Seed Ball Story

[@lexinaut]

Thanks for providing this video. My cousin Larry Korn wrote the introduction to the One Straw Revolution years ago. It's great to see this insightful method of healing the earth spread to so many places and for so many purposes.

[@youcanknowanything8489]

fabulous idea and instructional video. Gentle souls...learn much.

[@chocolatefountainpro]

You got balls! Thanks for helping us make the world a little greener.

[@hugEguy610]

I'm glad that besides showing how to make seedballs by hand, you also showed how to make them in large quantities using the rotary drum. One hundred per hour by hand vs. forty thousand a day using the drum! Thank you!

[@ChantalWalters]

What a great video. Thank you so much. And the young people are delightful. All grown up by now I am sure! ;)

[@befitwithhelen2004]

Hi thank you so much for making this video and I would like to ask somebody good listen in English understand English can you spell what is that second time they put in? like back color

[@reforest4fertility]

After making the seedballs, before they dry, I suggest coating them with chili powder, or whatever naturally sourced works to deter birds

[@zackmeaders6199]

Birds can't taste spicy foods

[@reforest4fertility]

@@zackmeaders6199 That may be, but tasting spicy foods & being deterred by them may be different things. Besides, how do you know that?

[@moo76man]

Seed ball is enough deterence is it not?

[@briadair]

Brilliant! Thank you Sir Seed Ball Story. I've read up about this before and made them too. There were all sorts of ideas, but you showed the practice and explained the science, very clearly. Thank you from 🇬🇧 We get pleeenty rain here so no prob with germination limited by moisture. Thank you very much. And your kids (I'm assuming these "young people" were).. they cracked me up! ! Sooo studious. :)

[@888zzz]

These harmonious alternatives make obvious how destructive our ways are.

[@small-timegarden]

Hello thank you for your response I really appreciate it the reason I asked the questions I did is to see how possible it would be to reliably get 1 to 2 seeds but preferably one seed per clay ball so that when I set my seeds I don't have to handle very small seeds in my hand

[@DgurlSunshine]

Inspired!

[@jacksondaniels9960]

What do I do if I’ve added too much water and they’ve started sprouting ? Baring in mind it’s winter time and if I plant them out the seedlings will be killed by frost

[@catfishbones]

Hi Future Laugh. No, the baseball clay you mention is most likely bentonite, deposited in a reducing environment, and so not suitable for seed balls. The red or brown kind of clay used to make simple flower pots and such is best. And the clay curls formed in drying stream beds will often work. CB

[@yxcvmk]

Thank you! Very interesting. A question: If I have a solid piece of clay, how can I use it? If I slowly dry it: How can I powder it?

[@sanjeevkulkarni6835]

A wonderful presentation indeed. Thank you so much.

[@kukana228]

Great video. Thank you for posting. So much good information.

[@wolfostrophe17]

interesting. I wonder about the repellant. If catnip is a repellant, is it perhaps possible to boil catnip in water then use that water for making the seed balls?

[@valencia81750]

I do not understand . Does Mr Fukuoka say use clay ball for no tilling or throw seeds out and put straw on top to grow no till

[@minsiluraim]

Maravilhoso!!! Vamos colocar a idéia em prática!

[@Hotshoe333]

I sure will.

[@FutureLaugh]

can i use baseball clay from a field?

[@myteemtracy5545]

thanks, now I know what is a seed ball

[@small-timegarden]

Hello. Thank you for the information. I have a question though.. would you be able to tell me how I can film coat small seeds like lettuce where each ball contains single seed. Thanks

[@catfishbones]

Hi Shayne, For something as small as carrot seeds, one at a time, you might have to do each seed separately with a small ball of wet clay mixed with a little fine compost. How large an area are you planning to plant? Masanobu Fukuoka developed another technique in which he rolls the seeds by hand in a thin layer of dry clay and gently mists the mix with water. You might be able to adapt a micro version of this technique in a cake pan or such, a few seeds at a time. You will not be able to include much compost in such small seed balls so you may have to add a little extra compost to the sites where one is placed. Have a look at the video of MF doing this. It is in Japanese, but you can see the process. If you have more questions I will try to help. Thank you again. MF Makes Seed Balls Masanobu Fukuoka Makes Seed Balls Jim

[@40ny]

Thanks, I learned something new today.

[@joansmith3492]

wonderful video. thank you

[@chaska108]

thanks for the video responce, very good info, we hope to look for funding to make mkassive seed ball air drops here in the andes to slow down the melting of our beautiful snow capped peaks, thank you

[@Angkhoo1]

Is there any videos showing these seed balls sprouting and growing?

[@friedrichlehn1864]

In the documentary of Fukuoka you can see it once

[@GraemeOfCawdor]

Can you upload a diy video or document on how to make the rotary drum?

[@Farik1110]

That's great and very inspiring! Thanks a lot!

[@mecksi]

thank you so much for uploading this video. best from berlin. mecksi

[@MrSeanrhimes]

que bonito !!! muchas gracias!!

[@DamianoDellaGrotta]

Hi! Nice video. Could you please write down what you put in the mixture at 17:50? My english isn't good and I'd like to be sure to understand. Thank you very much :)

[@cynthiadonahey9989]

This group that did land restoration ending in the 1930s, had some interesting techniques. They sprayed with a shit slurry complete with volcanic dust. They identified nooks and crannies and established toileting areas there, where they thought moisture would accumulate. Men urinated in one area, defecated in another. When there were women, another area was set aside with a request that the women would at least try and separate. Major plantings, especially roses were made in these places. Their motto was "The desert will bloom with the rose." There were mostly failed attempts to bring up trapped water. It was there, generally undrinkable. They were big on moss spores. This Rose Society out of Poland had serious problems in 1939. Some of their dispersals may still be viable. You have to look at old magazines like National Geographicand PopularScience where they got some coverage.

[@cynthiadonahey9989]

They were concerned with growing desertification that had already jumped The Med. They wanted to put The Grape Vine Woods back. The curlies were three to four feet at the base and two hundred feet high once and like Aesop said the ripe grapes were generally unreachable. The straights were all north american, six toseven feet at the base and hundreds feet long. They fell at a hundred feet and crossed streams. There was debate about putting such an entity in The Middle East. If you want to see a grapevine woods, these noxious weeds are taking over parts of our parks.

[@cynthiadonahey9989]

They wanted to put back flock birds and were back breeding misbehaving farm cats to produce little widcats, generally small and black.

[@cynthiadonahey9989]

The fountains at Versailles were based on foot and some wind power and based on biblical etc engineering texts. This group built small foot and wind mills, that had to be maintained consistently. The Nazis continued to do this until they evacuated but in mean and i do mean mean ways. When they fled to The Boot. the pedal power and wind mills were generally burned or salvaged for parts, the rest fell into disuse.

[@kiranabkiranab4172]

Super good sir (indians🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏)

[@1Serval]

eventually the plants need water after they germinate right? And, how does this happen in an area that has been turned into arid landscaping? Are we talking Africa? Isn't going to work in the desert SW that only gets 3" a year. Once it germinates, it won't last. What exactly are you planting, cactus?

[@PattyOgamer]

does any one know a good list of combinations of seeds?

[@bford63]

Outstanding. Thanks!

[@sambac2053]

What's the survival rate?

[@barrywinters1142]

Patty Ogamer...There is an excellent "list of companion plants" in the Wikipedia.

[@lucusinfabula]

Mixed seeds procured by raiding ant and termite colonies? Say how it might be done., please. I've been mulling it over for ethical captive-kangaroo comodity export.

[@moo76man]

How come we still fail to green the deserts..

[@TonyKaku]

Good stuff. Thank you.

[@joekane1979]

There is a saying i dont know if you guys heard this before but it goes alittle something like this. "We did not inherid the earth from our parents but actually barrowed it from our kids" Live by that and we would not have so much bull. "El mundo no es dado de los padres anosotros si no prestado de nuestros hijos"

[@buckstarchaser]

Good video. I crapped myself when the guy demonstrated his machine that makes 40,000 seed balls per day when the balls cost $1 each on amazon. Some greedy motherfuckers out there... seriously.

[@innerengineering3396]

Only if there was a machine to plant these seedballs properly fast at scale and water these seedballs once in while. Maybe if the seedball was made by adding manure of local species like goats and cows, they may not eat it. #savesoil

[@moisesmariano4760]

💚

[@BusterABrown]

4/3/2017 17:10 bulk seed balls use bentonite clay? What if our government sprayed us with seed balls...

[@kidscobre]

mm buen video alguien lo tiene con subtitulos en español por favor

[@DamianoDellaGrotta]

@Kalatiso Thank you!

[@gabrozario]

Mixing a little black pepper powder in the mixture will keep the ants away.

[@dustyloup]

go to a local greenhouse and ask for native plant seeds.

[@aureliogargiulo]

@DamianoDellaGrotta peperoncino rosso macinato frate, pare che protegge i semi dagli animali e insetti birbaccioni...

[@OAMMG]

las avienta y las pisa XD

[@BlueLotus108]

I guess there must be 9 Monsanto employees here.