##UPDATE – March 29th 2013: I broke my foot a couple months ago and am only just getting back on my feet. Things are slow on the farm at the moment. Thanks for your support, please check back in a few weeks! ## January 13th 2013 Hey Everyone, It’s pretty cold out here in my Boulder Colorado backyard , but the truth is that January 13th is the perfect time to start growing food [...]
Reaching food autonomy… in his swimming pool!
Over the Thanksgiving holiday I was back in Arizona and had the great opportunity to stop by the Garden Pool and interview the creator Dennis McClung. In the interview I ask him a few questions about what inspired the Garden Pool, how much time he invests in it and what he is able to produce from it. In summary, Dennis tells us how his pool to farm conversion was inexpensive, didn’t take much time [...]
Interview with Geoff Lawton: Can Aquaponics Be Part of Permaculture?
I was recently in Melbourne Australia to do a PDC with Bill Mollison and Geoff Lawton. Here is a short interview I did with Geoff Lawton, master permaculturist and founder of the Permaculture Research Institute (PRI), Australia. In the video I ask him three important questions on how aquaponics relates to permaculture and how the two disciplines are related. We also had a special guest, Latifa Enjoy the video, and let me know what [...]
Mission Accomplished: First Aquaponics System in Earthship Installed!
I first learned about the Earthship concept when I was in middle school. It made perfect sense to me and really appealed to my practicality. Little did I know I would be building Earthships one day… Before attending the Earthship Academy this summer I did a great deal of research on Earthships. I read every publication I could find and watched virtually every video I could find on YouTube. Out of all the videos [...]
Upcoming Chicken Coop Building Workshop!
Come build this chicken coop! Next week I will be leading an Earthship style building workshop here in Boulder. We will build a rad looking chicken coop out of bottles, cans, and tires using some of the skills I learned at Earthship Biotecture in Taos NM. If you or anyone you know is interested in having the best free eggs every single day in your own backyard or interested in building beautiful structures out [...]


