Permaculture Salad

Looking for a PDC in Colorado? This one is shaping up nicely. Awesome instructors with loads of experience with all sorts of specialty areas. I had a wonderful time talking with them, and hope to have them on for solo interviews in the future. Links http://rockiesedge.com/ – PDC – Elevate your awareness. http://boulderbeet.com/ – Kristin Alexander – What’s […]

In this episode Scott discusses the pedagogy of Permaculture and how stellar of a teacher Bill Mollison was. Some of the subjects we hit are: How A few days into the class we can see that people seem to pass the threshold of plausible deniability. John Taylor Gatto – Dumbing Us Down How permaculture self […]

In this episode, Scott and I cover a lot of territory in slightly under 30 minutes or recording. Scott gives some criticisms of the recent Cuban IPC and Jordan IPC, and shares some hopes for future IPCs. We also start discussing the Permaculture Institute’s Diplomat program and why it is going to be important for […]

In this shorter podcast (~ 40 minutes) Eden and I speak about his work at Aspen T.R.E.E. in Aspen, Colorado.  Eden is the Founder and Executive Director of Aspen Tree. Here is their mission and vision statement. OUR MISSION IS TO… Empower Youth and Build Community with Solution-Oreinted Education that connects People to Place, inspiring […]

While visiting Scott Pittman at his home in New Mexico, we spoke about the history of Permaculture and how standards in Permaculture education have been a constant part of the dialog between Permaculture educators. Some people are teaching PDCs that have less than 72 contact hours, and we should really be discussing if this is […]

Nate Ayers and I get into all sorts of great subject areas in this interview. We talk about his design and research firm Chiwara Permaculture, His recently completed project in Highland Park adjacent to Detroit. This site is next to where Henry Ford built the first Model T factories. We discuss post-industrial Permaculture design, and […]

This episode features Permaculturalist Faan Rossouw who studied under Geoff Lawton recently in Australia. We spoke while Faan was in Peru awaiting travel to Quebec to study at McGill University. We speak at length about the intersection of Ecology, Permaculture and Shamanic medicines. The Paititi Institute for the Preservation of the Amazon Rainforest & Indigenous […]

This episode of the show feature Peter Bane speaking at the Grow Haus in Denver on June 27 2013. He discusses the need for permaculture design, the biophysical limits making permaculture more important, and how to take action to become more self-reliant and resilient to the coming changes predicted by Peter and others in the […]

Today on the show we have Jason Gerhardt, a permaculture designer and teacher currently based out of Naropa University in Boulder, CO. The show released on June 28th 2013. The interview was recorded on June 25th at Naropa University. Here is a short biography of Jason from the Naropa website. Jason Gerhardt has been applying permaculture design […]

Creighton and I speak about his stay at the Bullock Brothers farm in the San Juan islands, his work on a recently installed Climate Battery Greenhouse in Morrison, Colorado, CRMPI and a fantastic highway restoration project that was featured in Permaculture Activist. The audio quality of my microphone in this interview is very bad, and […]

Welcome back. Episode 3 is here featuring Scotty Kellogg. A short episode but packed with info about his upcoming book tentatively titled “Your City as an Ecosystem”. Scott co-wrote the book Toolbox for Sustainable City Living with Stacey Pettigrew. He did a substantial amount of work with the Rhizome Collective in Austin Texas. Now located […]

Permaculture Salad Podcast Episode #2 featuring Laura Ruby of Yummy Yards. Download

An interview with Adam Brock – COO of the Grow Haus in Denver.http://bit.ly/W8xOH7 This is the first episode of The Permaculture Salad Podcast. Enjoy! GrowHaus