It looks lush and verdant.. well done to you and your team for the great effort for a magnificent result which I can imagined has some neighbours scratching their heads.
standing dead trees are a super important part of the ecosystem so its always good to leave a few standing around (until they become dangerous of course)
The contrast in the land is amazing, as is the volume of water you've been able to collect, even if you haven't got your systems quite how you want them - an ongoing tweaking, I suspect. Congratulations! Re Lucas, I had my fingers crossed (thumbs linked?) and my prayers said that he can stay. However, when you said at the end that if he has to move, you could build him somewhere new, my mind went racing with the opportunities that presents, both in the design of the house itself (natural ventilation, etc) but also how you then link the house to the garden/land alongside it. I have to say, however, that I wouldn't be doing anything at all at his current site until it is clear where he stands.
Wow 🤩 your land is looking amazing! And that new swale is looking tops! Mmm very interesting how the nature reserve looks very bushy… lots of roots in the ground and bushes to make its own mulch, thank you for sharing that. 😊 You are so lucky to have free range giraffes down the road from you. Wouldn’t it be lovely if you could drive down that road someday and see some large native trees on each side instead of barron land that the goats are eating up.
Most folks don't think much about an inch of rain. After all, an inch is a little thing. However, an inch of rain falling upon just a 1,000 square foot piece of land is equal to 620 gallons of water. An inch of rain on an acre is 27,154 gallons of water. That's a lot of water! It just fills my heart with joy seeing so much of that water being captured and looking forward it is easy to see the results will astonish the local community. Happy! Happy! Happy!
Sunflower plants will make great additions. Its abit late in the season but shorter faster growing variety will still yield a good crop at the end. This will quickly develop the root network, build up a canopy of sorts and provide seeds for future growing and for feeding the birds
With all the overgrazing going around, seed bank in the area is extremely limited. Great to see you allow your grass to go full life cycle. The benefits will show in one-two years.
The seed bank in the soil is pretty much infinite, even with overgrazing. Seeds can be stored in the soil for decades waiting for the right conditions to germinate, otherwise they stay dormant.
So wonderful to see how much green grass you have establishing, and nature is responding with the ant activity and the arrival of the birds, and I think I heard a frog. Your neighbours property is bare but eventually they will benefit as the moisture content in your land rises along the borders.
In Australia they do simple tests on soil to check infiltration rates on different parts where the grass has regenerated in simler soils the infiltration rate is measured inches per minute but the hardest parts it is like mm a minute the more grass you have the less you will notice how much water is going in ✌️
Those swale ridges would benefit by being smoothed down a touch and made more gradual. Those high peaks will just erode each rainfall and struggle to grow seed. A flat top will catch the rain and help seeds establish. It is amazing how much different your land has changed in such a short time. Nice job.
When we planted the 3 sisters as we call corn, beans, and squash, we planted in mounds. First we would plant the corn and when it gets about half the size your plants are we would plant the beans right next to the corn stalk or maybe 3 stalks, then after the beans sprout we planted the squash on the outside of the mound, the mounds being circular. That way the corn stalk is sturdy enough by the time the beans sprout and the vine starts climbing and the bean vine is taller than the squash once the squash covers all the bare soil around. The beans fix nitrogen for the corn and squash, the squash shades the soil, helping to suppress weeds and conserve moisture. At the end of the season just lay the stalks down and they become mulch. I’m loving watching this water catchment system working so effectively. Imagine if all the neighbors practiced these water strategies. Flooding would be greatly minimized. The entire area would be so much greener. It would be able to support livestock and grasses. The grasses need to regrow and reestablish before the livestock returns. Plus it helps to be able to divide the grazing lands into separate paddocks so the live stock can be constantly rotated between sections, allowing the grasses to regrow for several days. Rotational grazing can regenerate the land and soils, nourishing the land rather than destroying it.
Viewing from US. Two thoughts given what you are doing in the friendly forest. A two person hand turned auger might allow you to do more faster and deeper. Second, I saw a video on vertical drainage. Basically a deep hole, filled with gravel and then the sod put back on top. You could do this in the horse pasture and around the edges of the pasture to aid filtration. Enjoy the video, good luck.
That works in certain soils (heavy clay content). I doubt that with make much difference as the pits and gully water seems to sink in water pretty quickly already.
He only has 6.5ha it’s really not enough for the horses he has already, the impacts of grazing is being replicated with human interventions and worm castings
I talk about a 'chain of ponds' and it goes nowhere, but Peter Andrews talks about it, and everyone perks up. Just ain't fair! 😆 Every little crease in the land should have a series of barricades to help stop the water from flowing. As you can see with the tire dams you've installed, a reasonably solid wall can make a huge difference. A pile of brush is far too "open weave" to stop the water. Sure, they "collect sediment" and might eventually close up enough to cause the water to pond, but that's something that takes a decade. Active management means we get in there and build the structures as solid as we can right from the get-go instead of waiting on nature to do it for us. Your land is showing tremendous recovery because of your efforts to speed up the process. Imagine how slow it would have been if you hadn't dug all those holes and chose instead to simply let nature work at her own pace. You sped the process up, and building BDA's in every little fold of the land is no different. Lukas did a great example of this "accidentally" a few months back, and you got to see how it held the water in a small pond in the crease. It wasn't much, but it was enough to show the value of banking soil up in the mix of twigs. And if he'd added grass to the equation, he's have created a far stronger "dam" that would have lasted through the next rain. The process of learning from the beavers, paying attention to the details of their work, makes all the difference.
Resources are limited on a new project....Imagine a few bags of grass laid against the leaky dam, just prior to the rain...We all want to run faster....Dreams...
I think of the brush dams (leaking weirs) as trying to slow water and prevent further erosion, vice the swales and dams which harvest rain. Using both in combination is optimal (what is the best ratio of weirs and swales depends on many criteria).
@@jeffreysachs3423 The key thing here is that the brush dams don't do what folks think they'll do. The "weave" is just too open so the water scoots right on through. Yeah, over time you'll accumulate organic matter in them... but why wait for the natural process to do that when you can do it right now and reap the benefits immediately? That's the part I don't understand. It's not like we don't have hundreds of videos on building Beaver Dam Analogs, or there isn't enough organic matter on site to accomplish the goal. Rather, it looks to me like it's just stubborn refusal to learn from those who have walked the path before you. I get that because I've been here. Always came around to regret it later, too.
@@philleggitt3005 I would accept that, except resources aren't limited. That's the first lesson beavers teach us because we can see them building dams that'll collect millions of gallons of water yet use nothing more than sticks and mud. Look around the site, and they've got literal tons of sticks and mud, leaves and rock, so it's not saying that the BDA's can't be built 'proper' like the Beavers do. It's just that we opt to not build them like the beavers, and then wonder why they aren't holding water when the rains come. Lukas actually built a decent BDA a few vids back, maybe 2 months ago, and it held water instantly. It needed a little work after the rain, but it showed how dirt and sticks work to make a pond high up in the elevation. It worked when the brush piles on either side of it didn't work. That's a clue, imo. 😀
So good to see all that water and wetness on your land, marvelous work so far, each hole and clump of grass makes a difference. Have you thought of using shredded cardboard to mix in to help retain water and aid rebuilding the structure of the soil. Do termites eat cardboard?
It would be good to know what you think the end state would be - what animals and how many can you support sustainably, what other crops can be gathered etc.
the comparison with your neighbours land will be all the more stark and valuable in a week or two when your grasses have had a chance to shoot up. 19:30, you'll need to put some "speed bumps" or overflow bricks in your new swale otherwise all the small rain showers will just drain into the larger ponds you've built and not spread out their benefit.
Grazing animals absolutely have their place in permaculture, they eat weeds & plants people don't or can't eat and their manure returns fosfates and other nutrients to the ground but as you have shown here it has to be carefully managed to avoid overgrazing and erosion from hoofs and other animal activity.
The silt in your swales should be safe (from heavy metals or chemicals) to be spread on your land to add nitrogen and phosphorus to the soil. I would mix the silt soil taken from filled in swales and stream bed in with the worm castings, and that will increase the area/volume where water can sit and be absorbed. Think of it as a continuous dredging of the gullies and swales. Not knowing the clay/sand content of the silt, you will need to experiment with silt to worm castings ratios or percentages. In the USA, we use dredge material as fill soil (dried) and as capping material for closed landfills and turning quarries back into parks. It has been used as agricultural soil enrichment successfully on a limited basis, and it should work for you. It is easier and cheaper to just buy chemical fertilizers here.
You should add some "valves" places in the Swales where you some Boards to Open If too much Water is in them. Maybe some bricks and a leftover Metal shields from Yard? Then you can react much faster.
With all the termites, I recommend bricks for easier adjustment vice boards. I personally use bricks (cider blocks) mostly. (Termites are not an issue for me).
That's all very lush looking. And this is just the first season of rain. Would be great to witness how permanently green everything can be in the next 3 years, or so. Thank you for the daily updates and entertainment. Building a new house wouldn't be the worst thing to do in the off-season, imo When I lived in an arid climate, I fantasize that if I had to start from scratch, I would make the whole plot a gigantic catchment basin. By basically clearing whole plot and put concrete or plastic pond liner down. And then put the soil back on that watertight base layer to make it look like how it was before. I would have it all slope down to a catchment/filtration spot (to catch the debris and sand) and have it flow over into a basement. That way, because or the enormous footprint, fifty by fifty meters or so) of the rain catchment, compared to just the roof, you catch an incredible amount of clean water. Year-round water probably if the basement basin is large. Anyway, that setup, or any other, starts with prepping the land as best as you can. And as it comes to water, dig a hole is requires. A basin the size of a swimming pool and use the floor of the house to be the lid of the water basin. to keep the water sealed off from insects, evaporation, etc. Anyway, that's my five cents. Thank Beshy for the Google map update! I think I noticed it yesterday. Make viewing the "walk throughs" much easier to understand.
Don't focus on what you didn't capture but rather on what you have captured. You've captured lots of water and sediment, which means plants will grow better now.
The woodpecker thanks you for keeping that dead tree in the river. Sounds like he's building himself a new waterfront condo up there in the upper limbs.
Idea for ant/termite harvest. Bucket filled half with water and then shovel ants/termites in to the bucket. They will swim, dirt will sink. Place bucket with the chickens and they will eat them as they crawl out of the bucket. Just an idea, hope you try it out. 👍
Just wondering. How do the ants and termites survive the area being filled with water for a few hours? Even if they can swim wouldn't they be swept away?
The termites have excavated under their mounds to the water table they don’t drown because the water goes straight down, ants will raft together to block the hole and an air bubble is created that stops water going in, tried to explain it simply
Danou... 3 million for the property next door is equal to... £ 130,000 uk pounds, or, $ usd 160,000... Crowd funding might be possible...If it was allowed in your system to rent the house out, income from that could power your movement going forward... With the game farm , your farm, and additional land local to you , the regeneration could be beneficial each to the other... If your sister would join in water harvesting, i see the visual effect as being so big as to encourage others join in...
I think Lucas get Wick because of the worries Not to know If He can keep His Home. That can struck even a tough Guy. If the troubles are solved He will BE much healthier. Wish you Guys the best.
love to see all the green. yes having the right number of animals can be good for your soil. grazing cattle or sheep, plus some chickens or other birds. everyone has too many animals, and the land reaches a tipping point where it cannot support too high of number, and then it wont support any animals.
The grass that is growing strongly now, do you cut it down immediately for mulching or do you wait until it has dried out? This way you could harvest grass several more times.
Over grazing a quick way to fail as a farmer, in New Zealand most animal farmers would tell you that you don't farm the cattle, you farm the grass as it enables the ability to have animals. I also should mention that unfortunately this attitude has been disappearing as land prices continue to rise and banks enforce quoters that they think the land should produce too.
Cool video. Don't cut that dead tree, It's very good for the wild life and biodiversity. Plus at one point the termites will take care of it and will transform it into compost.
I think you should not be so scared of termites but rather animals as they can do more damage.. my first year I had no animals at all allowed. Then for a few years I borrowed cows to bring down a bit of vegitation when it became to bushy. And every year I have been able to bring more and more animals for longer periods of time.
Put your blimmin' seatbelt on mate ! Certainly whenever driving on normal roads, including town roads at 50 kmh or less. If you're just manoeuvring in low gear or reverse, at near walking speed, on private land, then fair enough to be belt-less. Otherwise EVERYONE in a moving vehicle should have their safety belts on "properly". That includes kids or workers riding in the backseat or sleeping. Seatbelts have saved my life or saved me from major injuries at least twice. Remember England's Princess Diana and her friend Dodi Fayed died in that French car crash in 1997. which they could have walked away from, because of their conceited attitude that they were too rich to be worried about wearing seatbelts. I realise that road laws in Namibia may be different. But I want you to be safe dude ! You're carrying the hopes of Permaculture fans the world over, to spread the message by example of your work on the ground there throughout all of SouthWest Africa. (I live in a cooler Temperate climate now, but previously lived in Rural Western Australia, a climate substantially drier even, than yours).
Not yet, he just got rain. If he chops now, the roots will remain small and the rain will get trapped by the mulch. Let it grow so the roots get thick and absorb more water while breaking down the hard soil. At the end of the rain, early spring, cut those trees which will then grow back. Or wait till fall and then chop and drop.
I think I shared Allan Savory’s Ted Talk video with you before but if not I will link it again. He talks about how important animals are to repairing the land, but you need to rotate them constantly so they don’t overgraze. The manure builds soil & helps grass & so on to grow back healthier. ruclips.net/video/vpTHi7O66pI/видео.htmlsi=EWAljWI1tZey8PmT
He knows all about savorys techniques but his land is only 6.5ha it’s not big enough for the horses he keeps already, savorys technique designed for large areas with herd grazing it’s not applicable to this scenario
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Norway, forest is looking good!
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Looking forward to seeing how much greener the land will look after the rain in the next few weeks
Explosive growth would be my expectation...new and exsisting plants/tree's...lets hope...
It looks lush and verdant.. well done to you and your team for the great effort for a magnificent result which I can imagined has some neighbours scratching their heads.
The birds are celebrating the rains too. Wonderful sights and scenes. From Botswana
standing dead trees are a super important part of the ecosystem so its always good to leave a few standing around (until they become dangerous of course)
True and the dead roots wil get watter deep in the ground🎉🎉
Praying your success inspires your neighbors!
Thanks!
My name is James, and I am happy to help. Thank you for your videos.
@@340wbymaghi James I’d encourage you to use the link in the description in the future, the buy me a coffee get 95% to Danou vs 70% from super thanks
The contrast in the land is amazing, as is the volume of water you've been able to collect, even if you haven't got your systems quite how you want them - an ongoing tweaking, I suspect. Congratulations!
Re Lucas, I had my fingers crossed (thumbs linked?) and my prayers said that he can stay. However, when you said at the end that if he has to move, you could build him somewhere new, my mind went racing with the opportunities that presents, both in the design of the house itself (natural ventilation, etc) but also how you then link the house to the garden/land alongside it. I have to say, however, that I wouldn't be doing anything at all at his current site until it is clear where he stands.
Thumbs held, fingers crossed, toes clenched, and anything else you can think of....😂
Tack!
Noice!
Great to see the follower count continuing to steadily rise
He was definitely being restricted with the way it stopped, 100+ a day to almost 0 single digits at least
Wow 🤩 your land is looking amazing! And that new swale is looking tops! Mmm very interesting how the nature reserve looks very bushy… lots of roots in the ground and bushes to make its own mulch, thank you for sharing that. 😊 You are so lucky to have free range giraffes down the road from you. Wouldn’t it be lovely if you could drive down that road someday and see some large native trees on each side instead of barron land that the goats are eating up.
Most folks don't think much about an inch of rain. After all, an inch is a little thing. However, an inch of rain falling upon just a 1,000 square foot piece of land is equal to 620 gallons of water. An inch of rain on an acre is 27,154 gallons of water. That's a lot of water! It just fills my heart with joy seeing so much of that water being captured and looking forward it is easy to see the results will astonish the local community. Happy! Happy! Happy!
100 tons per acre...Thats why bare ground gets so hammered by rain...
Perhaps a rain guage in future would be helpful.
Sunflower plants will make great additions. Its abit late in the season but shorter faster growing variety will still yield a good crop at the end. This will quickly develop the root network, build up a canopy of sorts and provide seeds for future growing and for feeding the birds
Any fast growing seeds, to get cover & shade prior to summer would be fantastic...
With all the overgrazing going around, seed bank in the area is extremely limited.
Great to see you allow your grass to go full life cycle. The benefits will show in one-two years.
Seed spread by wind animals & harvesting , makes Danou's place a good local resource...
The seed bank in the soil is pretty much infinite, even with overgrazing. Seeds can be stored in the soil for decades waiting for the right conditions to germinate, otherwise they stay dormant.
Lovely to see so much green. Your hard work is bringing success. I hope all works out for Lucas! 🍀🍀
So wonderful to see how much green grass you have establishing, and nature is responding with the ant activity and the arrival of the birds, and I think I heard a frog. Your neighbours property is bare but eventually they will benefit as the moisture content in your land rises along the borders.
In Australia they do simple tests on soil to check infiltration rates on different parts where the grass has regenerated in simler soils the infiltration rate is measured inches per minute but the hardest parts it is like mm a minute the more grass you have the less you will notice how much water is going in ✌️
Mekons idea of the digging river is why I asked you to get quotes for 3 dam liners a couple months back
Those swale ridges would benefit by being smoothed down a touch and made more gradual. Those high peaks will just erode each rainfall and struggle to grow seed. A flat top will catch the rain and help seeds establish.
It is amazing how much different your land has changed in such a short time. Nice job.
When we planted the 3 sisters as we call corn, beans, and squash, we planted in mounds. First we would plant the corn and when it gets about half the size your plants are we would plant the beans right next to the corn stalk or maybe 3 stalks, then after the beans sprout we planted the squash on the outside of the mound, the mounds being circular. That way the corn stalk is sturdy enough by the time the beans sprout and the vine starts climbing and the bean vine is taller than the squash once the squash covers all the bare soil around. The beans fix nitrogen for the corn and squash, the squash shades the soil, helping to suppress weeds and conserve moisture. At the end of the season just lay the stalks down and they become mulch.
I’m loving watching this water catchment system working so effectively. Imagine if all the neighbors practiced these water strategies. Flooding would be greatly minimized. The entire area would be so much greener. It would be able to support livestock and grasses.
The grasses need to regrow and reestablish before the livestock returns. Plus it helps to be able to divide the grazing lands into separate paddocks so the live stock can be constantly rotated between sections, allowing the grasses to regrow for several days. Rotational grazing can regenerate the land and soils, nourishing the land rather than destroying it.
Viewing from US. Two thoughts given what you are doing in the friendly forest. A two person hand turned auger might allow you to do more faster and deeper. Second, I saw a video on vertical drainage. Basically a deep hole, filled with gravel and then the sod put back on top. You could do this in the horse pasture and around the edges of the pasture to aid filtration. Enjoy the video, good luck.
That works in certain soils (heavy clay content). I doubt that with make much difference as the pits and gully water seems to sink in water pretty quickly already.
Have you looked into rotational grazing? seems a lot of people having success with turning desert green quickly with rotational grazing practices
He only has 6.5ha it’s really not enough for the horses he has already, the impacts of grazing is being replicated with human interventions and worm castings
Hai, greatings from the netherlands.
You should set up a spot marked possibly with stones or something so you can take an image from the exact same spot and show the change over time.
I used a spray paint can to make a spot on a tree to take images from the same point. I literally just hold the camera flush with the painted spot.
I talk about a 'chain of ponds' and it goes nowhere, but Peter Andrews talks about it, and everyone perks up. Just ain't fair! 😆
Every little crease in the land should have a series of barricades to help stop the water from flowing. As you can see with the tire dams you've installed, a reasonably solid wall can make a huge difference. A pile of brush is far too "open weave" to stop the water. Sure, they "collect sediment" and might eventually close up enough to cause the water to pond, but that's something that takes a decade. Active management means we get in there and build the structures as solid as we can right from the get-go instead of waiting on nature to do it for us.
Your land is showing tremendous recovery because of your efforts to speed up the process. Imagine how slow it would have been if you hadn't dug all those holes and chose instead to simply let nature work at her own pace. You sped the process up, and building BDA's in every little fold of the land is no different. Lukas did a great example of this "accidentally" a few months back, and you got to see how it held the water in a small pond in the crease. It wasn't much, but it was enough to show the value of banking soil up in the mix of twigs. And if he'd added grass to the equation, he's have created a far stronger "dam" that would have lasted through the next rain. The process of learning from the beavers, paying attention to the details of their work, makes all the difference.
Resources are limited on a new project....Imagine a few bags of grass laid against the leaky dam, just prior to the rain...We all want to run faster....Dreams...
I think of the brush dams (leaking weirs) as trying to slow water and prevent further erosion, vice the swales and dams which harvest rain. Using both in combination is optimal (what is the best ratio of weirs and swales depends on many criteria).
@@jeffreysachs3423 The key thing here is that the brush dams don't do what folks think they'll do. The "weave" is just too open so the water scoots right on through. Yeah, over time you'll accumulate organic matter in them... but why wait for the natural process to do that when you can do it right now and reap the benefits immediately? That's the part I don't understand.
It's not like we don't have hundreds of videos on building Beaver Dam Analogs, or there isn't enough organic matter on site to accomplish the goal. Rather, it looks to me like it's just stubborn refusal to learn from those who have walked the path before you.
I get that because I've been here. Always came around to regret it later, too.
@@philleggitt3005 I would accept that, except resources aren't limited. That's the first lesson beavers teach us because we can see them building dams that'll collect millions of gallons of water yet use nothing more than sticks and mud.
Look around the site, and they've got literal tons of sticks and mud, leaves and rock, so it's not saying that the BDA's can't be built 'proper' like the Beavers do. It's just that we opt to not build them like the beavers, and then wonder why they aren't holding water when the rains come.
Lukas actually built a decent BDA a few vids back, maybe 2 months ago, and it held water instantly. It needed a little work after the rain, but it showed how dirt and sticks work to make a pond high up in the elevation. It worked when the brush piles on either side of it didn't work. That's a clue, imo. 😀
Excellent.
So good to see all that water and wetness on your land, marvelous work so far, each hole and clump of grass makes a difference. Have you thought of using shredded cardboard to mix in to help retain water and aid rebuilding the structure of the soil. Do termites eat cardboard?
It would be good to know what you think the end state would be - what animals and how many can you support sustainably, what other crops can be gathered etc.
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Beautiful clouds. Watching from Philippines
the comparison with your neighbours land will be all the more stark and valuable in a week or two when your grasses have had a chance to shoot up. 19:30, you'll need to put some "speed bumps" or overflow bricks in your new swale otherwise all the small rain showers will just drain into the larger ponds you've built and not spread out their benefit.
One way valves he calls it, has to fill up first then into the dam
Capillary action only draws 400 mm up/ high so deeper isn't always better but more water always works
Danou
Would bridges be useful in your property ?
Grazing animals absolutely have their place in permaculture, they eat weeds & plants people don't or can't eat and their manure returns fosfates and other nutrients to the ground but as you have shown here it has to be carefully managed to avoid overgrazing and erosion from hoofs and other animal activity.
1000 liters + 1 cubic meter, i hope it helps people visulise volumn...
Are you satisfied with the amount of rain so far in this rain season?
No, we always pray for more rain in the proper rates at the proper time.
Congrats for the nice rainfall!
Hey Max hope all is well, waiting on videos from you now 😅
@BESHYSBEES thanks, are doing well. That is great! Probably a new video out next week 😀
Now that the ground is softened it would be a good time to dig out the small thorn bushes from the growing area’s and move them to the living fences
Withe the amount of silt that settles on your land after it rains you will soon have to dig out your swales.
could sell the dirt or use for more harvesting structures. should be fertile soil
You use the sediment to level the land in front of the swale
The silt in your swales should be safe (from heavy metals or chemicals) to be spread on your land to add nitrogen and phosphorus to the soil.
I would mix the silt soil taken from filled in swales and stream bed in with the worm castings, and that will increase the area/volume where water can sit and be absorbed. Think of it as a continuous dredging of the gullies and swales. Not knowing the clay/sand content of the silt, you will need to experiment with silt to worm castings ratios or percentages.
In the USA, we use dredge material as fill soil (dried) and as capping material for closed landfills and turning quarries back into parks. It has been used as agricultural soil enrichment successfully on a limited basis, and it should work for you. It is easier and cheaper to just buy chemical fertilizers here.
You should add some "valves" places in the Swales where you some Boards to Open If too much Water is in them. Maybe some bricks and a leftover Metal shields from Yard?
Then you can react much faster.
With all the termites, I recommend bricks for easier adjustment vice boards.
I personally use bricks (cider blocks) mostly. (Termites are not an issue for me).
Been watching for a while now from Germany. Love the way you explain things.
Who is the Australian you mention that floors the plains ?
Peter Andrew’s
@@BESHYSBEES1k views in 2 hours, very noice!
@@Power_Prawnstarnoice! 😂
Massive improvement on the new swale 😁 Remember your secateurs as you’re walking around ☺️
Definitely get the botyom new swale going: the more, the better. Great results!
Peter Andrew’s the Aussie with the regenerative ag
It might help to mix some compost into the soil you make the swale berm from.
I’ve mentioned this before some biochar too
That's all very lush looking. And this is just the first season of rain.
Would be great to witness how permanently green everything can be in the next 3 years, or so. Thank you for the daily updates and entertainment.
Building a new house wouldn't be the worst thing to do in the off-season, imo
When I lived in an arid climate, I fantasize that if I had to start from scratch, I would make the whole plot a gigantic catchment basin. By basically clearing whole plot and put concrete or plastic pond liner down. And then put the soil back on that watertight base layer to make it look like how it was before. I would have it all slope down to a catchment/filtration spot (to catch the debris and sand) and have it flow over into a basement. That way, because or the enormous footprint, fifty by fifty meters or so) of the rain catchment, compared to just the roof, you catch an incredible amount of clean water. Year-round water probably if the basement basin is large.
Anyway, that setup, or any other, starts with prepping the land as best as you can. And as it comes to water, dig a hole is requires. A basin the size of a swimming pool and use the floor of the house to be the lid of the water basin. to keep the water sealed off from insects, evaporation, etc.
Anyway, that's my five cents.
Thank Beshy for the Google map update! I think I noticed it yesterday.
Make viewing the "walk throughs" much easier to understand.
Thanks Reinier I’m always updating and trying to improve it, any criticism or recommendations are welcomed
I’d love to be able to buy you the neighbours place, crowd funded permaculture demonstration site
It's unbelievable how much biomass will come together in the next few years! It's going to be absolutely great.
I felt the rains down in Africaaaaa, gonna take some to do the things we never haaaaaaave ❤
i AM HOPEFULL,AFTER QUITE SOME TIME,RE CHARGING WATER TABLE,THAT THE RIVER MAY RETURN IN SOME FORM
Don't focus on what you didn't capture but rather on what you have captured. You've captured lots of water and sediment, which means plants will grow better now.
We need to start a go fund me so we can hire all the local people so they can learn the permaculture basics
See buy me a coffee. It is the lowest percentage of any mechanism I know of and no international transaction fees.
Do you want your town or city on maps?
@@BESHYSBEES Springfield Va is the generic area (not an incorporated area)
Put a small berm around the corn comparison area so it floods but doesn’t wash through then exits into the ditch going down to the new swale
Goats can be a very good tool in managing your landscape, but they should be managed themselves very well.
The woodpecker thanks you for keeping that dead tree in the river. Sounds like he's building himself a new waterfront condo up there in the upper limbs.
It was dry I'm not surprised at the infiltration rate it's going well
Did you plant the beans and squash in the corn?
He did, but with the flow in the corn patch last night he's thinking he may have to replant some.
Idea for ant/termite harvest.
Bucket filled half with water and then shovel ants/termites in to the bucket. They will swim, dirt will sink. Place bucket with the chickens and they will eat them as they crawl out of the bucket.
Just an idea, hope you try it out. 👍
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Just wondering. How do the ants and termites survive the area being filled with water for a few hours?
Even if they can swim wouldn't they be swept away?
The termites have excavated under their mounds to the water table they don’t drown because the water goes straight down, ants will raft together to block the hole and an air bubble is created that stops water going in, tried to explain it simply
Danou... 3 million for the property next door is equal to...
£ 130,000 uk pounds, or,
$ usd 160,000...
Crowd funding might be possible...If it was allowed in your system to rent the house out, income from that could power your movement going forward...
With the game farm , your farm, and additional land local to you , the regeneration could be beneficial each to the other...
If your sister would join in water harvesting, i see the visual effect as being so big as to encourage others join in...
If all 5000 subscribers gave $32 each it could be bought.
I have the same idea crowd funded permaculture demonstration property
I would like to know the town which you talk about & what is your farm size?
Otjiwarongo, Namibia
I think Lucas get Wick because of the worries Not to know If He can keep His Home. That can struck even a tough Guy.
If the troubles are solved He will BE much healthier.
Wish you Guys the best.
I NEED HELP COMMUNITY
can't seem to find the satellite image of his place...any steps I should take specifically to navigate myself to view it??????
open the description and you'll see a link for google earth. Just click on that link and it will take you right to his property.
Where it says “more” under the video title, scroll down to see the links
Gray mud look like clay, would help for water retention in the soil
love to see all the green. yes having the right number of animals can be good for your soil. grazing cattle or sheep, plus some chickens or other birds. everyone has too many animals, and the land reaches a tipping point where it cannot support too high of number, and then it wont support any animals.
Pond is ready, waiting for a hippo!
The grass that is growing strongly now, do you cut it down immediately for mulching or do you wait until it has dried out? This way you could harvest grass several more times.
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How do you discourage mosquitos from breeding in all the standing water?
The water only sits a few days and it’s gone into the ground
Drone shots would be amazing ?
Why don’t we all buy a peace of land so lucky is closer to the master and can implement more permacolyure basics all round
A few of us are suggesting crowd funding to buy the neighbours place
"master"?? Wtf
@@madrabbitwoman I think she is referring to god not Danou hopefully
@BESHYSBEES it is very creepy regardless
P A Yeomans (Percival Alfred). “That Australian guy with series of ponds…”
Over grazing a quick way to fail as a farmer, in New Zealand most animal farmers would tell you that you don't farm the cattle, you farm the grass as it enables the ability to have animals. I also should mention that unfortunately this attitude has been disappearing as land prices continue to rise and banks enforce quoters that they think the land should produce too.
Cool video. Don't cut that dead tree, It's very good for the wild life and biodiversity.
Plus at one point the termites will take care of it and will transform it into compost.
I think you should not be so scared of termites but rather animals as they can do more damage.. my first year I had no animals at all allowed. Then for a few years I borrowed cows to bring down a bit of vegitation when it became to bushy. And every year I have been able to bring more and more animals for longer periods of time.
Yes controlled animals work well win win situation if it’s managed
Its a jungle in the desert
Why No Drone Images?
The gimbal turret is jammed on his drone, trying to fix it
So we know WHY No Drone Images. 😁
Have you done soil tests? I just wondered why in some parts you have nothing at all growing , not even spindly weeds !
6 months is a long time.
Put your blimmin' seatbelt on mate ! Certainly whenever driving on normal roads, including town roads at 50 kmh or less. If you're just manoeuvring in low gear or reverse, at near walking speed, on private land, then fair enough to be belt-less.
Otherwise EVERYONE in a moving vehicle should have their safety belts on "properly". That includes kids or workers riding in the backseat or sleeping.
Seatbelts have saved my life or saved me from major injuries at least twice.
Remember England's Princess Diana and her friend Dodi Fayed died in that French car crash in 1997. which they could have walked away from, because of their conceited attitude that they were too rich to be worried about wearing seatbelts.
I realise that road laws in Namibia may be different. But I want you to be safe dude ! You're carrying the hopes of Permaculture fans the world over, to spread the message by example of your work on the ground there throughout all of SouthWest Africa.
(I live in a cooler Temperate climate now, but previously lived in Rural Western Australia, a climate substantially drier even, than yours).
Hey!
Time to get bust doing chop and drop for mulc
Not yet, he just got rain. If he chops now, the roots will remain small and the rain will get trapped by the mulch. Let it grow so the roots get thick and absorb more water while breaking down the hard soil. At the end of the rain, early spring, cut those trees which will then grow back. Or wait till fall and then chop and drop.
I think I shared Allan Savory’s Ted Talk video with you before but if not I will link it again. He talks about how important animals are to repairing the land, but you need to rotate them constantly so they don’t overgraze. The manure builds soil & helps grass & so on to grow back healthier.
ruclips.net/video/vpTHi7O66pI/видео.htmlsi=EWAljWI1tZey8PmT
He knows all about savorys techniques but his land is only 6.5ha it’s not big enough for the horses he keeps already, savorys technique designed for large areas with herd grazing it’s not applicable to this scenario
Do i need to remind you once a week to shave?
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