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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).

Humble Garden Podcast Episode 4

Posted by Nika On December - 15 - 2010

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(our extremely humble goat shed – we cobble together what we can, we dont Martha Stewart it)

On today’s podcast I cover how we observe and more importantly, interact with our animals in ways to integrate them more tightly into our homestead.

Please take a few minutes to listen and also to give me feedback, comments, or share what you do or how you listen and interact with your animals!

Humble Garden podcast episode 3

Posted by Nika On December - 6 - 2010

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Today’s podcast covers some basics of permaculture and begins to explore the 12 principles of permaculture using our homestead as a case study.

Some examples of space appropriate animal/plant/human permaculture systems:


Appropriate use of animals in permaculture

Humble Garden Podcast Episode 2

Posted by Nika On November - 29 - 2010

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With great excitement and now that the garden is put to bed, I am relaunching the Humble Garden podcast. I am calling this episode 2 as episode 1 was the one on garlic chive seed collection.

Please take a moment to subscribe to my podcast LINK and, if you like it, recommend it to friends!

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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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