I sometimes draw some plans on paper but when I'm on the land working .. I just go natural style and observing and adjusting in massive brain storm of possibilities :D Thanks for sharing your ideas and thought process as well as videos ;) Respect!
Thank you for saying that there was no plan on paper! We are trying to design and plan but also are taking steps as time, environment, circumstances, plants seem to point to an idea or direction. I just finished Farming the Woods by Mudge and Gabriel and was a bit overwhelmed by the data... but I was pleased to see several photos of Edible Acres too! I love that you have put these latest two videos up - you are like magic in getting information out. useful, encouraging, calming presentations. Much gratitude do I have for your work.
I love your videos! It is so inspiring to see how much can be done in a small area. I am planning for my own tenth of an acre at Eco village ithaca. Long live the movement towards integrated land management!!!
Oh my goodness. The is one of the best explanation-walkthrough of the combination of hugel / swale / laziness / genius, that I have ever seen. Please please please come back when this place is green and flush and give us a microtour of the relationships. *drools*
Very smart water directing. Definitely need to learn from this. The area I am turning into gardens and orchards has a back-half that is very water-logged. Originally I was going to just dig a large trench that allows that water to flow off my property, but now I wonder if it makes more sense to direct it into several smaller trenches that run the length of the gardens / orchard so that I have areas of dry / good drainage, but still keep the water and nutrients available to the plants. WOW! A lot to think about, thank you.
It sounds as though you aren't familiar with the idea of swales, if not I would highly recommend giving them a google or even a youtube search before you decide on anything.
Punky Rooster, I think it is important to distinguish between a swale that is intended to capture water and this method of gently draining the land. Why I love edible acres is because it shows how nontechnical permaculture can be. Observe a wet spot? Interact by cutting a drain, directing the water (not to remove necessarily but to spread it) and using the removed soil to create well drained areas, expanding the plant choices that can occupy a particular space. What is your climate zone/region? How is annual rainfall? What are your soils? I have no earthworks because I'm on cobbly clay loam and even after days of rain, my soil soaks up water. I am using basins with raised paths to concentrate water under deluge conditions (not common but becoming more so with climate change). The most important yield from this technique is that the root zone is several inches below the new grade reducing evaporation pressure. So my long winded response is that every site is different and no one technique is universally appropriate except compost and mulch.
Really loved the non-technical and no-plan aspects of this video, an excellent, simple explanation of permaculture principles. You gave me some great ideas for my future nursery, thanks!
You seem to have a lot of water on your property. So do I because part of our property constitutes the headwaters of the watershed containing the artisan springs that feed a nearby fishing lake and drinking water reservoir. I collect mushroom logs from the surrounding National Forest and also inoculate my own mushroom logs with spawn and imbed them into my Hugelkulture mounds such that one end is in the underground saturated logs and one end is sticking up out of the ground. The hyphae love this arrangement and return the favor by helping me with my trees and providing me with abundant mushrooms. Stacking functions. This idea might work well for you as well. Love the way it looks when the mushrooms are budding. The upright logs make foraging easy.
Another great video! I wonder if the cuttings that rooted into the woody chunks were specifically seeking out mycelium to synergize with. Probably plenty of it in a hugelmound, but between the bark & wood of a decaying chunk in close proximity might be the easiest to tap into. I’m not sure if the mycelium grew over to the new cutting first, or the cutting grew toward the mycelium, or both, or neither. Any thoughts on that? Did you put any winecap or oyster spawn in any of the hugelmounds, or is it all native fungi in there? Inspiring, as always! Thank you!
I really mean to post to you every time I love watching one of your beautiful wise conversations! But I forget. Know that I watch all the time and love you guys!!! Sash, put some more kitchen homesteading stuff up there! xoxoxoxo!
I live in Florida. I do all of my heavy work in winter months.Don't want to break a sweat? Work in cooler months. As he says,Please consider this . When it is winter, you see thew land as clearly as it can be seen.
Blind John I don't know where this guy learned his stuff but if you're interested in learning about this sort of stuff some research in forestry should give you a baseline knowledge and you can learn a tonne more.
I realize I never answered your question (thought I had, but maybe youtube didn't put it up? Tends to happen)... I've been working on these concepts for about 10 years now. It's been very much trial and error and learn as you go style. I have no formal training or background in all this, just a deep interest and a life that allows me to put most if not all my time into exploring these ideas and practices. I use youtube a bit and search for concepts and specific questions that come up, but about 90% is by doing and learning from what comes of it. Super accessible if you ask me!
Love the idea of fish to help control pests but would goldfish not be an invasive species to your area? In the spring melts when there is enough water they may escape the ponds. I am currently going through all of your videos and you do great work.
I hear your concern. The flow in these water ways is never high enough to have creatures easily move much from one pond to another if they are a fish... At least I've never seen water flow deep/fast enough between areas to facilitate that, but it's something to keep an eye on and understand for sure...
@@edibleacres My main concern is that here in Scotland many of the small burns(streams/creek) people have tried to incorporate into their ornamental ponds have resulted in unwittingly introducing non native species into the areas down stream due to the mesh that has been used to keep adult fish and debris in can still let juveniles through.
OH WOW. So much I want to apply from this video. One question though.... On making hugel mounds on each side of the waterways, how long for rotting wood as the base to break down compared to freshly cut logs? I watched the video about using the fresh cut pine tree and the green tops as the base, which wood give me a place to use some evergreen branches cut from cedars used for fence posts, since they dont work well in composting. Just wondering how long it takes to break down to be able to plant perrenial fruit trees.
It takes longer than I think! I would suggest that this approach is wonderful if you don't expect to plant high value trees year 1-3. The first years are for annual crops, squash, vines, that kind of fun stuff. As they perform better and better and the pile clearly becomes more soil like, you are ready to think about trees/shrubs and other high value beings.
Thanks, I taught a bunch of them over the years, lots of fun, but I really enjoy teaching specific skill set focus topics, and the youtube is a great way present for free for folks, which I like!
Hopefully I word this question well and make it understandable. Not my specialty. The area I intended to house my chickens is wetter than I'd like it to be during heavy rains. The ground gets quite soft and takes a few days to get firm again. Could I employ a drainage system like this with hoses under the ground to allow me to channel that water elsewhere? I intend to compost in my chicken space. So eventually the water soaking into those hoses would be going through compost material and chicken waste. I would assume taking some of the nutrients with it when it drains. Would there be benefits to me channeling that to a small pond? And what uses might be best suited for this water?
Question is clear to me... I would say making a ditch to allow the water to leave makes a lot of sense. Having it routed to a pond would not be what I would do as it would just be WAY too much nutrient. Maybe it can be routed to a swale downslope somewhere that is planted heavily out to hungry annuals / perennials / etc... Maybe the overflow of that goes to another swale, etc. This way the nutrients and water can flow away from the area you want to drain but can be taken up by really happy friends. Just one idea of a million!
@@edibleacres thank you for your response. I had wondered if the nutrient content would be too strong for automatic use. We just moved to 8.6 acres that are mostly sloped this way and that. A lot of water channels through here and I hope to utilize as much of it as possible. A little intimidating due to my lack of knowledge but I've been binge watching TH-cam videos and getting lots of ideas. I hope the edible acres team has a great day. Thanks again
its harder to do waterways, on flat land, and i don,t know if the nice rocks are on flat land as to hillside land.. any suggessions? my siblings and i inerited 10acres, i want to retire on the land, and start an ediable park.
One of my favorite things I saw watching this was your cuttings in the readily wet soil and encouraging the wood to rot in the swales.
This is my go to series! You have quite a skill at creating an all systems considered gardening approach.
Glad you enjoy it!
I sometimes draw some plans on paper but when I'm on the land working .. I just go natural style and observing and adjusting in massive brain storm of possibilities :D
Thanks for sharing your ideas and thought process as well as videos ;)
Respect!
Keep it up, Guy. I really enjoy seeing what you have done
Thank you for saying that there was no plan on paper! We are trying to design and plan but also are taking steps as time, environment, circumstances, plants seem to point to an idea or direction. I just finished Farming the Woods by Mudge and Gabriel and was a bit overwhelmed by the data... but I was pleased to see several photos of Edible Acres too! I love that you have put these latest two videos up - you are like magic in getting information out. useful, encouraging, calming presentations. Much gratitude do I have for your work.
I love your videos! It is so inspiring to see how much can be done in a small area. I am planning for my own tenth of an acre at Eco village ithaca. Long live the movement towards integrated land management!!!
Another informative, easy to follow video, thank you.
I think I can use a lot of the info on our garden here.
Thats great!
Oh my goodness. The is one of the best explanation-walkthrough of the combination of hugel / swale / laziness / genius, that I have ever seen.
Please please please come back when this place is green and flush and give us a microtour of the relationships. *drools*
Very smart water directing. Definitely need to learn from this. The area I am turning into gardens and orchards has a back-half that is very water-logged. Originally I was going to just dig a large trench that allows that water to flow off my property, but now I wonder if it makes more sense to direct it into several smaller trenches that run the length of the gardens / orchard so that I have areas of dry / good drainage, but still keep the water and nutrients available to the plants. WOW! A lot to think about, thank you.
It sounds as though you aren't familiar with the idea of swales, if not I would highly recommend giving them a google or even a youtube search before you decide on anything.
oOSabianOo No I am not familiar. Thanks for the info! :)
Punky Rooster, I think it is important to distinguish between a swale that is intended to capture water and this method of gently draining the land. Why I love edible acres is because it shows how nontechnical permaculture can be. Observe a wet spot? Interact by cutting a drain, directing the water (not to remove necessarily but to spread it) and using the removed soil to create well drained areas, expanding the plant choices that can occupy a particular space.
What is your climate zone/region? How is annual rainfall? What are your soils? I have no earthworks because I'm on cobbly clay loam and even after days of rain, my soil soaks up water. I am using basins with raised paths to concentrate water under deluge conditions (not common but becoming more so with climate change). The most important yield from this technique is that the root zone is several inches below the new grade reducing evaporation pressure.
So my long winded response is that every site is different and no one technique is universally appropriate except compost and mulch.
This video is great, very informative! I've never seen hugel mounds right near trenches/waterways like that before. Seems like a really great idea.
Conscientious Omnivore This dude is a genius! Been following this channel for years...by far my favorite channel.
Really loved the non-technical and no-plan aspects of this video, an excellent, simple explanation of permaculture principles. You gave me some great ideas for my future nursery, thanks!
You seem to have a lot of water on your property. So do I because part of our property constitutes the headwaters of the watershed containing the artisan springs that feed a nearby fishing lake and drinking water reservoir. I collect mushroom logs from the surrounding National Forest and also inoculate my own mushroom logs with spawn and imbed them into my Hugelkulture mounds such that one end is in the underground saturated logs and one end is sticking up out of the ground. The hyphae love this arrangement and return the favor by helping me with my trees and providing me with abundant mushrooms. Stacking functions. This idea might work well for you as well. Love the way it looks when the mushrooms are budding. The upright logs make foraging easy.
Great video. Good to see something on water management in a temperate climate.
Another great video!
I wonder if the cuttings that rooted into the woody chunks were specifically seeking out mycelium to synergize with. Probably plenty of it in a hugelmound, but between the bark & wood of a decaying chunk in close proximity might be the easiest to tap into.
I’m not sure if the mycelium grew over to the new cutting first, or the cutting grew toward the mycelium, or both, or neither.
Any thoughts on that?
Did you put any winecap or oyster spawn in any of the hugelmounds, or is it all native fungi in there?
Inspiring, as always! Thank you!
I really mean to post to you every time I love watching one of your beautiful wise conversations! But I forget. Know that I watch all the time and love you guys!!! Sash, put some more kitchen homesteading stuff up there! xoxoxoxo!
Great video as always and love using hugel kulturs in my garden.
I live in Florida. I do all of my heavy work in winter months.Don't want to break a sweat? Work in cooler months. As he says,Please consider this . When it is winter, you see thew land as clearly as it can be seen.
great keyline designs thanks
Very good video!
Thank you - very helpful!
You know a ton of stuff man. Where the heck did you learn all this? Mr. Plant Miagi?
second this question!
Blind John I don't know where this guy learned his stuff but if you're interested in learning about this sort of stuff some research in forestry should give you a baseline knowledge and you can learn a tonne more.
I realize I never answered your question (thought I had, but maybe youtube didn't put it up? Tends to happen)... I've been working on these concepts for about 10 years now. It's been very much trial and error and learn as you go style. I have no formal training or background in all this, just a deep interest and a life that allows me to put most if not all my time into exploring these ideas and practices. I use youtube a bit and search for concepts and specific questions that come up, but about 90% is by doing and learning from what comes of it. Super accessible if you ask me!
Agro forestry as well would be something to research. Cool video I enjoyed it.
Love the idea of fish to help control pests but would goldfish not be an invasive species to your area? In the spring melts when there is enough water they may escape the ponds. I am currently going through all of your videos and you do great work.
I hear your concern. The flow in these water ways is never high enough to have creatures easily move much from one pond to another if they are a fish... At least I've never seen water flow deep/fast enough between areas to facilitate that, but it's something to keep an eye on and understand for sure...
@@edibleacres My main concern is that here in Scotland many of the small burns(streams/creek) people have tried to incorporate into their ornamental ponds have resulted in unwittingly introducing non native species into the areas down stream due to the mesh that has been used to keep adult fish and debris in can still let juveniles through.
well done. wish u 2 good luck. alsio wish i have that kind of land in singapore.
hi! if you don't mind me asking, was your farmland expensive to purchase?
OH WOW. So much I want to apply from this video. One question though.... On making hugel mounds on each side of the waterways, how long for rotting wood as the base to break down compared to freshly cut logs? I watched the video about using the fresh cut pine tree and the green tops as the base, which wood give me a place to use some evergreen branches cut from cedars used for fence posts, since they dont work well in composting. Just wondering how long it takes to break down to be able to plant perrenial fruit trees.
It takes longer than I think! I would suggest that this approach is wonderful if you don't expect to plant high value trees year 1-3. The first years are for annual crops, squash, vines, that kind of fun stuff. As they perform better and better and the pile clearly becomes more soil like, you are ready to think about trees/shrubs and other high value beings.
If you don't already, you should be teaching PDCs! Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
Thanks, I taught a bunch of them over the years, lots of fun, but I really enjoy teaching specific skill set focus topics, and the youtube is a great way present for free for folks, which I like!
Hopefully I word this question well and make it understandable. Not my specialty. The area I intended to house my chickens is wetter than I'd like it to be during heavy rains. The ground gets quite soft and takes a few days to get firm again. Could I employ a drainage system like this with hoses under the ground to allow me to channel that water elsewhere? I intend to compost in my chicken space. So eventually the water soaking into those hoses would be going through compost material and chicken waste. I would assume taking some of the nutrients with it when it drains. Would there be benefits to me channeling that to a small pond? And what uses might be best suited for this water?
Question is clear to me... I would say making a ditch to allow the water to leave makes a lot of sense. Having it routed to a pond would not be what I would do as it would just be WAY too much nutrient. Maybe it can be routed to a swale downslope somewhere that is planted heavily out to hungry annuals / perennials / etc... Maybe the overflow of that goes to another swale, etc. This way the nutrients and water can flow away from the area you want to drain but can be taken up by really happy friends. Just one idea of a million!
@@edibleacres thank you for your response. I had wondered if the nutrient content would be too strong for automatic use. We just moved to 8.6 acres that are mostly sloped this way and that. A lot of water channels through here and I hope to utilize as much of it as possible. A little intimidating due to my lack of knowledge but I've been binge watching TH-cam videos and getting lots of ideas. I hope the edible acres team has a great day. Thanks again
its harder to do waterways, on flat land, and i don,t know if the nice rocks are on flat land as to hillside land.. any suggessions? my siblings and i inerited 10acres, i want to retire on the land, and start an ediable park.
hugel means mound in german
Zachary Fox 狐智 it's like ramen noodle.
Its time to rent a tractor for 200 bucks, Grade this mess out, disc it up and start growing Asparagus and Ganja