Incredible 1.5-Acre Syntropic Food Forest with Over 250 Plant Species | The Food Forest Farmers

[@happenfilms]

We hope you enjoy the film! We came away from the shoot with so much valuable content that we couldn't include in the final film. So we decided to put all 10 full-length interviews up on our Patreon page! We've also made the full interview with Klaus Lotz available for free on our website. PermaDynamics themselves also have a bunch of great videos on their Patreon for those of you who want to dive deeper into syntropic farming. Get access to all 10 full-length interviews: happenfilms.com/patreon PermaDynamics on Patreon: patreon.com/PermaDynamicsNZ The full interview with Klaus Lotz: happenfilms.com/film/klaus-lotz-syntropic-farming

[@agnesdupont9490]

O and all other information

[@vijaymannan5965]

Love from India

[@MattPowersSoil]

Always great work! Much love to your entire team!

[@happenfilms]

@@MattPowersSoil Thanks Matt. Hope you're well! xx

[@brycenew]

This is excellent and exciting! Thank you HF 🙏🏻🔥🔥

[@Kiwiwanderer]

I’m noticing more and more that people who are very connected with nature have an inner contentment and their souls shine through.

[@SouravDas-fq1ct]

Right man,, In this modern world only Nature can give you real pleasure n peace. We should live our lives into the nature

[@OffgridwithJay]

I bought an acre in the desert and am starting this year with bringing the soil back to eventually start a food forest. You were one of my major inspirations to change my life. Thank you

[@watergoat9452]

You should make a few videos of your progress man, so that you can inspire others

[@Jumpingjoep]

Great. Best of luck making that a great life!

[@VK-qo1gm]

How are going with your regeneration? Hope all is going well for you

[@morgansmith6156]

Thank you!!

[@OffgridwithJay]

@@VK-qo1gm slowly but surely. its funny the things i need to get to cover the soil are considered weeds and hard to find but i got some

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Planting another 50 trees for my food forest today. Come inside and see Happen Films uploaded a video. Today is a good day. Happy Earth week everyone.

[@dionysos4288]

@Canadian Permaculture Legacy haha we even look up the same content love you’re videos

[@anandanthraper1575]

Hi ..I'm on Sudbury, ON.. you think I can do premaculture?..given the weather? Pls advice

[@dionysos4288]

@@anandanthraper1575 yes of course you can look for plants like berries or root crops native in youre area or what grows in these zones "Sudbury lies within plant hardiness zone 4a & 3b." Take to be sure the lowest hardiness so 3b. If you have questions just ask

[@anandanthraper1575]

@@dionysos4288 thank you for your reply..what number can I reach you at if I have questions..thanks again

[@dionysos4288]

@@anandanthraper1575 you have Snapchat? If yes add me my name is dion_lindeboom

[@gardeninghacks]

I'm a student and this is my dream one day I will make my own food forest😀

[@OnSiteTrav]

I was a student once at FGCU. We had a food forest at school. Now I have my own. Keep going you will too soon.

[@SandeepSingh-fr4qu]

Yes🇮🇳🇮🇳💓🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@ashutoshmallik711]

Hii I am agriculture student after completing my studies I also want to build mine 😇😊

[@raymondkyruana118]

Same! We can do it!!!!

[@ravikispotta7820]

Me2

[@hamishmclarnon8840]

I was taught by Klaus back in New Zealand. Where he taught premaculture and management of organic systems and I can say he is a well of knowledge. It's insane how much he knows even after my time with him I felt he had so much more to give. It's awesome to see he is still working with the land and sharing his knowledge with the community.

[@permadynamicsnewzealand2698]

Thanks Hamish, Good to hear from my old polytechnic students. Hope you caught the food forest bug then already and have some mature fruit trees crowding out your lawn! K

[@arunravi4866]

best part is the youtube video which spreads the message of how its done and will encourage many to follow and if it becomes a non stop chain reaction then earth will become paradise; hope so.

[@KoalaGardens]

we live in hope that change will spread

[@chickenjuice4841]

We shall be the change we want to see in the world

[@claudiaperea]

I’ve been starting to plan a move from Los Angeles to middle America to do this. I’m so thankful for this video. I have so much to learn.

[@enl8ghtenmenttv476]

Exactly!!! It's paradise again, through us...

[@libertybelle371]

One silver lining from these past 2 years of global totalitarianism, has been the individual's longing to reunite with nature. Permaculture seems to be a wonderful pillar of that movement. Brings joy to the heart and soul.

[@RomeliaGomez-Calmell7934]

👍

[@lamdao1242]

I see you wrote this 2 years or more ago. Global totalitarianism just because you are required to wear mask, and stay home so as not to infect other people who may be immunocompromised or less healthy? So that the hospitals are NOT so stuffed that the hospital staff cannot cope in taking care of patients, and those with other illnesses can also access medical care? When the medical professionals say that the hospital is FULL they Are full and they cannot accommodate other sick people. This includes cancer patients, stroke patients in need to an ICU bed after an operation. A dear friend on mine who lives in San Diego, CA. His 65 year old wife had a stroke. He could NOT get her admitted to a hospital in time for the treatment she needed because the hospitals were FULL. She suffered from the effects of the stroke and subsequently died. This was a needless death because the speed in which someone is treated after getting a stroke can really mean the difference between a better quality of life or a poorer quality of life or is the difference between LIFE and Death. people like you couldn’t accept a few short weeks or months of inconvenience resulting in a needless rapid spread of covid. And that in turn resulted in a needless number of deaths. And if you think it would have happened anyway; that’s not true. Google the stats of New Zealand, Australia, Japan, etc. those countries able to flatten the curve of admissions to hospitals thus allowing a better quality of care for ALL. And here we are today. All these countries who managed COVID better and they are JUST as free as they were before Covid but with far less suffering So quite frankly: F YOU and your irrational paranoia. SMH. 🤦

[@Lagaloggie]

"We always make mistakes. our intention is to make better and better mistakes." Such a fount of wisdom this family is. Rewatching the video makes one discover something else missed during the previous viewing.

[@emreackaln2662]

Having garden-forest , beautiful family and pretty wife. That’s the most valuable life ever will be. Thank you for the videos.

[@misskita4601]

My partner and I live close to large natural forests on Vancouver Island in Western Canada. We are slowly turning our city lot sized property into a food forest. We love integrating native trees, berry bushes, herbs, and greens with our cultivated fruit and nut trees, flowers, berries, and vegetable beds. The natural ‘weeds’ are left to grow and then chopped and dropped to nourish the soil. It is such an exciting and satisfying way to work with the land. We definitely feel like we are land helpers and not just ‘farmers’. Thank you for the great inspirational videos.

[@davidt3698]

I'm a retired (age only) regenerative banana farmer re-establishing a food forest on an abandoned banana farm. It's great to see there is a community of like minded people in the real world.

[@AFRIKTODAY]

I have been on a permaculture/synthropic adventure since I discovered the works of Ernst Gotsch. This is honey to my ears.

[@johnb7046]

This was fantastic! Put a smile on my face showing how humans should truly exist within our ecosystem - the evolving one, not the concrete one.

[@AselflimitedcapitalisemW0mamon]

Too late; the high intellect money generation systems of (earth's population's of society's approved) "mass scale systems" of the money empowered hierarchy's ((money empowered science)) has already set the rapidly approaching extinction of humanities misuse of the planet (by way of excessive - "money made" personal wealth gain)) hurdling - the future gains from converting nature into personal gains - out of control (perhaps un-changeably) towards money empowered humanities "now (by money empowered sciences own estimations) "practically certainly inevitable" Not yet pinpointed - extinction date of humanities misuse of the Earth. ALL For THE MONEY The only way to slow it now - is to get back to "local only" provisioning our selves -in true simplistic villager way of provisioning our lives. Although we will still have to sell the surplus of what our village population way of life produces - but only to generate enough funding to pay the higher education systems over lords who own the earth'- with which we provision our selves - but only in a non-commercialistic, non-capitalistic way. In order that we don't take part in their oblivious methods of excessively provisioning themselves - at the cost of humanities future "sustainable life" on earth ALL FOR THE excessively convenient MONEY derived by money empowered science - having found - the more convenient way's to excessively provision their fellow populations... by the excessive converted proceeds generated by the toil and sweat of their lesser over educated fellow man (who reside down towards the bottom of their hierarchy system) of excessively money empowered & over-lorded) fellow man control. & for that we will pay.

[@leannewilliams1944]

yes i agree im still smiling

[@BetterYouBetterWorld]

This... Is... INCREDIBLE! Thank you for adding to the world rather than taking away from it!!!

[@TravelwithGlow]

It is amazing to see how trees can make such a big impact in the environment, community and future of a country! Well explained and thanks for doing it with the locals to improve their lifes. Plant more trees!!! 😍

[@emilianomarquez1629]

Tomorrow I'll be getting my own land, It's about half of what they started on, and it too has been over exploited over a 100+ years. This inspires me so so much to work hard and smart at it.

[@yoyo-naratu1515]

Where are you and how's it going Emiliano?!!!! :)

[@arunravi4866]

a model ethical family and an enviable way of living. simply great.

[@TheUtopiaExperience]

I agree

[@superchiller123chill]

as a grower, listening to the first bit just put a smile on my face. We as humans have the capability of so much good

[@TheRealJaded]

So much evil dominates most of the world

[@TomS-ce8hi]

"I don't like to see myself as a steward of the land, more like a partner in the development of the highest expression of life..." What a quote

[@paulflute]

my favourite was.. "it take a lot of work... but most of the work is sitting and watching.." that's my kinda job.. ;9)

[@KoalaGardens]

definitely - why do humans think they own stuff? it's an honour to be a steward

[@PankajDoharey]

Thin line between a quote and pure BS.

[@tonyduncan9852]

That stuck. Immediately. What a quote indeed.

[@Miracle-ms9hu]

@@PankajDoharey Sending hugs 😊

[@nlhrb]

My grandparents' farm is similar to this style of farming. We have mango trees, coconut trees, avocado, pomelo, banana, pineapple, coffee, lanzones, and some vegetables, root crops, and herbs I don't even know the names. It was already matured when I was little so who knows how old it really is. It's just amazing how people just start planting all these trees and plants, and they eventually mature and establish their own ecosystem. Later on, they won't even need human intervention. We just come to prune and do the harvest.

[@yoyo-naratu1515]

Where is this place? Which country? I'm in awe as we can't from any of this in the UK, I just watch and admire at a distance . . . what to do . . . 💖🙏

[@stanjohnsuab]

This is exactly what our indigenous people my people in Borneo been doing for centuries traditional way to grow food. Modern people may give it many names (permaculture, food forest, agro forestry etc.) but it is proven the best sustainable way of farming without harming the environment. Great effort by this Keegan family hope many families will follow.

[@ishka3405]

Yes, thats very true 🧡

[@sukanthyranjitkumar8725]

You're right that we're to be part of the nature and not separate from the nature! Very valuable content indeed! Loved this clip!! ❤

[@bobterhaar9091]

Thanks a BUNCH for getting this content out. These type of videos are my sign posts in life! :)

[@avinsiebalak]

Brilliant seeing individuals like the Lotz-Keegan family setting a prime example for humanity, as a whole...

[@JeraldBaliteTV]

I'm praying and saving so that one day I'll be able to buy lot and start my own dream forest.

[@carlyblankevoort3856]

A family working together towards a common goal... beautiful!

[@farmingsecrets]

We have been working with Regen Farmers for decades now, so lovely to see a video like this sharing the syntropic movement. Aligns so much with Regenerative Practices and Principles. Keep these videos flowing!

[@AmitKumar-qz2us]

Hay world people why you come to nature specially western countries...you have GM food, chemical pesticides, cola drink, junk food...and ....war industry.....immoral thing porn nudity vulgar relationship.......

[@farmingsecrets]

@@AmitKumar-qz2us Hi! I'm sorry but, are you referring to us? hope not. Anyways, why not join our group: farmingsecrets.com/facebook It's is a free space where farmers can collaborate great farming ideas with each other. Looking forward to seeing you there!

[@AmitKumar-qz2us]

@@farmingsecrets 🙏🧘‍♂️....🌹

[@AmitKumar-qz2us]

@@farmingsecrets We must do natural farming and save nature...as our ancestors do more than 10,000 years. video link.... ..kzbin.info/www/bejne/aKfJkIumfNCafqs

[@AmitKumar-qz2us]

@@farmingsecrets We must save natural Cow for organic farming and pure natural milk.... Jercy ,hybrid cow is GM ...not natural gives harmful milk.. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qaWtoJ6Ihp1-n9E

[@milyonpieces]

I love your place being in nature is a different feeling. And the fact that you produce food in your own garden is amazing. That's a dream.

[@marcelovieiradossantos2191]

Perfect and beautiful way to plant and produce organic food in harmony with mother nature. Thank you for sharing. Lots of love from Brazil 🇧🇷

[@fabianocostacoelho3591]

Beautifully done, the food forest and the film! "nature wants to become a forest". Loads of thanks!

[@laurentfournier561]

Thanks for the inspiration. My wife has started a mix of orchard and veggie production in a semi-desertic subtropical clime (mild winter with little rain and hardly any frost, long hot summer with no rain at all) about five years ago. It doesn't look as lush as yours but we are on the right direction. She has lost a lot every year because of insects and animals too happy to find food where there was none ! She hopes to have enough yield in an other 2 to 3 years to feed our family of 4. And eventually have some to give away. People need to know it's a long process, not rewarding at the beginning.

[@permadynamicsnewzealand2698]

If you start one bed at a time and direct all your resources into this initial phase, your selective weeding and pruning attention, your manure/compost and mulch, protect it with hoops and netting and have all the long living species embraced by your first crops or placenta as we call it in S then you will also have your first yield from your annuals to pay back your efforts. After that it is getting easier, no more inputs and you move to bed nr two.

[@tanyam2701]

This is absolutely incredible. I am in awe. Their home, their work, and their creation is so closely aligned with how humans are meant to live, every word they speak is intelligence of nature itself. This is a piece of inspirational reality.

[@josephesposito4212]

I think they’re on the right path, but if I’m being honest, most of the plants in this film, do not look healthy. What I’ve noticed in most Permaculture is the lack of nutrients. Perhaps I’ve been trained to believe, thick, robust heavily fruiting, plants or healthy and in actuality, they are just over fertilized I don’t know.

[@haroldseah306]

Interesting comment - when you say "how humans are meant to live", can I ask, "meant by who?"

[@irmar]

@@haroldseah306 The O.P. probably meant that all animals that live on this earth, including humans, can thrive and live their best life if they are in touch and in harmony with the rest of nature. This not because "someone" meant them to or planned them to, but because of their own nature. We have seen what happens to humankind when living in polluted, stressful cities, sitting on a chair or couch all day in front of a screen. We become alienated, depressed, anxiety-ridden and various illnesses of body and mind follow.

[@renatamm1960]

What a Sintropic Ninja Master family!!! What a wonderful farm, beautiful work!!! This video for me feels like Chicken Soup for the soul!!! I’m Brazilian and in the last few years I’m learning about sintropic agriculture. But this farm is just as good as the best farms in Brazil!! Congratulations both to the farmers and the filming crew!! Excellent job

[@permadynamicsnewzealand2698]

Thanks Renata, that means a lot to us coming from Brazil. Sounds like you did not see Ernsts farm though and you should! Klaus

[@travellerandagardener3360]

Hey Frida! Such a great knowledge you are having on syntropic agroforestry . Amazing !! The way you elaborated is inspiring

[@crazymonkeyVII]

I'm absolutely blown away. What a great concept!

[@maheshwarnakula5818]

sure One day i wil make such food forest...thank you all you that sharing your concept with all of us around the world...best of luck

[@cecambjz-05]

Kudos Lotz-Keegan family on this wonderful syntropic food forest! Great video Happen Films as well! Awesome development togetherness! Very interesting!

[@petersterling5334]

Really like this Film and the Whole Concept of Growing your own food with a Proper Sustainable Relationship with Mother Earth!! Thanks for sharing this with the World!! We all need to embrace this philosophy if we are going to Survive as a Human Species! This Film is Such a Gift with All the Great Wisdom! Humans really need to Stop being Ignorant and Arrogant trying to Destroy Nature and Realize only by Embracing and Fully understanding Nature will we become Successful and Abundant as a Species!! This knowledge is Genius!

[@SCOTTBULGRIN]

How magnificent! We'll need this desperately in the next 20 years.

[@honuhalawahalepule653]

We need more "positive members of the ecosystem." Thank you for sharing your wisdom and experience with the world and in doing so making it a better place. Equipping the people to transform society!

[@DrawingAndPaintingMeditations]

Beautiful! Love the emphasis on partnership and spending time observing. Thank you 🙏

[@BEAdventurePartners]

That was incredible. We are so inspired to look into syntropic food forests. It seems as though New Zealanders are really aheead of the rest of the world with getting back to nature, and being one with nature. Big love. Thanks for sharing this beautiful film. - Erin + Brian

[@AmitKumar-qz2us]

Hay world people why you come to nature specially western countries...you have GM food, chemical pesticides, cola drink, junk food...and ....war industry.....immoral thing porn nudity vulgar relationship.......

[@TheUtopiaExperience]

Spot on

[@richardb5298]

And to get jabs 20 times

[@DGPPhysics]

Brazil is far ahead on Syntropic Agroforestry system there where is starting this system. However the system really need to spread all around the world, is the need to be known, it’s good to find video in English about the subject, it need to be known in many languages as possible.

[@yoyo-naratu1515]

I'm not sure we can create those forests in the UK, different climate!! 😉Any thoughts on this? Thanks :)

[@firepinkfarmtn]

Yes! We’ve been waiting for a new film from you guys. Loved this one. So inspiring!

[@TheUtopiaExperience]

It’s am amazing film

[@y.harveynorman1392]

What a family of inspiration and nature! I feel rejuvenated and relaxed.

[@Nhoj31neirbo47]

Creating a healthier world. Living a healthier life. Beautiful!

[@homewoodstoves]

Forest is looking lush and beautiful ❤️ great informative video thank you! Janie

[@luutas]

Look who I just found here 😝

[@homewoodstoves]

@@luutas NZ a much smaller place than Brazil! 😉 This is a great local family, Janie did one of their food forest courses last year 🔥

[@luutas]

@@homewoodstoves So, I see that you have a lot of very good references out there. By the way that's also very similar to the model that I'm using over hear. Or at least trying to hahaha. Hope to get similar results soon

[@luutas]

Very very inspiring

[@TheUtopiaExperience]

I love this video:)

[@brainzend]

Always a joy to see what you guys have to offer. Always finding people doing things which bring a happy tear to my eye with a stunning "Yes!-this is what we should be doing!"-feeling in my chest. Thankyou

[@matheusalves8418]

Here in Brazil, we now study Syntropic Agriculture in colleges, as well as Permaculture. The legacy of Ernst Gotsch and Bill Mollison, has been more and more widespread and this is beautiful!

[@leonstenutz6003]

@matheussalves8418 Muito contento para vôces, parabens! Eu quiser fazer isto mesmo na Bolivia e os países andinos. Tivesse mais informaçao para compartilhar sobre as universidades e profesores que vôce conhece? Obrigado! Abraços da Cochabamba.

[@saiaraisa3]

Love IT!!!!! - this reminded me of home and my Dad just past passed away last year. Dad provide our family with endless amount of food for us to live. How you let the Eco system does its own thing is absolutely perfect and NO need for chemicals. You just put tears in my eyes as I watch your video as it reminded me of myself and my Dad in our plantation. WELL DONE!! will love to see your Garden.

[@permadynamicsnewzealand2698]

Thanks, nice to hear!

[@Lochnivar]

What a beautiful way for a family to live together and leave their imprint on this world. More power to you.

[@vancamerawoman7399]

Awesome! What a great way to start my day. Many thanks Jordan and Antoinette for bringing us this film.

[@Tinhihi]

Wonderful work! Super inspiring. Thanx, Happen Films, for making this video available and a big thanx to Frida and Klaus and their family for sharing their journey and learnings with us! xx

[@jeremywright7620]

This is incredible growing food in harmony with nature, also bringing community together.There is so much to learn here it just shows that when we work together we can achieve abundance far better than buying food...

[@DanielF3024]

Espetacular!! Amazing! Continue doing this incredible change in people's minds. Support from Portugal 🇵🇹

[@rensinavandenheuvel8882]

Absolutely brilliant and SO inspiring!! Thank you

[@carmenortiz5294]

Wish I lived in a tropical area, would make my life easier. I transformed my 1/3 acre in the middle of a town, into a food forest/wild life habitat/tiny farm. It produces a lot but our growing season is only about 4 months (May-September and if we get very lucky early October). I do start annuals indoors. I have my own set up using a large commercial shelving unit, shop lights and heating pads. Right now we are in an extremely rare, long heat wave, with drought conditions, which means I have to hand water every plant, individually, using milk cartons.

[@RomeliaGomez-Calmell7934]

Siga adelante y suerte con su huerto!

[@carmenortiz5294]

@@RomeliaGomez-Calmell7934 Gracias. Cada dia trato de prepararme para lo que pueda venir.

[@yuppystick]

Brilliant family. Thank youuu!!

[@divinesarasaradivine824]

Wow!❤ Thanks for your great vedio, so interesting, we love watching, great idea,💡,I also love farming, Hoping God will provide us too,that we can buy a land or lot for us to have farm too,God bless you all!Amen ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@SecretsOfTheSoil]

What a great video for earth day week! Thank you! 🌱🐝💚

[@durganandsah3371]

This man is living my dream.❤❤

[@PermacultureHomestead]

another masterpiece, thanks so much for sharing the love and knowledge, designs like this dont happen overnight. if we intend to have a future Permaculture HAS to be central to our food production

[@mirakarchitect7945]

I've seen a lot of videos on natural farming and gardening, I can say, this is one of the top best in presentation, content and practicality.

[@janetbransdon3742]

I moved to the country a few months ago and have been disappointed as my soil is very compacted... I have been using raised garden beds and pots to grow food. Thank you so much for this knowledge as I now can have a food forest using your techniques. So grateful. G'day from Australia 🦘🐾🐨

[@RogerLigter]

This is how God likes to see us. Bravo, very inspiring! Thank you.

[@ConscientiousOmnivore]

This is absolutely wonderful! Thank you for sharing this with the world! I whole heartedly agree with them about needing to return to small scale agriculture. It's so wonderful to see their beautiful food forests proving to the world what is possible.

[@mahzaibnasir917]

I so much love the concept of growing your own food

[@muhammadwaqasashrafawan2135]

I love the way you are living together and must appreciate you efforts and admire you work. Good job

[@meganwillo1]

Beautifully done, this makes me feel there's hope for the future. More of us need to adopt this as a lifestyle, and the more accessible the information now, the better..

[@ActionEcology]

A great place with great people doing great work, and a great story beautifully told. Keep up the good work!

[@my_garden.secrets]

Beautiful and so enticing layout with amazing choice of trees 🌴🌴🌵🌾🌿☘☘🌻🌼🌼🌲🌳

[@anandbabu2692]

Hi Sumitra, just subscribed to your page. Will watch your videos later.

[@my_garden.secrets]

@@anandbabu2692 thnk u so much .Forgive me if yu dont lik .Bless me for improving. ☺🙏

[@narayandarlami1079]

Its my 5th times .Every words are so meangingful😍its a 4 am from Nepal and i am watching nd it will my 6th times.

[@permadynamicsnewzealand2698]

that is so nice to hear. We have a dear friend from Nepal who worked with us here for a couple of month and is now back in the mountains doing permaculture projects. Hope you accessed the full interview as well. I am sure there are lots of places to incorporate syntropic techniques into your traditional and modern farming methods. Good luck with it!

[@narayandarlami1079]

Happy to see your reply.Its mean a lot to me😊.I feel so grateful that my people also got the opportunity to work with you.Hope you have beautiful days out there and keep inspiring to young people .Always love from Nepal.

[@k9N7p]

@@narayandarlami1079 His highness lord KP OLI will make everything right. Why do you fear ?

[@classlessfool9398]

Namaskar!

[@narayandarlami1079]

@@k9N7p 😂😁just still hoping ..not more than that...

[@jmparries]

Thank you for this great piece of inspiration! It seems like food forests are the answer to most of humans current challenges. Food forest are the syntheses of our essential needs to thrive as a species while celebrating nature.. food, shelter, beauty, peace, love, community and meaning.

[@seniwanembang3863]

As Forestry undergraduate from Nepal..I am in love with this video...so lovely foof forest I have always dreamt of 😍💕💕

[@seniwanembang3863]

*food

[@user-ds9mx30j6a]

This is awesome! Thank you for sharing & explaining the processes behind Syntropic Permaculture.

[@axelgosseries8583]

Wonderful movie, as always!

[@casacaprina]

Everybody is looking for paradise. They just create paradise! Very inspiring!

[@arunravi4866]

had my reservations on active pruning as nature prunes leisurely with animals but am convinced with the results because it has been over time they have done it. lesson learnt. i was always for minimalist intervention. glad to see a managed forest. on a personal side i love the 1.50 minute shot of the video showing bare chested young Klaus where it all started and the way he has continued with it. consistent interest and endeavour. regards ravi

[@permadynamicsnewzealand2698]

Ernst realized the benefits of heavy pruning after he had a hurricane devastate his cocoa food forest. It created a bumper crop of healthy pods. Next year same event, same effect so he copied that and does it twice a year.

[@TheLYagAmi]

@@permadynamicsnewzealand2698 this is awesome and needs to be shared far and wide

[@sangpemikir2727]

Earth need many more people like you..thnks

[@uhan33]

Absolutely love these guys! I did their food forest course a little while ago and loved it, such an inspiration and so much learning. Thanks

[@jimmit77]

What a beautiful lifestyle!

[@yoyo-naratu1515]

Was the course online or insitu Ewan? Wouldn't be a lot of point online would there :0 NZ is the other side of the planet! I've never hears of any of those fruits/trees :)

[@farrokhsinai8503]

Inspirational. What a joy to watch. I would love to do this in the next chapter of my life.

[@jacklamkang]

What a lovely family ❤️ Didn't skip even a sec & I didn't want it to end! Great production & I hope to have my own food forest no matter how small. Regards from 🇮🇳

[@jamesboth3785]

Manipur

[@giavibes]

This made me feel emotional. Like evidence that we can. And that we will. Thank you. 🌳🐦

[@ainabearfarm8075]

Wow, we are on year two of our food forest and it is so inspiring to see the beautiful older system. 🤙

[@TheUtopiaExperience]

My food forest is 5 years in the making I will be posting a video on a week or 2 on our food forest:)

[@arunravi4866]

finally a great thanks to Happen Films.

[@VK-qo1gm]

So happy to see a new vid from you guys! to see such an incredibly beautiful, productive & magical paradise, that is tended to by a wonderful family. Thank you , thoroughly enjoyed this xx

[@OneTinyPlanet_JumpOffIf2Big]

Please teach this more widely, guys?? Before mankind drives itself to extinct greedily thinking it can build better than mother Nature. More speed to your hands and minds..

[@lucasfbagio]

Hi from Brazil guys. Sensational your work, congratulations!

[@pilard3135]

I own land in Costa Rica and I would love to do this. So inspiring.

[@adamtash2891]

costa rica is the perfect place for this......check out Pete Kanaris GreenDreamsTV...he has some cool videos in Costa Rica doing syntropic food forestry

[@irmar]

Let us know about it when you do start!

[@savitriwijesinghe3282]

Really impressed by what you do. You are very knowedgeable in syntropic farming and explains it very clearly for a beginner . All the very best. ❤ i wish there were more humane people like u. Thank u Happen Films.

[@nadiamunday8351]

Fabulous! I absolutely love the work you are doing and cant wait for the next generation to take over! I have a smallish forest garden. In the last two years or so i noticed that cramming different plants together reduced the risk of disease to zero and the yields are very respectable indeed not to mention the taste!! Plants are social beings and love mixing together with other species. I don’t spray never used a single chemical and things seem to just thrive on their own. Its funny how nature fixes its own problem by it self given a chance. Its been doing it for millions of years we have nothing to teach nature.

[@yoyo-naratu1515]

Useful thanks Nadia, I'll try cramming my veg etc together this year, see how it goes!! :) Iona, UK

[@TakeMeToYourLida]

My plan in the next few years is to buy my own place and establish a food forest. Thank you for this information and amazing work!! 👏🏼

[@bex.c]

Awesome! Go Frida!!! So cool to see the garden you developed on Maori land, what an amazing community project!!!

[@lucasvieira8357]

It's really amazing to see a video in English on the subject. I hope a lot of people will watch and change the way of thinking about agriculture.

[@lonacoles3301]

Another great film. Informative and uplifting with hopefull message of a future.

[@TheUtopiaExperience]

I agree so inspiring

[@lindafogarasi3156]

AMAZING Thank you for this incredible helping video we just started this in Romania in a much smaller land, but is starting well...this video is helping us a lot God bless🙏🌳🌷🌹🌻

[@tuscan440r]

Truly inspiring👌. Thanks for putting this together Happen Films

[@happenfilms]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@TheUtopiaExperience]

I agree so much amazing info I loved this thanks

[@thespiritualgardenhomestea8329]

Live life with love in a food forest. Beautiful story! Love love love this. We are currently building our food forest.

[@Jo3M]

You guys are making the best films! ❤️🌱

[@Benyack]

Thank you so much for spreading the this kind of knowledge and thus sowing the seeds of love!

[@emilea1584]

Great stuff! I love the description of 'labor intensive': a criticism I often hear of agroforestry and agroecology is that it is frequently labor intensive, so to hear that a lot of the labor being done here is relaxing in the food forest and listening to the birds is very nice to hear! :D

[@permadynamicsnewzealand2698]

Well that said the heavy pruning we do as our only work apart from harvesting is physical indeed. However it is not tiring when we work in team we enter a zone like sufis dancing with machetes and it is invigorating and we feel a bliss and satisfaction after a few hours and it is very difficult to stop. I don't know if that qualifies as work. All of this could be streamlined and mechanized if people don't want to do this as we do and it could still be along the principles of syntropy. But then they miss the fun part and the suttle observations such as young native trees, the birds nests and so much more.

[@LawAbidingCitizen117]

Great workout too.