Permaculture in Action – Greening The Desert
www.permacultureplanet.com Permaculture in Action – Greening the Desert – Geoff Lawton’s Ground Breaking implementation of Permaculture in The Dead Sea Valley. This video illustrates how Permaculture design techniques can restore a Salt Ridden Degraded Landscape to a flourishing and diverse Oasis. For more information about Geoff and his Permaculture work please visit; http To find out more about the Global Permaculture movement, please visit www.permacultureplanet.com
@sesanalorenzo Yea obviously the sand dunes arent going to become rainforest overnight, but its a gradual process, and it may not work in ALL areas, but re-greening ANY desert is beneficial.
If you want to be REALLY nit-picky the artic tundra is also considered desert, and theres no chance of greening that.
Da come ho capito io leggendo Fukuoka, piantando determinati tipi di alberi vicino a fonti d’acqua si crea, grazie alle radici, una distribuzione sotterranea di acqua che permatte il proliferare di piante con il conseguante aumento di precipitazioni. Praticamente si crea un circolo virtuoso.
Però non è possibile piantare dal nulla in mezzo al sahara
Spero di esserti stato utile.
I’m italian so maybe I’havn’t understood exatly whats he said. Did he talks about the costs in terms of energy or fuel just to prepare the ground?…and of course this is a desert, but they still have a minimun amount of water, so everything its a lot more simple than in the hard, the real sahara desert. There are places that do not see a drop fo rain fro maybe 10 years…no water no life..also if u are american.
Checkout the follow-up, Behind Greening the Desert
watch?v=LJ8pjOG4pXI
The follow-up is from 7:09 onwards
okay that is freaking amazing.
I’m going to try to share it with lots of people…everyone needs to see this!
any deserts can be returned to their past glory. start by green-manuring with plants suited to the current climate. other methods that could work – using lava rock from elsewhere as a soil improver, & when the deserts are near sea then canals can be dug inland, to help restart the rainfall cycles – along with the green-manuring.
lava because there’s lots of it arond the world, just leaking out. it makes great growing medium.
Speechless. I’m going to learn more about this, this is just too great.
It wasn’t part of the plan. If it were, it would have been noted explicitly. This was a native fungus that grew from the mulch laid atop the swales.
WOW!
Check out Greening the Desert – Revisited here on the PermaScience Channel for the latest update on this project
Geoff Lawton did you seed it with fungi,. You said that the fungi put off a waxy substance that repels salt . Which fungi do that and what does making making salt inert or insoluble or locked up mean what does it entail. agri rose macaskie
Stunning!
“I first went to the Deccan three years ago when the drought was severe. People were selling or giving away their plow animals. Everyone was listless and sitting in the shade, just trying to survive until the rains came. So we had a great sense of urgency. We know that most the emphasis has been on the green revolution of annual crops, and it just won’t feed people during drought.” Bill Mollison
@shafaki: why can’t you apply this permaculture system in Egypt?
They’ve used this type of system in the desert in Australia, also.
If you have a big area, start small. One yard at a time!
Not ripping on you at all but he stated it in the video, he said that the salt had become bound with other molcules and was rendered inert / non soluble.
start doing it man
Time to believe! Excelent!
One of the finest things I’ve ever seen!!
When was this posted and is there a update on the progress in Jordan?
This is great… please have a search for “Sepp Holzer” Austria and also for “Joe Polaischer” New Zealand…concerning Permaculture.
My mind is just a little bit blown right now.
This is great!
I praise God for this wisdom! May all the starving people get this and thrive!
Interesting!!! It is still important to understand the mechanism behind the salt movement and where it went…………….
I wish we can apply that here in the vast deserts of Egypt.