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The Permaculture Podcast

Caring for Earth, Ourselves, and Each Other.
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Karl Treen - Teaching with Games: Food Forest Card Game

Visit Our Sponsor: Foraged.Market Donate Directly: via PayPal -or- Venmo @permaculturepodcast Want to listen to more conversations about Permaculture? Browse the extensive archives of the show. 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 coo...

Oct 30, 20171 hr 2 min

Lisa Stokke - Next 7

Visit Our Sponsor: Foraged.Market Donate Directly: via PayPal -or- Venmo @permaculturepodcast Want to listen to more conversations about Permaculture? Browse the extensive archives of the show. 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 retur...

Oct 20, 201757 min

Viktor Zaunders - Local Food Nodes

Visit Our Sponsor: Foraged.Market Donate Directly: via PayPal -or- Venmo @permaculturepodcast Want to listen to more conversations about Permaculture? Browse the extensive archives of the show. 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 i...

Oct 10, 201740 min

Paul Hellier - Fair Food Forager

Visit Our Sponsor: Foraged.Market Donate Directly: via PayPal -or- Venmo @permaculturepodcast Want to listen to more conversations about Permaculture? Browse the extensive archives of the show. 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 al...

Sep 20, 201749 min

Joel Salatin - Farming, Experience, and Mastery

Visit Our Sponsor: Foraged.Market Donate Directly: via PayPal -or- Venmo @permaculturepodcast Want to listen to more conversations about Permaculture? Browse the extensive archives of the show. 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. Learn More...

Sep 10, 201759 min

Adam Brock - Change Here Now

Visit Our Sponsor: Foraged.Market Donate Directly: via PayPal -or- Venmo @permaculturepodcast Want to listen to more conversations about Permaculture? Browse the extensive archives of the show. 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? Learn More...

Aug 20, 201750 min

Together Resilient

Visit Our Sponsor: Foraged.Market Donate Directly: via PayPal -or- Venmo @permaculturepodcast Want to listen to more conversations about Permaculture? Browse the extensive archives of the show. 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? Learn More...

Aug 10, 201752 min

David Holmgren - Revising Permaculture

Visit Our Sponsor: Foraged.Market Donate Directly: via PayPal -or- Venmo @permaculturepodcast Want to listen to more conversations about Permaculture? Browse the extensive archives of the show. 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 als...

Jul 30, 20171 hr 2 min

Permaculture Magazine, North America

Visit Our Sponsor: Foraged.Market Donate Directly: via PayPal -or- Venmo @permaculturepodcast Want to listen to more conversations about Permaculture? Browse the extensive archives of the show. 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 po...

Jul 20, 201759 min

Permabyte: Matt Winters - The Gift

Visit Our Sponsor: Foraged.Market Donate Directly: via PayPal -or- Venmo @permaculturepodcast Want to listen to more conversations about Permaculture? Browse the extensive archives of the show. 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. Learn More...

Jul 17, 20179 min

Eddy Garcia - Natural Swimming Pools

Visit Our Sponsor: Foraged.Market Donate Directly: via PayPal -or- Venmo @permaculturepodcast Want to listen to more conversations about Permaculture? Browse the extensive archives of the show. 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 id...

Jul 10, 201743 min

Nomad Seed Project

Visit Our Sponsor: Foraged.Market Donate Directly: via PayPal -or- Venmo @permaculturepodcast Want to listen to more conversations about Permaculture? Browse the extensive archives of the show. My guest for this episode is Zach Elfers of Nomad 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 Loneli...

Jun 25, 201747 min

Fred Kirschenmann - Planning for Future Generations

Visit Our Sponsor: Foraged.Market Donate Directly: via PayPal -or- Venmo @permaculturepodcast Want to listen to more conversations about Permaculture? Browse the extensive archives of the show. 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 ...

Jun 15, 201759 min

David Holmgren - On Permaculture

Visit Our Sponsor: Foraged.Market Donate Directly: via PayPal -or- Venmo @permaculturepodcast Want to listen to more conversations about Permaculture? Browse the extensive archives of the show. Learn More...

Jun 05, 201753 min

1716 - Climate Change and The Path Ahead

Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast 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...

May 25, 201745 min

Roundtable: Mid-Atlantic Permaculture Convergence Q&A

Visit Our Sponsor: Foraged.Market Donate Directly: via PayPal -or- Venmo @permaculturepodcast Want to listen to more conversations about Permaculture? Browse the extensive archives of the show. 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. Learn More...

May 10, 201724 min

Patricia Daly - The Ketogenic Kitchen

Visit Our Sponsor: Foraged.Market Donate Directly: via PayPal -or- Venmo @permaculturepodcast Want to listen to more conversations about Permaculture? Browse the extensive archives of the show. 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. Throu...

Apr 30, 201749 min

Warren Brush and Jesse Peterson - What Sustains You?

Visit Our Sponsor: Foraged.Market Donate Directly: via PayPal -or- Venmo @permaculturepodcast Want to listen to more conversations about Permaculture? Browse the extensive archives of the show. 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? Learn More...

Apr 10, 20171 hr 8 min

​​​​​​​Eddy Garcia - Natural Aquaponics

Visit Our Sponsor: Foraged.Market Donate Directly: via PayPal -or- Venmo @permaculturepodcast Want to listen to more conversations about Permaculture? Browse the extensive archives of the show. 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. Learn More...

Mar 30, 201738 min

Ethan Roland Soloviev - Regenerative Agriculture

Visit Our Sponsor: Foraged.Market Donate Directly: via PayPal -or- Venmo @permaculturepodcast Want to listen to more conversations about Permaculture? Browse the extensive archives of the show. 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, ...

Mar 10, 201729 min

Jen Mendez and Matt Bibeau - Place Based Education and IPEC (Part II)

Visit Our Sponsor: Foraged.Market Donate Directly: via PayPal -or- Venmo @permaculturepodcast Want to listen to more conversations about Permaculture? Browse the extensive archives of the show. 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: Commu...

Feb 28, 201749 min

Botho Willer - Plant Buddies and Open Education

Visit Our Sponsor: Foraged.Market Donate Directly: via PayPal -or- Venmo @permaculturepodcast Want to listen to more conversations about Permaculture? Browse the extensive archives of the show. How do we make sustainability, permaculture resources, and education more accessible? Are free and open source tools a way to answer that question? Learn More...

Feb 20, 201727 min

Bryan Welch - B Corporations: Business as a force for good.

Visit Our Sponsor: Foraged.Market Donate Directly: via PayPal -or- Venmo @permaculturepodcast Want to listen to more conversations about Permaculture? Browse the extensive archives of the show. 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. Learn More...

Feb 10, 201747 min

Jessa Fowler - Growing Food, Growing Communities with an AMI Fellowship

Visit Our Sponsor: Foraged.Market Donate Directly: via PayPal -or- Venmo @permaculturepodcast Want to listen to more conversations about Permaculture? Browse the extensive archives of the show. 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. Learn More...

Feb 05, 201713 min

Jen Mendez and Matt Bibeau - Place Based Education and IPEC (Part 1)

Visit Our Sponsor: Foraged.Market Donate Directly: via PayPal -or- Venmo @permaculturepodcast Want to listen to more conversations about Permaculture? Browse the extensive archives of the show. In this interview my friend Jen Mendez, of PermieKids.com , speaks with Matt Bibeau of Institute of Permaculture Education for Children (IPEC) . Learn More...

Jan 30, 201751 min

Fred Kirschenmann - Farming for Future Generations

Visit Our Sponsor: Foraged.Market Donate Directly: via PayPal -or- Venmo @permaculturepodcast Want to listen to more conversations about Permaculture? Browse the extensive archives of the show. 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 Susta...

Jan 20, 201751 min

Steven Martyn - Reconnecting with Place

Visit Our Sponsor: Foraged.Market Donate Directly: via PayPal -or- Venmo @permaculturepodcast Want to listen to more conversations about Permaculture? Browse the extensive archives of the show. 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. Learn More...

Jan 10, 201750 min

What was. What shall be.

Visit Our Sponsor: Foraged.Market Donate Directly: via PayPal -or- Venmo @permaculturepodcast Want to listen to more conversations about Permaculture? Browse the extensive archives of the show. What can I say, 2016 was a tumultuous year for many. Learn More...

Jan 02, 201718 min

Mary Reynolds - The Garden Awakening

Visit Our Sponsor: Foraged.Market Donate Directly: via PayPal -or- Venmo @permaculturepodcast Want to listen to more conversations about Permaculture? Browse the extensive archives of the show. My guest for this episode is Mary Reynolds, the Irish author of The Garden Awakening: Designs to Nurture Our Land and Ourselves. Learn More...

Dec 20, 201655 min

1645 - Surviving the Future with Shaun Chamberlin

Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast 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 ...

Dec 10, 20161 hr 3 min
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