Great content Mike! Love to see this in action after you explained it at the Florida Permaculture Convergence. Keep up the great work and can’t wait to visit Everoak soon!
great video mike! wonderful DIY for nests. i love the food forest kit idea, get it all in one place and plant it dense! i didnt know it was a technique to notch the cassava, thanks for that tip. i do that with gliricidia so it roots from more of its nodes, so it definitely makes sense! didnt know that technique. hows your banana corm weevil pressure out there? glad your teaching to plant them upside down, we had great success when we used to do that. we cant dig deep enough these days to plant them upside down haha!
Thank you so much! I'm glad to hear you got some insight from the video! So we do not deal much with banana corm weevil. Every corm I dig up to plant else where and to sell, we're always inspecting them and I have not seen one on our property.🤞🏼 btw.... love your videos! i hope to also catch you on a FFF call sometime soon!
@@everoakfarm thats very lucky not to have to deal with them. ive found we can grow bananas in a new site for two years before they move in and ravage. i think we have an insane corm weevil pressure here though, that most other places dont have to deal with. i keep asking people online and they always say its not a problem. here its a problem! i just had two new plantings die from weevils. we have to carve every corm to look for weevil damage, we also have to lay out weevil traps to capture and kill them. its probably our worst banana pest here. keep up the good work! and thanks for the support. keep on pushing agroforestry!
So my nest are about 12ft from center. I would personally keep citrus and mangoes in their own nest. I would also recommend maybe planting and Emergent and Medium in one nest then the next nest over plant an High and Low in one nest if you like.
This was useful. Please consider slowing down the camera movement, moving it as you move your head is dizzying and the viewer can't see what you're showing. Slow pans out or across, stopping at points is much better. What's the point of this? To create support for your center tree? I see in another comment you said that these are 12 feet on center. I'm assuming that there are webs of these nests. Will be interesting to see how much you'll harvest from the various support plants while the tree grows. I wonder whether these will be more difficult to manage than row style agroforestry.
I will definitely consider that for future videos! Thank you for the feedback. So the point of the nest is to create support and your successions for the target species, then you can create an network or flow of different species of nest to have a more free flowing food forest or you can plant these nest in lines if you trying to cover more ground. Just an other method for planting out an agroforestry system without having to have line. The management of the nest are pretty simple as well.
Great content Mike! Love to see this in action after you explained it at the Florida Permaculture Convergence. Keep up the great work and can’t wait to visit Everoak soon!
Thanks so much! I’m glad you liked it, looking forward to seeing you soon! 🙏🏻
Keep up the good work.
Thank you! 🙏🏻
Good stuff mate 😊
Thanks! 🙏🏻
great video mike! wonderful DIY for nests. i love the food forest kit idea, get it all in one place and plant it dense!
i didnt know it was a technique to notch the cassava, thanks for that tip. i do that with gliricidia so it roots from more of its nodes, so it definitely makes sense! didnt know that technique.
hows your banana corm weevil pressure out there? glad your teaching to plant them upside down, we had great success when we used to do that. we cant dig deep enough these days to plant them upside down haha!
Thank you so much! I'm glad to hear you got some insight from the video!
So we do not deal much with banana corm weevil. Every corm I dig up to plant else where and to sell, we're always inspecting them and I have not seen one on our property.🤞🏼
btw.... love your videos! i hope to also catch you on a FFF call sometime soon!
@@everoakfarm thats very lucky not to have to deal with them. ive found we can grow bananas in a new site for two years before they move in and ravage. i think we have an insane corm weevil pressure here though, that most other places dont have to deal with. i keep asking people online and they always say its not a problem. here its a problem! i just had two new plantings die from weevils. we have to carve every corm to look for weevil damage, we also have to lay out weevil traps to capture and kill them. its probably our worst banana pest here.
keep up the good work! and thanks for the support. keep on pushing agroforestry!
What’s the space between the nests and can we plant Mango as a higher strata and citrus as a medium strata in the same nest
So my nest are about 12ft from center. I would personally keep citrus and mangoes in their own nest. I would also recommend maybe planting and Emergent and Medium in one nest then the next nest over plant an High and Low in one nest if you like.
This was useful. Please consider slowing down the camera movement, moving it as you move your head is dizzying and the viewer can't see what you're showing. Slow pans out or across, stopping at points is much better. What's the point of this? To create support for your center tree? I see in another comment you said that these are 12 feet on center. I'm assuming that there are webs of these nests. Will be interesting to see how much you'll harvest from the various support plants while the tree grows. I wonder whether these will be more difficult to manage than row style agroforestry.
I will definitely consider that for future videos! Thank you for the feedback.
So the point of the nest is to create support and your successions for the target species, then you can create an network or flow of different species of nest to have a more free flowing food forest or you can plant these nest in lines if you trying to cover more ground. Just an other method for planting out an agroforestry system without having to have line. The management of the nest are pretty simple as well.
Why is a 4 foot radius the sweet spot?
In my opinion yes. Easy planting, access, and management. You can go up to 6ft if you like, but I personally think 4ft is great
Which country?
Florida, USA