I recently moved from a Flat in Scotland to a Cottage with a Garden and took up gardening for the first time in 50yrs. Apart from falling in love with plants, I absolutely love the birds, bees and butterflies that visit. Seeing that increase year on year makes the simple things that keep you happy. ❤
One thing i have done with massive tree root balls before is to use them to protect areas of erosion in slow flowing water and small streams. I had the trunk cut higher up for a longer length and a digger push the length of the trunk into the bank, leaving the roots exposed to the water flow. The roots then slow the flow of water closer to the bank, making it drop silts and stopping potential erosion and scour, the roots also provided a nice habitat for small fishes to hide in and nooks and crannies for plants to take hold. I know you dont have a permanent flowing system of water, but I would look to place it where you have access and can potentially benefit by protecting the bank of the river. Hopefully this will also create some nice planting pockets for plants that would do well on the river bank
Definitely think you should tread lightly at Lukas' house until he gets the property paperwork properly sorted, would hate to see him lose his hard work to nefarious bureaucracy!
Zai pits concentrate what little water available into small areas where plants can begin the regenerative cycle. The principle of permaculture is that multiple plants placed in the same Zai pit create a symbiotic relation with the microorganisms and sharing production of beneficial nutrients. Danou, you are seeing the first baby steps of progress. There is a whole lot more green on your property than your neighbors, that even their cattle know the difference.
When placing logs and branches into streams (North America based experience) it is recommended that you slope the wood out of the stream bed and brace the wood to trees or other anchors. That way water will not be able to float both the submerged part of the tree and the wood that is out of water (on the bank). The root ball with the dirt should be sufficient to prevent it from floating down stream.
I think most of us are willing to help your in-laws and community as part of your project we’re all about spreading the message, it’s the best thing about this community I believe. Check your earth maps I drew swales on contour lines and two dams for the in-laws property
Exactly, many folks would love to see neighboring properties improve. The more areas that improve, the higher chance you have for rain events. If your fam could benefit from some free or cheaper food, it would be worth it. Geoff Lawton eats primarily off his own land every day. His neighbor who is the queen of compost has an amazing set up and generates her whole income and food off of the tiny patch of land. I'm shocked with how much fertility she has, the fertility isn't leaking over into neighboring properties. The bonus with Lucas's land is the ditch that already has plants growing. As he harvests more water, he will see those road side ditches increase with life, and he can likely get mulch from it or perhaps transplant some life from it for more ground cover. I can't imagine having bare ground all around my house like that. Here we have grasses all around the houses, but the grass is cut stupidly short. I have some trees, but I have a raised bed that I put up a bit over a year ago - I planted asparagus around it and had some flowers and tried to plant a few other things in the raised bed (it had very little soil in it, but a whole lot of branches and shredded cardboard that is composting down). This year I will likely have tomatoes and other food plants growing in it much earlier, but today we have freezing temps.
@ yeah looked like it on the app but doesn’t necessarily mean it’s hitting the ground, may just be heavy clouds but we’ll find out in tomorrows episode
The beginning of the river as a good obstacle for water and to release the nutrition from those massive stumps some extra small wood stacked around it and a few steal posts if you think it might move should help the white ant's get into it quickly in the dry ✌️👏
There are what they call harvest termites and termites. Termites use the dead wood and are the ones building their tunnels around dead wood. Harvest termites are much bigger and live underground. Harvest termites will harvest live grass and are often found on lawn. Harvest termites are much bigger than termites and can seen above ground while they are harvesting.
You are doing a wonderful job with the tools & resources that are available to you. I think you should turn over (remix) the worm bed every week or at the very least every two weeks. Have you thought about the pallet composting method? They are fairly simple to build and don't cost much, as long as you have access to free pallets. It may be something you might want to look into. Just a thought on my part. Keep up the good work. Peace
I think he should have a shadehouse like the government nursery built at the back of the horse stables, have two bays to pre compost his manure, then have one side of the shadehouse dedicated to vermicompost, but I know Rome wasn’t built in a day
@johnpoole2912 I agree with you suggestion to turn the bedding once a week. One step I would add is have water on hand to lightly water the bed before and after turning. An Asian style wooden rake would be excellent for spreading the bedding so the landing sheet does not get torn..
Remind your relatives, every journey starts with a step...Pits are the first step, that will start the water collection with sufficient rain, nature has left seed behind to grow something in them...
I think you will be adding external mulch (grass cuttings) for years to add nutrients to the soil AND to prevent termites from attacking healthy plants in their hunger. It will be many years before the food forest will be producing enough greenery to be self sustaining.
We keep our fingers crossed that you sort the house out. What a lucky person he is and I hope you get the respect out there that you deserve. I don't suppose there are many like you out there that help the locals? Are there? Do people mistrust the white people? I watched a TH-cam documentary about Namibia having so many natural resources like diamonds and oil. Obviously the riches don't go to the people 😢😢
I would say it. Is mostly the leaders of these communities that let's them down. It feels like anyone with power gets corupted. Also the victim culture is very bad.... I get laughed at by my friends and straight up get told I am waisting my life but if I zoom in on those friends lifes they are also helping their workers and families even if it is as simple as paying for children's school or unplanned medical expenses... So even if they don't like to admit it they are stil a blessing to their workers... My tribe gets bad press for being rasist (google apartheid and Afrikaans) but there is thousands of us helping with a fokus on poor African tribes. I have not seen 1 single black person running a charity whose fokus is poor Afrikaans people 🤣🤣🤣. At the end of my life I would like to be able to look back and feel like I was a blessing to the people around me regardless of who they are. TH-cam would like to blame the westerners for exploiting Namibia. but as someone with boots on the ground I can tell you 99% of westerners are building the country and the people and not exploiting it. We have bad leaders who sell our resources to foreign powers.
@@thefoodforestnamibiait’s a shame but Namibia is not alone, power and corruption go hand in hand all around the world. Your contribution is seen by thousands who think it’s very honourable, and you inspire many of us to want to help.
Take the lower branches from the mulberries for propagating cuttings, it will also encourage growth to one shoot making a tree rather than a multi stemmed shrub, now your pits have settled you should top dress them again with some worm castings and mulch again, I was wrong about the worm tea I thought you were saying fulvium took it as fulvic acid.
A friend of mine that is in the UK has 3 ducks that free range on his lawn, a puzzle that i had watching them nuzzling through his lush lawn, was that they would rush to a bucket of water for a drink every few minutes, i worked out what i believe was happening, they were eating ants that were squirting acid into their mouth and throats, that needed regular drinks to ease their pain..
You’ll probably need to use 100mm DWV (drain waste and vent) PVC pipe to make the first flush, any PVC exposed to the sun should be painted with an exterior acrylic paint
Have you ever thought that 7 days for the highest entity might not be 7 days for us humans ? And that the creation process might not be as clear as a complete thought but a continuous process
I suggest you stop work on Lukas' house entirely until all of the legal matters are resolved. Don't go to the property, don't buy any supplies, don't do any earthworks, nothing. Just stay away until the Lawyers tell you everything is in order. With these disclosures and with a western, perhaps cynical perspective, I will say this project has blown up in your face. At the moment it is a classic case of "no good deed goes unpunished". Thank you for being honest about the white face/black face situation. That tension and Lukas' failure to disclose makes me very nervous about the entire project. I hope you have learned a very important lesson about the need for due diligence when crossing racial and class boundaries, especially when donations are the source of funding. Danou, you are the Fiduciary of those funds.
First time I caught the first one - just by chance! Was actually watching the Presidential speeches and things and checked on occasion to see if the video was up yet - good video today. Thanks Danou for letting us into your head a little bit! Maybe after we get you set up properly and we run out of things to do we'll see if we can get some guys over on your brother-in-laws to at least get some branch dams or something going to at least slow and spread some water over there.
@@mekon1971on earth he has his own little gully in the top corner and highest elevation, it’s perfect location for having a small dam and swales feeding it
Would it be better to employ 2 people at minimum than 1 at what might seem to be a more moral double rate...When you have shown us large numbers of workers waiting to get hired... Six day biblical creation as written, gives to the simple people in earlier times a chronelogical order of creation in a time scale that these people can get to grips with... Evolution explained by millions of yrs of time scale, can still be creation... Two marvels to me... 1) A chicken lays a fertile egg, in 21 days incubation it can morph into a living breathing almost self sufficent cheaping chick..Bear in mind it has been given to knowledge to chip its way out of its shell... 2) Lay on your back star gazing, the enormity of the spectable before you is mind blowing... I'm waiting for tommorows story from our happy place...
When placing logs and branches into streams (North America based erosion prevention experience) it is recommended that you slope the wood out of the stream bed and brace the wood to trees or other anchors. That way water will not be able to float both the submerged part of the tree and the wood that is out of water (on the bank). The root ball with the dirt should be sufficient to prevent it from floating down stream.
Hi danou I have reflected on my comment. Your faith is your business. I would hope no one on this channel would crucify you. I was upset you thought people will. My understanding of this channel is caring for the environment and helping build that in the township. I have a very different belief too you but I would never judge you.I judge belonging to this channel by what I see and I donate because you seem transparent and show us how money is spent. I have never felt with your channel I need to follow your beliefs but is this what you want.
I would not try to convince you to believe anything you don't want to. I just thought I should be honest about my beliefs. If you look at my channel you Wil also see I spend most Sundays working and giving people work instead of being in church. My work with permaculture is my pulpit. Even if no one believe what I believe I hope that they Wil still be blessed by being around me and by the work that we do. I respect that people believe differently from me. Most do... Thank you for being awesome!
@@PaddockLife-Startingfrom-ib2ig I don’t think so it’s a part of the struggles many face especially in African countries, I believe in respecting people’s beliefs, obviously it’s a big part of his life and his permaculture project, don’t forget the culture part of permaculture
It's rude to argue. It's perfectly fine to discuss. I'm a firm believer in the knowledge that science has taught us and that evolution is real and provable. However, this man is one I would accompany to church if he asked me to. Though I think we would be happiest spending time together in a cathedral of towering trees and ecology.
It wil not happen often but it Wil show throught the cracks from time to time. As I post daily It would be difficult to absolutely never talk about it. Hope you Wil be ok with that.
I recently moved from a Flat in Scotland to a Cottage with a Garden and took up gardening for the first time in 50yrs. Apart from falling in love with plants, I absolutely love the birds, bees and butterflies that visit. Seeing that increase year on year makes the simple things that keep you happy. ❤
Cool vid mate 👌
One thing i have done with massive tree root balls before is to use them to protect areas of erosion in slow flowing water and small streams. I had the trunk cut higher up for a longer length and a digger push the length of the trunk into the bank, leaving the roots exposed to the water flow. The roots then slow the flow of water closer to the bank, making it drop silts and stopping potential erosion and scour, the roots also provided a nice habitat for small fishes to hide in and nooks and crannies for plants to take hold. I know you dont have a permanent flowing system of water, but I would look to place it where you have access and can potentially benefit by protecting the bank of the river. Hopefully this will also create some nice planting pockets for plants that would do well on the river bank
Watching again some good view-time for the channel
You are making tremendous progress. Great work!!
Oh wow welcome all the new members that’s so heartening to see others support what your doing danou
More likely a caterpillar that eats the corn than termites or beatles.
Nice video again today. Love hearing the children playing and laughing. Everything is coming along. 👏
Definitely think you should tread lightly at Lukas' house until he gets the property paperwork properly sorted, would hate to see him lose his hard work to nefarious bureaucracy!
Agreed. If the place become too nice its cost could go up?
Zai pits concentrate what little water available into small areas where plants can begin the regenerative cycle. The principle of permaculture is that multiple plants placed in the same Zai pit create a symbiotic relation with the microorganisms and sharing production of beneficial nutrients.
Danou, you are seeing the first baby steps of progress. There is a whole lot more green on your property than your neighbors, that even their cattle know the difference.
Nice
Noice!❤
@@BESHYSBEES now who said that haha we know
@@Rescueluv definitely a classic meme
i want to see the gree next yaer 😀
It looks very lush. You are doing a great job. 5.16k subs and comment 56
When placing logs and branches into streams (North America based experience) it is recommended that you slope the wood out of the stream bed and brace the wood to trees or other anchors. That way water will not be able to float both the submerged part of the tree and the wood that is out of water (on the bank). The root ball with the dirt should be sufficient to prevent it from floating down stream.
Sorry for the late post. I fell asleep while it was uoading 😂
Go back to bed meneer slaap
I think most of us are willing to help your in-laws and community as part of your project we’re all about spreading the message, it’s the best thing about this community I believe.
Check your earth maps I drew swales on contour lines and two dams for the in-laws property
it's ok. I definitely wasn't refreshing youtube every 3 minutes in eager anticipation, lol ;P
@@NirvanaFan5000haha tbh I was too but got doom scrolling on shorts
Exactly, many folks would love to see neighboring properties improve. The more areas that improve, the higher chance you have for rain events. If your fam could benefit from some free or cheaper food, it would be worth it. Geoff Lawton eats primarily off his own land every day. His neighbor who is the queen of compost has an amazing set up and generates her whole income and food off of the tiny patch of land. I'm shocked with how much fertility she has, the fertility isn't leaking over into neighboring properties.
The bonus with Lucas's land is the ditch that already has plants growing. As he harvests more water, he will see those road side ditches increase with life, and he can likely get mulch from it or perhaps transplant some life from it for more ground cover.
I can't imagine having bare ground all around my house like that. Here we have grasses all around the houses, but the grass is cut stupidly short. I have some trees, but I have a raised bed that I put up a bit over a year ago - I planted asparagus around it and had some flowers and tried to plant a few other things in the raised bed (it had very little soil in it, but a whole lot of branches and shredded cardboard that is composting down). This year I will likely have tomatoes and other food plants growing in it much earlier, but today we have freezing temps.
nice
Noice!❤
Noice! Roight 😂
@ 🤣
@BESHYSBEES I reckon it may be raining there right about now
@ yeah looked like it on the app but doesn’t necessarily mean it’s hitting the ground, may just be heavy clouds but we’ll find out in tomorrows episode
I was hoping you would have received more rain.
Looks like he may be getting some on the weather app
Tough kids swimming in the cold. I love my duck.
The beginning of the river as a good obstacle for water and to release the nutrition from those massive stumps some extra small wood stacked around it and a few steal posts if you think it might move should help the white ant's get into it quickly in the dry ✌️👏
There are what they call harvest termites and termites. Termites use the dead wood and are the ones building their tunnels around dead wood. Harvest termites are much bigger and live underground. Harvest termites will harvest live grass and are often found on lawn. Harvest termites are much bigger than termites and can seen above ground while they are harvesting.
There is links to information about termites on the earth map in the description
Mismanaged grazing doesn't help termites but they do well with grazing otherwise ✌️
LOVED the longer video! Can we do that once a week?
Second this request ❤ these longer vids will really increase view time 🎉
You are doing a wonderful job with the tools & resources that are available to you. I think you should turn over (remix) the worm bed every week or at the very least every two weeks. Have you thought about the pallet composting method? They are fairly simple to build and don't cost much, as long as you have access to free pallets. It may be something you might want to look into. Just a thought on my part. Keep up the good work. Peace
I think he should have a shadehouse like the government nursery built at the back of the horse stables, have two bays to pre compost his manure, then have one side of the shadehouse dedicated to vermicompost, but I know Rome wasn’t built in a day
@johnpoole2912 I agree with you suggestion to turn the bedding once a week. One step I would add is have water on hand to lightly water the bed before and after turning. An Asian style wooden rake would be excellent for spreading the bedding so the landing sheet does not get torn..
Remind your relatives, every journey starts with a step...Pits are the first step, that will start the water collection with sufficient rain, nature has left seed behind to grow something in them...
Hi place a small plastic container i.e a yop bottle on top of the canes to help prevent accidently poking you or the childrens eye.
Ta the update.
He created it all, but it's a work in progress.
And He's sent us a little blessing rain.
All the best.
I think you will be adding external mulch (grass cuttings) for years to add nutrients to the soil AND to prevent termites from attacking healthy plants in their hunger. It will be many years before the food forest will be producing enough greenery to be self sustaining.
Yes and no it all depends on input vs output which can also be equated to time and money
smal quation way you do not shade the water tank ?
We keep our fingers crossed that you sort the house out. What a lucky person he is and I hope you get the respect out there that you deserve. I don't suppose there are many like you out there that help the locals? Are there? Do people mistrust the white people? I watched a TH-cam documentary about Namibia having so many natural resources like diamonds and oil. Obviously the riches don't go to the people 😢😢
I would say it. Is mostly the leaders of these communities that let's them down. It feels like anyone with power gets corupted.
Also the victim culture is very bad....
I get laughed at by my friends and straight up get told I am waisting my life but if I zoom in on those friends lifes they are also helping their workers and families even if it is as simple as paying for children's school or unplanned medical expenses... So even if they don't like to admit it they are stil a blessing to their workers...
My tribe gets bad press for being rasist (google apartheid and Afrikaans) but there is thousands of us helping with a fokus on poor African tribes. I have not seen 1 single black person running a charity whose fokus is poor Afrikaans people 🤣🤣🤣.
At the end of my life I would like to be able to look back and feel like I was a blessing to the people around me regardless of who they are.
TH-cam would like to blame the westerners for exploiting Namibia. but as someone with boots on the ground I can tell you 99% of westerners are building the country and the people and not exploiting it.
We have bad leaders who sell our resources to foreign powers.
@@thefoodforestnamibiait’s a shame but Namibia is not alone, power and corruption go hand in hand all around the world.
Your contribution is seen by thousands who think it’s very honourable, and you inspire many of us to want to help.
The citrus curl their leaves when they’re thirsty, white oil should be applied every couple of weeks when they’re young to stop the bugs eating them
Take the lower branches from the mulberries for propagating cuttings, it will also encourage growth to one shoot making a tree rather than a multi stemmed shrub, now your pits have settled you should top dress them again with some worm castings and mulch again, I was wrong about the worm tea I thought you were saying fulvium took it as fulvic acid.
A friend of mine that is in the UK has 3 ducks that free range on his lawn, a puzzle that i had watching them nuzzling through his lush lawn, was that they would rush to a bucket of water for a drink every few minutes, i worked out what i believe was happening, they were eating ants that were squirting acid into their mouth and throats, that needed regular drinks to ease their pain..
Gotta wash em down 😂
You’ll probably need to use 100mm DWV (drain waste and vent) PVC pipe to make the first flush, any PVC exposed to the sun should be painted with an exterior acrylic paint
Have you ever thought that 7 days for the highest entity might not be 7 days for us humans ?
And that the creation process might not be as clear as a complete thought but a continuous process
I have thought about it yes.
One day we can have a coffee and I Wil go deeper on my thoughts.
"crucify me in the comments" - that's funny
🤣🤣 Nobody did thought. I have awesome people on youtube!
I suggest you stop work on Lukas' house entirely until all of the legal matters are resolved.
Don't go to the property, don't buy any supplies, don't do any earthworks, nothing. Just stay away until the Lawyers tell you everything is in order.
With these disclosures and with a western, perhaps cynical perspective, I will say this project has blown up in your face. At the moment it is a classic case of "no good deed goes unpunished".
Thank you for being honest about the white face/black face situation. That tension and Lukas' failure to disclose makes me very nervous about the entire project.
I hope you have learned a very important lesson about the need for due diligence when crossing racial and class boundaries, especially when donations are the source of funding. Danou, you are the Fiduciary of those funds.
That’s a headache for you all hope it all gets sorted out soon
Lucas living my dream, to not have an id or birth certificate!
Saves on birthday gifts! 😂
Try mounding up the wormery. less surface area deeper pile less evaporation.
It's ironic, refusing to hire a worker at minimum wage because it's too low means he hires no workers at all so they get nothing.
I don't believe creation and evolution are mutually exclusive. 😊
Evolution is something that naturally happens after a creative beginning
Great video meneer living life and time with family and friends is a big part of the permaculture culture
Damn mekon I was watching shorts 😂 brainless scrolling waiting for the vid
First time I caught the first one - just by chance! Was actually watching the Presidential speeches and things and checked on occasion to see if the video was up yet - good video today. Thanks Danou for letting us into your head a little bit! Maybe after we get you set up properly and we run out of things to do we'll see if we can get some guys over on your brother-in-laws to at least get some branch dams or something going to at least slow and spread some water over there.
@@mekon1971on earth he has his own little gully in the top corner and highest elevation, it’s perfect location for having a small dam and swales feeding it
I think it might be cut worm eating the corn off at the ground, they looked too healthy for termites to eat
Would it be better to employ 2 people at minimum than 1 at what might seem to be a more moral double rate...When you have shown us large numbers of workers waiting to get hired...
Six day biblical creation as written, gives to the simple people in earlier times a chronelogical order of creation in a time scale that these people can get to grips with...
Evolution explained by millions of yrs of time scale, can still be creation...
Two marvels to me...
1) A chicken lays a fertile egg, in 21 days incubation it can morph into a living breathing almost self sufficent cheaping chick..Bear in mind it has been given to knowledge to chip its way out of its shell...
2) Lay on your back star gazing, the enormity of the spectable before you is mind blowing...
I'm waiting for tommorows story from our happy place...
I am for the side of employing as many as possible. However I can see the logic on the other side as well.
those tree roots could possibly re sprout shoots?
Highly doubt it, you usually need to keep 1/3 of the tree and soil on the roots to transplant them, too traumatised to to reshoot now
@@BESHYSBEES thanks was wondering,in Sahara had some sucuess with a few similar roots,and tons of sucsess with other better quality roots
@@mechanics4all405 many of the trees like acacias will grow from root cutting it’s all about the collection and transplanting process
First! LOL!
Where’s gary
When placing logs and branches into streams (North America based erosion prevention experience) it is recommended that you slope the wood out of the stream bed and brace the wood to trees or other anchors. That way water will not be able to float both the submerged part of the tree and the wood that is out of water (on the bank). The root ball with the dirt should be sufficient to prevent it from floating down stream.
You could plant inbetween I don’t want them in the same hole that’s all
Hi danou I have reflected on my comment. Your faith is your business. I would hope no one on this channel would crucify you. I was upset you thought people will. My understanding of this channel is caring for the environment and helping build that in the township. I have a very different belief too you but I would never judge you.I judge belonging to this channel by what I see and I donate because you seem transparent and show us how money is spent. I have never felt with your channel I need to follow your beliefs but is this what you want.
I would not try to convince you to believe anything you don't want to. I just thought I should be honest about my beliefs. If you look at my channel you Wil also see I spend most Sundays working and giving people work instead of being in church. My work with permaculture is my pulpit. Even if no one believe what I believe I hope that they Wil still be blessed by being around me and by the work that we do.
I respect that people believe differently from me. Most do...
Thank you for being awesome!
Its rude to discuss politics and religion. Back to permaculture....
@@PaddockLife-Startingfrom-ib2ig I don’t think so it’s a part of the struggles many face especially in African countries, I believe in respecting people’s beliefs, obviously it’s a big part of his life and his permaculture project, don’t forget the culture part of permaculture
It's rude to argue. It's perfectly fine to discuss. I'm a firm believer in the knowledge that science has taught us and that evolution is real and provable. However, this man is one I would accompany to church if he asked me to. Though I think we would be happiest spending time together in a cathedral of towering trees and ecology.
@@SilentSalad true, he’s not a god botherer and doesn’t preach to his audience
Much rather have a coffee in the garden with you.. Thanks for being awesome!
It wil not happen often but it Wil show throught the cracks from time to time. As I post daily It would be difficult to absolutely never talk about it. Hope you Wil be ok with that.