A Forest Garden With 500 Edible Plants Could Lead to a Sustainable Future | Short Film Showcase
A Forest Garden With 500 Edible Plants Could Lead to a Sustainable Future | Short Film Showcase
Instead of neat rows of monoculture, forest gardens combine fruit and nut trees, shrubs, herbs, vines and perennial vegetables together in one seemingly wild setting. This type of agroforestry mimics natural ecosystems and uses the space available in a sustainable way. UK-based Martin Crawford is one of the pioneers of forest gardening. Starting out with a flat field in 1994, his land has been transformed into a woodland and serves as an educational resource for others interested in forest gardening. This short film by Thomas Regnault focuses on Crawford’s forest garden, which is abundant, diverse, edible, and might be one answer to the future of food systems.
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Getting warmer, scale up, and mechanisation is the obstacle though, the idea is 2%.of the difficulty. I’m sure you realise that by now? we need to redesign an entire line a machinery to deal with a change in food production methods on much larger scales, as high energy density foods are the bread bask of modern civilisation. If we keep trying to redesign with agricultural machinery in mind we are designing the landscape around a tractor.👀🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣lol that makes no sense.
He makes so much sense.
The question is if the little amount of light which can go through these shady agricultural forests is enough to raise some foodstuff needed for human consumption. I suppose it is enough but it takes much more time for fruits to mature. Anyway, it seems that traditional culture is excellent in most areas (but sometimes wrong) although I think that monoculture is not as good invention as we used to think, it’s sometimes even a little ugly for the landscape. We must try to rethink agriculture and gardening…there are other ways to make them more sustainable and also more beautiful, adapting them to the needs and problems of these times that we live nowadays. It would be interesting that permaculture ushered in a new age in agriculture and gardening : this is what we call evolve. (rethink, discard some advances, accept others and even get back to our true roots in some aspects).
I want to have a backyard forest garden like that.
🌱❤️📈 Creating paradise, best hobby and thanks to internet easy to get knowledge to start planting
is it possible to implement agroforestry in places with very cold weather?
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Does it attract snakes ?
Bravo 👏
Love this
A very informative video…👍
I would love to plant a forest of pre-pioneer native plants one day. I want to learn more about native recipies too.
Food forests are endlessly magical…
This garden grows 500 edible plants with just a few hours of maintenance a month. What are your thoughts on this unique ecosystem?
This is an excellent and brief introduction to forest gardens. Very inspiring!
STOP, STOP, STOP!! You are promoting the introduction of invasive plants into natural ecosystems. Invasive plants and insects have caused some of the greatest harm to our forests. Gypsy moth, emerald ash borer, kudzu "the vine that ate the south", giant hogweed, oriental bittersweet. Shall I go on? Most of the these invasive plants were introduced for their aesthetic appeal and since they have no natural controls they have gotten out of control. The most effective and common control measure then becomes the application of chemical herbicides. There is at least one and I believe two invasive plants in Martin’s garden. Bamboo is shown several times in this video and I think that is oriental bittersweet behind him in a couple of shots. Nat Geo should pull this video and produce one that is more compelling to not plant random plants in your forest.
do yall brush ur teeth in europe?
This is the way
This is the way to go!
Yeah but think about all the time it takes him to gather, name, cook, discipline, eat, and evacuate that food. I’ll stick with my soylen’t, thank you very much.
This is why Native Americans couldn’t understand why anyone would want to become a farmer when that idea was first introduced to them by colonists.
When safemoon makes me a billionaire I’m coming for you Permaculture !! Right now I can’t can barely pay our rent living in Hawaii!
Just plant a tree it starts i like it
I wonder what Charles Dowding makes of this, he’s in the same climate yet has a completely different approach.
I would like to do something like this in 2000 sqft space but can’t figure out what to do or how to design even after watching so many documentaries.
I love this kind of system and it’s only what permaculture should mean, a self sustaining system. But could it feed the world with same acreage and labor, meaning gathering and shipping??
Unlikers are from chemical factories🤣
I Love this!
Great forest, Thank You.
Great project. Now just add biochar to pyrolize all the waste (husks, fallen branches…), activate the biochar (pee works well!) and reintroduce to the land for a huge boost in fertility and yield, plus simultaneously sequestering carbon for thousands of years
The closest animals to humans are the apes and monkeys. What is their natural diet? Fruits of course…Then why humans can’t survive in a forest eating fruits? Human digestive system is designed for fruit diet just like the apes. Yet humans have become omnivorous. I haven’t seen any survival show expert on TV telling humans to survive like apes.
La planète dans son entièreté devrait être comme cette forêt-jardin!!! Splendide! De toute beauté!!! Magnifique!!!
Is there any minimum spacing between trees?
It would be better if they would be all native to the place
Yes!
If we don’t mimic Nature but exploits Her instead, we are all dead.
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Wow, this type of Forest garden is truly amazing and magical! 🤭
Ci sto provando
We should totally grow these type of gardens every where for animals….turn peoples back yards into eco friendly paradises
a major turn humankind need to take
In temperate England, closed canopy forests are not natural. As Martin said, semi forested areas store the most carbon and has the most photosynthesis. Otherwise climax forest overshades everything below the canopy and diseases spread from canopy to canopy. Photo synthetic processes are maximised in a open forest
I don’t live in a temperate area. I live at an elevation of 664m above sea level in Slovenia (just south of Austria, with roughly the same climate) and have a garden measuring 1,600 square metres where mostly pine trees grow. I would probably have to chop those down, as they make the soil very acidic. I’d love to create a food forest, but most of the vids and instructions I’ve found so far are for warmer climes with deciduous trees… I guess I’ll just have to wing it. 😀
The world will never run out of food. Thats just a lie they tell to keep people living in fear and in compliance with their agenda. One Apple tree can feed hundreds of people for months and months.
This is so amazing.
Very nice@
I always had a vision to built a natural garden in my town because of the rising climatic changes that I’ve been seeing in my own hometown and I was confused cause I also wanted to give it a very natural feeling but didn’t know how, but now after I’ve watched this I’ve got the idea how to, thanks a lot.
this is the way………….the way of nature
another climate change psycho
There is a similiar subhash palekar model in india which is promoted by government also
what if this ecosystem was invaded by one or two invasive plants/creatures. what do you think would happen?