So happy to see you putting in some of the "luxury" features for your own home site ;) Always learn something when you walk and talk your way around Zaytuna :)
G'Day Geoff... wonderful journey. I have followed the work you started in Palestine and look back at what Bill Molison had taught. Wonderful examples of what can (and must) be done. Seems you are on the Northern Rivers... I came from Bellingen and uncles farmed the Kalang River flats up Thora way and another up in Dorrigo. Fond memories! I guess you are neighbors with David Troon (Weedy); Daley's Nursery (Pauline. Erin, Caleb and Team) and also Cedar Anderson and his Dad... I hope to be back in November and visit friends in Lennox Head... hope to do the circuit and visit all... have some bush tea with you all. Looking forward to seeing the growth... Cheers, John (misplaced Aussie in SoCal)
The smalls ponds are really interesting. I've been thinking of adding a small pond in my small permaculture/food forest. I also have sandy soil, but I am planning on using a liner. I'm a huge fan. I decided on turning my 1/3 acre yard, years ago after watching an online course Geoff posted online. There quite a few videos. I watched them all in a row and did not sleep for the 3 days it took me. I'm strange don't need much sleep, only took breaks to eat. Still continue with the improvements although I am now 75, a little old lady that can still do it! LOL
My heart feels refreshed with these tours! They are an absolute highlight and on top of that, I learn about designing systems! Thank you Goeff, keep em coming!
Thanks Geoff what a beautiful place you have made. I would love to come and see it . You are such an inspiration, if only we could get the people that plan our city's and countryside to work with the same principles. Keep the videos coming please Geoff. 👍🤓
After digging numerous swales and planting out my own food forest (by hand), only to have it burn to the ground along with my house in Nov 19, I am now digging and planting all over again, using all that I have learned from both Bill Mollison and yourself. I find so much inspiration seeing how you have developed your piece of paradise ~ often you remind me of things I have forgotten to remember: ideas I have had, plans I've made. I am so grateful for the information that you share, and for your presence on the planet ~ Sending a huge Thank You!
Ooh next video show us the bare land before again, a map of the general layout now and some quick progression shots please. Plus I liked how you traced the water's trail, so I'd love to see you pick it up again from Fig Tree dam all the way to the creek. That's not complaining, it's just to say I loved this video so much that I can't wait for more. Thanks Geoff
Very pleasant tour. Congratulations for all the improvements. It seems you will never stop as your land seems too to have no limit. Such a lot to do, manage, harvest, imagine, plan... Do you sleep ? You have all my respect. On another subject, have you any news from the Jordan greening project , as it was another amazing experience to follow ?
Always informational and inspirational. I have 20 acres as part of a watershed in the high desert of Llano California. I hope to see water slowly move across it someday.
It was lovely having an early morning walk with you Geoff...I wish I could for real. I've consumed all your content and found it bleeding into my life.thanks dude for the 40 mins of contented bliss. Keep it coming!!
I AM HUMBLED!! To have across your channel some time ago. I'm working on leaving the Northern Hemisphere and plan on growing a food forest once I land in my destination. Thank you so much for your free advice and your never ending motivation.
Thank you Geoff. I love following all that you do and it has given me great ideas and confidence to transform a dry 10 acre property. Best of luck with your new house build.
How exceptional Geoff, I'm buoyed by your enthusiasm and that beauty. Please make a vid about taking on shareholders, how to make it happen and finding like minded people. You are making dreams come true there. I'm envious, in a good way.
Absolutely stunning! Love the shareholder idea so there is a clear path of legacy and care for Zaytuna. You and the team are making such an important impact on people's lives all over the globe showing a glimpse of what is possible. Telling us how to seal a dam in original sandy soil was great. Love the Morton Bay Fig tree. I view them as communication power nodes. If one is feeling disconnected just sitting on their roots trends to sort life out in a powerful gentle way.
There's already a video about handling mosquitoes. You can search it on this channel. It's about keeping the water clear from mosquito larvae. Such as keeping fish in the dam, getting rid of standing water, etc. Anyway, Geoff explained it more in the video.
Its great to see and hear the water managment system you are developing and expanding. As we start to develop ours its great to read about it, see it and see the success your are having. Thank you for sharing and yes, your tours are extremely helpful. Book learning is one aspect, doing is another and seeing success gives confidence.
Absolutely love youre acheivments, is the idea of share holders,to make sure farm lasts in perpituity,or to get like minded community,to carry on work. In the light of this Global Warming sudden realization,although you and Bill Mollison, etc have been trying to educated Goverments all over the world,has any Country asked you to make massive plan,for them to become regenerative,build water structures food forests etc. No matter they pulled funding,the Greening the desert project is a phenominal scucess, that the fund providers can not deny. I wish every Country appointed a Geoff Lawton full time to rectify as much as possible in a lifetime,with unlimited budget,then we would actually see change. It seems Goverments are more intrested in promoting conflicte all over the world instead. Nick Lomas London England
It's awesome Mr. lawton!!! I'm a part time teacher in Organic Agriculture here in Mexico... and I'm always telling my students at UPAEP. That this is the way we have to go for in agriculture, this is our best chance for a greener future. Love Your videos and I hope we get to see more of the development of Zaytuna Farm!!!!
Geoff, I absolutly love these long time videos! Knowledge is slowly soaking into my brain like water to yours system in your swells. What you can do with mother nature is just amazing, thank you so much✌🍀
Currently watching your class from the 90's best I can tell. Thanks for the walk around with the swales. I am listening to your lectures currently on or about climate. Awesome to see this. I see what I need to do with my pond and 11 acres. :D
JUST PLEASE 1 REQUEST MAY WE PLEASE HAVE THAT ZAYTUNA FARMS TOUR BACK THERE WAS ONE THAT STARTED ON THE ROAD AND WENT ALL THE WAY THROUGH IS THERE ANY WAY TO STILL GET THAT VIDEO OR CAN YOU PUT IT BACK UP PLEASE AND THANK YOU LOVE THE CHANNEL
Love these long walkabouts! Hope to see more in the future, I LOVE the double overflow mini dams/ponds that have been built, every single one of them can have their own "pirate island"! In time it is going to look amazing for sure! Very interested to learn more on the new shareholders, was it through subdivision of the property / farm or is it business agreements that they can have a home at the farm but overall all the land remains Zaytuna Farm? Very interesting video, best of luck!
Wow, that was incredible. I definitely enjoyed that video. It is amazing what water can do. I am in the process of terracing my property, to hold a lot more water. All I need now is to convince the city to let me take the run off from the street.
Incredible journey and great update. Thank youfor for showing how complexity grows as water features mature. Glad to hear wooduck dam's solution. Would love to see your walled garden and the story of why you chose that. Also your natural swimming pool and howit it functions. Appreciate all you share and the abundance it generates as all we hear is shortage! Thanks
I’m curious about the walled garden as well. You read about their use in the Middle Ages and I’m wondering which of their features persuaded you to build one.
Thanks Geoff, so inspiring to see the bigger picture and potential results. So much to look forward to! Definitely love to see how it develops in videos.
Salam from Malaysia 🇲🇾 Thank you so much for all videos, and sharing all the knowledge. May accept me as one of your students 😁 and bless all the knowledge May Allah bless Sir Geoff and family 👍🏿👍🏼👍🏽👍🏾👍🏻
Wonderful tour around Zaytuna!! Many lessons to learn from there. Your region seems very humid as you have rains in this season (end of summer I think in the southern hemisphere). Here in Spain we started the year quite bad regarding rainfalls (which is not normal...) Let's hope we have some in the incoming days...
Amazing, impressed by these benefitial systems and the way you get us involved! Continously learning so much more about Permaculture Design with your free online lessons while starting our first project in the European Alps now. Thanks for sharing all your knowledge and motivation, Geoff!
Awesome Geoff. Such Beautiful place, I Love the water systems and how well made and thought through they are. brilliant understanding of nature and building in alignment with nature is so Inspirational and Hopeful to see. Please more Tours.
Love all of your videos. I have a tiny acreage full of granite rock and sandy soil. We are slowly improving the place but it’s great to see a more evolved property.
Thank you. Amazing features of the swales and dams...including Pirate Island. Enjoyed your use of the bamboo and your vision with the placement of plants. Especially the mulberry and grape trellis.
Hey Geoff! Absolutely love your content. Learning a lot and want to apply it to my life. I’m curious about navigating the business world with a farm. How to make it a sustainable and realistic business? What are the key factors for starting a successful permaculture farm? I’m living in Southern California. Thanks for your time! Sending kind regards.
Thanq Geoff Lawton...wonderful narration .. you are a real parmaculturist. I like your videos... I am also created a wonderful food forest in Hyderabad... India... Like this....
Thanks very much Geoff, that was another fantastic informative video. I’m so jealous of the rainfall you get, I live in Fremantle WA and we have had 2 of the driest summers on record back to back. Water is the elixir of all life. I so look forward to updates on Pirate Island and your new abode, thanks again for passing on your wealth of knowledge 👌
Thank you for the tour, Geoff. It was nice to see the layout and hear of some projects and future plans. I did enjoy this tour type video. It is very interesting. Do you have plans to return to Jordan anytime soon for video updates on greening the desert? I really enjoyed the video of that Palestinian woman whose home and garden looked over to Palestine. She was inspirational. By the way, have you ever checked out the Bealtaine Cottage youtube channel? She also has a permaculture small holding but she lives in Ireland. Her name is Colette. You may really enjoy her garden and food forest tours. Best wishes for you and the family at Zaytuna Farm.
My impression of the beauty of your site(s) is that they continue to evolve over time. They get more complex. More diverse. More interesting. Thank you for sharing. I would be super overwhelmed if I had to design all of that at the outset. But knowing that you can "frame in" the earthworks over time, and continue to add on makes it more possible in my head.
Absolutely loved it!!!! Out of curiosity, and at risk of sounding silly, do swales make sense in already waterlogged places that get lots of rain throughout the year? I am pretty sure you have answered this in one of your extensive archives, but I couldn't manage to find it.
It's always a great experience to follow you on a tour, learning every time something new. Thank you for your gentle and rich way of teaching, by bringing us closer to the way nature works. I love it
We have purchased 17.5 acres in the United States. Your walk over you property was very helpful because we are trying to develop our water features, swales, pipes etc. thank you!
What area are you in? I do permaculture based designs using contour maps overlayed onto google earth. Once you know the ridges/valleys, it makes it easier to design water harvesting/access/structures/plantings
Love it! I enjoyed your walk and talk as downtime for the body and up time for the brain. One day our whole planet could look feel and breathe like this. If only people really did the work. Planned carefully; and got dirty!!
What a fantastic tour! Thank you for putting it together. How are you affected by the recent flood in Lismore? Would be great if you could do an update on how the system handled the flood.
Thank you so much Geoff. I did last years online PDC with you and I really miss watching videos with your explanations! So any tours are always greatly appreciated!
Id like to see video for people working alone, without mechanical earth-moving equipment or the budget to buy all of the plants and trees and tons of acreage.
Greetings, Geoff, from Windermere, Florida zone 9b USA 🇺🇸 Thanks for sharing your very special place. I can't wait to see this shared community in another year and beyond. You have created a paradise. 🌿💚🌿
a paradise you've got here in deed. can't wait to see my property in a similar shape in near future. thank you jeoff, for sharing such great impressions
YES! Thank you so much for this video tour Geoff. It was inspiring, beautiful, relaxing, and ...I feel so motivated to achieve goals I've set for my future. Thank you again! Please make more videos like this! :)))
I am betting less then 10% of those who watch this will really understand it in full. Followed and worked with you for more than a decade and this is one of the most masterful designs I have ever seen. I realize the above reference of 10% could sound arrogant but I don't mean it that way. I am not sure I fully understand it. I am not talking the function or the physical layout. I am referring to the stacking in time. The net added impact this design will have for over a thousand years. What does the stacking in time look like across 1,000 years? If you didn't even think about that while watching this video, go watch it again and you will see what I mean.
Wonderful tour. Very inspiring. To see how water can be made to walk not run. I especially like the fact you put your dairy cows onto the swale. That is so good to know. Is it possible to have a video on your routine with your dairy and how it all fits in to the permaculture system. Do you keep them consistently close to the dairy where you may bring food to them or do you have them on rotation with laneways to walk back to dairy for milking? I would be most interested in how the dairy fits in with the whole system. Thankyou for making this video so early in the morning too. Much appreciated.
oh wow what an incredible tour of your swails and the natural flow of all the rain you guys have had. I have such a greater understanding of what you are explaining. I enjoyed that so much. I just want to shout out to the world to come watch your videos. Greetings from Western Australia
I've missed seeing the progress. So beautiful, so smart and so abundant. Thank you so much for helping me relax and for doing so much to help heal the planet. m
Geoff or whoever handles your media I have a question. I see how the class I am currently in is awesome by the way. It follows the PDM almost explicitly. My question is should I read the book first then listen to that section of the class. I just picked up a scoop for my tractor (I'm fairly disabled in my back and legs for normal work) so the tractor is a godsend for that reason, I want to make about 500 miles of swales on my 11 acres now (zone 6a Just south of Kansas city Missouri) lol. But really wondered how it works for the ones fortunate enough to attend the 50 hours of class in person. I am doing the class online that you and Bill lectured in. Thanks for any answers. Any videos that show how to get a drain installed into a current pond for use on the property? I had another question but it may be too expensive. Has anyone looked at using solar to route some of the water that flows to the bottom of the property back up to the top of the property using a solar pump? I have a background in electricity and electrical pumps ect and I just want to make a really deep sump at the bottom of my property and route all that water back to the top or back to the pond. lol. anyways thanks again.
That was a thorough tour providing valuable information. Thank you very much Geoff. Have you considered having a drone video produced to show a ‘birds-eye perspective of your property. Regards, Hans Vancouver island, Canada.
Hello Geoff. Thank you for sharing your work. This opportunity of learning from you is amazing! I am very grateful for this. Thank to you we all stay connected to nature.Please kindly see Save Soil Conscious Planet movement.. Would be wonderful to know that you know about it.
I hope I get the chance to do even a fraction of these amazing things on my own piece of land one day. Would be even better to have friends and family to share it all with.
I remember an earlier video giving the impression that the land was farmland without saturation. Not arid but fairly dry grass. Now it looks like you have wetlands. Expecting to see long legged birds looking for worms haha.
so amazing .. a beach , river, island That Fig Tree .. Id like to see some hobit houses, mabye a castle and possibly a pyrimid those seem to be the only things missing ... most likely in the next video I can't wait .. thanks geoff what an adventure US 5.30 am PST Signing out its bed time
Hey Geoff! Can permaculture practices be used to manage cane toads? Also if possible, could you talk about managing flying foxes? Many thanks! Michael.
First ask if they need managing? Perhaps the humans need a bit of harvest sharing management skills like planting some stuff for the flying foxes and not parking under their resting trees. Tell us how you go and what you come up with.
As far as I know, you probably deserve a noble peace prize for your amazing work in permaculture.
Interesting idea. If there was high nutrient, inexpensive food everywhere, it would probably reduce tensions everywhere!
Do you mean nobel price? Hell yeah
😢 thanks 👍
So happy to see you putting in some of the "luxury" features for your own home site ;) Always learn something when you walk and talk your way around Zaytuna :)
Thank you for your excellent video. There is always something to learn from your videos. We are always happy to see your videos.
G'Day Geoff... wonderful journey. I have followed the work you started in Palestine and look back at what Bill Molison had taught. Wonderful examples of what can (and must) be done. Seems you are on the Northern Rivers... I came from Bellingen and uncles farmed the Kalang River flats up Thora way and another up in Dorrigo. Fond memories! I guess you are neighbors with David Troon (Weedy); Daley's Nursery (Pauline. Erin, Caleb and Team) and also Cedar Anderson and his Dad... I hope to be back in November and visit friends in Lennox Head... hope to do the circuit and visit all... have some bush tea with you all. Looking forward to seeing the growth... Cheers, John (misplaced Aussie in SoCal)
Lovely. Enjoy your new home 🌻
Thanks for the knowledges
I have thought of bamboo island contained by rocks and trench ponds to privacy screen a soggy lower area. A distance from a boundary valley stream.
And the lotus prevents evaporation, doesn't it?
The smalls ponds are really interesting. I've been thinking of adding a small pond in my small permaculture/food forest. I also have sandy soil, but I am planning on using a liner. I'm a huge fan. I decided on turning my 1/3 acre yard, years ago after watching an online course Geoff posted online. There quite a few videos. I watched them all in a row and did not sleep for the 3 days it took me. I'm strange don't need much sleep, only took breaks to eat. Still continue with the improvements although I am now 75, a little old lady that can still do it! LOL
My heart feels refreshed with these tours! They are an absolute highlight and on top of that, I learn about designing systems!
Thank you Goeff, keep em coming!
Thanks Geoff what a beautiful place you have made. I would love to come and see it . You are such an inspiration, if only we could get the people that plan our city's and countryside to work with the same principles. Keep the videos coming please Geoff. 👍🤓
After digging numerous swales and planting out my own food forest (by hand), only to have it burn to the ground along with my house in Nov 19, I am now digging and planting all over again, using all that I have learned from both Bill Mollison and yourself. I find so much inspiration seeing how you have developed your piece of paradise ~ often you remind me of things I have forgotten to remember: ideas I have had, plans I've made. I am so grateful for the information that you share, and for your presence on the planet ~ Sending a huge Thank You!
Bless you and your family ❤
Ooh next video show us the bare land before again, a map of the general layout now and some quick progression shots please. Plus I liked how you traced the water's trail, so I'd love to see you pick it up again from Fig Tree dam all the way to the creek.
That's not complaining, it's just to say I loved this video so much that I can't wait for more. Thanks Geoff
It would be interesting to see how your water is helping neighboring propertys.
Very pleasant tour. Congratulations for all the improvements. It seems you will never stop as your land seems too to have no limit. Such a lot to do, manage, harvest, imagine, plan... Do you sleep ? You have all my respect. On another subject, have you any news from the Jordan greening project , as it was another amazing experience to follow ?
Yes please!! I would like to see the pdc in jordan, and, the schoolteachers house. Has anyone else in the neighborhood, caught on, yet????
Always informational and inspirational. I have 20 acres as part of a watershed in the high desert of Llano California. I hope to see water slowly move across it someday.
Keep soaking water and it will become better each year 😉
This was great, its really interesting to see the detail in what you're doing. Looking forward to seeing the complexity unfold.
It was lovely having an early morning walk with you Geoff...I wish I could for real.
I've consumed all your content and found it bleeding into my life.thanks dude for the 40 mins of contented bliss.
Keep it coming!!
After going through dozens of Q&A videos, a tour video is really refreshing one
I AM HUMBLED!! To have across your channel some time ago. I'm working on leaving the Northern Hemisphere and plan on growing a food forest once I land in my destination. Thank you so much for your free advice and your never ending motivation.
Where I live, if we had that much standing water the mosquitoes would be unbearable. What do you do to control them there?
Fish, frogs, dragon flys, birds ect.
Mosquitoes are the starting link in food chains all across the globe.
Mosquito fish, little minows that love the larva
Thank you Geoff. I love following all that you do and it has given me great ideas and confidence to transform a dry 10 acre property.
Best of luck with your new house build.
There’s never too long video with You 😁
Would be cool if Doing video/tour while Riding the Horse, yehaaa 🤠
Wonderful. I'd love to see a map!
How exceptional Geoff, I'm buoyed by your enthusiasm and that beauty. Please make a vid about taking on shareholders, how to make it happen and finding like minded people. You are making dreams come true there. I'm envious, in a good way.
Absolutely stunning! Love the shareholder idea so there is a clear path of legacy and care for Zaytuna. You and the team are making such an important impact on people's lives all over the globe showing a glimpse of what is possible. Telling us how to seal a dam in original sandy soil was great. Love the Morton Bay Fig tree. I view them as communication power nodes. If one is feeling disconnected just sitting on their roots trends to sort life out in a powerful gentle way.
Hey Geoff, with all that water around, do you have a problem with mosquitoes? Or rather what have you implemented to fix it? Thanks
I had the same thought!
There's already a video about handling mosquitoes. You can search it on this channel.
It's about keeping the water clear from mosquito larvae. Such as keeping fish in the dam, getting rid of standing water, etc. Anyway, Geoff explained it more in the video.
@@aldilavokrid37 K thx I’ll look for it.
Its great to see and hear the water managment system you are developing and expanding. As we start to develop ours its great to read about it, see it and see the success your are having. Thank you for sharing and yes, your tours are extremely helpful. Book learning is one aspect, doing is another and seeing success gives confidence.
Absolutely love youre acheivments, is the idea of share holders,to make sure farm lasts in perpituity,or to get like minded community,to carry on work.
In the light of this Global Warming sudden realization,although you and Bill Mollison, etc have been trying to educated Goverments all over the world,has any Country asked you to make massive plan,for them to become regenerative,build water structures food forests etc.
No matter they pulled funding,the Greening the desert project is a phenominal scucess, that the fund providers can not deny.
I wish every Country appointed a Geoff Lawton full time to rectify as much as possible in a lifetime,with unlimited budget,then we would actually see change.
It seems Goverments are more intrested in promoting conflicte all over the world instead.
Nick Lomas London England
Countries (politicians) don't care about landscapes and nature.
@@tesha199 We elect the moronic politicians,about time we elected people who do care
It's awesome Mr. lawton!!! I'm a part time teacher in Organic Agriculture here in Mexico... and I'm always telling my students at UPAEP. That this is the way we have to go for in agriculture, this is our best chance for a greener future. Love Your videos and I hope we get to see more of the development of Zaytuna Farm!!!!
Wow! Hey, you're a hero too!! Keep up the good work!!!
Geoff, I absolutly love these long time videos! Knowledge is slowly soaking into my brain like water to yours system in your swells. What you can do with mother nature is just amazing, thank you so much✌🍀
Currently watching your class from the 90's best I can tell. Thanks for the walk around with the swales. I am listening to your lectures currently on or about climate. Awesome to see this. I see what I need to do with my pond and 11 acres. :D
JUST PLEASE 1 REQUEST MAY WE PLEASE HAVE THAT ZAYTUNA FARMS TOUR BACK THERE WAS ONE THAT STARTED ON THE ROAD AND WENT ALL THE WAY THROUGH IS THERE ANY WAY TO STILL GET THAT VIDEO OR CAN YOU PUT IT BACK UP PLEASE AND THANK YOU LOVE THE CHANNEL
Weedy gardener did that
@@slam9mm is it still up?
Love these long walkabouts! Hope to see more in the future, I LOVE the double overflow mini dams/ponds that have been built, every single one of them can have their own "pirate island"! In time it is going to look amazing for sure!
Very interested to learn more on the new shareholders, was it through subdivision of the property / farm or is it business agreements that they can have a home at the farm but overall all the land remains Zaytuna Farm?
Very interesting video, best of luck!
Such an inspiration and what a great source of hope and optimism for the future. I'm working towards a PDC now. Thank you!
Wow, that was incredible. I definitely enjoyed that video. It is amazing what water can do. I am in the process of terracing my property, to hold a lot more water. All I need now is to convince the city to let me take the run off from the street.
Incredible journey and great update. Thank youfor for showing how complexity grows as water features mature. Glad to hear wooduck dam's solution. Would love to see your walled garden and the story of why you chose that. Also your natural swimming pool and howit it functions. Appreciate all you share and the abundance it generates as all we hear is shortage! Thanks
I’m curious about the walled garden as well. You read about their use in the Middle Ages and I’m wondering which of their features persuaded you to build one.
Very interesting seeing how all of the water features connect! Please more videos like this one!
That was lovely.. looking forward to watching these diverse and rich life events mature.
Nice tour Geoff, really enjoyed seeing how it's all coming along. I hope to one day do a PDC at Zaytuna Farm and seeing the place for in person.
Thanks Geoff, so inspiring to see the bigger picture and potential results. So much to look forward to! Definitely love to see how it develops in videos.
Salam from Malaysia 🇲🇾
Thank you so much for all videos, and sharing all the knowledge. May accept me as one of your students 😁 and bless all the knowledge
May Allah bless Sir Geoff and family 👍🏿👍🏼👍🏽👍🏾👍🏻
thank you so much for this greg it was amazing, you've got a wonderful project and i'm excited to follow your journey
Wonderful tour around Zaytuna!! Many lessons to learn from there. Your region seems very humid as you have rains in this season (end of summer I think in the southern hemisphere). Here in Spain we started the year quite bad regarding rainfalls (which is not normal...) Let's hope we have some in the incoming days...
Amazing, impressed by these benefitial systems and the way you get us involved!
Continously learning so much more about Permaculture Design with your free online lessons while starting our first project in the European Alps now.
Thanks for sharing all your knowledge and motivation, Geoff!
Thank you ! Great walk ! Would love more walk through ! How are the chinampas going ?
I hope this man lives forever.
Awesome Geoff. Such Beautiful place, I Love the water systems and how well made and thought through they are. brilliant understanding of nature and building in alignment with nature is so Inspirational and Hopeful to see. Please more Tours.
Love these types of videos, cannot wait to see more of these areas as they develop into your vision.
Love all of your videos. I have a tiny acreage full of granite rock and sandy soil. We are slowly improving the place but it’s great to see a more evolved property.
Thank you. Amazing features of the swales and dams...including Pirate Island. Enjoyed your use of the bamboo and your vision with the placement of plants. Especially the mulberry and grape trellis.
Geoff Lawton is the Bob Ross of Permaculture
Inspiring, and extremely impressive. Thank you very much for everything you do and sharing it with us.
Hey Geoff! Absolutely love your content. Learning a lot and want to apply it to my life. I’m curious about navigating the business world with a farm. How to make it a sustainable and realistic business? What are the key factors for starting a successful permaculture farm? I’m living in Southern California. Thanks for your time! Sending kind regards.
Thanq Geoff Lawton...wonderful narration .. you are a real parmaculturist.
I like your videos...
I am also created a wonderful food forest in Hyderabad... India... Like this....
wow Geoff, the place is extremely beautiful
Thanks very much Geoff, that was another fantastic informative video. I’m so jealous of the rainfall you get, I live in Fremantle WA and we have had 2 of the driest summers on record back to back. Water is the elixir of all life. I so look forward to updates on Pirate Island and your new abode, thanks again for passing on your wealth of knowledge 👌
Thank you for the tour, Geoff. It was nice to see the layout and hear of some projects and future plans. I did enjoy this tour type video. It is very interesting. Do you have plans to return to Jordan anytime soon for video updates on greening the desert? I really enjoyed the video of that Palestinian woman whose home and garden looked over to Palestine. She was inspirational. By the way, have you ever checked out the Bealtaine Cottage youtube channel? She also has a permaculture small holding but she lives in Ireland. Her name is Colette. You may really enjoy her garden and food forest tours. Best wishes for you and the family at Zaytuna Farm.
My impression of the beauty of your site(s) is that they continue to evolve over time. They get more complex. More diverse. More interesting. Thank you for sharing.
I would be super overwhelmed if I had to design all of that at the outset. But knowing that you can "frame in" the earthworks over time, and continue to add on makes it more possible in my head.
Absolutely loved it!!!! Out of curiosity, and at risk of sounding silly, do swales make sense in already waterlogged places that get lots of rain throughout the year? I am pretty sure you have answered this in one of your extensive archives, but I couldn't manage to find it.
just found it addressed here : th-cam.com/video/seUHiXMTUl8/w-d-xo.html thank you !! :)
Amazing video Geoff so very inspiring, thank you. You are number one! I'd love to see a map.
Zaytuna farm is a community. I had no idea, very nice.
It's always a great experience to follow you on a tour, learning every time something new. Thank you for your gentle and rich way of teaching, by bringing us closer to the way nature works. I love it
We have purchased 17.5 acres in the United States. Your walk over you property was very helpful because we are trying to develop our water features, swales, pipes etc. thank you!
What area are you in? I do permaculture based designs using contour maps overlayed onto google earth.
Once you know the ridges/valleys, it makes it easier to design water harvesting/access/structures/plantings
Love it! I enjoyed your walk and talk as downtime for the body and up time for the brain. One day our whole planet could look feel and breathe like this. If only people really did the work. Planned carefully; and got dirty!!
What a fantastic tour! Thank you for putting it together. How are you affected by the recent flood in Lismore? Would be great if you could do an update on how the system handled the flood.
Thank you so much Geoff. I did last years online PDC with you and I really miss watching videos with your explanations! So any tours are always greatly appreciated!
Id like to see video for people working alone, without mechanical earth-moving equipment or the budget to buy all of the plants and trees and tons of acreage.
Check out the Weedy Garden; thats exactly what hes doing and he is studying with Geoff
Would love to see an update on the dams during these big rains late feb/mar 22
Greetings, Geoff, from Windermere, Florida zone 9b USA 🇺🇸
Thanks for sharing your very special place. I can't wait to see this shared community in another year and beyond. You have created a paradise. 🌿💚🌿
a paradise you've got here in deed. can't wait to see my property in a similar shape in near future. thank you jeoff, for sharing such great impressions
YES! Thank you so much for this video tour Geoff. It was inspiring, beautiful, relaxing, and ...I feel so motivated to achieve goals I've set for my future. Thank you again! Please make more videos like this! :)))
I'm amazed. Thanks for sharing this with us Geoff
Can't wait to see the development of this features.
Greetings from Brazil
Can you please provide an update on the Chinampas you had setup last year?
I am betting less then 10% of those who watch this will really understand it in full. Followed and worked with you for more than a decade and this is one of the most masterful designs I have ever seen.
I realize the above reference of 10% could sound arrogant but I don't mean it that way. I am not sure I fully understand it. I am not talking the function or the physical layout. I am referring to the stacking in time. The net added impact this design will have for over a thousand years. What does the stacking in time look like across 1,000 years? If you didn't even think about that while watching this video, go watch it again and you will see what I mean.
Wonderful tour. Very inspiring. To see how water can be made to walk not run. I especially like the fact you put your dairy cows onto the swale. That is so good to know.
Is it possible to have a video on your routine with your dairy and how it all fits in to the permaculture system. Do you keep them consistently close to the dairy where you may bring food to them or do you have them on rotation with laneways to walk back to dairy for milking?
I would be most interested in how the dairy fits in with the whole system.
Thankyou for making this video so early in the morning too. Much appreciated.
oh wow what an incredible tour of your swails and the natural flow of all the rain you guys have had. I have such a greater understanding of what you are explaining. I enjoyed that so much. I just want to shout out to the world to come watch your videos. Greetings from Western Australia
Make more of these walk-through videos please.
I expected to see more fruit trees.
Your swales are going to get a good test this week. Big rains coming.
I've missed seeing the progress. So beautiful, so smart and so abundant. Thank you so much for helping me relax and for doing so much to help heal the planet. m
Geoff or whoever handles your media I have a question. I see how the class I am currently in is awesome by the way. It follows the PDM almost explicitly. My question is should I read the book first then listen to that section of the class. I just picked up a scoop for my tractor (I'm fairly disabled in my back and legs for normal work) so the tractor is a godsend for that reason, I want to make about 500 miles of swales on my 11 acres now (zone 6a Just south of Kansas city Missouri) lol. But really wondered how it works for the ones fortunate enough to attend the 50 hours of class in person. I am doing the class online that you and Bill lectured in. Thanks for any answers. Any videos that show how to get a drain installed into a current pond for use on the property? I had another question but it may be too expensive. Has anyone looked at using solar to route some of the water that flows to the bottom of the property back up to the top of the property using a solar pump? I have a background in electricity and electrical pumps ect and I just want to make a really deep sump at the bottom of my property and route all that water back to the top or back to the pond. lol. anyways thanks again.
That's GWW! Geoff's Water Wonders. It's amazing what you did with careful observation, smart design and a bit of fantasy. Can't wait to emulate!
Now thats how you harvest water! Amazing video Geoff so very inspiring
Never too long of a video of your magnificent slice of paradise. Always up for a tour, love your work.
All the best.👍👍👍
That was fascinating seeing the effect of the swales. It’s going to burst into life from now you. Can’t wait to see more.
That was a thorough tour providing valuable information. Thank you very much Geoff. Have you considered having a drone video produced to show a ‘birds-eye perspective of your property.
Regards, Hans
Vancouver island, Canada.
Thanks You very much for the vídeo. Always learning from them. I'm from Patagonia Argentina near the mountains.Slowly trying yo aply.
Genius. I am watching our path to a sustainable future. Thank you for educating me.
Hello Geoff. Thank you for sharing your work. This opportunity of learning from you is amazing! I am very grateful for this. Thank to you we all stay connected to nature.Please kindly see Save Soil Conscious Planet movement.. Would be wonderful to know that you know about it.
I hope I get the chance to do even a fraction of these amazing things on my own piece of land one day. Would be even better to have friends and family to share it all with.
Hi! We translate into Russian and voice videos about permaculture. Can we translate and publish some of your videos on our channel?
I remember an earlier video giving the impression that the land was farmland without saturation. Not arid but fairly dry grass. Now it looks like you have wetlands. Expecting to see long legged birds looking for worms haha.
Thank Geoff. A very interesting and pleasant walk.
Thanks Geoff! Love your videos and your classes. Did you happen to capture on video the work you did on the dams and ponds? Thank you
Fantastic! Really illustrates how water flows across your property!
Excellent work, and project. Brotherly Love, blessings, and Respect. Well done.
so amazing .. a beach , river, island That Fig Tree .. Id like to see some hobit houses, mabye a castle and possibly a pyrimid those seem to be the only things missing ... most likely in the next video I can't wait .. thanks geoff what an adventure US 5.30 am PST Signing out its bed time
Yes I find this quite interesting! I wish I had a suitable piece of property to implement your practices.
Great informative tour, thanks Geoff ! I really love going into the way you read and transform the land.
Hey Geoff! Can permaculture practices be used to manage cane toads? Also if possible, could you talk about managing flying foxes?
Many thanks!
Michael.
First ask if they need managing? Perhaps the humans need a bit of harvest sharing management skills like planting some stuff for the flying foxes and not parking under their resting trees. Tell us how you go and what you come up with.