How This Single Mother Transformed Desert Into Lush Forest With Her Kids!
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- An incredible transformation has been taking place over the last 25 years in one of the hottest and driest places on earth.
On this 11 acre piece of land 3000 species of plants and trees from over the world have been intentionally planted from seed creating an abundant food forest and farm.
And it's all because of a world renowned botanist Gabriel Howearth and @KitziaKokopelmana who have worked tirelessly to turn what was once a dusty cattle ranch into tropical oasis in the desert.
Now the 17 year old son, @quetzalhowearth753 is continuing to grow trees with his rescued racoon in a location were it only receives 1.6inches of rainfall a year!
Situated along the tropic of cancer where some of the most extreme deserts of earth exist, such as The Sahara, Arabian and Indian Deserts. In the Sonoran desert also situated on the tropic of cancer, a hot climate with little rainfall exists.
Despite this, an inspiring transformation has taken place and has become a seed bank and living plant library where people from all over the world visit this bountiful botanical garden called Buena Fortuna Gardens, if you want to visit, take a tour or learn more about the project, click here: www.buenafortu...
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Hopefully this time we will get to see part 2 as this has been an issue with multiple videos. Only part 1 is Done. :-(
The water is key where did they get the water to begin this beautiful project? In the desert?
Did you see the Chinese woman that turned 46k acres of sand dunes into forest? Miraculous on UA-cam.❤😂🎉
@@MrRonin1234editing and filming projects like these take a long time and we are under funded, there's only 2 of us and can't afford to get any extra help at the moment. If you want to support our work please use the links above in the comment, with enough support we can at some point employ more people to help get the videos out faster.
Please release part 2!
@@Twindragon-tu1wdits already released
All the desert areas are regions of opportunity - starting at their edges. Bill Mollison told me that a long time ago in a book, and in a different life. Thanks.
Yes, I wish iwere st least 20 years younger because I would green a desert area from scratch myself. These videos are so inspiring. I didn't know it was possible, back in those other lives..
I was born to do this! If you want some help! I would love to help collect acorns. I have been growing an evergreen oak from Arizona for street trees here in Portland Oregon.
If you contact any such seed organisation they would be glad to co-operate with you. It's quite often their raison d'etre. (Sorry no circumflex!)@@NickErickson-g9w
@Ni-dk7ni yes, I do that plenty..
@Ni-dk7ni yes, I do that plenty..
What can I say but amazing. The world needs more people and places like this.
We say to those visiting us here in rural Romania where we planted thousands of shrubs and trees on our land and deforested hills around that the real transformation of human kind would start when most of us will do amaizing things for common good, not only passively admiring the minority, ❤
Mihaela
The problem is some people can’t do things for the good of all. If you live in western U.S. 25% of all land in the U.S. is owned by the government. Most of the west is owned by the government. It’s why desertification happens and deserts grow cause environmentalists and laws literally forbid you from doing anything. It’s even illegal to go metal detecting for gold nuggets. Recreation areas only allows for riding a wheeler or truck on the county road. Most areas are entirely shut down depending where ya live.
I started a similar project in the state of Nayarit 34 years ago. We have trees and flowers and plants from all over the world. I'm happy to see another person with the same heart for plants and life.
@@Katiajean108 Nice to meet you. I live in Aticama, Nayarit. Where do you live in Nayarit. I'd enjoy sharing with you. I'm not sure how to contact you in private.
I found your Gmail address on a WWOOFer site and wrote you there because everytime I try to post my contact info here it is deleted. I don't know what's going on.
I wrote you already. Check your messages in your mail 🙏 my replies here where I share any info won't post. Not sure what's going on.
@@Katiajean108Yes, without open honest clear contact, I suspect the person’s comment snd raise a red warning flag. Be cautious!
And I’m so glad you have also been doing this food forest work! The more the merrier… maybe you could teach others … they could come to see and help hands on with what you’re doing! Thank you so much!
Every neighborhood needs its own food forest, more people need to garden, keep their own animals. Not being fully dependent on big agriculture that does more bad than good
Bless people who have the insight to do this. ❤🇬🇧🇺🇦🇺🇸
Amen
Kitzia creates beauty as well as functional and edible landscapes wherever she goes. She blessed Ecuador with her incredible gits and wisdom several years ago. She is also a great teacher. What an important and inspiring project she and her team have created. May this example expand to many areas around the world to reforest and regenerate the earth´s botanical heritage. Many blessings.
We need more people like this to help save our planet...
What a home for the raccoon! Maybe had tail end of distemper virus but they always recover with a little love and care. This video is awesome in so many ways, I wish more people would choose to produce good things around them like this. A genuine oasis, great work!
Amazing food forest. Many people will inspire to see this video.
I was gifted a chance to save a baby crow, last year, by a hot stretch of days. Thought it a robin then, because they were the only things I'd seen nest on the property. Between the apartment being small, and full of my family (my womans a saint, we took in my eldest brother, and ma... several years ago) Etta, the crow, definitely didn't think it a perfect home, but she (a guess, we always just called used lady words, nvr blood tested) didn't go far either.
Got adopted by the local crows in the fall, once she could fly. The first thing to happen was a hawk tried to get the awkward little wings, which was terrifying, and the other crows, who had watched her grow, mobbed the hawk off.
She will come sit in the yard, and we have a large local group now, i think she told the rest about penuts in the shell, so they're staying closer, and even crows i don't know give me the "FOOD" yell now, haha.
She wont come NEAR the door though. "Human caves? Never again!"
Good bird.
Every resource i tried to find, at the time, said "0.000321% chance of a successful release. Don't ever do it, just let it die, or take to proper care"
It wasn't even that difficult, granted with family on hand to assist when away at work, and VERY messy, but a good learning experience, if we ever needed to help another small bird, and a plethora of soul growth from watching things like "baby crow discovers music". She used to pluck the cage, play it with a pick, literally BUILT a drum kit out of different sounding materials, and would try to get anyone who made sounds with her to come do it again.
Jam bands are cool, but jamming with a baby crow, while it's discovering sound, id not trade that memory for anything.
Sorry, random memory lane wandering, watching dude lounge with his buddy the bandit, makes me miss Etta being indoors.
Great lakes, suburbia, so i made sure she's not super friendly, think every hands for sitting on, id catch her during practice flights in the stairwell, she knows how quick people can be. In a quieter place, like baja, I'd have wanted to encourage her gregariousness, here it was better not to
Magnificent job. Small numbers of people achieving more than the highly scientific research of Governments.
What beautiful restoration they have done! And conservation of species. I salute them!
Yes
What a beautiful family who will leave more for the world than most Aristocrats. ❤
Aristocrats are long gone. Who you'd call aristocrat now?
@@wipje41Taylor Swift and other celebrities?
@@wipje41um the entire British royal family, which are the richest billionaires in the world, exceeding even Bez0s, plus all the other royals from Europe, the insanely wealthy royals of Middle East, the Thai kings, sultans of Brunei, kings of Marocco? Richest parasites alive that just keep getting richer
Or politicians 😂
@@wipje41
The “ruling class” is long gone? Afraid not.
“A seed bank like this in every town“ - exactly
Every family should do the same in their area
aww i wants more!
This was a very enjoyable vid! i had no idea raccoons were that adorable!
This is so inspiring! I love this, thank you for sharing. I want to do the same in the Pacific Northwest of the US with a medicinal herbal botanical garden! How cool to see that Quetzal grew up right there in that ecosystem and is tending it so lovingly! I am just like him in my urban apartment, filling it in with every plant I can for climate control, medicine, and food! May your family be blessed and thank you to everyone who is growing for the future💚
Fate sapere quando tu iniziare a fare video no youtube. Sono una appassionata della natura . In speciale Erbe medicinale e gli alberi ❤ti abbraccio.
Take back our food sovereignity. ❤
Nothing is stopping you from planting a garden and growing your own food
Awesome Works, Love it!!!
Serious Roots n Culture.
This entire story gives me such happiness and a feeling of joy 🤗
Thank you for sharing 😊
One day I hope to achieve something similar here in Arizona.
Please do! One seed at a time
Great work Kitzia, Quetzal and Victor!!!💚
God bless this family and every how wants to make a difference on our beautiful planet ❤🙏🏻
Simplemente chulada de gente trabajadora...
LOVE this beautiful Family that had built an island of HOPE!
Inspiring, especially seeing a new young master of the growing community. I say to any young people to get amongst it you wont regret it. 👍
This is a brilliant project! Planting trees, fruits and vegetables in a deserted area is amazing! Hope that every people in your community will follow your path in order to thrive and have a sustainable environment. Keep it up and God bless.❤
Awesome and inspirational!
Amazing work!!!❤
Blessings and hugs from Vilcabamba,Ecuador!We will always remember you,Kizia!
Ecuador is still always in my heart. Gracias
@@KitziaKokopelmana Blessed be,my dear!
God bless them this is beautiful this is what the world needs more of 🙏
Amazing!
We will have love and a Peaceful World 🌎. Abundance
🥰🥰🥰Yes I agree with you.💕
Note to travelers to north america, raccoons are everywhere here and not always so friendly. Some are friendly but not most. So don't try and pet them. Great work by the way.
After living in Washington state for all my life, I'd live to live in Baja for the remainder of it. Very beautiful place to be.
Very cool stuff! I love that the whole family is in there working together. May many learn from you, be inspired, and take your ideas into action around their own lands.
Thanks 👍
God bless
Quetzal, what a cool name, and a 25!
Reminds me of Tucson Arizona used to have plenty of water and rivers now it barely gets precip
Thank you
Spread this all over the planet please
Powerful!
Kitzia is awesome
Great video thank you!
Great job!!! That's the way to go
not a wasting money as they doing in Saudi Arabia/Dubai and other artificial builds
Aloha! The most amazing food forest video! Amazing! Asante.
Awesome ❤❤❤
Wow great job!!!🎉🎉🎉
How inspiring & positive-thank you
It's near the town of La Ribera on the coast of the Sea of Cortez north of Los Cabos in Baja California, Mexico. That coastal desert land is blessed with an abundant supply of water from an aquifer fed by the Sierra de La Laguna mountains, the southernmost range on the Baja Peninsula.
Thanks for pointing this out ;-)
❤ wow, impressive and inspirational ❤ respect. From Canada 🇨🇦
Thanks for sharing!
The effort to create this space seem monumental but the result is a beautiful payoff.
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4:32 They should start spreading those seeds
One thing amazes me !!! Where you get enough water for all these plants and tress?? If you are using deep Borewells, then there is chances water tables will dry out. It will do more harm than good. If there are other sources of natural water like streams and aquifer then its wonderful...., you guys restored the natural habitat
Great Project! 💚✨
It's results of hard work and patience
In Colombia and Costa Rica they do this…
I love this! My idea of rich living.
Love your channel, thanks for the videos, good sir!
It would be great if they had de-salination machines for the ocean water so they could water all their plants more...i think all governments should implement these machines all over the world, because the ocean has so much water, (assuming they work ok)...And then all the deserts in the world could possibly grow back, which would balance out the climate, hopefully...And they also could use de-salination to replenish the underground aquifers, which seems very important, otherwise land sinks, but there would also need to be some purification filters too....🌺
Bravo merci beaucoup de votre Amour universelle pour les peuples et la planète terre mère et ces enfants 🌈🌳🌴🌲🌿🌹🌍🌹🌿🌳🌴🌲🌍🌈🌟
Great job
Grow Forest
How long time ?
How to maintenance ?
Awesome
It's awesome ,, thank for sharing
Nice!
(singing:) Heal the world, make it the better place, for you & for me ...
And the entire human race, there are people smiling, that you care enough for the living.
Make it better place for you & for me.
Heroes.
Wow!!!!
Good that they picked an area with potential .
The surrending areas have vegetation.
I've never seen acorns like those
Incredibly beautiful native to the region
Heroes!
Thanks for a beautiful, delightful video. We should be communicating on how to re-hydrate all of the continents and restoring all the ancient forests in the barren regions as part of #SDG15.
Thanks for the like! Enjoy World Water Day ...
Impresionante
I LOVE this! I don't live in the desert but we have beach sand and it's really difficult building up biomass. I am getting seeds and plants that most people don't have, like: Coffee, Sugarcane, Tobacco, Olives (hopefully) and several other things. Sadly, I am terrible at growing plants so a lot of them die.
That Is so inspiring
😮 GREAT VIDEO 😮
Wow really that young breaking ground tuff girl
I ❤ creators .
Incredible, there is a little hope for humanity yet, do you take people in to train them in your practices? They can they do same in their areas. (from caithness, scotland)
Could you do an upload on how they make their own compost?
Very nice! But under permanent irrigation....
Nice video
Are there projects planned to expand further out?
Yes, also in Ecuador
This reminds me of Curiomelt
Please correct me if I wrong but I read somewhere, some time ago that there was a large vault in a very cold region were thousands upon thousands of seeds of every kind are being kept for such a time where humanity made need it in case of a global catastrophe…
That might be true but seeds have a shelf life and some don't last that long, especially fruit trees seeds do not last very long, and in any case continually planting seeds keeps them adapted to the areas conditions. Aswell as the fact having a local seed bank means there is a place where people can come and get these local adapted seeds
I'm just here cause the title made me laugh cuz I had visions of Dickon Sowerby from the Secret Garden novel.
Does Baja have a fly problem, and does your food forest have any particular insect pest problem ??
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So if we had more 🌲 trees globally it would lower global warming and temperatures??🤔👀👍🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴🙏
Now I want a raccoon
They can be very aggressive and destructive. Would not recommend as a pet.
More than 40 years ago, I read an article at the library. It was part of a book laying open on the table. The Sahara desert use to be a forest. Until they cut down the trees. Assuming they cut down a lot at once. They didn't replant evidently. Have now seen two forests started in deserts. Mexico and Africa. Wondering if the same thing can be done on the edges of the Sahara?
Yes this is true! Also the trees caused for the rain to fall, so it was a self sustaining system. Then when the trees were gone, the rain was mostly gone. So the solution is to replant the trees again and eventually the rain will come again as well, when done on a massive and right way.
Cool.
However would this forest survive if left unmanaged by humans? Does it really fit into this desert. Deserts are full of life after all. This forest looks like semi wild arboretum.
I got competition thank God 😊
The should drill a well, amd recycle their water table.
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Should start a biodiverse cattle goat pig farm next door and nexto to that chickens geese ducks... ostrich... and go from there.
How does this affect the average temperature in the region? Considering deserts help cool the earth via albedo effect
We really need to get the billionaires like Musk and Bezos to adopt these as vanity projects instead of rockets. Terraform Earth not Mars.
I reconize some of those plants, but l know them by their native name such as pitanga and maracujá (passion fruit). Some of them l have in my home and some of them l find in the nature.