It's impressive how you started from scratch and made such a wonderful place. I mean, everybody can make a farm, but you actually love doing this. My admiration!
Beautiful, I am in West Africa, but came from the USA, I am planning to build a house and plant native and other shrubs and trees, your ideas are just wonderful. Thanks for giving me some ideas 😮😅😅😊
Watching you gather the eggs at the end reminded me that I’d better go get my hen fruit before the girls go broody! Wonderful countryside you’ve got there! Nicely done! ❤️💪🏼😎👍🏼❤️
This is the first time I have seen a Passion fruit flower. They look so alien. I love discovering new stuff on your channel and researching more about it.
I remember watching a video of you trying an Inga Bean years ago and because of that I bought a ice cream bean tree, I hope it grows ok in my region (Waikato) and doesn’t get knocked by the frosts!
You should plant only trees that are native to your area. Imported plants from other regions or countries can devastate the ecosystem, especially if they take over the area, pushing native plants out. It’s very bad for the wildlife.
Bro you have inspired me to start gardening myself, since I discovered your channel I've become completely obsessed with my greenhouse and garden projects. Thanks for the inspiration bro 🙏
I have read that tyres are problematic in that they can leach out some toxicity--seems some chemicals are used to condition the rubber in the manufacture (but maybe only of some types?).
Your yard looks great. I'm in the States and have a small yard that started out as a blank canvas. It's daunting at first because you want every little thing planned out perfectly. But the good news is that there's no wrong way to do things, just less convenient ones (well, mostly). And you can switch things up later if you want. To recommend some ideas? If they are native, I'd recommend blackberries, raspberries, blueberries, currants, honeyberry, gooseberry, and any other fruit bearing bush. You're looking for windbreaks? Those will be great for windbreaks along the edge of your property and provide fruit throughout the early summer to late fall. Plant strawberriers are well in a raised bed for even more varieties. Kiwi are climbing vines, I believe. So are grapes. Build yourselves a veranda or just have them grow on a trellace on the side of your house. You'll get some scenic beauty and bunches of grapes and kiwi as well.
Sooo I just found your page today, and have been playing your videos since then. Your content, your voice, and the greens - very soothing and relaxing 😀😀😸
TheKiwiGrower You talked about feeding your animals and shade for your sheep, leaving moringa trees to grow you'll have shade trees in a couple of years, the sheep and chooks will eat the leaves, they are very easy to snap off. Growing a choko vine or two, will hide those water tanks in a single summer, and they die down and regrow each year I believe... chokos the chooks love to eat them, sheep probably would too. If you buy a 25kg sack of whole kernel maise from farm source ot RD1 I ferment for chooks and ducks, fermented food reduce the amount of food chooks need because they absorb more nutrients from the grain... I've also grown that maise and feed the cobs to the chooks, they siin peck the seeds out of the cobs. .... Sunflowers, especially the very big ones are worth growing, you can just cut the sunflower off the plant at the end of the season, and put in the chook pen seed side up, the chooks will peck out all the seeds in about 20 minutes... remember to save some seeds to grow next year... i forgot lol... deep mulch in the chook pen will keep the girls busy scratching, and encourages the big garden or pasture worms to grow very big, and breed like crazy, that will give the girls protein so they will lay longer. Ok, I'll shut up now,,,
Hi Lynn, thanks for all the ideas! I appreciate it. With the moringa, they are definitely an awesome plant, however I think the cold Winters would kill it off here. Still a cool thing to grow over Summer though
I'm trying to grow a native wildflower garden in my little napkin yard :D Trying to persuade some migrating monarchs to visit my milkweed patches. Really like the tips for windbreaks and mingled gardening
Ya make me feel so old lol I've been following you from the start You are doing so well love your thinking , in fact since I've watched your clips I've been getting a lot of different types of fruit and keeping the seeds and planting them taught myself how to graft and I'm trying to make an apple tree with as many different types of apples as I can get hold of I live in a city but have almost 30 fruit trees on our property as well as vegi gardens Now I'm into composting and this is a big help , cos no more trips to the tip with weeds an pruning also our food scraps get composted Into barrels meat as well , people say don't cos of pests but I've found chicken wire at the base stops that , it's just the damn white fly they always get in also make up my own compost teas one with just comfry which I' have planted under all my fruit trees and the other with fish scraps and Paua guts from the divers in my family, using seaweed the next project Life's a learning curve and we never stop learning Video clips like yours inspires keep it up
Hi George, thanks for the comment. Your place sounds awesome, good job on going for it and teaching yourself grafting! I had my first go awhile back too and got an avocado to take which I’m pretty stoked about! 😁. Let me know how you go with your apple tree, I’ve thought of doing this as a project too one day! Would be super interesting and great way to learn
Awesome video, thanks for sharing your progress with us. Vetiver grass is amazing for a wind break, fodder and mulch as well as bringing nutrients to the surface too.
Just discovered your channel and loving it. Awesome to see someone else sprout seeds of just about anything you get your hands. I want to try a coconut soon. Hoping they don't get fumigated. Thanks so much for the detail about how to be successful with this
Welcome to the channel, glad you're enjoying it here! :) Hope the coconut goes well - sometimes they grow, sometimes they don't. unfortunately hard to know how old or damaged the seed is, but fingers crossed!
You could make alot of videos on the home building, land setting up, water, and all other homesteading aspects. So if you ever run out of ideas for videos I am sure many people would interested in these topics. They go hand and hand with gardening
Hello from California! I’m a city slicker and have always dreamt of living in the country and off the land. I absolutely love your videos thank you for sharing! Can you please do a - how to grow a banana 🍌 tree 🌳 video?
I like that you are putting in native plants. It’s difficult to get people to understand why this makes a much healthier ecosystem for the native wildlife and therefore, for us.
Tyres are not good containers for vegetables due to the chemicals in them leaching into the soil or growing medium. They also pick up chemicals from the roads during their lifetime on the vehicles, so, not good at all unless lined with something.
You have a great native Palm over there which I can’t grow too well here in Brisbane. Rhopalostylis sapida. It’s a beauty when grown well. I’d be throwing some of those in somewhere. But that’s me! 😎
Had to look it up then realised you’re talking about nikau palms. They’re so cool, one of my favourite trees. We planted a few small ones but they don’t like full sun when young so they’re not doing so well at the moment. Will put more in when the native area shades the ground out more :)
I’ve been watching your videos and not sure if you will get to see this but tree lucerne is a very quick growing tree to hide the tanks and is also good for fodder.. tangasaste is also another name. Also a great wind break and nitrogen fixer!!!
Kia Ora. May I suggest almond trees, I have one medium sized one (and a small one yet to yield) and it has had good crops, and this years fruit looks good too. Considering the problems commercial almonds represent and the good crop you can get at home, you can get food of known provenance and not add to the bee and environmental issues of California or wherever the local commercial ones come from.
Looks amazing! Just a quick tip - if sheep are anything like goats you'll need a little bit bigger fence around any of your trees in with the animals. What you have looks like they could reach right through the slats or lean over the fence. Animals love young fruit trees and will strip the leaves And the bark right off if they can! My family planted a little orchard and all but one plum tree died within the first year because of it😔
Hey thanks for that. We’ve trialled some different sizes at my parents place over the years and found this size 1.5x1.5 metres to be perfect, as they can still reach through to trim the grass, but they can’t reach the tree. But yes, if we had goats they’d probably jump over or something haha
Fantastic selection for your food forest. Would like to see a vid on your native plantings when you get time. Was that your "rescue" turkey making an appearance? Anyway, outstanding "slice of heaven" you guys have there. I'm very envious (in a good way 😉), well done!
Hi ....you may have been asked this before but I was curious if you're willing to share approximately what part of New Zealand you live in... I can tell you live in a fairly mild climate zone from what you can grow. Also I'd be curious about the elevation of your property. Really exciting stuff I wish you the best!
Thanks for the comment. We actually have a patch of bamboo on one of our boundaries which has encroached slightly onto our side. It’s been so good for using the bamboo wood in the garden etc :)
Wiki says: "Hops can be eaten, the young shoots of the vine are edible and can be cooked similar to asparagus." Maybe you could get some hop vines to climb over things....?
You guys are awesome! You remind me of another TH-camr, Mark. He’s an Aussie guy that you might be interested in. His page is called Self Sufficient Me - that might give you some inspi for your backyard! LOVE your vids
How did you manage to grow such a big cherimoya tree in such a cold climate? Do you heavily cover it or do you use some other method? Here in eastern europe people cover their not so cold resistant plants with lots of winter cloth and straw.
It's so exciting to see your journey from dream to reality. Our property backs onto a creek & we have many tui, fantails, moreporks etc in our gardens, but we also have... POSSUMS!! It's common to find ravaged native bird nests around here & if it's not possums, it's feral cats. I dont know if these are problems in your area but I'd suggest checking out pest prevetion/control methods. I also found out the hard way that pukeko can cause alot of damage to veggie gardens 😂
Have you tried drip irrigation like they do in Israel?( On your dry land?).um "Doug and Stacey" have no septic tank they poop in buckets and compost it yes i remrmber NZ has wind every day .its kinda nice though.. avocado do you use distamaceous earth?looks really wonderfull.really imaginative.im thinking of germinating seeds trees etc then selling them on be ause i cant kkep them going i had 20 avocados once.
Haven't tried drip irrigation, we could potentially redirect water from shower / washing machine etc for this but we wouldn't have enough fresh water to use that on a larger scale. Haven't used distamaceous earth, do you mean as a soil conditioner? :)
If we get desperate we can get water trucks to come in and fill our tanks but we’re hoping to create enough water storage overtime to avoid that :). Yea she’s just like one of the chickens now 😆
Hey Kalem, I'm about to embark on a similar journey (have purchased a bare section and will be building a house and starting a food forest) and I'm sooo excited! It's a long process though so I'm embracing all the time I have to think and plan. Just a question please: did you put any type of geomesh under the gravel on your driveway? If not, has it caused any issues?
Puke has the best soil in the country for growing veggies and fruits is that right? Love your work btw. You do know you are living a dream life in many people eyes bro.
Kalem, (I hope I am hearing and spelling your name correctly.) How large are the water tanks? I would really like to know how you collect the water. Do you pump it from underground? Do you have catch basins? Is it gravity fed to your house's plumbing system?
Hey Joe, they’re both 30,000 litre tanks. We catch water from the roof of our house. It’s way to expensive to put in a bore to pump from underground as the waters are 300m down! We have a pump system that engages when we use water in the house. And yep you got my name right! :)
@@TheKiwiGrower That is so interesting. Do you ever run out of water? Do you get them completely full during what I assume is your rainy season? If you do run out can you order a tanker truck of water in an emergency?
Hey, good question, I’ve looked into this recently and yes they can leech overtime but it’s a very very slow process. The tyres release the chemicals when they’re burnt - the sun does this to tyres too, however like I said it happens really slowly. There are mixed opinions on the matter I believe, and unfortunately no scientific studies have been done on it. So I feel ok about using them short term considering it’s such a long process for them to break down. I think though if someone’s not comfortable with it then don’t do it, as there are plenty of other alternatives :)
Some are not as invasive as others but yea could be hard to get rid of if it became a problem. There's a large bamboo area just over our boundary on the neighboring farm and it's great to have there to use the bamboo as plant supports etc in the garden, so might just stick with natives for now. Cheers :)
Build a chicken tractor and raise some meat birds to eat/sell. Would be a good way to fertilise some of your soil while your developing your food forest... Im keen to give it a go in the spring up here in Whangārei. Maybe we could collab?
It's impressive how you started from scratch and made such a wonderful place. I mean, everybody can make a farm, but you actually love doing this. My admiration!
Thanks so much! :)
No dig is the way to go. I'm a lazy gardener, so I opt for no-dig gardening and the result is pretty awesome. I enjoyed your video.
Beautiful, I am in West Africa, but came from the USA, I am planning to build a house and plant native and other shrubs and trees, your ideas are just wonderful.
Thanks for giving me some ideas
😮😅😅😊
Watching you gather the eggs at the end reminded me that I’d better go get my hen fruit before the girls go broody! Wonderful countryside you’ve got there! Nicely done! ❤️💪🏼😎👍🏼❤️
Thank you for inviting us on your journey! This is amazing
This is the first time I have seen a Passion fruit flower. They look so alien. I love discovering new stuff on your channel and researching more about it.
MY HEART MELTED AT 8:12🥺 what a cute little sheep oh myyy
I like that chicken that was late to the party and did a mini drift on entry @6:59
The area you live in looks beautiful! It’s nice to see another person who likes to find and grow the more unusual things
I remember watching a video of you trying an Inga Bean years ago and because of that I bought a ice cream bean tree, I hope it grows ok in my region (Waikato) and doesn’t get knocked by the frosts!
Nice. Try and protect it from frost and wind while young if you can. I’ve got some small trees going, so hoping they do ok here too! 🤞
You should plant only trees that are native to your area. Imported plants from other regions or countries can devastate the ecosystem, especially if they take over the area, pushing native plants out. It’s very bad for the wildlife.
Aweosme to see another channel made in NZ. We are currently adding in lots of fruit trees etc to our farm. Cool to see what you have created!!!!
Well done, very envious, fabulous life project. Absolutely love the fruit trees, is like a dream!
Bro you have inspired me to start gardening myself, since I discovered your channel I've become completely obsessed with my greenhouse and garden projects. Thanks for the inspiration bro 🙏
I like you at young of age you dedicated in farming that’s very good I can see you did it beautifully
I have read that tyres are problematic in that they can leach out some toxicity--seems some chemicals are used to condition the rubber in the manufacture (but maybe only of some types?).
Excellent video. thanks for Sharing.
Wow coming along really nicely. Can’t wait for the next update 👍
Your yard looks great. I'm in the States and have a small yard that started out as a blank canvas. It's daunting at first because you want every little thing planned out perfectly. But the good news is that there's no wrong way to do things, just less convenient ones (well, mostly). And you can switch things up later if you want.
To recommend some ideas? If they are native, I'd recommend blackberries, raspberries, blueberries, currants, honeyberry, gooseberry, and any other fruit bearing bush. You're looking for windbreaks? Those will be great for windbreaks along the edge of your property and provide fruit throughout the early summer to late fall. Plant strawberriers are well in a raised bed for even more varieties. Kiwi are climbing vines, I believe. So are grapes. Build yourselves a veranda or just have them grow on a trellace on the side of your house. You'll get some scenic beauty and bunches of grapes and kiwi as well.
One though of having close to the house is the bees/wasps that go crazy during flower.
🐝🐝🐝
@@kiwibonsai2355 We're going to flower beds against the house anyways. So it's not going to be much worse.
Sooo I just found your page today, and have been playing your videos since then. Your content, your voice, and the greens - very soothing and relaxing 😀😀😸
This is the dream life.
TheKiwiGrower You talked about feeding your animals and shade for your sheep, leaving moringa trees to grow you'll have shade trees in a couple of years, the sheep and chooks will eat the leaves, they are very easy to snap off.
Growing a choko vine or two, will hide those water tanks in a single summer, and they die down and regrow each year I believe... chokos the chooks love to eat them, sheep probably would too.
If you buy a 25kg sack of whole kernel maise from farm source ot RD1 I ferment for chooks and ducks, fermented food reduce the amount of food chooks need because they absorb more nutrients from the grain... I've also grown that maise and feed the cobs to the chooks, they siin peck the seeds out of the cobs.
.... Sunflowers, especially the very big ones are worth growing, you can just cut the sunflower off the plant at the end of the season, and put in the chook pen seed side up, the chooks will peck out all the seeds in about 20 minutes... remember to save some seeds to grow next year... i forgot lol... deep mulch in the chook pen will keep the girls busy scratching, and encourages the big garden or pasture worms to grow very big, and breed like crazy, that will give the girls protein so they will lay longer. Ok, I'll shut up now,,,
Hi Lynn, thanks for all the ideas! I appreciate it. With the moringa, they are definitely an awesome plant, however I think the cold Winters would kill it off here. Still a cool thing to grow over Summer though
What an awesome job. Great work. I'm sure you've inspired lots of people to follow their dream. 🤙🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Thank you 😊 💚
I'm trying to grow a native wildflower garden in my little napkin yard :D Trying to persuade some migrating monarchs to visit my milkweed patches. Really like the tips for windbreaks and mingled gardening
Awesome. Thank you for sharing the journey. Lots of good tips 👍 and informative.
I'm planning my own property. You have some nice tips in there.
Ya make me feel so old lol I've been following you from the start
You are doing so well love your thinking , in fact since I've watched your clips I've been getting a lot of different types of fruit and keeping the seeds and planting them taught myself how to graft and I'm trying to make an apple tree with as many different types of apples as I can get hold of
I live in a city but have almost 30 fruit trees on our property as well as vegi gardens
Now I'm into composting and this is a big help , cos no more trips to the tip with weeds an pruning also our food scraps get composted Into barrels meat as well , people say don't cos of pests but I've found chicken wire at the base stops that , it's just the damn white fly they always get in
also make up my own compost teas one with just comfry which I' have planted under all my fruit trees and the other with fish scraps and Paua guts from the divers in my family, using seaweed the next project
Life's a learning curve and we never stop learning
Video clips like yours inspires keep it up
Hi George, thanks for the comment. Your place sounds awesome, good job on going for it and teaching yourself grafting! I had my first go awhile back too and got an avocado to take which I’m pretty stoked about! 😁. Let me know how you go with your apple tree, I’ve thought of doing this as a project too one day! Would be super interesting and great way to learn
Beautiful property...thanks for sharing.
Awesome video, thanks for sharing your progress with us. Vetiver grass is amazing for a wind break, fodder and mulch as well as bringing nutrients to the surface too.
Beautiful place💚 I live at village too.
Hi from a Kiwi in Australia. Awesome work, it's all looking so good you have so many fruit trees already!
Thanks Holly! 😁
Just discovered your channel and loving it. Awesome to see someone else sprout seeds of just about anything you get your hands. I want to try a coconut soon. Hoping they don't get fumigated. Thanks so much for the detail about how to be successful with this
Welcome to the channel, glad you're enjoying it here! :)
Hope the coconut goes well - sometimes they grow, sometimes they don't. unfortunately hard to know how old or damaged the seed is, but fingers crossed!
You could make alot of videos on the home building, land setting up, water, and all other homesteading aspects. So if you ever run out of ideas for videos I am sure many people would interested in these topics. They go hand and hand with gardening
Hello from California! I’m a city slicker and have always dreamt of living in the country and off the land. I absolutely love your videos thank you for sharing!
Can you please do a - how to grow a banana 🍌 tree 🌳 video?
Always good to see someone accomplish what they strive to do. Continue to follow your dreams
Thank you so much!
Love what you are doing!!! Def give the banana palms a go!
Good to see brother! Stoked on the vids you're uploading they're turning out mean, hope you and Caroline are well!
Chur bro, you’s will have to come for a visit soon!
@@TheKiwiGrower Keen as bro lets make it happen soon!
Love it mate so much great ideas
I like that you are putting in native plants. It’s difficult to get people to understand why this makes a much healthier ecosystem for the native wildlife and therefore, for us.
Goodness you are handsome and talented ❤❤💯💯
Tyres are not good containers for vegetables due to the chemicals in them leaching into the soil or growing medium. They also pick up chemicals from the roads during their lifetime on the vehicles, so, not good at all unless lined with something.
You have a great native Palm over there which I can’t grow too well here in Brisbane. Rhopalostylis sapida. It’s a beauty when grown well. I’d be throwing some of those in somewhere. But that’s me! 😎
Had to look it up then realised you’re talking about nikau palms. They’re so cool, one of my favourite trees. We planted a few small ones but they don’t like full sun when young so they’re not doing so well at the moment. Will put more in when the native area shades the ground out more :)
I’ve been watching your videos and not sure if you will get to see this but tree lucerne is a very quick growing tree to hide the tanks and is also good for fodder.. tangasaste is also another name. Also a great wind break and nitrogen fixer!!!
Cheers Mike, great recommendation. We've been putting in quite a few of these trees and they grow pretty well here
Kia Ora. May I suggest almond trees, I have one medium sized one (and a small one yet to yield) and it has had good crops, and this years fruit looks good too. Considering the problems commercial almonds represent and the good crop you can get at home, you can get food of known provenance and not add to the bee and environmental issues of California or wherever the local commercial ones come from.
Looks amazing
This is awesome! Good job!!
Looks amazing! Just a quick tip - if sheep are anything like goats you'll need a little bit bigger fence around any of your trees in with the animals. What you have looks like they could reach right through the slats or lean over the fence. Animals love young fruit trees and will strip the leaves And the bark right off if they can! My family planted a little orchard and all but one plum tree died within the first year because of it😔
Hey thanks for that. We’ve trialled some different sizes at my parents place over the years and found this size 1.5x1.5 metres to be perfect, as they can still reach through to trim the grass, but they can’t reach the tree. But yes, if we had goats they’d probably jump over or something haha
Awesome work! I'm just starting a smaller but similar project 😊 One thing I can't wait to get and you might like too is a bumble bee hive ❤
Looking good
Cheers
Fantastic selection for your food forest. Would like to see a vid on your native plantings when you get time. Was that your "rescue" turkey making an appearance? Anyway, outstanding "slice of heaven" you guys have there. I'm very envious (in a good way 😉), well done!
Thanks John, yes that was Sylvia the rescue turkey. She's grown all new feathers since we got her and has grown quite a bit! :)
Really great NZ big deck. I can see you used the special black caulk to finish it off 😉
😂😂 thanks mate
Nice
You should try and plant durian trees a nice fruit
Hi ....you may have been asked this before but I was curious if you're willing to share approximately what part of New Zealand you live in... I can tell you live in a fairly mild climate zone from what you can grow. Also I'd be curious about the elevation of your property.
Really exciting stuff I wish you the best!
Awesome man 👍
Hey, have you thought of putting in a trellis around your tanks and growing something like kiwifruit or passion fruit or such around it?
Hey, yea I would really like to do that at some stage! Cheers
You can plant bamboo trees to block the wind
Thanks for the comment. We actually have a patch of bamboo on one of our boundaries which has encroached slightly onto our side. It’s been so good for using the bamboo wood in the garden etc :)
Bro, how much did it all cost? Mind if you share the project cost break down?
House, labour, materials, trees etc?
What an exciting project!!
so cool
Wiki says: "Hops can be eaten, the young shoots of the vine are edible and can be cooked similar to asparagus." Maybe you could get some hop vines to climb over things....?
sounds very interesting. Might look into this one, Thanks!
Have you planted any nut trees also? Im so jealous of your plans and land ! Dreams -
I've planted an almond tree that I grew from seed, but yup we're keen to grow macadamias, walnuts and maybe some other ones too :)
How's the house and land coming along have your trees matured in 2 years.
awesome farm!
have you thought of growing kumara?
Very good video you made however if you tell us how much it will costs around for your land and building the house. Thank you. It is just my thought.
You guys are awesome! You remind me of another TH-camr, Mark. He’s an Aussie guy that you might be interested in. His page is called Self Sufficient Me - that might give you some inspi for your backyard!
LOVE your vids
Te Rina Naden thanks for the support! Yea I love Marks videos, he’s got heaps of good stuff going on! :)
How did you manage to grow such a big cherimoya tree in such a cold climate? Do you heavily cover it or do you use some other method?
Here in eastern europe people cover their not so cold resistant plants with lots of winter cloth and straw.
It's so exciting to see your journey from dream to reality. Our property backs onto a creek & we have many tui, fantails, moreporks etc in our gardens, but we also have... POSSUMS!!
It's common to find ravaged native bird nests around here & if it's not possums, it's feral cats. I dont know if these are problems in your area but I'd suggest checking out pest prevetion/control methods.
I also found out the hard way that pukeko can cause alot of damage to veggie gardens 😂
Have you tried drip irrigation like they do in Israel?( On your dry land?).um "Doug and Stacey" have no septic tank they poop in buckets and compost it yes i remrmber NZ has wind every day .its kinda nice though.. avocado do you use distamaceous earth?looks really wonderfull.really imaginative.im thinking of germinating seeds trees etc then selling them on be ause i cant kkep them going i had 20 avocados once.
Haven't tried drip irrigation, we could potentially redirect water from shower / washing machine etc for this but we wouldn't have enough fresh water to use that on a larger scale. Haven't used distamaceous earth, do you mean as a soil conditioner? :)
"fully reliant on rain"... What if there's a drought. Also, beautiful progress and that turkey is so comfortable now.
If we get desperate we can get water trucks to come in and fill our tanks but we’re hoping to create enough water storage overtime to avoid that :). Yea she’s just like one of the chickens now 😆
@@TheKiwiGrower I hope you guys get enough water too. Please keep us posted.
NZ and drought? I dont think so. :)
Hey Kalem, I'm about to embark on a similar journey (have purchased a bare section and will be building a house and starting a food forest) and I'm sooo excited! It's a long process though so I'm embracing all the time I have to think and plan.
Just a question please: did you put any type of geomesh under the gravel on your driveway? If not, has it caused any issues?
Legend 💚🍀
i plan on doing the exact same thing, maybe you should make a "how to" vidoe on it all lol
Hi could you please tell me what that tree behind you on your right. Is it a Tamarillo tree of some sort
may i know how long does it takes to drive to the nearest supermarket/hardware shops or shops in general? Curious.
Love you
Loved what you have done, are your animals for harvest or pets?
Thanks! They’re just our pets as we don’t eat meat :)
Puke has the best soil in the country for growing veggies and fruits is that right? Love your work btw. You do know you are living a dream life in many people eyes bro.
Yea I've heard its definitely a good growing region down there. Thanks for the comment. I do feel very lucky to have this space to work with :)
I started watching 7 and a half years ago today
Really! Thanks for the support :)
Have you transplanted your kiwis yet? Just curious how they’ve done.
Plant a wocesterberry!
For comparison purposes, as a rough planting guide for my own place, where in NZ is your place located?
good job!!! where about are you, which bioregion?
Thanks :). I’m just South of the Auckland region
Nice, btw do u have custard apple? I like custard apple.
Great setup! What growing zone are you in? I might suggest goats. They seem to pair well with sheep.
Thanks :). Our zone is around 10a. Goats would be cool! Would be slightly worried about some of my trees but maybe at some point!
when all the bots are asking to be friends but you just wanna learn to grow plants
i love your work 🇵🇰
Is it me or do all Kiwis have the same chicken call lmao awesome vids man , best of luck for the future ( from Auckland NZ )
😂😂 Thanks Geneva
Gotta plant some olives✌️😁
Kalem, (I hope I am hearing and spelling your name correctly.) How large are the water tanks? I would really like to know how you collect the water. Do you pump it from underground? Do you have catch basins? Is it gravity fed to your house's plumbing system?
Hey Joe, they’re both 30,000 litre tanks. We catch water from the roof of our house. It’s way to expensive to put in a bore to pump from underground as the waters are 300m down!
We have a pump system that engages when we use water in the house.
And yep you got my name right! :)
@@TheKiwiGrower That is so interesting. Do you ever run out of water? Do you get them completely full during what I assume is your rainy season? If you do run out can you order a tanker truck of water in an emergency?
Don't the tires leech chemicals into the soil over time?
Hey, good question, I’ve looked into this recently and yes they can leech overtime but it’s a very very slow process. The tyres release the chemicals when they’re burnt - the sun does this to tyres too, however like I said it happens really slowly. There are mixed opinions on the matter I believe, and unfortunately no scientific studies have been done on it. So I feel ok about using them short term considering it’s such a long process for them to break down. I think though if someone’s not comfortable with it then don’t do it, as there are plenty of other alternatives :)
How about growing bamboos as a windbreak? (Might be too invasive?)
Some are not as invasive as others but yea could be hard to get rid of if it became a problem. There's a large bamboo area just over our boundary on the neighboring farm and it's great to have there to use the bamboo as plant supports etc in the garden, so might just stick with natives for now. Cheers :)
You should plant a palm tree and have some nice fresh dates
Probably a bit cold here but I do have a date palm in a pot, more as just a house plant though :)
@@TheKiwiGrower awww thanks for taking time to reply
Very cool! What part of NZ are you in?
I’m in the Waikato, just south of Auckland area :)
2 acre is one hectare or more?
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Build a chicken tractor and raise some meat birds to eat/sell. Would be a good way to fertilise some of your soil while your developing your food forest... Im keen to give it a go in the spring up here in Whangārei. Maybe we could collab?
Can you provide some costs relating to the land price, house and other things? Thanks.
Send me a PM over on Facebook :)
1:23 Dude, you have great teeth. Very handsome
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