Podcast 254 – Land update: pooper, well, fencing
Credit: Summary prepared by Marianne Cooper This is the perfect early morning breakfast podcast as there's mouthwatering discussion about huckleberry pie (a member of the blueberry family) with Paul,...
View ArticlePodcast 255 – Land update part 2
Credit: Summary prepared by Susan Noyes This is a land update where Paul discusses with Ryan and Jesse things that were done this week: setting up a second tipi, conversations about a well, pooper,...
View ArticlePodcast 256 – Paul’s Community
Credit: Marianne Cooper Paul and Jocelyn are driving across Washington State Desert. The perfect time for a podcast. People are physically moving to the Base Camp including Paul's brother. Progress is...
View ArticlePodcast 259 – Update from The Laboratory
Credit: Sally Chang Five people and five days at the lab. Getting Paul caught up on progress, sightings and other less interesting stuff. First on the list is the POOPER: there are concerns about the...
View ArticlePodcast 260 – Homestead Butchering Q&A
Credit: Mike Ewing In this podcast, Paul interviews Brandon Sheard the Farmstead Meatsmith on homestead butchering, taking his questions from those posted by Permies.com readers in this thread. The...
View ArticlePodcast 261- Residual Income Streams
Paul and Jocelyn talk about Residual income streams, and touch on the Rocket Mass Heater DVDs - Physical DVDs or Streaming and also the Kickstarter for the Permaculture playing cards. Perma-Finances Or...
View ArticlePodcast 263 – Updates from the lab part 1 – rocket mass heater, showers, poopers
Credit: Rob Young Paul begins this podcast by explaining the lack of new podcasts and an update on the work that has been going on. A 3 day "rest" period from work was decided to heal up since everyone...
View ArticlePodcast 265 – Updates from the lab part 3 – Tools, volunteers, and homestead...
Credit: Kevin Murphy and Marianne Cooper Paul discusses seed balls, planting of perennials, berms and hugelkultur beds planned for winter. The solar electric sawmill is doing well; electric chainsaws...
View ArticlePodcast 268 – Rocket Mass Heater Update Part 2
Credit: Mike Ewing This is part two of a two part podcast in which Paul chats with Paco Wenzel, Zach Weiss, Derek Weiss, and Tony Ayuba, the folks who came out to work on the various winter rocket mass...
View ArticlePodcast 271 – Rocket Mass Heater Shippable Core Update
Paul and Erica discuss shippable cores along with work done at the tipi. One of the days during the workshop included flooding the tipi with heat because the mass was frozen, frozen rock solid. The...
View ArticlePodcast 273 – Earthworks DVD Set
Come walk with Paul and Jocelyn through the snow (the VERY crunchy snow) up at the laboratory! Jocelyn wants to walk, and Paul is willing, if they also create a new podcast while they walk. If people...
View ArticlePodcast 274 – Earthworks DVD Set Part 2
It's been three weeks, time for another walking/talking podcast with Paul and Jocelyn! Somehow 14 inches of snow isn't nearly as CRUNCHY as last time. Jocelyn's arm is still in a cast, and she's not...
View Article288 – Update from Wheaton Laboratories Part 1
Lunch time at Base camp is the setting for this podcast with Paul and the group (PB, Emily, Oliver and Sam) discussing life and projects going on at the wheaton laboratories. Peaceful Valley Farm...
View Article289 – Update from Wheaton Laboratories Part 2
Podcast 289 begins with a synopsis of future workshops. Please see links for full information as they all offer some different time frames. cost , etc. There is still room for all workshops. The...
View Article293 – Solar Powered Homestead Part 1
In this podcast, Paul, Rick, Jason, Steve Heckeroth, and Stuart Davis summarize the week long solar workshop that just took place at the laboratory. Paul starts off by talking about the skiddable bee...
View Article294 – Solar Powered Homestead Part 2
In Podcast 294 Paul, Rick, Jason, Steve Heckeroth, and Stuart Davis continue their review of the solar workshop. They begin by noting the power of one image on Steve’s presentation that demonstrated...
View Article295 – Solar Powered Homestead Part 3
In podcast 295 Paul, Rick, Jason, Steve Heckeroth, and Stuart Davis continue talking about the projects they experimented with at the solar workshop. They began by discussing their time spent with...
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348 – Permaculture Millionaire
Paul wrote a post as a reaction to an article in the Huffington Post about permaculture. It is the story of Gert and Ferd. Ferd commutes to work, buys all his food, buys all his entertainment and has...
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360 – Tim Barker on what a PDC is – Part 1
Paul talks with Tim Barker about the upcoming Homesteader PDC (Permaculture Design Course) that will be held at Wheaton Lab near Missoula, Montana from Sunday, May 28th through Saturday June 10th,...
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361 – Tim Barker on what a PDC is – Part 2
This is part 2 of a 2 part podcast. Paul and Tim Barker continue to talk about the plans for the 2017 PDC from May 28 to June 10. There will be 91 hours of instruction, more than the usual 72 hours,...
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372 – Well
Today's podcast is about rural wells and fixing things yourself. It's Paul talking to Fred about the prolonged adventure of repairing the well down at basecamp when it stopped functioning a few weeks...
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377 – Dealing with community drama – part 1
Paul and Jocelyn address some intentional community 3.0 issues. Paul agrees with Bill Mollison that in permaculture, we need to replace petroleum with people. Paul's goal is to find a model that will...
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379 – Dealing with community drama – part 3
Paul and Jocelyn continue to address some intentional community 3.0 issues. They start off with the last 2 concerns the Ants formulated: written rental agreement and not being allowed to commute to a...
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380 – Dealing with community drama – part 4
Paul and Jocelyn continue to address some intentional community 3.0 issues. They start off by addressing the claim that they were locking a “historically” public road, which was proven by local...
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381 – Heating with less wood – part 1
In this podcast, Paul and Jocelyn talk about how they heated their home with only 0.6 cords of wood. They take the rocket mass heater in the Fisher Price house as a case study. It is December in...
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382 – Heating with less wood – part 2
In this episode Paul and Jocelyn continue their talk about how they heated their house with 0.6 cord of wood. They talk about the things that contributed to them using more wood than would have...
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383 – Uncle Mud – part 1
Paul talks to Chris McClellan aka Uncle Mud about Rocket Mass heaters. Chris was one of the innovators at the Innovators Event and will also run the appropriate technology course Jul. 9th - Jul. 20th...
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385 – Uncle Mud – part 3
Paul continues his conversation with Chris McClellan aka Uncle Mud about Rocket Mass heaters. They start this podcast talking about the Minnie Mouse, who now lives in the Love Shack. She’s a rocket...
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386 – Wheaton Labs Goals – part 1
In this podcast, Paul and Jocelyn go over their long term goals and fantasies about what can happen at Wheaton Laboratories https://permies.com/f/102/labs (The Lab and Basecamp) over the next several...
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387 – Wheaton Labs Goals – part 2
This is part two of the podcast where Paul and Jocelyn are speaking about their wish list for the property. The first thing they talk about is the chateau de Poo, which is a beautiful... outhouse. It...
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