Permaculture Q&A's From Quarantine Part 1
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Questions overview and key takeaways: Below are: 1) a summary of the topics addressed by each question, and a timestamp; 2) Below each question summary are key takeaways from Geoff’s answer.
Q1: Top 3 permaculture book recommendations 2:00
Permaculture: A Designers’ Manual by Bill Mollison, The Permaculture Book of Ferment and Human Nutrition by Bill Mollison, How Can I Use Herbs in My Daily Life? by Isabel Shipard
Q2: How to convert land from paddock to vegetable garden 4:00
Uncompact it. Disfavor the grass. Gauge the size and climatic analog for guidance: Cooler, humid climates can have larger gardens than the tropics, which can have larger gardens that the desert. Finally, the garden needs to be surrounded by a beneficial ecosystem, such as a food forest.
Q3: Cloning extinct animals to restore ancient ecosystems 13:08
We’ve got the animals we need. Rather, we should be cell grazing and managing pastures so that our domesticated animals are beneficial to the environment.
Q4: Discussing canopy forest systems, berms, and root systems 15:35
Though we need the canopy as soon as possible, we can’t get climax (productive) canopy species quickly. We have to create an early canopy from fast-growing support species. Roughly 80% of plants and trees are neutral in their effect on other species, 15% are beneficial (often fast-growing leguminous species), and 5% are allelopathic (detrimental to other plant species). We can use those beneficial species to provide protective shade to nurse productive species as well as create a forest floor by coppicing and pollarding them until, eventually, our productive canopy forms. The root zone, then, of support species becomes compost corridors, leaving behind dendritic patterns that will soak up moisture.
Q5: Making compost in temperate climates 24:00
The Berkeley composting method can make it in 18 days. It may take experience to get it right so quickly, but it will eventually happen regardless. In the winter in temperate climates, it might need to be done indoors, such as in a glasshouse, where it will help heat the space.
Q6: Saving a sun-stricken plant 27:05
Prune the leaves a little, reducing the leaf surface area to reduce the strain on the plant. At the same time, saturate the roots and add a little worm juice or nutrients.
Q7: A good example of permaculture farm and resources for tropical highlands 28:05
We need to know several factors. We need to know the latitude, the altitude, and the distance from the ocean. Further away from the ocean means hotter summers and cooler winters. Every 100 meters up in altitude is the equivalent to one degree further from the equator in terms of temperature range with no change in length of day.
Q8: Importance of self-sustainability now and in the future 32:28
Crucial. Geoff was trapped in Saudi Arabia, upcoming food shortages were apparent. Zaytuna Farm is stand alone: There is 96,000 gallons of fresh water storage, off-grid electricity, natural waste treatment systems, and abundant food production. Seven to ten people are on the farm at all times. We preserve pickles, grow medicines, and so on. It feels like the safest place in the world at a time like this.
Q9: Creating a permaculture community during lockdown 40:15
Local community permaculture groups can be set up as networks that are already in position. Call your permaculture group: Permaculture (Name of Local Government). Let’s get it up to speed with online start-ups.
Q10: Where to get Geoff’s Greening the Desert knowledge 46:10
Everything is an anti-evaporation strategy in the desert. A desert is a flood waiting to happen, and designs have to be waiting for that very thing. The systems need to be as big as possible and soak the water into the soil. Any open body of water should be as small, deep, and shaded as possible. Pick the geological spots that are easiest to develop for this, the ideal locations to stop water flows, spread them, and soak them into the landscape. This will require big, stout gabions. The gabions will create fertile silt fields and fill connected swale systems. Once systems are started from these advantageous positions, they can be extended.
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I have started my own garden after listening to some of your videos. I am 80 years old and am completely unable to establish it myself but I hire a gardener. But you have inspired me.
Sounds like problem solved to me
What an amazing spirit while being locked in a hotel room without fresh air! Grateful for you
Geoff's way, as usual 🙏🌈
Thats just what I was thinking, shows just what a great bloke he is.
really wish you'd write a book on Greening the desert. with a heavy stress on the earthworks.
This is what permaculture was made for.
Exactly - and even this guy ended up in quarantine lol
Just a thought on the "Soil life is all mouth" quote. It isn't all mouth. There is quite a lot coming out of the "other end". LOL. I was thinking about that looking out my window at my wife's beautiful kitchen garden, with raised beds made from compost and wood chip top mulch. And how fast that wood chip top mulch is digested, and fed to all of the organisms in the soils. It is amazing how the soil has improved in just the past 4 years of adding compost and wood chips. Each autumn, I go through and pull up the decomposed wood chips from the paths, and top up the raised beds with them, and lay down 20 to 30 cm more fresh wood chip for the winter. Freaking amazing the fertility that has been generated feeding the soil life.
Question timestamps:
@ 2:00 - What are your top 3 book recommendations?
@ 4:00 - How to convert land from paddock to vegetable production?
@ 13:08 - Should we clone the wooly mammoth and other animals to restore Siberian ecosystems and would that help with permafrost melting?
@ 15:35 - Talk about canopy, forest systems, berms, and root systems, and how to integrate them (because too many don't think of the root systems when they plant)
@ 24:00 - How to make more soil in a temperate climate (that is too cold to make compost)?
@ 27:05 - How to revive a sun-stricken plant?
@ 28:05 - Have any good examples/resources of permaculture farm in tropical highlands (have 1,100 mm of rain in 6 months and 6 months of cool, dry weather)?
@ 32:28 - How important is it to be self-sustainable in this critical time now and how permaculture and more resilient approaches can help in the next future? (or, describe Zaytuna Farm :))
@ 40:15 - How to create permaculture community in times of lock-down?
@ 46:10 - Where to go to get all of your "Greening the Dessert" knowledge? Takeaways from Saudi trip?
notes:
- 3 books are Bill Mollison's "Permaculture: A Designer's Manual" and "Ferment and Human Nutrition", and Isabelle Sheppard's "How to use Herbs in your Daily Life"
- guidance for transitioning pasture to veg. production!
- he's even used goats for RESTORATION of ecosystems! (@ 14:22)
- @ 27:10 to revive a sun-stricken plant, trim those parts so that it reduces stress on plant (from transpiring), saturate roots, try to ensure organic (liquid) nutrition (like compost tea), and can even find a way to shade it further
- @ 29:30 (from the equator (only?)) every 100 meters up is like 1 degree away from the equator in climate temperature range over a year
- @ 41:00 an e-way to coordinate - "local government area permaculture group" network
- last answer's key points are to 1) anti-evaporative planning holding the water in the earth and 2) using drought-tolerant trees/plants, and the details are quite elaborate sounding
Thanks Keshav for doing this. I'm been putting together a Word Document of my notes on these series of videos so effort here is appreciated.
Thank you, Keshav. I've updated the description of the video to include your timestamps plus questions and key takeaway notes - 🙏✌️Bonnie (GLO team member)
@@DiscoverPermaculture sure, that's a good idea, but/and like i commented in a more recent video, it could be nice and beneficial for some of us wanna-be environmental detectives, listening to a very experienced detective. for future, would it help if i keep putting the Q timestamps, or? and seems like there was no need for me to write those questions, right? yeah, peace, then permaculture.
I'm learning so much from this video (and your greening the desert videos)... thank you. I am especially paying attention to all mention of planting in the desert. I live in Tucson, Arizona which is in the Sonoran Desert and zone 9b. I have 5 acres and am attempting to follow your concepts. We have added berms and swales on all sides of the property and truckloads of wood chips from pale verde and mesquite. We purchased 35 loads of red rock to 'anchor' the swales and (mulch) the existing mesquite trees (50+ trees). We've added an additional 40+ trees existing of African sumac, Arizona cypress, Southern Oak and several other varieties to create a forest border on the the south and east boundaries to block the view and sounds of a highway. I always look forward to your instructional videos. Again, thank you.
Thanks for using your time in quarantine so generously. A real treat for those of us who are interested.
i burnt out turning compost every other day after a few years, the hardest youl ever work in your life no doubt
Many thanks for the guidance & suggestions Geoff. Great inspiration for creative and practical community activities.
3 favourite BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS right from the beginning of the Video:
- Permaculture a Manuale - Bill Mollison
- Ferment & Human Nutrition - Bill Mollison
- How to use herbs in your daily Life - Isabell Shipard
Thank you!
How can I use Herbs in my daily Life? - Isabell Shipard
Im looking for books to add to the real book library.
I guess you've opened an infinit road of questions because of your generous offer. Thanks again! Blessings
This is cool. Thank you. I'm going to feed my soil now.
Oh my gosh I can’t wait for your startup kit for influencing local governments. It’s a huge goal of mine to bring community food forests to urban communities. Every piece of open land or vacant lot or giant overwatered lawn I see I can’t help but imagine the productivity potential! I wanna get the city to pay for these non-profit food gardens, maybe exchange work for food, or money which would go back to the community and the garden. Students could take field trips and have after-school “internships” for all ages. I think it could be so amazing.. but I don’t know where to start!
Geoff, I'm out of work and would LOVE to help build an online group, with your great guidance. Live in the foothills near San Diego California. Took your PDC in 2016. Getting my food forest up and running and now finishing up the infrastructure kitchen garden.
Start an online PDC course so we can be productive during this time, Thanks Geoff. Legend
If you're not already on it, Geoff is currently running his online PDC - it's amazing! You can enrol here: www.discoverpermaculture.com/pdc2021
Greetings Geoff, that was awesome thank you. You'll be home in no time, hang in there. Bless you all.
I am a master composter on the northern Oregon coast. You absolutely can make compost here!
Thank you Geoff. This was great, and looking forward to the other 101 questions! Hope you have a nice view there in my hometown. Glad I undertook my Permaculture journey with you almost 9 years ago at Zaytuna. Feels like this is what I've been planning for. It's spring here in Japan and my gardens are popping! The plan is progressing just as taught. These systems work. Hope all you permies are safe and stocked out there.
Thank You as allways such an inspiration! God Bless and can't wait to see you back at home safe at Zatuna farms.
Your a legend! May you stay forever young. 😃
Thank you Sensai Geoff!
This is just what I needed right now.
I’m very proud to be one of your students!
Hi Geoff,
When is the next online PDC being run ?
Thank you for all you do
Tom
Now is rego
Bring back the Wolly Mammoth!!! Thanks for answering my questions, Geoff. I find Siberian Tundra to be fascinating frontier
This is great. Thanks! Grateful that you turned your quarantine 'problem' into a Q&A 'solution.' 🍋
You will forever have a place in my heart, Geoff. Thank you for everything that you do.
47:42 As you pick the spots that are easiest and succeed, their size and interaction with the land increase over time.
Glad that you decided to do this Geoff.
Thank you Geoff. Happy Easter and good luck during the quarantine to you and your family
So great to hear from you Jeff. Thank you for doing this video.
Brilliant as always, thank you for this session of Q&A's
Thank you for sharing your wealth of knowledge and experience ! Fun to see you in a different light, probably missing nature so much in your strange confinement situation. Sending lots of courage your way if it can help.
One fresh air and blue sky guy to another, God Bless ya man . Hang in there.
Thank you for this knowledge.
This is fantastic, thanks. I'll be back out tomorrow morning tweaking my approach to getting my new veg beds up and running based on some of your advice.
thank you Geoff for info and hang out time. All the best to you and family in your aircon room
Thank you, Mr. Lawton.
Thank you very much Geoff!
Hi Geoff, Nadia and Latifa!! So glad you are home safe. Great video and information!
Thank you for these Geoff!
Thanks Geoff! Shout out to Ojai and the permaculture community there. Starting my own permaculture adventure soon and so excited.
Thank you Jeff! I was wondering how you were making out in this odd situation. You Sir are much appereciated.
Thank you so much Geoff these videos are great archive material. I'm watching just to get an idea about it now since I don't have any chance to apply these on a permaculture farm. But I believe I revisit these videos again when I have my own land.
I LOVE these Q and A videos!
Thanks for all your knowledge sharring !
Very cool. Your vast experience and your gift at explaining things and making them interesting and understandable, makes this fabulous. Such a welcome and useful distraction from infection rates and mortality theses days.
Thanks Geoff, am working with what we call #naturing, having designed gardens for years, I now only design spaces that heal people, but in an interpretation. You could call it bringing natures proven healing abilities - into our outdoor spaces right next to us. And thankfully the research around how to do this is so small we build out of a feeling, based on the existing research, but with room for each persons own feel, which is truly interesting. Next job is to integrate this with permaculture and biodiversity. But again in an interpretation to be sure it works for the human soul. So no ugly practical composting behind the scenes. Everything has to feel great - even the composting system... causing me to design the oddest systems. am very inspired by your work, might come to you one day and ask for help in Denmark with my company Adiso. I absolutely love your passion. Hope to learn more
This was great Geoff. Please continiue.
Thank you so much for your generous sharing of information.
I love everything you do! Your my Hero and my Favorite Role Model!!
Love from Florida
Yes, I am very interested and also experienced with local groups. I would love to help!
Great video Geoff. I would like to see more on working with abandoned center pivot irrigation and your golden nugget of advice on reestablishing desert ecosystems. I live in the Phoenix Arizona area and would like to work on this kind of project. Thanks
I just found this great human being, great great person, I have learned a lot in just a few days Keep on Geo we need your advices.
Outstanding! TY for so much, and especially about the permaculture in Davis California, which is 46 miles from me. I had no idea.
THANK YOU MR. LAWTON for taking the time and EFFORT to bring us your fountain of information,especially during these times. What a wonderful way to give people positive things to think of during this time of negativity! Since I have learned about you and your proven methods, I’ve passed along your name and information to help spread the word.
Hi Geoff, glad you made it back to Australia...you seem maybe under the weather I hope you guys are ok. Thanks for all the answers to questions you’re amazing 😊 we’re about to plant leucaena to shade our kitchen gardens in Lockyer valley Qld (45 degrees in shade in October it’s getting worse) in preparation for the horrid Spring and summer heat that seems like the new normal. Thanks so much for your help. Keep safe and well you and yours 😊
Wow! I’m sorry you are stuck in quarantine. I’m not sorry we get to listen to you riff on all our questions. Thank you! This will be available for decades of listeners not just us self isolating because of covid-19.
Peace to you and the family 🙏🏾
Here in Germany we are more into converting the grass, straw and kitchen waste into compost and make a thick layer over the winter. If we don‘t have dogs and ducks, the slugs and mouses take over your garden with straw or hay mulch.
I agree. Here in Oregon I mulch garden beds with leaves in fall and rake in mid spring. If you direct sow, you have to rake it up anyhow, and I would not have mulch around leafy greens because of slugs, except perhaps loose compost. We used to have normal slugs only but now we have the tiny little bastards that are so much harder to control manually.
So happy to see you and your family are safe. I hope you will be back at Zaytuna Farm soon.
Enjoying your talks n lessons. Thanks a bunch.
From Malaysia.
bravo well done mr. geoff
Thank you for this - what a gift! Where do we post questions for your Q&A videos? I mean, questions that you will answer in a future video?
Big Air hug to you all, hope you can cook some fresh food in the lockdown, totally enjoy the last vlog on water motion have not stopped making waters way in the driveway !!!! the Willunga farmer market is open so feel so lucky. Talk soon Peta and Stephen
You have been a great inspiration to me.
I am soo grateful for this knowledge. I feel like I have always known that
Awesome 😎 thanks buddy ❤️🌸🌈🌺🦋
you're the best Geoff . you're my idol.
Oki Geoff, I am grateful that you are using your time to connect! How wonderful, and what an opportunity! I am Blackfoot from Alberta Canada. I have been studying permaculture for 3 years. I have both books by Bill Mollison, the Intro to Permaculture and Permaculture Design Manual. I understand the woo woo part of the space-time continuum, the living soil, and I appreciate the growth patterns in nature with the same amazement, as our people have understood the relationship to the land is sacred.
At present, no one owns the land on the reservation. Because of the current events that have revealed how much human beings are connected to systems that are not set up to serve human beings, but to protect the capitalist, corporate, government dominant society the world has become, I believe that Permaculture can help heal the Blackfoot people. What could you propose the steps to accomplishing such an endeavor on a reservation, and using the current situation of dependency to a locally grown, and distributed, seasonal and healthy foraging diets governed by nature? It's much more complicated with politics, but I only see these as challenges to changing the narrative for the Blackfoot people. I am grateful for your efforts and time in examining my question, and I would love to hear what I could possibly do to expand the frontier of agriculture on Blackfoot territory and create an Interdependent local economy. I am grateful. Namaste.
hope your free soon Goeff ths is a whole permaculture course starting new gardens great info cant wait to implement it
Have 60 acres of land...about half is thicket forest and half is pasture. Has temporary living quarter with access to gravel driveway and city/well water..so enough for 2 people live in while building your house. From permaculture perspective, what would be the order of priorities: 1. house (Zone1) or 2. Earthwork (pond, swales, roads, etc..).
NOTE* The house was going to be built but due to rising of lumber, has been postpone about a year or maybe 2...so meanwhile, don't want to waste time, should do the earthwork now or still wait for the house...if that is the priorities. THANK YOU KINDLY.
Excellent!
It's thanks to you Geoff that we are all at home living on fresh fruit from our trees.... sorry that you couldn't be at home too.
This’ll be helpful. Thanks
A very nice golden nugget to finish with 🙂👍
This was amazing!! More more!!
Can you tell us about the herbs? How do you take or use them? Please, tell us also about the herbs for chicken, goats and cows.
Thanks for answering Geoff! I have cut down grass, then tarped for a few weeks and now layed down thick hay. If the soil underneath the tarp is moist, would you still recommend sheet mulching over tarping?
In setting up for the garden, the first plant sprouting in my planters in quantity is Commelina Diffusa, and looking into it shows that it has properties specific to things being used to fight against coronavirus. Thought I would mention it just in case it's important.
I would love to see a Permaculture food forest or design set on the same ground as an Earthships by Michael Reynolds ! That has to be very very close to the ideal arrangement in almost any situation. And is it feasable to grow Hemp for the seed and fibre within a permaculture setting .. What about incorporating the Ruth Stout method of using just Hay and there was no digging , no watering, no weeding and as the hay decomposed it improved the soil effortlessly so no fertilizing and I also did a garden like this , I used cardboard , wet it down , I put 25 bags of leaves , dead logs , composted horse manure, 25 more large bags of leaves , composted garden soil , and then 18 inches of Timothy Hay after I planted elephant garlic and onions . It worked wonderfully. The hay broke down to about 2 inches between November 5th 2018 when I laid it down until July 2019 and everything was thriving and huge worms were just going wild in it ! Very few weeds . Maybe a dozen in all. It was fun and I know it will last them for a very long time and just get better as it goes. Love you and your work in the world Mr Lawton ! You are a true Gem of a Human Being ! Thank you for your kindness and truth . It is appreciated here in the Interior of British Columbia ,Canada . Lake Country. The Okanagan.
thanks!
You could also run chickens across it then cardboard it or Tarp it for 3 weeks. it will be worm heaven. Deep mulch is still a great idea if you have the material or cover crop.
Keep at it! You are doing good!
Stay safe Geoff 😊
I wonder about air conditioning and viruses. Unless they use a micron filter, they're only filtering dust.
Hope you get home real soon Geoff and family.
this is great
Good Luck to you
Yes please Geof. We are in South Aussie about 100k east of Adelaide. Dry on 100 acres dry. Old farm land, over farmed, not much rain, had 170mm last year, did I say dry.
Where can I find info for this type of area, and I'm in my 60s but loving it.
Stay safe Mate. Best you and yours.
Oh is there a grass pasture suitable for a dry ish area?
Just watched your secession and I think you answered me. Trees, shade, cut and drop plant food trees under to move through. I think, thanks.
Have you got the permaculture designer's manual by Bill Mollison? Brad Lancaster's books are pretty helpful too. 😊
@@belindaroadley where do you get them, please.
And thanks for the reply. I have read Lancaster, well some of his stuff
@@kezzatries www.tagari.com/store/books/permaculture-a-designers-manual/
www.harvestingrainwater.com/product/rainwater-harvesting-for-drylands-volume-1-2-bundle-new-for-2019-direct-from-and-signed-by-author/
They're expensive, but more than worth it. Study them and you'll know how to move forward with your property. 😊😊😊
@@kezzatries
You can buy them second hand on Amazon.
Kezza T... I'm in Adelaide and would love to come and help you plant on your land.
Question. I'm starting two raised Hugel beds in my driveway today. Is it best for the base to be stone or wooden boards? I plan on using bamboo on top of the wood boards for a deeper bed. Also, are the bamboo leaves alliopathic? Nothing really grows but bamboo. So sorry you stuck in an airless hotel room. Also, you don't need wooly mammoths because there's still plenty of bison in that region, bison are also ice age animals.
What are the best berry bushes, fruit and nut trees to plant when you first buy your land?
So the most important question is of course .... what kind of water management did they set up in the hotel room ?
hello. you mentioned to avoid allelophatyc plants mulch . I have read somewhere graminaceae realease t no growth chemicals from root system. is that true? do u think can I use them as mulch for veggies beds? thanks whoever knows the answer!
Hi Geoff, how do I get rid of nut grass that is invading my vegetable garden bed? I'm located in Gold Coast, QLD. Thanks!
Any pointers for someone looking to start a container garden using permaculture principles in the Tropics. Down in South Florida U.S.A.
Will the growth of the vegetable starts or seeds planted into a thick, chop and drop cover crop be impeded by the growing roots of the cover crop? Others advise to first kill cover crop by crimping, flail mowing or tilling it under before planting vegetables.
Question i live in the uk. I have a fruit orchard set up but the only other place to grow isnt optimal.... it gets limited sunlight... what kind of veg grow well there. The potatoes did well.... i have asparagus and rhubard growing from seed
If I am not going to plant right away but want to put in a cover crop can I just leave it to grow?
Dear Geoff all my best for you.
Compleaty agree, permaculture is more important than ever, i'm studying PDC ríght now, do you recomend some booms about social economy ? Thank you, learning a lot with Your videos
Is there a replacement for lack of worms in a desert garden? How would you build desert soil when you don't have bag fertilizers as an option?
good thinkings aiara. could this video be helpful? ( th-cam.com/video/HJPqJSVLFIg/w-d-xo.html )
thank you so much for sharing knowledge, geoff! i've been studing lately how to become more self suficient in the cities, through the optic of permaculture. i'm from brasil, and such as others "devoloping contries" our cities have so many social crisis and so many people living in favelas. have you already thought about how to bring permacuture for this scenarios? techniques that can be used? thank you a lot!
i have (too much)... "reverse" migrate from those unhealthy urban places to rural places and transition the badly used industrial agriculture lands to permaculture methods of growing food, etc. isn't it a brazilliant ( sites.google.com/site/kboddula/new-words ) ?