With the growth in popularity around permaculture and food forests, even people without access to their own land are looking into opportunities to come together and create beautiful edible landscapes that everyone can access on public land. Enter community orchards or food forests. These are increasingly being grown on abandoned […]
Since last year much of my work with Climate Farmers has been in building the European farmer community and creating connections so that members can learn from each other.聽 I admittedly don鈥檛 have a lot of prior experience with this so I went looking for experienced and successful community builders […]
The mindset required to find and purchase the land and home that my partner and I are now living in is not the same mindset required to develop and invest in the long term journey of being here. This has become obvious to me as new opportunities and collaborations come […]
Welcome to a very special episode. For the first time on this show I’ve given the mic over to the participants on my regenerative design course and told them they can ask me anything. This was completely unplanned and came out of some of the many amazing conversations with the […]
Today is the last episode of the series on building community. Though there remains so much to say on this subject, I wanted to wrap up this endlessly complex and nuanced topic with a discussion about the challenges and learning of integrating into a foreign community. I have a lot […]
As we come to the end of this series on building strong communities, I wanted to revisit one of the most impactful conversations I had from last season. Last year you may remember that I released an 11 episode series of expert panels focused on various aspects of regenerative agriculture. […]
Over the last decade I鈥檝e begun to see a subcategory of permaculture learning start to gain attention. As more and more people encounter the principles of this ecological design framework and experiment with different ways of applying it in their lives there鈥檚 been an emergence of social permaculture to integrate […]
In today鈥檚 episode I鈥檓 going to bring us back to an aspect of strengthening community that I first began to explore in this series with David Holmgren and Charles Marhon. Back then we looked deeply into how suburbs and towns can work at a foundational level to regenerate their communities […]
Today I want to build on the focus of last week鈥檚 episode with Morag Gamble in which we explored the challenges and opportunities for environmental and societal regeneration in refugee communities. One of the people that Morag mentioned in the interview who is also pioneering regenerative work with refugee communities […]
