Love how you plan to introduce biochar, but I honestly think it does need NOT to be a top 20 focus right now... WATER is the most important thing and excavators can be of huge help to build swales, ponds and water restoring landscapes. Your land is HUGE for 5-6 people, so I guess you are focussing on a small handleable area first? For easy charcoal: Just make a cooking fire every night and pee it out..:-D Works great
Olive trees are good idea or Almond trees fig trees etc Majorca has very little rain in summer months .You have a great positive outlook for your land, water water water is so important for crops success on Mallorca 🙏🏿
Wow Scarlett!!! What a video!!! The drone camera gives us a completely different view! I can visualize the whole property now. I could not see the big picture before. The speed of your project has changed so much. Before you closed on the property you had video of your trips from Switzerland to Mallorca. Now, there is so much change to show! In Northern California we have just had our 12th rain storm. Our state has finally caught up after a multi year drought. I feel guilty that I have not done anything here after seeing all the progress you have made!
Thanks so much Mitchell. The digger helped a lot to change it quickly. But yes, we've been working hard and non stop. I have the luxury of being able to manage my own time. So don't feel guilty. :)
Vielen Dank! TH-cam machen wir auf Englisch um möglichst viele Leute anzusprechen. Aber auf unserer Website findest du einen Blog auch auf Deutsch! :) www.sonselva.com/de/progress
I love permaculture and the idea of a food forest but also believe in native plants being and growing where they are.. leave nature and each ecosystem alone as much as possible. I understand some are not native and invasive. Understanding land has been degraded by humans already by monocultures and must be restored. Will follow!
we created different zones, one is dedicated for native plants and will stay untouched. One part (the one we‘be bern clearing) is planted according to the syntropic farming method and the third will be mixed, edibles and natives using the miyawaki method.
If you leave "nature" alone on already heavily degraded soils and properties, all you end up with is scrub. You NEED to disrupt first and culture the lands again to create eatable, nature-imitating systems. Leaving nature just work along would simply create a thorny, hostile bushland with no trees, no animals and no food. Do not forget: This is for cultivating food and recreating a balanced system, not about abandoning poor soils and leave them alone
@@Ozbird-72 Thanks Ossian! I sometimes struggle to argument why I'm making such a big impact to start with. Now everything is set and ready to start over once again.
I divided the land into three sections: One is for afforestation only and will be left alone (that said we added 70 native plants to make it more diverse, but without using heavy machinery). The second one is the one we're working on in this video. It is for cultivating food using the syntropic method. The third will be a myiawaki food forest. So we can observe how the three systems react and benefit from eachother.
@@sonselvapermaculture Looking forward to how it works out... You do the right thing in my opinion: You disrupt and clear, then you rebuild. leaving parts to "nature" and others cultivated... Looking forward to see your progress, you are doing amazing and it is a pleasure to follow your progress to success!
Sometimes you have to be realistic, theres mostly just you there and you have to take wjat help you can get.
Love how you plan to introduce biochar, but I honestly think it does need NOT to be a top 20 focus right now... WATER is the most important thing and excavators can be of huge help to build swales, ponds and water restoring landscapes. Your land is HUGE for 5-6 people, so I guess you are focussing on a small handleable area first? For easy charcoal: Just make a cooking fire every night and pee it out..:-D Works great
Olive trees are good idea or Almond trees fig trees etc Majorca has very little rain in summer months .You have a great positive outlook for your land, water water water is so important for crops success on Mallorca 🙏🏿
Wow Scarlett!!! What a video!!! The drone camera gives us a completely different view! I can visualize the whole property now. I could not see the big picture before.
The speed of your project has changed so much. Before you closed on the property you had video of your trips from Switzerland to Mallorca. Now, there is so much change to show!
In Northern California we have just had our 12th rain storm. Our state has finally caught up after a multi year drought. I feel guilty that I have not done anything here after seeing all the progress you have made!
Thanks so much Mitchell. The digger helped a lot to change it quickly. But yes, we've been working hard and non stop. I have the luxury of being able to manage my own time. So don't feel guilty. :)
Love it!
🎉 For biochar. 🎉 for syntropics.
Soil in Mallorca usually gets delivered buy lorry buy the tonne as alot of the Island has poor quality soil 🙏🏿
It's all about water do you have a well ? Or mains supply water ? Trees fair better than say potatoes as they need less water 🙏🏿
watch the video before this one with the promising title: "we bought a huge water tank for our food forest!" ;)
Hi ich habe auch 5 Jahre auf Mallorca gelebt.Schade das ihr euren Blog nicht auf Deutsch bringt. Aber wünsche euch viel Erfolg bei eurem vorhaben.
Vielen Dank! TH-cam machen wir auf Englisch um möglichst viele Leute anzusprechen. Aber auf unserer Website findest du einen Blog auch auf Deutsch! :) www.sonselva.com/de/progress
I love permaculture and the idea of a food forest but also believe in native plants being and growing where they are.. leave nature and each ecosystem alone as much as possible. I understand some are not native and invasive. Understanding land has been degraded by humans already by monocultures and must be restored. Will follow!
we created different zones, one is dedicated for native plants and will stay untouched. One part (the one we‘be bern clearing) is planted according to the syntropic farming method and the third will be mixed, edibles and natives using the miyawaki method.
If you leave "nature" alone on already heavily degraded soils and properties, all you end up with is scrub. You NEED to disrupt first and culture the lands again to create eatable, nature-imitating systems. Leaving nature just work along would simply create a thorny, hostile bushland with no trees, no animals and no food. Do not forget: This is for cultivating food and recreating a balanced system, not about abandoning poor soils and leave them alone
@@Ozbird-72 Thanks Ossian! I sometimes struggle to argument why I'm making such a big impact to start with. Now everything is set and ready to start over once again.
I divided the land into three sections: One is for afforestation only and will be left alone (that said we added 70 native plants to make it more diverse, but without using heavy machinery). The second one is the one we're working on in this video. It is for cultivating food using the syntropic method. The third will be a myiawaki food forest. So we can observe how the three systems react and benefit from eachother.
@@sonselvapermaculture Looking forward to how it works out... You do the right thing in my opinion: You disrupt and clear, then you rebuild. leaving parts to "nature" and others cultivated... Looking forward to see your progress, you are doing amazing and it is a pleasure to follow your progress to success!
I wish i could smell your bush fire...