Yeoman

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:...

I had the pleasure of sitting down with my father, Tom Graham, for a lengthy discussion of his career. The conversation begins with Dad's early life in 1940s and 50s Rock Hill, South Carolina, we continue through his careers in energy and the nascent software industry, his introduction to real estate development, and his work as what one might appropriately call a wildcatter developer in Atlan...

For the last two decades years,  Chris Smaje  has been a small-scale vegetable grower in Somerset in South West England. Prior to that, he was a researcher and teacher in political science and policy. Chris has authored two books: 2020’s  A Small Farm Future  and 2023’s  Saying No to a Farm Free Future . Visit yeomanpodcast.com for show notes.

Geoffrey Long is the owner of Long Story Farms in Newberry, SC. We discuss his farm, his roots, what brought him to farming, and how his farm connects him to his community. Please pardon the awkward delay. That left Geoffrey and I stumbling over each other a bit, hence the decision to continue the conversation face-to-face in the near future. So much more to discuss! Their soon-to-open retail loca...

Charlie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OldUrbanist Charlie's bio at Mercatus: https://www.mercatus.org/scholars/charles-gardner Some court decisions referenced in our conversation: Euclid v. Ambler, 1926 https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/272/365/ Spann v. City of Dallas, 1921 https://casetext.com/case/spann-v-city-of-dallas-1 Buck v. Bell, 1927 https://supreme.justia.com/cases/feder...

Ashley on Twitter Rizoma Field School Ashley's writings Doomer Optimism podcast I open our conversation quoting from this article by Ashley in Front Porch Republic . Ashley referenced Andrew ⁠Szasz's Shopping our Way to Safety⁠ . "Spreadsheet Brain"

Coby's guest post on Noahpinion: "Why small developers are getting squeezed out of the housing market" Coby on Twitter Coby's website Coby's business Coby's interview on Building Culture

Ilya Somin joins Geoff to discuss the newly published paper, The Constitutional Case Against Exclusionary Zoning , that he co-authored with Joshua Braver. What's the big deal about exclusionary zoning and what does it have to do with the overarching Yeoman theme? Glad you asked! Geoff answered that question in this thread . Professor Somin is a Professor of Law at George Mason University and t...

Michael Tavani is the founder and CEO of Switchyards, the world's first neighborhood work club. He joins Geoff to talk about creating a new—and much needed—type of "third place", his love of third places, the inspiration he took from Oldenburg's book The Great Good Place, building with soul, the advantages of being an owner operator, and the growth of the business. Some relevant...

Austin Tunnell joins Geoff for a conversation about his business Building Culture . They talk about getting started as a mason and a homebuilder, small scale real estate development, structural masonry, apprenticeships, living in a place like Carlton Landing , and creating beauty. Some relevant links: Austin on X Build Culture on X , Instagram , YouTube , and Spotify Build Culture's new Townse...

Geoff Graham introduces the Yeoman podcast.