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Levi’s Guest Appearance on the Height Drop Parkour Podcast

Levi’s Guest Appearance on the Height Drop Parkour Podcast

by Levi Meeuwenberg | Jan 5, 2023 | Agriculture, Blog, Culture, Economics, Farm, Fossil Fuels, History, Parkour, Permaculture/Homesteading, Podcast, Why Permaculture, YouTube

My parkour buddy, Brandon Douglas, invited me to appear on his Height Drop podcast.  It was a fun chat, in which we discussed my parkour journey, getting into farming and sustainable living, existential threats, narratives, soil depletion, regenerative...
Introduction to Apple Tree Grafting with Trevor Newman [Video]

Introduction to Apple Tree Grafting with Trevor Newman [Video]

by Levi Meeuwenberg | Mar 18, 2017 | Agriculture, Blog, Farm, Permaculture/Homesteading, Plants, YouTube

  This is a clip from a 2016 workshop led by Trevor Newman of Roots to Fruits, hosted by Realeyes Homestead.   Transcript:   Guy: Apples?   Trevor: Yeah. These are apples and this is a semi-dwarf called ‘Bud 118’. So again,...
Clever Tricks for Planting and Propagating Gooseberry Bushes (and Currants) [Video]

Clever Tricks for Planting and Propagating Gooseberry Bushes (and Currants) [Video]

by Levi Meeuwenberg | Mar 18, 2017 | Agriculture, Blog, Farm, Permaculture/Homesteading, Plants, YouTube

  This is a clip from a 2016 workshop led by Trevor Newman of Roots to Fruits, hosted by Realeyes Homestead.   Transcript: Trevor: Gooseberries. Blackcurrant, red currant, gooseberries. It’s actually really beneficial to plant them a little bit below...
How to Establish Understory/Groundcover Plants in your Orchard or Forest Garden [Video]

How to Establish Understory/Groundcover Plants in your Orchard or Forest Garden [Video]

by Levi Meeuwenberg | Mar 18, 2017 | Agriculture, Blog, Events/Workshops, Farm, Permaculture/Homesteading, Plants, YouTube

  This is a clip from a 2016 workshop led by Trevor Newman of Roots to Fruits, hosted by Realeyes Homestead.   Transcript: Trevor: Yeah really good way to integrate ground cover species is overseeding into the exist– either into the existing vegetation...
Pastured Pig Dueling / Dominance Fighting

Pastured Pig Dueling / Dominance Fighting

by Levi Meeuwenberg | Jan 3, 2016 | Animal Husbandry, Blog, Farm, Permaculture/Homesteading, YouTube

  We put pigs together into a pen for the first time, and the mamma fights another pig for dominance while her piglet tries to nurse. Get out of the way piglet! This lasted for about 5 minutes, then we never saw them fight again, except the usual little...
Winter Pig Pen with Pallets and Pine Trees

Winter Pig Pen with Pallets and Pine Trees

by Levi Meeuwenberg | Jan 3, 2016 | Animal Husbandry, Appropriate Technology, Blog, Farm, Permaculture/Homesteading, YouTube

Here’s our winter pig pen made out of old pallets. It’s about an acre of fencing enclosing a thick patch of blue spruce trees. The spruce help provide shelter from the wind and snow for the pigs, and we give them straw to insulate from the ground. They use...
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