The Sovereign Homestead Podcast

Today's show is about optimizing the things that are universal to all homesteads, no matter where you are on this planet. These 4 universal homestead productivity leverage points are Light, Water, Soil and Life. Light = Energy Flow - How Much Sunlight Your Landscape Captures And Turns Into Usable Biomass Water = Water Cycle - The Circulation of Earth's Lifeblood Soil = Mineral Cycle - The Circulat...

In today's show we cover... What a Minimum Holistic Goal is and WHY its important to create one The three distinct parts of the MHG, their functions and how to create them, HOW to actually USE and LEVERAGE your MHG with the 7 Decision Tests for applying your MHG in real-life and in real-time to make better decisions consistently. Creating your Minimum Holistic Goal at the outset of your homesteadi...

In this week's show we dive into the ugly world of Type 1 Errors - those fundamental errors in design or implementation of a homestead that will cost you time, money and energy for as long as they exist - the things that if done wrong at the outset, make it nigh impossible to get anything right afterwards! Learn how to spot Type 1 Errors - on paper and in real life, how to avoid committing them in...

Permaculture is a design system based on natural systems and how they function. The Permaculture Prime Directive - on page 1 in the Designer's Manual, is as follows: "The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children. Make it now." The Prime Directive is often forgotten but is fundamentally important to what permaculture really is. Join us as we exp...

Introduction to me and why this show exists.   ____________________________________________________________________________ WHAT I DO: Design: On-Site Consultation Online Site/Project Consultation Holistic Ecosystem Design   Implementation: Water Harvesting Earthworks High-function, Low-Maintenance Access Living Systems Spring Development   Courses: Minimum Holistic Goal   Media: The Sovereign Hom...