The Permaculture Podcast

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As you read these notes or listen to the accompanying podcast, I’m on a sabbatical. With all these years of producing long interviews, I need to take some time to experiment with new ideas, while reading, writing, and exploring what ...

The Permaculture Podcast episodes:

01.15.2021 Sabbatical As you read these notes or listen to the accompanying podcast, I’m on a sabbatical. With all these years of producing long interviews, I need to take some time to experiment with new ideas, while reading, writing, and exploring what ...
12.22.2020 Creating a Regenerative Supply Chain – Rewild Organics \| Joshua Hughes Today I’m joined by my friend Joshua Hughes as he shares the continued work of the team he’s a part of to create a jungle to marketplace supply chain with the launch of Rewild Organics. Become a Patreon of The ...
12.13.2020 Sustainable Suburbs – Serenbe \| Steve Nygren The episode with Jeff Speck left me curious about what the details Jeff mentioned look like in practice. I followed up that conversation by sitting down with my guest for this episode, Steve Nygren, founder of Serenbe. Visit Our Partner: ...
11.21.2020 Embracing Hope \| Bonita Ford We live in a world that seems ever more chaotic and outside of our control. From a global pandemic that is unlikely to be the only one we experience in our lifetimes to devastating natural disasters exacerbated by climate change ...
11.14.2020 An Introduction to Aquaponics \| Jonathan Martinetto Seafood represents the largest traded food commodity market in the world. 3 billion people depend on fish and other farmed or wild-caught foods as a source of protein, according to figures from the World Wildlife Fund. Regretfully, the majority of ...
11.07.2020 Designing for Disasters: Understanding and Mitigating Wildfires \| Matt Fidler During our lifetime we will encounter a variety of short to long-term disasters. The form the problem takes will vary depending on where we live, and how widespread the incident is that occurs. In late 2019 and throughout 2020, we’ve ...
10.31.2020 Reducing Food Waste: An Introduction to Bokashi – Matt Arthur In the United States alone, more than 38 million tons of food is thrown away every year. 94% of that winds up in landfills, to rot and release methane, and lock all the nutrients from being returned to Earth for ...
10.24.2020 Racism and Land Access in America Every month I post an Ask Me Anything Thread over on the Patreon for the podcast at Patreon.com/permaculturepodcast. Most of the time these threads are about design and plants, like the best time to transplant Elderberry. Sometimes we get away ...
10.17.2020 We are Time Scouts, Designing for the Future \| Geoff Christou The title for this episode is based on a quote from Bill Mollison that my guest, Geoff Christou, paraphrases in the middle of our conversation today about how Utopian literature, the need to imagine the future, and sharing that vision ...
10.10.2020 Passion in Practice: Resilience, Transformation, and Radical Self-Care This episode marks 10 years of The Permaculture Podcast with Scott Mann, the longest-running English language podcast dedicated to the breadth and depth of permaculture. To celebrate a decade of the show, the following interview is a personal one for ...
09.28.2020 Gayogohono Revitalization: Native Plants, Language, and People A common refrain in permaculture is about our need to develop a sense of place. To have an understanding of where we currently live, where we come from, and to find a connection to the land under our feet or ...
09.25.2020 Building a Better World in Your Backyard \| Shawn Klassen-Koop Permaculture practices begin in the landscape, with the training of a permaculture design course focusing on how to design in a way that restores soil, grows food and creates spaces for human needs, and cares for Earth, in ever-expanding zones. ...
09.18.2020 Designing for Clients: From Consultation to Implementation \| Owen Wormser When I left my permaculture design course I was fairly comfortable walking the landscape and looking for areas of shade or full sun, and tracking how that would change throughout the day. To walk barefoot after a brief rain to ...
09.12.2020 DIY Garden Amendments \| Nigel Palmer My guest today is Nigel Palmer, author of The Regenerative Grower’s Guide to Garden Amendments. In our conversation, which begins with his biography, he shares his inspiration from the work of John Kempf and Dan Kittredge, along with the JADAM ...
09.05.2020 An Introduction to Biodynamic Agriculture \| Allen Clements My guest today is Allen Clements, a permaculture practitioner who, when we recorded this interview in January, 2020, was completing his certification in Biodynamic Agriculture at the Pfeiffer Center in Spring Valley, New York. I’ve been intrigued by biodynamic agriculture ...
08.29.2020 Managing Complexity \| Holistic Management with Allan Savory Today’s interview was originally recorded by the Australian podcaster Dan Palmer for an episode of his excellent, Making Permaculture Stronger. I’ve known Dan since before he started his show and as I recall it was at 1 or 2 AM ...
08.08.2020 Improving Broadscale Agriculture \| John Kempf My guest today is John Kempf, the author of the recently released Quality Agriculture. A farmer, teacher, and entrepreneur from Northeast, Ohio, John has spent more than 15 years developing a nutrition and farm management program that quickly restores soil ...
08.01.2020 Permaculture Values and Impact Investing \| Laura Oldanie My guest today is Laura Oldanie, a permaculture practitioner and the author behind the website Rich and Resilient Living, which focuses on how we can live a life and make financial decisions that lead to a regenerative future. Laura joins ...
07.25.2020 Turning Lawns into Meadows \| Owen Wormser My guest today is Owen Wormser. Owen is a sustainable landscape designer from Western Massachusetts and author of Lawns into Meadows: Growing a Regenerative Landscape, from Stonepier Press. This specialty in landscapes forms our conversation today as we discuss his ...
07.18.2020 Creating Walkable Cities \| Jeff Speck My guest today is Jeff Speck. Jeff is the author of Walkable City and Walkable City Rules. As an urban planner and city designer he specializes in, and advocates for, human modes of transportation: first and foremost walking, but also ...
07.11.2020 Mesoamerican Permaculture Institute \| Rony Lec My guest today is Rony Lec of the Mesoamerican Permaculture Institute (Instituto Mesoamericano de Permacultura – IMAP) in Guatemala. I first became aware of Rony years ago through my friends at the Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute, but what I knew ...
07.04.2020 Empowering Permaculture \| Delvin Solkinson Over the last two decades, my guest Delvin Solkinson studied permaculture education all over the world by taking numerous permaculture design courses and teacher trainings, as well as completing multiple diplomas, with various teachers. Some of his mentors include Bill ...
06.27.2020 The Next Economy \| Erin Axelrod My guest today is Erin Axelrod, partner and worker/owner at LIFT Economy. She joins me to discuss how LIFT Economy is working to repatriate land, resolve housing issues, and create socially responsible businesses by investing in and providing support to ...
06.20.2020 Peace, Permaculture, and The Gift \| Kai Sawyer Image: Kai Sawyer at the Peace and Permaculture Dojo.(Source:YouTube: Peace and Permaculture Dojo Tour) “The more generous we are, the more relaxed we’ll be, the more wealthy we’ll feel, and the more gifts these will cycle.” – Kai Sawyer As ...
06.13.2020 Plants as People Care \|Nathan Carlos Rupley My guest today is Nathan Carlos Rupley. A member of my local permaculture community, he spends his time as a stay at home dad, self employed-artist, and aspiring hunter-gatherer. When not hanging out with his family or walking in the ...
06.13.2020 The Transition Town Movement \|Rob Hopkins My guest for this episode is Rob Hopkins the creator of the idea of Transition Towns, a way for us to move from oil dependency to local resilience. That lead to his writing The Transition Handbook, something every permaculture practitioner ...
06.06.2020 Planning for Future Generations In today’s episode, David Bilbrey returns to the host seat with Fred Kirschenmann. Fred joins us again to share more about his work at the Aldo Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University and Stone Barns Center for ...
06.02.2020 Returning to Permaculture Full-Time After spending more than a year and a half balancing family; a day job; and the work of permaculture education, I’m returning to teaching and producing The Permaculture Podcast full-time as of the release of this episode. With this announcement ...
05.30.2020 The Art of Frugal Hedonism \| Annie Raser-Rowland Can you live an enjoyable, self-indulgent life while remaining thrifty and at the same time not overtaxing Earth’s resources? To have all of that sounds too good to be true. If you follow what Annie Raser-Rowland suggested in her book ...
05.27.2020 Have you found yourself in The Permaculture Pit? This weekend I was talking with a friend in the permaculture community when we realized we’d had the same experience. When we completed our Permaculture Design Course we were excited and enthusiastic but weren’t sure what to do next. We ...
05.23.2020 Principles in Practice \| Eloisa Lewis My guest today is Eloisa Lewis. Eloisa is an American permaculture consultant, community building artist, activist and healer. With her work as a project manager and educator she helps guide communities of individuals into holistically regenerative paradigms, and specializes in ...
05.16.2020 Organizing and Supporting Our Communities \| Rhonda Baird Rhonda Baird, the editor of Permaculture Design Magazine and teacher and designer at Sheltering Hills Design, LLC., joins me to continue our conversation about creating change. In our first interview, we spoke about the way that we can work on ...
05.09.2020 Creatively Responding to a Crisis \| Rob Avis My guest today is Rob Avis, a permaculture practitioner from Calgary, Canada, and one of the founders of Verge Permaculture. He joined me during the Covid-19 pandemic to discuss what we can do to creatively respond to this and other ...
05.02.2020 Being Present for Ourselves and Others \| Rhonda Baird My guest for today is Rhonda Baird, editor of Permaculture Design Magazine, and designer and educator at Sheltering Hills Design, LLC. We talk about the social side of permaculture and what we can do, as individuals and a community, to ...
04.24.2020 Indian Canyon, Decolonizing, and Indigenous Value Systems with Kanyon Coyote Woman In this episode co-host David Bilbrey sits down with the teacher, activist, and permaculture practitioner Kanyon Sayers-Roods, also known as Coyote Woman, to talk about her work on the land at Indian Canyon, California to educate and inspire others in ...
04.17.2020 Mycology and Citizen Science \| William Padilla-Brown My guest today is William Padilla-Brown, a mycologist, teacher, and social permaculture practitioner. I’ve known William for a long time and as you’ll hear us mention, we’ve wanted to do this interview for years. I’m thankful that we finally had ...
03.28.2020 Emergency Management and Disaster Preparedness My guest today is Chris Gilmour. A permaculture practitioner and emergency manager, Chris works with individuals and organizations to map their community assets and help prepare for uncertain events We recorded this conversation during the emerging COVID-19 pandemic to discuss ...
03.24.2020 Edenspore I’m joined by Robyn Mello, a permaculture teacher and designer, as well as the singer, songwriter, and herbalist, behind Edenspore. She spoke with me while I am currently self-isolating and wanting to record new interviews. I’ve known Robyn for many ...
03.21.2020 Island Creek Farm with Holly Brown My guest for this episode is Holly Brown of Island Creek Farm, a small permaculture farm located in Huddleston, Virginia. Holly and I sat down at her home on a mild day in October to talk about her origins as ...
03.14.2020 Earth Skills, Permaculture and Wild Abundance My guest is Natalie Bogwalker, the visionary behind Wild Abundance, a permaculture skills center and homestead near Asheville, North Carolina. As a primary instructor at Wild Abundance, she teaches a variety of classes, including tiny house building workshops, women’s carpentry, ...
03.07.2020 The Wildcrafting Brewer To honor the release of Pascal Baudar’s new book, Wildcrafted Fermentation, I’ve re-mastered and re-released our conversations about his earlier works. Today, you can listen to our interview about The Wildcrafting Brewer. The episode posted last week covered his first ...
02.29.2020 The New Wildcrafted Cuisine To celebrate the release of Pascal Baudar’s new book, Wildcrafted Fermentation, this and the next episode are about his earlier works, The New Wildcrafted Cuisine and The Wildcrafting Brewer. As this episode comes out, all three books are on sale ...
02.22.2020 Karryn Olson-Ramanujan: A Pattern Language for Women in Permaculture In this episode from 2014, one of my favorite people from the permaculture community, Karryn Olson-Ramanujan, joins us to share a pattern language she’s identified for women in permaculture, which we can use to create a constructive permaculture movement so ...
02.15.2020 Joel Salatin on Farming, Experience and Mastery. Joel Salatin shares his thoughts on farming, the importance of experience, and the role of mastery over ourselves and our chosen discipline. These topics layout the major themes of the conversation that follows but touch only on the barest of ...
02.08.2020 Restoration Agriculture with Mark Shepard (Part III) My guest for this episode, which originally aired in 2014, is Mark Shepard, owner of New Forest Farm and author of Restoration Agriculture. This is the final piece in a series of three interviews Mark and I recorded to talk ...
02.01.2020 Restoration Agriculture with Mark Shepard (Part II) (Originally Aired: 17.September.2014) My guest for this episode is Mark Shepard, owner of New Forest Farm and author of Restoration Agriculture. This is the second of three pieces that Mark and I recorded together to talk about Restoration Agricultural practices ...
01.25.2020 Restoration Agriculture with Mark Shepard (Part I) (Originally Aired: 16.July.2014) My guest for this episode is Mark Shepard, author of Restoration Agriculture. As you might expect from this show we start with his biography and background, work our way through a call to action for permaculture practitioners ...
01.18.2020 Reclaiming our Nutritional Wisdom: Nourishment with Fred Provenza (This episode first aired on 10.December.2018) My guest today is the renowned animal behaviorist Fred Provenza, who joins me to talk about how we can reconnect with the foods that feed our bodies and reclaim our nutritional wisdom. Visit Our ...
01.10.2020 2020 Vision Each winter, in those weeks between Christmas and the new year, I sit down and look forward to what the year ahead holds. For 2020 my main focus is on finishing The Possibility Handbook. Until that project is complete, I’m ...
12.16.2019 Storytelling for Social Change My guest today is Andrew Slack. He joins me to share his thoughts and personal experience on how to use storytelling to create social change. A climate activist and former head of the non-profit Harry Potter Alliance—which used the collective ...

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01.15.2021 Sabbatical As you read these notes or listen to the accompanying podcast, I’m on a sabbatical. With all these years of producing long interviews, I need to take some time to experiment with new ideas, while reading, writing, and exploring what ...
12.22.2020 Creating a Regenerative Supply Chain – Rewild Organics \| Joshua Hughes Today I’m joined by my friend Joshua Hughes as he shares the continued work of the team he’s a part of to create a jungle to marketplace supply chain with the launch of Rewild Organics. Become a Patreon of The ...
12.13.2020 Sustainable Suburbs – Serenbe \| Steve Nygren The episode with Jeff Speck left me curious about what the details Jeff mentioned look like in practice. I followed up that conversation by sitting down with my guest for this episode, Steve Nygren, founder of Serenbe. Visit Our Partner: ...
11.21.2020 Embracing Hope \| Bonita Ford We live in a world that seems ever more chaotic and outside of our control. From a global pandemic that is unlikely to be the only one we experience in our lifetimes to devastating natural disasters exacerbated by climate change ...
11.14.2020 An Introduction to Aquaponics \| Jonathan Martinetto Seafood represents the largest traded food commodity market in the world. 3 billion people depend on fish and other farmed or wild-caught foods as a source of protein, according to figures from the World Wildlife Fund. Regretfully, the majority of ...
11.07.2020 Designing for Disasters: Understanding and Mitigating Wildfires \| Matt Fidler During our lifetime we will encounter a variety of short to long-term disasters. The form the problem takes will vary depending on where we live, and how widespread the incident is that occurs. In late 2019 and throughout 2020, we’ve ...
10.31.2020 Reducing Food Waste: An Introduction to Bokashi – Matt Arthur In the United States alone, more than 38 million tons of food is thrown away every year. 94% of that winds up in landfills, to rot and release methane, and lock all the nutrients from being returned to Earth for ...
10.24.2020 Racism and Land Access in America Every month I post an Ask Me Anything Thread over on the Patreon for the podcast at Patreon.com/permaculturepodcast. Most of the time these threads are about design and plants, like the best time to transplant Elderberry. Sometimes we get away ...
10.17.2020 We are Time Scouts, Designing for the Future \| Geoff Christou The title for this episode is based on a quote from Bill Mollison that my guest, Geoff Christou, paraphrases in the middle of our conversation today about how Utopian literature, the need to imagine the future, and sharing that vision ...
10.10.2020 Passion in Practice: Resilience, Transformation, and Radical Self-Care This episode marks 10 years of The Permaculture Podcast with Scott Mann, the longest-running English language podcast dedicated to the breadth and depth of permaculture. To celebrate a decade of the show, the following interview is a personal one for ...
09.28.2020 Gayogohono Revitalization: Native Plants, Language, and People A common refrain in permaculture is about our need to develop a sense of place. To have an understanding of where we currently live, where we come from, and to find a connection to the land under our feet or ...
09.25.2020 Building a Better World in Your Backyard \| Shawn Klassen-Koop Permaculture practices begin in the landscape, with the training of a permaculture design course focusing on how to design in a way that restores soil, grows food and creates spaces for human needs, and cares for Earth, in ever-expanding zones. ...
09.18.2020 Designing for Clients: From Consultation to Implementation \| Owen Wormser When I left my permaculture design course I was fairly comfortable walking the landscape and looking for areas of shade or full sun, and tracking how that would change throughout the day. To walk barefoot after a brief rain to ...
09.12.2020 DIY Garden Amendments \| Nigel Palmer My guest today is Nigel Palmer, author of The Regenerative Grower’s Guide to Garden Amendments. In our conversation, which begins with his biography, he shares his inspiration from the work of John Kempf and Dan Kittredge, along with the JADAM ...
09.05.2020 An Introduction to Biodynamic Agriculture \| Allen Clements My guest today is Allen Clements, a permaculture practitioner who, when we recorded this interview in January, 2020, was completing his certification in Biodynamic Agriculture at the Pfeiffer Center in Spring Valley, New York. I’ve been intrigued by biodynamic agriculture ...
08.29.2020 Managing Complexity \| Holistic Management with Allan Savory Today’s interview was originally recorded by the Australian podcaster Dan Palmer for an episode of his excellent, Making Permaculture Stronger. I’ve known Dan since before he started his show and as I recall it was at 1 or 2 AM ...
08.08.2020 Improving Broadscale Agriculture \| John Kempf My guest today is John Kempf, the author of the recently released Quality Agriculture. A farmer, teacher, and entrepreneur from Northeast, Ohio, John has spent more than 15 years developing a nutrition and farm management program that quickly restores soil ...
08.01.2020 Permaculture Values and Impact Investing \| Laura Oldanie My guest today is Laura Oldanie, a permaculture practitioner and the author behind the website Rich and Resilient Living, which focuses on how we can live a life and make financial decisions that lead to a regenerative future. Laura joins ...
07.25.2020 Turning Lawns into Meadows \| Owen Wormser My guest today is Owen Wormser. Owen is a sustainable landscape designer from Western Massachusetts and author of Lawns into Meadows: Growing a Regenerative Landscape, from Stonepier Press. This specialty in landscapes forms our conversation today as we discuss his ...
07.18.2020 Creating Walkable Cities \| Jeff Speck My guest today is Jeff Speck. Jeff is the author of Walkable City and Walkable City Rules. As an urban planner and city designer he specializes in, and advocates for, human modes of transportation: first and foremost walking, but also ...
07.11.2020 Mesoamerican Permaculture Institute \| Rony Lec My guest today is Rony Lec of the Mesoamerican Permaculture Institute (Instituto Mesoamericano de Permacultura – IMAP) in Guatemala. I first became aware of Rony years ago through my friends at the Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute, but what I knew ...
07.04.2020 Empowering Permaculture \| Delvin Solkinson Over the last two decades, my guest Delvin Solkinson studied permaculture education all over the world by taking numerous permaculture design courses and teacher trainings, as well as completing multiple diplomas, with various teachers. Some of his mentors include Bill ...
06.27.2020 The Next Economy \| Erin Axelrod My guest today is Erin Axelrod, partner and worker/owner at LIFT Economy. She joins me to discuss how LIFT Economy is working to repatriate land, resolve housing issues, and create socially responsible businesses by investing in and providing support to ...
06.20.2020 Peace, Permaculture, and The Gift \| Kai Sawyer Image: Kai Sawyer at the Peace and Permaculture Dojo.(Source:YouTube: Peace and Permaculture Dojo Tour) “The more generous we are, the more relaxed we’ll be, the more wealthy we’ll feel, and the more gifts these will cycle.” – Kai Sawyer As ...
06.13.2020 Plants as People Care \|Nathan Carlos Rupley My guest today is Nathan Carlos Rupley. A member of my local permaculture community, he spends his time as a stay at home dad, self employed-artist, and aspiring hunter-gatherer. When not hanging out with his family or walking in the ...
06.13.2020 The Transition Town Movement \|Rob Hopkins My guest for this episode is Rob Hopkins the creator of the idea of Transition Towns, a way for us to move from oil dependency to local resilience. That lead to his writing The Transition Handbook, something every permaculture practitioner ...
06.06.2020 Planning for Future Generations In today’s episode, David Bilbrey returns to the host seat with Fred Kirschenmann. Fred joins us again to share more about his work at the Aldo Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University and Stone Barns Center for ...
06.02.2020 Returning to Permaculture Full-Time After spending more than a year and a half balancing family; a day job; and the work of permaculture education, I’m returning to teaching and producing The Permaculture Podcast full-time as of the release of this episode. With this announcement ...
05.30.2020 The Art of Frugal Hedonism \| Annie Raser-Rowland Can you live an enjoyable, self-indulgent life while remaining thrifty and at the same time not overtaxing Earth’s resources? To have all of that sounds too good to be true. If you follow what Annie Raser-Rowland suggested in her book ...
05.27.2020 Have you found yourself in The Permaculture Pit? This weekend I was talking with a friend in the permaculture community when we realized we’d had the same experience. When we completed our Permaculture Design Course we were excited and enthusiastic but weren’t sure what to do next. We ...
05.23.2020 Principles in Practice \| Eloisa Lewis My guest today is Eloisa Lewis. Eloisa is an American permaculture consultant, community building artist, activist and healer. With her work as a project manager and educator she helps guide communities of individuals into holistically regenerative paradigms, and specializes in ...
05.16.2020 Organizing and Supporting Our Communities \| Rhonda Baird Rhonda Baird, the editor of Permaculture Design Magazine and teacher and designer at Sheltering Hills Design, LLC., joins me to continue our conversation about creating change. In our first interview, we spoke about the way that we can work on ...
05.09.2020 Creatively Responding to a Crisis \| Rob Avis My guest today is Rob Avis, a permaculture practitioner from Calgary, Canada, and one of the founders of Verge Permaculture. He joined me during the Covid-19 pandemic to discuss what we can do to creatively respond to this and other ...
05.02.2020 Being Present for Ourselves and Others \| Rhonda Baird My guest for today is Rhonda Baird, editor of Permaculture Design Magazine, and designer and educator at Sheltering Hills Design, LLC. We talk about the social side of permaculture and what we can do, as individuals and a community, to ...
04.24.2020 Indian Canyon, Decolonizing, and Indigenous Value Systems with Kanyon Coyote Woman In this episode co-host David Bilbrey sits down with the teacher, activist, and permaculture practitioner Kanyon Sayers-Roods, also known as Coyote Woman, to talk about her work on the land at Indian Canyon, California to educate and inspire others in ...
04.17.2020 Mycology and Citizen Science \| William Padilla-Brown My guest today is William Padilla-Brown, a mycologist, teacher, and social permaculture practitioner. I’ve known William for a long time and as you’ll hear us mention, we’ve wanted to do this interview for years. I’m thankful that we finally had ...
03.28.2020 Emergency Management and Disaster Preparedness My guest today is Chris Gilmour. A permaculture practitioner and emergency manager, Chris works with individuals and organizations to map their community assets and help prepare for uncertain events We recorded this conversation during the emerging COVID-19 pandemic to discuss ...
03.24.2020 Edenspore I’m joined by Robyn Mello, a permaculture teacher and designer, as well as the singer, songwriter, and herbalist, behind Edenspore. She spoke with me while I am currently self-isolating and wanting to record new interviews. I’ve known Robyn for many ...
03.21.2020 Island Creek Farm with Holly Brown My guest for this episode is Holly Brown of Island Creek Farm, a small permaculture farm located in Huddleston, Virginia. Holly and I sat down at her home on a mild day in October to talk about her origins as ...
03.14.2020 Earth Skills, Permaculture and Wild Abundance My guest is Natalie Bogwalker, the visionary behind Wild Abundance, a permaculture skills center and homestead near Asheville, North Carolina. As a primary instructor at Wild Abundance, she teaches a variety of classes, including tiny house building workshops, women’s carpentry, ...
03.07.2020 The Wildcrafting Brewer To honor the release of Pascal Baudar’s new book, Wildcrafted Fermentation, I’ve re-mastered and re-released our conversations about his earlier works. Today, you can listen to our interview about The Wildcrafting Brewer. The episode posted last week covered his first ...
02.29.2020 The New Wildcrafted Cuisine To celebrate the release of Pascal Baudar’s new book, Wildcrafted Fermentation, this and the next episode are about his earlier works, The New Wildcrafted Cuisine and The Wildcrafting Brewer. As this episode comes out, all three books are on sale ...
02.22.2020 Karryn Olson-Ramanujan: A Pattern Language for Women in Permaculture In this episode from 2014, one of my favorite people from the permaculture community, Karryn Olson-Ramanujan, joins us to share a pattern language she’s identified for women in permaculture, which we can use to create a constructive permaculture movement so ...
02.15.2020 Joel Salatin on Farming, Experience and Mastery. Joel Salatin shares his thoughts on farming, the importance of experience, and the role of mastery over ourselves and our chosen discipline. These topics layout the major themes of the conversation that follows but touch only on the barest of ...
02.08.2020 Restoration Agriculture with Mark Shepard (Part III) My guest for this episode, which originally aired in 2014, is Mark Shepard, owner of New Forest Farm and author of Restoration Agriculture. This is the final piece in a series of three interviews Mark and I recorded to talk ...
02.01.2020 Restoration Agriculture with Mark Shepard (Part II) (Originally Aired: 17.September.2014) My guest for this episode is Mark Shepard, owner of New Forest Farm and author of Restoration Agriculture. This is the second of three pieces that Mark and I recorded together to talk about Restoration Agricultural practices ...
01.25.2020 Restoration Agriculture with Mark Shepard (Part I) (Originally Aired: 16.July.2014) My guest for this episode is Mark Shepard, author of Restoration Agriculture. As you might expect from this show we start with his biography and background, work our way through a call to action for permaculture practitioners ...
01.18.2020 Reclaiming our Nutritional Wisdom: Nourishment with Fred Provenza (This episode first aired on 10.December.2018) My guest today is the renowned animal behaviorist Fred Provenza, who joins me to talk about how we can reconnect with the foods that feed our bodies and reclaim our nutritional wisdom. Visit Our ...
01.10.2020 2020 Vision Each winter, in those weeks between Christmas and the new year, I sit down and look forward to what the year ahead holds. For 2020 my main focus is on finishing The Possibility Handbook. Until that project is complete, I’m ...
12.16.2019 Storytelling for Social Change My guest today is Andrew Slack. He joins me to share his thoughts and personal experience on how to use storytelling to create social change. A climate activist and former head of the non-profit Harry Potter Alliance—which used the collective ...

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The Permaculture Podcast episodes:

Sabbatical

Creating a Regenerative Supply Chain – Rewild Organics | Joshua Hughes

Sustainable Suburbs – Serenbe | Steve Nygren

Embracing Hope | Bonita Ford

An Introduction to Aquaponics | Jonathan Martinetto

Designing for Disasters: Understanding and Mitigating Wildfires | Matt Fidler

Reducing Food Waste: An Introduction to Bokashi – Matt Arthur

Racism and Land Access in America

We are Time Scouts, Designing for the Future | Geoff Christou

Passion in Practice: Resilience, Transformation, and Radical Self-Care

Gayogohono Revitalization: Native Plants, Language, and People

Building a Better World in Your Backyard | Shawn Klassen-Koop

Designing for Clients: From Consultation to Implementation | Owen Wormser

DIY Garden Amendments | Nigel Palmer

An Introduction to Biodynamic Agriculture | Allen Clements

Managing Complexity | Holistic Management with Allan Savory

Improving Broadscale Agriculture | John Kempf

Permaculture Values and Impact Investing | Laura Oldanie

Turning Lawns into Meadows | Owen Wormser

Creating Walkable Cities | Jeff Speck

Mesoamerican Permaculture Institute | Rony Lec

Empowering Permaculture | Delvin Solkinson

The Next Economy | Erin Axelrod

Peace, Permaculture, and The Gift | Kai Sawyer

Plants as People Care |Nathan Carlos Rupley

The Transition Town Movement |Rob Hopkins

Planning for Future Generations

Returning to Permaculture Full-Time

The Art of Frugal Hedonism | Annie Raser-Rowland

Have you found yourself in The Permaculture Pit?

Principles in Practice | Eloisa Lewis

Organizing and Supporting Our Communities | Rhonda Baird

Creatively Responding to a Crisis | Rob Avis

Being Present for Ourselves and Others | Rhonda Baird

Indian Canyon, Decolonizing, and Indigenous Value Systems with Kanyon Coyote Woman

Mycology and Citizen Science | William Padilla-Brown

Emergency Management and Disaster Preparedness

Edenspore

Island Creek Farm with Holly Brown

Earth Skills, Permaculture and Wild Abundance

The Wildcrafting Brewer

The New Wildcrafted Cuisine

Karryn Olson-Ramanujan: A Pattern Language for Women in Permaculture

Joel Salatin on Farming, Experience and Mastery.

Restoration Agriculture with Mark Shepard (Part III)

Restoration Agriculture with Mark Shepard (Part II)

Restoration Agriculture with Mark Shepard (Part I)

Reclaiming our Nutritional Wisdom: Nourishment with Fred Provenza

2020 Vision

Storytelling for Social Change

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