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In Europe, we have winters where you cannot grow anything, unless in a greenhouse (limited). What would his idea be to execute this idea in this climate? Vegetables can only. be grown in summer and needs to be saved (dried or preserved in a way) for winter. Very interested :)
I am in Europe, Croatia. Three years ago I went to the countryside and I have the same goal as you. As for winter, my garden is full even in winter. Cabbage, kale, leeks, scallions, let me have them in the winter, green salad (winter varieties..
Excellent informative and inspiring video. I would like to know specifically what measures he takes to safeguard his crops from predators such as bugs, birds or boar. My maize crop just got obliterated by some hungry critters literally yesterday. Does he use fencing, netting etc - footage would be very helpful. Also what equipment does he use for planting, harvesting and processing. Thanks 👍
Great discovery, thank you so much for sharing! Questions: How does he do and organize storage of the food? Whats the amount of space needed and what kind of containers? How does he process the food to prepare it for storage? How to get the oil? How exactly drying the courgette for example without it rotting or bugs eating it?
This is beyond special. I am currently working to be a subsistence farmer, not just for myself, but for 20-40 people. This is my goal in life, to grow everything in harmony with earth, to farm without using much plastic and to give back more than I take. Thank you for sharing.
It’s very rare that a video compels me enough to write a comment.. but this one changed everything for me! We live in Kalymnos - a very dry and arid island landscape in the Mediterranean. People here have grown grains for thousands of years, evidence of the many ancient ruins of terraces found all over the mountains. It’s crazy how much the people have lost touch with their roots, almost nobody grows grains anymore. We have 1000sqm filled with olive trees, it never occurred to me to actually grow wheat and beans! Big thankyou for this video and the man interviewed! I will be trying this method come winter time 🙏
@@annyclare5123 grains have gone out of fashion due to evidence-free fad diets like Paleo, but for the vast majority of people for no good reason whatsoever.
Intercrop them. Saw a vid of a man in India with a coconut farm, he intercropped it smaller fruit trees like avocados and spices like ginger and cardamom
Majority of women diagnosed with breast cancer have a so called hormone positive cancer. If you grow soy beans which contain hormone estrogen, you may end up with cancer. Beans are not suitable diet food for patients with intestinal problems. This guy has no clue about these two things I just mentioned and therefore he believes everybody can live like him. That's a false belief.
so cool to hear that, I have been to Kalymnos 2 times for climbing and I love the island and the people. The landscape is super dry, but I am sure you can grow beans and grains there between your trees. Just sow tousands of seeds and eventually some will sprout, they will adapt to your conditions and the next generation will be stronger and more resistent :)
Spent many years working and struggling with modern living .Now I'm retired and see so much I didn't before. I spent my days enjoying growing and harvesting what I can .We need this truth so badly today.Thank you
@@The_Gallowglass, If you weigh all animals in the world, 94% of the weight is famed animals, and only 6% is wild animals; in other words, hardly any wild animals are left. So now you want to hunt what's left of them and leave even less?
@@AlikPelmanlol dont be overdramatic. If you knew anything about hunting, youd realize that theres more than enough animals to hunt without hurting the ecosystem, it actually helps sustain the ecosystem. Obviously if people are hunting theyre not taking out a whole bunch of animals. 1 kill can essentially be enough to provide meat for a whole year for a whole family. Also fishing is always a great resource unless its done industrially. Hunting and fishing doesnt need to be done constantly if its done right and it also doesnt hurt the ecosystem. Plenty of animals are thriving on our lands and itll be even more once we start letting them live there with us together again. It happens alot quicker than you might realize
Can we take a moment and appreciate the fact that this conversation is reaching every corner of the globe !!! Thank you so much gratitude for sharing your journey to self sufficiently life ❤🙏
Incredibly well made mini-documentary. I loved every moment of it. Great job! Alik is such a charismatic, humble, and beautiful soul, I wish him all the best. He's the kind of person who inspires you to become a better man. Cheers and have a great day!
Very fascinating. In Mexico and most of the US, the traditional foods were called the 3 sisters corn, beans and squash. Corn oil is actually a recent invention. Seeds and seed oils were the traditional fat. The 3 sisters were and are still planted, in a technique known as companion planting, the maize and beans are often planted together in mounds formed by hilling soil around the base of the plants each year; squash is typically planted between the mounds. The cornstalk serves as a trellis for climbing beans, the beans fix nitrogen in their root nodules and stabilize the maize in high winds, and the wide leaves of the squash plant shade the ground, keeping the soil moist and helping prevent the establishment of weeds. Often sunflowers, sometimes called the 4th sister, were planted around the perimeter of the 3 sisters. These 4 crops offered long storing grain, protein and fat (the squash and sunflower seeds) plus the squash flesh is high in nutrients. In terms of sustainablity, this combination offers the most food per square meter, meets all macro nutrient needs, and are more drought and heat tolerant than similar planting combinations, making it one of the most promising food sources in a world that growing hotter and hotter.
I noticed he companion planted his fava beans and winter wheat. I accidentally companion planted winter wheat in beds where I grew my peas and beans by top dressing with straw from my chicken coop in the Fall in Oregon. By spring I had a wheat crop. Like he said, it is less effort then you would think to grow your own food.
@@do4699 I wonder if it would be better to replace the squash with sweet potatoes, which is more calorie and nutrient dense than squash and the leaves are also edible (but doesn't store as long). Maybe adding it to the mix would be a good idea.. Half squash, half sweet potato..?
@@jez-bird One consideration there is that at least in my area, the Midwest US, deer will reliably annihilate all sweet potatoes, while entirely ignoring squash. On that note, the deer will also chow down heavily on beans and corn, but not in my experience quite as voraciously as they go after any sweet potatoes I ever attempt to grow.
@@jez-bird Interplanting corn in a large bed of sweet potatoes helps provide the dappled shade that will help the vine do well. However, sweet potatoes are not as drought tolerant as the traditional 3 sisters. So this would only work in places with regular rainfall or irrigation. Native corns and squashes are often heartier and more drought-resistant than modern varieties. They do well even in the more arid regions of the US and Mexico that don't get enough rain for sweet potatos. It's best to choose seeds that are heirloom and open-pollinated for your Three Sisters Garden.
This is the way out of wage slavery and industrial capitalism. If you are not forced to work a soul crushing job just to live because you are self-sufficient, then you can really begin to live from love instead of fear, and offer something authentic and valuable to the world
It doesn't need to be that binary though. You could also work towards a stage in your life where you do what you like, not what is soul crushing. There's no need to do it out of fear, and you are free to choose a pursuit that offers value to the world. And you can still buy food from the shop because why not.
You have to be rich to live like this. If you can live like this then you can also enjoy capitalism to the fullest. Anyone that has to work a job to make ends meet has no chance to live in such a way.
Incredibly inspiring, and at the same time horrifying that most people in modern society have lost any sense of connection with the soil and where their food comes from. Thousands of years of watching, learning, growing lost in a hundred years... Which makes it so important that people like Alik are holding on to these traditions and sharing their experiences with others.
That's mostly down to the education system and media.. Common values like this are not taught anymore, what is taught is that we need to be dependent on the system 🤬
Thank you for this excellent documentary. I am 78 years of age, living about 35 kilometers North of Clil, by the coast, North of Nahariya, and I have two large, raised vegetable beds, with which I intended to grow all my food. My project failed because I did not know what I wanted/needed/required, and I did not know what I was doing. This video really helped me. I follow the Ayurveda Dietary Lifestyle as a quasi vegan, and intuitively after two years, I began to move towards growing mung beans, and lentils. The mung beans are moderately successful, while the lentils failed. I have really good soil, with home made compost, and yet, my plants start off well, then they deteriorate. However, I am open to learn, and any help/information you may have is welcome. Thank you again. I have subscribed. Currently, I am also growing okra, sweet potatoes and Chard/Mangold, basilicum and cucumbers. I know many more of us can do what Alik does, and I value his inspiration, and the presentation by the host, Eco No-Mads.
It's beautiful to hear, Tony. I think chickpeas or fava beans might work better than mung beans, since they have been grown there for generations, as Alik said. It's interesting to see other people try out different variations of the model to see what works and where. Best of luck with all your endeavours! I would love to hear further updates from you🙏🌱🪇🌳
I love chickpeas and fava/fool beans, but they do not like me. I follow the Ayurveda Dietary Lifestyle, and learned that I am a Vata constitution which means that I do not digest such beans/legumes very well. However, there are a few recipes that include various spices that help me digest the chickpeas, but not to eat them so often, otherwise I get constipated. The same applies to fava/fool beans, which seem to be really difficult for me to digest. However, I can digest mung beans, black lentils, and yellow lentils very well, and after trial and error, I have discovered what works for me. The biggest lesson is that different people with different constitutions do better with different foods. There is much to learn, and yet, a simple diet is really good for me. When I buy humus, I get 1/3 humus/chick pea/humus, and 2/3 tahina, which really helps me to digest it. While I am learning from you, I also know that as individual beings, we have distinct digestive constitutions, and the only dietary lifestyle that provides this information is Ayurveda. Once I knew my constitution/dosha, I knew what and what not to eat, and how to cook it. I would love to visit you in Clil and discuss all this, and learn more from you, especially about growing my own food, which I am struggling with at the moment. With best wishes to you. Thank you.
@@Eco-No-Mads My reply seems to have disappeared, so, here is my second attempt. I love fava/fool beans and chickpeas, but I have difficulty in digesting them, as I am a Vata constitution, according to the Ayurveda Dietary Lifestyle. I can digest mung beans, black & yellow lentils. As a Vata constitution I am prone to constipation if I do not eat that food that suits my digestive constitution. However, my main issue is that I am struggling to grow my food, and I would love to visit you in Clil to learn more. It is also possible that growing food in these summer months is not the best time, and like you, grow the food in the rainy season and then store the dried food. With best wishes, and thank you.
@@jez-bird That is a good idea. Sprouts are not the best food for a Vata, but I can add some spices that will help mitigate the adverse effects. I know sprouts have more protein, and so I will sprout some chickpeas. I have already sprouted mung beans, and that seems to work out well enough, especially when I cook them on low heat. Thank you for your feedback. It all helps.
His concept of calculating what he needs to eat in a day, multiplied out to a year, and then planted accordingly is actually how I plant my gardens as well. It’s not just a guess. Though sometimes some things do better than others. I have never tried growing a grain/cereal though. I’d be curious to know how he processes the grain.
I live across the Hudson river from New York City. I have a stone grain mill in my kitchen the size of a juicer and can grind any grains. It is big enough for a family.
Hey @zachflynn6195, glad to hear you're applying a similar strategy. Grain processing: I harvest with a sickle (0.5 days wheat + 1 day fava), then thresh and winnow using a small threshing machine powered by a small petrol engine (imported from China). I store the whole grain as is in a barrel. Milling only prior to baking (once a week, for the coming week). This way, the grain stays is more resilient. Good luck!
@@AlikPelmanattach a 2 feet rod to drill machine and attach 2 chains to rod keep your wheat berries in bucket I seen a guy processing wheat such ways just follow safety measures
This was an eye opening documentary. Well produced, almost touching in its serene but to the point, description of a man and his idea and willingness to try. Well done.
loved this vlog and Alik. He's not alone. Weve been growing 95% or more of our food for 5 years now. We are planting grains this year as wheat flour is the one thing we havent produced. I was motivated by his comments although we do produce corn flour. I agree with him about the time he spends in his garden. Once we had installed the infrastructure the actual time spent maintaining our gardens would be approx 1 full day a month. However harvesting and processing does take longer, but thats so much fun I look forward to it. all the best from NZ
The garden takes about a month to set up, then I don't usually have to do anything to it but watch for pests. I go out everyday to see my plants as they are my constant companions.
As a kiwi I'm curious what you find that works to do 95% of your food, and how big a space does it take? I've tried veges and perennials and have been bashing away at it for a while.. 😂
Have you grown any kind of grains in NZ yet? We live in Northland bush and by far the biggest issue for food growing is the damp, regular rain and clay soil. Most things need to be grown in raised beds, and ideally undercover to control watering. If following this method of grain, protein (pulses) and oil - perhaps in NZ we could replace the grain with potatoes and kumara...maybe rice in the wet.
I really enjoyed this documentary especially Alik's sense of humor, and his ability to explain things in an easy, digestible way, as well as his commitment to living a life in alignment with his beliefs, values, and worldviews. I hope more abundance of all kinds and opportunities will come Alik's way :-)
That is how my grandma lived in the 80s,now we have a lot of wheat flour,sugar,oil from the mkt and rice,but we can survive on our staple...maize,sorghum,millet,cassava,for oil she used to get from cows milk,and free range chickens ...but we still grow food on the model he has explained....Great!
Thank you so much for this documentary. I share his sentiments about permaculture farms not growing enough of their own food. This man is truly off grid. Respect.
Alik is a very cool and probably the best human being out there. He's so chilled and intelligent, represent the best of human kind. Thank you for showing these lovely people.
This is one of best videos i have ever watched on Self-sufficiency. Please, keep making videos on self sufficiency. Can you also make videos on different recipes from Alik? It will help is understand more on how to turn harvests into meals.
Acknowledging what he achieved, he could add 2-3 chickens to the setup that would 'forage' for themselves so would cost practically nothing and the eggs would help tremendously with the protein/fat situation, not to mention he could eat chicken once in a while. Eggs would also virtually double the number of recipes available. He talks about tradition, well, it was traditional to keep animals around the house, and if you do it right they get by on grass, 'waste material' like plant stalks, or they might even help with pest control like chicken eating bugs, so you don't need to grow their food separately.
Thank you for this video!!! I am a new gardener, and I have had more failures than successes. Mostly due to time constraints. This makes perfect sense to focus on what grows without tending to it daily, along with what we actually need for survival and for the survival of our home. Great video!!!
What a lovely and informative video. Special thanks to Alik for pointing out the inefficiencies of animal agriculture - reaching your nutritional needs directly from the source is much kinder to the planet and to the animals. Peace and love from the USA.
And the visual education with the 3 jars was simply brilliant - as he said "it's not rocket science" - this information helps everyone with their basic needs.
@@SharonMcauley-h1w yes! It puts it into a perspective that anyone can understand. Like so many things we need, the people at the top make it seem impossible to regular folks.
When I was in my early 30's, 1984, I sat down to some meals that I made of sausages, bread, and maybe other things. Now I'm interested in growing everything. He explains it simply and well.
Thank you so much for English subtitles! I also appreciate the fact that you speak slowly. English is not my native language and you really made my life easier
Thank you for the video. Lovely to see Alik growing his food. I am also an alumni of Technion. I did my postdoc there from 2017 to 2019 and loved it in Israel. I got to make many friends in Israel and still in contact with many of them. Bless you all and take care!
Very inspiring. Remember everyone that every different place will be unique and so not everyone's best self sufficient lifestyle will look the same. This person has worked out what's best for them in their land, it won't necessarily fit you, but you can do what he did and work it out. Just to mention though...we don't have wild sheep in Wales 😄 they are all farmed. They do graze the fields, a lot of which isn't suitable for crop growing anyway. But they require vets and shelter in extreme weather etc, they do not look after themselfs.
Inspirational! ... I grow alot of my own vegetables but only have about 100m2 so have to supplement with store bought (mainly proteins) Using a freezer to store summer excess. I also store the winter rains in a 12,000 litre catchment system so I can freely irrigate in the summer. I think I might start dedicating 2 garden beds to grains(corn) and beans (runner beans) and swap them over each year. I am in a Urban location, Zone 8 in the UK
I loved your video. Having been into farming since 40 years, I completely understood your three crop formula. I myself never tried to grow veggies except as a side crop, mainly because it involves more work and is has low shelf life. I also loved the way you said each is different and one needs to learn how it should be grown. It is like each child is different and needs an understanding mother who will treat each child somewhat differently. And i also like the fact that you don't bother to do too much and allow the nature to take care of itself. They are older than us and they know how survive- sometimes well, sometimes not so well. Some years Absurdly Abundant, some years (tearfully for us ) lean and poor. And each season, each crop is always a surprise. It is this sense of suspense that keeps the farmer going and hoping- it is a gambling game we play with nature!
My wife is Asian and she include cabbage to make kimchi is vital. Where we live you have to deal with winter. Cabbage fermented as kimchi or kraut works well. Fava or broad beans as we call them do well here.
@@keekeemyfirstcat8410 do not salt the carrots, radish, and other vegetables that go in the seasoning mix for the salted cabbage. By volume, you're at maybe 2 parts salted and rinsed cabbage, 1 part seasoning by weight. The salt moves away from the cabbage through osmosis, so the unsalted vegetables help. Same reason why, if a soup or stew is too salty, adding a potato will help draw the salt out of the dish, as the potato absorbs it. I'm not Korean, but my kimchi is little old Korean grandma approved when I had a chance to share my kimchi with someone from Korea.
Very enlightening. After thousands of years lived, the answers still remains simple. We can do much better today with everything in Nature. Thanks for sharing.
I love this method. I also grow many things but on my balcony in the North (Tzfat). I have many mulberry trees, and a few apple trees available for free is he is interested. They are two years old and are ready for transplanting in the fall. I didn't realize that they would all take when I first planted them and now they are taking over my balcony. 😂
Amazing and very inspirational video, thank you! Here in Hungary we have a guy with a method that needs 3-4 hours a week to grow enough food for his 4 member family. We need to spread the word, that we already have ALL the technology needed for a much happier and eco-friendly life. Our group is collecting all these technologies and integrates them into a whole system. Simply can't wait when the majority of people living like this.... :)
Thank you so much for this documentary. I grow some of my food but eventually want to be self sufficient. This man has certainly given me food for thought 👏👏👏 change my thinking... I am 66 years young and am growing some of my food for the last 5 year's each year I learn more and more... No dig gardening and I compost my raw food and garden waste and make compost tea also. I collect 3 barrels of rain water which I use in my pollytunnel, but I want to filter the rain water with everything that in our skies 🙈🙈 I grow fruit and vegetables. I have a water filter in my home for drinking and cooking. Thank you, thank you, thank you 🙏🙏🙏🤞🤞🤞 👍😉🇨🇮☘️Eire
@@Eco-No-Mads The guy was right when he said vegetables wont help you survive--it is not enough. For apes, cows, ruminants it is a full time job every single day just to eat enough vegetation to live.
Best documentary I've watched in a while. Alik is amazing. I've never heard anyone break down feeding yourself into such simple terms. I thought it especially interesting that Fava beans put nitrogen into the soil. I subscribed after watching this. Thank you for making it.
This was very informative and inspiring! I also appreciate how active Alik is in the comments; the discussions add so much more! So many people just put videos out and don't take time to respond to questions so that's nice to see. I did the math a couple of years ago as well, out of curiosity to see how much land I would need to feed my family. I'm slowly building up what I grow on the space that I have. This definitely encourages me to keep going, so thank you!
It is people like this that give me hope that as a person with neurological issues and fatigue, I will be able to have my dream of a slow pace life with a huge garden that is my haven.
מקסים אתה :) כמה אינטלגנט ופשוט וצנוע . אם כולם היו חיים כמוך באמת היינו חיים בגן עדן עלי אדמות . רק עם דבר אחד לא הסכמתי איתך זה לגבי מקומות בעולם שבהם חייבים לאכול חיות כמו אלסקה. אם הבנאדם חי במקום שלא גודל בו כלום סימן שהמקום אינו ראוי למגורי אדם וצריך להשאר בתולי .
In India traditionally we can live without eating meat many communities living healthy without meat and we have all types of climate here like deserts to cold deserts and like tropical and rainforest yet we eat most diverse food on earth we can grow 25+ culinary herbs and 25+ spices in ancient time many farmers used to make salt from specific trees if they don't have sea nearby We also have soap nuts to make shampoo and detergent
Truly amazing Video. I live in central Mexico and am trying to learn to be self sufficient on the smallest piece of land I can. I really appreciate this video. Please keep this type of content coming!! This is how you can really help people and save lives.
My grandparents had 1000m2 just outside the city and we only went there on weekends and vacation and not even all the time. There were enough fruits for three families, enough tomatoes, vegetables. We had enough for the winter, my grandparents would make jars. I guess that was the most work intensive job.
Absolutely wonderful ❤ We in England grow our veg, beans, no cereal, we are very dependent on the climate, we have to store for the winter and are by no means self sufficient , my husband is 73 now and I am 68, no soring chickens but we do what we can. We have been to Israel and you have a very good climate for growing, you akso have many people who are willing to try. Well done for what you are doing.....very productive and satisfying.
Great! Very inspiring. What I have learned is that we don't need much protein (we can find it in most plants) and no free oil ( only from whole foods as well -olives, avocados,nuts,seeds)
Love this! Such a brilliantly simple formula for self-sufficiency, breaking it down to our 'actual needs' - not seen this before and it's a real eye opener to how do-able 100% really is! Thank you for sharing this is inspiring and fills me with hope. Much love from NZ x
Very interesting and helpful, we have also small piece of land here in the UK which we are renting from the council, it’s about 800 m wide and the amount of vegetables that we grow are more than enough to feed us, most of the time we give it away cos it’s too much for us. These ideas of yours made me think of preserving the vegetables we are harvesting, thanks a lot. I support you
I am doing the same thing in New Mexico u.s.a., on a high desert mesa connected to mountains on one side, plains on the other. I was lucky enough as a child, to live with my family for four years on a small farm in a mountain village near Taos, N.M. The local farmers taught us their traditional ways of farming, building, cooking and preserving food. they had irrigation from mountain streams, orchards, livestock, [pigs, chickens, and a goat or cow for dairy] they grew alfalfa for horses, and ate mostly Elk, Venison, and trout for meat. Beans, chiles, squash, were the pillars of the diet. aside from store bought oil, they cooked mostly with lard. For now I am getting and preserving food from the farmers market, and foraging, and buying buffalo and game meat until I finish building the garden. Eventually I will also include chickens and hunting equipment, and along with my water catchment tanks, solar and vertical wind power, I will have the option to be completely self-sufficient. This is the last thing that the slave masters want, in a world that needs to keep you plugged into the matrix, being self sufficient, self educated, and self motivated, is an act of revolution.
thank you so much! I will totally reconsider my use of lands for crops, specially for legums! and will try to sow some wheat. I live in Patagonia, Argentina. Cheers to you all! Lets keep spreading the word, there are other futures possible than the one they are trying to sell us.
Wow that’s my dream! I added three more fruit trees (pomegranate trees) to my ever growing little food forest this year! Two apple trees! Next year I will added 1-2 more fruit trees 🥰! I grow all of our vegetables, some fruits and and spices! Congratulations to him! That’s very inspiring! I wish more people can adopt this lifestyle! Great job 🥰
This was so amazing to watch! Thank you so much for sharing with us. There is a Grow Biointensive (GBI) way of growing that is similar -based on similar numbers - which also makes sense-Alik is growing the way nature intended in his area - it is brilliant! So many can be fed in a more sustainable way using this/these methods....and less work which I look forward to some day :) I try to grow this way but am just beginning. The only suggestion I would propose is making the music much softer (or not at all) in the next video. Such wonderful information Alik is sharing with us! thank you so much!
Excellent video. I saw a video once done by the Dutch university RUclips channel. Saying that 60 % of our country is farmland. Even though there is a housing shortage. A lot of farmers don’t want to change. I hope they will think differently soon.
Awesome documentary. . I have a food forest on the USA-Canada border in which things grow so much slower. I grow grains with my hazelnuts and chestnuts just coming into production for calories and oils. This is one of the best sustainable documentaries Ive seen. Thank you.
Excellent, inspiring and absolutely useful video. I envy Alik his climate as I live in Canada, but we can do this too, just in a different way, based on our conditions.
Wow I am impressed by his gentle and easy spirit. The growing of the wheat on a slope and then the beans, and showing us just how much is needed to make the loaf of bread. In KY I have steep fall down and break your leg hillsides. Suitable only for trees and grass or some berry bushes. So you use native plants. I garden on the hill tops and yes there are some flat areas. I am surprised that he does not have some chickens or rabbits and no milk goat??? Weeds where are the weeds? Teasing sort of.
People who live near perennial rivers also rely on protein from fish. This garden would be hard to cultivate in an area with little rainfall. Good for him though. I wish I could do this. I have a small vegetable garden, which i am expanding. I water the plants twice a week. I use cow dung as compost.
I love that there’s this impression that it’s so small an area. He’s on a bit more than .185 acres and my house is .21 acres total. I have 250 sq foot (23 sq meters of) raised bed gardens on it. Now I garden 3 harvests a year (all 4 seasons) am getting into inside container gardening, and hydroponics, however, I don’t think I can even get close. Just very interesting is all….
@user-wj9jm1ox8i You won't have to give up meat if you include chickens. They are very beneficial to farmers from eggs, to soil conditioning, to fertiliser and very low maintenance. Despite Alik's negative mention of permaculture, it still teaches you an abundance of practical solutions from using and capturing nature's free energy, to multiple methods of producing mulch and compost and all organically. Cheers and good luck with your sustainable future 😊😊😊
Give it a try for a week. It’s not as hard as you’d think. And Beyond makes these brats that are amazing! Meat-eating friends have enjoyed them. They crisp up on the outside while staying juicy inside.. yum!
It's actually not a good idea. After years of being vegan, your teeth will start to break, you will lack serious energy. There are nutrients from meat essential to body function, not bioavailable from plants.
Just on the introduction, I subscribed! ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ How did we get so disconnected with nature and forget how much we need it more than it needs us?
I'm doing close to the same here in the USA, TN. I have about 1/4 acre in a small town. I do woodworking to pay for other utilities, home improvements and other bills. The Simple way of living is still possible.
I'm working on this as an economically scalable RepRap decentralized thing in rural Vancouver Canada. 49 North. We need meat and/or solarpunk tech, but still, I'm hyped to see this! Fixing it globally without force of global governance is key to my life's work. I'm thrilled to see the fertile crescent still gifts the abundance which bore us! Though thankful I get to eat beef and butter this much further north.
The music in the background has made it possible to have to watch this in 3x... I can't get through it without falling asleep and I'm interested in everything he has to say!
Πάντα με γοητεύει αυτός ο τρόπος ζωής, ζω σε ένα χωριό στην βόρεια Ελλάδα και για 4-5 μήνες τον χρόνο σχεδόν δεν αγοράζουμε φρούτα ή λαχανικά, τα καλλιεργούμε μόνοι μας. Επίσης έχουμε το δικό μας ελαιόλαδο αλλά αυτό που είπες ότι δουλεύεις στον κήπο μόνο 1 μέρα τον μήνα μου φαίνεται παράξενο, απο την πείρα μου ξέρω πως πρέπει να δουλέψεις τουλάχιστον 1 ώρα την ημέρα είτε για πότισμα, είτε για να βγάλεις τα άγρια χόρτα που φυτρώνουν παντού, είτε να τα ραντίσεις για έντομα και αρρώστιες. Θέλει αρκετή δουλειά αλλά το αίσθημα ότι το δημιούργησες μόνος σου είναι αξεπέραστο, καλή συνέχεια σε ότι κάνεις, απλά ο κόσμος πρέπει να μάθει ότι γίνεται και να μην φοβούνται να το κάνουν και άλλοι!!!
@@100Noddy Hi there, actually I meant 8 hours a month, not 24. It is corrected in the description. I've detailed the breakdown of the annual working hours in a couple of my replies to comments here.
Awesome video, I can't wait for the follow-up. I only have a small garden If I get food out of it, it's a bonus, but it's mostly a hobby for my mental health right now. I do love the fresh peas I get. I've made some pickles and salsa so far. I have potatoes and carrots to dig up. I recently made stew with our vegetables and the beef I get from my Dad, who lives within walking distance so very local. I have chickens for eggs as well. It's such a satisfying way of living. It's sad to see farm land turn into subdivisions and produce grown in such a way that it doesn't even taste as good, it's just grown to travel well. Thank you for sharing this video.
By the way, being in a similar climate and with a similar rainfall, I was wondering what the calculation would be for starches as potato or sweet potato. Then, having free range chicken and ducks can be useful. I have experience with ducks and they mostly eat slugs, so no need to worry a lot
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In Europe, we have winters where you cannot grow anything, unless in a greenhouse (limited). What would his idea be to execute this idea in this climate? Vegetables can only. be grown in summer and needs to be saved (dried or preserved in a way) for winter. Very interested :)
I am in Europe, Croatia. Three years ago I went to the countryside and I have the same goal as you. As for winter, my garden is full even in winter. Cabbage, kale, leeks, scallions, let me have them in the winter, green salad (winter varieties..
Excellent informative and inspiring video. I would like to know specifically what measures he takes to safeguard his crops from predators such as bugs, birds or boar. My maize crop just got obliterated by some hungry critters literally yesterday. Does he use fencing, netting etc - footage would be very helpful. Also what equipment does he use for planting, harvesting and processing. Thanks 👍
Great discovery, thank you so much for sharing!
Questions: How does he do and organize storage of the food? Whats the amount of space needed and what kind of containers?
How does he process the food to prepare it for storage?
How to get the oil?
How exactly drying the courgette for example without it rotting or bugs eating it?
How much time per month is used to process the wheat ,beans, and oil and vegetables to get them cooking ready?
This is beyond special. I am currently working to be a subsistence farmer, not just for myself, but for 20-40 people. This is my goal in life, to grow everything in harmony with earth, to farm without using much plastic and to give back more than I take. Thank you for sharing.
Sounds amazing. Good luck!
I’m sending love and high vibes to support you my friend
It’s very rare that a video compels me enough to write a comment.. but this one changed everything for me!
We live in Kalymnos - a very dry and arid island landscape in the Mediterranean. People here have grown grains for thousands of years, evidence of the many ancient ruins of terraces found all over the mountains. It’s crazy how much the people have lost touch with their roots, almost nobody grows grains anymore. We have 1000sqm filled with olive trees, it never occurred to me to actually grow wheat and beans! Big thankyou for this video and the man interviewed! I will be trying this method come winter time 🙏
@@annyclare5123 grains have gone out of fashion due to evidence-free fad diets like Paleo, but for the vast majority of people for no good reason whatsoever.
Intercrop them. Saw a vid of a man in India with a coconut farm, he intercropped it smaller fruit trees like avocados and spices like ginger and cardamom
Majority of women diagnosed with breast cancer have a so called hormone positive cancer. If you grow soy beans which contain hormone estrogen, you may end up with cancer.
Beans are not suitable diet food for patients with intestinal problems. This guy has no clue about these two things I just mentioned and therefore he believes everybody can live like him. That's a false belief.
@@jez-bird grains have gone out of fasion as they are no longer what they were and they make people sick. GMO and roundup.
so cool to hear that, I have been to Kalymnos 2 times for climbing and I love the island and the people. The landscape is super dry, but I am sure you can grow beans and grains there between your trees. Just sow tousands of seeds and eventually some will sprout, they will adapt to your conditions and the next generation will be stronger and more resistent :)
Two gentle gentleman. Well spoken, full of inspiration. Thank you.
Spent many years working and struggling with modern living .Now I'm retired and see so much I didn't before. I spent my days enjoying growing and harvesting what I can .We need this truth so badly today.Thank you
Nice to look at the birds, the wind's affect on plants and the sounds of a quiet day.
People forget they can also hunt and fish. :) Both are fun and good exercise and good clean food.
@@The_Gallowglass, If you weigh all animals in the world, 94% of the weight is famed animals, and only 6% is wild animals; in other words, hardly any wild animals are left. So now you want to hunt what's left of them and leave even less?
@@AlikPelmanlol dont be overdramatic. If you knew anything about hunting, youd realize that theres more than enough animals to hunt without hurting the ecosystem, it actually helps sustain the ecosystem. Obviously if people are hunting theyre not taking out a whole bunch of animals. 1 kill can essentially be enough to provide meat for a whole year for a whole family. Also fishing is always a great resource unless its done industrially. Hunting and fishing doesnt need to be done constantly if its done right and it also doesnt hurt the ecosystem. Plenty of animals are thriving on our lands and itll be even more once we start letting them live there with us together again. It happens alot quicker than you might realize
Can we take a moment and appreciate the fact that this conversation is reaching every corner of the globe !!! Thank you so much gratitude for sharing your journey to self sufficiently life ❤🙏
Thank you Tim Berners-Lee
Congratulations to this man on accomplishing 100% homegrown.
Incredibly well made mini-documentary. I loved every moment of it.
Great job! Alik is such a charismatic, humble, and beautiful soul, I wish him all the best.
He's the kind of person who inspires you to become a better man.
Cheers and have a great day!
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"He's the kind of person who inspires you to become a better man." Legend!
Very fascinating. In Mexico and most of the US, the traditional foods were called the 3 sisters corn, beans and squash. Corn oil is actually a recent invention. Seeds and seed oils were the traditional fat.
The 3 sisters were and are still planted, in a technique known as companion planting, the maize and beans are often planted together in mounds formed by hilling soil around the base of the plants each year; squash is typically planted between the mounds. The cornstalk serves as a trellis for climbing beans, the beans fix nitrogen in their root nodules and stabilize the maize in high winds, and the wide leaves of the squash plant shade the ground, keeping the soil moist and helping prevent the establishment of weeds. Often sunflowers, sometimes called the 4th sister, were planted around the perimeter of the 3 sisters. These 4 crops offered long storing grain, protein and fat (the squash and sunflower seeds) plus the squash flesh is high in nutrients.
In terms of sustainablity, this combination offers the most food per square meter, meets all macro nutrient needs, and are more drought and heat tolerant than similar planting combinations, making it one of the most promising food sources in a world that growing hotter and hotter.
I noticed he companion planted his fava beans and winter wheat. I accidentally companion planted winter wheat in beds where I grew my peas and beans by top dressing with straw from my chicken coop in the Fall in Oregon. By spring I had a wheat crop. Like he said, it is less effort then you would think to grow your own food.
@@do4699 I wonder if it would be better to replace the squash with sweet potatoes, which is more calorie and nutrient dense than squash and the leaves are also edible (but doesn't store as long). Maybe adding it to the mix would be a good idea.. Half squash, half sweet potato..?
Squash leaves are edible as well @@jez-bird
@@jez-bird One consideration there is that at least in my area, the Midwest US, deer will reliably annihilate all sweet potatoes, while entirely ignoring squash.
On that note, the deer will also chow down heavily on beans and corn, but not in my experience quite as voraciously as they go after any sweet potatoes I ever attempt to grow.
@@jez-bird Interplanting corn in a large bed of sweet potatoes helps provide the dappled shade that will help the vine do well. However, sweet potatoes are not as drought tolerant as the traditional 3 sisters. So this would only work in places with regular rainfall or irrigation.
Native corns and squashes are often heartier and more drought-resistant than modern varieties. They do well even in the more arid regions of the US and Mexico that don't get enough rain for sweet potatos. It's best to choose seeds that are heirloom and open-pollinated for your Three Sisters Garden.
This is the way out of wage slavery and industrial capitalism. If you are not forced to work a soul crushing job just to live because you are self-sufficient, then you can really begin to live from love instead of fear, and offer something authentic and valuable to the world
Love your comment
Wow, Yes Yes Yes
It doesn't need to be that binary though. You could also work towards a stage in your life where you do what you like, not what is soul crushing. There's no need to do it out of fear, and you are free to choose a pursuit that offers value to the world. And you can still buy food from the shop because why not.
You have to be rich to live like this. If you can live like this then you can also enjoy capitalism to the fullest. Anyone that has to work a job to make ends meet has no chance to live in such a way.
@@Olixer109 I have to work in a job to make ends meet. I live that way.
Incredibly inspiring, and at the same time horrifying that most people in modern society have lost any sense of connection with the soil and where their food comes from. Thousands of years of watching, learning, growing lost in a hundred years... Which makes it so important that people like Alik are holding on to these traditions and sharing their experiences with others.
That's mostly down to the education system and media.. Common values like this are not taught anymore, what is taught is that we need to be dependent on the system 🤬
Thank you for this excellent documentary. I am 78 years of age, living about 35 kilometers North of Clil, by the coast, North of Nahariya, and I have two large, raised vegetable beds, with which I intended to grow all my food. My project failed because I did not know what I wanted/needed/required, and I did not know what I was doing. This video really helped me. I follow the Ayurveda Dietary Lifestyle as a quasi vegan, and intuitively after two years, I began to move towards growing mung beans, and lentils. The mung beans are moderately successful, while the lentils failed. I have really good soil, with home made compost, and yet, my plants start off well, then they deteriorate. However, I am open to learn, and any help/information you may have is welcome. Thank you again. I have subscribed. Currently, I am also growing okra, sweet potatoes and Chard/Mangold, basilicum and cucumbers. I know many more of us can do what Alik does, and I value his inspiration, and the presentation by the host, Eco No-Mads.
It's beautiful to hear, Tony. I think chickpeas or fava beans might work better than mung beans, since they have been grown there for generations, as Alik said.
It's interesting to see other people try out different variations of the model to see what works and where.
Best of luck with all your endeavours! I would love to hear further updates from you🙏🌱🪇🌳
I love chickpeas and fava/fool beans, but they do not like me. I follow the Ayurveda Dietary Lifestyle, and learned that I am a Vata constitution which means that I do not digest such beans/legumes very well. However, there are a few recipes that include various spices that help me digest the chickpeas, but not to eat them so often, otherwise I get constipated. The same applies to fava/fool beans, which seem to be really difficult for me to digest. However, I can digest mung beans, black lentils, and yellow lentils very well, and after trial and error, I have discovered what works for me. The biggest lesson is that different people with different constitutions do better with different foods. There is much to learn, and yet, a simple diet is really good for me. When I buy humus, I get 1/3 humus/chick pea/humus, and 2/3 tahina, which really helps me to digest it. While I am learning from you, I also know that as individual beings, we have distinct digestive constitutions, and the only dietary lifestyle that provides this information is Ayurveda. Once I knew my constitution/dosha, I knew what and what not to eat, and how to cook it. I would love to visit you in Clil and discuss all this, and learn more from you, especially about growing my own food, which I am struggling with at the moment. With best wishes to you. Thank you.
@@Eco-No-Mads My reply seems to have disappeared, so, here is my second attempt. I love fava/fool beans and chickpeas, but I have difficulty in digesting them, as I am a Vata constitution, according to the Ayurveda Dietary Lifestyle. I can digest mung beans, black & yellow lentils. As a Vata constitution I am prone to constipation if I do not eat that food that suits my digestive constitution. However, my main issue is that I am struggling to grow my food, and I would love to visit you in Clil to learn more. It is also possible that growing food in these summer months is not the best time, and like you, grow the food in the rainy season and then store the dried food. With best wishes, and thank you.
@@8728Tony have you tried sprouting the chickpeas first before cooking them well?
@@jez-bird That is a good idea. Sprouts are not the best food for a Vata, but I can add some spices that will help mitigate the adverse effects. I know sprouts have more protein, and so I will sprout some chickpeas. I have already sprouted mung beans, and that seems to work out well enough, especially when I cook them on low heat. Thank you for your feedback. It all helps.
His concept of calculating what he needs to eat in a day, multiplied out to a year, and then planted accordingly is actually how I plant my gardens as well. It’s not just a guess. Though sometimes some things do better than others.
I have never tried growing a grain/cereal though. I’d be curious to know how he processes the grain.
I live across the Hudson river from New York City. I have a stone grain mill in my kitchen the size of a juicer and can grind any grains. It is big enough for a family.
Hey @zachflynn6195, glad to hear you're applying a similar strategy.
Grain processing: I harvest with a sickle (0.5 days wheat + 1 day fava), then thresh and winnow using a small threshing machine powered by a small petrol engine (imported from China). I store the whole grain as is in a barrel. Milling only prior to baking (once a week, for the coming week). This way, the grain stays is more resilient. Good luck!
Just google your questions you would have hundreds of videos..
@@AlikPelmanattach a 2 feet rod to drill machine and attach 2 chains to rod keep your wheat berries in bucket I seen a guy processing wheat such ways just follow safety measures
My blender will pulverize grains to flour as long as I have electricity. If I don't, I'll be pounding the grains with a rounded rock.
This was an eye opening documentary. Well produced, almost touching in its serene but to the point, description of a man and his idea and willingness to try. Well done.
Glad you enjoyed
loved this vlog and Alik. He's not alone. Weve been growing 95% or more of our food for 5 years now. We are planting grains this year as wheat flour is the one thing we havent produced. I was motivated by his comments although we do produce corn flour. I agree with him about the time he spends in his garden. Once we had installed the infrastructure the actual time spent maintaining our gardens would be approx 1 full day a month. However harvesting and processing does take longer, but thats so much fun I look forward to it. all the best from NZ
Such a pleasure to see other people doing it! Best of luck
The garden takes about a month to set up, then I don't usually have to do anything to it but watch for pests. I go out everyday to see my plants as they are my constant companions.
As a kiwi I'm curious what you find that works to do 95% of your food, and how big a space does it take?
I've tried veges and perennials and have been bashing away at it for a while.. 😂
@@start_where_you_are_nz Hi there, Im not sure who you are aiming your question at...... me or keekeemyfirstcat8410
Have you grown any kind of grains in NZ yet? We live in Northland bush and by far the biggest issue for food growing is the damp, regular rain and clay soil. Most things need to be grown in raised beds, and ideally undercover to control watering. If following this method of grain, protein (pulses) and oil - perhaps in NZ we could replace the grain with potatoes and kumara...maybe rice in the wet.
Love the parting message: Be the change you want to see in the world. These are the seeds for the way next generation will live 🙏
Mahatma Gandhi
"These are the seeds for the way the next generation will live". Very poignant comment 😊.
could be a way for this generation as well
Quote by Gandhiji 🙏🏼🙏🏼
I didn’t realize the Fava bean was so valuable.
I really enjoyed this documentary especially Alik's sense of humor, and his ability to explain things in an easy, digestible way, as well as his commitment to living a life in alignment with his beliefs, values, and worldviews. I hope more abundance of all kinds and opportunities will come Alik's way :-)
Glad you enjoyed it!
That is how my grandma lived in the 80s,now we have a lot of wheat flour,sugar,oil from the mkt and rice,but we can survive on our staple...maize,sorghum,millet,cassava,for oil she used to get from cows milk,and free range chickens ...but we still grow food on the model he has explained....Great!
Thank you so much for this documentary. I share his sentiments about permaculture farms not growing enough of their own food. This man is truly off grid. Respect.
Alik made an awesome job. Narrating his experience in the most charming, convincing manner. Thank you.
Alik is a very cool and probably the best human being out there. He's so chilled and intelligent, represent the best of human kind.
Thank you for showing these lovely people.
This is one of best videos i have ever watched on Self-sufficiency. Please, keep making videos on self sufficiency.
Can you also make videos on different recipes from Alik? It will help is understand more on how to turn harvests into meals.
Great suggestion! There are a few videos in Alik's channel which is linked in the description
Thanks
Acknowledging what he achieved, he could add 2-3 chickens to the setup that would 'forage' for themselves so would cost practically nothing and the eggs would help tremendously with the protein/fat situation, not to mention he could eat chicken once in a while. Eggs would also virtually double the number of recipes available.
He talks about tradition, well, it was traditional to keep animals around the house, and if you do it right they get by on grass, 'waste material' like plant stalks, or they might even help with pest control like chicken eating bugs, so you don't need to grow their food separately.
Thank you for this video!!! I am a new gardener, and I have had more failures than successes. Mostly due to time constraints. This makes perfect sense to focus on what grows without tending to it daily, along with what we actually need for survival and for the survival of our home.
Great video!!!
What a beautiful person! I admire you SO much! Happy you guys build this beautiful life ❤
Thank you. Prayers for your safety in these dark times. Love from Australia
What a lovely and informative video. Special thanks to Alik for pointing out the inefficiencies of animal agriculture - reaching your nutritional needs directly from the source is much kinder to the planet and to the animals. Peace and love from the USA.
That guy is awesome! I love how he breaks it down into how simple it actually is. Anyone can grow food with a little know how.
Thank you for sharing 🙏
And the visual education with the 3 jars was simply brilliant - as he said "it's not rocket science" - this information helps everyone with their basic needs.
@@SharonMcauley-h1w yes! It puts it into a perspective that anyone can understand. Like so many things we need, the people at the top make it seem impossible to regular folks.
When I was in my early 30's, 1984, I sat down to some meals that I made of sausages, bread, and maybe other things. Now I'm interested in growing everything. He explains it simply and well.
Thank you so much for English subtitles! I also appreciate the fact that you speak slowly. English is not my native language and you really made my life easier
Thank you soo much. You have inspired me and now I have a starting point for my 2 hectare plot in Nyanga, Zimbabwe Zimbabwe
Best of luck 🍀
Thank you for the video. Lovely to see Alik growing his food. I am also an alumni of Technion. I did my postdoc there from 2017 to 2019 and loved it in Israel. I got to make many friends in Israel and still in contact with many of them. Bless you all and take care!
Very inspiring. Remember everyone that every different place will be unique and so not everyone's best self sufficient lifestyle will look the same. This person has worked out what's best for them in their land, it won't necessarily fit you, but you can do what he did and work it out. Just to mention though...we don't have wild sheep in Wales 😄 they are all farmed. They do graze the fields, a lot of which isn't suitable for crop growing anyway. But they require vets and shelter in extreme weather etc, they do not look after themselfs.
Wow, this blew my mind. I loved how he calculated everything. Now I have to calculate for a family of 4 !
Inspirational! ... I grow alot of my own vegetables but only have about 100m2 so have to supplement with store bought (mainly proteins) Using a freezer to store summer excess. I also store the winter rains in a 12,000 litre catchment system so I can freely irrigate in the summer. I think I might start dedicating 2 garden beds to grains(corn) and beans (runner beans) and swap them over each year. I am in a Urban location, Zone 8 in the UK
Sounds great, good luck!
Great documentary....this guy knows what he is talking about.
What a beautiful way of living life ❤
I loved your video. Having been into farming since 40 years, I completely understood your three crop formula. I myself never tried to grow veggies except as a side crop, mainly because it involves more work and is has low shelf life. I also loved the way you said each is different and one needs to learn how it should be grown. It is like each child is different and needs an understanding mother who will treat each child somewhat differently. And i also like the fact that you don't bother to do too much and allow the nature to take care of itself. They are older than us and they know how survive- sometimes well, sometimes not so well. Some years Absurdly Abundant, some years (tearfully for us ) lean and poor. And each season, each crop is always a surprise. It is this sense of suspense that keeps the farmer going and hoping- it is a gambling game we play with nature!
My wife is Asian and she include cabbage to make kimchi is vital. Where we live you have to deal with winter. Cabbage fermented as kimchi or kraut works well. Fava or broad beans as we call them do well here.
In northern climate its other way around. Grow your stuff in summer and dtore it for winter.
Is there someway the Kimchi is less salty. That is about all I taste. I tried to make it myself, but could not rince enough salt out and threw it out.
@@keekeemyfirstcat8410 do not salt the carrots, radish, and other vegetables that go in the seasoning mix for the salted cabbage. By volume, you're at maybe 2 parts salted and rinsed cabbage, 1 part seasoning by weight. The salt moves away from the cabbage through osmosis, so the unsalted vegetables help. Same reason why, if a soup or stew is too salty, adding a potato will help draw the salt out of the dish, as the potato absorbs it.
I'm not Korean, but my kimchi is little old Korean grandma approved when I had a chance to share my kimchi with someone from Korea.
@@spmamabear Thank you. I did not put other vegys in the dish so maybe that was the problem
In Wales, wheat, barley, rapeseed oil, pulses/legumes as well as a variety of fruits and vegetables are grown.
That was most enjoyable and
eye opening! Thank you! I'm rethinking my garden.
Very enlightening. After thousands of years lived, the answers still remains simple. We can do much better today with everything in Nature.
Thanks for sharing.
Absolutely fascinating stuff. Real food for thought. My little veg garden is so time intensive - I could do with taking more of this approach.
I love this method. I also grow many things but on my balcony in the North (Tzfat). I have many mulberry trees, and a few apple trees available for free is he is interested. They are two years old and are ready for transplanting in the fall. I didn't realize that they would all take when I first planted them and now they are taking over my balcony. 😂
❤ Thank you so much! Congratulations 🎉 for the wonderful work of this Human Being ! And you you sharing it!!!
Amazing effort! Great to see how this man lives on his own food, grown outside his door. Fantastic video!
Amazing and very inspirational video, thank you! Here in Hungary we have a guy with a method that needs 3-4 hours a week to grow enough food for his 4 member family. We need to spread the word, that we already have ALL the technology needed for a much happier and eco-friendly life. Our group is collecting all these technologies and integrates them into a whole system. Simply can't wait when the majority of people living like this.... :)
Sounds great! Who is this man?
Who is this man?
Thank you so much for this documentary. I grow some of my food but eventually want to be self sufficient.
This man has certainly given me food for thought 👏👏👏 change my thinking... I am 66 years young and am growing some of my food for the last 5 year's each year I learn more and more...
No dig gardening and I compost my raw food and garden waste and make compost tea also.
I collect 3 barrels of rain water which I use in my pollytunnel, but I want to filter the rain water with everything that in our skies 🙈🙈
I grow fruit and vegetables.
I have a water filter in my home for drinking and cooking.
Thank you, thank you, thank you 🙏🙏🙏🤞🤞🤞
👍😉🇨🇮☘️Eire
@@Marie-yx5ie thank you for working towards self sufficiency. Glad you enjoyed and best of 🍀 with your homestead!
@@Eco-No-Mads thank you...
@@Eco-No-Mads The guy was right when he said vegetables wont help you survive--it is not enough. For apes, cows, ruminants it is a full time job every single day just to eat enough vegetation to live.
Best documentary I've watched in a while. Alik is amazing. I've never heard anyone break down feeding yourself into such simple terms. I thought it especially interesting that Fava beans put nitrogen into the soil. I subscribed after watching this. Thank you for making it.
This was very informative and inspiring! I also appreciate how active Alik is in the comments; the discussions add so much more! So many people just put videos out and don't take time to respond to questions so that's nice to see.
I did the math a couple of years ago as well, out of curiosity to see how much land I would need to feed my family. I'm slowly building up what I grow on the space that I have. This definitely encourages me to keep going, so thank you!
It is people like this that give me hope that as a person with neurological issues and fatigue, I will be able to have my dream of a slow pace life with a huge garden that is my haven.
Lots of love and respect from Istanbul
מקסים אתה :) כמה אינטלגנט ופשוט וצנוע . אם כולם היו חיים כמוך באמת היינו חיים בגן עדן עלי אדמות . רק עם דבר אחד לא הסכמתי איתך זה לגבי מקומות בעולם שבהם חייבים לאכול חיות כמו אלסקה. אם הבנאדם חי במקום שלא גודל בו כלום סימן שהמקום אינו ראוי למגורי אדם וצריך להשאר בתולי .
In India traditionally we can live without eating meat many communities living healthy without meat and we have all types of climate here like deserts to cold deserts and like tropical and rainforest yet we eat most diverse food on earth we can grow 25+ culinary herbs and 25+ spices in ancient time many farmers used to make salt from specific trees if they don't have sea nearby
We also have soap nuts to make shampoo and detergent
Truly amazing Video. I live in central Mexico and am trying to learn to be self sufficient on the smallest piece of land I can. I really appreciate this video. Please keep this type of content coming!! This is how you can really help people and save lives.
Such an eye openning video - thank you so much for this story - we all need to wake up. Bless you all!🙏🏻
My grandparents had 1000m2 just outside the city and we only went there on weekends and vacation and not even all the time. There were enough fruits for three families, enough tomatoes, vegetables. We had enough for the winter, my grandparents would make jars. I guess that was the most work intensive job.
A good future is like that, not a thing full of technologies doing things that we can do. Hugs from Brazil.
Absolutely wonderful ❤
We in England grow our veg, beans, no cereal, we are very dependent on the climate, we have to store for the winter and are by no means self sufficient , my husband is 73 now and I am 68, no soring chickens but we do what we can.
We have been to Israel and you have a very good climate for growing, you akso have many people who are willing to try.
Well done for what you are doing.....very productive and satisfying.
That sounds amazing. I love England, spent five years there during my doctorate years, and volunteered on organic farms whenever I had the chance
@@AlikPelman, well thank you very much for the compliment, we try.... you are the guy ...
ALLl the best
A lot of talent Alik. Thank you for sharing.
Very insightful. I will be partaking shortly
Great! Very inspiring. What I have learned is that we don't need much protein (we can find it in most plants) and no free oil ( only from whole foods as well -olives, avocados,nuts,seeds)
Love this! Such a brilliantly simple formula for self-sufficiency, breaking it down to our 'actual needs' - not seen this before and it's a real eye opener to how do-able 100% really is! Thank you for sharing this is inspiring and fills me with hope. Much love from NZ x
Glad it was helpful!
Very interesting and helpful, we have also small piece of land here in the UK which we are renting from the council, it’s about 800 m wide and the amount of vegetables that we grow are more than enough to feed us, most of the time we give it away cos it’s too much for us.
These ideas of yours made me think of preserving the vegetables we are harvesting, thanks a lot. I support you
Thank you for this information.
Working on my side of the world to follow our ancestors wiser, healthier, and sustainable way of growing food.
This is what all we human should do our own.
It will help so many things.
do it!
We are not same at all as African grains not for us only fruits and vegetables 😊😊
I am doing the same thing in New Mexico u.s.a., on a high desert mesa connected to mountains on one side, plains on the other. I was lucky enough as a child, to live with my family for four years on a small farm in a mountain village near Taos, N.M. The local farmers taught us their traditional ways of farming, building, cooking and preserving food. they had irrigation from mountain streams, orchards, livestock, [pigs, chickens, and a goat or cow for dairy]
they grew alfalfa for horses, and ate mostly Elk, Venison, and trout for meat. Beans, chiles, squash, were the pillars of the diet. aside from store bought oil, they cooked mostly with lard. For now I am getting and preserving food from the farmers market, and foraging, and buying buffalo and game meat until I finish building the garden. Eventually I will also include chickens and hunting equipment, and along with my water catchment tanks, solar and vertical wind power, I will have the option to be completely self-sufficient. This is the last thing that the slave masters want, in a world that needs to keep you plugged into the matrix, being self sufficient, self educated, and self motivated, is an act of revolution.
such a nice video. Very practical. thank you!
thank you so much! I will totally reconsider my use of lands for crops, specially for legums! and will try to sow some wheat. I live in Patagonia, Argentina. Cheers to you all! Lets keep spreading the word, there are other futures possible than the one they are trying to sell us.
I really am so inspired by this achievement you have done and made a video for all to learn, mostly for me to learn! Thank you and God Bless YOU! 😊
This was a fantastic documentary/video/. Thanks for sharing. I'll try to replicate in our new home in Sweden.
@@SkidVisualScience awesome! Would love to hear about the process
Wow that’s my dream! I added three more fruit trees (pomegranate trees) to my ever growing little food forest this year! Two apple trees! Next year I will added 1-2 more fruit trees 🥰! I grow all of our vegetables, some fruits and and spices! Congratulations to him! That’s very inspiring! I wish more people can adopt this lifestyle! Great job 🥰
Amazing! Where are you located?
Hi, what spices do you grow ?
@@etnica1999 None so far. Only herbs. But that's in the pipeline
Great to see that you found something after all the Distraction.
This was so amazing to watch! Thank you so much for sharing with us. There is a Grow Biointensive (GBI) way of growing that is similar -based on similar numbers - which also makes sense-Alik is growing the way nature intended in his area - it is brilliant! So many can be fed in a more sustainable way using this/these methods....and less work which I look forward to some day :) I try to grow this way but am just beginning. The only suggestion I would propose is making the music much softer (or not at all) in the next video. Such wonderful information Alik is sharing with us! thank you so much!
Amazing video. Thank you very much. Wheat, beans, oil. So simple yet so brilliant
Fantastic video, and information. Really interesting. Thank you Alik and Aviv for creating and sharing this, and generating ideas and inspiration!
Excellent video. I saw a video once done by the Dutch university RUclips channel. Saying that 60 % of our country is farmland. Even though there is a housing shortage. A lot of farmers don’t want to change. I hope they will think differently soon.
Awesome! And working full time! I'm very motivated to grow my own food
Many thanks! I'm going to try it. Starting with the wheat. I had no idea that I could grow wheat for 100 loaves in 200 square meters.
Good luck! In a few days we'll release the sequel, where you can understand the specifics of each of the crops (sewing, harvesting, processing)
Awesome documentary. . I have a food forest on the USA-Canada border in which things grow so much slower. I grow grains with my hazelnuts and chestnuts just coming into production for calories and oils. This is one of the best sustainable documentaries Ive seen. Thank you.
Very cool :) thanks 🙏🌳🌳🌳
Hi would you sell some chestnut seeds for growing? Can you recommend a good source for chestnut trees to start? Thank you!!
Very clear and concise description of what I necessary to survive globally and to keep our soils replenished and our waters clean.
Good work. Thanks for making the effort & sharing ❤
Excellent, inspiring and absolutely useful video. I envy Alik his climate as I live in Canada, but we can do this too, just in a different way, based on our conditions.
❤I'm so excited to have discovered this channel. Thank you so much for this video x
@@beewolhuter2306 welcome aboard ❤️🌀🍀🪇☀️
Wow I am impressed by his gentle and easy spirit. The growing of the wheat on a slope and then the beans, and showing us just how much is needed to make the loaf of bread. In KY I have steep fall down and break your leg hillsides. Suitable only for trees and grass or some berry bushes. So you use native plants. I garden on the hill tops and yes there are some flat areas. I am surprised that he does not have some chickens or rabbits and no milk goat??? Weeds where are the weeds? Teasing sort of.
People who live near perennial rivers also rely on protein from fish. This garden would be hard to cultivate in an area with little rainfall. Good for him though. I wish I could do this. I have a small vegetable garden, which i am expanding. I water the plants twice a week. I use cow dung as compost.
Rivers and lakes are nice since the fish scraps are also fertilizers.
Cassava and nopal are quite drought tolerant
I love that there’s this impression that it’s so small an area.
He’s on a bit more than .185 acres and my house is .21 acres total.
I have 250 sq foot (23 sq meters of) raised bed gardens on it.
Now I garden 3 harvests a year (all 4 seasons) am getting into inside container gardening, and hydroponics, however, I don’t think I can even get close.
Just very interesting is all….
What an amazing human. Ive had same thoughts as him and also wanted to grow my protein, but it’s still hard to completely give up meat
@user-wj9jm1ox8i You won't have to give up meat if you include chickens. They are very beneficial to farmers from eggs, to soil conditioning, to fertiliser and very low maintenance.
Despite Alik's negative mention of permaculture, it still teaches you an abundance of practical solutions from using and capturing nature's free energy, to multiple methods of producing mulch and compost and all organically. Cheers and good luck with your sustainable future 😊😊😊
Give it a try for a week. It’s not as hard as you’d think. And Beyond makes these brats that are amazing! Meat-eating friends have enjoyed them. They crisp up on the outside while staying juicy inside.. yum!
It's actually not a good idea. After years of being vegan, your teeth will start to break, you will lack serious energy. There are nutrients from meat essential to body function, not bioavailable from plants.
Just on the introduction, I subscribed! ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
How did we get so disconnected with nature and forget how much we need it more than it needs us?
Thank you for sharing 💚 good to see a well thought out, yet simple plan for real food production on this scale.
Very inspiring!
I'm doing close to the same here in the USA, TN. I have about 1/4 acre in a small town. I do woodworking to pay for other utilities, home improvements and other bills. The Simple way of living is still possible.
I'm working on this as an economically scalable RepRap decentralized thing in rural Vancouver Canada. 49 North. We need meat and/or solarpunk tech, but still, I'm hyped to see this! Fixing it globally without force of global governance is key to my life's work. I'm thrilled to see the fertile crescent still gifts the abundance which bore us! Though thankful I get to eat beef and butter this much further north.
I am at a similar latitude and although I haven't found a plant-based oil yet...I am hopeful to continue growing/eating plant-based.
@@trish3580 maybe rapeseed?
The music in the background has made it possible to have to watch this in 3x... I can't get through it without falling asleep and I'm interested in everything he has to say!
I am the same and I think it’s a long term effect from constant scrolling for years
Πάντα με γοητεύει αυτός ο τρόπος ζωής, ζω σε ένα χωριό στην βόρεια Ελλάδα και για 4-5 μήνες τον χρόνο σχεδόν δεν αγοράζουμε φρούτα ή λαχανικά, τα καλλιεργούμε μόνοι μας. Επίσης έχουμε το δικό μας ελαιόλαδο αλλά αυτό που είπες ότι δουλεύεις στον κήπο μόνο 1 μέρα τον μήνα μου φαίνεται παράξενο, απο την πείρα μου ξέρω πως πρέπει να δουλέψεις τουλάχιστον 1 ώρα την ημέρα είτε για πότισμα, είτε για να βγάλεις τα άγρια χόρτα που φυτρώνουν παντού, είτε να τα ραντίσεις για έντομα και αρρώστιες. Θέλει αρκετή δουλειά αλλά το αίσθημα ότι το δημιούργησες μόνος σου είναι αξεπέραστο, καλή συνέχεια σε ότι κάνεις, απλά ο κόσμος πρέπει να μάθει ότι γίνεται και να μην φοβούνται να το κάνουν και άλλοι!!!
24 hours a month, he equated that to one day.
@@100Noddy Hi there, actually I meant 8 hours a month, not 24. It is corrected in the description. I've detailed the breakdown of the annual working hours in a couple of my replies to comments here.
@@AlikPelman Okay, thank you, for clarification, even more impressive.
I hope you use homemade organic pesticides for your crops
@@Realatmx I use no pesticides or herbicides whatsoever, synthetic or organic. I do not use any synthetic chemicals.
Really great video - thanks to you and Alik - for making & sharing it. This is the way.
Thankyou so much This was inspiring.
Awesome video, I can't wait for the follow-up. I only have a small garden
If I get food out of it, it's a bonus, but it's mostly a hobby for my mental health right now. I do love the fresh peas I get. I've made some pickles and salsa so far. I have potatoes and carrots to dig up. I recently made stew with our vegetables and the beef I get from my Dad, who lives within walking distance so very local. I have chickens for eggs as well. It's such a satisfying way of living. It's sad to see farm land turn into subdivisions and produce grown in such a way that it doesn't even taste as good, it's just grown to travel well. Thank you for sharing this video.
By the way, being in a similar climate and with a similar rainfall, I was wondering what the calculation would be for starches as potato or sweet potato. Then, having free range chicken and ducks can be useful. I have experience with ducks and they mostly eat slugs, so no need to worry a lot
What a wonderful interview! This man is amazing! My best wishes for you and your channel!
Much appreciated ☺️
This is one of the best videos I’ve seen. Quality could be better, but message received!