Permaculture is a system of ecological design that strives to emulate natural ecosystems so that our gardens and farms become self-sustaining, healthy and bountiful. It seeks to create gardens and landscapes that arrange all the elements of the design in ways that maximize the synergy of the design while minimizing the need for human inputs such as labour, fertilizer and pesticides. Trees and idea of forest gardening play a big part. Increasingly the principles of permaculture are being adapted for homes, even in the cities and suburbs. Travis Philp, a trained environmental and eco management technician, is a resident of the Greenshire Eco Farm where he manages the permaculture garden beds and looks after crop planting, maintenance, harvest and the weekly filling of food boxes. He will show you how to incorporate the principles of permaculture around your home or farm.
(Hugelkultur images courtesy Paul Wheaton, http://richsoil.com/hugelkultur.)
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really cool!
To learned a lot from this…thank you!
Really informative….well done
great info, thanks.
3 of the images at the beginning of this video are from Bealtaine Cottage Permaculture Gardens in the West of Ireland…I would have liked to have been asked…but it's okay!
Sorry about that! This is a recording of a presentation given at Richters by an invited speaker and some of the images used may well have been used without permission. We are happy to give you credit by adding an annotation to video. Would you be happy if we add "Photo courtesy Bealtaine Cottage Permaculture Gardens" or something similar?
That sounds absolutely fine. I am more than happy to share Bealtaine Cottage and admire all who promote permaculture. Blessings from Bealtaine Cottage, Ireland. 🙂
We have added a note to the beginning of the video. Thank you for allowing us to use photos of your beautiful gardens.
Gee this guy had me so relaxed, I awoke in the morning with an imprint of a keyboard on my face!
This is Travis (the presenter in this video) If you'd like to see these techniques in action, visit my farm's youtube channel by clicking on the logo to the left.
Thanks to everyone for watching and commenting.
Hi Newton. This is Travis, the presenter in the video. I do have interactive learning opportunities at the farm but how would you suggest having a more interactive format in an indoor setting?
No worries, man. This lecture is great. It's informative, to the point, and quite interesting. I've noticed that many of us permaculture people tend to be intellectuals (go figure that it wasn't the football players covered with mud when all was said and done…) so this style of teaching is quite adequate for the majority of us. Thanks again!
It's worked for years. In an indoor environment, there aren't many options to make it more interactive, other than maybe passing around distractions…I mean, samples or maybe running a powerpoint (never enjoyed those much.) I'd much rather hear it in this format.
Enlighten Together will be hosting a live discussion on this video tonight, Wed. May 22 @ 6pm PDT / 9pm EDT. Go to the live broadcast section of EnlightenTogether . com . Looking forward to it!
Good information, but boy does this guy need to overhaul his wardrobe!
Troll, you need to overhaul your commenting! I bet he doesn't call it a wardrobe.
lots of football players are intelligent.
thank you so much; thanks to you I have a beautiful hugelkulture garden started last year
Hopefully some on is interested in this
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/384716696/no-till-seeding-machine
is it OK to reuse Old mulch as well?.. like the mulch from someone else's bed, or does it have the possibility of bad cemical mix?
Your local cemetery would be glad to give away as much grass clippings as they could so check with them.