This guy is a true rebel. I am on this same path... 10 months into converting a horse ranch into a permaculture system.

@Lupina-mp5ck

3 ай бұрын

Nice. How is it going?

This dude is everything I wish to be. Thanks, Andrew, for uploading. And thank you, Ben, for spreading the idea around.

@amillison

Жыл бұрын

So glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching and take care :-)

@wholesystems

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

I re-read Ben Falk's book "The Resilient Farm and Homestead" every winter, to remind me of the things I aspire to do, and the things I may have forgotten to do so far. Always glad to see his property.

Thanks Andrew - Ben Falk's property is amazing and he is such an inspiration. I'm working towards a resilient landscape here in Australia that provides for my needs, and love seeing what others are doing in the permaculture world!!

@sandponics

Жыл бұрын

Hi Linda, if you want to see what others are doing I suggest searching for the term 'sandponics' either here on KZread, on Facebook, or on Google. It is a very effective growing system as the videos show. KZread does not appear to allow the posting of links in comments, so you will need to search to find the videos

@Youcanttouchmyhandle

Жыл бұрын

How good would it be if councils used this system for unused blocks which are quite often deemed drainage problems? Hi from Australia

@sandponics

Жыл бұрын

@@Youcanttouchmyhandle Have you tried speaking with council people? It is often a head-banging exercise. Their top priority is often to keep their heads down and avoid anything that could possibly be controversial.

If you have American Chestnut, (an endangered species) then you can get your property protected from EVER bring developed, and it will forever be protected because of that tree! Talk to your lawyer about putting it in your will. And talk to your local arborists and extension office. That's who actually protects it! Good luck hun!

@chaavinabbey9546

Жыл бұрын

Wow this information could save a lot of land

@LitoGeorge

Жыл бұрын

Super interesting. If I was American, I would verify this info and act on it immediately if it proved to be true.

@StrawmnMcPerson

Жыл бұрын

The old growth forests are currently being logged. An american Chestnut isn't going to save you from capitalism.

"This land is my health care provider" Love it, Ben!

This guy has a way of packing a lot of information into just a few words. Really helpful perspective. Thanks for sharing.

@davidhick4303

Жыл бұрын

True, but don’t forget the wonders of editing

@cletushatfield8817

Жыл бұрын

@@davidhick4303 I hope you're not suggesting they've gone so far as to splice sentences together.

Ben is a powerhouse of information, inspiration, and innovation.

It's awesome to see how that property has developed. My wife and I took a PDC there 9 years ago.

Thank you Andrew for bringing Ben and Whole Systems Design to my attention. I’ve been looking for permaculture resources for the northeast!!!

I love this guy. What a wonderful renaming of terms into meaningful and memorable word pictures for those who haven't been studying permaculture.

@deinse82

Жыл бұрын

You should read a book called Nineteen Eight- Four. Perhaps it'll give you a different perspective on the whole "renaming of terms" approach.

Wow, I love this outlook on agriculture!

Excellent content. Ben has been an inspiration to me along my permaculture path for over a decade. Always a pleasure to listen to him share ideas. Cheers Andrew!

I could have watched an hour long video on this guy and what he's doing! Thanks again Andrew your channel encourages me greatly and gives me so much hope!

What an incredible, thoughtful and easy to understand explanation of the greater meanings of Permaculture design that many struggle to pinpoint for newbies learning Permaculture principles and practices!

thank you 🙏🌞

Ben’s book, The Resilient Farm and Homestead, is one of the best

Wonderful video. I read and re read Ben’s book, is always close to my bed, and I’ve been always wondering how was everything improving and developing. Please Ben, write a second book! Thanks Andrew!

@wholesystems

Жыл бұрын

Coming this spring!

i could watch hours of Ben talking about this. thank you for this video.

Got to plant lots of stuff on this property last Spring! An awesome example for the Northeast!

Powerfully, perfectly articulated. Resonates--nothing else comes close.

@6:35 that's the attitude small farmers need to follow. Let the current system die, build your own that makes it obsolete. After years of fighting the current system, this is the same conclusion I came to.

BEN FALK IS AMAZING..... Love listening to him!

Sow and Thank you. Love Ben's approach and his design.

This guy is speaking my language. I'm a long ways from getting my own piece of land though.

Thanks so much for sharing Ben and gangs' work. Precisely the philosophy we are seeking thanks again for superior quality coverage of these under publicized solutions.

“The world does provide…”

@jcarey568

Жыл бұрын

I tell my kids "God wants you to be warm and dry, but gave you good enough sense to come in out of the rain."

@farmyourbackyard2023

Жыл бұрын

@@jcarey568 🌻 true. He provides. The world (creation) just obeys His command.

Need a longer cut of this. Great stuff.

Wow Ben! The farm looks amazing! Everything we worked on two springs ago is looking so good and lush. 👏🏻

Outstanding, I have been following Ben's work for years. What he has created there amazing.

This is awesome! The farm looks amazing and I appreciate the revolutionary praxis! Create the and live the alternative. Great stuff.

Love this Ben. Love everything about it. Keep kickin ass.

Thank you Mr. Falk.

Fabulous! Thanks.

❤thanks❤🌹🙏 great👍👏😊 human being, great Permaculture project

Amazing man, keep doing what you are doing.

This is so what I needed to see! Been thinking about making sure I can grow the stuff that's a couple hundred miles south of me after it gets warmer. gonna set up for a patch of rice or something.

Well done.

ThankQ for being in the solutions

Excellent video. I like Mr.Ben Falk

Your content is amazing, thanks for it, hugs from Brazil

@amillison

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoy it! Cheers and take care :-)

This man is incredibly articulate. Loving the content 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Have you ever done an interview with Ben about his rice paddies? I only ever heard an interview about it years ago when he had just started out. It seemed an incredible system and very productive for him. Specifically because this is a plant that takes its nutrients from the water, not the soil. Did you know that you can grow the rice a person eats with the same amount of nitrogen they put out in their urine?

Wow. Thank you.

Very inspiring!!

Completely agree with your awesome thinking!

Nice Andrew !!

Awesome ❤

@amillison

10 ай бұрын

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Wonderful!

I would love to live this lifestyle; sucks that I'm too poor to afford the land and tools to do it.

@bincognito6609

Жыл бұрын

You can do it, come up with a plan and work towards it. Took me 4 years to be able to get my small acreage. That includes many, many months sleeping rough and going without basic items to be able to save more effectively. I wish you luck and I am sure there are many thousands of others that have walked that same path who would wish you the same.

@philipm3173

Жыл бұрын

You can WWOOF!

@arcadiapermaculture974

Жыл бұрын

Where we are (Ontario, Canada), many farms have secondary residences for farm workers, farm managers, etc. You may need some experience before you're ready for a live-on job, and it may take some time to find the right farm with the right fit... but if you really want to do it, the opportunity is out there. You don't have to own land in order to farm! Good luck!

Really extraordinary,,, need to get my land Soon ✨🙏✨

Wow straight from new york city, this is freaking amazing i wish the city adopted something of this sort at least wuth our projects, they tried to introduce growing marijuana, all these plants would totally make our air a bit more cleaner as well as a sense of involvement for community as well love these videos… keep them up‼️‼️

Thanks Andrew. His speech is really gives more energy and motivation. We are also going to join that farming health community soon from this metropolitan city life to get that benefits 100% what he mentioned in that video.”Harvest ton of other benefits- Health, Happiness, well ness, piece of mind, strong body, wisdom, confidence, capacity, ability to help others. Those are yield of this system “

So inspiring ❤

Fossil fuels will be replaced long before they are depleted. Centuries of coal and now 10X more petrol since shale fracking/horizontal drilling tech has been perfected.

I could watch 10 hours of this footage

Very good 👍 👏 👌 😀

Inspirational 💚🌍 storing water is everything Permaculture Design Course will increase your confidence. Food Forests are less labour intensive. Soil=BlackGold the online course is cheaper than you think!

Grab a copy of Ben’s book (if you haven’t yet) - absolutely worth it 💯

folks have become lost in forgetting that the planet provides all, even the silliest product one can imagine, also that it provides, air, and water freely, nothing would be here without it

Love this apart from the educative side of the video I'm getting more ideas on how to more design my place.

Ben Falk is swole! I need that seaberry and wood chopping action.

Such an awesome sunny property :) Agri Land is bloody expensive in my country, farming land 40-45 km from tier 2 city center 'not even a metro city' - 900 sqyard cost $25000 Even in distant not well connected land, its around $5000

This is what proper land stewardship is all about!

Good video. Ben Falk sounds like other permaculturists I've talked to - sane.

Great video- drop a link for those clogs though...

Resisting tyranny; I’m down

Wow, what a way to live! I thought the tree-rows in the field was a great idea

Man, do you even know how fortunate you are? Where I live it is all sun, heat, sand, and sore eyes, plus water limitations, and locals here have to work a lot harder at permaculture to make it work.

@sandponics

Жыл бұрын

@A R We need to develop effective alternative agriculture methods such as sandponics to help reduce our emmissions

What a nice place to live in

Nice

I like his attitude walk to walk not talk to talk

🇨🇦I'm desperately trying to move back to rural land. I've had my food-forest plants in pots for 2yrs b/c I thought I'd be able to buy a home/land. Now I'm trying to rent & offer my farm labor skills

@LitoGeorge

Жыл бұрын

Hey Jennifer, are you east, middle or west coast? (VI, BC resident here)

I live in Alberta Canada, I want to move to British Columbia, Canada into the wilderness and plant food producing trees for the potential event of Societies Collapse. Cool video.

This entire monologue felt more enlightening than any ted talks

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Wow this is my target

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Thank but it is too short when is the full video coming.

Hi ! i have a question : how effective would it be to grow hemp so you can make fiber and oil and animal food ( even human food )

Connection to the Earth is resistance!

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wow

Hey man could really use some videos to help us get started in this subject to be honest. Hard to know what fruit/nut/berries are able to be planted near me (eastern PA). Need some guides!

@jcarey568

Жыл бұрын

Raspberries, blueberries, hickory, black walnut if you will eat them, strawberries, mulberries apples, peaches are tricky with the cold. Eastern pa is a garden of Eden.

@giffica

Жыл бұрын

@@jcarey568 Yeah doesn't seem hard, but seems like to find specific information on beginning the process relative to your own local climate is tough! I should plant some raspberries

Best part about fossil fuels is there's already a replacement. Biodiesel with be around as long as there are deep fryers at restaurants.

Ben is a Legend

Signed up for your course, received confirmation, but what happened?

@Belioyt

Жыл бұрын

What course?

@b_uppy

Жыл бұрын

@@Belioyt One that Andrew offered through sign up about 1-1/2 months ago.

@b_uppy

Жыл бұрын

@@mickmac7911 His name is on a book he authored. My concern is with the course Andrew offered.

@amillison

Жыл бұрын

I'm not sure what you are referring to. Can you be more specific?

@b_uppy

Жыл бұрын

@@amillison Just found it. Must bite my tongue. My email has been sketchy lately, as it has for several others apparently.

Yeah, serms like quite a piece of land to sustain handful of people. While the ideas seem to be very majestic, I don't believe it is scalable enough.

This should be in front of more eyeballs and young brains. Instead the YT algorithm is geared towards cheap money and drama.

Wonderful farm and subject. Not sure if this is useful, but for a subject as calm and meaningful as this, the successive and rapid jump cuts are difficult to keep pace with - it reminds me of when MTV really amped up their speed of visuals (back a number of years ago). You have such great footage, I think it would be more useful and helpful if you slowed it down somewhat. You have regenerative farmers attention with the subject matter already. Go well.

@amillison

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the feedback. We are really trying to increase our retention, meaning how long people watch these videos. We have found that we have a lot of video views, but a lot of drop off and not a lot of people watching the videos all the way through. So We're experimenting with our speed to see if we can get more people to watch the video for longer. So we will see how the data plays out. But it's good to know when it's not working for someone so thanks for the feedback.

@LitoGeorge

Жыл бұрын

@@amillison appreciate your reply and response - all of which makes sense to why you're experimenting with different styles. It would be useful if others chime in on their experiences so that you can appeal to the broader masses, but its interesting that I tried to continue watching this video but couldnt due to the rapid pace of the visuals (which otherwise would have been very meaningful). Good luck in your refining, and I wish you the best.

@amillison

Жыл бұрын

@@LitoGeorge It will be very interesting to get the data on retention. Do you mind if I ask how old you are? Our main demographic are between 25-34 and then our secondary is 35-44. I definitely suspect that young people are more attuned to the fast pace, but the data will tell us.

@LitoGeorge

Жыл бұрын

@@amillison I'm more in the second demographic, so maybe (definitely) slowing down. If you remember and are interested, I'd love to read your feedback when the data comes in. Btw, I'm not old and stodgy, and that comes with approval of my three young daughters 😁

@arcadiapermaculture974

Жыл бұрын

@@amillison your content is some of the best and most engaging on KZread. If people aren't sticking around, it's their loss.

I’m trying to make a donation but for some reason it’s not letting me for the last two days, I’ll keep trying

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I disagree with the first bit, since nuclear fusion isn’t a viable option yet, meaning that our greatest energy source is only in our future. However, we are transitioning through an extremely awkward time that will likely get worse and weirder before it gets better.

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The only problem with permaculture remains that only people with land can do it. I mean really do it, like Falk here. The rest of us are out of luck. I hear people saying oh but you can grow on your balcony, your windowsill. Let's be clear - that's just not at all the same and will never yield more than what is put into it. So, it comes down to those who have land or who can access land can do this but not the others. Some people say we should abolish private property. Maybe that would solve the problem. But I think people need to control their breeding as well. It's not just a matter of enough land for people, but also enough of everything for the rest of Earth's inhabitants, making sure each species has not only sufficient numbers but space, food sources, migration corridors, etc. As long as we (humans) are taking the lion's share of everything, we are not practicing the principle of fair share. What we need is balance and that's what we don't have now.

@StrawmnMcPerson

Жыл бұрын

The debunked, racist theory of overpopulation is based in both pseudoscience and fascism. Do you have any idea how much land rich people (not even including corporations🥴) will 'buy' in one go? Over "breeding" isn't any of the many existential threats to the survival of life on Earth that we're facing rn.

@wholesystems

Жыл бұрын

The earth isn’t close to being overpopulated - given there are great examples like Edo Japan which show we can live off of 2 acres per person of non ag land, or less. Do the numbers and exclude deserts and you have 12 billion or so until you hit historical precedent for overpopulation. But in the WAY we tend to live now we are in resource overshoot to be sure.

Your thoughts on food and medicine sound a lot of ancient Chinese theories where every food is associated with medical/health properties. Is the difference that we now have scientific evidence?

Grand solar minimum underway Warming in your dreams

"These are the easy times," it says to a world its people is finally fully leeching to death.

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MEGA: Make Earth Great Again