Permaculture Soils DVD Now Shipping
Geoff Lawton’s Permaculture Soils DVD is now shipping. A special thanks go out to all the people that pre-ordered this disk through Permaculture.org.au and waited patiently for their DVD to arrive.
Your DVDs are now in the mail and will arrive very shortly.
We had a few issues with transport delays which were outside our control but supplies are now all fixed and flowing normally.
The DVD starts with a short introduction to modern industrial chemical fertilisers (NPK) and how monoculture has destroyed the bio-diversity of of many living soils.
Geoff seeks to redress this problem through adopting Permaculture management systems, showing you a number of techniques you can use to redress this in-balance.
With probably the most comprehensive instruction on compost creation, using animation and various manures and inoculums, Geoff spends the first 30 minutes explaining the composting process and shows you ways to reintroduce rich bio-diverse organisms back into your soil that feed the plants and actively help build soil. Whether you want to favour tree plantations like food forest systems or green leafy vegetable crops, Geoff will show ways to create the right kind of compost.
Part 2 of the DVD focuses on building a Permaculture Kitchen garden using small animal systems like worms, ducks and chickens to return nutrients back to the soil.
Part 3 takes us into broader pasture management techniques from using cattle and chickens together, cell grazing techniques and re-mineralization strategies for pasture management.
The DVD also explains ways to turbo charge larger main crop gardens using biological compost teas. Every step is explained in Geoff’s unique hands-on approach right in the field.
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Whats on the DVD?
“It’s not the soil itself – it’s the soil life that is the most important element.” – Geoff Lawton
We’ve all seen environmental problems highlighted everyday on the media. Now comes the solution. From the man who said, “You can solve all the world’s problems in a garden” comes Geoff Lawton’s Permaculture Soils DVD. 137 minutes of Permaculture soil creation strategies that really work! Even if you have never built a garden or got your hands dirty before, you will learn the secrets of real soil creation – partnering with the life in the Soil! Geoff will take you through every step of the process and explain in detail how to do it yourself. From Compost creation to larger Kitchen Gardens and then to broad acre farming – this is the future of biological agriculture.
Subjects covered:
- Biodiversity and Compost
- Designing a Kitchen Garden
- Worm Farms
- Duck Ponds
- Using Chickens in a Food Forest
- Pasture Management
- Cell Grazing
- Fungi
- Soil Re-mineralization Strategies
- Compost Teas
- Soil Tests you can do yourself
- Ripping the Soil
- How to build an Instant Garden
and many more Permaculture design techniques are revealed in this unique DVD.
Plus Bonus extras:
“A Couple of Rough Types” – Permaculture cofounder Bill Mollison and Geoff Lawton in a very revealing discussion.
Plus Permaculture Trailers
Permaculture Soils DVD
- PAL Format
- Region Free
- Over 95 minutes of quality information
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its a real shame you folks have help turn permaculture into a business. you folks have quite a bit of great information that the 90 percent of the world can’t afford to buy. so you keep it lock up for the folks who need it the least. you folks feed into the shortage of money and keep the knowledge sequestered to a few. ita real shame…truly it is.
Hi Shawn, Thanks for your comment. We don’t keep any knowledge locked away or hidden from public view. Its available for a price to buy on DVD. Thats what we do. We partner up with great teachers and create terrific educational DVDs that are not readily available elsewhere. If you can do better – please do so. You are free to make your own choices in life and teach others if you wish.
My friend bought this dvd and I was lucky enough to watch some of it last week.
This permaculture video is the best I’ve seen. Great techniques and tips, well edited into a comprehensive and cohesive lesson.
Thank you for all your hard work making these teachings available to us. I have no idea what Shawn is talking about, this is exactly what permaculture is all about – learning and perfecting the skills, then finding ways to share them with others. Making a DVD is a great way to reach those who may not yet be interested in, or able to attend a PDC or other permaculture course. I know that Geoff has spent a lot of time travelling to 3rd-world and developing countries sharing his knowledge too.
The ecofilms mob have spent their time, and no doubt their own money, making this great website and producing some seriously high quality videos…. If they can get a monetary return on the work they have put into making these resources, then I think that’s great.
No one should work for free. Financial sustainability is often seen as a dirty word in some permie circles, but everyone should be able to make a living from the use of their skills, videographers included.
Thank you ecofilms for your work, your passion is palpable.
Shawn,
I live in the United States. I am not well off by American standards, but compared to most of the world I am extremely wealthy. I know that such wealth in the hands of so few is not right and you are correct that vital resources of all kinds are not accessible by much of Earth’s population. This being said, the cost of producing these materials is probably not small. Also, money is needed to help further the mission of the Permaculture Research Institute. I hope that you will share the message of sustainability with others while understanding that it will take time for our vision of a better humanity to be fully realized.
@Shawn I understand completely how you must feel. I will buy you a copy of this DVD and have it shipped to you. Then you can learn the information, put it into practice and then share what you have personally learned with as many people as you like. Once you have mastered the information you can teach others at no cost. That’s how you beat this system. But eventually you’ll have to make some kind of income so don’t be too hard on the folks that have really turned modern agricopritocracy on it’s head. The admins have my permission to give you my email!!!