Great that the horse was saved. Now i know what Lucerne/Alfalfa looks like. Its quite pretty leaves. Thank You for another update. Things are looking good Danou 🌿💚🌿l
It was very interesting and enlightening seeing those people, who were said to not be wanting to work, all trying to get into the car and go to work. We have a similar phenomenon happening in the United States. We complain about how our immigrants are not wanting to work but, where I live in Arizona, these people are hard working and in demand. You are a great person to support these hard working people where you live.
Its rather ridiculous the lies people spread about the immigrants here in the USA and how some folks believe they are getting benefits that only citizens with paperwork can qualify for. The immigrants aren't taking jobs away from anyone who wants a job. In this country, only the CEOs take jobs away to outsource the labor. We have our "Home Depot" workers as well that are looking for work, but they don't rush the vehicles here.
Did some reading on termites and it seems there are mostly benefits. Their tunnels lead to more air and water infiltration and they break down the sticks and leafs in their stomach making it more easily available to the plants and it's a basis for humus creation. There are also benefits for the microbial environment. It seems they are maybe even supercharging your effords in creating healthy soil. Nature is amazing. Thanks for the great content!
This! I hope he keeps trying experiments with termites tho, if he can get them to eat biochar it could be a game changer in the long run, specially for such a dry climate
So if termites are great for the land, is the real challenge get ahold of enough chop and drop to satisfy the termites and hold in the moisture with shade?
If termites are a good thing, then keeping enough mulch for them to be efficient and you can still maintain shade over your moist soil? So a lot more chop and drop? Reposting, first response seems to have disappeared?
I believe that the worms don’t like that much water. They do like shade. I think you will find the worms eat that waste quicker than you think. I went to a worm farm that filled 4’x4’x3’ wooden bins with pig manure, covered them with a layer of hay and harvested the worm compost in 2 weeks. This was all done in a big barn, so there was shade from the southern heat. It’s amazing how much lusher and greener your farm has become in the few months I’ve been watching. I watch from the Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina in the US.
I agree they don't like that much water. They wil stay in the original compost for a day or so and then move up and down to where moisture and heat is just right. Gave them loads of water so that the rest of the heap. Can soak up more over night. The heap wil be much dryer by tomorrow. They wil also always have a place to escape the water if they need tom
Thinking very much of ca and la today. Commenting for the algorithm but genuinely my thought is with la. I live in Australia and we have had horrendous fires over the year. Xx
Back in the 1970s I moved for a short while I lived in Central Northern NSW Australia. There had been long term drought but my employer had planted Lucerne .shortly after I arrived they had heavy rain. In 6 weeks he was able to cut the Lucerne twice to bail for feed. It had phenomenal growth. Amazing stuff.
A poem i learned as a child by someone famous that goes like this, "Once, when i was very young i put a worm, right on my tongue, i did not like the taste a bit and so i did not swallow it but ohhhhhhh, it makes my mother squirm because she thinks i ate that worm."
I see all the progress you are making on your farm and the size of the problems/struggles you and your community face and I am reminded of something my grandfather used to say to me when we were working on a job, "How do you eat an elephant?... One bite at a time!" Once you get past the toe nails the rest is pretty easy ;)
Things are happening..Look into the 6 principles of soil Regeneration. Also watch the documentary: "Kiss the Ground". It is a beautiful explanation of Farming with Nature.
Hope you had a good day. Are there any coffee shops in town where you could maybe get the waste coffee grounds? 🌱Is your area suitable for honey bees eventually?
No rain on the horizon. But we still have two months left. The hope of the farmers are dwindling as we need follow up rain to water all the new growth before it withers
Danou, you should invest in a cistern of some sort. Basically a large tank that you can fill up overnight when the water pressure is high, and run your drip and sprinkler from that. You essentially put a buffer between you and the problem, so that your hoses always have a consistent pressure. In the mean time, you can cut up burst hoses for smaller runs.
I have been shocked how expensive items are in nimibia. I realise most things we take for granted need to be imported and the logistically cost is. Wow.
@@Rescueluv Improvising with barrels or the tank he built at Emmanuel's house would do it. Invest can mean just time and labour over buying a shiny thing.
I’m sure you wish you could hire all of them. Breaks my heart to see a man so desperate to feed his family. You see it on a daily basis. I’m happy that you’re concentrating on what you can do and not what you can’t do. You are teaching many of these men how they can improve their land and be better able to feed their families. Good man.
@@patti280 I must admit it is so difficult to say no to. Somebody that just wants to work. I take my kids with me somtimes and explain to them before what they can expect and explain to them afterwards the privilege we have living the way we do.
Are you planning one long swale? It looks so much easier to dig there.The tractor left a nice area that it zipped up . The plowed area is a very straight line in the soil. I have no way to tell how the water will flow in or thru there, so I have some questions. Will the swale be one long area, or will you subdivide into separate tubs? Will this area fill equally all at once from the side,? Or will it fill from one end to the other? If it is to be one long channel, will the water be able to pick up any speed because of being a straight line? Will that create erosion?
Heya, oh no 😟 sorry about your horse. In the uk there is a wildflower called Ragwort… the horses here won’t eat it when it is growing in the fields but if it is accidentally mixed into their feed they eat it. Once it is dry the horses don’t notice it. Just make sure anyone cutting grass for the horses is really really careful. Or maybe think about letting your horses out for a bit each day?
I worked on a worm farm and they weighed the worms with minimal castings. So count them once and weigh them at each number you sell them at. Then add castings for their comfort during transport.
The problem with these seasonal day job workers is that they sometimes do more damage than good (for example killing the worms or digging plants out because of prior "knowledge") but kudos to you for making work possible for the people there.
Agreed. The learning curve is steep on this property. How about keeping the temp workers centered on larger earth works? Verses... someone like Simone planting new items in between existing plants? Let those who already know that this is a new way, permaculture, be the ones who can gently work next to existing life?
@@Rescueluv yes. Indeed, learning while doing is best. But Danou's property is still in the early stages of plants being established and capturing water. It is still fragile.
@@OublietteTight no disrespect I think danou is balancing people like me who know zilch about permaculture but are invested in also building social capital. We can co exist and I hope our comments help him get to the big 5
@Rescueluv oh, I understand. My comments were because I was thinking about the dead worms. He has several patches of worm farms. Because his temporary day workers did not yet know the area was for raising worms, they goofed up, and worms were lost. His regular workers knew the situation with that particular location and mound of soil and would not have goofed that way. They already know that goal. I believe the new guys can learn, too. I never doubt it. But since this is about life, keeping that life going has to be the priority over employment opportunities. This is not a choice, really? If other things are done wrong and this year of growth die, then there might not be future chances to work. Once trees are several years old and grass is everywhere and there are too many squash and pumpkins coming out of Danou's ears, then relaxing with new people can be great for learning. As of the social media angle, I am right there with you. Good stuff.
Have you considered using pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan) in your permaculture plantings. Given the fairly loose sandy soils you appear to have I think it would be an ideal plant to plant along swales and from experience it is more drought tolerant than lucerne, is semi perennial, produces larger plants that provide ground shade, can be cut back hard for mulch or green fodder for livestock. Can be used as a screening plant for vegetables that aren't going to tolerate the harsh Namibian Summers. Close plantings in a hedge manner can be shaped while gaining mulch. Like lucerne it is also a nitrogen fixing plant. The seed and young shoots are edible.
@@thefoodforestnamibia I was also thinking that addition of a 'pulse' (pea) crop would be advantageous for the people you employ to diversify their diet. There are downsides with this crop. It has several disease problems that may be endemic to the area you live in. Another pulse crop to try or at least investigate is chickpea. It is also quite hardy and is grown locally near me as an opportunity crop. I live on the Tropic of Capricorn in Central QLD, Australia. Weather and rainfall is similar. Either it rains heavy a couple of weeks a year, or its drought. You catch every drop of rain you can and make it last.
I really love your videos and watch you every day. Can you put a counter in the screen (top corner) so that we can see how many days have passed since the last rain? This would really put things into perspective for us around the world Thanks for your hard work!
Great work! Your mate could be right about water usage, esp on the worms. Would you consider the commercial worm farm design from India? The concrete or mud brick beds, lined with plastic are placed under open sided shed, much deeper, but narrow and longer to dissipate heat. They feed them section by section or in a very thin layer along the length , so it doesnt generate heat. They collect the worm juice from the daily wateting to soften their soil. Could this help your lucerne patch? (If the termites are a problem, their homes make great worm feed too 😅😅)
You should consider adding a couple pressure relief valves to your hose lines to prevent them from from popping due to high pressure. As for low pressure, you could fill barrels that are lifted a meter or two off the ground with the unstable pressure water and then use the water from those barrels for more stable pressures.
I have termites on my land on my farm, and I've been researching and learned they don't like vetiver grass. I'm going to plant it throughout my farm and see if that gets rid of them.
Danou, correct me if i am wrong but in Namibia there are naturally found predators of termites such as Pangolins, aardvarks, and Matabele ants. It seems to me like the termites, lacking their natural predators, have exploded in numbers unchecked. I think you will have to either become the predator yourself with light traps as you are doing, or reintroduce some of the missing sections of the ecosystem. I am sure it sounds crazy to suggest gettinf an aardvark on your property, but after researching matabele ants it might be easier to get an aardvark 🤣
From what I have been reading, if you manually decrease the termite population (but not eliminate it) you create space for some of the predators to return and establish themselves. You could get into contact with universities, conservation groups, or other such organisations about whether they have resources which could help bring back the missing species. Ultimately it is possible that you have too many termites because their predators (ants) are missing. The prey are now so dense that the predators cannot return. The termites degrade the environment as you pointed out, removing the mulch, and making it so their predator species don't have a favourable environment to establish themselves. What you are doing is trying to swing the ecosystem back away from being dominated by termites, and they do not want that. Remove as many as you can (it's not like you could eradicate them anyway) and you may see your efforts to reshape the ecosystem happen much faster.
Pleased to see that you are able to provide more employment to local men. Have you thought of using cardboard to cover or include the worm pile or to use with the mulch to cover the ground
Glad you are investigating the advice yourself. I saw no research or even examples saying Datura was allyopathic either. Some folks try to help but just don't know the science of things.
There are several papers on the topic. One of the papers made a datura extract and applied it to sugar beets and found significant impacts on germination rates even at 5% concentration. The alkaloids in the plants leaves and flowers are known to have negative allelopathic effects. The question is whether leaving them as a mulch will cause more harm than good. Certainly it should be fine to compost them as any harmful chemicals would break down in the heat of the pile.
Alleopathic ... its mostly a myth. And hiperbole. Many plants, including trees, CAN have alleopathic effects on the surrounding plants, but its not an absolute, its relative, or a tendency, or even just a possibility. Eucalyptus its very often pointed as a major one, and i often see people saying that nothing grow around and under in most real circunstancies. In reality you can compost the leaves and bark and wood, and many plants can and do grow under and around eucalyptus...
Danou, if you are going to use datura (or anything really) as mulch, it's better to cut it rather than pull it out, so that it can grow again for another chop-n-drop crop.
( dang it, TH-cam. I am not a bot. This channel talks about plants and plants D. ie . Please stop erasing posts that use "scary words" which are a natural part of existance. Everything D... i es. If Disney can talk about the circle of life, why can't gardeners? Geesh! )
Mainly commenting to help your channel but I'm also interested in languages. I'm curious what your first language is and what you speak to the workers. Afrikaans?
@@dukereg Yes Afrikaans is my mother language. We speak Afrikaans to each other and some of them also speak Afrikaans to each other when they're home language is not the same.
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From Limpopo, RSA.
Sweden. Have you tried to put the chickens on the termite paths as control mechanism? Best
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I live in a city and work in an office but these videos cheer me up every time they are posted!
Great that the horse was saved.
Now i know what Lucerne/Alfalfa looks like.
Its quite pretty leaves.
Thank You for another update.
Things are looking good Danou 🌿💚🌿l
It was very interesting and enlightening seeing those people, who were said to not be wanting to work, all trying to get into the car and go to work.
We have a similar phenomenon happening in the United States. We complain about how our immigrants are not wanting to work but, where I live in Arizona, these people are hard working and in demand.
You are a great person to support these hard working people where you live.
Its rather ridiculous the lies people spread about the immigrants here in the USA and how some folks believe they are getting benefits that only citizens with paperwork can qualify for. The immigrants aren't taking jobs away from anyone who wants a job. In this country, only the CEOs take jobs away to outsource the labor. We have our "Home Depot" workers as well that are looking for work, but they don't rush the vehicles here.
I totally agree
Did some reading on termites and it seems there are mostly benefits. Their tunnels lead to more air and water infiltration and they break down the sticks and leafs in their stomach making it more easily available to the plants and it's a basis for humus creation. There are also benefits for the microbial environment. It seems they are maybe even supercharging your effords in creating healthy soil. Nature is amazing. Thanks for the great content!
This! I hope he keeps trying experiments with termites tho, if he can get them to eat biochar it could be a game changer in the long run, specially for such a dry climate
Not to mention chicken feed.
I don't think termites eat biochar, that would make it actually a better soil amendment that would remain for other soil life and plants to use.
So if termites are great for the land, is the real challenge get ahold of enough chop and drop to satisfy the termites and hold in the moisture with shade?
If termites are a good thing, then keeping enough mulch for them to be efficient and you can still maintain shade over your moist soil? So a lot more chop and drop?
Reposting, first response seems to have disappeared?
Worms are absolutely essential for your permaculture effort.
I agree
I believe that the worms don’t like that much water. They do like shade. I think you will find the worms eat that waste quicker than you think. I went to a worm farm that filled 4’x4’x3’ wooden bins with pig manure, covered them with a layer of hay and harvested the worm compost in 2 weeks. This was all done in a big barn, so there was shade from the southern heat. It’s amazing how much lusher and greener your farm has become in the few months I’ve been watching. I watch from the Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina in the US.
I agree they don't like that much water. They wil stay in the original compost for a day or so and then move up and down to where moisture and heat is just right. Gave them loads of water so that the rest of the heap. Can soak up more over night. The heap wil be much dryer by tomorrow. They wil also always have a place to escape the water if they need tom
Worms love water, if its not standing and anaerobic. The best moisture for breeding is actually about 95%
@ I can understand them liking and needing moisture, but puddles no.
@judischarns4509 they wil. Avoid the puddles and wil only move in there when it dries out a bit.
Explained in tonight's video. Tha k you for the comment
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Glad your horse was saved and ok now. Thank you for all your videos. Wishing you some rain soon and good luck with the new worm compost! From CA, USA
Thinking very much of ca and la today. Commenting for the algorithm but genuinely my thought is with la. I live in Australia and we have had horrendous fires over the year. Xx
Almost 5000 (4940) Subscribers... You will be there in no time!
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Wow
Back in the 1970s I moved for a short while I lived in Central Northern NSW Australia. There had been long term drought but my employer had planted Lucerne .shortly after I arrived they had heavy rain. In 6 weeks he was able to cut the Lucerne twice to bail for feed. It had phenomenal growth. Amazing stuff.
Wow as an Aussie Jean that would have been an amazing experience. Commenting to help algorithm
Termites getting psychedelic on datura 😂
That stuff is best handled with gloves and good handwashing afterwards! 🙏
A poem i learned as a child by someone famous that goes like this, "Once, when i was very young i put a worm, right on my tongue, i did not like the taste a bit and so i did not swallow it but ohhhhhhh, it makes my mother squirm because she thinks i ate that worm."
@@susandoerr3896 hahaha
I see all the progress you are making on your farm and the size of the problems/struggles you and your community face and I am reminded of something my grandfather used to say to me when we were working on a job, "How do you eat an elephant?... One bite at a time!"
Once you get past the toe nails the rest is pretty easy ;)
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@@NolanBrooks-v6e hahahaha I say that to my kids all the time
@@thefoodforestnamibia I do too. Usually to eye rolls from my wife and kids
Things are happening..Look into the 6 principles of soil Regeneration. Also watch the documentary: "Kiss the Ground". It is a beautiful explanation of Farming with Nature.
Great movie.
Enjoying your content from frigid and sunny, Denver, Colorado!
Happy to see your progress 🎉
Thank you!! 😊Thank you so much!!
Hope you had a good day. Are there any coffee shops in town where you could maybe get the waste coffee grounds? 🌱Is your area suitable for honey bees eventually?
Always good to see the work you all do Danou, what's the rain forecast like? Is there much left of your rainy season?
No rain on the horizon. But we still have two months left. The hope of the farmers are dwindling as we need follow up rain to water all the new growth before it withers
Danou, you should invest in a cistern of some sort. Basically a large tank that you can fill up overnight when the water pressure is high, and run your drip and sprinkler from that. You essentially put a buffer between you and the problem, so that your hoses always have a consistent pressure. In the mean time, you can cut up burst hoses for smaller runs.
I agree, it will be a large outlay though, but I think we can all help with that.
I have been shocked how expensive items are in nimibia. I realise most things we take for granted need to be imported and the logistically cost is. Wow.
@@Rescueluv Improvising with barrels or the tank he built at Emmanuel's house would do it. Invest can mean just time and labour over buying a shiny thing.
In tonight's video
This looks great! The biodiversity on your land will explode soon! It will be amazing to follow all the changes that will be coming
How about watering at night when the water pressure is better? I do it a lot due to the same problem.
@@naomiras4116 yes we started doing that. I think it will be a game changer
@thefoodforestnamibia For sure!
Living the videos man i think you will win you te bet
wow so close to 5000 subs arleady
Worms don't like swimming and diving, so be careful with water in an impermeable container.
I’m sure you wish you could hire all of them. Breaks my heart to see a man so desperate to feed his family. You see it on a daily basis. I’m happy that you’re concentrating on what you can do and not what you can’t do. You are teaching many of these men how they can improve their land and be better able to feed their families. Good man.
@@patti280 I must admit it is so difficult to say no to. Somebody that just wants to work. I take my kids with me somtimes and explain to them before what they can expect and explain to them afterwards the privilege we have living the way we do.
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Regards from Windhoek.
Have you found Eugene Marais' book to be of any use?
Need more rain here. ~50mm total for the season to date.
All the best.
Are you planning one long swale? It looks so much easier to dig there.The tractor left a nice area that it zipped up .
The plowed area is a very straight line in the soil. I have no way to tell how the water will flow in or thru there, so I have some questions.
Will the swale be one long area, or will you subdivide into separate tubs? Will this area fill equally all at once from the side,? Or will it fill from one end to the other? If it is to be one long channel, will the water be able to pick up any speed because of being a straight line? Will that create erosion?
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Heya, oh no 😟 sorry about your horse. In the uk there is a wildflower called Ragwort… the horses here won’t eat it when it is growing in the fields but if it is accidentally mixed into their feed they eat it. Once it is dry the horses don’t notice it. Just make sure anyone cutting grass for the horses is really really careful. Or maybe think about letting your horses out for a bit each day?
I worked on a worm farm and they weighed the worms with minimal castings. So count them once and weigh them at each number you sell them at. Then add castings for their comfort during transport.
Thanks Danou for your interesting video's🎉
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The problem with these seasonal day job workers is that they sometimes do more damage than good (for example killing the worms or digging plants out because of prior "knowledge") but kudos to you for making work possible for the people there.
Agreed. The learning curve is steep on this property.
How about keeping the temp workers centered on larger earth works? Verses... someone like Simone planting new items in between existing plants? Let those who already know that this is a new way, permaculture, be the ones who can gently work next to existing life?
I would say teach people how to do what you want them to do. Valuing people and helping them learn has let me learn and grow as a person.
@@Rescueluv yes. Indeed, learning while doing is best. But Danou's property is still in the early stages of plants being established and capturing water. It is still fragile.
@@OublietteTight no disrespect I think danou is balancing people like me who know zilch about permaculture but are invested in also building social capital. We can co exist and I hope our comments help him get to the big 5
@Rescueluv oh, I understand. My comments were because I was thinking about the dead worms. He has several patches of worm farms. Because his temporary day workers did not yet know the area was for raising worms, they goofed up, and worms were lost. His regular workers knew the situation with that particular location and mound of soil and would not have goofed that way. They already know that goal.
I believe the new guys can learn, too. I never doubt it. But since this is about life, keeping that life going has to be the priority over employment opportunities.
This is not a choice, really? If other things are done wrong and this year of growth die, then there might not be future chances to work. Once trees are several years old and grass is everywhere and there are too many squash and pumpkins coming out of Danou's ears, then relaxing with new people can be great for learning.
As of the social media angle, I am right there with you. Good stuff.
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Have you considered using pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan) in your permaculture plantings. Given the fairly loose sandy soils you appear to have I think it would be an ideal plant to plant along swales and from experience it is more drought tolerant than lucerne, is semi perennial, produces larger plants that provide ground shade, can be cut back hard for mulch or green fodder for livestock. Can be used as a screening plant for vegetables that aren't going to tolerate the harsh Namibian Summers. Close plantings in a hedge manner can be shaped while gaining mulch. Like lucerne it is also a nitrogen fixing plant. The seed and young shoots are edible.
@@geradkavanagh8240 good idea. I wil look for seeds
@@thefoodforestnamibia I was also thinking that addition of a 'pulse' (pea) crop would be advantageous for the people you employ to diversify their diet. There are downsides with this crop. It has several disease problems that may be endemic to the area you live in. Another pulse crop to try or at least investigate is chickpea. It is also quite hardy and is grown locally near me as an opportunity crop. I live on the Tropic of Capricorn in Central QLD, Australia. Weather and rainfall is similar. Either it rains heavy a couple of weeks a year, or its drought. You catch every drop of rain you can and make it last.
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I really love your videos and watch you every day.
Can you put a counter in the screen (top corner) so that we can see how many days have passed since the last rain?
This would really put things into perspective for us around the world
Thanks for your hard work!
Great work! Your mate could be right about water usage, esp on the worms. Would you consider the commercial worm farm design from India? The concrete or mud brick beds, lined with plastic are placed under open sided shed, much deeper, but narrow and longer to dissipate heat. They feed them section by section or in a very thin layer along the length , so it doesnt generate heat.
They collect the worm juice from the daily wateting to soften their soil. Could this help your lucerne patch? (If the termites are a problem, their homes make great worm feed too 😅😅)
are there any native termite-eating animals you can introduce to help keep them under control?
You should consider adding a couple pressure relief valves to your hose lines to prevent them from from popping due to high pressure. As for low pressure, you could fill barrels that are lifted a meter or two off the ground with the unstable pressure water and then use the water from those barrels for more stable pressures.
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can you use chickens to eat the termites
Cmon people 60 more subscribers!
Yes hopefully pushing the algorithm
I must join one day in counting worms :). That task always make my day
When Wil you "bee" in otjiwarongo again?
I have termites on my land on my farm, and I've been researching and learned they don't like vetiver grass. I'm going to plant it throughout my farm and see if that gets rid of them.
Danou, correct me if i am wrong but in Namibia there are naturally found predators of termites such as Pangolins, aardvarks, and Matabele ants.
It seems to me like the termites, lacking their natural predators, have exploded in numbers unchecked.
I think you will have to either become the predator yourself with light traps as you are doing, or reintroduce some of the missing sections of the ecosystem.
I am sure it sounds crazy to suggest gettinf an aardvark on your property, but after researching matabele ants it might be easier to get an aardvark 🤣
From what I have been reading, if you manually decrease the termite population (but not eliminate it) you create space for some of the predators to return and establish themselves.
You could get into contact with universities, conservation groups, or other such organisations about whether they have resources which could help bring back the missing species.
Ultimately it is possible that you have too many termites because their predators (ants) are missing. The prey are now so dense that the predators cannot return.
The termites degrade the environment as you pointed out, removing the mulch, and making it so their predator species don't have a favourable environment to establish themselves.
What you are doing is trying to swing the ecosystem back away from being dominated by termites, and they do not want that. Remove as many as you can (it's not like you could eradicate them anyway) and you may see your efforts to reshape the ecosystem happen much faster.
In tonight's video
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ooo, so close. 4.94k subscriber, comment 26
How much are you paying those day laborers per person per day? Just a rough number pls.
About $6US a day
When you cut the Lucerne for fodder so short, do you risk the remaining plant burning up in the sun/heat?
did you try to put the poisonous weed in the compost that you are making?
1st to comment, you snooze you loose people! 🎉
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do you also feed food waste to your worms?
Everyone here might like suerte del molino farm on youtube also
@@user-xr5qc3rk5h definitely, maartin is a very wise man.
Nearly at 5K subscribers
Soooo close
Pleased to see that you are able to provide more employment to local men. Have you thought of using cardboard to cover or include the worm pile or to use with the mulch to cover the ground
I think the cardboard woukd work great for the worm pile.
Glad you are investigating the advice yourself. I saw no research or even examples saying Datura was allyopathic either. Some folks try to help but just don't know the science of things.
There are several papers on the topic. One of the papers made a datura extract and applied it to sugar beets and found significant impacts on germination rates even at 5% concentration. The alkaloids in the plants leaves and flowers are known to have negative allelopathic effects. The question is whether leaving them as a mulch will cause more harm than good. Certainly it should be fine to compost them as any harmful chemicals would break down in the heat of the pile.
Alleopathic ... its mostly a myth. And hiperbole. Many plants, including trees, CAN have alleopathic effects on the surrounding plants, but its not an absolute, its relative, or a tendency, or even just a possibility. Eucalyptus its very often pointed as a major one, and i often see people saying that nothing grow around and under in most real circunstancies. In reality you can compost the leaves and bark and wood, and many plants can and do grow under and around eucalyptus...
What happened to the E.coli worms? Are all your worms still infected or did you manage to get rid of it?
Greetings from the Vendee. Just a thought, do chickens eat termites? Could the chooks be given a free range? (but not the worm bed!)
@@richardmossfrance6353 they wil eat them. Just trying to figure out how to control them so they don't eat baby plants
Please create an erosion resistant overflow (use bricks) for the gulley’s check dam. I do not want to see the check dam washed or eroded away.
Danou, if you are going to use datura (or anything really) as mulch, it's better to cut it rather than pull it out, so that it can grow again for another chop-n-drop crop.
@@Limogi only pulling it to get it out of the grass we cut for the horses.. Would not mind if it disappeared
( dang it, TH-cam. I am not a bot. This channel talks about plants and plants D. ie .
Please stop erasing posts that use "scary words" which are a natural part of existance. Everything D... i es. If Disney can talk about the circle of life, why can't gardeners? Geesh! )
Mainly commenting to help your channel but I'm also interested in languages. I'm curious what your first language is and what you speak to the workers. Afrikaans?
@@dukereg Yes Afrikaans is my mother language. We speak Afrikaans to each other and some of them also speak Afrikaans to each other when they're home language is not the same.
Why We’re Raising HALF-A-MILLION WORMS For 50 Ducks
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Great video