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shade cloth over the worms would help a lot to keep the soil from drying out as much or mulch with straw, weeds or grass while also providing them with food. then when the grubs are taken they can cover it back up with the top layer preserving the moisture. Just some ideas hope they help.
You are correct that spacing out workers will force them to work. Out welding crew is spaced out 50m or else nothing gets done. We also tend to place the guys hating everyone else ahead so he works faster and the others catch up to show off...
I really like the fact that you shout out the people who made it possible for you to employ dayworkers! And how you teach them the practises along the way and not just use them for extra muscle. I will give them one tip having done a fair amount of shoveling, raking and such: Tell them to switch sides from time to time. It will feel akward and slow doing it from your "off-side" but trust me, they will feel way less sore at the end of the day. And after you have done that for a while you get more confortable with it and eventually both sides will be almost equally fast.
@@louiseswart1315 and with shoveling it is as simple as to just keep changing the hand you keep on top of the shovel. You will automatically swap to the other side.
Digging over the worm farm should have included addition of a mulch layer to cover as they went. I live in Central Queensland and Summertime temperatures can basically slow roast the top 6 inches of soil with over 70 deg C. Also lost a lot of moisture to air as well.
I think you should have vermicompost system put into 7 short windrows, one for each day of the week and change to the wedge system, give them some of the swill intended for the pigs and some of the millet grains to boost their breeding Edit: add crushed egg shells, wood chips, small sticks, charcoal and native soil for grit to help them digest
Thank you for showing how you converted the ripped soil into swales (water retention structures). I have seen you make bricks and bricks in the background of various videos. I would just line the bricks across some of the small erosion gullies (less than ten cm high) to just slow the erosion waters a little bit and create small check dams. These trip hazards (the bricks lined up) slow erosion and help with water retention (not as much as a swale, but quicker and easier).
I use large cardboard boxes from appliance stores to cover my worm bed. I break open the boxes laying them flat and put a weight on them. A rock or brick works well to keep them in place. If you tell the workers to just cover over the pile after wetting it they will be happy the worms will be happy and you will be happy.
I also saw that if you layer moist cardboard on top of a covered worm bed they crawl inside the layers and can be harvested easily because they are not covered in dirt
@@portiamonnettealso the worms love eating the cornstarch between the layers of corrugated cardboard , and of course the cardboard is just wood pulp that breaks down well.a win win use of something some people usualy waste unfortunately
The light work well, esp this time of the year. My father-in-law does it also for his chickens but he have a bigger and deeper container for the water and it is kept outside and cleaned daily because it also attracts some beetles which the chickens do not eat. Would love to see the progress of the marulas.
Firstly, I love seeing you chickens running free.😊 Ok, so I can only comment on when I have taken cuttings, but, normally I would do this in the spring time when the sap rises and the tree starts showing signs of new growth. I use the newest growth not the large twigs you were using. I would also scrape some of the bark away to expose the "flesh" (for want of a better word) just under the bark of the tree before coating in the hormone powder. There are obviously differences in best practice for all plants so I hope these cutting grow.
@@OublietteTightit's not about greenery, it's all to do with the health of the tree. In spring the sap starts moving up to the top of the tree to make new growth, this is the best time to take cuttings as these are the best conditions to give the cuttings the change to take root.
Leaves functian as pumps, since photosynthesis uses water, and since they don't yet have roots, best to prune of all leaves so your cuttings can focus on rooting.
With Datura species, as with all other members of the nightshade family that they're part of, it's the dose that makes the poison. The dose will vary with species and with which part of the plant you consume: some species of Datura are worse than others and in all of them the flowers and seeds are the strongest part. (This last is a trait they share with their fellow nightshade, the potato, in which the flowers and fruit will make you very ill indeed no matter how tasty the roots are when deep-fried...) The allelopathy has only been demonstrated in one species of datura, against one variety of wheat and that only under lab conditions - albeit in India where it's a weed that competes with wheat in the ordinary way, which is why it was of sufficient concern to do experiments - but the safety issues alone are a good reason to get it off your property since you have kids and livestock.
Put out the leafs when you plant the brunchs. Will increase the survival rate... Also, an idea about the light trap, put a plastic around the light, to trap the insects. It will help. They will come in but not out.
Taking cuttings, I prefer to tear out a shoot with a "heel" of bark attached. I get the most and strongest roots from the bark of the heel; granted, I have never tried to root marula. When you make a hole in the soil with a stick, you don't lose all the rooting hormone pushing the slip into the soil.
I watched a video recently about planting trees and someone said and I feel 😮bad I can't remember right now the video. Anyway, if you plant 100 trees and only 10 survive, plant 100 more. If only 10 of those survive they will cross-pollinate and you will have a variety that can survive your climate.😮
Yes I have read and heard the same thing if you have one good tree that means you have none if you have three trees you might get one good one....and so on
@@jokermanjbj only people with close ties to seed companies discourage us to save seeds from our best plants to grow an acclimated variety for our own micro climate.
The new swale is looking great! Some of the cuttings appear to have been planted upside down - not sure if this matters? This was a good reminder to me that I need to get a move on and start my own cuttings and finish setting up my new home tree nursery.
Your English is fine to make your comments clear. If you are interested 'haul' is pronounced 'hawl' in English English, but I am not sure about American English.
you planted some of your cuttings upside down I have no idea if this still works, found it difficult enough getting cuttings to survive the right way up. I remember as a child my father and the boys building a poultry shed for our various birds , with timber cut from trees on the property and the surrounding bush some months later in the rainy season a number of the posts sprang into life producing green shoots and leaves. Just goes to show life can be very canny as well as frustrating.
Thankyou danou so many things to take in. Thankyou for again giving work to locals and getting them to help with planting. Is there a way to grow and harvest the grubs as a food. This may be something the local workers would take to. Can they set up a seperate compost I would be willing to pay for this. Your goal is to bring permaculture to your area so this could be a project for the model you want to build on the farm of township. I encourage newer viewers to go back and watch videos that include the township, also the one at the tip where you bought bricks. Empathy costs nothing.
I wonder if those grubs are the same as the witchety grubs found in Australia and which have been a high protein food source for indigenous Australians for eons?
@@marilynmcconnell-twiss3046 hi Marilyn I wondered that as well as Iam Aussie. I looked them up and they are called omagungu mopane worms very valued for food throughout Africa. Learned something new which I do a lot on danou channel.
Would be cool also to have a video like a year ly progress review. It may take a lot of efforts to massage this video with voice over. It can be longer and potentially gather much more views and exposure being more content dense.
Are you able to find the same day workers each time? Also can I ask how much £10 sterling will buy you where you are? My impression is that UK and US money goes further in Namibia than it does here in London.
Definitely worth allot more here. Ten pounds are two day labor wages for one day. I try to find the same but mostly get one or two that has been with me before and then get two new ones.
To give you an idea. I employ many people (support 14 families) work my but to the ground for long hours doing various things to keep the pot cooking but I pay a little more than a minimum wage Macdonald worker in the US. With that said. I live the life of a king if you compare what I can buy with that vs what the worker in the US can.
Hello from Sweden! I just checked what Amarula Cream sells for up here in Sweden. It is $11.5 for 35cl (12 oz) 17% alcohol, sound fancy to have your own grove! I missed the first 10 min but I'm guessing the Amarula liquor is made from maroela fruit. Your channel found me through the algorithm three days ago. Great content!
Yes it is made from maroelas. I tried to make maroela beer when I was a teenager but that was a huge disaster 🤣🤣🤣 planting to plant manny manny of them!
Your worms probably didn’t die. They probably burrowed furthest down into the soil. As to the light for catching bugs. If you put a bucket with water under the light, put drops of dish soap to cut the surface tension. If you don’t break the surface tension of the water many bugs will escape. If you break the surface tension then the bugs drown. You don’t need more than a couple drops of detergent to break the surface tension. I prefer Dawn because it is safe for wildlife. The blue stuff is the best. Those guys need shovels with a longer handle and a pointy end for ditch digging, those short handle shovels with the square end are good for working with compost.
Hi Judi there is a video in December where danou goes to the agriculture store. He explains that long handled shovels cannot be found in the shops and they are not used in nimbia like for example they are here in Australia. I think a follower sent him a link and he is trying to get them in , saying this I have noticed how expensive imports are in nimibia.
@ interesting. Things we take for granted. I imagine my comment about blue dish detergent was probably off the mark as well. It might not be available either.
@@judischarns4509 yes following danou has certainly made me realise how comfortable my life here is it’s not like you just pop to the grocery store or your major super hardware store
Love your videos- love seeing the transformations happening. I have done a bit of propagating by cuttings (not marulas) but. I would hazard to guess your cuttings have too many leaves on them, they’re too short and there isn’t enough contact with soil at the bottom. Also marulas may work better with one year old wood as someone in the comments said. Hope I am wrong:)
Hormoon poeier: jy kan ook gewone geel custard poeier gebruik. As ek reg onthou is dit die suiker wat die groei bevorder. Geniet die reeks. " Doet so voort"
What did you do with the pulled Datura? Did you mulch it (in the middle of that towns’ mulch pile?) or send it to the dump? It is a shame to waste the biomaterial, but it may take time to make usable. In Virginia USA, I could put it in a black plastic bag (sun light blocking thickness, sun light not getting through) with chopped leaves (carbon rich material), even card board, with water/moisture and let it rot/decompose for a year.
@@TzaboChakuze-vp7os in my opinion the daily rate is fair because workers can be rotated between tasks enabling them to be instructed (learn something ), do the heavy, back-breaking pick axe and shovelling of heavy clay, to slightly easier wheelbarrowing, cutting bushes etc - all out in the blazing heat. The last thing one would want to be accused of is exploitation of an already marginalised community who find it hard to get any kind of work, and have to wait on a street corner in the hope of being picked up to do a day's work,
Datura is not that scary, no need to be so dramatic around it. It is a fantastic pioneer plant, and yes they do make very thick stands that often shade out other plants, but they do something to the soil and eventually they stop growing there and a new species takes over. Looking forward to see how the marula cuttings work out. Never seen that before.
Do you consider to invest into electrical or diesel cultivator so that soil can be loosen before workers shovel it off? It will make workers much more productive and you can make much more ground works. I would be happy to send you some coffees if this project is possible.
I noticed that other plants are growing close to Datura plants on your property, even though Datura is known to release chemicals that can stop other plants from growing. This might mean that the Datura in your area is not as good at stopping other plants from growing, or that the other plants are strong enough to ignore the chemicals. To see if the Datura is really affecting the other plants, you can try two simple experiments. First, you can make a "tea" out of Datura leaves or seeds and see if it stops other seeds from sprouting. Just soak some Datura leaves or seeds in water, and then try to grow some different seeds in that water compared to seeds in plain water. See which ones grow better! Second, you can try growing some plants near the Datura and some far away from it. Watch them over time to see if the ones near the Datura grow differently. This might show you if the Datura is secretly affecting the plants, even if it doesn't look like it at first.
Just compost the datura right where it grows...chop drop bury snip snap no problem....just don't bury the fully formed seed pods ... A small percentage of dutura can produce harsh compounds but most don't ...work with what you have..
Heya, think my comment disappeared so I’m reposting without a link. Sorry about the red wigglers. So much work being done, that swale looks great. What’s the solar system for? Moths… don’t you still have meal worms to feed the chicken? Moths are really good pollinators. The hawk moth are even suspected to be the pollinator of the baobab tree flowers.
Yes, marula trees can grow from cuttings, but it's difficult and not always economical. Marula trees are more commonly propagated from seeds, but vegetative propagation can be an attractive option for farmers. Here are some tips for propagating marula trees from cuttings: Take cuttings from active growth: Cuttings should be about 10-15 cm in diameter and 2 m long. Plant cuttings at a depth of 1 m: Roots should form from the buried butt ends of the cuttings. Use a rooting hormone: This can help improve rooting. Create the right environment: Provide consistent temperatures and humidity levels, and ensure the cuttings receive adequate light. Avoid direct exposure to harsh sunlight. Marula trees can also be propagated from seeds. Here are some tips for propagating marula trees from seeds: Collect fresh, ripe fruit: The fruit should be pale, waxy yellow in color, not pale green. Break the hard outer shell: The seeds have strong dormancy, so you need to break the hard outer shell to ensure good germination. You can soak the seeds overnight in warm water to soften the lids. Sow the seeds in the rainy season: Sow the seeds in a well-drained, loose mixture of river sand and fertilizer. Keep the soil moist: Mist the seeds often, but don't waterlog them. Germination will occur within 3-5 weeks: Place a clear glass over the seedling tray to speed up germination. Keep the plants in shade for 3-5 weeks: Before moving the plants into full sun. (This from an AI i have no experience)
Danou there is a lot of nuance to growing trees from cuttings. I have been learning about it lately and have access to some books and instructions to help have the most success Different trees need to be treated differently. Cuttings should be taken of specific types of wood at different times of the year. As you say you dont have instructions, if youd like some instructions I can email you with some advice.
Personally I wouldn't seeing as tree trimming is one of the top seven most highly dangerous jobs in America.... And those are well-trained adults...just my personal opinion ❤❤
Watching you in the video, it looked like you put the rooting hormone in the top instead of the bottom.... Surely you should put the rooting hormone on the bottom not the top?
I will give the grubs too the chickens they love them and teach those guy's a lesson and then show them that the can put compost in tyres wet it from time too time and the garden Schafer and dung beetles etc will lay there eggs in the compost then they do not destroy hard work
I'm no expert, but I'm not sure you want to kill all the local insects. the termites are a problem so that's why I think it'd be good for the chicks to eat them. so maybe it's better if you can keep the light on the inside. just my two cents
Disappointed the guys did not respect your worm bed. Did you explain to them that the worms they killed will probably cost them in the future because the money from the worms helps to pay there salary.
Giving the men the option of using Longer shovel handles so the men don’t have to bend down so much which is tiring and bad for their backs may improve productivity? But do keep the existing shorter handles as well.
You should check up the effects of artificial light at night on poultry health and well-being. My son did a study on how artificial light at night effects the african pygmy mouse. ( A Viljoen, if you want to look up the publication) I think on a long term scale it will induce stress and maybe effects their overall wellbeing and production . Maybe switch off the light after an hour of feeding? I assume the light comes with a remote control.
You might have turned some of the cuttings upside down, but you definitely took all the other steps correctly. Especially the use of your wife's coffee mug 😂
I don't know I'm starting to think you will need to go on a two day trip, so that it will rain in your area. Desperate times require desperate measures. 😉😁
I know I'm going to sound like a privileged ass, but can't you get shovels with longer handles? That would allow them to not have to stoop in order to use the shovels and increase, hopefully, their productivity and health?
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I’m amazed and how thick and lush the greenery has become! I would not have believed it was possible
One of the things I love about your channel is the way that people buying you coffees and supporting your channel directly goes to employing locals ❤
Thanks buy a new pair of secateurs for Simon to keep, his tool his responsibility
I love how you are trying so hard to improve the life of others.
In the UK, enjoying the shorts and look forward to the longer form videos. :)
shade cloth over the worms would help a lot to keep the soil from drying out as much or mulch with straw, weeds or grass while also providing them with food. then when the grubs are taken they can cover it back up with the top layer preserving the moisture. Just some ideas hope they help.
You are correct that spacing out workers will force them to work. Out welding crew is spaced out 50m or else nothing gets done. We also tend to place the guys hating everyone else ahead so he works faster and the others catch up to show off...
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I really like the fact that you shout out the people who made it possible for you to employ dayworkers! And how you teach them the practises along the way and not just use them for extra muscle. I will give them one tip having done a fair amount of shoveling, raking and such: Tell them to switch sides from time to time. It will feel akward and slow doing it from your "off-side" but trust me, they will feel way less sore at the end of the day. And after you have done that for a while you get more confortable with it and eventually both sides will be almost equally fast.
Wonder if they wil keep doing the switch when they leave. Wil benifit them their whole life
It would also be healthier for our spine and posture to use and develop both sides of our back muscles.
@@louiseswart1315 and with shoveling it is as simple as to just keep changing the hand you keep on top of the shovel. You will automatically swap to the other side.
Thanks for the info on how far £10 stretches!
It’s not a lot but it means a lot ❤
Means the world. Wil thank you in tonight's video but wil use it only tomorrow.
@@thefoodforestnamibia Hurrah, I saw, and great to support Lukas!
Digging over the worm farm should have included addition of a mulch layer to cover as they went. I live in Central Queensland and Summertime temperatures can basically slow roast the top 6 inches of soil with over 70 deg C. Also lost a lot of moisture to air as well.
Good to have been getting some rain in CQ over the 4-6 weeks though
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I think you should have vermicompost system put into 7 short windrows, one for each day of the week and change to the wedge system, give them some of the swill intended for the pigs and some of the millet grains to boost their breeding
Edit: add crushed egg shells, wood chips, small sticks, charcoal and native soil for grit to help them digest
Thank you for showing how you converted the ripped soil into swales (water retention structures).
I have seen you make bricks and bricks in the background of various videos. I would just line the bricks across some of the small erosion gullies (less than ten cm high) to just slow the erosion waters a little bit and create small check dams. These trip hazards (the bricks lined up) slow erosion and help with water retention (not as much as a swale, but quicker and easier).
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I use large cardboard boxes from appliance stores to cover my worm bed. I break open the boxes laying them flat and put a weight on them. A rock or brick works well to keep them in place. If you tell the workers to just cover over the pile after wetting it they will be happy the worms will be happy and you will be happy.
That’s a great idea I will give that a try!
I also saw that if you layer moist cardboard on top of a covered worm bed they crawl inside the layers and can be harvested easily because they are not covered in dirt
@@portiamonnettealso the worms love eating the cornstarch between the layers of corrugated cardboard , and of course the cardboard is just wood pulp that breaks down well.a win win use of something some people usualy waste unfortunately
If you use cardboard, make sure you remove all the labels, tape and staples! The worms will even process the cardboard for you as well.
The light work well, esp this time of the year. My father-in-law does it also for his chickens but he have a bigger and deeper container for the water and it is kept outside and cleaned daily because it also attracts some beetles which the chickens do not eat. Would love to see the progress of the marulas.
Today's video was very entertaining 😁
Firstly, I love seeing you chickens running free.😊
Ok, so I can only comment on when I have taken cuttings, but, normally I would do this in the spring time when the sap rises and the tree starts showing signs of new growth. I use the newest growth not the large twigs you were using. I would also scrape some of the bark away to expose the "flesh" (for want of a better word) just under the bark of the tree before coating in the hormone powder. There are obviously differences in best practice for all plants so I hope these cutting grow.
I totally agree 👍
This is midsummer in Namibia?
Is midsummer not as good for cuttings? Not green enough?
@@OublietteTightYes. Rainy season is basically October - April.
@@OublietteTightit's not about greenery, it's all to do with the health of the tree. In spring the sap starts moving up to the top of the tree to make new growth, this is the best time to take cuttings as these are the best conditions to give the cuttings the change to take root.
@garryhancock-the-OG gotcha. Thank you.
Leaves functian as pumps, since photosynthesis uses water, and since they don't yet have roots, best to prune of all leaves so your cuttings can focus on rooting.
With Datura species, as with all other members of the nightshade family that they're part of, it's the dose that makes the poison. The dose will vary with species and with which part of the plant you consume: some species of Datura are worse than others and in all of them the flowers and seeds are the strongest part.
(This last is a trait they share with their fellow nightshade, the potato, in which the flowers and fruit will make you very ill indeed no matter how tasty the roots are when deep-fried...)
The allelopathy has only been demonstrated in one species of datura, against one variety of wheat and that only under lab conditions - albeit in India where it's a weed that competes with wheat in the ordinary way, which is why it was of sufficient concern to do experiments - but the safety issues alone are a good reason to get it off your property since you have kids and livestock.
I hope they all root well.
Yes american is the hawl sound as well
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15k subs by end of the year 😊👏, At rate your going that will not be problem. I started watching your channel when you only had about 75 subs😊
YESS 15,000 ...what a wonderful "slip" of the tongue. . . .
Great things happening
The early bird might get the worm, but the chicken that doesn't go to sleep definitely gets all the bugs 😄
@@tjasasmith1727 hahaha indeed!
p.s. maybe disco lights and some funky chicken music for these late night party animals? 🐔 🐓 🐤🐥🐤🐥 🌙✨️🎉
@OublietteTight 😁😁😁
Can you stretch a camouflage canopy over the worm farm for shade? Suggesting the type that militaries use, which have holes so the rain gets thru?
I think it maybe easier for him to find an agricultural shade cloth. I would think either would be a good idea
@@OublietteTight already talked to him about shade cloth 50m x3m rolls at ecosun ag store
@nolanbrooks1588 probably true. My mom is a vet so that is where my mind went. 😆
What about only using like 60% of the plastic sheet for worms and folding the remainder over the top ? .... Maybe too hot in summer though ?
Some cardboard and bag full of Sand in the top. Cardboard suck any Rain it gets
Put out the leafs when you plant the brunchs. Will increase the survival rate...
Also, an idea about the light trap, put a plastic around the light, to trap the insects. It will help. They will come in but not out.
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Taking cuttings, I prefer to tear out a shoot with a "heel" of bark attached. I get the most and strongest roots from the bark of the heel; granted, I have never tried to root marula.
When you make a hole in the soil with a stick, you don't lose all the rooting hormone pushing the slip into the soil.
I think you have a lovely voice and I don't mind the chit chat throughout your videos. Your accent is delightful.
I watched a video recently about planting trees and someone said and I feel 😮bad I can't remember right now the video. Anyway, if you plant 100 trees and only 10 survive, plant 100 more. If only 10 of those survive they will cross-pollinate and you will have a variety that can survive your climate.😮
Yes I have read and heard the same thing if you have one good tree that means you have none if you have three trees you might get one good one....and so on
@@jokermanjbj only people with close ties to seed companies discourage us to save seeds from our best plants to grow an acclimated variety for our own micro climate.
see you tomorrow. Good Night Danou.
The new swale is looking great! Some of the cuttings appear to have been planted upside down - not sure if this matters?
This was a good reminder to me that I need to get a move on and start my own cuttings and finish setting up my new home tree nursery.
Think your worms need some shade over their patch at the moment. Do you have spare shade cloth for them to be cool under during the summer?
We call them thorn apples
Your English is fine to make your comments clear. If you are interested 'haul' is pronounced 'hawl' in English English, but I am not sure about American English.
Same in American English...haul sounds like hawl.
you planted some of your cuttings upside down I have no idea if this still works, found it difficult enough getting cuttings to survive the right way up. I remember as a child my father and the boys building a poultry shed for our various birds , with timber cut from trees on the property and the surrounding bush some months later in the rainy season a number of the posts sprang into life producing green shoots and leaves. Just goes to show life can be very canny as well as frustrating.
Wil definitely not work upside down. 🤣🤣🤣 Well spotted. Wil pay beter attention next time.
I thought the same that they might be upside down
Thankyou danou so many things to take in. Thankyou for again giving work to locals and getting them to help with planting. Is there a way to grow and harvest the grubs as a food. This may be something the local workers would take to. Can they set up a seperate compost I would be willing to pay for this. Your goal is to bring permaculture to your area so this could be a project for the model you want to build on the farm of township. I encourage newer viewers to go back and watch videos that include the township, also the one at the tip where you bought bricks. Empathy costs nothing.
These grubs are only available this time of the year. But I like the way of think allot. Grow somthing that they would take to.
While teaching them how to save and respect the worms at the same time? 😁 Let them dig up the grubs again next year... under educational supervision?
I wonder if those grubs are the same as the witchety grubs found in Australia and which have been a high protein food source for indigenous Australians for eons?
@@marilynmcconnell-twiss3046 hi Marilyn I wondered that as well as Iam Aussie. I looked them up and they are called omagungu mopane worms very valued for food throughout Africa. Learned something new which I do a lot on danou channel.
@@marilynmcconnell-twiss3046 nah their grub is from a beetle ours is a moth
Ah yes i am in Western Australia 5emps up to 48 celcius in summer and ive cooked my worms too but now have a shade cloth canopy and theyve survived
Those stalks are lignified.
Place them directly in water for 1 or 2 hours before planting. And liquid GH works much better than than powder
Would be cool also to have a video like a year ly progress review. It may take a lot of efforts to massage this video with voice over. It can be longer and potentially gather much more views and exposure being more content dense.
Light Inside and 2 buckets one outside one inside the light will go through the fence ✌️
@@Ifyouarehurtnointentwasapplied smart.
Can we get a short early so viewers can converse about what is happening
You can always use datura as biomass for biogas
Are you able to find the same day workers each time? Also can I ask how much £10 sterling will buy you where you are? My impression is that UK and US money goes further in Namibia than it does here in London.
Definitely worth allot more here. Ten pounds are two day labor wages for one day. I try to find the same but mostly get one or two that has been with me before and then get two new ones.
To give you an idea. I employ many people (support 14 families) work my but to the ground for long hours doing various things to keep the pot cooking but I pay a little more than a minimum wage Macdonald worker in the US.
With that said. I live the life of a king if you compare what I can buy with that vs what the worker in the US can.
Hello from Sweden! I just checked what Amarula Cream sells for up here in Sweden. It is $11.5 for 35cl (12 oz) 17% alcohol, sound fancy to have your own grove! I missed the first 10 min but I'm guessing the Amarula liquor is made from maroela fruit. Your channel found me through the algorithm three days ago. Great content!
Yes it is made from maroelas. I tried to make maroela beer when I was a teenager but that was a huge disaster 🤣🤣🤣 planting to plant manny manny of them!
It's a beautiful tree and both animals and humans enjoy the fruit.
Out of curiosity what is the expected amount for a days labour?
@@minxyminx7148 $10
Danou pats 5 US dollars to each worker.he explained elsewhere this is above the minimum wage in nimibia. He also provides lunch.
@@Rescueluv Thanks, I must have missed that info
@@Rescueluvthats really kind of him to feed the guys as well 🤔❤👍
Your worms probably didn’t die. They probably burrowed furthest down into the soil. As to the light for catching bugs. If you put a bucket with water under the light, put drops of dish soap to cut the surface tension. If you don’t break the surface tension of the water many bugs will escape. If you break the surface tension then the bugs drown. You don’t need more than a couple drops of detergent to break the surface tension. I prefer Dawn because it is safe for wildlife. The blue stuff is the best.
Those guys need shovels with a longer handle and a pointy end for ditch digging, those short handle shovels with the square end are good for working with compost.
Hi Judi there is a video in December where danou goes to the agriculture store. He explains that long handled shovels cannot be found in the shops and they are not used in nimbia like for example they are here in Australia. I think a follower sent him a link and he is trying to get them in , saying this I have noticed how expensive imports are in nimibia.
@ interesting. Things we take for granted. I imagine my comment about blue dish detergent was probably off the mark as well. It might not be available either.
@@judischarns4509 yes following danou has certainly made me realise how comfortable my life here is it’s not like you just pop to the grocery store or your major super hardware store
Love your videos- love seeing the transformations happening. I have done a bit of propagating by cuttings (not marulas) but. I would hazard to guess your cuttings have too many leaves on them, they’re too short and there isn’t enough contact with soil at the bottom. Also marulas may work better with one year old wood as someone in the comments said. Hope I am wrong:)
Hormoon poeier: jy kan ook gewone geel custard poeier gebruik. As ek reg onthou is dit die suiker wat die groei bevorder. Geniet die reeks. " Doet so voort"
The new swale is looking great.
What did you do with the pulled Datura? Did you mulch it (in the middle of that towns’ mulch pile?) or send it to the dump? It is a shame to waste the biomaterial, but it may take time to make usable.
In Virginia USA, I could put it in a black plastic bag (sun light blocking thickness, sun light not getting through) with chopped leaves (carbon rich material), even card board, with water/moisture and let it rot/decompose for a year.
I think he had a video showing that he uses it as mulch.
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Pay them per meter worked. And you ca. Determine price per meter. Makes for clear expectation of work done and expected income for harder workers
@@TzaboChakuze-vp7os in my opinion the daily rate is fair because workers can be rotated between tasks enabling them to be instructed (learn something ), do the heavy, back-breaking pick axe and shovelling of heavy clay, to slightly easier wheelbarrowing, cutting bushes etc - all out in the blazing heat. The last thing one would want to be accused of is exploitation of an already marginalised community who find it hard to get any kind of work, and have to wait on a street corner in the hope of being picked up to do a day's work,
Will the pigs eat the tribulus weeds? Maybe short worthy
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you may need to cover the siblings in plastic so the water stay on them
it's hard for me to locate where the new swele is
Read the video description a link to site map
Any luck finding some long handled shovels?
Long handles are nicer to use but not nearly as effective. In Africa we use the short ones for a reason.
@tarquinbristow492 I'm a gardener by profession, short handle for unloading long handle for moving dirt, sharp spade for digging holes.
I wonder if an elevated water tank at the highest point on the property would help increase water pressure because of gravity pressure.
Datura is not that scary, no need to be so dramatic around it. It is a fantastic pioneer plant, and yes they do make very thick stands that often shade out other plants, but they do something to the soil and eventually they stop growing there and a new species takes over.
Looking forward to see how the marula cuttings work out. Never seen that before.
I think separating the workers was a good idea. It gets a lot more done that way. They can chit chat during the breaks. 👍
Do you consider to invest into electrical or diesel cultivator so that soil can be loosen before workers shovel it off? It will make workers much more productive and you can make much more ground works. I would be happy to send you some coffees if this project is possible.
Let me look at prices and see how I can do something like that.
Prices are starting from $100 as I can see in the internet. Hopefully you can find it in local stores as well
@Dread9ko please snend the link to what you see danou@onshow.properties
What would be super helpful as well is a hole digger drill attachment ❤
8:25 this seems like a nice location for a small pond
I noticed that other plants are growing close to Datura plants on your property, even though Datura is known to release chemicals that can stop other plants from growing. This might mean that the Datura in your area is not as good at stopping other plants from growing, or that the other plants are strong enough to ignore the chemicals.
To see if the Datura is really affecting the other plants, you can try two simple experiments. First, you can make a "tea" out of Datura leaves or seeds and see if it stops other seeds from sprouting. Just soak some Datura leaves or seeds in water, and then try to grow some different seeds in that water compared to seeds in plain water. See which ones grow better!
Second, you can try growing some plants near the Datura and some far away from it. Watch them over time to see if the ones near the Datura grow differently. This might show you if the Datura is secretly affecting the plants, even if it doesn't look like it at first.
Best not to mess around with making concoctions with kids and pets around
Just compost the datura right where it grows...chop drop bury snip snap no problem....just don't bury the fully formed seed pods ... A small percentage of dutura can produce harsh compounds but most don't ...work with what you have..
@@portiamonnette I just writ about composting it on the new short
Had a whole ass essay written out and it didn’t post anything damn it
I'm sorry I missed the name of the tree you took the cuttings from, can you tell me again?
Maroela
@@loganwrider that's one thing you can count on on the Internet is that someone will definitely try to correct you 😁
Thanks for the replies
Fortunately those plants are so stinky, no one will voluntarily eat it, or its fruit that come in very prickly wrappers.
Heya, think my comment disappeared so I’m reposting without a link. Sorry about the red wigglers. So much work being done, that swale looks great. What’s the solar system for? Moths… don’t you still have meal worms to feed the chicken? Moths are really good pollinators. The hawk moth are even suspected to be the pollinator of the baobab tree flowers.
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@@DJG19870 the solar is just for generally attracting voluntary chicken food. 😃
More for swarming termites.
@@Limogi aaah okay
Yes, marula trees can grow from cuttings, but it's difficult and not always economical. Marula trees are more commonly propagated from seeds, but vegetative propagation can be an attractive option for farmers.
Here are some tips for propagating marula trees from cuttings:
Take cuttings from active growth: Cuttings should be about 10-15 cm in diameter and 2 m long.
Plant cuttings at a depth of 1 m: Roots should form from the buried butt ends of the cuttings.
Use a rooting hormone: This can help improve rooting.
Create the right environment: Provide consistent temperatures and humidity levels, and ensure the cuttings receive adequate light. Avoid direct exposure to harsh sunlight.
Marula trees can also be propagated from seeds. Here are some tips for propagating marula trees from seeds:
Collect fresh, ripe fruit: The fruit should be pale, waxy yellow in color, not pale green.
Break the hard outer shell: The seeds have strong dormancy, so you need to break the hard outer shell to ensure good germination. You can soak the seeds overnight in warm water to soften the lids.
Sow the seeds in the rainy season: Sow the seeds in a well-drained, loose mixture of river sand and fertilizer.
Keep the soil moist: Mist the seeds often, but don't waterlog them.
Germination will occur within 3-5 weeks: Place a clear glass over the seedling tray to speed up germination.
Keep the plants in shade for 3-5 weeks: Before moving the plants into full sun. (This from an AI i have no experience)
goeiemôre Danou, dankie vir die daaglikse video's man
Google translate for that one 😅 I’ve sent a couple bucks for Simon
Thank you! Wil buy him those scissors. Love your Afrikaans!
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De morgenstond heeft goud in de mond 👍👍🌄👏
Covering the worm farm with mulch, old carpet, Hessian etc.. Will help keep them cool
wurm kompost do not get hoter den 23 C wen it getting hotter they dei ,so you must get dem shdow please !!
Danou there is a lot of nuance to growing trees from cuttings. I have been learning about it lately and have access to some books and instructions to help have the most success
Different trees need to be treated differently. Cuttings should be taken of specific types of wood at different times of the year. As you say you dont have instructions, if youd like some instructions I can email you with some advice.
That would be great! Danou@onshow.properties
@@thefoodforestnamibia I have sent you an email. Hopefully it doesn't go to the trash folder!
Crazy suggestion for trimming high branches... a kid sitting on your shoulders? No ladder needed. 😁
Not so crazy. I am definitely also going to bring them to climb that tree on a eariy Sunday morning.
@thefoodforestnamibia climb it? Haha. At their age you could not keep me out of trees. 🤪
OSHA wants to have the talk with the two of you 😉
@tjasasmith1727 heh they do not have the staffing or budget.
Personally I wouldn't seeing as tree trimming is one of the top seven most highly dangerous jobs in America.... And those are well-trained adults...just my personal opinion ❤❤
What a day!
Too many leaves on the cuttings
Removing leaves on the cuttings will actually reduce stress and water loss....it seems counter-intuitive, but it does work better.
Have you considered growing hemp plants for gaining a lot of biomass in a short time period?
Yes we did. But it is supper illegal here.
Watching you in the video, it looked like you put the rooting hormone in the top instead of the bottom.... Surely you should put the rooting hormone on the bottom not the top?
I will give the grubs too the chickens they love them and teach those guy's a lesson and then show them that the can put compost in tyres wet it from time too time and the garden Schafer and dung beetles etc will lay there eggs in the compost then they do not destroy hard work
Whats the name of the prickly pear without thornes?.
Thornless prickly pear 😂
I am not sure about this specific ones I have. Just got them of a farmet
"pear" ...? 😊
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"This is my haul" is pronounced the same way as "Hall" 😉
Thanks. I was wondering about that.
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I'm no expert, but I'm not sure you want to kill all the local insects. the termites are a problem so that's why I think it'd be good for the chicks to eat them. so maybe it's better if you can keep the light on the inside. just my two cents
th-cam.com/users/shorts8v10apxp0gA?si=T_NcRSibCMvKTakb the short where it does work
As his property is more green than surrounding properties I don't think he will have a shortage of insects.
As long as he isn't spraying chemicals to kill all the insects, I won't worry about him running out of termites to feed the chickens
The sound isn’t working very good!
@@tamrahawkes3170 was it just in the time laps or the whole video?
First 10 minutes
@@tamrahawkes3170 hmm that is very strange
@@thefoodforestnamibia sound was ok for me
Seems fine to me?
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It looks like you are planting each cutting upside down. Please give me some reassurance that the cuting will figure our which way to grow. 🤫
I had this comment allot. I did go and double check they are all the right way up. They wil definitely not grow upside down
Disappointed the guys did not respect your worm bed. Did you explain to them that the worms they killed will probably cost them in the future because the money from the worms helps to pay there salary.
I did. They where really sorry had no idea what they where doing.
@@thefoodforestnamibianow that it’s all been turned can you have them make it into a windrow
Giving the men the option of using Longer shovel handles so the men don’t have to bend down so much which is tiring and bad for their backs may improve productivity? But do keep the existing shorter handles as well.
@@lamdao1242 we are trying to find longer shovels but I have lived all over southern Africa and have only seen those shovels in movies.
m.th-cam.com/video/LH_BKMRLlRw/w-d-xo.html&pp=ygUWQ2FyZGJvYXJkIHBlcm1pY3VsdHVyZQ%3D%3D try to use cardboard
You should check up the effects of artificial light at night on poultry health and well-being. My son did a study on how artificial light at night effects the african pygmy mouse. ( A Viljoen, if you want to look up the publication) I think on a long term scale it will induce stress and maybe effects their overall wellbeing and production . Maybe switch off the light after an hour of feeding? I assume the light comes with a remote control.
Put the light on a timer
You might have turned some of the cuttings upside down, but you definitely took all the other steps correctly. Especially the use of your wife's coffee mug 😂
I don't know I'm starting to think you will need to go on a two day trip, so that it will rain in your area. Desperate times require desperate measures. 😉😁
🤣🤣🤣🤣 I start to think the same thing
I hope the worms hid themselves and are ok 🪱🪱🪱🪱
I know I'm going to sound like a privileged ass, but can't you get shovels with longer handles? That would allow them to not have to stoop in order to use the shovels and increase, hopefully, their productivity and health?
They are not sold in his local shop, he did a video answering that question recently.
We are trying to make a plan though
@@thefoodforestnamibia Such is life in Namibia, it's not like the workers will complain since they have never seen a shovel with a long handle!
You rarely see them for sale, even in South Africa.
If you have a Postal it could always encourage supporters to send parcels, etc...