To see apples, peaches, avocados and mangoes growing all next to each other is incredible. What an incredible climate. Western Australia looks so beautiful, and what a beautiful setup!
Yes! I am curious if anyone else has noticed an increase with fees with the new treaty that covers Perth metro and the south west? It’s on the wa government website.
Great to see a WA food forest. It's so much more relevant to those of us that are looking to or are doing the same kind of thing here. Also that's a familiar last name. (Same as ours) . 😁
This is very well organized. Frankly I see a lot a folks food forests that are so chaotic that ease of harvest completely forgotten. I see the drip lines so I can see you are keen on water conservation too. I wonder if you have any future plans for rain water harvesting, like swales or irrigation ponds? That slopped site would be perfect for a gravity feed system.
Thank you for your comment! We strive to be organised lol! And believe this is a good compromise between permaculture forests and traditional orchards. Yes we are always excited to look at new ways we can manage our irrigation. There are indeed areas of contouring to manage water flow already in place and we will take this with us into new areas of planting across the farm. We have a gravity feed system in place for the irrigation which pumps from our dam. We discuss this also on our truffle video. We use rainwater collection tanks at several other areas of the farm. We have had interest in our irrigation set up so perhaps this is a video we will create! Stay tuned!
Do you have a map of your farm? What did your planning stage look like? It’d be nice to see a longer in depth video on the food forest on what varieties you are growing? Your trees look so healthy! What insect and disease so from are you using? What are the income streams of your farm and how much land, time, and money was invested into each of them? Another video idea is the water flow on yournproperty.
Hi Brandon, check out our most recent video on our farm dam. It is 1 of our dams out of several, which has had an individual project carried out on it over the past year. We have several projects happening on the farm from avocados, aquaculture, livestock and honey. We are only just starting to share about our farm so stay tuned!
Such an inspiration, you're living my dream - I enjoyed your video and look forward to seeing how it all progresses as well as hearing any lessons you picked up along the way that you could share.
Beautiful I also planted a varirty of grafted fruit trees on my quarter acre, then plenty of shade trees outside the fence along the road and driveway...the pixie and Washington oranges, apple and tommy mangoes, hass avocado, mulberry, pawpaw, purple and yellow passion, lemon, flowers etc etc 🇰🇪
Have you guys felt much of a difference since “The Settlement” treaty came into effect last year for Perth metro and south west? Along with the treaty, are you concerned the 1100m2 law will be back? Anyone wanting info on the settlement, you’ll find it on the WA government website. Hopefully the treaty isn’t causing your rates etc to go through the roof like it is others.
Love what you have done I am on the east coast trying to do this on only quarter of an acre. I did notice that you had a Suffolk’s rooster with your smaller hens. We have had some of our hens end up with broken legs because our big rooster was too big for them. So might be better if you didn’t have him in with your smaller hens
Hi Patricia! That's great to hear you are creating your own! Yes we do, we hatched and raised our rooster Bobby. we check them everyday and haven't found that with ours but a good point for us and everyone else to know to watch for, thank you
Great to see this is possible in WA. Maybe one day we relocate from VIC. My dream is a fruit forest just like this. Will follow you for some more inspiration. Keep up the good work.
We grow a variety of mulberries but the ones we make our jam from are the black mulberries, Morus Nigra… gosh they’re delicious! Another one we really enjoy is the Morus Macroura which is a long red Berry.
The majority of our mulberries are Hicks Fancy which is what you see in the video. They're a beautiful mulberry - well suited for jams and stews. We've cooked them straight from the tree which is fine but if you're patient, it's worth trimming the long stems off before cooking them - you aren't left with stems in your jam which makes it a smoother consistency.
Just found your channel. Very exciting to see more people joining the organic food forest gardens movement. Do you grow any rare/different perennial edible plants? I’d love to see some feature videos on unique and interesting food plants 😊
Hi there! No rare edible plants but this is certainly an area to next grow in throughout the coming years. A couple of the team members have an interest in learning about it more so we will explore and share!
Haha yes, the parrots can be painful, and only munch a little bit and move on!!! However, being located next to native forest we have found that when the native pollen is good, the fruit damage from birds is much less. We will be experimenting next year with some easy to use / reusable netting, so stay tuned for that soon. Luckily the fruit fly isn't too much of an issue at the moment for us. *Fingers crossed*.
Hi! We answer this question and show you our new nets in the following Q&A video, here is the link. Timestamp around 0:50! ua-cam.com/video/JmgnR6tTuxE/v-deo.html
It's incredible to see how much this food forest has flourished over the past 3 years! The fruit trees are growing rapidly, we have an abundance of seasonal fruits.. To maintain the trees' health and manageability, we regularly trim them, ensuring the fruits remain nutrient-rich and juicy!
Depending on the trees like figs, mulberries you will need between 2-4 meters (6.5-13 feet), but keep them trimmed. Apples and other stone fruits need only about 2 meters (6.5 feet)!
Yes there are many days where we reach 35+ throughout Summer, we have a couple of old established trees that distribute quite a lot of shade and right now our plants may struggle a little but as our tall trees grow over the next couple of years, they will provide a lot of shade. This forest is only 2 years old and the tall trees are already quite large so it has helped the past couple of months going into this years Summer. We have a great watering system and its clear more people want to learn about water and irrigation so we will make another video on this
This is beautiful. Where about are you geographically? I've been growing medicinal herbs to use as an amendment to the soil. Chop and drop, plus medicinal herb teas for soil and foliage sprays. If our plants take up the constituents of these herbs, it provides them with even more beneficial food, making them a powerhouse vegetable. A couple of handfuls of leave mould, the herbs in a bucket of water. Let ferment till the stink subsides, and its ready to use. I was going to do Korean natural farming methods, but I can't afford the alcohol. This is working well for me. I then do a brix test to establish the nutritional value of each veg plant.
We are down south 3 hours from Perth! That is interesting, hopefully you can find a way to look into this more! Medicinal herbs is on our list to research more, an area we would love to learn more about!
How do you manage the birds when the fruit is ripening? I’m in the southwest and growing a small food forest and the birds get the majority of the fruit if I don’t net every tree.
This happens to us too, we do put nets on some of our trees... We are trialing different bird lasers but haven't found a permanent solution yet! We try pick the fruit when they are ready to get there before the birds... Definitely more effort to keep on top of!
So you had to use nitrogen fertilizers to get things going but moving forwards you intend to avoid that? Nothing wrong with using petrol to start a fire IMO.
We test our soil regularly which helps us monitor our soils condition. The concept of a food forest is everything works together to feed nutrients back into the soil, so you don't require chemical intervention. We use the Microlife system which feeds the soil when it is lacking.
It was a tough season! We have just filmed a video on how our farm handled the heat this summer, our farm manager will discuss the topic honestly and share what we went through. Should be up at the end of the month
We have more planting to do - luckily we have a team here to help us, lots of weeding and whipper snipping! Lots more to plant to create that 7 layers of food forest! Any area not watered after this summers heat does look barren!
@@kina7128 we have a more advanced food forest than this and the way the ground is completely parched is very odd to say the least. He did reply and said they have a large amount of people constantly weeding and weed eating. Still seems very weird. Our food forest from day one never looked parched like this even in our extreme heat and drought. Sorry for asking the question from someone’s point of view who has actually got a running operating food forest. But I’m sure you are a champion key board warrior who owns no acerage with zero success.
@@chessman483 A keyboard war is the last on my mind. I just felt that you were running the man down with your comments. Maybe he is still bringing in some under storeys, seeing that he owns quite a large piece of property. My apologies if you perceived it that way, that was unintentional. My thoughts were, from knowing the Donnybrook area to mainly focusing on growing apples, he might've bought part of a farm that still practised conventional farming and he was IN PROGRESS of underplanting. You are right, I live on a very small block, with an even tinier backyard area in which to grow SOME of my own food. This unfortunately, can only happen in spring and summer when my backyard gains maximum sun exposure, without the sun being blocked off by my neighbour's house. Nevertheless, I manage to grow a dwarf apricot, two dwarf plums and two dwarf apple trees, that are in their third year of producing fruit. As I live on a cleared sand dune, coastal 450 sqm property, I underplant those trees with nasturtium and passion fruit on the fence trellis behind them. In the small space, I also have a raised garden bed bought from Bunnings, and set up to be 2 x .60 m in size. In there, I practise square foot gardening growing methods, focusing mainly on tomatoes, capsicum, eggplant and chard. I fill spaces with radishes, that I've learned to steam in butter (delicious). In my front garden, I have an olive tree in its fourth year (still no fruit) a nectarine tree, a lemon tree and an orange (all dwarf trees) that are now thriving since transplanting them from pots straight into the garden. I envy farmers like yourself and the person in the video clip, who can do this on a larger scale, with great success. I learn a lot from these types of videos, with my favourite vloggers being Mark from Self Sufficient Me in Queensland, and Huw Richards from Wales.I would hate for vloggers to stop posting due to negative feedback, as I'm sure there are a lot of us that could learn so much more. Perhaps you should also vlog, as we learn from one another. Happy growing!
Here in the SW Australia, though we do exhibit large downpours and storms, these are rare with our winter months tending to be steady rainfall. Our soil in our food forest for example is so rich that the soil exhibits little runoff. However, we do have some run offs on the barren paddocks which is why we have begun planting more trees, see our Tree Planting video! :)
Hi! We answer this question and show you our new nets in the following Q&A video, here is the link. Timestamp around 0:50! ua-cam.com/video/JmgnR6tTuxE/v-deo.html
This is great but this could be more self suficient and resilient if you use permaculture concept like keyline techiques for watering those trees. in this model that you are using if you dont pump water using electricity those trees will die. you need to make a series of swales using the slope for water retention and slow release water down your propierty.
Yes we didn't discuss this on the video but will include in another one, we have a whole section of swales down the slope which feed into the food forest and dam!
Assuming that at some point you won’t have to do anything to maintain this setup (pruning, watering, fertilising etc)… just wander about like Adam & Eve! 😂
Lots more planting to do in order to create a food forest that will require no maintenance but our current set up is less maintenance than a traditional orchard. Shame about our apples, unfortunately the kangaroos get to them before we do!
To see apples, peaches, avocados and mangoes growing all next to each other is incredible. What an incredible climate. Western Australia looks so beautiful, and what a beautiful setup!
Thank you! We have some pretty wonderful growing conditions in this pocket of the world.
Great to see this video from a grower in WA. Living in Perth I do wonder who’s out there ‘food foresting’. 👏
Same! Love seeing a fellow Western Australian!
Yes! I am curious if anyone else has noticed an increase with fees with the new treaty that covers Perth metro and the south west?
It’s on the wa government website.
@@HGCUPCAKES tx for the post. So u have to pay a fee for food foresting ?
Nothing surprises me but it does disgust me
Awesome too see a food farm forest in my home state.
It's a dream property home i would love to have, hopefully 1 day in the future.
Easy, you just need a hong kong family inheritance worth billions of dollars, like these guys
Great to see a WA food forest. It's so much more relevant to those of us that are looking to or are doing the same kind of thing here. Also that's a familiar last name. (Same as ours) . 😁
We need more people around WA sharing these things in detail so we can all take inspiration! You'd be a local around here with a name like that ;)
These guys are billionaires that started a hobby farm. Relevant to a degree.
This is my dream. We live in the South West too, in the Wheat belt. I needed to see this today.
Well done... Love what you are doing 💚 Western Australia needs you. The world needs these natural plans. Much love 🥰
The food forest is coming up beautifuly. Also amazing video production quality with those drone shots.
Thank you, we do have a talented videographer on our team who knows how to show off our beautiful farm! Very lucky!
This is very well organized. Frankly I see a lot a folks food forests that are so chaotic that ease of harvest completely forgotten. I see the drip lines so I can see you are keen on water conservation too. I wonder if you have any future plans for rain water harvesting, like swales or irrigation ponds? That slopped site would be perfect for a gravity feed system.
Thank you for your comment! We strive to be organised lol! And believe this is a good compromise between permaculture forests and traditional orchards.
Yes we are always excited to look at new ways we can manage our irrigation. There are indeed areas of contouring to manage water flow already in place and we will take this with us into new areas of planting across the farm. We have a gravity feed system in place for the irrigation which pumps from our dam. We discuss this also on our truffle video.
We use rainwater collection tanks at several other areas of the farm. We have had interest in our irrigation set up so perhaps this is a video we will create! Stay tuned!
@@bangadangfarm Wow! I'll have to check out that truffle video. Thank you. ^_^
I second
Do you have a map of your farm? What did your planning stage look like? It’d be nice to see a longer in depth video on the food forest on what varieties you are growing? Your trees look so healthy! What insect and disease so from are you using? What are the income streams of your farm and how much land, time, and money was invested into each of them? Another video idea is the water flow on yournproperty.
Hi Brandon, check out our most recent video on our farm dam. It is 1 of our dams out of several, which has had an individual project carried out on it over the past year. We have several projects happening on the farm from avocados, aquaculture, livestock and honey. We are only just starting to share about our farm so stay tuned!
Cant wait to see what it looks like in a few years!
Such an inspiration, you're living my dream - I enjoyed your video and look forward to seeing how it all progresses as well as hearing any lessons you picked up along the way that you could share.
Thank you! We endeavour to share as much as possible! Tonight we will be sharing about our farm dams.
Beautiful I also planted a varirty of grafted fruit trees on my quarter acre, then plenty of shade trees outside the fence along the road and driveway...the pixie and Washington oranges, apple and tommy mangoes, hass avocado, mulberry, pawpaw, purple and yellow passion, lemon, flowers etc etc 🇰🇪
Wow you have been busy! Send us a message on Instagram if you post about it so we can watch and exchange gardening tips! ;)
Nice job. Very nice orchard. Very healthy looking trees all round.
G'day, great setup. God bless you.🦘👍
beAuTiFuL
Nice job. Amazing how fast your trees grow in your climate.
Love the mobile chook pen!
West is best! Love being in down south WA. This amazing work sir well done! Please keep making more content for us. God bless
Awesome !!👍
Good stuff Darren that looks great,done a good job ...
Have you guys felt much of a difference since “The Settlement” treaty came into effect last year for Perth metro and south west?
Along with the treaty, are you concerned the 1100m2 law will be back?
Anyone wanting info on the settlement, you’ll find it on the WA government website.
Hopefully the treaty isn’t causing your rates etc to go through the roof like it is others.
Love what you have done I am on the east coast trying to do this on only quarter of an acre. I did notice that you had a Suffolk’s rooster with your smaller hens. We have had some of our hens end up with broken legs because our big rooster was too big for them. So might be better if you didn’t have him in with your smaller hens
Hi Patricia! That's great to hear you are creating your own! Yes we do, we hatched and raised our rooster Bobby. we check them everyday and haven't found that with ours but a good point for us and everyone else to know to watch for, thank you
awesome - will be cool to see some future videos
Well done and thanks for putting this out there…👍
Great job Darren, looks terrific.
Have you considered a WA sandalwood tree component?
Grow for the aromatic wood and nuts for food.
Thanks for your suggestion! We’ve heard they grow a lot up near Geraldton way, do you know if they grow well here?
@@bangadangfarm Hi Darren, yes they do. There are a number of plantations existing in the region.
Thanks we’ll look into it
@@bangadangfarm Feel free to contact me if you need assistance.
Love the design, its clean, sleek, and does the job. Subscribed! Im doing a project in Western Colorado.
Thank you, welcome! Oh nice - a gardening project?
I love your farm well done Thank you for sharing it with us
Beautiful view
The Western Australian version of the Bold and the Beautiful.
Date palms would be a nice addition to your lovely food forest.
Ah thanks for the suggestion!
Good job
Nice!
Just see this thanks Les from Perth ❤❤❤
Great work
Great to see this is possible in WA. Maybe one day we relocate from VIC. My dream is a fruit forest just like this. Will follow you for some more inspiration. Keep up the good work.
Thank you, that’s great to hear! We’re sure this is possible in VIC too! There’s some great farms over there and NSW but WA is definitely beautiful :)
good stuff, all the best to ya
Super beautiful
well done
Awesome project you have there 👍
I hope the corellas and cockatoos dont find it 😁
Amazing food forest and that lake is looking stunning with the floating pier. Please show us what that is for?
In general, food forest = garden or orchard plus weeds
Very nice! What variety of mulberries are you growing?
We grow a variety of mulberries but the ones we make our jam from are the black mulberries, Morus Nigra… gosh they’re delicious!
Another one we really enjoy is the Morus Macroura which is a long red Berry.
The majority of our mulberries are Hicks Fancy which is what you see in the video. They're a beautiful mulberry - well suited for jams and stews. We've cooked them straight from the tree which is fine but if you're patient, it's worth trimming the long stems off before cooking them - you aren't left with stems in your jam which makes it a smoother consistency.
nice nice!
Thanks Brandon
do you have a discord or telegram@@bangadangfarm
much love from North Carolina!
@@bangadangfarm
We don't at the moment but follow us on instagram for any new updates!
Have you thought of adding swills, these would allow you to capture rainwater much more efficiently, especially on a slope like that.
Yes we didn't mention them in this video but we do have swales down the slope you can see, which feed into the forest and dam!
Just found your channel. Very exciting to see more people joining the organic food forest gardens movement. Do you grow any rare/different perennial edible plants? I’d love to see some feature videos on unique and interesting food plants 😊
Hi there! No rare edible plants but this is certainly an area to next grow in throughout the coming years. A couple of the team members have an interest in learning about it more so we will explore and share!
I would love to know how you manage the parrots and fruit fly!?!
Haha yes, the parrots can be painful, and only munch a little bit and move on!!! However, being located next to native forest we have found that when the native pollen is good, the fruit damage from birds is much less. We will be experimenting next year with some easy to use / reusable netting, so stay tuned for that soon. Luckily the fruit fly isn't too much of an issue at the moment for us. *Fingers crossed*.
@@bangadangfarm you’re doing an amazing job. I hope the fruit fly never discover you.
Awesome place!! What kind of flowers are those in the background at 1:17?
They are some type of virburnum - not exactly sure as someone else planted before our time here sorry!
Very cool
Thank you!
How do you control the parrots? Im getting smashed by 28s and Redcaps.
Hi! We answer this question and show you our new nets in the following Q&A video, here is the link. Timestamp around 0:50! ua-cam.com/video/JmgnR6tTuxE/v-deo.html
Looks awesome, congrats on your progress so far. What species and/or techniques do you use for nitrogen fixing?
Hi! The organic spray we have been using, Multikraft, handles the nitrogen additive to our plants 👍🏼
Thank you #savesoil
Congratulations. I love it. Very inspirational. What are some of your flowering plants between your fruit trees?
Some flowering plants we have are lavendar, lemon myrtle, cinnamon myrtle, tea tree and manuka tree
You are living my dream ….It’s so inspiring ….Could you please tell me where you are located ?
We are in the south west of Western Australia in Donnybrook 😊
Amazing. How old is the orchard? I imagine the fruit trees could end up a lot bigger?
It's incredible to see how much this food forest has flourished over the past 3 years! The fruit trees are growing rapidly, we have an abundance of seasonal fruits.. To maintain the trees' health and manageability, we regularly trim them, ensuring the fruits remain nutrient-rich and juicy!
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I would absolutely love to come down and learn from you. I am making the switch from hydroponics to urban permaculture.. I have a long way to go 😅
So do we all! Our first contact was Greg Knibbs, he's WA based and a great resource. Wish you all the best with your switch!
Looks amazing! How many feet apart are you planting the fruit trees? And how many feet apart are your rows? Thank you!
Depending on the trees like figs, mulberries you will need between 2-4 meters (6.5-13 feet), but keep them trimmed. Apples and other stone fruits need only about 2 meters (6.5 feet)!
omg, can I work there ? lol. I so much want to do several projects here and there...making cheese, jams, syrups, dry spices as finished products.
Yes we love those fun projects too, there is nothing like food made out of what you've grown!
Do you guys have intense heat in the summer there like 35+ C and if yes do you do any growing of shade species to compensate?
Yes there are many days where we reach 35+ throughout Summer, we have a couple of old established trees that distribute quite a lot of shade and right now our plants may struggle a little but as our tall trees grow over the next couple of years, they will provide a lot of shade. This forest is only 2 years old and the tall trees are already quite large so it has helped the past couple of months going into this years Summer. We have a great watering system and its clear more people want to learn about water and irrigation so we will make another video on this
Where in the sth.
Blessings Mr Is there room for
retreat country homestead🤝
we here in perth
we are located near Donnybrook
This is beautiful. Where about are you geographically?
I've been growing medicinal herbs to use as an amendment to the soil. Chop and drop, plus medicinal herb teas for soil and foliage sprays.
If our plants take up the constituents of these herbs, it provides them with even more beneficial food, making them a powerhouse vegetable.
A couple of handfuls of leave mould, the herbs in a bucket of water. Let ferment till the stink subsides, and its ready to use.
I was going to do Korean natural farming methods, but I can't afford the alcohol. This is working well for me.
I then do a brix test to establish the nutritional value of each veg plant.
We are down south 3 hours from Perth! That is interesting, hopefully you can find a way to look into this more! Medicinal herbs is on our list to research more, an area we would love to learn more about!
@bangadangfarm I'd love to visit your farm sometime. I'm heading to Albany in January. Maybe we could come then.
@@bangadangfarm I grow tree lucerne and the put branches through a chipper for mulch. The large chips let water from rain through to the ground.
How do you manage the birds when the fruit is ripening? I’m in the southwest and growing a small food forest and the birds get the majority of the fruit if I don’t net every tree.
This happens to us too, we do put nets on some of our trees... We are trialing different bird lasers but haven't found a permanent solution yet! We try pick the fruit when they are ready to get there before the birds... Definitely more effort to keep on top of!
❤ ,full sun ...i would like to join your farm 😊
So you had to use nitrogen fertilizers to get things going but moving forwards you intend to avoid that? Nothing wrong with using petrol to start a fire IMO.
We test our soil regularly which helps us monitor our soils condition. The concept of a food forest is everything works together to feed nutrients back into the soil, so you don't require chemical intervention. We use the Microlife system which feeds the soil when it is lacking.
Nice do you get frosts there?
We get light frosts, damaging frosts are quite seldom so our average temperature in winter usually only gets down to 3•c in the early mornings
How did the farm go with the hot and dry climate the past month's?
It was a tough season! We have just filmed a video on how our farm handled the heat this summer, our farm manager will discuss the topic honestly and share what we went through. Should be up at the end of the month
Incredible Food Farm✨💖❣️
I'm dreamed living in the Farm Fantastic Food Forest.
Hopefully,,Can I work at your Farm as Caretaker .. ✨🎯🥰
Why is all the rows and ground around completely bare? Looks like it’s been sprayed? There’s zero chance the ground would be like that naturally.
We have more planting to do - luckily we have a team here to help us, lots of weeding and whipper snipping! Lots more to plant to create that 7 layers of food forest! Any area not watered after this summers heat does look barren!
If you opened your ears, you would've heard the man saying that everything was still IN PROGRESS with underplanting. SMH
@@kina7128 we have a more advanced food forest than this and the way the ground is completely parched is very odd to say the least. He did reply and said they have a large amount of people constantly weeding and weed eating. Still seems very weird. Our food forest from day one never looked parched like this even in our extreme heat and drought. Sorry for asking the question from someone’s point of view who has actually got a running operating food forest. But I’m sure you are a champion key board warrior who owns no acerage with zero success.
@@chessman483 A keyboard war is the last on my mind. I just felt that you were running the man down with your comments. Maybe he is still bringing in some under storeys, seeing that he owns quite a large piece of property. My apologies if you perceived it that way, that was unintentional. My thoughts were, from knowing the Donnybrook area to mainly focusing on growing apples, he might've bought part of a farm that still practised conventional farming and he was IN PROGRESS of underplanting. You are right, I live on a very small block, with an even tinier backyard area in which to grow SOME of my own food. This unfortunately, can only happen in spring and summer when my backyard gains maximum sun exposure, without the sun being blocked off by my neighbour's house. Nevertheless, I manage to grow a dwarf apricot, two dwarf plums and two dwarf apple trees, that are in their third year of producing fruit. As I live on a cleared sand dune, coastal 450 sqm property, I underplant those trees with nasturtium and passion fruit on the fence trellis behind them. In the small space, I also have a raised garden bed bought from Bunnings, and set up to be 2 x .60 m in size. In there, I practise square foot gardening growing methods, focusing mainly on tomatoes, capsicum, eggplant and chard. I fill spaces with radishes, that I've learned to steam in butter (delicious). In my front garden, I have an olive tree in its fourth year (still no fruit) a nectarine tree, a lemon tree and an orange (all dwarf trees) that are now thriving since transplanting them from pots straight into the garden. I envy farmers like yourself and the person in the video clip, who can do this on a larger scale, with great success. I learn a lot from these types of videos, with my favourite vloggers being Mark from Self Sufficient Me in Queensland, and Huw Richards from Wales.I would hate for vloggers to stop posting due to negative feedback, as I'm sure there are a lot of us that could learn so much more. Perhaps you should also vlog, as we learn from one another. Happy growing!
How does your property handle large rain events?
Here in the SW Australia, though we do exhibit large downpours and storms, these are rare with our winter months tending to be steady rainfall. Our soil in our food forest for example is so rich that the soil exhibits little runoff. However, we do have some run offs on the barren paddocks which is why we have begun planting more trees, see our Tree Planting video! :)
How do you protect it all from the parrots?
Hi! We answer this question and show you our new nets in the following Q&A video, here is the link. Timestamp around 0:50! ua-cam.com/video/JmgnR6tTuxE/v-deo.html
This is great but this could be more self suficient and resilient if you use permaculture concept like keyline techiques for watering those trees. in this model that you are using if you dont pump water using electricity those trees will die. you need to make a series of swales using the slope for water retention and slow release water down your propierty.
Yes we didn't discuss this on the video but will include in another one, we have a whole section of swales down the slope which feed into the food forest and dam!
Conheça o plantio no sistema sintrópico, sistematizado por Ernest Gotsch. Acredito que você irá se interessar. ❤🇧🇷
Thank you for the recommendation! We will have to dive into the world of Ernest Gotsch. 😊
whats your cold zone?
Hi! What do you mean?
@@bangadangfarm I’m in cold zone 9b - maybe you don’t have that out west?
Looking online it looks like we are 9-10 compared to USA codes - www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/research/hort.research/zones.html
Multicraft?
Yes!
Which zone are you?
We are in the south west of WA!
What's the acreage?
Just over 800 acres!
Food forest all australia permaculture
Assuming that at some point you won’t have to do anything to maintain this setup (pruning, watering, fertilising etc)… just wander about like Adam & Eve! 😂
Lots more planting to do in order to create a food forest that will require no maintenance but our current set up is less maintenance than a traditional orchard. Shame about our apples, unfortunately the kangaroos get to them before we do!
Hi sri
Hi sir job unte cheppandi sir
it is not a forest if you apply definition 20% minimum canopy cover = irrigated orchard yes - food forest no
Maybe we should have said the start of a potential food forest!
In other words, you are controlled by the world government 😮 interesting 🤔
Hello! What do you mean by that?
Durian 😂
Very cool