Building Your Permaculture Property

Apr 24 2022 212

Building Your Permaculture Property Podcast artwork

Join farmer, educator, and author Takota Coen as he explores how you can design and develop land anywhere in the world to provide for your food, water, shelter, energy, and other needs in a way that is good for all people, the planet and our future.Takota Coen is the co-author of "Building Your Permaculture Property: A 5 Step Process To Design and Develop Land", an instructor with Verge Permaculture, and co-owner of Coen Farm, a 250 acre award winning permaculture farm, in Alberta Canada.

Subscribe on Podcast Addict

#19-Stefan Sobkowiak: Our biggest mistakes in Permaculture

Apr 24 2022 72 mins

Stefan Sobkowiak operates a 12 acre farm of which 6-acres are in a permaculture orchard at Miracle Farms in Quebec. Sobkowiak originally bought the farm as a conventional 12 acre 4,000 tree monoculture apple orchard and immediately transitioned it to organic, but he quickly realized that an organic monoculture merely substitutes inputs from the conventional model. The alternative h

#18-Blacksmithing, Self-esteem, & Morality

Mar 01 2022 120 mins

Tim and I talk about why he left his job in big tech to become a blacksmith and homesteader, why you should learn a pre-electricity skill, the essential human need to produce, morality, politics, and what is the one tool we would each grab on our way out of the house after a zombie apocalypse.Find out more about Tim on his website: http://reforgedironworks.com▶️ My farm https:/

#17-Philosophy, Ethics, and Politics for Urban Chickens and Beyond

Jan 23 2022 136 mins

In this episode I coach one of my students about how to navigate the philosophical, ethical and political implications of keeping chickens in a California city when it suddenly became illegal.▶️ My farm https://www.coenfarm.ca▶️ My consulting and book https://www.buildingyourgulch.comSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/building-your-permaculture-property/donat

#16-Neal Spackman: Scaling Up Ecosystem Regeneration

Jun 17 2021 78 mins

Neal Spackman is an internationally recognized pioneer of hyperarid agroforestries. He was cofounder and Director of the Al Baydha Project in Saudi Arabia, where he lived and worked with tribes of bedou to convert deserts into savannahs. He founded the webinar series Sustainable Design Masterclass, and has taught and consulted in the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas. He is pas

#15-James Corbett: Why Permaculturists need to become "conspiracy theorists"

May 09 2021 68 mins

James Corbett is an award-winning investigative journalist, who has lectured on geopolitics at the University of Groningen’s Studium Generale, and delivered presentations on open source journalism at The French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation’s fOSSa conference, at TedXGroningen and at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto. He is the founder of The Corbett R

#14-Permaculture Aid In Africa with Ludovic Bourdon

Apr 26 2021 91 mins

Ludovic Bourdon works with organizations like Ecosia to help design and develop permaculture aid projects throughout Africa.Find out more about Ludo's work here:https://www.abundantbynature.org/https://facebook.com/abundantbynature/https://www.instagram.com/abundant_by_nature/https://www.youtube.com/c/AbundantbyNature▶️ My farm https://www.coenfarm.ca▶️ My consulting an

#13-Judith D. Schwartz: The Reindeer Chronicles and Other Inspiring Stories of Working With Nature to Heal the Earth

Apr 17 2021 77 mins

Judith D. Schwartz is a journalist based in Vermont who looks to nature for approaches to solving global challenges. Her most recent book is The Reindeer Chronicles and Other Inspiring Stories of Working With Nature to Heal the Earth (Chelsea Green Publishing.)Find out more about Judith's work at https://judithdschwartz.com/▶️ My farm https://www.coenfarm.ca▶️ My consul

#12-Ben Falk: The Resilient Farm and Homestead

Mar 23 2021 79 mins

▶️ Join Ben Falk and I for a Free Online Summit https://www.mypermacultureproperty.comBen and I talk about his plans to revise his book "The Resilient Farm and Homestead", what it's like living on a permaculture property for almost 2 decades, the increase of "COVID Refugees" to the permaculture space, why we should all be naked more, our favourite plants, an

#11-Mark Shepard: Water For Any Farm

Mar 21 2021 87 mins

▶️ Join Mark Shepard and I for a Free Online Summit https://www.mypermacultureproperty.comMark and I chat about why permaculture went from "permanent agriculture" to "gardening on steroids", P.A. Yeomans Scale of Permanence, design process, and much more.Mark Shepard is a Permaculture farmer, homesteader, author of Restoration Agriculture: Real World Permacultur

#10-Dan Palmer: Making Permaculture Stronger

Mar 12 2021 60 mins

Dan and Takota talk about how a lack of a living, adaptive process is holding permaculture back from reaching its fullest potential, and what we can all do about it.Dan Palmer is a design educator, author and podcaster living in NZ. As well as helping run a permaculture design firm called Very Edible Gardens, Dan is a co-developer of a holistic decision making and living design pro