Thank you so much for answering my question and all the great information!!! I’m definitely working on my closed loop systems and reducing dependency on feed/grocery stores.
#permacultureq&a I'd like to treat my cattle pasture with Compost Extract to improve the soil. I'm in Central Calif where our grass dries out and we don't get rain for 6 months of the year. I think it wouldn't make sense to spread Compost Extract on a dry pasture where no rain is expected for months, wouldn't all the microbes just die? But it might make sense to spread Compost Extract on a dry pasture late in the dry season where the first rains are expected soon. Or maybe there's another strategy that would improve the pasture's soil? I'd appreciate hearing your comments. Thanks.
Hi William, regarding electro culture: Glen Rabenberg (Soil Works) talks about measuring voltage in the soil to detect problems. "How to preform an in-field soil health test" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Vsspaqbccng.html May be the electro culture antenna do a kind of regulating the voltage? It's just an idea... It's really great, when you connect the systems/logic from Elaine, Geoff, Sepp,... and make it work. Thanks for all your videos. BR from Germany
#Permaculture Q&A I have two questions if you have the time. First, my coworker is willing to give me his grass clippings so I can get my compost going but he has a major issue with ground pearls. From what ive read they eat the roots and not the actual grass. Do you think that would be an issue using that in my compost? We have Bermuda in our yard and pastures so I dont want them infesting our property. Second, I am creating a silvopasture and curious on what height to cut down the trees. Do I leave a stump or cut even with the ground. In my mind I see my cattle stepping on them and breaking a leg if they are cut even with the ground. Thanks and love the content!
DODDER UPDATE!!!: whell...it kinda came back. I still wanna try that again. However (on the tomatoes anyway), I found that if I: *Roll the dodder between my thumb & index finger along the vine/ branch, it breaks off it's many connections. *As it spreads to the tips/ ends of a given vine, it really gets wrapped around the tiniest areas = impossible to remove. (especially on the Basil!). So, I just remove that whole section of plant. ( I hated to do it...but frustration can be a great motivator..) SOOo... After a week, it's still over 90% gone. 🤷🏽 Thaaanks again William!🙏🙏🙏
# Permaculture Q&A I have a 'stick weed' Verbesina occidentalis infestation. How do I get rid of it before it totally consumes my pasture. Only rabbits will eat it, and I don't have 400 rabbits in tractors to eat it down.
#permacultureq&a Have you ever planted pumpkin seeds in cardboard ice cream or similar tubs as a season extender? Just plant the biodegradeable conainer without dusturbing the roots.
An idea for the tinctured herbs, you can lay them out in the sun and the alcohol will evaporate off within a day, then it can be added to the compost pile with no harm to the microbes
#permacultureqanda Fire ants......been chasing them with DE. Any ideas for removing these demons from hell that works better than DE besides a posion which I will not use. Thanks!❤
#Q&A Thanks for all of the information William, we learn a bunch and appreciate your sense of humor. Any updates on the soil test lab? This customer is ready when you are.
#permacultureQnA what are your thoughts on planting fruit trees closely together? I have two young peach trees that are spaced twelve feet apart trunk to trunk. I was thinking about planting a dwarf cherry tree in between the two peach trees. The trees will be planted in a row and I plan on pruning my trees to make something similar to a hedge row. If this is a bad idea then how far would I have to offset the cherry tree to make this work?
My input on electroculture. I tried it this spring and was excited to see plants respond after about 24 hours. The leaves stood up and the plants seemed to respond positively. So out of curiosity I used a static field meter and figured out that the overhead power lines were a major factor. By the time my tomato plants started producing, the electroculture made no difference in fruit production. The farther my plants were from the overhead power lines and transformer, the less the electroculture had an effect. My end result, the electroculture had zero effect on fruit production with any of my veggies. The one experiment for the 2024 garden that showed positive results was Wycking Tubs.My wycking tubs out performed the conventional gardening and pots by leaps and bounds.
#PermacultureQ&A is there any way to make compost with shredded paper and grass cuttings? I have some chicken litter but not large amounts and no resource for any other type of manure that hasn’t been contaminated. I do have access to large amounts of shredded paper which I also use as mulch .
#PermacultureQ&A I have sheep donkeys and small draft horses in addition to several types of poultry--what fodder trees will be of the most use for me? Some are a no-go with horses, I need to figure out what to plant or encourage. I read five mature trees per cow per year to provide winter fodder.
Although everything in life is a growing and learning experience, now that I'm older, wiser and more knowledgeable I always reflect on the perfect order of nature that our Creator put in motion. Not criticizing anyone who believes or participates in alternative practices, but I've never seen a naturally occurring metal rod, wiring or anything else tucked in amongst a forest or field of vegetation. If this was how our Creator intended nature to be, I would think our lands would have been originally inundated with prehistoric antenna amongst the trees. However what we do find is n extremely thorough and complex order above and below. There's so much beyond what we already think we know. When we try to improve with some new innovation and technology it seems to only do the opposite. Don't try and fix what isn't broken. And don't try to add to a perfect balance. Try to learn of the blessing we've been given and understand how to use it to naturally fulfill our needs. 🤷 Just food for thought.
I fully understand your point, and mostly agree with it in an ideal natural world. But there are really no ideal natural places left on our planet. We’ve altered so much. Best practice would be to stop altering, but that won’t happen (unless the apocalypse does occur- many people believe it’s coming soon.) So our second best practice is to live as best we can in our toxic world full of man-made poisons and man-made frequencies in the air. I personally have both an internet tower and power lines on my property. I can’t remove those. They were here when I bought the place. What I can do is mitigate the effects of those unnatural energy fields as best I can.
@@doubles1545 I agree with most of that. You may not be able to do anything about the towers on your land or what's going on in the world around you but you can influence it by seeing an example in your gardening/farming. I find myself becoming more and more discouraged as well at times but I reflect on how much has changed with the outlooks on food, industrial farming, etc in just the past few years. I remember almost 15 years ago when a friend first informed me about food ingredients and set me on course into many areas of interest such as herbs, homeopathy, regenerative farming, permaculture, non GMOs, etc. Times are changing. More and more people are waking up to what's being done to us by very corrupt, greedy and power hungry people around us. I firmly believe we're at the pioneer stage of a new era/revolution in food, farming etc. Unfortunately I believe some of us will be martyred in one way or another but it's well worth it. I don't think we're quite at the stage of Armageddon but we're definitely at the point where the control system is being setup for the Antichrist to rule. That's a whole different story though. Nevertheless, we must continue to strive at least for ourselves.
Thanks very much! I have been making hot compost for about three years. I have a word of warning for those to whom this might apply. Though I did not know what they were, a friend helping in the garden showed me that I have an infestation of Asian Jumping Worms. There is a lot on the web about identifying them. Not so much about coping. I discovered these worms will invade a pile of compost as soon as it starts cooling down. They are unbelievably successful, lots of worms, and I have noticed degrade in the soil of some of my garden beds. Not much advice out there but I decided to make new compost bins and place them on a 5.5" thick platform of limestone chat. I hope the worms won't get through that. I plan to heat up my piles until the worms and their cocoons are killed. And in the future to store compost where they can't get to it. I hope no one else gets this problem, but once you have these worms there may be no way to entirely rid yourself of them. But the last thing I wanted to do was feed them my best compost and then spread the well fed worms throughout my garden. Please read about these worms if you are not aware of them. They are spreading across the nation. Thanks again for the video!
Hey SGB. Thanks for taking my Q&A. Your advice is a help. I'm in the eastern panhandle of WV and the mountains here are full of various species. 12 summers ago i had to bring down 5 HUGE Kentucky Coffee Trees. Looked alot like Chinese Elm according to the locals. A forrester came to help fell the trees and identify them. Junk trees. Branches would snap in a little bit of wind. The smallest was 78 feet tall and 34" diameter. Under 40 years of growth. The biggest was 112 feet tall, 47" diameter, 60+ years old. The canopy to one side was over my 25 foot garage and another 15 feet over the house. Got 37 cords of firewood out of it all. The kicker to it all is all 5 trees were all on a shared root system. About a foot below the surface. New trees have popped up off of those roots. So more growth to remove. Another tree that has started growing here is the Tree of Heaven. Spotted Lantern Fly love laying eggs on them. Time to burn the property down. LOL. Again, thanks for sharing your knowledge. God bless you, the wife and your daughter. I might be able to use the book ... as a hammer. 😂 Wu Tang out.
As I have been battling locusts encroachment into prairie (and losing tires left and right because of it) it pains me to see someone INTENTIONALLY propagating them…
Environmental Science Student it's not "ether," its electro-magnatism. The ground has a negative charge (typically) and the atmosphere has a positive charge. The copper wire may be acting as a conduit. Alternatively, the earth's magnetic field may be causing a minor magnestic effect. Both would result in the same thing. Different charges on either side of the copper wire. This could benefit the plants by attracting nutrients to the area. As all nutrients have a charge to them. Otherwise the plant may be sensetive to electro-magnatism. I once had bunch of seeds (inside) that didn't sprout until a big thunderstorm. However to be honest, I really don't think a wire that small could do anything. You'd be better off getting a very small current at each end of the plot that alternates on a weekly basis. This would force the nutrients to flow past the root zone so the could collect more nutrients.
I have 4 beds that are “east and west”… 1. The overall layout looks better. 2. The crops that’ll go in those beds won’t be impacted by the sun direction… short/compact stuff for the most part. Rows will still go N-S… onions, peppers, lettuce, radishes, carrots, etc etc
I liked the nematodes question. I to have a huge amount of ants in my whole yard. I like in suburbia and have replaced my backyard with garden beds, chickens, and all the grass. the areas that had grass now have a ton of wood chips/mulch as the top layer. I think one of the sources of my mulch/woodchips were contaminated by ant colonies because I have an unbelievable amount of ants. I have tried the borax solution but you have to get them to go into the solution to eat it. I don't want to use any kind of poison on my yard since ultimately, the dirt will go into my garden beds. What would you recommend for ant control? #permacultureQ&A
