Paul, Beau, and Samantha sit down to discuss Paul’s favourite topic: Hugelkultur! What it is, how to make it, what to and not to put in it, and why pure lasagna gardening might not be the best addon for it. And, yes, you can use simple dirt to make them if you don’t have enough soil.

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Paul gets to the end of Alexandra’s long list of topics, with the two of them discussing non-profits, how they’d apply (or not) to permies, and finishing off with a discussion on communities, Paul’s style of running them and the need for a better recipe for making new ones.

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Unable to be contained to a mere one two-part podcast, Alexandra is back with another one. This time covering the local cats, their new rocket-ajacent houses, and Alexandra’s experience raising her kids on site without the sometimes expected Paul-daycare.

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Paul and Alexandra keep going down her list of knickknacks to discuss, which include how BBs are accepted or rejected, what to do if one of yours is rejected, how much faff the SKIP project is compared to college, and a surprising amount of people that do SKIP to help with depression.

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Paul talks with Alexandra about her experience staying at the Fisher-Price house with her kids, her experience with running the Rocket Mass Heater for a month for a BB, the cost of doing SKIP (or lack thereof), and how engineering planners like her can face unexpected complications.

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Paul, Mike, Tim, Rebekah, and Clay continue discussing Paul’s GAMCOD programme, where they started from, their time investment, and what should be grown in such a garden to get as many calories as possible, why soybeans are blacklisted, and any qualifying video that gets used can get $400 per minute used in the upcoming film.

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Paul, Mike, Tim, Rebekah, and Clay discuss Paul’s GAMCOD programme, in which you show that you can grow food on a 200 sq ft plot of dirt and record the process on video, their experiences with it, and attempt to dispel a few common misconceptions about it.

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Paul, Alan, Stephen and Clay continue discussing faecal management systems, with the goal of making one that can scale up to deal with lots of people. They also discuss other poop loving plants like bamboo, or maybe creating a much more spread out system and using it as pasture.

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Paul, Alan, Steven and Clay continue the discussion about poop, with Paul aiming to replace sewage plants even in areas that ban compost toilets, and Alan feeling that the alpha testing is complete, and discussing weather humanure or willow feeders are safer in regards to pathogens.

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Paul sits down with Steven, Clay, and Alan Booker to discuss other methods of dealing with human waste, aka poop. There’s a lower limit of about 1m3 for a compost heap, so why not put it underground and put a willow tree in it to keep it in one place?

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