My lovely little wife and I been traveling for over a year now and we've learned a lot from all sorts of different experiences especially pertaining to natural building, farming and permaculture design.

Mushrooms in the Garden as Companions While mother and daughter enjoy a morning heart to heart over coffee, I snapped a sneaky photo and then got to work on incorporating mushrooms into the garden. Here

Fungi Academy - Mushrooms in the Lab Here is the lab. In the cabinets above you can see all sorts of interesting things growing and being stored in a variety of ways. The newest addition is the wall painting

Can mushrooms save the world? If you ask any Estonians you find up the mountain above the hippy haven of San Marcos the answer will most defiantly be a resounding "Jah". Just follow the mushrooms

I took a wee trip to Japan and shot some pics. All are just from my iphone, nothing fancy, simply edited in iphoto to my personal taste. I posted one of the photos on a whim to r/pics on reddit and got

The first name I came up with was 'Quit Yer Frigging Job'. That was too abrasive. Then I thought of 'What Do You Want To Do?' I'm now thinking that title was too vague and really had nothing to do with

Kombucha or Combucha or fermented tea and sugar drink or whatever you want to call it; apparently if you haven’t heard of it you’re not up on the hippie health drink craze and you know what? That is ok.

"Pattern recognition is the precursor to design." Dave Jacke Up til now, the first six permaculture principles that we covered could be thought of as bottom up principles. This means that they

This blog, 'What Do You Want To Do?', is a recognition by my wife and I that life is far too short not be doing exactly what we love to do. With that ethos in mind, we quit our jobs over a year ago and

Waste does not exist in nature. There is no such thing. All byproducts and remains of things past are reused within the system, leading to an increase in abundance and inter-connectivity. Waste is just

What is Permaculture? I'll start with an encouragement, in the form of the below picture, about how Lake Atitlan is absolutely stunning and how anybody with the ability should visit that place and find

Thanks to @jonpetrich for his post on his 2018 homesteading goals ( This post inspired me to clarify my own goals and share them with you guys. Top Three 2018 Homesteading Goals One - Sell Salads We have

"Always favour biological solutions." Bill Mollison, Founder of The Permaculture Movement "Always favour biological solutions." This is my preferred way to interpret the 5th Permaculture

When you picture yourself living the dream what does that look like? For some, it's mansions and boats and lambos with monkey butlers serving cocktails at sundown. For others, like myself, it's a hand

The first Permaculture Design Principle is Observe and Interact. This principle reminds us of the importance of observation. Observing from different perspectives gives us insight into the different pieces

The Second Permaculture Design Principle is Catch and Store Energy. While I am tempted to say that this is possibly my favourite principle, I actually could say that about quite a few of them. Catching

Always Favour Biological Solutions. Why do we try to favour biological solutions on the farm? It's because they do the work for us which saves time, money and energy, they are usually found amongst resources

The next Permaculture principle we are going to look at along side the crypto world says to apply self regulation and accept feedback.   When the tomatoes are acting droopy and the leaves are browning

Obtain A Yield     Think Creatively about yields, use it or fear neglect    A bountiful harvest meant and still means the difference between life or hardship … or sometimes even death for people throughout

'What Do You Want To Do?' #1 but actually It's #5  We're going for a name change based on some nice attention given by a fine friend. Quit your frigging job sounded too demanding and made it sound