Ethical land management, climate resilience, food security, place-based education, biodiversity & ecological function. Study and documentation of various agroecosystems & habitat restoration sites, including:
1. Goat Rock Forest Garden - 220 acre educational campus on former pasture amongst second-growth northern hardwood-conifer forest (temperate/boreal forest transition zone) in the Adirondacks, New York [Zone 4a]
2. Mauna‘ōhi Ridge - 1/2 acre native dry forest restoration project on highly degraded slope adjacent to sub-urban area in Haha'ione valley (semi-arid/mesic tropical dryland forest) on the island of O'ahu, Hawai'i [Zone 12b]
3. Habitat restoration projects - temperate humid tropical, mesic montane, arid/semi-arid tropical dry lands, & more on Hawai'i Island [Zones 9a thru 12b]
This was so helpful. This currant worm decimated my red currant and white currant plants this year. I found them infested with the worms and it was pretty late and a lot of damage was done. I put my gardening gloves on and just squished all of the worms on every leaf where I found them. Not a pleasant way to deal with it.
I have two 150m2 vegetable gardens separated in the middle by chicken coop with run. In one year I grow vegetables in one garden, and in second I grow cover crops and keep chickens. In next year I change the sides.
Hehe that’s awesome I’m glad you enjoy it. It’ll be interesting to rewatch these many years from now and get to experience how the garden is changing over time.
Haha yea that’s a good idea. I’m glad you like these videos, they’re kind of a weird style but I think it’s cool hehe. Just the sounds of wind and birds, trees rustling, animals scurrying around.
@@AgroecologicalSystems Black soliderfly larvae is kind of the best. The problem is feeding them. You can only give them like 30% duckweed then the rest has to be real food. Which sucks because I couldn't find enough food for them my first try at it. It took 4 tries discovery you could give 30% duckweed to them and on top of that we got dairy cattle. So we mix the duckweed with the manure from the dairy cattle. And boom finally got enough waste flow for black soliderflies to work. The cockroaches for us where easier. Because it scales up and down eaiser. You can go really small the you can go really big. We couldn't do that as easy with black soliderfly larvae. At least for us. There's this perfect mid level size or larger that actually worked for the effort.
True Effects are so Intensely Spiritual. I experienced it in the place of totality in Buffalo, New York when I was there. It just has a weighted effect on your body and your your psyche and your soul I saved this picture. Thanks for posting it on RU-vid 🗽🌕🌎
Are there slats inside the culvert angled to help move the compost closer to the other end or is it angled slightly lowered at the finished end to help the compost keep moving down as it’s turned?
It is angled slightly, I think only a few percent. I think that’s one of the main factors in how long it takes the material to pass through and can be adjusted slightly.
@@AgroecologicalSystems how much would you think it weighs when it is full with materials? Thinking about building a set up similar to this and wondering if it would be possible to rotate it with a hand winch set up or do you think it needs an electric motor set up like yours?
Dry land taro will self spread itself if you plant it. Takes a long time but eventually it pops up in areas you wouldn't expect and is hard to get rid of.
That’s cool, I never tried growing the dry land kind before. We grow a lot of other canoe crops down lower where there’s better soil and stuff, might try some different kinds of taro down there.
What it takes is work, dedication, time and people who continue this work over years, decades, centuries. This generally can only happen when generations work together and support one another, and communities get together to support each other with plant transplanting and work parties.
Can you please explain how you will do such a system with horses? I saw your horses at the end of the video. Can you do it with chickens and horses only? Do one need other grazing animals too? Thank you.
The horses would just need more area. We have different pastures for them to go to so they can rotate that way. I think you could have chickens follow the horses and it would work well.
That would probably be a good idea lol.. it’s been like that since the 70s as far as I know. It’s usually pretty wet around this time of year, but there are like dry leaves and debris under the shed, dry wood nearby, etc.
Nice setup! Here is mine and my buddies! From Tree to Table: The Art of Maple Syrup Production w/ Hammerle Hill Homestead ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vTnJjE_nEgI.html
Thanks. We're getting into sheep and chickens. I have 2 acres of fescue I want to replace with other grasses and clover. Do you think I could do this and then go behind them with the seeds of the pasture I want?
Yea that would probably work, you might try to play around with the interval / rest period and other variables but we’ve done something similar. Over time you’ll start to see more diversity.
Your place is looking awesome! And well set up for success in the years to come! Best of luck! this is truly inspirational content, thanks for sharing!❤
well sir at least the unexpected melt helped you . now at least you know where to amend your warter flow . i would like to say you seem to have done an amazing job so far , may bee having a pond at a higher level [ with feeds into it from the forest above ] then direct the outflow out to the parts of your upper swales that do not seem to be colecting melt water i am no expert tbh! but i have helped a freind do a similar project with verry wet land [ almost bog land ] in the winter , the only difference was at the bottom of the wet run he / we planted about a thousand willow trees [ idealy suited to england's wet climate] this was about ten years ago , now on the lower flat land [ where your football pitch is ] he has feilds that are now walkable all year round , preiviously you just could not walk in the feild in winter . PS . I am sure you will be amazed with the out come [ but take photo's every year ] because you seem to forget the before and after and even inbetween .
Thank you for the message. I agree about the pond at a higher level, it would be a good idea to have a pond to hold more water higher up. When you planted the willows, what do you mean the fields are walkable all year round, was it because there was too much water? And the willows soak it up? I also agree about taking lots of photos / videos to compare before and after. There are always things I forgot but then remember when looking at old images and it’s interesting to see the progression.
Really excellent walking tour. Clear, understandable explanation of the systems thinking behind the layout. I'm south of the Adirondacks, near Utica (zone 5b), but these sorts of extreme swings in temperatures and precip are increasingly common. Our new normal, sadly. The northeastern US has seen a 70% increase in heavy rain events since 1950.
Makes sense to me, I think sometimes big pieces come out half decomposed so chopping them beforehand helps. I think also because it’s being rotated often the material is well aerated.
I have a citrus and avocado orchard. Would it be ok to graze chickens in the orchard where they may come into contact with fallen fruit that is harmful to them? Will they naturally avoid eating too much of it if they have enough healthy food, or will they damage their health gobbling avocados and lemons?
I think that would be a great place for them, although I see some sources saying they shouldn’t eat too much avocado or citrus, but others saying it’s fine.. we’ve allowed our chickens to rummage through food waste including avocado/citrus and haven’t had an issue. I generally assume chickens are smart enough to avoid mildly toxic stuff if they have a choice. In your orchard there are probably all kinds of other food sources like little insects and worms as well, so I think they would be fine in that setting but would be good to keep an eye on it.
