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.   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 disaster...

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.   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...

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.   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...

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 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 returne...

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.   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...

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.   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 imagin...

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 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.   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.   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 o...

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.   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...

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 Nigel Palmer, author of The Regenerative Grower’s Guide to Garden Amendments.   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.   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 Cente...

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.   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...

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 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 nutr...

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 Rony Lec of the Mesoamerican Permaculture Institute (Instituto Mesoamericano de Permacultura – IMAP) in Guatemala. 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.   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 mu...

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 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 respons...

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 the...

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 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. 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.   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,...

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 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 St...

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.   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...

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 weekend I was talking with a friend in the permaculture community when we realized we'd had the same experience. 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.   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 comm...

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 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 c...

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 today is Rhonda Baird, editor of Permaculture Design Magazine , and designer and educator at Sheltering Hills Design, LLC. Learn More