001 - Homescale Electricity Generation with Gasification and Wood Gas

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009 - Build a Backyard Food Forest Today, Part 2: Joey D'Elia joins me in this episode to talk about why people are afraid of embracing the order that comes in the "disorder of nature." We also ask why should anyone even care about food forests. Along the way we touch on embracing the "messiness" of... by Farm Small Farm Smart Daily

70 min listen

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014 - Mechanical Contracting to Hog Farmer. The Business of Raising Pastured Hogs on 90 Acres.: John Backes of Circle B Ranch joins me to talk about raising pastured hogs on 90 acres in Missouri. John didn't come from a farming background. He transitioned into farming in 2009 with his wife Marina after leaving a career in mechanical contracting.... by Farm Small Farm Smart Daily

58 min listen

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003 - Maximize Yard Productivity. Growing Fruit Trees in Small Spaces for Year Round Harvest.: In this episode of the Permaculture Voices Podcast I have my friend Ben Kotnik of Suburban Food Farm on the show to talk about the recent presentation that he gave to a local permaculture group, 12 Months of Fresh Fruit. The first part of the... by Farm Small Farm Smart Daily

88 min listen

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004 - Build a Backyard Food Forest Today, Part 1: How do we get more food forests into suburban yards? We can start by planting a legume anytime that plant a fruit tree. Then what? Joey D'Elia joins me in this episode to discuss just that. How can people start down the path of building their own... by Farm Small Farm Smart Daily

69 min listen

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001 - Homescale Electricity Generation with Gasification and Wood Gas: Gasification and Wood Gas: How to Grow Your Own Energy and Get Off the Grid Our very first episode! In this podcast we focused on the topics of gasification and wood gas. Local experts Troy Martz and Jared Pisell of OffGridPro.com joined us to talk... by Farm Small Farm Smart Daily

59 min listen

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008 - Starting a Pastured Poultry Business. The Story of a First Time Farmer with Paul Greive.: Paul Greive of Primal Pastures joins me to talk about being a grass farming entrepreneur. He talks about how the thought of Primal Pastures went from an idea to a reality one weekend while sitting around with his in-laws. This small step was the... by Farm Small Farm Smart Daily

58 min listen

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010 - Raising Heritage Breed Livestock and Venturing into Farming with Cathy Payne: Cathy Payne of Broad River Pastures joins me to talk about heritage breed livestock and her journey into farming that began in her mid-50's. Cathy and her husband started changing their diet in their 50's. Their quest for nutrient dense food led them... by Farm Small Farm Smart Daily

66 min listen

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002 - The Lifetime Battery: Nickel Iron Batteries for Homesteads and Farms: In this episode of the podcast I am happy to welcome Brandon Williams from Iron Edison battery company to talk about long lived nickel-iron batteries and why they are so much better than the more common lead acid batteries for off grid home power... by Farm Small Farm Smart Daily

52 min listen

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011 - Permaculture Based Business. Growing Mushrooms, Building Soil, and Shooting to Gross $100,000 Per Acre.: What if you could gross $100,000 per acre in a small sustainable agriculture operation? You could make a good living and/or you could afford to pay someone a decent wage. If you can gross roughly $2.50 per square foot, per year, then that translates... by Farm Small Farm Smart Daily

67 min listen

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016 - Darren Doherty Talks The Keyline Design Process and the Importance of Building Soil in the Landscape.: Darren Doherty of Heenan Doherty and Regrarians joins me from Australia to fill in some of the gaps surrounding Keyline design.While the whole Keyline design system is complex and way beyond the scope of this podcast.This episode should give you a... by Farm Small Farm Smart Daily

42 min listen

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013 - Darren Doherty on Agriculture, Regrarianism, and Why Regenerative is Better than Sustainable.: Darren Doherty of Heenan Doherty and Regrarians joins me from Australia to talk about the regrarian philosophy that he has put together and how it can be used to regenerate landscapes and farming enterprises.This is a system that borrows and includes... by Farm Small Farm Smart Daily

55 min listen

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023 - Michael Pollan talks GMOs, Industrial Agriculture, and the Impact of Cooking your Own Food: Michael Pollan joins me to talk about GMOs, organic food, the industrial agriculture, and his new book Cooked. Points we hit on:What will it take to ultimately get GMOs labelled in the US? And what affect will that labeling have. Rewarding farmers for... by Farm Small Farm Smart Daily

34 min listen

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015 - Joel Salatin On The Next Generation of Farmers. Starting Out, Interning, Mentoring, and Partnering with Existing Farmers.: Joel Salatin of Polyface Farm joins me to talk about his new book Fields of Farmers which focuses on the next generation of farmers.How young people can work with existing farmers to transition into farming. He talks about young people can do today to... by Farm Small Farm Smart Daily

90 min listen

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Building Soil, Healing the Land and Raising High Quality Food with Rotational Grazing f. Doniga Markegard (PVP012): Doniga Markegard of Markegard Family Grass-Fed comes on the show to talk about ranching, permaculture, and the regenerative power of rotational livestock grazing.She is a real life rancher, who is out there successfully doing things the right way. On... by Farm Small Farm Smart Daily

64 min listen

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005 - Paul Wheaton: Building a Better World One Permaculture Brick At A Time: 'Building a better world, one permaculture brick at a time.' The full and complete audio from Paul Wheaton's standing ovation keynote presentation at the Southern California Permaculture Convergence on March 9, 2013 in San Diego, CA. "Most folks... by Farm Small Farm Smart Daily

163 min listen

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b003 - Pastured Hogs Webinar with Rebecca Krassnoski: This is replay of the webinar that was recorded on December 5, 2013 with Rebecca Krassnoski. Attendees submitted their questions about raising hogs and Rebecca answered them. the b reels: episodes of the Permaculture Voices podcast that just weren't a... by Farm Small Farm Smart Daily

69 min listen

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006 - Starting A Small Family Farm. Practical Advice from An 8 Year Farming Vet.: Want to be a farmer? Always dreamed about having your own farm? Lessons from a family farmer who has gone from grassroots to prosperity in 8 years. If you are young and thinking about starting your own farm, then this podcast is a must listen. P.S.... by Farm Small Farm Smart Daily

77 min listen

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017 - A Journey into Raising Hogs. What Worked and What Didn't.: Rebecca Krossnoski of Nature Delivered Farm joins me to talk about her passion for pigs. Rebecca left her job as a construction estimator 6 years ago to start pasture raising pigs. She realized that her old job wasn't going to be there forever so she... by Farm Small Farm Smart Daily

61 min listen

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034 - Permaculture 2.0, Designing a Profitable Broadacre Perennial Farm with Grant Schultz: Grant Schultz joins me to talk about developing a perennial polyculture in the middle of row-crop corn and soy country Iowa. He discusses a lot of the innovation and developments taking place on his farm, including some really innovative ways of doing... by Farm Small Farm Smart Daily

83 min listen

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007 - The Real Mistakes and Challenges of Starting a Business. Can Anyone Be an Entrepreneur?: Sarah Aubrey of Prosperity Consulting joins me to talk about being an entrepreneur, starting a business, and her journey. Like many entrepreneurs she started her "career" in the corporate world and quickly realized that life wasn't for her. So she... by Farm Small Farm Smart Daily

57 min listen

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020 - Urban Lumber: A Valuable Product That You Walk By Everyday and Probably Don't Notice.: David Barmon of Fiddlehead Landscape Design joins me to talk about urban lumber. We discuss how we can start thinking about urban trees as not just a source of beauty, but as a valuable, sustainable resource. Most people don't really think about what... by Farm Small Farm Smart Daily

51 min listen

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025 - The Myth of the Perfect Job with John Kitsteiner: John Kitsteiner of Temperate Climate Permaculture joins me to discuss his series of blog posts, The Myth of the Perfect Job. So many of us are stuck in the rat race. We want to be farmers, homesteaders, or something else that involves working closer... by Farm Small Farm Smart Daily

86 min listen

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021 - The Permaculture Orchard - Converting An Organic Orchard into A Permaculture, Polyculture.: Stefan Sebkowiak of Miracle Farms joins me to talk about the what's lacking in organic systems - biodiversity. And why organic is good, but creating a polyculture is a lot better. Stefan started out his journey purchasing a conventional non-organic... by Farm Small Farm Smart Daily

81 min listen

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b002 - Overstory Trees with Joey Delia: Joey Delia of Tipuana Farm joins me to talk about overstory trees in permaculture systems. We touch on species of overstory trees that grow in our area and the benefits of those trees to a system. Dealing with too much shade. Finding fast growing... by Farm Small Farm Smart Daily

41 min listen

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b007 - Permaculture Plants - A chat with Dave Whitinger of All Things Plants: Dave Whitinger of All Things Plants joins me for a to chat about different [permaculture] plants that he grows. Most of these plants are class permaculture plants. They are plants that perform multiple functions within a system. Many of these are... by Farm Small Farm Smart Daily

72 min listen

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b009 - Getting the Mineral and Water Cycle Back In Order, The Regrarian Open Consultancy with Darren Doherty, Part 4: Darren Doherty discusses soil mineralization, value adding on farms, and farm water systems.This is the fourth podcast that takes you to one of Darren's open consultancies. The consultancies themselves are workshops that center around a real world... by Farm Small Farm Smart Daily

78 min listen

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022 - Thistles, The Dehesa System, and Darren Doherty on Farm Design.: Joey Delia of EvokeHope.org joins me to recap the recent Darren Doherty Regrarian Open Consultancy, talk about the Dehesa system of Spain, and an upcoming PDC at the new PRI Tipuana Farm.Key Takeaways from this Episode:Don't focus on tactics. Slow... by Farm Small Farm Smart Daily

60 min listen

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019 - Joel Salatin on Ecologically Profitable Farming - How New Farmers Can Get In and How Existing Farmers Can Convert.: Joel talks a lot about how young people can get into farming by establishing synergistic relationships with older farmers as he tries to dispel the big belief that you need land to farm. He touches on the farming business and how conventional farmers... by Farm Small Farm Smart Daily

36 min listen

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018 - Using Permaculture Earthworks to Capture Rainwater Runoff and Prevent Erosion: What do you do with 350,000 gallons of rainwater runoff that enters your property with a high velocity causing erosion? One option is to harvest that water, slow it down, and take away the erosion by constructing some permaculture earthworks. Alden... by Farm Small Farm Smart Daily

70 min listen

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024 - Understanding Permaculture Patterns and Setting Holistic Goals with Owen Hablutzel.: Owen Hablutzel joins me to talk about patterns in permaculture and the power of setting a goal. Key Takeaways from this Episode: Patterns are the shorthand of nature. They take a large complex system of forces and processes and simplifies it... by Farm Small Farm Smart Daily

49 min listen

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