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Toby Hemenway joins me to talk about his upcoming talk at PV2 titled Liberation Permaculture.

Permaculture offers more than a path to a sustainable and just food system. It can move entire segments of our society off the radar screens of state oppressors and help return equality, abundance, and justice to people while restoring healthy ecosystems.

This talk, being premiered at Permaculture Voices, will tell you how. If you’ve appreciated Toby’s series on permaculture and civilization, you’ll want to see this significant new chapter.

Show Notes: permaculturevoices.com/100

Direct download: PVP100-02292015.mp3
Category:permaculture -- posted at: 9:00pm PST

John talks about the workshop that he will be giving on Sketchup at PV2.

This workshop will give the student a crash course in using Trimble SketchUp, followed by a tutorial on landscape modeling and analysis, earthworks and plantings design using freely available tools and templates.

3D modeling is a powerful tool to aid the Permaculture Designer in analyzing and designing water catchment, zones, sectors, earthworks, and plantings.

Show Notes: permaculturevoices.com/pv2shorts

John's Page: johnackley.com/sketchup

Direct download: PV2-02172015.mp3
Category:permaculture -- posted at: 6:29am PST

Grant Schultz presents on trees from VersaLand in Iowa City, Iowa.

This presentation focuses on the propagation of trees to be used in tree crop style systems. There is a lot of information on tree buying, grafting, nurseries, and rootstocks. Grant touches on things like the cost versus time trade off of grafting trees versus buying pre-grafted trees and how trees prefer fungal environments and how you can create those environments.

This is the recording of a presentation that Grant Schultz gave at a workshop at VersaLand in October 2014.

Show Notes: permaculturevoices.com/b019

Information on Grant: VersaLand.com

Direct download: b019-02132015.mp3
Category:permaculture,agriculture,farming -- posted at: 7:33am PST

This interview with Michael centers around his upcoming workshop at PV2, There's Not Just Honey In That Hive.

Michael describes the talk as, "I want to tell you my first hand experiences with bees, from the loss of not knowing how to be a good keeper of the bees, to making an inner city home stead centered around the little girls super profitable. How to grow a small hobby Apiary, or back yard hive into a money making company. I want to show you how to take your starting products to the people, and how to develop new ideas in this art of bee keeping. That it is not being the millionaire, but being able to turn your hobbies, no matter what they are, into your job, and your job more into a hobby."

Show Notes: permaculturevoices.com/pv2shorts

Direct download: PV2-02122015.mp3
Category:permaculture -- posted at: 7:13am PST

This episode is a short PV2 episode with PV2 speaker and multiple time guest on this show Javan Bernakevitch.

This is an episode about person journeys. How many people, including myself, are in this place, Island A, and we want to go to that place that we dream about Island B.

In this episode we take an in depth look at the journey that many people are on. Like many people out there I am on this journey to change my life in a way that I do work that I am passionate about and that I believe in, call it work that matters. But I know first hand that it is easy to say, but hard to make that a reality. Especially when you need that work to cash flow, think kids, mortgage, living expenses. Living the permaculture dream isn't easy. I get it.

This episode get's pretty real and pretty passionate for me. As a result, this episode has some swearing in it. Not much, but some. So if you can't handle it, don't listen.

Show Notes: permaculturevoices.com/b018

Direct download: b018-02062015.mp3
Category:permaculture -- posted at: 5:49am PST

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