Permaculture: Producing food without destroying the planet
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- Опубликовано: 22 май 2024
- Agriculture accounts for 17 percent of worldwide CO2 emissions. But what if there were a way to produce it without harming the planet? The idea is called permaculture - growing vegetables in a circular, self-sustaining system, without artificial pesticides or fertilizer.
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Read More:
Permaculture methods and principles:
permacultureprinciples.com/re...
Scientific evidence for permaculture methods:
www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/10/9/3218
Scalability and commercial possibilities for permaculture:
link.springer.com/article/10....
Permaculture projects worldwide:
permacultureglobal.org/
Special thanks to: Simin Fadaee, Immo Fiebrig, Narsanna Koppula, Julius Reiff and Sabine Zikeli for background interviews.
0:00 Intro
1:02 Farming the permaculture way
2:02 What is permaculture?
3:05 Design and water management
4:39 Building up the soil
5:22 Polyculture, habitats and pesticides
7:21 Permaculture worldwide
8:04 The future of permaculture
10:44 Conclusion
Reporter: Kiyo Dörrer
Camera & Video Editor: Henning Goll
Supervising Editor: Joanna Gottschalk
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What do you think of permaculture? Is it the "better" way of farming?
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
@@spools.i1311 agree I wish that we eco guys live in the same neighborhood so that we like ants are twice as strong are we are now
Well, your climate is very suitable for permaculture. Doing this in a tropical country and your gonna have a hard time
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?
They seriously should have mentioned that the guys last name 'Gärtner' means 'gardener'. 😆
Fair point. Missed a good pun there...
I first thought they introduce him as a gardener until I saw his last name actually is gardener in german 😅
He fulfilled his prophecy 😌
I guess he went back to his roots!
@@legel93 Follow-up pun of the year.
This is extremely common in eastern european rural villages where nearly every person has a garden like this. Like most people I know, my grandparents have a garden like this and a large part of their diet is derived from it. It was encouraged during soviet times as an affordable way of producing food, which was sometimes scarce
@Samu Tyrväinen I guess you missed the part that the reason why this was encouraged was that food was often scarce under communism lol, or you'd have go queue up for hours to get it. And now that communism is gone most people have still upheld their gardens. I really hate capitalism, but communism isn't the solution either believe me lol I've lived under it
Many families here in kerala, South India have such small ( or much smaller) farms for needs of their families. Increasing perception of cancer and other perceived side effects of purchased food. Higher quality. Distrust of run off capitalism etc.. are factors. Not to mention it tastes awesome and gives people a good workout.
@@hi-ve1cw communism works wonders on small scale, the issue is that a lot of people want it done hugely by big governments, but don't completely erase the previous corruption from them, so instead of communism, they get authoritarianism, right now, I live under an oligarchical system, where communism would be the greatest thing to ever happen to us, so thats what we are doing in our communities small scale, and it works wonderfully(granted only because i am very lucky and the place i live in gardens arent illegal)
@@facelessdrone I agree with you. Large scale communism is so prone to corruption and abuse and oppression, it's impossible to get everyone to cooperate with communism so you end up having to send people to the gulags to make them obedient lol. In my opinion the only political system that seems to be balancing the impossible line of being less evil than capitalism, but also being more realistic and possible on a large scale without turning into authoritarianism, is scandanavian style democratic socialism. Not perfect but at least it seems to be working. If we could all live in small scale communist communes that would be fantastic lol, but it's never gonna happen as unfortunately its in human nature to be greedy. Some people are always gonna end up with more than others, so the idea is just to make sure the poor are never too poor, by giving them welfare, and the rich never too rich, by taxing them to hell. I feel like communism would only work in heaven, unfortunately we live on earth lmao
@@hi-ve1cw as a person from Eastern Europe I think what we truly need politically is mixture of both similar to what Scandinavian countries are doing. Their current models take some of the core elements of Marxist theory, a.k.a. paying taxes in return for government managed "free" education, healthcare, etc. But also getting the opportunity to vote for your leaders, having free speach and also there still being benefits for working and studying hard and having the chance to own property and a business. It's not to say those countries don't have any problems but so far they are doing best compared to the rest of the world.
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.
that's such a good idea! I'm going to try to persuade my mother to turn our back yard into a permaculture garden
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
Fun fact: His last name (Gärtner) literally translates to gardener. That guy was born for this lol
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!
And we need the policy makers / governments to stop supporting the chemical & technology industries!
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.
@@sanjaybhatikar don't judge the skin color and looks 😊
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
Man i wish i lived in a tropical place like Brasil all the wild plant... It's be heaven to a gardener like me!
@@cinamontoast2555 It's really insane, you can find around 20 species of plants living in a single tree, most orchids and bromeliads.
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
You should start your own
The point of having such gardens shouldn't be to make a living selling what is grown but to live off what's grown.
@@Kizarat Oftentimes these pensioners sell their surplus produce in local markets/bazaars to supplement their pensions.
@@Kizarat you can't live off these gardens. You will starve to death.
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. ❤
I dug my own garden almost 2 years ago. It has drastically changed my view on native plants and animals and how we treat our earth. I’m so grateful.
I want to do it too, any pointers for a novice?
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.
I was thinking the same
I am a permaculture design consultant, and from the information in this video, I can say that this guy definitely appears to be doing permaculture.
@Isabel T I mean, I disagree with some of your zone definitions, but you're right, in the main.
@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.
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.
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.
It doesn't mention many things, but to be fair it's only 12 minutes long! Hopefully enough to inspire people to look into permaculture more deeply...
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)
Why the thumps down ? This is important !!!!
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.
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!
stop shouting :(
For a moment my brain wasn't working and I forgot eggplants existed, and I wondered why someone would think plants grow from eggs lmaoo
when using pallets just make sure the wood isnt treated with any dangerous chemicals. that is all, have a good day
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.
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
One of the best explanations of permaculture in a short time frame.
The correspondent did a great job.
Thanks DW.
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.
Thank you, another one who sees this huge issue.
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
it was in the atmosphere? what?'
@@kingjames4886 carbon di oxide is the same black stuff in charcoal it holds on to water and is what makes your soil Black
@@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.
@@pk-pj4sz I think you're massively over-simplifying it there and probably missing a few details... but ya I guess.
@@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...
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.
How popular is permaculture in Italy?
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.
I really love this channel's videos. These are really useful 😊😊
Thanks from Bangladesh 🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩
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 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.
But we will starve because we wouldn't have had food for all.
@@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.
Having a miniature permaculure organic backyard with two cherry trees, raspberries, and a small greenhous for tomato and and other starts I fully support this man and am inspired
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.
love how informative the video was, hard to argue with the facts! thanks for helping to spread the word about PERMACULTURE 💓
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Just watching this channel makes you feel so hopeful.
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.
More people should follow this method and grow their own plants if they have a garden of course!
Danm, these veggies must have way more taste than the ones in supermarkets
Such a timely video. Thinking of trying permaculture.
Look for market gardening instead, thats the actual term for what he's doing.
This woman is an excellent presenter- I’ve watched a few of her documentaries and always come away with more knowledge
Thank you for linking and uploading this. Cool video, I see DW as a bit of a mainstream news channel in a sense so it's nice to see permaculture here.
Really enjoyed the video
Just found the channel and I’m loving it! Great job 👏👏👏
DW is killing it with the green content!
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We have been following this for thousands of years
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.
Keep those vids coming Planet A, we love it! Thank you so much for sharing these insights
Such a cool video! If I ever have a garden of my own I'd love to try something like this.
Thanks for making this! Looking forward to see how this would impact in our future agricultural system.
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...
It's inspiring to see young people into permaculture.
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.
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
Huuuuuraaa huuuraaa Huuraaa
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.
great video, kind of weird that there is so much bland electronic music in an exposé regarding organic vegetables
Very happy seeing stuff like this. Only upsetting thing was that he could lose 25% of his produce and him using plastic bags
Yes and no. In nature there is no thing as "losing matter" it gets eaten but gets recycled into the ground. If you loose a field of salad you'll have a healthier soil next year
There is no real alternative to packing salads. Plastic bags will keep it going for up to 3 weeks in the fridge.
@@jonathanavice8052 If someone is keeping three week old lettuce, they probably are buying too much food
@@timothylegg you are getting this wrong, is about making the letuce last so it can be bought to make a little profit, is a must when your yield is low and your food expensive
@Isabel T yeah produce returns to the soil but the producer doesnt get profit 😐, people need money and bussiness need money, a farm needs money to be sustainable and for people to follow the model
Love to see stuff like this
Yes, permaculture is the way, ppl need to do this more..
I love the bit on public food growing spaces, I wish every community had one💚
Shared with my agroecology students!. Thanks!!
Informative video as always
Brilliant video. I learned a lot. Thank you
Diversifying your crops on one plot of land is good! It's genuinely the only thing I remember from agricultural science class back in high school lol
wow, wonderful video. BIG LIKE
I love this channel, thank you for all your content!
Love it, keep up the good work ❤️❤️❤️
This Concept was asked by UPSC exams this year ... 😂
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 🙃
this channel is amazing
Nice to see alternatives to corporate agriculture 💕
Crucial video, very solarpunk!
In the world of advanced science & technology, we believe there can be so many amazing innovations such as these ones, we just love how individuals can make such a difference. We would love to add this to one of our playlists to inspire our audience. -Team PlanetCents
I just started my organic farm at late March. Some failed along this learning process. But still seems promising. 😀
loved this video!
be interested in seeing a video about regenerative agriculture. Lots of farmers that practise it want to be earth conscious and they use some creative planting methods.
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.
Ha. Try growing real vegetables in a vertical farm. Those things are only good for salad and other leafy plants.
@@sorinrogoveanu Actually, no that's not correct.
Needs quite some electric energy to run. While sun is for free, you need shorter transport on the other hand in a controled environment.
@@yesok3379 give me examples.
@@sorinrogoveanu Educating you or showing you how to do a SIMPLE web search is not my job..
I like this video, hopefully in my country Indonesia can duplicate the methods from Permaculture. Great inspiration!
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.
Do you garden your backyard?
@@gabrielferrer3205 yes :)
This one's going to the favourites!! Good job team!
most houses in india has a kitchen garden following the same principle. at my home we got ginger turmeric curry leaves and spinach.
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…
I wish this model could be more popular, especially in the cities, where there isn't that much space
Thanks for the video... Its a great idea to have this project in a big scale inside in to the cities and people have idea how fun is produce food
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...
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.
Awesome video!
While admirable and a great example for people to emulate, intensive market gardening is not permaculture…although it can incorporate some permaculture principles.
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.
Great words to describe
Very good! Thanks DW!
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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
Excellent video
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
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
@UCvMGi4L5o_TvW3TVyJvxwNw I also saw one documentary where an Indian man restored a barren land.
To conserve even more valuable water use drip irrigation rather than the spray heads that lose a considerable amount of water to evaporation.
Great material!
Love to watch your videos
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
And I am fortunate enough to enjoy a few of the wonderful produce from Falk weekly👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
Brilliant vedio this is the only thing I like about RUclips
I love doing this!!
Interesting. Thank you.
Excellent video on an amazing topic! Permaculture!!!
how effective would this be for growing grains? and if farming were to switch to something like this all over, how much would food cost?
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.
Yess!! I have a voracious appetite for information about PermaCulture!