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Elements Of Resilience
New Zealand
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 21 ก.ย. 2022
Sharing our journey towards resilience in Aotearoa New Zealand.
We focus on growing food, permaculture principles, food forests, nursery work (New Zealand natives, edible and medicinal plants), regenerative concepts, homesteading and DIY projects. All with a strong emphasis on New Zealand specific circumstances.
It's our attempt at working towards a wee bit more resilience in our lives.
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WHY?
We believe humans are storytellers. This is how we give meaning to our lives. Also, fundamentally it is how we shape the world around us. And our impact on the shape of the world around us is far from good.
We see the lack of resilience as a fundamental and underlying problem. It’s interconnected with many of the crises we face on a global scale today. Resilience is missing in many of the stories we strongly have come to believe to be true.
Elements of Resilience is our attempt at sharing one of the many alternative stories we think are so desperately needed.
We focus on growing food, permaculture principles, food forests, nursery work (New Zealand natives, edible and medicinal plants), regenerative concepts, homesteading and DIY projects. All with a strong emphasis on New Zealand specific circumstances.
It's our attempt at working towards a wee bit more resilience in our lives.
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WHY?
We believe humans are storytellers. This is how we give meaning to our lives. Also, fundamentally it is how we shape the world around us. And our impact on the shape of the world around us is far from good.
We see the lack of resilience as a fundamental and underlying problem. It’s interconnected with many of the crises we face on a global scale today. Resilience is missing in many of the stories we strongly have come to believe to be true.
Elements of Resilience is our attempt at sharing one of the many alternative stories we think are so desperately needed.
Native Plant List - 1 year old reforestation project
Finally! The long-awaited Plant List! With all the New Zealand native plants that were planted in the first round of planting in 2023.
Watch the rest of videos in this playlist:
th-cam.com/video/-_uYaji3XeU/w-d-xo.html
Key moments:
0:00 Intro
0:13 Overview of the native plants
0:43 Kanuka vs. Manuka comparison
1:09 MORE native plants
2:15 Background information - why these plants?
2:49 Winners - it's all about location?
3:24 Summary
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ABOUT THIS PROJECT
The plan is to grow a very high density of native trees, shrubs and grasses indigenous to Aotearoa New Zealand. Planting NZ natives directly into a grassy paddock.
The majority of the plants (±5000) have been planted in the winter of 2023. Directly into the grass, with only a sleeve and/or sheep wool as mulch. High density planting of New Zealand natives for maximum impact and quick results. Plant-and-forget style.
A BIG THANK YOU To everyone at Koru Native Wildlife Centre!
www.koruwildlife.nz/
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Elements of Resilience is based in Aotearoa New Zealand (Te Tauihu; Top of the South Island).
We focus on growing food, permaculture principles, food forests, nursery work (New Zealand natives, edible and medicinal plants) and DIY projects. All with a strong emphasis on New Zealand-specific circumstances.
Oh, and don’t forget: sharing all the mistakes and fails we make whilst working towards a wee bit more resilience in our lives.
elementsofresilience.org/
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DISCLAIMER
Everything we share in our videos serves purely as inspiration, not as instruction. It’s always your responsibility to do your own research before you try anything we talk about. Seek out professional (medical) advice when necessary.
Watch the rest of videos in this playlist:
th-cam.com/video/-_uYaji3XeU/w-d-xo.html
Key moments:
0:00 Intro
0:13 Overview of the native plants
0:43 Kanuka vs. Manuka comparison
1:09 MORE native plants
2:15 Background information - why these plants?
2:49 Winners - it's all about location?
3:24 Summary
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ABOUT THIS PROJECT
The plan is to grow a very high density of native trees, shrubs and grasses indigenous to Aotearoa New Zealand. Planting NZ natives directly into a grassy paddock.
The majority of the plants (±5000) have been planted in the winter of 2023. Directly into the grass, with only a sleeve and/or sheep wool as mulch. High density planting of New Zealand natives for maximum impact and quick results. Plant-and-forget style.
A BIG THANK YOU To everyone at Koru Native Wildlife Centre!
www.koruwildlife.nz/
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Elements of Resilience is based in Aotearoa New Zealand (Te Tauihu; Top of the South Island).
We focus on growing food, permaculture principles, food forests, nursery work (New Zealand natives, edible and medicinal plants) and DIY projects. All with a strong emphasis on New Zealand-specific circumstances.
Oh, and don’t forget: sharing all the mistakes and fails we make whilst working towards a wee bit more resilience in our lives.
elementsofresilience.org/
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DISCLAIMER
Everything we share in our videos serves purely as inspiration, not as instruction. It’s always your responsibility to do your own research before you try anything we talk about. Seek out professional (medical) advice when necessary.
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Less stress when saving seeds
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Thank you. I do enjoy your updates , to compare with our plantings :)
Nice Xander. Do you use the knowledge of syntropic agriculture?💚
Thanks! At this stage not really, the plants are still very young. But with the extremely high density of plants we might need to look into applying some of the techniques of syntropic agriculture further down the line!
Nice job and a beautiful day keep up the good work
Thanks!
Hard to appreciate the new plants on camera, like most things, I suspect in a year the growth will be far more obvious. Thanks for the update, from Scotland, who got all the rain you never, on top of our normally wet year.
Hi Jim. Not very obvious just yet, but a year from now they will have hopefully taken off! It feels like they're getting ready for a growth spurt next spring, especially now the water levels have restored after some beautiful rains. Hopefully all that water isn't causing any issues over at your place.
Beautiful mahi
Thanks!
cool stuff
Thanks!
Im doing something similar on 2ha, the grass is really difficult to keep back, looking at what you are doing i may leave the grass this summer to stop them drying out.....
It seemed to work very well for us the past year. Remember it might be different for you project. But definitely worth giving a try, even if you don't apply it to the whole area.
I have a plot further down the garden. Hopefully I'll bump into you at some point and say hi.
Well, at least you know which plot is mine! See you in the gardens.
Thank you for doing the project! I hope you make sure to keep out the invasives
Our plan is definitely to keep the 'non-natives' out as mush as possible! I think because we started with a 'clean' grassy paddock we might have a head start. The grass seems to be acting as a living mulch and in that way help suppress the possibility for other plants to establish themselves from seed.
Nice project, one thing I’ve noticed with all these “restorations” is nobody “plants” any rocks for small critters to hide in and every area is dead flat. All the rocks and divots in the land have been removed by farmers. It would be nice to see somebody dig a few holes and add some stones to make the land uneven because it’s all draining at the same rate. Keep posting the videos 😁😁👍👍
Hi Sam. Can't agree with you more on this one. We definitely have plans to provide space for the smaller (but oh so essential) small critters. There is a pond in the making. Also, Koru Wildlife Centre (who organises this project) specialise in breeding gecko and wētā. So we'll definitely follow up on making space for them. It all just takes time, which can be a limiting factor sometimes!
We also garden in the top of the South Island and oxalis is rife. We started our suburban garden from new 3 years ago and are learning lots of lessons along the way (some more expensive than others!). We now have a mix of raised beds and Charles Dowding's no dig philosophy. Good to see a channel from a NZ gardener.
Thanks for your comment! It can be tricky to make the "right" decision with regards to gardening sometimes! I was especially surprised to see oxalis make a comeback in the second season, after being absent for the whole first season. Something to keep an eye on for sure. I've also heard that letting chickens run on an affected patch for an extended period can help eliminate oxalis. However, as in my case, that's not possible for everyone.
Please mention the Māori names of the plants too
Thanks for mentioning that. I thought I shared most of them, but I see I missed a few. Future videos will have all the names, as that is also important to us! For now, please see the description for the names of the plants in this video.
@@ElementsOfResilience thank you🙌 the Māori names hold a lot of knowledge in themselves about the plants
Well done!
Thanks!
Awesome work. We’ve put in around a thousand natives over the last year. Our biggest problem is hares . Some young plants they just like to eat like cabbage tree. Some they just like to snap in half for the fun of it. It’s a battle out there 😛but we wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. Looking forward to vid no 2
Hi Ria, thanks for your reply! What's the approximate location of your project? Also, do you use any active treatments against the hares? You can find the update here: th-cam.com/video/WvQKfX2DO48/w-d-xo.html. We've had a very dry summer but the plants seem alright... Hope to post another update soon!
For sure an improvement!
Thanks! Good to know it was worthwhile.
Definitely an improvement, but to be honest I'm watching because of what you are doing, not your videography skills. That said, if it helps to attract a bigger audience, why not.
Hi Jim, cheers to your honesty. Don't worry the focus will remain on the message and not so much how it's presented, as I have very little skills in that area...
This is super interesting, thanks. You have nice grasses down there - we have kikuyu up here in Auckland. And some other weeds which make all this somewhat harder.
Hi David, this previously was a productive paddock of some sorts. This probably allows for a relatively easy transition, as you noted most of these grasses are relatively mild compared to some other plants out there. Nonetheless, I think by choosing the right trees combined with a deep layer of mulch, many common weeds could be knocked back enough to get the trees through the first year or two. After that they're off and in the long-term they'll shade out some of those plants
@@ElementsOfResilienceYeah I do a lot of this myself. Mainly in gullies and wetland areas. I have to keep them alive for the first 2 years, then they look after themselves. Although, even then, I can get blackberry, gorse and tobacco weed come up around the edges or in the middle of wetlands at any stage. So there's a certain amount of maintenance needed forever.
Great work! Have you seen this docu about Banks peninsula and the reforestation over there? Gorse will eventually easily be overtaken by natives, and in the meantime can act as a great nursery plant.. th-cam.com/video/3VZSJKbzyMc/w-d-xo.html
Enjoyed that, looking forward to seeing how it goes.
Hi Jim, just wanted to let you know that on the Summer Update video I can see your comment but can't reply or like it...So, thanks for the comment and we'll keep em coming for sure!
Great work everyone. Personally, and with my experience with planting New Zealand Natives( I am a Kiwi living in New Zealand) I would focus on controlling the grasses around your native plantings. Yes there maybe some protection from the wind leaving the grasses just to do their thing, however the cons are the grasses are most certainly taking light and food from the soil for your valuable plantings to become established. I certainly will be very interested watching for your progress videos and yes wind protection the mic would be a plus, thanks. Once again guys, great work.
Thanks for your comment. One of the main aims of this project was to experiment. We'll simply have to wait and see what the impact of the grasses will be on the growth. Stay tuned for the summer update video!
I would be more worried that the grass is taking the available moisture .
We understand your worry, we share a bit of it as well! However, so far that's not what it's looking like! I'm currently working on the summer update video and hopefully we'll be able to show that the grass might actually be supporting the plants (up to a certain point)!
Interesting. They all seem to have survived so far. Will be interesting to see them in 6 months time, a year etc.
Hi Blake, so far yes... I'm planning to do a summer update video within the next week or so. Let's see what they look like in the middle of summer!
What about exaust
Hi Abid, do you mean how the air exists the solar dehydrator? In that case, I talk about the air-flow design from about 4:00 onward. The cold air enters on the bottom, heats up and rises, and exits on the back end through the mesh cloth! Hope that answers your question.
Quite interesting topic.
I agree! Maybe you can try this in your own garden?
You need to get a microphone, and speak into it. Cannot hear you.
That's definitely the plan for the future videos!
It's not the usual approach but then again paddocks left fallow can revert to forest eventually. I think the sleeves should work well and the grass if nothing else will protect from the wind but surely they must be competing a lot with the new plants.
Indeed, most grasslands left to their own accord (i.e. no humans or ruminants) will slowly over time turn into forest. It's the natural succession of things. I guess we're 'cheating' a bit and hoping to speed it up as us impatient humans tend to do. I've seen similar projects before and the grass can either act as a great support through moisture retention, shade protection etc. Or, choke and overgrow the newly establishing plants. We'll keep a close eye on them (and provide updates!) as it all unfolds.
Mooi project Xander.
Yes, very exciting! Curious to see how it all unfolds! I have my expectations but we'll just have to wait and see...
Awesome editorial, Xander!
Thanks!
Heya, Xander, good to hear from you. Love your videos.
Thanks for the support!
Mooi Xander. Het wordt voorjaar bij jullie?💚
Yes! We're heading towards the spring-explosion-phase! Pretty much perfect weather; warm sunny days with plenty of rain in between! We can't eat up all the abundance that the garden produces at this moment... Very grateful to be able to be giving away and sharing some of this abundance with the wider community.
☝️ "Promosm"
Uhm... I'm not sure what you mean by that?
Sounds as if you guys eat extremely healthy. Thanks for this lovely video🎉
Well...we try! It sure becomes easier when you have access to an abundance of fresh veges from the garden, which we're very lucky to have!
Nice design. I am currently working on a dehydrator myself. Using an old fish tank.
That sounds interesting! I'd be keen to see it when it's done (or the work in progress) if you were planning to upload a video of it?
Amazing. Always wanted to know how to do it but thought it was really complex. You make it look so easy!
Benieuwd naar jullie toekomstige plek(ken), veel succes!
Here's a recipe a friend shared after watching the video (Thanks Clara!). HOW TO MAKE HAWTHORN KETCHUP: 1647g Hawthorn berries 910 ml vinegar (I used apple) 1010 ml water Black Pepper to taste 2 onions Laurel leaves salt (a few pinches) 600g sugar Also possible: piment, cloves etc. I tried to stay as local as possible So then you boil it all (without sugar), the longer the better. You can simmer it for 2 hours. Or even put it in the oven on low heat for 4 hours. Then you strain out all the pits (Through a fine mesh sieve. Takes a while) Then you add it back to the pot and add the sugar and boil it up one more time. Voila!
Have a nice day sirr 😂
Hey Xander, nice to hear from you💚
I'm glad you found the channel! It's been a while since we last uploaded a video. Hope to be more frequent again from now on.
Ivy is poisonous??
Thanks for your remark / question! It's important not to confuse Common Ivy (Hedera helix) with Poison Ivy (Toxicodendron spp.). Ivy is native to Europe but can be found all over the world now. Poison Ivy is native to North America, and I don't know much about this plant. Definitely wouldn't make dish soap out of it. If you were to eat Common Ivy it would be mildly poisonous. So I would recommend against doing that! However when used as a soap you don't really ingest it. Just as with your regular soap (which is also poisonous). Which you - I assume - also don't eat, right? Hope that helps
@@ElementsOfResilience Thank you for your beautiful message,, IV been looking for a none toxic soap to make at home,, I may give this a go to see what happens,, have a beautiful day my friend 🙏🌍✅🌻☀️👑
@@KingOsirismindprogramming8888 You're very welcome! Remember that you can start with making a small amount and testing. Common ivy in general isn't known to be allergic, and you won't be ingesting it. Yet, there's always a chance that when you're skin comes in contact with the soap (or any other new plant!) you're the unlucky one that turns out to be allergic to it. Nonetheless give it go!. Let me know how it went, if you decide to make some.
Very nice and useful video! Keep it up :)
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks Xander! What would you say are the benefits of this method for the plants?
I went on a ramble for a few minutes about the benefits and why I specifically placed it there. I then decided it was a bit too long & boring and left it out... It's located in one of the areas of the garden which got flooded last winter. Many of the (Mediterranean) herbs don't like wet feet. This raises their root systems about 0.5m higher. Also, the wood slowly decomposes to become soil (and thus plant nutrition and carbon storage!) over time. in theory the wood is also supposed to absorb and hold more water. This makes it ideal for drier situations. The summer has been unusually wet, so I haven't been able to test this yet. That's to name just a few benefits...Thanks for your question!
Good, but it is not soap…
What do you mean by that? It definitely is different from most soaps you would buy...
@@ElementsOfResilience It is just boiled water with leaves…does it make it a soap?
@@cyberrider1765 The liquid that comes from boiling the leaves can be used as a soap. It works quite well when cleaning dishes by hand. You simply add a generous amount to the cleaning water and it can remove most grease and other dirtiness. However, it does work and look different from a regular soap. These are often more concentrated and thicker. Thanks for your question. Maybe give it a try and let me know if it worked for you?
Really neat design here!
Thanks. I would say it scores more points on the beauty aspect than actually reaching high temperatures... Nonetheless, it works and you've got to start somewhere!
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Looks like you could definitely use some dish soap for your channel!
Were those the bottoms of plastic bottles that you used to cover the plants? Love that idea! Can't wait to see what happens!
Yup! Simply reuse plastic bottles (soda, milk) and cut them in half to cover seedlings when still young. This is also a great addition when planting seedlings directly into a mulched bed.
When I was watching the other video I was immediately fascinated by the solar dehydrator so I'm glad you dedicated a whole video to this! It's beautiful and I love how you used all the reclaimed materials to make it! I can't wait to hear about all the things you're able to dry in there! Thank you for sharing!
Everything is so beautiful!!!
Thanks! Although very little at this point is because of effort from my side...
So excited to follow all your amazing work and adventures!!! Love to you both!!!
Will become bee keepers to assist with pollination?
Possibly at some point in the future? For now there's plenty of other things to focus on!
So nice to hear and see Xander!
More to come! Also working on getting the quality of the videos, audio and my performance a bit better...