Homesteading and Permaculture by Paul Wheaton

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078 – Review of Gaia’s Garden, Chapter 8 Part 1

Published 13 years ago in Permaculture , Podcasts

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Paul Wheaton and Jocelyn Campbell review Toby Hemenway, on kickstarter video he put up for his colony collapse disorder. Paul expresses some gratitude for all the help people have given him, and frustration with trying to communicate with people that are in a different place on the companion planting, which capitalizes on how plants can […]

Tags: gaia's garden , guild , monoculture , polyculture , toby hemenway

077 – Creating an Oasis with Grey Water 2

Published 13 years ago in homesteading , Permaculture , Podcasts

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Paul Wheaton and Kelly Ware read chapter 2 of Art Ludwig’s “Create an Oasis with Greywater.” It starts with clarifying what your goals are, and what your workable situation is. Paul and Kelly talk about how a working leach field is important if you have a septic system. Saving water is important both for those […]

Tags: greywater , hugelkultur , irrigation , leach field , poop , soap , washing dishes

076 – Creating an Oasis with Grey Water 1

Published 13 years ago in homesteading , Permaculture , Podcasts

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Paul Wheaton and Kelly Ware read Art Ludwig’s “Create an Oasis with Greywater.” It is the world’s most popular greywater book. Paul mentions the Wheaton Eco Scale, and how Art Ludwig is at Level 9. The book describes “how to choose, build, and use 20 types of residential greywater systems” in different contexts (urban to […]

Tags: greywater , hugelkultur , outhouses

075 – Review of Gaia’s Garden, Chapter 7

Published 13 years ago in chickens , Permaculture , Podcasts

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Paul Wheaton and Jocelyn Campbell review Gaia’s Garden Chapter 7, by Toby Hemenway: Bringing in the bees, birds, and other helpful animals. Polyculture attracts a diverse home ecosystem, which makes things more resilient and healthy. Paul shares his llama poop story. Jocelyn brings up the importance of having producers, consumers, and decomposers all present to […]

Tags: chickens , ecological balance , gaia's garden , polyculture , toby hemenway

074 – Sepp Holzer’s Permaculture preface-ch 1

Published 13 years ago in Permaculture , Podcasts

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Paul Wheaton talks to Kelda Miller, a permaculture instructor in the Pacific NW who spent two years at the Sepp Holzer‘s Permaculture (the book). The forward to the book is by Earthcare Manual, which is used in a lot of PDCs. Kelda makes a plug for a piece of property for sale that could use […]

Tags: money , observation , permaculture , Sepp Holzer , water

073 – Urban Permaculture Realism

Published 13 years ago in chickens , homesteading , Permaculture , Podcasts , urban

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Paul Wheaton talks to Norris Thomlinson, who lives on 0.2 acres in Portland, Oregon, and has been outside inputs that they have now. Animal calories make up half of what they eat, and a lot of calories come from their bee’s honey. Some sidenotes are that they weren’t very knowledgeable about gardening when they started, […]

Tags: calories , nitrogen , sunchokes , urban farming , woodchips

072 – Keyline Systems

Published 13 years ago in Permaculture , Podcasts

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Paul Wheaton and keyline systems. A keyline system uses a keyline plow and spreads water throughout the landscape, rather than letting it only accumulate in vallies. The goal is for the landscape to become a big sponge. A keyline plow is a subsoil plow that has a “shakerator.” It takes 3-4 years to get the […]

Tags: keyline , Michael Pilarski (Skeeter) , soil

071 – Being Noble

Published 13 years ago in Permaculture , Podcasts

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Paul Wheaton and Kelly Ware talk about being noble. Kelly shares about growing grapes in Montana, and making elderberry jam and fruit leather. Someone made a political cartoon of Paul on reddit, and someone else made a comic strip of Paul and cast iron. He reminds people to sign up for his daily-ish email list. […]

Tags: community , noble

070 – Geoff Lawton Food Forests

Published 13 years ago in Permaculture , Podcasts

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Paul Wheaton and Helen Atthowe (www.veganicpermaculture.com) watch Geoff Lawton‘s Food Forest video and Helen really loved it. It shows a food forest as they start it, at 6 months, a year, 3 years, 10 years. Paul thinks it is one of the best permaculture videos. Lawton starts by talking about 3 concepts: the layering of […]

Tags: carbon , chickens , food forests , Geoff Lawton , Helen Atthowe , mulch , nitrogen , pruning

069 – Building a Better World

Published 13 years ago in Listener Questions , Permaculture , Podcasts

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Paul Wheaton starts his conversation with Kelly Ware sharing about his take on the portable rocket mass heater. Paul is frustrated that the general masses are not ready for his information. Paul mentions the rocket mass heaters are. Paul and Kelly talk about the pain of “small talk,” and living lives of substance towards their […]

Tags: money , noble

068 – Michael Pilarski (Skeeter)

Published 13 years ago in Permaculture

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Paul Wheaton shares about his Michael Pilarski (Skeeter), a renouned wildcrafter, who was his PDC teacher in 2005. He shares about his chop and drop, Back to the Garden which has Skeeter interviewed in it. Paul and Skeeter mention the hugelkultur, which Skeeter explains. Is there anything Skeeter has planted before that he wouldn’t deal […]

Tags: hugelkultur , irrigation , Michael Pilarski (Skeeter) , money , mulch , polyculture , weeds , wild foods

067 – Kelly Ware Spreading Permaculture

Published 13 years ago in Permaculture , Podcasts

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Paul Wheaton sits down with Kelly Ware, and she wants to explore the topic of how to infect people’s brains with permaculture. Paul explains how Kelly invited him to sit with her at a booth to help her persuade people to understand more about permaculture. After a long talk about how to get permaculture into […]

Tags: permaculture

066 – Kelly Ware Permaculture Gatherings

Published 13 years ago in Permaculture , Podcasts

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Paul Wheaton and Kelly Ware of the Flathead Lake area talk about Sepp Holzer, and how Sepp is coming to Montana next May, 2012. Sepp will be speaking on topics like: restoring/building wetlands, pond building/aquaculture, mushrooms, reading nature, permaculture economics, and food and meat preservation. Kelly and Paul talk about the importance of aquaculture, and […]

Tags: calories , urban farming

065 – Deviating from the Norm Part 2

Published 13 years ago in Permaculture , Podcasts

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Paul Wheaton and Jocelyn Campbell talk about where Paul deviates from the permaculture mainstream. Paul first mentions the deliciousness of kale chips. He then talks about how probably 1/2 of permaculture folks are vegan, and he is an omnivore. He has a lot of respect for vegans though. Paul does not use chicken tractors, but […]

Tags: chickens , deer control , paddock shift , seed , veganism

064 – Deviating from the Norm Part 1

Published 13 years ago in Permaculture , Podcasts

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It’s a walk in Paul’s view of permaculture, a quick stroll down his path. Paul and Jocelyn start from a specific question on where Paul strays from mainstream permaculture and why. Paul starts explaining that he likes the idea that forums should be more for a community or discussion for general permaculture stuff, but that […]

Tags: perma

063 – Magazine list

Published 13 years ago in Permaculture , Podcasts

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Paul Wheaton and Jocelyn Campbell continue sharing about writing that has had an impact on Paul, this time, focusing on magazines. Permaculture Magazine and Living Woods Magazine are Paul’s favorites. Paul finds about 2 articles per issue of Permaculture Magazine that he finds interesting. Living Woods is sort of the “Ben Law magazine” to Paul. […]

062 – Fiction Book List

Published 13 years ago in Podcasts

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Paul Wheaton and Jocelyn Campbell host the podcast on the beach (while being laughed at by passerbys for being geeks on their phones) to talk about different fiction books and magazines that are relevant to the permaculture community. Paul explains he isn’t sure why anyone would want to listen to a podcast with him listing […]

Tags: noble

061 – Book List Part 2

Published 13 years ago in Permaculture , Podcasts

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Paul Wheaton and Jocelyn Campbell first share about their tidepooling experience while on the Oregon coast. They then finish going through a list of books, mostly related to gardening and permaculture, that have made an impact on Paul. Here are the books they discuss: Allan Savory‘s Holistic Management, on reversing desertification through the grazing of […]

060 – Book List Part 1

Published 13 years ago in Permaculture , Podcasts

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Paul Wheaton and Jocelyn Campbell go through a list of books, mostly related to gardening and permaculture, that have made an impact on Paul. He would take notes mostly on the pH certain plants needed and companion planting information. He mentions how different kinds of mulches do well with different kinds of plants. He brings […]

Tags: Salatin

059 – Early Retirement Extreme

Published 13 years ago in Permaculture , Podcasts

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Paul interviews Jacob from earlyretirementextreme.com. (There is also a thread on Early Retirement Extreme (ERE) at permies.com). They talk about Jacob’s experience retiring at 33 (he’s 35 now), and how he got to that point. There are different levels of “extreme” one can take, depending on what is comfortable, but, as Jacob says, “The point […]

Tags: electric heat , frugality , money , mortgage

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