2024: Progress in the Desert - A Greening the Desert Update
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- Join Geoff on an insightful tour of the Greening the Desert Project and the adjoined Oasis site, where he highlights the latest developments and sustainable practices shaping the project.
Beginning at the entrance gate, Geoff showcases a newly constructed accommodation building, illustrating the project's commitment to providing comfortable and sustainable living spaces. The landscape has undergone significant enhancements, with meticulous sandstone pavements adding to the Oasis's charm.
Transitioning to the living systems, Geoff admires the greywater reed beds-a method for recycling household water. Amidst the landscape, a food forest stands as a beacon of biodiversity, with various support spaces facilitating the growth of lush vegetation.
Geoff then leads us through the mobile chicken tractor system, highlighting its effectiveness in soil regeneration and pest management. The chickens' diligent efforts in mulch management underscore their vital role in the project's ecological balance.
Moving towards the natural swimming pool, Geoff admires the pristine water and surrounding vegetation, emphasizing the project's commitment to creating harmonious natural environments. The terrace gardens showcase an abundance of fruit trees and vegetable crops, reflecting the project's diverse and sustainable agriculture practices.
As the tour concludes, Geoff reflects on the project's ongoing evolution and emphasizes its role as a model for sustainable desert living. With each initiative and innovation, the Greening the Desert Project continues to inspire hope and progress towards a greener, more sustainable future.
About the Greening the Desert Project:
The Greening the Desert Project is in Al Jawfa, Jordan. It is an innovative initiative led by permaculture experts Geoff and Nadia Lawton. Their goal is to transform barren desert land into productive and sustainable ecosystems using permaculture principles.
Since its inception in 2008, the project has gained international attention for its groundbreaking approach to sustainable agriculture in harsh environments. Through techniques such as earthworks, water harvesting, soil improvement, and agroforestry, the project demonstrates how degraded landscapes can be rehabilitated to support abundant life and provide food security for local communities.
The Greening the Desert Project serves as a model for combating desertification and promoting resilience in regions facing similar challenges worldwide. It showcases the potential for regenerative practices to restore degraded land and foster environmental sustainability. For more information on the Greening the Desert Project, visit their website at www.greeningth....
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This is really motivating! I'm from the Northern part of Kenya, which is quite arid. I'm gaining valuable insights from this channel. My aim is to educate people in my village to enhance our soil and boost productivity.
Amazing job, sir!
Thank you Geoff for your tireless work in inspiring others to create positive change in the world.
Oh my goodness! The area has changed! More trees in the area . More homes. Looks like the neighbors are also doing the same thing. That's wonderful.
love the digital tags on the video!
I'm looking to start permaculture in Central Iran on our land. It's a high desert so there's light snow in winter and not possible for tropicals or dates. But the avocados love the green house. Love to learn more!!!
Looks amazing Geoff! I hope we also get to see a tour of Abla's place too!
It's looking great Geoff. I hope the unrest in the area isn't causing you too much trouble.
Hopefully, you can get others in the area to follow your example. Cheers!
If We could all see that there is so much abundance in this world (even in the desert) with just a small amount of design and maintenance.
@@rotcakaMay the idea of abundance in every home grow and bring peace and develop everyone as good neighbors
I always love seeing more of this place❤
Wow that moringa tree is huge. I have one in my garden that has to go inside every winter 😊
Beautiful place. Great human being
It's amazing what you've done with such a tiny budget. Except for the sandstone, I saw almost no sand. You and the team have done a wonderful, fascinating, amazing job!!!!
That fenced terrace with the tomatoes, cabbages and so on is enviable at this time of year! Truly a land of plenty :)
Great video 🇳🇿❤️🙏🏼
Thank you
Thank you for the update Geoff. My thoughts have been on this garden and the people touched by it. Sending best wishes to all.
Just magnificent
amazing work!
Nice to see your morning 🌄 tour, thank you ,
Show the rain , when they come!!
The most obvious development is the ever expanding green congratulations of fabulous contribution to the environment 🎉
Absolute proof anywhere can be abundant. I remember when Bill Mollison pronounced this soil "the worst" he had seen after years of travel. What a difference good design and creative management plus lots of hard work has transformed this site from moon scape to abundance. Well done!
❤️ beautiful
Fascinating. Top job
Astounding! What an inspiration! Thanks for sharing the journey Geoff.
Go Geoff and Nadia-- so beautiful, so well done. Wonderful wonderful contribution to a dry land.
LOVE THESE! Come to Lebanon!
Nice one Geoff - Regards, Morrissey PDC class of 2016.
I love these updates! So therapeutic! I feel as part of the project. ))
❤❤❤I also. He explains so good. And Geoff s ideas to work with dry areas give me hope ❤ many people learn from him
When we share these videos with the people we meet or know, we are helping for sure.
Hi, thank you Geoff and everyone else, your unwavering resolve and passionate and educative documentarys, we see the fruit of your actions, you guys are the great nature assistants that by intelligent design has and will lead to great events to reduce the difference between the two edge media of connected and disconnected to earth societies.
Awesome work! This inspired me so much in my hot dry food forest.
Changing since I visited you 8 years ago!
Super view.
I'm surprised the cats haven't scared off the wild birds. Wonderful to see this project always.
I think with tall enough trees (particularly ones which aren't easy to climb) the birds are fairly safe. There are a couple of hawthorn trees immediately beyond the fence at the back of our house here in the UK, only about 20 feet at their peaks, yet birds nevertheless perch in them (I think magpies have nested there in at least some of the five years I've lived here) despite the neighbourhood cats occasionally trying to stalk them. That said, I think the cats do frighten smaller birds off, and even the magpies get a bit nervous I think; I don't think I've seen them in the trees for a year or so (these modestly sized trees are the biggest mature trees that we have here because the estate was newly built five or six years ago).
Great job! You are a magician! haha.
What a wonderful place! great job !
The accomplishments are amazing
Enjoyed the tour, thank you. I see lots of new growth and changes since the last visit. I live in Tucson, Arizona zone 9a and I am going to try Leucaena again this year. A cold snap killed my entire 20' tall crop last year. I'm going to crop and use more mulch this year.
Absolutely beautiful.
your creating the garden of eden over there Geoff looks like paradise….. ❤
Looking good, can't wait for those trellises to be covered
the pavers are amazingly skilled
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Awesome! Thank you.
An amazing food forrest from the hand of the amazing Geoff Lawton. Godslpeed to you and yours.
It looks quite amazing Geoff
Awesome !!!
Love these videos
Geoff is a legend
👍👍👍👍
Beautiful and healthy food system.
gorgeous!!
Good morning, Geoff, from Windermere, Florida zone 9b USA
I love when you make a new video and visit me❤
Your Desert Oasis is gorgeous.
yay. awesome to see. please keep safe and happy gardening
Thank you for the update, looks great.
Thank you for the update, always a pleasure to watch!
What an abundance, a lush paradise!
Lets do a Mediterranean one!
Was just checking for updates yesterday!
You seem very knowledgeable.
how much watering is need over summer? are you bringing in extra water?
love the update on the desert project! would love to visit
MashaAllah
Absolutely gorgeous work as always, can't wait to see more
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Thanks Geoff!
Hard on . Top
The Gods of Nature, By Geoff Lawton.
HOLY SHIT! I thought that Geoff Lawton had passed away! Im so delighted to see he’s still out here doin the damn thang!!! The father of permaculture lives! Thank goodness
He is most certainly NOT the father of permaculture 😂
i love mulch
Asalamu alaikum brother Geoff. I pray you and the family are in the best of health and had a great Eid. I wanted to get your advice on how to tackle flat terrain? Our family own a few 1000 acres of land in Algeria on the outskirts of the Sahara desert. It's topography is pretty flat and uniform and I was curious about how one would go about trying to retain water on a site like that. While it rains quite scarcely throughout the year, when it finally does rain it pours, so would obviously want to retain as much of that as possible. Thanks for your time
Andrew Millison shows water retention structures in the Sahel on you tube.
@@fayebird1808 Thank you so much!
Next time you do an update, would you intersperse the video with "before" pictures? It's hard to believe that you have created such a lush food forest in the desert. I can just imagine what the soil that you are creating with all that mulch and droppings will be like in 5 years. It's truly inspirational!
Look for previous videos
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Impressive
Have you considered long hives for your bees? The Langstroth hives are more disruptive and less available to monitor and manage
I wonder if you could check the temperature difference in mid day summer under the shade where the humidity is the highest, at about 5 feet. And compare that to shaded desert at the same hight. Also do that at midnight to see if much of the heat stays during the night. It be nice to see if there is a significant advantage to human well-being.
Geoff, have you tried planting any incredible edible bambara groundnuts? Shalom
Do you have any edibles growing in the swimming pool?
What does the solar do on that chicken tractor?
Amazing progress, Geoff! What a great project! I'm new to permaculture. Currently working on a small piece of land here in north of Spain by the Atlantic...humidity and strong wind. So far so good, we managed to restore the dry land from building wast, but we are facing a big problem of pest. Root of the trees / vegetable/ onions got eaten. I can't identify it...maybe moles or mice? I have 4 cats working full time. How do you deal with this kind of problem? Can someone please help? 🙏
The cats just tops it off.
Wonder the difference in temperature
One thing people fail to talk about in those videos is mycorhizae. In desert and tropical climates, plants have endomycorrhizae. Those fungi connections are important because they help with collecting water, on top of nutrients. In temperate climates, most trees and plants have ectomycorrhizae. Those help with nutrients, but not water. Now, what's the biggest problem ? All our cultivated plants (wheat, corn, rice...) have endomycorrhizae. So they cannot connect to most european or american trees, can't share nutrients, much less water. They can do it with OTHER cultivated plants, like legumes, but otherwise you need trees from desert/tropical climates to connect to your crops/veggies. So that would be most fruit trees, like pear, cherry and apple trees, of course all tropical fruits, and then many "foreign" trees like robinia.
Why is the chicken tractor solar? Does it have a motor to move it?
Great job thanks for update. I notice a lot of irrigation drip feeds, where does the water come from for these?
I wonder if you can use aquatic species of trees like certain sesbania species and maybe water locust.
Need show the roof my friend
could you add a be4 and now to parts? i'd love to see the difference
Another comment you are like Mr Green in the Quran wherever you go, life starts to flow vibrantly!
Do you have any links for more info on the natural swimming pool?! @4:52
Sir. Could you please mention source of seeds.
It's just a garden around the house, what does that have to do with greening the desert
hopefully the war doesn't touch your oasis. Safer to be in Australia right now.
I hope the cats don't hunt the native birds and lizards. My aloe vera is also flowering here in southern Brazil
Are you in Jordan while Israel is bombing hell out of Gaza? Will they never learn?
Place looks amazing Geoff.
So this is what the Middle East could look like? Wow.
Bro. Fantastic Plants
Especially the •Zealand Teal•
Like the mind in Straiikeng blissful still
The separated focused universe that makes speaking be a spell of itself in absence.
This world of mine and you would do well to meet my mother. Her and her husband have known a Greenhouser for many years. Friends no doubt and of course a leaf of Amsterdam.
While they do care for a few uncommon birds, I say you’d do well to meet them because they are not astonished and aware enough to absorb the interactions and values of the Animal Kingdom.
They need to be on the subjects that Darwin was on though they are running Christ Jesus programs.
What do you think about NeuralLink in carnivorous and large land mammals?
Membrane spray coats on trees and plants to retain water?
As for NeuralLink, I could swear to God that God sent me a Chatting Bird with a NeuralLink chip a few weeks ago: And the same color of my shirt!
You are such an inspiration! 🙏🏼
G'day Geoff, very interesting site indeed for us here in Namibia. I was wondering how much water this system needs? I see a lot of irrigation pipes...are you feeding those only from rainwater tanks and greywater? Thanks so much!
Beautiful stuff Geoff. The world never looked better!
Always amazing to see an update on this project!
Cheers & mabuhay, from my end--the Philippines!
Seeing the updates of this site always makes me want to move to Arizona or West Texas. The first intro I ever got to you, and permaculture, was the old videos of you at the Tucson swales. It just seems to me that the dryer sites are somehow more receptive to lush, tropical looking results. That's probably not true, and I understand there was a lot of work and patience at play, but it sure is beautiful.
Edit: the stone work there, is just gorgeous.
With the University teaching others, farmers, and this showcase, Jordan will change to a much more self-sufficient country. Thank you.
One day I will ask my neighbours that visit Jordan to go take a look at what they can do and they'll be much better off.
Well done ✅.