How to Chop and Drop in a Food Forest "Living Permaculture" Episode 4
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- Опубликовано: 6 июл 2024
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Chop and Drop management is an important part of any food forest or Agroforestry system. There are many benefits to planting a large # of leguminous plants in your system. One of the amazing things about this is you are growing your own fertilizer in place...then all you need to do is walk through your food forest...chop and then drop it right onto your plants and trees. Leguminous trees, AKA Nitrogen fixers, provide great fertilizer for your system and will actually fix Nitrogen into the soil in the area where they are growing. They are also very fast growing so provide quick shade. This helps to keep weeds at bay and also encourages "later succession" plants and groundcovers to emerge. One of the main concepts in Food Forestry is to mimic a natural forest as much as possible but to also help speed up succession in these human planted systems. This encourages a more mature forest like system in a shorter period of time. The other basic function that is achieved in chop and drop is mulching of your trees. Mulching is integral for maximum tree health. It protects the root zone around the tree from the elements, which will quickly turn soil hard if it is left bare. It also creates a home space for microorganisms and other beneficial insects to live. The symbiotic relationship that is formed between the microbiology and our mulch creates nutrition for our trees and continues to build soil. Studies have actually shown that fruit trees that are mulched will often bare fruit in half the time as non mulched trees. There is a huge variety of leguminous trees and a little research will help you figure out what will work best in your area. So grab some legume seeds and a machete and watch your landscape transform into paradise. Thanks for checking us out!
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Brendon McKeon.........................Permaculture Designer
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Kevin Cartmill...............................Business Manager
Soundtrack by Kevin Zacek
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0:08 How to sharpen a machete
0:22 Concept behind Chop and Drop in Food Forest
1:04 What is Chop and Drop in a Food Forest
1:16 Plants used for Chop and Drop
1:52 Contour hedgerow in a Chop and Drop system
2:24 Ease of Chop and Drop
2:43 How does Chop and Drop help your Food Forest system
3:48 Mimicking a natural forest
4:59 Fertilizing in a Chop and Drop Food Forest system
5:48 Biochar
6:48 Manure
7:01 Pulverized rock dust
7:12 Micro organisms
7:32 Spreading fertilizer on trees
7:39 How many times a year to Chop and Drop in a Food Forest
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Your soil will be worth its weight in gold! I've been trying to incorporate this in a smaller scale in my garden, but what you are doing is the real deal!
Thanks for your comments...we are definitely having a blast experimenting with these systems. You have a really cool channel as well...great work. Nice to meet others in the world with the same passions!
***** Thanks! We can each change a bit of the world around us!
Great stuff, just a word of caution though and that is to wear some dust protection when working with rock dust, dry manures and especially when working with powdered biochar.
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Thank you for sharing ...brilliant work out there!!
So simlpe and so efficient. The basics. Thanks
Ah! Found it again! I saw this video back in 2015 and 2 days ago, I wanted to watch it again to note the names of the plants they use but couldn't remember the name. A few gardening videos later and it's in my recommendation, nice!
Great video, great info. Thank you Brendon!
The term I use for this practice is "Green Manure"
Excellent video. I've been adding nitrogen-fixing and chop-n-drop species as fast as I can. Love it.
Thank you for your comment and watching our video David! Good to know you enjoyed our video...
Excellent presentation
Beautiful work Steve!!!
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You need more views! Your videos are SOOO good!
(and it's great to see a part of the world that we rarely get a peek at)
Scarlett
I agree with Scarlett! I must have watched this video 10 times.
Thank you Scarlett!
Very good setup you've got going there... great video! I'm looking forward to checking some more of your videos. Cheers!
Thanks for watching and commenting Mario!
Beautiful. You are inspiring some major thinking up here at our own community in Wisconsin. Your vision of a global network of communities that continue to spread this way of living . . . marvelous.
Kenton, what is up my friend!!!!!(-: Really good to see you are enjoying our videos!~Steve
Eco Oasis
Love them!!!! You are doing AMAZING work!
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very nice video
Practical information. Great video. Subscribed for videos just like this. Thank You.
Good to know you enjoyed the video and Thank you Charles for stopping by.
Fantastic !
great video, dude.
Good stuff! Thanks for sharing! I'm starting to do something similar not too far from you guys on 3 hectares. Do you guys ever give any tours or anything? Do you sell any trees? I would love to see your grafting technique, great videos thank you!
thanks for the great educational video on chop n drop
Thanks for watching Daniel!(-:
I love this video! Very important concept for the tropics, especially. Beautifully done, Eco Oasis :)
Thanks for watching Fit Farmer!
Great info tq shareing
Would you contribute the heavy leaching of the nutrients in the tropics due to the abundant moisture and no cold winter?
Didn't know you guys have videos! We are about to begin work on our garden. The sustainable contractor working with us recommended your videos...I'm like, I know that guy! Great work!
Kiana B Thanks for watching our video and leaving a comment. Good luck on your garden Kiana!(-:
Kiana B Hey Kiana That is so funny, small world. Is that at your place in Nicaragua? Congrats on the engagement! If you have any questions about your permaculture development get my email from Dev and drop me a line.
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Awesome video!
Thanks for watching and commenting Joseph! Look for our new videos posted every Thursday.
can you please shaw us how to make your own fertilizer. thanks
Very interesting concept. Why don't more people know about this?
Thanks for watching our video SR! The reason more people don't know about permaculture is because they haven't heard about it. Our goal is to spread permaculture across the planet to people like you. Make sure and Subscribe to our channel and watch our educational weekly videos posted every Thursday. Tell a friend about us!(-:
Eco Oasis I have already subscribed to your channel. I look forward to learning more about this interesting subject called permaculture. I am going to tell all my friends about you.
Cool!
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are there any good chop and drop plants that will grow in Minnesota?
The moral of the story is. Thanks ✌
How do you collect the microorganisms?
Could anyone ID the legume Brendon has to his rigth on min 8:26 please?
Hi, from wich company are the machetes that we see in the video? I am intrested to by a machete.thanks
Where is your FF located? Which tropics?
What is the source and name of the rock dust?
Nice work
Thanks Juan Carlos!
What is the background noise, a waterfall, or traffic?
1:06 Is pollard more accurate than coppice?
I need more info
Have no idea how well plants like Comfrey or Yarrow would do in the ultratropical Amazon region... They do all right in Lima's subtropical climate...
sure like the way you think.
Thank you Steve for stopping by and leaving a comment!
well done on the great work. I too have a place in CR close to Siquirres, Limon. I have had to clear a great deal of secondary jungle to get anywhere near doing chop and drop. I know you are a lot higher elevation than ourselves but my question is how do you deal with the fer-de-lance or other snakes that love this type of dropped vegetation. they are already a problem here and don't want to add to it. thanks.
Use pigs they'll kill all those snakes
Heard there are snake-proof rubber boots, thicker than normal ones I suppose...
I'm planning to move to the Amazon as soon as I can sell off my real state... There the common practice's to clear all growth from the "chacras" (food gardens) because of snakes... Maybe the answer would be a cover crop like perennial peanut (Arachis pintoi) that doesn't grow tall and's a Nitrogen fixer. Seen videos from Colombia that use it as ground cover on avocado orchards
thnx for sharing
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fiji/new Zealand, chop and drop works so well and is easy once some growth comes on, no more weeding
Dr. Ingham is not hot on planting plants with large foliage biomass and then chop and drop. She says it's better to plant short plants (3-4 inches height of foliage) but with deep roots. This is insofar as improving the soil so you won't have to use fertilizer in the future.
Can I please have your opinion on this? Thanks.
What plants would be useful that grow 3-4 inches in the tropics with deep root systems?
The workerrs should wear masks when working with rock powder and biochar. It is harmfull on their lungs.
+Mikkel Kaagaard Yes, you are right. We have encouraged them to do so but they not accustomed to wearing masks while they work. They have been farming their entire lives and it is often hard to convince them of certain things. We are always making an effort to instill new ways that we feel are safer and sometimes different than what they are used to, but also find at the end of the day we must respect their personal choices and customs. Thanks for your concern!
Sir, does chopping and dropping legumes at the base of the plans really fertilize it? I see the leaves just dry then I think its nitrogen content is lost to the air. I see them useful only as mulch, to keep moisture at the base of the crop and prevent growth of weeds. Please clarify.
Eduardo Macose When the leaves are chopped there is a corresponding sloughing of the nitrogen from the reduction in root mass
This article explains it..
www.onegreenplanet.org/lifestyle/chop-and-drop-mulch-and-why-you-should-use-it/
Betty, This is my dream life! To move to Costa Rica, and live a life like this! You have got to check these guys out. The person talking was hired by another to achieve this. The project is immense. Plus it's located in one of Latin Americas most stable democracies. This is what I'd do with my lottery winnings.
Yes Joseph Mcgraw...it is an Amazing life!! Let us know when your coming and we will show you the ropes(-:
are there any plants that you would not cop and drop in your garden? I heard some trees prevent fruit trees from making fruit.. Some types of pine maybe or aggressive vines? Or is it all good for biodiversity? Next time your in Bradenton Florida check out my garden I would be happy to give a tour. I would consider buying land in costa rica.. I live in a deed restricted neighborhood and got the fire dept the last time I had a fire in my pit. (So I am unable to make biochar currently which is a major bummer and I am trying to work within the system.. I am chopping and dropping everything and its a crazy amount of work.. Awesome vid!!!
+Nik Lyons Hi Nik, Thanks for checking in and good question. Yes, you do want to be aware of what you are introducing into your gardens and orchards. One example, we have cow grass here on our farm that grows like crazy and would offer a ton of biomass, but unfortunately I would never want to use this because it would not be beneficial to introduce in the food forest. Some things you can get away with if there are no seeds present at the time you use it and you know it won't self root. As you also mentioned, there are things like pine needles which are highly acidic that would not benefit most things...but sometimes plants would benefit from this, such as blueberries in this case. It is good to do some research and plant your biomass according to your needs and design parameters of a given system. There are thousands of plants that will generally be beneficial as biomass, though nitrogen fixers are the all stars when it comes to chop and drop. Best of luck and let us know if you decide to explore Costa Rica as a new home option, we are building amazing regenerative neighborhoods where things such as bio-char will be encouraged and not frowned upon. One reason I came to Costa Rica was to get away from all of the ridiculous regulations in the U.S. that make life for a permaculturist not so easy. Costa Rica is a great place to live and do permaculture. Take Care
Thank you Brendon McKeon.
I'm curious how much land is going for there. I had a fire in the pit the other day. No fire dept. I didn't make much smoke. I use pretty much everything back into the soil currently. I have some aggressive vines that I do not let get too big. I take my prickly pear cactus and soak it in a bucket of water in the sun until is gets all gloopy and smells like cow manure. It burns plants if used directly but if diluted seems to help sandy soil to retain life. I don't know if anyone else does that with the cactus. I also put nitrogen fixers in the cactus juice and they release some nutrients. I have about 9 pineapples and my Barbados cherry trees are fruiting well. Keep up the good work restoring global abundance!!
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Thanks for the Video! But 1 point; you mentioned one can not plant them too close to the fruit trees but when i was working at a more than 30year experienced permaculture farmer he told me that is not true as there is always competition, wether space, light, nutrients or water. He said even if they benefit each other they should be planted in a wide enough distance...Did you make comparisons? or other peoples thoughts on that?
HI Emanuel
Thanks for your question. There are many factors to consider when creating a densely planted guild and good management is integral. As you said there is the possibility for competition when planting things with very tight spacing. For example, when a fruit tree is very young you will want to make sure your companion plants do not shade it out to much or smother it, though shade can also be beneficial at certain times of year when it is very hot. Successful guilds will come down to observation and good management. With the example of competition for water, this may be true in some scenarios but in some it is the opposite. A banana tree planted close to a fruit tree will actually allow the fruit tree roots to grow into it and provide the fruit tree with water during the drier times. A nitrogen fixer has so many benefits and as long as it is manages properly will not have a negative effect on a fruit tree. I have seen many examples in other permaculture books and real life applications where the nitrogen fixer is planted in the same hole as the fruit tree. See page 24 here for an example: www.crcnl.org/?page_id=16. The book Gaia's Garden by Toby Hemingway also has a reference to this technique. On our farm we have many examples of plants growing completely together and intertwining with each other with very positive results. If we also observe plant systems in nature there are many examples of this. The important thing to remember is nothing in nature or farming is black and white and no 2 situations are the same. Observation and interaction are our best tools for successful systems, as something that works for your neighbor may not work on your farm. Hope this helps(-:
I planted sesbania sesban and sesbania grandiflora 1.5m distance between my tropical fruit trees on red volcanic soil in far north queensland and generally the fruit trees didn't do well.. the sesbania roots spread into the fruit tree root zone and hogged the soil moisture and nutrients... jakfruit did okay as they out competed the sesbania.. but most other fruit trees did not do so well.. we did have a very long, hot and dry 'wet season' which wouldn't have helped.. the sesbania grandiflora trees didn't look vigorous enough or have enough foliage on them to prune until they reached about 5-6m height, only then did they began to look vigorous, but they should have been pruned much earlier... the sesbania sesban were vigorous quite early and handled pruning reasonably well but some died after a hard pruning.. my 'tentative' conclusion is that these two nitrogen fixing trees are best planted further away from the fruit trees.. yet with different soils and climates the results may vary.. so what may be applicable in one location may not be applicable in others.
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Have you tried Inga sp.?
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