As Within So Without ~Epi-071
As within so without. If we want to see changes in our external world (i.e. regenerating landscapes and ecosystems), we have to first address our internal state. The older I get and the more I learn, the less I can say I know for sure. This, though, is one of those things that I’ve arrived…
Adaptive vs. Prescriptive Management For Homesteads And Lifestyle Design ~Epi-070
Adaptive Management: Observation-driven management for constantly increasing resilience and ecosystem function by employing planned, purposeful disruption. Prescriptive Management: Labeling your observations so that you can look up a prescription that fits that label. This is a much more myopic way of managing a landscape, as you’re automatically confining yourself to pre-existing solutions for truly unique problems…
The 4 R’s Of Regenerative Hydrology
Abundant water for ourselves and future generations is achievable. A change in mindset from the dominant water scarcity paradigm to a regenerative water abundance paradigm is required. Following this, we have merely but to apply appropriate techniques to completely and utterly transform our private and shared landscapes. We can do this by designing and implementing…
The 7th Generation Principle – Designing Ecosystems For Continuity Across Generations
Cover image credit: Schowdhuri, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons This post details a working principle I’ve been refining since I first published it back in 2014. The guiding statement and ensuing question that led to the development of this principle is this: Humans have at various times and places throughout our history lived…
Sovereign Food Systems – Pantry Ponds ~ Epi-59
Today we look at another Sovereign Food System – what I’m calling the Pantry Pond. Basically a homestead-scale aquaculture system designed to maximize your food sovereignty via independence from the centralized systems of supply and distribution for any of the inputs required to grow what you want to grow – fish, aquatic vegetables, crawfish, shrimp,…
Sovereign Food Systems – Perennial Protein From Silvopasture Meat Forests ~Epi-58
In today’s show we are talking about creating Sovereign Food Systems. I think this will be a series, or at least a collection of episodes, each one focused on a different type of sovereign food system that can be applied at a variety of scales across a broad range of contexts. Basically, a sovereign food…
Cynefin: A Sense-Making Framework
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044 – Greg Judy Grazing School
In today’s episode we re-cap the takeaways from the 2-day grazing school I attended at Greg Judy’s Green Pastures Farm in Clark, Missouri. The school was awesome, with great instruction from Greg and his co-instructor Abram Bowerman of Still Waters Farm in Spickard, MO. Intensively managed ruminant livestock are the tool for building soil rapidly, at…
Homesteading Is Carbon Positive…And That’s A Good Thing ~Epi-021
I’m tired of the term “carbon negative” being used to greenwash products, companies and habits of consumption. Wearing the label of “carbon negative” is not a virtue. In most cases, the way in which something is measured to be “carbon negative” is highly suspect, and pretty much completely unverifiable by anyone actually using or purchasing…
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.
