s chair to talk with Bryan Welch, the CEO of B the Change Media, to answer these questions.
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10-2-2017 • 47 minuten, 13 seconden
Jessa Fowler - Growing Food, Growing Communities with an AMI Fellowship
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How do we make permaculture education more affordable?
This is a common question in our community, and today I sit down and speak Jessa Fowler, the Education Director at Allegheny Mountain Institute, about a way AMI creates opportunities through a stipend-supported fellowship program.
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5-2-2017 • 12 minuten, 40 seconden
Jen Mendez and Matt Bibeau - Place Based Education and IPEC (Part 1)
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In this interview my friend Jen Mendez, of PermieKids.com , speaks with Matt Bibeau of Institute of Permaculture Education for Children (IPEC) .
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30-1-2017 • 50 minuten, 32 seconden
Fred Kirschenmann - Farming for Future Generations
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During this conversation, recorded live at the Prairie Festival the 40th celebration of The Land Institute, we join David Bilbrey talks with Fred Kirschenmann, a national and international leader in sustainable agriculture, who shares an appointment as Distinguished Fellow for the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University, and is president of Stone Barn Center for Food and Agriculture in Pocantico Hills, New York.
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20-1-2017 • 50 minuten, 55 seconden
Steven Martyn - Reconnecting with Place
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Steven Martyn, the Sacred Gardener from Ontario, Canada, returns to continue our conversation about reconnecting with the land, as well as with the traditions and cultures not only of the area we call home, but also with the peoples of that land, and the ways of our families.
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10-1-2017 • 50 minuten, 29 seconden
What was. What shall be.
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What can I say, 2016 was a tumultuous year for many.
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2-1-2017 • 18 minuten, 12 seconden
Mary Reynolds - The Garden Awakening
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My guest for this episode is Mary Reynolds, the Irish author of The Garden Awakening: Designs to Nurture Our Land and Ourselves.
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20-12-2016 • 55 minuten, 17 seconden
1645 - Surviving the Future with Shaun Chamberlin
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Today is part two of the conversation with Shaun Chamberlin (Part 1 ), editor of Lean Logic and Surviving the Future, on the work of David Fleming. This time we focus on Shaun including his background, current activities, and what it means to bear David's Legacy.
Along the way the conversation touches on a variety of subject related to our work in the modern world, including the role of education, the apolitical need for action on the future, and what we can do to live inexpensively and with directed intent. This is candid, on both of our parts, as we share more of our own private stories as much as the public.
Find our more about Shaun and his work at DarkOptimism.org.
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Resources
Lean Logic (Chelsea Green Publishing)
Surviving the Future (Chelsea Green Publishing)
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Dark Optimism (Shaun's Site)
Lean Logic: The Work of David Fleming (Permaculture Podcast Interview)
Schumacher College
The Moneyless Manifesto - Mark Boyle
The Dark Mountain Project
The Transition Timeline
The Happy Pig , Ireland. (Permaculture Magazine UK)
The Power of Time Off (TED Talk)
10-12-2016 • 1 uur, 3 minuten, 25 seconden
Beth Dougherty - The Independent Farmstead
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In this episode, I'm joined by Beth Dougherty the co-author, along with her husband Shawn, of The Independent Farmstead.
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30-11-2016 • 47 minuten, 29 seconden
1643 - Lean Logic: The Work of David Fleming
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My guest today is Shaun Chamberlin, the editor of Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It and Surviving the Future, both of which are based on the work of the late David Fleming (1940 - 2010). The conversation is as much a discussion of these books, as it is a celebration of the life of David Fleming, who we get to meet through a series of clips throughout the interview.
Without hyperbole I see these two volumes as some of the most important recent texts for any permaculture practitioner, recent convert to long-standing expert, to add to their library. David, through the careful clarifying editing by Shaun, has created the resources that bridge the landscape and our communities, from food to tranistion, in an apolitical, accessible way, covering topics from Abstraction to Yonder. Self-referential, you can open Lean Logic to any page and be lead on a trail of connected thoughts to lead you to ideas that initially might seem unrelated, kind of like going to Wikipedia to look up swales and before you know it three hours have passed and you are now reading about the health risks of tritium , except in a book where everything is related to the resiliency necessary to create a world where humans can survive whatever the future may hold.
Enjoy this first conversation with Shaun. He returns in a second interview on December 10.
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Lean Logic (Chelsea Green)
Surviving the Future (Chelsea Green)
David Fleming (Wiki)
Shaun Chamberlin
The Transition Timeline
Rob Hopkins and The Transition Town Movement (Interview)
Transition Network
Transition US
Richard Heinberg
Michael Meacher (Former UK Environment Minister)
Ron Oxburgh
LeanLogic.net (First publication of David’s manuscript)
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Jonathon Porritt
20-11-2016 • 55 minuten, 37 seconden
Urban Scout - Rewild or Die
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Peter Michael Bauer, executive director of Rewild Portland, returns again to talk about the re-release of his book Rewild or Die.
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10-11-2016 • 49 minuten, 43 seconden
Joshua Hughes - Regenerative Investing
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Joshua Hughes return to share information about his latest venture Blacksheep Regenerative Resource Management, a invest with social responsibility.
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31-10-2016 • 45 minuten, 6 seconden
Woody Tasch - Limits, Our Future, and Slow Money
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In this episode, recorded live at Prarie Festival earlier this year, Woody Tasch, founder of the Slow Money movement, joins David Bilbrey to discuss the limits of growth as related to economics, our personal role in changing the future, and where Woody sees Slow Money in the next few years.
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24-10-2016 • 27 minuten, 23 seconden
Steven Martyn - The Sacred Gardener
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Today Steven Martyn, a Canadian permaculturist, gardener, primitive skills practitioner, and teacher, joins me to talk about his journey to write The Story of the Madawaska Forest Garden.
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7-10-2016 • 53 minuten, 7 seconden
The Podcast’s Six Year Anniversary!
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Six years. Can you believe it? This podcast has been on the air for six years and today I take a few minutes for reflection.
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3-10-2016 • 5 minuten, 56 seconden
Roundtable - Charm City Farms, Part 2
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We return again to Charm City Farms with Victoria Greba and Eric Kelly in this conversation recorded earlier this year as part of a visit to speak more about The Forager's Apprentice.
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30-9-2016 • 1 uur, 15 minuten, 56 seconden
Nancy Thellman - Slow Money
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In this episode, Nancy Thellman of Slow Money Northeast Kansas joins David Bilbrey to talk about the slow money movement which is creating human-scale loans all over the world, outside the stream of modern financial markets.
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19-9-2016 • 52 minuten, 45 seconden
Perrine Hervé-Gruyer - Creating a Miraculous Abundance
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Today's guest is Perrine Hervé-Gruyer author, along with her husband Charles, of Miraculous Abundance: One Quarter Acre, Two French Farmers and Enough Food to Feed the World.
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14-9-2016 • 38 minuten, 23 seconden
Trevor Tychon - Connect Africa
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Today's episode sees David Bilbrey returning to have a conversation with Trevor Tychon the founder of Connect Africa Ministries, a faith-based non-governmental organization working in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, and Congo, creating Resource Centers that provide education, training, and community support to create water filtration systems, cisterns, rockets stoves, and eco-toilets.
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3-9-2016 • 1 uur, 30 minuten, 26 seconden
Michael Judd - MAPC Keynote Address
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(Picture: Michael Judd dishing out some paw paw (Asimina triloba) icecream created fresh, onsite, at the Mid-Atlantic Permaculture Convergence).
Recorded live at the Mid-Atlantic Permaculture Convergence, in this episode Michael Judd shares stories of his life in South America picking coffee and meeting Nicaraguan migrant families, resulting in a love of that country that eventually lead him to permaculture and the creation of Project Bona Fide.
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29-8-2016 • 49 minuten, 57 seconden
Joshua Cubista - Protopean Learning and Leadership
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David Bilbrey return to sit in the hosts’s seat in an interview that he recorded as a follow up to my earlier conversation with Joshua Cubista.
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22-8-2016 • 1 uur, 4 minuten, 45 seconden
1630 - Should The Permaculture Podcast Continue?
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16-8-2016 • 7 minuten, 19 seconden
1629 - Venom Immunotherapy
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11-8-2016 • 10 minuten, 14 seconden
Joel Glanzberg - A Pattern of Regeneration
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This episode is Joel Glanzberg's opening remarks recorded live at the Mid-Atlantic Permaculture Convergence. He shares with us his observations from 30 years practicing permaculutre, rooted in the earliest days when Bill Mollison still taught in the United States.
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8-8-2016 • 33 minuten, 35 seconden
Eric Chisler - Community Building and The Gift
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This conversation is the first of a series of guest-hosted episodes. David Bilbrey, someone I've been speaking with for years about sitting down and recording some podcasts of his own, takes over the role of host and records an interview with Eric Chisler, one of my community members from when I lived at Seppi's Place.
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28-7-2016 • 1 uur, 8 minuten, 30 seconden
Rob Hopkins - The Transition Town Movement
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My guest for this episode is Rob Hopkins the creator of the idea of Transition Towns, a way for us to move from oil dependency to local resilience. That lead to his writing The Transition Handbook, something every permaculture practitioner should have in their library and which serves as a good introduction, along with Toby Hemenway’s The Permaculture City, to look at how we can move from the landscape to the people space.
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21-7-2016 • 39 minuten, 20 seconden
Pascal Baudar - The New Wildcrafted Cuisine
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My guest for this episode is Pascal Baudar, author of The New Wildcrafted Cuisine. Pascal is taking foraged food and elevating them to more than just something to eat, and creating rich meals from the common, such as wild mustards or acorns, to the uncommon, like lurp sugar or fleas, building on years of experience and hundreds of classes on primitive, wilderness, and survival skills.
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14-7-2016 • 34 minuten, 13 seconden
Linda Booth Sweeney - The Climate Change Playbook
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Our guest today is Linda Booth Sweeney co-author, along with Dennis Meadows and Gillian Martin Mehers, of the The Climate Change Playbook.
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4-7-2016 • 37 minuten, 54 seconden
Joshua Cubista - Experiential Design and Capacity Building in Permaculture Education
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Our guest today is Joshua Cubista, a permaculture practitioner from the American Southwest who teaches at Prescott College.
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27-6-2016 • 36 minuten, 50 seconden
Dr. Talia Fletcher - Holistic Veterinary Medicine
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My guest for this episode is Dr. Talia Fletcher, a Canadian veterinarian, who takes a holistic approach to animals and medicine, that includes knowledge of permaculture and a background in WWOOFING. During the conversation today, she shares with us what it means to take a holistic approach to veterinary medicine and how it can reduce the need to treat animals, including antibiotic use. She also shares, from her experiences, how to find a good vet, including questions to ask, and how to honor a vet's time. Talia also gives advice on how to prepare yourself to have animals on your homestead or permaculture farm
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20-6-2016 • 35 minuten, 27 seconden
Community and Traditions
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13-6-2016 • 49 minuten, 36 seconden
Making Mead, Natural Building, and Permaculture Farming
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6-6-2016 • 35 minuten, 28 seconden
Roundtable: Philly Q&A (Part 2)
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26-5-2016 • 55 minuten, 4 seconden
PDCs and Families
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Today’s interview is with Jesse Peterson and Penny Livingston-Stark about how to make permaculture education more accessible and provides different ways to do so for families and couples, as well as for those for whom the more traditional two-week intensive is burdensome. We also discuss different class formats beyond the design course, and what age is appropriate for a student to receive a certificate. Penny also delves into what it means to be a certified permaculture designer.
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19-5-2016 • 51 minuten, 39 seconden
The Forager’s Apprentice
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This is the first of two in-person conversation recorded early in 2016, and is a follow-up to the interview recorded last year with Erik and Victoria. Today the focus on Victoria and The Forager’s Apprentice program.
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10-5-2016 • 49 minuten, 9 seconden
Karl Steyaert - Nonviolent Communication
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Following up on the work of Chris Moore-Backman and Ethan Hughes, I want to share this conversation with Karl Steyaert on Nonviolent Communication first recorded and aired two years ago, in April of 2014.
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28-4-2016 • 46 minuten, 8 seconden
Conflict Transformation
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21-4-2016 • 1 uur, 1 minuut, 42 seconden
Chris Moore-Backman - Gandhian Nonviolence
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Chris is a peace activist from Chico, California, who serves with the Christian Peacemaker Teams, recently returning from Palestine, and is the producer of the radio documentary series "Bringing Down the New Jim Crow," which explores the movement to end the system of mass incarceration in the United States.
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14-4-2016 • 49 minuten, 33 seconden
Roundtable: Philly, Part 1
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7-4-2016 • 53 minuten, 36 seconden
Erik Ohlsen - Professional Permaculture Education
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My guest for this episode is Erik Ohlsen, founder of Permaculture Artisans and co-founder and executive director of Permaculture Skills Center in Sebastopol, California. A previous guest on the show, he joins me today to examine the idea of what it means to gain a permaculture rooted education that takes our practices beyond an introductory level.
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31-3-2016 • 51 minuten, 53 seconden
Robyn Mello - Permanent Multi-Culture
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My guest today is Robyn Mello, the program director for Philadelphia Orchard Project, and is a deeper look at her life, work, and thoughts within and beyond that project, which she provided a brief overview to in Episode 1609: An Introduction to the Philadelphia Orchard Project. Give that episode a listen to learn more about how this non-profit installs orchards throughout the city of Philadelphia.
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24-3-2016 • 43 minuten, 26 seconden
Robyn Mello - An introduction to Philadelphia Orchard Project
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My guest today is Robyn Mello, the program director for Philadelphia Orchard Project, a non-profit installing orchards throughout the city of Philadelphia.
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10-3-2016 • 14 minuten, 55 seconden
Nati Passow - Jewish Traditions
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My guest today is Nati Passow, co-founder and executive director of Jewish Farm School. He joins me today to continue the conversation about faith and earth care based, this time looking at the traditions of Judaism.
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3-3-2016 • 43 minuten, 21 seconden
David Stroh - Systems Thinking for Personal Transformation & Social Change
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My guest today is David Peter Stroh, author of System Thinking for Social Change from Chelsea Green Publishing. During the conversation we talk about the importance of using systems thinking to reach long-term goals that transform ourselves and society. To accomplish this end we need to create a series of small successes, rather than quick fixes, that are in line with and build towards our larger vision.
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25-2-2016 • 53 minuten, 10 seconden
Jerome Osentowski - The Forest Garden Greenhouse
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My guest today is Jerome Osentowski, founder of Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute, a long time permaculture practitioners and teacher, and author of the new book The Forest Garden Greenhouse, available from Chelsea Green Publishing.
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18-2-2016 • 45 minuten, 20 seconden
Permabyte: Byron Joel - A Lesson in Identity
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This Permabyte is a reading by Byron of his article "A Lesson in Identity".
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15-2-2016 • 17 minuten
Rachel Kaplan - Permaculture from the Inside Out
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My guest today is Rachel Kaplan a member of 13 Moon Collaborative and co-author of an excellent book on practicing permaculture in cities and suburbs, Urban Homesteading.
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11-2-2016 • 45 minuten, 36 seconden
Taj Scicluna, The Perma Pixie - Small Business Permaculture
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This episode is an interview with Taj Scicluna, the Perma Pixie, about her development of a permaculture business, and the work required to be a small business owner.
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5-2-2016 • 53 minuten, 40 seconden
1602 - The Plan for 2016
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15-1-2016 • 15 minuten, 25 seconden
1601 - Looking back over 2015
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7-1-2016 • 23 minuten, 21 seconden
Taj Scicluna, The Perma Pixie - Standing in Two Worlds
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For the episode today Taj Scicluna, also known as The Perma Pixie, joins me to talk about practicing permaculture right now, where we are, in the culture and world we live in. We discuss the state of the permaculture design course in the United States and Australia, and the broader conversations going on around what that training is and what should be included during a course.
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17-12-2015 • 48 minuten, 58 seconden
Episode 1554: What about Christmas? with Ethan Hughes
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This episode is a permabyte with Ethan Hughes.
In this conversation, that arises from a listener question posed by Amelia, Ethan shares ways that we can transform our holiday experience from a consumption driven exchange, to one where gifts are given based on need or in service to others. He also stresses the importance of communication so that we can create new traditions that honor ourselves and the perspectives of our loved ones.
Hearing what Ethan shared with us, how will you transform your holidays? What new traditions will you create? What conversations will you have to have to make this happen?
I want to hear from you. Leave a comment in the show notes here, or get in touch with me directly. Call: or email: The Permaculture Podcast
Also, if you haven’t heard already, Ethan and I are writing a book together, called The Possibility Handbook: A Toolkit for Transformation. To support the creation of this book, I’m running a listener exclusive crowdfunding campaign. By pledging your support now you can receive early access to the the manuscript as it is written, hear the audio we record that serves as the basis for the book, and view pictures and video taken at The Possibility Alliance. If we can raise $5,000 I’ll head to The Possibility Alliance January 16 - 23, 2016 to begin recording. Find out more, including the topics we’ll cover, at www.thepermaculturepodcast.com/book
Until the next time, spend each day creating the world you want to live in by taking care of Earth, yourself, and each other.
14-12-2015 • 9 minuten, 41 seconden
Jereme Zimmerman - Make Mead Like a Viking
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Jereme is the author of the excellent, Make Mead Like a Viking, recently released by Chelsea Green Publishing, and a regular contributor to Earthineer.com. He joins me today to discuss how his background as a homesteader and an interest in mead and vikings lead to the focus of this book.
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10-12-2015 • 52 minuten, 45 seconden
David Casey - Developing NuMundo, a permaculture aligned business
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My guest for this episode is David Casey, the Chief Visionary Officer of NuMundo, a platform that recently launched to connect people interested in permaculture and sustainability with locations around the world where guests can visit and learn about these practices from people who are living them.
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7-12-2015 • 20 minuten, 41 seconden
Brad Lancaster - The Desert Harvesters
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My guest for today is Brad Lancaster, author of Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, who returns to talk about Desert Harvesters, an organization in Tucson, Arizona, using neighborhood plantings to collect urban rainwater runoff, and create community by raising awareness about native edible plants. We spend much of our conversation discussing the history and actions of this organization, before turning to how these ideas are spreading to other cities and towns.
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3-12-2015 • 47 minuten, 3 seconden
Faith and Earth Care: Dillon Cruz - The Greatest Commandment
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Today’s episode continues the faith and earth care series through a conversation with Dillon Naber Cruz, one of the co-instructors of my Permaculture Design Course in 2010. Dillon was also one of the first guests on the podcast back in 2012 when the show moved to the regular interview format.
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19-11-2015 • 55 minuten, 52 seconden
Gibbs House, a Permaculture Site at WMU.
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My guests for this episode are Derek Kanwischer, the Project Manager for the Office for Sustainability at Western Michigan University, and Joshua Shultz, the Permaculture Program Coordinator at Gibbs House. Our conversation today revolves around Gibbs House and the work of the Office of Sustainability at WMU to practice permaculture onsite, including research and implement, and create a demonstration model of sustainable practices.
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12-11-2015 • 45 minuten, 33 seconden
Peter Michael Bauer - Human vs. Conservation Rewilding
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My guest for this episode is Peter Michael Bauer, who returns to share with us his thoughts on the distinction between human versus conservation rewilding, and a critique of what they get right and what they get wrong as we develop the understanding and language to discuss these broad, far reaching views on how to undo domestication of people and of the land.
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5-11-2015 • 1 uur, 2 minuten, 16 seconden
Lisa Rose - Midwest Foraging
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My guest today is Lisa Rose, author most recently of Midwest Foraging, which was supposed to be the basis of our conversation and we do touch on that some, but also spend our time telling stories about family traditions; place and the lands we each feel connected to; and how foraging and food can return seasonality to our lives, along with a host of new flavors, once we leave the grocery store behind.
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29-10-2015 • 42 minuten, 7 seconden
Home - The Riverside Project Round Table (Part 2)
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This is part two of the round table recorded live at The Riverside Project outside of Charles Town, West Virginia. The panelists include Nicole Luttrell of Deeply Rooted Design, Jesse Wyner of Liberty Root Farm, Ashley Davis, a permaculture design certified herbalist who runs Meadowsweet Botanicals, and Diane Blust, a former government employee starting her own permaculture homestead, Chicory Hill Farm.
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22-10-2015 • 39 minuten, 54 seconden
Joshua Hughes - Transitional Ethics
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My guest for this episode is Joshua Peace Seeker Hughes, an American permaculture practitioner living and farming in Costa Rica. His work there, which forms our discussion today, includes issues of land preservation through bottom-up solutions, regenerative resource-based economies, divestment, changing our lifestyles, the real wealth in of resources versus the illusion of money, and how we are in a period of transformation that requires transitional ethics.
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15-10-2015 • 1 uur, 9 minuten, 3 seconden
Haitian student and American farmer meet shared challenges with different solutions
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12-10-2015 • 8 minuten, 58 seconden
The Riverside Project Round Table (Part 1)
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Today is the discussion recorded live at The Riverside Project outside of Charles Town, West Virginia. My guests are Nicole Luttrell of Deeply Rooted Design, Jesse Wyner of Liberty Root Farm, Ashley Davis, a permaculture design certified herbalist who runs Meadowsweet Botanicals, and Diane Blust, a former government employee starting her own permaculture homestead, Chicory Hill Farm.
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8-10-2015 • 46 minuten, 6 seconden
Jason Godesky - Myth Making and Storytelling
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1-10-2015 • 48 minuten, 46 seconden
Permabyte: Mother Earth News Fair 2016
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A look at my recent visit to the Mother Earth News Fair in Seven Springs, PA.
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28-9-2015 • 12 minuten, 45 seconden
Community Building - Clear Creek Round Table
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This episode is a round-table discussion recorded during a visit to the Clear Creek community in Kentucky. On a warm summer evening, with individual tables arranged in a single continuous space down the center of a one-room schoolhouse, I was welcomed in to the community composed of farmers, WWOOFers, artists, teachers, builders, and architects.
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24-9-2015 • 1 uur, 4 minuten, 52 seconden
Michael Nickels - Building Permaculture Schools in Africa
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My guest is Michael Nickels, a farmer and permaculture practitioner from Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, who runs Seven Ravens Permaculture Academy and Eco Forest. When not in Canada, Michael spends much of his time in Africa building schools that focus on teaching permaculture to children and their teachers.
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15-9-2015 • 1 uur, 7 minuten, 7 seconden
We Can All Be Builders
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This episode 1is the complete audio, including an audience question and answer session, from Eric Puro’s keynote address at Radicle Gathering on August 21, 2015.
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3-9-2015 • 54 minuten, 45 seconden
Episode 1535: Beyond the War on Invasive Species
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My guest for this episode is Tao Orion, author of Beyond the War on Invasive Species. Her book and the concepts of war and invasion form the basis of our conversation today. We take a broad view approach to this idea and move from the underpinnings of her perspective, stemming from heavy research that is well documented in the book, to the idea of restoration and how many modern techniques depend heavily on the chemical weapons of our war on plants: herbicides. Wrapping up Tao answers a series of listener questions. If you have questions after listening to this interview, get in touch with me. I’d like to have Tao back on the show in the near future so we can follow up on many of the ideas presented here. Email or call in with what you would like to know more about. The Permaculture Podcast or Finally, before we begin, this show is listener supported. Make a one time contribution using the donate link on the right hand side of the main page or become a recurring monthly patron at Patreon. You can find Tao's book, Beyond the War on Invasive Species at ChelseaGreen.com. If you use this link to purchase this book, a portion of the coverprice goes towards supporting this show. Something that I like very much about her book is how well researched it is, with copious endnotes. Whether or not you agree with Tao’s perspective on invasive species, there is no question where her ideas and evidence arose from. As someone who wants to see more scientific literacy and research in permaculture literature, I see this book as an entry into a new model for how to proceed with writing material for the community as well as a broader audience, filling a niche between a pop-science book and a peer reviewed journal entry. From there, what stood out for me in this conversation with Tao was her long-term, conscious approach to our interactions and decision making processes that extends our perspective forward, and backward, in time and space to consider not only what got us to this moment, but also where things can go into the future. The smooth cordgrass and being able to imagine that kind of ecological change based on the environment being constantly in state of transition. With that is the broadscale view of how to impact the problems that arise by digging down into the issue and creating larger, elegant solution. We are drawn out to ask bigger questions. Far too often, from my own personal experiences, it is easy to drill into the details without doing a larger analysis. We make decisions on the micro scale, rather than pulling out our macro-scope. A zone analysis is done of a single divisible space, be that land or waterway, and track the influences on it, but don’t step back and do that same analysis for the watershed or biome where that space is located. As we look to interface with larger problems and bring systems thinking to bear upon it, then we must step back and look at the systems that are at play, which brings us back to not looking at just the landscape, but also the social and economic structures. In doing so we can make choices that use the principles of permaculture to satisfy the ethics in a way that can have incredibly far reaching and lasting change. If there is anyway I can assist you in the problems and issues you face, get in touch. Email: The Permaculture Podcast From here, when this episode goes live I will be on my way to Kentucky for Radicle Gathering. If you are in the area and want to swing by the event starts Thursday August 20 and runs through Sunday August 23, 2015. Tickets for the event are very reasonable, and there is camping allowed on-site so you can stay the whole weekend and learn about earth skills and permaculture, plus get to listen to great music each night. Find out more at RadicleGathering.com Until the next time, take care of Earth, yourself, and each other.
20-8-2015 • 55 minuten, 7 seconden
Melanie G. Snyder - Restorative Justice (Best Of)
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This episode is a Best Of release of the interview with Melanie G. Snyder.
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13-8-2015 • 1 uur, 23 seconden
Taylor Proffitt - 10 Completely Inspiring Permaculture Podcasts
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This article is by Taylor Proffit, and originally posted at NuMundo.org and reprinted/recorded as a podcast with permission.
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10-8-2015 • 10 minuten, 6 seconden
Toby Hemenway - The Permaculture City
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6-8-2015 • 46 minuten, 31 seconden
Guest Editing Permaculture Design Magazine
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The guest for this episode is Adam Brock, a past guest of the show, who joins me to talk about his role as a guest editor for an upcoming issue of Permaculture Design Magazine. This is a follow-up to my conversation with John Wages about the art and craft of producing a print permaulture publication.
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30-7-2015 • 21 minuten, 44 seconden
Urban Permaculture in Baltimore, Maryland
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My guests for this episode are Eric and Victoria of Charm City Farms, a permaculture-based urban agriculture initiative that focuses on educating and supporting individuals and communities in and around Baltimore, Maryland.
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23-7-2015 • 59 minuten, 58 seconden
It Takes a Whole Child to Raise a Village
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My guests for this episode are David Blumenkrantz and Jen Mendez. They share with us the idea of youth and community development through rites of passage. This is a conversation that encompasses education, teaching children permaculture, community development, what it means to grow up, and four of the major life experiences shared by most cultures. Those include birth, adolescence, marriage, and death.
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16-7-2015 • 53 minuten, 17 seconden
David Bollier - The Commons
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10-7-2015 • 52 minuten, 13 seconden
John Wages - Permaculture Design Magazine
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My guest for this episode is John Wages the new editor of Permaculture Design magazine.
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1-7-2015 • 40 minuten, 13 seconden
Ben Weiss & Dave Jacke - Getting Right With Ourselves & Building Community
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This episode is the second half of a two-part Susquehanna Permaculture Round Table discussion that took place at my friend Seppi’s house on Wednesday, June 3, 2015. Since Charles Eisenstein had to leave after the first recording, this piece features Ben Weiss and Dave Jacke as the panelists and includes several members of the live home audience joining in to share their thoughts and questions on the topics at hand. With a mixture of humor and honesty, we continue talking about how to become right with ourselves and others in order to find and build community, and the right livelihood. Be sure and check out the first episode, which includes Charles Eisenstein on the panel, if you haven’t heard it already.
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25-6-2015 • 1 uur, 10 minuten, 6 seconden
Penny Livingston-Stark - Peacemaking and Permaculture
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My guest for this episode is Penny Livingston-Stark. Penny is a long time permaculture practitioner and teacher who operates the Regenerative Design Institute in Bolinas, California.
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17-6-2015 • 47 minuten, 16 seconden
Right Livelihood - Ben Weiss, Dave Jacke, and Charles Eisenstein
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