Turning my home disc golf course into a permaculture food forests disc golf course! If permaculture didn't have enough to consider... I have to consider the disc flight lines and position plants so they are protected from being hit by a disc as well! lol
Great video! We are currently looking at buying land when we move across the country so I may be coming back and revisiting your videos for how to best use that land.
Really excited for you! Good luck with your search. I only covered general ideas, so will be making more detailed videos for sure. One thing I encourage you to look at is the orientation of the land if it's in hilly areas and you experience winters. You don't want a hill facing North in the Northern hemisphere or facing South in the Southern Hemisphere as the sun is low in the sky in winter and the hills facing these directions will get limited sunshine, so it will be colder there in winter. For me that's the main thing I would look at. If you can get a flat land that's great but a combination of a gentle hill and a flatter land present massive opportunities for harvesting and distributing rainwater across the property in a cost efficient manner.
Super interesting. There is one thing that I miss in your videos, but that is because I am new in this and quite ignorant. This is the distance between trees or in guilds, or one guild from another. Could you help to give me an aprox idea?
Hi Isabel. Thank you so much for watching and leaving the comments. I'd start by finding general plant information. For example, a tree nursery might tell you the maximum width of your chosen mature tree. Or you can find that information online. So, you consider this when positioning trees and other plants around them. To give you a general idea: Standard fruit trees need 5-7 meters space as a minimum. Whilst semi-dwarf verities need 3.5 to 4.5 meters per tree as a minimum. Dwarf fruit trees need about 2.5-3 meters each as a minimum. The guilds can intersect with one another but the each plant space needs to be considered. It's also necessary to consider sun angles and how positioning different trees west to east or north to south would affect one another. Would they give too much shade to trees behind them and is it desirable or not. I hope this helps.
Great info, but scary at the same time. I have so many questions now, and i might reconsider my homestead plans as i see two three issues that this design could help.🤔
Glad the video was helpful. Don't worry about few issues. As long as you keep observing the nature and the cycles, the answers will come to you. You can only make it all better! Good luck 💚
Aw lovely, good luck. Creating a farm will be a rewarding experience, despite various challenges. Haha, good! Use me! Call me! I also need to be creating more videos....the one coming up this week is specifically about windbreaks.
@@granvisio I am Sphanish, and I haven't found videos about food forest like yours, because the mediterranean zone is tough to cultivate.Sorry for my English
Did you mean to ask how far the greenhouse should be away from the house, or did you mean to ask how far the house should be from the road or another reference point? Assuming you're asking about the distance between the main house and the greenhouse, it often depends on local building codes and regulations. In Ontario, these regulations may be set by municipal bylaws or zoning regulations. Typically, there are setback requirements that dictate how far structures must be from property lines, other structures, and sometimes natural features like bodies of water. To get accurate information for your specific location, you should contact your local municipality's planning or building department. They can provide you with the specific setback requirements and any other regulations you need to consider when planning the construction of your cottage. Failing to adhere to these regulations could result in additional costs or complications during the building process. If you meant something else in your question, please provide more details so I can offer more targeted assistance.
This is my new favourite UA-cam channel, thank you! What is your approach for permaculture in wet climates? I'm in Ireland and it's getting wetter every year. I am on a slope and have 4 springs on a 1 hectare site. I was going to divert it to ponds. And place my veg beds and tree crops 90° on contour.... what do you think? I have clay soils with 5.5 - 6pH
Thanks for the comment! Wow! 4 springs! I’d divert the water to ponds too! And keep fish, lots of fish! Check out the chinampa growing system and its variations. I’d plant the trees and place garden beds along the contour lines to reduce the erosion. I’d explore native water loving plants as well as those from around the world of the same hardiness zone as yours. Perhaps you could grow something that is demanded but not popular to grow in the area. Some plants love acid soils, but most will thrive in more neutral pH above 6 below 7. To raise the pH you’ll need lime. If the roots can’t grow well because the clay soil is too heavy, adding organic matter will help, but you can also sprinkle some gypsum, but not too much.
Hi! I'm from north east India, a topical climate. I have a small backyard of about 450 square feet where I am just starting my hands on gardening this year. I have just started learning about permaculture and that's the approach I want to take on but I'm confused about where I should start. Can you make a video about planning a tropical garden?
Hola, excelente canal. I really like your videos. I have already used the website you recommended for contours. I am having trouble deciding where I should plant the trees and dig the ponds and I will really appreciate your input if you can.
Hi there! Thanks for watching! Glad you like the videos. Send me an email with title: "Resource needed" and a brief description of your site and goals and I will respond.
Excellent summary and great visuals ❤ Do you have any permaculture design suggestions for a monsoon tropical northern slope land? I live in India - Maharashtra. It will great to get some guidance about setting up a permaculture on our 2.5 acre land near Pune.
Hi! Thank you for the comment. I’d need more information to provide a specific guidance but here are some takeaways: You have a distinct wet and dry season. Water should be harvested and stored for use in the dry season. The plants themselves hold 80-90% of the nutrients not the soil, and there is a rapid decomposition process because of high temperature, rainfall and humidity. So to maintain soil fertility you’ll need living mulches in wet season and dry mulches in the dry season. To rehabilitate the land, you’ll need leguminous cover crops and trees. The legume trees can be coppiced for nutrient cycling and mulch. The land will need careful selection of plants as there is water competition in dry season. If you have animals, they should be grazed only under selected tree crops and they need to be rigorously rotated between fields. Food forest should have a complex understory system. Crops should be rotated according to seasons. Grains and pulses in the dry season, rice paddies, taro etc. in wet season. There would be also some unique design elements according to the specific shape of your land, soil type and energy inputs. I'd love to provide a more detailed guidance, send me an email to: eva@granvisio.com if you're interested.
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THE MOST USEFULL SHORT VIDEO ON THIS MATTER ! Thanks a lot !
Thank you for watching! I appreciate the comment!
Short and Amazing Presentation Excellent WORK 💯👍
Thank you for watching and for leaving the comment! ! appreciate your time!
Thank you
You're welcome! Thank you for watching!
Wow. Very informative
I’ve just discovered thus channel, fantastic! Not much homestead or permaculture for people who live in the Mediterranean, so this is gold!
Thank you for the lovely comment and for watching!
Turning my home disc golf course into a permaculture food forests disc golf course! If permaculture didn't have enough to consider... I have to consider the disc flight lines and position plants so they are protected from being hit by a disc as well! lol
haha good one!
Wow very informative !!
Thank you for watching and for leaving the comment!
This was very helpful! Thank you!!
Thank you for watching and leaving the comment. Much appreciated!
Great video! We are currently looking at buying land when we move across the country so I may be coming back and revisiting your videos for how to best use that land.
Really excited for you! Good luck with your search. I only covered general ideas, so will be making more detailed videos for sure. One thing I encourage you to look at is the orientation of the land if it's in hilly areas and you experience winters. You don't want a hill facing North in the Northern hemisphere or facing South in the Southern Hemisphere as the sun is low in the sky in winter and the hills facing these directions will get limited sunshine, so it will be colder there in winter. For me that's the main thing I would look at. If you can get a flat land that's great but a combination of a gentle hill and a flatter land present massive opportunities for harvesting and distributing rainwater across the property in a cost efficient manner.
@@granvisio that is super helpful. Thanks!
@@readgab you're welcome
Nice video guidelines thanks
Thank you for watching!
Great information!
Beautiful animation very clear explanation of a quite difficult subject. Thanks Ewa.🍭😄
Super interesting. There is one thing that I miss in your videos, but that is because I am new in this and quite ignorant. This is the distance between trees or in guilds, or one guild from another. Could you help to give me an aprox idea?
Hi Isabel. Thank you so much for watching and leaving the comments. I'd start by finding general plant information. For example, a tree nursery might tell you the maximum width of your chosen mature tree. Or you can find that information online. So, you consider this when positioning trees and other plants around them. To give you a general idea: Standard fruit trees need 5-7 meters space as a minimum. Whilst semi-dwarf verities need 3.5 to 4.5 meters per tree as a minimum. Dwarf fruit trees need about 2.5-3 meters each as a minimum. The guilds can intersect with one another but the each plant space needs to be considered. It's also necessary to consider sun angles and how positioning different trees west to east or north to south would affect one another. Would they give too much shade to trees behind them and is it desirable or not. I hope this helps.
Great info, but scary at the same time. I have so many questions now, and i might reconsider my homestead plans as i see two three issues that this design could help.🤔
Glad the video was helpful. Don't worry about few issues. As long as you keep observing the nature and the cycles, the answers will come to you. You can only make it all better! Good luck 💚
Awesome and just what I need to help me expand my farm dream but I need about 1000 more hours of your time :)
Aw lovely, good luck. Creating a farm will be a rewarding experience, despite various challenges. Haha, good! Use me! Call me! I also need to be creating more videos....the one coming up this week is specifically about windbreaks.
THANK YOU.
You're welcome! Thanks a lot for posting the comment and for watching!
Great!!!!
Thank you for watching!
@@granvisio I am learning a lot. Thanks four your videos
@@juancarloscruz868 It warms my heart! Thank you!
@@granvisio I am Sphanish, and I haven't found videos about food forest like yours, because the mediterranean zone is tough to cultivate.Sorry for my English
@@juancarloscruz868You are right it is tough, but with good design things are a little bit easier. Glad you're learning something new!
This is awesome I love it!
Thanks so much for the enthusiasm!
Great stuff. Plan to build a cottage this summer in Ontario, wondered how far the house should be away from the house given the cost implications
Did you mean to ask how far the greenhouse should be away from the house, or did you mean to ask how far the house should be from the road or another reference point? Assuming you're asking about the distance between the main house and the greenhouse, it often depends on local building codes and regulations. In Ontario, these regulations may be set by municipal bylaws or zoning regulations. Typically, there are setback requirements that dictate how far structures must be from property lines, other structures, and sometimes natural features like bodies of water. To get accurate information for your specific location, you should contact your local municipality's planning or building department. They can provide you with the specific setback requirements and any other regulations you need to consider when planning the construction of your cottage. Failing to adhere to these regulations could result in additional costs or complications during the building process. If you meant something else in your question, please provide more details so I can offer more targeted assistance.
That's great 👍 I am from India and planning to build a permaculture farm. It would be great if you could help me.
Send me an email describing the area where you want to build the permaculture farm and your goals.
@@granvisio sure will do that, can you please share your mail id pls.
@@parthoroy5300 Sure! eva@granvisio.com
This is my new favourite UA-cam channel, thank you!
What is your approach for permaculture in wet climates? I'm in Ireland and it's getting wetter every year. I am on a slope and have 4 springs on a 1 hectare site. I was going to divert it to ponds. And place my veg beds and tree crops 90° on contour.... what do you think? I have clay soils with 5.5 - 6pH
Thanks for the comment! Wow! 4 springs! I’d divert the water to ponds too! And keep fish, lots of fish! Check out the chinampa growing system and its variations.
I’d plant the trees and place garden beds along the contour lines to reduce the erosion. I’d explore native water loving plants as well as those from around the world of the same hardiness zone as yours. Perhaps you could grow something that is demanded but not popular to grow in the area.
Some plants love acid soils, but most will thrive in more neutral pH above 6 below 7. To raise the pH you’ll need lime. If the roots can’t grow well because the clay soil is too heavy, adding organic matter will help, but you can also sprinkle some gypsum, but not too much.
Hi! I'm from north east India, a topical climate. I have a small backyard of about 450 square feet where I am just starting my hands on gardening this year. I have just started learning about permaculture and that's the approach I want to take on but I'm confused about where I should start. Can you make a video about planning a tropical garden?
Video about permaculture planning has been on my mind for some time. I will try to make it happen soon! Thanks for watching!
Hola, excelente canal. I really like your videos. I have already used the website you recommended for contours. I am having trouble deciding where I should plant the trees and dig the ponds and I will really appreciate your input if you can.
Hi there! Thanks for watching! Glad you like the videos. Send me an email with title: "Resource needed" and a brief description of your site and goals and I will respond.
Excellent summary and great visuals ❤
Do you have any permaculture design suggestions for a monsoon tropical northern slope land? I live in India - Maharashtra.
It will great to get some guidance about setting up a permaculture on our 2.5 acre land near Pune.
Hi! Thank you for the comment. I’d need more information to provide a specific guidance but here are some takeaways: You have a distinct wet and dry season. Water should be harvested and stored for use in the dry season. The plants themselves hold 80-90% of the nutrients not the soil, and there is a rapid decomposition process because of high temperature, rainfall and humidity. So to maintain soil fertility you’ll need living mulches in wet season and dry mulches in the dry season. To rehabilitate the land, you’ll need leguminous cover crops and trees. The legume trees can be coppiced for nutrient cycling and mulch. The land will need careful selection of plants as there is water competition in dry season. If you have animals, they should be grazed only under selected tree crops and they need to be rigorously rotated between fields. Food forest should have a complex understory system. Crops should be rotated according to seasons. Grains and pulses in the dry season, rice paddies, taro etc. in wet season. There would be also some unique design elements according to the specific shape of your land, soil type and energy inputs. I'd love to provide a more detailed guidance, send me an email to: eva@granvisio.com if you're interested.
@@granvisio Wow! thanks for a detailed reply. I will write to you shortly a email with the details of our land. :-)
Cheers,
Sandeep
So unrealistic
Some people need to dream big before they can start shaping their reality with some hope of getting something for their effort.
can you help me plan my farm?
Hi Richard! Please send me your enquiry to my email and we'll set up a free exploration call: eva@granvisio.com