Homesteading and Permaculture by Paul Wheaton

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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Podcast 637 – Cat’s SKIP Diet podlet

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 16:26:10 +0000

Paul manages to get Cat to sit down over lunch for long enough to get a mini-podcast out of her, along with (much to her chagrin) her daughter and Dez, while they discuss her weight loss since coming to Bootcamp along with other food and health related topics.

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Podcast 636 – 2023 Permaculture Design Course Session 3

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 15:13:24 +0000

Paul, Alan Booker, and others meet at lunch on day 11 of Alan Booker’s PDC. Today’s topic is “whether or not to go to college” and what’s changed in the last 12 years since Paul’s last talked about this. They also discuss SKIP and the effects of Artificial Intelligence on worky jobs.

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Podcast 635 – 2023 Permaculture Design Course Session 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 21:51:30 +0000

Paul and others are back at lunch at the PDC with JR Magee and Dez Choi, with his big theme being the 2023 Permaculture Technology Jamboree and his plans to extend it, along with some on the planned Freezer Wofati, new possibilities from the well, and a surprise turnip harvest.

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Podcast 634 – 2023 Permaculture Design Course

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 18:04:55 +0000

Paul has Brandt come back for another round of of his Permaculture Design Course because last year just wasn’t enough for him, so he came back for more. They also discuss Hugelkultur and how to get started with your permaculture build, either on your own land, or how to inherit via SKIP.

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Podcast 633 – Office Cleanup and Updates – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 17:34:04 +0000

Samantha still can’t persuade Paul to get his office cleaned up, so it looks like they’re going to keep discussing communities, how to keep people from playing rule sillybuggers, how he runs successful Kickstarters, and anything and everything else they can to stave off the dreaded cleaning.

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Podcast 632 – Office Cleanup and Updates – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 17:19:35 +0000

Samantha pops in to Paul’s office offering to help him clean the place up, and instead finds herself recording a podcast with him on Allerton Abbey’s round door, Permaculture Technology Jamboree compensation plans, well digging, and anything and everything else in the place instead of getting it sorted.

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Podcast 631 – 2022 PTJ Recap Session 3 – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 17:50:04 +0000

Paul finishes up his recap of the 2022 Permaculture Technology Jamboree with his last remaining instructor, Lisa Orr, along with Chris McClellan, aka Uncle Mud, on subjects including rocket stove tech, wild clay and alternate fuel sources.

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Podcast 630 – 2022 PTJ Recap Session 3 – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 17:46:22 +0000

Paul sits back down and gets last remaining instructor, Lisa Orr, along with Chris McClellan, aka Uncle Mud, to go more into their Rocket Kiln stuff. They also bring up Pyrometers, J-tubes, firing cones, and a delicate blue glaze.

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Podcast 629 – 2022 PTJ Recap Session 2 – Part 3

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 17:13:32 +0000

Session 2 of 2022’s Permaculture Technology Jamboree roundup finishes up with its batch of instructors, mostly on Jacob Wustner’s topics of bees, bee genetics, how to get bees with good genetics and how to improve poorer ones, swarm traps, and treatment free keeping of bees.

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Podcast 628 – 2022 PTJ Recap Session 2 – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 18:23:41 +0000

The recap of last year’s Permaculture Technology Jamboree continues with the second batch of instructors (Samantha Lewis, Michael Otten, Jim Juczak, and Austin Durant) and what they taught.

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Podcast 627 – 2022 PTJ Recap Session 2 – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 17:57:44 +0000

Paul gets another batch of instructors from last year’s Permaculture Technology Jamboree in to discuss what they did for the event, namely getting a Mongolian yurt in, the earthworks necessary for building it on a steep slope, an offer for paid videography, and roundwood picnic tables.

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Podcast 626 – 2022 PTJ Recap – Part 3

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 17:03:41 +0000

The first session of last year’s Permaculture Technology Jamboree comes to a close after discussing more on the rocket kiln and it’s potential as a rocket forge, rocket stoves, the new solar dehydrator with rocket assist, and spinning wheels made from bicycle parts.

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Podcast 625 – 2022 PTJ Recap – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 18:37:53 +0000

The recap of last year’s Permaculture Technology Jamboree continues with about a third of his instructors, discussing Uncle Mud’s breakthrough in rocket kilns that allows much faster and cheaper pottery firing.

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Podcast 624 – 2022 PTJ Recap – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 17:52:35 +0000

Paul calls up about a third of his instructors (Alan Booker, Chris McClellan aka Uncle Mud, Opalyn Rose, Samantha Lewis, and Beau Davidson) from last year’s Permaculture Technology Jamboree to just go over what was taught there and some on the plans for this year’s PTJ.

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Podcast 623 – Catchup with Alan Booker – Part 3

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 17:16:56 +0000

The catchup call between Paul and Alan Booker continues for another hour (mostly on Rocket Mass Heaters and upcoming events) before they decide to wind down for next time, along with a bit on Alan’s PDC and possible redefinition of the SEPPers program.

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Podcast 622 – Catchup with Alan Booker – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 17:15:30 +0000

Paul continues his call with Alan Booker with the goal of catching up on the past 6 months of pod-silence, covering topics such as the Living Building Challenge, how energy prices vary over time and depending on source, and backup/emergency energy sources.

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Podcast 621 – Catchup with Alan Booker – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 17:12:55 +0000

Paul once again calls up Alan Booker after the long hiatus to catch up on what’s been happening at Paul’s in that time along with some future plans, covering the upcoming 2023 Garden Master course with Helen Atthowe and progress with the GM 2022, free heat, and greenhouse movies.

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Podcast 620 – Biophilic Design and BBB session 5 – Part 3

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 16:53:37 +0000

Paul finishes up his call with Alan booker, but not before remembering that they’re supposed to be discussing section 2.4 of Permaculture a Designer’s Manual by Bill Mollison and actually managed to get and stay on topic, though still keeping Biophilia in mind.

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Podcast 619 – Biophilic Design and BBB session 5 – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Sun, 27 Nov 2022 16:59:42 +0000

The call between Paul and Alan Booker continues, and they still don’t get around to discussing section 2.4 of Permaculture a Designer’s Manual by Bill Mollison, AKA the Big Black Book, instead continuing to talk about Biophilic Design, bio-digesters, and Rocket Mass Heaters.

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Podcast 618 – Biophilic Design and BBB session 5 – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 17:05:23 +0000

Paul calls up Alan Booker to continue their read-through of Permaculture a Designer’s Manual by Bill Mollison, AKA the Big Black Book, section 2.4. But got distracted by Biophilic Design, Rocket Mass Heaters, and how not to get people to be more efficient.

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Podcast 617 – Oil and Water of the Mind – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 16:55:13 +0000

Paul continues discussing “Oil and Water of the Mind” and his second piece “If you live in an apartment, what good is a Rocket Mass Heater?” with Samantha. They stay on topic this time, but do bring up comparisons to the cost of heating via electricity, natural gas, Mini Splits, and old/modern wood stoves.

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Podcast 616 – Oil and Water of the Mind – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 16:35:07 +0000

Paul sits down with Samantha after a 6-month hiatus to discuss a thing what he wrote called “Oil and Water of the Mind”, a thing about how politics is (probably) being shaped by people to make them more money, along with Rocket Mass Heaters, Kickstarter progress, and a bit on the SKIP book.

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Podcast 615 – Wofati Greenhouse 3

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Sun, 15 May 2022 15:59:21 +0000

Paul isn’t sitting down with anyone this time and is instead providing a general update before switching over to previously recorded clips with an expert timberframer by the name of Caleb Larson on the subject of the Wofati Greenhouse that didn’t make it into the movie.

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Podcast 614 – Permaculture Smackdown 26 – Media Retrospective – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 15:39:12 +0000

Paul sits down with Ashley to continue the smackdown that was supposed to be reviewing Building a Better World, but instead have a good natter about SKIP, their experience with PDCs, Paul’s unpublished thorns book, and how he hopes his PEP system will improve on PDCs.

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Podcast 613 – Permaculture Smackdown 26 – Media Retrospective – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 15:25:41 +0000

Paul sits down with Ashley for both the first podcast and first smackdown of 2022 to supposedly review Building a Better World, but never get around to it, instead having a good natter about various bits of media and old podcasts.

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Podcast 612 – Permaculture Smackdown 25 – Better Bootcamp Bio – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Mon, 27 Dec 2021 18:25:35 +0000

Paul continues this week’s smackdown with Mark, Ashley, Katie, and Kyle, and moves on to reviewing his Building a Better World book, chapter 3 which is all about light bulbs, how to save energy, where to use LEDs verses incandescents, and some hazards of excessive blue light.

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Podcast 611 – Permaculture Smackdown 25 – Better Bootcamp Bio – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 19:26:04 +0000

Paul sits down with Mark, Ashley, Katie, and Kyle to discuss a selection of different topics, loosely centered around making Bootcamp more appealing, starting at the basics by asking everyone present what would be a good motivator for them.

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Podcast 610 – Building a Better World review Session 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 18:49:47 +0000

Paul takes a break from editing the SKIP book to review chapter two of his Building a Better World in your Backyard book with Julia, Katie, and Mark, although they spend half the podcast talking about the upcoming Garden Master course, progress with the SKIP book, and other Kickstarter updates.

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Podcast 609 – Building a Better World review Session 1 – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 18:38:35 +0000

Paul sits down with Katie and Julia to do a chapter-by-chapter review of Paul’s new book – “Building a Better World in your Backyard Instead of Being Angry at Bad Guys”, covering topics such as Rocket Mass Heaters, his efforts to get celebrities to cover his work.

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Podcast 608 – Building a Better World review Session 1 – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 19:32:33 +0000

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Podcast 607 – The Future Leadership of Permaculture – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 19:25:46 +0000

Paul sits back down with Alan Booker to try to talk about Bill Mollison’s Permaculture: A Designer’s Manual, but wind up getting completely distracted and talking about Kickstarter and how to get more boots up to bootcamp.

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Podcast 606 – The Future Leadership of Permaculture – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Sun, 28 Nov 2021 21:54:54 +0000

Paul sits back down with Alan Booker to try to talk about Bill Mollison’s Permaculture: A Designer’s Manual, but wind up getting completely distracted and talking about cultivating a new generation of permaculture leaders and how to characterize them.

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Podcast 605 – Big Black Book Session 4 – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Fri, 26 Nov 2021 18:34:09 +0000

Paul sits back down with Alan Booker after a fourteen-month hiatus to get back into the Big Black Book, aka Permaculture a Designer’s Manual by Bill Mollison. In this episode, they start to discuss Mollison’s 5 permaculture principals and Paul’s reluctance to read David Holmgren’s work.

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Podcast 604 – Big Black Book Session 4 – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 19:17:49 +0000

Paul sits back down with Alan Booker after a fourteen-month hiatus to get back into the Big Black Book, aka Permaculture a Designer’s Manual by Bill Mollison. This part focuses on Figure 2.1 on page 14, talking about water retention landscapes, water cycling, and crediting inventors.

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Podcast 603 – Permaculture Smackdown 24 – Building a Better World Precursor – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 17:56:11 +0000

Paul sits down with some of his patreons (Julia, Katie, and Mark) to talk about an essay written by Derrek Jensen that became a precursor to Paul’s Building a Better World in your Backyard, with this part discussing how the presence of people that aren’t kind and good hinder the entire process.

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Podcast 602 – Permaculture Smackdown 24 – Building a Better World Precurser – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Sat, 20 Nov 2021 18:06:41 +0000

Paul sits down with Julia, Katie, and Mark to talk about an essay written by Derrek Jensen that became a precursor to Paul’s Building a Better World in your Backyard, and mostly discusses what Derrek derides in his essay, namely personal change that hopes to result in more major change.

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Podcast 601 – Permaculture Smackdown 23 – Renewable Energy – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 19:54:25 +0000

Paul calls up some of his usual suspects from his patreons (Katie, Kyle, and Mark) along with a couple of new comers (Joshua and Weston, although the latter’s mic was on the fritz) for a more hard-hitting focus on renewable power sources, recycling and a bit on RMHs.

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Podcast 600 – Permaculture Smackdown 23 – Renewable Energy – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Sat, 13 Nov 2021 18:15:35 +0000

Paul calls up some of his usual suspects from his patreons (Katie, Kyle, and Mark) for the latest permaculture smackdown with a focus on renewable power sources. There’s also a brief update on the permaculture card deck, the mobile version of the site, and the SKIP book.

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Podcast 599 – Bootcamp Rundown – Part 3

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 17:43:10 +0000

Paul sits down with two of the five boots at bootcamp (Magdalene and Grey, Dez wandered off) to discuss how much the bootcamp sucks, with this episode talking about what to bring, such as work gloves and safety glasses, and what not to bring, like perfume and weed.

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Podcast 598 – Bootcamp Rundown – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 18:58:28 +0000

Paul sits down with three of the five boots at bootcamp (Dez, Magdalene, and Grey) to discuss how much the bootcamp sucks. In this part, they go over Grey’s list of stuff that can indicate if bootcamp is going to be for you, or if you’ll just bounce off.

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Podcast 597 – Bootcamp Rundown – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Sun, 07 Nov 2021 19:14:07 +0000

Paul sits down with three of the five boots at bootcamp (Dez, Magdalene, and Grey) to discuss how much the bootcamp sucks, as well as few upsides that they get out of the way first, such as the success of the last three events and the wofati greenhouse.

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Podcast 596 – Permaculture Smackdown 22 – The Paul HOA Session 3 – Part 3

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 18:12:39 +0000

Paul continues his call with Mark and Katie on the subject of building rules and regulations on his land, this time mostly discussing willow feeder systems, scalability issues with conventional humanure systems and how the inventor got around them by building a humanure treatment plant.

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Podcast 595 – Permaculture Smackdown 22 – The Paul HOA Session 3 – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 18:54:15 +0000

Paul continues his call with Mark and Katie on the subject of building rules and regulations on his land, this time actually getting to the topic in the title, along with discussion on wofati roof design, willow feeders, and the reasons why Paul doesn’t want humanure.

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Podcast 594 – Permaculture Smackdown 22 – The Paul HOA Session 3 – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 17:35:14 +0000

Paul calls up Mark and Katie to discuss the rules and regs of building on his land, but get sidetracked into talking about progress with the wofati greenhouse, potential future kickstarter projects, and an update on using citric acid as an edible cleaner.

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Podcast 593 – Permaculture Smackdown 21 – Haters Gonna Hate – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Sat, 30 Oct 2021 18:18:59 +0000

Paul continues the latest episode of the Permaculture Smackdown with Katie and Kyle to discuss how to deal with haters without running and hiding. They talk about Paul’s philosophy on dealing with haters, it’s Buddhist origin, and his experience with the Fouch family.

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Podcast 592 – Permaculture Smackdown 21 – Haters Gonna Hate – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 18:09:12 +0000

Paul sits down for the latest episode of the Permaculture Smackdown with Katie and Kyle to discuss how to deal with haters without running and hiding. They mostly discuss Paul’s approach to moderation, getting thicker skin, and how to move past trolls and haters on other sites.

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Podcast 591 – Eliot’s Farm Experience

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 19:25:01 +0000

Paul sits back down with Eliot once again to continue talking about his farming experience and contrast them with Paul’s. They talk about topics such as climate change, carbon footprints and how reducing them brings other benefits, and the reasons why each of them first bought land.

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Podcast 590 – Gardening v Farming

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 23:08:39 +0000

Paul sits back down with Eliot to continue where they left off on the subject of gardening verses farming. Other topics include some of the difficulties of developing communities, PEP and SKIP certification, and another brief rundown on staying on potentially temporary land.

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Podcast 589 – Julia (and Eliot’s) Farm

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 18:23:35 +0000

Paul sits back down with Eliot for a quick podcast discussing Paul’s visit to Eliot’s farm before knocking off for lunch. They do get around to discussing berms, hugelkultur, terraces, orchards, frost pockets and how to make upside down hugelkultur beds.

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Podcast 588 – 2021 RMH Jamboree So Far – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 16:42:45 +0000

Paul continues his talk with Eliot, one of the people at the 2021 Rocket Mass Heater Jamboree to discuss the past week of the 9-day event, Rocket Mass Heaters, Walker Stoves, Liberator cores, Gamera, and Bartell’s Bunkhouse, the not-quite-wofati that’s getting a new RMH.

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Podcast 587 – 2021 RMH Jamboree So Far – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 17:57:48 +0000

Paul sits down Elliot, one of of the 30 people at the 2021 Rocket Mass Heater Jamboree to discuss the past week of the 9-day event, covering topics such as Rocket Mass Heaters, Rocket Stoves, a rocket “lorena”, outdoor kitchens, and other happenings at the 2021 RMH Jamboree. Also omelette bars.

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Podcast 586 – Justin’s Walker Stove RMH Consultation – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Sat, 16 Oct 2021 16:19:16 +0000

Paul continues his talk with Justin on the subject of his Walker stove to be, covering topics such as relative insulation of various materials, effectiveness of convective and radiant heat, fuel consumption, and a hack-y method of ensuring a seal on a brick stratification chamber.

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Podcast 585 – Justin’s Walker Stove RMH Consultation – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 16:54:39 +0000

Paul sits down with Justin to talk about the rocket heater he’s building, specifically a Walker Stove of Matt Walker’s designs, as well as potential modifications to it, like a metal barrel, heat shielding, insulation, base strength, and the RMH Jamboree.

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Podcast 584 – Pemaculture Smackdown 20 – The Paul HOA Session 2 – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Sun, 10 Oct 2021 18:23:03 +0000

Paul continues his discussion on the building codes at Wheaton Labs with his usual crew (Mark, Katie, Opalyn, and probably Kyle). They talk about good duff (insulation) materials for wofaties, plans to simplify wofati designs going forward and some dos and don’ts of glass.

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Podcast 583 – Pemaculture Smackdown 20 – The Paul HOA Session 2 – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 19:23:03 +0000

Paul once again sits down with his usual crew (Mark, Katie, Opalyn, and probably Kyle) to discuss the building codes at Wheaton Labs, as well as a chunk on straw. Other topics include wofaties, appropriate duff material, and use of cardboard as duff insulation.

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Podcast 582 – Chris Site Review – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 17:36:48 +0000

Paul continues his consultation with Oregon landowner Chris, another fool that actually paid him rather than blowing the money on cool stuff like ice cream. They talk about stuff like ponds, swales, headache inducing soil composition, solar pumps and BBs.

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Podcast 581 – Chris Site Review – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 18:50:11 +0000

Paul calls up Chris, another fool that actually paid for a consultation on his land in Oregon rather than blowing the money on cool stuff like ice cream. Topics covered in this part include Oregon water collection laws and policing, ponds, soil retention, and food forests.

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Podcast 580 – Permaculture Smackdown 19 – The Paul HOA – Part 3

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Sat, 02 Oct 2021 18:32:00 +0000

Paul continues the smackdown with 6 of his patreons (Mark, Katie, Opalyn and Weston were named) on the topic of the ideals that Paul wants people to adhere to when building on his land, such as weather or not urbanite is welcome, and maximum area of a building.

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Podcast 579 – Permaculture Smackdown 19 – The Paul HOA – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 17:03:54 +0000

Paul continues the smackdown with 6 of his patreons (Mark, Katie, Opalyn, and someone from New Zealand whose name was never mentioned) on the topic of the ideals that Paul wants people to adhere to when building on his land.

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Podcast 578 – Permaculture Smackdown 19 – The Paul HOA – Part 1

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 16:44:21 +0000

Paul sits down with a whopping 6 patreons (Mark and Katie were named) to discuss the ideals that Paul wants people to adhere to when building on his land, although most of this part is talking about philosophy, small eco-communities, and an update on the plumbing at the lab.

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Podcast 577 – Jennie Site Review – Part 2

paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton) — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 17:18:42 +0000

Paul continues his call with Jennie in the San Luis Valley of Colorado, covering topics such as hugelkultur, compost, food forests, mulch, fruit trees, edible cleaning agents, and the making of a willow feeder system.

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