@@Paintbrushpilot so ironic that you and the other tard bitch about the wisdom here taking too long to absorb then refer to others as "spoiled brats". Clearly you are seeking attention so here you go, I will give it to you. Post pinned!
@@quiksilver1j you are correct. Grass is better than concrete and ashphalt... but trees, fruits and vegetables in abundance is much better than just grass
I discovered permaculture as a young woman in the environmentalist movement, in the late 80s . It brought it all together for me . It could so easily save the planet and I believe ultimately it will. People will need this when their unsustainable system collapses . My whole life now has been a fight with my society over this. I've been drug into court more times than I can count for my gardens and my hens , but I'm so proud to be a part of this movement. "So proud to be tormented at this time." Its a fight worth fighting whether we appear to lose in the short term or not, in the long term we will win this.
Nice ideas, I live in California and I implemented this concept for the last 12 years in my yard, you can eat something everyday around the year from my yard
“Well here we are in the suburbs; it’s just really a lawn mowing, time wasting, money gobbling, environmental, and economical disaster. It’s really quite disappointing.” -Geoff Lawton 6:29
Geoff's comment about massive amounts of lawn is spot on @ 6:02 ... "We've just got obsessed with this crazy system of Maintained Disorder through Absolute Tidiness that is just not a natural system. We've gotta get over it."
My oldest took a picture of an apple tree in a natural sitting. It was beautiful. When I asked her where the picture was taken as I wanted to visit the area, I was blown away when I was told it was my back yard. Until I saw that picture all I saw was an overgrown lawn that needed mowed. Quite sad I couldn't see the beauty of it until I saw that picture
Wow finding Geoff is like when I first discovered Alan Watts or Jim Rohn. Important experts in their field that you can feel the enthusiasm radiate from. You can't help but stop and listen. Thank you for sharing this 🙏
Yes, I'v only just discovered his channel, after seeing other channels who showed very little of value, but ranted on and on about themselves 😴 and where they bought supplies from! Geoff's passion and knowledge are the most valuable lessons anyone could have, don't you agree 😊
Inspiring! My husband and I are living on 3/4 of an acre in the North-Eastern United States. It was mostly lawn when I moved in ten years ago. I started out doing some regular organic gardening in raised beds. Now we have a lush permaculture forest garden, but we still have a lot of unproductive space. This summer and fall we plan to take out what remains of the old lawn. We are always looking for new ideas to help us maximize the use of the space we have. Three-quarters of an acre is really a lot if you can make every square foot count!
What state in NE are you in? I’ve been in VT and let my lawn grow many varieties of plants like a meadow for me and for wildlife. I have a tiny patch that’s grown veggies and that’s been plenty for me, planted a few trees here and there, but keep anything near the house low for air and sunlight in our often humid climate, or I would have a mold issue on and in the house. Plantain, dandelion, stinging nettles, lambs quarters, garlic, chives, watercress in the stream, clovers, wild edible rose runner roses (not the beach rosa rugosa), cattails in the pond and marshy area, and more.
It certainly can be. But, we dont' have to wait - I like that part. I can implement these ideas and share them so more people will have a choice, and I'll have my health and a beautiful place to live, possible financial savings, lower or positive impact on the planet. If we build community it can create political pressure. Interestingly you can solve most problems without cost or while producing high quality products that were being lost. Changing the status quo - I dunno, there's a lot of money in wasteful systems that will struggle to protect itself. Although, we could have an economy and production systems that were truly sustainable. I fear we'll have to have even more major collapse before we embrace these ideas as the status quo. Hopefully we'll have enough of these ideas in place so that as the collapse worsens we can see some people doing really well and, at that point, we'll be ready to embrace any solution. Like how people in refugee situations would be friggin' delighted to implement these systems. In disaster relief. I'm thinking of the Garbage warrior not being able to build earth ships in the U.S. but being embraced by places devastated by hurricanes. And sending their engineers to learn from him.
Took a PDC with Geoff in 2014 and my life was changed for the better ever since, must have watched this video 100 times back then and still see some thing new. Thank you for preserving this absolute gem for us Jack.
I’m a new gardener here, I’m so glad to see this perfect food abundance sustainable living video, last year I bought my home/property of 1.5 acres to do this, I love saying “it’s easy” too, “it pays for itself”, “I love grocery shopping in my yard”! I wouldn’t feel comfortable with growing food in tires as a container when there’s non toxic free items out there like tree trunks or rocks. Besides that everyone here is super excited to share the good news 🥗🌏✌️
I love this, i used to make a lot of money doing this, set up gardens in people's yards in two days, leave for months, come back and see that half of the plants are mal nurished or dead from neglect, and nothing has been harvested, but you're getting paid, so that's nice, and that's why I am listening to this video, because it is refreshing my mind for how to convince people they will survive the pandemic if they give me money and access to their backyard.
I’m a homeschooling, homesteading mom of 5. I could watch these all day but there’s work to do. We are working hard to implement permaculture on our 26 acres here in Nova Scotia. It’s a ton of work but we’ll get there… great video!
Your facts about lawns are a little off, Geoff. The Taj Mahal was build in 1632, the Crusades ended in 1492. Still didn't stop me from digging up the lawn and planting veges! Wife complained, so I planted a small chamomile lawn for her. She loves it!
This has been needed for so long. Most don't have arces to live on. Many don't even have a big yard. But we still neeed to know what we can do and do it!!!!
This is what MOVE was doing in Philly! Now that white folks are calling this cultural practice their own, health departments are taking them seriously.
Love this video. Had to stop about 5 times and go play in the garden because I was so inspired. And it was 37 degrees today, stinking hot. Gave me some great ideas, thanks Geoff.
I just love what you guys are doing. This is just the beginning of living in the 5th dimension, a much higher vibration of living. Right on schedule with the real age of Aquarius. Peace my friend, peace!!!!
Artistry... Intelligence... such a beautiful integration of natural principles alongside urbanization... there's hope here, folks. It grows in abundance!
The more people that will do this, the better. I love the hydroponic fish pond in the pool rather than the fish in the plastic tanks without any place to explore and be fish. I think the freer, the happier, then the healthier the system will be. I don’t like animals stuck in small cages, not given the chance to free range. Not only are they happier but the grower is healthier from all the free entertainment! 😆 Great show! Thank you 🙏🏻
Geoff Lawtons teachings are inspiring new generations of regenerative gardeners as well as older late bloomers like myself! Thanks Geoff from this grateful and now lawn free urban food forester in process!
Turn the lawns into lunch! Turn the lawns into food… lol, dandelions, broad and narrow leaf plantain, nettles, purslane, amaranth, lambs quarters, mints, etc etc etc are much of my edible lawn/ sometimes meadow. I love leaving the flowers for the critters, and harvest some red clover for tea for myself. I make frozen pesto cubes for my winter greens out of whatever edible greens are abundant… and it usually is a three day operation to complete enough for a good winter spring supply. Harvest, chop and blend with olive oil and sea salt, pack into ice cube trays or form into balls, freeze, transfer the frozen ones into baggies in the freezer, and lastly, eat whenever I am ready for them and winter has put the greens to bed.
I love your words - 'the therapy in this system - therapy in relation to the action and interaction to the environment of growing food' this is what i love to hear...everything is Health - from you to the garden to the wildlife to nature to our planet! thank you Geoff.
A great lesson for me -- similar garden issues and yes I want more food...old growth trees luckily on the boundaries but in need of a prune - then mulch - I've done a lot of perma learning but i like your style Geoff best - its all about 'delivery' ... and not being twee - precious...thank you this has been invigorating and invaluable...
You can be as diverse as you want with plant selection. Once these are up and running and you are actively observing your work, then you will begin to notice the micro-climates you have created and that things can grow there that otherwise wouldn't or couldn't in your climate. You can also intentionally create micro-climates. Check out the other Geoff Lawton videos and Sepp Holtzer's work as well. Holtzer has been able to grow squash in the Austrian alps.
@@Mark-qe9mr squash grows in summer and they get very long summer days up there so thats no suprise, i get to -3c and ive experimented with micro climates and tropical fruits but it doesnt work as well as you would hope, alot of time the trees with the most protection die the fastest because they need open air and full sun just to keep them warm and dry the soil out in winter so they dont rot, i was maaad on microclimate but unless u live in a desert you really dont get anty heat in winter to store through the night, especially when half the days arent sunny
@@veganchiefwarrior6444 you can have plenty of fruit diversity, just temperate climate fruit like apples, pears and plums etc. Apples especially are tremendously hardy. I have a photo of a pair of 800 year old apple trees growing near a manor house in England. They survived the Little Ice Age in the 1600s , when about 1/3 to 1/4 of the human population died in one winter. So, one in three or one in four humans died, but the Apple Trees lived on...
@@PsychicIsaacs interesting story, but yea we have alot just not as much and not the diversity all year round like places without frost and cold, frost is the killer of most fruit trees
Loved this in depth look at working permaculture in an urban environment. Lots of new examples and suggestions here for me to think about. Much appreciated.
Really a great video, I have liked several contributions but the one that I plan to put into practice is the compost system in terraces, very good! I am in transition from the city to the country and the permaculture project has already started to start at home.
THIS IS WONDERFUL!!! So much wisdom, eloquence, love and care. I'm new to most of these concepts and am getting goosebumps all over... Thank you, thank you, thank you for posting!
Geoff, I grew up in Manhattan and have moved to New Jersey to 3.5 open acres. I’m so happy to have found you and this video. I want to do so much but couldn’t decide on where to begin! So, I thank you by subscribing.
I am a beekeeper so My lawn gets no weed or dug killer. At this time I am working on a water level with the METRIC system. I decided to put a string Between my 2 sticks so they are 10 meters apart. Then I put an Aluminum angle on the side of the stick so I can slid the marker to zero when I use it. So if you are building a level swale you just use the zero mark, but I marked the Two slides so you can layout a swale with a slope. I have marked the Aluminum angles with markings at 1% ,2% ,3% and 4% on the lower and upper side of the zero mark. So to layout a swale on a slope or grade all you have to do is find your starting point, you could where you want the water to end up or where you are collecting it from. I think a 1 1/2% swale would be the most you could do without having erosion. I haven’t marked the Aluminum slides with with 1/2% or even 1/4% markings, but there is room to do that. I am using the metric system because is easy to understand. The poles are 10 meters apart so we have 1000 centimeters, so 1% rise is 10 cm and you divide 10 by 2 and you get 5 cm in between each marking on my scale so there’s a lot of room to mark a quarter or even an eighth of a percent which would be really a slow running ditch
What an awesome solutions of the unhealthy urban lifestyles. If the whole world will humbly adopt this ideas, this will provide solutions of the most problems of sickness, famine and costly wasted energy. In our devastating modern urban lifestyles and the costly poisonous modern way of farming. This is the real solutions! Let us go back to the Narural way of living.
I adore Geoff's energy and his love of mankind. Geoff and Bill Mollison have done so much for humanity, there are COLLEGE courses based on Bill's work. One day when people are hungry enough they may listen 😟
11:30 into this amazing documentary! One word just occurred to me. AWESOME! Now for the rest... Cheers Edit: OK 1:38 minutes gone really fast. Totally worth time investment! In this meantime I've go inspired to had a couple of walking paths to one of my garden beds... ;-)
This all Sounds so Wonderful! I don't know if I can have this. We're in zone 11 b. No lawns. Only clay yards. I live in a Desert that gets 120°-125° degrees in summer and in winter 40-30° . Can get down to 13°. I've had problems finding trees and veggies that grow here. I've made a few beds. Plus, I can't have chickens here. Not zoned for it. But I love your videos. Hope ABBA willing I can do this bit by bit.
So Uplifting while Depressing at the same time. Uplifting to realize the potential we all have. Depressing because the general public is too consumed with themselves to even comprehend the earth's destruction for power and profit...
1:19:50 when sheet mulching, a few rocks, and a kiddy pool of water can save a lot of time otherwise spent spraying your newspaper or cardboard with a hose. You can soak the next batch while you remove tape from the last batch (in the case of cardboard) or lay it down. There's probably also less water lost to evaporation, but they do become somewhat fragile, and corrugated cardboard can hold a great deal of water in the corrugations, which should be poured out.
45:52 Geoff: "Ducks in the city...another great element that can be included" Ducks: "Awww thanks..." Geoff: "Meat, eggs, but also..." Ducks: "Dafuq? I turn my back to you."
1:23:15 Sydney Australia is composting organic material and looks like repurposing other materials. Demonstrating how to develop permaculture growing systems! I'm worried about the city opposing me gardening. But I did notice that they're promoting rain gardens here in Franklin, TN - depressions with ornamental growing plants - to slow the flow of rainwater. Small step to change those to food, swales, and ponds. They definitely stop you from taking stuff from the trash dump. I was looking at a bunch of tomato cages just sitting on top, that I wanted. There was no way to grab 'em since the guy was approaching. I did grab a couple bed frames I use over crops to prevent deer browse and chicken scratching, while I get the fencing together.
As a Vegan I suggest to do what I did with my rabbits... I took 12 foot fences 100 feet long 4 times so 400 feet long tunnel for rabbit to runn jump and play... between every 100 foot I installed the biggest dog cage for them to have different rooms.... I'm up north so Each room is for sun bath or cool place or 3 season and a 4 season under 21 feet greenhouse... I think in this video all is wonderful but not for animals... they need more space and it can easily be shared on this beautiful garden montage..
Omg I love your thoughts ive all ways wanted to be able to leave a negative as possible foot print , love organic veggies just hopeless at keeping plants alive or healthy hope I can properly understand your videos to put into workable life styles
![Swales: Earthworks for Conservation and Storage [PDC Preview]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/W-f2genlUZI/mqdefault.jpg)
Too wordy. Get to the point. This is boring.
Your cup is too full, away with you until you are no longer a spoiled child.
@@survivalpodcasting indeed
@@survivalpodcasting Classic spoiled brat!!! Great response!
@@Paintbrushpilot so ironic that you and the other tard bitch about the wisdom here taking too long to absorb then refer to others as "spoiled brats". Clearly you are seeking attention so here you go, I will give it to you. Post pinned!
Ahmmm.. You are boring more than this..? 🤭🙃
Imagine looking outside your window at your lawn and Geoff is just there calling it pointless 😂 I love everything this man says
Great video. The day I stopped growing grass, and started growing food started a chain reaction in our home.
How did you get rid of the dreaded Bermuda Grass???
Is it just me or does it seem like replacing healthy forests with grass lawns is a horrible idea for our climate?
@@quiksilver1j you are correct. Grass is better than concrete and ashphalt... but trees, fruits and vegetables in abundance is much better than just grass
@@coachcal4876 block it from getting sunlight.
What a phrase .
True the day you start growing vegetables, every other activities look useless 😁😁😁
I discovered permaculture as a young woman in the environmentalist movement, in the late 80s . It brought it all together for me . It could so easily save the planet and I believe ultimately it will. People will need this when their unsustainable system collapses .
My whole life now has been a fight with my society over this. I've been drug into court more times than I can count for my gardens and my hens , but I'm so proud to be a part of this movement. "So proud to be tormented at this time." Its a fight worth fighting whether we appear to lose in the short term or not, in the long term we will win this.
Never. Give. Up.
You’re an inspiration.
Nice ideas, I live in California and I implemented this concept for the last 12 years in my yard, you can eat something everyday around the year from my yard
That sounds like paradise! God Bless you!
www.permaculturefundamentals.com/
Just curious, how close do you grow your fruit trees? I need mine to be 8 feet because we downsized .
@@flowerpower3618 I have 5 ft space between the trees, and I use the side yard around the home to plant the trees
“Well here we are in the suburbs; it’s just really a lawn mowing, time wasting, money gobbling, environmental, and economical disaster. It’s really quite disappointing.” -Geoff Lawton 6:29
Geoff's comment about massive amounts of lawn is spot on @ 6:02 ... "We've just got obsessed with this crazy system of Maintained Disorder through Absolute Tidiness that is just not a natural system. We've gotta get over it."
My oldest took a picture of an apple tree in a natural sitting. It was beautiful. When I asked her where the picture was taken as I wanted to visit the area, I was blown away when I was told it was my back yard. Until I saw that picture all I saw was an overgrown lawn that needed mowed. Quite sad I couldn't see the beauty of it until I saw that picture
I wish I could make every lawn owner in the USA watch this! Thanks, Geoff! You are an inspiration. 💖🌿🦋🌻
I also wish I could make every HOA committee watch this and change their stupid rules.
Same to Australians
HOA's are quite frustrating. Hopefully the culture shifts and people on the HOA's decide to go this route.
He's got 1 watching.
@@shellydurunna That is so cool! Way to keep an open mind!
Wow finding Geoff is like when I first discovered Alan Watts or Jim Rohn. Important experts in their field that you can feel the enthusiasm radiate from. You can't help but stop and listen. Thank you for sharing this 🙏
Well said!
Agreed
Yes, I'v only just discovered his channel, after seeing other channels who showed very little of value, but ranted on and on about themselves 😴 and where they bought supplies from!
Geoff's passion and knowledge are the most valuable lessons anyone could have, don't you agree 😊
Thank you Geoff Lawton for making the world a more sustainable and positive place in every way 💚
I especially appreciate how your food is used beautifully as landscape! Pure and simply genius!
"slip the fruit trees in, game over"
-Geoff Lawton
This is absolutely dreamy. I cannot wait till I have my own space and can just go nuts.
Inspiring! My husband and I are living on 3/4 of an acre in the North-Eastern United States. It was mostly lawn when I moved in ten years ago. I started out doing some regular organic gardening in raised beds. Now we have a lush permaculture forest garden, but we still have a lot of unproductive space. This summer and fall we plan to take out what remains of the old lawn. We are always looking for new ideas to help us maximize the use of the space we have. Three-quarters of an acre is really a lot if you can make every square foot count!
What state in NE are you in? I’ve been in VT and let my lawn grow many varieties of plants like a meadow for me and for wildlife. I have a tiny patch that’s grown veggies and that’s been plenty for me, planted a few trees here and there, but keep anything near the house low for air and sunlight in our often humid climate, or I would have a mold issue on and in the house.
Plantain, dandelion, stinging nettles, lambs quarters, garlic, chives, watercress in the stream, clovers, wild edible rose runner roses (not the beach rosa rugosa), cattails in the pond and marshy area, and more.
I always enjoy Geoff teaching. He gives me hope that the status quo can be turned around.
It’s changing reality as we speak, transhumanists are going to lose!
Right?
It certainly can be. But, we dont' have to wait - I like that part. I can implement these ideas and share them so more people will have a choice, and I'll have my health and a beautiful place to live, possible financial savings, lower or positive impact on the planet. If we build community it can create political pressure. Interestingly you can solve most problems without cost or while producing high quality products that were being lost. Changing the status quo - I dunno, there's a lot of money in wasteful systems that will struggle to protect itself. Although, we could have an economy and production systems that were truly sustainable. I fear we'll have to have even more major collapse before we embrace these ideas as the status quo. Hopefully we'll have enough of these ideas in place so that as the collapse worsens we can see some people doing really well and, at that point, we'll be ready to embrace any solution. Like how people in refugee situations would be friggin' delighted to implement these systems. In disaster relief. I'm thinking of the Garbage warrior not being able to build earth ships in the U.S. but being embraced by places devastated by hurricanes. And sending their engineers to learn from him.
Agreed
@@hvacstudent967 Too right. We have had a huge wake up call regarding the transhumanist agenda!
It's Good against evil! 👌
Took a PDC with Geoff in 2014 and my life was changed for the better ever since, must have watched this video 100 times back then and still see some thing new. Thank you for preserving this absolute gem for us Jack.
I’m a new gardener here, I’m so glad to see this perfect food abundance sustainable living video, last year I bought my home/property of 1.5 acres to do this, I love saying “it’s easy” too, “it pays for itself”, “I love grocery shopping in my yard”! I wouldn’t feel comfortable with growing food in tires as a container when there’s non toxic free items out there like tree trunks or rocks. Besides that everyone here is super excited to share the good news 🥗🌏✌️
I love this, i used to make a lot of money doing this, set up gardens in people's yards in two days, leave for months, come back and see that half of the plants are mal nurished or dead from neglect, and nothing has been harvested, but you're getting paid, so that's nice, and that's why I am listening to this video, because it is refreshing my mind for how to convince people they will survive the pandemic if they give me money and access to their backyard.
Why do you no longer set up gardens as a vocation?
I’m a homeschooling, homesteading mom of 5. I could watch these all day but there’s work to do. We are working hard to implement permaculture on our 26 acres here in Nova Scotia. It’s a ton of work but we’ll get there… great video!
Your facts about lawns are a little off, Geoff. The Taj Mahal was build in 1632, the Crusades ended in 1492. Still didn't stop me from digging up the lawn and planting veges! Wife complained, so I planted a small chamomile lawn for her. She loves it!
This has been needed for so long. Most don't have arces to live on. Many don't even have a big yard. But we still neeed to know what we can do and do it!!!!
Smaller is easier. And right close to where you live - walking between your car and your front door - you're right there all the time anyway.
This is what MOVE was doing in Philly!
Now that white folks are calling this cultural practice their own, health departments are taking them seriously.
@@madmoonrabbit I don't think you understand what I'm saying.
Love this video. Had to stop about 5 times and go play in the garden because I was so inspired. And it was 37 degrees today, stinking hot. Gave me some great ideas, thanks Geoff.
I just love what you guys are doing. This is just the beginning of living in the 5th dimension, a much higher vibration of living. Right on schedule with the real age of Aquarius. Peace my friend, peace!!!!
Blessed Be 🙌🏻
Artistry... Intelligence... such a beautiful integration of natural principles alongside urbanization... there's hope here, folks. It grows in abundance!
I gotta get one of those signs "trespassers will be composted"
The more people that will do this, the better. I love the hydroponic fish pond in the pool rather than the fish in the plastic tanks without any place to explore and be fish. I think the freer, the happier, then the healthier the system will be. I don’t like animals stuck in small cages, not given the chance to free range. Not only are they happier but the grower is healthier from all the free entertainment! 😆 Great show! Thank you 🙏🏻
Geoff Lawtons teachings are inspiring new generations of regenerative gardeners as well as older late bloomers like myself! Thanks Geoff from this grateful and now lawn free urban food forester in process!
Thanks for posting this Jack, I haven't seen this one in years. Geoff is always fun to watch.
Turn the lawns into lunch! Turn the lawns into food… lol, dandelions, broad and narrow leaf plantain, nettles, purslane, amaranth, lambs quarters, mints, etc etc etc are much of my edible lawn/ sometimes meadow.
I love leaving the flowers for the critters, and harvest some red clover for tea for myself. I make frozen pesto cubes for my winter greens out of whatever edible greens are abundant… and it usually is a three day operation to complete enough for a good winter spring supply.
Harvest, chop and blend with olive oil and sea salt, pack into ice cube trays or form into balls, freeze, transfer the frozen ones into baggies in the freezer, and lastly, eat whenever I am ready for them and winter has put the greens to bed.
Lots of useful information. Great Video
Magical...Thanks Geoff🌎 Greetings from Colombia/El inmigrante venezolano escritor/writer 🌎
Absolutely wonderful! This is my new favorite video of yours, well done sir
This is a great video, full of useful and inspiring examples. Thank you Goeff
I love your words - 'the therapy in this system - therapy in relation to the action and interaction to the environment of growing food' this is what i love to hear...everything is Health - from you to the garden to the wildlife to nature to our planet! thank you Geoff.
A great lesson for me -- similar garden issues and yes I want more food...old growth trees luckily on the boundaries but in need of a prune - then mulch - I've done a lot of perma learning but i like your style Geoff best - its all about 'delivery' ... and not being twee - precious...thank you this has been invigorating and invaluable...
What does twee mean?
Awesome video. Brings me so much hope for the future and ideas for our garden. Thanks Geoff and Co.
Thanks Geoff !!! you are increadible!!! The best teacher about Permaculture
Genius thank you for sharing this important information listening from Bangs Texas
This was so fantastic, everything I didn't know that I needed. I love Mr.Lawton
It would be interesting to see Geoff review a temperate climate version of this.
its exactly the same but easier.. just less fruit diversity
You can be as diverse as you want with plant selection. Once these are up and running and you are actively observing your work, then you will begin to notice the micro-climates you have created and that things can grow there that otherwise wouldn't or couldn't in your climate. You can also intentionally create micro-climates. Check out the other Geoff Lawton videos and Sepp Holtzer's work as well. Holtzer has been able to grow squash in the Austrian alps.
@@Mark-qe9mr squash grows in summer and they get very long summer days up there so thats no suprise, i get to -3c and ive experimented with micro climates and tropical fruits but it doesnt work as well as you would hope, alot of time the trees with the most protection die the fastest because they need open air and full sun just to keep them warm and dry the soil out in winter so they dont rot, i was maaad on microclimate but unless u live in a desert you really dont get anty heat in winter to store through the night, especially when half the days arent sunny
@@veganchiefwarrior6444 you can have plenty of fruit diversity, just temperate climate fruit like apples, pears and plums etc. Apples especially are tremendously hardy. I have a photo of a pair of 800 year old apple trees growing near a manor house in England. They survived the Little Ice Age in the 1600s , when about 1/3 to 1/4 of the human population died in one winter. So, one in three or one in four humans died, but the Apple Trees lived on...
@@PsychicIsaacs interesting story, but yea we have alot just not as much and not the diversity all year round like places without frost and cold, frost is the killer of most fruit trees
Love your knowledge and common sense, easy conversation style and great that you are getting all this out to everyone who seeks answers.
Thank you Sir. This was ons of the most exciting things i have watched. May all these ideas flower and bare abundant fruits.
Great video Jack, thoroughly enjoyed the whole lot. Thanks for sharing.
I love Geoff Lawton he has changed so many lives. ❤
Thanks for posting this excellent video Jack.
I always come back to this video. It's just amazing and always inspiring. Thanks
Loved this in depth look at working permaculture in an urban environment. Lots of new examples and suggestions here for me to think about. Much appreciated.
Really a great video, I have liked several contributions but the one that I plan to put into practice is the compost system in terraces, very good! I am in transition from the city to the country and the permaculture project has already started to start at home.
thank you so much for uploading this!
Totally agree!! The golf lawns are the worst waste of our land and water.
Thank you for this film!
Damn, what an incredible video. Life-changing stuff here. Thanks for uploading this
Sir you are a great planner. I love how quickly you communicate your ideas and reasoning with your diagram in 1:00:00
The fact that this video has only 5k views and 16 comments is cause for SERIOUS concern. Not enough are waking up and unplugging from the matrix.
I wish this had millions of views
So true....so sad
algorithm is going to work don't worry
Nearing 50k views already, don't lose hope mate
152k views and 244 comments now. People like this message
Great video and message Geoff. I’ve begone creating my own food and work my chickens to produce abundance.
Love your stuff mate!!!
Geoff is such a badass. Keep up the great work.
Jack, Thanks for the video. Lots of productive ideas for us urban types.
Wonderful inspiring video, thank you!
Thank you for sharing, I love it.
Cheers , excellent presentation , I’m so impressed . I truly appreciate men and women sharing their lives like this , very inspiring .
What a great powerful and physical the way to the world !thank you for this video I love it ..
THIS IS WONDERFUL!!! So much wisdom, eloquence, love and care. I'm new to most of these concepts and am getting goosebumps all over... Thank you, thank you, thank you for posting!
Indeed
How are you doing with it all now, one year on?
Truly delightful video. 🎄💖🎄 Merry Christmas!!!
Geoff, I grew up in Manhattan and have moved to New Jersey to 3.5 open acres. I’m so happy to have found you and this video. I want to do so much but couldn’t decide on where to begin! So, I thank you by subscribing.
How's it progressing?
6 minutes in and I couldn't agree with you more brother👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍💯💯👌👌💯🍻
I am a beekeeper so My lawn gets no weed or dug killer. At this time I am working on a water level with the METRIC system. I decided to put a string Between my 2 sticks so they are 10 meters apart. Then I put an Aluminum angle on the side of the stick so I can slid the marker to zero when I use it.
So if you are building a level swale you just use the zero mark, but I marked the Two slides so you can layout a swale with a slope. I have marked the Aluminum angles with markings at 1% ,2% ,3% and 4% on the lower and upper side of the zero mark. So to layout a swale on a slope or grade all you have to do is find your starting point, you could where you want the water to end up or where you are collecting it from. I think a 1 1/2% swale would be the most you could do without having erosion. I haven’t marked the Aluminum slides with with 1/2% or even 1/4% markings, but there is room to do that. I am using the metric system because is easy to understand. The poles are 10 meters apart so we have 1000 centimeters, so 1% rise is 10 cm and you divide 10 by 2 and you get 5 cm in between each marking on my scale so there’s a lot of room to mark a quarter or even an eighth of a percent which would be really a slow running ditch
thanks for the in detail explanation. And for wanting to be helpful.
What an awesome solutions of the unhealthy urban lifestyles. If the whole world will humbly adopt this ideas, this will provide solutions of the most problems of sickness, famine and costly wasted energy.
In our devastating modern urban lifestyles and the costly poisonous modern way of farming. This is the real solutions!
Let us go back to the Narural way of living.
inspirational, I have started growing trees now
This might be Geoff’s best video as far as useful ideas go.
So informative, thank you. Awesome material. Eva
"maintained disorder through absolute tidiness" very thoughtful description of that grass monoculture 6:02
Will return when I have more time. Mr Lawton is awesome.🙂🙂🙂
Wow love your ideas
My most concern about this kind of gardening is, horror guest: snakes. How did you cope with that?
Terrific video.
I adore Geoff's energy and his love of mankind. Geoff and Bill Mollison have done so much for humanity, there are COLLEGE courses based on Bill's work. One day when people are hungry enough they may listen 😟
True
I live Brazil!! We need teacher like you here!!
Wonderful...Thanks🌎
11:30 into this amazing documentary! One word just occurred to me. AWESOME! Now for the rest... Cheers
Edit: OK 1:38 minutes gone really fast. Totally worth time investment!
In this meantime I've go inspired to had a couple of walking paths to one of my garden beds... ;-)
Love the recreation of Bill Mollison and the series in danger of falling fruit.
Good use of futurescape imagining with the graphics animation s
Fantastic wow, All so true.
Great video.
thank you ,so many paths to go
This all Sounds so Wonderful! I don't know if I can have this. We're in zone 11 b. No lawns. Only clay yards. I live in a Desert that gets 120°-125° degrees in summer and in winter 40-30° . Can get down to 13°. I've had problems finding trees and veggies that grow here. I've made a few beds. Plus, I can't have chickens here. Not zoned for it. But I love your videos. Hope ABBA willing I can do this bit by bit.
I love how he whispers when he's talking shit about the "waste-monger" neighbors!😆
So Uplifting while Depressing at the same time. Uplifting to realize the potential we all have. Depressing because the general public is too consumed with themselves to even comprehend the earth's destruction for power and profit...
Wow this is great stuff you really know your stuff good on ya i love it
Agreed
1:19:50 when sheet mulching, a few rocks, and a kiddy pool of water can save a lot of time otherwise spent spraying your newspaper or cardboard with a hose. You can soak the next batch while you remove tape from the last batch (in the case of cardboard) or lay it down. There's probably also less water lost to evaporation, but they do become somewhat fragile, and corrugated cardboard can hold a great deal of water in the corrugations, which should be poured out.
The perfect dream.....but it's not a dream at all.......👏👏👏✌✌.....bravo!!
45:52
Geoff: "Ducks in the city...another great element that can be included"
Ducks: "Awww thanks..."
Geoff: "Meat, eggs, but also..."
Ducks: "Dafuq? I turn my back to you."
Save the ducks and fish, I'm vegetarian. Veges please
Love it!
Geoff has grown up to be a lovely man . Proud of him .
What a great video🤲.
1:23:15 Sydney Australia is composting organic material and looks like repurposing other materials. Demonstrating how to develop permaculture growing systems! I'm worried about the city opposing me gardening. But I did notice that they're promoting rain gardens here in Franklin, TN - depressions with ornamental growing plants - to slow the flow of rainwater. Small step to change those to food, swales, and ponds. They definitely stop you from taking stuff from the trash dump. I was looking at a bunch of tomato cages just sitting on top, that I wanted. There was no way to grab 'em since the guy was approaching. I did grab a couple bed frames I use over crops to prevent deer browse and chicken scratching, while I get the fencing together.
Awesome episode from Jeffy
As a Vegan I suggest to do what I did with my rabbits... I took 12 foot fences 100 feet long 4 times so 400 feet long tunnel for rabbit to runn jump and play... between every 100 foot I installed the biggest dog cage for them to have different rooms.... I'm up north so Each room is for sun bath or cool place or 3 season and a 4 season under 21 feet greenhouse... I think in this video all is wonderful but not for animals... they need more space and it can easily be shared on this beautiful garden montage..
This 9th season of House is a little unusual, but I'm digging it.
Building soil at the bottom of the swimming pool... Ingenious...🖖
Omg I love your thoughts ive all ways wanted to be able to leave a negative as possible foot print , love organic veggies just hopeless at keeping plants alive or healthy hope I can properly understand your videos to put into workable life styles
You can do it! It all starts with the soil, there are many great videos about how to make good compost :)
We have enough people being negative, try to be a positive force for a change! 😀
@@jay90374 agreed 👍
Great video. Love it. I have quails. The eggs are really nice to eat, but the males are a pain in the ass...
How is that any different from...
What do they do?