Family Transforms Tiny Suburban Backyard into Thriving Permaculture Gardens – Abdallah House Tour

Welcome to the first episode of our new series, Permaculture Tours. In this series we’ll be diving deep into some amazing properties designed using permaculture principals, with the aim of giving you inspiration and ideas on how to apply these solutions in your own life.

In this episode we take a tour of Richard and Kunie’s property, Abdallah House, in Seymour, Australia. On this 1/7th of an acre property, the owners have made the most of the available space through thoughtful design of the garden, house, and marginal spaces.

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[katbond]

Your garden is inspirational. My wife and I were moving down a similar path to your family . We had an incredible food forest going and I loved nothing more than going out each morning and eating my breakfast directly from the trees. Then my wife came down with two critical illnesses and I was diagnosed with a heart and lung problem. Consequently due to numerous doctor and hospital visits in Rocky and Brisbane our sustainable garden living lifestyle finished almost overnight. All I was able to do was to water the fruit trees as a maintenance effort, everything else dried up. We had not thought about planning for the eventuality of not being well enough to keep up with the level of work that we were used to. Another permaculture family we know of had a similar occurrence. Their yard was far more fruitful than ours but severe sickness hit them, so much so that they had relocate to Brisbane. They had major problems selling their house and yard because to the non permaculturist it wasn't the "Better Homes and Gardens'" type of yard. My wife and I loved it as you would have done. So while you have your health and are living your dream take time to plan for when your children leave home and you come to that age where you are either ill or simply do not have the energy you need to maintain your permaculture yard. It will happen, but please don't be blindsided like we were. Again watching your video brings back lovely memories. One suggestion though, have you thought about edible weeds? Sine we weren't able to keep water up to our yard the weeds took over. I did a bit of research and found that our yard was producing a very large crop of edible weeds each season, with no planting, watering or care from me. Some of then grew happily in full sun in 40 degree heat waves and continued to produce greens for us. Enjoy your life. Cheers Royce.

[BamBamMaori]

It's amazing how resourceful people are. His knowledge about permaculture is really cool and so much going on in such a small area, mini food forest, it's great like this video, thanks
for posting

[johnkidwell]

It is very nice to see some well established urban-homesteaders living so lightly and abundantly. Well done.

[my_permaculture]

Permaculture Tours!? Are you serious? This is so inspiring. Thank you so much for sharing!

[diannej]

What a beautiful place! Their use of the semi-submerged cold cellar/water storage tied to the cool pantry is genius! Thanks for sharing this tour.

[gardenextra]

Growing a dream one day at a time. I am 5 years in and still learning every day. The joy that comes from the experience I'm unable to explain today and words.

[katharinestewart]

My garden sits along a small tidal harbor in Maine. Permaculture makes so much sense to me. Over the past two years, I have incorporated many of the principles described in your videos, using natural, local materials like seaweed, grass clippings, leaves and plant remains to compost each planting bed. Water is collected in barrels from roof runoff and distributed to areas of the garden through soaking hoses or hand watering.

[anilkapur]

It is heartening that more and more people are realising that wholesome living near nature and according to the Law of Nature, is the way forward. This reminds me of the book 'Back To Land For Self Preservation', written by the legendary nutritionist and researcher Dr Norman W Walker. Permaculture Tours is indeed a worthy venture, thank you for the episode and series!

[adamcarroll]

I own 1 acre that I’m not utilizing AT ALL... This inspires me to put it to use and take better care of it. 👍🏻❤️😁

[thechaosgardener]

Beautiful! I’ve been converting my backyard into a permaculture food forest over the last year. It’s amazing how much joy and happiness it brings me. Thanks for the ideas. I’ll apply them on my backyard and videos ❤️

[MessinInTheMoss]

I would love to see a video or a few about renters using permaculture to grow food in pots because they do not have garden space provided by landlords.

[sarahhowell]

I love that he just decide to plant near the creek ! I’ve often thought of this

[TheNightwalker]

im gonna watch every single video of yours. Such great visuals and great to have the owner explain it. In many videos the filmer just ask questions all the time but here it all seems to be tied together with no questions needed. Thank you for sharing this great video.

[BEAdventurePartners]

What a wonderful permaculture design! We love how everything flowed from one place to the next along with the thoughtful use of earth heating and cooling to transfer cooler air from the ground cellar to the upright cellar in the house. - Brian + Erin

[debbiedavis]

Amazing It gives me heart to keep trying 😊

[TruckTaxiMoveIt]

I particularly like that part about the house facing in a specific Direction allowing for the Sun to heat The slap during particular parts of the year and using grape Vines outside as shading during warmer months. Also noticed their thermal water heater on top of the house directly over that room

[gordonbooth]

Love and permaculture is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence....

[JonesLeFae]

This is amazing! I have always dreamed of living this way, but I just got stuck in the game of trying to make money and raising kids as a single mom in the suburbs. I'm still going to make it happen someday, but I missed out on raising my kids this way. With any luck, I will be able to share this way of life with my grandchildren in the future. What a beautiful way of life!

[chaya]

Down-sizing from 200 acres to 1/2 acre. Videos like this are re-assuring. I WILL STILL HAVE MY FARM--just smaller scale, and much more efficient in every way! Very heartening. Well Done!

[betty]

So glad to see how folks are living, simply, sustainably, thank you : )