#15 What if we change - Perennial Paradise - Zaytuna Farm
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- All around the world people are asking what they can do to help to heal the earth. The permaculture movement is showing what individuals can do to bring health and happiness into their lives and at the same time restore the Earth's natural ecosystem function. In "Perennial Paradise" Geoff Lawton shows some of the many simple but practical work being used and taught at the Permaculture Research Institute's Zaytuna Farm in Australia. "What if we Change" is very happy that through this collaboration with the Permaculture Research Institute we can share this film online and in the broadcast series in Africa, China, the U.S.A. and beyond.
Film by Craig Mackintosh and Geoff Lawton
he's like a magical forest wizard.
Yes, Geoff Lawton is awesome... You can take classes from him online and get into permaculture and learn about permaculture design etc.
He's also just a regular person who made certain choices and took certain actions. It's amazing and anyone can do it. :)
Hi, Search for Ernst Gotsch on TH-cam, you will also like, I think
Wonderful World...Thanks Geoff🌎
Thanks Geoff🌎
Love how he carries his baby around with him, and the baby is so good! A good dad.
Baby is milking cows and riding a pony meanwhile ;)
Absolutely astonishing ingenuity in this permaculture design... I'd pass on the meat, but for for what it's worth this place is pretty close to paradise.
i am so proud of you ...........feeding the world and teaching how to grow like god would ......your so smart and i am so proud of you
This video HAS COMPLETELY CHANGED MY LIFE.... i'm afraid, well not afraid! but broke, for sure! I have to spend my gas on gathering resources and different genus of perennials now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Blessed
I hear ya, once the permaculture bug hits ya, nothing is ever the same :Ddont worry, work the principals of permaculture, start small, build on your successes, obtain a yield, start with seeds, cuttings and stuff harvested by roadsides if money's tight. Start one guild of plants or bed of annuals, and grow from there. Check out the open permaculture website from free PDC info :D, but if you can afford it, Geoff Lawton will be having an online PDC soon.
Thx for the advice dude
July until roofy
Thank you for showing this amazing example of a food forest, it's as beautiful as it is inspiring.
I love the way he includes the little one :)
Love it, at 28:40 the little one starts mimicking dad with hand gestures, awesome. It would change the world instantly if we worked for what we REALLY need versus what we THINK we want.
As I was driving along the road yesterday I noticed the treeline alongside. As far as the eye could see there were nothing but trees growing everywhere. It occurred to me that if everyone just saved the seeds from the fruits they eat and tossed them into the uncut treeline we could feed the entire population of the city for almost nothing.
I live in the Deep South and everything grows here and not only that, its a very long season compared to other places.
With all the poverty and hunger in the world, why do we have to even pay for food, that would on its own, grow wild?
We have been planting fruit trees and vines all over our property. We have a similar land setup and I fulyl intend to start doing what you have done.
AWESOME JOB!!!
Facts
Apparently the roman roads were lined with fruit treed
@Ennis Harper Leave the pine ! It sucks pollution! At least 50 of them
Good Good Good!👍
Thank you for your videos.
This is my goal in life, to live and learn from the land.
YES! Thanks for doing this, and teaching it as well!
I love your farm. It looks wonderful!
amazing/ thank you for sharing these
So marvelous, so beautiful!
thanks guys,an inspiration as always
LOVE YOUR SHOW
I love watching John Liu's videos as well of those of Geoff. Fantastic work from both of the guys; the World thanks you !
Paradise found!👍
It's amazing what they have done here; makes everything seem more possible.
Thank you for all these wonderful, eye-opening videos. And thank you for the work you all do.
saves a lot of work and it produces MORE!! what??? wow ! Loves him
Thanks for posting these John, i find them to be a great resource when i am wanting to introduce a "greenhorn" to permaculture. After they watch one of your videos, they are always convinced. Also they are interesting for me to see other permaculture systems around the world. Thanks again! Good Work!
what agreat man! The world needs more like him.
This is great.
A great use of animals and plants to work togather...loved this.
This is beautiful. Im going to find my place to do this
You did incredible work! Greetings and admiration to you from Bulgaria
bloody brilliant, share share share, this is how we save the world - stop sharing the problems, start sharing the solutions, show everybody
very informative.....very nice
I 'm in!
🤗💖😁😀😜🌿🌱
this guy is amazing
this was one of the most pleasant and informative and inspiring things I have ever seen. yes this is contextual because i am starting my first permaculture projects this year!!! Truly something we should all experience Geoff, immersed in that living, adaptive, infinite process of nature in the now, and the mass array of knowledge fractally spilling out of it everywhere and through our hearts and minds
So inspirational. I think I'll become a farmer.
Thank you for posting this video, it inspires me so much and this is what i need and love to do.
Ditto & well said.
There are few examples of permaculture in the desert. I'm going to try it when I get my desert field someday.
Good work
wonderful
understanding and working with nature to allow it to exist as was always meant to be... beautifull, unlike the way typical corporate west culture does things.
Wow, amazing work all those who contributed. Incredible “workforce” of animals, lessening the load and people and restoring the rainforest on the edges. Brilliant irrigation systems. The only change I would like to see is the fish in a nicer space...for sentient creatures. Please do a video at 15 , 18 and 20 years......the long term view....is the most interesting and inspiring for me
Legend!
An amazing man.
A regular man who has done good and innovatie things. But it's true that life is amazing and it's amazing to be alive ; )
30:00 What a paradise. And the little one is very content to be carried by her father and is quite well behaved ;) (now she is a little girl that rides a pony and knows how to milk a cow)
I'm unable to tell what the land looked like previously in the large scale, because the two landscape photos were taken in different seasons. The first landscape photo was taken in winter 2002 when grass is yellow and deciduous trees are bare. The second photo was taken in summer, 2012 when grass is green and trees are leafed out. It's not much of a comparison. Obviously, the summertime photo is going to be a lot greener and more filled in. Would have been a more apt comparison if both photos were taken in summer.
On the other hand the latter photo was already during the longer draught ... the place is much greener and has more trees, no doubt about it.
This was uploaded by colleagues in Amsterdam and they got the caption slight wrong. This should say Craig Mackintosh and Geoff Lawton!
I think of, or, "imagine" a simple "model" of "Nature"/any Ecosystem, as if it were a "GYROSCOPE".... The more higher the Numbers of actual individual animals, plants, etc., the more "Massive" it becomes. The more "DIVERSITY", (More LOCALLY NATIVE Species), the "FASTER" it turns, thus, Adding TREMENDOUS STABILITY! (more interactions between species, etc. act as a "square function"), and, then, the "Healthier" they all are, the less "Friction/Drag" upon it's continuation to turn, freely. So, as "humans", WE SHOULD STRIVE to be "GOOD STEWARDS" of the World's Ecosystems! Thus, we can work to MAXIMIZE these variables, for the benefit of ALL! Let's GET THIS "Natural World" UP TO MAXIMUM SPEED!!!...It's time for PERMACULTURE to "GO MAINSTREAM"!!!
Legume trees are from the Fabaceae family of plants, and like Danbuck333 said, many of them support nitrogen-fixing microorganisms in nodules on their roots. Check out Fabaceae on wikipedia for more.
at 28:30 your daughter starts mimicking your explanatory gestures lmao
Do you think bunya pine can take 116f heat? Do you provide seeds? Best video I've watched on your channel so far. Is there a seperate video on setting up the misting system for seedlings that doesn't use a normal timer? I really like the one you set up. Much more percise than a timer and uses no electricity if rain water fed.
respect! 8-)
Love anything Geoff Lawton . I have a question about fresh chicken manure under flowering fruit trees. How many inches deep is the mulch that fresh chicken manure is an asset and does not burn the plants?
BTW: GREAT HAT!!! Is that an Akubra "Bushman"?!..... I like it!!!
good
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Nice informative video. Does anyone know what kind of knife he has on his belt?
Oh my, i want to breed that BSF, but my garden already have Stingless Bees 😅
Is there any other ways if i wanted to keep both in my garden?
Hi. Do Bunya nuts grow ok in swampy soil? What is their favourite kind of soil?
Hi, thank you for sharing your experience with us. May I ask what is the meaning of the name - Zaytuna ? How did you come to chose this name?
It's really beautiful farm / paradise. Question at the back of my mind is; Sure it looks nice. But can one produce marketable product from this farm. Since everything is mixed, looks like it is cumbersome to harvest. Can anyone elucidate.
Thanks for sharing this beautiful video.
'Cumbersome' meaning you can't figure out how to use gasoline to harvest it? For humans picking a cucumber next to an eggplant is no problem.
it requires that people live within the environment
and are sustained by it
it requires a low population density and
theres no way it could be implemented to supply massive urban populations
its not sustainable in the current economic paradigm
its far too labour intensive
in addition it requires a shift in diet away from rice corn and wheat
to sweet potato and bread fruit
i still think its the way of the future though
personally id rather live like
that than in a mega city
@@harrypotter6474 I think the point is that everyone do what they can on their balcony in pots on the deck in the yard wherever anything can be planted. To provide a little where you can. Others see the example and before long there's food everywhere.
Where would I find something like the humidity sensor in the greenhouse?
Would that work in any climate?
Like Jack Fresco and Micheal Reynolds? Check out there work!
Nice tour. Thank you. Wich kind of waste water is he cleaning in the biological cleaning steps? Poo and pee or water from shower/kitchen?
He did mention in the video if you go back and check
You are lucky. I started with a human made desert here in Corvallis two and a half years ago. I had tons of critters, including moles, voles, gophers, ground squirrel. I have a grass farmer on the opposite side of the highway and another lawn mowing freak on the other side of my property. It is much much more difficult than what you are facing. BTW, I only have myself, not a research team and so much resources like what you have. But it is still doable. The idea of "food forest" is BAD! In natural farming, we need NON-food plants as well as food plants. The ratio should be similar to what nature naturally is. If we grow too much food, we end up with pests. If we don't grow enough for ourselves, we end up starving. There is a balance. This is natural farming, not permaculture, which Fukuoka advocated more than 50 years ago.
How much is sent to feed the city? Is it doable?
How do you get your trees? Do you go to a nursery? Do you plant seeds and grafts many years beforehand? How a group of youngsters could manage to build such a forest with barely any money on a piece of land?
Algal blooms are a product of over fishing . More algae means more fish just ban fishing for a few years and they would disappear .
Not always. High phosphate runoff creates algal blooms. The system is thrown into chaos.
Subtitles would be great, especially to know the plant-names
Hi. How do you manage with pests and diseases like thrips, nematode, fruit or flower dropping time. Please let me know. Thanks.
pests and disease only happen to unhealthy plants in an unhealthy environment.
Anyone know of someone who does this in other growing regions? not everyone lives in a tropical zone where things grow like some Sci-Fi mutant plants.
Sepp Holzer for temperate climate at altitude.
I have great problems with snail in Denmark I do not want to use pesticid----- du you have a good way to fight them... I can not keep ducks neither .
+afghanorganic - Ducks. Simple as that.
Are they edible?
afghanorganic
i think snail's is edibles in france it's big business. You should look it up. Snail's for food and good for sale
Better soil will help. Use more mulch. They will go away soon enough
what type of ground cover is he planting after the chickens prepare the ground?
+Hamanos M Possibly cow pea but hard to tell
what's legume trees?
Where are you? Where is "here"?
Just wondering what has become of this paradise with recent droughts and horrendous wild fires?
It has continued to thrive. They have so much water that is held on the land and put into the soil that it did well and was happy to soak up more water when the rain came instead of having soil so dry and compacted that the water runs off and corrodes.
Geoff has designed firebreaks using things like fire resistant trees on some properties; I’m not sure if he did it on his own or not
Oddball thought here. Geoff has shaded his head with a nice broad brimmed hat but the wee infant on his back has no shade or protection from the sun. Totally interested in his methods of permaculture and appreciate the information. Just found myself distracted. LOL
Presumably Geoff is outside most of the day, but his child is not.
How do you keep the foxes out of the chicken range?
They go into the trailer at night, and it's also for that area, they may not have foxes etc. It looks like the sides close.
mulch would keep the foot paths free of weeds. :)
I was also wondering why he doesn’t use a more organic footpath
Can this be done in Atlanta GA USA?
yes. it can. just use different plants. read about permaculture.. and watch videos.
der·e·lic·tion
/ˌderəˈlikSHən/
Noun
The state of having been abandoned and become dilapidated.
The shameful failure to fulfill one's obligations.
Synonyms
abandonment - neglect - desertion - negligence
Does anyone know how big this farm is?
+Adalieth Perez 77 acres
I wonder how expensive this project is?
Late reply but it can be pretty reasonable especially when done in stages. The earthworks are the most expensive but a dam will hold much more water for the money when compared to poly tanks.
For plants you can start one or two of a bunch of varieties and then use the seeds and cuttings from those to plant out the rest
baby doesnt need a hat its a fasion in this area hahahah
It does look like a paradaise.
@15:45 What is the name of that water system please? I can not understand the accent despite trying to rewind the video several times.
"Lismore Shire Council"
Section "Different types of on-site sewage management systems" on this page www.lismore.nsw.gov.au/cp_themes/default/page.asp?p=DOC-WDY-07-81-63
+S Simone Its a grey water reed bed system
www.lismore.nsw.gov.au/files/assets/public/4.-building-amp-planning/4.-building-amp-construction/documents/reed_beds.pdf
Seems like most food forests are 90% fruits. Anyone have examples with veggies?
There are quite a few food forests that include vegetables. The challenge is that most veggies are annuals so it doesn’t have the same permanence. I see a lot of people growing squash vines up their trees, growing lettuce in the shade of the trees, carrots at the base of some trees, lots of onions, chives, etc. It is very doable. I am incorporating them in my small food forest in town but the land that I am currently searching for likely won’t contain nearly as many because it won’t be as easy to maintain on that scale.
There are quite a few food forests that include vegetables. The challenge is that most veggies are annuals so it doesn’t have the same permanence. I see a lot of people growing squash vines up their trees, growing lettuce in the shade of the trees, carrots at the base of some trees, lots of onions, chives, etc. It is very doable. I am incorporating them in my small food forest in town but the land that I am currently searching for likely won’t contain nearly as many because it won’t be as easy to maintain on that scale.
Perennial vegetables like Sambung, Okinawa spinach, pigeon pea etc etc are often included in understory of the more open food forest. They do need sun.
what is that fruit @ 4:37?
+Mama Spooky Brazilian cherry (Eugenia Uniflora)
Brazilian cherry self-seeds and is almost too easy to grow.
Looks like everybody got a hat except the baby.
how do you actually get the chickens to willingly return through that narrow passage back into the cage for the night? Do they willingly go because they recognize the safety factor?
S Simone Yes. Chickens always come home to roost. They are super vulnerable at night, and they know it.
+S Simone lol
what was the name of the tree he said could produce nuts for 800+ years?
also does anyone know how many acres this was? im very interested in converting my approx 300 acres of farm land in Iowa to permaculture. Truly amazing stuff here.
+KwoodNationRevlation 66 acres
Bunya nut
How come you never make kangaroos part of permaculture?
There are no weeds in permaculture Helen...
Clinton's campaign strategist, may have coined the term, 'it's the economy stupid' but to me it is quite obvious that 'it's the ecology stupid'.
Another example of how difficult it is for people to break habits they were raised with.
This guy has zero need for meat (or dairy) and he knows it, be he's still working the insulting, brutal, heartless, soul-poisoning, body-poisoning murder & corpse consumption of the goats into his system. Completely unnecessary, easily worked out of the system, but still doing it anyway. Just plain sad. I think he'll eventually grow out of it but it's just depressing to see him still doing it at the moment.
Are you a brainwashed vegan?
Not brainwashed, brain dead!!
always the same problem with normal permaculture, you need a lot of space to get enough food for you and your family
i agree its wonderful but idealistic
seems like he has unlimited economic and human resources (people working for free)
but in reality i wonder how many people per ha could be supported by this method
amazing if the population of the world was 1 billion
but when it s 9 billion?
35 000 meals per year from 27 ha
harry potter - At 3 meals per person per day that 27 acres feeds 12,000 people for a day, or just under 32 people for a whole year. I may be wrong but it didn't look to me like it would take 32 people to run the place. If everyone were as productive, there'd be more than enough to go around and we'd all be so much healthier!
for easy math lets say 1 ha per person for 9 billion people in 2050
that means you need 9 billion ha of arable land
or look at it from other direction 1 ha of rice field produces 18 tons of rice
how many people does that feed?
the answer is 16
Not too big on the 'processing' of the male baby goats- disgusting ! Not too great on eating the fish or chickens either. I believe a lot of our emotional problems stem from desensitizing ourselves from our emotions long enough to eat meat. I get how it happened - necessity- but we can use hemp and mushrooms and nuts to solve our protein needs now
How about our fertilizer problem? And our overgrown non-productive forests? These are things that goats help with. But without control they will strip it bare. Of course, we could reintroduce wolves to keep the goat population down, but I imagine you are squeamish about that as well. Basically, plants can't survive without animals, just as animals can't survive without plants. The ecosystem is completely connected. And you can't harvest plants without starving animals that would have eaten them.
Have you killed your own animal before? I would say the relationship changes from convenience to respect when you slaughter your own food. At least in my opinion.
I am glad that stealing other people's work didn't work for you.
Do you know the definition of evolution? You said your chickens and the Cherry tomatoes was an example of evolution. Its does not in any way fall in to the category of evolution or even fall into the definition of evolution. I really like your videos but let's give credit where credit is due. This is all Gods creation.