Grow Your Own Animal Food "Living Permaculture" Episode 2 with Brendon McKeon
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- Опубликовано: 13 авг 2014
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There is no greater feeling than producing the majority of what we need on on own land. We started this journey 9 years ago in Costa Rica and are so amazed with how far we have come. Feeding ourselves from our land always seemed like a daunting task, but feeding all of our animals too...Impossible. So we thought. I am happy to say, after years of hard work and experimentation, we are finally feeding our animals from our own homegrown food.
Animals are such an integral part of a Permaculture Homestead. They give us so much abundance, make our work on the farm so much easier, and bring us so much joy in our relationships with them. Living in the tropics certainly may make the task a little bit easier, but I am confident this can be done anywhere in the world. We are what we eat...and we eat what our animals eat. Fresh, homegrown, Organic food makes for happy and healthy animals. We would love to hear your comments on what you do in your part of the world. Thanks for watching.
Brendon McKeon.........................Permaculture Designer
Stephen Orth.................................Video Production
Soundtrack by Kevin Zacek
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The music is great but a bit loud and I can't hear you very well. Great info, thanks for sharing.
Wish I started with permaculture 20 years ago when I ve heard it first. Now I lost my house and business it will take me few more years to get the farm. Nice life wish I was there.
Good vid but the music was too loud and got me distracted lol
TheOmegaLeaf Thanks for the comment OmegaLeaf! We have learned a lot about music level since that video!(-: Make sure and check out some of our other videos....
Great episode on caring for your animals with local real food. Thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge.
Thank you for taking the time to watch our videos Blake!(-:
Love it! Thank you for sharing it. Cannot have enough of it
I never really knew it until just a couple of months ago after moving to Nicaragua that I have an undeniable passion to do just what you have achieved . I am blown away by the level at which you have done it . I have been researching and studying all I can lately on how to turn a piece of land into a perfect , harmonious cycle of plants , food , animals and everything else , natural . You have incorporated everything that I have been learning about into your forest, from mulch , compost , teas , animal fertilizer , naturally grown animal fodder to even a rocket stove . I am so much more inspired now than I was , Thank you so much
Hi Dirk
Thanks for your comments and I am so happy we offered some inspiration....that is our goal. If you want to check out an amazing project in your next of the woods our friends have an amazing farm on Isla Omatempe. Here is their website:
projectbonafide.com/
Brendan ,
Yes , I have seen their website (Bonafide.com) and one or two of their videos on RUclips , however at this point I am not quite interested in paying a large fee to take their permaculture course and travel to Rivas , then on the ferry etc. Plus , I hear Ometepe is very expensive . Even if invited for the day it would be costly for me right now . I feel like my money would be more well spent on a solid woodchipper/shredder , a truckload of "tierra buena and some seeds or starts as in comfrey and some other nitrogen fixers etc. from which I could begin inoculating my compost . I have a Nica friend with a property near Masaya that has a hard , dry soil . I want to begin slowly and progressively to turn the soil into something workable through the use of woodchips , shredded Neem leaves , mango leaves , earthworm castings and teas etc. The property already has some common central American trees and plants , such as Platano , Cocoa , coconut etc. I think I may be able to get my hands on some cow manure too I guess what I really want/need to do is get at minimum a small workable patch of decent earth from which I can start growing the neccesary plants to perpetuate the cycle . Sorry , I am rambling , thanks for the reply
Brendon , sorry I spelled your name wrong !
Nice episode. The rooster I did not mind but as others mentioned the music was way too loud.
really great and educational
Love your vids all the way from New Zealand brother - keep em up.
Eyebrows went up when you said growing coffee - yeha.
Thank you for your comment Team Conscious!
great video! we do something very similar here in the cold north by using hay cubes, whole grain, milk, and food scraps. so fun to watch your process!
+dirtpatcheaven Thanks for the comment dirtpatchheaven!(-:
I Just was blown away and inspired from your video. i just subscribed, so i will check weekly for a video.
Im really glad we have this youtube deal where distance is the least of our problems.
Keep doing what you do brendon..good luck and thanks for all the info
That's great to hear Erick...so glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks for the kind words.
I love this video, thank you, great, great info.
Great to know that you enjoyed our video! Thanks for your comment Paula.
It is amazing how much food your are producing and that you are able to feed your animals such a quality diet.
We have Healthy Happy animals that is for sure!(-: Living in the tropics helps with being able to grow our food all year long. Thanks for watching!
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Love it!
Good to hear you enjoyed the video Steve!
Thank you for such a great video. New subscriber; I didn't know about the black strap molases.
Thanks for posting the link :-) Great clip & hope to be in a similar position here one day..
Cheers..
Thanks for watching Rob Bob! Look for our weekly video about permaculture and adventure in Costa Rica posted every Thursday.
lol the rooster!
Just came across your videos recently. I was wondering if the boil mash and store method would work for breadfruit ? , what about mashing boiling and layering / drying in the sun as an option . Great videos re tropical permaculture .. thanks !!
wow! Thank you!
Thank you for watching POSITIVEMOVEMENT!(-: More to come.....
Love the life you are living! How can i get some of those "pabi" seeds or plants never seen it before i believe it would grow here in Barbados West Indies. Hope i spelt it correctly. Is this fruit eaten by both humans & animals?
Great vid and info Brendon !
I've subscribed :)
Good to know that you enjoyed the video. Thanks for stopping by Baraka!
Thanks for Subscribing and leaving a comment Baraka. Great to know that you enjoyed the video!
Great info but music is very loud...
can u pls make a vid about ur rocker stove design? tnx
Hey hope you all doing well , enjoying xmas , pls we need more videos like this next year please, updates ✌️👍😊
thank you very much for the info have a great day
Thank you for watching our video and leaving a comment.
thanks for useful informations from real-life permaculture system
Thanks for your comment Karol! Good to know you enjoyed our video!
Have you guys tried Moringa for a plant protein fodder source? Also the minerals are high as well^^ Great channel, love it!!
very cool thanks
Thank you Steve!
Please show us how you store the feed
I have a question? If you don’t mind me asking, are your cow’s miniature zebus. I read that the milk is A2? And if the cows are miniature zebus where can I buy them? I am in Panama. Another question pleases, if there are miniature zebus is the meat good for eating.
Forgive me for asking many questions but I have other one? What kind of feed do you feed them? We don’t have much grass, do you think fodder is good with other supplements like taro for starch, legumes for fullers and such. Thank you
Seems like the perfect environment/climate for a little "bug ranching"... mealy worms or crickets for the chickens?
+Karen Pusin Great idea Karen!(-:
Hey hope you guys are 👍 how come there are no new video pls we depending on you so the more the better from Ghana 🇬🇭❤️
wow,,, you guys are so good, I´m so proud that people like you come here to do this unbelievable things. great job,,, well done... I love it....
Alonzo! Thanks for the comment mi amigo! Hope to see you soon......
Alonso Fernandez Thanks Bro!
Good job.
Thanks for watching Juan Carlos!
Awesome video! Growing all year sounds awesome but I don't know how much I'd enjoy such a hot humid climate. lol
John B Thanks for your comment and watching our video John. We live in the mountains where it is perfect weather and cool nights with very few humid days!(-: Down by the beaches is where it is really humid and very uncomfortable for me.
Wow. Shows how much I know. I just hear Costa Rica and think hot and steamy. Lol
I guess you will have to come visit now!(-: See you soon....
Love what you are doing, actually I'd love to do myself that would be a dream come true.
Thanks for your comment 50 Ducks in a Hot Tub!
For protein i am using Arnica de montaña (Thitonia)...
muy buen video.
Thank you for your comment Orlando!
You could grow beans,pigeonpeas and tamarind for legume protein
I have been looking for your dry microorgism mix clip but i cant find it for some reson, could you please leave me the link when you have time .. thank you very much and what kind of minerals you use in formula with rice flour and these mixer can it be feed to all livestock thank you again so much ..
Livestock like?
meat chickens
egg laying chickens
meat goats
milk goats
egg laying ducks
meat ducks
milk cows
meat cows
turkeys
pig
Videos are great and what you are doing is great... but my personal opinion is to lower the volume of the background music or remove it completely. It just adds a lot of difficulty to hear what you are saying since there are already the insects and other noises. :-)
Thank you for your comment. I agree with you about the sound level being to high. We are unable to remove the sound from this video but we have made sure that our other videos have little or no music in them. Thank you for watching our video.
Okie Dokie :-)
Looking forward to seeing more of your great work!
The music got the better of me sporty bye
I have goats I would like to grow food for. They get alfalfa hay but that is getting really expencive. I unfortunatly do not live in the tropics. I live in the desert on 10 acres in Arizona. What can I grow here that my goats would eat?
I like wat ur doing
+Leonica Powell It is good to know that you enjoyed the video. Thank you for your comment!
That is one huge 'pot'. This is awesome. Can any of these things be grown in a semi-tropical sub-climate in inland areas. I live in Northern California and we have a very long season for growing. I Love the idea of PermaCulture and never found information for continuous growth and harvest until the past couple years. I would love to know more.
:D Thank you for any information, sources, resources... I would even love some seeds if available, to experiment with. Thank You Again.
+Deanna Stevens Hi there
So glad to hear you are feeling inspired by our videos and permaculture. I also lived in Northern California for many years, it's a beautiful spot. The climate here in Costa Rica is very different and many of our Tropical tree and plant species will not work in Northern California. That said, there are many things you can grow and experiment with. There is a series of books on Edible forest gardening that is much more specific to temperate climates and would probably be a great resource for you. The website is: www.edibleforestgardens.com/
Thanks for your comment and the best of luck with your new found passion!!
+Brendon McKeon Thank you for getting back to me. I have been passionate about gardening since I was a teen. Now I feel it is an absolute must! The economy is not stable. I have a love for organic and definitely sustainable. I try to keep my footprint light. Thank you for the resource. Where did you live up here? I live in Shasta County... Not too far from Shasta Lake. It is Beautiful. Very Beautiful. We even had enough rain to have it nearly full when last summer it was at the bottom of the dreggs. I subscribed and will be following your wonderful series. Thanks again.
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good ideas. i will have to work on replacing you produce with things available here in Colorado at almost 8000 ft
Great idea yourself Donna!(-: Please keep us posted on what you figure out. Thank you for watching our video and leaving a comment. I look forward to hearing back from you!
What a boon to find this video. I live in Guanacaste. We are not a permaculture project, but we do farm and I am the permaculture geek here. It's been hard to talk to others about making our own concentrate for cows. We have 6 between milkers and oxen, then 3 horses, 3 dogs and 1 cat. Those sacks of feed are EXPENSIVE! Our cows are very spoiled, they won't eat bananas and they won't behave while being milked unless they have their concentrate. I'd like to correspond with you and exchange notes. The others here don't seem to trust my "half-baked RUclips knowledge", but if I can show them results happening practically next door, they might pay more attention. Thanks, Sergio.
Hi Sergio
Ya, I would be happy to exchange notes with you. Send me a message on our website contact page. www.ecooasis.org
I visited your page, and it says nowhere where you are located. By the way, are you having problems with iguanas (garrobos) and leaf-cutting ants? How do you do? I'm having most of my efforts frustrated by them. Thanks. How can you correspond with you directly? There doesn't seem to be any private message feature on youtube anymore.
Hi Brendon. Awesome video. You really care for your animals huh! May I know how big is your farm? in acres/hectares? Me and my wife are in the process of buying a property in her home country in SE Asia. The plan is turn it into a permaculture farm. What is your opinion in terms of property size to support a family of 5? was it an easy decision to leave the US and start a farm in Costa Rica? I am a mid-career professional in a pretty good company BUT qutting the rat race and working in a permaculture farm would be a dream come true! any advise?
Thanks for watching, I'm glad you enjoyed the video. Our farm is 16 Hectares(40 acres). Half of the farm is in pasture and the other half in Tropical Orchard/Agroforestry systems. Size of land is very dependant on what types and how many animals you want. To raise enough food for 1 family you really don't need much land, 2 hectares(5 acres) would be plenty and you could still have a dairy and meat cow. If you want to raise anything to make a profit then having a bit more land is helpful. It is all a matter of how much you want to invest, how much maintenance you want to have, and what your goals are. It is not easy to make a living as a farmer, but certainly is a very rewarding lifestyle. If you are not dependent on the farm for your income then I would go with 2-5 hectares. This will give you plenty of space to have your personal food systems and a wide variety. If you want to produce income it is good to focus on one or two things that can make a profit. It can get complicated trying to manage to many systems. I would suggest planting 2-3 trees of all the varieties you can get and then pick one or two things to plant a lot of for profit. This will help keep maintenance easier but will also give you a big variety for your family. Raising fish is a great source of food and you can produce a lot in a small area. Our dairy cows provide a lot of food for our family and the excess milk and whey can be fed to other animals like chickens and pigs. Plant tons of bananas, they are good for everything and you can make many different products from them...vinegar, flour, ect. We will be doing a more in depth video on our agro-forestry systems soon, this will give you some good ideas on how to create your orchard systems. We are also going to be releasing a video soon on building fish ponds start to finish.
I hope this helps and feel free to ask me any other specific questions you have.
***** The property that we are about to purchase is only around 7.8 hectares, so dairy cows might not be a good idea.
We are considering chickens and ducks and goat for milk. Great
suggestion on raising fish, though I have no idea what to feed to say tilapia that is grown from the farm and not from the agro stores. Thanks for your reply, I am so glad I discovered your videos prior to starting my permaculture farm.
That chicken was killing the fruits behind him. I guess they do love the fruits very much.
How do I turn the hillbilly music off?
Why do you need to cook it?
I would like to visit
Let us know if you come to Costa Rica. We would love to show you around!
i want to do this on Ecuador but the average temperatura is 75 year around give me some ideas thanks
martha andrade Hi Martha
Many of the ideas we share can be applied in your climate, you will just need to research your local area for what plants and feed sources will work best. I have not visited Ecuador so can't give you any specific ideas but I'm guessing you can learn a lot from local farmers. Best of luck
First off.. Brendon your videos are AMAZING!!! Packed full of info...I'm taking notes. Btw.. your cows are radiant. Question, do you have dogs too?? I have two huge German Shepherds which eat a couple tasty dishes.. chicken-y oatmeal and scrambled eggs over basmati rice but I want to expand their diet. Any ideas are welcome.
donna grace Thanks for the kind words and I'm so happy you enjoyed the video. Yes, we have 4 dogs and two are also German shepherds + 1 Belgium shepherd and our newest addition...a pug. We generally have a lot of bones from our meat cows and give them a lot of that. We also like to buy cheaper rib bones from the butcher which they love and of course raw red meat is great. We have noticed huge improvements in them with a fish oil supplement, often times the pet stores will have this. I hope this helps!
Sure does! Its funny 'cause I just started taking a fish oil supplement too as part of Dr. Andrew Weil's vitamin advisor program and I've noticed a big difference in me... lol. Really!
I'm kind of a newbie in learning about permaculture but I am hooked.. its pretty much all I think about. We live on a 50 acre ranch at the base of the Dragoon Mountains in Southeastern AZ. Praying that we will be able to purchase it soon. Its in the middle of the largest water run-off directly under Cochise Stronghold. We have a wash on either side bordering the property. During a monsoon there is literally an entire lake that pours on by. At first it was a bit scary during a storm but not anymore because now I know why we are here. The whole property is a mesquite grove. Mesquites are the most important pioneer tree in our desert. Their beans are very nutritious and can be used as a dietary staple. We want to transform the entire property into an Desert Oasis Food Forest and feed as many people as we possibly can. I'm sitting on the edge of my seat with notebook and pen in hand when I watch your videos. Please keep posting away. I want to learn all that you can teach me. Thank you Brendon.
Re the dogs - what positive vs negative effects do they have on the perm yard? We are undecided whether or not to bring ours to the farm... I notice they are great at redistribution (digging, flatting, chewing, spreading ect) but could be a pain long term?
great video, but the background music is too loud.
How do many kilos do you cook and how long Pejbaye? thanks
We cook the pejebaye around 2 hours until it begins to soften. We sometimes just cook small batches (10 kilos +/-) and feed to the animals for a few days. Also, we cook large amounts (Hundreds of kilos) of pejebaye to store in plastic drums for longer term use.
tyvm
Chontaduros!
Are you from Columbia Peteypablo?(-: Good stuff....
SORRY WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE ROOT VEGGIES AGAIN... THANK YOU
Nampi (Taro), Tiquisque, yucca (Casava). Thanks for watching!!
i want to come live on your farm and learn with my feet in the soil. is this possible?
good info, but the music is a distracting challenge..sounds louder than the voice too
where in permaculture does it ever advised cooking food for animals
+Travis Robinson
Thanks for your question. If you want to see a great resource on this with very in depth studies...check out www.fao.org.
Do you have to cook those palm fruits so they would stay fresh or animals wouldn't like them raw?
Great question. Actually for both reasons...the Peach Palm fruit is not easily digestible in it's raw form and therefore is recommended to be cooked. And yes, they also have a very short shelf life and will start to rot within a few days if not cooked. Once cooked and stored properly, they can last a year or more.
have you tired corn spouts?
No...we soak the corn in clabbered milk for a few days before feeding but have not tried sprouting it...good idea though. Thanks for your comment!
Eco Oasis i wasn't sure how it would work out for you being that it's hot there. it's hard to sprout in sacramento cos it's hot here almost all year long. but it's mostly a dry heat. and you can dig out a root cellar and sprout underground. might be an option
i know you went over it already but i love the feed ideas. or feed options.
Shame the music is so loud I couldn’t listen to what you were saying :-(
Sorry about that massive pointless discourse Brendon, I suppose I should have dropped it early on and hopefully let it die.
Thanks for the video series, great stuff here.
Thanks for watching Ryder!(-:
No worries at all...thanks for voicing your opinion and shedding some truth on that silliness.
Lol...he looks like a much older joe jonas....
Please spell the plants you talk about. Pevea, pive, ???.
+Lily Canna pejibaye, Bactris gasipaes HBK. (syns. B. speciosa Karst.; Guilielma gasipaes L.H. Bailey; G. speciosa Mart.; G. utilis Orst.), family Palmae, is also called peach palm
Could i get the reipce for the clabbering milk with corn? thanks i do hope you dont mind.
Can i give it to the?
meat goats
milk goats
egg laying ducks
meat ducks
milk cows
meat cows
turkeys
I wanted to but I couldn't watch it because your music was so loud I couldn't hear your voice on my speakers
Heyy
Whats up Ryan?
Music is actually not helping the video.
Okish it feels kind of lacking
I can't watch this. The music is too distracting
Can't hear voice clearly
Love your videos but please skip the music. I am watching to hear YOU and not music. The music is loud and make it difficult to hear you. You are so much more important than the music but with the sound levels putting the music louder than you it is as if you are trying to say the music is more important. Please keep up the wonderful videos you are making.
Thank you MrsMika for your email! This was one of the first videos we did and have learned from our mistakes!(-: Check out our other videos, the music level is way lower....Have a beautiful day!
No offence but the whole idea of a food forest is to grow food as natural as possible right? When has a chicken ever cooked its food on nature?
Masanobu Fukuoka certainly will call it 'Muda' (a wasteful work).
no need for the music it is so annoying
First I like your video but I really feel people should understand GMO's for one companies can still get away with radiating seeds and other methods to cause controlled genetic change and it is not considered (doesn't have to be marked as) GMO!!!! Second GMO could actually be a great thing if we where using genetics to make them better and still allow diversity (local farms might all raise pigs but they raise different breeds and in different ways) but instead companies are making science look bad and using it to cut out people by making plants produce their own unnatural pesticide in high quantities and even make the plants more resistant to the carcinogenic (I hate using the word chemicals as YOU are chemicals and chocolate is dangerous to dogs and oranges are dangerous to rats (causes cancer)) thing is we are trying to improve peoples live by sharing knowledge so please start to explain to people some of these things as companies (not all but sadly many) will try to sell things as "cage free", "NON-GMO", AND "organic". cage free doesn't mean they even get to see the light of day nor that they have room to move with all the over crowding, non gmo doesn't mean they haven't manipulated it (because even your dog should really count as a gmo as they are literally the longest running human genetic experiment so how do you really define GMO, (you could say live stock but for many years humans didn't really focus on breeding specifically they just let those cattle do their thing), and organic cow might have been butchered with a massive stressful infection or suffering from a large tumor showing in its neck (these are REALLY COMMON because they cannot be "treated" but yet we did not fix the problem that was causing them to be sick over crowding and poor food and lack of food diversity even lack of sunlight oh and their tails are chopped off once they are OLDER and it is just because the tuff of hair on the tail is inconvenient. I just want to spread to knowledge and some countries are different than others but the companies doing this are often multi national but under different names and farm in different countries.
Why not dry and add the blood of your meat livestock to your feed ? At least to your dog's.