Students of Geoff’s Online Permaculture Design Course have question-and-answer sessions where Geoff fields a number of questions every week and answers them via videos. This question was pulled from the 2021 collection. For an in-depth dive into all things permaculture, check out the free Masterclass https://www.discoverpermaculture.com/permaculture-masterclass-video-1 Question Would you say that a piece of land…
Category: Permaculture
Small Scale Permaculture Eco Farm in Tropical Paradise
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ visits a permaculture oasis in the tropics. In this episode, you will discover how the land owner has a full permaculture food forest with an abundance of fruits, vegetables, leafy greens, beans and more without doing ANY work. You will also get a detailed tour of this small scale permaculture food forest…
Digging Swales and Berms in a Permaculture Orchard
Last year, we dug more than 6,000 feet of swales and berms on our farm to serve as an integrated permaculture orchard and silvopasture. In this video, I walk you through our process from planning to digging to how they are doing today. About Gold Shaw Farm: Gold Shaw Farm is more of a farm-in-progress…
Jevons’ Paradox and the clean energy transition
UW–Madison electrical engineering professor Giri Venkataramanan explains how a 19th century economic theory can inform the challenges of slowing climate change. Source
Grow, A Permaculture Mini Documentary ft. Koreen Brennan
In this short film from the forest ranch, we arrive at “Our Permaculture Farm” in Pinellas County Florida at the same time as a Girl Scout Troop arrives to learn about permaculture, food forests, and ecology. Watch how Certified Permaculture Designer and teacher, Koreen Brennan passes the sparks of regenerative thinking to this curious group…
Permaculture Lessons From the Desert
To learn more about permaculture watch the Permaculture Masterclass, a 4-part documentary-style film, here: https://www.discoverpermaculture.com/a/12454/e3i2ci3L. Geoff is visiting Saudi Arabia for a consultancy, and he is out exploring the desert in a nature reserve. They’ve done a fine job planting trees in the area, but Geoff has found a lot of potential for earthworks to…
S3.E2 – Les Wallons du Wisconsin – Episode 1/2 (VOSTFR)
Did you know that Walloon is spoken in Wisconsin? Find out how the Walloon language arrived in the United States! There are only a handful of speakers left and the community is fighting to preserve their language. Through the struggle of the Belgian Wisconsin community, Professor Kelly Biers and Professor Ellen Osterhaus (from University of…
Tropical Permaculture Fruit Forest Feeds Off Grid Family
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ visits his friends permaculture-style tropical fruit forest orchard that is growing enough food to meet the entire food needs of the family that live on the property. In this episode, you will discover how on this 10 acre homestead the family is producing enough food to feed themselves WITHOUT bringing in external…