2,000 Year Old Food Forest in Morocco
Whilst we were filming the Food Forest DVD with Geoff Lawton he mentioned to us casually that he had a number of slides he’d taken many years ago of a Food Forest system he discovered was 2,000 years old. He discovered this system when he was a young man surfing in Morocco but walking through such a majestic system as this one, haunted him for many years as he thought about its potential. Its always a chance meeting in life like this one that can spin you around and set you up on a new direction in life. Geoff eventually came across Bill Mollison and discovered Permaculture but this Moroccan Food Forest was always in the back of his mind.
We filmed Geoff speaking about this forest at our dining room table and this became the segment you see today. Geoff recently went back to this food forest system for another look but it had already begun to look tired and neglected as the young people in this region look for work in the neighbouring cities and people abandon something that has an unbroken link to the past.
The location of the Food Forest known to the local population as Paradise Valley is about 12km inland from Tamraght on the coast of Morocco below the Grissafane Mountain Range. It is approximately 3km in length.
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