Balcony Permaculture
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- This 'fifth floor farm' in Nairobi, Kenya will amaze you. It is permaculture in action, in experimentation - a great example of what is possible in small spaces everywhere, particularly in apartments.
My 12 yo daughter filmed this conversation I had with the inspirational and innovative permaculture designer, Natalie Topa, in her apartment in Nairobi Kenya at the end of our month in Uganda working with local permaculture projects we raised funds for with your help through the Permaculture Education Institute (permacultureed...) and Ethos Foundation (ethosfoundatio...).
There are chickens on the balcony, mealworms in the main room, perennials in pots, hardy herbs, greens and self-seeding vegetables, vertical trellises, edible vines for shade, habitat for wildlife, homes for pollinators, ceramic plates full of seeds being saved, mushrooms, ferments, dried foods and a tank for a future spirulina project.
Natalie experiments relentlessly to find simple positive solutions that can make a real difference in the lives of many. She is the Regional Resilience and Livelihood Coordinator, Danish Refugee Council - which she says is essentially about sharing, exploring and adapting permaculture ideas. She oversees teams building resilience for displaced peoples, including refugees and internally displaced peoples, in the countries of Kenya, Djibouti, Somalia, Uganda, Ethiopia, and Yemen.
For the past 16 years, she has been based in Africa and SE Asia working in community development, post-disaster recovery, post-conflict community and town planning, and community resilience and adaptation to climate extremes and disasters. Natalie's insights are incredibly valuable in a climate changing world, where people are already feeling the impact.
As we wander through her permaculture apartment in her home base of Nairobi, Natalie talks about how this balcony garden is her experimental lab for the work with displaced people who have little space, little resources and mostly waste to work with. During this conversation she shares simple permaculture design ideas that can make a huge difference and she shares some stories of how this is happening.
We talk about ways to use wastes, make soil on a balcony, create small ecological systems, grow a diversity of foods, produce protein and share surpluses, and explore & learn from traditional cultures.
I hope you find this 40 minute walkabout with Natalie full of wonderful inspiration. As we walk and talk, Natalie shares so many great lessons for food resilience, learning how to live with a small footprint, getting rid of waste - and also about climate resilience, working for the common good, being a permaculture educator, being a permaculture designer.
I was so delighted to meet Natalie in her home in Nairobi and was so inspired by her work. You can follow her facebook here: Nat and Friends: Permaculture and Resilience Design / 488936057967661
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This woman is an earth angle and visionary. I am in awe of her drive and desire to share her life skills with others. I can not imagine the number of people this beautiful spirit has helped. God Bless and keep sharing.
Love you both morag and Nat.
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Wow that was amazing! ❤
How do you keep the beetles from escaping?
What an amazing woman!..If only the entire world were raised to function in such efficient creative ways....Thank you very sharing. 🤗💕🙏
So interesting. What a great video. Starting small is the answer. So often we get overwhelmed with all the things we hear we should be doing, but by starting with one thing...for example composting food scraps, or saving waste water......perfecting that ,then move on to the next thing. Before you realize it, you are doing all that was originally overwhelming you .
Yes, I completely agree. Starting small is the best way to get involved in things. Before you know it you will be solving small problems without even knowing it.
Wow, Morag! Thank you so much for making this beautiful video of my home and my permaculture lifestyle on the fifth floor farm :)
nrtopa -Natalie I am just blown away by your energy Ingenuity and love to help our human race! You are absolutely a gem! Keep up the great work. Many blessings to you and too the good work you do! 🙏❤️🌎
Nrtopa- Natalie, you are so welcome. It was such a delight to meet you in Nairobi and have such great conversations for hours and hours! The work you are doing in the world is inspirational and i am honoured to be able to share a glimpse of your story and some of your insights. You show what a difference we can make in the world if we choose to.
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This balcony/creator would be the most interesting I've seen - I can only imagine if you were home more often. The crickets/your capacity to think beyond "steak n veg" mentality really got me. Make it contagious and no doubt you'll solve the problems of this planet. Go your hardest! :-) :-) :-)
Awseome video! Thank you both. Could I please get the recipe for the seed crackers? Not sure on quantity of water, mine are in the oven now but seem to be a bit skinny :-)
Natalie this is so inspirational! I am doing the permaculture women PDC course and loved your module, but seeing how you're working with refugees is just amazing. I work at FAO and I've shared this with one of my colleagues who works on migration, and I really hope it spreads the inspiration even further.
This is fantastic. Just fantastic. I hope one day the whole world catches on to the permaculture lifestyle. Thank you so much for sharing this Morag ❤️❤️❤️
My daughter tells me that I "do everything the long way" because I try to keep garbage to a minimum & try to reuse as much as possible for garden purposes .... capturing water that is used to rinse dishes or rinse veggies when cooking, saving seeds from everything that we eat, and cutting down paper to add to compost, etc. I don't see it as "the long way around", but rather many free trips on the merri-go-round.
Two wonderful ladies and a great video. Thank you both ✌️💕
23:15 "Free Wi-Fly" hahaha beautiful
WOW! That's what I have to say about what this woman is doing. So inspirational!
What a fantastic, informative video! This is so inspiring! Thank you for sharing this Morag!
There's so much information in this video, it will take me a long time to soak it all in. Thank you so much for doing this. ❤️ I saw basil seeds and got excited. They are called 'sabjaa' here in western India and are very popular in summer, added to all kinds of drinks from falooda, toddy palm juice, lemonades to coconut milk or just chilled milk and they puff up and become slimy just like chia seeds. Sabjaa has cooling properties and is known to even bring down acne induced by internal heat. They are regularly given to pregnant women over here.
Thanks for sharing that 🙏
Fascinating, watched this 5 times already over the past few days cos there's so much going on in that apartment and in your conversation, Morag. Thanks for the insights, especially the notion of not introducong new things, but looking at things differently. Great stuff 😉😉
Thank you both so much for this brilliant treasure trove of practical, effective ways to live sustainably and reduce waste
Click beetle turns into the wire worm . Great days to you . Howie
A weird study I read recently indicated birds who use cigarette butts as nesting material have a reduction in the insects invading their nests, they particularly noticed a decrease in the mite population which lead to healthier chicks. Nicotine has long been used as an insecticide but I never would've thought that birds would take advantage of our litter! Nature always finds a way even w our trash!
Wonderful sharing. Love your work.
I'm so glad I found this. I have a small cement yard and a balcony and a porch. I do this. Compost a few different ways. Try to plant perrenials . We have a harsh winter, everything stops. I want to do permaculture not plant and pluck from nursery plants. I do everything from seeds, cuttings and bulbs. I'm in Philadelphia. All the permaculture videos are on land and farms etc. It's great but I look for education that will help me. I never saw a fly compost system. I do regular compost, worm bin, compost in place, and komboshi. Thanks so much! Kindred spirits
Great balcony garden, she probably produces as much as i do in a big backyard. I've started foraging for new trees via grafting and taking cuttings, i have uploaded some videos to UA-cam showing my garden here in toowoomba, Queensland
This is brilliant! Blessings :)
being attract by the title "balcony..."as i am growing on one too,i discovered great heart moving humanitarian who took her vocation literally and live a life of missionary, another surprise as i am from Poland myself.tones of greetings and blessing.keep doing a great job!
Really like the experimental and learning approach... before recommending anything to the refugee populations.
Amaaaazing!! Here was me wondering what I could do with my two balconies 😉🙏🏻
Wow, so much information. Thanks! I just have a question: dont chikens need more space to have quality of life? I really don´t know but I wonder because they usually walk a lot.
Natalie is mind-blowing! So much going on! And i love that it's not just an urban permaculture laboratory but always geared to inform her work with refugees. Such passion and curiosity, really inspiring! Morag did you ever find the recipe for the seeds bar? 😋
Wow! What smart women you both are! You are very I inspiring!
Great work with the camera!
Very inspiring set-up. I've certainly got no excuse in my unit!
She needs a farm. Chickens are active birds, they need a yard to go in.
How amazing feel ashamed that I,m not more creative.She is doing so much for people.God bless you Natalie.
What a wonderful conversation.
Thank you both for this fabulous info, WOW!
wow! awesome works! how can i get the Somali beans seed to propagate too... even if it is 5 seeds. and others seed variety that you can hare...I love your energy and the passion to help refugees. when in Nairobi can i visit? I live in Bungoma County.
Chicken balcony!I had 12 chicks once on my balcony..😁
How inspiring! I need to try this banana tea!
An amazing abundance of useful permaculture information in such a small space & timeframe. from a busy person who spends much of her time helping others.
It's phenomenal the work Natalie does in her apartment and across East Africa.
Did i just fall in love?
Thanks for sharing
What an enlightening conversation, thank you both for stepping forward to share such vital information; this is the type of community and progress we need to shape our world going forward. Blessings to both of you, and all the unseen hands that helped to make this happen, and thanks for the inspiration.
Thanks!
Natalie mentions earthworms a lot, does she use/mean compost worms?
Yes, they are compost worms :)
@@nrtopa Thnnx
Wow, amzing.
Wow❤️
I’m so inspired an aligned with the movement you ladies are leading! Thank you for being such extraordinary examples of humanity with your leadership! I intend to join you💗💗💗💗
Really enjoyed watching this video. I'm interested in what Natalie puts into the chicken coop. Does she put her food waste in with the cardboard etc?
So inspiring! Good luck with your selfless endeavours! This is really food for thought.
Wow, thank you Morag and Natalie. Unbelievably inspiring and interesting. Natalie is so innovative and proactive; she must be bringing hope to thousands of people.
Just found this, but wow...as vital as this was before, it might just be more relevant than ever.
Chickens on the balcony - wowzers I feel lit up!! So inspired thank you!!!
So much knowledge!!!! Thank you!
Natalie is amazing. She will be joining me soon in my podcast. Have you see the podcast UA-cam too ua-cam.com/users/SenseMakinginaChangingWorld
Took a mushroom cultivation course with Natalie! Soo inspiring to see what she is doing and how she wants these ideas to be spread for access and space considerations for refugees is incredible!! thank you both for this!
Awesome! What a great wealth of knowledge! Thank you for sharing!
Wow! This is incredible!
It's just incredible what Natalie is able to do in her apartment. Such an inspiration!
This is fantastic....
I was amazed to see that she is already ahead of me in that project.
Because I have the same though about kakuma refugees camp.
Please can you help me to contact her since she seems to be an expert in that erea. I am a master student in sustainable development. That is my area of concern in my project.
This is my email: nogbouhans@gmail.com
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@@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife thank you
Roaches are much easier to keep and breed than crickets. Less cannibalistic 😁
Great video. I found it extremely informative! Just wondering if I’m the only one who felt uncomfortable when they kept moving past the third person in the kitchen without acknowledging their presence.
Great comment and observation. Let me explain. We were all talking lots before the camera went on, but she was too shy and asked not to be part of the speaking - it was done out of respect for her but she is a huge part of the project.
this was so cool!
I agree - Natalie is amazing.
Loved it, but if I understood right she gives comfrey to the chicken and drinks tea with it... comfrey is highly hepatotoxic and causes liver cancer 😕
The chickens enjoy eating the comfrey but I have made a comfrey tea as in a liquid fertilizer for the plants, not for human consumption.
Very inspiring
She's just amazing!
Very interesting and very inspiring! Thanks 🙏
Like 22 and this is awesome . Howie
Incredible! So inspiring!
"how to human" yes!
Well this was interesting. Also, good job camera girl.
Genevieve Greene thanks!
Wonderful
This is amazing!
This is truly amazing and such an eye and mind opener!
She’s amazing isn’t she 🌼
PHENOMENAL!!!!
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Chickens are confined?? 😞
You’d have them running around wild on a balcony where they could jump off and die? 🤯
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Of course not
I’d not have them if they had to remain in a small containment
I don’t see that the balcony is upper level
Ever get slugs?
I'll have to ask Natalie - but I'm assuming If she did, she'd pluck them off and feed them to the chickens.
Yes, I do get slugs and yes I do give them to the chickens :)
That is so neat your place. Thx for showing. Excited to duplicate;) Crazy how slugs can show up everywhere!