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Al Baydha
Приєднався 8 гру 2010
Documenting and displaying the vision, goals, and work of the Al Baydha Project in the desert south of Makkah, Saudi Arabia.
For regular updates, follow the project's instagram page: al_baydha
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For regular updates, follow the project's instagram page: al_baydha
OR our facebook page: Al-Baydha-Project-235734483141776/
The Story of Al Baydha: A Regenerative Agriculture in the Saudi Desert. قصة مشروع البيضاء
The final update from Al Baydha Project Co-founder Neal Spackman, 9 years in. How desertification resulted from the loss of an indigenous land management system, and how the land has changed since all inputs to the project were ceased in 2016. Neal moved on from Al Baydha in 2018 and can now be contacted at regenerativeresources.co
The species that worked the best for us were Ziziphus Spinachristi, Moringa Peregrina, commiphora gileadensis, prosopis spp (though this one we likely won't continue planting in the future), and the local acacias.
Music by Faisal Alawi, and by Olafur Arnalds (performed by Voces 8).
معلومات عن نتائج مشروع البيضاء و الزراعة المستدامة التي اسست في جبال ٥٠ كيلومتر جنوب مكه المكرمة
موسيقة: فيصل علوي و الفور ارنالدز
The species that worked the best for us were Ziziphus Spinachristi, Moringa Peregrina, commiphora gileadensis, prosopis spp (though this one we likely won't continue planting in the future), and the local acacias.
Music by Faisal Alawi, and by Olafur Arnalds (performed by Voces 8).
معلومات عن نتائج مشروع البيضاء و الزراعة المستدامة التي اسست في جبال ٥٠ كيلومتر جنوب مكه المكرمة
موسيقة: فيصل علوي و الفور ارنالدز
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Відео
Abdul Razaq Al Aduani on Desertification in Al Baydha
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Abdul Razaq Al Aduani on Desertification in Al Baydha
Functioning Earthworks in Al Baydha
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A view of some of the leaky dams on the Al Baydha Project's demonstration site during rain in September, 2015. These dams function by slowing down the water and catching the silt eroded from upstream. As they develop they will be planted with very hardy trees ziziphus, acacia, & Faidherbia, that will biologically moderate flood flow once they are established. This slows down floods, allowing th...
Before & After Scans after 5 years.
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Taken from one of the high points of the Al Baydha Project's demonstration site, this shows the growth of the project's agroforestry system. Two years were spent on constructing earthworks up in the mountains, and the first trees were planted in early 2012. The earthworks will catch and store up to 20,000 cubic meters in the earth, while the rate of irrigation is approximately 500 cubic meters ...
Arid Swales Update 20 Months After First Planting
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After 20 months of growth, and 4 years of observing patterns in Al Baydha, Neal Spackman walks you through the swales and flood plain of the Al Baydha Project's demonstration site. For more on Al Baydha, visit: www.albaydha.org al_baydha For more of Neal Spackman's work, visit: www.twovisionspermaculture.com
Demo Site Scan 4 Years Later
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A site scan 4 years after first starting to lay out our swales, in September, 2014. See our other video demo site scan pt A to see what the site looked like from this same point in October, 2010. What you cannot see are the hundreds of check dams, weirs, zuni bowls, and other earthworks up in the mountain that allow this design on the flood plain to function as it should. For more info, visit w...
Mushrooms in the Swales
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After waiting for three years for rain, Al Baydha Project finally got a second test of its water system the last week of January, 2014. A week later, I found these mushroom growing where some of the swale had silted up. Not only do these fungi show that we are dramatically improving soil moisture but also that there is a living fungal network underneath our ground, which is one of the foundatio...
Reversing the Cycle of Desertification
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After waiting for three years for rain, Al Baydha Project finally got a second test of its water system, and the results were fantastic. As we increase the tree cover, we will decrease evaporation, increase wind break, shade cover, soil biota, and the soil's capacity to absorb water. Thus we can reverse the cycle of desertification and replace it with a cycle of regeneration, until the land can...
A Succesful Check Dam in Early Development/ سد في وادي الخانق مشروع البيضاء
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This is a check dam in Wadi Al Khaniq that the Al Baydha team built in the summer of 2013. In January 2014, there was a flood through this wadi. The check dam caught this silt, which after a week has grass growing. This is a way to slow down flash floods, and as the dam silts up, create areas that can act as sponges to passively catch and store water in the mountains, and provides areas for tre...
Young Desert Swale Walkthrough
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A walk through one of the swales on the Al Baydha Project demonstration site 4 months after the initial planting, showing strategies for creating microclimates that will make the site more suitable for productive planting. Also showing some Moringa cuttings in the swale as they begin to sprout. This site is on land widely considered not arable, and the trees have been drip irrigated with only b...
Building The Pigeon House
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The second structure in the Al Baydha Project's earthbag training.
اول حديقة و ماء ها من المكييف في البيضاء
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The first air-conditioner fed garden in Al Baydha.
Using Biomimicry to Create Rivers and Streams in Saudi Arabia
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A naturally occuring example of The Al Baydha Project's water system, which has the potential to save the Hijaz's long term freshwater problems.
this is such a inspiring story!!! this gives me hope for the future. Now hope this will be implemented in every desert area
Aku mahdi
Simple yet effective👍👍👍
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Alhamdulillah wasyukurilillah.......
Nice work
Mind blowing.
Did you get some rain?
When I see desertification I see my county of Devon is headed in that direction with the crazy practices pf cutting down of trees, digging up and flailing of hedges and use of huge tractors, creating a landscape where the topsoil washes away into the sea. Why are the local farmers so unaware of the their soil degrading practices with so much useful information around?
Every how often do you water these desert tree .?
I his summary about ecology. As a holistic doctor, I apply this philosophy to ones health.
I like his inclusive statement: We ( humans) and not destructive by nature but by habit.
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Try to grow cotton.
Get every drop of water into the ground!
That needs to be deeper, less exposed to the sun.
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Afghanistan Documentary - Development via a Japanese Doctor Mr. Nakamura Initiative Build Dam and canal. Dont forgot use expert from Afganistan, because they not take riches from our country to pay in agreement work.
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Regreening Ethiopia's Highlands: A New Hope for Africa Saudi Arabian must be to learn from Ethiopia keep the rain. We can use countaner with close. Panen hujan untuk air minum berkualitas tinggi
Traditional farming communities in Korea developed a system called JADAM, which has been proven to be used to make the land more alive. Namely maximizing the use of plants that have certain ingredients that are adapted to local conditions, livestock manure, mineral salt water, and other materials that are easily available nearby, then connected and integrated with the food chain system between plants, animals and humans, including the use of microorganisms. . I have started applying it to several areas of land that have been damaged, because the humus has been lost due to mining activities on the island of Kalimantan, where the condition of the soil is very similar to the condition of dry desert soil and is almost rocky. This effort is showing very good results and if this is tried to be applied on the African continent and other desert lands, it seems that it will slowly improve naturally and bring benefits that move very quickly. Greetings from me in Indonesia and it would be very good if the JADAM system which was pioneered by agricultural experts in Korea is implemented. Please see this method which has been widely broadcast on many UA-cam channels, as a reference. Good luck and greetings to a healthy and green earth.
A very intelligent use of the lie of the land and naturally available stone. Well done.
How about digging a long swale at the base of that mountain bordering the property?
Would love to see how it look in 2024
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Did you follow permaculture principles of designing water barriers with the contour lines? The idea is to preserve as much rain water as possible in swales, ponds, small dams, and tanks. And add a lot of compost, then add tree guilds (7 layers of plants), then maulch and animals
This is so beautiful, thank you so much for sharing this project, I wish we could do this all over the world, 🙏🌎❤️
We hope to work on translating this video to be published
God allways reward the care of earth.😊🎉
Get this man to mars !!!
Thank you, very smart regeneration. Let's assume all the too-rich billionaires are providing you and similar projects with money--the usage of which they have no say whatsoever.
“The Hour will not be established until wealth is so abundant and overflowing that a man will go out with his wealth to give alms but not find anyone who accepts it from him, and until rivers and meadows return to the land of Arabia.” Sahih Muslim 157
Hats off to you and your team. I just stumbled upon this video and was fascinated to see the regeneration of the desert. I just have one question. Did you plant the local species of trees or imported from some other place which were similar but not local?
Primarily local species, though we did import a few to trial.
Another idea is to utilized some high technology that has not been used anywhere on earth yet, tungsten rods from space. These rods if dropped from space can create huge impact craters, to create lakes, dependent upon the size and speed of the tungsten rod, it is capable of delivering an energy output approaching that of a nuclear blast. If they were strategically dropped along all of these watersheds it could very inexpensively create a huge system of lakes, that would follow the channels for the runoff of the flood plane. The benefit of this method is that the cost would be minimal compared to having to generate a thousand large lakes utilizing heavy equipment, which would be quite expensive. Either Spacex's falcon heavy or their upcoming Starship would make the cost per flight quite inexpensive. It would of course require the development of a launcher to accurately target and accelerate each size of tungsten projectile to high speed and to the proper reentry vector, but that is just engineering with nations working together it is quite doable. Plus, if the cost of development were shared among all of the nations that would use it, specifically any nation which would like to capture its rain water runoff from flowing out to sea, then the cost to any individual nation could be kept to a minimum, since they would not be the sole owners of the system and would not incur the full development cost! Furthermore, for those who are worried about the possible military use of such a system it could be de-orbited once it had completed all of the tasks set for it. Or, it could be leased to others who had a non military use for it, to generate income and recoup some of the development costs. It could also be made fool-proof from misuse by having electronics that would allow any of the major nations to track every target set by the system and to intervene if the device were to be used in a manner inconsistent with its stated purposes, a hard wired kill switch. Lakes, berms & swales, dams, and key line methodologies can play a pivotal role in water management and capture.
I think that what is missing here are berms and swales, or lakes even these are also highly beneficial elements in capturing water in arid regions.
3 years have passed and the project feels dead. Perhaps plants need to be watered in a desert like in this project. I'm sure it could be self sustaining in the right location.
Good work.
Nice job Al !!
I would love to recreate this, but with techniques I've mastered and proven to work.
Le desert est la conséquence de la fainéantise coranique .
9:32 Are you really claiming, that the rainwater would have not soaked in, if not for the 'dams'? It is the same quantity of rain as always. It just soaks into the ground in different speeds. I am sure you know it and the wording was mistaken, not the knowledge.
I’d love to see an update on the project.
Great work! it will stand in 1000 years! I have worked a lot with water based systems over the years. it occurs to me that with the funding such projects deserve, working with mobile quarry grading equipment would be a really useful if this were to be undertaken on a broad scale. The rocks, stones sands and gravels could he harvested and both used or sold. And all the fine silt and clays could be used to help seal the dam beds. Or better again and in addition purpose built dams at 2 metre intervals from the ridges landscape wide would utterly and permanently transform the landscape. Super work!
yes, mobile quarrying equipment would be necessary at any scale larger than this
Great to see a decade long project succeed despite the drought you took a chance on at the end.
Bravo.There is a prophecy in Islam that the deserts in this region will regreen.I hope there is a starter pack course or otherwise for this to be replicated all across Saudi and beyond.
Another update please
"Today it is a common belief that people are inherently bad for Earth. That by our very existence we do damage to our home, and that the best thing we can do is reduce our footprint. What most people don't understand is that reducing our footprint means destroying the Earth less quickly. We do not have to settle on being less bad for the Earth. We can actually be good for the Earth. We are not destructive by nature, but by habit. And our potential for destruction is mirrored by our potential for regeneration. The Al Baydha project shows that if we recognize our role as a keystone species on Earth, then we can become the primary vector for regenerating our planet. When we degrade ecologies it stems from a fundemental misunderstanding of the real value ecologies have. But by tying rural wealth to ecological function we can create powerful incentives for people to care for their ecologies rather than to degrade them. Furthermore tying rural wealth to ecological function lays the foundation for regenerative systems like the one we prototyped in Al Badya. Broadly applied, regenerative agriculture and regenerative economies have the capacity and potential to address a gordian knot of challenges that we face all over the planet. Rural poverty, food scarcity, freshwater scarcity and acquifer depletion, biodiversity and habitat loss, dead zones in our oceans, deforestation, desertification, soil erosion, and climate change." 💚
Two key things to note; nature/wildlife is resilient and persistent. You took the time to nurture the plants enough and we'll enough at the beginning, giving them time and strength to root in before the droughts. I think this is critical as to where a system can survive sever drough in its infancy. That's my two cents. 🙂
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Sounds like Napoleon Dynamite narrated.