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Rebecca Blake
Post     Subject: Diego Footer on Permaculture Based Homesteads - from the Eat Your Dirt Summit

Rachel D L Smith wrote:Hi, the link to the Podcasts say they can't be found?



You can find it on the home page of Diego's site.

He also started another podcast called In Search of Soil
Rachel D L Smith
Post     Subject: Diego Footer on Permaculture Based Homesteads - from the Eat Your Dirt Summit
Hi, the link to the Podcasts say they can't be found?
Jaizki Arteagabeitia Perea
Post     Subject: Diego Footer on Permaculture Based Homesteads - from the Eat Your Dirt Summit
Great lessons for beginners! Worth watching!

Here's the index, in case it's helpful:

15 Urban Permaculture Lessons: To save you massive amounts of time, money and water
The 15 lessons. Not speculation or hypothetical. Based on my own failures, trials, and errors. It's been 5 years of a lot of mistakes

Lesson 1: define your context
Lesson 2: accept the fact that the more land you have, the less intensively you will be able to manage it
Lesson 3: understimate your available time
Lesson 4: understand and have a good grasp on the basics first
Lesson 5: think ahead 1, 3, 5, 10 years
Lesson 6: observe the site
Lesson 7: respect seasonality
Lesson 8: establish water & access first
Lesson 9: start at your backdoor
Lesson 10: get soil on site - build, buy, bring in soil
Lesson 11: how little can you actually do?
Lesson 12: don't box yourself in or cut yourself short
Lesson 13: start with simple and low tech infrastructure, and increase complexity and permanence as needed and as confidence grows
Lesson 14: beware of the eco-hipsters and their wares
Lesson 15: massive amounts of surplus are available locally

Learn more:
Podcast - 100's of episodes http://permaculturevoices.com/podcast
Youtube -  [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/user/permacultureVOICES[/youtube]
Shawn Klassen-Koop
Post     Subject: Diego Footer on Permaculture Based Homesteads - from the Eat Your Dirt Summit



This 1 hour and 41 minute video is an interview with Diego Footer (founder of Permaculture Voices) called "15 Lessons Learned from Diving Headlong into a Permaculture Based Homestead." The interview was a part of the Eat Your Dirt Summit put on by Amanda Smith from Solace Lessons.

This interview covers:

  • Know your context
  • 1/2 acre is a LOT of land
  • Underestimate available time
  • Start with the basics
  • Think ahead 1, 3, 5, 10 years
  • Observe the site
  • Respect seasonality
  • Establish water and access first
  • Start at your backdoor
  • Build, Buy, Bring in soil
  • How little can you do?
  • Don’t box in or cut short
  • Start simple and low tech
  • Beware of Eco-Hipsters and their wares
  • Massive amounts of surplus are available locally




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