Hippy Commune Food Forest Tour (Coromandel, NZ) [Syntropic Agroforestry / 2023] 

Incredible right??! Can imagine you'd be blown away after visiting 12 years ago. They've been putting HEAPS of good work in to make things happen

Glad you enjoyed it brother 🤜

@@byron.in.new.zealand huge inspiration!!

great tip thanks, will try this

That's amazing! If you ever wanna chat shoot me an email hello@backyardparadise.co.nz

Yeah, we have macadamia, California Walnut, Japanese Walnut, Chestnut, Almond, and planting more. Any other suggestions?

@@seanmurphy3326 Should've brought you guys some Pecans!

@@byron.in.new.zealand Pecans 🤤🤤🤤

​@@seanmurphy3326bunya trees I've heard a few years ago that someone has a whole lot of seedlings growing and they were asking around for people that wanted them. Bunya are fantastic! I had them in Australia, massive nuts and taste much like a potato. The beautiful thing about them is you can pick up one cone at a time, which gives you about 100 nuts, as opposed to picking up 100 individual chestnuts, for example. You should be trundle along with a wheelbarrow and fill it up with cones in about 2 minutes, and that should feed a household for a week (you still have to unpack the nuts from their scales and shells)

Anything that'll produce lots of biomass and be easy enough to manage!

Bana grass is good because it is clumping and sterile seed. Running and seedling types require more management. Anything that is quick growing for you is biomass, question is can you manage it?

Vetiver grows fast in wet and dry conditions, needs full sun. Doesn't seed nor spread. Makes good hedges for chickens and plenty of different uses Lemongrass doesn't grow as tall but's good enough for biomass.

Close on both references 😂

I would bet money that his south African

Bana grass

You make a good point but it takes time and work to do that. Probably a great opportunity for some sort of crowd funding, etc

Mycorrhizal - It would be a type of fungal innoculant

I don't know much about the financial side of what they're doing, but I know they rent out accommodation and sell products. If they've been going for 60 years they probably have some financial sense I hope you're not referring to permaculture and their agriculture as 'new age' ...there's nothing new age about ecology. If anything, trying to maintain a monoculture is completely unnatural and very unscientific, even if people think that the science behind it is good - it's not because it looks at agroecosystems as food chains, whereas the reality is that it's more of a food-web. That's the ecological reality, even in monocultures, but an agronomy perspective conveniently ignores all the other stuff that's going on. Coming from an ecology background a lot of this 'alternative' agriculture makes perfect sense because that's how ecosystems work, whereas trying to grow a monoculture is more like trying to grow a hydroponics system. Anyway, that bit about agriculture wasn't directed at you because you didn't specify the agriculture as being new age, but I thought it was an opportunity to explain to anyone who did think this way of growing things is all new age that it's really not