Episode Highlights:How Deanna started her career in studying indigenous culturesTraveling to Africa during Deanna's Prescott College days to research about chocolatesDeanna's experiences with her business selling chocolatesBusiness as opportunity to do goodAbout Deanna Moore:Deanna Moore is committed to helping people spread their message and activate their vision toward a just, sacred and sustainable culture. She has a background in Permaculture, Ecology, Holistic Health & Education. She...

Episode Highlights:Rob’s journey from being a pipeline engineer to permacultureHow harvesting energy coincides with permacultureDifference between the rebuild and resetWhy community groups are more important than gardeningWhy do we need to consider using alternative currenciesHow Rob is preparing for the big changes brought about by the pandemicWhy podcasts are more important than the pressA note by Katie LaMonteAbout Rob AvisWith over 15 years of combined experience in engineering, project m...

Episode HighlightsAdvantage of raising quail over chickenBasic things to get that Franchesca recommends when raising quail for the first timeThe process of hatching, breeding, and maintaining quailProcess of raising quails for eggs and meatPersonality and emotions of quails that you have to take noteAbout Franchesca DuvalFranchesca Duval is the Head Chicken Wrangler at Alchemist Farm in Sebastopol California. She is always tinkering with chicken genetics and pushes the edges of what is possib...

About Erik OhlsenErik Ohlsen is an internationally recognized permaculture teacher, educator, and author; he is an award winning landscape contractor and a life long activist. He has specialized in homestead scale regenerative design: including water harvesting, food forests, seed saving, community organizing, habitat development, erosion control, and building topsoil for over 20 years.Episode Highlights:Work Erik has done since starting with permaculture at 19 years oldHow Coronavirus interr...

About Richard HeinbergRichard Heinberg is Senior Fellow of Post Carbon Institute and author of several books on energy and the environment, including Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels, and, with David Fridley, Our Renewable Future. His upcoming book is Power: Humanity’s Quest for Ability, Control, Influence, and Beauty—and How It All Went Wrong.Show Highlights:Connections of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak to the different aspects of our societyReliance on economic efficiency to the ...

About Yael ZaidmanYael is a nurturer of life. Whether she is working with compost, soil microbes, worms, plants, or seeds, she brings all to life. Yael has experience building and growing farms and gardens from small scale backyard gardens to managing the greenhouse propagation and starts for a 100 acre organic farm.Yael is the co-founder of the San Diego Sustainable Living Institute and Terra Corazon, a 17 acre permaculture farm in San Diego County, which she is developing with her family an...

Episode Highlights:From agriculture to ecologyThe development of the eco-machineWhat is an eco-machine and how to start oneFounding of the New Alchemy InstituteCleaning toxic pollutants using only biologyAbout John ToddDr. John Todd began his ecological design work in 1971 when he co-founded the New Alchemy Institute with the mission to “Restore the Lands, Protect the Seas and Inform the Earth Stewards”. He began designing biomes and bio-shelters, structures for the cultivation of foods and o...

Many people are interested in careers in permaculture, regenerative design, and just restoring the ecosystems of this planet, but when you look out at the current job market, often times those jobs are not available. It is not that the work is not needed, it is that someone just has not started that business yet. In today's show, we talk with Brook Sarson about her journey into permaculture and creating a career path in work that is both meaningful and has an ecological and community impact.S...

Episode HighlightsGetting into permacultureUsing rainwater and greywaterDesigning living and functional ecosystemsPlanting ecosystemsSequestering excess carbon from the atmosphere uses plants and soilYour Show HostJosh Robinson is a father, gardener, farmer, teacher, and ecological instigator. He has over 19 years of experience in the field designing, installing, and teaching about creating ecological abundant gardens, home, farms, and businesses. Josh has been teaching permaculture to hundre...

Episode Highlights:Different uses and application of biocharHow biochar becomes a water, mineral, and nutrient reservoir for plantsHow humans has been using biochar for herbal medicineThe importance of biochar in the Amazon and other places in the world through timeHow industrialization has affected how we use biocharDifferent ways people can do to make biocharAbout Michael WittmanMichael Wittman, Char-man of the Board of Blue Sky Biochar, has long been an environmental activist for an ever-g...

Episode HighlightsFrom little garden experience to growing 100% of his food on land that he did not ownHow to acquire land for gardening without owning itWorking with the community to build resilienceWhy Rob was triggered by the industrial food systemThe impact of his Permaculture Design course he got in GuatemalaChallenges of living a self-sustained lifestyleAbout Rob GreenfieldRob Greenfield is an activist and humanitarian dedicated to leading the way to a more sustainable and just world. H...

Episode Highlights:Roles of fungi and mycelium play in living ecosystemsFungi evolved on land long before plantsHow to manage partnerships with fungi and plants (gardens, orchards, food forests, etc)Importance of mycorrhizal fungi Nutrient exchangeConnect plants to the wider forest ("The Wood Wide Web")Utilizing fungal inoculants for specific garden typesProducing your own garden inoculantsMyco-remediation and how fungi can break down even the most toxic compoundsAbout Peter McCoyPeter M...

Show Highlights:Importance of saving your own seedsAdvantages of saving your own seeds over buying from a catalogueClimate adaptation (Heat tolerance, cold tolerance, drought tolerance, flood tolerance, seeds adapt to local soils, etc)Taste ProductionDisease resistanceSaving seeds from hybrid seedsHow to save seedsEasiest seeds to start saving (Hint: Peas/beans, lettuce, tomatoes, peppers)Starting a seed librarySeed Schoolhttps://permacultureforthefuture.com/episode4/About Bill McDormanB...

Show HighlightsWhy is the water (hydrological) cycle out of balance and the problems in the world that are linked to lack of water?Getting started with water harvesting using passive water harvesting basinsHarvesting water from not only rainwater, but household greywater, and air conditioner condensate to create integrated living systemsHow to simultaneously reduce flooding and solve droughtRain tanks and cisterns are secondary considerations after passive water harvesting earthworksHow harve...

Show HighlightsHow to get started composting with wormsHow to improve degraded soil with compost and eliminate the use of fertilizers, pesticides, and insecticidesProblems of sending food wastes to the landfillFood waste is the #1 category of materials being dumped in landfillsComposting and vermicomposting basicsUsing food scraps you have and turn it as a medium to grow more foodHow can you start a worm composting system without spending a lot of moneyDifferent worm composting systems availa...

The world is full of negative news and the planet is in crisis. This it can be downright disheartening and you feel that there is nothing that you can do. I am here to provide a different perspective. The Permaculture for the Future Podcast is about spreading positive and impactful stories, tips, and ways that each one of us can transition into a regenerative lifestyle. We talk about simple ways to make lifestyle changes and interview authors, teachers, and other folks that are collectively h...