Greetings from Syria. everyone should do the same , for me I consider greening the desert is the most national work can be done, , I also plant every spot around my house and i am expanding to be on roadsides.
You're doing a fantastic job! It's so inspiring to hear of so many good people all over the globe just like you all working together on the same project; Permaculture! Greetings and peace be upon you from Australia.
Greetings to you - - sorry your country has such horror I wish that people would put as much effort into permaculture as they do in killing we all bleed the same and we are all children of mother earth - peace brother!
R.I.P. Bill Mollison. Geoff Lawton is now the barer of the flame. I have no words to describe my love and respect for a man I've never even met. He has done and is doing so much good for this world. I have been watching and learning from this man for several years now and count myself truly blessed as a result. Pleasing above all is when I can share this knowledge with others and see them implement even one facet.
Imagine how rich and green Jordan could become if this was adopted nationwide. It would be the Jewel of the Middle East. I wish you every success with this world-changing venture
+Lightning Eyes Thank you we appreciate your interest. We have already implemented some sustainable projects in Africa. We are currently designing project to be implemented throughout Africa and other third world counties.
Great, valuable, much needed knowledge that is lacking in the world education systems. It ought to be main part of the quorrecula in all educational institutions in the world. This knowledge should be published in the widest scale
Would like to see a current update for this site and to see if they have expanded beyond the original site area. The larger the area the more beneficial effects the whole area will receive.
i was amazed, mashAllah of peach, plum, apricot all growing in desert land.. .so in sha Allah we can do the same in Riyadh and other ares of KSA, in sha Allah
dear Geoff and to all the dear friends of permacolture, thank you for sharing this beautiful rich vision. Together we will green the desert, which large portions of this earth have become.
Great work Hassan!!! I love videos where people are working together to solve problems. If we could all be doing this we wouldn't have time to fight! BTW, the Wadi Rum sounds like a place I'd like to swim in!
These clips and seminars need to be aired on Australian Free to Air Channels , especially at the moment when its so critical with the Drought situation. So the whole community and Government as well as the Farming community can be shown what can be done to help.
MashaAllah, what a wonderful achievement. Indeed, to incorporate the natural patterns of design created by Allah subhanawatalla into everything in life, your intentions, then deeds will have the resultant positive effects on the environment....If only we were all doing this with our lives, who would have the inclination for doing or even saying anything destructive...? No wonder Jannah is an ETERNAL GARDEN. Verdant, abundant gardens are what the human soul honestly craves.
I was captured by the demeanor of Mr Elsetohy. He is very serene, and clearly connected to this work and the gifts the Creator provides for us. Tha k you for another vid, mr Lawton, even if I'm a few years late to it ;)
Yeah, if they use animals in a certain guided way they could help enrich the soil. I wish I could learn about permaculture. It seems so amazing and interesting.
All good I would have liked to see the soil condition and how the permaculture method improved the dirt into the living soil with microorganisms fungi and bacteria thriving in Wada Sear Of course as long as you have water you will have vegetation. but was the quality of the soil improved?
Traditional farming communities in Korea developed a system called JADAM, which has been proven to be used to make the land more alive. Namely maximizing the use of plants that have certain ingredients that are adapted to local conditions, livestock manure, mineral salt water, and other materials that are easily available nearby, then connected and integrated with the food chain system between plants, animals and humans, including the use of microorganisms. . I have started applying it to several areas of land that have been damaged, because the humus has been lost due to mining activities on the island of Kalimantan, Indonesia, where the condition of the soil is very similar to the condition of dry desert soil and is almost rocky. This effort is showing very good results and if this is tried to be applied on the African continent and other desert lands, it seems that it will slowly improve naturally and bring benefits that move very quickly. Greetings from me in Indonesia and it would be very good if the JADAM system which was pioneered by agricultural experts in Korea is implemented. Please see this method which has been widely broadcast on many UA-cam channels, as a reference. Good luck and greetings to a healthy and green earth.
Even in this dry desert the water will fall. Not much (70mm) , but just enough to kick start. Wadi Rum is a valley, water will naturally gather there. The "trick" was to not let it go right away. Producing more run of and erosion. The best place to "store" water is in the soil, reduce evaporation, filters it and so on. With careful observation, design and implementation of features like swales, collection ponds, etc. It´s possible to slow the water and let it infiltrate into to soil. Cheers
What we need with this are different ways of farming as well. For example, urban farming, this would highly implement the world and food demand. A way to do this is farming through skyscrapers or just filling in the gaps in the city with producing trees.
+LardmanAttack Agreed. Am trying to do combine rainwater harvesting with biontensive + vertical gardening here in Mexico. Its been done on a large scale in Cuba. Obviously, Mr. Lawton has a lot to teach us.
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Now imagine that government supports this kind of projects. Sandy Sahara would be a thing of the past.
The water is "rain captured/stored " in the soil. Which is even more remarkable considering that an area like this can have as litle as 70mm of rainfall. Cheers
What's the water source for this desert garden? I've recently seen some experimental agriculture using ocean water that was growing a select group of food plants, especially chosen for their tolerance of salinated water.
My miracle would be to see rice and fish grown there. I heard about a guy who was not too far from Wadi Rum, up north in Galilee who had the brilliant idea of feeding the multitudes with fish.
I have found out personally that "pomegranites flowering" are not pomegranites. They can drop off, never form or just make very small hard and bitter pomegranites. Tell me the reality of this place, not the hype.
If there is no water to begin with, then it will not work. They can tap the aquifer, but it will eventually run dry if it is not recharged. There must be rain. If a location is bone dry, it will always remain a desert.
There is a limit for everything even for a rich country! It's a matter of spending and priorities and understanding! The world is running currently on conventional farming with monoculture and sympathetic fertilizers! If you think anything more than a million or billion is unlimited in economic terms then I'm happy to report my friend you are a stupid simpleton!
Not really. This area is very dry, with only about 7 mm of rain per year. It is made up of flat valleys surrounded by rock mountains that run off into the valleys. A square kilometer is a million square meters, so each square kilometer gets a thousand cubic meters of rainwater per millimeter of rainfall. That's seven million liters of water per square kilometer in this extremely dry area. A lot of that falls on barren rock and runs off into dry soil. So the problem really isn't a lack of water. The problem is that the runoff from the hills degrades the soil instead of nourishing it, because it runs off too fast. The soil can't hold it because of the erosion channels and the lack of organic material in the soil. So as magic as all this stuff looks, it really just reshaping the land to reduce erosion (mostly by blocking erosion channels) and planting hardy plants that build the soil. The rest happens by itself.
We need our planet to be green and lush every country need to plants trees . Montagnard indigenous Central highland we have thick forest before Now ethnic Vietnamese came cut all down plant coffee, rubber trees The Whole Central highland.
All plants are natural fertilizer. The plant was cut and dropped into the soil, to decompose and feed the live plants nutrients. It's the natural order of how plants thrive in a forest, with no human interaction. A bush dies, or a tree falls over, and as it decomposes, it releases nutrients into the soil that the other plants feed off of.
Yeah, it looks like a moringa to me too. But it could be a lucinae. Like Phoenix fire said, all plants act as a natural fertilizer but plants like moringa and lucinae draw nitrogen from the atmosphere and add it to the soil while other plants just recycle nutrient. But the most important thing is that organic matter is continuously being added to the soil.
The swale collects water from a very large catchment by designing to the contours of the land; Likely, this swale has collected water from an area as big as, if not bigger than, the farm itself. Water is simply captured it by design rather than letting it pass through and evaporate off.
K Hayes Very interesting idea - catching rain from a larger area. Obviously they would catch from any rooftops, but maybe they had a swale that was upsloping away from the desired watering area. I kinda still think they filled it by pumping or something.
I am glad you have incorporated the Israeli drip irrigation method. I think if you would incorporate the "Back to Eden Gardening" method of using wood chips that would cover the open spaces in the garden and not only provide nutrients but also aid in evaporation and collect the dew moisture, you may have even better results.
Import huge (several tons) amounts of wood chips, in this particular place neither seems very sustainable, practical or economical. Would be the antitheses of permaculture in it´s roots. After the initial input of imported resources, like hoses, seeds, etc. The general idea is for the system work itself towards a self sustaining condition. Not be dependent of truck loads of something that comes from thousands of km´s away. Sustainability is the key word. :-) Cheers
Greetings from Syria. everyone should do the same , for me I consider greening the desert is the most national work can be done, , I also plant every spot around my house and i am expanding to be on roadsides.
Congratulations! Keep up the good work. It is great to hear of constructive things being done there. :-)
The Master ...you are doing job keep doing good. ..no matter what...peace and greatings from India
You're doing a fantastic job! It's so inspiring to hear of so many good people all over the globe just like you all working together on the same project; Permaculture! Greetings and peace be upon you from Australia.
God bless Syria
Greetings to you - - sorry your country has such horror I wish that people would put as much effort into permaculture as they do in killing we all bleed the same and we are all children of mother earth - peace brother!
R.I.P. Bill Mollison. Geoff Lawton is now the barer of the flame. I have no words to describe my love and respect for a man I've never even met. He has done and is doing so much good for this world. I have been watching and learning from this man for several years now and count myself truly blessed as a result. Pleasing above all is when I can share this knowledge with others and see them implement even one facet.
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This is great as a proof of concept. We _can_ reverse the desertification process. Our planet needs a lot more of this sort of thing...
Great concept I wish I had visited when I was in the wadi a few years ago
Imagine how rich and green Jordan could become if this was adopted nationwide. It would be the Jewel of the Middle East. I wish you every success with this world-changing venture
Geoff Lawton is a spectacular man.🙏🏻👍🏻👍🏻
This is magnificent, I wanna see this in Africa, and third world countries. This project is giving me soooo much hope.
+Lightning Eyes Thank you we appreciate your interest. We have already implemented some sustainable projects in Africa. We are currently designing project to be implemented throughout Africa and other third world counties.
+MuslimAidAus wOw, realy nice
Bill Mollison was doing this in africa in the 80s
He was a man far ahead of his time.
no doubt. he made a video documentary on some of the things he did in africa.
God bless these people Jesus will bless you and your offspring for generations to come
Beautiful. Natural vegetarian and vegan food. No animal cruelty, Food, As it was 3000 - 5000 years back. Greening of desert.
This guy ❤️ should be listened to by all the leaders of the world 🌍
This is mind blowing. I wish I could visit.
Great, valuable, much needed knowledge that is lacking in the world education systems.
It ought to be main part of the quorrecula in all educational institutions in the world. This knowledge should be published in the widest scale
Would like to see a current update for this site and to see if they have expanded beyond the original site area. The larger the area the more beneficial effects the whole area will receive.
I hope I see all deserts green and prosperous.
WONDERFULL . Human beings need cooperation , NOT WARS
This is a great project guys . I am doing sort of same thing in Afghanistan . Wish you guys more energy and power to keep making our planet greener
ماشاء الله احسنتم واصلوا انتم رواد ماتفعلونه خدمة عظيمة للانسانية
wow! lovely project! I bet bees would be a great idea to add there!
i was amazed, mashAllah of peach, plum, apricot all growing in desert land.. .so in sha Allah we can do the same in Riyadh and other ares of KSA, in sha Allah
مستحيل يسوونها ال سعود
This is one of the most inspirational and educational videos. Thank you.
dear Geoff and to all the dear friends of permacolture, thank you for sharing this beautiful rich vision. Together we will green the desert, which large portions of this earth have become.
This video made my day. Fantastic. I would love to see Geoff draw it all out on a whiteboard. I'd love to see what the design was
+About The Soil I am going in cha ALLAH to jordan this year just to learn that with him!!
Great work Hassan!!! I love videos where people are working together to solve problems. If we could all be doing this we wouldn't have time to fight! BTW, the Wadi Rum sounds like a place I'd like to swim in!
+FRWHELAN Yes, no WMD's here. Just great people doing great work!
God Bless you sir. Absolutely wonderful. You are literally making the world a better place!
These clips and seminars need to be aired on Australian Free to Air Channels , especially at the moment when its so critical with the Drought situation. So the whole community and Government as well as the Farming community can be shown what can be done to help.
Simply amazing. Permaculture is one of the best things that has ever existed.
I love that people are working so well together.
The American West needs this!!
MashaAllah, what a wonderful achievement. Indeed, to incorporate the natural patterns of design created by Allah subhanawatalla into everything in life, your intentions, then deeds will have the resultant positive effects on the environment....If only we were all doing this with our lives, who would have the inclination for doing or even saying anything destructive...?
No wonder Jannah is an ETERNAL GARDEN. Verdant, abundant gardens are what the human soul honestly craves.
+Ruby K If only we were all doing this...I will in cha ALLAH
Learn, practice, enjoy then transmit the joy :). it can be done in a balcony you know!!
we need these kind of people in Pakistan (especially Karachi )
Greenting from caatinga in Brasil, l AM brasilien, l love plants, threes, hir is very dry, but l try to plants,
More videos on the specifics of this project would be very instructive and inspirational .
I was captured by the demeanor of Mr Elsetohy. He is very serene, and clearly connected to this work and the gifts the Creator provides for us.
Tha k you for another vid, mr Lawton, even if I'm a few years late to it ;)
oh my god. Bill molon has passed away. this brings tears to me
Great guys! I hope my country learns from you..
Allah y barik !
Just subscribed! Wow, I live offgrid in the desert and this inspired me to dig a ditch by my garden.
Yeah, if they use animals in a certain guided way they could help enrich the soil. I wish I could learn about permaculture. It seems so amazing and interesting.
More videos on greening the desert please!! Im obsessed
Thank You!!! You are doing great job!
Beautiful garden
Looks great, keep it on!
respect
All good I would have liked to see the soil condition and how the permaculture method improved the dirt into the living soil with microorganisms fungi and bacteria thriving in Wada Sear Of course as long as you have water you will have vegetation. but was the quality of the soil improved?
looks good
Only way to go
this is amazing
This was 5 years ago, who has more recent videos about this project?
Eso es maravilloso !!!
thanks brother
Traditional farming communities in Korea developed a system called JADAM, which has been proven to be used to make the land more alive. Namely maximizing the use of plants that have certain ingredients that are adapted to local conditions, livestock manure, mineral salt water, and other materials that are easily available nearby, then connected and integrated with the food chain system between plants, animals and humans, including the use of microorganisms. .
I have started applying it to several areas of land that have been damaged, because the humus has been lost due to mining activities on the island of Kalimantan, Indonesia, where the condition of the soil is very similar to the condition of dry desert soil and is almost rocky.
This effort is showing very good results and if this is tried to be applied on the African continent and other desert lands, it seems that it will slowly improve naturally and bring benefits that move very quickly.
Greetings from me in Indonesia and it would be very good if the JADAM system which was pioneered by agricultural experts in Korea is implemented.
Please see this method which has been widely broadcast on many UA-cam channels, as a reference.
Good luck and greetings to a healthy and green earth.
fantastic video GREAT work.
Just amazing
Where did u get water there? In the center of dry desert... how did you get?
Even in this dry desert the water will fall. Not much (70mm) , but just enough to kick start. Wadi Rum is a valley, water will naturally gather there.
The "trick" was to not let it go right away. Producing more run of and erosion. The best place to "store" water is in the soil, reduce evaporation, filters it and so on.
With careful observation, design and implementation of features like swales, collection ponds, etc. It´s possible to slow the water and let it infiltrate into to soil.
Cheers
I loved this!
Bellesa amo la naturaleza
great work
What we need with this are different ways of farming as well. For example, urban farming, this would highly implement the world and food demand. A way to do this is farming through skyscrapers or just filling in the gaps in the city with producing trees.
+LardmanAttack Agreed. Am trying to do combine rainwater harvesting with biontensive + vertical gardening here in Mexico. Its been done on a large scale in Cuba. Obviously, Mr. Lawton has a lot to teach us.
Now imagine that government supports this kind of projects. Sandy Sahara would be a thing of the past.
Best buds
love it!
Maa-syaa Allah
كم نتمنى تجربة مماثله في سوريا
How can i get intouch with you pls...great ideas...i wanna imply it in the desert of the south of tunisia and i need help..
Impressive, how much water is consumed for irrigation year round ? and were is it coming from ? pumped from underground or rain captured/stored
The water is "rain captured/stored
" in the soil. Which is even more remarkable considering that an area like this can have as litle as 70mm of rainfall.
Cheers
What's the water source for this desert garden? I've recently seen some experimental agriculture using ocean water that was growing a select group of food plants, especially chosen for their tolerance of salinated water.
3:00 or so --> 70mm average annual rainfall. But 'wadi' means river valley, so there's some collection into the permaculture area.
This should be the standard. A dry, lifeless desert should become the oddity.
That was the start of Farmers Union when I design it thank you all for helping me love you all remember to feed the hungry
So is it called Wadi rum or my favorite place wadia?
Where is the water coming from and how is the water being spread to the crops?
Salaam, how can I get in touch with the people on the ground in Jordan? No one is replying to the emails.
I want to do this in the American South West.
My miracle would be to see rice and fish grown there. I heard about a guy who was not too far from Wadi Rum, up north in Galilee who had the brilliant idea of feeding the multitudes with fish.
It is and can be done in these extremely arid climates. Tie in "Aquaponics" with Permaculture.
And then if we grow all over the place. Is it possible for Moore rain
Respected sir,
I wanted to make it in oman, also wanted to grow onion & potatoes
Can you please help me out or talk to me?
Where do they get water for irrigation??
Help us creating green desert Thar in sind pakistan
this is amazing!
Please give GPS coordinates of this place in Australia.
So we can glipmse its current status on Google Earth
As salam 'aleikoum,
That's a great Projet!
We really want to reproduce that in Algerian's desert, can you share us plans for this permaculture design?
kadesh hehe
This is the same Oasis on Geoff Lawton web site: www.geofflawton.com/fe/62176-desert-oasis. it show some of the design.
+kadesh hehe where are you in Algeria bro?
+M.N HAMIDI No, I am in the U.S.. Follow the above link and clink on "From Desert to Oasis in 4 Years"
+M.N HAMIDI No, I am in the U.S.. Follow the above link and clink on "From Desert to Oasis in 4 Years"
+Barb H Thank you
The plant that is cut back and added to the soil for fertiliser, what is that? Moringa?
+GlassIsFullKindaGal i forget the name but it's a type of legume tree, not moringa
acacia or leucaena. Both work well in dry/hot environments
Permaculture for Peace!
how can I turn off the music in the video, and still listen to the people ?
Really ?
jep
can you make an update?
Did you start with a pond or a swale.???
I have found out personally that "pomegranites flowering" are not pomegranites. They can drop off, never form or just make very small hard and bitter pomegranites. Tell me the reality of this place, not the hype.
Why don't Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain and UEA green their deserts?? They have unlimited money.
Muhammad Nabil Berri I think it's all about control. Control food, control people.
They spend it all on palaces, high-living, and bombs to throw at Israel.
If there is no water to begin with, then it will not work. They can tap the aquifer, but it will eventually run dry if it is not recharged. There must be rain. If a location is bone dry, it will always remain a desert.
There is a limit for everything even for a rich country!
It's a matter of spending and priorities and understanding!
The world is running currently on conventional farming with monoculture and sympathetic fertilizers!
If you think anything more than a million or billion is unlimited in economic terms then I'm happy to report my friend you are a stupid simpleton!
Not really. This area is very dry, with only about 7 mm of rain per year. It is made up of flat valleys surrounded by rock mountains that run off into the valleys.
A square kilometer is a million square meters, so each square kilometer gets a thousand cubic meters of rainwater per millimeter of rainfall. That's seven million liters of water per square kilometer in this extremely dry area. A lot of that falls on barren rock and runs off into dry soil.
So the problem really isn't a lack of water. The problem is that the runoff from the hills degrades the soil instead of nourishing it, because it runs off too fast. The soil can't hold it because of the erosion channels and the lack of organic material in the soil.
So as magic as all this stuff looks, it really just reshaping the land to reduce erosion (mostly by blocking erosion channels) and planting hardy plants that build the soil. The rest happens by itself.
I think this sort of system would work really well with aquaponics, it would be nice to see that tried out in an environment like this.
from where comes the Water?
Doesn't all the water come from an aquifer that is running out fast? What happens then?
3:00 or so --> 70mm average annual rainfall. But 'wadi' means river valley, so there's some collection into the permaculture area.
How low would it take us mankind to turn the Sahara green and what would it do to earths climate system?
Where is all this water from?
Where does thé water Come from?
3:00 or so --> 70mm average annual rainfall. But 'wadi' means river valley, so there's some collection into the permaculture area.
Where is the water coming from?
3:00 or so --> 70mm average annual rainfall. But 'wadi' means river valley, so there's some collection into the permaculture area.
We need our planet to be green and lush every country need to plants trees . Montagnard indigenous Central highland we have thick forest before Now ethnic Vietnamese came cut all down plant coffee, rubber trees The Whole Central highland.
He passed the test for being a human being on earth
Wir schaffen es
Wat plant wat that that was a natural fertiliser ?..please....looked like a Moringa...
All plants are natural fertilizer. The plant was cut and dropped into the soil, to decompose and feed the live plants nutrients. It's the natural order of how plants thrive in a forest, with no human interaction. A bush dies, or a tree falls over, and as it decomposes, it releases nutrients into the soil that the other plants feed off of.
Yeah, it looks like a moringa to me too. But it could be a lucinae. Like Phoenix fire said, all plants act as a natural fertilizer but plants like moringa and lucinae draw nitrogen from the atmosphere and add it to the soil while other plants just recycle nutrient. But the most important thing is that organic matter is continuously being added to the soil.
+Joshua Blackmon. That's true. I didn't think about that when I posted. Thank you!
Thank you for listening thank you for let me design it for you all
Where did the water in the swale come from? You get 17 mm a year. Did you just get your yearly rainfall?
The swale collects water from a very large catchment by designing to the contours of the land; Likely, this swale has collected water from an area as big as, if not bigger than, the farm itself. Water is simply captured it by design rather than letting it pass through and evaporate off.
K Hayes Very interesting idea - catching rain from a larger area. Obviously they would catch from any rooftops, but maybe they had a swale that was upsloping away from the desired watering area. I kinda still think they filled it by pumping or something.
I think they also have a tiny spring in the moutain near the area, but most of their water is by optimising each drop of water in the land...
I am glad you have incorporated the Israeli drip irrigation method. I think if you would incorporate the "Back to Eden Gardening" method of using wood chips that would cover the open spaces in the garden and not only provide nutrients but also aid in evaporation and collect the dew moisture, you may have even better results.
+Geyrald Piinmi I think the IDI was stolen with among other things.
stolen? lol
Import huge (several tons) amounts of wood chips, in this particular place neither seems very sustainable, practical or economical. Would be the antitheses of permaculture in it´s roots.
After the initial input of imported resources, like hoses, seeds, etc. The general idea is for the system work itself towards a self sustaining condition.
Not be dependent of truck loads of something that comes from thousands of km´s away. Sustainability is the key word. :-)
Cheers