Designing Abundance: How Biomass Transforms a Barren Landscape

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  • @lucybecker8
    @lucybecker8 หลายเดือนก่อน +73

    You can see how this may one day again be the land of milk and honey. Respect.

    • @therealmr.incredible3179
      @therealmr.incredible3179 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Ngl, I wish I could fund it

    • @dmilonga
      @dmilonga หลายเดือนก่อน

      Respect indeed! Well done 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

    • @floriswou
      @floriswou หลายเดือนก่อน

      Already is :)

    • @varghen0
      @varghen0 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Too bad that too much diversity of plants and products makes it nearly impossible to scale up and sell the products. No money, no adherence from farmers.

  • @CSheri2
    @CSheri2 หลายเดือนก่อน +57

    I was in my "Permaculture Forest Garden" backyard and I heard some people at my fence (they couldn't see me) and I heard one say "Oh my gosh, it's like a farm garden then suddenly it's like looking into a Alice In Wonderland!". It was best compliment! You have been such an inspiration and mentor to me Jeff. Thank you for all that you do and have done to be a light! Namaste

  • @MoeMa4
    @MoeMa4 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

    It's always a treat seeing new videos from Geoff!

  • @iteerrex8166
    @iteerrex8166 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

    It’s unbelievable, what it looked like and what it still looks like out side, but within those walls a garden.

    • @Nphen
      @Nphen หลายเดือนก่อน

      The walls are part of why it remains a garden, and the hill where those goats were going is barren. Overgrazing of livestock is part of the reason most of the region is becoming a desert. There are ways to work animals into permaculture, but to bring broader change, like the Great Green Wall in Senegal requires funding to help the farmers restrict their goats for a few years while trees get big enough to survive. Imagine if the US gov funded permaculture instead of bombs, spies, and propaganda.

  • @kevlar_87
    @kevlar_87 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    Thanks Geoff! it's been so awesome to see this site grow over the years. I live in Arizona, between Phoenix and Tucson. so I have a very similar climate, and I love seeing the possibilities. My 1 acre property is nowhere near as developed as the GTD site in Jordan, but it is a living work in progress. Thanks for inspiring us to keep working at it. Cheers Mate!

  • @ninemoonplanet
    @ninemoonplanet หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Geoff isn't the only person with knowledge of permaculture, soil health or restoring soil fertility, which means we can find someone locally to refer us to Geoff's courses or learn better ways to heal nature.
    Collectively we took a wrecking ball to our planet, it's time we start changing our ways, one garden, one balcony, one yard or farm at a time.
    Amazing changes Geoff, watched you spend so much time, money and energy to get to this point.
    Thank you. 🇨🇦💙

  • @gardentours
    @gardentours หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Amazing how the biomass changed the environment. I'm growing on stones with very little sandy soil and growing more soil with biomass is such a help.

  • @hardlightme
    @hardlightme 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    GEOFF Lawton, THANK YOU! Not just for turning rocks & sand into soil, but for EVERY BEAUTIFUL INCH of this planet you have touched with your grace from YHWH! I cried tears of gratitude tonight that you were still publishing - BETTER THAN EVER! ✊🏽

  • @willm5814
    @willm5814 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    Thanks Geoff for helping us realize what is possible!!

  • @nathanbigler
    @nathanbigler หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    This is the most inspiring project I've ever learned about. Geoff Lawton has inspired me for a long time.
    I have a small property, and perennials, ducks, and swales

  • @louisegogel7973
    @louisegogel7973 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    This is wonderful Geoff. May all your students be wonderful satellites of your teachings, expanding the whole permaculture thinking across the globe until it seems just the normal way to live, to think, to see…

  • @Max-vg8mg
    @Max-vg8mg หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    Great video! Would love to see an update of Abla's property. Cheers

  • @pinkelephants1421
    @pinkelephants1421 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Always such a treat to watch these videos. Given the projects success, in some respects, it's surprising that the neighbourhood hasn't been keener to adopt the permacultural approach if the lack of greenery is anything to go by, even if all it meant was more comfortable summer living from the shade alone provided by tree canopies.

  • @BuildNewTowns
    @BuildNewTowns หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Let's build new mini walkable towns entirely with permaculture techniques!

  • @svensebastianhorner
    @svensebastianhorner หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    How can I find the project in Central Europe? Very interested I am!

  • @abdulmuti1
    @abdulmuti1 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Wow the contrast of how much plants in the site compared to the area around is astonishing.

  • @AchimDrescher
    @AchimDrescher หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    We can change the world, a garden at a time. Thanks Geoff

    • @Menstral
      @Menstral หลายเดือนก่อน

      You change your circumstances and be a hero, but maybe you have not met the average person on this Earth, who is hapless, and clueless, and selfish....

    • @Nphen
      @Nphen หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Menstral Some people can be taught to evolve. Not all. People of good conscience must be willing to band together and build seed banks, of plants, knowledge, and wisdom, like Geoff has built here. Many yearn for something different but can't find examples. And of course the broader dog-eat-dog capitalism chips away at all of this. But today, more than ever, more people are willing to ask for Ecosia to plant them a forest for their birthday than ask for presents. People who care about ecology may as well throw donations at the few orgs who do things right.

  • @simonallins6010
    @simonallins6010 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Keep going! In a year our two, they will see a green dot from space…❤

  • @amyrea4451
    @amyrea4451 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    God bless you Geoff, you are amazing!!! 🙏🙌😇 Thank you for what you’re doing for Mother Earth!!

  • @howyacuttin9087
    @howyacuttin9087 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Love this guy. Just simple return to the soil and you get that. Nature's amazing if it's allowed to be.

  • @bjorn7355
    @bjorn7355 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Looked in 8 years ago. The place continues to develops! Congratulations!

  • @LivingFoodscapes
    @LivingFoodscapes หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    STUNNING PROJECT, thank you for being my number one source of inspiration, mentorship, education and hope for so many years!

  • @EmilHasanovPermaculture
    @EmilHasanovPermaculture หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    What you have managed to accomplish there is simply incredible. Thank you for inspiring us to keep moving forward, Geoff!

  • @louisreniers9887
    @louisreniers9887 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thanks Geoff for us to learning how to deal with drought and help the earth

  • @xavierroy5254
    @xavierroy5254 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    thank you Geoff always a plesure to watch your update.

  • @Dream-green-0274
    @Dream-green-0274 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Thank you, Geoff!

  • @hakanl135
    @hakanl135 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I love what you created here , i think the whole village should follow on the footstep and create a bustling oasis that stands out from the rest …. i will be doing something similar but on a much larger scale in Australia , targeting mainly arid zones and desert boundaries …. i might have to get in touch to consult with you on this mega project.

  • @Vintage_Recreations
    @Vintage_Recreations หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I always thought the property was bigger but that is amazing!

  • @sharonadlam3195
    @sharonadlam3195 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    What a wonderful vision you and your wife had and it is lovely to see it slowly come to fruition. Well done Geoff & team

  • @iancox506
    @iancox506 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It's great to see that Robert Plant is so interested in permaculture!

  • @leonieshanahan6439
    @leonieshanahan6439 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

    just love your work Geoff. thank you for everything you do for mother nature

  • @srantoniomatos
    @srantoniomatos หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Everytime i see videos on this project o get more will to go out and work on my land. Tanks.

  • @PsychicIsaacs
    @PsychicIsaacs หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    In the Bible, this land surrounding Jericho was called "The Land of Milk and Honey". It took two men to carry a single bunch of grapes, slung on a pole between them. For many thousands of years it has been barren, but it is lovely to see a small corner of it becoming green and fertile again.

  • @nolanbrooks1588
    @nolanbrooks1588 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Are you bringing water into the system to supplement it ? If yes how long do you think it could last without irrigation?

  • @geraldnemanishen5079
    @geraldnemanishen5079 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Absolutely amazing. How much irrigation is needed to maintain this?

  • @jeanniefletcher9937
    @jeanniefletcher9937 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Such a wonderful gift to the people and to the world - showing that if we care for the earth it will feed everyone and produce surplus.

  • @Swaza13
    @Swaza13 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    I’m curious, what is the project in Central Europe?

    • @mrdeanvincent
      @mrdeanvincent หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It's in Terény, Hungary.

    • @Swaza13
      @Swaza13 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@mrdeanvincent thanks

  • @PermacultureHomestead
    @PermacultureHomestead หลายเดือนก่อน

    this has been my most favorite of your projects for years now... greening the desert and bringing fertility to dead areas is what Permaculture is all about

  • @brianquinn5060
    @brianquinn5060 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Wonderful and exciting to see such progress. Thanks Geoff.

  • @noahsgardens4253
    @noahsgardens4253 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    another excellent, valuable presentation by Geoff !

  • @Littlewoods_permaculture
    @Littlewoods_permaculture หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    As always I love your videos. You are an amazing teacher

  • @quraibawentzel4143
    @quraibawentzel4143 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Where is the place in Europe to learn Permaculture?

  • @Arabic_Permaculture
    @Arabic_Permaculture หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Amazing, big change happened there since my last visit 2 years ago

  • @RA-vq3dk
    @RA-vq3dk หลายเดือนก่อน

    I remember 2009 when I discovered your greening the desert....
    What an achievement and what a living example of the great possibilities of ecology and permaculture. This is the stewardship that was intended in the Bible and the holy Quran.
    Inspiration to build in truth, apart from the inhumane and unnatural industrial agriculture based on the dogma of scarcity.
    Great great great Geoff! You honor your teachers like the great Bill Mollison.

  • @radkaannam5008
    @radkaannam5008 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Thank you! Could you please bring more info about your Central European project?

  • @marconunes864
    @marconunes864 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Great training for Humanity Geoff.I am doing the same in Portugal.Cheers

  • @jamesrichey
    @jamesrichey หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I love the updates.

  • @electricAB
    @electricAB หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Fantastic job!

  • @HoboGardenerBen
    @HoboGardenerBen หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm reminded of a book by the sailor Bernard Moistessier. I don't remember which one, but he makes a home and garden on a sandy atoll. He lays palm fronds down on it and sees the soil change character over time. That really stuck with me as I was beginning to be introduced to permaculture at the same time from reading Gaia's Garden by Toby Hemmenway while working as a gardener for a local restaurant. I get a strong feeling of significance about concentrating biomass in garden systems and making positive feedback loops that expand. The taste of an heirloom tomato from good soil changed my life, the insane difference between that and the horrible thing from the grocery store totally blew my mind. I never liked tomatoes until that moment, now I understand that tomatoes are ambrosia and the grocery store sells garbage and taking care of the soil and water is everything.

  • @tonisee2
    @tonisee2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Very nice overview, thank you!
    By the way, Greening the Desert project and also Permaculture Institute are written into a novel, "The Ministry for the Future" K. S. Robinson. 🙂

  • @rafarabe
    @rafarabe หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Wonderful work. We have a really arid and desertic area in south Spain. Something similar should be done here.

  • @tamakoa-homestead
    @tamakoa-homestead หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Really great to see this transformation and I love the fact that you emphasise not everything needs to be edible. I think this is a really important part of growing people get wrong. Thank you 🌻

  • @matthewcain2880
    @matthewcain2880 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I’m a huge fan of your work! I’ve been curious how would this project survive with only annual rainfall?

  • @cis961
    @cis961 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Grande lavoro Geoff !!

  • @JaimeBird-n8m
    @JaimeBird-n8m หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Looking good I hope many follow your lead.im starting a small 3ac property in western Australian wheat belt .I'm setting my self a 7 year establishment time .Winter Frost then hot dry summer is a test .but following your advice and taking slow steps forward.thankyou

  • @netraxer9729
    @netraxer9729 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Very instructive.

  • @mano3867
    @mano3867 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thanks Jeff amazing work and result, i wish one day you could visit my farm in Sydney. i watch your videos and try to do project on my farm

  • @chantaltulliez8066
    @chantaltulliez8066 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you Geoff for the inspiration...could we have an update on Abla's garden if possible....

  • @colleeneggertson2117
    @colleeneggertson2117 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Inspiring!

  • @katerinak4164
    @katerinak4164 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    How beautiful ! ✨💕

  • @cesarmagdaleno6009
    @cesarmagdaleno6009 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I have followed you for a long time now. And I think this is amazing. I can imagine if everyone in a mile radius would do the same. I always like the greening the desert updates. Thank you Geoff.

  • @twigandroot
    @twigandroot หลายเดือนก่อน

    amazing progress. The site speaks volumes

  • @Dream-green-0274
    @Dream-green-0274 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I would call Geoff the Green Noble Knight.

  • @simonbuttigieg8390
    @simonbuttigieg8390 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Always great to see a new video. Question,are the trees still being irrigated? Tks.

  • @higheriam
    @higheriam หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Love what You Do
    Showing the World
    A
    Better Way. ❤
    😊😊😊😊

  • @anciskold541
    @anciskold541 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I love to see updates from this project!
    Are there videos from the project in central europe you mentioned, too?

  • @sdraven9954
    @sdraven9954 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Positive, useful, information. Greatly appreciated in these very weird times. Thank you.

  • @elainesommers9109
    @elainesommers9109 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Where is the Central European site situated please?

  • @yengsabio5315
    @yengsabio5315 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm happy for the progress that this project has had in & through space & time! Congratulations to everyone that contributed to the success (& more successes) of this project!
    Lots of love, cheers, & Mabuhay, from my end--the Philippines!

  • @thegr8stm8
    @thegr8stm8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Gr8 seeing you there again. Hope all are safe… looking forward to seeing the project at Kim’s place in USA.
    Cheers, m8!

  • @tbi1161
    @tbi1161 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Incredible job done well!

  • @annapolissolarpunk
    @annapolissolarpunk หลายเดือนก่อน

    very cool - bring the global confidence!

  • @halbertking2683
    @halbertking2683 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Geoff , I met a guy from the mldwest of the U.S.A. Iowa maybe ? He came from a farming family . He had a great quote . " We were just good dirt farmers . "

  • @mojavebohemian814
    @mojavebohemian814 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you

  • @psionicbrotha8903
    @psionicbrotha8903 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Looking good Geoff, keep em coming.

  • @gm2407
    @gm2407 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Speaking of honey, are there any beas on this site? Insect life of any form, I don't hear much of on greening the desert site.

    • @andanssas
      @andanssas หลายเดือนก่อน

      Flies and butterflies do a lot of pollination, the latter need only to fly over the flowers to lift the pollen through an electromagnetic field and thus spreading it into the air... And you can't hear them doing it 😉

    • @gm2407
      @gm2407 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@andanssas By that, I meant, I don't hear a report about it in video format by Geoff or others and I think it would be interesting content.

    • @andanssas
      @andanssas หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@gm2407 I agree, it'd be valuable information. Wildlife/fauna influences the success of flora.
      Sorry if you're receiving this comment again, it seems my previous one was deleted.

  • @MrMaxKeane
    @MrMaxKeane หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I am sure that these questions have been answered before, but:
    1) how much water gets delivered to your plot of land?
    2) how many acres?

  • @patriciafisher1170
    @patriciafisher1170 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Geoff you have done an amazing job. But why live there. Why are you not doing this in Australia. You have always been an inspiration and we have taken our little quarter acre block in country town Australia which was a barren piece of land to a wonderland. It took 20 years but I love what we have done Our backyard is our sanctuary now. God bless you stay safe

  • @lydiaakhzarlac4175
    @lydiaakhzarlac4175 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Amazing Geoff thank you! Would these species work at 4k feet elevation in northern California ?

  • @danielnaberhaus5337
    @danielnaberhaus5337 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Casuarina seems to be allopathic, or at least it acidifies the soil. Which one is it?

  • @emmanueldaugeras4085
    @emmanueldaugeras4085 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Very impressive !

  • @JLEGBIKE
    @JLEGBIKE หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wonderful!🌸

  • @shalomtoday
    @shalomtoday หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Geoff, what's your favorite variety of fig tree?

  • @fillfinish7302
    @fillfinish7302 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Looks tropical ❤❤❤❤

  • @Ruby-K
    @Ruby-K หลายเดือนก่อน

    Imagine if they had done this all over the country or region. Just wonderful work....everything looks so green🌳🌴🍀🌿🌳🌴☘️☘️

    • @wari-bateshwar7461
      @wari-bateshwar7461 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Imagine the whole world. So many nutrients for body and soul.

  • @Adonis0Fuse
    @Adonis0Fuse หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    was this all rainwater?

  • @lucschoonen
    @lucschoonen หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    If this is possible in the desert, we have no excuses to make foodforest work everywhere!

  • @chipsilliman8848
    @chipsilliman8848 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What greening method can we apply for human flourishing?

  • @almeidacheang7853
    @almeidacheang7853 หลายเดือนก่อน

    nice ,thanks for review

  • @UrielsJunkDrawer
    @UrielsJunkDrawer หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nice work!

  • @richermorin
    @richermorin หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    what is the one in central europe

  • @nickjohnson2367
    @nickjohnson2367 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Incredible progress on the project, Geoff!
    Just a small thing - Parkinsonia aculeata is native to arid environments in the Americas. Not sure how it acquired the name Jerusalem thorn.

  • @stecder2470
    @stecder2470 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    what s the percenatge of land used of production compare to one used for fertilization?

  • @FlossieB
    @FlossieB หลายเดือนก่อน

    Has anywhere else in Jordan followed your example?

  • @merylslabbert3570
    @merylslabbert3570 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Where do any of these plants come from originally .. ? Have you brought in seeds, seedlings, shrubs etc to plant there, at the right time ?

  • @zeideerskine3462
    @zeideerskine3462 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Do you have a biogas digester plant that uses black water to make electricity, hot water, and fertilizer from human and animal waste? That sounds like a good idea and would allow gray water separation for immediate watering of the gardens.

  • @jbarbatano
    @jbarbatano หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I’m surprised that more of your neighbors are not emulating you after 15 years.

  • @farooqbroberg9349
    @farooqbroberg9349 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    How do you find all of these variety of plants in a country like Jordan? The nurseries I find in Saudi Arabia have a very limited number of plants. Do you just bring them in your suitcase?

  • @LittleKi1
    @LittleKi1 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Just imagine this throughout the region. Sufficient resources for humans --> reduced violence.

  • @sonayyalim
    @sonayyalim หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Geoff, I would like to hear your perspective on China's greening desert project. Is permaculture possible on such a grand scale with relatively minor stewardship?