300 Year Old Food Forest in Vietnam

Specop_007 · Expert Joined: Aug 12, 2004 Posts: 6265

Good find Rocc!

See, that is vastly more interesting then Mayan calendars, blowing up the Van Allen belts or planet X! Cool

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smallpoxgirl · Moderator Joined: Nov 08, 2004 Posts: 6278

Very cool vid Rocc.
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MrBean · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Sep 26, 2004 Posts: 1229

Thanks for sharing this. Wonderfull, small piece of paradise on Earth. Garden Planet is possible, West has little to teach if anything and lot to learn.

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I'm lucky enough to be doing the permaculture certificate course with bill mollison and geoff lawton in september this year. Can't wait! Very Happy

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alokin · Intermediate Crude Joined: Aug 24, 2007 Posts: 872

Great video! It's just how we should do things, especially in our dry continent.

bobaloo · Heavy Crude Joined: Oct 14, 2004 Posts: 484

Folks have apparently recently figured out that the great eastern forest of North America was anything but, it was actually a well managed nut plantation developed over 1000's of years by the local residents. Hence the massive chestnut, hickory, oak forests of the eastern US.

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flashtoonz · Coal Joined: Jun 24, 2008 Posts: 1

For those folks that are interested, creating a self-sustaining Food Forest near your home, it isnt as hard as you may think. Geoff Lawton also found and documented a 2,000 year old Food Forest system in Morocco that will feature in our new DVD on how to do-it-yourself with minimum effort. We posted that 300 Year old Food Forest link on You Tube and hope to put more stuff up soon.

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I've heard that much of the Amazon rainforest was 'managed' by the nomadic tribes for food production as well. They knew where and when various foods were due to grow/ripen and their wanderings were on a set schedule and they managed the forest as they went.
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