Great to see Emanuel's garden thriving and his telling you he loves his plants more than you. When their neighborhood sees the fruits of their labour, let's hope they want the same and get the benefits for themselves too. I love to read through all the comments, amazing how much people share ideas and information. I always learn about things I didn't know before. First time I have heard of Brad Lancaster books, and John Dennis Liu books. Lovely to see Emanuel looking through the book you were sent. Thank you Danou for another great video, full of promise of good things happening ❤️ 🌿💚🌿
Glad you liked the rock/brick border idea to help them deal with mulch and make it feel "clean". You can't make huge changes with people, but with small changes, people can cope. Woohoo! A giraffee...two! Yeah he came back to see if he needed to come kick your tail. Lol.😂
Emmanuels garden is looking great, loved seeing the giraffes. Thank you for sharing so much of what you are doing. Please tell Emmanuel and Lucas we wish them well with their homes and gardens and how much hard work they put in.
Please keep posting on the coaching of your followers and link the permaculture process with the societal documentary. The local community support is key for global success - hello from Normandy France.
Beatifull.Cant wait to see the plot when those trees reach maturaty.The tempreture in the whole plog will change because of the shade it will provide.It will protect all plants from the harsh sun light.
I have 5 Olive trees that were all the same size but one grew much greener, thicker and tall in a shorter time. I could not fathom out why, until one day I caught my 5 year old grandson urinating around the base. Apparently he was too idle to make it all the way to the toilet so had started doing the watering himself. I can only presume that it was the nitrates in the urine that fed the tree. Turn that old truck top over and catch water in it. Just an idea.
Just an idea at Emmanuel's place. To alternate the leucena with the fruit trees, since they are Nitrogen fixing and therefore the fruit trees can have the benefit of the leucena inbetween them. I also plant beans and pumpkin/watermelon around every new tree that I plant. The beans are legumes/nitrogen fixers and the pumpkin provide shade.
What an awesome video thx for getting the tools for Emmanuel the fence will be great and what a wonderful idea to plant fruit trees that neighbours can share thank Emmanuel for allowing us to follow his journey and meet his family. His little girl is gorgeous. And seeing the giraffes so so special. Your little red car is a beast
Emanual has been paying attention and is learning! His place is looking noice! It's good that his wife has decided that the crazy things her husband is doing will be good for the family long-term! Eventually a couple of metal poles and a shadecloth would be nice shade for his patio.
Emanual's good work and success will hopefully be contagious. We all can benefit from mentors and people paying it forward. Great idea with the bricks on the edges.
I really like what Brad Lancaster is doing. I can only hope that all of Tuscon follows his example. How magical that you have giraffes in your area. Emanuel's yard looks wonderful, he is a real convert to permaculture, that little fenced in area by the water tank looks really green and lush, his neighbors are going to be jealous and hopefully they will join in in the growing.
I think I saw a video about the local government making his idea apart of their planning requirements, I can’t remember what it was called I’ll try to find it and leave a link
Danou, you are doing fantastic work. Everyday I cannot wait for your next video to grace my screen! RAKES- the bane of my existence in the hands of the wrong person! I have been struggling for quite a few years to let Samuel - my garden helper - understand that he must not rake so much. He wants our pavement to look like Emmanuel's yard used to look. Flat and hard with dead soil. I got him to understand that he needs to mulch BUT I need to remind him EVERY Wednesday when he comes in to work. Otherwise it is back to his old way.
I used to use pieces of used foil near the base of trees to push sunlight upwards in winter to get trees to grow... To get others above a winter wall line I used sticks that I hammered into the soil with bits of old foil stretched out however far they could stretch out and basically direct sunshine towards the trees that needed them from different angles especially in winter to get more sun to the plants to encourage them to grow quicker so that by summer they had more chance of survival due to the extra shade...
I think a bit of shade cloth over the mulched area at around 2mtres high will do well for the plants until the trees are big enough to provide more mulch and shade...
Good balancing human interest stories (buying tools and hoses), with nature (giraffes) and permaculture (plant spacing and tree growth). I did not realize how close to the property line the water tank was placed.
Bravo! Stay the Course!! Anything that breaks the penetration of UV light on to the soil is a win. I'm sure these are Townsfolks who have cultural reluctance but hearts & minds can be changed with continued success modeled by their Brethren.
I look forward to seeing “Frank the Tank” 🙂 Immanuel’s fence looks strong and really sturdy 💪 The growth! bursting! May we take ownership of our land. Pray over it, meditate, envision, whichever is more suitable to the culture. Is there a wall area that needs to be built up? The front area with the black metal post?
Just an idea.... in the UK we use guttering on garden walls to grow strawberries, etc. A wall as high as Emanuel's ( apologies if I spelt that wrong ) could have 3-4 lines of gutters attached to the wall to use utilise that space.
@@nickbrydon3698 Yes, you can slightly offset and angle each gutter downward then you can put water in at the top and catch it at the bottom making watering quick and efficient. If/once the water reaches the bottom bucket it can go in the watering pit. He could fill it with a mix of worm castings and native soil. I do something similar to grow spinach and coriander.
Brad's teaching is incredible and he provides simple solutions for the dry climate conditions. Also, has an excellent teaching approach. Enjoy the program keep it up!
Kei apples are great for hedges. I have planted a few in my garden, starting them as a hedge around my food Forest. Hopefully in time they will keep my horses out! I love their long spiky thorns. Just a pity you need male and female trees. I know for sure that one of mine is female. I love the fruit. Num-nums (Carissa macrocarpa) also make great thorny hedges with tasty fruit. Have a section of future hedge planted with them too!
Had a thought about the mulch. Organic mulch is great because it enriches the soil as it breaks down (or is cycled through a termite, as on your land!) but have you considered experimenting with a rock mulch on areas where the soil has already been amended with compost or manure etc.? The native American people of the southwest US used rock mulches to shade the ground and retain moisture around the base of plants. Of course the rocks will not prevent moisture from getting to the soil and soaking in, or organic nutrients if for example you chop and drop over the top of the rock mulch. Just wondered if that might be worthwhile to try in a small test area, simply because the mulch gets eaten so quickly and in your dry region, organic mulch is not that plentiful. I would think this would work best used around perennial plants such as your trees, once they reach 2 - 3 feet tall. On the other hand, now that I think about it, I haven't seen a lot of rocks in your videos, so you may not have an abundance of those, either!
I started to use large white gravel for mulch on my planters in London - looks elegant and keeps all that rain in. Then the soil sinks and I have to take it all off before I add more compost each year so I think I might move to larger stones in future 😄
The other day you showed that the guys found a scorpion beneath stuff that was leaning against your house. I can understand why people would clear everything around the house. I did. Because if there is nothing for snakes, insects, etc, to hide under they won't be next to or in your house. Similarly, having a lot of termites in your garden could attract unwanted visitors. Does the book say anything about this? Anyway, a garden full of mulch and termites right next to where you sleep might make the wife a little edgy. I liked the rake demonstration today! She was even raking the road, lol, that was funny. A good demonstration either way. For me, raking around the house once a week made all the difference in having insects, snakes, mice around, or not. Making sure there is wide sand border around the walls of your house. The rake she was using is the perfect one. by the way. A hard plastic one I like the most. That kind of rake that can also move little rocks or branches out of the way. On the other hand, a rake is not a tool you use every day, at least I didn't. But it beats bending over for every little rock or twig because you don't want critters in or around your house. A rake makes that "a once a week" job much much easier. Have a great day!
Very interesting to see a city application of ideas. I enjoy Brad Lancaster videos, too TUSCAN Arizona! All the spaces that are not gardens can collect water as well, Brads curb cuts to put water where you want it. Grow in the smiles. More compost first, then add mulch. It might help deter the termites. Also grow strong aromatic spices and plants, garlic or herbs and some types of flowers. They can be mulched too. Great video! Enjoyed the wildlife too!
Book This looks like a fantastic book to have. I had my first introduction to self sufficiency in the 1970s, a friend introduced me to The Complete Guide to Self Sufficiency by John Seymour. Somewhere in the 90s a friend and I were debating the value of our particular books on being able to feed oneself. My sister-in-law decided to read both and give her opinion on the books. We had a good laugh as Els and I both arrived with copies of this book. Hers an edition from the 1960s and mine from the 70s!😂 In the early 2000s, I read a friend's copy of 'The One Straw Revolution' by Masanobu Fukuoka. Brilliant! Unfortunately one can only seem to get secondhand copies today, all of which are beyond my budget
I liked the part when Masanobu left his cozy well paid government job at the Ministry of Heath to return back to his father’s farm. The hardest thing he had to face was the disapproval of his own father.
You know Brad Lancaster has three books in the series? A friend of mine worked in water conservation in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where they have an annual rainfall of around 200mm, with some years less than 130mm. They have the Rio Grande running through the city, which looks impressive at 2-300m wide but it's mostly only a metre deep!
Exatamente...o fato das pessoas não acreditarem em você...significa que você está fazendo um trabalho diferente do que eles conhecem. Isso é um excelente sinal. Além do mais...quando duvidam de nós...essas pessoas acabam nos motivando ainda mais. Te garanto...você está no caminho certo...e vai começar a fazer a diferença na vida de muitas pessoas ao ensina-las a usar o que tem na natureza...ao invés de queimar ou jogar no lixo.
exciting progress. cool to see emanuel so interested in the book. really feels like they're getting sold on permaculture, which is great. can't wait for his land to improve and the neighbors to take notice =]
I would recommend Immz re-plaster inside the tank before using the waterproof coating, take a brick and scuff the inside of the tank to knock off any loose material, sweep the walls down and pick up the debris then flick water on the render so the next coat bonds to it, a ratio of 4:1:1 is used for the render mix, 4 sand 1 cement 1 hydrated lime, the lime elasticises the mix making it shrink less, smoother and easier to apply. The render is applied to 1/3 of the tank, troweled on 2cm thick bottom to top, the next 1/3 is blended in to the previous section and so on, then when the render has congealed a wooden straightedge is shuffled over the render knocking down the high spots, a metal trowel is used to compress the render and smooth the surface.
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In Regenerative agriculture, you plant your veggies and trees as close to each other as possible. Also a variety of veggies in one spot. It covers the soil much better and stimulates a wider variety of fungii in the soil, healing the soil faster and up the pest resistance of the plants. E.g, plant beetroot, spinach, carrots, all mixed up in the same area. Later on you can thin them out and have an early harvest of mini/young carrots, beetroot, radish, spinach, etc. Emmanuel's trees rock! 🎉🎉
Emanuel's garden is looking amazing. As i said before i think Emanuel and Lucas's gardens will help generate so much change because they are local. And visible Neighbours will see that its truly possible. Its a very good thing that youre doing.
First time commenting, been watching for a bit. Good job with what you've been doing, keep going. A part of my job is Change Management, i.e. how to change people's behaviours in the work place. It feels similar to your mission to bring permaculture to the people around you. Some of my views are not standard, so please ignore if it's not relevant to your situation. Changing a persons viewpoint and actions are hard to change if they've been doing it for a long time. How you go about it should be different if you are in a position of power (e.g. the local authority telling you to arrive at the house to sort out the legal ownership. Another example if you are paying someone to do a job you can instruct them how you want to do it). In these situations you can be more direct. If there is no power over someone then I prefer. 1. Understanding their needs/problems (Don't assume they see the same problems as you). Discuss the problem with them, so they feel like you understand. Then your solution is a fix to there problems. 2. working with keen people. If they put in effort I will. 3. The keen people will talk to the people around them, then a few more people will become keen. Then work with these people. Keep repeating with more people. 4. Sometimes waiting for people to think about it is better then pushing. 5. Small changes, seeing the affect, then making another small change is better then 1 big change. You are already doing a lot of these things in the videos, which is great to see. If you'd like to talk in more detail pleases let me know.
I would generally not have planted fruit trees so close to structures, but with limited land; you do what you can. I wonder if his fences and walls are providing limited shade and protection from desiccating wind. I would recommend planting one tree in the shade of wall and another of same type in more sun to determine if partial shade is helpful. He will need to continually mulch to offset mulch degradation and termites eating it. Better to let termites eat mulch than tree roots.
@@jeffreysachs3423 the partial shade is definitely beneficial.....plants don't need nearly as much sun as people think....around five to six hours a day of sun is plenty, maybe even a tad too much....I think he's benefitting from the walls shade as the tree tries to reach up high and has sufficient water due to less evaporation from direct sunlight.....the most important sun for most cooler gardens in the southern hemisphere is having access to and facing north in winter to capture as much sunshine as possible this trick is used for subtropical plants survival in cooler climates... Hopefully the trees will create the necessary mulch he needs, perhaps he should plant outside his front walls to use for the creation of mulch... Having those hours of shade behind the wall would increase their growth...
Good morning mate. U could use a string and float (empty bottle would do) to determine the water level of Immanuels tank which would rise and fall depending on the level.💧👍
Wow 🤩 I’m so glad you got Brads book! He and John Dennis Liu were the first to get me interested in permaculture before I knew it was called permaculture. Hey, those little trees look amazing! We had a fig tree in our garden growing up, (in jhb) the mouse birds and the go away birds loved it and the weeping mulberry. We had to cut down our large tree mulberry because it was blocking out the light coming into the lounge. The fig also gets pretty big and when you cut them back they send out new stems from the ground... they don’t go down without a fight. Anyways I’m telling you this because I think some of those fruit trees are too big for that little garden by the front door. At some point if they all get to big you may need to choose one to keep and use the rest as chop and drop. That will be a bit bitter sweet… because having those trees grow so successfully is such an accomplishment!!! You will have to discuss with Emanuel which ones he wants. Or maybe it’s not too late to move some of them? I keep telling my mom to make cuttings of her weeping mulberry in JHB coz fruit producing (female) trees are impossible to find but would be great in a small garden. They are also really pretty and the fruit is so sweet! I was looking for one for my father in law the last time we visited SA. Couldn’t find one anywhere and none online either so we got him a pomegranate, citrus and mango tree. Looking forward to seeing your water tank installed. 😊
They are working on that at the home site. At Emmanuel's house in town with the water tank made from brick, they already have gutters to catch roof water.
Does Immz have his own hoses now? That’ll really help him to be consistent with watering, please go get him a 2 blue plastic barrels preferably with lids, he can fill them with the hose and leave them on the pavers, then his wife can use one for the house and Immz can use one to bucket water to the plants, rather than running the hose out everytime, I’ll caffeinate him for the barrels
If you look in the video description under the title where it says “more” there is a link to a map of the property and on there is information about the benefits. I’ve left links to the studies
You do make me laugh 😃 Happy wife, happy life 😉 Emmanuel's garden is looking very good, those tools, plants, hose etc will really help him 😊 Please let us know when his rainwater system is fixed, thank you You are doing very well Danou 👏
To encourage interest, it might be a good idea to invite neighbours for a day job on the farm, for example get one less worker than you normally would then get Emanuele to go to neighbours close Hy and say you're short one person if they are interested or available for work that day.... N see if at some stage it piques their interest in what you're achieving....even school visits to your farm on an eco basis marketed to schools in the area might get them interested young for future generations. They could also visit Emmanuels from outside the front gate as part of the farm visit to show how Everyday people can benefit from this knowledge in their own backyards.....put your farm forward to highschools for work experience... They run these programmes in Australia where teenagers get to experience what it's like in a career they're Interested in, it usually runs for two weeks....hope this helps.
I personally wouldn’t like them near my house, seen to much damaged caused by termites, different story on a farm. Could you just amend the soil with worm castings and grow perennial or annual cover crops/ ground cover? Perhaps even peanuts which are nitrogen fixers plus you get some food?
Immz should start his seedlings in a tray or polystyrene box and transplant them into the garden, he needs more organic matter in his soil can he get a couple buckets of castings forked into his veggie patch before planting things
So pleased to see the enthusiasm shared and growing.
Great to see Emanuel's garden thriving and his telling you he loves his plants more than you.
When their neighborhood sees the fruits of their labour, let's hope they want the same and get the benefits for themselves too.
I love to read through all the comments, amazing how much people share ideas and information.
I always learn about things I didn't know before.
First time I have heard of Brad Lancaster books, and John Dennis Liu books.
Lovely to see Emanuel looking through the book you were sent.
Thank you Danou for another great video, full of promise of good things happening ❤️
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Emmanuel's plot is looking so good and it was lovely to see him engrossed in the book. Loved the giraffes too!
Glad you liked the rock/brick border idea to help them deal with mulch and make it feel "clean". You can't make huge changes with people, but with small changes, people can cope.
Woohoo! A giraffee...two! Yeah he came back to see if he needed to come kick your tail. Lol.😂
Emanual seems very passionated about the garden and way to do it!! Joyfull to see! Sending some love!
Nice to see that Emmanuel was so interested in that book 📚 👍🏼
When I first subscribed to this channel, I thought daily releases are a bit much. Now I am waiting for the next update every day! 🙂
@@allocater2 thank you so much! Must say it is tumbling to see others take interest in our lives.
Amazing that Emanuel’s trees are loved more than yours. Heheh! They look fantastic with all that growth. He will have a forest soon at this rate!
It always seems impossible untill it's done - Nelson Mandela
Well done on the efforts
Great video again 💚🌱🥰
Hang on! I got excited yesterday as I saw a red squirrel in our garden - but you got a giraffe!! OK, you win.
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How can you possibly top that? Blue whale? Giant anaconda? Impressive
@@richardmossfrance6353 I have no squirrels... We should set up a trade.
Emmanuels garden is looking great, loved seeing the giraffes. Thank you for sharing so much of what you are doing. Please tell Emmanuel and Lucas we wish them well with their homes and gardens and how much hard work they put in.
Please keep posting on the coaching of your followers and link the permaculture process with the societal documentary. The local community support is key for global success - hello from Normandy France.
Beatifull.Cant wait to see the plot when those trees reach maturaty.The tempreture in the whole plog will change because of the shade it will provide.It will protect all plants from the harsh sun light.
I have 5 Olive trees that were all the same size but one grew much greener, thicker and tall in a shorter time. I could not fathom out why, until one day I caught my 5 year old grandson urinating around the base. Apparently he was too idle to make it all the way to the toilet so had started doing the watering himself. I can only presume that it was the nitrates in the urine that fed the tree.
Turn that old truck top over and catch water in it. Just an idea.
peeing next to trees works
It looked like the truck cover was in the neighbours place
Love this channel!
Just an idea at Emmanuel's place. To alternate the leucena with the fruit trees, since they are Nitrogen fixing and therefore the fruit trees can have the benefit of the leucena inbetween them. I also plant beans and pumpkin/watermelon around every new tree that I plant. The beans are legumes/nitrogen fixers and the pumpkin provide shade.
@@naomiras4116 I would like to add sweet potatoes to the choices for cover crops around trees.
@@louiseswart1315 For sure! In my garden I call it the "4 Sisters method" instead of "3 sisters", because the sweet potatoes grows everywhere. 🤣🤣🤣
What an awesome video thx for getting the tools for Emmanuel the fence will be great and what a wonderful idea to plant fruit trees that neighbours can share thank Emmanuel for allowing us to follow his journey and meet his family. His little girl is gorgeous. And seeing the giraffes so so special. Your little red car is a beast
Emanual has been paying attention and is learning! His place is looking noice! It's good that his wife has decided that the crazy things her husband is doing will be good for the family long-term! Eventually a couple of metal poles and a shadecloth would be nice shade for his patio.
Noice!❤
@@mekon1971 notice!
@@BESHYSBEES Noice!
Damn auto correct. Not noice.
@@mekon1971 I don't know what his wife's got to do with it?
I enjoy reading the comments from all over the world. This is a truly global project!
Yes it’s great to be a part of something positibe
@@Rescueluvgotta get those positibe bives flowing 😂😂😅
Emanual's good work and success will hopefully be contagious. We all can benefit from mentors and people paying it forward.
Great idea with the bricks on the edges.
I really like what Brad Lancaster is doing. I can only hope that all of Tuscon follows his example. How magical that you have giraffes in your area. Emanuel's yard looks wonderful, he is a real convert to permaculture, that little fenced in area by the water tank looks really green and lush, his neighbors are going to be jealous and hopefully they will join in in the growing.
I think I saw a video about the local government making his idea apart of their planning requirements, I can’t remember what it was called I’ll try to find it and leave a link
Oh, look at the baby giraffe (the size of a two storey house) 🤣🤣🤣. Super cute!
Danou, you are doing fantastic work. Everyday I cannot wait for your next video to grace my screen!
RAKES- the bane of my existence in the hands of the wrong person! I have been struggling for quite a few years to let Samuel - my garden helper - understand that he must not rake so much. He wants our pavement to look like Emmanuel's yard used to look. Flat and hard with dead soil. I got him to understand that he needs to mulch BUT I need to remind him EVERY Wednesday when he comes in to work. Otherwise it is back to his old way.
Congrats, I see you are up to almost 5.3k followers. 🎉
I used to use pieces of used foil near the base of trees to push sunlight upwards in winter to get trees to grow... To get others above a winter wall line I used sticks that I hammered into the soil with bits of old foil stretched out however far they could stretch out and basically direct sunshine towards the trees that needed them from different angles especially in winter to get more sun to the plants to encourage them to grow quicker so that by summer they had more chance of survival due to the extra shade...
I have used a berm of snow for the same purpose.
That yard is going to be nice.
I believe you mean......Noice 😂❤
@@MKL_D noice! 👌
Looking forward to Danou's 6k subscribers happy dance 🕺
Back flip for 10k 😂😂😂
I think a bit of shade cloth over the mulched area at around 2mtres high will do well for the plants until the trees are big enough to provide more mulch and shade...
Good balancing human interest stories (buying tools and hoses), with nature (giraffes) and permaculture (plant spacing and tree growth).
I did not realize how close to the property line the water tank was placed.
Emanuals garden looks to be firmly established, I look forward to seeing it in a years time - the before and after shots will be amazing 😁🤩
Here from England, and the first time commenting on your channel..keep up the amazing work
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Bravo! Stay the Course!! Anything that breaks the penetration of UV light on to the soil is a win. I'm sure these are Townsfolks who have cultural reluctance but hearts & minds can be changed with continued success modeled by their Brethren.
Hooray for baby giraffes! :)
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I look forward to seeing “Frank the Tank” 🙂 Immanuel’s fence looks strong and really sturdy 💪 The growth! bursting!
May we take ownership of our land. Pray over it, meditate, envision, whichever is more suitable to the culture. Is there a wall area that needs to be built up? The front area with the black metal post?
Ive seen almost any video from brad. If you apply that to the Village mainstreets. You will get a green street.😊❤
Just an idea.... in the UK we use guttering on garden walls to grow strawberries, etc. A wall as high as Emanuel's ( apologies if I spelt that wrong ) could have 3-4 lines of gutters attached to the wall to use utilise that space.
I appreciate the climate is different, but if you have a suitable fruit, plant then it could be an option.
Yes! NFT hydroponic are an incredibly efficient way to use and conserve water! ❤
What a great idea if it can work Iam no gardening guru but using the space sounds sensible
@@nickbrydon3698 Yes, you can slightly offset and angle each gutter downward then you can put water in at the top and catch it at the bottom making watering quick and efficient. If/once the water reaches the bottom bucket it can go in the watering pit. He could fill it with a mix of worm castings and native soil. I do something similar to grow spinach and coriander.
May be too hot.....
Brad's teaching is incredible and he provides simple solutions for the dry climate conditions. Also, has an excellent teaching approach. Enjoy the program keep it up!
Always good to see how things are going "off farm" and seeing the giraffes. Do you have much wild life that gets on to the farm?
Kei apples are great for hedges. I have planted a few in my garden, starting them as a hedge around my food Forest. Hopefully in time they will keep my horses out!
I love their long spiky thorns.
Just a pity you need male and female trees. I know for sure that one of mine is female.
I love the fruit.
Num-nums (Carissa macrocarpa) also make great thorny hedges with tasty fruit. Have a section of future hedge planted with them too!
Nice garden
Had a thought about the mulch. Organic mulch is great because it enriches the soil as it breaks down (or is cycled through a termite, as on your land!) but have you considered experimenting with a rock mulch on areas where the soil has already been amended with compost or manure etc.? The native American people of the southwest US used rock mulches to shade the ground and retain moisture around the base of plants. Of course the rocks will not prevent moisture from getting to the soil and soaking in, or organic nutrients if for example you chop and drop over the top of the rock mulch. Just wondered if that might be worthwhile to try in a small test area, simply because the mulch gets eaten so quickly and in your dry region, organic mulch is not that plentiful. I would think this would work best used around perennial plants such as your trees, once they reach 2 - 3 feet tall.
On the other hand, now that I think about it, I haven't seen a lot of rocks in your videos, so you may not have an abundance of those, either!
I started to use large white gravel for mulch on my planters in London - looks elegant and keeps all that rain in. Then the soil sinks and I have to take it all off before I add more compost each year so I think I might move to larger stones in future 😄
Yoooooo! The giraffes are sick
Here in the Western Cape, South Africa noemnoem is also a popular bush/small tree for hedges.
Here from England too. Keep up the good work :-)
The other day you showed that the guys found a scorpion beneath stuff that was leaning against your house. I can understand why people would clear everything around the house. I did. Because if there is nothing for snakes, insects, etc, to hide under they won't be next to or in your house. Similarly, having a lot of termites in your garden could attract unwanted visitors. Does the book say anything about this? Anyway, a garden full of mulch and termites right next to where you sleep might make the wife a little edgy.
I liked the rake demonstration today! She was even raking the road, lol, that was funny. A good demonstration either way.
For me, raking around the house once a week made all the difference in having insects, snakes, mice around, or not. Making sure there is wide sand border around the walls of your house.
The rake she was using is the perfect one. by the way. A hard plastic one I like the most. That kind of rake that can also move little rocks or branches out of the way.
On the other hand, a rake is not a tool you use every day, at least I didn't. But it beats bending over for every little rock or twig because you don't want critters in or around your house. A rake makes that "a once a week" job much much easier.
Have a great day!
Straw can break down shockingly fast. 😮
Especially with termites around
Wow those trees are really growing well. I'm with Emmanuel,it must be all the love ❤ Great work, I love all your videos.
Very interesting to see a city application of ideas.
I enjoy Brad Lancaster videos, too TUSCAN Arizona!
All the spaces that are not gardens can collect water as well, Brads curb cuts to put water where you want it. Grow in the smiles.
More compost first, then add mulch. It might help deter the termites. Also grow strong aromatic spices and plants, garlic or herbs and some types of flowers. They can be mulched too.
Great video!
Enjoyed the wildlife too!
Book
This looks like a fantastic book to have.
I had my first introduction to self sufficiency in the 1970s, a friend introduced me to The Complete Guide to Self Sufficiency by John Seymour.
Somewhere in the 90s a friend and I were debating the value of our particular books on being able to feed oneself.
My sister-in-law decided to read both and give her opinion on the books.
We had a good laugh as Els and I both arrived with copies of this book.
Hers an edition from the 1960s and mine from the 70s!😂
In the early 2000s, I read a friend's copy of 'The One Straw Revolution' by Masanobu Fukuoka.
Brilliant!
Unfortunately one can only seem to get secondhand copies today, all of which are beyond my budget
I liked the part when Masanobu left his cozy well paid government job at the Ministry of Heath to return back to his father’s farm. The hardest thing he had to face was the disapproval of his own father.
You know Brad Lancaster has three books in the series?
A friend of mine worked in water conservation in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where they have an annual rainfall of around 200mm, with some years less than 130mm.
They have the Rio Grande running through the city, which looks impressive at 2-300m wide but it's mostly only a metre deep!
Exatamente...o fato das pessoas não acreditarem em você...significa que você está fazendo um trabalho diferente do que eles conhecem. Isso é um excelente sinal. Além do mais...quando duvidam de nós...essas pessoas acabam nos motivando ainda mais. Te garanto...você está no caminho certo...e vai começar a fazer a diferença na vida de muitas pessoas ao ensina-las a usar o que tem na natureza...ao invés de queimar ou jogar no lixo.
exciting progress. cool to see emanuel so interested in the book. really feels like they're getting sold on permaculture, which is great. can't wait for his land to improve and the neighbors to take notice =]
I would recommend Immz re-plaster inside the tank before using the waterproof coating, take a brick and scuff the inside of the tank to knock off any loose material, sweep the walls down and pick up the debris then flick water on the render so the next coat bonds to it, a ratio of 4:1:1 is used for the render mix, 4 sand 1 cement 1 hydrated lime, the lime elasticises the mix making it shrink less, smoother and easier to apply.
The render is applied to 1/3 of the tank, troweled on 2cm thick bottom to top, the next 1/3 is blended in to the previous section and so on, then when the render has congealed a wooden straightedge is shuffled over the render knocking down the high spots, a metal trowel is used to compress the render and smooth the surface.
Hey check ur email, thats me in the coopers hat
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In Regenerative agriculture, you plant your veggies and trees as close to each other as possible. Also a variety of veggies in one spot. It covers the soil much better and stimulates a wider variety of fungii in the soil, healing the soil faster and up the pest resistance of the plants. E.g, plant beetroot, spinach, carrots, all mixed up in the same area. Later on you can thin them out and have an early harvest of mini/young carrots, beetroot, radish, spinach, etc.
Emmanuel's trees rock! 🎉🎉
I had actually thought the same thing, plant dense to ensure drought resistance.
This is very similar to Japanese agroforestry practice. It makes the plants compete for resources and makes them grow stronger.
@@garryhancock-the-OG yep, miyawaki style
We do the same
Yes, you cannot use a Welsh blanket for mucky work and maintain cordial spousal relations
Emanuel's garden is looking amazing. As i said before i think Emanuel and Lucas's gardens will help generate so much change because they are local. And visible
Neighbours will see that its truly possible. Its a very good thing that youre doing.
Totally agree 💯, great comment 😊
I use an old tarpaulin in my car that helps to keep my car clean, specially if you are transporting fresh horse manure 😊😁
First time commenting, been watching for a bit. Good job with what you've been doing, keep going.
A part of my job is Change Management, i.e. how to change people's behaviours in the work place. It feels similar to your mission to bring permaculture to the people around you.
Some of my views are not standard, so please ignore if it's not relevant to your situation.
Changing a persons viewpoint and actions are hard to change if they've been doing it for a long time.
How you go about it should be different if you are in a position of power (e.g. the local authority telling you to arrive at the house to sort out the legal ownership. Another example if you are paying someone to do a job you can instruct them how you want to do it). In these situations you can be more direct.
If there is no power over someone then I prefer.
1. Understanding their needs/problems (Don't assume they see the same problems as you). Discuss the problem with them, so they feel like you understand. Then your solution is a fix to there problems.
2. working with keen people. If they put in effort I will.
3. The keen people will talk to the people around them, then a few more people will become keen. Then work with these people. Keep repeating with more people.
4. Sometimes waiting for people to think about it is better then pushing.
5. Small changes, seeing the affect, then making another small change is better then 1 big change.
You are already doing a lot of these things in the videos, which is great to see.
If you'd like to talk in more detail pleases let me know.
I would generally not have planted fruit trees so close to structures, but with limited land; you do what you can. I wonder if his fences and walls are providing limited shade and protection from desiccating wind.
I would recommend planting one tree in the shade of wall and another of same type in more sun to determine if partial shade is helpful.
He will need to continually mulch to offset mulch degradation and termites eating it. Better to let termites eat mulch than tree roots.
@@jeffreysachs3423 Growing tree along wall and pruning it flat to the wall is one way to do the living wall.
@@jeffreysachs3423 the partial shade is definitely beneficial.....plants don't need nearly as much sun as people think....around five to six hours a day of sun is plenty, maybe even a tad too much....I think he's benefitting from the walls shade as the tree tries to reach up high and has sufficient water due to less evaporation from direct sunlight.....the most important sun for most cooler gardens in the southern hemisphere is having access to and facing north in winter to capture as much sunshine as possible this trick is used for subtropical plants survival in cooler climates... Hopefully the trees will create the necessary mulch he needs, perhaps he should plant outside his front walls to use for the creation of mulch... Having those hours of shade behind the wall would increase their growth...
Oh my goodness. Giraffes have been one of my favourite animals ever since I was able to feed them in China ❤❤❤❤❤❤
13:42 This sceen is heartwarming.
A young man deeply interested in a book is a good sign. 🤗
Thanks for the book recommendation
Good morning mate. U could use a string and float (empty bottle would do) to determine the water level of Immanuels tank which would rise and fall depending on the level.💧👍
Just wait a couple years and see how the village is inspired by Emanual, having many new projects like his’ being embarked upon for their own homes
There are 3 books in the series, I recommend reading them all. I already have the 1st and 2nd part so Im happy join in on the book club.
I would sooner you gave the book to someone there. I’m from Canada, we have a lot of fresh water.
How can we donnate books to you?
Always remember, 1 superstar worker is worth 10 toxic workers.
Wow 🤩 I’m so glad you got Brads book! He and John Dennis Liu were the first to get me interested in permaculture before I knew it was called permaculture.
Hey, those little trees look amazing! We had a fig tree in our garden growing up, (in jhb) the mouse birds and the go away birds loved it and the weeping mulberry. We had to cut down our large tree mulberry because it was blocking out the light coming into the lounge. The fig also gets pretty big and when you cut them back they send out new stems from the ground... they don’t go down without a fight. Anyways I’m telling you this because I think some of those fruit trees are too big for that little garden by the front door. At some point if they all get to big you may need to choose one to keep and use the rest as chop and drop. That will be a bit bitter sweet… because having those trees grow so successfully is such an accomplishment!!! You will have to discuss with Emanuel which ones he wants. Or maybe it’s not too late to move some of them? I keep telling my mom to make cuttings of her weeping mulberry in JHB coz fruit producing (female) trees are impossible to find but would be great in a small garden. They are also really pretty and the fruit is so sweet! I was looking for one for my father in law the last time we visited SA. Couldn’t find one anywhere and none online either so we got him a pomegranate, citrus and mango tree.
Looking forward to seeing your water tank installed. 😊
Great! 💚
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Send it to me 🎉
Good work!!
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Se puder...coloque calhas na beira dos telhados para captar a água da chuva.
They are working on that at the home site. At Emmanuel's house in town with the water tank made from brick, they already have gutters to catch roof water.
Good questions : are termite good 😅
I'd have thought you would have used the fence for support for peas or grapes?
Could interplant the trees with peas/beans for annual crops and nitrogen fixing. I was wondering about a vine up the front of the house.
Does Immz have his own hoses now? That’ll really help him to be consistent with watering, please go get him a 2 blue plastic barrels preferably with lids, he can fill them with the hose and leave them on the pavers, then his wife can use one for the house and Immz can use one to bucket water to the plants, rather than running the hose out everytime, I’ll caffeinate him for the barrels
Fyi, crickets also eat plants especially sweet soft succulent baby plants! Don't blame termites for everything!
Would you like your town or city on the map for members?
BOOK. but you keep the book to loan to people instead of giving to me
where is the amazon wish list?
There is a volume 2 of that book, that has much more practical info
How are the termites beneficial? Castings perhaps?
If you look in the video description under the title where it says “more” there is a link to a map of the property and on there is information about the benefits. I’ve left links to the studies
And you are planting the seed for the township to follow !
Another great video. Where is the link to your Amazon wishlist?
We should have giraffes in Australia, like serioulsy, why not? I will feed them
Rather than giving a book to your supporters, it would be far better to give books to your workers.
I love this idea. 💜
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When you said living fence i assumed you were putting prickly pears there to stop people getting through the fence to use Imm's water....
I think the fruit trees will in longer term will build interest from neighbours. Also lots of children about would not want them to be hurt
In tonight's movie :)
And the Books from Sepp Holzer. Very famous, very important. But i think just in German😫
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You do make me laugh 😃
Happy wife, happy life 😉
Emmanuel's garden is looking very good, those tools, plants, hose etc will really help him 😊
Please let us know when his rainwater system is fixed, thank you
You are doing very well Danou 👏
To encourage interest, it might be a good idea to invite neighbours for a day job on the farm, for example get one less worker than you normally would then get Emanuele to go to neighbours close Hy and say you're short one person if they are interested or available for work that day.... N see if at some stage it piques their interest in what you're achieving....even school visits to your farm on an eco basis marketed to schools in the area might get them interested young for future generations. They could also visit Emmanuels from outside the front gate as part of the farm visit to show how Everyday people can benefit from this knowledge in their own backyards.....put your farm forward to highschools for work experience... They run these programmes in Australia where teenagers get to experience what it's like in a career they're Interested in, it usually runs for two weeks....hope this helps.
I like the idea of day labour opportunities for Emanuel's neighbours. There's been a primary school visit to the farm - with more planned, I think.
Will baking soda and boric acid help with the termites?
We are for termites not against them they’re beneficial insects
I personally wouldn’t like them near my house, seen to much damaged caused by termites, different story on a farm. Could you just amend the soil with worm castings and grow perennial or annual cover crops/ ground cover? Perhaps even peanuts which are nitrogen fixers plus you get some food?
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Immz should start his seedlings in a tray or polystyrene box and transplant them into the garden, he needs more organic matter in his soil can he get a couple buckets of castings forked into his veggie patch before planting things
I wonder something could be built for him on a stand where would be suitable at his place a mini greenhouse like
@ on the pavers next to the fence where the lemon tree is
@@BESHYSBEES He has a worm barrel, doesn't he?
Ues he has a worm barrel, it give plenty of tea but is a bit behind on compost. We are working on getting it full first.
I like it
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