# 968: Homesteading from the Heart with Noel Ruiz

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Podcast: [The Urban Farm Podcast with Greg Peterson](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-urban-farm-podcast-with-greg-peterson-1101746)
Published: 2026-02-20T07:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://www.urbanfarm.org/974
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## Resource

A Garden Chat with Don Titmus In This Episode: Noel Ruiz shares his journey from urban Southern California to rural Southern Oregon, where he and his family run Homestead Culture. What began as a struggling backyard garden evolved into a life centered on permaculture, seed saving, perennial crops, and heart-centered homesteading. Noel explains grexes, seed diversity, and multi-generational thinking—while reflecting on failure, renewal, and cultivating culture from the inside out. This episode explores how growing seeds can also grow resilience, connection, and joy. Our Guest: Noel is a gardener, homesteader, seed saver, lover of plants and a proud father. Together, he and his sweetheart offer homestead grown seeds of perennial vegetables, flowers, herbs in diverse mixes and grexes, through their family business Homestead Culture. Noel shares free resources and online education around seed saving through HomesteadCulture.com. He enjoys writing articles that explore changing culture, personal transformation, gardening and seeds all while blurring the lines between work and life, as he practices homesteading from the heart. Key Topics Homestead Culture (family-run seed and education business) Permaculture design & soil regeneration WWOOF (Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms) Seed saving on a homestead scale Grex breeding & genetic diversity Landrace adaptation Perennial vegetables, herbs, and flowers Multi-generational thinking in homesteading Homesteading from the heart Cultural transformation through gardening Protecting fruit and nut trees from deer and rodents Landrace Gardening by Joseph Lofthouse One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka Key Questions What happens when your garden fails—and what can it teach you? Noel’s first larger garden struggled due…

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