Corporate Couple Become Permaculture Activists

[racinkc]

build food forests

[aprilspl]

I like your vision of food trees everywhere

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[marchbabymimi]

Wonderful video! Do they happen to have a website where we could see more of the gardens/chickens, etc.?

Also, please consider visiting Eliot Coleman in Maine, if you come to the East Coast. He grows food year round. Also Harvey Ussery of the Modern Homestead in VA. Thanks!!

[peakmoment]

Thanks for asking -- we usually put our guests' websites at the end of the description but missed this one! (Now added). portlandpermaculture (dot) com.

Thanks for the suggestions on the others -- I'll add 'em to our wish list.

[ekkar]

oh there are chickens. nevermind.

[ekkar]

what no chickens?!

[btigtime2]

Localizm is the way to go in every part of life... Local Government, Local Food, Local Business. Gobal anything is impossable to maintain for only a short amount of time.

"Take the sidewalks out" (9:57) no take out the streets...

[peakmoment]

That's just what Jan Lundberg (culturechange-dot-org) advocates -- depaving the streets. Do a makeover of suburbia~

[wingz3636]

Permaculture is definately the way. Crazy thing is I thought I was forming the concepts myself, yet it already exists. Even here in semi arid land, growing the right plants can virtually make a garden of eden so to speak. If you want the promised land grow it in your back yard.

[witchbippy]

Wonderful video, thanks so much for posting it!

[mans0nh]

Yes, thankyou for this video. I am starting to learn how to grow, videos like this help point me in the right direction.

[peakmoment]

Thanks so much for your comment! That's what we hope to do with our Peak Moment Conversations -- and we welcome everybody's suggestions and ideas for the topics they'd like to see us cover (even suggest people and projects). ~Janaia (host)

[theproducegarden]

good vid!

[crewlla]

I cant understand why america has a shortage of food when some area's have no snow and have advantage of growing fruit and vegetables year round. In canada to grow food all year round we have to grow food indoors with costly lights and high electric bills. to be able to live off your garden year round you have to have a huge back yard to be able to grow all of it. there is so many empty spaces in southern california that could be used for gardening, but it just sits there. its so sad.

[peakmoment]

Think too of all the wasted land around all the suburban houses. In southern California there may be empty spaces, but in reality it's a desert. Their challenge is lack of water (which is why they're taking water from Colorado, northern CA and elsewhere). (But then, so much water is wasted, surely it's better used for food gardens than corporate fountains and car washes).

[crewlla]

sorry, I had no idea that there was a lack of water. dont forget about the wasted water in swimming pools. :)

[madeofyucca]

It is true that southern california is a desert, as is the southwest. And that does make it harder than in some areas, but it doesn't mean that it can't be done!

Where I am from we have a traditional type of farming we called "temporal" which is not irrigated but relies on our 11" of rain a year.

But, for non-temporal farming there are many water saving techniques, rainwater storage strategies, and climate appropriate crops. So if you live in the desert don't let that discourage you!

[4trahasis]

crewlla: i suggest a look into elliot coleman and his winter gardening.

madeofyucca: nice name. in his 'Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Homes-Scale Permaculture' Toby Hemenway relates a story of an encounter at a garden north of Santa Fe. He tells of how this place in a desert, with stone walls around it, has become too humid with all the plantlife holding moisture in. In a desert.

[madeofyucca]

4trahasis: thanks. And yes! Roxanne's place is a perfect example! they are some of the most beautiful loving people and their land is simply incredible. Hemenway's account is not an exaggeration. Santa Clara only get about 10" rain a year, most of which comes in july and august and a little in the winter. Its hot, almost always sunny and there is practically no topsoil. even when there is there is almost always a layer of caliche a few inches down. but they have created an oasis. literally.

[FLATCY]

homes/communities self sufficient in several basics (food, water, soil, electricity) plus producing a srplus of something that can be traded for what is not produced at homle/in communuty.

nut crops...what a wonderful idea. I will make sure to include that in our landscape/outdoor food gardens. What a marvelous institution you've created. Best wishes.

[blueeggsitter]

AWESOME!!! AWESOME!!! AWESOME!!!

[eightwillwontcannot]

check out a DVD by Geoff Lawton (based in Australia) called 'Establishing a food forest'. A few clips are on youtube.

Once set up it requires almost zero maintenance.

[BlueSkies360]

vashwc: Working 14 h a day :(

[crewlla]

from a earlyer posting. you can efficently grow: lettus, potatoes, onion, rashberries ect.

[neven01]

lol thats a good one

Chestnuts in the front yard Politicians in the back ... they may ruin the soil though

[BlueSkies360]

If anyone have any ideas of what do grow efficiently without putting in too much time, please let me know.

[crewlla]

lettus.

[32937isready]

Those plastic chairs are made from oil.

[mywootgarden]

the power thats showing your words across the net are allso created by oil.

[Redshift21]

The computer your typing on was made using oil too.

[dinosaurtattoo]

Yes ...Im the 25th person to hear this precious information!!!