Follow up on Steep Slope Strategies - Planting with Biomass Bunds
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- I received a lot of questions and interest on our last video, so today I take you around one of our oldest contour buomass bunds to talk about planting, microclimates and nutrient distribution.
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You can eat the root if it´s malanga or taro. I´m not sure if bore is the same. What you are doing sounds about like sintropic agroforestry. I don´t know if you heard of it, but it´s a technique developed in Brazil. They accumulate all organic matter in one place and plant seeds, seedling and small trees there, then prune to have more organic matter.
Yes I have been watching some videos lately about this! There are some minor differences, but we are in the same spirit, exploring forward better ways!
Another recent "school" I came across - FMNR - farmer managed natural regeneration.
There are principles, there are strategies and there are techniques. There are also a lot of different ecosystem variables, temperature, rainfall, elevation etc. What we really need is 1 million+ people experimenting and everyone comparing best practices.
@@EcoInstant I took a course in permaculture and read a lot about water infiltration and soil erosion. Also, as I have had cattle, I studied a lot about fodder trees for my climate (dry tropical forest). I have worked in the hills of the Patia Vally in Cauca, but had to leave because of the security problems. The climate there is similar to the one here in Cali, although it rains a little more than in Patia. But I worked for 12 years making small structures to retain water and was able to have water running in the creek year round. It´s beautiful and fullfilling to se the results of the work done.
@@luzgiraldo2468 That sounds wonderful, I've been watching syntropic agroforestry videos and its very interesting! My next video is about all the jargon, I think we are all building towards the same goal!
How far apart are the contours? Does the spacing vary with the slope of the land? Looking forward to the drone footage! Great work.
We have some varied spacing to see what works better, but from above, definitely the steeper the land the closer the bunds.
We have had good success with 20m +/- 5m spacing on slopes up to 45 degrees.
If they are too close, they can attempt to shade together, possibly making cultivation in between more complicated.
And thanks for the comment Babak, great to hear from you!
How did you start the lemongrass or were they from started plants? I tried it once from seed and got like 3 plants from a zillion tiny seeds. Would be funny if you eventually got back into coffee since this has been a whole journey away from it :)
Yes, we don't have any experience with lemon grass seeds, but each plant puts out multiple bunches as it grows and after 4 or 5 harvests we pull them up and split them!
Oz Moses the act of distributing nutrients around by parting waters
Hilarious Sponge Bob :)
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Are coffee plants easy to grow without any TLC?
They 'can' be, but not in monoculture. We have lots of coffee growing fine without any attention, and they give dozens of beans per year, enough to roast a bit for ourselves.
But when focusing on production, and especially in monoculture, they require tremendous quantities of fertilizer it seems.
This is funny, because when coffee was shade cultivated with nitrogen fixing ice cream bean trees, they never fertilized, back in the 70's. But when the Coffee Federation developed the 'sun-resistant' variety of coffee and told all the farmers to cut down the nitrogen fixing trees to fit more coffee plants in per hectare, now suddenly buying large quantities of fertilizer is important.