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If you have more wire fencing - you could try laying that on the roof first- that would help with support when it gets rain and would allow you to place more stuff on any tarp that is laying on it. 🤔
That's a possible idea! Maybe we can sandwich the tarp between 2 wire rolls? 🤔 Appreciate the idea!✌🏾
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Super Thank you very much!😅 really appreciate it!✌🏾
If you make a moveable chicken cart and surround it with an electric fence you can move it around while the chickens condition the soil as they go! They will do more work to fertilize your land in a week than you can do in a month. 👍
We actually do rotational grazing with our livestock! The areas I was putting straw, I had already rotated the animals there through winter! They'll be making their way back over those areas soon!✌🏾
nice snake habitat. cool
That's right! We'll keep this tube unfinished and wide open and won't put screen or wire mesh to block any rodents or snakes from coming in.... that just wouldn't be smart at all to do that!✌🏾
I don't know what you have planned? I think some diagonal cross bracing can help stiffen up framing. In the corners of the roof horizontally it could help support the tarp. Your welcome to come trim some trees for timber if you need.
That's a good idea for sure. Appreciate the offer. I'll let you know about the timber!✌🏾
Try Sunn Hemp as a cover crop. Heat tolerant and drought resistant.
I've definitely been thinking about sun hemp. I'll probably get those seeds too when I order grass seeds and other cover crops. The more the merrier!✌🏾😅
@@GrowTreeOrganics my wife and I truly enjoy your videos. We homestead here in NC, but do not have the hurdles you guys have in AZ. Best. Try Hoss for the Sunn Hemp. Be safe.
@@bodejbutler8484 Nice! Appreciate you guys being apart of the journey from the East Coast! I'll definitely look into Hoss for Sun Hemp!✌🏾
I've seen some people dig tons of swales in drylands and fill them with small branches to catch mulch and shade the water from the sun so less evaporates, this plus vetiver grass could produce passive biomass and retain water
Nice, yea I've seen that as well. We'll be Doing that more so when we get to trimming tree branches and such. I am however filling the swales with the straw for a similar effect for now!✌🏾
@@GrowTreeOrganics Straw is better than woodchips or soil at retaining moisture so its a good idea to try and have a good 4 inches of straw with sticks packed densely on top to shade and prevent it the straw of being blown away. Very labor intensive but that is one of the best ways to retain moisture. keep doing awesome you're on the right path
@@guameldestruir6239 most definitely! It'll be a continuous process of layering! Appreciate that!✌🏾
Hi there you two. I was wondering if it would be beneficial for you to go to your local town and neighbors ask the people if you can have their grass clippings to use as mulch.?
What's Growin on! 😅 we could. I actually found a few places with piles of mulch that's free.... I just need to drive there and load it!😂✌🏾
Gotta love the rain! It's kinda the same out here by us... sometimes you can watch it all day miles away and it never comes to us.
Water is life right!? The dry times just makes the wet times that much more significant!✌🏾
Great observations! Some nice rainfall too 🌧️❤ I love that you’re working on the soil microbiome 🙌 So important. Glad you’re getting the word out.
Those soil microbes are important! I don't think they get enough credit for the role they play in our existence! 😅 This is a bit more monsoon season weather we've been starting to get Here now!✌🏾
Thangs are looking better and better every week! YEEEEHHHHHAAAAAWWWWW!!! 😂❤ Gives those sweet baby homestead kitties a snuggle for me please 😺
@@Nerdy_prepper they'll get plenty of cuddles!😅✌🏾
Thanks!
Really appreciate it! Thank you!✌🏾
Mel and Gary still love you. They wanted us to tell you that.
Why thank you! Hopefully they know we love them!😅✌🏾
Like the idea of the lasagna idea to build up for good soil. I want to learn that too.
You should! Super simple!😅✌🏾
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Yeah it tough in the high desert. Even cardboard helps. You just don't want it all blowing away !!! Everything you do for your soil makes a difference!!
Inch by inch!... anythings a cinch! The wind really likes to blow things around that's for sure!✌🏾
I love how you’re one with the land. What doesn’t make sense is getting a $500K mortgage, end up paying double. Seems like a waste of energy, when you can create something that lasts and grows beyond you.
Wow! Thank you very much! The mortgage thing never made sense to me either! We all have the capacity to create and create a lot that's for sure!✌🏾
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Whew, so glad you decided to take down the tarp. The wind acts crazy for monsoons. It's the swirlies that will pluck the object of its choice clean outta your compound, and fling it 100s of yards away. It picked up our rabbit playpen 8x8x3'tall roofed structure and threw it over the fence one time. It really makes our rv rock n roll, like a ship tossed on the high seas. I feel your pain with the meager rainfall not being enough to start cover crops. I spent the first summer watering the tiny patch around our greywater willows four times a day to get it established. Not feasible for large areas without a big enough source of irrigation. Lasagna layers are awesome. I like to sink mine into basins and trench furrows. If you cut little trench furrows all over that mulched area and drop your seeds into the trenches, you'll collect and maintain more moisture. The wind will blow less of your mulch away. Each furrow has 4 permaculture edges: right side, left side, bottom, and path. This method also stops me from trampling seeded areas. If you wait for big rains, you may wait out entire summers. For example, last summer we basically got no monsoons. How are the critters doing? I think you said you're bale grazing them? That is an awesome practice and I look forward to seeing how the animal impact improves the paddocks they've been on. We need to keep our livestock penned for a certain percentage, so I reuse their soiled litter as a mulch instead of buying fresh straw. Cheers and blessings!
Patience is a value when dealing with Nature! But I was glad to take the tarp down. My anxiety had gone way down now!😅 we'll find what works, but slowly build things up. I would like to see a bit more water soak into the ground. If we can really only throw seed in winter, that will be apart of the strategy moving forward. It may be a lot of action will happen towards the end of this month. The clouds have been building in the afternoon the last week here. Just a matter of time!😅thanks for stopping in!✌🏾
Yeah, a tarp that size can push a 40 ton sailing yacht forward. If you can anchor it to the ground instead of the building it wouldn't be an issue. When you fold a rounded rock in each corner from the tarp then you can wind a rope around it so that you can attach the tarp to something with the rope.You can do the same thing with the rock halfway the tarp. I think that your mulch strategy is very good. 👍
Too true! My husband guffawed at me once when I suggested using cinderblocks to hold a 12' tarp on a container roof. He said the wind would catapoult those bricks onto anyone nearby.
@@1millionpumpkins542 hahaha I had to look for what guffawed means, but now I know. Your husband is a very wise man 😁👍 I have ordered a very cool good quality tool or instrument. I hope that I am not getting scammed so I wait with the reveal until I have it. But it has to do with......seeing it is believing it. 🥸The video that I had planned and promised has to wait. I was editing it and then my PC crashed. But I was also not happy with the footage. And I did some research for the footage and I learned new things. I still want to make that video very badly, but I want to do it right.
It's definitely would still take a lot to weigh it down. Especially with the wind we get here!😅✌🏾
@@GrowTreeOrganics It all winds down to how important it is to keep it dry and how much money and time that you are willing and able to spend on it, and if it is even worth to invest any time and money on the issue. Because with a concrete bag at each corner that you can dig into the ground, perhaps with some rebar and some rock on top of it you can hold down a lot of force. But that might be a route that you are not willing to take. Which is understandable considering the entire philosophy of the build.
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So nice😅✌🏾
That is great job you are doing, Thanks, Will you remove gabion meshes after you put the cement-earth mixture?
Thanks. No the wire baskets will stay. It makes part of the look for everything!✌🏾
Hello from Finland. Been watching you for awhile. Nice work!! You could make a crossbeam to the sides: left up to right down, or viceversa. It makes structure stirdier.
Hello! I see what you're saying! Thank you for that suggestion!✌🏾
I enjoy the Science class! Yep, here in the "Inland Empire" of SoCal, we have monsoonal flows that destroy our covers, too. Wishing you all good things💚
I'm glad you did!😅 Thank you very Much!✌🏾
Hey guys from Darren and Susan off grid seligman AZ
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Looks like the earthship design, but using rocks as walls instead of dirt packed old tires. Question , instead of using stone and rocks has anyone used Hesco barriers for walls? Probably cost more, but maybe quicker.
It is an Earthship design! I've never heard of anyone using Hesco barriers for Earthship walls, but someone could definitely try!✌🏾
Hey super cool and insightfull content . In the process of buying land in sourhern colorado front range area and wanna build do reamed earth or earth bag structures maybe combi ation of both . And you have alot if awesome content INSIRING to say the least . One love .
Appreciate it! You definitely could do a combo! Get creative! 😅 ✌🏾
Its a natural thermal battery . Super cool . Does the. Length help increase the differential
Length and depth definitely help cool the air more!✌🏾
@@GrowTreeOrganics The air will cool to ground temperature, the trick is to provide sufficient airflow to ensure a temperature differential over the full length of the pipe. If the air drops to ground temperature in the first 15ft of tube, the rest of the tube will not be contributing any additional cooling. If you install temperature sensors at regular intervals in the tube you can see where the air reaches ground temperature inside the tube. If the air exiting the tube is a degree or two above the ground temperature, you`ll know the entire length of tube is being utilized.The longer the tube, the harder it is to achieve this.
The rain is a blessing
It really is!😅✌🏾
We used HESKO barriers in Afghanistan and they worked amazing. It uses the gabian method, but with a fiberglass bag on the inside of the wire. The barriers held back flood waters, VBIED’s, artillery, direct fire, mortars. And our housing units were surrounded by them and great for insulation against weather.
Oh! Super interesting! I'm gonna look at those to get a better idea! But appreciate you sharing that!✌🏾
Welcome to joining the excitement of homesteading in Zona’! Good luck getting things up n running.
Thank you! Really appreciate the welcome! we're doing pretty good now! ✌🏾
I got to get caught up on your videos. I am slacking. Sept 9th is when kids and I head to Apache county. I am excited to get down there.
No worries, sounds like you're working your plan. Definitely gotta prepare for your move! Super exciting! ✌🏾😁
Welcome to the Neighborhood!
The chicken wire was an unexpected but great idea!
Thanks! I had to figure out how to keep the shirt against the holes somehow! Just got creative.✌🏾
Look into Spekboom, amazing desert plant! Contains 90% water.
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Hello, what kind of air humidity levels are having? Recently we have been hitting 80% and it's absolutely soul drenching.
When the clouds come in the afternoon we've been rising to mid 30s for humidity, but for the most part it's been 15% humidity... very dry!😅✌🏾
@@GrowTreeOrganics oh, that's very dry, indeed. We may hit 40% now and again, but nothing close to 15%.
@@mkeyx82 we'll pick up humidity once we get some clouds to come in!✌🏾
all that shavings from the logs u can use as mulch
😅 wait till next video!😉✌🏾
wow looking good
Thank you very much!✌🏾
Great job guys, its amazing seeing the frames & roof beams come together, you are both doing a great job! Cheers
Really appreciate it! It's definitely starting to really take shape!✌🏾
Always have go admire all the work you two are doing.
Very grateful of your support!✌🏾
You guys are bad ass!
😅 thank you very much!✌🏾
Starting to look like a house. Go the distance!
Thank you very much! Rock by rock!✌🏾
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Great progress in spite of the brutal conditions.
Yes indeed! Thank you!✌🏾
Loving your channel. My husband and I are planning to move to Arizona and make a homestead off grid. We’re are currently sitting in the Texas heat with no electricity following hurricane beryl on Monday. This experience has solidified our decision to get the heck out of here and make the move 🙌
Thank you very much! I have a friend over that way as well that went through that! Hope you're able to make your move soon!✌🏾
6:05 - your place is really looking awesome!
Thanks Brian!✌🏾