The Miyawaki afforestation method requires quite a small space, at least 20 square feet. One must seed plants very close to save space and dense plant growth. This will also allow young trees to protect each other and block sunlight from hitting the forest's ground, preventing parasitic plant growth.
I live in the southern US and a great example of this phenomenon is the Sweetgum tree. They're great in Miyawaki forests because they grow so fast, but also they're difficult to grow with other plants in Miyawaki forests because they grow so fast (2-3 feet or 70-100cm per year for their first 25 years of life)
Context is everything. No "system" should ever be slavishly applied just anywhere. I start with seed, collected from the "forest" you want to restore (and please don't forget the understory, as well as the soil microbiome and the cryptogamic soil crust community. Not all forests are as tall as they are in Japan and the Eastern Seaboard. I have done all my work in the more xeric climates (mainly Mediterranean and desert) of the Southwest US. for over fifty years, I used primarily on-site materials, minimizing or eliminating external inputs. It doesn't "fail," it adjusts. Some projects have been entirely on their own for more than forty or fifty years. Some have been destroyed.
Good to hear of your many projects for reestablishing healthy soils and forests. The projects described here certainly follow that lead, using native plants for the area and feeding the soil with organic matter and active compost tea to establish healthy microbial activity.
I did that sort of unintentionally on my 3.5 wooded acres in NC. When I purchased 10 years ago a quarter acre was overgrown with “trees from hell” also know at the invasive tree from heaven. I slashed, burned and kept the mature persimmons. Planted cultivar hazelnuts, sunchoke, elderberry, volunteer blackberries. and let it go a few years. There are six foot persimmons with a few fruits, first year of hazelnuts, Passion flower. I’m trying to root mulberry cuttings currently. Nice to read and write back.
Ours are with our local Binunga Trees..We just plant one to 3 trees then the following year the seeds will fall and proliferate fast.Goofor firewoods too with selective way of harvesting..I coined it Regenerative Surgical Agriculture with bananas and other crops around..I first heard Christian Science Monitor in the 1980s while I was Associate Editor of Bohol Inquirer when National Geographic sent me a copy of your Gmelina Research and writeups featuring Daniel K.Ludwig who planted almost a million hectares of Gmelina in his Jari.Project in Rainforests of Brazil
1:45 in and I'm in ❤❤❤❤❤ . I wanna do it!! I just taught my students about Satochi-Satoyama. This concept seems much more doable and I think I'm gonna.
Why are these small wooded patches being referred to as forests? It seems to me that that is quite a grandiose word to be using for patches of trees which could not possibly operate on the scale of a real forest in terms of their ability to secure and maintain an ecosystem in the same way.
It will become a forest. Some trees won't make it, others grow, seed and spread. Creates a micro climate, protects smaller vulnerable plants, etc. Start it and it will grow.
@@luciatheron1621 Yes, provided there is space for a the trees to spread their seed and expand their territory. But these green oases are completely restricted due to where they are located. So they can never grow to the size and definition of a ‘forest’. It’s an undeniable fact and a pretty obvious one at that.
How big does it have to be to be considered a forest? Who gets to decide what is and isn't a forest? Also, we don't know the plan for this area. The forest is located in a much larger park that is mostly lawn. Maybe the forest will spread.
It will spread on its own if there's available land, but bear in mind that a lot of tree species reach reproductive age and start giving fruits and seeds only after 30 and more years, so in the beginning adjacent territories will be colonized by weeds and shrubs, which will also take part in the soil building process. Only then will it eventually be succeeded by new trees from those originally planted, perhaps not within our lifetime.
Is in the middle of an urban area, so that's doubtful. They're already so full. It doesn't matter, though. Just what they planted there will have huge benefits for air quality, ground water etc for a long time
Forest vegetation grows fine in the poorest of soil. This is why lowest class of soil is usually used for tree schools or reforestation by farmers because at least you can get some lumber out of it later.
Probably not, as most trees couldn't handle the desert. You could probably do something like this on the edge to cause the desert to retreat. There are many videos about it with clickbait titles like "... built an oasis in the desert 3 years... this is how..."
@@johntheherbalistg8756 I'm meaning with native desert plants. We used to have mesquite bosques here in Tucson. People are making desert habitats with rainwater harvesting basins with wood chip mulch and native grasses and bushes to create good soil and retain the moisture longer.
Don’t when India will start thinking about in this direction…I want to contribute but there are no places or people don’t want a tree in or near by their premises, specially in north India.
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I think Moscow has a lot more to think about before these, your society is rotting your government is pushing the world to war and your people do nothing, grow balls not trees.
It’s great in principle. However, in practice it is very difficult to do. In suburbia, there is massive deer browse (because they’ve lost their habitat) that destroy the native flora and ground cover, and then there is constant encroachment by invasive species. Nevertheless, I continue to try.
There is no climate change, just climate. As an inhabitant we all need to do what we can to make things better then we found it, governments ,greed and bad engineering have done the most damage. Many so called natural disasters are man made from building on flood plains to not taking large rain events into consideration...
When you plant that thick, plants will compete and weaken each other. Diseases will follow. Furthermore tree roots will brake sidewalks and asphalt. Finally canopy trees are a serious liabiity when so close to people and car passage. That kind of space can take 1-3 hazelnut trees and 4-5 bush cherries ... even if you cancel my post.
Also not sure why it is annoying to plant native species. Many native insects have evolved to eat native plants. They can't survive without them. The more native insects, the more birds the land can support. And maybe even toads and snakes. How is that bad?
The name of this channel reminds us of the parents who are now in jail for denying medical lifesaving treatment to their children, having chosen prayer instead. Disgusting.
The compost tea dunk in the container before planting is a great idea.
The Miyawaki afforestation method requires quite a small space, at least 20 square feet. One must seed plants very close to save space and dense plant growth. This will also allow young trees to protect each other and block sunlight from hitting the forest's ground, preventing parasitic plant growth.
I live in the southern US and a great example of this phenomenon is the Sweetgum tree. They're great in Miyawaki forests because they grow so fast, but also they're difficult to grow with other plants in Miyawaki forests because they grow so fast (2-3 feet or 70-100cm per year for their first 25 years of life)
I m also planting trees wherever i can and I have planted 300 trees and watered them..... It gives tremendous joy❤love from🇮🇳
Wow buddy
Make a vlog and upload it
I love the idea of creating this vibrant forest 😍
Context is everything. No "system" should ever be slavishly applied just anywhere. I start with seed, collected from the "forest" you want to restore (and please don't forget the understory, as well as the soil microbiome and the cryptogamic soil crust community. Not all forests are as tall as they are in Japan and the Eastern Seaboard. I have done all my work in the more xeric climates (mainly Mediterranean and desert) of the Southwest US. for over fifty years, I used primarily on-site materials, minimizing or eliminating external inputs. It doesn't "fail," it adjusts. Some projects have been entirely on their own for more than forty or fifty years. Some have been destroyed.
Good to hear of your many projects for reestablishing healthy soils and forests. The projects described here certainly follow that lead, using native plants for the area and feeding the soil with organic matter and active compost tea to establish healthy microbial activity.
I did that sort of unintentionally on my 3.5 wooded acres in NC. When I purchased 10 years ago a quarter acre was overgrown with “trees from hell” also know at the invasive tree from heaven. I slashed, burned and kept the mature persimmons. Planted cultivar hazelnuts, sunchoke, elderberry, volunteer blackberries. and let it go a few years. There are six foot persimmons with a few fruits, first year of hazelnuts, Passion flower. I’m trying to root mulberry cuttings currently. Nice to read and write back.
The best seeds is the natives one, I heard. The true owner and would bring balance.
THAT is how you tend your lawn!
Brilliant. Amazing. Wonderful. This gives me a hope for the future of our children.
Congratulations to the founder and team 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Thats incredible, well done to everyone working on this project, God bless ❤❤❤
ty and keep up the good work
That's really awesome. I have a few bald cypress i started from seeds. Also oaks
Ours are with our local Binunga Trees..We just plant one to 3 trees then the following year the seeds will fall and proliferate fast.Goofor firewoods too with selective way of harvesting..I coined it Regenerative Surgical Agriculture with bananas and other crops around..I first heard Christian Science Monitor in the 1980s while I was Associate Editor of Bohol Inquirer when National Geographic sent me a copy of your Gmelina Research and writeups featuring Daniel K.Ludwig who planted almost a million hectares of Gmelina in his Jari.Project in Rainforests of Brazil
Very nice set up❤
if you grow fishes alongside, you can spray them with water from fish filter chamber, quite high quality fertilizer water i'd say
Urban forest wonderful idea every where in the world 😅😅😅
1:45 in and I'm in ❤❤❤❤❤ . I wanna do it!! I just taught my students about Satochi-Satoyama. This concept seems much more doable and I think I'm gonna.
Amazing work!
Great work
Please tell me that's a sumac I'm looking at and not a Ailanthus altissima.....
They look so similar at 4-5 ft. Stage......
Really cool
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So proud!!its gotta bee good 4nature wild life an us😊😊😊❤❤❤❤🎉🎉
need a miawaki food forest 🤪
Mayawaki ❤
Muito boa iniciativa, parabéns ❣🥰🙏
Good
america is so uprooted, you gotta teach people that forests are good...
Fast result 👍🏻
Why are these small wooded patches being referred to as forests? It seems to me that that is quite a grandiose word to be using for patches of trees which could not possibly operate on the scale of a real forest in terms of their ability to secure and maintain an ecosystem in the same way.
It will become a forest. Some trees won't make it, others grow, seed and spread. Creates a micro climate, protects smaller vulnerable plants, etc. Start it and it will grow.
@@luciatheron1621 Yes, provided there is space for a the trees to spread their seed and expand their territory. But these green oases are completely restricted due to where they are located. So they can never grow to the size and definition of a ‘forest’. It’s an undeniable fact and a pretty obvious one at that.
How big does it have to be to be considered a forest? Who gets to decide what is and isn't a forest?
Also, we don't know the plan for this area. The forest is located in a much larger park that is mostly lawn. Maybe the forest will spread.
Will the forest spread and become larger on its own, or do you need to add nutrients?
It will spread on its own if there's available land, but bear in mind that a lot of tree species reach reproductive age and start giving fruits and seeds only after 30 and more years, so in the beginning adjacent territories will be colonized by weeds and shrubs, which will also take part in the soil building process. Only then will it eventually be succeeded by new trees from those originally planted, perhaps not within our lifetime.
Is in the middle of an urban area, so that's doubtful. They're already so full. It doesn't matter, though. Just what they planted there will have huge benefits for air quality, ground water etc for a long time
Forest vegetation grows fine in the poorest of soil. This is why lowest class of soil is usually used for tree schools or reforestation by farmers because at least you can get some lumber out of it later.
Indians ❤
Can you do this with Sonoran desert plants?
Probably not, as most trees couldn't handle the desert. You could probably do something like this on the edge to cause the desert to retreat. There are many videos about it with clickbait titles like "... built an oasis in the desert 3 years... this is how..."
@@johntheherbalistg8756 I'm meaning with native desert plants. We used to have mesquite bosques here in Tucson. People are making desert habitats with rainwater harvesting basins with wood chip mulch and native grasses and bushes to create good soil and retain the moisture longer.
@@janastormont2278 If you have natives that will grow that close, then you can
great job...
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Don’t when India will start thinking about in this direction…I want to contribute but there are no places or people don’t want a tree in or near by their premises, specially in north India.
so you start with your friends! and open it to the community. I am sure people with join!
What is the budget per square meter of forest ?
Great initiative
please leave the dandelions!
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Planted with little room to mature? Good work. "forest"?
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Здорово! Как думаете, в Московской области нужны леса выращенные по способу Мияваки?
I think Moscow has a lot more to think about before these, your society is rotting your government is pushing the world to war and your people do nothing, grow balls not trees.
She is everything the new generation is all about. This is hopeful.
I would love to link up and start a program in the city of Houston Texas.
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1:11 thats a lot of ailanthus actually..you may need to apply some herbicide on it to help the planted trees
Maybe native stag horn sumac? Hard to tell
Do you think the trees are planted too close together ?
That’s the whole point of the method. All their energy is used to grow upward due to their close proximity. Hence these forests grow up fast.
But Bill Gates says, we dont need trees, actually we should cut so much as possible, or are we idiots? 😂
Extremely expensive restoration
It’s great in principle. However, in practice it is very difficult to do. In suburbia, there is massive deer browse (because they’ve lost their habitat) that destroy the native flora and ground cover, and then there is constant encroachment by invasive species. Nevertheless, I continue to try.
Plant trees that grow food instead
It’s about biodiversity not growing food.
Maybe there are no native edible fruit trees in that area
It is growing food, just not for humans
A bit misleading, dictionary definition of a forest: A growth of trees and other plants covering a large area. Looks good, but is a copse at best.
There is no climate change, just climate. As an inhabitant we all need to do what we can to make things better then we found it, governments ,greed and bad engineering have done the most damage. Many so called natural disasters are man made from building on flood plains to not taking large rain events into consideration...
When you plant that thick, plants will compete and weaken each other. Diseases will follow.
Furthermore tree roots will brake sidewalks and asphalt.
Finally canopy trees are a serious liabiity when so close to people and car passage.
That kind of space can take 1-3 hazelnut trees and 4-5 bush cherries ... even if you cancel my post.
900 plants in 1400 square feet of land? Huh?
I can’t watch this, the topic is interesting but the drawling vocal fry from the girls is so annoying .
Semantic observation: it's not a forest. Perhaps a bush.
wtf is this bs? money laundering?
... yes, vegetation grows well on earth.
I like this but why not plant food. It's silly to not help people out super annoying we wanna be native only.
This park was formerly a landfill. You would probably not want to plant vegetables here.
Also not sure why it is annoying to plant native species. Many native insects have evolved to eat native plants. They can't survive without them. The more native insects, the more birds the land can support. And maybe even toads and snakes. How is that bad?
The name of this channel reminds us of the parents who are now in jail for denying medical lifesaving treatment to their children, having chosen prayer instead.
Disgusting.