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Discover Permaculture with Geoff Lawton

8 жыл бұрын

We recently visited our friends Graham Bell and Annmarie Brookman, who were kind enough to give us a tour of one of the most iconic permaculture sites in Australia. A short, visually-rich 7-minute video that shows what is possible with a bit of planning, work, and time. Winning line from my time with Graham: “We have so many species here that I can’t even keep up…”
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Geoff is a world-renowned permaculture consultant, designer, and teacher. He has established permaculture demonstration sites that function as education centers in all the world’s extreme climates - information on the success of these systems is networked through the Permaculture Research Institute and the www.permaculturenews.org website.
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Permaculture integrates land, resources, people and the environment through mutually beneficial synergies - imitating the no waste, closed-loop systems seen in diverse natural systems. Permaculture applies holistic solutions that are applicable in rural and urban contexts and at any scale. It is a multidisciplinary toolbox including agriculture, water harvesting and hydrology, energy, natural building, forestry, waste management, animal systems, aquaculture, appropriate technology, economics, and community development.
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@jackieparsons4847 5 жыл бұрын

"there's all this stuff we can do to adapt to climate change... Before it kills us" Geoff: Great stuff, very positive

@przybyla420 3 жыл бұрын

Except we obviously can’t replace all the existing forests on large parts of the globe which will dieback and/or burn, quick enough to stave off disaster. So, yeah, you can grow middle eastern species in British Columbia theoretically but the process will be happening much faster by that point (huge swaths of forests will be gone, their carbon in the atmosphere), so by the time your out of place trees are mature you might need Martian plants, not Saudi Arabia.

@peterlawrence738 2 жыл бұрын

We dropped in to The Food Forrest unannounced a few years ago and just knocked on the front door. Graeme dropped what he was doing and gave us a 3 hour personal tour! What a kind, generous, inspiring man he is. Congratulation and thanks again Graeme Peter Mornington Peninsula (now on 7 acres of our own!)

@kwlweapons 2 жыл бұрын

When you get a chance Geoff, you should visit Graham's farm again and give us an in depth tour of his farm and techniques he's having the most success with. Thanks for the video though, definitely a lot of inspiration to be garnered.

@CollectiveConsciousness1111 Жыл бұрын

Brilliant content🙏 Knowledge Is Power Thanks for sharing Geoff 💚🌍

@adnanalhasan3746 6 жыл бұрын

WOW ,, i love that,, wish i have a piece of land to create my own food forest.. thanks for sharing

@marouekhaled98 6 жыл бұрын

Geoff looks Angelic..💕

@nekomancer9157 5 жыл бұрын

as long as you either have your own shop or have strong ties to restaurants/markets then diversity will ensure harvest and make you one of the few producers of what you grow allowing for a better price command

@m.saint.1071 7 жыл бұрын

This is brilliant !

@peterburris4665 7 жыл бұрын

little short, would have liked to see more of the farm

@stayathomedadsavestheworld5158 4 жыл бұрын

kzfaq.info

@patfarmer5371 7 жыл бұрын

I would like to see how they're extracting water from their aquifer, and what kind of vegetation and earthworks they're using to recharge their groundwater on the hills behind them.

@Jahmastasunherbalist 6 жыл бұрын

Pat Farmer oh getting serious about the aquifer. I agree, I think a river would be better.

@aeryrivers6832 5 жыл бұрын

I am still learning permaculture myself, but from what I could gather so far is, the way to recharge groundwater and unconfined aquifer is by slowing the rainwater down as much as possible, instead of one strong fast flowing river that might erode much soil and running off your land quickly, they try to divert it and then slow it down, in as much zig-zag ways as possible. So think gabions, check dams, ponds, swales, keylines (if your soil is not very porous) and preferably at least 50% of your land covered in trees (if your in very dry area up to 75% trees) which soak up a lot of water too, lots of water holding trees and plants, mulch helps a lot to avoid evaporation, shade most importantly. All of this helps to collect and keep as much water as possible in the soil and eventually soaks deeper to regenerate water table and aquifer.

@ripme6616 2 жыл бұрын

Sensational

@Officinalis13 5 жыл бұрын

how can i learn more with this nice person? Because i relate with the clima and the species. And we dont get much info for South Europe.

@jms4290 4 жыл бұрын

www.discoverpermaculture.com

@razisamimi9287 2 жыл бұрын

great job! Plant more big trees to attract wildlife.

@user-sr2cl9im8g 7 жыл бұрын

it should be a long video ;)

@realrasher 7 жыл бұрын

I agree. Even a 2 hours would leave us wanting more though. Ha

@DiscoverPermaculture 5 жыл бұрын

الزاجل الحمام Gawla South Australia

@justgivemethetruth 4 жыл бұрын

I keep hearing about this ice cream fruit ... just once in my life I'd like to taste one of them! How do I find one to try?

@solfeinberg437 5 жыл бұрын

I was waiting for them to start walking around and looking at more stuff. What's Geoff leaning against at 6:48 - is that a grape trunk?

@DiscoverPermaculture 5 жыл бұрын

Yes a grape trunk, I have seen some in the Middle East 4X that size.

@MYPERMACULTUREGARDEN 5 жыл бұрын

NEW SUBSCRIBER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@calvinjonesyoutube 2 жыл бұрын

The typical irrigation water he quotes is around 100mm. And he uses about a seventh so hes irrigating using 360mm of rainfall + 15mm of irrigation. Pretty frugal.

@justgivemethetruth 4 жыл бұрын

1:10 - OMG ---- where did he get those nets to fit over the tops of entire trees?

@stayathomedadsavestheworld5158 4 жыл бұрын

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fbSfgsiAt9S2dX0.html

@nekomancer9157 5 жыл бұрын

hmm, need a cold winter. do what they do to cool the summers in the tropics, humidify the air with water mist, or blow air over straw covered wet soil. it will wick the heat out and create a localised cool area.

@DiscoverPermaculture 5 жыл бұрын

Energy in to energy out will probably make it unsustainable.

@kevinriceart 5 жыл бұрын

Can you tell me what the netting over the fruit trees is called and do they make it small enough to keep Japanese Beetles out? I loose most of my grapes and peaches to that beetle and am trying to find a way to save them. Thanks!

@DiscoverPermaculture 5 жыл бұрын

This just bird netting.

@Green.Country.Agroforestry Жыл бұрын

One of the best anti-insect strategies that I have found to date is to install bird feeders and surface water for every 4000 square feet. Make sure that here is plenty of cover for the birds - ether hedge and thicket or brush piles for cover. We feed a mixture of sunflower and safflowers seed, and we grow those plants as companions everywhere we can. The multispecies flock that this attracts includes obligate insectivores (they come along for the protection of a flock, the shelter, and the water) - those insectivores will zap your beetle problem. DO NOT NEGLECT THE WATER, or the birds will make up their deficit by eating fruit.

@kevinriceart Жыл бұрын

@@Green.Country.Agroforestry Thanks so much for the detailed response. I will try your methods this year!

@Green.Country.Agroforestry Жыл бұрын

@@kevinriceart Stephan Sobkowiak has a channel here as well that is excellent for permaculture orchard tips. His place is a 5 acre U-Pick polyculture orchard near Quebec.

@thitranlanh1302 4 жыл бұрын

ễcllent

@TheKidtransistor 5 жыл бұрын

What tree does he mention around the 3:50 mark? CC says he said "Hoe Hobo" which i'm guessing isn't correct. :\

@DiscoverPermaculture 5 жыл бұрын

Jojoba for oil

@drakedorosh9332 6 жыл бұрын

I would love some viable pistachio seeds. Do you think they would grow in Utah?

@dennismitchell5276 5 жыл бұрын

Check out Red Rock Pistachio Orchard in Hurricane, Utah.

@precisiont5188 4 жыл бұрын

I was hoping to see the trees, etc.

@yananagaran4286 3 жыл бұрын

Thing is, he doesnt want to impart everything he knows.. unless he earns from it. That is what i figured from watching almost all his videos

@livefromplanetearth 5 жыл бұрын

+1000

@matthewcain2880 2 жыл бұрын

I don’t see any nopales?

@Jahmastasunherbalist 6 жыл бұрын

Oh white sapote

@B1GuD0G 7 жыл бұрын

Ziziphus jujuba (from Greek ζίζυφον) was grown and eaten in Greece for millennia until the early 80s when market forces caused farmers to conform to EU requirements. Hopefully Greece can leave the EU and go back to growing what works in the local climate and soils. For the same reasons (EU laws and regulations) fruit that used to taste better than any sweet or "treat" was ripped up and replaced with plastic tasting variates. Fine example is peaches and cherries in the Macedonia province of Greece, home of the ancient kingdom of Alexander the Great. Fortunately much of the forgotten fruit are very hardy and grow in the wild., with many rural communities still preserving them. Through the rot is slowing it is not yet reversed, that will come with an exit from the EU.

@Shanlua 7 жыл бұрын

It was common in Spain as well and apart from the fruits its wood was used to make musical instruments also.

@B1GuD0G 7 жыл бұрын

Now we are condemned to be waiters for the northern European state whilst they holiday in unsustainable developments. They have asset stripped the Portugal, Spain, Italy and especially Greece all in the name of progress yet we are going backwards.

@melovescoffee 7 жыл бұрын

Down with the EU! Much love from the Netherlands.

@punas2008 5 жыл бұрын

I used to eat the ugly fruit, very common in market, but full of flavour. Now, I can only buy good looking fruits with no flavour at all. Never will understand this policy.

@eriknielsen1849 5 жыл бұрын

Why was it band by EU...

@billastell3753 6 жыл бұрын

The gent says right near the beginning that permaculture (a food forest) takes about 30 years. How true. I see so many videos with people proudly showing their 2 year old or less food forest. What a joke. On a totally different topic... at 5:56. That's what I want to add to my food forest. WOW!

@aeryrivers6832 5 жыл бұрын

Just because something is 2 years old doesnt mean they arent going in for that long term goal. I have yet to see one video where someone is arrogantly proud in the way you claim its a joke. Everything starts young, a 30 year old permaculture practiced food forest is super healthy and beautiful, but please don't bash the youngsters with their baby forests just because they decided to change their lifes for the better and help the planet. Maybe by proud you mean, that they are sharing their videos at all having such a young forest, perhaps you think its insignificant, but not according to many permaculture teachers, Geoff Lawton has said over and over to share before and after shots and videos, to share stories and journeys, successes and failures right from the start. It doesnt matter if the forest is 2 years old, the more people share information about permaculture the merier!

@ColonelKlink100 7 жыл бұрын

Chickens, geese, sheep and woofers? Are those woofers livestock too? Just kidding.

@_asaf_m 6 жыл бұрын

perhaps in the sense that the consume excess produce and produce manure

@VaughnMalecki 7 жыл бұрын

Does anyone have interest in a Christian farming permaculture community in SE Michigan? If so please contact me.

@bonkiano 6 жыл бұрын

Vaughn Malecki what is it? I may be interested

@friendsofjesuswithpastorro363 6 жыл бұрын

I am interested. I am in the Philippines. I have a very small permaculture garden in a 130 aq.m lot for personal consumption. I have been praying for a big plot of land to plant lots of fruit trees (especially). Let me know the details. Thank you!

@MsSeagypsy 5 жыл бұрын

"climate change" sigh.

@reggiestickleback7794 5 жыл бұрын

Adapting to climate change, not trying to reverse it... NICE! Glad some rational men still exist. ADAPTATION, not trying to reverse an inevitable component of Earth and nature (and kill off all industry in the process)

@wildforestorganics7298 2 жыл бұрын

The next few generations will adapt. By then most ecosystems will have collapsed to a point where mass extinctions, over population and desertification will lead to shortages of food and water.