How Arizona Turns Desert Into Fertile Farmland For Local Community!
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- Опубліковано 28 січ 2024
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In the desert of Arizona an incredible transformation is taking place, what used to be an abandoned dry dusty wasteland has been turned into an abundant farm that's teaching the local community how to grow nutritious organic vegetables. Its all happening in area where its gets extremely hot and dry, making it quite challenging to cultivate food. But by using a special technique to farm in the desert, they can turn sandy gravel into fertile soil,
making this once dust bowl into a lush green oasis.
Tucson, Arizona located in the Sonoran desert, it receives on average 11 inches of rainfall a year and on a particularly dry year it can be at as little as 5 inches, summers are sweltering with the highest temperature reaching 107f or 42c, its mostly clear all year around, the winters are cool and dry with temperatures rarely dropping below freezing, making the winter season the ideal time for planting.
On this 6 acre lot of land in south-west Tucson was nothing but a wasteland, it was dusty barren and unused, situated between a residential community and a dry river bed. Over the years the community have been turning this over-looked space into a thriving organic farm and they’ve been doing it by learning to use special desert farming techniques.
The project called Las Milpitas started on county owned land back in 2006, with the idea not only to make growing food accessible to anyone but also to cultivate a community, since 90% of the housing in this area are trailers, they do not have backyards and there are no local parks nearby. They also live in what’s known as “a food desert’ where there is no access to fresh vegetables close by and for the majority of low income families who live here it is also unaffordable to buy healthy food, let alone organic produce. In Tucson, one person in seven is food insecure which is slightly above the national average.
That's why the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona, have partnered with the Las Milpitas community garden since 2011 to teach people to grow their own food. They also provide free irrigation, tools, plants and seedlings, assistance and classes on nutrition, cooking, budgeting, grocery shopping and gardening. They encourages the gardeners to earn some extra money by selling their surplus produce at the local farmer market
Learn more about the project here: www.communityfoodbank.org/loc...
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This is great news. Once we realize that if we turn our desserts into viable gardens and build greenhouses up north where the sun shines for 20 hours a day we can eliminate chemicals and increase food production enough to feed everyone alive 100 times over. Cheers from Ottawa, Canada🍁
Not if he can help it.
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Capturing methane at factory farms, from animal waste ponds, with a balloon over, to capture methane for generating power.. also the co2 an be captured and we already use co2 dumping to 1250ppm which is 400 typically outside.. so co2 is already used by plant growers...
@@dertythegrower We have the ability to solve our problems if we just use our brains.
Somewhat more atmospheric CO2 probably a good thing, certainly helps my organic gardens thrive.
Make factory "farms" illegal. @@dertythegrower
This is how all communities should be. Great job.
Hey I'm from Tucson and my wife and I worked with Joe and Valer Austin from one of your previous videos. Thank you for sharing our stories with the world. I hope you had a chance to speak with Brad Lancaster while you were in town, his work has been inspiring to so many people here and around the world.
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Kudos to Arizona community for this ecological project. This has turned your community to thrive and has a sustainable business by planting trees, fruits and vegetables. Keep it up and God bless.❤
I love this, and I would love to do something like this for people in my areas.
Garden should be a skill taught to our children in our schools.
There should be community gardens like this available to everyone.
Every home and business should install a rain water collection and storage system along with solar panels.
Even in areas where rain is infrequent it is crazy to waste the little rain that does fall and waste it.
We need to stop planting green lawns and switch to local native plantings around homes.
It is crazy to plant lawns and build golf courses in dry desert areas. We waste too much water and electricity.
This is a great initiative and your our coverage was well done! We hope your channel continues to thrive.
Thank you so much!
Strangely enough the enjoyment and sense of meaning is greatly enhanced by the fact that they are growing plants in an extreme environment, a desert. To do this successfully they have to be at the top of their game and so this focuses the mind
What a super project, a shining example of what's possible - climate resilience at the community level.
Wonderful project. I really resonate with the name " Milpitas" as that is the name of the city I live in. The name means one thousand little cornfields which no longer holds true since the city has grown a lot in the last 46 years I have lived here. Thank you for these wonderful videos. Change is happening.
Happy New year to you & all.
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Wow Interesting! Thank you 😊
Super good to see this effort to welcome local communities onto the farm and garden. Growing and cooking the food from one's own garden is so good for the mental and physical health of a person. Excellent example! thanks~
Tiger Mountain Foundation is a similar project going on in Phoenix AZ, glad to see more and more people looking into gardening
Wonderful that they can use both new and old techniques to grow so much in the desert!
This is what the government everywhere should be focused on and spending the hard earned tax dollars on.
This right here should be priority number one.
And not billions of dollars on the war machine which will and has damaged our planet 🌎 soo much all that ammunition in the environment and the oceans where do we think all that stuff is going not only into our bodies but every thing that is sustainable in the planet 🌎 god we must be soo stupid and thick not to know the final outcome of war 🌎and its fallout into the whole of the environment 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😪😪😪😪😪
Very top one project! remember that one plant will provide new water for more plants, in some years you will have a forest with big trees and shadow for the neibours, and more trees, fresh air….
I absolutely love the positive message you guys spread. Videos like yours give literally help me to stay sane!
Wonderful project! Thank you for sharing. I hope they also plant some traditional native food sources such as the Screwbean tree (Prosopis pubescens) and the Englemann's Pricklypear (Opuntia engelmannii). 😊
Well done 👏
Nice video. Small Large Impressive achievement by the locals.
Great work!
We have a community garden in Fond Du Lac Wi. It seems like a good idea for any community.
Fantastic! This is what state and federal governments should be funding: Knowledge, systems, soil management, food security for all cities.
how can there be food security when they're constantly placing burdens on farmers and importing tens of millions of more hungry mouths?
Magnificent!
Very impressive!
Very cool.
Talking into the hamster threw me off though.
Tell them to use a thin layer of flaxseeds (all touching) as ground cover; to get the proper result may take several pounds of seeds per tree. It will be worth it though. Tell them to experiment with a few trees and record it.
There are possibly other seeds that would work well, but likely not as well as flax has particular properties from seed to harvest which i haven't found elsewhere.
Wonder if there us potential for a naasive composting operation.
Collect food waste from the residents.
Bury in short trenches and leave for a few years and then use as plant bed.
One trailer load per hole
This woukd be goid fir improving ground that is not being used yet.
The authorities could contribute as it would reduce rubbish collection and handling.
Be kind to one another and you will see vast improvements in civilization and nature. But it starts with being kind to oneself. I can feel the difference.
Great! 👍👍
Wow fantastic of the water to be unlimited like that. This will certainly be sustainable!
These deserts get tons of rain in a short amount of time, barely allowing the water to seep into the ground. With smart rainwater capture you can easily create an oasis.
@@magesalmanac6424 ok, and where would that water have gone originally?
Rush to the sea along with top soil.@@deathsheadknight2137
Water is not being destroyed.
Apart from in the food produced and transpiration it goes back in the ground
@@knoll9812 yeah, it goes into the ground... hundreds of miles away from the original aquifers.
In Burbank IL I got 100$ ticket for growth Tomatoes, because supposedly because of me there in one million rats in the city.
@LeafOfLife, 0:53 "11 inch" please include metric unit measurements in your video.
Can you use sun cloth, the protective stuff to decrease the amount of sun reaching what’s underneath in Arizona to grow vegetables?
I live in northern Wisconsin and we need geothermal greenhouses to extend our growing to all year. We don’t have any and depend on California for limp veggies.
No farm no food America must return to local farms!
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Options aplenty, but the will to do it must be both community and government driven.
All big changes are top down. brush up on elite theory.
@@deathsheadknight2137 That is the problem with ‘elitism’, it surmises that nothing can exist without it. The power and influence of the galvanized masses outweighs and overcomes the will of the select and (sometimes) chosen few.
@@consciousthought9293 Can you point out some examples of the will of the many overriding the will of the elite, with regards to actual policy changes?
@@consciousthought9293 While you're busy looking for some examples, have a look at this quote from the first page of a book called The Populist Delusion, by Neema Parvini.
"An organized minority always rules over the majority. Perhaps as a testament to that fact, a recent empirical study showed that public opinion has a net-zero impact on law-making in the USA across 1,779 policy issues. In fact, my thesis goes further than that to suggest that all social change at all times and in all places has been top-down and driven by the elites rather than 'the people'. Those movements which have the appearance of being organic and bottom-up protests- for example, the Civil Rights movement in the USA or the Russian revolution in 1917- were, in fact, tightly organized and funded by the elites. Those attempts to drive change from the 'Bottom-up', which is to say, in the absence of elite organization- we might think of the events of 6th January 2020 in Washington DC or the recent Yellow Vest movement in France- will amount to little more than inchoate rabble."
For reference, the study cited:
"Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups and Average Citizens" Perspectives on Politics, 12:3 (September 2014), pp. 564-81
@@deathsheadknight2137 There are two that come to mind. Further research would be required for more. First, the non-violent principles shepherded by Mahatma Gandhi in helping to topple the overriding control and influence of the British empire in India, and fostering creation of the Pakistani state. Second, in the U.S., the modern-era civil rights movement/mobilization of mostly Black people in helping to carve out rights and privileges of representation and equity of humane treatment that had not existed before - with enforcement codified by law.
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In the title, the past tense of the word “Build” is the word “Built” and is the correct word for the title.
Encouraging that you are establishing the garden and helping people to get out and off their butts, but I wouldn’t want so many tears in my garden, raise salt levels you know. Detracted from the positive of grow your own food and get in better shape.
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It's good for the local farm produce and the community's livelihood expenses but, don't mistake these patches for ecosystem/ greening of desert etc. Nature doesn't function unless it has a continuous integrat ecosystem instead of patches. Govt fools us with trees , canopy raised but unless it is a forest belt kind of thing no Carbon restoration or sink is formed. It's just a better standard of living for the community and a foundation practice of natural harmony. Change can't be sudden, it's a good start and the only way to start.
Creating decent soil is a carbon sink.
Agree that it is a start.
Be wary of what trees are planted in desert environment
Food justice issues ? What's this ?
UK resident unused to this language.
Wikipedia definition as follows:
Food justice recognizes the food system as "a racial project and problematizes the influence of race and class on the production, distribution and consumption of food". This encompasses farm labor work, land disputes, issues of status and class, environmental justice, public politics, and advocacy.
As a UK resident I am familiar with term.
In UK terms normally means that area of disadvantaged people have limited access to nutritious food
“In the US, 250 years is a long time. In the UK, 250 miles is a long distance.”
The US is car centric. There are areas where there are no restaurants/grocers.
If you don’t have access to a car and live in one of these (typically poor) areas, access to food can be difficult.
Would be nice when your knowledge is tied in with physical help. Like what you are doing for the desert in Arizona. Are you in any other states? Like New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma? If not, hoping they ask you. Do you have videos for DIY's?
And you know with this kind of co operation and innovation we might even be ableto change climate change its just we have been too blazee about our precious planet sustainability thinking or not thinking rather about the damage we are all doing but with this different attitude and caring a 100 💯 prc more about our planet and regreening and growing our own food more and more people will relyse we cant keep on with this careless behaviour and not thinking about our attitudes towards not only our environment like greening but also about our animals especially the humble chicken i dont eat red meat but iam still eating so much chicken i dont know how many millions of chicken get killed and eaten everyday and sometimes i dont eat it but then there are times that i do and millions of others i did have a time where i ate no meat at all only tofu or other natural foods and i must say i didnt really miss it at all so i wonder how many other people out there feel the same way iam sure there are millions so maybe we could spare a few more or save a few more lives of the humble chicken that would be good 💟☮️🕉️🌈🌈🌈🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🦘🦘🦘💐☔️🌸🦋🌹😂🩷🦄💚🌏🌎😍🥰🩷🧡🌻🙏🙏🕉️🙏
There is potential for adding chickens to these gardens.
Better quality of life for chicken if people still want to eat chicken.
In India summer temperatures soar upto 50 celsius
Whay to make films about how successful I am without explaining how? 🤔 From the title of the video it is understood that there will be a little more content
This channel focuses on outcomes but is light on actual how.
Деревья и леса надо сажать,а не огородами заниматься. Локальный огород не изменит общую картину мира.
Turning desert, or unused land into gardening spaces and food production is wonderful for everyone to learn. We all need to get back to nature for health and well being.
But the term, "food justice"? What a killjoy way of thinking and communicating. Is anyone else sick and tired of politics being brought into everything?
Gardening is good for the soul. Just throw off those silly face masks, and breathe some fresh air instead. Certain soil bacteria are actually beneficial to the gut biome, and ultimately mental health.
Love your stuff kick on love it❤🧡💛💚💙💜🤍