Man grows ALL of his food on 750m2

Love the parting message: Be the change you want to see in the world. These are the seeds for the way next generation will live 🙏

Incredibly well made mini-documentary. I loved every moment of it. Great job! Alik is such a charismatic, humble, and beautiful soul, I wish him all the best. He's the kind of person who inspires you to become a better man. Cheers and have a great day!

I tell people all the time that they can do this. So I am setting out to do this myself. And I’ve moved to a community where people would be inclined to accomplish such a thing as well.

This was an eye opening documentary. Well produced, almost touching in its serene but to the point, description of a man and his idea and willingness to try. Well done.

Congratulations to this man on accomplishing 100% homegrown.

It’s very rare that a video compels me enough to write a comment.. but this one changed everything for me! We live in Kalymnos - a very dry and arid island landscape in the Mediterranean. People here have grown grains for thousands of years, evidence of the many ancient ruins of terraces found all over the mountains. It’s crazy how much the people have lost touch with their roots, almost nobody grows grains anymore. We have 1000sqm filled with olive trees, it never occurred to me to actually grow wheat and beans! Big thankyou for this video and the man interviewed! I will be trying this method come winter time 🙏

Thank you for this excellent documentary. I am 78 years of age, living about 35 kilometers North of Clil, by the coast, North of Nahariya, and I have two large, raised vegetable beds, with which I intended to grow all my food. My project failed because I did not know what I wanted/needed/required, and I did not know what I was doing. This video really helped me. I follow the Ayurveda Dietary Lifestyle as a quasi vegan, and intuitively after two years, I began to move towards growing mung beans, and lentils. The mung beans are moderately successful, while the lentils failed. I have really good soil, with home made compost, and yet, my plants start off well, then they deteriorate. However, I am open to learn, and any help/information you may have is welcome. Thank you again. I have subscribed. Currently, I am also growing okra, sweet potatoes and Chard/Mangold, basilicum and cucumbers. I know many more of us can do what Alik does, and I value his inspiration, and the presentation by the host, Eco No-Mads.

Thank you for this wonderful video - Australia 🇦🇺❤️🇦🇺

His concept of calculating what he needs to eat in a day, multiplied out to a year, and then planted accordingly is actually how I plant my gardens as well. It’s not just a guess. Though sometimes some things do better than others. I have never tried growing a grain/cereal though. I’d be curious to know how he processes the grain.

That guy is awesome! I love how he breaks it down into how simple it actually is. Anyone can grow food with a little know how. Thank you for sharing 🙏

Thank you so much for this documentary. I share his sentiments about permaculture farms not growing enough of their own food. This man is truly off grid. Respect.

I really enjoyed this documentary especially Alik's sense of humor, and his ability to explain things in an easy, digestible way, as well as his commitment to living a life in alignment with his beliefs, values, and worldviews. I hope more abundance of all kinds and opportunities will come Alik's way :-)

Very fascinating. In Mexico and most of the US, the traditional foods were called the 3 sisters corn, beans and squash. Corn oil is actually a recent invention. Seeds and seed oils were the traditional fat. The 3 sisters were and are still planted, in a technique known as companion planting, the maize and beans are often planted together in mounds formed by hilling soil around the base of the plants each year; squash is typically planted between the mounds. The cornstalk serves as a trellis for climbing beans, the beans fix nitrogen in their root nodules and stabilize the maize in high winds, and the wide leaves of the squash plant shade the ground, keeping the soil moist and helping prevent the establishment of weeds. Often sunflowers, sometimes called the 4th sister, were planted around the perimeter of the 3 sisters. These 4 crops offered long storing grain, protein and fat (the squash and sunflower seeds) plus the squash flesh is high in nutrients. In terms of sustainablity, this combination offers the most food per square meter, meets all macro nutrient needs, and are more drought and heat tolerant than similar planting combinations, making it one of the most promising food sources in a world that growing hotter and hotter.

Wait 750m2 is not even a quarter of an acre 😅this is amazing! 🤩

Very inspiring to see! One thing about Permaculture: We use perennial plants (like shrubs and trees) to cover our nutrition because when you use annual plants mostly, you will end up with very poor soil after some decades or maybe after generations. You take away from the soil and cant produce enought biomass to make up for it + the barely covered and shallow rooted soil has a high risk of erosion. The fertile crescent is not so fertile anymore because humans have grown cereals and beans for the last 10.000 years. So the reason why these permaculture farms still buy so much is because the knowledge of self-sufficiency with perennials is even less known and it takes longer to grow.

This was very informative and inspiring! I also appreciate how active Alik is in the comments; the discussions add so much more! So many people just put videos out and don't take time to respond to questions so that's nice to see. I did the math a couple of years ago as well, out of curiosity to see how much land I would need to feed my family. I'm slowly building up what I grow on the space that I have. This definitely encourages me to keep going, so thank you!

We grow ALMOST all our own food. Our grocery bill is literally just coffee and dairy :) Have yet to have a successful harvest of plants, still learning and clearing land, plus we're working with hard clay and a crazy microclimate (extremely hot and dry SHORT growing season), but we're doing well living off the pigs, rabbits and poultry eggs :)

A way of life which time has come (again). You are a kindred soul.

Love that he put his idea into action. I have not tried wheat yet. What an encouragement. I agree no need to harm animals for us to live well nourished.

This is what all we human should do our own. It will help so many things.