Designing Abundance: How Biomass Transforms a Barren Landscape
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- Опубліковано 22 лис 2024
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Geoff dives into the distinct features that contribute to the success of the Greening the Desert project-www.greeningth.... By carefully planning, designing, and deeply understanding natural systems, Geoff explains how the accumulation of biomass-various organic materials that enrich the soil-lays the groundwork for a resilient and flourishing ecosystem. By incorporating a wide variety of plants, from ground covers to hardy trees, the project not only rehabilitates degraded land, but also cultivates an interconnected web of life that stabilizes the soil, preserves water, and fosters a community of microorganisms.
In a region known for its harsh conditions and scarce rainfall, the Greening the Desert project demonstrates how thoughtful permaculture design, focused on mass and diversity, can create long-term resilience and abundance. This approach challenges conventional agriculture by showing that sustainability is about more than quick yields; it's about creating an enduring ecosystem that thrives naturally, supporting both people and the planet. This project stands as a beacon of hope, proving that even in one of the world's most unforgiving climates, it is possible to cultivate a landscape teeming with life and productivity.
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I was in my "Permaculture Forest Garden" backyard and I heard some people at my fence (they couldn't see me) and I heard one say "Oh my gosh, it's like a farm garden then suddenly it's like looking into a Alice In Wonderland!". It was best compliment! You have been such an inspiration and mentor to me Jeff. Thank you for all that you do and have done to be a light! Namaste
You can see how this may one day again be the land of milk and honey. Respect.
Ngl, I wish I could fund it
Respect indeed! Well done 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Already is :)
Too bad that too much diversity of plants and products makes it nearly impossible to scale up and sell the products. No money, no adherence from farmers.
It’s unbelievable, what it looked like and what it still looks like out side, but within those walls a garden.
The walls are part of why it remains a garden, and the hill where those goats were going is barren. Overgrazing of livestock is part of the reason most of the region is becoming a desert. There are ways to work animals into permaculture, but to bring broader change, like the Great Green Wall in Senegal requires funding to help the farmers restrict their goats for a few years while trees get big enough to survive. Imagine if the US gov funded permaculture instead of bombs, spies, and propaganda.
It's always a treat seeing new videos from Geoff!
Let's build new mini walkable towns entirely with permaculture techniques!
Thanks Geoff! it's been so awesome to see this site grow over the years. I live in Arizona, between Phoenix and Tucson. so I have a very similar climate, and I love seeing the possibilities. My 1 acre property is nowhere near as developed as the GTD site in Jordan, but it is a living work in progress. Thanks for inspiring us to keep working at it. Cheers Mate!
Amazing how the biomass changed the environment. I'm growing on stones with very little sandy soil and growing more soil with biomass is such a help.
Geoff isn't the only person with knowledge of permaculture, soil health or restoring soil fertility, which means we can find someone locally to refer us to Geoff's courses or learn better ways to heal nature.
Collectively we took a wrecking ball to our planet, it's time we start changing our ways, one garden, one balcony, one yard or farm at a time.
Amazing changes Geoff, watched you spend so much time, money and energy to get to this point.
Thank you. 🇨🇦💙
Great video! Would love to see an update of Abla's property. Cheers
Same!
Thanks Geoff for helping us realize what is possible!!
This is the most inspiring project I've ever learned about. Geoff Lawton has inspired me for a long time.
I have a small property, and perennials, ducks, and swales
This is wonderful Geoff. May all your students be wonderful satellites of your teachings, expanding the whole permaculture thinking across the globe until it seems just the normal way to live, to think, to see…
Wow the contrast of how much plants in the site compared to the area around is astonishing.
Always such a treat to watch these videos. Given the projects success, in some respects, it's surprising that the neighbourhood hasn't been keener to adopt the permacultural approach if the lack of greenery is anything to go by, even if all it meant was more comfortable summer living from the shade alone provided by tree canopies.
Thanks Geoff for us to learning how to deal with drought and help the earth
just love your work Geoff. thank you for everything you do for mother nature
GEOFF Lawton, THANK YOU! Not just for turning rocks & sand into soil, but for EVERY BEAUTIFUL INCH of this planet you have touched with your grace from YHWH! I cried tears of gratitude tonight that you were still publishing - BETTER THAN EVER! ✊🏽
Such a wonderful gift to the people and to the world - showing that if we care for the earth it will feed everyone and produce surplus.
We can change the world, a garden at a time. Thanks Geoff
You change your circumstances and be a hero, but maybe you have not met the average person on this Earth, who is hapless, and clueless, and selfish....
@@Menstral Some people can be taught to evolve. Not all. People of good conscience must be willing to band together and build seed banks, of plants, knowledge, and wisdom, like Geoff has built here. Many yearn for something different but can't find examples. And of course the broader dog-eat-dog capitalism chips away at all of this. But today, more than ever, more people are willing to ask for Ecosia to plant them a forest for their birthday than ask for presents. People who care about ecology may as well throw donations at the few orgs who do things right.
Looked in 8 years ago. The place continues to develops! Congratulations!
STUNNING PROJECT, thank you for being my number one source of inspiration, mentorship, education and hope for so many years!
God bless you Geoff, you are amazing!!! 🙏🙌😇 Thank you for what you’re doing for Mother Earth!!
Love this guy. Just simple return to the soil and you get that. Nature's amazing if it's allowed to be.
What a wonderful vision you and your wife had and it is lovely to see it slowly come to fruition. Well done Geoff & team
I love what you created here , i think the whole village should follow on the footstep and create a bustling oasis that stands out from the rest …. i will be doing something similar but on a much larger scale in Australia , targeting mainly arid zones and desert boundaries …. i might have to get in touch to consult with you on this mega project.
I always thought the property was bigger but that is amazing!
It's great to see that Robert Plant is so interested in permaculture!
Thank you, Geoff!
What you have managed to accomplish there is simply incredible. Thank you for inspiring us to keep moving forward, Geoff!
thank you Geoff always a plesure to watch your update.
Everytime i see videos on this project o get more will to go out and work on my land. Tanks.
Wonderful and exciting to see such progress. Thanks Geoff.
I'm reminded of a book by the sailor Bernard Moistessier. I don't remember which one, but he makes a home and garden on a sandy atoll. He lays palm fronds down on it and sees the soil change character over time. That really stuck with me as I was beginning to be introduced to permaculture at the same time from reading Gaia's Garden by Toby Hemmenway while working as a gardener for a local restaurant. I get a strong feeling of significance about concentrating biomass in garden systems and making positive feedback loops that expand. The taste of an heirloom tomato from good soil changed my life, the insane difference between that and the horrible thing from the grocery store totally blew my mind. I never liked tomatoes until that moment, now I understand that tomatoes are ambrosia and the grocery store sells garbage and taking care of the soil and water is everything.
another excellent, valuable presentation by Geoff !
Great training for Humanity Geoff.I am doing the same in Portugal.Cheers
As always I love your videos. You are an amazing teacher
Positive, useful, information. Greatly appreciated in these very weird times. Thank you.
Fantastic job!
Absolutely amazing. How much irrigation is needed to maintain this?
Very nice overview, thank you!
By the way, Greening the Desert project and also Permaculture Institute are written into a novel, "The Ministry for the Future" K. S. Robinson. 🙂
Wonderful work. We have a really arid and desertic area in south Spain. Something similar should be done here.
amazing progress. The site speaks volumes
I’m a huge fan of your work! I’ve been curious how would this project survive with only annual rainfall?
Thanks Jeff amazing work and result, i wish one day you could visit my farm in Sydney. i watch your videos and try to do project on my farm
Grande lavoro Geoff !!
Looking good I hope many follow your lead.im starting a small 3ac property in western Australian wheat belt .I'm setting my self a 7 year establishment time .Winter Frost then hot dry summer is a test .but following your advice and taking slow steps forward.thankyou
Amazing, big change happened there since my last visit 2 years ago
Thank you Geoff for the inspiration...could we have an update on Abla's garden if possible....
How can I find the project in Central Europe? Very interested I am!
this has been my most favorite of your projects for years now... greening the desert and bringing fertility to dead areas is what Permaculture is all about
Thank you! Could you please bring more info about your Central European project?
Very instructive.
I'm happy for the progress that this project has had in & through space & time! Congratulations to everyone that contributed to the success (& more successes) of this project!
Lots of love, cheers, & Mabuhay, from my end--the Philippines!
I would call Geoff the Green Noble Knight.
Gr8 seeing you there again. Hope all are safe… looking forward to seeing the project at Kim’s place in USA.
Cheers, m8!
Really great to see this transformation and I love the fact that you emphasise not everything needs to be edible. I think this is a really important part of growing people get wrong. Thank you 🌻
I have followed you for a long time now. And I think this is amazing. I can imagine if everyone in a mile radius would do the same. I always like the greening the desert updates. Thank you Geoff.
Always great to see a new video. Question,are the trees still being irrigated? Tks.
Are you bringing water into the system to supplement it ? If yes how long do you think it could last without irrigation?
I love the updates.
Keep going! In a year our two, they will see a green dot from space…❤
How beautiful ! ✨💕
Incredible job done well!
Geoff , I met a guy from the mldwest of the U.S.A. Iowa maybe ? He came from a farming family . He had a great quote . " We were just good dirt farmers . "
Always a pleasure! 👍😎
I’m curious, what is the project in Central Europe?
It's in Terény, Hungary.
@@mrdeanvincent thanks
Geoff you have done an amazing job. But why live there. Why are you not doing this in Australia. You have always been an inspiration and we have taken our little quarter acre block in country town Australia which was a barren piece of land to a wonderland. It took 20 years but I love what we have done Our backyard is our sanctuary now. God bless you stay safe
I remember 2009 when I discovered your greening the desert....
What an achievement and what a living example of the great possibilities of ecology and permaculture. This is the stewardship that was intended in the Bible and the holy Quran.
Inspiration to build in truth, apart from the inhumane and unnatural industrial agriculture based on the dogma of scarcity.
Great great great Geoff! You honor your teachers like the great Bill Mollison.
Love what You Do
Showing the World
A
Better Way. ❤
😊😊😊😊
I love to see updates from this project!
Are there videos from the project in central europe you mentioned, too?
very cool - bring the global confidence!
Imagine if they had done this all over the country or region. Just wonderful work....everything looks so green🌳🌴🍀🌿🌳🌴☘️☘️
Imagine the whole world. So many nutrients for body and soul.
Thank you
Inspiring!
If this is possible in the desert, we have no excuses to make foodforest work everywhere!
Wonderful!🌸
Where is the place in Europe to learn Permaculture?
Looking good Geoff, keep em coming.
Very impressive !
Incredible progress on the project, Geoff!
Just a small thing - Parkinsonia aculeata is native to arid environments in the Americas. Not sure how it acquired the name Jerusalem thorn.
nice ,thanks for review
In the Bible, this land surrounding Jericho was called "The Land of Milk and Honey". It took two men to carry a single bunch of grapes, slung on a pole between them. For many thousands of years it has been barren, but it is lovely to see a small corner of it becoming green and fertile again.
Speaking of honey, are there any beas on this site? Insect life of any form, I don't hear much of on greening the desert site.
Flies and butterflies do a lot of pollination, the latter need only to fly over the flowers to lift the pollen through an electromagnetic field and thus spreading it into the air... And you can't hear them doing it 😉
@@andanssas By that, I meant, I don't hear a report about it in video format by Geoff or others and I think it would be interesting content.
@@gm2407 I agree, it'd be valuable information. Wildlife/fauna influences the success of flora.
Sorry if you're receiving this comment again, it seems my previous one was deleted.
I’m surprised that more of your neighbors are not emulating you after 15 years.
Amazing Geoff thank you! Would these species work at 4k feet elevation in northern California ?
Just imagine this throughout the region. Sufficient resources for humans --> reduced violence.
Do you have a biogas digester plant that uses black water to make electricity, hot water, and fertilizer from human and animal waste? That sounds like a good idea and would allow gray water separation for immediate watering of the gardens.
Nice work!
Absolutely lovely! My mother studied under you and I love seeing what she shares! I'm currently in AZ and have been dreading setting down roots (pun intended 😂), but this post is making me second guess myself! I'm still watching, but how long ago was this all just sand??
Casuarina seems to be allopathic, or at least it acidifies the soil. Which one is it?
What greening method can we apply for human flourishing?
Geoff, I would like to hear your perspective on China's greening desert project. Is permaculture possible on such a grand scale with relatively minor stewardship?
If it can work there, it can work pretty much anywhere 🙂
Looks tropical ❤❤❤❤
Geoff, what's your favorite variety of fig tree?
I was thinking about this topic recently. Retoring a desrtified piece of land in a meditaranian climate. And my biggest question was: where would I get the biomass to even start. What would I compost to create soil and humus....
Where is the Central European site situated please?
Where do any of these plants come from originally .. ? Have you brought in seeds, seedlings, shrubs etc to plant there, at the right time ?
what s the percenatge of land used of production compare to one used for fertilization?
Getting water & mulch to the site is obviously the key to success. But how best to boost soil nutrients (which are depleted by plant mass), without using artificial fertilisers ?