The Permaculture Podcast

My guest for this episode is Ann Stone, an education program associate with Penn State University who coordinates the Pennsylvania Women’s Agriculture Network, an organization dedicated to connecting women farmers of all experience levels for networking and education opportunities. During this interview Ann and I discuss what this program is, how it came to be, [...]

My guest for this episode is Larry Korn, a natural farming and permaculture instructor from California, who studied with Masanobu Fukuoka. The late Mr. Fukuoka remains one of the thought leaders whose work became integral to the body of knowledge and underlying philosophy we call permaculture. Larry is directly responsible for helping bring Mr. Fukuoka’s [...]

My guest for this episode is Arthur Haines, a foraging author and teacher, as well as a plant taxonomist with a deep interest in wild foods. In addition to his biology work with the New England Wild Flower Society, he also runs the Delta Institute of Natural History, where students can learn foraging, wildcrafting, and [...]

My guest for this episode is Niki Jabbour, a garden writer and author of The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener who lives in Nova Scotia, Canada. I’ve been aware of Niki and her work for sometime having read her book after my wife checked it out of the library. I wound up buying a copy for my [...]

This episode is a review of Ben Falk’s recently released book The Resilient Farm and Homestead, published by Chelsea Green. The quick review: I enjoyed this book and think it’s a worthwhile addition to anyone’s library if you are looking to design a homestead, or small farm, around permaculture. I learned quite a bit about [...]

My guest for this episode is Josh Trought of D Acres in New Hampshire. Josh is a working farmer, woodworker, educator, and might I dare say, community builder. In this conversation we start, as usual, with his background and how he came to be a working farmer and a name known in the permaculture community. [...]

My guest for this week is Erik Ohlsen, owner of Permaculture Artisans an ecological design and installation firm, as well as licensed contractor, in California. He is also a permaculture teacher and began teaching in 2001. He was suggested as a guest on the facebook page for the show, facebook.com/thepermaculturepodcast. If you’d like to suggest [...]

My guest for this episode is Bob Theis, an architect familiar with natural building and permaculture from northern California. Mr. Theis was recommended by Todd on the Facebook page for the show, facebook.com/thepermaculturepodcast. In doing the background research to prepare for this interview I was excited to see that Mr. Theis worked with, and learned [...]

This episode is a review of Growing for Market magazine. Founded in 1992 by Lynn Byczynski, shortly after she and her husband stared market farming in Kansas, Growing for Market was a response to the lack of magazines available for small growers, and focuses mostly on practical how-to pieces. Some of the topics include vegetable [...]

My guest for this episode is Dr. Wayne Dorband, a member of the board of the Institute of Ecolonomics. He joins me to discuss what ecolonomics is, and how he and his colleagues are growing this idea, as well as how you can be a part of the process. Dr. Dorband joined me several months [...]

My guest for this episode of Nathaniel Mulcahy, owner and founder of World Stove, a company that produces and distributes pyrolytic gasification stoves all around the world. These stoves are tailored to fit the specific needs of each culture and community that uses them. Brent Verrill, a listener to the show and a contributor to [...]

My guest for the episode is Wayne Herring, owner, along with his wife Katherine and fellow family member Michael, of Herring’s Green Grass Farm. Wayne spent the last several years growing his pasture based meat operation while also being a steward of the land. This has not been an easy path, as you’ll hear, because, [...]

My guest for this episode is Ben Falk, owner of Whole Systems Design, LLC, and author of the forthcoming book The Resilient Farm and Homestead. He and I talk about his route to permaculture, the work of Whole Systems Design, the book, and his 10 acre farm, where he performed the research for the book. [...]

My guest for this episode is Kirsten Reinford, the founder of Joshua Farm, an organic urban farm in the city of Harrisburg. This is the second of the series on beginning farming. If you’d like to hear the first episode on this topic check out my interview with Erin Harvey. I wanted to speak with [...]

This episode is about my recent field day on “Renewable Energy for the Farm: Charcoal Production for Power & Fertility” where we covered three main topics: charcoal & biochar production, renewable energy, and wood lot management. The Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture and Village Acres Farm made this field day possible. Before we begin, I’d [...]