Great presentation. I follow both you and Sean. Don’t see how people compare the two. Dust Ups is more a science project. You guys are building a homestead as you live on the land full time. Both sites rock. 🐺
Both want to regenerate their land to the point of it becoming a forest and be able to produce food etc. If dust ups didn't want any production he could simply use the miyawaki forest technique instead of the syntropic agriculture he's using.
I follow Shaun too. Very different locations and desert environments. Having worked in various desert locations for a decade in Australia I can attest to the variations. Good job Brandon. Fabulous to see your progress and Mila's channel gaining traction. I'm excited about your progress on the build and what is coming next.
I love your and Shaun’s channels! My husband and I have property VERY similar to yours in northern NM. We are doing very similar things with our 20 acres. We live in an earthship, building our wallipini, ours in 15 feet in the ground. Two years ago we created 3 massive swales and planted our 40/50 fruit trees. One thing we are doing differently from normal permaculture (I took Geoff’s course three years ago), we planted our trees in the valleys and not in the berm of the swales, due to advice from people who have lived here for a long time. The trees are thriving, we only had to manually water twice this year from our water collection storage. This past year, we built pond in our huge wash. It filled up with one monsoon downpour. We are in the middle of building a the next pond underneath it to catch the over flow. I love watching your and Shaun’s videos because it keeps me going and provides more food for thought! I believe so many of us are making a difference in regreening the desert. Can’t wait to see your transformation! You both are wonderful!
@MatchlessConcepts I watch both channels they're both great. More passion in these 2 and a homely feel. I look forward to Brandon and nekas vids and prooritise them over dustups personally. Shaun is great but he seems more commercially motivated in comparison. Still great content
you and sean are on your ways to becoming the first biggest dessert transforming youtubers, I hope you guys continue getting doing the good work and get a lot of subscribers, donations and income from youtube
@@tomatito3824Brandon talks about how we use Geoff Lawton’s methodology for a lot of our projects in a couple videos. We have been inspired by many folks, ancient techniques and ideas ✌🏾💜
@@tomatito3824 doesn’t really matter everyone shares Ideas or gets inspiration from someone else I’m just saying there becoming big influencers on the platform not doubting there’s other successful youtubers out there or saying they are the first to do it they just both have grown in popularity fast
Just a shame that Shaun spends too much time on gimmicks and not the fundamentals of just getting the water in the ground, so it has a base to grow things.
Love this. Glad I found you and Sean after starting my project. You guys have taught me a couple of things I’ve implemented. So glad more people are sharing their projects to the world
I Follow both projects and I love the different approaches! Keep on the Great Spirit! I really enjoy your enthusiasm! Don‘t let yourself get annoyed by guys who „know things better“.
Comparing your homestead to Dustups would never occur to me. Two completely different philosophies, plans and methods. You are on the right track Brandon.
Looking good brother! Its gna be so satisfying to see ur roof up! Ty for the insight again, i feel like the more i watch ur vids the better picture of ur plan we get.keep keeping on fam its looking ggreat🎉😄
your work is amazing keep going this helped a lot. I grew up in an area considered a cold desert, check out northern Canada. the base for all growing things in the north are moss, lichens, mushroom micilium beds, and ferns. Yes they are all spore plants and not seeds.
@@ehopem4877 we had so many tadpoles! I had to rescue some of them before the water dried up. Tadpole Rescue!!! ua-cam.com/video/tvdng0ESg_o/v-deo.html
Both sights are aiming at the same results they just have different scenarios it's not completely terrible to use each other for ideas that overlap the people doing similar things differently isn't a bad idea ✌️👏
im taking many ideas from you to my project!. i am doing a inca terracing with a manavai and hugel-swales with terra preta. And a zuni bowl on the lowest point! Maybe it will become a seasonal pond.
Wow tadpoles. I guess you have frogs that bury themselves encased in mud waiting for the rain like we have in the australian outback. Thanks for the heads up on deserts. Your region has similarities with Kalgoorlie Western Australia. 10 inches average and yet this is the eastern most part of the great western woodlands. It is sparsely treed on hard pan surface. It is amazing to see how the plants and animals have adapted to living in these places.
They are desert toads! They sure do dig down for protection. We had literally 100s hopping around at one point 😅 they kept our ponds mosquito free ✌🏾💜🐸
I wanted to mention a water collection/retention technique that is being used in Africa are sand dams. They are typically constructed in existing seasonal dried stream/creek/river beds with an actual cement damn. They are then allowed to fill up with sediment/sand to the top of the dam...what this does is severely reduce evaporation, improves retention and provides a year round water source that is already pre-filtered (still needs boiling) by just digging into the sand. Sean might be able to be better situated for this type of solution but I just wanted to mention it to you also. This could be adapted to a pond with a liner filled with sand...it retains something like 60 or 70% of a regular pond but with way less evaporation.
It’s not only that each project is different it’s the budget as well, a Mormon friend in Utah has 70k worth of solar a 28 thousand dollar well, he pumps from 2600 feet, 10,000 gallons a day, his swales are over run with growth after just three years, the 3 200 foot wells were dry when he moved in, now they all 3 can run near 3 gallons per minute
I watch your channel and Dustups channel, and I can tell that just by watching those videos that the areas are different from each other. I think you are at a higher elevation than Dustups😊
I've lived in many places from 15-26 in/yr. Living anywhere above 20in is when I think the environment stops feeling like a desert. I suppose it probably has a lot to do with when you get the rainfall. Where I lived at 18in it all fell in the winter with a very dry summer, so even at 18in it felt like a desert to me because half the grow season all the natural spaces around me were dry.
Ya I have a 100acers here in ashfork it is very different from dust-ups but might as well take ideas for his project and modify them to fit our climate as the first thing I did on my property was drill a well
Yea we all have good ideas! Sometimes it's just adapting the concepts to fit our unique area, but also just good to know that others are just doing it!✌🏾
When I have my own property I would love to do a rewilding series for it, but luckily im in Florida, so I couldn't imagine getting less than 20 inches of rain in a year. We got over 20 inches in less than a week! So I agree you're in a desert lol!
@@GrowTreeOrganics Definitely not, but working with the water is crucial. Currently at the house I'm renting I turned the front yard(with the owners grace) into a meadow with a dry river through it going into a couple hundred gallons reservoir I was hoping would turn into a small swamp (the neighbors across the street were built on a swamp). The reservoir gets about 18" deep when it rains, but it's all soaked into the ground a couple minutes after the rain stops. A couple gopher tortoises moving in right next to the reservoir area gave proof that the meadow and dry river concept worked! Now the yard belongs to protected species muahahaha
I find your approach to be simple, yet effective, as you don't try gimmicks for content, but make content around the desire to store water where you can. While you do get more rain than say Shaun Overton, I can see you are being more effective with the land. Keep doing the hard work, it will come good in the end. Also good on you not wanting to not be rude about other content makers.
The rain shadow desert also applies to much of inner Spain. The rain falls on the Atlantic side of e.g. the Cantabrian mountain range and hills in Portugal. The air crossing the mountains is then very dry, with little rain. Most of central Spain is kind of semi desert (but also including the few real deserts we have in Europe). Add to this that inner Spain is a rather high plateau (Madrid is one of the highest capitals in Europe) and while it can be very hot in summer, it can also get very cold in winter.
Chaparral?. Lewis and Clark described everything west and south of the Missouri River as the great American desert. It's easy to see the influence of the Gulf of Mexico providing moisture east of there. Additionally, is your caliche layer continuous and fairly level? Does it outcrop along the slope? It could serve to perch a small volume of water.
That they did. Funny enough our old place in Montana was off the Missouri, Clarkston MT it was a place Lewis and Clark had stopped at!✌🏾 the caliche isn't continous, nor level. It varies, but that's a good point, it could provide points of water holding,depending...!😅✌🏾
Desert or semi arid high mountain desert doesn’t matter when the world is losing so much land to desertification. You’re doing great work to prevent complete desertification in your part of the world. Also, places like Ireland/Scotland/Iceland have regarded as having green deserts because of the lose of massive forests. Woods are a dying forest, grasslands are a dead forest. Look forward to seeing you growing your food forest next year.
I see you have some mesquite and desert willow in pots. Will they both handle the elevation you are at? I'm curious as I am looking for some land and have been growing both those trees in pots where I live in San Diego now. And what elevation are you at?
@GrowTreeOrganics awesome. Nothing is better than creating no carbon to collect needed supplies because they are literally right under foot. I have seen caliche many times before but this is my first chance to learn about it. Today, I had to go look up the word. Thank you for adding to the knowledge we all need to fix our poor tired Mother Earth. Thank you for loving Her. 😁
I came across this channel after watching Dustups. I like what you are doing but don't understand what a gabion wallapini even is. I am interested in learning more about it, but the main focus has been on the water retention in the landscape. At least in the videos I have seen. It's hard to get into stacked rock walls when you aren't sure what the overall goal is.
There will be an overall compilation video going through the whole process eventually, but we're back on the build for now so there will be plenty more to explain and get you up to speed!✌🏾
You know your stuff. If govs were attacking deserts strategically then they should start at the edge in semi arid and coastal desert to bridge moisture in towards the desert edge.
@@GrowTreeOrganics Much respect for the great work you are doing out there. Showing others what is possible is the way minds will be changed. Paradigm transition to regenerative in combating the degenerative process.
Somewhat, but it is very sandy, so we have good drainage(too much so) we are slowly building up the organic matter to hold more water so it doesn’t just “drain away”.
better take your time and do things right. You and Shaun both do amazing educational worth channels. a lot better than gold diggers in alaska or ice road truckers
Let’s give credit to the Anasazi they captured rainfall a thousand years ago built rock reservoirs some still there at mesa verde Colorado built massive canals to divert river water if close enough to rivers . Probably had swales berms just didn’t label them just practical ingenuity. Too bad they moved on when the big drought didn’t budge and they cut down all the trees for heat building and cooking,
For sure, I told you. I'm in south east Spain, and you recieve more rain than here. The most arid place in Europe, a desert, it's in Spain, not far from my house. But unlike you, we have irrigation, from rivers from north and west.
I follow one spanish farm also, they had their first rain after six months just couple of days ago and they try to have natural style of watersystem permaculture way.
@@kingarthur7950 Which part of Spain ? Give me the name of his chanel, I've got one too. These last 5 years, we recieve less than 400mm of rain per year, not sufficient to feed a family with their vegetale garden. I can give numbers about water consum per production per m2.
Im watching Americans claim they're in the desert... having summer showers every couple of weeks 🤣🤣🤣 here i am in the middle of the Aegean sea, not having seen rain since last February...
I know it's based on "average" rainfall but it def seems like a few more drought years would qualify y'all as "desert" and all the water issues that go with it.
Is desert, but it is a semi livable desert. I wouldn’t not try to build a house were Sean’s property is. Far too little rain to be human sustainable. And your property has enough water to attempt homesteading, i bet you definitely feel it’s a desert as water management is probably your biggest concern. Love clicking through on your videos when they randomly pop up
The only way you and Shaun are the same is the first primary goal of holding every drop that falls. the rest of the contexts are totally different. he's in a hilly lowland context while you are in the High desert. comparing Texas and upper Arizona is foolish at best.
OK your average rainfall is 14 inches = you then consider latitude + longitude + altitude SO we know your SITUATION = THIS is a BIG ADVANCE in Presentation NOW WHAT CAN you grow per hectare on your situation ???? +++ Unfortunately FRAUD is rampant with "desert greening" presentations
@@GrowTreeOrganics "greening the hot desert" is a now a scam on a global scale - nobody greens the desert - rainfall greens the hot desert - the yield of every desert is limited by rainfall. 14 inches/350 mm is 4 million litres rainfall per annum per hectare. you only have 3 options (1) let the rain soak in naturally (2) store some rainfall in tanks (3) increase rainfall soak with vegetation or earthworks. SO: IF YOU INCREASE Soakage with earthworks you REDUCE the yield elsewhere. If you rely upon stored water you are now irrigating and the land is no longer a desert. Natural rainfall penetration of course can be enhanced with grasslands and trees. as a useful service to your viewers maybe calculate FIRST what you can realistically produce with every 4 megalitres of rain per hectare + then determine how much you can increase yield with irrigation from storage in tanks + then in soil with swales. do you know what you can produce in kgs with 4 meg rainfall on 10,000 square metres ???
@@GrowTreeOrganics OK Look at things this way = People believe what they see = Some people believe what they hear = TO Improve your presentation ? is there one example of a "greening the desert" that actually provides food ?? and if so how much per hectare in 14 inch rainfall or less on land that is similar to your piece of planet THIS is NOT a TRICK however please do not include irrigation water from any source - in other words a rainfed desert farm - whats the best example that you know is real ???
Great presentation. I follow both you and Sean. Don’t see how people compare the two. Dust Ups is more a science project. You guys are building a homestead as you live on the land full time. Both sites rock. 🐺
Both want to regenerate their land to the point of it becoming a forest and be able to produce food etc.
If dust ups didn't want any production he could simply use the miyawaki forest technique instead of the syntropic agriculture he's using.
Thank you. I'm not sure why some are making that comparison as well? People want competion I guess? Thanks for watching and supporting!✌🏾
Exactly!✌🏾
I follow Shaun too. Very different locations and desert environments.
Having worked in various desert locations for a decade in Australia I can attest to the variations. Good job Brandon.
Fabulous to see your progress and Mila's channel gaining traction. I'm excited about your progress on the build and what is coming next.
@@GrowTreeOrganics Because you're both regreening the desert at the same time on UA-cam. 👌
I love your and Shaun’s channels! My husband and I have property VERY similar to yours in northern NM. We are doing very similar things with our 20 acres. We live in an earthship, building our wallipini, ours in 15 feet in the ground. Two years ago we created 3 massive swales and planted our 40/50 fruit trees. One thing we are doing differently from normal permaculture (I took Geoff’s course three years ago), we planted our trees in the valleys and not in the berm of the swales, due to advice from people who have lived here for a long time. The trees are thriving, we only had to manually water twice this year from our water collection storage. This past year, we built pond in our huge wash. It filled up with one monsoon downpour. We are in the middle of building a the next pond underneath it to catch the over flow. I love watching your and Shaun’s videos because it keeps me going and provides more food for thought! I believe so many of us are making a difference in regreening the desert. Can’t wait to see your transformation! You both are wonderful!
Thanks so much! It sounds like you are making great progress yourselves! ✌🏾
Interesting you brought up dustups. His channel and rainwater harvesting algos then brought me to you! Love the work you are both doing!
Same
I watch his channel too! But thanks for coming along on our journey!✌🏾
yup
@MatchlessConcepts I watch both channels they're both great. More passion in these 2 and a homely feel. I look forward to Brandon and nekas vids and prooritise them over dustups personally. Shaun is great but he seems more commercially motivated in comparison. Still great content
you and sean are on your ways to becoming the first biggest dessert transforming youtubers, I hope you guys continue getting doing the good work and get a lot of subscribers, donations and income from youtube
Geoff Lawton came first, and surely inspired both of them.
@@tomatito3824Brandon talks about how we use Geoff Lawton’s methodology for a lot of our projects in a couple videos. We have been inspired by many folks, ancient techniques and ideas ✌🏾💜
@@tomatito3824 doesn’t really matter everyone shares Ideas or gets inspiration from someone else I’m just saying there becoming big influencers on the platform not doubting there’s other successful youtubers out there or saying they are the first to do it they just both have grown in popularity fast
Just a shame that Shaun spends too much time on gimmicks and not the fundamentals of just getting the water in the ground, so it has a base to grow things.
Really appreciate the support from you and others!✌🏾
Chur brother, cool presentation.
Atacama is, however, in Chile 😎
You're right! So many deserts in so many places.😅✌🏾
I was like "wait a minute, what?!" 😂 I think he confused Namib and Atacama.
@arinasosnovskaya5298 totally did!😅✌🏾
Thanks Brandon! Supporting you in your hardware run this week❤
Thanks, I appreciate the support!✌🏾
Love this. Glad I found you and Sean after starting my project. You guys have taught me a couple of things I’ve implemented. So glad more people are sharing their projects to the world
Appreciate that, glad you’re finding the information useful!✌🏾
😎👍Enjoying both channels yours and Dustups.
Appreciate it, glad you like both!✌🏾
I Follow both projects and I love the different approaches! Keep on the Great Spirit! I really enjoy your enthusiasm! Don‘t let yourself get annoyed by guys who „know things better“.
Thank you so much!✌🏾
Easily one of my favorite home style permaculture series! You’re doing amazing work.
Thank you very much! Really appreciate the support!✌🏾
Comparing your homestead to Dustups would never occur to me. Two completely different philosophies, plans and methods. You are on the right track Brandon.
Thank you we're only in competition with ourselves here! Appreciate you stopping by!✌🏾
@@GrowTreeOrganics That is sane 😉👍
I come to your channel for the message and inspiration. Your work is phenomenal!
Thank you so much!✌🏾💚
The house is looking great it should be a great escape from the heat ✌️👏
And the 🥶! Thank you!✌🏾
Looking good brother! Its gna be so satisfying to see ur roof up! Ty for the insight again, i feel like the more i watch ur vids the better picture of ur plan we get.keep keeping on fam its looking ggreat🎉😄
Very satisfying for sure! I'm glad the picture is becoming more clear as we continue! Really appreciate your support!✌🏾💚
Shaun is great. You are great. 😊
😅thank you very much!✌🏾
@@GrowTreeOrganics haha your cheeky grins get me every time😁
My happy place somehow are desert transformations, you, Shawn and The Food Forest Namibia. Thanks for doing what you do.
Our pleasure!✌🏾
WOW I CANT BELIVE I MISSED ALL THE ROCKSTACKING
Yea I don't know what you were doing.... !?😅✌🏾
your work is amazing keep going this helped a lot. I grew up in an area considered a cold desert, check out northern Canada. the base for all growing things in the north are moss, lichens, mushroom micilium beds, and ferns. Yes they are all spore plants and not seeds.
I have some friends up there! Definitely too cold for me!😅 thanks for your support though!✌🏾
I love your grassroots old school permaculture vibe ol Bill would be proud.
Really appreciate it!✌🏾
Tadpoles?!! How wonderful 😍🐸
Nature always finds a way! "When you build it they will come!" 😄✌🏾
@@ehopem4877 we had so many tadpoles! I had to rescue some of them before the water dried up.
Tadpole Rescue!!!
ua-cam.com/video/tvdng0ESg_o/v-deo.html
Just found your channel! One of my subscribers mentioned you. Great channel and great job!
Thanks, glad you found the channel! Really appreciate the support!✌🏾
Both sights are aiming at the same results they just have different scenarios it's not completely terrible to use each other for ideas that overlap the people doing similar things differently isn't a bad idea ✌️👏
Exactly 💯!✌🏾
im taking many ideas from you to my project!. i am doing a inca terracing with a manavai and hugel-swales with terra preta. And a zuni bowl on the lowest point! Maybe it will become a seasonal pond.
That’s awesome! Good luck with the project!👍🏾✌🏾
You got a new subscriber :)
From a portuguses living in The Netherlands, best wishes and PEACE
Thank you very much for joining the journey! And appreciate your support! ✌🏾
Once again it is great to see your smile.
Great desert presentation too.
Just wonadering how you deal with you own "waste"?
We do a compost system! I am sure one of us will cover all that once the build is done 😅✌🏾💜
Thank you and what she said!😅✌🏾
Funny how Shaun Overton has reached celebrity status lol. I love both his and your channels
Appreciate the support, interesting to me how people are comparing.... I didn't realize I was really up there with Shaun as far as the interest.😅✌🏾
@@GrowTreeOrganics I forgot to say that I like the fact that you get more rain, that means we should see more progress at a faster rate
@@Ryan-gx3hs I definitely hope so!✌🏾
Wow tadpoles. I guess you have frogs that bury themselves encased in mud waiting for the rain like we have in the australian outback. Thanks for the heads up on deserts. Your region has similarities with Kalgoorlie Western Australia. 10 inches average and yet this is the eastern most part of the great western woodlands. It is sparsely treed on hard pan surface. It is amazing to see how the plants and animals have adapted to living in these places.
They are desert toads! They sure do dig down for protection. We had literally 100s hopping around at one point 😅 they kept our ponds mosquito free ✌🏾💜🐸
Caliche -- we call it hardpan in the mountains ... I don't have it so much on my property but up the road is
Lucky you don't!😅✌🏾
@GrowTreeOrganics do u use it as cement substitute?
I wanted to mention a water collection/retention technique that is being used in Africa are sand dams. They are typically constructed in existing seasonal dried stream/creek/river beds with an actual cement damn. They are then allowed to fill up with sediment/sand to the top of the dam...what this does is severely reduce evaporation, improves retention and provides a year round water source that is already pre-filtered (still needs boiling) by just digging into the sand. Sean might be able to be better situated for this type of solution but I just wanted to mention it to you also. This could be adapted to a pond with a liner filled with sand...it retains something like 60 or 70% of a regular pond but with way less evaporation.
Thanks for the great idea! So many out there and so simple!✌🏾
It’s not only that each project is different it’s the budget as well, a Mormon friend in Utah has 70k worth of solar a 28 thousand dollar well, he pumps from 2600 feet, 10,000 gallons a day, his swales are over run with growth after just three years, the 3 200 foot wells were dry when he moved in, now they all 3 can run near 3 gallons per minute
That is quite the setup! Sounds like he has a well-developed system.✌🏾
Thanks for the information.
You bet, glad you found it helpful!✌🏾
I watch your channel and Dustups channel, and I can tell that just by watching those videos that the areas are different from each other. I think you are at a higher elevation than Dustups😊
Yes, we are at a higher elevation than Dustups and our weather is a bit different too. Appreciate your support!✌🏾
I've lived in many places from 15-26 in/yr. Living anywhere above 20in is when I think the environment stops feeling like a desert. I suppose it probably has a lot to do with when you get the rainfall. Where I lived at 18in it all fell in the winter with a very dry summer, so even at 18in it felt like a desert to me because half the grow season all the natural spaces around me were dry.
I see. Appreciate you sharing!✌🏾
Ya I have a 100acers here in ashfork it is very different from dust-ups but might as well take ideas for his project and modify them to fit our climate as the first thing I did on my property was drill a well
Yea we all have good ideas! Sometimes it's just adapting the concepts to fit our unique area, but also just good to know that others are just doing it!✌🏾
I'm in south central Colorado about 7,400 ft elevation about the same type of desert but a few taller pines
Nice, we have some pinyon pine, but definitely want to promote the established ones and grow more!✌🏾
We in Europe have cisterns! When you have a monsoon, you have to store water before it seeps away. no cistern - no greenery
Exactly, we'll have those and more in the future!✌🏾
When I have my own property I would love to do a rewilding series for it, but luckily im in Florida, so I couldn't imagine getting less than 20 inches of rain in a year. We got over 20 inches in less than a week! So I agree you're in a desert lol!
That is quite a bit of rain! Sounds like you wouldn't have much of a challenge getting your property to thrive!👍🏾😅
@@GrowTreeOrganics Definitely not, but working with the water is crucial. Currently at the house I'm renting I turned the front yard(with the owners grace) into a meadow with a dry river through it going into a couple hundred gallons reservoir I was hoping would turn into a small swamp (the neighbors across the street were built on a swamp). The reservoir gets about 18" deep when it rains, but it's all soaked into the ground a couple minutes after the rain stops.
A couple gopher tortoises moving in right next to the reservoir area gave proof that the meadow and dry river concept worked!
Now the yard belongs to protected species muahahaha
@@gatorbait9385 that's awesome to hear! You build it they will come!😅✌🏾
To clarify, Atacama is a desert in Chile South America and Namib desert is the African one.
Thank you for clarifying! Coastal deserts are present in a fair amount of continents!✌🏾
I find your approach to be simple, yet effective, as you don't try gimmicks for content, but make content around the desire to store water where you can. While you do get more rain than say Shaun Overton, I can see you are being more effective with the land. Keep doing the hard work, it will come good in the end. Also good on you not wanting to not be rude about other content makers.
Thank you, simplicity is key! ✌🏾
i live in central oregon and it is a high desert.
Yep! More common than we think!✌🏾
The rain shadow desert also applies to much of inner Spain. The rain falls on the Atlantic side of e.g. the Cantabrian mountain range and hills in Portugal. The air crossing the mountains is then very dry, with little rain. Most of central Spain is kind of semi desert (but also including the few real deserts we have in Europe). Add to this that inner Spain is a rather high plateau (Madrid is one of the highest capitals in Europe) and while it can be very hot in summer, it can also get very cold in winter.
Definitely, thanks for sharing!✌🏾
Chaparral?.
Lewis and Clark described everything west and south of the Missouri River as the great American desert. It's easy to see the influence of the Gulf of Mexico providing moisture east of there.
Additionally, is your caliche layer continuous and fairly level? Does it outcrop along the slope?
It could serve to perch a small volume of water.
That they did. Funny enough our old place in Montana was off the Missouri, Clarkston MT it was a place Lewis and Clark had stopped at!✌🏾 the caliche isn't continous, nor level. It varies, but that's a good point, it could provide points of water holding,depending...!😅✌🏾
Strange times, as it is starting to rain in the Sahara also the amazon is drying up. Bit of food for thought🎉(for the algorithm)
I had noticed that, very strange!✌🏾
Desert or semi arid high mountain desert doesn’t matter when the world is losing so much land to desertification. You’re doing great work to prevent complete desertification in your part of the world. Also, places like Ireland/Scotland/Iceland have regarded as having green deserts because of the lose of massive forests. Woods are a dying forest, grasslands are a dead forest. Look forward to seeing you growing your food forest next year.
Exactly! Thank you very much! Really appreciate the support!✌🏾
Amen brother. I am over in St. John’s and our desert is different from yours. We have more of a loamy sandy soil that makes it a challenge.
I can imagine! Hopefully the channel can help with some ideas on your property! You can always email me with with questions as well!✌🏾
I see you have some mesquite and desert willow in pots. Will they both handle the elevation you are at? I'm curious as I am looking for some land and have been growing both those trees in pots where I live in San Diego now. And what elevation are you at?
They will we sit at about 5100 feet elevation and we're in zone 7b, the lowest we got over winter was 3or4 degrees Fahrenheit.✌🏾
I mean, WWF puts the Colorado Plateau shrublands in their Deserts & Xeric Shrublands biome basket for a reason.
Right!?😅✌🏾
I envy you for what you are doing..... would love to do it as well
Don't envy us, there may be ways to reach the goal you're trying to achieve!✌🏾
Is your caliche useful to your building efforts?
Yes, it is! Very useful for building the pathways for walking and vehicles!✌🏾
@GrowTreeOrganics awesome. Nothing is better than creating no carbon to collect needed supplies because they are literally right under foot. I have seen caliche many times before but this is my first chance to learn about it. Today, I had to go look up the word. Thank you for adding to the knowledge we all need to fix our poor tired Mother Earth. Thank you for loving Her. 😁
I came across this channel after watching Dustups. I like what you are doing but don't understand what a gabion wallapini even is. I am interested in learning more about it, but the main focus has been on the water retention in the landscape. At least in the videos I have seen. It's hard to get into stacked rock walls when you aren't sure what the overall goal is.
It's his own version of an earthship, by adding gabion walls and other things. He explains everything in his older videos.
There will be an overall compilation video going through the whole process eventually, but we're back on the build for now so there will be plenty more to explain and get you up to speed!✌🏾
Exactly Thank you!✌🏾
You know your stuff. If govs were attacking deserts strategically then they should start at the edge in semi arid and coastal desert to bridge moisture in towards the desert edge.
Exactly!✌🏾
Not to be confused with desserts.!
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@@GrowTreeOrganics Much respect for the great work you are doing out there. Showing others what is possible is the way minds will be changed. Paradigm transition to regenerative in combating the degenerative process.
Thank you very much!✌🏾
Is the soil hydrophobic?
Somewhat, but it is very sandy, so we have good drainage(too much so) we are slowly building up the organic matter to hold more water so it doesn’t just “drain away”.
Quite the opposite!😅✌🏾
Where you are in NAZ, how much snow do you get or runoff from snow?
The Seligman, ash fork, and Williams area! We average about 8 inches here, sometimes more, sometimes more rain!✌🏾
@@GrowTreeOrganics Ages ago, like decades, my family bought land around Seligman. I'll follow your examples in greening that specific patch of earth.
@smartstrength4414 nice, glad to hear you've got the land to be able to do these examples!✌🏾
Did you get rain?
Maybe$!?✌🏾
better take your time and do things right. You and Shaun both do amazing educational worth channels. a lot better than gold diggers in alaska or ice road truckers
Thank you! Yea those shows are just so real!✌🏾😅
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Isn’t a desert define by rainfall amounts, 10 inches or less and a high desert the same but above 2200 feet?
Yep!👍🏾✌🏾
Brandon, you have a gorgeous complexion. Protect it.
He sure does! 🥰 no worries, I make all the skin care goods for us ✌🏾💜
Thank you I will!😅✌🏾
A collab between you two would be pretty awesome. Figure a lot could be learned from that.
That’s a thought for the future!✌🏾
are there videos of things actually growing?
This is the first year of the project, you typically don't see much in the first year. but yes there is video of things growing!✌🏾
The Atacama Desert is in South America, not Africa. I think you were thinking of the country of Namibia which has similar geography.
I was, getting my continents and deserts mixed up! Thanks for the correction!✌🏾
Let’s give credit to the Anasazi they captured rainfall a thousand years ago built rock reservoirs some still there at mesa verde Colorado built massive canals to divert river water if close enough to rivers . Probably had swales berms just didn’t label them just practical ingenuity.
Too bad they moved on when the big drought didn’t budge and they cut down all the trees for heat building and cooking,
Definitely nothing new we're doing here, but plenty to learn from what's been done in the past!✌🏾
@@GrowTreeOrganics so true . Learn from the mistakes like ploughing the fields the wrong way causing the dust bowl in 1930 there about .
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your area is nothing like shauns, its more similar to Offroad Back Country Adventure.
Yea, he's not too far from me actually!✌🏾
For sure, I told you. I'm in south east Spain, and you recieve more rain than here. The most arid place in Europe, a desert, it's in Spain, not far from my house. But unlike you, we have irrigation, from rivers from north and west.
I follow one spanish farm also, they had their first rain after six months just couple of days ago and they try to have natural style of watersystem permaculture way.
@@kingarthur7950 Which part of Spain ? Give me the name of his chanel, I've got one too. These last 5 years, we recieve less than 400mm of rain per year, not sufficient to feed a family with their vegetale garden. I can give numbers about water consum per production per m2.
@@victoremman4639 ,Suerto de Molina farm?
@@kingarthur7950 Thanks. I knew them and yet subscribe. They recieve more rain than me, because they are front the atlantic, but very windy zone.
Ahh. That's an advantage with the river! Nice!😅✌🏾
Im watching Americans claim they're in the desert... having summer showers every couple of weeks 🤣🤣🤣 here i am in the middle of the Aegean sea, not having seen rain since last February...
I hear that! Definitely why I wanted to make the video, clarify we aren't technically a Desert. You're in a real Desert it sounds like!✌🏾
I know it's based on "average" rainfall but it def seems like a few more drought years would qualify y'all as "desert" and all the water issues that go with it.
Definitely why I'll be keeping track of our yearly rain!✌🏾
Is desert, but it is a semi livable desert. I wouldn’t not try to build a house were Sean’s property is. Far too little rain to be human sustainable. And your property has enough water to attempt homesteading, i bet you definitely feel it’s a desert as water management is probably your biggest concern. Love clicking through on your videos when they randomly pop up
Yea I wouldn't try to live where Shaun's property is!😅 water management is definitely crucial to us establishing ourselves here!✌🏾
Your land is easier to handle than Shaun. If I was to start out, I prefer your land than his
I would agree!😅✌🏾
The only way you and Shaun are the same is the first primary goal of holding every drop that falls. the rest of the contexts are totally different. he's in a hilly lowland context while you are in the High desert. comparing Texas and upper Arizona is foolish at best.
Similar goals, different ways of achieving it... just like nature!😅✌🏾
OK your average rainfall is 14 inches = you then consider latitude + longitude + altitude SO we know your SITUATION = THIS is a BIG ADVANCE in Presentation NOW WHAT CAN you grow per hectare on your situation ???? +++ Unfortunately FRAUD is rampant with "desert greening" presentations
Are you saying my presenting could be improved? Or did I lack some information? Definitely appreciate the feedback!✌🏾
@@GrowTreeOrganics "greening the hot desert" is a now a scam on a global scale - nobody greens the desert - rainfall greens the hot desert - the yield of every desert is limited by rainfall. 14 inches/350 mm is 4 million litres rainfall per annum per hectare. you only have 3 options (1) let the rain soak in naturally (2) store some rainfall in tanks (3) increase rainfall soak with vegetation or earthworks.
SO: IF YOU INCREASE Soakage with earthworks you REDUCE the yield elsewhere. If you rely upon stored water you are now irrigating and the land is no longer a desert.
Natural rainfall penetration of course can be enhanced with grasslands and trees. as a useful service to your viewers maybe calculate FIRST what you can realistically produce with every 4 megalitres of rain per hectare + then determine how much you can increase yield with irrigation from storage in tanks + then in soil with swales.
do you know what you can produce in kgs with 4 meg rainfall on 10,000 square metres ???
@@GrowTreeOrganics how much milk and meat per hectare ???
@@GrowTreeOrganics OK Look at things this way = People believe what they see = Some people believe what they hear = TO Improve your presentation ? is there one example of a "greening the desert" that actually provides food ?? and if so how much per hectare in 14 inch rainfall or less on land that is similar to your piece of planet THIS is NOT a TRICK however please do not include irrigation water from any source - in other words a rainfed desert farm - whats the best example that you know is real ???
@@Jack-w5k4pfrugal off the grid
I think your property is deserty enough. So little precipitation. Plenty of challenge makes for fun watching:)
Very dry! Appreciate your support too!😅✌🏾