Did you soak the inner flower leaves in lemon juice and water for 30 minutes first before trying raw ? Or cooked ?😊 I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL !!!!!! I hope you keep it up ...love the experiments, sharing of knowledge, etc... EPIC !!! I really can't believe that synthropic farming has been around for so long and I've only just heard about it This Past YEAR
I really appreciated your informative video! Can you share the brand of your machete sheath? Also, do you have any suggestions on where to purchase them in Australia? Thanks a bunch!
Hi there, I love what you are doing. I'm in NZ and kind of at the beginning of my syntropic food forestry journey. My dad is in the gold coast and pretty much has the system in his small backyard 'minus' the density and the layers of organic matter. My question is, how do you work alongside spiders and snakes safely? Dad says they live in the organic matter 🤷♀️
Haha we have a secret weapon. Hannah the parsons jack russell, wonder dog, a snake exterminator. If you are fearful of nature then perhaps this is not for you. Snakes and spiders have their role in the web of life.
Yes I totally agree! I'm really trying to encourage my dad as he really loves gardening - personally I think he is ready for a new challenge. Do you run workshops or have open days?@@farmerjones2766
@@farmerjones2766 I'm all for weeds that create great mulch. Had a 2 metre high scotch thistle naturally dried and then chopped it up with ride on. Leaving roots in to ground to stay.
@@farmerjones2766🍃 thank you for this. Drought is coming this season so please lettuce know what you do and how it goes. Thank you. I’m southern QLD, how far north west are you in Central QLD ? Cheers mate
While everything is brown my plots are green. I did this a method of drought proofing the place as I nearly list my traditional orchard. The system enjoys shading and soil is covered form the hot sun. In addition the constant mulch helps retains moisture in the soil. So while the trees are not at their best there is sufficient diversity
We rotary, then form up with bed forming discs and then deep rip twice down the centre to form a valley for the tree rows. For veg rows we just minus the deep ripping and flat the top off with a meter wide alum rake. Or use a battery powered tilther from Curley's ag to tilth up a seed bed. It flats the tops perfectly. veg are 800w at the top
I also noticed you cut the banana flowers off because they drain the banana plant.Those banana flowers are considered an asian delicacy and all of them are edible
Mate, if there are Asians live in your area advertise that banana heart or banana bell. We Asians cook that. You can make good dish from it. You can make vegetarian burger from that.
So obviously there is plenty of abundance which would bring in opportunistic animals such as mice and bats,concerning mice is there a visible uptick in snakes due to this,are birds also an issue with damage to crops,thank you.
It’s possible but I haven’t seen any extra snake activity. If there was our dog would sort it out pretty quickly. Even with mice she is a rodent slayer. But my take on it we’re bio mimicking a forest and birds and animals are very much part of it so I don’t mind. The parrots tell me when the bananas are ready so I don’t mind if they take one or two.
Great video!
Looking good mate. An interesting discussion!
Get those Sapote growing - the fruit of the goddesses. Thanks for your wisdom 🙏
Did you soak the inner flower leaves in lemon juice and water for 30 minutes first before trying raw ? Or cooked ?😊
I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL !!!!!! I hope you keep it up ...love the experiments, sharing of knowledge, etc...
EPIC !!! I really can't believe that synthropic farming has been around for so long and I've only just heard about it This Past YEAR
I really appreciated your informative video! Can you share the brand of your machete sheath? Also, do you have any suggestions on where to purchase them in Australia? Thanks a bunch!
Hi there, I love what you are doing. I'm in NZ and kind of at the beginning of my syntropic food forestry journey. My dad is in the gold coast and pretty much has the system in his small backyard 'minus' the density and the layers of organic matter. My question is, how do you work alongside spiders and snakes safely? Dad says they live in the organic matter 🤷♀️
Haha we have a secret weapon. Hannah the parsons jack russell, wonder dog, a snake exterminator. If you are fearful of nature then perhaps this is not for you. Snakes and spiders have their role in the web of life.
Yes I totally agree! I'm really trying to encourage my dad as he really loves gardening - personally I think he is ready for a new challenge. Do you run workshops or have open days?@@farmerjones2766
those look like aphids on your papaya leaf, plant flowers that attract beneficial insects near its row
Central QLD? Trying to get a handle on where this is. I’m QLD and can only see this sort of thing up north.
Gympie area
How does your system go during a drought. Compared to other farms in your area. And what type of grasses were you cutting.
so far we haven't entered a drought season so will see then. Multiple grasses and weeds.
@@farmerjones2766 I'm all for weeds that create great mulch. Had a 2 metre high scotch thistle naturally dried and then chopped it up with ride on. Leaving roots in to ground to stay.
@@farmerjones2766🍃 thank you for this. Drought is coming this season so please lettuce know what you do and how it goes. Thank you. I’m southern QLD, how far north west are you in Central QLD ? Cheers mate
While everything is brown my plots are green. I did this a method of drought proofing the place as I nearly list my traditional orchard. The system enjoys shading and soil is covered form the hot sun. In addition the constant mulch helps retains moisture in the soil. So while the trees are not at their best there is sufficient diversity
The grasses were purpose sown oats. Summer and winter have their own set of cover crops that do well.
How do yo build you raised beds. What is the width size of your raised beds
We rotary, then form up with bed forming discs and then deep rip twice down the centre to form a valley for the tree rows. For veg rows we just minus the deep ripping and flat the top off with a meter wide alum rake. Or use a battery powered tilther from Curley's ag to tilth up a seed bed. It flats the tops perfectly. veg are 800w at the top
I also noticed you cut the banana flowers off because they drain the banana plant.Those banana flowers are considered an asian delicacy and all of them are edible
Thanks Portia I'll give them a try,
Mate, if there are Asians live in your area advertise that banana heart or banana bell. We Asians cook that. You can make good dish from it. You can make vegetarian burger from that.
Yes I've sold it at our markets sometimes.
So obviously there is plenty of abundance which would bring in opportunistic animals such as mice and bats,concerning mice is there a visible uptick in snakes due to this,are birds also an issue with damage to crops,thank you.
It’s possible but I haven’t seen any extra snake activity. If there was our dog would sort it out pretty quickly. Even with mice she is a rodent slayer. But my take on it we’re bio mimicking a forest and birds and animals are very much part of it so I don’t mind. The parrots tell me when the bananas are ready so I don’t mind if they take one or two.
@@farmerjones2766 thank you,I’ve been following permaculture for 5 years but only this week did I find syntropic agriculture