How He Turned Desert Sand Into Fertile Farm Land In 3 Months!

...just add water.

The more living things exist around you, the more likely nature will have surplus to share with you.

Inspiring!!!

Sick😮,🧺

What an amazing story. ❤ I am disabled. 46 yrs old. One of my painful conditions make it impossible to sit down so I am not able to use a wheelchair and can only be on my feet for short periods of time. Anywhere from 10 minutes to an hour. I’d so love any ideas or thoughts. I now have a few very tall raised beds n got enough help to make a food forest last year. But I do miss my large in ground gardens. I had built up the soil there. Doing an experiment this year n covered the dead annual veggies n flowers w woodchips for winter n letting alll the gardens sprout all the volunteers they want! Lol. I’ve given up so much of life bc of disabilities ….I’m doing whatever I can to keep plants around me.

This is how to live in harmony with Nature!

They say that trees are essential for bringing water up from deep in the earth and then Shares the water with surrounding plants and so of course the deeper the roots go down into the ground the more water that will be brought up

"We dont feed the plant, the soil feeds the plant,; we take care of the soil..."

This man makes a lot of sense! Uses planta as pest reduction agents! That is genious!

Good job, but I guess you have plenty of water, which means it is not a desert.

Magnesium, Potassium and Calcium are all chemicals you very much need to grow plants. Sodium Chloride is also a chemical critical to all mammals on earth.

Thank you for this great video.

pls , what about salty water in the desert , can we do this topic thanks

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Don't let anyone fool you, farming isn't romantic, it's hardcore, backbreaking physical labor.

Anybody else reach for their phone during the microscopic view of charcoal?

That broad fork made from machete blades is the most manly garden tool I’ve ever seen.

Great video! The soil building tips are invaluable.

Please provide a link to how to make biochar!

Just Fantastic... From my heart thanks and best wishes. I always wanted to produce my own food. I am preparing my own garden. I AM HERE IN Ecuador.. Everything grows, I going to apply the organic ways to my plants.
My parents had farms but lost everything when i was a little child. I will plant..thanks. I will follow instructions..thanks again

Treet the soil and the soil will treet the plant, briilliant and genius ❤❤ thank you master of planter

Good stuff 👏

Thanks mate

beautiful story <3

One gets better yield and quality if you don't turn it over; Broadfork is the way to go.

Great respest for his determination n skills.

I LOVE it!! Thank you so much for your important work. Blessings to you and your crew always.

Neem is mortal to bees! Careful!

We have similar loose coarse granite sand soil on a deep layer of yellow clay and river rocks here in Wellington near Cape Town, South Africa. Thank you for teaching me how to work this soil.

Body’s are great fertilizer…

These techniques are now being used all over the world, and in more than just desert because they make sense. Some of the methods here are not good for very large farms but everything shown here is good for smaller, like a couple hectares or less, bigger if you have a team of people to work it.

It comes down to one term, regenerative agriculture, where the focus is the soil, growing the quality of the soil over time which then grows healthier plants which then cuts down on insect and disease problems. Really. It's really the case that almost all insect problems occur on less healthy or damaged parts of plants, so people who have VERY healthy plants, as in all the conditions are ideal for that plant, insect problems are small. The tool being used is a broad fork. It's used to allow organic material that was added to the top to work down into the soil and it also aerates the soil by loosening it up. Drip irrigation keeps water off the plants which lessens chances of disease. Typically there's a mulch put on top of the soil, and that helps retain moisture and also provides food for good bacteria, worms and other helpful insects which pull material down into the soil and it gets broken up providing more nutrition for the plants.


One thing he said can be confusing because it depends on the soil and what it needs and every farm is different. This is about digging down into the soil. They're actually using a no-till method, where soil disturbance is minimal (with the focus on minimal, NOT "never"). You typically START with digging down very deep to aerate and loosen the soil and work organic material down deep. There can also be layers in your soil that keep water from moving down the way it should, so digging deep breaks up these layers so the soil will drain better. You get to the point where even using the broad fork becomes less needed. Many plants will have root systems that die when you cut the plant down to the ground, so you do that, cut the plant down to the ground but leave the root and then you plant directly into that. These leftover root systems have lots of benefit for the new plants, the main one being you're leaving the micro-biome in the soil instead of killing it by turning the soil. You compost and then use that compost to protect soil, eventually that compost is broken down enough and it can be worked into the soil. This mimics a more natural ecosystem and oddly enough, that's the best thing for plants. No, just joking it makes TOTAL sense. The life in the soil provides nutrients to the plants. The plants when healthy store sugars in the soil which also feeds the micro-biome. so there is a symbiotic relationship between the biome in the soil and the plants growing in that soil.


ALL desert however is not productive even if you try to do this because the base soil can be too problematic, such as in parts of Australia there is too much sodium in the soil, and this would be the case elsewhere, especially in ancient agricultural areas where irrigation from rivers went on for a few thousand years. Over time even river water tends to be a problem. It won't be for say 200 - 500 years but after that people notice a drop in fertility and they plant other crops, and then over time those other crops start to fail and then the people see it and feel it, the white color of sodium and the soil is crunchy when dry. This happened to the first civilizations.

Damn, bros hard.

Wgere does the water for irrigation come from? I waited to hear that but no mention of it

There is also a lot of water to need. I have no water, so I can not do this. I have no water pipe, they have to bring it to me for 13.-€ / m3. With this price you can not have a veggi garden like that. So I think, that the water is not expensive or they have a spring! Lucky you!

Not everyone can afford a half a million dollar tractor to plow a $2 piece of lettuce lol, gotta make do with what you got, great job!

Thanks for sharing inspirational story

With what water????

Wow wonderful talent,farming, knowledge sir..Godbless sir

Truly a Amazing video n Man should be shared everywhere 👏

Certain CONTROLLING people won't like this ! I think it's BRILLIANT !

God bless.Sweet nature

Does he use an EASE seating system for alternating pressure on his wheel chair?

The world needs to hear from you.

How did the money-empowered-hierarchies let this slip-out??
Now if we could get 1/2 of the earth's : ("thier: mass-populations of little money generators )- i.e. designed by "The MONEY EMPOWERED HIERARCHIES to be patrioticly-capitalistic money generating mankind - diabolically-cleverly mind-programmed into being good little oblievious human ant colony partisapants: generating excessive wealthy overlords of diabolical higher-intellect awarded owner's of the Earth & it's mass-populations.
then without the excessive Money funded science- we could put ar least 1/2 the earth back to non-hierarchical sustainable governance type - Predominantly free-of-charge - nurturing nature for our provision type Retirement-Village population maintained way-of-life.
to save the greedy covet & buy promoting overlords - even their own future Generations from killing the Nature Of God's (near-100%) provisioning methods - now being over-consume"er-is-um-ed to a Climate-Changed end of sustainably.
Which not even diabolical money-funded science of economics can simple up ebough to repair.

Wow that's awesome teach us more. God is great.

Thank you for sharing 😊love to all of you

Most of this knowledge has been known to many Africans , especially those in villages. I remember doing many of this I.e tilting the soil for air flow when I went to the farm with my grandmother in Ghana in my early years growing up.
They never used chemicals but always harvested enough produce to even sell some.