Inspiring Woman Growing a Huge Amount of Food in Her City Permaculture Garden
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- Опубліковано 21 лют 2019
- The Plummery is a suburban home where a tiny urban permaculture garden measuring only 100sq/m (1076 sq feet) produces over 400kg/900 pounds of food year-round.
Kat Lavers describes her approach to gardening, including vertical and biointensive growing, and how important it is - and possible! - for city dwellers to be food resilient in the face of natural, financial and social crises. We were very inspired by how little day-to-day effort goes into creating such an abundance of food!
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Keep on Keepin' on, Jordan ! Love your work here in the USA...and congrats ! :)
Happen Films ,great job ,love seeing this ,I started almost single handed doing similar garden on 600 sqm serounding a 300 sqm house three years ago ,growing all sorts of summer veg,giving away most of it,my German wife who is not interested went to live with our daughter a year ago,would love to have a female company,in two weeks will start planting ,I had someone plowed once in the next days will have a mule or a donkey l plow then ready to plant ,I am seventy three thanks god I am fit ,all my food is organic even bread I bake at home ,would appreciate keeping & exchanging Infos and advise here and there,my week spot is handling this I pad ,although I mastered five languages,lack of practice it's down to three ,still with I pad I am stuck in first grade love you and God bless you
Happen Films 👍👍 good work
Svetla Nikolova You should watch Sara Bäckmos channel. She is from Sweden and has a gardening channel since last year also in English. Your climate might be similar to the one in Sweden
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I’d definitely recommend planting an abundance of flowers to prevent flies and other insects and small animals from picking at the food. It will also increase growth and chances of growing as bees and others will pollinate the vegetables too
Growing my own tomatoes, pumpkin, melon, surrounded by sunflower, roses, enjoy a warm tea in my small garden with my future family. It's my simple dream.
start now, spring into action. if you live in an urban environment start with windowsills, common green areas (planting a tree for example), any place really that has sunlight. first years are about learning, having fun, most importantly sowing your seeds (literally and metaphorically). one can easilly grow a tomato plant in an apartment as long as theres sunshine and a big bucket of soil :) my point being the sooner you start (no matter the limitations) the sooner your dream will come true.
Mine too and i think im on track to getting that if everything works out!
I have the same dream with you :)
I like your dream and your profile pic too
Me too 😔😔
Permaculture should honestly be taught in school.
Veggie momma marinucci, I agree. That should be taught in school, along with credit and money management, crisis copying, balancing a checkbook (hard copy or virtual), how to go about being an entrepreneur, or how to do simple home repairs. These are such useful and practical things that can help with one's life and finances.
Well Hell Yeah! I figured it Was...
@@nelbraudo-441 Not really. You can take classes geared towards agriculture and plants but if you don't have room in your class schedule or you don't request the class as an elective, than you don't take the class. I wish that there was a required class that was specific to permeculture and sustainable gardening/farming. (I'm in high school)
@@twobrokewolves5884 Well I think that's Pretty Sad then! Wow
Sooo true!!!!
This is what we need now in this Corona Virus pandemic ..to be able to grow your own and not having to worry about what's going on around this catastrophe...
Agreed!
Started too. Replanting vegetable scraps.
Orla Hosmer right.
Never been happier to have a garden till now. It is amazing how much food a small backyard will produce! I just harvested about 20 pounds of produce yesterday out of a tiny shady backyard, I posted a video this morning to prove it.
Exactly wjhat I was wondering
She has turned that into a small paradise, absolutely beautiful.
This is the kind of life I want to have!
Quit dreaming and start doing. We've been doing this on a Suburban lot for 6 years
@@PermacultureHomestead i better not have u as a frend when i have problems...go ever and ASSIST IS GOOD FOR YOU.
Started doing mine yesterday
@@purfection8856 cheers! Would you mind sharing a bit on how you started ? Do you live in country territory or still urban, a mix of both, are you still working a full time conventional job? Just curious? Figured it doesn't hurt to ask?
@@PermacultureHomestead really how? And no Im nit being sarcastic, just dont know where to start? What do you suggest?
Please don't stop producing those wonderful and inspiring videos. The world need this urgently. Thank you!
Permacultura needs it badly.
Too little, too late.
I agree
I read it please stop 😂😂😂
@@muktashukla1806 Fix it, thankyou 😂😂😂
This woman is a huge inspiration! Let's all adopt more permaculture principle in 2020
This is what I'm doing:
Owning chickens, doubling my garden, beginning a microgreens business doing local deliveries and farm market, gonna try to increasingly grow my own food.
Good luck friends and thank you for being resilient
100 square meters, 4 hrs work a week... Why aren't we all doing it?
Cuz we aren't loaded?...
Netflix
Because we need 100 sg m land first 😭😭😭
@@AnitaB79 😂😂😂
@@maayans.181 , you don't have to be 'loaded' to do this!!!! If you can afford pots to grow in, use items like recycled icing buckets from your local bakery. Old milk cartens or water bottles. Join a fb page that swaps seeds or just shares them if you don't have any to swap yet. It's fun! And a great way to meet people! Make your own free compost from your kitchen scraps and yard waste! If you don't have any, collect them from the curb on yard waste day! Where there is a will, there is a way!!!
let's continue to care for our earth
Hail Gaia
Or start*
time to start having all citizens start victory gardens again!
Already done. I doubled the size of my garden this year.
Yes!! Victory gardens! I was just thinking about that!
I love how realistic she is. She doesn't pretend that it's possible to be self sustaining on a small plot of land, like many others do, but what is possible and what we can do ourselves. :)
I don’t know why but this is true happiness to me
I love the summertime where I am doing gardening
And growing fruits and vegetables ❤️💐 TRUE HAPPINESS
Because we are part of nature. We belong in nature. Nature is real. Nature is where we connect with our true selves and learn n grow and become our best. Keep doing it!🙂
Love the home-made simple squeeze bottle waterer and the application of the barbeque grill to protect the new seeds !
Yes! I thought that was super clever too!
Yeah, super creative use of the grill haha.
nifty 👌
Yes, absolutely brilliant!
interesting!!! I made my own squeeze bottle for my garden and thought I was the the first one doing it. . . 😁
If everyone had something like this now, we’d be able to stay home during this COVID pandemic. Smh!!
We need to wake up and be independent.
Great video. Very inspiring.
absolutely true
Start today and you'll have plenty of food in the next month or two. I started 5 weeks ago, and my plants are taking on their first true leaves or better at this point
TRUMPOCALYPSE SURVIVAL ooooh. That’s nice.
@@hyacinthdibley2420 I don't know if you're talking about my comment, or my site name. But yeah it's nice my parsley is already up and usable, I have some broccoli that I'm picking leaves off of, I even have a trash Garden made of lettuces and celery that's doing fine
Yes we started and have lots of veggie saplings and fruit growing. Waiting for the home grown produce.
I love how gentle and kind this woman is. Doing the right thing is made easy by her explantion of how we can live better, free of convectional thinking of how we spend our time thru life. An inspiration to others.
Love seeing city folks Rocking the food production.
This is truly inspiring
This is beautiful! I love that you are treating the quails respectfully and with kindness.
Raising quail seems much more reasonable for me than raising chickens. Do you have to clip their wings so they don't fly away?
Jess Stuart why is that? I’m a vegetarian and I was thinking if I’ll move to the country someday I might get chickens (for the eggs only)
@@CasianaCarmazan I think quails lay eggs too
I disagree and believe humans have no domain over animals. Just because we can kill and eat them doesn't mean we should or that it's moral to be "nice" to them until we kill them. Nutritionally, there's no basis whatsoever for eating animal products for health. That's all been demonstrated for years. Unfortunately, all major religions believe in the "human domain" concept, and probably the people who are "touched" by the treatment of these quail have been conditioned this way and are able to rationalize it. Fortunately, the number of people evolving to a plant-based diet is growing in recent times. However, it's probably not going to offset the rest of the population's imminent destruction of our environment and eventual consequences for the human race. Our species is probably destined to not be the dominant one on this planet in a few more millenia. Some humans will still be around, but surviving on more of a subsistence level and far fewer in number. Do you realize that it would take 5 planet Earths to supply the resources needed if everyone now living consumed as much as the average American? Don't take my word for it, research it for yourself and let that sink in.
If all humanity especially lower income families were taught the basics and rolled their sleeves up and did afew hours a day, they would have enough food for their families. This stuff needs to be taught right through school age to the point we all can comfortably do our own gardens for food. My father always said once you buy or rent a property, start growing fruit trees and your own garden. Absolutely love this video.
Theoretically, yes. Practically, no. We do not have enough space. Apart from that, buying land is expensive in most areas.
But I agree, here in Switzerland there are so many people with just (biologically dead) lawns and a few exotic plants cause they look nice. So much space just wasted....
You’d be amazed at how much you can grow in a tiny yard or even in containers.
My small city is low income. There is a group that has gardens in some of the elementary schools. Not only has this lead to better eating habits for them, but it is increasing math and business skills (they have a table at the farmers market to sell some of what they grow).
Kate Scotland right. If communities did this and shared the different types of foods we produced between ourselves we could be saving so much money, be healthier, happier and more ethical! My dream in life to own property so I can contribute to this.
@@jpruett86 HYDROPONICS AND AQUAPONICS
So how many generations of resource expenditures did it take to produce a human with this much thought and intelligence? Thanks for sharing.
one of my life goals,to have a sustainable farm.
Even though this is 4 years old, I just saw this. So inspiring. If she can do that in 200m2 I should be able to achieve more in my 2000m2! Its Friday night, I am revved up for the weekend!!
This is probably how we will end up in 2020 reconnecting to the land.
time to do so
the silver lining
Yes. Very necessary. Who says 2021 will be the old normal? Old normal might be over forever..
Time to garden.
@@Plethorality Old normal is so last year.
@@renegaderogue6310 hahaha! Yeah. Well. Sort of. I am Australian and last year was horrendous. This year has been a walk in the park, in comparison...
Wonderful! Their garden looks like traditional Ukrainian gardens, which I remember from my childhood. But I did not imagine that this is possible in Australia, with its dryness and harsh sun. It is very inspiring. Thank you
I'm sure it depends on where in Australia you live. Self Sufficient Me has a very impressive garden, and I'm pretty sure he's in Australia.
Sorghum is a good grain to grow if there is a shortage of water. It is high yielding and has excellent resistance to disease.
If the whole grains are still forming the stalk is rich with sugars and can be processed as sugar cane.
The grain is slightly sweet and has a mild earthy flavor. If boiled in excess water a porridge is created. (The grain is also good for animal feed when fully ripe.) Alternatively, the grain can be milled into a flour, hot water added a tbsp at a time, kneaded to create smooth dough and cooked to make a flat bread.
Thank you for contributing to this great change by developing this example! We support you!
Love this! It brought back childhood memories of my grandfather’s garden!
YES! Abundance is possible. Start where you’re at. Learn small. Keep growing. Expand when opportunity allows. Growing food in the city is possible! This is why I garden and youtube too ♥️
As same as you are.
Absolutely beautiful! Such an amazing garden and everything looks so healthy!
Truly the most inspiring 8 mins of viewing ever. I was so moved I cried through most of it. Thank you Kat, Danny and Happen Films
Thank you, Happen Films 💐
Sir, i would really love to thank you for filming these videos which connects the nature lovers so closely and the connectivity we get from these videos towards nature, food are so joyfull...in the end i would say that please keep doing wonderfull work as it really inspires the folks around the world...
These videos are so inspiring. Please keep up the great and important work.
Yes!
the amount of love put in the yard and the food is amazing, i feel genuine love, health, and freshness watching this video.
Thank you for sharing your wonderful story Kat. It is inspiring and truly thought provoking! Keep Growing and changing lives!!
Stoked you've covered the Plummery! Been an admirer of this property for a few years now. Another great video guys
Richard Falkner do you know if Kat has a youtube channel I could follow? tnx
IF there were more books or people who could teach this to us, to our children, especially in this time, it could change so much in our lives. I am teaching my children, and myself in an effort to be more self sufficient and help those I can in the future. I just wish I had started sooner.
Good luck with your kids. We would start seeds for fun, etc. My son now has a PhD in agronomy.
There’s plenty of books on the subject.
The One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka
Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows
Permaculture by David Holmgren
Earth User's Guide to Permaculture, 2nd ed. by Rosemary Morrow
Permaculture: A Designers' Manual by Bill Mollison
Introduction to Permaculture by Bill Mollison
Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability by David Holmgren
Gaia’s Garden by Toby Hemenway
And many more. Bill Mollison is the guy who developed the theory and practice of permaculture and David Holmgren was one of the co originators. There are also several podcasts such as “The Permaculture Podcast” and tons of info online as well as on here.
All of your short films are amazing and inspiring thanks a lot!!!
I can’t stop watching these videos.
These people are truly inspiring ❤️
Wow that's awesome! I'm hoping to have something similar (but much colder climate) going on in ten years! Baby steps. Thanks for the inspiration.
Your work is brilliant! Please keep making these beautiful films. I will be a patron for sure. All the best!
I am so so so happy and inspired to have found you.
These videos have come such a long way! The quality of these more recent ones is awesome. Well done on the work and thanks for contributing to my and other's permaculture journies :)
Awesome welcome video, Happen Films, I am new here and look forward to seeing more videos on being more self sufficient. The world needs to see more of this. Blessings.
Gorgeous made film. I really enjoyed it. Thanks for your effort.
Incredible! I’ve seen a couple of quail farms, and the birds are always so nervous, pacing around their small enclosures. These quail seem really relaxed and happy! Love to see it💛
So beautiful. I love it! Taking care of plants is so rewarding and relaxing
I have a hectare farm land few meters away from my house. I was thinking about selling it cause I don't have time to farming but now I think I can do what you did over there maybe after retirement 😃
That's a lot of a land! Please do
Musical Medicine you could rent it till than.
@@KN-dy4hm can barely afford the rent of life my dude haha
Start now! Just try some things! Throw some potatoes in an see what happens! Almost no work.. but you will learn a lot!
Don't wait! Improve the soil, plant things that don't need a ton of upkeep. It could maybe offer you a supplemental income
I feel inspired by watching this. Thanks for sharing!
What a beautiful and film. Your message is so important and full of wisdom. Thank you and good luck.
She is very industrious! We need a person like her in this critical period. Well done!
Inspired....my garden is small too. Started growing veggies & fruit trees suitable in the tropics
I L-O-V-E your channel!!!!!! Thank you so much! So nice to see young interested in gardening.
I love this video -her garden is such an inspiration.
Inspiring. I hope there will be loads of videos of this kind of content. This should be the future!
I would love to see how you started ie the original plan and the progress you made and what you planted...magnificent garden so productive and so beautiful...keep up the good work
Amazing!
Thank you for sharing.
Amazing how each short is somehow better than the last. Well done!
Fabulous. You are doing the things and saying the things I have been saying for years. Bravo. I hope it spreads.
Waiting for your videos for long time. Your videos are great
I think this last season in Melbourne was really difficult - long cold spring and then a few real furnaces of days. Let's hope for a kinder spring this year. My goal is also to be as self sufficient in fresh produce as possible and grow mainly things that can be preserved (drying, bottling, jamming, storing etc). And save my own seed of course! Nice video!!
FlowerGrower Smith We’re in Melbourne too!
Yeah the weather hasn’t been too good and we have some deciduous trees sending up new shoots now.
Our backyard is pretty small at 3 x 8m. Mostly perennials and fruit trees with at least 100 kg worth of produce this year.
Garden was only planted 1.5 years ago so we’re hopeful it should produce more as it grows.
It’s surprising what can be grown with the right microclimate.
Spend about an hour in the garden during late winter/early spring checking for pests and that’s it.
Not a full permaculture design as we wanted to keep the curb appeal with lots of usable entertaining space
FlowerGrower Smith we are in Melbourne, and we are still eating pumpkin harvested in march. I highly recommend columnar peach Crimson ROcket from Bunnings. Nice skinny trees that are highly productive and the fruit cans well. Our columnar apples are highly productive, and you can dot them all through the garden
Such earth connected person you are...thank you for sharing...
This is really nice, made me want to cry at the end. Thank you Happen Films and Kat Lavers
Thanks for commenting, Angus. Love that it was so emotive for you.
- Antoinette
This is also what we do in my hometown . Living simply in just a small village and being contented with the most essential things. Love lots!😍 Continue inspiring young people, we need people like you!
Awwww so lovely! Blessings to you! 😊😊😊🤗
Such a lovely act of love to teach people the simplicity and wealth in growing ones own food
Great job on spreading knowledge on how to be self sufficient. We need more people like you around. Keep it up.
I live in Malaysia .. A land where you can grow almost everything .. Hopefully i can learn the way you all produce food.. Organically
Same here, but living in Indonesia :)
I'm done.. Leaving my homebigtown for almost 2 years, now live in small beautiful village in West Java, Indonesia with my new little family and start gardening, organically.
Just when I'm needing some inspiration !
Beautifully produced piece. Thank you
Your dedication and lots of love make this happen
Beautiful video and people, the word is Gratitude.
This is so inspiring but definitely climate dependant. Here in Scotland, the climate is against the growing season.
One of my favourite channels -- quality content over quantity.
Thank you!
Beautiful Documentary and gorgeous gentle host. Thank you for the inspiration.
That was just fabulous. Thank you so much.
I LOVE that repurposed BBQ grill for the seedlings! Actually truth is I love your whole garden, keep up the amazing work!
Another well-produced video....congrats! : )
Thank Juan!
Super inspiring fellow melbournians. The way you presented this is exciting, encouraging and supportive. thank you!!!
Excellent. We should all be growing food in our communities. Thanks so much for putting out this video. Beautiful produce!!
Just a gorgeous set up.
I've been growing some food for the past 5 years in almost the same footage of land, in my backyard. But nowhere close to as abundant as yours is! Had a few challenges like water during the hot summers here in India, a highrise building blocking some of my sunlight, difficulty getting organic seeds and until last year aphids... But eating fruits and vegetables from the backyard is a sheer joy and I feel blessed.
How wonderful! Thank you so much!
Permaculture teacher, designer, educator, facilitator. The world really needs you.
Beautifully done. My first time on your channel. Greetings from Cave Spring Georgia. Liked and shared.
Thank you for this video🌱
I just happened to come across this channel and it has already given me so many ideas that I would like to do in my own garden! I live in the UK and anyone who lives here knows that we have such small houses as well as gardens... so the design of her garden is brilliant and has so many ideas of being able to grow for one's family and the community as a whole.
I've been offered a home with a huge garden and I have never been so excited to get started. So I will definitely be turning to this channel to learn about Permaculture
I'm a medical college student who grew in farmer family. I always had this call to live life this... Thanks for inspiring me more!
This is so inspirational. I've just started a little vegetable garden in my back garden. It's the first time in my life I've had a garden to myself as I've been renting flats until. I'm still renting so I can't be going crazy redesigning the garden but I've got some pots out there. My radishes are almost ready, can't wait for everything else to pop up!
Promoting this channel because I love it
This yard is so big! Even for rural. Super awesome that they see the importance of large yards/outdoor space when building homes.
A thoroughly enjoyable video !! Beautifully presented in a totally relaxed manner. Everything said makes so much sense !!!
Lovely person. Productive garden.
Yes, Kate is incredible
this is inspiring and beautiful, thanks for sharing! #lifegoals
Great story and inspiring teaching video. Beautiful couple with beautiful hearts and gardens in and out. Thank you for sharing with us and inspiring the world, especially people living in the cities.
This is amazing! It is such a beautiful garden. Being a Melburnian myself, pre covid wfen taking the train to the city and back, I could see community gardens along the way.
I think the more we spend outside the better it is for our soul.
permaculture works, we do this on 2000 sq ft.
Very nice, my food forest is just beginning.
Love the ethics behind your project. I’m just getting started myself and love these successful stories.
So inspiring! My heart feels so full from watching this!