I went back to your old vlogs from 4yrs ago, you have come from far, you have created a truly food forest🎉🎉 congratulations. replicating thus concept on my farm in Kenya
Your process i is easy than my / because you in 10b / where I grow theses trees in 9B zone so I got all the tropical trees just like your garden . I got mangosteen & durian tree too .
Not that easy in the tropics. We find never ever had the problems which we now find in QLD Australia. Back in a cold part of NZ was at least 100x easier. All the months of frosts were brilliant on hindsight. You just grow different things and /or nurture some things differently.
@@jenskarlsson4744we are in the sun tropics but because we r inland we do get 6-10 frosts every year. We still grow hundreds of bananas and about a dozen mango trees. They do ok. But agree that’s why in colder climates it’s easy to grow a lot of other stone fruits . We struggle to grow a lot of stone fruit here.
Hey Mike, have you considered planting local species endemic to the area to control pests? To attract predatory insects that attack the pests. Awesome work, BTW!
Hi Gavin, I do have planted a lot of local species but they don't seem to attract any predators. I think the predators may get attracted by their prey rather than plants... I do have some assassin bugs and praying mantids but just not enough to keep the bugs in check.
I can nearly guarantee you can reduce those leaf miners damage more than 70% with two simple solutions: 1. Swallow birdhouses 2. Bat homes You need more swallow nesting sites and bats. During the day, swallows will feed on thousands of flying insect pests in midair. Sparrows will be good to control beetle, grasshopper and lower level pests, and will just need shrub nesting sites (tall thrushes, etc). Swallows will need a small birdhouse on posts. Both of these birds main diet is insects and if you have a feeder stocked with seeds / water , the swallows will be less likely to go after fruits. Get rid of those day leaf miners saw flies etc. Bats on the other hand will be perfect to control those night pests (moths). Get rid of those night pests, e.g. moths and other leaf miners. Here's what you'll get bats and swallows to eat: The vast majority of leaf-mining insects are moths (Lepidoptera), sawflies (Symphyta, the mother clade of wasps), and flies (Diptera). Getting rid of these pests will greatly reduce damaged leaves and ensure better photosynthesis for your plants which equates to better growth and less plant stress. This will also lead to increased fruit yield, as the undamaged tree leaves can focus on creating more sugars to create fruits. Hope that helps 🌴
Just discovered your channel now… congratulations on this wonderful piece of land 💚 While watching, I am wondering all the time if you’re German as well 😁 could also be Austrian though… Maybe I will find out when binge watching all your other videos. Great work you have done here, from what I can tell! Really inspires me not to shy away from dreaming bigger! Thank you very much for all the detailed explanations, and keep up the great work 🤝
Veeery nice Mike. Beautiful place you got there and shaping up to be a really excellent food forest. I would think haveing a block in Kuranda is about as good as it gets. Hope it keeps going well for you. Best regards.
hi there, found you a few weeks ago, you livin my dream bro, still stuck in austria, if i´m wrong please correct, but i can hear a austrian accent in your english, right? :) i saw what andreas pfeifer in paraguai made years ago..... till that time my wife bianca and i just wanna escape our " rat race" in austria... keep on growin :) much respect! light & love
Hey Mike, I moved to Kuranda a few months ago with the goal of living more off the land. I'd love to meet and check out what you have done on your property, get some ideas.
Thanks for sharing your passion Mike, was a very enjoyable and informative video, you are very knowledgeable and passionate, lovely to see everything flourishing in your rainforest food garden under your care and attention, thanks again ;)
You do realize, if the Panama Cherry is an invasive species, and if the birds are taking most of the berries, then the seeds are already distributed everywhere for miles around and it is too late to control by just taking out your own trees. 😢
I've only been growing my food forest for five months and I can't wait for it to get to three years like yours! It thrills me endlessly. I have a baby rainbow eucalyptus, too (I'm from the Philippines)- and I so look forward to getting older because of that one tree- how marvelous it would be with all the changing colors in its trunk! Thank you for sharing your journey in food foresting!
Very nice video and amazing plant growth. You're doing a fantastic job👍 explaining what you've planted and we're looking forward to seeing more from you Mike! Cheers, RB 😀
4:17 Actually it’s quite easy to deal with Prest and disease. Use KNF Korean Natural Farming methods, IMO4/mantanice solution specifically IMPO for pest by Chris Trump. There’s also JADAM using JMS/JLF JWS/JWA that’s very effective and cheap for both. Lots of free info to learn
The trick to save the planet is to be a breatharian and keep the ground covered with plants and trees very close together so there is no sunlight hitting the ground , like nature does it..... welcom to the jungle!!!!🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴🌾🌾🌾🌱🌱🍃🍃 as long as we eat we will never recouperate this planet a her 100% capacity!!
Everything eats something... that's the foundation of life on this planet. That's why there is a food web. We're just a part of that... and we should be humble enough to acknowledge that... one branch of the tree of life. 🙏🏾
Where are your supports? I don’t see lines, trees, plants. Work with plants in your area take in your environment and you’ll find your native supports. Lots of food but you can never have enough multch. There’s a ton of bare ground, I’m covering all the soil with P1 Basic Grasses and a week later they shift, getting support and pioneer species only here in the beginning. I’m using a combo of the most used in agroforesty and the best native fast pioneer trees and plants. Again I love your place just having better success taking a step backwards to go further faster.
We have been going for 9 months. But after 5 months we decided to start our main food forest elsewhere. So we have two food forests going . But the second one is getting most of the attention now. Exciting to see what you have done, hopefully we will be similar after 3 years.
Awesome video! I can't believe how grown up your trees are now! So impressive how you got so much so established with so many critters in the rainforest to contend with 👍✌️💚
Thanks for your input mate, but I do have a reason for keeping them bigger. They are shade trees for a new succession planting. My new video shows how I prune them for that purpose.
We have found on some of our fruit trees over the years which have suffered from disease. As we increased the fertility and water availability ( through mulch particularly) that the trees naturally became resistant.
