"We are cannibalizing ourselves, so that things look neat and tidy, on our way to our grave" - CPL. This is possibly the most quotable thing You have ever said. What an accurate description of modern society.
I find it funny how so much of our society is determined by other people's vanity at having things to neat and tidy. Even when it makes things less efficient and costs more. They throw authoritarian control over anyone who doesn't commit to their definition of normal. Their uneducated opinion gets more sway than an educated expert. They can call whatever they want "weeds" just because they want everything to be the same, neat little rows of neat little building with neat little lawns cut so low they might as well be carpet. Don't build too close to the sidewalk. They need to see that lawn. They don't like your trees. Here's 24 trees they do like and 3 are native! They want bigger roads for more cars. Your 100 year old tree is too close now so we're going to charge you with removing it.
I'm in a city currently building condo towers all surrounded and built with cement creating a very big heat island that will have +3-5 ° more in temperature. Dumb, really really stupid. To build those towers, trees at least 50 years old were cut down each roughly 60 feet tall. 🤦♀️
And in that heat dome, everyone has to crank the AC to survive. AC doesn't cool something, more accurately it pushes heat from indoors to the outdoors. So that's fun.
Small (actually very big) problem, there's no AC in those buildings. Hot days windows in every unit opened.🤦♀️ Those are all within 8 city blocks, one small park is the one cooling place. Huge shopping center right in the middle. Stupid human tricks.🤬
Didn't I once meet you in Tibet, your head was bare, and you were wearing a Crimson Cloak sitting under a Bodhai Tree.... Very Inspiring Keith...very Holistic....everything is so interconnected in Nature, the way you view Mother Nature and Permaculture. Sincerely enjoy when you delve into this aspect of life on your channel, also made me open my eyes to another view of my yard, and see things a little differently again when I go out this morning. I'd love to take a tour of your property sometime if you ever open it up for tours in the future. Now if you can help me with any suggestions to keep Murphy the Wonder Dog (pictured left @ 20 lbs), away from our new resident Groundhog (30 lbs), I am open to them. All the Best, and keep up the Good Fight!! :)
My microbiology prof in grad school used to say, "I am more WE than ME"...something I think about often, not just in terms of my gut microbiome, but in terms of how people around me shape me and vice versa...
All excellent points. We have removed ourselves from this ecosystem to such an extent that it’s no wonder we are not thriving both physically and mentally.
We are a fractal of the planet. What gives us protection and allows us to process our food is just a different version of what protects the planet and allows it's soil to process and distribute nutrients. The systems and energy flow in a person is similar to in a town, in a country, and beyond. I love that science is learning to explain the whoo hoo to make it more understandable and acceptable to a wider variety of people.
Have I mentioned that I want you as my neighbor? :-) My food forest is young, so I am repelling the deer as you did. They're loving everything I have planted! Great video and insight into our living world, Keith! Thank you!
I've been fully tuned into this integrated nature thing for possibly longer than you have been alive, and at the same time, this video has me thinking about things even just a little bit different. Consider this video successful! I also like how you didn't present it like you came up with this - theologists and philosophers around the world have had their fingers on this pulse for a very long time. What I found really interesting was how you connected gut biome to essentially the insect world (well, the whole world). It IS quite arbitrary for us to call our body "us", when "us" is a collective of symbiotic relationships between micro organisms. It's not that strange to extend this envelope outside of our own skin. The part that I'm thinking about differently is how my garden works. When I think of my garden as the "super organism", (i.e. basically this is what an ecosystem is), I understand how important it is to maximize the amount of symbiotic relationships in them. Some of them I may not even see, or understand. I really really super duper loved this one Keith.
Amen. Well stated. You put into words what I was thinking and feeling. And it's nice to KNOW there is a community of "us" living in our ecosystem and trying for the higher paths.
Thank you for discussing the importance of allowing life into your garden. We need this life around us, not sterility. Not only does it benefit the food web of our gardens, it also improves our well-being.
Thanks so much for this video! Love the idea that the lines of where our human bodies begin and end are much more ambiguous than it seems. Would be awesome to hear more of your thoughts on the transition between a protected, young perma forest and one strong enough to withstand animal browsing
Permaculture is amazing. Looking forward to learning as much as possible about our interconnectedness with nature though my own food forest soon. Thanks for the important lesson.
I also am trying to cultivate my relationship with the Tao. It’s so hard to be “unwanting” when you want to save the planet. I know it’ll still be here after we finish cannabalizing ourselves but …
I loved this, and I don't even think "supernatural" is a coherent concept. I can't express how refreshing it is to hear a Secular Taoist perspective on anything. No surprise it's about permaculture 😁.
Excellent video! You put your points across so well. I'm aware of the things you talk about, but it's always good to hear it, to bring it to the forefront of the mind. Thank you
Well said! I definitely fully understand that I'm preaching to the choir here, but there are the odd new people who come to the permaculture space purely from a gardening interest, but there's so much more here to explore and enjoy about permaculture.
This video is so interesting and informative. When I first started “gardening” I thought food plants had to be organized in patches and rows. It was a lot of work. But I started to find self seeded kale or a berry sprout or a volunteer tomato tucked under a perennial shrub or tree and it grew to a large productive food source with absolutely zero attention or fussing or manipulation. I now “hide” seeds and small edibles amongst other growing things. I grow a lot of perennial edibles. It’s all a wonderful, “unorganized,” highly sensory experience to pick and forage. It’s taken me years to get to this and you’ve explained it all in this video. Thank you.
I love that you are talking about all of this - this too is what I talk about in the "work' I do - unity - within and in our garden spaces. So good. I know your work is "getting out there" more and more as your videos keep getting sharedi in our local (Ottawa area) gardening groups (there are many). It's so awesome that your videos are offering such excellent thought provoking ideas about the oneness with science too. :)
Awww thank you so much. My vision of science has evolved a little bit. Science is so intertwined with observation. It's observing things, measuring, quantifying, then extrapolating results and drawing conclusions. So much of that process is directly impacted by the observation part. If we are looking at things, and can't even see what we are looking at, then we don't know where to direct the rest of the process, and come up with the right conclusions. For example, 10 years ago, I would have "observed" the lawn worker weed-wacking "weeds" and thought "that's nice, he's making the area look nice and tidy". Now, when I "observe" the very same act, because I understand the interplay between ecology, economy, civilization, society a little more now, my observation has me asking drastically different questions, and drawing completely opposite conclusions. There is absolutely room for things like "connection" and "spirituality" inside the realm of science. I would say that they are crucial in fact, or else we never ask the right questions, and if we aren't asking the right questions, we'll never find the right solutions.
Long time watcher here; I finally have land and this fall I will be sheet mulching with carboard and covering it deeply with arborist's chips. Come spring I will begin my permaculture food forest. I am starting small with a half acre where I have dug a swale and a biochar pit over the last couple months, but I have 13 1/2 more acres to expand into over the years. I have been in the landscaping industry for some time and I suppose I feel somewhat guilty for my involvement in our self cannibalization. Even today my job still sometimes demands my actions are at odds with my ideals. At some point, however, I would like to start my own landscaping company where I will use what I learn in the coming years with starting my own food forest, to do the same for others, increasing the percentage of land in my area that is in harmony with nature. I wanted to tell you this because you have been the largest force driving me down this road. It is still early and I don't know how far I will get, but any distance is further than I would have gone otherwise. Bigger channels may have seeded my brain with the idea of permaculture, but I think yours is the best and I have continued to watch you even after I stopped watching others. You have brought me so much inspiration and motivation. Thank you!
Oh and also, despite the years I have watched your channel, you still manage to make videos like this that continue to reframe my thinking about ecology and landscapes. Excellent work!
I was a little worried by the video title, I must admit. However, by using the standpoint of an engineer is pretty much how I see things (being the daughter of an eminent engineer, and wife of another. Connectivity is certainly 'king' in that profession). I am an ex-professional gardener who started to rebel against the 'manic orderliness' of ornamental horticulture some 35-40 years ago. I'd originally picked the 'humble' career of a gardener because good careers information was a bit thin on the ground when I was a youth and if you wanted to work outdoors with plants, you were told to become a gardener. But the whole absurdity of this 'nice little job outdoors with the sunshine and flowers' - it is soul-crushing. The amount of machinery we were expected to use for different jobs was criminal. Mowers to keep every piece of lawn shorn. Hedgecutters, strimmers, little vehicles to transport tools a short distance, scarifiers, leaf blowers, and even this filthy little contraption that belched choking blue smoke while it trimmed the edges around lawns only marginally quicker than a pair of long-handled clippers. (I deliberately and repeatedly blunteded the machine until my manager allowed me to return to the quiet, restful, unpolluting clippers). I was forced to take a chemical spraying course, but point-blank refused to my furious garden manager's face to ever spray chemicals afterwards. So I don't have that on my conscience at least. But many of my colleagues do, spraying Glyphosate all over the place, drenching the many gravel paths and weedy corners (there is a rumour that the owner of the property died from cancer. A disproportionate number of my colleagues died in their early 50's from cancer... Oh, I can't imagine how that happened). Spring and Summer bedding... There's another one. Gaudy annual flowers grown elsewhere, potted in manufactured peat-based compost, sprayed with god knows what, transported around, a frankly 'unforgivable' amount of mains water used to establish them in the beds (Fuchsias being notoriously bad for their thirst), and then once they finally really get to look good - rip 'em up for the next season's lot. The waste. The waste. Especially the Spring bulbs and perennials used and thrown away afterwards. The garden industry, for all its apparent beauty, has much to be ashamed of. Now however... While my neighbours continue to mow, spray, clip, nip and trim to obsessive, unnatural tidiness, I am the only one with Nightingales nesting in my 'wild' garden (proudly announcing 6 cute chicks fledged so far). Lizards have arrived. Frogs, newts and toads are appearing in greater numbers. For the past 2 years, Goldfinches have taken to nesting in the crazy, wind-swept heights of a tall, columnar conifer I planted 15 years ago (they sing as magnificently as my Nightingales). I get bitten and bothered by an amazing range of insects. I need beehives. That has to be the next thing. I have the flowers, with more to come. Beehives are sort of scary, but I must... You can't help but see connections being made in a garden in which you participate but don't even try to govern absolutely. It doesn't need it. I cover some of the fruit produced with net bags to reserve some for myself - but leave the rest to the birds so they come and eat a little of that and then tuck into the insects. This year, for the first time, no weevils on the raspberries or Amelanchiers. Just gone. A little treat for the new Nightingales. They just yum 'em up. Next year I am going to download a 'No-Mow May' poster and stick it in the Community notice board. I am sick of lawnmower racket and pollution, and sick of the damage it is doing around here. Rant over. Sorry.
Loved this video. Learned much and also had so much tat I think and feel confirmed. We just need to follow nature's example, she will teach us so much. Nothing is separate, it is all connected.
6:30 i recently had a similar experience. the back parking lot of my job was filled with great native plants - evening primrose, St Johns wort, spotted Knapp weed, dogwood, wild grapes, etc.. it seemed like a decent enough place to squeeze in some extra tomatoes i had started. two weeks ago, the company hired somebody to spray poison all around the property. i watched my tomatoes and hundreds of other plants get murdered in real time. fortunately it looks like mostly just the understory plants were affected but i was heartbroken and just kept thinking "who in their right mind pays someone to kill such beautiful habitat?" but that's most of the world and apparently I'M the crazy one! maybe a silver lining - there was a ton of poison ivy that also got sprayed so that's no longer a threat and i managed to plant some more tomatoes behind a patch that i could previously not access. thanks for this video and for all of your work, Keith.
I would guess that 90% of people out there wouldn't think anything is strange about that. This is the challenge we face. The greatest challenge of our lifetime is to wake as many people up as possible.
Wow!, you have helped me to crystallize some thoughts that have been bumbling around in my head....like a bumble bee not sure which blossom to go to next.....the question of 'life' being something more than just a collection of elements, DNA etc....the self organizing spark that that manifests 'life' when the right elements are present....thankyou. Denise (NewZealand)
Thank you for this. This year I have grown Borage. It’s a wonderful bee magnet and the flowers a nice little treat. I haven’t tried the leaves yet but read they can be eaten.
Thank-you for sharing this! I got swamped this year and didn't really plant much of a garden. But with what energy I did have, I turned a small section in front of the house into a dye flower bed, most of it filled with plants a friend was giving away. It was mostly done for the selfish reason of making the front of the hosue look presentable for guests and not just having a bed of quack grass, but every day I go out and there are bees, butterflies and other insects galore, feasting on the flowers! Previously I had dismissed flowers and put my energy on vagetables, but now I see the benefit for the insects, I'll be adding in lots more perennial flowers throughout the property.
Great video. I'm decidedly not spiritual in any supernatural sense, but I really do appreciate the complexity and scale of ecosystems and even non-biological natural systems. There is awe to be felt in our world. The whole "100 companies" thing is really about the concentration of power and it doesn't matter much to the point if it's 1000 or 10000 companies/governments. The point is that a very small number of corporate executives and politicians make decisions about things that majorly affect emissions and it really isn't all "just demand" from individual consumption. There are significant areas throughout all of the global economy and corporate structures where sustainability can be improved with minimal negative impact on profits or quality of life (in many cases positive impacts can be expected), but those people with concentrated power must choose those options for us to make the progress we need to make in the timeline required to mitigate significant damage. Energy is the classic example. It's relatively easy for an individual to achieve moderate reductions in electricity use, but below a certain threshold it requires major sacrifices to quality of life. In contrast, the choice of electricity grid inputs (coal, solar, nuclear, hydro) have a massive impact on the overall environmental impact of that electricity use, but those choices are directly controlled by a very small number of people who are, at best, only indirectly accountable to the average consumer through our democratic political system. Same thing applies to public transit vs car use. If our governments spend most of their transportation budgets on highways and parking, while starving public transit and legislating environmentally disastrous urban sprawl, it's nearly impossible for individuals to opt out of that system completely.
thank you for not trying to sell a spiritual message here. i was somewhat afraid that there would be some wo-wo in the comments, but so far nothing yet!
I'm all for people connecting to their woo-woo, as long as they actually transform that woo-woo into ACTIONS that benefit our planet. I will definitely say that when I'm out in my food forest, that sometimes it's hard to not feel the woo-woo infiltrating every inch of my skin. It just FEELS amazing out there..... but... as a man of science, I'm logical to a fault, and if I don't analyze the logical energy flows (energy = physics and engineering), it's hard for me to connect to it.
I have been watching you for a while now and love your videos and all the information you have in your content. I have been wanting to get more of my own food growing, and this will be my third attempt since moving to our home in 2006. I am in a much better position now to start implementing production of our own food on our property. Last weekend I bought two potted blueberry bushes and two potted asparagus. I don't want to mess up my placement on either of these. Do you offer any services that could help me locate good spots on my property for these plants? Or can you direct me to some who might be able to help?
Loved this video. Would be fun to catalog the species you find on your land and actively try to increase the numbers. Maybe a good homeschool activity (I'm dreaming up the future :) )
I'm trying to follow your lead but the deer and rabbits are making me crazy. I'm planting fruit trees and bushes and a lot of natives. Even my native ferns and milkweed are being eaten, which are supposed to be toxic. The lawn is full of clover and the previous owners planted lots of hostas. I'm leaving those as sacrificial plants but it's still not enough. I think we have an overpopulation of deer and rabbits. The whole system is out of whack! Thanks for your informative and encouraging videos. In spite of my current frustration your messages are hopeful!
Many of us are working, like you, in very unbalanced systems. Protect what you can (chicken wire or hardware cloth) keep the sacrificial plants growing, keep planting and have faith. Young systems need help to get started. I live just outside of a large metro downtown. I am only 1 mile from downtown and 1 mile from the Mississippi river. Racoons, rabbits are a huge pressure, deer a bit less. I love hearing that a fox, coyote, bald eagle or hawk is living nearby. The hawk used to sit on my fence and gaze longingly at my chickens. LOL. As my systems integrated, I found that I now see little damage from the 'herds' of rabbits. I don't understand all of it but am grateful. Keep planting, have faith, help your systems where you can, let nature flourish, she will make corrections and show you the way. Happy growing.
It probably means you are still a bit too early to let ALL life into your system. It's okay to fence it out for a while, but you'll do best if, once everything is resilient enough to handle them, you welcome them back in.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Thanks! I fenced some areas from the deer and the rabbits keep finding a way in. I'll have to reinforce everything I guess.
You could go further and talk about the bacteria in the soil, their relationship to the fruit bush and eventually to your body. And If you want to extend this further you could talk about the energy in the air, soil and water and how it is one with your body and how the energy of the sun powers all this and relates you to the energy of the galaxy and etc. You are a child of the universe... I could sing if you like.
Did you just call me bacteria? I feel so seen! The few times I've had no choice but to take antibiotics, I apologized to all my bacteria friends for what I was doing to us. So I can't fathom how people can feel okay literally mowing down other living beings in order to fit an aesthetic they probably never even consciously chose or thought about the costs of. There are not words to describe how much I love this. Hands down my favorite video of yours yet. You wouldn't happen to be reading Braiding Sweetgrass or another book by Robin Wall Kimmerer, would you? The direction of this reminds me a lot of her work.
Imagine if we only listened to people that we agreed with 100% on every topic? That's impossible, so we'd live a very lonely life. Welcome back friend :)
You are right, we are interconnected with everything that was created. Masterfully designed by God of Jesus (have to clarify these days). I never met my grandfather, in South Korea, but he built an entire village with a school. He was born in 1907 and was not the first son, so no inheritance. Anyway, long story short - he had one of the most bountiful farms, and no one lever left there hungry (even enemy soldiers). But while occupied by the US during the war, pesticides and chemical fertilizers were introduced. My mother told me that when that happened, the crayfish, fish, including numerous other animals and beneficial insects disappeared, and the land was changed. The ecosystem was destroyed. Until recently (within the past 15 years), I never gave it much thought because I was chasing the "American Dream" and was too busy with "life". So that said, we definitely need to be very aware of the consequences of our decisions and need to mitigate as much damage as we can by restoring what we can without using harmful chemicals to enjoy the abundance that should be around us. Not feeding the greed machine.
There is a local company near me that advertises that for a fee they will come to your house and kill all your weeds and bugs with chemicals. I cringe every time I hear it! I was reading a book about nutrition and it said eat like your grandparents. When your grandparents or great grandparents were alive no one was carrying around large tanks of very dangerous chemicals to spray on the things they ate.
Someone came by my house to do the same thing. I talked to the guy and let him know the ecological damage his company does and that he should really try to find a new way to make a living. I was super nice about it, and followed him back down the driveway and all the way to the next house. I pissed him off for sure, but I made sure to be sweet as honey the whole time. People like him are literally walking us off a cliff. There are many better ways to feed your family than to make money by destroying nature out as a matter of convenience.
BC nature magazine the summer 2023 edition, volume 61, No.2 on page four, the title is "Natural Justice Is it Bad to Kill Endangered Plants?" "To some it seems less reprehensible to kill an unfeeling endangered plant than an endangered animal ,less reprehensible to kill a slimy endangered fish than a warm and fuzzy endangered mammal but does such a distinction apply in-law? Fortunately a 2020 Alberta court decision Supported the concept that endangered is endangered" Article by Ben van Drimmelen... article goes on to talk about a ski resort in Banff National Park knowingly cut down endangered white pine trees (keystone species) without permits and fined 2.1 million. We are nature.
100% It's one of the reasons we're walking off the cliff with insect collapse. Honestly, ask people you know and love and respect what they think about how insect populations are down 90%, how we never see smushed bugs on windshields anymore, and how we're killing them with pesticides, and a surprising amount of people say "good". Even people I consider highly intelligent people (otherwise intelligent, obviously LOL) have that absolutely absurd opinion, because "bugs are gross". If it doesn't have an a face that we can see emotional connection to, and/or fur/cuddly/adorable, humans (even somewhat intelligent ones) are perfectly okay eradicating.
Great video, many thanks. the integration of microbiology with plants and our own bodies is really fascinating. But lately there is 1 doubt that entered my mind... your gut microbiology is anaerobic if im correct and the 'good' microbiology in soil and around plants is aerobic (generalizing). how does keeping this microbiology on the plants (not washing them intensively before eating) benefit your gut biology and vice versa? (dung on the ground). is it just to support the food webs (nutrient cycles), or is there something more going on?
This is a super interesting question. I tried to do more digging on this, and haven't been able to find what I'm looking for. I'm guessing that there are still some anaerobes on the fruit, and the aerobic bacteria doesn't survive the trip. I'm not sure though, and it makes me question where I read that, and if I looked into the claims in detail enough. I'd be very interested in a nutritionalist or gastroenterologist. Any in the comment section?
Very interesting thanks. I've been thinking about how, just as we are hosts to diverse benign microbial symbionts on whose good health our own life depends, we are ourselves symbionts of our host planet but we have become, in our totality, like pathogens that kill their host. Interestingly, microbes we are in the habit of thinking of as pathogenic are not always so. It depends on the environment they find themselves in. Something else to reflect on is that inorganic substances are also capable of self-organising. Mutualistic self-organising seems like a fundamental law of existence. Most of our problems today stem from ignorance. We're not attuned to how our own decisions around consumption drive the very processes that are destroying our ecosystem - on of the points you are making. It may be that as we become more aware of our own responsibilities the drive to self organise will arise in such a way that we actually enter into a mutually beneficial relationship with the planet.
Do you have a video in how to prune fruit trees? I have a few first year (transplanted) trees and I’m wondering if I should heavily prune them this year & when if so. Thanks
@@LawOfNewton7 It depends on what your goals are with pruning as to when you would choose to do it. Pruning in summer/fall when there are leaves still on the tree, before sap drains, will slow the tree growth down. Pruning in the late winter before the sap starts running will promote growth. It all has to do with the tree sap. In the fall trees bring all their sap into their roots for winter. If you prune before the sap descends you are reducing the tree's food for next spring and then slow tree growth down. If you prune in late winter before sap flows again all the sap that was stored from the branches you then removed needs to go somewhere in the spring and will then promote more growth. So it all depends what your pruning goals are and what you want your trees to be. If you don't prune your trees will be fine and just grow as trees. If your goal is consistent fruit production, or to grow fruit rather than a tree, than you prune to promote the correct branch angles that then give consistent fruit.
I wonder if you'd have the same attitude towards possums and wallabies that you do towards rabbits and deer haha. They can be pretty devastating in a food garden. Maybe if I had a big enough garden with enough diversity it could work... but I think I'd prefer to leave fence them out for now 😅
I do with possums, we have quite a few of them. Keep in mind, my attitude towards these kind of "destructive forces" in my garden has evolved DRASTICALLY in the last 10 years. They were enemy number 1 before, and now they are a valuable member of my family. Possums for example, they do somewhat significant damage, but their tunnels bring water and air deep into soils. So overall, I truly believe they are beneficial - we just see the worst parts of their impact, and we often cannot see the best parts of them. Definitely don't have any wallabies! LOL
This is sooo interesting. These are the basics of Buddha teachings - as of interdependent arising and further more cause and effect, and as well as the emptiness of the body and ego (where do I and my body begin, and where do those end). Do you have a literature advice of this scientific interdependence of flow? Would love to study that....soooo interesting
Off topic but did I hear that health Canada is moving forward with the initiative to stop the sale of all natural health supplements? Another reason to grow your own imo.
My wife and I love your channel, Keith and you certainly are an inspiration for us as we try to restore a 1-acre property to a more natural state. It's quite a bit further north than where you are located, so we don't have the same opportunity with cultivated food plant species, but maybe we'll be surprised by what can survive if we can find/create some milder microclimates. Doug Tallamy is another great advocate for conservation of native plants and insects and I'm sure you've come across him. If not, here's a link to a Google talk that you might like. th-cam.com/video/XCek-3S__js/w-d-xo.html
The only "hippie-dippie" thing I heard you say was when you referred to flowers as people. 17:00 🌻🦭💜💜💜 I see our species as a greedy herd of animals (cows usually) mindlessly consuming a gargantuan dam made of hay. When they (we) eat through and the dam breaks the greedy herd is washed away. Dead. This is exactly what is happening. The dam has leaks. The systems are weakening. Oh and one final synchronistic event that ties into the intro to today's post: I ate my very first black currants literally just yesterday from two new bushes! Only five of them but still an event.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I'd like to paint a large canvas to illustrate this idiocy. Pastoral at first glance. Terrifying upon deeper consideration. Maybe enter it in the local (red state) county fairs . . . Thanks for all you do and for showing people there's a higher path available .
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"We are cannibalizing ourselves, so that things look neat and tidy, on our way to our grave" - CPL.
This is possibly the most quotable thing You have ever said. What an accurate description of modern society.
I did a thing!
I find it funny how so much of our society is determined by other people's vanity at having things to neat and tidy. Even when it makes things less efficient and costs more. They throw authoritarian control over anyone who doesn't commit to their definition of normal. Their uneducated opinion gets more sway than an educated expert. They can call whatever they want "weeds" just because they want everything to be the same, neat little rows of neat little building with neat little lawns cut so low they might as well be carpet.
Don't build too close to the sidewalk. They need to see that lawn. They don't like your trees. Here's 24 trees they do like and 3 are native! They want bigger roads for more cars. Your 100 year old tree is too close now so we're going to charge you with removing it.
I'm in a city currently building condo towers all surrounded and built with cement creating a very big heat island that will have +3-5 ° more in temperature. Dumb, really really stupid. To build those towers, trees at least 50 years old were cut down each roughly 60 feet tall. 🤦♀️
And in that heat dome, everyone has to crank the AC to survive. AC doesn't cool something, more accurately it pushes heat from indoors to the outdoors. So that's fun.
Small (actually very big) problem, there's no AC in those buildings.
Hot days windows in every unit opened.🤦♀️ Those are all within 8 city blocks, one small park is the one cooling place. Huge shopping center right in the middle.
Stupid human tricks.🤬
Well done. Now, write your book.
Yes 👍
Yea when you said "landmass",I thought " Oh shit,we're swamped!"
...that currant becomes me, I am the currant..had to light one up right there.
Great video, enjoyed watching it!
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Didn't I once meet you in Tibet, your head was bare, and you were wearing a Crimson Cloak sitting under a Bodhai Tree.... Very Inspiring Keith...very Holistic....everything is so interconnected in Nature, the way you view Mother Nature and Permaculture.
Sincerely enjoy when you delve into this aspect of life on your channel, also made me open my eyes to another view of my yard, and see things a little differently again when I go out this morning. I'd love to take a tour of your property sometime if you ever open it up for tours in the future.
Now if you can help me with any suggestions to keep Murphy the Wonder Dog (pictured left @ 20 lbs), away from our new resident Groundhog (30 lbs), I am open to them.
All the Best, and keep up the Good Fight!! :)
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My microbiology prof in grad school used to say, "I am more WE than ME"...something I think about often, not just in terms of my gut microbiome, but in terms of how people around me shape me and vice versa...
Absolutely 💯
Much to think about. Thought-provoking thanks for sharing.
This might be your best video ever. Fantastically articulated.
Wow, thanks!
All excellent points. We have removed ourselves from this ecosystem to such an extent that it’s no wonder we are not thriving both physically and mentally.
Writing this even before the video finishes. This is by no means whoo Whoo. It’s vital that we all understand this🥰
I loved this one. I love the cyclical aspect of nature.
"I AM the currant." That's my favorite quote!
This needs to be on a tshirt
I always learn something from you, even though I'm in Florida. Thank you for taking the time and effort to share your knowledge
Thanks 😊
Awesome video, as always! This is such unique content. A+ very rare stuff.
Thank you 😊
We are a fractal of the planet. What gives us protection and allows us to process our food is just a different version of what protects the planet and allows it's soil to process and distribute nutrients. The systems and energy flow in a person is similar to in a town, in a country, and beyond. I love that science is learning to explain the whoo hoo to make it more understandable and acceptable to a wider variety of people.
Have I mentioned that I want you as my neighbor? :-) My food forest is young, so I am repelling the deer as you did. They're loving everything I have planted! Great video and insight into our living world, Keith! Thank you!
What about a world when we simply all think this way. Lets get the message out and create the world we want!
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy oh yes, that would be permaculture bliss! 🥰
I really sent you down a rabbit hole with Nate's podcast. Good stuff man! Keep it up.
Absolutely, I've listened to every episode in just a few months. He is fantastic, and his guests are world top class experts.
I've been fully tuned into this integrated nature thing for possibly longer than you have been alive, and at the same time, this video has me thinking about things even just a little bit different. Consider this video successful! I also like how you didn't present it like you came up with this - theologists and philosophers around the world have had their fingers on this pulse for a very long time. What I found really interesting was how you connected gut biome to essentially the insect world (well, the whole world). It IS quite arbitrary for us to call our body "us", when "us" is a collective of symbiotic relationships between micro organisms. It's not that strange to extend this envelope outside of our own skin.
The part that I'm thinking about differently is how my garden works. When I think of my garden as the "super organism", (i.e. basically this is what an ecosystem is), I understand how important it is to maximize the amount of symbiotic relationships in them. Some of them I may not even see, or understand. I really really super duper loved this one Keith.
That means more than you can imagine.
Well said, Jim!
Amen. Well stated. You put into words what I was thinking and feeling. And it's nice to KNOW there is a community of "us" living in our ecosystem and trying for the higher paths.
Absolutely love this way of thinking 🙏
Thank you for discussing the importance of allowing life into your garden. We need this life around us, not sterility. Not only does it benefit the food web of our gardens, it also improves our well-being.
Exactly ✅️
Thanks so much for this video! Love the idea that the lines of where our human bodies begin and end are much more ambiguous than it seems.
Would be awesome to hear more of your thoughts on the transition between a protected, young perma forest and one strong enough to withstand animal browsing
Permaculture is amazing. Looking forward to learning as much as possible about our interconnectedness with nature though my own food forest soon. Thanks for the important lesson.
Hippy Dippy is good!
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I also am trying to cultivate my relationship with the Tao. It’s so hard to be “unwanting” when you want to save the planet. I know it’ll still be here after we finish cannabalizing ourselves but …
I loved this, and I don't even think "supernatural" is a coherent concept. I can't express how refreshing it is to hear a Secular Taoist perspective on anything. No surprise it's about permaculture 😁.
Wow!! Absolutely love this and learning from you!! Thank you for all your educational videos!!! Inspiring ❤
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Excellent video! You put your points across so well. I'm aware of the things you talk about, but it's always good to hear it, to bring it to the forefront of the mind. Thank you
Well said! I definitely fully understand that I'm preaching to the choir here, but there are the odd new people who come to the permaculture space purely from a gardening interest, but there's so much more here to explore and enjoy about permaculture.
Thanks for another awesome video, I feel so much more connected to nature after planting my own fruit forest. Your videos are so inspiring 💚
So nice of you
This video is so interesting and informative. When I first started “gardening” I thought food plants had to be organized in patches and rows. It was a lot of work. But I started to find self seeded kale or a berry sprout or a volunteer tomato tucked under a perennial shrub or tree and it grew to a large productive food source with absolutely zero attention or fussing or manipulation. I now “hide” seeds and small edibles amongst other growing things. I grow a lot of perennial edibles. It’s all a wonderful, “unorganized,” highly sensory experience to pick and forage. It’s taken me years to get to this and you’ve explained it all in this video. Thank you.
Awesome! Thanks, Keith!
I love that you are talking about all of this - this too is what I talk about in the "work' I do - unity - within and in our garden spaces. So good. I know your work is "getting out there" more and more as your videos keep getting sharedi in our local (Ottawa area) gardening groups (there are many). It's so awesome that your videos are offering such excellent thought provoking ideas about the oneness with science too. :)
Awww thank you so much. My vision of science has evolved a little bit. Science is so intertwined with observation. It's observing things, measuring, quantifying, then extrapolating results and drawing conclusions. So much of that process is directly impacted by the observation part. If we are looking at things, and can't even see what we are looking at, then we don't know where to direct the rest of the process, and come up with the right conclusions.
For example, 10 years ago, I would have "observed" the lawn worker weed-wacking "weeds" and thought "that's nice, he's making the area look nice and tidy". Now, when I "observe" the very same act, because I understand the interplay between ecology, economy, civilization, society a little more now, my observation has me asking drastically different questions, and drawing completely opposite conclusions.
There is absolutely room for things like "connection" and "spirituality" inside the realm of science. I would say that they are crucial in fact, or else we never ask the right questions, and if we aren't asking the right questions, we'll never find the right solutions.
Long time watcher here; I finally have land and this fall I will be sheet mulching with carboard and covering it deeply with arborist's chips. Come spring I will begin my permaculture food forest. I am starting small with a half acre where I have dug a swale and a biochar pit over the last couple months, but I have 13 1/2 more acres to expand into over the years. I have been in the landscaping industry for some time and I suppose I feel somewhat guilty for my involvement in our self cannibalization. Even today my job still sometimes demands my actions are at odds with my ideals. At some point, however, I would like to start my own landscaping company where I will use what I learn in the coming years with starting my own food forest, to do the same for others, increasing the percentage of land in my area that is in harmony with nature.
I wanted to tell you this because you have been the largest force driving me down this road. It is still early and I don't know how far I will get, but any distance is further than I would have gone otherwise. Bigger channels may have seeded my brain with the idea of permaculture, but I think yours is the best and I have continued to watch you even after I stopped watching others. You have brought me so much inspiration and motivation.
Thank you!
Oh and also, despite the years I have watched your channel, you still manage to make videos like this that continue to reframe my thinking about ecology and landscapes. Excellent work!
Oh wow this is such a compliment, thank you kindly 🙏
I was a little worried by the video title, I must admit. However, by using the standpoint of an engineer is pretty much how I see things (being the daughter of an eminent engineer, and wife of another. Connectivity is certainly 'king' in that profession).
I am an ex-professional gardener who started to rebel against the 'manic orderliness' of ornamental horticulture some 35-40 years ago.
I'd originally picked the 'humble' career of a gardener because good careers information was a bit thin on the ground when I was a youth and if you wanted to work outdoors with plants, you were told to become a gardener.
But the whole absurdity of this 'nice little job outdoors with the sunshine and flowers' - it is soul-crushing.
The amount of machinery we were expected to use for different jobs was criminal. Mowers to keep every piece of lawn shorn. Hedgecutters, strimmers, little vehicles to transport tools a short distance, scarifiers, leaf blowers, and even this filthy little contraption that belched choking blue smoke while it trimmed the edges around lawns only marginally quicker than a pair of long-handled clippers. (I deliberately and repeatedly blunteded the machine until my manager allowed me to return to the quiet, restful, unpolluting clippers).
I was forced to take a chemical spraying course, but point-blank refused to my furious garden manager's face to ever spray chemicals afterwards. So I don't have that on my conscience at least. But many of my colleagues do, spraying Glyphosate all over the place, drenching the many gravel paths and weedy corners (there is a rumour that the owner of the property died from cancer. A disproportionate number of my colleagues died in their early 50's from cancer... Oh, I can't imagine how that happened).
Spring and Summer bedding...
There's another one.
Gaudy annual flowers grown elsewhere, potted in manufactured peat-based compost, sprayed with god knows what, transported around, a frankly 'unforgivable' amount of mains water used to establish them in the beds (Fuchsias being notoriously bad for their thirst), and then once they finally really get to look good - rip 'em up for the next season's lot. The waste. The waste. Especially the Spring bulbs and perennials used and thrown away afterwards.
The garden industry, for all its apparent beauty, has much to be ashamed of.
Now however...
While my neighbours continue to mow, spray, clip, nip and trim to obsessive, unnatural tidiness, I am the only one with Nightingales nesting in my 'wild' garden (proudly announcing 6 cute chicks fledged so far). Lizards have arrived. Frogs, newts and toads are appearing in greater numbers. For the past 2 years, Goldfinches have taken to nesting in the crazy, wind-swept heights of a tall, columnar conifer I planted 15 years ago (they sing as magnificently as my Nightingales). I get bitten and bothered by an amazing range of insects. I need beehives. That has to be the next thing. I have the flowers, with more to come. Beehives are sort of scary, but I must...
You can't help but see connections being made in a garden in which you participate but don't even try to govern absolutely. It doesn't need it.
I cover some of the fruit produced with net bags to reserve some for myself - but leave the rest to the birds so they come and eat a little of that and then tuck into the insects. This year, for the first time, no weevils on the raspberries or Amelanchiers. Just gone. A little treat for the new Nightingales. They just yum 'em up.
Next year I am going to download a 'No-Mow May' poster and stick it in the Community notice board. I am sick of lawnmower racket and pollution, and sick of the damage it is doing around here.
Rant over. Sorry.
Good rant. Made my eyes teary and got a lump in my throat. You are NOT alone in your fury and not alone in your love for nature.
Very interesting...Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
Thanks Keith! Your subscribers might be interested in Ed Yong's book, "I Contain Multitudes".
Loved this video. Learned much and also had so much tat I think and feel confirmed. We just need to follow nature's example, she will teach us so much. Nothing is separate, it is all connected.
6:30 i recently had a similar experience. the back parking lot of my job was filled with great native plants - evening primrose, St Johns wort, spotted Knapp weed, dogwood, wild grapes, etc.. it seemed like a decent enough place to squeeze in some extra tomatoes i had started. two weeks ago, the company hired somebody to spray poison all around the property. i watched my tomatoes and hundreds of other plants get murdered in real time. fortunately it looks like mostly just the understory plants were affected but i was heartbroken and just kept thinking "who in their right mind pays someone to kill such beautiful habitat?" but that's most of the world and apparently I'M the crazy one!
maybe a silver lining - there was a ton of poison ivy that also got sprayed so that's no longer a threat and i managed to plant some more tomatoes behind a patch that i could previously not access.
thanks for this video and for all of your work, Keith.
I would guess that 90% of people out there wouldn't think anything is strange about that. This is the challenge we face. The greatest challenge of our lifetime is to wake as many people up as possible.
Very interesting video with some deep thought.
Enjoyed watching ❤
Wow!, you have helped me to crystallize some thoughts that have been bumbling around in my head....like a bumble bee not sure which blossom to go to next.....the question of 'life' being something more than just a collection of elements, DNA etc....the self organizing spark that that manifests 'life' when the right elements are present....thankyou. Denise (NewZealand)
"Spaceship that carries bacteria around"
I believe the proper term is "Meat Vessel"
I will also accept Flesh Vessel, Meat Suit, and Bone Mech.
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I think you are insulting plants there.. they also are bacteria vessels as well...
Thank you for this. This year I have grown Borage. It’s a wonderful bee magnet and the flowers a nice little treat. I haven’t tried the leaves yet but read they can be eaten.
Borage leaves are great as a tea
Good one Tyler it wasnt really hippy dippy stuff at all. I really like that you are letting the deer join the party now. Very cool🌳🌼🌻☘🌿🏵🍁🫒🍑
Keith. But thanks, I appreciate it :)
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I still cant believe you are called Keith. Idk why but In my mind it will always be Tyler🍇
Thank-you for sharing this! I got swamped this year and didn't really plant much of a garden. But with what energy I did have, I turned a small section in front of the house into a dye flower bed, most of it filled with plants a friend was giving away. It was mostly done for the selfish reason of making the front of the hosue look presentable for guests and not just having a bed of quack grass, but every day I go out and there are bees, butterflies and other insects galore, feasting on the flowers! Previously I had dismissed flowers and put my energy on vagetables, but now I see the benefit for the insects, I'll be adding in lots more perennial flowers throughout the property.
Love this. Thank you for your service to nature ❤️
Great video. I'm decidedly not spiritual in any supernatural sense, but I really do appreciate the complexity and scale of ecosystems and even non-biological natural systems. There is awe to be felt in our world.
The whole "100 companies" thing is really about the concentration of power and it doesn't matter much to the point if it's 1000 or 10000 companies/governments. The point is that a very small number of corporate executives and politicians make decisions about things that majorly affect emissions and it really isn't all "just demand" from individual consumption. There are significant areas throughout all of the global economy and corporate structures where sustainability can be improved with minimal negative impact on profits or quality of life (in many cases positive impacts can be expected), but those people with concentrated power must choose those options for us to make the progress we need to make in the timeline required to mitigate significant damage.
Energy is the classic example. It's relatively easy for an individual to achieve moderate reductions in electricity use, but below a certain threshold it requires major sacrifices to quality of life. In contrast, the choice of electricity grid inputs (coal, solar, nuclear, hydro) have a massive impact on the overall environmental impact of that electricity use, but those choices are directly controlled by a very small number of people who are, at best, only indirectly accountable to the average consumer through our democratic political system.
Same thing applies to public transit vs car use. If our governments spend most of their transportation budgets on highways and parking, while starving public transit and legislating environmentally disastrous urban sprawl, it's nearly impossible for individuals to opt out of that system completely.
This is such a great comment and amazing example. Would you mind if I use it in the future?
I LOVE this. Thank you for being here.
You too ❤️
If this interconnectivity would be taught in schools, I'm confident solutions would be found before Mother Nature finds them for us.
If only. Get me onto a spaceship and take me there.
thank you for not trying to sell a spiritual message here. i was somewhat afraid that there would be some wo-wo in the comments, but so far nothing yet!
I'm all for people connecting to their woo-woo, as long as they actually transform that woo-woo into ACTIONS that benefit our planet. I will definitely say that when I'm out in my food forest, that sometimes it's hard to not feel the woo-woo infiltrating every inch of my skin. It just FEELS amazing out there..... but... as a man of science, I'm logical to a fault, and if I don't analyze the logical energy flows (energy = physics and engineering), it's hard for me to connect to it.
I have been watching you for a while now and love your videos and all the information you have in your content. I have been wanting to get more of my own food growing, and this will be my third attempt since moving to our home in 2006. I am in a much better position now to start implementing production of our own food on our property. Last weekend I bought two potted blueberry bushes and two potted asparagus. I don't want to mess up my placement on either of these. Do you offer any services that could help me locate good spots on my property for these plants? Or can you direct me to some who might be able to help?
Love this video
Great video!!
Loved this video. Would be fun to catalog the species you find on your land and actively try to increase the numbers. Maybe a good homeschool activity (I'm dreaming up the future :) )
Love your idea of teaching kids how the world works.
Great topic and way to start my day, thanks
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you
I'm trying to follow your lead but the deer and rabbits are making me crazy. I'm planting fruit trees and bushes and a lot of natives. Even my native ferns and milkweed are being eaten, which are supposed to be toxic. The lawn is full of clover and the previous owners planted lots of hostas. I'm leaving those as sacrificial plants but it's still not enough. I think we have an overpopulation of deer and rabbits. The whole system is out of whack! Thanks for your informative and encouraging videos. In spite of my current frustration your messages are hopeful!
Many of us are working, like you, in very unbalanced systems. Protect what you can (chicken wire or hardware cloth) keep the sacrificial plants growing, keep planting and have faith. Young systems need help to get started. I live just outside of a large metro downtown. I am only 1 mile from downtown and 1 mile from the Mississippi river. Racoons, rabbits are a huge pressure, deer a bit less. I love hearing that a fox, coyote, bald eagle or hawk is living nearby. The hawk used to sit on my fence and gaze longingly at my chickens. LOL. As my systems integrated, I found that I now see little damage from the 'herds' of rabbits. I don't understand all of it but am grateful. Keep planting, have faith, help your systems where you can, let nature flourish, she will make corrections and show you the way. Happy growing.
@@tgardenchicken1780 Thanks for the reply and encouragement!
It probably means you are still a bit too early to let ALL life into your system. It's okay to fence it out for a while, but you'll do best if, once everything is resilient enough to handle them, you welcome them back in.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Thanks! I fenced some areas from the deer and the rabbits keep finding a way in. I'll have to reinforce everything I guess.
I have just started Mt gatden transformation
Love this video!
Thank you!!
You could go further and talk about the bacteria in the soil, their relationship to the fruit bush and eventually to your body. And If you want to extend this further you could talk about the energy in the air, soil and water and how it is one with your body and how the energy of the sun powers all this and relates you to the energy of the galaxy and etc. You are a child of the universe... I could sing if you like.
Did you just call me bacteria? I feel so seen! The few times I've had no choice but to take antibiotics, I apologized to all my bacteria friends for what I was doing to us. So I can't fathom how people can feel okay literally mowing down other living beings in order to fit an aesthetic they probably never even consciously chose or thought about the costs of.
There are not words to describe how much I love this. Hands down my favorite video of yours yet. You wouldn't happen to be reading Braiding Sweetgrass or another book by Robin Wall Kimmerer, would you? The direction of this reminds me a lot of her work.
I'm in my second read through of Braiding sweetgrass.
You pissed me off with some climate snobbery,but you turned me around with this one, resubbed.
Imagine if we only listened to people that we agreed with 100% on every topic? That's impossible, so we'd live a very lonely life. Welcome back friend :)
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Thank you,brother.
You are right, we are interconnected with everything that was created. Masterfully designed by God of Jesus (have to clarify these days).
I never met my grandfather, in South Korea, but he built an entire village with a school. He was born in 1907 and was not the first son, so no inheritance.
Anyway, long story short - he had one of the most bountiful farms, and no one lever left there hungry (even enemy soldiers).
But while occupied by the US during the war, pesticides and chemical fertilizers were introduced.
My mother told me that when that happened, the crayfish, fish, including numerous other animals and beneficial insects disappeared, and the land was changed.
The ecosystem was destroyed.
Until recently (within the past 15 years), I never gave it much thought because I was chasing the "American Dream" and was too busy with "life".
So that said, we definitely need to be very aware of the consequences of our decisions and need to mitigate as much damage as we can by restoring what we can without using harmful chemicals to enjoy the abundance that should be around us. Not feeding the greed machine.
There is a local company near me that advertises that for a fee they will come to your house and kill all your weeds and bugs with chemicals. I cringe every time I hear it!
I was reading a book about nutrition and it said eat like your grandparents. When your grandparents or great grandparents were alive no one was carrying around large tanks of very dangerous chemicals to spray on the things they ate.
Someone came by my house to do the same thing. I talked to the guy and let him know the ecological damage his company does and that he should really try to find a new way to make a living. I was super nice about it, and followed him back down the driveway and all the way to the next house. I pissed him off for sure, but I made sure to be sweet as honey the whole time. People like him are literally walking us off a cliff. There are many better ways to feed your family than to make money by destroying nature out as a matter of convenience.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Get this: The name of the company is "EcoLife"
BC nature magazine the summer 2023 edition, volume 61, No.2 on page four, the title is "Natural Justice Is it Bad to Kill Endangered Plants?" "To some it seems less reprehensible to kill an unfeeling endangered plant than an endangered animal ,less reprehensible to kill a slimy endangered fish than a warm and fuzzy endangered mammal but does such a distinction apply in-law? Fortunately a 2020 Alberta court decision Supported the concept that endangered is endangered" Article by Ben van Drimmelen... article goes on to talk about a ski resort in Banff National Park knowingly cut down endangered white pine trees (keystone species) without permits and fined 2.1 million. We are nature.
100% It's one of the reasons we're walking off the cliff with insect collapse. Honestly, ask people you know and love and respect what they think about how insect populations are down 90%, how we never see smushed bugs on windshields anymore, and how we're killing them with pesticides, and a surprising amount of people say "good". Even people I consider highly intelligent people (otherwise intelligent, obviously LOL) have that absolutely absurd opinion, because "bugs are gross".
If it doesn't have an a face that we can see emotional connection to, and/or fur/cuddly/adorable, humans (even somewhat intelligent ones) are perfectly okay eradicating.
I want you as my neighbor!
Let's spread the word, and transform the way that people think, so that we're all thinking like this, and EVERYONE has neighbors who think this way.
Great video, many thanks. the integration of microbiology with plants and our own bodies is really fascinating. But lately there is 1 doubt that entered my mind... your gut microbiology is anaerobic if im correct and the 'good' microbiology in soil and around plants is aerobic (generalizing). how does keeping this microbiology on the plants (not washing them intensively before eating) benefit your gut biology and vice versa? (dung on the ground). is it just to support the food webs (nutrient cycles), or is there something more going on?
This is a super interesting question. I tried to do more digging on this, and haven't been able to find what I'm looking for.
I'm guessing that there are still some anaerobes on the fruit, and the aerobic bacteria doesn't survive the trip. I'm not sure though, and it makes me question where I read that, and if I looked into the claims in detail enough. I'd be very interested in a nutritionalist or gastroenterologist. Any in the comment section?
Cheers for the video man!
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Very interesting thanks. I've been thinking about how, just as we are hosts to diverse benign microbial symbionts on whose good health our own life depends, we are ourselves symbionts of our host planet but we have become, in our totality, like pathogens that kill their host. Interestingly, microbes we are in the habit of thinking of as pathogenic are not always so. It depends on the environment they find themselves in. Something else to reflect on is that inorganic substances are also capable of self-organising. Mutualistic self-organising seems like a fundamental law of existence. Most of our problems today stem from ignorance. We're not attuned to how our own decisions around consumption drive the very processes that are destroying our ecosystem - on of the points you are making. It may be that as we become more aware of our own responsibilities the drive to self organise will arise in such a way that we actually enter into a mutually beneficial relationship with the planet.
Such a great comment 👏
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Do you have a video in how to prune fruit trees? I have a few first year (transplanted) trees and I’m wondering if I should heavily prune them this year & when if so. Thanks
Lots. Search my videos for "prune" and "pruning" and you'll find tons.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy thanks! Any thoughts on when I should prune it since I just planted it in the spring?
@@LawOfNewton7 It depends on what your goals are with pruning as to when you would choose to do it. Pruning in summer/fall when there are leaves still on the tree, before sap drains, will slow the tree growth down. Pruning in the late winter before the sap starts running will promote growth.
It all has to do with the tree sap. In the fall trees bring all their sap into their roots for winter. If you prune before the sap descends you are reducing the tree's food for next spring and then slow tree growth down. If you prune in late winter before sap flows again all the sap that was stored from the branches you then removed needs to go somewhere in the spring and will then promote more growth.
So it all depends what your pruning goals are and what you want your trees to be. If you don't prune your trees will be fine and just grow as trees. If your goal is consistent fruit production, or to grow fruit rather than a tree, than you prune to promote the correct branch angles that then give consistent fruit.
@@jrdahl711 fantastic and clear answer, thank you so much! That was very helpful
@@LawOfNewton7 This video is a nice explanation of what I summarized as well if people are interested.
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I wonder if you'd have the same attitude towards possums and wallabies that you do towards rabbits and deer haha. They can be pretty devastating in a food garden. Maybe if I had a big enough garden with enough diversity it could work... but I think I'd prefer to leave fence them out for now 😅
I do with possums, we have quite a few of them. Keep in mind, my attitude towards these kind of "destructive forces" in my garden has evolved DRASTICALLY in the last 10 years. They were enemy number 1 before, and now they are a valuable member of my family. Possums for example, they do somewhat significant damage, but their tunnels bring water and air deep into soils. So overall, I truly believe they are beneficial - we just see the worst parts of their impact, and we often cannot see the best parts of them. Definitely don't have any wallabies! LOL
This is sooo interesting. These are the basics of Buddha teachings - as of interdependent arising and further more cause and effect, and as well as the emptiness of the body and ego (where do I and my body begin, and where do those end). Do you have a literature advice of this scientific interdependence of flow? Would love to study that....soooo interesting
I haven't read any books on this, just picked up little pieces in many places I think.
Off topic but did I hear that health Canada is moving forward with the initiative to stop the sale of all natural health supplements? Another reason to grow your own imo.
Oh really, I hadn't heard of that.
My wife and I love your channel, Keith and you certainly are an inspiration for us as we try to restore a 1-acre property to a more natural state. It's quite a bit further north than where you are located, so we don't have the same opportunity with cultivated food plant species, but maybe we'll be surprised by what can survive if we can find/create some milder microclimates. Doug Tallamy is another great advocate for conservation of native plants and insects and I'm sure you've come across him. If not, here's a link to a Google talk that you might like.
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I read his book, The Living Landscape. It was a huge inspiration on my path.
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The only "hippie-dippie" thing I heard you say was when you referred to flowers as people. 17:00 🌻🦭💜💜💜
I see our species as a greedy herd of animals (cows usually) mindlessly consuming a gargantuan dam made of hay. When they (we) eat through and the dam breaks the greedy herd is washed away. Dead. This is exactly what is happening. The dam has leaks. The systems are weakening.
Oh and one final synchronistic event that ties into the intro to today's post: I ate my very first black currants literally just yesterday from two new bushes! Only five of them but still an event.
Oooh congrats! Great analogy with the cows eating through a hay dam.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I'd like to paint a large canvas to illustrate this idiocy. Pastoral at first glance. Terrifying upon deeper consideration. Maybe enter it in the local (red state) county fairs . . . Thanks for all you do and for showing people there's a higher path available
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