The Permaculture Podcast

Permaculture Training Heathcote Botanical Gardens in Fort Pierce, Florida is holding a one day hand-on Permaculture class with Tia Meer and Adina Lehrman on July 21 from 9am to 3pm. The fee is $50. You can reserve a spot by calling 772-464-4672 or emailing: info [at] heathcotebotanicalgardens [dot] org. Daily Acts PDC Taught by Toby [...]

The interview in this episode is with one of my teachers Rico Zook. We met at the teacher training I took in 2011, along with Jude Hobbs and Andrew Millison. You can hear about that in experience in my review. I wanted to talk to Rico about his experiences with itinerant teaching of permaculture. He [...]

In this episode I speak with Caroline Riley of One World Permaculture and her work to teach permaculture to children and adults. A member of the Austin Permaculture Guild, she teaches at the Austin Community College and assists her husband, Michael Carberry, at the Whole Life Learning Center. Her permaculture instructors include Dick Pierce, Jude [...]

Susan Norris and Nathan Spivey, two of my friends from Transition Harriburg, take some of their time to discuss how they found the Transition movement, their training at Genesis Farm under the tutelage of Transition Boulder, now Transition Colorado, and then through their efforts to bring sustainability to the capital city of Pennsylvania. Along the [...]

A quick, no-frills, whirlwind tour of the Transition Town process to provide an overview ahead of the interview with Susan Norris and Nathan Spivey of Transition Harrisburg. If you would like to learn more about Transition before listening to that episode, please read Rob Hopkin’s website: Transition Culture If, after reading that site, your interest [...]

In this episode I speak with Ross Crutchfield of Making A Homestead, his site devoted to the projects and experiences of building his homestead one day at a time. Ross and I know each other from The Survival Podcast forum, which you will hear mentioned several times. The forums are an offshoot of Jack Spirko‘s [...]

An interview with Dillon Cruz, Permaculture Teacher and founder of the fledgling Permaculture Paid Forward project. How do you build a million villages? One person at a time, starting with your self. Once you find your place, how do you continue to build? By openly sharing your knowledge and resources with others, to the best [...]

In this episode: Connect with the Show: E-mail: show [at] thepermaculturepodcast.com Twitter: @permaculturecst Skype: permaculturepodcast Voicemail: 717-827-6266 Permaculture Teacher Training July 29 – August 4, 2012 in Cottage Grove Oregon with Jude Hobbs and Andrew Millison http://www.cascadiapermaculture.com/courses Permaculture Institute USA Permaculture Diploma The Professional Practice Pages where you can download all the information on the [...]

This episode starts off the series on soils. There are three total planned to cover this material starting with Soil Structure, then Good Soil, and finishing up the series with Degraded and Rebuilding Soil. Specifically, the following will be covered in this show: What is soil? Soil Texture Soil Tests: Ball and Jar Soil Horizons [...]

Depending on where you live finding a Permaculture Design Course to attend can be difficult enough.  Knowing whether or not it is worth your time and money to attend, even more so.  There are so many details that the answer isn’t always clear.  This episode is to help you find your way through what is [...]

Thank you to Andrew Millison for this piece of Permaculture themed music.  He gave me a few tracks to share with the world and those will be posted over the next few weeks. Listen, relax, and enjoy.

Taking on the task to travel to a residential course, be it a PDC or otherwise, can be daunting if you’ve never done it before or if your travel experience is limited.  Given the geographic regions where theses classes are held, and the infrequency with which they occur if your only knowledge of them comes [...]

As some of you who follow the show on Facebook may already know, I was in Cottage Grove, Oregon, USA to take an Advanced Permaculture Training in Teaching (i.e. Permaculture Teacher Training), with Jude Hobbs, Andrew Millison, and guest instructor Rico Zook.  In this episode I give a review of the course and consider some [...]

After putting together yesterday’s show on mulching, I decided to put together a spreadsheet to make calculating the amount of mulch you would need.  Included is also the option to include the prices, by bag or scoop, as well as delivery fees, so that you can have a running total before you go to the [...]

Here it is, the amazing, incredible, mulch show!  Ok, so mulch isn’t that exciting but it is a very useful ground cover in our Zone 1 Garden and other areas to cover the soil, keep down competitive plants, and reduce our watering needs. This show examines the following questions: What is mulch? Why should you [...]