One-Day Food Forest! Farming For The New Reality

Food Abundance for Those Who Act, in Spite of Adversity, Time, Lack of Land- and Their Own Reluctance

What you'll learn

How to quickly prepare planting cells- using the Ladakhi Organic Method- to contain soil, water, fertilizers, seeds, without losing ANY of it

How to prepare your soil, by adding whatever organic nutrients you have on-hand or can obtain (manure, composts, food scraps)- then levelling the soil

How to budget your time in ONE DAY to fully prep, then plant each cell- and to NOT need days or weeks to do so, as in the traditional farming scenarios

LEARN THREE one-day planting scenarios- to suit your situation based on what you CAN or PREFER to do, and what resources you have available

USE the given one-day timetable, to bring you from breaking ground to planting in one day's time

SEE examples of (preferably organic, biologico) seed selections, mixed together and planted bio-intensively (close together) to create your Food Forest!

Requirements

YOU NEED first to KNOW the essential importance of growing your own food in this new reality!

ALSO, the physical ability to work with hands; the patience, confidence and willingness to go through with this seemingly crazy but surprising procedure!

A Kind of Faith is also required- that in the end, after all this work- YOU WILL GRADUALLY & EVENTUALLY SEE RESULT- and most often you will be delightfully surprised

Description

Welcome to a quiet evolution in Organic Farming.As evolutions inevitably emerge after periods of calamity, upheaval, loss, severe restriction, and general nastiness.Now, more than ever, people from all walks of life and professions, are needing areliable supply of Food- high quality, organic food which delivers the highestnutrition- for themselves, their families, their communities.This course is about easy-to-learn, concentrated organic farming, actually a kind of Advanced Farming Method, yet done in a simple enough way that everyone can perhaps understand.Anyone, that is, brave enough to attempt a new thing, regardless of their own uneasiness towards physical labour, or to perform something perceived to be beneath their station in Life, or despite a lack of great resource, including land;regardless of the odds.Everyone loves the land, loves this Earth, regardless of claims otherwise. We are helpless to the truth of that.This course wants you back- to reclaim your Universal tie to common soil, to Planet Earth.Are you or have you been a farmer?This course wishes to perhaps example what you may not have experienced thus far.What is a Food Forest?This is a fancy way of saying a lot of food growing in a relatively small space.And, we do it in one day.How much do we plant in one day ?Depends on your personal energy, and how many buddies you got with you.Suffice to say, you will prepare, nutrify, and plant at least one cell- or one unit of Land- today. Or, a whole field, conditions allowing.Who am I?I am im. im I am.and this is SimPLife.imabout me-BS Civil EngineerBS Electrical EngineerEnvironmental ResearcherCertified Permaculture DesignerLEED APReconnection PractitionerOrganic Farmer/Farming Instructor

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Welcome To ONE-DAY Food Forest!

Lecture 2 Let's Chat: Food Forest Fun Facts & Why We Are Here

Section 2: OVERQUICKIES: Quick Views of the SimPLife Food Forest process

Lecture 3 General Overview

Lecture 4 Seeds Overview Part I

Lecture 5 Seeds Overview Part II

Lecture 6 Animal Farming Perspective & Open Field Intro

Section 3: The Real Dirt: Making the CellFarm

Lecture 7 Forming the Cell part I

Lecture 8 Forming the Cell part II

Lecture 9 Planting Your Seeds

Lecture 10 AfterPlant: The Initial Waterings

Lecture 11 A Second Method: Forming A Cell

Lecture 12 Filling the Cell With Soil

Lecture 13 Another Look at Planting

Section 4: ONE-DAY Potato Farming: The Lazy Bed

Lecture 14 WHAT IS a LAZY BED? Step One- The Potato Prep

Lecture 15 PLANTING The Lazy Bed- Potatoes + Straw or Grasses

Lecture 16 REVIEWING The Lazy Bed- AfterPlant Discussion

Section 5: ONE-DAY Open Field Farming- Pumpkins, Melons, Cucumbers & Legumes

Lecture 17 Open Field Intro and Concept

Lecture 18 Open Field Two: Additional Insights to Complete the Open Field

Section 6: COMPOST TEA- The MidSeason Nutrient-Boost Solution

Lecture 19 The Process: Loading in the Organic Players, Harvesting Later

Section 7: The One-Month UPDATES! What To Do Now, with Our Young Forest

Lecture 20 Cell Farm One

Lecture 21 Cell Farm Too

Lecture 22 Cell Farm Three

Lecture 23 The Chicken Update

Lecture 24 Open Field Update

Section 8: EXTRA ONE: Food Forest ALBANIA! - Many Hands Making Lite Work

Lecture 25 Intro- Albania One

Lecture 26 Albania Too

Lecture 27 Albania Twee - Seeds Chat

Lecture 28 Albania Four - The Planting

Section 9: EXTRA TOO: Sinai, Egypt - Planting in Desert Sand?

Lecture 29 Sinai Desert Farm - First Cell

Lecture 30 Sinai Desert Farm - Second Cell

Section 10: EXTRA THREE - Random Chunks O Farmage on the Fly

Lecture 31 Pruning Olive Trees - Creating the Feminine

ANY ADULTS able to work, or CHILDREN with adult supervision,HANDS-ON or do-it-yourself folks, self-starters, self-initiated,FOLKS CONCERNED FOR THEIR COMING FOOD SECURITY- and those who are responsible for the healthy livelihood of their family and/or community,FOR THE GOOD-LIFERS: people who merely enjoy the unmatched quality and taste of home-grown organic produce, and the pride which comes from producing it!