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DeWitt Permaculture
Добавлен 25 апр 2024
DeWitt Permaculture/Food Forest Virginia is a landscape design company. Charles J. Lawson is a permaculture practitioner, designer, and educator, based in Virginia.
No Mow Permaculture
Do you want to start a food forest but don't know where to start? Are you all-in on "No Mow May" and want to take it to the next level? Do you want to free range your chickens and never buy feed again? Do you want to see native plants take back your landscape? Do you want to support pollinators and provide wildlife habitat? Are you wondering how you can build your topsoil passively? This video is for you!
No Mow May + Food Forests = No Mow Permaculture
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No Mow May + Food Forests = No Mow Permaculture
Visit www.foodforestvirginia.com for more
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Water Garden at Richard Bland College of William and Mary
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A short tour of a ~1 acre Water Garden at Richard Bland College of William and Mary, home of the oldest and largest Pecan groves in Virginia. This tour showcases Virginia native plants and some of the Asian elements remaining from the garden's original design. Petersburg, Virginia. USDA Zone 7.
Permaculture Pro-Tip: Deep Litter Method for Mulch Fertilizer
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Do you raise chickens? Stack your functions with this hack for making your own mulch fertilizer!
Soil Type and Drainage Test
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Ever wondered what kind of soil you have? Do you then wonder what to do with it? Do you want to know how well your soil drains after rainfall? Do you want a vegetable garden but don't know where to put it? Do you want a pond but don't know where to put it? Watch this to find out how to test your soil type, and what to do about how your soil drains water.
Alternate Leaders and Chop and Drop
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Do you have a tree that is trying to produce several "alternate leaders" (including "water sprouts")? Have you ever heard of "chop and drop" as a way to make your own living mulch? ... Ever heard of bush cherries?
Fruit Tree Planting 101
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Let's walk through all the necessary steps of considering where, when, and how to plant a fruit tree.
What the scythe?
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An example of why and how I use a scythe in my no mow permaculture landscape and food forest tree guilds.
Applied Permaculture Principles on Acres
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Applied Permaculture Principles on Acres
Where did you get your scythe? The classic scythe is surprising hard for me to find.
They are! I use the European style; Falci grass blade from scytheworks, & custom snath from scythesupply
Where is your deer fence? I have tons of deer that come to the property.
I only have a 4' fence around my backyard (primary food growing area), and within that another 6' fence around my primary vegetable garden. Deer will eat the low-hanging fruit sometimes. My dog, and some bird netting, keep some VIP fruits protected.
You mentioned syntropic agriculture in the tropics and temperate zones. You might be interested in this guy trying to syntropic agriculture in a Texas desert: www.youtube.com/@dustupstexas/videos
Thanks, I'll check him out
Well done sir. You do a good job of explaining nomow, chopdrop, fertilizing system, guiding w/ indigenous-plus for fruit and eye candy around keystone species in a package which includes an excellent exercise routine for hand maintenance while presenting the overarching idea behind permaculture.
>"So this is how you do no-now permaculture:" >sharpens scythe >starts mowing
you: sees nothing but the 1% of grass cutting, and ignores the whole point of why
"No Mow" is in reference to a garden/landscaping trend called "No Mow May". This trend is about converting some amount of monoculture lawn into biodiverse meadow or prairie. It is not about a strict abolition of all mowing.
dang u eat the wild lettuce raw? that's awesome. I break the plant apart and throw it all in the pressure cooker and make a tea. Cant imagine chewing the stalk lol, one drop of the latex is enough to make me cringe.
I found dog fennel does attract some pretty butterflies. Just not good to eat due to causing liver issues. For the chickens how do you keep predators our
We have a dog that stays around, a couple roosters, and give them lots of trees and shrubs (as opposed to open lawn) to hide from predators
Amazing channel..binge watching your videos! Can’t wait for all your future videos!
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LOVE This video, so inspiring!! thank you for sharing your information , just subscribed!
Great video! I started my food forest 2.5 years ago. I put down wood chips (8-12 Inches) and it got rid of most unwanted “weeds”. A year later Bindweed popped up all over the place. I couldn’t keep on top of it and it spread vigorously. Any way to get rid of it? Of course without chemicals
I like using a scythe to make mulch.
me too! easy as heckin
Sumac was used by Native people (tea) to control diabetes/hypoglycemic symptoms. 1950's research could not find 'why' although proved it's usage.
Hey man I will say the tea in some cases is easier to apply to the existing plants rather than the compost mulch
definitely
Keep up the good work
Keep up the good work
Migratory animals bring many great things
New here, beautiful garden 😊❤
Thanks! I'd like to take credit but it was mostly Mother Nature! hah
I have been No Mow for 21 years (on a thin soil landscape). My trees have taken their time to grow, but I really think being No Mow all this time has helped build a better soil. I don't really harvest the grass. I don't want to use machines at all anywhere in my garden. All I do is pull away grass when I want to plant something. Due to the (initially) very thin soil, I did start with the fruit bushes first - currants, gooseberries, etc, etc. And I have quite a few of these now (as I propagate some plants every year from the few plants I bought). The trees are taking much longer to grow, as the soil is still quite thin. But they are getting there, and I am getting some fruit off them over the last couple of years. Yeah, I like 'chop and drop trees. I have several Elderberries. The stems break down so fast. I did try and grow a Pheasant Berry for the same reason. It didn't work and I will get another one sometime, but I think it would be a good one, and the chickkies will like the berries I suspect. I have decided to add 'thickets' of quick growing native trees to selectively coppice, adding the brush to brash heaps, there for the numerous insects and some fungi to break down (it is amazing just how quickly the brash heaps start to drop once there's an established insect and fungi system working through it. Oh, I do that twisting of grass bundles under my trees too. Not too close to the stem though. It was okay, but be careful if you have voles in your garden. Voles will use the dead grass as a place to hide - and then nip out to gnaw certain apple trees (Jonagold is one they'll attack if you make it too easy). I'm going for ducks first (eggs in the incubator), as they have sloopy poop that can go straight on the ground too. I'm in the UK, so different birds, but there are now so many, and the insect life is improving all the time. Ah well, this looks interesting. I'll subscribe.
Can’t believe you’re doing that in flip flops!!
@donnab6890 why?
where can I get a scythe like yours? All I can find are Halloween costumes and modern looking short ones.
@@notavideographer scytheworks or scythesupply
This what I want but tropical permaculture. I will only need a machete
@@improvisedsurvival5967 machete is my second fav tool!
I've always wanted to own a scythe! 😅
My no mow zone is my favorite part of my gardens ❤
I live in zone 2b, and it's amazing, by the end of June the "grass" , a mix of natural and human introduced quack grass, is upwards of 4 feet! A scythe is on my wish list. Where did you get yours?! We let our yard grass grow past dandelions and other more native plants/flowers first bloom stage for bees etc. I employ chop and drop for vetches, thistles and lambs quarters... etc. To "green mulch " my fruit trees, which are surrounded by wild roses, gooseberry, saskatoon berry and chokecherry bushes. Ground covers i like are dew berries, strawberries and woodland greens.
And! Thank you for your presentation. Well done and several good tips and affirmations of what I'm doing here❤
@@carolvandale5597 scytheworks and scythesupply
How do you handle the slope where your house sits? Does it necessitate having to direct water/deal with erosion?
No it sits at just a position that the water goes around it and downhill
I just came in from chopping biomass. Have a scythe, but haven't set it up. Right now using electric hedge clippers to 3D trim bushes and trees. Works ok for small patches of grass. Can you use the scythe to easily and safely trim vertical planes of bushes and/or use overhead for trees?
first time viewer. I like your format and the information, while not new to me, is a good refresher. And you do a great job of putting bits of information together.
thanks! I know this isn't a totally new idea, but I thought it useful to link "no mow" and permaculture. glad you liked it.
Thank you for drawing attention to syntropic principles in a temperate climate. I'm in Zone 5 and have been using linear guilds with chop and drop for around 5 years (is a guild really a guild if you've just planted? When do the interactions actually start happening?). You mentioned the sunblocking leaves (usually large) and the more intense sun in the tropics. In temperate climates leaves are smaller and less dense(allowing more sunlight through to the ground) and the sun is less intense. One could argue that any photon that hits mulch is wasted vs being intercepted by a photosynthesing leaf. Living groundcover should provide more carbohydrates to the subterranean world and presumably increase the life and ultimate output of the system. On the other hand syntropic style mulchng in temperate climates does provide a more tidy look for traditional N. American aesthetics. It's hard to get a uniform groundcover without pulling out things that aren't uniform (e.g. weeds). Smothering everything with mulch is a way to achieve uniformity (at least once it dries out). Of course there are hybrids all along this spectrum. Is our most efficient model in temperate climates to mulch the ground to the point of groundcover exclusion or to have living groundcover? P.S. In case it's interesting, the bursting chop and drop here is designed as autumn olive (none introduced), comfrey, goldenrod, duckweed and oregano (invasive here).
I agree that a photon on mulch is wasted, ideally guilds should have a living herbaceous ground cover plant. In temperate zones it becomes hard to find the perfect candidate that is available in the winter through summer (perhaps there should be multiple ground covers). No matter what, I think the West needs to let go of their preference for highly-manicured gardens (usually synonymous with heavy chemicals, too) , and I think permaculture can be a great gateway into a more functional "look".
p.s. there is a non-invasive sister to Autumn Olive called Goumi, I have several and are very happy with them
@@DeWittPermaculture Slightly easier in temperate climates with full winters. Only need 3 season ground cover. When you get a more closed canopy, hostas are great. Tasty and live in very low light. Of course spring ephemerals can be added for a bit longer cover. But, honestly, there are so many ground cover options in zone 5. What makes ground cover options so difficult in you area? Given you haven't found ground cover for your area, what about multiple species intercropped. Different growing patterns should allow varying mix mixes across all season. No season would be bare.
@@SeekingBeautifulDesign Here in Virginia the summers get very hot; we've been in a very hot (days of upper 90s-100s) drought and it killed off half my Sweet Charlie/Ground Ivy groundcover. Intercropping ground covers will have to be how it goes here.
@@DeWittPermaculture Thanks. I do like my 2 varieties of goumi, but there are some caveats: 1. They are less vigorous than AO. Certainly mine don't produce the biomass necessary to do much. 2. They produced well, but birds took 95% the minute they turned red. I barely harvested any. So, given the birds take goumi more than they take AO around here, I wonder the level of invasiveness. 3. Nurseries may sell you incorrect plants. I ordered goumi and received AO. Couldn't tell until after a season. Had to order again from a different nursery. I used AO because it was free (naturalized here) and massively productive. They were used in such a way as to not introduce any new AO and to reduce the bird spread seed load in my neighborhood. I've not seen this technique used elsewhere.
I would like to know more about the sumac you use for pink lemonade please! I'm in the PNW, can it overwinter here?
It's usually made from Staghorn Sumac berries, mostly found near the east coast but hardy down to Zone 4
....And you don't have to mow your lawn!!
This is awesome! I wish I lived in an area where I could have chickens in my backyard lol I don’t think the HOA would like it. I always hate having to mow it, though, I like all the insects and butterflies that come when you don’t.
Try to bargain with your HOA, some breeds are very silent, and you don't need a rooster to get eggs
You have to mow the paths
yup, but I scythe* them. very little input for my abundant output!
Queen Ann’s lace can be easily confused with poison hemlock… which is deadly !! So if you are going tell someone about an edible plant… also tell them about poisonous look a likes !!!
no, they don't look alike
I am more hesitant to make this liquid stuff I’m not really into anaerobic stuff I rather make compost but I think it’s mostly cuz I don’t want smelly water aerobic compost doesn’t stink
yeah fair enough, but now that I think of it I never smell this stuff and I walk by it multiple times a day. I guess it stays in the bucket (anaerobic means no air - it's pretty darn airtight). Compost tea is another great product to make!
@@DeWittPermaculture I think it’s just a preference of what you want to deal with and what is available around you like where I am we lack water and it saves me a step just to build a pile when I cut my grasses and clovers down
@@DeWittPermaculture my wife likes the compost pile better than the nasty water barrels also haha
That’s the smell of success.
Mowing is gay
i learn something in every one of your videos, very good, thank you!
Hello and thank you! Where did you learn everything? thank you for the tips in this video, I will do this with my trees. I have plum, apricot, nectarine, peach, apple, pear. My Pear tree's leader actually broke and now it has two leaders. What can i do to fix that? its only 4' tall. thanks! great work! more please
Learned from the web, experience, Shenandoah Permaculture Institute, and various permaculture farms across the world. Now (summer) is a good time to prune alternate leaders. You can choose which leader is in the best shape, and prune the other one off. Keep an eye on it and keep pruning off the new growth that goes in unwanted directions.
Very peaceful and informational, thank you. I have a newbie permaculture food forest, still learning. You just convinced me to get Deschampsia cespitosa | Tufted hairgrass that i was on the fence about. Its a native grass and grows 3' tall. Beautiful and will be great biomass i think. And can you please tell us more about syntropic agriculture principles? i like the air quoted phrases lol
Thanks! that grass looks nice, I appreciate it's ornamental aspects, too. Also consider warm season clumping grasses for biomass.
Great video my man
I know right where you are
Where in Va are you located?
South Central VA, Dinwiddie county