Thanks for letting him talk without you interrupting. So many UA-camrs try to make themselves the dominant person in their videos rather than the people they're interviewing. A great video!
These old heads need to do a podcast to reach the masses. I've been watching food growing videos for a while and this man cannot pass without sharing his knowledge. Almost like the back to Eden videos I'm glad that a new generation can benefit from Paul's wisdom.
@@StefanoCreatinithat would be a good idea. Many people could learn from his knowledge and mistakes. If u ask him about both and edit it accordingly, I believe u will be on a winner.
Let's face it, I have a garden of 13 x 13 m, and I have a lot of work to do. With this gentleman, everything is under control, and as I see he do it by himself. How?
My grandfather died in 2006, the property was lined with fruit trees around its perimeter, lemons and other citruses, white and black mulberries, various varieties of figs, peaches, grape vines, olive trees, some more exotic things like loquats and prickly pears, with a rose and flower bed out the front that my grandmother kept, and an enormous veggie patch lot with trench rows/raised beds he used to grow tomatoes, melons, squash, all kinds of herbs, beans, potatoes, cucumbers, enough to feed 30+ people easy year round. He had a huge chicken coop and multiple sheds, a huge wood fired oven, a green house, an outhouse. All completely wiped, levelled and stripped bare when the new owners moved in - every tree, every plant, every bit of life. Veggie garden turned to a great big lawn, a beautiful Mediterranean style paved alfresco area with citruses, grape vines, passionfruit vines and olive trees completely gone and turned into a raised wooden deck, and the fruit trees along the fence line ripped out and replaced with bog standard ferns and palms from a generic big box store. Why in the world would anyone do this? I get making a place your own, but to shred up every bit of character it had developed as a home for generations of people, with a history and a story told by its every feature, and replace it with a cardboard cutout from a home landscaping magazine is just insane to me. In many ways, it’s anti human, anti life. To replace something so vibrant, so homely, so abundant with something so sterile. Some people are just hellbent against conserving what comes before, it’s not right.
Before I moved to my current location 20 years ago, I sold my smaller property to buy this bigger one. I spent a decade creating an oasis in the desert…..ponds, vining tropicals, it was really beautiful, and a local habitat for over wintering birds, etc. The first thing the new owners did was strip everything green from the property…..filled in the ponds….it just broke my heart. My brother is also that kind of person that thinks land should be bare…that people will then view him as an “orderly” person, and thus he is a more valuable member of the community. I kid you not. Anything green pops up on his lot, he rips it out. My take is people like that have a mental illness.
I hope my nephews do not sell my effort, labour, tears, joys, love. I guess people think this as a lifestyle we chose while we are silently trying to save some values all around the world.
Many years ago I decided to do the veggies thing, so I dug up the back end of my suburban garden & planted around 15 different veggies and covered the whole thing with a peat layer - that garden produced so much we had a lot of trouble figuring out how to eat it all. It was a wonderful year, but we moved the next year & gardening became something I was going to go back to one day. Now I'm 84 yrs old & living with a very small garden where not too much grows well, so veggies are out, except for a few tomatoes in pots ! What I do remember is the total happiness & pride growing those veggies gave me. You can see that natural joy in this guy & it shows how much we all need that connection ! Thank you for a lovely video & keep growing !
Lance is my friend since the 60’s. He has been growing food, baking bread & been a health nut as long as I’ve known him. He’ll live a long, healthy life.
I live in an urban two bedroom house with a small garden, for three years I added cardboard, grass clippings and collected leaves, sticks and any bio mass I could get, now I grow 80% of my yearly food, my meat comes from rabbits and quail. It's a labor of love but it CAN be done!
I'm still trying to wrap my head around the fact that this amazing individual has created this extraordinary garden at 6000 feet in Colorado what an absolutely wonderful thing to do.
@@rjoshb It wouldn't be "finite" if we were all using responsible agriculture techniques. A food forest is symbiotic in that it works together to retain water and nourish itself. Once established, it would require very little water AND it would convert all that CO2 into oxygen. Problem solved. Get out of here with your indoctrinated fear mongering.
Probably not single handedly- his mom and him worked it together for years and he mentioned friends coming to pick food. Properties like this get built on a foundation of community, something we've walked away from in the US in favor of living alone on our 'castles' like poor kings, everyone with their own tiny fiefdom that can do nothing but grow grass and dog poop
national treasure. people don't realize how dangerous it is when he says at 17 mins that something like 90% of our crop varieties are GONE and unavailable due to modern farming practices etc. Irish potato famine folks. Variety is key to survival. When less than 1% of us grow the food for the rest, with only 10% of available seed varieity, might as well put the nail in our own coffins.
The Irish "potato famine" had less to do with potato blight and more to do with the British taking livestock from rural farmers for the crown. Yes the Irish grew and ate a lot of potatoes, but a population couldn't survive very long on just carbs. They didn't eat potatoes exclusively, they just had their primary source of food taken from them by the British army.
The whole world has moved from natural varieties to hybrids for larger produce and more produce. Higher density more virus and bacterial infections, tons of problem.
Lance is a living treasure. His know-how, his hands-on experience is beyond dollar value. If I ever won the lottery, I'd just start community schools around the tens of thousands of old folks like Lance, who have decades of wisdom and experience to pass down. There's tons of people my age and younger, who would kill to learn and have a chance to actually set down roots both literally and socially.
This is more important than what nations are at war, what people are being “short changed” or spoken about, this is more important than government and celebrities. God bless this man. Take that athlete energy and work the field for your food and needs. Love it❤.
It would take decades but, if a fraction of all the wasted $$ went into large trees into the areas that are brown on a map they would turn green. For all the climate focus it seems to be overlooked. I'm in Upstate NY maples drop leaves creating rich ground retaining moisture and every other plant grows cooling the ground. In a 50*15' garden composted leaves, woodchips, and chicken coop cleanouts help with heavy clay. Summer bakes like a rock, or wet gums everything up. Organic additions help.moderate it. I'm not a big green world organic this or that person I simply don't want to poison my well water 20 ft from the garden.
Except this directly relates to people who are being "short changed". We could use a Youth Corps in this country as well as guys like this to teach our kids how to be self-sufficient. They need to learn how we all can do more to help each other, our towns, and the country as a whole.
Thanks! hope so too. I've been doing permaculture in different capacities for the last ten years. Just bought a 36 acre farm in Western Colorado to do permaculture.
Very impressive, growing one’s own grain on a small scale is probably one of the hardest accomplishments, in the western world almost no one does that, cool🎉
I haven't seen so much green in the high desert. I live in the high desert of Southern California and am working my way up similarly like his. I am jealous 😆 🤣 😂
Ive been working on starting something like this on an acre in the Colorado mountains at 7200 feet elevation but without a well or reliable water source. I’m in year 5 now. I’ve started collecting rainwater and have been adding a lot of woodchips which seems to be helping keep the ground moist and also improves the soil. Trees are finally getting established. I wish I could keep the animals off my plants and trees because they keep eating them back and then the growth has to start over again. I’ve been putting fence up but animals still find a way to get to the trees and eat them. I feel like I’m finally getting somewhere though and eventually want to start a UA-cam channel to show what I’m doing here
Pearl millet and other millets are perfect for desert climate. I am from India, and this grain is grown in the Rajasthan state in North west of India. which is a hot desert. but you need to soak the grains before cooking them.
Excellente option. Cultivé au Sahel. Excellente nourriture, prévient le diabète. Il peut être planté dans des endroits peu pluvieux. Au Brésil, il est planté à la fin des pluies, après la principale récolte des céréales.
I watched the whole video waiting for this explanation lol, permaculture in the desert implies a video that at the least touches on the topic. He did say he drilled a well, but he doesn't explain his watering practices
@@SkyDavis100 theres nothing wrong with irrigating in permaculture. Look at Geoff Lawton in the dead sea valley. Iys about how the water is used, which there is no detail to comment on.
The knowledge and experience this man has is truly impressive. Anyone who strives to be self-sufficient should definitely study and follow this man. Thank you for sharing this video.
Great story. Just one addition. The yarrow plant isn't only a good lawn. There is more. It is a great healing plant-Traditionally, it was used in 3 ways: Applied to the skin for wounds and minor bleeding. Taken by mouth to reduce inflammation, especially in the digestive tract. Taken as a sedative to relieve anxiety or insomnia.Also, tea of Yarrow helps with digestive problems,bloating,gases,regulate gallbladder, cramps and pain in the stomach. How to prepare tea...one tsp dry lives and flowers put in 200 ml boiling water, cover and leave for 10 min.Drink 3 times daily before meal.
I planted one yarrow plant. Our neighborhood cats devoured it, sat on it, rubbed on it. I heard about its healing properties but this was intense. Planning to buy more but its too hot in SoCal right now
Hey, Lance! I was a beach bum in SC back in the day, too. I think you are a few years ahead of me - I didn't see you in my yearbook. I still live in the area. What an inspiration to restart my garden that I let go fallow a few years ago.
This is a wonderful interview. Lance is such a role model. I appreciate what he said about what it is that makes him tick, and how that translates to a productive farm. I'll watch this again for inspiration. The one thing missing was a tour of his kitchen and how he turns these plants into food. Maybe another interview for that.
this give me hope as look around the area it is dry and dead and look what this man has achieved a lush place that provides and heals!!! simply incredible!!
Check out the JADAM method….Korean Natural Farming. Many vids on YT, books on Amazon. Nothing is “dead”, you just don’t know how to utilize nature to help you grow successfully. Rome wasn’t built in a day. 😊. Start now…..time flies…and you will look back fondly that you had the courage to try. ❤
Life goals... we've been at it almost 10 years. Looking forward to learning and expanding more over the next few decades. Thanks for sharing this beautiful tour. I would love to hear hours more from him.
I’m interested about amendments for desert soil. I live in upper Nevada … hot dry windy sand & our area gets little rain. Would love to hear about amendments when he first started ⭐️💫. Amazing 🤩👵🏻👩🌾❣️
Well done. We had a family relative who had a permaculture garden for years. He died unexpectedly and the new owners removed it all. Have plans in place to avoid this situation. All the best.
My grandfather died in 2006, the property was lined with fruit trees around its perimeter, lemons and other citruses, white and black mulberries, various varieties of figs, peaches, grape vines, olive trees, some more exotic things like loquats and prickly pears, with a rose and flower bed out the front that my grandmother kept, and an enormous veggie patch lot with trench rows/raised beds he used to grow tomatoes, melons, squash, all kinds of herbs, beans, potatoes, cucumbers, enough to feed 30+ people easy year round. He had a huge chicken coop and multiple sheds, a huge wood fired oven, a green house, an outhouse. All completely wiped, levelled and stripped bare when the new owners moved in - every tree, every plant, every bit of life. Veggie garden turned to a great big lawn, a beautiful Mediterranean style paved alfresco area with citruses, grape vines, passionfruit vines and olive trees completely gone and turned into a raised wooden deck, and the fruit trees along the fence line ripped out and replaced with bog standard ferns and palms from a generic big box store. Why in the world would anyone do this? I get making a place your own, but to shred up every bit of character it had developed as a home for generations of people, with a history and a story told by its every feature, and replace it with a cardboard cutout from a home landscaping magazine is just insane to me. In many ways, it’s anti human, anti life. To replace something so vibrant, so homely, so abundant with something so sterile. Some people are just hellbent against conserving what comes before, it’s not right.
@@Azzury. that reminds me of communist china when they started that whole schtick, they destroyed every temple or holy site or shrine they could find, they wanted to destroy anything old, anything that wasn't modern, that wasn't in their new vision of what the world should look like.
@@Azzury. Please post your comment again in the main comments thread so more people can get to read it if you haven't already. Sorry to hear what happened to that property
@@shayson1357 why? they bought the property they can do what they want w/it... Why didn't the family relative buy the property him/herself and save it? But no... So plz, stop with this "lost hope in humanity" bs.
Do you miss the San Clemente sunsets, Lance? Your permaculture oasis is truly impressive. I am in my second year of vegetable gardening in San Clemente, and I have so much to learn. Our yard is basically neglected construction grade dirt over hard packed clay, but I see improvements in the soil and more insects and life all the time. Hearing how you built your garden in the middle of the desert is inspiring. Thank you for sharing your passion and experience with us.
@susanfoy4794 I highly recommend you go to one of your nearby golf courses and speak to grounds keeping, you could net yourself quite a bit of seed free grass clippings. I say golf course because the grass is kept clipped and from going to seed unlike residential grass. Free compost.
Spread this info. This man is a diamond, a gem, pure gold. Watched this whole video and came back to talk about how beautiful to the eye, this garden is.
I’m in the high desert of southern ca on 10 acres and have been starting my own garden. This gives me so much hope for what I have to come. Love this video, thank you for sharing!
This is so remarkable!!! What a story - what an outstanding garden!!! Absolutely captivating. and you know, working that thing, KEEPS HIM YOUNG!!! He's outside, good air, gets good bacteria from the soil, sunshine > perfect!!! Thanks for the share!!! PS those carrots looked sooo good!!! and I can vouch for Colorado spinach - its huge and dense! Never seen anything like it; got some at farmers market and it wowed me.
What a success story. An amazing gardening feat. I live in Australia on the east coast,and struggle with heat and humidity in the summer. Clay soil as well. Lots of insects that want to ruin my citrus trees, tomato's and so on. We have a bee problem now, not as many. I'm keeping this video as a guide, it's inspirational.
WOW, Thanks. L just saw a great waw to add to my property. WIND break. Here in New Mexico we do have strong winds and it is hard to grow with the high windy days. Thanks Ill start planting for a wind break. love what you have done. Stay safe. Semper Fi.
The best video i watched this year it is just what i wish for unfortunatly i have no money to buy a peice of land but watching this warm my heart nothing feels better than planting
Thanks! Have faith. Lance started with humble beginnings, everything worth something takes time. Many land owners want someone to take care of their land and grow food. Build the skill first, and then land will come.
Stef's reply is spot on...Look to build your skill sets in agricultural or horticultural settings by completing a few internships, apprenticeships, etc...then assemble or join a solid team, community of agrarians, heck even check out trad.farming in another country. And yes, the land will come. Or, what's happened for me is other farmers & gardeners in your local community seek out YOUR help, advice, and consult your experiences based on word that has travelled to them about you. No need to own your own thing, property, etc... when land owners have you reside on "their land" in exchange for working the gardens or farm; finally admitting that no one can truly do it on their own!
Just fantastic! You are my hero sir, self sufficiency at it's finest. I would love to be able to do this myself, as a non-vegetarian it would take a few more acres to cover some livestock as well, but people like you are showing how the rest of us should be doing it! All the best to you and yours!
Creating a permaculture garden in the high desert presents unique challenges and opportunities, blending sustainable gardening practices with the harsh environmental conditions typical of desert landscapes.
...barb fence around his property, green in the middle of a desert. Nothing about this is "natural". If you call him a master you might as well call all those vineyard owners in CA desert masters as well.
Great job, Lance! And Stefano, thanks for sharing. As a young seedsaver I am grateful for true elders who are taking the future into our hands. Keep up the good work, keep pollinating y'all wherever you are. I have started guerllla pollinator gardening since I don't have a reliable plot but I have made quite a few gardens around and I won't stop!
It has occurred to me since the Mediterranean region gets a lot of sun and heat. I've never seen metal trellises there, and if there are any, they're smarter if they are replaced with wood.
Amazing 3/4 acre of vibrant life. High elevation. High desert , the well is the Ace up his sleeve, but the logistics, planning and smarts of this man is incredible.
Stephano thank you thank you for bringing this man and his wonderful 3 quarters of an acre property!!! He worked his whole life to have his little slice of heaven ☰ heaven ☰ ⚚ here on earth 🌎!!! Love peace and blessings be upon you and his homes my beautiful and wonderful spiritual brothers and sisters out there!!!❤
Wish I could find someone like this in my area to befriend and learn from their experience. I want something like this and am working towards it, albeit with many mistakes along the way. Would be nice to have guidance. There are nuances like him saying not to use metal for vining plants that I did not know, but makes perfect sense. Love this stuff.
Very nice garden. I live in the Central Oregon Cascades. Our soils are very sandy and hold very little water and nutrients. The other challenges I see is the extremes daily temperature swings and short warm growing season. We have 30 to 40 degree F daily temperature swings and can have temperatures drop to 30's any month of the growing season. If things were too easily it would not be so much fun. . I love the yarrow lawn (ground cover).
Is so true about our crop and sad. I have a small garden, and I do try to grow my own, and it is a great feeling when you harvest it and eat it. It a blessing.
Let us know how it goes. I filmed Lance through out the grow season and we are going to be releasing videos where he goes in more detail on how he grows everything.
Im with others on this one , this guy has some awesome knowledge to pass on to the next generation . Im not that sure he knows how good he is ? Great work Lance.
The yarrow is a wonderful tip! I wondered if I should let mine self seed and this answers the question! Lilac and yarrow both survive beautifully here in colorado!
We are also in Colorado, not too far from Hutchkis but much higher 8700 feet in Lake City. Im trying to create a garden like this here as well. We have no soil even no clay, just rocks but in three years with hugelkulture beds I was able to produce lots if soil from scratch,so this problem is solved. I need to close it in from deer, posts are in already, and I believe that I'll be able to grow lots of food and decorative plants.
These guys are heroes in thier own way and serves as good and best example.of keep going and not stopping thier goal to achieve the best garden and valuable plants, they fight poverty and hunger raising food to sustain thier needs if only people will realized how fruitfull is to start like what these guys started they will live happily and contented with thier harvest. Thanks to this very relevant ideas,that promote peace and harmony with nature! Thier plants are like jewelries,that they can reap and harvest with success!so very inspiring.Thanks guys Congrats!😮😊
Thank you Stefano. This video was so enlightening. I've become interested in farming in challenging areas because I know some farmers in Sicily are suffering from drought and I'm amazed at what I've found on UA-cam. There really is a way through if you can open your mind. I agree with everyone--this guy has a lot of wisdom to share!
Thank you Lance, I love it!!! Starting my journey as well and good to be guided and inspired by some of your wisdom and experience here. Truly grateful.
Hi Lance! Nothing has changed. You are still making your own bread & growing your own food. You are even more of a wealth of information. Loved making Sour Dough Bread with you & watching MASH together. I still call the end piece of the bread! Love you! Mona
I would love love love to do something like this, an oasis for the animals, bees and birds (and people) but being 57 and living on the East coast it's obviously not feasible so I'll cheer you on from the sidelines. ❤🌳🌱🌿
Please don’t use age or local as an excuse. All things are possible with effort. I am 80, single woman farmer living on-off grid now 40 years…..I still do all the stuff I did when I was 30. Even a small effort will reward you. ❤
Hi Stefano, Loved the Greenhouse home and garden! Now the beautiful and abundant High Desert Garden, enjoy so much all the unusual varieties. Today is March 3 in south west Washington state and it has been snowing like no tomorrow. Thank you
Thank you, feedback keeps me engaged to produce more content and share unique videos. I just released a video of a guy Utah growing oranges with cheap greenhouses
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Thanks for letting him talk without you interrupting. So many UA-camrs try to make themselves the dominant person in their videos rather than the people they're interviewing.
A great video!
Yes , great interview .
Well done.
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Great Comment and so true!
Very true
These old heads need to do a podcast to reach the masses. I've been watching food growing videos for a while and this man cannot pass without sharing his knowledge. Almost like the back to Eden videos I'm glad that a new generation can benefit from Paul's wisdom.
I’d be open to filming Lance some more through out the season, share some of his wealth of knowledge
@@StefanoCreatinithat would be a good idea. Many people could learn from his knowledge and mistakes. If u ask him about both and edit it accordingly, I believe u will be on a winner.
Let's face it, I have a garden of 13 x 13 m, and I have a lot of work to do. With this gentleman, everything is under control, and as I see he do it by himself. How?
He does a garden radio show
So that’s the only way to hear him speak 😢
@StefanoCreatini yes, please do film him more! What a treasure and inspiration you've captured and shared. Thank you.
My grandfather died in 2006, the property was lined with fruit trees around its perimeter, lemons and other citruses, white and black mulberries, various varieties of figs, peaches, grape vines, olive trees, some more exotic things like loquats and prickly pears, with a rose and flower bed out the front that my grandmother kept, and an enormous veggie patch lot with trench rows/raised beds he used to grow tomatoes, melons, squash, all kinds of herbs, beans, potatoes, cucumbers, enough to feed 30+ people easy year round. He had a huge chicken coop and multiple sheds, a huge wood fired oven, a green house, an outhouse. All completely wiped, levelled and stripped bare when the new owners moved in - every tree, every plant, every bit of life. Veggie garden turned to a great big lawn, a beautiful Mediterranean style paved alfresco area with citruses, grape vines, passionfruit vines and olive trees completely gone and turned into a raised wooden deck, and the fruit trees along the fence line ripped out and replaced with bog standard ferns and palms from a generic big box store.
Why in the world would anyone do this? I get making a place your own, but to shred up every bit of character it had developed as a home for generations of people, with a history and a story told by its every feature, and replace it with a cardboard cutout from a home landscaping magazine is just insane to me. In many ways, it’s anti human, anti life. To replace something so vibrant, so homely, so abundant with something so sterile. Some people are just hellbent against conserving what comes before, it’s not right.
So very true!! Years of work and expenses destroyed for what purpose??
Before I moved to my current location 20 years ago, I sold my smaller property to buy this bigger one. I spent a decade creating an oasis in the desert…..ponds, vining tropicals, it was really beautiful, and a local habitat for over wintering birds, etc. The first thing the new owners did was strip everything green from the property…..filled in the ponds….it just broke my heart.
My brother is also that kind of person that thinks land should be bare…that people will then view him as an “orderly” person, and thus he is a more valuable member of the community. I kid you not. Anything green pops up on his lot, he rips it out.
My take is people like that have a mental illness.
I hope my nephews do not sell my effort, labour, tears, joys, love. I guess people think this as a lifestyle we chose while we are silently trying to save some values all around the world.
I’m so sorry
There's something missing in people who do that. Hurtful to the world.
Many years ago I decided to do the veggies thing, so I dug up the back end of my suburban garden & planted around 15 different veggies and covered the whole thing with a peat layer - that garden produced so much we had a lot of trouble figuring out how to eat it all. It was a wonderful year, but we moved the next year & gardening became something I was going to go back to one day. Now I'm 84 yrs old & living with a very small garden where not too much grows well, so veggies are out, except for a few tomatoes in pots ! What I do remember is the total happiness & pride growing those veggies gave me. You can see that natural joy in this guy & it shows how much we all need that connection ! Thank you for a lovely video & keep growing !
look into no dig gardening :)
You can do amazing things in a small urban garden. Possibilities are endless from grow beds to a mini syntropical forest.
Lance is my friend since the 60’s. He has been growing food, baking bread & been a health nut as long as I’ve known him. He’ll live a long, healthy life.
Cant you fix the soil?
I live in an urban two bedroom house with a small garden, for three years I added cardboard, grass clippings and collected leaves, sticks and any bio mass I could get, now I grow 80% of my yearly food, my meat comes from rabbits and quail. It's a labor of love but it CAN be done!
There is a reason why village elders are respected in certain cultures, it's because of their wisdom
I'm still trying to wrap my head around the fact that this amazing individual has created this extraordinary garden at 6000 feet in Colorado what an absolutely wonderful thing to do.
He’s an inspiration around these parts
Gardening in Colorado's high desert is definitely a challenge!
You mean depleting the finite aquifer?
@@rjoshb It wouldn't be "finite" if we were all using responsible agriculture techniques. A food forest is symbiotic in that it works together to retain water and nourish itself. Once established, it would require very little water AND it would convert all that CO2 into oxygen. Problem solved. Get out of here with your indoctrinated fear mongering.
@@rjoshb with 3/4 of an acre? The question is can such farming be done there on a large scale. Is there enough water etc for large scale farming?
Crazy…he’s built his own farm single handedly. Super impressive.
What's crazy is every family should have a garden like this. Being dependent on grocery stores is hazardous to your health.
Probably not single handedly- his mom and him worked it together for years and he mentioned friends coming to pick food. Properties like this get built on a foundation of community, something we've walked away from in the US in favor of living alone on our 'castles' like poor kings, everyone with their own tiny fiefdom that can do nothing but grow grass and dog poop
Plus a dozen Mexicans
Garden. He built a garden.
Not really . Prob used tractors and other machinery
national treasure. people don't realize how dangerous it is when he says at 17 mins that something like 90% of our crop varieties are GONE and unavailable due to modern farming practices etc. Irish potato famine folks. Variety is key to survival. When less than 1% of us grow the food for the rest, with only 10% of available seed varieity, might as well put the nail in our own coffins.
Ok we know the problem but we can solve it by getting to work on it
No fear!!!
The Irish "potato famine" had less to do with potato blight and more to do with the British taking livestock from rural farmers for the crown.
Yes the Irish grew and ate a lot of potatoes, but a population couldn't survive very long on just carbs. They didn't eat potatoes exclusively, they just had their primary source of food taken from them by the British army.
The whole world has moved from natural varieties to hybrids for larger produce and more produce. Higher density more virus and bacterial infections, tons of problem.
"Decide what you like to eat, and then learn how to grow it"... good advice!
Lance is a living treasure. His know-how, his hands-on experience is beyond dollar value. If I ever won the lottery, I'd just start community schools around the tens of thousands of old folks like Lance, who have decades of wisdom and experience to pass down. There's tons of people my age and younger, who would kill to learn and have a chance to actually set down roots both literally and socially.
I filmed Lance for the entire grow season, we are going to share those videos in the coming months
This is more important than what nations are at war, what people are being “short changed” or spoken about, this is more important than government and celebrities. God bless this man.
Take that athlete energy and work the field for your food and needs. Love it❤.
It would take decades but, if a fraction of all the wasted $$ went into large trees into the areas that are brown on a map they would turn green. For all the climate focus it seems to be overlooked. I'm in Upstate NY maples drop leaves creating rich ground retaining moisture and every other plant grows cooling the ground. In a 50*15' garden composted leaves, woodchips, and chicken coop cleanouts help with heavy clay. Summer bakes like a rock, or wet gums everything up. Organic additions help.moderate it. I'm not a big green world organic this or that person I simply don't want to poison my well water 20 ft from the garden.
Except this directly relates to people who are being "short changed". We could use a Youth Corps in this country as well as guys like this to teach our kids how to be self-sufficient. They need to learn how we all can do more to help each other, our towns, and the country as a whole.
And he was an athlete growing up. Football in high school & volleyball on the beach for years!
THIS is gold! Love to see and hear the wisdom of the self-sufficient people.
Lance is living in paradise!
one he created himself no less. Inspiring stuff.
I hope this movement of permaculture and growing nature is going to manifest massively. We need it.
Great content, thank you and Lance !
Thanks! hope so too. I've been doing permaculture in different capacities for the last ten years. Just bought a 36 acre farm in Western Colorado to do permaculture.
Very impressive, growing one’s own grain on a small scale is probably one of the hardest accomplishments, in the western world almost no one does that, cool🎉
Growing the grain is easy. The harvest is the hard part. Cutting , thrashing, milling but can be done.
Still almost no one does it :(
I haven't seen so much green in the high desert. I live in the high desert of Southern California and am working my way up similarly like his. I am jealous 😆 🤣 😂
Ive been working on starting something like this on an acre in the Colorado mountains at 7200 feet elevation but without a well or reliable water source. I’m in year 5 now. I’ve started collecting rainwater and have been adding a lot of woodchips which seems to be helping keep the ground moist and also improves the soil. Trees are finally getting established. I wish I could keep the animals off my plants and trees because they keep eating them back and then the growth has to start over again. I’ve been putting fence up but animals still find a way to get to the trees and eat them. I feel like I’m finally getting somewhere though and eventually want to start a UA-cam channel to show what I’m doing here
Yes. The fact that Lance doesn't get any animals or insect pests, which is clearly visible in this video, is astonishing!
Nice. Supposedly 7 years is the time it takes to get properly established.
Start uploading and you will have a subscriber!
You should start one anyway! People would love to see your start.
Document the journey
😁a garden talk show called “As The Worm Turns” 😆 Lance is a treasure ⭐️
Pearl millet and other millets are perfect for desert climate. I am from India, and this grain is grown in the Rajasthan state in North west of India. which is a hot desert. but you need to soak the grains before cooking them.
Thank you for sharing that knowledge 🌹
Excellente option. Cultivé au Sahel. Excellente nourriture, prévient le diabète. Il peut être planté dans des endroits peu pluvieux. Au Brésil, il est planté à la fin des pluies, après la principale récolte des céréales.
What an excellent video. Just a clear portrait of a person and his passion without a bunch of self promotion. Thank you!
Anyone else notice how healthy he looks from growing his own food?
right. "let food be thy medicine"
It would be nice to know more about his well and water use.
I watched the whole video waiting for this explanation lol, permaculture in the desert implies a video that at the least touches on the topic. He did say he drilled a well, but he doesn't explain his watering practices
@@nata6025 yeah, it doesnt look like permaculture. he has so much green grass on a desert, he must spend water like crazy
The lawn is yarrow so it may not need as much water as grass. He did mention it had been 2 weeks since he watered his corn.
This was the comment I was looking for. Can’t really say it is permaculture if you irrigate. All his crops looked spaced very close together as well.
@@SkyDavis100 theres nothing wrong with irrigating in permaculture. Look at Geoff Lawton in the dead sea valley. Iys about how the water is used, which there is no detail to comment on.
You know a good garden when it stirs your appetite just walking through.
Brilliant!!
This dear man's knowledge needs to be recorded.
The knowledge and experience this man has is truly impressive. Anyone who strives to be self-sufficient should definitely study and follow this man. Thank you for sharing this video.
Of all the videos like this I've seen this is probably one of, if not the, best. 40 years of hard work.
There is nothing better than seeing the fruits of the garden and sharing experiences. Very good video, I like it very much.
Great story. Just one addition. The yarrow plant isn't only a good lawn. There is more. It is a great healing plant-Traditionally, it was used in 3 ways: Applied to the skin for wounds and minor bleeding. Taken by mouth to reduce inflammation, especially in the digestive tract. Taken as a sedative to relieve anxiety or insomnia.Also, tea of Yarrow helps with digestive problems,bloating,gases,regulate gallbladder, cramps and pain in the stomach. How to prepare tea...one tsp dry lives and flowers put in 200 ml boiling water, cover and leave for 10 min.Drink 3 times daily before meal.
I planted one yarrow plant. Our neighborhood cats devoured it, sat on it, rubbed on it. I heard about its healing properties but this was intense. Planning to buy more but its too hot in SoCal right now
That's amazing! We should all live our lives this way. Self-sufficiency defeats the powers that be who want to control us.
Hey, Lance! I was a beach bum in SC back in the day, too. I think you are a few years ahead of me - I didn't see you in my yearbook. I still live in the area. What an inspiration to restart my garden that I let go fallow a few years ago.
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This is a wonderful interview. Lance is such a role model. I appreciate what he said about what it is that makes him tick, and how that translates to a productive farm. I'll watch this again for inspiration. The one thing missing was a tour of his kitchen and how he turns these plants into food. Maybe another interview for that.
This is exactly how we grew up back in Romania❤
A most interesting gentleman still enthusiastically creating. Fascinating to watch and to listen to.
This video made me very envious. What a beautifully maintained garden. No weeds and organized. Thank you
this give me hope as look around the area it is dry and dead and look what this man has achieved a lush place that provides and heals!!! simply incredible!!
Check out the JADAM method….Korean Natural Farming. Many vids on YT, books on Amazon. Nothing is “dead”, you just don’t know how to utilize nature to help you grow successfully. Rome wasn’t built in a day. 😊. Start now…..time flies…and you will look back fondly that you had the courage to try. ❤
thats the natural biome of a high desert though. i agree its a bit desolate but those plants are adapted to the lack of rain.
@@TrevorTrove Indeed, Oasis's like this often make me wonder, where do they get all that water from?
all you need is a well, a diesel pump, and a dream!
Life goals... we've been at it almost 10 years. Looking forward to learning and expanding more over the next few decades. Thanks for sharing this beautiful tour. I would love to hear hours more from him.
and he’s doing it all by himself
Impressive!
Wow, he looks like he is in great health. This truly is inspiring, and kudos to his commitment.
Wish he had talked about irrigation
it’s definitely using diesel pumps for groundwater lol
I’m interested about amendments for desert soil. I live in upper Nevada … hot dry windy sand & our area gets little rain.
Would love to hear about amendments when he first started ⭐️💫. Amazing 🤩👵🏻👩🌾❣️
Well done.
We had a family relative who had a permaculture garden for years. He died unexpectedly and the new owners removed it all. Have plans in place to avoid this situation. All the best.
that's why some people lose hope in humanity.
My grandfather died in 2006, the property was lined with fruit trees around its perimeter, lemons and other citruses, white and black mulberries, various varieties of figs, peaches, grape vines, olive trees, some more exotic things like loquats and prickly pears, with a rose and flower bed out the front that my grandmother kept, and an enormous veggie patch lot with trench rows/raised beds he used to grow tomatoes, melons, squash, all kinds of herbs, beans, potatoes, cucumbers, enough to feed 30+ people easy year round. He had a huge chicken coop and multiple sheds, a huge wood fired oven, a green house, an outhouse. All completely wiped, levelled and stripped bare when the new owners moved in - every tree, every plant, every bit of life. Veggie garden turned to a great big lawn, a beautiful Mediterranean style paved alfresco area with citruses, grape vines, passionfruit vines and olive trees completely gone and turned into a raised wooden deck, and the fruit trees along the fence line ripped out and replaced with bog standard ferns and palms from a generic big box store.
Why in the world would anyone do this? I get making a place your own, but to shred up every bit of character it had developed as a home for generations of people, with a history and a story told by its every feature, and replace it with a cardboard cutout from a home landscaping magazine is just insane to me. In many ways, it’s anti human, anti life. To replace something so vibrant, so homely, so abundant with something so sterile. Some people are just hellbent against conserving what comes before, it’s not right.
@@Azzury. that reminds me of communist china when they started that whole schtick, they destroyed every temple or holy site or shrine they could find, they wanted to destroy anything old, anything that wasn't modern, that wasn't in their new vision of what the world should look like.
@@Azzury. Please post your comment again in the main comments thread so more people can get to read it if you haven't already. Sorry to hear what happened to that property
@@shayson1357 why? they bought the property they can do what they want w/it...
Why didn't the family relative buy the property him/herself and save it? But no...
So plz, stop with this "lost hope in humanity" bs.
Thanks for this lovely video. I had a farm for 22 years after I retired. It was an expression of love and exquisite labor. A wonderful experience.
Wow, what a paradise! It goes to show what bounty the earth provides with work and know-how.
his hands, when tasting the grapes, TELLS THE WHOLE STORY! that is wat you need to remember!
Wow what a beautiful and productive garden!
You can see the amount of knowledge and care put into this garden
very inspirational
Do you miss the San Clemente sunsets, Lance? Your permaculture oasis is truly impressive. I am in my second year of vegetable gardening in San Clemente, and I have so much to learn. Our yard is basically neglected construction grade dirt over hard packed clay, but I see improvements in the soil and more insects and life all the time. Hearing how you built your garden in the middle of the desert is inspiring. Thank you for sharing your passion and experience with us.
@susanfoy4794 I highly recommend you go to one of your nearby golf courses and speak to grounds keeping, you could net yourself quite a bit of seed free grass clippings. I say golf course because the grass is kept clipped and from going to seed unlike residential grass. Free compost.
@@christopherproffitt3943 Golf course waste grass is a no no no and never use for compost they use a shit ton of chemicals.
The sun sets in the Rockies as well, rises too.
Love the little town of hodgekiss. Great job sir.
What no plastic mulch? so nice to see someone that knows how to grow, and so rare today🐸❤️thank you
I love how he just casually mentions growing one of the gnarliest psychedelics in existence at the beginning.
Spread this info.
This man is a diamond, a gem, pure gold.
Watched this whole video and came back to talk about how beautiful to the eye, this garden is.
It’s even more stunning in real life.
I’m in the high desert of southern ca on 10 acres and have been starting my own garden. This gives me so much hope for what I have to come. Love this video, thank you for sharing!
This is so remarkable!!! What a story - what an outstanding garden!!! Absolutely captivating. and you know, working that thing, KEEPS HIM YOUNG!!! He's outside, good air, gets good bacteria from the soil, sunshine > perfect!!!
Thanks for the share!!!
PS those carrots looked sooo good!!! and I can vouch for Colorado spinach - its huge and dense! Never seen anything like it; got some at farmers market and it wowed me.
Wonderful work in the high desert. Happier and healthier whenever I can get some more info on regenerating soil for gardening above 6000 feet.
What a success story. An amazing gardening feat. I live in Australia on the east coast,and struggle with heat and humidity in the summer. Clay soil as well. Lots of insects that want to ruin my citrus trees, tomato's and so on. We have a bee problem now, not as many. I'm keeping this video as a guide, it's inspirational.
você faz videos para seu canal ?
@silviateixeira1997 I only commented on the video of permaculture garden in the high desert. I don't have a channel.
entendi, seria legal você fazer um canal.
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start making compost right on top of that soil, food scraps, leaves, cut grass, small branches will make a good fertile layer with years
WOW, Thanks. L just saw a great waw to add to my property. WIND break. Here in New Mexico we do have strong winds and it is hard to grow with the high windy days. Thanks Ill start planting for a wind break. love what you have done. Stay safe. Semper Fi.
Love seeing all of the fabulous healthy varieties he's growing, many of which cost exorbitant prices to buy in stores. 💚💚💚
The best video i watched this year it is just what i wish for unfortunatly i have no money to buy a peice of land but watching this warm my heart nothing feels better than planting
Thanks! Have faith. Lance started with humble beginnings, everything worth something takes time. Many land owners want someone to take care of their land and grow food. Build the skill first, and then land will come.
Stef's reply is spot on...Look to build your skill sets in agricultural or horticultural settings by completing a few internships, apprenticeships, etc...then assemble or join a solid team, community of agrarians, heck even check out trad.farming in another country. And yes, the land will come. Or, what's happened for me is other farmers & gardeners in your local community seek out YOUR help, advice, and consult your experiences based on word that has travelled to them about you. No need to own your own thing, property, etc... when land owners have you reside on "their land" in exchange for working the gardens or farm; finally admitting that no one can truly do it on their own!
WOW!
I love garden tours and how excited he his to talk about what he loves.😊
Just fantastic!
You are my hero sir, self sufficiency at it's finest. I would love to be able to do this myself, as a non-vegetarian it would take a few more acres to cover some livestock as well, but people like you are showing how the rest of us should be doing it!
All the best to you and yours!
Creating a permaculture garden in the high desert presents unique challenges and opportunities, blending sustainable gardening practices with the harsh environmental conditions typical of desert landscapes.
These guys are master's and we could all learn something from this group.
...barb fence around his property, green in the middle of a desert. Nothing about this is "natural". If you call him a master you might as well call all those vineyard owners in CA desert masters as well.
Great job, Lance! And Stefano, thanks for sharing. As a young seedsaver I am grateful for true elders who are taking the future into our hands. Keep up the good work, keep pollinating y'all wherever you are. I have started guerllla pollinator gardening since I don't have a reliable plot but I have made quite a few gardens around and I won't stop!
Never occurred to me that metal trellises might get too hot for the plants that climb on them.
Yeah but he is in the desert! 😅😅 Also i think he said just that vinegrapes don't like It, not that Won't grow over it
Same, I learn so much fr fr
It has occurred to me since the Mediterranean region gets a lot of sun and heat. I've never seen metal trellises there, and if there are any, they're smarter if they are replaced with wood.
Cant believe folks buy those galvanized troughs for plants, they will cook and freeze anything near them depending on the weather
that and leeching potentially toxic heavy metals into the soil to boot
This man is worth solid gold.🎉❤
Thank you for helping people
Amazing 3/4 acre of vibrant life. High elevation. High desert , the well is the Ace up his sleeve, but the logistics, planning and smarts of this man is incredible.
Such knowledge from practice! I hope locals and their children can tour and learn from this gentleman!
They do, he does annual gardening classes
Stephano thank you thank you for bringing this man and his wonderful 3 quarters of an acre property!!! He worked his whole life to have his little slice of heaven ☰ heaven ☰ ⚚ here on earth 🌎!!! Love peace and blessings be upon you and his homes my beautiful and wonderful spiritual brothers and sisters out there!!!❤
Wish I could find someone like this in my area to befriend and learn from their experience. I want something like this and am working towards it, albeit with many mistakes along the way. Would be nice to have guidance. There are nuances like him saying not to use metal for vining plants that I did not know, but makes perfect sense. Love this stuff.
What area do you live in? I'm in the high desert of Idaho.
Wow this guy is unstoppable at what he puts his mind to! Mad ultimate Respect.
Very nice garden. I live in the Central Oregon Cascades. Our soils are very sandy and hold very little water and nutrients. The other challenges I see is the extremes daily temperature swings and short warm growing season. We have 30 to 40 degree F daily temperature swings and can have temperatures drop to 30's any month of the growing season. If things were too easily it would not be so much fun. . I love the yarrow lawn (ground cover).
Is so true about our crop and sad. I have a small garden, and I do try to grow my own, and it is a great feeling when you harvest it and eat it. It a blessing.
Wow such a great example of how beautiful our deserts could look!
THEY ALREADY LOOK BEAUTIFUL.
@@actontreadway1168yes they are already beautiful and if every desert acre was cultivated in this manner the wells would dry up quickly
Tis is one of the graetest gardenervideos i have see in a long time
Wow, so impressive !! The soil also looks very good. Thank you for sharing 👍
Wow, the tips you shared at 4:35 are so helpful! I can’t wait to try them on my farm!
Let us know how it goes. I filmed Lance through out the grow season and we are going to be releasing videos where he goes in more detail on how he grows everything.
Wow what a blessed garden
Im with others on this one , this guy has some awesome knowledge to pass on to the next generation . Im not that sure he knows how good he is ? Great work Lance.
The yarrow is a wonderful tip! I wondered if I should let mine self seed and this answers the question! Lilac and yarrow both survive beautifully here in colorado!
Check out permaculture blogs. Very interesting. 😊
I hate yarrow. Because it spreads by runners AND seed, it gets into all the growing areas so densely, it strangles everything else
DO it and OBSERVE. Hope we can all endure as Lance has. Love this Mans resolution
Living the dream of many... Brilliant!!!
Congratulations to this hardworking knowledgeable gentleman. I really admire what he does!😀
Good stuff, neighbor! Lance is an artist. I saw six seeds I NEED!
So satisfying !!! Reminds me of time when I was kid and used to plant flowers and trees with my grandpa. 🥀🌻
Bio char would, reduce watering, also keep the the soil growing. I'm in southwestern Colorado too, this was awesome 💯😎
I absolutely love it, what a tremendous garden and way of life!
I want to do this with my high desert ranch , in Texas.... This is PERFECTION! 👏 👏 ✌️🤠
More people like Lance and the world will become heaven💯
100%, just need 10% of the world to be producers for all to live in utter abundance
Totally awesome! This is a dream of mine and I am so happy someone is living it.!
Great video, thank you. I love seeing the variety of edible plants and how healthy this guy looks.
We are also in Colorado, not too far from Hutchkis but much higher 8700 feet in Lake City. Im trying to create a garden like this here as well. We have no soil even no clay, just rocks but in three years with hugelkulture beds I was able to produce lots if soil from scratch,so this problem is solved. I need to close it in from deer, posts are in already, and I believe that I'll be able to grow lots of food and decorative plants.
Good luck at that elevation!
@@Starfish2145 , I sure will need that as well.
We are in colorado also and we sink plant holes and areas so they hold water. Above ground just dries out too much.
@@kathyreese4052 every area needs it's own solution. River rocks that we have don't hold water at all. Do you have mostly clay?
These guys are heroes in thier own way and serves as good and best example.of keep going and not stopping thier goal to achieve the best garden and valuable plants, they fight poverty and hunger raising food to sustain thier needs if only people will realized how fruitfull is to start like what these guys started they will live happily and contented with thier harvest. Thanks to this very relevant ideas,that promote peace and harmony with nature! Thier plants are like jewelries,that they can reap and harvest with success!so very inspiring.Thanks guys Congrats!😮😊
Just breathtaking 😍 you live in paradise ✨️
Thank you Stefano. This video was so enlightening. I've become interested in farming in challenging areas because I know some farmers in Sicily are suffering from drought and I'm amazed at what I've found on UA-cam. There really is a way through if you can open your mind. I agree with everyone--this guy has a lot of wisdom to share!
Thank you Lance, I love it!!! Starting my journey as well and good to be guided and inspired by some of your wisdom and experience here. Truly grateful.
Hi Lance!
Nothing has changed. You are still making your own bread & growing your own food. You are even more of a wealth of information. Loved making Sour Dough Bread with you & watching MASH together. I still call the end piece of the bread! Love you! Mona
He is living the life
impressive! I love he grows 95 percent of his food - that is my goal!!
I would love love love to do something like this, an oasis for the animals, bees and birds (and people) but being 57 and living on the East coast it's obviously not feasible so I'll cheer you on from the sidelines. ❤🌳🌱🌿
Please don’t use age or local as an excuse. All things are possible with effort. I am 80, single woman farmer living on-off grid now 40 years…..I still do all the stuff I did when I was 30. Even a small effort will reward you. ❤
You can do some of that whenever you are!
Hi Stefano, Loved the Greenhouse home and garden! Now the beautiful and abundant High Desert Garden, enjoy so much all the unusual varieties. Today is March 3 in south west Washington state and it has been snowing like no tomorrow. Thank you
Thank you, feedback keeps me engaged to produce more content and share unique videos. I just released a video of a guy Utah growing oranges with cheap greenhouses
Very nice, but what does he use as his water source? Genuinely curious.
Well and rain water.
He said they put in a well