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Podcast episode 5- Catch and Store Energy

Posted by Nika On March - 9 - 2011

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Today’s podcast covers permaculture principle 2 “Catch and Store Energy”.

We have all heard the saying “make hay while the sun shines” and this applies most directly to keeping and raising animals. Animals are a kinetic form of energy capture, transforming the hay and grain and scraps we feed them into other forms of energy more desirable to us (like eggs, meat, milk).

Listen to the podcast for a more in depth discussion of this topic.


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We are a family of 5, including Nika, Ed, Q (14), KD (7), and Baby Oh (4). We garden 1024 square feet of raised beds plus assorted permacultural plantings. We also have 13 LaMancha dairy goats, 40 chickens, and one guard llama.

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