Martin Crawford´s FOREST GARDEN

A walk through Martin Crawford´s beatiful forest garden, a model for resilient, local food growing.

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[empie45]

I did not realize this is what I've been doing. I was trying to plant a diverse garden for a variety of critters as well as beauty. Glad for your info.

[Girish9668]

Incredible. Love it and thank you. Hope the world gets to be a better place, by conscious action. 

[RogerWilco]

We have been using more oil than gets found since about 1980. The fields that get found get smaller and smaller and production on existing fields slows down as they slowly empty.

The effect is that we now consume oil at the rate at which it can be produced.

As soon as the economy rebounds, you're going to see oil prices skyrocket well past what we saw at the end of 2008.

The most optimistic predictions of peak oil production are 2020. Read up on the Hubbert curve. Cheap oil will run out soon.

[vikingvic]

So inspiring.. The Earth is abundantly rich, but man has created imaginary lack fed by ego, greed, fear, ignorant self-limitation. By the system human beings have dug and trapped themselves in a hole

[abcdefghijklmno29753]

Very interesting video, and a nice introduction into forest gardening. I am also one of them who have been doing this without knowing the academic term. Anyone who have tried forest gardening on rather small plots in H3? I have groundcovers (strawberry and blueberry), lots of raspberry's and blackberry's, junipers, some birches, also lots of ribes. I am trying oregano and such, too, but it is cold up here in Norway. :) How do antifungals discriminate good from bad?

[Tyrr Vangeel]

it should be possible to see who voted what on a video.

Wtf 3 dislikes :s

[Tyrr Vangeel]

you can get lucky and be living in an area where the mains company uses bio filters to clean the water. This means that, when they use this antifungal stuff, they kill off their own filters.

In our area, they use UV-C light at the end to kill of fungi and bacteria.

'The problem' is that they have sweat water lobsters (European ones) in there pipes somewhere. Lobster in the water = safe to drink :)

[camoflux]

Make sure to never use tap water on your fields or compost. Tap water has antifungal and antimicrobial agents in it. This will obviously be bad. Also, you should never use commercial animal manure again since it is contaminated with chemicals they give the animals. Also, make sure to compost the manure before growing in it. One day, all this composted material will be your soil. You can keep mulching with wood chips, which will gradually become humus. The best possible thing to grow in is humus

[Rose Macaskie]

Thank you for the praise. rose

[camoflux]

Thank you. You reference scholarly books and articles, something which I have never seen anyone ever do on the internet. I don't the average person can find some of the material you referenced. I was able to find the papers written by David Bainbridge at works.bepress.(com)/david_a_ba­inbridge/. They are there for free.

[Rose Macaskie]

If you follow the news a lot as i do, then you never stop hearing, in the last few years, of new petrol or gas feilds. Australia has found new ones, they expect to find petrol in the South China Sea, hence the fights over some islands there. Poland is begining fracking, the North Americans hope to out produce saudi arabians by fracking and many hope to find petrol or gas in the artic. Depressing what! No immediate fuel crisis in sight to force us to be ecological. rose macaskie madrid