Reading the Landscape with Permaculture Design
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- Опубліковано 15 гру 2024
- Geoff reading the landscape during a course in Hungary. To learn more about permaculture, watch Geoff's free Masterclass: www.discoverpe....
Geoff distinguishes between temperate, cold, and dry landscape profiles in this video while explaining how to find a keypoint. Understanding the location of a keypoint on a slope is crucial for building efficient dams and water catchments on a permaculture site. This point marks the highest potential for water storage in a valley, which can be used for harvesting, spreading, soaking, and irrigating.
Key Takeaways
When working on a permaculture site, it's crucial to differentiate between various landscape profiles like temperate, cold, and dry.
Valleys have ridges on both sides and a keypoint where water can be held. Locating the keypoint on the slope is crucial for building effective dams and catchments.
The keypoint represents the maximum potential for water storage in a valley, which can be utilized for harvesting, spreading, soaking, and irrigating.
P.A. Yeomans developed keyline farming in the 1940s, which utilizes the keypoint for water management.
Various landscapes like volcanic, flatlands, coasts, and wetlands possess unique characteristics.
Understanding different landscape profiles can help us become better designers.
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Geoff is a world-renowned permaculture consultant, designer, and teacher that has established demonstration sites that function as education centers in all the world's major climates. Geoff has dedicated his life to spreading permaculture design across the globe and inspiring people to take care of the earth, each other and to return the surplus.
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Permaculture integrates land, resources, people, and the environment through mutually beneficial synergies - imitating the no-waste, closed-loop systems seen in diverse natural systems. Permaculture applies holistic solutions that are applicable in rural and urban contexts and at any scale. It is a multidisciplinary toolbox including agriculture, water harvesting and hydrology, energy, natural building, forestry, waste management, animal systems, aquaculture, appropriate technology, economics, and community development.
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I absolutely love Geoff's videos and how he explains concepts that I can easily understand.
🌿🦋💦 Every snippet brings me more depth of understanding. Thank you to everyone who learns from Geoff and tries out the application of these permaculture methods and ways of thinking.
I really enjoyed the demonstration of the walking technique ❤
Sir Geoff Lawton, you are indeed the Father of Permaculture & Landscape; You are also a superior Teacher indeed. Thanks
Revisiting geography lessons, but in such a different way! THANKS
Permaculture is amazing; it's a step in the right direction. Thank you to everyone involved including all the great teachers on the internet and permaculture farms. So thankful to Mr Lawton for his videos.
Can't wait to see what Geoff will be doing in Hungary!
Paprika ;)
@@kamilfrancoolczak and wine? ;)
Oh man, this was eye-opening. Thank You!
Thank you
Thank you for venturing into Hungary to teach. It's always interesting.
Now if we could reach into Southern California/American SW...
Dear Geoff, I din't know you are here in Hungary shame on me. I hope you will be back. I waited years for this visit. Légyszíves adjatok meg egy hírlevél vagy oldal címet ahol értesülhetek róla, ha jön Geoff legközelebb. Köszi !
This is insightful
Awesome casual video Jeff. I understand a lot of these concepts. . I really could use some help understanding Coral Island like the Bahamas. I'm a good vegetable gardener but don't understand how to approach this environment from a permaculture perspective. If you have any resources I can buy involving steps and action and how to act with low Islands let me know.
I'm no Geoff Lawton but I'll give this a shot... as I understand it you are dealing with close to sea level relatively flat terrain. You can still do swales and berms and even on flat land you have contour (unless it's man made dead flat which is great for swales too). The annual rainfall in the Bahamas is 44'', that's a lot. I'm working with 19. I assume there are some challenges with being so close to sea water underground but with that much rainfall you have a lot of options. Not to mention a wide array of flora for organic material.
What book is recommended to learn how to read the landscape this way.
We also have a geo engine ering issue. The lines in the skies are sprays of nano metals, aluminum mostly. These sprays are dessicant in nature, this can be affecting "drip". No moisture or less and the plantlife dries out.
You where in Europe!? I'd love to hear more European landscape stories. Veeeery interesting!
Saya lagi membangun permakultur jg di Indonesia. Salam dari Indonesia
Basis of harmony Geoff
The James Bond of Permaculture.
How do i keep in touch with you geof ?
I'm self studying permaculture and looking forward to establish a forest farm in the future. I'm also thinking about (when AI technology is mature enough) to create Autonomous multimodal team of agents that are able to learn, save, and update information. Then it can be upgraded later according to AI advancements to freelance, invest, manage projects, and communicate with stakeholders. My ultimate goal is to enable it to establish, manage, and expand a series of permaculture edible forests around the world to reduce famine and climate change. At the end it should be able to buy, create, operate, and fix robots, drones, apps, IoT devices, and hire/manage human personnel. It will take time to get there.
as a software engineer, my main interest in permaculture is due to the difficulty machines would have in doing it and how easy it is to do myself.
ty geoff
Hi geof
The shape of the earth
great
Hallo everyone Geoff Lawton has put me on a road that I cannot turn from lol until the day I die lol
Christ will save your soul. Use permaculture to heal your land. As caretakers of this earth we need to be doing all we can to preserve this gift He’s given us and use it to feed the hungry and the poor. Not Gaia earth worship, just merely being a caretaker of this incredible gift we’ve been given.
Permaculture is deeply animistic, even if you, as I do, strip out the spiritual elements. Christianity, especially dominion theology, is inherentlyly antagonistic to permaculture
@@ellenorbjornsdottir1166 not at all. You misunderstand, along with many Christians sadly, what dominion is. Read genesis. He created it perfect. We ruined it. He will create it again with the new earth.
Geoff is a muslim.
Dominion is not a prerogative to destroy. If Man did not have dominion over the earth, he would have neither the right, nor the responsibility to do permaculture.
Plant trees!
Camera work was distracting. Made it confusing and hard to watch.