A Regenerative Future with Matt Powers

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Featured Teachers: Dr. Elaine Ingham of Soil Food Web Inc Darren Doherty of Regrarians Ltd Hilary Kearney of Girl Next Door Honey Erik Ohlsen of The Permaculture Skills Center & Permaculture Artisans John D. Liu of Ecosystem Restoration Camps Joy Beckerman of Hemp Ace International Eddy Garcia of Living Earth Systems Frank Golbeck of Golden Coast Mead Bruce Steel of Winfield Farms Brad Gates of Wild Boar Farms Michael Wittman Only 14 days left to join The Advanced Permaculture Student Online: http://www.thepermaculturestudent.com/join-the-advanced-permaculture-student-online

Show Notes: How will the Advanced Permaculture Certification work? It won’t work like a PDC. It’s not about # of hours you watch a video or listen to lecture or if you can demonstrate learning in a backyard or homestead design on paper. All the instructors, we all want you to LIVE Permaculture inside & outside the garden. It can’t be overnight & we can’t do it ALL alone on a homestead: it has to be a community effort. Have you met folks who are 100% or nearly completely off the grid? They don’t get out much or do much other than work on their homestead. They can’t scale much because they are maintaining so many systems. 
Have you met the inverse? The niche regenerative entrepreneurs? These folks pick a path and master it providing their community with ethical regenerative resources. Jack of all Trades Master of None - I was able to excel in music once I focused on one instrument. Likewise in homesteading, we often stretch ourselves thin and cannot excel at or scale most of our systems. Our Adv Certification process will focus on getting you on the path to making this your life and your living: it works much like a senior project. Make a certification proposal at the end of the course. Get it approved. Present it to the class. Put it into action and report back on your progress. According to your own timelines and metrics for success, you will earn your certification. You’ll have our support, the entire community will be with you every step of the way to answers questions and bounce ideas off of. We have almost 50 teachers now so you get that diversity of point of view: Tour the Real Regenerative Niches that are in The Advanced Permaculture Student Online, learn how to partner with nature at a next level inside and outside the garden. SignUp Now & you can still receive the INCREDIBLE KIckstarter Stretch Goal Bonuses - click the link: it’s wild: http://www.thepermaculturestudent.com/join-the-advanced-permaculture-student-online Thank you so much for your interest in the course. It’s going to be world changing!! I’m Matt Powers. Grow Abundantly, Learn Daily, & Live Regeneratively

How is it that 100% of children tested have lead, PCBs, and more toxic substances in their blood? What can we do to cleanse or protect ourselves? Bruce Lanphear MD of NonToxic Irvine takes us through the history of lead detection, lead poisoning rules, common toxins, and how to cleanse and protect from these toxins as best we can. Join us for an eye-opening interview! Bruce Lanphear at the Children's Health Symposium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=512&v=VsFPZ2r3oUI Little Things Matter: The Impact of Toxins on the Developing Brain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6KoMAbz1Bw Non-Toxic Irvine: http://www.nontoxicirvine.org

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/

Permaculture = Freedom Off the Grid - DIY Energy, Water, Food, Fiber & Medicine Save $, Spend Less, & Get Taxed Less Work less for $, Work more for Holistic Worth Independence => Freedom: US Independence led to Revolution & Freedom Permaculture Relocalizes, Decentralizes Control, & Empowers Individuals, Families, & Communities to be more ethical & FREE Liberate yourself with Permaculture; Find Freedom in Working with Nature. Grow Abundantly, Learn Daily, & Live Regeneratively, Matt Powers

Get some critical insights from university professors Bruce Blumberg of UC Irvine & NonToxic Irvine and Dr. Rattan Lal of OSU. With Bruce Blumberg learn how you can protect yourself and your loved ones while keeping a keen eye out for distractions and misinformation. With Dr. Lal, get introduced to the numbers and science behind carbon sequestration the soils, and how exactly we can accomplish a real draw down.

Why Bother Gardening?

Isn’t it going to be hard to even approach the cost efficiency and quality of store bought products? How can amateurs even compete? Actually, Amateurs lead in terms of growing. Those farmers have to tend acres and acres of food in most instances, so their products don’t get the same amount of individual attention and care. We can improve our soil, plants, and our products much easier because of the size of our systems and the fact that we aren’t making picture perfect foods for a store scenario. A lot of what those farmers grow never makes it to sale - most of their work gets thrown out, not even properly composted and returned to their fields. We always hear about food waste, but think about it from the farmer’s perspective: all that work just to be thrown out? It’s a hard situation and makes it harder for them to care specifically about their crops and plants like home gardeners readily do. You know what I’m talking about: how many times has a gardening friend of yours begged you to come and check out this amazing tree - you’ll never believe the fruit on it this year or you HAVE to taste this! Gardeners have more enthusiasm on average because they know why Gardening is so special. The Top 6 Reasons to Garden this Year Save $$$ on Seed & Food: Grow, Preserve, Seed Save, & Barter Best Taste - Nothing like it in stores Nutrient Density - Eat Less & Stay Full Longer for better digestive health & a longer lifespan Selection Diversity - Grow the rarest foods that stores can’t even hope to carry Light Exercise - may start out with digging but ends with daily walks with a basket Self-Reliance - Confidence, Freedom, Security, & Community Stability Make this the Year you start that Garden or take your Garden to the Next Level!

Why do Patterns even Matter? Why is Permaculture Focused on Pattern Literacy? What is a Pattern? Patterns are things that repeat in a predictable way. My Story: Pattern literacy is both basic and foundational, so if you don’t recognize it readily, you can make grievous errors. For example, in my first garden I placed the rows pointed downhill which in a dry hot climate promotes run off, erosion, drying of the land and overall stress in the garden - I didn’t see the overall pattern and how to interact with it so I couldn’t setup my garden properly. As soon as I began studying Permaculture with Geoff Lawton, I quickly recognized my issue and literally tore up my entire spring garden, reset it, and replanted it. How else could I have shown images of the garden to my classmates in Geoff’s course? I had to do it the right way! What other patterns are they? 
Pests are part of a Pattern - just wait a few days and see if something comes to remove them. If your soil, plants, and system are healthy, something will come to rescue your plants. Whenever a plant is stressed they are either calling for an attack on themselves or a rescue from an attack. Recognizing the signs and patterns of each is vital to managing a garden wisely. There are MANY Patterns - some just seem like Organized Shapes, but even these have purpose. WAVE example - Sound, Light, Vibration. off/on, night/day, winter/summer, heart beats, breathing (chest rises and falls), the rise and fall of land, the meander of streams and rivers (slows the water and increases the life capacity and cycling), waves on the ocean (starting with a hurricane spiral and ending in a spiral), waves of sound, vibration, pleasure pain are all on a spectrum of waves - all viruses and tumors have unique frequencies they resonate at - the Pulse of On Off that makes a wave defines EVERYTHING on this Planet. Day Night. Summer Winter. Male Female. Predator Prey. Good Evil. Tides. Life. Plot/Story. Maybe getting carried away here, BUT You See the Point or the Pattern that is ;) Grow Abundantly, Learn Daily, & Live Regeneratively,
Matt Powers