Self-Sufficiency Made Easier Using These 12 Principles!

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  • Опубліковано 14 чер 2024
  • This year I have decided to dedicate a playlist to all things permaculture. It is my hope that it will act as a valuable free resource and guide for anyone wanting to look at how permaculture can help their gardens flourish - and beyond! Today's video kicks off that playlist by explaining the 12 permaculture principles in the context of a kitchen garden, how they can overlap, and why they should not be seen as rules, rather as a guide.
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    Permaculture Introduction 0:00
    Principle 1 1:56
    Principle 2 3:02
    Principle 3 4:22
    Principle 4 5:28
    Principle 5 6:36
    Principle 6 8:00
    Principle 7 9:06
    Principle 8 10:49
    Principle 9 12:24
    Principle 10 13:36
    Principle 11 14:55
    Principle 12 16:30
    An important note: 18:14
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  • @HuwRichards
    @HuwRichards  Рік тому +119

    Not sure why UA-cam chapters no longer seem to be working...so here are the timestamps for each principle:
    Permaculture Introduction 0:00
    Principle 1 1:56
    Principle 2 3:02
    Principle 3 4:22
    Principle 4 5:28
    Principle 5 6:36
    Principle 6 8:00
    Principle 7 9:06
    Principle 8 10:49
    Principle 9 12:24
    Principle 10 13:36
    Principle 11 14:55
    Principle 12 16:30
    An important note: 18:14

    • @chomastiarnoldo1892
      @chomastiarnoldo1892 Рік тому +8

      Thanks for all you do, Huw!

    • @HuwRichards
      @HuwRichards  Рік тому +3

      @@chomastiarnoldo1892 You're welcome! :)

    • @Mike_in_Thailand
      @Mike_in_Thailand Рік тому +5

      Well it's working for me an hour later 😀 and 👍👍for this video

    • @turiaturiana7529
      @turiaturiana7529 Рік тому +6

      Oooh. I do love getting a notification you've posted a video Huw! Kettle is on.. Time to unwind listening to my fave YT gardener and teacher 😁👍🏼

    • @terrielynnwhite6912
      @terrielynnwhite6912 Рік тому +4

      🌹Thank you for the back up “Permaculture Introduction!” I’m new to your station. What I’ve seen thus far is fascinating! Thank you, and thank you to the community of gardeners that share as well!
      Happy gardening blessings to all! 🙏🏼

  • @munagalalakshmipranati
    @munagalalakshmipranati 19 днів тому +9

    1. Observe and interact
    2. Catch and store energy
    3. Obtain a yield
    4. Apply self-regulation & accept feedback
    5. Use and value renewable resources & services
    6. Produce no wast
    7. Patterns to details
    8. Integrate rather then segregate
    9. Small and slow solutions
    10. Use and value diversity
    11. Use edges and value the marginal
    12. Creativity use and respond to change

  • @joannc147
    @joannc147 Рік тому +233

    How did I just watch 19 min of a young man, sitting in a chair, talking about gardening principles? Delightful! You are eloquent 👍🏻. The video production value is outstanding! Thank you for this ❤. I’ve taken my garden from “pretty” into being more effective. This means my landscape includes fruit & berry trees, raised beds & grow bags, as well as forage for my hens and rabbits (food & fertilizer production team 🐓🐓🐇🥚🥚🐇). The “ditch” by the roadway has evolved into holding enough water to support 4 species of frogs & toads (ephemeral breeding pond). It’s wonderful to live in this lil ecosystem. Btw, I have enough shade trees to keep my yard cooler in the summer. You’ve done a BETTER explanation of these principles than I have heard from others. Well done, young lad!

    • @Wild.Buck.Airedale.Adventures
      @Wild.Buck.Airedale.Adventures Рік тому +5

      😂😂 yes. Very easy to watch and applied, is very efficient.

    • @cameliaturda6472
      @cameliaturda6472 11 місяців тому +2

      Yep !
      All of them are very logic , if you love Nature ( i never knew that the title îs permaculture ) 💜 .

    • @grossindecency
      @grossindecency 7 місяців тому

      He's very nice and knowledgeable. But elequent? That's a nice lie!

    • @monicastein9624
      @monicastein9624 2 місяці тому

      Just perfect!

  • @robynhoode9211
    @robynhoode9211 Рік тому +230

    TIP...I use fallen leaves for bedding in the hen coup, I then add cold ash from the wood burning cooker, which the hens dust in to keep mites down.
    The hens add manure to the mix to create fertile leaf mulch which I then add to the growing plot as I muck out the hens weekly
    I've found its a great way to let the chickens do the turning of the compost. Great teamwork😆

    • @claireandersongrahamkeller2744
      @claireandersongrahamkeller2744 Рік тому +17

      Oh, yes, THAT is brilliant! Like Joel Salatin at Polyface Farms putting corn in the barn over winter, then straw, and cows, and pigs at the end, so they turn it all over to GET TO THE FERMENTED CORN! Fun stuff, being a smart human! Aloha, Claire

    • @nills2gills811
      @nills2gills811 Рік тому +5

      Synergy. Amazingly brilliant

    • @Tinyteacher1111
      @Tinyteacher1111 Рік тому +3

      Aawww! I had to break 111 likes! Sorry! They also eat ticks! I have Lyme so I’ve looked into this!

    • @stephaniehenderson6631
      @stephaniehenderson6631 Рік тому +1

      Genius!

    • @MyEverydayGarden
      @MyEverydayGarden 9 місяців тому +1

      Awesome ideas

  • @mayam6678
    @mayam6678 Рік тому +209

    I just turned 70 and have a little plot where I can grow a garden. I like your principles and will contemplate to what will be best for me and nature alike.

    • @HuwRichards
      @HuwRichards  Рік тому +23

      Sounds great! However these principles aren't mine, as I stated in the introduction, Bill Mollison and David Holgren founded permaculture:)

    • @ihavenoideawhatimdoinghere6285
      @ihavenoideawhatimdoinghere6285 Рік тому +20

      ​@@HuwRichards they might not be your principles, but you do an amazing job explaining them. Thank you

    • @claireandersongrahamkeller2744
      @claireandersongrahamkeller2744 Рік тому +1

      You can watch "food forest" and "permaculture garden" videos,+ "Morag Gamble, "an excellent teacher, and get more inspiration and ideas for your garden.

    • @gardenboots7464
      @gardenboots7464 Рік тому +14

      70 is the new 40!
      Cheering you on!!!!

  • @sharilynfritz247
    @sharilynfritz247 10 місяців тому +4

    I have a small plot that I call the nursery. Plants that haven't been allocated to their permanent home (gifts, nursery sales) go here. Buys me time to prepare.

  • @KimberleyJP
    @KimberleyJP Рік тому +83

    Watching through for the third time, it strikes me, if you exchange 'garden' for 'mental health' as the concept, everything you say and all these principles also illustrate a beautiful system to reflect on and integrate ❤️ Nature therapy for all! 🌳 🍂 🌻 💚 🙏

    • @benthomas4544
      @benthomas4544 Рік тому +5

      Same here, except I'm working on city planning. Also perfectly apt.

    • @HomesteadForALiving
      @HomesteadForALiving Рік тому +9

      Permaculture applies to any discipline, gardening is just the most common! Architecture, city planning, health, building a business, homeschooling, etc.

    • @benthomas4544
      @benthomas4544 Рік тому +2

      @@HomesteadForALiving I definitely find it valuable in parenting a young child.

    • @Connygraf
      @Connygraf Рік тому +2

      exactly, and I use it to set up my home, my office, my business and how I help my clients.

  • @cassieoz1702
    @cassieoz1702 Рік тому +76

    I was trained by Geoff Lawton 14 years ago. The principles (which are mostly a Holmgren formulation) are deeply engrained in my being and changed my outlook to so many parts of my life

  • @mickzammit6794
    @mickzammit6794 Рік тому +27

    Permaculture is brilliant. I drove past a city house recently built on standard sized block and watched over a period of months as it turned into an unbelievable Eden of herbs,fruit and vegetables using the principles of companion plants and permaculture. It even had an artificial lake that provided hydraulic pressure for a lift for a disabled access to the upper floor.

    • @caivail4614
      @caivail4614 Рік тому +4

      Incredible! I need to hear more about this hydraulic lift!

    • @mickzammit6794
      @mickzammit6794 Рік тому +1

      @@caivail4614 simply google water powered elevator. I've seen several working and installation is quite simple if you have room in the yard for a small pond.

  • @ColettesGarden
    @ColettesGarden Рік тому +7

    I love waking up to discover you have posted a new video. Coffee and Huw, its a great morning. 🌻🐝

  • @EvanC881
    @EvanC881 Рік тому +8

    So many permaculture principles are also just great life values to adopt. Thanks for sharing!

  • @BigManjr
    @BigManjr Рік тому +22

    I LOVED this Huw! 🙏As a suburban food grower in a 'cool temperate' area of Australia, with a very longstanding interest in Permaculture, this was absolutely WONDERFUL! I would really love you to do more detailed content about applying permaculture principles in this context. I think there is enormous value in applying Permaculture principles to smaller spaces and using micro-systems and creativity to build resilience. Thanks so much!😀🤩

  • @davidgolnick1403
    @davidgolnick1403 Рік тому +10

    Happy that you found your space. The puzzle of gardening is infinitely interesting and rewarding/challenging. And liberating. The most rebellious act a person can conduct is to grow their own food.

  • @kims.9677
    @kims.9677 Рік тому +11

    I have heard the term "permaculture" all over the place lately, but wasn't really getting a grip on all the concepts of it till now. You have given a concise, easily understood overview for which I am very thankful.

  • @emrsngs
    @emrsngs Рік тому +45

    I had to cut down an apricot tree, which broke my heart as it was truly beautiful. But it had developed a split down the middle and although it was still alive, a large portion of it hung over an alley way where children played and also over utilities ( electrical meter/ gas meter). It had become a hazard. In my area the law requires you to remove anything that could potentially damage utility equipment or people. So the tree had to come down. I took the branches and made snow fences in my yard and wild habitat for the birds and they love it!!! In my wind-swept area, we rarely keep moisture from snow because it blows away. Now, I have a foot & 1/2 (0.45 meters) & neighbors only have a few inches. Had I been in the country I would have let nature fell the tree in it's own time. Being in town, it's better to find ways to make lemonade out of lemons :).

    • @Acts-1322
      @Acts-1322 9 місяців тому

      You could have coppiced it in the winter time. Just FYI in the future

  • @ecocentrichomestead6783
    @ecocentrichomestead6783 Рік тому +50

    One thing I like to point out as much as I can:
    Permaculture has become popular for "Easy gardening" "Self-sufficiency" "inexpensive inputs", Etc.
    What most permaculture "Enthusiasts" forget is the "Permanent" part.
    what the founders of permaculture was trying to teach was a way to build and tend to a garden such that it can last PERMANENTLY. in other words, thousands and thousands of years.

    • @HuwRichards
      @HuwRichards  Рік тому +44

      Definitely. However my audience are primarily people who want to make a difference in their small backyard or allotment. Sadly there is no guarantee of permanence with how that land will be in a hundred years time, but knowing right know you're the steward and that every year you're improving the land, that's more than enough. Permanence in food systems requires larger areas of land and community involvement, which I am all for and would like to move towards, just not for my audience on this channel 🌿

    • @elizabethadkins-hernandez5580
      @elizabethadkins-hernandez5580 Рік тому +17

      Also, let’s recognize that there are varying degrees to apply any system. As we are becoming hyper aware of how contemporary systems have failed, I see a need for bridge building. If large amounts of people can be inspired to utilize permaculture principles, then those droplets will eventually fill the permaculture cup if you will. Any movement in that direction is a million times better than where humanity is headed, in my opinion. Also, this is just a really great video, and I never comment on anything! Thank you!

    • @cassieoz1702
      @cassieoz1702 Рік тому +9

      Permanence depends on there being people who will pick it up and carry on when you move or die. That's where the 'perm' part tends to fall apart. Productive spaces I've created in other places have been torn apart after I've left. 'Permanent' only works where the philosophy is ubiquitous

    • @ecocentrichomestead6783
      @ecocentrichomestead6783 Рік тому +6

      @@cassieoz1702 while that is true, we are responsible for what we do in our lifetime. What's done after we are gone is someone else's responsibility. If we don't do our part, it's like not planting the tree 20 years ago.

    • @cassieoz1702
      @cassieoz1702 Рік тому

      @@ecocentrichomestead6783 I was just responding to the 'next thousand years' thing. That requires community wide understanding which I doubt will ever happen

  • @teresacrowley4076
    @teresacrowley4076 Рік тому +24

    Huw, I just want to say Thanks!! I have R.A. so gardening is difficult for me. But watching this and your many other videos always gives me hope that I can accomplish something in my garden. I find you inspiring in gardening and in life. A lot of your ideas can also be applied to
    Life. Thanks 🙏 again!!

  • @myrrhidian3166
    @myrrhidian3166 Рік тому +15

    It's always good to spread the word about permaculture :) I've been an enthusiast for 13 years now, but decided to give more traditional gardening a try the past couple seasons. I had isolated my crops from each other for aesthetic and practicality reasons, and paid the price with pest pressure and diseases. This year I'm intending to just mix everything together when I plant. I'm still following a planting calendar though, so I always have seedlings ready to plant out in empty spaces and don't forget anything. If there's no space for what I want to plant, I can just harvest some plants early or remove them as if they were a temporary cover crop. Fingers crossed, I'll have a productive little jungle of veggies and flowers!

  • @sarameitner6770
    @sarameitner6770 Рік тому +19

    Thank you for detailing things here. I have ever-increasing physical impairments which affect my gardening these days (was quite the organic gardener in earlier years). Listening to your thoughtful accountings gives me hope and encouragement to take a few things on again - and work to see them through. All the best!

  • @earthwyrm6756
    @earthwyrm6756 Рік тому +20

    I've worked with permaculture 30 plus years & on 4 properties. Love your coverage of these principles and especially your examples here!

    • @HuwRichards
      @HuwRichards  Рік тому +2

      Amazing! Thank you so much :)

    • @user-nx9oe2ez3e
      @user-nx9oe2ez3e 7 місяців тому

      Yes same here,in South Australia,35yrs for me! :)

  • @CindyOrangeNeely
    @CindyOrangeNeely Рік тому +4

    Huw, I could listen to you all day!!! You explain things in such a calm and simple way. Thank you!!

  • @soniatriana9091
    @soniatriana9091 Рік тому +14

    Hello Hew, I have to say this video was beyond exceptional!! I have never heard anyone on YT who teaches/discusses Gardening & Permaculture do such a magnificent job of explaining & giving examples of all the Principles of Permaculture!! Plus, I kinda knew it came from Australia, but I didn’t know who coined the phrase, created the principles, nor when it started!!
    This is a noteworthy video to keep on file by anyone who thinks they will collect water, grow plants, flowers, edibles, compost, or use their outdoor spaces in some way!! Especially in ways that cause no harm to nature!!
    Thank you for such an informative, enjoyable, & inspiring video!! I appreciate the time it took you to plan out the content, video take, edit, & share your knowledge!!! THANK YOU🤗🤗👍🏻👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻

  • @nadiajohnson2522
    @nadiajohnson2522 Рік тому +5

    I love the way you emphasize small adaptations and simplicity so that, as a beginner, I don't feel overwhelmed.
    Your content and approach motivates me.
    Stoked to get growing my own food in my teeny tiny urban complex garden in Johannesburg, South Africa 🇿🇦.
    Thanks, Huw!!!

  • @blackstarorganicz
    @blackstarorganicz Рік тому +13

    Hi Huw, I’ve been following you for a while now. And last year got my own allotment (3). Really excited to start growing. I’ve even started my own channel to document it all. Your work is really amazing, and I hope I can replicate what you do…or as close as possible. Very inspiring ❤

  • @susannam1172
    @susannam1172 Рік тому +6

    Nice video. Never knew these were the principles of permaculture, thank you for introducing them to us all. They are very applicable, B-road and sensible and not at all difficult or complicated like I imagined them to be.

  • @ktlemongrass5129
    @ktlemongrass5129 Рік тому +3

    I hadn’t heard of compost walkways before this video. Thank you!!

  • @porterowski9232
    @porterowski9232 Рік тому +4

    Watching your videos gives me hope of what I will one day achieve. One step at a time!!! Have a blessed day, and thank you!!!!!!

    • @HuwRichards
      @HuwRichards  Рік тому

      Awh thank you very much!! One step at a time indeed

  • @meleaton3901
    @meleaton3901 Рік тому +6

    We're kicking off our gardening adventure with big hopes and dreams...but hard to know where to start. I was somewhat aware of permaculture but this video was bang on what I needed 😊 A lovely summary of the principles. Thank you!

    • @davidprice1908
      @davidprice1908 6 місяців тому

      I'm by no means an expert, and started our garden 4 years ago.
      We now have about 30 varieties of veg and fruit, chickens, different composting, and an off grid summerhouse.
      By FAR the task I underestimated the most was water collection. We catch and store about 1500 litres. Personally I wish I'd sorted that and then moved on, instead of doing it the way I did.
      Hope you're getting on good!

  • @lindafogarasi3156
    @lindafogarasi3156 Рік тому +3

    You have just an amazing garden
    and you give very useful and helpful tips
    THANK YOU💞🙏🌳

  • @mamazeeto623
    @mamazeeto623 Рік тому +6

    Thank you Hugh. Always love listening to your guidance, you are a great ambassador for Mother Earth 🙏🏼💜

  • @badassfood5713
    @badassfood5713 Рік тому +7

    The largest natural resource in my are pine needles and bark. I live in a firewise neighborhood in the mountains of northern ca USA, where wildfire is large concern. This will be the second year here. In my first year I thinned out about 2 dozen trees once again to maintain fire hardi-ness of my property. I also dig a pit about 4’ by 12’ and about 4’ deep which I filled with the detritus, like oak leaves, pine bark and needles that where laying on the surface. Stuff that wasn’t broken down at all. Immediately beneath this layer is a 4-6” layer of compost like material which is heavily saturated with mycelium threads the likes of which this city boy has never seen! Which I left I undisturbed. And below this a dense dark layer of hummus an inch thick or so. And finally red clay. Now I dug down 4’ in the middle of summer and never found a single worm, nor did the soil have a soil-y smell leading me to believe that the normal aerobic and anaerobic bacterias and fungus just don’t exist here. I also added horse manure and subsequent bedding. Over this mess I add occasional kitchen scraps collected for the purpose, and pine bough to top the whole thing off.
    These mountain summers are far hotter and drier than you would imagine with nearly 3 months of 100° during the day and 60’s to 80’s at night. Winter is proving to be cold with snow so far about every two weeks give or take a day with just about enough time for the snows to melt before new snow has fallen. I planted clover a nitrogen fixer, in the yard immediately surrounding the house (firewise) and began introducing potted plants trees and shrubs from my last home. Usually if I was digging around in my yard and came across any earthworms I would toss them in the closest pot. Done it for years so my pots have worms. In several places near where I have set theses pots on the soil I have dug and found worms very close to the pots in the soil! Yippee! So I am waiting until this summer to see if my in ground compost pile will work. I have also begun swales on the property, of which I have about 25’ of gain over 300’ .Anyways the question I guess, I have zero greens waste on my property, and cubic yards of browns. The horse manure I have to bring in about a yard at a time from a friend. Are there supplements that I can add to my compost pile. Even veggie scraps are about a gallon every month. And what can I amend the soils with to increase anaerobic, and aerobic bacterias and funguses. The native fungus is the great composter right now, but it is slow, years to break down pine needles, decades for tree stumps.

    • @kathynix6552
      @kathynix6552 Рік тому

      Do some research on what you might be able to source in your area. Are there any commercial/industrial sites that are producing organic waste? Also can you get food scraps from cafes, restaurants, schools.

  • @craigmetcalfe1749
    @craigmetcalfe1749 Рік тому +31

    Hey Huw, As a typical Australian, I was oblivious to the contribution of the fathers of permaculture until I became interested in 2000 during the pandemic. BTW, it would be interesting to find out how many of your subscribers got into gardening/permaculture at the time in our history when things looked the darkest. My favorite and first book on permaculture is The One Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka. Then I discovered my Australian permaculture gods (and yes I include Geoff Lawton in that Aussie Holy Trinity). I start my gardening diary with the first principle Observation which may force more urgent tasks into the start of my never ending to do list. Why am I keeping a gardening diary? The answer is paying it forward, hopefully the person who buys my house and land would like to sustain the garden and food forest and can learn from my musings as present owner. Cheers!

    • @littlefurrow2437
      @littlefurrow2437 Рік тому +2

      Check out PA Yeoman's scale of permanence... another Aussie legend.

  • @GenevaWatkinsvlogz
    @GenevaWatkinsvlogz 3 місяці тому +1

    Watching through for the third time, it strikes me, if you exchange 'garden' for 'mental health' as the concept, everything you say and all these principles also illustrate a beautiful system to reflect on and integrate ️ Nature therapy for all!

  • @abraham3901
    @abraham3901 Рік тому +5

    Man this is great content. All instrumental , but sure gives us (me) a solid path to the next level building a food forest. This will be our second year, making biochar and composting left and right. Lotsa fun, a great pass time. Thank you.

  • @petrysialeroux8316
    @petrysialeroux8316 Рік тому +3

    A very clear presentation. Sometimes talking about permaculture can be very philosophical and difficult to get a handle on. Thanks!

  • @brianthomas3910
    @brianthomas3910 Рік тому +3

    I couldn’t dig a small pond so I use an above ground pool instead of the barrels or tubs to store water and it’s big enough to raise a few fish and I use the fish water to water the garden 👍 it’s ready made compost tea 🤷‍♂️

  • @MedlifeCrisis
    @MedlifeCrisis Рік тому +1

    Beautiful video. Educational and relaxing!

  • @constancewalsh3646
    @constancewalsh3646 Місяць тому

    A rare video that neither irritated nor bored me. In my lave seventies I have fallen completely in love with growing small-scale food and flowers and trees. I live in the dry, windy, freezing, searing desert and it's the challenge I adore for every aspect of living. These twelve principles will be applied somehow. Tons of gratitude for Huw sitting by the garden fire - modest, practical, giving so generously of his knowledge and himself without fanfare.

  • @gabbym7560
    @gabbym7560 Рік тому +7

    Love these principles as a starting point. I've found myself doing many of these principles instinctively before I had even heard of permaculture. Another very infor mative and inspiring video Huw, thank you. Lovely to see you're garden looking so abundant and full of flowers growing wth the vegetables, looks just beautiful

    • @kathynix6552
      @kathynix6552 Рік тому +1

      Yes it’s a way of life, a perspective and an attitude

  • @nullgravity2583
    @nullgravity2583 Рік тому +1

    The videography is sooo good

  • @godisincontrol32
    @godisincontrol32 10 місяців тому +1

    I truly appreciate you taking the time to make this video 🙂 Very Informative and helpful.. Thank you so much for spreading the knowledge 😁 Have a great evening 🙏

  • @willowgrove631
    @willowgrove631 Рік тому +6

    Thanks for explaining the principles of permaculture in such a straightforward way Huw! These are things that every gardener can implement in some way 👍

    • @HuwRichards
      @HuwRichards  Рік тому +2

      Yay thank you so much I'm glad they were pretty clear!!😊

  • @Aemolya
    @Aemolya 9 місяців тому

    Brilliant! One of the best gardening videos ever! Thanks a lot!

  • @bevfitzsimmonds3382
    @bevfitzsimmonds3382 Рік тому +2

    I love the way that these principles overlap, so that yeah, you can just start with one or two principles, but then you have the nice surprise of finding that you are also keeping others while you're at it! So, using edges and marginal areas, also keeps the 'no waste', and 'clever use of resources' principles. And even the very act of starting with just one or two principles, is using the one of 'getting things done gradually, slowly building things up!' ... Good principles are multi-pronged, and are never isolated in their impact... as it is when we follow good principles for our lives... 😊👍🪴🪴🪴❤

  • @petersterling5334
    @petersterling5334 Рік тому +1

    Permaculture is a Miracle for Humans and Planet Earth!! I just discovered it few months ago and Permaculture is So Powerful for Healing and bringing Sustenance to people and our Planet!

  • @user-sq3kk3wt8p
    @user-sq3kk3wt8p Рік тому +2

    Thank you so much Huw! I love your way of teaching and sharing as you make everything so clear. It was very inspiring!

  • @TofferJ-UK
    @TofferJ-UK Рік тому +6

    Always inspiring and encouraging Huw thank you! 👍

    • @HuwRichards
      @HuwRichards  Рік тому +1

      Thank you Addie I'm really pleased to hear😊

  • @LisaMarieKaspar
    @LisaMarieKaspar Рік тому +3

    Thank you for this video and the tips you provided! I will start my new balcony garden this year and I will take these principles as a guideline!

  • @kristianrave
    @kristianrave Рік тому

    i have many interests and try to learn in a lot of fields. Motion Graphics, restoring vintage cars, philosophy, woodworking and also trying to grow my own food - as a physical result of philosophy ;) And i am learning a lot from youtube and trust me i have seen my fair share, but you my friend are one of the craziest guys on youtube. Your garden looks so very beautiful, organized and delicious that i am asking myself if i will ever manage to achieve the same level in my garden. But then again you boil it all down to simple to do steps. Super helpful and inspiring. Thanks for your work - you deserve to be paid well by youtube :D

  • @joannasz1660
    @joannasz1660 Рік тому +1

    As always, stunning. And I've got a feeling that the garden is shown from different angles this time which turned out great!

  • @MsJay0913
    @MsJay0913 6 місяців тому

    I come across your videos from time to time, and you are very pleasant to watch and listen to.

  • @SelaSiblings
    @SelaSiblings 10 місяців тому +1

    One of the best video to watch. Learning a lot on this video. Thank you.

  • @melaniedale-sutton9801
    @melaniedale-sutton9801 Рік тому +1

    Wow! This video made my day! Thank you for sharing your gift and craft with a community! 💜

  • @zimmermanlandscape9287
    @zimmermanlandscape9287 10 місяців тому

    It’s awesome that you are still allowed to collect rain water where you live some people in my country are not allowed to collect the rain.

  • @terrinegron
    @terrinegron Рік тому +1

    Thanks for clarifying Permaculture. I am going to add in more flowers for sure. 👋👋👋

  • @kahae9858
    @kahae9858 Рік тому +1

    I've been trying to work out why the fire pot is so visually pleasing - but it is. I always really enjoy your videos. They are very calming as well as being a valuable source of ideas and inspiration..

  • @fishingbrigade
    @fishingbrigade 11 місяців тому

    what a blast !
    thank you for this amount of information....
    love from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🍀🫒

  • @monique4048
    @monique4048 Рік тому +1

    Your garden is so beautiful! Such an inspiration. 🌱🌶🍅🌻

  • @pamelawagner9440
    @pamelawagner9440 Рік тому +1

    I enjoy your videos as much for the information as for beautiful scenery and photography. You do such a wonderful job! Thank you!

  • @viraloutbreaks99
    @viraloutbreaks99 Рік тому

    Making a video helping others with permaculture in the winter. Yup, that's someone who understands efficiency and the best beginning season.

  • @user-vh2ui2it3i
    @user-vh2ui2it3i 13 годин тому

    probably changed my life in terms of relationship with land and growing

  • @tigercasey1554
    @tigercasey1554 Рік тому

    Yield from the garden.... Pur enjoyment. Love the attitude Hugh.

  • @cherylprice1790
    @cherylprice1790 Рік тому +1

    What a lovely video. I have an allotment that I'm trying to apply these principles, and it is easy to get overwhelmed, so this is an excellent grounding video. Thank you.

  • @ov7787
    @ov7787 2 місяці тому

    Impressive knowledge, values and skills you’ve acquired. Thank you for sharing.

  • @tibiavram
    @tibiavram Рік тому +1

    Great principles. This year I will start small scale gardening. Thanks a lot. God bless you.

  • @akhileshbalhotra5254
    @akhileshbalhotra5254 Рік тому +1

    🤔. Hope Mr Lawton is right ....as every problem started from most perfect garden on Earth ever . Eden

  • @christinasmith6043
    @christinasmith6043 Рік тому

    Absolutely my fave video you have ever posted. Thank you.

  • @KimberleyJP
    @KimberleyJP Рік тому +1

    A great video Huw! Awesome to have a reminder of these important principles and such a variety of examples for each ❤️

  • @courtnez
    @courtnez Рік тому +1

    So excited to dream of spring as we just got a dump of 1' of snow. I'm going to look into the rain water collection system. Great idea!

  • @michellebarbour5777
    @michellebarbour5777 Рік тому +3

    Inspiring film. Thank you. We didn't really know what 'perma-culture' meant but we can now show off with the words 'We do Permaculture' to our adult kids ;) ..we've always collected from skips and made stuff/reused and grown plants up as well as along in our tiny plot. BUT, what struck us and gave us pause for thought was nu 12 on this list. We've had to adapt to getting less able as we've got a bit older. I love the re-framing of having to get rid rid of the lawn (we could no longer mow it!) to we have 'Creatively..Responded to change'. We now have a bigger chicken run instead of lawn, producing compost in the, more easy to access, smaller, heap. We had to reduce heavy lifting but perhaps we 'creatively responded to change' by having more water butts nearer to veg with smaller watering cans..Ha! Great way to re-think how change can be an 'opportunity not a threat'. Love your gentle, non-judgemental way.

  • @phaedragardeness
    @phaedragardeness Рік тому +1

    Lovely and gently way to be with plants and gardens. We flower farm in Australia, and it’s been slightly chaotic starting but now we are starting to focus more on a life with flowers.

  • @bluemoon8268
    @bluemoon8268 Рік тому

    … thank you for the community and sharing your knowledge and inspirations … !

  • @emmamaguire1991
    @emmamaguire1991 10 днів тому

    I have watched several videos explaining permaculture and they've always made it seem really confusing, too hard, or I just couldn't understand how to apply it. But this video is great! You've made permaculture understandable and like something I can begin adopting myself. Thank you, Huw! ☺

    • @HuwRichards
      @HuwRichards  10 днів тому

      Wow amazing feedback thank you so much!!

  • @melben4358
    @melben4358 11 місяців тому

    I thoroughly enjoy your videos. They are informative, inspiring and remind me that all things are possible. Thank you and keep them coming!

  • @harrysollmer1644
    @harrysollmer1644 11 днів тому

    Thankyou for The hundreds of inspirational ideas 😮

  • @MsCaleb79
    @MsCaleb79 Рік тому +1

    This was a very good video!

  • @christianerardt3705
    @christianerardt3705 Рік тому +1

    Thank you for sharing your precious advice 👍🏻💚🌱

  • @andrewjohnston7129
    @andrewjohnston7129 Рік тому +75

    In fairness - permaculture as a codified concept in Western culture may have “started” in the 1970s, but the fundamental principles have been known and practiced by indigenous peoples for centuries.

    • @margaretaspin6881
      @margaretaspin6881 2 місяці тому +5

      It’s good to read up on Bill Morrison to see his scientific work at the University of Tasmania and all the connections to the indigenous systems

    • @allentosch6753
      @allentosch6753 Місяць тому

      Definitely agree

    • @yellowbirch2498
      @yellowbirch2498 Місяць тому +8

      It's not that this dropped on Western culture in the 1970s, I think that it was a return to traditional agricultural methods that had been the way things had been done in the West too. The Industrial Revolution led to the mechanisation of farming with more and more intensive methods which took more people off the land and into the towns and cities. I think permaculture is a recognition that traditional methods are the only way any culture at any time or place in history has farmed and farmed well, and the only way agricultural can be sustained in the future. And I think people are realising they were happier on the land.

    • @katejay9786
      @katejay9786 17 днів тому

      ​@@yellowbirch2498 especially industrial processes that remove nutrients from land (in the form of food) and transport them to centers of consumption; in a way that means the return part of the nutrient round trip is missing. incentivizing the use of chemical fertilizers etc. if we could apply permaculture principles to recover energy movements like this, even half-assedly, it would be a massive improvement i think

    • @katejay9786
      @katejay9786 17 днів тому

      permaculture principles also suggest that some improvement is better than doing nothing, improvisation is good, and starting your analysis from where you are not where you think you should be

  • @cunningtontwattwaffle2554
    @cunningtontwattwaffle2554 Рік тому +1

    Thanks Huw for such a clear and logical breakdown of these principles! I love your work and always get a lot from it.

  • @philippawhite4622
    @philippawhite4622 8 місяців тому

    Thank you for telling the world about Bill Mollison etc.

  • @carosoncini7562
    @carosoncini7562 Рік тому +1

    I absolutely love how simple and full of information all your videos are, thanks 🤍

  • @kkgauthier
    @kkgauthier Рік тому +1

    Absolutely fantastic! Thank you.

  • @katblyth8153
    @katblyth8153 Рік тому +1

    Fantastic video, Huw, thank you. Just a couple of weeks ago I emptied a bed of potatoes and as usual wondered what to do with all the vines. After seeing my neighbour use some really strange looking vines as mulch on his outside beds, and watching them break down over the months, I had my answer and decided to use them as mulch in the back yard where I have my fruit trees. So far, so good. Fortunately in Australia we don’t have issues with blight, so this can be done safely. Felt very pleased with myself for managing to keep the vines working in my garden rather than sending them off in the green waste bin!

  • @FalloutConspiracy
    @FalloutConspiracy Рік тому +1

    Very informative. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!

  • @millycarmichael9331
    @millycarmichael9331 Рік тому +1

    Thank you! Lovely exploration and examples of the permaculture principles 😊

  • @Tinyteacher1111
    @Tinyteacher1111 Рік тому

    All I do is take breaks and think! I’m so overwhelmed!

  • @margielliott6389
    @margielliott6389 Рік тому +1

    Absolutely love this video and overall message. 👩‍🌾👏

  • @enriquezepeda6076
    @enriquezepeda6076 11 місяців тому

    Thanks Chris Evans, really useful information!

  • @RT3Creations-Learn
    @RT3Creations-Learn Місяць тому

    Awesome video. I only hope I can recreate the permaculture system and my reasoning for joining permaculture in my garden and in my videos. Thanks again for your time!

  • @ceelo3998
    @ceelo3998 Рік тому +1

    That's really cool about the ferments! Very creative!

  • @stressedbutblessedmomma7792

    I just left a comment on a Instagram post just now saying goodnight from where I am and that I had just found your channel in the middle of a sleepless night and I am so excited to keep watching and learning (when it’s not the middle of the night, for me lol) from your channel. You look identical to a kid I grew up and went to school with and even our exact age too. You have a twin all the way in America haha. Well I appreciate your content 100% and cannot wait to start following you and learning! 😊

  • @lysmalls658
    @lysmalls658 Рік тому

    Huw I like this Video because you Speak on different Aspects of Gardening it’s a Wealth of Information

  • @user-bc5js3xw7r
    @user-bc5js3xw7r Рік тому +1

    Thank you Huw for sharing the knowledge. Will be spending the afternoon making a repurposed root cellar I think… 👍🏻

  • @aw6707
    @aw6707 Рік тому +1

    The flowers are just gorgeous in the footage! 😍 have bigger plans this year for more ornamental flowers to double as tea sources.

  • @jordicombs6466
    @jordicombs6466 6 місяців тому

    I am absolutely amazed by your efforts. I hope in my retirement years I can approximate your incredible accomplishments. You strike me as the kind of conscientious person I hope to become. Thank you.

  • @janetjacobsen5850
    @janetjacobsen5850 Рік тому

    Excellent video. Thank you!

  • @GrowCookPreserveWithKellyDawn
    @GrowCookPreserveWithKellyDawn Рік тому +1

    Such a great video. Thank you for explaining the principles so clearly.

  • @wormulous
    @wormulous Рік тому

    This is awesome. As you already commented I'm going to be starting my own here and it's just in my own little space, but what amazes me is how long it even took me to start to want to garden. Like what switched in my life where I just want to be able to create both a habitat for food and pollinators just recently? If someone could have pulled this urge out of me sooner then the yard would have been worked for years and I would have bought acreage to fulfill that want and need.

  • @mrsANGRYh
    @mrsANGRYh 6 місяців тому

    Love your videos.. Thanks Huw. x

  • @emilysgreendiary
    @emilysgreendiary Рік тому +1

    Awesome video, thanks Huw! 🙌🏼