Archive for weeds
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Paul Wheaton talks to Mike around the campfire in Montana. Paul has proudly beaten bindweed, (the process of which he describes in his lawn care article) and shares his secret. Paul’s special tool was using his kids when they were… Read more…
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Paul Wheaton talks to Michael Pilarski (Skeeter) on day 3 of the spring PDC in Dayton, MT. They talk about knapweed. Knapweed makes for good honey. Skeeter talks about it as a mulch, and he talks about successfully eliminating it.… Read more…
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Paul Wheaton talks to Wilson and Kya, who were selling homesteading gear at the Inland Northwest Permaculture Conference. (Their website is: www.pantryparatus.com) They talk about using reusable canning lids, and plastic. Kya shares that “everybody has a surplus, they just… Read more…
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Paul Wheaton talks with Alexia Allen in Woodinville, WA. Alexia works with the WIlderness Awareness School, and lives on Hawthorn Farm. Paul starts with commenting on Alexia’s lionhead rabbit. Alexia was in Paul’s Respectful Chicken Harvest video. Alexia was making… Read more…
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Paul Wheaton and Kelda Miller continue reviewing chapter 1 of Sepp Holzer‘s Permaculture (the book). Kelda will be teaching a class at Bastyr University. Paul recommends Mel Bartholow’s Square Foot Gardening or those new to gardening, and both Toby Hemenway‘s… Read more…
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Paul Wheaton shares about his PDC experience, and how he learned so much more than he had expected. He then interviews Michael Pilarski (Skeeter), a renouned wildcrafter, who was his PDC teacher in 2005. He shares about his new video… Read more…
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Paul and Joe talk about turning the back of her property to a food forest. They begin talking about the success of rhubarb–a nitrogen pig–and growing it in hugelkultur beds. Paul mentions putting a sun scoop in–a horseshoe-shaped garden. The… Read more…
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Paul Wheaton and Toby Hemenway, author of Gaia’s Garden, talk about native plants. Toby shares about preferring native, and then, when the native doesn’t do the job, bringing in plants known not to be a problem or take over. He… Read more…
Paul Wheaton and friends Rob, Krista, Suzy, and Caleb do some Q & A in the Iron Horse Pub. They cover Sepp Holzer’s approach to fish food in aquaculture, some pond-damming know-how, Sepp Holzer on ponds and the monk, intentional… Read more…
Paul Wheaton discusses the work of Sepp Holzer with a group that just watched the film “Farming with Nature” (see: permaculture presentation series by Paul Wheaton at the Missoula Public Library). The group discusses the colorado potato beetle, what “noxious”… Read more…
Paul Wheaton and Jocelyn Campbell review the movie, “Permaculture Soil,” with Geoff Lawton. Paul and Jocelyn thought Geoff did a good job discussing the topic of weeds as symptoms rather than problems. They think he could have done better talking… Read more…