Homesteading and Permaculture by Paul Wheaton

Podcast 740 – Sleaze and Anti-sleaze – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:48:18 +0000

Paul and Samantha continue discussing Spoon theory and how Bootcamp and Permies both avoid being spoon drains and potentially help regenerate spoons, while the upcoming Gardening Gardeners program is being worked on to try and take the load of obligation off of people.

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Podcast 739 – Sleaze and Anti-sleaze – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 22:57:25 +0000

Paul sits down for a completely impromptu session with Samantha about the sheer amount of sleaze that has been growing (at least in the states) over the last decade, and how it drains the energy of people exposed to it, in a manner that’s best explained with cutlery?

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Podcast 738 – Grow Our Own Food (GOOF) – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 23:02:43 +0000

Paul, Alexandra, Miranda, and M Ljin keep talking about how to get people into growing their own food, lamenting the loss of Alexandra’s local orchards, Ljin’s invading parsnips, food drying and foraging, and Montana’s famous huckleberries.

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Podcast 737 – Grow Our Own Food (GOOF) – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 20:53:11 +0000

Paul’s gotten tired of the whole “gardening is too expensive” thing, so has called in Alexandra, Miranda, and M Ljin to talk about ways to get hundreds of dollars of food for a few hours a week and couple of bucks. Hoop houses? Polytunnels? Experimental Rocket Mass Heaters? Or just use hugelkultur?

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Podcast 736 – 45 Permaculture Solutions – Part 3

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:46:20 +0000

Paul presents a revamped version of 45 permaculture solutions, without the original 45 minute time limit, in company with Samantha and Andreas.

The last 14 of Paul’s new 45(6?) Permaculture solutions get a go-over with Andreas and Samantha, with them covering such ideas as cob/adobe, slip straw, STUN gardening, landraces, skiddable structures, wavy deer fences, haybox cookers, communities, and several more.

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Podcast 735 – 45 Permaculture Solutions – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 23:39:40 +0000

Paul continues to talk about his revamped 45 Permaculture solutions with Samantha and Andreas , covering ideas such as Willow Feeders, dry outhouses, homegrown chicken feed, solar food dehydrators, berms, berm-sheds, stealth ponds, paddock shift systems, edible cleaners, and many more.

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Podcast 734 – 45 Permaculture Solutions – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 23:46:26 +0000

Paul presents a revamped version of 45 permaculture solutions, without the original 45 minute time limit, in company with Samantha and Andreas. The first of the solutions include Rocket Mass Heaters / cooktops / ovens / kilns, Lorenas, WOFATIs, Humus Wells, and of course, Hugelkultur.

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Podcast 733 – How to heat your home at minus 100 degrees – Part 3

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 22:32:50 +0000

Paul and Peter van den Berg conclude their discussion on ways to keep a warm home in extreme conditions, with the subject shifting to the developments on the Rocket Mass Heaters in the various buildings at The Lab, and Peter’s plan for the next J-tube developments. Maybe at the next RMH Jamboree?

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Podcast 732 – How to heat your home at minus 100 degrees – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 20:51:46 +0000

Paul, Alexandra, and Peter van den Berg continue theorycrafting ways to keep a house warm in extreme conditions, without using electricity as mains supplies tend to fail under such conditions, and debating where a batch-box or J-tube style Rocket Mass Heater would be more appropriate.

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Podcast 731 – How to heat your home at minus 100 degrees – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 23:08:23 +0000

Paul is joined by Alexandra and Peter van den Berg to plan for keeping a house warm in extreme cold conditions, starting with the more obvious such as keeping wood indoors near the fire, lamentations on advertised efficiency ratings on wood stoves, and keeping indoor plumbing from bursting.

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Podcast 730 – How to Heat Your Home with Green or Wet Wood – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 21:58:27 +0000

Paul, Samantha, continue discussing wet and green woods as fuel, with them believing that it’s not quite so crucial for a RMH as the higher burn temps help burn the creosote. You can also use some angle iron as spacers on top of the stove with a layer of rocks on them as a ghetto way to add more mass.

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Podcast 729 – How to Heat Your Home with Green or Wet Wood – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 18:40:19 +0000

Paul sits down to talk about how to prepare green or wet wood so it’s safe and effective for burning (and is later joined by Samantha). First off: never burn green wood – it’s a lot more work, gunks up the chimney, and gets you less heat. Store such wood indoors, on end, a few feet from the fire to dry it ASAP.

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Podcast 728 – Permaculture Smackdown 32 – Homestead Gumption – Part 3

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 21:10:23 +0000

Andreas, Paul, and Samantha’s talk on motivation reaches into its 3rd hour as they discuss homesteading verses permaculture homesteading, the fact that many people spend too much energy on things that don’t improve short-term quality of life, and some things that can help return gumption in the short term.

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Podcast 727 – Permaculture Smackdown 32 – Homestead Gumption – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 22:52:52 +0000

Andreas, Paul, and Samantha continue the smackdown discussing some mistakes they and others have made, such as attempting to buy a homestead on a mortgage and keeping a worky job, Ant Village’s teething issues, and how kids staying around their folks can help build long-term community.

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Podcast 726 – Permaculture Smackdown 32 – Homestead Gumption – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 18:45:57 +0000

Andreas takes the lead! He sits Paul down (later joined by Samantha) to talk about keeping yourself motivated and your homestead going, particularly for city folk looking to start. Easiest way is to experience a working homestead first, like bootcamp, and be part of a group (also like bootcamp).

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Podcast 725 – Creating Permaculture Communities with Stephen Brooks – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 20:33:36 +0000

Paul and Stephen Brooks of Ecoversity continue talking about setting up successful and enduring permaculture communities, how much turnover there is in the residents over time, getting government approval, the importance of them having fun and feeling empowered.

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Podcast 724 – Creating Permaculture Communities with Stephen Brooks – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 19:51:40 +0000

Paul sits down with Stephen Brooks of Ecoversity to discuss permaculture communities and how to create them. Pretty good choice of person to talk to, considering he’s made 3 of them in Costa Rica with over 200 families taking part in them, on top of about 150 kids in the school.

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Podcast 723 – Purple Permaculture Playing Cards – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 22:10:56 +0000

Paul and co. (Samantha, Mike Haasl, Andres, and Julia Winter) continue their rundown of some select cards from the new Purple Permaculture Playing Cards deck, such as Paul’s in development automatic backyard food pump, hay box cookers, Ferd and Gert, and the solar food dehydrator with rocket assist.

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Podcast 722 – Purple Permaculture Playing Cards – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 22:02:40 +0000

Paul sits down with a raft of people (Samantha, Mike Haasl, Andres, and Julia Winter) to discuss a few select cards of the new Purple Permaculture Playing Cards, with the first 4 being variations of Rocket Mass Heaters, namely cooktops, the Lorena, kilns, and water heaters.

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Podcast 721 – An Eye Towards AI – Part 3

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 21:09:08 +0000

Paul continues the discussion about AI and education with Alan, Alexandra and Samantha as it moves onto SKIP, PEP, more direct forms of knowledge sharing like Alexandra’s RMH courses, SKIP going worldwide, and how preppers can benefit from hoarding knowledge and skills instead of just more guns.

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Podcast 720 – An Eye Towards AI – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 22:41:07 +0000

The discussion between Paul, Alan Booker, Mike Haasl, and Alexandra Malecki about Artificial Intelligence continues into the domain of trade schools and their viability with the potential of AI workers encroaching onto the field, assuming the whole hallucination issue can be sorted.

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Podcast 719 – An Eye Towards AI – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 22:15:51 +0000

Paul calls up Alan Booker, Mike Haasl, and Alexandra Malecki to talk about the pros and cons of Artificial Intelligence and college, their effects on the youth of today, and possible ways through for them a rapidly changing world.

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Podcast 718 – Conventional Wood Stoves

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 21:50:50 +0000

Paul calls up Uncle Mud to pointedly not discuss rocket heaters, but instead talk about more traditional wood burners, the drawbacks of low-and-slow burning overnight, airflow and intakes, thermal mass, and the Scandinavian origins of non-rocket mass heaters.

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Podcast 717 – Gardening Gardeners – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 19:13:16 +0000

Paul and Samantha continue discussing bootcamp, going over how he’s changed it since going to Portland, and how it compares to the WWoOF programme. Paul believes that bootcamp would be a good fit for many people that didn’t quite get along with WWoOf but liked the idea.

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Podcast 716 – Gardening Gardeners – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 20:33:37 +0000

Paul and Samantha sit down to discuss Paul’s visit to a bunch of potlucks in Portland, and how the local over-abundance of pears on the ground comes back to bootcamp and how it tries to not only grow food, but turn people into gardeners. And how it doesn’t charge rent so you’re actually free to benefit the community.

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Podcast 715 – Brock’s Consultation – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 20:00:55 +0000

Brock’s consultation continues with Paul further detailing hugelkultur use and use of paddocks to raise chickens while keeping them away from human food, and that Brock should focus on roughly a quarter acre of his land at a time and make it awesome before moving to the next.

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Podcast 714 – Brock’s Consultation – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 22:52:54 +0000

Brock has foolishly sent money to Paul for a consultation on his 2-acre Minnesotan property with a bunch of ash trees for the inevitable hugelkultur recommendations, a persistent department-of-making-you-sad, and a goal of feeding a family of 5 on hopefully more than sunchokes and walking onions.

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Podcast 713 – Spokane Potluck

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 19:21:38 +0000

Paul has wandered off to Spokane to meet up with Nicholas Thomas to have a potluck, and we get to have a potluck of pod topics! Including, but not limited to, natural control of pest (mainly earwig) populations, appropriate lawn care (build hugelkulture) and discovering new landmarks.

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Podcast 712 – Wheaton Labs Aspirations – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 23:04:10 +0000

Paul and Stephen continue talking about their aspirations for bootcamp and Wheaton Labs, such as seeing a dozen people living at bootcamp all year and learning how to manage their own homestead, before moving onto half-assed holidays, more on sunchokes, and a some more on bootcamp culture.

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Podcast 711 – Wheaton Labs Aspirations – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 21:43:50 +0000

Paul and Stephen sit down to talk about their aspirations for Basecamp and the Labs, covering how much better the soil is after years of care, the dozens of rockety gizmos around the place, and some basics for new boots, such as letting themselves take a break instead of sprinting to keep up with the veterans.

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Podcast 710 – Cancer Delays – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 18:36:17 +0000

Paul and Samantha continue discussing the differences between Paul’s and Mark Shepherd’s methods before moving on to willow feeders, sewage treatment at Wheaton Labs and in general, and how using greywater safe soaps help even in an apartment.

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Podcast 709 – Cancer Delays – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 20:24:43 +0000

Paul talks with Samantha about the effect of his health on progress, the pitfalls of hiring people, soap company’s questionable marketing, a comparison between his and Mark Shepherd’s gardening, and a bit on a consultee’s over-farmed property (less growing of commercial alfalfa, more hugelkultur).

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Podcast 708 – Suze’s Consultation – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 22:13:20 +0000

Paul and JB continue Suze’s consultation on what to do with her sewage situation instead of connecting up to the city sewage network. They discuss what sort of woodchips to use, the current lack of a drain field and the potential issues that causes, and weather or not to use shampoo.

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Podcast 707 – Suze’s Consultation – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 22:29:58 +0000

Suze decided that it was a good idea to willingly give money to Paul for a consultation on what to do with her (urban) community’s failing septic tank system, so he and JB decide to discuss Willow Feeders as they’d be a far cheaper and better solution than coughing up about $40k to connect to the city’s sewage system.

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Podcast 706 – Bootcamp Culture – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 21:52:00 +0000

Paul, Eliot, and Julia continue their discussion on the culture that’s developed in bootcamp, and attributes much of it to the quality of people that tend to come there and stick around. Paul’s own over-eagerness definitely helps with both the culture and filtering some specimens out.

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Podcast 705 – Bootcamp Culture – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 20:30:52 +0000

Paul is with Julia and Eliot talking about bootcamp culture and how it contrasts to, say, another community that apparently causes couples to divorce when they go there, and the story of an Andy that attempted to start his own community and the woes he faced until he found out how to get it on it’s own feet.

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Podcast 704 – Homestead Living Magazine

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 20:18:27 +0000

Paul talks with Matt about RMHs and Homestead Living magazine for which Paul and Beau wrote an article and they discuss this and other RMH-related subjects, such as Mud’s aversion to using wood anywhere near a RMH just in case it slowly becomes more flammable.

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Podcast 703 – Permaculture Smackdown 31 – Strategies for growing enough food to feed your family – Part 3

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 21:25:51 +0000

Paul finishes up the smakdown with Beau, Liv, and Samantha with a discussion on butter making, dairy in general, preserving meats in ways beyond simply freezing it, and keeping chickens as an introduction to raising animals for meat.

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Podcast 702 – Permaculture Smackdown 31 – Strategies for growing enough food to feed your family – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 21:57:36 +0000

Paul, Liv, Beau and Samantha continue discussing how to grow enough food to feed a family, with a lot of the discussion this time being about corn, or lack thereof, in the discussion thus far, what with it being calorie dense, having a long shelf-life, and being good fodder for cattle

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Podcast 701 – Permaculture Smackdown 31 – Strategies for growing enough food to feed your family – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 23:41:31 +0000

Paul, Liv, Beau and Samantha discuss strategies for growing enough food for a family, namely what to grow, how to not get overwhelmed and decide gardening is hard, livestock rearing, what to grow to make gardening fun and potentially profitable, if you don’t mind trading.

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Podcast 700 – Permaculture Smackdown 30 – The solution for nearly every soil test – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 21:23:54 +0000

Paul, Clay, and Samantha continue discussing soil tests and other ways of quickly building soil. They talk about “Back to Eden Gardening” , it’s use of wood chips and why that may not be the best plan for a couple of reasons, keyline ploughing, and how much mulch is needed.

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Podcast 699 – Permaculture Smackdown 30 – The solution for nearly every soil test – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 22:31:16 +0000

Paul sets out to talk about soil tests with Samantha and Clay, and winds up talking about how most test results just mean “apply mulch”, unless it means “plant alder trees to detox”, Sepp Holzer’s earthworm greenhouse, root exudate, and Paul’s alleged harassment of a friend via mulch.

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Podcast 698 – Permaculture Smackdown 29: Hugelkultur! – Part 3

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 23:49:13 +0000

Paul, Beau, and Samantha conclude their discussion on hugelkulturs, by talking about turbulence and preventing it with either windbreaks, holly trees, or making them close together, what wood is best for them, (whatever is around, basically), and a brief on another list of things that didn’t get in the main presentation.

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Podcast 697 – Permaculture Smackdown 29: Hugelkultur! – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 00:26:03 +0000

Paul, Beau, and Samantha continue going over the Hugelkultur slides and talk about weather hugelkultur or mulch is better on their own, what materials are good for mulching, how to get mulch to stay on hugelkulturs, and their effects on a growing season’s length.

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Podcast 696 – Permaculture Smackdown 29: Hugelkultur! – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 21:18:50 +0000

Paul, Beau, and Samantha sit down to discuss Paul’s favourite topic: Hugelkultur! What it is, how to make it, what to and not to put in it, and why pure lasagna gardening might not be the best addon for it. And, yes, you can use simple dirt to make them if you don’t have enough soil.

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Podcast 695 – Bits and Bobs with Alexandra 2 – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 19:51:13 +0000

Paul gets to the end of Alexandra’s long list of topics, with the two of them discussing non-profits, how they’d apply (or not) to permies, and finishing off with a discussion on communities, Paul’s style of running them and the need for a better recipe for making new ones.

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Podcast 694 – Bits and Bobs with Alexandra 2 – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 22:48:40 +0000

Unable to be contained to a mere one two-part podcast, Alexandra is back with another one. This time covering the local cats, their new rocket-ajacent houses, and Alexandra’s experience raising her kids on site without the sometimes expected Paul-daycare.

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Podcast 693 – Bits and Bobs with Alexandra – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 22:21:24 +0000

Paul and Alexandra keep going down her list of knickknacks to discuss, which include how BBs are accepted or rejected, what to do if one of yours is rejected, how much faff the SKIP project is compared to college, and a surprising amount of people that do SKIP to help with depression.

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Podcast 692 – Bits and Bobs with Alexandra – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 23:53:31 +0000

Paul talks with Alexandra about her experience staying at the Fisher-Price house with her kids, her experience with running the Rocket Mass Heater for a month for a BB, the cost of doing SKIP (or lack thereof), and how engineering planners like her can face unexpected complications.

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Podcast 691 – Permaculture Smackdown 28 – GAMCOD – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 23:20:05 +0000

Paul, Mike, Tim, Rebekah, and Clay continue discussing Paul’s GAMCOD programme, where they started from, their time investment, and what should be grown in such a garden to get as many calories as possible, why soybeans are blacklisted, and any qualifying video that gets used can get $400 per minute used in the upcoming film.

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Podcast 690 – Permaculture Smackdown 28 – GAMCOD – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 20:38:30 +0000

Paul, Mike, Tim, Rebekah, and Clay discuss Paul’s GAMCOD programme, in which you show that you can grow food on a 200 sq ft plot of dirt and record the process on video, their experiences with it, and attempt to dispel a few common misconceptions about it.

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Podcast 689 – Permaculture Smackdown 27 – Willow Feeders – Part 3

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 19:15:52 +0000

Paul, Alan, Stephen and Clay continue discussing faecal management systems, with the goal of making one that can scale up to deal with lots of people. They also discuss other poop loving plants like bamboo, or maybe creating a much more spread out system and using it as pasture.

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Podcast 688 – Permaculture Smackdown 27 – Willow Feeders – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 23:47:36 +0000

Paul, Alan, Steven and Clay continue the discussion about poop, with Paul aiming to replace sewage plants even in areas that ban compost toilets, and Alan feeling that the alpha testing is complete, and discussing weather humanure or willow feeders are safer in regards to pathogens.

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Podcast 687 – Permaculture Smackdown 27 – Willow Feeders – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 11:06:20 +0000

Paul sits down with Steven, Clay, and Alan Booker to discuss other methods of dealing with human waste, aka poop. There’s a lower limit of about 1m3 for a compost heap, so why not put it underground and put a willow tree in it to keep it in one place?

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Podcast 686 – Christmas RMH Special – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 23:19:16 +0000

Paul, Steven and Alexandra continue discussing the Fisher-Price house Rocket Mass heater, and how to effectively fuel it, how much it costs in terms of time spent, fuel used, what sizes of wood to burn when, and how to avoid turning the feed into a competing chimney.

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Podcast 685 – Christmas RMH Special – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 21:27:47 +0000

Paul sits down with Steven and RMH-expert-aspirant Alexandra to discuss her experience with running the Rocket Mass Heater in the Fisher Price house for a month so she can get the BB, her fascination with the fluid dynamics inside them, and dispelling some perceived flaws with RMHs.

Paul, Steven, and Alexandra discuss running the Fisher-Price house RMH for a month to get the BB for “heat a house with an RMH”. She’s also learning about RMHs in general and aims to be an RMH expert in due course.

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Podcast 684 – State of the Jungle – Part 3

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 23:49:29 +0000

Paul and Steven still have a variety of notes to go over, such as Rocket Mass heaters needing a better PR spin, getting GAMCOD off the ground with a 3-boot startup, appreciation for all the support he’s been getting, and some slight hypocrisy around compost toilet bans.

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Podcast 683 – State of the Jungle – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 22:22:58 +0000

Paul and Steven continue their discussing of a whole jungle’s worth of topics, covering everything from reworking the Building a Better World book, GAMCOD, Hugelkultur, BEL, server and email maintenance, Youtube plans, and a bit of bot bashing to round things off.

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Podcast 682 -State of the Jungle – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 21:09:31 +0000

Paul is with Steven and they discuss the state of the jungle, which in this case is mostly about plans for the next kickstarters, including either a willow feeder movie or book, a Rocket Mass Heater book with Uncle Mud, or a GAMCOD movie

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Podcast 681 – BEL Fundraising

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 17:38:19 +0000

Paul is with Bo, Fred, Dez and Steven doing a fundraiser for BEL (Bootcamp Experience Log), a rolling fund which pays out to boots who make 100 posts in their BEL thread, while also discussing the new GAMCOD programme and a new big prize for a new boot that shows up and sticks around.

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Podcast 680 – Hawaii – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 21:06:44 +0000

Paul and Katie continue to talk about Hawaii and how it’s different from Montana, such as the year-round growing season, (although there are ways to extend it if need be) and potential for massive 10″ rainfall in a night. And the lack of parasites in Montana. That’s a big plus.

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Podcast 679 – Hawaii – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 23:04:03 +0000

Paul and Katie skip clambering up to the caldera and instead sit down to talk about Katie’s experience with her now home of Hawaii, the problems caused by the prevailing wind, the wet and dry sides of the islands, fungal and ant plagues, and the side-effects of becoming a state.

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Podcast 678 – Paul the Snake Oil Salesman

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 21:47:57 +0000

Paul and Katie take another hike up to the caldera, this time discussing how Paul’s advocacy for Rocket Mass Heats can have him coming across as a bit of a snake oil salesman (heck even Katie dismissed them at first) and a few hypotheses as to why that is.

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Podcast 677 – Cabins and Gardens

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 23:02:18 +0000

Paul and Katie head up the caldera and talk about the progress of on-site food growing after spending so long just building the soil, potential price changes for accommodation, and maybe the start of new plans to add a range of luxuriance to the accommodation on offer.

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Podcast 676 – 2024 PTJ – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:35:09 +0000

Paul and Co continue discussing the progress made at the 2024 Permaculture Technology Jamboree, covering the rest of the Sepp Holzer root cellar, upgrades to the Red Cabin’s RMH, a rocket oven, an attempt to use said oven to heat the kiddie pool, and a new method for thin cob floors.

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Podcast 675 – 2024 PTJ – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 20:01:19 +0000

Paul, JR, and Beau all sit down and go over this years Permaculture Technology Jamboree progress, including the new pumphouse for the well and how it’s kept from freezing, a partner for mycelium insulation, a new Sepp Holzer style root cellar, the roundwood pavilion, and more!

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Podcast 674 – Site overview and Steven – Part 3

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 21:00:22 +0000

Paul continues his discussion with Steven and Clay, talking about the BRK’s replacement program known as the Bootcamp Experience Log (BEL) and what it lets them do, the boot’s standard of living, what they need to progress the world domination plan, and the next step thereof.

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Podcast 673 – Site overview and Steven – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 20:36:46 +0000

Paul continues his chat with Steven and Clay about Wheaton labs, boot camp, summer/winter coping tactics (slushies ftw!), comparisons to the WWOOF program, BRK’s new replacement known as the BEL program, and welcoming train wrecks to bootcamp, so long as they’re up to standard and leave their baggage at the gate.

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Podcast 672 – Site overview and Steven – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 22:55:11 +0000

Paul talks with Steven and Clay at the labs during labor day weekend, about how the lab is developing into a permaculture theme park of sorts, the new hybrid pickup from a benefactor, and what they were all doing before they came to The Lab as seppers.

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Podcast 671 – 2024 SKIP Event

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 21:28:56 +0000

People say Paul hasn’t put out a podcast in a while, so he takes the opportunity to make one at the SKIP event, interviewing Alexandra, Charlie, Rebecca and Rio on what they’ve been up to – with responses including woodwork, building, Rocket Mass Heaters, and willow feeders.

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Podcast 670 – John Tero’s Consultation – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 22:29:22 +0000

Paul continues with John’s consultation on his 1.8 acre Georgian property, this time discussing which trees to plant, including peach because that’s obligatory for the state, Sheer, Total, Utter Neglect (STUN) gardening, and maybe even creating a small wetland.

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Podcast 669 – John Tero’s Consultation – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 22:51:43 +0000

Paul consults with another poor fool that gave him real money for some reason. Today’s victim is John Tero, with his 1.8 acre property in Georgia and it’s conifer trees aplenty for hugelkultur. And obstacle courses, apparently.

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Podcast 665 – Molly Mac’s Consultation

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 10:51:02 +0000

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 hugelkultur it is! There’s even a convenient space for a Rocket Mass Heater.

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Podcast 664 – Red Cabin RMH Mk.5 – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 21:22:37 +0000

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 with cold plugs and such, and maybe a way, or at least a warning, for dealing with the outside of the cob getting too hot.

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Podcast 663 – Red Cabin RMH Mk.5 – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 21:58:05 +0000

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 made of firebricks, and bickering on how efficient the mass should be.

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Podcast 662 – Bonnie Bassan’s Consultation – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 14:14:57 +0000

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 of composting, and just how Paul manages to stay optimistic (hint: it involves gardens).

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Podcast 661 – Bonnie Bassan’s Consultation – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 18:57:37 +0000

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 place for Hugelkultur, just needs a bit of irrigation for a while to build the soil.

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Podcast 660 – Orchard Gertitude

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 22:40:59 +0000

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 farmers, their pay, and how they’re getting screwed over by the markets.

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Podcast 659 – Tim Kostamo’s Consultation

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 21:01:50 +0000

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 includes hugelkultur, conifer removal, taking it slow, and building wavy deer fences.

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Podcast 658 – Heatpumps v Rocket Mass Heaters – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 22:18:03 +0000

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, automation, maintenance, and durability with other heating methods.

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Podcast 657 – Heatpumps v Rocket Mass Heaters – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 19:10:19 +0000

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 Heaters compare to other heating methods in terms of installation, operation, carbon footprint, and a bunch more.

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Podcast 656 – Janelle’s Consultation – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 20:04:32 +0000

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 building, and water acquisition via taprooted trees.

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Podcast 655 – Janelle’s Consultation – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 18:26:51 +0000

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 creek. Paul’s suggestions include berms, ponds, goldfish, and livestock guardian dogs, amongst others.

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Podcast 654 – Free Heat for Every Home – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 17:08:01 +0000

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 Batch Box and J-Tube style heaters from the perspective of newbie builders.

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Podcast 653 – Free Heat for Every Home – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 22:06:26 +0000

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, adding a stratification chamber, and trying out a passive plug that should keep heat in when not in use.

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Podcast 652 – 18-Year Thought Experiment

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 18:33:43 +0000

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 would make a big positive change, would he? What about if stopping would result in 10 times that?

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Podcast 651 – Normie to Permie – Part 3

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 21:35:38 +0000

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, and pointing out that bootcamp is kinda unique in all of America.

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Podcast 650 – Normie to Permie – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 23:28:32 +0000

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 and find what some consider laborious demands to be met almost casually.

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Podcast 649 – Normie to Permie – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 17:24:25 +0000

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 decided to stick around Wheaton Labs instead of any of the prior ones.

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Podcast 648 – Wheaton Biography – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 19:46:56 +0000

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 permaculture if modern courses and materials were available when he were a lad, and finishing off with relationships.

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Podcast 647 – Wheaton Biography – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 20:11:53 +0000

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 he went from a software engineer to the Duke of Permaculture, and how he got into gardening.

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Podcast 646 – Struggling with big spend – Part 3

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 22:43:52 +0000

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 GAMCOD, wofati construction videos, affiliate marketing, TED talks, and a bunch more.

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Podcast 645 – Struggling with big spend – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 22:22:43 +0000

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, including ideas such as investments, advertising, documentary making, and a whole bunch more.

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Podcast 644 – Struggling with big spend – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 19:08:51 +0000

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 Mass Heater installers, Wofati builders, social media presence, and a bunch more.

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Podcast 643 – Carbon Footprint – Part 3

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 18:40:22 +0000

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, refurbishment vs building anew, and food’s impact on a footprint.

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Podcast 642 – Carbon Footprint – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 19:33:59 +0000

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 people’s carbon footprint, so Paul suggests Rocket mass heaters.

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Podcast 641 – Carbon Footprint – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 18:58:57 +0000

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 to demonstrate how permaculture can improve lifestyles and make this knowledge go viral.

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Podcast 640 – Samantha’s Consultation – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 20:00:11 +0000

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 potential berm shed, and Mark Shepard’s book on Restoration Agriculture.

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Podcast 639 – Samantha’s Consultation – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 21:13:15 +0000

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, along with her progress with a BB and inspiration from GAMCOD.

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Podcast 638 – De- and Re-skilling

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 22:04:01 +0000

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 such skills back, even when ignoring how they can be used to inherit properties.

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