This video documents renowned permaculturalist Geoff Lawton as he embarks on an ambitious project to regenerate a 10-acre site in one of the driest places on earth.

In Jordan, the land is dry and getting drier with 92% desert and expanding due to poor agricultural practices. This is the same desertification crisis that is taking place all over the world and it happens when we destroy the land to make way for industrial agriculture. Forests are cleared, wetlands drained, groundwater and aquifers depleted, soil is ploughed, poisoned, overgrazed, washed away and blown away. This has resulted in vast global soil erosion, and what we are left with is salty rocky barren lands that can’t hold water or support the diversity of life needed to sustain healthy communities.*

Geoff and his team show that by implementing simple Permaculture design strategies the fate of the world’s deserts can be reversed and life can once again thrive in the harshest of environments.

*Source: Greening the Desert