Beyond Sustainable 30 Year Old Permaculture Zero Waste Homestead Farm on 1 Acre
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- John from www.growingyour... visits Pico Blanco Farm, a 1 Acre Beyond Sustainable Farm on a the hill above Escazú, Costa Rica that was started 30 years ago.
In this episode, John takes you on a tour of this well-planned permaculture farm that captures its own water, generates its own power, makes its own gas, produces its own fertilizer and grows fruits and vegetables in harmony with nature.
You will discover some of the common and more uncommon fruits and vegetables are grown on this permaculture farm. You will learn some of the many systems that are in place to turn this farm into a zero-waste paradise where all black water (sewage) and grey water is bio filtered and used to grow food.
You will learn how gravity is used to water this terraced farm on a hill by using pipe reduction to increase water pressure.
You will discover some techniques for stopping erosion by increasing soil organic matter and getting roots in the ground.
You will learn some of the planning and techniques that one man used to turn an undesirable property on a hill to one of the most impressive permaculture farms I have ever visited.
Jump to the following parts of this episode:
0:09:30 Slope without Retaining Wall by using the best practices
0:11:45 Edible Flowers
0:17:20 Solar Panels Creating 100% of Power
0:21:00 Stove Powered by Gas Created on Site
0:21:30 Benefits of Cooking on Cast Iron Pots
0:23:45 Squatting on Toilet to Make Bio-Gas
0:27:20 Septic System that produces Gas, Fertilizer and Clean Water
0:33:51 Water Lilys and Water Lettuce Cleans Black Water
0:38:00 Conventional and Organic Lettuce and How that can degrade soil
0:40:44 Azola Cleans Water Further
0:44:16 Growing Taro and Other Crops with clean water
0:37:00 Final water Cleaning Stage with Duckweed
0:49:00 Living off the Grid By Making Your own Power and Resources
0:53:00 Catching Rain Water without gutters
0:57:00 Always have failsafe systems
0:57:55 Water Storage Tank underground
1:02:14 Eating CoffeeBerry
1:03:18 Growing Orchids training plants
1:04:41 Non Erosion on Terraced Slope by organic matter and plant roots
1:06:42 Irrigation Sprinklers
1:07:00 Air Pruning without a Smart Pot
1:08:48 Watering terraces with gravity flow system
1:11:18 The Ultimate Producer instead of Consumer
1:12:00 Natural Insect Traps
1:13:17 Interview with Farmer Hugo A. Zuñiga Molina
1:14:55 Why did you decide to start this project?
1:17:00 Why is increasing the soil organic matter so important?
1:19:04 What does your family think of what you are doing?
1:24:19 Why is it important to teach your kids and future generations?
1:25:49 What are your opinions about growing monoculture lettuce?
1:32:20 What words of wisdom would you like to share with my viewers?
1:34:42 Visit and Stay on the Farm.
After watching this episode, you will learn about the most amazing example of permaculture in action that I have ever visited. You will learn many techniques that should be implemented in the first world countries so people can become producers instead of consumers in our society .
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wonderful video today john
Love ur videos as u cry I also cry,my God! This video values gold to me and my project on 5 acres land in North Florida. One day will be as grown and pretty to show it to the world.
Would love to see you go back now with different eyes and see the changes. This is such an amazing place to visit. We all should thrive to be much more like him.
You say near the end of the video that Ugo is one of the most humble people you've ever met.
You know the word humility (same root in Spanish) comes from a Latin word for earth (humus!). So someone who is humble is close to the earth! Excellent and important video. I love learning about these quiet heroes! Thank you for making this.
Don Hugo is for sure connected to the mother land!
THIS IS TRULY AMAZING. wow God bless this man and his family. truly inspiring. I hope the right people see this video and begin plans to change the world for the better. ------------------------------------ LOVE
What an amazing collaboration!!!! Thank you so much!!!!!
Thank you all for all of the efforts! love you ! muchos gracias!:)
Thank you John! We felt the impact that this amazing place had on you and us through you. We learned a lot!
Well done John!!!!!!!!!!What an incredible home and acreage! Great descriptive documentary of this. Thanks for all you do.
You never disappoint my man! Thank you
I'm pretty sure one day kids will look at theses videos thinking what the phoque was this flower taste... you are a kind of god of plants to me. Plants must be loving you.
John, I am John too, and I wanted to thank you for your video work. Man this is your thing for sure. I haven't been able to pull away it's 1:34 a.m. in Ohio. Man you really nailed this video, and it is top shelf work. I hope I can introduce myself someday. Your awesome and have inspired so many new levels of consideration and thoughts in my mind. Thank you, man. Wow, great work... You care a lot and it matters so much. People like you are changing the 🌎. Great work John. Sincerely John G.
It especially hit me when your cameras were getting wet how much you care, John. Your badass man, we can do better! You are making it happen. Wow!!!
I loved this episode. It's so rich in wisdom and passion. Thank you for sharing.
This video is inspiring and gives me a sense of being connected with others with a common mission. I am just beginning my journey into building soil and fertility on my property and hearing from others who have done this for a long time helps me believe anything is possible for our planet. It is a message of hope.
This episode was great!
Agreed, we must change our ways!
Thank you for your passion and love of nature ❤ you are one of my favorite heroes ❤. Blessings to you and yours.
Coolest episode you’ve ever done. The magic there is insane... I could feel it!
Don Hugo's place is definitely magical.
Prime example of sustainability and only on 1 acre! I would love to see a site map showing the topography, how the systems connect and how water moves throughout the property!
wow, i am thrilled to learn i can visit this place. my husband better get ready, cause we're going, even if i have to drag him there :)
Lol.. you're a passion fruit 😊
Truly inspiring John! Your passion is contagious and it’s definitely growing in me to have a life even close to this kind of sustainability.
Absolutely incredible and inspiring!
Thanks brother, jah,,. Bless,,. Everybody, this farming,. Season
I"ve asked the same question, "Does the American Farmer feed his family and animals, then let his family eat those animals, that his farm produces?" Even now that many state and federal lawsuits have been filed reguarding Round-up, they have to know they have polluted their land sometimes owned for generations. Grandpa rolling in his grave.
Once saw an old book explaining benefits of satelite farming method.
Instead of clearing the land of all the original plants.
Its diagram show satelite planting spots allocated within the original land plants.
iirc One of the benefits stated was that there would be less pests as they would have original plants to feed on.
Good work inspiring thanks for sharing! You are right “ The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step”. I am going to start some lettuce in a garden up north here and containers you have inspired me to start!
One of the best videos I've ever seen, thank you so much for doing this.
Awesome video of the way it aught to be. We desperately need to re-green the earth now, before it's too late!
Another exciting episode indeed! What a wealth of knowledge! Kudos John!
Johns is the coolest
You are totally awesome... Man thank you for the inspiration you are to me
Mark Ewert he doesnt know it yet but he is a NATIONAL TREASURE..what gardener do u know that doesnt know the" garden guy on you tube".
you need a hug with this one hugz
Thank you John for this educational Video, Everything you talk about in all your videos I admire so much and I believe the whole Earth should be growing all Organic without any pesticides at all ...
English is my second language I hope it made sense what I'm trying to say,
The next Time I need any kind juicer I will buy from you discount juicers !
This is so inspiring!!! I love your passion . Thank you 🙏❤🌱
Great video!
Admire what you did, how you feel! More words is no need to explain how beautiful this picture of where we living should be. The only one things i hate that always can someday my land was list into some city project or sth like that, and see them destroy the diversity i built. What do you think about this issue? Sorry if my English have a mistake, thanks
"Arracacha" at 6:40? Granadilla at 8:40... Sweet passionfruit...
Vetiver grass is good to filter water too. It can even grow on floaters on the water also a good producer of biomass for mulch or compost... Good for holding soil with deep root system...
Aren't Azolla and Duckweed the same species?
John, Job Well Done. AWESOME.
A couple of years ago my family’s lo and I visited the Inca ruins at machu pitchu in Peru. I imagine they used similar technology. We just don’t know about it all.
I started my first tree collard last month
GREAT episode, John !!!! Bravo !!! !! "All praise goes to The Creator" , The Most High , the God of the Bible. Right. .. :-) .... . ~ Cheers , ~ Reverend Shane
I have that passion vine. It’s the giant passion fruit
I ❤ ur videos! They are so inspiring & I learn so much 😍 Tfs!
I think the passion fruit you're trying to identify might be a barbadine hybrid
One day i hope to do the same.
"We need to start working with nature", gets attacked by bee. LOL
whata trooper with that poop there
i have coffee fruit tea, made from byproducts of the coffee industry :)
The meek shall inherit the earth.
Actually it is called brown water.
👍🏼🌴🍃
We lived in CA for a while and all the shopping strips said they were watering with “brown recycled water” to save water- but it stank. Guess they were doing it wrong- sure smelled awful.
Damn, you made me cry John. Haha. But seriously this video truly touched my heart, Hugo is one hell of an humble/insipring guy and everyone should aspire to be more like Hugo! 💚
Jump to the following parts of this episode:
0:09:30 Slope without Retaining Wall by using the best practices
0:11:45 Edible Flowers
0:17:20 Solar Panels Creating 100% of Power
0:21:00 Stove Powered by Gas Created on Site
0:21:30 Benefits of Cooking on Cast Iron Pots
0:23:45 Squatting on Toilet to Make Bio-Gas
0:27:20 Septic System that produces Gas, Fertilizer and Clean Water
0:33:51 Water Lilys and Water Lettuce Cleans Black Water
0:38:00 Conventional and Organic Lettuce and How that can degrade soil
0:40:44 Azola Cleans Water Further
0:44:16 Growing Taro and Other Crops with clean water
0:37:00 Final water Cleaning Stage with Duckweed
0:49:00 Living off the Grid By Making Your own Power and Resources
0:53:00 Catching Rain Water without gutters
0:57:00 Always have failsafe systems
0:57:55 Water Storage Tank underground
1:02:14 Eating CoffeeBerry
1:03:18 Growing Orchids training plants
1:04:41 Non Erosion on Terraced Slope by organic matter and plant roots
1:06:42 Irrigation Sprinklers
1:07:00 Air Pruning without a Smart Pot
1:08:48 Watering terraces with gravity flow system
1:11:18 The Ultimate Producer instead of Consumer
1:12:00 Natural Insect Traps
1:13:17 Interview with Farmer Hugo A. Zuñiga Molina
1:14:55 Why did you decide to start this project?
1:17:00 Why is increasing the soil organic matter so important?
1:19:04 What does your family think of what you are doing?
1:24:19 Why is it important to teach your kids and future generations?
1:25:49 What are your opinions about growing monoculture lettuce?
1:32:20 What words of wisdom would you like to share with my viewers?
1:34:42 Visit and Stay on the Farm.
One of the best videos!! Just watching in 2020.
1st! !! ;-)
I gotta say, you are one of a kind my soul twin...I somehow knew what you were about to say right before you said it .... Iʻm in tears right now as I write this, tears of JOY for you!
I LIVE through you, YOU are living your DREAM and I feel your JoY, truly!
From one plant lover to another......Keep on Keepinʻ On!
Growerʻs Love from the EverGreeN state in the PNW!
One of the most beautiful things about this episode, is your emotion...it's like you have found home, and the inspiration for you, and Laurens future. So awesome! Thanks for keeping it real, and sharing to keep us all inspired :)
Can you please give this cornball gushing emotionality a rest please? John's videos are great but the comment sections are a minefield of cringe-worthy comments
A glass house of emotions..
Sometimes we are in it. Not always knowing why. But good for John letting us see it.
Love from South Africa.
Wow Wow Wow! This is what we had in America before the industrial revolution. Well, not exactly, but with all that greenery, this place does remind me of what Eden could have been like. Love the tour. Thanks!
Wow, he is on the edge of tears when he talks about the planet and how we are destroying it.
This video easily makes it into my top five favorite growingyourgreens episodes of all time. 👍🏽
El Toro it's one of my favorite episodes also. I have watched it 3 times now lol
One of your best videos yet. I too am bothered by how sanitation is handled in US - to flush drinking water and dispose of nutrients that could quite easily water and nourish our plants, and to go through the expense of replacing an aging infrastructure with more of the same is just a shame. Just like composing in place, the world would benefit from sanitation in place if handled properly. I do what I can, and wish I knew how to help make a difference on a larger scale.
have you ever heard of the Bokashi cycle? it uses an anaerobic bacteria to ferment your waste, developed in Japan
Wow, I'm so touched by the depth of heart expressed in this episode. One of my all time favorite episodes you've made so far. Thank you so much for your tireless efforts to bring us quality content to inspire our own creations back in the states. I'm really interested in the possibilities permaculture offers us as farmers with heart.
I lived there on Pico Blanco Escazu 40 years ago when it was paradise. Then the amount of pesticide and herbicide dumped on that mountain caused an inordinate amount of birth defects and cancer. And there it remains to this day. Sadly. Yet brings back fond memories the fruits and flowers and friendliest and happiest people on Earth
Man, your emotion in the beginning hit me. I really needed this video now, been so discouraged with my lack of progress. The journey starts with a single step. Thanks!
Well said, we share this planet and are supposed to be caretakers.
1h7m58s in.. both of you man, i can't begin to say how much i look up to this and these words need to be herd. truest things that have passed through my ears in a long time and i just hope you know how amazing and inspirational this and what hugo is doing. #respect
¡ Gracias, Sr. Hugo Zúñiga y John Kohler por darle al mundo una receta para la vida! (Thank you, Mr. Hugo Zuniga and John Kohler for giving the world a recipe for life!)
Don Hugo is a great man! The best urban permaculture project in CR :)
Wow, this place is cool! It proves we have no excuse to garden.
So inspirational love what you are doing John and love what Hugo is doing, hope you guys become friends so you can show more of his work on your channel👏🏽
I love your passion John. You started me down the path of learning to grow my own food and that has inspired my friends and neighbors to do the same. Thank you for the knowledge and for putting yourself out there. You are making a big difference even if you cannot see it. God bless!
this guy is very passionate 100%
John if everyone was as passionate about what they do, as you are about gardening this world would be a better place! 💖
BEST vid, ever! Tons. Of Thanks.👌❤️💕💕❤️👍
I would absolutely love to visit this place. John you nailed it as usual. Thanks for all the information and ideas. But it's sad 😢 that what he's doing is illegal here in the USA. Living like this could turn around most of the bad we have done to this planet. I wish this could become a normal practice here. Thanks again for this video. 😊
growing my greens in small apartment send land please
Josh Gfunkel there is an old video he did about 3rd world growing veggies in a bag made from old clothes on their porch...they grew A LOT in just a bag .
I grow vegetables in my apartment. Try out hydroponics or aquaponics.
Josh Gfunkel save your non- meat food scraps get some worms and create a worm bin they will create black gold for you that you can plant in, you can can even re- grow some veggie scraps in water on a bright sunny window, as your gardening skills grow look for U.N.- Used land in your area where a community garden could be started or perhaps folks w/ land would be willing to let you grow on it and share the bounty 🤗 All the best to you
I feel you! Some places in the Midwest have free Land I an not near there tho
I know how you feel. I want my own permaculture homestead so bad I can't stand it. We'll get there. Don't give up.
Bro I just bought my first hardy cold weather FIG Tree's I grew up just eating the inside of the Fig do you think it's safe to eat the outside of the Fig as well? I'm so excited I always thought I would have to move down south to grow my Figs but I already have a few small figs growing it snowed a couple times and they're doing great!
Adam Anderson you can eat the full fig
J. Hanley Smith sweet thank you very much
Adam Anderson Hey that's so exciting!! They're going to taste soooo good! What variety is it?
How exciting!!
John, you and Hugo are both great inspirational men.
I absolutely LOVE how emotionally passionate you get about growing and sustainability and people, and helping people. I am the same way. I live , breath, and eat growing plants; striving for health, striving to be more and more Loving to myself, others, and the earth and environment every day. I recently was in Cuba, and instead of staying at the resort, whining about the food and service like the rest of my family, my partner were out in the communities, meeting and helping the people and learning about their growing conditions. You are one of the best that I follow for growing tips on the net. Forever your fan and your supporter. Thank you for everything throughout the years.
John what your doing is amazing..... God bless you.... I was very sick 2-incurable cancers...may 2011 I was diagnosed "highly treatable but incurable " was what doctors told me..... Jesus healed me 3 years ago...I am cancer free now ....I was FORCED to learn to eat right..... I'm now healthy.. Not 250 pounds anymore.... My only problem is I'm allergic to everything now...lol. Bone marrow transplant ...I thank God for my allergies now.... I know right away if something is toxic....
"If it don't mold.....don't eat!" Very refreshing to see you get emotional....
Great stuff. I have heard it said that the duckweed makes great poultry feed as it’s very high in protein and doubles its mass super fast. You touch a point that big gov. And big private corps. alike are ONLY interested in $ and self serving. We need to collectively come together and change the ignorance that “they” like to plant inside our minds before there is nothing left to save. Example...Stopped buying stuff with palm oil because it is sourced by big food processing companies that pay off crooked governments that force exploited farmers to sell at ridiculously low prices. I am AFRAID to mention names because of very real possible consequences. BUT....the snacks are triangular, cheesy, and crunchy, and although I like the taste. I don’t want to help crooked, self, serving, people that poison MY planet. Does anyone feel the same as I or am I nuts?
You are a good person John, keep on spreading the news, which is actually no news but nature´s law since our beginning.
I am spending many hours looking at your videos, I am starting a new "bio-finca" at the Canary Islands (Spain) and I have a lot of notes written down while watching your videos. I love your enthousiasm and pasion, and I think you´re living in the future, this is where we will go because it is the only way to survive as a species. Fortunately you made a lot of videos because I'm hooked :) Two big thumbs up!
@25:50, not to mention the NOISE POLLUTION generated by those septic tank truck pumps used to suck out the water that we hear all summer long! And let's not forget about lawnmowers etc. etc. etc..
We do this in Africa, this is not new to us, solar for warming water, security lighting 24/7, 365 days. You can also use c iui w poop for cooking gas. Actually my mom's house use cow poop
Watching this amazing video 2nd time (1st time was over a year ago).
Amazing smart couple doing to the earth and family what we all suppose to do.
Thank you John for making and sharing the video!
Like the garden of Eden. Deserved effort, authenticity and pleasure. Reassuring home feelings. Great !
I didn't know that you could eat the flesh of coffee berries. The ground gutters are a cool idea too. This whole video is amazing, filled with so many brilliant ideas.
San Diego’s public water system used plants to clean the water until the influx of people grew so fast and large the system could no longer handle the job in the area allotted so it was sold to another city. Seems like you need a hug, we appreciate you and the hope and ideas you bring.
Is this really just one acre? I live on nearly an acre supposedly (rented) but it seems waaaaaayyyyyyyy tinier than this place. We barely have room for a few plants in the front and back. I really hope my husband and I can buy property one day.
Excellent video. It's to bad all homes couldn't use regenerative agriculture like this home.
I love the idea of living on a sloped property. I do not think that there is anything gross about cooking with methane from poop, because of the fire purification but I read that you can get more methane from food waste than poop.
Hugo está viviendo la “pura vida” mil gracias a compartir su huerta y granja en Costa Rica.
John you’re a true hero for this planet and that passion to spread incredibly valuable knowledge is your gift to the world. Thank you so much for another very inspiring and exciting way to learn about what I believe is my purpose here too, keep up the amazing work my friend.
Wow! Powerful video. The world is a better place because of Pico Blanco Farm.
Here in Sweden they are starting to force people into municipal sewage systems. One public serf wrote me "because we use the best available technology". I smile at such brainwashed nonsense and realize where this country is heading in reality, as compared to the common fairy tale. If you have done university and work in the public sphere you know it all, everyone else are beneath you.
After several years of following this and other growing channels I am now ready to move to a warmer climate and start something fresh. This place really smacked me in the right direction. It feels a bit like the Celestine prophecy.
The Celestine prophecy is a great book!
Yes! I recently moved out of Houston for the same reasons! Possibly looking to make a move again just to a warmer place!
We all need to play our part in taking care of the earth!
Thanks John. This video is on another level in terms of quality. Thank you for going to the mountain top and bringing us back this wisdom.
Costa Rica! Love ya! Looking at property!
No you’re talking! This deserves a full movie! Thank. you!
I live in the high desert of NM on 10 ac of pinons, junipers and lava rock from a very nearby extinct (i hope) volcano - and there's so much great info in your video from a tropical area that I can hardly wait to watch it again. There's just SO MUCH useable knowledge! Thank you, thank you...
Wow...i have no words for how much I appreciate this video. :') your all doing such amazing work, so much love and appreciation for life! Thank you very much for this. So so much thanks. 🌈🌞🌲🌻😊
Human ingenuity. Look at what happens when people aren’t regulated and taxed to death.
I believe this video had been shown before, but loved watching it again. One of my favorite videos, I could listen to it over and over. I would love to stay with Hugo y su familia. Will definetly stay with them when I visit Costa Rica.
Am on the video and am seeing various people saying they had already watched it... but I cant find it anywhere :O
I started youtubing my gardening experience because of you!!!! Thanks Sir for your work here