Before & After Scans after 5 years.

Taken from one of the high points of the Al Baydha Project's demonstration site, this shows the growth of the project's agroforestry system. Two years were spent on constructing earthworks up in the mountains, and the first trees were planted in early 2012. The earthworks will catch and store up to 20,000 cubic meters in the earth, while the rate of irrigation is approximately 500 cubic meters per month. In summer of 2015, enough water was caught to irrigate the system for over 4 years. Thus if it rains within 4 years, the system will be passively increasing the amount of water in the water table and shallow aquifers.

[@Bazza5000]

Considering how hard it is to transform a place like that, my hat's off to those people. I also believe that starting is, of course, very hard, but once you get a momentum, you can get a great chain reaction.

[@benjaminselle2756]

It would nice to see another update!

[@yellowbird5411]

I hope that this project can assure that after funding runs out, that the trees will either be self-sustaining or that volunteer projects will replant and tend the trees as needed. So many projects like this are paid by various grants or donations, but after the money is gone, the areas are not maintained, and sometimes they are either damaged by grazing or harvested for wood by the locals. Trees that produce leaves, flowers or sap that can be used as raw materials for local commerce encourages people to maintain the trees and not destroy them.

[@TheVirginiaExperimentDetroit]

So glad for the update!!! Keep up the amazing work! Everything looks so awesome!!!!!

[@DJ-bh1ju]

Well done !!!!! A great start to prove that this works. Full speed ahead !!!

[@beewinfield]

Wonderful achievment in very hard conditions. Will only get greener and greener now. Blessings on you and all who work on this .

[@arailway8809]

Nice work. So much of the MENA area needs this kind of demonstration.

[@DougieL]

Nice job Al !!

[@paintur68]

I love these videos...to see the desert come to life is so satisfying. I wish I could do something like this.

[@anitachopping]

Would love to know who did the work. A voice over would be great too

[@promptwithme_]

Great progress. You're doing amazing work!

[@vazev]

Amazing work! I would love to see a more detailed look of the changes :)

[@kirstenwhitworth8079]

And I would, as well!

[@BassUndertow]

Yes, please! A more detailed video tour with explanations of how things were designed would be amazing! Such incredible work.

[@brooksanderson2599]

Yes! Excellent. Do you have a written paper or report? Could you publish one in PDF format online? Congratulations!

[@brianevolved2849]

They have probably given up tis the reason there country is so rundown

[@kirstenwhitworth8079]

Thank you so much for this update. I am following progress from Washington State in the USA. It makes me weep for joy to see how green and beautiful this land has become.

[@themonk2288]

Amazing! This is Terraforming! Stay blessed! 🙏🏽

[@user-uh4uh9tz7o]

Красота! Вы просто волшебники. Удачи вам. Отличный проект.

[@johndliu2284]

Congratulations on your extremely important work. Is there now a more recent update that shows the rate of growth? Are you measuring temperature differentials? This measurement is related to evaporation rates and where any evaporated moisture goes, eg. does it form clouds or is it pushed high into the atmosphere where is it does not condense or precipitate and where it adds to the greenhouse effect.

[@wirehead1000]

I call U the 'Green Man'. Supportive, pro-social as much as pro-environmental. Your support for these projects is inspiring. Congrats to U and the whole sustainable reclamation movement. U are getting to the roots of climate instability and degeneration. Keep on planting, Al Baydha! The world depends on U and all the sisters and brothers doing this planet-saving work!

[@brooksanderson2599]

@@wirehead1000 Agreed!

[@mattharcla]

Yes, an update would be handy. I'd also like to see what the financials look like.

[@eliot8608]

John D Liu is in the house! I love your work. Mad Ups.

[@wirehead1000]

@@brooksanderson2599 with all the bad in the world, hordes of good people are quietly working to promote the good. The media feeds on disaster, not human-scale simple solutions.

[@hazaar]

Changing the planet for the better, great effort!

[@CannaHeaven]

It's been a while guys, we would looove to see some longer updates

[@AndersJensen1977]

Thank you for the update, great work you are a real inspiration.

[@LureThosePixels]

Great work!

[@ThePeacemakernow]

Great Work. Tremendous progress. I hope this multiplies now. Every start is hard but it looks you got it going. Ever thought of covering the dry grounds with something to keep any evaporating moisture like during nightime coldness on the ground ? Maybe you also had the idea of adding some climate station even a small one to check if this area might change climaticly. Green and moisture changes the climate and attracts different weather even locally. Clusters in between will react in favour too. Cant wait until you show the whole area green :) And another question: How is the animal life especially insect and earth wise?

[@Vulcaani]

I enjoy your content, I would like to see more videos of this project!

[@angietorres7914]

thanks for share your progress, its amazing... congratulations.................

[@johnstewartBr3X1T]

Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.

[@masoudalmazrouei7667]

you did an amazing job keep going

[@roberteckard9771]

Great job.

[@m.j.debruin3041]

You have to replant the hills also to keep the water on the hills for longer time and slowly come down

[@mucsalto8377]

please learn something about this project before commenting BS

[@m.j.debruin3041]

@@mucsalto8377 thank u , that helps.

[@paxtoncargill4661]

@@mucsalto8377 Please be less rude

[@releventhurt]

You have to believe in Jesus too

[@solivo57]

Wonderful !!!

[@Tupunaforever]

Well done, congratulations

[@synalag]

Bravo ! Félicitations !

[@ForageGardener]

Incredible!

[@sailordoc7454]

Following your project with keen interest from India 👍🏽

[@poratyn]

great video. you should try also the sepp holzer way, but instead of building a giant lake you should build a bunch of small ones and let it fill in the rain season and interconect all of them trough a hose and let the water run from hole to hole and try to keep it full and running all year long with a small water tank that replaces the one that evaporates. the first year is not going to work fully but after time and years pass it will get greener and weter all year.

[@saamokari2356]

Notice the insects! 🌱🌱🌱 Well done! Thank you!

[@RoseMarie268]

Good job!! :D

[@nancysutton7891]

Ditto... Wow! Bravo! Thumbs Up! : )

[@AliIsmaeltyphoon]

5 years later and the Toyota pickup is still there ! A great companion indeed.

[@scjw1959]

incredible

[@reubentimson6382]

So impressive

[@bamnyosh]

Excellent. Another update?

[@aron8949]

more footage more footage!

[@robertschaeffer5861]

that's still some great dirt bike country... looking good...

[@AnoNymous-2013]

kudos!

[@centpushups]

Looked like my old back yard. Unt I nuked it with 20 plus varieties of plant. Essentially a cover crop. Tilled the whole area and put in wild flowers, beabs, grass like wheat and rye. Brassica like mustard and buckwheat. And whole Lotta of herbs. Use to water it everyday now it's just once a week.

[@reddkalbar8257]

#1964 for you. Veru nice channel. A new friend from Indonesia

[@brodar2232]

Is the project still going on? It would be nice to see the progress if it is!

[@Withnail1969]

Looks mostly dead on Google Earth as of 2020.

[@modestoca25]

wow nice

[@aarononeal9830]

This is wonderful news please talk about Ecosia they are a search engine that plants tress

[@93VIDEO]

It's not enough but it's good my human brother ... Courage et bonne continuation.

[@jamessparkman6604]

From the looks of things, people have planted seeds of hope both literally and figuratively

[@jadenquinn6977]

Awesome progress. Its been another 5 years whats it look like now?

[@malikehtisham4742]

Wow a bright future

[@wirehead1000]

Now to work on runoff from the height of land to the valley bottom, integrated with re-vegetation. A great start!

[@dennyli9339]

Terraced and levelled earth can hold moisture......where rural life can come back....

[@TheHonestPeanut]

How is is all holding up? Will you be posting more updates?

[@MichaelPiraino]

Is there any way we can get another before and after update?

[@yellowbird5411]

Propagation of natural trees that grow in the area could be a really fun project for civic groups of all kinds, environmental groups, school projects and clubs that are looking for new activities. Planting large areas with these one or two-year old saplings could extend these projects and it allows a great, cheap and fun vehicle for socialization and contribution. Cities and counties do not do enough to encourage volunteers in projects like this. Many of the volunteer options offered simply save the government money on projects they should be doing themselves. In my small beachside town, they get volunteers every few months to come out and clean up the beaches, pick up trash along the sidewalks and sometimes plant sawgrass or other plants in the marshy areas. But except for the plants, the rest is what the city should be doing. I still think that volunteers enjoy it, or they wouldn't do it. I think that new projects that create something are the best, not just picking up trash somewhere. Tree/bush planting can happen anywhere there is a vision.

[@rickershomesteadahobbyfarm3291]

What does it look like now?

[@David-ko8hu]

Where in the world is this?

[@petergilfillan8340]

Can we please see updates 2020/2021 please?

[@kae4466]

im viewing this in 2018 , the vid was shot in 2015 would love to see a vid now of this area please . thanks .

[@pawanjindal4286]

great work welcom india

[@hunterhq295]

How is it now?

[@santoshr2984]

anything on the recent progress ?

[@margaretfry3043]

Where is this project now

[@RawRunner]

Awesome job! When you say: "the rate of irrigation is approximately 500 cubic meters per month. In summer of 2015, enough water was caught to irrigate the system for over 4 years." Do you mean that this irrigation water is drawn from a well, and that the water table this well is drawing from is being replenished by the rainfall caught in the earthworks? I'm assuming there is no above-ground storage of water.

[@RegeNeal]

+Andrew Perlot that is correct. There is some above-ground storage but it's in sealed tanks that gravity-feed the drip irrigation.

[@freeman3320]

My understanding is that this type of swale construction is entirely passive in nature. In other words, once established, the earthworks will continue to gather any water that falls without any further intervention.

[@lornaj3310]

Are those hoses running all over the place?

[@kozaw3712]

No problem on and on.

[@florafauna4584]

Rainwater harvesting pond is essential in this part of earth.

[@ozyankee4403]

. I assume the black lines seen are hoses used for irrigation. How far from the water source. Is the flow of water gravity or pump? When are hoses used? (Day or Night) Does heated hose water have adverse effect on plant life? Is ground cover planned? If so, what type? Desert, arid or other? How deep is aquifer? What is seasonal rainfall averages? What is local wildlife impact? (Positive, negative or symbiotic) What are the local pollinators? Is there planned intro of specific wildlife or pollinators into this ecosystem?

[@jthepickle7]

Compost tea run through the drip system would do wonders for this soil!

[@whisperingvoice6804]

Good gob💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻😊

[@TheBowersj]

You need a Forest up in them hills, what kind of irrigation you running?

[@mucsalto8377]

please learn something about this project before commenting BS

[@user-dp7qg3wc3b]

2015 is it before or after the rain footage?

[@RegeNeal]

+Арти Эс About 6 weeks after.

[@galaxyofvid2738]

New progress video ? More updates ?

[@kamaruddinhuesenkamal8347]

pls help...how dyu calculate th amount of rainfall in CubicMeters ?..how dyu calculate how much the land requires , in CubicMeters ?.

[@monkeysaiyen7196]

I wonder what it looks like now.

[@downbntout]

Update please?

[@bowor98]

We need time again

[@quinto190]

Thumbs up for your earth works, looks like a thorough job that will work! But what about ground cover under the trees? Succulents and other hardy (C4 and CAM) plants together with the mulch. Otherwise I would be concerned, that it will not develop in the long term. Alan Savory has criticized this combination (trees + drip irrigation and some earth works) as not working. Maybe the available life stock can be used to do some good already, to grow ground cover.

[@quinto190]

Just discovered your interview on Permaculture Voices. That answers the question more or less. Still, planting some hardy ground covers might work. All the best, great stuff!

[@grzes2681]

New update? :))

[@natanieltiglao7061]

U should maintain the seedlings well enough.

[@ChristaFree]

Good job. The process could be accelerated if you lock grazing animals in tight at night in small plots of land for about a week or so each. Long enough that their waste has completely covered the ground before moving them to the next small plot right next to it . What this does is create fertile soil that holds onto any moisture. You walk away from those areas and don't return to them until they've sprouted and have seed. It doesn't take that long. You will have grasslands which stabilizes the soil and allows for rotated grazing which is required to keep building the soil. Then you plant your trees, bushes, etc. This has been used in South Africa on land declared irredeemable, tens of thousands of acres and it has never failed. Never. They used 25,000 sheep plus on a plot of land and it improved the land 50% in one year. I can't remember the man's last name but his first name is Alan. He spent decades teaching people how to restore even the most desolate lands. He never failed yang this method. He had to buy more land for his organization to continue teaching because he ran out of desolate land. The Hueneme gave him a hundred thousand acres and he restored that. He's probably passed away now but his videos are on KZbin.

[@Tadpoletofrogs]

You guys should look up Groasis. It will save you on irrigation.

[@ZgermanGuy.]

its a start

[@GreeningDeserts]

Good job, keep it on and visit also our greening projects for some inspiration ;)

[@kiritokiphure8181]

The best job mankind need to restore it's existence....

[@strangetranceoffaith]

You need to repair the hills in the background if you can replant a dense forest they will hold water in the soil and change the micro climate providing water to the lower land

[@mucsalto8377]

please learn something about this project before commenting BS

[@solivo57]

👍👍👍

[@russellringland1399]

Good work Al Baydha. After watching these I started tera forming while planting trees to give them a better start. FutureForestry.org

[@kirsten4896]

Was this Geoff Lawton's team who did this?

[@tobimadara2864]

Nope

[@kristoarguello4042]

if a solitary tree can grow, more trees can grow whithout irrigation, irritation is only temporal

[@mucsalto8377]

please learn something about this project before commenting BS

[@kristoarguello4042]

@@mucsalto8377 what is the problem? can´t i post a comment?

[@federicoeco9030]

@@kristoarguello4042 muy bien dicho. Opina tranquilo, todos tenemos derecho a opinar.

[@b_uppy]

You still need to work on your swales. The top line should only have a 1% drop. It's still quite evident here it's still suffering from the same issues as from earlier videos...

[@garyhirtz4392]

Let's all do our part .plant a walnut with just a little dirt over it.

[@mattpowers8930]

[@migdoniojesusflores5652]

Of course that you're have done an excellent labor, however, make sure that surruondings be like that, I mean, go ahead all around.

[@inigolafuente780]

2021 update!!

[@rulesvegeta6j7]

palm springs is greening

[@elhadjiamadoujohnson4166]

Why would anyone dislike this???

[@77777aol]

Their head is in the sand !

[@randlerobbertson8792]

It can be done, even now.

[@BlackJesus8463]

not bad