271: Brigitte Mars on Identifying Wild Plants
271: Brigitte Mars on Identifying Wild Plants. Learning the identity and uses for common plants growing wild in North America.. Brigitte is an herbalist and nutritional consultant of Natural Health…
261: Brigitte Mars on Natural First Aid
261: Brigitte Mars on Natural First Aid. Preparing a resource for quick response to emergency incidents with simple and natural ingredients. Brigitte is an herbalist and nutritional consultant of Natural…
255: Gianaclis Caldwell on Holistic Goat Care
255: Gianaclis Caldwell on Holistic Goat Care. Considering the whole picture of raising goats and their benefits. In addition to actively managing their dairy goats, Gianaclis is the main cheesemaker,…
254: Stephanie Tourles on Natural Ways to Repel Insects
254: Stephanie Tourles on Natural Ways to Repel Insects. Focusing on natural options to create your own bug repellents. Stephanie has practiced and taught healthy living for more than 25…
232: John Vespasian on Rational, Self-Reliant Living
232: John Vespasian on Rational, Self-Reliant Living. Learning lessons of resilience from history. – – – – John is a personal development author of eight books about history and psychology,…
197: Perrine Herve-Gruyer on Miraculous Abundance
Greg gets a chance to talk to Perrine, a delightful French organic farmer and permaculture enthusiast and hear how she transformed her life by ditching her career as a lawyer to start a self-sufficient, organic farm without any gasoline driven engines at all. Now, she and her husband are examples to others on how to successfully farm the old-fashioned way.
181: Quita Jackson on Thrifty Self Sufficiency
Being green is all about having less of a negative impact on the planet and here Greg chats with Quita who has fully adopted a new lifestyle and loves helping others find their way into it as well. Quita tells how she got the courage to start gardening, and how that gave her confidence to try new ways to become self-sufficient even while living in a major city. Her encouraging attitude and caring nature helps as she spreads the word about little steps people can take in their own lives.
147: Shawn and Beth Dougherty on Farmsteading
Greg is thoroughly impressed with the transformational successes of Shawn and Beth on their “really trashy” plot of land to the diverse, beautiful, and healthy pasture they now enjoy. They tell their story of how they bought what they could afford were prompted to do research and replicate the methods of grazing that preceded the modern day mass production farms.
145: Storm Kirk on Community and Gardening
Greg meets another kindred spirit in Storm Kirk with her connection to gardening, making a difference in the community, trusting in nature, and making a choice to be happy every day. Storm shares her story of how she started gardening with no skills or experience and is now the founder of a very special place for healing and learning.
143: Cara Dafforn on Dehydrating the Urban Farm
We venture back in time with Cara Dafforn to learn how the women homesteaders of the mid 1800’s cooked, gardened, nurtured, and survived during the trials of the Civil War. She explains to Greg that as a history buff she was intrigued enough to try to replicate many of the processes in use during the time period
