An Introduction to Permaculture with Geoff Lawton - Part 1 of 4

[@xikano8573]

My new mentor. 🙏🏽

[@QuiChiYang2]

Diego, th🤝nk you for posting this 4 part series. I feel just like I'm in the class room. I enjoy his stories & am old enough to ID his experiences.

[@rosemarytate644]

Deigo thanks a mill for making this vid possible. I also watch your voice interviews. All priceless pearls of wisdom and knowledge. Also deeply grateful for Geoff's un earring gift of his years of experience and stamina which he gives so readily to the world, to those who will listen. This is my precious time that is well spent.

[@mirlamurillo3473]

I love it!! Thank You for the very informative free video. Not much about permaculture but just to get into Geoff's mind is a Godsend ♡

[@droptozro]

Awesome, definitely gonna save this to watch it all later. Love Geoff's information!

[@dylnthmsn420]

Diego, Thank you! Geoff, Thank you. Couple of dudes that have changed my life! thanks for that!

[@bradsuarez2683]

Not what I was expecting but inspirational nonetheless! I hope to see Permaculture become a household name in my lifetime!

[@vinsslaurie]

Geoff shares interesting anecdotes in this video but most of the hour contains funny tidbits about his life, and permaculture in the world. It's quite amazing the experiences you've lived. Thanks for sharing.

[@Tomty369]

Resume @24:00

[@SoulOfPixels]

Epic. Thanks for sharing this!

[@Hailexx]

I would LOVE a 30+ chapter permaculture manual

[@audreycermak]

Yemenis say Sana'a is the oldest continually settled city after the Great Flood. I hope someday permaculture can help Yemen. 💖

[@Cathy24601]

Maybe the purpose of trees was to hold the upper surface of the earth together during earthquakes, floods, continent shift etc. Imagine if the majority of the earth’s surface was covered by an intertwined network of tree roots, maybe not right next to each other but close enough so that the roots can intertwine. Wouldn’t that stabilize the crust of the earth during these kind of events? Wouldn’t a huge ancient forest survive a massive earthquake better than ungrounded soil? Wouldn’t it take a long time to get forests that mature so shouldn’t we be starting now to figure out how we would help it along? To clarify, it would be the interlocking of the roots that would make this work, isolated trees probably can’t make a big difference.

[@gregblaz1008]

Very interesting. Does anyone know what book is Geoff talking about in 10:15 when he talks about life longevity factors?

[@dungeonmaster6292]

Bill Mollisons "human ferments "

[@droptozro]

I was on his website but didn't see... how much does it cost for one person to GO to this course in person and stay and be trained? For a couple? For a small family?

[@MarlonVanderLinde]

Wow, some older Geoff stuff, he seems a bit more shy here. Good stuff. thanks!

[@AnonyMous-ry3mw]

Does anybody know of: 1. Any information on vegan permaculture 2. Permaculture that goes beyond food production and considers biodiversity accumulators like wildflower meadows, transitional habitats, brush piles for bugs and overwintering birds, etc 3. Approaches to permaculture that do not require excavators to move tons of dirt for creating swales 4. Any ties between the permaculture movement and Deep Adaptation?

[@akashanumberfive199]

Vegan permaculture? Just don't add animal products. But i don't believe there are any natural systems or created systems without animal products. You don't have the time to track every animal to make sure they don't urinate on your garden...permaculture is all about biodiversity. You have to add flowers and nonfood items for a system to work. Just listen and you'll find out. Same for your third question. Listen and you'll find out. He talks about no dig systems. I don't know what the last thing is so i have no comment

[@xyzsame4081]

But if you do not want and cannot have animals (domesticated ones) it is certainly possible, the larger the operation, the harder it is to compensate for the help with manure and decomposing and also pest control. With a homestead or farm you have the space and are at least allowed to have chickens, and most people that have a _permaculture_ design then integrate farm animals. Organic farmers or conventional farmers might have plant production only - the latter have a "quick fix" with artificial fertilizer, so they can make do without manure. Or so they think. Maintaining fertility on a farm with compost is not an option. Some regular farmers do not want the hassle and have been traumatized by having to stand up early to care for cows. And concepts like grazing chickens on the pasture or that they clean up a field or a garden bed and prepare it for the next seeds are foreign to them. Yes green manure and cover crops are possible, but terminating those plants is a science and an art when you do not till / plough (important) and - and some conventional farmers use glyphosate (which is testimony that it is not _that_ easy to terminate cover crops). One could harvest cover crops and feed them to the animals and let them do the super fast fermentation and decomposition of their fodder (= pooping). That manure can be applied in the fields or pasture with help of machines and w/o hassle. Nothing will grow back. If they leave the terminated plant matter IN the field, it is possible that it will come back or at least hinder the germination of the next seeds of a cash crops). If animals can be used to only eat the cover crop (or a stripe that is planted between rows of cash crops like corn), no machine use is necessary, permaculture farmers often use smaller machines but there can be some compaction. Chickens do not cause compaction. And they are meticulous in picking of eggs and larvae. Or the seeds of weeds in hay. Takoa Coen in Canada uses a lot of straw as mulch material on the garden beds. He lets the chikkens finisha and prepare the beds, then he sows the seeds, then he roughly spreads heaps of hay and then the chickens can have fun scratching up the hay stacks. So they evenly distribute the mulch, eat a lot of weeds, add some poop and make short work of any insects and larvae they find. Sure one could harvest the plant matter and then invest the space time and effort to make compost. That is realistically only possible with a backyard garden. Charles Dowding is a market gardener in UK - he BUYS compost. he has of course his own heaps for the material that originates on his property, but a lot of the biomass of his produce lands in the toilets of his clients and in the sewage system. He has to do something to maintain soil fertility. And considering that space is valuable and so is his time - he would rather BUY most of his compost. I am not sure if he even has chickens. Geoff talked abaout a former pharmacist of Greek descent in Melbourne. He started a food forest on 64 m2 (that is 2 decent sized or 3 normal rooms, or the area of a small - but not tiny - apartment). He used a technique to cut back fruit trees 4 times a year so they became dwarf trees (that bear different fruits at different times of the season). That is his "canopy" layer, then understory, berries, ground cover vegetables, ..... likely some climbers / vines. The city of Melbourne hired him as consultant and he quit his old job and does tours in his garden. Jonas Gampe in Germany has a demonstration site, a former field at a hill (side by side with conventional fields) they are only there at the weekends (if that) so fish in the ponds, and deer, boars and wild birds are pest and slug control. They also have to make do w/o animals, although they get some input in manure from wildlife of course. Zaytuna farm is not heavy on meat production. But the have fish, chickens, ducks, I think some pigs, 2 cows and 2 - 3 horses (his daughter has a pony). They eat dairy, eggs, and occasionally meat.

[@TheSpecialJ11]

@@akashanumberfive199 Exactly. If you don't raise and eat the animals, something else will. Around where I live, it would be deer and wolves, except the wolves are gone, so the deer just reproduce until they destroy their own ecosystem. Death, especially violent death, is a part of nature. In many ways, raising and eating the animals ourselves is more ethical in my mind, as we care for them and provide them nice lives and a gentle and quick death. Of course, factor farming is horrendous and unethical, but that means just don't eat factory farmed meat.

[@thornhedge9639]

As those places die off so do we!

[@NorthernThaiGardenGuy]

What year is this teaching from?

[@DiegoFooter]

2014

[@NorthernThaiGardenGuy]

Diego Footer That's what I thought (he spoke about Bill when in the tense of when he was still alive). Great series.

[@TerrierBram]

Introduction is nice, but a bit more to the point, in a smaller amount of time is to me appropiate.

[@عبدالعزيزالشهري-ض3ج]

Thank you advance advance And I hope you succeed in your projects With this flag and meet

[@droptozro]

I know this is just an intro but this info was very little about permaculture and it went way off into so many other topics/stories. Kind of disappointed, hope the next parts have more information.

[@weekendwarrior9171]

He is informing you about all of the benefits and relations to permaculture. If you want to do something like this you need to be passionate about it.

[@nadiaa2054]

Well, I still believe in free energy like N. Tesla proved - you probably have the wrong earth model - watch Ewaranon 👍