PERMACULTURE FOOD FOREST Creating - PART 6. CHINAMPA Building from the START. Grow food on WET SPOTS
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ต.ค. 2024
- In this week's video, PART 6 of our series on CREATING A PERMACULTURE PARADISE & FOOD FOREST, I am going to talk to you about building a CHINAMPA from the start. This is an ANCIENT AZTEC lake-top GARDENING technique that you can adapt to your needs. I will show you where we are going to install it and why, and how we begin making a chinampa in the first year. This is all part of the multifaceted process of restoring a native biodiverse ecosystem to a forest that was badly managed in the past and making a PERMACULTURE FOOD FOREST in the process, within a properly restored ecosytem - restored with local native flower, tree and shrub species. Proper stewardship of the land, imitating how nature creates abundant life and fills all the niches, is key. It is simply a question of undoing some of the artificial things we have done to our ecosystem and restoring it to a state more in line with how nature works.
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And the rabbits are cycling all those nutrients and fertilizing the soil in the natural order of things ; This sort of syntropy is a marvelo0us thing, and as your work here is showing, we can design this into our systems. Love it :)
Yes, it is a marvelous thing! Thank you!
Hello friends! I just saw your video on Exploring Alternatives and your family property is so inspiring! Is there anyway you can help someone like me really yearning to grow food on my small suburban lot. I really need help gathering info on how to start, how to get the most out of my space, how to get the most out of the year by growing the right things at the right time, and if I successfully grow food than what to do so I don't waist it. I subbed and look forward to seeing all your knowledge for a true beginner. Properly using the land is knowledge lost to the current generations and I want to learn!
Thank you for the comment. Please do not hesitate to ask questions on any video. We have many videos. We started last August, so for gearing up in the spring, that's what you will be seeing now and in the coming weeks. Once August comes around, there will have been videos covering aspects for all four seasons. And then, of course, we will add more, going more in depth. I try to gear all the videos as much as possible to beginners, because I believe everyone has this in them, even those who think they do not have a green thumb. And I also try to make each video stand alone. So if I talk about something I have already talked about as a detail of the video, I will explain that point again. It becomes like a review for other people, and for someone on the channel for the first time, they will understand the point.
Thanks Stefan. I think you made up a new word - "Tranquilitude" 😀
😄 I was going to cut it out, but then the energy in the following words seemed odd with it cut, so I kept it.
WE all need more Tranquilitude! :-) @@WillowsGreenPermaculture
That's right!!😊@@lalaydade3364
Yep. It's a good word.
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Do you have any videos for diseases that harm people and animals? What do you do in these circumstances? I know that tuns of diseases exist but most aren't deadly for most. Please and thank you. I like your videos😊
What diseases would you be referring to for example?
Good morning. I came over from seeing you video on Exploring Alternatives. Seems like a theme. ☺ On that video, you mentioned growing your own grains. I have grown a few varieties of rice but have no way to hull them. Sorghum is no problem. I would like to grow oats and wheat but I feel like I will run into the same issue. Do you have a proven method to get these grains hulled? I would love to know anything that would lead me in a successful direction. Either way, I have subscribed. Our property is 10 acres and from the start have interacted with it basically in the same way as you guys. There is always so much more to learn and share so I look forward to watching your videos.
Thank you for your comment. We are very grateful to Exploring Alternatives for the exposure their video has gotten us! We grow hayayuki rice and duborskian rice. I'm still on the learning curve for using it. It can be sprouted very easily, like any sprouted grain, and I am looking into the health benefits of simply sprouting the whole grain in quantities as I need it and turning the whole thing that I sprout into flour for use when it's ready. Something else I have tried which apparently is done elsewhere in the world is boil the whole grain, again as I need it, and the inside expands and breaks through the shell. This has worked, but I was so busy when I did it (I cooked about a quarter of a cup, I forgot to try eating it, and it fermented in the fridge to a point I was not interested in testing it. Which brings me to another possibility to research - fermenting the whole grain to make it usable. Small rice hulling machines exist, and some people even build them, but I'm not there yet. I don't want to use a few hundred dollars for something I may never use.
For wheat, let it dry. It practically hulls itself, just like barley. I love taking a strain of wheat and eating each seed like a snack. It's chewy and surprisingly satisfying for something so small - same for the barley. And barley tea is out of this world good. I worked in Japan decades ago in the school, and the teachers' office (we all had our desks in one giant room) also had a gigantic vat of cold barley tea going. I haven't eaven started experimenting with my oats, but I am 90% sure they can be sprouted then used in any way you like.
Finally, the sorghum, hands down not only the easiest to process, but also the easiest to grow in abundance, plus if you grow a syrup sorghum variety, you get both the grain and the sugar cane. I've got several videos about sorghum on here.
We also have other grains, which nature grows for us, we don't need to bother planting them: amaranth, curly dock, sorrel, plantain, lambs quarters, evening primrose, ragweed. All of these provide abundant and nutritious grain. Ragweed is the grain with the highest percentage of protein of all grains in existence, it would seem. It was apparently cultivated by the First Nations peoples long ago, until they started to cultivate corn.
I hope that helps. We haven't been doing this for very long, so we are still learning too. I've gardened all my life, but not on this scale, and not with these objectives.
@@WillowsGreenPermacultureThanks for your input. I for sure access all the native and naturalized sources that you mention. I myself have taken two small pieces of rough wood, that is smooth on the outside for your hands. I put a tbsp of rice grains in between and get rubbing. It actually works pretty good but takes quite a bit of time. I am hoping to make a contraption that works kind of like a little stone mill with the wood in hopes of making it go a little faster. Just might work for any grains that need it. Hopefully you can imagine it. ☺ Barley is for sure on the list and for the same reason. I like the tea a lot. I also love barley in my soup. I think the rice varieties are the same for here and I grew three varieties of sorghum but didn't get around to making the sugar yet. Grows well where I am. Cdn zone 5, 🤔I think it still is any way. I did learn that sorghum seed is incredibly viable even up to 10 years.
That's great. Let me know how the hulling contraption goes!@@angelad.8944
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i have large mounds of branches for the birds. they love it. quails, turkeys, and pheasants like to nest there. i also braid them to make trellises and archways. from my pussywillows i make baskets. i have the red, black, and regular varieties to give natural color. i wish people would stop hauling yard "waste" to the dump all the time. what a waste.
I’m going to start spreading my branch mounds around a bit, instead of putting them all in one place.
@@WillowsGreenPermaculture until they get used to you, it is best to choose low traffic areas. keep some peanuts in your pocket and when you see a deer, toss it a treat, they will get used to you. so many people freak out with deer so once you show calm, slow, and quiet attention to them, especially with treats, they will eventually come right up to you. the LOVE watermelon rinds. i live on watermelons in the summer so i have some for them every day. they eat right out of my hands. they also love almonds. note that deer herds are female ruled. mails are tolerated until 1yo and then mama chases him off (avoids inbreeding). this is when their antlers are just a few inches. by 2nd year, they have larger antlers and they start loosing the fuzz. they will eat nearly any tree leaf. planting flea and tick repelling plants is a great idea. when i first came here, it was swimming with the damned things and the dear were unhealthy and in pretty rough shape. i have not seen any flea of tick for decades. i never treat my cat for them and he has never had them nor did his predecessor. healthy balanced environment are repellent to parasites and diseases. i, for example, last had a cold of flu in the mid 80's but i grew up almost chronically sick. our bodies, our land, our planet, our solar system, our galaxy, our universe, it makes no difference. when we work with nature, we win, when we work against it, it will kick our @$$ 🙂
@@AlsanPine You are absolutely right about this life being a healthy one!
I have planted lots of aromatic plants that ticks don't like, however, we have 2,5 acres. I'm not going to plant that stuff everywhere. People worry alot about ticks, but really, there are so many more ways to get sick in modern society, but people get very worried about ticks. Just by living this life, I've eliminated thousands of dangers. I don't mind the tick trade off. I'll keep a strong immune system, hopefully fend anything off if the wrong tick comes along.
@@WillowsGreenPermaculture indeed, that is job one. the reason i wanted to get rid of the ticks was for the deer. between the people chasing them all the time and ticks and not having enough to eat, they were unwell. i have influenced some of my neighbors so the harassment is greatly lessened and i make sure they are eating well. one plant that is easily and cheaply multiplied is catnip. i have catnip all over the place especially around the deer tracks. it has great flowers and loved by pollinators as well. one flowering plant will give you enough seeds to plant your entire property 🙂 it is also one of the main plants that i distill for essential oil which i use in my "soap" which makes me favorite of cats and hated by mosquitos, ticks, flees, etc 🙂
@@AlsanPineThis is fantastic! I already have at least 50 plants of catnip. Started with one a couple of years ago, and it’s just been spreading on its own. I confused it with lemon balm in one of my videos a couple of months ago. I’m going to spread it around and learn how to make the essential oil! I didn’t know ticks actually made deer sick. I guess it makes sense.