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harvest and save water
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Use gravity to irrigate slopes, create ponds, dams, and a rice-patty.
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Use dribbler pipes and swivel pipes.
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How they garden on a floating garden raft in a pond
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How Muscovie Ducks add fertilizer to the water that flows to water the plants.
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How Turkeys and Cattle enjoy life while adding benefits to the ecosystem.
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Anaerobic bacteria releasing iron oxide on the surface of run-off water.
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recycle and re-purpose old things for new uses
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create quick kitchen gardens
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fertilize naturally
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live off-grid
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Geoff’s perspective about “Designed-Disturbance”, which explains how sometimes permaculture design requires us to disturb the surface of the earth to direct and capture water
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How chickens like to work as minor disturbers, helping create food forests and how they enclose chickens with fencing and move the chickens throughout the food forests.
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See a favorite hand tool called a rice-knife that they use to cut, chop-and-drop.
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See gardens, food forests, interns working,
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See plant-nurseries, the children’s nursery, worm farms, composting systems.
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See unusual yet wonderful crops that are easy to grow.
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Hear how they disfavor plants they don’t want and favor the plants they do want.
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See a fun, unscripted scene featuring Geoff’s dog Possum, who rounds up and captures a wayward chicken and waits for Geoff to come pick it up and put it back into the coop where it belongs!
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Hear Geoff’s straightforward advice on how to choose land for your permaculture system.
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Tips on earth works, using a cover crop of japanese millet and cow pea covers bare earth that was dug only two months earlier.
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Observe how the plants perform and respond to more and less fertile areas of the landscape.
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He finishes by walking through a natural forest, where he loves to visit and observe.
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Plus you get to enjoy Geoff’s pleasant personality throughout the video.