My guest today, Ziggy Liloia from āthe year of mudā has been building naturally and blogging about his experiences for a decade since he started with a small cob cottage, just over 200 sq ft at an ecovillage in Missouri back in 2008. Since then he has explored many other […]
Rammed earth is one of the earthen building techniques that I personally have the least experience with, but since it has been steadily growing in popularity around the world for its beauty and durability I reached out to April Magill of Root Down Designs to find out more about how […]
Welcome back to the regenerative round table. Today Neal and Oliver are joined by “Bamboo” Charlie Rendall, natural builder and founder of Return to the Forest as we talk in depth about new developments and progress on the Abundant Edge farm (aka Finca Tz’ikin). We recently had a new drainage […]
This is an interview Iāve been looking forward to for a while now. I was fortunate enough to speak with two guests from opposite ends of the spectrum of permaculture learning. The first, Geoff Lawton, one of the original students of Bill Mollison and a permaculture designer and teacher for […]
Welcome to part two of the Abundant Edge design criteria checklist. If you’re just tuning in now for the first time, I would recommend that you have a listen first to part one where we covered the goal and visioning exercise and the site analysis portion of our design criteria. […]
The biggest challenge for our team here at Abundant Edge when it comes to holistic design is that there are just so many considerations. Climate and landscape data, clientās wants and needs, economic constraints and many more can seem overwhelming but are crucial to creating designs that work in harmony […]
Here we are once again to talk about the progress, projects and challenges of building the Abundant Edge homestead. On this episode Neal and I are also joined by our good friend Tim Reher. Owner of Shangrila Coffee Roasters in San Marcos just one town over from us here on […]
I try to keep my fingers on the pulse of whats going on in the world of permaculture, natural building and regenerative living, since after all thatās the focus of this podcast, and as a result I find tons of inspiring projects and designers doing ground-breaking work around the world. […]
This was an opportunity from a few months ago that I just couldn’t pass up. Two of my best friends and mentors in the world of permaculture, Shad Qudsi and Zach Loeks, came together to teach a Permaculture Design Certification course and we got to sit down in the middle […]
