Homesteading and Permaculture by Paul Wheaton

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321 – Transition to Ant Village Part 1

Published 9 years ago in Permaculture , Podcasts

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Paul and Jocelyn continue on with the new updates at Wheaton Labs and basecamp. He gives some background on the first ant Evan, and soon to be ant Nick. Paul expresses how since recording around 4 hours of updates in podcasts, it has freed up a lot of time for him. Jocelyn points out a […]

320 – Gapper Problems

Published 9 years ago in Permaculture , Podcasts

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Paul and Jocelyn warn that they are going to talk about some of the problems and some people might not like this. Jocelyn states that community and people systems are 90% of the permaculture at the farm. Paul has been at some communities where the people are very miserable. When the labs started it was […]

319 – Wheaton Laboratory Update Part 3

Published 9 years ago in Podcasts

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Permaculture is about having a symbiotic relation with nature and we are dealing with human nature, so we have to design so that human nature brings forward the system. An ant village will be the way to achieve this. In designing these systems, we have to observe all possible design options to mitigate any problem […]

318 – Wheaton Laboratory Update Part 2

Published 9 years ago in Permaculture , Podcasts

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Paul and Jocelyn continue from part one, with their discussion about community, and the big changes at Wheaton Labs. Paul starts off expressing how trial and error are the core of experimentation, and how he’s happy to look at the failures and see how to make changes. They discuss mistakes – and how they are […]

317 – Wheaton Laboratory Update Part 1

Published 9 years ago in Podcasts

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Paul Wheaton opens with the declaration that this could be the most important podcast of all times since the podcast is going to focus on the least talked about but in Paul’s view, most important, aspect of permaculture: Community. Paul and Jocelyn describe the 20 month long “party” with having over 200 guests and visitors […]

316 – More on Rocket Mass Heaters with Ernie and Erica Wisner Part 2

Published 9 years ago in Podcasts

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Paul and Jocelyn continue their conversation with Ernie and Erica Wisner about rocket mass heaters. Erica starts off talking about how different homes will get different ratios of heat, depending on insulation or design and how well their current systems (wood stoves etc,) have been working for them. She gives examples of ways people have […]

315 – More on Rocket Mass Heaters with Ernie and Erica Wisner Part 1

Published 9 years ago in Permaculture , Podcasts

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Paul Wheaton sits down with Ernie and Erica Wisner to do a turbo podcast about rocket mass heaters. Ernie starts by asking Jocelyn what she feels about having the RMH sitting in the middle of the living room for so long, unable to be used. Jocelyn gives a few downsides to having that but goes […]

314- Winter Update from the Labs Part 2

Published 9 years ago in Permaculture , Podcasts

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Paul and Jocelyn continue their discussion about what has been happening at the labs this winter. The temperatures dropped and it required that a Rocket Mass Heater (RMH) be installed inside the wofati. The temps were very cold inside and outside the WOFATI and there’s a draft problem. When the wind blows, it can go […]

313 – Winter Update from the Labs Part 1

Published 9 years ago in Community , Podcasts

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Paul Wheaton begs forgiveness from Jocelyn since it has been two months since his last podcast. They go over why it has taken them a bit of time to get motivated to do a new podcast. Jocelyn talks about a few updates and also how she was feeling like you need creative space to be […]

312 – Gapper Living

Published 9 years ago in Podcasts

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Paul, Jocelyn, Rick, Sam, and the gappers sit down after their thanksgiving meal to chat. First everyone introduces themselves, and then Paul starts by talking about how amazing it is that they got the land and how it directly involved the gift economy. He talks about where he was at a few years ago compared […]

311 – More Intentional Community with Diana Leafe Christian Part 3

Published 9 years ago in Permaculture , Podcasts

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Part three of the podcast picks up with a question about what she thinks of the idea that a community functions best by finding out what the women want and giving them that? Taking a moment to decide on her response, Diana responds that she isn’t quite able to relate to the question well enough […]

310 – More Intentional Community with Diana Leafe Christian Part 2

Published 9 years ago in Permaculture , Podcasts

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Podcast 310 is the second of a three piece series with Diana Leafe Christian discussing intentional community. Diana begins the podcast with a truism coined by her friend and the founder of the

309 – More Intentional Community with Diana Leafe Christian Part 1

Published 9 years ago in Permaculture , Podcasts

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Paul interviews Diane over a land line due to some technical difficulties. Paul has four items to go over and then a bunch of questions from Permies.com. Diane will be a speaker at PV2 this year. Paul thinks that PV2 is going to be a big hit again this year. Diane plans to talk about […]

308 – Interview With Diana Leafe Christian Part 3

Published 10 years ago in Permaculture , Podcasts

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Paul starts off by talking about an expression he think applies to the non-violent communication discussion. Someone once told him that “church is not a showcase for saints, but a hospital for sinners” and he compares this to school of non violent communication because people who are coming to it are definitely not good at […]

307 – Interview With Diana Leafe Christian Part 2

Published 10 years ago in Permaculture , Podcasts

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Paul starts off by mentioning how the last half of the last podcast they made got ruined so now they are now re-recording that. Diana wants to make it clear that she has a basic disagreement from Paul. She believes he has made an extrapolation of a too small sample by saying that most conflict […]

306 – Rocket Mass Heater Innovators Event Part 3

Published 10 years ago in Permaculture , Podcasts

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In the last part of this podcast, Paul and the innovators discuss the safer burn of the batch box. With this style and you can feel safer walking away just like a regular stove. This would have a door that would close and so you can have much more confidence leaving it alone. Ernie does […]

305 – Rocket Mass Heater Innovators Event Part 2

Published 10 years ago in Permaculture , Podcasts

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In this podcast, the innovators from the Rocket Mass Heater event at the labs continue their discussion. They begin by talking about the Matt Walker Outdoor Cooker Patio Heater. He explains it is just a standard J-tube with and insulative refractor and it is buried in the ground so that it will be at a […]

304 – Rocket Mass Heater Innovators Event Part 1

Published 10 years ago in Permaculture , Podcasts

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In this podcast Paul and all of the innovators discuss the most recent rocket mass heater workshop/innovator’s eventthat just finished at the labs. The first project they talk about is the standard 8 inch cob system with no frills and no bells and whistles, that was built that into wofati 0.8. They got word that […]

303 – Interview with Willie Smits

Published 10 years ago in Permaculture , Podcasts

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In this podcast, Paul talks with Willie Smits while he is at the labs for the Rocket Mass Heater workshop. He first talks about his university in Indonesia, and the half a million acres farm he has recently come by. Paul notes that the information about him on the internet is sparse. He is famous […]

302 – Interview With Diana Leafe Christian Part 1

Published 10 years ago in Permaculture , Podcasts

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In this podcast Paul interviews Diana Leafe Christian, author of two books on community living, and editor of Communities magazine for fourteen years. Her basis of knowledge is her interaction with an extraordinarily large number of intentional communities – her current count is about 134 communities around the globe. She’s found that only a tiny […]

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