Q & A with Geoff Lawton about PERMACULTURE
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In this video, we asked my PERMIE teacher, Geoff Lawton a few questions about permaculture.
Geoff is an inspiring teacher. I feel that he has a real gift of sharing information.
Geoff has helped me design a food forest, build a worm farm, create a water harvesting system on the side of the hill (swales) and helped me understand how to think like a forest. I am proud and honoured to have been able to share his knowledge and experience through my channel. To study Permaculture with Geoff Lawton press here: www.discoverpermaculture.com/... and receive a special Weedy Garden friend referral discount of US$150 by using the coupon code "weedy150".
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Studying PERMACULTURE with my teacher Geoff Lawton - Officially...enrollments for the 2024 Permaculture Design Certificate course are open from the 5th May 2024. If you go to the enrollment page using this Weedy Garden affiliate link www.discoverpermaculture.com - you can also recieve a US$150 discount off the online course by writing "weedy150" in the coupon.
Dear Weedy, do you already have an affiliate link to the next course in 2023? I‘m very interested in participating… you and your Weedy Garden inpired me sooo much, that we also bought a peace of land and start our Perma-Paradise in Slavonia (the forgotten part of Croatia)…
@@KristinGasser Nice one man! No I don’t have a link yet. It will be a while before the next online course starts. Keep your eye on my social media. There will be a discount from TWG, so you’ll save a little if you go through TWG. Congratulations with acquiring your land 👍
My work staff was recently asked to describe someone who we think is a hero and I chose Geoff Lawton. His ability to speak so passionately and intelligently yet remain so accessible is amazing. Empowering people all over the word to be stewards of the land and their communities, he truly embodies what it means to me be to a hero. Much aloha from Hawaii 🤙❤️
We watch every single one of your videos as a family :) Slowly building our own permaculture paradise in Maine. Thank you for the inspiration and incredible camera work and storytelling!
Hello to the family 😄
Hello back to you hope you have a wonderful beautiful weedy garden day🌎
So nice to have Geoff available a short distance away. I really love his response for the small space. Essentially: Grow your nutrients, buy your calories. This is one of the things that permeates all my videos on urban permaculture, and in my consultation designs I have done for people. It was the perfect answer, and one that MANY people are seeking.
I just watched your video on this exact topic - Tom's garden update. It's amazing what you did in that small space. It's the perfect example of what Geoff was talking about here.
Hey Mr Canadian Permaculture, great to see you here! I love your channel too!!!
First one to like & comment the video... WOW... Love from INDIA
Congrates and Namaste 🙏🏻
Love Geoff and would love to have him visit our food forest in Central Portugal, you're so lucky to have him near you 💚🌿🌱🌳
I appreciate you two so much.
Where I live the winter temps can go below zero farenheight. I raise my worms in an old chest type freezer, which insulates them from both winter cold and summer heat.
Thanks for the answer to my question!
You´re welcome Spring 🙂
Great question, I learnt something new! 🧸
Great episodes… so many questions answered
Thanks a lot to both of ya wonderfull human beings! Sending best wishes and thoughts to you. Stay wise and healthy!
I am learning a lot from your videos. Thank you for sharing.
Another good one Mr Weedy! .. 🙂
When people argue that permaculture can't feed the world the way monoculture cropping can, I have to agree completely ;) Monocropping agriculture (A) has failed to feed the world (B) is incredibly destructive to soils. Permaculture allows for growing food for everyone while improving the soils, making it an immensely better way to feed the world.
Feed the soil, feed the world. So true, Geoff. I planted some trees and veggies at the rooftop of my house. For the last 6 months I make my own compost from kitchen scrapes and dead leaves. I can see how the soil change, my trees and veggies becomes healthier. My next project is to make compost at school. I want my students to learn that healthy food comes from healthy plant. And as you said Geoff, feed the soil and you feed the world. By the way, Weedy, I plant mango tree from seed just like you are. It is 30 cm now. It was a very happy moment. Thank you for always inspire people 🙏🙏🙏
3 years ago I didn't know what a swale was.... now we have a tiny food forest (jungle this year lol) in New Mexico ;) SOOOOOOOOOO grateful for all I learned from Geoff & yourself and grateful to share with others now too
Permaculture can be upscaled the way Mark Shepard does it. It has the benefit of adding resiliency to farmers as well.
All permaculture is good. It's a matter of making the paradigm shift. I'd take classes from both. So much to love.
We pronounce couch 'cowch'the other pronounciation goes w
I dug a swale in my front yard in Cape Town, South Africa. My yard is flatish so I dug a trench putting the burm to the outside. The trench was supposed to collapse on one side, but it did not so now I am fixing it slowly putting in some trees when the time is right. Also want to plant asparagus there. Out of the 7 trees I planted last year 4 survived, all from cuttings or seed. In the process of cultivating more trees from cuttings and seed. Plot was barren except for grass last year.
Thanks so much for answers
This is a swell video- I’m completely loving the culture🤗This has completely encouraged me to trood froward with my goals for perma-net food growing to sustain for a life time 😁😋😋
Do you know about Permaculture? I’m sure you can find people in your area. If not…be the first and start creating 💚🤎👍🙏🏻
Thanks Weedy Garden for introducing Geoff.
I seriously love you guys. It makes me feel less alone in the world knowing there are others like me. I thoroughly enjoy all your videos and can’t wait to transition out to my pine forest and start converting it to a food forest. I was going to take the PDC this year but all my stuff was stolen off my property and I had the delay the move. Hopefully I’ll be on track by next year. So close!
Seems like teddy bears might be equivalent to the American scarecrow! lol!
In regards to the question about finding an alternative to willows (Salixacea), Geoff's answer was spot on... find a native species that performs a similar function.
There's a wealth of information available about natives in your area through native plant societies, universities, and your town's conservation department.
If you aren't getting the info on what grows local keep asking!
Native plants, once established require almost no care... they live here!
BEST AND PEACEFUL CHANNEL
bush turkey and teddy the bear ... amazing
This was so good 👍 "also the dealing with people's shit" was such a great moment in this video, so much great information!
Thanks a lot Greetings from Sinaloa, Mx
Weedy thanks for the inspiration and teaching us the permaculture way brother. I have SLE lupus and it literally causes painful episodes for sometimes weeks. The sun triggers these episodes but my wife and I are trying to start a channel to show the world that lupus and true gardening is still possible and fulfilling in ones life . Thanks and peace be to you.
Have you tried cannabis to help this?
Great video Weedy :)
thank you so much
I have enrolled to the PDC two weeks ago and I am amazed by what I have learned until now and looking forward learning even more. Best wishes from Denmark ❤❤
Can't wait to see the next episode 😁😁😁
Thank you for all of the time and energy you put into putting these together to share with all of us! Your influence and inspiration is being put to work all the way over here on my 15 acre former horse property being transformed back into a food Forrest. Aloha
Love you vids, they always make me smile
I'm on Geoff's online PDC & it's very special. The content is excellent & the support team are really helpful. The students are from around the globe & are very enthusiastic.
Keep us posted on the teddy bear trick.👍
Such great value in this video! Keep it up, permaculture is the way!
Great!
😄 loved the end with the 🧸 It worked! Thank you for another great video and making Jeff Lawton accessible to your viewers. 😁👍
Or did it???
Question for next Q&A: how do i grow banana trees in the garden?
Not planning any morer Q and A´s, but if you are in a banana growing climate, just put them in the ground and feed the soil heaps. They are hungry. I give a few tips on these vids czcams.com/video/zHForLzAcKU/video.html and czcams.com/video/2nEIxQYiFRw/video.html. They travel...by that I mean they keep shooting new baby trees and you also have to chop down the tree that is harvested. Geoff digs a big pit, fills it up with mulch, and plants the banana tress around the edge of the big ditch.
Nice one. 🙌🏻
Legends 🙌
I'd love to meet both of you guys. Brilliant teachers of Permaculture! I bought "Permaculture 1 (the Book) about 30ish years ago after seeing Bill M & David H on ABC? TV. Still have it but it was a bit technical 4 me, then. I need to find it. I would love to do the PDC with Geoff, or yourself! I'm in Port Stephens NSW & I have a "knackered Kneck 😣!" I'm slowly building a "minimal dig" hugelcultur garden now on borrowed land. All free resources! & I've just realized, I've built a swale like hugelcultur border along the back fence, on flat land. Also, the neighbors Mulberry tree hovers over that fence to get sun. Yum👌
thanks great video
Just realised that this comment was supposedly to be attached to the Moroccan video. When haven't you been serious? Urgent action and understanding required this time. Great video Geoff. Yes, bring in the appreciation mob so that the locals can feel pride in what they are doing. Replant the citrus in a way that the floods, if it happens again, don't get affected.
Awesome video!
I "need" to hear Geoff's Mr. Bean impression saying, "Teddy" now.
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This is so refreshing! I love spreading the word about permaculture and Geoff is king.
im a few lessons into my PDC and holy shit my mind is blown each lesson. its so dense in learning material and has changed my perspective on lots of things, I love it!
Was like that for me too 💚👍
That was sensational. Thank you geoff and weedy garden !!
Wonderful video, David and Geoff 🏆
I thoroughly enjoyed this..twice 👍
Thank you, Weedy! Your videos and all of the profound knowledge from you and Geoff are a source of great joy and inspiration. Would love to visit Zaytuna Farms from the Bay Area some day! You two are the best! 🙏xoxoxo
My opinion is that if Permaculture is to save the world, the knowledge should be shared freely. No money involved. Wishful thinking probably. Also, I wish people like Geoff were invited by governments to help save our habitat. Here in southern Spain it's so frustrating to try to do your best while you see the destruction being continued on a much bigger scale than your own small, seemingly insignificant contribution. I sometimes want to give up
Same problem here in Mallorca. I’ve thought about trying to unite people, gather funds and buy large plots then turn them into forests together. But land is becoming very expensive too…
@@soniquetemusic here in southern Andalucia, scarce water is directed to the unsustainable greenhouses. The people in power are ignorant and corrupt. The plastic pollution from the greenhouses is mindblowing. It really is hopeless. Spain is doomed, if you ask me
@@FuckYTube I’m afraid so. Instead of getting to the root of the problem they will first happily pull out another 20 layers of bureaucracy or so. The focus on electric cars, carbon taxes and whatnot already shows the focus is on the wrong elements right from the start. Hope regular people can make a difference with their individual projects.
@@soniquetemusic I'm going to keep on trying for now and hopefully won't lose the faith but it is hard
@@FuckYTube keep on going! All the best
My wormbin is half in the ground. In a greenhouse that is pretty much shaded. We got down to 20°f ,here in Florida, and I thought I lost them all. I did not water them either because that would have surely froze them.
Now that our weather has warmed up over 50°f at night I've been watering. I dug down in one corner and there they were. Fat and happy.
If they did not survive I knew there would be eggs. So no worries either way.
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Incredible storytellinh and work Weedy! 💛 had a hearty laugh in the last few frames 🌸
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Omg wow Weedy thanks so much for asking Geoff my question I really appreciate it, big hugs from East Gippsland 🤗
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Hi Weedies!
Sorry I am so late getting a comment up. I absolutely love The Weedy Garden and all the episodes! Can't wait for Down the Carrot Hole!
I do have a question, can I use Race Horse Trees (Tipuana tipu) as a support tree in my food forest?
Absolutely
Great video, i wish the information on how benificial plants are was more accessable. I looked on that site and you need to be a member, but also most of the plants i tried to find were not on the list anyway. What is the best way to find out the benifits to soils of plants?
This is very interesting. Should do it again at least yearly. 👍
I’m in west Africa. I have a space of 300sqm and I’m so obsessed with permaculture and the food great idea. I’ve been watching so many videos and trying to implement more of those ideas in my garden.
I would
Love to enroll in a PDC course, can someone help?
Hello 😉
Click on the description under the video for links to enroll with Geoff 🐝🥑💚
Awesome production quality guys. Keep these coming!
Thanks Weedy for doing this. Great questions and great answers and a great photographer to put it together in a great little episode for us to enjoy.
Cheers mate 🍻
Great feedback 😄🙏🏻
Thanks for all good contents!Always inspiring from both of you…!!! I feel I’ve learned a ton!!😃
Regarding swales in cold climate…in summer it still is evaporation in often long periods,so wouldn’t swales even out the water loss caused by evaporation??
And there is the question of distribution of water in a field.A swale would distribute the water more evenly,would it not..???
I would guess Swales has a function,even in cold climates through summertime..??
Not gonna lie, Weedy….
If you started your own permaculture course, I would be very likely to enroll.
You won't believe how happy I was to see this pop up today! Thank you!
Wow I love the both of you! Great content!
Thanks guys, really interesting and informative 👍
Change my life somewhat Mr. Lawton.
Huge impact how i look at my favorite thing since kid, gardening
As always my friend, thank you. In the ever increasing chaos and bifurcation of peace and understanding in this world you have become a real voice of calm and clarity. I can only speak for myself but it is so needed and welcome. I smile before I even watch the videos and that is wonderful. Be well and keep weeding.
heartfelt. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🌏🎥🌈🕉💚🙏🏻
Id say worm beds for cold climates ought to be built into the ground. Best a foot below winter frost. the ground tends to stay above freezing if your dug down enough. Then a good insulated covering on the cold nights.
That’s a real good idea Chris. Do you do that? 💪🏻🪱
@@TheWeedyGarden When i was a kid, my step dad kept worms. We lived up north. An ya, he built his beds into the ground. A little more work at the setup, but a lot less with regards to the loss of life, through the winter. Shoot, If one lives somewhere where it gets real cold,. One could treat the worm bad as a composting bed. Add a few small Nitrous bombs every week, to radiate heat.
Wonderful video Weedy and Geoff the bush turkey bit made us laugh!! Look forward to seeing if Beryl stayed away. Love bush turkeys xx😉
Thank You Weedy Garden & Geoff for such a great content..
You guys are awesome. 👍 I love the teddy bear 🐻... Thank you both for the information.
Teacher will appear when student is ready
Weedy, I really appreciate the artistry and beauty you combine with useful knowledge. Warm regards 🥭
I have had a rabbits issue on my 10 acre property, destroying my veggie patch, apart from Kangaroos. I fenced the veggie patch and stop the kangaroos, stripping the sugarcane I just planted.
Anyway to keep it short. Noticed a Bungarra About 6 foot long lizard wandering my property. I treat him/her with respect, they can kill a man.
Anyway I think this Bungarra has built home under my weekender.
I'm noticing the rabbits seem to entirely disappeared! Come to think of it haven't seen the kangaroos lately.
So I'm hoping this Bungarra Lizard has become my watchdog.
Not sure if they would fight bush turkey or how you can lure a Bungarra to your property.
This one just arrived. I believe baby rabbits are Bungarra's favourite fresh meat/meal. They aren't shy of human's. I'm not sure how far they roam in wild territory. Given there is the river within a kilometre, I think this Bungarra has chosen to reside next to my caravan by way of security and comfort.
I know when Bungarra is about, due to its tail marking around. This inter-animal relationship has occurred for about 6 months. I have seen one young offspring when cutting fallen firewood tree cleanup
nice watch dog
Thanks for asking my question! 👍 I'm glad he gave the website otherwise there was a fair bit of pausing and rewinding to do to get the ones he listed down!😂
Second!! 👍🏻
I would also have one question which could make a pretty interesting video topic. Could you perhaps set up a spot on your farm which you won't pay much attention to (no fertilizer, no worm juice, just regular soil and water) and compare the produce to the piece of land you pay a lot of attention to. It would be interesting to see the crop size, composition, the amount, longevity, as well as hearing your take on the flavor.
👍 good idea
great video brother, love your calm beautiful energy
I had to laugh at Geoff's response to the career opportunities question ;) He had to go with the shit job for that response? So many choices available. lol
True.
Would love to see an in depth talk about waste systems on Zaytuna Farms.
As a beginner this was so helpful thankyou
Thanks Weedy. Was again a great video and took me down memory lane of Zaytuna. Loved the bees coming into the hive over the camera. Please say Hi to Geoff for me if you see him soon. Tell him I’m still trying to work on those banana circles at Kangaroo Island. Peace Brother.
Cheers
Troy
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Well that just raised about 50 more questions... Guess im gonna sign up!!!! Thanks mate, for all the info, hard work and great contetnt!!!
No worries Emsey 😊
If you join the course, you also get into the facebook page together with everyone who is doing it or has done it, so questions are there plenty of over there...and answers. Geoff also does a weekly Q and A with the most commonly asked questions for the students. Remember to use the code 2022WEEDYBEARD if you do decide to enroll Emsey 🙂
Thanks Weedy, I have every intention of joining.... just wading through some adversity!!! Thanks fo info!!!
Lovely video thanks guys 😁🌱☀️
I would love if a payment plan like affirm was available for the course 🥰
Yay Weedy your back. I missed you, I hope you had a lovely journey..✌🏼 That was a fabulous video, fabulous thank you thank you thank you. I think the bush turkeys name is Beryl 😉
I called " Beryl" today many times. It didn´t come???
That’s interesting about the teddy bears. Here in NZ we can have a problem with possums. Someone I know put a large teddy bear in a tree in the garden and the possums kept away. Love your videos. 🙏
Nice to know 💪🏻
That’s brilliant! I live close to New York City and have a possum issue as well! I’ll have to get a Teddy to guard my garden.
Ok wait! So I paid the course fee, but did not have time to finish. I thought it was closed. So I can still access the material?
Does anyone know if Geoff has a video about the person with the 64 sq meter garden? I am amazed.
Yes. Follow the link in the description to watch the four videos.
I live in Townsville where we no longer have our 'wet season'. Actually we had floods then drought which is now normal. Not like when I first got here in early Feb. 69. I planted a rainforest in my yard and now have no real area for a garden. Any suggestions?
Daisy
The teddy patrol shall do lol
Weedy, I have been told that bush turkeys loath horse poo, so if you spread it around where you don't want them to go, they will go somewhere else. If you do this, tell us if it works.
awesome. I’ll try it next bush turkey season. Thanx 😃
What a cliffhanger of an ending! I'm also looking for the solution to bushturkeys, so hanging out for the next episode. Fingers crossed for you.
Can you please clarify what “organic matter” is when Jeff talks about a 3% minimum up to 15%? Is it only living worms and micro organisms or is it organic matter also composted vege scraps, worm castings and decomposing trees etc?
It is the dead stuff
I just discovered you and subscribed:). Question: I live in central Florida and have many fruit trees but have yet to eat fruit from them bc fruit rats. They've eaten/destroyed all the fruit so far. Green mangos half eaten before full size, even banana leaves eaten down to nubs sometimes tho I have had them fruit but not get ripe bc the rats are eating them. Solution possibility? Thank you!!!
I only have my own experience, with birds and mulberries, but if you can grab one, bite it on the left ear and yell very loudly at it (like a Viking) and let it go again, it will not come back, and it will tell it’s friends too stay away also.
What about birds? What kind of stuffed animal do i need to use to totally get rid of all the birds attacking every single seedling I have? Thanks.
Use CD’s. Hang them around. That might work
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