Trailblazer couple living SELF-SUFFICIENT urban LIFESTYLE

Daisy and Al try as much as possible to live a self-sufficient urban lifestyle in Nairobi, Kenya, growing much of their own food and living in a DIY eco-friendly house. Join them for a tour of their amazing urban home to learn about their gardens, modular house, fishponds and more.
Check out their Instagram account @livingmachinedesigns

[@faithgichuru3617]

This is a really beautiful garden. Wonderful content too. Permaculture is the way to go. Thanks for sharing.

[@amberritchie507]

Beautifully crafted and timely video! Daisy Ritchie and Alan de Boeur are a great inspiration to so many of us who aim to live as self-sufficiently as possible!!

[@xue5767]

Great garden and house! Really nice presentation from the host. You can tell they love what they are doing...

[@ambaluwanga]

Beautiful Permaculture work there that I didn't know was happening right here in Kenya and Nairobi.Hope to visit someday and do some learning.Hope you are also propagating seedlings for all the nice fruit trees and herbs that we can buy.Keep up the good work!

[@kgrandchamp]

Wow what a lovely place! Such an amazingly well thought out garden and home! Thanks Daisy and Al for your wonderful work!

[@michaelbennett7278]

Hi from NeeZealand awesome garden .I have guava cherry.two trees one red one yellow.passion fruit . banana's.long bean.lime trees one Kaffir two figian limes.make teas from rosemary cloves.bay leaves cloves.mint .parsley lemon Myrtle leaves .all the best from NZ

[@divinelivity1111]

Thank you for this video. I admire natural livity

[@stephenleyden9559]

Wow, what a beautiful place.

[@commentarytalk1446]

I was going to ask what animals you get there: Cormarants and Fish Eagles and Bees. Anything else? How integrated as an ecosystem do you think your food/forest garden? The house is really impressive - it surely helps at that Latitude (sun and general ambient temperature year round? It does look like paradise and I wish you both much happiness in your living.

[@verompakanyane7892]

Bravo! Thanks for sharing your success story and true healthy lifestyle 🙏❤️

[@sandamalijayakody2932]

Wish you both all the best for a self sufficient life..💙💙💙💙

[@perfectpiece1289]

Ooh how I love farming and such environment, I would really love to visit {am in Nairobi}.

[@rosalbadelriogarcia9598]

So lovelie!!! And so awesome!

[@catekamau3424]

How I wish every home in Kenya would be like this!

[@ritapowell9864]

Am so impressed by what you have managed to do. I would be really interested to learn more about the modular build. Organic farming! Kudos

[@logic5204]

This is a beautiful home.

[@ruthmiles4826]

Beautiful!!

[@davidgoodland3154]

wow! Inspiring

[@charleskuyeko1660]

Thai is very good type of life as if you are like Adam & Eva in their original Garden made by God. I admire your environment you are living in. Congratulations. Try to keep a bee hive too so that you can harness honey to make your health better. You can keep pigs for meat and a cow for your milk. By so doing you will have manure for your plants. Chickens are also missing in your area. A dog is also important to keep. However everything here is beautiful. Keep it up.

[@melissagorgeous16]

Amazing way of living.

[@mphil8433]

Very nice!

[@steverudy1954]

This is awesome

[@lindaj7167]

These guys are so smart

[@kiharawaweru30]

Great and very educative Daisy and Alan would you mind helping me out in Naivasha Kenya. Am retired recently and I have started such a garden but i would really appreciate your experience. Ian

[@GrowingSmall]

Hi Ian, Daisy and Al would be happy to hear from you. Check out their website livingmachines.co.ke/ and find their contact address there. Best wishes, Jakob.

[@bzflote]

Subscribed! Excellent channel

[@cheronomercy6591]

Subscribed. Best KZbin channel.

[@GrowingSmall]

Woah, high praise. Thanks so much! Currently taking a small break but will soon be back with more content :)

[@ecocentrichomestead6783]

I don't use the term permaculture because the capitalists have monetized it into a few forms and fancy jargon. IMO permaculture should be an attempt to analyze your local conditions to build an edible landscape that can be maintained indefinitely.

[@GrowingSmall]

Awesome comment, thank you.

[@judyolulo7326]

Lovely

[@adbc8737]

Inspiring…🌀❤️🌀

[@RobbyMuhumuza]

Enjoyed your videos. New subscriber from Uganda.

[@GrowingSmall]

Thanks for the sub!

[@bastiangreene8447]

This is really awesome. I too, want to work with land and teach kenyans permaculture. Thanks for your content

[@justaghost1014]

Do it. I'm starting a small plot in South Africa to experiment with permaculture meat prediction and pasture raised animals.

[@faithgichuru3617]

Karibu sana(Welcome). We are ready to learn.

[@gichena5705]

There is nothing to teach kenyans here. Permaculture is nothing new to Africans. Another effect of colonisation project. These knowledge systems are indigenous to us.

[@fabianmunene5564]

I'm I the only one awaiting part two?

[@forestfamilyadventures8956]

Love it.. Well done guys the place looks amazing.. I'm going to try the chia seed story.. Did some amaranth this year its so time consuming but I enjoyed it.. Felt so connected to the earth

[@GrowingSmall]

That's lovely to hear, yea, give chia a try, it's an amazing plant!

[@forestfamilyadventures8956]

@@GrowingSmall looks so bushey and will fill out some spots in my food forest

[@puntaescala]

que buen lugar

[@kamaubeth671]

Good job

[@annenjeri2988]

Waa this is in nairobi? Well done guys

[@misskeraa467]

Wow

[@BillyMW]

congratulations to the couple, would love to learn how to live like this it must be hardwork and is it a fulltime job?

[@jessiedeboer1085]

You guys rock. Mad inspirations

[@GrowingSmall]

Thanks Jessie :) Hope all your projects are going well!

[@calistamolly812]

Tilapia is the best testing fish , you could prefer to have it dominate by not introducing larger fish wich may eat it.

[@karungarimaina7613]

The leafy plant that you guys use as a protein fertilizer (sorry I only know the Kikuyu name for it), is a perfect vegetable for mashed foods. Especially great for baby food and it's also very nutritious and delicious too!

[@GrowingSmall]

Absolutely, I've eaten it a few times and loved it very much! Thanks also for the sub!

[@totobigi798]

Ni gani hio tafadhali

[@pg2465]

Nicely explained.. subscribed 👍 Just need to improve in pronouncing plant names specifically those which are not common for outside Keniya viewer or you can add the names of plants that you grows in description as well.

[@GrowingSmall]

Thanks for the sub, will take your comment into account in future videos!

[@lucyg2410]

@Daisy and Al, Good job and very informative video. Do you have open garden visits for people to see your lovely garden?

[@GrowingSmall]

I don't think they do. But you could get in touch with them if you're keen to set up a meeting: ​ Email: [e-mail]

[@Nanananana127]

Please offer a course in permaculture for beginners! I live in Nairobi and would sign up for it.

[@anneterwitte7959]

Thank you! Would love to find out more about the house.

[@GrowingSmall]

The house is amazing, would have loved to show more details (also from the inside).

[@neens1369]

Please do a house tour

[@Rebecca-ns4xe]

@@GrowingSmall Agree! Please do a house tour would love to see more about how you built this

[@3bouldersurban653]

Who build your modular panels for the house? Any contact or website! Thanks

[@RobbyMuhumuza]

House tour please.

[@shanthiweettaea1540]

👍👍👍

[@logic5204]

How did the hyacinth end up in your pond?

[@christopherbennett6571]

This is all really great and looks like you manage it so well, but this isn't what I would call urban at all.

[@gracerozinah2411]

This is so nice.

[@GrowingSmall]

Glad it resonates with you!

[@misaventuras6995]

Nice proyect. Would like more detail information on how to manage to black water. Thanks

[@GrowingSmall]

If I do another film I'll certainly try to go deeper. Thanks.

[@georgerichardson633]

Yes please do - really interested to see how you manage this - and plants you use for cleaning

[@rrsk88_farming]

💚

[@Servant_of_Christ]

I would get rabbits, chickens and pigs and grow feed to them if I had your land. I'm avoiding anything plant and I only eat what run, fly's or swim.

[@jeevapillay2581]

Comorants where about in Africa

[@richards7803]

When the water drains to the swale, how do you control mosquito issue ?

[@nursekarimatcanada]

I tell you what Richard mosquitoes 🦟 are bog issues in Africa 🌍 I wish we can actually 😢 get rid of it

[@sonbuingoc5108]

Tôi yêu các bạn! Tôi là người Việt nam rất mong các bạn ra video tiếng Việt

[@GrowingSmall]

Cảm ơn! Rất vui vì bạn đã tìm thấy video của tôi!

[@Lucyorganicgarden]

Would love the name of the prefabricated housing company or is that you? Also the fat separator off the kitchen. Did you “Maarifa” that yourself? Could you share the design idea too!

[@GrowingSmall]

Yep, Al has been running the housing company. The fat separator also is his design. Hopefully he can share with us some day!

[@Lucyorganicgarden]

Could Al share the prefab company name! Am thinking of building upcountry kenya

[@schaudhry4976]

Jambo. How much was your plot bought for.? Do you sell your surplus or share it?

[@johnndungu2899]

Did I hear Kenya?

[@ruirwathika]

Very impressive. I have a 3 acre land 90 kilometers from Nairobi by Ndakaini Dam. Would you consider consulting in building a house like that? Im willing to pay. Just started converting the farm into organic farming.

[@GrowingSmall]

Get in touch with Al and Daisy! ​Tel/Whatsapp: [phone]​ Email: [e-mail] They'll love hearing from you.

[@ruirwathika]

@@GrowingSmall thanks so much for the contacts. Will reach out.

[@lauferrari6998]

Thank you for teaching us.It would help to see the names of the plants written, specially for non native speakers ,like me

[@Sherri1971US]

Can you build me a house . I would love live like you folks

[@sohamz]

The way they've been doing it is inspiring! Sheer greatness!!! However, there is one thing that rang an alarm towards the end of the video. I live in an area where people consume a lot of fish and hence I would urge you to look into this particular variant of fish called 'Telapia' that they're consuming. Telapia is a genetically modified species of fish & there is research proving of it posessing carcinogenic elements which takes the body years to flush out of the system, meaning much of it remains in the body and hence possesses a considerable amount of risk. No such variant of fish freely came into existence in Nature. After coming this close, why not go all natural xx

[@GrowingSmall]

Interesting, thanks for raising this point I shall do some research on this as well!

[@totobigi798]

My dear if you anything you want to eat you do research then you will starve to death. People have been eating tilapia for a very long time en nothing happens.

[@sohamz]

@toto bigi Sigh! There is little meaning arguing with you then. Fyi the toxins keep accumulating and signs of disease mostly start showing, once they've accumulated for around a decade. You're right in saying that.. Who has the time of the day to keep count of such things, eh? People are too busy dying of covid these days. And I personally know people, who have always eaten consciously and moderately, never consumed fish or meat & never starved to death; rather lived a long HEALTHY life, mostly due to the conscious choices they made, each n every day of their lives.

[@mariaangelicagiannini5697]

Brasileira, tentando assistir o vídeo com legendas em inglês, imagens distantes ...a menina pegou uma flor amarela q não foi possível identificar 😏😒😔🙄

[@jauharahsassy4477]

Why don't they go back to their home...

[@HinduBoy]

Omg, anytime i see paleos with Bananas in the back, being labeled "trailerblazers"! 🙉🌬🐁

[@GrowingSmall]

Needed a catchy title :)

[@annkamau2760]

Tafadhali naomba kuwasiliana na wewe

[@madeleine7729]

You lost me at 'plastic sheeting'

[@jeremymckenzie6038]

First you steal the land, then you steal the technology, then you commercialize, package and present it like you're " trendsetting".......you people never cease to Amaze. and your audience is captivated with what the locals have been doing before you guys ever saw the sun......this is priceless!!

[@gammaraymonkey]

"steal the land". There are more Africans living in the UK than whites living in the entire continent of Africa. "Steal the technology". Explain how this "technology" was stolen.

[@kailinyah8843]

Why

[@elizabethkangere2675]

I love this concept.. this way would help small scale farmers. Are you willing to educate the rural you start with my sister who has an acre. Please if so contact me on the messenger.

[@olivercampbell2839]

Where are you living?? Oob? Onb? Orb? URB? I've listen to daisy say that 10 times while she cradles the pretend baby.

[@durranay]

Laantee ishtehaar of expert option. That guy looks like a tea stall waiter . Such ads should be banned in Pakistan

[@frankmaninde3989]

What about Insects, snakes,..!?.monkey...!?

[@Lucyorganicgarden]

Did you call your swale design “google culture”??

[@GrowingSmall]

Hugel Culture. Check it out, it's a great concept that can be used anywhere where there's a garden or growing space.

[@Lucyorganicgarden]

@@GrowingSmall I have made three since your video !! Fantastic concept!’ I am starting a food Forest in Arusha Tanzania !

[@crochetingaroundnewzealand]

Hugelkulture. Put braches and logs down first. It rots down and feeds the soil for years

[@cultivatingwellness4028]

@@crochetingaroundnewzealand Thank you🌞🌎🌱 kind greetings from Kigali

[@cultivatingwellness4028]

@@Lucyorganicgarden Congratulations 🎉 you should definitely start a channel to share🌱🌎

[@florencebrisco1231]

The thumbnail spells "Sufficiency" wrong. Not very sufficient grammar hahaha just kidding :-)

[@GrowingSmall]

Have NOT noticed this up to now, lol, may change it at some point if I get the chance but I do like to try and live with imperfections.....

[@florencebrisco1231]

@@GrowingSmall you people ought to be shamed of yourselves!!! Just kidding haha no problem 🙏😂 great channel by the way! 😊

[@GrowingSmall]

@@florencebrisco1231 thanks for appreciating the channel :)

[@stevetaylor1904]

They are far from self sufficient😂🤣

[@HinduBoy]

This is modern Colonial invasion... #bougie

[@stephenleyden9559]

Does that mean African migrants are invading Australia?

[@stephenleyden9559]

@@halimohasan4844 DUH, How is that related my point, dropkick.

[@HinduBoy]

@@stephenleyden9559 koreans (for sho) and other coloreds (possibly)...