444-Home Permaculture: Turn Your Yard Into a Thriving Ecosystem

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Joe Lamp'l

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4.6 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Practicing permaculture doesn't require a sprawling property of several acres. As my guest this week, Brandy Hall of Shades of Green Permaculture, explains, the benefits of permaculture can fit in urban and suburban settings.

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0:00.0	Hi, everybody. This is Joe Lampel, the Joe behind Joe Gardner, and welcome to the Joe Gardner Show.
0:05.2	Today's podcast conversation is with Brandy Hall. She wrote a book recently that I had the pleasure of reading.
0:10.6	The title is The Complete Guide to Home Permaculture, How to Transform Your Yard into a Thriving and Productive Ecosystem.
0:18.1	How's that for subtitle? Who wouldn't want that? I love that relevance to the
0:23.2	urban and suburban market for sure. Brandy started her very successful landscape design and
0:28.4	installation firm Shades of Green permaculture. About 20 years ago, using her extensive knowledge
0:34.6	of permaculture practices and her core business serves the urban and
0:38.4	suburban metro Atlanta, Georgia area. And what I found so appealing about Brandy's book is the relevance to
0:43.9	urban and suburbanites with average size yards. I also really gravitated towards her three
0:50.0	pillars of permaculture design and practice, which is what she strives to apply with every
0:54.8	project she and her team takes on. And that's where we will spend most of our time today,
0:59.8	because I think you will really relate to Brandy's approach, applying a concept that may have
1:05.6	been a little muddy to get your head around, and it was for Brandy initially, and myself also.
1:12.3	And one more thing.
1:18.0	Brandy's path to her professional career as a designer and land steward has a very interesting story that started when she was just a child. And it is clear, to me at least, that it had a
1:24.3	very significant role in how she uses her time and effort with her career and life today.
1:30.2	And I think you'll pick up on that too in the first part of this conversation.
1:34.4	And by the way, after this conversation during the wrap up, I'm going to share some news with you that's a pretty big deal.
1:41.2	If you've been following me for a while and you are familiar with my
1:45.8	raised bed garden and all that goes on there, well, there are some big changes currently in process
1:51.6	that you're going to want to hear about and see. And I will share more of the details in the
1:57.6	wrap up part of this episode. So stick around for that. But let's get started with
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