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ʻĀina Bear Farm
United States
Приєднався 16 лис 2018
Join along our journey as we transform 4 acres of pasture land on the Big Island of Hawaii into a Permaculture food forest. Joe Ludes, formerly an urban farming instructor in Washington DC, posts videos about applying permaculture techniques in the tropics with a food forest and a large kitchen/market garden.
2024 in the Food Forest
Check out all of our updates in our Big Island food forest as we move through our 6th year converting a pasture to a productive and diverse food forest. Happy New Year from ʻĀina Bear Farm!
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Відео
Perennial Peanut: Everything I’ve Learned
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Perennial apes it is my ground cover of choice for so many areas of our property. In this video we talk about all the things we’ve learned about it: where to use it, how to plant it, etc.
Agroforestry System Update
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Check out our Syntropic style system as it begins to mature (about 1.5 years old).
Permaculture Farm Zones 4 and 5
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A tour of zones 4 and 5 on our farm as we try to figure out ways to expedite the growth of healthy forest where there is now only Guinea grass.
Permaculture Farm Zone 3
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See how we mange our zone 3 food forest and agroforestry system on our permaculture farm on the Big Island of Hawaii.
Permaculture Farm Zone 2
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Check out the diversity in our food forest in zone two of our permaculture farm on the Big Island of Hawaii. On island and looking for bamboo? Check out Quindembo Bamboo Nursery: bamboonursery.com
Permaculture Farm Zone 1
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See how our farm is broken down into the Permaculture zones starting with zone 1 here. Take a close look at the kitchen garden, edible landscaping, composting, plant nursery and more. This video is rhetorical first in a series that looks at each zone in detail.
Tour of a 5 Year Old Food Forest in Hawaii
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Check out some of the highlights as our food forest turns 5 years old on the Big Island.
Adding Irrigation to Zone 3 of the Food Forest
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Here is an update on the progress we are making laying irrigation lines in our zone 3 to help our fruit trees in times of drought and reducing maintenance for me. Despite how many times I get it wrong in the video, we use 3/4 inch tubing and 1/4 inch dripline.
Big Island Spring Garden
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Check out our kitchen garden as we gear up for a big spring growing season using permaculture methods.
Agroforestry System Spring Cleaning
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Check out this update as we make a lot of biomass with Tithonia and grass and the fruit trees are beginning to put on a lot of growth.
Tropical Food Forest Walk in the Rain
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Have a quick tour with us during monsoon season in our food forest. We’ve received over two feet of rain in the last two weeks here on the wet side of the Big Island.
Food Forest Updates: Monsoon Season
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Spring brings a ton of rain to our food forest on the Big Island of Hawaii. Check out how things are growing and see how we capitalize on the rainy season.
Pigeon Pea: a Fantastic Food Forest Plant
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Pigeon Pea: a Fantastic Food Forest Plant
Constant Drought Has Me Rethinking Some Things
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Constant Drought Has Me Rethinking Some Things
Full Tour of 4 Year Old Food Forest in Hawaiʻi
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Full Tour of 4 Year Old Food Forest in Hawaiʻi
Hey do you want to plant an fig tree in your food forest? What are your other plants für 2025🤔☀️
Aloha! We have a couple of Brown Turkey fig trees that haven’t done very well. They get a lot of mildew fungus and drop their leaves regularly. I’m really not sure about what to plant this year. I keep going back and forth on different f options. Any ideas? 🤙
Amazing progress. Love to see it
Beautiful property man, things are really getting established! Bet it feels good finally harvesting the fruits of your labor and seeing that pasture slowly transform over the years :)
Thanks man! It has been so incredible to see the transformation I can hardly believe it sometimes. Thanks for all of your inspiring content that you post on your channel. Happy new year!
Great video BTW
I planted edible peanuts (bought from organic whole food store) many year's ago (25 years) and now have it growing like lawn. It has a similar growing habit (sending out runners and sprawling) as it grows in hard clay-based soil, not mounded as it's grown commercially.. I rarely harvest it as the peanuts are so hard and deep to dig out. Grown for the same reasons as here. I have had to weed other grasses for some time but now is great weed suppressent. I think the 'perennial peanut' is called Pinto peanut in my area by permies. Regular peanut does not grow as quickly as the perenial peanut but does eventually cover well and here in the subtropics doesn't die off in winter
Very cool! I have wondered how actual peanut compares.
Aloha! I live on Big Island. My boyfriend is working on developing his land. Would you be open to connecting? Would love to volunteer in exchange for getting to pick your brain a bit 😊
Aloha! That is a possibility. Shoot me an email and let me know a little more about it. Mahalo: ludesbear@gmail
where do you get perennial peanut?
If you let me know what area you live in, I can probably make a recommendation in the vicinity 🤙
I live in Aiea.
@@laihanohano307I’m not so familiar with Oahu but I would try Frankie’s Nursery. If they don’t have it they might know where you can get some.
@@ainabearfarm8075 thank you, that's very helpful!
Aloha Joe! JB here. I love perennial peanut as well, but up here at 3000 feet, on Wetside Waimea, the kikuyu grass overwhelms the perennial peanut without constant upkeep. Even when the peanut has established, the kikuyu will push up through it and lay on top of it. That being the case, I maintain only one patch as I continue to experiment with planting it in different areas.
Aloha! Yes any of those runner grasses are a huge pain to control. I have a small patch of the “Torpedo” grass that I can’t seem to eradicate. I keep trying to dig it all out but it always comes back. Do you know if it will ever die from tarping? Even if you kill it I guess you’d still have to put in a barrier so it doesn’t come right back. What a pain!
@@ainabearfarm8075 I haven't done tarping long enough to test if it kills the grass. I have found that if I lay cardboard and then do weed mat over that, it keeps the grass at bay longer than anything else I've tried. Stuff is pernicious!
Great video on an important weed controll issue. I was able to hear you just fine. Audio was good on my phone.
Can barley here you
Sorry, recovering from a cold
are you going to show what an inside of a white pineapple looks like🤔
I’ll have to remember that next summer when the next crop comes 🤙
Not trying to be mean or anything But the thumbnail looks like walter white😅
Thank you for the information! 😊 I just purchased my first mangosteen plant and had no idea how to handle planting in South FL - This video removed my anxiety 👍
no updates since this video🤔
Yeah my only helper moved away so I’ve been crazy busy trying to keep up with everything. I hope to post some updates next week. 🤙
Just pinch around the equator of the fruit with your fingers. You dont need a knife.
Depends on how ripe they are; sometimes that smashes the skin into the fruit and it ends up tasting bitter.
Hi, approximately where are you located on the Big Island and what is your elevation? Enjoy your patient presentations and careful descriptions. Do you do farm tours there? Thanks, Bill
Aloha Bill. We are near Honokaʻa around 1000 ft in elevation. We plan to eventually do farm tours once I stop expanding and start focusing mostly on maintenance. 🤙
had oyu thought of Tamarix for chop and drop?
That’s one that I know exists in Hawaii but I’m not familiar enough with it to know how feasible it would be.
be great if you could list the names of the plants in your videos:)
I agree but I am currently at my peak capacity juts making basic videos. Maybe someday 🤙
hw do you spell the Namwa bananas?
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you maybe intered in this channel
does irrigation just lead to surface rooting?
I only water them with irrigation during drought and I water deeply once a week so it doesn’t encourage shallow roots or constant water dependence
you said about mongoose in another video,why dont you expadite them there not native and a pest!!!
are you saying Gliricidia🤔
Yes that is one of our support species
your drip line comes from mains water or you have something like 4000 ltr water tank that you collect rain?
I have a tank that holds about 5600 liters that I use for hand watering and making compost teas. Right now my irrigation is connected to my main line but I hope to get another bigger tank in the future and hook up to that.
why did you pick that name ,curious
I’ve had a lifelong love of bears and I had a farm in Maryland where we grew Elderberries for making syrup; we called that farm “Elder Bear Farm.” My wife is Hawaiian and she had the idea of using ʻĀina Bear as a way of connecting to our past and emphasizing our Hawaiian connection to the land. 🤙
why are all your Red draceana so spindly none seem to have branched out?
if you can grow Compfrey you should plant loads more ,one of the best plant teas going
i Love it when they say goverment funded😂,there no such thing its tax payer funded!!!
🤮so many crooks
looking goood
Glycosmis pentaphylla/aka gin berry.Sophora chrysophylla Nitrogen fixer and native.Coprosma ernodeoides, native bedible berries though very small ,you do need male and female plants
also im not sure if it would work on all grass species but the annual/Rhinanthus is parasidic on a lot of grasses thus weakeing and slowing down once you cleared /mowed.just a thought.not much too lose and something maybe to gain
That is interesting. I can’t find any information about that plants status in Hawaii so I’m not sure it’s been introduced.
what about species of pine that will over time increase the acidity of the soil in those more wild places and help with wind protection🤫
We don’t have any native pines and I don’t get any wind from the west where zones 4 and 5 are. Our soil is also naturally acidic so I’m usually trying to neutralize it a little more.
what about Kennedia as a ground cover,know as running postman?Also fixes nitrogen
Malabar chestnut can be struck with cuttings in case you didnt know:)
you get any mildew issues with growing comfrey?
Yes and I usually try to chop and drop it when it gets mildewy
have you planted any metrosideros?
I have planted a lot of polymorpha species which is our native ʻOhiʻa. I have at least one more species which is variegated but I’m not sure what exactly it is.
how do you cut that thick grass brush cutter or scythe:)and does constant mowing eventually weaken the grass?
When it’s thick I cut it with a BCS tractor with a sickle bar mower but it does weaken. The section in the middle I can cut with a standard lawn mower now
great space
Amazing food forest you have in there my friend
Thanks so much. We’re into year 6 now and it’s so cool to see the evolution. 🤙
I guests they should have more information about the oil. How, why and what it actually suppresses or kills. About a week; I killed my punkins with neem oil. I followed the instructions and it wasn't the first time I used the oil. It was fine before. I noticed the leaves and flowers were a bit smaller, but healthier. But the punkins are kind of fungi in nature. You can see by the fast they grow and how they do it. In my opinion; the giant punkins are not too compatible with neem oil. Also, they were attracting plenty of pollinators previously. After the oil application; the few coming wouldn’t stepped on the flowers. I never saw so many different pollinators over a single set of plants, not even in Lavenders or other flowers.
How's everything? I know you say you have wind problems and this weekend must have been particularly windy. I got some rain. Wind knocked over a few things. All in all I'm still in one piece. Could have been worse.
Aloha! Not too bad here. We got 11 inches of rain and I had a few tothonia and bananas go down in the wind but nothing major. I’m stoked for the water; it’s usually bone dry this time of year for us. Looks like there’s another storm heading this way. Stay safe 🤙
Wow congrats on the peanut breakthrough! Your Envira Caju looks good, should fruit soon. Mine fruited this year and the fruit was... interesting. Let me know how you like it when yours fruits.
Haha interesting huh? Thanks Joe! I’ll definitely let you know when it starts fruiting 🤙
Aaww, you could have given those flowers to your wife😢. They are so pretty❤ Question: Tithonia is a soil fixer? Only while chopped/dropped? Or also planting it? Thanks in advance ❤
They are pretty and the bees love them too so it is hard to chop them sometimes. They pull up a lot of nutrients from the soil but are not nitrogen fixers so you have to chop them to get their benefits for the soil.
@@ainabearfarm8075 Good to know! Blessings your way and thanks again💜🙏🌻🪻🦋
can't remember you mentioning these... chrysophyllum imperiale - gorgeous tree with tasty fruit mammea americana kwai muk dovyalis caffra ficus auriculata - there’s a variety that will ripen without pollination, taste like strawberries butia capitata (jelly palm) spondias tuberosa (and other species) davidsonia pruriens - sour fruit but beautiful tree garcinia luc’s garcinia russell's sweet pitomba (eugenia luschnathiana) syzygium malaccense (mountain/malay apple) saw your comment regarding durian, here are the gateway drugs... durian ice cream -> durian smoothies -> frozen durian -> fresh durian (bsf premium quality) -> other fresh durians
Mahalo for this great list! I do have some very good mountain apple trees but the others would be new to me. Do you have any good recommendations for sources?
The trees you planted in the pukas look really good. It can be tough to keep the grass from devouring your plants. Do you use the county compost? If so, do you get it delivered? And for cinder, do you haul that or get a big delivery? I’m at that stage where I can start planting and was wondering how you managed that.
Thank you and great questions. I don’t use the county compost but mostly just because I am in Hāmakua so it would be a long trip/ expensive delivery. I also don’t use cinder because we are fortunate to have deep, well-draining soil (I spent all my money on the land 😂) We do make a modest amount of wood chips and compost from grasses, food scraps and rabbit manure and our “chop and drop” supplies are really picking up with all of the gliricidia, tithonia and pigeon pea. 🤙
might want to keep some bamboo in pots, and as they grow, divide them, sticking some in the ground and leaving some of the division in pots to be divided in the future.
Thank you. That’s a good idea!
Kudos to you for having a plan to deal with all that guinea grass. For small weed encroachment I use pond liners to kill things off, then hand removal. I've done this for small amounts of cane grass and wedelia. If you were to do this, even if you can't remove all the roots, it might give the other things you're planting an edge so they can get tall and shade out the guinea grass a little?
Thank you. I have been doing something similar with tarps in zone 2 and it’s been working well; just slow going. I’m going to also try using cardboard and wood chips in some places so I can come back and plant right into it. It’ll be interesting to see how that goes. 🤙
@ainabearfarm8075 yes, please keep us posted!
Looking good
‘Ilie’e would be awesome
I have one growing now and just going to wait for it to seed. I guess they are prolific seeders so I’m hoping to grow a lot from there