Comments on: Jordan Valley Permaculture Project – August 2011 Photo Update

By: abdullah

abdullah — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 12:12:21 +0000

great work mashaAllah, how old are the date palms? and what’s the story with date pollination?

By: Bill Wilson

Bill Wilson — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 12:20:24 +0000

Thanks very much for doing this Craig. To be able to show the video at seminar and then be able to follow it up with progressive pictures will be invaluable at helping the public understand what permaculture is all about. A blessing on your journey.

By: bagginz

bagginz — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 22:40:31 +0000

Wow! The site’s really coming along nicely.

Excellent work and very inspiring!

By: nadia

nadia — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 08:34:51 +0000

Amazing! i have been there two years ago and can’t believe the progress achieved is such a short period. the place was a wreck two years ago! a little piece of dead desert and now it’s so full of life! with few examples like this people should start to recognize what permaculture can do.. great work PRI Jordan team!

By: Farida Alluch

Farida Alluch — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:35:11 +0000

Very inspiring progress of this proyect! ..it gives me hope strating my PC project coming month in north Morocco…a very challenging propject, since at this moment I depend only on rain water… have a well (6 mt diep) at 250 mt distance down in the valley, but no pump yet…so, I have to use rain water harvesting systems up in my land,.. dig many swales..etc
At this moment I have no trees. I would like some advice , which fast growing/drought resistant trees to plant. I am planning to start planting trees ( around the swales) during coming rainy season : Octobre, Novembre, Decembre…
This site, 15klm distance from the sea, is on a slope of 250mt, very windy and humid climat.
Many thanks

By: Neil Bertrando

Neil Bertrando — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 02:31:21 +0000

Amazing to see this work, wish I could make the IPC this year.

Hi Scott,

If you’re in Reno, check out our meetup.com group and contact me. We can help you with some tree lists.

some examples of cold hardy, drought hardy, fast growing, useful trees are Robinia pseudoacacia (black locust-leguminous) and Morus alba and rubra (white and red mulberry-non-leguminous)

cheers

By: Finchj

Finchj — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:56:11 +0000

Awesome! But where does the water come from? In the first greening the desert site they mentioned winter rains (IIRC?). Does this site have the same conditions?

Inspirational. One day I hope to help- even if it is just being a human pack mule! I honestly believe that if enough land could be greened this way that we might see the creation of rain from transpiration. What a sight that would be!

Willie Smits and the amazing people in the project he helped design have done just that over in Indonesia:

http://permaculture.org.au/2009/03/30/community-based-rainforest-restoration-work-is-huge-success-in-borneo/

I just hope this is true the world over.

By: Daniel Parra Hensel

Daniel Parra Hensel — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:03:54 +0000

Wow! It looks great! I have been closely following the articles and photos posted and I am happy to see it all come together! Way to go Nadia, Geoff and everyone involved with PRI-Jordan. I wish I could make it!

By: Scott Reimers

Scott Reimers — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:06:58 +0000

Christine,

I hear your pain. Reno NV has similar challenges with our short, hot, dry and windy grow season (arguably 120 days this year). While local plants obviously work, I’m trying to find good resources to learn about both leguminous and well producing trees and plants which fit our environment. (If someone has them I would be VERY grateful ;-) )

By: Chris McLeod

Chris McLeod — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 08:57:09 +0000

Hey Christine,

In a hot/cold environment, maybe try acacia mearnsii – black wattle for the over storey. It’s leguminous, drought hardy, fast growing and will eventually grow between 6m to 20m. It’s a pioneering plant and as such may become a weed, but if nothing else grows, well, then, it’s worth a try. At the very least it will provide good dense fire wood and improve the soil at the same time.

Regards

Chris