Podcast 718 – Conventional Wood Stoves

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Paul calls up Uncle Mud to pointedly not discuss rocket heaters, but instead talk about more traditional wood burners, the drawbacks of low-and-slow burning overnight, airflow and intakes, thermal mass, and the Scandinavian origins of non-rocket mass heaters. Support the podcast on Patreon Show notes and discussion More information and discussion of this podcast on […]

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Podcast 717 – Gardening Gardeners – Part 2

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Paul and Samantha continue discussing bootcamp, going over how he’s changed it since going to Portland, and how it compares to the WWoOF programme. Paul believes that bootcamp would be a good fit for many people that didn’t quite get along with WWoOf but liked the idea. Support the podcast on Patreon Show notes and […]

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Tags: bootcamp , Samantha , sunchokes , wwoof

Podcast 716 – Gardening Gardeners – Part 1

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Paul and Samantha sit down to discuss Paul’s visit to a bunch of potlucks in Portland, and how the local over-abundance of pears on the ground comes back to bootcamp and how it tries to not only grow food, but turn people into gardeners. And how it doesn’t charge rent so you’re actually free to […]

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Podcast 715 – Brock’s Consultation – Part 2

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Brock’s consultation continues with Paul further detailing hugelkultur use and use of paddocks to raise chickens while keeping them away from human food, and that Brock should focus on roughly a quarter acre of his land at a time and make it awesome before moving to the next. Support the podcast on Patreon Show notes […]

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Tags: chicken paddocks , chickens , Consultaion , hugelkultur , Midwestern USA , Minnesota

Podcast 714 – Brock’s Consultation – Part 1

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Brock has foolishly sent money to Paul for a consultation on his 2-acre Minnesotan property with a bunch of ash trees for the inevitable hugelkultur recommendations, a persistent department-of-making-you-sad, and a goal of feeding a family of 5 on hopefully more than sunchokes and walking onions. Support the podcast on Patreon Show notes and discussion […]

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Tags: Consultaion , hugelkultur , Midwestern USA , Minnesota , Rocket Mass Heater , sunchokes , Walking Onions

Podcast 713 – Spokane Potluck

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Paul has wandered off to Spokane to meet up with Nicholas Thomas to have a potluck, and we get to have a potluck of pod topics! Including, but not limited to, natural control of pest (mainly earwig) populations, appropriate lawn care (build hugelkulture) and discovering new landmarks. Support the podcast on Patreon Show notes and […]

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Tags: Cascadia , Gardening , insects , Natural Pest Control , Nicholas Thomas

Podcast 712 – Wheaton Labs Aspirations – Part 2

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Paul and Stephen continue talking about their aspirations for bootcamp and Wheaton Labs, such as seeing a dozen people living at bootcamp all year and learning how to manage their own homestead, before moving onto half-assed holidays, more on sunchokes, and a some more on bootcamp culture. Support the podcast on Patreon Show notes and […]

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Tags: bootcamp , community , SEPPers , Stephen , sunchokes , wheaton labs

Podcast 711 – Wheaton Labs Aspirations – Part 1

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Paul and Stephen sit down to talk about their aspirations for Basecamp and the Labs, covering how much better the soil is after years of care, the dozens of rockety gizmos around the place, and some basics for new boots, such as letting themselves take a break instead of sprinting to keep up with the […]

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Tags: base camp , bootcamp , hugelkultur , Stephen , sunchokes , wheaton labs

Podcast 710 – Cancer Delays – Part 2

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Paul and Samantha continue discussing the differences between Paul’s and Mark Shepherd’s methods before moving on to willow feeders, sewage treatment at Wheaton Labs and in general, and how using greywater safe soaps help even in an apartment. Support the podcast on Patreon Show notes and discussion More information and discussion of this podcast on […]

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Tags: Kickstarter , Samantha , soap , Willow Feeder

Podcast 709 – Cancer Delays – Part 1

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Paul talks with Samantha about the effect of his health on progress, the pitfalls of hiring people, soap company’s questionable marketing, a comparison between his and Mark Shepherd’s gardening, and a bit on a consultee’s over-farmed property (less growing of commercial alfalfa, more hugelkultur). Support the podcast on Patreon Show notes and discussion More information […]

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Tags: cancer , health , Kickstarter , Samantha , soap

Podcast 708 – Suze’s Consultation – Part 2

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Paul and JB continue Suze’s consultation on what to do with her sewage situation instead of connecting up to the city sewage network. They discuss what sort of woodchips to use, the current lack of a drain field and the potential issues that causes, and weather or not to use shampoo. Support the podcast on […]

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Tags: compost , Consultaion , humanure , poo-less , shampoo , urban permaculture , Willow Feeder

Podcast 707 – Suze’s Consultation – Part 1

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Suze decided that it was a good idea to willingly give money to Paul for a consultation on what to do with her (urban) community’s failing septic tank system, so he and JB decide to discuss Willow Feeders as they’d be a far cheaper and better solution than coughing up about $40k to connect to […]

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Tags: Consultaion , humanure , JB , Suze , urban permaculture , Willow Feeder

Podcast 706 – Bootcamp Culture – Part 2

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Paul, Eliot, and Julia continue their discussion on the culture that’s developed in bootcamp, and attributes much of it to the quality of people that tend to come there and stick around. Paul’s own over-eagerness definitely helps with both the culture and filtering some specimens out. Support the podcast on Patreon Show notes and discussion […]

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Podcast 705 – Bootcamp Culture – Part 1

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Paul is with Julia and Eliot talking about bootcamp culture and how it contrasts to, say, another community that apparently causes couples to divorce when they go there, and the story of an Andy that attempted to start his own community and the woes he faced until he found out how to get it on […]

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Podcast 704 – Homestead Living Magazine

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Paul talks with Matt about RMHs and Homestead Living magazine for which Paul and Beau wrote an article and they discuss this and other RMH-related subjects, such as Mud’s aversion to using wood anywhere near a RMH just in case it slowly becomes more flammable. Support the podcast on Patreon Show notes and discussion More […]

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Tags: Homestead Living Magazine , Matt , Permaculture Magazine , Rocket Mass Heater

Podcast 703 – Permaculture Smackdown 31 – Strategies for growing enough food to feed your family – Part 3

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Paul finishes up the smakdown with Beau, Liv, and Samantha with a discussion on butter making, dairy in general, preserving meats in ways beyond simply freezing it, and keeping chickens as an introduction to raising animals for meat. Support the podcast on Patreon Show notes and discussion More information and discussion of this podcast on […]

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Tags: Beau Davidson , chickens , food , food preservation , Gardening , Liv , livestock , Samantha

Podcast 702 – Permaculture Smackdown 31 – Strategies for growing enough food to feed your family – Part 2

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Paul, Liv, Beau and Samantha continue discussing how to grow enough food to feed a family, with a lot of the discussion this time being about corn, or lack thereof, in the discussion thus far, what with it being calorie dense, having a long shelf-life, and being good fodder for cattle Support the podcast on […]

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Tags: Beau Davidson , cattle , Corn , food , Gardening , Liv , livestock , Samantha

Podcast 701 – Permaculture Smackdown 31 – Strategies for growing enough food to feed your family – Part 1

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Paul, Liv, Beau and Samantha discuss strategies for growing enough food for a family, namely what to grow, how to not get overwhelmed and decide gardening is hard, livestock rearing, what to grow to make gardening fun and potentially profitable, if you don’t mind trading. Support the podcast on Patreon Show notes and discussion More […]

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Podcast 700 – Permaculture Smackdown 30 – The solution for nearly every soil test – Part 2

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Paul, Clay, and Samantha continue discussing soil tests and other ways of quickly building soil. They talk about “Back to Eden Gardening” , it’s use of wood chips and why that may not be the best plan for a couple of reasons, keyline ploughing, and how much mulch is needed. Support the podcast on Patreon […]

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Podcast 699 – Permaculture Smackdown 30 – The solution for nearly every soil test – Part 1

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Paul sets out to talk about soil tests with Samantha and Clay, and winds up talking about how most test results just mean “apply mulch”, unless it means “plant alder trees to detox”, Sepp Holzer’s earthworm greenhouse, root exudate, and Paul’s alleged harassment of a friend via mulch. Support the podcast on Patreon Show notes […]

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