Yeoman

Jason Cox of the Monroe Companies joins Geoff to discuss his work revitalizing downtown Graham, NC through historic rehabs and infill projects. They explore the outsized influence of fire departments and oversized apparatus on street design, zoning, and urban form—contrasting U.S. practices with more human-scaled European cities—along with Jason’s self-described identity as a “rural urbanist” who...

Willy Denner  of  Little Seed Gardens  introduces Geoff to  Georgism , the concept of the Land Value Tax, how it differs from conventional property taxes, the moral argument in favor of it, and the ameliorative impact it could have on our agricultural lands, rural areas, and urban environments. Little Seed Gardens is a hundred acre family farm near Chatham, NY started by Willy and his wife Claudia...

Joel Hollingsworth ( @untappedgrowth ) and I discuss how  Smoke River Ranch  got started, their herdshare program, and the economics of farming and ranching. Show notes on the Yeoman website .

Grant Broggi , founder of  The Strength Co ., joins Geoff to talk about strength, entrepreneurship, and the Marines. I love Grant’s story: from a homeschooled teenage window cleaner in the South Carolina Lowcountry, to the Citadel then Marines, to a strength coach, to the (pandemic inspired) manufacturer of gym equipment, to balancing the obligations of his new business with his reservist commitme...

Russ Greene  discusses  Total Boomer Luxury Communism , the burden it shoulders on young people and future generations, the existential threat it poses to America, and prospects for reform. Russ is the Executive Director of the  Prime Mover Institute .  Show notes on the Yeoman website . You can find Yeoman on  Spotify ,  Apple Podcasts ,  Youtube , and elsewhere.

Justin Owings and Ty Abernathy joined Geoff to discuss  Paul Kingsnorth’s latest book,  Against the Machine . Our two-hour, fire-side, dog-accompanied conversation covers a lot of territory—raising children in the age of the Machine, entrepreneurship, globalism and financialization, corporate bureaucracy, technocracy, rootedness, homelessness, skin-in-the-game, limits, GenZ—and we hardly scratched...

Charles "Chuck" Marohn  is the president of  Strong Towns , a national organization he started in 2008 as a blog and grew into a widespread movement advocating for financially resilient, prosperous cities and towns through bottom-up, incremental development. Chuck is the author of  countless articles  and  three books :  Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity...

Zak Slayback  joins Geoff to discuss Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical  Rerum Novarum , the context in which it was written, and its relevance to today. Topics include the emergence of nationalism and industrial-scale capitalism, the subsequent fracturing of cottage industries, the rise of socialist reactionary movements, the obligations employers have to workers (and vice versa), subsidiarity, and the m...

Vince Graham joins Geoff to talk about the early days of developing  I’On  in Mount Pleasant, SC. Vince and Geoff commonly hear people wrongly assume the neighborhood’s success resulted from strict controls and prescriptions, and they felt that misconception is so widespread that it merited a conversation. They discuss setting the stage, vision, rallying key players around that vision, recruiting...

Dr. Clay Routledge is an existential psychologist who specializes in nostalgia. He is the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Human Flourishing Lab at the Archbridge Institute, a nonpartisan think tank. Clay is the author of Supernatural: Death, Meaning, and the Power of the Invisible World (published in 2018), Past Forward: How Nostalgia Can Help You Live a More Meaningful...

Steve Mouzon and Geoff discuss the evolution of Steve's practice, the role of a town architect, vernacular construction, sustainability, beauty, lovable buildings, and the "Original Green". Show notes on the Yeoman website .

Seth Harris & Patrick Lemon of Orthodox Masonry to discuss what it's like to build a company that builds things that last. To my great embarrassment, I transposed two of the letters in Patrick's last name when I introduced him. Show notes: https://yeomanpodcast.com/2025/07/25/orthodox-masonry-24/

Professor W. Matthew J. Simmons, Sr. is the Assistant Director of the Institute for Southern Studies at the University of South Carolina and a self-described old-school humanist academic. He teaches courses on Southern culture and literature, as well as an immensely popular new course on barbecue. In this episode, Geoff and Matt discuss the identity of the South, changing cultures and places, barb...

Lenny Wells is a pecan grower, writer, and Professor of Horticulture and Extension Pecan Specialist at the University of Georgia. Show notes: https://yeomanpodcast.com/2025/06/12/lenny-wells-22/

Ari Bargil  is a senior attorney with the  Institute for Justice  and a co-lead of the  Zoning Justice Project , a campaign to protect and promote the freedom to peacefully and productively use property. Ari frequently represents property owners battling aggressive zoning regulations and excessive fines in state and federal court nationwide. Ari’s work has been featured by  USA Today ,  NPR ,  Fox...

Emily Hamilton is a Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Urbanity Project at the Mercatus Center, where she focuses on urban economics and land-use policy. She publishes both academic research and policy work, contributes to outlets including the  Washington Post  and the  Los Angeles Times , and writes an occasional column at  Governing . Emily also advises state and federal policymaking an...

Geoff is joined by two good friends, Craig and CBQ, to discuss how people are feeling about the current state of the world. Craig is the co-founder and CEO of Matchstic . CBQ is the co-founder and CEO of Greenzie . Geoff is the co-founder of Periodical.ink , a partner in the development of I'On , the developer of Big Ridge Mountain Club , and the shepherd of the Yeoman podcast . Shownotes at https...

Kevin Klinkenberg is an urban designer, architect, planner, and writer. He is the Executive Director of Midtown KC Now, a nonprofit in Kansas City working on effective community development and management in Midtown Kansas City. Kevin is also the host of the Messy City Substack and podcast, where he dissects work on design, development, planning, and placemaking around the country. In this episode...

Geoff Graham is joined by Saifedean Ammous, Austin Tunnel, and Jaime Izurieta-Varea to discuss how monetary policy, hard money, fiat currency, time preference, and the regulatory environment impact the quality of our built environment. https://yeomanpodcast.com/2024/11/01/saifedean-ammous-austin-tunnel-jaime-izurieta-varea-time-preference-beauty-episode-17/

Michael Buckley is the owner and operator of The Ventura Meat Company, the first full-service, sustainable butcher shop in Ventura, California. They exclusively offer grass-fed beef and other pastured, free range meat products in the Ventura area. Michael is a butcher-philosopher changing the way people think about meat, what sustainable production means, and how we consume it. In this episode, Ge...

Don Boudreaux of cafehayek.com joined Geoff on Constitution Day. Geoff's first question for Don: Is Constitution Day to be celebrated or mourned? Show notes on the Yeoman website: https://yeomanpodcast.com/2024/09/22/don-boudreaux-constitution-day-freedom-of-speech-regulatory-capture-voting-15/

Jaime Izurieta is the founder of Storefront Mastery, a creative agency that helps Main Street districts and retailers succeed in a world tilted towards big box competitors. Jaime is also the author of several books, including Storefront Mastery and Main Street Mavericks: Innovation, Leadership, and a Bright Future for Main Street Businesses. In this episode, he discusses the unique opportunities f...

Aaron Lubeck is an urbanist, land planner, and builder in Durham, North Carolina. He’s also the founder of Southern Urbanism, an action-tank committed to building better cities in the South. Aaron writes about housing, urbanism, placemaking, and politics on his own Substack, onHousing. In this episode, Aaron discusses incrementalism, local development, New Urbanism, and more, sharing in Geoff’s op...

Brace yourselves for some rough audio! Something about our cellphone connection caused some problems with Akiva's voice. Our producer got it into a tolerable condition. Akiva is the owner of Twisted Tree Farm , a 20 acre homestead and nursery dedicated to growing healthy trees, food, and family in Spencer, New York. He is also the author of Trees of Power: Ten Essential Arboreal Allies . In th...

I sat down with Vince Graham in the Winter Hall of his South Carolina beach castle, Mugdock (named after the historic seat of the Graham family in Scotland). We discuss a lot of things: building beautiful places, Ivan Illich, Corbu, Brave New World, HOAs, forces of institutionalization and atomization, books, Supreme Court decisions that have shaped our culture and land patterns. Shownotes: https:...