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A man with a 0.2 acre lot in Portland, Oregon has carefully weighed/measured all of the food he has consumed from his own land and how much from the store. He thought he would be able to feed four people. The results ...

People will move the outer barrel up or down to get the surface hotter or cooler (cooler means more heat goes into the room/mass). As for slow cooker, that won't work well because most days you're gonna have one burn per day. But haybox cooking works really well. Look at this drawing I made...

Just a weird little video of a woman that has one structure for these two very different purposes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt-tNtBnjTE

The "chimney" is about two and a half feet tall and super hot. Reburning the smoke. No creosote. The exhaust can cool with no problem. As for restocking - that's what the mass is for. You heat the mass and then mass throws off heat for days.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn70UfJcULI

In some regions, a garden can be completely wiped out by slugs in one day. There are dozens of strategies for mitigating this problem, but this was the first time I saw a "slug moat" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HirUchhRX4c

Moments ago I uploaded a video where a rocket mass heater combustion chamber is mounted on top of a conventional wood stove. Ernie Wisner has built over 700 rocket mass heaters and this is his third hybrid. In three minutes he covers a lot of detail about the efficiencies of conventional...

This video shows Helen Atthowe talking about penny cress. If you leave it alone (read: don't pull it out or smother it like you might do with other weeds) it will reseed, grow in the early spring and then go dormant - providing your garden plants with a helpful mulch that does not compete...

I just tried both and both worked for me. What are you seeing?

Hot off the press. I uploaded this video about eight minutes ago. It shows a cast iron skillet fished out of the garbage, covered in gunk. The gunk is burned off and a new seasoning layer is put on. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjgP-6W_YN4

So we watched the Ben Law DVD "Roundwood Timber Framing" which ends with a song about "nice and smooth for the ladies". Which then sets the theme for this podcast. Krista, the only female in this podcast, educates us on parts of the DVD that she thought ladies would appreciate. We talk...

Jack Spirko dedicated today's podcast to this. He has a massive audience of something like 25,000: http://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/permaculture-solutions-for-water-needs

I've spent a large amount of time overhauling this article on hugelkultur. New pictures, artwork and information. I think that this one article may be the best gateway from "weed and feed" to permaculture. Please, please, please pass it on: http://www.richsoil.com/hugelkultur/

Skeeter does mention what it is for, but he was a little unsure and I needed to trim the video down a bit - so I cut it out.

This might be my best video yet. While the focus is on how it will turn gravel/rock/dirt into soil, there is a lot covered about it's uses as a poor man's medicine. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4putIxHsNCk

There is a huge movement for this. And the perks are easy to get your head wrapped around: no mortgage, tiny expenses, tiny housekeeping .... if it is a fit for you, you can retire ten times earlier. Some of these it is a bit like living in a piece of art. Some of these are so easy, you...

the one that just came out. July/August 2011. Vol 95 number 4. Page 66. But you can see the whole article in color by following the link I gave.

Hot dog! It's my article "ants and aphids on my apple tree" - something i wrote six years ago: http://www.richsoil.com/antsandaphids/ -- Sign up for my daily-ish email, or my devious plots for world domination: http://www.richsoil.com/email.jsp

The first solar dehydrator is shown by robert and marina at dell artimus farm. The solar heat comes from a heated panel at the bottom, and there is a black chimney at the top that creates a draw. They use a stainless steel screen. The dryer is a year and a half old. They have dried beans...

This podcast might be too extreme even for most permaculture folk. Jocelyn Campbell and I cover a LOT of different topics! We start off reviewing the movie Food Matters. The premise is that many diseases can be resolved by food choices. And this has been discussed several times at the forums...