Channel: paul wheaton

Category: Science & Technology

Tags: gertpermaculture

Description: Paul meets up with 6 people who’ve supported the SKIP Kickstarter at $65 or higher (including Alan Booker) to talk about getting permaculture produce into grocery stores. Paul started approaching the question from the perspective of competing with, or outcompeting, commercial growers. A big obstacle to this is the middle-men that commercial growers go through, as supermarkets really don’t want to talk to you if you’re not one. They work with a bunch of growers to take their produce and mess with it (e.g. applying petroleum wax and stickers) before sending it off to shops. All this stuff takes time, and often the best tasting produce doesn’t have much shelf life, so they’re not going to want it because it’ll rot before getting to the shelf. Alan adds that as foods get more sugars and secondary metabolites in them, they get more resistant to fungi and molds. Molds are thus most active when the produce has some, but not too much, nutrients in them, an inverted bell curve, if you will. It might be better to take a different approach – instead of getting permaculture apples into shops, make different ways of getting apples to people. Instead of driving miles to a supermarket that gets their produce from 400 miles away, get produce from your metaphorical backyard. Meanwhile, going with the question can also yield good results – lower overheads for the growers alone will greatly improve their lives, and starting on the path of permaculture can bring them as much safety as the extra money that they’re bringing in. Additionally, shorter supply chains mean fewer chances for them to break, also adding to safety, and lower costs. Thanks to my patreon peeps for pushing me into making videos again patreon.com/pwvids Dr. Hugh Gill Kultur Kyle Neath Mehron Kugler Kerry Rodgers Dolius Jocelyn Campbell jocelyncampbell.com Bill Crim Greg Martin Bill Erickson Vention Bartell Ashley Taylor G Cooper Chris Sugg Bryan Beck Kevin Perry Paula Creevy Eric Tolbert Denzil crews danita neu Polly Jayne Smyth James Tutor JMBlackwater226R My new book! Building a Better World in Your Backyard - instead of being angry at bad guys permies.com/bwb Better Wood Heat: DIY Rocket Mass Heaters 4-DVD set richsoil.com/wood-heat.jsp 177 hours of Permaculture Design Course and Appropriate Technology Course pdcvid.com Permaculture Playing Cards richsoil.com/cards.jsp World Domination Gardening 3-DVD set richsoil.com/wd-gardening.jsp Rocket Ovens DVD permies.com/ovens Permaculture Bootcamp permies.com/wiki/bootcamp Podcasts, daily-ish email, forums, come visit, workshops, affiliate programs, consulting, etc. permies.com/stuff