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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Wander, Forage & Wildcraft: Episode #4 - Meet Doug Crouch

Meet Tyson Sampson of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and learn more about Traditional Cherokee cultivated and wild foods, the meaning of Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and acknowledgement and reciprocity for Indigenous herbal knowledge. Get show notes and more at www.thewanderschool.com/podcast

Wander, Forage & Wildcraft: Episode #13 - Meet Tyson Sampson

Hey there! I'm the founder of the WANDER School (The Wild Artemisia Nature Discovery, Empowerment, and Reconnection School) and a Botanist, Herbalist, and Professional Forager. Our mission at the school is to offer nature and herbal education that creates healing through connection with the natural world and each other to create local and global health and prosperity. I teach all over these Appalachian Mountains and the country. Let's talk about foraging, wild plant & mushroom awesomeness, herbal goodness and more. I want to help you reconnect with nature to empower yourself with free food and medicine. Let me know what you think, what you wanna know and if you hear something you like, please share far and wide.

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