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PERMACULTURE | Forum
SWR02
Jun 4 '20, 00:04
"Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys to India to film the epic work of the Paani Foundation’s Water Cup Competition. We tour the village of Velu, in Maharashtra, who won the 2016 competition to install the most amount of water harvesting structures in a 45 day period. Guided by Paani Foundation’s chief advisor, Dr. Avinash Pol, we take a ride through the village watershed and see a massive water diversion and groundwater recharge project that has dramatically improved the lives, economy, ecology and stability of this village. Although the Paani Foundation doesn't use the word Permaculture to describe what they do, we examine why their work has turned into the biggest Permaculture project on Earth!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDMnbeW3F8A
Part 5
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SWR02
Jul 13 '20, 01:57
Earthship. Off-grid mansions. https://youtu.be/wVp5koAOu9M
With walls made from old tires packed with earth, as well as upcycled glass bottles and cans, Earthships have always been built with mainly found materials. The home provides its own energy (with photovoltaics and passive solar and geothermal tubes), water (rainwater and even dew-water capture) and grows food in the essential greenhouse (necessary for temperature regulation and for filtering the water to be reused).
Costs range from $100,000 for a Simple Survival model to $1.5 million for the top-of-the-line Global design. Earthship Biotecture has just completed their first Encounter: an affordable model that provides all the power, water and food of a more costly home.
Deborah Binder has been building Earthships for the past 8 years, both her own home, and community projects in places like Malawi and Puerto Rico. She gave us a tour of the first Encounter build, as well as the Global model she is test-living. We stopped in at the Encounter build #3 where foreman Phil Basehart pounded tires and explained how the Encounter compares to other models.
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SWR02
Aug 1 '20, 09:39
Soil microbiome explained. Plus panel conversation about the role of science in informing management. Savory Institute.
https://neighborhood.openlid.org/video/view/1011
SWR02
Aug 19 '20, 12:00
Want a permaculture design? Go to www.EarthCraftPermaculture.com for a design or www.DiscoverPermaculture.com to go through the school and learn how to become a permaculture designer yourself. After a few years, you'll be able to create an amazing design yourself. In this video, the same permaculture teacher who trained Jeff Sokol (owner of EarthCraft), Geoff Lawton, exhibits how permaculture works in his farm in Australia, and how you can introduce it into your life with a good designer.
SWR02
Aug 22 '20, 00:50
From Weedy Forests to Grassy Woodlands tells the story of a community-led permaculture initiative to mitigate forest fire risk using goats and hand tools rather than herbicides, heavy machinery, and burn-offs. On the edge of Daylesford, a town on Dja Dja Wurrung country in Victoria, Australia prone to massive bush fires, a small group of community-minded folk have pulled together to work towards restoring the ecology of their commons forest – in order to stop the future need for controlled burn-offs by the local fire authority. Burn-offs keep the township safe from out-of-control fires, but they hinder the forest’s ability to regenerate, and thus cannot provide the environment necessary for the diversity of insects, birds and animals that are necessary in a healthy forest on a healthy planet. Restoring the forest also allows for traditional indigenous burns to take place, as the danger created by flammable non-native species has been reduced. The work being done by the Goathand Cooperative is not only showing stunning results on the forest floor, it’s having much broader effects: the forest’s wildlife is thriving, the goats are healthy and happy, but in addition neighbours previously dubious about the project have come on board, so that new and strong community connections are being made. And as one Cooperative member says in the film, an important re-connection is also being made with nature. “We haven’t always been trammellers of land,” says Patrick Jones. This connection to the soil and to the forest is, he believes, “our way back to sanity”. From Weedy Forests to Grassy Woodlands offers inspiration to anyone looking for ways to regenerate their own or a commons forest, anyone feeling the urgency of mitigating the potential disasters of forest fires in the most natural way possible, anyone in a locality and position to use goats for that purpose, and just anyone seeking reconnection to the earth that created and sustains us! ** Follow the Goathand Cooprative ** https://goathand.blogspot.com/
SWR02
Aug 22 '20, 12:29
5-Year-Old Food Forest & Homestead Tour | Spring Update
Curious to know how our own farm is coming along after the winter has passed? If you are new to our channel, this is our home base, Sandhill Farm in Spring Hill, Florida. The farm's main purpose is to serve as a model & species bank for others in our own community or who also live in a similar climate to our own zone 9a (just north of Tampa). We grow tropical & temperature fruits, spices, herbs & perennial vegetables that come to us from similar climates from all over the world!
The component to our success with these sub/tropical species is the oak canopy that we use as a living greenhouse. The old oaks allow us to push the subtropical edge, growing sub/tropical species & collecting as much diversity as we can find. Our primary focus is building soil, encouraging maximum biodiversity above the ground & below. The only irrigation used on the farm is for our nursery. Heavy mulching, constant cover crops, dynamic accumulators, nitrogen fixers & other beneficial species = a booming perennial agriculture system!
SWR02
Aug 22 '20, 12:51
Full Documentary: Man Spends 30 Years Turning Degraded Land into Massive Forest (Fools & Dreamers)
The incredible story of how degraded gorse-infested farmland has been regenerated back into beautiful New Zealand native forest over the course of 30 years..
Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest is a 30-minute documentary about Hinewai Nature Reserve, on New Zealand’s Banks Peninsula, and its kaitiaki/manager of 30 years, botanist Hugh Wilson. When, in 1987, Hugh let the local community know of his plans to allow the introduced ‘weed’ gorse to grow as a nurse canopy to regenerate farmland into native forest, people were not only skeptical but outright angry – the plan was the sort to be expected only of “fools and dreamers”.
Now considered a hero locally and across the country, Hugh oversees 1500 hectares resplendent in native forest, where birds and other wildlife are abundant and 47 known waterfalls are in permanent flow. He has proven without doubt that nature knows best – and that he is no fool.
Host a screening of the film:
While we've made this film free to watch on YouTube, if you're holding a public screening you'll need a license. We've made the fees very low to be accessible to all communities and we'll be splitting the income with Hinewai Reserve. Check out http://foolsanddreamers.comto learn more about the film and screening licenses. Thank you for your support!
** More about Hinewai Reserve** https://www.hinewai.org.nzhttps://www.facebook.com/hinewai.org.nz/
SWR02
Aug 26 '20, 21:11
Nearly 30 years ago, Trees for Life Founder, Alan Watson-Featherstone stood in the Universal Hall and in front of 300 people made a life-long commitment to restore the ancient Caledonian Forest.
He started with no resources, no knowledge, no access to land, no funds, but his passion and inspiration have carried him forward and now Trees for Life not only helps nature to restore the Scottish Highlands - it also helps people reconnect with their spirit, with hope and with the land.
Alan's talk also includes a wide range of his photography illustrating both the damage to the land and the difference our work makes.
https://youtu.be/nAGHUkby2Is
SWR02
Aug 30 '20, 02:18
India's Water Revolution #5: Permaculture Rescue for Dying Farmland
Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys to India to film the epic work of Aranya Agricultural Alternatives. We tour the village of Ellarthi, in Andhra Pradesh, where the Andhra Pradesh Drought Mitigation Project has saved dying farmland through rainwater harvesting, tree planting, composting, and bio-organic fertilizer production. Guided by Aranya Agricultural Alternative's co-founder, Padma Koppula, we visit the work and see the effects of a watershed-scale water storage project that has dramatically improved the lives, economy, ecology and stability of this region!
SWR02
Sep 12 '20, 09:04
Anthony Fauci has published a paper blaming farming and ranching for pandemics, jumping on the UN's Biodiversity agenda, and setting the stage for new Senate Bill 4453, "Food Supply Protection Act of 2020," which codifies the Rockefeller Foundation's takeover of food. After a year of predictive programming about the next deadly pandemic having its genesis in poultry farms, rumors now abound about a deliberate brucellosis infection of our food supply - this could accomplish a number of objectives in the technocratic, transhumanist takeover of food. Christian explores the latest in the #FoodWars. FULL SHOW NOTES:http://www.iceagefarmer.com/2020/09/08/farms-blamed-for-covid19-brucellosisfalse-flag-sb4453-give-up-the-farm/
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SWR02
Sep 12 '20, 23:32
This is an incredible natural food forest grown in Auroville, Tamil Nadu, India
As a teen, he went to J Krishnamurti School in the United Kingdom, where he discovered his passion for farming and a life close to nature. He wanted to live close to nature and grow his own food. A school teacher inspired him to go to Auroville.
SWR02
Sep 13 '20, 00:05
Sustainable City Living on 1/10th of an Acre | Degrowth in the Suburbs
What does sustainable living in the city look like? By living more simply, creating permaculture gardens, utilizing energy technologies such as biogas and solar power, and taking part in community initiatives like car sharing, this household creates money and time savings that enable them to work fewer hours and develop a thriving and sustainable home.
SWR02
Sep 13 '20, 00:14
A Forest Garden With 500 Edible Plants Could Lead to a Sustainable Future | Short Film Showcase
nstead of neat rows of monoculture, forest gardens combine fruit and nut trees, shrubs, herbs, vines and perennial vegetables together in one seemingly wild setting. This type of agroforestry mimics natural ecosystems and uses the space available in a sustainable way. UK-based Martin Crawford is one of the pioneers of forest gardening. Starting out with a flat field in 1994, his land has been transformed into a woodland and serves as an educational resource for others interested in forest gardening. This short film by Thomas Regnault focuses on Crawford's forest garden, which is abundant, diverse, edible, and might be one answer to the future of food systems.
SWR02
Sep 13 '20, 00:18
Moroccan 2,000 Year Old Food Forest with Geoff Lawton, PRI Managing Director
The solution to all the world's problems can be found in a garden. Please take the time to look into Permaculture. http://permaculture.org.au/ or you local group worldwide. With the looming Currency Collapse and Economic Super Storm, you will need to provide yourself and loved one's with food. Permaculture will show you how to achieve this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKIgqa49rMc
SWR02
Sep 13 '20, 11:26
How Long Until We Run Out Of Food? | Avoiding Apocalypse | Spark
The world's population has surpassed 7 billion today and will reach 9 billion individuals by 2050. But can the planet supply food for an unlimited number of people?
SWR02
Sep 19 '20, 08:56
Agroforestry in Europe with Martin Crawford, Philipp Weiss, Martin Wolfe etc
Life within Planetary Boundaries, Part 2, Agroforestry (2020, 53 min) Thank you for sharing!
Life within Planetary Boundaries, Part 1, Down to Earth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIyDO...
In this part 2 of the film, some of Sweden's and England's pioneers in Agroforestry explain how we through our food production can play a key role in restoring ecosystems, creating food security, new jobs and an improved quality of life. This film is just an opening into a huge subject that I really hope to be able to dig deeper into.
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SWR02
Sep 20 '20, 01:10
How a farmer turned 90 acres of wasteland into a lush green forest in Odisha
"In 1988, Sabarmatee and her father Radhamohan bought an acre of degraded land in Nayagarh district of Odisha. They wanted to set up an experiment to see if a forest using organic techniques. Organic farming was not widespread in India at that time, therefore they had to rely on trial and error. But over time their efforts succeeded and after nearly three decades their one acre has grown to 90 acres and with a lush forest cover. In 1989 the duo registered a NGO called Sambhav, which would work on organic farming and ecological conservation.
Within their forest is also a 2.5 acre plot which is used for seed preservation. Over the year they have managed to collect, grow and preserve nearly 800 varieties of traditional seeds. More than half of these seeds are of paddy that can grow under different climatic systems and under different stress levels. Some of their seed can tolerate water logging and heavy rain while the other varieties can tolerate drought. There are also certain varieties that are highly nutritious.
Sabarmatee's efforts have built up an important repository of seeds that can help alleviate the effects of climate change. When Odisha was hit by cyclonic storms in 2013 and 2014, 34 varieties of rice managed to withstand the damage."
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