From a Dry Field to a Lush Food Forest in 18 Months

An introduction to Regenerative Agroforestry Systems and one of our projects at Dalziel food-forest in the Sierra Nevada mountains in Southern Spain. Take a look around at what we have achieved with teacher, Ras John from SuperNatural Permaculture Association.
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This is our very first video that we have ever put together! So please forgive us for the mistakes and imperfections. I and the people that I work with are not experts, we are only humble students. For example at 10.52 I call Rhizobium a type of fungus, but actually it is a bacteria! At 16.26 we have some background interference with the audio. At 5.41 we can see Laura, who is not only the project founder, but also the person who has planted the majority of the trees in the system. When Laura is in the shot we can see bare naked earth! And that's because Laura is weeding out the 'Couch grass', before we plant a new line of trees, plant Sorghum grass in the pathways and then cover everything with mulch again! Some people may find it unbelievable that trees can grow this quick, but don't let me mislead you! As some trees were planted from seed, some were planted from cuttings and others were established young saplings in pots. For example we planted 5cm tall Paulownia cuttings in April '22 and six months later in September '22 they were 5 meters tall! We also planted 1 meter tall Moringa cuttings at the same time, and six months later they were 6 meters tall! The one thing that we forgot to include in this video is a introduction to the 'Art of Succession'. But, IN FUTURE VIDEOS we will look in great detail how we put this forest system together, and then how we manage it at different stages of its life. Our goal is to inspire YOU to give it a go yourself wherever you may be in the world! We have been offering unique residential permaculture courses, internships, garden tours and volunteering placements for over ten years, so get in touch if you are interested in taking part somehow! www.supernatural-permaculture.com

[@amouramarie]

It's really a change of perspective when you stop thinking of yourself as growing the plants, and start to think of the soil (or rather, the organisms in the soil) as the ones who are truly growing the plants. Then you switch from "How should I feed this plant?" to "How should I feed these critters in the soil?" It's amazing to see the results of you and similar channels doing this and the results you get.

[@Wakwaw796]

Yes. Soil is life

[@user-jv5rb9gl2o]

@amouramarie wich other channels are working with similar things can you pass me the name please

[@amouramarie]

@@user-jv5rb9gl2o Sorry, but I haven't kept track of the names. I just come across them while watching various videos.

[@ICTicon]

Amazing common-sense lecture on plants cooperation ☘️🌵 🌲🌴. I'm watching from faraway, rural, laid-back, tropical Malaysia ☀️🌻 Terima kasih 👍😊

[@longiusaescius2537]

Nice

[@josephbiben5197]

This video I spires me to think about how lucky we are to be alive during this gardening revolution. It will be fun to watch these gardens evolve over the years!

[@nadanada4838]

Fag

[@diizzii]

Well written comment ❤ especially I. Greetings from Germany

[@josephbiben5197]

@@diizzii greetings to you! Thanks!

[@rtwygxfb]

🎉😢🎉🎉😢🎉😢😮

[@blaxbently]

@@diizziiany content like this coming out of Germany? Looking to move there and want to do something similar there. Thanks!

[@user-gd1bk5hg6j]

Please make more content on this! I'd love to see where the forest is now.

[@synovoid]

I've got a piece of land in Wales, UK and I'm doing a spot of reforestation. I'm finding very much the same thing - pack the trees in close together and they do much better. Where they're more widely spaced they're much slower to establish. Even in the four summers I've been working on it, I've noticed how the soil has changed - less waterlogging in the winter, less run-off after heavy rain. The place has changed from a near-silent upland rough pasture to a young wood where the birdsong is deafening on a spring morning. Growth is more modest in our northerly climes, but it's already going faster than I thought it would. Thanks again for a fascinating video - looking forward to some more. There are very few environmental problems that can't be improved by having more trees!

[@jeaniedickman6421]

Plant native eco-systems as much as you can. It transforms things beautifully, sustainably, and they put down roots deeper, which leads to better drainage. The biodiversity of native insects and birds multiply every year on my property since I started planting native plants. Find out what your “keystone” native trees are. Do whatever you can to inspire and educate your neighbors and community! I love that this is beginning to happen everywhere! (I am in western Washington state, USA.)

[@Tridhos]

I was in Spain recently and they have an amazing amount of dry arid land so this looks to be the way to go if they don't want things to get worse.

[@yingle6027]

I was just thinking the same thing, having seeing all the wildfires over there.

[@Dinofaustivoro]

"We dont grow plants, we grow soil. And the soil grows the plants for us". This. This is the revolution.

[@phrayzar]

I very much hope that this channel continues to keep making content that can inspire and partnership the change we so desperately need. KZbin(and other public platforms) can be a very difficult option due to the amount of negativity that will be directed at anyone doing almost anything, but I feel that we are at a cultural shift right now and examples of alternate ways to create meaning in life with a positive outcome to the natural world is something that I applaud as loudly as possible.

[@Dono-da-Blaze]

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[@blaxbently]

❤❤❤

[@sandraleung7218]

Hello from Hong Kong! The landscape transformation is amazing!! Very proud of what you guys are achieving there. So glad to see the surge of ecology-based regenerative agriculture! A bit of information correction: Rhizobia is a group of nitrogen-fixing bacteria, not fungi. They receive sugar from legume plants (basically, the bean/pea family), and in turn, convert atmospheric nitrogen into bioavailable nitrates. Also, for why the lone trees grow less well than the trees planted together, I suspect it's due for a few reasons: (1) trees do compete for sunlight. So if it's partially shaded by other trees, it'll stimulate hormonal changes and grow faster. (2) The mixed vegetation restores soil fertility and revives the soil microbe community, which is *crucial* to plant health - just like how a diverse gut microbiome boosts our health! The reduced erosion, accumulated soil organic matter and diverse plant community nourish the soil microbiome, which likely contains beneficial members like arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and plant-growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR). Hope this information helps! Can't wait for more updates on this project :D

[@gcxred4kat9]

Wow, wish I was farming with you. Love from Florida!

[@blaxbently]

@@gcxred4kat9also in Florida 👋 also want to start something like this but afraid to bc the plasticulture farmers around burn off their plastics often and it settles all over us and our land. Need to get legislation passed to combat this.

[@otiliaczego8182]

Respect, much respect. I live near a huge forest, in New Zealand. This is what I see, made by nature. To attempt to give back what we've taken, to restore what was destroyed is the Creator's Mission in itself. 👍👍❤❤

[@bekindlove]

Love it!! Feed the soil! You're proving to everyone that your system works! Keep it up! The video production looks great! You'll have 10,000 subscribers in no time!!

[@r-a-s]

Many thanks for your kindness!

[@eioclementi1355]

@@r-a-s I agree new aged traveller if you organise a filming session maybe hire a local drone pilot for some dynamic shots your make some mega sub getting videos.

[@janosszentpeteri1922]

@@r-a-s Hi Ras, how much space or distance do you have between your oak trees? Thanks for the answer!

[@UPGardenr]

@@r-a-s More vids R.A.S. ? Please

[@kathynix6552]

141k followers when I subscribed

[@KimWilliamsystunisia]

Hello from Northern Tunisia. Thank you for taking the time to produce this video and sharing the fantastic results of your project to date. I would be very interested to here more about the different types of trees that could be grown together. We have Olive and Citrus trees currently growing in two different areas of our newly purchased farm in a "soil" which is basically sand. Excited to see how things progress. Keep up the work.

[@muhammadnawaz5039]

I live in a sandy area. I am surprised for 17 years going on 18 this coming June how well things grow sandy soils! Most things grow very well without 'synthetic' fertilizer eg maize, millet, sorghum, cassava and fruit trees like lemon do extremely well growing very big and disease free. So am not gobsmacked things are doing well in your sandy soils

[@bradjohnston8687]

@@muhammadnawaz5039 add true yams & sweet potatoes to that list & sun hemp, pigeon peas for Nitrogen fixers/biomass producers during hot summers

[@viddachan8940]

I love it! I am subscribed… perfect timing! I am in Southern Mexico, at the base of one of the biggest mountain ranges in the country, facing the Pacific Ocean. The geography goes from ground zero (sea level) to highest point of 12,000 ft. At ground zero, temperature range 80-85 with high humidity and very little rain, yet 20 minutes inland at the beginning of the foothills, it can be 10-15 degree cooler with a fair amount of rain. Further up, lots of fog and a good amount of rain. I have been looking for a small piece of land for a small food forest farm but in the mountaintops where it is very lush and green, it is mostly coffee and pine forests. More recently, I found some land closer to the sea but it is very dry due to it’s two seasons: dry and wet. But a few folks have managed to create litttle oases of tropical fruit trees. Your channel has given me hope.

[@estebancorral5151]

To me southern Mexico is Chiapas.

[@bramvanderwoerdt7186]

a healthy ecosystem is much more able to hold and recycle its water compared to a plowed, industrial field. so it should be suitable to a feast/famine rain pattern if executed well

[@ownpetard8379]

Mexico, if managed well, will be a rich garden of abundance. Close to that now. Great variety of eco-systems and micro-climates. Viva Mexico!

[@sbraga02]

Hi, I been trying something similar in my small garden here in luxembourg , of course the weather it's a little bit more colder but I think I've had some results. I don't throw away nothing at all from the garden, everything goes to the ground. Love what you have done.

[@kristafluit3042]

Really mesmerized by how you are able to teach such important knowledge through simple video's. Very inspiring, keep going!

[@yvanapantino273]

Tbh, I didn't really notice your 'mistakes' bc I was more interested in the species you had planted. I say well done for your thoughtful narrative and please keep making more videos (even with 'imperfections').

[@jesper1406]

The most information and best explanation of agro forestry I've ever come across! We're in Portugal on 1, 3 hektar of barren land and want to copy your efforts. Thank you for putting up this content!!!❤

[@haram2163]

In Portugal also and found this very interesting. Clicked on the channel and this is the only video. Damn shame.

[@ramhornjoe]

Very nice, new subscriber. Just moved onto a rural piece of land in South East Missouri USA right before winter hit. We're very excited to see how it evolves as we start working with it. Theres lots of clay and rocks & a tremendous amount of hardwood trees like hickory, red & white oak. Started water harvesting systems already & are doing everything off grid.

[@inad9300]

Greetings from northern Spain! Here, my spouse and I are planning to grow our own food forest too, so your advice is very much welcomed. Best of luck to you, Ras! Looking forward to more of your videos 😃

[@mena2138]

hazlo ya no esperes mas, te cambiara la vida.

[@namafarm]

Jah provides all that we need with the herbs of the entire Garden... AMEN Ras, well done. Loving this food forest and tree rows alternating with row crop configuration, w nitrogen fixing and biomass accumulators like alfalfa and sorghum in paths. Love it, and my heart says to do this where we are. We have a wetter borial freezing season here in the green mountains of VTveith increasing storms and drought alternating. I'll work with mulching raised swale rows, planting in Blueberry, swamp and burr oaks, apples, plums, highbush cranberry, red currents, corn, Blueberry, Saskatoon, Hazelbert, Willows, Butternuts, Crabapple etc, with beans and other crop rows in between, understory rhubarb and horseradish... musing about Seaberry, Butternut, wild rose, comfry, Walnut trees. Much love back to you, brotherman.

[@andrewdegozaru74]

Very interesting inaugural video. I'm also keen to learn your insights on mobilising a like minded group to cooperate in such an open ended project. I've been toying with the idea for a couple of years (in Australia) which of course is where land is probably an order of magnitude more expensive than it is in the Sierra Navarre.

[@ianrobinson3198]

Subbed just because this is seriously impressive stuff, in a world of people destroying the planet you are bringing life back to barren land. Good luck to you.

[@lifeisgreat8]

we have a similar project in south portugal. So cool to see yours! you are growing many plants that we are not (yet) growing. Super inspiring! thank you!!!

[@nowakevelyne223]

Thank you ! We are in the south-France and we are also working from the perspective of global warming. Everything is very dry here. We are planting double rows of fig trees this year to install shade and humidity, and cover the ground. Your experience is very interesting.

[@masterblaster6434]

Magic little informative video. As permaculture was invented in Australia in Tasmania, we are proud to see it being adhered to in the USA and overseas.

[@sello-lawrence]

Great what you did 👍🏼 We're growing a food forest as well but on a much smaller scale. But better than nothing. Keep it up ✅

[@torheggelund1608]

This is amazing. Thank you so much for taking the time to film and share this !! Really looking forward to more updates !!!!

[@r-a-s]

Thank you! more coming soon.

[@sDelBello]

Thank you for this RAS! I am down in South Portugal and your video is very inspiring. Would love to know more details about your design and management of the system. I have done a course with Ernst but besides being the visionary and the master he is not the best communicator. You are amazing at explaining and presenting important details in a concise clear way. Can't wait for more vídeos. If you come down south Portugal please let me know!

[@OffGridInPanama]

Ras John, blessed love to you and your people in pain. I too am "english" now living in Central America. I bought a humble 3 hectares out here 3 years ago. I do not currently live on the land, but at the end of this year I will be moving permanently to grow my tropical food forest agroforestry style. I too learnt and love syntropic agroforestry but i will also be experimenting with and using multiple different permaculture tequniques. I would love the chance to get in tough with you guys out there and build relationships as we are of course one in the same, spain to Panama. Please give me a way to get in touch! Holy Emmanuel I , King Selassie, Jah Rastafari!

[@r-a-s]

Blessed love Jamie! nice to hear of like minded people out there! you will find contact info on our website.... www.supernatural-permaculture.com Haile Bless

[@udoheinz7845]

Wow that is so cool! We are going to start a garden for the first time ever this year ans i am going all in on the permaculture. Videos like this from all around the world give so much hope

[@johannadurr9365]

Absolutely loved your first video, so inspiring , can't wait for more! You are doing an amazing job! We are on a similar journey, but up north in Galicia...and a few months behind you... we will for sure get in touch with you to exchange more!! Beautiful project you have! *** Johanna

[@kgs2280]

Greetings from the U.S. God knows we desperately need this work, the teachings and systems here, and especially in Southern California where I live; not to mention the inland valley where we grow so much of our nation’s produce and fruits and nuts.

[@ExposuresUnlimited]

Thank you. Brilliant, and inspiring. Look forward to more!

[@darinsprecher6365]

Been interested in food forests for a very long time and the main thing I keep an eye out for (in terms of videos) are systems starting from nothing. I am fascinated to see how they change through time. Thanks so much for sharing, I will be trying to emulate you!

[@louisahammond8991]

Ras John! So good to the see the update and we can't wait to come back again this year. Looking forward to the next episode ♥️

[@r-a-s]

Greetings Sister! Great that you have seen it 'in the flesh'.yes! Please track its evolution!

[@valentinamorales9518]

Simply pure inspiration. Thank you so much!

[@Zinkoz]

Looking forward to your future videos. Thank you for sharing.

[@willm5814]

Incredible work - nothing more beneficial than the work you are doing!! Thank you 🙏

[@Ben_Schumacher]

Keep the videos coming Ras! So keen for follow you’re journey, as I prep to start my own. Hello from Australia!

[@daniilkarpov6344]

Amazing video, you have a great way of explaining all these complex concepts in such a simple way for anyone to follow along. Keep up the good work, hope to see more videos from you!

[@TheInfloence]

Yes Ras! Beautiful video, very well explained & great inspiration. Please share more videos on your projects.

[@pippabuchanan1792]

I am very much looking forward to hearing more! Much appreciation for an excellent explanation about this system

[@nathanthelizardmccomb8650]

Absolutely love it! We live just down the road in Malaga, been thinking about this system for a few months and this video is very inspiring to see what to expect time wise 🤟 hope to meet you guys some day ❤

[@mikevanhoutum2844]

Me too im near velez malaga, maybe we can hook up and do it twice

[@davidmiles-hanschell]

Ras John your knowledge and passion for sustainable agri-forestry is inspirational. We have a tiny garden here beneath the escarpment on Costa Clyde where we have created a garden and planted mainly alder, palm(variety?) cypress, an oak, a plum and a couple of apple trees over the last thirty three years; your community's forest in Southern Spain in years to come will be truly awesome; bring it on dude.

[@michaelcharlap1323]

Really enjoyed your video. Thanks for being so articulate in describing your process. Especially inspired by the differential between your guild systems and the 'control' specimens - crystal clear! Keep it up, we look forward to more :)

[@maximilianmartin8934]

Hello Ras. I really loved this video. The explanations are so so clear. Your system feels like its is so much closer to a natural process of how a forest would form by itself without a human. I really liked that you went indepth about the diffrent trees and why its important to have trees from diffrent "categories". I would really love to know more about these Categories to learn and implement this to a colder Climate and a slightly diffrent situation! :) Best Regards and Greetings from Germany

[@bradjohnston8687]

Check out Billy/permaculture farm KZbin channel for a zone that actually gets winter

[@sebastiandevolga9852]

Can you please link this Billy farm ? Ty

[@bradjohnston8687]

@@sebastiandevolga9852 check out KZbin channel 'Perma Pasture Farm' You should be able to find with a web search Cheers

[@hugomax69]

Great video. Great introduction. Looking forward to seeing and learning more in your future videos. I am currently travelling through working on different permaculture projects and taking knowledge back to Australia. Love your approach and techniques.

[@alphanoir.]

Thanks a lot for sharing your experiences! Please, do more videos whenever you can, I loved it!

[@studillon76]

Fantastic! really loved this. Looking forward to following your journey

[@Mistermeena1]

Awesome video. So great to see these kind of projects coming to fruition. Ive been living in Brazil for 3 years and been looking into the work of Ernst Gotsch and the guys from Agrofrorestry Academy (another great channel) really excited to get started my own project when the stars align. Will look forward to more. Great to see what can be done in that climate as I'm originally from the western Cape in South Africa whitch is similar.

[@lastofthewildplaces1803]

Just one video for now? Really nice system brother, well done 🙌🏽 brilliant overview, you should give us little updates on each aspect, like soil updates, water updates, crops and species updates etc etc… love this so much ❤ Ja bless

[@parkpatt]

Super excited about this project and future updates. Keep it up!

[@erentatari3564]

Please please continue to make videos and share your experience and knowledge. There are sooooo few videos about these methods in the Mediterranean climate. We are desperate to do all this in arid Mediterranean places - thank you!

[@Nomba100]

yes, i moved to southern spain but a fair bit nearer to the coast than him. I was pleased to hear he is doing it in southern spain, gives me hope for this arid area. But we little forest nature soldiers will keep growing.❤

[@sarahdenison-hunt5320]

Love this - beautifully explained and inspiring ❤

[@r-a-s]

Thank You Sarah!

[@freedomforestlife]

Epic vid, kept us completely hooked all the way through. Really enjoyed your wisdom and knowledge, all explained so clearly and made total sense. Wow, if only we can get our place looking as good here in the UK... would be a dream. Thanks for new inspiration. ✌🌿

[@thesquirrelingsaxes7617]

Yep, totally fan of what you're doing and you gave me some inspiration.

[@brianj7639]

Fantastic video and wonderful knowledge shared. Thank you for sharing to those just starting out on this great journey. Thank you brother.

[@bodilskumsrud520]

Absolutely lovely and inspiring!! I deal with another climate on my farm in Sweden,but following the same principles and filosofía,growing the soil! Keep making videos…looking very much forward to the next one!! All the best to you all!! ❤️

[@charlottewood2102]

This is amazing! I am going to be doing this in Spain as soon as my house sells and I can get there, so I’m thrilled to be able to take some of this knowledge and apply it in the future! Very inspired! Please keep making these videos!!

[@thehuntfortruth]

Very excited about this and looking forward to the next video!!!

[@rvs1]

absolutely love the comparison of the lone tree and the tree with friendly neighbors. quite insightful.

[@jamiecahill5182]

This all looks amazing and is so interesting hearing what your doing and why you're doing it - just wow! 💖

[@r-a-s]

Thank you so much!

[@charlesotway1873]

Excellent video and great progress, amazing work and keep it up folks.

[@r-a-s]

thanks!

[@dayanjosiah3302]

This is absolutely amazing, looking forward to more more more....❤

[@Terraced.Garden]

Please update more often. I love your gardening techniques. intersted in learning from you thanks.

[@beaunewbury8911]

So happy to see this up Ras keep up the work 🙏❤️

[@r-a-s]

Blessings brother Beau! you know me! the work is my yoga. keep growing!

[@ptrainingbytim]

Absolutely love it. Amazing work you guys have done and you’re a well spoken teacher. Blessings from northern california!

[@kehaulanipuou3644]

Looking forward to your next video:-). Beautiful restoration and creation of a living agroforest!

[@2listen2u]

Amazing project, great energy. Looking forward to future videos.

[@k8m883]

Fantastic video, very thorough and informative. Could you please do a video on how to choose species and start on bare land?

[@r-a-s]

greetings ! and Thank You. This was just an introduction video. yes we will do instructional videos in the future to share how to put these systems together. stay tuned!

[@andrewsymons441]

Thanks for the video, you explained things really clearly. A quick question: you said that you balanced the tree rows carefully with about 5 or 6 different types of tree. What is the ratio of different types of trees to each other? And what are the different parts of the ratio (eg nitrogen fixing, biomass accumulating, food bearing, dynamic accumulators etc)? Thanks!

[@r-a-s]

Greetings! and Thank You Andrew! yes I will explain fully the 5 types of trees, and how they should be organised in an upcoming video!

[@andrewsymons441]

@@r-a-s Thanks!

[@InJusticeAustralia]

Such perfect timing to see this for me, as I’ve been agonising over whether to buy some barren land but love lush heavily vegetated areas. Thank you. Subscribed.

[@JaguwarSims]

This is absolutely mind blowing. All of a sudden in rethinking how I'll garden when I finally get a plot of land. Thank you.

[@CeciRROS]

Me encantó el vídeo! Ojalá algún día pusieras subtitulos en español 🙏🏼 sería de agradecer! Saludos desde alicante y suerte en todo ❤️

[@paullilliott7565]

para subtitulos a) click CC... then click 'settings' (una rueda) click captions ... auto translate... espanol ... experimenta .. va a ser dificil al principio, pero puedes hacerlo para casi cualquiera video... yo empleo este para capciones in aleman!

[@andresamplonius315]

Llevo un tiempo viendo videos brasileños acerca de la agricultura sintropica, algunos de su creador Ernst Gotsch. Tienes una buena variedad de especies en tu propiedad, incluso algunas subtropicales. Muchos de los videos muestran la AS en el semiarido, en los biomas Cerrado y Caatinga, emplean plantas nativas asi como exóticas adaptadas al clima. Una muy popular es la Opuntia, Nopal o Tuna, ademas del fruto, brinda biomasa, puedes ver como las pencas o paletas se pican en trozos y se usan como mulch. Buenas tambien al plantar arboles, usadas como un Hidrogel natural. Lo mismo la Sabila (Aloe vera), Sisal, Agave. Como tu seguramente sabrás, cada especie sostiene distintas bacterias, y estas sostienen bacterias que ayudan a las demás a adaptarse mejor a la escasez de agua, a tener mayor resiliencia.

[@TheParadiseParadox]

Estoy trabajando en un projecto en Jalisco. Por ahora no tenemos muchos nopales. Sin embargo, crecen muy facilmente y retienen el agua, entonces me gustaría plantar muchos más. No sabía que se puede usar para plantar. Se usa también en la bioconstrucción para formar una mezcla más pegajosa en el bajareque o sustancias parecidas ¡Saludos desde Jalisco!

[@andresamplonius315]

En el Brasil hasta ornamentales como la Sanseviera meten, todo aporta biodiversidad. La Higuerrilla o Ricino la siembran para p biomasa (busca "Mamona", al Nopal lo llaman "Palma forrageira"). Las leguminosas son clave. Lo que se de bien en el sitio es lo mejor, tal vez el frejol gandul, nativo de India, aporta biomasa y al podarlo estimula el crecimiento del cultivo de interes económico, amen de servir de mantillo. O nativos como el frejol Tepari. Un poco de alfalfa, si dispones de agua suficiente; muy bueno como mantillo, pero en poca cantidad. Gramas, Leucaena, Moringa...

[@akeem1221]

Excellent elaboration, the guy has loads of knowledge. I am following for more.

[@jeanvergeynst6128]

Inspiring! I like the way you are introducing your project. I will surely keep on following the evolution of this wonderful garden of Eden you are growing.

[@bitlessmind]

This is a young project. I'm interested to see how it will work when it matures (especially what will happen to your vegetables when the whole soil has been transformed by the trees into forest soil). 🙃

[@columlynch4229]

Hello bitlessmind, my thoughts exactly. I would imagine that as the trees and shrubs mature it will become a fruit and nut forest with lots of diversity. I guess we'll have to wait and see but Ras and co. are going an amazing job. Cheers from Ireland. P.S diversity is everything.

[@HickoryDickory86]

That's where alley cropping comes in. You have narrow bands (or alleys) through the rows of fruit and nut trees, and these can be gardened for vegetables or sowed for grain production.

[@bradjohnston8687]

Some of the trees will have to be sacrificed & a ton of trimming so the alleys aren't totally shaded out. Geoff Lawton from Down Under has a ton of video/tutorials also on his KZbin channel.

[@philipeast5096]

Wonderful. Inspirational. Helpful. Keep up the good work.

[@thetinyhomecompanyhereford6062]

Absolute pleasure. Thank you for looking after the Earth so well. Inspiring, clear and full of kindness. One Love!

[@chantc3388]

Thank you, love how you give such important i nformation in an incredibly fluid and simple way, so easy to understand, amazing and beautiful plants!

[@genaromacedo7264]

Beautiful.. Congrats on that, sysntropic it is!! Amazing work for the soil you were given!

[@spiceytradeboat8893]

Great video. Interesting anecdote about companion planting trees. Such significant growth when planted together. 🎉🌿🌏

[@jessicaeggleston8033]

I’ve watched this video three times. It’s incredible thank you for sharing so much information.

[@lesliekwan6654]

Thank you for sharing. Very inspirational and I look forward to taking this up sometime soon

[@guillermopigni]

Thank you very much!. Excellent work on the land, so inspiring. Please keep sharing. Greetings from Cordoba Argentina

[@annetteheath4694]

Great video. I look forward to seeing more from this channel.

[@julieheath6335]

Very nicely presented. Thank you! I'm a fan of syntropic agriculture, and your system looks like an excellent example of how fantastically those principles work.

[@eljardinperdido]

Wow! Thank you for the tour! Currently in Houston, TX 9a, and exploring the notion of doing an operation in Sicily. Similar climate. Great info.

[@Sarah-no6pk]

love it !!!! AMAZING ..... thank you so much for sharing !

[@user-vn5jv1to4g]

Excellent. Thank you RAS.

[@r-a-s]

Thank You, You are welcome!

[@FROSTIH-sg4lm]

Thank you RAS for sharing this ausome project with us. What a marvelous example you are. I am so inspired by your video and all the amazing info you are sharing.

[@adekorir]

You're doing what I hope to be doing in a year's time. Wonderful results.

[@gabrom8639]

WOWWW YOU DID WONDERS, CONGRATULATIONS. I will give it a try.

[@earthsensei8798]

Brilliant example of a system that just makes perfect sense. I'm literally nodding at everything you say and finishing your sentences through the TV keep up the amazing work 💚

[@gajawisdom5470]

Amazing. Bless you for the wonderful work you are doing 😊🙏 with Love and respect Namaste

[@StillOnTrack]

Awesome. I look forward to future videos!

[@nekoame]

Thanks a lot for this video! I'm from Brazil, studing Agroforestry to start mine as soon as possible. You have a really nice, clear and gentle way to explain things, I hope to see more videos of you! Cheers, mate!

[@kimeckart1691]

I very much enjoyed your presentation and found it inspiring - you make a great educator ... and farmer! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and I look forward to more videos. Happy farming ....

[@MrBogs88]

Love this video... first time to hear that the plants are like human too. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Be blessed...

[@petersterling5334]

This is Awesome!! The World really needs Massive Education and Activities like this trying to Regenerate a Badly Damaged Planet!! Thanks for Sharing RAS! Great job, Yes keep doing Videos!!