The Permaculture Podcast

This episode is based on a question I received asking: What is your design process? (site analysis, implementation, and how you approach a design) Based on this, I walk through the three phases my design process has evolved through over time: 1. Collecting Everything 2. Refining Focus 3. Educating Clients

In this episode, I talk about something that we don’t address enough: the hard work of Permaculture is boring. It’s not heroic. It doesn’t make for a great YouTube short or video to add to your story. The pictures that come out of it are rarely art, or something you’d want to post to Instagram. I hope this episode reminds you why we show up day after day, week after week, for the small, routine tasks of permaculture. If you found this helpful, share it with a friend who might be struggling on their journey right now, so it can be a bit of encouragement to keep going, even when it’s tedious. Until the next time, spend each day showing up and putting in the work, as you care for Earth, yourself, and each other.

An update with a bit of big news: we found, made a winning offer on a house in Cleveland, Ohio! When I decided to relaunch the show, I knew it was going to be a rollercoaster-like adventure, with possible delays, ups, downs, and time spent waiting. Thank you for your patience while we move our lives across state lines. Once the dust settles, things are shaping up to bring you new stories, experiments, and voices, from Cleveland, from Ohio, and from around the world. And if you have ideas for what we should tackle first, I’d love to hear from you. Send me an email: [email protected] or visit thepermaculturepodcast.com, click on contact, and send me a message there. Until the next time, spend each day exploring, enjoying, and building your local community, while taking care of Earth, your self, and each other.

Today, I want to talk about another question from Owen: "What are some common mistakes beginners make in permaculture design, and how can they be avoided?" The thoughts shared in this episode are only one perspecitve, my own. I'd love to hear other ideas on the need to slow down when practicing permaculture, so reach out if you'd like to share how you would do things differently. Text: 717-827-6266 Send me an email: [email protected] Or stop by thepermaculturepodcast.com, click on Contact, and send me a direct message.

My family and I are in the process of finding a house in a new city, which will bring a new future for us and the show. Listen to find out more about where we're going and what this means for The Permaculture Podcast.

Today's question comes from Owen: What does it look like to put a permaculture garden to bed for the winter? Mulching / tilling / planting cover crops / none of the above / something else?

The question for this episode is from Geoff: I'd love to hear your thoughts about how homestead sites can create a "whole nutrition" landscape with permaculture. What I mean, is that a "healthy balanced diet" typically includes sources for necessary nutrients, calories, minerals, proteins, carbohydrates/starches, etc. Growing the leafy greens, berries, fruit, vegetables is all very well and good -- but if we are seeking to create a 'whole nutrition' landscape, we need to re-evaluate how much area in the gardens are devoted to tubers/roots and protein sources like nuts (hazelnuts) or seeds (sunflower, serviceberry seeds) versus the more typical perennial greens. Ie Maybe way larger portions of the landscape should be devoted to tubers and fast-growing nuts/seeds than is typically seen in Permaculture Designs, for instance for PDC courses?! Recommended reading to accompany this episode: Gardening When It Counts by Steve Solomon Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappé Recipes for a Small Planet by Ellen Buchman Ewald

Support the Podcast! Donate Directly: via PayPal -or- Venmo @permaculturepodcast Join The Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/permaculturepodcast Today I’m joined by my friend Joshua Hughes as he shares the continued work of the team he’s a part of to create a jungle to marketplace supply chain with the launch of Rewild Organics. Learn More

Support the Podcast! Donate Directly: via PayPal -or- Venmo @permaculturepodcast Join The Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/permaculturepodcast Joshua Hughes return to share information about his latest venture Blacksheep Regenerative Resource Management, a invest with social responsibility. Learn More

In this episode are resources you can use to learn more about building shelters, creating cordage, creating your first everyday carry, foraging for food, elevating that food to cuisine, and the basics of first-aid if you're ever on your own or with a small group far away from a clinic or hospital. These skills also form the basis for building, or rebuilding, our communities in times of decline or disaster. My First Bushcrafting Book, Bushcraft by Richard Graves (Thriftbooks): https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/bushcraft-a-serious-guide-to-survival-and-camping_richard-h-graves/279713/item/1100554/ Stop the Bleed Online Class: https://www.stopthebleed.org/get-trained/online-course/ Where to Buy a C-A-T Tourniquet: https://www.narescue.com/combat-application-tourniquet-c-a-t.html Interviews With Sam Thayer (2013): https://thepermaculturepodcast.podbean.com/e/episode-1345-foraging-with-sam-thayer/ Sara Bir (2018): https://thepermaculturepodcast.podbean.com/e/1822-the-fruit-forager-s-companion/ Dina Falconi: https://thepermaculturepodcast.podbean.com/e/episode-1516-foraging-and-feasting-with-dina-falconi/ Pascal Baudar (2016) - The New Wildcrafted Cuisine: https://thepermaculturepodcast.podbean.com/e/1625-the-new-wildcrafted-cuisine-with-pascal-baudar/ Pascal Baudar (2018) - The Wildcrafting Brewer: https://thepermaculturepodcast.podbean.com/e/1825-the-wildcrafting-brewer-with-pascal-baudar/

Support the Podcast! Donate Directly: via PayPal -or- Venmo @permaculturepodcast Join The Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/permaculturepodcast 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. Learn More

Support the Podcast! Donate Directly: via PayPal -or- Venmo @permaculturepodcast Join The Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/permaculturepodcast Today's guest, in an interview recorded by co-host David Bilbrey, is the microbiologist and soil researcher Dr. Elaine Ingham. Learn More

Support the Podcast! Donate Directly: via PayPal -or- Venmo @permaculturepodcast Join The Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/permaculturepodcast 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. Learn More

Thoughts from a conversation with my friend Nathan, on how we can act in a world on fire, when we know we're not able to protest or be in the streets. Question: What causes and organizations do you support with your time and resources?

Support the Podcast! Donate Directly: via PayPal -or- Venmo @permaculturepodcast Join The Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/permaculturepodcast 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. Learn More

A response to Geoff's comment about designing out the designer, from my recent episode about my design process. What I'm Reading: People and Permaculture What I'm Listening To (Music Video): Psycho Killer by The Talking Heads Getting to Know One Another: What song(s) or musical artist(s) defined your life, now or when you were growing up?

Support the Podcast! Donate Directly: via PayPal -or- Venmo @permaculturepodcast Join The Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/permaculturepodcast In this episode from 2014, one of my favorite people from the permaculture community, Karryn Olson, 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. Learn More

Support the Podcast! Donate Directly: via PayPal -or- Venmo @permaculturepodcast Join The Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/permaculturepodcast My guest for today is Rhonda Baird, editor of Permaculture Design Magazine, and designer and educator at Sheltering Hills Design, LLC. Learn More

Support the Podcast! Donate Directly: via PayPal -or- Venmo @permaculturepodcast Join The Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/permaculturepodcast 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. Learn More