Geoff Lawton: Surviving Collapse, Designing your Way to Abundance
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- Want a permaculture design? Go to www.DiscoverPermaculture.com to go through the school and learn how to become a permaculture designer yourself. After a few years, you'll be able to create an amazing design yourself. In this video, the same permaculture teacher who trained Jeff Sokol (owner of EarthCraft), Geoff Lawton, exhibits how permaculture works in his farm in Australia, and how you can introduce it into your life with a good designer.
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It makes me weep to see what is being done with Permaculture gardening! Thank goodness for people like you. At 81, I am starting a Permature Culture Garden. Hallelujah!!
Nice! I have a Permaculture playlist I just started on my channel if you'd like to check it out!
@@TheRealHonestInquiry I am interested.
@@JulieWolf Interested
@@deedeeshore6693 Incase we do not get a response.... can you help out and see if you can find the playlist on @Honestinquirey s channel and link it here? I am helping with GlobalEarthRepair and that playlist would be nice to have on our channel, but am a bit immersed so close to the May 3rd Conference. Thanks.
There is one particular permaculture technology which has been around for thousands upon thousands upon thousands of years are the time-tested and time-proven Peruvian chinampa system of the Inca Empire at Lake Titicaca th-cam.com/video/9ay78bCwXe8/w-d-xo.html, th-cam.com/video/puiJIhj5W7ca/w-d-xo.htmlnd the floating garden-farm system of Burma at Lake Inle th-cam.com/video/bRHMGhta5wc/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/CUrgNykZ7hc/w-d-xo.html
In my opinion... getting a job, living paycheck to paycheck, buying all your food from the supermarkets, living for the weekends - that's "surviving". What you show us here - that's thriving!
This video is so relevant in light of COVID, inflation, world events and future automation. I started my 3 acre permaculture site just before COVID, and took 4 month off from work at the beginning of COVID to work on it. My fruit and nut trees are growing great, the Garden is reaching balance and the pest came and went. It has been a great experience and my kids food security is in place. The balance of natural processes in permaculture is the optimal habitat for humans. Thanks for all the work you have done over the years.
I live in the Midwest (U.S.) and if you want to see a desert--this is it! Farms have gotten HUGE--with miles and miles of nothing but barren soil during the winter and corn/soybeans during the growing season. There isn't one living thing in these areas-no birds--pheasants, quail, nothing. What a horrible waste of what had been an incredibly productive land. It makes me so sad to see. I wish I had the money to buy a vast section---but I must be content with my little acre (which, by the way, probably provides more food for more people than the fields surrounding me!)
I grew up in Iowa (Cedar Rapids). My aha moment was when I realized I could only see the bottom of the river in the winter. Unless the ground was frozen solid there was so much soil washing away that the river was opaque.
You're wrong. While decent yields for grain must always involve extensive culture, the average midwestern corn acre produces just shy of 10,000 pounds of corn per year, with a fraction of one person's annual labor. Exceptional management with all modern advances in farming (like using GPS to prevent areas of fields from getting too little or too much water or fertilizer) results in more than 17,000 pounds per acre.
Row crop vegetables lack a suitable energy density to become staple crops. Unless we are all to switch to potatoes, field grains and beans are going to be the cornerstones of our diets for millennia. There is a reason that there is no agricultural system in the world that does not have a starch, either root or grain, at its base.
Given that corn productivity is about 10x per acre what it was a hundred years ago, these areas are actually extraordinarily productive, and because of their productivity, they have successfully freed up millions of acres of less ideal land that used to be under the plow, much of which have gone back to nature.
It may make you feel bad to see these boring fields, but they are literally feeding the world. Unless you hate the poor and want them all to die (as they often do when they depend on traditional mixed-crop agriculture), then you should be glad that these places exist. Highways are crappy places to hang out, too, but that doesn't make them any less vital to a functional economy and food system. Use your brain instead of "feels BAD, man" for once in your life and stop shitting on the poor because it doesn't make you feel fuzzy inside.
@@genli5603 did you know that more and more humans get sick from eating grains? Did you you know that beans ( the kinds we dry), are toxic to people and do not give much nourisment? It may surprise you, but plants do not want to be eaten. We used to be fairly healthy... until the agricuilture really took off, now we are sick and obese.. due to your staple foods. We would not last a single millenia on that .
Why are you defending unsustainable crop growing? I dont get it.. plowing the fields leaves them completely open to destruction by flooding, as you see along the mississippi today.
Regreening areas that was destroyed by modern farming, is done by working WITH nature, not against it. Monocropping is a disaster, and no. as i said further up, it does not feed the world, it feeds the rich , then they throw away what they can not profit from.
@@genli5603 my family farms wheat and milo on the American prairie so I know a little about this. Since we started using "modern" methods we've had to increase our inputs every year, to the point that it's become no longer profitable. Our soil has become so depleted that it only grows sparse weeds without lots of fertilizer, and we lose much of it to wind and rain every season. Even our ag-science-university-educated family members have come to realize this is unsustainable.
Much of the corn grown in the American Midwest that you're touting as feeding the poor actually goes to provide fuel. If we're actually talking about feeding humans, that argument is against you.
Back during the DustBowl of the 1930s soil scientists put the blame for that calamity squarely at the feet of "modern" agricultural methods, and warned that continuing those methods would bring about worse disaster in the long run. WWII redirected attention and afterward chemical companies brainwashed universities and governments into believing they held the key to "feeding the world." Instead now we have conditions that others here have touched on and warnings that if we were to get the same kind of conditions that precipitated that Dust Bowl we would suffer another one the scale of which would be much greater; since the statistics from that one are staggering the picture of what this would mean is horrifying. There are plenty of warnings by environmental scientists about the annual loss of topsoil and what it might mean, but our media doesn't pay much attention. If you really care about feeding humans, you will look into that.
@@merrymerry7583 Thanks for your input, I appreciate it. This makes me want to research it more. When did you start using 'modern' methods, and why did you change? Have you considered going back to how you did it before?
This gets me emotional and excited to teach my family in the Philippines. I have been growing food In my small yard and parts are in planting pots here in the US. I do have a four hectares in the Philippines with coconut groves, a small rice field and some bananas and some fruits of which my family is tending. I feel this information can help us if I can learn enough to apply it. I wish very much to learn more. Thank you very much. Good day.
rather tay on those 4 acres tropical . i am half pinoy/dutch born europe hoping to get a acre to make a perma culture
Thanks Geoff. Been practicing permaculture on our small suburban lot for a few years. Your videos are inspiring and practical. Last year our persimmon tree from a seed planted 8 years ago gave us 19 fruit. Most of which we shared with squirrels. This year the limbs are bowed with hundreds of fruit. I credit the redirection of watershed from our roof to a small rain garden that benefits the tree and many other pollinator friendly native plants. Our neighbors are seeing what is happening. Someone said it looks like a jungle but most are interested. Thanks for your positive influence and sensitive-to-nature approach.
Thank you for posting this. I have four acres of rural land in n.w. Georgia. I have been here about twenty years, mostly spent scrambling for financial infrastructure. Currently I have been injured repeatedly at work, one might think tough times, but due to the physically forced retirement it has gotten me to more creatively re-think working with the land, environment, wildlife , etc. I am a bit slowed down physically but I am beginning to understand how to pace myself and employing information such as this, l am excited about future natural development.
Dear Geoff
First of all... deep gratitude for all the info you've put out there for people to tread the path you've paved after Bill Mollison.
I'm Padmavati from India and represent Sarsayee Foundation for Theatre and Education. Our focus is natural farming, arts and crafts.
I'm an actor and I like to think of myself as a farmer
I've been following your videos for a few years now. I am inspired to do what you're doing in my own small way on my two acres. I hope to inspire the farmers around me too.
I live in an area where elephants either eat the crop or trample it. In the last 7 years I allowed the native varieties of trees to grow. I have many neem trees and senegalia catechu which I allowed to grow against the will of friends and neighbours, and four more beneficial species. The senegalia catechu has kept the elephants at bay on my land. So I've got my Pioneer canopy and a sub canopy that's growing all on its own with absolutely no help with irrigation from me.
I've begun no dig farming but it all gets grazed on by neighbours cattle, sheep and goats despite the bramble fencing so my friends and I just had to demarcate the road for a fence, lose a few trees in the process and embrace much heartache.
I managed to ease the horror of having an earth mover on the land by creating a small pond one year ago. It holds water for a few days and drains off.
My land has grass growing on it and I have been chopping and dropping and mulching over the years to let the earth here heal. She seems ready now.
Is there a course that you recommend I could attend in India to equip myself more and beyond my study through videos online?
Look forward to hearing from you
Thank you very much again though it doesn't quite say enough.
Thanks Geoff. I am curating an 18-acre forest in the Sierra mountains of Plumas County, California, and your work is an inspiration to me. Thanks.
I have just retired from my regular job and i was in the lookout to do something that can save the planet and help people who are in need. In my quest i came across permaculture and ultimately this video. i find this simply amazing and i have decided that this i what i'll do for the rest of my life. I am in Mauritius and would like to know how i can learn and implement the permaculture. i also want to be able to teach this to others. And this will be my legacy i wan to leave behind when i transit from this planet. Best regards!!!
Pravin Sooklall I agree! I’m wondering if you have started yet, I would love to know how it’s going and to see if you have any recommendations!
Would you kindly give an update on how you’re getting on?
I'll be retiring in a year or two and have the same aspiration
Excelente idea mi amigo. Te recomiendo veas vídeos de la escuela Permacultural de Ernst Gotsch, muy difundida en el Brasil. Puedes ubicar los vídeos por el nombre de Gotsch, Agrofloresta, Agricultura Sintropica.
Do what you can to get together with those in your community. It’s amazing what a few people can do together. Also making permaculture firsts in the duty is one of the best ways to spread the message by example ;)
"You (We) can solve all the World's problems in a garden." It doesn't get more perfect than that! :) Thank you for sharing so fabulously...and Blessings to the Continuance!
Thank you for enlightening us!!I totally agree that this is our only chance for rescue...
I’m so inspired by you and your teaching,I’ve bought a farm ,and starting point is building a chicken tractor.
I’m 64,and with ME,but slowly,slowly I’m getting there.Next generation will take over,later...!Now it’s my turn having an interesting and fun time!
This is really worth putting whatever energy I have into!
Huge thanks...😘
This is wonderful!!! This what should be taught at school. This is actually useful. I would love to do this too.
Sign me up! I've been looking for this for years....everyone thinks Im Crazy but I've been talking about this Life .
I can't help but imagine that this was the intention of the creator when the scriptures mention that Mankind was to nurture nature and bring forth abundance for his family and the world at large. Not to dominate (have dominion) but to be faithful stewards of our riches. How far we have strayed from the goodness of the earth. Thank you Geoff for your good work.
Oddly enough, most permaculturists would rather believe in Gaia than God.
Whichever G-word one uses, I think this kind of work is the highest expression of spiritual work one can do. "All the world's problems can be solved in a garden." We can grow our way to world peace.
@@laurenchu4392 Sadly, due to man's fallen nature this will never happen. The Creator is returning soon to sort us out.
@@JeffsTrades I don't think it's odd at all
@@JeffsTrades It's high arrogance to claim you know the faith of "most" permaculturalists. Maybe pagans attend the same workshops you attend within your pagan community, but you have no way to quantify your opinion based on the whole of reality. Permaculture isn't a religion, it's an ecological system, and any thinking person can embrace and apply it's logic, simplicity and vast benefits, while worshiping the Creator of it's brilliance, and many of us do just that. He reaches out to all mankind through the amazing works of His hands, He reaches out to you! I'm sad you don't know Him.
should be part of the school curriculum...
Local Boi but that wouldn’t do the government any good
Not gonna happen! Monsanto will make sure people stay poor and hungry! Monsanto needs all that money! You want your children to know? You teach them! It is your responsibility and your job!
Government schools teach absolutely nothing. How to be barely functional in a post-industrial work force is the best you get there.
Local Boi No. It shouldn't because it is the way it was designed to be from its very inception. Families should teach their children this, so it should be part of the families' curriculum. "Public" school is actually governments' school. Because it isn't for the general public. It is compulsory and mandatory. There is no school-choice. There is no straying from their learning plans.
@@svetlanikolova7673 YES ! Sister , you are right on the mark ! And for those that do it , it can be a lotta fun and not all that time consuming ! Look up The Ruth Stout Gardening method ...it is amazing just like this !!
I really love how he shows you the stages right next to each other. Fabulous
Yeah, that part was excellent -- very encouraging.
Looks promising Geoff. It's inspiring what a group of determined men and women who care can achieve. I wish you all the best m8. ♥
I’m looking forward to starting a food forest, as you say, it’s the future, and the only one possible. The more people get on board and show others the way, the better. Thank you and all the permaculture pioneers for sharing you knowledge 🙏
Good on you Geoff. If only this became school curriculum. So many jobs in this to rehabilitate mined areas.
Thank you for this video. It has so much depth I have learnt a lot from it. I am in rural Zimbabwe, we have a 24 hectare piece of land as an organization and the concepts on this video come in handy. We work with local communities and these concepts we will definitely add in our trainings.
I have started my permaculture garden on a little farm in SA Western Cape Klein Karoo, succulent Karoo. Very hot in summer. I don't have much money but trying to do this any way possible. I love this! Its how it was meant to be!
This is probably the most moving and astounding video I have ever seen. Love it.
With more media coverage the public will see the benefits of having urban gardens. We are here in isolation and fresh fruit veges and flour are essential items. You've lived a life worth living well done Geoff.
This is so exciting! Mother Earth is proud! Truly beautiful! 🌻
I am going to follow this system on my 60 hectares farm. Thank you for sharing this video !
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How did it work out, 3 yrs later?
After practicing Permaculture for a few years, revisiting this video has more of depth meaning to me. Very well done!
Same here.
so how did you start off? Just gathering info via youtube or where did you gain your knowledge?
@@doobyfrooby7606 I know this is three years late, but: Bill Mollison wrote all the "how to create a Permaculture garden/food forest" books. They are available online and probably also in short form as free pdf files.
I am doing this as of last September . I started with 5 chickens now I have 30 chickens and 3 ducks . I have a 1000 sq. ft. of garden that has produced 100 pounds of produce so far; and the season is just half way thru . I LOVE my Farm Life . My next endeavor is Hügelkulturs and Swales using the creak that runs along the back side of the property for irrigation . It has been a Grand Experiment I must say .
I Love this video and have been dreaming of turning my 20 acres of High Desert Mountain land into a place where trees can survive. This is really harsh land, but I can see that it works.
Danese Jeffery how exciting ! I hope you do it!
Bro, you're the best!!! What Joel Salatin and his family and you and people of your quality are doing right now in this beautiful but abused planet is all we may need to restore it and to feed and probably in a great scale even heal humanity and reach such a freedom bro, that we all grow stronger and more focused on doing more art than basic stuff like what they teach in the schooling systems throughout the world, 9-12 years of basic education to then, then start a career. The levels of stupidization as I call it, are high schooled, gratefully not with you and people like you. Thank you Geoff, thank you very much. I would love to learn from you so, for now from a distance I'll be picking up some pieces and treasuring them brother, until I can be one of your disciples, much success and respect from all beings! Take care brother!!!
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you are doing a great job Geoff, I really wish I could do something like this in my life, all the best for your future projects, you are saving earth !!!
Im so glad to have found this. Geoff, I did your PDC via Udemy during lockdown and have a thirst to get started though I feel out on a limb. Its good to be able to rejoin a group for inspiration and maybe some experience as I would like to dedicate my future to PD anywhere in the world
for the first time I see an approach to nature and its growing processes which works with it and not against it. It's quite a challenge for humans to even help nature in its processes but you and your people are prooving that it is possible. I love to watch yout videos, they are greatly inspiring and full of valuable information, thank you. I certainly will deepen the studying and practicing of what I learn thru your teaching and looking forward one day to take part in one of your courses. Thank you, Gabrio Rossi, an Italian living in Germany with an experimental worm farm.
Big business can’t make money off this. So it won’t become mainstream. Unless we become the mainstream. The internet helps.
This year I will buy 40 acres in New Mexico north of El Paso. I will so do this.
A year later, did you do it? Are you still working on it? Film your process and people will watch it.
Great video !
I've been watching your channel for some time now and I'm building my permacuture garden, aquaphonic greenhouse, and flexible form rammed earth house in the high desert of Arizona.
I'm harvesting the 14" of annual precipitation and storing in tanks for fish and garden in the greenhouse plus I've dug a pond to slow the water and reuse it again. Everything is solar and wind powered.
Thank you and many others for sharing precious info on what I call," The University of U'tube".
I've learned more here that the 10 years of college where I became a mechanical
engineer.
You've inspired many to do the same and show others as well.
Thanks, Charlie
Geoff you are doing the most important work on this planet!
WOW! What a wealth of practical knowledge you must accumulated, I'm so glad you are passing this on because I call this the "REAL DEAL".
I suggest you send your comment to the man in this video, Mr. Lawton. It didn't take Earthcraft much knowledge to post this copy
So inspiring. I have 6 chickens and a garden on a 110 x 40 city lot. I've been developing a mini permaculture system for my small urban farm. I've lived here for 30 some years and have just done a little each year. Now I'm retired and thinking what I want to do with my energy and time. This seems so possible. I think, "could I really do this at my age." I'm blessed with good health so I see no reason why not except I don't have the land but that could be changed too. HHHHMMMMM... food for thought.
fantastic and very encouraging . We love what you are doing, how and why. We'll now have to start looking at how can we improve, get better and reach our goal from learning more from your courses , or by adhering more strictly to these principles. We are doing our best to transform an already nice and rich riverside tropical valley in the nature island of the Caribbean : Dominica. we are passionate about what you do. We agree with you and have no doubt this is the way to go. We will now open our valley to like minded persons so we , all, together thus stronger, achieve this. Thank you sincerely Sir from Taberi in Dominica.
wow, I am happy to discover how much I don't know.
If I'm going to be sitting on my bum watching a screen, this is what I want on it!!! Thank you for the inspiration to get out and do the right things!
My wife and i have spent the last decade getting out of student loans and debt. We now have a motor home that will be our home base, the next step is securing land in Oregon and living in the motor home while developing this system around us. With hopes that we can use the system to help pay off said land and build a real home. Thanks for giving us hope for our future and an idea on how to forge ahead.
How is it coming?
There are way cheaper places to find land
Surmounting new challenges to regenerate the planet........hopefully encouraging others to follow...congrats...helping others to help themselves...reversing the damage of the human kind..well done..and thank you..⭐
Amazing work, so glad to see this is catching on... more and more people are waking up to the truth of abundance
I've been so happy ever since I first discovered Permaculture. Now I want to get my PDC and help other people do the same.
Great introductory permaculture video. I shared it. Up north here we are pioneering sub-arctic permanent culture in Homer, Alaska. Thanks, Geoff and all those who work with you.
So glad I found and got into permaculture 10 years ago!
Me too. The past year was a wakeup call that was hard to ignore; it brought me right back to the same place my mind was at when I just got out of high school.
This kind of education is what was actually important, not chasing a degree.
@@Pink_Noodle Facts, if everyone learn Permaculture the world would be on a totally different footing! Everyone would be producing some portion of their foos supply, and the cost of food would drop by at least 50%!
Have been watching and sharing your videos for many years. You are a true saint of the earth! Thank you so much for your commitment to giving us the knowledge to truly understand and implement giving to the earth in ways that will help us get into the resonance of giving and receiving .......giving and receiving eternally.
Bit starting at 17:04... brilliant. Thank you for making the progression so clear, so easy to follow, so obvious to see. Thanks go to your parents for your being born and coming to be here now as one of our Helpers for Humanity. God Bless You.
You know Earthcraft isn't Mr Lawton who's video he's showing??
@@mewendy1 Does it matter? The point is to teach.
@@karenmit9812 giving the real producer & creator of content absolutely DOES matter especially when it's someone like mr. Lawton who's dedicated his life to this. That is where the teaching comes from. Acting like it's your own content by accepting compliments on the content that should actually be going to someone else is underhanded.
@@mewendy1 Did you read the description of the video?
@@alexriddles492 did YOU actually read my comment & realize I was addressing the person commenting & thanking the person who posted the video, as if they were the ones who created the content & then responded to the person who said it doesn't matter who created it, when it absolutely does?!?? Obviously I already knew who had created the content
Right. Everyone needs to start Living Within the Balance. And that begins, by starting to move in the right direction, towards Self-Reliance, in the Local Community.
Sir you are amazing. Keep doing good work for the planet. Stay blessed
Bruce Lee said, "the most dangerous person is one that listens, observes and thinks". Bill Mollison remarked, "I got this". And he did.
I’m grateful for your positivity for the future. I share your passion. I’m researching this very topic for the renewal and regrowing/revitalization of our earth! I’m in Louisville Kentucky and currently trying to figure out a proposal for the local community and government to work together to bring in solutions for our homeless and communities best interests! I’m super excited and grateful for your gifts to integrate with mine to make something happen to enhance and be a global model for humanity to interstate our diversities for our common good.
Wonderful! This is a very uplifting video that is a must see or listen. There is no BS here. This is a real solution. There is hope. Thank you 😊
May our good Lord bless your ways as you involve yourself in His purpose of making this world a bit better while we are waiting for His soon return and make everything new.
If we can’t make this one better we won’t qualify for the new one to come because we will be having a destroying habit there too.
I pray for to know His will fully and prepare yourself to meet Him in peace too. God bless brother Geoff
I'm 3 years into transforming the front yard into a food forest, and doing it 'stealthily'. When people see it, they often remark on how nice it looks - a couple of large, shady trees, some smaller trees beneath, several shrubs and bushes, and lots of pretty flowers with attractive hardscaping. What they are looking at is actually 2 pecan trees, 2 pear trees, 2 figs, 6 hazelnuts, 6 redbuds, multiple blueberries and gooseberries, monarda, camellia, bellflower, onions, garlic, basil, turmeric, ginger, lots and lots of daylilies, strawberries, and soft springy walkways of white clover between the beds. I'm far from done, there is so much more that I want to plug into this system - stuff like flowering dogwood and Siberian purslane, more of everything, really - but the truly amazing thing is, 3 years ago, this was a sad little yard full of grass, weeds, and sandburs growing in 4-6 inches of pebbly gray soil precariously resting on a substrate of clay and sand (mostly sand)
I would love to see and follow that! Sounds great!
You are an amazing man and the spirit of Mother Earth is flowing through you.
Excellent
So good to see our wonderful Creator's work is being honored for what it really is, and that is perfect cooperation.
Life is a gift in all it's forms.
Natural remedies will remove the wheels from the chemical death train.
Geoff is 3-4 years ahead of the situation. We had our first wake up call with the quarantine and notice how quickly the distribution system broke down? More events will occur that will continue to expose the fragility of the current system of shipping food and energy all over the world. The climate is changing and farmers need to change what they grow as areas heat up or get more rain. We can get through all the hurdles however we need to start now and be mindful of what nature is showing us. Blessings.
MAKES ME WANT TO SELL UP IN MELBOURNE AND BECOME TOTALLY GRID FREE WHILE EMPLOYING YOUR KNOWLEDGE and SEEKING YOUR HELP.
I grew up in era where our for-fathers grew much of the own fruit and veggies....but then along came modern technology...and made us humans very lazy...everything nowadays is about instant gratification....and selfish. Yet Geoff Lawton , has proven to us , how modern technology can be enhanced to provide our every need ....until the end of time....just with a bit of savvy and patience. I just wish that governments all around the world can grasp this concept of permaculture...and their people would never....ever....have to starve again.....Geoff Lawton....and your team....I SALUTE YOU IN YOUR ENDEAVOURS TO MAKE THIS WORLD ....A BEAUTIFUL PLACE....
Trevor Poole But there was also a population growth.
We need communities of this where anyone can come work
He tells us there is a crisis coming .. .yes u were correct Geoff.
Many different crises have arrived 5 yrs on.
The saying as u sow & sow u reap is a true today as it was 2000 yrs ago.
Man is only reaping what he has sown.
And while I cannot change the world, I can change my world & that is my main focus.
May God bless u for looking after His creation.
I’m struggling with swales. So inspired watching this though.
Been focusing my attention and intentions on creating this lifestyle for my FamBam. Saving for land for our VAST HEMPIRE. This video is so inspiring and sent it to my kids cuz it's exactly what we want to do. Thank you for making this video!!!!
ASSALAMU ALAYKUM, thank you for this honest information! I want to start my own food forest, and thanks to this video I'll start TODAY, I'm going to buy five chickens for a start, InshaAllah. May Allah bless you. And never forget: all the honor is for Allah, Alhamdoulillah
All the honour is for Allah. Yes all, including the suicide bombings happening all over the world
@@muralivenkataraman5922 to be fair, other religions are violent too. Over 50 million people have been killed in the name of Christianity
@@4stevenies Agreed. These two abrahamic religions caused a huge human tragedy all in the name of their respective true Gods
I want to help mainstream this, I hope to take as many courses to help educate myself on this, it's amazing and can offer the planet so many solutions. One day I hope to see myself in the permaculture industry
flip4style 👍😎Same
Your comment gets me thinking about the trending list on youtube. I can't believe that stuff has millions of views.
Get started now. Don't wait until you know it all. 2.5 months ago, I watched a Wicking Bed video. Then I watched 5 more. The next week, I got 4 commercial veggie crates from a wonderful local onion farm, cleared an area for them and filled them up, using what I learned. I made a couple of mistakes, but now I have Zucchinis, Eggplant, Capsicum peppers, carrots, basil, strawberries, celery, beans and snowpeas in those 4 beds, and 8 tomatoes, 8 pumpkins, bok choy and a few herbs in a side garden and two raised beds.
Mulch and cow manure compost gets it started fast.
You don't have to get that big. You can start in a single wooden or plastic box if you don't have land.
Whatever you do, don't till because that destroys the soil biology and you'll need to fertilize to make up for that.
Thankfully, its the solar minimum, so it has been overcast here almost every morning since January 1, otherwise keeping the garden hydrated would have been much more difficult. Yesterday was 38 degrees C (100 degrees F) and the wicking beds only needed shadecloth protection from the sun, but no extra water.
I didn't know about Geoff Lawton, Peter Andrews, Richard Perkins, Limestone Farm, and many others when I started. but now I have started and I learned things and made mistakes, I'm working out what to do next. People are doing amazing things, thanks to pioneers like Geoff, Peter, Charles Dowding and many others.
Watch a range of videos - do it in a week or two and decide what might work best for you.
Just get started, don't wait.
@@Newsblaze How are things going for you, friend?
Loved your video Geoff.
I’ve recently come to live on a 4 acre property in the foothills of the Himalayas, and I want to design my property in a sustainable way.
I’ll write to you soon.
Shaleem Malik
That’s awesome. Best of luck. My family has a similar goal. In the next 2 years we’re working to settle on a few acres in the Smoky mountains. Geoff we’ll be writing you as well.
th-cam.com/video/Z5ozNM-Hb0w/w-d-xo.html
Have a look at Geoffs TH-cam channel lots of good info
Great presentation.
The knowledge and honesty of intent come shining through.
Nice one, Mate.
Dan.
Israel.
Our King Rama the 9th had started this kind of project and branches it around the world since 1970.
Thank you so much for carrying and spreading this practical idea. This is the only way to survive in these days world is for every human. Not materialism.
Yep... Regenerative Agriculture and good permaculture practices can make MASSIVE difference WAY faster than you think!
Overview of Regreening the desert project from 5:25, absolutely remarkable!
I wish I had the land, and youth, as I am 66 yrs young, but small community gardens may be I can give it a go... My son is educated in this, in California, I live in Canada, its so needed globally, small steps.. to bigger..
giant greenhouses, no, no... this is the answer... my gosh.. thanks
You and the people you're working with are amazing.
Love is the desire and pursuit of the whole
Dear Geoff Lawton,
This video clip is inspiring. I am from Namibia, a country which is characterized by long droughts throughout. We have two huge deserts, namely the Namib Desert and the Kalahari Desert. Water is, but gold to many farmers. I am farming in an arid, drought-stricken area, Rainfall is very scarce. I really want to go all out for PERMACULTURE design. Permaculture is definitely the best practice to follow. HOW do I tap from your vast experience and expertise? Have you ever visited Namibia?
@ephraimjane732 Bill Mollison wrote the Permaculture handbooks, they are reprinted quite often I think? If not, try googling Permaculture free pdf file or just trawl youtube, its happening all around the world :)
I heard a speaker 3-4 yrs. ago in Calgary. He was American, with a food growing system that involved more product with less planting. So the example was rice, instead of planting as much as you can. Spacing them 2-3 times further from each other and they produce 3-4 times the rice [per plant] per acre. Needless to say he was never seen again, in Alberta.
There are people in permaculture that are absolutely insane.
That’s Holy Spirit knowledge you’ve got!! Back to Eden!
Just.....beautiful!
Your videos are so informative. I started my food forest a year ago. I’m still trying to figure out the swales but I will and that will be the final piece to the puzzle
Thank you, one day the world will become garden of eden. When we all help each other with our knowledge, kindness. That’s what our creator wants us do.
The Bible says our Creator will make a new earth.... This one will be toast! I encourage you to read the Bible. Grace and peace in Jesus 🙏
I love this permaculture. My father's farm is like that. Production of organic produce is so sustainable with very low expense
When history of this era is written the names Geoff Lawton and Bill Mollison will be among the good guys.
Man, I have enjoyed learning from their concepts.
In an era that is seemingly without hope- they offer SOLUTIONS.- real, practical, life affirming, solutions.
I bought Mollison's book several years ago and the joy that my husband and I (retirees) have had in implementing the concepts has been great. While I hope that humanity is intelligent enough to withdraw from the brink - everything we have done will only make the world a nicer place no matter the outcome (and quite wonderful for the present for us.)
Great video, we are starting and I am looking forward to learning.
I've been slowly working on this concept for about two years in OK. I love slowly working on my food forest.
It's no coincidence that The Creator our Lord God first put us in a garden and not a town x many thanks and much love from the UK xx
Absolutely necessary, thank you, thank you... "to the future"...🙏❤
What a blessing to the world you are!
You know Mr Lawton in this video isn't the person posting this?
Bravo! I've often wondered why everyone allows water to run off.
With this corona virus keeping me in the house more I stumbled across your video...really enjoy your thinking. Just one thought....in your opinion could that major fire last summer in SE Wales been more controlling with you practices put in place in that area. In my opinion the simple answer is YES !!
Pretty astounding! I grew up in the country, but I take my hat off to you.
Wow I just wish I was younger I am 69, but I will tell you I love the idea of growing food just for myself and family. The sense of achievement with every drop of sweat should intoxicate me. Love it
So you have another 20-30 years of healthy living
We love Geoff.
This is what l'm talking about for whole my life, thank you for sharring this simple, but powerfull way to live!
Thank you from Perth Western Australia you and Bill Molleson are heroes
Amazing and inspiring video. Our problems are not so hard to fix if we put aside greed selfishness and lies
“We should listen only to those whose lives conform to nature”
-Marcus Aurelius
Sir, you are great
I see Earthcraft likes your comment about greatness, which is odd since all he did was post a copy of mr Lawton's video
This is how the indigenous people of my country live. And it's an honest way of living! Living off from the land.
Thank you Mr Lawton! I’ve passed on to my adult children. So eye opening!
This is exactly whats needed in this world I would like to be part of this. I would like to be able to teach others this. knowledge is power and we can all have our own. We are all been hypnotized by conspiring men who don't give a crap about us. All they want is to bleed us dry. They think of us as their cattle. We'll I want my own cattle and my own sheep and my own chickens. Your a good man God bless you.
great inspireing program. i done a swale ending in a pond. now working on making a fruit and berries forest thx geoff . btw im 66 years old