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Gimmie a coupla weeks to make a video about that.

The purpose of this video is to give folks an idea of how clean the exhaust is while running a rocket mass heater in Missoula, Montana. When we first start it, there will be smoke. And there was smoke in the middle of the burn sometimes, but I think that most of that has to do with things that...

Then you are really gonna hate this. Here is a house built 30 years ago for $15: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTL0dkadocQ And here is one that was built 37 years ago for $50 and had a $500 remodel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVAF-JjuYc4

Michael "Skeeter" Pilarski is a popular permaculture instructor well known as a first class wildcrafter. Skeeter shows off a patch of stinging nettle he is growing intentionally. This is in the fall. He talks about getting three crops out of this patch each year. First, a crop of edible...

This tiny house is occupied by a couple and their cats. This piece of property came with a shack that could have been ... who knows what. A storage shed? Whatever it was, it was uninhabitable. It was nothing close to air tight. Here is a rundown of where $362 comes from: $10 - front door $60 -...

Somebody asked me to do this one. Key points were to not freak out the neighbors, but to (hopefully) persuade them that permaculture is awesome. http://www.richsoil.com/permaculture/72-urban-permaculture-podcast-005/

Heidi Bohan (http://www.heidibohan.com/) author of "People of Cascadia" (http://www.peopleofcascadia.com/) makes a soup out of stinging nettles, salmon, camas, bitterroot, seaweed, ozette potato, lady fern fiddlehead, cow parsnip shoots, horsetail and lomatium (biscuit root). She was loaded up...

About 25 to 30 people convinced me to start a podcast. I have now uploaded my third one: http://www.richsoil.com/permaculture/28-podcast-003-chickens/ podcast #2 was about "what is permaculture? what is a permaculture design course?"...

Marina and Robert of Dell Artimus Farm take a general electric 1930's refrigerator, strip out the motor and add in .... spring water. Refrigeration without any electricity. Easy peazy. They call it the cool box. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOAm0p0BuKM

Studies have shown great success in giving goats and sheep a diet of up to 50% black locust. Yes, it is toxic. And so is alfalfa! This is a rich and sophisticated area. In a nutshell, if your animal has access to a plethora of food variety, they will not poison themselves - they will eat...

I interview Alexandra King, Brian Kerkvliet and Mark Vander Meer about how awesome Black Locusts are. Good fodder for ruminants, excellent bee nectar, the best wood for outdoor furniture, fence posts, pole structures, and the handles for many tools. Fast growing and tolerates all sorts of...

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Heidi Bohan, author of "The People of Cascadia" talks about the Native American agriculture in the pacific northwest hundreds of years ago. She explains that the native american people that were here then were well beyond "hunter gatherer". They had an agriculture all their own. Much like...

A short video of making nettle lasagna and a few people trying it and commenting on it. Including a picky teenager that does not like greens. http://www.youtube.com/paulwheaton12#p/u/0/mhP6Dv0J5i0

Michael "Skeeter" Pilarski shows off what he calls "closed canopy gardening" - the idea is to reduce the amount of sun that reaches the soil. You can hardly see the paths. This is an early phse for a food forest or for agro forestry. http://www.youtube.com/paulwheaton12#p/u/0/-o2kVOyE5Ww

So, how many hours of podcast do you listen to in an average day/week?

So I blather on for 90 minutes about permaculture, eco building, rocket mass heaters, hugelkultur, raising chickens (and other animals) in a paddock shift system, and lots more. Podcast is something I don't really understand, but the guy says that 20,000 people will listen to this in one day...

Nettle season isn't too far away in some areas so I thought it would be a good time to upload some footage from last year. This video is a bit long (ten minutes) and covers a lot of detail of harvest and cooking for folks that might harvest and eat nettles for the first time...

Apparently, this is "true" comfrey, NOT "russican comfrey". In permaculture, this is often planted under fruit trees because it helps the fruit trees. Comfrey is sometimes called "knit bone" because of how effective it is for mending bones. Apparently the FDA is coming down on comfrey because...

Wow - I wish I made THAT video too! Excellent!