Hippy Commune Food Forest Tour (Coromandel, NZ) [Syntropic Agroforestry / 2023]
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- Опубліковано 6 кві 2023
- Deep dive into the details of the syntropic food forest systems at Wilderland! Oldest community in NZ, located in the beautiful Coromandel. We hosted a weekend 'food forest design' course here over the weekend, so in this video we'll explain some of the design patterns, species selection and management strategies of the newest system, along with diving into some of the more established areas.
Enjoy!
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This is one of the best vids I've seen in that you took the time to really show the plants and describe their growth over time.
Wonderful to see the syntropic systems take off
Very cool, very motivating. I have ideas floating through my head. I've just been learning about mother nature providing in recent times (and a a bit of a sea-change from I.T.) Seem's I'm on the right track so far I've just started growing a few of the plants mentioned here and I've been interested the other plants here, plus a few that might work as well (shark-fin melon vs your spaggetti melon?).... I've also just learned about what was touched on here "concentrate on perennials" while figuring out the failures of some of the annuals.
Garden of Eden in the making Go Wilderland ♥♥♥♥
I got a lot of ideas from this video. Thank you for sharing. Big heart from Thailand
It's amazing, and thank you for inspiring me to start my own food forest. I would love to come visit as I'm only about 50 minute from Matamata NZ. Thank you guys
WOW! So cool to see Wilderland again! Its looking beautiful and so different to when I was last there...over 12 years ago I guess. Awesome work wilderland folk.
Incredible right??! Can imagine you'd be blown away after visiting 12 years ago. They've been putting HEAPS of good work in to make things happen
I have 100 acres in Puerto Rico that I’m open to installing as many systems as we can
That's amazing! If you ever wanna chat shoot me an email hello@backyardparadise.co.nz
Very cool!!!
wonderfull
Really great video!!! I highly recommend crotalaria as a pioneer nitrogen fixer. There are many species ranging from 10cm to 1.5 meters. Perennial peanut is also an amazing ground cover but it takes time to get established. Glyricidia is great too.
MEXICAN SUNFLOWER PLANTING TIP:
if you have sandy ,well draining soil like I do in Florida, I have had higher success propagating by planting the tithonia cuttings similarly to sugar cane, laying the cuttings flat in a furrow and losely covering versus planting sticks in the ground. The open cutting ends arent exposed to harsh sunlight or slugs/snails and most nodes will send up new shoots.
great tip thanks, will try this
Quality video with lots of information on syntropic / agroforestry / food forests !!!
Glad you enjoyed it brother 🤜
@@byron.in.new.zealand huge inspiration!!
Nut trees !
Yeah, we have macadamia, California Walnut, Japanese Walnut, Chestnut, Almond, and planting more. Any other suggestions?
@@seanmurphy3326 Should've brought you guys some Pecans!
@@byron.in.new.zealand Pecans 🤤🤤🤤
@@seanmurphy3326bunya trees
I've heard a few years ago that someone has a whole lot of seedlings growing and they were asking around for people that wanted them.
Bunya are fantastic! I had them in Australia, massive nuts and taste much like a potato.
The beautiful thing about them is you can pick up one cone at a time, which gives you about 100 nuts, as opposed to picking up 100 individual chestnuts, for example.
You should be trundle along with a wheelbarrow and fill it up with cones in about 2 minutes, and that should feed a household for a week (you still have to unpack the nuts from their scales and shells)
About banner grass, what type of grasses are good? ❤❤❤
Anything that'll produce lots of biomass and be easy enough to manage!
Bana grass is good because it is clumping and sterile seed. Running and seedling types require more management. Anything that is quick growing for you is biomass, question is can you manage it?
Vetiver grows fast in wet and dry conditions, needs full sun. Doesn't seed nor spread. Makes good hedges for chickens and plenty of different uses Lemongrass doesn't grow as tall but's good enough for biomass.
Kevin Costner over there sounds quite Zimbabwean.
Close on both references 😂
I would bet money that his south African
What is the name of the grass recomended over the mex sunflower? Can someone spell that for me or its scientific name?
Bana grass
What is micro risol liquid??
Mycorrhizal - It would be a type of fungal innoculant
Experimenting is great, but not if people keep running the same failed experiments unknowingly. You should post reviews of the literature on this topic (journals covering different approaches and their statistical outcomes). This would be very useful. I don’t have time or money to “play” and plus my back hurts.
You make a good point but it takes time and work to do that. Probably a great opportunity for some sort of crowd funding, etc
Never been too much of fan of the hippy thing. Better really take things with a common sense and realistic look in the sense of looking at it for what it is. Having a solid professional structure is the best rout for your lands and the longevity of your family's legacy. Great videos and good work. All the new age stuff will leave you sacrificing yourself and work and those who convinced you you were doing good take your work. Meaning what is influencing these new age movements re often controlled and influenced by elements that are the opposite. Cheers,
I don't know much about the financial side of what they're doing, but I know they rent out accommodation and sell products. If they've been going for 60 years they probably have some financial sense
I hope you're not referring to permaculture and their agriculture as 'new age' ...there's nothing new age about ecology. If anything, trying to maintain a monoculture is completely unnatural and very unscientific, even if people think that the science behind it is good - it's not because it looks at agroecosystems as food chains, whereas the reality is that it's more of a food-web. That's the ecological reality, even in monocultures, but an agronomy perspective conveniently ignores all the other stuff that's going on.
Coming from an ecology background a lot of this 'alternative' agriculture makes perfect sense because that's how ecosystems work, whereas trying to grow a monoculture is more like trying to grow a hydroponics system.
Anyway, that bit about agriculture wasn't directed at you because you didn't specify the agriculture as being new age, but I thought it was an opportunity to explain to anyone who did think this way of growing things is all new age that it's really not