The Permaculture Podcast

Visit Our Sponsor: Foraged. Market Donate Directly:  via PayPal  -or-  Venmo @permaculturepodcast   Want to listen to more conversations about Permaculture?  Browse the extensive archives of the show.   For the last several years I’ve run a Summer-to-Fall fundraiser in order to ask those listeners who can to donate to the show and keep the podcast freely available and frequently updated. Learn Mor...

Visit Our Sponsor: Foraged. Market Donate Directly:  via PayPal  -or-  Venmo @permaculturepodcast   Want to listen to more conversations about Permaculture?  Browse the extensive archives of the show.   Author, teacher, and forager Pascal Baudar joins me to discuss his exploration of primitive brews and fermentation, the basis for his latest book The Wildcrafting Brewer . Learn More

Visit Our Sponsor: Foraged. Market Donate Directly:  via PayPal  -or-  Venmo @permaculturepodcast   Want to listen to more conversations about Permaculture?  Browse the extensive archives of the show.   In this episode co-host David Bilbrey continues to explore the intersection between permaculture, regenerative business, and the paradigm of capitalism by speaking with Alex McIntosh and Mario Garc...

Visit Our Sponsor: Foraged. Market Donate Directly:  via PayPal  -or-  Venmo @permaculturepodcast   Want to listen to more conversations about Permaculture?  Browse the extensive archives of the show.   My guest today is Sara Bir, chef, writer, and author of The Fruit Forager’s Companion, from Chelsea Green Publishing. Learn More

Visit Our Sponsor: Foraged. Market Donate Directly:  via PayPal  -or-  Venmo @permaculturepodcast   Want to listen to more conversations about Permaculture?  Browse the extensive archives of the show.   In this short interview, David Bilbrey sits down for an in-person interview with Kevin Jones, recorded at the ReGen18 conference in May 2018. Learn More

Visit Our Sponsor: Foraged. Market Donate Directly:  via PayPal  -or-  Venmo @permaculturepodcast   Want to listen to more conversations about Permaculture?  Browse the extensive archives of the show.   In this short interview David Bilbrey, co-host of The Permaculture Podcast and founder of EcoThinkIt.com , sits down for an in-person interview with Joel Solomon, recorded at the ReGen18 conference...

Visit Our Sponsor: Foraged. Market Donate Directly:  via PayPal  -or-  Venmo @permaculturepodcast   Want to listen to more conversations about Permaculture?  Browse the extensive archives of the show.   In this short interview David Bilbrey, co-host of The Permaculture Podcast and founder of EcoThinkIt.com sits down for an in-person interview with Stuart Cowan, recorded at the ReGen18 conference i...

Visit Our Sponsor: Foraged. Market Donate Directly:  via PayPal  -or-  Venmo @permaculturepodcast   Want to listen to more conversations about Permaculture?  Browse the extensive archives of the show.   My guest today is Paul Hellier of Fair Food Forager, who joins me to begin an ongoing series of conversations to talk about what we can do reduce waste, change our consumptions patterns, and decrea...

Visit Our Sponsor: Foraged. Market Donate Directly:  via PayPal  -or-  Venmo @permaculturepodcast   Want to listen to more conversations about Permaculture?  Browse the extensive archives of the show.   In this episode Co-host David Bilbrey continues to explore the edge between permaculture, business, and social change by sitting down with Dr. Otto Scharmer. Together they talk about Dr. Scharmer’s...

Visit Our Sponsor: Foraged. Market Donate Directly:  via PayPal  -or-  Venmo @permaculturepodcast   Want to listen to more conversations about Permaculture?  Browse the extensive archives of the show.   My guest for this episode is Amy Stross, blogger at TenthAcreFarm.com and author of The Suburban-Microfarm . I wanted Amy to join me for an interview to hear her perspective on creating integrated...

Visit Our Sponsor: Foraged. Market Donate Directly:  via PayPal  -or-  Venmo @permaculturepodcast   Want to listen to more conversations about Permaculture?  Browse the extensive archives of the show.   Co-host David Bilbrey returns to speak with Julie Mettenburg of Tallgrass Network , a hub of the Savory Institute that serves 25 million acres across Kansas and Missouri once dominated by the tallg...

Visit Our Sponsor: Foraged. Market Donate Directly:  via PayPal  -or-  Venmo @permaculturepodcast   Want to listen to more conversations about Permaculture?  Browse the extensive archives of the show.   My guests for this episode are Jill Lorenzini and Brad Lancaster of Desert Harvesters , here to discuss the new bioregional cookbook Eat Mesquite and More! We use that as a frame to talk about how...

Visit Our Sponsor: Foraged. Market Donate Directly:  via PayPal  -or-  Venmo @permaculturepodcast   Want to listen to more conversations about Permaculture?  Browse the extensive archives of the show.   Karen Lanier shares what she learned while writing The Woman Hobby Farmer, a book that helps us look inside of ourselves and to decide whether we are ready to farm and to ask the question, “Why do...

Visit Our Sponsor: Foraged. Market Donate Directly:  via PayPal  -or-  Venmo @permaculturepodcast   Want to listen to more conversations about Permaculture?  Browse the extensive archives of the show.   Avery Ellis, of Colorado Greywater, joins me to talk, in a conversation recorded live at a local coffee shop, about aquaponics, water harvesting, and his entry into the world of community politics...

Visit Our Sponsor: Foraged. Market Donate Directly:  via PayPal  -or-  Venmo @permaculturepodcast   Want to listen to more conversations about Permaculture?  Browse the extensive archives of the show.   “We will not fight to save what we do not love.” Emma Huvos joins me to talk about her role as an educator who blends together her time as a classroom teacher with the forest and outdoor school mod...

Visit Our Sponsor: Foraged. Market Donate Directly:  via PayPal  -or-  Venmo @permaculturepodcast   Want to listen to more conversations about Permaculture?  Browse the extensive archives of the show.   Co-host David Bilbrey sits down with Jacqueline Smith, the founder of Central Grazing Company, to talk about her entry into the world of animal agriculture, after having no previous experience with...

Visit Our Sponsor: Foraged. Market Donate Directly:  via PayPal  -or-  Venmo @permaculturepodcast   Want to listen to more conversations about Permaculture?  Browse the extensive archives of the show.   How do we prepare for the end of life? How do we honor the dead? How do we care for the living, through our rites and rituals, after a loved one passes? Michael Judd joins me to answer these questi...

Visit Our Sponsor: Foraged. Market Donate Directly:  via PayPal  -or-  Venmo @permaculturepodcast   Want to listen to more conversations about Permaculture?  Browse the extensive archives of the show.   A highlight of the year behind, the current state of the show, and what's coming up. Learn More

Visit Our Sponsor: Foraged. Market Donate Directly:  via PayPal  -or-  Venmo @permaculturepodcast   Want to listen to more conversations about Permaculture?  Browse the extensive archives of the show.   To know where we are headed, it’s important to know where we are and where we come from. As Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote in his book Strength to Love, “We are not makers of history; we are mad...

Visit Our Sponsor: Foraged. Market Donate Directly:  via PayPal  -or-  Venmo @permaculturepodcast   Want to listen to more conversations about Permaculture?  Browse the extensive archives of the show.   As I was reminded of in a recent conversation with Emma Huvos, we protect what we love. As the ethics of permaculture call for us to care for Earth and people, then practicing permaculture can be a...

Visit Our Sponsor: Foraged. Market Donate Directly:  via PayPal  -or-  Venmo @permaculturepodcast   Want to listen to more conversations about Permaculture?  Browse the extensive archives of the show.   How do we limit the damage of the greatest terrestrial environmental disaster ever, climate change? By drawing down carbon. How we do that, and the most effective ways possible, form the base of th...

Visit Our Sponsor: Foraged. Market Donate Directly:  via PayPal  -or-  Venmo @permaculturepodcast   Want to listen to more conversations about Permaculture?  Browse the extensive archives of the show.   With smartphones, tablets, and other always-on, always-connected devices at our fingertips, finding a piece of information becomes easier and easier, if we have a few keywords to search for. When i...

Visit Our Sponsor: Foraged. Market Donate Directly:  via PayPal  -or-  Venmo @permaculturepodcast   Want to listen to more conversations about Permaculture?  Browse the extensive archives of the show.   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 t...

Visit Our Sponsor: Foraged. Market Donate Directly:  via PayPal  -or-  Venmo @permaculturepodcast   Want to listen to more conversations about Permaculture?  Browse the extensive archives of the show.   My guest today is Karl Treen, the creator of Food Forest Card Game, a deck of cards designed to teach the needs, yields, and connections of plants and animals within a food forest and within nature...

Visit Our Sponsor: Foraged. Market Donate Directly:  via PayPal  -or-  Venmo @permaculturepodcast   Want to listen to more conversations about Permaculture?  Browse the extensive archives of the show.   This interview contains a conversation on Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy) beliefs reflective of popular rather than historical views. For more detailed information on the history and culture o...