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@@MrRJS27 we remember it fondly! I just found that old email with your psu address, I'll be watching out there for a message from you!

@@EcoInstant Thanks, I'll contact you after the new year! I remember we ordered the biggest pizza, which I think was on the menu only as a novelty, and they said don't get that, we'd never be able to finish it. I told them they haven't seen what US college students are capable of when it comes to pizza.

It really depends on the product. But consider that the term "small-batch" has become quite popular in recent times - this is the right place to start with farm business, defining what a "batch" means. Batches are transformed goods that generally are easier to ship and have a longer duration.

depends what you consider "money" i assure you as a californian my idea of money is drastically different from someone in say virginia. also depends what you need,want and do with that money. but usually on average most people can find a creative solution in as little as a quarter acre,up to 4 acres max unless you have a family or otherwise a helper group. look into fast growing things, like berries, tropical fruit if you can grow it like jackfruit or sugar apple for a faster profit.

@@JustinLaFountain_aka_Witty thanks for the tip! Learning to tune audio levels differently from each source, voice over is weak!

I'll definitely be doing a video on this soon!

I'm working on a video about "why we prune" !

@EcoInstant stimulate growth?

@EcoTheExploiter yes this is one good reason, as well as light. But there are other reasons too!

@@EcoInstant like firewood and fenceposts?

@@snookat and mine are getting big!

@@SaraBurdick oh awesome I will be sure to check it out!!

@@bloodlove93 the limit is one of creativity!

Yes, I am thinking its better to save up for a good model than buying another cheap one. Piling it up always works too, I do a sort of above ground hugelkultur here, but if you put dirt on top its also "buried"! The most important thing is to balance everything with "time", our most valuable resource!

​@@EcoInstantif its just for the "ecology"what you are doing is just the best option. Or, at least, the best "work x produtivity" relation. And a big pile of branches is a magnet for birds, which end up producing a nursery under it. But the amount your (and me) are dealing with its just a big mess...but you are tropical, so it will probably compost fast. For me (mediterraen clima) its a big fire hazzard. I have mandatory cleanning up to do...

Never!!

I am so happy you asked this question. Its a great video to do. my short answer, is that what you are proposing is 100s of hours of additional labor to achieve what natural already does, inside my bund. Microlife like mycelia trap carbon into the soil. How much energy, not just time now I mean heat, do you think I should dedicate to "biocharring" my biomass to remove the humidity that gasses off automagically in nature? This is a thrilling line of questioning because it gets to the core of eco engineering. Thanks for the motivation!

@@EcoInstant Thanks for the reply though your response seems a bit out-of-hand dismissive. Glad to hear of the carbon-trapping of mycelia. It would be interesting to have scientific evidence of the work cost and various benefits of chop and drop versus biochar. Sounds like you have settled on your method, so I'll leave it at that.

@@SaraBurdick Fantastic! Nice to meet you neighbor; We have very similar climates and many of the same species! Is the farm already in potrero? If so you can start a biomass bund to control erosion, prove the concept and as a fence (with fodder). Half of the transition is convincing people you work with, the other half is the plants and they are pretty good at helping.

@@EcoInstant nice! The land is full of coffee trees actually, which I am going to remove half, since the coffee business is not one I want to be in. So it will be a challenge! After watching a few of your videos i did start to create a biomass bund, no idea what I am doing. I am doing it alone for now, so it will take a while! nice to meet you also, not a lot of UA-camrs who talk about permaculture/farming/rural colombia living!

@@georgeblumer1496 my wife scolds me all the time but I just can't manage to like working this way

@@jackray9187 i am in Tolima, this is very interesting to me I will look it up hoping to spend around 3 million or less but may not be possible. Tell me a bit more about if you like the machine if you can!

I am saving up the money now, its not that expensive but we will have to pay for shipping from the US for the model I am looking at, plus a 30% import tax 🙈

@@EcoInstantmake a Jean Pain biodigester to employ the shred biomas. Burn the methane instead of wood. Split the digestate in portions one to use as fertilizer the other to feed for worms. The methane is also the fuel to run the shedder. Another option is to inoculate the biomass with mushroom mycelia.

@@estebancorral5151 i will look into this! I already have a diy pyrolytic reactor so this is right up my alley.

Fantastic! I have a chipper on my christmas list, we will make wood chips for landscaping and orchid cultivation. Herbivores can participate a lot!, consider "driftwood" contours with the branches and unusable bits.

A big thanksgiving hug from me to you!

..... exactly!

One of my favorite species - tibouchina, but it seems the name has changed recently, it must be a cousin of this one: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleroma_urvilleanum

I think I have fixed it now moving forward :)

yes I got a gopro 12 black and we are still learning how to use it

hahaha yeah its pretty bad

@@EcoInstant The camera works GREAT though!!!!!! Love you BOTH so much!!

@@snookat thank you so much we love you too!

I have some pictures from before yes and I am working on figuring out how to put them into the video editor. We will see about "living" in the house - maybe a short term challenge! As you can see all my comforts of home are just 5 minutes away.

@@MrRJS27 some work and very good weather lately led us to have no troubles getting from Libano to Villa Hermosa in just over an hour! Might have to update this when the rains start again 😅

@@pulungnanang both of these are great points, especially technology. In video games, everyone can craft 'machines', but real life is different

yup definitely for number 2 look at 3rd world areas, ever seen durians harvested? it's stupid and reckless and dangerous... but they can't afford the tool to make it easy and safe,an articulated boom lift because it costs more than a hundred villages make in a century.

100%, and I'm looking to make these guidelines in this very specific area a bit more robust for my very specific steep slope niche :)

@@EcoInstant That's a lot of what doing permaculture is! Geoff Lawton said something cool. He said to beware of permaculture dogmas, because your dogma could get run over by a karma! We always should be guided by the ethics, pattern understanding, and not least, holistic practicality. Thanks for this discussion.

@@NatureASMRBuenaVista I totally agree

Thanks for watching!

You are so right that was a big weakness to these videos. I am very thankful to Bob the camera man (@Boba_phet) for motivating us and getting this started, but thankfully this is one issue I think we have managed to fix!

yes it is particularily bad on such good information, I think this information needs to be rerecorded

@@Decent-TechNgames It's on my to-do list!