Farmers said he’d NEVER GROW anything - He proved them wrong by doing THIS…

Stefan Sobkowiak - The Permaculture Orchard

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As our world continues to depend on the use of Pesticides, depleted soils and large scale factory farming. There are those who choose instead to go against the grain. Outliers in their respective domain. Last summer we were fortunate to met up with such an outlier, Richard Dufour. Who began just 3 years ago on a site that was considered unfit for anything but a difficult pasture.
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@kloss213 2 месяца назад

Have 2a that was basically over grown parking lot. I cleaned it up, built my home and let natural growth cover it for 4 years. Mowed it down twice a year. Now I have a food forest growing. I don't fertilize I don't add much if any compost I just let nature repair. Now have 6-12in good soil.

@StefanSobkowiak 2 месяца назад

Nice work!

@ZaneMedia 2 месяца назад

Yes well done that sounds awesome!

@siriuscowking8615 2 месяца назад

Great example on how you can make different soils work. People forget that nature doesn't start pre soiled, soil is made over time.

@StefanSobkowiak 2 месяца назад

Absolutely! 100%

@cherimitchell8977 2 месяца назад

This Back to Eden method is the best. My land was so hard 4 years ago that I could not use a tractor and auger to dig a hole. I had to add water to even start digging. It would not go deeper than a foot and just stopped. There was no life or worms in there. I watched the Back to Eden videos. I determined the boundary of my garden and started adding wood chips of all sizes and mulch, about a foot deep. Now the soil under the small amount of remaining mulch is rich and there are so many worms that my soft heart has trouble killing the many worms when I dig. Last year even, I grew a beautiful garden. I had a small row of squash that grew at least 300#, maybe more. I had lemon cucumbers, tomatoes of all kinds and beans. It grew beautiful flowers that bloomed and bloomed. This is the way to grow.

@marcusnguyen3185 2 месяца назад

How do you plant in foot of mulch? Do you wait one year? Do you cover the trunk in the one foot mulch?

@richarddufour7470 2 месяца назад

@@marcusnguyen3185 At year "0", we plant in the clay soil, under the 12 in. (30cm) of mulch. A year after that, the 12 in. (30cm) of mulch has decomposed and has mixed with the soil.

@richarddufour7470 2 месяца назад

@@marcusnguyen3185 We do not cover the trunk with the mulch.

@Mrgreenjeans578 2 месяца назад

I know what you mean about the worms ❤😢

@woolwitch Месяц назад

Maybe start with a No dig method?

@adyingbreedofman9112 2 месяца назад

I was born and bred into the tree industry and owned my own company for some years aside from my father's. The chips were dumped over a banken close to a swamp where they maintained constant moisture. I eventually turned it into a garden and like this the growth was unreal. I eventually shoveled it out in grain bags when the property was sold years later. I now use it in containers and my beds. The water holding capacities are incredible while not becoming soggy and anaerobic. When it dries it doesn't become hydrophobic either. Stump grindings I used to remove from any lawn with good soil went into a separate pile and was ready much quicker. That was the gold of all, stump grindings. And they are always free since there is zero value as chip fuel.

@shadytreez 8 дней назад

Thanks for the tid bit! Love knowing about others' experiences.

@peteengelhardt2783 2 месяца назад

The compost I always make smells like good rich earth. Nothing but grass clippings, kitchen scraps (majority), and leaves. Lots of paper products without ink, tape and glue. And anyone can do it and create good soil and keep kitchen scraps out of landfills.

@headswillroll89 Месяц назад

Grass clippings are so underrated. Growing up we lived on an acre of steep hilly land but heaps of fruit trees, in between was just mowed grass at best once a month. Enough for two black composting bins full of grass, each month would end with the composting bin being half full. 1/4 dried clippings1/4 great compost... I'd get 20 litres of compost, each month, then sprinkle the last pound on top of the new clippings... monthly just creating soil on a steep hill.

@morningmystfarm2017 2 месяца назад

I am so encouraged! Here, in eastern Tennessee, I live on a mountain of mostly shale, with an underlying grey clay layer, and below that bedrock. I'm working on taking out the large, diseased pine trees (to be used for making structures and firewood) and using goats to clear the brambles, weeds etc. Using round bales, they get hay and I get organic matter on the ground. I'm getting a lot of push-back from my family, but I'm already seeing amazing results!.

@StefanSobkowiak 2 месяца назад

You can do it!

@jtoot6391 2 месяца назад

The universe gave the vision for you to see that is why others may not fully understand your vision, keep at it!!

@gardenofseeden 2 месяца назад

Exactly the same. Super hard orange clay . I could jump on a shovel and it would fall right to the ground like I just hit concrete. 4 inches or more of woodchips turned it good.

@stevebossie-ou1oe 2 месяца назад

ive had the same results here in northern Maine. given the better drainage clay is awesome. i plant my trees on cardboard on the grass. place the tree , stake, tamp soil around roots then mulch. no digging. after 3-4 years the mounds disappear, and the tree is established. ive planted dozens of trees like this. they grow great this way.

@virgulerocket 2 месяца назад

Gentlemens, vous êtes mes idoles. Par votre expertise, votre originalité, votre érudition, votre expérience et surtout votre grande générosité dans la transmissions de vos connaissances, vous nous permettez de faire évoluer nos projets à vitesse grand V. Vous me faites sauver des années d'essais et surtout d'erreurs. Un grand merci. Simon D. Beauce

@StefanSobkowiak 2 месяца назад

Bienvenue Simon, tu feras encore des ´erreurs’ mais ils seront plus petites.

@RobbertvanHaaften 2 месяца назад

Amazing i'm starting a food forest on like 10cm of topsoil and pure limestone karst rock. Great inspiration!

@May-cz2uo 6 дней назад

True farmers like this man are the saviours of this earth!

@janharrell102 2 месяца назад

This is very valuable education on how it works to turn poor soil into thriving soil🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻. Thank you for sharing 😍😍😍

@StefanSobkowiak 2 месяца назад

Glad it was helpful!

@ZaneMedia 2 месяца назад

We’re glad you enjoyed it

@Picci25021973 2 месяца назад

I have the same brick-grade clay on my property and I'm improving it the same way. Lots and lots of woodchips... mostly free of charge from tree surgeons, so they are made of small branches and often green leaves, the most nutrient ones. It takes time, but the result is granted. I found that a gooooood accelerator is having a worm farm and spread worms soon after laying down the chips.

@gefryfostuvi2184 Месяц назад

Thank you Eden for your work. However, we have known for about 70 years that by introducing organic substance into highly sandy, or highly silty, or highly clayey soil, the macrostructure of the soil improved, improving workability, the ability to retain water, decreasing root asphyxiation phenomena (clayey soils). The technique is actually as ancient as the discovery of agriculture as the manure straw acted in structuring the soil. I recommend 2 things; 1 DO NOT BELIEVE THE 'TECHNICIANS' WHO ARE NOT INDEPENDENT, WHO EARN FROM THE SALE OF MINERAL FERTILIZERS OR PLANT PRODUCTS (fertilizers and pesticides are useful tools like a knife, you can have an excellent result without polluting anything or harming yourself or others ). 2 STUDY EITHER ALONE OR THROUGH A COURSE NOT FUNDED BY COMPANIES THAT SELL FERTILIZERS AND PLANT PRODUCTS AND YOU WILL UNDERSTAND MANY TRUTHS.

@StefanSobkowiak Месяц назад

Absolutely, too much of agricultural recommendations has been taken over by input sellers.

@ironmaiden3751 2 месяца назад

This is amazing. I have heavy clay and with the raining season lasting 5 months last year in NS well,😳I can safely say, the frogs in my orchard loved it. I think I've found a solution, your timing is impeccable thank you.

@StefanSobkowiak 2 месяца назад

Wonderful!

@ZaneMedia 2 месяца назад

It was meant to be

@aleksandracybulska2740 Месяц назад

@@StefanSobkowiak Stefan, thank you for spreading all your smart and accessible knowledge and experience, and also for being instrumental in building my trio- based orchard! 🌱I have heavy clay soil. Get truck loads of wood chips👍🏻 Can report, that on higher parts of the food forest, the new growth is incredible! My❓ question to you is, what to do with the trees already planted (2 year) and unfortunately standing in water... Lift them up somehow (❓ the technicality of it, is what I'm missing) and dig trenches around (started on that part already.

@kiqueenbees 13 дней назад

Chips let rain through too, but also retain water as the chips get saturated. Keeping as much rainwater as possible in the top soil is a must.

@chrisking9424 2 месяца назад

Just subscribed! It took awhile but when I finally realized you were an advocate against the use of pesticides and other toxic chemicals I was on board. I see it more and more, people are starting to realize how TOXIC these chemicals are to our body our plants and especially to the life in our soils. I went completely chemical free about 3 years ago. It's not always easy but I believe in the long run it'll be worth it. What really sold me to just stick with it is last year I finally got a few apples that had never been sprayed with any chemicals from my orchard. By far the sweetest and best tasting apples i ever had.

@StefanSobkowiak 2 месяца назад

Welcome aboard, yes definitely not advocating pesticides, herbicides or fungicides. Lots to binge watch.

@saltriverorchards4190 2 месяца назад

I’m right there with ya. I’m hopeful that this is a movement in the right direction and our most important job right now is spreading the word and getting our fruits and vegetables into the mouths of as many people as possible. We need to encourage as many people as possible to come to our land and let them see how it works and how simple it can be to grow healthy, super high quality food.

@StefanSobkowiak Месяц назад

Absolutely, yes a movement is growing of people coming to their senses that you don't have to spray everything with toxins.

@shadytreez 8 дней назад

I have been growing fruit trees, berries, and vegetables for 16 years with two natural sprays- copper for the peach trees and Captain Jack's Deadbug Brew once in a while. Ironically, I am seeing that I dont really need it. I do use nematodes and mycelium on my very small property so I do not have to put flea drops on my cats... The crazy thing is that it is so easy. We have been sold a lie that we need all variety of these chemicals.

@suzannebinsley5940 Месяц назад

I did that to an area that was absolutely dead on one side of my property. There were worm castings on bare soil. The wood chips very slowly degraded and slowly it changed to being able to support weeds first, then slowly plants. It took five years on clay soil. I also added a little manure. I am in zone 5 and the dead spot was fully shaded so the progress was slow.

@erwinbrubacker7488 2 месяца назад

I just planted my 1st 6 fruit trees ystrdy. 3 plums, 1 pear, 1 apple, 1 peach, 1 gojiberry, 2 aronia berries, 2 redrasberries, 3 rhubarbs,& 12 crowns asparugus to be planted. Desiring to plant 1 more apple& 1 more pear. Horseshoe shaped swale, apprx. 120 ft X 220 ft wide area, need to build 3 or 4 more swales within these dimensions. Have 45 blueberry cuttings set. My deer fence is up for top swale, evenually fence in complete area. This is just my start !

@StefanSobkowiak 2 месяца назад

Quite a project, swales and fruit trees = Future Abundance

@ZaneMedia 2 месяца назад

Wow congrats on “just starting” you’ll have to keep us posted

@jameskniskern2261 2 месяца назад

He seems embarrassed by the abundance. ❤

@ZaneMedia 2 месяца назад

Haha maybe but he was so excited to show us everything when we went to go and film. Honestly the video doesn’t do the property justice it’s amazing what they were able to accomplish in such a short amount of time :)

@richarddufour7470 2 месяца назад

I'm surprized to be very honest with you. Our soil is extremely productive when organic matter is added (on top), and when properly drained... especially for berries.

@marieleopold1625 2 месяца назад

Thank you very much Stefan 4 this vid! It makes soOOooo much 'sense'. I always reason that the Good Lord loves the 'poor' and for that reason, anything we need to do to provide for ourselves should be very inexpensive to the point of FREE...as your friend here shares. SIMPLE SIMPLE S I M P L E is 'always' the way to go. Just hearing the truth behind 'compost' is a wonderful truth shared. And look how just a small area of land becomes 'overly sufficient' for a family. Too much without aid becomes a burden and waste. I was thinking of how wonderful this concept was and thought of how it was like a mini 'Paradise" to have and then...your friend even said the word himself, towards the end of the vid. Your exuberance at such a 'find' reveals the great inner desire you have for us all to get back on the land and live with common sense and reason. It will come Stefan...hearts are aligning to this desire...for it is 'His' for us. I thank you for doing 'your part' in educating us. Health and Blessings!

@ZaneMedia 2 месяца назад

We’re glad you enjoyed it

@sarafriberg9689 2 месяца назад

Fantastic! Thankyou for sharing all this!!!

@erschaffenswert 2 месяца назад

Every time I am watching your videos I am getting exited. Great job!

@StefanSobkowiak 2 месяца назад

Glad you like them!

@ZaneMedia 2 месяца назад

Yes we’re glad you’re enjoying all the content MUCH more to come

@calebfast8088 Месяц назад

Where I live we've got a forest behind our house that's got some crazy fungus and such in it. We have wood break down, like logs from a fallen tree, that are gone in five years. (And, yes, it makes it so stuff we build back there doesn't last too.) It's great stuff though!

@ellenorbjornsdottir1166 Месяц назад

I have a brushpile of some neglected, unwanted, unloved city shade tree (it was just flytipped on me) in my front yard that is spuriously leafing out (brace for this one: it has no root system). I pitied the thing so I've tried to sink a trunk into the ground in my back yard. It isn't a fruiting tree so the only thing useful it'll produce if it lives is chips and leaves, but I'm excited to see where it goes.

@steve-fb1pz 2 месяца назад

I can testify that tree bark works my ground is full of arsenic tailings, can’t stop things growing this was 5 years ago never feed the ground just every 2 years put more bark on the top let the weather do the rest.

@cdevpayne 2 месяца назад

Thanks for your post. I have done the same, I have pistachio trees and on the land I use wood chips for 2 years and now if a weed comes up all you have to do is pull the weed up with not problem roots and all. Thanks. I also use the weeds to federalize and I do not use any pesticides or chemicals and with the weed solution the branches grows 18 inches in a month. I live in southern New Mexico and the soil can be hard. Thanks and stay safe.

@TheEmbrio 2 месяца назад

Que ec clay soils have huge exchange capacity. It just need organic matter and aeration

@AnneBrossard 2 месяца назад

Bonjour! ça fait un bout de temps que je te suis Stefan. Depuis que Justin R est allé chez toi et puis je t'ai vu relier avec Verge Permaculture aussi. Super! Une autre ferme à visiter au Québec la prochaine fois que je descendrai le fleuve. Je suis en amont au Nord de T.O. Continue le super travail de nous éduquer. Merci milles fois!

@StefanSobkowiak 2 месяца назад

Merci Anne. Pour visiter on a seulement deux tours par année, 11 mai et 14 septembre. S’inscrire à miracle.farm

@Tsuchimursu 2 месяца назад

Awesome, very inspiring!

@StefanSobkowiak 2 месяца назад

Thanks so much!

@ThomiBMcIntyre 2 месяца назад

I’m saving this to watch many more times. Fantastic insight that I can almost exactly use on my site here in central New York. Thank you!

@StefanSobkowiak 2 месяца назад

Glad it was helpful!

@missbee9140 2 дня назад

Stefan, It would good if you made a Short on this video

@XandarionSunrise 21 день назад

@Wildnativeedimentals 3 часа назад

Thank you so much! This inspire me more to work on my extreme rocky soil. ♥️🌺🌴🇵🇭

@nocapitals9833 2 месяца назад

had a truck load of mulch dropped on my mom's yard, took it all to the backyard and made a garden area march 1st, tried to do 6 inches of wood chips throughout it, but, it is uneven ground and some spots got less, the areas with 6 inches had very little grass grow through, while the lower spots had a decent amount, i didn't bother with ripping up our lawn or putting cradboard or contractors paper down, i just went for it and wanted to see what will happen.i'm very excited to try to plant in it next year, maybe even start growing in it before winter. we live in sandy soil florida. if this works as good as many people have showed then i might just get more and expand on it.

@StefanSobkowiak 2 месяца назад

Fantastic, try putting some potatoes under the mulch this spring to get things growing while your soil comes to life.

@Paravetje 2 месяца назад

I live in Sweden on clay soil, my neighbor planted around 10 fruit trees maybe 1-2 years ago, she dug holes, and filled them with good soil, you guess what happened, they drowned, because the water collected in those holes and couldn't go anywhere because the clay around it, and the tree roots where always wet. I'm making a food forest, had another neigbor help dig a swale, now we need to get/make a lot of woodchips, people told us woodchips are very hard to get here, and expensive, because they use that material to burn for energy/heat here, big sad. We do have our own woodchipper, and our neighbor has a tracktor with a big woodchipper, and we have some forest, so we should be able to make our own woodchips, but it will take a while to get a good amount.

@omveee13 2 месяца назад

When you plant next time, dig a hole around 3 feet fill it with good soil (sand/compost/VAM/Viride) slightly above the ground. Plant your fruit tree just covering the ground (shallow, maybe 1/2 feet or less). If you do this way, the plant's survival rate will be much higher (native species will have a better survival rate). From time to time, add some gypsum to loosen the soil around. This should work for clay or water-logged soils.

@Paravetje 2 месяца назад

@@omveee13It was my neigbor that planted those trees, on her own land, wasn't me, I know how to do it properly. I have a swale with a birm were my trees will be planted, so they will be above water level. Thanks for the tips though. I will be using a lot of woodchip for organic matter, this will help with the consistency of the clay soil.

@omveee13 2 месяца назад

@Ni-dk7ni yes, that what I meant when I said 'above the ground' but also note mount alone will not help the trees in long term if there is water logging around the mount as trees root will venture into this area and eventually die out. It's critical you keep adding gypsum or wood chips to change the condition of the soil

@yadiaag7771 2 месяца назад

Damn, I live in a place where my trees grow so much every year I need to cut them back so I use all the branches for my garden and landscaping is really big here so I can just call up people to drop off grass and especially wood chips from their jobs they otherwise pay to dump. Three years ago we got 4 dump trucks of it for free and 5his year we can finally call them up for another round.

@christianvanderstap6257 Месяц назад

I have found that straw works as well, but wood chips work better

@fynbo1007 3 дня назад

I don’t understand why content creators visit people and then they talk themselves the whole time and don’t let the visitors talk

@DaveTheHillsideGardener 2 месяца назад

I have clay. I know it can be turned into great soil with time and organic matter. This guy is doing it right.

@frederickorcutt9112 2 месяца назад

Free wood chips would be epic!

@suzannebinsley5940 Месяц назад

Our local tree people sell them as a side hustle. No freebies.

@Tonystarkes888 Месяц назад

This is so trippy 😮 awesome work from scorched earth to a fruit and vegetable forest.

@flandrinelextensionniste6490 2 месяца назад

22:35 The neighbours really annihilated their hedges.

@corymiller9854 2 месяца назад

Good vid:] I miss my clay garden it really needed no water or minerals. I added chips in it about 3 years in a row then stopped due to wanting bacteria based soil not fungal and it worked great. Now I have sand soil and tried leaves instead to mulch because it was free:] Leaves worked even better layered with grass clippings it just broke down way faster plus and minus if you do not want to mulch again that year.

@littlehomesteadbythebeach 2 месяца назад

Très inspirant. Merci pour ce beau partage!

@zethijs2724 20 дней назад

This is basically how the dutch create fertile soil from salty clay soil in polders, but we do it with reeds matter.

@JohnSmith-lt8wg 2 месяца назад

What would biochar do to an area like that?

@quirkycottageshenanigans9003 2 месяца назад

Insightful!! Thank you for your info.

@MissLibertarian 3 дня назад

The previous owner of my home put loads of gravel on the clay to walk on without slipping. I have been sifting it out. Wood chips work better to make non slip paths, and I can still get a shovel in at any time of year. Even if you do trip and fall, wood chipped pathways are the best place to land, and trees and shrubs can use the new soil beneath them.

@timbushell8640 2 месяца назад

Excellent visit...

@StefanSobkowiak 2 месяца назад

Thanks Tim.

@ellenorbjornsdottir1166 Месяц назад

A great many poor soils are underestimated in their capabilities for perennial and even judicious (that is to say, be very careful! ploughing should not be needed) annual cropping. Thin or erodible soils were, in Rome, after being worn out on ploughing and grain, planted to grapes and/or olives, which were then highly productive both in terms of calories and economically (producing luxuries Rome needed to trade for her grain), as well as saving the severe erosion that came with cropping grain on a hill. It seems like Richard is combining that with deep wood-chip mulching to actually rebuild the soil - which I think is a great trick. I've heard some call it "back to Eden" - I suppose I should look into that?

@Burningquest Месяц назад

this is what i started Last Week. i hope my farming business will flourish. 70qm of Mulch :)

@StefanSobkowiak Месяц назад

You can do it!

@fuzzy3440 Месяц назад

I have been gardening in San Antonio for about 10 years now, and we've converted much of our lot from heavy clay to clay loam, but it hasn't been cheap, nor easy. It could be the lack of rain, or the expense of having to puchase bags and bags of wood chips. Whoever buys the house after us will inherit great soil. I also have about 8-12 inches of soil, then solid chalk/limestone.

@jdvanallen2907 2 месяца назад

This is an encouraging video! I’d love to see some more of this content if you’ve filmed some or have planned some tours.

@StefanSobkowiak 2 месяца назад

More to come!

@melissasueferrin3409 Месяц назад

42k views and only 1.4k likes, come on people, like, comment and share so the information reaches more people.

@MissLibertarian 3 дня назад

I think of the wood chips as a liquid: small fibers are continuously breaking down and flowing off the chips, falling down to meet the earth and being digested. Meanwhile, the largest wood chips float on top of the smaller particles beneath them. On the surface, it may look like nothing is happening, but the flow is happening continuously in slow motion. Any time I have larger chips (chippers vary) I may sift out the large chunks to use in pathways, letting foot traffic break them down. In my area where rain is seasonal and not reliable, I do need to irrigate with special attention to getting water beneath the wood layer, especially if the chips have been baked dry on top.

@StefanSobkowiak День назад

Good insight

@bellcurve0 2 месяца назад

Wow c’est merveilleux. Jai 30ish acres, toute de l’argile, pas mal meme situation… ok je sais ce que je doit comencer le weekend prochain lol.

@Plantsforme Месяц назад

Do you know what happened when I put a thick layer of wood chips on my soil? Nothing. No decomposition. It is just now, after two years, showing signs of mycelium. I'm glad for the improvement, but if your soil is already dead, don't expect such quick results as four years. We also have no way to water because of our weak well and are on a steeper slope than this video. We have been working to build trenches as shown here in hopes of capturing water.

@StefanSobkowiak Месяц назад

True soil life is needed for effective decomposition. ..cides kill soil life, period.

@angusrankin4709 2 месяца назад

Free food,it should be a part of school we are responsible for the next generation

@richarddufour7470 2 месяца назад

💚

@tuexss Месяц назад

mycelium is the pioneer of barren land. it can break down rocks and extract all the good stuff and establish first soil. this is what the woodchips are feeding.

@user-gk2ut8mc5e Месяц назад

Excellent content. Ty so much!!

@StefanSobkowiak Месяц назад

You're very welcome!

@millennialfalkon Месяц назад

The lesson is summarised at 26:33. Then go back to the beginning for the demonstration.

@nancyseery2213 2 месяца назад

Has he ever topped the wood chips with some chicken or cow manure? Would that speed it up some? Also, doe his wood chips have any leaves or green matter in it? Would making rounded islands of chips help move the water around??

@ironmaiden3751 2 месяца назад

He did mention that adding manure was too much and unnecessary.

@richarddufour7470 2 месяца назад

Indeed, adding manure makes fruit trees produce way to many branches in this soil.

@EELUNO 2 месяца назад

ShoutOut Paul Gautschi

@ewa5803 Месяц назад

Thank you💚

@StefanSobkowiak Месяц назад

You are so welcome

@RustyBobbins 2 месяца назад

Where can I find more info in elglish on this path method? I’m growing in clay in Oklahoma.

@cherimitchell8977 2 месяца назад

Back to Eden gardening.

@sharonrwilson2727 2 месяца назад

@Ni-dk7niOnion boy!!😂

@cristianlungu2977 2 месяца назад

In my opinion the essential ingredient is dependable rain. Without water from the sky, no matter the good practices beeing employed, things go slow. They evolve but not at astonishing rates. I'm talking from experience - 320 liter water per year. I noticed richard observing at one moment it didn't rain for 3 weeks. Well, for some (me included) that's no biggy. Buttom line is whatever you do, without water soil life just stops. Tap water keeps things alive but no thriving. There are similar examples as richard's in India for example - food forest on rocks literraly, but there is rain; lots of it.

@sharonrwilson2727 2 месяца назад

Rain carries minerals as well as moisture.

@keralee Месяц назад

Same experience in high desert...no wood or organic matter to make mulch...and no rain. Only thing that worked was humanure with purchased $$ straw in small beds. Slow going. Then as soon as a green thing got going, a creature of some sort would eat it. Never underestimate predation pressure in a difficult ecosystem. If you can grow it something will eat it

@koltoncrane3099 Месяц назад

While growing a garden is nice a ton of this new permaculture or garden forest movement really would do well to also raise beef and sheep and hogs not just a garden or fruit forest.

@LotusDreaming 20 дней назад

If you look at Mark Sheppards stuff or visit his farm he runs pigs, cattle and chickens between rows of trees and his farm is gorgeous.

@kellyireland2521 Месяц назад

I have thought about using woodchips but I live in the Southeastern part of the US where it's hot & humid. I'm concerned that I would end up with a lot of termites that will eat everything else including my pole barn.

@StefanSobkowiak Месяц назад

Hasn't anyone in your area tried it? Ask them how it turned out.

@kiqueenbees 13 дней назад

Birds will turn over your chips too, thus preventing termites.

@lorisalisbury9552 Месяц назад

Great video! I only have access to Cedar chips. I know they will not break down as fast. Will this work as well? Thank you!

@StefanSobkowiak Месяц назад

They will sorta work but not to feed the soil just as a mulch. Call your local tree trimming companies, or chipdrop dot com.

@DavinHoyt 2 месяца назад

same sandals !!! great buy !!! ecco brand .

@ZaneMedia 2 месяца назад

Great minds think alike

@tammywehner3269 Месяц назад

sir, you sound Canadian. More power to you!

@StefanSobkowiak Месяц назад

I am!

@richarddufour7470 День назад

I am a proud Canadian :-)

@thedude7319 27 дней назад

So he used above ground swales, you know. I used to poopoo wishywashy hippy thinking. but those old techniques really were useful

@ewa5803 Месяц назад

Thank you, especially for so called "stupid questions". I would be the one to plant the tree in the woodchips, not the clay😂

@StefanSobkowiak Месяц назад

We’re all learning.

@headswillroll89 Месяц назад

He should be planting any lugume crop he might use a little of, in those woodchip swales. Just as cover crop... it will speed up the process

@hadrienlucchesi4970 20 дней назад

hello, have you thaught about the fact that the less ammended and worked though clay creates bariers holding whather pretty thightly, putting some gravel pass throught the bottom would help whater flow thought the earth and pull oxygen in the soil, and you know what comes with oxygene ? life :)

@Stezosledec559 2 месяца назад

Unlock sand with 50 cm of wood chip.

@lizhoxie7202 Месяц назад

We live in North Central Washington State and are in a High Desert. Most of our moisture comes from snow melt. The rest is supplied from rain in Spring and Fall. Will this work for us? We have no irrigation and are without moisture about 6 months of the year.

@StefanSobkowiak Месяц назад

It will just take longer to break down as the chips need moisture to decompose. Yes it will work and once your soil becomes higher in organic matter it will hold what moisture it gets much longer.

@erwinbrubacker7488 2 месяца назад

Shale is good drainage.

@ironmaiden3751 2 месяца назад

Put clay soil on top of it and, not so much.

@barrybr1 3 дня назад

love the subject, couldn't watch the presentation, painful

@AndyMatts 2 месяца назад

What I wanna know is how do you get free land and what country is that? Can’t remember if you said Canada?

@richarddufour7470 2 месяца назад

Indeed, this th Québec, Canada. The land belongs to our town (Boucherville). We have a perpetual right to garden on a little more than 2 acres, as long as we share our crops with food banks.

@AndyMatts 2 месяца назад

@@richarddufour7470 oh ok thanks for the info!

@Psilocinoid 22 дня назад

Does this apply to red clay as well? My plants seem to lobe the composted manure I give them.

@StefanSobkowiak 19 дней назад

Yes any clay loves organic matter, manure just cranks it up a notch.

@Psilocinoid 19 дней назад

@@StefanSobkowiak Awesome. We've been letting our acre rewild while. Slowly building organic matter because it's pottery grade red clay (quite literally, we've fired it). So far it's apples, peaches, cherries and mulberries with Currants and various Rubus for understory in KY US Zone 8A

@timkirkpatrick9155 Месяц назад

Have you seen the methods of making ice in a hot desert. Method used in the middle East climates of Asia. Very dry air moving over protected water turns to ice.

@aok2727 Месяц назад

What is the climate this land experiences? What part of the world?

@StefanSobkowiak Месяц назад

Near Montreal, Canada, zone 5 or USDA zone 4.

@fiestacranberry Месяц назад

Where is this place?

@StefanSobkowiak Месяц назад

Boucherville, Quebec.

@philipdupont2308 4 дня назад

So, to get your soil working again, you need to cut the forest next door to provide the 30 cm of wood chips.

@StefanSobkowiak 4 дня назад

Sorta, crews are always pruning for utilities and looking to dump chips.

@richarddufour7470 День назад

@@StefanSobkowiak Indeed :-)

@stevecastellon1094 Месяц назад

Where is this?

@StefanSobkowiak Месяц назад

Boucherville Quebec.

@elwood212 Месяц назад

What is BCS?

@StefanSobkowiak Месяц назад

BCS is two wheeled tractor. BRF is Ramegial Branch Fragments (wood chips from pruning crews).

@srantoniomatos 2 месяца назад

The city payed for the land. The woodships are free. The labour is not paid (volunteers). No taxes (non profit association). This is another kind of "real world". The land is not bad either. All the fields are green around it...

@richarddufour7470 2 месяца назад

... and most of the food produced goes to food banks ;-)

@srantoniomatos 2 месяца назад

@@richarddufour7470 im all for it. The guys seems nice, the garden is great... but if the city gave the money the land is worth, and the volunteers gave the money the work values....the food banks would buy more food then it recives from this garden! The garden, as it is now, dosent even feed one (1 ) person year round. Just dont like the fake thumbnail pics of the video. The land/soil around is green, not sand dry. The images of dry baked clay in the video are not of this land...

@ZaneMedia 2 месяца назад

@@srantoniomatos RU-vid games unfortunately… there are actually 3 different thumbnails being tested only one of them has the sand around it the others all show the beautiful green grass :)

@richarddufour7470 2 месяца назад

I'm the "Richard" in the video 😉 Our food forest is relatively young, but it now produces LOTS of vegetable (both annual and perennial) and berries for north of 50 gardeners and food banks each summer. Our fruit trees will start to significantly produce fruits in a few years. This vodeo focuses mainly on how we deal with heavy clay.

@srantoniomatos 2 месяца назад

@@ZaneMediayeah...games. guess it works (it did, for me) when you contrast desert and greenery! Im getting tired of "inspiring" videos, showing almost miracle like "abundance" coming alive overnight. Just prefer real world examples, showing the long work done, the real challenges, etc...

@MsCaterific 2 месяца назад

💕

@ZaneMedia 2 месяца назад

Thanks for the love

@BakBakDaddyDuck 2 месяца назад

🌹🌹🌹🌹

@janharrell102 2 месяца назад

Where is this being filmed??

@emilybh6255 2 месяца назад

I think it is somewhere in Canada.

@felle7522 2 месяца назад

Boucherville, Quebec

@roverinosnarkman7240 2 месяца назад

As he said in the film, near Boucherville Quebec (near Montreal)

@ZaneMedia 2 месяца назад

Yes Boucherville Québec Canada

@karyhartmann2724 Месяц назад

What to do if you have hard clay but don't have access to free wood chips

@karyhartmann2724 Месяц назад

Zone 7a

@StefanSobkowiak Месяц назад

Use leaves, cardboard and straw, old hay, any organic mulch will work but not last as long as wood chips.

@BoC260 Месяц назад

Make pottery

@johanna006 25 дней назад

Clay soil with poor drainage is perfect for growing rice.

@StefanSobkowiak 24 дня назад

True but no rice grown in our climate, except for wild rice which needs water all season.

@drekfletch Месяц назад

The link in the description leads to a 404 error.

@StefanSobkowiak Месяц назад

All links should now be working

@drekfletch Месяц назад

@@StefanSobkowiak The buttons at the bottom of the description, for your sites, work. The text for Richard in the description does not.: Want to see more of Richards site, fruit trees and grafting? Here's the link to his RU-vid Channel (in French): / @ucknylfuveg2g1of8czauyzq

@StefanSobkowiak Месяц назад

Ah thanks Derek, fixed.

@FRAGGARED Месяц назад

What's the dudes channel?

@StefanSobkowiak Месяц назад

The exact link is in the video description.

@gryspnikngrysp2821 23 дня назад

That's a great first world way to bring back fertility.....Get me a wood-chipper and the wood to chip and I'll do miracles :)

@StefanSobkowiak 23 дня назад

The pruning crews are sometimes throwing it away, so upcycling.

@gryspnikngrysp2821 23 дня назад

@@StefanSobkowiak I know :) I'm just saying that in most places around the world there aren't any pruning crews or woodchippers ;)

@kiqueenbees 13 дней назад

@@gryspnikngrysp2821 Grow tree lucerne for your chipper.

@charlieward5035 2 месяца назад

Which farmers said he'd never grow anything there? What are their names?

@StefanSobkowiak 2 месяца назад

The neighbours

@MrWrgh 20 дней назад

Pan Stefan jest Polakiem ?

@StefanSobkowiak 19 дней назад

Tak

@MrWrgh 19 дней назад

@@StefanSobkowiak Piękna robota Panie Stefanie , serdecznie pozdrawiam z Ojczyzny

@RocketPipeTV 2 месяца назад

0:04 why do you start your video with cgi globe cartoons? Such a pitty

@taxusbaccata6332 2 месяца назад

I think the 2 key fixes here was to decompress the clay soil (raising it up) then covering it to keep sun and heat off and keep high humidity within. Also all the minerals to make a tree are in the wood chipping in addition to food for microbiology especially fungus. Great job.