This Farm Design Can HEAL the PLANET 

Hey wouldn't such design kill the river/lake?I mean he is holding the water in the middle instead of dropping down, and he was building way too many plants. Wouldn't too many plants also cause damage to the water?

@@canisterbottournament kill more rivers by flushing loads of water every rain

@@Handlebarrz weird. I was told in school that water rains down the mountain, creates a river or something and connects to Lake/bigger river/ocean and keeps it healthy, no?

@@canisterbottournament yes, but sometimes humans come and build all over and slap concrete intop of the water filtering earth and water runs off through surface picking up oil and chemicals from surfaces

@@Handlebarrz but so wouldn't the design he showed kill the river since it's blocking water to fall in the river?

Careful digging around those roots!

I want to do the same near Barcelona!

Hell yeah! Saving on water and helping your ecosystem!

great job.

Muito bom! Boa sorte 😁

🙏🤍

Yep I agree with you but you know saying Africa is a whole continent not a country

Mate ireland ain't the agricultural permaculture paradise you think it is and it has unfortunately never been, its like 90% cows over here with minimal forest cover, so uh... sorry.

@@gorg8882 lmao the downpour and climate in ireland has lead to quite lush forests, you know people joke about england being a rainy place but ireland man thats even more, ireland is very very lush, pretty sure there are even some temperate rainforest in ireland

@@catboynestormakhno2694 sorry comrade but the celtic rainforest is long gone, I live in ireland, I'll admit the climate does have the ability to create lush forests, but most of them have been cut down for agriculture, and the ones that remain are mostly made up of confiers brought over from Europe for logging.

Knowledge ? If this man starts a farm, I'd like to see how he is doing. Preachers are often detached from reality. He better not start a farm, that could be a disappointment, dont you think so ?

Was this literally just sand on top of a TV?

@@RaspyOB174 that and an overhead projector linked to a computer would be my guess.

@@rollling7523 The Keyline Design System IS in use, but mainly in it's country of origin, Australia. And the technique is not new. It was developed in the 50s to deal with the arid Australian climate. Here is an instruction film on the earthworks for this system from the 60s. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-i5z5T378SM4.html

@@RaspyOB174 Yeah sand, and an overhead system with projector, but also depth cameras that know the topology of the sand That is used in a computer simulation so that water can be added and the topology displayed.

Devastating. I’m sorry that happened . Here’s to hoping that spreading this message far and wide can help reach a critical mass of people and policy so that somehow such ignorance and shortsighted opportunism can be overcome.

It's actually called Riendeau!? That is one of the most tragic jokes I've heard this year.

@@magiv4205 believe you me, this was not lost on me. 'No water there' as the difference between tragedy and comedy is time I can feel the future humour potential even while still suffering the loss.

@@georgemckenzie2525 if life gives you lemons am I right? Hahah

@@squirrelhallowino29 my key lime trees grow from seed each produced over a hundred limes, the lemons are still hanging on the streets from the seed grown lemon trees first fruiting Good thing I love lemonade.

Gotta read more don't rely on psychedelics for breakthroughs dog

@@hendog5667 😂

Complete horseshit. I already doubt that you have had any sort of worthwhile experiences on psychedelics when you say shit like “this is the type of realizations I get”, you can hardly speak correctly. Regardless, I know what psychedelics are like, and you don’t suddenly gain ecology, irrigation, and geology knowledge out of nowhere just because you got high lol

@@hendog5667 reading alone won't make you connect dots

@@kalphitekil connect the dots of water flowing downhill? Okay…

Thank you. Other commenters were very triggered by me pointing out the flaws of private property divisions, so I appreciate the feedback.

Not really. Like everything it just should be regulated properly. I mean land use in cities for example is strictly regulated. We just need to apply more modern and research guided rules on how to build and use agricultural land.

@@amillison There's always resistance to doing things differently than the mainstream (pun intended). Usually that means you're doing something right!

@@mukkaar To be fair, land use is a disaster in most North American cities. Strictly regulated isn't the same as well regulated and many cities have strictly regulated sprawl.

@@rileynicholson2322 Yes. An absolute calamity of land mis-management.

Thanks Matt. Great to hear from you, bro!

Im from south-west Slovakia and have the same problem. My family has 2 acres of a flat land with soil that´s around 40 cm (around 3 1/2 ft) deep and under that is only gravel. I´ll try to dig on small piece of land to try this out, but Im skeptical

Keyline plow!!

One would have to manage the lands from highest elevation to lowest. So you would need a statewide effort to change the landscape. Perhaps mountains or high elevations can be built up to solve this issue. Also most important you have to do this with the water flow. If there is no water flow then I don’t know how you would fix this. Great point and would love to see his answers

Ponds are water catchments for flatlands.

Think of it using more microtopography. Even with a smaller elevational gradient, it’s surprising the differences that emerge between a gentle hilltop vs the path the water takes below it.

you'll notice the politicians, corporations, and banks ain't saying nothing about this and working as hard as they can to dismantle it! but i agree, what the world could be, and what the world used to be! cheers, send the demos off the planet!!! peacefully of course, but time for abundance, enough of manufactured scarcity...

Not all poverty, war and scarcity are due to bad land management. Dictatorships and communist regimes want to control everything, people as well as nature! Look at the CCP, (Chinese Communist Party). They for one, will not stop short of world domination, nature be damned! 😑

@@GypV right - agreed and upvoted - but resource privation is a huge contributing factor for why dictatorial and oppressive regimes are able to come into power in the first place and maintain it. Their people are desperate and deprived. Such a populace is vulnerable to such regimes in a way that empowered, resource-stable, economically viable and sound populations are not. Good land management moves the chains in the right direction. Solving these ecological and economic issues is one piece of the puzzle. It takes a lot of wind out of the despotic sails of any demagogues seeking or holding onto power.

People are so caught up in our broken way of living that they think it's normal or natural when it's the furthest thing from it

@@GypV the only thing the CCP has had in common with communism since the late 70s is the name. China is a capitalist country!

Thanks a lot. I hope you enjoy the other videos and I appreciate the kind words :-)

Hey it's my bestie, out in the wild! *Salutes*

Agreed! We are all individually spreading the word and this is some great educational content. Great work again Andrew!

How have you never watched this channel?!! The whole gang is here!

Hello all .. We are looking for land now to start our own journey… we have no formal education in permaculture but wish to develop our land as so , so to work with nature to benefit Mother Earth and our own health issues we are seeking to heal along side with the land lot we find to settle upon .. Any suggestions on what reading material or RU-vid’s and so forth are best to assist in how to actually physically accomplish gardening and farming with a mix of permaculture and aqua farming indoors likely is what we will be looking at todo first … We are more interested in having a small lab to make ointments and so forth along with growing then our housing.. so we have settled on a yurt to begin with … as I wish to learn how to build with clay / mud to expand later on with as needed along with create planter pods as needed for basically free by using such techniques.. I find those techniques and technologies that limit cost and labor to be most important for us .. as we are just starting to save now and still have health issues that are recovering.. Any tips are welcomed … thank you in advance .. your all amazing and beautiful people who brought so much life back to this world .. because of you we are able to dream of a brighter future and have the will to continue moving on.

Awesome! Looking forward to working with you :-)

Wonderful! I'm so glad you found it helpful. :)

Thanks Jaya. I appreciate the kind words

Definitely! The division of land into squares (in the US) is a big obstacle to watershed-scale work. But if you have the perspective of designing for a whole catchment basin, then when you are selecting land, you have a big advantage in knowing what you're looking for. Also, take a look at my India's Water Revolution video series to see full watershed-scale design: ru-vid.com/group/PLNdMkGYdEqOCgePyiAyBT0sh7zlr7xhz3

I have a design team of 8 people, based in San Diego but some of us have worked all over the US and in many other countries on Eco-Communites, Establishing Permaculture Farms, Organic farms, doing watershed and habitat restoration projects, farm-to-table restaurants, Greenhouses, etc. We have myself (45 years' experience), and Architect, 2 Permaculture Farmers (one is also chef & aquaponics person), naturopathic doctor, graphic designer with masters degree in sustainable design (from Mexico), a lady with Masters in Animal Ag, graduate studies in S. America. We could help and also have a network of collaborators in Animal Ag, Marine, Wildlife, Plant Biology, etc.

I have 40 acres with a well in the desert, would love to find others that want to do a project like this.

@@gabrieln3613 I believe this mixed with eco aquaponic farming is the solution. I have investors with deep pockets. I just need this information transformed into a p&l statements they can understand.

Know hbomberguy, if i may ask? Sorry for being random.

I am nowhere near qualified enough to speak on this authoritatively but let me try to apply what I understand of the general approach: a) I think Tractor movement is still possible within these systems (mind you the model is at a rather small scale) although heavily curtailed, less straightforward and generally less helpful since it is based on Permacultures. I think it reduces the function to a supporting tool, rather than the main workhorse, which b) I think the point is not that these systems are more efficient, than the ones we have, but rather that they are still viable even though they are more complicated/complex than the current one. In the short term (until we have adjusted our farming equipment/technology) it would most definitely increase manual labour and thus cost, although not proportionately since these systems require less to sometimes even no fertilizer, artificial irrigation and overall maintenance. c) is very much the least of the problems I think, since the whole concept relies on heavily reducing or eliminating the introduction of foreign chemicals and using the natural conditions to grow whatever grows best there instead of forcing a chosen crop to grow anywhere. This would definitely result in tensions within the economy, but again the point of all this is to move away from maximizing profits to maximizing sustainability. People really don't need every single crop available to them at the same price, regardless of season and location.

LET ME just list more good Enviroment-Videos and Climate-Change-Coverage, just so no one misses-out: UpisNotJump, Hbomberguy, OCC, Not Just Bikes, Climate-Town, Some More News, Second Thought, and Simon Clark.

My pleasure! Thanks for watching :-)

Thank you!

Good to have you aboard! It's my pleasure!

Let me know when you're president and we'll get started :-)