Greening the Desert
Posted: November 12th, 2009 | Author: w | Filed under: Desert, Heroes, Interesting, Permaculture, Video | 1 Comment »This is the video that first got me interested in the potential of advanced Permaculture, and I doubt that I am alone in that respect! It shows a technique of combining guilded planting and intelligent water harvesting to essentially reverse desertification, making such lands productive for growing food. The experiment was done in Jordan, just off the dead sea, and is pretty remarkable. As I understand, it is still there, and still producing without much additional human interaction.
Highly recommended viewing for everyone.
[...] gurus, Geoff and Nadia Lawton, in the Dead Sea Valley, and is an update to the famous ‘Greening the Desert‘ [...]