Thanks so much for your videos Farmer Jones. I am just getting started on my syntropic journey and to have your videos as a resource is priceless. Hopefully more people adopt syntropic agroforestry and other renewable farming practices. It will make a massive difference to society on so many levels.
So good! Got me super excited, glad I found your channel, our rows are very similar just not as established, but I’ll be going hard in spring and double down on my bananas and pawpaw.
Hello Farmer Jones, been following your syntropic farming channel on UA-cam, awesome content you have there! I've noticed your climate in Australia is similar to southern Africa and was thinking of what kind of market garden crops you've incorporated in your syntropic farming? I believe a farm has to generate income through out the year in order to be more sustainable to run on its on.. What market garden crops have you planted that work on annual n biannual basis? Then what are you high value trees? Then as well have you experienced any Fungal and bacterial attack so how have you mitigated that too Thanks Greetings from Zambia
The system in the video is 3 meters apart allowing for two raised vegetable rows. We are playing with wider alley ways up to 5meters allowing for 3 veg rows. All depends on your planned endgame. In our case will likely be chicken tractors
@farmerjones2766 thanks for taking the time to reply. There are many factors to consider when planning these things and it is wonderful to see what works for others.
This is a system I would like to try out in Florida. When you say Pawpaw, is that another word for papaya? In America I hear papaya and pawpaw are different fruits. Is the paw paw the Australian word for papaya? Thanks for posting this give me some ideas and inspiration.
Absolutely. that's the goal to fill all the available ecological niches. Time is my most scarce resource and wish I could stay locked in this forest forever just planting. Low strata berry bushes, ground covering sweet potatoes, etc are excellent. We have occupied some low strata with dragon fruit on the permanent timber trees
Having done traditional row crops for 10 yrs I would say no. The hardest part is harvesting the bananas, but in general I have become lazy feel like the pressure is off now while watching my investment grow. We have just done our annual prune / chop and drop) so 2 men cleaned up 24 rows in 2 days. Not too bad. It's definitely more relaxing.
My current theory is ride out the heavy rains, gain maximum accumulation and bring it all down once the cool weather starts and the sun starts to get low in the sky. This will bring sun into the system benefiting ground covers, is less, small fruit trees and sweet potato. .
I have learnt so much from your videos which I will try, thank you.
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Thanks Debra. All the best with your garden.
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Keep It up!
This channel should take off. Very enjoyable and educational.
Thanks so much for your videos Farmer Jones. I am just getting started on my syntropic journey and to have your videos as a resource is priceless. Hopefully more people adopt syntropic agroforestry and other renewable farming practices. It will make a massive difference to society on so many levels.
Thanks so much for those words and yes that's one of the main reasons why i do it. We need to change our societies way of growing food.
Looking fantastic. Food abundance
So good! Got me super excited, glad I found your channel, our rows are very similar just not as established, but I’ll be going hard in spring and double down on my bananas and pawpaw.
Paradise!
Hello Farmer Jones, been following your syntropic farming channel on UA-cam, awesome content you have there!
I've noticed your climate in Australia is similar to southern Africa and was thinking of what kind of market garden crops you've incorporated in your syntropic farming?
I believe a farm has to generate income through out the year in order to be more sustainable to run on its on..
What market garden crops have you planted that work on annual n biannual basis?
Then what are you high value trees?
Then as well have you experienced any Fungal and bacterial attack so how have you mitigated that too
Thanks
Greetings from Zambia
Wonderful system. It is aging what you have been able to achieve in such a short period of time. May I ask approximately how far apart are your rows?
The system in the video is 3 meters apart allowing for two raised vegetable rows. We are playing with wider alley ways up to 5meters allowing for 3 veg rows. All depends on your planned endgame. In our case will likely be chicken tractors
@farmerjones2766 thanks for taking the time to reply. There are many factors to consider when planning these things and it is wonderful to see what works for others.
This is a system I would like to try out in Florida. When you say Pawpaw, is that another word for papaya? In America I hear papaya and pawpaw are different fruits. Is the paw paw the Australian word for papaya? Thanks for posting this give me some ideas and inspiration.
Hi yes papaw is the yellow fruit and papaya is the red fruit
I keep wondering that you can pack so much food there, I see a lot of usable space, some shrubs ? What do you think?
Absolutely. that's the goal to fill all the available ecological niches. Time is my most scarce resource and wish I could stay locked in this forest forever just planting. Low strata berry bushes, ground covering sweet potatoes, etc are excellent. We have occupied some low strata with dragon fruit on the permanent timber trees
Does it consume more labor compared to a traditional garden?
Having done traditional row crops for 10 yrs I would say no. The hardest part is harvesting the bananas, but in general I have become lazy feel like the pressure is off now while watching my investment grow. We have just done our annual prune / chop and drop) so 2 men cleaned up 24 rows in 2 days. Not too bad. It's definitely more relaxing.
@@adamjones905 try the Thai dwarf banana. It is only about 6 feet tall.
Anyone else in a dry land situation?
I’ve been looking forward to your next updates. What are your plans for this Autumn?
My current theory is ride out the heavy rains, gain maximum accumulation and bring it all down once the cool weather starts and the sun starts to get low in the sky. This will bring sun into the system benefiting ground covers, is less, small fruit trees and sweet potato. .