How to grow a forest in your backyard | Shubhendu Sharma
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2016
- Forests don't have to be far-flung nature reserves, isolated from human life. Instead, we can grow them right where we are -- even in cities. Eco-entrepreneur and TED Fellow Shubhendu Sharma grows ultra-dense, biodiverse mini-forests of native species in urban areas by engineering soil, microbes and biomass to kickstart natural growth processes. Follow along as he describes how to grow a 100-year-old forest in just 10 years, and learn how you can get in on this tiny jungle party.
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Dude just gives us the whole formula and walks away, amazing.
Yeah , I did this long
Before this video....
Make a buffer zone
Between your house
And the trees, I had
Bugs off and on constantly, it also makes you a mark for burglary my house was broken into while I was still home , last but
Not least I had
RATS SO BAD , I literally had to abandon the house could not stop them tried for 15 years.
@@johnwells9089 cats?
@@johnwells9089 Get two Bengal tigers, and no one's going to touch your forest ever again.
@@johnwells9089 WOW thanks for sharing
John Wells every forest have wild animals, I think you forgot to add a tiger, cocodrilos and snakes to keep rats and burglars away...! 😊
"the soil starts breathing. It comes alive" is one of the most satisfying thing I've heard
Ikr😌
exactly !! I love organic thing !
I spread the soil fungi for grass - "endomycorrhizal" fungal spores - that stores the carbon and feeds the plants with nutrients and water.
I didn't really understand the soil breathing part. That would be creepy if the land started rising & falling like a diaphragm.
Thank you sir. Your wisdom helped me to plant a rain-forest in a village in Kakamega, KENYA.
You made my day...
Hongera
Bravo!...Also teach the children!
splendid !
Congratulations!! I’m sure it made your community very happy 😊. Please share some videos of the forest!
In Assam, India one simple Assamese person named Jadav Molai Payeng single-handedly created a forest on the bank of mighty river Brahmaputra.
I also heard in south America, forgot which country but might me somewhere in the center like Bolivia, a couple restored single-handedly a forest which burned completely because of human unawareness. After 10 or something years the forest expanded from itself, animals started to come back. Not the small ones like foxes but bigger ones... Great story
I don't understand why such Noble men in our country are not getting much recognition 🤦🏽♀️smh
he ended up creating a whole ecosystem
Northeast india is heaven of nature.
So greeeeeeeeeeeeen you can barely imagine.
Just see it once and boom
@@abcxyz- same in western ghats and himachal
Why? Because not many people inhabit the mountain ranges
He spoke of forests in a way that made me cry.
By
60th like catch it
did u cry like a Disney princess?
@@gyanendraarambam4378 I certainly did
I want to do this as a job
Edit: wow I didn't expect so many likes! It warms my heart seeing so many people are passionate about growing forests!
For anyone who's asking, no, I didn't get started yet, mainly because I don't have a backyard to practice on. I'm getting a degree in environmental sciences and then I'll probably get a master's in forest sciences. Meanwhile I'm saving up with my boyfriend to buy some land in the countryside and hopefully start a food forest project. I'm feeling really inspired! Let's make the world greener :)
Lowlandweller _ My thoughts exactly
Lowlandweller _
Yasss!
Weeding and watering all the day aren't that fun, especially when it is raining or really hot...
Ein Name
Yeah I guess but I love rain!
Ein Name better than sitting in an office and youd be in a forrest anyways so
I’ve started this in our backyard but after seeing this I realize there’s much more I can do. One yard at a time. 💜
Thank you for your work to our planet !
Now I need to convince my parents, that we need a forest in our garden.
please do
Chillifirex same dude, I wish you luck
@@anah1269 Thanks :)
It all starts with a planter with 5 different plants. Then it continues with a variety of flowers. Before you realize it, you have a jungle or at least a forest growing inside your home. True story, look it up.
Chillifirex just tell them you want to grow a food Forest, you can grow more and the food taste better and has less pest insects because of the bio diversity
TED organizers should give the resources after each talks like links to the presenters works or the resources if you further need to study or research about the talk and there current works and future plans etc, etc
Roshan Regmi www.afforestt.com/
to many queries below, check Permaculture videos on the net. They will show you how to put together a food forest in your backyard
Thanks sowhat!
not on amazon...but in the amazon they're for sale to the highest bidder. lol...but very tragic!
EXCELLENT IDEA!
A farmer in Brazil developed the same idea and now, not only did he plant an entire tropical forest, he also grows and sells one of the best cocoa and cofee in the world.
Ivo Teixeira what's his name? I would like to see his farm please!! I'm growing cocoa too
He (Ernst Gotsch)even has a philosophy, he iniciated 30 years ago. Same principles but a lot way deeper, a cientist and activist. Look for the movie Life in sintrophy.
What's his name.
Here: ruclips.net/video/gSPNRu4ZPvE/видео.html
Yes Leonidas , I just published it on my wall on Fbk -_- This & VEGANISM are the 2 best ways to deal with climate change/chaos!!!! But we have to do it now!!!! ruclips.net/video/AR2L22LCwvk/видео.html
LET HIM PLANT IN THE CITIES! Everybody needs them 😭
"LET US PLANT IN THE CITIES" we should start sharing responsibilities.
that's why i hate living in a metropoli.
Respect from Pakistan, thank you for doing one of our cities
He did your city😭
@@ivannadenka1894 Firstly, you respond to my positive comment on an Indian company with a negative taunt?
Uncalled for but let me take your bait, your comment is a generalization of an entire country and the people living in it...
Let's suppose for a moment that Pakistan is indeed sending terrorists to India, do you think I would be related to the terrorists or in-charge of them? NO, I'm just a Pakistani citizen giving a positive complement to Shubhendu Sharma and you instead focus on giving a negative remark in response to that. I view that as pathetic.
@@randomguy574 you can view it the way you want but it is the irrefutable truth...Pakistan is the terrorists hub of the whole world... masha allah
@@ivannadenka1894 absolutely
@@randomguy574 I can surely connect with you....i understand you are as harmless as any normal human and you definitely dont deserve such backlash but on the other hand as an indian it really gets very difficult for us to handle such unpredictable terror attacks so often from your country...the rage that you see here is just the outcome of our helplesness and frustation........not everyone can be rational all the time so i simply urge you to not take any hate comments by heart....thank you
we are going to need this on an industrial scale.
Why do we need to weigh the forest?
becuase its the lungs of our world.
I see what y... never mind. :)
*post-industrial scale
Classic approaches to industry are geared towards exploitation of natural resources, not preserving them.
The Internet
Being an idiot about things, and making decisions based mainly on ideology, instead of the effects they have is still ENORMOUSLY idiotic.
Like it or not, if you want nitrates in your soil you will have to put them there.
Even if it feels "dirty" or "industrial". Since natural collection rates, are very limited,(just like the natural creation of nitrous oxides - by lightning).
Why does being "green" always have to mean being a moron, who spends time moralizing instead of helping the actual cause they preach for?
I am from Kerala, the southern most state of India. Here we had 'sacred groves' in almost every household which are like small forests. There will be idols of Serpent King inside the grove. Because people were so scared of the serpent God, no one dared to destroy these thick vegetation. These sacred groves were tiny forests where as mentioned here, not even a falling leaf was removed. Since almost every house had such a grove, the rain water seeped down, filling ponds and wells with good potable water. Of course many temples still have such groves. In the past two to three decades, all most all these sacred groves in the houses have been cleared due to rapid urbanisation, want of space for buiding new houses and also as many people have lost faith in all these traditions. Result : the water table level has gone down, there is water scarcity. The flora and fauna typical to the 'kavu' or sacred grove is lost. This year we had a never before flood too. Now the State Government is planning to build such sacred groves again, with the support of churches and temples.
Water seeping to the ground is brilliant idea. Hope I can emulate it in my backyard.
We are ruining our forests in the USA as well. Some people worship a god named Greed, and bow down at the altar of the almighty dollar. Sad.
Yes . If we does not realise our mistakes then nature teaches us the lesson. Kerala people are very lucky that they got the lessons and started working on it. We Andhra Pradesh people are yet to receive the lesson from nature.
what a lovely tradition ....and sad that modernization has curbed it now. in india population growth is the real problem. space is a finite thing and if people keep multiplying infinitely, how
can that be sustainable? kerala has lots of forests along the western ghats....right?
@@Susmitha0369 first thing govt has to do is ban all the chemicals such as insecticides and pesticides while growing crops....need an alternative for cell towers.
This guy is absolutely one of the best speaker. Greatly knowledgeable and experienced. Everything he said make perfect sense to me. Awesome!
This is perhaps my favorite TED talk ever, and I want to do his job here where I live!
i don't know why but this made me very emotional..
Empathy towards nature :)
because humankind basically do care about environment, most of them just don't know how to fix it. because of the system we build already sustain itself as a destroyer. and the people that do know how to fix it, have no power to do it caused by the same system. we are sinking boat or free jump air plane, if we as collective change the bad habit.
@@andreassucipto amazing response
Cause your soul knows it's truth! 🌱💚
Because this could save the world.
One of the most engrossing, bewitching, and informative videos I have watched on RUclips. Even though Mr. Shubhendu Sharma is an engineer by profession, he has transformed himself into a forest generator. I live in a small forest, on top of a hill, myself; there are 155 trees in my yard, which is home to raccoons, squirrels , deer, rabbits and muskrats. I intend to plant two dozen more hardwood trees - oaks - in the fall. Thank you very much for uploading this video. You are an inspiration to nature conscious and nature friendly people like me.
Yesh Prabhu, Bushkill, Pennsylvania
Jabardast
In many ways, he's still an engineer.
I think engineers are well posed to tackle this kind of challenges due to the attention to detail they learn to observe.
I had a mini forest in my back yard. It was wonderful. Bamboo, pine, oak, low growing plants, etc
Can you send a photo to me
Your job is harder than his, coz your plants are cold zone trees. Good job. I started mine with hardy evergreen trees and boxtree as bushes so that in winter my forest stays.
How's the forest doing now. My family made one like this in our backyard and now it's full of snake's
Had.
Make sure to only plant native because other wise you are doing nothing.
Give this guy a Nobel prize
I agree 💯
Yep
but this system was developed by akira miyawaki..........this guy met miyawaki when he came to plant a forest at toyota factory where he was working. he volunteered to help and learnt from him. miyawaki planted his first forest in 1976 and it is over 40 years now - a real forest. check it out!!!
This technique was discovered in 1929 by Akira Miyawaki.
@@maqeelqureshi she got credit while villagers doing this stuff from ages
I wake up to this every morning like a Disney princess haha
Mar jao
That's a really great way of waking only Disney Princess shouldn't have a monopoly on that!
AMEN
Amen
whahaha
This is most probably the best and most significant video I've watched in RUclips. I am saving this video and I am going to share as much as possible to promote the idea.
Aminuz Zaman I will be doing the same ; and in case you got to know more about this person , please pass
He's talking about permaculture food forests. Search on those for more detail than this video provides.
After 3 years, still one of my favourite TED-talks 👌
Same, 3 years after your comment 🤭
6 years ig now.
I will grow a forest in my Garden and backyard..
I wish I could join you.
Well did you do it?
I will grow it too
So how does it look by now?
I will grow forest in my pot
I will grow a forest in my backyard.
one year on , did you do it?
Well? I bet you didn't, slacker 🖕
Well? We are still waiting. 😴
Take your time but do it some day... for future generations at least.... and other commenting to this person down just check yourself what you have done in a year... no one has a right to bring others down... mind your own business please..
Giorgio B sol nad zlato
If this man was in charge of the amazon rain forest crisis, it would've been solved.
With all due respect, he was talking about how to grow a forest, not save one
1AsianPanda if someone cares and knows about the rainforests in this much detail, they’d do something. Bolsenaro refused to even try in the start.
Correct!
I don't know but I just want to watch it over and over again.
@@aspa3318... but if build a forest up doesn't that save... nvm
I'm only 22 years old. I will be graduating in college and proceed to work immediately to make enough money for me to do this. I will buy a patch of land here in my country, a patch of land of which no trees are planted, and I will make it a forest. I hope time is with me. I swear on my life, this will be the legacy I will be leaving behind after I die. Thank you so much for this Shubhendu. You gave me a headstart for planning as I work
update?
Left my PhD in between to venture into farming and consultation.... A dream job and normally satisfaction guaranteed...
Where au from?
@@catty2067 India
I mean state
@@catty2067 Tamil Nadu
Okie btw im from telangana
Now here's a rare one;adding to the world.I hope his business flourishes and inspires many others
Looks like I finally found my dream job....
I think maybe that's why humans exist. Money has destroyed nature and our trust in each other.
Found*
honestly same, and with Australia having zero, seems like i may just capture the market
Me too
@@timothyplace2361
Mate, I was with you but not anymore. After seeing that Bush fire which changed people's life. It's a temporary NO for me. Maybe after the world cools down a bit and the drought is relieved.
I have my own backyard forest. Stated with 1/3 acre of lawn, have been removing it by hand for years since I don't use chemicals. Right now I have quite a few fruit trees blooming, they are being spread by the birds, same as the raspberries. Many trees have shown up on their own, including the nitrogen fixing ones. I have almost every kind of fruits that can grow in very cold weather, since winters here can go to -65 F (-53.8 C). I started on my own when I was 60, 12 years ago. I also have an area for growing vegetables. It is a certified Wildlife Habit by the Wildlife Federation. It is located in the old section of a town of lawns. Lots of birds and other wildlife. A lot of work but worth it. You don't need a lot of money, I'm on Social Security. As to the photos by the guy talking you can bet that he started with fully grown trees to have they that high is just 2 years. Of course the people who give TED talks are not your regular every day folks.
This is what purpose of life looks like. Congratulations for achieving yours Mr. Shubhendu
This man just explained how to make the magical tree growing scene from Totoro a reality, we need x1000000 of these everywhere.
xfrancescanicolex
My kid just said the same thing, this morning 😊
Do they sell forests on Amazon?
hah!
Only if you have Amazon Prime ;-)
The Amazon is a forest.
THANKS FOREST
you've got some pun-ception going on there
Beautiful! This is what I’m doing to my backyard! That’s what my channel is all about. Building a fruit forest. Thanks for sharing!
Every single word was informative useful detailed and important. Proud to be a Bharathiya (Indian) 🇮🇳🙏
TED incorporates those people who are very much articulate in briefing their innovations and can help motivate the people around to get involved in trying something innovative!!! Hats Off to this guy - what a speaker!!!
you are funny
I am loving more and more those hindi engineers, scientists and so on. These people through their religious connectivity to the earth and it's beauties really try to make the earth a better place. I am not saying other engineers don't do that, it's just that you can see that they really deeply care about nature.
Black Tea Hindi is a language. What you should say is Indian.
Really? I thought that india is called hindistan by the indians themselves. Where the "stan" means something like place. So the place of hindis. Am i misinformed?
Black Tea What you thought was almost correct, but it's Hindustan not Hindistan. So it's land of the Hindus.
Saurabh Banik thank you very much for the correction. :)
Black Tea, You are right! But the sad thing is young engineers try to copy Western culture and forgetting about their own culture...
With this method, now I have successfully grown a tiny forest with 200 plants and trees in the backyard, started 1 year back in 2020 when lockdown began with 40 plants, the growth is going strong sense with time. It is overwhelming to see this happening right in front of our eyes.
I just planted a tree earlier today in my backyard. Now im watching this.
Exactly, don't work against nature but with it :)
I need to make a giant forest in my tiny backyard.
I'm inspired by this TED Talk to grow my own forest. And it begins to grow now after 1-2 year(s). This guy is awesome. Thank you for inspiring me.
Gimme an update!
Thats called Biodiversity, every living things are thriving, interacting and help each other to support each other making them strong and live forever
I love his accent.
yeah, the way he kept saying sexual innuendos gave me a big rubbery one.
English is not my first language, so for me it was kinda difficult to understand him
Really? It is difficult to understand for me, so I turn on the subtitle....
+montana “Nat king troll” anthony damn
I like curry.
Incredible 👌👌👌👌👌
We need more people like you to save our planet.🙏
'Growing a 100 year forest in just 10 years' idea is really nice and how you walk away bowing to do Namaskar showcases our Indian tradition.
Im gonna do this. Gonna get 2 acres and do the same thing. This man needs to be heard everywhere.
This is my dream!!! Hopefully I'll make it a reality in future.
I don't want a palace or expensive cars rather I want a forest of my own♥️
Awesome video thanks! I think I was a tree in a previous life. I love trees/plants it fills me up to plant them and see them grow. 2 years ago I started a 4 acre food forest on some land I bought in SE Kansas...currently I have 140+ trees and countless perennial edibles....everything was planted via no dig (just pile soil/compost around the roots and cover with straw and viola) even my vegetable gardens which produce food that I give to the local food pantry...besides my love for our Creator, I've never been so in love! We are all connected in this way
He is an Indian wow I m proud of u Bhai 😋😋😋I am also Indian n agriculture student proud of u 🌹🌹🌹🌹
In my school, IES Los Castillos in Spain we are in the middle of a forest construction. This year, after 2 years of healing the soil, we are about to plant trees, some of which are resistant elms (Ulmus minor) to the Dutch disease. We are very excited about it. Thank you for your guidance Mr Sharma.
when a person is talking about an idea that can save all of humanity - but humans on internet are not worth saving..
Exactly!!! Thank YOu. You Are Right on the Dot.
What about you?
You cannot talk sense on Internet. These people should be made into humus for these forests.
It's all right. With time everyone will come around! Do your part and keep at it! :)
People are salty on net. Text and Internet makes people say edgy stuff that they don't have balls to say face to face.
Thanks for educating people with forest gardening or permanent agriculture
The way he greeted everyone in the end makes me like him more!!
I'm creating my own little oasis on 1.5 acres and I have to say it's the most peaceful place I know. All I have to do is sit, listen and observe nature to know what works and what doesn't. Anyone who has any amount of space. City or country should do this.
Thank you so much sir. Truly Inspiring! Brought some hope that humanity will not get extinct due to the deforestation happening now.
it is so impressive omg
I loved how he shared exactly how it's done. Usually I feel like these things are kept secret so that you are forced to depend on their services to be able to do "the thing". I feel that he was very open and incouriged others to be enthusiastic as well.
Logical, natural and finally intelligent human gave us lecture we all should already known if we were properly educated!
Much respect!
Amazing video. Thank you!!
I’ve heard him live. Such compassion.
I am awestrucked with his impeccable idea... Huge respect.. 🙏
And they say indians don't know anything other than computers..
you mean you say that.
I have literally never heard anyone say that
They know how to scam people 😁
@@chukwow5738 yaa stupid and fools like you
The Kind of Innovations we need now
For me, there is nothing more rewarding than raising up a cedar tree from seed. Of the thousands of trees I have planted, given away or sold, I can go and visit them anytime I choose. Since I've been doing this for so many years, I'm rewarded with watching them grow and thrive. The ultimate reward is knowing that long after I'm gone, these trees will continue to grow and benifit nature in hundreds of ways. Started this as a stress reducer. It worked beyond any expectations I could have imagined. Go plant something. Teach a youngster how to plant and care for a tree. very, very rewarding!!
I used to be it, when I was in my old places which is rural... I used to see my plant daily... I used to grow a new plant a weekend...
I was emotional when the presentation ends... I Wishing you to succeed in your aim soon... I all the best frnd...
Bravo!!!! Great speech great show, so much information so easy to understand and appreciate thank you!!
The first thing I thought of was Totoro.
Hanapetals , love that movie too !!!
Hanapetals overnight trees
This is so important... When I was a kid there were birds and insects everywhere, not any more. I used to see millions of starlings as a child, now we have none whatsoever. All it took was 35 years and they're all gone. And it's not just the starlings, it's all the birds... Bees are in dangerously sharp decline too. If we are not careful we are going to lose what we have forever. This needs to be made into a blueprint that others can follow worldwide to recreate your work. If you're the younger generation you don't realise what we have already lost, talk to the older people and see for yourself. If I knew how, I'd devote half my land to this project... I'd like to find more information to do this. Superb speech Sir. Kudos. 🍺🍺🍺👍👍👍😎😎😎
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. Thank you for all your work.
This is one of the best TedTalks I've ever seen
awesome work!
What a sweet thoughtful guy towards nature thank you for sharing
Is anyone else AMAZED at this video?? How valuable is this!?
im gonna try it in my neighbour..!! loved it...
You mean in your neighborhood.
"in neighbour" makes a very different sense.
Did you plant trees in your neighbour?
@@sweetvuvuzela4634 i put my 3meter root inside my neighbors wife and now im in jail
Nobody 🙈🍑🍆😂
So this is not a DIY project, i was hoping to learn how to grow a forest. :(
on a simpler scale, plant trees and shrubs that are hardy in your area. grab all your neighbors leaves every fall and cover the ground. throw all your kitchen scraps on the ground. learn which weeds you can eat - some taste very good (ie: lamb's quarters)
that's what i did in my yard. bought cherry trees, plums, apple, some native flowering bushes. attracted lots of birds and some interesting native plants.
pre tree plant work involves tree section. Google might help for heights and location
step 1. agitate soil
step 2. plant trees
step 3. water and weed for 2 years
step 4. Wonder why you build a forest in your backyard in the first place.
step 5. purchase chainsaw
step 6. spend 2 days cutting it all down have a huge party and burn the evidence that you spent $4000 on. 😉
I'm Joshing keep the trees and plants.
Lamb's quarters are edible weeds and there are so many others. I grow a variety called magenta spreen which has a beautiful magenta top, tasty, more nutritious than spinach, self-sowing (you need only to plant a few the first time and each successive year, you have more than enough). I recently dried them and powderized as my daily nutritional supplement. I also have a few collard trees which provide me greens all year round. Just wanted to share.
The company do offer online training and consultancy if your willing to spare the money for that. The beauty is it would only take one person in a country to share findings and share the knowledge, obviously the native trees and climates differ from country to country but there are a few steps you can see applied. For instance mixing biomass in the soil, they showed the success of a project in the Netherlands in another video by digging up the soil and introducing hay I believe, the soil was naturally high in clay content and trees tend to grow slowly so I believe this really sped up the process. The other thing to do is to try and limit competition, so not putting really tall canopy layer trees right beside one another but having your trees, sub layer trees and shrubs in between so they're not competing with one another.
This man must be given more recognition or a token of appreciation...noble peace prize
Excellent explanations! Most show only "look we planted this" - but here it gets explained what has to be considered to turn barren land into forests.
I wish, I could do the same! Someday I will do it, I swear mother Earth
.
love this
It's good to see we have such amazing people amongst us.. who are helping the nature
Way to go. You rock. We all need a forest in our yards
Hey i live in Madhya Pradesh.. n i have 1acre land which is not fit for farming... so i am planning to plant tiny forest
How can i contact your team?
And where is ur site /app u were talking about
you should look into permaculture
Why not
Jamun can grow anywhere .you can try that
It's been 2 years.. may I ask what happened to your plan? Did it go well?
Good job !
Would be nice, if we had more trees in the cities :-)
That is so absolutely wonderful!!! what a genius
This man is so inspiring and so humble as well..
This is my dream, to garden my future yard with trees ❤
Great Forrest man 🏞️🌲🌱🌲🌳
Amazing public speaker! Clear and concise, he provides just enough detail to be captivate the audience's attention but not too much so as to not over-complicate his message. His pacing was amazing he was able to jump from point to point without a hitch. I was interested from start to finish, amazing work!
So humble! Very clever.
3:29 "Even taste it"
I live in the desert tho
Well, before it became desert, there were forest too.
cactus forest
Was just thinking that, i libe in the forest too
Well it contains dusts, rocks, and air, basically every atoms you need to assemble a forest. Close enough.
Well it contains dusts, rocks, and air, basically every atoms you need to assemble a forest. Close enough.
Absolutely wonderful.
Thanks so much.
Suddenly i am feeling forest expert after watching this. Awesome man.
How much does a 1080p camera costs nowadays $100. Why is this in 720p and not 1080p or 4k.
Wow !!
Loved the concept !!
Wish I had a backyard or even a home for that .
:(
Extremely insightful! I want more videos !!
Thank you for identifying and explaining this miracle of the regeneration of our precious natural resources.