This urban forest becomes self-sufficient in three years

A Japanese method of planting fast-growing native forests is spreading worldwide. First introduced in the 1970s, Miyawaki forests are dense, multi-layered plantations that aim to rapidly re-create the old growth forest of a given area. These forests not only serve as an engine for carbon sequestration and cooling, but also promote biodiversity by supporting local insects, which are crucial to the ecosystem. What is more, Miyawaki forests are designed to become self-sufficient two to three years after planting.
Hundreds of Miyawaki forests have been created around the world in recent years, and Massachusetts saw its first two Miyawaki forests take root in 2021 and 2022. The forests, planted by more than 100 local residents, are a way to educate and engage the community on ecological restoration, says Maya Dutta, the project manager for the creation of the two forests. A software developer-turned-environmental activist, Maya used to live in fear and avoidance of environmental issues. But working on projects like the Miyawaki forests, she says, offers her a sense of "grounded hope."
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[@macksonamission1784]

The compost tea dunk in the container before planting is a great idea.

[@AMPProf]

works for cookies soo

[@ddshihora1920]

I m also planting trees wherever i can and I have planted 300 trees and watered them..... It gives tremendous joy❤love from🇮🇳

[@BandelaSimon]

Wow buddy Make a vlog and upload it

[@Socialbhanwar]

जय हिन्द, जय भारत।। वंदेमातरम, भारत माता की जय।। जय हिन्द, जय हिन्द की सेना।।

[@intraligi]

Keep up the great work. 💌 to India!

[@Abhinay_Limbu]

The Miyawaki afforestation method requires quite a small space, at least 20 square feet. One must seed plants very close to save space and dense plant growth. This will also allow young trees to protect each other and block sunlight from hitting the forest's ground, preventing parasitic plant growth.

[@jennastephens1224]

I live in the southern US and a great example of this phenomenon is the Sweetgum tree. They're great in Miyawaki forests because they grow so fast, but also they're difficult to grow with other plants in Miyawaki forests because they grow so fast (2-3 feet or 70-100cm per year for their first 25 years of life)

[@andresamplonius315]

​@@jennastephens1224 Just need to plan the right number of each species.

[@andresamplonius315]

After planting straw's spread all over as mulch to control weeds.

[@ManicPandaz]

I just realize that they made a Miyawaki forest in Toronto on Riverdale hill like 15 or so years ago and it’s still doing great! Always thought the dense island forest on the hill was interesting. Now I understand how and why it was made. Amazing!

[@toantran8424]

I love the idea of creating this vibrant forest 😍

[@Infinity_000_0]

I try to use 3% of my monthly income in protecting nature and planting tree. I made NSR fund which means Nik's social responsibility. I guess we all can create this fund on own name and contribute little percentage of our income in it.

[@SuperMIKevin]

I was gonna subscribe but then i realized this is the only video on the channel worth watching.

[@waynetyson3822]

Context is everything. No "system" should ever be slavishly applied just anywhere. I start with seed, collected from the "forest" you want to restore (and please don't forget the understory, as well as the soil microbiome and the cryptogamic soil crust community. Not all forests are as tall as they are in Japan and the Eastern Seaboard. I have done all my work in the more xeric climates (mainly Mediterranean and desert) of the Southwest US. for over fifty years, I used primarily on-site materials, minimizing or eliminating external inputs. It doesn't "fail," it adjusts. Some projects have been entirely on their own for more than forty or fifty years. Some have been destroyed.

[@jerrymcintire7902]

Good to hear of your many projects for reestablishing healthy soils and forests. The projects described here certainly follow that lead, using native plants for the area and feeding the soil with organic matter and active compost tea to establish healthy microbial activity.

[@lola-BBD]

I did that sort of unintentionally on my 3.5 wooded acres in NC. When I purchased 10 years ago a quarter acre was overgrown with “trees from hell” also know at the invasive tree from heaven. I slashed, burned and kept the mature persimmons. Planted cultivar hazelnuts, sunchoke, elderberry, volunteer blackberries. and let it go a few years. There are six foot persimmons with a few fruits, first year of hazelnuts, Passion flower. I’m trying to root mulberry cuttings currently. Nice to read and write back.

[@novi_pacific_island]

The best seeds is the natives one, I heard. The true owner and would bring balance.

[@cathrynmartin4395]

I love this idea, but I would love it more if, being an urban environment, it was more of a permaculture solution that could actually FEED the people of the area. We do need more plantings in urban areas, but we also need to provide the people who live there with the ability to grow some permanent fruits and vegetables that can feed the community.

[@DGibsonxio]

My thoughts exactly! Plant things we can eat. The bugs love those too!

[@ORom89]

Brilliant. Amazing. Wonderful. This gives me a hope for the future of our children.

[@andrear4954]

Thats incredible, well done to everyone working on this project, God bless ❤❤❤

[@sankararaoyelisetti8416]

Congratulations to the founder and team 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@simplyimpish1055]

I’m so touched by this project. What an honorable thing to do for Mother Earth and future generations 🌸

[@peasinourthyme5722]

THAT is how you tend your lawn!

[@oggie808]

ty and keep up the good work

[@Cooljurassic_Conservation]

I love planting native trees

[@MiguelY22]

That's really awesome. I have a few bald cypress i started from seeds. Also oaks

[@sophiareygrace6656]

love this video!!!

[@anamariadiasabdalah7239]

Muito boa iniciativa, parabéns ❣🥰🙏

[@noga8974]

Looks great but what happens to the native ground covers (wild garlic, bluebells etc. where I am) when you plant trees so closely?

[@exhile3747]

Thanks! 3:09 Step 01 : 5 days before planting

[@lilnoir4213]

america is so uprooted, you gotta teach people that forests are good...

[@Cooljurassic_Conservation]

This is great!

[@ninakennedy7497]

Very nice set up❤

[@Bleepurchin]

Why are these small wooded patches being referred to as forests? It seems to me that that is quite a grandiose word to be using for patches of trees which could not possibly operate on the scale of a real forest in terms of their ability to secure and maintain an ecosystem in the same way.

[@luciatheron1621]

It will become a forest. Some trees won't make it, others grow, seed and spread. Creates a micro climate, protects smaller vulnerable plants, etc. Start it and it will grow.

[@Bleepurchin]

@@luciatheron1621 Yes, provided there is space for a the trees to spread their seed and expand their territory. But these green oases are completely restricted due to where they are located. So they can never grow to the size and definition of a ‘forest’. It’s an undeniable fact and a pretty obvious one at that.

[@NatalieAuer-id4tz]

How big does it have to be to be considered a forest? Who gets to decide what is and isn't a forest? Also, we don't know the plan for this area. The forest is located in a much larger park that is mostly lawn. Maybe the forest will spread.

[@omarsali2990]

Not to mention real forest are not dense at all they have at least a few meters between each tree and lots of bushes and grasses

[@tiwowo1234]

SOO BEAUTIFUL 👏👏👏👏👏

[@pagadalaa6155]

Great work

[@sjain8111]

great work!! 🌳🌴🌲🌳

[@AMPProf]

I want to do this in town of Prescott valley AZ

[@asbakrokok7906]

Good

[@JXZ-JAM]

Please tell me that's a sumac I'm looking at and not a Ailanthus altissima.....

[@thisbushnell2012]

They look so similar at 4-5 ft. Stage......

[@somerandomguy7458]

if thats an ailanthus they screwed up

[@broomers3]

It would be great to grow food amongst them, as a Food Forest. For kids to forage.

[@WonderfullyMade_Lex]

1:45 in and I'm in ❤❤❤❤❤ . I wanna do it!! I just taught my students about Satochi-Satoyama. This concept seems much more doable and I think I'm gonna.

[@joycefairfield9102]

A project can be planned which includes dumping wood chips and letting them decompose, to enrich the soil. For more ideas visit Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't, and watch their "Kill Your Lawn" series.

[@Ashish_ktv]

Don’t when India will start thinking about in this direction…I want to contribute but there are no places or people don’t want a tree in or near by their premises, specially in north India.

[@hormeena]

so you start with your friends! and open it to the community. I am sure people with join!

[@sankararaoyelisetti8416]

Urban forest wonderful idea every where in the world 😅😅😅

[@dr.padmanabhanms631]

Mayawaki ❤

[@moon-of-uk]

Close contact seeding plants can grow big? What if we need fruit and wood? From miyawaki concept? The spaces in between the trees allow the tree to grow thick and get enough sunlight to produce good fruit.

[@ORom89]

She is everything the new generation is all about. This is hopeful.

[@damonchampion823]

💚

[@rahmatsuprihat2141]

Amazing..

[@festive101]

Will they not die to overcrowding ? Very curious how they will grow well so crushed into a small area

[@InappropriateShorts]

need a miawaki food forest 🤪

[@mikecain6947]

Will the forest spread and become larger on its own, or do you need to add nutrients?

[@brbr66]

It will spread on its own if there's available land, but bear in mind that a lot of tree species reach reproductive age and start giving fruits and seeds only after 30 and more years, so in the beginning adjacent territories will be colonized by weeds and shrubs, which will also take part in the soil building process. Only then will it eventually be succeeded by new trees from those originally planted, perhaps not within our lifetime.

[@johntheherbalistg8756]

Is in the middle of an urban area, so that's doubtful. They're already so full. It doesn't matter, though. Just what they planted there will have huge benefits for air quality, ground water etc for a long time

[@86Corvus]

Forest vegetation grows fine in the poorest of soil. This is why lowest class of soil is usually used for tree schools or reforestation by farmers because at least you can get some lumber out of it later.

[@purplecouch4767]

Cool

[@_orodrigofernandes]

Really cool

[@SanjeevReddyBora]

great job...

[@vinaymc7607]

Indians ❤

[@Socialbhanwar]

जय हिन्द, जय भारत।। वंदेमातरम, भारत माता की जय।। जय हिन्द, जय हिन्द की सेना।।

[@Socialbhanwar]

जय जय हिन्द की सेना।।

[@Socialbhanwar]

हिन्दी, हिन्दू, हिंदुस्तान।।🙏🙏

[@Socialbhanwar]

भारत और भारतीय हर जगह हैं , हम सब साथ साथ हैं।।

[@forsaken7161]

but how does it look like after 10 years? or even more? like now they are still small but what when they got lot bigger and taller, wont the other trees "suffer?

[@johnberry1107]

Planted with little room to mature? Good work. "forest"?

[@AMPProf]

Oo I like this News

[@albertomagdua7109]

Ours are with our local Binunga Trees..We just plant one to 3 trees then the following year the seeds will fall and proliferate fast.Goofor firewoods too with selective way of harvesting..I coined it Regenerative Surgical Agriculture with bananas and other crops around..I first heard Christian Science Monitor in the 1980s while I was Associate Editor of Bohol Inquirer when National Geographic sent me a copy of your Gmelina Research and writeups featuring Daniel K.Ludwig who planted almost a million hectares of Gmelina in his Jari.Project in Rainforests of Brazil

[@varalta.floresta]

amazing woman

[@janastormont2278]

Can you do this with Sonoran desert plants?

[@johntheherbalistg8756]

Probably not, as most trees couldn't handle the desert. You could probably do something like this on the edge to cause the desert to retreat. There are many videos about it with clickbait titles like "... built an oasis in the desert 3 years... this is how..."

[@janastormont2278]

@@johntheherbalistg8756 I'm meaning with native desert plants. We used to have mesquite bosques here in Tucson. People are making desert habitats with rainwater harvesting basins with wood chip mulch and native grasses and bushes to create good soil and retain the moisture longer.

[@johntheherbalistg8756]

@@janastormont2278 If you have natives that will grow that close, then you can

[@crazyworld1727]

🤘

[@anhthubui4258]

What is the budget per square meter of forest ?

[@truthsayer999]

please leave the dandelions!

[@PuthyvanGarden]

❤

[@minhnhutvo8863]

Tuyệt vời

[@Joe.Mr.Minority]

I would love to link up and start a program in the city of Houston Texas.

[@MaroeiProject]

What an amazing job! However, in my country, these kinds of small patches of forest in the middle of urban residences would just become habitats for snakes and other dangerous insects. Again, good job on creating this small yet beautiful paradise ecosystem. 😀

[@andresamplonius315]

No need for weeding if enough mulch's applied.

[@dr.tetraminflakes3187]

it's called abandoned lot

[@Shodan91]

But Bill Gates says, we dont need trees, actually we should cut so much as possible, or are we idiots? 😂

[@loubob21]

We need to buy land as a collective and stop the suburban development which is destroying out America. We could do it as a "Church" to not pay property tax. Help needed in Florida especially.

[@PolAdd22]

1:11 thats a lot of ailanthus actually..you may need to apply some herbicide on it to help the planted trees

[@michaellindquist6011]

Maybe native stag horn sumac? Hard to tell

[@staresce]

Do you think the trees are planted too close together ?

[@genelasaname]

That’s the whole point of the method. All their energy is used to grow upward due to their close proximity. Hence these forests grow up fast.

[@ConstantGardener-q9q]

It’s great in principle. However, in practice it is very difficult to do. In suburbia, there is massive deer browse (because they’ve lost their habitat) that destroy the native flora and ground cover, and then there is constant encroachment by invasive species. Nevertheless, I continue to try.

[@jonmatthews4254]

A bit misleading, dictionary definition of a forest: A growth of trees and other plants covering a large area. Looks good, but is a copse at best.

[@scottcook1586]

There is no climate change, just climate. As an inhabitant we all need to do what we can to make things better then we found it, governments ,greed and bad engineering have done the most damage. Many so called natural disasters are man made from building on flood plains to not taking large rain events into consideration...

[@ludwigvonrothbard1207]

Plant trees that grow food instead

[@karlitobergkamp8082]

It’s about biodiversity not growing food.

[@MVP469]

Maybe there are no native edible fruit trees in that area

[@johntheherbalistg8756]

It is growing food, just not for humans

[@Nashvillain10SE]

Wow. She set a direction for her life based on--in her words--the fear that she felt from the climate propaganda in her school at a very young age. Propaganda -1 Reason - 0

[@RestauremosNaturaleza]

Extremely expensive restoration

[@alphaomega8373]

... yes, vegetation grows well on earth.

[@grahamhutton1633]

I can’t watch this, the topic is interesting but the drawling vocal fry from the girls is so annoying .

[@lorrainegatanianhits8331]

This is actually one of the most useless programs. Big waste of money. If you want to afforest in eastern NA, just don't do anything and you get equal if not better results, but here's the kicker: it's going to be free.

[@centurione6489]

When you plant that thick, plants will compete and weaken each other. Diseases will follow. Furthermore tree roots will brake sidewalks and asphalt. Finally canopy trees are a serious liabiity when so close to people and car passage. That kind of space can take 1-3 hazelnut trees and 4-5 bush cherries ... even if you cancel my post.

[@AMPProf]

MORE GODLY NEWS POLATICS IS NOT GODLLY

[@alexverdigris9939]

Semantic observation: it's not a forest. Perhaps a bush.

[@LUNGHIX]

900 plants in 1400 square feet of land? Huh?

[@justinskeans3342]

I like this but why not plant food. It's silly to not help people out super annoying we wanna be native only.

[@NatalieAuer-id4tz]

This park was formerly a landfill. You would probably not want to plant vegetables here.

[@NatalieAuer-id4tz]

Also not sure why it is annoying to plant native species. Many native insects have evolved to eat native plants. They can't survive without them. The more native insects, the more birds the land can support. And maybe even toads and snakes. How is that bad?

[@86Corvus]

The name of this channel reminds us of the parents who are now in jail for denying medical lifesaving treatment to their children, having chosen prayer instead. Disgusting.

[@myniga]

Здорово! Как думаете, в Московской области нужны леса выращенные по способу Мияваки?

[@andrewgoodbody2121]

I think Moscow has a lot more to think about before these, your society is rotting your government is pushing the world to war and your people do nothing, grow balls not trees.

[@Wangwangss79]

I want this in my backyard

[@Adi-ev1uh]

Great initiative

[@mintusherpa7978]

❤

[@paulmcnamara6325]

So proud!!its gotta bee good 4nature wild life an us😊😊😊❤❤❤❤🎉🎉

[@albinyohannan8252]

Fast result 👍🏻

[@MM-mq5uj]

Amazing work!

[@solemanwarner]

my question is can we release chickens or goat in this jungle?

[@ChrisWijtmans]

wtf is this bs? money laundering?

[@Daamin.animator2009]

❤

[@mbeeel]

if you grow fishes alongside, you can spray them with water from fish filter chamber, quite high quality fertilizer water i'd say

[@ligiamiranda9815]

Plantaremos a primeira MFU do Brasil,dia 14 de novembro,na Escola Alberto Torres, Porto Alegre.Sera um presente da VIRADA SUSTENTÁVEL!!! Instituto TodaVida