Don't forget to check out the description of this video for more links and information. Also pick up Richard Heinberg's book "The end of growth", and check out Jeremy Rifkin and his work called "The Third Industrual Revolution", as well as the documentary "Money for Nothing" on Netflix, and Happen Films documentary called "Living the Change", and Happen films interview with Nicole Foss on peak oil, financial crisis, residence and more, on CZcams.
Oh that was you? You mentioned being introverted, and your neighbours wanted to replace shaded shallow root compacted area under trees? I read that yesterday with a smile on my face. I thought it was absolutely fantastic. I just love seeing people interacting with others, talking about land and earth and plants and our place in it, and our stewardship towards it. I also totally connected to the "once I started talking about nitrogen fixers...." thing. You will notice on my garden tour video last year, I started getting lost on a tangent talking about stuff like that (that exact thing actually lol), and then snapped back to reality and was like... oh wait... I'm not sure they are enjoying this "drinking water from a firehose" style tour. Its really hard to reign it in when you get talkin shop though!
Awesome! Thanks, I love watching this kind of thing, and this isnone i havent seen yet. Saving this for a future watch. It would actually be pretty cool to have a watching party with everyone here. Wouldn't that be fun?
Just wanted to let you know that I had my lunch watching this documentary today and loved every minute of it. Really well done. Touches on so many topics I'm passionate about. I really like that they discuss the work at drawdown.org. That is a project that is very underrated. I'm a big fan.
Happen Films planted the seed for me and a few months after watching their videos I gave up my life, my apartment and job in the big smoke for a simple life in the country with the main aim to learn how to grow my own food. I now have chickens, vegie gardens and have a few fruit trees and I’m only on 1/8 of an acre - I’m so glad we made this decision before the pandemic hit. I’m itching to buy another lot of land just so I can have more growing space!
I wanted to have a permaculture homestead since my early teens. I got out of school and went into the work force. Quickly found out the current system is completely against permaculture. I got physically sick, but it has driven me to a tiny village away from the crowds. I only get $600/mth, but I have food security, fresh air and clean water. I consider myself richer than a multimillionaire in a city.
There is money and then there is wealth. You need some money to get started building wealth, but you can have all the money in the world and it won't help you live a good life. Similarly you can live a fantastic life without much money at all. I consider someone with a garden, fruit trees, stored food and energy and water, to be infinitely more wealthy than someone with a large number in some bank's database and a nice car. Even having a solid network of community and friends has more to do with a wealthy life than the greenback does. Money is a fantastic tool, and we need to leverage it, but to chase it at the exclusion of all other things is to be truly lost.
And its because its the common sense move. We put this title of permaculture on it, and we think it is revolutionary, but its really just common sense. Take care of the natural world. Don't destroy the thing you depend on for survival. Make your decisions reflect that, or they are a non starter.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy as revolutionary as they were doing a few thousands of years ago. They've been doing it for so long, but now we can incorporate modern technology to even better understand how we can help nature do it's job
So many exciting technologies to help combat our problems. We just can't lean on discovering them so much that we choose not to change and hope they can solve it all. The problems are so complex and interwoven that simple solving carbon won't help the extinction and soil crisis. Solving plastic bottles and carbon recombiners won't keep bees alive. We need fundamental change across the board, at the same time we need technologies than can help mitigate the symptoms, we need to address the root cause of the problems. Those root causes are our choices and the way we live. Really cool tech story just came out yesterday on reddit. For anyone interested check this article out: cleantechnica.com/2020/10/08/radiative-cooling-and-carbon-capture-new-technologies-for-an-overheated-world/
I completely agree with all the things said in this video. I'm younger(ish) and I'm looking at buying some land, and growing an orchard, garden, and actually turning some of that into my livelihood as well by selling fruit trees, etc. at some point (hence my channel name lol). It's so weird to me how most people don't even know how their food gets on their table. What you said about us being the only species that relies on other people to feed them is so true, and so sad, and doesn't happen anywhere else in the animal kingdom. Anyways, I think you fight the good fight and push people into thinking about where their food comes from, and to grow it themselves. Keep it up!
Your philosophy is spot on. Too bad there aren't more like you that truly understand how humanity thrives and prospers. Your world is what most would aspire to experience. The amount of blood and sweat you have expended has truly been worth it. I'm sure you would agree. You can tell it's a labor of love. Too bad most don't have a clue. Congratulations, you have created a wonderful outdoor experience for you and your sweet family. Thanks for sharing all lessons learned.
Thanks so much. It has been a lot of work to get started, but the funny thing is, i could probably do almost nothing now and the system would keep chugging onwards. Thats the best part about setting it up right (deep mulch, dense guild style planting, extreme diversity, earthworks like swales etc). And definitely worth it. To say it has been lifechanging isn't saying enough about it.
This video sums up pretty much my daily thoughts, I wish it had a billion views. I'm 23 now and there's just no chance I can "make it" in this society, it was written before I was even born. At my age my parents were enjoying everything that was offered to them without even realizing the chance they had. I can't go out and party like they did, I can't afford anything, I can't enjoy nature because the city is so big and I don't have a car, I can't even see a girl's full face when being outside because of a pandemic. I just moved in another town for 6 months and it's so hard to have a social life, in real life I mean. It's sad to admit but my older brother chose to play mobile games and watch time fly by, my eldest chose to study music while he knows he won't ever make a living out of it. For about two years now I have been dreaming to live the permaculture life. My pops actually started a community project in my hometown in France, doing permaculture in a public garden! It's a shared space where anybody can register to help and profit. The fact that humanity is still living like it's the 20th century seems so weird to me. I often wonder how did humans come to this ? Why did nobody do nothing about climate change for decades ? I want to leave the city so bad and start some kind of a permaculture tiny society with my childhood friends, I just don't have the money and no hope to get it... I'm quite aware that collapse on many levels is about to happen, my mom thinks I'm too extreme and pessimistic but, nature always wins, you have to work with it if you don't wanna end up losing everything. Your video made me realize that there's actually nothing more important than this, I just have to do it while it's still relatively made easy by what capitalism provides. I just need to take the first step which yet seems to be a giant leap.
I hear you, and all your concerns. My way of coping with this is that we aren't in the hopeless phase. We are in the "we can still do something" phase, that we will wish we did more inside, in the future. I'm talking not only as a society but as individuals. Because while you may think capitalism has its icy grips on our necks now, at least we can still go to the store and buy lumber and nails and topsoil and we have access to easy free woodchips, and fencing and fruit trees grown my competent graters, all for sale for relatively cheap. We have waste streams like coffee shop grinds and restaurant food scraps and cardboard from the industrial machine. We have city run water, and the ability to buy rain totes. We can buy shovels and we have the time to get stuff dug out and set up, eased by the capitalistic machine that we can take advantage of before it crumbles. So while things are looking grim for everyone as a whole, we actually have a lot of agency right now to create change in our own personal lives. Take advantage of the fact that everyone wants to live in the city and farm able country land is cheap. Forested land is even cheaper because it requires clearing for agriculture, but for us that's a gift. We have a lot of really positive things going on right now that we may wish we had in the future. So don't waste this time, and get busy building a live of freedom and independence from the storms we face. Speaking of free waste streams, I think I am going to go pick up another load of woodchips. For free.
How to get started when you have no money? Live in your car/van. Learn skill that can enable you to get a work-from-home job, then buy cheap land in the country. Gotta be done before kids. You're young, so u have time.
Like this 10x!! I've been at this a long time; it seems so obvious that it doesn't need much explanation. But I recently had an eye-opening conversation with my 20-something son, currently in law school. He is an intelligent, thoughtful, well-spoken person. He said, "What you do (i.e. permaculture) doesn't matter. Only policy will change things," and in that context, "People work too hard." My jaw hit the ever-shrinking lawn and my heart broke for him. He was raised here, his entire life, with fresh, organic food right outside the door, on the old-fashioned "make do" (limiting consumerism) ethic. [Loads up car with cooler and big box of fruit and veg before he drives off.] We need a heaping helping of Individual action with that policy, my child. Please.
Waiting for policy to solve things is a plan to fail. I also hate the argument that only policy matters, because it abdicates responsibility for the lives we lead and choices we make which empower the wrong people to continue to destroy the planet. If we provide the financial incentive for them to continue making money by destroy our world, then they will. But either way, its not a one or the other issue. It's an all hands on deck issue. If policy is going to drive the majority of change, it doesn't mean that building self resiliency in your life is a poor decision, or meaningless. It actually makes profound changes to you life and who you are, what you support, and what you are vulnerable to.
@@icouldjustscream Lol I get that, but negativity won't win anyone over, whereas vegetables will. He doesn't yet recognize the scope of production and stewardship that went on under his nose...when he graduates into a tight job market he'll wise up. I've had another 20-something child who graduated in the spring living at home for the past six months while job hunting (just landed one), and he seemed to finally recognize the resilience we've built here...like he was seeing it for the very first time.
The similar thing has happened in my family... my kids went to the local school to become Mexicans. At home I supplemented their education to make them slightly Australian We had chickens, rabbits, grew most of our food, the house that we built had more workshop space than conventional living space, passive thermal design...I took the kids to Australia when the drug war violence was very active in our area in 2011. In our suburb it's hard to find a family that hasn't lost one or more young adults to violence. Now my eldest son has stayed in Australia, has an accountant girlfriend, lives in an apartment, works in an engineering firm designing warehouses... He is over worked, under paid and dying within. All the resiliency education is not being used. The jack of all trades didn't understand his freedom until he built his own debt prison. My daughter has ended up in Zimbabwe. She is superficially living more of the permaculture lifestyle by having a garden but her new family's income depends on importing lubricants and mining equipment repair parts. My second son is back in Mexico. He just likes disappearing into his world of music and writing. He helps me out with chores and enjoys the pets, but his heart isn't into the garden. He just sees it as a pretty space. I often feel that I basically failed with core values of being together, supporting eachother being out of the economic system. Maybe I just need to be patient. By the way, you have a wonderland garden. It's absolutely stunning. How many people help you have it in such immaculate condition? After seeing two of your videos, Chihuahua looked like an industrial, junkyard dust bowl. You have really created a very special garden. It would be great if your son manages to change a few laws...in the 1980s I was part of a team trying to make the government change the local laws that didn't allow people to collect rainwater from rooves. It took a major drought to overturn that law. I was also invited to be part of the illuminating engineering society after I wrote s paper on natural daylight. At that time it was proposed to limit the amount of glazing... I wrote a paper saying that they should not limit glazing but give an energy rating to buildings.. It's amazing how some small written submissions can snowball. Your son isn't totally wrong.
@@formidableflora5951 You are a wise momma. Kids don't need to be yelled at- they need to be guided to find their own truths as hard as that is sometimes.
im Live in Ontario on edge of Short Hills Park..whole family has had covid.. except me .. (so far).. started learning "myLand" few yrs back and now (yes this moment) am actively prepping soil, planting seeds, trees cuttings, learning the natural plants already here and working with the natural Flow of nature..15 yrs ago i had a dream of someday being where i am now.. creating a #FoodForestClassroom... Watched several of ur vids today ( most i just listened as i worked ) and i found ur story(s) most encouraging.. lookin forward to sharing our experiances with everyone thats doing this work .
Before you fill in all your lawn with more food forest...do you have a fire shelter/ root cellar/ underground Zen place away from your house? Twice I was in a place with ash falling onto the house surrounded by 75 m tall eucalyptus trees. Both times the wind fortunately changed and the fires were diverted My mother had to come to rescue us kids and we could luckily drive to safety. Both experiences made me realise how vulnerable one is in times of drought and how one can have access routes cut off. Even Russian forested areas are starting to have problems with fire. Fire shelters need careful design. A simple underground room with a door doesn't tell you if the fire front has passed. You need a small fire safe widow that usually faces up hill over a pool of water. It needs a certain volume of air and it needs not to flood. If you do build one make it a nice place to be in and make it dual purpose.
This is honestly a very valuable comment. I half joke about replacing my lawn with a food forest but in reality my family would never let me. My kids love playing out on the grass lawn. I could see how surrounding your house in a forest could cause other concerns.
Great video. You expressed so many of our thoughts. We are definitely striving towards a blend of many different methods to attain sustainability on our farm. What amazes us is the numbers of people that say to us ... "why would you want to work so hard". Thanks so much for sharing!
I'm 23, working as a developer (perfect for remote work!). Currently sparing while looking for a nice place outside the city to move to. Thanks for all the tips and inspiration :) Spreading the movement amongst my friends too, gotta stay sharp!
I planted my food forest maybe a year or two too late for this period. Trees don't produce yet but where I am, it seems too far for all the fresh produces to come in bulk this year. No tomatoe baskets, no Ontario peach basket, no strawberry at our local food store! I manage to have enough tomatoes and other veggies for all the canning but I will miss fruits. I am adding hazelnuts, plums and mushrooms next year! And multiply some currents to optimize a more shady place.
I love how dead on you were, especially with monetary policy and inflation. I watched this when you released it, and now again it came on my autopsy, and it blew me away how spot on you are/we're. Keep up all the good info and permaculture doings!
I'm one of your older viewers. Where do I want to be in five years? Moved from a town of about 3500 to a village of about 35. Where do I want to be in twenty years? In all likelihood, I'll be dead. At your age I probably would have said I'd like to be living in the country in five years, but now I can't drive after dark (or at dawn & dusk), so in the event of an emergency I would have no way to travel away from a weather disaster or to get medical care, so I need to remain in close proximity to others. Sadly, in my area even villages of fewer than 50 people have ordinances against keeping so much as a small flock of laying hen, so I'm reliant on my unofficial network of local sources for 'agricultural' food items.
Agree mostly- been following closely and largely agree. I think there will be some corrective action to mitigate the move out of the cities but your thoughts (absent focus on peak oil) are a nice dovetail to my current reading of 'Sapiens'. I'm hedging a little and we live in the city but on a decent lot and I planted 3 cherries, 3 apples, 1 self pollinating peach, a goji, 3 elderberries and a few currants and had 5 garden beds this year :). Hoping to get better at canning and preservation to increase our self sustaining ability and connectedness with nature. Even down to getting curious about eating the purslane growing between our brick pavers and the giant puffball mushrooms on the local path. Foraging is a big gap in our knowledge set as we rely on global food chains instead of understanding what's going on around us.
Foraging is such a great source of food too. Its mind blowing to me how much food was all around me that I had no idea about. There's asparagus in almost every ditch and hillside around here.
I bought some land on lake Huron and going to do nothing but build and plan, so far I have apple trees, goose berry Bush, elderberry and blue berries, repkants evergreens and sugar maples, next are veggies, never too late to start
good video. I am commenting from BC. I agree with everything you are saying. I have been homesteading for two years now and next year I will be starting my own food forest. already I can forage mushrooms, huckleberries, blueberries, saskatoon berries and cranberries. There is so much more I am not listing, the point is , every year these fruits are available for me to pick, its amazing and I plan on adding to it. I only have about 3 acres of treed forested land. but it is certainly more than enough. I look forward to moving away from the conventional annual garden and more into permaculture and a food forest. I also raise my own chickens. Ive seen the writing on the wall with our future for a while now. I also lost my job from carona and took that oppotunity to start my own business, now am self employed on my own homestead. I started a waste wood business, I bought a wood chipper and brush cutting saw. Times are tough but I like the way I have started to structure my life. I am not trying to brag about being able to adapt but for me personally, covid has actually helped push my life in what I thing is the right direction. I plan on picking your brain next season to get some help starting my permaculture and food forest ideas.
Awesome! Thanks for watching. If you ever have any tips or advice let me know. We can all learn from eachother. Also, I have an "essentials" playlist. Start with the videos in there :)
Great video. Many thought provoking discussions. I have 2,000 sq feet of garden space and already have a plan to expand that with more ground / raised bed garden space, as well as some more fruit trees. How amazing would it be to walk out to your own apple orchard, instead of driving 30 minutes and paying big bucks!
I really resonate with much of what you're saying about the tipping points that we're finding in many areas but on the flip side I want to ask you about your experience in actually living off your land and realistically how many people can be supported through these food production and preservation mechanisms. If you have the time and inclination I'd really love to see a breakdown of the numbers on your homestead. Not to undercut ;) but you and @EdibleAcres both do a great job showing how to use these techniques on a small to medium scale but I wonder about the system as a whole and how it can be reformed without drastically lowering the carrying capacity of the planet. I think Richard Perkins and Curtis Stone have spoken about this a bit, but I don't see how we can feasibly produce the amount of food to feed the people we have on our planet (let alone the other logistical issues) with solely permaculture approaches. Do you agree or disagree and why? Also how could you envision merging techniques from commercial ag and permaculture to get closer to that goal of both having a high producer to consumer ratio for food production, and restoring not depleting soil fertility?
I really get where you are coming from, but I think there's a trap here. We get stuck in this all or nothing fallacy. Or the nirvana fallacy. That something has to solve all the problems or it isn't worth doing. I think this thing is something we have to take a different approach to. We need a death by a thousand cuts approach. It doesn't need to solve all the problems, it just needs to be better than what we're currently doing. Then try to scale it as large as we can, but being practical at the same time. I think stuff like drawdown.org does a great job at estimating the impact of a whole bunch of changes, not just farming, but stuff like education, birth control, energy production, waste reduction, conversion of obsolete techs like refrigerants, etc. I don't think, even if it COULD work that everyone is going to go grab land and eat 100% of their own food, but that's also not the argument here. The proposition is simply that being a little more resilient is a good thing, and also takes the load off the industrial agriculture chain that is destroying the planet. And any pressure we can take off that, is good. Just straight up.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I totally appreciate what you're saying here and it is good to have that reminder that in so many ways the people who try to examine and change the systems within which they live are few and far between in our world. That really does 100% address the more systemic concern I have though I still think it would be fascinating to be able to explore what ways commercial ag could be improved with regenerative principles. The other element of the question was more about how much these tools can do to help us, even on an individual basis, move toward a more local model of food production. Agreed that we don't need to reach for perfection (incremental improvement can still aggregate to exponential changes) but the question to you is how large can it scale, even for the individual? I totally agree at the end of the day that, just like with power generation, adding generation capacity is an improvement even if we'll never get to where we can figure out how to store it locally, or go totally off grid, because those that come after can build on what we leave for them. Thanks again for producing such great content and I'm checking out the site (and rewatching the video for the n-th time) All the best!
Watched the first half so far, I definitely agree with a lot of what you're saying, but for me, the logical conclusion has always been community building and communism. Productivity has risen over time, but as supply grows faster than demand, instead of paying workers more for their increased productivity, they fire workers to maximize their profits. This increase in productivity has the effect of creating unemployment, which is why we have cyclical recessions and depressions. This crisis does two things, it keeps the poor desperate so that they will work harder and be dependent on capitalists, and it also allows rich capital owners to buy up struggling assets, which leads to monopolization. Today, we have more monopolies than ever before and they control our governments more than the people do. The connections between monopolies and the corrupt government also pushes US foreign policy to exploit foreign resources and foreign labor (imperialism), while amazon and the US military remain some of the largest polluters in the world. To solve climate change, we either have to change policy, except corporations will never cede their profits, and the government is too corrupt to change, or we have to build a mass movement of working people to build the scale we need. It's nice that white collar workers can buy land in the country, but blue collar workers are always going to be the ones hit the hardest by climate change, and have the most potential for changing the world. Just takes some land and some organization. Most people don't own any property, and many don't even have homes, but they're just as capable to transform damaged land into productive food forests that reverse climate change. One could argue they're even more willing to do it than your typical comfortable middle class family since they need food more. But yeah, mask off, I'm a marxist haha, that's the main reason I'm doing the guerilla guild project to combat food deserts/food apartheid. This way of gardening is really a spark that needs to catch like wildfire.
My original goal was to buy land to be self sufficient in a small group, family, or form a small commune, but now I'm much more focused on building a mass movement. Cuz i could go out there and be happy probably, but I don't want to isolate, I want to align myself with the global class struggle to bring the most amount of good to the world. Rural communist movements in the past were focused on getting land and forming co-ops. If we had communal land, anyone could go to the countryside and work to combat climate change and feed ourselves
I like what you are trying to do. I think if I were in a different stage in my life (where my choices only affected myself), I would love to join some kind of commune on shared land. I wish you every success in the movement you are trying to build. Know that there are many like minded people who share the fight with you :)
I'm not sure permaculture is communism per say if you interpret communism as being a top down government controlling force that makes for forced fair share. It's too local, it's more about networking from small hubs, it's about bartering, trading skills. It relegates the government to organise communications, defense, army support during environment crises, law and order, refugee management... and all of this can be done with a variety of non corrupt governments. Yes permaculture is against neoliberal governments that privatise tax paid enterprises but that doesn't make it communism because communism is hung up with economic money systems and there are many other kinds of wealth.
@@annburge291 I didn't say permaculture is communism, I just said that I'm a communist lol. Communism is a stateless, moneyless, classless society, and socialism is the transition between our society and that stateless society. The goal is always to go to a society where the state withers away.
A local group around me literally just started discussing a group land purchase. It is intensely exciting, but also extremely difficult. We are all so conditioned and chained to the existing structures, that to try to step outside or cut against the grain requires a reimagining of oneself. I think the hardest part about any of these ideas is really the psycho-social change and integration that is required. We each need to unlearn the modern nuclear family society in order to get back in touch with that tribal/communal lifestyle that we came from those tens of thousands of yeas ago. I try to avoid "isms" and "ists" as labels generally come with baggage and obfuscate the real message, but I tend more toward anarcho-communism myself :)
Through this video, I felt like I was talking to myself, but realized it was you. Had me thinking of the echo chamber and consider the opposite side of the 'argument'. This would be something along the lines of: "Everything will be fine, technological advancements, automation, decentralized finance/smart contracts, all of this will free up resources to tackle the larger problems." But then you look at the way we procrastinate as a species, how foreseen, but 'surprise' pandemic is handled, and how some issues like species extinction can reach the point of no return by the time we get there, but then again with CRISPR we could be close to bringing them back to life...Just as we have found ways to regenerate and build soil. Everything could still be 'fine' longterm, just a world very different from the one we grew up on, and there's no telling or predicting how 'hard' or 'easy' change will be in the coming years. When in doubt,.. plant comfrey? lol. Water, Food, Shelter, Security. I like that you added Sanitation. Also for energy, a backup Generator is great for temporary outages, but they can go through a lot of fuel, fast. Solar, Wind, Water, Geothermal are more long term solutions for preparedness. Also, I reckon you were typing off the top of your head and you'd agree to add Community to the list. For some that may be #1 if they don't have the personal means to acquire the rest. Your place is looking great by the way, I grew up between city and country life York & Lake Simcoe. Moved to BC 14 years ago, and never looked back. Zone 5 like you. Lots of similar plants! You're doing a great service by getting the message out. It never hurts to be prepared! Got an order in for another 30 fruit trees for spring! Anyone that reads this, if you're serious about fruit trees, order through a wholesaler. You can get bare root(which will do better in your soil) for ~$14 each as opposed to $40-60 from the nursery. Min order is typically 5 per tree type, but you can split with neighbours/friends, or even pot up and sell for a small profit. Last I checked in Ontario there's Warwick Orchards that has some great peach varieties. I couldn't order due to movement certificate requirements. Their min order is 10 per variety but were only $11.75 when I talked to them in the Spring of this year. Another common trait of permaculture fans is that we sure seem to be able to go on tangents :)
Haha I loved every minute of reading this comment. Community for sure is possibly our biggest tool to leverage. Its not so much about self sufficiency but small community sufficiency. It also lends itself towards less looting during times of crisis.
Our procrastination as a species is that we've dedicated ourselves to making technological advancements in distractions rather than in industries we need for survival. When a short term profit motive is the only reason a company does anything, why would any of them invest in the vague space of securing our future. If the resources of the Apples and Googles of the world were legitimately mobilised to focus on securing our future (as you say water, food, shelter, energy) we could probably continue on our current path to a lesser extent. But innovation means nothing without increased quarterly profit for shareholders. And if everyone is comfortable, secure and happy then they might reduce their consumption.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Yeah then communities can elect their own designated looters ;) jk. I'm halfway through the Rifkin talk you cited. So glad you led me back to him. I loved his talk on the Empathetic civilization ~10 years ago and it really helped with having a positive mindset back then about the future of civilization. Jacques Fresco always interested me as well. If I boiled it down to one thing it would be a resource based economy and proper mapping with Lidar etc. The only thing is the Orwellian aspect of Globalization that makes me apprehensive. Exciting times. Before I digress, again. I really hope your channel blows up and you can get some CZcams dollars to fund the expansion of your food forest, although I'm sure you could quite easily multiply what you already have. Last comment.. when I saw your first video I thought to myself "James Franco is doing permaculture?" Not sure if you ever got that but you have a striking resemblance, he's not as cool as you though. PS if you're ever short on content, you could do a video on the tools you use to maintain your landscape!
@@CheeerriOH A first step could be to define key metrics, and gamify achievements for the corporations to unlock a time decaying tax credit. I think they attempted something similar with carbon sequesters in some jurisdictions. Not sure on specifics. I feel as we go digital, we will get more say as to where tax dollars go, and be able to put suggestions up for vote, and then it's all about educating through factual, scientific discourse (hopefully we can unwash brains, and they aren't too far gone.. it might take a generation or two.) If step 1 is to be the change you want to see, then Mr Permaculture Legacy is definitely on step 2 by showing people what the change can be like, and how to do it.
The last time we had a strawberry patch, we propagated it to cover a large area, but over a few years the plants kept making exponential amounts of runners, so many that they all crowded each other out for light, and the leaf scorch wiped out the leaves, and the frost wiped out the roots, and in the spring there were no strawberry plants. The plants were all clones of at most 20 plants, possibly just one or two. They were all susceptible to the same things and when those conditions came they all collapsed. This time our strawberry patch is grown entirely from seed, so they start out more resilient, but they've already started making runners, shortly after getting their first 3-leaf clusters and when they put down a second root from the crown. This time they will be more spread out, and in more places, and in more microclimates. Where did humans live during the last major ice age? and are we ready for something on that scale now? Right now the strawberry plants still think it's spring and are colonizing everything they can with runners, and I open the weather map and see what is coming, and do what I can to get them ready~
Thanks for this post. I may be susceptible to this myself. I will try to thin my patch this fall, and encourage genetic diversity through reseeding (thats the easy part.... lots of strawberries end up being tossed and replanted).
It happened to the strawberry patch across the alley long ago, several years later it happened to our strawberry patch. usually when all the plants are the same age and runners are crowding everything out. This late in the year you could bring a few established runners inside over winter, in the window, in a box next to the carrots, just as long as they're spread out in different places, then if the main patch collapses then it can be repopulated from the other spots.
The truth is the truth whether you believe it or not. How do we get people who won't listen to reason and facts onboard to help save the planet? Anyone still denning climate change is (IMO) beyond help. How can you deny something that's hitting you in the face?
Very good video, a great deal said with which I agree - and I think it a shame that the viewership for this particular video is so low. We are all greatly at risk from so many quarters - not so much with Covid now the vaccination programme is well under way (although the fact Covid mutates so easily changes things forever), but certainly economically, environmentally and through pressure from a fast increasing global population.
We bought 26 acres ( a small piece we could) to regrow a hardwood forest and to conserve wetlands....but the property taxes is like ridiculous unless you put it into land mgmt plan
Hiya from Lively (Sudbury) again. I think your prophecies are generally correct. What variety of peach are you growing that survives your zone 4 or 5 (not sure exactly which you are?)
You nailed by most recent source of depression. I've been wanting to get my own house to create my own permaculture paradise but it seems so impossible to afford
Start small! In our 500 sq ft apartment, we were able to grow various microgreens and cherry tomatoes (and many non-food plants), and that has given us the practice and confidence to expand when we move to a bigger place. It won't be as overwhelming as if we had no experience at all. There are books on how to grow your own food in tiny spaces as well, and they may be available as books/ebooks at your local library.
@@forfeitreality let me know when you see this so I can delete it. Knowledge and experience isn't my problem at this point. I need land and space to work with so I can grow more, literally and figuratively
Climate change isn't Santa, it's irrelevant if people "believe in it" or not lol. Keep up the good stuff, I'm enjoying your content and love the natural swimming pond you've done :)
Lol, love the saying. Its like saying you don't believe in gravity. It really doesn't matter if you do or not, gravity will do its thing if you jump off the cliff.
Yeah, they are staghorns and they definitely make the landscape pop in the fall - especially when they are an understory component and have an overstory above them. They are also great bee food, and you can make tea and flavored water from the fuzzy berries.
The tricky thing is that executives moving into the countryside then raises the taxes on poor rural people who have lived there all their lives paying very little. You correctly complain about oil and gas but you do not factor in that all the city people with jobs moving further into the countryside turns it into a kind of suburbia, they have to use their cars to get everything. It is a huge cost in energy. Part of permaculture I have always found useful, is that it encourages people to live close together, to share the resources. Each person buying a 5 acre lot close to Home Depot is not a good future, nor practially possible. The cities are equipped to have large groups of people within walking distance of all services and work. We do not want them hollowed out, with only the poor and young living there. As you say, people in their twenties cannot afford to buy property. Your example is so beautiful, but your economic model, giant property, suburban lifestyle is not a sustainable model. That is not a judgement on you, I love your channel absolutely. But it is just a response to your prediction that people should leave the city and buy property. Unless they do it differently than you have. It is not sustainable either.
Indeed, it's going to be a crazy balance with 1000 moving parts. I just hope the move out to the country comes hand in hand with a work-from-home economy so that we don't have all that travel footprint with it. End of the day, people love cities still, so it's not like we'll flatten out completely. I personally love my space, so don't get me wrong, I don't want the city moving out to the country - I just predict that it likely will. If someone can do their office job from home, you have to really love city life to justify how little your money gets you in the city.
If you're not already familiar with her, you should check out the work of economist Ann Pettifor on what Fossilised Carbon did to global economics. Edit: Also, her TED talk from 2011 is pretty good: czcams.com/video/1tXykPu-84g/video.html
A fantastic talk, on two of my greatest passions - because they are linked. The global markets and monetary supply - this is the real source of all the problems we are facing, and of course the protection of natural ecosystems. This talk was a perfect mix of connecting the two of them, in a way that I haven't really seen many people do. I think to really get a lot out of this talk, you need to have a good understanding of monetary policy. I think if anyone else wants to watch this one, a really good first watch is "money for nothing" on Netflix. Then maybe check out Nicole Foss interview at Happen Films here: czcams.com/video/AdNvmIfyQPY/video.html. That one is really long, but my goodness is that a good watch. Anyone reading this comment and interested in it... Watch both of those first, then watch the TED Talk which Andrew linked above, and you will get a lot more out of it. Fantastic, and thanks for sharing. I wish we could get more people like Ann Pettifor, Nicole Foss, etc, working on actually making the policy decisions that impact the future of the Human Race.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I'm glad you enjoyed it - there's also an extended version of this talk, that Ann Pettifor gave to students at the London School of Economics in 2017. It goes into a little bit more detail than the TED talk as the audience is already literate in economic theory: czcams.com/video/P5RQgbBa-jk/video.html It's all a passion of mine too, I think Henry Ford nailed it when he said: "It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning" In 2015 the sitting UK Members of Parliament were all polled on how they thought the monetary system worked, and 85% of them didn't know. I'm sure if the poll was repeated with lawmakers across the globe the percentage would be much the same. How are these people supposed to run the system properly if they don't even understand how it works.
Lol about the parliament members. I love that quote, see it a lot in cryptocurrency subreddits. :) I will check out that Ted talk tonight, I was very interested in her last one. Thanks for sharing.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy cryptocurrencies eh? Now we've got something we can talk about for days! Lol. Trading crypto has been my main source of income since late 2013 - I was a Bitcoin, then Litecoin, then Ethereum miner for a few years (and lots of s***coins too but the less said about those the better), but nowadays I just trade and have little to do with the Proof of Work currencies. I'm really excited about where Proof of Stake is going to take the space, in terms of the efficient use of electricity. The next 5 years are going to be very interesting.
Yeah, ETH 2.0 is coming so soon. People have completely forgot about them, like they are some fad, Pokémon coins, and not actual technology. Its like, a few people get rich off them, then people think they are tulips. A programmable decentralized immutable ledger is just so disruptive, because it can be used in so many ways. Something being unquestionably authentic carries so much value. While I don't think people should be going all in, because that's just super irresponsible, not holding ANY is equally silly.
My social circle and me all say they want to leave the city. I am sure life will get more and more ugly the bigger the city is. For now I am stuck luckily in a small rural city and have a small garden
When everything gets worse, living in apartments and small blocks will be the most pointless and harmful thing possible. Can't grow food in a box suspended above the ground without copious amounts of electricity.
Done. Harvested a lot of seeds from my own garden and bought a bunch as well. Even collected flower seeds, nasturtium, cleome, delphinium, marigold, and a few others, for the pollinators. I went to my local nursery to buy a few buckets of Gaia organic fertilizer and extra bags of compost, just to make sure I have some for next spring. Thought I'd look at the seeds while I was there.....almost sold out. Used to have 2 walls FULL of seeds.....down to 2 little racks.
Indeed! I have heard that everything "prepping" is really hard to find now. Seeds, canning equipment, jars, lids, rings, even chickens! Its hard to find any of that stuff because everyone is getting interested in a little backup storage and resiliency. Really nice silver lining of this whole crazy year.
As someone who also dabbles in urban planning, I think you're way off on your predictions about cities. Most of what you said was just "white flight" nonsense. Sure, we will likely start improving our agricultural techniques and housing/land prices in cities might collapse when the financial cycle turns, but I hardly expect a mass exodus from cities since they are by far the most desirable places for people to live. What's really going to happen is our cities in North America are going to densify and shift from car dependency to be more transit, cycling, and walking oriented. I really don't think you'll get mass permaculture from the sprawl you seem to be advocating for. Regular people with jobs just aren't going to do what you're doing in large numbers. If people really do flee cities, we'll just get a lot of underused land. It would be far easier to go with the route already being taken, let most people live in dense cities and let the land outside cities be farmed by a relatively small number of farmers (edit: using better techniques than currently).
Great comment. I think there was a misunderstanding though, I think it's going to happen, but not in the scale that I think you may have taken it as. I just think those who want to get a little more breathing room are going to have new means to do so (with work from home) and that will help alleviate some of the pressure in city centers. However as you said, WELL DESIGNED cities are actually some of the most efficient ways for humanity to grow. The key is the well designed part. Right now, North America thinks the solution is more car lanes and bigger highways. Meanwhile, the key to hitting the next generation cities is going to be more things like robust mass transit systems, high speed rails, and walkable/bikeable cities.
What political party do you align with, or do you think we need a new party, or no parties at all? I agree with the comment below about the problem with humans disturbing wilderness too much. Animals do need a more continuous roaming area. There's a recent video about a couple moving to wilderness in Northern Idaho where they said a bear is threatening them. I didn't watch the video - it made me sick. But, you know, any excuse they can invent so they can shoot it down the line probably.....
I think that climate change, preserving environmental ecosystems, and care for the planet are not political topics. I actually think it's disgusting that these extistential threats to the human race (and to dozens of species PER DAY) have been politicized. These aren't political. They are threats. Very real ones. I think every political party on the planet should care about preserving natural ecosystems. If not only for the fact that it's wrong to make species go exinct so that we can enjoy luxury, but for what about just for the fact that we depend on nature more than I depends on us continuing to exist. I actually think political parties really exist to just keep us screaming at eachother across the room while we don't notice the thief going around the angry mobs picking everyone's pockets while they yell at eachother. There aren't multiple political parties, there are 2. And its not Democrats and Republicans. Its the mega rich vs everyone else. All the political parties we can vote for are just puppets on opposite hands of the same puppeteer pulling the strings above the stage out of sight. Thats why I believe that climate change and political reform go hand in hand. Vote on issues, not on speaking heads of make believe parties that don't do what you vote them in for anyways. Its a giant machine that needs dismantling. I actually prefer the philosopher kings political method more than our current one. At least the people making the decisions were the smartest people in the room. Not the loudest one in the room, whole the smart ones are ignored.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Wow, we think the same. I've always suspected there are many others that think the same as me but have no representative group to unite under/about; we just know purples exist. In my area, permaculture has too many socialists and of course the expansion of (the same puppetry) government and (worthless) higher education and rule by the dumb majority is not the answer. But I get it that they want to topple the mega rich system. Yes, the two puppet parties are just for show, but without a party that actually addresses the issues properly that folks can unite under and have trust on where we're going, there's too much of a rift between the two permaculture/restoration groups on the ends of two hostile spectrums, socialists (at least in my area) vs. libertarians (Salatin, probably the Nature's Always Right guy, maybe David the Good, Mark Shepard too?-seems like he would be) to have any hope of getting to a philosopher king system. And the fragmentation in our group that cares about nature combined with unending, explosive population growth won't lead to any order to the movement or proper management of the urbanites to the rural areas who will destroy the last bits of wilderness. I guess where I disagree is the idea/hope that we can at least make a difference voting for issues. We can't do that since every issue is tied to a party essentially, and where something gets voted in under one platform, the other platform can just reverse it or mold it just slightly to take it completely on a different course. The man behind the curtain has control of everything, period. I'd love to hear your ideas on how we'd even find/regulate philosopher kings. And why can't we find one good one now and just run them as an independent? Ross Perot did pretty good given how uninspiring he was. Actually, no one would vote themselves out of a job. That's the problem. If you topple the system, just about everyone loses their job and security. Everything has to get very ugly before they are that desperate. And money printing will prevent that desperation from ever occurring. Okay, I will stop rambling now.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I'm getting closer to believing in the philosopher kings as the only solution. The problem is that I don't believe that the smart people would take power like that. Its more likely the corrupt, rich people who own military who would seek to increase their control. Its pretty amusing to me that in the future, historians will probably be discussing the failed experiment of democracy and "freedom" in the same contexts as the feudal empires before them because the average person cannot be trusted to be rational.
Indeed, this is the big problem. Typically, the people who want to exert their power over others tend to be the complete opposite of who you want exerting that power.
Yes, you are warmer than I am by about a zone. Look for Chicago Hardy fig tree. You can get them from whiffletree which is fairly local to you. Also check out Richter herbs if you are close to Uxbridge. They sometimes have them. Your local nursery may also have them also.
Wife is a bit against them. My sister in law is doing them so hopefully we can all see how easy they are, and we can encorporate them. I'd love to have chickens, rabbits and goats. And maybe borrow a hog to clear some areas now and then.
Don't forget to check out the description of this video for more links and information. Also pick up Richard Heinberg's book "The end of growth", and check out Jeremy Rifkin and his work called "The Third Industrual Revolution", as well as the documentary "Money for Nothing" on Netflix, and Happen Films documentary called "Living the Change", and Happen films interview with Nicole Foss on peak oil, financial crisis, residence and more, on CZcams.
kiss the ground on netflix is an awesome documentary too!
Oh that was you? You mentioned being introverted, and your neighbours wanted to replace shaded shallow root compacted area under trees? I read that yesterday with a smile on my face. I thought it was absolutely fantastic.
I just love seeing people interacting with others, talking about land and earth and plants and our place in it, and our stewardship towards it.
I also totally connected to the "once I started talking about nitrogen fixers...." thing. You will notice on my garden tour video last year, I started getting lost on a tangent talking about stuff like that (that exact thing actually lol), and then snapped back to reality and was like... oh wait... I'm not sure they are enjoying this "drinking water from a firehose" style tour.
Its really hard to reign it in when you get talkin shop though!
Awesome! Thanks, I love watching this kind of thing, and this isnone i havent seen yet. Saving this for a future watch.
It would actually be pretty cool to have a watching party with everyone here. Wouldn't that be fun?
Just wanted to let you know that I had my lunch watching this documentary today and loved every minute of it. Really well done. Touches on so many topics I'm passionate about.
I really like that they discuss the work at drawdown.org. That is a project that is very underrated. I'm a big fan.
Happen Films planted the seed for me and a few months after watching their videos I gave up my life, my apartment and job in the big smoke for a simple life in the country with the main aim to learn how to grow my own food. I now have chickens, vegie gardens and have a few fruit trees and I’m only on 1/8 of an acre - I’m so glad we made this decision before the pandemic hit. I’m itching to buy another lot of land just so I can have more growing space!
I wanted to have a permaculture homestead since my early teens. I got out of school and went into the work force. Quickly found out the current system is completely against permaculture.
I got physically sick, but it has driven me to a tiny village away from the crowds.
I only get $600/mth, but I have food security, fresh air and clean water.
I consider myself richer than a multimillionaire in a city.
There is money and then there is wealth. You need some money to get started building wealth, but you can have all the money in the world and it won't help you live a good life. Similarly you can live a fantastic life without much money at all. I consider someone with a garden, fruit trees, stored food and energy and water, to be infinitely more wealthy than someone with a large number in some bank's database and a nice car. Even having a solid network of community and friends has more to do with a wealthy life than the greenback does.
Money is a fantastic tool, and we need to leverage it, but to chase it at the exclusion of all other things is to be truly lost.
I don't know of any other system that can end poverty, dehydration, obesity, starvation and climate change in one move.
And its because its the common sense move. We put this title of permaculture on it, and we think it is revolutionary, but its really just common sense.
Take care of the natural world. Don't destroy the thing you depend on for survival. Make your decisions reflect that, or they are a non starter.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy as revolutionary as they were doing a few thousands of years ago. They've been doing it for so long, but now we can incorporate modern technology to even better understand how we can help nature do it's job
So many exciting technologies to help combat our problems. We just can't lean on discovering them so much that we choose not to change and hope they can solve it all. The problems are so complex and interwoven that simple solving carbon won't help the extinction and soil crisis. Solving plastic bottles and carbon recombiners won't keep bees alive. We need fundamental change across the board, at the same time we need technologies than can help mitigate the symptoms, we need to address the root cause of the problems. Those root causes are our choices and the way we live.
Really cool tech story just came out yesterday on reddit. For anyone interested check this article out: cleantechnica.com/2020/10/08/radiative-cooling-and-carbon-capture-new-technologies-for-an-overheated-world/
I completely agree with all the things said in this video.
I'm younger(ish) and I'm looking at buying some land, and growing an orchard, garden, and actually turning some of that into my livelihood as well by selling fruit trees, etc. at some point (hence my channel name lol).
It's so weird to me how most people don't even know how their food gets on their table.
What you said about us being the only species that relies on other people to feed them is so true, and so sad, and doesn't happen anywhere else in the animal kingdom.
Anyways, I think you fight the good fight and push people into thinking about where their food comes from, and to grow it themselves.
Keep it up!
Thanks. Love the comment.
Lol at “we blew it on coke and hookers!” 🤣 oh so true. Love your perspective 😄
Your philosophy is spot on. Too bad there aren't more like you that truly understand how humanity thrives and prospers. Your world is what most would aspire to experience. The amount of blood and sweat you have expended has truly been worth it. I'm sure you would agree. You can tell it's a labor of love. Too bad most don't have a clue. Congratulations, you have created a wonderful outdoor experience for you and your sweet family. Thanks for sharing all lessons learned.
Thanks so much. It has been a lot of work to get started, but the funny thing is, i could probably do almost nothing now and the system would keep chugging onwards. Thats the best part about setting it up right (deep mulch, dense guild style planting, extreme diversity, earthworks like swales etc).
And definitely worth it. To say it has been lifechanging isn't saying enough about it.
This video sums up pretty much my daily thoughts, I wish it had a billion views.
I'm 23 now and there's just no chance I can "make it" in this society, it was written before I was even born. At my age my parents were enjoying everything that was offered to them without even realizing the chance they had. I can't go out and party like they did, I can't afford anything, I can't enjoy nature because the city is so big and I don't have a car, I can't even see a girl's full face when being outside because of a pandemic. I just moved in another town for 6 months and it's so hard to have a social life, in real life I mean. It's sad to admit but my older brother chose to play mobile games and watch time fly by, my eldest chose to study music while he knows he won't ever make a living out of it.
For about two years now I have been dreaming to live the permaculture life. My pops actually started a community project in my hometown in France, doing permaculture in a public garden! It's a shared space where anybody can register to help and profit. The fact that humanity is still living like it's the 20th century seems so weird to me. I often wonder how did humans come to this ? Why did nobody do nothing about climate change for decades ?
I want to leave the city so bad and start some kind of a permaculture tiny society with my childhood friends, I just don't have the money and no hope to get it... I'm quite aware that collapse on many levels is about to happen, my mom thinks I'm too extreme and pessimistic but, nature always wins, you have to work with it if you don't wanna end up losing everything.
Your video made me realize that there's actually nothing more important than this, I just have to do it while it's still relatively made easy by what capitalism provides. I just need to take the first step which yet seems to be a giant leap.
I hear you, and all your concerns. My way of coping with this is that we aren't in the hopeless phase. We are in the "we can still do something" phase, that we will wish we did more inside, in the future. I'm talking not only as a society but as individuals.
Because while you may think capitalism has its icy grips on our necks now, at least we can still go to the store and buy lumber and nails and topsoil and we have access to easy free woodchips, and fencing and fruit trees grown my competent graters, all for sale for relatively cheap.
We have waste streams like coffee shop grinds and restaurant food scraps and cardboard from the industrial machine. We have city run water, and the ability to buy rain totes.
We can buy shovels and we have the time to get stuff dug out and set up, eased by the capitalistic machine that we can take advantage of before it crumbles.
So while things are looking grim for everyone as a whole, we actually have a lot of agency right now to create change in our own personal lives.
Take advantage of the fact that everyone wants to live in the city and farm able country land is cheap. Forested land is even cheaper because it requires clearing for agriculture, but for us that's a gift.
We have a lot of really positive things going on right now that we may wish we had in the future. So don't waste this time, and get busy building a live of freedom and independence from the storms we face.
Speaking of free waste streams, I think I am going to go pick up another load of woodchips. For free.
How to get started when you have no money?
Live in your car/van.
Learn skill that can enable you to get a work-from-home job, then buy cheap land in the country.
Gotta be done before kids. You're young, so u have time.
Quick reminder. Make sure you equalize the outro music when you append it in. It was a lot louder than your voice this vid.
Just bought 5 acres been mulching my land for the last couple of months I agree with almost everything so excited for my first harvest
Like this 10x!! I've been at this a long time; it seems so obvious that it doesn't need much explanation. But I recently had an eye-opening conversation with my 20-something son, currently in law school. He is an intelligent, thoughtful, well-spoken person. He said, "What you do (i.e. permaculture) doesn't matter. Only policy will change things," and in that context, "People work too hard." My jaw hit the ever-shrinking lawn and my heart broke for him. He was raised here, his entire life, with fresh, organic food right outside the door, on the old-fashioned "make do" (limiting consumerism) ethic. [Loads up car with cooler and big box of fruit and veg before he drives off.] We need a heaping helping of Individual action with that policy, my child. Please.
Waiting for policy to solve things is a plan to fail. I also hate the argument that only policy matters, because it abdicates responsibility for the lives we lead and choices we make which empower the wrong people to continue to destroy the planet. If we provide the financial incentive for them to continue making money by destroy our world, then they will.
But either way, its not a one or the other issue. It's an all hands on deck issue. If policy is going to drive the majority of change, it doesn't mean that building self resiliency in your life is a poor decision, or meaningless. It actually makes profound changes to you life and who you are, what you support, and what you are vulnerable to.
Wow. I would have taken that food right out of his car and told him to enjoy eating those policies for dinner.
@@icouldjustscream Lol I get that, but negativity won't win anyone over, whereas vegetables will. He doesn't yet recognize the scope of production and stewardship that went on under his nose...when he graduates into a tight job market he'll wise up. I've had another 20-something child who graduated in the spring living at home for the past six months while job hunting (just landed one), and he seemed to finally recognize the resilience we've built here...like he was seeing it for the very first time.
The similar thing has happened in my family... my kids went to the local school to become Mexicans. At home I supplemented their education to make them slightly Australian We had chickens, rabbits, grew most of our food, the house that we built had more workshop space than conventional living space, passive thermal design...I took the kids to Australia when the drug war violence was very active in our area in 2011. In our suburb it's hard to find a family that hasn't lost one or more young adults to violence. Now my eldest son has stayed in Australia, has an accountant girlfriend, lives in an apartment, works in an engineering firm designing warehouses... He is over worked, under paid and dying within. All the resiliency education is not being used. The jack of all trades didn't understand his freedom until he built his own debt prison. My daughter has ended up in Zimbabwe. She is superficially living more of the permaculture lifestyle by having a garden but her new family's income depends on importing lubricants and mining equipment repair parts. My second son is back in Mexico. He just likes disappearing into his world of music and writing. He helps me out with chores and enjoys the pets, but his heart isn't into the garden. He just sees it as a pretty space. I often feel that I basically failed with core values of being together, supporting eachother being out of the economic system. Maybe I just need to be patient. By the way, you have a wonderland garden. It's absolutely stunning. How many people help you have it in such immaculate condition? After seeing two of your videos, Chihuahua looked like an industrial, junkyard dust bowl. You have really created a very special garden. It would be great if your son manages to change a few laws...in the 1980s I was part of a team trying to make the government change the local laws that didn't allow people to collect rainwater from rooves. It took a major drought to overturn that law. I was also invited to be part of the illuminating engineering society after I wrote s paper on natural daylight. At that time it was proposed to limit the amount of glazing... I wrote a paper saying that they should not limit glazing but give an energy rating to buildings.. It's amazing how some small written submissions can snowball. Your son isn't totally wrong.
@@formidableflora5951 You are a wise momma. Kids don't need to be yelled at- they need to be guided to find their own truths as hard as that is sometimes.
I didn't have any videos so I watched this again for lunch. It's crazy how far you've come in 7 months, both in video quality and the food forest.
Thanks! It's a grind, but progress is progress. (In both)
im Live in Ontario on edge of Short Hills Park..whole family has had covid.. except me .. (so far).. started learning "myLand" few yrs back and now (yes this moment) am actively prepping soil, planting seeds, trees cuttings, learning the natural plants already here and working with the natural Flow of nature..15 yrs ago i had a dream of someday being where i am now.. creating a #FoodForestClassroom... Watched several of ur vids today ( most i just listened as i worked ) and i found ur story(s) most encouraging.. lookin forward to sharing our experiances with everyone thats doing this work .
Thanks David 😊
Before you fill in all your lawn with more food forest...do you have a fire shelter/ root cellar/ underground Zen place away from your house? Twice I was in a place with ash falling onto the house surrounded by 75 m tall eucalyptus trees. Both times the wind fortunately changed and the fires were diverted My mother had to come to rescue us kids and we could luckily drive to safety. Both experiences made me realise how vulnerable one is in times of drought and how one can have access routes cut off. Even Russian forested areas are starting to have problems with fire. Fire shelters need careful design. A simple underground room with a door doesn't tell you if the fire front has passed. You need a small fire safe widow that usually faces up hill over a pool of water. It needs a certain volume of air and it needs not to flood. If you do build one make it a nice place to be in and make it dual purpose.
This is honestly a very valuable comment. I half joke about replacing my lawn with a food forest but in reality my family would never let me. My kids love playing out on the grass lawn.
I could see how surrounding your house in a forest could cause other concerns.
Great video. You expressed so many of our thoughts. We are definitely striving towards a blend of many different methods to attain sustainability on our farm. What amazes us is the numbers of people that say to us ... "why would you want to work so hard". Thanks so much for sharing!
I'm 23, working as a developer (perfect for remote work!). Currently sparing while looking for a nice place outside the city to move to. Thanks for all the tips and inspiration :)
Spreading the movement amongst my friends too, gotta stay sharp!
Thanks Blue
I planted my food forest maybe a year or two too late for this period. Trees don't produce yet but where I am, it seems too far for all the fresh produces to come in bulk this year. No tomatoe baskets, no Ontario peach basket, no strawberry at our local food store! I manage to have enough tomatoes and other veggies for all the canning but I will miss fruits. I am adding hazelnuts, plums and mushrooms next year! And multiply some currents to optimize a more shady place.
Wonderful! It will all come together, keep working on it :)
I love how dead on you were, especially with monetary policy and inflation. I watched this when you released it, and now again it came on my autopsy, and it blew me away how spot on you are/we're.
Keep up all the good info and permaculture doings!
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LOL I figured! Haha
I'm one of your older viewers. Where do I want to be in five years? Moved from a town of about 3500 to a village of about 35. Where do I want to be in twenty years? In all likelihood, I'll be dead. At your age I probably would have said I'd like to be living in the country in five years, but now I can't drive after dark (or at dawn & dusk), so in the event of an emergency I would have no way to travel away from a weather disaster or to get medical care, so I need to remain in close proximity to others. Sadly, in my area even villages of fewer than 50 people have ordinances against keeping so much as a small flock of laying hen, so I'm reliant on my unofficial network of local sources for 'agricultural' food items.
Wow Karen that's pretty nuts to me that a community that small has ordinances against keeping hens. 🤡
Agree mostly- been following closely and largely agree. I think there will be some corrective action to mitigate the move out of the cities but your thoughts (absent focus on peak oil) are a nice dovetail to my current reading of 'Sapiens'. I'm hedging a little and we live in the city but on a decent lot and I planted 3 cherries, 3 apples, 1 self pollinating peach, a goji, 3 elderberries and a few currants and had 5 garden beds this year :). Hoping to get better at canning and preservation to increase our self sustaining ability and connectedness with nature. Even down to getting curious about eating the purslane growing between our brick pavers and the giant puffball mushrooms on the local path. Foraging is a big gap in our knowledge set as we rely on global food chains instead of understanding what's going on around us.
Foraging is such a great source of food too. Its mind blowing to me how much food was all around me that I had no idea about. There's asparagus in almost every ditch and hillside around here.
Great foresight warning folks about the tough times ahead
I love what you are doing. Keep in mind [for people that want livestock] Acreage = Livestock
I bought some land on lake Huron and going to do nothing but build and plan, so far I have apple trees, goose berry Bush, elderberry and blue berries, repkants evergreens and sugar maples, next are veggies, never too late to start
Absolutely! A fun project to take on. And a worthwhile and just one also.
good video. I am commenting from BC. I agree with everything you are saying. I have been homesteading for two years now and next year I will be starting my own food forest. already I can forage mushrooms, huckleberries, blueberries, saskatoon berries and cranberries. There is so much more I am not listing, the point is , every year these fruits are available for me to pick, its amazing and I plan on adding to it. I only have about 3 acres of treed forested land. but it is certainly more than enough. I look forward to moving away from the conventional annual garden and more into permaculture and a food forest. I also raise my own chickens. Ive seen the writing on the wall with our future for a while now. I also lost my job from carona and took that oppotunity to start my own business, now am self employed on my own homestead. I started a waste wood business, I bought a wood chipper and brush cutting saw. Times are tough but I like the way I have started to structure my life. I am not trying to brag about being able to adapt but for me personally, covid has actually helped push my life in what I thing is the right direction. I plan on picking your brain next season to get some help starting my permaculture and food forest ideas.
Be clear: Feeding the planet means feeding people. All the other life is just food or entertainment in our eyes. (not mine)
Just came across your channel. Love it! My husband and I have been doing a similar thing in rural US. :)
Awesome! Thanks for watching. If you ever have any tips or advice let me know. We can all learn from eachother. Also, I have an "essentials" playlist. Start with the videos in there :)
Great video. Many thought provoking discussions. I have 2,000 sq feet of garden space and already have a plan to expand that with more ground / raised bed garden space, as well as some more fruit trees. How amazing would it be to walk out to your own apple orchard, instead of driving 30 minutes and paying big bucks!
I really resonate with much of what you're saying about the tipping points that we're finding in many areas but on the flip side I want to ask you about your experience in actually living off your land and realistically how many people can be supported through these food production and preservation mechanisms. If you have the time and inclination I'd really love to see a breakdown of the numbers on your homestead. Not to undercut ;) but you and @EdibleAcres both do a great job showing how to use these techniques on a small to medium scale but I wonder about the system as a whole and how it can be reformed without drastically lowering the carrying capacity of the planet.
I think Richard Perkins and Curtis Stone have spoken about this a bit, but I don't see how we can feasibly produce the amount of food to feed the people we have on our planet (let alone the other logistical issues) with solely permaculture approaches. Do you agree or disagree and why?
Also how could you envision merging techniques from commercial ag and permaculture to get closer to that goal of both having a high producer to consumer ratio for food production, and restoring not depleting soil fertility?
I really get where you are coming from, but I think there's a trap here. We get stuck in this all or nothing fallacy. Or the nirvana fallacy. That something has to solve all the problems or it isn't worth doing. I think this thing is something we have to take a different approach to. We need a death by a thousand cuts approach. It doesn't need to solve all the problems, it just needs to be better than what we're currently doing. Then try to scale it as large as we can, but being practical at the same time.
I think stuff like drawdown.org does a great job at estimating the impact of a whole bunch of changes, not just farming, but stuff like education, birth control, energy production, waste reduction, conversion of obsolete techs like refrigerants, etc.
I don't think, even if it COULD work that everyone is going to go grab land and eat 100% of their own food, but that's also not the argument here. The proposition is simply that being a little more resilient is a good thing, and also takes the load off the industrial agriculture chain that is destroying the planet. And any pressure we can take off that, is good. Just straight up.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I totally appreciate what you're saying here and it is good to have that reminder that in so many ways the people who try to examine and change the systems within which they live are few and far between in our world. That really does 100% address the more systemic concern I have though I still think it would be fascinating to be able to explore what ways commercial ag could be improved with regenerative principles.
The other element of the question was more about how much these tools can do to help us, even on an individual basis, move toward a more local model of food production. Agreed that we don't need to reach for perfection (incremental improvement can still aggregate to exponential changes) but the question to you is how large can it scale, even for the individual?
I totally agree at the end of the day that, just like with power generation, adding generation capacity is an improvement even if we'll never get to where we can figure out how to store it locally, or go totally off grid, because those that come after can build on what we leave for them.
Thanks again for producing such great content and I'm checking out the site (and rewatching the video for the n-th time)
All the best!
Watched the first half so far, I definitely agree with a lot of what you're saying, but for me, the logical conclusion has always been community building and communism. Productivity has risen over time, but as supply grows faster than demand, instead of paying workers more for their increased productivity, they fire workers to maximize their profits. This increase in productivity has the effect of creating unemployment, which is why we have cyclical recessions and depressions. This crisis does two things, it keeps the poor desperate so that they will work harder and be dependent on capitalists, and it also allows rich capital owners to buy up struggling assets, which leads to monopolization. Today, we have more monopolies than ever before and they control our governments more than the people do. The connections between monopolies and the corrupt government also pushes US foreign policy to exploit foreign resources and foreign labor (imperialism), while amazon and the US military remain some of the largest polluters in the world. To solve climate change, we either have to change policy, except corporations will never cede their profits, and the government is too corrupt to change, or we have to build a mass movement of working people to build the scale we need. It's nice that white collar workers can buy land in the country, but blue collar workers are always going to be the ones hit the hardest by climate change, and have the most potential for changing the world. Just takes some land and some organization. Most people don't own any property, and many don't even have homes, but they're just as capable to transform damaged land into productive food forests that reverse climate change. One could argue they're even more willing to do it than your typical comfortable middle class family since they need food more. But yeah, mask off, I'm a marxist haha, that's the main reason I'm doing the guerilla guild project to combat food deserts/food apartheid. This way of gardening is really a spark that needs to catch like wildfire.
My original goal was to buy land to be self sufficient in a small group, family, or form a small commune, but now I'm much more focused on building a mass movement. Cuz i could go out there and be happy probably, but I don't want to isolate, I want to align myself with the global class struggle to bring the most amount of good to the world. Rural communist movements in the past were focused on getting land and forming co-ops. If we had communal land, anyone could go to the countryside and work to combat climate change and feed ourselves
I like what you are trying to do. I think if I were in a different stage in my life (where my choices only affected myself), I would love to join some kind of commune on shared land. I wish you every success in the movement you are trying to build. Know that there are many like minded people who share the fight with you :)
I'm not sure permaculture is communism per say if you interpret communism as being a top down government controlling force that makes for forced fair share. It's too local, it's more about networking from small hubs, it's about bartering, trading skills. It relegates the government to organise communications, defense, army support during environment crises, law and order, refugee management... and all of this can be done with a variety of non corrupt governments. Yes permaculture is against neoliberal governments that privatise tax paid enterprises but that doesn't make it communism because communism is hung up with economic money systems and there are many other kinds of wealth.
@@annburge291 I didn't say permaculture is communism, I just said that I'm a communist lol. Communism is a stateless, moneyless, classless society, and socialism is the transition between our society and that stateless society. The goal is always to go to a society where the state withers away.
A local group around me literally just started discussing a group land purchase. It is intensely exciting, but also extremely difficult. We are all so conditioned and chained to the existing structures, that to try to step outside or cut against the grain requires a reimagining of oneself. I think the hardest part about any of these ideas is really the psycho-social change and integration that is required. We each need to unlearn the modern nuclear family society in order to get back in touch with that tribal/communal lifestyle that we came from those tens of thousands of yeas ago.
I try to avoid "isms" and "ists" as labels generally come with baggage and obfuscate the real message, but I tend more toward anarcho-communism myself :)
Through this video, I felt like I was talking to myself, but realized it was you. Had me thinking of the echo chamber and consider the opposite side of the 'argument'. This would be something along the lines of:
"Everything will be fine, technological advancements, automation, decentralized finance/smart contracts, all of this will free up resources to tackle the larger problems."
But then you look at the way we procrastinate as a species, how foreseen, but 'surprise' pandemic is handled, and how some issues like species extinction can reach the point of no return by the time we get there, but then again with CRISPR we could be close to bringing them back to life...Just as we have found ways to regenerate and build soil. Everything could still be 'fine' longterm, just a world very different from the one we grew up on, and there's no telling or predicting how 'hard' or 'easy' change will be in the coming years. When in doubt,.. plant comfrey? lol. Water, Food, Shelter, Security. I like that you added Sanitation. Also for energy, a backup Generator is great for temporary outages, but they can go through a lot of fuel, fast. Solar, Wind, Water, Geothermal are more long term solutions for preparedness. Also, I reckon you were typing off the top of your head and you'd agree to add Community to the list. For some that may be #1 if they don't have the personal means to acquire the rest.
Your place is looking great by the way, I grew up between city and country life York & Lake Simcoe. Moved to BC 14 years ago, and never looked back. Zone 5 like you. Lots of similar plants! You're doing a great service by getting the message out. It never hurts to be prepared! Got an order in for another 30 fruit trees for spring! Anyone that reads this, if you're serious about fruit trees, order through a wholesaler. You can get bare root(which will do better in your soil) for ~$14 each as opposed to $40-60 from the nursery. Min order is typically 5 per tree type, but you can split with neighbours/friends, or even pot up and sell for a small profit. Last I checked in Ontario there's Warwick Orchards that has some great peach varieties. I couldn't order due to movement certificate requirements. Their min order is 10 per variety but were only $11.75 when I talked to them in the Spring of this year.
Another common trait of permaculture fans is that we sure seem to be able to go on tangents :)
Haha I loved every minute of reading this comment. Community for sure is possibly our biggest tool to leverage. Its not so much about self sufficiency but small community sufficiency. It also lends itself towards less looting during times of crisis.
Our procrastination as a species is that we've dedicated ourselves to making technological advancements in distractions rather than in industries we need for survival. When a short term profit motive is the only reason a company does anything, why would any of them invest in the vague space of securing our future. If the resources of the Apples and Googles of the world were legitimately mobilised to focus on securing our future (as you say water, food, shelter, energy) we could probably continue on our current path to a lesser extent. But innovation means nothing without increased quarterly profit for shareholders. And if everyone is comfortable, secure and happy then they might reduce their consumption.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Yeah then communities can elect their own designated looters ;) jk. I'm halfway through the Rifkin talk you cited. So glad you led me back to him. I loved his talk on the Empathetic civilization ~10 years ago and it really helped with having a positive mindset back then about the future of civilization. Jacques Fresco always interested me as well. If I boiled it down to one thing it would be a resource based economy and proper mapping with Lidar etc. The only thing is the Orwellian aspect of Globalization that makes me apprehensive. Exciting times. Before I digress, again. I really hope your channel blows up and you can get some CZcams dollars to fund the expansion of your food forest, although I'm sure you could quite easily multiply what you already have. Last comment.. when I saw your first video I thought to myself "James Franco is doing permaculture?" Not sure if you ever got that but you have a striking resemblance, he's not as cool as you though. PS if you're ever short on content, you could do a video on the tools you use to maintain your landscape!
@@CheeerriOH A first step could be to define key metrics, and gamify achievements for the corporations to unlock a time decaying tax credit. I think they attempted something similar with carbon sequesters in some jurisdictions. Not sure on specifics. I feel as we go digital, we will get more say as to where tax dollars go, and be able to put suggestions up for vote, and then it's all about educating through factual, scientific discourse (hopefully we can unwash brains, and they aren't too far gone.. it might take a generation or two.) If step 1 is to be the change you want to see, then Mr Permaculture Legacy is definitely on step 2 by showing people what the change can be like, and how to do it.
Haha I have got the James Franco thing before, especially after he did that Steven King JFK time travel movie.
The last time we had a strawberry patch, we propagated it to cover a large area, but over a few years the plants kept making exponential amounts of runners, so many that they all crowded each other out for light, and the leaf scorch wiped out the leaves, and the frost wiped out the roots, and in the spring there were no strawberry plants. The plants were all clones of at most 20 plants, possibly just one or two. They were all susceptible to the same things and when those conditions came they all collapsed. This time our strawberry patch is grown entirely from seed, so they start out more resilient, but they've already started making runners, shortly after getting their first 3-leaf clusters and when they put down a second root from the crown. This time they will be more spread out, and in more places, and in more microclimates.
Where did humans live during the last major ice age? and are we ready for something on that scale now? Right now the strawberry plants still think it's spring and are colonizing everything they can with runners, and I open the weather map and see what is coming, and do what I can to get them ready~
Thanks for this post. I may be susceptible to this myself. I will try to thin my patch this fall, and encourage genetic diversity through reseeding (thats the easy part.... lots of strawberries end up being tossed and replanted).
It happened to the strawberry patch across the alley long ago, several years later it happened to our strawberry patch. usually when all the plants are the same age and runners are crowding everything out. This late in the year you could bring a few established runners inside over winter, in the window, in a box next to the carrots, just as long as they're spread out in different places, then if the main patch collapses then it can be repopulated from the other spots.
Loooooving this!!!
Long-term plan: walk around my land like a cave man and nibble food.
A nice plan indeed.
The truth is the truth whether you believe it or not. How do we get people who won't listen to reason and facts onboard to help save the planet? Anyone still denning climate change is (IMO) beyond help. How can you deny something that's hitting you in the face?
Wow .. you called it. I wish you were my neighbor!
Very good video, a great deal said with which I agree - and I think it a shame that the viewership for this particular video is so low.
We are all greatly at risk from so many quarters - not so much with Covid now the vaccination programme is well under way (although the fact Covid mutates so easily changes things forever), but certainly economically, environmentally and through pressure from a fast increasing global population.
Glad you enjoyed it!
We bought 26 acres ( a small piece we could) to regrow a hardwood forest and to conserve wetlands....but the property taxes is like ridiculous unless you put it into land mgmt plan
THANK YOU!!!!!
Hiya from Lively (Sudbury) again. I think your prophecies are generally correct. What variety of peach are you growing that survives your zone 4 or 5 (not sure exactly which you are?)
I have a bunch. Reliance, contender, frost are the ones doing the best.
You nailed by most recent source of depression. I've been wanting to get my own house to create my own permaculture paradise but it seems so impossible to afford
Location, location, location
Start small! In our 500 sq ft apartment, we were able to grow various microgreens and cherry tomatoes (and many non-food plants), and that has given us the practice and confidence to expand when we move to a bigger place. It won't be as overwhelming as if we had no experience at all. There are books on how to grow your own food in tiny spaces as well, and they may be available as books/ebooks at your local library.
@@forfeitreality let me know when you see this so I can delete it. Knowledge and experience isn't my problem at this point. I need land and space to work with so I can grow more, literally and figuratively
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Could you be awesome and clear those two comments that probably ended up in the spam filter?
I will look now
Climate change isn't Santa, it's irrelevant if people "believe in it" or not lol. Keep up the good stuff, I'm enjoying your content and love the natural swimming pond you've done :)
Lol, love the saying.
Its like saying you don't believe in gravity. It really doesn't matter if you do or not, gravity will do its thing if you jump off the cliff.
Oh my god the sumacs in fall, beautiful. Are those staghorn sumacs?
Yeah, they are staghorns and they definitely make the landscape pop in the fall - especially when they are an understory component and have an overstory above them.
They are also great bee food, and you can make tea and flavored water from the fuzzy berries.
Don't forget to store up food for your four legged family members too. Great video!
Good call!
Thank you for this video!
The tricky thing is that executives moving into the countryside then raises the taxes on poor rural people who have lived there all their lives paying very little. You correctly complain about oil and gas but you do not factor in that all the city people with jobs moving further into the countryside turns it into a kind of suburbia, they have to use their cars to get everything. It is a huge cost in energy. Part of permaculture I have always found useful, is that it encourages people to live close together, to share the resources. Each person buying a 5 acre lot close to Home Depot is not a good future, nor practially possible. The cities are equipped to have large groups of people within walking distance of all services and work. We do not want them hollowed out, with only the poor and young living there. As you say, people in their twenties cannot afford to buy property. Your example is so beautiful, but your economic model, giant property, suburban lifestyle is not a sustainable model. That is not a judgement on you, I love your channel absolutely. But it is just a response to your prediction that people should leave the city and buy property. Unless they do it differently than you have. It is not sustainable either.
Indeed, it's going to be a crazy balance with 1000 moving parts. I just hope the move out to the country comes hand in hand with a work-from-home economy so that we don't have all that travel footprint with it. End of the day, people love cities still, so it's not like we'll flatten out completely. I personally love my space, so don't get me wrong, I don't want the city moving out to the country - I just predict that it likely will. If someone can do their office job from home, you have to really love city life to justify how little your money gets you in the city.
If you're not already familiar with her, you should check out the work of economist Ann Pettifor on what Fossilised Carbon did to global economics.
Edit: Also, her TED talk from 2011 is pretty good:
czcams.com/video/1tXykPu-84g/video.html
A fantastic talk, on two of my greatest passions - because they are linked. The global markets and monetary supply - this is the real source of all the problems we are facing, and of course the protection of natural ecosystems. This talk was a perfect mix of connecting the two of them, in a way that I haven't really seen many people do.
I think to really get a lot out of this talk, you need to have a good understanding of monetary policy. I think if anyone else wants to watch this one, a really good first watch is "money for nothing" on Netflix. Then maybe check out Nicole Foss interview at Happen Films here: czcams.com/video/AdNvmIfyQPY/video.html. That one is really long, but my goodness is that a good watch.
Anyone reading this comment and interested in it... Watch both of those first, then watch the TED Talk which Andrew linked above, and you will get a lot more out of it.
Fantastic, and thanks for sharing.
I wish we could get more people like Ann Pettifor, Nicole Foss, etc, working on actually making the policy decisions that impact the future of the Human Race.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy
I'm glad you enjoyed it - there's also an extended version of this talk, that Ann Pettifor gave to students at the London School of Economics in 2017. It goes into a little bit more detail than the TED talk as the audience is already literate in economic theory:
czcams.com/video/P5RQgbBa-jk/video.html
It's all a passion of mine too, I think Henry Ford nailed it when he said:
"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning"
In 2015 the sitting UK Members of Parliament were all polled on how they thought the monetary system worked, and 85% of them didn't know. I'm sure if the poll was repeated with lawmakers across the globe the percentage would be much the same. How are these people supposed to run the system properly if they don't even understand how it works.
Lol about the parliament members.
I love that quote, see it a lot in cryptocurrency subreddits. :)
I will check out that Ted talk tonight, I was very interested in her last one. Thanks for sharing.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy cryptocurrencies eh? Now we've got something we can talk about for days! Lol. Trading crypto has been my main source of income since late 2013 - I was a Bitcoin, then Litecoin, then Ethereum miner for a few years (and lots of s***coins too but the less said about those the better), but nowadays I just trade and have little to do with the Proof of Work currencies. I'm really excited about where Proof of Stake is going to take the space, in terms of the efficient use of electricity. The next 5 years are going to be very interesting.
Yeah, ETH 2.0 is coming so soon. People have completely forgot about them, like they are some fad, Pokémon coins, and not actual technology. Its like, a few people get rich off them, then people think they are tulips.
A programmable decentralized immutable ledger is just so disruptive, because it can be used in so many ways. Something being unquestionably authentic carries so much value.
While I don't think people should be going all in, because that's just super irresponsible, not holding ANY is equally silly.
Fantastic, thank you
My social circle and me all say they want to leave the city.
I am sure life will get more and more ugly the bigger the city is.
For now I am stuck luckily in a small rural city and have a small garden
When everything gets worse, living in apartments and small blocks will be the most pointless and harmful thing possible. Can't grow food in a box suspended above the ground without copious amounts of electricity.
Moroccan permaculture chear you
Do you have solar or other renewable energy source?
Getting solar this year. Very excited.
Im only halfway into this video but i would just like to add, buy your seeds for next year this year
This is a great comment, and I definitely agree. My dining room table is full of seeds from this year's crops, drying on paper towels.
Done. Harvested a lot of seeds from my own garden and bought a bunch as well. Even collected flower seeds, nasturtium, cleome, delphinium, marigold, and a few others, for the pollinators. I went to my local nursery to buy a few buckets of Gaia organic fertilizer and extra bags of compost, just to make sure I have some for next spring. Thought I'd look at the seeds while I was there.....almost sold out. Used to have 2 walls FULL of seeds.....down to 2 little racks.
Indeed! I have heard that everything "prepping" is really hard to find now. Seeds, canning equipment, jars, lids, rings, even chickens! Its hard to find any of that stuff because everyone is getting interested in a little backup storage and resiliency.
Really nice silver lining of this whole crazy year.
As someone who also dabbles in urban planning, I think you're way off on your predictions about cities. Most of what you said was just "white flight" nonsense. Sure, we will likely start improving our agricultural techniques and housing/land prices in cities might collapse when the financial cycle turns, but I hardly expect a mass exodus from cities since they are by far the most desirable places for people to live. What's really going to happen is our cities in North America are going to densify and shift from car dependency to be more transit, cycling, and walking oriented.
I really don't think you'll get mass permaculture from the sprawl you seem to be advocating for. Regular people with jobs just aren't going to do what you're doing in large numbers. If people really do flee cities, we'll just get a lot of underused land. It would be far easier to go with the route already being taken, let most people live in dense cities and let the land outside cities be farmed by a relatively small number of farmers (edit: using better techniques than currently).
Great comment. I think there was a misunderstanding though, I think it's going to happen, but not in the scale that I think you may have taken it as. I just think those who want to get a little more breathing room are going to have new means to do so (with work from home) and that will help alleviate some of the pressure in city centers. However as you said, WELL DESIGNED cities are actually some of the most efficient ways for humanity to grow. The key is the well designed part. Right now, North America thinks the solution is more car lanes and bigger highways. Meanwhile, the key to hitting the next generation cities is going to be more things like robust mass transit systems, high speed rails, and walkable/bikeable cities.
What political party do you align with, or do you think we need a new party, or no parties at all? I agree with the comment below about the problem with humans disturbing wilderness too much. Animals do need a more continuous roaming area. There's a recent video about a couple moving to wilderness in Northern Idaho where they said a bear is threatening them. I didn't watch the video - it made me sick. But, you know, any excuse they can invent so they can shoot it down the line probably.....
I think that climate change, preserving environmental ecosystems, and care for the planet are not political topics. I actually think it's disgusting that these extistential threats to the human race (and to dozens of species PER DAY) have been politicized. These aren't political. They are threats. Very real ones. I think every political party on the planet should care about preserving natural ecosystems. If not only for the fact that it's wrong to make species go exinct so that we can enjoy luxury, but for what about just for the fact that we depend on nature more than I depends on us continuing to exist.
I actually think political parties really exist to just keep us screaming at eachother across the room while we don't notice the thief going around the angry mobs picking everyone's pockets while they yell at eachother.
There aren't multiple political parties, there are 2. And its not Democrats and Republicans. Its the mega rich vs everyone else. All the political parties we can vote for are just puppets on opposite hands of the same puppeteer pulling the strings above the stage out of sight.
Thats why I believe that climate change and political reform go hand in hand. Vote on issues, not on speaking heads of make believe parties that don't do what you vote them in for anyways.
Its a giant machine that needs dismantling. I actually prefer the philosopher kings political method more than our current one. At least the people making the decisions were the smartest people in the room. Not the loudest one in the room, whole the smart ones are ignored.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Wow, we think the same. I've always suspected there are many others that think the same as me but have no representative group to unite under/about; we just know purples exist. In my area, permaculture has too many socialists and of course the expansion of (the same puppetry) government and (worthless) higher education and rule by the dumb majority is not the answer. But I get it that they want to topple the mega rich system. Yes, the two puppet parties are just for show, but without a party that actually addresses the issues properly that folks can unite under and have trust on where we're going, there's too much of a rift between the two permaculture/restoration groups on the ends of two hostile spectrums, socialists (at least in my area) vs. libertarians (Salatin, probably the Nature's Always Right guy, maybe David the Good, Mark Shepard too?-seems like he would be) to have any hope of getting to a philosopher king system. And the fragmentation in our group that cares about nature combined with unending, explosive population growth won't lead to any order to the movement or proper management of the urbanites to the rural areas who will destroy the last bits of wilderness. I guess where I disagree is the idea/hope that we can at least make a difference voting for issues. We can't do that since every issue is tied to a party essentially, and where something gets voted in under one platform, the other platform can just reverse it or mold it just slightly to take it completely on a different course. The man behind the curtain has control of everything, period. I'd love to hear your ideas on how we'd even find/regulate philosopher kings. And why can't we find one good one now and just run them as an independent? Ross Perot did pretty good given how uninspiring he was. Actually, no one would vote themselves out of a job. That's the problem. If you topple the system, just about everyone loses their job and security. Everything has to get very ugly before they are that desperate. And money printing will prevent that desperation from ever occurring. Okay, I will stop rambling now.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I'm getting closer to believing in the philosopher kings as the only solution. The problem is that I don't believe that the smart people would take power like that. Its more likely the corrupt, rich people who own military who would seek to increase their control. Its pretty amusing to me that in the future, historians will probably be discussing the failed experiment of democracy and "freedom" in the same contexts as the feudal empires before them because the average person cannot be trusted to be rational.
Indeed, this is the big problem. Typically, the people who want to exert their power over others tend to be the complete opposite of who you want exerting that power.
Hi, I live in Toronto. Is it possible to grow fig tree here?
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Yes, you are warmer than I am by about a zone. Look for Chicago Hardy fig tree. You can get them from whiffletree which is fairly local to you. Also check out Richter herbs if you are close to Uxbridge. They sometimes have them. Your local nursery may also have them also.
No chickens?
Wife is a bit against them. My sister in law is doing them so hopefully we can all see how easy they are, and we can encorporate them. I'd love to have chickens, rabbits and goats. And maybe borrow a hog to clear some areas now and then.