Urban Permaculture with Geoff Lawton

[@tracestevens1773]

Too wordy. Get to the point. This is boring.

[@survivalpodcasting]

Your cup is too full, away with you until you are no longer a spoiled child.

[@johnfitbyfaithnet]

@@survivalpodcasting indeed

[@Paintbrushpilot]

@@survivalpodcasting Classic spoiled brat!!! Great response!

[@survivalpodcasting]

@@Paintbrushpilot so ironic that you and the other tard bitch about the wisdom here taking too long to absorb then refer to others as "spoiled brats". Clearly you are seeking attention so here you go, I will give it to you. Post pinned!

[@mind9528]

Ahmmm.. You are boring more than this..? 🤭🙃

[@ciaran3601]

Imagine looking outside your window at your lawn and Geoff is just there calling it pointless 😂 I love everything this man says

[@khalidthenursener118]

Nice ideas, I live in California and I implemented this concept for the last 12 years in my yard, you can eat something everyday around the year from my yard

[@jaicymelisse5532]

That sounds like paradise! God Bless you!

[@imissnickplur4964]

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[@flowerpower3618]

Just curious, how close do you grow your fruit trees? I need mine to be 8 feet because we downsized .

[@khalidthenursener118]

@@flowerpower3618 I have 5 ft space between the trees, and I use the side yard around the home to plant the trees

[@megaarbok3290]

“Well here we are in the suburbs; it’s just really a lawn mowing, time wasting, money gobbling, environmental, and economical disaster. It’s really quite disappointing.” -Geoff Lawton 6:29

[@giojared]

Great video. The day I stopped growing grass, and started growing food started a chain reaction in our home.

[@coachcal4876]

How did you get rid of the dreaded Bermuda Grass???

[@quiksilver1j]

Is it just me or does it seem like replacing healthy forests with grass lawns is a horrible idea for our climate?

[@natskis]

@@quiksilver1j you are correct. Grass is better than concrete and ashphalt... but trees, fruits and vegetables in abundance is much better than just grass

[@Weirdomanification]

@@coachcal4876 block it from getting sunlight.

[@whitemusk3954]

What a phrase . True the day you start growing vegetables, every other activities look useless 😁😁😁

[@richardmang2558]

Geoff's comment about massive amounts of lawn is spot on @ 6:02 ... "We've just got obsessed with this crazy system of Maintained Disorder through Absolute Tidiness that is just not a natural system. We've gotta get over it."

[@maryjane-vx4dd]

My oldest took a picture of an apple tree in a natural sitting. It was beautiful. When I asked her where the picture was taken as I wanted to visit the area, I was blown away when I was told it was my back yard. Until I saw that picture all I saw was an overgrown lawn that needed mowed. Quite sad I couldn't see the beauty of it until I saw that picture

[@j-theorythequantummechanic6025]

"slip the fruit trees in, game over" -Geoff Lawton

[@audreycermak]

I wish I could make every lawn owner in the USA watch this! Thanks, Geoff! You are an inspiration. 💖🌿🦋🌻

[@joansmith3492]

I also wish I could make every HOA committee watch this and change their stupid rules.

[@jennychuang808]

Same to Australians

[@JB-yg3ew]

HOA's are quite frustrating. Hopefully the culture shifts and people on the HOA's decide to go this route.

[@shellydurunna]

He's got 1 watching.

[@cristymenapace677]

@@shellydurunna That is so cool! Way to keep an open mind!

[@lisakukla459]

This is absolutely dreamy. I cannot wait till I have my own space and can just go nuts.

[@r4tgl]

Wow finding Geoff is like when I first discovered Alan Watts or Jim Rohn. Important experts in their field that you can feel the enthusiasm radiate from. You can't help but stop and listen. Thank you for sharing this 🙏

[@demetriusm8221]

Well said!

[@johnfitbyfaithnet]

Agreed

[@annapachaclarke2392]

Yes, I'v only just discovered his channel, after seeing other channels who showed very little of value, but ranted on and on about themselves 😴 and where they bought supplies from! Geoff's passion and knowledge are the most valuable lessons anyone could have, don't you agree 😊

[@ariaprilambang289]

My most concern about this kind of gardening is, horror guest: snakes. How did you cope with that?

[@jakep8678]

I gotta get one of those signs "trespassers will be composted"

[@subtropicalpermaculture]

I discovered permaculture as a young woman in the environmentalist movement, in the late 80s . It brought it all together for me . It could so easily save the planet and I believe ultimately it will. People will need this when their unsustainable system collapses . My whole life now has been a fight with my society over this. I've been drug into court more times than I can count for my gardens and my hens , but I'm so proud to be a part of this movement. "So proud to be tormented at this time." Its a fight worth fighting whether we appear to lose in the short term or not, in the long term we will win this.

[@spoolsandbobbins]

Never. Give. Up. You’re an inspiration.

[@dcmurray6466]

Your facts about lawns are a little off, Geoff. The Taj Mahal was build in 1632, the Crusades ended in 1492. Still didn't stop me from digging up the lawn and planting veges! Wife complained, so I planted a small chamomile lawn for her. She loves it!

[@janicejurgensen2122]

I especially appreciate how your food is used beautifully as landscape! Pure and simply genius!

[@lloydlutz3288]

Thank you Geoff Lawton for making the world a more sustainable and positive place in every way 💚

[@sandracoble7065]

I always enjoy Geoff teaching. He gives me hope that the status quo can be turned around.

[@hvacstudent967]

It’s changing reality as we speak, transhumanists are going to lose!

[@davidschmidt270]

Right?

[@solfeinberg437]

It certainly can be. But, we dont' have to wait - I like that part. I can implement these ideas and share them so more people will have a choice, and I'll have my health and a beautiful place to live, possible financial savings, lower or positive impact on the planet. If we build community it can create political pressure. Interestingly you can solve most problems without cost or while producing high quality products that were being lost. Changing the status quo - I dunno, there's a lot of money in wasteful systems that will struggle to protect itself. Although, we could have an economy and production systems that were truly sustainable. I fear we'll have to have even more major collapse before we embrace these ideas as the status quo. Hopefully we'll have enough of these ideas in place so that as the collapse worsens we can see some people doing really well and, at that point, we'll be ready to embrace any solution. Like how people in refugee situations would be friggin' delighted to implement these systems. In disaster relief. I'm thinking of the Garbage warrior not being able to build earth ships in the U.S. but being embraced by places devastated by hurricanes. And sending their engineers to learn from him.

[@johnfitbyfaithnet]

Agreed

[@annapachaclarke2392]

@@hvacstudent967 Too right. We have had a huge wake up call regarding the transhumanist agenda! It's Good against evil! 👌

[@JellybeanHouseNewfoundland]

Inspiring! My husband and I are living on 3/4 of an acre in the North-Eastern United States. It was mostly lawn when I moved in ten years ago. I started out doing some regular organic gardening in raised beds. Now we have a lush permaculture forest garden, but we still have a lot of unproductive space. This summer and fall we plan to take out what remains of the old lawn. We are always looking for new ideas to help us maximize the use of the space we have. Three-quarters of an acre is really a lot if you can make every square foot count!

[@louisegogel7973]

What state in NE are you in? I’ve been in VT and let my lawn grow many varieties of plants like a meadow for me and for wildlife. I have a tiny patch that’s grown veggies and that’s been plenty for me, planted a few trees here and there, but keep anything near the house low for air and sunlight in our often humid climate, or I would have a mold issue on and in the house. Plantain, dandelion, stinging nettles, lambs quarters, garlic, chives, watercress in the stream, clovers, wild edible rose runner roses (not the beach rosa rugosa), cattails in the pond and marshy area, and more.

[@alexanderockenden2564]

The fact that this video has only 5k views and 16 comments is cause for SERIOUS concern. Not enough are waking up and unplugging from the matrix.

[@JB-yg3ew]

I wish this had millions of views

[@davidschmidt270]

So true....so sad

[@dhedges1340]

algorithm is going to work don't worry

[@stephanmuller1450]

Nearing 50k views already, don't lose hope mate

[@johnfitbyfaithnet]

152k views and 244 comments now. People like this message

[@alexriddles492]

It would be interesting to see Geoff review a temperate climate version of this.

[@VeganChiefWarrior]

its exactly the same but easier.. just less fruit diversity

[@Mark-qe9mr]

You can be as diverse as you want with plant selection. Once these are up and running and you are actively observing your work, then you will begin to notice the micro-climates you have created and that things can grow there that otherwise wouldn't or couldn't in your climate. You can also intentionally create micro-climates. Check out the other Geoff Lawton videos and Sepp Holtzer's work as well. Holtzer has been able to grow squash in the Austrian alps.

[@VeganChiefWarrior]

@@Mark-qe9mr squash grows in summer and they get very long summer days up there so thats no suprise, i get to -3c and ive experimented with micro climates and tropical fruits but it doesnt work as well as you would hope, alot of time the trees with the most protection die the fastest because they need open air and full sun just to keep them warm and dry the soil out in winter so they dont rot, i was maaad on microclimate but unless u live in a desert you really dont get anty heat in winter to store through the night, especially when half the days arent sunny

[@PsychicIsaacs]

@@VeganChiefWarrior you can have plenty of fruit diversity, just temperate climate fruit like apples, pears and plums etc. Apples especially are tremendously hardy. I have a photo of a pair of 800 year old apple trees growing near a manor house in England. They survived the Little Ice Age in the 1600s , when about 1/3 to 1/4 of the human population died in one winter. So, one in three or one in four humans died, but the Apple Trees lived on...

[@VeganChiefWarrior]

@@PsychicIsaacs interesting story, but yea we have alot just not as much and not the diversity all year round like places without frost and cold, frost is the killer of most fruit trees

[@tiarianamanna973]

at 15.20: trespassers will be composted. :D :D :D

[@loue6563]

This has been needed for so long. Most don't have arces to live on. Many don't even have a big yard. But we still neeed to know what we can do and do it!!!!

[@solfeinberg437]

Smaller is easier. And right close to where you live - walking between your car and your front door - you're right there all the time anyway.

[@tonysaladino1062]

This is what MOVE was doing in Philly! Now that white folks are calling this cultural practice their own, health departments are taking them seriously.

[@tonysaladino1062]

@@madmoonrabbit I don't think you understand what I'm saying.

[@tanjamartins5641]

Great video. Love it. I have quails. The eggs are really nice to eat, but the males are a pain in the ass...

[@tonysaladino1062]

How is that any different from...

[@johnfitbyfaithnet]

What do they do?

[@michaeltillman886]

I just love what you guys are doing. This is just the beginning of living in the 5th dimension, a much higher vibration of living. Right on schedule with the real age of Aquarius. Peace my friend, peace!!!!

[@SissyEli]

Blessed Be 🙌🏻

[@shelleyphillips1774]

I'd like to know more about how to create the worm farm within the raised beds (at about 1 hr 32 min). Do you have a link for resources on how to do this in my garden?

[@samanthamariah7625]

I looked up “How to make a worm tower” and many detailed and fun videos came up on how. I made 2 of them in one afternoon. I hope it goes well for you 💚🐛🦋🎋🍃🌻🌼🍀🌿🐌🐝🐞🕷🐜🦎🐟🦃🐓🍂🌎🌏🌍

[@briananderson2219]

Absolutely wonderful! This is my new favorite video of yours, well done sir

[@eagle4life69]

Lots of useful information. Great Video

[@louisegogel7973]

Turn the lawns into lunch! Turn the lawns into food… lol, dandelions, broad and narrow leaf plantain, nettles, purslane, amaranth, lambs quarters, mints, etc etc etc are much of my edible lawn/ sometimes meadow. I love leaving the flowers for the critters, and harvest some red clover for tea for myself. I make frozen pesto cubes for my winter greens out of whatever edible greens are abundant… and it usually is a three day operation to complete enough for a good winter spring supply. Harvest, chop and blend with olive oil and sea salt, pack into ice cube trays or form into balls, freeze, transfer the frozen ones into baggies in the freezer, and lastly, eat whenever I am ready for them and winter has put the greens to bed.

[@Jessica-kk1cz]

Love this - except thats no way treat a rabbit. They’re such sweet, cuddly little friends.

[@vallip4254]

A great lesson for me -- similar garden issues and yes I want more food...old growth trees luckily on the boundaries but in need of a prune - then mulch - I've done a lot of perma learning but i like your style Geoff best - its all about 'delivery' ... and not being twee - precious...thank you this has been invigorating and invaluable...

[@louisegogel7973]

What does twee mean?

[@VeganChiefWarrior]

is the key goal to keep the water from the rainy season in the soil and make it last all the way till the next rainy season? cause im really lazy and sick of watering everything for an hour every other night, i want to find the correct amount of mulch to pull this off

[@richardmang2558]

For free mulch check out www.getchipdrop.com for FREE mulch delivered FREE. It puts you in contact with local tree trimmers looking for a place to dump their shredded tree trimmings.

[@timwilson6884]

This 9th season of House is a little unusual, but I'm digging it.

[@solfeinberg437]

1:23:15 Sydney Australia is composting organic material and looks like repurposing other materials. Demonstrating how to develop permaculture growing systems! I'm worried about the city opposing me gardening. But I did notice that they're promoting rain gardens here in Franklin, TN - depressions with ornamental growing plants - to slow the flow of rainwater. Small step to change those to food, swales, and ponds. They definitely stop you from taking stuff from the trash dump. I was looking at a bunch of tomato cages just sitting on top, that I wanted. There was no way to grab 'em since the guy was approaching. I did grab a couple bed frames I use over crops to prevent deer browse and chicken scratching, while I get the fencing together.

[@jenniferannewerezak6897]

THIS IS WONDERFUL!!! So much wisdom, eloquence, love and care. I'm new to most of these concepts and am getting goosebumps all over... Thank you, thank you, thank you for posting!

[@johnfitbyfaithnet]

Indeed

[@louisegogel7973]

How are you doing with it all now, one year on?

[@paulmageeberry2451]

did he say (at 6:50 in) that if we converted the lawns and nature strips in a city that we could feed the city with the same amount of land??

[@janetwithers7427]

Truly delightful video. 🎄💖🎄 Merry Christmas!!!

[@arcadiapermaculture974]

Geoff is such a badass. Keep up the great work.

[@johnfitbyfaithnet]

Genius thank you for sharing this important information listening from Bangs Texas

[@MatthewSherriff85]

How do i get this guy and a bunch of students to my place for the day to help me, i would be happy just to get the old trees taken out

[@JanColdwater]

The more people that will do this, the better. I love the hydroponic fish pond in the pool rather than the fish in the plastic tanks without any place to explore and be fish. I think the freer, the happier, then the healthier the system will be. I don’t like animals stuck in small cages, not given the chance to free range. Not only are they happier but the grower is healthier from all the free entertainment! 😆 Great show! Thank you 🙏🏻

[@hasansohel88]

Geoff looks younger in this video comparing to a 2 years old video

[@survivalpodcasting]

The DVD this is from is at least 10 years old at this point.

[@daveraybould9539]

Awesome video. Brings me so much hope for the future and ideas for our garden. Thanks Geoff and Co.

[@jenniferannewerezak6897]

Artistry... Intelligence... such a beautiful integration of natural principles alongside urbanization... there's hope here, folks. It grows in abundance!

[@Bali_permaculture]

This is a great video, full of useful and inspiring examples. Thank you Goeff

[@rjaquaponics9266]

Why is every Geoff Lawton video recording at 360 dpi? It's like these videos are made in the 1990's technology! 1080p would dramatically help capture the beauty of plants! Video quality needs to match the level of content Geoff always provides!

[@chriswong8659]

Correct!

[@ChrisGilliamOffGrid]

This is an old video, I saw it years ago.

[@keithbmhabib6594]

inspirational, I have started growing trees now

[@behinddoornumber1]

45:52 Geoff: "Ducks in the city...another great element that can be included" Ducks: "Awww thanks..." Geoff: "Meat, eggs, but also..." Ducks: "Dafuq? I turn my back to you."

[@joyceharris9296]

Save the ducks and fish, I'm vegetarian. Veges please

[@roquemaxo566]

Really a great video, I have liked several contributions but the one that I plan to put into practice is the compost system in terraces, very good! I am in transition from the city to the country and the permaculture project has already started to start at home.

[@FrugalGardenerOntario]

I’m a new gardener here, I’m so glad to see this perfect food abundance sustainable living video, last year I bought my home/property of 1.5 acres to do this, I love saying “it’s easy” too, “it pays for itself”, “I love grocery shopping in my yard”! I wouldn’t feel comfortable with growing food in tires as a container when there’s non toxic free items out there like tree trunks or rocks. Besides that everyone here is super excited to share the good news 🥗🌏✌️

[@samtraji1]

Well, i compliment that governament for complimenting the citizen for creating that nature strip.

[@johnfitbyfaithnet]

Indeed, common sense is still here

[@davidschmidt270]

6 minutes in and I couldn't agree with you more brother👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍💯💯👌👌💯🍻

[@vallip4254]

I love your words - 'the therapy in this system - therapy in relation to the action and interaction to the environment of growing food' this is what i love to hear...everything is Health - from you to the garden to the wildlife to nature to our planet! thank you Geoff.

[@yearofthegarden]

I love this, i used to make a lot of money doing this, set up gardens in people's yards in two days, leave for months, come back and see that half of the plants are mal nurished or dead from neglect, and nothing has been harvested, but you're getting paid, so that's nice, and that's why I am listening to this video, because it is refreshing my mind for how to convince people they will survive the pandemic if they give me money and access to their backyard.

[@palliaskamen5722]

Why do you no longer set up gardens as a vocation?

[@sandyb1184]

Wonderful inspiring video, thank you!

[@antoniodossantos5960]

Magical...Thanks Geoff🌎 Greetings from Colombia/El inmigrante venezolano escritor/writer 🌎

[@joemc111]

I am a beekeeper so My lawn gets no weed or dug killer. At this time I am working on a water level with the METRIC system. I decided to put a string Between my 2 sticks so they are 10 meters apart. Then I put an Aluminum angle on the side of the stick so I can slid the marker to zero when I use it. So if you are building a level swale you just use the zero mark, but I marked the Two slides so you can layout a swale with a slope. I have marked the Aluminum angles with markings at 1% ,2% ,3% and 4% on the lower and upper side of the zero mark. So to layout a swale on a slope or grade all you have to do is find your starting point, you could where you want the water to end up or where you are collecting it from. I think a 1 1/2% swale would be the most you could do without having erosion. I haven’t marked the Aluminum slides with with 1/2% or even 1/4% markings, but there is room to do that. I am using the metric system because is easy to understand. The poles are 10 meters apart so we have 1000 centimeters, so 1% rise is 10 cm and you divide 10 by 2 and you get 5 cm in between each marking on my scale so there’s a lot of room to mark a quarter or even an eighth of a percent which would be really a slow running ditch

[@franziskani]

thanks for the in detail explanation. And for wanting to be helpful.

[@AwakenedSon]

Sir you are a great planner. I love how quickly you communicate your ideas and reasoning with your diagram in 1:00:00

[@jacocalitz4069]

Thank you Sir. This was ons of the most exciting things i have watched. May all these ideas flower and bare abundant fruits.

[@gm2407]

Taj Mahal was commissioned in 1632. Laune was first used circa 1540 as a word for communal grazing inclosure for livestock. So that story doesn't fit.

[@owlfairy]

The word 'laune' may have existed earlier, but didn't get applied to non-productive landscaping until later, when it got fashionable (inspired by Taj Mahal).

[@ChrisGilliamOffGrid]

Thanks for posting this Jack, I haven't seen this one in years. Geoff is always fun to watch.

[@gravediggy]

Awesome episode from Jeffy

[@jordycorvers7465]

thank you so much for uploading this!

[@gregcoconut8838]

Love the simple illustrations through out the video. Anyone know where to find them other than in the video and taking a snapshot?

[@Mark-qe9mr]

Yes, draw you own.

[@Cyara248]

Lovely video. Thank you. Always saddens me greatly to see caged rabbits as shown... 43:08... might be helpful to humans but downright cruel to a sentient creature. Can't get over how common this is.... even in Permaculture circles. Systems are designed around the needs of chickens Geoff.... why not rabbits? They're more intelligent than chickens.

[@jimsmij]

I appreciate your position, I do, but this is still far better living conditions than commercial chicken houses. I'd rather see 10,000 rabbits in 10,000 backyards instead of 10,000 chickens crammed into one commercial chicken house. We can strive for perfection but if we do nothing because it's not perfect we wouldn't be any help at all.

[@Cyara248]

@@jimsmij Commercial chicken farming has nothing to do with my position. Neither does perfection. Sorry but you missed the point. It's so easy to take care of the needs of a rabbit without incarcerating such a sentient creature in a tiny breeding box for commercial gain. Need win-win here.... these are highly intelligent creatures as anyone who understands them can tell you. Sadly your comment merely showed how far off you are from understanding my position.... and how casually callous the conversation about the real needs of a rabbit can be. Go get yourself a rabbit and let it roam and learn its ways and then come back and tell me it's ok to box it for life.

[@gcrew4553]

@@Cyara248 I am in the process of looking into getting rabbits. Do you have some resources for other ways of keeping rabbits I can look into?

[@Cyara248]

@@gcrew4553 Depends on the space you have for them. Give me an idea of what your goals are so I can best help. Great that you're researching best practice 😊

[@gcrew4553]

@@Cyara248 we will be using a 15x15 foot area to have our 3 chickens and add some rabbits to raise for meat.

[@yarongguo6357]

What a great powerful and physical the way to the world !thank you for this video I love it ..

[@heathercollins8609]

Why are there no links to all this amazing information? Where is that compost making/teaching location?

[@spoolsandbobbins]

I’m a homeschooling, homesteading mom of 5. I could watch these all day but there’s work to do. We are working hard to implement permaculture on our 26 acres here in Nova Scotia. It’s a ton of work but we’ll get there… great video!

[@tonysaladino1062]

I lost count after three dozen perennial edibles in our yard. We are looking to create a larger demonstration farm, in Northern Wisconsin.

[@tonysaladino1062]

We got our place and are scheduling classes.

[@Mindy56743]

I wish someone would put out a video for the middle of the USA so I would have some ideas on how to start. 30 acres and desperately need a starting point!

[@parvathynayer354]

He has a lot of information on starting permaculture projects. Start with a small area and gradually increase. There are other KZbin Chan's also.

[@steveriddell1937]

Omg I love your thoughts ive all ways wanted to be able to leave a negative as possible foot print , love organic veggies just hopeless at keeping plants alive or healthy hope I can properly understand your videos to put into workable life styles

[@jaicymelisse5532]

You can do it! It all starts with the soil, there are many great videos about how to make good compost :)

[@jay90374]

We have enough people being negative, try to be a positive force for a change! 😀

[@johnfitbyfaithnet]

@@jay90374 agreed 👍

[@findingjoy4725]

Question: Can edible foods be planted in a garden in front of a yew hedge - is this safe (re eating the edibles, not the yew)? Thanks for any guidance on this.

[@yorms1321]

I always come back to this video. It's just amazing and always inspiring. Thanks

[@allendeanhuscusson459]

Where is the biochar

[@arcadiapermaculture974]

Geoff is such a badass. Keep up the great work.

[@Dust2LivingSoil]

3:51 Hey that’s the best idea I’ve seen so far to keep people off of your future forests is make them think that you do awful things.. Every time I go and apply a bucket of microbes somewhere they’ll think I’m poisoning things 😅😂

[@everlastinggrass]

Oh Geoff, hahahaha you should of just jumped in that pond after those remarks. Go swimmin in that there pond!!!! Hahahahhaa thanks for your honest attempts at this world, I surely appreciate it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@GregArzabal]

More of a question for Geoff, I hav an acre in west Texas with irrigation rights, 2gates to feed my land n is gravity fed frm main canal. Currently hav 12fruit trees n minimal vegis. 3fruit tree guilds which r watered wit irrigation n all my leaves n grass clippings I dumped around my trees, n doing better thn evr but want2expand, more trees n vegis n reduce my grass space. How would b my best beneficial way to do this to benefit my expansion n make the most of my irrigation water?

[@eleanorerosanova7538]

This all Sounds so Wonderful! I don't know if I can have this. We're in zone 11 b. No lawns. Only clay yards. I live in a Desert that gets 120°-125° degrees in summer and in winter 40-30° . Can get down to 13°. I've had problems finding trees and veggies that grow here. I've made a few beds. Plus, I can't have chickens here. Not zoned for it. But I love your videos. Hope ABBA willing I can do this bit by bit.

[@learntocrochet1]

One of the gardens, the one that was just two years old I believe, had a fig tree near the house. It was little still, but planted close to other bushing plants. Fig trees get BIG - can their size be controlled? What is the plan when things get too crowded? Remove some? I need to learn a lot more but wondered if anyone knew the answer to this particular quesiton.

[@robertmoore1215]

I so appreciate permaculture philosophy, but I sorely wish demonstrations and books applied to my growing zone & soil conditions. Cheesecake clay soil, torrential rain, and polar vortexes, oh my!

[@djedmoros7002]

A lot of places do this faux-irrigation because the territories that they actually occupy are scrubby, ugly badlands. The region around Idaho is a massive outlier for lawncare and water consumption, however, they also have the right climate for swamp coolers (cheap, efficient A/C with just some water). And when it's worldwide, then we're usually talking walled/gated communities of families that are either bound by HOAs, neighbors, or the plumb reality of their lawn without care when they realize their environment is mostly brown, not green-- which traps moisture and is ultimately better for the environment than no care, which is most care. Those weeds get in through gaps and those gaps are venting and compacting anyhow. Some folks just live on nice green 1/2acres+, don't need it unless they're selling memberships, but 5000sq ft looks pretty miserable without some verdant color

[@JackPitmanNica]

Damn, what an incredible video. Life-changing stuff here. Thanks for uploading this

[@sueshaw6609]

Is there a way to do a happy in between? I recently bought 4 acres in southern USA. If we don’t keep things mowed down it all goes crazy!!!! We don’t have the time or money to do permaculture on 4 acres right now. So we are mowing this messy mixture of grasses and other wild things that grow above our heads and planning a small garden for now. Is there a better solution that can be quickly implemented for the weeds and grasses or is mowing them ok. Your videos are amazing btw. I’m so happy I found you!😍

[@marcelasantander7457]

That is a marvel, indeed, but...there is A LOT of knowledge wich is not cheap to acquire , and equipment/implementing costs are also BIG. I`m quite appalled...

[@inthesparklingsky]

Can I have Geoff coming to see my balcony and transform it into a permaculture garden please? 😂

[@kinitboybibera7868]

Watching 26th September 2021 "Trespassers will be composted" lol

[@richlijacanacua]

What an awesome solutions of the unhealthy urban lifestyles. If the whole world will humbly adopt this ideas, this will provide solutions of the most problems of sickness, famine and costly wasted energy. In our devastating modern urban lifestyles and the costly poisonous modern way of farming. This is the real solutions! Let us go back to the Narural way of living.

[@mavisdavisify]

I have to disagree that agriculture is 97% useless. The home gardens he features are wonderful. They provide for the people who plant and tend them. However, without large scale agriculture these people would starve. They simply do not produce enough calories. Where’s the protein and fat our bodies need to thrive. Veg and fruit are important but you cannot be healthy on fruit and veg alone. It is foolhardiness to grow lawns instead of food but there simply isn’t enough space to grow wheat, corn, rice, barley, oats; the grains we use for bread, noodles the base of many cultures food systems. Where are the animals and how are they being fed? Chickens work well in the suburbs but they cannot grow big enough to become meat or to lay eggs eating food scraps alone. Using fish to fertilize and water the garden is genius but I’m not sure how many people in cities or suburbs are able or willing to tend that system. I’m not trying to discourage permaculture. I just think it leaves out some of the realities of the scale of food production required to feed billions of people.

[@elvisream3322]

As long as you have an unlimited budget you can do this too! I agree about the lawns mine is the contributor to my compost that I don't have enough of and I don't use chems "ever"

[@catherineayotte6748]

As a Vegan I suggest to do what I did with my rabbits... I took 12 foot fences 100 feet long 4 times so 400 feet long tunnel for rabbit to runn jump and play... between every 100 foot I installed the biggest dog cage for them to have different rooms.... I'm up north so Each room is for sun bath or cool place or 3 season and a 4 season under 21 feet greenhouse... I think in this video all is wonderful but not for animals... they need more space and it can easily be shared on this beautiful garden montage..

[@therealmrsnatch]

This was so fantastic, everything I didn't know that I needed. I love Mr.Lawton

[@worksmith5223]

Love the recreation of Bill Mollison and the series in danger of falling fruit. Good use of futurescape imagining with the graphics animation s

[@brianl1813]

So Uplifting while Depressing at the same time. Uplifting to realize the potential we all have. Depressing because the general public is too consumed with themselves to even comprehend the earth's destruction for power and profit...

[@WinterDomeFly]

4:05 The Taj Mahal was commissioned in 1631, so you're a good few hundred years off there Geoff

[@memdass747]

Where is the refuse station in Australia… is there a website. I’d like to be part of the change of our refuse stations (dump) in America, starting in my county. Does this refuse station focus on only compost able products … ?

[@toffeebluenose7331]

Algea full of B12,but a bag from Aldi..algea from aldi is the best algea. Good for the amune system and clears up infections

[@ClareAndAlec]

1:19:50 when sheet mulching, a few rocks, and a kiddy pool of water can save a lot of time otherwise spent spraying your newspaper or cardboard with a hose. You can soak the next batch while you remove tape from the last batch (in the case of cardboard) or lay it down. There's probably also less water lost to evaporation, but they do become somewhat fragile, and corrugated cardboard can hold a great deal of water in the corrugations, which should be poured out.

[@Big-Government-Is-The-Problem]

i agree with the whole premise and i wish all yards were gardens, but really this is suburban permaculture not urban. someone on a 30th floor apartment with a 2ftx3ft balcony cant grow enough food to sustain even 1 person, and thats assuming the building rules even allow you to grow plants.

[@alexgreene130]

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[@pcookson]

Amazing ideas I wish we could all do. But I am adding up the labor and materials cost of such a thing on a typical urban lot and can't see ever recovering the cost savings over time during the lifetime of the owner when you consider how often people move around or the fact that this time of landscaping is typically done by the older generations who will have even less years to benefit. It does help the next generation if they adopt the same philosophy and I suppose the value may be added in to the next sell price of the property. This can be a common viral type of gardening if communities can pool together resources of labor and materials and better with govt grant money for improving cities. Just does not see cost effective for busy younger generations with less money to spare. Certainly a longer term evolution over years developing the infrastrucure would be more realistic for the average person getting by each month.