Permaculture Effects on our land vs neighbor.
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- Опубликовано: 8 янв 2025
- Today I went to my neighbors farm to see what their land looks like and why they feel envious of our green grass.
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Soon 3K! Everything looks great. Imagine, in a few years you will have massive trees everywhere, your neighbours will have minds blown.
Right, I'm going to get on my soapbox...
Firstly, green grass if left long enough will just drop seed everywhere, once it has done that, you are free to chop and drop for mulch. Your Brotherinlaw has so much grass that can be cut for mulch, and there is plenty beside the train tracks? too. I'd grab that before it's wasted. I wouldn't put trees in those tyres, the flood will wipe them out.
50 plots in your area, you should invite them all round for a tour, maybe a beer and barbeque. If they can be convinced to do a fraction of what you are doing, the consequences could be huge. It's not well known, but desertification and reforestation are not permanent or irreversible, but both grow if fed. Desert grows if bad practices are followed, greening also grows. Here's the important bit, both affect the microclimate of the immediate area. Places with more water get more rain, it is not just places with more rain get more water. Likewise no water, no rain. If your neighbours start capturing water, turning green, creating shade, not only will you have better plants to farm, but you might also get more rain.
Obviously you wont turn out like here in Scotland, we've had rain near every bloody day this year, but the Sahara was once green, other parts of Africa can be too.
A few points off the back of yours! Some grass also spreads by Rhizomes, means once it establishes it can form mats by itself, if it has enough water. It's worth Danou researching what kind his local grass is. Some of Andrew Millison's vids of the Tahr desert in Rajasthan shows just how effective it can be when whole villages do water conservation - the water table gets restored over a wide area, everyone benefits. I feel you about Scotland and rain - interestingly there's quite a lot of conservation work going on up your way to restore woodland - we deforested a lot of the UK for industry so whereas we don't look like a desert, we don't look like what we once did.
Native Hawaiians have a saying that translates to "the rain follows the forest". Hahai nō ka ua i ka ululāʻau. Western science has also established that as much as 70% of the rainfall in Amazonia comes from the trees themselves. Not just due to angiosperms but also fungi and ferns provide essential cloud-seeding potential with their spores that go all the way up into the atmosphere
amazing comparing the land and greenery. I can definitely see why your neighbors would pay attention!
In a project in Jordan, they fenced off large areas from herd of sheep and goats. Within just a few years it began to regenerate itself and plants that had been extinct in the area began to pop up. Herding animals over the land for hundreds of years is what has turned much of Sudan and Ethiopia barren.
Yet people must eat. We now understand that there has to be balance. Also may be the growing of dry climate grains like millet and sorghum can help with the balance. Also the breeding of chickens.
@lamdao1242 for sure its fine to her goats sheep cattle but it must be in moderation and rotated well to not do damage but promote regrowth
Thank you all for watching with me. Where are you viewing from?
From Mmanoko in Botswana 🎉
Die land van melk en heuning, ZA
Uit die Moot, Pretoria...
Ek mag dalk meer reën as jy kry... maar ek sit met rooi turf klei.
Nou in my 4de jaar van grond rehabilitasie.
Hello from Ohio, USA! Love seeing your process and greatly enjoying seeing the results!
Köln in Germany :)
Fantastic to see the different between yours and your neighbours land! Hope they start following your example soon.
It would be nice to see a drone view to compare your land with others.
Thank you Bill Mollison and David Holmgren, professor and student, you 2 really started something back in 1968
You become a local trendsetter. In the Netherlands we say (Goed voorbeed, doet volgen): Good example, follow suit. Slowly they will all follow your example....!
Does the chance of survival after planting increase if you grow the plants/trees longer in the shade house?
Wow 🤩 this is amazing… it’s awesome what a few big changes can do to the land, you and you workers should be very proud of your achievement. So so different from your neighbours. Removing the grazing animals for a period really does contribute to the success I am sure. If you let that grass go to seed in the autumn it and other native grasses will explode next year. You are creating the perfect environment for green growth. Looking forward to the next big rain. 🌧️
If you plant a pot of grass in a wet tray it will develop quickly.in pond in uk but you can use your shelter. I think native species best until you can find advice.
thanks very much for sharing your steps.
You should definitely pass your knowledge on to the neighbours, the more water they collect will also improve the water held in the general area. If I could afford to I'd be out there helping spread the word.
From what I understand from other regeneration projects I follow on YT, locally raising the groundwater level could benefit an area of 300 metres. The most important thing is that Simon, Lukas and other employees spread the knowledge in their community/village. They know what efforts are needed to achieve results. If each village receives pickaxes and digging tools for 5 people, a start will be made on a larger scale. If the required tools are purchased in phases, the monthly/quarterly investment will be around $75-150.
@@sms3037yes, assuming the surrounding farms/properties have money for staff to work the land. (sorry not wanting to sound negative or dismissive of what you said).
@@garryhancock-the-OG I understand what you're saying. From the keyboard it is always easy to judge, without knowing what the real situation is. My assumption was wrong.
A cheaper alternative is to lend the tools to the employees 1 day a week. No one has to incur any expenses, except for the faster depreciation of the tools. If 4 to 5 African smiles are created around the village in 1 day with the borrowed tools, then this is 200-250 per year.
@@sms3037lending the tools to the village to make their own smiles ans swales is a good idea. The guys have the knowledge to pass to be able to pass it on.
@@sms3037 In India villages do community weeks, where they create water harvesting structures, often NGOs then support this efford and pay like a dollar for every bund that was dug during that time.
I am viewing from Denmark.
Here we have had way too much rain this year, so many farmers are struggling with the ground water being at record high levels, and thus many spots in fields are so wet, that nothing has been able to grow there.
Likewise, close to streams and close to seashores, many basements have been flooded this year. And even just where the areas that have lots of hills, water have been creating new temporary streams - and for a short time (a few times this year), these new streams have become big enough, to flod ground floors of houses that are usually never flooded.
These past two years, water have been coming down in very short spurts. And have not been spread out over the whole year, has otherwise been the usual standard, for my country, Denmark.
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So, in Denmark, we are currently having a very different type of water challenge, compared to the water challenges that you are facing.
But still, I very much enjoy seeing how you successfully deal with the type of water challenges you are facing, in your location.
Please keep up the good work.
And please keep it up, to make you neighbors curios about the magic that Permaculture can do to lands in your location.
We have the same type of problems all over Europe, even in the Sahara.
Flooding is often cause by the same problem, natural wetlands and farms are cleared and drained, the water rushes downhill to the rivers causing massive floods. So, you guys need water harvesting for a different reason.
@@sailinggreenpearl2571 Indeed. It's also all about the percentage of humus in the soil. Especially corn is degrading the soil structure. We need cover crops, less tilling and direct seeding to slowly build up humus. The difference of how fast healthy soil can store water compared to degraded farmland is factor 10 and more.
@@sailinggreenpearl2571 Hmmm... once the ground water level (the aquafer) reaches the surface, it is no longer possible to harvest any more water in the soil.
When the ground water level (the aquafer) reaches above the surface of the ground, the only option is flood-ponds, flood-lakes, and where ponds or lakes do not form naturally, we are then simply talking about flooding-areas.
Where I live, we have no mountains. We only have a lot of small hills.
Also, these past, about 10-20 years, many new city-flooding aras have been integrated in many of our cities.
In the section of the town where I live, (about 5 years ago) all grass areas have for instance been remodeled, so they can be used as natural flooding areas, in the case of those once in 30 years of overwhelming cloudburst events.
So I wonder what kind of new or additional water harvesting you may be thinking about?
I had the same problem this year in Nova Scotia. My tomato harvest was unusually small this year because the plants can't grow in a swamp. The only crops that did well this year were potatoes and onions. Everything else suffered from the glut of water.
I'm watching from Japan, where I'm restoring a degraded area that is just a doormat compared to your expanse. The conditions are quite different, but I'm inspired by your efforts and ingenuity.
This is how Africa gets fixed. Good work mate. ❤
Danou have you thought of growing heat loving herbs like rosemary lavender and sage. It grows fantastically here in Bethulie Feestate. Currently we are experiencing excessive heat and drought conditions , but it does not seem to effect the above.
I thought of that immediately. I,also, thought that he could distill the lavender oil and hyaluronic acid using the recovered heat of compost known the Jean Pain method. These value added products will fetch a high price in the market. For a change, African producers won’t get the short end of the stick because the sell raw materials instead of finished goods.
Yes grow those herbs because no effort needed can probable establish certain roses too as ground cover the more plants the more water is retained storing water in the ground is not enough if no plants to hold and regenerate
Cactus as well
I would not wait the best time is today
Shade house - call it what makes sense to you - after all, its green in colour so call it a green house 😁
It’s green in colour
It is a green house
Great stuff again.
Perhaps you can put some compost in the tyres and grow some potatos/sweet potatos or cassave.
You probably will need half a bucket of water per tyre, every three days or so, but that way it's doing something this season.
The green thumb company! Brilliantly done. I know when I travelled the 7 times through Namibia I found it very arid.
Hello from Hong Kong! Please consider inviting your neighbours to your land and let them see the wonder of permaculture! That might be incentivised to do the same, propagating the reforestation effort, eventually culminating in improved microclimate!
Your brother-in-laws property could use both water harvesting and one pass of grazing to take out the excess oxidizing grass, or have that grass cut for mulch to support the green areas. If every yard in the village put an "african smile" in their yard and kept animals out of it for one month after a rain, first, there would likely be much less home damage during a heavy rain, there would be more ground water, and every yard would have greenery from either grasses or whatever they planted. I hope you get rain soon. I'd recommend leaving a footpath into your shade house so you can get to all the plants. If you have some bricks or something you can stack, you can make a shelf in there for more plants above the shorter plants. Perhaps some type of mesh table design in the future where you have so many more plants.
You have done a wonderful thing. Couldn’t you invite all your neighbours to come and see what you do and encourage them to do the same
A how to on making the soil soft, and cool. Well done for seeing that profit or loss is the condition of the land. Any fool can asset strip, but being smart is securing the future by systems management.
I am soo excited. Keep the videos coming
Fantastic, best of luck to you
The difference is amazing. That's so interesting! Could you fill the tires with stones to keep them in place? You would need a lot of big stones.
Rocks are rare. Use Just soil. And get some "sandbags" to fill more soil to lay them on top.
fill your tyres with rocks, start by filling the area the air normally housed in then fill the center section until level with the top, if you drive stakes into each tyre before adding the stone you could if you so wished weave in some more thorny brush on top of the tyres, this would more truly represent the way beavers build their dams. I do understand why you want to watch the dam build itself with debris but considering the unpredictable rains would it not be better to build the dam in time for the next rainfall in order to take full advantage???
Way to grow! 🌱❤️
@2:10 this looks like cenchrus/buffelgrass to me. The seeds don't grow if you plant them right after harvesting, they need a scarification period.
Thank you!!! Saved me loads of time!
Pragtig.Een van die dae is al jou voedsel plantasies gras groern en toe gegroei.Is mooi om die lewe en vooruitgang te sien op jou grond.
great video once again,subs are going up well❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Feels like I am. Living in a dream.!
wonderful! 💚
Love the daily videos and the continuing paradise. Why don’t the other neighbours copy your methods ? Don’t they care? Our family in the uk would really like to know !I am doing the same at our Portugal land and want to leave a legacy to the next generation .
Have you tried adding activated charcoal and pottery shards to your soil for organisms, microbes and fungi to to grow on?
Some people it would seem never Learn about Overgrazing
So true. Just can't get it through their thick heads.
Would it be worth putting a bunch of manure, plant matter in the tires ahead of time, just to kick start some soil, microbial regeneration prior to planting trees next season.
Your property looks so much healthier.
✅I'm disappointed that you used all your resources in one place - but it's your farm. 👍
✅Great to hear that Emanuel has 'green fingers'. I imagine you can keep him busy full time watering all of the seeds you have planted until well established. In 2025 it may be a good idea to plant seed long before the screaming hot summer arrives. 👍
✅ 1:35 all of these grasses are ready to be cut with a good sharp scythe for animal fodder or mulch. If you cut them now, they will be encouraged to expand. You can probably take a second cutting at the end of the rainy season. A caution, don't cut them short. 👍
✅once the grass has been cut you can clearly see the outline of the plant. With a very sharp, flat shovel [ no sides ], drive the blade straight into the ground, dividing the grass into two pieces. It will be much easier to do this if you water the whole clump before division. leave one half undisturbed and divide the other piece into 3 or 4 pie slices. Pot up the pieces with potting soil and give everything another thorough watering. Put the potted grass in the shadehouse👍
All the best!
Great effort Fella...🤜
From Vancouver Canada
Bloody fantastic work💪🏽
Uhm maybe i can apply some wisdom to my tropical country too
Greetings from Brazil 😊
Keep bits of everything growing wild. Don't exterminate anything natural, it's there for some strong reason.
Control, balance and compromise are the keys..
Try Morringa too. Its magical!
Agree 100%
Why are you using tyres? They dumped a whole lot off the Miami coast and now have found they've bleached stuff out of the rubber which has really damaged the seabed. Therefore I'd be careful how you use them.
Great work on harvesting the water! Do you plant trees and grasses on the contours of your land? This is another way of slowing the water across the land.
From other videos I've seen, your neighbour needs to extend the rocks/ leaky dam structure further out past the washout so the water is spread further over the land. And he needs to build several of them along the water course.
Here in Australia the farmers have collected seed from the edges of the road where the native grasses grow to revegetate those grasses on their farms. I'd let that patch of grass go to seed so you can collect it and spread it on broken up soil before your next rainy season.
Good on you for still having green grass on your land in the summer! Well done!
I'm from Sydney Australia. Where are you located in Namibia? I've been watching the great work the guys at Ocean Conservation Namibia do to rescue seals caught in plastic!
Good use of plastic waste(tyres). Have you consider another use of plastics in form of plastic tarp for water holding properties? small ponds, water harvesting systems etc.
Amazing 👍
Great to see all that green. Do you think this will inspire your neighbours to try similar methods to you?
What's the potting mix you used for the moringas in the first part of this video?
Respect bro nice work
Amazing to see the difference with your neighbours,do they wonder why?or ask how you can achieve this?
Would you consider get a drone to get aerial shots and film?
looks good
omg i understood what you said to Simone! wow, never thought learning Dutch would be THIS useful haha
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it looks so good! 2.84 subscribers
BIG question: what does it take to convince your neighbors? Have you tried?
The climate is dry, but I still wouldn't trust tires not to breed mosquitos when laid out like that. Even if not planted right away, it might be a good idea to fill them.
Nunca se esqueça...
1) plante em linhas...isso vai facilitar na hora da colheita.
2) plante a maior variedade possível de arvores frutíferas
3) faça buraco na terra...coloque garrafa de plástico cheia de água...para que possa manter as raizes úmidas
4) faça um circulo ao redor de cada árvore...e ,mantenha esse circulo sempre cheio de folhas. As folhas vão manter a raiz mais úmida, além de se decompor e nutrir mais a árvore.
❤❤ 👌👌👌I agree !! but people now adays love to overcomplicate ideas and things.
&they hate simple, easy, natural and cheap ideas ,they worship Expensive wastages, =
SIMPLER IS BETTER . or as the Acronym KISS keep it simple &short.🤔🤔🤔
Amazing!
Your Property is going to become so green once these grass patches go in to seed.
Inspire them to make a change as they see the evidence for themselves.
This video and a video which was showing the “garden” from various house was very revealing. The gardening culture in Otjiwarongo is very poor. People could do so many simple things, but don’t do them and prefer to stay idle or completely unemployed. Amazing that the mulch gets burned by the normal people. That is very bad.
O capim é essencial para proteger a terra do sol escaldante. Corte o capim e coloque no pé das árvores. Podar as árvores dará mais força para elas crescerem.
If you flood the neighbours to with a bank it will keep the water from flooding the horse padok as much it will slowly infiltrate into your place
you'll have to start a consultancy business.
Even your native trees Look greener then those at your neighbor land
Great job. But I can't understand why the other doesn't do the same.
Me neither
Not too impressive to me oc, but a GREAT video for those who never heard of permaculture/reg ag.
If you're starting a permaculture, you'll love learning about the word, "phreatophyte"...
You're welcome...
I did enjoy it now. Thank you!
@@thefoodforestnamibia
I'm glad you like it.
The phreatophyte that interests me most, right now, is a "blue Palo Verde" which produces edible beans, hummingbird flowers, and is a nitrogen fixer.
Mesquite is also interesting...
I'm in California though... I'm sure they could grow in Namibia...
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Het jy al Joel Salatin of Allan Savory se tegnieke om grond te herstel bestudeer. Wat jy beskryf as oorbeweiding is dalk net 'n kwessie van die verkeerde bestuur van weivelde...
Janee dit is sekker so. Ek ken nie hulle bestuur plan nie maar ek reken sit soveel diere op as wat ek kan bekostig en verkoop waneer ek geld nodig het...
better to plant some food plants like CHICKPEA, SORGHUM, stuff like that. for carbs and minerals food source
those plants I mentioned, are drought/heat resistant.
What's the effect on your neighbors seeing your land?
You seem to be doing great work, and wish you luck. But, have to be honest, its even more fun to read the "genius" in the comment section. Great tips...(almost) nothing happen, yet, but the neighbors are already a bunch of idiots for not religious copying. Let it be the light!
Cape Town
Well, it's a green shade house...
Dis natuurlik baie belangrik vir almal om water retrnsie te doen dit sal bsie goed wees vir julle grondwater tafel om op te tel en te verseker dat jul boorgate vrugbaar bly met goeie water.
Thank you for the ride! The difference to the neighbour's properties is stunning!
You are on the right way and I hope you will get another heavy rain like the last one to harvest a lot of water.
Maybe you should link your neighbour with the overgrasing the TED talk of Allan Savory about regreening the desert by livestock management.
ruclips.net/video/vpTHi7O66pI/видео.html
I imagine all your neighbours would improve their land!
I watched the link, I originally thought Allan promoted overgrazing but this video explained this theory better than the other one I saw. It’s more about livestock rotation and getting multiple family’s to combine their livestock into one big herd so that different sections of land have rest periods. Thank you for sharing.
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This is my first time watching one of your videos, so please forgive if I seem behind the curve. What you're doing on your land is obviously working, and what the neighbours are doing is not. Have you shown any of them what you are doing and the difference it makes? I'm only asking this because if you could get the majority of the neighbouring properties to do the same as you, eventually, collectively, you'd raise the water table in your locality, allowing everyone to store far more water than through water harvesting alone.
@@pinkelephants1421 for now they stil think I am nuts but I am sure a couple years from now that wil change
@thefoodforestnamibia Just wait until there's a REALLY tough, prolonged drought season or devastating flooding. Watch them change their tunes quick smart. You'll be laughing your head off - all the way to the bank. Washed-out roads, fencelines, and bought in feedstocks aren't cheap.
I'm a former Kiwi farmer's daughter, so I know how much these things can cost - usually at the most inconvenient time possible.
You're doing somthing wrong with video encoding. 1080p compression artifacts are horrible on this video in comparison to others on RUclips.
Thank you! Not sure where to start to fix it but now at least I know about it.
Well the shading is Green😂
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@@thefoodforestnamibia Great, Video! Please be aware that tires create toxic soil and toxic water.
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We tried that as well problem is the wires inside the wall
@@thefoodforestnamibia The steel belts are darn near impossible to puncture. Tires are made with radial steel belts for that reason.
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aaaaaah, get the tires away from your land... don;t plant in them
May be adding a link you know of, Jeff Lawson in Jordan
ruclips.net/video/BImVcMm0QCI/видео.htmlsi=k1q1pg-kohaHGyz1
Organic matter and any paper waste and manure and keep repeating
I thought you might want to take a look at this youtuber- very knowledgeable re what you are trying to do albeit in Portugal @TheDutchFarmer