Crisis, Hope and Permaculture
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- Опубліковано 15 тра 2024
- Step into the world of permaculture with world-renowned teacher, designer, and consultant Geoff Lawton. In this video, Geoff sheds light on the pressing issues facing our world today. From sustainability challenges to food security and water cycles, he confronts the stark reality while offering tangible solutions in permaculture principles.
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Key Takeaways
- The world’s current industrialized systems are destroying the planet and threatening the existence of humanity.
- If we can change our behavior and intentions, we can design our way out of the existing problems, particularly those associated with climate change.
- Permaculture is a design science that strives to push our production systems beyond sustainability and into resilience.
- Zaytuna Farm looks to address the world’s major problems through thoughtful, ethical design that make humans a benefit to the environment rather than a bane.
- Geoff Lawton is a permaculture teacher/designer/consultant and managing director of Zaytuna Farm, home of the Permaculture Research Institute of Australia.
- Geoff started with permaculture in his late 20s, studying under the system’s founder, Bill Mollison.
- He discovered permaculture after immigrating to Australia, and it renewed his desire to lead a self-sufficient lifestyle, as well as provided him with a logical way to do it.
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Talks and teaches more sense than anybody else I have come across😊
He’s wonderful; try listening to Greg Judy if you haven’t. He’s another one of those guys that just gets it
"The world will change by design or by disaster"... I still hope for the first option!
Australia has a lot of sheep and cattle paddocks permaculture is the solution. It supply's a solid foundation for all hobby farms with the swales, earthworks and sustainable system designs, I love the decentralized concept of permaculture courses it really is the right way if we want to keep it alive. Thank You Bill and Thanks you Geoff
Here in San Diego North County, a robust, Keyline pond native-dominant agrofoodforestry homestead system..is illegal.
Great teacher, AMAAAZING course. Permie for life!
Amazing method of farming Geoff. Truly inspirational.
Doin my best Geoff
Ty for leading the way 🙏
One of my absolute favorite channels here on UA-cam. It's great to learn & implement some of your teachings.
Greetings, Geoff, from Windermere, Florida zone 9b USA
I've been watching your work for almost a decade. I'm 74 and have been Gardening since I was 21 in Hawaii and Florida. Since 2009 I have been raising Red Wigglers, Eisenia Fetida. And I live in a development of residential homes. My space is 50'x125' with a house, garage, porches, sidewalks, etc. I barely have 1,000 square feet of space, but I garden in patches and pots. I've created my own tiny Oasis with trees and rain barrels. And I challenged myself to save 2,000 pounds of house/yard trash from going to the landfill in '23 and in '24!
We can all do our best 👌
PeggyHelblingsGardenWhatYouveGot7920
Please keep up the great work
❤Peggy❤
Thank you and your family and your team for your focused efforts.
I agree 100% with you Geoff. Thank you for your work and inspiration. Because of you and others I made changes to my own tiny garden and it works. And now I try to get as many flowers as I can possibly plant in the tight space that I have in order to help the insects as much as I can. And I also try to make more people aware of possible solutions by sharing sources of information. 👍
Geoff you inspire so much to this generation, thank you! Grettings from 🇪🇨 Ecuador
Word.
I turn people off because I beat myself and other lazy non-caring humans up about lifestyle choices, and berate the system - it works for me and keeps me trucking along the permaculture path but therefore I cant teach others with words, only the landscape results of my work prove the effects. Thank you for putting this stuff out there so I can send the links to those I hope to inspire and let you do the talking side of it!
I have been trying permaculture on my 600 sq m suburban block with a 90s house 3x1 here in Perth WA but when it doesn't rain for 6 months of the year with summer temps in 40s it is a real struggle growing food. I have now resorted to kratky and hydroponics to supplement some food security .
Thank you for being a great teacher and initiator 💚
Nice to have a post 👍.
Id enjoy the lifestyle and location aleays nice to see the both properties flourishing
I agree with your sediments about well designed systems that increase productivity each year, using balanced eco systems.
Here in the Philippines most farmers use roundup to kill the grass & weeds . As an organic farmer, I advise them that they are slowly destroying their soil, contaminating the waterways and the food they produce is harmful to their health. Yet most continue on, because its easier.
Eventually they have to sell up.
Thank you for putting SO MUCH good in the world.
May Allah reward you 🍀 for all the knowledge you spread in this world
“A wild system that can’t be controlled, cos it isn’t centralised” 🔥
Absolutely Amazing🌈❤️🔥
I would have liked to do the course this time, but currently I am studying at TAFE Cert 3 Horticulture. I bought Bill Mollisons Permaculture Book the large one and reading it in spare time. I wish to become as self sufficient as possible on quarter acre suburban yard. With 8 chooks.
Listen to what he says,
"You know, listening is a great art. It is one of the great arts we have not cultivated: to listen completely to another. When you listen so completely to another, as I hope you are doing it now, you are also listening to yourself, listening to your own problems, to your own uncertainties, to your own misery, confusion, the desire for security, the gradual degradation of the mind, which is becoming more and more mechanical. We are talking over together what human beings are, which is you. So you psychologically are the world and the world is you. You may have dark hair, somewhat brown faces, others may be taller, fairer with eyes slanted, but wherever they live, in whatever clime, in whatever circumstances, affluent or not, every human being, like you, goes through all this turmoil, the noise of life, without any beauty, never seeing the splendour in the grass, or the glory in the flower. So you and I and the others are the world, because you suffer, your neighbor suffers, whether that neighbor be ten thousand miles away, they are similar to you. Your culture may be different, your language may be different, but basically, inwardly, deeply, you are like another. And that's a fact. This is not a theory, this is not something that you have to believe. It's a fact. And so you are the world and the world is you. I hope you are listening to it. As I said, we have lost the art of listening. To listen to a statement of that kind that the world is you and you are the world, probably you have never heard this before, and so it might sound very strange, illogical or unreal. So you partially listen and wish that I would go on talking more about other things; so you never actually listen to the truth of anything. If I may request you, please, kindly listen not only to the speaker, but also listen to yourself, listen to what is happening in your mind, in your heart, in your responses and so on. Listen to all that. Listen to the birds, listen to that car going by, so that we become sensitive, alive, active. So if you will kindly so listen, we can then proceed.
Humanity has evolved from the ape and so on, according to the scientists, for many, many million years. Our brain is the result of many, many millennia of time. That brain, that human mind, is now so conditioned with fear, with anxiety, with national pride, with linguistic limitations, and so on. So the question then is, to bring about a different society in the world, you as a human being who is the rest of humankind, must radically change. That is the real issue, not how to prevent wars. That's also an issue, how to have peace in the world, that is secondary, all these are peripheral, secondary issues. The fundamental issue is-is it possible for the human mind, which is your mind, your heart, your condition, is that possible to be totally, fundamentally, deeply transformed? Otherwise we are going to destroy each other, through our national pride, through our linguistic limitations, through our nationalism which the politicians maintain for their own benefit and so on and on and on.
So I hope I have made the point very clear. That is, is it possible for you as a human being who is the rest of humanity psychologically, inwardly, you are like the rest of other human beings living in the world, is it possible for your condition to change?"
J. Krishnamurti
Public Talk 1 Colombo, Sri Lanka
November 8, 1980
Living legend of permaculture :)
Yes, we definitely need Geoff's help here in central Mexico, there are somethings that just don't make sense, like growing celery which demands alot of water to grow, in a semi-arid climate (rains come june to septiembre), with ground water pumped up! It would be best to plant hardy, drought resistant plants and trees than those that require copious amounts of water to grow and produce.
Thanks for sharing Geoff.
Great teacher we proud of you love your videos
Thank you.
Great video. Thank you
Bless you Geoff. May we wake up, one landowner at a time.
One issue that is still confounding is the vast proliferation of PFAS, PFOAS everywhere.
Have you heard of any way to remediate?
Last study was on hemp at a N.E. US military base.
I haven't seen the follow-up.
I keep telling people to stop with the chemicals, regenerative agriculture, agro-forestry, soil health.
I am growing a bit of food myself, organic.
I am curious about remediation. In the US they are seizing farms for PFA contamination, as I recall.
You means stop the chemicals, START with regenerative ag, agroforestry, and soil health.
@@b_uppy No, the question was can we do something to remediate the damage already done. Finding a better solution for plastic durability than the PFAs is an important step, I have no idea what's being done in that regard, but we have to acknowledge that we're not just going to stop using plastics globally. The broad generalization about regenerative ag, soil health ignores the question - how can we get the PFAs Out that are already there.
@@peterellis4262
Reread how they wrote it. It says "STOP with the chemicals, regenerative ag, agroforestry, and soil health."
Pretty sure the latter three are something we want...
In the Caribbean it's so hot. This is the hottest it's been for so long. 90°-100° temps in the cooler part of the winter/ spring months. I don't want to think about what it's gonna be in the middle of summer, August( usually the hottest month). Air conditioners are becoming a necessity, not a luxury. They are predicting high numbers of hurricanes this season because the ocean is warmer. I think we're past the tipping point. Individuals are making changes, but the change really has to be from governments and commercial entities. And I don't see that happening any time soon.
Hi Geoff,
I have been following you for approximately 12 months now. I have gone from being an absolute non gardener to an obsessed Permaculture enthusiast. I have a 3/4 acre sloped property north of Brisbane and spend as much time in my yard digging swales, planting fruit trees, shrubs, perennials and annuals whilst simultaneously cutting down my existing trees and shrubs and turning them into wood chip and mulch as I can. I use absolutely no chemicals or non organics in the garden and am currently working on turning my acid clay soil into viable biologically alive soil. I have a bathtub worm farm, I use rainwater from my 22000 litre tank and raise most crops from seed. I am hoping to do your 10 day course at some point over the next couple of years. Thanks for your great content.
ua-cam.com/video/1yPiZeRGECU/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared.
Love your work Geoff. The Oasis in the desert you've helped to create is divine. I have 100 acres in Wallangra and applying what I have learned from people like yourself that are showcasing the potential of the knowledge when you apply it with some observation and contemplation. Weedy's Garden is a great example of how students of the knowledge you teach can do it too. Much love and respect, all the best to you and the family.
After completing a Permaculture Design Course (PDC) with the Tom Kendall, I created this channel just a few days ago and adding content weekly to share compelling before and after videos that highlight the remarkable transformations achieved through permaculture and to witness the power of sustainable design and see how these methods can rejuvenate landscapes.
Working on my property and hopeful others are too !
Thank you Geoff for everything you do. You mentioned that you developed your own system, and would like to know what's the difference between your system to Bill's system? Thanks in advance! Have a great day!
Industrial agriculture runoff not only carries away the topsoil, but it transports huge amounts of fertilizers and biocides into the oceans, creating dead zones and its own whole set of problems.
If you don't have the means, grab some dirt, find a glass container/clay pot, find a thrown away tomato, pepper, squash (ect,), and retrieve the seed, plant it out. If you do have some means but no land, join a CSA and grow herbs and other shade tolerant produce on the brightest part of your apartment, and if you have a house with an inch of soil, or concrete even, you know what to do. Beyond that, organize with your neighbors and friends, coordinate who grows what, build community and resiliency outside of our selfish bubbles.
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salute 🫡🎖️
Hi from South Afrika. When I tried to find out about your courses your chatbot said you would come back to me but I neverheard a thing....
Hi Geoff. Do you know why henbane is spreading across America, and what the solution is?
what is the best way to find work in permaculture near western sydney?
04:18 Does that tool have a sharp or serrated edge? What's is it called?
Rice knife
They need to be quite sharp. Not sure whether or not any are made with serrated edges.
nature rules
Althou i buy less and less in this doomed/saviour dialetics, and it is becomming harder and harder to belive in permaculture as a substitute to industrial food prodution on a global comercial scale, i sure more and more inspired by your teachings and projects, and my permaculture pratices. Tanks.
Conventional ag destroys soil, causes hardpan soil conditions, depletes soil nutrients, biota and water permeability.
Conventional ag depletes the water supply and the Oglala Aquifer is at 20%, enough soil expected to last less than 40 years, less fuel security, less food nutrition, more poison, less health, etc under conventional ag.
With techniques like restoration ag (look up Mark Shepard) and permaculture, you can grow more crops with more food diversity and resiliency than conventional ag methods.
You certainly cannot believe in industrial food production as the answer on the global commercial scale - because we all can see right now that it has failed us. Food production needs to be localized as much as possible, because reliance on international transportation of food is already breaking down.
@@peterellis4262 b uppy
"Industrial farming" brought the pop from 2 billion to 8 billion in just 200 years. And is feeding us better then anytime before in the last 5000 years. Dosent seem to be going down. Only up, more thechy and productive. As one of billions...im tankfull.
Mark Shepard is one of my favourite permaculturists, he runs a 100 acres plus property, and to survive he also does youtube, consulting, workshops, real state development...
Maybe there are some comercial permaculture outhere living of comercial food prodution. But i dont know a single one.
Maybe because permaculture is, by design and philosophy anti comercial. That why is perfect for homesteading, can co exist as a landscaping style, and maybe even be part of silviculture management...but as comercial food prodution is...inexistent.
WE do not need industral food production, this is what businesses who support the wages of governments across the globe want you to believe. You only have to look at the amount of surplus food supermarket chains dispose of, it's a global business mindset which encourages you to buy more than what you actually need. Permaculture works, even at the smallest level, you just have to sow one single seed and you are on the right path, imagine if every family did this across the globe then the results would be astonishing. Remember observe nature, she knows the way.
Conventional agriculture is degrading soil, and depleting water in aquifers. It is estimated that we have less than twenty years left of soil before conventional farmers are on hardpan soil. The Oglala Aquifer is at 20% capacity.
Monocropping degrades soil. It is diminishes soil fertility, dries out too easily, it requires lots of synthetic chemicals, harms wildlife and soil biota, etc. If they have a large frost or hailstorm, they have nothing to sell.
Techniques like restoration ag the uses alley-cropped food producing trees, vines and shrubs alternating in rows with grasses, annuals, and perennials. He uses livestock to manage crop residues, weeds, culls, fertility, pest control, etc. He avoids overgrazing. He sells multiples crops and if one or two crops are destroyed, he has other that are viable.
He can sell food both locally and in the larger market.
We must switch to land-/animal-/people-friendly food producing methods because conventional ag is too fragile.
I agree, we must change our ways for the sake of our future generations. Our Creator did not intend for us to live like this and care for the earth He gave us this way neither.
However, there is no climate change. But, there is weather control, seeding the clouds and Chem trails that are responsible for most of the catastrophic events.
Pole shift weak magnetic sphere, solar cycle. Sun is responding to center of universe waves. The govts try to control things but those are very small compared to Sun power. Work with natural systems is best for cooling reflection, or solar kiln timber for bio char. Or roofing. We will see the importance of dew, gravity irrigation.
👍thank you for encouragement and teaching
Are you having a look at the sky and the stripes planes are leaving from morning to evening all over at least the western world (geo engineering)? They are even altering the old movies for people to think, the stripes have been there since the beginning of aviation.
It’s not a crisis it’s just life how it has been and will be.
A mass extinction is "normal" in the sense that it happened with the rise of cyanobacteria along with other global changes, but humans have the capability to build or destroy.
Do insects under wood chips cause disease or stem borers for plants?
No wood chip is beneficial.
Dont have mulch too close to base of tree. It helps regulate moisture cooling at drip line of plant. A slow soil creation. The outside of swales is okay, don't till under new wood, only half broken down wood. Bio char is good to balance out soggy clay.
Geoff , have you gotten into spirulina over the years ?
You should post many classes for backyard vegetable gardens. In the US, they are starting to ban local, small farmers forcing us to only buy vegetables from grocery stores. I am trying to grow vegetables in my backyard but it is not that successful and I am finding myself spending more money on fertilizers and compost. Would love to hear from you.
Listen to Geoff’s hair.
True. Very very true. Just not the climate crisis... There is only pollution and change. Stopping war, movies, politics and banks would be great - like everything became normal after a lockdown for seven days... Just become more human and less psychopathic technocrat.
Well said.
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I can't believe you are pushing this agenda 😞 I've always admire your teachings but for you to post 'this' (not even sure what the message was), disappointed! What we in Australia do is minimal, what we do as individuals, irrelevant!
What corporations do, unbelievable! Supermarkets, changing their bags to 'single use' natural resource. I still use their old plastic bags because they lasted, 'multiple use' from a recycled product! But you know it a con when they haven't changed any of 'their' packaging. I used to use old shopping bags as bin liners, now I still use bin liners but I have to pay for them... my habits don't change but if they changed their habits it would make a massive difference... just one example of the hypocrisy.
The real issue is when GOVERNMENTS approve houses to be built on flood Plains and create flooding. I'm fighting to not let this happen but not GOVERNMENTS. GOVERNMENTS approve deforestation, we fight it. Corporations use poisons on our food and government protects them.
Don't preach to US that we need to change!!! It's policies made, that we're fighting that need to change but it will never change because the criminals in charge are greedy, murdering, poisoning disgraceful traitors!!!
Please don't continue the BS, pointing the finger at US when we know who the real perpetrators are. And btw, animals are part of the solution so make sure that message is front and centre in your messages...
I do not profess to know any more than you about anything, first and foremost. I honor your opinion. I want to see you, my friends, family, and mirror image, HAPPY. The United States is a land of laws. Laws are introduced, debated, and chiseled into legal template for the Senate. If the Senate approves the approved congressional bill, the bill goes to the president to be signed into supreme law of the land (Federal Law). To fight everything you are opposed, you must do so through congress, or the courts.
There’s a crisis crisis. My god, you need a sign that says “the end is nigh”.
I'm all for the movement, but the scaremongering is a bit extreme.
You might create alot of stress for alot of unfortunate people that don't have the resources.
The permacult works for the big players that charge fairly exuberant amounts to learn what we need to do.
Permaculture is actually really simple in that it is about maximising the amount of energy that is available to you.
Examples if you live in a city, live as close as possible to your work.
If you can grow, produce some of your own requirements.
Buy produce that is produced locally where you can.
Share seeds and produce.
Learn how people did things prior to industrialisation, but now we have the tools and efficiencies from industrialisation to help us.
Another way of looking at it is a dollar not spent is a dollar saved is a dollar made.
if you're stressed, that's your own personal psychological choice, not anyone else's fault.
there's tons of free info available on permaculture, nothing is being hidden from you, you can start learning, start implementing, start experimenting in your own back yard.
sure you can spend thousands on a PDC design course if you want an expert to give you personal attention, but it's absolutely not necessary.
don't make excuses for failure, go, get started, and learn how to work with nature.
@@michaelgusovsky at what point did I say I was stressed? My comment is regarding the scare mongering that is being used by people trying to benefit financially. like I said, I’m all for the movement but the scaremongering is extreme.
I’ve been practising for 8 years, I’ve purchased 138 acres, designed and built my shed house, off-grid power system, garden & potting shed & alternative sanitary system, I’ve visited zaytuna and done I’ve multiple short courses, I’ve produced vegetables commercially and for self consumption.
This was all done averaging full time work hours.
What have you done?
@@grouchoglobe that’s a great summary thanks grouch :) I understand the principles and appreciate the majority of what has been branded permaculture. Scaremongering is not one of the permaculture principles, and the content of this video i believe is over the top. People have lived in many cultures eastern and western, using principles that aren’t branded “permaculture”.
Permaculture wont fix all of the world’s problems, and humans aren’t the only cause contributing to the situation. For example, how did the dinosaurs cause climate change? They didn’t. The climate changes constantly.
@@lukey7369 you said:
"You might create alot of stress for alot of unfortunate people that don't have the resources."
i had no stress from watching a video that was pretty straightforward, but apparently you considered it stressful.
as far as "what have you done?", thanks, but i'll pass on your invitation to a mine-is-bigger-than-yours contest.
any free courses for poor people
Depends on how poor you're talking. I'm in the US, and bought a used copy of Gaia's Garden for under $14. Reading around an hour a day, I'm about a third of the way through. You're also on the largest search engine in the world, known a UA-cam. Put Permaculture Design in the search.
I found the Permaculture Design Course taught by Bill Mollison and Geoff Lawton on UA-cam. All of the information can be found on the internet.
There are plenty of permaculture groups across the globe who do a means test system, I have given plenty of intro courses for free, you just need to find a group near and ask. What Geoff is saying is not in anyway scaremongering, he is in fact being realistic, you need to look at nature in the past and the early techniques humans developed to harness the fruits of the earth in order to survive and thrive and use this as a way forward to protect the future.
UA-cam has everything for free