Permaculture Realized Podcast

By Levi Meeuwenberg of Realeyes Homestead

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The Permaculture Realized Podcast delivers practical skills and knowledge to build your ecologically restorative homestead, farm, neighborhood, or business based on Permaculture concepts and methods.

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Ep37, Carbon Tax: How it Wo...

05.03.2017

Todays guest is Lina Bird who is very active in the Washington DC branch of the Citizens Climate Lobby. The Citizens Climate Lobby is a non-profit, non-partisan grassroots organization with chapters all over the country, with the aim of lobbying ...

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05.03.2017 Ep37, Carbon Tax: How it Works with Lina Bird Todays guest is Lina Bird who is very active in the Washington DC branch of the Citizens Climate Lobby. The Citizens Climate Lobby is a non-profit, non-partisan grassroots organization with chapters all over the country, with the aim of lobbying ...
04.19.2017 Ep36, Our Right to Farm with Randy Buchler This past winter I had the pleasure of visiting my friends Randy and Libby Buchler and their family at their farm, Shady Grove Farm in Michigans Upper Peninsula. In 2009, they recieved a notice for alleged zoning violations regarding their ...
04.05.2017 Ep35, We Are the Forest with Nathan Ayers Today we’re talking to Nathan Ayers who teaches Permaculture to students of all ages in Michigan. This is Nathans second time on the show, and it’s always a great time having him. If you like this one, be sure to ...
03.22.2017 Ep34, How to Start an Edible Plant Nursery with Sean Dembrosky This weeks episode is about how to start your own edible permaculture plant nursery with special guest, Sean Dembrosky of Edible Acres. Edible Acres is a small homestead and plant nursery that Sean runs in the Finger Lakes area of ...
03.16.2017 Ep33, Ecologically Regenerative Animal Agriculture with Peter Allen Today we're talking to Peter Allen who runs Mastodon Valley Farm in Wisconsin. Before getting in to regenerative farming, Peter was a student of ecology and complex systems theory, so he brings a unique an informed perspective to the use ...
03.07.2017 E32, Bicycle-Powered Community Composting with Ried Meyer Today’s guest is a good friend of mine who started up a bicycle powered community compost pickup business here in Northern Michigan. We discuss his experience with starting up the project, why this model has a ton of oppotunity for ...
02.27.2017 Ep31, Top Plants for Temperate Climate Permaculture with Bryce Ruddock Today's guest Bryce Ruddock, is an author, educator and avid forest gardener from Wisconsin. Today Bryce shares his favorite plants to grow from among the hundreds of species that he's experimented with at his home. I definitely recommend getting your ...
02.21.2017 Ep30, Air, Water, Food, Shelter, Kinship, Meaning (Part 2) This episode is a follow up on episode 27. If you missed it I highly recommend you check it out. In that episode we did an analysis of what humans need to flourish. So now, using what we learned from ...
02.14.2017 Ep29, Peter Bane 2020 - Climate Cooling We Can Believe In! Today’s guest is Peter Bane who is the president of the Permaculture Insitute of North America, he wrote the Permaculture Handbook, literally, he has built and lived in eco-villages and self-sufficient homesteads for decades. and has taught dozens and dozens ...
02.06.2017 Ep28, Inside COP22 Marrakech with Albert Bates Todays guest is Albert Bates who we spoke to last year because he attended the COP21 Paris Climate Conference so he gave us the inside story on that in Episode 16. Albert also went to the latest Climate Conference, COP22 ...
01.28.2017 Ep27, Air Water Food Shelter Kinship Meaning (Part 1) - Permaculture Realized Podcast There’ll be few main parts to this episode. I’m going to start out by doing a survey of kind of our basic biological human needs. So you know food, energy, shelter, connection, love that type of thing. (our global life ...
04.30.2016 Ep26, Choosing the Best Homestead Property with Ben Falk - Permaculture Realized Podcast Episode 26, Choosing the Best Homestead Property with Ben Falk TOPICS: * Setting Goals * Analyzing the clients needs, strengths, resources etc * Determining geographic region * Access? Water? Slope? Soil? Existing wildlife/forest? Existing infrastructure (house, barn utilities)? * Better ...
04.15.2016 Ep25, Permaculture Homesteading with Justin Rhodes - Permaculture Realized Podcast Episode 25, Permaculture Homesteading with Justin Rhodes Topics Covered: * How they got started with farming and chickens * Protecting chickens from predators (in the winter) * Keep chickens warm using the sun * Lazy (but productive!) Gardening with Chickens ...
04.06.2016 Ep24, Growing Nutrient Dense Food with Dan Kittredge - Permaculture Realized Podcast Today's guest, Dan Kittrege has been an organic farmer since childhood, and has been developing a deep understanding of how a nutrient rich soil leads to healthier plants and healthier foods and ultimately healthier people and planet. He created the ...
03.31.2016 Ep23, Permaculture Farming at Cooperative 518 with Alec Gioseffi and Lauren Nagy - Permaculture Realized Podcast Today's guests Alec Gioseffi and Lauren Nagy run the CSA Farm Cooperative 518 in Princeton, New Jersey. They provide nourishing food to the local community using permaculture farming practices. The farm is home to chickens, cats, sheep, pigs, nine humans, ...
03.23.2016 Ep22, How to do Non-Profit Permaculture with Robyn Mello - Permaculture Realized Podcast Today's guest is Robyn Mello. I met Robyn in November at the Advanced Permaculture Course I took in Akron, OH. I got to learn all about the non-profit she works for, the Philadelphia Orchard Project. They're putting in public orchard ...
03.17.2016 Ep21, Creating an Abundant Permaculture Group with Jesse Tack - Permaculture Realized Podcast Today's guest is Jesse Tack based out of Ypsilanti, Michigan. Jesse founded and helps run the very active permaculture group; Abundant Michigan Permaculture Ypsilanti. Or AMPY for short. We get to hear about how AMPY got started and has evolved ...
03.08.2016 Ep20, Creating a Permaculture Guild with Kate Heiber-Cobb - Permaculture Realized Podcast Today's guest is Kate Heiber Cobb, who created and runs the Madison Area Permaculture Guild out of Madison Wisconsin. She is a Permaculture teacher and educator, and has done a lot with bringing Permaculture to urban regions. Today we talk ...
03.02.2016 Ep19, Why Should I Take a Permaculture Design Course? with Rhonda Baird - Permaculture Realized Podcast That's a taste of some of the types of things you would learn by taking a Permaculture Design Course. Today I'm talking to Rhonda Baird about why you would want to take a PDC, what it covers, and what you ...
02.17.2016 Ep18, Flint Water Crisis Permaculture Solutions with Nathan Ayers - Permaculture Realized Podcast Today's guest is Nathan Ayers, who heads up Chiwara Permaculture out of Ann Arbor, Michigan and is currently focusing on Flint Water Crisis Permaculture Solutions. Nathan also does a lot of work integrating permaculture into traditional educational institutions from kindergarten ...
02.09.2016 Ep17, Carbon Farming - Crops to Stop Climate Change with Eric Toensmeier - Permaculture Realized Podcast Eric Toensmeier is the award-winning author of the books Perennial Vegetables and Paradise Lot, which describes how he converted his run-down city lot into a diverse plant sanctuary in Massachusets. He was also the co-author to Dave Jacke from episode ...
02.03.2016 Ep16, COP21 Insights from the Paris Climate Conference with Albert Bates - Permaculture Realized Podcast Albert Bates is a longtime influential figure in environmental activism, and the ecovillage and permaculture movements. He's a lawyer, an author and a teacher, who has been director of the Ecovillage Training Center at The Farm in Summertown, Tennessee since ...
01.26.2016 Ep15, Spiral Ridge Permaculture with Cliff Davis - Permaculture Realized Podcast Today's guest, Cliff Davis was telling me that having all those pigs and plants to care for makes it hard to leave home and travel to experience new cultures and perspectives. And he values those experiences for personal growth and ...
01.19.2016 Ep14, Edible Forest Gardens, Coppice, and Culture Design with Dave Jacke - Permaculture Realized Podcast Today's guest is Dave Jacke who has been mentioned several times already in previous episodes. He was the co-author of the book that I'm no longer allowed to call the "bible" of designing edible forest garden ecosystems, which is Edible ...
01.12.2016 Ep13, Sacred Earth Landscaping and Farm with Eran Rhodes - Permaculture Realized Podcast Today's guest is Eran Rhodes of Sacred Earth Landscaping soon to be based out of his new family farm in Benzie County, Michigan. Before moving northwards, he started his own permaculture landscaping business in Chicago, traveled around working at many ...
01.07.2016 Ep12, Putting the Art in Permaculture with Penny Krebiehl - Permaculture Realized Podcast Our guest today is a creative individual who brings the community together, and connects like-minded people. She teaches and spreads permaculture, she's an artist, a garden-farmer, a teacher, and can make a real tasty pie. She's my good friend, Penny ...
12.22.2015 Ep11, Regenerative Agriculture with Paul and Sharron May of The May Farm - Permaculture Realized Podcast Today's guests, Paul and Sharron May, run a small farm called The May Farm in Frankfort, MI near us here in the northern part of the Lower Peninsula. They apply a permaculture approach to their homestead, and farm, and have ...
12.16.2015 Ep10, Just Plant Trees with Jake Milarch of Archangel Ancient Tree Archive - Permaculture Realized Podcast An old-growth forest is a forest that has lived for many centuries, sometimes even millenia without significant disturbance and so they possess unique ecological features found no-where else on earth.
12.03.2015 Ep9, City Permaculture, Design of Urban Landscapes with Levi Meeuwenberg - Permaculture Realized Podcast Today's episode is a little unique because there is no guest to interview. Instead I'll be sharing some of the many take-aways from a recent Advanced Permaculture Design Course I took in Akron, Ohio. This will be a way to ...
11.25.2015 Ep8, Creating Edible Landscapes and Forest Garden Ecosystems with Fred Meyer - Permaculture Realized Podcast Today's guest is Fred Meyer, who is the founder of the non-profit called Backyard Abundance in Johnson County, Iowa. Backyard Abundance creates beautiful, environmentally beneficial landscapes that produce food for humans and wildlife. Basically, Fred and his team are turning ...
11.17.2015 Ep7, The Strawbale Studio, Thatch Roofs, Earth Plaster and Natural Building with Deanne Bednar - Permaculture Realized Podcast Today's guest is Deanne Bednar, who runs the Strawbale Studio, which is a education, and demonstration center for natural building, and natural living.
10.28.2015 Ep6, Woodcraft, Ecological Design, and Holistic Farm Integration with Mark Angelini - Permaculture Realized Podcast Todays guest is Mark Angelini, the other half of Roots 2 Fruits Ecological Design in Southern Michigan. We had his business partner, Trevor Newman, on here on episode 3. Mark is a generalized specialist. His work spans from art and ...
10.20.2015 Ep5, Commercial Scale Composting and Recycling with Andy Gale - Permaculture Realized Podcast Early in the spring this year we began using Realeyes Homestead as the commercial scale composting site for Traverse City. It has been a great partnership with Bay Area Recycling for Charities, a non-profit that created and runs the composting ...
10.14.2015 Ep4, Water Issues, Drought in Brazil, and Growing a New Future with Kat Curtis - Permaculture Realized Podcast Todays episode focuses on water. A broad topic for sure, but a pretty important one since basically all life forms depend on access to clean water to survive. As you probably know, our bodies are 60% water. Water is vital ...
09.23.2015 Ep1, Why We Do Permaculture a Call to Action with Peter Bane - Permaculture Realized Podcast Today’s guest is one my good friends and mentors Peter Bane, who is one of the most experienced permaculture teachers in the midwest. He’s the author of the Permaculture Handbook; Garden Farming for Town and Country. He’s also been the ...
09.23.2015 Ep2, The Permaculture Journey: Health, Apples, Fiber and Alpacas with Samantha Graves - Permaculture Realized Podcast Today's guest is Samantha Graves of Healing Tree Farm at the historic DeYoungs farm in Northern Michigan. There, Samantha and her family are planting a Permaculture orchard and have had livestock like chickens, sheep and alpacas and are getting involved ...
09.23.2015 Ep3, Restoring an Old Apple Tree Orchard and a Sip of Hard Cider with Trevor Newman - Permaculture Realized Podcast We've still got a LOT to learn about plant propagation, grafting, pruning and the other arts of tree cultivation. We're blessed to have many experienced tree-whispers in our region like Archangel, and today's guest, Trevor Newman of Roots to Fruits.