Regenerative Skills

By Oliver Goshey

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Join us each week as we explore the worlds of permaculture, natural building, and regenerative living by interviewing industry leaders, artisans and innovators

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How to build a One Rock Dam...

03.05.2021

In today’s episode I spoke with Van Clothier about an innovative and subtle water erosion mitigation technique, and how to build a one rock dam. I know this might seem oddly specific, but after an interview with Brad Lancaster last ...

Regenerative Skills episodes:

03.05.2021 How to build a One Rock Dam to regenerate an erosion area In today’s episode I spoke with Van Clothier about an innovative and subtle water erosion mitigation technique, and how to build a one rock dam. I know this might seem oddly specific, but after an interview with Brad Lancaster last ...
02.26.2021 The Future of Regenerative Agriculture, expert panel 1 Welcome to the first edition of our monthly expert panels. This first edition starts off strong by addressing one of the most talked about issues of our time; understanding the future of regenerative agriculture. For this panel I teamed up ...
02.19.2021 How to Create a School Garden program How to start a school garden program For this week’s episode I reached out to Kaci Rae Chirstopher, the author of the new book The School Garden Curriculum, about how to create a school garden program Kaci is the volunteer ...
02.12.2021 How to create an edible ecosystem Zach Loeks, author of the edible ecosystem solution have you ever wondered what the difference between a garden and an edible ecosystem is? Do you want to know how you can create one in you own yard? In this episode ...
02.05.2021 How to Ask Better Questions for a regenerative future To kick of the new season of the Regenerative Skills podcast I wanted to set the tone by highlighting the invisible secret to all the successful design decisions I've ever made. Learning how to ask better questions has so much ...
01.01.2021 The Abundant Edge is becoming Regenerative Skills. Thank you for all your support! Welcome friends and family to the very last episode of the Abundant Edge podcast. I know I’ve built this up to feel a little final, but the truth is that this is just the beginning. I personally feel like I've ...
12.25.2020 The joy and liberation of growing food in your own home, with Claire Ratinon, author of How To Grow Your Dinner Without Leaving The House Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all of you friends and family around the world! I know that this has been an unusually trying year and though many of you may not be physically near the people you most want ...
12.18.2020 The link between regenerative farming, health and longevity, with Jennifer Maynard of Nutrition for Longevity One thing that’s happened more frequently as this podcast has grown and gained more listeners is that marketers and promotional agents have reached out to me to try to get their clients featured in an interview on the show. I ...
12.11.2020 The furture of Environmental leadership, with the winners of the Brower Youth Awards 2020 Today is a very special episode because it will be the first panel discussion that I’ve hosted with three inspiring guests. It’s also the first time that I’m speaking with leaders and change makers who are a little over half ...
12.04.2020 Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about silvopasture, with Steve Gabriel, author of “Silvopasture” Today’s interview was one that I was looking forward to for a long time and tried my best to include in the regenerative farming series earlier this year, but as luck would have it, our schedules didn’t match up in ...
11.27.2020 Working with nature to build soil health, with Robert Pavlis After last week’s session with Matt Powers, I want to add a second perspective on soil and the new science behind how we can restore it to health in our own gardens. For that perspective I got back in touch ...
11.20.2020 The fascinating new science of regenerating soil, with Matt Powers, author of “regenerative soil” Now that I've wrapped up the series on waterway regeneration, I wanted to transition into a two episode deep dive into an essential component of water cycle health and how it affects the land by analysing the most elemental component ...
11.13.2020 Regenerating lakes and ponds with floating islands, with Bruce Kania of Floating Island International We’ve covered a ton of angles to this topic already, from fixing broken water cycles on the land with keyline planning and earthworks, to marine ecosystem restoration through conservation and even farming. In today’s episode I got to speak with ...
11.06.2020 Reviving urban waterways with floating wetlands, with Galen Fulford from Biomatrix Water Welcome back friends and family to this ongoing series on waterway regeneration. In the past three episodes I focused on marine regeneration through conservation as well as farming. Today we're going to take a look at fresh water systems and ...
10.30.2020 Regenerating coral reefs with art and community, with Celia Gregory of the Marine Foundation Welcome back friends and family to this ongoing series on waterway regeneration. We’ve covered so many approaches to this subject up until now, and over the last two weeks I’ve been exploring regenerative solutions to the environmental degradation of marine ...
10.23.2020 The massive potential in marine permaculture, with Brian Von Herzen Continuing today with this ongoing series on waterway regeneration and a deep dive into marine ecosystems, I had the pleasure of speaking with Brian Von Herzen. Brian is an ocean scientist, engineer and entrepreneur, though much of his career has ...
10.16.2020 Diving deep into ocean farming,with Joost Wouters of the Seaweed Company Over the last month, I’ve been focusing on interviews with people who are pioneering the repair and regeneration of the water cycle as it pertains to landscapes. We’ve explored the installation of ponds and dams, permaculture earthworks and water retention ...
10.09.2020 How to plant the rain in drylands and beyond, with Brad Lancaster, author of the Rainwater Harvesting books In the last handful of episodes we’ve explored permaculture earthworks for water harvesting landscapes and keyline design on large scales. As a complement to those topics I got in touch with Brad Lancaster, the author Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and ...
10.02.2020 Making the most of your water on any farm, with Mark Shepard, Author of “Water for Any Farm” Since the last two episodes focused on earthworks, specifically water retention and catchment features, I wanted to revisit one of my favorite interviews that really helped me to understand the fundamentals of keyline design and how many different configurations it ...
09.25.2020 A Permaculture guide to Earth Surgery, with David “Doc Spice” Spicer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSoKv2x4H0o Tying in perfectly with last week’s interview with Zach Weiss about building ponds and water harvesting features, I spoke with David Spicer, affectionately known as Doc Spice, an accomplished permaculture designer who has specialized in earthworks installation. Having taught ...
09.18.2020 How to install ponds, dams, and water retention features, with Zach Weiss from Elemental Ecosystems Welcome back to the ongoing series on waterway regeneration. Today’s interview is the second conversation I’ve had with Zach Weiss, the Protégé of revolutionary Austrian farmer Sepp Holzer and founder of Elemental Ecosystems, a company that designs and implements water ...
09.11.2020 The Facts And Stories Behind Waterway Restoration, With Judith Schwartz As we continue into this series on waterway regeneration, I reached out to Judith Schwartz, a wonderful author who tells stories to explore and illuminate scientific concepts and cultural nuance. Her two most recent books, Water in Plain sight, and ...
09.04.2020 How we can overcome the looming water crisis in our cities with “the Godfather of Green”Jerry Yudelson Welcome back to the second episode in this series on waterway regeneration. In this series we’ll be looking into the often overlooked role of the water cycle and its effects on the climate crisis. I’ll be speaking with experts and ...
08.28.2020 Why regenerating our oceans makes both public health and economic sense, with Dr. Enric Sala of National Geographic’s Pristine Seas Project Welcome to the first episode in a brand new series focusing on waterway regeneration. In the last few years of hosting this show it’s become vividly clear to me just how important and yet overlooked an issue that the health ...
08.21.2020 Steps to food security: saving seeds, with James Ulager, author of Beginning seed saving for the home gardener Today’s guest is James Ulager, the author Beginning Seed Saving for the home gardener, and though this certainly isn’t a talk about farm scale seed saving and propagation, I thought it was essential to include in this series. In my ...
08.14.2020 Bringing farmland back into the hands of our communities, with Ian McSweeny of The Agrarian Trust One of the biggest challenges that I’ve heard repeatedly both in the interviews in this series on regenerative agriculture as well as with peers and clients that I’ve collaborated with, is the difficulty for aspiring farmers to get access to ...
08.07.2020 Uniting women in agriculture for a regenerative food future, with Lisa Kivirist Lisa Kivirist Though this series on regenerative farming has covered a ton of different farming models, land management techniques, food production methods and design methods, one of the glaring absences in the perspectives I’ve included has been that of women, ...
07.31.2020 Applying syntropic farming methods for dryland regeneration, with Jacob Evans Over the years I’ve been hearing about a new pedagogy of land management that has been gaining in popularity, especially in agroforestry circles. The trouble for me has been that until recently a lot of the resources have been in ...
07.24.2020 Restoring Spain’s degraded farmland with regenerative agroforestry, with Alfonzo Chico de Guzman, president of AlVelAl As I’m slowly becoming better connected here in Spain in the last year, one of the main projects in regenerative agriculture that keeps coming up in my research and the conversations that I have, is a fairly new project called ...
07.17.2020 Regenerating the rainforest by growing cacao with Alejandro Solano of Choco Mashpi Though I’ve spoken to some great orchardists through this podcast, many of them are growing cold tolerant trees in far northern climates, but I wanted to get a perspective on running a holistically managed orchard in the tropics to explore ...
07.10.2020 What would agriculture look like with zero inputs? with Shane Simonsen, author of zero-input agriculture Shane with his goats Though I’ve been inspired by all the amazing examples of regenerative farming through the people that I’ve interviewed through this series, there’s one glaring commonality between all of them and that’s the fact that the success ...
07.03.2020 Is permaculture still relevant to small farms and local food security? With Loren Luyendyk of Permaculture Intl. Permaculture has done an incredible job of raising awareness of natural land management techniques and teaching people to observe and read the patterns of the natural world to inform their interactions with the environment, but it often gets criticized for ...
06.26.2020 Creating the tools, resources, and community for a regenerative future in farming, with Ray Milidoni of Farming Secrets Ray Milidoni Though regenerative agriculture has made huge leaps forward in the last decade, it still only accounts for a very small percentage of the farms around the world and even less in over developed countries. While we still have ...
06.19.2020 Pioneering the urban farm revolution, with Michael Ableman, author of Farm the City Michael Ableman Welcome back to another episode in the ongoing series on Regenerative Agriculture. Up until now I’ve spoken with growers and producers on cutting edge of profitable regenerative landbased enterprises and management techniques in rural areas, but there’s also ...
06.12.2020 Stewarding the holistic health of a community orchard In the past I’ve talked to quite a few orchardists and agroforestry practitioners, especially in the series on Reforestation and Agroforestry at the end of last season, but I was really glad to be introduced to Michael Phillips’ work by ...
06.05.2020 Is hemp the answer to a regenerative future for American agriculture? with Doug Fine, author of American Hemp Farmer I’ve been meaning to get in touch with someone who could explain to me the nebulous and exploding new farming industry around the ancient yet newly legalized hemp plant, and I found a gold mine of information in Doug Fine, ...
05.29.2020 How to restore soil and ecological health on a massive scale with regenerative agriculture, with Gabe Brown, author of from dirt to soil A lot of the farms that come to mind when I think of regenerative agriculture are smaller, more diverse and quite intensive, with many different crops and animals working in closer proximity with many stacked functions and a niche business ...
05.22.2020 Essential tools to accelerate agricultural land regeneration, with Rhamis Kent, Co-director of the Permaculture Research Institute My guest today is someone who has been an inspiration to me since I first began to study permaculture almost a decade ago. Rhamis Kent has been the man behind the scenes for some incredible regeneration projects around the world ...
05.15.2020 Can we make ecological agriculture mainstream by 2040? With John Kempf, author of Quality Agriculture Welcome back everyone to another episode in this ongoing series on regenerative agriculture. Before we get started today I want to give a quick shout out. Before starting this series I’ve been in contact with a listener of the show ...
05.08.2020 Championing a regenerative farming revolution in Europe, with Richard Perkins, author of Regenerative Agriculture Welcome back everyone to this ongoing series on regenerative agriculture. Last week we kicked off with an interview with Joel Salatin and in this session I’ve got another great interview with one of the most influential regen ag practitioners in ...
05.01.2020 Joel Salatin has hope for a post-COVID regenerative agri-culture My guest today needs little introduction. Joel Salatin has been one of the most prominent voices in regenerative agriculture for many years now and I thought he’d be the perfect person to not only kick off this new series on ...
04.24.2020 A guide to resilient living wherever you are Download the free ebook below Welcome to another special episode! This week we’ll be wrapping up the series on modern homesteading by reviewing some of the most important information from the last 7 interviews. In those episodes we covered a ...
04.17.2020 Building a more resilient life and investing in community, with Nicholas Burtner from The School of Permaculture Today’s guest, NIcholas Burtner, is a permaculture designer, consultant and educator through his organization The School of Permaculture. I caught Nicholas in a good moment for this interview because like many of us he’s in a period of transition with ...
04.10.2020 How to build resilience in your life in a rapidly changing world, with Ben Falk of Whole Systems Design My guest today is someone I’ve followed and looked up to since I first began to learn about permaculture and homesteading. Ben Falk is not only a badass homesteader and self-sufficiency pioneer, he’s also an accomplished designer and consultant, primarily ...
04.03.2020 From Manhattan to the Redwood Forest. An inner journey of rewilding, with Ayana Young of “For the Wild” In this ongoing series on homesteading I’ve talked to a lot of people who’ve given us really practical information on how to make the transition to a more self-sufficient way of life and connect with nature in the process. We’ve ...
03.27.2020 Permaculture Homesteading in Nepal: A Story of Community Connection, with Zac Barton of Almost Heaven Farms Continuing with our ongoing series on homesteading I wanted to talk to someone with a bit more of a similar experience to my own. More than once now I’ve found myself in a new country and starting to build a ...
03.20.2020 How to produce fresh food year-round, even in cold climates! With Pam Dawling, author of “The Year-Round Hoop House” In the first half of this interview I spoke with Pam Dawling, the author of “The Year-Round Hoop House'' about the most important information about siting, building, irrigating and soil care for extending crop growing in hoop houses. I tap ...
03.13.2020 Creative ideas for building your homestead on a budget, with John Moody Welcome to another episode in this ongoing series on homesteading. In this session I reached out to John Moody, the author of many books including “DIY Sourdough, The Elderberry Book” and the one we’ll be focusing on today “The Frugal ...
03.06.2020 Is it Realistic to Produce All Your Own Food? with Deborah Niemann, author of “Homegrown and Handmade” Continuing with this ongoing series on homesteading, I reached out to Deborah Niemann, the author of many books including “Homegrown and Handmade, Eco-thrifty, Just Kidding and Raising Goats Naturally” which is now in its second edition. She also blogs at ...
02.28.2020 Essential things to consider when making the shift to a homesteading lifestyle, with Natalie Bogwalker of Wild Abundance In the past I’ve done a lot of episodes focusing on specific skills and enterprises that people integrate into a regenerative lifestyle, but in this series I’m going to be speaking with people who’ve put a bunch of those pieces ...

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Regenerative Skills episodes:

How to build a One Rock Dam to regenerate an erosion area

The Future of Regenerative Agriculture, expert panel 1

How to Create a School Garden program

How to create an edible ecosystem

How to Ask Better Questions for a regenerative future

The Abundant Edge is becoming Regenerative Skills. Thank you for all your support!

The joy and liberation of growing food in your own home, with Claire Ratinon, author of How To Grow Your Dinner Without Leaving The House

The link between regenerative farming, health and longevity, with Jennifer Maynard of Nutrition for Longevity

The furture of Environmental leadership, with the winners of the Brower Youth Awards 2020

Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about silvopasture, with Steve Gabriel, author of “Silvopasture”

Working with nature to build soil health, with Robert Pavlis

The fascinating new science of regenerating soil, with Matt Powers, author of “regenerative soil”

Regenerating lakes and ponds with floating islands, with Bruce Kania of Floating Island International

Reviving urban waterways with floating wetlands, with Galen Fulford from Biomatrix Water

Regenerating coral reefs with art and community, with Celia Gregory of the Marine Foundation

The massive potential in marine permaculture, with Brian Von Herzen

Diving deep into ocean farming,with Joost Wouters of the Seaweed Company

How to plant the rain in drylands and beyond, with Brad Lancaster, author of the Rainwater Harvesting books

Making the most of your water on any farm, with Mark Shepard, Author of “Water for Any Farm”

A Permaculture guide to Earth Surgery, with David “Doc Spice” Spicer

How to install ponds, dams, and water retention features, with Zach Weiss from Elemental Ecosystems

The Facts And Stories Behind Waterway Restoration, With Judith Schwartz

How we can overcome the looming water crisis in our cities with “the Godfather of Green”Jerry Yudelson

Why regenerating our oceans makes both public health and economic sense, with Dr. Enric Sala of National Geographic’s Pristine Seas Project

Steps to food security: saving seeds, with James Ulager, author of Beginning seed saving for the home gardener

Bringing farmland back into the hands of our communities, with Ian McSweeny of The Agrarian Trust

Uniting women in agriculture for a regenerative food future, with Lisa Kivirist

Applying syntropic farming methods for dryland regeneration, with Jacob Evans

Restoring Spain’s degraded farmland with regenerative agroforestry, with Alfonzo Chico de Guzman, president of AlVelAl

Regenerating the rainforest by growing cacao with Alejandro Solano of Choco Mashpi

What would agriculture look like with zero inputs? with Shane Simonsen, author of zero-input agriculture

Is permaculture still relevant to small farms and local food security? With Loren Luyendyk of Permaculture Intl.

Creating the tools, resources, and community for a regenerative future in farming, with Ray Milidoni of Farming Secrets

Pioneering the urban farm revolution, with Michael Ableman, author of Farm the City

Stewarding the holistic health of a community orchard

Is hemp the answer to a regenerative future for American agriculture? with Doug Fine, author of American Hemp Farmer

How to restore soil and ecological health on a massive scale with regenerative agriculture, with Gabe Brown, author of from dirt to soil

Essential tools to accelerate agricultural land regeneration, with Rhamis Kent, Co-director of the Permaculture Research Institute

Can we make ecological agriculture mainstream by 2040? With John Kempf, author of Quality Agriculture

Championing a regenerative farming revolution in Europe, with Richard Perkins, author of Regenerative Agriculture

Joel Salatin has hope for a post-COVID regenerative agri-culture

A guide to resilient living wherever you are

Building a more resilient life and investing in community, with Nicholas Burtner from The School of Permaculture

How to build resilience in your life in a rapidly changing world, with Ben Falk of Whole Systems Design

From Manhattan to the Redwood Forest. An inner journey of rewilding, with Ayana Young of “For the Wild”

Permaculture Homesteading in Nepal: A Story of Community Connection, with Zac Barton of Almost Heaven Farms

How to produce fresh food year-round, even in cold climates! With Pam Dawling, author of “The Year-Round Hoop House”

Creative ideas for building your homestead on a budget, with John Moody

Is it Realistic to Produce All Your Own Food? with Deborah Niemann, author of “Homegrown and Handmade”

Essential things to consider when making the shift to a homesteading lifestyle, with Natalie Bogwalker of Wild Abundance

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