Why I focus on the science of soil fertility. Biochar, compost, chickens. October Food Forest tour.
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- Опубликовано: 18 окт 2023
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I'm sorry your dad was sick. I hope he's better ♥️
He's doing much better, but will always have a risk of a rupture (was a ruptured ulcer that was almost through the whole wall of his stomach). Really scary. Thanks for the kind words.
Been watching you at least a year and shared you with a friend who agrees that you’re a phenomenal teacher. I really do like your style and inspiration and stern warnings to care for Earth. Thanks!
Thats so kind, thank you so much. Comments like this inspire me to make more.
I also feel like I am *finally* dialing in my soil fertility program. I was able to grow carrots, parsnips, and rutabagas this fall that exceeded all expectations. I started some January King cabbages perhaps a little bit too late. They have started to head up....whether they will make it all the way, I don't know. If not, plenty of encouragement for the potential of the winter garden. But the vigor and color of the leaves is incredible. Chicken + vegetable compost + biochar + some rock minerals seems to have pushed things to another level.
Here in Maine in zone 4b we still haven't had our first frost yet. Still got peppers growing.
I love watching Autumn/Fall videos from over here in Australia - it makes me look forward to the harvests coming my current garden work. I really enjoy the interactivity of your design - like one big, engaging foraging adventure.
Thanks, that's exactly what I was going for when I added the pond and surrounding area. I wanted something that tied all the 3 sections together. Now we have a long winding journey through the forests. As the trees grow, it will only get better.
Your videos are very worth watching. I will not be able to use the information yet but when I do, I will show you...thank you.
I love the yellow, tired wild ragged look of the autumn garden. It's always a bit of a rush to get the harvest in and the seeds collected before the freeze.
Recently, I visited my parents house in the mountains. The house is a weekend stay house now that my mother lives in a flat. It used to be a garden full of food, but now the wildlife and marauding deer (that are not supposed to be in Australian bush) have totally taken over the place and eat anything edible before anybody can get to it. The cockatoos eat the green hazel nuts and chestnuts, the rosellas eat the apples, the wallabies eat all the herbs, the deer even prune severely the lemon tree after striping the leaves off any other fruit tree, wombat droppings on the veranda... Only the poisonous rhoda dendrons, foxgloves and hydrangeas seem to survive. The garden needs someone looking after it and replanting most of the beds. At present mowing and sawing up fallen trees is about all my sister can manage. Despite being abandoned, the block looks stunning simply because it's a steeped sloped flower garden with very large old trees surrounded by spectacular Australian bush. My mother is in her 90s. I'll be very sad the day we have to sell the property. I am trying to visit it as much as possible during my visit to Australia. The trees are like my childhood friends with many happy memories.
My elderly father and uncle were here for dinner last night, reminiscing about specific trees on the Upstate NY farm where they grew up--climbing the basswood, the towering black walnut in the dooryard (don't park under it!), the sweetness of the seckel pear by the outbuildings, the old apple orchard, the butternut on the boundary line, even a ginkgo along the country road. I have my own fond memories of childhood trees. Children need trees as childhood friends...that's how they learn to love them!
I don't particularly care for Lambs Quarter but from a sustainability pov, it's a great crop. Easy to grow, easy to propagate, nutritious, etc
I brought my peppers indoors, gave them a very heavy pruning and potted them down... they will be great in next year’s garden.
As for the tiny carrots-Juice them, whole.
I’m grateful to know of the freeze coming.
I’ve been wondering how much time we have here, in Tennessee, US. I’ve been hurry scurrying you get all my plants ready.
I so enjoy these virtual chore shares. Haha!
Wish we could travel through and help fellow gardeners.
We do the same thing with Lamb's quarters! They make a gorgeous and thick ground cover, our birds love eating it too! So do we!
You just got your first frost. We just got a taste of summer in the middle in the middle of October. It was actually 71 in Portland today. Getting all my fall activities done thanks for Sharing on. Hope all is well. Take care.
Holy smokes 😆
Have you watched Geoff lawtons videos about creating swales? I have recently from the weedy gardens video he posted last week and it makes me want to build a lot now as it is a great way to prevent erosion and keep trees watered naturally within time and to build up the resiliency and roots of all trees and build up all soil types weather it be clay or sandy soil types. And Lee Reich has a really good book aboit strenghtning branches of fruit trees to grow larger branches to support heavier fruits its a really good book to read its called "Grow Fruit Naturally."
Absolutely. His videos were some of my first exposure to permaculture 8 years ago. One reason I love swales so much is because of his early Zaytuna tours where he's standing in a massive swale that just looks like a forest path.
Enjoyed the video, thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching and commenting 🙂
Very cool to have the food falling into the chicken coop!!
Big fan of passive design, in both my engineering career, but we can always apply that to garden designs also!
I like the wild flower invitation / welcome mat idea
Beautiful but also functional ❤️
So much to learn, and it's all good to eat! Thanks for this.
You have come along so beautiful to watch...
Bern watching from start....my son is permaculture ls..in cludes food landscaping in calif north...
Love your here in Canada..just love seeing your orogress x Congrats!❤
Thank you so kindly ❤️
Healthy harvest.
Wonderful variety and outcome of so much food! Just started small guilds under 3 existing, 4 y.o. fruit trees. Already the trees require less watering and soil fertility has improved! Do the guild and forest models deter pests such as coddling moth on apple trees?
Absolutely. Coddling Moth was one of our worst pests. Then we focused on wildflowers everywhere. Yarrow growing right up into the canopies of our trees, and our problems have almost been completely eliminated. You will always have SOME pest load in a healthy ecosystem (they are the food for predators, and you cannot have predators without pests), but once the system is running properly, it's very minimal and the pests usually attack the weakest plants and fruit also.
That is pretty dense and close to the house do you have plans for wild fires. It is not an if but a when. I love the way you plant the forest though. The strong will grow it is a good way of breeding for health and vigor. I do seedlings and plant them out in more of a planed for harvest wind control and manage in mid
Sorry to hear about your father. Hoping all go's well.
Forest fires aren't really a problem here, but even if we did have some, the pond is 25000 gallons of forest fire fighting water that we have access to.
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Call me crazy but I would be totally fine with the scientific eradication of Sanguinivorous insects.
Yeah, why do we need ticks and lice???
@blessildajoy Others things eat them but I'd be OK helping them find something else
@PaleGhost69 Sure, but there's plenty of other things to eat! It's not like mosquitos that bats rely on, or is it? What eats lice?
@blessildajoy right? Plus if we helped them find new food sources, the lost of them wouldn't be that hurtful to the ecosystem. Iirc apes eat lice from each other and birds eat lice from fur
Drink vinegar people.. ticks won’t like the way you taste anymore.. I drink a glass of water with 2 tablespoons of Bragg vinegar every day. I put vinegar on the dog food too. No more ticks..😊
Where did you get your Biochar kiln? Are you happy with it? I’d love to start making some
From Kijiji it's just a 55 gallon steel drum. Super easy to make.
Amazing fall harvest! Do you have to worry about the juglone toxicity from the black walnut hurting the other plants?
Long term yes. Short term no. Most of the juglone is in the husks of the nuts. Leaves hold the next most, then bark, then roots. Each step down is 10x reduction roughly. So it's not until they start dropping fruit where you are really going to see effects.
In the meantime, planting things tolerant to juglone is smart. Paw paws, Raspberries elderberries nearby will do just fine.
I am super excited, we got our neighbour to help us with his excavator, to dig our first swale, it's beautiful! For now we might have to sow something on the disturbed soil in the swale and on the berm, maybe clover, but we've had our first frost here already, just like you, and I don't know if clover will still sprout. We're in Sweden in zone 6b, last winter it got down to -18°C.
Hopefully we will be able to start planting next fall. In the meantime I'm trying to make a list of fruit/nut trees and bushes and other plants we want to have. Oh, and a couple of days ago we made our first batch of charcoal for biochar, in a barrel, just like you showed in one of your videos. I'm unsure of how much charcoal to put in my pile of compost though, got any tips?
There have been experiments (in Sweden interestingly enough) where they did trials of biochar % and measured crop growth. Up to 75% char was seen as an improvement over no char, after which any more started to get worse yields Optimal yields were in the range of 10 to 20% by volume biochar into compost.
So you can use that as a rough guideline.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Nice, I'll keep that in mind, thank you!
Hey Keith, great video, thanks! The black tubes in the raised beds, are they in situ composting?
I had assumed they were for air, a way to water more deeply if needed, and a way to check the lower part of the bed isn't waterlogged. So Keith, what is the purpose of your slotted pipes in your beds?
Yes exactly that. Air infiltration lower in the bed, and also the opportunity to make worm towers (in situ composting) if desired
How old are your pawpaws that are producing? We have some young (two year old seedlings) in our garden. Curious to see how long it might take.
In ground for 6 years, and about 8 years old. They put on some smaller fruit last year that the tree dropped. This is the first year the tree held the fruit until finish.
That is great to see. Something for me to look forward to! 😉😊
What kind of seed trees are you planting?
I plant seeds of everything we eat, plus seeds I can collect from the wild each fall. Stuff like apples, pears, paw paws, peaches, plums, cherries, oaks, black locust, Chestnut, etc.