Food Forest Virginia / DeWitt Permaculture

Here's a quick little demonstration to help you start thinking about a property from a permaculture designer's point-of-view. More and more principles can be applied at many scales, and new ones pop up as we change the system. Some principles demand certain elements or techniques be used...everything falls into place! This simple exercise can really open up your mind to how to design and maintain your permaculture-style food forest edible landscape. Use Mollison's Ethics or additional principles to push it further!

Get to know Dr. Woody Mayo, his education, background, cycling career, and his role at Freedom Farm Academy in Chiang Rai, Thailand!

Dr. Woody shows us what's growing at the nursery - ornamental and medicinal plants, various trees, and even trees whose sap can be used as biodiesel!

This video showcases a small area of the "kitchen garden" (annual vegetables) at Freedom Farm Academy Thailand. Topics include beds on contour, various vegetables, growing your own animal feed, and how it will become an educational demonstration site - for Thai locals - of a single family garden.

This video briefly showcases the extensive pond system at Freedom Farm Academy in Chiang Rai, Thailand. Because of Thailand's dry and wet seasons, water management is crucial and Dr. Woody and the designers at Food Forest Abundance have done a great job of designing a water management system consisting of several sequential ponds. This same method can be employed on any property that has a slope and it requires nothing but gravity!

This motion picture captures the majesty of the scythe, why I use it, and why you'd be a lot cooler if you did. See my no maintenance fruit tree guild, my "no mow" lawn, chop and drop at its finest, and my Permaculture Zones 1 & 2. Southern Virginia Permaculture homesteading, USDA Zone 7b Temperate Subtropical Climate.

Do you have a tree that is trying to produce several "alternate leaders" (including "water sprouts")? Have you ever heard of "chop and drop" as a way to make your own living mulch? ... Ever heard of bush cherries?

Ever wondered what kind of soil you have? Do you then wonder what to do with it? Do you want to know how well your soil drains after rainfall? Do you want a vegetable garden but don't know where to put it? Do you want a pond but don't know where to put it? Watch this to find out how to test your soil type, and what to do about how your soil drains water.

A brief glimpse into how a Certified Permaculture Designer thinks about biodiversity in Nature and design.

This here motion picture is a short tour of a ~1 acre Water Garden at Richard Bland College of William and Mary, home of the oldest and largest Pecan groves in Virginia. This tour showcases Virginia native plants and some of the "Japanese" elements remaining from the garden's original design. Petersburg, Virginia. USDA Zone 7.

This here motion picture represents a demonstration of common seedling techniques for a temperate climate. Topics include planting depth, watering, indoor growing of seedlings, hardening off, outdoor growing of seedlings, and planting. Dinwiddie, Virginia. USDA Hardiness Zone 7b.

Edible landscaping doesn't have to be very fancy or expensive. Edible plants have the same attractive characteristics that are sought in ornamental plants - foliage textures, foliage colors, flowers, etc. This is a very quick, simple example of how you can inject some edible plants into everyday-type ornamental plantings. Richard Bland College of William and Mary, Petersburg, Virginia. USDA Hardiness Zone 7.

This here motion picture is an example demonstration of the standard operating procedure for planting a tree. Dinwiddie, Virginia. USDA Hardiness Zone 7b. Cameos by Arkansas Black, and maybe a chicken.

Certified Permaculture Designer, owner of DeWitt Permaculture (dba Food Forest Virginia), general badass mfer: Charles J. Lawson gives you a short introduction to what makes him tick... DeWittPermaculture.com FoodForestAbundance.com Music owned by CJL & This Time It's War https://thistimeitswar.bandcamp.com/