India's Water Revolution #4: Permaculture for Wastelands at Aranya Farm
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- čas přidán 29. 07. 2020
- Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys to India to film the epic work at Aranya Farm in the state of Telangana. We tour the twenty-year-old farm that was established on bare bedrock, and now boasts 11.5 acres of permaculture food forests, which has restored the groundwater table to plentiful abundance. Guided by Aranya's directors Narsanna and Padma Koppula, we visit the surrounding area where the landless poor are now farming their own lands and turning bedrock into bounty using permaculture principles. This video clearly proves that wastelands can be transformed into verdant and productive agricultural systems, improving the lives of many.
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2:54 The linking of the poor/rich soil dichotomy with the rich/poor social dichotomy blew my mind.
The man's a genius
Also, it gives hope that a poor-soil land is not permanent and it can be made rich with proper care. Very inspiring.
Indeed it is a deeply touching message that the poor can become rich, instead of reality of one surviving at the expense of another it creates reality of abundance. Society is not a zero-sum game and everyone can win!
The wasteland are not wastelands. They are wasted lands. 👏
Thank you for creating such a great content and sharing important knowledge to all of us!
Watching this makes me emotional. He's a true hero. We need more people to step up like this.
There are so many people doing good Agriculture and Water work in many parts of India like :
Paani foundation & Dr Avinash Pol in Maharashtra
Shyam sunderji in Piplantari, Rajasthan
Arayna permaculture in Telgana & Andhra Pradesh
Ardhendu Chatterjee of DRCSC in West Bengal
Sonam Wangchuk in Ladakh
Thank you to all these saviours!!
Differnet sarpnch in Madhyapradesh also doing excellent work in MP's bundelkhand region
binay kumar also
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Padma and Arsana are the real heroes of this world. Much respect.
Meh, they are "heroes" :
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I don't remember how I discovered this channel, but I am hooked to your content now. Thanks for this!
Always excited for next episode.
Yes and I'm going to subscribe to it right now
Me too
Same here
Same
Same thing happening in Ethiopia, and Senegal where they are planting a section of the ‘Great Green Wall of Africa’, a new ‘Coast to Coast Forest’. That has transformed the areas from drought and famine to food abundance and water table regeneration. . China are also planting a ‘Great Green Wall of China’ that is also Coast to Coast.
Coast to coast forest...
Sounds wonderful. Prayers for its fruitation and success.
Eswari Balan ‘Great Green Wall of Africa’ czcams.com/video/a1zjq5EOxmY/video.html
Eswari Balan ‘Great Green Wall of China’ czcams.com/video/ZWix5V9totU/video.html
China has been working on it since the early 1970s or about fifty years.
Old man's a genius. A soil scientist of his own.
I'm 21 and that's the kind of farm i want to create. Permaculture will save us if we are enough to put such farms in place.
Planting forests and preserving wild life are the most beautiful things we can do as humans on this planet.
When God created man he put him in a garden. Then a bunch of crazy stuff happened we don't need to talk about. But long story short, I think God meant for us to be gardeners.
Brilliant on so many levels.. Thank you for sharing this success story. You are removing the fear of investing time and effort into "wasted" land. I think of the many places here in the USA which would benefit from this educated optimism. Starting here, right where I am. Thank you for the inspiration.
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Imagine the Vegas desert turning to a food forest paradise
I learned Permaculture at Aranya from Narsanna & Padma Koppula ji. Aranaya is a great place to be.
Ballu T where is it located
Andrew.. U r doing a great job... Bringing India to Indians..... Ur passion for sustainability will grow exponentially...
Thank you. Namaste!
Mr Narsanna is a Jewel of India!
I was there and I wish to go back again just to thank all of the wonderful souls there who introduced me to permaculture. Narasanna is my mentor in permaculture and he's the best according to me. Cheers to Aranya Alternatives 🙏
You are doing good work Andrew showcasing these amazing people and their efforts. Thank you! It gives me hope .
Andrew, you are such a master storyteller. I love every video you do. It would be a large project but I could totally see you doing a movie on the subject of India and water. I feel so much hope and go so excited every time I watch your videos. How many more videos do you think you have material to do?
Sheri,
Thanks and I really appreciate your feedback. I am planning 7 or 8 videos total in this series. So if you watch them all back to back, then it will be movie length :-)
We need more people like him in India. Happy to see what difference one person can make. Thanks for the info
All the world needs people like him!!!
This is true socialism. Respect and salutations from Pakistan. This aspect of India should be shown more than bollywood
I wish my Indian brothers well. Love from pakistan
👀 Your countries deserved a better division, and the shared heritage should never spoil future peace.
Save your Christian, Sikh and hindu minorities first.
@@TheFourthWinchester calm down dude! you act like we are perfect..
@@AG-gv9cb Nobody is actively sending any community to extinction with the help of the courts and police in our country.
@@TheFourthWinchester Courts don't send it's the police and govt everywhere be it Pakistan India Or any other country
Woho! Feels like I have been waiting for this episode forever! I discovered it by the magic of the youtube algorithm when the #3 episode was posted. Love these episodes on India's water revolution, Andrew! The narrating, interviews, the camera work, the maps, animations - it's all really well done, interesting (eye-opening!) and educational. My new favourite channel. Keep it up! Greetings from Stockholm, Sweden
Thanks so much! Comments like this make the hundreds of hours it takes to make one of these videos worth it. I am already busy on #5 :-)
@@amillison Woho! Looking forward to #5 and also, I hope more people keeps coming in through the algorithm and discovers this gem of a channel, because you truely deserve million of views.
@@whatatypicaltime2412 I believe it needs 7.2 billion views ASAP with everyone implementing even small parts of it. There would be no world poverty or hunger :)😊🙌
Nice was waiting for this :D
There is also a certain bit of poetry in that the people deemed "untouchable" are creating a permaculture paradise away from caste and consumer society down the road.
Westerners only think of india as caste caste...When the reality is it has become almost redundant except for political power. thanks to silly documentaries.
Village people aren't considered untouchables lol.
Lot of it Bogus. The video producers just to make it dramatic describe someone as untouchable. In one video the gypsies of Rajasthan were put in this category. They are not untouchable, never were. I wonder if this is anti Hindu agenda driven.
u will definitely land in jail if u call someone untouchable in India. On the other hand, There is def some drama and poetry in BLM and Antifa movement, i suggest u watch that to satiate ur linguistic palates.
So much India has done for agriculture around the world it’s incredible!
12:31 legitimately made me cry
Thank you so much Andrew for sharing wonderful true stories for better world ! I have watched all 6 videos along with my 10 year old son, he too got excited and says Dad let's watch next one :)
Really hats off to all the great people who are doing tremendous job on the ground by working with government, ngos and communities to educate, encourage and creating a sustainable ecology to everyone
Thanks so much to Narasanna & Padma ji from Aranya, Pani foundation - Dr. Avinash Ji, Amir Khan Ji & team, DRCSC - Ardhendu ji, Gayathri ji and all great people !
Thanks Jyotish for the great comment and i am very glad that you and your son have enjoyed all of the episodes so far. I am about 80% done the next and final episode, and hope to have it out within a few weeks. Happy New Year!
Thank you very much Andrew. Happy New year !
Eagerly waiting to see for your next video like many others
And I hope India got rid off Monsanto
I just subscribe to your channel this types of video information I crave because I learned
Any channel that pushes permaculture is a permanent agriculture university to me
Thanks for pushing foward what benefits all kinds of life not just humans
Yes.
Just be changing the slope profile, the land’s potential is transformed over a few years. This is amazing work.
Beautiful! There is a hope for the planet with Permaculture! ❤️🌳🌱🌎
This channel is amazing. You are doing fantastic journalistic work.
Stunning! Thanx for bringing Narsanna & Padma's work to the world. And thanks for inspiring us all throughout your journey. Keep it flowing! 💦💐
So much inspiration. Love the graphic explaining the Permaculture concept. Keep it coming!
Spent a few days here. I learned a lot. Hope to learn in more depth. And the food was soo good even when it was so simple. It was exotic for me being an Indian.
I know nothing about farming, but this seems nothing short of miraculous. I think maybe sometimes we underestimate the power of human ingenuity.
We definitely disregard the power of intelligent design that is already programmed into the system. Diverting away from it was human folly!
This is so incredible. Thank you so much for sharing with us!!
Fantastic, always gives me hope seeing such things, not having access to our land is whats holding us back!. Land is Freedom! 🌎✊🏽🌻
Billy Mollison, Masanobu Fukuoka and likes of Narsanna and Padma have really challeged the conventional agricultural perspective! Permaculture is a really good solution. Like the way everything was covered Andrew...really nice work...!❤️ When I was looking for land till yesterday and in my mind opting for fertile and irrigated soil, but now I will surely go for even bedrocks and make turn them into a forest....hope that happens soon..... very inspiring video!
Andrew I am so proud of you!
This is one way to start a saturday morning. Thank you bro
Seeing the success of the bedrock farm, gives me no excuses here on my Kentucky clay. The abundance that can be farmed here, with minimal input is rediculous. Looking at my 8 acres permaculture designed property, I am so grateful for the abundance we have made.
I love the content you share. Thank you for the good work you're doing. We live in India and we don't even know about these initiatives that exist in our country!
I binged watched all the episodes 😍
Ha! Subscribe and you'll get the next ones :-)
I started on video 1 , i'm on 4 now! this shit's interesting!
This is a great system and just shows what you can do to change waste land or wasted land into productive land. Well done India and I am enjoying this series.
20 years in the making. That's what you call dedication and the fruits of permaculture is there
It's mind-blowing how successful the people in India have been with permaculture! Seeing stuff like this absolutely proves the concept to me!
Good series. Saw the entire season part 1-8. Such an impressive effort.
Thank you for watching, glad you enjoyed it. :) If you enjoyed this series, I have another season coming out soon! 13 episodes long! Stay tuned.
Permacultura ou Sistema de Agrofloresta e a Recuperação de desertos são a salvação da humanidade! Parabéns!
I WAS SMILING THROUGH OUT THE VIDEO.................GREAT WORK....
These principles should be effected in all drought stricken areas. I just love these videos as they show that there is hope. When people can make a living from their land they don't need to go to work abroad or in sweat shop jobs in cities. It allows them to live in their villages and enjoy a much higher quality of life. It could reverse the descent into lawlessness that is taking place in many parts of Africa because of 'drought' which is causing more and more people to become refugees.
Narsanna, thank you so much for all the things you did and you keep doing!!!
I moved into my property 16 years ago, before I was just lawn (useless for anything) It is now a food forest. Most of the trees were not planted by me, but by bird's droppings. All I did was pull out as much lawn as possible by hand and plant a few things to attract birds. They also brought seeds of many wild plants, that you can eat. I live is a very cold place in the United States, where it can get to -37 degrees C. So it works in dry land and land that freezes.
It is people like Narasanna and Padma Koppula who deserve Padma Bhushan awards
Fantastic episode! A permaculture system on bedrock, now I've seen everything! Well done Padma, Arsana and Andrew for getting this knowledge out there :)
Hopeless made Hopeful!!!Wonderful concept. Most of the people including me are not aware of this project, as mentioned there are acres of land which are said useless and abandoned. But for reasons who is going to bell the cat!!,approaching the government for such a noble cause is next to impossible , corruption!!. Down south in Tamilnadu water is sucked to the core till the water table is dry. No effort is taken to conserve rain water though there's abundance of rainfall. Only now there's awareness with in the public to harvest rain water and desilting of the water bodies. Mr Narsanna and Mrs Padma are doing a Great job to poor down trodden and to the Mother Earth!! God bless 🙏🙏🙏
There is a whole long story about how Narsanna approached, lobbied, cajoled, and squatted on government land before they released the wastelands for the landless to farm. It was no small feat, but he was successful so it can be done.
Another Golden video. SO beautiful!
so deeply inspiring.......wow just wow....permculture at its best.....carry on Andrew......fabulous!! thank you....
@amillison - I am in tears of wonder at these human works! The people of the Klamath Basin in Oregon would do well to study these innovators 🌱
Gives such hope - thank you!
Beautiful work, Andrew. Thanks a lot.
Wow! So much respect! Love from Canada!!!
wow I still have the DVD of Bill Mollison when he trained India and also Zimbabwe. Thank you for this series. I have so much to learn. From South Africa
The funny part is, the various peoples of India were already doing this before british colonialism. All of this is just rediscovering the wheel
I love this series.
Brilliant applicable solutions and beautiful people. God bless ❤
What wonderful, productive sustainability for people.It brings solutions to evaluative the harshness in such environments. Brilliant.
I learning from this permaculture thing. I love ur videos
Loving this stuff..
What an inspiration, teaching us the miracle of the earth and it's regenarative powers, Absolutely amazing!
These are the real leaders of India. Salute you Sir!!
Hey. I want to translate your videos into Russian and voice them for the Russian audience on my channel. Can I do this?
Definitely! Please send me the links when you are done, and also if you are able to send an SRT file of the translation then I can put Russian subtitles on this video as well. Please email to: andrew.millison@oregonstate.edu
@@amillison OK!
Thank God for this people with their passions. 🙌
I have been to the farm and this is awesome!
Wow such a well explained video by Andrew. Permaculture = seeds of hope!!!
Absolutely love this method how narsana sir is giving hope... i too hope to grow trees like this
In find myself cheering for these people. They are productive, they have new purpose and success is coming to them by their own hard work. This is wonderful!
Simply amazing!! I am in awe of this work!
Wow! Thank you for sharing this story! Pure inspiration!!!
Andrew the quality and content of all your videos is amazing. Very inspiring and informational. Hats off to you!
Sir, my deepest Respect to you!!
Lots of love to u Andrew. Marvellous Explaination .
I L-O-V-E this!!!! Keep up the fantastic work!
I am so grateful to have met him, he is a real inspiration regarding his approach to permaculture and will to make the life of his community better. 🙏🏻
God bless both of you for what you have done not just for the earth but also for the most neglected section of the community as well. Real wholesome revolution and not just water revolution. 🙏
Need this across India ❤️🙏
so hopeful. I love this exploration and success
Well done guys. Keep on going. Love from Malaysia.
Oh my god. Such beautiful colors there in India, Green, Yellow, Hay, Terracotta, Reds.
This is wonderful! One of the most uplifting videos I have seen in years.
Hope and joy for the underprivileged. Wonderful.
Hard work is the key to success in life. Permaculture is the latest technology of Agriculture.
Thank you for your amazing work, I hope this awareness spreads soon, and most of India becomes self sufficient
Watching yoir videos gives me hope ...
Love to all involved
Namaste Narsanna ji and madam,
thanks for your inspiring work. I work in Corporate world as CxO and very soon want to migrate to Permaculture way of life.
Covid Lockdown has kept me thinking about simplicity and the ecosystem that mother earth has to offer to us, and certainly I would like to embrace it with a big hug.
I have been reading a lot and seeing films and documentaries on Permaculture, apart from looking like a healthy lifestyle, a big happy kitchen garden, being part of nature by reducing my material wants, I am looking for answer to an important question, i.e. revenue model to sustain the farm, my family with kids education, health and other needs, please let me know how to build that as opposed to normal mechanised agriculture?
As certainly, my next innings in life is permaculture and not a retirement home. Thanking you in advance for your reply and sorry for a long post. Cheers and health wishes.
Excellent Andrew!! So glad you are doing this. Great job!!!
Thanks Penny! We're all in this together :-)
Bless this man a thousandfold.
Super work. Thank you Andrew
Thank you so much for these videos.
Love your content Andrew. not only are you an expert in your field, but equally mirrored in your film making style and presentation.
What an inspiring video this is, especially as it pertains to the still-in-existence caste system and its lowest caste: the untouchables. Highy uplifting production by Andrew Millson. Mennonites and Brethren [US] accepted the offer of free land in Paraguay that the government declared to be hopelessly barren. Their success paralleled Aranya Farm.
this kind of video fills me with hope that there arnt just global companies out there ruining the globe. there are humans out there wanting to make a difference and share their nowledge to better the people and the habitats around them!
Thanks for bringing such inspiring stories to the fore!!!
Only watched a few episodes so far but this is definitely going into my homeschool unit studies on water tables, flow and ecosystems! Thank you so much and cant wait for your new series!❤