From all the permaculture videos I've watched that have been recommended to me for a few days, yes! I believe it's very good for us and the environment; a win-win for nature and humanity!
I love it’s brilliant I’m trying to do the same in CA but the insects need me everywhere so I’ll need to find the insects that are pollinators and find plants that are perfect for them. Think I’ll need to harvest my crops in green house
No because while some in developped county can allow to have this luxury, other countries will starve. It is convenient to forget that many times we don't produce crops only for us but for the whole world. If we adopt this sistem and we work much more just to produce what it is strictly necessary for you to eat to avoid extra effort or waste, how many people will accept that they will never have, olives, oranges, bananas and other that couldn't be acclimatized in your country?
If you have a yard you shouldn't be growing grass you should be growing food. I save around $250 - $350 a month on food due to my garden. I killed all my grass and put a permaculture garden in my yard. Actually my whole yard is a permaculture garden. We have a little patch of grass for BBQs and friends but the rest is making food. If everyone in America turned there yard into a permaculture garden it would be the same as making a forest the size of TEXAS!!!! That's 268,597 miles Squared that's insane! A forest that big could save a lot of species from going extinct
Easier said than done. Gardening on that scale takes a lot of work, and many neighborhoods wouldn't let you do it, anyway, for various reasons. This works better out in the country than it would in the suburbs.
It also helps with so much more too! Less in house AC needed e.g. because there is more shade and the plants take in the heat better. There is more healthy food to go around. It´s relaxing and affordable. The list goes on and on.
@@zibbitybibbitybop It sadly is due to weird regulations in US suburbs. They should change that as its bad city planning... (YT: Not just bikes) ... also what does that have to do with the so important freedom? Can carry a gun but can´t plant your own food on your own ground? Also it´s not that much work really. Depending on the size your going for you prepare the ground, you inform yourself what you can grow when and plant it. You look after it which is maybe some watering and picking a few weeds here and there and you harvest it a few weeks or months later.
@@zibbitybibbitybop its really not a lot of work. I hear that excuse all the time. I spend maybe 2 - 3 hours a week working in the garden. You have no excuse
As a Permaculture Farmer, I love the way you guys covered the basics! There are large scale farms doing this as well in Brazil and New Forest Farm in Wisconsin, USA. Great work you all!
brazil does need to combat its agriculture industry regardlesd tho, we are one of the countries that produce the most yet around half our population was classified as in "insegurança alimentar" that is, unsure if they will actually have a decent meal in the time to come, which is pretty fucking insane
We have these gardens here in Romania but it's impossible to make a living out of them. Elderly have them in villages because they are way more healthier and more delicious than the stuff you get from a supermarket
Thank you for another great documentary! I think permaculture is a great way to farm. However, we also need to change the consumer behaviour of getting the "perfect"looking produce so the food waste will be lessen to. Keep up the good work! Prost!
In Bangalore, I came across these ugly pomegranates in the local store. They were the size of small melons with patchy skin and colorless grains. I bought them out of curiosity. They were the divine fruit I ever tasted.
Instead of a world for stayed giving tax money to people we should give them seeds to grow and if they don't do a good job they will go hungry. If they do a good job they will be healthy in mind and body.
Thank you for mentioning indigenous people more than once. It is something that is often overlooked with permaculture. A very strong nod to indigenous technique is needed.
My friends here in central Ohio have turned their yard into a permaculture paradise. It’s crazy how it’s changed not only their yard, but themselves. After the first couple years, it seems like they don’t even care about their jobs anymore. Whenever we all get together to hangout, you can see them practically falling asleep when everyone starts talking about work. 😂 They still have office jobs, but it’s like, “Oh yeah-that’s just the 40 hours I have to do to pay the bills.” It’s actually quite amazing how they are working so much harder now than ever before, but they are happier and more fulfilled. Whenever I need to get away I go over and spend an afternoon drinking tea and chilling in their garden. ❤
That my friends is market-gardening, not permaculture. Permaculture emphasizes perennials, which he uses basically none of, multistory canopies, which he has none of, etc. Not an attack on his practices by the way, on the contrary, we need a market garden in just about every village.
@Isabel T Thanks. I am a certified permaculture designer. There are definitions in permaculture. Yes, what you said was about right. Generally speaking, the zones are not about usage, they're about visit frequency, but the way I understand zones, kitchen gardens, with crops that are used every day or multiple times a day, like herbs and greens, go in zone one, chicken systems go on the edge of zones 1 and two, food forests and storage crops go in zone 2, broad cropland and rangeland go in zone 3, (zone three can be visited every day. It is commonly an exception to the general trend of higher numbered zones being visited less often, since mob grazing requires daily management, for instance.) zone 4 is usually the larger scale agroforestry zone. Timber, nut trees, firewood, pigs, rabbits, chickens, mushrooms and berries may grow here. Zone 4 tends to start to be a bit wilder than the lower numbered zones. The livestock is likely to be somewhat feral. Multistory canopies are seen most often in zones 2 and 4. Zone 5 is not necessarily for native plants. Zone 5 is the zone we do nothing to, except for passive observation. We let nature take the reins in this zone, and teach us her secrets. We can use strategic placement of zone 5 to attract wildlife into the property, where and when so desired. So I hope that clears things up. To be honest, your reply to the original comment was like a breath of fresh air, to me. Someone who gets it! The newness of permaculture techniques to many people can make it easy to forget that permaculture is a design science, at it's heart. Are you on permies?
@Isabel T What you said about zone 5 is one of the misconceptions that having a closely observed, undisturbed zone 5 can help you remedy. "Invasive" is a gimmick to get you to buy herbicides. If you observe the "invasive" plants and let things take their course over multiple years, you will learn how nature handles this stuff. The wish to eradicate "invasive" plants betrays an assumption that you actually know what is going on. Zone 5 is for keeping that belief in check. Nature can benefit from our influence. That influence is limited to the lower zones. If zone 5 is also under human disturbance, we won't have the sobering anchor to the real world that it provides. If you want a native plant garden, it needs to be in zone 1 or 2, so it can be properly maintained. Native plants are good, but zone 5 has a fundamentally different purpose than you describe.
I feel like this doesn't discuss the use of perennials enough. That aspect is crucial to building soil and storing carbon. Not to mention creating habitat.
Definitely. Asparagus and I believe artichoke too being perennials. They'll grow back every year and provide great food. (That is on the off change they don't get ravaged by pests or disease)
In mesoamerica (Mexico to Costa Rica) an ancient permaculture system typically known as Milpa is still in use. It involves planting maiz, beans, squash and sometimes other plants like chili peppers in the same plot, at different seasons and ratios. And rotating the plot of land used every two years.
I do composting at home and actually when I get some sprouts on my pile that looks familar, I just plant it!! This summer I gave out a lot of tomatoes and egg plants from the plants that sprouted from my compost! Well, thats my goal!! I want to open my backyard and front yard to people who needs food! Hopefully, I get more plants and more pallets so I can build more bed planters. Like what the guy did in this video, I also plant some native plants in my backyard!!! I love seeing those bumble bees and monarch butterfly in the garden you know!
Because it is "bobot" how french are saying. Yes, you can grow food like that but it wouldn't be enough to feed us all. Come to Romania to see how farmers do the same thing, how much they work and how little food they produce.
The major caveat to this is that because it's labor-intensive, it'd require a large percentage of the population to return to farming instead of their current postindustrial career fields. I can't really see that happening in someplace like the US. It feels more like these principles should be applied to agribusiness to make it more environmentally friendly, rather than attempting to entirely replace agribusiness with it.
this is very common in Bangladesh. even my family grows a lot of vegetables in our backyard. it is possible because the soil is very fertile in Bangladesh
It's the way to go. Permaculture has different principles and it is not inherently true that it isn't competitive with the agro-industry. Different markets, different rules. People in Italy are trying a small food-renaissance, but the lobby against it is strong. Very strong.
My Garden has feet of black soil that was not there before all of it was in the atmosphere and it helps me water less and my plants grow better because I have more organic mater on the soil if we did that every where who knows
@@pk-pj4sz no, that black stuff you are talking about is called humus. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humus It´s the reason why you switch out crops. Carbon dioxide is the byproduct in manufacturing fertilizer.
@@kingjames4886 It's that simple, plants absorb nitrogen and carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and deposit carbon (as dead plant matter) and nitrates(plant waste) in the soil. You can get fancy and explain the processes with chemistry if you like but all you need to know to garden are the basic principles.
Here in south east Asia specially in poor communities, most houses has a veggie 🪴 garden, ull exchange crops or livestock with ur neighbour to have a meal, no need to buy groceries... the only time u go to a mall is to buy things &clothes... ull save a lot of cash in this system...
Good, but never let the soil uncover...in nature, the only soil that remains uncover is the desertic one. Mulch is one of the best ways to keep the soil alive and fertile.
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I believe that if society as a whole pivoted towards the efficient and ethical production of food then we could solve climate change and world hunger. The quality of life increases for everybody when there is plentiful education, quality food and a sense of purpose that many of us are desperately searching for.
@@elenabob4953 You misunderstand. Society would collectively produce and distribute food in cooperation with each other to ensure their community is served. You are either producing food, aiding in its distribution or providing your services in another manner that would still support the overall goal of feeding and taking care of one another. We will still need many different skill sets and specializations in the workforce but as long as we are working towards cleaning up the planet and feeding each other then I think it's possible to achieve a stronger society that values people and nature over material wealth.
@@zacharygirgenti3790 You misunderstood, if we revert to our old ways, you will have much more people working the fields to produce that food => less people to do research, to build roads and so on. We will also require larger patches of land because we wouldn't be that efficient. If everyone grow their crops locally and only for your community, it will be a very special moment when you will manage to obtain things that can't be acclimatised in you region like olives, oranges bananas etc. Maybe you don't realize that in a interconnected world, large portions of the food that we produce goes to other countries who need it. Yes you can do whatever you want but you must be sure that you know pretty well what are the consequences for all. This is no more different than the electrical cars, yet we become green and all but with the cost of destroying the environment for poor countries who are unlucky enough to have the rare mineral that we require.
@@zacharygirgenti3790 My the way, if you miss the old agriculture come to Romania at Baldana to see how the people work their land each day and how little crop they manage to obtain.
@@elenabob4953 Many of the principles are ancient but we can combine those with new technology, science and techniques to create the most efficient system possible. Come to the Sonoran Desert where the Hopi have been growing crops for thousands of years without watering their fields. Their seeds have been naturalized and selected for maximum efficiency. That wisdom is priceless and will save us all if we are willing to change our ways. It's not about reverting back to a primitive society. The goal is to engineer our lives around a healthy lifestyle and a safe environment.
9:10 You mention that cheap veggie comes from cheap labor and more importantly, at the cost of our environment. Subsequently, by moving to permaculture, the food price will increase. So, food is only for the 'rich' now? Don't get me wrong, I like the idea of sustainability, but we also need to think about those who are living on this 'exploit' (cheaper food price) because they can't afford a higher price on food. As you said, cheaper food comes with cost (environment). Same goes with trying to save the environment, there is cost associated with it and most likely it will be paid heavily by those who's already at the bottom in our society. Would you sacrifice those at the bottom to save earth so that those sitting at the middle and the top survive?
People don't realize that problems in the agriculture industry cannot be solved solely from internal approach. Skyrocketing population and high food waste contribute to the problem and they're even harder to solve. The world would fall apart if everyone in the lower class are starving. Governments would never support a global scale of this type of farming practices since it would cost so much money if they subsidize expensive food
Lol. In India, the "poor" is enriched by doing permaculture. Not necessarily due to rich people buying from them, but because they can sustain themselves by growing their own food. This basically solves poverty with a caveat that someone has to provide them a land to work on. Because most resources used to develop a permaculture farm comes from that land itself.
@@shr6482 which then leads to the next problem because if they need more land to sustain themselves, then you need to do more land clearing. Essentially defeating the original purpose to make agriculture more eco friendly
Loved it! Aranya is so beautiful ❤️ Thank you DW team for this video. It's a great shoutout to Permaculturists all over the world including us. More love and power back to you too 💚 from Kerala, India.
I'm a permaculture enthusiast since 2011. This fellow has adapted to the market which is a compromise. Becoming even more wild with food growing is rare, special, and is needed.
Surreal. My family has been farming our own small plots of land (three acres) for years. Rotational crops in three separate fields. If I had to put a number, we grew 60-70% of our vegetables, while harvesting wild blue berries from the nearby mountains. Canning, baking, milling, all done by hand. It never occurred to me that this wasn't something people weren't aware of as being a requirement for small scale sustainability, it just always "was" something we, and our neighbors, did. I admit though, the integration of these small scale farms takes much, MUCH more effort than this video would imply. Thoughts on forming micro communities? At this rate, we'll have to regain the agrarian numbers of old and have if not household, than small groups of household community gardens.
I live in the States where corporate farming is not adopting environmentally wise ways to improve the soil and preserve biodiversity. I truly hope we learn to do better and reject destructive monoculture, herbicides, and pesticides.
Excellent video! It baffles me why the major agriculture companies don't hire these permaculture farmers to design a more cost efficient, environmentally friendly, healthier (natural pesticides), projects to grow their products... Seems obvious...
This is super interesting. I regularly get into discussions over agricultural practices with a friend who works on a farm. It's clear that current industrial agriculture is unsustainable and doesn't factor the massive cost of the damages caused in the long term. With monocultures being so fragile trying to grow multiple crops on the same farmland seems like an obvious solution. On the other hand I must say it seems that the permaculture approach is much more labor intensive. As short sighted as large scale conventional farming is it still seems to have immense productivity, in the sense that lots of produce comes out in relation to the labor put in. If we want more permaculture we might have to accept the idea that more people have to work on farms again, which I imagine might be hard to convince people of. I think ideally we'd find a good balance of sustainable practices and automation. If we could have permaculture or other sustainable farming that did not require huge amounts of manual labor and could mostly be done with machines I seems to me that that would be perfect. It's definitely good that more agricultural methods are being experimented with. Whatever one may think of organic farming or conventional farming, it's clear that we need to find new solutions for producing food.
First, he's cultivating what's called "high value agriculture" - labor intensive, low shelf life products - instead of "commodity" - low profit margin, highly mechanisable, long shelf life products. I would like to see him pull those profit margins with corn, soy beans, cotton etc. Don't take me wrong, permaculture is beautiful. But as long as our industries need commodities, there will be a place for monoculture. It's just two very different markets.
@Duckychan Duckychan It seems that you still fail to understand what world hunger we will have if we stop this type of agriculture because we don't have enough soil to feed 8 billion people with the type of agriculture proposed here.
Another factor is that other than the land his expenses are pretty much non existent, a small plot can be managed by one person, and you don't even need more than $1000 in tools and materials, the man hours for a given yeild would be astronomical but you can also micromanage every square foot potentially allowing somewhat higher yeilds for your rather capital intensive land meaning that the profit margins would still be high since you get to pocket pretty much everything from the sale especially if you find a way to make money off of how you gather some of your resources such as running a lawn mowing business where you collect the grass clippings to use in compost.
@@lorissupportguides not all regions on the planet are suitable for farming and not all have a favorable climate. I live in the mountains and we do not have enough fertile land and the vegetation period itself is rather short. Therefore, local peoples are traditionally engaged in cattle breeding. Look at the example of any country whose population is massively engaged in agriculture and all illusions will dissappear. All countries with industrialized agriculture waste food, and countries with traditional farming methods are often on the brink of survival. In the Russian Empire, famine happened every 5-7 years: early frosts, drought, crop failure.
@Duckychan Duckychan you don't seem to get what I meant. I meant the industry has demands for mechanised monocultures in industrial-level production. Permaculture doesn't solve that problem. Permaculture isn't the ultimate solution for all types of crops. We still don't have any better solution for commodity-type crops.
All of the shebang :D That was adorable denglish: it's the whole shebang :D and this was an absolutely delightful video. i have been rooting for permaculture, and hoping it catches on. seeing this report is making me think it may just have arrived into the mainstream. what a hope-enducing sign ˆˆ
Honestly guys, I love your videos and how real they feel. I loved this one as well and I have to say: chapeau to the audio editor as well, music and sound were so freaking cool.
My landlord increased my rent by $250/w after I planted a 6×3m food garden and replaced exotic (failing) genus and species with native ones. The real estate agent made me destroy it and replace it with lawn. Renters in Australia are doomed. I have photographs of before, during and after if you're interested. On the bright side, my neighbours were all so disappointed they rehomed all of my food plants and helped me destroy what I created over a 3 year period. I gave away most of my soil too. I have never been so emotionally hurt. So many memories, dishes, dinners, harvests, hours, friends, labour, pesto, ajvar, chilli, oregano, etc. All destroyed and replaced with grass because the real estate agent says we had to to receive our bond. This is one way to destroy the hearts of people trying to save the Earth and build community.
Permaculture has many sustainable advantages that improve the planet, but the future (so far) is vertical farming. Vertical farming is located in cities at the source, no pesticides, grows 24/7 and uses 75% - 95% less water. Another really important advantage is 20 acres of farm land can be returned to nature for every acre in a vertical farm.
Industrial farming wouldn’t be such an issue if most crops were not to feed cattle for cheap meat / dairies… Like 70% of fields are cultivated only to feed cattle, it’s insane…
My family used to farm when I was a kid. Although we did not call it permaculture at the time, what we practiced is exactly what is being introduced here. We faced all the issues mentioned here, crop losses (due to pests), and labor intensity. Back then, both of my parents worked at the farm for the whole day long but we still lived in poor. That's why we started using pesticides to prevent crop losses and fertilizers to boost up the crop yield. Efficiency is the key here.
The problem is monoculture farming. Growing the same crop over and over again. What farmers should be doing is crop rotation. Traditionally, that is what farmers did with a dedicated list of crops for each season. One time it was grains, next legumes, next veggies and herbs, before cycling back to grains. But we got so greedy for processed food and whatever trendy diet was out there that we just discarded this amazing practice for mono culture farming
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5:55 Yeah, If I leave just a few slug in the ground, in 2 nights I dont have any plants any more. Unless you live in a dry area, the slugs must be controlled. I just go after dark with a flashlight to remove them. Doing this a few nights helps greatly.
I have a backyard garden I started 4 years,I told people in my area they can do it too.There biggest excuse,dont have the time to start or maintain a garden.Yet everyone will stare at there phone's and watch t.v for hrs.Humanity biggest downfall is our laziness to do stuff for ourselves, big corporations owns us because of it.
Permaculture is a great way to use our yard for producing our own food, but clearly it needs hardwork to do the farming work especially if you have other work to do. But, i really love how permaculture encouraged the more sustainable ways in agriculture such as using natural enemy for pesticide. It's really cool how going back to natural is actually the answer for our future
While admirable and a great example for people to emulate, intensive market gardening is not permaculture…although it can incorporate some permaculture principles.
I would never have thought that my garden fits such characteristics, but apparently yes. Although of course our predators are only slightly feral cats, but my laziness apparently benefits nature at least. :D
I suggest that instead of moving a garden into a city, move people to country side so they can produce food for them... city without fossile fuel doesn't have a future...
Please make a video about Ernst Gostch. He has a farm in Brazil wich produces almost three times as much as a cacao monoculture, tons of cassava and much more. He also reforested 500 hectares of atlantic forest being ond of the most biodiverse portions of land in our country. Sorry for bad english 🙃
Growing veg at home used to be the norm, it started to disappear with the introduction of radios and then television, coronation is not causation, but seems to be related.
It's probably more related to the modern need to have both people in a couple working to cover expenses. Less time after work combined with bring physically and mentally drained and you just don't want to deal with a garden.
Love it, I live in a suburbs where they wont let us garden in the front yards but we can anywhere else. I grow all my vegetables for the year out of 5 4 x 8 raised beds.
Another problem is, that we cant even sell thins like these carrots here in switzerland... if for example a potato has a small hole or dents, or even if they are too small or too big, we have to throw them away / feed them to the cows... If a carrot is not compleatly straight, we also can't sell it...
I'm hoping people grow more of their own food or that we can change the way we use our local parks and gardens to take the strain off the agricultural ondustry and intergrate more permaculture everywhere
@Duckychan Duckychan Have you ever thought how much extra you need to produce just to trade for what you do have? Is it dubble, is it tripple? What about the number of people required to grow this way the crops? From where should we cut to have those people? Should we have less doctors, nurses, scientists, musicians, engineers, technicians, road builders, factory workers ... Currently the agricultural terrain on earth is 5 billion ( including pastures for the cattle). We are 7.8 billion so we will only have 0.64 hectares per person ( best case scenario). If we don't do industrial agriculture and no other climatic issue that could destroy our crop, what exactly we will plant to have food for one person for one year? Please take into consideration that we are also heavy restricted by different altitudes and climate types with many areas that have extremely harsh winters.
@@elenabob4953 This way of production does roughly a 1:100 farmer to population ratio. Which is less 'efficient' than poison agriculture, except that it also does not use up finite ressources (soil, water, fuel). Society could function perfectly well with 1% of the population being farmers and keeping everyone fed far better than today.
@Matteo Tironi Actually, small farms of this kind produce much more food per acre of land relatively to conventional farming, since the big tires of heavy machinery destroy half of the land cultivated. The problem is that permaculture farms require more labor, and farm workers are hard to find these days...
You just need to look at the people doing this already. While not always under the labels of permaculture, there are regenerative and organic farmers doing some really good large scale things. You can check out Sepp Holzer, he has a huge farm that follows his own style of permaculture where everything has a purpose that provides food fuel or fodder. Also check out Mark Shepard with his forest agriculture. Check out I AM ORGANIC GARDENING here on youtube, he shows awesome techniques for large scale planting while doing it organically. There are many examples that put permaculture principles in action.
@@worldchangingvideos6253 It is not where near that simple, besides most crops can not regrow to edible food like they were before you regrew them, carrot heads when replanted only grow and produce seeds and no edible food and the same for onions. Pineapple trees take a long time till they mature and produce fruit and it takes a lot of effort to do it if you are not in the right climate. If your in a cold climate or mild climate, you would have to spend hundreds on all the equipment and right types of soil just to get it to grow, then there is maintaining it which is time consuming and requires a place to dispose of all of the green waste.
