Demystifying Nitrogen Fixation to Create a Self-Sufficient Food Forest
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- Опубликовано: 2 авг 2024
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Here’s a link to my Goldifarms plant list, you can make your own copy of this spreadsheet with this link here:
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Much of the information in this video came from this book:
Creating a Forest Garden: Working with Nature to Grow Edible Crops by Martin Crawford
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Here is a non-exhaustive list of nitrogen-fixing plants that may work well in your area. However, it's essential to conduct thorough research before planting to ensure that the chosen plant species are appropriate for your region and specific site conditions
1. Leguminous Plants:
* Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris)
* Soybean (Glycine max)
* Pea (Pisum sativum)
* Lentil (Lens culinaris)
* Alfalfa (Medicago sativa)
* Clover (Trifolium spp.)
* Fava Bean (Vicia faba)
* Peanut (Arachis hypogaea)
* Common Vetch (Vicia sativa)
* Hairy Vetch (Vicia villosa)
* Winter Vetch (Vicia villosa ssp. varia)
* Purple Vetch (Vicia benghalensis)
* Narrowleaf Vetch (Vicia angustifolia)
* Licorice (Glycyrrhiza glabra)
2. Nitrogen-Fixing Trees:
* Black Locust (Robinia pseudoacacia)
* Honey Mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa)
* Acacia (Acacia spp.)
* Alder (Alnus spp.)
* Caragana (Caragana arborescens)
* Siberian Pea Shrub (Caragana arborescens)
* Mimosa Trees (Albizia julibrissin)
* Peppermint Willow (Agonis flexuosa)
3. Nitrogen-Fixing Shrubs:
* Sea Buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides)
* Siberian Pea Shrub (Caragana arborescens)
* Broom (Cytisus scoparius)
* Lupine (Lupinus spp.)
* Indigo Bush (Amorpha fruticosa)
* Scotch Broom (Cytisus scoparius)
* False Indigo (Baptisia spp.)
* New Jersey Tea (Ceanothus americanus)
* Ceanothus (Ceanothus spp.)
* Oleaster (Elaeagnus spp.)
* Goumi (Elaeagnus multiflora)
* Autumn Olive (Elaeagnus umbellata)
* Dyer’s Greenwood (Genista tinctoria)
* Bush Clover (Lespedeza spp.)
* Wax Myrtle (Myrica cerifera)
* Northern Bayberry (Myrica pensylvanica)
* Wisteria (Wisteria spp.)
For more information on these and other permaculture topics, I recommend the following books that have been helpful here at Goldifarms:
Introduction to Permaculture by Bill Mollison
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The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming By Masanobu Fukuoka
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Worms Eat My Garbage by Mary Appelhof
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Humanure Handbook by Joseph Jenkins
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Restoration Agriculture by Mark Stepard
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Permaculture Design: A Step-by-Step Guide Paperback by Aranya
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Sepp Holzer's Permaculture: A Practical Guide to Small-Scale, Integrative Farming and Gardening by Sepp Holzer
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Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability by David Holmgren
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Natural Way of Farming: The Theory and Practice of Green Philosophy by Masanobu Fukuoka
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Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture by Toby Hemenway
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Chapters
00:00- Goldifarms Inspiration
01:23- Why Nitrogen is important in a garden
02:13- Using plants to enrich soil with nitrogen
02:48- Nitrogen fixation in a nutshell
04:01- How Nitrogen-fixing plants help your food forest
05:30 - Fungi’s role in the food forest
06:20 - Why we don’t till
06:30 - Why nitrogen fixing perennials are wonderful!
07:19 - Nitrogen-fixing plants that may work for you
08:13 - GoldiGlow 🌼
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Hello Erin, Thank you for another extremely informative video! Leaned more about nitrogen fixing 8:43 minutes than ever before.
Just caught your show. Some great tips and you added to my knowledge. Here (Arizona, Sonoran desert), mesquite has been planted around and in gardens for several thousand years. Fine hair roots stabilize loose, soft soils like along canal banks, it provides light shade, wind protection, food high in sugar and protein, the beans help to stabilize the pancreas (all American beans do), cordage, firewood, and so on. Mesquite, not maize, has always been the mother of the garden. Add cowpeas for dry beans and green beans, and you add far more nitrogen than they use, as well as an exfoliar nectary. niio
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I also live in the Sonoran desert💖 I didn’t realize how beneficial my mesquite trees were.
I made mesquite bean jelly and syrup last year! It’s so good.
Love your videos! We are getting our veggie garden going, doing videos too. Looking to connect with other gardeners.
Erin! Thank you so, so much for the spreadsheet. I downloaded it, highlighted what will grow in my area, will print out and go from there. I love your videos. So informative and helpful! Thank you again. ❤
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What an informative, beautiful, educational, video!!!
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Beautiful
Thanks for sharing this important information! Just planted 4 different nitrogen-fixing shrubs in my garden =) Hope my apple trees will like it!
Glad it was helpful! That’s awesome!! What did you plant?
@@Goldifarms Caragana arborescens, Elaeagnus angustifolia, Cytisus scoparius, Elaeagnus multiflora =)
Siberian peashrub, Russian olive, scotch broom and goumi, Wonderful!!
What a nice video!
Great information, thanks!
I am really enjoying your videos. And your products! Good on you.
Thank you so much! I’m glad you enjoy them. We appreciate your support 🙏🏼🦋
What an informative, enjoyable video! Thanks!
Beautiful video, thank you 😊🌱🌸
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Your garden is looking amazing 🇳🇿❤️
Nice summary, you did some homework. Why the wire basket at planting? Do you have root eating rodents?
I'm guessing it's against gophers, they're omnipresent in California. When we lived there, we did the same
@@Leonidimus59 Omnipresent Gophers would be an amazing band name or horror B movie
@Leonidimus59 is correct. Erin and Gilberto use the chicken wire cages to prevent gophers from damaging the plants' roots. Erin mentioned the problem in another video.
I'm glad I don't have that problem in Colorado! Unfortunately, I have Ground Squirrels here, and they wreak havoc eating my seedlings, melons and peas! I try to live by Buddha's teachings, so I don't kill them. Instead, I do the compassionate thing and feed them. I simply plant more, and let the rodents have their share. Seeds are cheap!
Our barn cat is not a Buddhist, though. If I could convince him to come hang out in the garden, he'd feast on them! But he get's a belly-ful of them without leaving the barn!
Omnipresent gophers 😂
True.
So many gophers 🫣
Wonderful video and so educational.
Question...why are you planting the tree in a metal wire basket?
What about the most common nitrogen fixers, Clover, Lupines, Peas and beans.
What if my soil is missing specific types of nitrogen fixing bacteria? Will the nitrogen fixing shrub ever form a symbiotic relationship then?
Great question 🌱 if your nitrogen fixing plants are not thriving despite proper care, it could indicate a lack of these beneficial bacteria. A soil test can also help you determine this. If that’s the case, you might consider inoculating the soil with these bacteria to support the growth of nitrogen-fixing plants. Inoculate can be purchased online or at garden stores, it can also be harvested from the wild.
All we do on our terrible soil is put mulch , mainly weeds and grass clippings and the soil becomes good enough to support nitrogen fixes. We never ever get soil tests or go to nurseries.
Thanks for the video; on a side note; YT is adding floating adds that mostly block the comment bar, so that you almost can’t help clicking on the ad if you want to leave a comment 😢
Hi Erin! Thanks for the video, very informative!
Noticed you mentioned a syntropic farming guidebook by Roger Gietzen. Is that a book you'd recommend as a first read on syntropic farming? I am pretty new to all this so don't know much about it, except for what I learned from binging on youtube videos haha.
Thanks again! ❤
Hello and thank you for your comment 💛 Here's a link to the Syntropic guide book mentioned. This is the guidebook Gilberto and i received when we took a syntropic course in Chiapas. I have a video from that experience as well. Let me know if you have questions as i hope to cover syntropic farming more in the future and Gilberto and I are planning to take more courses. Happy gardening 🌼drive.google.com/file/d/1YFUAvYQJneFGxJ87YldEYZY0TyOmO9cQ/view?usp=sharing
Hey Erin, thank you that's so awesome!! 💚💙
I did check out the video on your experience in Chiapas! (Have basically seen all your vids by now haha.) And right now I don't have any specific questions, but will be happy to let you know once I do.
Thanks again!
Lol have fun
Could you make a video on naturally pest-deterrent plants? So I don't have to use pesticides.
I love what you have done with the trees and plants everywhere its beautiful but don't you have any snake issues or do you use some kind of plant that keeps them away?
Thank you 🙏 Snakes aren't an issue for us. Some species of snakes we welcome. I have friends who deal with rattlesnakes - but they are in much more wild spaces, it's very suburban over here. There are lots of cats and cars that probably reduce the snake population over here.
looks like hardy zone 7-8.... we are 5a... not a single flower shown up so far :D hahaha
Ah yes, we're zone 9, so it's already starting to feel like summer here (80F today!) ☀️ I'll send you some of the sunshine ✨
Wasn’t last weekend’s rain amazing?
It was! 🌧️✨🌱
Why did you plant the tree in a wire cage.?
Protection from gophers 🧡
shut up bruh