Homesteading and Permaculture by Paul Wheaton » Homesteading and Permaculture by Paul Wheaton

Paul’s latest victim is Molly Mac and her 1.5 acre peninsula in Massachusetts. It’s a windy place but has plenty of various trees and an overall shape that’s not good for berms, so hugelkul...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/82005-podcast-664-molly-macs-consultation

Paul and Uncle Mud continue to discuss the red cabin’s new Rocket Mass Heater and what they want from future modifications and designs, such as a cob hat, a simple instruction set for dealing w...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/82002-podcast-664-red-cabin-rmh-mk-5-part-2

Paul sits down with Uncle Mud (Chris McClellan) to talk about the new Rocket Mass Heater in the Red Cabin, some history of the prior 4, and what they want from future designs, such as a riser mad...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81999-podcast-663-red-cabin-rmh-mk-5-part-1

Bonnie’s consultation on her half acre plot of clay-full soil in New Mexico continues into topics of apple tree seeding, drip irrigation, hugelkultur, chicken management, the Ruth Stout method ...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81996-podcast-662-bonnie-bassans-consultation-part-2

Paul has a new victim in the form of Bonnie Bassan and her roughly half acre New Mexico property. The place has a lot of clay, 10″ of precipitation, and a lot of wind. Sounds like a perfect pla...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81993-podcast-661-bonnie-bassans-consultation-part-1

Paul was talking apple orchards and commodity markets with Samantha when she managed to sum it up so well that he had to make a podlet out of it while also touching on the overall state of farmer...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81989-podcast-660-orchard-gertitude

Another poor fool has parted with cash and gotten a consultation from Paul! Tim Kostamo has a 10-acre property in British Colombia with plenty of trees, water, and poor soil. Paul’s advice incl...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81986-podcast-659-tim-kostamos-consultation

Paul and Uncle Mud continue the discussion of the home heating infographic (permies.com/heat), with this episode talking more about how Rocket Mass Heaters compare in terms of market volatility, ...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81983-podcast-658-heatpumps-v-rocket-mass-heaters-part-2

Paul and Uncle Mud discuss the home heating infographic which they published on permies.com/heat, although since it was made, the price of electricity has gone up by 30%, and how Rocket Mass Heat...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81980-podcast-657-heatpumps-v-rocket-mass-heaters-part-1

Janelle’s consultation with Paul continues into (surprise, surprise) hugelkultur. Along with using swales and stones to create cold pockets and thermal inertia for microclimate adjustment, soil...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81977-podcast-656-janelles-consultation-part-2

One Janelle Quint was foolish enough to give Paul money for a consultation, so he recorded it. She has a property in California with a wide temperature range, wind, poor soil, predators, and a cr...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81974-podcast-655-janelles-consultation-part-1

Paul continues his discussion with a collection of people he’s gathered on the subject of the library’s Rocket Mass Heater modifications, while also taking questions from chat, and comparing ...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81971-podcast-654-free-heat-for-every-home-part-2

Paul rounds up a bunch of people to discuss Rocket Mass Heaters, specifically the one in the library and what they’ve done to modify it this time, including removing the bypass and guillotine, ...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81967-podcast-653-free-heat-for-every-home-part-1

Paul’s got himself a new toy and is giving it a trial run on YouTube by answering a fairly large question: if someone from the future came and told him that working 80 hours a week for 3 years ...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81965-podcast-652-18-year-thought-experiment

Paul finishes up the pod with Dez, Samantha, and Steven, talking about the bootcamp program, why boots aren’t paid with cash, comparing new boots to farmhands in terms of experience and ability...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81962-podcast-651-normie-to-permie-part-3

Paul, Dez, Samantha, and Steven keep on talking about how they each transitioned from normies to their new permie selves, to such a degree that some find it hard to even approach their old lives ...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81958-podcast-650-normie-to-permie-part-2

It’s Christmas eve, and Paul is up with Steven, Dez, and Samantha to talk about their transition from normies with worky jobs to permies, their experiences with other communities, and why they ...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81955-podcast-649-normie-to-permie-part-1

Paul and Cat 2 continue from part 1, discussing how Paul got into permaculture, his experience with permaculture communities, how good of a boot he’d be, if Paul would have gotten into permacul...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81952-podcast-648-wheaton-biography-part-2

Paul is talking with Cat 2, who came up with the idea that he should do a more biographical kind of podcast. She has a list of questions for Paul and his history, including his inspirations, how ...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81949-podcast-647-wheaton-biography-part-1

Paul continues to brainstorm (with Katie, Cindy, and Jay) on the subject of how to spend $500,000 so that it effects a positive change and also earns back the money, going over ideas such as GAMC...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81946-podcast-646-struggling-with-big-spend-part-3

Paul, Jay and Katie continue brainstorming on the subject of how to spend a hypothetical donation of $500,000 so that it effects a positive change in the world and also repays the investment, inc...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81943-podcast-645-struggling-with-big-spend-part-2

Paul sits down with a few of his patreons about a hypothetical investment into Wheaton Labs, namely how he could make the money back so it could become self-perpetuating. Ideas include Rocket Mas...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81938-podcast-644-struggling-with-big-spend-part-1

Paul and Alan Booker continue their discussion on carbon footprints and how to reduce them, covering topics such as electric vehicles, rocket mass heaters, LEED certification and it’s flaws, re...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81935-podcast-643-carbon-footprint-part-3

Paul and Alan Booker continue their discussion about carbon footprint, along with some others who are watching by zoom. Booker brings up that heat management is the largest contributor to most pe...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81932-podcast-642-carbon-footprint-part-2

Paul sits down with Alan Booker to discuss climate change, and what we can do about it. Booker tends to avoid the subject due to it’s politicization, but believes the best way to affect it is t...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81930-podcast-641-carbon-footprint-part-1

Paul continues Samantha’s consultation on her land and, perhaps rather predictably, talks at length about hugelkultur. Along with his disdain for pine trees, how to avoid frost pockets, a poten...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81927-podcast-640-samanthas-consultation-part-2

Samantha got herself a consultation with Paul on from backing his kickstarter, so Paul is at Samantha’s place for the promised consultation, and naturally the discussion turns to Hugelkultur, a...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81924-podcast-639-samanthas-consultation-part-1

Paul is at lunch at the SKIP event and talks to Jay Gruenke (and a bit from Mike Haasl and Opalyn Rose) about the loss of skills brought on by the modern age, and how SKIP can help with bringing ...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81921-podcast-638-de-and-re-skilling

Paul manages to get Cat to sit down over lunch for long enough to get a mini-podcast out of her, along with (much to her chagrin) her daughter and Dez, while they discuss her weight loss since co...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81918-podcast-637-cats-skip-diet-podlet

Paul, Alan Booker, and others meet at lunch on day 11 of Alan Booker’s PDC. Today’s topic is “whether or not to go to college” and what’s changed in the last 12 years since Paul’s las...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81915-podcast-636-2023-permaculture-design-course-session-3

Paul and others are back at lunch at the PDC with JR Magee and Dez Choi, with his big theme being the 2023 Permaculture Technology Jamboree and his plans to extend it, along with some on the plan...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81912-podcast-635-2023-permaculture-design-course-session-2

Paul has Brandt come back for another round of of his Permaculture Design Course because last year just wasn’t enough for him, so he came back for more. They also discuss Hugelkultur and how to...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81908-podcast-634-2023-permaculture-design-course

Samantha still can’t persuade Paul to get his office cleaned up, so it looks like they’re going to keep discussing communities, how to keep people from playing rule sillybuggers, how he runs ...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81890-podcast-633-office-cleanup-and-updates-part-2

Samantha pops in to Paul’s office offering to help him clean the place up, and instead finds herself recording a podcast with him on Allerton Abbey’s round door, Permaculture Technology Jambo...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81887-podcast-632-office-cleanup-and-updates-part-1

Paul finishes up his recap of the 2022 Permaculture Technology Jamboree with his last remaining instructor, Lisa Orr, along with Chris McClellan, aka Uncle Mud, on subjects including rocket stove...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81883-podcast-631-2022-ptj-recap-session-3-part-2

Paul sits back down and gets last remaining instructor, Lisa Orr, along with Chris McClellan, aka Uncle Mud, to go more into their Rocket Kiln stuff. They also bring up Pyrometers, J-tubes, firin...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81879-podcast-630-2022-ptj-recap-session-3-part-1

Session 2 of 2022’s Permaculture Technology Jamboree roundup finishes up with its batch of instructors, mostly on Jacob Wustner’s topics of bees, bee genetics, how to get bees with good genet...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81876-podcast-629-2022-ptj-recap-session-2-part-3

The recap of last year’s Permaculture Technology Jamboree continues with the second batch of instructors (Samantha Lewis, Michael Otten, Jim Juczak, and Austin Durant) and what they taught. Sup...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81874-podcast-628-2022-ptj-recap-session-2-part-2

Paul gets another batch of instructors from last year’s Permaculture Technology Jamboree in to discuss what they did for the event, namely getting a Mongolian yurt in, the earthworks necessary ...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81870-podcast-627-2022-ptj-recap-session-2-part-1

The first session of last year’s Permaculture Technology Jamboree comes to a close after discussing more on the rocket kiln and it’s potential as a rocket forge, rocket stoves, the new solar ...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81867-podcast-626-2022-ptj-recap-part-3

The recap of last year’s Permaculture Technology Jamboree continues with about a third of his instructors, discussing Uncle Mud’s breakthrough in rocket kilns that allows much faster and chea...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81863-podcast-625-2022-ptj-recap-part-2

Paul calls up about a third of his instructors (Alan Booker, Chris McClellan aka Uncle Mud, Opalyn Rose, Samantha Lewis, and Beau Davidson) from last year’s Permaculture Technology Jamboree to ...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81860-podcast-624-2022-ptj-recap-part-1

The catchup call between Paul and Alan Booker continues for another hour (mostly on Rocket Mass Heaters and upcoming events) before they decide to wind down for next time, along with a bit on Ala...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81857-podcast-623-catchup-with-alan-booker-part-3

Paul continues his call with Alan Booker with the goal of catching up on the past 6 months of pod-silence, covering topics such as the Living Building Challenge, how energy prices vary over time ...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81854-podcast-622-catchup-with-alan-booker-part-2

Paul once again calls up Alan Booker after the long hiatus to catch up on what’s been happening at Paul’s in that time along with some future plans, covering the upcoming 2023 Garden Master c...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81849-podcast-621-catchup-with-alan-booker-part-1

Paul finishes up his call with Alan booker, but not before remembering that they’re supposed to be discussing section 2.4 of Permaculture a Designer’s Manual by Bill Mollison and actually man...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81846-podcast-620-biophilic-design-and-bbb-session-5-part-3

The call between Paul and Alan Booker continues, and they still don’t get around to discussing section 2.4 of Permaculture a Designer’s Manual by Bill Mollison, AKA the Big Black Book, instea...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81843-podcast-619-biophilic-design-and-bbb-session-5-part-2

Paul calls up Alan Booker to continue their read-through of Permaculture a Designer’s Manual by Bill Mollison, AKA the Big Black Book, section 2.4. But got distracted by Biophilic Design, Rocke...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81839-podcast-618-biophilic-design-and-bbb-session-5-part-1

Paul continues discussing “Oil and Water of the Mind” and his second piece “If you live in an apartment, what good is a Rocket Mass Heater?” with Samantha. They stay on topic this time, b...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81836-podcast-617-oil-and-water-of-the-mind-part-2

Paul sits down with Samantha after a 6-month hiatus to discuss a thing what he wrote called “Oil and Water of the Mind”, a thing about how politics is (probably) being shaped by people to mak...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81833-podcast-616-oil-and-water-of-the-mind-part-1

Paul isn’t sitting down with anyone this time and is instead providing a general update before switching over to previously recorded clips with an expert timberframer by the name of Caleb Larso...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81612-podcast-615-wofati-greenhouse-3

Paul sits down with Ashley to continue the smackdown that was supposed to be reviewing Building a Better World, but instead have a good natter about SKIP, their experience with PDCs, Paul’s unp...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81609-podcast-614-permaculture-smackdown-26-media-retrospective-part-2

Paul sits down with Ashley for both the first podcast and first smackdown of 2022 to supposedly review Building a Better World, but never get around to it, instead having a good natter about vari...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81604-podcast-613-pemaculture-smackdown-26-media-retrospective-part-1

Paul continues this week’s smackdown with Mark, Ashley, Katie, and Kyle, and moves on to reviewing his Building a Better World book, chapter 3 which is all about light bulbs, how to save energy...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81601-podcast-612-permaculture-smackdown-25-better-bootcamp-bio-part-2

Paul sits down with Mark, Ashley, Katie, and Kyle to discuss a selection of different topics, loosely centered around making Bootcamp more appealing, starting at the basics by asking everyone pre...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81597-podcast-611-permaculture-smackdown-25-better-bootcamp-bio-part-1

Paul takes a break from editing the SKIP book to review chapter two of his Building a Better World in your Backyard book with Julia, Katie, and Mark, although they spend half the podcast talking ...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81594-podcast-610-building-a-better-world-review-session-2

Paul sits down with Katie and Julia to do a chapter-by-chapter review of Paul’s new book – “Building a Better World in your Backyard Instead of Being Angry at Bad Guys”, covering topics s...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81590-podcast-609-building-a-better-world-review-session-1-part-2

Paul sits down with Katie and Julia to do a chapter-by-chapter review of Paul’s new book – “Building a Better World in your Backyard Instead of Being Angry at Bad Guys”, covering topics s...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81586-podcast-608-building-a-better-world-review-session-1-part-1

Paul sits back down with Alan Booker to try to talk about Bill Mollison’s Permaculture: A Designer’s Manual, but wind up getting completely distracted and talking about Kickstarter and how to...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81581-podcast-607-the-future-leadership-of-permaculture-part-2

Paul sits back down with Alan Booker to try to talk about Bill Mollison’s Permaculture: A Designer’s Manual, but wind up getting completely distracted and talking about cultivating a new gene...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81575-podcast-606-the-future-leadership-of-permaculture-part-2

Paul sits back down with Alan Booker after a fourteen-month hiatus to get back into the Big Black Book, aka Permaculture a Designer’s Manual by Bill Mollison. In this episode, they start to dis...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81571-podcast-605-big-black-book-session-4-part-2

Paul sits back down with Alan Booker after a fourteen-month hiatus to get back into the Big Black Book, aka Permaculture a Designer’s Manual by Bill Mollison. This part focuses on Figure 2.1 on...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81568-podcast-604-big-black-book-session-4-part-1

Paul sits down with some of his patreons (Julia, Katie, and Mark) to talk about an essay written by Derrek Jensen that became a precursor to Paul’s Building a Better World in your Backyard, wit...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81565-podcast-603-permaculture-smackdown-24-building-a-better-world-precursor-part-2

Paul sits down with Julia, Katie, and Mark to talk about an essay written by Derrek Jensen that became a precursor to Paul’s Building a Better World in your Backyard, and mostly discusses what ...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81562-podcast-602-permaculture-smackdown-24-building-a-better-world-precurser-part-1

Paul calls up some of his usual suspects from his patreons (Katie, Kyle, and Mark) along with a couple of new comers (Joshua and Weston, although the latter’s mic was on the fritz) for a more h...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81559-podcast-601-permaculture-smackdown-23-renewable-energy-part-2

Paul calls up some of his usual suspects from his patreons (Katie, Kyle, and Mark) for the latest permaculture smackdown with a focus on renewable power sources. There’s also a brief update on ...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81556-podcast-600-permaculture-smackdown-23-renewable-energy-part-1

Paul sits down with two of the five boots at bootcamp (Magdalene and Grey, Dez wandered off) to discuss how much the bootcamp sucks, with this episode talking about what to bring, such as work gl...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81553-podcast-599-bootcamp-rundown-part-3

Paul sits down with three of the five boots at bootcamp (Dez, Magdalene, and Grey) to discuss how much the bootcamp sucks. In this part, they go over Grey’s list of stuff that can indicate if b...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81550-podcast-598-bootcamp-rundown-part-2

Paul sits down with three of the five boots at bootcamp (Dez, Magdalene, and Grey) to discuss how much the bootcamp sucks, as well as few upsides that they get out of the way first, such as the s...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81547-podcast-597-bootcamp-rundown-part-1

Paul continues his call with Mark and Katie on the subject of building rules and regulations on his land, this time mostly discussing willow feeder systems, scalability issues with conventional h...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81544-podcast-596-permaculture-smackdown-22-the-paul-hoa-session-3-part-3

Paul continues his call with Mark and Katie on the subject of building rules and regulations on his land, this time actually getting to the topic in the title, along with discussion on wofati roo...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81541-podcast-595-permaculture-smackdown-22-the-paul-hoa-session-3-part-2

Paul calls up Mark and Katie to discuss the rules and regs of building on his land, but get sidetracked into talking about progress with the wofati greenhouse, potential future kickstarter projec...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81538-podcast-594-permaculture-smackdown-22-the-paul-hoa-session-3-part-1

Paul continues the latest episode of the Permaculture Smackdown with Katie and Kyle to discuss how to deal with haters without running and hiding. They talk about Paul’s philosophy on dealing w...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81535-podcast-593-permaculture-smackdown-21-haters-gonna-hate-part-2

Paul sits down for the latest episode of the Permaculture Smackdown with Katie and Kyle to discuss how to deal with haters without running and hiding. They mostly discuss Paul’s approach to mod...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81531-podcast-592-permaculture-smackdown-21-haters-gonna-hate-part-1

Paul sits back down with Eliot once again to continue talking about his farming experience and contrast them with Paul’s. They talk about topics such as climate change, carbon footprints and ho...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81528-podcast-591-eliots-farm-experience

Paul sits back down with Eliot to continue where they left off on the subject of gardening verses farming. Other topics include some of the difficulties of developing communities, PEP and SKIP ce...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81524-podcast-590-gardening-v-farming

Paul sits back down with Eliot for a quick podcast discussing Paul’s visit to Eliot’s farm before knocking off for lunch. They do get around to discussing berms, hugelkultur, terraces, orchar...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81520-podcast-589-julia-and-eliots-farm

Paul continues his talk with Eliot, one of the people at the 2021 Rocket Mass Heater Jamboree to discuss the past week of the 9-day event, Rocket Mass Heaters, Walker Stoves, Liberator cores, Gam...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81517-podcast-588-2021-rmh-jamboree-so-far-part-2

Paul sits down Elliot, one of of the 30 people at the 2021 Rocket Mass Heater Jamboree to discuss the past week of the 9-day event, covering topics such as Rocket Mass Heaters, Rocket Stoves, a r...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81514-podcast-587-2021-rmh-jamboree-so-far-part-1

Paul continues his talk with Justin on the subject of his Walker stove to be, covering topics such as relative insulation of various materials, effectiveness of convective and radiant heat, fuel ...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81511-podcast-586-justins-walker-stove-rmh-consultation-part-2

Paul sits down with Justin to talk about the rocket heater he’s building, specifically a Walker Stove of Matt Walker’s designs, as well as potential modifications to it, like a metal barrel, ...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81506-podcast-585-justins-walker-stove-rmh-consultaion-part-1

Paul continues his discussion on the building codes at Wheaton Labs with his usual crew (Mark, Katie, Opalyn, and probably Kyle). They talk about good duff (insulation) materials for wofaties, pl...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81503-podcast-584-pemaculture-smackdown-20-the-paul-hoa-session-2-part-2

Paul once again sits down with his usual crew (Mark, Katie, Opalyn, and probably Kyle) to discuss the building codes at Wheaton Labs, as well as a chunk on straw. Other topics include wofaties, a...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81500-podcast-583-pemaculture-smackdown-20-the-paul-hoa-session-2-part-1

Paul continues his consultation with Oregon landowner Chris, another fool that actually paid him rather than blowing the money on cool stuff like ice cream. They talk about stuff like ponds, swal...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81496-podcast-582-chris-site-review-part-2

Paul calls up Chris, another fool that actually paid for a consultation on his land in Oregon rather than blowing the money on cool stuff like ice cream. Topics covered in this part include Orego...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81493-podcast-581-chris-site-review-part-1

Paul continues the smackdown with 6 of his patreons (Mark, Katie, Opalyn and Weston were named) on the topic of the ideals that Paul wants people to adhere to when building on his land, such as w...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81489-podcast-580-permaculture-smackdown-19-the-paul-hoa-part-3

Paul continues the smackdown with 6 of his patreons (Mark, Katie, Opalyn, and someone from New Zealand whose name was never mentioned) on the topic of the ideals that Paul wants people to adhere ...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81486-podcast-579-permaculture-smackdown-19-the-paul-hoa-part-2

Paul sits down with a whopping 6 patreons (Mark and Katie were named) to discuss the ideals that Paul wants people to adhere to when building on his land, although most of this part is talking ab...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81482-podcast-578-permaculture-smackdown-19-the-paul-hoa-part-1

Paul continues his call with Jennie in the San Luis Valley of Colorado, covering topics such as hugelkultur, compost, food forests, mulch, fruit trees, edible cleaning agents, and the making of a...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81479-podcast-577-jennie-site-review-part-2

Once again, Paul calls someone who paid him for a consultation on their land – this time Jennie in the San Luis Valley of Colorado, and covering topics such as earthworks, berms, hugelkultur, f...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81476-podcast-576-jennie-site-review-part-1

Paul calls up Alexandra and Richard, who have recently aquired 0.3 acres in “Mosquito Town”, Minnesota, just on the edge between urban and suburban for a consultation on what to do with it, c...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81471-podcast-575-alexandra-and-richard-site-review

Paul calls up Sean, who parted with pizza money to get an opinion on whether or not to move away from his friend’s place in California, and if so, what to do? They also discuss residual income ...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81466-podcast-573-should-shaun-stay

Paul sits down once again to finish up the review of Sepp Holzer’s Desert or paradise, this time with special guest Dr. Julia and the usual suspects (Katie, Opalyn, Mark), along with some on ro...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81462-podcast-572-permaculture-smackdown-18-desert-or-paradise-session-15

Paul continues the smackdown with most of the usual suspects (Kyle, Opalyn, Katie) to finish up 20 of the 40 remaining pages in Sepp Holzer’s Desert or Paradise, covering topics such as growing...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81458-podcast-572-permaculture-smackdown-17-desert-or-paradise-session-14-part-2

Paul sits down with his usual smackdown suspects (Kyle, Opalyn, Katie, and presumably Mark) to review twenty of the remaining 40 pages in Sepp Holzer’s Desert or Paradise, as well as a couple o...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81455-podcast-571-permaculture-smackdown-17-desert-or-paradise-session-14-part-1

Paul calls up another person who parted with real money to get a rundown of their property – this time Nate from Saint Paul in Minnesota and discuss hugelkultur, railroad ties, retaining walls,...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81452-podcast-570-nates-site-review

Paul once again sits down with Kyle from bootcamp to talk about identifying and replacing rotten wood in wofatis, how much tolerance there should be in a beam when stabbed, weather or not to char...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81450-podcast-569-wofati-wood-rot

Paul sits back down with Kyle from bootcamp to discuss door latches on buildings like the shower shack and Allerton Abbey. They discuss how the latches are designed, future door designs, the use ...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81447-podcast-568-door-latches

Paul sits down with Kyle from bootcamp again to record a mini-podcast about log peeling, covering details such as when to cut, what tools to use, how to test for bark adherence, the consequence o...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81444-podcast-567-log-peeling

Paul sits down for a quick podcast with Kyle from bootcamp to give an update on the 2021 Rocket Mass Heater Jamboree. They talk about the Uncle Mudd RMH, it’s successor, Liberator cores, planne...

https://richsoil.com/permaculture/81441-podcast-566-rmh-jamboree-2021