Amazing how you are not just improving your land but using it as a tool to spread the practices and inspire people around you. Your impact is now no longer limited to your land but is spreading out across Africa. Congratulations
You gave these people a very good tour, they now have a refernce point of your farm in their minds, another tour next yr can show them the progress that can be achieved in a short while...Perhaps first fruits from fig, pomegranit & lemon... Certainly in 5yrs of water collenction the progress will be fantastic, more trees more shade, more time more fruit, more compost more food, more growth more mulch... The future may show growth beyond your boundries from water havested & sunk into your ground moving along downstream & underground from your property... Many seeds planted in the minds today...Bravo Danou...From the UK...
Danous video person has usually been his young daughter. She does a great job and I applaud danou for including his family. Danou doesn’t have an expensive you tube system to video . He uses what he has and perhaps like his corn with time he will be able to afford better equipment. It’s a privilege to have danou and family videoing what they do.
I would like to thank you and the others for taking the time to tour the property, and I hope you will be as impressed with what has been achieved as I am. I live half a world away in Oregon, USA, and I wish you and your organization great success in your work. I look forward to your next visit!
Here's something you'll find interesting ...listen very carefully and you will discover that the science is out and when you plant trees and they grow bigger. ..... The rain becomes more attracted to the trees....that's scientific.....if people want more water...simply plant more trees.... th-cam.com/video/OxpjG2IEroA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=g6j1IvKTCMs8_HUu and off course using these water holding techniques achieves the goal quicker.
It should not be forgotten about how Permaculture came about. A group of “youngish” people rented a house in Hobart Tasmania. The previous winter, 2 of them, Bill Mollison and David Holmgren had overwintered in an old road workers hut , while working in the wild country of Tasmania. During that overwintering, Bill and David exchanged views on many things, being equally concerned about the state of the world, agriculture, nature, politics, society and everything. The following year as part of the greater group, they decided to try to feed a household of 5, from a suburban 1/4er acre block of land. That was the initial impetus. From that the rational planting and planning started to come into focus and Bill and David thought, experimented and wrote. IT ALL STARTED FROM TRYING TO FEED 5 from a 1/4 acre block.
Indeed so, & it can bring together some of the succesful systems from around the world, friendly symbiotic plantings, like Corn (maize) beans & pumkin...
Danou sent to members a video from Geoff Lawson. Iam Aussie I did not realise he was an Aussie. I searched him and found his Jordan project. As a newbie to permaculture I am learning so much. I was blown away what has been achieved and think this really relates to nimibia .
Our Soil all over the Earth is very thirsty ... that's why we need implement some techniques presented by Dan to harvest the rain water and restore Ground Water so we can all thrive...
@@magdaos1146 I don't doubt the soil is thirsty, but that wouldn't matter in clay soil - the water would stay there longer. There is probably some sandy soil.
Looking good! Nice to see some water still on the land - and more and more green. The way you performes your tour was good, they were able to see both the succesful areas thay are older and the newer areas that you are just getting started. Next year you need to have lots of seeds ready to go at the beginning of the wet season to get as much planting done as soon as possible. Maybe next dry season you will make paths through the property. Maybe you should have shown your tree nursery.
Danou, that's fantastic. I feel so proud of you and what you are accomplishing. It's true, all the worlds problems can be solved in a garden. Really inspirational for the year 2025.
I obviously love what you are doing on your land. But what you are doing to share the knowledge to other locals is far more impressive than anything you are doing with your land. Even though thos was only a group of 4 or 5 people, those people are going to take what they learned and show other people. That is far more powerful than the already impressive work you do at your own place. One day, people are going to talk about you like a hero. Keep up the good work friend. You are a gift.
@stevejohnstonbaugh9171 i wasnt aware of that, thank you. Even though it was a permaculture group, im sure it still helps tremendously seeing the examples being used within a town. I still see only positive results coming from that visit.
I also want to trust my immune system enough to handle worms, manure and compost with bare hands and just casually eat and drink off of my bare hands afterwards without washing them 😁 Anyway, what a wonderful tour of the entire system. Good job, keep it up.
great tour. i think you really hammered the point that the rain needs to be harvested. can you tell us more about the group that came to visit. great to see you spreading permaculture! Slow it; Spread it; Sink it; Use it - Permalogic
ok, so I found that they work for public health, with a focus on hiv, malaria, and other illnesses... I hope they know that the water doesn't stay standing long enough for mosquitos, though perhaps mosquito nets over local water tanks may be a good idea.
@@NirvanaFan5000 The old way my grandfather used on the farm back in the 40s to the 70s was a teaspoon of diesel every month in the covered 35000 litre rainwater tank which spreads out across the surface and kills all mosquitos.
Here is how you find the homepage for the organization that visited in this video: Search the term "DAPP Namibia Development Aid from People to People". That should take you right to their org home page. There is a link on the home page to a "2023 Progress Report" that is quite interesting!
a poem, by robert louis stevenson. when i was down besides the sea, a wooden spade they gave to me to dig the sandy shore, my holes were empty like a cup, in every hole the sea came up til it could come no more.
So impressed with your knowledge of your land. The tour of your land and showing local people of water harvesting. My parents and my grandparents were farmers. I live in a city in the Midwest of USA. I have container gardens in the growing season here. I harvest water for my house plants.
How cool! Those visitors are like us viewers but with more immersion😂 Great to know that you're spreading the permacultural knowledge across namibia. Good to see you back online
So fantastic having local people interested in what you are doing! It’s really greening up! We just got our first 1” of rain since last May here in San Diego! Great seeing the book being passed around! Just wanted to mention that the sound quality was really good!
@10:30 - Allan Savory uses the term "Rainfall Effectiveness" to express the concept you are trying to convey of an "increase in amount of water infiltrated per rainfall event". It is way more complex than that of course, and I think that's a decent paraphrase of what is meant by the term.
awesome to see you sharing your knowledge mr friend i hope more people in town take you up on the help and get involved will offer more abundance to you all.
I enjoyed the tour and the most that impressed me was the difference between mulched Corn and the other. Also to learn that termites prefer to eat the mulch first rather then the plant. I was wondering if that can be applied to snails. We have a lot of snails in our garden and used to eat everything I planted.
Have you perhaps considered dividing up your horse paddock in to quarters or half and in the rainy season give them a quarter or half at a time so you can rest and improve the other section(s)? You might not be able to in the dry season, but diring the rains, you can mulch around the trees and let grasses grow up so when the horses come back, they have some free feed or perhaps healthier trees.
My friend thank you for sharing. The River bank, please get some huge rocks to put in place instead of the tires. I hear thru watching videos like this… that rocks and pebbles help filter water… Thank you
Tweet tweet 🐥 the bird are very happy in your forests 😊 So much positivity coming from your channel. Well done! Imagin if all the rivers were fenced off so that livestock couldn’t get to them. Then leaky wears added. How beautiful that would be. I am a big believer in protecting riparian buffers as they can act as wildlife corridors and the extra vegetation (not grazed by livestock) will help slow and sink the water which helps heal the land around it. 😊
Hahahahahaha yes they can get poisoning from that. Sheep and goats supposedly too but we never had that problems even with 100% Leucaena over a year. No other feed. My wife refuse to give leucena to the horses exactly for this reason but when it is everywhtyhen they Wil feed it to themselves 🤣🤣🤣
So DAP, Development Aid from People to People Namibia contacted you "nogal intresand" NICE! Word sure does get around. You doing this "Permitculture" from a purely unselfish motives, because you want to share this concept, which will change these peoples lives. The Afrikaans words my husband helped me to put it type it in the correct meaning. My Afrikaans is "Nee te goet nee" Its a long story. Lovely to hear the birds singing here and there in the background. Well this your first "Official Tour" and it will be I am certain not your last. With practice you will get into the stride and you will be walking your talk, as you are with what you already have put into practice. As with your camera man will get better with practice. Enjoyed your tour in showing this group of interested people what you have already achieved. Looking forward to this out come of this Official Tour. Thank you Danou for sharing with us the progress. Is looking really good. 🌿💚🌿
We have Mesquite here in Texas it is very good for smoking meat and barbecue. There is a city near me named Mesquite. It has huge thorns that will go through your tires. They have machines here in Texas that rip them out by the roots. When you grow trees for chop and drop that is called coppicing. Beavers do that with willow trees to make their dams. Humans probably learned coppicing from beavers. You could also use that technique to make hedge rows as fences. I have 2 Meyers improved lemons in flower pots I get a couple lemons off each one. Plant more native flowers. But I have to bring them inside in the winter.
I think you missed mentioning overgrazing. It's basically 2 problems; lack of rain/water managed and overgrazing. Even in Europe we don't let the animals graze until the grass is totally gone. Edit: I spoke too soon! 😅 Great job showing them around, did they find you, or did you call them in? And have you shown them footage of how all of it works when it rains??
Thats so cool you get to tell your story to local people and not only to people on the internet. I hope it will bear fruit :) I think your tour guest are quite unfamiliar to all the principles of this complex topic and could i imagine some of your ideas may get lost along the way. I do think these are valuable opportunities to spread the message and for your guests to have something alluring and straight forward to propogate afterwards. When presententing something i always try to tell story that is anchored around a few ideas. Although our domains are quite different as i work in finance and pitched quite a bit when it comes to startups during my studies, maybe there is some ideas of value here. Firstly i would think about, who is visiting me? Whats the reason they visit me? And what do i want them to take away from the this 1 hour of time i spend with them. I would want them to know who i am, where im coming from, why im doing this, where im heading with my idea, what can they expect today? What is the issue at hand, you are trying to solve? How does your solution contribute to solving the issue? Where does my idea come from, is it some crazy idea of a guy on yt, is it founded on established principles? Starting from easy ideas and then increasing the complexity... how does rainwater move through land? What are swales and contour lines? How does it connect with fertitility pits, mulch and worm cast and so on? What did i already achieve within the time? What key ideas do i want to make stick and how do i keep on repeating them throughout the tour whenever possible? What is the message i want them to take away? (I love the example where you compare the costs of aquisition of your land and the possible annual rain harvest! That sticks!) How do i activate them? Give them something actionable to do afterwards, like "buy that book", "start doing this or go there", "lets keep in touch, i can help you start out" and so on. (This list may also help for your yt pressence) Its a bit abstract and just a kick start, but i hope it helps in some way :)
DAPP is already in the permaculture education business. They were there to assess what Danou is doing for a possible fit. Here is how you find the homepage for DAPP: Search the term "DAPP Namibia Development Aid from People to People". That should take you right to their org home page. There is a link on the home page to a "2023 Progress Report" that is quite interesting.
How about some suggestions about how to merge what Danou is doing with an international non-profit? Humana is a giant heath insurance company headquartered in the US.
Great video. All your videos are really good but to have people from the Development Aid association come round and see your fantastic work is heartwarming. Not only spreading physical seeds in Namibia but planting seeds of inspiration in people’s minds is an amazing thing to do. 👏
Danou keeps accidentally falling in those 'pesky holes' from time to time during the rain season - a path would help when he and the dogs rush outside to capture film of the deluge of water from the heavens!
Please do not walk on top of the berms. That area is precious. It is the best property on the farm for planting all manner of trees and shrubs. DOuble the topsoil and year round water tree roots can easily reach. And the roots stabilize the berms so no blowouts with extreme flooding.
Yes, but you have to think of not just the tree but the wages of the people who will plant it and tend to it too. But still $25 is just a suggestion, Danou would be in a better place to estimate the cost.
@@garryhancock-the-OG Just sharing with you what Trees for the Future calculates their cost to be in their Food Forest nurseries in Kenya, Senegal, Mali, Uganda and Tanzania. in 2015 TFF surpassed 100 million trees planted around the world. They are on track to plant 1 Billion by 2030.
Great video! Love that the word is getting around. Maybe you should start planning a walkway through your place that you think showcases best all the things you are doing. I used to own a landscaping business so if you'd like we could exchange ideas on how to best construct nice and durable pathways for the visitors, workers, you and anyone to move around the property 😊
Maybe rainwater harvesting could be mandatory for the municipality..not a jailable offence or anything but a cultural and community change..❤ You seem like a soldier, you're awesome
i love to see your videos every time you can upload i am happy to see how you can follow the permaculture rule "accept the feedback " for pathways , i have a request for you to make a video of your journey and little bit a history what inspire you how do you make it happen and still going . Our Area (Potohar Region Pakistan its more like plateau region ) Climate and land topography is the same as yours so its like light in the night for me . i studied permaculture very deeply @ The Food Forest Namibia
There's something else that can be done to get the water moving to where it needs to and get a deeper angled soak......you need a hammer or mallet and either a long screwdriver or thin metal pole with a point...inside the swales or dams etc. you can hammer in deep holes at angles you'd like the water directed to underground, this also means that even with less rain, you have these under swale tunnels that can reach outward to areas you'd like irrigated underground.....you can also hammer these poles in on angles, then pull them out, now you have created an underground waterway, meaning you will be able to spread more water around before it goes down. So before the swales fill, water will already move outwards due to the long hole having softer soil, these aren't permanent eventually they'll fill with soil etc. but it's another way to manage water in swales and it's behaviour short-term to get quicker results.
The community proposes buying the van Rensburg Family Permaculture Demonstration Farm a post hole digger with a 4" auger and an extension shaft to drill the sink hole 60" deep. Pattern to start is one every meter along the entire swale line. Danou and his workers can select the next priority.
Re: The Bare Horse Area. What about adding green spots within the riding area? I have seen channels with elephant rescues where they protect young trees from becoming snacks. Within these fenced circles and triangles, you could lower the area? So, instead of changing the entire area, you have a few random spots dug out like African Smiles? In a few years, that whole area could be fully shaded without changing its function?
We did not see the entire tour, but you never mentioned the living fences to prevent animals from entering and overgrazing. I would encourage talking about different plants being mutually beneficial in harvesting nutrients for adjacent plant benefit (corn and beens) and the natural fertilizers. You mentioned worm casting to improve soil fertility but not the benefits of mulch for both soil enrichment and shading the soil. You showed the corn field as a good example of the benefits of mulching. Your mention of chop and drop of plants could use more explanation of the benefits (like mulching). You never mentioned the mulching competition to them during the tour we saw.
I think this is a good point. It's worthwhile to develop a basic script of the points you want to teach, where/how you will demonstrate them on the property tour. also, something I didn't understand for a long time that may be worth discussing is the way water pools over bedrock and watersheds etc so visitors understand that when we take water from wells, it is using a resource that can dry up. by sinking water, we are recharging it. (also... kind of a weird question... but do people realize they're overgrazing the land? I'd assume they know but like... is it like they have to do it to survive *this* year's finances even if it harms next year? idk. but seems like a situation that really really has to be addressed on a societal level.) cheers
Boxy really enjoys all the filming, getting his exercise chasing you around and going for swims. Do you have any passionfruit vines growing anywhere on the farm? My kids loved having the vines on our property years ago.
Hi, I really enjoy all the project you undertake. At home and at your workers. Lately you digging plenty of little holes to plant seeds in. However these become more difficult to cross over due to the unlevel terrain. I've watched many video's about African smiles to control and collect the water. At the same time they gather top sole and create a good place to plant grass and certain vegetables. The biggest advantage is that you will be able to cover more surface with the African Smiles, easier to walk through and maintain. And after a while they create the green patches were all kind of vegetables, fruits, trees. certain of these plants can be replanted at parts at your house. Those African Smiles need lesser maintenance and do very quickly provide better soil. So first the swales, african smiles and then the other plants in holes. You will have to find a balance but remember it's easier to make small green circle bigger then to fill a large empty circle. anayway, you do achieve a lot already
I agree with African Smiles. I don't understand why Danou drifted away from them. You can see the results are great. After the swale and berm systems, the African smiles were the best performers followed by the on berm plantings with irrigation.
@@stevejohnstonbaugh9171 I agree. First process the whole property with these systems, then make smaller changes in certain locations to observe those results.
DAPP is already in the permaculture education business. They were there to assess what Danou is doing for a possible fit. Here is how you find their homepage: Search the term "DAPP Namibia Development Aid from People to People". That should take you right to their org home page. There is a link on the home page to a "2023 Progress Report" that is quite interesting.
Very nice, but it ended too soon... Are these people from a gvt agency or from a non profit organization ? Are they working with the people in the township ? What's their purpose, I mean, their job ?
Here is how you find the homepage for the organization that visited in this video: Search the term "DAPP Namibia Development Aid from People to People". That should take you right to their org home page. There is a link on the home page to a "2023 Progress Report" that is quite interesting.
@@FionaGordon-x7m Hello Fiona, the answer is above. Check out their 2023 Progress Report. They are a legit non-profit. Let me know if you see this OK? I just got a "returned error" message.
@@FionaGordon-x7m Here is how you find the homepage for the organization that visited in this video: Search the term "DAPP Namibia Development Aid from People to People". That should take you right to their org home page. There is a link on the home page to a "2023 Progress Report" that is quite interesting.
I remember in a previous video maybe about a week ago you mentioned a farm for sale, I have no idea about local restrictions but if you could get away with it that could be a fantastic opportunity to create a cooperative where a bunch of you chip in to purchase or lease the land & build a food forest. Over time you can raise animals as well & sell excess to the township. Maybe build some houses to sell or rent to like minded people. There is a lot depending on local laws of course so it would need a heap of investigation before making a rash decision.
Danou has his hands full. Not possible for him to even begin to wrap his head around this idea. Best action is to forget it. Don't clutter up his world.
Make sure to send the link to this video to DAPP. It could perhaps be a training video for them - or at least spread your page to others in Namibia! I found the DAPP website and tried to link it, but don't know if it posted. Is OTJI FM 107.6 the only radio station in your area?
I hope you will do a follow-up on this. I'd like to know more about your visitors and what they do. Are they from a government agency? What influence will they have on what you do? Will they be able to provide assistance to you? There are so many questions! Just a note for viewers; I wondered what the exchange rate was between the US dollar and the Namibian dollar. One US dollar is worth $18.55 Namibian dollars.
Here is how you find the homepage for the organization that visited in this video; Search the term - "DAPP Namibia Development Aid from People to People". That should take you right to their org home page. There is a link on the home page to a "2023 Progress Report" that is quite interesting 🙂
@@stevejohnstonbaugh9171 Hi Steve, I'm seeing this comment. In a rush to get into work, so will check out your other comment this evening (10-12 hours hence).
This is an excellent video. This time, I really understood the land configuration. You are a good educator. Maybe in the future, you should do the corn comparison again and again? Find a new spot to have a fair contest. Plant the old way and the new. There is nothing quite like visiters seeing results themselves.
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How wonderful danou and your visitors and immanuel and wife to showcase what’s possible. I loved your energy and excitement and Iam sure they went away with lots of information to process. A suggestion. If you are going to have people tour putting together a tour guide that covers what you want during the tour and I would also include speaking with immunael all his wife and workers on your farm such as lukas about what he has learned from the corn experience. Also a link to beshy bee google earth which shows the difference. . This is of course a seperate project but please call out if you want the brains trust to help with this. You are progressing so fast and you have lots of people suggesting things but Iam sure there are very talented people following you who could help with helping you write something up you could provide a booklet to people coming to visit . Just my thoughts and again so proud to be a member in my own small way helping.
I love that simple analogy , you want your land like ' a muffin tray'. Its amazing to see the regen you've caused. And I can help but get ahead of where your at, with you saying your amazed at what you've done/got to. And while you're ranting about what you get your guys to di and where their developing habit like always putting mulch down, filling the worm drums with water daily. This is where I start dreaming of helping like feeding your animals walking across the suvanna/ plaines. Like a couple of years from now I see trails threw your property I just wish you think about putting lanes threw your property to feed your animals, not right , so your animals can feed themselves. I mean at some stage your gunna have to think of grass fires. There is a guy in the Kimberlys, Western Australia who has donkety's bc they dig hole for much like your muffin tray but on a bigger scale. and the donkeys like to roam up on the hill side where his cattle won't go. Sorry I've gone from one extreme to another. I got as far as double fencing so that my 3 goats, 3 sheep, I ram and 1 buck could follow each group and feed themselves as thry walked down the lane. I tued to make it where one group could meander like critters on the plains did. but not where the lanes(what was the word you said 'Over grazed'. And Thank you
camera man did a great job
He was being slightly naughty I would say 🤣
time stamp?
@@ScottiMac0007 come on, just watch the whole video. A time will be an allegation 😂
@@rajsinghji-84 I did catch that but put it down to how they walk in lines to not disturb the plants lol
Amazing how you are not just improving your land but using it as a tool to spread the practices and inspire people around you. Your impact is now no longer limited to your land but is spreading out across Africa. Congratulations
Gotta love it when dreams come true. Danou is spreading the word for good! 🌿
May he thrive! 🖖
Danou didn't hestitate to say "Sorghum". It's a first! 😁And I love the butterflies and the birds so much.
Lol
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Who was the camera man? They did a good job!
You gave these people a very good tour, they now have a refernce point of your farm in their minds, another tour next yr can show them the progress that can be achieved in a short while...Perhaps first fruits from fig, pomegranit & lemon...
Certainly in 5yrs of water collenction the progress will be fantastic, more trees more shade, more time more fruit, more compost more food, more growth more mulch...
The future may show growth beyond your boundries from water havested & sunk into your ground moving along downstream & underground from your property...
Many seeds planted in the minds today...Bravo Danou...From the UK...
Great comment 😊
Wonderful that the word is spreading with your work. The more exposure you have the better.
I can watch this video a hundred times. What a beautiful summary of all the great things you've done!
Danous video person has usually been his young daughter. She does a great job and I applaud danou for including his family. Danou doesn’t have an expensive you tube system to video . He uses what he has and perhaps like his corn with time he will be able to afford better equipment. It’s a privilege to have danou and family videoing what they do.
I was part of the tour. Such an insighrful learning experience. For sure will bring more team nembers. Thank yiu Danou we appreciare
I would like to thank you and the others for taking the time to tour the property, and I hope you will be as impressed with what has been achieved as I am. I live half a world away in Oregon, USA, and I wish you and your organization great success in your work. I look forward to your next visit!
Here's something you'll find interesting ...listen very carefully and you will discover that the science is out and when you plant trees and they grow bigger. ..... The rain becomes more attracted to the trees....that's scientific.....if people want more water...simply plant more trees.... th-cam.com/video/OxpjG2IEroA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=g6j1IvKTCMs8_HUu and off course using these water holding techniques achieves the goal quicker.
Please come back again!
Thank you for viewing with me. Glad to be back. Where are you viewing from?
Hospital 😂
@@BESHYSBEES 🤣🤣🤣 how did things go?
@@thefoodforestnamibia all good surgery is set for tomorrow morning, might be in hospital for a week or so yet.
@@BESHYSBEESHope it goes well and you can go home all fixed up and ready to go soon!
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It should not be forgotten about how Permaculture came about. A group of “youngish” people rented a house in Hobart Tasmania. The previous winter, 2 of them, Bill Mollison and David Holmgren had overwintered in an old road workers hut , while working in the wild country of Tasmania. During that overwintering, Bill and David exchanged views on many things, being equally concerned about the state of the world, agriculture, nature, politics, society and everything. The following year as part of the greater group, they decided to try to feed a household of 5, from a suburban 1/4er acre block of land. That was the initial impetus. From that the rational planting and planning started to come into focus and Bill and David thought, experimented and wrote. IT ALL STARTED FROM TRYING TO FEED 5 from a 1/4 acre block.
Indeed so, & it can bring together some of the succesful systems from around the world, friendly symbiotic plantings, like Corn (maize) beans & pumkin...
Danou sent to members a video from Geoff Lawson. Iam Aussie I did not realise he was an Aussie. I searched him and found his Jordan project. As a newbie to permaculture I am learning so much. I was blown away what has been achieved and think this really relates to nimibia .
Thanks!
It's Impressive how fast all of that water soaked in.
Our Soil all over the Earth is very thirsty ... that's why we need implement some techniques presented by Dan to harvest the rain water and restore Ground Water so we can all thrive...
@@magdaos1146 I don't doubt the soil is thirsty, but that wouldn't matter in clay soil - the water would stay there longer. There is probably some sandy soil.
I absolutely love how you help bring up the community around you maybe you start a community garden for the town later on in life
What a great idea.
Looking good! Nice to see some water still on the land - and more and more green. The way you performes your tour was good, they were able to see both the succesful areas thay are older and the newer areas that you are just getting started. Next year you need to have lots of seeds ready to go at the beginning of the wet season to get as much planting done as soon as possible. Maybe next dry season you will make paths through the property. Maybe you should have shown your tree nursery.
That was great tour, hope they come back in a years time and see the progress,
Great to see all the butterflies flitting about. Good to hear all the interest and questions from the visitors
Yes I agree love the insects the birds etc heartwarming
As a lay man, this really was inspiring! Thanks Danou!
Your like me Iam learning and happy to be a member in my small way to make this happen.
This man deserves success 💛heart of gold what we like to see 🙏
I am immensely proud of you! Good job. Keep spreading the word.
Sweet tour. I hope they come back for pointers as they implement some systems.
They are already in the permaculture education business.
Hopefully DAPP looks at all your videos to get a good understanding of how swales and berms work. Well done, Danou! 🎉🎉🎉🎉
DAPP is already in the permaculture education business.
Those gullies are likely to fill with silt over time thus healing the land from the previous erosion. So glad to see the sharing of knowledge.
Yes I agree. Won't that be wonderful. Let nature work.
What do you see? Best question ever! Good job
Very nice walk through you land. And ❤that its rained
Danou, that's fantastic. I feel so proud of you and what you are accomplishing. It's true, all the worlds problems can be solved in a garden. Really inspirational for the year 2025.
Superb. Spreading the love
I obviously love what you are doing on your land. But what you are doing to share the knowledge to other locals is far more impressive than anything you are doing with your land. Even though thos was only a group of 4 or 5 people, those people are going to take what they learned and show other people. That is far more powerful than the already impressive work you do at your own place. One day, people are going to talk about you like a hero. Keep up the good work friend. You are a gift.
DAPP is already in the permaculture education business. They were there to assess what Danou is doing for a possible fit.
@stevejohnstonbaugh9171 i wasnt aware of that, thank you. Even though it was a permaculture group, im sure it still helps tremendously seeing the examples being used within a town. I still see only positive results coming from that visit.
I also want to trust my immune system enough to handle worms, manure and compost with bare hands and just casually eat and drink off of my bare hands afterwards without washing them 😁 Anyway, what a wonderful tour of the entire system. Good job, keep it up.
41:55, What??? You remembered "Sorghum"!!!😄
I have to tell myself I get sorgums to remember the name 🤣🤣🤣
Oh dammit! I was too slow. You already wrote it... 😅
great tour. i think you really hammered the point that the rain needs to be harvested. can you tell us more about the group that came to visit. great to see you spreading permaculture!
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ok, so I found that they work for public health, with a focus on hiv, malaria, and other illnesses... I hope they know that the water doesn't stay standing long enough for mosquitos, though perhaps mosquito nets over local water tanks may be a good idea.
@@NirvanaFan5000 The old way my grandfather used on the farm back in the 40s to the 70s was a teaspoon of diesel every month in the covered 35000 litre rainwater tank which spreads out across the surface and kills all mosquitos.
Here is how you find the homepage for the organization that visited in this video:
Search the term "DAPP Namibia Development Aid from People to People". That should take you right to their org home page. There is a link on the home page to a "2023 Progress Report" that is quite interesting!
It is wonderful that you were able to show them so much of what you are doing!
So Awesome! :0)
all i can say is wow and i liked the bird song to.
Great tour Danou! The sounds of birds in background throughout is also spirit lifting 🐦🌱
I am thrilled with your visitors' interest.
a poem, by robert louis stevenson. when i was down besides the sea, a wooden spade they gave to me to dig the sandy shore, my holes were empty like a cup, in every hole the sea came up til it could come no more.
Incredible! Well done. The future looks GREEN. Noice! 😊
So impressed with your knowledge of your land. The tour of your land and showing local people of water harvesting. My parents and my grandparents were farmers. I live in a city in the Midwest of USA. I have container gardens in the growing season here. I harvest water for my house plants.
Hugely inspirational 🙏 😀💚
I love all the info we are getting, from all around the world!
I found that a really useful tour, thanks.
How cool! Those visitors are like us viewers but with more immersion😂 Great to know that you're spreading the permacultural knowledge across namibia. Good to see you back online
DAPP is already in the permaculture education business. They were there to assess what Danou is doing for a possible fit.
Brilliant job spreading the word. Keep going !!!! We will support you!
So fantastic having local people interested in what you are doing!
It’s really greening up!
We just got our first 1” of rain since last May here in San Diego!
Great seeing the book being passed around!
Just wanted to mention that the sound quality was really good!
4:32 i hope you showed them a before and after of this front garden and the difference of just a month ago!
@10:30 - Allan Savory uses the term "Rainfall Effectiveness" to express the concept you are trying to convey of an "increase in amount of water infiltrated per rainfall event". It is way more complex than that of course, and I think that's a decent paraphrase of what is meant by the term.
Excellent tour.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
awesome to see you sharing your knowledge mr friend i hope more people in town take you up on the help and get involved will offer more abundance to you all.
I'd love to see more people get involved in permaculture as everyone benefits ❤
I enjoyed the tour and the most that impressed me was the difference between mulched Corn and the other. Also to learn that termites prefer to eat the mulch first rather then the plant. I was wondering if that can be applied to snails. We have a lot of snails in our garden and used to eat everything I planted.
Not sure if that wil work they like living plants more.
Have you perhaps considered dividing up your horse paddock in to quarters or half and in the rainy season give them a quarter or half at a time so you can rest and improve the other section(s)? You might not be able to in the dry season, but diring the rains, you can mulch around the trees and let grasses grow up so when the horses come back, they have some free feed or perhaps healthier trees.
just like paddock grazing system
My friend thank you for sharing. The River bank, please get some huge rocks to put in place instead of the tires. I hear thru watching videos like this… that rocks and pebbles help filter water… Thank you
The problem is that there are hardly big rocks in his area, hence the tires for now.
Tweet tweet 🐥 the bird are very happy in your forests 😊
So much positivity coming from your channel. Well done!
Imagin if all the rivers were fenced off so that livestock couldn’t get to them. Then leaky wears added. How beautiful that would be. I am a big believer in protecting riparian buffers as they can act as wildlife corridors and the extra vegetation (not grazed by livestock) will help slow and sink the water which helps heal the land around it. 😊
100% agreed. Riparian areas should be exclusion zones for all manner of livestock for too many reasons to type.
Great Tour and work by you and yr team. Warm regards from Poland.
So much progress! I just read up on laecaena: it says feeding it to horses makes their hair fall out. That would be something to see.
Hahahahahaha yes they can get poisoning from that. Sheep and goats supposedly too but we never had that problems even with 100% Leucaena over a year. No other feed. My wife refuse to give leucena to the horses exactly for this reason but when it is everywhtyhen they Wil feed it to themselves 🤣🤣🤣
I’m always getting an education watching these tours.
So DAP, Development Aid from People to People Namibia contacted you "nogal intresand"
NICE! Word sure does get around.
You doing this "Permitculture" from a purely unselfish motives, because you want to share this concept, which will change these peoples lives.
The Afrikaans words my husband helped me to put it type it in the correct meaning.
My Afrikaans is "Nee te goet nee" Its a long story.
Lovely to hear the birds singing here and there in the background.
Well this your first "Official Tour" and it will be I am certain not your last. With practice you will get into the stride and you will be walking your talk, as you are with what you already have put into practice.
As with your camera man will get better with practice.
Enjoyed your tour in showing this group of interested people what you have already achieved.
Looking forward to this out come of this Official Tour.
Thank you Danou for sharing with us the progress.
Is looking really good.
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We have Mesquite here in Texas it is very good for smoking meat and barbecue. There is a city near me named Mesquite. It has huge thorns that will go through your tires. They have machines here in Texas that rip them out by the roots. When you grow trees for chop and drop that is called coppicing. Beavers do that with willow trees to make their dams. Humans probably learned coppicing from beavers. You could also use that technique to make hedge rows as fences. I have 2 Meyers improved lemons in flower pots I get a couple lemons off each one. Plant more native flowers. But I have to bring them inside in the winter.
Coppice and pollarding are both active elements of managing a living fence.
I think you missed mentioning overgrazing.
It's basically 2 problems; lack of rain/water managed and overgrazing. Even in Europe we don't let the animals graze until the grass is totally gone.
Edit: I spoke too soon! 😅
Great job showing them around, did they find you, or did you call them in? And have you shown them footage of how all of it works when it rains??
Thats so cool you get to tell your story to local people and not only to people on the internet. I hope it will bear fruit :)
I think your tour guest are quite unfamiliar to all the principles of this complex topic and could i imagine some of your ideas may get lost along the way. I do think these are valuable opportunities to spread the message and for your guests to have something alluring and straight forward to propogate afterwards.
When presententing something i always try to tell story that is anchored around a few ideas. Although our domains are quite different as i work in finance and pitched quite a bit when it comes to startups during my studies, maybe there is some ideas of value here.
Firstly i would think about, who is visiting me? Whats the reason they visit me? And what do i want them to take away from the this 1 hour of time i spend with them.
I would want them to know who i am, where im coming from, why im doing this, where im heading with my idea, what can they expect today?
What is the issue at hand, you are trying to solve? How does your solution contribute to solving the issue? Where does my idea come from, is it some crazy idea of a guy on yt, is it founded on established principles?
Starting from easy ideas and then increasing the complexity... how does rainwater move through land? What are swales and contour lines? How does it connect with fertitility pits, mulch and worm cast and so on?
What did i already achieve within the time?
What key ideas do i want to make stick and how do i keep on repeating them throughout the tour whenever possible?
What is the message i want them to take away?
(I love the example where you compare the costs of aquisition of your land and the possible annual rain harvest! That sticks!)
How do i activate them? Give them something actionable to do afterwards, like "buy that book", "start doing this or go there", "lets keep in touch, i can help you start out" and so on.
(This list may also help for your yt pressence)
Its a bit abstract and just a kick start, but i hope it helps in some way :)
DAPP is already in the permaculture education business. They were there to assess what Danou is doing for a possible fit.
Here is how you find the homepage for DAPP:
Search the term "DAPP Namibia Development Aid from People to People". That should take you right to their org home page. There is a link on the home page to a "2023 Progress Report" that is quite interesting.
How about some suggestions about how to merge what Danou is doing with an international non-profit? Humana is a giant heath insurance company headquartered in the US.
Great video. All your videos are really good but to have people from the Development Aid association come round and see your fantastic work is heartwarming. Not only spreading physical seeds in Namibia but planting seeds of inspiration in people’s minds is an amazing thing to do. 👏
28:29 that ladies painted horse is a looker, I love the pattern on her
The property is looking great. Need to start thinking about path design D
Danou keeps accidentally falling in those 'pesky holes' from time to time during the rain season - a path would help when he and the dogs rush outside to capture film of the deluge of water from the heavens!
@Pam501 plus make it a nice experience when going for a stroll
Spot on!
Please do not walk on top of the berms. That area is precious. It is the best property on the farm for planting all manner of trees and shrubs. DOuble the topsoil and year round water tree roots can easily reach. And the roots stabilize the berms so no blowouts with extreme flooding.
you could try field rotation for keeping your horse to manage the vegetation
How about doing a sponsor a tree program? So $25 per tree for the farm, Lukies and Imms.
Good suggestion, but bring the Donation in line with the actual cost. Trees for the Future is .25/US each.
Maybe $5.00 US would be appropriate.
Yes, but you have to think of not just the tree but the wages of the people who will plant it and tend to it too. But still $25 is just a suggestion, Danou would be in a better place to estimate the cost.
@@garryhancock-the-OG Just sharing with you what Trees for the Future calculates their cost to be in their Food Forest nurseries in Kenya, Senegal, Mali, Uganda and Tanzania.
in 2015 TFF surpassed 100 million trees planted around the world. They are on track to plant 1 Billion by 2030.
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Great Job Danou 🥳💐☀️☺️🙏🏼
Great video! Love that the word is getting around. Maybe you should start planning a walkway through your place that you think showcases best all the things you are doing. I used to own a landscaping business so if you'd like we could exchange ideas on how to best construct nice and durable pathways for the visitors, workers, you and anyone to move around the property 😊
Maybe rainwater harvesting could be mandatory for the municipality..not a jailable offence or anything but a cultural and community change..❤ You seem like a soldier, you're awesome
Sorgum!
maybe you should do paths on the property. That would help to keep the plants growing undisturbed especially when you do more and more tours.
i love to see your videos every time you can upload i am happy to see how you can follow the permaculture rule "accept the feedback " for pathways , i have a request for you to make a video of your journey and little bit a history what inspire you how do you make it happen and still going . Our Area (Potohar Region Pakistan its more like plateau region ) Climate and land topography is the same as yours so its like light in the night for me . i studied permaculture very deeply @
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There's something else that can be done to get the water moving to where it needs to and get a deeper angled soak......you need a hammer or mallet and either a long screwdriver or thin metal pole with a point...inside the swales or dams etc. you can hammer in deep holes at angles you'd like the water directed to underground, this also means that even with less rain, you have these under swale tunnels that can reach outward to areas you'd like irrigated underground.....you can also hammer these poles in on angles, then pull them out, now you have created an underground waterway, meaning you will be able to spread more water around before it goes down. So before the swales fill, water will already move outwards due to the long hole having softer soil, these aren't permanent eventually they'll fill with soil etc. but it's another way to manage water in swales and it's behaviour short-term to get quicker results.
The community proposes buying the van Rensburg Family Permaculture Demonstration Farm a post hole digger with a 4" auger and an extension shaft to drill the sink hole 60" deep. Pattern to start is one every meter along the entire swale line. Danou and his workers can select the next priority.
Re: The Bare Horse Area.
What about adding green spots within the riding area?
I have seen channels with elephant rescues where they protect young trees from becoming snacks. Within these fenced circles and triangles, you could lower the area? So, instead of changing the entire area, you have a few random spots dug out like African Smiles?
In a few years, that whole area could be fully shaded without changing its function?
We did not see the entire tour, but you never mentioned the living fences to prevent animals from entering and overgrazing.
I would encourage talking about different plants being mutually beneficial in harvesting nutrients for adjacent plant benefit (corn and beens) and the natural fertilizers.
You mentioned worm casting to improve soil fertility but not the benefits of mulch for both soil enrichment and shading the soil. You showed the corn field as a good example of the benefits of mulching.
Your mention of chop and drop of plants could use more explanation of the benefits (like mulching).
You never mentioned the mulching competition to them during the tour we saw.
I think this is a good point. It's worthwhile to develop a basic script of the points you want to teach, where/how you will demonstrate them on the property tour.
also, something I didn't understand for a long time that may be worth discussing is the way water pools over bedrock and watersheds etc so visitors understand that when we take water from wells, it is using a resource that can dry up. by sinking water, we are recharging it. (also... kind of a weird question... but do people realize they're overgrazing the land? I'd assume they know but like... is it like they have to do it to survive *this* year's finances even if it harms next year? idk. but seems like a situation that really really has to be addressed on a societal level.) cheers
The pizza oven in a termite mound is something else. 😁
I hope this tour brings others to realise they too _can_ make a huge difference.
Boxy really enjoys all the filming, getting his exercise chasing you around and going for swims. Do you have any passionfruit vines growing anywhere on the farm? My kids loved having the vines on our property years ago.
Hi, I really enjoy all the project you undertake. At home and at your workers. Lately you digging plenty of little holes to plant seeds in. However these become more difficult to cross over due to the unlevel terrain. I've watched many video's about African smiles to control and collect the water. At the same time they gather top sole and create a good place to plant grass and certain vegetables. The biggest advantage is that you will be able to cover more surface with the African Smiles, easier to walk through and maintain. And after a while they create the green patches were all kind of vegetables, fruits, trees. certain of these plants can be replanted at parts at your house. Those African Smiles need lesser maintenance and do very quickly provide better soil.
So first the swales, african smiles and then the other plants in holes. You will have to find a balance but remember it's easier to make small green circle bigger then to fill a large empty circle.
anayway, you do achieve a lot already
After a while the vegetation collects the rain.
Great video again. Best wishes from Crete Greece 😊
I agree with African Smiles. I don't understand why Danou drifted away from them. You can see the results are great. After the swale and berm systems, the African smiles were the best performers followed by the on berm plantings with irrigation.
@@stevejohnstonbaugh9171 I agree. First process the whole property with these systems, then make smaller changes in certain locations to observe those results.
@@NoiseEverywhere Thank you for your positive comment. I say find what works and stick with it.
Fantastic,will those visitors be able to give you any grantsor support?❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Not yet. At the moment it is just a educational tour but small seeds lead to big things.
@@thefoodforestnamibia you were fantastic dealing with them,hope they do support you,great effort
@thefoodforestnamibia they were engaged with your content so that is very positive
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Could you Put a Link to DAP and what they are doing?
DAPP is already in the permaculture education business. They were there to assess what Danou is doing for a possible fit.
Here is how you find their homepage:
Search the term "DAPP Namibia Development Aid from People to People". That should take you right to their org home page. There is a link on the home page to a "2023 Progress Report" that is quite interesting.
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Very nice, but it ended too soon...
Are these people from a gvt agency or from a non profit organization ? Are they working with the people in the township ?
What's their purpose, I mean, their job ?
Yes, please can you explain, thanks.
Here is how you find the homepage for the organization that visited in this video:
Search the term "DAPP Namibia Development Aid from People to People". That should take you right to their org home page. There is a link on the home page to a "2023 Progress Report" that is quite interesting.
@@FionaGordon-x7m Hello Fiona, the answer is above. Check out their 2023 Progress Report. They are a legit non-profit. Let me know if you see this OK? I just got a "returned error" message.
@@FionaGordon-x7m Here is how you find the homepage for the organization that visited in this video:
Search the term "DAPP Namibia Development Aid from People to People". That should take you right to their org home page. There is a link on the home page to a "2023 Progress Report" that is quite interesting.
Danou, dancing impresario, environmental campaigner and now public speaker. Is there no end to his talents?
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consider sowing grass seed all around
to protect the earth and
build soil
I remember in a previous video maybe about a week ago you mentioned a farm for sale, I have no idea about local restrictions but if you could get away with it that could be a fantastic opportunity to create a cooperative where a bunch of you chip in to purchase or lease the land & build a food forest. Over time you can raise animals as well & sell excess to the township. Maybe build some houses to sell or rent to like minded people. There is a lot depending on local laws of course so it would need a heap of investigation before making a rash decision.
Danou has his hands full. Not possible for him to even begin to wrap his head around this idea. Best action is to forget it. Don't clutter up his world.
@ thanks for your input, hopefully it helps someone.
Wow, land prices in Nam are as crazy as in Botswana now. How big is the farm Danou?
😊would have like a chance for the tòur to express their opinions.
Kudos (good job) to the camera person.
More comments/compliments to impact YT algorithm.
Make sure to send the link to this video to DAPP. It could perhaps be a training video for them - or at least spread your page to others in Namibia! I found the DAPP website and tried to link it, but don't know if it posted. Is OTJI FM 107.6 the only radio station in your area?
I hope you will do a follow-up on this. I'd like to know more about your visitors and what they do. Are they from a government agency? What influence will they have on what you do? Will they be able to provide assistance to you? There are so many questions! Just a note for viewers; I wondered what the exchange rate was between the US dollar and the Namibian dollar. One US dollar is worth $18.55 Namibian dollars.
I was thinking the exact same thing 😊
Here is how you find the homepage for the organization that visited in this video;
Search the term - "DAPP Namibia Development Aid from People to People". That should take you right to their org home page. There is a link on the home page to a "2023 Progress Report" that is quite interesting 🙂
@@stevejohnstonbaugh9171 Hi Steve, I'm seeing this comment. In a rush to get into work, so will check out your other comment this evening (10-12 hours hence).
This is an excellent video. This time, I really understood the land configuration. You are a good educator.
Maybe in the future, you should do the corn comparison again and again? Find a new spot to have a fair contest. Plant the old way and the new. There is nothing quite like visiters seeing results themselves.
Over 5.5k subs, you keep growibg. Well done.
Me again. Please remember to like subscribe and watch let adds play. Also if you can afford become a member on buy me a coffee. 5 $ us a month . This helps with all the behind the scenes operational costs.
How wonderful danou and your visitors and immanuel and wife to showcase what’s possible. I loved your energy and excitement and Iam sure they went away with lots of information to process. A suggestion. If you are going to have people tour putting together a tour guide that covers what you want during the tour and I would also include speaking with immunael all his wife and workers on your farm such as lukas about what he has learned from the corn experience. Also a link to beshy bee google earth which shows the difference. . This is of course a seperate project but please call out if you want the brains trust to help with this. You are progressing so fast and you have lots of people suggesting things but Iam sure there are very talented people following you who could help with helping you write something up you could provide a booklet to people coming to visit . Just my thoughts and again so proud to be a member in my own small way helping.
Long handles I hear there backs yell : )
I love that simple analogy , you want your land like ' a muffin tray'. Its amazing to see the regen you've caused. And I can help but get ahead of where your at, with you saying your amazed at what you've done/got to. And while you're ranting about what you get your guys to di and where their developing habit like always putting mulch down, filling the worm drums with water daily. This is where I start dreaming of helping like feeding your animals walking across the suvanna/ plaines. Like a couple of years from now I see trails threw your property I just wish you think about putting lanes threw your property to feed your animals, not right , so your animals can feed themselves. I mean at some stage your gunna have to think of grass fires. There is a guy in the Kimberlys, Western Australia who has donkety's bc they dig hole for much like your muffin tray but on a bigger scale. and the donkeys like to roam up on the hill side where his cattle won't go. Sorry I've gone from one extreme to another. I got as far as double fencing so that my 3 goats, 3 sheep, I ram and 1 buck could follow each group and feed themselves as thry walked down the lane. I tued to make it where one group could meander like critters on the plains did. but not where the lanes(what was the word you said 'Over grazed'. And Thank you
Horses produce around 20kg of dung & urine a day to the ground, so if they're kept from overgrazing, their presence is actually beneficial.