Stefan Sobkowiak operates a 12 acre farm of which 6-acres are in a permaculture orchard at Miracle Farms in Quebec. Sobkowiak originally bought the farm as a conventional 12 acre 4,000 tree monoculture apple orchard and immediately transitioned it to organic, but he quickly realized that an organic monoculture merely substitutes inputs from the conventional model. The alternative he created is a diverse polyculture that produces a wide variety of different fruits, berries and perennial herbs for u-pick membership customers. Sobkowiak is also an avid teacher, having taught at the university level and now popularly, through his Permaculture Orchard video, his online virtual orchard tour and his online pruning course.

Find out more about Stefan at www.miracle.farm

▶️ My farm https://www.coenfarm.ca

▶️ My consulting and book https://www.buildingyourgulch.com

Tim and I talk about why he left his job in big tech to become a blacksmith and homesteader, why you should learn a pre-electricity skill, the essential human need to produce, morality, politics, and what is the one tool we would each grab on our way out of the house after a zombie apocalypse.

Find out more about Tim on his website: http://reforgedironworks.com

▶️ My farm https://www.coenfarm.ca

▶️ My consulting and book https://www.buildingyourgulch.com

In this episode I coach one of my students about how to navigate the philosophical, ethical and political implications of keeping chickens in a California city when it suddenly became illegal.

▶️ My farm https://www.coenfarm.ca

▶️ My consulting and book https://www.buildingyourgulch.com