Permaculture Principles at Work
An introduction to permaculture design principles featuring a stunning, abundant food forest designed by Erik Ohlsen of Permaculture Artisans permacultureartisans.com. Erik teaches with Earth Activist Training earthactivisttraining.org. Video by Starhawk
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This is the way life should be . This is an important video & I loved it . Thanks so much
LeftyTracking
October 4, 2011 at 4:03 am
I like terrice desighns i havnt bought land yet but dread settlin fir flat when i do but this just got me thinking if i build a cob dome house i can make my own hills
onefourdelta
October 4, 2011 at 4:24 am
I notice that there are still a few people around, advocating the venus project. Truthfully, I’m really not interested in it at all any more, although I was for a while, and saw the films/hung out on the forum for a bit, etc.
The founders of that are very dogmatic; and none of Fresco’s designs have been recorded for people to duplicate, at all. Unlike Permaculture, TVP is basically a dead end.
petrus4
October 4, 2011 at 5:08 am
@jaworskij Sounds like heaven to me 🙂
rickjames9898
October 4, 2011 at 5:22 am
The venus project is similar to permaculture if not the same ideas sustainible future and society.
superbong69
October 4, 2011 at 5:28 am
Wow that farm looks wonderful!! Could anyone recommend some good videos to me on guilds and polyculture? Also has anyone here heard of or tried hugelkultur? i was wondering about the C:N since logs have alot of carbon. 🙂 Namste
superbong69
October 4, 2011 at 5:59 am
Type Sparxism into YouTube to witness the beginning of the Permaculture Revolution.
simmyjaye
October 4, 2011 at 6:08 am
@CimaraNyx
You should watch Zeigeist Moving Forward, it’s on youtube. The movement promotes a resource based economy and I won’t go on about it here, but I really do recommend you watch it. Isn’t it ironic that a greedy, competitive and individualistic society with an obsession with consumption calls itself to be civilized. We need to start living harmoniously with nature (and each other)
erikavagabond
October 4, 2011 at 6:48 am
@CimaraNyx sounds good.:)
KingRyltar
October 4, 2011 at 7:38 am
@KingRyltar I do keep my chickens penned, but it doesn’t really look like a pen. They have a coop to go in at night with nesting boxes, but they have an area of my yard that is just theirs. It is mostly shaded, and when I clean out their coop, the raw manure and straw goes into a heap close to my garden. Then, after it’s had a chance to compost, it’s handy location allows me to just toss into the garden bed. this is different than the kitchen garbage/grass/leaf compost I have in anther area.
CimaraNyx
October 4, 2011 at 8:35 am
@fabrizioorbezo She says, “over the use of fossil fuels or heavy chemicals”.
CimaraNyx
October 4, 2011 at 9:33 am
@jaworskij What’s so sad is that self-sustainability has become a lost art. We have to take classes on how to feed ourselves! When did our society get like this and how did we let it happen? We somehow became a society of greed and competition, sort of like when forests are cut down and the remaining animals have to fight each other for food. I watched a documentary about a drying water hole on the African desert, and animals literally had to fight each other for a drink. How sad that is.
CimaraNyx
October 4, 2011 at 10:18 am
@jaworskij Agreed! This is the way I see the future if all works out!
elm1230
October 4, 2011 at 10:42 am
I serious need to do something like this, get out of that pesky office and go out and do some farming!
Standuble
October 4, 2011 at 11:36 am
Yeeeeeeeeee-haw!
EdenCreekFarm
October 4, 2011 at 11:36 am
This is the future of Earth civilization … without big mega cities, without a 9 to 5 workweeek, without Wars, without poverty, without lack of anything… We will be spiritual beings living on the land like we did thousands of years earlier. We will not have churches but will spend time each day meditating and learning who we have been and will get advice from our spirit guides. Namaste
jaworskij
October 4, 2011 at 12:08 pm
@fabrizioorbezo fossil fuels (oil, coal, gas)
seaplumes
October 4, 2011 at 12:41 pm
@fabrizioorbezo fossil fuels (oil, coal, gas)
seaplumes
October 4, 2011 at 1:36 pm
Please , what does she says at 1:55 ? fasoll fuel? which word does she said?
fabrizioorbezo
October 4, 2011 at 1:50 pm
@KingRyltar not realy I seen a farmer have chickens as a way to keep the bugs in check sine the chickens ate the bugs.The farmer said the chickens help keep the bugs down,but yes they also ate some plants,but the chickens keeping the bugs at bay far benefited the farmer with his plants.
kyriacos40
October 4, 2011 at 2:23 pm
@kakudmi It is either cage the chickens, ducks or other animals, OR fence each individual plot of plants, chickens like any other animal, will damage the plants. Pecking at the new fruitings etc.,.not to mention to protect them from predators, like cats, fox’s, basically depending on which area your in.
Personally we have lost chicks and ducklings to neighbors cats, bang bang. Bad neighbors.
KingRyltar
October 4, 2011 at 2:43 pm
@kakudmi It is either cage the chickens, ducks or other animals, OR fence each individual plot of plants, chickens like any other animal, will damage the plants. Pecking at the new fruitings etc.,.
KingRyltar
October 4, 2011 at 2:49 pm
Can someone here message me about this? I need more info!
DJMC5ive
October 4, 2011 at 3:30 pm
@earthactivistas The chicken was very little. We have free range chickens who run all over our garden but when they have chicks they have to be protected from predators until they are bigger so it could be why the chick is in a cage?
micheleknightpsychic
October 4, 2011 at 4:29 pm
5:59
Is the guy with long hair the guy from the opening scene of Pulp Fiction?
disndat11
October 4, 2011 at 4:44 pm