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Each episode focuses on one specific topic – growing practices, how-to, farming challenges and struggles, sales and marketing, soil preparation, weed management, farm startup, market selection, and work-life balance.
Hosted and produced by Diego Footer’s Modern Grower Podcast Network.
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Darren Doherty presents the Regrarian Platform.
This is Darren's introductory presentation that he gave at Grant Schultz's Versaland in October 2014.
The presentation lays out the ten key components of the regarian platform - climate, geography, water, access, forestry, buildings, fences, soils, marketing, and energy.
This episode focuses on soils, marketing, energy.
This episode is the part of a four part series - episodes b032, 033, 034, 035.
The workshop was open source, so thanks to Darren for allowing me to share this with you all.
Show Notes: www.permaculturevoices.com/b35
In this episode we talk about post crop harvest processing, including how Curtis has changed some of his techniques over the years.
We also talk about some of his farm equipment and infrastructure like his flame weeder and walk in cooler.
For notes and links related to this episode visit the show notes at permaculturevoices.com/tuf32.
Darren Doherty presents the Regrarian Platform.
This is Darren's introductory presentation that he gave at Grant Schultz's Versaland in October 2014.
The presentation lays out the ten key components of the Regarian platform - climate, geography, water, access, forestry, buildings, fences, soils, marketing, and energy.
This episode focuses on buildings and fences.
This episode is the part of a four part series - episodes b032, 033, 034, 035.
The workshop was open source, so thanks to Darren for allowing me to share this with you all.
Show Notes: www.permaculturevoices.com/b34
Darren Doherty presents the Regrarian Platform.
This is Darren's introductory presentation that he gave at Grant Schultz's Versaland in October 2014.
The presentation lays out the ten key components of the Regarian platform - climate, geography, water, access, forestry, buildings, fences, soils, marketing, and energy.
This episode focuses on water, access, and forestry.
This episode is the part of a four part series - episodes b032, 033, 034, 035.
The workshop was open source, so thanks to Darren for allowing me to share this with you all.
Show Notes: www.permaculturevoices.com/b33
Set yourself up for success by having realistic plans and expectations for the first year. Match your lifestyle and your budgeting to those realistic expectations.
If you are going to start out farming with a gun to the head survival mentality then it makes things very hard. Long term learning gets displaced for the need to put money into the till today.
Work to learn, not to earn.
The goal is to farm for a career. Not make a bunch of money this year and then do something else next year. And the only way to do that is day after day for the long run, learning as much as you can in the process.
Learn more at permaculturevoices.com/tuf31
Darren Doherty presents the Regrarian Platform.
This is Darren's introductory presentation that he gave at Grant Schultz's Versaland in October 2014.
The presentation lays out the ten key components of the regarian platform - climate, geography, water, access, forestry, buildings, fences, soils, marketing, and energy.
This episode focuses on the introduction, geography, and climate.
This episode is the part of a four part series - episodes b032, 033, 034, 035.
The workshop was open source, so thanks to Darren for allowing me to share this with you all.
Show Notes: www.permaculturevoices.com/b32
Today's show is another remarkable story of another entrepreneur, a permaculture entrepreneur.
It's the story of someone who went from being an anti-money activist to running a $1M permaculture design and build business. A business that catches millions of gallons of water, builds soil on hundreds of acres, plants hundreds of useful trees every year, restores native habit, redesigns our cites our schools and new developments.
It is a success story that is 10 years in the making. And one was almost derailed a few times along the way.
But just like with Harland Sanders, it was persistence and a strong belief in what he was doing that allowed my guest today, Erik Ohlsen of Permaculture Artisans, to continue his vision and build it into a $1M design business.
If you don't think that permaculture based business can be profitable or be big, here's an example of one to change your mind...
Learn more at permaculturevoices.com/cd6
Big isn't always better. More just for the sake of having more is pointless.
Just because you have access to more land doesn't mean you need to take it.
If you are getting bigger then you better have a reason why you are getting bigger...
If you are thinking about expanding stop and ask why? Does it fit within the overall plan that you have for your business, your farm, and your life?
If not, then don't do it.
Learn more at permaculturevoices.com/tuf30
While the presentation will focus on plant propagation for a profit from a small/backyard nursery stand point if you want a successful permaculture business you will want to attend this talk.
Within permaculture perennial plants represent an extreme expense and an incredible opportunity.
In this 60 minute presentation Jack Spirko will bring his 20 years of business management, marketing, technology and sales experience to the plant propagation niche.
This talk was presented at PV2 in March 2015.
To watch this presentation visit permaculturevoices.com/b31.
Today's show is about time.
Specifically how precious our tiem is, and how we ought not to waste it.
I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
This is one of the most common regrets that people have at the end of their lives. When people realize that their life is almost over and look back clearly on it, it is easy to see how many dreams have gone unfulfilled. Most people don't honor even a half of their dreams and die knowing that it is due to choices they had made, or not made.
How many people listening to this have unfilled dreams?
How many people are really living their lives the way they want?
How many people are listening to this as they drive drive to or from a job that they really don't like and in a perfect world wouldn't be doing?
A type of job that they only go to pay the bills because they have kids, a mortgage, etc, etc..
A lot of people live that life. And that's a life of fear disguised as practicality.
It's a sad way to live, because life is too short.
Learn more at permaculturevoices.com/cd5.
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