Tabor Tilth: Permaculture in the City
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ต.ค. 2024
- This tour of Connie Van Dyke's urban garden, Tabor Tilth, in Portland, Oregon shows her amazing, integrated system that produces food, fiber, herbs, and fertility on 1/5 of an acre! One of the best examples of urban permaculture
around. Video by Starhawk for Earth Activist Trainings/Belili Productions. www.earthactivisttraining.org. An excerpt from the forthcoming documentary Permaculture: The Growing Edge by Belili Productions.
Is there any way of volunteering with Tabor Tilth?
Great video! We have an urban farm out in gresham. Our mission is to educate our kids on where their food comes & how to be self sustainable. we need more people like you to post videos! Great job
This is SO awesome! So self sustainable! Lots to learn from this lady! :-)
Way to go Connie. Thanks for inspiring others about closing the nutrient cycle!
Absolutely wonderful, inspiring stuff .... THANK YOU!
Amazing work, I hope to see permaculture spread over world!
if i tried to introduce that into my bathroom my better half would go mental!! great video though...fantastic what she s done with the space she has. really fantastic
build a little room in the backyard for the earth faithful
Connie has been there for many years, but you can grow a great garden in a year, or even a few months--the trees and perennials take longer to be established but the annuals will do just fine very quickly.
all bamboos are also edible, as long as they are less than 3 feet tall, eat the inside white and pale green part.
Great video--she said that she grows 60%-70% of her food needs from this land...Connie is that right? Is this a full time endevor?
Double WOW!
whoa! look at the mushrooms growing in that wood chip mulch. yeah, that's excellent.
You have a beautiful thing going there. Keep up the great work! :)
@CimaraNyx She not separating it , there are just two containers that are easy to use. Do u think the woman could use that small topped container?
i dig what she said at the end, about keeping your poop at your place!
Is that a gigantic, bolted rainbow chard @0:50?
Pawpaws @1:22 -- BTW, persimmons are another native North American fruit tree, as well as serviceberry (aka juneberry, saskatoon, Amelanchier).
Very nice!
I love how mice are also seen as positive additions to the cycle. Compost aerators! I love it!
What about rats? We have a terrible rat problem . . Or do we. As Rob Avis might say, we don't have a rat problem, we have a coyote deficit problem,!
BEAUTIFUL
have you noticed if colloidal silver effects the composting of humanure?
I admire You Love what You Do..
I would love to do the same .Just DON'T know where or how to start .
But if is wonderful.
ROSEEE in Caldwell, IDAHO.
I'm 77 and not in the greatest of health.
We raised rabbits when I was a kid. We named the breeders, handled them, loved them. We did not name, handle or interact with their babies. Love animals and emotionally couldn't cope with killing our "friends" so we separated the "pet" bunnies from the "meat" bunnies. Yes, weird way to express the concept. Seeking understanding of our surroundings including humans in all their strange complexities helps us understand ourselves. With age and experience I have become less judgmental and less disapproving of other people and their coping mechanisms. She has an interesting yard. Working on my own and hope to implement similar elements. I am working to make it beautiful as well as productive so that neighbors and community see it in a positive light while feeding my family non GMO, healthy produce that isn't shipped thousands of miles to the grocery. .
What idiocy, you justify caging and murdering animals by calling yourself understanding and non judgemental. Utter idiocy. This lady cages fish which is torture for them. Wake up from your cognitive dissonance blocking stupor and get some ethics and treat animals better.
At 4:26, did she say, "No, I don't eat my pets...I only eat their babies"!? There's a little moral ambiguity for you...
Gregory Zimmerman Ambiguity? Meaning open to or having several possible meanings or interpretations... I think she was quite clear.
You are quite correct Rachel Walsh. Very disturbing.
Unless you are an ideological vegetarian, I see no problem here. All life feeds on other life, both animal and plant (and humans, like other apes, have an omnivore's metabolism). Homegrown rabbit meat is a whole lot better for our bodies, our communities, and our planet than corporate beef or chicken shipped in from China or Mexico.
The distinction that Connie Van Dyke is making here is subtle but important. Like all other animals, we distinguish between those fellow creatures we treat empathetically (i.e. our children, our friends, or our pets) and those we treat instrumentally (e.g. livestock, fish, crustaceans, and snails). Where we draw the line between empathetic and instrumental relationships is culturally relative: Tibetans, despite their profound culture of enlightenment, eat yak, because in their high, dry regions, they cannot otherwise get the protein they need from their bioregion.
And permaculture--above all--is pragmatic. This is one important way it differs from food or garden cults. It recognizes that morality is a continuum--not black and white--and the ethical value of any decision depends on context. There are no moral absolutes, but rather three asymptotic goals: Earth Care, People Share, and Fair Share. So I fully understand and appreciate Connie's ethical distinction between not eating pets (empathetic relationship) and eating their babies (instrumental relationship)--despite some folks' squeamishness about this.
And vegetarian/vegan agriculture relies heavily on fossil fuels. Regenerative farming with animals can significantly reduce the use of fossil fuels, which some argue will be peaking In the next 3 decades.
I grew up in this house from 1962-77. My mom sold it around 1985ish. Amazing
all looks great and i imagine delicious eating!
"no I don't eat my plants, I only eat their babies" In a way, that is the sickest statement --Imagine being kept as a slave and your master says " I don't eat or harm my breeder--only her babies. There is no point in justifying the treatment of an animal if the net result is to kill them anyway--who are we kidding?
Correction: " No I don't eat my PETS, I only eat their babies" and for that the pets should like you? Or is that irrelevant?
+iamthequeenbee100 It's still better than participating in the factory farm system.
You are so right about humanure composting.. nutrient recycling on site, holding the nutrients there just like a natural forest ecosystem would do it. The meat rabbits are a great idea, an often overlooked alternative to chickens.
@klonekollector but carrots and other plants scream when you kill or tear them appart. they have been doing a studdy on it.
OHHHH.. The bamboo needs WATER... Maybe that was my problem...
Peak oil: finite resource we depend on for fuel, transportation, food, etc it has already hit which means the prices will get higher and higher--for those who mock the efforts of this person, where will you get your food when the stores no longer have much or any? it IS coming, we are just one big drought or 1 bad season away from food and water shortages. IF or WHEN it hits what will most of you do?
No matter the amount of money in the bank, you cannot find or buy food if there is none to be had.
What? think you will go buy some land then and farm it? When the masses finally reallize the danger of lack of food, or shortages it will still take at least 1 YEAR before food will be available from a crop source.
Going to forage? Not if someone bigger, meaner or with more weapons get there first.
Going to rely on the government to bring you food when the prices are too high to ship or transport it or countries charge too much to grow it? (Over 85% of produce and meat in stores is IMPORTED from outside the states)
Oh. Wait, going to just sit around and wait--World war Z here we come replete with people looting, going crazy, cannabalism and mass riots --because the fact is in a global economy when the dominoes around you fall--then you fall too--a system so dependent is very, very vulnerable.
You can make fun of this woman right now, but within about 10 years or so we may all be seeking out such people to help us survive. Something to think about: over 30% of the members of Congress are presently getting dual citizenship in other countries or purchasing land in countries like Paraguay--meanwhile back in the land of denial, folks are on youtube making fun of a woman who is proactive.
her "dirty clothes, or dirty hands" will be the LEAST of our concerns if the bottom falls out and kiddos it IS falling if you do not believe it, go price food then look at some of your favorite brands or fresh veggies that are CONTINUALLY NOT IN STOCK.
Put some compost worms in and they will aerate your compost. They also love rabbit manure
did she said the eating their pet's babies as a joke o really?
@Bassisbest55 I can't do that! :O I'll end up keeping all the babies and become the crazy bunny lady :P
Also add worms to your compost toilet
I understand the importance of humanure but am reluctant to break the law here...