People are starting to embrace this type of gardening up here in Alberta Canada. The cold climate make this very workable. It gets better. My city of Edmonton has embraced native plants and gardens on a large scale. Any sliver of green space, park, road median, or turn off space gets the native plant treatment. The city is even changing it's land use bylaws to allow for large community food gardens throughout the city.
+Phillip Mulligan You're from Edmonton too? I would like to see it have trees even in the downtown area. Perhaps trees attached to walls of skyscrapers. I would no means say that the city is changing. Look at how many carbon releasing plants we still have there. Edmonton and Alberta are probably the worst places for pollution in first world countries. If you want real change talk to an mla about city beautification and change in the infrastructure and ways power is created in the city. I have long since moved out but it would still be fascinating to see it even more green.
LardmanAttack Downtown Edmonton is very green with lots of trees. Have you ever been to the Legislature grounds or Grant MacEwan University? The only major problem Edmonton suffers from is too much reliance on the automobile because of a public transit system that is ranked at the very bottom of any city in North America. A radically improved transit will take a lot of pollution out of the air just by eliminating a lot of need to drive.
BACK THE TRUCK UP LardmanAttack!! CO2 RELEASING PLANTS? You are in much need of a refresher course in botany, biology, chemistry. You MUST mean CO2 users! Plants have to have C02 to do their photosynthesis. They give off H2O AND O2 NOT CO2....more green cities? Quit making parking lots. Chose the correct species of trees. Hire Landscape Architects, licensed Landscape Architects...that will make a difference. LA's know more about the out of doors than architects, lawyers or doctors yet just as tough if not tougher to get an LA license. Not just growies, shrubbing it up but siting buildings, geography, hydrology, grading and drainage, chemistry, designing free ways roads, human needs in the artificial world us humans make. Growing stuff is for those LA's with growing experience, hands on maintenance and chemistry! Like moi.
Where I live has very few people interested in this method of gardening so many people around me are so stupid they poison everything and cut everything down and think we have to fight nature. But I tell them leave the weeds they think I'm crazy. Thanks for this video it gives me hope
Thank you for this demonstration. Those who see it and copy it in their own land, on whatever scale, will add to the wealth of our lands. For it's wealth is not in the money you can extract, but the life it can support. When I see geese cover the sky, I know we'll have food if we need to hunt again some day and it comforts on a deep level. Meantime, I like the geese as people very much.
We who live in climates even colder than Massachusetts need to hear from Geoff Lawton, too! Out in South Dakota we get temperatures into the -20 to -30*F on regular occasion. The food forest we need to grow is limited to what will be capable of surviving in Zone 3 or maybe Zone 4. After the PDC, it is still evading us but we are trying. Hey' Geoff, how about a "REALLY cold" climate Food Forest video?
I love this guy and everything he has done. I am doing my best to start a conservative food forest in an agricultural (beef and pigs) area that is actually a food dessert. I would like to help this permaculture change happen.
This brought tears to my eyes. I grew up between around Bordeaux, and much of the time in Dordogne. Chestnut and walnut were the staple foods for centuries there -- chestnut for flour, walnut for oil; we're just north of what the Romans saw as the 'civilisation line' above which olives don't grow. I know precisely how much wood you need to heat a typical family of 5... That's 25 cubic meters (not quite 8 cords). It used to take about 15 days to get it chopped, piled neatly, 2 years in advance ready to dry; but that's from deliveries in 2m coppiced lengths. The good side of wood heating, is it warms you 3 times: when you chop it, when you carry it, and when you burn it 😂. My parents used to skip school because they'd rather be picking grapes, then hazelnut, then walnut, then... How did I loose this? As the poet says "j'ai quitté mon chene, comme un saligaud, mon copain le chêne, mon alter ego"
Er...I would consider Scotland a cool climate (and not cold), but I daren't put my kiwi fruit plant outside. My walnut tree struggles, same with the Aronia and Almond. My peach is in a pot in the most sheltered part of the garden by the house wall, the Sweet Chestnut gave up the ghost, and so did the Goji Berry. I think this video might benefit from including some more details about the region where this garden resides - such as annual rainfall, expected hours of sunshine per annum, lowest and highest temperatures.
Growing your own food is very fulfilling! This can be done on any scale, and in every backyard in America (or the World). Just starting with planting tomatoes, cucs, beans, raspberries, blackberries, and some kiwi, apples, and peaches! Truly anyone can do it!
Peter Pečenko Peter, you can do what you want. Start with what you have, rather than what you want. No matter how little. Assemble the elements you have and DESIGN a system, using the principals as explained in permaculture design. They not only work, but you will soon teaching others, as you continue to learn and share yourself. The Problem IS the solution. Give it a try! NM
Land isn't too expensive everywhere. Just everywhere that everyone wants to be... Honestly search EVERYWHERE that can work. All across the USA there is cheap land in places with very little economy and low population. Greenhouses with passive geothermal aren't too expensive. Rural land can be very challenging but rising to that challenge is not impossible. You don't need the full value in cash, you need a down payment and a plan, and a lot of courage and vision. It's that, or keep being part of the machine... and it always has been.
living in a suburb just outside of Boston I have only about 80' X 40' to work with. I will build a beautiful Permaculture system here, and then I will get some acreage a few hours outside of the city and apply what I have learned. I realize how this is backwards but that's okay. I will do it all asap, starting with my chestnuts in the hills.
One of the rare people that don't whinge about not having the ideal block or climate for permaculture, which is far more than just a food forest idea! Good luck on your journey. I have done alot on my suburban block, and I am currently madly saving to purchase the property next door, for when the opportunity arises.
This video really inspired me to pursue sustainable permaculture to grow food, herbs, health, and happiness! Thank you so much for this video and anyone working on achieveing a future reality of love and abundance.
Phillip Mulligan 3 years ago People are starting to embrace this type of gardening up here in Alberta Canada. The cold climate make this very workable. It gets better. My city of Edmonton has embraced native plants and gardens on a large scale. Any sliver of green space, park, road median, or turn off space gets the native plant treatment. The city is even changing it's land use bylaws to allow for large community food gardens throughout the city. Now we BringThis To CityOfStCatharines Ontario.. The #GardenCity
I have been looking for this video for months. I ordered hardy kiwi a couple years ago after watching this and next year should be my first fruiting year (I propagated it further first). Thanks for sharing!
thanks for sharing. nice work, nature is more advanced than every man made technology we can think of, we should remember that again, and learn again what we did for thousands of years.
Geoff, Honey is not "completely sterile" as you said here. It is antibiotic/antiseptic, purely because of the concentration of sugars in it, and in some cases, the chemical properties of the nectar from which it is made. Once the sugars are diluted, bacteria can grow.
Anyone asking about cold climate permaculture look at Miracle Farms Permaculture Orchard in Cazaville, Quebec. It is not a full forest but he applies the entire principles of it and has created a great system. Stefan Sobkowiak is the name of his channel. He can teach you how to have the dream property full of an ecological system that produces food for lots of life. I am going to a tour to learn. I have learned alot from him, especially about what to do for birds, bugs and other creatures in the permaculture food forest.
plant your own source of food forest, bushes and everything possible eat able, get your bill free shelter (earth-ship ore something like that) and collect people with whom you can cooperate with, Create Time banking in your local area, Use NVC as social anti-virus. As more you planing in aliment with nature as less job it will consume later.
I have bought in to permaculture. However, to call this cold climate is a bit misleading isn't it. Although it might be cold to an Australian (actually he is English from Aus), this is warmer than much of the US and all of Canada with the exception of the southern end of Vancouver Island.
I'm in WI (zone 5) and have kiwi, pecan, hazelnuts, English walnuts, almonds, paw paw, persimmons, chestnuts growing...along w/ every other possible edible berry & tree. My yard is still in a young stage, but this video is all about what I am trying to achieve:) Yay for food forests!!!
Yay for food forests...another 'trend' I can't stand to hear. Argghhh. You are doing well, Martha to have such trees. But Food Forests have different definitions. Can't grow vegeys in a forest. Why? Shade. Just makes no sense at all. Do you fertilize your trees, btw?
really like this information in this video, Would love to know the particular species of fruits and nuts we can grow in northern climates, Im in eastern canada and have arctic kiwis but always looking for more permaculture design tips, thanks!
+jaduvalify This method of farming is way better than a monoculture with only one crop. It's also better for biodiversity, polinators and other species of birds and insects. It helps you relax as well
Yeah KISS. But this stuff is being over complicated! A vegey garden is not a monocrop. Good grief. Do not forget ROTATION. Do not forget pH. And by golly, No till, no fertilizer is the dumbest thing I have ever ever heard. You can relax when you know the basics. Period. Or fail..
I really don't think this should be called cold climate permaculture. "Temperate" would be more accurate with regards to the climate zone it is in. I guess compared to where Mr. Lawton comes from he may considered it cold. I live farther north (in Canada) and I would call the climate of the area this video is filmed in as quite mild. Most of the plants he admires in this video would have it hard surviving in Canada. Permaculture is marvelous but when you get farther north to the real cold areas where plants struggle on a few months of frost free weather it gets harder to achieve, at least to the degree of supporting a humans food needs through this kind of gardening. As we travel north the land is less and less able to support human sustenance gardening. Eventually the only permaculture becomes the hunter gatherer life style with few people living on huge tracks of land just as the Inuit and other native Canadians have for thousands of years. That is the real cold climate permaculture.
Finally some sense. It takes knowledge of length of seasons for one thing. Length of daylight hours. That is a big deal. Reemay, greenhouses can extend the season somewhat. Then you need to add heat, stable heat. Inuits didn't eat carbohydrates...unless already digested from the stomachs of mammals. They subsisted just fine on protein and fat. Once they started incorporating carbohydrates in their diet, then they would need to supplement their bodies with vitamin C. Carbohydrates will 'drain' the body of vitamin C. Otherwise the Inuit's vitamin C was made by their own bodies. As all our bodies are capable of doing. Very interesting stuff. I am by no means promoting protein and fat as staples of calories for anyone else. This stupid word permaculture needs to be remade. Permanent culture...good grief.
Do you just hate the idea of using primarily perennials and not annuals? Or is it the way people who have very little to no experience in agriculture, whether gardening or farming, are becoming interested in redesigning everything about agriculture from the ground up? I'll admit any day that most have a lot to learn about making agriculture actually work - but there is also absolutely no reason why they should just stick to traditional modern techniques that have been devastating soil ecosystems for centuries. If they fail they fail, if they succeed they will change the world. Seems like a good gamble to me, because as it is, most people are failing anyway.
This video is just what I needed to see. I always thought that since I live in Michigan, I would have to move somewhere more tropical and warm in order to take advantage of permaculture systems, but that isn't true. Cold climates are also great for permaculture systems in their own special ways.
This sounds great and I'd like to believe it, but the Actinidia arguta we planted in temperate France has struggled to survive even when heavily mulched, fed and watered and the idea of planting it next to a large tree up which it could grow seems impossible. And how do you contend with the shade that so much tree cover creates especially with sun and light loving vegetable crops (most of them) which require an open position. Some explanation of this kind of contradiction would be very helpful.
I'm wondering about succession species, especially in So Cal; further, the temperature and rainfall seems to be more extreme and with greater volitility.
i love what you do//i loveto sit and watch wha tthe almighty created// i dont know why ut i feel piece and amazement looking at the different trees and how they grow and how a tiny seed creates a vegetable//foe some reasonit fills my soul with God and how amazing he is and how he left everything in place for us//yet man distroys it all for money//God is right man will distroy what he creates all on their own//my dream is to have a few acres in colorado witha stream from the mountains on my property and i will plant all kinds of trees and plants,then just sit there in the morning and have my coffee//thats how i want to leave this earth//right now all i see are buildings around me in nyc//but shortly i will go after my dream//and maybe ill have as many trees as you do//i hope they dont make planting illegal as they have tried or were done//love your property and from the looks of your face that place is good for your mental health and it shows on your face//take care
+Danielle Pardiac No one is stopping you. It is up to you to learn. Start with watching every permaculture youtube video, then when your knowledge has grown take a PDC and just keep learning. Learn by doing! Even small things will add up! Good luck on your journey...enjoy it and teach others as you go!
Not sure if an apartment dweller will benefit from this. Permaculture is awesome and everything, but you can only do it successfully if you own property, acres, and stuff like that.
You spoke of stick wood fires and something that sounded like copus trees. Could you tell me how to properly spell it and does it grow in Canada, particularly southern Ontario. thanks
+Elizabeth Mantini It's a way of cutting trees called coppicing, basically the tree is cut in such a way that it easily grows back and can be cut again in a few years. Also the stick wood stoves are usually called rocket stove mass heaters. There's tons of information on both these terms, just type them into google.
to coppice(coppicing) a tree means to cut it down low and let it grow back again and again. Its a endless supply of small wood this way. poplar trees seem to do this easily, every time you cut them down new chutes come up form the stump. he wasnt referring to the type of wood.
yes, that is actually a very good idea, even thhough they have to be in shelter in wintertime..in old times the houses had a lower room under the floor, for the animals and they helped to keep the houses warm. self reliance and growing our own food is the best way to avoid NWO(JWO) and their agenda of energy and food shortage
Where i live in Alberta, Canada, There is no coast so It is very dry even in the summer growing is not the best. And winter, yeah winter. If Shit hit the fan I would travel west across the mountains to gain access to the BC humidity, Then permaculture and survivability would increase dramatically. Environment and location is KEY. The native populations in Alberta had a very hard life and culture was not as strong. Just across the mountains in British Columbia the humidity makes for better forest growth and plant variety, as well as the salmon in the river systems. They had much better land, and culture/art was very strong. You need to learn to live on the land you have or travel to better land. Nomadic existence was the most practical means of survival before agriculture allows us to settle. For you the coast is your main advantage and has been for a very very long time. learn to sail and fish, you will survive. (unless the NWO bans substance fishing) then get a gun and fight to the death.
as a finn, we learn to fish and swim early, my brother&dad showed me how to make weapons and other things from the forest..but currently i´m living in a big city, Copenhagen,we are surrounded by sea, but EU and the NWO has dramatically reduced the fishing quotes so the fishing villages are practically dead, not alloud to fish, so crazy...
+Kenneth Benton No problem for an aberist when you have lert it you feel like a squirol at hights 60/80 ft and even higher just lern how to clime with ropes
+Kenneth Benton I really had no idea they got that high. I had heard they'd be good for an arbor. Now that I know they can get ginormous I'll probably find a good species of tall hardwood to let one climb. But yeah, if you really felt like you needed to pick them all, a bucket or lift would work.
Geoff talks about 'chop and drop' - cut trees back in winter, but leave wood on site. One of the few practices I have adopted (in a garden that is too small) is chipping any waste wood, and using on the ground as mulch. The fertility is unbelievable.
Very interesting, but I would change the titel Words "Cold climate" into something else. I live in Sweden and was a bit dissapointed to see the video, since I actually expected cold climate as in minus degress in winter.
send geoff lawton to do permaculture in Antarctica , id like to see him use penguin poop and iceworms inside igloo greenhouse to grow fruit plants, using wind energy to power led grow lights,run a indoor aquaponic system , and farm penguins for eggs and meat. that would be real cold climate permaculture! not this.
They are availalbe through many nurseries. Just do a search online and you'll find many. But be very very careful. This is the same kiwi that's taking over huge areas of forest in your area--it is invasive and chokes other trees. Only plant it near a building, or where it can't escape into the wild.
Paw Paw. It is the largest fruit native to North America - a mango-sized fruit with a tropical mango-banana-custard flavor that is native to the Mississippi River basin. Baloo mentions it in his song in The Jungle Book. It was one of America's favorite fruits - left behind and forgotten by a changing civilization because it needs to ripen on the tree and rots within days if not used - practically no shipping ability - but local food is making a comeback.
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why the 2.50 intro, beautiful music, and you paint a beautiful picture, but I'm looking for imformation, andf have already moved on. Maybe this is part of whats wrong with the world,, we're to impatient. want instant gradification.. but if you have something to say, stop licking your lips and say it!
I'm not sure which tree you are referring to as the sticky trees. Perhaps the maples? The ones they get the sap from to make maple sugar? The Sugar Maple is the most well known of them. The name says it all.
Great idea, wish my dad would have set on up for me, but as it is I'm getting too old to establish a system and benefit from it myself, and I'll be damned if I'm gonna do all the hard setup work so some punk kid that ain't been born yet can come and live the garden of eden lifestyle!
Well, your father probably thought the same thing. Maybe your grandchildren will say the same thing when they are fighting someone for a scrap of food once we have destroyed the place properly? Permaculture is about leaving the place in a healthy state for all of future humanity to enjoy...
If everybody had an understanding and appreciation of what God has created we would have less problems so to speak. Our problems come from what we have done not what God has done.
+mchlbk You have two options here: Either to believe everything is created by chance via evolution, and our "mother" is mother nature and our "daddy" is Mr. Ape, therefore we may try to "fix" the Earth or move to Mars (or other planets); or research a little more to understand that everything is created for a reason by intelligent designer - God who created everything, (and created it in harmony as we so enjoy from nature), and put us humans ahead of it, and by trying permaculture we really trying to reproduce the Garden of Eden, that our ancestors did not take good care of or forgot how to take care of.
First: Science doesn't say everything is created by chance. Second: We didn't evovle from apes. Apes and humans have a common ancestor. Third: The second you show me some evidence is the second I convert. Feel free to try.
Where is this? No way will kiwi grow in my yard, no matter how much he tells me the only limitation is my imagination. You want cold climate gardening? Come to Northern Ontario!
Up until when you chop down the trees as fuel in cold climate, everything seems perfect. What do you use for building a house? Wood?? It takes more than 30 years for a tree to grow. How many acres of land filled with trees do you need to support a family for 30 years?? How many trees do you need to kill in 30 years? Burning wood is reversing the process of carbon fixing by trees! Using tree wood as fuel is NOT self sustainable! This video is a lie!
People are starting to embrace this type of gardening up here in Alberta Canada. The cold climate make this very workable. It gets better. My city of Edmonton has embraced native plants and gardens on a large scale. Any sliver of green space, park, road median, or turn off space gets the native plant treatment. The city is even changing it's land use bylaws to allow for large community food gardens throughout the city.
+Phillip Mulligan You're from Edmonton too? I would like to see it have trees even in the downtown area. Perhaps trees attached to walls of skyscrapers. I would no means say that the city is changing. Look at how many carbon releasing plants we still have there. Edmonton and Alberta are probably the worst places for pollution in first world countries. If you want real change talk to an mla about city beautification and change in the infrastructure and ways power is created in the city. I have long since moved out but it would still be fascinating to see it even more green.
LardmanAttack Downtown Edmonton is very green with lots of trees. Have you ever been to the Legislature grounds or Grant MacEwan University? The only major problem Edmonton suffers from is too much reliance on the automobile because of a public transit system that is ranked at the very bottom of any city in North America. A radically improved transit will take a lot of pollution out of the air just by eliminating a lot of need to drive.
BACK THE TRUCK UP LardmanAttack!! CO2 RELEASING PLANTS? You are in much need of a refresher course in botany, biology, chemistry. You MUST mean CO2 users! Plants have to have C02 to do their photosynthesis. They give off H2O AND O2 NOT CO2....more green cities? Quit making parking lots. Chose the correct species of trees. Hire Landscape Architects, licensed Landscape Architects...that will make a difference. LA's know more about the out of doors than architects, lawyers or doctors yet just as tough if not tougher to get an LA license. Not just growies, shrubbing it up but siting buildings, geography, hydrology, grading and drainage, chemistry, designing free ways roads, human needs in the artificial world us humans make. Growing stuff is for those LA's with growing experience, hands on maintenance and chemistry! Like moi.
I'm pretty sure when they said plant they meant "factory"
I'm in Calgary and these videos on cold climate permaculture are so inspiring!
Where I live has very few people interested in this method of gardening so many people around me are so stupid they poison everything and cut everything down and think we have to fight nature. But I tell them leave the weeds they think I'm crazy. Thanks for this video it gives me hope
Thank you for this demonstration. Those who see it and copy it in their own land, on whatever scale, will add to the wealth of our lands. For it's wealth is not in the money you can extract, but the life it can support. When I see geese cover the sky, I know we'll have food if we need to hunt again some day and it comforts on a deep level. Meantime, I like the geese as people very much.
We who live in climates even colder than Massachusetts need to hear from Geoff Lawton, too! Out in South Dakota we get temperatures into the -20 to -30*F on regular occasion. The food forest we need to grow is limited to what will be capable of surviving in Zone 3 or maybe Zone 4. After the PDC, it is still evading us but we are trying. Hey' Geoff, how about a "REALLY cold" climate Food Forest video?
Sepp Holzer: 1100 to 1500 m on the Austrian Siberian mountains th-cam.com/video/5GMXqgQIU9c/w-d-xo.html
Yes!
@@lbessone01 that would by rather one 5, I would say.
I agree. would love to see REALLY cold climate permaculture! We are in Wisconsin which is zone 4.
You need Richard Perkins, not Geoff Lawton.
"And that's the heritage we deserve."
Monoculture is so 1980. Permaculture is a way better solution if we want to preserve our biodiversity and tackle a lot of our current problems.
I love this guy and everything he has done. I am doing my best to start a conservative food forest in an agricultural (beef and pigs) area that is actually a food dessert. I would like to help this permaculture change happen.
This brought tears to my eyes. I grew up between around Bordeaux, and much of the time in Dordogne. Chestnut and walnut were the staple foods for centuries there -- chestnut for flour, walnut for oil; we're just north of what the Romans saw as the 'civilisation line' above which olives don't grow. I know precisely how much wood you need to heat a typical family of 5... That's 25 cubic meters (not quite 8 cords). It used to take about 15 days to get it chopped, piled neatly, 2 years in advance ready to dry; but that's from deliveries in 2m coppiced lengths. The good side of wood heating, is it warms you 3 times: when you chop it, when you carry it, and when you burn it 😂. My parents used to skip school because they'd rather be picking grapes, then hazelnut, then walnut, then... How did I loose this? As the poet says "j'ai quitté mon chene, comme un saligaud, mon copain le chêne, mon alter ego"
Er...I would consider Scotland a cool climate (and not cold), but I daren't put my kiwi fruit plant outside. My walnut tree struggles, same with the Aronia and Almond. My peach is in a pot in the most sheltered part of the garden by the house wall, the Sweet Chestnut gave up the ghost, and so did the Goji Berry.
I think this video might benefit from including some more details about the region where this garden resides - such as annual rainfall, expected hours of sunshine per annum, lowest and highest temperatures.
Great video...
Permacalture works everywhere in all climate & the way forward for abundance in the future...
I really like the way Mr. Lawton presents the information. I get so much out of so little.
Una belleza! En Argentina, en nuestros climas sub tropicales, templados y fríos, también crece la permacultura...
This is so sensible for long term sustainability. Young people can start now and benefit themselves and generations to come :)
ghan1953 Yes ofcourse we can, on what? on zero jobs, zero pay and too expensive land...
Growing your own food is very fulfilling! This can be done on any scale, and in every backyard in America (or the World). Just starting with planting tomatoes, cucs, beans, raspberries, blackberries, and some kiwi, apples, and peaches! Truly anyone can do it!
Peter Pečenko Peter, you can do what you want.
Start with what you have, rather than what you want. No matter how little. Assemble the elements you have and DESIGN a system, using the principals as explained in permaculture design. They not only work, but you will soon teaching others, as you continue to learn and share yourself. The Problem IS the solution. Give it a try!
NM
Land isn't too expensive everywhere. Just everywhere that everyone wants to be... Honestly search EVERYWHERE that can work. All across the USA there is cheap land in places with very little economy and low population. Greenhouses with passive geothermal aren't too expensive. Rural land can be very challenging but rising to that challenge is not impossible. You don't need the full value in cash, you need a down payment and a plan, and a lot of courage and vision. It's that, or keep being part of the machine... and it always has been.
living in a suburb just outside of Boston I have only about 80' X 40' to work with. I will build a beautiful Permaculture system here, and then I will get some acreage a few hours outside of the city and apply what I have learned. I realize how this is backwards but that's okay. I will do it all asap, starting with my chestnuts in the hills.
One of the rare people that don't whinge about not having the ideal block or climate for permaculture, which is far more than just a food forest idea! Good luck on your journey. I have done alot on my suburban block, and I am currently madly saving to purchase the property next door, for when the opportunity arises.
This video really inspired me to pursue sustainable permaculture to grow food, herbs, health, and happiness! Thank you so much for this video and anyone working on achieveing a future reality of love and abundance.
Phillip Mulligan
3 years ago
People are starting to embrace this type of gardening up here in Alberta Canada. The cold climate make this very workable. It gets better. My city of Edmonton has embraced native plants and gardens on a large scale. Any sliver of green space, park, road median, or turn off space gets the native plant treatment. The city is even changing it's land use bylaws to allow for large community food gardens throughout the city.
Now we BringThis To CityOfStCatharines Ontario.. The #GardenCity
I have been looking for this video for months. I ordered hardy kiwi a couple years ago after watching this and next year should be my first fruiting year (I propagated it further first). Thanks for sharing!
thanks for sharing. nice work, nature is more advanced than every man made technology we can think of, we should remember that again, and learn again what we did for thousands of years.
Geoff, Honey is not "completely sterile" as you said here. It is antibiotic/antiseptic, purely because of the concentration of sugars in it, and in some cases, the chemical properties of the nectar from which it is made. Once the sugars are diluted, bacteria can grow.
Anyone asking about cold climate permaculture look at Miracle Farms Permaculture Orchard in Cazaville, Quebec. It is not a full forest but he applies the entire principles of it and has created a great system. Stefan Sobkowiak is the name of his channel. He can teach you how to have the dream property full of an ecological system that produces food for lots of life. I am going to a tour to learn. I have learned alot from him, especially about what to do for birds, bugs and other creatures in the permaculture food forest.
I like everything that supports life = fulfils human needs = makes life more wonderful then it is. I would like to move in with people like that.
plant your own source of food forest, bushes and everything possible eat able, get your bill free shelter (earth-ship ore something like that) and collect people with whom you can cooperate with, Create Time banking in your local area, Use NVC as social anti-virus. As more you planing in aliment with nature as less job it will consume later.
Wonderful video, one of the best I’ve seen so far...thanks a lot for sharing it!
I have bought in to permaculture. However, to call this cold climate is a bit misleading isn't it. Although it might be cold to an Australian (actually he is English from Aus), this is warmer than much of the US and all of Canada with the exception of the southern end of Vancouver Island.
+Jeff Fountain that's what i was thinking. I'd be really interested to see something like this done on the Shetlands.
I'm in WI (zone 5) and have kiwi, pecan, hazelnuts, English walnuts, almonds, paw paw, persimmons, chestnuts growing...along w/ every other possible edible berry & tree. My yard is still in a young stage, but this video is all about what I am trying to achieve:) Yay for food forests!!!
Martha Conover hAnd zone 5 is a cold or much colder area? Like how cold do the winters get?
I am still waiting for someone anyone to explain what is meant by Permaculture. Anyone.
Yay for food forests...another 'trend' I can't stand to hear. Argghhh. You are doing well, Martha to have such trees. But Food Forests have different definitions. Can't grow vegeys in a forest. Why? Shade. Just makes no sense at all. Do you fertilize your trees, btw?
really like this information in this video, Would love to know the particular species of fruits and nuts we can grow in northern climates, Im in eastern canada and have arctic kiwis but always looking for more permaculture design tips, thanks!
Check out Miracle farms in Quebec - he has a channel, books, all sorts of resources
Your video was insightful, I enjoyed seeing your forest.
This method of farming looks so much less overwhelming. It gives me the confidence to give it a go.
+jaduvalify the true way is always simplicity
+jaduvalify This method of farming is way better than a monoculture with only one crop.
It's also better for biodiversity, polinators and other species of birds and insects. It helps you relax as well
Keep It Simple, Stupid.
Yeah KISS. But this stuff is being over complicated! A vegey garden is not a monocrop. Good grief. Do not forget ROTATION. Do not forget pH. And by golly, No till, no fertilizer is the dumbest thing I have ever ever heard. You can relax when you know the basics. Period. Or fail..
@@stormytrails whos tilling the nature though?
Just awesome stuff. Thanks God for creating everything so good. We better appreciate it, while it last :)
It is a heritage we deserve, let us desire the great design, learn to move and have our being within.
That is what we are trying to grow in Michigan, but it is year two. Joshua Zieba channel to follow the journey from the beginning.
Lovely!! So in
love with Gaia right now
Great video! I learned a lot and it is inspiring. Hope to one day do a mini version of this on our land :)
Geoff is a wonderful advocate for Permaculture!
I really don't think this should be called cold climate permaculture. "Temperate" would be more accurate with regards to the climate zone it is in. I guess compared to where Mr. Lawton comes from he may considered it cold. I live farther north (in Canada) and I would call the climate of the area this video is filmed in as quite mild. Most of the plants he admires in this video would have it hard surviving in Canada. Permaculture is marvelous but when you get farther north to the real cold areas where plants struggle on a few months of frost free weather it gets harder to achieve, at least to the degree of supporting a humans food needs through this kind of gardening. As we travel north the land is less and less able to support human sustenance gardening. Eventually the only permaculture becomes the hunter gatherer life style with few people living on huge tracks of land just as the Inuit and other native Canadians have for thousands of years. That is the real cold climate permaculture.
Finally some sense. It takes knowledge of length of seasons for one thing. Length of daylight hours. That is a big deal. Reemay, greenhouses can extend the season somewhat. Then you need to add heat, stable heat.
Inuits didn't eat carbohydrates...unless already digested from the stomachs of mammals. They subsisted just fine on protein and fat. Once they started incorporating carbohydrates in their diet, then they would need to supplement their bodies with vitamin C. Carbohydrates will 'drain' the body of vitamin C. Otherwise the Inuit's vitamin C was made by their own bodies. As all our bodies are capable of doing. Very interesting stuff. I am by no means promoting protein and fat as staples of calories for anyone else. This stupid word permaculture needs to be remade. Permanent culture...good grief.
Do you just hate the idea of using primarily perennials and not annuals? Or is it the way people who have very little to no experience in agriculture, whether gardening or farming, are becoming interested in redesigning everything about agriculture from the ground up? I'll admit any day that most have a lot to learn about making agriculture actually work - but there is also absolutely no reason why they should just stick to traditional modern techniques that have been devastating soil ecosystems for centuries. If they fail they fail, if they succeed they will change the world. Seems like a good gamble to me, because as it is, most people are failing anyway.
Check this one out: th-cam.com/video/5GMXqgQIU9c/w-d-xo.html
This video is just what I needed to see. I always thought that since I live in Michigan, I would have to move somewhere more tropical and warm in order to take advantage of permaculture systems, but that isn't true. Cold climates are also great for permaculture systems in their own special ways.
BEAUTIFUL!
fantastic video
brilliant, the future is right here !
This is amazing,
Gosh I'm so excited. I just need to find some other people to do this with in Jupiter Florida.
Nice videos 👍
Thank you for explain everything
Well, show me how to do permaculture in South Dakota flatland! Cold 6 months frozen.
With that attitude, I'm surprised you manage to grow annuals.
Fruit trees will grow, berries will grow. You can build greenhouses.
Move.
28 year a go I lived in ALASKA I sure did raise vegies .
This sounds great and I'd like to believe it, but the Actinidia arguta we planted in temperate France has struggled to survive even when heavily mulched, fed and watered and the idea of planting it next to a large tree up which it could grow seems impossible. And how do you contend with the shade that so much tree cover creates especially with sun and light loving vegetable crops (most of them) which require an open position. Some explanation of this kind of contradiction would be very helpful.
I'm wondering about succession species, especially in So Cal; further, the temperature and rainfall seems to be more extreme and with greater volitility.
Does anybody know the name of the song start starts at 0:25? It's beautiful!
Backyard goals right here!
i love what you do//i loveto sit and watch wha tthe almighty created// i dont know why ut i feel piece and amazement looking at the different trees and how they grow and how a tiny seed creates a vegetable//foe some reasonit fills my soul with God and how amazing he is and how he left everything in place for us//yet man distroys it all for money//God is right man will distroy what he creates all on their own//my dream is to have a few acres in colorado witha stream from the mountains on my property and i will plant all kinds of trees and plants,then just sit there in the morning and have my coffee//thats how i want to leave this earth//right now all i see are buildings around me in nyc//but shortly i will go after my dream//and maybe ill have as many trees as you do//i hope they dont make planting illegal as they have tried or were done//love your property and from the looks of your face that place is good for your mental health and it shows on your face//take care
encouraging! i just wonder which plants are resistant to a Patagonian winds
I wanna do this for a career so bad... it hurts my heart to have to work in a building all day for security and insurance.
I live in Quebec, Canada and would love to learn how to do this.
+Danielle Pardiac No one is stopping you. It is up to you to learn. Start with watching every permaculture youtube video, then when your knowledge has grown take a PDC and just keep learning. Learn by doing! Even small things will add up! Good luck on your journey...enjoy it and teach others as you go!
Not sure if an apartment dweller will benefit from this. Permaculture is awesome and everything, but you can only do it successfully if you own property, acres, and stuff like that.
super beautiful food forest (:
Thanks for sharing your experiences. How do you harvest all the nice fruits up in the canopy?
Great video
is that a piano that starts playing at 0:55?
or is it some sort of vibraphone?
or maybe even a light harp?
let me know, cheers
+alegradance dont know, but ime 100% sure its not piano or vibes
amazing background music !
Who is his guy and what program is this?? Very well done! Thanks
Magnifico
great video
It's not just my imagination that hold me back, It's not having land.. mainly.
Yes we must work towards restoring theland
Question does anyone know where in Massachusetts this food jungle is?
You spoke of stick wood fires and something that sounded like copus trees. Could you tell me how to properly spell it and does it grow in Canada, particularly southern Ontario. thanks
+Elizabeth Mantini It's a way of cutting trees called coppicing, basically the tree is cut in such a way that it easily grows back and can be cut again in a few years. Also the stick wood stoves are usually called rocket stove mass heaters. There's tons of information on both these terms, just type them into google.
Thanks Wilson you have been very helpful. I'll look it up.
What did he say what kind of trees for the burning wood? copus? i cant find it in wiki/google, i am afraid i am mishearing his accent..
to coppice(coppicing) a tree means to cut it down low and let it grow back again and again. Its a endless supply of small wood this way. poplar trees seem to do this easily, every time you cut them down new chutes come up form the stump. he wasnt referring to the type of wood.
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its a technique . when you cut a mature tree more sprouts spring up. you can just cut them back and get the sticks he is talking about .
these plants would grow in denmark, but not in Finland, how would one make a permaculture so far up north?
Try shepherding.
yes, that is actually a very good idea, even thhough they have to be in shelter in wintertime..in old times the houses had a lower room under the floor, for the animals and they helped to keep the houses warm. self reliance and growing our own food is the best way to avoid NWO(JWO) and their agenda of energy and food shortage
Where i live in Alberta, Canada, There is no coast so It is very dry even in the summer growing is not the best. And winter, yeah winter. If Shit hit the fan I would travel west across the mountains to gain access to the BC humidity, Then permaculture and survivability would increase dramatically. Environment and location is KEY. The native populations in Alberta had a very hard life and culture was not as strong. Just across the mountains in British Columbia the humidity makes for better forest growth and plant variety, as well as the salmon in the river systems. They had much better land, and culture/art was very strong. You need to learn to live on the land you have or travel to better land. Nomadic existence was the most practical means of survival before agriculture allows us to settle. For you the coast is your main advantage and has been for a very very long time. learn to sail and fish, you will survive. (unless the NWO bans substance fishing) then get a gun and fight to the death.
as a finn, we learn to fish and swim early, my brother&dad showed me how to make weapons and other things from the forest..but currently i´m living in a big city, Copenhagen,we are surrounded by sea, but EU and the NWO has dramatically reduced the fishing quotes so the fishing villages are practically dead, not alloud to fish, so crazy...
Hej Pia - I am moving to Finland and would love to ask you some questions, can you message me? I don't know how to message on youtube
How do you spell copless tree or scientific name for wood burning it is a bit like willow trees
Massachusetts? Is this a place we can visit?
How would you harvest the hardy kiwi with the majority of it being so high in the canopy? It doesn't seem all that practical.
+Kenneth Benton No problem for an aberist when you have lert it you feel like a squirol at hights 60/80 ft and even higher
just lern how to clime with ropes
+Kenneth Benton I really had no idea they got that high. I had heard they'd be good for an arbor. Now that I know they can get ginormous I'll probably find a good species of tall hardwood to let one climb. But yeah, if you really felt like you needed to pick them all, a bucket or lift would work.
"cold climate"??? lol... nice video tho :)
Massachusetts
beautiful musical arrangement, I wonder whose work it is.
How far north is he talking about?
A question from Zone 7b, Sofia, Bulgaria: does permaculture design exclude pruning of apple, pear, quince, plumb, etc trees? Thanks in advance
Geoff talks about 'chop and drop' - cut trees back in winter, but leave wood on site. One of the few practices I have adopted (in a garden that is too small) is chipping any waste wood, and using on the ground as mulch. The fertility is unbelievable.
Very interesting, but I would change the titel Words "Cold climate" into something else. I live in Sweden and was a bit dissapointed to see the video, since I actually expected cold climate as in minus degress in winter.
Walnut trees, huh? You do remember the allelopathy of walnut trees? Nothing can grow beneath walnut trees...Eucalyptus as well.
There are lots of plants that are tolerant to juglone. GTS
send geoff lawton to do permaculture in Antarctica , id like to see him use penguin poop and iceworms inside igloo greenhouse to grow fruit plants, using wind energy to power led grow lights,run a indoor aquaponic system , and farm penguins for eggs and meat. that would be real cold climate permaculture! not this.
1234! 1234! 1234! I love the intro song
Where can you get the cold weather kiwi? :) We are in NWCT on MASS border.
They are availalbe through many nurseries. Just do a search online and you'll find many. But be very very careful. This is the same kiwi that's taking over huge areas of forest in your area--it is invasive and chokes other trees. Only plant it near a building, or where it can't escape into the wild.
SHO Farm. I'm planning a food forest in North Carolina and would like non-invasive species. Can you suggest a good resource?Thx
I had not heard of it going rogue. Thanks for the heads up. I was just thinking of getting some.
Its lack of land and a northeastern facing balcony that limits me, not my imagination.
How to get it down?
Hi. Whats the name of the non kiwi fruit? :)
Paw Paw. It is the largest fruit native to North America - a mango-sized fruit with a tropical mango-banana-custard flavor that is native to the Mississippi River basin. Baloo mentions it in his song in The Jungle Book. It was one of America's favorite fruits - left behind and forgotten by a changing civilization because it needs to ripen on the tree and rots within days if not used - practically no shipping ability - but local food is making a comeback.
so... why the Disney music ?
I saved a Queen, that were, forgotten in her house
They came out, looking, as Something else, the workers
She, came around, to see me,
I saved a bi, in a water pool spining, it flew 3 km
So thank me,
I saved, birds, orther animals, they follow me
Rabbit, birds, Horses, cant, dogs csnt follow
But I see Them, they remember me, i can see,
Humans to,
I'm just wondering if he knows something about the future we don't... ;)
Paradise now! Why wait 'till we die? Inherit the earth now! Be meek and listen to nature!
why the 2.50 intro, beautiful music, and you paint a beautiful picture, but I'm looking for imformation, andf have already moved on. Maybe this is part of whats wrong with the world,, we're to impatient. want instant gradification.. but if you have something to say, stop licking your lips and say it!
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what word is he using of that sticky variety of trees?
I'm not sure which tree you are referring to as the sticky trees. Perhaps the maples? The ones they get the sap from to make maple sugar? The Sugar Maple is the most well known of them. The name says it all.
Black walnuts are NOT easy to crack. And you'll be lucky if 1 in 10 remain half way in tact. You must be confused with English walnuts.
Great idea, wish my dad would have set on up for me, but as it is I'm getting too old to establish a system and benefit from it myself, and I'll be damned if I'm gonna do all the hard setup work so some punk kid that ain't been born yet can come and live the garden of eden lifestyle!
Well, your father probably thought the same thing. Maybe your grandchildren will say the same thing when they are fighting someone for a scrap of food once we have destroyed the place properly? Permaculture is about leaving the place in a healthy state for all of future humanity to enjoy...
If everybody had an understanding and appreciation of what God has created we would have less problems so to speak. Our problems come from what we have done not what God has done.
John Minogue What makes you think a god has created anything?
+mchlbk i think a god created it because its humans like us that distroyed it
That makes no sense. At all.
+mchlbk You have two options here: Either to believe everything is created by chance via evolution, and our "mother" is mother nature and our "daddy" is Mr. Ape, therefore we may try to "fix" the Earth or move to Mars (or other planets);
or research a little more to understand that everything is created for a reason by intelligent designer - God who created everything, (and created it in harmony as we so enjoy from nature), and put us humans ahead of it, and by trying permaculture we really trying to reproduce the Garden of Eden, that our ancestors did not take good care of or forgot how to take care of.
First: Science doesn't say everything is created by chance. Second: We didn't evovle from apes. Apes and humans have a common ancestor. Third: The second you show me some evidence is the second I convert. Feel free to try.
Oases,,, in arabic, history the water,,, resting,
Where is this? No way will kiwi grow in my yard, no matter how much he tells me the only limitation is my imagination. You want cold climate gardening? Come to Northern Ontario!
I guess people that like nuts are gonna be OK in forty years time , but what about the rest of us?
Plant money trees like me...
Livemit
is he practising speaking dramatic even when its just a fun fact?
more info plz more example will show more people what we can do tyvm soooo good to see
Kiwis... Cold climate... Nope!
Up until when you chop down the trees as fuel in cold climate, everything seems perfect. What do you use for building a house? Wood?? It takes more than 30 years for a tree to grow. How many acres of land filled with trees do you need to support a family for 30 years?? How many trees do you need to kill in 30 years? Burning wood is reversing the process of carbon fixing by trees! Using tree wood as fuel is NOT self sustainable! This video is a lie!
dude he said use coppice if you don't wanna chop wood for the rest of your life
@@erfans7836 Grow your own organic matter. Stop exploiting our nature.
this is boring and long... and I only watched the first minute if that
talks to slow, doesn't get to the point
ok fast boy