My good, old (in time, not age) friend, Doug Crouch and I catch up on the world of permaculture and his new incarnation of it, along with all things pawpaw in this episode of Wander, Forage, & Wildcraft. Doug's the owner of TreeYo Permaculture and has been managing his family's land at Treasure Lake in Petersburg, Kentucky for pawpaws and spicebush for 17 years now! He'll tell us all about what he's learned over those years about propagating and nurturing spicebush for the best yield. If you don't know what a pawpaw is (the largest native North American fruit) or want to grow some of your own, or are just curious, then this is the show for you!
Doug's Bio: Trained as both a Permaculture Designer and Fish and Wildlife Manager, Doug has extensive knowledge surrounding landscape planning and food production systems. This regenerative design and implementation work spans the globe ranging in contexts and climates, including tropical agro-forestry, Mediterranean organic gardening, and temperate suburban edible landscaping. To facilitate this work he founded TreeYo Permaculture, thus building off his other formal training in small business management. Incorporating this knowledge and experience into sustainability educational programming has now become Doug’s main focus as he continues his ecological design and holistic development primarily at Treasure Lake in Northern Kentucky and its bioregion.
If you're intrigued to learn more, join Doug and me at Planting Abundance, a day long learning adventure at Treasure Lake on May 18th.
Link to Blog Article with Doug's PawPaw icecream recipe: http://www.thewanderschool.com/home/new-podcast-episode-of-wander-forage-wildcraft-episode-4-meet-doug-crouch#/
Doug's website: http://treeyopermaculture.com/
Treasure Lake: https://ctlake.wordpress.com/
Planting Abundance Event at Treasure Lake with Doug and Abby, May 18th: http://www.thewanderschool.com/store/p7/Planting_Abundance%3A_Herbal_Walk_and_Permaculture_Planting_with_Abby_and_Doug
Doug's article on Guilds: https://treeyopermacultureedu.com/chapter-2-3-or-the-11-design-principles-from-the-intro-book/diversity-guilds/
Doug's extensive free online educational writings: treeyopermacultureedu.com
The Man Who Planted Trees movie: https://youtu.be/KTvYh8ar3tc
Kentucky State University Pawpaw research: http://www.pawpaw.kysu.edu/
Ohio Pawpaw Fest (for everything pawpaw): https://ohiopawpawfest.com/
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