This urban forest becomes self-sufficient in three years

A Japanese method of planting fast-growing native forests is spreading worldwide. First introduced in the 1970s, Miyawaki forests are dense, multi-layered plantations that aim to rapidly re-create the old growth forest of a given area. These forests not only serve as an engine for carbon sequestration and cooling, but also promote biodiversity by supporting local insects, which are crucial to the ecosystem. What is more, Miyawaki forests are designed to become self-sufficient two to three years after planting.
Hundreds of Miyawaki forests have been created around the world in recent years, and Massachusetts saw its first two Miyawaki forests take root in 2021 and 2022. The forests, planted by more than 100 local residents, are a way to educate and engage the community on ecological restoration, says Maya Dutta, the project manager for the creation of the two forests. A software developer-turned-environmental activist, Maya used to live in fear and avoidance of environmental issues. But working on projects like the Miyawaki forests, she says, offers her a sense of "grounded hope."
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  • @macksonamission1784
    @macksonamission1784Ай бұрын

    The compost tea dunk in the container before planting is a great idea.

  • @AMPProf

    @AMPProf

    9 күн бұрын

    works for cookies soo

  • @Abhinay_Limbu
    @Abhinay_LimbuАй бұрын

    The Miyawaki afforestation method requires quite a small space, at least 20 square feet. One must seed plants very close to save space and dense plant growth. This will also allow young trees to protect each other and block sunlight from hitting the forest's ground, preventing parasitic plant growth.

  • @jennastephens1224

    @jennastephens1224

    28 күн бұрын

    I live in the southern US and a great example of this phenomenon is the Sweetgum tree. They're great in Miyawaki forests because they grow so fast, but also they're difficult to grow with other plants in Miyawaki forests because they grow so fast (2-3 feet or 70-100cm per year for their first 25 years of life)

  • @ddshihora1920
    @ddshihora1920Ай бұрын

    I m also planting trees wherever i can and I have planted 300 trees and watered them..... It gives tremendous joy❤love from🇮🇳

  • @BandelaSimon

    @BandelaSimon

    Ай бұрын

    Wow buddy Make a vlog and upload it

  • @Socialbhanwar

    @Socialbhanwar

    12 күн бұрын

    जय हिन्द, जय भारत।। वंदेमातरम, भारत माता की जय।। जय हिन्द, जय हिन्द की सेना।।

  • @toantran8424
    @toantran8424Ай бұрын

    I love the idea of creating this vibrant forest 😍

  • @waynetyson3822
    @waynetyson38228 ай бұрын

    Context is everything. No "system" should ever be slavishly applied just anywhere. I start with seed, collected from the "forest" you want to restore (and please don't forget the understory, as well as the soil microbiome and the cryptogamic soil crust community. Not all forests are as tall as they are in Japan and the Eastern Seaboard. I have done all my work in the more xeric climates (mainly Mediterranean and desert) of the Southwest US. for over fifty years, I used primarily on-site materials, minimizing or eliminating external inputs. It doesn't "fail," it adjusts. Some projects have been entirely on their own for more than forty or fifty years. Some have been destroyed.

  • @jerrymcintire7902

    @jerrymcintire7902

    8 ай бұрын

    Good to hear of your many projects for reestablishing healthy soils and forests. The projects described here certainly follow that lead, using native plants for the area and feeding the soil with organic matter and active compost tea to establish healthy microbial activity.

  • @lyonna7499

    @lyonna7499

    8 ай бұрын

    I did that sort of unintentionally on my 3.5 wooded acres in NC. When I purchased 10 years ago a quarter acre was overgrown with “trees from hell” also know at the invasive tree from heaven. I slashed, burned and kept the mature persimmons. Planted cultivar hazelnuts, sunchoke, elderberry, volunteer blackberries. and let it go a few years. There are six foot persimmons with a few fruits, first year of hazelnuts, Passion flower. I’m trying to root mulberry cuttings currently. Nice to read and write back.

  • @novi_pacific_island

    @novi_pacific_island

    23 күн бұрын

    The best seeds is the natives one, I heard. The true owner and would bring balance.

  • @ORom89
    @ORom8928 күн бұрын

    Brilliant. Amazing. Wonderful. This gives me a hope for the future of our children.

  • @peasinourthyme5722
    @peasinourthyme572219 күн бұрын

    THAT is how you tend your lawn!

  • @andrear4954
    @andrear495427 күн бұрын

    Thats incredible, well done to everyone working on this project, God bless ❤❤❤

  • @sankararaoyelisetti8416
    @sankararaoyelisetti8416Ай бұрын

    Congratulations to the founder and team 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

  • @exhile3747
    @exhile37473 күн бұрын

    Thanks! 3:09 Step 01 : 5 days before planting

  • @oggie808
    @oggie808Ай бұрын

    ty and keep up the good work

  • @simplyimpish1055
    @simplyimpish105512 күн бұрын

    I’m so touched by this project. What an honorable thing to do for Mother Earth and future generations 🌸

  • @MM-mq5uj
    @MM-mq5ujАй бұрын

    Amazing work!

  • @cathrynmartin4395
    @cathrynmartin439512 күн бұрын

    I love this idea, but I would love it more if, being an urban environment, it was more of a permaculture solution that could actually FEED the people of the area. We do need more plantings in urban areas, but we also need to provide the people who live there with the ability to grow some permanent fruits and vegetables that can feed the community.

  • @SuperMIKevin
    @SuperMIKevin8 күн бұрын

    I was gonna subscribe but then i realized this is the only video on the channel worth watching.

  • @sjain8111
    @sjain811112 күн бұрын

    great work!! 🌳🌴🌲🌳

  • @ninakennedy7497
    @ninakennedy749721 күн бұрын

    Very nice set up❤

  • @MiguelY22
    @MiguelY22Ай бұрын

    That's really awesome. I have a few bald cypress i started from seeds. Also oaks

  • @Wangwangss79
    @Wangwangss797 күн бұрын

    I want this in my backyard

  • @pagadalaa6155
    @pagadalaa615526 күн бұрын

    Great work

  • @anamariadiasabdalah7239
    @anamariadiasabdalah72398 ай бұрын

    Muito boa iniciativa, parabéns ❣🥰🙏

  • @paulmcnamara6325
    @paulmcnamara63256 ай бұрын

    So proud!!its gotta bee good 4nature wild life an us😊😊😊❤❤❤❤🎉🎉

  • @asbakrokok7906
    @asbakrokok79068 ай бұрын

    Good

  • @MaroeiProject
    @MaroeiProject11 күн бұрын

    What an amazing job! However, in my country, these kinds of small patches of forest in the middle of urban residences would just become habitats for snakes and other dangerous insects. Again, good job on creating this small yet beautiful paradise ecosystem. 😀

  • @dr.padmanabhanms631
    @dr.padmanabhanms6316 ай бұрын

    Mayawaki ❤

  • @rahmatsuprihat2141
    @rahmatsuprihat21418 күн бұрын

    Amazing..

  • @_orodrigofernandes
    @_orodrigofernandes14 күн бұрын

    Really cool

  • @joycefairfield9102
    @joycefairfield91028 күн бұрын

    A project can be planned which includes dumping wood chips and letting them decompose, to enrich the soil. For more ideas visit Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't, and watch their "Kill Your Lawn" series.

  • @albertomagdua7109
    @albertomagdua7109Ай бұрын

    Ours are with our local Binunga Trees..We just plant one to 3 trees then the following year the seeds will fall and proliferate fast.Goofor firewoods too with selective way of harvesting..I coined it Regenerative Surgical Agriculture with bananas and other crops around..I first heard Christian Science Monitor in the 1980s while I was Associate Editor of Bohol Inquirer when National Geographic sent me a copy of your Gmelina Research and writeups featuring Daniel K.Ludwig who planted almost a million hectares of Gmelina in his Jari.Project in Rainforests of Brazil

  • @sankararaoyelisetti8416
    @sankararaoyelisetti8416Ай бұрын

    Urban forest wonderful idea every where in the world 😅😅😅

  • @albinyohannan8252
    @albinyohannan82522 ай бұрын

    Fast result 👍🏻

  • @damonchampion823
    @damonchampion82328 күн бұрын

    💚

  • @lilnoir4213
    @lilnoir421329 күн бұрын

    america is so uprooted, you gotta teach people that forests are good...

  • @InappropriateShorts
    @InappropriateShorts27 күн бұрын

    need a miawaki food forest 🤪

  • @Bleepurchin
    @BleepurchinАй бұрын

    Why are these small wooded patches being referred to as forests? It seems to me that that is quite a grandiose word to be using for patches of trees which could not possibly operate on the scale of a real forest in terms of their ability to secure and maintain an ecosystem in the same way.

  • @luciatheron1621

    @luciatheron1621

    20 күн бұрын

    It will become a forest. Some trees won't make it, others grow, seed and spread. Creates a micro climate, protects smaller vulnerable plants, etc. Start it and it will grow.

  • @Bleepurchin

    @Bleepurchin

    20 күн бұрын

    @@luciatheron1621 Yes, provided there is space for a the trees to spread their seed and expand their territory. But these green oases are completely restricted due to where they are located. So they can never grow to the size and definition of a ‘forest’. It’s an undeniable fact and a pretty obvious one at that.

  • @NatalieAuer-id4tz

    @NatalieAuer-id4tz

    18 күн бұрын

    How big does it have to be to be considered a forest? Who gets to decide what is and isn't a forest? Also, we don't know the plan for this area. The forest is located in a much larger park that is mostly lawn. Maybe the forest will spread.

  • @WonderfullyMade_Lex
    @WonderfullyMade_Lex16 күн бұрын

    1:45 in and I'm in ❤❤❤❤❤ . I wanna do it!! I just taught my students about Satochi-Satoyama. This concept seems much more doable and I think I'm gonna.

  • @vinaymc7607
    @vinaymc760724 күн бұрын

    Indians ❤

  • @mbeeel
    @mbeeel15 күн бұрын

    if you grow fishes alongside, you can spray them with water from fish filter chamber, quite high quality fertilizer water i'd say

  • @AMPProf
    @AMPProf9 күн бұрын

    Oo I like this News

  • @SanjeevReddyBora
    @SanjeevReddyBora4 ай бұрын

    great job...

  • @AMPProf
    @AMPProf9 күн бұрын

    I want to do this in town of Prescott valley AZ

  • @festive101
    @festive1012 күн бұрын

    Will they not die to overcrowding ? Very curious how they will grow well so crushed into a small area

  • @JXZ-JAM
    @JXZ-JAMАй бұрын

    Please tell me that's a sumac I'm looking at and not a Ailanthus altissima.....

  • @thisbushnell2012

    @thisbushnell2012

    28 күн бұрын

    They look so similar at 4-5 ft. Stage......

  • @crazyworld1727
    @crazyworld17278 ай бұрын

    🤘

  • @ashishkumar-hy3lp
    @ashishkumar-hy3lp3 ай бұрын

    Don’t when India will start thinking about in this direction…I want to contribute but there are no places or people don’t want a tree in or near by their premises, specially in north India.

  • @hormeena

    @hormeena

    3 ай бұрын

    so you start with your friends! and open it to the community. I am sure people with join!

  • @mintusherpa7978
    @mintusherpa797815 күн бұрын

  • @mikecain6947
    @mikecain69478 ай бұрын

    Will the forest spread and become larger on its own, or do you need to add nutrients?

  • @brbr66

    @brbr66

    6 ай бұрын

    It will spread on its own if there's available land, but bear in mind that a lot of tree species reach reproductive age and start giving fruits and seeds only after 30 and more years, so in the beginning adjacent territories will be colonized by weeds and shrubs, which will also take part in the soil building process. Only then will it eventually be succeeded by new trees from those originally planted, perhaps not within our lifetime.

  • @johntheherbalistg8756

    @johntheherbalistg8756

    Ай бұрын

    Is in the middle of an urban area, so that's doubtful. They're already so full. It doesn't matter, though. Just what they planted there will have huge benefits for air quality, ground water etc for a long time

  • @86Corvus

    @86Corvus

    Ай бұрын

    Forest vegetation grows fine in the poorest of soil. This is why lowest class of soil is usually used for tree schools or reforestation by farmers because at least you can get some lumber out of it later.

  • @janastormont2278
    @janastormont22782 ай бұрын

    Can you do this with Sonoran desert plants?

  • @johntheherbalistg8756

    @johntheherbalistg8756

    Ай бұрын

    Probably not, as most trees couldn't handle the desert. You could probably do something like this on the edge to cause the desert to retreat. There are many videos about it with clickbait titles like "... built an oasis in the desert 3 years... this is how..."

  • @janastormont2278

    @janastormont2278

    Ай бұрын

    @@johntheherbalistg8756 I'm meaning with native desert plants. We used to have mesquite bosques here in Tucson. People are making desert habitats with rainwater harvesting basins with wood chip mulch and native grasses and bushes to create good soil and retain the moisture longer.

  • @johntheherbalistg8756

    @johntheherbalistg8756

    Ай бұрын

    @@janastormont2278 If you have natives that will grow that close, then you can

  • @anhthubui4258
    @anhthubui42583 ай бұрын

    What is the budget per square meter of forest ?

  • @dr.tetraminflakes3187
    @dr.tetraminflakes31872 күн бұрын

    it's called abandoned lot

  • @user-nk7kq3rr6c
    @user-nk7kq3rr6c6 ай бұрын

    please leave the dandelions!

  • @myniga
    @myniga5 ай бұрын

    Здорово! Как думаете, в Московской области нужны леса выращенные по способу Мияваки?

  • @andrewgoodbody2121

    @andrewgoodbody2121

    Ай бұрын

    I think Moscow has a lot more to think about before these, your society is rotting your government is pushing the world to war and your people do nothing, grow balls not trees.

  • @Adi-ev1uh
    @Adi-ev1uhАй бұрын

    Great initiative

  • @ligiamiranda9815
    @ligiamiranda98157 ай бұрын

    Plantaremos a primeira MFU do Brasil,dia 14 de novembro,na Escola Alberto Torres, Porto Alegre.Sera um presente da VIRADA SUSTENTÁVEL!!! Instituto TodaVida

  • @ORom89
    @ORom8928 күн бұрын

    She is everything the new generation is all about. This is hopeful.

  • @minhnhutvo8863
    @minhnhutvo8863Ай бұрын

    Tuyệt vời

  • @johnberry1107
    @johnberry110720 күн бұрын

    Planted with little room to mature? Good work. "forest"?

  • @PolAdd22
    @PolAdd227 ай бұрын

    1:11 thats a lot of ailanthus actually..you may need to apply some herbicide on it to help the planted trees

  • @michaellindquist6011

    @michaellindquist6011

    Ай бұрын

    Maybe native stag horn sumac? Hard to tell

  • @Socialbhanwar
    @Socialbhanwar12 күн бұрын

    जय हिन्द, जय भारत।। वंदेमातरम, भारत माता की जय।। जय हिन्द, जय हिन्द की सेना।।

  • @Socialbhanwar

    @Socialbhanwar

    12 күн бұрын

    जय जय हिन्द की सेना।।

  • @Socialbhanwar

    @Socialbhanwar

    12 күн бұрын

    हिन्दी, हिन्दू, हिंदुस्तान।।🙏🙏

  • @Socialbhanwar

    @Socialbhanwar

    12 күн бұрын

    भारत और भारतीय हर जगह हैं , हम सब साथ साथ हैं।।

  • @josephtran411
    @josephtran41128 күн бұрын

    I would love to link up and start a program in the city of Houston Texas.

  • @staresce
    @staresce4 ай бұрын

    Do you think the trees are planted too close together ?

  • @genelasaname

    @genelasaname

    2 ай бұрын

    That’s the whole point of the method. All their energy is used to grow upward due to their close proximity. Hence these forests grow up fast.

  • @Shodan91
    @Shodan9125 күн бұрын

    But Bill Gates says, we dont need trees, actually we should cut so much as possible, or are we idiots? 😂

  • @LS-kg6my
    @LS-kg6myАй бұрын

    It’s great in principle. However, in practice it is very difficult to do. In suburbia, there is massive deer browse (because they’ve lost their habitat) that destroy the native flora and ground cover, and then there is constant encroachment by invasive species. Nevertheless, I continue to try.

  • @ludwigvonrothbard1207
    @ludwigvonrothbard12078 ай бұрын

    Plant trees that grow food instead

  • @karlitobergkamp8082

    @karlitobergkamp8082

    7 ай бұрын

    It’s about biodiversity not growing food.

  • @MVP469

    @MVP469

    Ай бұрын

    Maybe there are no native edible fruit trees in that area

  • @johntheherbalistg8756

    @johntheherbalistg8756

    Ай бұрын

    It is growing food, just not for humans

  • @IgnacioAstengo
    @IgnacioAstengoАй бұрын

    Extremely expensive restoration

  • @scottcook1586
    @scottcook1586Ай бұрын

    There is no climate change, just climate. As an inhabitant we all need to do what we can to make things better then we found it, governments ,greed and bad engineering have done the most damage. Many so called natural disasters are man made from building on flood plains to not taking large rain events into consideration...

  • @alphaomega8373
    @alphaomega8373Ай бұрын

    ... yes, vegetation grows well on earth.

  • @jonmatthews4254
    @jonmatthews425428 күн бұрын

    A bit misleading, dictionary definition of a forest: A growth of trees and other plants covering a large area. Looks good, but is a copse at best.

  • @LUNGHIX
    @LUNGHIX3 ай бұрын

    900 plants in 1400 square feet of land? Huh?

  • @alexverdigris9939
    @alexverdigris99397 ай бұрын

    Semantic observation: it's not a forest. Perhaps a bush.

  • @centurione6489
    @centurione648925 күн бұрын

    When you plant that thick, plants will compete and weaken each other. Diseases will follow. Furthermore tree roots will brake sidewalks and asphalt. Finally canopy trees are a serious liabiity when so close to people and car passage. That kind of space can take 1-3 hazelnut trees and 4-5 bush cherries ... even if you cancel my post.

  • @AMPProf
    @AMPProf9 күн бұрын

    MORE GODLY NEWS POLATICS IS NOT GODLLY

  • @grahamhutton1633
    @grahamhutton163325 күн бұрын

    I can’t watch this, the topic is interesting but the drawling vocal fry from the girls is so annoying .

  • @justinskeans3342
    @justinskeans3342Ай бұрын

    I like this but why not plant food. It's silly to not help people out super annoying we wanna be native only.

  • @NatalieAuer-id4tz

    @NatalieAuer-id4tz

    18 күн бұрын

    This park was formerly a landfill. You would probably not want to plant vegetables here.

  • @NatalieAuer-id4tz

    @NatalieAuer-id4tz

    18 күн бұрын

    Also not sure why it is annoying to plant native species. Many native insects have evolved to eat native plants. They can't survive without them. The more native insects, the more birds the land can support. And maybe even toads and snakes. How is that bad?

  • @ChrisWijtmans
    @ChrisWijtmansАй бұрын

    wtf is this bs? money laundering?

  • @86Corvus
    @86CorvusАй бұрын

    The name of this channel reminds us of the parents who are now in jail for denying medical lifesaving treatment to their children, having chosen prayer instead. Disgusting.