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

[@Dinofaustivoro]

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

[@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

[@MarkNotarioFleix]

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

[@amouramarie]

@@MarkNotarioFleix 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

[@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.)

[@CVNZJoeMurphy]

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

[@WorldWideGardeningWizard]

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

[@WorldWideGardeningWizard]

@@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!

[@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.

[@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.

[@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]

❤❤❤

[@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. 👍👍❤❤

[@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.

[@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!

[@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

[@kristafluit3042]

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

[@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

[@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').

[@hugoblack4096]

The first minute I thought I was listening to Radagast the Brown but I noticed quite fast that you know what you are talking about! And the longer I watched, the more I got impressed. You have a pretty system starting there! Great work, keep on posting. I subscribed.

[@ownpetard8379]

Are you insinuating that Radagast the Brown doesn't know what he is talking about? Don't make me harness my twelve Rhosgobel rabbits and come after you!

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@drkhubalkarmakarandvk.1259]

Thank you for producing the video after sharing so much time with your plants. I am from Nagpur, Maharashtra, India.

[@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.

[@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!!!

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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!

[@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.

[@willm5814]

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

[@thehuntfortruth]

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

[@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

[@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 ✅

[@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

[@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.

[@sarahdenison-hunt5320]

Love this - beautifully explained and inspiring ❤

[@r-a-s]

Thank You Sarah!

[@BunTim]

Unbelievable wonderful! Really, really great!

[@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!

[@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.

[@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!!

[@carolewarner101]

Hmmm, this is really, really inspiring RAS. I'm looking forward to following your content and have subscribed!

[@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!

[@josephhill2010]

Hi Ras, really happy that you tube popped this vid up for me to see. This is Joseph, as in Joseph and Sally who used to live with Veronika and Lorenzo above Beneficio all those years ago. Awesome project brother! We're in East Cornwall, on Sally's family land. We got 3 boys now - Eden(8), Willow(4) and Aquarius(2) - it's a riot!! We got may be about a half acre under cultivation here, mixed vegetables, and more and more perennials going in - fruit trees and berry bushes, and lots of strawberries as ground cover (they just multiply so quickly!), mainly just for family sufficiency, and to give any surplus to friends and family, though we did sell some pumpkins last year, and i'm going to do big squash patch this year coming. And i've got a small tree nursery too, lots of oaks, and bits and bobs of other things. Still loving planting and growing and permaculture (it's my hobby - carpentry is my day job so to speak!!) Looking forward to seeing how your project develops. Love and blessings:)

[@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!! ❤️

[@aquarius1000]

Fantastic video! As someone new to syntropic agroforestry and eager to learn, I’ve been exploring many resources, and yours really stands out. I especially appreciate how you explain concepts while demonstrating them-for instance, showing a 'tree line' and discussing its function at the same time. This approach, along with your well-paced delivery, makes it much easier to absorb and envision applying these ideas practically, not just conceptually. Thank you for sharing the journey of this food forest from its beginnings through to maturity. Looking forward to more content!

[@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.

[@kgs2280]

This is such a brilliant project, and I’m dying to know how you are grow more and continue to spread out, what are you going to plant in the newer areas/rows, and what are you going to go about explaining what you’re going to plant, and for what reasons, and what are you going to be explaining? I didn’t really say that well (as I’m getting very tired), but I guess what I’m asking is when are you going to do more films? I’m so fascinated in seeing people going about the world for the purpose of regenerating in dry, unproductive soil. This is such a marvelous program to improve the food-growing and the regeneration of the land. Now I guess you’re going to show us how you are going eat your crops, as some of those foods are not generally eaten in our homes. Great job, and exceedingly beneficial information. Thank you. The planet desperately needs this now.

[@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.

[@KeRRziEsAcRiTic]

its amazing that people such as your self are experimenting with nature or rather simulating nature as it would be and discovering valuable knowledge we probably have long forgotten or maybe even never knew, we could discover something incredible and revolutionary by working with nature and finding optimum connections. reconnecting with forests is what everybody is longing for including me, can you imagine if everybody decided to plant a forest where possible and then see the results we would have world wide itd be crrraaaaaaazyyyyy.

[@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

[@richardordonez8331]

This farmer is outstanding in his field.

[@ptrainingbytim]

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

[@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!

[@pippabuchanan1792]

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

[@emilioludes7067]

Please more videos this is so inspiring and you guys just have this perfect approach, I need to here how your story with the forest evolves. Thank you so much for the video it has greatly changed my life.

[@r-a-s]

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[@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!

[@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.

[@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

[@BamBamMaori]

Love the way you explain things, makes it easier to understand the methods you use to achieve your outcomes

[@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!

[@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!

[@sunnymining420]

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.❤

[@charlesotway1873]

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

[@r-a-s]

thanks!

[@chilliing]

Amazing. Keep up the great work 👍😆

[@Ben_Schumacher]

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

[@MohamedHassan-ni6un]

Greetings, Ras. Glad to have come across your channel. I'll be following along on our journey to showcase practical regenerative agri. Thank you, and teach away, Prof Ras. Mohamed Somalia 🇸🇴

[@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

[@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 :)

[@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. ✌🌿

[@Suresh8848m]

Wonderful tour and explanation of the agroforestry practices in Spain. Please keep going and posting more informative videos. Great job!

[@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!

[@mouhcinezahi7281]

i was a bit skeptical at first but after seeing the results im definitely going to try this method at my farm in morocco thank you for sharing brother keep up the good work

[@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.

[@limolium4096]

That was one of the best videos I've seen on this topic. Well done and thank you so much! I'm a landscaper by trade and really trying to incorporate as many of these ideas as possible, it's great to have such informative content

[@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!

[@alexpowell9]

Beautiful! Love the RAS system! Thank you so much for sharing, looking forward to seeing more!

[@r-a-s]

Thank You Alex! more coming soon!

[@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...

[@adekorir]

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

[@paulsmith1411]

Awesome Great job, may your Heath enjoy

[@cubfanmike]

Bless you, yogi - you're on a path to glory, in service to life. Prim & OM 🕉

[@thetinyhomecompanyhereford6062]

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

[@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!

[@Truthseeker21000]

Superb my friend, I can sense, from the way you speak about RAS, that you have a great passion and knowledge in this area.

[@alphanoir.]

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

[@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 💚

[@HananSharaby]

Thank you for the clear and simple explanation. As a teacher in the College of Agriculture, I closely follow your method of restoring ecosystems. It is useful and needed by agriculture in my country

[@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.

[@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.

[@PlantSugar]

Hmm, interesting that you grow the trees so close together? The space needed for each tree could get massive. Just for instance the banana. :-) Ahaa biomass. 🙂 Soap nuts are insanely cool - love them!

[@LankyPete62]

Wow ... that's such a clear & fascinating & uptodate description of the food-forest concept .. how far this has all come since Bill Mollison & Dave Holmgren first articulated the Permaculture concept (I met those guys at a workshop as a young man).. at that time we'd only just started hearing about fungi & rhizobium in relation to trees sharing nutrients .. nowadays it's friendly trees talking to each other with hormones .. mind-blowing .. the lone Albizia made it's point .. point being growing soil .. and the plants grow themselves ! ... I was lucky as a child growing up around a 100yr old orchard of very productive temperate apples, pears, quinces & nuts planted by my great-grandparents and lucky now to have a few acres in the sub-tropics where after a couple of decades I'm very happy to see fruits of labours under closed canopy avocado, persimmon, pecan, citrus ... while my son has led a greater shift to polycultures & trying out new superfood trees .. jakfruit, tree-tomato .. and many many local natives for natural forest & wild-life regeneration ... greatly appreciate the potential of what the food-forest movement is showing us .. existentially (and truly grateful of the fine-print caveat: access to the resources available eg water, labour, plant materials eg 1meter high macadamia in a pot about $60 where I live). Looove the reggae music !! Sincerely

[@ChuongNguyenPlus]

Great video that finishes with a convincing proof that a tree growing alone is not happy and grows much slower. Well done!

[@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!!

[@spiceytradeboat8893]

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

[@albertavila9574]

I was doing the same in my small house and I did not know that this way has a name, thanks for sharing now I am more motivated with my small forest project, i am only using endangered trees

[@Kevin-Cruz]

Beautiful video!! Nice to see Regenerative Agroforestry taking root all over the world, keep up the good work!

[@r-a-s]

Thanks Kevin! we shall over-grow that which is no longer needed!

[@guillermopigni]

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

[@MrBogs88]

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

[@Jay-tw5ix]

Yes Ras, mans moving like a young Attenborough still!... impressive and informative, real good stuff my G, Nuff love from London, Jay.. rah star.. far I, dun know

[@paulsound1110]

Pls share more knowledge of that kind. Its amazing and i so highly appreciate People like you. Never Stop doing what you are doing right now. There will follow more im sure!

[@enriquesilvestre8500]

Very beautiful project going on, here in the dry Spain, thank you so much for inspiration, I'm about to slowly start some kind of similar experiment but still need one of the most challenging hapenings to succed, change the mind of the old ones around...

[@L6FT]

Thanks to the cameraman and editor also for a great production, and an informative interview.

[@petergovender3131]

Well done. Am really delighted to have been directed here. Waiting to see more....