The Basics of Natural Farming (part 1 of 2)

This video is about a garden I started in Preston Hollow, NY after reading Masonobu Fukuoka's "One-Straw Revolution" and applying those theories and practices to vegetable gardening.

To view part 2, please follow this linnk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K8gn8...

I grew fresh vegetables for a small CSA (Community Shared Agriculture) , local markets and my friends and family. Much of my gardening practice coincides with the principles of permaculture. No-till farming creates permanent planting areas, in this way, one can incorporate perennial growing alongside the annuals.

Artistically, I was inspired by Carl Sagan's Cosmos and the work of David Attenborough, which I grew up adoring as a child. I find it ironic how modern media was one of the original gateways to my increasing curiosity about nature, though perhaps this is what I hope to mimic by putting together my personal story with this garden.

I hope to continue learning from nature for years to come... and hopefully inspire others to do so themselves.

Resistance is fertile, folks!

Oh yeah...
and check out my website: www.collectedseed.com

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[sojil]

awesome video! very inspiring! I only nitpick because your video is otherwise sublime: you have some weirdness in the sound. right/left is separated, and raw video audio is on when it shouldn't be. just this simple criticism. nevertheless, I think this is one of the best permaculture videos on youtube now!

[Earthtomihail]

thanks for the compliment, man. the sound happened that way b/c i recorded the voice over in stereo but one of the sides wasn't working. i noticed it weeks after i had come out of the studio. also, the "raw" elements of the video/sound were a stylistic choice of mine to remind the viewer that these images are, after all, taken with a camera.

[Moncef Chelbi]

OMG ur right the song its my type of music! Oh Btw i use this to get the mp3 of this track ==> bit.ly/13aB76B?=yksew

[bullsaidart]

"Let thy food by thy medicine, and thy medicine be thy food" -Hippocrates

The effective microorganisms in the bokashi are that medicine. And the people who make the bokashi heal because of their involvement.

[Shannon Meehan]

Good movie but your music is annoying bro!

[sights2397]

This is absolutely the real way of true living, I'd really wish to turn my life into

[Terese Guay]

Can i do this kind of gardening if i have little depth of soil , very little soil and sand the rest of the way to rock. I really want to garden this way and if I were a farmer I would do natural farming for sure. I would like to have a garden this year. thank you .

[SoilSeedTV]

Take a look to soilseed.com

[Jimmy Adrians]

green light, Diana, for such a case, we in Indonesia spread guano mixed zeolite Because cheap and easy to obtain. I hope your efforts back to green living goes smoothly.

[Jimmy Adrians]

MIHAIL? . . . WAS NOT THAT HEAVEN? can you take me there?

[David Ben deWaard]

Very good video, keep up the good work!

[targee3377]

Great video! This system is truly sustainable. If we could get people BACK to the land to grow food we could probably solve the problem of world hunger. But the current trend for “sustainability” is to get people OFF the land and into dense habitats (“Smart Growth”). That causes many more problems than it solves. Why the proponents of the UN Agenda 21/”Sustainable Development” plan don't see that, I don't know.  The gardening community needs to save the day. Thanks for a great video!