On this peaceful saterday we had some visitors that came to see what we do. The kids played with the clay and the men build two easy to replicate permaculture water harvesting structures Have a blessed day. DANOU
watching from the Central West of Western Australia. We are also drylands. The food forest is coming along marvellously. so awesome. God Bless you all.
Dump a few wheelbarrow loads of manure into the pit Lucas dug to jump start the surrounding trees and the soil building process. Do you also have a handful of worms to spare? The pit will make an ideal little habitat. Are you using a triangle layout tool with level attached to establish the location of your swales and berms? It is a valuable tool and they are not hard to build. All the best😊
Watching from Australia,it is good for we in a dry is h climate to see just how hard it is for you in a semi desert climate. We can at least always get mulch
Hehe, around 1:20, I was delighted to see your cat... just before noticing what the dog was up to ^^ But anyways: I am, for now, a city-dweller, growing little more than weeds on my balcony - but I have dreams of one day establishing a permaculture farm, to be part of the solution (to climate change, poverty, ...). Your videos inspire me and keep that dream fresh, so thank you for that :)
> for water collection, the landscape should look like a muffin tin An idea that's been bugging me for a while is: what about dividing the garden with small walls made of earth with some cement (or rammed earth fort that matter), such that there is both protection from wind erosion as well as some shade. In an extreme case, one could even build circular pits with with 5-10 m diameter and a tree growing inside each one of them.
Do the little clay pots eventually allow the water to seep, like the unglazed terracotta Olla pots, which are a very old way of irrigation.? Just a thought, one pot buried with each tree and filled every few days, with water, may be another system to try.
