A Forest Garden With 500 Edible Plants Could Lead to a Sustainable Future | Short Film Showcase
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- Instead of neat rows of monoculture, forest gardens combine fruit and nut trees, shrubs, herbs, vines and perennial vegetables together in one seemingly wild setting. This type of agroforestry mimics natural ecosystems and uses the space available in a sustainable way. UK-based Martin Crawford is one of the pioneers of forest gardening. Starting out with a flat field in 1994, his land has been transformed into a woodland and serves as an educational resource for others interested in forest gardening. This short film by Thomas Regnault focuses on Crawford's forest garden, which is abundant, diverse, edible, and might be one answer to the future of food systems.
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This garden grows 500 edible plants with just a few hours of maintenance a month. What are your thoughts on this unique ecosystem?
Initiation of plantation of such microforests should be done in the cement cities too, which lack the touch of nature.....Well, now I know what i can do in my leisure time once I grow up 😊 such sweet people should thrive in this bitter world😃
@@Bonitogatito I don't think the dry climates which loom over a majority of the remote tribes in Africa, would permit to do so😞 still nice thought !! 😁
@National Geographic I've worked with many like this, but it is not applicable for large scale farming. Please please do the world a favorable NG, make video's about syntropy agriculture in Brazil. I started studying it just recently and it is the answer, to so many things. It just really needs the publicity.
WONDERFUL
I want to know every detail so I can recreate something similar in an urban setting.
"You dont have to know everything to begin with...just start" if only i heard that regularly.
So true! Words to live by indeed!
But is so true! Often times people don’t start because they see boundaries not solutions to their present situation. You don’t need to wait for land to start. Just do one step today, every day with what you got.
If only I knew that 10 years ago... I'd have 10 years of experience in food-forest forest succession under my belt by now, and 10 years less anxiety and worthless feelings...
Definitely. I wish I started a few years ago but I never felt ready enough. This year I just went for it, I'm winging it and learning at the same time but my garden is starting to look very green!
if u own a land that huge, yes, u can 'just start'.
Permaculture, food forestry, agroforestry, ecosystem gardening... Whatever you call it, it is the way.
Google Syntropy Agriculture, the next step after Bill, coming from Ernst in Brazil
@@Sill1992 forest garden
AgroEcology is a science we need :)
and vertical farming!
Permaculture has been proven not be efficient enough to provide food for 7 billion people.
So cool to see National Geographic posting videos about permaculture! Keep it up 🙌
I was stoked to see this too!
Yes! More, more!
Haha should've known you'd be in this comments section.. Very exciting indeed.
A familiar face 🤠
Where are you at in FL? I attended a brief workshop on Veggie Gardening in FL. The sandy soil and tropical climate are challenges. I haven't heard of forest gardens before now.
"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the next best time is today."
-Kenny Logsdon
Chinese proverb
It’s actually a Chinese proverb
@@haroldinho9930 its also greek
It's always worth seeing what's already there before you start planning and planting. I live on 15 hilly acres, and once I identified some of the plants there I found shellbark hickory, black walnut, 3 kinds of oak, willow, elm, black haw, mulberry, cedar, elderberry, hazelnut, sumac, cottonwood, blackberry, catbriar, wild grapes, wild strawberries, maypops, fall mushrooms, gooseberries, black locust, choke cherry, honey locust, sycamore, bukeye, native prairie grasses, wild roses, spring beauties, wild sweet williams, daiseys, rudbeckia, perennial sweet pea, milkweed, yarrow, plantain, lambsquarter, dandilions, wild onions, violets.
1/3 of those things are edible and the rest can be put to some other good use. If I had wiped the slate clean, there would be no way I could replace all that diversity.
Better to nurture what's already there and just embellish nature's masterpiece that trying to reinvent her wheel.
Edit: my terrbrl speling
Long read but remember to proof read for spelling errors
Ok but how much food can you realistically harvest from your 15 acres and how many calories will that give you year in and year out? Both on the good years and the bad years?
@@jhenrypaul oh, i wouldn't want to be totally dependent on it. I'm just glad that i learned what was there first before i started clearing everything to plant.
I've added some more familiar things, and i will take out some things i cant find a use for.
So true....
I assume somebody planted those before you came to the property? Some of those plants are from other continents.
Food forests are endlessly magical...
Yup. Gotta start somewhere, even just a single plant at the beginning. But first...a piece of land would be great. Thanks NG
Start with a few plants in pots first.
yup, human population today is also not normal..
@Nobody here but us Chaotic Neutral chickens See, that's what I was trying to say. You don't need a plot of land to start growing. Plants are the most forgiving living beings on Earth.
Even in the case of potted stuff you would still need a terrace of some kind, which unfortunately many people in cities don't have, also I would be cautious with eating stuff grown in a highly polluted city like Beijing, New York, LA etc. I'm totally a supporter of permaculture and plan on putting it in to practice soon but there definitely is that big obstacle which is the fact that most humans have relegated space in exchange for comfort and it's very unfortunate that at the same time that the planet is dying, property cost is at an all time high and families are falling apart making living in the countryside very difficult.
Convince gov to let everyone to have an acre of free tax free fertile land that they can live on and grow a food forest on
Nothing is as smart and beautiful as Mother Nature's diversity.
I have been wanting to do this myself! I finally got some acreage...I can’t wait to get started!
I never really understood why we don’t have edible plants everywhere! The world should NEVER go hungry! 🌱
That comment was 3 years ago. I also want to do that, and I might get some land later this year. I'd love to hear an update from you, if you dont mind!
"By having a diverse system, you get maximum resilience." Love this so much! Words of wisdom.
This is everything I want in my life as a gardener. Truly inspiring.
Love this. I'm fortunate to have a small farm in northern Ireland and we have set aside around half an acre of ground for what I thought would be an allotment. It wasn't practical to maintain it alongside full time employment so I've naturally built up this fairly rough but really productive plot of ground. Two main rules are...1) It needs to be edible, 2) it must produce each year without the need for resetting and be low maintenance. I'm going to try and establish this layered approach, it's brilliant
You are absolutely fortunate, never take your land for granted! I dream of owning a plot of land so I can start some real deal permaculture.
Bless , we need more people like him
A small garden is better than nothing at all
Working for someone with land is a better deal
Finally someone is talking about this! Nor th and South America needs to reimplement this for;
-Conservation of native plants and trees
-ecological research
-better use of space by keeping different plants that use different nutrients in the same area so they dont deplete the same resources in the soil.
A lot like the 3 sisters system.
Well... South America actually has a huge problem of developed countries buying their products „fair trade“ and the money just goes to some big corrupted monsters of soy, cacao, cotton, corn or all the thousands of other things they produce. Native Americans already did this for centuries and then massive waste and stupid consumption and Monsanto came to destroy lands. I think that the best option right now against this system, would be to develop vertical edible gardens in private homes and every space available.
@@majopuerta Stop blaming Monsanto on everything you see as evil. Maybe you should actually look into the claims anti-Monsanto people make instead of taking them at face value.
@@SenorMeinKrafter oh come on! Surely you can't be that ignorant not to know that glyphosates are carcinogenic?!?
And, turning desert into paradise. See Geoff Lawton
Beautiful I want to start a small food forest in my backyard my neighbors already did it. They planted many edible fruit frees and shrubs and now they have plenty of food
Do it
If your neighbor did it you should easily be able to create your own food Forest simply by propagating their resource
So much love for the next and precious generations of farmers that are looking to fully utilize natural systems on their land and start fixing the damage done to earths ecosystems!
I live in tropical location and I have done the same in my back yard and it's working very well for me lots of lush green veggies & fruits with wild trees and plants so many type of beautiful birds moved in and I never had the need to use any pesticide 🤙 mahalo
More in-depth video please
Just Google search: Diversity, necessity and Nat Geo. It has have been covered already dozens of times.
search Geoff Lawton Permaculture he teaches all this stuff
Search CZcams for ‘Forest Garden The Movie , Martin Crawford’. I have a Permaculture / Food Forest playlist on my channel that includes that video.
@ Isaac&crystal lucero This study is called permaculture and Geoff Lawton is probably the most well known in this field, he’s worked with the governments of the world and offers low cost courses of the permaculture principles on his website to get started.
Check out Allan Savory permaculture Joel salatin in Korean natural farming
Would love to see an extended version of this, and to know what area is required to sustain an adult in this manner. Hoofing film though, well done nat geo.
Extended version is on its way ;)
You roughly need one acre to feed 4 people with this system.
Amazing, many thanks, given the low maintenance aspect this is potentially a goer for me as an amputee, whereas normal permaculture wouldn't be possible
@@ThomasRegnault at what caloric intake per day for a year? And in what climate conditions?
@@jhenrypaul Robert Hart's garden was in Shropshire but I don't know about his caloric intake. The most accurate yield figures have been recorded by Graham Bell and Nancy Woodhead who live on the English/Scottish border, their forest garden is a fifth of an acre and they harvest 1,4 tonnes of (very diverse) food.
@@ThomasRegnault looked at the Bell gardens and they grow a very diverse range of annuals including potatoes and beans. Most of these people seem to be using permaculture description to mean a mix of traditional garden beds (which may be very intense practices) and highly planted companion plant woods.
So about 1/2 us acre.
Everything is there to meet our need, but not our greed!
Not greed but overpopulation 3'rd world countries cant manage
@@danielgorzelniak3209 Overpopulation is also a type of greed. Why someone wants to have more children for oneself?
@@bhogarsishyan5769 children are the poor of the worlds social security.
@@jhenrypaul Having children is the outcome of selfish gene in action, for survival of ones species. Considering children as ones social security is the height of human selfishness, only humans can behave this way.
@@bhogarsishyan5769 Believing that having children as social security is the height of selfishness suggests that you either know nothing about how the world is in primitive societies or that you are so far removed from humanity by your perceived position in life that being human is nothing but an abstraction for you. In a world where you might have 5 or even 6 children and 3 might make it long enough to reach reproductive age and one may live long enough to see you die is not selfishness. It is trying to beat the odds. Social security as we know it in first world countries is pretty new in the history of mankind. Many 3rd world countries still don't have it for many of their people.
If we want to change the number of children the poor have, first provide food security. Second provide economic security. Third provide health security. Fourth provide education.
With security will come a reduction in numbers of children being born.
Nice video. Mother Nature has so much to teach us if we will take time to listen.
We listen. We just don't act...collectively.
If you step into your garden, just sit and clear you mind of thoughts.
Your garden will let you know what it wants. I am not crazy when I say this, it's true.
you realize we are a part of nature right ? not seprate from it
jesseandrew dcruz God did originally put us in the garden!
Quite literal, food for thought.
I have over 20 edibel plants on my balcony. And am constantly looking for ways to increase this throughout the winter.
Citruses are strong plant during the winter but will still freeze in extreme climates.
Sometime bagging them during winter keeps certain plants from freezing.
Theres a few trees that give edible berries and live in cold, snowy climates, unfortunately i cant think of their names.
@@deemac3470 I don't think she can grow trees on her balcony lol the roots would go through the pots even and probably eventually pull the balcony off the side wall of the block of flats. Or the people underneath could be living in a root forest, where thousands of roots are hanging down. That would be quite cool really although my daughter wouldn't cope because she has a phobia of roots lol.
Yes Martin!!!! Amazing stuff....this is what the world needs! I brought your book a few years ago and am planting up my garden!!!
"You dont have to know everything before begining it - plant trees and start with it " - instant inspiration
There is an unusual beauty and sense of balance to forests that most manmade gardens lack. This guy nailed it with his project, though. I hope this type of garden becomes a trend.
Nature is really beautiful!
The more we know the more we should be able to appreciate
Thank You for opening my eye to a new way to garden. May God Bless NG and the production team for supplying us with such a useful and informative video! 🙏🏾👏🏾😘
La planète dans son entièreté devrait être comme cette forêt-jardin!!! Splendide! De toute beauté!!! Magnifique!!!
Lots of wonderful forest garden videos on youtube now (or "food forest" is the Australian/American term). I'm collecting a playlist of them if anyone wants to see more.
Martin Crawford's book on how to create a forest garden is wonderful. We're about 3 years into slowly developing our back garden using his fantastic advice.
So, that makes 6 years by now. Would you share your experiences with us?
mind blowing!!!! thanks for shaing mind blowing Martin Crawford and thanks to Thomas Regnault
Would be even better if you did a longer more detailed show of what is in there.
there are longer videos on martin crawford on youtube
Wonderful. May this be widely seen and practiced. Thank you.
Humans that grow up in hunter-gatherer societies knows everything about all the edible and useful plants, mushrooms and animals in the areas where they live. A forest garden would be a return to this way of living, and for children who grows up with it, learning will come naturally.
MY. DREAM. GARDEN.
This kind of garden is possible on 2000 square ft. Come see our suburban food forest
How many people are you feeding year around just on the food produce from your 2000 sq ft? Are there and outside inputs?
@SDD525 but that is precisely the point. Unless you are putting in high inputs to something like corn or soybeans you are not going to be able to feed a person on 2000 square feed. It takes an acre to 3 acres to feed one person. In the USA. Even high input potatoes would be pushing it is to get 1600 calories a day out of 2000 square feet. And these input will have to come from somewhere other then the original 2000 square feet. Simply if you want me to believe claims of thus sort then I need to see real proof.
Using much lower inputs growing just one grain you could likely get your calorie intake of 1600 calories a day on about 14,200 square feet. Potatoes on 4000 square feet.
As to a permaculture that is mainly woods? On a acre of land. No. Even one hectare which is 2.47 acres. No.
@@jhenrypaul no outside imputs, we have eggs, honey from bees, rabbit raising and tons of perennials and annuals.
@@PermacultureHomestead number of chickens and rabbits? You bring in no foods for them? The bees we know are getting their food from an area much larger then 2000 sg feet.
And you use no fertilizers other then what is produce on site?
I live in a forest, how would I start? we have plenty of trees already but none of them bare fruit.
Great video. Thank you.
Thank you for sharing this idea. I like the idea of planting more edible plants in the forests that we already have. This would be a new way of thinking for the forest management. Here in Germany most forests are only used to harvest wood.
Truly inspiring. If only small plots of land were accessible for the poor, we could revolutionize not only the way we eat, but the way we live, and the way we depend on ourselves and others. This man's accomplishment is also my life's goal. Thanks for showing it can be done!
Convince gov to let everyone to have an acre of free tax free fertile land that they can live on and grow a food forest on
Seems like governments giving “free” stuff is the answer to all our problems.
@@Inthemeanwhile And that's why Europe is filled with Islamic migrants.
You should Google "community gardens" for your area. We have many in poorer neighborhoods in Minneapolis.
Also, lots of owners of vacant land will allow urban farming year to year for free in exchange for shoveling the sidewalk, picking up trash, and keeping it tidy. In exchange for chores or part of the harvest, a next door neighbor may provide water. (I let them use mine, but they paid the difference on my bill.)
@@bvegannow1936 Would you be willing to pay more in taxes to see it happen?
Best channel in the world
Yes it is!! 😊😊😍😍
Fantastic! A true solution to many of today's problems.
To make this the right kind of world, this is where we should start! 👍👏🍏💛
Beautiful just beautiful why doesn’t everyone do this!
Cuz gov doesnt let them or people cant afford land or people r to dumb to do it. Or some people might prefer city life(roof top gardens and growing food inside by windows and on porches is a good idea for them).
Convince gov to let everyone have an acre of free tax free fertile land that they can live on and grow a food forest on.
It would be more efficent and cheaper per person if the welfare system was transformed to let welfare recipients live in a small house on an acre of land in a food forest, they can grow their own food if able, it would save food, rent, and healthcare costs, and likely reduce crime. Solar, geothermal heating and cooling, rain water collection, and maybe a well, may also save water and electricity costs.
99.99999999% of the people don't have the resources starting with the land much less the time energy and education to plan and execute such an undertaking
This is so awesome. I love nature. I love science.
That is my green messiah. Hats off, martin.
THIS IS THE WAY FORWARD
Awesome
Nature never fails to amaze us
Mother Nature has a lot to teach us.
Yet we continue to fail it
I want this kind of job when I graduate from university.
Why aim for a job? You could start your own food forest with any plot of land (well, provided the land is legal to grow trees on, otherwise police may get involved)
@@curioussoul6059 Thank you, there are many fields around where I live. I could probably plant tree saplings there when I get some going from the ones I collected.
@@robynmcsharry9611
That's awesome :) grafting is pretty neat too, you can splice some brances of fruit trees onto certain trees. Berry bushes are also very easy to grow
@@curioussoul6059 That's pretty good advice.The seeds that I have are mostly date stones and apple seeds. I was a bit skeptical about the date stones but when I found out that date trees can survive -7°C temperature, that was pretty encouraging; time to pot them all and germinate them in a window. I remember when my mum and I transferred an Oak sapling onto some common land but we forgot to label it so I am not sure whether it survived or not. Still, gonna give it a try and again, thanks for the motivation 😀
@@curioussoul6059 Soaking some date stones and following the WikiHow steps to grow date trees.
Robert Hart's forest garden in Shropshire was the main one in England and he got much of his inspiration from Kerala, India I believe it was. You can see that in the layers. There are videos of Robert Hart in his garden on CZcams and his book is still available and it's quite good.
Fantastic video! Martin Crawford is a gentleman and a hero! He has done so much to show people a better way. A big thank you from Ireland. :D We are working on our forest garden!
I'm in love with this video.
I love everything about this
I always had a vision to built a natural garden in my town because of the rising climatic changes that I've been seeing in my own hometown and I was confused cause I also wanted to give it a very natural feeling but didn't know how, but now after I've watched this I've got the idea how to, thanks a lot.
I almost never comment. This got my heart pumping!
Love ur forest :)I would add special plants for bees butterflies and humming birds ,trench compost pits near foraging areas,small water body .Im doing the same but I'm adding a lot of ayurvedic/natural medicine plants I'm still adding medium trees ..I'm building a sustainable village food forest in India :) that will run as a holistic detox center .
Awesome!
This is an excellent and brief introduction to forest gardens. Very inspiring!
It'd be very restful and peaceful to be able to wander daily through this forest. Yummy, too!
OMG, this is amazing ... Love it, love it, LOVE IT!!!! :)
You like?
amazing shot camera 😍
regards from insect lovers 😊
We are working towards this as well. We also incorporate livestock to increase the fertility of grass and forbs in the fields. It increases wildlife and diversity and is so necessary for resiliency of food systems for all species involved.
Bravo Martin Crawford, glad you exist mate
Very didactic for those who have space is an excellent initiative. Well done!
go green 🌳💚💚💚💚💚💚💚
I promise i'm gonna build a self sustaining food forest that'll feed people and help protect earth. I'm in love with permaculture.
Permaculture is going mainstream! This is awesome!
This is my dream, but for now I’ll just have to be content with growing food on my apartment balcony and indoors with LED grow-lights. I would love to see a city (or private land owner) try a pilot project like this to see how it could be integrated into our lives.
You'd need a lot of land and it would be very not efficient. *not worth it* so nobodys gonna do it
The Peasant’s Daughter have you heard of dubai sustainable city?
mojor struś You are very wrong, it can be done and it will be done. It’s only a matter of time.
Kahlan's Garden I have heard about it, but I can’t say I’m knowledgeable about it. I will look it up.
Theyve been doing food forests in many areas for many years. Probably started around the time people started growing their own food.
Its the best way i kno how to grow food.
Convince gov to let everyone to have an acre of free tax free fertile land that they can live on and grow a food forest on
Amazing!! They should plant fruit and nut trees in the streets in all suburbs of the world... At least there wouldn't be anyone starving to death!
Muslims Coward We have abunch of mango trees along the streets. The fruit gets run over as well as the people who stop to pick it.
Perennials for life. Literally and figuratively.
yes please!!!!!!!!!
I truely believe this systeme of gargening to be the best, just as nature indented it.
Wish you guys would go to Costa Rica and do what Pete Kanaris has been doing.
This guy’s a genius. The hero we needed, not deserved
Yay Nat Geo!!! Thanks for showcasing this!
great video
You is the best channel
He has such a lovely smile
Please continue to spread the word about permaculture!
Please explain and show what is planted in this forces. Would love to watch. Beautiful concept.
Just search for food forest on youtube
@@harmtheone thank you
Permaculture is something like this which is being practiced in India for a long time.
forest farming is different from permaculture
Nice and informative video. Thanks for sharing this.
Brilliant. Inspired approach. Love it.
Yep I am hungry now. I will bring some sauce to my hike next time
How's body integrity?
A portable blender(if such thing exist) for a great smoothie!!
Could you provide a list of the 500 type of trees he has planted
It's not only trees. It could be 85 trees, 72 climbing plants, 18 bushes, etc
@@InsertTitleHere- the list would still be appreciated
just look at the other video about Martin Crawford, but his list is only valid for his land. If you are not specifically in his agricultural zone it will serve no purpose...
unity in diversity 💚
Great! This approach was implemented on the Tikopia island for more than 2000 years. The island is tropical though, hence more solar input. Still, very sustainable.
At Longview's Beefields, (250 Airport Road) in Quinte West, Ontario, Canada, I'm starting a 25-year project at age 77, out of concern for food and environment, and sheer desperation.
Admirable!
Yo i don't know if you really want to show your address.
Nice
What a fantastic video full of hope
So needed in our world...in my country one can find many forests of fruits. Although can't recall seeing something with such beautiful, balanced intricacy.
I want one! :D
Are there suggestions available that extend the "just grow a few trees and start from there a bit?
Like ... a plan or something?
I know, I know, but some more information on how this works?
See what will produce in your area, hardiness zone map can help also read the directions on the plant to see if its suitable for u. Plant trees that dont require another tree to produce. Watch videos and do research to help u deside what to do. Plan where everything will go.
Plant a variety of food trees and bushes. Collecting rain water and setting up an automatic watering system with a moisture sensor is a good idea for crops that need watering. And plant your food forest.
Imagine if we turned 1000 acre farms into gardens like these. I guarantee that more food will be produced with less harmful effects on the earth
At some point in humanity's past, a third of the people were farmers. Today barely a fraction of the people actually grow food. As more and more jobs are automated away, I think this type of farming could make a big impact in healing our planet and giving people real meaningful purpose.
Oh WoW !!!
I've 10 Acres of Land and I'm gonna do exactly that !!!
Thank you NatGeo !!!!!!!
I always said this ever since I was a kid and I still do
I want forest not a garden
pooch a garden and a monoculture farm are two totally different things
Convince gov to let everyone to have an acre of free tax free fertile land that they can live on and grow a food forest on
B vegan Now Yeah but... you know overpopulation
Some people want to cut down the forest to grow a forest farm. No, the trees are far more important than whatever bushes they plant. Keep the trees.
Great job! Inspiring. I've been working on my yard now for about 2 years and intend to accomplish something very similar. A book entitled "Edible Landscaping" by Rosalind Creasy is helpful.
This is so amazing!! 😀
Love this so much!