Homestead and Farm Resiliency: Adaptive Land and Infrastructure Systems

[@skatkin1]

Wow ! many thanks Ben. That's the best 1 hour 27 mins and 45 seconds I've spent in some time. I've just completed Geoff Lawtons 'online' Permaculture course which completely blew me away. I live on the south coast of NSW Australia (Moruya Heads) and am slowly implementing these principles on my block. Coincidently as I was watching your vid it is bucketing down rain and at the point where you talk about water SSS I went out in the pouring rain and observed rivers of water running thru and off my property, except where I have built my 1st swale and there it sits collected and still - woo hoo. Thanks again. If I can gather the dollars and the time your Course would be a proposition. Warm regards Steve Atkin.

[@wholesystems]

Thanks!

[@JoshuaRes]

Re-watching after a couple of years, still such a great video with so much information! Thanks Ben for keeping this video up!!

[@JasonCarpentier]

This is why I love KZbin. There is so much to learn here. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. Your book and Mark Shepard's book just arrived at the house. I'm putting together a 3-5 year plan to get on some property here in Central Texas.

[@oldhighwayhomestead378]

Ben, I read your book and I watched your videos several times! thank you for sharing the amazing work you do, your elocuence and passion makes it so interesting and captivating. I can't imagine why some people did not like them, but what can you do, you can't make everyone happy....

[@wholesystems]

+Agustin Giampaoli Thanks - i guess people just love tearing down and trolling. No one actually offers up a reason why they don't like the content. I know who is one of them actually, which is funny and sad, but it's a bizarre feature of human behavior, indeed.

[@HeirloomBuilders]

Well done, bro. We are doing similar things in NC and have found much inspiration from your work.

[@wholesystems]

thanks! good luck to you...

[@Jefferdaughter]

Appreciate your work, Ben! On the regeneration of forest in New England, and throughout the Appalachin mountain chain - what is out there now is the 'sticks'. At best 'woods', not really forest. As your talk suggests, we have forgotten what a real forest is, what it looks like, and the crucial role these complex eco-systems play is sustaining life on our planet. OUR lives. Preaching to the choir, I know. Most humans live in such artifical environment that they seem to FORGET how dependant they are on the biosphere for their lives. Not just food & water, but digestion, immune function, and AIR. Every breath they take... There is something in the nature of 'civilized' societies that seems to feat uncontrolled nature. (Or anything it can't regulate & control.) Add human hubris... and it is easy to see how we got into the mess we are in. But the work of people like you shows some ways in which we can reverse the trend. Bravo!

[@Mathiasdendron]

Wow, love you Ben. Thanks for going deep

[@Crina-LudmilaCristeaAuthor]

Great presentation!💛💛💛

[@princesstar64118]

This is absolutely fantastic! Thank you for creating this!

[@geoffstrevey4560]

Just read your book Ben, it's awesome! Keep up the great work - the book was the turning point for me to get back to the land and restore a dilapidated farmstead into a edible, sustainable, medicinal permaculture heaven! We've already got shovels in the ground and the local community, generally high-input/low-quality annual crop producers, is loving it and asking to get involved! Seriously thank you for your hard work!

[@ga5957]

God bless you for sharing such valuable information. I loved this lecture!

[@alexkalish8288]

The earth has been over 350ppm CO2 for 100's of millions of years. The CO2 went down when India collided with Asia and the Himalayas rose , the CO2 ozidized the mountains and we lost it in the atmosphere. Recently New England was under miles of ice until a few thousand years ago. This gentleman is very aware and he has done a wonderful job with his little homestead.

[@wholesystems]

A few thousand years ago? The most recent Holocene glaciation is pegged as ending about 10,000 years ago by climate science as far as I’ve seen. 3,000 years ago native peoples lived in areas that were under the ice and are now riddled with drumland fields, kettle ponds and other evidence of the ice.

[@RickLarsonPermacultureDesigner]

Thanks for uploading this presentation!

[@mlindsay527]

Nailed it. East coasters have it so good, they don't understand just how fragile most of the world is.

[@Pathighly]

Thank you for sharing your big picture and practical first hand wisdom of Permaculture. Coleman has designed winter green houses... Would be great to help someone do the same, so he/she can help someone else do the same...: regenerate the people that regenerate the land..., Peaceful Blessings

[@ryanpm4460]

Simply awesome. I am jealous. It would seem everyone like this isea but I cant seem to find anyone willing to underwrite it. Many people who have it already are not into new outsiders and I dont blame them.

[@25Soupy]

1:17:00 What are the scary red dots? I couldn't hear what the student said. Ben, you have to remember to repeat questions and answers of the people in the audience for the benefit of video.

[@patrickevans7143]

at 56:00 you talk about planting apples apples don't like "wet feet" they will produce much better further up the hill the rest is the vid. is GREAT, you have given me many ideas thanks from new hampshire

[@wholesystems]

Yeah, most plants don't like wet feet, that's why we plant almost everything on mounds or swale mounds.

[@j-5474-k9z]

Regarding the heavy equipment and oil use discussion (@52min)... Consider biodiesel...especially on site/locally produced.

[@Dirtguerilla]

We are dipping the flowers (black locust or elder) in dough and than fry them :D

[@dustinabc]

Economical and ecological are essentially the same thing- living things responding as efficiently as possible to maximize chances of success.

[@CorwynGC]

What goes in your master seed mix? Or more to the point, how does one determine what should go in one's own master seed mix? What are you looking for in the seeds you pick? Thank You Kindly.

[@cabdisamadmahdicabdiraxman8623]

Hi : Ben i am from Somaliland/ Somalia my country is litle desert droughts and 100 to 300ml Anoul rainning so i am thinking how can i do something my regoin . because the rainning times there alot of floods and almost after 4 months pple and lifestck are risk to die without water. can you tell me please where i can get your books . i like your hard working and ideas you share with us very Intresting. Thanks

[@nustada]

It doesn't matter what you do until you suppress the Islamic retards and develop a culture of property rights. The number one rule is to be observant of what is natural, and try to foster that. Grow native plants and animals as much as possible. After that Sounds like you need to build cisterns and reservoirs; to capture the rainy season and build runoff channels. Also the key to growing in the desert is to mulch, compost, and then shade. Mulch, chop up weed plants, and grow drought tolerant woody plants to be later shredded for mulch; import materials if you can. For manure, look into what is called humanure. For shade, dig sunken greenhouses to provide some shade and humidity. Also desert areas do well with "aquaponics" because of drastically reduced water usage and access to viable solar power.

[@abdiqafarabdullahi9313]

BANCADE & KARAMAAN TV Great question. Aad ban ugufarxay suashada, waxan ubahan nahay dad sidadokale ah oo kafakaraya sidii logabixi lahaa bahidaan joogtada ah. Hadad rabto figra daheena waan isku darikarnaa. Thanks Wll

[@abdiqafarabdullahi9313]

I think the problem is simple to solve. All we need to do is to implement everything he said and anything else that will improve our land. By the way, there is no shortcuts.

[@q41n]

In regards to what you said @1:12:21 about going from sheep to cows I would suggest miniature cows, they are more efficient at converting food into meat.

[@stevengubkin7197]

I really like all of the swales on contour. I just purchased 9 acres of old hill pasture, currently mostly autumn olive. I think the slopes may be too steep for swales on much of the land. Should I be terracing in this situation? What about just laying logs on contour to make "instant terraces"?

[@ExtantFrodo2]

Steven Gubkin If you build wall on contour to the height of half the elevation to the next level, you could then let erosion wash the upper half into the lower half. How long that natural leveling would take is another matter. If it takes hundreds of years that would be no good during your lifetime.

[@stevengubkin7197]

Also, there is the question of the amount of labour used to construct that wall.

[@ga5957]

Thank you!

[@EthelynSchaefferHealer]

It looks like the zone you are in is 3 or 4. Right? I'm looking for info for 3 or 4 zones. Send more!

[@tylerhartley8531]

This is cool, but what do you do if your land is absolutely flat…louisiana

[@tijagbeatijagbea2564]

I see you use a standard stove. would there be any benefit in your system for using a rocket stove

[@ulie77]

Hi please tell me how you deal with really really thick and fast growing 'weedy' grass? I am worried if I create swales it will be like snake paradise and impossible to mow/control, especially in tropical climate where I am from. Does the hay covering help with thick weedy grass? Can you use cardboard or plastic tarp? Or do you just use sheep to graze?

[@wholesystems]

we use sheep, cardboard, burlap... and mow a little too.

[@q41n]

ulie77 Once you get the canopy up the weedy grasses die back

[@podboq2]

there's nothing wrong with snakes.

[@ecoworks88]

Is your master seed mix recipe available?

[@robertdoupe822]

Ben look into earthships by mike Reynolds! u can grow indoors and have free heating and water harvesting space!

[@MsCaterific]

Wow! Just wow! Mind blown 🤯

[@npull]

Really nice video, great to see some people in colder climate sharing their experiences with sustainable living and permaculture. Is that a kooikerhondje dog you got there?

[@coryhenriksen4759]

Ben- Unnatural accumulation of water on a slope can potentially cause land slides. At least that's what I was taught in my geology major. I love this concept but I feel the risk outweighs the benefit. Have you done any research into Mass Wasting? I will be homesteading within the next year and would love to apply your strategy, but I worry I will cause more harm than good. Have you had or observed any mass wasting issues?

[@wholesystems]

Agreed but atthese slopes nothing slumps. We've now tested our swales in century storms and nothing has moved.

[@Banzaiactual]

what do you think of buffalo instead of cows

[@gflasman]

great!!

[@strattgatt]

Oooh... everyones new favorite buzz term for the semi educated... "Analogues." That's nice. Analogues. Use it. Overuse it. Shift a paradigm. That's nice.

[@wholesystems]

What?

[@strattgatt]

Nothing. Great videos! I really admire you and Geoff Lawton.

[@TheGranti7a]

What about rocket stove heating?

[@ChinVape]

How could you hate on permaculture??

[@usemoreproduct]

~"if you remember one thing from this talk" 38:40 water flow... imagine compost flowing off your land, you would be foolish...

[@milestogotilisleep]

Your graph at 14:19, shows C02 concentrations measured in Hawaii, and there are active volcano's in Hawaii, so I'm not sure if that is a very good example. There is weather engineering, not just climate change...

[@Johnsen2012]

The "shot in the same hour" part is really fucky, trying to listen to two monologues at once. Maybe show them side by side for ten seconds and then, if it's relevant, hit us with the audio tracks one at a time with associated video or, hell, both videos.