Syntropic Agroforestry Management in 5 Simple Steps

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  • Опубліковано 3 чер 2024
  • In this video we share the 5 steps we take to manage our Syntropic Agroforestry system. We also show some of the progress and share some tips.
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  • @jenniezalleepalmer3203
    @jenniezalleepalmer3203 26 днів тому +5

    We are super happy u guys decided to keep making videos! We live at about 2200 elevation, so I've used all your info in figuring out how to plant out our food forest. We much appreciate your passing on what you've learned.

    • @OffGridHawaii
      @OffGridHawaii  25 днів тому

      Thanks I’m glad our videos have been helpful 🤙🏾🌴

  • @m.gilbert1176
    @m.gilbert1176 25 днів тому +4

    You just described a day in my life. I'm in Orchidland. Loved the closeups.

  • @MomsSelfReliance
    @MomsSelfReliance 25 днів тому +4

    That's amazing. There'sso much to learn here. The weed trimmer does a great job with the cleaning. I love your channel been watching when you guys got the land a few years ago. It would be helpful to your channel to also make some shorts vids it will help putting your videos out there and with the numbers. All the best. I'm looking forward to you guys next video

    • @OffGridHawaii
      @OffGridHawaii  25 днів тому

      Thanks for the comment and suggestion! It would be cool to make some shorts, just gotta figure that out 🤙🏾

  • @danielnaberhaus5337
    @danielnaberhaus5337 26 днів тому +2

    You can weedwack mexi sunflower if the stem is green, could potentially speed up the chopping n dropping process. Can also get rhizobia at garden exchange and innoculate the soil so the nitrogen fixers are more productive.

  • @hightyd3
    @hightyd3 26 днів тому +2

    Love the music video/reinforcement clips at the end of the video. It illustrates the concepts you just introduced well 🙏

  • @IamSpanishFly
    @IamSpanishFly 23 дні тому +1

    Thank you for your content, and you deserve many more likes!

  • @jhordanpessoaoliveira1154
    @jhordanpessoaoliveira1154 26 днів тому +2

    nicest i´m from Brazil and i am enjoin your videos

  • @sebas4139
    @sebas4139 21 день тому +1

    1- 0:23 ´repare fertilizer
    2- 1:06 clear weeds whit trimmer
    3- 1:39 weed around target species by hand
    4- 3:06 spread fertilizer mix
    5- 3:40 chop & drop

  • @omidmehdipour1720
    @omidmehdipour1720 23 дні тому +1

    been waiting for videos good to see you are back!!

  • @FATTONYKAUAI
    @FATTONYKAUAI 22 дні тому +2

    😎🤙🌴U help inspire us on kauai

  • @thomastice9209
    @thomastice9209 26 днів тому +2

    Aloha Michael, the farm is looking awesome:) what are those yellow flowering shrubs at 11:32?

    • @OffGridHawaii
      @OffGridHawaii  26 днів тому +1

      Those are another type of crotalaria. Much woodier and grows wild much easier.

  • @TheIslandHomestead
    @TheIslandHomestead 26 днів тому +1

    Very nice. I need to utilize crotalaria more!

  • @jameskniskern2261
    @jameskniskern2261 20 днів тому

    My game changing tool is a battery powered hedge trimmer. Slices through weeds and makes chop and drop almost effortless.
    I spend a whole lot less time cutting stuff up. Lay it up around the stuff you want to feed and done cutting up not really needed.

    • @OffGridHawaii
      @OffGridHawaii  20 днів тому +1

      I can see that being useful in certain situations 🤙

    • @jameskniskern2261
      @jameskniskern2261 20 днів тому

      @@OffGridHawaii not for larger than 1.5 inch plants! I still need my machete and saw.

  • @michaelhudson4171
    @michaelhudson4171 23 дні тому

    Great video. You have a beautiful project, which I say with a like mind. I have a 70 hectare regenerative syntropic agroforestry system. I'm going a bit more jungly here, in terms of introducing orderly but very regular canopy crops. Lots of eritrinas, ingas, tabibueyas, acacias, and loads of mid story fixers like poinciana and jacaranda, and layering in cacao and coffee to fully stratify vertical space. Extra long and sturdy elescopic pruners are essential, but leaving tall shade really ups your game in terms of the quantity of biomass and N fixing and general soil biota. As you say, the tropics swollows up biomass so fast. But with the right density, you can build absurd depths of humus. Some of the denser cloud forrests on the property are meters deep in it.

    • @michaelhudson4171
      @michaelhudson4171 23 дні тому

      Also, I recommend birds foot trefoil as a supplement or replacement to the fodder peanut. it does just as well if not better in shade but doesn't bind around tree roots so much. The fodder peanut is great, but once it reaches a lawn like density it can have a choking effect as the roots form a thick mass, and be really hard to keep clear of the "plate" of tree trunks without damaging feeder roots. Some trees, like guavas, being exotropic, don't care, but others find it a bit hard to breath unless your basically digging the stuff up regularly.

    • @OffGridHawaii
      @OffGridHawaii  20 днів тому

      Thank you for sharing some details about your project! Sounds amazing! There are definitely things I would do differently next time but over time I plan on correcting my mistakes on this system. This is why I started small here. I knew the odds of me getting it perfect first try were slim lol.

    • @OffGridHawaii
      @OffGridHawaii  20 днів тому

      Interesting 🤔 I’ll look into that.

  • @dirtyjarhikes
    @dirtyjarhikes 26 днів тому

    Amazing! So helpful

  • @piolaappleseed6
    @piolaappleseed6 26 днів тому

    You’re such a good editor 😘 and gardener 🤗

  • @TheVigilantStewards
    @TheVigilantStewards 22 дні тому

    Nice, just saw this on recommended content. I'm next to Mount Kenya in East Africa, smack on the equator at 7000 ft elevation. Doing more and more syntropic here

    • @OffGridHawaii
      @OffGridHawaii  22 дні тому

      Awesome! what kind of things are you growing there??

    • @TheVigilantStewards
      @TheVigilantStewards 20 днів тому

      @@OffGridHawaii Dragonfruits and avocado are a big cash crop here, but we are more engaged in growing a full diet and community project. I'm trying to grow more jackfruit and soursop as there aren't many in this region, the diet has become very basic here and need to broaden the fruits

  • @dudeleboski2692
    @dudeleboski2692 24 дні тому +1

    Man, you guys have come a long way since you first started. Are you still using human waste , as a fertilizer?

    • @OffGridHawaii
      @OffGridHawaii  24 дні тому

      Yes. We plan on making an updated video soon, we have a new process.

  • @lorebrown5307
    @lorebrown5307 23 дні тому +2

    What is the hand tool with the red handle called and where do you get it? Thanks for the video, ove everything syntropic

    • @OffGridHawaii
      @OffGridHawaii  22 дні тому +1

      Sickle or rice knife. Link is in the description 🤙

    • @lorebrown5307
      @lorebrown5307 20 днів тому

      @@OffGridHawaii thanks

  • @MichaelMcDonnellDK
    @MichaelMcDonnellDK 25 днів тому +1

    Do anyone know someone doing permaculture and who would like some free help and company?
    I'm an early retired software engineer living in Hilo and considering getting a plot in HPP or Orchidland. I recently finished the Master Gardener program at UH Hilo. I'm looking for some more practical permaculture experience and connecting with other permaculturists. I'm also happy to visit if anyone just want to show off their garden 🙂

  • @dudeleboski2692
    @dudeleboski2692 24 дні тому

    Mike would it be more beneficial to chop up all those cuttings for a quicker absorption?

    • @OffGridHawaii
      @OffGridHawaii  24 дні тому

      If that’s what you are looking for yes you can.

  • @user-pm3wc5jv3c
    @user-pm3wc5jv3c День тому +1

    This syntropic thing is a new one on me. Syntropic is not in the dictionary. I asked Google, and Google was like,"What?!?!? So.....what is it?

    • @OffGridHawaii
      @OffGridHawaii  День тому

      Syntropic comes from the word Syntropy, a term for nutritional interdependence, is primarily used in microbiology to describe the symbiotic relationship between bacterial species. It can be described as the relationship between the individuals of different species in which both benefit nutritionally from the presence of the other.

    • @user-pm3wc5jv3c
      @user-pm3wc5jv3c 20 годин тому

      @@OffGridHawaii Alrighty then.

  • @trailbossvoss
    @trailbossvoss 24 дні тому

    How are you supposed ride your Bmx in that jungle😅 kidding dude pumped ur doing good man

    • @OffGridHawaii
      @OffGridHawaii  24 дні тому

      😂 we don’t even have dirt here to build jumps. Hope you are well too!

  • @peterellis4262
    @peterellis4262 25 днів тому +3

    String trimmer? Get a scythe ;) Seriously. Better control, more efficient, you can go right up to your desired species without hurting them and it's easier on the body than using a strimmer.