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Tater Biggums Is HERE
If you’re seeing this in your podcast feed it means our first child has either arrived or is very nearly earthside! Sammy and I greatly appreciate your thoughts, prayers, and good vibes in this time. The podcast will be on an indefinite (though hopefully relatively short) break, while we welcome our first child into the…
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Floating Wetland Gardens In Pantry Ponds For Resilience, Function and Yield Stacking ~Epi-079
Floating wetlands are a “new” old technology that is well worth looking into if you are doing aquaculture at just about any scale – from small backyard tanks a few hundred gallons in size, on up to multi-acre ponds and lakes. Floating wetlands take the essential functions provided by wetlands and concentrated them into a…
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Opt In To Nature To Opt Out Of The System(s) ~Epi-078
What do we mean when we say we want to “opt out” of the system? Firstly, it’s the system(s) – the means of production, transport, communication, value transmission etc that we have to interface with to acquire the things we need to live in the modern world. In general, the further the distance a product…
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Designing For LIGHT At Every Level – Patterns For Incorporating Natural Light Into The Built Environment ~Epi-077
Light is an essential human nutrient. So much of our modern built environment is built without regard to orienting and integrating natural light, and our health – physical, mental, spiritual, emotional and communal – suffers for it. The good news is that you can design your structures (or retrofit them) to bring natural light back…
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Zone 0 Pattern Language Fundamentals – Designing Your Permaculture Kitchen ~Epi-076
Join me today as we discuss designing functional kitchen spaces that people want to be in. Lots of people are inheriting kitchens designed more for magazine covers than for function – and where there is a lack of function there is a concommitant increase in friction, which means more stress and less joy. Kitchens are the…
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Building Freedom And Community In The REAL Private Sector – Real World Applications For Private Membership Associations with Joshua Longbrook ~Epi-075
Today I interview Joshua Longbrook on real world applications of Private Membership Associations for creating systems of support – i.e. the parallel society – outside the jurisdiction of the public (State dominated) sphere. We’ll cover what PMAs are, what protections they do and do not offer, how they are best utilized as extensions of a…
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Sovereign Water – Spring Development Basics ~Epi-074
Today’s show is for those of you lucky enough to have a spring on your property. We will cover the basics of spring morphology and function – including the way I really think they work vs. what the textbooks say – and then we’ll go over basic spring assessment criteria, and the main components of spring…