'Food Forest's Future Role; Feeding the World!?' - Wouter van Eck
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- Опубликовано: 7 июн 2021
- Keynote speech at the first International Forest Garden / Food Forest Symposium (2021), organized by the Agroforestry Research Trust from the UK. Wouter van Eck started Food Forest Ketelbroek on a bare field in 2009 and is chairperson of Stichting Voedselbosbouw (Foundation Food Forestry). This lecture concentrates on a farming method fit for feeding the world in the future.
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Aloha from a fellow food forester in San Diego US. Our Food Forest Is a 1/2 acre backyard forest that was planted 60 years ago and it’s still wonderfully abundantly and a lovely habitat for wildlife!
I’m so happy to connect with you and I love what you’re doing! This is a great video and I am so impressed that you can speak English🤩
hooray for food Foresters!
I say often that food forests are infinitely abundant, everlasting, and structured on community of all life joining forces together.
A comprehensive, beautifully-illustrated, and eye-opening vision that answers the question: How can we feed the world, while simultaneously healing the earth? Thank-you for this Wouter and all!
Sir world need to know about you!
Thank you Wouter for your fantastic presentation. i hope that we can do the switch towards food-foresting 'just' in time.
Most appreciated.
I love how this video connects the dots between our everyday choices and the health of our environment! 🍀
Thanks Wouter, always a pleasure to listen to you!
¡Excellent presentation!... very interesting, inspiring and motivating.
Mooie en inspirerende presentatie Wouter.
One of the most important and details videos i've seen, and only 23k views? These are the foundations of and for preserving any worthwhile future. Well, time to send it around, not good at spamming but in the least i can try and get it to some higher ups.
Your food forest is wonderful 💚 Much love from Kerala, India. Visit ours when you come to India brother 🥰🙏
- Nikhil
This is brilliant mate and I really want to do this a nice simple life style sounds fantastic
Thanks for sharing this excellent presentation
Thank you for the presentation, that plate of food recommendations really helped to understand the idea of food forest food production.
I wolud like to hear more on the preservation of theese types of foods for year round consumption. I know nuts keep well, stored dry - but what to do with fruits? Drying? Refrigeration?
The way in which food forest can easily replace conventional farming is by integrating it into the whole of the landscape, from housing areas to industrial and commercial areas. Rather than keeping it as a food industry, it needs to just be integrated into all of the world around us. It needs to be entirely de-industrialized.
wow such nice Agro-Forestery, i want to do it myself
I am also doing a Food Forest in Siem Reap, Cambodia.
Awesome presentation :) thank you
Thank you so much.
Now I'm all excited to buy every kind of food tree, shrub and plant x 1000.
Inspirerende presentatie Wouter!
Excellent insights. Can't wait till I can afford my own plot of land to work with.
Drive around in your area and knock on a few doors, wherever you see a neglected property. You will find an agreeable person to allow you to experiment there. Later you might repeat the door-knocking to lease a piece of land formally. Way better than a mortgage. One guy I know is running 19 properties including more than one with a lifetime lease at a cost just enough so the owner pays property taxes. One owner died and willed the land to him outright.
Maybe put out a call in your town or state to find like-minded people to start a food forest with you? Someone may already have land that is unused, or you could form a co-operative to buy land together.
Great video! I think the question should be changed though. Can food forests feed those in the Netherlands? If we can show that this is possible in one nation in the world it will open the doors for others, then if they succeed it will go on and on.
Great video and keep up the good work!
If separation sewage systems were used in settlements, handling urine, feaces and gray water separately, you could use pretreated urine and composted faeces as fertilisers to return the nutrients back to the food forest.
Your proposal about gaining back those nutrients is great, will avoid a lot of pollution of the water system as well. But better use those fertilisers for growing crops with market gardening and arable fields, since food forests really not need any fertilisation. Please check for this the above presentation after 25:00.
Crazy thumbnail photo haha awesome
Excellent
So wonderful and yet so common sense.
Is this different to permaculture, and if so, how?
What is your view on guilds with nitrogen fixers, deep root miners, insect attractors, pest confuses? I guess in reality there is lots of room for all variations of food forest and I have seen a bit of both in some RUclips sites. I started with miracle farm but now like Canadian Permaculture Legacy and Abundance(?) all have something to offer. I am only doing mine part time and this winter is my first really big planting due to various civil engineering jobs that I needed to do. I can't wait until the spring!
Do you only use rain for watering? Any water collection techniques? I am looking into doing the same in a very dry zone 10 in portugal and am struggling with the lack of rain.
We do not irrigate, but now summers here are also can be drier and hotter I advice to help some vulnerable young plants to establish the first year with watering them during dry spells. Furthermore it is important to start with pioneer species and planting windbreaks (since wind is causing sress and dehydration to most young trees).
'd like to add one more thing. The machine usage should be reduced because it gives the farmer more ability to work on. The more mature forest the least amount of inputs except labor which if you have 2 hectares than 6 people can work on it.
"Can we feed the world with food forests?"
The question nobody wants to answer is, "How many humans can the world feed?"
To end poverty, we have to end greed. Is that possible?