While organic gardening is a great way to work in harmony with nature as we learn to garden and farm without chemicals, permaculture is all that and more. In fact, permaculture is becoming one of the hottest trending terms for those seeking to take their gardening and farming practices to the next earth-friendly level.
In this episode, we meet Dr. Will Hooker, who teaches permaculture at North Carolina State University and demonstrates the practices in his own home garden. Then we head to Georgia to visit a community that is incorporating permaculture into their daily farming and gardening practices. This episode offers great take-away information to show some of the simple steps of permaculture while showing that you can still have function and beauty in such a garden.
About Joe Lamp'l
Joe Lamp'l is the Host and Executive Producer of the award winning PBS television series Growing A Greener World. Off camera, Joe dedicates his time to promoting sustainability through his popular books, blog, podcast series, and nationally syndicated newspaper columns. Follow Joe on Twitter
I teach Environmental Science and have used your show as homework for class discussion. I am very interested in a workshop in 2018 , which includes Permaculture principles, and will be looking for more information and dates. Thank you; your work is most important for the students and our future. Please thank Nathan also. I bought yellow beets today for his pickled beet salad.
Best regards,
I just watched your show “The Principals of Permaculture. It was a big motivator for me to help do something to conserve our environment. My daughter is also very much interested looking to change careers after working in the financial world for almost 20 years. We would appreciate the pleasure of meeting with you and seeing your farm and garden set up. Please let me know if this is possible and what date and time is suitable. Thank you for reading my letter and for the possibility to meet.
Sincerely, Ted Dubik.
Ted,
Thank you for your positive feedback, as you know, organic gardening and growing a greener world is our mission. As far as visiting the garden farm and meeting me, this is a request that I frequently get. While my schedule with production for Growing a Greener World keeps me very busy, we may be offering an opportunity (by advance registration) to visit the farm as part of a workshop in 2018. Once we have more information and dates, we will publicize it. Thank you for your interest and support. Wishing you a great gardening year in 2018!