Family Transforms Tiny Suburban Backyard into Thriving Permaculture Gardens - Abdallah House Tour
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- Опубликовано: 16 июн 2024
- Welcome to the first episode of our new series, Permaculture Tours. In this series we’ll be diving deep into some amazing properties designed using permaculture principals, with the aim of giving you inspiration and ideas on how to apply these solutions in your own life.
In this episode we take a tour of Richard and Kunie’s property, Abdallah House, in Seymour, Australia. On this 1/7th of an acre property, the owners have made the most of the available space through thoughtful design of the garden, house, and marginal spaces.
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Your garden is inspirational. My wife and I were moving down a similar path to your family . We had an incredible food forest going and I loved nothing more than going out each morning and eating my breakfast directly from the trees. Then my wife came down with two critical illnesses and I was diagnosed with a heart and lung problem. Consequently due to numerous doctor and hospital visits in Rocky and Brisbane our sustainable garden living lifestyle finished almost overnight. All I was able to do was to water the fruit trees as a maintenance effort, everything else dried up. We had not thought about planning for the eventuality of not being well enough to keep up with the level of work that we were used to. Another permaculture family we know of had a similar occurrence. Their yard was far more fruitful than ours but severe sickness hit them, so much so that they had relocate to Brisbane. They had major problems selling their house and yard because to the non permaculturist it wasn't the "Better Homes and Gardens'" type of yard. My wife and I loved it as you would have done. So while you have your health and are living your dream take time to plan for when your children leave home and you come to that age where you are either ill or simply do not have the energy you need to maintain your permaculture yard. It will happen, but please don't be blindsided like we were. Again watching your video brings back lovely memories. One suggestion though, have you thought about edible weeds? Sine we weren't able to keep water up to our yard the weeds took over. I did a bit of research and found that our yard was producing a very large crop of edible weeds each season, with no planting, watering or care from me. Some of then grew happily in full sun in 40 degree heat waves and continued to produce greens for us. Enjoy your life. Cheers Royce.
Permaculture Tours!? Are you serious? This is so inspiring. Thank you so much for sharing!
What a beautiful place! Their use of the semi-submerged cold cellar/water storage tied to the cool pantry is genius! Thanks for sharing this tour.
It is very nice to see some well established urban-homesteaders living so lightly and abundantly. Well done.
I own 1 acre that I’m not utilizing AT ALL... This inspires me to put it to use and take better care of it. 👍🏻❤️😁
How's it going?
I recommend hugel beds and creating a food forest garden
All the best , Adam...
Have u started..???
And here l am raking my mind on how to get 1 acre of land for growing fruit and vegetables.
@@issacprashant294 I need to help you. Call me please on 07507571022
Beautiful! I’ve been converting my backyard into a permaculture food forest over the last year. It’s amazing how much joy and happiness it brings me. Thanks for the ideas. I’ll apply them on my backyard and videos ❤️
It is heartening that more and more people are realising that wholesome living near nature and according to the Law of Nature, is the way forward. This reminds me of the book 'Back To Land For Self Preservation', written by the legendary nutritionist and researcher Dr Norman W Walker. Permaculture Tours is indeed a worthy venture, thank you for the episode and series!
So glad to see how folks are living, simply, sustainably, thank you : )
What an excellent permacilture design for VIC Aus. Passive solar house, abundant garden and a beautiful family!
Wow! Thank you for creating this film. He is a visionary! I’m inspired on how he materialize his thoughts.
Growing a dream one day at a time. I am 5 years in and still learning every day. The joy that comes from the experience I'm unable to explain today and words.
I can't get enough of your videos! Keep them coming!
What a wonderful permaculture design! We love how everything flowed from one place to the next along with the thoughtful use of earth heating and cooling to transfer cooler air from the ground cellar to the upright cellar in the house. - Brian + Erin
what an amazing lifestyle, this is so inspiring! Thanks a lot for this interesting video.
Good people making great films!
From heart to heart
im gonna watch every single video of yours. Such great visuals and great to have the owner explain it. In many videos the filmer just ask questions all the time but here it all seems to be tied together with no questions needed. Thank you for sharing this great video.
Very interesting. We probably will learn more of permaculture by these examples. Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful inspiring family! Thank you 🙏🏼
My garden sits along a small tidal harbor in Maine. Permaculture makes so much sense to me. Over the past two years, I have incorporated many of the principles described in your videos, using natural, local materials like seaweed, grass clippings, leaves and plant remains to compost each planting bed. Water is collected in barrels from roof runoff and distributed to areas of the garden through soaking hoses or hand watering.
AMAZING!!! Even oriented the house to the sun to warm the floor. The chicken's roleS. The cellar, the air flow, WOW so many things to learn!
I would love to see a video or a few about renters using permaculture to grow food in pots because they do not have garden space provided by landlords.
MessinInTheMoss there is a segment on that on this channel.
MessinInTheMoss Same here as I’m in that situation where I live in a 1 bed Council Flat with only a communal washing line area that is tarmac. So I’ve been growing Veg in pots along one side of the communal area against the wall that surrounds the area. I want to experiment by attempting to grow a mini Forest Garden in pots using Dwarf Fruits Trees and shrubs, Wild Strawberries etc, also a few Annual plants such as Runner Beans that I have been Training to grow up Sunflowers stems, I hope to grow perrenial Verticle food plants up the Dwarf Trees etc.
Go to Amazon for FELT GROW BAGS. all sizes. I grew an entire garden in reusable grocery bags 12 years ago, just to test the theory. Great success(put drain holes in grocery bags). Have only heard good things about the felt bags. Excellent investment and they are selling out fast. No drain holes necessary. Handles to move your plants if necessary.
Chaleen Duggan They sound good, but what is the ‘felt’ made from?
@@Kiyarose3999 Two words: Due Diligence.
I don't manufacture them, but I imagine they would be easy enough to make using microfleece- THAT fibre takes years to break down (likely due to the recycled plastic content).
We cannot live toxin-free lives. It's all about what one is willing to tolerate.
This is amazing! I have always dreamed of living this way, but I just got stuck in the game of trying to make money and raising kids as a single mom in the suburbs. I'm still going to make it happen someday, but I missed out on raising my kids this way. With any luck, I will be able to share this way of life with my grandchildren in the future. What a beautiful way of life!
I'm in a similar situation.
Single Mum kids are all but grown now.
I've been doing a little at a time. 1 plant here and there.
It's certainly not a food forest and very modest at best but even 1 tomato plant is a step in the right direction.
Oh this was a very great video! I look forward to the next in the series. Thank you for posting something so uplifting. :)
I read about Abdallah house a while ago (can't remember where though). Fantastic to see a video about it. Very inspiring, thank you.
Using deciduous trees like that blew my mind! I love it!!
so happy to have a channel like yours to learn from! would love to hear about the development that happens after the initial permaculture design is put forth. i see so much intricacy, im interested to hear how much of that growth comes after the initial idea!
That was rad! I feel like I saw these guys in a Pip magazine article. Love their setup and love this video! Excited for the next instalment.
Love this film! So exciting to see how much can be done on a small scale. I love that the permaculture principles and ethics are not prescriptive, but there to be interpreted and envisioned by anyone, whether they have access to a large scale property or a small one, like Richard and his family. Another wonderful film, Jordan and Antoinette! x
So lovely to show Richard Telford's own site. He is a legend amongst permies! I want a cellar like his!
Great film! Cannot wait to see the next installment.
Well done! thank you for making this video.i hope you make more.
Wow! Such a great well thought out design! Best I’ve seen!
So much inspiration. Thanks so much for finding and sharing these great stories in such a beautiful way.
Fantastic episode guys. People are going to learn so much from this amazing content you're putting out
What an amazing place, everything you need in life, so connected!
This would have to be one of the most inspiring videos I've ever watched. Thank you.
this is best video yet super inspired by this!!!
Thanks for the tour. That's an amazing transformation of the place!
Love and permaculture is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence....
I'm so loving this.
I've started to watch your videos few weeks ago and i'm loving how you potrayed their stories.
I'm planning my own permaculture house so this is so helpful.
I'm supporting this project. Will look at ur patreon :)
Love this! Keep them coming guys!
Omgosh. Enjoyed the video. I have a large backyard. I compost harvest water, I have 6 Citrus Trees, but wanted to start a vegetable garden. You're such an inspiration. Thank you.
Thank you so much for sharing this inspiring video... brilliant as always ♡
I love that he just decide to plant near the creek ! I’ve often thought of this
Love the cellar, water tank and cool cupboard idea. Never seen that before.
Many Thanks again for your video work from the USA...
LOVE the oven and cellar/ water storage
Really inspiring. Thanks. Keep up this series. I believe that so many people now want to work, with, the land, in harmony.
Love the quality of the work of Happen Films. Wish SBS or the ABC would run a collection of your short films when Gardening Australia goes into recess!
Wow! when you look at this first sight you think what a mess... but then when you hear him speaking and see exactly what he has done and why... this is pure genius! Love it!
Love this! can't wait for future episodes
Hi, I am in California and we share the same mediterranean climate. Your stories are amazing and inspiring. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you so much again and again, over and over.
Loved the clip.. God Bless you all & May others be inspired & get started, on their own ideas of using & enjoy their land.
Love what y'all do ! We were thinking of doing smthin like this in our house and now we saw this too. Nice to know that ppl who think this way do exist. Keep it up : )
Love love love your chanel! Hopefully you keep making films x
This was a fabulous video. So inspiring. Thankyou!!!
watched this for the garden but that house is really smart! it's great to see people put every little thing to good use, a reminder that we can always work a little harder to reach sustainable living practices
Great little video, thank-you so much for sharing.
Down-sizing from 200 acres to 1/2 acre. Videos like this are re-assuring. I WILL STILL HAVE MY FARM--just smaller scale, and much more efficient in every way! Very heartening. Well Done!
I particularly like that part about the house facing in a specific Direction allowing for the Sun to heat The slap during particular parts of the year and using grape Vines outside as shading during warmer months. Also noticed their thermal water heater on top of the house directly over that room
Thank you for this! So many inspiring ideas to think about.
Thank you for sharing. Very inspiring.
love the family and way of living, thanks for sharing. love happen films too
He made the house into an earthship. Beautiful!
We love your films. Thanks
Very impressed! People would be amazed by how much food you can grow just in your yard. We produce so much citrus on just an acre along with all of our veggie needs. Thanks for sharing this beautiful space!
Great concept guys.
Fantastic to see this video after reading about this property in Retrosuburbia.
You can see the RetroSuburbia case study of Abdallah House here: www.retrosuburbia.com/case-studies/abdallah-house-case-study/
I’ve never seen the vine approach to the sunward windows.. this is a perfect natural solution wow 🤩
Well thought out Richard. It is amazing how much can be done in a small area.
My goodness. You have solved all human problems. You are a natural genius.
This is great... loved it! As a rocket stove designer, was impressed to see the rocket oven! Lots of great ideas, I really like the cool air flow from the cellar to the pantry. Thanks for putting this out and looking forward to seeing more.
I'm in a city in England, so I did have a chuckle at 'small garden'
Well done, it looks lovely, such great ideas with the cellar thing
So many lovely and smart designs in this house 🤗
This is the best! So generous!!!!!
Beautiful home and system.
Loved all the happen films
This is really inspiring! Thank you!
Great film. You guys rock!
This is so inspiring,thanks for sharing this😊
Almost all of the 'grow huge amounts of food in a small space' videos I see are set in Australia.
I don't think you can go wrong with that climate !
You should try it in the UK where the weather changes dramatically from day to day, one day it can be sunny, next it can be snowing, next is frosty and foggy !!
Not easy to grow anything. Thats why more and more growers and farmers are using plastic, i.e. huge polytunnels, it's the only way to get success.
wow this place is amazing!!
Love it! Way to Go !
Brilliant set up
Brilliant...thank you for sharing...
Excellent doc! Thank you
I loved this video, it really gets me excited to learn more and one day have my own
I just bought a property about the same size and I can't wait to get started!
Great video, love the idea.
Love this so much
Your channel is a great contribution to helping the world. Had the pleasure of doing a PDC under Bill at Tinaroo in the early 90's which gave us the tools we needed to turn a 2 acre disused pineapple farm into a food forest. Truly rewarding experience and now preparing to do it all over again perhaps in Oz or NZ. Looking forward to following your channel.
Great video u have a beautiful house and land very well done so many great ideas
Awesome! So inspiring!
very well organized (US here).
tyvm!
Lots of creative ideas being put into action
Wow that’s what I call efficient! Magnificent
Beautiful!
Inspiring well done Jordan, thanks
Wonderful thank you 😊