Spring Tour - High Tunnel, Pond, Rice and MORE!
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We'll be making a video showing the electrified BCS and an interview with our friend James, in the short run you can search 'ampeater' to find his projects.
/ ampeat3r - his Instagram page, follow his work!
Some of the plants I was chatting about in this video include:
Skirret
Camas
Calamus
Water Lotus
Arrowhead / Duck Potato
Tulsi
Ashwaganda
Sweet Marjoram
If you wanted to get online to search for more info, you can copy and paste and explore!
/ funacresherbfarm - Our friends who we got the lovely Tulsi, Ashwaganda and Margoram from. Really nice folks and amazing plants.
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Never apologies for too long videos. Your work is really an inspiration and i'm craving for more and longer videos.! Thanks a lot and take care Sasha and you.!
I second the requests on the electrical systems!
Beautiful! What’s the opposite of “you’re killin it”? You’re helping it live!
you're livin it? it=the dream
Please do a video on electrical systems! I have always wanted to build a power pack or two...
Look under his description. Links
"So MULCH going on"
Fixed that for you
I live with my in-laws and they are letting me turn a section of their yard into food forest. Already have fruit trees in, working on putting in berry bushes and wild flowers. I'm new to permaculture so it's giving me a great classroom to practice in and they are loving having a section of yard with more life in it. Its awesome to collaborate!! cheers.
So exciting to read this! Hope it keeps evolving and deepening :)
I cannot expresses how impressed I am by your ingenuity, and the amount of work you.ve done in such a short period of time! it's too bad the" farming " community doesn't operate on such a functional , productive level! i truly believe you have the most informative and innovative channel on You Tube about gardening and a more sustainable life style... Thanks for the well thought out vids!
Such kind words, thanks for sharing them!
Well said, and I agree!
Slowly your food forest will spread to envelope your town! Mwahaha- I mean, Yay!
Very nice, Sean! Thank you for sharing this update with us!🤗
"Love low tech solutions." Amen Brother!
Your land is an inspiration! You work with it, not against it. The most natural garden I've ever witnessed. All without a tractor! (I believe) AMAZING 👏
If you aren't already familiar with the term "waru waru", it's a South American planting and irrigation system that essentially does what you're doing in the high tunnel on a broadacre scale ;)
I have some feedback for you, but not about what you're doing with your neighbor here ;) It's about the chestnuts, Black walnuts and hazelnuts we got from you guys. They're really doing well and I'm very pleased with the success rate with the little "B" class seedlings. They are doing well for us in what has been a drier spring that I would have hoped for.
So excited to read this, yay!
Would really love details on those batteries; I want to set up a small solar system for my quail hutch and shed, but the batteries are a pain to research and I'd love to buy a recycled one.
Look under his description. Links ampeater
They aren't 'live' as a company to sell what they are making just yet, but we plan to more formally introduce this genius when he's ready to have a flood of requests for these shock proof, water proof, insanely long lasting batteries made from recycled parts!
Wow. That land is coming along great. Very interested in the batteries and how you switched the bcs over to electric. Great video!
Love to see more details on the aquatic plants. Have to plant our my pond and maybe convince new neighbor to add some to their pond.
I can only speak for the plants that I sent him, but I'll reply to your question with multiple replies of excerpts from the email conversations we had regarding some of these plants, I hope this helps:
As for how the edible cultivars look: 'Ken's dream' is white with pink tips fading to white before petal drop. 'Jianxuan 17' is pink and prioritizes seed count over tuber size. 'Elian 5' is white and from what I have found online is a sparse bloomer, concentrating more on tubers. 'Pink Lips' (Fen Chun) is white with pink tips. To the best of my knowledge, none of these lotuses are patented or protected in any way so if you do choose to sell divisions you should be free to do so. Just be sure to originally plant them in different areas so that you can identify them later when they are not in flower.
Chinese and American lotuses are both hardy to zone 5 as long as the tubers do not freeze solid. There is a tropical population of the chinese lotus that is in India and Australia but everything I have chosen is temperate climate in ancestry. Here I usually keep them in pots in my koi pond sitting in a spot that is about 20 inches of water. Sometimes I will have them in large water tight pots outside of the pond but I try to submerge those in the pond before we have a hard freeze. All of these varieties can handle 3 feet of water and will get quite tall if in shallow water. For your earthen ponds I would start the tubers in shallow water with the growth tips pointed towards deeper water. This is just to make planting them in the cold water easier for you, since they will need to be planted before they start growing and your water will still be cold. They are aggressive growers and should completely fill the shallows and the deeper parts once established. Then in the future you can harvest from the shallower sections for eating in the fall or selling in the spring, leaving the deeper water tubers undisturbed to recolonize the shallow area during the growing season.
For future reference, all lotuses are usually divided in early spring before any active growth starts. For eating you can divide in fall but if you want to overwinter them they have to stay in the mud of the pond, in a pot of mud that is kept in your root cellar or in a bag with moisture in the refrigerator. The growth tips are very fragile at first and despite being aquatic, the tuber will drown if the hollow sections of its stems or tubers are flooded. To remove unwanted lotuses without using herbicides, pond companies use a floating tool that looks like a cross between a rake and a saw to cut all of the lotus stems during the growing season just below the water level to drown all of the tubers. Lotus tubers grow similarly to a ground nut with shoots in between the tubers and those shoots are the parts that are to be cut when dividing. Once established and the bottom of your ponds are a mesh of roots, shoots and tubers, there will be plenty of tubers with growth points so losing one tuber to drowning is not as big of an issue.
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One thing I forgot to ask: do you have duck potatoes already or do you need them? I have them in my koi pond but they are kind of mixed in with everything. I guess the roots creep from pot to pot via the holes in the bottom of the pots and then form the corms wherever they happen to be in the fall. I can poke around for some if you need them. Mine aren't anything special, the originals were wild collected more than 10 years ago. I did add a pot of a cultivar that was supposed to have red on the leaves but I never saw any red leaves. I don't know if there even are any selected cultivars besides the ornamental ones.
There are very few people in permaculture talking about aquaculture, aside from raising fish in plastic totes or in the subtopics. No one outside of China is talking about lotuses as a perennial food crop and only one person in the permaculture sphere (Rick Larson) has put any effort into experimenting with growing arrowheads as a food. You showing people these plants and possibly selling them might change that. Even if they don't work as a food or a revenue stream for you, both arrowheads and lotuses are beautiful plants when growing en masse. Just search youtube for "Cowan lake lotus" or find one of the videos from China of people showing their village's lotus ponds. Dianxi Xiaoge has a video showing all of the ways that they use the lotus for food and it gives a good view of how impressive lotuses can be when established.
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For lotuses, the majority in the U.S. are ornamental cultivars and there are really only a few nurseries growing them. However in China there are many culinary varieties and breeding work is being done to increase tuber size and seed production. Ten Mile Creek nursery in Alabama is a great source for both ornamental and culinary lotuses. They are partnered with a University and a Chinese breeding project so they have a huge selection. They supply the majority of the other pond plant nurseries but also sell to the public via their website. Pond megastore sells Ten Mile Creek's plants, but has early season specials in the winter where the more you buy the bigger a discount you get. Bergen Water gardens in your state is another great source if people local to you are interested in buying potted plants outside of the shipping season.
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As for the lotus, if possible I would plant them in different ponds so that you can keep track of which is which. Especially the Jianxuan 17 (purely seed producer) and Elian 5 (purely tuber producer) since you will likely be able to sell tubers of those two at a premium if you choose to do so in the future. Lotuses don't stay put, one of them will fully colonize your neighbor's pond in one season. The easiest way to plant them in an earthen pond is to go where the water is going to stay at least 6 to 18 inches deep all year, dig a trench the size of the tuber in the mud, place the tuber in the trench and firm the mud back around the tuber leaving the growing tips exposed and pointed towards deeper water. Some people place a rock across the tuber to hold it in place but if the mud is high in clay, they usually stay put just from being firmed in. They will grow roots from the growing nodes and send up a single floating leaf from each growing tip. If you look closely at your tuber's growing tips, you will see that the pointed end is actually a leaf rolled up into an arrowhead shape and folded flat against the stem. They can be planted deeper than 6 to 18 inches of water if you fear raccoons or a person disturbing them, they will grow stems 4 feet long if they have to in order to reach the surface. The shallow water will just warm them up quicker and keep the tubers from wasting limited resources on growing long stems for the first leaves. I plant mine in 20 gallon pots that I filled 1/3 of the way with clay soil from my yard. I keep the water about 6 to 8 inches deep if growing them out of the pond, or put the pot in 18 inches of water if growing them in the pond. They like warm water and plenty of sun, similar to rice, but need to be below the frost line by winter. Don't worry about starting them below the frost line, they will seek it out and put tubers there by the fall. Like I said, the first leaves will be floating leaves. Once they have a few floating leaves, the plant will start sending up standing leaves that will rise above the water. Don't be surprised if the floating leaves start to die back once you have standing leaves, that is normal. If you were to fertilize them (which I don't expect you will be), wait until the standing leaves appear or you could burn the first new growing points and stall or kill the plant. Once the plant has some standing leaves and the water warms up, it will send out runners like crazy in all directions, starting with the direction that the original growth point was facing. These runners will be thin, tube-like sections with a node that produces roots and a new leaf or flower, followed by another tube-like section, repeating over and over, sometimes branching at a node. These tube-like sections are the immature tubers. When the plant senses the change in day length, some of these sections, especially the terminal ones, will start swelling up with starch. These will be the next spring's starting points. The runners that never became tubers will die back and simply act as anchors in the mud, holding their nearest tubers in place until the tubers wake up and grow new roots. This way the plant isn't all bunched up with all of it's growth points coming up in one spot the next year, a useful strategy when your leaves are so huge. When dividing or harvesting tubers after the plant has gone dormant, it is best to cut the tube-like sections that never became tubers rather than the tubers themselves.
The duck potatoes send out runners as well, but not as far or as randomly as the lotus. Expect the duck potatoes to send out runners in a circle or a clump with all of the daughter corms being within a couple of feet of the mother plant. The runner connecting them usually doesn't last long, or the corms are not firmly attached to them, which is why you can harvest them by wiggling your toes in the mud to dislodge them or by probing the mud with your fingers to free them. I'm sure you know that they float once disturbed this way and this is how Native Americans and settlers used to harvest them. They will appreciate being planted in shallower water or consistently muddy spots, similar to cattails in site selection. Btw, I noticed someone asking what you planned to do to control mosquitoes in your most recent pond update. You can get native mosquito fish, Gambusia sp. from a fish hatchery or find them in a pond.
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Dividing lotus tubers:
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This one shows what I meant by the runners that didn't turn into tubers dying back yet still anchoring the live tubers:
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This one shows the runners when they are actively growing:
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At about the 20 minute mark you can see how well clay by itself holds the new tuber in place:
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A video I mentioned in a previous email showing large scale plantings and how to cook lotus:
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Another good video about how to use all the parts of the plant in cooking:
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Harvesting, processing and cooking immature seeds:
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Another seed cooking video:
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Japanese commercial growing for food:
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@CorwynGC Let me know if you have any questions. My goal with sending them was to get people like you interested in these plants via these videos
@@danielsmith336 Thank you kindly. I will digest that, and come back if I have more questions.
Love this conversion! It's been helpful for my own lawn/ag land conversion to a brand new food forest. Thanks for your notes, the meandering format is a nice way to get your perspective on what's growing.
That pond was a lot of work! Really awesome that you got some life in there now.
Holy cats man. The amount of things you are able to accomplish on a daily and weekly basis are just astounding. I realize you do this full time without a "day job" to keep you away, but still, its inspiring just how much can be accomplished. No matter how hard I think I'm working at my garden and system you always inspire me to kick it in gear further.
This work is 100% my full time job and also what I do to unwind after a long day of work as well as where vacations are taken as well as a place to retreat to! ha. It's all I really do.
Love the update. Looking forward to more updates (and hopefully harvest videos)
Since adding duck potato and cattails with water lilies the frog population has grown a little. Agree with soaking over daily surface application.
Amazing! All I can express is my gratitude for you sharing this video. Thank you and keep it up👍👍👍
Thank you neighbor
you should do a video compilation of the mundane tedious and compounding work that goes in so people get a feel for what it takes.
Ha! Yeah... that aspect is definitely super real. At this point that labor has mapped out in my mind as being where I get pleasure in life so it works out, but that takes some serious mental work to get there!
look at the older playlists...
I’m looking forward to seeing the new food forest grow and hearing your notes about future plantings and succession plans. Im also looking forward to that first spring backyard garden tour 😉
It's been wonderful watching this pond project grow and evolve. Look forward to seeing more with your rice growing efforts, I find growing grains in small settings very interesting and am inspired by your rice ambitions.
We're excited to learn more on the rice front. Been watching a bunch of videos of folks processing rice by hand, looking forward to learning that and scaling up eventually.
Fantastic update Sean! Love more info about the solar powered pumping system-it’s on my immediate project list as I live beside a lake. Love the repurposing of those batteries. Talk about beating proverbial the swords into ploughshares 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻💚💚💚
Exactly!
Was not long enough. Haha where are you I wanna know. Haha how great of a wild way to work to farm and try an simply use Irrigation for prime production and minimalistic effort. My comment sounds cringe but I am just overwhelmed with joy after seeing this. Thank you
He'll prob get back to you soon enough but he's up in the finger lakes of NY! They're in a pretty wet area he says
Nice to see some camas/quamash east of the Mississippi. There's native fields near where I live that are just a sea of purple in June. Google image search for: packers meadows, if you're curious.
Beautiful! They are a lovely plant for sure.
Beautiful! Great job. I love your work. Before you know it you will have a pretty, edible garden. Thank you, Sean. What a wonderful example.
Thanks :)
Your like to dislike ratio is better than anyones. Another great video.
I'd love to see a video/update on the tech aspect of what you're doing. The electric BCS sounds awesome. Also hope the rice works out well! I've always been curious about rice in northern climates, so it was a cool surprise to see you trying it out. Thanks for all your videos, I learn something new/interesting with each one!
So glad you find them of value!
Wow, it looks so good!!
Your work is a great example of why flood planes are the birthplace of so many different societies. This looks so amazing!
Water is SO important for human scale agriculture.
Loving it so far, waiting to see how it grows and evolves :)
Wow. Just wow.
"Water Agnostic" love that term. Looked it up and found "Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics
Technical note: Vendor-agnostic water phantom for 3D dosimetry of complex fields in particle therapy". Holy Smokes, you have me reading medical physics!🤣💖 Adventurous reading creates an elastic mind, I always say! Yes to deep dive into small alternative recycled 12 volt applications!! Love all that you do! Blessings Abound
Love: electric free siphon using old garden hose for passive irrigation and diy battery and pump systems.
Yes please do a how to video in the water pump and diy battery set up. Also, can you please try growing white and black sesame seeds, and also peanuts? I have seen people selling more cold hardy varieties. Sesame in particular has a neat growth and flower pattern, thrives in heat and drought and can tolerate less fertile soils - can be harvested and made into tahini, sesame crackers, etc. They are a good source of calcium and many other nutrients too.
As for the rice I have seen another video about a woman growing rice in pots since it handles being waterlogged so well. She stated that the rice does not need to be flooded with water - natives do that to prevent weed growth. Maybe grow rice in pots in the chicken run and move them to expose bugs underneath? There are also varieties of rice that handle growing in "normally" moist garden soil as well.
Beautiful!
No way here in Bulgaria to do so... My neighbours call me crazy for my gardening...
But i am glad to see, that it works out that well with your neighbour, and there is so much more space for live :-)
I was just wondering when you’d be uploading another video! Thanks for the great update!
I would love to hear more about the diverted water batteries and various applications such as to power bilge pump’s and BCS tractor. Awesome work and thinking!
We plan to make some time to do more in-depth videos about that all.
There is definitely interest here regarding more information on remote solar powered pumping and other electrical systems. Thank you Sean @EdibleAcres. I purchased my house/ .68acre double lot property on 3/16 and my best friend and myself have been pushing nonstop around our full-time jobs to build out this garden/ integrated annual and perennial production systems.
I would love to send you the most recent 30s video from my iPhone and see what you think/ compare notes. I climb on top of my garage roof daily for an aerial view... I am due for a drone hahaha.
enjoyrain day
Cheers nothing but the best to you and Sasha,
-Mick
Great progress!
Thanks kindly!
this series did indeed inspire me to move my efforts from my shady backyard to a friend's odd, ill prepared, but sunny front yard. I've been trucking over a yard of chicken compost every month since Feb and it's already a riot of beans, husk cherries, mustards, bronze fennels, Turkish rockets -- I imagine that it'll take some rearranging as the bed shapes assume their defined position, but it's a massive improvement over crabgrass and raggedy yaupon
So wonderful to read this! The best part is each time one of us works on this type of relationship it tends to influence more of it happening, so hopefully in 10 years most yards are wild and productive spaces all over!
So excited to see the electric BCS. I've always thought that should be available.
We'll be showing it in much more detail. It's a dream to run and SO powerful.
Never disappoints with these vids. Looks good, looking forward to see how the rice does. The big pond look awesome nice place to swim for sure when it gets really warm there. Growing tomatoes hope you give some info on the type of tomato you plan on growing and the reason for that choice would be good also. The raise bed idea inside the green house will be interesting to see if the water in the high beds keeps the temperature down a bit with evaporation or if it will become a massive water me , water me pleas I'm drying to fast. lol lol
Also how are the chicken composting process going ? Thx for the vids always look forward to these, high lite to my day with ur vids. Also say hello to the lady for me THX
Lovely work.
Thank you so much 😀
This is so amazing. So much inspiration for future plans at my property. Definitely interested in learning more about you electrician friend and his projects. Is he selling any of the repurposed equipment he makes? Or simply educating others? Hopefully he will have some tips on where to get the e-waste. Thanks again!
another build from off the shelf components suggest pursuing used or junked chevy volt batteries use caution & get help with electrical systems to avoid ☠
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Good nudge to finalize the videos on the first round of talks with my new friend and the electric BCS. He doesn't have a formal sales avenue right now, but is working on getting something that can go live shortly.
Great vid as usual... I'm especially interested in the solar/bilge pump and that battery system. Looking forward to more info!
@EdibleAcres Just a heads up, you talked about overwintering carrots, and leaving them to go to seed... I live in New Zealand, and started building a food forest on 1/4 section next door to my house section, I also own what was a section that was just lawn.
I heard that carrot tops are good to eat, so bought some carrots from the supermarket, and just pushed them into some soil in different places around my garden, they grew tops, but I didn't like eating them, and never got around to pulling the carrot out, they started seeding, and since they were pretty flowers, and the insects seemed to like them I left them growing.
when the seeds dried out, i picked them and store them to throw around the garden, I would throw a handful or two around every week or so, and just sprinkled this last pound or so of seed yesterday, since we're just getting into winter, so the soil is damp most of the time. I have some growing from seeds spread about 2 months ago, and I thought since they are commercially grown carrots, they could be hybrids, so may not taste very good, but if I leave the carrots in the soil sooner or later, they will die and rot, and I'm sure the garden worms and insects will enjoy eating them.
My point is, if you happen to visit a farmers market and see some nice looking carrots you might like to get some seed from, you could just plant a couple of carrots, and get about 250,000 seeds from each carrot. It come to pass, that you could send some seeds to along with your orders of plants to customers, just as a free gift. I also grew sweet poatoes, and being disabled could only harvest about half of them, but the vines make a lovely ground cover, I left them, thinking again the would eventually root and feed the soil and worms.
About the food forest, I only found your channel about a month ago, but in many ways I'm doing the same things as you,
I have chickens and ducks, and my only expectation of them is that they poop. I have sawdust in their yard that I just wheelbarrowed in, and tipped in piles very close to each other I didn't spread it as well, then just spread gardening waste on the sawdust to give them something to eat and scratch around and poop on. I also added some autumn leaves I got from the guy in our town that cleans them up from parks and carparks where they fall, I got 3 tandem trailer loads this year, and I have spread about one trailer load so far in their pen. (that idea come from watching your videos)
Over the past 10 months I have spread 100 cubic metres of arborist mulch around that section next door, since july 20th last year, again just dumping wheelbarrow loads close to each other, and leaving the wild birds to spread it around.
I also plant prunings and seeds from plants Im growing and laughed when I saw you did that too.. I had my first sale 2 weeks ago, $350 just for plants I grew too many of for my requirements. That will buy annual seeds for next summer, I just bought another sack of pea seeds, to supplement the chickens and duck food, I sprout them as well, but I also always carry some around in my pocket, so when I'm down near the dirt I'll plant a few pea or bean seeds thinking they are nitrogen fixers after all... the beans I buy from the supermarket too, I buy a 6 bean soup or salad mix of dried beans, and carry those around in the other pocket. they are all bush beans rather than climbers, and cost only about $1 a pound of seeds.
You are up to so many great things way on the other side of the world. So lovely to hear about all your exciting experiments.
Bought plants from BCF, thanks to your list
Beautiful, super impressive. Very inspiring.
Local friend of mountain run permaculture here.
Such incredibly lovely friends down there.
Yes please on the details of the solar water pump tech. My dad has been harping on that.
It's Art
cool rice bed
Wow Very cool would love to see some more info on the solar powered pump
Looks great. yes please do a more in depth showing of pump,connections and battery and links. cant wait to see in depth on BCS conversion ! also do you have a link to get battery from your friend? thanks for video !
more videos on your water systems please
With all that mulch it would make easy cob like mud stops to flood irrigate the rice swale!🤙 😁👏👏
Yep... We'll see how things grow, but we plan to put in 'speed bumps' to control how high the flood waters go and to make different regions to work with.
We're trialing rice again this year, even further north than you in the far north of Scotland. We've worked with Hayayuki and Duborskian. For us, the biggest issue seems to be the really long days we have during summer, there just doesn't seem to be enough hours of darkness to trigger seed production. In places with afternoon shade, we can grow rice though. I have a padi fed by the duck pond. But by next year I'm hoping to have installed a different style of wetland system, similar to chinampa in function. The new design will be better suited to rice, that's my intention at least.
Really, really interested in seeing how your rice performs!
Sounds like you are MUCH further along with learning about this. I'm not sure we're goinig to be having it as a staple crop but certainly feels worth exploring.
@@edibleacres Last year, the rice in the padi grew well but produced no seed. The plants that were on windowsills where they received no direct sun in the afternoon, did produce seed. Other variables are too much nitrogen can prevent seed developing, and the timings of the padi flooding. This year I'm being a little more scientific about it, in the hopes of narrowing it down to one variable. If I were a gambling man, my money would be on the day length.
The TH-cam channel Cairn of Dunn Croft Permaculture is growing rice in a northern climate too, using ducks to help maintain a large rectangular paddy. He's got a few videos on the channel, or you could reach out to him for more details on that system.
Can't wait to see a video about the tech! Love the idea of using e-waste and solar power to get some ecological use out of decidedly NON-ecological material.
Been so busy working with the tools lately I haven't made the time to do follow up videos... hoping to change that soon.
Wow! Very very interested in the electric bcs!
Great to know... We plan to do that for sure.
Really amazing with the rice. I’ve always wondered about rice in the North. Will be very interesting to watch what that does. It sounded like you said it is 80’ deep is that possible?
I'm fascinated by the rice too, although I know of a small farm near Ludlow, VT that grows rice, so it obviously can be done in the frozen north.
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Converting the BCS to electric is amazing! That's my biggest critique of that tractor is that I'm trying to get away from fossil fuels and they don't offer an electric model. Please share more about that when you're ready!
Absolutely plan to.
It’s beautiful. I wish I have big pond like you! Do you have any fish? you need something like minnows or killifish to prevent mosquitoes problem.
You must be good friends with your neighbor for him to let you have such free reign
Yes, we've built an ever deepening relationship that feels communicative, respectful and open. I think ever expanding bountiful gardens as the foundation of a friendship helps the relationship grow too!
I would like to see how that siphon works in detail
This is so inspiring! What will you do with the village-worth of veggies you're growing? Sell at the farmers' markets? More strength to you!
After the deer, the rabbits, the voles, the slugs, the everyones take their share we'll be left with more than we can store for winter so we'll share with folks and hopefully have enough to donate to an amazing group called Loaves and Fishes that make hot fresh meals 5 days a week for folks in need. Fingers crossed all the boxes get checked.
Paul Gautschi grows rice and he lives in Washington state.
Growing rice is easy enough hulling it is the issue. John Sherck grows lots of varieties of small grains in Indiana and might have some info.
Excited to hear about turning equipment to solar. I am dependent on my garden tractor and cart for most of my ability to get things done and I would love to have a version that is electric.... and I have been dying to ask you, do you plant stuff like green beans?
We definitely plant more of the 'normal' garden plants as well!
Hey, why did you choose a flooded cultivation system for your rice? As far as my understanding goes, it is not necessary to cultivate rice in that form, it is just that rice tolerates the flooding, which many other plants don't. So the flooding is basically a way to reduce weed pressure and competition. The way rice is cultivated today has a lot of negative impacts on our environment in terms of methane emissions and water usage. I highly recommend looking into the work done by Dr. Tavseef Mairaj Shah, who tested intercropping systems with rice and bushbeans to increase yield and decrease water consumption and emissions from rice production. It's really a fascinating topic. I think he named the system "Rice iCrop" and you can find him explaining his research on TH-cam. :) I mean of course, the climate where you live differs a lot from that in kashmir but it's worth checking out nonetheless 😄
Thanks for these notes. I am working with the layout shown in this video because it makes sense with our landscape... Water is an excessive element quite often on this hill, so having a deep swale on contour which is what this rice area is helps slow and spread the excess. The north side of the high tunnel, in a heavy rain, can irrigate the whole thing.
Whoot! Polywags will keep mosquito larva down!
G’day mate beautiful :) Amanda x
Need that battery video, looking for someone to help convert my truck to hybrid electric...
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There is interest in the solar etc power!
Should I use hay or straw for my beds?
Either is OK... but critical you ask that it isn't sprayed with anything! Hay I find is better than straw and is generally lower price so that's what I look for.
The pond and water works look great. Look forward to the progress of the rice experiment. All the best with it. I might get tempted myself growing some red rice, which I love. You might want to exchange notes with Andy from the Cairn of Dunn Croft channel. He is developing an interesting 5 acre Permaculture homestead in the far north of Scottland. He is also experimenting with growing rice. Here is his rice playlist th-cam.com/play/PLmjYEOcdi0m6W9O5HzlxADy-oMUzXlYhJ.html
HOLY COW. I need plans for the electric BDS. or Heck I am willing to buy one!
My friend James is working on making the plans open source and freely available. We're still a little in testing phase to work out the kinks and have a very sound offering to share with folks. instagram.com/ampeat3r/?hl=en is his instagram, give him a follow, like his posts and start connecting :)
@@edibleacres thank you so much! This is an awesome project!
What is the depth on the pond right now?
When "full?"
Thanks. Every thing looks great.
We never measured, but it is amply deep in the very middle. Enough so that when I go swimming I can barely touch the bottom and it is ICE cold down there :)
@@edibleacres so guess 8-10'
time to toss out PW "world domination" through permaculture...
I wouldnt mind some videos showing us some of the verieties of edibles that do the best for your area. With so many types being cultivated for factory farming its hard to figure out whats best for the permaculture landscape.
Good topic idea, I will keep it in mind, thank you.
Are there any grains that naturally want to grow up here (6B, moving toward 7A)? Amaranth? Maize?
Both are very willing to grow in our summer climates. We've grown both of what you've listed and they have done well for us. Good reminder for us to do Amaranth again!
Sean, do you stock that pond you created with some fish? Had to ask that... It looks like and ideal spot for some... And has that pond ever run out of water since you started it? I can just imagine how rich the soil is from the bottom of that...
We do want to add fish but want to research and know that we're addinng really beneficial types. So far the water has held beautifully. Remains to be seen though!
@@edibleacres If you do stock the pond with some fish, a lot of us would love to see how you go about it... They would play a wonderful role in purity of the water too.. Not sure how deep the pond is but I'm sure your biggest challenge would be winter when things freeze over...
maybe it should be:
"So MULCH going on"
;3
Such a perfect pun missed
@@PaleGhost69 I see that you saw that too
Way too perfect to not use that
Is that rice wild rice or Hayayuki? I tried to do Hayayuki this year but definitely killed it before it could sprout :(
Hayayuki is the type. We'll have to see how it performs!
@@edibleacres I tried to start it late april/early may, but didn't have a cold frame, tried using a plastic cover for the seed tray, and I think I ended up simultaneously cooking and freezing it.
Love the switch!
Kind of off topic (but relevant with all the pond water nutrients and O.M. Around the rice and in the high tunnel)... I heard something the other day and thought you might be a good person to ask about it. This guy (soil scientist) said too much organic matter/nutrients can make soil toxic. Doesn’t make a lot of sense to me considering how deep leaf mulch can get in a forest. What do you think?
check out the first episode of "In search of soil" (th-cam.com/video/rhPKxHNDkY8/w-d-xo.html) with Dr. Elaine Ingham. It's been a while, since I watched it, but I think they talked about that. The way I remember it is: the problem isn't "too much o.m." but what happens to it, when it goes anaerobic.
@@MartinaSchoppe We have so many critters it doesn’t have a chance to go anaerobic so I don’t worry about that. 😉 you should see the wild birds turning the compost piles and wood chips, not to mention the possum and raccoons in search of slugs. Moles and voles just love to aerate the soil. Just saw a couple of roof rats too. We need to tell Mr. Owl to stop by for another visit. Oh, and to leave a message for the rabbit family... even though the dandelions are finished the dock and buttercups are ready. Amazing to me that they leave the garden alone in favor of the weeds.
I would like to learn more about rice production. How many pounds of grain do you expect to grow? Is there a special threshing process? How much time/labor is involved? Would it be more efficient to grow some other source of carbs (carrots, potatoes, parsnips, turnips, beets, radish, or even wheat, rye, barley, oats, corn) and just buy your rice? I am not trying to give you a hard time about the rice, I am just interested in what is the most appropriate and efficient plant to grow in a context, and these things are factors.
We'll share notes when we harvest. I don't expect a massive amount of food but am initerested to learn more about growing and working with rice for sure.
Im really interested to see how your rice works out. I really wanna see more grain done in a permaculture context because I love grains but they have a bad reputation in the permaculture community
Your experimentation-chops are sky high! All your water structures make me feel like a kid with a paddling pool and some buckets, so more on all of that... I'm experimenting with growing vegetables inside cover crops these next few seasons. It was partly inspired by the droughts we were getting each year (London UK), but this year it's done nothing BUT rain so far. Are you doing anything in that direction? Obviously your general style is quite polyculturish anyway...
We would love to learn more about growing cover crops that we can plant into... That would be amazing!
Cooperative growing can be both great & problematic. In my growers group we work our own individual property & some other properties lent to us cooperatively. We established minimum best practices. COVID required new member recruitment. Some of the newbies are resistant to minimum standards/best practices. They have an opportunity to comply now or leave the group. We are not willing to compromise our health or those we grow for, including some elders with chronic health issues, where mishandled/poorly handled manure is concerned. Be prepared for these kind of issues/confrontations. Not everything should be negotiable to make everyone "happy."
What would be the estimated cash spent in the past two years?
I’ve been watching this guy for years, he hardly ever spends money.
It's actually ridiculously easy to do this with very little capital. You don't even need the land, although it makes it a lot more fun.
Do you grow 100% of your food?
I know you harvest chickens for meat and you have all this vegetable matter. Have you considered a goat for milk and cheese?
I am constantly amazed at what all you do there.
We'd love to have goats or sheep someday for milk and cheese! We don't grow 100% of our food. We grow a fairly robust amount but not all of it.
Permaculture Manifest Destiny!
defense electronic waste batteries? twenty year life? Where do I sign up? :) LOL Seriously. Where?
Be careful with the lotus and Lily pads if u have them. they spread fast
Hopefully so! They can eat and sell the extras :)
I know this video is old and you probably already learned this that I hope you got some fish in that pond are you going to have way too many frogs
We have to add some in this upcoming spring.