REVOLUTIONARY FARMS #2: From barren field to lush food forest | Rongo, Kenya

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  • Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
  • Caleb Omolo is a Kenyan farmer who has figured out how to create income and grow more than enough food for his family on just one acre of land. In this video he shares how other people could follow his example by starting food forests on their land.

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  • @noramkendamunishi6902
    @noramkendamunishi6902 2 года назад +47

    My only wish is for your vlogs to be longer. There is sooo much to learn from these people. This is my dream

  • @moosa9850
    @moosa9850 2 года назад +12

    The excitement in Caleb's voice is amazing, he knows his doing good and it shows.

    • @GrowingSmall
      @GrowingSmall  2 года назад

      Absolutely, Caleb is as passionate as anyone about the magic of food forests.

  • @melanielinkous8746
    @melanielinkous8746 3 года назад +49

    Love this gentleman's food forest! My goal in life.

    • @GrowingSmall
      @GrowingSmall  3 года назад +2

      Awesome, thanks for sharing and commenting!

    • @joachimoab6445
      @joachimoab6445 2 года назад

      Our collective goal it should be to better our habitat

  • @sihlethango844
    @sihlethango844 2 года назад +17

    This gentleman needs his own RUclips channel.

  • @faithgichuru3617
    @faithgichuru3617 3 года назад +41

    I believe this is one of the best videos you have posted, showing a real food forest at work. Beautiful too. Well done Caleb.

    • @GrowingSmall
      @GrowingSmall  3 года назад +4

      Wow, thank you, Faith. I'm trying to improve a little bit with every video I'm posting. More relevant content coming soon!

  • @morenomoreno7230
    @morenomoreno7230 2 года назад +9

    Africans working with mother earth rather than against it like western farmers with their poisonous fertilizers and problematic mono culture. Our people and the planet salute you Caleb !!!!!

  • @Diykitz
    @Diykitz 3 года назад +10

    Wow, pure African genius, much respect 🙏🙏

  • @Mamajonaful
    @Mamajonaful 3 года назад +18

    Ive watched a few of your videos and im so happy to see our people being so knowledgable and expressing themselves so eloquently. More than that, their results speak for themselves. Kudos.

  • @xue5767
    @xue5767 3 года назад +21

    Inspiring! Hope more farmers get to know his work and learn about the food forest method.

    • @GrowingSmall
      @GrowingSmall  3 года назад

      More to come!

    • @MsBeatfull
      @MsBeatfull 2 года назад

      @@GrowingSmall do you train farmers on how to utilize their spaces too?

  • @chantaltulliez8066
    @chantaltulliez8066 3 года назад +7

    Very well done Caleb...your food forest looks amazing...

  • @marieslabbert6009
    @marieslabbert6009 3 года назад +5

    This man is wise and intellent, a very powerful combination. If this can ce copied by 50 million small scale farmers all over the world, climate change can be stopped as well as rural poverty.

    • @GrowingSmall
      @GrowingSmall  3 года назад +3

      Exactly what I think as well, Marie. I'd love if the so called development assistance could promote exactly these type of designs rather than pour money into monoculture-based, 'modern' farming. It's unlikely we'll see this as agrobusiness can't profit - Caleb's food forest doesn't need chemicals or artificial fertilizers or hybrid seeds! Just got to hope that more small-scale farmers embrace permaculture food forests because they realize it can make them better off, healthier, and more secure.

    • @marieslabbert6009
      @marieslabbert6009 3 года назад

      @@GrowingSmall I have come to realise that humans do not learn quickly from their mistakes. In medicine, everything that was not according to their protocols were critisised. After decades they realise that humans are body and souls, not only a body. That emotions affect the health of a person greatly and that natural medicines work just as well if not better. The same will eventually happen in farming, only when the earth force them to change. It has started already, but man is hardheaded and greedy.

  • @amio845
    @amio845 3 года назад +32

    This man is a wealth of information. He applied permaculture principle really well.

  • @newcitygardnerjeanninevaug6117
    @newcitygardnerjeanninevaug6117 3 года назад +4

    This video is the best. Gives me a new way to look at buying land. Thank you.

  • @DeejayB9
    @DeejayB9 3 года назад +10

    This is an awesome project. I'll follow the same principles when I get land. Good Content

    • @GrowingSmall
      @GrowingSmall  3 года назад +1

      Awesome to hear from you, hoping you'll get your hands on some land sooner rather than later!

    • @DeejayB9
      @DeejayB9 3 года назад

      @Growing Small absolutely and get featured on this channel.

    • @DeejayB9
      @DeejayB9 3 года назад

      @Growing Small absolutely and get featured on this channel.

  • @mdavidom5903
    @mdavidom5903 2 года назад +1

    This gets my heart rate way up there. This is the future. Zephaniah Phiri... presente! Come on Kenya 🇰🇪, we can do this!

  • @Leo86tran
    @Leo86tran 3 года назад +2

    Greeting from Vietnam. Thank you !

  • @williamkiarie8945
    @williamkiarie8945 3 года назад +2

    Excellent video. Part II is certainly needed. I love the knowledge and passion of this farmer

    • @GrowingSmall
      @GrowingSmall  3 года назад

      Glad you enjoyed it, William. What should part 2 include in your opinion? Caleb's extremely resourceful and knowledgeable indeed.

    • @cultivatingwellness4028
      @cultivatingwellness4028 2 года назад

      @@GrowingSmall would like to see how Caleb starts his day and harvesting foods 🌿🌱🤗🌞🦋

  • @Nitka022
    @Nitka022 2 года назад +1

    Wow Amazing! And the fish ponds?? Unreal! What an amazing man and what an amazing skills working the land....helping nature and helping himself....amazing...xoxoxo

    • @GrowingSmall
      @GrowingSmall  2 года назад +1

      So glad you enjoyed this video and also thanks for commenting, really means a lot to me :)

    • @Nitka022
      @Nitka022 2 года назад

      @@GrowingSmall Your videos are amazing. Will follow you with pleasure. Please share some more if you can. :-))

  • @christophterwitte2348
    @christophterwitte2348 3 года назад +3

    amazing food forest. love this portrait of him!

  • @boukimalice7909
    @boukimalice7909 3 года назад +4

    I would love to do something like this. I need to learn more.

  • @Chr.U.Cas1622
    @Chr.U.Cas1622 2 года назад +1

    👍👌👏👏👏 Oh WOW, simply fantastic! Also not very difficult to do! Great man, great food forest, great water management! Congrats!
    Thanks a lot for making teaching explaining recording editing uploading and sharing.
    Best regards luck and health to all involved life forms (humans animals and plants).

  • @monica2862
    @monica2862 2 года назад +1

    Thank you for your great videos, watching them gives me hope. 🍀

    • @GrowingSmall
      @GrowingSmall  2 года назад

      You are so welcome :) Thanks for commenting, it's great to know these videos are reaching real people out there!

  • @maurolimaok
    @maurolimaok 2 года назад +1

    What a beautiful concept.

  • @planetfeelgood17
    @planetfeelgood17 3 года назад +1

    So wonderfully great and inspiring! Great video, thanks!

  • @beak3958
    @beak3958 3 года назад +3

    So proud of Caleb!!!

    • @GrowingSmall
      @GrowingSmall  3 года назад

      Me too, just doing a fantastic job out there!

  • @ish1330
    @ish1330 2 года назад +2

    This is way too beautiful.

  • @MsWambz
    @MsWambz 2 года назад

    I would like to visit this inspiring farmer.

  • @AlexbatYudah
    @AlexbatYudah 2 года назад +1

    This man is brilliant!!

  • @jannisbille5161
    @jannisbille5161 3 года назад +3

    Great video and amazing food forrest!

  • @euclidgreg7499
    @euclidgreg7499 3 года назад +3

    nice initiative very switched on...

  • @VK-qo1gm
    @VK-qo1gm 2 года назад +1

    Love your videos! Informative content, beautiful, hardworking people who are working with nature.
    Only complaint I have, is videos are too short!
    Thank you for the great work 🌺🇦🇺

    • @GrowingSmall
      @GrowingSmall  2 года назад

      Thank you so much, really appreciate you commenting! Videos are short....I've heard that before and it's true. It's just that I'm trying to make the videos accessible to a wider audience that may not be interested so much in the details. It's a work in progress, hopefully I'll get better at it :)

    • @mmotsenbocker
      @mmotsenbocker Год назад

      @@GrowingSmall why not include a link to an unredacted, earlier rough draft video with more details in it

  • @BikeAndFish1
    @BikeAndFish1 3 года назад +1

    I can see me doing this and loving it. ........

  • @soinda87
    @soinda87 Год назад

    This is the best one.

  • @dianakaranja793
    @dianakaranja793 Год назад

    Beautiful, impressive

  • @Soulmystic7
    @Soulmystic7 3 года назад +2

    Thanks for sharing!!

    • @GrowingSmall
      @GrowingSmall  3 года назад

      My pleasure!! Thanks for taking the time to comment, encourages me to post more relevant content!

  • @akashshinde4571
    @akashshinde4571 3 года назад +3

    Enlightening

    • @GrowingSmall
      @GrowingSmall  3 года назад +1

      Thanks, Akash, hope to produce more videos that resonate with you as much as this one!

  • @louiseclauesson4130
    @louiseclauesson4130 Год назад

    absolutely amazing!!! would love to meet you

  • @patrickmukora3184
    @patrickmukora3184 2 года назад

    Very, very good work Caleb.

  • @maganjila
    @maganjila 3 года назад +2

    I love the video. Would it please you to share Caleb Omolo contacts? I have around an acre and would love to get a help for me to grow mine.

    • @GrowingSmall
      @GrowingSmall  3 года назад +2

      Drop me a line at jaterw (at) gmail.com and I'll share his contact details with you.

    • @maganjila
      @maganjila 2 года назад

      Thanks, I got his contacts

  • @awakenacres
    @awakenacres 2 года назад +2

    Looks like heaven!😍🌿🥑🍌

  • @CF1091
    @CF1091 2 года назад

    Amazing
    Wow

  • @soratbeats
    @soratbeats Год назад

    amazing work

  • @jeffreehogue4290
    @jeffreehogue4290 3 года назад +1

    YES CALEB!!

  • @udoheinz7845
    @udoheinz7845 2 года назад

    I love to see food forrest everywhere around the world.
    Its carzy how well they work....

  • @iansingsiansings2101
    @iansingsiansings2101 2 года назад +1

    Our world would be good if like your farm we all live together, not competing...

  • @lamasibogrupo9164
    @lamasibogrupo9164 2 года назад +4

    This is great stuff. Are snakes an issue in this type of agricultural implementation or permaculture in general? If so, how can somebody deal with them? I am pretty sure they have a role to play but my phobia does not agree. Kindly advise

    • @TheNZINZI
      @TheNZINZI 2 года назад +1

      I would also want to know

    • @007Layanne
      @007Layanne 2 года назад +1

      Boots and gloves

    • @rimun5235
      @rimun5235 2 года назад

      Snakes generally want absolutely nothing to do with humans. Yes, you’ll see them but they often tend to be more afraid of you than you are of them.

  • @salimomar7662
    @salimomar7662 3 года назад +2

    Hey I really would love your advice, i watch your shows and love permaculture. I have bought a 3 acre land near watamu kilifi county.

  • @zap4980
    @zap4980 3 года назад

    Thanks for sharing ❤️ Beautiful 🤩🤎🤩

  • @kyaumrungthung2390
    @kyaumrungthung2390 3 года назад

    I’m Montagnard Jarai indigenous love food forest

  • @janedewsbury5737
    @janedewsbury5737 2 года назад

    A very smart farmer!

  • @dibdej317
    @dibdej317 2 года назад

    Amazing ...all in 1 acres....

  • @resolvingentropy3434
    @resolvingentropy3434 2 года назад

    This is exactly what am doing in my village, as am the only educated member in our family, with pond liners for rain water harvesting

    • @mdavidom5903
      @mdavidom5903 2 года назад

      I suggest you research Zephaniah Phiri Maseko rainwater harvester. Let’s all start planting the rain

  • @jamal93yall
    @jamal93yall 3 года назад

    Glückwunsch! Du hast jetzt über 1K Abonnenten! :) Liebe Grüße aus München!

    • @GrowingSmall
      @GrowingSmall  3 года назад

      1.35k and counting. Much love Mofei :)

  • @NgethaMwangi
    @NgethaMwangi 3 года назад +1

    I wonder if he has to spray the coffee less than the open field coffee. Did you ask him? I’d be very curious as I suppose he doesn’t have to.

    • @GrowingSmall
      @GrowingSmall  3 года назад +1

      He doesn't spray at all Kenneth.

  • @marylovetinsky7364
    @marylovetinsky7364 2 года назад

    👏👍

  • @TheSimpleLifeTM
    @TheSimpleLifeTM 2 года назад

    How can we contact Caleb?

  • @rimatanluhur6064
    @rimatanluhur6064 Год назад

    how many meter Square?

  • @lynndueck9810
    @lynndueck9810 2 года назад

    do you know of a place in africa doing small scale natural farming that someone could join

  • @footballsoccer3290
    @footballsoccer3290 3 года назад +4

    Africa is continent not a country

  • @reddiamond6688
    @reddiamond6688 2 года назад

    Great ideas but you still need rain. If you do not get the rain, you can't do anything.

  • @EnergiA854
    @EnergiA854 Год назад

    8 years to create this forest garden?

    • @GrowingSmall
      @GrowingSmall  Год назад +1

      Lots of rain, lots of heat. This is the one area in Kenya that gets lush like the rainforest in DRC or wherever. In other places it would look different.

    • @EnergiA854
      @EnergiA854 Год назад

      @@GrowingSmall thank you!

  • @groforit
    @groforit 3 года назад +3

    Always look forward to these videos! It’s wonderful to see the amazing abundance that can come from land of any size🍃 ✅ 🍃

  • @marazulization
    @marazulization 3 года назад +4

    Wow! This is just great ! What an inspiration!

  • @devbachu7072
    @devbachu7072 3 года назад +2

    I want to come malawai an do the same like you an vidit you an teach me

    • @GrowingSmall
      @GrowingSmall  3 года назад +1

      Come to Kenya and you'll learn so much!

  • @pokmerchannel8482
    @pokmerchannel8482 2 года назад +1

    This is one of the humble, honest, simple, and working permaculture.

  • @Globally1201
    @Globally1201 Год назад

    AWWESOME!!! AND UHH-MAZING!!!🤓 I LOVE GARDENING TOO!!!😃👍🏽🙋🏽🔥🙏🏾👑➕📖🔥

  • @frankschweikert3914
    @frankschweikert3914 Год назад

    Where are you located?
    I might visit you!
    Greets from Bavaria❤️😊

  • @lynndueck9810
    @lynndueck9810 2 года назад

    would you know any international community in Africa doing natural farming that are accepting people now
    on small scale

  • @hellenoliech8295
    @hellenoliech8295 Год назад

    Quite exciting and encouraging
    How can I reach you to learn? Where exactly are you located?

  • @marieleben
    @marieleben 2 года назад

    You have many interesting videos. Do you have one about yourself?

  • @elvisngenoh7855
    @elvisngenoh7855 3 года назад +1

    Good stuff

  • @juniorayube5583
    @juniorayube5583 Год назад

    My man is a genius! Reminds me of my grand parents farming.

  • @oldbatwit5102
    @oldbatwit5102 11 месяцев назад

    Fabulous. What a triumph.

  • @tvniwebinarsvideoschannel4167
    @tvniwebinarsvideoschannel4167 3 года назад +1

    Great initiative Caleb, and excellent out come.

    • @GrowingSmall
      @GrowingSmall  3 года назад

      Thanks for watching and commenting, really makes me happy that you like the content!

  • @Mystr438
    @Mystr438 2 года назад

    Did Mr. Celeb said just one acre? Can l make contact with Mr. Celeb please.

    • @GrowingSmall
      @GrowingSmall  2 года назад

      Drop me a line at jaterw at gmail.com and I'll connect you

  • @velvetindigonight
    @velvetindigonight 2 года назад

    Good for the land, good for Caleb and good for my heart! Thank you for sharing......... Enjoy

  • @jakesgrobler1634
    @jakesgrobler1634 2 года назад

    Wow! Precious man, great garden.

  • @marlenesabiooliva7667
    @marlenesabiooliva7667 2 года назад

    Very inspiring! God bless on your journey.

  • @jasonwhiteriver1
    @jasonwhiteriver1 2 года назад

    Do you think this gentleman would allow visitors to his food forest? If so may I have his information?

    • @GrowingSmall
      @GrowingSmall  2 года назад

      Sure, drop me a line at jaterw at gmail.com and I'll share his contact details with you.

  • @ginamathiana9108
    @ginamathiana9108 2 года назад

    Hi mr caled,you are doing a good job.Do you have chaya cuttings for selling?

    • @GrowingSmall
      @GrowingSmall  2 года назад

      He definitely would. Reach out to him and ask directly.

    • @ginamathiana9108
      @ginamathiana9108 2 года назад

      @@GrowingSmall He did not give his number

    • @hildawanja313
      @hildawanja313 Год назад

      Hi ​@@ginamathiana9108 were you able to get Chaya cuttings