Consider the following planting method called the three sisters. From wikipedia: The Three Sisters are the three main agricultural crops of various indigenous people of Central and North America: squash, maize ("corn"), and climbing beans (typically tepary beans or common beans). In a technique known as companion planting, the maize and beans are often planted together in mounds formed by hilling soil around the base of the plants each year; squash is typically planted between the mounds. The cornstalk serves as a trellis for climbing beans, the beans fix nitrogen in their root nodules and stabilize the maize in high winds, and the wide leaves of the squash plant shade the ground, keeping the soil moist and helping prevent the establishment of weeds. I hope this might help.
I’m very impressed with how responsive and consistent you are with your viewers. I wonder if most people appreciate how challenging it can be to be disciplined about uploading a video everyday.
I said it before, but I will say it again. You have accomplished so much in a short time. It's truly amazing. I think we are all used to the projects to develop slowly. And you just run with your own ideas and suggestion in the comment section right away. Your reaction time is 👌
I can remember at the start of this year's rainy season (only 2+ months ago) you had a window of maybe 10 days and you asked us if you should use your time and resources on, I think, Damien's Forest or wider water-catching structures. What I have been struck by since, is how much you have been able to do, both the volume and variety of the work, which presumably is down to increased RUclips subscriptions and buy-me-a-coffee donations. So here's to lots more of both! 😊
I must say that exact video has been on my mind so often. I could never imagined that I could even get close to this much done in this time. And had no idea. That my channel would even ever reach 2000 subs. Felt like just a dream. Thank you for being there in my journey
@@thefoodforestnamibia It's been a good journey to be on! And it demonstrates one of the joys of RUclips - here I sit, late evening, in a cold North of England. We're due our first serious snow of the winter overnight, so we should wake up to a white world. And you are showing us flying termites and sorghum grass. Just love it!
I look forward to your daily updates. There has been so much progress we can see already the difference it has made. All that green is very impressive. I can see why that lady wants to have her horse with you. Have you thought of adding a barrow of worms and some horse manure to the pile of organic material to give it a boost and putting thorn branches around and over to protect from the rabbits? Good to see more insects and seeds coming up because of the soil seed bank.
Great idea. let the worm's make castings! A handful distributed around the edges and the magic will begin. A few branches over the top to discourage rabbits and provide shade. Double win!
The uprooted grasses should be replanted in the newly plowed furrows. With a layer of harvested grass mulch as cover, they will be fine. Keep up the good work. Peace ✌️
11:52 looks like an awesome automobile! It might be a waste keeping it exposed to the elements. I remember when you had about 47 subscribers, now you have 4700, and I tell you, the change on the land is about the same. Great job. One step at a time, a stoic way of life works!
Lovely seeing the plant with yellow flowers providing more ground cover, it will help with rain absorption and reduce run off, as well as help improve the soil structure
The leucaena in the mulch pit could be potted into the bottles or what I would is transplant them into the new swale, peg down a single drip line and plant them next to the emitter, water, weed and care for them until they’re big enough to hold their own
@stevejohnstonbaugh9171 yes. I hope so too. I am very sad I missed the swale filling up. There is so manny things I would have been able to learn if I seen it myself.
@@thefoodforestnamibia In the meantime, keep putting roots in the ground, supplementing pig, duck, and chicken diets, growing trees and shrubs, making worm castings and watering seedlings. Plenty to do
I’ve been wondering how well draglines on contour work. Your land looks perfect for them too. I think you will be happy with results. I’m praying g you keep getting g decent rain
Congratulations Danou, the first step is the most important one: Start and go on step by step. Continue to observe the progress and failures, learn from them and continue to learn, improve & fine tune your methods. Funny to observe that your subscriber fans grow and right away you raise the aim line and people respond with more subscriptions. Today its the first time I subscribe to somebody on YT. Seems you have good intensions. On our side of the big "spitpot" in Centralamerica we have a different situation with too much rain for 7-8 month (3,5 to 4,5m rain per year) and then 4-5 month dry when the soil rich in clay dries to a brick like impenetratable mass. on 32.12.2019 I started to "plant water" already last summer we saw huge differences comparing our 1 hectar to the neighbourhood. We pump the surpluss rain from the roofs to the highest spot in the farm with a solar system and then use it slowly to irrigate a few willows that used to get eaten by the zompopas = leaf cutter ants. (BTW: don't fight termites, learn how to use them, they open channels in the ground and move organic matter into the sterile soil) Once the willows formed enough roots they form like a spounge in the ground and their surrounding ground stays green even though the irrigation delivers only few drops per minute. "Its like the ground battery got charged during the rainy season and lasts now longer into the summer." Other water battery=> the banana stems and leaves after harvesting I dig into the bottom of my soil capturing pits. These stems stay wet for quite a few month and contain many nutrients. In our case the mulch is provided by the fallen branches and trees, that we convert into small chips by a machine and add EM - efficiant microorganisms = Lactobacteria & yeast. In 6 month the wood chips get degraded enough for a kind of compost that improves the soil in its consistancy. But still menure and other organic matter is needed to put into the soil in order to not make it too acid. Good luck in your proyects and don't get frustrated..... life uses to throw you sticks in between the legs... walk over them and have faith in your plans and actions. The only really holly thing in this world it the earth.
EM we used in our farm from 2004 to 2010 for composting and weekening hard wood, when it disappeared in Costa Rica. In 2016 I found it again in Germany. The husband of the seller said:"What? You got ill animals in your farm? Apply EM to your animals." So I smuggled a sample to CR and sprayed it dayly onto too ill dogs. After a week the mandarine sized tumor of the labrador became cold and soft.and after 2 weeks spraying EM on both dogs the furr started to grow again. 6 month later the tumor had shrunk to the size of a golf ball. That was the sign to search for a new supplier. Guess what.: "Who is the biggest animal in the farm?" Myself I curred too with EM. As well as an old horse that dropped off a cliff in the rainy season, as well as a contaminated road side ditch. Since then I use EM on many different troublesome issues with modtly positive results. EM you find in every country.
Didn’t realise you had chickens. Could have done with a mobile chicken run to break up some of the soil but you’ve done so much of that today. So much fertility now, pity about missing out on the rain. Loofah plants will be interesting, be great to see how they grow on your property.👍
I get organic matter from our local municipality garden waste dump every other Saterday. It takes me days to sift by hand through the plant material to remove plastic. There is this humorous meme titled the Plasticene Era, (it is worth looking up) that depict it perfectly. (Before that was asbestos and before that lead.)
Happy Sunday! With those Leucina seedlings on the garden waste heap, can I suggest thinning them out where they are. Then thin out every week or so - once the seedlings are a certain size you can prick out the ones you remove into pots and see if you can make them grow too for planting elsewhere. You'll be left with several good sized Leucina trees on the garden waste heap that have never been disturbed, and then hopefully a whole load of leucina's elsewhere.
No need to thin them just transfer to containers or into final position, in the info I provided says they will grow as close as 2.5cm spacing the thing is water and weeds
I just discovered that there are several species of Lupine that are native to desert climates and would thrive on the edges of swales. Those species are: Lupinus shockleyi, Lupinus sparsiflorus, and Lupinus arizonicus. The species which would have the greatest success in Namibia would be Lupinus Arizonicus. The greatest problem is getting seeds, it's even difficult in America to find them...
good work getting mulch and seed from town, please don't pull out the weeds no weeding please, all plants make shade and root exudates for good soil. at the start of permaculture, you need weeds to grow, weeds repair soil faster
I was thinking, next time you get someone to use a heavy tractor to rip the ground, put a stake into the ground next to the water pipe, with a bright red piece of fabric tied to the top. Thank You Danou for another share of What's happening. 🌿💚🌿
I am really enjoying your journey and the changes in just a few months. My opinion is the grass will grow back without intervention and with luck the divots left behind by the machine should turn into puddles when it rains.
Sometimes we don’t appreciate the balancing act you have to do. I think you’re doing a great job educating us while entertaining us. Don’t feel bad about your workers. You’ve given them an education on permaculture. When you start to really produce food you can remember them. Give a man a fish you’ll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and …. You know the rest.
Aloe vera grows in my farm for decades and never invaded more space then we gave to it. much more soil and organic mater retaining efford and drought resistance gave us "lengua de suegra"="mother in law's toungue" = en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracaena_trifasciata Another nice aspect about this plant or better your local equivilant is that it forms fast animal transit corridors and in its shadow local tree species use to grow. Plus its easy to rip out of the ground and replant in other places for soil capturing and erosion stopping.
did i hear you correctly when you said you wanted to cover over the deep rips after you filled them with seeds? i thought the whole point of deep rips was to leave open "wounds" in the soil so water would fall into them easily and penetrate deeply, wouldn't covering them over defeat the purpose of that?
@@jimdotcom1972 having the deep ripping is enough for water penetration, seeding it will stop it from washing away, if it were left open it would be eroded with rain
aye!!, the three sisters, nice!!! i'm soon to start some companion planting in my tiny suburban yard as well, but there's no real room atm & a very bad kind of vine called Anredera cordifolia, we know it as potato vine, but there are like 10 different names for this thing & it just spreads, smothers & kills anything unless it's a literal fully grown tree so i'm dealing with that pain in the a 1st, while i watch the video now, i'm mixing up a spray that's been the only thing that's killed it so far, as it's back again, i want to stay on top of it this time!!! 600 odd subs in 10 days, c'mon people, we can do it!!!!!
Hello, in my opinion there is moisture around the plants because the ground is loosen there and has a higher part of soil which holds more water. Amazing is the difference between the treated and untreated land. Regards.
Thanks mate, love that video. Hopefully more Rain for you the coming few days. BTW What is that old truck? Looks like a truck from the late 20's early 30's from last century. If that's in working order, you should see if someone wants to buy and ship it to the US. There are car fanatics, collectors and Hot Rod builders who'd pay top $ for that stuff (depending on what brand). Sometimes even just for the shell of the car.
I. Think it would work great. Just supper illegal here. (I know it's not cannabis but our government can't figure it out yet.) but it definitely is a supper plant.
could you make some kinda rig up to use the horses to rip the soil . like a mini plow with a wheel and a step platform at the back? it would be less compacting than the tractor tyres and more agile around trees etc. just an idea🤔👍🙂
Very nice to see the rain again! Hope the structures will fill up good tomorrow. Aren't you afraid that heavy machinery like the tractor is going to compact the soil too much, so i can take up less rain?
Running heavy equipment on restoration land is a horrible idea. Compaction is very difficult to undo. Would have been a much better decision to let the day laborers do the work.
@@stevejohnstonbaugh9171 the benefits outweigh the damage with the deep ripping, you don’t get compaction from driving over it a couple times like a road does, the ground is already compacted from heavy rain with no cover, we have the same problems here deep ripping and getting it growing is the best thing he can do
@@BESHYSBEES I disagree. Striping the surface organics with a blade followed by multiple over lapping passes with a short ripper destroyed the soil structure and compacted the resulting powder into a new impervious, hydrophobic hardpan. What I see in the video is not best practice keylining - sorry. WHY? failure to plan and lack of machine operator supervision. But heck - you are entitled to your opinion.
@ armchair experts are everywhere, and you’re right opinions are like asshole’s every one has one, talking from an experience in dry land farming(25,000ha)agriculture standpoint and working in a similar arid climate, sometimes you do need to have a heavy disturbance to break the cycle of flooding rains, the impact of a small tractor is liken to cattle and the rip is letting water down so it doesn’t sheet off, the damage from the tractors wheels can be mitigated by broadcasting and spreading seed in its tracks, there is no soil structure where he is ripping and that’s why he is ripping
Good morning! Thank you so much for this! Just to be clear. Do you want me to use the money to chop and drop the trees for instance with dead branches or would you like to invest in new trees that can be chopped and dropped?
@@thefoodforestnamibia or the other option is to expand your shade house so you can grow more Leucaena from the native seedings for forage (leaves and shoots), soil conservation and improvement, shade, and as a windbreak. Multipurpose tree species are the best choice.
someone told me that rooting hormone powder was just ground up bones... dont know if thats true & im too lazy right now to google it 🙂 ? i wonder if you could throw a few chicken bones or thin bones through a chipper and spread that with the compost?
OOo, - how much would you put in a jam jar of water with cuttings - I'm trying to bring on some vinca cuttings in water and had no idea what to do to encourage them to put out roots. Thanks
Great update Danou, lovely to see the chickens again :) Always interesting and informative to read through the comments on your videos, especially when they contradict each other. There is not a single best method and many different views and opinions are valid - it's a shame that there is some head butting going on in the comments but it is entertaining nonetheless
Grab some popcorn. I am grateful to see very little nasty Ness. Most seem very respectful. I pray that I have the wisdom to take the correct advice daily.
What trees/plants are you getting cuttings from? A mister in the shade house will help with stem cuttings, for shrubs I like to use a cheap clear plastic tub 40-60L as a microclimate
I remember a Scottish guy in Kenya subsoiling on contour about 40yrs ago, he planted elephant grass into the slot which then held future rains... When showing us the moisture among the corn mulch, check out the soft soil among the mulch compared in the open...Think of mulch as soil armour...Check out "Gabe Brown North Dakota" USA...Some snow in the UK...
I am not convinced the ripped soil will work as a swale because they were too small and not on contour. It will help break up the soil to permit further seed germination and growth. Ripping soil will not hurt the effort. Having workers shoveling the loosened soil to a the downhill side may make creating swales more easily and catch water, but you were already spreading seeds.
in my grass land a single rip is enough to cut off the surface flow of rain for usually 3 month without creating as much exposed soil as the rototiller. The plants use to raise soil by their roots and form a slight erosion barrier. You need to repeat the ripping every few month. I call it a healthy approach for deveating the surface run off into the ground.
It must be strange learning from comments on YT. You get instant feedback on projects and that could be great but you must also get instant feedback from people who don’t know what they are talking about in one way or another. Even when you get good information you know the context best and might not need to use it or can’t for any number of reasons.
Adaptive learning the bonus is he has enough space to try some experimental things at no real financial risk, it’s easy enough to make the mistakes if someone else is willing to pay to try it out, comments section is a good brainstorming resource he just has to find the suggestions that aline with his objectives
Hi Danou, you can have your workers put branches to cover your heaps of garden matter to protect the new leukena shoots. Rather than have them die from dehydration.
As soon as the sun comes up. Pick up workers from agra. I think I did not make it clear in my video but some of the soil we ripped yesterday need to be stacked into a swale. The second swale, parallel to the first one. So they wil do that I wil spend time in the green house planting new maroela cuttings and I am thinking of maybe making some of the mulberrys and olives too.
@ take the lower branches from the mulberries so you get a taller trunk, they root fairly easily use a utility knife to cut a 45 on the stem to increase area for rooting surface, trim the leaves in half this stops them pulling moisture out of the stem while it’s trying to root, knock excess rooting gel/powder off the cuttings you don’t need much
@@thefoodforestnamibia so bly ek het jou kanaal gevind. Het in SA gebly maar nooit die voorreg gehad om Namibie toe te gaan nie, en bly al 20+ jaar in NZ.
I think putting light in the chicken coop or near the ducks is great idea. Light right above the water so that the termites fall into it and stay there.
Maybe you could turn the beaver dam (the one with t posts and tires) into an actual dam. You could add another row of tiers and fill up the sides more. So that its function is more of retaining the water, than just slowing it down.
Thank you so much for viewing with me. How was your day?
Consider the following planting method called the three sisters.
From wikipedia: The Three Sisters are the three main agricultural crops of various indigenous people of Central and North America: squash, maize ("corn"), and climbing beans (typically tepary beans or common beans). In a technique known as companion planting, the maize and beans are often planted together in mounds formed by hilling soil around the base of the plants each year; squash is typically planted between the mounds. The cornstalk serves as a trellis for climbing beans, the beans fix nitrogen in their root nodules and stabilize the maize in high winds, and the wide leaves of the squash plant shade the ground, keeping the soil moist and helping prevent the establishment of weeds.
I hope this might help.
Exactly, I thought the same..
The pumpkin is amazing cover for soil@@brendamayfuller8803
@@brendamayfuller8803 wil do that today yes.
Wishing we could send our UK rain over to you.😊
Nice work collecting garden waste from town.
You are flying towards 5000 subscribers 👍
I’m very impressed with how responsive and consistent you are with your viewers. I wonder if most people appreciate how challenging it can be to be disciplined about uploading a video everyday.
Well done with the chickens. They'll fertilize the area.
And eat the garden pests. Chickens are an integral part of every IPM plan.
less counting, more celebration 💥🚀 😎💚
I said it before, but I will say it again. You have accomplished so much in a short time. It's truly amazing.
I think we are all used to the projects to develop slowly. And you just run with your own ideas and suggestion in the comment section right away.
Your reaction time is 👌
Thank you so much i do my best!
I can remember at the start of this year's rainy season (only 2+ months ago) you had a window of maybe 10 days and you asked us if you should use your time and resources on, I think, Damien's Forest or wider water-catching structures. What I have been struck by since, is how much you have been able to do, both the volume and variety of the work, which presumably is down to increased RUclips subscriptions and buy-me-a-coffee donations. So here's to lots more of both! 😊
I must say that exact video has been on my mind so often. I could never imagined that I could even get close to this much done in this time. And had no idea. That my channel would even ever reach 2000 subs. Felt like just a dream. Thank you for being there in my journey
@@thefoodforestnamibia It's been a good journey to be on! And it demonstrates one of the joys of RUclips - here I sit, late evening, in a cold North of England. We're due our first serious snow of the winter overnight, so we should wake up to a white world. And you are showing us flying termites and sorghum grass. Just love it!
Ah, Simon is healthy again. Great to See him again.
I look forward to your daily updates. There has been so much progress we can see already the difference it has made. All that green is very impressive. I can see why that lady wants to have her horse with you. Have you thought of adding a barrow of worms and some horse manure to the pile of organic material to give it a boost and putting thorn branches around and over to protect from the rabbits? Good to see more insects and seeds coming up because of the soil seed bank.
Great idea. let the worm's make castings! A handful distributed around the edges and the magic will begin. A few branches over the top to discourage rabbits and provide shade. Double win!
Less than 200 subscribers to go! :)
Thank you for daily progress video updates. I really enjoy how your fertility and water structure are being built
The uprooted grasses should be replanted in the newly plowed furrows. With a layer of harvested grass mulch as cover, they will be fine. Keep up the good work. Peace ✌️
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Its looking great.❤
Cool. 4.59k subscribers and comment 46
4668 subs and comment 103. Thank you for all you support and for comments like these
11:52 looks like an awesome automobile! It might be a waste keeping it exposed to the elements.
I remember when you had about 47 subscribers, now you have 4700, and I tell you, the change on the land is about the same. Great job. One step at a time, a stoic way of life works!
Lovely seeing the plant with yellow flowers providing more ground cover, it will help with rain absorption and reduce run off, as well as help improve the soil structure
I want to know if the pigs eat it, tribulus is a medicine plant apparently
Great to have soaking rain
The birdsong is wonderful. What birds are those?
Double Cheers for the plow on contour!
The leucaena in the mulch pit could be potted into the bottles or what I would is transplant them into the new swale, peg down a single drip line and plant them next to the emitter, water, weed and care for them until they’re big enough to hold their own
Thanks
Thank you so much!
If only more people were like you. Everything you are doing helps those downstream. What a great way to pay it forward!
What is the current situation with rain Danou? Accuweather says thunderstorms in your area. looking forward to your tree and shrub propagation video.
Very small amount last night but rain all around us. Just not here 🙄
@@thefoodforestnamibia I hope it comes so you can demonstrate your structures at work at least one more time this season.
@stevejohnstonbaugh9171 yes. I hope so too. I am very sad I missed the swale filling up. There is so manny things I would have been able to learn if I seen it myself.
@@thefoodforestnamibia In the meantime, keep putting roots in the ground, supplementing pig, duck, and chicken diets, growing trees and shrubs, making worm castings and watering seedlings. Plenty to do
@stevejohnstonbaugh9171 definitely! Won't run out of work anytime soon 😁
oh dang, I thought yesterday that you meant your land got soaked! sorry you didn't get that! hopefully more soon!
I’ve been wondering how well draglines on contour work. Your land looks perfect for them too. I think you will be happy with results. I’m praying g you keep getting g decent rain
Two videos and a short in one day! Very cool.
Congratulations Danou, the first step is the most important one: Start and go on step by step. Continue to observe the progress and failures, learn from them and continue to learn, improve & fine tune your methods.
Funny to observe that your subscriber fans grow and right away you raise the aim line and people respond with more subscriptions. Today its the first time I subscribe to somebody on YT. Seems you have good intensions.
On our side of the big "spitpot" in Centralamerica we have a different situation with too much rain for 7-8 month (3,5 to 4,5m rain per year) and then 4-5 month dry when the soil rich in clay dries to a brick like impenetratable mass. on 32.12.2019 I started to "plant water" already last summer we saw huge differences comparing our 1 hectar to the neighbourhood. We pump the surpluss rain from the roofs to the highest spot in the farm with a solar system and then use it slowly to irrigate a few willows that used to get eaten by the zompopas = leaf cutter ants. (BTW: don't fight termites, learn how to use them, they open channels in the ground and move organic matter into the sterile soil) Once the willows formed enough roots they form like a spounge in the ground and their surrounding ground stays green even though the irrigation delivers only few drops per minute. "Its like the ground battery got charged during the rainy season and lasts now longer into the summer."
Other water battery=> the banana stems and leaves after harvesting I dig into the bottom of my soil capturing pits. These stems stay wet for quite a few month and contain many nutrients.
In our case the mulch is provided by the fallen branches and trees, that we convert into small chips by a machine and add EM - efficiant microorganisms = Lactobacteria & yeast. In 6 month the wood chips get degraded enough for a kind of compost that improves the soil in its consistancy. But still menure and other organic matter is needed to put into the soil in order to not make it too acid.
Good luck in your proyects and don't get frustrated..... life uses to throw you sticks in between the legs... walk over them and have faith in your plans and actions. The only really holly thing in this world it the earth.
Wow it is an honour that you chose me to subscribe to. I still need to try the em thing as well.
EM we used in our farm from 2004 to 2010 for composting and weekening hard wood, when it disappeared in Costa Rica. In 2016 I found it again in Germany. The husband of the seller said:"What? You got ill animals in your farm? Apply EM to your animals." So I smuggled a sample to CR and sprayed it dayly onto too ill dogs. After a week the mandarine sized tumor of the labrador became cold and soft.and after 2 weeks spraying EM on both dogs the furr started to grow again. 6 month later the tumor had shrunk to the size of a golf ball. That was the sign to search for a new supplier. Guess what.: "Who is the biggest animal in the farm?" Myself I curred too with EM. As well as an old horse that dropped off a cliff in the rainy season, as well as a contaminated road side ditch. Since then I use EM on many different troublesome issues with modtly positive results.
EM you find in every country.
Didn’t realise you had chickens. Could have done with a mobile chicken run to break up some of the soil but you’ve done so much of that today. So much fertility now, pity about missing out on the rain. Loofah plants will be interesting, be great to see how they grow on your property.👍
You’re making good progress 👍
I love what you’re doing, now when I see your videos I think honey bees would be next
Snowing here 😊
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Two videos and three short clips today 👍 You are spoiling us 😊
He's on fire!
I get organic matter from our local municipality garden waste dump every other Saterday. It takes me days to sift by hand through the plant material to remove plastic. There is this humorous meme titled the Plasticene Era, (it is worth looking up) that depict it perfectly. (Before that was asbestos and before that lead.)
Happy Sunday! With those Leucina seedlings on the garden waste heap, can I suggest thinning them out where they are. Then thin out every week or so - once the seedlings are a certain size you can prick out the ones you remove into pots and see if you can make them grow too for planting elsewhere. You'll be left with several good sized Leucina trees on the garden waste heap that have never been disturbed, and then hopefully a whole load of leucina's elsewhere.
@@claireskrine4837 ok I also think that can work
No need to thin them just transfer to containers or into final position, in the info I provided says they will grow as close as 2.5cm spacing the thing is water and weeds
@@BESHYSBEES Oh, cool :)
Beans or peas is very great Idea because nitrogen fixing. Could you plant Lupines in the hot climste of Namibia maybe too? T
I just discovered that there are several species of Lupine that are native to desert climates and would thrive on the edges of swales.
Those species are: Lupinus shockleyi, Lupinus sparsiflorus, and Lupinus arizonicus.
The species which would have the greatest success in Namibia would be Lupinus Arizonicus.
The greatest problem is getting seeds, it's even difficult in America to find them...
@@jacob1121 Mail?
good work getting mulch and seed from town, please don't pull out the weeds no weeding please, all plants make shade and root exudates for good soil. at the start of permaculture, you need weeds to grow, weeds repair soil faster
I was thinking, next time you get someone to use a heavy tractor to rip the ground, put a stake into the ground next to the water pipe, with a bright red piece of fabric tied to the top.
Thank You Danou for another share of What's happening.
🌿💚🌿
I am really enjoying your journey and the changes in just a few months. My opinion is the grass will grow back without intervention and with luck the divots left behind by the machine should turn into puddles when it rains.
Sometimes we don’t appreciate the balancing act you have to do. I think you’re doing a great job educating us while entertaining us. Don’t feel bad about your workers. You’ve given them an education on permaculture. When you start to really produce food you can remember them. Give a man a fish you’ll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and …. You know the rest.
4,63k subscribers, 5k seems possible on the 15th!
Every tried to grow Aloe Vera cacti? They are Champions in collecting Rain.
And invasive too. A true permaculture forest must respect the ecosystem/native balance.
Aloe vera grows in my farm for decades and never invaded more space then we gave to it.
much more soil and organic mater retaining efford and drought resistance gave us "lengua de suegra"="mother in law's toungue" = en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracaena_trifasciata
Another nice aspect about this plant or better your local equivilant is that it forms fast animal transit corridors and in its shadow local tree species use to grow. Plus its easy to rip out of the ground and replant in other places for soil capturing and erosion stopping.
Alis van die beste vir jou en jou family vir 2025 happy new year 🎉🎊😉 mag all jou harde werk geseen wees met nog n goeie jaar
The deep soil tilling breaks up soil compaction and doesn't kill the life in the top soil👍
did i hear you correctly when you said you wanted to cover over the deep rips after you filled them with seeds? i thought the whole point of deep rips was to leave open "wounds" in the soil so water would fall into them easily and penetrate deeply, wouldn't covering them over defeat the purpose of that?
@@jimdotcom1972 having the deep ripping is enough for water penetration, seeding it will stop it from washing away, if it were left open it would be eroded with rain
Did a little reading on the succulent aloe vera. Has some medicinal properties for livestock feed. Is it a consideration for your area?
aye!!, the three sisters, nice!!! i'm soon to start some companion planting in my tiny suburban yard as well, but there's no real room atm & a very bad kind of vine called Anredera cordifolia, we know it as potato vine, but there are like 10 different names for this thing & it just spreads, smothers & kills anything unless it's a literal fully grown tree so i'm dealing with that pain in the a 1st, while i watch the video now, i'm mixing up a spray that's been the only thing that's killed it so far, as it's back again, i want to stay on top of it this time!!! 600 odd subs in 10 days, c'mon people, we can do it!!!!!
Its ok to cause some destruction as long as you think to balance it out afterward.
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in my opinion there is moisture around the plants because the ground is loosen there and has a higher part of soil which holds more water.
Amazing is the difference between the treated and untreated land.
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If you can get radishes, their roots will breakup the soil. Also Lime.
Thanks mate, love that video.
Hopefully more Rain for you the coming few days.
BTW What is that old truck? Looks like a truck from the late 20's early 30's from last century.
If that's in working order, you should see if someone wants to buy and ship it to the US. There are car fanatics, collectors and Hot Rod builders who'd pay top $ for that stuff (depending on what brand). Sometimes even just for the shell of the car.
Thanks Danou😊
in the forcast for the next days i can‘t see any rain😒😣
What do you think about to use Hemp to recultivate the soil? It’s growing fast and like all kind of climate
RUclips has been feeding me hemp farming videos also. Hemp and cannabis are both illegal in Namibia. Please do NOT plant hemp.
I. Think it would work great. Just supper illegal here. (I know it's not cannabis but our government can't figure it out yet.) but it definitely is a supper plant.
could you make some kinda rig up to use the horses to rip the soil . like a mini plow with a wheel and a step platform at the back? it would be less compacting than the tractor tyres and more agile around trees etc. just an idea🤔👍🙂
Love the Idea. Especially becuase it would add another purpose for the horses. Let met think about it.
Watch "Working Horses with Jim."
thanks , i'll check that out ... 🙂
When you transplant the leucaena from the bottles cut the bottom off the bottle and use the sleeves as tree protectors
You put it over the you tree on top of the soil?
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Wraps around the tree trunk
Very nice to see the rain again! Hope the structures will fill up good tomorrow. Aren't you afraid that heavy machinery like the tractor is going to compact the soil too much, so i can take up less rain?
Running heavy equipment on restoration land is a horrible idea. Compaction is very difficult to undo. Would have been a much better decision to let the day laborers do the work.
@@stevejohnstonbaugh9171 the benefits outweigh the damage with the deep ripping, you don’t get compaction from driving over it a couple times like a road does, the ground is already compacted from heavy rain with no cover, we have the same problems here deep ripping and getting it growing is the best thing he can do
@@BESHYSBEES I disagree. Striping the surface organics with a blade followed by multiple over lapping passes with a short ripper destroyed the soil structure and compacted the resulting powder into a new impervious, hydrophobic hardpan. What I see in the video is not best practice keylining - sorry. WHY? failure to plan and lack of machine operator supervision.
But heck - you are entitled to your opinion.
@ armchair experts are everywhere, and you’re right opinions are like asshole’s every one has one, talking from an experience in dry land farming(25,000ha)agriculture standpoint and working in a similar arid climate, sometimes you do need to have a heavy disturbance to break the cycle of flooding rains, the impact of a small tractor is liken to cattle and the rip is letting water down so it doesn’t sheet off, the damage from the tractors wheels can be mitigated by broadcasting and spreading seed in its tracks, there is no soil structure where he is ripping and that’s why he is ripping
@@BESHYSBEES Your 25,000ha is so very precious to you. Danou's parcel is 6ha. Carry on.
I want this money to be invested into chop and drop.
Living fences.
Good morning! Thank you so much for this! Just to be clear. Do you want me to use the money to chop and drop the trees for instance with dead branches or would you like to invest in new trees that can be chopped and dropped?
@@thefoodforestnamibia or the other option is to expand your shade house so you can grow more Leucaena from the native seedings for forage (leaves and shoots), soil conservation and improvement, shade, and as a windbreak. Multipurpose tree species are the best choice.
I think tractor was a great choice. Positives outweigh negatives.
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ITS called KEYLINE designed to break hard crust,let air and moisture in and not hurting ground world wide web bacteria,biomass❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
What about the Pipe?
Fixed Thank you.
Honey also works as a "rooting hormone"
Not so much as a hormone but it’s hydrophilic and has anti microbial properties that help protect cuttings until it has rooted
someone told me that rooting hormone powder was just ground up bones... dont know if thats true & im too lazy right now to google it 🙂 ? i wonder if you could throw a few chicken bones or thin bones through a chipper and spread that with the compost?
OOo, - how much would you put in a jam jar of water with cuttings - I'm trying to bring on some vinca cuttings in water and had no idea what to do to encourage them to put out roots. Thanks
Great update Danou, lovely to see the chickens again :) Always interesting and informative to read through the comments on your videos, especially when they contradict each other. There is not a single best method and many different views and opinions are valid - it's a shame that there is some head butting going on in the comments but it is entertaining nonetheless
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Grab some popcorn. I am grateful to see very little nasty Ness. Most seem very respectful. I pray that I have the wisdom to take the correct advice daily.
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What trees/plants are you getting cuttings from? A mister in the shade house will help with stem cuttings, for shrubs I like to use a cheap clear plastic tub 40-60L as a microclimate
I remember a Scottish guy in Kenya subsoiling on contour about 40yrs ago, he planted elephant grass into the slot which then held future rains...
When showing us the moisture among the corn mulch, check out the soft soil among the mulch compared in the open...Think of mulch as soil armour...Check out "Gabe Brown North Dakota" USA...Some snow in the UK...
Gabe Brown is an incredible farmer and a massive source of experience in building fertile soil.
What is that truck at the end, does it still drive?
I am not convinced the ripped soil will work as a swale because they were too small and not on contour. It will help break up the soil to permit further seed germination and growth. Ripping soil will not hurt the effort.
Having workers shoveling the loosened soil to a the downhill side may make creating swales more easily and catch water, but you were already spreading seeds.
Most of it wil be shoveld down the seeds are in the area we are not going to shovel
@@thefoodforestnamibia thank you for the explanation about the seeding.
in my grass land a single rip is enough to cut off the surface flow of rain for usually 3 month without creating as much exposed soil as the rototiller. The plants use to raise soil by their roots and form a slight erosion barrier. You need to repeat the ripping every few month. I call it a healthy approach for deveating the surface run off into the ground.
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I could see the odd rain spot going past the camera as you were walking round. 😊 It should help those seeds make a good start in life.
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Hi Danou,
Can you please make a video that shows river bad from the start where it comes to your property to its and where it exists? Great work 😊
It must be strange learning from comments on YT. You get instant feedback on projects and that could be great but you must also get instant feedback from people who don’t know what they are talking about in one way or another. Even when you get good information you know the context best and might not need to use it or can’t for any number of reasons.
Adaptive learning the bonus is he has enough space to try some experimental things at no real financial risk, it’s easy enough to make the mistakes if someone else is willing to pay to try it out, comments section is a good brainstorming resource he just has to find the suggestions that aline with his objectives
Hi Danou, you can have your workers put branches to cover your heaps of garden matter to protect the new leukena shoots. Rather than have them die from dehydration.
Ripping soil releases the nutrients and CO2 back into the air. Ripping dirt helps aerate the ground and allows moisture in.
I believe honey is a rooting compound.
It’s hydrophilic and anti microbial enzymes help protect the cutting from rotting while it’s rooting
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I love your positivity! I wil take you up on that and post aginn3 times today. Just to to give you a fair chance at winning 😁
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Corn needs mulching again, don’t over do it with the beans or they will over run everything
Morning Danou what’s the plan for today?
As soon as the sun comes up. Pick up workers from agra. I think I did not make it clear in my video but some of the soil we ripped yesterday need to be stacked into a swale. The second swale, parallel to the first one. So they wil do that I wil spend time in the green house planting new maroela cuttings and I am thinking of maybe making some of the mulberrys and olives too.
@ set up a Timelapse for a half hour and film the guys working no talking, no offence some people just want to watch for a while
@ please update the copy of FFN I’ve made some amendments already and will do some more today
@BESHYSBEES should I do this as part of the long video or make a shorter one with this one?
@ take the lower branches from the mulberries so you get a taller trunk, they root fairly easily use a utility knife to cut a 45 on the stem to increase area for rooting surface, trim the leaves in half this stops them pulling moisture out of the stem while it’s trying to root, knock excess rooting gel/powder off the cuttings you don’t need much
Is jy reg vir die groei vd kanaal? Jy gaan besig raak met die koffies ens
Lê wakker in die aande en dink hoe ek better videos kan maak en better dinge kan doen op die grond. Kan nie glo ek kry soveel ondersteuning nie.
@@thefoodforestnamibia so bly ek het jou kanaal gevind. Het in SA gebly maar nooit die voorreg gehad om Namibie toe te gaan nie, en bly al 20+ jaar in NZ.
@@georgeackerman1752 lekker man. Wat maak julle daar?
@@thefoodforestnamibia is maar n stadsjapie hier.
Do you have wife? Does she like your beard?
No Permaculture beard for me?.
I think putting light in the chicken coop or near the ducks is great idea. Light right above the water so that the termites fall into it and stay there.
That horse is a looker 🐴
Real pretty donkey! Makes the whole farm look better!
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Maybe you could turn the beaver dam (the one with t posts and tires) into an actual dam. You could add another row of tiers and fill up the sides more. So that its function is more of retaining the water, than just slowing it down.
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