(April 2014) Trail of Food Restoring Earth To Eden
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The document describes the creation and benefits of food forests and agroforestry systems. It provides details on a large-scale food forest project in Gaviotas, Columbia that has grown to 8,000 hectares. The forest provides drinking water, regulates temperatures, increases rainfall, and supports the local village economically. It also outlines steps for designing, preparing, and planting a backyard food forest that can produce fruit, berries, herbs and help address issues like hunger and climate change.
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(April 2014) Trail of Food Restoring Earth To Eden
- 1. Trail of Food: Restoring Earth to Eden uniting people to make Earth green again
- 3. WHY?
- 6. How modern agriculture begins
- 7. Forest and wild lands become:
- 8. Where most eggs in America come from
- 9. Can we call this food?
- 10. Some of…
- 11. Alternative food systems exist
- 14. What do you notice about this food forest?
- 19. Gaviotos (Columbia) A Village to Reinvent the World • The initial achievement of viable forest growth led to a massive tree-planting effort. During the three-month planting season, an imported American tractor- now fueled by raw palm oil, eliminating the need to import diesel fuel-pulls a Gaviotas-designed double-rowed planter. This machine makes it possible to transplant 30 nursery seedlings per minute, 24 hours every day except Sundays. Since the initial planting in the early 1980s, the forest has grown to 8,000 hectares. • Besides generating resin products, the forest yielded a serendipitous bonus: systematically cooler temperatures over the forested land have caused a local increase in rainfall. • Moreover, the increasingly rich biomass in the soil provides more effective filtering. Wells under the forest now yield drinking water of the highest purity, which is bottled along with tropical fruit juices in the sterile facilities of the converted hospital. • Thus, the forest provides an enhanced supply of safe drinking water as well as additional sale products to support the village. With characteristic creativity, the Gaviotas team has designed plastic bottles for reuse as interlocking toys.
- 20. Grafting to multiply plants for free
- 23. Sunchoke
- 24. Huckleberry
- 25. Step 1: Design Food Forest
- 26. Step 2: Prepare Site
- 27. Swales for passive irrigation and water conservation
- 28. Step 3: Plant Food Forest
- 29. Production • Size of back yard: 150 square metres • Total size of garden (including paths): 85 square meters • Total area of garden beds: 64 square metres (686 sq. feet) • Fruit trees: 30+Berries: 16 different types • Medicinal herbs: 70+ different types
- 30. Yes!, in a food forest we can • End world hunger • Heal all sickness and disease • Reforest the world • Cool the planet • Increase rainfall • Restore our connection to Mother Earth • Build community • Restore abundant food sources for all beings • Restore beauty to Earth • Restore harmony on Earth
Editor's Notes
- Also: Depletion of soil nutrients/reserves; loss of animal habitat; loss of shade, decrease rainfall, more carbon in atmosphere; loss of biodiversity esp in herbacious forest layer
- Perennial food crops are permanent landscapes fixtures, do not require annual tilling, provide shade, provide wildlife habitat, and are beautiful
- This garden shows
- What do you not
- Researcher Geoff Lawton of Permaculture Research Institute has made an achievement of sorts. He has converted a span of desert into a green farm growing food trees, plants and mushrooms. Situated 2 Km from Dead Sea, the land was made pliable by effective rain water harvesting and methods of evaporation barriers. http://ecofriend.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/desert_in_lush_green_garden_xqkse.jpg
- Man Plants Forest in Tengger Deser tLiving amidst a forest of 10000 trees, Wang Daqing, a native of Mongolia, takes pride in having converted around 3 Hectares of desert area into forest. The area, which received a very meagre rainfall, was irrigated with water from a well in the area. Through his hard work and his yearning to contribute to the mother earth, Daqing’s work is worth emulating.
- Project Sahara Forest has been envisaged by scientists as a very successful one. Taking into consideration the benefit of turning the desert into farming spaces, the main one is feeding the growing population of the world. The project sound very promising. The main source of water is the sea, which is made usable using desalination plants. Studies show that if the Sahara is to be planted with trees, it would reduce the temperature of the desert by 80. It is also estimated that a tree cover on the Sahara can bring in precipitation of about 700-1200 mm/year apart from the benefits of reflecting the sun’s rays back into the clouds by the forest cover. ► Desert Life ► 4 Deserts ► Forests ► Planting Also if planted with trees, the forest in Sahara alone would recycle 8 billion tons of Carbon/year which equals the total Carbon emitted by human habitation. Trees like Eucalyptus, which are identified to be heat tolerant are found to adapt well to the desert soil, if provided with ample irrigation.
- The initial achievement of viable forest growth led to a massive tree-planting effort. During the three-month planting season, an imported American tractor-now fueled by raw palm oil, eliminating the need to import diesel fuel-pulls a Gaviotas-designed double-rowed planter. This machine makes it possible to transplant 30 nursery seedlings per minute, 24 hours every day except Sundays. Since the initial planting in the early 1980s, the forest has grown to 8,000 hectares. Besides generating resin products, the forest yielded a serendipitous bonus: systematically cooler temperatures over the forested land have caused a local increase in rainfall. Moreover, the increasingly rich biomass in the soil provides more effective filtering. Wells under the forest now yield drinking water of the highest purity, which is bottled along with tropical fruit juices in the sterile facilities of the converted hospital. Thus, the forest provides an enhanced supply of safe drinking water as well as additional sale products to support the village. With characteristic creativity, the Gaviotas team has designed plastic bottles for reuse as interlocking toys.
- Digging swale
- So, my 2 year old fledgling garden that is just getting started is producing the equivalent of 12,773 kg/acre, or in other words, close to 12.77 metric tonnes per acre!That is a respectable figure for a young, water-wise, pest free garden where only 10 of the thirty fruit trees have actually started producing yet.Here are some more statistics:Average produce per month (1st year): 11kgAverage produce per month (2nd year): 16kgFruit harvestTotal 1st year: 54kgTotal 2nd year: 127kgBerry harvestTotal 1st year: 2.6kgTotal 2nd year: 4.0kgVegetable harvestTotal 1st year: 75kgTotal 2nd year: 70kg (photo, a few months after garden built http://permaculturenews.org/2011/04/13/lessons-from-an-urban-back-yard-food-forest-experiment/