7 Food Forests in 7 Minutes with Geoff Lawton

Food forests are at the heart of Permaculture and fast becoming a hot topic in many areas of debate as people realise the their full potential.

Let's face it, with our all consuming global problems, there aren't many natural solutions out there that can halt & reverse deforestation, stabilise the climate by returning carbon to the soil where it belongs, solve poverty & extreme hunger all in one hit are there?

Yet this is exactly what the food forest is capable of, and provided people understand it and are at the centre of the system, they can go on living off that land forever.

Here is a video of Geoff Lawton showing a series of food forests that have been planted at Zaytuna farm over successive years.

For more information about food forests and all things permaculture see http://www.permaculture.org.au.

The Permaculture Research Institute of Australia also sells a full 90 minute DVD featuring Geoff Lawton as he demonstrates how to grow a food forest from start to finish.

http://permaculture.org.au/store/food_forest_dvd.htm

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[chrispyt77]

WOW - this is a fantastic video - how long from start to finish with all the different dates of filming? 2 and a half years??

[PermacultureNews]

@chrispyt77 Glad you like it, the video was actually only filmed over a week. Geoff and his interns plant a food forest on the property 3 to 4 times a year now so there are examples at all stages to use!

[molapft]

awesome vid indeed. since when were you working on this?

[PermacultureNews]

@molapft we shot this at zaytuna. There was a great opportunity to show each stage because there is a new food forest planted by students virtually every few months!

[mluthi69]

great video - I missed this succession in the food forest video - and now it is much clearer to me. Thank You Geoff.

[PermacultureNews]

@mluthi69 glad to be able to make it clearer!

[olgalustosa29]

awesome video and initiative!

[Kharmeana]

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[sticknstonesbrkbones]

eden



[athatcher85]

How amazing, you didnt age a day in 5 years and you managed to wear the exact same clothes for 5 years straight. amazing

[mikejn87]

Thank you for doing this and for sharing the info with the rest of the world its people like you that will save all of earth and give the garden of eden to the new generations

[iampeeay01]

thanks for the ideas... will start planting like this not just for my benefit but for the benefit of saving our earth.

[kaieteurdevon]

Excellent stuff! This sort of reforestation, needs to be worldwide! :-)

[PermieCulture]

@malayrojak

yeah dude Geoff's property is located near a place called The Channon, NSW, Aus, which boasts sub-tropical conditions in summer and mild temperate conditions in winter (you can read that as 100% abundance!)

[PermieCulture]

@immeohmyoh

Believe me there is plenty of tucker - even in the second year the ground covers produce lots of food (notice the pumpkin vine for example).

Towards the end Geoff was saying that once in the 2-3rd year there isn't a lot of maintenance other than helping the recycling of organic matter, most of it woody material, using a short edged tool. So for example if you planted pigeon pea (a nitrogen fixing tree) in the first year it is a good idea to heavily prune every 6 months or so

[immeohmyoh]

where's the proof? i didn't see any food! also, what does he say in the last 30 sec, that you have to add or remove more organic matter, can't quite understand it..