Episode Highlights:

• How Deanna started her career in studying indigenous cultures
• Traveling to Africa during Deanna's Prescott College days to research about chocolates
• Deanna's experiences with her business selling chocolates
• Business as opportunity to do good

About Deanna Moore:

Deanna Moore is committed to helping people spread their message and activate their vision toward a just, sacred and sustainable culture. She has a background in Permaculture, Ecology, Holistic Health & Education. She has an MA in Ecology & Education from Prescott College and is a published co-author of “The Green Intention”. She is a food entrepreneur and collaborator with values-based for profit and non-profit businesses alike. She loves surfing, primitive skills, mezcal and mushrooms! She is co-founder of Remarkable Wellness www.myremarkablewellness.com.

Show Links:

• Check out MyRemarkableWellness.com
• The Online Permaculture Design Course

Episode Highlights:

• Rob’s journey from being a pipeline engineer to permaculture
• How harvesting energy coincides with permaculture
• Difference between the rebuild and reset
• Why community groups are more important than gardening
• Why do we need to consider using alternative currencies
• How Rob is preparing for the big changes brought about by the pandemic
• Why podcasts are more important than the press
• A note by Katie LaMonte

About Rob Avis

With over 15 years of combined experience in engineering, project management, ecological design and sustainable technologies, Rob co-owns Adaptive Habitat – a unique and leading edge property design and management company in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 

As a skilled Professional Engineer, he offers a depth of practical expertise in building science and appropriate technology (solar, wind, combined heat & power), as well as rainwater harvesting, agro-ecology, ecosystem engineering, soil regeneration and onsite wastewater treatment / septic design.

His extensive project management experience includes site analysis, technical design, cost estimating and scheduling, through to commissioning and construction.

He holds a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from the University of Alberta, interned at the Folkecenter for Renewable Energy in Denmark, and co-founded Verge Permaculture in 2008, now an internationally-recognized & award-winning regenerative design, consulting, and education centre. With over 15 years of combined experience in engineering, project management, ecological design and sustainable technologies, Rob co-owns Adaptive Habitat – a unique and leading edge property design and management company in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 

As a skilled Professional Engineer, he offers a depth of practical expertise in building science and appropriate technology (solar, wind, combined heat & power), as well as rainwater harvesting, agro-ecology, ecosystem engineering, soil regeneration and onsite wastewater treatment / septic design.

His extensive project management experience includes site analysis, technical design, cost estimating and scheduling, through to commissioning and construction.

He holds a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from the University of Alberta, interned at the Folkecenter for Renewable Energy in Denmark, and co-founded Verge Permaculture in 2008, now an internationally-recognized & award-winning regenerative design, consulting, and education centre.

Online Permaculture Design Course with Josh Robinson
The Online Permaculture Design Course

Episode Highlights

• Advantage of raising quail over chicken
• Basic things to get that Franchesca recommends when raising quail for the first time
• The process of hatching, breeding, and maintaining quail
• Process of raising quails for eggs and meat
• Personality and emotions of quails that you have to take note

About Franchesca Duval

Franchesca Duval is the Head Chicken Wrangler at Alchemist Farm in Sebastopol California. She is always tinkering with chicken genetics and pushes the edges of what is possible in the world of egg color and texture. She believes that beautifully colored eggs capture the imagination of humans and gently invites them to ask where their food comes from. 

Alchemist Farm is a humane chicken and quail hatchery that is pioneering a marriage of humane treatment of poultry with regenerative agriculture. 

Franchesca's farm demonstrates that a family business can thrive while doing right ecologically with a little creativity and a lot of heart.

They are the only chicken hatchery in the United States that:

*Runs on 100% clean renewable energy.

*Is 100% zero waste and has all plastic free shipments.

*Does not kill its male chicks upon hatch, they are donated to local impoverished families who raise them for food. 

*Keeps all of its breeding groups out on pasture and not in breeding cages. 

*Breeds for temperament. They have 35 roosters on our farm and their young children can walk right up to any of them and interact. No aggressive birds stay in their breeding program.

* Chooses one organization to donate a portion of their proceeds to every year. In 2019 it was End68HoursofHunger in 2020 it is The Children’s Eternal Rainforest. They are proud participants of the 1%for the planet foundation. 

 For the latest updates from the farm they can be followed on Instagram as well as Facebook