Permaculture Basics | What Does It Really Mean?

[@moiragoldsmith7052]

For 47 years, (albeit I read old gardening books), I have developed a method of 'gardening' that allows Mother Nature to thrive and ' Moira' to play catch up. In my tiny garden, nothing is in rows. Edible and medicinal ' Weeds' grow alongside vegetables and flowers, they seed where they do...and I then work around it . I get very few pests because the beneficial insects do their 'thing'. When I open either front or back door in the height of Summer there is a veritable chorus of beneficial insects all in harmony, helping me n Mother Nature. It is both a cacophony and a chaotic environment it seems...but it works for me. Over the years I had to read about the labels of what "Organic" and " Permaculture" were. And then had a good ol'chortle with my dear innate. Mother Nature knows BEST...and she can be cruel for good reason. Love, trust and let her guide us. I love what you are achieving Daniel. Keep strong bonny lad. 💕 We will get there🙏🥰.

[@1sweffling]

@@TM-nw7bn Many animals adore cleavers - especially horses and geese. Any chance a neighbour of yours could run some stock on your land for a week or so?

[@marirose19]

@Moira Goldsmith I love your comment so much. You have a lot to teach others. Idk if you know this, but Moira is the Triple Goddess aspect of Aphrodite-the Goddess of Love. She also happens to be one of my most important spirit guides. I hope this doesn’t offend you but the truth of your comment somehow I don’t think my reply would offend. If it did, pls forgive me.🌀

[@marirose19]

@@TM-nw7bn Cleavers is a good herb. Do some research. Cleans toxins from your lymphatic system. If you have an herbalist around, they might give you a pretty penny for that cleavers, assuming it’s as it is in the States- Latin name is Galium aparine. Can be added to veggie soups or any soups for that matter. Must be gathered w/gloves on like nettles, another beneficial “weed.” But do your research. Good luck.

[@johnjingle639]

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[@johnjingle639]

​@@marirose19so if I watch this guy is this the nonsense I get?

[@2learn4ever]

Many thanks for the lesson Professor! I now realise I had always misunderstood permaculture, always thought it was merely 'organic'. But as a city woman in my 70's now I'm doing my best in my little city suburban garden, growing veggies, harvesting rainwater and building my own compost pile. Not sure how well I'm doing with my meagre skills but God my veggies taste great, and my doctor is delighted with my blood tests!! Yay!

[@peggyhelblingsgardenwhatyo7920]

Bravo, Daniel! I've been hoping you would do this series since I began watching you. Geoff Lawton is one of my Heroes as is Charles Dowding. We can all do our part to heal the world 👍💚👍

[@jessegreywolf]

Great vid! I started my first permaculture garden/food forest last year, here in Canada

[@jadedeconomist9700]

This guy has an amazingly polished BBC lifestyle TV presenter persona. Homes under the gardening roadshow whatever. I bet the old dears love him

[@commentarytalk1446]

"Oh! Young Man!"

[@forward_velocity]

Hello Mossy Bottom Keep up the great videos!

[@SteveHainesCounsellor]

Excellent as usual. Very informative and interesting, and very well presented. 5 star video 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

[@Leslie12.66]

Thanks for the variety you have on your channel. From instructional videos like today to folklore and romps in the woods. Well done!

[@birgit-louisenick9534]

People rarely take into account, that on huge farms, regardless of their productivity, food is produced, that is low in nutritional value. Not only in nutrient density but also in energy. Yes, we can stuff ourselves with pesticide.sprayed, energetically half-dead carrots, needing to eat double the amount normally required to get the energy we need, but the fact remains, that food produced on a small scale by caring individuals that value the well-being of this planet will always be far superior to anything monoculture can provide. Only high-energy produce will ultimately feed body, mind and soul, at a quantity that is much lower than what is otherwise needed.

[@alwayslearning7672]

Try tell that to these Dutch Farmers who want to continue using chemicals and are pissed off over that.Look at all the people who support them.The can't have everything.Hard decisions now have to be taken and that's that! I applaud the Dutch government but also they knew it was coming and didn't help farmers change.This is not just in the Netherlands either.All developed countries are going to get a slap and face tough decisions.COP after COP.Nothing done! It's humanity's own fault and stupidity. The government should be helping them make the switch over to organic, regenerative farming.It's not really about us now, it's the future generations, their kids and grand kids who will suffer. Governments and the people saw this coming 30-40 years ago.Now it's almost too late.

[@honeycaffena4897]

Gabe Brown wrote a book about Regenerative Agriculture titled “Dirt to Soil”, explaining how to restoring the productivity in agriculture. Incase anyone wants to know.

[@AntManBee19]

Well done. Waiting for part 2. I’m a homeowner in Chicago and like most I used to go out and buy annuals to brighten up the place but a couple of years ago I bought a bunch of native wildflower seeds and sowed them in a place that was previously covered by Japanese yews. I’m a nature advocate whatever that means so I try to do what I can do. Sowing these native wildflowers was an eye opener. I have never seen so many bees and birds. It just shows what providing a more native habitat even on a small scale can do. I’d love to do more like rip up the turf and sow more but we are so entrenched in that green lawn habit I’m going to have to think about it. Nevertheless you can make a difference even in a limited way.

[@michaelmcclafferty3346]

Thanks Daniel for a very uplifting video. I look forward to seeing your next video.

[@bolton544]

I'm starting my mini perma culture garden. I planted vegetables with flowers and finally had the vegetables produce food!

[@juliannedispain1637]

Great information!

[@suzannebaker4586]

I could listen to you all day!

[@DianeD862]

Will be watching tonight love hearing what you have to say everything is so interesting when you tell us .Love Ireland 🇮🇪 as well.So a gardening night I think to night.So GodBless and peace ☮️.

[@belindachambers7585]

Such a wonderful set of videos to do. May your efforts be blessed and spread across the globe🌻🦋🐕🌍🌈🕊

[@mengchunzhang3140]

I subscribed the channle too long to talk too much , in fact I was just such as english learner, I appreciated Daniel and his encourage, who is a idealist in order to come true his dream . giving up everthing many people pursue in the city. I always concern this channel ,hoping you and Mossy Bottom get more and more better

[@pumpjackpiddlewick]

Simply wonderful! We practise perma-culture at our place here in France. And I am always always enjoying learning more. There is always something to learn, new things to try. Very much looking forward to the rest of this series. It's fab!

[@rowanwhite3520]

Another awesome video from you! Thank you!

[@jasminegrueter1561]

Great video! Thank you Daniel. As a kid I lived for some time in Kenya, where I attended std 6 and 7. I recall that we had agriculture as a subject and even practice it in a little field just outside the school premises. Great memories. Nowadays I try to implement permaculture in my south Switzerland garden, but I’m still a beginner that is looking forward to your next video 😊👍

[@platformforcryptoeducation5864]

I am very impressed with your profile and personality. It got my attention. Your profile is totally distracted from looking at your photos. I must confess that you are indeed an angel. and you are a very beautiful woman . I don't usually post in the comments section, but I think you deserve a compliment like this. I'd like to be your friend so we can be friends and learn more More about ourselves.

[@sjaron23]

I love your vision of leaving a farm as a legacy for future generations.

[@andrealewis3638]

Thank you Daniel for another informative video 😊

[@marymiller873]

I really enjoy watching your videos. I wonder if you have ever met Colette O'Neill? She is a wonderful near neighbour of yours who is very knowledgeable in all things including permaculture. Her mantra is, "plant as if your life depends on it, for it does" You are definitely living the life 🌱🌿🍃☘️

[@kgoldsmith6104]

Keep going! Keep going! Keep going! ❤️🔆

[@irishfruitandberries9059]

Another book that I found usefull is 'Creating a forest garden', by Martin Crawford who is based in the UK

[@commentarytalk1446]

He does Forest Garden tours over the year and it's well worth doing to see a mature Food Forest Garden (Temperate) and sample a taste at the same time. If anyone has a garden, they'd do well to create a forest garden for the next few decades... Imho, this idea is superior even to market garden which requires more input and more labour. Of course one can have a veg patch too but the diversity of edible plants for the labour required (apart from initial set up) is eye-opening.

[@irishfruitandberries9059]

@@commentarytalk1446 its on the bucket list

[@commentarytalk1446]

@@irishfruitandberries9059 It's worth adding: Martin Crawford has obviously done these tours many times and yet his enthusiasm and knowledge, it's as if he's doing it for the first time. Best to let him talk and ask questions that he may not have heard before but are insightful. I got the feeling of being with a native indian in the amazon who knows all the species as you walk along the environment, all the calls and noises of animals and all the uses and the itneraction with the weather and time of day and season. On forest gardens, ideally time to start yesterday!

[@jillychandler]

Have you been to visit Bealtine Cottage, as I am sure you would love it, Colette is an amazing person, who has changed 3 acres of wasteland to a wonderful thriving woodland, looking after mother Earth. Thank you for this interesting and informative video. xxx

[@dreamzofhorses]

Thanks for the Skill Share trial! I sure enjoy your channel & content and delightful personality. Thank you for sharing you!

[@melissaoleary8196]

This series is very exciting to me as I'm in the midst of doing this myself! I've also installed the front door of my cottage recently. Step by step... Thank you for the information and the inspiration!

[@Willowhaven_Cottage]

Love watching your videos. It's the kind of life I always dreamed of. And now we're now in process of moving in that direction. (literally). We're currently in process of buying a plot in Co Leitrim. Feeling both very excited and terrified! Don't imagine we'll manage to be quite so radical as you but hoping to at least grow some of our own fruit and veg and live a bit more simply. Maybe one day we can even come and visit?

[@Willowhaven_Cottage]

@@Aggie_vom_Rhein thanks Aggie. Yes hope so.

[@anitadawson1113]

I am looking forward to learning more. Glad you are doing this series as I do not understand permaculture.

[@ValeriaVincentSancisi]

Well done! I also hope that there is addressing the land's watershed and its place in the ecosystem in the design.. so many place can't rely on rain to be timely and so the design has to address the movement of water or the lack of it across the landscape before planting ..and so building in resilience especially with peak extremes more and more common. I love your question about it expanding to conventional ...

[@Godwinpounds4333]

Hello how are you doing?

[@paulaniclinseach8672]

Really looking forward to these videos Daniel! I bought John Seymour's book after u recommended it in a previous episode, what a book!!

[@TheRegenerativeHome]

Really impressed the mossy bottom! I would love to hear his thoughts the bigger permaculture redesign that we need to do on a societal level! Thanks for all your hard work.

[@Bittagrit]

Here in FL USA we are planting fruit trees with plant guilds around them. Currently a spiral herb garden is in process. We’re looking forward to sitting on our front porch with coffee in hand, watching the birds visit the feeders, enjoying fruit and fluttering around the herbs. Recently found your channel and love it. It’s always good to see a bit of Ireland as well. Hope to return for another visit one day.

[@DJNeiloSF]

Great video! Thanks for the wonderful recommendations! 🙏

[@missglenellen]

Thank you so much for this beautiful piece of inspiration! I moved to a new place in West Cork and I look for ideas to improve this bare and rock acre exposed to the winds of Bantry Bay. Apparently it was grazed by sheep for a long time, then a horse fire destroyed what was left of „wild life“ , and here I am, trying to rewild it.

[@Donneczka1]

Your best video yet Daniel! I love your passion about these concepts! It is the way to go!

[@jessicakallen]

Love this series so far! Have been wanting to learn about permaculture but not finding what I need so thanks!

[@veronicabalfourpaul2288]

Yes! It's a beautiful vision!

[@gunvormagarity-groves8005]

Loved this video!

[@platformforcryptoeducation5864]

I am very impressed with your profile and personality. It got my attention. Your profile is totally distracted from looking at your photos. I must confess that you are indeed an angel. and you are a very beautiful woman . I don't usually post in the comments section, but I think you deserve a compliment like this. I'd like to be your friend so we can be friends and learn more More about ourselves.

[@marysandersmacfadyen2675]

Haven't seen a post from you in ages. So happy to see how far your place has come. Glad to see you are doing well. I hope you are not suffering in the extreme heat sweeping the UK and Europe. Did you get moved into your stone house?

[@carolbulmer8253]

Brilliant video, Daniel! Thank you❤️

[@marry9894]

It was lovely to watch your videos on permaculture as im attempting this on my farm in British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦 however im 62 years young and have had much of this wisdom to share with young people but have noticed only recently a turn by younger people to be interested in farming/gardening. Its great to see your dream being fruitful 🙏🏽❤️🇨🇦

[@sclark223]

Good stuff! Now other great permaculture videos are popping up for me also. Just found a guy who teaches courses as Oregon State in the USA - he seems to have some lectures on YT also. I'm learning a lot!

[@shanebruce3997]

Hello Daniel - not sure if you read these comments, but you are one of the key KZbinrs who inspired me to but a small holding in Cobden, IL, US. After two (2) years of living on the land I am ready to take the land's dictates. What class on SkillShare would you recommend on PermaCulture? I am ordering the Patrick Whitefield books you recommended. If anyone else reading the comments has recommendations I would be most grateful. I am very much wanting to build PermaCulture community and benefit form other's experience, as well as share my own. Thank you for what you do, Daniel, and for inspiring us to live more closely to how I believe we are meant to live as humans.

[@PeterOBrien2]

Looking forward to the other two videos. Great first part 💪

[@rickdahrouge4465]

Just understanding this is more liberating than any "spiritual" text. beautiful! Thank You

[@markburningcandlehamilton1245]

This is super inspiring! I'm just beginning my permaculture journey and trying to figure out what I can do to get closer to nature's way

[@tinkeringinthailand8147]

Loved it. I'm attempting "no dig" permaculture on my 1/2 acre plot here in Thailand.

[@markirish7599]

Swaddycap. Hope I got that right . Best wishes from Ireland 🇮🇪.

[@countdracula7119]

Such a great video, can't wait for part 2!

[@VickyMarinho]

👏👏👏👏👏 What a lesson of permaculture. I cant wait for the next video..Many thanks

[@andreac.1350]

Excellent video!

[@michelleadams2997]

Excellent video, thank you so much. Looking forward to the next

[@annmartin5347]

Fantastic video. Thank you Daniel

[@Solo50plus]

I absolutely L O V E this. You have given the best explanation of permaculture I have ever heard. 😊 Your words are inspiring. Someone said recently permaculture doesn't work here in Portugal 🇵🇹 .... which to me is like saying nature doesn't work here!! From what you have just said it would explain why someone might come to that conclusion. You articulated it all so well. THANK YOU! Cant' wait for parts 2 and 3 👏🏽 👏🏽 😆

[@livingladolcevita7318]

I suppose the answer will be multiple set ups similar to yours supplying local shops and not importing produce. I can remember when salad was not available in winter but now we all want tomatoes for example, which frankly taste crap in winter months.

[@cindiwhite5726]

Great video! I'm looking forward to the next two, you are a wealth of information and the fact that you experience and live out what you are teaching creates the added benefit of credibility and trust. I am wondering if you sing the song at the end of your videos?

[@martincollins4467]

Awesome stuff buddy!!

[@the_green_anna]

Looking forward to the next one! 👍💚

[@Angie.Globetrotter]

Wonderful to see how passionate you are about the topic 🍀

[@patriziadelorenzis378]

I follow you with my son, we totally agree with your life philosophy and love your irish greenery My son sees your beautful cottage in the distance and asks me why you don't live in it, will you start restoration. ?

[@hettisela4009]

Simply wonderful well done i can't wait for the Part 2

[@Ohioan212]

Love your channel!

[@normancoutts]

You build an interesting and compelling case for permaculture. As an allotment holder, I am sympathetic to these ideas, although I have found them difficult to implement. However, I have heard you rail against the limitations of the Irish climate and I see the large poly tunnel in the background to many of the video shots. Perhaps a future video in the series will address the issue of pushing back locally against climatic and natural limitations to what is possible?

[@brendanmilligan7778]

Have you ever looked into biochar? It’s a great use of spare wood or brush and will greatly benefit your crops and soil after charging your biochar with nutrients and micro organisms. Highly recommend using it on your land

[@Wholesomeday]

Really good intro to Permaculture, looking forward to your next video.

[@springwinter6679]

Thank you 😊

[@markdijon9471]

Moss's boss is very persuasive. I totally agree. Check out Josh Sallatin and Justin Rhodes

[@karlahassenstein547]

Could you please do a tour again soon? Just a quick update on the different areas? I've been trying to get out of my situation or some time and I live vicariously through you for now! I'd love to see how the fruit trees are doing for example, and the area where your water spring is as well.

[@ruthohare9840]

I'd recommend 'Creating a Forest Garden' by Martin Crawford.

[@MargaretPinard]

I just watched the Green PLanet episode about tropical plants and was WOWED by the fungus that lived UNDERGROUND and told leafcutter ants which trees to sack like raiders all day long. Pirates!! So cool to discover such wonders.

[@rhonaforbes7039]

A fantastic video, thank you ~ Such an inspiration for me to grow and develop more areas within my garden, working sustainably with nature 🌻⭐️🐝🐝🐝🦉🦉

[@louisamccabeart418]

Next level advice. Good stuff.

[@DianeD862]

You need to take a look at Farmer Phil he his not a big farmer 👩‍🌾.He does make a difference and a kind farmer with all his animals.loved the video very interesting 🤨.

[@886jules1]

Great video! Thank you so much for posting. Do you do permaculture consultancy Daniel? I haven't got land yet but would love if your knowledge and experience could help design my permaculture homestead in the future (likely in the Midlands Ireland). Your enthusiasm is infectious 😃

[@paulboden7850]

Permaculture could save the world. Stinging nettle, for example, grows wild, delicious/nutritious steamed!

[@tiffcat1100]

Plus can chop & drop it to enrich the soil or add water to chopped stinging nettles & leave in bucket for 2 weeks to make plant feed

[@garethnaylorartist]

This was so interesting. I'm looking forward to watch the whole series. I live in Japan and I'm thinking of buying land and starting to do something like permaculture. I've already started growing vegetables in a tiny garden. I'm probably nuts but I just want to live in nature and breathe fresh air and enjoy quietness. The problem with this idea of permaculture in my opinion is that here in Japan if it because natural then the land would become a densely forested terrain that would be sub-tropical. I'm not sure how easy that would be to live in. Also things grow like wildfire here. It's like the soil is on steroids. This is my first time growing vegetables in summer and I'm already growing a second set of crops. I possibly might be able to grow a third set of summer vegetables because it stays warm here until December. By the way, your garden looks beautiful. I like the paths too.

[@markirish7599]

You are not nuts .you have a beautiful idea and you will make it into a wonderful reality .Best wishes from co kildare Ireland 🇮🇪.

[@garethnaylorartist]

@@markirish7599 Thank you Mark. All the best.

[@MargaretPinard]

Six YEARS?!? How has the time gone by so fast?? Love tackling this concept in a series 💗🙌🏼

[@uteweyer1548]

wonderful video, thank you!

[@zenden6584]

Brilliant thank you 🙏🏻 great educational video once again ❤️

[@catherineregan6847]

Fantastic video. So informative and inspiring. Can`t wait for the next in your series.

[@brassj67]

Fantastic video Daniel! I would like to see more permaculture homesteads and farms as well as vertical crops without soil grown in greenhouses allowing more tropical and non indigenous crops to be grown locally. That would truly offset the carbon footpint

[@ecocentrichomestead6783]

Great job at defining permaculture. I haven't been using the word because, to entice the lazy, permaculture has been promoted as a system were you sit back drinking margaritas and watching food grow!

[@nataliekazful]

Finally! Looking forward for the series. Hope you can do some videos about reading nature or the landscape

[@mwmingram]

Fantastic. A great introduction.

[@worksmith5223]

good intro video. I would only suggest that to talk about permaculture as an adjective eg permaculture farm does not do justice to the design approach of permaculture - . 'doing permaculture' is to do design of systems with the ethics and principles guiding that design at whatever scale and in whatever context. I look forward to how you expand on the principles and your practical experience. Stay cool

[@davidhaywood8029]

A very interesting video -- thank you! As an energy engineer I'd point you to the increasing use of agricultural robots on large farms. Often these are employed in conjunction with onsite clean energy generation (solar) rather than fossil fuel-based electricity. [Also: just BTW since 1960 energy is measured in Joules not calories (calories are the old pre-1960 metric unit).]

[@marirose19]

Thnx so much for this, Daniel. I’ve been very ill so am behind on these permaculture vids. On to #2 now-yay. I do wish you’d provide the names of the books you recommend w/their authors; it just makes it easier to put on my book list as I’m sure it would for others. Idk if you can do that w/out needing to link to Amazon or something but I needed to keep pausing the vid to type the title/author of each book. All in all though, I love your vids. They’re filled w/so much knowledge & wisdom. I’m extremely grateful. Well as I said, on to the second in the trilogy. See you there.👋🏼

[@franziskani]

he mentioned John Seymour (UK, 1960s and 1970s) - see 16:00. And for temperate climate Earth Care Manual by Patrick Whitefield. (and after that he mentioned 2 other books also by Whitefield).

[@debfryer2437]

Daniel I wonder whether you’ve ever seen the documentary on KZbin called “Greening the Desert”? I think you’d like it.

[@richlijacanacua]

Thank you so much for this awesome information by bringing the yields for food and resources in a natural way. Leading to healing the whole Earth by bringing back the natural functions of natures in sustaining and prolonging our lives.

[@stephaniehenderson6631]

You mentioned 10 Cal oil for 1 Cal veg- shocking! I did hear the best calorific yield for us in UK/Ireland is Jerusalem Artichokes, so great in a big pot in the garden and super easy to grow, who cares they get dubbed fartichokes if you live out in the sticks, they taste quite nice 😁!

[@andreaslandfunk5495]

I like your online workshop very much. My little garden is situated in a nice part of austria and gives us a lot of fruit and vegetable, so I don't have to go to any supermarket. I attended a Permaculture Design Course and I'm very happy about that. But one problem is still on our to-do list: the farming of former times, e.g. one hundred years ago, was part of a different system. Women were working at home, people and children died early, and there were less people to feed. In Austria many people are living in big towns, there is no space to grow even one salad. Free filds are only for a few number, and many people have to work a lot, even to have a small flat. I wonder, how we can break this system?? I for myself are working on City Farm Augarten in Vienna to tell as much people as possible about a sustainable life style, but it needs much more to care for earth and people. Finding a way aout of this system is necessary, but how should we manage ist?

[@leafy5432]

Thank you for the recomendations :) am always looking for a good read

[@veran.8661]

I squealed when you mentioned Star Trek! 😍

[@AtoZDesign]

Do you know of any good Permaculture Books based on the Irish climate?

[@johnmasterton5327]

Thanks for this video. This is very helpful.

[@DJ-uk5mm]

Love your channel…… you are n inspiration

[@taralambert9343]

Thank you! ❤❤

[@hakonellingsen360]

Thank you for this very inspiring video!