Inside Namibia’s Largest Permaculture Project: Transforming Lives and Alleviating Poverty

We are on a mission to turn Africa into a food forest and to spread Permaculture far and wide.

Have a look at part one of this project here

People that worked and got paid during this video

Filimon (builder) 

Johanes(neighbor 

Simon (helper) 

Rebison (roofing) 

Barnabas (helper from rubbish dump) 

Nelson (helper) 

Emanaual (owner and helper) 

Venesa (owner and helper) 

Hendrik (Student) 

Grace(student) 

Claudia (neighbor) 

At least 4 guys on the dump site

Find the worm drum video and plans here

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Danou van Rensburg
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[moonhunter]

Wow, so well-thought out and planned. I'm super impressed. Glad the baby is better.

[hardwareful]

A little paint goes a long way in raising the morale. Nice environments make you want to care about stuff. Funky "sponsorship", but I like it!

[ourrockydreamontheelephant]

I think the swing could be considered permaculture. Human care and nurturing. Plus as she grows with the garden, her love of garden will too. Future planning. Just a thought. Well done.

[FionaGordon-xm]

Wonderful! I love the water tank and the guttering system. And thank you for the explanations for why some things couldn't happen (chickens and planting in open spaces). I'm looking forward to seeing it all develop and to Emanuel and his family reaping the benefits. Thank-you.

[pampotgieter]

Amazing progress has been made.
I love the swing you had put up for the little girl, to swing in. My Dad made us one also out of an old car tire too when we were small. We loved that swing.
I am very grateful that the little girl is much better.
It was wonderful that paint company helped with the paint, made a big difference to the House walls.
Thank You for making the video to show us how things are unfolding.
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[jannetomlinson]

Enjoy your videos. Iam from Australia. We have droughts, flooding rains and bushfires, but we can also get an unending supply of mulch which makes a huge difference in dry and semi desert climates. Also use shade cloth over veggie gardens which I know is out of your budget at the moment. In some states every house built must have a 1000 litre tank plumed in for toilet flushing and gardens. But your work is in a different league. Best wishes for it all. In a few years you’ll be handing out solar panels as well

[portiamonnette]

Just a little trick for you to make it easier to separate the worms from the compost....drill small holes on the bottom of a bucket that the worms can crawl through then place bucket on top and put worm food in bucket only they will all navigate up and stay on top of compost or in the bucket

[stevejohnstonbaugh]

Project is coming along nicely. I see the gate opens into the courtyard. It seems there is extra dug soil that needs a home. I will suggest building the gateway berm higher on the outside of the gate. I would aim to flood the entire courtyard up to the bottom level of the paving bricks. Once the entire basin is full, the surplus water can flow out of the courtyard through a pipe at grade set in the berm.
Starting at 1:06, I see that more than a few plots along this road have at least one large shade tree. A future project would be doubling the number of shade trees in the village. Your crew selects the location based on roof runoff and the most benefit of shade and plants the tree in a zai pit for everyone who agrees to water the tree until it is established. Do this program once a year for 3 years and you will have improved life in this village 10 fold. Plant fruit producing trees so it does not get cut down for firewood.

[DJG]

Thank you for a wonderful update. You truly are making lives better… thinking of others (the swing) it’s the permaculture way.

Would you consider nurturing some of your trees in a greenhouse for 1-2 years before planting them out… as they would be more resilient to frost etc? Maybe waiting for spring to plant them… I’m sure no one would hold it against you for waiting till the frost is over… even though it was part of this projects plans?

I like the roof harvesting water tank. My gran had one similar in a one horse farming town a 45min out of East London, the tank was just bigger. Would you consider adding a roof on top to slow evaporation?

Also awesome idea with the grapes. 🍇 yum yum

[julianehusner]

If your swing beneath the trees is not permaculture, I don't know, what permaculture is.❤Puting a young and joyful human heart into a place like this will shurley key foundation of culture with nature.... I AM 100 % SHURE OF ITV🎉❤🎉

[GamingGardeningAndLayingSiege]

Given what I've been doing for the last two years, I would love to be doing this sort of thing.

[millionpumpkins]

How do you like to go up in a swing,
Up in the air so blue?
Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing
Ever a child can do!
Up in the air and over the wall,
Till I can see so wide,
Rivers and trees and cattle and all
Over the countryside—
Till I look down on the garden green,
Down on the roof so brown—
Up in the air I go flying again,
Up in the air and down!
From A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson

[FionaGordon-xm]

Is there an optimal time to build water tanks? That is, do you tend to get most/all of your rain at a known(ish) point in the year, so you aim to have the next 2 or 3 in place before the next rains (no pressure there then!) - see S's ideas below. And I hate to ask this question but, if you are worried about plants being stolen from the open ground by the water tank, is there any danger of water being stolen from the tank and, if so, any way to prevent this?