Despite the overwhelming overproduction of food across the world, food security is becoming a pressing issue for more and more folks living in urban areas due to the many links in the food supply chain. In this episode we’ll get more into his background and story and I hope to line up a future show to get more into the details and strategies to address food security in the city on a community scale.
In this episode, I put together several clips about the ‘Water Wizard’ himself, Viktor Schauberger, who has had a powerful impact on the way permaculturists, engineers, designers, and inventors work with the mysterious and powerful secrets of water and implosive water technology…if this episode inspires anything of you at all, I hope you consider doing as Viktor would do – get outside, be still & enjoy the water…
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.
Koby is one seed saver along a long line of great teachers and breeders before her. She is a Seed Production Manager at Seed Saver’s Exchange in Decorah, Iowa and also leads Seed Sages, a regenerative design & education organization.
They’ve lived together in a camper, built an off-grid tiny house, grown hemp, planted a kitchen garden, built a chickshaw for their chicken flock, connected with the local Amish community, raised livestock…
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.
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.
This is the first episode of our Q&A series we call “What would Nature do?” (WWND for short) and in this talk, we explore what it means to be cultivating resilience in our health at these trying times and also briefly introduce the concept of Terrain Theory in contrast to Germ Theory.
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…