The Permaculture Podcast

Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast Browse the Archives. Today Steven Martyn, a Canadian permaculturist, gardener, primitive skills practitioner, and teacher, joins me to talk about his journey to write The Story of the Madawaska Forest Garden.

Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast Six years. Can you believe it? This podcast has been on the air for six years and today I take a few minutes for reflection. How the podcast was originally about writing my own education and then turned to sharing other's stories. That latter idea continues to be the driving force, but the mission went unacknowledged until recently when I asked myself, rather pointedly, "Why am I still doing this? What is the purpose of the podcast?" To which the answer, "To tell other people's stories well," was a quick and clear answer. With six years and hundreds of episodes on the books, the seventh year is going to see some minor changes A little slower, but a return to those long format candid conversations that take as little or as much time as required to tell the tale of the guest. Along the way, I'm going to engage in some self care, furt

Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast Browse the Archives. We return again to Charm City Farms with Victoria Greba and Eric Kelly in this conversation recorded earlier this year as part of a visit to speak more about The Forager's Apprentice.

Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast Browse the Archives. In this episode, Nancy Thellman of Slow Money Northeast Kansas joins David Bilbrey to talk about the slow money movement which is creating human-scale loans all over the world, outside the stream of modern financial markets.

Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast Browse the Archives. Today's guest is Perrine Hervé-Gruyer author, along with her husband Charles, of Miraculous Abundance: One Quarter Acre, Two French Farmers and Enough Food to Feed the World.

Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast Browse the Archives. Today's episode sees David Bilbrey returning to have a conversation with Trevor Tychon the founder of Connect Africa Ministries, a faith-based non-governmental organization working in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, and Congo, creating Resource Centers that provide education, training, and community support to create water filtration systems, cisterns, rockets stoves, and eco-toilets.

Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast Browse the Archives. (Picture: Michael Judd dishing out some paw paw (Asimina triloba) icecream created fresh, onsite, at the Mid-Atlantic Permaculture Convergence). Recorded live at the Mid-Atlantic Permaculture Convergence, in this episode Michael Judd shares stories of his life in South America picking coffee and meeting Nicaraguan migrant families, resulting in a love of that country that eventually lead him to permaculture and the creation of Project Bona Fide.

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.  David Bilbrey return to sit in the hosts’s seat in an interview that he recorded as a follow up to my earlier conversation with Joshua Cubista. Learn More

Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast Browse the Archives.

Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast Browse the Archives.

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 is Joel Glanzberg's opening remarks recorded live at the Mid-Atlantic Permaculture Convergence. He shares with us his observations from 30 years practicing permaculutre, rooted in the earliest days when Bill Mollison still taught in the United States. 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.  This conversation is the first of a series of guest-hosted episodes. David Bilbrey, someone I've been speaking with for years about sitting down and recording some podcasts of his own, takes over the role of host and records an interview with Eric Chisler, one of my community members from when I lived at Seppi's Place. 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, something every permaculture practitioner should have in their library and which serves as a good introduction, along with Toby Hemenway’s The Permaculture City, to look at how we can move from the landscape to the people space. 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 Pascal Baudar, author of The New Wildcrafted Cuisine. Pascal is taking foraged food and elevating them to more than just something to eat, and creating rich meals from the common, such as wild mustards or acorns, to the uncommon, like lurp sugar or fleas, building on years of experience and hundreds of classes on primitive, wilderness, and survival skills. Learn More

Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast Browse the Archives. My guest for this episode is Dr. Talia Fletcher, a Canadian veterinarian, who takes a holistic approach to animals and medicine, that includes knowledge of permaculture and a background in WWOOFING. During the conversation today, she shares with us what it means to take a holistic approach to veterinary medicine and how it can reduce the need to treat animals, including antibiotic use. She also shares, from her experiences, how to find a good vet, including questions to ask, and how to honor a vet's time. Talia also gives advice on how to prepare yourself to have animals on your homestead or permaculture farm

Donate to The Permaculture PodcastOnline:via PayPal Venmo:@permaculturepodcast Enjoy this episode? Become a Patron. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500"] (Source: dreamstime images)[/caption] This episode is a permabyte with Ethan Hughes. In this conversation, that arises from a listener question posed by Amelia, Ethan shares ways that we can transform our holiday experience from a consumption driven exchange, to one where gifts are given based on need or in service to others. He also stresses the importance of communication so that we can create new traditions that honor ourselves and the perspectives of our loved ones. Hearing what Ethan shared with us, how will you transform your holidays? What new traditions will you create? What conversations will you have to have to make this happen? I want to hear from you. Leave a comment in the show notes here, or get in touch with me directly. Call:  or email: The Permaculture Podcast Also, if you haven’t heard already, Ethan and I are writing a book to