Permaculture - Grow Your Own Paradise!

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Studying PERMACULTURE with my teacher Geoff Lawton - The 2024 online PDC is open for students from 10th May 2024. If you go to the enrollment page using this Weedy Garden affiliate link www.discoverpermaculture.com/a/2147844655/UvHULpHp - you can also recieve a US$150 discount off the online course by writing "weedy150" in the coupon.

[@NaseerOmran]

Unfortunately mono culture and industrial food production takes the power out of the crops and soil. Permaculture is a good alternative and possible on a smaller scale. We can use almost anything natural as compost basically. I have a few birds in house, i use their poop for the fruit trees and crops.

[@mandysmith2541]

Have missed you and your garden. Nice to have you back 💜🌈💜

[@evanadamsmanga]

Thank you for all of your hard work on these videos. They are so informative and therapeutic at the same time

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Thanks for your thanks 😆 🙏🏻

[@workingdog_duke]

Thanks Weedy for putting out all this little pieces of cinematic art. They are greatly appreciated. And thanks for recommending Geoffs online pdc. I took it last year and it was the best thing I ever did. The course content is fantastic, Geoff is a great teacher with such a vast experience and a deep knowledge that he can actually explain things so simple that everyone gets it. And his teaching support team is awesome. So if anybody out there is still 'on the fence' wether taking part in the upcomming course or not, I say: do it! You will learn to view the world through a permaculture lense and hopefully 'find your tribe' and all that will change not only your garden but your life.

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Well said 💜

[@Gqlactic]

Love the swales.

[@pe3429]

I am child of the Earth.... how absolutely awesome!!. Bringing Heaven on Earth. Thank you so much for your amazing and wonderful KZbins.

[@shovelspade480]

Another Great Production Weedy. I look forward to being in Australia again. Thank you Earthy Buddy 🌱🌳

[@TheWeedyGarden]

🌏🤎

[@BAK101Hkr]

the most peace full videos ahhhh....

[@ashikalanser9033]

Thanks Weedy uncle and Geoff uncle

[@gradinapentrutoti1987]

Your a great inspiration mate! Keep on doing this type of content so that people can start returning to their roots.

[@sagarshrestha5800]

I am child of the earth and I am an earthling gave me goosebumps

[@simplysimple7628]

I could watch your content all day long. Amazing work. Amazing homestead. Much love and Aloha from Hawaii!!🙏🏼🤙🏼✊🏼

[@jackiephi6310]

Take care on your travels can’t wait for more thank you again

[@gigglesmcgee2052]

I guess that's where the saying "Rub dirt on it" comes from. I always thought it was a toughen up sort of thing but it actually does help? It's sad we are so disconnected from the earth and most don't see nature as one harmonised system.

[@TheWeedyGarden]

🪱😝🙏🏻

[@electriczagnut4937]

Love, appreciation, and gratitude for the work you’re doing. Thank you.

[@TheWeedyGarden]

🙏🏻💚👍😊

[@Dylpycl]

thank you so much

[@edie_perty]

Another beauty. Love your work... have a great time in Denmark. 😍

[@wondersofwa2792]

Have missed your videos, been checking back often though. Really enjoy these. They help me feel connected and is like therapy

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Noice 💚🙏🏻👍

[@alalmaoui5212]

Very inspiring place and videos.

[@susanaquezada7671]

Looking forward for the movie, Weedy

[@brettgriffiths7688]

Good video weedy, I love the knowledge transfer through your story telling from your personal permaculture journey.

[@bernadette6211]

I wish I could grow ginger like that in Ireland, it looks amazing

[@daniiraberri]

Missed you! I hope everything is ok. It would be so nice to have some aerobic compost tea vídeo made by you. Still many confuse it with straight worm juice. Big hugs from Spain!

[@TheWeedyGarden]

I’ll put it on the list 😆

[@linasjostrand4034]

All that ginger 😍

[@rachelgalus]

We are what we eat. If you don’t know what you’re eating, you probably don’t know who you are. Thanks Geoff

[@emanuelad3534]

Totally loved it, especially bare foot walking. Great teaching! Thank u

[@andreywagner5046]

Thank you for the positive vibe, your videos are so positive and inspiring. Best of luck.

[@hqprivat]

Hej Weedy, save travels and "velkommen hjem"! Regards from Viborg, Denmark

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Mange tak 💚

[@dandavatsdasa8345]

Great!

[@kanaya123]

Love it

[@gee3883]

Nice one Mr.

[@christoering8139]

Thx so much for all the effort that you put into this. Its fantastic and super inspirational...Bless

[@TheWeedyGarden]

You are so welcome!

[@margaretsinclair6697]

Great video again. Sending love and good vibes your way.

[@potagermalo]

Magnifique top

[@jetteravndal3930]

alltid godt å se dine vidio.

[@TheWeedyGarden]

tak 😊

[@soldierboyz7032]

Weedy when u go for your tour make a video. We wanna see how Jeff’s garden is thank you

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Certainly 👍

[@suburbanhomestead]

It still baffles me you ended up living down the road of Geoff without having prior knowledge of Permaculture.

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Yeah. It was surreal that moment I parked in his driveway.

[@MohamedHassan-ni6un]

Imagine after all this knowledge thanking the creation and not the creator. All this didn't happen by chance but there's a designer.

[@goddoeszoca369]

This is Gods Will

[@elisabethp1735]

15:00 just had a laugh about where everything was going...probably THAT way:)

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Yes. It goes THAT way

[@cdoubleu8719]

@ 11.00 mins one worm is getting away! ;)

[@TheWeedyGarden]

It won’t get very far and will soon realise where the best place to be is.

[@kathynix6552]

Gotta admire a man who loves his worms

[@Gqlactic]

Question: is papaya easy to grow?

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Easy to grow but hard to keep the papaya wasp from them. I’ll ask for some tips.

[@Gqlactic]

@@TheWeedyGarden Thanks

[@douglastobin8996]

Looking 4ward2 th movie sounds great pushing th eheelbarrow lovu nearly as much s compost and permaculture

[@TheWeedyGarden]

😂😂😂

[@camroon5237]

Question For The Q & A - How Can I Start A Food Forest In My Back Garden??

[@TheWeedyGarden]

How big is your Back Garden? And where is it?

[@camroon5237]

@@TheWeedyGarden 15 by 15 foot location uk

[@shaquille.oatmeal8968]

Just a question. Why do you wear an OM locket. Do you follow Hinduism. Just asking. Much love 🙂👍👍🫂

[@TheWeedyGarden]

I gave a decent answer on a later comment with the same question. Try to find that.

[@Teach2dm]

I wish you and Geff would see my hydroponics Swales I made.

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Why not show us on m.facebook.com/groups/weedygardenappreciation/?ref=share&mibextid=uc01c0

[@1865Highst]

My brother often tells me that “permaculture is a nice idea for a garden but it just can’t feed the world the way monoculture crops have been able to.” What would you say to this common belief?

[@TheWeedyGarden]

That’s a Q for GL.

[@emsey6097]

Beautiful Weedy!!! I think you have inspired me to join the course!!! Quick Q... Can you make swales too deep. My food forrest is on a much slopier slope, so therefore my swales are deeper than yours by quite a bit... I have been wondering if I should fill them in some or leave them. I guess they are about 2-4 foot deep depending on where on the slope.. ps. herd of the mandella effect? thats twice you have referenced croc dundee.... The line changed.... check it out. 😁 Great inspiring Video!!!

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Great question for Geoff 👍

[@sarahlove5546]

I'm a child of God. I'm a Christian. ❤

[@nikhiljali6930]

Thank you for this. Really appreciate the videos you’ve put out and they’re inspiring to say the least. However, for us city dwellers, how can we imbibe permaculture in our small spaces? I have about 3000sqft of a backyard. What can I do here?

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Hello Nikhil. Just writing to say that I asked Geoff your question, but I made a mistake in reading and read it as 300 square feet, so I edited your comment to fit my answer. So sorry, but basically you have a huge yard...it is ten times the size of what I explain in the Q and A (which I´m uploading today).

[@ivygreen.]

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[@seeds.of.knowledge]

Love your videos and the way you relay information. One question for you. I built a worm farm and I live in Midwest USA, what do I do with the worms in the winter? We see temps well in the negative in the deepest winter months. Should I just recycle the whole thing back to the garden every year and start over?

[@TheWeedyGarden]

You could cover it with hay bales during the winter.

[@versace.mitch69]

Worm escaping 11:15!

[@TheWeedyGarden]

poor worm didn’t mean it

[@ItsChasinMason]

Hey Weedy! Hey Geoff! How would you go about maximizing zone 1/2 production on a north facing slope? On my land this particular slope is less than 10% grade. Thanks!

[@TheWeedyGarden]

North facing in which country? North or south hemishpere ( makes a big difference) not sure what zone 1/2 means? 😊

[@ItsChasinMason]

@@TheWeedyGarden Oops! Forgot some key info. I'm in Florida. And I was referring to zones 1 and 2 in reference to permaculture zoning.

[@davidpb-j9307]

Super way to live with Nature. I do wonder, however, how it squares with massive use of oil and consequential damage from air travel around the globe. Question is submitted respectfully.

[@TheWeedyGarden]

What is the question?

[@davidpb-j9307]

@@TheWeedyGarden How to reconcile your care for nature in how you live and grow food, with the destructive effects of intercontinental air travel (massive use of fossil fuel, effects of contrails in the upper atmosphere, nitrous oxides etc.). You mentioned in this video a trip to Iceland. Do you see a conflict? I have lived with this dilemma in that my job required lots of air travel.

[@TheWeedyGarden]

@@davidpb-j9307 It doesn’t bother me in the slightest, but I know how you could see it to be a dilema.

[@lukebrennan5387]

Been hanging out for the next video , was excited to see the notification pop up when I was at work 👍🏻🙌🏻🪴 awesome

[@locke6531]

👍

[@kavitasingh3075]

Hey weedy...love from india...OM locket around your neck has some meaning to you or you just wear for you liking... please mention because in our religion it has meaning...and i love to see you wearing OM..may good give you power and blessings to do good things for humanity I like your videography and photography... The way you live and do gardening same thing was practice by ancient Indian people and sadhus but this modernization people to forget old tradition...

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Namaste Kavita. I have spent a lot of time in India and over the years I have travelled, I have heard many interpretations of what 🕉 is. I know why I wear it. For me it represents the sound a seed would make if you could hear it. It is also a place, like a silent room in which I enter to find my story. When I am in this room, there is a large screen on one wall. Here I can sit and observe the film I am watching. This is my source of creativity. Not only for my work (photography), but for my life. These films that I sit and observe in the space of my heart are directed by the same director that gives sound to the seed. If I had a sense other than my 👋🏻👃🏻🦻🏻👁👅, I would call it 🕉. It is nothing and everything at the same time. A symbol and a sound that when vocalised, encourages a connection with our sixth sense. Now that might not make any SENSE at all, and that is why I’ll never be able to answer that question on a Q & A video because I would say something that probably would not make any sense 🤣🤣🤣🤎 🕉🔥

[@kavitasingh3075]

What are you saying is make a lot of sense...what you get from 🕉️ is real and that what is power is all about...in our religious we do meditation by chatting 🕉️ which help us to connect to mother earth which give us food....and that what hindu religion is all about..we worship plant and animal and nature who gave us life... Weedy you inspire me alot...i wish to live life like you in future and have my own permaculture farm....thanks for your reply...it's mean a lot to me....

[@themusicbook8679]

😃

[@chantallachance4905]

I live in urban city from québec that mean cold winter and snow I built 2 small greenhouses and I grow almost 9 months a years with 5 quails for the 🥚 and fertilizer I learn from Geoff Lawton videos to understand the permaculture world, Eliot Coleman for growing harvest crop during winter in greenhouse no heat and Charles Dowding It is my third years growing food and this year we eat A LOT OF FREE VEGETABLES like tomatoes lettuce,kale,oignon,potatoes, spinach,lamb lettuce, fruits Let grow vegetables until flowering for the seed just cut at the ground level and it will regrow again free vegetables Do your compost and worm casting free fertilizer IT WORK so well on my small scale

[@TheWeedyGarden]

The free life 👍💪🏻🤎

[@joanies6778]

"Good day" from the USA. Just found your channel after watching a lovely English gardener, who happened into my feed, and she had given you a shout out from 2 yrs ago. 🤗 And now I have discovered Geoff Lawton from you! Triple treat this lovely Sunday morning. 💚 Most enjoyable watching your photography, listening to your soothing tone, and most importantly, your great content. I am constantly looking for ways to make my deep lot in the city into a permaculture. It is a process.

[@annburge291]

The birds always pull at my heart strings. Love how you included an extended version of Geoff Lawton running through the rain storm. For me, it's one of your most powerful images. It sums up Geoff's vitality, enthusiasm, connection with nature, sense of fun, go for it'attitude. Love how you include the images from previous videos to aid the explanation rather than just talking about it. Wormville is glamping on steroids. Wow how your swales have developed! Positive jungle of bananas and ginger. Mango tree is doing well too. I wish succession was as fast in drylands. We are celebrating with two flushes of prickly pear pads.

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Nicely seen. Yes he is a bundle of joy alright 💪🏻

[@starrmasner6015]

Thank you for caring about our earth and sharing your info!

[@TheWeedyGarden]

My pleasure!

[@JW-zy3rc]

A question for Geoff - what are good support trees in cooler frosty climates?

[@TheWeedyGarden]

👍

[@nutequest]

Great question. I use tagasaste mostly but things like sea buk thorn are not easy to get in Australia so other cool climate support species ideas would be great.

[@marisasanchez1699]

I love your message at the end about how planting actually nourishes and sustains the soil 🤗

[@TheWeedyGarden]

💚😀

[@FantailValleyHomestead]

I love your videos. They are so beautiful, you have such a skill with the camera

[@peggyhelblingsgardenwhatyo7920]

Oh David, Weedy, you are a true treasure 🌿💚🌿 Thank you for making this beautiful video 👍💓👍

[@bboyneon92]

Writing to show my appreciation, gratitude and respect. Love your work. I constantly look forward to being educated and inspired by you. Hope you're well.

[@lanatan5812]

From Indonesia interested in permaculture... you are inspiring thanks Weedy, I hope some day I can grow my garden better than now, my land is flood when rainy and dried no water in summer

[@nathangardenfawkes2910]

When ya gunna have a live tour Mr Weedy? Can't wait for the Movie, love your work :) In Lak'esh

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Never have a live tour. No internet up there 😅

[@Alugas19]

Thanks Weedy Gardener! You are living the dream! I am looking at getting a plot of land in California in the coming months/years depending when I find a plot that is suitable for my needs. Being half way around the world from Geoff and you I was wondering if there is any way I can get consultation on how to select a plot of land and what the first step/ types of plants I should plant. Basically looking for a teacher to help guide me on my permaculture journey in the Bay Area of California! Am excited to hear what you learn over your time at Geoff's garden. Thanks and look forward to collaborating with you both.

[@TimBorg]

nice to find your channel.. I'm trying to setup a permaculture garden in Western VIC

[@tiarianamanna973]

These videos are just so BEAUTIFUL 😄

[@karennewberry4694]

Ginger here averages $40/kg. Local Aldi had it for $20. Bought a kilo. 🤞for a good return crop. Sunshine Coast qld.

[@TheWeedyGarden]

👍😃

[@brennerlowe]

This video is so richly inspiring. Thank you for explaining what the soil needs - animal and insect life, as well as all the scraps. And you provided a beautiful example of how valuable permaculture and growing food can be simply from a monetary perspective. Of course it is deeply valuable in many, many ways. I really enjoy your videos Weedy! Thank you for making and sharing!

[@bodilskumsrud520]

Have a safe journey to Denmark! I’ve got my little farm in Sweden,working and learning to do the best I can in a permaculture way…with you and Geoff Lawton as my teachers…lucky me!! I’m preparing for Swales,but my land is so flat,I find it difficult to know exactly where to place them,and knowing how wide and deep they should be…maybe I should invite you to come to Sweden and experience the Swedish countryside (it’s absolutely beautiful here now..!)AND you ,might want to give me some advises how to start making the Swales!! I know,it’s a crazy suggestion,but it struck me immediately as a fun idea!! Anyway,have a good time in Denmark,and enjoy!! All the best to you!!

[@cpnotill9264]

Bodil I have very flat land as well and need to work on some swales! This channel is so good!

[@dinocro111]

Doesn't this particular approach only work in areas that don't freeze and don't have snow?

[@Glennehh]

Do you know Richard Perkins, Bodil? Good channel to watch for things that apply in the nordic countries.

[@bodilskumsrud520]

@@Glennehh Yes,I know about him,thank you!Great stuff!!

[@muhammadawon8164]

Another masterpiece. Your videos can help people to come out of depression and anxiety. By the way, do you have any plan for the future to grow mushrooms in the weedy garden?

[@TheWeedyGarden]

The Weed-y Garden…Yes. I have the spores, and when we fell trees for the house site, I’ll make a huge shroom farm out of the trunks. 👍

[@photography555]

You could grow some giant timber bamboo in your garden as your climate is so perfect for it! Just imagine the bright yellow canes clonking in the wind.

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Yes. I will find a place for that 👍

[@TheMarkvq]

Thanks David

[@zakgallaher6045]

Always a pleasure to watch your videos. Look forward to the movie

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Thanks Zac :-)

[@jasminelouisefarrall]

Excellent video and so informative Weedy 🌸💕🌸

[@bodilskumsrud520]

Yes!You are back!!Lovely!!! These videos Of yours are pieces of art…the most important content and your shaping them with beautiful photos/films ,with wow-factor!!Thank you so much! It’s pure pleasure!! 🌱🌱🌱😎

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Thankyou Bodil 🤎🙏🏻😊

[@daleireland]

Wonderful video weedy thanks mate. I missed your garden. Always love escaping to weedys garden via my phone screen 👍🍻 hope you had a good trip to Denmark. Take care

[@cupofkoa]

""These worm castings are really yummy............... for the plants (not me!)"

[@fairweatherfarmer]

hey Weedy, make sure to save those ginger stems and leaves you can use them for soups, salad an stir fry. Edible and delicious! 💚✌️

[@fairweatherfarmer]

we grow on open fields here, but even though the trees are only on the perimeter there are loads of birds coming into the garden. we don't spray anything ever and we have left the uncultivated fields wild, over time we start to see more life coming back to regenerate the land: snakes, frogs, toads, mice, etc. Since we never spray, there's lots of bugs, lots of food for the birds, who come in and eat the bugs. Spraying actually throws nature out of balance and then requires continuous human intervention. Mama Gaïa knows best 🌿

[@TheWeedyGarden]

No room to store all this food. My animal pets in the ground need it more than I 🪱

[@zayzay5290]

Great Video! What are you guys thinking about Electro culture? Using copper in the soil to harness the invisible energy all arround us.

[@TheWeedyGarden]

tried that will no results to mention but I might not have done it properly. Another experiment for later

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Everything is looking great Weedy!

[@TheWeedyGarden]

You should see it today bro. Bush turkey had a party while I was away for three weeks. It looks the opposite atm.

[@jeannamcgregor9967]

That video of you and Geoff using an A-frame plumb line to figure out level lines in the hill so you could dig your swales on contour is one of the coolest low-tech high-return things I've ever seen! Thanks so much for that. Maybe you could talk more about the value of slowing down the movement of water across the land to retain water and maintain topsoil. That's so key to fixing the land. Love your channel!

[@Justus11167]

I’m so glad I stumbled on your KZbin . I recently finished a 6 month permaculture course and I’ve just learned so much more from you. Wow. Fantastic, thanks

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Really?! That’s saying something 🙏🏻

[@THF1424]

The male bush turkey drives away snakes among other, when in season with eggs. Interesting they be there in winter? Sorry about your loss in growth.

[@TheWeedyGarden]

They are not nesting. They are feasting.

[@rahulmalsani6202]

After a Long time.... always inspires..... And the term earthling is 😘😘❤️❤️❤️

[@Gqlactic]

Question: How many acres is Geoff's land?

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Zaytuna farm is situated on sixty-six acres (27 hectares)

[@Gqlactic]

@@TheWeedyGarden Thank you David

[@1865Highst]

And how many people would that land feed, I wonder? I know that’s a complex question given the variety required in a diet.

[@Jeff-rd6hb]

Haha, love all of the ginger. I've got a bed of the stuff, and I do the same...dig a bunch out & put some back...lather, rinse, repeat for endless ginger. I'm 100 miles north of Seattle where it's nowhere near tropical, yet ginger grows just fine in my back yard, lol.

[@Gqlactic]

Question: how long did it take for you to complete your food forest?

[@TheWeedyGarden]

did you see my Food Forest video? The digging swales to me ages, but once you have a plan and trees, I planted it all in one day. The prep took a few months.

[@Gqlactic]

@@TheWeedyGarden Cool thanks 👍

[@byN91]

Sir! Have you heard about JADAM? (Korean farming)

[@pepper24able]

You need an awful lot if ginger ti fly to Denmark! Just saying..

[@TheWeedyGarden]

yeah. About 160 kg to be exact!

[@wakeupsheepleNWOREAL]

Mr. Weedy that pigeon pea tree is food source called Gandules by puerto Rican people wish I could have seeds off yours. Big Goya brands can pigeon peas for sale all over the USA. Really cool you are growing one tree.

[@timoburtscher2169]

I do love your videos, watched many of them already. What an inspiration. Thank you🥬🥒🥦🍅

[@freelancebush]

Your vids always give me a warm, fuzzy feeling inside. Thanks Mister Weedy👍🍻