The people who engineered these places did it successfully for thousands of years, and they might hold the key to our survival today.
Archaeologists have revealed how indigenous cultures sustained large-scale food production for 3.000 to 1.500 years. This video delves into these ancient techniques, their harmony with nature, and their potential to address today’s food challenges.
Here’s why Future Farms need ancient food practices alongside high tech.
Chapters:
00:00 Hidden Secrets
00:42 Engineering Coastlines
04:45 Burning Prairies to Attract…
06:40 This is for you to take home
07:38 Is this possible now?
08:25 How to survive in the desert
09:09 Rearranging the UK’s farmland
11:24 Building societies in floodplains
13:05 Is there a real chance?
Learn more and check some of my sources:
In-depth explanation of these food systems and more by Lyla June:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxxRV44-wZ0
Lyla June Johnston’s PhD Dissertation - “Architects of Abundance: Indigenous Regenerative Food and Land Management Systems and the Excavation of Hidden History”:
https://www.proquest.com/openview/17597a179528716e1a9e8515ca76ec77/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y
Clam Garden Network:
https://www.clamgarden.com/intro-to-cg
Clam Garden explanations with videos
https://www.hauyat.ca/living/tending-and-harvesting-2/traps-and-gardens-2/clam-gardens.html
Recommended read for the Amazon’s engineered landscape: The Domesticated Landscapes of the Bolivian Amazon (Clark L. Erickson)
Ravenous by Henry Dimbleby https://henrydimbleby.com/ravenous/
English Pastoral by James Rebanks https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/290329/english-pastoral-by-rebanks-james/9780141982571
Late chief’s wife preserves his memory and knowledge of Indigenous heritage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv7LttMFVKk
A Wall Worth Building: Making Clam Habitat Great Again: https://youtu.be/22Nytmxw2Z8?si=xDYwqqPXZQFQc2UA
Clam Gardens, Ancient Indigenous technology and sustainable food source | Science In Action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8WZMW49eD4&t=1s
3000-year-old solutions to modern problems | Lyla June | TEDxKC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH5zJxQETl4&t=349s
Check out more indigenous sea farms: https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.seagardens.net/%23map&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1731529752371145&usg=AOvVaw2WXDeYHHLBYmrE_u-bOV9v
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Hey! It's me, Claudia Ayuso. I’m the one producing and writing these stories for you –and for me too, really. These are the stories that I’ve so desperately needed my whole life.
Each episode of Origin Story takes on a big dilemma or problem of today, investigates how we got there and helps us imagine a future in which humans are part of the solution. My goal with this show is to provide a general model for the ways we might improve and transform our modern industrial society. And to honour the sophistication of our ancestors.
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