The Half Moon Miracle in the Sahel

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5 ай бұрын

Witness the incredible resurrection of barren lands as we delve into the half moon technology revitalizing the Sahel! With 7,500 half moons spanning this site, each a symbol of hope and restoration, we're bringing life back to the soil and nourishing communities for a thriving future.
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@saschathinius7082 5 ай бұрын

the half moons are mini swales, love the idea... will try to adopt it to a very dry wasteland area

@AMPProf 4 ай бұрын

There are some up in Colorado river shed

@beorntwit711 3 ай бұрын

I wonder if the workload is the same to digging a swale or non-continuous contour trench and berm (Andrew's videos in India show CCTs, but they hardly seem 'continuous' compared to swales). That said, if capital machinery is available I can't see either competing with simple keyline rips for capturing and storing water. Price, labor and permanence wise, keyline subsoil rips just seem more practical.

@Aliaschko 29 күн бұрын

@@beorntwit711might be True, but every step towards the Right goal is a Good one. And using whats available in the area to start the process Even if Not Perfect would be better than to wait for the Money and Equipment to do the best Job possible :)

@nmo3148 2 ай бұрын

a million dollars worth of equipment could transform vast areas here. we waste so much money on rubbish and this is saving the planet.

@withlovefrommariah 5 ай бұрын

I love this idea so much I've begun implementing it on my land! I live in the low desert of Arizona and the land is extremely dry and rocky. Not to mention this is a new development community so it's been very disturbed and compacted. So far I have four half moons (and two full moons), mostly with new trees planted inside. I have seeded other annuals and crops in the pits to begin transforming the soil and taking advantage of the watering. Can't wait to see the transformation over this season, and in the years to come! Thanks so much for sharing.

@withlovefrommariah 5 ай бұрын

In the full version video you mentioned sorghum grows well in these conditions. I have found a native variety that I plan to plant next year 🙌🏼

@detyelram2819 5 ай бұрын

very cool. you should post about it on your channel!

@withlovefrommariah 5 ай бұрын

@@detyelram2819 yes, yes I should!

@sofiettaa7946 5 ай бұрын

I wouldn't mind seeing a video of your progress. Anyways, it's nice to hear of people doing good things out there 😊

@withlovefrommariah 5 ай бұрын

@@sofiettaa7946 lots of encouragement to share! I guess I should!!

@t.s.29 Ай бұрын

Seeing such videos makes me so hopeful

@donHooligan 5 ай бұрын

Permaculture is the future.

@yes12337 5 ай бұрын

Permaculture is nothing more than complex intercropping. There is increasing evidence that high intensity farming would massively benefit from intercropping, but we still need to figure out how to implement it in practice. The main point is that it's labour intense, but if it wasn't, then the economical motivation is already there and it's huge

@gabrielyetnikoff5701 4 ай бұрын

@@yes12337 Intercropping is 1 component/element of a permaculture system. For me, permaculture can be better understood as a holistic and regenerative design methodology :) just want to change this concept that permaculture is just 1 thing.

@zf9903 3 ай бұрын

@@yes12337permaculture is a combination of mindset and practices.

@JonnoPlays 4 ай бұрын

They're not holding it back, they're taking it back.

@Danceliketheresnotomorrow 4 ай бұрын

These type of agriculture irrigation is amazing. I have seen crops growing in California deserts. Wow 🤩

@K4rl2A04 5 ай бұрын

Keep this good work up

@subysb9616 5 ай бұрын

Hope for the world 🌎

@Jeannette-ei9xd Ай бұрын

I love this!❤

@0psec_not_good 4 ай бұрын

Amazing work you’re doing! Thank you, brother, for the impact you’re making. I often wonder how many ancient technologies/methods such as this we have lost to time, for no other reason than that it benefits a very small number of powerful people. How different (and better) would our lives be if it weren’t for the relentless pursuit of material gain by a handful of corrupt, insatiable, greedy people? I’m all for hard work, proper incentives, and ingenuity; but our current system has perverted the concept of reward/incentive to the point that people genuinely believe that there is precisely zero reasons other than financial/material profit for people to create, work hard, invent, and innovate. It’s sad, along with being counterproductive to our development as humans.

@jakubdudys3222 3 ай бұрын

love it, simply cleaver

@maulikpatel9204 2 ай бұрын

Love you guys

@unwanted107 5 ай бұрын

This is great.

@randalmoroski1184 3 ай бұрын

Amen!

@user-vy6xh3ex2v 4 ай бұрын

CLEVER

@FindingGodseverylastingHome 4 ай бұрын

❤ God

@lewissmith350 5 ай бұрын

Well done everyone involved.

@bobofat2545 10 күн бұрын

wow great woter makes plants grow amazing tech

@Marisa-mk3ru 10 күн бұрын

Blessings blessings blessings

@eddaniels3404 27 күн бұрын

I Did that in Tucson AZ to Catch the Rain for a Mesquite Tree.😊

@jordancamposano8241 10 күн бұрын

Love your Mother

@aglaesaitschenko2349 5 ай бұрын

Wr can actually transform the Sahara the same way. Slowly. From the outside edges. One meter at a time.

@chadmarino2741 5 ай бұрын

Weve already destroyed this planet and we're better letting the rest of the planet die and spending the rest of our energy and resources sending rich familes to relocate humanity on mars or some cool moon by jupiter

@yes12337 5 ай бұрын

There are increasingly common droughts in Europe. I wonder if this would work for vineyards or orchards in the Mediterranean climate as well

@fionaanderson5796 24 күн бұрын

I think for vineyards it would be easier to dig continuous swales along the contours rather than half moons. It would have the same benefits but be easier for harvesting. The swales would also mean that the number of vines per acre would remain about the same as modern straight lines.

@pmiller7043 4 күн бұрын

Brilliant

@tegerusgardens1 6 күн бұрын

God bless

@AntonisExplores Ай бұрын

mother africaaa? well done

@Mladja-jp4th Ай бұрын

🙏💕🌹

@HughJass-jv2lt Ай бұрын

❤❤

@tripleaaakollektiv870 3 ай бұрын

syntropic is the new permaculture

@randlerobbertson8792 5 ай бұрын

Great to see this. Heartwarming.

@josephdavis4956 4 ай бұрын

Hell yeah! That's awesome!

@KarlLew 5 ай бұрын

Thanks! Will do that in my front yard now 🎉

@SharasSaveSoil 5 ай бұрын

Great work 👏👏👏

@samdumaquis2033 5 ай бұрын

Amazing

@rosstemple7617 5 ай бұрын

So wait we can replenish the world’s deserts with regenerative Agriculture.

@kevanhess2105 14 күн бұрын

Good ,now we Need sone cattle eating, pooing,weeing so by fertilizing the earth naturally. ❤

@earthscrust9092 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing.

@joepeeer4830 4 ай бұрын

❤❤❤❤

@connectropy 9 сағат бұрын

🙇🏻‍♀️Shout out to Yacouba Sawadogo, a farmer known as "the man who beat the desert" in Burkina Faso.

@BarbellMethod 5 ай бұрын

❤❤❤

@mopuribalu2781 2 ай бұрын

Though it is a desert , soil is so hard

@splintmeow4723 4 ай бұрын

Fantastic work

@peterw7512 21 күн бұрын

1 person, 1 hole, 1 day... yooou've got to gooo dig those holesss

@Youralwayswhining4367 25 күн бұрын

This has been known for years.

@GazB85 3 күн бұрын

Can this work in any dry region Do full moon shapes work too or is there some special about the half moon shape?

@codingblues3181 17 күн бұрын

UN is primere institute to uphold the interest of few Western countries.

@hamzaahadaf4399 20 күн бұрын

Partage with everybody

@B-kl8vj 8 күн бұрын

These are all bandaid solutions. You capture the water here instead of having it flow to a river or ground water that feeds the land further down the watershed. The issue is population growth which no one wants to talk about.

@eileenalexander1440 9 күн бұрын

Do you need any volunteers?

@C.Hawkshaw 26 күн бұрын

Can you use cows too?

@weediestbroom 15 күн бұрын

I would do that for a job. Gimme food, water and a roof over my head, I'll live out there and dig holes all day

@knightshade6232 5 ай бұрын

can it work in the tropics were having EL nINo now

@alish5417 3 күн бұрын

Or arc tech

@user-md9uw5rd8x 5 ай бұрын

Не вызовит ли озеленение засушливых районов распространения пожаров? Сухая биомасса очень хорошо горит.

@jerryjoynson 3 ай бұрын

It's been used in parts of East and West Africa and also around several villages in Rajasthan, India.

@reaction6784 Күн бұрын

To increase production, bring in machinery and expose them to new technology. Dont overexert them because it will make them tired and lazy...

@garyschueller4701 5 ай бұрын

"Dig your ditches and I will fill them". A quote from the old testament.

@JL-cn1qi 5 ай бұрын

How long has this been going on? Does google earth confirm this ?

@thedivide3688 4 ай бұрын

Since ancient times. Stone age…Hill side rice flats in Asian countries particularly Vietnam Google Mù Cang Chải. Same principle but along a hillside.

@thedivide3688 4 ай бұрын

But watch the documentary The Man Who Stopped the Dessert

@Realatmx 15 күн бұрын

If we use machines it will speed up 10x 😮 numbers

@claudioborton1617 4 ай бұрын

Only one half moon a day???

@existereOracle 5 ай бұрын

how many half moons did he dig 🤨

@luisbautista3817 9 күн бұрын

This should have been done centuries ago🤦🏻

@venkateswarlugummalla322 21 күн бұрын

Seed balls do

@AMPProf 4 ай бұрын

WOMEN build

@melliwmw6667 Ай бұрын

Scam you can see the grass in the background you just film in the wet and dry season

@runar500 5 ай бұрын

One person, one half-moon pr day? Hire an excavator, and make one half-moon in 5 minutes?

@DesertRat1997 5 ай бұрын

A huge part of the green wall project is teaching communities how to do permaculture rehabilitation work themselves so they can be self sufficient once the organization leaves. They might not have the resources to hire outside workers and machinery, so they're doing it the old fashioned way.

@thedivide3688 4 ай бұрын

Defeats the purpose that you are living with the land. The whole point is machines don’t shape the world people do.

@knoll9812 4 ай бұрын

Hire shops don't exist You are probably 100 miles from diggers. No infrastructure Diggers die in Africa

@user-fd1vc4sx7f 4 ай бұрын

Beautiful responses here 🎉🎉🎉

@user-salamon284 3 ай бұрын

1 - hire shop may be 50-200km away 2 - most of those people do not have the means to rent equipment, especially not an excavator 3 - everyone should get involved to promote ownership and long term sustainability

@rainwellwisher7075 5 ай бұрын

How to refill Chad lake, need forest from north to south east to west of Sahara, without water it is impossible, build nuclear powered disalination plants from red sea Mediterranean sea and Atlantic ocean for massive sweet water.

@mathiasfriman8927 5 ай бұрын

The best desalination plant in the world cannot match the water cycle. You have cubic kilometers of water falling from the sky annually, the key is to slow its way and keep it on the land and in the soil for longer. The half moon shapes does just that, without the use of nuclear material and billions in investments.

@absolutelycitron1580 5 ай бұрын

Why not both? So long as private corporations don't own the nuclear plants

@hornstein12 5 ай бұрын

Nuclear is the most expensive Energy (and it needs allot of water to cool, in the fckn desert). Better use Solar. I mean, we are talking about deserts here...

@rainwellwisher7075 5 ай бұрын

@@hornstein12 Niger and Gabon has large uranium deposits and African island continent Red sea Indian Ocean Atlantic Ocean Mediterranean sea, polar glacier melts means sweet water, we regain sweet water from sea water through desalination and restore on land.

@mathiasfriman8927 5 ай бұрын

Desalination plants produce brine that needs to be deposited somewhere. It is dense and often sinks to the bottom of the ocean, causing unintended side effects. Nuclear power produce waste as well. 1 inch of rain on an acre of land produces 27000 gallons of water. It doesn't need to be transported anywhere, and produces no side effects and it costs a shovel and a number of hand tools to take care of it. I frikkin hate that people seem to favor an atomic A.I. nano tech solution to everything when all you need to save the planet is a sh*tload of people wanting the same thing and some simple tools.

@onewhostudies6856 3 ай бұрын

what would also help is to stop overpopulation by everyone having small families.

@Bambisgf77 Ай бұрын

We are heading for population collapse! Women are having fewer babies now than ever before. The difference is most of them make it passed 5th bday. But within a few generations it will be very top heavy, few working & lost knowledge.

@grantcurrin4934 13 күн бұрын

That flag is not big enough 😂😂😂😂😂

@kamronkadirov9723 5 ай бұрын

It would work the same way with circle shapes as it already does in other places...but no, it all has to symbolize Allah's cult

@FreeJoSol 5 ай бұрын

Oooo forget it contigo

@absolutelycitron1580 5 ай бұрын

Whoa whoa whoa this is a permaculture video. Chill out, muslims aren't evil. Also, can you prove to me that every single person in this video undeniably believes in Islam?

@nerlind 5 ай бұрын

How would it work the same with a circle? Isn't that like double the work?

@thedivide3688 4 ай бұрын

Uh a circle does not draw water in, nor does it distribute. This has nothing to do with any religion. It’s an ancient farming principle used across the world. Rice flats of Asia, Ancient Incan of Machu Picchu, Rome, Egyptian…

@kgbartellegmail 5 ай бұрын

Seems like this could be automated very cheaply making the process more productive and having a bigger impact.

@threeriversforge1997 5 ай бұрын

Nope. Because if you "automate" you're relying on machinery that can break and will always require fuel. That doesn't work in a majority of areas that can't afford the extra expense. If a pick or shovel breaks, you can repair it pretty easily with even rudimentary tools. A tractor or such.... infinitely more expensive, harder to manage, and far more costly to operate. There's no upside to automation.

@amandao.8043 5 ай бұрын

This effort is bringing people back to the land. Labor costs aren't a consideration in this part of the world. Also machinery would compact more land and create ruts and pollution.

@hornstein12 5 ай бұрын

@@threeriversforge1997"There's no upside to automation." Wtf. Its just a money question. You could dig the whole sahara with automation pretty fast.

@threeriversforge1997 5 ай бұрын

@@hornstein12 It's not "just a money question" unless you factor in ALL the costs. Automation is hugely expensive, on the order of millions of dollars a month if you're working at any scale. It requires a constant stream of complex support - parts, oil, fuel, lubricants, maintenance personnel, drivers, cook staff, etc. Or, you can give the local people a pick and shovel and let them work to better their own plot of land. That way they can take care of themselves like they've been doing. This not only keeps the costs to a minimum, but it gives the people the education needed in order to maintain the system. It's something for them to take pride in and teach their children how to continue. Just trying to get heavy equipment into that region would be logistical nightmare.