India's Water Revolution #4: Permaculture for Wastelands at Aranya Farm
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ค. 2020
- Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys to India to film the epic work at Aranya Farm in the state of Telangana. We tour the twenty-year-old farm that was established on bare bedrock, and now boasts 11.5 acres of permaculture food forests, which has restored the groundwater table to plentiful abundance. Guided by Aranya's directors Narsanna and Padma Koppula, we visit the surrounding area where the landless poor are now farming their own lands and turning bedrock into bounty using permaculture principles. This video clearly proves that wastelands can be transformed into verdant and productive agricultural systems, improving the lives of many.
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The wasteland are not wastelands. They are wasted lands. 👏
Thank you for creating such a great content and sharing important knowledge to all of us!
2:54 The linking of the poor/rich soil dichotomy with the rich/poor social dichotomy blew my mind.
The man's a genius
Also, it gives hope that a poor-soil land is not permanent and it can be made rich with proper care. Very inspiring.
Indeed it is a deeply touching message that the poor can become rich, instead of reality of one surviving at the expense of another it creates reality of abundance. Society is not a zero-sum game and everyone can win!
Watching this makes me emotional. He's a true hero. We need more people to step up like this.
There are so many people doing good Agriculture and Water work in many parts of India like :
Paani foundation & Dr Avinash Pol in Maharashtra
Shyam sunderji in Piplantari, Rajasthan
Arayna permaculture in Telgana & Andhra Pradesh
Ardhendu Chatterjee of DRCSC in West Bengal
Sonam Wangchuk in Ladakh
Thank you to all these saviours!!
Differnet sarpnch in Madhyapradesh also doing excellent work in MP's bundelkhand region
binay kumar also
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I'm 21 and that's the kind of farm i want to create. Permaculture will save us if we are enough to put such farms in place.
I don't remember how I discovered this channel, but I am hooked to your content now. Thanks for this!
Always excited for next episode.
Yes and I'm going to subscribe to it right now
Me too
Same here
Same
Padma and Arsana are the real heroes of this world. Much respect.
Meh, they are "heroes" :
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Old man's a genius. A soil scientist of his own.
Same thing happening in Ethiopia, and Senegal where they are planting a section of the ‘Great Green Wall of Africa’, a new ‘Coast to Coast Forest’. That has transformed the areas from drought and famine to food abundance and water table regeneration. . China are also planting a ‘Great Green Wall of China’ that is also Coast to Coast.
Coast to coast forest...
Sounds wonderful. Prayers for its fruitation and success.
Eswari Balan ‘Great Green Wall of Africa’ th-cam.com/video/a1zjq5EOxmY/w-d-xo.html
Eswari Balan ‘Great Green Wall of China’ th-cam.com/video/ZWix5V9totU/w-d-xo.html
China has been working on it since the early 1970s or about fifty years.
Planting forests and preserving wild life are the most beautiful things we can do as humans on this planet.
When God created man he put him in a garden. Then a bunch of crazy stuff happened we don't need to talk about. But long story short, I think God meant for us to be gardeners.
Brilliant on so many levels.. Thank you for sharing this success story. You are removing the fear of investing time and effort into "wasted" land. I think of the many places here in the USA which would benefit from this educated optimism. Starting here, right where I am. Thank you for the inspiration.
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Imagine the Vegas desert turning to a food forest paradise
I learned Permaculture at Aranya from Narsanna & Padma Koppula ji. Aranaya is a great place to be.
Ballu T where is it located
Andrew.. U r doing a great job... Bringing India to Indians..... Ur passion for sustainability will grow exponentially...
Thank you. Namaste!
I was there and I wish to go back again just to thank all of the wonderful souls there who introduced me to permaculture. Narasanna is my mentor in permaculture and he's the best according to me. Cheers to Aranya Alternatives 🙏
You are doing good work Andrew showcasing these amazing people and their efforts. Thank you! It gives me hope .
Mr Narsanna is a Jewel of India!
I wish my Indian brothers well. Love from pakistan
👀 Your countries deserved a better division, and the shared heritage should never spoil future peace.
Save your Christian, Sikh and hindu minorities first.
@@TheFourthWinchester calm down dude! you act like we are perfect..
@@AG-gv9cb Nobody is actively sending any community to extinction with the help of the courts and police in our country.
@@TheFourthWinchester Courts don't send it's the police and govt everywhere be it Pakistan India Or any other country
Andrew, you are such a master storyteller. I love every video you do. It would be a large project but I could totally see you doing a movie on the subject of India and water. I feel so much hope and go so excited every time I watch your videos. How many more videos do you think you have material to do?
Sheri,
Thanks and I really appreciate your feedback. I am planning 7 or 8 videos total in this series. So if you watch them all back to back, then it will be movie length :-)
Woho! Feels like I have been waiting for this episode forever! I discovered it by the magic of the youtube algorithm when the #3 episode was posted. Love these episodes on India's water revolution, Andrew! The narrating, interviews, the camera work, the maps, animations - it's all really well done, interesting (eye-opening!) and educational. My new favourite channel. Keep it up! Greetings from Stockholm, Sweden
Thanks so much! Comments like this make the hundreds of hours it takes to make one of these videos worth it. I am already busy on #5 :-)
@@amillison Woho! Looking forward to #5 and also, I hope more people keeps coming in through the algorithm and discovers this gem of a channel, because you truely deserve million of views.
@@whatatypicaltime2412 I believe it needs 7.2 billion views ASAP with everyone implementing even small parts of it. There would be no world poverty or hunger :)😊🙌
We need more people like him in India. Happy to see what difference one person can make. Thanks for the info
All the world needs people like him!!!
Nice was waiting for this :D
There is also a certain bit of poetry in that the people deemed "untouchable" are creating a permaculture paradise away from caste and consumer society down the road.
Westerners only think of india as caste caste...When the reality is it has become almost redundant except for political power. thanks to silly documentaries.
Village people aren't considered untouchables lol.
Lot of it Bogus. The video producers just to make it dramatic describe someone as untouchable. In one video the gypsies of Rajasthan were put in this category. They are not untouchable, never were. I wonder if this is anti Hindu agenda driven.
u will definitely land in jail if u call someone untouchable in India. On the other hand, There is def some drama and poetry in BLM and Antifa movement, i suggest u watch that to satiate ur linguistic palates.
So much India has done for agriculture around the world it’s incredible!
Just be changing the slope profile, the land’s potential is transformed over a few years. This is amazing work.
Stunning! Thanx for bringing Narsanna & Padma's work to the world. And thanks for inspiring us all throughout your journey. Keep it flowing! 💦💐
12:31 legitimately made me cry
This channel is amazing. You are doing fantastic journalistic work.
And I hope India got rid off Monsanto
I just subscribe to your channel this types of video information I crave because I learned
Any channel that pushes permaculture is a permanent agriculture university to me
Thanks for pushing foward what benefits all kinds of life not just humans
Yes.
Thank you so much Andrew for sharing wonderful true stories for better world ! I have watched all 6 videos along with my 10 year old son, he too got excited and says Dad let's watch next one :)
Really hats off to all the great people who are doing tremendous job on the ground by working with government, ngos and communities to educate, encourage and creating a sustainable ecology to everyone
Thanks so much to Narasanna & Padma ji from Aranya, Pani foundation - Dr. Avinash Ji, Amir Khan Ji & team, DRCSC - Ardhendu ji, Gayathri ji and all great people !
Thanks Jyotish for the great comment and i am very glad that you and your son have enjoyed all of the episodes so far. I am about 80% done the next and final episode, and hope to have it out within a few weeks. Happy New Year!
Thank you very much Andrew. Happy New year !
Eagerly waiting to see for your next video like many others
This is true socialism. Respect and salutations from Pakistan. This aspect of India should be shown more than bollywood
So much inspiration. Love the graphic explaining the Permaculture concept. Keep it coming!
Fantastic, always gives me hope seeing such things, not having access to our land is whats holding us back!. Land is Freedom! 🌎✊🏽🌻
Beautiful! There is a hope for the planet with Permaculture! ❤️🌳🌱🌎
Spent a few days here. I learned a lot. Hope to learn in more depth. And the food was soo good even when it was so simple. It was exotic for me being an Indian.
This is so incredible. Thank you so much for sharing with us!!
I love the content you share. Thank you for the good work you're doing. We live in India and we don't even know about these initiatives that exist in our country!
Billy Mollison, Masanobu Fukuoka and likes of Narsanna and Padma have really challeged the conventional agricultural perspective! Permaculture is a really good solution. Like the way everything was covered Andrew...really nice work...!❤️ When I was looking for land till yesterday and in my mind opting for fertile and irrigated soil, but now I will surely go for even bedrocks and make turn them into a forest....hope that happens soon..... very inspiring video!
Seeing the success of the bedrock farm, gives me no excuses here on my Kentucky clay. The abundance that can be farmed here, with minimal input is rediculous. Looking at my 8 acres permaculture designed property, I am so grateful for the abundance we have made.
Permacultura ou Sistema de Agrofloresta e a Recuperação de desertos são a salvação da humanidade! Parabéns!
I know nothing about farming, but this seems nothing short of miraculous. I think maybe sometimes we underestimate the power of human ingenuity.
We definitely disregard the power of intelligent design that is already programmed into the system. Diverting away from it was human folly!
Andrew I am so proud of you!
It's mind-blowing how successful the people in India have been with permaculture! Seeing stuff like this absolutely proves the concept to me!
This is one way to start a saturday morning. Thank you bro
This is a great system and just shows what you can do to change waste land or wasted land into productive land. Well done India and I am enjoying this series.
These principles should be effected in all drought stricken areas. I just love these videos as they show that there is hope. When people can make a living from their land they don't need to go to work abroad or in sweat shop jobs in cities. It allows them to live in their villages and enjoy a much higher quality of life. It could reverse the descent into lawlessness that is taking place in many parts of Africa because of 'drought' which is causing more and more people to become refugees.
Narsanna, thank you so much for all the things you did and you keep doing!!!
so deeply inspiring.......wow just wow....permculture at its best.....carry on Andrew......fabulous!! thank you....
Andrew the quality and content of all your videos is amazing. Very inspiring and informational. Hats off to you!
This is wonderful! One of the most uplifting videos I have seen in years.
I binged watched all the episodes 😍
Ha! Subscribe and you'll get the next ones :-)
Good series. Saw the entire season part 1-8. Such an impressive effort.
Thank you for watching, glad you enjoyed it. :) If you enjoyed this series, I have another season coming out soon! 13 episodes long! Stay tuned.
What wonderful, productive sustainability for people.It brings solutions to evaluative the harshness in such environments. Brilliant.
I love this series.
Brilliant applicable solutions and beautiful people. God bless ❤
Wow such a well explained video by Andrew. Permaculture = seeds of hope!!!
In find myself cheering for these people. They are productive, they have new purpose and success is coming to them by their own hard work. This is wonderful!
Thank you for your amazing work, I hope this awareness spreads soon, and most of India becomes self sufficient
20 years in the making. That's what you call dedication and the fruits of permaculture is there
What an inspiration, teaching us the miracle of the earth and it's regenarative powers, Absolutely amazing!
Another Golden video. SO beautiful!
Fantastic episode! A permaculture system on bedrock, now I've seen everything! Well done Padma, Arsana and Andrew for getting this knowledge out there :)
@amillison - I am in tears of wonder at these human works! The people of the Klamath Basin in Oregon would do well to study these innovators 🌱
Beautiful work, Andrew. Thanks a lot.
loving your channel, glad i found it xx thank you for teling stories of hope and effective transfornation !!
I WAS SMILING THROUGH OUT THE VIDEO.................GREAT WORK....
I L-O-V-E this!!!! Keep up the fantastic work!
God bless both of you for what you have done not just for the earth but also for the most neglected section of the community as well. Real wholesome revolution and not just water revolution. 🙏
Only watched a few episodes so far but this is definitely going into my homeschool unit studies on water tables, flow and ecosystems! Thank you so much and cant wait for your new series!❤
Amazing work; very inspiring; real change, bottom up driven, sustainability comes from this kind of bottom up thinking and development
Simply amazing!! I am in awe of this work!
I learning from this permaculture thing. I love ur videos
Love your content Andrew. not only are you an expert in your field, but equally mirrored in your film making style and presentation.
I started on video 1 , i'm on 4 now! this shit's interesting!
Wow! So much respect! Love from Canada!!!
Gives such hope - thank you!
I am so grateful to have met him, he is a real inspiration regarding his approach to permaculture and will to make the life of his community better. 🙏🏻
Absolutely amazing sir,ur efforts bear fruits nice ,it ignites me to develop this technique in my area
Absolutely love this method how narsana sir is giving hope... i too hope to grow trees like this
Wow! Thank you for sharing this story! Pure inspiration!!!
Excellent Andrew!! So glad you are doing this. Great job!!!
Thanks Penny! We're all in this together :-)
wow I still have the DVD of Bill Mollison when he trained India and also Zimbabwe. Thank you for this series. I have so much to learn. From South Africa
The funny part is, the various peoples of India were already doing this before british colonialism. All of this is just rediscovering the wheel
I have been to the farm and this is awesome!
Thanks for bringing such inspiring stories to the fore!!!
this work if taken by each India will ensure Food and Water security to all. Thanks for sharing
Thank God for this people with their passions. 🙌
Lots of love to u Andrew. Marvellous Explaination .
Well done guys. Keep on going. Love from Malaysia.
Oh my god. Such beautiful colors there in India, Green, Yellow, Hay, Terracotta, Reds.
great video Andrew! thanks for making this
Brilliant at many levels. if all of us could replicate or encourage or invest we could make better world. Thanks again
so hopeful. I love this exploration and success
Watching yoir videos gives me hope ...
Love to all involved
Wonderful initiatives to rejuvenate barren lands. Excellent model for our country as our natural resources are scarce and population density is very high.
Hey Andrew, Love your videos. would be binging them now.
Hope and joy for the underprivileged. Wonderful.
This is a great initiative of putting together this series. So much to learn. Kudos to you!
Hopeless made Hopeful!!!Wonderful concept. Most of the people including me are not aware of this project, as mentioned there are acres of land which are said useless and abandoned. But for reasons who is going to bell the cat!!,approaching the government for such a noble cause is next to impossible , corruption!!. Down south in Tamilnadu water is sucked to the core till the water table is dry. No effort is taken to conserve rain water though there's abundance of rainfall. Only now there's awareness with in the public to harvest rain water and desilting of the water bodies. Mr Narsanna and Mrs Padma are doing a Great job to poor down trodden and to the Mother Earth!! God bless 🙏🙏🙏
There is a whole long story about how Narsanna approached, lobbied, cajoled, and squatted on government land before they released the wastelands for the landless to farm. It was no small feat, but he was successful so it can be done.
Need this across India ❤️🙏
Absolutly Amazing! Seeing and learning at Brazil!
These are the real leaders of India. Salute you Sir!!
Thank you for sharing. This should be replicated across the world.
I moved into my property 16 years ago, before I was just lawn (useless for anything) It is now a food forest. Most of the trees were not planted by me, but by bird's droppings. All I did was pull out as much lawn as possible by hand and plant a few things to attract birds. They also brought seeds of many wild plants, that you can eat. I live is a very cold place in the United States, where it can get to -37 degrees C. So it works in dry land and land that freezes.