A Permaculture Food Forest in Belgium (video)
Demonstration Sites, Food Forests — by Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor January 8, 2013
Video is in French. Click the ‘CC’ icon at bottom of player
to turn on English or Spanish subtitles
I think temperate-climate permaculturists could learn a lot from this couple in Belgium. The video above reports that on only 1800 square metres of land they host “more than 2000 fruit trees and 5000 kinds of vegetables” (sounds impossible, but that’s what they report — although perhaps just a bad translation….) Whatever the number, there is obviously a great deal of diversity on the site, creating a wonderfully rich soil, and a tremendous treasure trove of seeds. What a wonderful example of permaculture!
Comments (9)
Cool :=D Reminds me to seed my garden even more! You never know!
Comment by Assaf Koss — January 9, 2013 @ 3:17 am
SO AWESOME!!! I want to visit and learn from your garden!
Comment by Matti Dwyer — January 9, 2013 @ 11:52 am
Respect. What an awesome place. Chris
Comment by Chris McLeod — January 9, 2013 @ 5:30 pm
Yes this truly is a great example of temperate permaculture.
Another place like this is being built by one of our teachters in the Netherlands at the moment….
https://www.facebook.com/FoodforestKetelbroek
This one a bit bigger, 2 acres of food forest, and anothter 4 acres of a simpler orchard and nature reserve.
Despite the economic challenges, several brave market gardeners are use permaculture designs over here… I hope many more will follow.
Greatings from the Netherlands, @MarankeSpoor
Comment by Maranke Spoor — January 10, 2013 @ 4:42 am
Ik ben er ook permanent mee bezig!;)…op ietwat kleinere schaal!
Comment by GEERT WOUTERS — January 11, 2013 @ 2:47 am
had to giggle about the caption translator’s alias :D
Comment by matt — January 12, 2013 @ 1:53 am
Very interesting indeed.
Here is an English language article about the project:
http://cycloasis.org/from-unemployment-to-the-most-splendid-permaculture-garden/
Comment by Ute — January 12, 2013 @ 11:28 am
Obviously you can’t have 2000 fruit trees plus 5000 varieties of veggies in 1800 sq meters… but it looks like a spectacular garden nonetheless!
Comment by surfsage — January 12, 2013 @ 11:50 am
Fantastic!
Comment by Anthony — January 24, 2013 @ 5:27 pm
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