Wow, how have I never seen this video until now?!!? I’ve been a Verge permaculture fan for a few years and have also got my Permaculture Design Certificate through Verge. This video is done so well and it’s inspiring and I started to tear up when the kids were picking food! My kids are around the same age and your values are right up our alley!
Be the 1st on on your block, to redo your yard like this!! Life has drastically interrupted our plans, repeatedly. We finally had to buy a house, that is unfortunately, controlled by an old HOA. NONE of the residents here, had ripped-up their lawnage to plant food & medicine, until we started doing it. NONE in the neighborhood, had put a metal roof on. But now…a couple others saw our roof, & did theirs. And several others have setup raised beds on our “river-rocky” ground. I overheard someone talking about rainwater catchment. So, even though we’re old & slow, & limited financially, we’ve started making impressions, & encouraged others to do stuff that is NOT the standard HOA-Disney-esque lawnage landscaping. Our area has been direly polluted w/toxic sewer gasses emitted by a commercial composting operation, for decades. So, it takes work to encourage foid & medicine plants to grow. But, our front yard is loaded with berries, flowers, edible or medicinal things, & so is the back. We have plans where to put major cisterns as soon as we can afford to hire help & buy supplies…the metal roof was 1st step. But before that, I plan to divert at least 1 bathroom’s graywater directly to irrigate the yard; our washer already has been. We’ve been slowly working on creating a 70’ living fence along one side, using cattle panel trellises supported by tall T-stakes (no permit “trellising”, not “fence” needing a permit). We’ve collected volunteer plants, made cuttings to create rows of herbs like rosemary, & other edibles, for yard edges, that neighbors can benefit from, too. Gotta be patient though…doing things from scratch, & from pennies, takes more time. And thinking outside the box without upsetting those who cannot…though, we tend to push the limits. My focus is on creating a lower-maintenance, regenerative yard that provides food & medicine for us, & posterity. Be creative! You have a certificate/quals that prove you know how to do this stuff. …What do you want to do with that, short & long-term?
One thing that is abundant: WIND (noticeable also from the videos of one of the head teachers of their courses, Carmen) - probably a limiting factor for growing plants, so hedges, stone walls. Ponds that get extra oxygen if they are oriented in wind direction. Or using wind to DRY wood or food - this would be country for wind turbines (also self made from rain barrels as robust if low yielding backup when the sun doesn't shine. At least they have a lot of solar radiation, which helps with solar panels in winter, too (low temps mean the panels do not have to cool and the reflection improves the harvest. I remember 330 sunny days from a video from the farm (when they installed the rack mounted solar panels, with the adjustable angle), that is good (440 mm or so rain is not much, but good enough when carefully collected and well managed). speaking of adjustable: I saw a much smaller system with only 3 and smaller panels in front of a cabin in Alaska, they adjust it 2 times per day in summer (late morning and afternoon). Steeper during the day. Which is easy work and one person is alway at home because the man is already retired, so no big deal. In winter they have one angle. One advantage of solar panels that are more accessible - you can clean them from snow faster. Even if ice rain should have covered them, as soon as the sun comes out some warm water at a spot and then they can accelerate the thawing when they get warm from production. I can even think of having a robust cover in case hail storms are announced. - or getting them into a 90 degree position would minimize the impact area.
FABULOUS! Just thinking…what it could be like, if at least 1/2 to 3/4 of the houses per neighborhood or suburban block, had gardens like this, with each growing some different things to trade with others in the blocks. These gardens could be mostly grown by younger residents….those who are physically unable to grow their yard like this, could offer their extra space to grow in, & harvest water from, as trade for fresh produce. Additionally, those with large enough yards, could have ADUs (accessory dwelling units) in them, to offer work/trade housing for garden help, to those who need shelter & are able to do the garden work. This kind of reciprocity builds community, builds resilience & security, & rebalances environment. It can greatly expand on children’s knowledge base & balanced autonomy; reduce stresses for adults; help elders age-in-place more healthy; it can help relieve at least some of the homeless numbers-though, the numbers of mentally ill homeless still need better helps too, but even some of them, can be helped with garden therapy & the peace of a manageable ADU shelter. I do not think that is too far a stretch at all, if encouraged to grow & develop organically. People need people. And people need healthy natural environs. Our societies are desperately, seriously in need of this kind of community-building!!
Do you have enough excess to perhaps use pressure canning to preserve and store your produce so that it can feed you throughout the year? Or is that not a desirable goal for you?
Outstanding job transforming your space! Thanks so much for sharing. I recently purchased a small home near Columbus, Ohio USA and would like to transform my yard as well. I have read permaculture books and watched videos, was raised gardening and am very comfortable with composting and growing soil but....I still feel like I don’t know where to start. Your place is so well developed did you have all of the features ( green house and inground water catchments and reservoirs in your original plan? I don’t have a huge lawn and would like to do underground water reservoir to maximize space and for aesthetics. Would you be able to share details on how you did it or what references/ resources you used. Thanks again!
@@VergePermaculture I noticed in your videos and that of Carmen that you always have plenty of wind. (and lots of sunny days too, 300 or 330 out of 365 is not bad, that is a redeeming factor of your climate). So wind is an abundant source of energy (plant growth inhibitor). - Also you (and Carmen) mention a lot of hail events. Chances are the extreme events incl. major hail storms become more frequent. Do you have a hail position for your solar panels ? turning them into 90 degrees vetical postition if you see somethng bad is coming really bad thunderstorms can be seen, you may have 10 - 30 minutes before it hits, at least it is like that where I live, the sky looks very gloomy. Of course a middle of the road thuderstorm, that does not announce itself in advance, might still unpleasantly surprise you. 10 - 30 minutes might be enough to park the car in the garage, or under a car port, and to run and cover growing houses, and solar panels. No doubt you have hardened glass but golfball sized hail would still have the ability to at least scratch the surface and mess with future harvesting, even IF they do not take out solar panels. I remember hail events that damaged styrofoam based insulation of homes (that insulation was covered with a protective layer of course, so it seemed hard enough to the touch). Mineral wool based systems fared better. But all of them got hit as upright standing areas. Never mind all areas that had an angle of less than 90 degrees and thus got hit more direclty by the "bullets".
The theory is that a certain number of people are (slightly) disabled and by mistake press the wrong button because they are clumsy (so that even wholesome videos that are totally uncontroversial get a natural number of dislikes. That would be one explanation to restore faith in humanity).
In the end when the little one marches around with his minature shovel. I think meanwhile they got another property - and the kids are old enough to have their own beds.
Wow, how have I never seen this video until now?!!? I’ve been a Verge permaculture fan for a few years and have also got my Permaculture Design Certificate through Verge. This video is done so well and it’s inspiring and I started to tear up when the kids were picking food! My kids are around the same age and your values are right up our alley!
Be the 1st on on your block, to redo your yard like this!!
Life has drastically interrupted our plans, repeatedly. We finally had to buy a house, that is unfortunately, controlled by an old HOA. NONE of the residents here, had ripped-up their lawnage to plant food & medicine, until we started doing it. NONE in the neighborhood, had put a metal roof on.
But now…a couple others saw our roof, & did theirs. And several others have setup raised beds on our “river-rocky” ground. I overheard someone talking about rainwater catchment.
So, even though we’re old & slow, & limited financially, we’ve started making impressions, & encouraged others to do stuff that is NOT the standard HOA-Disney-esque lawnage landscaping.
Our area has been direly polluted w/toxic sewer gasses emitted by a commercial composting operation, for decades. So, it takes work to encourage foid & medicine plants to grow. But, our front yard is loaded with berries, flowers, edible or medicinal things, & so is the back. We have plans where to put major cisterns as soon as we can afford to hire help & buy supplies…the metal roof was 1st step. But before that, I plan to divert at least 1 bathroom’s graywater directly to irrigate the yard; our washer already has been. We’ve been slowly working on creating a 70’ living fence along one side, using cattle panel trellises supported by tall T-stakes (no permit “trellising”, not “fence” needing a permit). We’ve collected volunteer plants, made cuttings to create rows of herbs like rosemary, & other edibles, for yard edges, that neighbors can benefit from, too.
Gotta be patient though…doing things from scratch, & from pennies, takes more time. And thinking outside the box without upsetting those who cannot…though, we tend to push the limits.
My focus is on creating a lower-maintenance, regenerative yard that provides food & medicine for us, & posterity.
Be creative! You have a certificate/quals that prove you know how to do this stuff. …What do you want to do with that, short & long-term?
One thing that is abundant: WIND (noticeable also from the videos of one of the head teachers of their courses, Carmen) - probably a limiting factor for growing plants, so hedges, stone walls. Ponds that get extra oxygen if they are oriented in wind direction. Or using wind to DRY wood or food - this would be country for wind turbines (also self made from rain barrels as robust if low yielding backup when the sun doesn't shine.
At least they have a lot of solar radiation, which helps with solar panels in winter, too (low temps mean the panels do not have to cool and the reflection improves the harvest.
I remember 330 sunny days from a video from the farm (when they installed the rack mounted solar panels, with the adjustable angle), that is good (440 mm or so rain is not much, but good enough when carefully collected and well managed).
speaking of adjustable: I saw a much smaller system with only 3 and smaller panels in front of a cabin in Alaska, they adjust it 2 times per day in summer (late morning and afternoon). Steeper during the day. Which is easy work and one person is alway at home because the man is already retired, so no big deal.
In winter they have one angle.
One advantage of solar panels that are more accessible - you can clean them from snow faster. Even if ice rain should have covered them, as soon as the sun comes out some warm water at a spot and then they can accelerate the thawing when they get warm from production.
I can even think of having a robust cover in case hail storms are announced. - or getting them into a 90 degree position would minimize the impact area.
FABULOUS! Just thinking…what it could be like, if at least 1/2 to 3/4 of the houses per neighborhood or suburban block, had gardens like this, with each growing some different things to trade with others in the blocks.
These gardens could be mostly grown by younger residents….those who are physically unable to grow their yard like this, could offer their extra space to grow in, & harvest water from, as trade for fresh produce.
Additionally, those with large enough yards, could have ADUs (accessory dwelling units) in them, to offer work/trade housing for garden help, to those who need shelter & are able to do the garden work.
This kind of reciprocity builds community, builds resilience & security, & rebalances environment.
It can greatly expand on children’s knowledge base & balanced autonomy; reduce stresses for adults; help elders age-in-place more healthy; it can help relieve at least some of the homeless numbers-though, the numbers of mentally ill homeless still need better helps too, but even some of them, can be helped with garden therapy & the peace of a manageable ADU shelter.
I do not think that is too far a stretch at all, if encouraged to grow & develop organically.
People need people.
And people need healthy natural environs.
Our societies are desperately, seriously in need of this kind of community-building!!
Just discovered you.
Subscribed! Really lovely.
Great job raising your kids. :)
9:49 little permculuture grower with shovel
This is great!Wonderful landscape, I like the drain tile tubes, and I think you are both really good in front of the camera.
great job on this video! very high quality production, thank you.
Awesome video. Very inspiring.
Thank you for sharing
How are you supplementing water during a really dry June 2021?
WOW! good job!!! Do you have a plant list?
Very beautiful. Show design layout.
Do you have enough excess to perhaps use pressure canning to preserve and store your produce so that it can feed you throughout the year? Or is that not a desirable goal for you?
Outstanding job transforming your space! Thanks so much for sharing. I recently purchased a small home near Columbus, Ohio USA and would like to transform my yard as well. I have read permaculture books and watched videos, was raised gardening and am very comfortable with composting and growing soil but....I still feel like I don’t know where to start. Your place is so well developed did you have all of the features ( green house and inground water catchments and reservoirs in your original plan? I don’t have a huge lawn and would like to do underground water reservoir to maximize space and for aesthetics. Would you be able to share details on how you did it or what references/ resources you used. Thanks again!
Yes. Part of permaculture design is to map out these options. Thanks for your kind words.
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@@VergePermaculture I noticed in your videos and that of Carmen that you always have plenty of wind. (and lots of sunny days too, 300 or 330 out of 365 is not bad, that is a redeeming factor of your climate). So wind is an abundant source of energy (plant growth inhibitor). - Also you (and Carmen) mention a lot of hail events. Chances are the extreme events incl. major hail storms become more frequent.
Do you have a hail position for your solar panels ? turning them into 90 degrees vetical postition if you see somethng bad is coming really bad thunderstorms can be seen, you may have 10 - 30 minutes before it hits, at least it is like that where I live, the sky looks very gloomy. Of course a middle of the road thuderstorm, that does not announce itself in advance, might still unpleasantly surprise you.
10 - 30 minutes might be enough to park the car in the garage, or under a car port, and to run and cover growing houses, and solar panels.
No doubt you have hardened glass but golfball sized hail would still have the ability to at least scratch the surface and mess with future harvesting, even IF they do not take out solar panels.
I remember hail events that damaged styrofoam based insulation of homes (that insulation was covered with a protective layer of course, so it seemed hard enough to the touch). Mineral wool based systems fared better. But all of them got hit as upright standing areas. Never mind all areas that had an angle of less than 90 degrees and thus got hit more direclty by the "bullets".
What is the name of the plant you called giant lamb's quarters? Thanks.
Orach
Very interesting, a large plant that grows well (in Canada !) and tastes like spinach. Duly noted.
The "Giant Lamb's Quarters" would that be Orach?
whos the one person that disliked this video? lol explain yourself.
But this is wonderful, thanks for sharing!
The theory is that a certain number of people are (slightly) disabled and by mistake press the wrong button because they are clumsy (so that even wholesome videos that are totally uncontroversial get a natural number of dislikes. That would be one explanation to restore faith in humanity).
Your son's face said it all!
I was thinking the same!
In the end when the little one marches around with his minature shovel. I think meanwhile they got another property - and the kids are old enough to have their own beds.