Damn Andrew! It took me so long to discover your yt channel. I just wanted to thank you. Your videos with OSU introduced me to permaculture. I remember it vividly when i first saw you drawing with colerful pencils and your awesome calm but inspiring voice. On monday i start on a small biological farm and i never had a more positive outlook on my life (i hope it stays that way). Thank you so much for showing me the way to my true calling.
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@@amillison lol. I could learn from your material whilst sleeping ….. by the way, your lessons have been really useful for me I’ve been searching for some land for sometime and And the knowledge gained from watching your videos has helped informed my land choices. Thank you
Hey dude, this is an awesome presentation! Could you make another one w/ Mark Shepards water system and this tool? It's an improvement on Yomann's systems. Extremely similar, but a different way towards the end, and it actually makes it something you can harvest easily.
Excellent instruction method using AR Sandbox to help permaculture students to visualize their landscape canvas in 3D and understand how to apply Keyline Planning to their project! The other tool necessary to accurately model a real world landscape for comprehensive permaculture planning & design would be a terrain mapping drone. How to quickly & accurately map a large plot of land without breaking the bank would be a great video to go along with this excellent AR Sandbox series. (Hopefully there are some open source tools & diy drone mods by now that would open this survey method up for almost anyone anywhere who is the least bit tech savvy?)
Alan, thanks for the good feedback and agreed about the usefulness of a good inexpensive drone mapping how-to video. I'll have to suggest that a friend who does such work.
Makes me want to go and start a permaculture project. Thank you for a good video. Fyi I started watching it at 1.5 speed and you sounded like Ben Shapiro...LOL
It’s really simple, I “Brittle” climates, the most pressing and basic task of agriculture is to change the flow of water across the landscape by 90 degrees. Understand the basic task and condition ALL decisions on that, you have completed 50% of your task.
I just read about Yeomans in Call of the Reed Warbler by Charles Massie. Great book on principles and philosophies of regenerative agriculture. I must say though, as an Australian Keyline isn't really a widely used farming practice. It and similar concepts might be fairly well known but are only applied by people who appreciate the benefits and have the finances to apply it. Love your work!
even with this magnificent tool you use I have such a hard time to visualize anything from 2D to 3D! I'll need to watch your videos several rimes. Thank you very didactic
The next maxim is that water at height is more valuable than lower water. Double the height of the water and you usually triple the area the water can be reticulated to at very low cost. It follows that the higher water is retained, the more valuable the water. The most important maxim is “the true place for water is in the soil”. Remember those points and you have the gist of the tasks.
From what I understand, no land is perfectly flat. Experiment with an A-frame to see. Check out "West Texas Garden Experiment " RU-vid channel on how he built his swales. He also devised a really cool, simple, modified A-frame.
@@amillison Hi Andrew, this was forwarded to me by a young student. Nice work and I always enjoy your work. We will cross paths sometime. I would like to send you some pics where we have been working on the Lordsburg Playa for a few years now. Doing a combo of Keyline plowing, Dixon Land Imprinting and seeding in one pass on contour and parallel to contour. Peach, Gordon Tooleys Trees and Keyline Design
@@tooleystrees Hi Gordon, great to hear from you and hope you are doing well after all these years. You can email me at amillison@gmail.com to send me pictures. Take care :-0
Hi Andrew. With how much precision, distance between contour lines, would you need to map your land to make / work on a proper design ? Thanks in advance!
Didio, it really depends on the slope you're working with. Usually I get maps with 2' contour intervals and that is very detailed for most landscapes. But recently I have consulted for some properties that were pretty flat and we needed 6 inch contour intervals to really distinguish the land form. With a Lidar survey, you can get as detailed as you'd like, although at some point even grasses will start to distort the contours from Lidar. So ultimately, it depends on your topography.
@@amillison You mean 2 inches ? more or less half a meter ? My terrain has many slopes and is very vegetation dense. Thanks again Andrew for the help and the super instructive videos!
Soils do not distribute. Soils are passive. They RECEIVE the action they do not act. "Soils ARE DISTRIBUTED." If your teacher did not teach you "active voice" versus "passive voice", then now is the time to take an hour or two and practice alone prior to your next public speakin.
@@ProfBoggs Thank you. "Only needed" -- or "only one"? You are welcome to join the movement. Check out the blog, if you can find it. Link won't be displayed if I put one here. I think that you can find it if you keep the quotation's markings: "friends of the gerund".
