Kickstarter converstation – PawPaws prechat
Ultimately it comes down to your community
ones you hear about being famous
something you can buy
a collapsable hat
invention
raise 100k
video games
social a book
your network
interest within that network for what you’re doing
descent
small network
I have 8-10k people that are supposedly tuning in to what I’m doing, I’m really having to work it to get kickstarter to kick in. It’s not easy money.
that’s where your support will come from
hopeful doing things like this will help. Definitely
most of the support
But also it markets what your doing
I’m already marketing my book
getting people to know about it
im a paw paw person
a lot of work
not a lot of money
marketing before it’s written
community around what you’re doing
they appreciate
Scott mann from the permaculture podcast
patreon
book giveaways
cross pollinating
Edible Landscaping with a Permaculture Twist: How to Have Your Yard and Eat It Too
Long Creek Homestead permaculture site is just north of downtown Frederick, Maryland at the entrance to Gambrel State Park. Our 25 acre site is a woodland paradise situated along a peaceful rambling creek that offers a rich diversity of eco-zones and resources to work with and learn from. We have multiple food forests, at different ages and stages that boast over 100 varieties of cultivated fruits, nuts and medicinals. Our gardens are designed on raised bed Swales and hugelkulture beds that passively harvest water, create micro-climates and pump food! We grow many types of culinary mushrooms throughout the landscape for food and fertility. In 2016 we completed building our circular round wood timber framed straw bale home that celebrates the beauty and craft of using local resources.
I don’t divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.
-Luis Barragan
Consulting & Design – Rain GardenConsult/Design
Whether it is a first time garden or diversification of an already productive landscape our consultations are tailored to your goals and site potentials. Designer Michael Judd is an experienced designer able to ‘read’ landscapes quickly and bring to life numerous approaches and options that make your landscape more productive, ecological and beautiful. His perspectives and varied experience lay the framework that result in successful and enjoyable projects.
Tell us a little about yourself.
I live in Maryland we live on a permaculture homestead
means it’s ecologically designed
circular straw bale
hugelkulture
beds
wood covered with soil
slowly breaking down
perennial fruite and berries
living willow dome
structure
hardy to cold weather
fast growing
willow temples
8 foot long live willow rods
Vermont willow
very inexpensive to start
build a rebar frame first
willow dome
2-3 years becomes they magical place
look good and be productive
you can have your yard and eat it too
creatively mixed into a very beautiful landscape
high end HOAs
urban restaurant designs
lots of food
Tell me about your first gardening experience?
center of my belief
these approaches
How did you learn how to garden organically?
my journey has been all around the world
started living in Latin America
south eastern Spain
now a desert
spaghetti westerns
lived with an english
crack in the desert that we san oasis
ran a mile through it
moors a 1000 years ago
flooded irrigation
terra and flood irrigation
crack nine the desert
worked on these ancient traces
similar type climates
biodynamic farming out in colorado
permaculture
natural building
new Mexico
now here my living and my life is working with the land
helping people grow and connect
functional
victorian
if your not working hard your not doing it
design
harvesting your rain water
microclimates
mulching well
set that up
bones up structure
whatever you plant will thrive
just kind of run out there
design up front
edible landscaping with
simplifies these approaches
breaks it down into these projects
you don’t have to understand the dynamics of permaculture or even edible landscaping
you can build an herb spiral
start off you have success
encourages you to
how do you create swales
passively harvest rainwater
every time it rains
huge difference in its productivity
how its done
you love
creates a basin
dug out basin
walking path next to your raised burn
on contour
stops and steeps into ground
recharges the water table
40- feet downslope
mulch that
its
I call the herb spiral edible architecture
you’ve got this beautiful garden
more growing space for the diameter of the footprint
over almost anything
wet spot
over the driveway
you can make them really big
not just herbs
small urban yards
one little area that has some sunshine
spiraling up
sky scraper in a way
more surface as it runs all the way up
more inches to plant into
also
create a very micro climate
really on the cusp
over
put a lot of masonry around it, stone or brick
that will collect and radiate heat
earlier in the spring
go later
Tell us about something that grew well this year.
Lots of things well
willow temple
paw paws
paw paw tree
50lbs of fruit
when you go inside of a willow temple or dome it’s a very magical space
quite large
at least 16 feet in diameter
20 people in there comfortably
just to hang out
living willow dome
reminds me of your questions about your first garden experience
that
Is there something you would do different next year or want to try/new?
I am gonna work more with the Cornelian cherry
fruiting dogwood
quite a delectable fruit
corneous mass
ciousa dogwood
knobby red fruit full of lots of seeds
cornelian cherry
plump juicy
sweet
tart fruit
grows well into climate as well
edible landscape all stars
beautiful form
need to see more
happiest
a couple of the characters I’m working with
Juju bee trees
put them in the classy
some of swales before I’m gonna get
understand what they need more
currants
productive
pawpaw
lot of deer here too
designing for that
black currants pack a lot of flavor
medicinal
easy to grow
value add well
best jam
infused vodka
a lot of punch
loaded
purple dark fruit
goods
in that same category
Aronia
beautiful bush
very productive
very medicinal
not as great for eating fresh out of hand
elderberry
mike
very different then eating it raw
choke berry
wonder-berry
gummy
ru
tough character
site
place on your land
usually planting
elderberry
some varieties
eastern northern
english eating
if you grew up there
really tart
some people like that
I’m not one of them
add a little bit of sugar
exquisite jam
syrup
pancake
Tell me about something that didn’t work so well this season.
juju bee
where a plant has developed
leaf size
mesquites with very small leaves
huge leaf
developed in a human
understory of trees
leaf structure
juju bee
here
play with the conditions
too heavy of clay
going back around
all of the above
to get fresh material
bare root
burnt ridge nursery
rain tree nursers
if they are not thriving
if they are not too big when they are dormant
I grow a lot of things in tree pots
deep pots
regardless of what I am growing
grow them out that way
making things
if somethings not doing great in a spot
if there’s a tree
taking a lot of space
putting something that will do well there
learning going
pots to move
Bob Quinn
in Montana grows
food s
Which activity is your least favorite activity to do in the garden.
carrying heavy stuff
I like being outside
I don’t do much of
throw down newspaper and straw
carry heavy stuff
What is your favorite activity to do in the garden.
I love to propagate
prune
graft
intimate interactions with perennials
mostly work with perennials
heavy annual agriculture
intensity of input for output
very productive
annual produce seed every year
tomatoes corn
squash
perennials
live 3-4 years
soft perennials
hard perennials
pop up
lemon balm
mint
pops up
dies back ground
no woody material in it
hard perennials
form woody trunks sor stems
black currants
apple tree
What is the best gardening advice you have ever received?
design for neglect
i think that even with best intentions
of your time
what you think you will do or take care of
will not be able to manage for the best
things will thrive anyway
working with permaculture
digging those sales
urbe spirals
habitat for things to thrive in
took me 5 years to build the straw
everything on my landscape got neglected
design and structure
planted things that were hardy
design for neglect
wonderful to life in
very organic structures in a good way
they breathe
esoteric
you feel that
the straw bales have to be able to breathe
you can’t slap concrete or stucco
earthen plaster
beautiful
website
love living it
building in the round is art
more time
where your life is
still busy in life
straight lines
round structures
allows the mind to flow
doesn’t get bounced back at you
psychologically does something for living in
grow in a lot of climates
good boots and hats
foundation lifts bales
on the outside
have a traditional lime stucco
lime putty mixed with sand and applied
sloths off very easily
still breathes
don’t absorb heat
passive
pull cool air in
let hot air out
all of the extra clay
absorb excess humidity
balanced naturally
air conditioned
heat
heat the whole house with a finished design masonry stove
Are outgoing to talk about the mushrooms?
mushrooms grow very well in our neck of the woods
good indicator
energy to work with
shiitakes
oysters
medicinal reshie mushrooms
natural outdoors
perennial
dormant outside in the winter time
more then 3 years
growing mushrooms
really simplify it
start growing mushrooms on your own
space where there is a little moisture
squirt it with the hose
conditions
dormant
leave them outsides
A favorite tool that you like to use? If you had to move and could only take one tool with you what would it be.
machete
tool from living in latin america
lonely tool a farmer will own literally
key it is to building
gardening
fits into
overall survival
choose one
A favorite recipe you like to cook from the garden?
I like to make cocktails
black currant infusions
full quart jar
freshly black currants
pour vodka
sit for about 4-6 weeks
shake it a little bit
pour that off
ice and drink it
mix a little bit of champagne
I like taking these unique
think about it an herbal tincture
tasking a whole lot
fudge it
A favorite internet resource?
is a online forum
lots of people sharing their experience
growing and building
permaculture goest into everything else
permies
thread on permies
real life stuff
look is like we tried this unique thing…
A favorite reading material-book, mag, blog/website etc you can recommend?
I really like Lee Risch’s book
Hudson Valley of NY
his style
entertaining
practical
favorite books
uncommon fruits for every garden
Cornell
juju be
easy to grow
commonly known about
easy to grow
reading his stuff
comfortable
he aha a lot of
reich
edible landscaping with a permaculture twist
paw
gooseberries and currants
wonderful characters
well known in Asia
hardy
medicinal
Chinese date
as it dries and the sugars concentrate it becomes very sweet like a date
apple cameral flavor
small tree
zone 6
potentially
If you have a business to you have any advice for our listeners about how to sell extra produce or get started in the industry?
living
learned a lot from different permaculture teachers
just doing it
getting enough experience with working with growing
creatable with it
observing the natural flow
water
wind
sun
huge success
watching and observing and working with
taking an idea
hit the vein
what is working well
thrives
observe and put things in
work is a lot less
observe for a year
its not always realistic
not starting right away
see where things work well
not really
patterns
what we’re doing
high tech
Final question-
if there was one change you would like to see to create a greener world what would it be? For example is there a charity or organization your passionate about or a project you would like to see put into action. What do you feel is the most crucial issue facing our planet in regards to the environment either in your local area or on a national or global scale?
we need to move back towards perennial agriculture
the more food that we get from perennials
more carbon we will be able to sequester
by planting more trees
wordy perennials and bushes
for our diet
building
needs we have as humans
sequester more carbon
greenhouse effect
global warming and weather
pretty direct correlation how we’re using our landscapes
what is on our plate
what the landscape looked like
based culture and diet
turning the soil
releasing carbon
intensively farming
releasing
nuts
fruits
root crops
more perennial
How do we connect with you?
website ecologia design
Portuguese
ecologia
great information on there
circular straw bale on there
paw paws
running Kickstarter campaign
march 25th to help sponsor the publication of a book about paw paws
harvesting and using recipes
paw paws
Kickstarter helps me make it a reality
you sponsor a project a wonderful exchange
really creative something on their own
extended rewards
happening
whatever
unique rewards
see more about paw paws
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