Podcast – Page 5 – Regenerative Skills

Reflecting on the journey and my learnings after 300 episodes

Welcome to a very special episode of the regenerative skills podcast. This is the 300th episode that I am publishing today, and to make the occasion I wanted to try something new. At this point the show has grown immensely from where I started it and I would imagine that most of you who are tuned in now haven’t been here since the beginning. For that reason I’m going to revisit the origins of this show and explain the context in which this podcast was started, how it’s evolved along with my own personal journey, and bring you up to […]

Design

William Horvath helps build effective processes for farms and homesteads

Today’s episode touches on a very timely topic for me. I’m currently developing a program to assist European farmers in their transition to regenerative management of their farms, and the big challenge is to make a program that is relevant for the vast array and contexts and differences that farmers across this continent are working from. No set of information is appropriate. No one teaching style is going to connect with everyone. Even the regulatory frameworks and incentive structures can vary a lot.I’ve long since observed this as an obstacle for design frameworks like permaculture which have a solid foundation […]

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A new formula for integral and long lasting development work, with Daillen Culver and Leilani Yats

Today’s episode is going to require some context for anyone who’s not familiar with the origin of this show. Back in 2017 when I started this podcast I was doing an internship with my friend and mentor Charlie Rendal on bamboo building in Lake Atitlan Guatemala. I had been traveling back and forth from Guatemala for a number of years. I had originally gone down there with a friend to learn Spanish and I ended up coming back for years to see friends and just because I love that country.In my time there it was impossible not to get connected […]

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Mark Shepard’s field manual for hydrological restoration on any farm.

Since the three part series that Nick and I recorded about the vast array of drought mitigation and recovery solutions for people in different living situations we’ve gotten a lot of follow up questions from listeners who want to go deeper into this subject. Luckily one of my friends and mentors who’s had an outsized influence on my educational journey and inspiration to work with farmers and land managers in helping them to make the most of the water resources has just come out with a new book. Many of you know Mark Shepard for his seminal book, Restoration Agriculture, […]

Health

A holistic look at physical health and well-being with Crystal Honeycutt. Part 2

Just checking in while still on a short holiday. I just dropped my mom off at the airport at about 3 yesterday morning after a wonderful week of her visiting us, my sister, and her girls at the farm. It’s been such a blessing to have almost all my favorite women under the same roof for a time. My family is scattered all across the world, so these moments when a number of us can be together is really precious to me, and a big motivation of why Alba and I moved out here to begin with. Though we only […]

Regenerative living

A holistic look at physical health and well-being with Crystal Honeycutt

Over the next two weeks I’m going to be taking some much needed recharge time with my family here on the farm. I’ve got my little sister Emily here and her three little girls Selma, Rawan, and Lujane who came from Kuwait city to spend the summer with us, and my mom who just arrived on Wednesday who will be spending a week with us. We’ve got outdoor education time around the farm (which we call Jungle School), a number of fairs and local festivals in the area we’re going too, and a lot of good food to indulge in […]

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Neal Collins on designing health, community, and connection into our built environments

I’m very happy to bring you another episode in the non-linear series on holistic health. In previous episodes we talked about whole food nutrition with Richard Perkins, and reaching your peak performance with Dr Gerrit Keferstein, and today we’re going to take a look at the role that our built environment can play in facilitating health and interconnection. Those of you who’ve been listening for a long time will remember that this topic is very close to my heart. I started out in Natural Building before ecological design and I was fascinated by the potential of creating living spaces that […]

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Drought: Part 3. Mitigation strategies for large and regional scale projects.

Welcome to the final episode in mine and Nick’s 3 part series on drought. In the first episode we talked about how drought was affecting our two homes at the moment. His home on the island of Tenerife, and my own in Northeastern Spain. We went over the definition of drought and some common myths and misconceptions, as well as the major factors that can make drought more common and severe. In the second episode we turned to look at the myriad of options that are available to mitigate and even reverse the effects of drought focusing first on the […]

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Drought: Part 2. Solutions and opportunities for small and medium scale.

Continuing with our deep dive into drought, my good friend Nick Steiner and I are going to move now from defining drought and the its myriad of causes and factors that make it worse, to a wide range of solutions and opportunities available to people who are living in different environments and with different access to land and space. You may not be surprised to hear that we ended up running long and so I split the episode into two parts. In this session we cover mostly the order of consideration for a retrofit of a home or even a […]

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Drought: Part 1. The myths, misconceptions, and causes

It’s that time again. In todays’ regenerative round table, my good friend Nick Steiner and I give updates on our respective projects. Him on the Island of Tenerife and myself in the mountains of central Catalunya in Spain. In the update we talk about some of the challenges we’ve been experiencing this year. The big topic at the moment for us, and many other in this area of the world, is drought. Partly because Nick and I live in parts of the world where drought is a common factor we’ve been researching it for some time. In this episode we’ll […]