4pm Pacific / 5pm Mountain / 6pm Central / 7pm Eastern -- Arizona: 4pm Summer / 5pm Winter (changes w/ DST) -- This month's topic: The Art of Harvesting Seeds […]
Greg and special guest Don Titmus will host our monthly Garden Chats focusing on Gardening with Permaculture each month this year. Join us and let us try to answer your gardening questions.
MONDAY, Oct 13 12pm AZ/Pacific / 1pm Mountain / 2pm Central / 3pm Eastern Arizona will be 12pm MST in Summer / 1pm in Winter (changes with DST) with Farmer […]
Chat topic: A strong tree can withstand desert winds, grow straight, and stand without aid of ropes or stakes, but when they are young they might need a little training to get to that point. We are covering proper staking in this conversation.
Need assistance planning your garden or orchard? Schedule a one-on-one call with Farmer Greg himself who will give the benefits of a personalized property analysis without the added cost of trip charges. Using his extensive permaculture experience, along with decades of being an educator assisting homeowners with successful fruit tree growing and gardening, he can answer a variety of questions.
The global seed supply is increasingly dominated by a handful of corporations that use patents and restrictive contracts to lock farmers into dependency. In this Seed Chat, Greg and Bill will discuss the growing movement that is reclaiming community ownership by creating seed libraries, developing open-source seed models, and reviving the age-old practice of saving and sharing seeds as a path to true food freedom.
Greg and special guest Don Titmus will host our monthly Garden Chats focusing on Gardening with Permaculture each month this year. Join us and let us try to answer your gardening questions.
As climate chaos accelerates, traditional varieties often fail under extremes of heat, drought, and flooding. Communities are turning to locally adapted, open-pollinated seeds and grassroots breeding programs to ensure food systems survive and thrive in a changing world. These climate-hardy seeds are becoming the ultimate resilience tool. Greg and Bill will reveal the path necessary to take to understand how to create these climate-hardy seeds and become more seed resilient.
Join us for a monthly discussion featuring diverse voices from across the permaculture landscape. Each month, a new teacher will share 30–35 minutes of core concepts—rooted in ethics, principles, and practical action—followed by lively Q&A and a few parting seeds to plant in your own life.Whether you're just discovering permaculture or seeking to reconnect with its deeper patterns, these sessions are an ideal mycelial touchpoint to local PDCs and global movements alike!
Next, we turn to global seed storage and the industrial world’s seed bank system: CGIAR. Each year, roughly 90,000–100,000 seed samples are distributed to researchers, breeders, and farmers under the framework of the International Plant Treaty. We’ll look at what this system is designed to do — and ask how that compares with how it actually functions in today’s world.
Join Bill McDorman and Greg Peterson for a fun and informative discussion on Seeds, Seed Culture, and Building seed resiliency,
