After a decade of living in the same house without taking advantage of the backyard, I decided to roll my sleeves up and get to work. I’ve always loved woodworking and was craving a project. Little did I know how much work it would be, but with the help of my house-mates, good friends and […]

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After a decade of living in the same house without taking advantage of the backyard, I decided to roll my sleeves up and get to work. I’ve always loved woodworking and was craving a project. Little did I know how much work it would be, but with the help of my house-mates, good friends and […]

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Almost 50 years ago, fried chicken tycoon David Bamberger used his fortune to purchase 5,500 acres of overgrazed land in the Texas Hill Country. Planting grasses to soak in rains and fill hillside aquifers, Bamberger devoted the rest of his life to restoring the degraded landscape. Today, the land has been restored to its original […]

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In 1979, a teenager became so concerned with soil erosion that he planted a few trees. Over the next four decades, Jadav Payeng continued to plant and now he has single-handedly created a forest bigger than New York’s Central Park. His endeavours on Majuli island in northern India went entirely unnoticed for decades. SUBSCRIBE! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV4T1s7VWtHJ32tqhv4DLAA […]

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The Permaculture Food Forest gardening has made huge strides the last 5 years. Every investment has been worth it and using natural farming techniques learned from Masanobu Fukuoka, and Permaculture techniques learned from people like Bill Mollison and Geoff Lawton have truly payed off. Also Back To Eden techniques, common organic gardening techniques, and other […]

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The Desert Botanical Garden turns 80 this weekend, and we’re celebrating! Video Rating: / 5

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Discover the tranquil vibrancy of 50,000 desert plants nestled amid the red rocks of the Papago Buttes at Desert Botanical Garden. An Arizona icon celebrating 80 years in the Valley, the Garden has grown into a compelling attraction and desert conservation pioneer, offering worldly plants, vibrant trails, world-class exhibitions, festive events, fascinating classes and so […]

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***NOT FOR BROADCAST*** Contact Brett Adair with Live Storms Media to license. brett@livestormsnow.com EXTREMELY RARE DESERT SNOW IMPACTS NEW YEAR’S EVE / DAY FESTIVITIES – CATCHES PARTYGOERS BY SURPRISE CAUSING SEVERAL CAR ACCIDENTS / TREE DAMAGE AND TURNS THE DESERT SOUTHWEST INTO A VERY RARE WINTER WONDERLAND! The Tucson, Metro Area saw it’s first snow […]

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Chinese man plants 50,000 trees in 15 years, turning barren land on the edge of China’s third largest desert into an oasis. Video Rating: / 5

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Documentary: On the five hundred million-year-old southern Arizona desert that has remained unchanged longer than most other ecosystems. Scenes of Ajo, Arizona and surrounding area: cowboys herd cattle, and people walking through fields of wild flowers; Mexican village residents line up for camera, and a small band plays; mountains and rolling hills dotted with cactus […]

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★ Check out my website http://www.desertplantsofavalon.com/ ★ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/DesertPlantsOfAvalon ★ Twitter https://twitter.com/plantsofavalon CONTINUED below,, Here are the very first cacti and succulents that I ever had that are now over 30 years old 🙂 Thank you for watching, please give me a Like and I would love you to SUBSCRIBE for regular updates and take […]

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A man in India has turned a bare land into a lush new forest ecosystem all by himself. Jadav Molai Payeng has spent 30 years planting 550 hectares of forest in his native home town in northern India’s Assam region. It all started way back in 1979 when Jadav was only 16 years old. After […]

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Join Andrew Millison in 2013 as he travels back to Arizona and revisits several Permaculture projects installed in the late 1990’s to see how they are working and growing. We go from the arid forest in Prescott at 5300′, down to the desert grasslands of Arcosanti at 3500′, then down to the Sonoran Desert in […]

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When it comes to research at The University of Texas at El Paso, it’s not something that just happens in the classrooms or campus laboratories. UTEP research is happening all over the globe. Since 2007, UTEP’s own Eli Greenbaum, Ph.D., a noted herpetologist and associate professor of evolutionary genetics, has been traveling to the rainforests […]

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