Abundant 50 Year Old Food Forest planted by Maya Man to feed his community

Narciso Eusebio is a traditional Mayan healer and forest gardener who has dedicated his life to preserving his indigenous cultural knowledge of food cultivation, forest management and plant medicines.
Living on the edge of the Mayan bioreserve, on the border of Guatemala and Belize he has witnessed first hand increased temperatures, drought and unusual weather patterns caused by climate change due to the effects of deforestation for logging and agriculture.
The resulting loss of primary forest, biodiversity and essential medicinal plants and changes in the weather and seasons inspired him to attempt to reverse this trends by creating an abundant forest garden as a model not only for his community but for the world to learn from, in order to save biodiversity and grow food in a way that conserves water while benefiting wildlife and the environment.
In this video we tour Narciso's 50 year old Mayan forest garden, we forage for food and learn about many of the medicinal plants and their uses growing often voluntarily throughout the garden.
The Mayan forest garden is recognized as a core inspiration for Permaculture due to its way of mimicking a natural forest and working with nature rather than against it, where biodiversity is encouraged and sharing with the animals, insects, birds and reptiles is as important as the yield for humans.
Archeologists think that The Mayan's managed the forests of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama and Belize for over 8 000 to 10,000 years developing many of the world's most popular food staples like tomatoes, squashes, corn, chocolate and vanilla while living in harmony with nature.
As the climate crisis around the world worsens with unpredictable weather patterns and record temperatures and unprecedented droughts we have come in search of the solutions from the indigenous people still living the Mayan way today to guide us back to a more sustainable way of living that can restore the lost ecosystems and save planet earth!
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[@tones_2466]

He actually acknowledges the animals that live and feed there. What a guy.

[@auraajah3072]

Is amazing rekor year old forest garden

[@rogercarroll1663]

Great work.

[@gardeningforfunandlongevit6076]

Amazing wisdom

[@soilbellefarm3710]

Beautiful!!

[@edmondkahle7279]

.ME ENCANTO

[@tavascarow]

Beautiful abd inspiring. Thank you.

[@jessicat8998]

Thanks!

[@LeafofLifeWorld]

Thank you! :)

[@dvikashram7557]

Salute to his thoughts and positivity in planting more for people rather to own self. God bless him.

[@SubjectiveFunny]

What a lovely man. Heart of gold.

[@yd7079]

What a neat guy... inspirational.

[@marabiquel6414]

Love this video. I watched twice. So much ancient wisdom shared from him. It’s such a blessing for us. Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom. ❤🌱

[@LeafofLifeWorld]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@laurapavone3513]

I enjoyed this guided tour through the forest. 🎶🐦

[@celestialcow]

It was a pleasure to meet Narciso and tour his forest garden with him, this video is only touching the surface of the wealth of knowledge Narciso has about all the medicinal plants and herbs that grow on their own without planting seeds. His forest is also full of so many fruiting trees too not everything is ripe in this season, so I hope to return to see his garden at another time of year aswell. 💚💚💚

[@user-jp8qj2gd7u]

Pkease come interview me in my urban forest farm here in Florida . Im trying to do the same for our grass deserts .

[@humanbeingnotahumandoing1]

Narcisio emits a very comfortable energy and seems like a beautiful person to be around. Thank you for sharing this, much love❤️

[@ainabearfarm8075]

This story represents the best of humankind. Thank you for sharing.

[@LeafofLifeWorld]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@rherb27]

Hes a goldmine of information.

[@LeafofLifeWorld]

💯🙌

[@DevinARobinson]

thank you for this tour! how beautiful. what a nice man! i was thinking, "that's what a grocery store is supposed to be..."

[@hokokkeongjimmy6533]

Beautiful and refreshing... 😵🙏

[@rajeshk1138]

Heavenly place

[@LeafofLifeWorld]

Yes literally a paradise on earth! I hope people can be inspired and make their own forest gardens

[@tamarajackson9516]

I agree this maya forest garden is heaven on earth

[@jessicabender1301]

Thank you Narscico

[@narcisotorres4589]

Great job

[@LeafofLifeWorld]

Thank you Narciso 🙏 for all you have shown and taught us, your garden is truly a paradise, I hope people will be inspired to live and love nature as much as you!

[@tamarajackson9516]

Thank you Narciso for sharing your wisdom much love to you! X

[@sabineschuhmacher3525]

Thank you sooo much to let us learn about this magic treegardensystem! 🌿🌿🙏🌿🌿

[@sisirajayawardene7863]

Very much completed and undisturbed food forest.So much of Bio diversity and abundance .All the very best and thank you🙏

[@rowboat8343]

What a beautiful generous man. The world could learn a lot from him. Thanks for sharing

[@kingasmr4139]

such a generous lovely men, may god protect him !!

[@floridanaturalfarming3367]

Beautiful undisturbed nature as a medicinal system. What a wise man, thank you!🐸

[@whiteashes1769]

what a legend

[@auraajah3072]

The forest garden with ancient native American

[@dante8885]

Our Earth is so beautiful and abundant. Only God could create such a perfect planet.

[@LeafofLifeWorld]

Its incredible 🤯

[@tamaraposibi]

Only God can ❤🌱

[@Nitka022]

Amazing man and amazing forest. So rich in all the fruits Nature has to offer. A pleasure to watch...xoxox

[@joyhendry3397]

A beautiful film about a Mayan garden generously explained by its cultivator -- worth watching to the end for his valuable local views.

[@LeafofLifeWorld]

Thank you

[@billydemontibus5860]

I'll make time.

[@colinsmith6116]

That was a very informative, interesting video, Narciso certainly is the type of person for our planet.

[@LeafofLifeWorld]

I hope he continues to inspire younger generations and pass his plant knowledge on so it is not lost

[@chrissawyer3695]

It was amazing to see all the different things to eat and use as medicines in such a small area.

[@NatNeoPit]

I could be this man when I'll be 20 years older than now 😂😂 The knowledge and wisdom this man has about earth and the food and medecine that grows on it is incredible and comes from the direct contact with mother earth.

[@hhwippedcream]

Love your convos and meetings. I really appreciate how unedited the video is. It really gives context and character to the story you tell. These are priceless recordings. Thank you for showcasing.

[@wildwomen682]

Really looking forward to seeing this video since indigenous people hold the ancient wisdom of managing the forests, I can't wait to see what is growing there!

[@tamarajackson9516]

Me too i would really love to visit this place!

[@LeafofLifeWorld]

You are right, we have been discovering that permaculture is all based on indigenous principles that we need to preserve and protect since they have much more knowledge than permaculture provides, this is the source

[@jonglewongle3438]

Very good. I quite liked that.

[@billydemontibus5860]

Gardening for the welfare of all!

[@PietroSperonidiFenizio]

it's amazing how 30 years ago Robert Hart in England came out with the concept of Food Forest. And then we suddenly discovered that humanity has been doing Food Forests all around the globe. Amazing project.

[@user-jp8qj2gd7u]

This concept has been around as long as humans have. Permaculture just collects techniques.

[@tamarajackson9516]

Those slippers mangoes look really tasty, I would also like to try fresh sugar cane, bananas, papaya.. I had no idea that papaya leaves could also be used as a medicine

[@LeafofLifeWorld]

Papaya is an amazing plant is native to mesoamerica

[@jascintarebello3234]

The leaves can be ground with water and the concoction drunk to cure dengue and chikunqunia.

[@whiteashes1769]

nice vine🤣

[@pluribus]

"And I had a dream about a long, long drought, and I see all the trees brown, the soil brown. All, only three trees that were standing were the banana bread not fruit and cocoyam. When I woke up, I started to think about the meaning of it. So the meaning is that these plants will send roots like the trees and roots deep in the ground. And the others, like the banana, contain a lot of water in them, so they could withstand maybe a long period of dry weather. And it is happening already because, you know, some waters or some rivers are disappearing. And things will not get so good unless we get together and plant something. Uh, plant something. No matter if you don't need it, but other people will need it, you know? So don't plant because you don't need it. You plant because you think about other people who will need, and it will be best for the plant because the more green the plant is, the better life people will have. So that's why my aim is to plant all these same kinds of plants that contain a lot of water to make like a model for the people who want to continue living. Because if you don't have, you know, maybe you don't have food, but you have a piece of sugar cane, you could eat a piece for the day, and then you survive and other things that are around you know because Mother Earth is like a living person. It's sad because then what I don't see right is that there are so many vast areas, cleared areas that are in danger because, you know, there's nothing to hold them together. So, and I think the planet needs trees to keep it together, you know? Especially when people are living on slopes, they should not cut the trees around this group. And if you've got trees, you've got humus because the trees' leaves are falling, and the humus is growing. And then that's what the earth needs too because the earth is like a human, like I'm telling you. It needs its food. We've got the technique, so that's it."

[@bobsyed9685]

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[@jhonPriego-dp5fd]

Everyone watch food forest 400 fruit trees 200 diffrent date palms its healthy and pray

[@sillydog70]

Joe Rogandid a video which can be found if you search for “Joe Rogan Biochar” he’s doing a talk with this guy talking about the ancient Mayans and How large sections of the Amazon jungle have been farmed by the ancient lions themselves and possibly the people that came before them this is easily proven by the bio char that is everywhere down there also known as mayan black earth

[@VOLightPortal]

Looks like they need some "job creators"...

[@newearth1140]

Why does someone need a job when you grow all your own food? What your suggesting is that someone like narciso needs a job pushing paper work In some useless office or creating products for entitled western, disempowering indigenous people from being self sufficient, and end up living on imported food.

[@LeafofLifeWorld]

I don't get what you mean narciso has a lot of work more than he can manage with his extensive knowledge there are many ppl who need is help

[@cupidsfckedupfairy]

not everything is about killing yourself to survive. believe it or not us humans are wired to jus be picking berries, surviving & thriving

[@jascintarebello3234]

This is the best job in the world.

[@LeafofLifeWorld]

We are helping Narcisco to expand his forest garden, on his doorstep are degraded monoculture cornfields, now an opportunity has arisen to buy the a joining land and restore biodiversity back to it. Help ussupport his work: www.leafoflife.news Please don't forget to smash the like button so this video reaches more people and can inspire them to learn more about living in harmony with nature 🌱