I'm so happy and grateful that this video is touching people around the world! If you would like to get a full tour of Grete's forest, head over to my Patreon page! It'll give you more insights into forest and also give you more glimpses into Grete's warm personality. Raw footage and interviews from other videos are also on my Patreon site. I'd appreciate your support as I'd like to make these kind of videos more to inspire as many people as possible to choose sustainable ways of living! www.patreon.com/GrowingSmall
i reall like, that people around the world trying to regreen degraded land. Her strategy is interesting. I would like to get more information about the change of the groundwater level. I mean she said, that the used two wells to take out ground water. Does the growing forest above helps regaining groundwater? Since the land doesn't dry out that much anymore due to shade and wind breaking? Or do these trees use up more water? Does maybe the rain better trickle into the soil now? Another thing what I at least would put into discussion is the collection of water from rain. The first thought would be, it maks a lot of sense. But when you think over and over it, you will get some disdvatages. The worst disadvatage is, that the collected water doesn't add to ground water anymore. So by collecting rain watrer, you would minimize ground water refreshing. Maybe if you use that water to nurture the trees when they are young could level that out?
She sounds so peaceful. The trees speak to her heart. This is so encouraging; Plant 10 trees correctly and they will grow, instead of 1000 poorly and they die. Great advice! I want to be like her when I grow up.
Thank you Karie for taking the time to comment. I'm so glad the video resonates with you. Spending time with Grete is just wonderful, and her homestead really is as peaceful as she describes. Just the bird songs there are incredible! And most land that surrounds hers is still barren and degraded. If I had a drone, I'd have definitely shown this.
This is what is happening now with largescale replanting efforts; specifically in China. Both China and Africa have a "Great Green Wall" project to plant a continental-scale wall of forest spanning the edge of the Sahara and Gobi deserts in order to stop or slow the encroaching desert from swallowing more arable land. China had begun its Great Green Wall back in 1978, but there was a huge setback; they planted giant monoculture forests of poplar, and disease eventually spread through huge swaths of the reforested area. A lot of progress was lost. They since have learned from that mistake, and have created some creative methods to re-greening desert soil by utilizing large-mesh biodegradable rope or cellulose earthbags to act as a windbreak for native drought-tolerant grasses, which secure the soil in patches that fill in. They also plant drought-tolerant trees and shrubs. Once the sand is secured by root systems, they're able to build upon that foundation to create an ecosystem. It's all very clever. The Paani Foundation has a lot of interesting videos on utilizing watershed management and permaculture to re-green degraded land here on RUclips. This is a video about the Paani Foundation that was made to be viewed at a film festival in India, so it's very polished, but it shows the impressive work the Paani Foundation is doing to help improve struggling rural communities by giving them the knowledge and incentive to fix their own problems. ruclips.net/video/lwFzrt6fP9s/видео.html China did it with the re-greening of the Leoss Planteau. regenerationinternational.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Milly.jpg Ethopia did it as well. ruclips.net/video/AIlyz2-cixs/видео.html Peter Andrews did it in Australia. ruclips.net/video/uraGuQ7wS_A/видео.html Allan Savory did it in Africa. ruclips.net/video/vpTHi7O66pI/видео.html
“A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit” Excellent video and the woman was lovely an inspiration to use all!
With a small 20 acres, I’m 61, and planting quite a few trees on it, and I know that many of them, I will never sit in the shade of, but! I know the generations to follow, will enjoy them, and that’s what is satisfying.
I love watching RUclips videos like this. It is very calming and relaxing. This gets me very motivated to what I want to do. I always try to say be with nature. Nature always talks to me in ways I can’t explain. I have 25 acres in USA that I’m slowly going back to what it should be. I live in the oak savanna region in the Midwest. So I’m going to sow plants and raise animals that will be working with nature and not against nature like she did. I started with 2 acres and working my way up to 25 acres the next couple of years. I have a vision what I need to do. Thanks for the video!
This lady inspired me over 10 years ago when I read about her in a Kenyan magazine. I now have many trees in an arid part of Kenya. Then she relied on water pans to water the trees. Thank you
Thank you for commenting, couldn't agree more with you - her story and what she's done with the land is just incredible. Glad you're motivated to do good, too!
Watching this from Latvia 🇱🇻 it's -24 degree Celsius and looking outside, my garden is under a thick layer of snow and i have gardening envy as it is already but to see such abundance and inspiration and beauty it warms the heart. Thank you for sharing this 💗
Thank you and greetings to Latvia. Unbelievable how cold it is over there! I'm so happy the film resonates with you. Enjoy the coming garden season once spring is in the air!
I’ve just bought an old farm 4.5acres, I was thinking of putting a little house and turn into a food Forrest. This video is truly fantastic and a life long dream Much love to all who regenerate their land for generations to come ❤️
A beautiful example of nature's resilience and with the right methods can be achieved globally imagine the beauty, Big love mother nature (wonder woman) your amazing!. xx
Wow, thank you! Thank you so much for taking the time to comment, it means a lot to me that the film resonated with you and that you're also dreaming of a world in which Mother Earth is taken care of and healthy.
Her voice is so calm and serene. Reminds of the best teacher you had during your childhood - who inspired you to do good. Respect from India to this lady.
Thank you for sharing her name and story. 'His eye is on the sparrow' is how folks express God's love for the smallest things. This lovely woman has sat down to admire her spider neighbor's life for two months. Hers is a life well lived.
YES!! Good soil + fabulous plants. I have found on of the quickest ways to improve soil is to dig a trench knee-deep putting the soil to one side then fill the trench over a few weeks with all your kitchen and organic household waste, layered with soil. On the bottom put the largest pieces of wood and plant material that you have been collecting. If you can acquire some old well rotted manure layer this on the soil as you reach the top. Leave the trench/ bed for about a week or two to settle and put all you waste water onto it. If the season is right (spring) plant beans ans as soon as you have harvested you first crop dig them in well then proceed to plant what ever you desire. Be rewarded with a beautiful lush garden.
Inspirational stuff. I love trees - everything about them: their bark, leaves, branches, trunks, fruit, flowers - they make me so happy. Not sure what that's about, but it truly gives me hope when I see more and more nature warriors out there in the world, changing the world back to where it should be, one growing tree at a time.
Beautiful woman and story! This is the exact thing I have been telling many many people, to plant trees and bring back degraded lands here and abroad. Thanks for sharing!
@@GrowingSmall I myself collect wild herbs and medicinal plants and mushrooms, I hope to plant a few native trees and plants here come spring that are not so common these days. It would be nice to stroll in her forest, it was a big undertaking, but I am glad she did it.
Beautiful. Air, water, and soil is life. And clean air water and soil is healthy life. She is very wise lady. We need more people like she on the earth.
i love this, its so beautiful what some people are able to do even in a semi short timeline compared to other projects. All of it is natural, but yet serves a very useful purpose to keep that area green and reduce all the wind/dust/noise that otherwise would hit the house
You are my hero. Yes to knowing about the importance of soil. I learn something new every day, put it into practice and spread the word. Fixing the planet one person at a time.
This is wonderful! More people need to do this. There is another wonderful woman named Colette O'Neill who has done this to a 3 acre smallholding in western Ireland. She has a You Tube channel called Bealtaine Cottage. She is an environmental activist and writer. The Bealtaine Project was begun in 2004 and is going strong. Her land was bare and classified poor quality when she started the project and today is a beautiful lush woodland, full of abundant life of all kinds.
What a beautiful soul she is! God bless her for understanding what gifts He gave us and being a faithful steward of the natural beauty He created...FOR US, HIS CHILDREN!!!!!
I plant my trees as pencils sticks size specimens by putting a spade in and wiggling then adding only a tiny amount of compost inside the crack this way the trees roots out looking for nutrients digging soil and adding compost can lead to a smaller root ball
I'm on the same journey, I learnt years ago that replicating ecosystems is so much easier than using store brought nutrients and you get far better quality and now just setting everything up on a small scale so when I get land(12 months🤞🤞) I can upsize everything and support as many families and schools as possible because people don't understand the value of good and most Importantly NATURAL soil and I feel the schools is where we can change that :)
Bless you Grete. I live in a large town in South Africa with trees and birds. A living garden where the leaves remain under the trees to compost. No poisons. My neighbour's hate the trees and the birds and hack them whenever they can and spray weedkillers and poisons. The first thing to disappear were the chameleons. I love you mother earth!
Wow, what an incredible story this woman shared. Such a beautiful life captured by this beautiful film. Do you have anymore information about her? Does she have any books she's written, or any other places she's shared her story. I'm so inspired by her.
I should ask her to write a book! I don't think she's written any so far. I realize the film doesn't reveal much 'personal information'; not really by design, it's simply that the focus was to be on her reforestation work and vision!
Dream of me. Seeing her smile on her face and pride on her face when she speaks of the trees show how much passion and love she had for the plants. wish I have that life. bless her
Incredible gift back to the earth. Thank you so much! I enjoy nature as well and I often think how can we rejuvenate the desert areas and it's rare to find someone who stands up for that goal. Nicely done!
As Grete said, you must have good soil. I have a patch of garden in front of my house where only weeds thrived for the past 12 years that I have lived there. I dug down deep and realized what an awful soil I have - 1 foot of good soil + 2 feet of compacted builder's sand + un penetrable super compacted coal pieces- 0 drainage. I've bought humus with horse manure and plan to do as Grete has done - dig up old soil and amend with the humus. Good luck to me at 70.
You don't need to dig it up. Mulch it with whatever you have in the way of leaves, compost, manure. The earthworms and other critters will come and dig for you. You can lay down plain cardboard first, worms will digest that too. Weeds are a very good indicator of your soil type and are doing their best to amend your soil for you. Depending on the weed it's usually best to cut them off at ground level and use them as mulch.
👌👍👏 Extremely impressive (woman, video, work, results)! Thanks a lot for making teaching explaining recording editing uploading and sharing. Best regards luck and health to all involved life forms (humans animals and plants).
Wonderful words. When one becomes suite invested in the ecological struggle and debates it's easy to forget the real feeling of living and interacting with nature that drives this very commitment. I just moved to the country from an small town apartment. It's a wonderful feeling to gather blackberries and hazelnuts and to spend time with animals on 5 ha of land. I want to gather seedlings of poplar, chestnut tree, raspberry bush and blackberry and plant them in various places of the field. There's already some light wooded areas and I see how ecologically active they are.
Thank you so much for taking the time to comment (and subscribe to the channel!). I loved visiting Grete and her story continues to inspire me as well!
I'm so happy and grateful that this video is touching people around the world! If you would like to get a full tour of Grete's forest, head over to my Patreon page! It'll give you more insights into forest and also give you more glimpses into Grete's warm personality. Raw footage and interviews from other videos are also on my Patreon site. I'd appreciate your support as I'd like to make these kind of videos more to inspire as many people as possible to choose sustainable ways of living! www.patreon.com/GrowingSmall
i reall like, that people around the world trying to regreen degraded land. Her strategy is interesting. I would like to get more information about the change of the groundwater level. I mean she said, that the used two wells to take out ground water. Does the growing forest above helps regaining groundwater? Since the land doesn't dry out that much anymore due to shade and wind breaking? Or do these trees use up more water? Does maybe the rain better trickle into the soil now?
Another thing what I at least would put into discussion is the collection of water from rain. The first thought would be, it maks a lot of sense. But when you think over and over it, you will get some disdvatages. The worst disadvatage is, that the collected water doesn't add to ground water anymore. So by collecting rain watrer, you would minimize ground water refreshing. Maybe if you use that water to nurture the trees when they are young could level that out?
She sounds so peaceful. The trees speak to her heart. This is so encouraging; Plant 10 trees correctly and they will grow, instead of 1000 poorly and they die. Great advice! I want to be like her when I grow up.
Thank you Karie for taking the time to comment. I'm so glad the video resonates with you. Spending time with Grete is just wonderful, and her homestead really is as peaceful as she describes. Just the bird songs there are incredible! And most land that surrounds hers is still barren and degraded. If I had a drone, I'd have definitely shown this.
I'm NOT growing up!! I'm only 71.
@@GrowingSmall When you go back to visit her, please have a drone. I'd love to see this!
This is what is happening now with largescale replanting efforts; specifically in China. Both China and Africa have a "Great Green Wall" project to plant a continental-scale wall of forest spanning the edge of the Sahara and Gobi deserts in order to stop or slow the encroaching desert from swallowing more arable land. China had begun its Great Green Wall back in 1978, but there was a huge setback; they planted giant monoculture forests of poplar, and disease eventually spread through huge swaths of the reforested area. A lot of progress was lost. They since have learned from that mistake, and have created some creative methods to re-greening desert soil by utilizing large-mesh biodegradable rope or cellulose earthbags to act as a windbreak for native drought-tolerant grasses, which secure the soil in patches that fill in. They also plant drought-tolerant trees and shrubs. Once the sand is secured by root systems, they're able to build upon that foundation to create an ecosystem. It's all very clever. The Paani Foundation has a lot of interesting videos on utilizing watershed management and permaculture to re-green degraded land here on RUclips.
This is a video about the Paani Foundation that was made to be viewed at a film festival in India, so it's very polished, but it shows the impressive work the Paani Foundation is doing to help improve struggling rural communities by giving them the knowledge and incentive to fix their own problems.
ruclips.net/video/lwFzrt6fP9s/видео.html
China did it with the re-greening of the Leoss Planteau.
regenerationinternational.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Milly.jpg
Ethopia did it as well.
ruclips.net/video/AIlyz2-cixs/видео.html
Peter Andrews did it in Australia.
ruclips.net/video/uraGuQ7wS_A/видео.html
Allan Savory did it in Africa.
ruclips.net/video/vpTHi7O66pI/видео.html
@@marshy1950 …you’re only a pup. ☺️
“A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit”
Excellent video and the woman was lovely an inspiration to use all!
Well said! Glad the video resonated with you!
With a small 20 acres, I’m 61, and planting quite a few trees on it, and I know that many of them, I will never sit in the shade of, but! I know the generations to follow, will enjoy them, and that’s what is satisfying.
Yes that’s the beauty of planting for the future. They will always think of us as long as they aren’t cut down
I love the lady work
@@GrowingSmall
My name is prem singh
I am starting a moringa and neem
Planting project
I love watching RUclips videos like this. It is very calming and relaxing. This gets me very motivated to what I want to do. I always try to say be with nature. Nature always talks to me in ways I can’t explain. I have 25 acres in USA that I’m slowly going back to what it should be. I live in the oak savanna region in the Midwest. So I’m going to sow plants and raise animals that will be working with nature and not against nature like she did. I started with 2 acres and working my way up to 25 acres the next couple of years. I have a vision what I need to do. Thanks for the video!
Good Luck!
Great to hear, wishing you all the best for your endeavours!
Please keep us updated!🙏
God bless you, sir.
Make a permaculture food forest!
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I am sending you lots of love and i hope the light Will reach your consciousness soon.
A hug of love and light ❣️
This lady inspired me over 10 years ago when I read about her in a Kenyan magazine. I now have many trees in an arid part of Kenya. Then she relied on water pans to water the trees. Thank you
Love this! So glad you are also growing trees in arid areas!
This lady has the sweetest ,calmest voice .
This was a great short film. I love what she's done with her land. This is motivating.
Thank you for commenting, couldn't agree more with you - her story and what she's done with the land is just incredible. Glad you're motivated to do good, too!
I live in Karachi Pakistan I like your comments
@@GrowingSmall I live in Karachi Pakistan I follow your channel RUclips
She is such a special person...and lovely short film that shows her tenderness and strength💕
Thank you!
Watching this from Latvia 🇱🇻 it's -24 degree Celsius and looking outside, my garden is under a thick layer of snow and i have gardening envy as it is already but to see such abundance and inspiration and beauty it warms the heart. Thank you for sharing this 💗
Thank you and greetings to Latvia. Unbelievable how cold it is over there! I'm so happy the film resonates with you. Enjoy the coming garden season once spring is in the air!
Same here in Canada. It's my dream to grow a garden like this with fruit trees and veggies
Best wishes from the wirral ,where the mersey forest grows...well done...brrrrr..
@@eamonnclabby7067 Where’s that? Scotland?
Wonderful lady doing her bit for nature and a better environment👏👏👏🙏🙏🙏
I’ve just bought an old farm 4.5acres, I was thinking of putting a little house and turn into a food Forrest.
This video is truly fantastic and a life long dream
Much love to all who regenerate their land for generations to come ❤️
A beautiful example of nature's resilience and with the right methods can be achieved globally imagine the beauty, Big love mother nature (wonder woman) your amazing!. xx
Wow, thank you! Thank you so much for taking the time to comment, it means a lot to me that the film resonated with you and that you're also dreaming of a world in which Mother Earth is taken care of and healthy.
This story doesn't deserve dislikes 🤦 Well done granny, thank you 🌱🌳 My biggest salute 👌
Thank you for giving time to the wonderful creations of the Lord!
Her voice is so calm and serene. Reminds of the best teacher you had during your childhood - who inspired you to do good. Respect from India to this lady.
Beautiful place, and so much wisdom. Soil really the essence of it all.
this woman has a TON of wisdom to share!
Her comment about spider on her porch 🕷️ means so much to me because I feel the same way about them. They are definitely one of my favorite animals.
Thanks beautiful! God bless you! You remind me of my saintly mom!
So heart warming. Can’t wait to meet this lovely lady soon. Thank you so much for taking care of our beautiful country
Grete Davey, the simplicity of nature comes out with such a serene feeling! Thank you for documenting this beautiful story. We look forward to more!
That's exactly what I felt when I first visited Grete and it inspired me to make this film. Thanks for watching, Joyce!
Thank you for sharing her name and story. 'His eye is on the sparrow' is how folks express God's love for the smallest things. This lovely woman has sat down to admire her spider neighbor's life for two months. Hers is a life well lived.
Wisdom comes of age, Thank you for sharing. God Bless!
Just watching this infuses some pleasant magical feelings in my being. Thanks big mum
Wonderful! this is exactly what I hoped to elicit with the video. All the best!
YES!! Good soil + fabulous plants. I have found on of the quickest ways to improve soil is to dig a trench knee-deep putting the soil to one side then fill the trench over a few weeks with all your kitchen and organic household waste, layered with soil. On the bottom put the largest pieces of wood and plant material that you have been collecting. If you can acquire some old well rotted manure layer this on the soil as you reach the top. Leave the trench/ bed for about a week or two to settle and put all you waste water onto it. If the season is right (spring) plant beans ans as soon as you have harvested you first crop dig them in well then proceed to plant what ever you desire. Be rewarded with a beautiful lush garden.
I am in awe! Wonderful Woman! Wonderful shootage. Now I don't find critical things to comment on your filming. Thank you!
Thank you Anne. I'm so glad you feel inspired - I was too when I visited Grete. It's a magical place and just incredible to see the changes in person.
What country she is at? 💞
@@danalexa69 Kenya!
Inspirational stuff. I love trees - everything about them: their bark, leaves, branches, trunks, fruit, flowers - they make me so happy. Not sure what that's about, but it truly gives me hope when I see more and more nature warriors out there in the world, changing the world back to where it should be, one growing tree at a time.
Same here! I love trees too and that's why I was so inspired when I met Grete.
Yes!!
Nature is so important and healing. Have you come across Jadav Payeng, “the forest man”? He is an inspiration as well…
I seriously love watching these sort of videos,
Wow!! Well done mama for your effort in restoring nature . So so inspiring!
So glad you find it inspiring!
This is beautiful. This is what humanity was meant for. To grow, nurture, and improve. To tend, prune, and guide.
Beautiful woman and story! This is the exact thing I have been telling many many people, to plant trees and bring back degraded lands here and abroad. Thanks for sharing!
Planting trees is just so powerful. I'm glad you liked the video, thanks for commenting!
@@GrowingSmall I myself collect wild herbs and medicinal plants and mushrooms, I hope to plant a few native trees and plants here come spring that are not so common these days. It would be nice to stroll in her forest, it was a big undertaking, but I am glad she did it.
Beautiful. Air, water, and soil is life. And clean air water and soil is healthy life. She is very wise lady. We need more people like she on the earth.
Thank you!
Rightly expressed "to feel part of nature is not so difficult"❤ power to more such individuals on the planet!
Well done, your an inspiration....the planet will love you, thankyou
Thanks a lot Francis! Inspiring people are much needed right now.
i love this, its so beautiful what some people are able to do even in a semi short timeline compared to other projects. All of it is natural, but yet serves a very useful purpose to keep that area green and reduce all the wind/dust/noise that otherwise would hit the house
Thank you for sharing, completely with you, that's why I've found Grete's story so inspiring!
I love her! She has the sweetest voice, and such a beautiful passion.
Bless this woman
You are my hero. Yes to knowing about the importance of soil. I learn something new every day, put it into practice and spread the word. Fixing the planet one person at a time.
The Good Earth. Would have loved to see vid of the area outside the wind break looking out and looking toward the oasis. Very nice.
Great suggestion!
Great video. The woman is living in the heaven she has created. She is calm and how beautiful to take a walk in her forest. I can do this! Why not!
What a wonderful lady!
Thank you so much for this beautiful film the reminds us how lovely life can be. 💕
Glad you enjoyed it! Really like how you're putting it, "life can be lovely" :) Much love to the beautiful state of Maine!
This is wonderful! More people need to do this. There is another wonderful woman named Colette O'Neill who has done this to a 3 acre smallholding in western Ireland. She has a You Tube channel called Bealtaine Cottage. She is an environmental activist and writer. The Bealtaine Project was begun in 2004 and is going strong. Her land was bare and classified poor quality when she started the project and today is a beautiful lush woodland, full of abundant life of all kinds.
So calming as she walk in her forest. Working towards the same. Thank you for this video and all others.
Danke für die Vielfalt, die du uns präsentierst uns die beeindruckenden Menschen mit ihren gelebten Idealen und Visonen
Immer wieder gerne :)
Secret and critical...A GOOD FENCE... and a reasonably secure water source for nursery stage till established ...
Agreed!
God bless this wonderful lady. Hydrated soil is critical.
Godbless this lady.🙏
I’m amazed by such a wonderful person. . . .
I live in Karachi Pakistan I like your comments send 4 month ago
What a beautiful soul she is! God bless her for understanding what gifts He gave us and being a faithful steward of the natural beauty He created...FOR US, HIS CHILDREN!!!!!
Absolutely perfect!!❤
I plant my trees as pencils sticks size specimens by putting a spade in and wiggling then adding only a tiny amount of compost inside the crack this way the trees roots out looking for nutrients digging soil and adding compost can lead to a smaller root ball
Also makes sense, sounds like a time saving way of planting which is a plus as well!
I can so relate to her relationship with the spider.
I miss my Morning Glories...
Respect.
🙏
Thank you for natural homestead.
I need to see the inside of that house. I'm guessing it's as gorgeous and earth friendly as her land.
Oh yea, the house inside is lovely too. Simple cabin like feel with lots of rustic wooden furniture. You'd love it :)
I'm on the same journey, I learnt years ago that replicating ecosystems is so much easier than using store brought nutrients and you get far better quality and now just setting everything up on a small scale so when I get land(12 months🤞🤞) I can upsize everything and support as many families and schools as possible because people don't understand the value of good and most Importantly NATURAL soil and I feel the schools is where we can change that :)
Bless you Grete. I live in a large town in South Africa with trees and birds. A living garden where the leaves remain under the trees to compost. No poisons. My neighbour's hate the trees and the birds and hack them whenever they can and spray weedkillers and poisons. The first thing to disappear were the chameleons. I love you mother earth!
Grete? I was wondering why this wonderful woman has no name here.
This was a bit of calm outside of all of the chaos. It also reminds you of what's really important in this world.
Ahh thank you for your kind words 🙏
She is such an amazing inspirational person .. exactly what I am going to start soon here in South Africa ❤
It’s a paradise. She’s built paradise.
so beautifull and i agree🌱🌳with you Lady ,soil is very importend
Beautiful and uplifting
Wow, what an incredible story this woman shared. Such a beautiful life captured by this beautiful film. Do you have anymore information about her? Does she have any books she's written, or any other places she's shared her story. I'm so inspired by her.
I should ask her to write a book! I don't think she's written any so far. I realize the film doesn't reveal much 'personal information'; not really by design, it's simply that the focus was to be on her reforestation work and vision!
@@GrowingSmall What is this wonder persons name?
@@nikkid4890 Grete Davey
@@GrowingSmall Thanks very much
@@nikkid4890 My pleasure! So glad you enjoyed the short film.
Dream of me. Seeing her smile on her face and pride on her face when she speaks of the trees show how much passion and love she had for the plants. wish I have that life. bless her
God bless you for passing her knowledge to thousands of people
Very inspiring. Thank you 🐝🙏💖
"Water has to be used at least twice" , that was powerful
Wonderful and great work, I have been to her place and it is For sure very refreshing and quite inspiring.
Great to hear you've visited Grete's place!
Absolutely precious. God bless.
I love this woman
“walking thru a forest enhances your life, calms you down”. Amen!
This woman, her thoughts and life - so wonderful. Thank you for posting.
So blessed to see 😇
What a legacy she will leave behind.
Her voice is so soothing.
Amazing lady.
wonderful - what a beautiful, inspiring film :)
Many thanks! Your music adds so much to it!!
Beautiful. Visited Kenya in 1975 and fell in love. Would have gone back in a heartbeat if I could but life got in the way. So proud of her.
Great! So inspiring! Thanks!
Thank you 🙏
Planting trees is the best way to clean the environment!
One key to Happiness...Simple living
Beautiful and inspiring piece.
Thank you very, very much. I'm so glad you enjoyed the film :)
Such an incredible feat!
I loved thanks for that you doing (respects)!!!!!
I really like 👍 this 👏 wonderful video. Awesome 👌 teaching information on planting trees 🌳
Beautiful place.
Incredible gift back to the earth. Thank you so much! I enjoy nature as well and I often think how can we rejuvenate the desert areas and it's rare to find someone who stands up for that goal. Nicely done!
Just Amazing....all must adopt to this lifestyle...i have few in my property but dream for bigger land like it. God Bless our beautiful planet.
Kenya! Inspired.
"walking through a forest enhances your life" she said.... I agree.
What a wonderful woman. So much advice. My property is the same as hers when she started. She gives me hope. 💕
What a beautiful human being!
This video is marvellous. So much wisdom about nature. I love it.
So beautiful the way that she loves spiders instead of killing them like most people I know. All life is so important.
As Grete said, you must have good soil. I have a patch of garden in front of my house where only weeds thrived for the past 12 years that I have lived there. I dug down deep and realized what an awful soil I have - 1 foot of good soil + 2 feet of compacted builder's sand + un penetrable super compacted coal pieces- 0 drainage. I've bought humus with horse manure and plan to do as Grete has done - dig up old soil and amend with the humus. Good luck to me at 70.
You can do it!!
You don't need to dig it up. Mulch it with whatever you have in the way of leaves, compost, manure. The earthworms and other critters will come and dig for you. You can lay down plain cardboard first, worms will digest that too. Weeds are a very good indicator of your soil type and are doing their best to amend your soil for you. Depending on the weed it's usually best to cut them off at ground level and use them as mulch.
👌👍👏 Extremely impressive (woman, video, work, results)! Thanks a lot for making teaching explaining recording editing uploading and sharing.
Best regards luck and health to all involved life forms (humans animals and plants).
She is amazing.
Quite agree
Wonderful words. When one becomes suite invested in the ecological struggle and debates it's easy to forget the real feeling of living and interacting with nature that drives this very commitment. I just moved to the country from an small town apartment. It's a wonderful feeling to gather blackberries and hazelnuts and to spend time with animals on 5 ha of land.
I want to gather seedlings of poplar, chestnut tree, raspberry bush and blackberry and plant them in various places of the field. There's already some light wooded areas and I see how ecologically active they are.
The greatest thing to do for our world's future is to plant a tree. What a beautiful thing she has done. She is a life saver. ❤
Thank you so much for your heartfelt comment, the simple things are often the truest and best we can do :)
@@GrowingSmall If we can visualize a better world, we can create it - and that's exactly what she did. We need more people like this in the world.
She is so knowldegable.
Thank you so much for taking the time to comment (and subscribe to the channel!). I loved visiting Grete and her story continues to inspire me as well!
Thank you for making an excellent video. Iam inspired alot.
So nice of you! So glad you're inspired, hoping to hear from you again!!