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Podcast 689 – Permaculture Smackdown 27 – Willow Feeders – Part 3

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Paul, Alan, Stephen and Clay continue discussing faecal management systems, with the goal of making one that can scale up to deal with lots of people. They also discuss other poop loving plants like bamboo, or maybe creating a much more spread out system and using it as pasture. Support the podcast on Patreon Show […]

Podcast 688 – Permaculture Smackdown 27 – Willow Feeders – Part 2

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Paul, Alan, Steven and Clay continue the discussion about poop, with Paul aiming to replace sewage plants even in areas that ban compost toilets, and Alan feeling that the alpha testing is complete, and discussing weather humanure or willow feeders are safer in regards to pathogens. Support the podcast on Patreon Show notes and discussion […]

Podcast 687 – Permaculture Smackdown 27 – Willow Feeders – Part 1

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Paul sits down with Steven, Clay, and Alan Booker to discuss other methods of dealing with human waste, aka poop. There’s a lower limit of about 1m3 for a compost heap, so why not put it underground and put a willow tree in it to keep it in one place? Support the podcast on Patreon […]

Podcast 684 – State of the Jungle – Part 3

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Paul and Steven still have a variety of notes to go over, such as Rocket Mass heaters needing a better PR spin, getting GAMCOD off the ground with a 3-boot startup, appreciation for all the support he’s been getting, and some slight hypocrisy around compost toilet bans. Support the podcast on Patreon Show notes and […]

380 – Dealing with community drama – part 4

Paul and Jocelyn continue to address some intentional community 3.0 issues. They start off by addressing the claim that they were locking a “historically” public road, which was proven by local authorities not to be public. They talk about the issues with Allerton Abbey, which were fixed in the summer. They talk about the bounty […]

379 – Dealing with community drama – part 3

Paul and Jocelyn continue to address some intentional community 3.0 issues. They start off with the last 2 concerns the Ants formulated: written rental agreement and not being allowed to commute to a job. They then move on to addressing criticism from 47: the local currency (fysh) being obscure, poop management, the lock at the […]

226 – Rocket Mass Heater Workshop Part 2

Paul, Ernie and Erica continue their conversation on the Rocket Mass Heaters workshop that started in part 1. They first talk about an idea that was brought up during the workshop to put the exhaust in a greenhouse to help with plant growth. The concept is that since the exhaust from a Rocket Mass Heater […]

224 – Poop Beast Part 2

Paul Wheaton and Heath Carrey continue their discussion on sewage treatment and poop beasts that started in podcast 223. They continue with their concerns on using the wood from the poplar project because of the pharmaceutical, the chemicals, and the heavy metals that could be present in the poop Kool-Aid. Heath talks about what the poplar project […]

223 – Poop Beast Part 1

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After visiting Missoula’s wastewater treatment plant, Paul and Heath Carrey from Montana organization of Soil scientist talk about human bodily waste management and poop beasts. They talk about the poplar project of the Missoula wastewater treatment plant to process poop Kool-Aid by putting it on a plot of poplar trees as a way to reduce the amount of […]

219 – Symphonies in Seed and Soil Permaculture Tour Recap Part 1

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The 2012 Symphonies in Seed and Soil Permaculture Tour is over. During this tour, Paul Wheaton, Jocelyn Campbell, Eivind Bjørkavåg, and Geoff Badenoch visited amazing permaculture sites in the Western United States and met many people. In this podcast, Paul, Jocelyn and Eivind try to remember all the different things that they saw that has not already […]

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