Welcome to the Commune podcast, where each week we explore the ideas and practices that help us live healthy, connected, and purpose-filled lives.

My name is Jeff Krasno.

Today's episode is an excerpt from our Commune Course, Principles of Permaculture, with Warren Brush and Quail Springs.

Over the course of the next hour, Warren will give you a sense of just how much we can learn from indigenous agricultural practices.

For example, did you know that traditional Hawaiian cultures managed entire volcanic

mountain sides from summit to ocean for sustainable food production? Or that slash and burn was once

a regenerative form of agriculture in the tropics and subtropics.

Humans have been observing, problem-solving, and ethically engaging with their landscapes for millennia.

But we have now forgotten how to do that.

In fact, many cultures lived in such a harmonious, abundant relationship with the land that despite thriving

for thousands of years, they left almost zero footprint. Now, I hope you come away from this

presentation with a better understanding of how to source the food you eat in a way that is

life-sustaining instead of life-draining.

And if you want to go much deeper on this topic, please check out the full Principles of

Permaculture course by going to onecommun.com slash trial and signing up for a free 14-day trial of commune membership.

Here's Warren, starting with a brief overview of permaculture.

Thank you. Well, good day, everyone. I'm always glad to be able to share about permaculture.

And one of the things my elders have always shared with me is that that it's really crucial

that if you're doing something that's to last through time, where you're doing something

that's life-giving for your children's children's children, that you begin in gratitude.

So today I want to begin in gratitude and to just give thanks for this land that we call Quail Springs.

It's a very special place in the high desert of Southern California

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