008 – Why You Should Start Planting Trees On Your Homestead Yesterday
In today’s show we cover some of the amazing gifts and benefits that trees can provide to your homestead and larger landscape, including: Trees are the ultimate alchemists – creating stored sunlight Trees are energy translators – between the surface world and the subsurface world Trees are hydraulic engineers – they bank water for hard…
007 – High Value Livestock Fodder Trees For Temperate Climates
Today we are talking about livestock fodder trees and why, if you’re raising livestock and want to continue eating high-quality meat and animal products in a time when livestock are being demonized as the cause of all things bad…you’d be wise to start growing and diversifying your feed inputs for your animals. Fodder trees produce…
Light, Water, Soil & Life – The 4 Pillars Of A Productive And Profitable Homestead
4 universal homestead productivity leverage points: Light, Water, Soil and Life. Each is present everywhere on the terra firma of planet Earth. Each represents a foundational ecosystem process that can be managed at the homestead level to maximize production, profit, resilience and enjoyment.
004 – The Minimum Holistic Goal: Essential Homestead Design Tool
In today’s show we cover… What a Minimum Holistic Goal is and WHY its important to create one The three distinct parts of the MHG, their functions and how to create them, HOW to actually USE and LEVERAGE your MHG with the 7 Decision Tests for applying your MHG in real-life and in real-time to…
High-Value Livestock Fodder Trees For Temperate Climates
Fodder trees are trees that produce vegetation that is highly palatable and nutritious for livestock. Using trees for fodder – either as direct browse, cut and carry, chop and drop, or in the making of ensilage or tree hay – is a profitable way to increase yields by stacking productive elements vertically, while improving animal…
TSH-003: How To Identify & Avoid Making Type 1 Errors In Homestead Design
In this week’s show we dive into the ugly world of Type 1 Errors – those fundamental errors in design or implementation of a homestead that will cost you time, money and energy for as long as they exist – the things that if done wrong at the outset, make it nigh impossible to get…
TSHP-002: The Prime Directive, 3 Ethics and 12 Foundational Principles of Permaculture As Sovereign Homestead Design Tools
Permaculture is a design system based on natural systems and how they function. The Permaculture Prime Directive – on page 1 in the Designer’s Manual, is as follows: “The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children. Make it now.” The Prime Directive is often forgotten but…
