by John | Apr 7, 2017 | Permaculture Design
Find out the most effective way to grow food in your garden with uniform rows and inexpensive drip irrigation. In this video, I walk you through the design of a simple manifold configuration that I came up with for row crops, homestead gardens, and market gardeners....
by John | Oct 19, 2016 | Handmade, Permaculture Design, Travel
In this video, the family and I visit a biodynamic homestead farm located on Lopez Island in San Juan County. The S & S Homestead farm (sshomestead.org) has been in production for almost fifty years and is the creation of Henning Sehmsdorf and Elizabeth Simpson....
by John | Jul 16, 2016 | Permaculture Design, Thoughts
In the Olympic National Forest learning about natural forest guilds and their natural progression towards sustainable self reliance. Every opportunity is an opportunity to teach and learn. In this video the kids and I observe the natural companion plantings within a...
by John | Jun 10, 2016 | Permaculture Design, Vegetables
In this video I describe how I make seed balls with old seeds that have been laying around past their ideal germination period. Inspired by Masanobu Fukuoka’s “One Straw Revolution,” I show how to make seed balls from the most simple of ingredients...
by John | May 23, 2016 | Handmade, Permaculture Design
In this video I describe the basic principles of scything, such as the proper stance, how and when to sharpen the blade and how to hold the snath when pulling through each stroke. If you’re learning how to scythe or interested in the trend of the One Sycthe...
by John | Apr 14, 2016 | Permaculture Design
So you’ve chosen your permaculture site. You’ve lived on it long enough to understand the way water, light and air flow across the land. You understand the patterns of traffic across the property; where you spend most of your time and the paths you walk...
