Podcasts about permaculture artisans

On this week's Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, puts down his shovel for a life-affirming conversation with Erik Ohlsen, Regenerative Designer, Educator & Author of new book “The Regenerative Landscaper: Design and Build Landscapes That Repair the Environment.” Erik is a master of regenerative design, an internationally recognized Permaculture teacher, a landscape contractor, author, farmer, herbalist, storyteller, and practitioner of Nordic folk traditions. Learn more at http://erikohlsen.com Erik has founded numerous organizations that regenerate ecosystems including his award winning design and build firm Permaculture Artisans and The Permaculture Skills Center where thousands of students around the world learn ecological landscaping and regenerative agriculture. Find out more at http://permacultureartisans.com Our conversation explores how we can all become producers and not just consumers. Learn what regenerative design is and how engaging in it can be the best treatment for those suffering from climate anxiety. Find out what makes soil healthy and what's the connection to healthy food; how fungi and plants can be used to repair damaged soils; why the debate between native vs. exotic plants doesn't have to be so black and white; and how the lawn has become one of the greatest problems in the country. As always, our feature is followed by your community action calendar for the week, so get your calendars out and get ready to take action for sustainability NOW! Sustainability Now! is hosted by Dr. Justin Mog and airs on Forward Radio, 106.5fm, WFMP-LP Louisville, every Monday at 6pm and repeats Tuesdays at 12am and 10am. Find us at http://forwardradio.org The music in this podcast is courtesy of the local band Appalatin and is used by permission. Explore their delightful music at http://appalatin.com

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In this episode of Sense-Making in a Changing World I am delighted to be speaking with Erik Ohlsen - a well-known, successful and much-loved Sonoma-based ecological designer, permaculture practitioner, educator, author, regenerative entrepreneur who runs multiple companies deeply grounded in a love of nature and based on permaculture ethics and principles. Eric is one of those wonderful people who gets stuff done!!!In this conversation I ask him about how he has grown his wildly successful Permaculture Artisans company that is regenerating landscapes from urban to rural, and even as we spoke in the process of informing the design of a permaculture agrihood. It's a wonderfully inspiring, uplifting and wide ranging conversation - spanning from with his early volunteering projects giving away gardens while cultivating huge social capital and skill development, to his current work, a his legacy book as he calls it, about to be released by Synergetic Press - the MASSIVE 550 page guide  - The Regenerative Landscaper: Design and Build Landscapes that Repair the Environment.This is going to become the go to manual and curriculum for permaculture learners who want to put into practice all they are learning in permaculture courses - it gets right into the nitty gritty and shows how to make it work!Towards the end, I ask Erik about his process of writing and feel entirely liberated in how I can now set about writing too. Executive Director: Permaculture Skills Center Owner/Principal: Permaculture Artisans Youtube Chanel: PermacultureArtisansSupport the showThis podcast is an initiative of the Permaculture Education Institute.Our way of sharing our love for this planet and for life, is by teaching permaculture teachers who are locally adapting this around the world - finding ways to apply the planet care ethics of earth care, people care and fair share. We host global conversations and learning communities on 6 continents. We teach permaculture teachers, host permaculture courses, host Our Permaculture Life YouTube, and offer free monthly film club and masterclass. We broadcast from a solar powered studio in the midst of a permaculture ecovillage food forest on beautiful Gubbi Gubbi country. I acknowledge this is and always will be Aboriginal land, pay my respects to elders past and present, and extend my respect to indigenous cultures and knowledge systems across the planet. You can also watch Sense-Making in a Changing World on youtube.SUBSCRIBE for notification of each new episode. Please leave us a 5 star REVIEW - it really it does help the bots find and myceliate this show.

In this Episode, I interview Damien MaCanany Luce, Lead Designer at Permaculture Aritisans.  One of the Oldest and Largest Permaculture Landscape Design Build Companies in the US.  We talk Food Forests. Permaculture systems design thinking and how do we integrate individual resilience with macro sustainability. Here is the website for Permaculture Artisans.https://www.permacultureartisans.com/ YouTubeThe Regenerative Homestead https://www.youtube.com/c/TheRegenerativeHomesteadThe Happy Earthling.  YouTube Channelhttps://www.youtube.com/c/TheHappyEarthlingEco Construction and ConsultingLush Planet Design Buildhttps://www.lushplanet.net/CA Lic#934358707-922-4790PodcastEarthBody MindSpiriton Applehttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/earthbody-mindspirit-with-mike-d-stokes/id1447275402On Spotifyhttps://open.spotify.com/show/5dVcjbl3TtSxLK6iQ93831Social MediaInstagram @mikedavidstokesTwitter @MikeDavidStokeslinkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeisstoked/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thehappyearthling/message

Today we're back with Erik Ohlsen, founder of both Permaculture Artisans, one of the preeminent ecological landscaping companies in the US, and the Permaculture Skills center a vocational training school that offers advanced education in ecological design, landscaping, farming, and land stewardship. Erik is also the author of several books including “The Forest of Fire,” Activate Your Joy,” and most recently “The Ecological Landscape Designer” an essential manual for anyone aspiring to make a living in eco- design. Though it's long overdue, I spoke with Erik to get to better understand the intensity of the wildfires that have ravaged California and parts of the western US in recent years, and the factors that caused them. Erik explains how fire can be a regenerative force for the ecology of many forests and how the indigenous people of the western United States have managed fires strategically for thousands of years. We talk about how communities can work together to manage the risks of their ecosystems and avoid the catastrophic damage that fires have caused in previous years. We also explore some of the wisdom and lessons that Erik has learned in more than 20 years running his permaculture landscaping business and the challenges of meeting clients needs while including the holistic health considerations of nature. Like many of the more seasoned and experienced professionals that I've had the pleasure of speaking to on this show, Erik shys away from making specific recommendations for techniques or designs and encourages people to cultivate a deeper understanding of their place and context before making assumptions about how to manage their land or even businesses. This is a great episode for people looking to better understand fire-prone ecologies, but also for people who enjoy the challenge of considering a deeper understanding of their relationship to natural systems in general. Resources: Listen to Erik's first interview with Abundant Edge Erik's website Permaculture Artisans The Permaculture Skills Center Get the book “The Ecological Landscape Designer”

Erik Ohlsen is the director of the Permaculture Skills Center, a vocational training school that offers advanced education in ecological design, landscaping, farming, and land stewardship. Creator of the the Eco-Landscape Mastery School online training program, Erik is also founder of Permaculture Artisans which specializes in design and installation of ecological landscapes and farms throughout California. An internationally renowned, certified permaculture designer and practitioner, Erik has taught ecological landscape design and implementation to thousands of students and clients around the world since 1999. He has special expertise in water harvesting systems, food forest design, and community organizing. His primarily goal is helping people connect deeply with nature and themselves. He resides in Sebastopol, California with his wife Lauren, raising a family, building a homestead and running their businesses. Website: https://erikohlsen.com/ More info: https://www.wilderutopia.com/ecojustice-radio/creating-resilient-ecosystems-regenerating-the-planet-with-erik-ohlsen-ecojustice-radio/ Interview by Carry Kim Produced by Mark Morris Engineering and co-host J.P. Morris Original Music by Javier Kadry Ep. 27

This episode was so great I couldn’t hold it to myself. Erik Ohlsen is here to share his passion and knowledge of permaculture design and how you can start your own business that makes a great profit! It’s completely RAW, no editing at all including our pre-chat but I think you will enjoy it as much as I did and it goes so well after the last two awesome shows with Lee Reich and Susan Harris. Hope you enjoy and please support our patreon campaign if you can. We need your help more then ever to keep the show up on the air. Tell us a little about yourself. Erik Ohlsen director of the  Permaculture Artisans designs (http://www.permacultureartisans.com/) water harvesting systems anything under the sun doing this work since I was 19 Tell me about your first gardening experience? I have 2 answers for that Going out with my Grandma Marie My first gardening experience at 19 years old Tell us about something that grew well this year. I’m looking at an Asian Pear, we are having an asian pear bumper crop, eating too many giving them away as fast as we can. Is there something you would do different next year or want to try/new? One thing,  a lot of what we do are perennial based, a lot of it, a new persimmon that is finally doing well this year. Tell me about something that didn’t work so well this season. One of our big issues here are gophers. Which activity is your least favorite activity to do in the garden? trapping gophers… What is your favorite activity to do in the garden? what I would call chop and drop What is the best gardening advice you have ever received? don’t over think it avoid paralysis by analysis I don’t think there is any better skill a gardener can learn listen to the garden best skill to cultivate A favorite tool that you like to use? If you had to move and could only take one tool with you what would it be? The Rogue hoe. (https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_1_9?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=rogue+hoe&sprefix=rogue+hoe%2Caps%2C194&crid=MN4W32888C4G&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Arogue+hoe) A favorite recipe you like to cook from the garden? OK, so my favorite on my moms side my mom is from Argentia, goes back generations in Argentina, grandfather was born in Italy, my mom perfected is our family: (https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/11693/puttanesca-i/) (https://pfaf.org/user/Default.aspx) A favorite internet resource? Plants for a Future (https://pfaf.org/user/Default.aspx) A favorite book to reccommmend? (https://amzn.to/2wJ6xFF) (https://amzn.to/2wJ6xFF) Final question- if there was one change you would like to see to create a greener world what would it be? For example is there a charity or organization your passionate about or a project you would like to see put into action. What do you feel is the most crucial issue facing our planet in regards to the environment either in your local area or on a national or global scale? Global warming we are seeing the results both from an environmental and a social catastrophe would be a huge WAKE UP call How do we connect with you? (http://permacultureskillscenter.org/erik-ohlsen/) chat box you can click I get those messages people can send me an email (mailto:erik@erikohlsen.com) check out the website let us know if you have any questions or inspiration. Support this podcast

Erik Ohlsen co-founder of Permaculture Artisans and the Permaculture Skills Center has a wealth of knowledge and experience that he shares with us in an incredible podcast on building businesses and community to spread regeneration. Check out the Ecological Landscape Mastery course - start on your landscaping dreams today!! http://erikohlsen.com/eco-landscape-mastery-school/

In this episode I got to interview one of my personal heroes Erik Ohlsen. Now Erik wears a lot of hats, he's the founder and director of both Permaculture Artisans, a landscape and design company, and the Permaculture Skills Center, an amazing trade school based in sepastapol ca. Erik also writes and publishes books for adults and children with his company, Storyscapes. In this interview Erik talks in detail about how he's built synergy and connection into all of his business endeavors. We talk about how he's designed the courses for the permaculture skills center to include mentoring and the profound effect that mentorships have had on his own journey, and we also get into the the skills that aspiring permaculturalists should work to build that aren't necessarily taught in a PDC. This session is chalk full of practical insights and advice For "The Abundant Edge" listeners only, you can now get 50% off your digital subscriptions to Permaculture Magazine North America by entering the code PMNA50abedge at checkout. Get your subscription today and dive deep into the local and global solutions that go beyond sustainability. Listen in at the end of this podcast to find out how you can win your own copy of "The Urban Farmer" from New Society Publishers Resources: http://www.permacultureartisans.com/

Learn more at permaculturevoices.com/135 Support the show at permaculturevoices.com/support Busy versus effective. Two different ways of getting stuff done. Think of busy as the pinball in a pinball machine, a lot of bouncing around randomly, getting some stuff done, but not in the most linear way. Where effective is like the bowling ball headed down the lane, a straight shot targeting a specific pin. Both lead to results, the busy route does a lot more moving per unit of work done. Usually these two routes are mutually exclusive. Busy people aren't effective, and effective people aren't busy. The danger in being a busy body, is just that, you are just busy; you are doing a lot of work, maybe the right work, maybe not, maybe in the right order, maybe not, and the cost of being busy is a loss of time. Whereas the effective person does what they need to do when they need to do it based on the time that they have available and the priority of the task at hand. This saves the effective person time, allowing them to get more done, or just have more free time. Time can be a major constraint for entrepreneurs. You can’t get more of it, and we all only have 24 hours in a day, so using that time effectively is going to determine what your lifestyle looks like. Today I am talking to an entrepreneur who has made shifts in their life to make their time less busy, and more effective. It's Erik Ohslen of Permaculture Artisans.  Erik's been on the show a few times in the past, and if you have heard those shows that you will know that he founded the successful landscape design and build company Permaculture Artisans. In addition to running that company, Erik also is a part of several other businesses, and he's married, and he has kids. How does he make it all work? That's the focus on today's episode. I am going to dig into Erik's new business venture, ForeSite mapping, and the strategy behind that. The second half of the episode will get into how to balance family and business? The key in all of this, is to make effective decisions, so you are less busy with your time. Learn more at permaculturevoices.com/135 Support the show at permaculturevoices.com/support

Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast My guest for this episode is Erik Ohlsen, founder of Permaculture Artisans and co-founder and executive director of Permaculture Skills Center in Sebastopol, California. A previous guest on the show, he joins me today to examine the idea of what it means to gain a permaculture rooted education that takes our practices beyond an introductory level. This leads us to talk about the Ecological Landscape Immersion program taught at PSC, the role of mentoring, the results of Miriam Volat at The Farm School, and we eventually touch on the shortcomings of a Permaculture Design Course for anyone wanting to practice as a professional. Before we begin I'd like to thank the sponsors who, along with listeners, help keep this show going and growing. In addition to Permiekids, the sponsors of the day are 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. As I continue to navigate social permaculture and living in community, the work of Erik, his colleagues, and others like him are important for creating the next generation of landscape oriented permaculture practitioners. The Permaculture Skills Center offers a variety of trainings focused on creating a career for students whether that involves ecologically focused landscaping, regenerative agriculture, or permaculture education. If you are near Sebastopol, California and considering any of these path, these programs are definitely worth investigation. Permaculture Artisans and The Permaculture Skills Center continue to raise the bar of what it means to practice permaculture professionally. Find our more about Erik and his work at permacultureartisans.com and the numerous education offerings, as well as their own blog and podcast, at permacultureskillscenter.org. Along the way if I can assist you, wherever you call home and whatever leg of the journey you are on, get in touch. My phone number is and email is . That email address is also the PayPal address for the show, so if you like what you hear and want to shoot something my way, you can send it to there. Though there are now some sponsors for the show I still couldn't do this without your direct and ongoing support as listener. 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 If you'd like to connect with the show and other listeners, you can also 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 going on a family vacation soon to explore the beaches of Rehobeth, Delaware, and will also be posting pictures of the plants, animals, and other interests from that bioregion on Instragram 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 is Spring into Permaculture. Clear Creek Schoolhouse is hosting this event. 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. Also, unrelated to all things Permaculture, are you a Steampunk? If so I'll be at the Steampunk Worlds Faire May 13-15, 2016, and may be presenting a class on The History of the Sword, focusing on the Renaissance period, or you can probably find me or Photographer John at the Canes Enabled tent in the courtyard of the main hotel. Next up on the docket is the first of the Philadelphia Round Table recordings, followed by an interview on Ghandian Nonviolence with Chris Moore-Backman. Until then, take care of Earth, Your Self, and each other. Sponsors: Your Garden Solution The Good Seed Company PermieKids Resources: Permaculture Skills Center Permaculture Artisans Clear Creek Schoolhouse Mid-Atlantic Permaculture Convergence (Information and Tickets) Connect with the Podcast: On Patreon On Instagram On Facebook On Twitter

Erik Ohlsen will be one of the speakers at PV3 in March 2016.Learn more about PV3 at permaculturevoices.com/pv3. My guest today Erik Ohlsen took a risk when he started his business. And it's a risk that paid off because he has grown that business into a design firm that grosses over $1M a year. But his business, Permaculture Artisans, is one that started small. It started with a $15 an hour job that Erik used as a leverage point to build on. In this episode Erik is going to talk about what it takes to be successful including the importance of being patient, the importance of having a good attitude, and knowing that your work becomes your resume and can open doors. Learn more at permaculturevoices.com/erik.

Learn more about the Permaculture Skills Center & Permaculture Artisans here: http://www.permacultureskillscenter.org/ Erik's Webinar: Webinar this Tuesday TONIGHT, December 15, 5:30-6:30pm PST.... 5 Lessons Learned from Growing a Successful Permaculture Business With Erik Ohlsen Register to attend the webinar: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6974588554357899777

Today's show is another remarkable story of another entrepreneur, a permaculture entrepreneur. It's the story of someone who went from being an anti-money activist to running a $1M permaculture design and build business. A business that catches millions of gallons of water, builds soil on hundreds of acres, plants hundreds of useful trees every year, restores native habit, redesigns our cites our schools and new developments. It is a success story that is 10 years in the making. And one was almost derailed a few times along the way. But just like with Harland Sanders, it was persistence and a strong belief in what he was doing that allowed my guest today, Erik Ohlsen of Permaculture Artisans, to continue his vision and build it into a $1M design business. If you don't think that permaculture based business can be profitable or be big, here's an example of one to change your mind... Learn more at permaculturevoices.com/cd6

This episode is a presentation given by Erik Ohlsen at PV2 in March 2015. Learn real world tools for design and implementation of Permaculture based contracting businesses. Permaculture principles applied to business design. Use the ethics of permaculture as triple bottom line. Create a marketing plan that has a social impact. Imagine being able to make a career out of your passion for Permaculture. Create a business that catches millions of gallons of water, builds soil on hundreds of acres, plants hundreds of useful trees every year, restores native habit, redesigns our cites our schools and new developments. Join Erik Ohlsen, Principal of Permaculture Artisans and Executive Director of The Permaculture Skills Center as he shares tangibles recipes for economically, ecologically and socially just businesses. Show Notes: permaculturevoices.com/106