Wow, that sure happened fast. Just a couple weeks ago we were all going about our days like normal and now a whole lot of us are confined to our homes. All of a sudden our little apartments, condos, and houses, which were always small, sure seem a lot smaller […]
Todayās guest, NIcholas Burtner, is a permaculture designer, consultant and educator through his organization The School of Permaculture. I caught Nicholas in a good moment for this interview because like many of us heās in a period of transition with his family in which they are looking to move to […]
My guest today is someone Iāve followed and looked up to since I first began to learn about permaculture and homesteading. Ben Falk is not only a badass homesteader and self-sufficiency pioneer, heās also an accomplished designer and consultant, primarily through his company Whole Systems Design. For years Iāve even […]
Continuing with our ongoing series on homesteading I wanted to talk to someone with a bit more of a similar experience to my own. More than once now Iāve found myself in a new country and starting to build a permaculture inspired, self-sufficient, homestead lifestyle. There are a lot of […]
In the first half of this interview I spoke with Pam Dawling, the author of āThe Year-Round Hoop House” about the most important information about siting, building, irrigating and soil care for extending crop growing in hoop houses. I tap in to Pamās extensive knowledge of feeding 100 people in […]
Continuing with this ongoing series on homesteading, I reached out to Deborah Niemann, the author of many books including āHomegrown and Handmade, Eco-thrifty, Just Kidding and Raising Goats Naturallyā which is now in its second edition. She also blogs at thriftyhomesteader.com, hosts the podcast āFor the love of goats’ ‘ […]
In the past Iāve done a lot of episodes focusing on specific skills and enterprises that people integrate into a regenerative lifestyle, but in this series Iām going to be speaking with people whoāve put a bunch of those pieces together into a lifestyle centered on positive interactions with nature […]
Welcome everyone to the first episode of a brand new season of the Abundant Edge podcast. I canāt believe Iām starting the fourth year of this little pet project that I had three years ago after I had just moved to Guatemala and was wrapping up an internship on bamboo […]
Continuing with this monthās focus on fixing the food system, I wanted to go back to basics and discuss the practicalities and challenges of growing your own food with just a modest sized yard. I reached out to Crystal StevensĀ who is an author, an artist/art teacher, a folk herbalist, a […]
