I've been researching information on aquaponics and permaculture for months and I have to say this video is the most I've gotten out of everything I've watched. You broke down everything clearly, and provided a wealth of information! Thank so very much! I am a retiree in my 50's, with some physical challenges but I'm am so excited about buying land and starting my own Permaculture & Aquaponics system within the next year or so. Again, thanks for this valuable information!!!!!!
I envisioned the round aquaponic system you have in the latter part around 1:07:50 about 25 years ago. What I envisioned was to make it into a dome shape greenhouse with a high powered pump in the fish area shooting water up about 30' . When the water comes down it will cool the green house and supply oxygen to the water for the fish. Solar panels to run the pump during the day. This system should work great in deserts with little water and alot of sun.
What you have achived Max Meyers was already achieved by the Ancient Incan Empire. But I still admire in your ability to recreate what they have created many thousands of years ago even before the arrival of the Spanish Conquistadores who almost destroyed their agricultural achievements. If you are concerned about food production and resource depletion, then study the Incan Empire. In that Empire the Inca's are not afraid of having many babies, they carry out careful colonization in areas to prevent overcrowding, their agricultural techniques and agro-industrial techniques are such that as their population grows their soil and water resources becomes even richer! And when they cultivate the forests as farm forest (called tree farms in today's world) their forests became even more biodiverse and even more productive. And their population density is so high that it frightened the Spanish Conquistadores who only won because of their superior weapons and armor. What the Inca has created is in effect an efficient and effective form of agricultural system that synergistically integrates and works with nature as they cultivate more land within their mountainous forests which we call as checkered plots complete with tree farms combined with alley cropping and inter-double cropping by leaving 1 plot of virgin forest untouched and using 1 plot of forest to be culled and trimmed and the lands cultivated intensively using a kind of multiple-cropping called inter-double cropping with multi-story tree crop farming of different crop heights and altitudes and double-inter cropped with fuel wood tree crops. And using densely inter-double planted trees of various uses in rows between multi-story tree crops and between them are the inter-double cropping cultivated grain plants and root crop plants densely planted together with protective annual Mexican marigolds to fight against plant diseases, plant pests, soil pests, parasites, making the soil more friable while planted together with nitrogen-fixing crops of all species and varieties at staggered consecutive schedules. The result is the more they cultivate their soil "PROPERLY" the richer their soil resources and water resources has become! Now we have modern plant botanical scientific knowledge and have access to all kinds of plants from all over the world to improve upon what the Inca has created. Vetiver grass, jiji-sao grass, clumping temperate bamboos, pesticidal plants, anti-blight plants (annual Mexican marigolds), perennial nitrogen-fixing living mulch ground cover, temperate coppicible and pollardable firewood tree crops, new temperate perennial crops, soil fertility improving trees, and new temperate naturopathic medicinal herbal pharmaceutical plants. In effect, what the Inca also has created can all be summed up as a form of AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM that works and cooperates and helps to further enrich nature while producing more agricultural food crops and non-food crops as well like organic medicines like oregano oil for one and many others as well. If you are concerned about food production and resource depletion, then study the Incan Empire. In that Empire the Inca's are not afraid of having many babies, they carry out careful colonization in areas to prevent overcrowding, their agricultural techniques and agro-industrial techniques are such that as their population grows their soil and water resources becomes even richer! And when they cultivate the forests as farm forest (called tree farms in today's world) their forests became even more biodiverse and even more productive. And their population density is so high that it frightened the Spanish Conquistadores who only won because of their superior weapons and armor. But one Spanish priest and chronicler was astonished at the splendor and fertility of both of it's people and their lands that he wrote down in his archives "IN THAT LAND, HUNGER DOES NOT EXIST" despite the high population density of it's people. I must also add that in that Empire, being a single and unmarried and childless bachelor or an old maid ARE CONSIDERED STATE OFFENSES! The Inca people are the only civilization that created a self-regenerating, self-regulating, and self-complimenting food chain eco-cycle agricultural food production system that made humans an important and natural component part of the natural ecosystem of nature in order to maintain it's increasing soil fertility and increasing water resource availability as their human population increases. AND IT IS THIS PARTICULAR INFORMATION THAT WAS KEPT AWAY FROM MOST OF THE PUBLIC'S HISTORY TEXTBOOKS! To sum it all up, the Incas has created an agriculture system that can all be summed up as a form of AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM that works and cooperates and helps to further enrich nature while producing more agricultural food crops and non-food crops as well like organic medicines like oregano oil for one and many others as well. This is similar to the Kaludsborg Industrial Ecosystem in the Netherlands that uses all the components of coal without any waste and without any pollution whatsoever for everything is close-loop and recycled and reused in that new industrial network of several systems combined together that uses each other's wastes as their primary raw material after processing it before using it. But one Spanish priest and chronicler was astonished at the splendor and fertility of both of it's people and their lands that he wrote down in his archives "IN THAT LAND, HUNGER DOES NOT EXIST" despite the high population density of it's people. I must also add that in that Empire, being a single and unmarried and childless bachelor or an old maid ARE CONSIDERED STATE OFFENSES! The Inca people are the only civilization that created a self-regenerating and self-complimenting food chain eco-cycle system that made humans an important component part of the natural ecosystem of nature in order to maintain it's increasing soil fertility and increasing water resource availability. AND IT IS THIS PARTICULAR INFORMATION THAT WAS KEPT AWAY FROM MOST OF THE PUBLIC'S HISTORY TEXTBOOKS!
This is full of so much useful information! I am going to reference this several times as I am working on my business plan for my own aquaponics farm. This information is so valuable, and I thank you for openly sharing it.
Talking about using animals to heat the plants and compost to heat tha water I have been designing a system where close in 3 sides of the space under my dwc troughs to put quail into and had also been planning to use compost with pipe running through it to keep my water warm through the spring and fall. I had no idea that other people were using these same ideas. It makes me feel more hopeful that they will be a success
Great job. All natural actions that change the whole concept of 'waste'--no such thing. I love working with all these concepts. Keep up the good work until everyone has a chance to understand and implement!
Guazuma ulmifolia serves as a very vital source of fodder for livestock approaching the end of the dry season of the native array dry areas. It is the favored tree for fodder in Jamaica. The trees also serve to bestow shade in pastures. The immature fruits and leaves are given as food to horses and cattle. The fruits are also given to the hogs in Puerto Rico. The leaves and fruits are usually fed to the cattle throughout the arid season. The trees may also serve the purpose of being actual posts surrounding pastures. The crunchy, woody fruits and its seeds are edible raw or cooked and have a mild, sweet, honey/granola like flavor. Guazuma ulmifolia, commonly known as West Indian elm or bay cedar, is a medium-sized tree normally found in pastures and disturbed forests. This flowering plant from the family Malvaceae grows up to 30m in height and 30-40 cm in diameter. It is widely found in areas such as the Caribbean, South America, Central America and Mexico serving several uses that varies from its value in carpentry to its utility in medicine. Contents 1 Common names 2 Description 2.1 Botany 2.2 Propagation 2.3 Pests 3 Distribution 4 Uses 4.1 Wood 4.2 Fodder/Food/Shelter 4.3 Medicinal 5 References 6 Further reading 7 External links Common names Bengali: nipaltunth English: bastard cedar, bay cedar, pigeon wood, West Indian elm French: Bois de hêtre, Bois d'homme, Bois d'orme Portuguese: bois d'orme, embira, fruta-de-macaco, mutamba, orme d'Amérique, pojó Spanish: bacedar, cambá-acá, coco, contamal, cualote, guácima, Guácima cimaronna, Guácima de caballo, guácimo, guazuma, iumanasi, kamba aka guasa, majagua de toro, papayillo, tablote, tapaculo Tamil: rudrasam, tenbachai, thenmaram, tubakki Indonesian: jati belanda Belizean: tapaculo Description Botany Guazuma ulmifolia flowers. Guazuma ulmifolia grows to 30 m in height and 30-40 cm in diameter and comes with a rounded crown. Leaves are distributed in an alternate pattern with 2 rows in assembled flatly. The leaves are ovate to lance-shaped, finely saw-toothed margin, usually have a rough texture and are 6-13 cm in length and 2.5-6 cm in diameter. 3-5 main veins arise from the base (rounded or notched, unequal sided) of the leaf which has a darker green upper surface and a fairer green color underneath. They are virtually hairless and thin. The leaf stalks of this species are lean, approximately 6-12mm long, and are covered with small “star-shaped” hairs. The panicles (indeterminate flower clusters) are in a branched pattern around 2.5-5 cm in length and are found at the bottom of the leaves. The flowers come in many, are short-stalked, small in size, have a brown-yellow color, five parted, 1 cm in length and have a small fragrance to them. The calyx contains are lobed (2-3), have hairs that are brown or light grey, as well as greenish. They have 5 petals with a yellow-like stamen, 15anthers per pistil, 5 stigmas (combined), ovary lighter green in color with hairs, and also contains a style. The fruit which have capsules that are round to elliptical is 15-25mm in length. They have many seeds that are shaped like eggs and are 3mm in length, grey. Propagation The species itself flowers throughout the year, in particular from April to October. Guazuma ulmifolia can be cultivated by either directly planting seeds or cuttings of the plant, as well as root stumps and bare-root seedlings. Before planting the seeds they need to be soaked in boiling water for 30 seconds; the water should be drained afterward. 7-14 days after fresh seeds are planted, germination occurs (60-80% rate). When they reach a height of 30-40 cm which is usually about 15 weeks later they are then prepared for “outplanting.” When using root stumps as a means for propagation they are left to dwell in a nursery for some time until the stem of the diameter reached 1.5-2.5 cm, which is usually about 5-8 months. Guazuma ulmifolia (West Indian Elm) Pests The Guazuma ulmifolia falls prey most commonly to the defoliating insect Phelyypera distigma. It is also faced with other defoliators such as Arsenura armida and Epitragus sp.. These defoliators very rarely cause problems, but has been witnessed: Aepytus sp., Automeris rubrescens, Hylesia lineata, Lirimiris truncata and Periphoba arcaei. Distribution Guazuma ulmifolia is normally found in the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America and Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil. Places such as India have been cultivating them or more than 100 years. Indonesia has in recent times introduced the species into their territory. They are native to places such as: Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Virgin Islands (US) They are considered exotic species to India, Indonesia Uses Wood Fruits. The wood of the Guazuma ulmifolia is utilized for posts, interior carpentry, light construction, boxes, crates, shoe horns, tool handles, and charcoal. The wood is found to be very unproblematic to work with. The sapwood has a color of brown (light) and the heartwood is pink to brown. Fodder/Food/Shelter Guazuma ulmifolia serves as a very vital source of fodder for livestock approaching the end of the dry season of the native array dry areas. It is the favored tree for fodder in Jamaica. The trees also serve to bestow shade in pastures. The immature fruits and leaves are given as food to horses and cattle. The fruits are also given to the hogs in Puerto Rico. The leaves and fruits are usually fed to the cattle throughout the arid season. The trees may also serve the purpose of being actual posts surrounding pastures. The crunchy, woody fruits and its seeds are edible raw or cooked and have a mild, sweet, honey/granola like flavor. Medicinal A beverage of crushed seeds soaked in water is used to treat diarrhea, dysentery, colds, coughs, contusions, and venereal disease. It is also used as a diuretic and astringent.[1]
Thank you so much for this inspiring video! If once aquaponics was inspiring and later per maculture was exceptionally fulfilling, the combination of both really feels mind blowing!
I honestly, don't know if my municipality would allow those "Speed Bumps". There are many other issues I would like to confirm. But HEY this is a YT Channel!
Great Vid!! 1 question though, has the "compgloo" been developed yet....aqauaponics has been something that has intrigued me for a few years now, in my path to self sufficiency, I will develop an aquaponics system to support my goals in being self sustainable......so this vid was taken 3 years ago...any updates on builds?
Hey Max I've been interested in permaculture for quite some time now. I personally aspire to completely replace the agricultural food industry with sustainable food systems that are completely sufficient. How do you think one would go about achieving such a feat? Also there is much that i need to learn. What do you think the best way to learn about permaculture, aquaponics, and sustainable closed loop practices systems, and how to integrate them into society. Thank you for your time.
Hi,this was amazing... I am 23 year old student from India currently studying in Italy but I am working on this sustainable yet commercial aqquaponic system to build back in India ...I do have certain plans and permaculture was something that hit me hard today and it's interesting...As you know power cut,water crisis has become so obvious in India that I wanted Incorporated such ideas...Is it possible for me to get in touch with you for feedbacks etc through mail id?
Priyanka, Im not sure if the person posting the video can put you in contact with Max Meyers personally or not, but there is a man named Murray Hallam who is one of the forerunner pioneers for aquaponics in Australia. You can find him on facebook and his websites for his business, Practical Aquaponics, and the Aquaponics Design Course he runs. You should check that out, its an 8-week online course that covers everything from small scale home systems to large scale commercial applications. A lot of great feedback from students all over the world, including India :) Edit: Practical Aquaponics website- www.aquaponics.net.au/ Double-edit: And no, I dont work for them lol, just passing along some info.. I know they're usually happy to help answer any questions people have - maybe send them an email with your questions
Just check the chinampa system of the Incas of Lake Titicaca, the chinampa system of the Aztecs of Mexico Lake, the floating gardens and farms of Lake Inle of Burma. It is all there and that is what others called as edge ecosystems which are the most productive and are passively self-regulating and are highly productive. Such systems uses no moving parts and uses a soil-based growing medium with water culture and are very forgiving for soil is a 10,000 years old time-tested and time-proven method which is practically very forgiving and any farmer can make an honest mistake and can still get a sizable harvest. Combined with the wate culture of the chinampa system and floating garden of South America and Mexico and the floating garden and floating farm of Burma, one can get very high yields 3 times that of their land-based counterparts and can get 7 to 8 harvests depending on what kind of crops are being cultivated and on the weather and climate conditions themselves. ruclips.net/user/results?search_query=chinampa ruclips.net/user/results?search_query=floating+gardens+and+floating+farms+of+Burma
Max, I absolutely love what you've covered in this video. I'm working on building my first aquaponic system now and this is definitely food for thought in respect to future add-ons. Question... Are any of the systems discussed here organically certifiable?
The highest system cost for me (in a closed environment system) is the greenhouse itself. I am trying to figure out if there is a cheaper materials alternative that can be used. I am also curious about solar energy running minor electrical devices without expensive solar panels.
A greenhouse is not really need it for Aquaponics, unless you live in colder climates. The are other alternatives for the construction of both, greenhouses and Aquaponic systems.
Time Lime 2010 to 2015. This is exactly what we have scientifically researched and developed during the Cold War in the mid-1950s to the late 1950s for our military installations which we called as the C.O.C facilities! We call it as the close-loop and self-contained food chain cycle ecosystems environmental life-support systems with a series of multi-phase array niche assisting separated ecosystems assisting the main ecosystems. These systems within a systems was developed primarily also as a passive biological systems for our deep underground military installations and multi-generational submarines which were still at the drawing board at that time and are now constructed and using such concepts and principles, especially the concepts and principles of Living Machines developed by Professor John Todd in the early 1980s which were also discovered quietly in the early 1960s during the Cold War but remained anonymous and unannounced. However these designs must be "REDESIGNED AND RE-ENGINEERED" to meet the harsh environments of Siberia and freak weather conditions such as water melon size hail stones must be taken into consideration, and several meters thick of dense and compacted snow. And be engineered to fight the effects of permafrost and the deep freezing of the soil down to several meters when before 5 feet of earth is sufficient for insulation against cold and heat but when the soil starts freezing down to a depth of nearly 1 meter than one must burrow much deeper, even right down to bedrock! www.rexresearch.com/airwells/airwells.htm and www.opur.fr International Organization For Dew Utilization Dew Ponds, Russell's Dew Pond, Knapen's Air Well, and others. But certain modifications were done by our own scientists in the 1950s and 1960s to make these Passive Atmospheric Water Condenser Structures reach their full potentials because their original inventors has overlooked certain key critical points that needs to be modified and adjusted to make them 100% efficient. 1 cubic meter of water = 1,000 liters or 250 gallons (1 gallon = 4 liter) and weights 1 meter ton per square meter. growingorganic.com/ipm-guide/botanical-tea-to-repel-pests/ Garlic Tea: Most botanical sprays work best when they are made from a mix of different plant materials, but garlic is so potent that it has plenty of potentials to work all on its own. Simply seep a tea from coarsely chopped parts of the garlic plant and use it to suppress fungal diseases like powdery mildew and black spot. We use BLACK ALDER TREES to consume sewage and sewage sludge clean from septic tanks and cesspools, along with willlows of the weeping willow variety, ailanthis altissima known as the Tree Of Heaven from China, and acacia auriculiformis which can grow WHERE NOTHING ELSE CAN GROW but the key is the BLACK ALDER TREES. Methane bioremediation is done by using live Christmass Trees, not the fresh cut ones but Live Christmass Trees growing on soil pots and now we use pruning air pots to further increase their biological efficiency in bioremediating methane out of the atmosphere. Pavegen www.google.com/search?q=pavegen&oq=pavegeb&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l7.7051j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 Pavegen Systems is a technology company that has developed paving slabs to convert energy from people's footsteps into small amounts of electrical power. www.livinginpaper.com/mixes.htm www.livinginpaper.com › mixes Mixes - papercrete, fibercrete, fibrous concrete - Living in Paper Cellulose is a natural polymer, a long chain of linked sugar molecules made by ... From left to right: No Portland cement, 50-50 cement to paper, 60-40 cement to ... Missing: fibrecrete | Must include: fibrecrete www.google.com/search?q=International+Organisation+for+Dew+Utilization&oq=International+Organisation+for+Dew+Utilization&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l2.786j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 International Organisation for Dew Utilization 1955 to 2010 = 55 years difference. This only proves that military science advances by 44.5 years for every 1 calendar year whereas civilian science advances by 1 year for every 1 calendar year. Makes me wonder what the other military scientific R&D departments has been accomplishing all these decades and years. If only this Cold War does not exists and that the military complex of both of our countries will stop suppressing the civilian scientific R&D sector under the excuse of "THIS IS NECESSARY IN THE NAME OF NATIONAL SECURITY" when in fact they are protecting a secret or protecting a military contractor because of their corrupt and evil inter-twining vested selfish political and economic interests!
I am impressed, can you recommend any book about aquaponics. I have a beautiful land in turkey right next to us base in izmir turkey, pretty close to mountains of kaz(duck). It hast the second best oxigens after alps in sweden. You should have try the honey which proved the best honey. I want to combine fish plant and the bees together. You seem pretty smart
Hi there! Where can I find this "Max Meyers Speed Bump Water Pump"? If you have a link for this, there is nothing in the video description! Greetings from Austria!
Good information about permaculture and aquaponics but I totally agree with cpubugs. If there was less talk about hippy nonsense and fantasy island you could have made a good video, great and a lot shorter.
How can I meet with you brother!!! I would like to get this started in the desert of California.. I would love to get in touch with you!!.. Great info and thank you for being a THINKER :D
Thanks for the great info. I have my setup for almost 2 months(NFT) my problem is iron deficiency.. Is there any preparation to avoid this problem? Thanks
+melt mariel... You can add a high quality iron supplement. However, I prefer to use good compost tea to add a diverse biology to the water that will break down and make the iron more available to to the plants. We recommend learning how to make high quality compost as a resource to use in your Aquaponics system and other gardens. Look into Dr. Elaine Ingham's work. She is an amazing (if not the best) compost builder. Here is an example to get you started. Thanks for your interest and I hope this helps :)
Please learn some thermodynamics. If you had a road that pumped or generated electricity, that energy would be robbed from the efficiency of the vehicle, meaning no net gain, but a net loss because of added complexity.
Hold up. A wood gasifier is ancient - it's an excellent way to fuel an engine for 'free', what was around in WW1 when fuel wasn't available for civilian vehicles because military had priority. Nothing new here, m'dude.
Errrr.... mans baser self with all its insecurities created god and religion, some men use god and religion to frighten people into servitude of unrealistic beliefs, the natural evolution of our planet created permaculture.... man mimicsand uses permaculture to get closer to nature, learn how to grow better food, live with the land and..... pay less bills lol.... peace and mung beans to all of u!!
I've watched a bunch of permaculture videos now. This one by far the best. Good job and thank you.
I've been researching information on aquaponics and permaculture for months and I have to say this video is the most I've gotten out of everything I've watched. You broke down everything clearly, and provided a wealth of information! Thank so very much! I am a retiree in my 50's, with some physical challenges but I'm am so excited about buying land and starting my own Permaculture & Aquaponics system within the next year or so. Again, thanks for this valuable information!!!!!!
I envisioned the round aquaponic system you have in the latter part around 1:07:50 about 25 years ago. What I envisioned was to make it into a dome shape greenhouse with a high powered pump in the fish area shooting water up about 30' . When the water comes down it will cool the green house and supply oxygen to the water for the fish. Solar panels to run the pump during the day. This system should work great in deserts with little water and alot of sun.
What you have achived Max Meyers was already achieved by the Ancient Incan Empire. But I still admire in your ability to recreate what they have created many thousands of years ago even before the arrival of the Spanish Conquistadores who almost destroyed their agricultural achievements.
If you are concerned about food production and resource depletion, then study the Incan Empire. In that Empire the Inca's are not afraid of having many babies, they carry out careful colonization in areas to prevent overcrowding, their agricultural techniques and agro-industrial techniques are such that as their population grows their soil and water resources becomes even richer!
And when they cultivate the forests as farm forest (called tree farms in today's world) their forests became even more biodiverse and even more productive. And their population density is so high that it frightened the Spanish Conquistadores who only won because of their superior weapons and armor. What the Inca has created is in effect an efficient and effective form of agricultural system that synergistically integrates and works with nature as they cultivate more land within their mountainous forests which we call as checkered plots complete with tree farms combined with alley cropping and inter-double cropping by leaving 1 plot of virgin forest untouched and using 1 plot of forest to be culled and trimmed and the lands cultivated intensively using a kind of multiple-cropping called inter-double cropping with multi-story tree crop farming of different crop heights and altitudes and double-inter cropped with fuel wood tree crops.
And using densely inter-double planted trees of various uses in rows between multi-story tree crops and between them are the inter-double cropping cultivated grain plants and root crop plants densely planted together with protective annual Mexican marigolds to fight against plant diseases, plant pests, soil pests, parasites, making the soil more friable while planted together with nitrogen-fixing crops of all species and varieties at staggered consecutive schedules.
The result is the more they cultivate their soil "PROPERLY" the richer their soil resources and water resources has become! Now we have modern plant botanical scientific knowledge and have access to all kinds of plants from all over the world to improve upon what the Inca has created. Vetiver grass, jiji-sao grass, clumping temperate bamboos, pesticidal plants, anti-blight plants (annual Mexican marigolds), perennial nitrogen-fixing living mulch ground cover, temperate coppicible and pollardable firewood tree crops, new temperate perennial crops, soil fertility improving trees, and new temperate naturopathic medicinal herbal pharmaceutical plants. In effect, what the Inca also has created can all be summed up as a form of AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM that works and cooperates and helps to further enrich nature while producing more agricultural food crops and non-food crops as well like organic medicines like oregano oil for one and many others as well.
If you are concerned about food production and resource depletion, then study the Incan Empire. In that Empire the Inca's are not afraid of having many babies, they carry out careful colonization in areas to prevent overcrowding, their agricultural techniques and agro-industrial techniques are such that as their population grows their soil and water resources becomes even richer! And when they cultivate the forests as farm forest (called tree farms in today's world) their forests became even more biodiverse and even more productive. And their population density is so high that it frightened the Spanish Conquistadores who only won because of their superior weapons and armor. But one Spanish priest and chronicler was astonished at the splendor and fertility of both of it's people and their lands that he wrote down in his archives "IN THAT LAND, HUNGER DOES NOT EXIST" despite the high population density of it's people. I must also add that in that Empire, being a single and unmarried and childless bachelor or an old maid ARE CONSIDERED STATE OFFENSES! The Inca people are the only civilization that created a self-regenerating, self-regulating, and self-complimenting food chain eco-cycle agricultural food production system that made humans an important and natural component part of the natural ecosystem of nature in order to maintain it's increasing soil fertility and increasing water resource availability as their human population increases. AND IT IS THIS PARTICULAR INFORMATION THAT WAS KEPT AWAY FROM MOST OF THE PUBLIC'S HISTORY TEXTBOOKS! To sum it all up, the Incas has created an agriculture system that can all be summed up as a form of AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM that works and cooperates and helps to further enrich nature while producing more agricultural food crops and non-food crops as well like organic medicines like oregano oil for one and many others as well.
This is similar to the Kaludsborg Industrial Ecosystem in the Netherlands that uses all the components of coal without any waste and without any pollution whatsoever for everything is close-loop and recycled and reused in that new industrial network of several systems combined together that uses each other's wastes as their primary raw material after processing it before using it. But one Spanish priest and chronicler was astonished at the splendor and fertility of both of it's people and their lands that he wrote down in his archives "IN THAT LAND, HUNGER DOES NOT EXIST" despite the high population density of it's people.
I must also add that in that Empire, being a single and unmarried and childless bachelor or an old maid ARE CONSIDERED STATE OFFENSES! The Inca people are the only civilization that created a self-regenerating and self-complimenting food chain eco-cycle system that made humans an important component part of the natural ecosystem of nature in order to maintain it's increasing soil fertility and increasing water resource availability. AND IT IS THIS PARTICULAR INFORMATION THAT WAS KEPT AWAY FROM MOST OF THE PUBLIC'S HISTORY TEXTBOOKS!
How long were you typing that up?
This is full of so much useful information! I am going to reference this several times as I am working on my business plan for my own aquaponics farm. This information is so valuable, and I thank you for openly sharing it.
Talking about using animals to heat the plants and compost to heat tha water I have been designing a system where close in 3 sides of the space under my dwc troughs to put quail into and had also been planning to use compost with pipe running through it to keep my water warm through the spring and fall. I had no idea that other people were using these same ideas. It makes me feel more hopeful that they will be a success
Great job. All natural actions that change the whole concept of 'waste'--no such thing. I love working with all these concepts. Keep up the good work until everyone has a chance to understand and implement!
Guazuma ulmifolia serves as a very vital source of fodder for livestock approaching the end of the dry season of the native array dry areas. It is the favored tree for fodder in Jamaica. The trees also serve to bestow shade in pastures. The immature fruits and leaves are given as food to horses and cattle. The fruits are also given to the hogs in Puerto Rico. The leaves and fruits are usually fed to the cattle throughout the arid season. The trees may also serve the purpose of being actual posts surrounding pastures. The crunchy, woody fruits and its seeds are edible raw or cooked and have a mild, sweet, honey/granola like flavor.
Guazuma ulmifolia, commonly known as West Indian elm or bay cedar, is a medium-sized tree normally found in pastures and disturbed forests. This flowering plant from the family Malvaceae grows up to 30m in height and 30-40 cm in diameter. It is widely found in areas such as the Caribbean, South America, Central America and Mexico serving several uses that varies from its value in carpentry to its utility in medicine.
Contents
1 Common names
2 Description
2.1 Botany
2.2 Propagation
2.3 Pests
3 Distribution
4 Uses
4.1 Wood
4.2 Fodder/Food/Shelter
4.3 Medicinal
5 References
6 Further reading
7 External links
Common names
Bengali: nipaltunth
English: bastard cedar, bay cedar, pigeon wood, West Indian elm
French: Bois de hêtre, Bois d'homme, Bois d'orme
Portuguese: bois d'orme, embira, fruta-de-macaco, mutamba, orme d'Amérique, pojó
Spanish: bacedar, cambá-acá, coco, contamal, cualote, guácima, Guácima cimaronna, Guácima de caballo, guácimo, guazuma, iumanasi, kamba aka guasa, majagua de toro, papayillo, tablote, tapaculo
Tamil: rudrasam, tenbachai, thenmaram, tubakki
Indonesian: jati belanda
Belizean: tapaculo
Description
Botany
Guazuma ulmifolia flowers.
Guazuma ulmifolia grows to 30 m in height and 30-40 cm in diameter and comes with a rounded crown. Leaves are distributed in an alternate pattern with 2 rows in assembled flatly. The leaves are ovate to lance-shaped, finely saw-toothed margin, usually have a rough texture and are 6-13 cm in length and 2.5-6 cm in diameter. 3-5 main veins arise from the base (rounded or notched, unequal sided) of the leaf which has a darker green upper surface and a fairer green color underneath. They are virtually hairless and thin. The leaf stalks of this species are lean, approximately 6-12mm long, and are covered with small “star-shaped” hairs.
The panicles (indeterminate flower clusters) are in a branched pattern around 2.5-5 cm in length and are found at the bottom of the leaves. The flowers come in many, are short-stalked, small in size, have a brown-yellow color, five parted, 1 cm in length and have a small fragrance to them. The calyx contains are lobed (2-3), have hairs that are brown or light grey, as well as greenish. They have 5 petals with a yellow-like stamen, 15anthers per pistil, 5 stigmas (combined), ovary lighter green in color with hairs, and also contains a style. The fruit which have capsules that are round to elliptical is 15-25mm in length. They have many seeds that are shaped like eggs and are 3mm in length, grey.
Propagation
The species itself flowers throughout the year, in particular from April to October. Guazuma ulmifolia can be cultivated by either directly planting seeds or cuttings of the plant, as well as root stumps and bare-root seedlings. Before planting the seeds they need to be soaked in boiling water for 30 seconds; the water should be drained afterward. 7-14 days after fresh seeds are planted, germination occurs (60-80% rate). When they reach a height of 30-40 cm which is usually about 15 weeks later they are then prepared for “outplanting.” When using root stumps as a means for propagation they are left to dwell in a nursery for some time until the stem of the diameter reached 1.5-2.5 cm, which is usually about 5-8 months.
Guazuma ulmifolia (West Indian Elm)
Pests
The Guazuma ulmifolia falls prey most commonly to the defoliating insect Phelyypera distigma. It is also faced with other defoliators such as Arsenura armida and Epitragus sp.. These defoliators very rarely cause problems, but has been witnessed: Aepytus sp., Automeris rubrescens, Hylesia lineata, Lirimiris truncata and Periphoba arcaei.
Distribution
Guazuma ulmifolia is normally found in the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America and Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil. Places such as India have been cultivating them or more than 100 years. Indonesia has in recent times introduced the species into their territory.
They are native to places such as: Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Virgin Islands (US)
They are considered exotic species to India, Indonesia
Uses
Wood
Fruits.
The wood of the Guazuma ulmifolia is utilized for posts, interior carpentry, light construction, boxes, crates, shoe horns, tool handles, and charcoal. The wood is found to be very unproblematic to work with. The sapwood has a color of brown (light) and the heartwood is pink to brown.
Fodder/Food/Shelter
Guazuma ulmifolia serves as a very vital source of fodder for livestock approaching the end of the dry season of the native array dry areas. It is the favored tree for fodder in Jamaica. The trees also serve to bestow shade in pastures. The immature fruits and leaves are given as food to horses and cattle. The fruits are also given to the hogs in Puerto Rico. The leaves and fruits are usually fed to the cattle throughout the arid season. The trees may also serve the purpose of being actual posts surrounding pastures. The crunchy, woody fruits and its seeds are edible raw or cooked and have a mild, sweet, honey/granola like flavor.
Medicinal
A beverage of crushed seeds soaked in water is used to treat diarrhea, dysentery, colds, coughs, contusions, and venereal disease. It is also used as a diuretic and astringent.[1]
Thank you so much for this inspiring video! If once aquaponics was inspiring and later per maculture was exceptionally fulfilling, the combination of both really feels mind blowing!
I honestly, don't know if my municipality would allow those "Speed Bumps". There are many other issues I would like to confirm. But HEY this is a YT Channel!
Thank you. Very informative. So much to learn in this video.
Excelent lecture, looking forward to use almost all these methods in our 2,5 acre farm. This will speed up our goals, Thanks.
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Great Vid!! 1 question though, has the "compgloo" been developed yet....aqauaponics has been something that has intrigued me for a few years now, in my path to self sufficiency, I will develop an aquaponics system to support my goals in being self sustainable......so this vid was taken 3 years ago...any updates on builds?
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Hey Max I've been interested in permaculture for quite some time now. I personally aspire to completely replace the agricultural food industry with sustainable food systems that are completely sufficient. How do you think one would go about achieving such a feat? Also there is much that i need to learn. What do you think the best way to learn about permaculture, aquaponics, and sustainable closed loop practices systems, and how to integrate them into society. Thank you for your time.
Hi,this was amazing...
I am 23 year old student from India currently studying in Italy but I am working on this sustainable yet commercial aqquaponic system to build back in India ...I do have certain plans and permaculture was something that hit me hard today and it's interesting...As you know power cut,water crisis has become so obvious in India that I wanted Incorporated such ideas...Is it possible for me to get in touch with you for feedbacks etc through mail id?
Priyanka, Im not sure if the person posting the video can put you in contact with Max Meyers personally or not, but there is a man named Murray Hallam who is one of the forerunner pioneers for aquaponics in Australia. You can find him on facebook and his websites for his business, Practical Aquaponics, and the Aquaponics Design Course he runs. You should check that out, its an 8-week online course that covers everything from small scale home systems to large scale commercial applications. A lot of great feedback from students all over the world, including India :)
Edit: Practical Aquaponics website- www.aquaponics.net.au/
Double-edit: And no, I dont work for them lol, just passing along some info.. I know they're usually happy to help answer any questions people have - maybe send them an email with your questions
Just check the chinampa system of the Incas of Lake Titicaca, the chinampa system of the Aztecs of Mexico Lake, the floating gardens and farms of Lake Inle of Burma. It is all there and that is what others called as edge ecosystems which are the most productive and are passively self-regulating and are highly productive. Such systems uses no moving parts and uses a soil-based growing medium with water culture and are very forgiving for soil is a 10,000 years old time-tested and time-proven method which is practically very forgiving and any farmer can make an honest mistake and can still get a sizable harvest. Combined with the wate culture of the chinampa system and floating garden of South America and Mexico and the floating garden and floating farm of Burma, one can get very high yields 3 times that of their land-based counterparts and can get 7 to 8 harvests depending on what kind of crops are being cultivated and on the weather and climate conditions themselves. ruclips.net/user/results?search_query=chinampa ruclips.net/user/results?search_query=floating+gardens+and+floating+farms+of+Burma
how do you calculate how many chickens you need to heat the greenhouse?
Max, I absolutely love what you've covered in this video. I'm working on building my first aquaponic system now and this is definitely food for thought in respect to future add-ons. Question... Are any of the systems discussed here organically certifiable?
The highest system cost for me (in a closed environment system) is the greenhouse itself. I am trying to figure out if there is a cheaper materials alternative that can be used. I am also curious about solar energy running minor electrical devices without expensive solar panels.
A greenhouse is not really need it for Aquaponics, unless you live in colder climates. The are other alternatives for the construction of both, greenhouses and Aquaponic systems.
Reaserch walipini. It’s a sunken greenhouse which won’t require heating to stay warm. Plus there’s only the roof to pay for so it’s cheap too
Time Lime 2010 to 2015. This is exactly what we have scientifically researched and developed during the Cold War in the mid-1950s to the late 1950s for our military installations which we called as the C.O.C facilities! We call it as the close-loop and self-contained food chain cycle ecosystems environmental life-support systems with a series of multi-phase array niche assisting separated ecosystems assisting the main ecosystems. These systems within a systems was developed primarily also as a passive biological systems for our deep underground military installations and multi-generational submarines which were still at the drawing board at that time and are now constructed and using such concepts and principles, especially the concepts and principles of Living Machines developed by Professor John Todd in the early 1980s which were also discovered quietly in the early 1960s during the Cold War but remained anonymous and unannounced. However these designs must be "REDESIGNED AND RE-ENGINEERED" to meet the harsh environments of Siberia and freak weather conditions such as water melon size hail stones must be taken into consideration, and several meters thick of dense and compacted snow. And be engineered to fight the effects of permafrost and the deep freezing of the soil down to several meters when before 5 feet of earth is sufficient for insulation against cold and heat but when the soil starts freezing down to a depth of nearly 1 meter than one must burrow much deeper, even right down to bedrock! www.rexresearch.com/airwells/airwells.htm and www.opur.fr International Organization For Dew Utilization Dew Ponds, Russell's Dew Pond, Knapen's Air Well, and others. But certain modifications were done by our own scientists in the 1950s and 1960s to make these Passive Atmospheric Water Condenser Structures reach their full potentials because their original inventors has overlooked certain key critical points that needs to be modified and adjusted to make them 100% efficient.
1 cubic meter of water = 1,000 liters or 250 gallons (1 gallon = 4 liter) and weights 1 meter ton per square meter.
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Garlic Tea: Most botanical sprays work best when they are made from a mix of different plant materials, but garlic is so potent that it has plenty of potentials to work all on its own. Simply seep a tea from coarsely chopped parts of the garlic plant and use it to suppress fungal diseases like powdery mildew and black spot.
We use BLACK ALDER TREES to consume sewage and sewage sludge clean from septic tanks and cesspools, along with willlows of the weeping willow variety, ailanthis altissima known as the Tree Of Heaven from China, and acacia auriculiformis which can grow WHERE NOTHING ELSE CAN GROW but the key is the BLACK ALDER TREES. Methane bioremediation is done by using live Christmass Trees, not the fresh cut ones but Live Christmass Trees growing on soil pots and now we use pruning air pots to further increase their biological efficiency in bioremediating methane out of the atmosphere.
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1955 to 2010 = 55 years difference. This only proves that military science advances by 44.5 years for every 1 calendar year whereas civilian science advances by 1 year for every 1 calendar year. Makes me wonder what the other military scientific R&D departments has been accomplishing all these decades and years. If only this Cold War does not exists and that the military complex of both of our countries will stop suppressing the civilian scientific R&D sector under the excuse of "THIS IS NECESSARY IN THE NAME OF NATIONAL SECURITY" when in fact they are protecting a secret or protecting a military contractor because of their corrupt and evil inter-twining vested selfish political and economic interests!
I am impressed, can you recommend any book about aquaponics. I have a beautiful land in turkey right next to us base in izmir turkey, pretty close to mountains of kaz(duck). It hast the second best oxigens after alps in sweden. You should have try the honey which proved the best honey. I want to combine fish plant and the bees together. You seem pretty smart
Great presentation
Hi there!
Where can I find this "Max Meyers Speed Bump Water Pump"?
If you have a link for this, there is nothing in the video description!
Greetings from Austria!
very good idea
Which is your favorite book?
Can bio char be used as the bio filter in an Aquaponic system?
+420420clover... Yes. Bio-char can be used if designed and used properly
Good information about permaculture and aquaponics but I totally agree with cpubugs.
If there was less talk about hippy nonsense and fantasy island you could have made a good video, great and a lot shorter.
I was looking for this comment. LESS TALK
How can I meet with you brother!!! I would like to get this started in the desert of California.. I would love to get in touch with you!!.. Great info and thank you for being a THINKER :D
+Yosef Leon... Thank you so much for your interest :) You can reach me at Max@norcalaquaponics.com. Please let me know how I can help
Thanks for the great info. I have my setup for almost 2 months(NFT) my problem is iron deficiency.. Is there any preparation to avoid this problem? Thanks
+melt mariel... You can add a high quality iron supplement. However, I prefer to use good compost tea to add a diverse biology to the water that will break down and make the iron more available to to the plants. We recommend learning how to make high quality compost as a resource to use in your Aquaponics system and other gardens. Look into Dr. Elaine Ingham's work. She is an amazing (if not the best) compost builder. Here is an example to get you started. Thanks for your interest and I hope this helps :)
Thank you very much. I tried ferrous sulphate vitamins which is sold in the pharmacy so far i have a good result.
permaculture encompasses aquaponics too.
Please learn some thermodynamics. If you had a road that pumped or generated electricity, that energy would be robbed from the efficiency of the vehicle, meaning no net gain, but a net loss because of added complexity.
Whooshed It is a speed bump intended to slow cars down so the energy being "Lost" would have been lost regardless by an old fashioned Lump of asphalt.
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Poor bugger, did you get your stutter sorted? There are therapists for that. Good luck my friend much love
Hold up. A wood gasifier is ancient - it's an excellent way to fuel an engine for 'free', what was around in WW1 when fuel wasn't available for civilian vehicles because military had priority. Nothing new here, m'dude.
I know you science folks don't like to admit this, but this Bill guy in Australia didn't invent permaculture.. God did.
You mean god infested the earth with creatures that want to kill us, so we have to break our back every day to thrive. What an asshole.
We have to break our back due to SIN. Because the world belongs to Satan.
Yes he did. God is good.
Errrr.... mans baser self with all its insecurities created god and religion, some men use god and religion to frighten people into servitude of unrealistic beliefs, the natural evolution of our planet created permaculture.... man mimicsand uses permaculture to get closer to nature, learn how to grow better food, live with the land and..... pay less bills lol.... peace and mung beans to all of u!!
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do you sell this crap or what?
+Hamish Ferguson What's your point?
Great presentation