Self-Sufficiency Made Easier Using These 12 Principles!

Hey! In case you want to take this to the next level I have since written a book diving deep into all the ways permaculture can lead to a more productive garden: https://geni.us/ThePermacultureGarden

Love the marketing! These were principle of the Indigenous people for thousands of years. Yet, these two European guys are given credit. Nothing new under the sun! We simply destroy legacies, people, take their ideas, then repackage and market them as new. Maybe if we listen and stop killing the sources… well too much said already.

Permaculture is anti-fragile. Economies work the same way. Big corporations that employ all a town’s workers are a monocrop, easily destroyed by one bug. A healthy economy has more flexibility, and promotes the productivity of many small businesses. Small businesses as the foundation for a local economy reuse the currency from transactions multiple times within that local economy – in a way similar to the reuse of garden “waste” that produces soil. And more…Lawton is right: all the world’s problems can be solved in a garden!

Just took over a new garden i can start to plan and this gave me lots of good ideas. thanks for the breakdown.

Brilliant n interesting way of explaining permaculture. I intend to apply these principles… ❤❤❤

I have my Permaculture garden that is being created this is the second year, I love the cocept of planting everything fruit trees, berry bushes, flowers, vegetables, I want to move my chicken and duck house/ yrd, next to my backyard garden, I have several, I'm 70 and I love gardening, mu husband and I do it together, it's so tewarding, sfter we've been working in the garden we'll sit and enjoy relaxing in it, Thank you for your share👏

My take away nugget from the video: Try to see a potential threat as an opportunity. Great mindset to have/teach, Huw.

It always amazes me how Europeans “discover” a methodology of living that they observe from indigenous people, rename the method and then claim it as their own creation.

Thanks so much~~good video~~^^ 👍👍👍

Why no Hebrew translation??? Why no not every language translation???

You have an amazingly beautiful garden. Thank you for sharing!

Gran Advice . Thank you 🙏

The video production value is outstanding!

Indigenous people arround the world have applied their local wisdoms in farming for milllenials. The earliest expert who redefined and redesigned permaculture then later formulized the the theories and put downs the detail systems for application the man name was Ibn Al Awam .. the Moslem agronomist from the Islamic Abbasite Caliphate of Andalusia in Spain. He wrote the book name AL.FILAHA which lately regains its popularity with rhe growing attention to sustainable farming. Al Filaha method was widely applied in all countries under the Abasite rule in the 12th – 13th century. The expedition of Western kingdoms later folliwed by the colonization of most parts of the world by the western civilization then damaged the local wisdoms and the Al.Filaha system when the western colonizers started to exploited lands, the workers, the nature and all resources available for profits disregarding the sustainability of farming itself .. then we started the era of mass both intensifed and extensified farming as we know in modern farming today. Permaculture is just a terminolgy. In principle, all the local wisdom in farming should be embraced and spread out for better life of all living creatures. Thank you for nice video. Greeting from Indonesia.

Ohh but Huw! Whilst all of your information and suggestions make perfect sense and it is in most cases, priceless,I'm really sorry, but I couldn't disagree more with your potato selection.
Sarpo Mira is AMAZING for resisting blight and I cannot argue with that at all. However, it has to be the most bland and tasteless potato variety, by a LONG , LONG, LONG WAY, that I have EVER grown and I have been growing now for 35+ years.

Yes it guarantees a crop, yes it avoids blight, but for making chips, mash, toasties, boiled……………pretty much anyrhing, they are a total waste of time and money.

I only have 0.59 of an acre but my goal is build a sustainable permaculture garden that will benefit my local wildlife and provide a sustainable year round harvest of fruits and vegetables

Thank you for this excellent video!
To me it seems like going back to old times when people had to work whit what they had coming to resourses, both personal and materials. But in a modern way. Using what we in Sweden call "sunt bondförnuft"

Thank you

No offense but what you are trying to say is use common sense

Excellent, I heard and know these twelve steps, I often stated Perma-culture is the logicians forming technique, and you did a great job of making those twelves steps simple while also pointing out each of our systems will reflect our farm and our own creativity.

Again well done and thank you again.

Dziękujemy.

Permaculture is redundant verbal diarrhea adding no value whatsoever to anything. Slapping word "permaculture" on old gardening techniques, manual labor etc. would be just silly but in the world disconnected from the land permaculture bs flows confuse and dupe many wellmeaning but naive souls.

"This content is gold! I’ve always wanted to start a small farm, and now I’m motivated."

You look like Chris Hemsworth

For sharing❤❤

wouldn't grass clippings enhance growth of grass, sorry we are newbies

Growing through permaculture gives you solace, which has been lost by living in an urbanised lifestyle .
You don't need acres of lands to grow , you can grow in cmall spaces as well.
Its the quality over the quantity 👌 💯.

Anyone who grew up watching The Good Life will totally get this. Thank you.

What if in my grass clippings there are weeds in it? If I put it in the garden or compost, the weeds will take over, no?

When you discussed yields, it reminded me of a potager garden, which is a form of permaculture garden. Great overview by the way!

Your tips on financial planning have been incredibly helpful. I feel more confident now.

Great job

Thanks for this positive and creative video. I think everybody has been struggeling this year…mainly with the enormous amount of slugs. I have a body heavily acing.. and more so with gardeningwork..but still..I HAVE to go out there and do my share…because it is so fun relaxing and enjoyable…greetings from Sweden🇸🇪

well done, thankyou

Thank you so much for this video

did you just christopher columbus indigenous gardening techniques

I just started gardening, I love it. My grandma had massive gardens here (I bought their house when she passed), so I’m trying to do the property Justice by bringing the gardens back.

probably changed my life in terms of relationship with land and growing

Awk why isn't huw on hinge 😂😂😂

Your are wonderful, thank you!

I have watched several videos explaining permaculture and they've always made it seem really confusing, too hard, or I just couldn't understand how to apply it. But this video is great! You've made permaculture understandable and like something I can begin adopting myself. Thank you, Huw! ☺

I'm watching this because someone just described my garden as a permaculture garden and I wanted to know if that was true. Evidently it is to a certain extent 🙂 I actually did spend the first year observing, clearing and composting and I'm aiming for some degree of self-sufficiency so a low waste closed system makes sense. I'm doing no dig because I'm f*ed if I'm going to spend February double digging in the freezing rain if it doesn't make the blindest bit of difference. So yeah, probably not ever going to follow all 12 principles religiously – I'm kind of lazy or maybe just pragmatic. Still, the next time I'm accused of being a permaculturist I'll just agree with them. 😀 PS: Indigenous? In Britain that's Welsh right? (mae'n ddifrifol)

Thankyou for The hundreds of inspirational ideas 😮

1. Observe and interact
2. Catch and store energy
3. Obtain a yield
4. Apply self-regulation & accept feedback
5. Use and value renewable resources & services
6. Produce no wast
7. Patterns to details
8. Integrate rather then segregate
9. Small and slow solutions
10. Use and value diversity
11. Use edges and value the marginal
12. Creativity use and respond to change