I have tried this method for a small shelter belt of trees in NE Scotland. We get hammered by the wind and every tree and shrub has been staked. All 200 of them.

Great video, I’m growing loads of trees in my garden from seed

Very inspiring. I've a small one in Ireland about 4x4m. Doing very well.

What is the difference in cost to establish a traditional forest and a Miyawaki forest? And the difference in maintenance costs (including replacing vandalised plants)

UK land is super fertile with loat of water, easy to plant any number of plants.

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Excellent présentation. Much appreciated. Background muzak is superfluous, distracting, unnecessary, wasteful of resources. It is contradicting the good sense of your excellent message. Less REALLY is more. Fewer words and NO MUZAK = better 😊.

Absolutely love the enthusiasm you guys have! There is a Field Maple tree across the road so I'm going to pick some seeds myself as we're almost in September (24th August 2024) Subscribed to your channel guys 😁👍

Their individual tree survival rate stats are misleading: once the trees mature competition makes lots of the trees die off to 70% survival, thus balancing with the control (Hanna Lewis author of Mini Forest Revolution).

Is there any kind of management plan involved in the long term for this? Surely if just left the most invasive competitive species will just take over and become a kind of scrubby bush with low carbon value. Tactical thinning and respacing after 5years ??? Orjust another mindless rewilding fantasy

interesting topic but I got tired of the loud repetitive piano music after 2 min and clicked away

The miyawaki is permaculture.. plants love living together. There is no such thing as planting a tree or two in a field and walking away, it doesnt work.

This movie is about how people don’t know how young forest looks like, and they need scientists from japan to show them.

Disapointing that the actual soil conditions, plant density, and species selection in the “standard method” are not mentioned. What kind of “control" is left undefined in an experiment? Was it deliberately designed to fail? Looks like it. I have seen thousands of acres of newly planted forest in Oregon, USA 3 to 5 years after the forest was clear cut that are lush and green with huge diversity of plants, nothing like the baren wasteland of your “standard” method of forest regeneration planting.

thank you im from the Philippines and i've learned so much

Hazel from the Okanagan, Western Canada.

Hello to whom it may concern, I am a biologist by training with a masters degree in genetics from University of California at Davis and at this time of my life am developing an afforestation system that could provide produce for local families taking care of the area in Bogotá Capital District, Colombia. As you may be aware of Bogotá’s Sabana is high valley of the Bogotá river that Spanish conquistadores developed into a “traditional” agricultural land and lately has been overpopulated with dairy production. I have the possibility of acquiring a couple of hectares about 3.125 acres in an protected area and hope to develop a Hostel surrounded by productive forest and I am willing to contract consulting in the process.

I remember reading about the Miyawaki method as a sidebar about potential reforestation techniques in the 2016 Project Drawdown book, it was such a small passage but really seemed like it had a lot of potential. Amazing to see this continue to be tested and the potential it shows!

Excellent demonstration but I don't think this method is applicable for a large area of land as it would not affordable with the soil preparation in large scale. Very good for urban small scaled forestry garden anyway. Thanks for sharing! 🌿

I would like to see more videos on what we all can do in our gardens, no matter how small the garden. Its a great video, well done everyone

They did mention insects, but no mention of birds. The dense planting is an obvious ATTRACTANT for many bird species.

A very interesting video showing the benefits of this method and it is nice to listen to such well-informed interviewees explaining their underlying goals.

This system frankly is bollocks.

Can I take cuttings from a root grafted tree?

Shared on Landscape Architecture TV. Thanks.

What kind of jerk destroys a tree.

So, this is nice, just be aware it is a pseudo-scientific methodology. There is one experiment, as the video refers to it, comparing two different methods, Miyawaki vs standard contol, but I gathered at least 5 different variables between the methods. The discussion focuses on diversity and density of planting, 2 variables combined as one method. Other variables are mentioned in passing but not emphasized in reasoning, though they might actually be more important: soil prep (dug soil to 1 meter depth and turned over), organic mulch layer, and addition of fungi). Searching the net, there are many variations on what is called Miyawaki Method, it is not well defined. A thorough study would involve combinations of the variables to compare them all, requiring I think 5*4*3*2*1=5! (5 factorial) = 120 separate plots (to compare the many possible combinations of the variables) for each experimental site, and then be replicated at multiple sites. So what can really be learned from this? If you plant trees more densely then 3 years later you end up with a denser thicket. Well, that's not very remarkable. Similarly, if you start with a greater diversity of trees, you end up with a greater diversity 3 years later. Again, what else would one expect? Perhaps turning the soil over was more important than the other factors. Perhaps that raised up old organic matter on the experimental plot (which had been buried by construction material), and/or loosened the soil so roots could grow better. Perhaps the fungal seeding of the experimental side was more important. Certainly adding a layer of organic mulch was important. Given all the prep work on the experimental side, I question if it was truly cheaper than the contol side. How was that derived? Certainly, the combination of these 5 factors in one method does demonstrate more growth than the control side. Still, not everyone using a Miyakai Method uses all 5 factors. Given that so many factors were given short shrift in the presentation, perhaps there were other factors altogether which were not even mentioned? Things to study.

Would be interested in seeing a proper scientific trial with a third control plot combining the Miyawaki prep with traditional planting density and probably even a 4th plot combining Miyawaki density with traditional (i.e. no/very little) prep.

Just saw a landscape plan for a park in Cambridge Massachusetts that had 3 Miyawaki forests along about a half-mile of pathway.

Good luck! Such an important work.

Can I just propagate my Kieffer pear tree and not graft it

Where can I purchase those tree protection collars from,

I needed blue berry stabilization shedule

Hello friends

I planted a native forest in my urban yard and alley 7 years ago. 5,000 sq. ft. with over 400 plants and 75 native species. I covered the cut lawn with 4-5" of medium/large bark and removed all non natives. NO soil prep. Dig holes, add a little topsoil and plant natives. I have 24 Alaska cedars, 8 Shore pines, 2 Douglas firs, 2 Red cedars, 8 vine maples, 7 Douglas maples, red flowering currant, serviceberry, evergreen huckleberry, native blackberry, tall, short and creeping Oregon grape and many more shrubs and lower level plants. Tons of habitat and food for songbirds. The forest is thick and tall. Air is cooler (12-15 degrees F.) and moister in summer. Local cats will come to kill native songbirds. I drive cats off with Broox ultrasonic ground level defenders (I am using 4 of them). And Havahart trap and release after a few hours. No hurt cats. I water during hot summer periods as the forest is still young. Shade is finally showing up on this little forest in Mount Vernon, WA USA. You can do this in your yard. Avoid big tree planting over water lines. Thanks.

How lost some humans must ne to vandalise small trees just for fun. 😢

This where effort and energy should be put in, not blocking roads and streets✌🏾

Brilliant! - but I wish more attention had been paid to the detail of the recipe, with a condensed summary of the key elements rather than dribbling this info out interspersed by other material. One thing not elaborated was the size of the trees when planted - bare-root whips I assume, for economy: the commentary seemed to say they were 'larger' - but without any comparator. Also how many tree species in total? It's not enough just to say 'more than usual'. I'd also like to know more about the subsoil - if digging a metre down in Bristol, 90% of the depth will be in alluvial ooze, and once mixed for aeration, the topsoil will be lost among the yellow clay subsoil. Is this REALLY desirable? And when mycorrhiza was talked of, woodchip was shown. Detail please!

Never trust a man who moves his hands that much while talking.

Excellent experiment. Thank you for sharing. Subscribed.

you payed for at 13 minute movie, so you get a 13 minute movie!

What kind of scumbag kills people's trees like that?

Get rid of the music.

We have mismanaged the Once Beautiful and Bountyful Planet and its Time for All Nations to Restore all Vital Natural Ecosystems. Its so pleasing to see people to be genuinely concerened about restoring Mother Nature.😊

I don’t get why would someone vandalise the trees. It’s not that I just disapprove it, but I sincerely don’t get their reasons behind it.

I especially love the fear-mongering. Good that they are putting in native trees, but you have to wonder what this fascination with woodlands is about. After all, nature in England made lots and lots of open fields, glades, savannah, and such. For every tree planted, you shade out a native wildflower that needs the open sunlight. In short, replacing the turf lawn with native wild flowers and forbs would be an excellent plan to "increase diversity". Of course, all the plans in the world won't matter if folks aren't working to stop the flow of people into the country. After all, you can't complain about losing land and natural resources to development and then not work to stop the very thing that drives that development. The UK is an island. That means there's only so much room and so many resources. The idea that they could just take in millions of people from around the world every year is ludicrous. Of course, you can bet that folks will fight that idea even though it's obvious on its face.

I wish I had known this before I wasted my entire forest budget on a failed aforestation project

Interesting!

plant wild rose with each tree and no more moron problems