Sara Hartwin

Hugelkultur Forum Video Database

The videos here have all been posted to the Hugelkultur forum at some point.
If you find videos posted in this forum that are not yet listed in the table, feel free to add them. There's information on how to do that in the first reply to this post.
This is an ongoing project. See our progress in future replies to this post. Hopefully each forum will have its own video database!

New	Video Link	Video Length	Thread Link	Channel	Description	Year Created
New	Hugelkultur - proof that it works! (YouTube)	2:07	Is this a silly location for a hugelkultur bed? Lifespan of Hugelkultur bed?	paul wheaton	established, mature hugelbed rarely needs watered	2010
	replacing irrigation with permaculture - Sepp Holzer review (YouTube)	7:00	Sepp Holzer uses no irrigation	paul wheaton	Paul reviews a Sepp Holzer movie at the Missoula Public Library, topics include hugelkultur	2011
	hugelkultur - the ultimate raised garden beds, gardening without irrigation (YouTube)	4:28	old mill by-product safe for Hugelkultur? hugel beginner needs direction Hugelkultur in a community garden	paul wheaton	the why and how of hugelkultur	2012
	raised bed gardening without irrigation - hugelkultur (YouTube)	1:59	Sun scoop hugel bed?	paul wheaton	shows buiding process and scoop shape, discusses wood type	2015
	World Domination Gardening 3-DVD set Trailer (YouTube)	2:24	World Domination Gardening 3-DVD set - Kickstarter	paul wheaton	overview of topics covered in one of Paul’s DVD sets which includes hugelkultur construction using an excavator	2015
	6 ways mushrooms can save the world (YouTube)	18:17	Spongy'ness evidence?	TED	Paul Stamets discusses the potential of mycelium	2008
	Healthy Soils Build Healthy Ecosystems (YouTube)	28:40	This helps understand hugelkultur	Forest Service	describes decomposition of wood	2011
	Hugelkultured Swale (YouTube)	1:38	Hugelkultur vs. swales?	Midwest Permaculture	Bill Wilson explains the hugulkultured swale	2012
	garden tour (YouTube)	14:22	Wood chips vs Hugelkultur	tribalwind	short walk through small garden cooperative with hybrid raised/sunken hugel beds	2012
	Vegetable Root Excavation (YouTube)	12:07	Direction of sticks in Hugel? (vertical or horizontal)	GardenSeek	gardener investigates why one plant did better than all the rest	2012
	Hugelkultur-Creosote (YouTube)	2:38	Natural hugelkultur formation?	Laine McTague	Observations of nature mounding sand around sticks	2013
	Hugelbed Construction (YouTube)	3:35	Hugelculture Bed Building Video	RocketStoves	shows clearing of land and hugelbed construction	2013
	Contour Based Wood Core Beds from the First Ever TSP Workshop (YouTube)	4:33	Hugelkultur and Composting	TSPWorkshops	Jack Spirko talks about hugelkultur raised beds	2013
	Michael Pilarski's Permaculture Design Course: Week 3 Hugelkultur Demo and Discussion (YouTube)	6:34	Great video on hugelkultur from Skeeter's PDC	Melissa Pernell	PDC instructor discusses hugelkultur construction	2013
	Paul Wheaton Garden Friends Webinar: Paul Wheaton On Gardening (YouTube)	1:09:51	Paul Wheaton on Permaculture and the Home Garden Webinar - June 26th 12-1 pm PST	CamarilloGardens	Paul Wheaton live Q&A; mentions hugelkulture at 12:53 and discusses hugelkutlure around 44:00	2013
	hugelkultur 020 (YouTube)	0:58	Hugelkukltur on the Brazos	Frank Turrentine	small excavator building hugelkultur	2013
	farm hugel puppy 038 (YouTube)	4:35	Hugelkukltur on the Brazos	Frank Turrentine	hugelkultur progress update	2013
	Backwoods Cabin Series #3 Building a road to my off grid cabin. (YouTube)	8:27	Hugelkultur ROAD	OFF GRID HOMESTEADING With The Boss Of the Swamp	building a corduroy style road	2013
	My First Permaculture Hügelkultur Garden Bed Part 1 of 3: How to Construct It (YouTube)	2:20	Please Critique This New Bed	Daddykirbs Farm	Farmer documents his first experiment with Hugelkultur	2013
	My First Permaculture Hügelkultur Garden Bed Part 2 of 3: Watering Challenges and Mulching (YouTube)	2:30	Please Critique This New Bed	Daddykirbs Farm	Farmer discusses first hugulkultur progress	2013
	My First Permaculture Hügelkultur Garden Bed Part 3 of 3: Fertilizing & Planting (YouTube)	8:50	Please Critique This New Bed	Daddykirbs Farm	Farmer explains his methods for fertilizing and planting his hugelkultur	2013
	What is Hugelkultur? - Suburban Homestead EP2 (YouTube)	7:04	Hugelkultur: video of me setting up a bed	suburban homestead	setting up a hugelkultur bed in a suburban setting	2013
	Philip Forrer présente; "Le Jardin du Graal" (YouTube)	22:46	video on the making of a hugelkultur	InsightShare	innovative gardener in France demonstrates hugelkultur construction in a lush garden	2013
	pond and hugelkulture bed (YouTube)	8:05	building a pond and HugelKultur bed	JewelCreekFarm	New hugelkultur and pond construction	2013
	seeds onto the hugelkulture (YouTube)	3:31	building a pond and HugelKultur bed	JewelCreekFarm	seeding a new hugel bed	2013
	How to Grow a Raised Bed over Cement or Asphalt & more Organic Gardening Q&A (YouTube)	18:24	Need some ideas for old asphalt	Learn Organic Gardening at GrowingYourGreens	Q&A including building raised garden beds over cement or asphalt	2013
	Edible Landscaping - Part 1 (YouTube)	6:58	Please Critique This New Bed	Ryan Harp	Homeowner shows his hugelkultur bed as part of his landscaping	2014
	Cat Composting & Hugelkultur in the Chihuahuan Desert. Hilarious... (YouTube)	3:29	Cats, Composting, Sotol & Prickly Pear, HugelKulture Style	Jeff Alexander	Hugelkultur experiment in the desert	2014
	Hugelkultur (YouTube)	4:05	Michael Pilarski Video Tour of His 6 Week Old Hugelkultur	Chris Badgett	Skeeter's Montana hugelkultur after planting	2014
	Contour Soil to Hold Water with Toby Hemenway Video 7 of 13 Permaculture Design (YouTube)	7:37	Toby Hemenway Swales, Basins, Curb Cuts, Hugelkultur Video Hugelkulture and higher soil temps	Chris Badgett	Ways to shape soil to hold water including hugelkultur	2014
	Hügelbeet bauen - Hugelculture (Sepp Holzer Style) (YouTube)	3:25	Hugelkultur in a community garden Hugelkultur-"Sepp Holzer Style" with Johnny Peham	TriiightShowroom	hugelkultur built with help of excavator then planted via broadcast seed	2014
	Vertical Garden Wall (YouTube)	1:36	Hugelkultur FENCE!	Headwaters Farm	describes vertical garden using embedded wood to retain moisture	2014
	Swales & Hügelkultur (YouTube)	2:08	Hugelkultur 101 at Headwater's farm	Headwaters Farm	Both structures shown side by side, base principles of both are explained	2014
	Making a Hugelkultur garden bed (YouTube)	1:44:24	Starting Hugelkultur	George Price, Earthling	full hugelkultur build, by hand, lots of commentary	2014
	Hugelkultur 5, a swale, and Garden Update (YouTube)	2:19	Some huglekultur and swale progress	Sustainable Homestead Institute	update given on long hugelkultur on a slope	2014
	The Hugelkultur Garden (YouTube)	3:31	Hugelkultur, Holzer Permaculture, and Natural Swimming Pool Workshop	Raleigh Latham	Zach Weiss gives a tour of a hugelkultur garden using Sepp Holzer's techniques	2015
	Hugelkulture and Emelia Hazlip Garden July 2015 (YouTube)	6:30	Emilia Hazelip Technique	TradCat Homestead	includes two hugel bed updates including one in its third season	2015
	Clip #1Aquaponic passive solar green house Canada  (YouTube)	20:56	Aquaponic greenhouse with a tilapia loop connected to a Heugelculture bed in Canada	Sophie Wiebe	aquaponic feeding hugelkultur; tour of passive solar greenhouse aquaponic system	2015
New	Greenhouse Hugelkulture combination July 2015 (YouTube)	7:16	Hugelkultur Greenhouse Combination	TradCat Homestead	hugelkultur in a greenhouse, no supplemental winter heat	2015
New	Hugelkulture Greenhouse Update Aug 2016 (YouTube)	3:47	Hugelkultur Greenhouse Combination	TradCat Homestead	hugelkulture in greenhouse experiment, update part 1: older, established hugelbed	2016
New	Hugelkulture update...old vs. new!  (YouTube)	3:24	Hugelkultur Greenhouse Combination	TradCat Homestead	hugelkulture in greenhouse experiment, update part 2: the new bed	2016
	1, 3 & 4 Year Old Hugelkultur Results & Does Wood Deplete Nitrogen In The Soil? (YouTube)	12:44	1, 3 & 4 year old hugels	Plant Abundance	hugelkultur results over several years	2016
New	Taking apart a 3 year old Hugelkultur bed... look at the water in that log, you can wring it out (YouTube)	3:08	Hugelkultur dissection, 3 years later Lifespan of Hugelkultur bed?	Rugged Root	shows how moisture is retained in a hugelkultur	2017
New	Hugelmounds and Waterways - In-Depth discussion (YouTube)	10:03	Hugelculture with waterways [video]	EdibleAcres	explains rationale for designing hugelbeds and waterways together in a perennial food forest nursery	2017
New	Hugelculture in the Winter (YouTube)	4:28	Hugelculture development in the winter	Edible Acres	describes strategies for working on growing spaces in wintertime in a perennial food forest nursery	2017
New	Our First Hugel (YouTube)	2:07	2 minute video of our first hugelkultur mound and question	compgovernment	hugel built on steep, south-facing slope in Switzerland; more specific site info included in video	2016

25 February 2026
Videos from the last 20 pages of the forum are in the database, woohoo! (that's pages 15-34, currently)

Edited to update completed pages. Progress!

Edited again to update completed pages, for the last time. Future updates will get a new post.

Tess Misch wrote:My hair on the other hand looks cleaner, but not clean.  I am going to use a vinegar rinse next time, just to see if that works.  My hair is kinda funky when it comes to excessive dryness in winter and oiliness in summer, so I have figure out a way to combat this the best I can.  I may need to find a super environment-friendly hair soap I can use if going pooless doesn't work for me.

Leaving a word of encouragement here for you, Tess - and anyone else embarking on this wonderful no-poo adventure. Breaking the shampoo/conditioner cycle for our scalp can involve some transitioning time, and it's hard to predict just how long that will take.
And by "transition" I mean the scalp can go suuuuper greasy for a while before it gets used to the new routine.

I can't really speak to water-only - I did that for a while but it was years ago and I've forgotten how it went in the beginning. But 6 years ago, I got serious about only cleansing my scalp and hair mechanically, and only using the sebum my scalp produces to condition the length. (In plain terms, I scritch my scalp with my nails or a wooden or horn comb, give it a quick but gentle fingertip massage, then preen the sebum down the length with fingers and a boar bristle brush.)
And yes - in the beginning it involved a rather long transition period of gradually decreasing oiliness.

My transition probably took longer due to switching climates twice a year (between low humidity summers and high humidity winters), my inconsistent diet, varying stress levels, and my less-than-religious SMP (scritch, massage, preen) practice - and who knows what else that I wasn't aware of.

Deane - it's so interesting how our hair picks up environmental scents. I've often been surprised by how a scritch and a brush session will remove or greatly decrease hair smells. Campfire smoke has been the main culprit...

Progress report:
All videos on the last 7 pages of the Rocket Mass Heaters forum have been added to the database (currently pages 79-85).

Rocket Mass Heaters Forum Video Database

The videos here have all been posted to the Rocket Mass Heaters forum at some point.
If you find videos posted in this forum that are not yet listed in the table, feel free to add them. There's information on how to do that in the first reply to this post.
This is an ongoing project. Watch for progress updates in future replies to this post.

New	Video Link	Video Length	Thread Link	Channel	Description	Year Created
	Rocket Mass Heater Stove Wood Refractory Masonry Hermon Heater (YouTube)	2:40	Rocket Stoves Heater/ Outdoor furnace no metal rmh? Help needed to prepare to build a small RMH for a garage/shop.	Lars Mith	All-Brick Rocket Heater	2008
	The principles of a rocket stove and how to build one. (YouTube)	4:58	Cast a RMH burn chamber using Vermiculite?	starman2765	how rocket stoves work and how they're built	2008
	rocket stove mass heater (YouTube)	2:24	Using pryrex in a RMH?	iendhtj kiend	first burning of a rocket mass heater	2009
	greenhouse construction + rocket mass heater how to tutorial (YouTube)	8:55	rocket mass heater in greenhouse	paul wheaton	RMH being built for greenhouse use	2010
	underfloor heating system with a rocket mass heater (YouTube)	2:21	RMH in a Pier and Beam House	paul wheaton	Erica Wisner shows RMH designed for underfloor heat with a heat bypass valve built in	2010
	wood stove vs. rocket mass heater (YouTube)	1:21	rocket mass heater uses less wood than a wood stove	paul wheaton	Ernie Wisner compares RMH to wood stove	2010
	rocket mass heater build and burn (YouTube)	3:28	Pretty Rocket Mass heaters? rocket mass heater project	paul wheaton	RMH w/alternate thermal mass material and wood casing	2010
New	rocket flames - rocket mass heater barrel prep (YouTube)	2:01	Read through the forum and watched a bunch of videos... still looking for help...	paul wheaton	using paper mache and clay to contain paint being burned off the barrel before construction	2010
	rocket mass heater movie_0002.wmv (YouTube)	9:55	rocket mass heater project	kelly ware	rocket mass heater demo build in 1 hour by paul wheaton and crew	2011
	Clean, Cool Exhaust from a Rocket Mass Heater (YouTube)	1:56	rocket mass heater project rocket stove exhaust: water, carbon dioxide, and what else?	paul wheaton	demonstrating minimal heat and smoke from RMH exhaust	2011
	portable rocket mass heater / free cycles missoula (YouTube)	10:36	rocket mass heater project Rocket mass heater for a large warehouse?	paul wheaton	build info and process for portable RMH	2011
	Rocket Stove Timelapse (YouTube)	1:40	Rocket mass stove time lapse	C. Milton Dixon	permie group meets up to build rocket stove	2011
	Rocket Mass Heater - On Steroids (YouTube)	7:27	Rocket Stove and Hydroponics	Bigelow Brook Farm (Web4Deb)	final pre-build design for aquaponics system RMH	2012
New	Aprovecho Rocket Bread Oven (YouTube)	4:13	The DRAGON in MY Rocket Stove, is bigger than the Dragon in your stove !	Aprovecho Research	demonstration of prototype biomass bread oven using rocket stove principles	2012
New	Aprovecho Gasifier Stove (YouTube)	4:28	The DRAGON in MY Rocket Stove, is bigger than the Dragon in your stove !	Aprovecho Research	demonstration of gasifier stove cooking 60 liter pot of food using goat dung, & pinecones for fuel	2012
New	MOV00457 (YouTube)	0:32	Thoughts on wall for thermal mass instead of a bench	Satamax	batch rocket attempt	2012
New	"Dragon Monster" Rocket Stove Mass Heater (YouTube)	10:26	The Dragon Monster Rocket Stove	New School Permaculture	1 week construction of rocket stove with heated bench during permaculture internship	2012
	Steel Rocket Mass Heater (YouTube)	3:49	My steel mass rocket heater	68IIIbuggy	steel-bodied RMH in a house	2013
	Pellet Feeder for Rocket Heater - New & Better Design (YouTube)	6:01	Rocket Mass Heater with Aquaponics pond RMH to heat greenhouse and pond	Bigelow Brook Farm (Web4Deb)	updates to RMH for aquaponic system	2013
New	Batch Box Rocket Stove 07 (YouTube)	0:34	Vertical Storage Anyone?	Peter van den Berg	first full run of experimental batch box rocket stove, with gas analyzer computerized testing	2013
New	Rocket mass heater for big shop (YouTube)	8:23	batch rmh for larger building rocket stove mass heater and natural gas chimney	michael egan	RMH burns 40 lbs of wood	2013
New	MVI0320 (YouTube)	9:59	batch rmh for larger building	michael egan	demo of how a tall chimney is preheated using a cleanout access, plus construction details	2013
New	RocketRusa (Vimeo)	4:13	thread title here	La Estacion Permacultural	time-lapse video of Russian rocket build in Argentina	2013
New	Batch box rocket stove 08 (YouTube)	0:43	Thoughts on wall for thermal mass instead of a bench	Peter van den Berg	last part of first full run of experimental batch box	2013
	CLAY POT with TEA LIGHTS Room Heating 4HR DIY Test (YouTube)	5:00	Simple 8'X6' greenhouse mass heater (no metal preferably)	Gem Webb	clay pot and tea lights heater test	2014
	COMPLETED! Family Builds a Dragon Rocket Stove Mass Heater  Full Version Marathon Movie (YouTube)	47:24	Vertical Dragon	mylittlehomestead	RMH project start to finish	2017
	Building our batch box rocket mass heater (YouTube)	3:52	Batch box Metal grate life expectancy.	Nimela	batch box 2-bell RMH build	2017
	Rocket Mass Heater Bells and Benches Discussion (YouTube)	22:32	Round Rmh	broaudio	RMH construction and concepts discussion	2017

It sounds like your pallets are the kind with gaps in between each slat - am I picturing that right?

(This idea addresses the planning stage versus already-built beds.)
We have a nearby flooring company whose owner lets my husband get their empty pallets. They're heat-treated, and most of them have solid tops.
By "solid", I mean the top slats butt up to each other and there are no significant gaps.
He's used these for several projects, including a privacy fence and raised garden beds.

Here's a typical solid-top heat-treated pallet:


And here are the simple garden beds my husband built using these pallets:

Hopefully that shows how the soil is contained, and how relatively little dismantling is needed - mostly cutting.

The further bed is about a year old - more weathered.
The closer bed is newly built and hasn't been exposed to much weather yet.

I don't know how common these are, or what other businesses might require pallets without gaps. But they are out there, and you just might be able to find a local source for them.

Progress report 31 December 2025:
Videos have been added to database from last 9 pages of forum (currently 25-33).

Blake Kirby wrote:I finally got to plant the HK beds! The Goji berries, Black berries and Dew berries are in.

Here is a video documenting the planting process.

http://youtu.be/gJ_QzFICkMQ

Blake Kirby wrote:Here is a video showing the next steps for this bed.

http://youtu.be/7EQNxypQkwI

Wow, that’s generous. Much appreciation and anticipation from me. Thank you!!