Cuba Permaculture Pilgrimage - Peregrinaje de Permacultura en Cuba

First come the earth, you've got to take care of it. Then come the people, then each his fair share of it. Design for the earth and you design for yourself. Help design a world better for you. I'm Andrew Millison and I am here at the International Permaculture Convergence on the Caribbean island of Cuba. Woo-woo! I can do it again for free. So this is not under the best condition right now, but permacultures are like the litter sand, a grain of sand that we need for nature. We contribute a little something to the environment. Every plant you grow helps nature. It helps nature breathe healthy. And we don't use any chemicals. Everything is organic. Then he began building his house there. And then we became good friends because that's also one of the principles of permaculture. Not to be violent and then treat other people as family. When you go inside you will see part of a car body. But you know for us there's no waste. No such thing as waste. So we use everything. That's it. Always Maybe, maybe, maybe Thinking about when, until when Maybe, maybe, maybe Kiss me It's different. Kiss me, kiss me This is going on 24 hours a day, day and night. During 8 months of the year. So when the drought is over, we have a new system. We have a windmill to pump the water. And that's the time of the year when we have wind. Looking for higher efficiency in this fermentation process. I think our commitment is to show the world that our country can be sustainable by itself. Everything possible. The best science, the best technologies. All the advances, however you want to look at them, that have been made in agriculture over the past 100 years. They are genetically modifying foods. They've got massive, say, if you look on the back of the $50 bill, you will see their Center for Genetic Research. They're doing it. They're also reforesting at a massive scale. They're shooting for 30% in just a couple of years. It's very impressive. But that is to say that some of the ideals we have are in contradiction with the ideals of food sovereignty here in Cuba. So you call it a food forest? In the back there, we made a food forest. So what he does now, that water is used in the fish pond, fish tank, to reuse it as many times as possible. So we've got mangoes with a custard apple in between, the titonia, Mexican sunflower we call it, mulberry hedge, dwarf bananas. Come, come. Guava, tropical peach, avocado, another tropical peach, crownflower, banana, and this is a patch of cassava, manioc, tapioca, yucca, a little citrus tree here. Vamos, vamos, vamos. This famous palm tree is the real palm tree. It's the national tree of Cuba. It's the palm tree, very famous by God. Django, very famous by sainthood. That's the real palm tree. Is that a septic thing? I don't know, we'd have to get a closer look. Oh, wow. Whoa. Dude, it's like 50 feet. Whoa. That is a whole nation.