What's really cool is seeing how you built the soil to grow your blackberry. I remember watching the video you referenced a few years ago. To see how the bush has grown since then is evidence that your approach is working. Because of your video, I did the same thing in Vegas; put a bunch of wood chips down in December and then another pile last month in my front yard. Been thinking about what to plant. Now I'm thinking about planting a blackberry bush! 🤔
I'm so glad to hear this!!! Especially with your soil in Vegas as from what I've been told it has a much higher sand content from what we see here. If that's the case, the organic matter you're creating will help hold moisture really well. Oh and you can see, the Prime Ark blackberry loves this soil!!
I just bought 40 acres and learning all I can. I'm so ready to get started as soon as it cools off a bit here in the desert. I clicked on to see about blackberries. THE BEST PART of this video was Rosie I was cracking up. Used to have Nubians myself but not minis. Just made me want to raise goats again. Thanks for sharing all your knowledge I really appreciate it as I have never gardened in this type of climate before. It will be a learning experience for sure and hope to be at least half as successful as the both of you. God Bless and may you always prosper.
Wow, congrats on that new piece of property. We're on 6 acres here and only using about half of that, so you have a LOT of open space to work with! The goats are crazy. These days Rosie is the most temperate of our 3 girls if you can believe it! If you have any questions as you get underway, just shoot them over!
Thanks for putting notes in the comments! I'm so forgetful and don't want to rewatch the whole video to remember the name of the variety. I feel like alot of other TH-camrs use the description as more click bait and it's frustrating because then I have to skip through the video again to find what I'm looking for. Thanks!
Glad that helped you out. We try to be as straight forward as possible. It may cost us a few views, but in the end we'd like to see everyone growing some of these on their own!
Wow - those berries are MASSIVE! I have a mystery variety, that started out as runners from a friend's yard. Tasty, but a much more modest size, and kinda seedy. But hey, they were free. 😀 If they croak, totally replacing them with Prime Arks.
Hey Martha! I would take "volunteer" fruit any day! We don't see them often around here yet, but we're hoping they start sprouting everywhere as we get things more established!
Can't recall if I told you guys but one of those 8 essential monosaccharides are in birch trees; as far as wood chips go I think it's relevant; basically a single-chain sugar called D-Mannose(a healthy liver can produce it, the liver can regrow)
Ah yes, I remember D-Mannose well from my (Duane) supplement selling days. I did not, however, know that about birch. We don't have any birch trees growing around here, so it's not in our wood chip piles.
So glad you found us and thank you for coming along for the journey. We were just talking today about the fact that we're finally starting to see a harvest from the work we've been putting in the last 2 years. If you get a chance, you'll need to check out some of our older content on the original farm. It was an acre as opposed to the 6 we're on here, but we had a lot going on. Warning on that though, I (Duane) talk very fast and was nervous in those videos. Sometimes I was talking WAY too fast!!
There are so many different varieties of Prime Ark Blackberries, which variety did you plant in full sun? I’d like to plant some this spring. Thanks again!!
Oh yes, we know just what that's like! There is a 10 year old Golden Dorsette and Tangelo tree on our first property that should be cranking out fruit by now!
Hey Kevin! We use drip irrigation for the blackberries. Essentially we have them spread out around the bed, so we're able to water more area, at each watering. This is because you really never know where the runners will send up shoots. We also hand water this area a few times a week to keep soil moisture consistent. At least during the late Spring/Summer months. Funny, I actually filmed a shot talking about the irrigation, but cut it due to time. We're finding we have more folks watching when we keep the videos under 15 minutes or so. It's why we try to squeeze so much into these weekly vlogs.
Great video as always but please don't forget about the preaches!! It's one of the big ones in looking forward to growing when i start my homestead in Willcox later this year.
@:45, double trouble! Not to fear, Lori! You can survive Goatitis for many, many decades. It's the nightmares that can be a problem. If you start to dream you're dressed in a long skirt and cowboy hat, then it can be bad. Remember the dream pack mule can be stubborn as you lead your flock of hundreds across the burning desert to high canyons. Walk in beauty, kids!
Hey there! We have LOTs of content out there for you and will be back on our normal, weekly posting schedule after the new year. In the meantime, if you have any questions please shoot them over and congrats on that new land!!
Oh my goodness, that's a bit steep! I recall most things being pretty expensive in Hawaii. I used to travel there for work in the early 2000's and at that point milk was something like $5/gallon if I remember correctly and $1.99 or less here at the time!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm yup that sounds about right! Close to $9 a gallon now. Praying we’ll have the opportunity to farm the land again someday because the current state of food on our island is not sustainable!
Duane, Forgive my spelling...I notice that you don't plant your blackberries in ground. Just easier to maintain? Always look forward to your videos... My wife is loving the backyard. Now I must find room for some blackberries.
Hey Dave. The primary reason we have them in a bed here was to eventually be able to put a structure up to keep birds away. However, we're finding it's not necessary as the birds leave most of the fruit alone. At least so far! We also amend the soil (if we're not creating it from scratch) to give the new plantings a jump start in sending out runners. More pliable soil really helps with this.
Appreciate your videos and knowledge share! I just picked up a Triple Crown from one of the big box stores and brought it home only to have it get really crispy and curl on me! I had originally thought I could place it on my patio by my hot tub, but maybe it got too hot there? Will it bounce back? I have since repotted into a larger container and placed in a grass/dirt area. I have about 2-3 inches of mulch at the top. Any tips and advice would be much appreciated. The plant has lots of berries and I was hoping to have a harvest! Thanks!
Sorry to hear you're having these issues! While the Triple Crown can be a good producer for us, it really needs to be planted into the ground vs in a pot. These bushes need to send out rhizomes into the soil in order to survive as the canes only last a single season and then need to be completely replaced. That's also how they survive our heat as they need to be in full sun in order to set and ripen fruit properly. A larger pot will definitely help and if you're not able to plant into the ground it will need to be in mottled sun during the mid-day to ensure the roots don't get over heated. That mulch will help with the rhizomes. Keep an eye out for the episode we're posting this weekend on blackberries as we discuss this in a bit more detail. 😉
Thanks for the video. Hello goat 👋 I saw another video that the goats poop is a good fertilizer for watermelon. Sounds gross but maybe very effective like other fertilizer that sold from the store
Hey there Angelita, glad you enjoyed this one. We have started using the goat manure on the farm, so it would definitely be worth trying with the watermelons!
It's not much really. For the small starts you see in those pots I cut about 2-3 inches of the "runner" root along with the vertical shoot coming out of the ground. Usually the shoot dies back a bit, but new shoots emerge from the pot from the roots below.
Congrats on the new goat. She'll be bouncing off the walls in no time with a mentor like Rosie. My blackberry has a single flower on it. One. A resounding recovery from the late freeze.
I think you may be right there Allan. She's already starting to bounce around a bit as she gets settled in. One flower is how it all starts. Hopefully a bit of warm weather and she'll be pumping out those berries for you!
Hey Katherine. I'm not sure how the cuttings would fare being shipped as they can be hit or miss for us going right into soil. We do plan on having these available for sale in the future, so if you're ever up in the Phoenix area maybe we can figure something out.
Watching your quick intro showcase, I would like to mention that a "full sun" plant requires 6 hours of sunlight in the middle of it's growing season. Your region gets 13 hours of sunlight in the summer; this means extra heat, extra heat stress, and extra water consumption to fight the heat stress. Filtered sunlight canopy trees are not a bad thing in your region. Dense intercropping is not a bad thing in your region. You can remove 40% of the plants' exposure to summer sunlight and still consider the plant in "full sun." My suburban Mojave garden doubled it's production after the Chilean Mesquite got large enough to shade it during the afternoon heat. My tall fescue backyard lawn (small, 20x20 ft) only survives under the shade of the mesquites. My tomatoes grow best against the yard's southwestern wall, where they see zero direct sunlight after 12pm. Edit, another example: my swiss chard will only not bolt up against the southwestern wall (intercropped with the tomatoes and apple trees). Anywhere else in the garden, the chard will bolt by mid may.
Interesting perspective on this. In our experience that lack of sunlight severely inhibits tree growth and production in both the short and long term. At least, over the last 12 years of growing fruit trees here in the Phoenix area. That being said, annual crops are quite different. Shade does have a huge (positive) impact on the growth rate and production on those crops. Solid suggestion there and we have a long way to go giving those types of crops the proper care.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm You absolutely have the right strategy for fruit trees, and probably woody perennials after the establishment period. Herbaceous perennials and annuals are a very different crop though, for sure. Tomatoes are considered herbaceous perennials in the Sonoran. Next season we're going to try a new annuals planter strategy, tall crops in the center of the row (trees, corn, sunflowers), medium crops intercropped under that (tomatoes, pole beans, peppers), and low crops on the outside edges of the planters (squash, celery, chard/herbs, flowers, etc). Think of a triangle shape, with corn at the peak. If the rows run north/south, the tall crops should create a wall of green as they grow and only allow 6-8h of sun on the other crops, hopefully reducing the heat stress and bolting tendency.
@@recless8667 ah yes, that sounds like a solid plan to naturally shade the different crops, while at the same time giving fast growing, sun loving plants (like corn or even sunflower) the light they need to thrive.
I'm SO excited about my primeark blackberry! It's already doubled in size and I think it going to replace the boysenberry, which has been disappointing, not to mention the thorns need to go on the boysenberry!
Blackberries I have not yet made room for but hope to have them next season. Do they have thorns? Still working on improving the garden beds I have now. They look wonderful. Tastes so much sweeter than store-bought ones! I am your "jealous fan""! Your low desert is something to behold!! It is so lush looking with such healthy plants.
Hey June! Blackberries have really surprised us since growing them on the last property. It's amazing how much production we get from just a single planting! Oh and this variety is the Prime Ark Freedom and is thornless!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm thought it might be thornless because you both came away after picking without blood dripping from your arms!!! Lol! What is your source to purchase them please? Or if you will be selling starts of these next planting season I could meet you in Phoenix after your work day there and get them. My truck is 20 years old and not reliable enough to get out to your farm. Would hate to break down on one of those empty desert roads. I live near the 101, I 17 freeways. Don't like driving downtown Phoenix. Too complicating with too many distractions.
@@juneramirez8580 we have had some success buying these online. Stark Brothers is usually a good option. We do hope to have some starts this coming Fall/Spring. If you haven't joined our customer email list you might consider that. It's how we market everything that we sell and you can join that through our website.
What brand and size of hose and nozzles do you use for watering? It always looks like you have the most amazing water pressure and volume for quick watering. Like a fire hose!
Ah yes, those are actually a fire hose type nozzle that we get from Harbor Freight. We usually pick up one or two every time we're there, but they usually last a few years before they start to clog. I'll link to it here for you; www.harborfreight.com/adjustable-spray-hose-nozzle-62470.html
Hello! I have a couple one year old Primark Freedoms. Already getting big fruit, but not very sweet even when soft. Did you find it took time to get fully established before the fruit wasn't so tart? Thx!
That's a tough one to answer, because sweetness is subjective. Ours are a combination of tart and sweet, but they are not nearly as sweet as our mulberries. They also tend to be a little sweeter when they are fully ripe, but not overripe when they start to get bland. Also make sure you're fertilizing them with a good fruit tree type fertilizer. That does make a difference. Oh and be cautious with water. Too much water and it can dilute the sweetness.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm definitely not mulberry sweet! We had blackberries at a house as a kid and they were much sweeter than these, but will try upping the fertilizer and give a couple seasons to see how things develop. Going to make a pie as soon as a few more ripen so they will be enjoyed for sure. Appreciate the advice!
Hi, I was wondering what is the elevation there? I'm in pahrump Nevada high desert I just planted blackberries in September, I put a shade cloth over them , I have trees or plants burn a lot, but yours did great without a shade cloth. So I'm wondering if your elevation is lower ?
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm I think mine is closer to 3000, yep 2697 but I'm on the edge of town closer to California may be a bit higher. It's not easy gardening that's why I started watching you. :)
Hey Kelly. Definitely stop by if you're in town. We're a full week into harvest and most of the berries have been harvested after yesterday and today if you're wanting to try some. Where you wanting the fruit or the plant?
Hey Jacob. We have blackberries in a few different areas on the farm and they get different amounts of water. That being said, the transplant we did to the front of the farm this past Spring is on drip irrigation alone. It has 4, 4gph emitters on it that run for 2 hours once/week and it's doing really well. What variety are you growing and do you have it mulched?
Hey there Abid. We do need to give an update on the cuttings (warning, they did not do well at all!!). There was a shot of one of the fruit on our Lang jujube in this episode, but we do need to give an update on those as well.
We don't do anything, we know they are going to expand outside of the beds. We put them in the raised bed to protect from rabbits and thinking we would have to cover them to protect from birds.
We're hoping to eventually have these for sale as we get the propagation going here. We market everything from the farm through our customer email list, so you'll want to join that. You can join through our website and you'll be the first to know when we have some of them available.
@@jaypete3500 oh yes, the Prime Ark Freedom is still our go-to blackberry. Honestly, it's really the only one we've seen that's worth attempting if you're looking for consistent production. Unfortunately we don't ship, but these are pretty easy to find through online nurseries. Good luck!!
Oh, you know it. They're stand-ins for grandchildren right now. I told my son he would soon be responsible for a portion of their feed bill if he and his fiancée drag their heels after they're married!
Ah, that definitely sounds much better. Node was the only thing that came to mind, but it figures there would be an official term for those little guys. Thank you!
Hi, I've been binge-watching a lot of your videos but have not figured out how you manage to mitigate or control diseases like powdery mildew. I'm in the process of setting up a small orchard of 12 Trees on our 5 acre farm. Assuming I can manage 12 Trees we're looking to plant a couple acres... But I'm seeing powdery mildew and aphids and other issues on these new trees. I would rather not give them a systemic fungicide and insecticide, but being as though this is the first year and we're just trying to establish them I'm thinking that might be my best option. But in a few years when we start getting fruit I'm not going to want to use chemicals! If you have a video covering this can you point me to it? If not I think this would be a really good topic to talk about
I'm glad you're enjoying the content and this is a good question. I'm not sure where you're located, but for us here in the desert Southwest we don't face many issues with fungus. It's too hot and dry for them to thrive and we irrigate under a deep layer of wood chip mulch which leaves the rest of the tree completely dry. We do have insect problems, but nothing significant enough to warrant controls. Aphids for example, do show up from time to time, but once we get really dry they die off and are not a significant problem. Are you here in AZ?
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm Grand Junction Colorado. It's kind of like desert out here. We get very little precipitation. Without irrigation you almost need a jackhammer to get into the dirt! It is pretty dry. But I think the sprinkler irrigation around the trees is creating the moisture. I should have probably used drip tape for the grass instead of rain Bird impacts, I probably would not have this issue had I done that
@@Scooby-Snacks ok, that is making more sense. I would say the issue is probably your irrigation. That causes moisture on the tree itself which drives fungal diseases.
It's been really strange, because there is some bird damage on the blackberries, but very minimal. The Shangri La mulberries are right next to these and they get attacked pretty regularly, so we know the birds are over there. We did finally hit triple digits this weekend. That means early quitting time going forward!
Hey Justin! We do have mice around the chicken run and garden beds. Those and ground squirrels have been an ongoing battle. The chicken run they have access to feed and water, so we need to be better at capping the feeders at night so they don't have feed. I just got one of the lids that go on a 5 gallon bucket to hopefully trap them. I may start planting mint everywhere since I heard that helps too. amzn.to/3whGh5q
I grew up in BC Canada, on 250 acres, with no fences, just a trained Border Collie, on the side of a Mountain, Crown Land behind us, we had Sanins ?? A few Floppy eared ones, grow from borrowed Stinky goats, Billies, we didn't keep our own Billy, the bucks left the farm to be ate, we did learn how to make cheese from the milk fed billies, Renat, was hard as we never saw a animal get killed in the yard, it happened off site, our pets. I'll share the recipe, in a email if you would like, we did the separate the milk, cottage cheese, feta, butter, whey thing from the milk, one time we milked 15, sold it fresh too. Are you acidifying for your berries, as I'm used to -7 PH for soil preference, I tried but then my PH was over 8, they didn't do well, so wanting to try again, can you list the varieties, source please. Thanks
Wow, it sounds like you have some experience in working with Goat's milk. That is something completely foreign to us, so we can take all the help you're willing to give. Our email is on the About tab here on YT. We don't do anything to acidify the soil (ours tested at 8.4), but 2 varieties in particular do very well and don't seem to care. The one you're seeing here, Prime Ark, and the one we just planted new, but had very good success with on the old farm, Triple Crown. You can usually find both fairly easily from online nurseries. Stark Bros and Raintree are usually where we start, but there are several out there. Oh and the Prime Ark is the Freedom cultivar, so no thorns.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm ok I'll email you, yes I'd love to have a goat, but as snowbirds it won't work. We sold it for $1.00 a gallon, still have some of those Silver dollars, the Dukabor from Agassiz bought it, Google them, interesting history, especially with the Russia/Ukraine operation now, still in contact with a few of those kids, that was in the mid 60s, I was just a kid. I'll share the Rent recipe, to sad to do on a comment, for me anyway. I'll try those blackberries, have you ever heard how the guy got thornless, recall 6 generations before not reverting back to thorns, if I recall correctly. My, your 8.4 is higher than ours, have you tested under the chips yet ? I just got my 4th soil sample back, 4th leaf sample back, now I know what is going on with leaves, seems 3-4 years and leaves show distress, so I'm seeing why, I learned in Canada that tree health, is critical, I sold 8-10 tons of cherries, peaches apricots a year, and my returns were continent on quality, so healthy tree, is healthy fruit, I was still selling apricots when most were pulled out, as a kid that take a bite and says yukk, doesn't inspire Mom to buy again, but if variety, taste, looks get a yes, it'll sell, sold mine all by the 20lb box, most went by truck to the cities, preordered, so it's still "people eat with their eyes first, then by taste buds" and always say, "don't complain about farms with a full belly" and "don't complain about the smell of cows, that's how 🍦 smells at its source". I still a farm boy at heart, but AZ has made me trust soil sampling a whole bunch, this stuff I'd call very poor dirt, never mind soil.
@@johac7637 We have not gone back to do any soil sampling, but we'll need to do that eventually. I imagine many things are changing in the soil around the trees, vines and bushes. Same goes for the main pasture that we run broiler chickens across.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm if I were you I'd do it sooner than later, as the trees get stresses like mammals, or any living thing, my trees here sort of fell on their face after being 5 years thriving, the PH ties up nutrients, and it takes adding as I still have my micros present, in adaquate amounts, nut when the N goes down, as it peaches, so did the K and the Mg, Mn, Mo, and slowly the leaves got smaller, lighter, and the Photsientice stopped supplying the sugars to transport the nutrients up and down to/from the roots, ended up with some branches all the had were twins, or no viable blossoms, it happens with high PH soil, our County Master Gardener ( now retired) said that is normal especially on citric, that's why the AZ Best Citrus Fert. has crazy high sulpher content, and Whitfill Citrus growers have at all their orchards a sulfuric acid generator to drop the flood irr. water to 6 to keep their crops producing, he can't spread TigerSoll as they are Certified Organic.
Hey Emily. The Prime Ark is definitely our first choice for blackberries. It produces very heavy and the blackberries are a good balance of tart and sweet. The Triple Crown would be our #2. In our experience it doesn't fruit quite as heavy, but the flavor is on the sweeter side.
Hey Michael. Here's a link to one at Stark Brothers. This is the same variety and cultivar (Prime Ark Freedom) that you're seeing here; www.starkbros.com/products/berry-plants/blackberry-plants/prime-ark-freedom-primocane-blackberry
Great question here Lesley and we'll probably do a whole episode on them as we gain more experience. Their primary roles will be for milk production and fertility on our future pasture area on the back of the property. They are also registered goats, so their kids will sell for a premium.
Crazy, huh? All from that one small stick. It's now sending out runners as blackberries usually do and that will allow it to continue to produce as the old canes die back and new ones take their place. It's already starting to push past the bed.
Hey James. We schedule a few farm tours each year, so folks can visit. Be sure to join our customer email list through the website as that's where we announce those.
We have been able to get raspberries to grow, but they don't flourish or produce very well, so we have focused our attention on blackberries. That being said, the Columbian Giant Blackberry has a wonderful raspberry like flavor and does pretty well for us. If you decide to go with raspberries you'll want to give them mottle sun as they struggle in direct sunlight.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm Thank you for your response. Your farm is amazing. The thing I don't like about blackberries is the seeds. How is the Columbian Gian Blackberry in the seed department?
It is usually pretty easy to find online. That's where we have purchased them from in the past. A couple of good options are usually Stark Brothers and Raintree nursery.
We do plan on having those available soon. Be sure to join our customer email list through our website as that's the only way we market products and services from the farm.
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Great suggestions here Byrd. Once we get the rest of our business operations up and running to fund our activities we'll need to come back and incorporate some of these!
What's really cool is seeing how you built the soil to grow your blackberry. I remember watching the video you referenced a few years ago. To see how the bush has grown since then is evidence that your approach is working. Because of your video, I did the same thing in Vegas; put a bunch of wood chips down in December and then another pile last month in my front yard. Been thinking about what to plant. Now I'm thinking about planting a blackberry bush! 🤔
I'm so glad to hear this!!! Especially with your soil in Vegas as from what I've been told it has a much higher sand content from what we see here. If that's the case, the organic matter you're creating will help hold moisture really well. Oh and you can see, the Prime Ark blackberry loves this soil!!
I just bought 40 acres and learning all I can. I'm so ready to get started as soon as it cools off a bit here in the desert. I clicked on to see about blackberries. THE BEST PART of this video was Rosie I was cracking up. Used to have Nubians myself but not minis. Just made me want to raise goats again. Thanks for sharing all your knowledge I really appreciate it as I have never gardened in this type of climate before. It will be a learning experience for sure and hope to be at least half as successful as the both of you. God Bless and may you always prosper.
Wow, congrats on that new piece of property. We're on 6 acres here and only using about half of that, so you have a LOT of open space to work with!
The goats are crazy. These days Rosie is the most temperate of our 3 girls if you can believe it!
If you have any questions as you get underway, just shoot them over!
You two are lovely 🌹! Always enjoy your gardens with bountiful harvest. Thank you
Hey Brandon. I'm really glad you're enjoying these. It's comments like this that keep us going and sharing!
Thanks for putting notes in the comments! I'm so forgetful and don't want to rewatch the whole video to remember the name of the variety. I feel like alot of other TH-camrs use the description as more click bait and it's frustrating because then I have to skip through the video again to find what I'm looking for. Thanks!
Glad that helped you out. We try to be as straight forward as possible. It may cost us a few views, but in the end we'd like to see everyone growing some of these on their own!
Now I need to plant some blackberries!!
This variety is definitely worth trying. We have really been impressed with how well it produces and it really chugs along with our soil and temps!
Wow - those berries are MASSIVE! I have a mystery variety, that started out as runners from a friend's yard. Tasty, but a much more modest size, and kinda seedy. But hey, they were free. 😀 If they croak, totally replacing them with Prime Arks.
Hey Martha! I would take "volunteer" fruit any day! We don't see them often around here yet, but we're hoping they start sprouting everywhere as we get things more established!
Can't recall if I told you guys but one of those 8 essential monosaccharides are in birch trees; as far as wood chips go I think it's relevant; basically a single-chain sugar called D-Mannose(a healthy liver can produce it, the liver can regrow)
Ah yes, I remember D-Mannose well from my (Duane) supplement selling days. I did not, however, know that about birch. We don't have any birch trees growing around here, so it's not in our wood chip piles.
Good for UTI’s 👍🏻
I cannot believe what you have done garden wise in the barren desert. Now it's a food forest. Just WOW! (New sub here).
So glad you found us and thank you for coming along for the journey. We were just talking today about the fact that we're finally starting to see a harvest from the work we've been putting in the last 2 years. If you get a chance, you'll need to check out some of our older content on the original farm. It was an acre as opposed to the 6 we're on here, but we had a lot going on. Warning on that though, I (Duane) talk very fast and was nervous in those videos. Sometimes I was talking WAY too fast!!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm LOL, will do.
Awesome video, y’all give me hope, I bought 40 acres in St Johns, AZ and straight desert but I have plans. Just wanted to thank you and God bless
Woohoo!! Congrats on the property. That's a good bit of land that you'll be working with. Lots of options with that much space!
Very good Wayne and Lauren, nice to see your hard work coming together.
Hey Ron! It's definitely getting there.
You guys are the greatest!
Thanks so much Pam. You're encouragement keeps us posting these each week!!
There are so many different varieties of Prime Ark Blackberries, which variety did you plant in full sun? I’d like to plant some this spring.
Thanks again!!
Hey Dave. This is the Prime Ark Freedom variety. Thornless and does a bang up job for us here in AZ.
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We are so excited to grow ours out!!! Thanks again for the plants!!
You're more than welcome!
Nice! We keep planting stuff and then moving. I hear my blackberry bushes in NM are doing amazing. 😄 🌱🏜️
Oh yes, we know just what that's like! There is a 10 year old Golden Dorsette and Tangelo tree on our first property that should be cranking out fruit by now!
Hi guys!! How do you irrigate those blackberries? I don't recall if you did drip or ?? Congrats on the new 4-legged friend :)
Hey Kevin! We use drip irrigation for the blackberries. Essentially we have them spread out around the bed, so we're able to water more area, at each watering. This is because you really never know where the runners will send up shoots. We also hand water this area a few times a week to keep soil moisture consistent. At least during the late Spring/Summer months. Funny, I actually filmed a shot talking about the irrigation, but cut it due to time. We're finding we have more folks watching when we keep the videos under 15 minutes or so. It's why we try to squeeze so much into these weekly vlogs.
Love your garden
Hey Valerie! I'm glad you like it. We're fans of it as well. ;)
Great video as always but please don't forget about the preaches!! It's one of the big ones in looking forward to growing when i start my homestead in Willcox later this year.
Glad you enjoyed this one and hang in there. We were able to film the content for the peach episode today, so we should have that up next week!
@:45, double trouble!
Not to fear, Lori! You can survive Goatitis for many, many decades. It's the nightmares that can be a problem. If you start to dream you're dressed in a long skirt and cowboy hat, then it can be bad. Remember the dream pack mule can be stubborn as you lead your flock of hundreds across the burning desert to high canyons. Walk in beauty, kids!
Hey Martin! Your stories are always one of the bright spots for us reading through comments. Thank you!!
I just bought land in AZ. I just found you. Please make more videos.
Hey there! We have LOTs of content out there for you and will be back on our normal, weekly posting schedule after the new year. In the meantime, if you have any questions please shoot them over and congrats on that new land!!
@EdgeofNowhereFarm Thank you! It's in Concho and I have so many plans! Happy to know about your weekly postings. I'll be watching for sure.
Love blackberries !
We do too. They are really hard to beat!!
You are my new best videos on TH-cam 😍🥰
Hi from Egypt 🇪🇬
Hey Omar, I'm glad you're enjoying the content!!
🤤 Just drooling watching this! A 4x4x1 carton of blackberries is about $8 in Hawai’i right now!
Oh my goodness, that's a bit steep! I recall most things being pretty expensive in Hawaii. I used to travel there for work in the early 2000's and at that point milk was something like $5/gallon if I remember correctly and $1.99 or less here at the time!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm yup that sounds about right! Close to $9 a gallon now. Praying we’ll have the opportunity to farm the land again someday because the current state of food on our island is not sustainable!
@@daniellevilloria227 that's a shame given the near perfect growing conditions year round for many types of plants.
Duane,
Forgive my spelling...I notice that you don't plant your blackberries in ground. Just easier to maintain?
Always look forward to your videos... My wife is loving the backyard. Now I must find room for some blackberries.
Hey Dave. The primary reason we have them in a bed here was to eventually be able to put a structure up to keep birds away. However, we're finding it's not necessary as the birds leave most of the fruit alone. At least so far! We also amend the soil (if we're not creating it from scratch) to give the new plantings a jump start in sending out runners. More pliable soil really helps with this.
Appreciate your videos and knowledge share! I just picked up a Triple Crown from one of the big box stores and brought it home only to have it get really crispy and curl on me! I had originally thought I could place it on my patio by my hot tub, but maybe it got too hot there? Will it bounce back? I have since repotted into a larger container and placed in a grass/dirt area. I have about 2-3 inches of mulch at the top. Any tips and advice would be much appreciated. The plant has lots of berries and I was hoping to have a harvest! Thanks!
Sorry to hear you're having these issues! While the Triple Crown can be a good producer for us, it really needs to be planted into the ground vs in a pot. These bushes need to send out rhizomes into the soil in order to survive as the canes only last a single season and then need to be completely replaced. That's also how they survive our heat as they need to be in full sun in order to set and ripen fruit properly. A larger pot will definitely help and if you're not able to plant into the ground it will need to be in mottled sun during the mid-day to ensure the roots don't get over heated. That mulch will help with the rhizomes. Keep an eye out for the episode we're posting this weekend on blackberries as we discuss this in a bit more detail. 😉
There sure is a lot of hand watering going on, is there a way to set up irrigation to do the same thing?
Most of the farm is automated, but we haven't had the funds to extend it to the new growing areas yet.
Thanks for the video. Hello goat 👋 I saw another video that the goats poop is a good fertilizer for watermelon. Sounds gross but maybe very effective like other fertilizer that sold from the store
Hey there Angelita, glad you enjoyed this one. We have started using the goat manure on the farm, so it would definitely be worth trying with the watermelons!
very nice. Q: did you have 1 blackberry plant to start? I was thinking male & female flowers are on separate plants. ty
For blackberries you only need one plant at they are self fruitful. What you see all came from a single planting!
How much root do the cuttings need?
It's not much really. For the small starts you see in those pots I cut about 2-3 inches of the "runner" root along with the vertical shoot coming out of the ground. Usually the shoot dies back a bit, but new shoots emerge from the pot from the roots below.
Congrats on the new goat. She'll be bouncing off the walls in no time with a mentor like Rosie.
My blackberry has a single flower on it. One. A resounding recovery from the late freeze.
I think you may be right there Allan. She's already starting to bounce around a bit as she gets settled in. One flower is how it all starts. Hopefully a bit of warm weather and she'll be pumping out those berries for you!
Would it be possible to ship cuttings of blackberries to Florence Az?
Oŕ here to Golden Valley AZ? We are at 3100 ft.
Hey Katherine. I'm not sure how the cuttings would fare being shipped as they can be hit or miss for us going right into soil. We do plan on having these available for sale in the future, so if you're ever up in the Phoenix area maybe we can figure something out.
Watching your quick intro showcase, I would like to mention that a "full sun" plant requires 6 hours of sunlight in the middle of it's growing season. Your region gets 13 hours of sunlight in the summer; this means extra heat, extra heat stress, and extra water consumption to fight the heat stress.
Filtered sunlight canopy trees are not a bad thing in your region. Dense intercropping is not a bad thing in your region. You can remove 40% of the plants' exposure to summer sunlight and still consider the plant in "full sun."
My suburban Mojave garden doubled it's production after the Chilean Mesquite got large enough to shade it during the afternoon heat. My tall fescue backyard lawn (small, 20x20 ft) only survives under the shade of the mesquites. My tomatoes grow best against the yard's southwestern wall, where they see zero direct sunlight after 12pm. Edit, another example: my swiss chard will only not bolt up against the southwestern wall (intercropped with the tomatoes and apple trees). Anywhere else in the garden, the chard will bolt by mid may.
Interesting perspective on this. In our experience that lack of sunlight severely inhibits tree growth and production in both the short and long term. At least, over the last 12 years of growing fruit trees here in the Phoenix area. That being said, annual crops are quite different. Shade does have a huge (positive) impact on the growth rate and production on those crops. Solid suggestion there and we have a long way to go giving those types of crops the proper care.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm You absolutely have the right strategy for fruit trees, and probably woody perennials after the establishment period.
Herbaceous perennials and annuals are a very different crop though, for sure. Tomatoes are considered herbaceous perennials in the Sonoran.
Next season we're going to try a new annuals planter strategy, tall crops in the center of the row (trees, corn, sunflowers), medium crops intercropped under that (tomatoes, pole beans, peppers), and low crops on the outside edges of the planters (squash, celery, chard/herbs, flowers, etc). Think of a triangle shape, with corn at the peak.
If the rows run north/south, the tall crops should create a wall of green as they grow and only allow 6-8h of sun on the other crops, hopefully reducing the heat stress and bolting tendency.
@@recless8667 ah yes, that sounds like a solid plan to naturally shade the different crops, while at the same time giving fast growing, sun loving plants (like corn or even sunflower) the light they need to thrive.
I'm SO excited about my primeark blackberry! It's already doubled in size and I think it going to replace the boysenberry, which has been disappointing, not to mention the thorns need to go on the boysenberry!
Glad you're seeing that solid growth on the Prime Ark Frances! It's really an amazing producer for us here and you'll be very happy with the taste!
Blackberries I have not yet made room for but hope to have them next season. Do they have thorns? Still working on improving the garden beds I have now. They look wonderful. Tastes so much sweeter than store-bought ones! I am your "jealous fan""! Your low desert is something to behold!! It is so lush looking with such healthy plants.
Hey June! Blackberries have really surprised us since growing them on the last property. It's amazing how much production we get from just a single planting! Oh and this variety is the Prime Ark Freedom and is thornless!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm thought it might be thornless because you both came away after picking without blood dripping from your arms!!! Lol! What is your source to purchase them please? Or if you will be selling starts of these next planting season I could meet you in Phoenix after your work day there and get them. My truck is 20 years old and not reliable enough to get out to your farm. Would hate to break down on one of those empty desert roads. I live near the 101, I 17 freeways. Don't like driving downtown Phoenix. Too complicating with too many distractions.
@@juneramirez8580 we have had some success buying these online. Stark Brothers is usually a good option. We do hope to have some starts this coming Fall/Spring. If you haven't joined our customer email list you might consider that. It's how we market everything that we sell and you can join that through our website.
Congrats on such brilliant work. You guys inspire me everyday. Greetings from Morocco, North Africa.
Glad you're enjoying the content. And from all the way over in N. Africa. What's the weather like there for you guys?
@@EdgeofNowhereFarmit's sunny and hot with an average temperature of between 25 and 31 C° here is Casablanca.
@@Bluelobster1118 oh wow, that sounds very nice. Right now it's still Spring and we are already seeing days above 38 C!
What brand and size of hose and nozzles do you use for watering? It always looks like you have the most amazing water pressure and volume for quick watering. Like a fire hose!
Ah yes, those are actually a fire hose type nozzle that we get from Harbor Freight. We usually pick up one or two every time we're there, but they usually last a few years before they start to clog. I'll link to it here for you;
www.harborfreight.com/adjustable-spray-hose-nozzle-62470.html
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm thanks!!
I need those.
I'm assuming you're referring to the blackberries as opposed to the Goat-itis.
Hello! I have a couple one year old Primark Freedoms. Already getting big fruit, but not very sweet even when soft. Did you find it took time to get fully established before the fruit wasn't so tart? Thx!
That's a tough one to answer, because sweetness is subjective. Ours are a combination of tart and sweet, but they are not nearly as sweet as our mulberries. They also tend to be a little sweeter when they are fully ripe, but not overripe when they start to get bland. Also make sure you're fertilizing them with a good fruit tree type fertilizer. That does make a difference. Oh and be cautious with water. Too much water and it can dilute the sweetness.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm definitely not mulberry sweet! We had blackberries at a house as a kid and they were much sweeter than these, but will try upping the fertilizer and give a couple seasons to see how things develop. Going to make a pie as soon as a few more ripen so they will be enjoyed for sure. Appreciate the advice!
Amazing thanks for sharing
Glad you enjoyed this one!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm enjoy them all have alot of what you have I'm just in Tennessee zone 7A
@@odomshomestead Tennessee is a place I'd like to visit someday.
Hi, I was wondering what is the elevation there?
I'm in pahrump Nevada high desert I just planted blackberries in September, I put a shade cloth over them , I have trees or plants burn a lot, but yours did great without a shade cloth. So I'm wondering if your elevation is lower ?
We are at about 1600’ for elevation.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm I think mine is closer to 3000, yep 2697 but I'm on the edge of town closer to California may be a bit higher. It's not easy gardening that's why I started watching you. :)
I will be down your way on the 21st, can I swing by and buy some Black Berries off you?
Hey Kelly. Definitely stop by if you're in town. We're a full week into harvest and most of the berries have been harvested after yesterday and today if you're wanting to try some. Where you wanting the fruit or the plant?
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm Berries for sure, plants we can talk about.
@@GHumpty1965 ah ok. It may be frozen berries by then!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm alright, you know I want the plants too, I just did not want to be to eager.
@@GHumpty1965 had a feeling that might be the case. We have the same addiction!
Which online store did you buy the prime ark blackberry? I'm so excited!!
I believe we got that one from Stark Bros.
Thanks!!
How much water do your blackberries need? I've played two and they seem like they're getting skorched by the AZ sun.
Hey Jacob. We have blackberries in a few different areas on the farm and they get different amounts of water. That being said, the transplant we did to the front of the farm this past Spring is on drip irrigation alone. It has 4, 4gph emitters on it that run for 2 hours once/week and it's doing really well. What variety are you growing and do you have it mulched?
Can you please tell me where you get these blackberry starts? I am looking for a reputable source. Thanks!
We bought ours from Stark Brothers nursery online. Both for the one we have planted here on this farm and also the one we had growing on the old farm.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm Thank you, I appreciate it.
Which Prime Ark variety are they?
Guessing Freedom.
Bingo Joni. These are the Prime Ark Freedom blackberries.
Another Excellent video, I want to see your Fig cutting and Jujube tree, Hope you will not mind
Hey there Abid. We do need to give an update on the cuttings (warning, they did not do well at all!!). There was a shot of one of the fruit on our Lang jujube in this episode, but we do need to give an update on those as well.
What do you do to keep the blackberry pups from spreading under the sides of the raised bed? I am afraid of having blackberries taking over the yard.
We don't do anything, we know they are going to expand outside of the beds. We put them in the raised bed to protect from rabbits and thinking we would have to cover them to protect from birds.
Set them in the middle of the lawn in a bed of their own and mow around it
I am down in Tucson, I'd love to get a couple of those prim ark blackberries from you.
We're hoping to eventually have these for sale as we get the propagation going here. We market everything from the farm through our customer email list, so you'll want to join that. You can join through our website and you'll be the first to know when we have some of them available.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarmgetting ready to plant some new black berries. You still recommend these a year later? You sell anything through mail?
@@jaypete3500 oh yes, the Prime Ark Freedom is still our go-to blackberry. Honestly, it's really the only one we've seen that's worth attempting if you're looking for consistent production. Unfortunately we don't ship, but these are pretty easy to find through online nurseries. Good luck!!
Very nice sir... I m from 🇮🇳.
India/ bharat
Hello there! We have a lot of viewers from India with a similar climate in many areas of your country.
are they thornless?
The Prime Ark Freedom Blackberry is completely thornless. One of several reasons it's by far our favorite!
She is going to spoil those goats.
Oh, you know it. They're stand-ins for grandchildren right now. I told my son he would soon be responsible for a portion of their feed bill if he and his fiancée drag their heels after they're married!
Fun fact: those individual berry "nodes" are called drupelets
Ah, that definitely sounds much better. Node was the only thing that came to mind, but it figures there would be an official term for those little guys. Thank you!
Hi, I've been binge-watching a lot of your videos but have not figured out how you manage to mitigate or control diseases like powdery mildew. I'm in the process of setting up a small orchard of 12 Trees on our 5 acre farm. Assuming I can manage 12 Trees we're looking to plant a couple acres... But I'm seeing powdery mildew and aphids and other issues on these new trees. I would rather not give them a systemic fungicide and insecticide, but being as though this is the first year and we're just trying to establish them I'm thinking that might be my best option. But in a few years when we start getting fruit I'm not going to want to use chemicals! If you have a video covering this can you point me to it? If not I think this would be a really good topic to talk about
I'm glad you're enjoying the content and this is a good question. I'm not sure where you're located, but for us here in the desert Southwest we don't face many issues with fungus. It's too hot and dry for them to thrive and we irrigate under a deep layer of wood chip mulch which leaves the rest of the tree completely dry. We do have insect problems, but nothing significant enough to warrant controls. Aphids for example, do show up from time to time, but once we get really dry they die off and are not a significant problem. Are you here in AZ?
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm Grand Junction Colorado. It's kind of like desert out here. We get very little precipitation. Without irrigation you almost need a jackhammer to get into the dirt! It is pretty dry. But I think the sprinkler irrigation around the trees is creating the moisture. I should have probably used drip tape for the grass instead of rain Bird impacts, I probably would not have this issue had I done that
@@Scooby-Snacks ok, that is making more sense. I would say the issue is probably your irrigation. That causes moisture on the tree itself which drives fungal diseases.
How is it the birds (and other critters) don't eat your blackberries? Also, have you hit triple digits yet? We did for the first time today, 104F. 🥵
It's been really strange, because there is some bird damage on the blackberries, but very minimal. The Shangri La mulberries are right next to these and they get attacked pretty regularly, so we know the birds are over there. We did finally hit triple digits this weekend. That means early quitting time going forward!
Hey you two! Do you have mice on the farm and if so how do you deal with them?
Hey Justin! We do have mice around the chicken run and garden beds. Those and ground squirrels have been an ongoing battle. The chicken run they have access to feed and water, so we need to be better at capping the feeders at night so they don't have feed. I just got one of the lids that go on a 5 gallon bucket to hopefully trap them. I may start planting mint everywhere since I heard that helps too.
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I grew up in BC Canada, on 250 acres, with no fences, just a trained Border Collie, on the side of a Mountain, Crown Land behind us, we had Sanins ?? A few Floppy eared ones, grow from borrowed Stinky goats, Billies, we didn't keep our own Billy, the bucks left the farm to be ate, we did learn how to make cheese from the milk fed billies, Renat, was hard as we never saw a animal get killed in the yard, it happened off site, our pets.
I'll share the recipe, in a email if you would like, we did the separate the milk, cottage cheese, feta, butter, whey thing from the milk, one time we milked 15, sold it fresh too.
Are you acidifying for your berries, as I'm used to -7 PH for soil preference, I tried but then my PH was over 8, they didn't do well, so wanting to try again, can you list the varieties, source please. Thanks
Wow, it sounds like you have some experience in working with Goat's milk. That is something completely foreign to us, so we can take all the help you're willing to give. Our email is on the About tab here on YT. We don't do anything to acidify the soil (ours tested at 8.4), but 2 varieties in particular do very well and don't seem to care. The one you're seeing here, Prime Ark, and the one we just planted new, but had very good success with on the old farm, Triple Crown. You can usually find both fairly easily from online nurseries. Stark Bros and Raintree are usually where we start, but there are several out there. Oh and the Prime Ark is the Freedom cultivar, so no thorns.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm ok I'll email you, yes I'd love to have a goat, but as snowbirds it won't work.
We sold it for $1.00 a gallon, still have some of those Silver dollars, the Dukabor from Agassiz bought it, Google them, interesting history, especially with the Russia/Ukraine operation now, still in contact with a few of those kids, that was in the mid 60s, I was just a kid.
I'll share the Rent recipe, to sad to do on a comment, for me anyway.
I'll try those blackberries, have you ever heard how the guy got thornless, recall 6 generations before not reverting back to thorns, if I recall correctly.
My, your 8.4 is higher than ours, have you tested under the chips yet ?
I just got my 4th soil sample back, 4th leaf sample back, now I know what is going on with leaves, seems 3-4 years and leaves show distress, so I'm seeing why, I learned in Canada that tree health, is critical, I sold 8-10 tons of cherries, peaches apricots a year, and my returns were continent on quality, so healthy tree, is healthy fruit, I was still selling apricots when most were pulled out, as a kid that take a bite and says yukk, doesn't inspire Mom to buy again, but if variety, taste, looks get a yes, it'll sell, sold mine all by the 20lb box, most went by truck to the cities, preordered, so it's still "people eat with their eyes first, then by taste buds" and always say, "don't complain about farms with a full belly" and "don't complain about the smell of cows, that's how 🍦 smells at its source".
I still a farm boy at heart, but AZ has made me trust soil sampling a whole bunch, this stuff I'd call very poor dirt, never mind soil.
@@johac7637 We have not gone back to do any soil sampling, but we'll need to do that eventually. I imagine many things are changing in the soil around the trees, vines and bushes. Same goes for the main pasture that we run broiler chickens across.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm if I were you I'd do it sooner than later, as the trees get stresses like mammals, or any living thing, my trees here sort of fell on their face after being 5 years thriving, the PH ties up nutrients, and it takes adding as I still have my micros present, in adaquate amounts, nut when the N goes down, as it peaches, so did the K and the Mg, Mn, Mo, and slowly the leaves got smaller, lighter, and the Photsientice stopped supplying the sugars to transport the nutrients up and down to/from the roots, ended up with some branches all the had were twins, or no viable blossoms, it happens with high PH soil, our County Master Gardener ( now retired) said that is normal especially on citric, that's why the AZ Best Citrus Fert. has crazy high sulpher content, and Whitfill Citrus growers have at all their orchards a sulfuric acid generator to drop the flood irr. water to 6 to keep their crops producing, he can't spread TigerSoll as they are Certified Organic.
@@johac7637 sounds like soil sulfur is in all our futures!
So is the Prime Ark your #1 blackberry choice now?
Hey Emily. The Prime Ark is definitely our first choice for blackberries. It produces very heavy and the blackberries are a good balance of tart and sweet. The Triple Crown would be our #2. In our experience it doesn't fruit quite as heavy, but the flavor is on the sweeter side.
Name and link to that berry
Hey Michael. Here's a link to one at Stark Brothers. This is the same variety and cultivar (Prime Ark Freedom) that you're seeing here;
www.starkbros.com/products/berry-plants/blackberry-plants/prime-ark-freedom-primocane-blackberry
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm thank you
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Glad you enjoyed this one Valerie!! :)
You probably said why you want goats in an earlier post, but could bear repeating.
Great question here Lesley and we'll probably do a whole episode on them as we gain more experience. Their primary roles will be for milk production and fertility on our future pasture area on the back of the property. They are also registered goats, so their kids will sell for a premium.
On Tuesday I will receive a Serviceberry Tree.
Do you have any?
Hmm, I have not seen a Serviceberry before. Will you be putting it in the ground?
I will plant it in the ground
In spring it has blooms
Summer berries
Fall color
Winter interesting form of branches
I had never heard of it
Learned about it from Garden Answer on u tube.
They are hard working interesting people like you and Lori.
@@buchandoreen8546 you'll have to let us know how it does for you!
That’s one plant?
Crazy, huh? All from that one small stick. It's now sending out runners as blackberries usually do and that will allow it to continue to produce as the old canes die back and new ones take their place. It's already starting to push past the bed.
I've got goat-itis as well... There is NO cure!😉
Oh man, I (Duane) was hoping for a cure of some kind. Experimental or not! I think the only chance I have is grandkids!!! :)
Can people visit the farm?
Hey James. We schedule a few farm tours each year, so folks can visit. Be sure to join our customer email list through the website as that's where we announce those.
Have you found any raspberries that will grow in the desert?
We have been able to get raspberries to grow, but they don't flourish or produce very well, so we have focused our attention on blackberries. That being said, the Columbian Giant Blackberry has a wonderful raspberry like flavor and does pretty well for us. If you decide to go with raspberries you'll want to give them mottle sun as they struggle in direct sunlight.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm Thank you for your response. Your farm is amazing. The thing I don't like about blackberries is the seeds. How is the Columbian Gian Blackberry in the seed department?
@@intuitiveinspiredart4366 ah ok. There are still some seeds, more so then raspberries at least.
I love blackberries, but we can't grow them. Birds, squirrels, and stinkbugs always beat us to them.
That's a bummer Bob... Have you tried covering them with bird netting?
I wish i have primeark blackberry 😢
It is usually pretty easy to find online. That's where we have purchased them from in the past. A couple of good options are usually Stark Brothers and Raintree nursery.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm thank you very much!
Can I buy some pups from you?
We do plan on having those available soon. Be sure to join our customer email list through our website as that's the only way we market products and services from the farm.
what is your source of water for your farm
We are on a private well here on the farm.
More earth work more chop and drop more life
Anfibinans key to life
Cat tail must have
Earth ships
Work with your elements if windy wind mills if sunny solar if hot solar water heater and hot tubs
If lemons lemonade
Earth works bio char and passive water harvesting tech may make life
All good suggestions.
Cover crop like sweet patato peanut and fast growing plant are epic
All soil exposed to sun is an open wound living mutch is key to desert fertility
Solger Flys are epic
Earth works berms and swells work well for 10k years
Water loving palimers food grade can change water retention
Alo and succulents guiding can assist in growing your water loving silica
Shade shade shade
Mutch mutch mutch
Got fast growing plants to make shade and bio mass
Hoop houses that have vines make shade fast key for making shady places to do work in
Cover crop and building staystuim that wild them selfs are key to time leveraging and also maximizing soil perduction
More great suggestions.
Every pant u can clone from cutting do it every day
Shade is key to food forest magic
Bio char
Grow coffee vannila saffron sandal wood egads wood
Grow dragon fruits and other food fruit cactus
All places water guild pants fo u max out there water and space
More earth wor
Solid suggestions.
Please plant comfrey and guild around every tree so u make more soil for ever drop of water paint alo vira and succulents to attract bees and also biotrasmutate sillaca into water loving mulch
Gogi bery is epic dry land
Plant 10x nitrogen fixing trees for chop and drop to build soil
Eco systems and ponds will Add inputs piggen coops AR key for deserts shade is key merranga is epic to paint cash crop and nature fixing
Banana are epic if u can
Fast growing woods can assist to bold bio mass bio char is gold
Great suggestions here Byrd. Once we get the rest of our business operations up and running to fund our activities we'll need to come back and incorporate some of these!