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.)...
Aug 12, 2023•10 min•Ep 60•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Clima...
Aug 07, 2023•7 min•Ep 59•Transcript available on Metacast Show Notes Support the Podcast with a One Time Donation Via PayPal Or, using Venmo Become a Sustaining Supporter Join our Community Patreon 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 Re...
Aug 01, 2023•7 min•Ep 58•Transcript available on Metacast Join The Permaculture Podcast Discord Server! The 2023 Venie Holmgren Environmental Poetry Prize Learn More About the Prize and Enter Today! Ben and bEartha Watch the Trailer! The Regenerative Landscaper by Erik Ohlsen Pre-order today from Synergetic Press Facing a Future of Drought Click Here to Access the New Yorks Times Article 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 Inter...
Jul 24, 2023•8 min•Ep 57•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Jul 15, 2023•5 min•Ep 56•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Sign up to be one of the first t...
Jul 10, 2023•6 min•Ep 55•Transcript available on Metacast 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 I...
Jul 01, 2023•7 min•Ep 54•Transcript available on Metacast 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.
May 28, 2023•36 min•Ep 50•Transcript available on Metacast 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 ....
May 21, 2023•38 min•Ep 49•Transcript available on Metacast 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.
May 18, 2023•7 min•Ep 53•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
May 14, 2023•42 min•Ep 48•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Br...
May 07, 2023•57 min•Ep 47•Transcript available on Metacast 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 .
Apr 28, 2023•43 min•Ep 46•Transcript available on Metacast 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, calculat...
Apr 21, 2023•45 min•Ep 45•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Apr 18, 2023•22 min•Ep 52•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Apr 14, 2023•57 min•Ep 44•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Visit Our Partners Wild Abundance - Top 10 Vegetables to Grow that Will Really Feed You...
Apr 11, 2023•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Apr 07, 2023•43 min•Ep 43•Transcript available on Metacast 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 . Cultural Emergence Kickstarter Visit Our Partners Wild Abundance - Top 10 Vegetables to Grow that Will Really Feed You! Marjory Wildcraft - How to Grow Foo...
Mar 31, 2023•21 min•Ep 51•Transcript available on Metacast 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 . Visit Our Pa...
Mar 28, 2023•51 min•Ep 42•Transcript available on Metacast 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 . Visit Our Partners Wild Abundance - Top 10 Vegetables to Grow that Will Really Feed You! Marjory Wildcraft - How to Grow Food! Donate Directly t...
Mar 21, 2023•41 min•Ep 41•Transcript available on Metacast 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 . Visit Our Partners Wild Abundance - Top 10 Vegetables to Grow that Will Really Feed You! Marjory Wildcraft - How to Grow Food! Donate Directly to the Podcast: PayPal -or- Venmo @p...
Mar 14, 2023•49 min•Ep 40•Transcript available on Metacast 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 .
Mar 07, 2023•14 min•Ep 37•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Permacult...
Feb 28, 2023•54 min•Ep 39•Transcript available on Metacast Visit Our Partners: Wild Abundance - Top 10 Vegetables to Grow that Will Really Feed You! Marjory Wildcraft - How to Grow Food! Donate Directly to the Podcast: PayPal -or- Venmo @permaculturepodcast Join Our Patreon Community: Patreon.com/permaculturepodcast Want to listen to more conversations about Permaculture? Browse the extensive archives of the show. 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...
Feb 21, 2023•36 min•Ep 38•Transcript available on Metacast 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 ...
Feb 17, 2023•10 min•Ep 36•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Feb 14, 2023•56 min•Ep 34•Transcript available on Metacast 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 .
Feb 07, 2023•49 min•Ep 33•Transcript available on Metacast 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 In...
Jan 28, 2023•47 min•Ep 32•Transcript available on Metacast 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 mo...
Jan 25, 2023•14 min•Ep 35•Transcript available on Metacast 
