Permaculture Hillside Transformation | Common Vision
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Mar 282009
In the eastern hills of Oakland, Common Vision joined forces with three classes at Merritt to transform a steep hillside into a permaculture food forest with 108 fruit trees! Before trees were planted a team of pickaxers and shovelers built swales, long on-contour ditches, designed to harvest 1000's of gallons of rainwater and store it deep in the hillside. Over 75 Common Vision crew and Merritt College students worked all day, accompanied by the drums, to plant the widest spread of tree …
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but not many will be allowed to eat the fruit……..
What makes you say that, stonerj0e?
because it’s gonna be expensive as hell and there won’t be enough to go arround.
What do you mean “expensive as hell”? This doesn’t appear to be a commercial venture, just a demonstration site. What matters is whether it works, how much fruit is produced for the area of land and the inputs used. I hope there’ll be a follow-up vid in a year or so.
this is the FUTURE
if we want a future
I’M English and am not too sure what a gopher is , but what stops it eating the roots when they have grown thro the “basket”? Have to say if it was me doing the digging I would want those idiot drummers to grab a pick and make themselves useful
Good video. Good Music. It’s also nice to see so many people involved with permaculture who see the value of doing it in an urban environment. I enjoyed the bit on swales, but overall It could have been a little more technical. I would have liked to see more explanation as to what exactly I was seeing in the video. What are the baskets used to protect the tree roots made out of?
stonerj0e,
Organic is the way forward – for weed too.
this is what it is all about!!
I suggest also growing mulch creators on site like comfrey or others to chop n drop so you do not need to haul in mulch. also maybe grow cover crop before planting in between trees to improve soil.