Podcast appearances and mentions of grant schultz

Daniel Sumner of Univ. of California, Davis explains the homeland effects of Trump's tariffs. Phil Bresnahan of Univ. of California San Diego describes how Smartfin surfers can help with oceanography. Grant Schultz of Brigham Young Univ. says eliminating left turns increases traffic safety. David Garrow, author of “Bearing the Cross,” remembers Martin Luther King, Jr. Sankar Swaminathan of Univ of Utah on tick-borne disease. Case Lawrence of CircusTrix manages a trampoline park.

Join us with Advanced Permaculture Student Online instructor Grant Schultz as we talk about Rewilding! Help Versaland & Support Grant - Watch the Video Posted Here: https://www.facebook.com/organicgrant/videos/10102092038140973/?fref=mentions

Learn more at permaculturevoices.com/34 Support the show at permaculturevoices.com/support THIS EPISODE IS A REPLAY OF PREVIOUS PUBLISHED EPISODE. Grant Schultz joins me to talk about developing a perennial polyculture in the middle of row-crop corn and soy country Iowa. He discusses a lot of the innovation and developments taking place on his farm, including some really innovative ways of doing GPS keyline design. We spend a lot of time talking about the business of farming. The importance of monitoring cash flows and being cash flow positive. And how Grant is using USDA funds to help pay for pieces of his system and getting moving in the right direction. Key Takeaways: Importance of making your operation cashflow the whole time. Expenses will pile up so start getting cashflow and a customer base early. Consider buying rootstock and graft it over later. It is much cheaper to go that route and grafting isn't that hard. Get plant systems going early on. It is fairly inexpensive and gets the system starting to advance. Have a plan but evolve as you go. Having an end in mind gives you a goal and a direction to head in, but things will change along the way as you learn the intricacies of the system. Plant the earliest maturing fruit trees downslope. That way when you are browsing them the manure runs downhill. How do you want your system to look at maturity and what are the action items to get you there? Then the thing to do is the one with the most impact. What has the earliest yield to get you to the move to the next impact item. Do not underestimate the importance of monitoring and planing out cashflows. When you are farming on broad acres you have the same advantages that conventional farmers have. Crop insurance. Consider using a nurse crop that also cash flows. Grant's example of raising oats for cover crop seed. Consider the balance of high value versus high labor. Is the value worth the labor? There is a huge need for more local genetic permaculture plant material. Recognize the importance of planting dense. Buy trees in mass. It gets cheap and doesn't cost you more to plant at high density. You take advantage of genetic selection and protect yourself against losses. Irrigate your trees if possible - think keyline, swales. Growth rates of trees that are irrigated versus those that aren't is huge when the trees have consistent water availability. Consider the economic impact of the yield with water versus no water. The work now can make you a lot more money down the line. Take advantage of all available resources: USDA, NRCS, EQIP. When starting out pre-sell as much as you can. Build a local customer base from Day 1. Learn more at permaculturevoices.com/34 Support the show at permaculturevoices.com/support THIS EPISODE IS A REPLAY OF PREVIOUS PUBLISHED EPISODE.

Urban Farming and Podcasting with Drew Sample - S1E10 In this episode of the Small Scale Life Podcast, I interview Drew Sample about urban farming and podcasting. Initially inspired by Joe Rogan's podcast, Drew Sample started his own podcast called The Sample Hour.  Initially, it was mainly focused on comedy and stand-up comedians.  After becoming interested in permaculture and urban farming, Drew shifted the focus of The Sample Hour.  After more than 112 episodes, Drew feels that he is hitting his niche interviewing permaculture and urban farmers (sounds familiar). Drew and our recent guest Scott Hebert have a weekly podcast where they talk the problems, solutions and progress they are making on their urban farming operations.  In addition, Drew has interviewed some very interesting people on his podcast including Curtis Stone, Jean Martin-Fortier, Charles Hugh Smith, Jack Spirko, Diego Footer, Rob Kaiser, Paul Wheaton, Matt Powers, Grant Schultz, Luke Callahan and others.  That is a lot of brain power right there (and a lot of links), and I highly recommend you listen to those interviews (after you listen to this one). Drew started his urban farm in 2015 after determining that he "needed to get outside more" and finding that urban gardening was a path forward.  The interesting thing is that his urban farm is on property that he rents in Columbus, Ohio.  His farm is called Capital City Gardens, and he is working in cooperation with Heirloom Produce (owned and operated by a life-long friend Joel).  Drew is learning how to operate his urban farm with help from his friend Joel, Scott Hebert and from Curtis Stone's Profitable Urban Farming course.  This is his first year of " urban farming really intensely." [caption id="attachment_727" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Drew's urban farm is located in his backyard in Columbus, Ohio; he is a renter just like me![/caption] Drew stated in this episode that he was going to start publishing videos on his YouTube Channel.  True to form, he did publish a good quality, great sounding video where he talks about permaculture with Steve Harbolt at Sawyer-Ludwig Park in Marion, Ohio. https://youtu.be/hCiuwpk3rxc Thank You We appreciate the time Drew spent with us on the Small Scale Life Podcast.  We wish him the best of luck for his urban farming and podcasting operations this season.  I hope to have Drew back on the podcast in the future to follow-up with him about the urban farm. I would also like to thank Austin from Beatsby_Roi for providing permission for using the song "Steady Wzdm" from The Lemon Water Chronicles, Volume 1, on the podcast.  I would also like to thank Dillon from The Soapbox Collective Podcast for his assistance. Links Drew and I talked about the following links during the podcast (and there were a lot of them): The Sample Hour - Drew Sample's blog and podcast platform; also home to Drew and Scott Hebert's weekly podcast The Sample Hour's Facebook Page The Sample Hour's YouTube Page The Joe Rogan Experience Podcast Curtis Stone's "The Urban Farmer" - Book and online course - Keep in mind Drew offers a 10% discount Curtis Stone's Green City Acres - Urban Farm Curtis Stone's YouTube Channel - Great tips and videos Permaculture Voices with Diego Footer - Great podcasts about permaculture and profitable urban farming Will Allen's Growing Power Joel Salatin's Polyface Farm and books Food Inc. - Documentary film John Martin Fortier's "The Market Farmer" book and blog Jack Spirko's The Survival Podcast Ben Hartman's "Lean Farm" book Back to Eden Paul Wheaton - The Duke of Permaculture Ramps - What are they? Little John in Sheboygan, Wisconsin - Drew's most recent interview with Little John Grant Schultz from VersaLand.com - Grant's YouTube Channel Eric Schultz - Farmer to Farmer Podcast Charles Hugh Smith's Of Two Minds Blog Listen Use the following link to listen to the podcast.  Since we are now on iTunes, please rate and review the Small Scale Life Podcast.  Ratings and reviews help us grow the podcast and the blog, and I appreciate your reviews.  You can leave a review by following these simple steps: Click on this link. Go to ratings and reviews. Click on 5 stars. Subscribe to the podcast! You can also write a longer review, though it’s not necessary.  Again, thank you for listening and your review!

On this episode of The Sample Hour, I am joined by "The Mad Scientist of Permaculture" Mr Grant Schultz and Neal Spackman. I had a lot of fun talking to these two gentleman. We cover a wide variety of topics, including starting adult pinewood derby leagues, operating inside the system and what each of us wants to accomplish this year. Be sure to follow Neal's work at the Al Baydha Project and to follow his project's instagram and Facebook accounts. Follow Grant's work at Versaland and subscribe to his youtube page as well. Save $100 off the Profitable Urban Farming Course by clicking Download.

On this episode of The Sample Hour, I am joined by "The Mad Scientist of Permaculture" Mr Grant Schultz. Grant, and I discuss his journey to becoming the mad scientist of permaculture. Check out Grants farm Versaland. Check out Grant's youtube page as well. Download.

Grant Schultz, founder of New Farm Supply and Versaland joins me to talk primarily about Nursery Production. I asked Grant to be on this show because he has undertaken an incredibly ambitious project called Versaland, 145 acres of degraded land in Iowa that he has planted thousands of trees on and is establishing silvopasture systems that could be a model for transitioning the corn and soybean monocultures of the midwest. The hardest part of establishing an orchard is generating cashflow in the beginning years, especially when you are putting so much money into planting trees. Grant has solved this cash flow problem by starting his own nursery, New Farm Supply. He took the liability of purchasing thousands of trees for Versaland and judo'd into an asset by becoming a supplier of the best permaculture plants around. There is a ton to learn from Grant, so you will inevitably hear from him on the show again.    Show notes Support the show on Patreon Use code - 'SFA' for 20% off everything at New Farm Supply   

Peter and Grant met at a Darren Doherty workshop in 2012 as landless farmers with the shared dream of regenerating landscapes. Since then, they’ve both landed properties, planted thousands of trees, and developed large-scale permaculture farms. They will share their stories of how they acquired land and rapidly deployed permaculture in different ways in different places, amid different contexts. Peter farms at Mastodon Valley Farm in the ridges and valleys of southwestern Wisconsin, and Grant at Versaland in the rolling hills of Iowa. This talk was presented live at PV2 in March 2015. View the slides from this presentation at permaculturevoices.com/b27.

Appropriate technology plays a critical role in permaculture systems. Developing, documenting, and sharing these tools and systems can turn dreamers into true permaculture practitioners. Grant will discuss home and hot water heating using regenerative energy sources, year-round food preservation in a permacultural context, and functional transport including cargo bikes among other topics. This talk was presented live at PV2 in March 2015 by Grant Schultz of Versaland.com. Learn more about Grant at permaculturevoices.com/b26

Learn the tools, techniques, and costs of establishing a productive silvopasture – a production system that produces yields from every layer. Beginning with bare land, you’ll understand harvest planning and sourcing trees, seed, livestock, and equipment. Also learn what can potentially be built, bartered or bartered. This talk was presented live at PV2 in March 2015. See the slides for this talk at permaculturevoices.com/b025.

Grant & I dip into a bit of everything as we stay up late & discuss MidWestern Permaculture from his perspective & what he's working on currently & turning over in his head. New Farm Supply: http://newfarmsupply.com/ Versaland: http://www.versaland.com/

Grant Schultz presents on trees from VersaLand in Iowa City, Iowa. This presentation focuses on the propagation of trees to be used in tree crop style systems. There is a lot of information on tree buying, grafting, nurseries, and rootstocks. Grant touches on things like the cost versus time trade off of grafting trees versus buying pre-grafted trees and how trees prefer fungal environments and how you can create those environments. This is the recording of a presentation that Grant Schultz gave at a workshop at VersaLand in October 2014. Show Notes: permaculturevoices.com/b019 Information on Grant: VersaLand.com

I think we are in the perfect storm right now for regenerative agriculture and permaculture. The economy isn't great. We have a huge number of people dissatisfied with their jobs who are looking for a fulfilling and creative outlet. People that want to work and make a difference. The environmental side of things is a mess. So much so that we have big scientific meetings in Beijing talking about it. We have a food and water crisis brewing that is legitimately viewed as a looming global problem. But all of these crisis's have created an opportunity. An opportunity for permaculture to step to the plate be the solution. The tools are there. And this is the hard part of the game now because it is early in the game, but it isn't as hard as it was 20 years ago or 10 years ago. Forward progress will be made, but I think it is going to take some balls and strategic planning. We need to realize that we are pioneers forging a new path and and we don't have a ton of models to refer to and to fall back on. But there are some - Mark Shepard, Darren Doherty's work, Peter Allen, Kevin Woltz at the University of Illinois, and of course Grant. It won't be easy, but the path is there. It is just a bit of a bumpy, winding dirt path right now, not a smooth asphalt road straight into the future that most of use are used to. For some of us it is time to adult unschool and put the boots on the dirt and hit the path. And it is on that path where we live between easy and dangerous where really feel alive and are at our best. So if you want to go for it, there is no better time. The perfect storm is here and like Grant says, "You do have to jump on it; you have to go now because tomorrow might be too late." Show Notes: www.permaculturevoices.com/69

Ben Falk and Grant Schultz join me to talk about permaculture as a survival preparedness strategy. How can we use whole systems design to create systems that work passively to increase our resiliency. In our modern day world we are quick to throw money at technological, mechanical systems that are complicated and brittle. In an emergency situation you could have a generator, but if that breaks or you run out of fuel, you are out of luck. If you have a wood fuel based system, it is going to work no matter what, it's bulletproof.Ben and Grant are both a wealth of knowledge when it comes to homestead technology, both simple and complex. They are living the lifestyle. Using and building the systems that they talk about. They are both builders and tinkerers, therefor they understand how these systems work, and can break down. You will learn how important it is to buy high quality tool that will last a lifetime (and the tools to service the tools); often times those tools were built 80 years ago and can be bought on the cheap. They have an appreciation for good quality tools and things you can craft by hand. Simple is beautiful, simple is resilient.This isn't typical prepper talk of buying generators, storing fuel, and MREs. This is all about designing systems that will work before and after SHTF. Show Notes: www.permaculturevoices.com/40

Grant Schultz joins me to talk about developing a perennial polyculture in the middle of row-crop corn and soy country Iowa. He discusses a lot of the innovation and developments taking place on his farm, including some really innovative ways of doing GPS keyline design. We spend a lot of time talking about the business of farming. The importance of monitoring cash flows and being cash flow positive. And how Grant is using USDA funds to help pay for pieces of his system and getting moving in the right direction. Key Takeaways: Importance of making your operation cashflow the whole time. Expenses will pile up so start getting cashflow and a customer base early. Consider buying rootstock and graft it over later. It is much cheaper to go that route and grafting isn't that hard. Get plant systems going early on. It is fairly inexpensive and gets the system starting to advance. Have a plan but evolve as you go. Having an end in mind gives you a goal and a direction to head in, but things will change along the way as you learn the intricacies of the system. Plant the earliest maturing fruit trees downslope. That way when you are browsing them the manure runs downhill. How do you want your system to look at maturity and what are the action items to get you there? Then the thing to do is the one with the most impact. What has the earliest yield to get you to the move to the next impact item. Do not underestimate the importance of monitoring and planing out cashflows. When you are farming on broad acres you have the same advantages that conventional farmers have. Crop insurance. Consider using a nurse crop that also cash flows. Grant's example of raising oats for cover crop seed. Consider the balance of high value versus high labor. Is the value worth the labor? There is a huge need for more local genetic permaculture plant material. Recognize the importance of planting dense. Buy trees in mass. It gets cheap and doesn't cost you more to plant at high density. You take advantage of genetic selection and protect yourself against losses. Irrigate your trees if possible - think keyline, swales. Growth rates of trees that are irrigated versus those that aren't is huge when the trees have consistent water availability. Consider the economic impact of the yield with water versus no water. The work now can make you a lot more money down the line. Take advantage of all available resources: USDA, NRCS, EQIP. When starting out pre-sell as much as you can. Build a local customer base from Day 1. Show Notes: www.permaculturevoices.com/34

This week’s guest on Greenhorn Radio is Grant Schultz. Grant is a farmer, farmhacker, and writer known for his seed garlic, caveman tweets, and occasional essays. Grant is currently growing ideas in his prairie permaculture experiment at VersaLand Farm. Tune in to hear Grant’s opinions on starting a farm, and why he thinks that legislation is only one consideration for beginning farmers. Hear about some of Grant’s farm hacks, and learn about Iowa’s young farmer culture. This episode has been brought to you by White Oak Pastures. “I’m so against depending on policy and depending on the FDA…you can’t let it be a limitation on your beliefs and the things you choose to do.” — Grant Schultz on Greenhorn Radio