Green Country Agroforestry
Green Country Agroforestry
#Gardening #permaculture #Agroforestry
"The end is near, the sky is falling, there are too many people on this planet, and we are all going to die" .. Well, at least the last part is true, but hopefully not for a good long while! I've been pondering the problem of feeding a growing population, and have formed a startling hypothesis: With over 14 billion acres of arable land on good old planet Earth, and the capacity for just one of those acres alone to produce enough to feed 6 persons (and maybe more, especially in the tropics!) the situation may not be as dire as predicted -IF- we begin using that land differently. To test this hypothesis, I am transforming 1/3 acre of Arkansas river bottom here in North Eastern Oklahoma into a permaculture garden. Using regenerative agriculture practices and hand tools, with no pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, chemical fertilizers -OR- products obtained from the slaughterhouse industry, how much food can be produced in such a small area?
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Im catching the recast. I was out in the garden until dark and then enjoyed the sunset and early dark in the garden. Yeas we are tired and we are still planting as is the schedule for tonight . Been trying to plant rows then i just broadcast stuff. I have so many seed packs that need to be in the ground. So its getting thrown onto the ground. Lets see if it grows.
I Like your porch! Glad you're enjoying it! Looks like a Kitty Palace! BE Glad the Mosquito isn't your State Bird! You'd have a 8 dollar medium/small can of Cutters/Deep woods off/ or 3M mosquito spray. Called Hook and latch. Sha-shing! lol
Hey peeps! Missed it.
Didn't miss much on this one - the title pretty much says it all!
printing pretty hard around 9 min. Im sure youre on private property and are perfectly legal but I figured Id mention it for your knowledge
Oklahoma .. I just don't happen to have my shirt tucked in half the time.
@@Green.Country.Agroforestry respect. Also hella good video my man
OH shoot, got off topic with Make Moonshine. I always appreciate it when the Cook Tastes, shows video of eating, sort of describes if it's good/bad, or on the palette! ok Gone.
You are definitely a Grower Jason! I'm clueless about what a "Goumi" berry is! I'm 50% Suomi, does that count? haha. Make some Moonshine with it! It's a cat and mouse game! Just a good old boys! Never meaning no harm! ok... Hey, I watered my Rugosa roses the other day with Miracle Grow Flower food!
Better a moonshine that a wine .. it would be a bit too acidic freshly fermented, I think.
First seeing the avatar pic of this COOL video, I thought Goji berries? Wrong, Goumi berries and yeah, the problem here is not eating too many ( save some for Mary will ya?😉). Loved seeing the glimpse of your corn and sunflowers Jason, always something to surprise and amaze us with! 😁
That's a lot of berries off that bush! I would love to have one or some seeds to grow my own. Much Love ❤
I'm going to see if I can start a few 😊
Nice Jason, looks super prolific. Is it resinous like our surname cherries down here?
Nope! Just tart and sweet!
Oh, now I want those berries! 😊
What kind of impotence is this!!!!??Lol
Seen lots of damage done last night in your state, everything ok after the live last night?
We didn't even lose power .. no limbs down, just a good hard soak (as if we needed any more of THAT!)
We dry our excess strawberries
What pelletizer do you have
It was assembled by some Chinese outfit Whose name I can neither recall or pronounce - but they built it well. Mary has a link for them .. about 1500 for the machine, after shipping. We need to get a hold of them to buy another plate - it comes with a 4mm plate, good for making fish food, but we need a 6mm plate for duck feed. Otherwise, you would have seen this noisy contraption in a video already. We also need to buy a larger grist mill .. which puts going into the feed making business on hold for about 9 more months, unless we get another unexpected expense.
Me too.
Watching after the live! 😊
Me too. Early to bed early to rise.
Ok
Increasing the amperage for earth batteries is quite simple. A law of physics states that wiring in parallel will add the amps of two power sources. We simple wire a solar panel to the earth battery. We build the earth battery to the desired voltage in series. Earth batteries are the cheapest voltage around. Then wire a solar panel to the EB in parallel. Boom best of both worlds. Real power.
Glad you're OK.
Yeah, if you're not sure how it died, (like a tree or brush falling on it), I wouldn't have Broiled duck Blade Runner! ha! I've seen that too with my chucks. Then again I was a 'city boy' 48 years of my life. Never butchered a chicken. It's funny, when I came up here; I was all hot to trot about 'Meat chickens', I knew exactly how to do it, all that. Nothings easy!! Concrete under my feet? -Glenn Frey and Jack Tempchin With those telescoping poles usually you have to hammer down on them with a twist to the right. CHINA! LOL
So sorry to hear about the loss of your duck,....but that makes room for a drake? Ah.....ya wanna hatch out ducklings with the other ducks eh? Cool about those garden clippers ya have there, most folks here prefer the automated versions,but there's nothing like good quality, made in the USA, hand tools.👍
Having a supply of ducks means when I am wondering if I SHOULD go ahead and eat one, it won't be so great a loss .. and we can sell hens to neighbors, butcher excess drakes for the dinner table. Joe .. I hate to tell you, but Fiskars, although they do have an international reputation for quality .. are Finnish. You know how those Scandinavians are about cutting things ..
So sorry about your duck. I had 2 ducks too. Runner ducks. Both boys. One adored my foot in the spring. After many years of fun sa 7:45 dly I lost one, then another, to predetors in this way out in the country farm. "She lived once, she will live again." My food forrest is treasure after treasure friend. ❤ Recently discovered Cleavers growing wild which I harvested and preserved as I was buying it dry in bulk. Every day is a true blessing with new finds.😊
We have just enough cleavers .. by the time its all gone to seed, there is just enough left to go again for next year. It makes for good hard shells on the eggs 😊
I made ice cube from it for my dog and her urinary tract and detixing. Tincturing some green today for me. So glad I finally opened my herbal eyes and let thing just grow to see the medicine in my yard!❤@@Green.Country.Agroforestry
I’m sorry for the loss of your duck, but she’s not hurting anymore. I’m glad you got through the heavy weather without major losses; you probably know that a windfall was traditionally downed wood that was allowed to be harvested when live wood was forbidden, so it was treasured. We got rain but no damage here.
Its an exceptional storm that we don't have every man with a chainsaw and a chimney out for the free stuff 😊
Ok. I lost the bet. Of course you don't grow your pot plants in the back yard. I have heard about your indoor forest you got going in your basement... Satire!
I'm not quite out of nylon twine yet .. but one day, when I am, it would be nice to be able to grow the natural alternative without anyone making a fuss about the THC content of my cordage and general biomass crop .. I'm in no hurry .. I bought a LOT of twine.
@@Green.Country.Agroforestry that's good. Then you can focus and be all about the THC content!
What do canna taste like?? I grow the orange daylilly - been called ditch lillies.. what would they taste like?? Thank you!!
Canna has a starchy taste, a bit like a potato. Day lily tubers are also starchy (remove the skins unless you need the extra fiber!) but I prefer to eat the flowers, which are sweeter than the best lettuce you have ever had.
@@Green.Country.Agroforestry awesome!! Thank you 4 letting me know!! - subbed.. :0)
Apparently, I'm the Sergeant. Listen, thanks for the nice time! Enjoyed myself. Keep up the good work Jason!
😊 Enjoyed the tour! Thank you for letting us see all of your backyard garden! What part would you like to cultivate more of?
We have a lot of planned projects to remove the carport and garage, and use the materials from those outbuildings to build a box wall along the North and West sides of the property, excavate ponds (one for the ducks, and others for some fish to expand our protein independence. A rabbitry may work its way into the future plans as well, and of course we need to get more area cleared for seedling tree starts!
Not just Jason's Polynesian jungle, like Mary said, but loving the way you position each plant, flower and the trees, native paper-shell pecan, keeping it a midget eh? And the Chikapen tree, is my spelling correct or am I taking a cue from hearing your pronouncing its name? Thanks for sharing this COOL Backyard Garden Tour Jason, ah and the pocket pond, I can see why you don't let the ducks in on that, right now its so pristine, peaceful and the water crystal clear, with ducks in it, it will get all pooped in and murky. 👍
Those are spelled 'Chinquapin' .. just like a chestnut, but a much smaller tree.
Pocket pond! IMA do that! Love it! Bout time for a tour post soon from me. Love your food forrest my friend. Thank you.😊
How do you protect the ducks from predators? Do you have predators?
We have 2 layers of fencing, with lights and motion sensors at night - you still want to have a secure place for them, but the short wing hawks that didn't think twice about grabbing a bantam chicken see a duck, and keep on flying.
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No watercress? I have plenty to replace it.
Just a thought. Maypops are perennial vines that like their roots in the shade and their tops in the sun; they die to the ground in winter and grow new vines in the spring.
I need to get those in the ground soon!
Planted Yesterday!
@@Green.Country.Agroforestry 🥳
For what it’s worth, chinquapins are closely related to chestnuts and, like chestnuts, susceptible to chestnut blight.
Hi Jason. Looks fairly organized, like a small engine repair guy who IS organized, but knows where everything is in his garage. You're making investments too (rain troughs!) cattle panels! Lots of hard work. OH, and it looks like you're losing weight! If anyone else comments/notices.. Like 'Duff Man' on The Simpsons! Hey, I'm at the Homer S. stage, so there's that. Hmmm....
Its amazing what happens when you quit drinking beer .. *cry*
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Staying tuned for the public premiere Jason! 👍and 👋for Mary, you and the kitties.😊
Two to 3 shot of gunpowder from all that work.
and that is why the old folks back in Appalachia would get together and make a party out of the chore - it is easier to reach critical saturation the more black dirt is being processed, and easier to do all of that processing with extra hands. Off screen, I added sufficient nitrate from my existing stores to reach critical saturation .. then subtracted the amount that I added to provide the yield that I reported - so in order to do this in a survival situation where you NEED to be able to produce nitrate for medicine, food preparation, industry and ordinance, just remember to scale everything up by at least 10x, and if the crystals aren't forming, you can always add more. Prepare to have everyone over for a 2-3 day weekend.
I give you so much credit for teaching us how to create such an important resource using earth. Our government 100% DOES NOT want us to know how to do that. Also to stick it out and commit to doing this for a full year, that's awesome man. I'm wondering did you store that barrel inside the house the entire year where it could stay a perfect temperature or did it stay outside with fluctuating temps? Something tells me this could play a huge part in decomposition and potency. 🤔
It was outside, and the temperature dropping over winter factored into the length of time necessary for decomposition - in the tropics, this goes much, MUCH faster. Great Question, btw!
I get late sometimes, but I get around to folks I'm subbed to! The most related to thing to me and you is your guitar playing and your gardening. So said garden in forest. Great guy Jason!
First half hour was GOLD! Miao! 🐾
Nice cat porch! I look forward to creating one of those as soon as I own my own property.
If you like cat therapy (and cats playing with pretty girls, I think ..) the kitties have their own channel - I'm showing the host how to do the YT thing .. and I get to have kitties in the garden to help keep the gophers at bay, once we build a little extra cat protective barrier for them - Kitties playing in a garden might have an audience, who knows? www.youtube.com/@TheTechnoCats-sc4rc
I just landed on your channel for the first time and I love you so much! I live on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi and have very clay like soil, but I have amended it for quite a few years. My grass struggles to grow and very tired of planting more to no avail, and I'm wondering if I was to plant alfalfa and clover instead, if it would withstand the heat of The Summer's here as long as I kept it watered?
IF you are down on the coastal plain where they have that 'buckshot' soil, some of the same techniques that I've been using will also help you .. in addition to the usual amendments like pelletized gypsum (good for breaking up larger clay balls, if your buckshot tends to be more like grape shot) Converting these soils takes a LOT of organic matter. The short answer is, the alfalfa might make it .. getting through heavy soils is one of its super powers .. but most clovers won't manage at this stage - they are happier growing under the shade of something tough. If you put something in to give the clover some shelter, it can keep working its roots down, until it CAN manage .. some kind of annual grass like a rye perhaps. If you can put a spading fork or broad fork into it, loosen an area (don't lift and turn, just use enough force to make some breaks into the soil) and plant daikon radish in, spaced about a foot apart with broadcast sowing - placing each seed would be tedious - the radish tops can give the clover that bit of shelter that it needs for the first half of the year .. then when the radishes die (don't pull them up) they will leave aeration channels, and a path for organic matter to work in. Keep adding gypsum pellets, charged biochar, manure (if it isn't spoiled with herbicides) and so forth on the top. Results come quickly, relatively speaking .. You will notice improvement after year one, but it is a multi year project to alter soil composition. Long term considerations: Do you WANT grass? flowers, vegetables, fruit or nut trees? The kind of ecosystem you build will ultimately determine what will thrive there .. so think about what you want to create .. and then you can find a path to it. Save that video clip to torment Elliot with when he's an obnoxious teenager, too! 😁
Thanks to you Jason, I now know that Tuca Canadensis isn't a species of Dandelion and a wild lettuce, indigenous to North America, not like Latuca Seriola which comes from Europe, but COOL how they thrive side by side. I've cut some Tuca leaves to add to a fresh garden salad and I'm guessing it wasn't bitter because it was still tender, but not anymore and it has bolted, the flower looks like a dandelion flower, but smaller and when the flower has been pollinated and dried, it's also similar looking to a mature, wispy dandelion flower.😊👍
Nature's way of saying "here is one less vegetable that you have to plant. We'll plant it for you!" 😁
Dude…. I’m not a gardener… but this was very interesting. I am a black powder enthusiast tho😊… thank you for sharing!!!
It just so happens that a well supplied gardener has everything he needs to feed a smoke pole .. short the shot (but if you're growing our cannas, they could do for a buckshot in a pinch!) I love taking it out to the range, spending pennies on shooting all day, just for the sheer fun of it. Its hard to feel the joy with the other toys, given the cost of feeding them these days!