Paul Gaustchi Behind the Scenes of Making Back to Eden Film
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 พ.ค. 2022
- In 2011, we produced and directed Back to Eden Film, a documentary feature about master gardener Paul Gautschi's incredible regenerative organic food growing system. The film went viral gaining millions of views globally and igniting a food-growing movement known as Back to Eden Gardening. We invite you to watch the raw footage from behind the scenes of making the Back to Eden Film. Stored safely for over a decade these videos have never been shared until now. During the making of the Back to Eden Film, we documented Paul daily in his gardens and orchards for a year. Paul became a close friend and mentor to us. He patiently shared his unique knowledge of growing food and his gifted ability to witness the details of God's design in creation. Paul's deep faith, generous character, and contagious enthusiasm continue to impact our lives and the lives of millions of people worldwide who witness his story. Please enjoy watching behind-the-scenes clips from the making of the documentary. We hope you get inspired to grow the best-tasting food on earth and join the Back to Eden Gardening movement!
Sincerely,
Dana Richardson & Sarah Zentz
Filmmakers of Back to Eden
Learn more at: www.backtoedengardening.com - ภาพยนตร์และแอนิเมชัน
I'm grateful to Paul for his gardening wisdom. But more so, his demonstration of how practical scripture and creation really are in every area of life. Blessings, Paul. Thank you for pointing us back to the Lord for all of the answers.
I can't get enough Paul Gaustchi
I love love love this man. He is a blessing! 💖💖💖💖💖🧡💛💚💙💜
We so love and have gratitude for you Paul . You are an amazing God loving man . May you always be blessed
You are so kind. Thank you.
Hi guys, thank you for giving us the chance to see Paul again.
Please send him my regards from England and tell him that his woodchips method I learned from him had revolutionesd the way I do my gardening.
It has enriched my plants and garden in a wiodland type.
I use norhing but woodchips for over 5 years now.
We still want to hear Paul's inspirational talk about gardening and how he remind us of God's presence when we conect with Earth.
May God bless Paul and his family always. Amen.
You share God's truth. God told me to garden when i was afraid of what God would do to me and the world with world wide COVID hoopla. I didn't want to garden, but it seemed that God wanted me to garden. I was pretty confused, but I started watching videos and God sent me your documentary. He opened my ears wide when you said that you were at a loss. You were convicted that you came up short in knowledge and power and were sure to fail if you did what you knew to do.
Paul, God made my humbled ears to hear your testimony of walking with Him and when in need... seek, ask, knock... and your faith that all who seek find, and knock find, and ask are given...
I was likewise convicted that I and the world were coming up quite short. He said just get up early and get to it and I did what you did I trusted God to guide me. I also got woodchips and seeds, etc. I have had problem after problem in the garden, but God has seen me through everything and blessed me with soooo much more faith. 2 years God has instructed me in the garden. I listen to scripture while I work. At this time know of no fear of sickness or constraints I am presently healthy with fresh air and abundant fresh food, I appreciate this time, but I don't fear the loss of any of it. God gives and God takes away according to His good pleasure and He causes His very goid seed to grow in me. That seed contains everything and needs nothing and it grows! Because His seed (Jesus) is in me and He provides cover for me as I abide in Him I grow in trust that He will see me through every firery trial. He knows all that are His.
God gave us His word and we do well to walk in it, as it says. Jesus made the earth and it is good. Trying with all of your heart to imitate your maker is being His deciple.
I loved how you have been instructed about our labors in the garden. Adam and Eve turned away from God's way to follow thier own hearts and did what was right in their eyes. They had the Most High as their king and all flesh is in rebellion to this day.They are the mother and father of flesh. The garden is the world and all flesh wants to follow after our own ideas and according to that curse, we labor/suffer. When we have labored enough in the heat we know that He is like water in the desert, He is what is needed. His way leads to blessings and rest.
I had heard/read all of those things, but in the garden I am instructed and blessed with blessing better then gold.
Forgive my many words I have wanted to say thank you for a long time now. Also, I thank the film makers for capturing it all and giving freely. So, many know God so that blessings of Him pour forth from hearts always.
Also forgive my mistakes throughout especially paraphrasing Matthew 7:7 knock and it shall be opened to you
This man has changed so many lives and said the world in such a gorgeous direction
thank you to the beautiful ladies who created this film and to the sponsors of the film we are so blessed by your vision and efforts
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Wow, thank you! We are happy to share.
I just want to add that one of the many amazing things that Paul has said is to make friends with the tree trimming guy that has a chipper machine. That chipper waste is the stuff you want! So when I heard the chipper machine in our neighborhood I asked the guy to dump it on my driveway and I gave him a nice tip :-) I put up to 8 in in some areas, after the fall rains now six months later I'd say I have almost an inch a good soil now in those areas. It's really about community, make friends with that guy:-) thank you thank you to all of you!
may God bless you Paul! youve changed the gardening world.
Peace be with you ✌️🇨🇦
Gives credit to God for EVERYTHING, as it should be. Gratefulness oozes out of this guy, which is incredibly edifying to watch.
I know theres a creator but i have not learnt the ability to hear.
Thank the lord he created a man like Paul who hears him.
Im about to start a back to eden garden and take out all my raised beds and change what im doing.
Thank you for sharing
Thank you for sharing! I'm learning so much from these videos.
God Bless Amen 🙏♥️😇💞😇
Paul Gautschi...My incredible inspiration. I'm in Poland and I don't even remember with how many people I've shared his gardening method. Many blessings to Him and His Wife, so happy to hear that Paul will have his tank 😍
Thank you! Yes, we got to see Paul in action on his new tank, all terrain wheel chair. You'll get to see it during the Future of Food Summit, don't miss it! courses.backtoedengardening.com/p/future-of-food-summit
Thank you for making this film!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for your support!
Thank you for sharing this, and thank you Paul for sharing your methods with the world. I had the pleasure of meeting you a year and a half ago, that was truly a special day for me.
Very good information I’ve used it and it has been a blessing to me and my family
Wonderful!
Excellent video - Thanks!
Ok well , your just AWESOME! I’m so excited I’ve already been changing the way I garden , I’m having to use chopped leaves , newspapers and some wood chips! Thank you for sharing your wonderful knowledge,
This man has inspired me no end.
Us too, Paul is awesome.
Lots of truth
He's Incredible! I hate to hear his gardening tours have been shut down.. He must not be able to walk pretty much anymore. I wonder? Anyone know what happened? This man will change your life, your mind. I hope to meet him one day soon! I pray he is healed from his agent orange, walking problems.. It's not right! Nor okay for a man like this to be like that. I don't care what anyone says... Love you Paul. I thank you\God for what you have done.
Hi Josh! We agree, we all love and honor everything Paul does very much. You can learn more details about why Paul has stopped his tours in our full article here: www.backtoedenfilm.com/back-to-eden-gardening-blog/paul-gautschis-garden-tours-closed-permanently#/
Thank you for sharing this. 😊
I am so grateful for Paul's teachings about God and the garden. I felt so motivated after watching Back to Eden, not only to get wood chips, but also spiritually. I appreciate how Paul has allowed God to speak to him personally and through the scriptures, and that Paul is sharing what God has shown him.. What kind of wood chips are best for the garden - cedar, cypress, pine, oak? Thank you for helping point us in the right direction about this.
Thank you for your kind words. I agree Back to Eden Gardening is more than just growing food, it's a lifestyle. Growing food and connecting to God and creation is so healing on so many levels.
In answer to what kind of wood chips to use: Finely chipped branches with leaves is the best. The variety of tree is less important.
Paul uses all sorts of mixtures of everything from soft wood evergreens, cedar to hardwood and brush from his local tree trimming services. Using a mixture of tree species combined can actually be really beneficial in terms of nutrients and decomposition rates. Whatever is going to compost and break down easily is good. The only thing to stay away from for sure is Black Walnut. My favorite is hardwood trees which is any tree with broad leaves instead of needles. But it all works amazingly!
@@BacktoEdenGardening Thank you for the detailed response. This is very helpful.
I like this extra footage
Thank you!
Love yal
Works in the desert too. Sand will turn to rich soil just like clay will.
Even desert can be made furtile. The Israelis did it, and the Chinese turned desert into a forest. In Israel they grew rows of trees that normally grow in the desert, and under the canopy of those trees they grew plants that would normally not grow in the desert.
Please tell Paul hello from Jackie Funkhouser and Louise Andre. We grew up with Paul on the Hill Montecito in LA
Thats amazing! We (the documentary filmmakers) are also in LA now.
I can add a correction to Paul's comment near the six minute mark. It works in a desert, too!
Thanks for your feedback! We actually have witnessed it work in a desert very well also! As long as there is irrigation or rain the wood chips will transform any soil.
Has anyone asked about using wood pellets? I put them in the bottom of my kitchen compost can. When I dump the pellets fluff. A help at least for hard to come by chips?
Remember folks- wood chips are in the top,!!
I was really good with everything that you said till you started talking about the dog!!!
Hi small genuine question, what about people that cannot write and read adequately, to be able to buy a field, to practise gardening, like you, to sustain their own family.
These blessings can also be had by men & women. if we are righteous in our attitudes includes covering the body properly we will be given all we need without struggle unless there is a specific reason for our benefit. that is the power of the blessing of our GD. and we will have the characteristics of GD. MAGNANIMOUS, GOOD HEARTED, GENEROUS, MERCIFUL IN ATTITUDE, TENDENCY TO DO KINDLY ACTS, ETC. INTERESTING, BENEFIT FROM THOSE TRULY CLOSE TO GD'S GUIDANCE & COMMANDMENTS. HE has given us this earth & we need to ask HIs partnership in our work that He has commanded us to do while here in our short visit. i love to see someone who leads the way for others to say, "OH YEAH!!! That's what we should do!
I am wondering how to reasonably plant garlic and other row-type crops in deep wood chips (beets, carrots, radishes, etc.) especially in large quantities. Opening up a spot to plant one tomato plant, then digging even more to get it into dirt (without mixing the dirt and wood chips), and getting the wood chips to stay up away isn’t easy. Doing that for a whole row - or multiple rows - of deep wood chips seems nearly impossible. I have been using wood chips for years now, but I still have some practical issues I haven’t worked out.
This is a wonderful question. I have also been experimenting and researching the best solutions to no-till row planting in Back to Eden wood chip gardens and farms. For larger scale no-till wood chip growing systems advances in tractors and machines are being made to effectively scrap the row clean and deposit the crop seed in the soil. For no-tillers, "the planter" is the most crucial piece of equipment on their farm. It does the job of opening a slit in the soil, dropping in seed and closing the seed trench, all while managing residue efficiently in the field. However, on the scale of a garden, Mark McOmber developed a neat DIY trick for prow planting. He generously rakes back the wood chips from a row and then places a half cut PBC pipe on the row, plants the seeds in the soil and then places the pipe over his row to protect the mulch from falling in. He then can dump the mulch back on and it creates a clean row, falling off the pipe. I think more research and experimentation is needed here. I'll keep in touch.
Hi Question .Where can we order root veg. That are not grown to clean up the metals in the earth.
Will green pine straw in pine wood chips be ok? Will it degrade the Samoa’s regular wood chips.
Hello Paul, We are fighting the thistles here. I have deeply mulched and they come through. I have tried to dig them out and they just get worse. I have tried putting strong vinegar on them. Can you please help? Thank you.
Sorry to hear that. Keep mulching more deeply with wood chips to soften your soil and lessen the thistles. Otherwise, pull back your wood chip mulch and lay down weed paper or cardboard.
In following your advice to use arbor mulch, I asked our tree trimmer to chop up the large limbs he cleaned up from my sycamore tree. The mulch was very very thick in large pieces, however and I spread it on one cleared out lawn about 5 inches deep. I worry it will never break down, as one year later it looks the same. Any thoughts on what I can do to promote the process? Is it hopeless?
Water it. :)
Watering is good advice. Water helps a lot. But it also needs nitrogen. After it eats up all the leaf matter. Add organic manure on top. Add fresh green chipped leaves. Or rake the massive chips off, make a pile for them to compost and add a finer chip!
What about slugs, earwigs, and ants? They seem more Prevalent since I threw dow chips... I’m in the PNW as well my friend!
Blessings!
PS
l❤️ lone scripture base gardening... When I rely on God ... it always works 🙏
Can I use corn husks for layering..will they break down in a year?
You can use any organic matter as a covering. Any organic mulch will almost all provide certain benefits including improved moisture retention, weed suppression, improved soil microbe activity, softer top soil. However, the unique thing about arborist wood chips is the nutrient composition containing nitrogen in the leaves, carbon in the branches. This is what helps create an ideal composting ratio that really causes soil fertility to improve and especially positively impacts vegetable growth and seedlings.
PS So my advice is to shred or chip or compost the corn husks and add a nitrogen source like green leaves or organic manure.
If buying seeds in Italy, what company would Paul buy seeds from?
What type of wood chips do you use?
Finely chipped branches with leaves is most important. The type of tree is less important.
Paul uses all sorts of mixtures of everything from soft wood evergreens, cedar to hardwood and brush. Using a mixture of tree species combined can actually be really beneficial. The only thing to stay away from for sure is Black Walnut. My favorite is hardwood trees which is any tree with broad leaves instead of needles. But it all works amazingly!
What a talker...typical Californian!
aww i use wild horse manure. they live on my Holy Mountain. and noone feeds them.
I would love to get Paul’s thoughts on the below passage of scripture. I have several young apple and pear trees (completely surrounded by wood chips of course!) and feel like I should follow this teaching. I am wondering if the fruit should be left on the tree for future fertilization or is this just a exercise in trusting God and obeying God’s word for future blessing? This is something I’ve been wrestling with.
““When you enter the land and plant fruit trees, leave the fruit unharvested for the first three years and consider it forbidden. Do not eat it. In the fourth year the entire crop must be consecrated to the Lord as a celebration of praise. Finally, in the fifth year you may eat the fruit. If you follow this pattern, your harvest will increase. I am the Lord your God.”
Leviticus 19:23-25 NLT
I think this scripture is open to your own personal interpretation. However, I can tell you that on a practical level that many fruit trees need at least 3 years to bear fruit even and it might be beneficial for the tree to wait to harvest too much early on. Paul does leave the fruit on his mature fruit trees even until it is naturally falling on the ground and then harvests whats fallen. This keeps the tree happy and provides optimal nutrition and flavor in the fruit. Hope this helps a little!
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I disagree that cultivation brought the curse to the earth. The Bible clearly states that man's sin brought the curse to the earth. Also, it says in the Hebrew that Adam "worked" the ground. The English word till was a poor translation.
Paul do you understand Jesus 2nd COMING is when God creates Christ's nature in fullness in the believer who is uplifted out of his sin nature completely until it is dead and Jesus in US Manifests God's Righteousness and presence in intimacy with us just as God and Jesus intimacy with God indwelling Him.
Paul is such an inspiration how to turns to God for guidance in his garden. I love listening to his awe of God and him speaking God’s word!
My question is - Rolly Polly bugs eat up the plants (especially our young seedlings) in our Back to Eden garden. What should we do?
@@joshlew27 forgive others more...be more uplifted in Christ your ground is dead Paul would say...no life underneath yet so God sends the destroyer bugs.
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Monkeys eat unripe fruit. Guess how I know..... if I don't strip my unripe plums they'll take little bites out of one after another .... green off the tree..... sadly
I came to learn about Garden, not get preached to! I think I'll keep it moving..
What is wrong with deserts? God created them too.
Sir, You are a talented gardener. Your religious views, not so much. I invite you to listen to lectures from SAM HARRIS.
Getting a Ted Bundy vibe