Our guest is Michael Judd and our topic is permaculture, edible landscaping, straw bale building, mushrooms and even a permacultural approach to death. From his bio: “Michael Judd is the founder of Ecologia, edible and ecological landscape design and Project Bona Fide, an international non-profit supporting agro-ecological research.” He’s also the author of a new book, Edible Landscaping with a Permaculture Twist. During the podcast we discuss:
- What Michael learned from living in Latin America for 20 years
- His circular straw bale house
- Handling water through swales on contour
- Dealing with homeowner’s associations
- Pawpaws
- Custard apples
- InStove rocket stove
- Cocktails
- American persimmons
- Mulberries and grafting mulberries
- Jujubes
- Growing mushrooms
- Source for mushroom spawn: Field and Forest and Fungi Perfecti
- A permacultural approach to death and home burial
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I loved this podcast, specifically the part where Michael discusses how he dealt with his father’s passing. My day job is actually in the death care industry and I find the whole process so freaky and gross and this makes so much more sense. Thank you for your blog!
Thank you Biki! I’m hoping to have a guest on the podcast to address this very issue. Let me know if you have any suggestions.