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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Stealing From Permaculture

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

James Prigioni shares his approach to permaculture, and what he 'steals' from the philosophy to use in his garden. Connect with James Prigioni Subscribe to James' YouTube channel Follow on Instagram Follow on Twitter Follow on Facebook Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up everyone?

0:02.0

What's up everyone?

0:04.0

What's up?

0:06.0

What's up?

0:07.0

What's up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening

0:15.3

podcast. We're joined again by James Pragioni of the gardening channel

0:19.2

with James Briggioni over on YouTube. Shoot him a subscription. He's really known for his permaculturist style

0:26.0

approach. I mean he's got a food forest. He follows a lot of the principles of permaculture,

0:30.5

but you kind of think about it in maybe a more general sense

0:33.7

James is similar to how I approach it where you sort of take what you like about it

0:37.1

and apply that and you don't necessarily do you know 100% the rules of permaculture right?

0:43.0

Absolutely. Yeah I love permaculture for a lot of the guarding lessons and stuff mixed into it.

0:49.0

I'm not necessarily into the ethics and things of permaculture, but I like some of the approaches and the way they view things, the whole idea of working with nature, not against it.

0:58.0

One of my favorite things Jeff Law and talks about is how the problem is the solution to.

1:02.0

He's got a saying, he says,

1:04.0

you don't have a slug problem,

1:06.0

you have a duck deficiency.

1:08.0

So I love that whole just way of thinking.

1:10.0

Yeah, yeah, I mean, it's an interesting way of thinking about it. I think maybe two to three years ago I had my friend Jessica Walliser on the podcast and she was talking a lot about beneficial insects and how it's really not so much about you have an

1:25.5

aphid problem you just have a lack of beneficial insect problem right?

1:29.6

Exactly. It's kind of the exact same thing just a different you know different predator different past

1:34.8

Yeah, I love I love the whole mindset and approach to it and I I think it

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