How to Actually make a Zai Pit
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ส.ค. 2023
- We made the micro swale / zai pit /demi loon today
I explained the 3 benifits and the one negative that i found on this and see how it aplies to dry land permaculture.
#namibia #permaculture #foodforest #africa #otjiwarongo #afrikaans #botswana #swales #waterharvesting @DiscoverPermaculture @amillison
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I love he way you look after your workers and dont abuse them and its worth the money to get more trees especially if fruit or useful trees.
Thank you for teaching the human impact of what you are doing as well as the culture and explanation of your part of the world 🙂
Great work, great perspectives. Thanks
Thank you for sharing this great idea.
We have a slope from one end of the garden to the veggie garden. When we had the flooding, it rained for weeks none stop. The ground got so saturated, it was like a dam. About ankle deep.
I think this is a great idea of yours that will solve it.
Told my husband.
Loved the way you explained it and demonstrated how its done.
I have watched many of your videos today, they have been so helpful.
Lovely how to see how you are dealing with the dry climate you live in.
I grew up in "Rhodesia" now Zimbabwe. My parents had a Ranch about 12,000 acres.
Loved growing up there.
So many vivid wonderful memories.
We had a vegetable garden as big as s Rugby field, an orchard just as big.
No electricity, my Dad had a Lister diesel motor.
Our hot water was made in a Donkey Boiler. Well thats is what my husband calls it.
Wild animals like Leopards, baboons, pythons, snakes, Hyena's and many other creepy crawlies.
We had a dairy cattle, which produced lovely raw milk with thick cream on top. Butter etc.
YUMMY!
But we only came home during the school holidays, as we lived to far from the nearest school, so had to go to boarding school.
I was only 5 years old. Not happy about that.
We emigrated to SA.
Our children were so fortunate to grow up as day scholars, with a stay at home mom.
So much has changed.
Seems like a life time away.
Thank you again for your videos and experience you share with us.😀🌍🇿🇦👋
We also call it a donkey. I wnated to make a video to reply to this comment but i am scared i wil not get around to it. Sounds like you had a amazing childhood on a great farm. Do you live in the city now?
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Well it's a small town in Natal, but a lot more friendly and the people are helpful, than living in Joburg. The fast track.
My husband and I both grew up on farms, so we have a natural love for nature.
My husband and I are very happy here. We have a lot more freedom here, and are very grateful that we have a small garden space to learn to grow things. Slowly buying fruit trees, I am growing them in big pots, to keep them small. I want to learn to graft fruit trees, I have been experimenting, growing from seed, apples, lemons and avocado pips.
Having fun growing different plants. Sometimes it's a bit of a hit and a miss, but you are learning along the way.
Thank you for responding to my comment.
I hope your channel grows well.
I do share your videos with family, neighbours and friends.
Look forward to seeing more of your stories you share, and to see how your food forest is unfolding.
Thank you 🙏🌿👍🌻👋
I must say, I really enjoy your channel! We're in central Canada, zone 3a. I find it really interesting to see the similarities and differences in practice on the other side of the world. Keep up the good work, my friend!
Thanks man! I went to go and see you videos as well. You have real talent and should play more on video.
@@thefoodforestnamibia I'm afraid I have a face meant for radio, but thanks for the compliment ☺️
@@s.gordonplatt8638 hahahah same brother same.
great thing you are doing from all the perspectives. keep on
I was working in the tropics and hired a new worker, he had recently moved to the tropics, we told him what needed to be done, left him to it after ensuring he knew he had to refresh his Sun block, knew that he had to keep his shirt on and not roll up his sleeves, left him with a 6 gallon cooler of water to which was added an electrolyte and told him he had to drink constantly, at least 4 pints an hour. We came back in 3 hours and he was unconscious. He spent the next 3 days in hospital and was shaky for a week. He thought we were ranking him when we told him to drink 4 pints an hour. He ended up staying with us and working for a few months and acclimatised.
Four pints an hour is a ridiculous amount. That would be dangerous for most people and fatal for many.
Great to see. Really hope it pays of in the long run, I got faith it will.
Backbreaking work indeed, especially in the sun. It looked like they were chiselling rocks with that hard soil. How warm was it when the guys did this?
Thank you so much for the comment it helos with youtube. It was around 32 degrees Celsius or 89 degrees Fahrenheit
@@thefoodforestnamibia More then welcome :)
32C, that explains the need for the breaks!
From the US: I wish you the best of luck in your efforts! I'm a member of the shade tree commission of my town, here in West Virginia, and though our climate is different than yours in Namibia, I understand how important trees are to our environment.
Shade tree commision! That is such a cool thing. Never new that exists. Thank you for your kind words! Hope you have a wonderful day.
Awesome!
You're a good man. Any update on your bigger swale/gully dam? Have you had any more rain events since it burst the first time? I think that is your most popular video and it is how I found your channel; if you show people that you are sucessfully harvesting masses of water they may subscribe out of curisoty for how your land will improve. Best of luck either way.
Best of luck for the future. Great story.
I wish you luck. From South Africa and know are are climbing a
mountain!
Thank you so much! Are you also doing some permaculture in sa?
Hi. Fellow Namibian here. My daughter and I really loved your video. Thank you for all your explanations. We've always been interested in food forests and permaculture. Your the first channel from this side of the world whose trying to this that I've found. Send your video link to friends, too. Good luck. From a new subscriber 🌻☀️
Awesome!! Where are you from?
@@thefoodforestnamibia We're in Swakopmund at the moment, but have lived in South Africa, too. Busy watching another one of your videos.
Love, watching your channel was thinking about how you said the culture doesn't like the leaves thinks they're trash. What if you took rocks and painted them? White and made a pretty White Rock circle around the planting area. To make it look "cleaner, deliberate, pretty and special rather than trashy. It would also help keep the mulch from blowing away in the wind helping to keep the area tidy...
I sent you a coffee a while ago and will send his family another coffee for every plant they can keep alive and harvest from.... as an incentive
(max of $ 50.00 US) 😊
I think the rocks is a fantastic idea! Would you like to send the coffee money to kristi or matheus?
goods
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great ideas
am from saudi arabia
we r similar to namibia in climate
gud luc
Thank you so much!
thanks
Great video, I hope your little trees in the pit grow big and strong 💪🏼
I know you like stories so this is one of mine. When I was living with my mom in JHB I used a 2l coke bottle to divert the kitchen sink and laundry water (grey water) into the back garden. I cut a whole on the top of the 2l coke bottle, put in on a brick in the drain with the pipe from the sink. We also had a kitchen scrap/compost pit at the bottom of the garden (down slope) One day we realised an avo tree was growing in the compost pit. I guess the great quality soil and the extra water made magic. That tree is massive now. But doesn’t fruit often (only had two avos) coz there aren’t any others avo trees in the neighbourhood. We also noted that the backyard was always green even throughout winter when everyone else’s was brown. And out of the rubble grew an amazing crop of unplanned tomatoes and a pumpkin one year. That’s my mini water harvesting story. Since I moved out the kitchen water has been put back into the drain. Not sure what effect that will have on the avo tree and the neighbours banana trees right behind it.
Keep doing great things!!! Love seeing Namibia through your videos.
That is so cool! It is amazing how something so small can have such a big impact. I love stories! You are living in the us now?
@@thefoodforestnamibia I am in the UK with my husband and 2 sons. But my heart is still in Southern Africa. ❤️🩹
Thanks for posting. Intriguing price break downs. Very thoughtful .
Thank you for commenting! It really helps. Do you also practice permaculture?
Sadly no. I live in a city. Although I do have a little patch, mostly set up with perennial wildflowers to reduce water requirements, boost the local pollinators and boost the aesthetics of my neighbourhood.. I am fascinated by the permaculture approach and the people making it work. Very best luck to you.@@thefoodforestnamibia
@@gubbins1933 nice! Thise flowers probably have a mich bigger impact then you realize
Indeed. I left the dead plants in place over our mild coastal winter. I was very surprised to see resident hummingbirds feeding on the dead plants. I later found out that they eat very small spiders living in the spent seed heads and foliage. Not only that, when Spring came along, the hummingbirds collected tufts of Douglas aster seed fluff for nesting material. Amazing little creatures. Such a treat to see in the bleaker times of the year. @@thefoodforestnamibia
Also, check out the TH-cam channel. Called thrive for good ....the "how to make a keyhole garden" Episode might really work well for your employees garden. There are multiple ways to make that style of garden. The one with the compost in the center is the Type that would work best to contain/hide the leaves and detritus that they consider trash.... The one thing I noticed is that they did not throw a handful of worms into the compost pile Which would make it Super compost .... Also, it seems as if the video was not clear about putting the water in the compost every day, not on top of the plants. And they did not seem to stress the importance of putting rocks in the bottom of the compost with either cloth or mesh on top of the rocks to keep the compost from going anerobic at the bottom of the pile
You should look up Mutual Credit to boost the local economy.
There is definitely a market for micro loans here. However i am not sure if it wil helo the locals or just make them work for a slave master.
@@thefoodforestnamibia search low impact mutual credit and it is the introduction article with real projects that save everyone's money
Ek hou van jou afrikaans! Groete vanuit Suid Afrika.
Dankie man. Ja my engels is soos airtime. Partykeer is dit net klaar. 😂😂😂
@@thefoodforestnamibia selfde hier! Ek het van daardie groot erdwurms met die plat sterte gevind in my tuin laas week. (Ons het n food forest begin so 2 maande gelede) Nog nooit so iets gesien nie.
What organization are you doing this with?
Currently just my wife and i. The TH-cam community has also helped allot!
Does soaking water into ground then let sit over night make digging easier there
That would definitely help.it does not show on the video but we also did that on some stages of this dig
Im going to try and get my rows and swales dug before ground drys out.ill be trying the soak trick as soil gets very hard when dry.
Bro you need to add more fat into their diet,these Olympic runners will have no stamina otherwise,stay safe,great video.
While you’re here are you looking at syntropic ag systems,the soil only activates and holds microbial life with ground cover and micro rhizomes fungi,water is top priority also as you are doing.?very interested in your project.
@@svthorasailing4868 I wil definitely start studying syntropic ag as Manny people keep mentioning it.
@@thefoodforestnamibia it’s an easy study,more about layering of shade trees,intermediate chop and drop and grasses to keep moisture and organisms alive to feed plants for food.
The white man gets $10 an hour and the black man $8 a day. You should teach them how they too can get $10 an hour
Doing my best... But I am only one man. There is manny black business men in Namibia that gets paid thousands of dollars a day.
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I believe you are doing your best.
@@apap745 Since it appears to be a multi faceted problem there's room for others to step in and help. A great channel is Sustainable Economies Legal Center for building communities which retain money like retaining the water. If there's no money to begin with then our friend is a big help.
He is teaching them skills that they can use to earn more
How about someone teach you not to be a self righteous person
@@dononthetube2 thank you!