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Frenchie Powell
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Hey, welcome to the channel!
My wife, Priscila, and I live off grid in Puerto Rico where we seek to intentionally live below our means and to grow quality food for the people of our community in a sustainable and ecologically sound manor.
Here on our channel you'll find a range of video content related to sustainable living and food production. Our mission is simply to provide info and answers to anybody seeking to learn.
So keep watching, like, and subscribe! I look forward to reading your comments!
My wife, Priscila, and I live off grid in Puerto Rico where we seek to intentionally live below our means and to grow quality food for the people of our community in a sustainable and ecologically sound manor.
Here on our channel you'll find a range of video content related to sustainable living and food production. Our mission is simply to provide info and answers to anybody seeking to learn.
So keep watching, like, and subscribe! I look forward to reading your comments!
Unique Way To Make A Yard Productive (Ultra Low Maintenance)
This mow-able row maintenance strategy can assist in making a yard or field more productive.
-Include diversity to reduce pest pressure on your plants.
-Work with plant communities that thrive together in your region. Blueberries need too many amendments here, so we went with honeyberries for example.
-Be sure to incorporate edible flowers to have things look beautiful in their season ;)
-Consider getting a European Scythe from Scythe Supply in Maine to maintain the rows without a mower
Resources:
For whole yard redos, look up Mike Hoag's work, James Prigioni, Parkrose Permaculture, or Back to Eden Gardening.
For doing this stuff at scale, look into Mark Shepard's work with New Forest Farm, or Stefan Sobkowiak's The Permaculture Orchard.
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To support our work, you can help by Venmo-ing any amount to @Frenchie-Powell, just leave a note or mention which video or project inspired you!
Otherwise, like, subscribe, y'know... the usual!
-Include diversity to reduce pest pressure on your plants.
-Work with plant communities that thrive together in your region. Blueberries need too many amendments here, so we went with honeyberries for example.
-Be sure to incorporate edible flowers to have things look beautiful in their season ;)
-Consider getting a European Scythe from Scythe Supply in Maine to maintain the rows without a mower
Resources:
For whole yard redos, look up Mike Hoag's work, James Prigioni, Parkrose Permaculture, or Back to Eden Gardening.
For doing this stuff at scale, look into Mark Shepard's work with New Forest Farm, or Stefan Sobkowiak's The Permaculture Orchard.
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To support our work, you can help by Venmo-ing any amount to @Frenchie-Powell, just leave a note or mention which video or project inspired you!
Otherwise, like, subscribe, y'know... the usual!
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Why I NEVER Irrigate (Hot & Dry Yet Productive)
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In a world which abuses its water resources, let's look at practical examples of growing food in abundance without irrigation infrastructure. We're classified Semi Arid Tropics with strong tropical storms in the wet season, then pronounced dry spells with hot, drying sun. To make matters worse, our soil is a rocky, sandy, silt mix that cannot support ponds or standing water. Regardless, we use ...
Actual Taste of Lemon Drop Mangosteen
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Garcinia intermedia (Lemon Drop Mangosteen) flavor is likely to surprise you. Have you had it before? If so, do you agree? Let us know in the comment section below. To support the online educational and local work that we do in Puerto Rico, consider supporting us through TH-cam or via Venmo @frenchie-powell Together, let's make our communities better, more liveable places!
Dust to Soil 3/4 Year Transformation
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We went from a barren patch, to a buried patch, to a weedy patch, to now a 90% edible patch! Our soil itself is still working on becoming dark and rich, more moisture would hasten the process, but I refuse to irrigate, and only use grey water to hand water a few struggling plants from time to time. To feed Nia's treat addiction, or to help out your friendly neighborhood TH-cam creators, conside...
Why I IGNORE tree spacing rules
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Let me know in the comments below how far apart you generally place your trees 👍 To support the work my wife and I do here in Puerto Rico, which entails establishing food forest systems, the giving of vegetative materials, and leading educational tours for free, consider sending money safely and securely through Venmo to @Frenchie-Powell Many blessings to you all! have a wonderful day!
Growing This Food Saves the Most Money
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When deciding which foods to be grown to save the most money, these are our suggestions. Say in the comments below what your favorite foods to grow are! To support the work my wife and I do here in Puerto Rico as we grow nutritious food for our community, or to help fund Nia's treat addiction, consider sending money through Venmo as a safe and secure method to @Frenchie-Powell Thanks, and Bless...
True Review: Homebiogas WITH Biotoilet
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After owning the unit for well over a year, let's see if the Homebiogas 2 unit sounds like it's something you're interested in or not. search Homebiogas products at: homebiogas.com
Food Forest After 2 Months of 0 Work!
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After going to the States for 2 months during the wet season, we return to find just how advanced the forest garden became during our absence!
Barren Dirt to Rich Soil: 6 Month Update
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6 month update to our ongoing project where we transform a dusty, rocky plot into a fertile soil garden. No chocolate black soil yet, but we're getting there, and the plants are responding beautifully to the transformation!
Barren Dirt to Rich Soil: 3 Month Update
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Drastic changes in just 3 months! Check out the adjustments in the plant communities and management practices.
How to Make the World a Better Place
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What can you do to have a positive impact on the world? Here's 10 things to make your own little sliver of the world a better place 🙂
Barren Rock & Dirt to Rich Garden Soil: Starting Plants
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Barren Rock & Dirt to Rich Garden Soil: Starting Plants
Turning Barren Rock & Dirt into Rich Garden Soil: 1st Step
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Turning Barren Rock & Dirt into Rich Garden Soil: 1st Step
What happened to The Garden after 2 Months of 0 work?
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What happened to The Garden after 2 Months of 0 work?
Hurricane Fiona... What Happened at The Garden of Aibonito?
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Hurricane Fiona... What Happened at The Garden of Aibonito?
I build a foam, hotbox insulated and bury it with solar heated water lines underneath it. Keep it stable year round and producing optimal extra heat from the other areas.
My buddy has some that have resewn themselves in his green house 4 years in a row. I’m thinking it’s a good candidate for wild tomatoes
Very good video ! I have also this device at home and ... I exactly made the same mistake when starting it 😂 I can tell you I have wonderful neighbors (yes it's possible even in Switzerland) because the odor was ... how to say... terrible when I had to drain it to restart. But anyway, I confirm it's a great product and it works very well. Just an advice if you leave in a cold country like me, insulate your system as much as possible when you install it, it's not a detail, it's very very important.
What kind of pipe did you use to connect to the effluent out? I think I see a PVC pipe connected ? What size pipe did you use?
Yep, it was PVC, just what I had lying around from another project. I'm on vacation at the moment, so I'll have to measure it for ya when I return
@@frenchiepowell thank you and I appreciate your help. I’m having an issue with mine. Instructions say 2” but that’s not right.
@@sinorlando for sure, when connecting the toilet I had to take the pipe with me to the store to physically measure it against the pipes there. I'm no expert, but what I bought was a 2" pipe, but some pipes that were labeled 2"s didn't fit. No idea why, but I'm not a professional
Please do a video on how to properly harvest mint.
For sure, always harvest the tips with the stem, never just pick off leaves. I'll try to compile a video to be up and coming for ya though 👍
What zone are you in? I am in zone 9b and we have clay soil. Can I grow peppermint ( in the ground ) in clay soil? If not, What type of soil do you recommend?
Same zone, same soil. The great thing about growing mint in clay is that it spreads slowly and helps break up the clay. Much easier to manage. Good luck.
We're in zone 7a, peppermint definitely grows slower the more southern you go, but should still do fine 👍
Your eyes are just simply beautiful.
redneck reviews! god bless
Some labels have a plastic film covering the paper that has to be removed then, the water can penetrate the label. I soften the paper and then use either a cloth, razor, or SOS pad and the paper comes off quite easily. I almost never have to scrub very hard! Some labels I spray with WD40, let it set for a bit and then use a scrubber, a few drops of DAWN and then scrub! Sometimes I just have to resort to good old fashioned elbow grease! K think they all should be required to print quick fixes on their labels and use the same type of glue on all brands.
This is so Long.
Could make the bread smaller and layer them in wax paper and freeze them.Pop them in the toaster when your ready to eat ! No waste and you have plenty if company comes ! 😊
I agree terrible cob wayyy better than no cob
Thank you.
I have been using this method for 2 years and have seen a few people have success with it mostly "David the good" grocery row garden:] I do have a tweek for you as well I like to heavily mulch the sides of the rows with hay and whatever I can find then cutting it when it grow's big and repeating the mulching process. This step helps control the weeds but mostly control the looks I get from people when they look at my garden hehe.
😆 I love it! Keep up the great work! In the lawn section, not the field, I occasionally cut the weeds around establishing plants and make a mulch circle, most lawn clippings I get with my scythe and up in my veggie garden, so the rows are left to fend for themselves haha
Good job! This is so true and been trying this method for a few years. I use compost teas other then this method but unsure if it is even needed now. My new garden is to big to buy fertilizer so have been using what I can and seems this is a better style:]
I put them in a 5 gal bucket. Fill it with water wait 2 weeks put the water through a screen into a watering can then water plants. Free miracle grow
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Looks good, I look forward to seeing it in 5 years. My hedgerows are among the plantings that I'm most pleased with on my site, I have planted several at various spacings over the years. Getting a bagging lawn mower also totally changed my views of mowing after over a decade of just "mulching in place" where most of the fertility just oxidized into the air, now I have a load of fertile mulch to dump around my woody perennials every few minutes, which further helps suppress the grass in the rows.
Great idea! Will give it a thought and maybe a try- got a spot for it
Pee is the shit
Very informative
I love it! "Chester the digester...LOL:)"
Great video! I’ve discovered much of this myself, but also learned much from your video. One factor that goes into what I grow is just convenience. For example I grow ginger just because I then always have it available.
Ginger is such a wonderful "plant once and have it forever" plant! Turmeric as well!
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Good review. Covering the negatives has been helpful as the positives have been done to death by sponsored videos already.
Technically speaking, their feral tomatoes. Once Domesticated products now living in the wild. If you want to find actual wild tomatoes, you need to venture down into Peru, where the ancestor of tomatoes called Solanum pimpinellifolium is located.
As for #11 too many people take too many medications!! So, get it from a source that takes NO drugs... zero drugs.
How the yam can store its energy in the roots if the leaves are dead?
which is the best manure to use?
Ideally cow manure
Good video mate
Thanks for this brilliant and educational video.
With urine, my parents had the best garden in the neighborhood. Everything was growing. The key with urine is to collect it and let it sit for several days. Once the smell is gone, you can use it straight up. You can also dilute it with water.
You think I can get a small camping oven on it
Maybe, I've never tried, and it'll depend on how the camping oven works. Do you attach a gas hose to the oven? Or do you attach the oven to a gas stove burner?
Great vid, buddy!
Sell me some seeds brother
Use Laquer thinner, works magic!
Wow, I am interested in this product. By the way, do you need to frequently dispose the solid waste? what happened if you put too much waste into the tank (and then full)?
My grandparents- farmers/ used cow and horse manure but also secret ingredient- urine mixed one to ten. Grandma liked to use kids urine because they didn’t have any medicines. Also banana peels egg shells ground up and coffee grounds. At the end of the season she left all the dead branches and covered with a layer of sticks, dry grass and leaves. By spring the ground was refreshed.
Back in the day the Bison herds stretched from the West Coast all the way to the East Coast, I'm pretty sure there were three subspecies of Bison the plains the Woodland I forgot what the third is but I gotta hook it up again. But the point being Once Upon a Time the Bison were the ones that were killing and fertilizing the Earth. The herds could stomp out a bunch of dead trees and twigs and leaves and pushed into the ground along with their poop.
I started from ground zero,we only had rocks for soil. I built mounds with everything that you listed except I didn't use pee. It doesn't gross me out, for some reason I just didn't think about it. I brought in a bucket today and announced to the family that we are going to use this to collect it. Of course I got ew out of it, but at minimum I'll start with myself. In the summer I want to build sort of an outhouse just for this purpose. This way I also don't need to run inside all the time dragging dirt. By the way you forgot wood ash, great source of potassium.
Wonderful! Wishing you the best with the upcoming growing season! And you're right, ash can make a great fertilizer and many plants love it. There are many honorable mentions that are out there just waiting to be used. Keep up the good work!
In a garden group as the answer to the question what's the biggest challenge for you in garden one guy said:" the price of fertilizers." What?! I don't even go in this section,why do you need to buy fertilizers when everything is already provided for free!
Peace and love to you both 💕
Your garden looks wonderful. Sure wish I could take a garden tour.
New to the channel. I loved the video.
Glad you enjoyed it!
awsome film :)
Awesome! Thanks for the idea!
WOW! Great
Excellent content here! I've been using all of these extensively for years and I'm shocked that most people treat their natural fertilizers like garbage while paying for synthetics. 🤪 Everybody needs to see this video and realize they are surrounded by useable fertilizers. 👍
Where are you? Hawaii?
Aibonito, Puerto Rico