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Good Life Revival: Permaculture, Rewilding, Homesteading

74 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 95 ratings

The Good Life Revival Podcast explores the ways that we can align our core values and our daily habits towards a more sustainable, ecologically conscious way of life. Join host Sam Sycamore in discussion about living intentionally, finding purpose in the modern era, and taking meaningful action to heal the world by healing ourselves.

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Finale. "The true state of all things is a waterfall"

August 09, 2020 19:04 - 23.1 MB

Listen to Microphones in 2020 by The Microphones (Phil Elverum).

72. What are you doing with your life? Or; Angels and Demons at Play

November 22, 2019 06:08 - 11 MB

What are you doing with your life? What are you trying to accomplish? Where is this all going? Do you even have a goal? Do you have a retirement plan? Do you have a savings account? What happens when you get sick? What are you going to do when your truck breaks down on the side of the road? When are you going to become a productive member of society?

71. The Art of Inner Tracking with Luke McLaughlin of Holistic Survival School

November 19, 2019 23:22 - 53.5 MB

Luke McLaughlin doesn’t want to teach you wilderness survival skills. He wants to guide you through the process of remembering your ancestral human nature. Make no mistake — though he’ll tell you that the technology typically amounts to little more than “playing with bones and stones,” these rhythms and motions that our ancestors honed across countless millennia can show us what it really means to be a human animal — an integral participant in the ecological unfolding of a place. The beaut...

70. How and Why to Eat Acorns - A Step-by-Step Foraging Tutorial

October 17, 2019 16:13 - 48.9 MB

The acorn is one of the most common and ubiquitous nuts you’re likely to encounter almost anywhere in the Northern Hemisphere in autumn. Somehow, tragically, the vast majority of people on Earth today think of acorns as little more than “squirrel food,” despite the fact that they are easily rendered edible for humans after some basic processing. In fact, if we lived in anything approaching a sane, rational culture, acorns would be a staple in our daily diets around the world, as ordinary a...

Wild Food Mentorship - Apply Now for the Winter 2019/20 Session!

September 24, 2019 19:56

By popular demand, my Wild Food Mentorship is returning for its second year, beginning this November! The deadline to apply is October 31, 2019. Don’t delay! Head this way to fill out an application: http://www.thegoodliferevival.com/mentor For this session I will be taking on no more than 20 students for 12 weeks of in-depth, one-on-one tutoring to teach you everything you need to know to get started gathering some of the most abundant wild foods found all across your local landscape th...

69. Climate Change Grief Pt. II - Visions, Wildfires, and the Children of Compost

September 20, 2019 18:27 - 38 MB

Whether the status quo is prepared to admit it or not, climate change is not some mysterious future event looming on the horizon — it is already happening, here, now. So: how will you choose to respond? In this episode of the Good Life Revival Podcast, I revisit last week’s topic of climate change grief, and whether we ought to let go of the hope of salvation in favor of taking direct action to brace ourselves for what we know we can reasonably expect from a severely disrupted global clima...

68. Coping With Climate Change Grief - What Comes After Acceptance?

September 11, 2019 23:12 - 30.3 MB

We’ve analyzed the data. We’ve seen the models and the projections. The facts are grim, and the reality on the ground (for some, not all — yet) is even grimmer still: Global anthropogenic climate disruption is leading to social and political unrest as it causes ecological instability and begins to render regions of the planet inhospitable to humans. Worse yet, recent history tells us that scientists knew essentially everything we needed to know about the catastrophic severity of climate ch...

67. Uncovering America's Hidden Empire with Historian Daniel Immerwahr

September 04, 2019 02:51 - 69.8 MB

Picture, in your mind’s eye, a map of the United States of America. What do you see? If you’re like most of us, you’re probably picturing an outline of the contiguous United States, the so-called “lower 48.” You might also be picturing Alaska up there in the top left corner, and Hawai’i somewhere out there in the Pacific. Now let me ask you: Why were you taught that this is an accurate representation of the United States? As the historian Daniel Immerwahr points out in his book How to Hi...

66. Explaining Nothing, Defending Nothing - Behind the Scenes with Sam Sycamore

August 22, 2019 18:33 - 11.6 MB

I dream of a quiet man who explains nothing and defends nothing, but only knows where the rarest wildflowers are blooming, and who goes, and finds that he is smiling not by his own will. "I Dream of a Quiet Man" by Wendell Berry, from Given.

65. Rainwater Harvesting for Adaptive Habitats with Rob Avis of Verge Permaculture

August 01, 2019 14:36 - 49.9 MB

Rob Avis is a petroleum engineer-turned-permaculture designer with many years of boots-on-the-ground experience in developing regenerative living systems. He runs the Canadian design company Verge Permaculture, as well as the consulting firm Adaptive Habitat. For this installment of the show, Rob joins me to talk about Essential Rainwater Harvesting, the book that he co-authored with his wife Michelle, released earlier this year. If you're curious about getting started with rainwater harve...

64. Partnering with Powerful Trees - How and Why with Akiva Silver of Twisted Tree Farm

July 17, 2019 14:57 - 55.1 MB

Akiva Silver is the owner of Twisted Tree Farm in New York, where he raises over 20,000 individual trees annually — no small feat as a sole proprietor! Earlier this year, Akiva published Trees of Power: Ten Essential Arboreal Allies via Chelsea Green, and this is one of those books that, for me, strikes a perfect balance between the practical and the philosophical. You’ll learn not just how but why to foster co-creative relationships with some of the world’s most generous and abundant tree ...

63. The Collapse is Not Your Fault: Climate Change and Near-Term Human Extinction

June 18, 2019 18:10 - 39.8 MB

There is no debate: our planet’s rapidly changing climate is now a fact of our everyday lives. Unpredictable and extreme weather events are becoming more common and more frequent worldwide, and both their unpredictability and their extreme nature is increasing over time. Flood waters rise higher, tropical storms blow harder, droughts last longer and wildfires burn with more intensity, and all of the above happens more frequently and in seasons when we would not expect any of it to occur. ...

62. The Pursuit of Irrelevance and Illegibility with Sam Sycamore

June 05, 2019 22:12 - 47.7 MB

Early on in my journey back to nature, I realized that I was going to have to get creative in order to overcome the unique obstacles in my path. Knowing that I would never work towards a six-figure salary or a thirty-year mortgage, I had to seek out ways of working with the land that did not involve ownership. …But what does it even mean to “own” a piece of land, anyway? In what sense do space and time and ecosystems “belong” to you? Rather than working harder to increase my income over y...

61. Bearing Witness to Wounded Landscapes with Trebbe Johnson, author of Radical Joy For Hard Times

May 22, 2019 22:32 - 60.1 MB

How can we create beauty and discover joy in a world so badly wounded by the machinations of our modern culture? This is a question that Trebbe Johnson strives to answer, both philosophically and in practice, through her work with the organization she founded ten years ago, called Radical Joy For Hard Times. I was so moved by Trebbe's book — also called Radical Joy For Hard Times — when I read it last fall that I ended up joining the Board of Directors for Rad Joy, because I felt that the ...

60. You Do Not Exist

May 04, 2019 23:29 - 8.29 MB

You do not exist. I do not exist. Ask your I: "What are you?" And your I will reply, "I am not."

59. Home is Where the Truck is Parked with Kelly Moody of the Ground Shots Podcast

April 18, 2019 15:59 - 88.9 MB

If your life came to an end tomorrow — would you feel like you’d made the most of it? For episode 59 of the Good Life Revival Podcast, I met up with Kelly Moody, creator of the Ground Shots Podcast and companion blog, Of Sedge and Salt. Since we're both pretty unconventional podcasters who currently reside in California and like to talk about plants & people, we thought it'd be fun to do a kind of joint interview to get to know each other better. Though originally from the deep south, for ...

58. Disrupting Racism Using Deep Connection with Aaron Johnson, Porsha Beed and Jennie Pearl of Holistic Resistance

April 04, 2019 15:23 - 75 MB

When your neighbor comes to you in a panic and tells you that her house is burning — how will you respond? For episode 58 of the Good Life Revival Podcast, I ventured up to Oakland, CA to meet with Aaron Johnson, Porsha Beed, and Jennie Pearl, three of the individuals who form the core of a group called Holistic Resistance, which aims to combat racism by fostering deep personal connections. Their work is at once profound and subversive, both in its goals and in the methods they employ in t...

57. Sexual Liberation and the Question of Masculinity with Ev'Yan Whitney, Sexuality Doula

March 18, 2019 15:35 - 49.9 MB

When all we’ve ever known is unhealthy, imbalanced examples of sexuality, how can we even begin to step into our power as self-actualized, sexually liberated individuals? For episode 57 of the Good Life Revival Podcast, I invited Ev’Yan Whitney of Portland, Oregon, to join me for a conversation about how we might start to heal as a culture from the toxic and repressive social norms we’ve inherited about sex and gender. Ev’Yan describes herself as a sexuality doula, which is to say that she...

56. Seaweed Foraging on the California Coast with Heidi Herrmann of Strong Arm Farm

February 27, 2019 15:27 - 53.4 MB

Where ocean meets land: that’s where you’ll find Heidi Herrmann of Strong Arm Farm, who spends the better part of each summer meticulously hand-harvesting wild seaweed along the California coastline. For episode 56 of the Good Life Revival Podcast, I traveled to Santa Rosa, CA to meet with Heidi and pick her brain about the ins and outs of seaweed foraging, and find out how this pursuit came to be such an integral element of her annual workflow. As you’ll hear in our conversation, the Cali...

55. Reading Your Body, Reading the Land with Adam Haritan of Learn Your Land

February 15, 2019 16:20 - 49.2 MB

Personal health is not just an extension of environmental health — they are one and the same. For episode 55 of the Good Life Revival Podcast, I was fortunate enough to speak with Adam Haritan, creator of Learn Your Land. Nowadays he’s best known as a forager, naturalist, and educator, but these pursuits came after a sea change in Adam’s life which began when he woke up to how he’d been neglecting his health as a touring heavy metal drummer. “My body was kind of slowly falling apart on the...

54. Ecological Awareness and the Wildlife Web with Thomas J. Elpel

February 05, 2019 14:23 - 55.2 MB

How can we reestablish our fundamental connection with nature, in the context of a culture so thoroughly disconnected from the ecosystems that sustain it? According to Thomas J. Elpel, founder of Green University and the Outdoor Wilderness Living School, it starts by empowering people of all ages to learn to read the external signals and cues we receive from our environment; to discover how to tune in to the frequency of Mother Nature, always buzzing all around us no matter what kind of lan...

53. What is the Good Life? Reflecting on a Decade with Sam Sycamore

December 25, 2018 00:01 - 21.8 MB

“Sam Sycamore, how do you define the good life?”  “Well Sam, I’m glad you finally asked me for a change. “For me, the good life is defined by interdependence. To feel needed by a group of likeminded people, and to rely on them to meet the basic needs that I can’t take care of for myself. “To feel needed by the land around me, whether garden or forest, or some combination thereof, to manifest beauty and abundance wherever I go, and to draw my physical and spiritual sustenance through a dir...

52. Civilized to Death and Living on the Fringes with Chris Ryan, host of Tangentially Speaking

December 10, 2018 14:57 - 61.3 MB

How do you construct a life worth living when your human animal needs are fundamentally at odds with the dominant culture’s agenda? It’s this sort of questioning that has shaped the sordid path of Dr. Christopher Ryan, host of the Tangentially Speaking podcast and co-author of 2011’s Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships. More recently, Chris has shifted his focus away from sexuality and towards civilization itself: What if all those hallmarks o...

51. Wildlife Tracking and Coastal Prairie Ranching with Doniga Markegard, author of Dawn Again

November 26, 2018 18:37 - 39.9 MB

Whether tracking wolves across the Pacific Northwest, or shepherding cattle across California’s coastal prairie grasslands, Doniga Markegard aims not just to tend the land but to become one with its inhabitants. Doniga’s 2017 memoir, Dawn Again: Tracking the Wisdom of the Wild details all of the ways this intrepid tracker-turned-rancher has tackled the fundamental question of nature connection, from the tumultuous adolescence which led her to wilderness survival training, to professional wi...

50. Cannabis Culture in Oregon with Micayla Harland of Hash It Out

November 13, 2018 19:32 - 72.8 MB

With cannabis now legal for recreational use in ten states (plus Canada!), and medicinally available in over half of the country, we have reached pivotal moment for the mainstream acceptance of cannabis in North American culture. And yet, the industry is still on pretty shaky ground, given that both THC and CBD — the primary medicinal and psychoactive constituents of the cannabis plant — are still classified under federal law as being among the most dangerous drugs a person can get their h...

49. Why Do We Farm? with Luke Groce of Groce Family Farm

October 24, 2018 14:56 - 73.8 MB

What motivates ambitious young entrepreneurs to pursue farming as a career, knowing full well that they could end up struggling financially — forever? That’s a question that each of us has to answer for ourselves, ultimately. But if you’ve caught a chronic case of the farming bug, you probably don’t have to think too hard about it. “It’s a really big deal to me that I get to interact with the landscape alongside my family, and that we get to do the work together.” For episode 49 of the Go...

48. The Mycelium is the Message with Peter McCoy, author of Radical Mycology

October 10, 2018 03:14 - 48.7 MB

Attention: calling all citizen scientists, farmers, homesteaders, and back-to-the-land types — Mother Mycelium wants YOU to join the ranks of the few, the proud, and the brave who’ve taken up the cause of radical mycology! For this week’s installment of the Good Life Revival Podcast (no. 48), I had the pleasure of speaking with thee rad mycologist himself, Peter McCoy. Peter is the author of the indispensable 2016 tome ‘Radical Mycology,’ which details essentially everything that we colle...

47. Making Brooms and Cleaning Up Vacant Lots with Little John Holzwart

September 30, 2018 15:10 - 57.6 MB

If you’re someone with big dreams but limited means, this conversation is for you. For episode 47 of the Good Life Revival Podcast, I had the pleasure of speaking with John Holzwart of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, better known to most simply as Little John. If you know Little John, it’s probably as a result of his years of touring the country on the fair circuit, leading demonstrations and workshops on the art of broom-making. John is a skilled artisan with a sharp eye for honing raw materials i...

46. Coming Out of the Psychedelic Closet: Emotional Self-Improvement & Spiritual Healing

August 27, 2018 14:32 - 86.7 MB

It's time to come clean: I have been self-medicating with psychedelic drugs for over a decade — essentially my entire adult life. It started in college, first just "recreationally" and because I had a strong interest in altered states of consciousness. After a handful of deeply spiritual experiences that I was wholly unprepared for, I started to take psychedelics more seriously as "soul medicine." Over the years, I developed an intentional ritual practice for myself that incorporated LSD, ...

45. Ethical Vegan Homesteading and Beekeeping with Jeff and Ella Kennedy

August 07, 2018 14:23 - 90.7 MB

Have you ever intentionally killed a living, breathing animal? Was it to feed yourself, your family, friends, community? How did it make you feel? For Jeff and Ella Kennedy of Ouiska Run Farm in Milltown, Indiana -- my guests on episode 45 of the Good Life Revival Podcast -- raising animals for meat led them to conclude that they would be better off pursuing a plant-based lifestyle. What they were both surprised to discover was just how much their meat-free diet seemed to improve all aspe...

44. Invasive Species, Restoration and Ecological Literacy with Tao Orion of Resilience Permaculture

July 16, 2018 15:11 - 61.1 MB

What can so-called “invasive species” teach us about the health and vitality of our ecosystems? Is it possible that these oft-maligned invaders are actually serving functional roles on the land? And if we determine that they need to be managed, how exactly should we go about it? When you read Beyond the War on Invasive Species by Tao Orion, today’s guest on episode 44 of the Good Life Revival Podcast, you’ll discover that the conventional “restoration” narrative is pretty cut-and-dry: inva...

43. Wild Medicinal Plants and Hemp Farming with Daphne Valentine

July 04, 2018 17:05 - 74.7 MB

Do you communicate with the plants on your local landscape? Because they are always trying their hardest to reach you, whether or not you’re able to hear them. My guest for this installment of the Good Life Revival Podcast — no. 43 — is Daphne Valentine, a professional forager, farmer and pickle-maker from Murphreesboro, Tennessee. When it comes to communicating with plants, Daphne speaks with authority, drawing from a deep reservoir of lifelong experiences. “Plants have a frequency. If yo...

42. Domestication and the Suffocating Void of Modern Civilization with Kevin Tucker of Black & Green Review

June 20, 2018 17:23 - 99.4 MB

What do we find when we take a hard look at our collective suffering in the modern civilized world? Is existence itself a state of suffering, as the Buddhists would have you believe – or is it possible that there is a fundamental disconnect between how we live and what our animal bodies and minds require? “We are each still born a nomadic hunter-gatherer. If we were born into a hunter-gatherer culture we would turn out just the same as anyone else there. There’s nothing innately changed ab...

41. Homestead Resilience in an Era of Uncertainty with Ben Falk of Whole Systems Design

June 01, 2018 17:56 - 58.9 MB

Why do we choose to swim against the current of modern civilization in this era of rapid change? That’s a question that each of us, individually, will have to answer for ourselves. And that answer is liable to change, perhaps dramatically, as we venture further down the path back to nature and uncover hard-won knowledge about our place in the universe. Ben Falk, a permaculture-oriented land designer and site planner who runs the Vermont-based company Whole Systems Design, says his position...

40. The View From Here: Love, Partnership and Grief - Catching Up with Sam Sycamore

May 21, 2018 21:10 - 52.4 MB

We changed our names, quit our jobs, and moved to a farm owned by friends, in a new town, in a new state. Then our dog died in a tragic accident. Then my (life) partner left me while we were in the middle of starting a farm business together. We had spend the past four years of our lives working toward this one goal of living self-sufficiently, closer to the land, and we had finally arrived. So why did she leave? That’s a question I will be asking myself for a long time to come. In this...

39. Appalachian Folk Magic, Foraging & Witchcraft with Rebecca Beyer

May 14, 2018 13:51 - 44.4 MB

How do we navigate the spiritual landscape of our unique bioregions while honoring both our own ancestry and the history of the land and its people? This is a line of questioning that seems to unite all of the passions of Becky Beyer, a teacher and practitioner of foraging, folk magic, and witchcraft outside of Asheville, North Carolina. Becky is equally knowledgeable about the spiritual practices of her European ancestors and of her predecessors in that backwoods melting-pot we know as Ap...

38. Tent Life in Maine with Kim Davis, the Realist Nemophilist

April 20, 2018 13:29 - 87.7 MB

How long would you be willing to live in a tent, in order to pursue the lifestyle of your dreams? For the latest installment of the Good Life Revival Podcast, I had the pleasure of chatting with Kim Davis, who's just begun to make a name for herself online as the Realist Nemophilist. nemophilist - noun, singular. (rare) One who is fond of forests or forest scenery; a haunter of the woods. (Wiktionary) Kim and her mountain man Dan met when he was a pilot and she was a flight attendant, no...

37. The Privilege and Necessity of Rewilding with Peter Michael Bauer of Rewild Portland

April 09, 2018 16:25 - 76.9 MB

Is it a privilege to be aware of our domesticated captivity within the walls of civilization? Is it a necessity to act on that privilege? This is a line of questioning that I followed with Peter Michael Bauer, author of Rewild or Die: Revolution and Renaissance at the End of Civilization. Of course, to even make sense of questions like these requires some fundamental shifts of perspective: as Peter points out, you need to be able to view them through a specific sort of lens -- the lens of ...

36. Uncaging the Human Body and Mind with Jonathan Mead, Movement Coach

March 26, 2018 11:23 - 48.6 MB

How does it feel to be an inhabitant of your body? What are the stories you tell yourself about the state of your health?   For this installment of The Good Life Revival Podcast (#36) I spoke with Jonathan Mead, a nature-based movement coach and founder of The Uncaged Human. Jonathan teaches folks like you and me about how to reclaim our human animal nature through functional, nutritious movement. You might think of what Jonathan does as rewilding fitness, in the sense that his work is ai...

35. Foraging for the Future with Samuel Thayer, Wild Food Educator

March 05, 2018 17:00 - 46.4 MB

Is it possible to feed our families and our communities from the products of the forest, without harming nature in the process? For episode #35 of The Good Life Revival Podcast, I had the pleasure of chatting with author Samuel Thayer, renowned as one of North America's leading authorities on wild foods and foraging. Samuel is the author of the Forager's Harvest series of books, which he recently completed with the third installment, Incredible Wild Edibles, in late 2017. We spoke, among...

34. Thank You, Daniel Quinn, For Convincing Me Not to Save the World

February 17, 2018 21:47 - 23.6 MB

Author Daniel Quinn has passed away at age 82. Join us in revisiting some of the key themes of his life’s work. For those of us seeking an alternative way of life outside the confines of civilization, Daniel Quinn has had an immense impact on our collective worldview through this bold and unique books.  Beginning with Ishmael, in which we are introduced to the kinds of insights about civilization that only a captive gorilla could elucidate, Quinn took a fearless approach to questioning the...

33. Diversity and Abundance of Nutritious Movement with Katy Bowman, Biomechanist

February 16, 2018 13:12 - 40.8 MB

Why is it so tough for us modern humans to take good care of ourselves?   We created all of this technology to make life easier on our muscles, bones, and joints—so why do these core components of our bodies now seem to make us suffer more than ever before?   For episode 33 of the Good Life Revival Podcast, I had the pleasure of speaking with biomechanist and movement ecologist Katy Bowman, who likely needs no introduction among my audience but here goes anyway.   Katy is a prolific wr...

32. Animal Husbandry After the Collapse with Aaron Fletcher, Homeless Farmhand

February 10, 2018 18:45 - 65.9 MB

Do you believe that we are currently observing the early signs of the collapse of civilization, and that our society could actually quite easily fall apart within our lifetimes, due to any of myriad looming existential threats?   If you knew that civilization was going to collapse one year from now, how would that affect your daily life?   What if that collapse was set to arrive one month from now? Or a week from now?   How would that change your agenda, and what would you prioritize? ...

31. Cereal Grains and Chemical Warfare: A Brief History of the Green Revolution with Sam Sycamore

January 28, 2018 00:03 - 56.6 MB

Agriculture is one of the primary drivers of of overpopulation, deforestation, erosion, pollution of soil, water, and air, habitat loss, biodiversity loss, and global climate disruption. We know this. How did we get here? And has it always been this way?  Is agriculture to blame for the problems of modern civilization? Is modern civilization to blame for the ecological suicide course of modern agriculture?  Is it possible, as many would have you believe, for us to use more agriculture to ...

30. Sacred Land Use and the Intuitive Path with Steven Martyn, the Sacred Gardener

January 09, 2018 14:13 - 49.9 MB

Agriculture was once a highly sacred art - a loving communion between human and more-than-human, weaving us into the spiritual fabric of our landscapes and our ancestors who still reside there. For episode #30 of the Good Life Revival Podcast, I had the honor and pleasure of speaking with farmer-poet-philosopher Steven Elliot Martyn, author of Sacred Gardening: Seeds for the Reemergence of Co-Creative Agriculture and The Story of the Madawaska Forest Garden. Steven has developed a deep spi...

29. How to Develop Your Own Myths, Rituals, and Culture with Sam Sycamore

December 26, 2017 13:48 - 47.1 MB

We humans are innately spiritual creatures: we are all driven to seek purpose beyond pure survival, and connection beyond the individual body. We want to be a part of something greater than our individual selves—to feel that we are working with others, whether human or more-than-human, towards a common goal that supersedes individual needs. I believe that the civilized cultural paradigm that currently dictates our collective worldview does not serve us, and thus it is in our best interest ...

28. Your First Year as an Urban Farmer with Greg Zimmerer of Talking Trees Gardens

December 17, 2017 16:38 - 55 MB

Urban farming and small-scale market gardening have become very trendy topics in recent years. But how viable are these projects really, from a business perspective? For this episode of The Good Life Revival Podcast (#28), I invited back my friend Greg Zimmerer (check out my first interview with Greg in episode #16) to tell us about how things went for him in his first year as a market gardener. Greg is the farmer behind Talking Trees Gardens, a diverse, intensive 1/8th-acre market garden ...

27. Fourteen Years of Homestead Experiments with Darren and Espri Bender-Beauregard of Brambleberry Farm

December 10, 2017 21:41 - 52.5 MB

When it comes to homesteading and small farm entrepreneurship, Darren and Espri Bender-Beauregard have had their fair share of successes and failures over the last fourteen years running Brambleberry Farm. In this episode of the Good Life Revival Podcast, I sit down with Darren and Espri at the kitchen table in their magnificently handcrafted straw-bale home to talk about their history as homesteaders, market gardeners, and natural builders. We discuss how they became homesteaders in rural...

26. Building a Home Naturally with Michael Beck and Joana Amorim

November 25, 2017 18:15 - 33.5 MB

Michael Beck and Joana Amorim have spent the last several years traveling the world to acquire natural building skills. Now they're tackling their most ambitious build yet. Alongside their good friend Loren Heacock, they're in the process of constructing a traditional Appalachian log cabin on the 62 acres of land they jointly own in rural central Kentucky. For this installment of The Good Life Revival Podcast (#26), I ventured down to the Clear Creek Valley in late October 2017 to join a ...

25. Why I Am a Proud Meat Eater: Confessions of a Former Vegetarian with Sam Sycamore

November 10, 2017 15:37 - 41.3 MB

In this episode of the Good Life Revival Podcast (#25), I explore the complicated and often frustrating question of whether humans should eat meat. Is it good for our health? Is it bad for the environment? Are some forms of agriculture more sustainable than others, and to what degree? This leads to deeper discussion about our connection with the natural cycle of life and death, engaging in reciprocal relationships with wild and domesticated animals, and what it means to revere the animals -...