Food Foresting

[nomadguy]

keep dreaming!... and dream of it closer and closer as you go.

[nomadguy]

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2j6xIGlsgs

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Domestic uses for wood ash - permaculture.org.au


Food forests part 3 closing-the-loop - permaculture.org.au

ref - http://permaculture.org.au/

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Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni1Jat86jIM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpKr9fXa9cg - part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3AclFaj6sY - part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znF__qkkx8k - part 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qi82Hujwj0 - part 5

[Cjay]

Posted by wolf_rt (here)

Posted by Cjay (here)
...continued from previous post


Companion Planting Guide

IDEP’s Companion Planting Guide
Click here for full PDF
(Includes natural insect repellent tips)

Sometimes you end up wishing you had a resource at hand to make it easier to apply Permaculture principles. This was the case for myself when it came time to start thinking about beneficial groupings of plants and those groupings that do not go well together.

This is what I often find lacking with the current publications on offer from PRI and from those in the community. There is a lot of good knowledge locked up that could benefit so many of us in applying permaculture principles.

A simple A3 or A4 information sheet or booklet of a small number of pages is easy to mentally digest and take in and very handy to have as a reference, either printed out and hung up on the wall or on the computer when we sit down and start thinking about designing our gardens or food systems.

Full details: http://permaculture.org.au/2010/07/3...lanting-guide/

IDEP A3 Poster Chart (external pdf): http://www.permaculture.org.au/resou..._Com_Plant.pdf

these links seem to be broked, you dont have a full size copy of that chart by any chance do you?

Sorry for the very slow reply. It's here now: http://www.permaculture.org.au/resources_files/Poster_GDN_Com_Plant.pdf

[nomadguy]

"Weston A Price discovered that all the indigenous people he studied were getting 10 x the fat soluble vitamins and 4 x the minerals compared to a Western diet of the same time (1930’s). He also discovered that although they all ate very differently, they all followed the same principles in their diets, and all of them were extremely healthy. They knew how to eat to maintain their DNA so that they were extremely healthy and they passed on strong genes.

These were the principles he discovered they each followed:

no refined or denatured foods
all traditional cultures consumed some sort of animal protein and fat
all diets contains 4 x the minerals and 10 x the fat soluble vitamins ( A, D and K and E)
in all traditional cultures some animal products were eaten raw
total fat content of all traditional diets varied from 30 – 80% of daily calorie intake and only around 4 % of that was polyunsaturated oil. The balance was saturated and monounsaturated fatty acids
traditional diets had a high food-enzyme content from raw meat and dairy and also fermented fruit vegetables and meat/fish
seeds grains and nuts were soaked, sprouted, fermented or naturally leavened in order to neutralize antinutrients in these foods such as phytic acid, enzyme inhibitors, tannins and complex carbohydrates
traditional diets contained nearly equal amounts of omega -6 and omega -3
all primitive diets contained salt
traditional cultures consumed animal bones, usually in the form of gelatin rich bone broths
traditional cultures made provisions for the health of future generations by providing special nutrient rich foods for parents to be, pregnant women and growing children."

Ref-
Urban design designing for health

[nomadguy]

I feel this is an excellent documentary to show us how WE can indeed change things... and quickly

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBLZmwlPa8A

[Feren]

This is a great thread. Thank you so much for your contribution, Nomadguy. The art of growing our own food is of major importance for the evolution of human beings.
Cheers!
Ferén

[sandy]

Wow nomadguy!!

What a great documentary that needs to go viral in my opinion. I'm not to computer savvy but I'm going to try and put it on my face book page and hope others pick it up and pass it on over and over again

[nomadguy]

Here is a nice video on Rocket Stoves,

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oDpmmsqHwQ

[eva08]

Nomadguy, thank you for everything -- I am trying to create an edible garden for my climate by planting various plants close together that will help create micro climates and dappled shade, lots of straw mulch and allowing weeds (at least THEY grow here) and supposedly weeds help bring nutrients into the soil.

Could you please, repost the links or videos from your first post, the ones I clicked on say, Video unavailable -- and that's a shame for all this fantastic information.

[nomadguy]

Posted by eva08 (here)
Nomadguy, thank you for everything -- I am trying to create an edible garden for my climate by planting various plants close together that will help create micro climates and dappled shade, lots of straw mulch and allowing weeds (at least THEY grow here) and supposedly weeds help bring nutrients into the soil.

Could you please, repost the links or videos from your first post, the ones I clicked on say, Video unavailable -- and that's a shame for all this fantastic information.

Will do, though it may take me a few days to gather them.

[Corncrake]

Really enjoying this thread - especially as I have just started my own little allotment. I also enjoy foraging for food and have just got a copy of Richard Mabey's Food for Free. Have been using nettles and ramsons (wild garlic) for the last month though it is almost over now.

Thanks for posting Green Cold - wonderful uplifting documentary. So important to watch films like this when there is so much doom and gloom around.

[nomadguy]

It has come to my attention that some of the videos posted in this thread were only available
for free ~ for a limited time.
I posted the videos I found immediately after I found them and they have long since expired. Some of the other videos posted by other members have also been removed as free viewing.

For a small investment you can get all the videos posted by Geoff Lawton from Ecofilms - http://www.ecofilms.com.au/introduct...re-design-dvd/
I am sorry I could not find or relocate all of the videos posted on this thread.
Here are the videos I did find that are still available on Youtube.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6juUcYsLAYw
Establishing A Food Forest with Geoff Lawton

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG_vRG66wkA
7 Food Forests in 7 Minutes with Geoff Lawton

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5ZgzwoQ-ao
300 Year Old Food Forest in Vietnam

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hftgWcD-1Nw
2,000 Year Old Food Forest in Morocco

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vJdZP_FMi4
Bill Mollison Global Gardener 2 Dry lands

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhwTtbSYf68
Farming with Nature - A Case Study of Successful Temperate Permaculture
Sepp Holzer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiHQU_p8rCY
Permaculture own root fruit trees and the Coppice Orchard P1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WL58i5QbZQ
Permaculture own root fruit trees and the Coppice Orchard P2

Carry On ~ (new information and videos to be posted here soon!)