The Permaculture Podcast

My guest for this episode is Bill Sommers, president of the Permaculture Credit Union in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Though I’d heard about the Permaculture Credit Union before, I didn’t get around to looking into it further until Wes Roe, one of the board members of PCU, contacted me with the suggestion of talking to [...]

My guest for this episode is Lisa Fernandes, a permaculture practitioner and teacher, from Portland, Maine who is involved with the Eat Local Foods Coalition. We begin by talking about the Eat Local Foods Coalition which leads to talking about Community Supported Fisheries (CSF), a sea-food based analogue to Community Supported Agriculture, where consumers directly [...]

After spending many hours over the last two weeks speaking, trading email, and social media notes, with many people, I think the best course I can offer is what I’m calling a “Principles and Projects PDC+”. This episode details what that means. I want to offer something more than just the PDC that represents a [...]

My guest for this episode is Christopher Shein, a permaculture designer and teacher from the Bay area of California, who recently co-authored the book The Vegetable Gardener’s Guide to Permaculture: Creating an Edible Ecosystem. We discuss his book from the context of how he got involved with writing the book, working with a publisher, and [...]

My guest for this episode is Erin Harvey, a trained permaculture designer, who owns and runs The Kale Yard, a small scale farm, in Granville, Ohio. She set out in 2011, after many years of working on farms for others, to sow the soil for herself. We focus largely on her work of becoming established: [...]

My guest is Adam Brock, a trained permaculturist and the Director of Operations of The GrowHaus a Denver, Colorado, based non-profit practicing hydroponics and aquaponics. During our conversation we talk about The GrowHaus as a model for others who want to implement Urban Agriculture and along the way touch on invisible structures in Permaculture, engaging [...]

My guest for this episode is Andrew Millison and we talk about the Permaculture Design Course and his experiences teaching at both the collegiate and informal levels, on-site and on-line. Andrew co-taught my advanced permaculture design certificiate teacher training, along with Jude Hobbs and Rico Zook, so I went into this interview with a familiarity [...]

This show veers off the path some from usual episodes as I’m here to toss a question out, as the rather long title of this episode suggests, about what you, in particular, would expect or want out of an online Permaculture Design Course. Before getting to the student side of things, a question to the [...]

My guest for this episode is Rafter Sass Furguson, a PhD student at the University of Illinois whose doctoral thesis involves visiting and documenting 50 self-identified permaculture farms across the United States. Though that work forms the body of our discussion, along the way we touch on science literacy, permaculture education, crowd-funding of scientific research, [...]

To start the New Year, I look back over 2012 and consider the year ahead: the growth of the show, support, technology changes, website changes, and upcoming topics and guests. I say unequivocally: 2012 was a great year. After relaunching in mid-June, the show grew beyond my expectations. At that beginning 300 of you tuned [...]

My guest for this episode is Eric Toensmeier and we talk about the upcoming Financial Permaculture Workshop, to provide examples of applying the ideas of financial permaculture to the real world: building regenerative businesses, connecting with financiers because, as much as http://www.financialpermaculture.com/it would be great if we didn’t, these projects require money, and community development [...]

My guest for this episode is Bonnie Preston and we talk about systemic change: how to take action within the current political and social environment in the United States to effect change for the betterment of ourselves, our community, and the world around us. Though the conversation is largely U.S. -centric, the methods and actions [...]

My guest for this episode is Dan Kittredge of the Bionutrient Food Association, a non-profit organization dedicated to spreading the word about nutrient dense farming methods, nutrient dense foods, and ultimately to develop a device so growers and consumers to measure the nutritional quality of food in a way that is backed by scientific evidence. [...]

My guest for this episode is Connor Stedman who returns to wrap up our conversation on Carbon Farming with a discussion of 4 techniques for capturing and storing carbon in the soil. Those techniques are: Mulch and Compost Using Plants Using Animals Biochar If you haven’t listened to the first in this series, I highly [...]

The permaculture update for December 2012. Updates about the show, upcoming interviews, classes, and episodes. First, let me thank everyone who listens to the show or connects with it via the website or elsewhere. I couldn’t do this without that encouragement. Second, for everyone who’s made a donation or supported the show by spreading the [...]