Reaching abundance. Year 8 at Kauai Food Forest, Hawaii
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- Опубліковано 14 лип 2024
- Food is never going out of style. Here is an update of our community Agroforestry project located in Hawaii, Kauai. Created by Paul Massey of Regeneration 501(c)(3) non-profit, supported by a handful of stewards with the inputs of hundreds of volunteers pouring thousands of hours of love/effort.
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I feel healed just watching this beauty. Fun little twin trick of montage, blessings
so beautiful! my dream ! i am 26, will work for a few more years and start a journey in permaculture
The teepee is such a simple yet ingenious way to trellis vining plants. I'm stealing that one from you. Such a lush forest. That's my dream.
Yes! We have been making all shapes and sizes, trying to figure whats the best fit. Much love
@@RobAndyCruz what do you use to tie the bamboo together?
@@farisasmith7109 paracord, string, what ever is on hand. Still seeing what works best for short and long term
Living the dream
Go rob!
z waian Zack The Legend 🙌🙏🌱🌈 stoked to see you here. You always on our mind and hearts
This is what I'm working on! Love it. Thank you!
awesome video brother, very beautiful, great to see the different spots and Bill's memorial tree how perfect 🙏🧡
This must be a tight-knit community-I just recently saw your video going through a woman's food forest. Great stuff. Happy to be reminded to check out the rest of your videos! I really wanna do what I can to create a temperate food forest (US, zone 7a or 7b I think). The earth needs nothing more than some love after the way we've ravaged it.
hi krishna, the Bill Mollinson memorial tree is such a special touch, a living permaculture legacy for us all to learn from, very uplifting!
Thanks for reaching out mate, have really been enjoying your videos/ reading / the resent “play” has inspired me to get a little more creative and playful with it all. Would really love to combine forces in anyway possible.
Permaninja shares !
Keep it goin brother !
george hadley Sun! Thank you. I’m on a mission. Going to document a bunch and share some of my hero’s. Feel it’s the best thing we can shine light on. You have been a hero for sure. Happy you are here 🙏
Thank you rob for your youtube channel. You encourage me to prepare my land in Philippine.Insha Allah I can do it.thank you
Honored to hear that! Keep seeding, keep learning
Fascinating! I absolutely love his passion for what he's doing. He got me excited and I don't even have a yard.
Aloha from Pahoa on the Big Island! Great information right when I need it. mahalo nui
🙏 Amazing project! Appreciate everyone's work here to keep the abundance of nature in our awareness.
If this doesn't inspire you, you're already dead.
As long as it inspires the right people, it’s all worth it. 🙏🌱 and your project is a legend in the making. Keep going joe! Would love to see your work one day
I am so inspired and I am going to set up a similar food forest.
I love it. I have decided to subscrib
It's so beautiful! it's actually my dream to reconnect with nature this way.. Living in a concrete jungel is so unnatural, going back to nature is the way to go :)
This is wonderful. As a growing temperate cold climate food forester, the tropical plants look other worldly. Thank you for sharing your passion and talent with us.
Such a beautiful and functional food forest 😍
incredible my man! cheers to you and your wife.
Looking great! Always an inspiration!
Joey Ziegler 🙏🌈thanks mate. Honored to share the stoke. It’s time to plant them seeds in peoples mindsZ
My goodness, you guys have done an amazing job...I love it !!
Thank you for that. Its all done with so much love
So I see now what’s possible! Good soil is EVERYTHING! My husband and I are slowly working on amending our soil to nourish our trees. Your food forest is priceless and looks like a dream!!! We would love to come and put some time in and learn more. We constantly battle with the tall grasses, cutting it is only a temporary fix. We had perennial peanut going around our trees and the “wideilia” overran it. It was so hard to maintain and cut out the layers so the peanut could spread. I’ll admit my husband did most all of the work . We got busy with working our jobs and slowly our ground cover failed. We are motivated to try again, we realize it’s the secret to food security;)
Thank you! We would love to have you. It’s a magical place. Yea the ground cover game is everything. And it’s sooo over looked. The weed pressure here is unbelievable . People would thinks it’s easy to farm/ grow here. Controlling the areas weed pressure and keep the ground covered is so important. 🙏🌱🔥🙌 keep growing
@@RobAndyCruz hahaha, it IS unbelievable! Yep, thought it would be a hell of a lot easier. I know it doesn’t happen over night, it’s a labor of love for sure! Thank you for all the inspiration and keeping my dream alive ✨🌿🍄🧚♀️🌺🥬🤙
Shoots! We need one in every country. But the ice has been broken. It can be done
Like your take on subtopic systems
food forest 😍love it
that passion fruit is ridiculously huge i love it
This is so so good.
Hey! This was a beautiful and interesting film. It made me want to know more about permaculture, which I know absolutely nothing about. It’d be great if you could make a lil intro video about it, explaining the concepts you refer to in this video. I watched your whole video but I just had to guess the implications of what you were talking about. If you could just explain the basics it’d help us viewers who know zilch. BTW, I lived with my boyfriend and his family on their lil plot of land on Kauai for a year in 1971/2. We had a lot of plants-my bf’s granny grew lotsa veggies. What we didn’t grow on that land we could find nearby growing wild. It was wonderful, but nothing like your truly knowledgeably grown spot of paradise. What I inferred from your video is that some plants, like the peanut and the other one, grow densely and keep out weeds. Other plants, like comfrey and coleus, you grow so that you can basically fertilize or enrich the soil with them, because they contain minerals. Then you had a plant that specifically created nitrogen (?). This is what I mean about a lil intro to the concepts video! For folks like me. Mahalo! Thank you for sharing your beautiful world. 🙏❤️🌺
I would love to live and work in such a beautiful place
Mark W We grew this from Scratch. Just a grassy field. Huge amount of time and effort. But it can be done on small scale by all.
Aloha bra, I stay Kauai up behind the giant in Wailua on 6 acres, awesome garden way to go, I got the Colius going too.
Wow i would love to visit this place 😍
Inspiring stuff y'all!!
Appreciate it mate 🙏
Can't believe it's already been 8 years.
Galactic Magic no joke, time is flying ! Get them trees in the ground
You are living my dream😭
I saw Mark Zuckerberg at a BBQ place in Montana and felt like it was my duty to tell him about Permaculture because he is into homesteading/raising cattle, and mentioned rotational grazing as a way to build soil. I was pretty nervous but I told him to visit your forest (He has a big place in Kauai) to get a better idea about it. It would be amazing if he saw value in it and put energy and resources into it.
This is great! Hahah! I love it. Yea, he has a bunch of land right on down the way, in the same town. I have a vision of doing holistic grazing stepped into agroforestry guilds. Could be a models for regenerative Human scale food systems. 🌱🙌🌈 thank you for speaking up you are a angle
your climate looks like paradise to me
What a wonderful journey! Would you have a video that talks about what people who're early in their journey can do? Amazing stuff. You focus a lot on guilds. Would be great if you could explain the thinking behind the plant placeemnt (esp the Mollison tree!)
Mahalo brotha...
Hey Rob, interesting to hear you talk about Ernst Götsch and syntropic agriculture. I'm German with a Brazilian wife and thinking about starting a permaculture project in Brazil close to where Ernst Götsch has his farm... In research about sustainable projects in that region I stumbled upon him. Hear you talking about him in Hawaii just shows how interconnected the world of permaculturists/syntropists is :)
Wow this is so so so beautiful 😍
Annabelle Herrmann thank you! Trying to share more of what we have created to inspire more people taking up stewardship of the earth
Wow what a beautiful food forest, I love chumpudek 😋 I didn't know what you were saying at first, cos I've only ever heard it pronounced with a silent K 🤣
celestial cow shoot! Thanks you for love. It’s such a special, and important project. Yea butchering plant names come natural.
I'm gonna do this here in orchidland
. Hope I can!
wow! great video guys so much info, beautiful shots, absolutly stunning food forest, inspiring and very educational, a bit sad rob was wearing a t shirt hahahaha
☺️ thank you brother, so happy to share the stoke. The shirt of our homestead farm fam we are living / working with. It felt appropriate.
Great Vid. Mahalo!
Holy crap. This is my new favourite forest garden. It's incredible! I was really excited you mentioned how important ferns are. It gets really really dry here and I came to realise they raise humidity and attract dew moisture better than just about anything else. Anything with small fine leaves.
I was excited to see the combination of sissou spinach and Pinto's peanut (or is your perennial peanut a different one?) as a groundcover, I will try that. Pinto's didn't like the level of dry heat we get in summer but annual peanuts somehow thrived.
Coleus & sissou groundcover was a great idea too. Agree with you on the comfrey I love that stuff it really does turn the soil black and bring it to life. Wow at your cocoa varieties and for us that'd be pushing the edge of climate but yours looks so fabulous.
I'd love to chow into and try one of those giant lilikoi passionfruits!
I wish I could come check out your Ernst Gotsch syntropic area, I'm very interested in trying and applying some of those principles more - do you know of any books or a good website on it I just gleaned what I could from the net but didn't find enough.
Have you eaten the sesbania flowers? I grew some from seed for my forest garden swale. I love how you have decided the way forward is create microclimate then direct seed the fruit tree species, couldn't agree more, they will be hardier for sure. I created a giant swale and tried to establish some wheat and field peas on it but then had an emergency situation dominate my life and couldn't ensure enough establishment care so it was an utter failure. I was pretty sad but went away and realised I'd have to change tactics to get anywhere. My pigeon peas were making pods and they're so darn hardy they don't care about extreme heat or no water - I'm going to plant the entire swale in pigeon peas I've decided then use them to establish other support species underneath and then plant the fruit trees into that.
You've given me so much inspiration!
Wow! You took it all in. So stoked the wave of inspiration are making it to your shores. Pigeon pea is a beast. The African bush basil would rock for you. Also great in the heat. What part of the world you in?
Happy you here, we have a lot to share
wildh3rbs agroforestry academy is teaching 🌱, join me in IG also
Nice! I have two of those Cohen chempedaks also! It’s very hard to grow them from seed, or in pots at least. Mine are over 8-9 feet tall now. I’m also wanting to bring more chempedak to my community, they are so rare here, but so delicious. I have maybe six pure chempedak and five chemp x Jack. All but one are grafted.
I hope you make an update in the future.
Yes! Im lucky enough to live and farm with Mr Cohen! We are hyped on the chemps, so much potential . We need to make some more videos. Thanks for the support
I've already got a dedicated bed of peanuts, so I can just throw some spinach in there. Good tip. thanks.
At some point it would be interesting for you to make a video about the importance of ferns in the eco system, not much information that I know about their role. Thanks in advance -:)
I enjoyed your video. A great plant for your forest would be Japanese Parsley. It can grow in partial shade, and it self seeds itself. I grow it on the Big Island. Where can you get seeds for the giant lilikoi?
Congratulations on your amazing food forest! What is the story with Sesbania grandiflora?
Please I wanna join this beautiful life
Love your content! I learned a lot and gain a lot of inspiration watching! Just one question I'm building a similar system in Central America, and one issue we have are venomous snakes any insights on things like ground covers and deep mulch when that is the snakes favorite place?
A wonderful place! Don't you have poisonous snakes out there ?
Nope
very cool!! what size is the land?
What is the plant he mentioned planted with the perennial peanut? And does this plant leave seeds to self replicate?
Do you use traditional fertilizer with any of your trees?
AMAZING! What about the 'Ulu?
Hey Rob wow what an inspiration! I was wondering what type of comfrey your growing? The sterile type or the true type?
Thank you mate. 🙏Bocking 14, I would like to get my hands on a many kinds as possible to experiment.
Are fruit trees climax species or is that more hardwood? I always wondered what types of trees and forest makeup constitutes a keystone forest climate
Wow.. beautiful and amazing! Serious question: with all the non-native plants, are you concerned about invasive species issues? Loving the share, man. Keep up the good work. 🙌
Jackson Carson almost all the plants on the island are non-native at this point. Yes some of these could naturalize. But the “weed” trees we have here are sooooo strong. They would not really have the seed bank built in the soil to Compete. Thanks for the love mate. It’s a big subject I would love to talk about
@@RobAndyCruz Love that you guys are sharing the wisdom. It must be a dream to be in such a rich environment to do this. I'm in uber dry Colorado, enviously watching.. but we have our own potentials here. Keep it up!
Jackson Carson it’s a powerful place / environment. The amount energy. Sun / water / plants makes so much growth that it can eat you. But man, if you can funnel it right 🔥🌈
@@RobAndyCruz Sounds like surfing. 🏄🏽♂️
But with all of life, for your life, with the intention to creat life.
What’s your favorite permaculture book? We just moved to Hawaii and we want to grow a food forest too but we have a lot to learn past regular gardening so I need a good book!
Amazing food forest! Very inspired by your work man! What’s the name of the spinach you grow with the perennial peanut? I can’t find it on google search?
Try Brazilian spinach
@@RobAndyCruz thats it! found it, thank you so much man!
Amazing video! Was wondering, what’s the name of the spinach variety that you talk about at the end please? Thanks 🙌
Teiva Couraud thank you Mate, happy you enjoyed, was it sissoo spinach. ?
Rob & Andy Cruz haha thanks brother! I thought I tried all the orthography possible but obviously NOT! Thanks again for the great content 😀
do you have to cut perennial peanut to send the nitrogen slough off into the ground or just leave it alone?
chompadak is like 10x stronger in flavor, we got several in our southern thailand farm
JowsChow I am in love with them! What is your favorite variety?
@@RobAndyCruz honestly not sure the names of them.. my uncle brought it from Malaysia when i was younger. we dip these in batter and fry them thats the most common way served back home other than fresh of course.
JowsChow The farm I am living on we are collecting as many different kinds as we can. We’ve had only one fruit for us so far. There seems to be a great difference in variation from variety to variety. excited to explore these. We have had some from the other islands that are mind blowing Good
@@RobAndyCruz oh man! i cant imagine the day you guys tried your first fruit lol. yes there's tons of varieties, in indonasia and india they have ones the size of your hand, kinda looks like a small pine apple ive had it once traveling down to malay. www.google.com/maps/place/%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%88%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%94%E0%B8%B2+%E0%B9%82%E0%B8%AE%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%AA%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%95%E0%B8%A2%E0%B9%8C/@7.3179693,100.0415486,1656m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x304d0c918e848a7f:0x40223bc2c384480!2sTamot,+Tamot+District,+Phatthalung,+Thailand!3b1!8m2!3d7.3047557!4d100.0135929!3m4!1s0x304d0dd278e6f71b:0xe6708601d29692d5!8m2!3d7.3149949!4d100.0411874
thats my home, all the farms around here are rubber trees farmers. we are trying to convert to growing food and help people get out of that rubber plantation slavery... very hard to change people's perspective
even though thailand is one of the biggest organic farming place on earth there's still large amount of farmers who need help get out of a bad situation
The TP esign looks great but doesnt it make it very difficult to harvest things that grow past the 6' high area?
Wouldnt a coil like circle be more affective at getting more surface area exposed to the sun? For example a Cicle with a door to walk in would catch about the same sunlight but provide you with two sides you could harvest from? I could be 100% wrong but just a thought.
Amazing!!!
I’ve been looking for a place to apprentice. I lost my career over 2020 and I’ve been in love with gardening, permaculture and more recently, food forests. Any direction you can point me where you know of any one who is looking to hire hands or apprentice?
🙏🏽❤️
My advice to you is to do it yourself! Start small and learn as you go, find your own flow :)
What is the size of the property?
The food forest is 2 acres
What is a Cabo Luna, that is what the CC wrote you were saying it was behind you, not sure what it was.
Hmmm, we got a lot of plants here, give me a time stamp
@@RobAndyCruz 3:59 and what is your rainfall, please. This is the first video I have seen of this as it showed up on a FB feed. Thank you.
cabeluda around 75” we are wet, wet. Stoked you are here 🌱👌
so the word syntropic is coming trends when we synchronize ourselves with tropics.
Organic Technology is a style of agroforestry being developed by Ernst Gotsch. Steaming from the root Syntropy . Opposite of Entropy.
Syntopy is builds from simple to complex, like evolution. Entropy from complex braking back down to simple.
@@RobAndyCruz I know what is and him though, just give a big word. Thanks.
What was the tree you planted in honour of Bill Mollison?
Justin Otto Goraka, the name got edited out, opes 👌
@@RobAndyCruz Interesting. Thanks!
could you possibly explain..how come so many "native people" do NOT have any land to live on?
So Good. heart my comment. #wow :o
Thank you, I don't know the yellow jaboticoba, I have 200" of rain on average at my Hawaiian spot.
Mahalo for the Great info. What’s the name of the spinach variety you planted as a companion cover crop to the perennial peanut?
Sissoo, it is much faster than perennial peanut.
Some people live in the Garden of Eden and some live on Earth.
wait like jackfruit but way better? How could you get any better than jackfruit? Sounds like you were saying choppodecks, I'm very curious to know what that is
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6 guys that work for Monsanto don't like this video
Right! Just trying to grow food ecosystems over here 🙏🌱
I love your food forest, but I don't think you should be proud or cute about stealing a plant from a botanical garden (1:27). Theft is a big problem in many botanical gardens.
Zakke87 Thank you. It’s a magic place, lots of love have been poured in. yea you right , don’t steal. 😉
my grandmother had a small pair of scissors in her hand bag to take cuttings of plants from parks, gardens and many botanical gardens, she then, like Rob cultivated them into trees and thriving plants.... she, like Rob had green fingers and only served to extend those plants to new locations as Rob has done.... I personally find it very sad that plants and seeds are not available in Botanical gardens for others to cultivate as that would be logical conclusion of a place that wants to preserve plant strains, but instead its stricklty forbidden and there is an us and them set up.... I am extremly proud my grandmother and Rob and who share their seeds and cuttings helping to propegate more plants unlike elitist botanical gardens which are an echo of the past, closed off, walled in, on display not part of a natural eco system, its a man made falsehood of nature, out of reach an inaccessable, just like museums, and universities are becoming irrelevant the real place for normal people to learn and get plants is from communities like Rob which are open and want to share not Botanical gardens which want to display but not integrate, very old fashioned model and they need upgrading rapidly because they could play a vital role in the regreening of the planet... my grandmother wasnt stealing and neither was Rob, the botanical garden stole the plants from nature and Rob liberated them back, im glad to hear its a problem in botanical gardens, if they dont want to share then what do they expect, the very concept of theft from Botanical gardens which are a showcase, shop window of the establishment plundering from the world on multiple levels, dude whoes side are you on? the people, nature or random botanical garden so they can preserve and display a few plants NO ONE ELSE CAN GROW.... thats so elitist and irrelevant now, its time for sharing and caring not defending the old school
Leaf of life films yes!!!! 🙌🌱omg yes! My grandma toooo! She’s was always liberating plants from all kinds of places. And she has an amazing garden to share from now.
She said those would grow the best for you. We are so doing a plant liberating with grama skit 🙌🙏🔥🌱
@@RobAndyCruz wow, thats a crazzy coincidence, im remebering how often it would happen and it must have been on her mind all the time which is cool. Actually it occured to us that those plants could well be boosted by the relocation as part of the natural proces to expand and spread themselves. We recently noticed some cuttings we were given and relocated quite a long way are doing really, really well, so we thought maybe the plants are triggered to establish themselevs, especially if the conditions are favourable. That i guess would explain why our grandparents gardens are so banging, my grandmothers garden was the same really vibrant and most plants or trees had a story behind where they were liberated from. That generation were far more conected to natural living as well, they used things from their gardens and the natural environment around them they had learnt from their mothers who had learnt it from their mothers. My grandmother's recipe book is full of ingredients from the garden or the local area and she made all sorts of preserves which also had a place in several recipes. Its a bit sad because the boomer genration lost touch with so much of that for fast food and eating out, I think they are known for being unaccountable and they are a lot less generous than their parents. Until these times there were philanthropists and people who gave back and supported the next generations, in the UK philanthropists built hospitals, libraries, swimming pools and BOTANICAL gardens.... these are things which were valued for improving society after the industrial revolution.... these days the type of funding needed to imporve society is very minimal becase its basically an issue of regenerating the environment and cleaning it and recycling all the garbage and investing in ethical sustainable small business instead of large ones... its literally something that could be funded from within each community, i just hope some of these boomers learn to listen and support or we can raise enough awareness amoungst our own communites and do it all ourselves
We were lucky to have such influences, and the foresight to see what Is of true value. I just got a job offer to help revamp the local botanical garden, 😂 kinda ironic remembering what stemmed this conversation