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Home > Ancestral Health Radio > Tao Orion: Beyond the War of Invasive Species, Resilient Permaculture Design, and Transition Homesteading | Ep.14
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Tao Orion: Beyond the War of Invasive Species, Resilient Permaculture Design, and Transition Homesteading | Ep.14
Category: Health
Duration: 00:50:45
Publish Date: 2017-03-15 18:34:28
Description:

What is ecosystem restoration and what are some common challenges of living off-the-grid?

Tao Orion—author, teacher, and mother—shares her experience with us on today's episode of Ancestral Health Radio.

This was a fun chat, for sure. Because some day in the near future I'd like to purchase land and start a family myself.

We discuss the need for a more holistic approach to land restoration, the medicinal properties of certain invasive plant species, and what tending the wild versus plow-based agriculture looks like.

In today's episode, you'll also learn...

  • Why your pastured eggs may be supplemented with grain, 
  • The invasive species that can heal a common antibiotic-resistant strain of bacteria,
  • Questions to consider before transitioning to land or rural property of your own, and...
  • Much, much more.
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Episode Breakdown

  • Where Tao believes the future of restoration is going

  • Why you don’t need a lot of space to grow vegetables

  • Tao discusses ideas about communal or cooperative land management models for animal products

  • Oregon’s land use laws

  • Tao talks about the realistic challenges of animal husbandry

  • Why your pastured eggs may be supplemented with grain

  • Why Tao grew black soldier fly larvae

  • The many different animals Tao has raised and their associated costs

  • Why Tao is unsure of the sustainable management of invasive animal species

  • Tao’s concerns of herbicide contamination due to Oregon’s forest practices

  • Why Tao believes pesticides get more attention than herbicides

  • The dangers of glyphosate

  • Tao’s advice for people new to foraging or spending time in these managed outdoor areas

  • The medicinal benefits of invasive species

  • How to wildcraft Japanese knotweed

  • The traditional use of the Brazilian peppertree

  • Why Tao says it’s important we learn to read our landscape and use land use history

  • How indigenous people in California used fire to clear land and reset the succession of perennial plants and grasslands

  • Plow-based, annual agriculture and the domestication of the ox

  • What would happen if we were to increase the worldwide organic material by 1%

  • Why Tao thinks animal-based agriculture is insane

  • The permaculture mindset

  • Tao emphasizes the benefits of plant and animal stewardship and where she believes you should begin

  • Important points and challenges to remember when deciding on a future homestead
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