Permaculture in Action: A Student-Led Tour of the Greening the Desert Site

[@riis.lemmer]

Such an inspiration seeing young people so passionate about permaculture

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Nice work guys! Awesome to see my man Josh 👊

[@tad3900]

That's good work. Great to see the next generation learning about the importance of soil and water.

[@luminaia]

Each of you is so well spoken and deeply knowledgeable in permaculture. Great respect. You give me such hope. Please keep teaching!!!

[@redneckpermaculture2122]

Oh my word, that was the best explanation of pioneer species and nitrogen fixing EVER

[@paulaisrael2209]

Love to see the next generation permacultism making videos. So encouraging to see,-the hope for the future. All the techies will find out they should have invested some time in learning to grow. some food.

[@matthewcain2880]

Amazing, great job. Grateful to see the future of our generation is led by people that care for the earth and practice Permaculture

[@Zone10Permaculture]

It's always nice to see an update!

[@jiminiecricket9034]

Awesome video. I like that when plants were mentioned a label popped up. I have watched a few of these types of video before but without the correct spelling I found it difficult to find them online. Also was super surprised to see Benson here after watching him on 800 words a few years ago.

[@indarafarms]

Oh my gosh as soon as I looked at the video I thought that was him but was like naaaaa. Very cool video guys and very well explained. Love it.

[@csengevasarhelyi4219]

I had the honour to meet Sam in person in a hungarian permaculture design workshop, and I can honestly say that he is the most inspiring person i have ever met! Despite his young age, he is so wise, an old soul, and an amazing person!

[@gm2407]

That soil looks much improved by the extra water and seems to have increased its hummus since last year.

[@sarahflanagan9345]

So inspirational! I hope you can convince more and more of the neighbors around this amazing project site to harvest rain and grow trees and food for themselves. Make the whole neighborhood green and be the envy of the town. You all have shown if permaculture can work here it can work anywhere! Love the enthusiasm of these young men. We need more young people to take up farming and gardening.

[@aalla4055]

Amina Mus hard - working guys mashaallah , thanks to internship greening the desert 2019, thanks to our teachers’ Jeoff, Nadia Lawton Layton , Amti, Yaman, Ishtiban, Sam, Naima. we got application directly in the site. The other amazing part was living in harmony to gether ( students from 17 different countries ) But With shared goals : earth and people care and fair share. Unforgettable Experience. Thanks for all And in return I hope to contribute to greening the desert anywher anywhere else in the world.👍👍👍

[@ameisherry]

Thank you so much for the video I’m sharing it to my dad, he is located in the desert 🌵 area in Chile 🇨🇱 We were just talking about it’s hard to grow things there, he can totally use some tips from this video Thanks a lot :)

[@farisasmith7109]

Thanks for the explanation of what nitrogen fixation involves. I never heard it explained like that before. The work being done there is like and international earth station. People from different places learning to work together for a common good. Keep it up!

[@naturespirit7119]

Awesome to see Sam in action, fantastic work

[@hhwippedcream]

Thanks all for the fantastic Tour. Very cool work!

[@vrwesternaustralia3118]

cannot wait to put permaculture to work in Arizona!

[@EricSeider]

Well done guys!!! Thanks so much for supporting this amazing project.

[@storm3772]

Great work guys. The knowledge Geoff has is being preserved through our younger generation. Very proud of what you are doing.

[@diannerobinson7858]

I love your enthusiasm to green the desert. The whole of the Sahara could be a market garden. No starvation ever again.

[@carolscabinas]

Super great work. Really good video. Your making a lovely shaded spongy soil. Love the chicken tractor idea too! Moringa looks great.

[@Freeagent-4-life]

Great to see the younger generation into PC. There is great hope for the future. Geoff is great and his mentor was Bill Mollison ( Hope I spelt that right )

[@DilipKumar-sz4mw]

Nice to see next generation Geoff lawtons comingup. 👍👍

[@christianeniss5768]

I would love to debate the people who give a thumbs down! What or why is this project for you a negative? We need to do this everywhere on our planet and we could if more people would be open, I actually think it should be shown in schools...., great job!

[@SchutzReborn]

Nice work!

[@EstebanZavalaF]

Thanks for sharing! We are about to start work like this in Ciudad Juárez, in México. Hope we can achieve something at least similar

[@ronsmith1364]

BOL 👍

[@maxjosephwheeler]

*Yeah, you guys need to have the Cameras ROLLING when it rains. Also you better double down on collecting rainwater, I mean like tarps on every wall to collect it with every container you can find in the neighborhood.*

[@dsthorp]

Excellent work!

[@bobbif100]

Great job guys. Keep up the amazing work!

[@JohnnyAppleseedOrganic]

Hey! That's our head climate farmer Josh in the video! How very cool! Inspiring video as always!

[@jozefdebeer9807]

Great vid everyone. You are part of an amazing legacy!

[@hollymayle2050]

Thanks for the inspiration and dedication! Nice work everyone :)

[@TITAN0402]

Good work makes a good man a good man does good work. Well done lads.

[@jenniewilliamsmural]

Nice tour guys - obviously having fun and figuring things out and basking in the real hope that permaculture is.

[@BarbaraC02]

Great update video, thank you. I've been following your project and look forward to these updates. Very nice crew of young men... impressive. Again, thank you.

[@carrolinebennett5462]

You go guys nice to see the young people so interested.

[@Breazeh]

Are there projects happening in Australia? I want to join NOW! I’ll even bring my own tools 😁

[@ronsmith1364]

zatuna + google & check the main channel too

[@ronsmith1364]

Thanks guys Best Wishes for 2020 & The Future!!

[@АлексейМахиня-е6д]

Success in future.

[@saucywench9122]

Thanks guys, great job!

[@PetalsonthePavingSlabs]

Inspiring stuff this, thank you for showing us.

[@ProfessionalPepper]

Great work gentlemen!

[@davidds1001]

Excellent explanation of he total system.

[@lpmoron6258]

Why are all the people not doing this?

[@homemakermama5700]

Just love this. Hope for a better world.

[@newsviewstoday5689]

Excellent, well done, really enjoyed your tour & presentation thank you. Shout out from Australia, completed Geoff's certification about 10 years ago now what ever the first year was.....the man is a genius - a lovely one! We have just come through a year, really two years drought then heavy rains came (& broke through the geo engineering of aerosols that caused the drought in the first place) IT appears that when a very heavy rain front comes through in spite of their efforts the rains are able to once again condense & fall, all the dams are full the water falls are roaring the river is wide & deep, so sad all the fish were lost in the drought though, nature is hurting & YOU are turning it around with what you are doing, I wake up every day to do same on tired mountain lands that have been erroding for hundreds of years since the white man came & cut all the aged trees literally deforesting large areas of habitat which fast tracked the process of erosion leaving large areas of 'scorched earth' with no microbial life, little to no mysillium, no worms, just dead soil...a real challenge but so very rewarding to observer the wild life returning the ground cover spreading new native trees coming up in spite of it all.....Nature Rules.......we are but the stewards of the planet from whom all our needs are supplied & met. Beautiful young men all, looking forward to your next presentation. Have you got a neem tree in your tree collection yet? If not I urge you to & comfrey & plantain so you have the necessary ingredients for a good healing poutlice for any injuries, abraisions or cuts that may occur. Stay well.

[@johanhausen1621]

Great knowledge!

[@maxjosephwheeler]

*Geoff post an update on Zatuna Farm.*

[@rossr6616]

Nice job Team!

[@jannievaught4344]

The Spiky tree resembles the Palo Verde from the desert in Arizona. Mesquite have very wicked thorns also. Their protection.

[@FunkyKiwi7]

Much respect!!

[@TK-uo7cb]

Very impressive but I would love to know more about the edible plants you’re growing. I hear a lot about abundance of food and there’s always reference to citrus, but I imagine it’s hard to live just off citrus! It would be great to see a video about your weekly meals just to give us an idea of what kind of lifestyle is actually possible to achieve (and whether you are satisfied with the diversity of meals). Thanks for the content.

[@EricSeider]

There are other videos from Geoff which show how the site supports a full on organic cafe with amazing vegetable garden.

[@elenarf879]

I imagine this is a quite more long process to generate the entire ecosystem in a dessert climate, generate soil and retain humidity therefore first steps are so important. Bravo !!!!

[@strictlyyoutube6881]

Geoff is a genius

[@matthewstone3210]

Great work guys loved the video! Just one too, if you don't have dedicated lapel mic's, try to face the camera when you speak. There were a couple of times when you guys were speaking and it was hard to hear. Otherwise great job! That's for sharing this little tour.

[@nevillevonkistowski4956]

I wish I was younger so I could help ,good job

[@ericstropicalparadise1935]

How can one get an internship with you? And also what bachelor degrees go best with the idea of permaculture

[@ronsmith1364]

permies .com/ sustainable horticulture or edible acres or dive in & swim on your own, find a local garden club or join Dept of Unauthorized Forestry Wagtail Farms Tour its out there ✌

[@charmainelee8815]

I grew up with permacultue which fed us through my youth I am 70 now. The only food we had to buy was red meat. My mum and dad did it on 1/4 of an acre my doctor now sys how healthy I am for my age we grew everything from fruit trees to peanuts. To flowers to sell.

[@joepeeer4830]

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[@RA-vq3dk]

Nice one

[@DianeMEmerson]

I was so inspired by the original Greening the Desert video: vimeo.com/7658282 For anyone wanting to begin in a dry area, take a look at how Geoff started this effort. Now, 10 years later, I delight in seeing others take over and explain the workings, and the continued development of this demonstration project, which never had much funding, by the way. Yes, as Geoff said in the original Greening the Desert video: "You can solve all the world's problems in a garden."

[@masad31]

Fantastic job.i wish if I could do the same

[@hugocostapaulino2918]

How can i send seeds to you?

[@robduell3856]

Rhizobia is the bacteria that facilitates nitrogen affixation mycorrhizal is a fungus that helps with nutrient uptake.

[@ME-mp9zm]

Please Arabic translation

[@deanthornby2026]

The permaculture crew are such nice people they even let the gingers in

[@releventhurt]

There anyway to start growing the spiny trees everywhere

[@tristanchristiansen9054]

so i live in north florida and just read meringa is a invasive species and i shouldnt grow it *( , im very sad as ive heard so many give its praises

[@EricSeider]

Invasive is a very loaded term. Check out the book "the new wild" by Fred Pearce. It has a whole bunch of new research on how "invasives" and "weeds" are actually helping to repair the planet.

[@DianeMEmerson]

@@EricSeider Thanks for the suggestion. Better World Books has it available for less than US $5, INCLUDING shipping anywhere in the world: www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/The-New-Wild--Why-Invasive-Species-Will-Be-Nature-s-Salvation-9780807033685 Here is some of what the book is about: "In The New Wild , Pearce goes on a journey across six continents to rediscover what conservation in the twenty-first century should be about. Pearce explores ecosystems from remote Pacific islands to the United Kingdom, from San Francisco Bay to the Great Lakes, as he digs into questionable estimates of the cost of invader species and reveals the outdated intellectual sources of our ideas about the balance of nature. Pearce acknowledges that there are horror stories about alien species disrupting ecosystems, but most of the time, the tens of thousands of introduced species usually swiftly die out or settle down and become model eco-citizens. The case for keeping out alien species, he finds, looks increasingly flawed. " I look forward to reading it, and learning examples of invasive plants becoming model eco-citizens.

[@DianeMEmerson]

@@EricSeider Thanks for that book suggestion. Better World Books has it available for less than US $5, including shipping anywhere in the world: www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/The-New-Wild--Why-Invasive-Species-Will-Be-Nature-s-Salvation-9780807033685. I look forward to reading it.

[@wes4192]

Those citrus trees look near death

[@wes4192]

@VICtorian071 haha...I'm a citrus farmer. Why would the trees be 'stressed' and dropping leaves but not near death?

[@wes4192]

@VICtorian071 lolz. Good luck with your deciduous citrus growing bud.

[@sietuuba]

Wouldn't that make sense since at the time of filming the dry season had _just_ ended and the stress on the citrus trees and everything else had been at its highest until the first rain of the year? It would be neat to get a periodic updates of a single example tree over a year to see the changes.

[@романиванов-ы9ъ]

For 10 years, nothing has grown and did not grow itself, trees grow rarely without creating a shadow.

[@cuongtruong6043]

All the work done on the site is brilliant. However, why hasn't the same methods of regreening extended beyond the compound/site? this video is no different to majority already published: same content, no difference to the old videos. it's like you're patting yourself on the back when you could be doing more and extending the work to the hillside and beyond.

[@ricos1497]

I don't think they operate in a dictatorship. If the surrounding neighbours don't wish to involve themselves then they won't be forced to, I'm sure.

[@cuongtruong6043]

@@ricos1497 What does a dictatorship have anything to do with the idea of extending their project further than the site they're working on? I wasn't implying that the local community get involved. This project has a fully functioning site after several years. To prove that his theories work and to highlight how effective it is, it should be spread beyond their compound to surrounding public land. Make a proper difference to the region. They have enough volunteers to do it.

[@ricos1497]

@@cuongtruong6043 because they don't own that land. You can't just dictate what is done with public or private land regardless of number of volunteers. We've seen the recent videos of the local lady who practices permaculture in her garden successfully, but it needs people to come to that conclusion in their own time. What you're advocating is for social and political change in that area and it seems a little beyond the reach of the greening the desert project. Try imagining introducing permaculture techniques wholesale in your own area and think about the reaction you'd face. I suspect you or me would be on board but others would take it as a slight on their way of life. Just reading back my original comment, it comes across a little rude, my apologies.

[@cuongtruong6043]

@@ricos1497 I understand your points especially the woman who created her garden which is great. But, the surrounding land is derelict. No one is making any use of it. If the work was extended, only positive would come out of it. To me, there is a lack of ambition. The videos published are just a regurgitation with the phrase "chop and drop" thrown in every other sentence.

[@cuongtruong6043]

@@ricos1497 And I didn't find your last comment rude. No need to apologise but I appreciate it.

[@LaHortetadeBussy]

Thanks mens. Very very nice your jobs