Category: Livelihood + Investment

Slöjd & Green Woodworking

Learn about green woodworking for carving spoons, turning bowls and more from voices like Jögge Sundquist, Jarrod Dahl, Ben Law, Barn the Spoon, Robin Wood & Sylva Spoon.

Whole Systems Design + Buckminster Fuller

In this episode, I am highlighting the interdisciplinary work of Buckminster Fuller and his emphasis on whole systems design. His approach of doing more with less has had a huge impact on folks both within and outside of Permaculture Design practice – including myself long before I heard the word Permaculture, I learned about Bucky Fuller, Geodesic domes, the Whole Earth Catalog and the whole systems design movement of the early & mid 20th Century.

Cultivating Common Ground with Scott Haase

Scott is actively cultivating a common ground between the world of large-scale industrial agriculture and small-scale Permaculture & Agroforestry. His mission is harnessing Nature’s wisdom and power in ways that serve people while restoring the diversity, abundance, and synergies to degraded ecosystems.

Suburban Landscape Revival with Dustin Braun

In this conversation, we talk about Dustin’s journey learning & applying Permaculture design towards his suburban homestead for his young family, starting a ecological landscape consultancy, community focused projects and Permaculture design in everyday lifestyle.

Slow Flowers + Bioregional Business with Christine Hoffman

In this show, I talk with Christine about her work as a connector and storyteller in growing a bioregional, place-based business around sustainable flowers. She connects local farmers to a market of designers like herself that begin cultivating an awareness of some incredible benefits of sourcing locally in their work. We have enjoyed her work and story since we met many years back when we were vendors at the same farmer’s market together.

Resilient Homesteading + Homeschooling with Heidi Madsen

Heidi is a friend and mentor of ours who cultivates a homestead and nature-connected lifestyle with her family at Bluebird Hill Homestead, “where people come to breathe a deep sigh of relief and let their spirits shine!” Listen to her journey of transformation and resilience…