In cropping it's been found that once a field has been planted with 7 mixed species, and above the species link together via mycorrhizal fungi in the soil to become a water, and nutrient efficient complex organism that boosts resistance to disease, insect, and climate extremes to the commercial part of the crop making a reliable crop with low overheads. Working with a higher initial expense for greater downstream benefits to the pocket book, and soil.
Yes! That's one of the many benefits of multi-crop systems compared to monoculture. The underground fungal network in healthy ecosystems is super interesting! In forests, the fungal network can resemble the neural network of the brain and allow trees to 'communicate' with each other across a large landscape. Thanks for watching!
Love this concept! Do these at every school & city park! Cities can dedicate several acres and make an actual woodlot. That art center has plenty of space on that lawn to do another micro-forest 15 meters away from this one, in an area that doesn't already have extant trees overshadowing part of the plot. Great effort; organizations should consider starting 2 or 3 of these at once when they have a group of volunteers, so people can spread out and work. Every school & park has space for 1 to 5 micro forests. Mini-meadows & wetlands are great, too. Tell your parks department MOW LESS, NEVER IN DROUGHT; LET LAWNS GROW TALLER.
I think integrating natiral areas into urban planning is a great idea moving forward. Both a proactive and reactive approach are required. Greening existing urban areas and integrating natural features into development plans. Love your idea of adding a mix of ‘mini’ ecosystems, not just forests. Thanks for watching!
This reminds me of Ethiopia and Eritrea's church "forests," stands of trees on the grounds of those countries' Orthodox Christian monasteries and churches. Whether in town or the countryside, they are far too often the only patches of green left that isn't cropland of some sort.
Thanks for sharing about the church forests, really interesting! It is an ongoing challenge to try to find ways to bring green spaces back to a lot of areas. Thanks for watching!
I don't believe in using terms like "diversity' because that tends to get people thinking simply that 'more is better' when that's simply not true. Rather, I refer to it as "Complexity" because that word reminds us that the local ecosystem is unique and made up of a million little interactions we're wholly unaware of. More is not better, and never has been. Diversity is not a strength. That said, I think it's also important that we recognize how easily people will strap on their blinders. We see big trees in the forest and think that's a place thriving with life. Native grasslands and savannah are just as important. We plant the trees, but forget to plant "spring ephemerals" or the many other herbaceous plants that are critical to the local food web.
Thanks for sharing! I definitely appreciate your take on diversity vs complexity and the connotations with each. And I agree that while forests are important, there are also other critical ecosystems that play big roles in ecological complexity. Creating a mosaic of interacting ecosystems is an ideal way to support local ecology. Thanks for watching!
Without knowing it, I planted a mini forrest using this method. I started 10 years ago and it is almost mature now. Sitting on the edge of this forest is quite calming.
I'm a big defender of forest but a bit grassland with a bit long herbs or some shrubs or forest clearing with some trees for some shade and to keep moisture in summer can be also very interesting for biodiversity it's a shame that in most places people don't let chance to nature but short lawn or some trees like in most of the city parks and gardens, and forest and woodland
Diversity include also multi age trees not just multi species and deadwood so I suggest you to cut each years some of the trees and replant other ones or let the succession to work alone like in a natural forest clearing to really give a strong dynamic and multiply the wealth and health of the forest ecosystem
Definitely agree with the importance of successional processes and non-uniform tree ages. I think the idea of these mini forests is to let them be a self sustaining forest system with minimal management involved. As successional processes will likely be expedited due to the accelerated grwoth, the inclusion of dead/decaying organic material should inherently be part of the system over time as well. Thanks for watching!
For sure! I think integrating them into urban spaces is a great idea both before and after development. Provides a ton of benefit in a potentially under utilized area. Thanks for watching!
I'm a big defender of forest but a bit grassland with a bit long herbs or some shrubs or forest clearing with some trees for some shade and to keep moisture in summer can be also very interesting for biodiversity it's a shame that in most places people don't let chance to nature but short lawn or forest and woodland
@@halnelson5936 Talk to your local school district and parks department. Get them to leave some areas un-mowed to turn into meadows. They have hundreds of acres they're mowing down to dust. Remind them that gas mowers spew as much PM2.5 (cancer & asthma causing chemicals) in one hour, as a car releases in 1000 miles of driving. Get them to raise the height of the mower decks; grass should never be cut shorter than 5 inches other than fall cleanup. Mowing less and not spraying weeds will save money & fuel. Win-win.
Bravo! I do think its a bit too small, but given the weather conditions there in Canada, that might work. All my best wishes for what you do. Greetings from Mexico
I agree it would be nice to see projects like this on a larger scale! I think the idea was for the project in this video to be a pilot and see how it goes. Hopefully, these small forests will start appearing more frequently at all different sizes in urban areas. Thanks so much for watching!
Good luck with your project! I assume water retention is a limiting issue in the desert? Definitely a different climate than we have here. Thanks for watching!
@@DavidBysouth We've dug "swales" (retaining ditches) to catch summer rains. This will allow the water to percolate down to the aquifer instead of running off. Garden beds have been dug down about 2 feet and compost and manure added to amend the lifeless grey dirt here. Keeping water out for pollinators and birds help increase the biodiversity of the area. For the first time I am hearing songbirds. 🐦🙂
Really interesting to hear that you are starting to see some benefits to your hard work! As someone who has spent a lot of time thinking about soil, I can appreciate your efforts trying to bring some life back to degraded soil areas. Sounds like you are doing a great job!
I agree that the music was too loud, intrusive, and detracted from your important message. Also, between the wind noise and the jarring music it was difficult at times to understand your voice. Please delete the music track. At 3:36 in the video you stated that the Miyawaki Forest at the Joshua Creek Heritage Art Centre is "100 meters square". Given what's shown in the video, that's not possible. I hope you mean "100 square meters", or about 11 meters across.
I found this channel a few days ago, really like the small projects for local impact! However, I find the intro loud and obnoxious, in relation to the subject of greening. Especially the second blast after the intro is very unnecessary. The outro music is a lot better than the intro, less intrusive, so keep that! Keep up the good work!! 🙂
I'm sure there are some awesome conservation groups near Prague that would really value your support and interest! I would encourage you to look into volunteer opportunities for projects in your local area. There's also tons of great learning and reading you can do about a variety of ecological and environmental topics, and being more informed is never a bad thing! Thanks so much for watching and I'm really glad you're looking to get involved with these kinds of projects in your area!
Hold on.... i was thinking this is a great idea until i hear you say "including 26 native species" Um..... so non-native species were planted? and this is so try to recreate a forest? what a joke. this is not what conservation is about. it should be an assortment of only NATIVE species which are found LOCALLY.
As far as I can tell, there were no 'non-native' species planted. What I meant was that the trees and shrubs that were planted spanned 26 different native species, not 26 native and additional non-native. According to the project website, there were 340 trees and shrubs planted using 26 different native species specific to the area. Sorry for causing any confusion with the way I worded things.
Lose the stupid music. All of it. Then I will watch your important story. I planted 450 native trees, shrubs on a big urban lot 7 years ago. A 75 species native forest. WA state USA.
Sorry you didn't enjoy the music. Glad you enjoyed the content. Thanks for sharing about your project on an urban lot, I'm sure you are seeing a lot of great benefits 7 years on. Thanks for watching!
Hmm, I might have thought that was ridiculously small for the kind of ecosystem and benefits you are trying to achieve, except that I have seen a few examples of high density and diversity in areas this small. Mostly in the tropics, but also in temperate areas as far north as Virginia. It’s hardly a replacement for the ecosystems being lost, but it will support a large number of invertebrates, a significant number of birds, and perhaps provide day time shelter for a few mammals like fox or even deer that are getting their calorie needs met in the surrounding neighborhood.
This topic is super interesting, but you've fucked it up badly by turning it into an advertisement, instead of providing the professional information about these forests.
Every day I see acres bulldozed. And every day I see a new car wash and storage building and apartment building built. Because we're saving the planet. Keep trying though, until the bulldozers come, if it makes you feel better.
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In cropping it's been found that once a field has been planted with 7 mixed species, and above the species link together via mycorrhizal fungi in the soil to become a water, and nutrient efficient complex organism that boosts resistance to disease, insect, and climate extremes to the commercial part of the crop making a reliable crop with low overheads. Working with a higher initial expense for greater downstream benefits to the pocket book, and soil.
Yes! That's one of the many benefits of multi-crop systems compared to monoculture. The underground fungal network in healthy ecosystems is super interesting! In forests, the fungal network can resemble the neural network of the brain and allow trees to 'communicate' with each other across a large landscape. Thanks for watching!
i applaud those who purchase tracts of lands for birds and butterflies
Always great to see quality restoration efforts. Thanks for watching!
Love this concept! Do these at every school & city park! Cities can dedicate several acres and make an actual woodlot. That art center has plenty of space on that lawn to do another micro-forest 15 meters away from this one, in an area that doesn't already have extant trees overshadowing part of the plot. Great effort; organizations should consider starting 2 or 3 of these at once when they have a group of volunteers, so people can spread out and work. Every school & park has space for 1 to 5 micro forests. Mini-meadows & wetlands are great, too. Tell your parks department MOW LESS, NEVER IN DROUGHT; LET LAWNS GROW TALLER.
I think integrating natiral areas into urban planning is a great idea moving forward. Both a proactive and reactive approach are required. Greening existing urban areas and integrating natural features into development plans. Love your idea of adding a mix of ‘mini’ ecosystems, not just forests. Thanks for watching!
This reminds me of Ethiopia and Eritrea's church "forests," stands of trees on the grounds of those countries' Orthodox Christian monasteries and churches. Whether in town or the countryside, they are far too often the only patches of green left that isn't cropland of some sort.
Thanks for sharing about the church forests, really interesting! It is an ongoing challenge to try to find ways to bring green spaces back to a lot of areas. Thanks for watching!
Yeah, being church property is the only reason those stands of forests survived.
I don't believe in using terms like "diversity' because that tends to get people thinking simply that 'more is better' when that's simply not true. Rather, I refer to it as "Complexity" because that word reminds us that the local ecosystem is unique and made up of a million little interactions we're wholly unaware of. More is not better, and never has been. Diversity is not a strength.
That said, I think it's also important that we recognize how easily people will strap on their blinders. We see big trees in the forest and think that's a place thriving with life. Native grasslands and savannah are just as important. We plant the trees, but forget to plant "spring ephemerals" or the many other herbaceous plants that are critical to the local food web.
Thanks for sharing! I definitely appreciate your take on diversity vs complexity and the connotations with each.
And I agree that while forests are important, there are also other critical ecosystems that play big roles in ecological complexity. Creating a mosaic of interacting ecosystems is an ideal way to support local ecology. Thanks for watching!
Without knowing it, I planted a mini forrest using this method. I started 10 years ago and it is almost mature now. Sitting on the edge of this forest is quite calming.
That’s awesome! Glad you’re enjoying your mini forest. Thanks for watching!
I'm a big defender of forest but a bit grassland with a bit long herbs or some shrubs or forest clearing with some trees for some shade and to keep moisture in summer can be also very interesting for biodiversity it's a shame that in most places people don't let chance to nature but short lawn or some trees like in most of the city parks and gardens, and forest and woodland
It's for sure important to think about preserving natural forested areas and integrating green spaces/forests into existing urban areas!
It gets people into some green place worth some fresh air! Win!
Perfect! I'm a chick forest technician from Montreal, majored in sylviculture and re-wilding the place, go good humans!
Sounds like you’re doing some exciting work! Thanks for watching!
Diversity include also multi age trees not just multi species and deadwood so I suggest you to cut each years some of the trees and replant other ones or let the succession to work alone like in a natural forest clearing to really give a strong dynamic and multiply the wealth and health of the forest ecosystem
Definitely agree with the importance of successional processes and non-uniform tree ages. I think the idea of these mini forests is to let them be a self sustaining forest system with minimal management involved. As successional processes will likely be expedited due to the accelerated grwoth, the inclusion of dead/decaying organic material should inherently be part of the system over time as well. Thanks for watching!
they can be used to replace grass lawns in some urban areas
For sure! I think integrating them into urban spaces is a great idea both before and after development. Provides a ton of benefit in a potentially under utilized area. Thanks for watching!
I'm a big defender of forest but a bit grassland with a bit long herbs or some shrubs or forest clearing with some trees for some shade and to keep moisture in summer can be also very interesting for biodiversity it's a shame that in most places people don't let chance to nature but short lawn or forest and woodland
@@halnelson5936 Talk to your local school district and parks department. Get them to leave some areas un-mowed to turn into meadows. They have hundreds of acres they're mowing down to dust. Remind them that gas mowers spew as much PM2.5 (cancer & asthma causing chemicals) in one hour, as a car releases in 1000 miles of driving. Get them to raise the height of the mower decks; grass should never be cut shorter than 5 inches other than fall cleanup. Mowing less and not spraying weeds will save money & fuel. Win-win.
Bravo! I do think its a bit too small, but given the weather conditions there in Canada, that might work. All my best wishes for what you do. Greetings from Mexico
I agree it would be nice to see projects like this on a larger scale! I think the idea was for the project in this video to be a pilot and see how it goes. Hopefully, these small forests will start appearing more frequently at all different sizes in urban areas. Thanks so much for watching!
I'm attempting to green the desert of Arizona. I'm sure your project will go much easier. 🌵☀️
Good luck with your project! I assume water retention is a limiting issue in the desert? Definitely a different climate than we have here. Thanks for watching!
@@DavidBysouth We've dug "swales" (retaining ditches) to catch summer rains. This will allow the water to percolate down to the aquifer instead of running off. Garden beds have been dug down about 2 feet and compost and manure added to amend the lifeless grey dirt here. Keeping water out for pollinators and birds help increase the biodiversity of the area. For the first time I am hearing songbirds. 🐦🙂
Really interesting to hear that you are starting to see some benefits to your hard work! As someone who has spent a lot of time thinking about soil, I can appreciate your efforts trying to bring some life back to degraded soil areas. Sounds like you are doing a great job!
❤Your step to save nature is commendable
Thanks for the kind words and for checking out the video!
I have a mini forest in my backyard I have an old car and old van wow a couple cars a couple of actually a half dozen in my Forest
You should buy up a poor naberhood and green it up and keep rent affordable.
Just have a single law never kill the garden 😂.
I think buying a neighbourhood is slightly out of my price range right now! Thanks for watching!
@@DavidBysouth Certainly a grand project, but getting a neighborhood interested in starting a community garden might be more feasible. 🤔
Actually, planting some trees in an existing green area doesn't impress me too much.
I agree that the music was too loud, intrusive, and detracted from your important message. Also, between the wind noise and the jarring music it was difficult at times to understand your voice. Please delete the music track.
At 3:36 in the video you stated that the Miyawaki Forest at the Joshua Creek Heritage Art Centre is "100 meters square". Given what's shown in the video, that's not possible. I hope you mean "100 square meters", or about 11 meters across.
Damn bro, stepping up the intro and outro? love it!
Keep pushing the production value, people will find your content! ❤
Thanks so much, I really appreciate it!
I found this channel a few days ago, really like the small projects for local impact!
However, I find the intro loud and obnoxious, in relation to the subject of greening. Especially the second blast after the intro is very unnecessary.
The outro music is a lot better than the intro, less intrusive, so keep that!
Keep up the good work!! 🙂
Appreciate the feedback! Will look more Into the music moving forward! Thanks for watching!
How can I get involved?
I live in Prague, Czech Republic
I'm sure there are some awesome conservation groups near Prague that would really value your support and interest! I would encourage you to look into volunteer opportunities for projects in your local area. There's also tons of great learning and reading you can do about a variety of ecological and environmental topics, and being more informed is never a bad thing! Thanks so much for watching and I'm really glad you're looking to get involved with these kinds of projects in your area!
Dr. Green thumb
Hold on.... i was thinking this is a great idea until i hear you say "including 26 native species"
Um..... so non-native species were planted? and this is so try to recreate a forest? what a joke. this is not what conservation is about. it should be an assortment of only NATIVE species which are found LOCALLY.
As far as I can tell, there were no 'non-native' species planted. What I meant was that the trees and shrubs that were planted spanned 26 different native species, not 26 native and additional non-native. According to the project website, there were 340 trees and shrubs planted using 26 different native species specific to the area. Sorry for causing any confusion with the way I worded things.
Lose the stupid music. All of it. Then I will watch your important story. I planted 450 native trees, shrubs on a big urban lot 7 years ago. A 75 species native forest. WA state USA.
Sorry you didn't enjoy the music. Glad you enjoyed the content. Thanks for sharing about your project on an urban lot, I'm sure you are seeing a lot of great benefits 7 years on. Thanks for watching!
Hmm, I might have thought that was ridiculously small for the kind of ecosystem and benefits you are trying to achieve, except that I have seen a few examples of high density and diversity in areas this small. Mostly in the tropics, but also in temperate areas as far north as Virginia. It’s hardly a replacement for the ecosystems being lost, but it will support a large number of invertebrates, a significant number of birds, and perhaps provide day time shelter for a few mammals like fox or even deer that are getting their calorie needs met in the surrounding neighborhood.
Totally agree. Music over loud, intrusive and unnecessary
This topic is super interesting, but you've fucked it up badly by turning it into an advertisement, instead of providing the professional information about these forests.
Resort Forests are Better.
Climate is change. Change cannot be mitigated.
why use Ai generated pictures for thumbnails? is nature not good enough?
Every day I see acres bulldozed. And every day I see a new car wash and storage building and apartment building built. Because we're saving the planet. Keep trying though, until the bulldozers come, if it makes you feel better.