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Episode-340- The How, What and Why of Permaculture

We haven’t done a really deep gardening or permaculture show for a while, so I figured it was a good subject to make us think about the coming warm days of spring while the cold days of winter are just setting in.

Tune in today as we discuss…

  • What is permaculture – beyound the typical deffinition
  • What permaculture is not and misconceptions about it and the people behind it
  • Why we should practice permaculture
  • The Seven Layers of Permaculture
    • The High Canopy
    • The Low Tree
    • Shrub
    • herbaceous
    • rhizome
    • cover crops
    • vertical climbers
  • The Five Zones of Permaculture
  • Using chickens, rabbits, geese, ducks and worms to do the work for you
  • Seven rules of permaculture that fly in the face of “conventional wisdom”
    • Slopes are wonderful for growing food
    • Don’t compost everything
    • Clay soil is your friend
    • Don’t till your soil ever
    • Let plants die
    • Don’t be tidy and use strait edges and rows
    • Attract insects
    • Grow weeds

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Episode-328 Deception – Disasters – Commonality and Probability

Today we do a bit of a mixed bag and then bring them together in the end.  Today as I broadcast from my home office with better audio I am watching a Texas snow fall so it is logical to talk about global warming for a bit.  The reason I am doing so is as usual when I mention it even in passing I get a lot of “hate mail” calling me things like “holocaust denier”, etc.   I wanted to go on record as the real environmentalist that I actually am, even though I believe man made global warming due to CO2 is a complete scam.

Oh and for those in love with all those “conclusive graphs” that prove global warming.  First a graph proves nothing, it is nothing but a graphical representation of number.  So tune in today and I will explain how to manipulate a graph with out even fudging any of the numbers.  This is a technique used by all sales and marketing people, everyday.  I will also tell you about one thing we have learned from climate gate about how they fix problems with graphs just by “adding to the numbers”.  Deception takes many forms, my goal today is to empower you to spot it, not to tell you what you should believe.

I then shift gears into a discussion about the two part concepts of disaster probability and disaster commonality and how they relate to each other and how those concepts can be used to improve your personal planning.

In the end I explain how these two topics are hugely linked in reality and why understanding deception, dependence and sustainability are so important to not just our physical survival but the survival of our nation and our family unit.

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