An Abundant Future With Matt Powers

Erik Ohlsen co-founder of Permaculture Artisans and the Permaculture Skills Center has a wealth of knowledge and experience that he shares with us in an incredible podcast on building businesses and community to spread regeneration. Check out the Ecological Landscape Mastery course - start on your landscaping dreams today!! http://erikohlsen.com/eco-landscape-mastery-school/

Permaculture = Freedom Off the Grid - DIY Energy, Water, Food, Fiber & Medicine Save $, Spend Less, & Get Taxed Less Work less for $, Work more for Holistic Worth Independence => Freedom: US Independence led to Revolution & Freedom Permaculture Relocalizes, Decentralizes Control, & Empowers Individuals, Families, & Communities to be more ethical & FREE Liberate yourself with Permaculture; Find Freedom in Working with Nature. Grow Abundantly, Learn Daily, & Live Regeneratively, Matt Powers

Get some critical insights from university professors Bruce Blumberg of UC Irvine & NonToxic Irvine and Dr. Rattan Lal of OSU. With Bruce Blumberg learn how you can protect yourself and your loved ones while keeping a keen eye out for distractions and misinformation. With Dr. Lal, get introduced to the numbers and science behind carbon sequestration the soils, and how exactly we can accomplish a real draw down.

Why Bother Gardening?

Isn’t it going to be hard to even approach the cost efficiency and quality of store bought products? How can amateurs even compete? Actually, Amateurs lead in terms of growing. Those farmers have to tend acres and acres of food in most instances, so their products don’t get the same amount of individual attention and care. We can improve our soil, plants, and our products much easier because of the size of our systems and the fact that we aren’t making picture perfect foods for a store scenario. A lot of what those farmers grow never makes it to sale - most of their work gets thrown out, not even properly composted and returned to their fields. We always hear about food waste, but think about it from the farmer’s perspective: all that work just to be thrown out? It’s a hard situation and makes it harder for them to care specifically about their crops and plants like home gardeners readily do. You know what I’m talking about: how many times has a gardening friend of yours begged you to

Why do Patterns even Matter? Why is Permaculture Focused on Pattern Literacy? What is a Pattern? Patterns are things that repeat in a predictable way. My Story: Pattern literacy is both basic and foundational, so if you don’t recognize it readily, you can make grievous errors. For example, in my first garden I placed the rows pointed downhill which in a dry hot climate promotes run off, erosion, drying of the land and overall stress in the garden - I didn’t see the overall pattern and how to interact with it so I couldn’t setup my garden properly. As soon as I began studying Permaculture with Geoff Lawton, I quickly recognized my issue and literally tore up my entire spring garden, reset it, and replanted it. How else could I have shown images of the garden to my classmates in Geoff’s course? I had to do it the right way! What other patterns are they? 
Pests are part of a Pattern - just wait a few days and see if something comes to remove them. If your soil, plants, and system are healthy, something will

Think Gardening is Too Expensive? Seed Save, Swap, & Forage - You can take 1 packet and turn it into a gallon of seeds in only a few seasons. Use Free Resources - Craigslist, FreeCycle, NextDoor, etc. Pallets, Fencing, Firewood, Manure, Old/Wet Straw, Plants Use Natural Farming Techniques - Hand tools, Throw Sow, Self Seeders, Simple, Easy, Cheap, & Rhobust Get Connected to your Local Community - Locals help, teach, & share If you think Gardening is expensive, you should see what cancer’s costs are. Our health has no price. Growing a vibrant and diverse garden and food forest are the best defense against sickness, aging, disease, cancer, inflammation, and deficiency that we have. Grow a garden for your Future Care and the care of the earth and all those who rely upon it. Grow Abundantly, Learn Daily, & Live Regeneratively, Matt Powers

10 Keys To A Regenerative 2018 Pt 1 by Matt Powers

10 Keys To A Regenerative 2018 Pt 2 by Matt Powers

The 6 Keys to Winter Gardening Are you intimidated by Winter Gardening? I was, and it held my gardening in the spring and summer back for years. I let the weeds take over every winter thinking I couldn’t garden despite their abundance and growth, and I rationalized that I was letting the land “rest” which is an old paradigm that doesn’t work as it used to because the world has changed. The fallow periods in European fields of the middle ages allowed wild elements from bordering forest and wild pastures to reinoculate their fields and reset them. With our wild systems in stress, distant from most human populations, and in severe decline, we cannot hope for the rest periods to be ones of large regeneration in our fields and gardens. Instead we need to intentionally ramp up the regeneration by wisely choosing to take correct steps to align our systems to nature’s patterns and cycles using permaculture. Once I started using these keys, winter gardening became possible and in many ways EASIER than spring and s

The 6 Keys to Time-Wise Gardening Don’t have time to garden? 9-5 Job + Family + Staying Fit? Can’t be Consistent: Things always come up? Don’t want to spend all that time only to see it all go to waste? My Story: 2 acres mostly managed with a knife My wife, my job, homeschooling, & the kitchen The 6 Keys to Time-Wise Gardening Weed with a Knife or Scythe Throw Sow Planting between Perennials Automate Watering Zonal Planting Soil Prep: Winter cover crop & Compost: A Stitch in Time Saves 9 Calendar Approximate Harvest Times Don’t have time? Get Organized & Make Time this Year! Grow an AMAZING Garden without Wasting Time!

Too Many Weeds? Do weeds crowd out your food before you know it? My Story - Weeds took over my garden!!! Test your Soils pH in Multiple Areas Alkaline Soils = Nitrates = Weeds & Annuals = Vegetative Growth Acidic Soils = Ammonium = Perennials = Reproductive Growth (Fruit) Obviously super acidic or alkaline soils exist and are neither suitable for most garden vegetables. You can change their constitution as long as what made them acidic or alkaline is not a constant presence or constantly accumulating. Compost which is soil life & organic matter acts as a universal pH buffer. What To Do Compost Compost Teas & Extracts Cover Crops & other Nutrient Accumulators Legumes & other Nitrogen Fixers Ripping/Broadforking Chop & Drop Sometimes Earthworks Sometimes Biochar SO Don’t Pull Your Weeds: Chop & Drop them! WHY? They Accumulate the Nutrients Lacking in that Soil They Generate Organic Matter You can Chop BEFORE they Form Seed! It Leans into the Succession Use Compost & Grow Better! Grow Abundantly, Le

Are Poor Soils Holding You BACK? My Story - DCG to Rich Soil in Months Clay = High in Minerals, Excellent at Bonding, Retains Water Sandy = Well Draining, Easy to Inoculate, Accepts Water Readily Silty = Easy to Work, Makes Rich & Fertile Soils BUT… Clay - Can Repel Water, Can Resist Aeration & Movement Sand - Can be Devoid of Organic Matter & Life beyond Pioneer Species, Can be Highly Alkaline, Can Move On its Own Silt - Can Wash or Blow Away, Easy to Erode, & Easy to Use Up the Nutrient Bank The Missing Ingredients in all of this are Organic Matter & Soil Life You can make good soil out of pure sand, silt, or even clay, you just need enough organic matter and the correct biology present. Dr. Elaine Ingham has proven this as have others. How is it Possible? What can I do? Grow & Chop & Drop the plants that accumulate the nutrients and biomass that your soil and needs to accomplish the goals you have for that site. What to Grow? C4 Grasses for C&OM - Explosive? Carbon Sequestration Kings, Carbo

Top 5 Reasons to Grow Perennials, not Annuals 1. Soil Building = Carbon Sequestration 2. Longterm & Stable 3. Low Maintenance yet High Yields 4. Supports Biodiversity 5. Easy to Start The only reason annuals are more prevalent in our diet and gardens in practice is due to their quick return (within that season or year) and scaling up ability of seed & yield, but it feeds into a cycle that outstrips the land, soil, and even our health. The age of valuing short term gain over future systemic stability is ending rapidly. Even the World Bank has decided to divest completely from oil and gas extraction. - Plant a Tree, 20 Trees, or better yet a diverse Food Forest - Eat a Perennial-based Diet - Local & Native - Live & Eat Seasonally

Are you an experienced gardener but still looking for a way to grow the way Nature does? Without constant costly inputs? How to Grow with Nature - a cyclical pattern 1. Observe & Study (experience + book knowledge) 2. Alignment (Climate, Site Energies: Solar Path, Water & Wind Pressures, Slope, Aspect) 3. “Accept Feedback”: Continue to Observe & Study through Reflection & Discussion in order to adapt to improve alignment or realign to new insights or phenomenon. Methods of Alignment - “STUN: Strategic Total Utter Neglect” Mark Shepherd - Throw Sow (broadcasting) - Dry Farming - The Best Seeds/Plants from the Worst Areas - Broadforking/Keyline Ripping, not Tilling - Compost & Natural Inputs like Legumes/CoverCrops/MulchCrops - Companion Planting/Polycultures/Plant Guilds Watch the full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQuL9neCoO0 Check out Permaculture Gardening 2018: http://www.thepermaculturestudent.com/course-signup/permaculture-gardening-with-matt-powers

Learn how to take more control of your inner zone and thus more control over your entire life, relationships, and business. Dive deep with Kai & Matt in this deep People Care episode! Learn more about Kai Sawyer's work at Tokyo Urban Permaculture: https://www.tokyourbanpermaculture.com/english

Signup for this Thursday's Webinar with Dan Marquez on Sustainable Design Masterclass, an incredible webinar series that is FREE: https://www.sustainabledesignmasterclass.com/kelpfarming Learn more about Dan's mission at the Pharmersea Homepage: http://www.pharmersea.com Learn more about Antoinette Marquez's work using products from the sea to heal people at AMA Sea Beauty - her book on Thallasotherapy is only one in english! Her work is an absolute treasure: https://www.amaseabeauty.com

Happy Kickoff to the Holiday Season! I hope it is one of gratitude for you! - Matt Powers Terra Genesis International: http://www.terra-genesis.com Regenerative Enterprise: http://www.regenterprise.com All Books on Sale: http://www.thepermaculturestudent.com/shop/ All Courses on Sale: http://www.thepermaculturestudent.com/course-signup/

Don't Wait - Seize the Day, Plant those Trees, Save those Seeds! Don't have Money? Gather Wild Seeds. It only takes a shovel and determination to start a garden. Want to start that business? Scale up your life and the abundance will follow. An abundant future is waiting for you. - Matt Powers Read more on the blog: http://www.thepermaculturestudent.com/blog/2017/11/30/choose-today-dont-wait

Kevin Muno of Ecology Artisans joins us for an incredible look at regenerative business from someone who's really doing it, loving it, supporting families, and installing regenerative solutions in the landscape regularly in the San Diego, California area. Listen in for some regenerative business wisdoms that can apply to almost everyone's situation or entrepreneurial aspirations! Dr. Bronner's StormWater Management by Ecology Artisans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfE_bYD-MBE Ecology Artisans: https://ecologyartisans.com

Learn about Earthships from Earthship Seattle's Jamie Owens in this interview with Matt Powers who is stewarding a site Earthship Seattle is developing with a team of organizations and individuals. Learn more about this project in the Advanced Permaculture Student Online course launching April 2018 - learn more here: http://www.thepermaculturestudent.com/course-signup/the-advanced-permaculture-student-online