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Storytelling for Social Change
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 Andrew Slack. He joins me to share his thoughts and personal experience on how to use storytelling to create social change. Learn More...
Dec 16, 2019•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Shaun Chamberlin - Surviving the Future
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. 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. Learn More...
Dec 10, 2019•1 hr 3 min
Ethan Hughes - What about Christmas?
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 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. Learn More...
Dec 01, 2019•10 min
Shaun Chamberlin - Lean Logic: The Work of David Fleming
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 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). Learn More...
Nov 25, 2019•56 min
Climate Change and The Path Ahead
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. 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 p...
Nov 12, 2019•45 min
Scaling up with Blacksheep
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 guests for this episode are Joshua Hughes and Amanda Wilson of VerdEnergia Pacifica and Blacksheep Regenerative Resource Management . Learn More...
Sep 19, 2019•1 hr
Broad Impact 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. "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?" Posted by Christopher Kopka during the May Ask ...
Jul 31, 2019•7 min
The Adaptive Habitat Program
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. (Pictured: The Design Squiggle , by Damien Newman as mentioned in this interview. CC BY-ND 3.0 US ) 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, calle...
Jul 05, 2019•27 min
Rising Earth Immersion
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 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 ...
May 29, 2019•41 min
Emmet Van Driesche - Carving Out a Living on the Land
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 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 re...
May 20, 2019•43 min
Rob Greenfield - Farming and Foraging a Complete Diet
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 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. Learn More...
May 10, 2019•44 min
Melissa Peet, Ph.D. - Tacit and Embodied Knowledge
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 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 wh...
Apr 30, 2019•46 min
Kevin Jones - Regenerative Business and Impact Investing
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 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 ar...
Apr 20, 2019•48 min
Horn Farm Center 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. 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 ...
Apr 10, 2019•45 min
Tim Krahn - Essential Rammed Earth Construction
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 Tim Krahn, a Canadian engineer, builder, and author of Essential Rammed Earth Construction from New Society Publishers . Learn More...
Mar 30, 2019•44 min
Ryan Rising and Leah Song - Permaculture Action Network
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. 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. Lear...
Mar 10, 2019•47 min
Zev Friedman - Co-Operate WNC, Mutual Aid, and the Scale of Collaboration
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 Zev Friedman, founder of Co-Operate WNC, a mutual aid organization in Western North Carolina. Learn More...
Feb 28, 2019•50 min
Kirsten Lie-Nielsen - So You Want To Be A Modern Homesteader
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. 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...
Feb 20, 2019•44 min
Rob Avis - Essentials of Rainwater Harvesting
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. Rob Avis, of Verge Permaculture, joins me to talk about rainwater harvesting. Learn More...
Feb 10, 2019•46 min
Propagate Ventures
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 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 regener...
Jan 30, 2019•1 hr
Warren Brush - Fostering a 500 Year Vision
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 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 li...
Jan 20, 2019•1 hr 12 min
Rhonda Baird - Organizing and Supporting Our Communities
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. 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 th...
Jan 10, 2019•49 min
What was, what is, what may come.
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. [caption id="attachment_4368" align="aligncenter" width="610"] Photo: © Anna Rutkovskaya - Dreamstime.com[/caption] Welcome to the final episode of 2018. In a few hours we’ll transition to the New Year. As I do every year as what was comes to an end, this is a time to look back over everything that has ha...
Jan 01, 2019•9 min
Joel Solomon - Whole System Economics
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. 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 domi...
Dec 20, 2018•1 hr
1839 - Reclaiming our Nutritional Wisdom: Nourishment with Fred Provenza
Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast 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. Visit Our Partner: Food Forest Card Game 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 t...
Dec 10, 2018•54 min
Lindsey Bender - Mushrooms and Mycology
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 Lindsey Bender, the chief mycologist for Field and Forest Products, Inc., a mushroom spawn and supply company located in Wisconsin. Learn More...
Nov 30, 2018•45 min
Karl Treen - Permaculture Play and Design Considerations
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 of Food Forest Card Game . He joins me to share where his life has gone since our interview last year . Learn More...
Nov 20, 2018•35 min
Kanyon Coyote Woman - Indian Canyon, Decolonizing, and Indigenous Value Systems
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 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 connecti...
Nov 10, 2018•1 hr 4 min
Jereme Zimmerman - Brew Beer Like a Yeti
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 friend Jereme Zimmerman, who joined me in 2015 to talk about Make Mead Like a Vikin g , returns today for this anniversary episode to talk about his latest book, Brew Beer Like a Yeti . Learn More...
Oct 10, 2018•49 min
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