The Story of Al Baydha: A Regenerative Agriculture in the Saudi Desert. قصة مشروع البيضاء
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Channel: Al Baydha
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Keywords: #Regenerative agriculture, #permaculture, #Neal spackman, #saudi Arabia, #al baydha project, silvopasture, agroforestry, desertification, watershed, Al Baydha, desert permaculture, desert, #regenerative
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Length: 19min 48sec (1188 seconds)
Published: Tue Jun 02 2020
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i'm almost never on reddit anymore but i was coming on to post this here today. You beat me to it Karoomamma!
The balls it took not to irrigate for 3 years after putting all the plants and trees in... crazy!
Really impressive. It's already sustainable. I imagine it blowing up after some of the systems mature for a couple more years.
bravooooo.... gives me so much hope for similar here in Australia's arid lands
This project is amazing! Ever thought of doing an AMA?
Is this part of Geoff Lawton’s project in Saudi? Or a different one? Fantastic work!
Breathtakingly beautiful!
This is so amazing. I cried like a baby when the video showed the area after 2019 rainfalls, seeing something so full of life after the terrible state it was just some years ago.
Thank you. Thanks to all the people working at Al Bayda, this certainly is the future we have to pursue.
Hi, can I ask a question please?
A desert is also a rich and complex ecosystem in itself, however it formed. Why is a less dry and greener ecosystem seen as better, other than by human preferences?
Humans also seem to prefer to see an ecosystem with a higher carrying capacity, why is this?
We often seem to overlook the diversity of microscopic life forms and make assumptions about low biodiversity in 'bare/arid' ecosystems, why this preference for larger species?
I wonder how much of this is human aesthetics, and what a 'better' ecosystem might mean outside of human judgements. Perhaps one seen through the sum of all the experiences of individual animals within it, in which case the degree of suffering/pleasure in their life might be the most relevant rather than concepts which they don't understand, like sheer number of species present.
Please bear in mind I know little about ecology and am looking for conversation and other viewpoints, I'm grateful for any input!
Incredible work. Hopefully this process gets replicated widely