Homesteading and Permaculture by Paul Wheaton

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281 – Geoff Lawton Q&A Round 2 – Part 2

Published 10 years ago in homesteading , income , Listener Questions , Permaculture , Podcasts

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Best way to establish a food forest in high desert (Rocky Mountains) with annual rainfall 3″-8″ at 7500 ft above sea level. Geoff says he’s getting a lot of questions about high dry deserts. It is a difficult landscape, because it’s quite cool, but still dry. You’ll have to work hard on your nursery systems, […]

Tags: Geoff Lawton , profitable farming

280 – Geoff Lawton Q&A Round 2 – Part 1

Published 10 years ago in Podcasts

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More questions for Geoff Lawton, including good information about how you could help at the Jordan project (if you can get yourself there). Geoff says you could travel the world today going from project to project if you are a good worker and a good person. If you’re going to be an intern at Geoff’s […]

Tags: Bill Mollisson , internship , woofing

279 – Geoff Lawton Q&A

Published 10 years ago in Permaculture , Podcasts

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Geoff Lawton reached out to Paul to discuss the peoples questions. Paul explained how the forum generated a lot of questions. Some of the questions were answered by other forum members. Paul thought that they should focus on the tougher questions. Question: How can trees generate more moisture thru condensation? What is the critical number […]

Tags: Food Forest , greening the desert , organic food , water

278 – Gaia’s Garden Chapter 10

Published 10 years ago in food , Permaculture , Podcasts

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After almost 2 years, Paul and Jocelyn are back reading Gaia’s Garden. Mostly home scale, zone 1, zone 2. One of the best parts of this chapter is the table in the middle. Tying guilds into a unified landscape. The role of [productive] trees, trees as the foundation of a forest. The yields of trees […]

Tags: Food Forest , gaia's garden , review , toby hemenway , trees

277 – Geoff Lawton on Permaculture Part 2

Published 10 years ago in Permaculture , Podcasts

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This is the continuation of podcast 276. The podcast starts with Paul asking if Geoff Lawton is a hippie. They talk about the PRI certified instructors and whether the holding hand and singing sound is part of a PDC. Geoff’s opinion is that if a PDC will include a metaphysical portion, it should be advertised […]

Tags: hippie , pdc , PRI , PRI certified instructors

276 – Geoff Lawton on Permaculture Part 1

Published 10 years ago in Permaculture , Podcasts

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Geoff Lawton answers a ton of questions like why he’s not on the Permaculture Playing Cards. Paul and Geoff discuss how they deal with detractors. They discuss the top women in permaculture. Why is there hostility in the permaculture movement.? How did metaphysics wind up in permaculture? Who is in charge of permaculture? If no […]

Tags: Geoff Lawton , Playing cards

Podcast 275 – Chicken Tractors Debate

Published 10 years ago in chickens , homesteading , hugelkulture , income , Permaculture , Podcasts

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Sam, Petey, Emily, Jocelyn, & Paul have a discussion and rebuttal of the Paul Wheaton versus Darby Simpson Chicken Tractoring Duel (TSP Episode 1297). Items discussed: Chicken Tractors vs. Salatin style Pen vs. Paddock Shift Scalable systems. Tractors: the philosophy v the contraption The scorched earth philosophy. Will Paul raise chickens at the Laboratory? Lots […]

Tags: chicken paddocks , chicken tractor , Darby Simpson

Podcast 274 – Earthworks DVD Set Part 2

Published 10 years ago in Community , homesteading , hugelkulture , income , missoula , Paul's farm , Podcasts

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It’s been three weeks, time for another walking/talking podcast with Paul and Jocelyn! Somehow 14 inches of snow isn’t nearly as CRUNCHY as last time. Jocelyn’s arm is still in a cast, and she’s not supposed to use that arm at all, so she’s really glad that she’s living in community right now. The Kickstarter […]

Tags: creek , earthworks , Kickstarter , podcast , water , workshops

Podcast 273 – Earthworks DVD Set

Published 10 years ago in homesteading , hugelkulture , irrigation , Paul's farm , Permaculture , Podcasts

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Come walk with Paul and Jocelyn through the snow (the VERY crunchy snow) up at the laboratory! Jocelyn wants to walk, and Paul is willing, if they also create a new podcast while they walk. If people keep posting topic requests at permies.com, this may happen regularly. You get a sense of what it looks […]

Tags: creek , earthworks , Kickstarter , podcast , water , workshops

Podcast 272 – Review of Desert or Paradise DVD

Published 10 years ago in hugelkulture , Permaculture , Podcasts , Sepp Holzer

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Paul, Emily Aaston & Tony Aiuppa discuss the video “Desert or Paradise”, starring the mighty, the glorious, the amazing Sepp Holzer, which Paul got from Zak Weis in a trade for his 4 DVD set. Paul says he scheduled the podcast to get away from angry stuff. He mentioned a guy who was bashing Sepp […]

Tags: dams , deser , earthworks , Ponds , Sepp Holzer

Podcast 271 – Rocket Mass Heater Shippable Core Update

Published 10 years ago in Paul's farm , Permaculture , Podcasts , rocket mass heater , wood heat

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Paul and Erica discuss shippable cores along with work done at the tipi. One of the days during the workshop included flooding the tipi with heat because the mass was frozen, frozen rock solid. The next day, after heating up the mass the heater worked much better. There were many projects going on all at […]

Tags: rocket mass heaters , shippable core , wood burning stoves

Podcast 270 – Review of don’t Eat Anything with a Face Part 2

Published 10 years ago in Podcasts , Review

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Credit: Sally Chang This podcast is a continuation of the discussion of the NPR program Intelligence2 Debate: Should We Avoid Eating Anything With A Face (see podcast 269 for link). Paul wonders if vegans and vegetarians are truly aware of the actual facts of how their vegetables are grown–a process that includes lots of tilling […]

Tags: Joel Salatin , omnivorism , veganism , vegetarianism

Podcast 269 – Review of don’t Eat Anything with a Face Part 1

Published 10 years ago in Podcasts , Review

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Credit: Sally Chang Paul, Jocelyn, Tony, Emily and Erika discuss an episode of the NPR program, Intelligence2, called Debate: Should We Avoid Eating Anything With A Face? On the pro side is Dr. Neal Barnard and Gene Baur; the nay side includes Chris Masterjohn and Joel Salatin. You can listen to the episode here The […]

Tags: Joel Salatin , omnivorism , veganism , vegetarianism

Podcast 268 – Rocket Mass Heater Update Part 2

Published 10 years ago in Paul's farm , Podcasts , rocket mass heater , wood heat

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Credit: Mike Ewing This is part two of a two part podcast in which Paul chats with Paco Wenzel, Zach Weiss, Derek Weiss, and Tony Ayuba, the folks who came out to work on the various winter rocket mass heater projects. [0:00] Paul starts with an introduction of Zach, who Paul say IS Holzer agroecology […]

Tags: Rocket Mass Heater , rocket stoves , wood burning stove

Podcast 267 – Rocket Mass Heater Update Part 1

Published 10 years ago in Podcasts , rocket mass heater , wood heat

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Credit: Julia Winter Paul is here talking Rocket Mass Heaters with Paco Wenzel, Zach Weiss, Derek Weiss, and Tony Ayuba. They’ve all been together for 4 days working on various Rocket Mass Heater projects. The RMH built in the tipi ended up cracking the core and had to be rebuilt. The new core follows the […]

Tags: Rocket Mass Heater , rocket stove , wood burning stove

Podcast 266 – rocket mass heater shippable cores

Published 11 years ago in Permaculture , Podcasts , rocket mass heater

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Credit: Mike Ewing Paul makes a spur of the moment podcast with Ernie Wisner about rocket mass heaters (RMHs). They are joined by Erica Wisner a little past the halfway mark. Paul starts off with news that Erica’s latest shipable cores attempt has cracked and they are now doing a post-mortem. Erica is now obsessed […]

Tags: rmh , Rocket Mass Heater , shippable core , wood burning stoves

Podcast 265 – Updates from the lab part 3 – Tools, volunteers, and homestead butchery

Published 11 years ago in homesteading , Paul's farm , Permaculture , Podcasts

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Credit: Kevin Murphy and Marianne Cooper Paul discusses seed balls, planting of perennials, berms and hugelkultur beds planned for winter. The solar electric sawmill is doing well; electric chainsaws working well; cordless saw is nimble; little Mikita is very handy but in the shop. Paul’s electric Remmington died. Motors in the electric saws seem to burn […]

Tags: butchery. wofati , meat , power , volunteers

Podcast 264 – Updates from the lab part 2 – rocket mass heater, shipable core, wofati, cob design

Published 11 years ago in Permaculture , Podcasts , rocket mass heater , Wofati

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Credit: Kevin Murphy Paul gave an in depth review of each of three rmh designs. One design by Paul, one by Ernie and a third by Erica. There was a review of rocket mass heater of the shipable cores. There is a fire problem in Paul’s box design due to lack of insulation. 3 cores […]

Tags: earth berm , heat , rmh , rocket stoves , shipable core , tipi , wofati

Podcast 263 – Updates from the lab part 1 – rocket mass heater, showers, poopers

Published 11 years ago in Composting Toilet , homesteading , Paul's farm , Podcasts , rocket mass heater

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Credit: Rob Young Paul begins this podcast by explaining the lack of new podcasts and an update on the work that has been going on. A 3 day “rest” period from work was decided to heal up since everyone had been going at such a scramble, scramble rapid pace. Emily, Tony and Jason join in […]

Podcast 262 – Review of Chemerical

Published 11 years ago in cancer , less toxic living , Podcasts

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Credit: Julia Winter It’s been over a month since Paul and Jocelyn have made a podcast together. But first, Paul just has to share an anecdote about the latest crazy thing the kids are wearing (or not wearing) these days (in Missoula) and you’ll just have to listen to the podcast for the details. This […]

Tags: chemical , makeup , natural cleansers , toxic

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