Incredible 1.5-Acre Syntropic Food Forest with Over 250 Plant Species | The Food Forest Farmers

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I'm a student and this is my dream one day I will make my own food forest😀

Planting another 50 trees for my food forest today. Come inside and see Happen Films uploaded a video. Today is a good day. Happy Earth week everyone.

I bought an acre in the desert and am starting this year with bringing the soil back to eventually start a food forest. You were one of my major inspirations to change my life. Thank you

I was taught by Klaus back in New Zealand. Where he taught premaculture and management of organic systems and I can say he is a well of knowledge. It's insane how much he knows even after my time with him I felt he had so much more to give. It's awesome to see he is still working with the land and sharing his knowledge with the community.

I’m noticing more and more that people who are very connected with nature have an inner contentment and their souls shine through.

"I don't like to see myself as a steward of the land, more like a partner in the development of the highest expression of life..." What a quote

best part is the youtube video which spreads the message of how its done and will encourage many to follow and if it becomes a non stop chain reaction then earth will become paradise; hope so.

"We always make mistakes. our intention is to make better and better mistakes." Such a fount of wisdom this family is. Rewatching the video makes one discover something else missed during the previous viewing.

This is exactly what our indigenous people my people in Borneo been doing for centuries traditional way to grow food. Modern people may give it many names (permaculture, food forest, agro forestry etc.) but it is proven the best sustainable way of farming without harming the environment. Great effort by this Keegan family hope many families will follow.

My grandparents' farm is similar to this style of farming. We have mango trees, coconut trees, avocado, pomelo, banana, pineapple, coffee, lanzones, and some vegetables, root crops, and herbs I don't even know the names. It was already matured when I was little so who knows how old it really is. It's just amazing how people just start planting all these trees and plants, and they eventually mature and establish their own ecosystem. Later on, they won't even need human intervention. We just come to prune and do the harvest.

Tomorrow I'll be getting my own land, It's about half of what they started on, and it too has been over exploited over a 100+ years. This inspires me so so much to work hard and smart at it.

Thanks for the inspiration. My wife has started a mix of orchard and veggie production in a semi-desertic subtropical clime (mild winter with little rain and hardly any frost, long hot summer with no rain at all) about five years ago. It doesn't look as lush as yours but we are on the right direction. She has lost a lot every year because of insects and animals too happy to find food where there was none ! She hopes to have enough yield in an other 2 to 3 years to feed our family of 4. And eventually have some to give away. People need to know it's a long process, not rewarding at the beginning.

This was fantastic! Put a smile on my face showing how humans should truly exist within our ecosystem - the evolving one, not the concrete one.

I have been on a permaculture/synthropic adventure since I discovered the works of Ernst Gotsch. This is honey to my ears.

One silver lining from these past 2 years of global totalitarianism, has been the individual's longing to reunite with nature. Permaculture seems to be a wonderful pillar of that movement. Brings joy to the heart and soul.

as a grower, listening to the first bit just put a smile on my face. We as humans have the capability of so much good

a model ethical family and an enviable way of living. simply great.

Wish I lived in a tropical area, would make my life easier. I transformed my 1/3 acre in the middle of a town, into a food forest/wild life habitat/tiny farm. It produces a lot but our growing season is only about 4 months (May-September and if we get very lucky early October). I do start annuals indoors. I have my own set up using a large commercial shelving unit, shop lights and heating pads. Right now we are in an extremely rare, long heat wave, with drought conditions, which means I have to hand water every plant, individually, using milk cartons.

Here in Brazil, we now study Syntropic Agriculture in colleges, as well as Permaculture. The legacy of Ernst Gotsch and Bill Mollison, has been more and more widespread and this is beautiful!