7 years after ripping up our front lawn to put in a food forest, we're finally starting to enjoy the "forest" part. We wouldn't spend anywhere near as much time in our yard (or get as much enjoyment out of it) if it was only grass.
I wish I could give you something more than a simple "thank you" for this. You surpassed any expectations I could've had when I asked for this and hit everything that I was talking about. NGL it made me misty eyed too. 12/10
i dont remember exactly how i came across permaculture but i know i binged all of your videos in a few days. im a permie and im proud! once your soil goes black, you can never go back!
I’m so there! I’ve binged watched almost all of the channels videos. This one spoke to my soul. So grateful to have someone in a zone close to mine (5b Coast of Maine) who has two brain cells to rub together at any given time. I have taken so much from what you’ve shared. Thank you. I started my tiny space on less than an acre for my 3 sons and my grandchildren. In the beginning it was for them. Now, it is for them, me and anyone who will listen. ❤️ Also grateful for your both feet in approach! 😉😁
Pre 2017: I was a depressed, lonely Doomer who was stuck in a pit of nihilism and misanthropy caused by humanity's inability to save themselves from their own actions. There didn't seem to be any way a single person could make a difference in our screwed up society so I gave up on the world and locked myself into my bedroom all day playing video games and watching youtube, counting down the days I wouldn't have to live in this world anymore. No hopes. No goals. Just the bitter aftertaste of this life to remind me that I was even alive. "Be the change you want to see" was just something I would say to keep following my own code of ethics but I didn't believe it made any difference, no matter how much I helped others. In the end, I just did it so I could have a slight bit of hope in this world that something could be better. The only futures I could imagine for myself were ending my own life or apocalypse fantasy, and it's obvious which one was more likely. Post 2017: I'm still a depressed Doomer but I finally have a path I can take to actually have a chance to change the world, even if it will be too little, too late. At least we can get the recovery done right and put humanity on the right track to earn the title "enlightened being." We can actually make a difference with permaculture even if we can't actually make our own food forests. It may be a struggle to convince anyone around me to listen but at least now I actually have a reason to fight instead of a million reasons to give up. And that's all a lot of us really need, just a good reason to stand up and fight. This is that reason everyone has been waiting for the last 100 years. We can do this, together. We got this.
There this one stuck! Thank you TH-cam overlords for letting someone's comment stay.... Powerful comment man. I'll admit, your comments are some of the ones that keep me making videos. I think we've all been through hard times - mine were in university right in the middle of the engineering grind. Just thinking back to those years... ehhhhk. So glad I'm not in that situation anymore and I pushed through it. I had classmates commit suicide, I went through some rough patches myself. Just really depressed with the world I just got finished watching seaspiracy, and even though I understand that a lot of experts think it's only partially accurate, it really leaves you with a question of it we really should even be saved at all? I mean, the good humans are amazing people... but there's just so many terrible people out there, and their impact on the planet is tremendous. I don't know if there's any solution other than to just put the head down and push through it, and try to change as many people as we can before our influence on the path of humanity fades into the history books as our time here ends.
@@nonono4160 Yes, he bought them. You have to start somewhere. Buying things is forever. What you buy and who you buy it from is where you can make the difference. Don't put money in the pockets of people who do things you disagree with. Obtaining your food in ways that don't send Bayer any money is a very good step. If you're against fracking, heat your home in ways that don't depend on natural gas, at any part of the supply chain.
This is the best video you've ever made. Holy cow are you getting better at this. Your channel is criminally undervalued - you should be at 1 million subscribers. I tell everyone I know about this channel. Honestly, I'm not going to lie I was actually crying at the end. So much love and respect.
Thanks Jim! These videos are the most fun to make to be honest. They take a bit longer, but they are worth it. There aren't too many permaculture videos that are more than just a person with a phone in a garden. While I do like making those videos ALSO, I think it's important to try to get some big picture stuff out there also. Plus, this food forest is just getting so pretty, it's like cheating. Honestly, nature is so gosh darn beautiful, it knocks my socks off. I'm filling my phone storage with bunny clips this season lol - so many rabbits everywhere.
I've been binging your content the past few weeks, prior to that I'd been obsessed with political content and critiques, to the point that I'd started my own stupid gimmick of a show here on TH-cam. I'd moved away from it because it'd become so toxic and negative to my own existence, and had been realizing for months how empty it all was. I stumbled upon permaculture videos by accident whilst researching homesteading as the type of future I'd like to build with my fiancé. Your channel, combined with Living Web Farms lectures, and Edible Acres have really inspired me. I've started 2 gardens, one in my brothers suburban backyard, another on a rural property, both utilizing methods I learned from your channel. In the next couple of weeks my Dad agreed to allow me to go over to his property and 'ruin' his lawn, we'll be installing our first guild. It has been a long time since I was this excited to learn, I'd almost forgotten what having a passion for something that felt truly meaningful was like. Thank you for inspiring me to get off my ass and do something, this is the life I want and you helped me realize it. Cheers, keep up the good work. P.S. Your dogs are hilarious.
Honestly, comments like this is literally why I'm still making videos. Even something as wholesome as gardening and permaculture will come with attracting "all types" and I've had some really negative comments. I had a guy sending me photos of him cutting down trees, and he said for every one I plant, he'd cut 10 down. But then there are people like you, and so so so many others who have made comments like this, and I think, yes, this right here, this is why I'm making videos instead of just planting and enjoying my land. It's a lot of work to do all this, and I'm doing it for something like 30 cents per hour of labour right now. Sometimes I think "is it really worth my time to do this, or could I spend it in another more productive way - even to inspire people and cause change", but when you fine folks comment stuff like this, it really empowers me to keep doing it.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy This brought tears to my eyes, for two reasons. One, is that some people hate life so much, that they feel compelled to destroy it; and that is very sad. And two, thinking that you've been the target of such hate, that it causes you to question the value of your contribution, breaks my heart. Nothing could be further from the truth. I'm confident that you will never truly know the extent of your positive impact on innumerable lives...not to mention the planet. Words are inadequate to express my appreciation for all the time and effort you put into offering this gift to the rest of us out here. Ever since finding your channel a few months back, and now watching every day, I've not only learned so much from you, but even better, you've been the catalyst of change in my life, and brought about my understanding. Honestly, every video is awesome, but this one is your very best yet! I'm so grateful that you shared this with us; it's what I've been searching for. I've only jumped on the permaculture/food forest/regenerative sustainability bandwagon in the last six months or so. After months of research, hoping to discover the definition of what permaculture is, and not simply the HOW-to, you have given us the most beautiful, meaningful, all encompassing, description of the true essence of permaculture. What you said, was so touching, relevant, and poignant. You ROCK!
You guys are making my month. Thanks so much you are all so kind. It's honestly such an incredible community that I've built here. This place wouldn't be as amazing without you guys. It's honestly one of the most wholesome places on the internet, and that's not me that's all you guys.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy So I have tears. I am so very grateful to you, and to your other viewers . I have successfully run for office, and unsuccessfully run for office. I hope someday to interview you. Yes, figuring out the best ways to save our planet beyond individual action can be really challenging I wish I had time more often to write more and do more. You absolutely should have millions of subscribers.
I finally had some time to watch this. Great video. We can only make a difference if we try, every little bit helps, big or small. I would love to transform my entire 1/2 acre lawn into food forest. I guess 1/10 of it will do....lol. It is still so much better than nothing but grass. But, man, what a dream! A maze of edible and beneficial plants EVERYWHERE! LOL. Maybe a dream that could become more and more true over time. I still love the space I have, it's perfect for my life right now. I have other responsibilities too, as a father, a husband, and home owner. It's so much fun and tempting to spend all my time out in the garden. You are definitely right about the fact that I will be planting for the rest of my life. I love it. I'm hooked! PLANT! PLANT! PLANT! LOL Happy gardening Keith Cheers
Right back at ya. Indeed, this is lifetime goals. We have a lot of time to build towards an epic masterpiece. No better way to spend your free time though.
I'm confident that you will never truly know the extent of your positive impact on innumerable lives...not to mention the planet. I'm so very grateful for all the time and effort you put into sharing this gift with the rest of us out here. Ever since finding your channel a few months back, and now watching every day, I've not only learned so much from you, but even better, you've been the catalyst of change in my life, and brought about my understanding. Honestly, every video is awesome, but this one is your very best yet! I'm so grateful that you shared this with us; it's what I've been searching for. I've only jumped into the permaculture/food forest/regenerative sustainability movement in the last six months or so. After months of research, hoping to discover the definition of what permaculture is, and not simply the how-to, you have given us the most beautiful, meaningful, all encompassing, description of the true essence of permaculture. What you said, was so touching, relevant, and poignant. You ROCK!
Thanks so much! I'm just trying to be the change I want to see in the world. Lead by example, you know? I'm just grateful for all you wonderful people who want to listen to a guy talking about plants.
Thanks for inviting us all along on this journey. It's already been life changing for me, and I'm barely 8 month into it. I spend so much joyful time just visiting with my plants and watching the biodiversity come visit. I sometimes forget I'll eventually get food from the system too!
Totally in the Permie Camp! My most enduring motivation is my kiddos. Used to lie awake at night just worrying about the world that we are passing down to them. I still do so, but I also sometimes have difficulty falling asleep because I am so excited to explore nature, teach them about plants and the world around us,etc. really proud moment yesterday when I tried to explain deadheading to my 5 y.o. and he pulled out the entire stem instead. Without missing a beat, he said we should take the cutting and see if it would root (a la the mint we took cuttings from last week). I mean- you cannot beat that!!!!
"We are in the middle of a sixth mass extinction right now. Humanity has jumped of the cliff already, we are going to hit the ground. We've already caused too much destruction to actually be able to reverse this. Permaculture, to me, is the parachute." Love your clarity. Great way of saying what's going on without being more negative than necessary.
Man that's a tough tightrope to walk. We need urgent action, but at the same time, negativity is paralyzing. So how to balance motivating people by explaining the urgency, but also not cripple them with dread? I really do try to do more of the "see how awesome this is" as a motivator, because I think that works best.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Yes and I think you are doing a really great job in your unique way at this. I think it is not only what you say, but how you say it. With what kind of emotion, etc. We don't want to start acting, of course, but just be who we are. So we are also asked to find a healthy way of dealing with that potentially depressing situation ourselves. For me personally, besides actually doing something that makes a difference in my surroundings, it is also being present in the moment, not worrying about things that are not there yet, accepting evolutionary cycles, identifying with life in general more than with just the human species or our own body... ( This is going into the realm of spirituality.) I personally have accepted that humanity is fucked a few years ago. I'm trying to focus on building a refuge, and ark, a surviving bubble, a future for my daughter, etc. But again, I think you are doing an awesome job. Just keep going. And thank you so much for your work. You are making a difference. We will make a difference. It's important to have a community of like minded people that you can share you dark moments with. You created that here, too, I think. So awesome!
You’re so in love with your land and it’s so in love with you!! It’s a beautiful thing to witness. This is what momentum looks like!! Can’t wait to see how the planet is growing in five years. Regenerative agriculture is the only sustainability model - you’re so right.
great explanation, for me permaculture is a way of thinking and living in harmony with nature, leaving whatever space we got better after us, not worse.
I’m so happy you didn’t listen to the “nay-sayers.” I could watch you tour the property every day! We have recently acquired 8+ acres (family property that wasn’t managed), 5ish acres of trees. To say I’m overwhelmed is an understatement. But! I watch your evolution and see you eating ALL the things and I know that will be me in a few years. 💜 Thank you for all you are doing! If anyone is near the middle of North Carolina and would like to collaborate in person, I’m eager! And anyone anywhere else too, but probably not in person. 😉
Man! I came across your videos the other day researching well..what this video is all about! I just didn’t know what I was REALLY looking for until I came across permaculture. I recently purchased land in mid-north Ontario (zone 3a 😳🥶) and I see you’re zone 5. The land also has a water fall like yours 😍 I bought a bunch of appropriate zoned fruit trees, berries, nut trees. However, I didn’t realize how flowers being planted at the same time is the jam for success. Thank you for that tip. I would love to ask you questions on what to be mindful about in my zone. I resonate with what you say about ethics and morals. Especially, rejuvenating earth..into new earth!
Ha! We've all had that moment... where we're looking for something - we're not quite sure what - then we land on a video about permaculture and it... just... ties everything together. For your zone, you will be able to grow almost anything I grow here, except for maybe figs, peaches, persimmon, and paw paw. Most of the other stuff should be no problem in zone 3. Some stuff, like the seabuckthorn will actually like it colder.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy that’s a relief to know. Are you ok to lend advice on flowers? I took some notes from your other videos about golden rode. And duck weed for the water. I can’t wait for the spring!!
What an amazing video, well done. I loved how you put the cold hard truth of climate change and environmental destruction out there and offered hope. The parachute is a great analogy. 😊
I am so grateful i found your channel. i so desire to do this too and your channel inspires me to keep moving towards the goal of having my own place to do this. Thank your for all your time and effort to put this all together to share it.
Such a moving and beautiful video 💚 I find as I build my food forest that words, ideas and concepts from your videos pop up in my head and I take a path that’s closer to symbiosis with the soil, plants and earth than I would have before finding your’s and a couple of other channels . I am forever grateful 🌍🌏🌎
Thank you Keith for sharing your thoughts on permaculture and its role in climate change. To me, permaculture is the design of your land to allow your plants to be self sustaining. I really enjoyed your video and have shared your video amongst our sustainability groups. Thank you for sharing this video with us.
This is my FAVE vid of yours thus far! I live in an urban neighborhood where LOTS of us garden & farm. I wanna show THIS, on less than 1/5 of an acre...because I'm doing it, and I'm not the only one in my community. Truly inspiring & I'll have to watch it again to see all the stunning drone footage! Thank you!
You SO nailed that one Brother! Looks amazing, what you are building. Net zero house too? I started last spring in North Central Sask. I didn't know where it was going then, and I made lots of mistakes. Things got real when I got twenty yards of good mulch as a gift from the town. It was about the time I bought the first fruit trees, that I saw mushrooms growing out of the mulch. With the trees, I bought Mycorrhizae, then, just for the warranty on the plants. I know now, what the value of that connection is! That was where the spark occurred, and I found myself on this wonderful engaging path. This is the first spring in this little food forest. I have allowed the dandelions, plantain, and clover carry on and am getting some perennial color going, including some local wild varieties. I put in four trees, and quite a variety of bushes. Now I think I can find room for at least four more, and am thinking that rather than clone the bushes I have, more varieties. Those large ones would be better in twenty years ago; this year will have to do. :p Like you, I am out there as much as I am able. Sometimes I just sit and take it all in. Already have so very many birds and bees, a few butterflies, but it is, as you say, a supreme connection. The lifestyle is congruous with how I've lived my life, but it really brings all together. I so totally relate to your whole video. Thank you!
Vibing so hard with this comment. Life changing. Nice gift from the town! Wow! The house isnt a net zero house. If I was into permaculture when I was buying this house, I would have likely been looking for somewhere to build an earth ship home. Then again, I heard they don't work as well up here. Likely even harder in your climate. This is just a normal house, but I've spent money and work sealing it up to save winter heating. In the summer we have AC off almost every day, only really turn it on to exercise it to preserve the asset. We are a " sleep in your undies" home, ajd if you are still sweating then we will consider turning the AC on. Solar went in this year. I want to get a greywater system. I'd like to get some solar water preheating going on. Would love a rocket mass heater stove. So many wants.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Thank you. I so resonate with you. Yes, not perfection, but working toward a place, or a space in time. Speaking of working, I can see how much time and effort you have been spending. Can relate that it is good time, and feels good to work hard to get it started. Have an ancient house, 120 year old, and when I got the furnace they put the condenser in what would become the garden. I don't play that thing much, as the sound wrecks the vibe. In the summer, I only sleep inside, so really don't need it. (A little hut in the food forest would be sweet.) Solar is coming, and it will be off grid. Like you, so many wants - rocket mass makes good sense. Koreans have built a fire under stone floors with the chimney on the opposite side of the house for centuries. It sure feels great to be the change one wishes to see, doesn't it? Best regards
So glad to have you here. We all find sustainability through our own unique path, but the one constant is that it forever changes us for the better. Welcome to the family :)
Beautiful video, full of hope and encouragement. I loved seeing the before and after shots and how the dynamic of little islands of trees surviving in a sea grass transformed into a tsunami of diversity encroaching on the mono-lawn. Together we can grow our own islands and turn the tide.
A perfect description lol. I'm sure those trees would have done "okay" on their little 3 foot mulch islands inside the grass lawn. But would they be 20-30 foot giants already? Would they be dumping moving-bins full of food? I don't think so.
Keith: Thank you for what you do. You have significantly broadened the rather narrow view of permaculture from "guilds" to an entire way of life. It is a refreshing way of managing and coping with our somewhat battered world. Personally, I see it as significant and important as Rachael Carson's "Silent Spring" I hope it does go viral.
Thanks 😊 we need to build an army of tree planters and minimalists. Lots of plants, and none of the junk that clutter up our lives and doesn't bring us any happiness anyways.
Such a wonderful video and concept. I hope it inspires every person who is lucky enough to watch it. I know you put a lot of work into it and I want you to know it was worth all of your effort. I have 20 acres here in NE Missouri which had been all cattle pasture for probably at least 70 years. When my wife and I purchased the property we immediately started planting and we will not stop until we ourselves are in the ground. I can’t stand to be in the house longer than a few hours even in bad weather. I just love being out there with nature. My goal for my orchard is permaculture and I have also started a food forest as well. Thanks for your videos. I personally love watching “videos about plants”. I watch them when it’s impossible for me to be out there with my plants.
Just get started, and don't worry about being perfect. Keith shows us that we make more of a difference by not doubting, and just going for it. I, like many others here, have watched all your videos, and it does eventually rub off on you, even if you did grow up in a city where getting food from the grocery store is normalized. I have loved the arts and culture of a city, but increasingly, feel the tug to just be in my garden. I am rethinking all the things I thought to be true and wondering who designed our system that we use now, and how it got to be that I should feel alone at times when converting our front lawn to trees. I was surprised that my neighbours actually stopped to say hi, all because we were radically changing our landscape to something more natural. They think it different, and like it's an odd choice, but really, I think people with lawns and nothing else should be thought of as the odd ones, and I am curious as to their philosophy behind maintaining their lawn. We live right next to a park with plenty of lawn, so why do we need that cut grass monoculture in our front yards too? Why must the people who make the least sense not be questioned? I hope to convey to others through showing our lawn converted to forest, that there are other ways, and that they may indeed be much better. It was nice to see our neighbour go out on a whim and plant 5 fruit trees this week. I wonder if we had an influence on them, haha.
Haha thank you for this video and especially the “who’s going to watch a video about plants” comment. I started growing for the first time last year (apocalypse garden for covid) and killed a lot of stuff (starting planting in 113 degree summertime is foolish) but I learned a lot and kept my bokashi and compost going all year, started again a bit earlier… but yea, there is an obsession with plants that’s growing as well as the understanding of growing and propagating and feeding and reading plants grows as well, and it’s pretty awesome. So. Thank you for starting to make videos about plants :p
At this point I've made a number of comments, asking question. I just want you to know, i was looking for what to do with my front yard. And after my partner sent me a video of yours i went ah ha, this is what we need to do. We've seen a number of environmental related documentaries lately. I want to help with my small 1/3 of an acre, in the middle of town. And food forrest, permaculture, seemed the best way we can help. We can use, or give away, what we make, and help sequester carbon and improve the planet. I love it and will be living it as best i can.
Just the right mix of practicality and philosophy, which is what I enjoy thoroughly about your channel. Permaculture hovered for a long while in the fringes and I think possibly even scared some people off as impractical and unimplementable. No more. It has come convincingly onto centre stage, together with regenerative agriculture, and is increasingly attracting practitioners who show that it can be done. Keep at it. This is important and is an idea whose time has come.
Thanks. I'm definitely always firmly rooted on the practical side of things. In my schooling, I went into university in Theoretical Physics, but I decided to change to engineering because I wanted to create and do, not just sit and think.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy , Yep talk about irony personified! I'll be tossing some leftover seeds at various locations in parks in my area to do my bit also.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy quick question. Im from windsor and i see large swaths of natural areas being taken over by phragmites. I noticed some along your waterway too. What is the permaculture approach to such ravenous invasives? (Future video idea?)
Inspiring. I am a retired teacher, who used to be a wildlife biologist. At 65, I am just beginning my food forest. When I bought some trees last week, a friend called me an optimist. I think so. This video was informative and very much appreciated. Thanks.
Great summary and a very nice presentation as always. I can only add that learning about permaculture has increased my foraging of weeds and wild plants a lot this year. It seems even strange to me to buy greens from the stores nowadays when my property provides bishop's weeds, stinging nettles, dandelions, cow parsley and fresh birch leaves in abundance, and some quite nice teas can be made from all bilberry, raspberry, lingonberry and rowan leaves I have around here. However, it is a very slow and cold start of the season in my parts of the world so far and my annuals look more boring than ever. Thankfully, most of my new perennials, trees and bushes seem to make it despite deer preusure and late frost attacks. Hopefully, they will bring new and tasty things to forage in the future. Take care!
Yeah can't echo this enough. I would have never thought I would be a forager, but now it's one of the most enjoyable hobbies. Definitely one where healthy doses of caution is advised, but a great hobby for sure.
Thanks Margaret. If there's one video I want to go viral, it's this one. I want to convert as many traditional Gardners as possible, and also introduce new people to a better way to live.
Great video! So inspiring and I especially love the drone footage!! I began a permaculture class in 2019, and through 2020 things went remote which changed the dynamic a bit doing it all online. I have since found your channel and have learned so much!! Cheers to the resistance and to regenerative ag!
Have you read the book Ishmael? They make a very similar comparison about society jumping off a cliff and thinking it can fly if it pedals a bike harder but is actually dropping. The whole philosophy of the book very much supports what you talk about in these videos.
Really nicely done video. Hits the mark with pretty much all my own viewpoints. It's only now I realise I once lived next to an 'accidental' permaculture site around 50 years ago. All over one side of a hill overlooking my home, there had been a number of small holiday cottages built during the late Victorian to Edwardian era, these all slowly falling into disuse. Abandoned, the houses disintegrated and the gardens went wild. We kids used to go up there with bags and buckets and pick plums, bullaces, walnuts, raspberries, greengages, hazelnuts, strawberries, angelica stems, many apples and pears - and more besides. All these plants had survived alone for at least 30 years (many for longer). All were perfectly fit and healthy. They just didn't need any human interaction.
Yeah, very exciting when stuff like that happens. They just found a 150 year old abandoned food forest in BC, still as productive as ever, and teeming with wildlife.
Love your content and your own perspective on permaculture. Some permaculturists I feel can be too "experty". You approach is more experiment and get out there and do something instead of thinking too much and making too many steps to accomplish something. I love it and you have been a huge influence to me on my permaculture journey!
Awesome. I completely agree. I also have a feeling many channels just show you their best spaces and none of the failings. It's in the failings where we learn the most, and can help others not repeat them. I try to show you guys poison ivy and dog strangling vine, ajd failed peach cuttings, and poor sheet mulch areas, so that you can learn from things I could have done better.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy And by showing the good and the bad, it helps beginners like me not fear or give up if I run into failures or obstacles. It makes me learn from my mistakes and what I can do better next time. Truly believe that if you're not always learning something while on this journey, than you're not doing it right. Your videos and your whole outlook and philosophy help more people than you may think. I pray to see your channel grow even more so that maybe one day, you can do this full time!
You should check out West Texas Garden Experiment. His clips documenting his journey are great. He just jumps in and tries things and you can watch him learning as he goes. Approaches things with curiosity and thinks up interesting things to test out his ideas.
I really liked this episode. Watching B roll whilst explaining Permaculture 👌Great editing! Can you please do another episode on explaining what is happening now with GameStop? You did such a great job explaining what was happening with GameStop in the beginning and now I would like an update. I don't speak Wall Street and I just don't understand holding off selling your shares until it reaches over 20million, who would be so foolish to buy a share for 20million. My son in-law says the hedge funds will be force to, but didn't this hedge fund borrow/over bought a limited amount of shares that doesn't measure the amount of regular people who bought shares to support GameStop?
During gardening season? I'm so busy with my true passion, I don't see myself making another gamestop video until at least the fall. I think the story is still the same though. The hedge funds are in emergency mode. The crypto flash crash is largely instigated by them trying to create liquidity by selling crypto assets. They will bring down the entire stock market just to stay solvent. It's going to be quite the ride. But yeah the story is the same. There are more shares shorted than exist. That still hasn't changed.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy on a recent tv show they mentioned gamestop in passing, but they alluded to the short sellers sabotaging the stock after all the public buys into it, thus robbing the people. Just the very idea of this being allowed to happen at all means that the stock market itself cannot be supported at all. Although technically the stock market was originally supposed to be an insurance for companies, and it is exactly that, but at the expense of the people. some day the people will decide that it must be the other way around, that companies must lay down in support of the people, or civilization fails, or must fail if it's designed to run at the direct expense of the people~
Collette O'Neil. I bought her book. She has a lovely place. I'm not really all about the goddess permaculture thing, but think it's fantastic for any who do dig that stuff. Her food forest is incredible.
I know right? Once they hit 7-10 years old you start getting the canopy. Once they hit 20-30 years it's a literal forest. I want to see that 150 year abandoned one in BC that they just found. Honestly, once you hit about 50 years or more, I bet a 50-year food forest is nearly indistinguishable from Eden.
Beautiful presentation, thank you! I’ve transformed many patches of my town lot into perennial foods near my mature apple trees. You’re right about the gardens & lawn…so much more work! My raised garden beds are struggling in the heat. I need to mulch them with grass. I have recently planted 6 sea buckthorn plants, 2 elderberry & 3 Gojiberry trees that are very small in my front yard. I sure hope they survive in our zone 2/3. I intend to lay cardboard around them & mulch so the grass can’t overtake them. I have 2 Mustang cherry plum trees that survived in the front yard since last spring. My haskaps & sour cherry trees are doing well since last spring. We have so many deer that visit & like to nibble so soap hanging in net bags seems to deter them. Does it matter what kind of wood chips you use around the tiny trees?
Nope, any woodchips will do, ideally a mix. The only minor concern (and its minor) is if you chipped up a Juglans species and used only that (walnut, butternut, pecan, etc).
This is absolutely beautiful and it’s exactly how I think of this. I have a pretty weird idea tho. A few days ago in the news on the Netherlands there was a message. It was that in the last 5 years there was an extreme drought and this year there was a lot of rain. Even so much that in the end of may, it’s still raining and you see a lot of biodiversity and root crops now. So maybe it’s weird, but my thought was that nature knows that there’s a lot of drought and that it could recognize it and let it rain again and so restore itself. We have no science to proof it, but so doesn’t science proof a lot of things about nature. If this is the case, why would we be so worried about the planet. One of the last studies showed that warmer climate plants take more co2 out of the air than colder climate plants, cant find it anymore tho so I have no case to proof it, but if this is the case to it also wouldn’t be weird that the planet warms up and create warmer climates so that we can grow olive trees in the Netherlands haha. It’s all just ideas, it probably doesn’t work like that, but sometimes it’s good to know that although science brought us far, we cannot proof everything and somethings we can’t proof are crucial for the understanding of the climate and nature.
I think there are a lot of natural cycles that happen and move the planet between extremes. It's funny but my engineer brain can't help think about dampening curves and how they oscillate based on what the dampening factor is. I'll try to link what I mean, I hope youtube don't remove my comment for the link: www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/underdamped-system. Look at section 13.26.2 in that thing. It talks about the dampening factor and how the response changes as it goes from underdamped to critically damped to overdamped. There are several of these which lead to unstable conditions, and if you are inside them you don't really see anything other than, say "really hot this year, really cold the next". Or "really dry" then "really wet". And you don't know if you are in a slightly underdamped stable condition or if you are in an unstable underdamped condition. Then consider that the dampening factor isn't static but is dynamic and changing and you get some real chaos happening. So this wet/dry thing, I think is less about nature having any kind of inert intelligence (I think there is a lot of intelligence in nature, but not a "hey I'm too dry lets make more rain" kind of thing, and more of a natural shrink/swell cycle - similar to insect population responses to predator insect populations, and this kind of dampening factors. It's even more complex when you consider that the "dampening factor" is likely based on many different things all feeding in at once. How much trees are causing evapotranspiration, weather patterns, soil chemistry, soil hydration, water table cycles, insect cycles, wildlife browse impacting plants and their population cycles, ocean currants, wind patterns, etc. So so so many factors at play.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I didn't meant inert intellegence, I mean something that could be scientifically proofable, but isn't proofed yet. There's one thing I don't understand, because if you have a factor that's dynamic and changes on so many different scales. How is it even possible to calculate that in to a formula, but i'm sixteen and probably don't know enough about this subject to have authority to speak of this haha. Especially not against someone with an engineering degree.
@@dionysos4288 For a sixteen-year old, you are pondering some very interesting things! Youth brings fresh and flexible thinking, which can work beneficially with age and experience. Without the inquisitiveness of our youngsters, us oldies would atrophy and become inflexible in our thinking. Don't ever be too daunted to ask questions or be worried about replies. I can imagine that Keith was chuffed to be able to brush off some of his engineering know-how and enjoyed having the opportunity to respond. That is a compliment to you.
@@Jo-ki3mj thank you all for the kind comments, I didn't thought in any way that the comment of Canadian Permaculture Legacy was a critique or something. I like having discussions with everybody on the internet or in real life. I also have alot of respect for all of you being so open minded. So I repeat thank you all.
Dionysos, Youth such as yourself give me so much hope for our planet. I believe that your generation is extra special and we’ll see great things from you in terms of symbiosis with this amazing planet. And as an older generation, I hope to support you all by doing my part and and not just relying on you all to fix everything. Don’t ever allow anyone to subdue your voice, passion, hope, enthusiasm and perseverance 🌎🌏🌍
Oh hello! It's a wonderful song, I have used it in a few spots. Thank you for making such wonderful music and making it free for the world to use. I will keep my eye out for more of your stuff.
Permaculture translated for programmers: "All that stuff is standard-library and incredibly well optimized over billions of years with rolling updates, so stop wasting time and resources reinventing the wheel. Just look at some of nature's samples, read the docs, and please use a copyleft license!"
Hey Keith, I hope that you still get these messages. I am going through your entire "essentials course"! I am enjoying your videos a ton!! Thanks for all of the hard work and sharing. I am trying to find where you talk about several of the books that you have read. Could you let me know which video this is in?
Awesome video. A great one I can share with friends & fam that saves me from finding the words without sounding like an obsessed woowoo hippy. That being said, lately I've been looking into Syntropic Agroforestry. Have you researched it? What do you think about it?
Your roof looks great, who did it? I tried looking into solar panels a few years ago but they just weren't worth the cost for Quebec, maybe that's changed?
A place called Terawatt solar. I'll do a video on the pricing and estimated ROI, etc. Basically roof was approx 30k with no batteries. Batteries doubles the cost. Economics were definitely better before with the incentives, but I've been waiting for new incentives for 5 years and I decided I'm going to stop waiting for my government to be responsible.
ahhh there is the video which got etched in my memory where you pull clover to mulch strawberrys. When i do that know i always think of this video of yours. which got me thinking: I got lots of clover in the garden now. Great! Lots of N fixation. But there are other important nutrients i need plants to mine for. Do you have a good ressource on which plants accumulate what nutrients? I wasn't very satisfied on my web searches.
There is really very poor information about it. Here is one done on liquid manures ("compost teas") made from various plants. www.researchgate.net/publication/325078608_The_Nutrient_Content_of_Organic_Liquid_Fertilizers_in_Zimbabwe. However, it's just one paper, one experiment. Science is all about TONS of information. Short answer is that we need more research to be done on which plants accumulate which nutrients. You'll hear stuff like "comfrey accumulates x, y, and z" but how much? In what soils? In what conditions? What varieties? What about other plants? Truly there's just so many factors at play, that it makes this kind of research very difficult (and un-economical) to perform.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I really have to tell you, how amazing i find it how much you communicate with your subscribers. Thank you! and thank you for that Link! And for the idea to write my thesis about this topic.
Hello I loveee your videos, thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. I just have a question, what do you think of window greenhouses? Are they safe for the environment? I love gardening and I would like to do more with my plants during the winter time so I’ve been thinking to build one. do you think it’s a good idea?
People who own and have access to land have no idea how fortunate they are. I live in the city in a trailer park in the SF Bay Area. I feel like I belong in nature but do not have a million dollars to buy land in the country. Bare land with no home on it is still in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. I feel stuck, it's a bad feeling.
I love learning from you! I’m in zone 6a USA . I’ve been planting everything I can get my hands on ! I bought sea buckthorn seeds online and only one germinates 😢. Can you suggest a reputable company?
Rain Tree Nursery has good plants and carries a few varieties of sea buckthorn, but they're out of stock and ended their spring shipping. They'll be accepting orders for fall shipping starting in July though
This is a complicated question. The ethics one often comes down to it's energy usage, and it's important to understand that there is a lot of misinformation going around on that one. People love to talk about the total energy consumption of bitcoin, but they don't like to talk about 2 factors that massively change the ethics part of that equation. Firstly that most of the energy used to mine bitcoin is green. It just so happens that when you use that much energy it becomes very attractive to install solar. Secondly is that it's less energy than the current systems in place. Nobody talks about the energy consumption and ecosystem devastation of the financial markets, gold mining, etc. Because bitcoin has no central controller, there's no giant office buildings pumping AC for banks and credit cards and all the supporting industry. No office supplies and human transportation required to support all the moving parts of a company like Visa who is it displacing, etc. For the other side of the ethics - who gets rich off this, which I think you are hitting on the other side of your comment - there's really no fixing something like that. It's people trying to find a solution to a problem that cannot be solved. I mean, what's the only solution, to take all the world's money and spread it out to everyone evenly? Sure that's equality, but it's not equity. It's also based entirely in a fairy tale world where that's possible. So often people try to squash an idea by creating some ideal that isn't possible and if it doesn't meet that ideal, then in their mind the solution is no good. Well that's just insane, because that leads us back to the status quo and with massive wealth inequality. Often we think we need to make something perfect, or there's no point changing. That's wrong. We just need something better than what currently exists. There is no garden of Eden, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to make something better than what we have. Also, a lot of the counterpoints on something like Bitcoin are solved with a project like Nano. To me, Nano is everything Bitcoin wanted to be. It's fully green. It's free. It was originally handed out via airdrop to anyone who wanted to play with some. Literally every point I mentioned in this reply is better with Nano, and Nano is catching on bigtime. People who think they missed the bitcoin boat only missed "grandpa". Well, grandpa was Generation 1, and Nano is generation... I dunno, maybe Generation 5? People are still talking about grandpa flying his rickety old by-plane 1 foot off the ground (the Wright brothers), meanwhile Generation 5 is already launching rocketships to space, and for some reason because everyone was SO slow to realize the importance of grandpa, they are just now understanding that flight is a good thing. Meanwhile Nano is over here changing the world and almost nobody has heard of it yet. It's interesting times.
I have huge respect for all that you've done. And this was a great video in all manner. However, you addressed it briefly when mentioning centuries old food forests that still thrive: these ethics and systems are centuries old. Belonging to the Indigenous Peoples. I feel that it needs to be mentioned that permaculture often "white washes" traditional knowledge and claims it as its own. This is part of the problem.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Maybe mention it to your audience in the future? It could really plant a seed with your viewers and break down barriers. You have an amazing platform and your doing great things with it. This could be a larger part of the legacy you speak of. Big love.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Thank you for being open to feedback. That's amazing! Your channel is an inspiration to all of us starting out in our anarchistic gardening journey. Never stop.
@@pixiebeen I don't understand this fanaticism about cultural appropriation. Cultural appropriation is just cultures evolving by mixing with other cultures. Without cultural appropriation, we wouldn't have jazz, rock and roll or any other music that we listen to today. Without cultural appropriation, we wouldn't have any of the tools we use today. To argue against it is to argue against our evolution as a species. It doesn't matter if it came from indigenous people hundreds of years ago or if it came from Billy bob in Kentucky. All that amounts to is an accident of birth. We are all humans. We all share the same history, the same genetics, the same accomplishments and the same failures. The only thing stopping us from realizing this is our own egos and when you drop the ego, you realize that everything in our society came from another culture at some point. Their accomplishments are our accomplishments, whether or not they share the same skin color or ancestry. Also realize this point, being against cultural appropriation is literally segregationist thinking. You don't want cultures to mix. Everyone of that culture needs to be a stereotype representing that culture. That is the end game I'm hearing.
This is very inspiring. I in central Pennsylvania. Which videos of yours's would be the best to watch to get started with this (for dummies)? Thank you.
I completely agree with the concept of permaculture. But, how much food does your “forest” actually produce? I need to bottle 150 pint jars of green beans every year for just 2 people. Plus another 52 jars of beets, and 150 jars of corn, if I’m to grow the vegetables my family eats. How do you do that without row or block cropping? Thank you
The past 3 years we've had to actually buy another 2 freezers because we're producing that much food that we need to freeze. Each season we dehydrate and can about 40-50 jars worth of food, and then we fill 3 deep freezers full. I've estimated that we're growing about 30 to 40 thousand dollars worth of food and veggies, although I'd suspect it's quite substantially more than that with current prices of food.
I see you put cardboard down before starting a new permaculture area. Do you remove the grass first? Or just smother it with the cardboard? Next, is it compost or wood chips as the next layer? How long does the process take before bushes/ground cover can be planted? Thanks so much!
As far as how long does it take, that completely depends on climate. Heat and wetness speeds up the breakdown. It can be done right way, and you can sheet mulch around the new trees, or you can let it sit for 6 months to a year and let the soil develop, which will improve the chances of trees surviving. It all depends on your plan, goals, timeline and climate.
Permaculture may mimic nature, but I don't think "Hot composting" occurs naturally in nature very often. My back has determined that chop and drop will be my method of composting. It's VERY insistent.
I live in Zone 4 and my whole life I've been told that I need to control my mint or it will choke everything else out. Is that true? should I not add mint to my permaculture?
You should be careful if you don't want it spreading. However, I want my groundcovers to spread, so I'm all for mint spreading. It's a great smell deflecting plant. It helps hide your fruit from pests. I want that to spread!
You would have to fight my wife I think. I choose solely by combat prowess. LOL, all jokes aside, thanks for the comment. It's a shared passion that unites all of us. We just need to light that passion in others.
18 points? Hmmmm... the answer to that one is at least 120 points. So what 18 does the professor want to hear... What's on the marking guide? hmmm, better just blast a 20 page response and hope I hit them all.
6:25 -might want to link the video in the i Card at this timestamp. Idk if it actually generates more views but a lot of big youtubers do it.- 14:54 -for the other one lol.- Great lead in to it Never mind didnt see the description first. At least you got the timestamps
Indeed, thanks, helps saving me time to look them up. Just watching the Lesfs crush the Canadians right now. Will update the links right after the game.
7 years after ripping up our front lawn to put in a food forest, we're finally starting to enjoy the "forest" part. We wouldn't spend anywhere near as much time in our yard (or get as much enjoyment out of it) if it was only grass.
I wish I could give you something more than a simple "thank you" for this. You surpassed any expectations I could've had when I asked for this and hit everything that I was talking about. NGL it made me misty eyed too.
12/10
Awesome man, thanks. It was a long overdo video. And honestly, the best "thank you" is just sharing this channel with friends.
This was.... beautiful. My man, you outdid yourself today.
Thanks Matt
i dont remember exactly how i came across permaculture but i know i binged all of your videos in a few days. im a permie and im proud! once your soil goes black, you can never go back!
LOL 😆
Right?!?!
I’m so there! I’ve binged watched almost all of the channels videos. This one spoke to my soul.
So grateful to have someone in a zone close to mine (5b Coast of Maine) who has two brain cells to rub together at any given time. I have taken so much from what you’ve shared. Thank you.
I started my tiny space on less than an acre for my 3 sons and my grandchildren. In the beginning it was for them.
Now, it is for them, me and anyone who will listen.
❤️
Also grateful for your both feet in approach! 😉😁
Haha well said.
Very interesting....fabulous outlook for our planet......thank U!!
Pre 2017: I was a depressed, lonely Doomer who was stuck in a pit of nihilism and misanthropy caused by humanity's inability to save themselves from their own actions. There didn't seem to be any way a single person could make a difference in our screwed up society so I gave up on the world and locked myself into my bedroom all day playing video games and watching youtube, counting down the days I wouldn't have to live in this world anymore. No hopes. No goals. Just the bitter aftertaste of this life to remind me that I was even alive. "Be the change you want to see" was just something I would say to keep following my own code of ethics but I didn't believe it made any difference, no matter how much I helped others. In the end, I just did it so I could have a slight bit of hope in this world that something could be better. The only futures I could imagine for myself were ending my own life or apocalypse fantasy, and it's obvious which one was more likely.
Post 2017: I'm still a depressed Doomer but I finally have a path I can take to actually have a chance to change the world, even if it will be too little, too late. At least we can get the recovery done right and put humanity on the right track to earn the title "enlightened being." We can actually make a difference with permaculture even if we can't actually make our own food forests. It may be a struggle to convince anyone around me to listen but at least now I actually have a reason to fight instead of a million reasons to give up. And that's all a lot of us really need, just a good reason to stand up and fight. This is that reason everyone has been waiting for the last 100 years. We can do this, together. We got this.
There this one stuck! Thank you TH-cam overlords for letting someone's comment stay....
Powerful comment man. I'll admit, your comments are some of the ones that keep me making videos. I think we've all been through hard times - mine were in university right in the middle of the engineering grind. Just thinking back to those years... ehhhhk. So glad I'm not in that situation anymore and I pushed through it. I had classmates commit suicide, I went through some rough patches myself. Just really depressed with the world I just got finished watching seaspiracy, and even though I understand that a lot of experts think it's only partially accurate, it really leaves you with a question of it we really should even be saved at all? I mean, the good humans are amazing people... but there's just so many terrible people out there, and their impact on the planet is tremendous.
I don't know if there's any solution other than to just put the head down and push through it, and try to change as many people as we can before our influence on the path of humanity fades into the history books as our time here ends.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy It's amazing how many of the community return to these videos to check the comments.
@@PaleGhost69 Always!
very well said.
@@PaleGhost69 Name one!
Anarchy disguised as gardening.
Yeah pretty much!
That's exactly what Bill Mollison had in mind. It's the only way out.
Regenerative Rebellion
@@nonono4160 Who gives those people their money?
@@nonono4160 Yes, he bought them. You have to start somewhere. Buying things is forever. What you buy and who you buy it from is where you can make the difference. Don't put money in the pockets of people who do things you disagree with. Obtaining your food in ways that don't send Bayer any money is a very good step. If you're against fracking, heat your home in ways that don't depend on natural gas, at any part of the supply chain.
That is true Forest today I buy only one plant and then I couldn’t stop buying it I love plant
Same!
This is the best video you've ever made. Holy cow are you getting better at this. Your channel is criminally undervalued - you should be at 1 million subscribers. I tell everyone I know about this channel. Honestly, I'm not going to lie I was actually crying at the end. So much love and respect.
Thanks Jim! These videos are the most fun to make to be honest. They take a bit longer, but they are worth it. There aren't too many permaculture videos that are more than just a person with a phone in a garden. While I do like making those videos ALSO, I think it's important to try to get some big picture stuff out there also. Plus, this food forest is just getting so pretty, it's like cheating. Honestly, nature is so gosh darn beautiful, it knocks my socks off. I'm filling my phone storage with bunny clips this season lol - so many rabbits everywhere.
I've been binging your content the past few weeks, prior to that I'd been obsessed with political content and critiques, to the point that I'd started my own stupid gimmick of a show here on TH-cam. I'd moved away from it because it'd become so toxic and negative to my own existence, and had been realizing for months how empty it all was. I stumbled upon permaculture videos by accident whilst researching homesteading as the type of future I'd like to build with my fiancé.
Your channel, combined with Living Web Farms lectures, and Edible Acres have really inspired me. I've started 2 gardens, one in my brothers suburban backyard, another on a rural property, both utilizing methods I learned from your channel. In the next couple of weeks my Dad agreed to allow me to go over to his property and 'ruin' his lawn, we'll be installing our first guild. It has been a long time since I was this excited to learn, I'd almost forgotten what having a passion for something that felt truly meaningful was like.
Thank you for inspiring me to get off my ass and do something, this is the life I want and you helped me realize it.
Cheers, keep up the good work.
P.S. Your dogs are hilarious.
Honestly, comments like this is literally why I'm still making videos. Even something as wholesome as gardening and permaculture will come with attracting "all types" and I've had some really negative comments. I had a guy sending me photos of him cutting down trees, and he said for every one I plant, he'd cut 10 down.
But then there are people like you, and so so so many others who have made comments like this, and I think, yes, this right here, this is why I'm making videos instead of just planting and enjoying my land.
It's a lot of work to do all this, and I'm doing it for something like 30 cents per hour of labour right now. Sometimes I think "is it really worth my time to do this, or could I spend it in another more productive way - even to inspire people and cause change", but when you fine folks comment stuff like this, it really empowers me to keep doing it.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I'd call that guy's bluff. At that rate, his game is going to end a lot sooner than yours.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy This brought tears to my eyes, for two reasons. One, is that some people hate life so much, that they feel compelled to destroy it; and that is very sad. And two, thinking that you've been the target of such hate, that it causes you to question the value of your contribution, breaks my heart. Nothing could be further from the truth.
I'm confident that you will never truly know the extent of your positive impact on innumerable lives...not to mention the planet. Words are inadequate to express my appreciation for all the time and effort you put into offering this gift to the rest of us out here.
Ever since finding your channel a few months back, and now watching every day, I've not only learned so much from you, but even better, you've been the catalyst of change in my life, and brought about my understanding.
Honestly, every video is awesome, but this one is your very best yet! I'm so grateful that you shared this with us; it's what I've been searching for.
I've only jumped on the permaculture/food forest/regenerative sustainability bandwagon in the last six months or so. After months of research, hoping to discover the definition of what permaculture is, and not simply the HOW-to, you have given us the most beautiful, meaningful, all encompassing, description of the true essence of permaculture. What you said, was so touching, relevant, and poignant.
You ROCK!
You guys are making my month. Thanks so much you are all so kind. It's honestly such an incredible community that I've built here. This place wouldn't be as amazing without you guys. It's honestly one of the most wholesome places on the internet, and that's not me that's all you guys.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy So I have tears. I am so very grateful to you, and to your other viewers . I have successfully run for office, and unsuccessfully run for office. I hope someday to interview you. Yes, figuring out the best ways to save our planet beyond individual action can be really challenging I wish I had time more often to write more and do more. You absolutely should have millions of subscribers.
I finally had some time to watch this. Great video.
We can only make a difference if we try, every little bit helps, big or small.
I would love to transform my entire 1/2 acre lawn into food forest.
I guess 1/10 of it will do....lol. It is still so much better than nothing but grass. But, man, what a dream! A maze of edible and beneficial plants EVERYWHERE! LOL. Maybe a dream that could become more and more true over time. I still love the space I have, it's perfect for my life right now. I have other responsibilities too, as a father, a husband, and home owner. It's so much fun and tempting to spend all my time out in the garden.
You are definitely right about the fact that I will be planting for the rest of my life.
I love it. I'm hooked!
PLANT! PLANT! PLANT! LOL
Happy gardening Keith
Cheers
Right back at ya. Indeed, this is lifetime goals. We have a lot of time to build towards an epic masterpiece. No better way to spend your free time though.
Your pc homestead is spectacular and your philosophy is bang on for our time.
Thanks 😊
ive commented before even watching this video =respect to all the permaculture students and teachers
100%
I'm confident that you will never truly know the extent of your positive impact on innumerable lives...not to mention the planet. I'm so very grateful for all the time and effort you put into sharing this gift with the rest of us out here.
Ever since finding your channel a few months back, and now watching every day, I've not only learned so much from you, but even better, you've been the catalyst of change in my life, and brought about my understanding.
Honestly, every video is awesome, but this one is your very best yet! I'm so grateful that you shared this with us; it's what I've been searching for.
I've only jumped into the permaculture/food forest/regenerative sustainability movement in the last six months or so. After months of research, hoping to discover the definition of what permaculture is, and not simply the how-to, you have given us the most beautiful, meaningful, all encompassing, description of the true essence of permaculture. What you said, was so touching, relevant, and poignant.
You ROCK!
Thanks so much! I'm just trying to be the change I want to see in the world. Lead by example, you know? I'm just grateful for all you wonderful people who want to listen to a guy talking about plants.
Thanks for inviting us all along on this journey. It's already been life changing for me, and I'm barely 8 month into it. I spend so much joyful time just visiting with my plants and watching the biodiversity come visit. I sometimes forget I'll eventually get food from the system too!
Amazing. So exciting.
Establishing above harvesting, and no harvesting at the expense of establishing, that's the first step~
Totally in the Permie Camp! My most enduring motivation is my kiddos. Used to lie awake at night just worrying about the world that we are passing down to them. I still do so, but I also sometimes have difficulty falling asleep because I am so excited to explore nature, teach them about plants and the world around us,etc. really proud moment yesterday when I tried to explain deadheading to my 5 y.o. and he pulled out the entire stem instead. Without missing a beat, he said we should take the cutting and see if it would root (a la the mint we took cuttings from last week). I mean- you cannot beat that!!!!
That's awesome. Kids just love this stuff. The thought of taking a cutting and then creating a new plant out of it, that's kind of magic.
"We are in the middle of a sixth mass extinction right now. Humanity has jumped of the cliff already, we are going to hit the ground. We've already caused too much destruction to actually be able to reverse this. Permaculture, to me, is the parachute." Love your clarity. Great way of saying what's going on without being more negative than necessary.
Man that's a tough tightrope to walk. We need urgent action, but at the same time, negativity is paralyzing. So how to balance motivating people by explaining the urgency, but also not cripple them with dread?
I really do try to do more of the "see how awesome this is" as a motivator, because I think that works best.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Yes and I think you are doing a really great job in your unique way at this.
I think it is not only what you say, but how you say it. With what kind of emotion, etc. We don't want to start acting, of course, but just be who we are. So we are also asked to find a healthy way of dealing with that potentially depressing situation ourselves. For me personally, besides actually doing something that makes a difference in my surroundings, it is also being present in the moment, not worrying about things that are not there yet, accepting evolutionary cycles, identifying with life in general more than with just the human species or our own body... ( This is going into the realm of spirituality.)
I personally have accepted that humanity is fucked a few years ago. I'm trying to focus on building a refuge, and ark, a surviving bubble, a future for my daughter, etc.
But again, I think you are doing an awesome job. Just keep going. And thank you so much for your work. You are making a difference. We will make a difference. It's important to have a community of like minded people that you can share you dark moments with. You created that here, too, I think. So awesome!
Like minded indeed :)
This has got to be your best video yet and my favorite. Resilience not convenience is the way we should be living
Amen
You’re so in love with your land and it’s so in love with you!! It’s a beautiful thing to witness. This is what momentum looks like!!
Can’t wait to see how the planet is growing in five years. Regenerative agriculture is the only sustainability model - you’re so right.
I have watched this video 5 times now. This video needs to go viral.
Haha nice. I'm glad it had such an impact on you. That probably says a lot about the quality of person you are.
I've done the same thing but I wasn't keeping track. Every time the algorithm recommends it, I click on it.
great explanation, for me permaculture is a way of thinking and living in harmony with nature, leaving whatever space we got better after us, not worse.
Can't say anything bad about that definition!
I’m so happy you didn’t listen to the “nay-sayers.” I could watch you tour the property every day!
We have recently acquired 8+ acres (family property that wasn’t managed), 5ish acres of trees. To say I’m overwhelmed is an understatement. But! I watch your evolution and see you eating ALL the things and I know that will be me in a few years. 💜
Thank you for all you are doing!
If anyone is near the middle of North Carolina and would like to collaborate in person, I’m eager! And anyone anywhere else too, but probably not in person. 😉
Man! I came across your videos the other day researching well..what this video is all about! I just didn’t know what I was REALLY looking for until I came across permaculture. I recently purchased land in mid-north Ontario (zone 3a 😳🥶) and I see you’re zone 5. The land also has a water fall like yours 😍 I bought a bunch of appropriate zoned fruit trees, berries, nut trees. However, I didn’t realize how flowers being planted at the same time is the jam for success. Thank you for that tip. I would love to ask you questions on what to be mindful about in my zone. I resonate with what you say about ethics and morals. Especially, rejuvenating earth..into new earth!
Ha! We've all had that moment... where we're looking for something - we're not quite sure what - then we land on a video about permaculture and it... just... ties everything together.
For your zone, you will be able to grow almost anything I grow here, except for maybe figs, peaches, persimmon, and paw paw. Most of the other stuff should be no problem in zone 3. Some stuff, like the seabuckthorn will actually like it colder.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy that’s a relief to know. Are you ok to lend advice on flowers? I took some notes from your other videos about golden rode. And duck weed for the water. I can’t wait for the spring!!
I do my best to answer any comments I can. There's a lot though!
Fabulous. I've learned so much from you & I will pass on my legacy here on the W.Coast
What an amazing video, well done. I loved how you put the cold hard truth of climate change and environmental destruction out there and offered hope. The parachute is a great analogy. 😊
Thank you 😊 I always want to make my videos upbeat and happy, but the reality is that we need a kick in the tush right now.
I am so grateful i found your channel. i so desire to do this too and your channel inspires me to keep moving towards the goal of having my own place to do this. Thank your for all your time and effort to put this all together to share it.
Thanks! Good luck, I hope you can make it happen!
Nice sharing...
Thank you 😍
Such a moving and beautiful video 💚
I find as I build my food forest that words, ideas and concepts from your videos pop up in my head and I take a path that’s closer to symbiosis with the soil, plants and earth than I would have before finding your’s and a couple of other channels . I am forever grateful 🌍🌏🌎
I'm so glad!
Thank you Keith for sharing your thoughts on permaculture and its role in climate change. To me, permaculture is the design of your land to allow your plants to be self sustaining. I really enjoyed your video and have shared your video amongst our sustainability groups. Thank you for sharing this video with us.
Thanks for sharing - it means a lot.
This is my FAVE vid of yours thus far! I live in an urban neighborhood where LOTS of us garden & farm. I wanna show THIS, on less than 1/5 of an acre...because I'm doing it, and I'm not the only one in my community. Truly inspiring & I'll have to watch it again to see all the stunning drone footage! Thank you!
Sounds like an amazing little community you have.
You SO nailed that one Brother!
Looks amazing, what you are building. Net zero house too?
I started last spring in North Central Sask. I didn't know where it was going then, and I made lots of mistakes. Things got real when I got twenty yards of good mulch as a gift from the town. It was about the time I bought the first fruit trees, that I saw mushrooms growing out of the mulch. With the trees, I bought Mycorrhizae, then, just for the warranty on the plants. I know now, what the value of that connection is! That was where the spark occurred, and I found myself on this wonderful engaging path. This is the first spring in this little food forest. I have allowed the dandelions, plantain, and clover carry on and am getting some perennial color going, including some local wild varieties. I put in four trees, and quite a variety of bushes. Now I think I can find room for at least four more, and am thinking that rather than clone the bushes I have, more varieties. Those large ones would be better in twenty years ago; this year will have to do. :p
Like you, I am out there as much as I am able. Sometimes I just sit and take it all in. Already have so very many birds and bees, a few butterflies, but it is, as you say, a supreme connection. The lifestyle is congruous with how I've lived my life, but it really brings all together. I so totally relate to your whole video. Thank you!
Vibing so hard with this comment. Life changing. Nice gift from the town! Wow!
The house isnt a net zero house. If I was into permaculture when I was buying this house, I would have likely been looking for somewhere to build an earth ship home. Then again, I heard they don't work as well up here. Likely even harder in your climate.
This is just a normal house, but I've spent money and work sealing it up to save winter heating. In the summer we have AC off almost every day, only really turn it on to exercise it to preserve the asset. We are a " sleep in your undies" home, ajd if you are still sweating then we will consider turning the AC on.
Solar went in this year. I want to get a greywater system. I'd like to get some solar water preheating going on. Would love a rocket mass heater stove. So many wants.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Thank you. I so resonate with you. Yes, not perfection, but working toward a place, or a space in time. Speaking of working, I can see how much time and effort you have been spending. Can relate that it is good time, and feels good to work hard to get it started.
Have an ancient house, 120 year old, and when I got the furnace they put the condenser in what would become the garden. I don't play that thing much, as the sound wrecks the vibe. In the summer, I only sleep inside, so really don't need it. (A little hut in the food forest would be sweet.) Solar is coming, and it will be off grid. Like you, so many wants - rocket mass makes good sense. Koreans have built a fire under stone floors with the chimney on the opposite side of the house for centuries.
It sure feels great to be the change one wishes to see, doesn't it?
Best regards
New subscriber here.... I just learned about permaculture today. I love this video and your message. Thanks for making this for us 🥰
So glad to have you here. We all find sustainability through our own unique path, but the one constant is that it forever changes us for the better. Welcome to the family :)
Beautiful video, full of hope and encouragement. I loved seeing the before and after shots and how the dynamic of little islands of trees surviving in a sea grass transformed into a tsunami of diversity encroaching on the mono-lawn. Together we can grow our own islands and turn the tide.
A perfect description lol. I'm sure those trees would have done "okay" on their little 3 foot mulch islands inside the grass lawn. But would they be 20-30 foot giants already? Would they be dumping moving-bins full of food? I don't think so.
So beautiful plant s
Thank you 😊
Keith: Thank you for what you do. You have significantly broadened the rather narrow view of permaculture from "guilds" to an entire way of life. It is a refreshing way of managing and coping with our somewhat battered world. Personally, I see it as significant and important as Rachael Carson's "Silent Spring" I hope it does go viral.
Thanks 😊 we need to build an army of tree planters and minimalists. Lots of plants, and none of the junk that clutter up our lives and doesn't bring us any happiness anyways.
Such a wonderful video and concept. I hope it inspires every person who is lucky enough to watch it. I know you put a lot of work into it and I want you to know it was worth all of your effort. I have 20 acres here in NE Missouri which had been all cattle pasture for probably at least 70 years. When my wife and I purchased the property we immediately started planting and we will not stop until we ourselves are in the ground. I can’t stand to be in the house longer than a few hours even in bad weather. I just love being out there with nature. My goal for my orchard is permaculture and I have also started a food forest as well. Thanks for your videos. I personally love watching “videos about plants”. I watch them when it’s impossible for me to be out there with my plants.
You are mind kind of people. God bless. Keep planting!
Just get started, and don't worry about being perfect. Keith shows us that we make more of a difference by not doubting, and just going for it. I, like many others here, have watched all your videos, and it does eventually rub off on you, even if you did grow up in a city where getting food from the grocery store is normalized. I have loved the arts and culture of a city, but increasingly, feel the tug to just be in my garden. I am rethinking all the things I thought to be true and wondering who designed our system that we use now, and how it got to be that I should feel alone at times when converting our front lawn to trees. I was surprised that my neighbours actually stopped to say hi, all because we were radically changing our landscape to something more natural. They think it different, and like it's an odd choice, but really, I think people with lawns and nothing else should be thought of as the odd ones, and I am curious as to their philosophy behind maintaining their lawn. We live right next to a park with plenty of lawn, so why do we need that cut grass monoculture in our front yards too? Why must the people who make the least sense not be questioned? I hope to convey to others through showing our lawn converted to forest, that there are other ways, and that they may indeed be much better. It was nice to see our neighbour go out on a whim and plant 5 fruit trees this week. I wonder if we had an influence on them, haha.
That snowball is rolling. Let's just hope we can pick up as many people as we can. One of us! One of us!
Hello, 😊
Haha thank you for this video and especially the “who’s going to watch a video about plants” comment. I started growing for the first time last year (apocalypse garden for covid) and killed a lot of stuff (starting planting in 113 degree summertime is foolish) but I learned a lot and kept my bokashi and compost going all year, started again a bit earlier… but yea, there is an obsession with plants that’s growing as well as the understanding of growing and propagating and feeding and reading plants grows as well, and it’s pretty awesome. So. Thank you for starting to make videos about plants :p
Thanks Kellen
At this point I've made a number of comments, asking question. I just want you to know, i was looking for what to do with my front yard. And after my partner sent me a video of yours i went ah ha, this is what we need to do. We've seen a number of environmental related documentaries lately. I want to help with my small 1/3 of an acre, in the middle of town. And food forrest, permaculture, seemed the best way we can help. We can use, or give away, what we make, and help sequester carbon and improve the planet. I love it and will be living it as best i can.
So wonderful! Best of luck on your journey
Just the right mix of practicality and philosophy, which is what I enjoy thoroughly about your channel. Permaculture hovered for a long while in the fringes and I think possibly even scared some people off as impractical and unimplementable. No more. It has come convincingly onto centre stage, together with regenerative agriculture, and is increasingly attracting practitioners who show that it can be done. Keep at it. This is important and is an idea whose time has come.
Thanks. I'm definitely always firmly rooted on the practical side of things. In my schooling, I went into university in Theoretical Physics, but I decided to change to engineering because I wanted to create and do, not just sit and think.
Greetings from Barkway Ontario. Thanks so much for all the wonderful videos that you make Kevin. I really enjoy them and I learn so much.
Thanks! Keith is my name, but I can't tell you how many times I've been called Kevin. Thanks for watching and commenting!
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Oops! So sorry!
Haha I get it so often I don't mind at all!
Ok. You’ve convinced me. You can come over and design the space behind the garage. Not sure yet about the front yard.
I will even give you 5% discount on the consulting fee. (For those who don't know, this is my mother haha)
Another excellent video! I also love your rebellious attitude it's right up my alley....lol.
It's quite the time we find ourselves in when people fighting to protect the planet and ecosystems we depend on are the "rebels". But here we are.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy , Yep talk about irony personified! I'll be tossing some leftover seeds at various locations in parks in my area to do my bit also.
Awesome. I have started with perenials and tallgrass species in a corner of my yard... but you are inspiring me to do more!
Go for it!
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy quick question. Im from windsor and i see large swaths of natural areas being taken over by phragmites. I noticed some along your waterway too. What is the permaculture approach to such ravenous invasives? (Future video idea?)
Inspiring. I am a retired teacher, who used to be a wildlife biologist. At 65, I am just beginning my food forest. When I bought some trees last week, a friend called me an optimist. I think so. This video was informative and very much appreciated. Thanks.
Best of luck! What did you do for your career if you don't mind me asking? What area did you work in, in wildlife biology?
Forest Service, ages ago.
Great summary and a very nice presentation as always. I can only add that learning about permaculture has increased my foraging of weeds and wild plants a lot this year. It seems even strange to me to buy greens from the stores nowadays when my property provides bishop's weeds, stinging nettles, dandelions, cow parsley and fresh birch leaves in abundance, and some quite nice teas can be made from all bilberry, raspberry, lingonberry and rowan leaves I have around here. However, it is a very slow and cold start of the season in my parts of the world so far and my annuals look more boring than ever. Thankfully, most of my new perennials, trees and bushes seem to make it despite deer preusure and late frost attacks. Hopefully, they will bring new and tasty things to forage in the future. Take care!
Yeah can't echo this enough. I would have never thought I would be a forager, but now it's one of the most enjoyable hobbies. Definitely one where healthy doses of caution is advised, but a great hobby for sure.
So good...had to share. Looking for my own plot of land, no LONGING for my own little space. Love this. Thank you!
Thanks Margaret. If there's one video I want to go viral, it's this one. I want to convert as many traditional Gardners as possible, and also introduce new people to a better way to live.
I did it man, i started turning my lawn in a permaculture garden :)
Yay!!!!
Great video! So inspiring and I especially love the drone footage!! I began a permaculture class in 2019, and through 2020 things went remote which changed the dynamic a bit doing it all online. I have since found your channel and have learned so much!! Cheers to the resistance and to regenerative ag!
Thanks so much. Viva la resistance! lol
Have you read the book Ishmael? They make a very similar comparison about society jumping off a cliff and thinking it can fly if it pedals a bike harder but is actually dropping. The whole philosophy of the book very much supports what you talk about in these videos.
Such a good comparison. I will have to read it. I've read some passages in it which were posted to reddit, books subreddit.
Thank you for being such an amazing inspiration!
Thank you !!
Really nicely done video. Hits the mark with pretty much all my own viewpoints.
It's only now I realise I once lived next to an 'accidental' permaculture site around 50 years ago. All over one side of a hill overlooking my home, there had been a number of small holiday cottages built during the late Victorian to Edwardian era, these all slowly falling into disuse.
Abandoned, the houses disintegrated and the gardens went wild. We kids used to go up there with bags and buckets and pick plums, bullaces, walnuts, raspberries, greengages, hazelnuts, strawberries, angelica stems, many apples and pears - and more besides.
All these plants had survived alone for at least 30 years (many for longer). All were perfectly fit and healthy. They just didn't need any human interaction.
Yeah, very exciting when stuff like that happens. They just found a 150 year old abandoned food forest in BC, still as productive as ever, and teeming with wildlife.
Love your content and your own perspective on permaculture. Some permaculturists I feel can be too "experty". You approach is more experiment and get out there and do something instead of thinking too much and making too many steps to accomplish something. I love it and you have been a huge influence to me on my permaculture journey!
Awesome. I completely agree. I also have a feeling many channels just show you their best spaces and none of the failings. It's in the failings where we learn the most, and can help others not repeat them. I try to show you guys poison ivy and dog strangling vine, ajd failed peach cuttings, and poor sheet mulch areas, so that you can learn from things I could have done better.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy And by showing the good and the bad, it helps beginners like me not fear or give up if I run into failures or obstacles. It makes me learn from my mistakes and what I can do better next time. Truly believe that if you're not always learning something while on this journey, than you're not doing it right. Your videos and your whole outlook and philosophy help more people than you may think. I pray to see your channel grow even more so that maybe one day, you can do this full time!
You should check out West Texas Garden Experiment. His clips documenting his journey are great. He just jumps in and tries things and you can watch him learning as he goes. Approaches things with curiosity and thinks up interesting things to test out his ideas.
The bird eating out of your hand is magical !
My wife called me a Disney princess lol
Beautifully explained. Thank you!! Truly inspiring.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I really liked this episode. Watching B roll whilst explaining Permaculture 👌Great editing!
Can you please do another episode on explaining what is happening now with GameStop? You did such a great job explaining what was happening with GameStop in the beginning and now I would like an update. I don't speak Wall Street and I just don't understand holding off selling your shares until it reaches over 20million, who would be so foolish to buy a share for 20million. My son in-law says the hedge funds will be force to, but didn't this hedge fund borrow/over bought a limited amount of shares that doesn't measure the amount of regular people who bought shares to support GameStop?
During gardening season? I'm so busy with my true passion, I don't see myself making another gamestop video until at least the fall.
I think the story is still the same though. The hedge funds are in emergency mode. The crypto flash crash is largely instigated by them trying to create liquidity by selling crypto assets. They will bring down the entire stock market just to stay solvent. It's going to be quite the ride.
But yeah the story is the same. There are more shares shorted than exist. That still hasn't changed.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Fair enough. I totally get 'busy'. Thank you for your reply
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy on a recent tv show they mentioned gamestop in passing, but they alluded to the short sellers sabotaging the stock after all the public buys into it, thus robbing the people. Just the very idea of this being allowed to happen at all means that the stock market itself cannot be supported at all. Although technically the stock market was originally supposed to be an insurance for companies, and it is exactly that, but at the expense of the people. some day the people will decide that it must be the other way around, that companies must lay down in support of the people, or civilization fails, or must fail if it's designed to run at the direct expense of the people~
Absolutely world changing.
Totally agree.
Dude, did I just cry watching a gardening video?
I've shed a tear at some permie videos in the past. It's the caring that does that.
Such an inspiring video. I expected one thing, but got something so much better. Thank you!
thanks 😊
Beautifully said. Thank you
Thank you 😊
I'm also watching Beltane Cottage, very wonderful lady from Irlend
Collette O'Neil. I bought her book. She has a lovely place. I'm not really all about the goddess permaculture thing, but think it's fantastic for any who do dig that stuff. Her food forest is incredible.
Spot on as always. Would love to see a 50 year FF
I know right? Once they hit 7-10 years old you start getting the canopy. Once they hit 20-30 years it's a literal forest. I want to see that 150 year abandoned one in BC that they just found. Honestly, once you hit about 50 years or more, I bet a 50-year food forest is nearly indistinguishable from Eden.
TH-cam is being a bitch again. 3rd try. Check out Mother the Mountain Farm. I think theirs is over 40 years old.
Loved everything about this video. Very inspiring.
Thanks so much!
Beautiful presentation, thank you! I’ve transformed many patches of my town lot into perennial foods near my mature apple trees. You’re right about the gardens & lawn…so much more work! My raised garden beds are struggling in the heat. I need to mulch them with grass. I have recently planted 6 sea buckthorn plants, 2 elderberry & 3 Gojiberry trees that are very small in my front yard. I sure hope they survive in our zone 2/3. I intend to lay cardboard around them & mulch so the grass can’t overtake them. I have 2 Mustang cherry plum trees that survived in the front yard since last spring. My haskaps & sour cherry trees are doing well since last spring. We have so many deer that visit & like to nibble so soap hanging in net bags seems to deter them. Does it matter what kind of wood chips you use around the tiny trees?
Nope, any woodchips will do, ideally a mix. The only minor concern (and its minor) is if you chipped up a Juglans species and used only that (walnut, butternut, pecan, etc).
This is the way.
Well done sir, outstanding video!
Thanks for watching
This is absolutely beautiful and it’s exactly how I think of this. I have a pretty weird idea tho. A few days ago in the news on the Netherlands there was a message. It was that in the last 5 years there was an extreme drought and this year there was a lot of rain. Even so much that in the end of may, it’s still raining and you see a lot of biodiversity and root crops now. So maybe it’s weird, but my thought was that nature knows that there’s a lot of drought and that it could recognize it and let it rain again and so restore itself. We have no science to proof it, but so doesn’t science proof a lot of things about nature. If this is the case, why would we be so worried about the planet. One of the last studies showed that warmer climate plants take more co2 out of the air than colder climate plants, cant find it anymore tho so I have no case to proof it, but if this is the case to it also wouldn’t be weird that the planet warms up and create warmer climates so that we can grow olive trees in the Netherlands haha. It’s all just ideas, it probably doesn’t work like that, but sometimes it’s good to know that although science brought us far, we cannot proof everything and somethings we can’t proof are crucial for the understanding of the climate and nature.
I think there are a lot of natural cycles that happen and move the planet between extremes. It's funny but my engineer brain can't help think about dampening curves and how they oscillate based on what the dampening factor is. I'll try to link what I mean, I hope youtube don't remove my comment for the link: www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/underdamped-system. Look at section 13.26.2 in that thing. It talks about the dampening factor and how the response changes as it goes from underdamped to critically damped to overdamped.
There are several of these which lead to unstable conditions, and if you are inside them you don't really see anything other than, say "really hot this year, really cold the next". Or "really dry" then "really wet". And you don't know if you are in a slightly underdamped stable condition or if you are in an unstable underdamped condition.
Then consider that the dampening factor isn't static but is dynamic and changing and you get some real chaos happening.
So this wet/dry thing, I think is less about nature having any kind of inert intelligence (I think there is a lot of intelligence in nature, but not a "hey I'm too dry lets make more rain" kind of thing, and more of a natural shrink/swell cycle - similar to insect population responses to predator insect populations, and this kind of dampening factors.
It's even more complex when you consider that the "dampening factor" is likely based on many different things all feeding in at once. How much trees are causing evapotranspiration, weather patterns, soil chemistry, soil hydration, water table cycles, insect cycles, wildlife browse impacting plants and their population cycles, ocean currants, wind patterns, etc. So so so many factors at play.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I didn't meant inert intellegence, I mean something that could be scientifically proofable, but isn't proofed yet. There's one thing I don't understand, because if you have a factor that's dynamic and changes on so many different scales. How is it even possible to calculate that in to a formula, but i'm sixteen and probably don't know enough about this subject to have authority to speak of this haha. Especially not against someone with an engineering degree.
@@dionysos4288 For a sixteen-year old, you are pondering some very interesting things! Youth brings fresh and flexible thinking, which can work beneficially with age and experience. Without the inquisitiveness of our youngsters, us oldies would atrophy and become inflexible in our thinking. Don't ever be too daunted to ask questions or be worried about replies. I can imagine that Keith was chuffed to be able to brush off some of his engineering know-how and enjoyed having the opportunity to respond. That is a compliment to you.
@@Jo-ki3mj thank you all for the kind comments, I didn't thought in any way that the comment of Canadian Permaculture Legacy was a critique or something. I like having discussions with everybody on the internet or in real life. I also have alot of respect for all of you being so open minded. So I repeat thank you all.
Dionysos,
Youth such as yourself give me so much hope for our planet. I believe that your generation is extra special and we’ll see great things from you in terms of symbiosis with this amazing planet. And as an older generation, I hope to support you all by doing my part and and not just relying on you all to fix everything. Don’t ever allow anyone to subdue your voice, passion, hope, enthusiasm and perseverance 🌎🌏🌍
Thanks for using my music! ❤
Oh hello! It's a wonderful song, I have used it in a few spots. Thank you for making such wonderful music and making it free for the world to use. I will keep my eye out for more of your stuff.
Great job!
Permaculture translated for programmers: "All that stuff is standard-library and incredibly well optimized over billions of years with rolling updates, so stop wasting time and resources reinventing the wheel. Just look at some of nature's samples, read the docs, and please use a copyleft license!"
LOL 😆 I love when these parallels are drawn.
Man I wish I don't even have a yard. Home goals.
Love this just love it. Thanks
Thanks for watching as always Deborah
Keep up the good work.
Thanks 😊
Hey Keith, I hope that you still get these messages. I am going through your entire "essentials course"! I am enjoying your videos a ton!! Thanks for all of the hard work and sharing. I am trying to find where you talk about several of the books that you have read. Could you let me know which video this is in?
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I want to create food forest in the tropics. I live tropical fruits. This will help me. Thanks.
Good luck!
Yeah. It's a plan. Need all the luck I can get.
sounds of paradise
Amazing video. Thanks
Thanks for watching
Permanent Agriculture living by itself without the need of Human intervention
Nature being nature
Awesome video. A great one I can share with friends & fam that saves me from finding the words without sounding like an obsessed woowoo hippy. That being said, lately I've been looking into Syntropic Agroforestry. Have you researched it? What do you think about it?
I think of it as a subset of permaculture. Infact, what I'm doing on my land is basically the definition of syntropic agroforestry.
I like to think I'm quite the lazy gardener :)
Your roof looks great, who did it? I tried looking into solar panels a few years ago but they just weren't worth the cost for Quebec, maybe that's changed?
A place called Terawatt solar. I'll do a video on the pricing and estimated ROI, etc. Basically roof was approx 30k with no batteries. Batteries doubles the cost. Economics were definitely better before with the incentives, but I've been waiting for new incentives for 5 years and I decided I'm going to stop waiting for my government to be responsible.
ahhh there is the video which got etched in my memory where you pull clover to mulch strawberrys.
When i do that know i always think of this video of yours.
which got me thinking: I got lots of clover in the garden now. Great! Lots of N fixation. But there are other important nutrients i need plants to mine for.
Do you have a good ressource on which plants accumulate what nutrients? I wasn't very satisfied on my web searches.
There is really very poor information about it. Here is one done on liquid manures ("compost teas") made from various plants. www.researchgate.net/publication/325078608_The_Nutrient_Content_of_Organic_Liquid_Fertilizers_in_Zimbabwe. However, it's just one paper, one experiment. Science is all about TONS of information. Short answer is that we need more research to be done on which plants accumulate which nutrients. You'll hear stuff like "comfrey accumulates x, y, and z" but how much? In what soils? In what conditions? What varieties? What about other plants?
Truly there's just so many factors at play, that it makes this kind of research very difficult (and un-economical) to perform.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I really have to tell you, how amazing i find it how much you communicate with your subscribers. Thank you!
and thank you for that Link! And for the idea to write my thesis about this topic.
I appreciate that. I want this channel to grow and do well. I don't really ever just "do something". When I do something I go all out.
Hello I loveee your videos, thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. I just have a question, what do you think of window greenhouses? Are they safe for the environment? I love gardening and I would like to do more with my plants during the winter time so I’ve been thinking to build one. do you think it’s a good idea?
Definitely. I think they are the friendliest for the greenhouse because they are typically upcycled. Make sure to design in plenty of ventilation.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Thanks for your quick response, 😊
People who own and have access to land have no idea how fortunate they are. I live in the city in a trailer park in the SF Bay Area. I feel like I belong in nature but do not have a million dollars to buy land in the country. Bare land with no home on it is still in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. I feel stuck, it's a bad feeling.
I love learning from you! I’m in zone 6a USA . I’ve been planting everything I can get my hands on ! I bought sea buckthorn seeds online and only one germinates 😢. Can you suggest a reputable company?
Rain Tree Nursery has good plants and carries a few varieties of sea buckthorn, but they're out of stock and ended their spring shipping. They'll be accepting orders for fall shipping starting in July though
@@WilliamComiskey Excellent thank you so much ! I’ll check them out and order as soon as they have some 😊
Thanks for helping out William.
Hey Keith, how should we reconcile the ethics of permaculture with investing in Bitcoin et al and the democratization of investment returns?
This is a complicated question. The ethics one often comes down to it's energy usage, and it's important to understand that there is a lot of misinformation going around on that one. People love to talk about the total energy consumption of bitcoin, but they don't like to talk about 2 factors that massively change the ethics part of that equation. Firstly that most of the energy used to mine bitcoin is green. It just so happens that when you use that much energy it becomes very attractive to install solar. Secondly is that it's less energy than the current systems in place. Nobody talks about the energy consumption and ecosystem devastation of the financial markets, gold mining, etc. Because bitcoin has no central controller, there's no giant office buildings pumping AC for banks and credit cards and all the supporting industry. No office supplies and human transportation required to support all the moving parts of a company like Visa who is it displacing, etc.
For the other side of the ethics - who gets rich off this, which I think you are hitting on the other side of your comment - there's really no fixing something like that. It's people trying to find a solution to a problem that cannot be solved. I mean, what's the only solution, to take all the world's money and spread it out to everyone evenly? Sure that's equality, but it's not equity. It's also based entirely in a fairy tale world where that's possible. So often people try to squash an idea by creating some ideal that isn't possible and if it doesn't meet that ideal, then in their mind the solution is no good. Well that's just insane, because that leads us back to the status quo and with massive wealth inequality.
Often we think we need to make something perfect, or there's no point changing. That's wrong. We just need something better than what currently exists. There is no garden of Eden, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to make something better than what we have.
Also, a lot of the counterpoints on something like Bitcoin are solved with a project like Nano. To me, Nano is everything Bitcoin wanted to be. It's fully green. It's free. It was originally handed out via airdrop to anyone who wanted to play with some. Literally every point I mentioned in this reply is better with Nano, and Nano is catching on bigtime. People who think they missed the bitcoin boat only missed "grandpa". Well, grandpa was Generation 1, and Nano is generation... I dunno, maybe Generation 5? People are still talking about grandpa flying his rickety old by-plane 1 foot off the ground (the Wright brothers), meanwhile Generation 5 is already launching rocketships to space, and for some reason because everyone was SO slow to realize the importance of grandpa, they are just now understanding that flight is a good thing. Meanwhile Nano is over here changing the world and almost nobody has heard of it yet.
It's interesting times.
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I have huge respect for all that you've done. And this was a great video in all manner. However, you addressed it briefly when mentioning centuries old food forests that still thrive: these ethics and systems are centuries old. Belonging to the Indigenous Peoples. I feel that it needs to be mentioned that permaculture often "white washes" traditional knowledge and claims it as its own. This is part of the problem.
This is one of the reasons I don't like labeling it. Totally agree
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Maybe mention it to your audience in the future? It could really plant a seed with your viewers and break down barriers. You have an amazing platform and your doing great things with it. This could be a larger part of the legacy you speak of. Big love.
Absolutely
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Thank you for being open to feedback. That's amazing! Your channel is an inspiration to all of us starting out in our anarchistic gardening journey. Never stop.
@@pixiebeen I don't understand this fanaticism about cultural appropriation. Cultural appropriation is just cultures evolving by mixing with other cultures. Without cultural appropriation, we wouldn't have jazz, rock and roll or any other music that we listen to today. Without cultural appropriation, we wouldn't have any of the tools we use today. To argue against it is to argue against our evolution as a species.
It doesn't matter if it came from indigenous people hundreds of years ago or if it came from Billy bob in Kentucky. All that amounts to is an accident of birth. We are all humans. We all share the same history, the same genetics, the same accomplishments and the same failures. The only thing stopping us from realizing this is our own egos and when you drop the ego, you realize that everything in our society came from another culture at some point. Their accomplishments are our accomplishments, whether or not they share the same skin color or ancestry.
Also realize this point, being against cultural appropriation is literally segregationist thinking. You don't want cultures to mix. Everyone of that culture needs to be a stereotype representing that culture. That is the end game I'm hearing.
Hi ya!.
This is very inspiring. I in central Pennsylvania. Which videos of yours's would be the best to watch to get started with this (for dummies)? Thank you.
The Essentials playlist probably. I would go with "this will change how you garden forever", and "what is permaculture"
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Thank you.
I completely agree with the concept of permaculture. But, how much food does your “forest” actually produce? I need to bottle 150 pint jars of green beans every year for just 2 people. Plus another 52 jars of beets, and 150 jars of corn, if I’m to grow the vegetables my family eats. How do you do that without row or block cropping? Thank you
The past 3 years we've had to actually buy another 2 freezers because we're producing that much food that we need to freeze. Each season we dehydrate and can about 40-50 jars worth of food, and then we fill 3 deep freezers full. I've estimated that we're growing about 30 to 40 thousand dollars worth of food and veggies, although I'd suspect it's quite substantially more than that with current prices of food.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy thank you for the response.
I see you put cardboard down before starting a new permaculture area. Do you remove the grass first? Or just smother it with the cardboard? Next, is it compost or wood chips as the next layer? How long does the process take before bushes/ground cover can be planted? Thanks so much!
th-cam.com/video/RGY8HLvZ00E/w-d-xo.html. That's the video you want! A detailed guide on the sheet mulching process.
As far as how long does it take, that completely depends on climate. Heat and wetness speeds up the breakdown. It can be done right way, and you can sheet mulch around the new trees, or you can let it sit for 6 months to a year and let the soil develop, which will improve the chances of trees surviving. It all depends on your plan, goals, timeline and climate.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Thanks!
Permaculture may mimic nature, but I don't think "Hot composting" occurs naturally in nature very often. My back has determined that chop and drop will be my method of composting. It's VERY insistent.
I live in Zone 4 and my whole life I've been told that I need to control my mint or it will choke everything else out. Is that true? should I not add mint to my permaculture?
You should be careful if you don't want it spreading. However, I want my groundcovers to spread, so I'm all for mint spreading. It's a great smell deflecting plant. It helps hide your fruit from pests. I want that to spread!
I would marry this man so hard. Good heavens me.
You would have to fight my wife I think. I choose solely by combat prowess. LOL, all jokes aside, thanks for the comment. It's a shared passion that unites all of us. We just need to light that passion in others.
Alison, My thoughts exactly 🤣
What is permaculture? 18 points.
18 points? Hmmmm... the answer to that one is at least 120 points. So what 18 does the professor want to hear... What's on the marking guide? hmmm, better just blast a 20 page response and hope I hit them all.
Oh dear! I'm not nearly that clever. I was just thinking Scrabble.
Oh LOL thats awesome
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What IS a Canadian?
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Don't forget the legacy 🙃
Don't tell your wife that your voice lulls me to sleep
That's either really good (Bob Ross vibes) or really bad for a TH-cam "entertainer" and teacher lol
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy totally Bob Ross vibes!
Just didn't want you to think I was bored to sleep!
That was quick
6:25 -might want to link the video in the i Card at this timestamp. Idk if it actually generates more views but a lot of big youtubers do it.-
14:54 -for the other one lol.- Great lead in to it
Never mind didnt see the description first. At least you got the timestamps
Indeed, thanks, helps saving me time to look them up. Just watching the Lesfs crush the Canadians right now. Will update the links right after the game.