Incredible 1.5-Acre Syntropic Food Forest with Over 250 Plant Species | The Food Forest Farmers
Syntropic farming is a new and ancient permaculture practice that can be implemented in any region, in any climate, in limitless ways - even in your own back yard. For over a decade the Lotz-Keegan family have been implementing permaculture practices to regenerate a degraded hillside into an abundant food forest of native and exotic trees that feed their family, their community, the wildlife, the soil, and their souls.
Combining the practices of syntropic agroforestry with the principles of permaculture and their own deeply thoughtful approach to land regeneration, food growing, and lifestyle, this family is partnering with nature to create a humming diversity on the land and a positive story about the role of humans in an eco-system.
We came away from our shoot with so much invaluable information about the why and how of syntropic farming as it’s practised at PermaDynamics. For this reason we’ve made the full interview with Klaus Lotz available on our website, and all 10 full-length interviews, some of which we couldn’t include in the film, available on our Patreon page. Also if you’re keen to dig deeper into this style of growing food and regenerating soil, check out PermaDynamics' own videos available on their Patreon page.
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** Film credits **
Directed and written by Jordan Osmond & Antoinette Wilson
Produced by Antoinette Wilson
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Chapters
00:00 - Intro to Syntropic Farming
2:36 - 17-Year-Old Food Forest
7:48 - Market Garden and Orchard
12:20 - Native and Exotic Plants
14:45 - Annuals in the Food Forest
17:29 - Tropical Hothouse
19:17 - 3-Month-Old Food Forest
We hope you enjoy the film! We came away from the shoot with so much valuable content that we couldn't include in the final film. So we decided to put all 10 full-length interviews up on our Patreon page! We've also made the full interview with Klaus Lotz available for free on our website. PermaDynamics themselves also have a bunch of great videos on their Patreon for those of you who want to dive deeper into syntropic farming. Get access to all 10 full-length interviews: happenfilms.com/patreon PermaDynamics on Patreon: patreon.com/PermaDynamicsNZ The full interview with Klaus Lotz: happenfilms.com/film/klaus-lotz-syntropic-farming
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Love from India
Always great work! Much love to your entire team!
@@ThePermacultureStudent Thanks Matt. Hope you're well! xx
This is excellent and exciting! Thank you HF 🙏🏻🔥🔥
I'm a student and this is my dream one day I will make my own food forest😀
I was a student once at FGCU. We had a food forest at school. Now I have my own. Keep going you will too soon.
Yes🇮🇳🇮🇳💓🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Hii I am agriculture student after completing my studies I also want to build mine 😇😊
Same! We can do it!!!!
Me2
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
You should make a few videos of your progress man, so that you can inspire others
Great. Best of luck making that a great life!
How are going with your regeneration? Hope all is going well for you
Thank you!!
@@VK-qo1gm slowly but surely. its funny the things i need to get to cover the soil are considered weeds and hard to find but i got some
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.
@Canadian Permaculture Legacy haha we even look up the same content love you’re videos
Hi ..I'm on Sudbury, ON.. you think I can do premaculture?..given the weather? Pls advice
@@anandanthraper1575 yes of course you can look for plants like berries or root crops native in youre area or what grows in these zones "Sudbury lies within plant hardiness zone 4a & 3b." Take to be sure the lowest hardiness so 3b. If you have questions just ask
@@dionysos4288 thank you for your reply..what number can I reach you at if I have questions..thanks again
@@anandanthraper1575 you have Snapchat? If yes add me my name is dion_lindeboom
I’m noticing more and more that people who are very connected with nature have an inner contentment and their souls shine through.
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.
Thanks Hamish, Good to hear from my old polytechnic students. Hope you caught the food forest bug then already and have some mature fruit trees crowding out your lawn! K
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 live in hope that change will spread
We shall be the change we want to see in the world
I’ve been starting to plan a move from Los Angeles to middle America to do this. I’m so thankful for this video. I have so much to learn.
Exactly!!! It's paradise again, through us...
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.
Yes, thats very true 🧡
"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
my favourite was.. "it take a lot of work... but most of the work is sitting and watching.." that's my kinda job.. ;9)
definitely - why do humans think they own stuff? it's an honour to be a steward
Thin line between a quote and pure BS.
That stuck. Immediately. What a quote indeed.
@@PankajDoharey Sending hugs 😊
"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 was fantastic! Put a smile on my face showing how humans should truly exist within our ecosystem - the evolving one, not the concrete one.
Too late; the high intellect money generation systems of (earth's population's of society's approved) "mass scale systems" of the money empowered hierarchy's ((money empowered science)) has already set the rapidly approaching extinction of humanities misuse of the planet (by way of excessive - "money made" personal wealth gain)) hurdling - the future gains from converting nature into personal gains - out of control (perhaps un-changeably) towards money empowered humanities "now (by money empowered sciences own estimations) "practically certainly inevitable" Not yet pinpointed - extinction date of humanities misuse of the Earth. ALL For THE MONEY The only way to slow it now - is to get back to "local only" provisioning our selves -in true simplistic villager way of provisioning our lives. Although we will still have to sell the surplus of what our village population way of life produces - but only to generate enough funding to pay the higher education systems over lords who own the earth'- with which we provision our selves - but only in a non-commercialistic, non-capitalistic way. In order that we don't take part in their oblivious methods of excessively provisioning themselves - at the cost of humanities future "sustainable life" on earth ALL FOR THE excessively convenient MONEY derived by money empowered science - having found - the more convenient way's to excessively provision their fellow populations... by the excessive converted proceeds generated by the toil and sweat of their lesser over educated fellow man (who reside down towards the bottom of their hierarchy system) of excessively money empowered & over-lorded) fellow man control. & for that we will pay.
yes i agree im still smiling
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.
Where is this place? Which country? I'm in awe as we can't from any of this in the UK, I just watch and admire at a distance . . . what to do . . . 💖🙏
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.
Where are you and how's it going Emiliano?!!!! :)
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
So much evil dominates most of the world
Its my 5th times .Every words are so meangingful😍its a 4 am from Nepal and i am watching nd it will my 6th times.
that is so nice to hear. We have a dear friend from Nepal who worked with us here for a couple of month and is now back in the mountains doing permaculture projects. Hope you accessed the full interview as well. I am sure there are lots of places to incorporate syntropic techniques into your traditional and modern farming methods. Good luck with it!
Happy to see your reply.Its mean a lot to me😊.I feel so grateful that my people also got the opportunity to work with you.Hope you have beautiful days out there and keep inspiring to young people .Always love from Nepal.
@@narayandarlami1079 His highness lord KP OLI will make everything right. Why do you fear ?
Namaskar!
@@k9N7p 😂😁just still hoping ..not more than that...
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.
👍
I'm a retired (age only) regenerative banana farmer re-establishing a food forest on an abandoned banana farm. It's great to see there is a community of like minded people in the real world.
I have been on a permaculture/synthropic adventure since I discovered the works of Ernst Gotsch. This is honey to my ears.
Having garden-forest , beautiful family and pretty wife. That’s the most valuable life ever will be. Thank you for the videos.
a model ethical family and an enviable way of living. simply great.
I agree
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.
If you start one bed at a time and direct all your resources into this initial phase, your selective weeding and pruning attention, your manure/compost and mulch, protect it with hoops and netting and have all the long living species embraced by your first crops or placenta as we call it in S then you will also have your first yield from your annuals to pay back your efforts. After that it is getting easier, no more inputs and you move to bed nr two.
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.
Siga adelante y suerte con su huerto!
@@RomeliaGomez-Calmell7934 Gracias. Cada dia trato de prepararme para lo que pueda venir.
love this but it’s important to recognize this wasn’t started by one man in the 80’s. many indigenous communities had been maintaining these types of areas for centuries
I did mention this in the part of the interview that is only linked in the shownotes how Ernst learned certain techniques of slash and mulch under forest canopy by Maya farmer friends he worked with. However with modern tools and access to more useful plant species this traditional approach has been expanded to fit into our modern economic context. So it is new in the sense that a language renews despite building on previous language concepts.
We have been working with Regen Farmers for decades now, so lovely to see a video like this sharing the syntropic movement. Aligns so much with Regenerative Practices and Principles. Keep these videos flowing!
Hay world people why you come to nature specially western countries...you have GM food, chemical pesticides, cola drink, junk food...and ....war industry.....immoral thing porn nudity vulgar relationship.......
@@AmitKumar-qz2us Hi! I'm sorry but, are you referring to us? hope not. Anyways, why not join our group: farmingsecrets.com/facebook It's is a free space where farmers can collaborate great farming ideas with each other. Looking forward to seeing you there!
@@soillearningcenter 🙏🧘♂️....🌹
@@soillearningcenter We must do natural farming and save nature...as our ancestors do more than 10,000 years. video link.... ..kzhead.info/sun/Zdqfj7yofp2de4E/bejne.html
@@soillearningcenter We must save natural Cow for organic farming and pure natural milk.... Jercy ,hybrid cow is GM ...not natural gives harmful milk.. kzhead.info/sun/ptiDn8-KiGqBnKc/bejne.html
This is absolutely incredible. I am in awe. Their home, their work, and their creation is so closely aligned with how humans are meant to live, every word they speak is intelligence of nature itself. This is a piece of inspirational reality.
I think they’re on the right path, but if I’m being honest, most of the plants in this film, do not look healthy. What I’ve noticed in most Permaculture is the lack of nutrients. Perhaps I’ve been trained to believe, thick, robust heavily fruiting, plants or healthy and in actuality, they are just over fertilized I don’t know.
Interesting comment - when you say "how humans are meant to live", can I ask, "meant by who?"
@@haroldseah306 The O.P. probably meant that all animals that live on this earth, including humans, can thrive and live their best life if they are in touch and in harmony with the rest of nature. This not because "someone" meant them to or planned them to, but because of their own nature. We have seen what happens to humankind when living in polluted, stressful cities, sitting on a chair or couch all day in front of a screen. We become alienated, depressed, anxiety-ridden and various illnesses of body and mind follow.
I'm praying and saving so that one day I'll be able to buy lot and start my own dream forest.
This... Is... INCREDIBLE! Thank you for adding to the world rather than taking away from it!!!
It is amazing to see how trees can make such a big impact in the environment, community and future of a country! Well explained and thanks for doing it with the locals to improve their lifes. Plant more trees!!! 😍
What a Sintropic Ninja Master family!!! What a wonderful farm, beautiful work!!! This video for me feels like Chicken Soup for the soul!!! I’m Brazilian and in the last few years I’m learning about sintropic agriculture. But this farm is just as good as the best farms in Brazil!! Congratulations both to the farmers and the filming crew!! Excellent job
Thanks Renata, that means a lot to us coming from Brazil. Sounds like you did not see Ernsts farm though and you should! Klaus
My partner and I live close to large natural forests on Vancouver Island in Western Canada. We are slowly turning our city lot sized property into a food forest. We love integrating native trees, berry bushes, herbs, and greens with our cultivated fruit and nut trees, flowers, berries, and vegetable beds. The natural ‘weeds’ are left to grow and then chopped and dropped to nourish the soil. It is such an exciting and satisfying way to work with the land. We definitely feel like we are land helpers and not just ‘farmers’. Thank you for the great inspirational videos.
I'm absolutely blown away. What a great concept!
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!
@matheussalves8418 Muito contento para vôces, parabens! Eu quiser fazer isto mesmo na Bolivia e os países andinos. Tivesse mais informaçao para compartilhar sobre as universidades e profesores que vôce conhece? Obrigado! Abraços da Cochabamba.
I love your place being in nature is a different feeling. And the fact that you produce food in your own garden is amazing. That's a dream.
Creating a healthier world. Living a healthier life. Beautiful!
Wow, we are on year two of our food forest and it is so inspiring to see the beautiful older system. 🤙
My food forest is 5 years in the making I will be posting a video on a week or 2 on our food forest:)
That was incredible. We are so inspired to look into syntropic food forests. It seems as though New Zealanders are really aheead of the rest of the world with getting back to nature, and being one with nature. Big love. Thanks for sharing this beautiful film. - Erin + Brian
Hay world people why you come to nature specially western countries...you have GM food, chemical pesticides, cola drink, junk food...and ....war industry.....immoral thing porn nudity vulgar relationship.......
Spot on
And to get jabs 20 times
Brazil is far ahead on Syntropic Agroforestry system there where is starting this system. However the system really need to spread all around the world, is the need to be known, it’s good to find video in English about the subject, it need to be known in many languages as possible.
I'm not sure we can create those forests in the UK, different climate!! 😉Any thoughts on this? Thanks :)
These are like the smartest hippies. Ones you actually respect as opposed to the ones that are all talk and are mostly into the fashion. One can learn a lot from these people, you can see it, as well as here are in their voices.
Maybe we should call these people farming naturalists - where they take care of all of the nature in a caring and intensive fashion - and nature in return provides them with an abundance.
@@ourladyofguadalupebotanica6732 I don’t mean hippies in a derogatory fashion but farming naturists seems to undersell them too. They are absolute intellectual specialists. Farming specialists sounds good though.
How magnificent! We'll need this desperately in the next 20 years.
If the world just saw what the word “Rich" means, this is it
I agree
Brilliant seeing individuals like the Lotz-Keegan family setting a prime example for humanity, as a whole...
Thanks a BUNCH for getting this content out. These type of videos are my sign posts in life! :)
I moved to the country a few months ago and have been disappointed as my soil is very compacted... I have been using raised garden beds and pots to grow food. Thank you so much for this knowledge as I now can have a food forest using your techniques. So grateful. G'day from Australia 🦘🐾🐨
As Forestry undergraduate from Nepal..I am in love with this video...so lovely foof forest I have always dreamt of 😍💕💕
*food
A family working together towards a common goal... beautiful!
What a lovely family ❤️ Didn't skip even a sec & I didn't want it to end! Great production & I hope to have my own food forest no matter how small. Regards from 🇮🇳
Manipur
What a great video for earth day week! Thank you! 🌱🐝💚
Forest is looking lush and beautiful ❤️ great informative video thank you! Janie
Look who I just found here 😝
@@luutas NZ a much smaller place than Brazil! 😉 This is a great local family, Janie did one of their food forest courses last year 🔥
@@homewoodstoves So, I see that you have a lot of very good references out there. By the way that's also very similar to the model that I'm using over hear. Or at least trying to hahaha. Hope to get similar results soon
Very very inspiring
I love this video:)
We need more "positive members of the ecosystem." Thank you for sharing your wisdom and experience with the world and in doing so making it a better place. Equipping the people to transform society!
You're right that we're to be part of the nature and not separate from the nature! Very valuable content indeed! Loved this clip!! ❤
another masterpiece, thanks so much for sharing the love and knowledge, designs like this dont happen overnight. if we intend to have a future Permaculture HAS to be central to our food production
I’ve missed you guys! looking forward to more videos 🌿💚
Grow plants and flowers for pollination. Don't keep ur yard empty
Perfect and beautiful way to plant and produce organic food in harmony with mother nature. Thank you for sharing. Lots of love from Brazil 🇧🇷
Awesome! What a great way to start my day. Many thanks Jordan and Antoinette for bringing us this film.
Beautiful! Love the emphasis on partnership and spending time observing. Thank you 🙏
somehow the shot of bird pooping peacefully in a lush, productive forest really resonate with me: birdie got a nice view, no carowner getting angry, no additional cleaning agents being spilled to the waters
finally a great thanks to Happen Films.
This is incredible growing food in harmony with nature, also bringing community together.There is so much to learn here it just shows that when we work together we can achieve abundance far better than buying food...
Kudos Lotz-Keegan family on this wonderful syntropic food forest! Great video Happen Films as well! Awesome development togetherness! Very interesting!
Fabulous! I absolutely love the work you are doing and cant wait for the next generation to take over! I have a smallish forest garden. In the last two years or so i noticed that cramming different plants together reduced the risk of disease to zero and the yields are very respectable indeed not to mention the taste!! Plants are social beings and love mixing together with other species. I don’t spray never used a single chemical and things seem to just thrive on their own. Its funny how nature fixes its own problem by it self given a chance. Its been doing it for millions of years we have nothing to teach nature.
Useful thanks Nadia, I'll try cramming my veg etc together this year, see how it goes!! :) Iona, UK
Hey Frida! Such a great knowledge you are having on syntropic agroforestry . Amazing !! The way you elaborated is inspiring
This man is living my dream.❤❤
Always a joy to see what you guys have to offer. Always finding people doing things which bring a happy tear to my eye with a stunning "Yes!-this is what we should be doing!"-feeling in my chest. Thankyou
This is absolutely wonderful! Thank you for sharing this with the world! I whole heartedly agree with them about needing to return to small scale agriculture. It's so wonderful to see their beautiful food forests proving to the world what is possible.
Wonderful work! Super inspiring. Thanx, Happen Films, for making this video available and a big thanx to Frida and Klaus and their family for sharing their journey and learnings with us! xx
You are AMAZING and so are the people in the stories! Thank you for what you do! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I own land in Costa Rica and I would love to do this. So inspiring.
costa rica is the perfect place for this......check out Pete Kanaris GreenDreamsTV...he has some cool videos in Costa Rica doing syntropic food forestry
Let us know about it when you do start!
Absolutely love these guys! I did their food forest course a little while ago and loved it, such an inspiration and so much learning. Thanks
What a beautiful lifestyle!
Was the course online or insitu Ewan? Wouldn't be a lot of point online would there :0 NZ is the other side of the planet! I've never hears of any of those fruits/trees :)
This made me feel emotional. Like evidence that we can. And that we will. Thank you. 🌳🐦
Beautifully done, this makes me feel there's hope for the future. More of us need to adopt this as a lifestyle, and the more accessible the information now, the better..
Luckily, every day more people are getting interested in such projects. Hopefully this current will get strong enough to stand against our consuming system wich hurts our ecosystems so hard... Thx for sharing!
This is awesome! Thank you for sharing & explaining the processes behind Syntropic Permaculture.
What a beautiful way for a family to live together and leave their imprint on this world. More power to you.
A great place with great people doing great work, and a great story beautifully told. Keep up the good work!
I love the way you are living together and must appreciate you efforts and admire you work. Good job
AMAZING Thank you for this incredible helping video we just started this in Romania in a much smaller land, but is starting well...this video is helping us a lot God bless🙏🌳🌷🌹🌻
What a family of inspiration and nature! I feel rejuvenated and relaxed.
Awesome! Go Frida!!! So cool to see the garden you developed on Maori land, what an amazing community project!!!
This is so beautifully done and captured. Gives me hope for our future generations and our humanity!
This is how God likes to see us. Bravo, very inspiring! Thank you.
Thankyou so much. Your work is such a blessing to us all.
Thank you for this great piece of inspiration! It seems like food forests are the answer to most of humans current challenges. Food forest are the syntheses of our essential needs to thrive as a species while celebrating nature.. food, shelter, beauty, peace, love, community and meaning.
Espetacular!! Amazing! Continue doing this incredible change in people's minds. Support from Portugal 🇵🇹
Thank you so much for spreading the this kind of knowledge and thus sowing the seeds of love!
ThankQ and enjoy your weekend
So happy to see a new vid from you guys! to see such an incredibly beautiful, productive & magical paradise, that is tended to by a wonderful family. Thank you , thoroughly enjoyed this xx
Please teach this more widely, guys?? Before mankind drives itself to extinct greedily thinking it can build better than mother Nature. More speed to your hands and minds..
had my reservations on active pruning as nature prunes leisurely with animals but am convinced with the results because it has been over time they have done it. lesson learnt. i was always for minimalist intervention. glad to see a managed forest. on a personal side i love the 1.50 minute shot of the video showing bare chested young Klaus where it all started and the way he has continued with it. consistent interest and endeavour. regards ravi
Ernst realized the benefits of heavy pruning after he had a hurricane devastate his cocoa food forest. It created a bumper crop of healthy pods. Next year same event, same effect so he copied that and does it twice a year.
@@permadynamicsnewzealand2698 this is awesome and needs to be shared far and wide
Live life with love in a food forest. Beautiful story! Love love love this. We are currently building our food forest.
Simply brilliant. Thank you
Yes! We’ve been waiting for a new film from you guys. Loved this one. So inspiring!
It’s am amazing film
Wonderful movie, as always!
Earth need many more people like you..thnks
It's great to see more and more people rewilding the Earth and enabling healthy and sustainable foods. A note to think on: please consider lives as lives of their own and not as stock belonging to anyone.
Wow, beautifully shot as always and I learned so much, thank you!
Love IT!!!!! - this reminded me of home and my Dad just past passed away last year. Dad provide our family with endless amount of food for us to live. How you let the Eco system does its own thing is absolutely perfect and NO need for chemicals. You just put tears in my eyes as I watch your video as it reminded me of myself and my Dad in our plantation. WELL DONE!! will love to see your Garden.
Thanks, nice to hear!
I so much love the concept of growing your own food
Absolutely brilliant and SO inspiring!! Thank you
Great stuff! I love the description of 'labor intensive': a criticism I often hear of agroforestry and agroecology is that it is frequently labor intensive, so to hear that a lot of the labor being done here is relaxing in the food forest and listening to the birds is very nice to hear! :D
Well that said the heavy pruning we do as our only work apart from harvesting is physical indeed. However it is not tiring when we work in team we enter a zone like sufis dancing with machetes and it is invigorating and we feel a bliss and satisfaction after a few hours and it is very difficult to stop. I don't know if that qualifies as work. All of this could be streamlined and mechanized if people don't want to do this as we do and it could still be along the principles of syntropy. But then they miss the fun part and the suttle observations such as young native trees, the birds nests and so much more.
Great workout too.
Wow! This is brilliant. Can’t wait to learn more and get planting my own food forest. Thank you for creating this beautiful piece, and sharing these wonderful teachers with us 🙏🏼💚🌿🌳 Nga mihi & Arohanui
Absolutely fantastic. So inspirational. Hopefully, as I’m sure it will, this video will inspire others to actively start healing this land, and in turn, ourselves. ❤
“A partner in the development of the highest expression of life” 💪