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On 18th March AD 978 at Corfe Castle in Dorset, a 16-year-old boy was brutally stabbed in the back and died shortly after. That boy was the teenage king, Edward the Martyr. But who was the murderer, or murderers? Join James Grasby and author Anna Groves on this Halloween historical Whodunnit, as they try and figure out who committed the regicide, with the help of some other worldly encounters. [Ad from our sponsor] This podcast episode is sponsored by family history website Findmypast. What was life like for domestic servants, workers and local communities at our most fascinating heritage sites? Discover how people from all walks of life lived and worked, and who with, in hundreds of census records, for free, by signing up with Findmypast. And find out about the free trial that you could use to explore your family history. See where the past takes you at: findmypast.co.uk/national-trust Watch a video of this podcast on the National Trust's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@nationaltrustcharity/podcasts Production Hosts : James Grasby and Anna Groves Producers : Pippa Tilbury-Harris and Nikki Ruck Sound Design: Jesus Gomez Actor voices : Caitlin Packer, Ethan Hughes, Louise Bray, Mark Powell courtesy of Prime Theatre Discover More If you'd like to read more about the ghosts of the National Trust, you can purchase Anna Groves' book, ‘Britain's Ghosts' here: https://shop.nationaltrust.org.uk/national-trust-britain-s-ghosts.html To find out more about Corfe Castle including details for visiting, please click here: https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/dorset/corfe-castle If you'd like to get in touch with feedback, or have a story connected with the National Trust, you can contact us at podcasts@nationaltrust.org.uk
Watching finals from the side-lines, celebrating award winners and saying goodbye to purple soldiers. This emotional roller coaster can get knotted! Time to Restump Podcast the assortment of sentiment.As Fremantle fans, you'd think we'd be acclimatised to watching September from the side-lines… I mean we've done it 22 times in the last 30 years! But watching the finals this year and knowing how close we were to being a part of it… we've developed an itch that needs a scratch! We need a fix; we need a September transfusion; we need a finals injection to get the purple bloodstream pumping! But we'll bide our time, do the hard yards once again and hope this time next year outcomes will be different. Meanwhile, again at this time of year, we have to undertake the unenviable task of waving goodbye to numerous Docker diehards that dug deep over the duration. We sadly say sayonara and send off soldiers some who never saw any action, all of them devoid of September success.The often unjustly maligned Matty Taberner, the ever-ready Ethan Hughes, the always jovial Josh Corbett, the sky scraping Sebit Kuek and the couldn't quite get there Conrad Williams. All five deserve gratitude, but especially Tabs and Hughesy. They got everything out of themselves, emptied their tanks, they were part of the journey and played vital roles at times. Thanks fellas and enjoy whatever comes next in life.To move to a brighter note we celebrated the Doig medal awards last night. Now it is safe to say it wasn't exactly a short a night and awards weren't rare. And not to diminish the attached prestige to any accolade, but it seemed if you attended the gala and went home without some sort of medal or acknowledgement, you were stiff! But there is a lot to be said for professionalism and attention to detail and it was truly a magnificent night. If only we could be as thorough on the field as we were off it! There were no surprises, Caleb Serong and Andy Brayshaw were always going to deservedly quinella the Doig and it was just a matter of which order. The only shock that could have occurred on the night was if Josh Corbett didn't win the best good bloke award! Never going to happen.Josh Draper won the “stood out like a Beacon for all the right reasons” award. It was great to see, it was thoroughly deserved and we're all pretty excited for him and us going forward.Lukey Ryan won the Mi Casa Property Boutique Award. He got the most wins for metres gained in a single quarter, more than any other player. Don't quote me on it as it hasn't been confirmed... but I think he wins a house, courtesy of the magnificent Mi Casa crew.Awards, delistings, finals, trades… plenty of purple to prattle on about. So, if you're in need of a dose of docker drivel, drag up a davenport, dial in and dwell on our dubious determinations. Enough of the nonsensical alphabet games… let's get into it! Join us in the purple pod pool, the water is warm.Support the show
O'Drizzy joins us in the studio after Freo's shocking loss over the weekend, hopeful the girls can turn it around. And big news from Freo as Matt Taberner and Ethan Hughes are not getting offered contracts for 2025.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Accusations we tempted the Footy Gods with our overconfidence are unfounded. They tipped Freo by fence panels. Sadly, it's time to somehow Restump Podcast whatever Saturday night was.If anyone said they saw Saturday night's performance and result coming, they're lying. Biff Tannen armed with his Grays Sports Almanac handbook wouldn't have bet on West Coast in that game. We thought we weren't that club any more. The team that unexpectedly puts in the most bizarre and inexplicable performance. After Saturday night, it is difficult to suggest we aren't.Admittedly without Freddy, without Switta, without Coxy and without Amiss we were somewhat undermanned against, really, as full strength an outfit West Coast are likely to have for some time. But it wasn't who was and wasn't out there, it was how we did or rather didn't go about it.We should have gone into this game five and zero, or at least four and one. Where was the resulting fire? Where was the anger of the two weeks in South Australia that we should have unleashed on West Coast? To the Eagle's credit they brought and delivered what we didn't. They monstered us, they intimidated us, they verballed and niggled us and we allowed them to do so. Harley Reid is a jet. He's a generational talent and freakish for his age and experience. But while that is the case, he's a 19 year old kid in his 6th AFL game and we allowed him to physically and verbally bully us! We weren't clean with the ball, individually we rapidly descended into self-preservation mode and seemingly, or consequentially, our footy intelligence decreased. We repeatedly made terrible decisions; we were more often than not, standoffish and we were simply destroyed by a team with a substantially greater appetite. Maybe the extended Gather Round trip had a far greater detrimental impact than we all know? Maybe the compound effect of the Gather Round trip and the loss of Freddy, Switta and Amiss exposed our depth? In all reality we've been winning games off the back of our defence. We did raise the point that if they had a rare down day we'd be picked off. Still, no one thought that would be enough to see what the Eagles did to us.We've now destroyed the early work we did setting up our season and at three and three we've lost our advantage. We're back to the pack, run of the mill and fighting for survival! Are we fighting though? That remains to be seen this week against the Dogs.Some drown their sorrows with alcohol, others choose to comfort eat. For the latter, it would have been a great week to win the Mi Casa Property Boutique metres gained competition and tuck into the $50 of 2Bros foods. Deb Albrecht did just that and we hope she remembers that sharing is caring!I feel like we've got so many more questions than answers. So, let's see if Jojo can even up the ledger and give us a few answers and provide us some direction in life. This was a really tough one to take as the result and performance was all on us, not umpires and not freak circumstances.Apparently, a problem shared is a problem halved so join us on the pod as we all need to band together and do a shedload of sharing.Support the show
Ethan Hughes joined Seb Clarke on TABtouch Radio following Fremantle's 2-0 start to the 2024 season.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Glenn Davis discusses the great impact US international players are having at their clubs. From Haji Wright's brace against Wolves, to Christian Pulisic's amazing present in Italy, Davis reviews all the action from the FA Cup and Manchester United 4-3 win over Liverpool. Sliding to North American action, Davies discusses Dynamo's single-goal win over Portland and Houston Dash 5-1 tough loss at North Carolina. Additionally, Davis transitions his focus to La Liga as he reviews Barcelona's big 3-0 win over Atletico Madrid. Lastly, Davies shares a heartwarming interview with cancer survivor Ethan Hughes.
Join Glenn Davis on this outside the box Soccer Matters Extra. Ethan Hughes is a Survivor and joins the podcast on the process of being diagnosed , treated and defeating cancer. His amazing story.
Going into the draft with very few bullets to use, you'd have to be pleased with what Wallsy and the gang have picked off? Time to belatedly Restump Podcast our 2023 draft results. So, the draft dust has now settled! Unless you're the eternal pessimist, surely, you're keen on the decent handful of new Dockers it has revealed. And if that doesn't float your boat, you have to give the club credit for reducing the risk and avoiding anyone named Lachie.The first purple cab off the rank, Cooper Simpson, an inside outside speedy line breaking goal kicking midfielder. Was the thought of a winger front and centre in the minds of the Freo drafting crew when they pick traded up the order to secure Cooper at 35? Half a dozen picks later the 200cm defender Ollie Murphy joined his mate Cooper Simpson as they shared a cab to Freo. A lot of chatter that Ollie should have gone first round and that Freo should be charged for stealing… but it's all inconsequential now. Safe to say the most surprised and thrilled draftee was jumping Jack Delean. At pick 60 the forward from South Australia must have been losing hope of getting onto a list. Then the purple hand was extended and all hell broke loose! If you listen carefully, you can still hear Mrs. Delean's lingering screams of excitement! We then put the cue in the rack until the following day. The rookie draft is where we excel! Antoni Grover, Roger Hayden, Aaron Sandilands, Paul Duffield, Matt de Boer, Michael Barlow, Lee Spur, Matthew Taberner, Ethan Hughes, Bailey Banfield, Josh Treacy are some of the ridiculously great Fremantle names that have come from our rookie drafting skills. Dropped pick 5 Wednesday on the 96kg 18-year-old ruck / forward Odin Jones…. it's safe to say he's in great company.We'll go through them in a bit more depth and we'll run the eyes over the entire draft to see if anything stood out. In other news, preseason training has amped up but sadly Sebit Kuek is about to join the long-term injury list alongside Josh Corbett. We'll do our best to find out where Jojo has been swanning about and who he has been hobnobbing with the last week and why he didn't show for a draft night podcast. So, if you've got too much free time and you decide to spend 60 minutes of it on our nonsense…. all we can say is thank you, but… you're too generous and you're severely undervaluing your time! Support the show
After a long break, I'm grateful to be sharing a new recording with Ethan exploring a wide range of topics, from how we can envision the more beautiful future our hearts know is possible, to grieving the world events, to IFS and trauma healing, and more. Ethan can be reached at (207)-338-5719. The Possibility Alliance mailing address is:85 Edgecomb RoadBelfast, ME 04915Tucker Walsh can be reached at possibilitynowpodcast@gmail.com Music by Gavin Leeper
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This week we have Ethan from Jack Wreck Adventures Youtube channel on the show. He talks about his inspirations and motivations and what it all means to him. He's a cool guy with a great sense of humour. If you've not seen his stuff before check him out here: https://youtube.com/@jackwreckadventures562
Tom Hawkins, Jeremy Cameron, form and captaincy questions. Hey Siri tell me four things Alex Pearce destroyed last Saturday. Time Restump Podcast the big win over the Cats.While it mirrored the team's performances, it is no secret Alex Pearce's form in recent weeks wasn't his greatest. However, he not only gave everyone a refresher course on his capabilities, but he found another level and arguably played his career best game on Saturday. Does that highly influential performance put to bed the captaincy questions that were arising? Or is there still a lingering thought that Caleb Serong or Andy Brayshaw could take over the role in 2024All that aside, Saturday was a magnificent result but one that was also frustrating and bitter sweet. In isolation it was the injection of joy we needed but, in context of the season, it was the four-quarter effort that we haven't seen often enough. We had understandable fears Tom Hawkins and Jeremy Cameron would take us to the cleaners. We might have gotten a little fortunate with a wayward Jeremy Cameron kicking 1 goal 5, but Alex Pearce ensured that luck wouldn't go to waste.While Pearce is the talk of the town, Hayden Young's performance and move into the middle is the take out for us. His shut down role on Dangerfield was astonishing and while he may go back to defense next week, the prospect of someone of his size and stature stepping into the midfield is an enticing dynamic. Caleb Serong ensured he'll win the Doig by the length of the Flemington straight, Luke Jackson's contested and clearance work was enormous, Luke Ryan did typical magnificent Luke Ryan things and did Freddy just kick goal of the year?Sam Switkowski, or Switskowski according to some commentators, and Lachie Schultz had big productive days and is Corey Wagner working his way into a regular team position? After bringing down the vibe last week, we'll check in with Jojo to see his mood levels. The Chief has been spending his time campaigning for Sam Sturt to be given another contract and unfortunately writing a new Neighborhood Watch episode that no one asked for.After Saturday's win at the ground only us and Geelong can win at, there's a pep in every Freo fan's step and a glide in their stride. So, lets make celebratory hay while the victory sun shines and keep the conversational ball rolling. By all means join us entering the penalty free protected zone, come along for the ride and get involved. Support the show
Some are prematurely saying the season is over for Freo. But that's loser talk! If we win eight of our last five we can still make the eight. Yeah… ok, its over… 'celebrate Ethan Hughes raising the bat and Restump Podcast Saturday's cat fight.Skilled Stadium, Kardinia Park, Alphabet Oval… Whiskas Bowl…. Whatever they're calling that ground down in Geelong doesn't hold too much fears for us. It does hold some great memories though. We've played there 19 times with just the 4 wins. We've got an average winning margin of 17 points but an average losing margin of 40 points. We've averaged 66 points a game over the 19 occasions. Our most recent tow encounters at the venue were a win last year by 3 points and a suffered hiding by 133 points in 2018. The Cats are looking to scrape into the eight to participate in September yet again and, while we probably don't care whether they make it or not, it'd be nice to make it difficult for them, if only for our mental and morale betterment. The valuable Jimmy Aish returns and, as it seems the club is looking to manage Matty Johnson, young Ethan Stanley appears set for his second outing, albeit again in the sub vest.Ethan Hughes celebrates a well earned 100-game milestone and you just have to be happy for him. He's been used sporadically since 2015 but you always know what you're going to get from him. He is consistent, he rarely plays a poor game and the gap between his best and worst is very narrow. He may not be the most polished or the most gifted but he is courageous, he puts his head over the ball and you get 110% effort all day every day from him.If you're listening to the commentary from the club it sounds like Liam Henry may be on the move in 2024. He has thrived in the back half of the season and is becoming the winger we have been hoping for. He's getting opportunity and he's part of our best 22 now so we hope Liam isn't lost to the purple. With our game being Saturday morning this week we better get on with it because we're only hours away from bouncedown. So, lets get into the cat clash and bang on about all things purple. We can only advise that you don't waste your precious Friday or Saturday on us but if you value your time that little then who are we to deter you!Support the show
Hear from Ethan Hughes on SEN WA as they preview Walyalup's clash with Narrm at the MCG.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Gotta hand it to those Maccas marketers! They've just increased their Fremantle foot traffic by over 70%. Time to Restump Podcast review Saturday's hot and cold patched performance against the overpowering Lions. We got a look at a fast pace free-wheeling Freo side and at times it looked competent. But game styles are irrelevant when you struggle to perform the basics. There is no other way to frame it, it was a dropped mark and fumble riddled performance. There was a suggestion humid dewy conditions were playing havoc… except they didn't seem too problematic for Brisbane, Brandon Walker and Jordan Clark! It was a near on 50-point thumping but had we taken the chances we created, it may well have been… maybe not a different result... but a more respectable scoreboard. Yes I know, coulda woulda shoulda!Controversial call…. we don't know about everyone else but we saw patches and green shoots to suggest we're not too far away. We're prepared to say the widespread expressed disappointment is greater than the issues. Sure, the clearances are lacking, our urgency could be upped, proactiveness would be nice and some cohesion would be handy but the nucleus is there, and it's a nucleus of talented kids a couple of years away from where their Brisbane opponents are now. Some tinkering and polishing up of the rebuild, some aging and some games into them and the disappointment will subside. This isn't to sugar coat Saturday because again if you can't hit a handball on the full, kick to advantage, take a simple chest mark and get in your opponent's personal space… we're simply Talking Heads and we're on the road to nowhere. We're not the most skilled in the league at our best but we're better than what we dished up Saturday. Lachie Schultz doesn't turn it over 6 times in 16 touches, neither does Sonny do likewise from 11 disposals! Where to now? Will Fyfe come back and be impactful? With Corbett and Treacy looking for opportunity, where does that leave Sturt? Should Erasmus be almost guaranteed a long term spot this year? If we're persisting with the fast pace running game, is Ethan Hughes on shaky ground? Surely that'd suit Liam Henry's game? Do we need to check Colin Young's white board now that Kozzy Picket has re-signed?Enough of that all that here, its time to get into it. Nothing to overly celebrate but plenty of chatter to be had. So why not join us for this hour of Freo fanfare as we'll no doubt ironically fumble and bumble our way through not only Saturday's critique, but all the other usual Docker drivel as well. Support the show
Just hours until the Saints on Sunday! We're as nervous as a hot air balloonist in the US. Good nerves though. Time to Restump Podcast the 2023 feasibility of the Freo plan.The real stuff is almost here and we're beside ourselves. There is just something about this upcoming year that has us up and about with more anticipation than usual. Holistically speaking, are we in the best shape we've been in for the start of a season? While there is the odd injury, few seem serious and there aren't too many that wont be pushing for round one.Is Luke Ryan going to get up and join his mate Brennan in that formidable defensive duo against the Ross Lyon Saints? Can the sum of parts equal the whole?It appears the hard working and opportunity grabbing Ethan Hughes, or apparently Dethen Hucker if you're seeing the images used in the press, has cemented a spot on the wing for round one.There is a bit of a grapevine chatter that the great Sonny Walters may don the sub vest? We're not sure what to make of that… it doesn't quite sit well.What are the odds? I mean odds aren't only for gamblers. They're opinionated indicators for potential performance. They're simply the result of often educated or informed research expressed as percentages of which we can learn a lot from without having to part with a single peso. Including the outside thoughts or the movements of the satchel swingers in the conversation simply assists in covering the assessment angles. So in this calm before the purple storm episode we take a look at what the number runners are suggesting. We're five days from bounce down and we can't shut up. So if you're looking for some soothing silence in which to relax… you've come to the wrong place. So as you're here, you may as well get your purple ears front and centre and jostling for position early with this hour of new season week nonsense. Support the show
Ryan Bader (c) def. Fedor Emelianenko via first-round TKO (punches) Johnny Eblen (c) def. Anatoly Tokov via unanimous decision (50-45, 49-46, 49-46) Brennan Ward def. Sabah Homasi via second-round TKO (punches) Lorenz Larkin def. Mukhamed Berkhamov via first-round knockout (elbow) Henry Corrales def. Akhmed Magomedov via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28) Steve Mowry vs. Ali Isaev ends in a draw (28-28, 28-28, 28-28) Chris Gonzalez def. Max Rohskopf via second-round TKO (punches) Grant Neal def. Karl Albrektsson via split decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28) Diana Avsaragova def. Alejandra Lara via split decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28) Nikita Mikhailov def. Darrion Caldwell via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28) Yusuf Karakaya def. Ethan Hughes via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)* Isaiah Hokit def. Peter Ishiguro via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)* Jaylon Bates def. Jornel Lugo via split decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28)* Neiman Gracie def. Dante Schiro via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)* SPONSORED BY https://www.instagram.com/supremeoftheuk/?hl=en https://www.instagram.com/cfr_sports/?hl=en --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/cfr-network/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/cfr-network/support
Sean Sheehan is back to give his preview and predictions for Bellator 290: Bellator 290: Bader vs. Fedor 2 which goes down February 4, 2023, at the Kia Forum, Inglewood, California, United States. Timestamps:(00:00) Intro, Bellator in 2022(04:24) Ryan Bader vs Fedor Emeliankenko(17:54) Steve Mowry vs Ali Isaev(20:47) Johnny Eblen vs Anatoly Tokov(25:32) Sabah Homasi vs Brennan Ward(26:02) Lorenz Larkin vs Mukhamed Berkhamov(27:43) Neiman Gracie vs Dante Schiro(29:21) Henry Corrales vs Akhmed Magomedov(30:32) Christopher Gonzalez vs Max Rohskopf(30:41) Grant Neal vs Karl Albrektsson(30:54) Diana Avsaragova vs Alejandra Lara(31:11) Darrion Caldwell vs Mikhaliov(31:58) Jaylon Bates vs Jornel Lugo(32:31) Isaiah Hokit vs Peter Ishiguro(32:37) Ethan Hughes vs Yusuf Karakaya(32:41) Recap
This is part 3 of 3 HPP Shorts with Diving with Heroes. Ethan Allen was a Command Sergeant Major and has been on multiple trips with Diving with Heroes. He shares his experiences of working with Diving with Heroes and how the Ocean can heal your mind, body and spirit. If you have never tried scuba diving, this is an incredible organization to get involved with. They help you with certifications, continuing education and introduce you to a community of brothers and sisters in arms that you can trust. Diving with Heroes is an organization that takes wounded veterans scuba diving. They cover all their expenses for certification, travel, lodging and diving. This full scholarship program is dedicated to helping our heroes find peace and feel connected to a community and to mother ocean. https://www.divingwithheroes.org
Its official, the bye round stinks and we're glad it's over. Time to restart the Freo Freight Train and Restump Podcast the latest news in purple shoes.The bye round probably came at a good time for a few of our momentarily sore soldiers. But other than for those favourable reasons, the bye round can get in the sea!We're 10 and 3 going into the back end of the season and we need, as a rule of thumb, a minimum of 15 wins to make the top four. Jojo McDonnell has us winning the next three straight so in his book we're virtually a monte to make it.With the tragic loss of Blake Acres to a hamstring, it seems the battle has been set between Liam Henry and Ethan Hughes to duel it out for the call up? But with possession being 9/10ths of the law, does Darcy Tucker trump them both?To avoid injury, it's always preferable to put your best foot forward at, rather than on, peel, and that is what Neil Erasmus is doing. He may have to bide his time but he'll inevitably secure a long-term midfield position. On the injury front we've lost a few troops. Sam Switkowski is a huge loss, Josh Treacy looks like he'll miss a few with the ankle, Blake Acres as mentioned, Nathan Chappy is still a few weeks away and unfortunately it appears Nathan O'Disco has suffered a setback. The Luke Jackson talk is heating up! But there is a bigger question than dollars and years. Does he truly fit in at Freo? If he wants to play lead ruck, sadly Freo probably isn't the place for him…. that said, we'll happily squeeze him in if we can. The conversations will be interesting.In what could potentially be described as JL's textbook display of ‘getting ahead of ourselves' Jojo McDonnell has locked in Hall Of Famer Matthew Pavlich to present the winning premiership cup to us at the G in September. The Chief is being a bit more conservative and wants to wait and see if the Clamp is back from Europe. We unnecessarily give our pointless two cents worth on the De Goey non-scandal, we had a poorly timed Ask Jojo segment and then we bring it home with another Neighbourhood Watch episode.So, after a week off, it's time to saddle up, get back on the Restump horse, click play and listen to this 50 minutes of nonsense on your way to Marvel Stadium… through the desert… if your horse has no name… Ok enough of that rubbish…. the play button is there somewhere if you want it and its not going to click itself!
Geelong, Melbourne and now Brisbane. Once is a chance, twice is a coincidence, three times is a trend! Time to Restump Podcast Freo's eventual taming of the Lions on Sunday. There was something about the Bailey's in that game, Zac Bailey and Bailey Banfield each kicked four but we'll focus on the latter. Straight off the top, you're not human if you weren't thrilled for Bailey Banfield. The serial sub, battling with confidence, got his chance and delivered arguably his career best game when it was most vital. Who knows what happens in future weeks but JL now has an extra headache to deal with, albeit a positive one.From the meaningful game perspective, if you had any doubts or weren't convinced in the authenticity of this Fremantle football club's performances and its trajectory, Sunday surely put your concerns to rest. This was a definitive display that truly signalled this team has arrived. And not from an outlandish “the premiership is ours” perspective, but from a belief that we should fear no team, knowing that we'll turn up and deliver required and respected effort…. unless the weather turns a bit damp. We still need to tick that box!This performance over Brisbane was compelling because the Lions were absolutely on their game, they were ferocious from siren to siren and relentless with their pressure. We combatted it, matched it, upped it and counterpunched our way to one of the clubs most significant victories, and we did it with a team averaging 25 years of age and without a Walters, a Matty Taberner, a Switta and a Fyfe.It is a game in which the unsung heroes rightfully became a little less unsung. The value in being able to turn to and bring in an Ethan Hughes and a Lloyd Meek and have them instantly play at the level they did, cannot be overstated. Quality list depth is invaluable and a key ingredient of long term and meaningful success. We continue this praise singing extravaganza in the pod, we chat individuals, our favourite single moment, cover what's doing in Fyfe life and bring it home with another instalment of the Neighbourhood Watch. We're already late with this internationally recorded but definitely not renowned podcast, so let's stop banging on about it here and get into the conversation.
Geez an 85% fit Fyfe would be handy! But you don't want to go in rushed and underprepared like we did into this difficult Restump Podcast preview of our clash against the Lachie Neale Lions.Jojo wanting to do the preview in between drinks on his swimming pool bar crawl in Bali is probably the time to realise you need to start holding yourself to the same disciplinary account you hold your team's players to.Sunday's game is a tricky assignment to assess. Brisbane are 9 wins and 2 losses but they've only played 2 top 8 sides, resulting in a win and a loss. We have played 4 top 8 sides for 3 wins and a loss. Brisbane is a high scoring side, having kicked 100 points in each of their last 6 games. But we've allowed 27 goals less kicked against us than Brisbane has against them. We can probably cover Chappy's out but no Sonny, Tabs and Switta hurts our scoring ability. Its all over the shop!Brisbane haven't been a great travelling team but they've won 4 of 6 away this year. Have they improved or has it been the predominantly bottom eight opponents they've faced away from home?Can Schultzy, Freddy, Banfield and co contain Charlie Cameron, Zac Bailey, Linc McCarthy and Cam Rayner who is starting to deliver on his hype? Our old mate Lachie Neale will get plenty of it regardless of pressure applied. Daniel Rich, as he so often does, holds one of many meaningful keys to the game. Some level of constant influential negating attention wouldn't be the worst decision made. Schultzy, Freddy… if you're listening?How will our forward line function? With Meek into the side and Taberner out, Darcy should spend big minutes forward. Can Meek go with Oscar McInerny? One thing for sure is we're going to need the Lobb of last week to show up again this week. It would have been nice to see Neil Razzamatazzmus get a gig but, who knows, there could be a late in lifeline. We're asking a lot of questions, we try to make heads and tails of them, but we might just have to wait until Sunday to find out the answers. In other news, Sebit Kuek has swaggered in and, while he may be a project player, he looks a decent throw at the stumps. Disco Nathan signed on for a further 2 years but he wasn't going anywhere, and Will Brodie is apparently Fremantle's classiest kick while West Coast's Tim Kelly is the league's worst. The usually reliable Paul Hasleby put in a dodgy one yesterday calling for the club to go after Tex Walker. His logic makes sense and everyone deserves forgiveness for a mistake but we don't want to disrupt our long-term build or stray from the path we're on. This game is a head scratcher, it's difficult to work out and the process wasn't helped by Jojo deciding to take holidays in season! But we scraped through, acknowledging there is plenty of upside. So if you're looking to get rid of 40 precious minutes of your life and you accept the reality you can never get them back, then just remove any listening content standard you may have, recheck you have nothing better to do, and then click play and endure the nonsense.
Many years ago, Ethan Hughes and his wife, Sarah, launched a wild experiment in radical simplicity that continues to this day: no electricity, no computers, no use of anything they don’t make by hand. They use an outhouse, grow their own food, cook in solar ovens, store their canned food in root cellars, and read to their two young daughters by beeswax candlelight. “There’s just no reason to do anything that doesn’t add to your life force,” Ethan says. What started as a personal experiment has evolved into the Possibility Alliance, an educational and service community free from fossil fuels that was created by Ethan and his family to welcome anybody and everybody interested in experiencing how to live according to practices vital to personal and planetary well-being: radical simplicity, agenda-less service, social activism, inner work and gratitude. For Ethan's family, living with radical simplicity is a means for helping unleash their own and others' gifts, to reach their spiritual potential and inspire others to do so as well, and to become the most magnanimous vessel of love they can be. Living simply is a way of embodying the deep life force possible to all. Located first in La Plata, Missouri and then in Belfast, Maine, the Possibility Alliance to date has hosted more than fourteen thousand visitors from around the globe, from Congolese refugees to a West Coast rock band, all inspired by their mission. For Ethan, “The Possibility Alliance is about freeing us from fear’s grip, about creating resilience and pumping our fists in the air when people say, ‘I have this crazy dream.’” Ethan’s crazy dream started when he was 13, after his father was killed in a car accident by a drunk driver, causing Ethan to question everything. In college, he witnessed firsthand the devastation of an oil spill in Ecuador, watching indigenous people scooping dead animals out of the sludge. Vowing to give up cars and travel only by bike or public transportation, he says, “My amount of joy, wonder, and love of being alive increased.” Soon after college, Ethan unexpectedly inherited $150,000, every penny of which he promptly gave away. After he married Sarah, whom he claims is even more radical than he is, the couple spent 18 months living at the Community of the Ark, a petrol-free activist center in La Borie Noble, France. They concluded that to really embody their dream, to whole-heartedly live out their vision, they would have to create a community from scratch, and even to choose to live well under the poverty line – which they continue to choose to do, in order to be exempt from contributing to the war machine via taxation. The Possibility Alliance was established as a 110-acre intentional community in La Plata, Missouri. For 11 years, the Alliance gave free classes in subjects including straw bale building, homesteading, wild edibles, tree pruning, permaculture, organic gardening, and civil disobedience. Everyone was welcome. Initially anticipating perhaps 200 or so visitors a year, the Alliance ended up hosting more than 10,000; and when the visitors showed up for free classes, they were met at the train station by a horse and buggy. All was offered in the spirit of gift, including the first by-donation permaculture certification in the U.S. In 2018, Ethan and Sarah moved the Possibility Alliance to Belfast, Maine, where they serve in their local community and also work on indigenous reparations, anti-oppression, and what may be the most important pillar of their mission: gratitude and celebration. “Our biggest question has always been, ‘How do we enjoy the revolution?’,” Ethan says. “We live off the grid but we live like kings. We play music, do puppet shows, swim in the ponds, host sledding Olympics.” The Possibility Alliance has given away $130,000 for reparations to indigenous and black causes over the past 15 years, tithing 20 percent to BIPOC groups. In the spirit of enjoying the revolution, the Alliance also serves as International Superhero Headquarters that, among other things, organizes Superhero bike rides where Zing (Ethan’s superhero name) and some 1,200 comrades with names like “The Love Ninja” and “Radiant X” spend a month swooping into towns dressed like superheroes to offer free community service. Zing’s superheroes, whom he calls a “peace service army,” have built a library, bucked hay, cleaned city parks, and given away goats, fruit bushes, seeds, soil, and compost. At last count, they’ve donated some 70,000 hours of free community service. Join us in conversation with this peacefully disruptive, pragmatic builder -- both of dreams and of live-off-the-land communities alike!
https://linktr.ee/ThehassleofhairJesse interviews MMA professional fighter Ethan Hughes . Who just had a fight where he was 9-1 underdog on the fight promotion Bellator.
Sean breaks down Bellator 271 which features a Women's Featherweight Title bout between "Cris Cyborg" and Irelands, Sinead Kavanagh. Plus the return of highly touted prospect Aaron Pico who faces the undefeated, Justin Gonzales.TIMESTAMPS:(00:00) Intro(00:59) Jordan Newman vs. Shane O'Shea(05:08) Valerie Loureda vs. Taylor Turner(08:05) Cody Law vs. Colton Hamm(08:50) Roman Faraldo vs. Robert Turnquest(09:45) Mahmoud Sebie Fawzy vs. Ethan Hughes(10:00) Bruna Ellen vs. Desiree Yanez(10:40) Arlene Blencowe vs. Pam Sorenson(13:20) Steve Mowry vs. Rakim Cleveland(17:40) Tyrell Fortune vs. Linton Vassell(20:19) Aaron Pico vs. Justin Gonzales(23:42) Cristiane Justino "Cris Cyborg" vs. Sinead Kavanagh
GatorCountry brings you a new podcast as we preview the Florida Gators homecoming game against Vanderbilt in the Swamp at noon. Andrew Spivey and David Soderquist are joined by Ethan Hughes as we talk about some of the issues that the Gators must fix heading into this weekend's game. The guys preview the Vanderbilt game and what the Gators can do against the Dores to correct mistakes from last week. TRANSCRIPT COMING SOON
Somewhere along the line the Darcy diagnosis was lost in translation. It was all a misunderstanding and he's good to go against the Tiges! It's the Restump Podcast's preview of Sunday's Freo V Richmond clash.While the season is still mathematically alive, finals are all but gone. It feels like the pressure is off so its time to simply enjoy a game of Freo footy for what it is.They've been named in the squad but do Joel Western and Nathan O'Driscoll make the final cut? Josh Treacy has been largely confirmed so that leaves two remaining positions and a medical sub. With the loss of Alex Pearce, we might need an Ethan Hughes or a Tobe Watson.We chat contracts, the Cerra announcement getting pulled from channel 7, Reece Conca's offensive trigger extension clause, Rory Lobb's manager shopping him around and the sad seemingly end to Stephen Hill.The ridiculous and competition compromising change in the academy rules has typically screwed us in our endeavours to potentially recruit Jesse Motlop! However, on that topic, just days after they amended their drafting policy to read “public school kids need not apply,” it seems the Karma Train may have stopped in at West Coast station as they failed to register Hale School's Neil Erasmus for their academy. Jojo McDonnell loves Retro round and he wants the return of the rock and anchor to be wheeled out to the middle by guys in overalls and he's calling for the inflatable shipping container tunnel for the players to enter the field. Meanwhile the Chief may be the only Freo supporter who isn't in love with the green retro guernsey! So if you're looking for something to drown out the noise of the torrential rains, feel free to click play and turn up the volume. You'll soon learn to appreciate the racket of water hitting your roof again! Finals are virtually off the table but there is always something fascinating for the Freo Folk to figure.
The boys hear from Ethan Hughes from the Dockers and Wildcats Coach Trevor Gleeson!
The boys hear from Jaymie Graham and Ethan Hughes from the Eagles and Dockers respectively, Wildcats Coach Trevor Gleeson and more!
Today we’ll be exploring a topic near and dear to Ethan’s heart, which he calls Love’s Fire. Love’s Fire can be described in many ways, but the way I think of it is the life-force energy that moves through us when we’re activated by our Soul’s purpose. It’s that feeling that you get when you know that you just have to do something, as if a larger force or higher power is guiding us to act in the service of Love. It’s that fire which has guided Ethan for much of his life, and I can think of no better person to discuss this topic. As always, we welcome and are grateful for your feedback and suggestions. Enjoy the episode!
The Fight Sport Focus Podcast's twenty-fourth episode. Hosts Jeffery Hoffmann and Nicholas "Niki the G" Sherlock are joined IN STUDIO by The Hughes Brothers, Dennis & Ethan Hughes. Dennis is a 3-2 professional MMA fighter, Ethan is a 5-0 amateur, and the brothers are both coming off of wins at Empire Fighting Championship 8. In this episode, we discuss fighting, pop culture and "fine" art. Don't forget to subscribe to and share this podcast on Anchor.fm, Spotify, iTunes, Google, or wherever you get your podcasts, and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter @fightsportfocus and visit us at FightSportFocus.com. Theme music by audionautix.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fightsportfocus/support
Ethan Hughes joined Adam Papalia and Paul Hasleby on 6PR Sportsday on Monday night after the 2-4 year playing group returned to training for day one of pre-season.
The Fight Sport Focus Podcast's sixteenth episode. Hosts Jeffery Hoffmann and Nicholas Sherlock recap UFC Fight Night: Smith vs. Clark and Mike Tyson vs. Roy Jones Jr. Then we are joined by both Douglas Freeman and Ethan Hughes. Douglass and Ethan are set to face each other for the amateur Welterweight title at Empire Fighting Championship 8 on December 19th. Don't forget to subscribe to and share this podcast on Anchor.fm, Spotify, iTunes, Google, or wherever you get your podcasts, and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter @fightsportfocus and visit us at FightSportFocus.com. Theme music by audionautix.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fightsportfocus/support
Ethan discusses the end of capitalism and five Liberation Economies emerging as regenerative alternatives, including: 1. Gift Economy 2. Give Back Economy 3. Relationship Economy 4. Reduction & Replacement Economy 5. Awareness Economy
Part 2 of Ethan's incredible life journey, full of heartbreak, triumphs and wisdom learned.
Part 1 of Ethan’s truly incredible and epic life story, full of heartbreak, triumphs and wisdom learned.
Ethan Hughes speaks with Andrew Collins on ABC
Ethan Hughes speaks with Karl Langdon & Paul Hasleby on 6PR
Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast My guest today is Eloisa Lewis. Eloisa is an American permaculture consultant, community building artist, activist, and healer. With her work as a project manager and educator, she helps guide communities of individuals into holistically regenerative paradigms and specializes in communal practices of decolonization. Eloisa joins me today to talk about her experiences in radical spaces, particularly Rainbow Gatherings but also in intentional community and activist camps, to put the principles of social permaculture into action. Throughout the conversation, she shares the ways those manifest in the acts of nonviolence, communication, and community justice. She also shares how she began down this road, where she studied permaculture, and some of her mentors for others who would like to journey down this path. Find out more about Eloisa at newlcimateculture.com and on social media @nomadsoulful and @newclimateculture. Throughout this conversation with Eloisa, I was thinking back to the experimental practices I've engaged in in-order to live into social permaculture, from launching permaculture convergences to visiting or living in intentional communities. These places served as vital opportunities to try non-violent communication, conflict transformation, restorative circles, and the other ways we can work together as human beings seeking to build permanent cultures that care for all life. The work is important to our long-term goals, but we need to see and experience them now before they're necessary. If we can attend radical gatherings or convergences, once they re-emerge from the pandemic, that's amazing. I know, however, that that isn't possible for everyone. In the meantime, or while we remain indoors, what are our options? The first place I would recommend starting is with Marshall Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication. Though Dr. Rosenberg has since passed on, his work continues to live and breathe through his book and the ongoing efforts of The Center for Nonviolent Communication. I also linked to two other interviews below, one with Karl Stayeart and another with Ethan Hughes, that explore nonviolent communication and conflict transformation, so you can hear other voices engaged in this work. I also encourage you to reach out to Eloisa to see if she is currently hosting any workshops on these subjects you could attend virtually. This conversation with Eloisa was also just the first to begin looking at radical spaces and how we can begin the ongoing processes of rewilding ourselves and working to decolonize our practices. If you know of anyone else working on these tasks who should appear in an upcoming episode, please let me know. Leave a comment below or send me an email: The Permaculture Podcast Until the next time, put your principles into practice while taking care of Earth, your self, and each other. Related Interviews Nonviolent Communication Conflict Transformation Resources newclimateculture.com @nomadsoulful @newclimateculture Find a Rainbow Gathering Women's Permaculture Guild Heather Jo Flores Urban Permaculture Institute of San Francisco
Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast Enjoy this episode? Become a Patron. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500"] (Source: dreamstime images)[/caption] This episode is a permabyte with Ethan Hughes. In this conversation, that arises from a listener question posed by Amelia, Ethan shares ways that we can transform our holiday experience from a consumption driven exchange, to one where gifts are given based on need or in service to others. He also stresses the importance of communication so that we can create new traditions that honor ourselves and the perspectives of our loved ones. Hearing what Ethan shared with us, how will you transform your holidays? What new traditions will you create? What conversations will you have to have to make this happen? I want to hear from you. Leave a comment in the show notes here, or get in touch with me directly. Call: or email: The Permaculture Podcast Also, if you haven't heard already, Ethan and I are writing a book together, called The Possibility Handbook: A Toolkit for Transformation. To support the creation of this book, I'm running a listener exclusive crowdfunding campaign. By pledging your support now you can receive early access to the the manuscript as it is written, hear the audio we record that serves as the basis for the book, and view pictures and video taken at The Possibility Alliance. If we can raise $5,000 I'll head to The Possibility Alliance January 16 - 23, 2016 to begin recording. Find out more, including the topics we'll cover, at www.thepermaculturepodcast.com/book Until the next time, spend each day creating the world you want to live in by taking care of Earth, yourself, and each other.
(Originally Released: December 14, 2015) Enjoy this episode? Become a Patron. In this conversation, that arises from a listener question posed by Amelia, Ethan shares ways that we can transform our holiday experience from a consumption-driven exchange to one where gifts are given based on need or in service to others. He also stresses the […] The post What About Christmas? with Ethan Hughes appeared first on The Permaculture Podcast.
Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast Giulianna Maria Lamanna, of The Fifth World , drops a huge two-part question on us in this episode, a continuation of the MAPC 2016 Q&A. 1. Are there people in the permaculture community talking about climate change and the impact of global warming on invasive species? 2. Is it our responsibility as permaculture practitioners to create new ecosystems for the changing climate? This conversation leads to thoughts on preserving native ecosystems, the creation of novel ecosystems, the role and influence of exotic species, human disturbance, and the forces of erosion. We're also asked to examine our own role we have in tending the wild, and what responsibility, if any, we have to domesticated species such as chickens? In doing so, can we take back the stewardship of our own habitat? Voices you'll hear include: Eva Taylor of Ironwood Farms Zach Elfers of Nomad Seed Project Ben Weiss of Susquehanna Permaculture Jason Godesky of The Fifth World Nicole Luttrell of Wind Song Farm Claudia Joseph of New York Permaculture Exchange Seppi Garrett of Seppi's Place Dale Hendricks of Green Light Plants Dr. Christopher Huvos Get in touch The Permaculture Podcast The Permaculture Podcast Instagram Facebook Twitter Podcast Needs Living in the Gift, as Ethan Hughes reminds me, requires asking for our needs to be met. The following are some things I could use right now to make continuing the podcast easier: - A laptop capable of running the Adobe Creative Cloud Suite, including a full HD (1080p) screen, 8GB RAM, and an i5 processor. Due to the amount of data I handle, a 512GB HDD or larger would be great. Any specs above those are golden. - A low mileage hybrid vehicle to replace a minivan with 200k miles on it. - Healthcare. Because of the way the U.S. system work, the coverage I can afford is not accepted by my allergist or other specialists. At the moment the most pressing need is for assistance covering my next, and hopefully last, vial of yellow jacket venom as part of my immunotherapy treatment. If you would like to discuss or know more about any of these, feel free to send me an email: The Permaculture Podcast If you are able to give towards any of these efforts: https://www.paypal.me/permaculturepodcast Drop something in the mail: The Permaculture Podcast The Permaculture Podcast Or via BitCoin, my wallet address is: 193R8iDwyqN4EmqzWBabMQgwLU4T2ovwVB Resources MACP 2017 Event Information and Tickets Timothy Lee Scott , author of Invasive Plant Medicine Tao Orion (Her Facebook Page) 1535 - Beyond the War on Invasive Species , my interview with Tao. 1321 - David Homgren on Permaculture. An Interview.
This episode is part 2 of a conversation with Ethan Hughes, co-founder of the Possibility Alliance in Belfast, Maine, and Grace Yoder of Polliwog Farm in Ypsi, Michigan. We talk about showing up, seeing the world as it is, white supremacy, grief, shame and trauma work, accepting disruption, self-organizing, seeking leadership from those who have been and are still most affected and oppressed by the dominant culture, and activating/cultivating our unique giftedness. Ethan also outlines for us the guiding principles they use to inform their work at the Possibility Alliance. Recorded August 7, 2019.Threads mentioned in this episode...Layla Saad’s book “Me and White Supremacy” to be released Feb 4th, 2020. www.laylafsaad.com Sonya Sanchez https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/sonia-sanchez Audre Lorde https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/audre-lorde Grace Lee Boggs http://www.boggsschool.org/grace-and-jimmy Sheri Mitchell: https://sacredinstructions.life (book mentioned: Sacred Instruction)adrienne marie brown http://adriennemareebrown.net (books mentioned: Emergent Strategy and Pleasure Activism) Lynic Pinkard, author of the essay Revolutionary Sucide https://www.questia.com/magazine/1P3-3249938151/revolutionary-suicide https://thesunmagazine.org/issues/466/dangerous-love Octavia Butler, the science fiction author quoted at the end of the interview: https://octaviabutler.org Nibezun https://nibezun.org Healing Turtle Island: https://www.healingturtleisland.org Video playlists that shares a SWARM Training from Emily Mayer and Carlos Saavedra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKHGCY0nZLc&list=PLeJeAirMA52rjdn4ji49UWg_lebY2hdf4 Hawaain Snail species me --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/unifiedthreads/message
Questioning what other people told you is possible is always a good place to start. This episode is part 1 of a conversation with Ethan Hughes, one of four co-founders of the Possibility Alliance in Belfast Maine, and Grace Yoder of Polliwog Farm in Ypsi, Michigan. Grace shared her work on the first episode of this season, in an episode called "Belonging", and connected the threads to Ethan. Ethan and the people at the Possibility Alliance have spent over a decade working to solve practical problems through permaculture, while living true to a set of principles, one of which they call “pathways out of empire.” Grace and Amy ask questions around why Ethan and his partner & co-founder Sarah Wilcox moved from an established off-grid community in Missouri to start fresh in Maine. Together, we talk about our white privilege, getting to the point of being honest with what we’re exchanging and how much energy still needs to be freed up, and showing up to build resilience in response to this planet’s ecological and social crisis. Part 2 called “Kinship”Recorded August 7, 2019. Bottlenose Dolphin and Humpback Whale sounds recorded January 19, 1991 by “listeningtowhales” found on freesound.org Threads mentioned in this episode...Wabanaki REACH (http://www.mainewabanakireach.org) Bear Creek Community Land Trust (https://permies.com/t/112399/Bear-Creek-Community-Land-Trust) Brene Brown “Daring Greatly” https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/13588356 If you’d like to listen to the interviews Ethan did on “The Permaculture Podcast” in 2012 and 2013 with Scott Mann, check out this “best of” episode here: https://www.thepermaculturepodcast.com/2015/episode-1523-ethan-hughes/ If you’d like to listen to the episode entitled “Belonging” that featured Grace from Polliwog Farm, you can find it here: https://unifiedthreads.libsyn.com/season-2-belonging If you’d like to contact Ethan, you can write him at: Ethan Hughes 85 Edgecomb Dr Belfast, ME 04915 Call him at (207) 338-5719 If you’d like to se --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/unifiedthreads/message
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Producer/Host: Carolyn Coe On April 27, 2019, 25 people were arrested while blocking roads near the North Gate of Bath Iron Works on the morning of the christening ceremony for the warship the Zumwalt Destroyer Lyndon B. Johnson. Bringing attention to the urgency of the moment given the climate crisis and the harm caused by the US military worldwide, activists share why they protested the ceremony and share their calls for the conversion of the shipyard to the building of green technologies such as wind turbines, solar panels, and plastic collectors for polluted oceans. Guests: Ellen Barfield, Russell Wray, Rob Shetterly, Dud Hendrick, Rev. Mair Honan, Meredith Bruskin, Ginny Schneider, Ethan Hughes, Jim Freeman, Jason Rawn, George Ostensen, Deb Marshall, Connie Jenkins The above individuals represent many groups including Veterans for Peace, Citizens Opposing Active Sonar Threats, Americans Who Tell the Truth, Maine Veterans for Peace, Peace and Justice Group of Waldo County, Maine War Tax Resisters, Island Peace and Justice, Peninsula Peace and Justice, Pax Christi Maine, and Smilin’ Trees Disarmament Farm. Veterans for Peace event announcement and flyer
Ethan Hughes spoke post-match following the win over the Bulldogs.
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Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast My guest today is Leslie Crawford, author of Spring the Rescue Pig, a children's book about the journey of a pig on his trip from industrial agriculture to a sanctuary, and Rory, the child who helps him along the way. Using that book and story as a starting place, Leslie and I talk about agriculture, food activism, parenting, and the lessons we as adults can learn from children. Find out more about Leslie at LeslieCrawford.net. Sprig The Rescue Pig, published by Stone Pier Press, is distributed by Chelsea Green Publishing. You can purchase the book at ChelseaGreen.com or look for it wherever you buy books. -- Visit our partner: Food Forest Card Game -- I really like Leslie's non-confrontational and non-judgemental tone to the story of Sprig, that shows us what is possible in expanding our relationships and connection to the natural world and other than human, in a beautiful way through Leslie's expressive language and the delightful illustrations by Sonya Stangl. If you are a parent of younger children, as I say somewhere in that 6 to 9 range, I recommend that you pick this up and start to share these stories and your values with your children. Gwen the Rescue Hen is now available for pre-order at stonepierpress.org. What do you think of the story of Sprig? Are there other books you would recommend for permaculture parents for children? Let me know. Leave a comment in the show notes, call , email show@thepermaculturepodcast.com, or drop something in the post: The Permaculture Podcast The Permaculture Podcast From here, the next episode is an interview with Sara Bir, author of The Fruit Forager's Companion, to talk about food, fruit, and foraging. Until then, spend time connecting with any children in your life, and share with them your love of Earth, care for one's self, and one another. The Possibility Handbook Update The Possibility Handbook is coming along. It's still rough, and has a ways to go, but, as I've said to some other folks, I've been working on it for so long that I need other eyes to take a look at it, so the manuscript is in the virtual hands of some volunteers who are reading and reviewing the document to provide insight, feedback, and ask questions so I can make improvements and bring it into the world in months to come. With how things are going I should have a revised, though still rough, version mailed to Ethan and the Possibility Alliance in July for them to read and provide their own insights. If this is your first time hearing about this project you can find out more by visiting thepermaculturepodcast.com/book where you'll also find links to my interviews with Ethan Hughes, all in one place. Summer Road Trip I'd like to travel to Indiana and Kentucky in July to record in-person interviews with Sam Sycamore of The Good Life Revival Podcast and Jereme Zimmerman, author of Make Mead Like a Viking, to discuss his new book Brew Beer Like a Yeti. If time allows I'm also looking at speaking with Karen Lanier to follow-up on our conversation about her work as a documentarian and her film about women farmers, and with Michael Beck of ThePOOSH and Permaculture Action Network to discuss their on the ground and community efforts. To make that trip happen, I need to raise a few hundred dollars for lodging and fuel along the way. You can help launch these in-person interviews by visiting paypal.me/permaculturepodcast or sending something in the mail. The Permaculture Podcast The Permaculture Podcast If you do send something, please be sure to include your mailing address so I can send you a note from the road. Resources Sprig the Rescue Pig Gwen the Rescue Hen Leslie Crawford Stone Pier Press Chelsea Green
Ethan Hughes was impressed by Peel Thunder's ball movement which helped the team get the win on Saturday afternoon.
Ethan Hughes chats to the media about his progress this pre-season.
Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast Image: Kai Sawyer at the Peace and Permaculture Dojo. (Source:YouTube: Peace and Permaculture Dojo Tour) “The more generous we are, the more relaxed we'll be, the more wealthy we'll feel, and the more gifts these will cycle.” - Kai Sawyer As we embody our values and live ever differently, how do we change the communities we are a part of as we become ever more apart from them? This is one of many thoughts I have as we enter this conversation with Kai Sawyer, as we look at his life as a practitioner embracing peace, permaculture, and the gift economy to bring about social and cultural change in Japan. Find out more about Kai Sawyer and his work at: Tokyo Urban Permaculture Living Permaculture Something Kai wanted me to mention, that didn't make it into our conversation is the ongoing impact and questions as a result of the Fukushima Daiichi power plant meltdown. Something I didn't know, that Kai shared in his follow-up email, is that Fukushima prefecture was one of the leading organic food growing regions in Japan. What happens then, to the organic or natural farmer who carefully and with a lot of love, grew beautiful soil for decades that is now contaminated with cesium 134 and 137? Who will buy their produce? Who will help them rebuild their entire life? Also in Fukushima prefecture was an innovative permaculture project at Iitate village that sought to redesign the community using permaculture to reverse the process of rural depopulation, to keep residents in this rural location rather than heading to the cities. To Kai's knowledge, it is the only initiative of the kind in Japan, one where an entire village was a permaculture design site. As you might imagine, the proximity to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and the ways the wind blew, high levels of radiation fell on the village, and their entire village was evacuated by the government. A project to preserve the community, destroyed by a single disaster, responded to with modern practices now so ingrained they seem traditional and the only path forward. How could this situation have been different if more communities in Japan were transformed by the whole systems design of permaculture and a chance to the cultural and social structures and consciousness? As we grow as practitioners, how can we change these ways of thinking and organizing in our own communities and, in turn, change the way they are governed and inhabited? If you have thoughts on this or anything else Kai and I spoke about, I'd love to hear from you. Email: Write: The Permaculture Podcast The Permaculture Podcast From here the next interview is with Robyn Rosenfeldt, as we talk about the newest Australian permaculture periodical, PIP Magazine. Until then, spend each day creating the world you want to live in by taking care of Earth, yourself, and your community. VerdEnergia Pacifica PDC Giveaway Subscribe to Permaculture Magazine, North America Receive a 25% discount on a digital subscription with the code: PMNA25TPP Resources Tokyo Urban Permaculture Living Permaculture Peace and Permaculture Dojo Tour (Spring 2017) (YouTube) The Center for Nonviolent Communication Nonviolent Communication (Wiki) Moved By Love, the Memoirs of Vinoba Bhave (Read Online at MKGhandi.org) Bullock's Permaculture Homestead Humanure Handbook / Joe Jenkins Iitate, Fukushima, a village scale permaculture project in Japan, evacuated due to the events at the Fukushima Daiichi Power Plants. Living On The Edge of Fukushima Necessary Simplicity, the first two interviews with Ethan Hughes combined into one. The Art of Frugal Hedonism, an interview with Annie Raser-Rowland about simplicity and living well.
Donate to The Permaculture PodcastOnline:via PayPal Venmo:@permaculturepodcast Giulianna Maria Lamanna, of The Fifth World , drops a huge two-part question on us in this episode, a continuation of the MAPC 2016 Q&A. 1. Are there people in the permaculture community talking about climate change and the impact of global warming on invasive species? 2. Is it our responsibility as permaculture practitioners to create new ecosystems for the changing climate? This conversation leads to thoughts on preserving native ecosystems, the creation of novel ecosystems, the role and influence of exotic species, human disturbance, and the forces of erosion. We're also asked to examine our own role we have in tending the wild, and what responsibility, if any, we have to domesticated species such as chickens? In doing so, can we take back the stewardship of our own habitat? Voices you'll hear include: Eva Taylor of Ironwood Farms Zach Elfers of Nomad Seed Project Ben Weiss of Susquehanna Permaculture Jason Godesky of The Fifth World Nicole Luttrell of Wind Song Farm Claudia Joseph of New York Permaculture Exchange Seppi Garrett of Seppi's Place Dale Hendricks of Green Light Plants Dr. Christopher Huvos Get in touch The Permaculture Podcast The Permaculture Podcast Instagram Facebook Twitter Podcast Needs Living in the Gift, as Ethan Hughes reminds me, requires asking for our needs to be met. The following are some things I could use right now to make continuing the podcast easier: - A laptop capable of running the Adobe Creative Cloud Suite, including a full HD (1080p) screen, 8GB RAM, and an i5 processor. Due to the amount of data I handle, a 512GB HDD or larger would be great. Any specs above those are golden. - A low mileage hybrid vehicle to replace a minivan with 200k miles on it. - Healthcare. Because of the way the U.S. system work, the coverage I can afford is not accepted by my allergist or other specialists. At the moment the most pressing need is for assistance covering my next, and hopefully last, vial of yellow jacket venom as part of my immunotherapy treatment. If you would like to discuss or know more about any of these, feel free to send me an email: The Permaculture Podcast If you are able to give towards any of these efforts: https://www.paypal.me/permaculturepodcast Drop something in the mail: The Permaculture Podcast The Permaculture Podcast Or via BitCoin, my wallet address is: 193R8iDwyqN4EmqzWBabMQgwLU4T2ovwVB Resources MACP 2017 Event Information and Tickets Timothy Lee Scott , author of Invasive Plant Medicine Tao Orion (Her Facebook Page) 1535 - Beyond the War on Invasive Species , my interview with Tao. 1321 - David Homgren on Permaculture. An Interview.
Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast Following up on the work of Chris Moore-Backman and Ethan Hughes, I want to share this conversation with Karl Steyaert on Nonviolent Communication first recorded and aired two years ago, in April of 2014. A Center for Nonviolent Communication certified trainer, during our conversation he shares how using NVC can begin the work of restoring our connection with one another in a direct, meaningful way that honors our needs while meeting those of others. He also illustrates the process of NVC using an example from his own life. I'm thankful for the open space created during the interview to allow for that discussion. I first became aware of Nonviolent Communication and the work of Dr. Marshall Rosenberg during the first interviewed with Dillon Naber Cruz near the start of the podcast. Picking up a copy of the book, combined with The Four Agreements, changed the way I look at interpersonal relationships and what it means to communicate well. Though I've since added more resources to my list on how to share ideas and express my own feelings, NVC started my journey down that road had an incredible impact on my own experience. Before we begin, this show is made possible by listeners like you who sign-up as ongoing members via Patreon.com, or who make one time contributions to the show via the donate link on the homepage of the podcast, and by the sponsors, Your Garden Solution, Good Seed Company, and PermieKids. Good Seed Company, with over 40 years in business, believes in our inalienable right to open pollinated, non-GMO seeds for common use. These seeds were saved by our ancestors for generations, continue to sustain us today, and contribute to a bountiful future for the generations yet to come. Learn about the rich history of this company and the importance of seed saving at goodseedco.net, or shop the catalog of ecologically grown organic seeds online. Store.goodseedco.net. PermieKids, created by the incredible permaculture practitioner and educator Jen Mendez, is a resource to inspire and nurture teachers, parents, and families interested in incorporating permaculture education into the lives of children in the community and at home. Through the site Jen offers a free podcast where you learn how to transition to a rich, ecologically sound life that includes children at every step of the way. If you want to dive deeper you may be interested in her Community Experiential Education by Design program, or Edge Alliances. Find out more at PermieKids.com. Find out more about Karl and his work at Findflow.org, and more about Nonviolent Communication at CNVC.org. Nonviolent communication helps us to think in a different way, act in a different way, and be to be different. It isn't a panacea, but nothing really is, not even permaculture, as much as I love it. Our work requires ending the -isms that divide and dehumanize one another in order to create the world we want to live in. Is it naive to think we can work against what seems like our human nature to be assholes to one another? Maybe, but I grew up with the stories of generations of my family living in poverty and in that place finding the humanity of people they were told were wrong, and wound up being friends. I grew up with the vision of Gene Roddenberry, where we would could live in a post-scarcity society where each of us lived towards our own calling. Star Trek was a symbol of what each of us could become if we were free to explore our lives, the world, and, with the right technology, the alpha quadrant. I remain an idealist that believes in those stories, the ones that say we can create a just, peaceful, and joyful world. Doing so starts with me. It starts with you. Together we can escape the thinking that separates us, and get further into the deep work of designing nonviolent communities, cultures, cities, and societies that take care of Earth, ourselves, and each other. If there is any way I can help you, get in touch. . Email: . Write: The Permaculture Podcast The Permaculture Podcast Until the next time, my wish for you is all the peace of the world. Resources Karl Steyaert The Center for Nonviolent Communication (Browse this site for information on training, books, and other resources). Connect with the Podcast: Support the Podcast! (PayPal.Me) On Patreon On Instagram On Facebook On Twitter
Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast How would you like to have more peaceful relationships with others? You can, and though the work is not easy, the process is simple, and today Ethan Hughes shares with us how he and others put this idea into practice day to day at the The Possibility Alliance, as well as in the Permaculture Design Courses held at the Peace and Permaculture Center. This audio comes from the first video session with Ethan, recorded while I was at The Possibility Alliance. For those of you on mobile, if you'd like to watch this video, I've included a direct link to the YouTube page in the resource section. If you'd like to see the rest of the videos, as well as hear all the conversations rather than just the excerpts like this one, then pledge towards the creation of The Possibility Handbook. These conversations with Ethan, a beautiful synthesis of the wisdom of others with his own experiences of living in community, continue to change and transform my life and lead to new discoveries. As I apply the lessons learned along the way I find that they work. There is less strife and more understanding of others, while also decreasing the sense of other or enemy identity. I won't say it is perfect, and we call these things practices for a reason, but the improvement is there. By changing ourselves, we change the world. Now imagine all the possibilities. If there is anyway I can assist you on your road, wherever you are in that journey, get in touch. Email: or call: , or you can drop something in the mail: The Permaculture Podcast The Permaculture Podcast If you are in a place to help me, I would really appreciate it, as this podcast stays on the air thanks to generous listeners like you. In the notes you'll find a PayPal.me link where you can make a onetime donation to the show, and any amount helps. If you'd like to become an ongoing member, then sign up at Patreon.com/permaculturepodcast where for as little as $5 per month you can receive a range of benefits including exclusive content, such as a recent exclusive video tour of the systems at Seppi's Place, my new community home, and early access to advertisement free episodes. Thank you for your time and support. As this episode comes out, I'm on my way to Berea, Kentucky and the Clear Creek Community. Check out the podcast instagram feed, instagram.com/permaculturepodcast for updates throughout the trip. On Saturday, April 23, 2016 is Spring into Permaculture hosted by Clear Creek Schoolhouse. Come and hang out with us starting at noon, stay for a mead making workshop with Jereme Zimmerman, author of Make Mead Like a Viking, from 1-3pm, and in the evening we're having a potluck and live recording of the podcast. Find out more at clearcreekschoolhouse.org. On June 18, 2016, is the Mid-Atlantic Permaculture Convergence outside of Charles Town, West Virginia, hosted by Emma Huvos of The Riverside Project. The keynote speaker for this day is Michael Judd. Other guests include Shawn Walker of Trees101, Diane Blust of Chicory Hill Farm, Nicole Luttrell of Deeply Rooted Design, Seppi Garrett of Seppi's Place, forager and rewilder Nathan Rupley, and we'll be ending the day with a live recording of the podcast with all the guests and attendees. Lots of great folks doing good work are here to meet and learn from. As this event is limited to 100 tickets, pick yours up today at midatlanticpermacultureconvergence.eventbrite.com. Sponsors A thank you to the podcast sponsors, PermieKids, Your Garden Solution and Good Seed Company. Your Garden Solution is a Pennsylvania company run by a permaculture practitioner and their business partner that helps people to garden using the techniques developed by Mel Bartholomew and popularized in his book Square Foot Gardening. In addition to garden installation and education, they also have an excellent soil mix and compost ready for your raised beds. Find out more at yourgardensolution.org. Good Seed Company has been in business for over 40 years and believes we have an inalienable right to open pollinated, non-GMO seeds for common use. These are the seeds saved by our ancestors for thousands of years that can sustain us today, and contribute to a bountiful future for the generations yet to come. Find out more about the rich history of this company and the importance of seed saving at goodseedco.net, or shop the catalog of ecologically grown organic seeds online. Store.goodseedco.net. Resources Conflict Transformation video (YouTube) The Possibility Handbook Necessary Simplicity with Ethan Hughes Support the Podcast! (PayPal.Me)
Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast Chris is a peace activist from Chico, California, who serves with the Christian Peacemaker Teams, recently returning from Palestine, and is the producer of the radio documentary series "Bringing Down the New Jim Crow," which explores the movement to end the system of mass incarceration in the United States. Our conversation today is based on his forthcoming book The Gandhian Iceberg: A Nonviolence Manifesto for the Age of the Great Turning. Today we talk about nonviolence and the three parts to the Gandhian model: self-purification, constructive programs, and satyagraha. I became aware of Chris and his work through conversations with Ethan Hughes, who gave me a rough copy of The Gandhian Iceberg. Through that, and time spent at The Possibility Alliance, meeting with members of the Catholic Worker Movement, and those practicing nonviolence and building egalitarian communities, a light went off in my thoughts on how nonviolence is a required component of creating the world espoused by permaculture. That lead to this conversation with Chris on how to move from a place of anger and fear, to one of compassion and love. As discussions emerge about how the third ethic of permaculture is the least discussed and most confusing to understand and implement, nonviolence and the Gandhian model provide a way to return this ethic to a proper place in our practice. Before we begin I'd like to thank the sponsors, Good Seed Company, and the sponsors of the day, PermieKids and Your Garden Solution. PermieKids, created by permaculture practitioner and educator Jen Mendez, is a resource to inspire and nurture those teachers, parents, and families interested in incorporating permaculture education into the lives of children in the community or at home. Though the site Jen offers a free ongoing podcast where you can learn about transitioning to a rich, ecologically sound life that includes children and learning at every step of the way. If you want to dive deeper you may be interested in her Community Experiential Education by Design program, or Edge Alliances. Find out more at PermieKids.com. Your Garden Solution is a Pennsylvania company run by a permaculture practitioner and their business partner that helps people to garden using the techniques developed by Mel Bartholomew and popularized in his book Square Foot Gardening. In addition to garden installation and education, they also have an excellent soil mix and compost ready for your raised beds. Find out more at yourgardensolution.org. You can contact Chris at moorebackman@gmail.com and find more about his work via the links in the resource section in the show notes. Creating a more bountiful world requires peace and nonviolence. To continue to exist under old methods and modes that create feelings of scarcity and result in violence and oppression don't fit within the ethics of permaculture. A new revolution is required, lead by the practice self-purification, constructive programs, and satyagraha. Should you choose to embrace this path, and I suggest you explore it further at the very least, there are additional resources in the notes for this episode that include links to the Metta Center for Nonviolence, a series of free books on nonviolence from the Albert Einstein Institute, and further articles on satyagraha and the power of nonviolence. Along the way if I can assist you, wherever you are, get in touch. My phone number is and email is . If digital means are not your preferred way to reach me, you can also drop something in the mail. That address is: The Permaculture Podcast The Permaculture Podcast To connect with the show and other listeners, you can become a sustaining member at Patreon.com/permaculturepodcast, on Facebook as The Permaculture Podcast with Scott Mann, and on Twitter where I am @permaculturecst. I'm also using Instagram quite a bit, and you can find me there as PermaculturePodcast. From here I'll be on the road in April, returning to Berea Kentucky and the Clear Creek Community. While there on April 23, 2016 we're holding Spring into Permaculture hosted by Clear Creek Schoolhouse. The day starts at noon and heads on into the evening with a potluck and in-person recording of the podcast, and Jereme Zimmerman, author of Make Mead Like a Viking, will be there teaching a meadmaking workshop from 1 - 3pm. Find out more at clearcreekschoolhouse.org. After that, on June 18, 2016, is the Mid-Atlantic Permaculture Convergence outside of Charles Town, West Virginia, hosted by Emma Huvos of The Riverside Project. The keynote speaker for this day is Michael Judd, talking about his experiences as a permaculture practitioner, and there will be classes and workshops on Living in the Gift, Animals in Permaculture, Broadacre permaculture, whole systems learning, as well as plant walks and tree ID sessions. As this event is limited to 100 tickets, pick yours up today at midatlanticpermacultureconvergence.eventbrite.com. Sponsors The Good Seed Company PermieKids Your Garden Solution Resources Chris's Email: moorebackman (at) gmail.com Bringing Down the New Jim Crow Chris's Articles at Truth-Out Dr. Michael Nagler, author of The Search for a Nonviolent Future Martin Luther King, The Inconvenient Hero by Vincent Harding Brene Brown Gene Sharp Michael Brown “The Presence Process” Charles Eisenstein Peace Projects Be the Change Reno, Nevada The New Community Project Harrisonburg, Virginia Canticle Farm Oakland, California Additional Resources Nonviolence: Working Definitions (Metta Center for Nonviolence) Satyagraha (Wikipedia) Non-violence, the appropriate and effective response to human conflicts Collection of free books on nonviolence (Albert Einstein Institute) The Power of Nonviolence /r/nonviolence (reddit)
Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast Enjoy this episode? Become a Patron. This is Episode 1608: Jewish traditions, part of the Faith and Earth Care series. My guest today is Nati Passow, co-founder and executive director of Jewish Farm School. He joins me today to continue the conversation about faith and earth care based, this time looking at the traditions of Judaism. This episode serves as an introduction to these ideas, and Nati's background, as, similar to the conversation with Rhamis Kent and Islam, there is a great deal of ground to cover before getting to the conversation proper, because my understanding of Judaism, is very limited and I pepper the conversation with questions to get myself up to speed. Regardless of your background, however, this is a good place to begin if understanding the cultural underpinnings for the rituals, customs, and beliefs that make up this modern world are part of your permaculture practice. This promises to be the start of something that leads to more practical practices stemming from Jewish teachings. Before we begin, if you find that this podcast or any in the archives inform or transform your thoughts and thinkings, there are several ways to help the show. The first is through Patreon, where you can become a member and receive a variety of benefits including first access to episodes, and discounts to partnering vendors. The second is to get involved with the Permaculture Podcast community. Join in the conversation at Facebook.com/thepermaculturepodcast or on Twitter where the show is @permaculturecst, or on Instagram/PermaculturePodcast. You can also leave a review on iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app, and share a link to your favorite episode on social media. Finally, I would like to thank today's sponsors, Good Seed Company and PermieKids. Good Seed Company has been in business for over 40 years and believes we have an inalienable right to open pollinated, non-GMO seeds for common use. These are the seeds saved by our ancestors for thousands of years that can sustain us today, and contribute to a bountiful future for the generations yet to come. Find out more about the rich history of this company and the importance of seed saving at goodseedco.net, or shop the catalog of ecologically grown organic seeds online. store.goodseedco.net. PermieKids, run by the incredible Jen Mendez, who has created a wealth of information to inspire and nurture those teachers, parents, and families interested in incorporating permaculture education into the lives of children in the community or at home. She offers a free ongoing podcast where you can connect and learn more about how to transition your life to a rich, ecologically sound existence that involves children and learning at every step of the way. If you want to dive deeper you may be interested in the Community Experiential Education by Design program, which focuses on young children, ages 3-8, and their families. Another option are the Edge Alliance courses. Upcoming subjects include Globally Together on March 13, and Creative Integration on April 10. Find out more at PermieKids.com. If you would like to become a sponsor or advertise with the podcast, get in touch. You'll find complete contact information in the show notes and at the end of the episode. You can find out more about Nati and his work at Jewish Farm School. Coming out of this, Nati's closing notes grab hold of me and connect the thread of the faiths of Abraham, of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam is the creation story from Genesis. That we come from the earth, made from the dirt, or clay. Those few inches of topsoil that cover the land allow crops to grow and animals to feed. Though the earth is covered by so much water and there are traditions of fisherman, it is still Earth from which we arise in these traditions; faiths that encompass more than half the world's population. From that it seems a natural fit, as a non-theologian, to tend to where we come from, whatever may happen in the next life. What we have is this world, this Eden, given to each of us by virtue of our birth. We are shepherds. Gardeners. Tenders of the wild. If there is any way I can help you to explore these ideas of faith and earth care, get in touch. Give me a call: . Send me an email: The Permaculture Podcast You can also drop something in the post: The Permaculture Podcast The Permaculture Podcast And a few announcements. The first, is Wild Cooperative a budding community started by a couple on 16 acres in Crawford, Colorado. They are looking for folks interested in building a permaculture based bio-centric community. Read more about this project and what they are looking to accomplish at wildcooperative.wordpress.com and look for the entry from February 15, or from the link in the show notes. There you'll also find satellite and other pictures detailing the location and layout of the land. The second is that on June 18, 2016, is the Mid-Atlantic Permaculture Convergence at The Riverside Project in Charles Town, West Virginia. Michael Judd is the keynote speaker. I'm hosting an in-person round table recording. Workshops include Living in the Gift with Seppi Garrett from Seppi's Place, Children and Permaculture with Jen Mendez of PermieKids, and Broad Acre Agriculture for Permaculture Practitioners with Ethan Strickler. Tickets are currently on-sale so pick up your ticket today. Mid-Atlantic Permaculture Convergence Tickets Behind the scenes things at Seppi's place continue to be dynamic and ever changing, something both Eric Puro and Ethan Hughes commented on about the early stages of creating community. Seppi, Eric, Kendra, and I are checking in on a nearly daily basis individually, with text messages and conversations on Facebook flying around to stay in touch and cover issues that arise in the moments of life, all while working and coordinating social events. With that idea of social events, if we held an open social at Seppi's Place sometime this Spring or Summer, would you be interested in attending? Let me know so we can put a date on the calendar and begin planning the event. As we draw this episode to a close, the next interview is an introduction to The Philadelphia Orchard Project with Robyn Mello, with episodes on the queue from the Philadelphia Round Table recording, the in-person with Victoria of Charm City Farms, and a conversation with Erik Ohlsen. Until the next time, take care of Earth, your self, and each other. Sponsors: Good Seed Company PermieKids Resources: Jewish Farm School Institute for Social Ecology The Teva Learning Center Adamah Farm Greener Partners Eden Village Camp The Shalom Center (Rabbi Arthur Waskow) Mid-Atlantic Permaculture Convergence (Information and Tickets) Seppi's Place Connect with the Podcast: On Patreon On Instagram On Facebook On Twitter
Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast Enjoy this episode? Become a Patron. My guest today is David Peter Stroh, author of System Thinking for Social Change from Chelsea Green Publishing. During the conversation we talk about the importance of using systems thinking to reach long-term goals that transform ourselves and society. To accomplish this end we need to create a series of small successes, rather than quick fixes, that are in line with and build towards our larger vision. Along with this we look at the impact that we can have on positive outcomes by taking personal responsibility for ourselves and understand our individual role as part of the problem. We close with David sharing five ways in which human systems differ from natural systems which we should consider as permaculture practitioners. If you work with any kind of system involving people, yourself included, this is an episode to kick your feet up, take notes from, and then give me a call so we can talk about it. There's a technical, heady, yet accessible conversation ahead. You can find out more about David and his work at appliedsystemsthinking.com. You can find out more about his book there, or at the site for the publisher, Chelsea Green. You'll find those and other links in the resource section for this episode at https://thepermaculturepodcast.com After speaking with David there were a lot of pieces that struck a chord with me, but two in particular that I keep turning back to are regard governing versus espoused values, and the need for personal responsibility. Our governing and espoused values have the space between them, something Ethan Hughes refers to as the integrity gap, and this exists for individuals and organizations as well as systems. On reflection this shouldn't seem surprising, but how often do we think about that gap? Do you ever consider the impact that that space between desires expressed and actual activity has on your life and the choices you make? For a long time, I didn't. Doing so involves concentrated effort. Thinking this way, seeing the big pictures, requires serious intent initially, until it become a habit. Once normalized into our daily practice it turns from ongoing moment to moment consideration to require periodic re-evaluation to insure that we don't fallen into a lull once the pressure stops, as Peter mentioned, or allow old habits to creep back in. We become the guard at the gate of our thinking, taking responsibility for how those thoughts lead to action. Responsibility is something that Bill Mollison implores us to have in The Designers' Manual, where he writes: "The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children. Make it now." (Emphsasis in original) This Bill calls The Prime Directive of Permaculture. Though it speaks to ethical actions, it is on page 1 of the big black book of permaculture, coming before the ethics that we commonly think of, before discussing any principles. This is what one of the founders of permaculture opens his seminal work with. That we must make this decision now is in bold, and speaks not to just this moment, but also the future. Our children. Though we might fall to individualistic perspectives, I also read this as a collective call to action. To take responsibility for our own existence, but that that our and own reaches out to our community, of our genetic or adopted descendants, but also of those who live in our neighborhoods. The future generations that call a place home with us, in the homes down the street or across town that connect us. There is plenty of talk about the other ethical entreatments, such as Earth care, or people care, and debate of what exactly the third ethic is in the current era, but I don't hear this prime directive in discussion very often. Let's talk about it more. In thinking about responsibility and what taking hold of it for our existence and that of our children would look like, I don't have an answer for any life but my own. If we start talking about what this looks like for ourselves, we can start to find more answers and more solutions. So, what does personal responsibility mean for you? Have you recognized how you are a part of the problem? What works? What doesn't? Let me know, I'd love to hear from you. Give me a call: . Send me an email: The Permaculture Podcast You can also drop something in the post: The Permaculture Podcast The Permaculture Podcast And a few announcements. The first, is a reminder that Free the Seeds! is on March 19, 2016 at the Flathead Valley Community College in Kalispell, Montana. Go out and enjoy a day of workshops that includes savings seeds, bee keeping, starting seeds, food preservation, and, as you might expect, permaculture. You'll find a link in the resource section of the show notes, or you can head directly to the their website at freetheseedsmt.com. The second is that on June 18, 2016, is the Mid-Atlantic Permaculture Convergence at The Riverside Project in Charles Town, West Virginia. Michael Judd is the keynote speaker. I'm hosting an in-person round table recording. Workshops include Living in the Gift with Seppi Garrett from Seppi's Place, Children and Permaculture with Jen Mendez ofPermieKids, and Broad Acre Agriculture for Permaculture Practitioners with Ethan Strickler. Tickets are currently on-sale so pick up your ticket today. Mid-Atlantic Permaculture Convergence Tickets As we draw this episode to a close, the next interview is Nati Passow of Jewish Farm School, for our first conversation on Judaism and Earth Care, and after that an introduction to The Philadelphia Orchard Project with Robyn Mello. Until the next time, take care of Earth, your self, and each other. Resources: Applied Systems Thinking (David's Site) Systems Thinking for Social Change Chelsea Green Publishing Free The Seeds Mid-Atlantic Permaculture Convergence (Information and Tickets) Seppi's Place PermieKids
Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast Enjoy this episode? Become a Patron. This episode sets out the plan for 2016. In the words that follow are my personal journey and how that impacts the podcast; what to expect from the show in the year to come; and some projects currently in the mix that I'd like you to join me on or events to come to. Personal Journey As some of you know, but others may not, my wife and I have been working through a divorce, which recently ended our marriage. Though amicable this change sees me moving from our family home of nearly a decade into Seppi's Place, a permaculture co-housing site and community center run by my friend Seppi Garrett. That move is set for January 30. With this move and the upcoming trip to The Possibility Alliance from January 15-25, the release schedule for the podcast is changing as I take the time for this travel and the move to rest and reset from many months of pushing forward through these personal changes, as well as family illness that saw me fall back into my role as primary caregiver. Things will get rolling again, including releasing some of the recordings with Ethan, in February. I see living at Seppi's Place as an opportunity to learn what it means to inhabit housing in a radically different way. Additionally Seppi and many others, myself included as I am able, are working together to provide a community space where people can come together to work and collaborate in a way that mixes the gift and capital economies during this period of larger transition. A lot of valuable experiences, and podcast material, are ripe from that environment. Podcast For the podcast this shift will see the main releases continue to be the long-format interviews that have been the mainstay for the last two plus years, but as you may have noticed my personal trajectory moves ever further away from the landscape to the social and economic structures of permaculture. I'm reading more books like The Permaculture City by Toby Hemenway, or Systems Thinking for Social Change by David Peter Stroh, or The Art of Leading Collectively by Petra Kuenkel, than I am other great books that are more focusing on the ground, like Farming the Woods or Edible Forest Gardens Vol. 1 & 2. As someone once said to me, this show is becoming even more of a permaculture practitioners podcast. Though there is plenty of material on starting out in the archives, based on the emails, phone calls, and survey responses you've sent me, the show is focused on people who are familiar with the basic concepts of permaculture and are looking to take their practices further. Along with that, many of you have asked for me to directly address a variety of questions in permabyte episodes, including revisiting and completing the series on David Holmgren's Principles of Permaculture, as well as on more practical advice for navigating the world of permaculture and the interface with our larger society. I'd like to honor that, as well as to dig in and examine some hard questions that are coming to the forefront, like: How can we - the permaculture community - stop being our own worst enemies? Is the Pemaculture Design Certificate enough?Should someone take an advanced permaculture certificate, such as a teacher training?Is there a point to getting a Permaculture Diploma? In order to do that, to make these explorations, however, requires more time and space to read, research, and write, as answering those questions and others requires more than just spouting an opinion. I want to include evidence so you understand how I arrived at a conclusion so that a dialog can arise and each of us can step up and do this work to a higher standard than is currently occurring as permaculture gets more popular. Along the way, if you think I'm wrong, I want you to show me why you see something differently. Along with doing that, there's still my personal need to keep the show at a high standard for the content and production quality. If anything, making it better includes having the opening and closing remarks and the show notes be more comprehensive, as opposed to the short episode-in-review that became the current standard. If you check the release schedule at https://thepermaculturepodcast.com you'll now see what epsiodes are currently in the production queue, without an affixed date. This shift comes from following one of my favorite podcasters Dan Carlin, the host of Common Sense and Hardcore History. He releases on his own schedule, as things get done, which means that in 2015 he only released 16 episodes across both shows. Though I wouldn't want to move to that low level of frequency, to push these boundaries and continue to grow the show quality could require a schedule that doesn't fit the regular weekly one I've more or less followed over the past two years, but rather to work on something until it is complete and then send it out into the world. With that change in the regular show schedule, what might seem paradoxically, comes more video content. Photographer John is scheduling to accompany me to more events, some of which I'll talk about in a few minutes, with his focus of being there for video. If you haven't been to the YouTube site for the show, you'll find a link in the resource section of this episode so you can see some of our earlier work, and subscribe to get notifications as new material is posted. Projects and Events From there, here are several large projects, and small ones, that I'm currently a part of in various ways. The two major projects are The Possibility Handbook and Seppi's Seed Paper. You've probably heard me talk about The Possibility Handbook already, but if you haven't this is a book Ethan Hughes and I are writing together that explores how to bring about transformative change based on Ethan's work over the past several decades through The Possibility Alliance, The Peace and Permaculture Center and Stillwater Sanctuary, and The Superheroes Alliance. Thanks to those who pledged to this project already, and several people sending me audio and visual equipment for this trip, I head out to see Ethan and visit the Possibility Alliance on January 15, and return on the 25. While there I'm interviewing Ethan, which forms the basis for the book, as well as documenting all of the many diagrams and pictures created over the years, and performing additional video interviews with Ethan within and beyond the scope of the book. You can find out more by going to The Possibility Handbook page and find out more. If you'd like to hear all of the audio, see all of the videos, and all of the pictures that result from this visit and tour, the only way to do so is to pledge now to the listener exclusive campaign. The next project is one being spearheaded by Seppi Garrett and Kendra Hoffman through Seppi's Place, that I'm also helping to document, called Seppi's Seedpaper. If you've ever received a business card or postcard with embedded seeds that can be planted, then you have the idea that started this project. However, as a permaculture practitioner, Seppi wants to take this a step further and include the ethics of permaculture in this practice by removing materials from the waste stream to create the paper, using local and native seeds to support earth and the biosphere, and also helping to generate a surplus by making this a replicable microbusiness, using your on the ground resources, and with the tools and information needed to support you and your business. As Seppi is trained in squarefoot gardening, an idea developed by Mel Bartholemew, the paper, frames and seed layout are all designed so that you can create pre-seeded square-foot garden squares and then deal your garden into a squarefoot frame come Spring. To help others in the creation of their own local micro-business, Seppi, Kendra, myself and others are creating a DVD showing how to make the seedpaper, and an ebook and worksheets detailing the process of starting and running a seed paper business. If you're a listener to the show, you can pre-order a copy of the DVD, or pledge to the campaign, at a 10% discount between now and Monday, February 15. Find out more about Seppi's Seedpaper on the Projects Page. Some smaller events and classes currently on the schedule. Sunday, January 31st, 2016, I'm recording a round table in Philadelphia at Repair the World. Panel guests include: Robyn Mello, from the Philadelphia Orchard Project Kirtrina Baxter, from the Garden Justice Legal Initiative at the Public Interest Law Center Paul Glover, local activist and founder of the Philadelphia Orchard Project Nate Kleinman, from the Experimental Farm Network Melissa Miles, local permaculture instructor / practitioner Sunday, February 21st, 2016, I'm recording a live discussion in Baltimore, Maryland, in cooperation with Charm City Farms as part of their celebration of the Johnston Square site, the location for the next urban Permaculture space in Baltimore. The itinerary for the day includes: 11am- 12pm: Come check out the space. Eric will give a brief tour of the lot, including Spring plans for both the growing space as well as the Brick Barn. 12pm- 1pm: Potluck Social in the barn, followed by a short presentation by Eric about some of the deeper plans and ideas for the indoor and outdoor space. 1pm- 3pm: Public interview by Scott Mann of the Permaculture Podcast with Victoria about The Forager's Apprentice Course, including audience participation and Q & A. 4pm- 6pm: Movie night showing of the 2015 film INHABIT (if you are able, please bring an extra chair, as we are only set up to seat 20 people) Saturday, June 18, 2016, is the Mid-Atlantic Permaculture Convergence which is being organized with Emma Huvos of The Riverside Project. Michael Judd is the Keynote Speaker, talking about his journey as a professional permaculture practitioner from his early days with Project Bonefide through until today where he's an author and designer. Starting on Thursday, February 25th, 2016, from 7-9pm at Seppi's place, and continuing on the fourth Thursday of each month through May, I am teaching an in-person class on podcasting, covering topics like: How do I choose a topic to podcast about? What software is available to record and edit? What equipment to buy? How do I make it sound good? Should my podcast be audio or video? What about paying to advertise my podcast? If time allows and based on participant interest we can discuss other topics like how to develop an interview style or the creation of an on-air persona. This class is limited to not more than 15 participants, and is offered for $100 per person for the entire five-month program. You can find out more about each of these programs and the topics covered, as you might expect, by visiting the Classes & Events page, which includes a complete calendar and links to register. Finally, regarding education if you are interested in learning permaculture through a mentored experience, or are looking for a mentor now that you've completed a PDC, but need more direction and experience, get in touch with me and we can talk about these possibilities. As I mentioned earlier in the bigger questions I want to cover, is about whether or not the PDC is enough. Here I answer part of that by saying that from my own experience and that of others, I don't feel that the core permaculture design course prepares students for more than getting ready to practice, and that students need long term support based on their own individual needs to meet their long-term goals. With all the other work of putting myself out there, this is one of those places where I personally feel comfortable helping others in the community, so get in touch in the usual wayss. Call: Email: The Permaculture Podcast Or send me a letter: The Permaculture Podcast The Permaculture Podcast If you're interested in having a round table recording in your area, or if I can assist your program, project, or event, you can reach out to me by those means as well. That covers my path, the plan, and upcoming projects, as they are known so far for 2016. Thank you for listening and making this show a part of your life. Until the next time, take care of Earth, yourself, and each other. Resources: The Art of Leading Collectively Common Sense Dan Carlin Hardcore History Mid-Atlantic Permaculture Convergence (Facebook Event) The Permaculture City The Possibility Handbook The Permaculture Podcast Classes & Events The Permaculture Podcast Projects Seppi's Place Systems Thinking for Social Change
Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast Enjoy this episode? Become a Patron. In 2015 I released 55 episodes. Followers to the show on Facebook and Twitter more than doubled, and listenership is now at over 15,000 per episode, also doubling since the start of the year. This episode is a best of and overview of the preceding twelve months. In preparing the list of what to include, it became a survey of what was popular on the podcast, and in our particular slice of the permaculture community represented by where things have gone, and your interests in reaching out to have certain guests on the air. If you're new to permaculture or this podcast, the various interviews reviewed here and listed in the Resource section at the bottom of the show notes page provide a beginning to explore the archives, which contain hundreds of hours of interviews with a broad cross section of permaculture practitioners, authors, scientists, and others who are all dedicated to creating a better world. Every time I sit down to look over the year that came before, I always toss around different ideas of what to include and how to best represent the trends and ideas, without giving a blow by blow of every topic and conversation. I really enjoy every interview and episode that gets released, so would just list them in order if I had my druthers, but that's not that interesting. Instead, I have to use some kind of metric or decision making process to decide what to share. That might be something like total listens to a given episode, but that gives preference to something that was released earlier in the year. Comments are great, but vary widely, and the more polarizing a guest is leads to more feedback. Even with that feedback, what source to judge from? Though some replies are left on the website, most of the responses continue to come directly to me via email, but some interviews, like that with Jason Godesky, generate a lot of interest on Facebook. So for this year I'm going to look at the topics that trended as the most popular subjects on the show, include a few of my personal favorites, and close with the guest who continues to be the most popular on the show. By far the topic that got the most attention was foraging and rewilding. Every time this subject came up new suggestions poured in for people to reach out to for interviews, other books and articles to read, or different angles to address this idea of primal reconnection to ourselves and the land. The two conversations with Peter Michael Bauer were some of the most downloaded and commented on interviews of the year. Peter's first conversation in March, providing an introduction to human rewilding and the intersection with permaculture, was so well received that he returned in November to explore the difference between rewilding the land and how that differs from un-domesticating ourselves. Dina Falconi, author of Foraging and Feasting, was the other guest garnered a lot of attention. Her discussion of food as medicine, the idea of developing and using master recipes, and the distinction between a plant as food or a culinary addition resonated with many people. From the landscape and the self we move to human society and our cultural stories, which played a big part this year in the discussions about social permaculture. Where these most connected were when many voices came together as one in the round table recordings. Repeatedly I've heard from you that you listened to those over and over again, including the two conversations with Ben Weiss and Dave Jacke, one of which included Charles Eisenstein; the journey to the Riverside Project in West Virginia where Nicole Luttrell, Jesse Wyner, Ashley Davis, and Diane Blust joined me for another two pieces that started talking about permaculture, but settled into a what it means to call a place home; and then the largest round table yet, with the Clear Creek community outside of Berea, Kentucky. Though each one touched on very different ideas the space created by coming together felt like you were invited to be a part of the circle to sit, ask questions, and listen. In some case we were able to do that by including your questions as you tweeted or posted comments to Facebook while the interviews were recorded. Along with those, the social and cultural side were pushed to the edge in the discussion of with Jason Godesky. Though on the surface we talked about narrative, mythmaking, and how we can accomplish that through games such as his own The Fifth World, there was a deeper exploration of push-pull experienced between waking up and turning on lights and having on demand hot water and how to live a life that isn't just a reduced consumption that is still damaging, but something more regenerative. I'm thankful for the voice Jason brought to the table that day, after we'd already had a long weekend at Save Against Fear, and were still able to look at the difference between the modern versus the traditional; holistic compared to reductionist; and personal responsibility versus systemic hegemony. Moving outside of the topics of interest, there are three episodes I feel deserve mentioned here as ones you should listen to if you haven't heard them, or listen to them again if you have. The first is Joshua Peaceseeker Hughes and our overview of modern permaculture that resulted in the first episode explicitly looking at the need for Transitional Ethics during this time of transformation. His personal story created an acknowledgement that we can do more, but that doing so involves making an active choice. To embody permaculture and live it intentionally, but not to abuse ourselves for being citizens of the world we find ourselves in. The second was when I returned to the Faith and Earth Care series through the interview with Dillon Cruz. I was initially a little hesitant about releasing the conversation because this series as a whole usually generates a lot of feedback, often negatively. Dillon's time on the air did bring a number of replies, often private via email, but in a different way. His raw voice and self awareness lead to responses that stretched across a variety of religious traditions, and gave form to an expression of faith as a way to tend the world we are given that is a personal pursuit compatible with designing the world we want to live in. There was no hatemail this time around for covering spirituality within permaculture, but, then again, this wasn't that kind of conversation. The final of the stand-alone, stand-out episodes, comes from time spent with Eric and Victoria of Charm City Farms, in Baltimore, Maryland. In particular it was Victoria's personal journey that opened a space to hear a voice that sounded similar to our own. She came from a place where she could make any of a number of choices towards the life she lived, and worked through the struggles of what path lead to a sense of self and right livelihood. Every time I sit down with a microphone I never know what will wind up being recorded or where the interview will go. That day in Baltimore lead to something special and I'm grateful to Victoria for allowing me to share that with you. Now that I've covered the episodes I heard from you about, there are two that were some of my personal favorites. Those were with Holly Brown of Island Creek Farm, and talking with Toby Hemenway about The Permaculture City. Holly means so much to my own journey as a permaculture practitioner not only for the content of the conversation you can listen to, but also because of the way that we spent our the time together the day we met. She was the last stop on my journey through Virginia visiting with permaculture farmers and homesteaders, that started with Lee and Dave O'Neill of Radical Roots several days earlier. That morning, as I drove out to her farm, I found myself a little road weary and ready to start the trek back up North on Interstate 81 to Pennsylvania. I love to drive, it's something instilled in me by my father at a young age as I sat in the back of classic American muscle, and later Swedish GT cars, and then my own life as a gear-head behind the wheel of Japanese sports cars and GT cars of my own, but I despise getting on I-81 for more than an hour or so, and the thought of four hours from Virginia back home that day felt like a stretch of my own personal hell laid out in asphalt. While winding my way through back roads, already running late after sitting in traffic while trying to leave Roanoke, I began to question this last stop of the day, and whether to reschedule with Holly for another time. The closer I got to the farm the roads got narrower and the speed limits much lower, and I still didn't know what I would find, or how this last conversation would close out a whirlwind journey, my first time taking the podcast on the road to visit, talk, and document in person. Finally, after nearly two hours in the car for what should have taken less than an hour, I rounded the last turn and came to the Island Creek. After backing up a bit because I missed the lane, for the first time I saw why Holly and her farm were recommended as a place to visit. The site was gorgeous, and there, out in the fields, were a pair of souls working the land with their hands, skin deeply tanned from time spent out of doors. Shortly they would be revealed as Holly and one of her farm interns. Within moments of meeting, after Holly and her intern finished the harvesting and business for the day, Holly and I stepped into the small home she shares with her husband and children, a home built by their hands on land donated to their family as a wedding gift, and ate a lunch of vegetable curry, topped with yogurt she made from raw milk sourced from another nearby farm, and paired with a salad of her own variety of mixed greens. Before the interview, we sat and talked about children, family, and life. Afterwards, while touring the farm where I got to eat my first fresh fig right, pulled right off the tree, we discussed the politics of being a permaculture farmer in an area with a conservative view of farming that views modern, industrial drive agriculture as the only way; and how to make the choices required to have a successful permaculture farm that runs counter to those ideas that others see as norms, reinforced by our society we live in. Though that all happened outside of the conversation you can listen to on the show, many of the tenets and tone you'll find there. Holly is someone I look forward to visiting again to sit down and continue to push the edges of what it means to embody permaculture as a small-scale farmer working the land, fueled by calories not fossil fuels. The impact of that day is also why you'll see the picture of Holly's farm as the cover image of this episode. On the other side of that, looking at living in a rural setting, was Toby Hemenway. Well known and carrying high regarded within our community, I'd chased him off and on through the years for an interview, but we never quite connected. I'll admit to never being a fan of Gaia's Garden, but The Permaculture City was like talking with an old friend, which was what the resulting interview felt like. Warm and gracious, but a bit heretical because Toby did the math and raised questions about the practicality and sustainability of the permaculture dream of going off-grid, returning to the land, and seeking self-sufficiency. As he says in the book, he's done subsistence farming, and it isn't a joy by any sense of the imagination, it's hard work that many of us are not realistically ready for, so what can we do to do us and what we are ready for and good at? This latest work also took permaculture a step further out of the landscape, to areas where there may be no soil to grow in, or if we're not suited to it, may honestly be a waste of our time and energy. What then? What do we do to still live in a regenerative manner, during this period of transition, to lessen our consumption and impacts, when the answer is counter to so many years of conversation and literature on what we're told permaculture is supposed to be, and what it is supposed to look like? Deep down we've known the truth, the answers, we've heard it before through people like Bob Theis imploring that we don't go out and inflict ourselves on a piece of land that doesn't need us, or Dave Jacke addressing that what we called Invisible Structures for so long need to be framed for what they are, social and economic systems. And here in his book and conversation with me, was the number one selling author on the subject of permaculture calling all of that into question, and asking us to examine our own choices. Here were some of my doubts about the permaculture narrative given a voice. Was my mind blown? Yeah, just a little, and it's what has taken me a road to continue to stand in two worlds and create a place, through the podcast, to look at these bigger pictures and questions so we can build permanent culture, rather than just insuring we achieve permanent agriculture. With all those voices and conversations and the others in the archives, can you guess who the number one guest of all time on the show is out of the last five years, and so receives an honorable mention? Are you shocked at all if I say Ethan Hughes? His insight and thoughts continue to connect with so many people, including to my surprise, a number of folks from Australia and New Zealand. The work of his, to embrace and embody permaculture in a way that is personally fulfilling, but non-proselytizing, shows a different way forward. I might not ever to live the way he does, because as Eric Toensmeier and I have talked about I like electricity and the ability to communicate worldwide instantaneously via the internet, his actions help me get a little bit closer to where I want to be every time we talk or I listen back over the public interviews. It's why I picked up the phone and called him to talk about my desire here in Pennsylvania to create an urban demonstration site and semi-intentional community. As that phone call drew to a close, and he'd shared a number of insights in how to start a project like that, the conversation lead to us talking about writing, in particular a book about his personal journey, but with the practical insights necessary so anyone can create change where they are, as conventionally or radically as they like. Even more to my surprise, Ethan asked me to be his partner on the project, which resulted in what we're calling The Possibility Handbook. As a new year dawns, so does a new project, and I leave for The Possibility Alliance on January 15, 2016 to sit down, off-grid, and record with Ethan. If you would like to learn more about The Possibility Handbook in particular, visit the thepermaculturepodcast.com/book. There you can listen to a short interview with Mr. Hughes discussing the contents we'll cover, and what he hopes to accomplish by bringing this into the world. You'll also find information and links on how to take part in a listener-only crowdfunding campaign where you'll receive early access to the book materials as they become available, and exclusive content that will not be offered anywhere but there. If you'd like to contribute to the show in general visit https://thepermaculturepodcast.com and click on the support tab to find out how you can help. In drawing this to a close, I want to say thank you to everyone who has been a part of the the show over the years by donating, sharing links, and reaching out to me via email or phone, or by taking the time to put a letter in the mail. All of it has made this podcast a success in ways that I never imagined in October of 2010 when I first sat down with an inexpensive USB headset and an old Linux laptop to start talking about Permaculture. Thank you. [caption width="960" align="aligncenter"] Photo Source: Rewild Portland[/caption] Resources: Episode 1506: Island Creek Farm with Holly Brown Episode 1513: Rewilding Permaculture with Peter Michael Bauer Episode 1516: Foraging and Feasting with Dina Falconi Episode 1524: Right Livelihood with Ben Weiss, Dave Jacke, and Charles Eisenstein Episode 1526: Getting right with ourselves & building community featuring Ben Weiss & Dave Jacke Episode 1530: Urban Permaculture in Baltimore, Maryland (Charm City Farms) Episode 1532: The Permaculture City with Toby Hemenway Episode 1538: Community Building (Clear Creek Round Table) Episode 1540: Myth Making and Storytelling with Jason Godesky Episode 1541: The Riverside Project Round Table (Part 1) Episode 1543: Transitional Ethics with Joshua Peaceseeker Hughes Episode 1544: Home (The Riverside Project Round Table Part 2) Episode 1546: Human vs. Conservation Rewilding Episode 1548: The Greatest Commandment with Dillon Cruz
Donate to The Permaculture PodcastOnline:via PayPal Venmo:@permaculturepodcast Enjoy this episode? Become a Patron. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500"] (Source: dreamstime images)[/caption] This episode is a permabyte with Ethan Hughes. In this conversation, that arises from a listener question posed by Amelia, Ethan shares ways that we can transform our holiday experience from a consumption driven exchange, to one where gifts are given based on need or in service to others. He also stresses the importance of communication so that we can create new traditions that honor ourselves and the perspectives of our loved ones. Hearing what Ethan shared with us, how will you transform your holidays? What new traditions will you create? What conversations will you have to have to make this happen? I want to hear from you. Leave a comment in the show notes here, or get in touch with me directly. Call: or email: The Permaculture Podcast Also, if you haven't heard already, Ethan and I are writing a book together, called The Possibility Handbook: A Toolkit for Transformation. To support the creation of this book, I'm running a listener exclusive crowdfunding campaign. By pledging your support now you can receive early access to the the manuscript as it is written, hear the audio we record that serves as the basis for the book, and view pictures and video taken at The Possibility Alliance. If we can raise $5,000 I'll head to The Possibility Alliance January 16 - 23, 2016 to begin recording. Find out more, including the topics we'll cover, at www.thepermaculturepodcast.com/book Until the next time, spend each day creating the world you want to live in by taking care of Earth, yourself, and each other.
Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast Enjoy this episode? Become a Patron. This is Episode 1553: Make Mead Like a Viking with Jereme Zimmerman. Jereme is the author of the excellent, Make Mead Like a Viking, recently released by Chelsea Green Publishing, and a regular contributor to Earthineer.com. He joins me today to discuss how his background as a homesteader and an interest in mead and vikings lead to the focus of this book. Along the way we touch on favorite styles, how to get started, and developing your own mead making rituals and traditions. You will find more about him and his work at Jereme-Zimmerman.com, and at Earthineer.com. His book,Make Mead Like a Viking, is available through Chelsea Green Publishing, and retails for $24.95. Pick up a copy directly from Jereme or Chelsea Green, or order your own through your favorite independent bookseller today. Links to all those resources, and more, in the show notes. As I get into during the interview, I like Jereme's book. A lot. On the bookshelf behind my desk are over a dozen books on fermentation and alcohol, including those by Papazian, Schramm, and Buhner, and Make Mead Like a Viking fits well among them. Light-hearted and an easy read, it blends ancient myth with modern techniques, while keeping things wild and still providing all the information you need to get started. If you're someone new to the world of mead, or home brewing in general, start with this book, as it is as unintimidating and welcoming as a book on fermentation can come. If you've been doing this for a while and read many books on making your own mead, wine, beer, or spirits, on a scale from Charlie Papazian's The New Complete Joy of Homebrewingand Stephen Harrod Buhner's Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers, Jereme Zimmerman's Make Mead Like a Viking rests comfortably in the middle. From here, next Monday, December 14, a short episode with Ethan Hughes discussing “What about Christmas?” and how we can transform our holiday into one of new traditions. After that, on Thursday, December 17, is the last interview of the year, when Taj Scicluna, The Perma Pixie, joins me to have a conversation about the general state of permaculture. Until the next time, spend each day taking care of earth, yourself, and each other. Resources: Jereme-Zimmerman.com Earthineer.com Make Mead Like a Viking (Chelsea Green) Charlie Papazian, The Complete Joy of Home Brewing (Homebrewing.com) Stephen Harrod Buhner (Gaian Studies) The Citizen Scientist with Stephen Harrod Buhner (The Permaculture Podcast) Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers (Brewers Publications)
Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast Enjoy this episode? Become a Patron. My guest for this episode is David Casey, the Chief Visionary Officer of NuMundo, a platform that recently launched to connect people interested in permaculture and sustainability with locations around the world where guests can visit and learn about these practices from people who are living them. [caption width="500" align="aligncenter"] David Casey, Chief Visionary Officer of NuMundo.[/caption] This episode is the first in a series on creating and running a permaculture business. I started with David because NuMundo is just launching, after a year of laying a good foundation, and his thoughts here provide some insight into ways to create your own space to build and grow an entrepreneur driven career from your own unique experience. If you are a host who wants to register your site, or a traveler interested in these opportunities, the website is numundo.org. There, and in the resource section below, you will also find a link to the crowdfunding campaign. If you have business that involves the ethics of permaculture, I'd love to hear about it. Get in touch. or email: The Permaculture Podcast. You can also send something in the mail if you like. That address is: The Permaculture Podcast The Permaculture Podcast From here, the next episode is my interview with Jereme Zimmerman on how to Make Mead like a Viking. Then a permabyte from Ethan Hughes, where he joins me to talk about moving Christmas towards a less consumption driven holiday by creating new traditions. After than is the last new interview of the year with Taj Scicluna, The Perma Pixie. Until the next time, spend each day creating the world you want to live in by taking care of Earth, your self, and each other. Resources: NuMundo.org (David's Site) The NuMundo CrowdFunding Campaign
Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast My guest for today is Brad Lancaster, author of Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, who returns to talk about Desert Harvesters, an organization in Tucson, Arizona, using neighborhood plantings to collect urban rainwater runoff, and create community by raising awareness about native edible plants. We spend much of our conversation discussing the history and actions of this organization, before turning to how these ideas are spreading to other cities and towns. During the closing Brad shares some of the current research on using street runoff to irrigate roadside plants, as well as four water assessment suggestions that he uses to evaluate every site. Find out more about him at harvestingrainwater.com. Desert Harvesters' website, desertharvesters.org, has numerous resources that expand on the conversation Brad and I had today. One piece I recommend you read is the Manifeasto (PDF) by Kimi Eisele, as it is a one-page poetic encapsulates of everything Desert Harvesters stands for, including the vision and approach to spreading knowledge about native plants, and the power of celebration and capturing water run off. Through the use of celebration Desert Harvesters created community that leads to a greater buy-in from the changemakers in not only Tucson, but other regions as well. Through actions that started out illegally, with those first curb cuts, Brad and the others in his neighborhood showed that these ideas of using street run-off worked. Leveraging those two ideas shaped through the creation of the cookbook, they expanded the circle of influence further and further, accomplishing more collectively than through the actions of a given individual or organization. Could you use these ideas as a model in your own community to enact change? If you have any thoughts, questions or comments on this or anything else you heard during this episode, leave a comment here on Patreon and we can continue the conversation. You can also reach me by email: The Permaculture Podcast or phone: . From here, the next episode, out in a day or two, is a short interview with Ethan Hughes to discuss what to expect from The Possibility Handbook. On Monday, December 7, a permabyte interview with David Casey, who recently launched the site NuMundo, to talk about how to take an idea and turn it into reality. On Thursday, December 10, is Jereme Zimmerman, to share with us how to Make Mead like a Viking. Until the next time, spend each day creating the world you want to live in by taking care of Earth, yourself, and each other. Would you like to receive a free copy of the inaugural issue of Regenerative Agriculture Magazine? Now through December 31, listeners of the podcast can use the coupon code “podcast” at checkout to do just that. Go get your copy today. Resources: Harvesting Rainwater (Brad's Site) Desert Harvesters The Desert Harvesters' Manifeasto (PDF) Multi-Use Rain Garden Plant Lists
Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast Today's episode continues the faith and earth care series through a conversation with Dillon Naber Cruz, one of the co-instructors of my Permaculture Design Course in 2010. Dillon was also one of the first guests on the podcast back in 2012 when the show moved to the regular interview format. Then we talked about the idea of paying permaculture forward through our actions. Today we delve into his perspective on the intersection between Christianity and Permaculture, a subject he is exploring intensely during his preparations to enter seminary. Heading into this interview, I'd like to begin with my thoughts on what follows. These conversations about Faith and Earth Care generate the most feedback I've ever received on any of the topics presented on this podcast. As our community continues to discuss whether permaculture is just a design system or a movement, and the role of spirituality has in that dialog, this material is of ever more importance. You'll find that Dillon expands on this through a personal view on his faith, mixed with a call to apply the moral teachings of Christ with the ethical entreatments of permaculture. Having known Dillon for a long time, I expected this to be a passionate conversation, and it defnitely is. More so, I never found him to hold back, mince words, or shy away from expressing political views, and he definitely doesn't today. Anyone is likely to find a few moments in this conversation that are a little uncomfortable, but left with a lot to consider once we reach the end. This interview came about from a series of articles, titled The Christian Call to Earth Care, that Dillon wrote for his blog that blend together faith, politics, and biblical scholarship. You can read those and more of his work at: dilloncruz72.wordpress.com. As I opened the episode with my views on this interview, there are no more to follow, but you can get in touch with me and share your thoughts by phone at or by emailing: The Permaculture Podcast If you'd like you can also drop something in the mail, and we can correspond by post. The Permaculture Podcast The Permaculture Podcast And a few announcements. The Possibility Handbook, a project with Ethan Hughes, continues. Ethan confirmed with me that January 16-23, 2016 we will record a series of new interviews together at The Possibility Alliance as the draft manuscript of the book. This listener exclusive fundraiser to make this project happen is seeking to raise $5,000 by the end of this year. That's less than six weeks away and we've got some distance to go to get there. If you would like to hear and see more of Ethan's passion and perspective in the world, in a guide to create the world you want to live in, make a pledge today. Also, would you like to spend three weeks in Costa Rica learning permaculture with Joshua Peaceseeker and other instructors at Joshua's farm, Verdenergia? You still have time to enter the drawing to win this opportunity. Until the next time, spend each day creating the world you want to live in by taking care of Earth, yourself, and each other. From here on Thursday, November 26, Sandor Katz joins me to talk about wild fermentation. After that, on December 3, Brad Lancaster returns to discuss the Desert Harvesters, community, and urban water catchment. Resources: Creation Care, Neighbor Care, Future Care (Dillon's Website) The Christian Call to Earth Stewardship The Christian Call to Earth Stewardship II: Permaculture Jesus? The Possibility Handbook Crowdfunding Campaign Costa Rica PDC Drawing
Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast Image Source: WMU Gibbs House Website My guests for this episode are Derek Kanwischer, the Project Manager for the Office for Sustainability at Western Michigan University, and Joshua Shultz, the Permaculture Program Coordinator at Gibbs House. Our conversation today revolves around Gibbs House and the work of the Office of Sustainability at WMU to practice permaculture onsite, including research and implement, and create a demonstration model of sustainable practices. We also talk about student fellows that live and work at Gibbs house, including the research projects, as well as funding, and the involvement of the university. If you are interested in permaculture that involves education, policy, research, or demonstration, this is a show to listen to. What I liked about this conversation was the way in which universities can get involved to advance permaculture, without needing it to be a core part of the curriculum, but a place for students and others to research and explore in ways that connects with their academic study. Both sides win. I also wonder how programs like the one at Gibbs House and WMU can influence larger movements on college campuses regarding sustainability. Will these ideas gain traction? Is there a place for higher education and permaculture to mingle? Or should they remain separate? What are your thoughts on the intersection of academia and permaculture? Let me know. Leave a comment or get in touch. Email: The Permaculture Podcast You can also drop something in the mail. The Pemaculture Podcast The Permaculture Podcast And few short announcements. As this show comes out, the listener exclusive crowdfunding campaign to create The Possibility Handbook, a project with Ethan Hughes, is underway and thank you to everyone who supported this effort so far. If you would like to hear and see more of Ethan's passion and perspective brought into the world make a pledge today. Also, time is running out to enter the drawing for a Costa Rican PDC at Verdenergia, being offered by Joshua Peaceseeker and other instructors. You can still enter but time is limited so get your's in soon. From here, next week I visit with an old friend and one of the earliest guests on the show, to talk with Dillon Nabor Cruz in another release in the Faith and Permaculture series. After that Sandor Katz joins me to delve into the wild world of fermentation. Until we meet again, spend each day creating the world you want to live in by taking care of Earth, yourself, and each other. Resources Western Michigan University Office of Sustainability Gibbs House Cedar Creek Permaculture Farm (Joshua's Personal Site) The Possibility Handbook Crowdfunding Campaign Costa Rica PDC Drawing Four Seasons Farm / Elliot Coleman Jean Pain (Wikipedia) Galen Brown Galen Brown's Compost-Energy Systems The Island School Cape Eleuthera Institute
Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast My guest for this episode is Peter Michael Bauer, who returns to share with us his thoughts on the distinction between human versus conservation rewilding, and a critique of what they get right and what they get wrong as we develop the understanding and language to discuss these broad, far reaching views on how to undo domestication of people and of the land. Peter also shares a bit more detail on the nature of rewilding, how people come to this subject through different movements, and how the nature of un-domesticating humanity is still something being explored, because each of us exists in the modern world and with that face different choices framed by the larger culture we are a part of. Quite a bit just to introduce where the conversation goes, while still barely scratching the surface of what we cover. You can find more of his work at his personal website, Urban Scout. Peter is also a regular contributor to rewild.com and the Rewild Facebook group, and his educational nonprofit is rewildportland.com. A few announcements, before my thoughts that close out this episode. The first is that in order to make mobile browsing easier, especially through podcast apps like iTunes, there is now a resource section in this episode with clear links to all the information and offerings mentioned in the episode so you don't have to look for in-line links to find anything. You can expect to find this as a regular feature in episodes moving forward, and I'll backfill older episodes as time allows. As this show comes out there are just over three weeks remaining until the drawing for the permaculture design course at Joshua Peaceseeker's farm, Verdenergia, in Costa Rica. You can still enter, but the drawing is limited to not more than 50 entries, so get yours in soon. www.thepermaculturepodcast.com/costa-rica I am also running a listener only crowdfunding campaign to support a trip to The Possibility Alliance (should I call it The Possibility Handbook?) where Ethan Hughes and I sit down to record tens of hours of audio for the creation of a book that digs in deeper to his philosophy and perspective. If you like Ethan's interviews support this project by making a pledge today. www.thepermaculturepodcast.com/book Adam Brock is also writing, People and Pattern, which has a crowdfunding campaign that ends on Friday, November 6. Let's push his goal way over the top by supporting this project. You can find out more about his work on social and economic permaculture by listening to our interview from 2013, Invisible Structures with Adam Brock. If you'd like to get in touch with me and the show, call or email: The Permaculture Podcast. Final among these announcements, there is a bit of swearing near the end in this conversation, just to let you know in case you listen at work. I entered this conversation with only a cursory knowledge of conservation rewilding and speaking with Peter reinforced a simple point that is made self-evident with permaculture: people are a part of all the systems we design. Even as we might work to design ourselves out of direct impact, the act of design is a human practice. So is reintroducing wolves to the American Midwest. Yes, they were once native there and we removed them, but we also changed the environment they are returning to. The place they came from will never be what we might project onto it through our vision and actions. This kind of influence is not limited to the modern era. We have an anthropological and historical record that stretches back for tens of thousands of years that shows that humanity modified the environment for our use. We are social animals and tool makers with big brains and an intelligence that allows us to change the world. Let's use that gift for the benefit of all life, starting with our own. Question the cultural stories you hear, including the news and the beliefs you grew up with. See how those narratives serve the hierarchies that seeks to keep you tame. Reconnect with the land, even the heavily modified city environments. Find what lives there, what grows there. Get to know the names of the plants, animals, and fungi so you can learn more about them, including the yields useful to you and other life, but remember that the name is not the subject being named and there is more than we can hold in our thoughts. As you do this, tend to that space, care for the life that inhabits the area, including your family, friends, and neighbors. Share food and new stories together. Take action in the ways you are able, but put yourself out there. Make some noise. Show others what they are capable of. Show how they can tend themselves and the land. We are more than the worst decisions our culture ever made. Let's go make some better ones, that takes care of earth, ourselves, and each other. Resources Episode 1513: Rewilding Permaculture with Peter Michael Bauer Urban Scout Rewild Rewild Facebook Page Rewild Portland Costa Rica PDC Giveaway The Ethan Hughes Book Project (The Possibility Handbook?) People and Pattern Crowdfunding Campaign Invisible Structures with Adam Brock Rewilding North America by Dave Foreman The Biggest Estate on Earth by Bill Gammage Tending the Wild by M. Kat Anderson Restoring the Pacific Northwest Feral by George Monbiot Keeping it Living, edited by Doug Deur and Nancy Turner Tom Brown, Jr. Anarcho-Primitivism (Wikipedia) Reclaim Rewild (scribd)
Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast Enjoy this episode? Become a Patron. My guest today is Lisa Rose, author most recently of Midwest Foraging, which was supposed to be the basis of our conversation and we do touch on that some, but also spend our time telling stories about family traditions; place and the lands we each feel connected to; and how foraging and food can return seasonality to our lives, along with a host of new flavors, once we leave the grocery store behind. There's also a digression in the middle about nocino, an Italian sipping liquer, which you can find a recipe for at Lisa's site, Burdock and Rose, and pick up a copy of her book at Timber Press. When it comes to Midwest Foraging I agree with the quote from Sam Thayer that graces the cover, “A beautiful book that any forager in the Midwest will want to own.” As there is an overlap in plants from this book to where I am in the Mid-Atlantic, it's a good addition to those book shelves as well. The layout and format leads to a book that you can, as Dan De Lion recommended, spend time with to leisurely browse and read to build a familiarity with plants which you can then begin to recognize as you go about your daily walks or journeys into the landscape.The entries, which are arranged alphabetically around a common name, include the latin binomial name, very important for proper discussion and identification, along with which parts are edible, a short introduction, and one to a few color pictures. Common features you'll find in many field guides include descriptive text, how and what to gather, how to eat the plants, and, where necessary, cautions about poisonous plants that have similar identifying features. Where this book stands out from some earlier field guides is the inclusion of information on where and when to gather, very important for knowing the right time of year to look for a particular plant; and notes about future harvests. This latter portion in particular caught my attention because using those entries we can wildcraft ethically to insure plants are available for ongoing use and so we can tend to Zone 4 and the wild places. With 115 plants included, Midwest Foraging covers a lot of ground and is a good first choice for a beginning forager in the region covered. For more experienced folks with a larger library this is a valuable companion to include with your other field guides. Add a copy to your library by ordering from Timber Press or your local retailer, where the book lists for $24.95. If you enjoyed this conversation with Lisa and would like to add your thoughts to the discussion, or your own review of Midwest Foraging, leave a comment below. You can also contact me if you have any questions or if there is a way I can assist you on your permaculture path by emailing The Permaculture Podcast or calling . As this episode comes out a reminder that there is less than a month until the drawing for the Permaculture Design Course at Joshua Peaceseeker's farm Verdenergia in Costa Rica. You still have time to enter, but as this is limited to not more than 50 entries, get yours in today! An update on those show notes for mobile users. Whether you use iTunes, Stitcher, Podcast Addict, or another podcast catcher, thanks to some feedback from listeners you will now see the complete show notes in the episode feed. That includes links to make browsing and connecting easier when you are on the go. Part of that update did required a change to the RSS feed for the podcast, so if you go into your app you will now see it includes the 75 most recent episodes available, or a little over a year of content. If you want to explore deeper into the past shows, you will find the available past episodes on the archives page. If you haven't heard the episode yet, I recently announced more information about the book I'm writing with Ethan Hughes. If you like his work and want to support that creation, more information is available at www.thepermaculturepodcast.com/book. Another book in need of our assistance is from past guest and good friend of the show Adam Brock who is writing his treatise on social permaculture, People and Patterns. That campaign is at: https://igg.me/at/peoplepattern From here for the next interview Peter Michael Bauer returns to discuss human versus conservation rewilding. Until then, eat some wild foods, learn about plants, and spend each day creating the world you want to live in by taking care of Earth, yourself, and each other.
Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast This article is by Taylor Proffit, and originally posted at NuMundo.org and reprinted/recorded as a podcast with permission. Back in October, my friend showed me The Permaculture Podcast for the first time while we were camping, developing business models and visioning the future of each other's work in the startup world of San Francisco. It was an appropriate time to listen to the episode where Ethan Roland of Appleseed Permaculture spoke about the Eight Forms of Capital in Regenerative Enterprise. Having listened to nearly every episode from the last 5 years in a matter of weeks, I've been deeply moved and inspired by this daily dose of educational therapy that has pushed me to make meaningful changes at a crossroads in my life. This is one of the most transformative collections of media I've come across to date. I've included links to the shows on the website, but you can download the mobile app as well. If you feel so inspired, support the growth of the show with a one time or monthly donation on Scott's crowdfunding platform or leave a review on the itunes app store. 1. Ethan Hughes and Necessary Simplicity & Practical Possibilities with Ethan Hughes – Ethan Hughes is a permaculture practitioner and radical minimalist that founded the Possibility Alliance, an 80-acre petrol and electricity-free homestead that gifts over 1,500 permaculture design courses each year. After traveling the world and watching the innumerable tragedies that fossil fuels and Western civilization have imposed on the earth, indigenous populations, and the minds of the masses, Ethan decided to give up his car for a bike, eat dinner by candlelight, liquidate his financial capital, and begin educating people about changing harmful lifestyles. I cannot explain how game-changing it was to hear Ethan tell his story: 20 years of slowing down to the simple life where chocolate doesn't belong, where in the last ten years his car has only been used twelve times for emergencies, and where the inner landscape work to make these external changes is of utmost importance and is the only practical path. Here is another article with Ethan over at Mother Earth News. [caption width="500" align="aligncenter"] Reprinted from Gather and Grow, read their experience when visiting Ethan's land and home of the Possibility Alliance https://gatherandgrowdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/possibility2.jpg[/caption] 2. Edible Forest Gardens and permaculture with Dave Jacke – Dave Jacke is a permaculture practitioner and co-author of Edible Forest Gardens that tells it like it is. Like Ethan Hughes, Dave asserts the importance of inner landscape work if any external actions are to have lasting results. His work with perennial food forestry is comprehensive, and the content of this conversation has given me a more clear understanding of how to move forward in my path, both internally and in the outer landscape, specifically with regards to food forestry. 3. Right Livelihood with Ben Weiss, Dave Jacke, and Charles Eisenstein– This recent episode features permaculture practitioners Ben Weiss and Dave Jacke, and author of bestseller Sacred Economics, Charles Eisenstein. The conversation traverses the ways in which we can integrate the lessons of the old story, and begin to make positive changes toward the new world we wish to inhabit. A true necessity for the contemporary changemaker. Linked in the show notes is the second half of the conversation without Charles (who had to leave the discussion early). [caption width="490" align="aligncenter"] Reprinted with permission from The Permaculture Podcast. Ben Weiss, Dave Jacke, and Charles Eisenstein panel discussion (left to right).[/caption] 4. Restoration Agriculture with Mark Shepard (Parts 1-3)– Mark Shepard is a practical go out and get it farmer. He's not interested in obscure uses of the word permaculture or anything short of prolific results. This three part discussion explains Mark's story and experience with the Organic Valley Co-operative farmers group, in which biofuel tractor design, perennial food forest design, and efficient chestnut growing are all shared practices to build a resilient network of farmers who live in the same proximity. After listening to the first episode, I was thrilled to see there were two more to listen to. This is a great episode for practical solutions to profitable farming, truly restorative land management practices, and integrative food forestry design. 5. Whole Systems Design and the Resilient Farm with Ben Falk– Ben Falk is a permaculturist who, like Ethan Hughes, wouldn't flinch if the system as we know it broke down overnight. The homestead he designed for himself is completely self-reliant, other than a generator he uses as a backup heating source for showers until solar panels can be bought (by now, I'm sure he has them, since this episode is over two years old). But unlike Ethan, Ben makes a living from his rugged resilience through a design firm called Whole Systems Design, LLC. When I first came across Ben's website a year or so ago on accident, I thought to myself “this is what I want to do” as I watched a video of him using a scythe to cut a cover crop and his design team talking about the completely self-reliant and closed loop homestead systems they design, build and inhabit. Here is the video: Whole Systems Design, LLC Firm Overview from Ben Falk on Vimeo. Whole Systems Design, LLC Firm Overview from Ben Falk on Vimeo. A visual overview of some of the work Whole Systems Design performs in Vermont, New England and abroad. Enjoy and check us out at www.wholesystemsdesign.com for more information. 6. Eight Forms of Capital and Regenerative Enterprise with Ethan Roland– If you haven't read Regenerative Enterprise by Gaia University Graduates Ethan Roland and Gregory Landua, I encourage you to do so after this episode. This show outlines the conceptual viewpoint of the eight forms of capital, of which financial is only one. I'll let Ethan explain how this simple formula for viewing the world makes all of your work, whether it is volunteer work at a food bank, growing your own food, traveling, or reading books, as contributing to your wealth as a human being. [caption width="500" align="aligncenter"] Reprinted with permission from The Permaculture Podcast. The Eight Forms of Capital infograph.[/caption] 7. Responsible Business, Responsible Entrepreneur with Carol Sanford– Fast on the heels of the Eight Forms of Capital episode, Carol Sanford takes the concepts of Regenerative Entrepreneurship to new heights with responsible entrepreneurship being her twist on the subject. She speaks about ethics-driven corporations and right relations business practices that make for truly regenerative business ventures. 8. Natural Building and ThePOOSH.org with Eric Puro– It was a pleasant surprise to hear my friend and new world colleague speak about how natural building changed his life and how, by searching craigslist for free land and buying a couple books, he and his friends built their first earth ship from all natural and up-cycled materials. Eric speaks about an ecovillage tour of Europe, starting a web platform, natural building with no power tools, and meeting people where they're at in any type of work that cares for the earth, community, and oneself. Visit ThePOOSH.org to start or join a natural building project today. [caption width="500" align="aligncenter"] Reprinted with permission from The Permaculture Podcast. The Poosh.org ‘s first naturally constructed home in Oregon on land they found through craigslist. Find out more: thepoosh.org[/caption] 9. Economic and Financial Collapse with Nicole Foss– This talk with Nicole Foss, founder of Automatic Earth, on building community resiliency at a time where growth is coming to its limits, has inspired me to take my commitments of local action further. In a society where infinite growth is assumed possible, and even necessary, this exhaustively researched and academically referenced talk about Economic Collapse asks the listener to think about how they would live if energy and fossil fuels ran out today. Would you live? What necessities of life would you have secured from within your home or bioregion. Which neighbors do you know enough to collaborate with to stay healthy? Would you have any food or water if exports stopped immediately? I've been thinking a lot about this topic lately, and relocalization of my physical needs to survive has become a relatively high priority. By making deep relationships with local farms, finding a local spring, and planting fruit trees today, we can buffer the effects of economic collapse by building a thriving community where we live. 10. Urban Permaculture in Baltimore, Maryland – The final episode I've chosen goes deep. It begins with the stories and backgrounds of Eric and Victoria, the founders of Charm City Farms. While Eric's background story is brief, Victoria's is as authentic and genuine as it is lengthy. She speaks about her path as a visual artist and student, growing up in Georgia and being completely enthralled with nature, and reading depth psychology authors such as Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell to help her make sense of her life. She also gives history on her herbalism and permaculture studies. Victoria gives the listener a relatable and cherishable story of her struggles, her darkness, her challenges, and tells the story of her life's transformation through permaculture and urban community development. After listening to the work of Eric and Victoria just a couple days ago, I've been inspired to make changes in my place, as they have, and decided not move to the big progressive cities where movements are already so large and prominent (like Boulder, Brooklyn, Austin, Portland, etc). Eric and Victoria grew the first public urban food forest in Baltimore (and they are already starting to plan their second). They do primitive skills workshops in the middle of the city, and they do the inner work that is so essential to truly help people in underprivileged communities. This inner work is particularly essential in order that change agents may be in right relations, or as Victoria says, “do right by” the community they serve. It is easy to want to go to places where the large movements are already happening to do this work, but if everyone does this, the rest of our country will remain stuck in the old story, and underserved communities in the places people have left behind will stay this behind. I'm not saying that we shouldn't travel, learn new skills, meet new people, and gain new perspectives, but when it comes to setting roots in the ground, consider a place that truly needs changemakers, as Eric and Victoria did with Baltimore. [caption width="500" align="aligncenter"] Reprinted with permission from The Permaculture Podcast. Urban Food Forest in Baltimore, Maryland.[/caption] These are the conversations that give educational and experiential capital far beyond return for the financial capital of supporting the podcast if it is truly in your means. I supported the show recently, and I will say that for as much educational and experiential capital that Scott Mann is giving away each week (for only the $261 that he is getting on his crowdfunding platform per month) it is clear that he truly is doing really great work for the world, for community, and within himself. You can also help spread the wisdom and education of permaculture by sharing this article or www.thepermaculturepodcast.com with your friends. What are your 10 favorite episodes of the show? What inspiration or knowledge did you gain from them? I'd love to hear from you. Email: The Permaculture Podcast Write: The Permaculture Podcast The Permaculture Podcast
Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast Like this podcast? Become a Patron. My guests for this episode are Eric and Victoria of Charm City Farms, a permaculture based urban agriculture initiative that focuses on educating and supporting individuals and communities in and around Baltimore, Maryland. During the conversation today we open by talking about the development of a quarter acre food forest in Clifton Park, and the requirement for grant funding and organizing volunteers in order to be successful with the project, and the permaculture and primitives skills classes they offer. The second half we dig into one of those courses in detail, The Forager's Apprentice program Victoria is running, which leads to a discussion about the role of blending academic rigour with hands on experiences. Throughout this conversation we move between the practical and the philosophical and how both play an important role in practicing permaculture and creating deep experiences. You can find out more about what they are doing, including the Food Forest Journal at CharmCityFarms.org. If you are in the area I recommend getting in touch with Eric and Victoria and going to visit the food forest when they are having one of the regularly Friday field days. If you can take a class with them, including The Forager's Apprentice when it re--opens next year, I highly recommend it. You'll find a complete listing of the different kinds of classes they offer in the show notes. If the course you are interested in isn't listed on their website get in touch and let them know. Also sign up for their newsletter so you can see what is happening when. I've known Eric for sometime through email exchanges and following his work through the Charm City Farms website. Knowing that he had a viable project going was why I wanted to sit down and interview him in person. After going down and spending a day with Victoria and Eric I was left with a positive impression of both Victoria and Eric, as well as what it is they are doing and the authenticity of their work. The food forest is in really good shape and as we walked through they were naming the various plants using both the common name and latin binomial. They also pointed out not only the successes, but also the failures. They raised questions about why one plant did well as an outlier, but then did not thrive in what should be, by all accounts, the ideal space for that same species and cultivar. When questioned about community engagement, it came with a humility and understanding of the difficulties of coming in as an apparent outsider and the need to integrate into a place to find out who the real leaders in a given neighborhood are in order to get the right buy-in. I asked about population and demographics and Eric was able to answer them immediately and in great detail. We talked about organizations and people and various initiatives in the city that went well beyond what you heard in the interview and what Victoria and Eric could bring to bear while we were casually walking around and discussing the two sites they are working with was encyclopedic. They've done the groundwork and really integrated themselves into what they are doing and taken on the roles they've decided for themselves and continue to look for ways to make the changes necessary to be more effective, including considering buying and renovating a home in the community near the second site they are looking to develop, where the red brick barn is located so they can be close to the space and also members of the community. We all find inspiration in different places for the work we do. I know Ethan Hughes is an inspiration for many as he and his community are able to live within the gift economy, without gas or electricity. In conversations I've had with Ethan off the air he knows, however, that the Possibility Alliance model isn't something that most people can do. It is too radical of a shift to accomplish in one lifetime. What Eric and Victoria are doing in the city, in place, is a path many many more can follow. I'm reminded of Bob Theis and his comment, which I'll paraphrase, that there are plenty of good places we can repair and restore that already exist, rather than inflicting ourselves on some place that doesn't need us. Now that worldwide the majority of people live in cities and metropolitan areas, urban permaculture practitioners are more vital than ever. If you are in a place that needs you and we can work together to build the place you want to live, let me know. Get in touch. Email: The Permaculture Podcast Send me a letter: The Permaculture Podcast The Permaculture Podcast Up next week is Adam Brock to discuss the role of a guest editor with Permaculture Design Magazine. Until then, take care of Earth, yourself, and each other. 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Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast My guest for this episode is Ethan Hughes and we talk about Permaculture and Radical Possibilities. Ethan lives on a electricity and petrol free homestead covering 110 acres. Our conversation was conducted over one of the few pieces of technology at the site, a landline telephone located in a space that is separated from the rest of the living area. Ethan, his wife, and the others who share the homestead with them operate the on a gift economy. The short and quick way to explain this is that they give gifts freely and have others give gifts in return, though not necessarily on a one to one or quid pro quo basis, which we clarify more fully in the interview. Though it initially sounded impossible to me, they are able to do this and support 9 full time adults and 2 children on the site, while still receiving over 1500 guests through their space for tours and classes. I wanted to call this episode Radical Simplicity, but changed it to Radical Possibilities because the powerful message that came through from the conversation was the power we have to create change when we open ourselves to the numerous of opportunites available and of human beings ability to creativily solve problems, especially when guided in a meaningful way. Overall this interview challenged many of my previous notions about the personal requirements to transform the world. Many of the examples I encountered previously dealt with people who spent years saving, paying off debt, and then leaving the western lifestyle of working to live, though they retained a certain level of wealth and financial independence. Ethan made his changes utilizing non-financial capital, relying on friends, neighbors, and other contacts to do good work. He and the community he lives in made, and continue to make, choices that allow them to live freely on very little of money, but with lives full of abundance. Ethan and his community are an experiment and this lifestyle may not work for everyone. Please do not compare your life and choices to his or anyone else. Take the steps necessary to live your better life by your own making. David Holmgren's 12 Principles of Permaculture 1. Observe and Interact. 2. Catch and Store Energy. 3. Obtain a Yield. 4. Apply Self Regulation and Accept Feedback. 5. Use and Value Renewable Resources and Services 6. Produce No Waste 7. Design from Patterns to Details 8. Integrate Rather than Segregate 9. Use Small and Slow Solutions 10. Use and Value Diversity 11. Use Edges and Value the Marginal 12. Creatively Use and Respond to Change. Ethan's Contact Information The Possibility Alliance 85 Edgecomb Road Belfast, ME 04915 207-338-5719 Resources Aprovecho Charles Eisenstein Sun Oven Contact the Show Email: The Permaculture Podcast Voicemail:
Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast Like this podcast? Support it on Patreon. This episode is a look back over 2014 and the guests that garnered the most responses from listeners, as well as some of my favorites, and the guest who I have received the most comments in the history of the podcast. If you are someone new to the show or have been listening for some time, this is a good primer on episodes to go back and listen to and get a feel for what you will find in the back catalog. If you've been listening for a while you may have already heard some of these or, if you are like me and have listened to all the hundreds of episodes in the archives, you might can check out some of the great shows in the archives. I did not want to do a normal top five or top ten list, so left how many folks to feature up to chance and rolled two six-sided dice to see how many to select, then of the one most popular guests was actually a duo, leaving us with the top 9 most interviewees of this year. In no particular order, and with a brief description of the interview, they are: Marisha Auerbach who joined me to discuss urban permaculture and the role of preserving bio-diversity in that space. Ben Weiss and Wilson Alvarez were on the show several times and talked about their Rewilding efforts, and to answer listener questions about their 2013 interview “Restoring Eden”. You can hear more about the piece that started it all through this link: Restoring Eden Natasha Alvarez and I sat down to talk about Permaculture as Revolution and how, through her project The Year of Black Clothing, she found more love for the world and how to take action to protect Earth. Listen and find your own connections to this place we call home and how to make a difference in your own way. Eric Puro of ThePOOSH.org discussed the organization, natural building, and finding solutions from local resources. He also encourages anyone who wants to do this, or any other kind of permaculture work, to go out there, get your hands dirty, and get digging. Rhamis Kent (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3) was the first guest in the Faith and Earthcare series. Through multiple episodes Rhamis provided an open perspective on Islam and the tenets of faith that leads us to understand how this religion implores the faithful to care for the earth and one another. If your main exposure to Islam is through the nightly news, give this one a listen and gain a better understanding of this faith. Adam Campbell (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3) spent nearly three hours with me discussing permaculture and education and the operations at the Peace and Permaculture Center where he lives along with other members of the Possbility Alliance. Tradd Cotter joined me to discuss his latest book, Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation, an incredible work that demystifyies mushrooms and makes the practice of propagation and remediation more accessible for anyone interesting in playing with fungi. and finally that brings us to Mark Shepard (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3) whose interview on a single day yielded nearly three hours of finished material spread across three episodes of the podcast. He shared with us his background and, through the lens of listener questions, the practices of restoration agriculture. My personal favorites from this year, excluding any that may have already been mentioned above, include Byron Joel, for having such an honest conversation with me and still allowing what became very personal and private to be made public. Rachel Kaplan, my first interview guest ever, for coming back onto the show after all these years for another great conversation. Two other interviews that really strike me are the ones with Karryn Olson-Ramanujan and Derrick Jensen. Both of those conversations challenged my perspectives in ways that I wasn't ready for, and I still reflect on how to make permaculture more accessible and diverse, while also fitting it into the larger context of protecting and repairing the earth. In looking back over 2014 there remains one final question. Who was the biggest guest of all time on the show? Was it someone from the past year? No. That was someone who has not appeared since 2013, Ethan Hughes (Part 1: Radical Possibilities) (Part 2: Practical Possibilities). His conversations then and in 2012 about the Possibility Alliance really inspired many listeners to make changes in their lives and reach out to let me know of the impact it had. The work of all the members of the Possibility Alliance and Stillwater Sanctuary to live without petrol or electricity speaks to an authenticity in living our lives that many desire to move towards. Those conversations with Ethan Hughes continues to influence my way of thinking and is one of the many reasons for moving the podcast and my online permaculture work towards a gift economy. If you are a student looking for a Permaculture Design Course, let me know. If you are a permaculture teacher organizing a class you want to spread the word about, let me know. If you are an organizer planning a permaculture convergence, a permablitz, or some other permaculture gathering or project, let me know. As I always say: I am here to help. Email: The Permaculture Podcast Send me a letter: The Permaculture Podcast The Permaculture Podcast If you are in a place to lend a hand of assistance to the show go to www.thepermaculturepodcast.com/support and make a one time or ongoing monthly gift to keep the interviews from people creating a better world on the air. I greatly appreciate your help in this work. I hope you are having a happy New Year in 2015. I'll join you next week with another interview. Until then, take care of earth, yourself, and each other.
Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast This episode is a look forward to 2015 and where things are going. All in all 2014 was a pretty incredible year for this podcast. Over fifty interviews and fifty shorter episodes produced and released. In addition to that I took the show on the road to the Mother Earth News Fair in Seven Springs, PA, CHABACON in New Jersey, the Finger Lakes Permaculture Tour in New York, and a permaculture farm tour through Virginia. Yes, there were some rough spots in the beginning of the year, but things picked up and got flowing smoothly as time went on. As this year draws to a close, what is in store for the year ahead? First, on a personal level with some impact on the show, I'll be completing graduate school in May, 2015. As this episode goes up I am in the middle of my internship which wraps up my course of study. To finish out my education strong I need that to be main professional priority. I'm interning with a local non-profit as a grant writer and event organizer which in turn I want to bring to the permaculture community once I'm done. In order to focus on that I am going to continue with the current schedule of releasing one interview a week until such time as I am no longer a formal student, and to have a bit of downtime to enjoy the accomplishment of earning my Master's degree. Then in June I'll move to two shows a week on an ongoing basis, organized so that we have a better balance between practical, “how to practice permaculture in the landscape?” episodes and others that examine the more philosophical questions like, “how does all this fit together in a larger context?” Thanks to all the responses to a recent post on Facebook asking for guest suggestions, I have enough potential interviews to see us through until August or September if everyone says “Yes”. To keep that list growing please let me know if you have anyone in mind who you would like to hear on the show, including follow-ups with past guests. Second, I plan to continue to take the show on the road to tour sites and perform more in-person interviews. Tradd Cotter invited John, Layne, and I down to tour Mushroom Mountain so that is definitely on the list, as is going to Philadelphia to sit down with Pandora Thomas of EarthSeed Consulting and Robyn Mello of the Philadelphia Orchard Project. I am always looking for additional ideas of places to visit, as my time and budget allow, so let me know if you have any suggestions. Something else I really want to do is to sit down and record more round table discussions with groups of permaculture practitioners. Travel to a town, sit down with three or four people from the region or an organization and have a conversation that can later be released as an episode of the podcast. That could be something we do in front of a live audience, or as a fundraiser if you wanted to by collecting donations at the door. Let me know if you would like to host such an event and we can work out the details. Third, I'm moving my online permaculture work towards a gift economy, not just for listener support of the podcast proper, but also for sponsorships, class announcements, and any other service I can provide to the community. I feel that in order for others to know that a different way is possible we must try another way and show that the system that exists isn't the only way for us to live productive lives. I know for many of the permaculture courses and projects out there money is a barrier and a burden for many, so I want to lend a hand. We all have surpluses beyond the financial that can make a big difference in the world and I'd like to have those be a larger focus of my work moving forward. Let's work together and make something happen. More talking. More collaborating. More action. This idea of using a gift economy and more talking moving forward also applies to the online Permaculture Design Course I've been running over the last year and a half. I've been contacted by a number of individuals who want to take a PDC, but who do not, for whatever reason, have the financial means to do so. Through my own personal journey I have also discovered that I work best with small groups and one-on-one so am focus my educating of others through direct interaction via email, phone, and online meeting spaces. If you are interested in this kind of PDC experience, please let me know. That spirit of collaboration includes that thought of editing a 21st Century Designers' manual. I don't want to write it, but rather organize the collection of materials to go into it, perhaps as an annual digest. I've received feedback from several folks interested in the idea and want to hear from you if you want to get involved or know someone who you feel should contribute materials. I'm still setting up the ideas for this, and look to the fall of 2015 as the time when I put together the formal proposal, but would like input now so that the idea can mature with multiple inputs rather than just my own. With the idea of doing, one of my personal goals is to share more of my personal projects with you whatever those may be. As I work in an incremental fashion, picking away at something in pieces, we can explore different ideas as they develop over time. Another goal, that is a mix of personal and professional, is that I am looking to acquire several acres of land in 2015 that I can begin converting into a private permaculture center in central Pennsylvania to show working models of the different ideas we talk about grounded in a sense of place. I'd like use that space to host ongoing, regular events and gatherings for the community where we can come together and have face time in a place that embodies the work that we are doing. I find that time together, in person, really helps to build community. In turn we can get to know one another and work together to create solutions and try out different things. Some questions that come to mind that I would like to explore include: What is it like to coppice with a billhook or a pull saw? What about recharging batteries with a solar panel for an electric chainsaw? What are the best methods for establishing and raising mushrooms off the grid? What does a human scale site without heavy equipment look like? Because I have a particular bent when it comes to permaculture my thoughts on a human scale are not large like Mark Shepard, but also not totally without electricity or petrol like Ethan Hughes. Together we can ask and answer our own questions, add to the body of permaculture knowledge, and walk away with additional skills to take back to our own lives and communities. Get in touch with me of anytime along the way there is any way I can help you. I am here to assist you on your path in whatever way possible. Email: The Permaculture Podcast You can also send me a letter: The Permaculture Podcast The Permaculture Podcast And, as I wrap things up, if you are able, please support the podcast through a one-time or ongoing monthly gift so I can continue to release material openly for anyone to find and listen to. Find out how at: www.thepermaculturepodcast.com/support. Until the next time, take care of your self, the earth, and each other.
Ethan Hughes talks about the continued commitment of he and his partner, Sarah, to Radical Simplicity, "inner" --personal/spiritual-- work, and political activism. Ethan and Sarah put out to the universe and their contacts that they wanted a community that embodied those qualities and very quickly raised the funds with which they bought,sight unseen, an 80 acre farm in Missouri . They never use cars except in dire emergencies so they took the train to Missouri and rode their bikes the four miles to their farm to see it for the first time. Ethan personally has been in a car seven times in the past ten years. On their farm they grow organic food and live sustainably. Their place is electricity free and therefore is also free of computer and other electricially powered technology. Over 600 guests have visited so far. They invite others to visit. Their community is also the Headquarters for the Super Heroes, an organization Hughes founded of young folks who go out to help where they're needed as, for example when 25 young people biked to New Orleans to help for a few months or more with the Katrina disaster.One of the important guidelines by which they live and are consciously creating the future is the importance of experiencing joy in what they do. If they are not feeling joy they stop what they're doing until they deal with whatever is in the way and they return to joy. Nonviolent communication is also a way of life as is not paying taxes for war as well as creating their own art and entertainment. Hughes shares that one of the most interesting and wonderful things that they're learning in their local rural Missouri community is that the kindness of people is totally unrelated to their political affiliation and ideology which has been so influenced by the corporate media. The most important thing is to be in your heart path!Contact info: The Possibility Alliance, 28408 Frontier Lane, Laplata, Missouri 63549tel: 660-332-4094Recorded February 9, 2009
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