Watch Part 2 for detailed explanation of how Kitzia transformed desert to food forest: ruclips.net/video/-u00eSRI7Nc/видео.html In response to some comments that say "the project is drying up the aquifers and hurting biodiversity because plants are not native." Firstly Kitzia has multiple hectares that have just been left as native, the remainder is an intentionally planted food forest, just like all agricultural fields around the world that grow many non-native crops and trees, the purpose is to feed people and instead of monocultures that do really hurt biodiversity, food forests and agroforestry benefit biodiversity. Furthermore the new large luxury hotel and golf course being built just a mile off on the estuary is going to cause real devastation, just think of the pollution in the water ways, often sewage over flows, toxic chemicals from cleaning everyday, turning an estuary into a golf course is creating a monoculture. Kitzia on the other hand has created a heaven for the local wildlife, even desert animals need water and food. There are lots of migrating animals too, this is a food forest combined with some useful natives the idea is to create a sustainable food forest system for humans and wildlife and it is working. Its an eco retreat compared to commercial hotels and golf course its pretty unfair to say this woman's life work, is causing damage when she has been working hard to help biodiversity and protect rare plants. You can contact her and visit the botanical garden and food forest, links are in the description. Learn more about our projects and how to support them here: www.leafoflife.news/ Support our film-making: www.patreon.com/leafoflifefilms
What an inspiration. I wish I could contact them to ask if they use bio-char or Terra preta? It would make quicker use of their compost area, as well as all the other benefits of Terra preta, originally developed technique by the maya and aztec.
7:47 apropos "naturally wild"... what are those pipes laying on the ground? And no matter if those are maybe just cables for electricity - why isn't the water-problem solution the first thing discussed in the video? mmh? 😉 You deflect toward the hotel, but you're not saying where your water is coming from. Because THAT decides if it is a sustainable method. Otherwise you're simply having an artificial garden on a private property. Nothing else. Nice greenery and trees, but is it a concept that's sustainable when relaying on rainfall? 11:03 ah okay. so it's a drip-system. Well okay, so your argument is that as soon as the trees are reaching the water table/aquifer, it doesn't need the drip system anymore? Well.....? when will that be the case, sweethearts? That's the interesting question.
I had the honor of visiting here and I can’t say enough about how truly magical this place is. She is a very special being and this food forrest is truly holistically transformative. If you can, go!
A living Goddess of the Earth. I am feeling like visiting her & lending my 2 green thumbs. Do you feel like she would be open to that? Love & Gratitude! - Harmony
I'm a bit concerned about the fact that they rely on groundwater to support this project, though. Do you remember if they made any comment about their water usage while you were there? I've seen some agro-forestry projects in Arizona where the first thing they do is to cut down water-thirsty trees because they deplete the groundwater. I wonder about the more holistic impacts of this food forest on the water supply in such an arid region.
I spent time here when Gabriel was alive. He was a true plant whisperer. He suffered a serious stroke in the 90s and was very debilitated. I didnt know he had passed and am saddened to hear this news but also glad to hear Kitzia is continuing the work. She is amazing and incredibly knowledgeable herbalist.
@@joserslealExactly. Makes me wonder sometimes what the h*ll really IS the point of any of it (Healthy eating, Excercise, Plenty of water, REM sleep yoga, etc) when you constantly see/hear about so many of those people passing away in excruciating or sad ways, but unhealthy, chemical filled toxic food eating, chain smoking/Drugged out idiots living into their 70's, 80's even 100's & surrounded by family & friends & with great memories? Kinda discouraging & messed up.
@@josersleal Exactly.. Makes me wonder sometimes what the h*ll really IS the point of any of it _(Healthy eating, Excercise, Plenty of water, REM sleep yoga, etc)_ when you just constantly see/hear about so many of those people passing away in excruciating or sad ways, but the ignorant, selfish, toxic food eating, chain smoking/Drugged out idiots living into their late 70's, 80's even 100's & surrounded by family & friends with great memories? .. Kinda discouraging & seems sorta pointless sometimes...
Your Chanel pulls me out of despair. I was raised in Uganda in the 1960s & its degradation is so tragic. I wish I had money to do these kinds of projects over there.
You don't need money to get cuttings from native plants, plus don't focus on a big area just start with a few feet of unused land and as you learn you can expand the area, family and neighbors will want to help once they see a little progress. I do know not everyone lives in a place where this is possible so I wish you luck if decide to take this journey.
@@chadatchison145 exactly. This is the problem with people. They want everything now and are not ready to work for it. They do not see how valuable is single seed and time which costs nothing. I would want to feel sad for African people, but it was their choice to not seek out of continent and get educated etc. They stayed with the roots and that is sad, that they are paying for it now.
We need billions like her in this world. We need billions too, if not Trillions to fund restoring our planet. No need to inhabit Mars. That amazing woman deserves a Nobel prize.
People planting random stuff has had devastating consequences MULTIPLE TIMES. People like this are why there are warning labels on some seed packets to NOT PLANT THEM in certain areas....... Also foresting deserts is bad for the local wild life that need to sun to keep warm because a lot of wild life in the desert is *COLD BLOODED SO DEPEND ON THE SUN TO KEEP WARM!!*
@@toorimakunchill out bro, we have millions of square kms of desert. And we are running outta trees in this era. It's not like she turned the whole fucking sahara or Gobi into a forest
@@toorimakun If you look trough the history of humans, it seems most deserts have been created or at least enlarged by a lot by our ancestors. Tackling them is a good idea, even though some species have evolved to survive in such hostile terrain, the deserts are not a life friendly environment. We should not only stop desertification but help plants and animals and ourselves to claim back that land slowly.
Placing an artificial ecosystem within an ecosystem that has life not conducive to the artificial forest, and also potentially invasive trees? You don't introduce invasives into a totally different eco system, it's not just about latitude, it's about destroying food webs.
I may sound like a Negative Nancy, but I wonder about the impact of those trees on the water supply in the region. They may look nice, but they might be sucking away groundwater from everyone else. I've seen some agro-forestry projects in Arizona where the first thing they do is to cut down water-thirsty trees because they deplete the groundwater. It's problems like this that make me wish governments could get more involved in researching and organizing more holistic reclamation projects, like what has been accomplished to bring back completely dried out rivers in India's arid western regions.
@@eslnoob191 they are adapted to absorb water the same way a saguaro does and those are native to the sonoran desert. They swell in monsoon season and use that water the rest of the year. They are very water efficient plants unlike palm trees.
@@eslnoob191The plants extract water initially as they grow. They then CONTRIBUTE to water retention in soil via their root systems. Their canopies also provide shade which keeps the ground cool/prevents water evaporation.
I am sorry her husband is no longer with us but am glad he was mentioned. The have created a beautiful forest in the hilly area and what looks like a wonderful son too.
so glad people like her is emerging all over the world, here in Brazil we have a swiss man called Ernst Gotsch that live here since the 80's and he accomplished to restore a forest where every land arround is dry land and now in his land he got 9 water springs, he is spreading his technique world wide, people are trying it out in the Sahara with success and he did it all without a single drop of chemical fertilizers... imagine when a lot of people like them learn those techniques... Guess human kind still have a chance
We have the knowledge to do it, but greed and corruption put a stop to people wanting to do good. Timber and money means more to these governments than in tact forest it seems.
Amazing action. This is a real historical achievement by a person that make sense to humanity. May we have more like her. And may that forest keep on expanding and expanding.
I was born in Baja California Sur and that's my goal. Create a forest, but of native trees such as mesquite, palo verde, torote, palo adan, cactus and other local species. On my land I have visits from local wildlife ranging from birds to deer and I want to provide them with that area of food and water.
Please do anything you have the ability to do. Remember that in the beginning, it is slow to get an area established and get support for the project. But if you are very dedicated and have the motivation to do it, you are doing a great service for our future generations. ✨️
Best to let wildlife gather their own food Hugo. It never works out well when humans try to "provide" for them. 100% of the time it fails, if not for you, after you leave they will starve to death. Unless, of course, you plan to live forever...
Plants and trees are so very important for our planet, I reside in far Northern CA and plant 2 trees a yr in my yard and many perennials and flowers, won't stop until I run out of room or die which ever comes 1st.
Meanwhile the pollutead sea losing important sealife, coral reefs and planktons that produce the majority of oxygen on earth: *how about you humans clean up the sea first? We're dying and you're next? No?* 😢
@LeafofLifeWorld We started in 2019. Just the beginning of the pandemic. Our desert land in Southern California is basically barren. Our food forest is still young, but we were able to harvest a few fruits last couple of years. It is going slowly but surely since our budget is low. But, I am going full force this year and hopefully have a striving food forest in a couple of years.
I went to a retreat at this special place back in 2020. Kitzia and her family live in amazing harmony with the land. It's an oasis indeed and I'll always cherish my memories of this place. One wonderful memory is waking up every morning to the beautiful cooing of many birds, which I believe were doves.
I know this lady has her hands full with 11 acres. I was super pleased that she is growing so many exotic plants from the rest of the world. I’ve germinated baobab seeds. But not sausage tree seeds. But there’s more deserts out there that need advice on how to change them. 💜💜💜
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Thankyou for the inspiration. 😊 Her forest very much reminds me of the natural landscape here. I have lots of trees and plants and agree that this helps me so much to make the sandy soil richer. Love her work and her animals. Thankyou!
It is brains like hers I would be downloading into my mind if we lived in The matrix. I would love to have her knowledge! What a wonderful family. I am inspired!
Making this huge change in a place so desolate woud have been an impossibe beginning but this challenge didn't diminish this amazing outcome...thanks for sharing. 🌳🌟🌳🌟🌳🌟🌳
Many, Many Thank You's, and unlimited Blessings !!! We have been trying too get back to the Garden, while you have created the garden yourself !!! Absolutely, Too Cool !!! Much Love, and Light.
Hi Lori! Thank you for your kind super thanks, sorry for the slow reply, for some reason your comment was not showing, we really appreciate the gesture. x
Totally amazing, I saw two, three times the video . How growing hughe trees, I am living also in a dessert part of the world, how she gets shadow, lowering temperature, etcétera. Interesant
If you look trough the history of humans, it seems most deserts have been created or at least enlarged by a lot by our ancestors. Tackling them is a good idea, even though some species have evolved to survive in such hostile terrain, the deserts are not a life friendly environment. We should not only stop desertification but help plants and animals and ourselves to claim back that land slowly.
@@Snoozerboozer It's pretty, and I'm all for growing your own food, but this not helping the existing surrounding ecosystem in any way. Scaling this up would cause damage to the desert, which isn't a wasteland, but an equally important environment as any forest would be
so you think the desert is good? I'd rather see all deserts full of trees and animals. the life you describe is scorpions, snakes and insects, maybe the occasional bird and rodent.
@@Snoozerboozer Minerals like salt, other natural resources, thousands of different species of animals and plants(including trees) only found in deserts, pollinators like bees, and they are a carbon sink, storing atmospheric Co2 in the soil. I could go on, but they are necessary. There isn't anything wrong with preventing further desertification by re-greening with appropriate native plants and working with the landscape to steward resources like water more effectively, but completely getting rid of deserts, or non-native permaculture in significant amounts is short sighted. You're literally on RUclips right now and can spend time watching any decent documentary on the subject...
The USA needs to take notes and stop cutting everything down for more unneeded subdivisions out in the country. The prey populations are all getting squished into one place so naturally now the predators populations are exploding and being pushed closer to homes. We need help!
Agreed, but we need to responsibly log and thin forests out as well. Where I live, in the mountain west, is being destroyed by subdivisions and goddy homes, but our forests are suffering because logging/thinning has been shut down.
@@wan2shuffle you mean before there were humans populating everywhere on the globe? What worked hundreds if not thousands of years ago, doesn’t work for today. Case in point, Yellowstone Park.
Maybe you should check the western states. So many more trees. Central Kansas was known as the land of the post rock. Homesteaders had to cut their post from rocks. Nowadays they wouldn't need to use rocks. I'm old and promise you that there are more trees now.in most places. More than even 30 years ago. If you're looking at a longer time scale move east. Look at pictures from the Civil War. You will notice that places where battles were fought in the open are now forest.
@@wan2shuffle you mean when we had massive widespread wildfires and disease in our forest and there were no populations of people or people who relied on them??? Your argument is made out of papier-mâché.
She does have many native plants. Not everything has to be native to be beneficial. Take peppers for example. Native to South and Central America, but taken to Europe and planted and now there are occurring pepper plants (birds and such steal peppers and the seeds end up here and there spread out) just existing as a food source for wildlife. It's not native, but it's definitely a beneficial addition to the environment.
Can anyone identify that silver gray aloe at 4:30? I grew up in Hawaii which was on the tropic of Cancer but it is mediated by trade winds which means it never gets above 88°, if it does the winds are called Kona winds and that's in the summer when brush fires start What a beautiful paradise she has created
Absolutely fantastic… fantastic use of water that should be done all over the place we have nobody to blame but ourselves for the current state we see ourselves in
The outback has vegetation which makes it magical when there is rain it comes to life with amazing species that are dormant until it is their time to come to life..the desert can flourish when conditions make it so..the outback is a beautiful place to discover..there certainly is plenty of it..the indigenous people have lived there for thousands of years.
Restoring an area that was historically a forest, and has succumbed to desertification is a very good thing. Choosing to move to an existing thriving desert ecosystem and violating that place with non-native species is not ecological restoration. We should not be destroying deserts when there are so many degraded forests that need help. Deserts are specialized environments where hundreds of native plants and animals call home. We do not have the right to take that habitat from them for human enjoyment.
The small surface compared to the desert is not a threat. For humans, useful plants in little heavens are needed. There is a part of this park that is untouched and wild plants and animals
It was a former cattle ranch and cows are not native and they disturb the ground and cause desertification from over grazing. Also humans have been altering the landscape all over the world to be able to grow food and survive so is it really that bad too do this on just only 11 acres there's plenty of cattle ranches and monoculture of non native crops around there also growing in the desert because local people need food...half the food you also eat comes from these systems but that would be okay right?
@@LeafofLifeWorld Its fine that it gets the 'not as bad as it could have been' award but don't pitch it as good for the environment when she openly admits to planting invasive species. This is just as much for humans-only as a farm is, its not a benefit to the natural environment in this area. Which is fine, but many people have been misled by the framing of this video.
@@LittleSpaceCaseI didnt watch it entirely, but if its a useful species for food, I wouldnt call it envasive. We need more edible food in nature, not less
@@HelenaBoutel What is edible for humans is not edible for most of the wildlife in the desert. In particular, pollinators native to that region are often specialists and so our "green paradise" is a wasteland for these animals. Invasive species are non-native species that by definition, cause damage to wild areas. There are millions of acres of degraded forest already existing in the world that need our help in restoring. If youtubers want to cover topics that benefit the environment, they should focus on those projects instead of these very misinformed projects. Or at least be honest about what it is that they are showing.
@bertski8 has a point, I think leaf of life oversimplifies the problems of restoring our environment. RUclips is built on oversimplification of their subjects. The owners of the land must have had an alternative source of income to live on. The Australian government doesn’t see turning the arid 2/3rds. of Australia into a forest as important. Obviously buying bull shit subs from the Yanks and Poms is much more important.
Watch Part 2 for detailed explanation of how Kitzia transformed desert to food forest: ruclips.net/video/-u00eSRI7Nc/видео.html
In response to some comments that say "the project is drying up the aquifers and hurting biodiversity because plants are not native." Firstly Kitzia has multiple hectares that have just been left as native, the remainder is an intentionally planted food forest, just like all agricultural fields around the world that grow many non-native crops and trees, the purpose is to feed people and instead of monocultures that do really hurt biodiversity, food forests and agroforestry benefit biodiversity. Furthermore the new large luxury hotel and golf course being built just a mile off on the estuary is going to cause real devastation, just think of the pollution in the water ways, often sewage over flows, toxic chemicals from cleaning everyday, turning an estuary into a golf course is creating a monoculture. Kitzia on the other hand has created a heaven for the local wildlife, even desert animals need water and food. There are lots of migrating animals too, this is a food forest combined with some useful natives the idea is to create a sustainable food forest system for humans and wildlife and it is working. Its an eco retreat compared to commercial hotels and golf course its pretty unfair to say this woman's life work, is causing damage when she has been working hard to help biodiversity and protect rare plants. You can contact her and visit the botanical garden and food forest, links are in the description.
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What an inspiration. I wish I could contact them to ask if they use bio-char or Terra preta? It would make quicker use of their compost area, as well as all the other benefits of Terra preta, originally developed technique by the maya and aztec.
lush forrests ❤
@@alexyork5975links in description for contact
7:47 apropos "naturally wild"... what are those pipes laying on the ground? And no matter if those are maybe just cables for electricity - why isn't the water-problem solution the first thing discussed in the video? mmh? 😉 You deflect toward the hotel, but you're not saying where your water is coming from. Because THAT decides if it is a sustainable method. Otherwise you're simply having an artificial garden on a private property. Nothing else. Nice greenery and trees, but is it a concept that's sustainable when relaying on rainfall?
11:03 ah okay. so it's a drip-system. Well okay, so your argument is that as soon as the trees are reaching the water table/aquifer, it doesn't need the drip system anymore? Well.....? when will that be the case, sweethearts? That's the interesting question.
I had the honor of visiting here and I can’t say enough about how truly magical this place is. She is a very special being and this food forrest is truly holistically transformative.
If you can, go!
your are lucky
A living Goddess of the Earth. I am feeling like visiting her & lending my 2 green thumbs. Do you feel like she would be open to that? Love & Gratitude! - Harmony
Imagine what humans could do with the whole planet if but 10% of us did this
I'm a bit concerned about the fact that they rely on groundwater to support this project, though. Do you remember if they made any comment about their water usage while you were there? I've seen some agro-forestry projects in Arizona where the first thing they do is to cut down water-thirsty trees because they deplete the groundwater. I wonder about the more holistic impacts of this food forest on the water supply in such an arid region.
@@eslnoob191Good point
I spent time here when Gabriel was alive. He was a true plant whisperer. He suffered a serious stroke in the 90s and was very debilitated. I didnt know he had passed and am saddened to hear this news but also glad to hear Kitzia is continuing the work. She is amazing and incredibly knowledgeable herbalist.
so all that healthy living for what?
@@joserslealwhy not?
@@joserslealExactly. Makes me wonder sometimes what the h*ll really IS the point of any of it (Healthy eating, Excercise, Plenty of water, REM sleep yoga, etc) when you constantly see/hear about so many of those people passing away in excruciating or sad ways, but unhealthy, chemical filled toxic food eating, chain smoking/Drugged out idiots living into their 70's, 80's even 100's & surrounded by family & friends & with great memories?
Kinda discouraging & messed up.
@@josersleal Exactly.. Makes me wonder sometimes what the h*ll really IS the point of any of it _(Healthy eating, Excercise, Plenty of water, REM sleep yoga, etc)_ when you just constantly see/hear about so many of those people passing away in excruciating or sad ways, but the ignorant, selfish, toxic food eating, chain smoking/Drugged out idiots living into their late 70's, 80's even 100's & surrounded by family & friends with great memories? ..
Kinda discouraging & seems sorta pointless sometimes...
Your Chanel pulls me out of despair. I was raised in Uganda in the 1960s & its degradation is so tragic. I wish I had money to do these kinds of projects over there.
You don't need money to get cuttings from native plants, plus don't focus on a big area just start with a few feet of unused land and as you learn you can expand the area, family and neighbors will want to help once they see a little progress. I do know not everyone lives in a place where this is possible so I wish you luck if decide to take this journey.
Adding to that he should look into Miyawaki method of growing to speed up the process@@chadatchison145
@@chadatchison145 exactly. This is the problem with people. They want everything now and are not ready to work for it. They do not see how valuable is single seed and time which costs nothing. I would want to feel sad for African people, but it was their choice to not seek out of continent and get educated etc. They stayed with the roots and that is sad, that they are paying for it now.
Collect seeds. They are mostly free.
@@NiciRichter1and gift them as well
We need billions like her in this world. We need billions too, if not Trillions to fund restoring our planet. No need to inhabit Mars. That amazing woman deserves a Nobel prize.
People planting random stuff has had devastating consequences MULTIPLE TIMES.
People like this are why there are warning labels on some seed packets to NOT PLANT THEM in certain areas.......
Also foresting deserts is bad for the local wild life that need to sun to keep warm because a lot of wild life in the desert is *COLD BLOODED SO DEPEND ON THE SUN TO KEEP WARM!!*
@@toorimakunchill out bro, we have millions of square kms of desert. And we are running outta trees in this era.
It's not like she turned the whole fucking sahara or Gobi into a forest
@@hatimabbas7111
It doesn't take much to screw everything up:
ruclips.net/video/iiHKK30gS-s/видео.html
@@toorimakun If you look trough the history of humans, it seems most deserts have been created or at least enlarged by a lot by our ancestors. Tackling them is a good idea, even though some species have evolved to survive in such hostile terrain, the deserts are not a life friendly environment. We should not only stop desertification but help plants and animals and ourselves to claim back that land slowly.
Placing an artificial ecosystem within an ecosystem that has life not conducive to the artificial forest, and also potentially invasive trees?
You don't introduce invasives into a totally different eco system, it's not just about latitude, it's about destroying food webs.
Holy cow. That massive baobab tree grew in 26 years.
Cool.
They are amazing trees, humanity would do themselves a huge favor by planting them anywhere they'll grow
I may sound like a Negative Nancy, but I wonder about the impact of those trees on the water supply in the region. They may look nice, but they might be sucking away groundwater from everyone else. I've seen some agro-forestry projects in Arizona where the first thing they do is to cut down water-thirsty trees because they deplete the groundwater. It's problems like this that make me wish governments could get more involved in researching and organizing more holistic reclamation projects, like what has been accomplished to bring back completely dried out rivers in India's arid western regions.
@@eslnoob191 they are adapted to absorb water the same way a saguaro does and those are native to the sonoran desert. They swell in monsoon season and use that water the rest of the year. They are very water efficient plants unlike palm trees.
@@eslnoob191The plants extract water initially as they grow. They then CONTRIBUTE to water retention in soil via their root systems. Their canopies also provide shade which keeps the ground cool/prevents water evaporation.
@@eslnoob191 governments???? they are involved, its called global warming , and its a FRAUD.
I am sorry her husband is no longer with us but am glad he was mentioned. The have created a beautiful forest in the hilly area and what looks like a wonderful son too.
so glad people like her is emerging all over the world, here in Brazil we have a swiss man called Ernst Gotsch that live here since the 80's and he accomplished to restore a forest where every land arround is dry land and now in his land he got 9 water springs, he is spreading his technique world wide, people are trying it out in the Sahara with success and he did it all without a single drop of chemical fertilizers... imagine when a lot of people like them learn those techniques... Guess human kind still have a chance
We have the knowledge to do it, but greed and corruption put a stop to people wanting to do good. Timber and money means more to these governments than in tact forest it seems.
Amazing action. This is a real historical achievement by a person that make sense to humanity. May we have more like her. And may that forest keep on expanding and expanding.
What a Heroic Stewardess for our Earth 🕊️ 🌎🌈
10 Thousand Blessings beautiful soul 🌞
....for all of the humanitarian & Ecological efforts!!!
🎉 💜 🌲
So amazing how she grows stuff in the desert! We need to do this in USA where we have drought and forest fires .
AMAZING - the world defo needs more of this 💚💚💚
I was born in Baja California Sur and that's my goal. Create a forest, but of native trees such as mesquite, palo verde, torote, palo adan, cactus and other local species. On my land I have visits from local wildlife ranging from birds to deer and I want to provide them with that area of food and water.
Yes native is the only way to fly, also swales to feed ponds that are shaded by trees
You go! Just do it! I hope many people are motivated to help save our planet this way. Wish I was younger, I'd come and join you!
Please do anything you have the ability to do. Remember that in the beginning, it is slow to get an area established and get support for the project. But if you are very dedicated and have the motivation to do it, you are doing a great service for our future generations. ✨️
Best to let wildlife gather their own food Hugo. It never works out well when humans try to "provide" for them. 100% of the time it fails, if not for you, after you leave they will starve to death. Unless, of course, you plan to live forever...
@@Cringeosaurus see below Cringemeister
Plants and trees are so very important for our planet, I reside in far Northern CA and plant 2 trees a yr in my yard and many perennials and flowers, won't stop until I run out of room or die which ever comes 1st.
Meanwhile the pollutead sea losing important sealife, coral reefs and planktons that produce the majority of oxygen on earth: *how about you humans clean up the sea first? We're dying and you're next? No?* 😢
@@MollyHJohns how does one go about saving the ocean life?
But trees shouldn't be planted where they don't belong, and where they'll replace flora and fauna that is adapted and belong in the desert.
This lady is really cool! You can tell that she is sharing things she learned through a lot of experience.
What a wonderful woman rip to her late husband I'm so amazed as far as what she has done GOD bless her and her family
Fantastic! Trees make rain. Keep on planting native trees and making rain gardens.
Amazing! I am doing the same here in our high desert land
thats great, since when did you start? how has it progressed?
@LeafofLifeWorld We started in 2019. Just the beginning of the pandemic. Our desert land in Southern California is basically barren. Our food forest is still young, but we were able to harvest a few fruits last couple of years. It is going slowly but surely since our budget is low. But, I am going full force this year and hopefully have a striving food forest in a couple of years.
@@SolidGoldShowsthat's awesome. Do you watch Bealtaine Cottage? She's a permaculture gardener in Ireland.
@@jturtle5318 I'll check her out
I’m starting one in southern Oregon in the next year. I’ll check out your channel
She is amazing, brilliant and doing such great beneficial work for soooo many!!!
This woman is a GODDESS
Wwwwwwwoooowww!!!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 That's one gorgeous tree! I think what this amazing human has created is an Oasis, yes? Bravo!
I went to a retreat at this special place back in 2020. Kitzia and her family live in amazing harmony with the land. It's an oasis indeed and I'll always cherish my memories of this place. One wonderful memory is waking up every morning to the beautiful cooing of many birds, which I believe were doves.
This is so wonderful! Thank you for creating something good in the world! 🙏
this is SO WONDERFUL!!! Finally something to be happy about.
I know this lady has her hands full with 11 acres. I was super pleased that she is growing so many exotic plants from the rest of the world. I’ve germinated baobab seeds. But not sausage tree seeds.
But there’s more deserts out there that need advice on how to change them.
💜💜💜
Fantastic to sea you planting trees,bring life back animals,birdseye,compost from leaves!! Plant fruit+veg love it! Keep up the good work😊😊😊❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉
What an amazing woman ❤
She deserves to get a Nobel Prize
Check out the first innovative, sustainable, and science-based solutions of its kind in the US, transforming desert sandy soil into fertile land for organic farming and self-sustaining trees.💥
Good point.
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worthless prize. Have you seen the people they give it to?
@@nayrtnartsipacify Are you mad that Trump, Stalin, Hitler, Musk, and Putin never got one... 😭
@@angelcitystudio You are deranged to put all those people in the same catagory. Get help.
Excellent projects! Also, it's truly inspiring to see individuals like Mo Segad❤, pioneering the first innovative, sustainable, and science-based solutions of its kind in the US, transforming desert sandy soil into fertile land for organic farming and self-sustaining trees. In my opinion, sustainability matters greatly. I would love to see more 💥... With his deep scientific knowledge and expertise in this field, similar projects and communities can gain significant sustainable value and contribute positively to environmental conservation efforts.
This is amazing and earth changing. Thank you.
She is a wonderful inspiration to all of us!♥👍
Thankyou for the inspiration.
😊 Her forest very much reminds me of the natural landscape here. I have lots of trees and plants and agree that this helps me so much to make the sandy soil richer.
Love her work and her animals. Thankyou!
Ketzia is doing amazing work!
This is a woman of knowledge. Fantastic life story here.
It is brains like hers I would be downloading into my mind if we lived in The matrix. I would love to have her knowledge! What a wonderful family. I am inspired!
Nothing beats active human gardening.
Making this huge change in a place so desolate woud have been an impossibe beginning but this challenge didn't diminish this amazing outcome...thanks for sharing. 🌳🌟🌳🌟🌳🌟🌳
What a fantastic amazing women. We can all make a difference, look what one person has done, so wonderful, very inspirational. Go Katia, awesome lady
@KitziaKokopelmana is the name
My apologies for getting the name wrong@@unite3717
Couldn't agree more!
Contact mossy earth! Maybe they can fund a project in your home town. I would contribute 😊
Many, Many Thank You's, and unlimited Blessings !!! We have been trying too get back to the Garden, while you have created the garden yourself !!! Absolutely, Too Cool !!! Much Love, and Light.
The world needs more people like her! 🌄💜
Thanks! THANK YOU FOR CARING
Hi Lori! Thank you for your kind super thanks, sorry for the slow reply, for some reason your comment was not showing, we really appreciate the gesture. x
Totally amazing, I saw two, three times the video . How growing hughe trees, I am living also in a dessert part of the world, how she gets shadow, lowering temperature, etcétera. Interesant
Very impressive
We need a peoples like you
What an amazing family, thank you
What an amazing forest they have created! I'm inspired!
She is a blessing
Subhan Allah...She is such a beautiful soul..❤️❤️
I want to see more from her!!! What a wellspring of knowledge!
You are one of them who love nature ...... God bless you 🙏....🇮🇳
Beautiful and lovely food forest, I am inspired by Kitzia
She’s an earth 🌎 Dr. who has a very impressive ability to help change the world for the better. 😊❤
What a wonderful woman.
You're such an inspiration 💛
The baobab tree is not endangered. It grows all over Eastern and Southern Africa and also in Australia where it is called boab.
Some species are endangered in their native region, habitat loss is pretty real for baobabs in Madagascar which has 6 out of the 8 species.
FANTASTIC, I MUST/ WILL MEET HER SOON….
So nice. God bless you 🙏 Whole world 🌎 should do same way
I enjoyed watching this immensely, what a brilliant woman! I would love to visit there.
If you look trough the history of humans, it seems most deserts have been created or at least enlarged by a lot by our ancestors. Tackling them is a good idea, even though some species have evolved to survive in such hostile terrain, the deserts are not a life friendly environment. We should not only stop desertification but help plants and animals and ourselves to claim back that land slowly.
good job, this needs to be done on a large scale in desert landscapes around the world
There are better ways of protecting desert ecosystems, and they don't involve introducing non-native, potentially invasive plants.
@@texrayvision its still a good deed.
@@Snoozerboozer It's pretty, and I'm all for growing your own food, but this not helping the existing surrounding ecosystem in any way. Scaling this up would cause damage to the desert, which isn't a wasteland, but an equally important environment as any forest would be
so you think the desert is good? I'd rather see all deserts full of trees and animals.
the life you describe is scorpions, snakes and insects, maybe the occasional bird and rodent.
@@Snoozerboozer Minerals like salt, other natural resources, thousands of different species of animals and plants(including trees) only found in deserts, pollinators like bees, and they are a carbon sink, storing atmospheric Co2 in the soil. I could go on, but they are necessary. There isn't anything wrong with preventing further desertification by re-greening with appropriate native plants and working with the landscape to steward resources like water more effectively, but completely getting rid of deserts, or non-native permaculture in significant amounts is short sighted. You're literally on RUclips right now and can spend time watching any decent documentary on the subject...
The USA needs to take notes and stop cutting everything down for more unneeded subdivisions out in the country. The prey populations are all getting squished into one place so naturally now the predators populations are exploding and being pushed closer to homes. We need help!
Agreed, but we need to responsibly log and thin forests out as well. Where I live, in the mountain west, is being destroyed by subdivisions and goddy homes, but our forests are suffering because logging/thinning has been shut down.
@@ponderosaoutdoors how did forests survive before logging? 🤔
@@wan2shuffle you mean before there were humans populating everywhere on the globe? What worked hundreds if not thousands of years ago, doesn’t work for today. Case in point, Yellowstone Park.
Maybe you should check the western states. So many more trees. Central Kansas was known as the land of the post rock. Homesteaders had to cut their post from rocks. Nowadays they wouldn't need to use rocks. I'm old and promise you that there are more trees now.in most places. More than even 30 years ago. If you're looking at a longer time scale move east. Look at pictures from the Civil War. You will notice that places where battles were fought in the open are now forest.
@@wan2shuffle you mean when we had massive widespread wildfires and disease in our forest and there were no populations of people or people who relied on them??? Your argument is made out of papier-mâché.
It is more important to plant native plants. It helps the wild and people much more.
She does have many native plants. Not everything has to be native to be beneficial. Take peppers for example. Native to South and Central America, but taken to Europe and planted and now there are occurring pepper plants (birds and such steal peppers and the seeds end up here and there spread out) just existing as a food source for wildlife. It's not native, but it's definitely a beneficial addition to the environment.
Can anyone identify that silver gray aloe at 4:30?
I grew up in Hawaii which was on the tropic of Cancer but it is mediated by trade winds which means it never gets above 88°, if it does the winds are called Kona winds and that's in the summer when brush fires start
What a beautiful paradise she has created
can't wait to see someone or some CC do a transformed saharan Desert Into Lush Forest!
proof that there is still hope for humanity..
Absolutely fantastic… fantastic use of water that should be done all over the place we have nobody to blame but ourselves for the current state we see ourselves in
100%
Amazing. She created an Oasis ❤
Amazing work, so sorry your husband is no longer with her yet she carries on! So much grace, love and respect!
Amazing she re greened the desert in 13 minutes 🤣 tell her to get to Australia she'll have the outback restored in half a shift 😂
Oh my god you're a genius.
There's always talk about the outback, but NEVER anything said about the outfront.
There can't be a back if there isn't a front.
Yeah big dope fields
@@NebosvodGonzalezWe all love her here in the outback!!
The outback has vegetation which makes it magical when there is rain it comes to life with amazing species that are dormant until it is their time to come to life..the desert can flourish when conditions make it so..the outback is a beautiful place to discover..there certainly is plenty of it..the indigenous people have lived there for thousands of years.
Best regards! Humans should admire such people!
Tak!
Thanks
Awesome project. It's good to see the planet coming back...!!! 😊
If one person can do this in such a short time, rich cooperations, people and governments have no excuse. What's holding them back
Incentive. Power, money. Something to feed their egos. How does this benefit their endless war agenda? 😂 I agree with you tho.
I love her too, the rescuers down under, great movie, I like to see the desserts recover, nice lady
Awesome work, women leading the way!
she started with her husband he was a botanist
We work together. she is awesome thou@@cristo.me.ama.
She is an absolute gem of humanity 😊 very pretty to ❤ would love to visit this place
Grow more trees and you get more rain.
What a delightful documentary. Thanks for bringing this gem to us. Hope we see success stories such as this one all over the world.
Restoring an area that was historically a forest, and has succumbed to desertification is a very good thing.
Choosing to move to an existing thriving desert ecosystem and violating that place with non-native species is not ecological restoration. We should not be destroying deserts when there are so many degraded forests that need help. Deserts are specialized environments where hundreds of native plants and animals call home. We do not have the right to take that habitat from them for human enjoyment.
The small surface compared to the desert is not a threat. For humans, useful plants in little heavens are needed.
There is a part of this park that is untouched and wild plants and animals
It was a former cattle ranch and cows are not native and they disturb the ground and cause desertification from over grazing. Also humans have been altering the landscape all over the world to be able to grow food and survive so is it really that bad too do this on just only 11 acres there's plenty of cattle ranches and monoculture of non native crops around there also growing in the desert because local people need food...half the food you also eat comes from these systems but that would be okay right?
@@LeafofLifeWorld Its fine that it gets the 'not as bad as it could have been' award but don't pitch it as good for the environment when she openly admits to planting invasive species.
This is just as much for humans-only as a farm is, its not a benefit to the natural environment in this area. Which is fine, but many people have been misled by the framing of this video.
@@LittleSpaceCaseI didnt watch it entirely, but if its a useful species for food, I wouldnt call it envasive. We need more edible food in nature, not less
@@HelenaBoutel What is edible for humans is not edible for most of the wildlife in the desert. In particular, pollinators native to that region are often specialists and so our "green paradise" is a wasteland for these animals. Invasive species are non-native species that by definition, cause damage to wild areas.
There are millions of acres of degraded forest already existing in the world that need our help in restoring.
If youtubers want to cover topics that benefit the environment, they should focus on those projects instead of these very misinformed projects. Or at least be honest about what it is that they are showing.
Every street in every suburb should griw fruits etc.
A marvellous story
I love this family
You guys are angels.
Water management, key to whole problem. Is not impossible anywhere on the planet. Even the Sahara , Australia was once covered by forest.
She's a blessing to the world. Her husband left the world better because of his dedication to make it a better place
Should expand the forest all the way to the sea of Cortez
LEGEND !!!!!! 🌳 💪
AMAZING!
This place is amazing.
Why isn’t this done over more and more acres when the neighbors have to see the benefits?
Maybe the neighbours are working in the WARindustry
No amediat profit. Most investors think short term.very few ,especially in the US think long term
Thanks Miss kitza, good woman amen 💖🙏 bless you
Yes! A baobab 🤩
Beautiful person right there... What a great accomplishment ..
Respect.
So inspiring! ✨💖✨
Epic works!!!!!!!
I spent a few years living in Cabo as a teen and am a bit sad I never knew about this place till today. But can’t wait to go visit. So inspiring!
BE specific. The thirteen minutes is what the video lasts. It does not mean that it took 13 minutes to grow the forest.
Everyone knows what it means.. Don’t be ridiculous 😂😂😂
@@TexasBroskiActual Well, it took me a while
A little vague, click baiting helps more people find this awesome channel.
I’ll be amazed if I can do it in 13 years
Genial hermoso 😂🎉
Shes super cute.
Beautiful human being and beautiful oasis she and her late husband made - thank you for 12:28
@bertski8 has a point, I think leaf of life oversimplifies the problems of restoring our environment.
RUclips is built on oversimplification of their subjects. The owners of the land must have had an alternative source of income to live on.
The Australian government doesn’t see turning the arid 2/3rds. of Australia into a forest as important. Obviously buying bull shit subs from the Yanks and Poms is much more important.
It's not complicated, the problem is very simple: stupidity.