Orangutans and a solar amphitheater: Andrew Millison's Sumatra food forest
The new short follows the Orangutan Information Center's layered farm, where vegetables grow between bananas and harvests come from several crops at once.
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How a Food Forest Creates Multiple Sources of Income
Sumatra again. Andrew Millison went back to the Indonesian island for his newest short, and within ten hours it was moving faster than anything else on his channel.
"How a Food Forest Creates Multiple Sources of Income" visits a demonstration plot run by the Orangutan Information Center. The farm copies the jungle around it: tall trees, smaller trees, shrubs, then crops near the ground, with vegetables tucked between the bananas. The idea is simple. Several harvests mean several incomes, so a family does not live or die by one crop's price. Wildlife, primates included, is kept out of this production area to protect the harvest, and the farm is one piece of a wider project tying local livelihoods to restoring orangutan habitat.
It is a companion to "The Genius Plan to Rewild Palm Oil Farms (and Save the Orangutan!)", the longer film from two weeks ago, which has passed 100,000 views and is still pulling in a steady crowd. Its description credits footage from "Rewild" and "Splash and Burn", the artist Ernest Zacharevic's campaign against palm oil deforestation.
The week's other short came from much closer to home, in climate if not in miles: a lesson on what Andrew calls a solar amphitheater, with tall trees at the back stepping down toward the low winter sun so the smaller layers still get light. One viewer admitted that the title briefly made them think of a Dyson sphere.
Overall the channel ran a little above its usual daily pace. Among the outdoors and homesteading channels close to its size, Vanwives had the loud week, while most others sat below their normal levels.
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This should be standard practice worldwide
@AndrewRod-c5vSee it on YouTubeI've read the title and "Oh no, a Dyson biosphere."
Kidding, and congratulations for your work.@pomodorino1766See it on YouTube
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Andrew Millison teaches permaculture at Oregon State University. In which city is its main campus?
Oregon State University's main campus is in Corvallis, in Oregon's Willamette Valley.
