

The Permaculture Podcast
Scott Mann
Caring for Earth, Ourselves, and Each Other.
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Aug 8, 2020 • 44min
John Kempf - Improving Broadscale Agriculture
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My guest today is John Kempf, the author of the recently released Quality Agriculture. A farmer, teacher, and entrepreneur from Northeast, Ohio, John has spent more than 15 years developing a nutrition and farm management program that quickly restores soil health and maximizes plant resistance to disease and insects, while reducing costs and increasing profits for farmers who adopt these methods. Already applying these processes to millions of acres of farmland, his current mission is for these regenerative models to become adopted globally by 2040.
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Jul 11, 2020 • 48min
Rony Lec - Mesoamerican Permaculture Institute
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My guest today is Rony Lec of the Mesoamerican Permaculture Institute (Instituto Mesoamericano de Permacultura – IMAP) in Guatemala.
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Jul 4, 2020 • 53min
Delvin Solkinson - Empowering Permaculture
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Over the last two decades, my guest Delvin Solkinson studied permaculture education all over the world by taking numerous permaculture design courses and teacher trainings, as well as completing multiple diplomas, with various teachers. Some of his mentors include Bill Mollison, April Sampson-Kelly, and Rosemary Morrow. From those years of experience, he works to make this knowledge more accessible for students, easier to teach for instructors, and empowering for everyone, by sharing his notes in an open-source approach to permaculture.
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Jun 27, 2020 • 49min
Erin Axelrod - The Next Economy
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My guest today is Erin Axelrod, partner and worker/owner at LIFT Economy. She joins me to discuss how LIFT Economy is working to repatriate land, resolve housing issues, and create socially responsible businesses by investing in and providing support to women, indigenous, and people of color lead organizations. Using her years of experience as a framework, Erin provides multiple specific examples of what this work looks like in practice, what we can do to steer our economy towards regenerative businesses, and to heal our relationship with money.
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Jun 20, 2020 • 38min
Kai Sawyer - Peace, Permaculture, and The Gift
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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
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Jun 13, 2020 • 48min
Nathan Carlos Rupley - Plants as People Care
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My guest today is Nathan Carlos Rupley. A member of my local permaculture community, he spends his time as a stay at home dad, self employed-artist, and aspiring hunter-gatherer.
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Jun 13, 2020 • 39min
Rob Hopkins - The Transition Town Movement
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My guest for this episode is Rob Hopkins the creator of the idea of Transition Towns, a way for us to move from oil dependency to local resilience. That lead to his writing The Transition Handbook, something every permaculture practitioner should have in their library and which serves as a good introduction, along with Toby Hemenway’s The Permaculture City, to look at how we can move from the landscape to the people space.
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Jun 6, 2020 • 56min
Planning for Future Generations
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In today’s episode, David Bilbrey returns to the host seat with Fred Kirschenmann. Fred joins us again to share more about his work at the Aldo Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University and Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture and how those two places are working to allow us to plan not only for the world we have now but also for our descendants. The solutions come in multiple forms, from the ways we can use plants in our fields to increase yields while regenerating soil, and the cultural changes that are coming as the children and grandchildren of the Baby Boomer generation reject consumerism and focus on a more community-centered life.
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Jun 2, 2020 • 4min
Returning to Permaculture Full-Time
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After spending more than a year and a half balancing family; a day job; and the work of permaculture education, I’m returning to teaching and producing The Permaculture Podcast full-time as of the release of this episode. With this announcement comes a number of updates on what’s happening with the show and behind the scenes.
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May 27, 2020 • 1min
Have you found yourself in The Permaculture Pit?
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This weekend I was talking with a friend in the permaculture community when we realized we'd had the same experience.
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