The video embedded in this page spotlights the excellent work of Willie Smits I profiled a little while ago, where rainforest restoration in Borneo not only restored biodiversity and gave increased livelihood opportunities to local people, but it also increased cloud cover and rainfall as well. It’s well worth a watch:
We’re pleased to announce that we’re partnering with the makers of the video above, WeForest, to help establish self-replicating permaculture reforestation demonstration sites in accordance with our Permaculture Master Plan, in several worldwide locations – starting in Zambia in the first instance. Our Geoff Lawton has just agreed to be on their advisory board, and we’ll be working to supply guidance, knowhow and staff to pioneer these projects.
This is just one example of the many encouraging collaborative results we get as people boil current events down to their only logical conclusion – discovering we need to quit battling nature and get busy harnessing biological synergies to repair the earth and rebuild sustainable community interactions.
I had published on my permaculture blog (https://permaculturepower.wordpress.com/) this post, and I have now just been informed that this post that is now on the front page of WordPress.com! Keep up the good work.
Hello everybody
I would be very thankful if somebody could explain me, how to get ten people nourisehd a year from one acre. I heard the same for a forest garden in the UK and I am lacking the imagination.
best regards, Thomas
Hi Thomas
please check out https://www.permaculturenews.org/2009/04/07/homegrown-revolution/ on one tenth of an acre (400 square meters) 85% of the food needed for 4 people is produced so 100 meters square per person. An acre being 4000 square means we will have plenty room to produce for ten people plus good productive tree stability.
wow! stephen fry! thats fantastic news for permaculture!!!!