Brendon McKeon - we had a blast! Can't wait to return! Sooner than later - no worries my friend. I'm just glad to be able to get your message out there again 👊
As a pioneer in Paraguay I can really appreciate what he is doing by forming a central source for plants. Although many different plants are available in this country you have to go 'hunting' for it and hope for good luck. And we are lucky a lot of the time in this 'invisible' country in the heart of South America but it could be more efficient.
I'm more than grateful to have found you through Justin Rhodes. Your work is a true inspiration and fo those wanting to go further in the way, there is true educational content! Costa Rica is making me dream, as my native country is Colombia and the nature is quiet similar. Congratulations to you all for the true amazing work you are doing! Arbol del pan, guanabana,pitaya, papayas, zapote,bananos, plàtanos, yuca, cacao,nueces... and many others you are making me discover...
tamara Acosta Valois I'm so glad Justin challenged me also. This channel has been one of the best things that's ever happened to me. I really love where it has taken in the last year. I appreciate your support and feedback, I couldn't do it without y'all! Thank you 👊
tamara Acosta Valois I am from Panamá 🇵🇦, but lived in the US for 33 years, however, I do want to go back to my native country and do what these young men are doing, I am in Fl and I build a backyard forest.... however my heart is to go back home and continue with my ancestors legacy, to work the Land the natural way. Health it’s not in medicine, health it’s in NATURE, nature heals the world 🦋🇵🇦
been watching Justin Rhodes since he started his first 100 days of growing food. it was at the exact same time I bought a small house in the netherlands (100 m2 on a 300 m2 property) when I bought the place the entire garden was covered with stone tiles. now there are over 14 fruit trees (espalier) and many other edible crops and still growing. these guys are a true inspiration and I'm glad UA-cam brought us together.. hopefully one day I can buy a bigger piece of land (though that probably won't be happening in the Netherlands anytime soon. we have some of the most productive farms in the world yes, but land prices are really expensive
3:00 "We have what we call 'snack fruits' all over the yard." 14:30 " My goal, When we first started this, was to create a living seed bank with as much diversity possible."
The only thing I regret is occasionally not having the time to get thru some of these great Pete Kanaris posts the 1st time...as always, Pete, you humbly put up some of the best fruit/food/perm/garden posts on youtube ! -CostaRicaEnvyJeff :) ps...yes, subcribed to that guys channel some time back. I recall a pretty cool video he had previously posted--became an instant subscriber !
Jeff I know these epic stops are getting longer and longer. The fun in CR has just begun, hold tight buddy. I wanna put together a group permaculture tour around the country, I'm thinking next year. I think that same video you watched with Brendon is the one that inspired me to go see his site. He has the eco oasis page on UA-cam with the tune key permaculture homesteads.
It looks like his son is really into what his daddy is doing, I think that's great. Thanks Pete, it looks like i have missed seeing a lot of your videos.
am New here in this magnificent channel. I am from Costa Rica and my parents live very very close of that place called Tambor. This really was a surprise for mi watch this beautiful video. Thanks
It really makes me mad that that almost everywhere I travel has more fuel efficient trucks then the US. Loving these vids though. You guys are the best.
Jesus dude! These Costa Rica videos are awesome! I have a playlist called “permaculture” for my research and every one of these vids is in there. Love seeing these guys doing cool permaforest designs.
11219tt thank you! We barely scratched the surface here, I'm going back very soon to visit some other sites. The climate and diversity here was something else.
Branko Dobrasinovic sure! Here it is ua-cam.com/play/PLRjkWb598SeUf7SUYcnO0wc6HgZZ6Q15Q.html It’s all cool, but recently I’ve been enjoying the stuff toward the bottom. The natural farming from japan and the Indian food forest stuff.
Pete another awesome, video keep rocking it man I totally enjoy your videos, you`ve got a smooth natural genuine way, you and your son keep it up bro. I`m following you from Barbados
Productive and attractive system Brendon-so much useful information shared. Once again thanks Pete and team for taking us along. This is a really interesting, informative series set in a country that seems mind-blowing in the extent to which it has embraced permaculture.
This is fantastic the small boy is cool. We will also develop this type of facilities in Nepal. Prayers and faith God bless and more power to the video owner and to the farm owner.
Living legend Brendon McKeon!! Been waiting for this one!! I had goosebumps looking at this because it's so similar to what I'm trying to accomplish and seeing videos like these get me so motivated to push forward! Commercial permaculture where you can not only produce crops but get some type of processed food item out of it, is what is needed to propel permaculture to the next level. Maybe then we can actually compete with the large monoculture growers and in the process make a huge dent in helping our planet. I can't wait for permaculture to go mainstream! And thanks to guys like you Pete and Brendon, it's happening!! I just wish Brendon could resume making videos! He is such a wealth of information and motivation for people trying to get into permaculture in the tropics!
Excellent!!! Your attention to detail/ information, Wisdom and Understanding! Is impeccable. Thank you for sharing, I am stoked. May God continue to Bless! you all.
Really inspiring videos Pete! I've always been interested in plants, trees and farming since I was a kid, but I never really thought of following this passion and make my job out of it. I'm still only 23 now, but watching your videos really opened a lot of new perspectives for me and convinced me that I really should follow this passion. On top of that I'm heading to Central America end of this year (one way tickets already booked) and I was wondering if people like Brendon are open for visits to their foodforests? A guided tour of Finca la isla is already on my list!
epic - interesting to note that you provide an income stream for clients through your bananas. truly inspiring. will definitely be looking to implement similar systems of development in South Africa.
My grandfather was right. He planted several species of fruits and vegetables all over our place here in Cebu, Philippines. His family expanded and left as they have their new families including my mother. Now the property was subdivided and slowly houses creep on it... we buy our fruits and veges in the market from different points of the country... whew!
8:11 Brendon's boy loves his little Fiskars branch pruner, yeah. 12:27 These Fiskars power pruners just steal the show from the big guys 👊 Go Finland 🇫🇮 20:15 Julian is stealing the show again, next time, Pete, you have to take Gavin with you to Costa Rica 29:24 I mean, why be on the ground when you're young when you can be up there with the jack fruits
Important to show how Permaculture can be considered a large scale food production as well; revolution from the inside of industrial farming. But don't forget the social component...
15:45 , one of my lifetime goals is to be a part of creating a massive scale commercial permaculture farm on Hawai'i island. Main crops could be Ulu, bananas, kalo. Plus loads of other fruit trees Let’s plant 1 million fruit trees while also diversifying the landscape with nitrogen fixing trees, native plants, etc
Sorry if this has been answered but does this project produce income? Can you support a family doing something like this? Would a cacao focused system in Puerto Rico work, specifically.. or is this mainly funded by Brennons other ventures? Thank you 🙏🏼
Have you ever looked into Ernst Gotsch's method in South America? (spelling may be off) I'd love to commercialize permaculture in addition to having a private 5-10 acres
Pete, are you able to bring one of those trucks into the US from Costa Rica? Or would the cost to ship it and duties/tariffs make it prohibitive? Also do you know of anyone using a Mark Sheppard style silvopasture in the tropics, im thinking the thinner soil would make it able to carry less animals, but I rarely see any in tropical settings, just the trees, thanks!! Love the videos, great work :)
goofy roofy good question on the animal integration out here. I haven't came across him yet but I'm sure someone exists. Glad you're digging the series 👊
Scouting for land after Farmageddon? lol. I'm looking forward to seeing Green Dreams recent progress. Costa Rica may be the next garden of eden. Anyone know of any permaculture happenings in Chile?
Brendon says we make our own fertilizers, and then explains cow and chicken manuer- I didn't see much cows of chickens there? Does he import that stuff or have cows there as well? Interesting in the Certified Organic movement and maybe he knows where his poop comes from or maybe that isn't important in the cert. process. ?? Thoughts?
Abundalanced Life yes brendon is on 40 Acres, we only toured a few of them. I’m not exactly sure how many types of animals but I know they had cattle and chickens.
+Abundalanced Life Good question. We do have a farm-full of Animals..cows (Meat and Dairy), chickens, pigs and horses, so we are able to gather majority of our own manures for Soil Ammendment and liquid fertilizer bases. We grow almost all of the food for our animals, whether it be pasture, root crops, green fodder, clabbered milk for the chickens and pigs, etc. If your interested to hear more on this, heres a video where I talk about it: ua-cam.com/video/E_cMSNDnJoI/v-deo.html We also make our Micro-organism mixes from the forest on our land, which then become bases for our liquid ammendments. Costa Rica also has an abundance of natural resources as we we live in a rural area with lots of farms, so easy to source from people we know if we need additional manure. As far as the Organic certification, they do require that we have a certificate from the manure we use that meets certain requirements. But to be honest on that subject, the Organic certification oversight leaves a lot to be desired and the enforcement of regulations is pretty lax, as I would imagine it is in many countries. I feel it's important to know where your food comes from, whether you can grow some of it yourself or visit the farms where you are sourcing. I think commercial organic is pretty much a joke, though obviously a step in the right direction.
Does anyone know how to spell the name of the tree mentioned by Brendon at 19m:45s please, the one with the soft bark. I presume it is ideal for growing vanilla on.
+Emmanuelle Coway, Iwish I knew the scientific name for this to share with you. The local name we use is Huatite. Let me see if I can find out for you, and yes it is a great base to use for things like Vanilla, Black pepper, dragon fruit, etc.
seem like alot of americans are fleeing down that way lol i no if my land ws connected to somewhere tropical id be heading that way, but im happy pushing zones theres pride in it :)
Ya, pretty much everywhere here. We combat it with regular applications of mycelium, micro-organism and sulfur sprays, and cutting the affected parts off the leaves. Check out my video "5 tips on how to grow healthy bananas" for more info on this! Thanks for looking out(-:
+zfallon84 Yes, this is a widespread problem in the tropics. We do regular monthly maintenance by trimming off the affected areas of the leaf. It actually doesn't take to much effort, and we have 5k banana plants, and we still get big heavy racks. I actually have a video where I explain more details on how we care for the bananas if you are interested to see more on this: ua-cam.com/video/h4N-QLhXjjY/v-deo.html
I'd say we are at 80% but could easily be at 100 if we just gave up some of the "treats" we like to buy. All of our meat, dairy, fruits, veggies come from the farm! Some things are just to much work to grow when it's readily available from other local farmers..ex-rice, but certainly could be done if that was the goal. Great question though, not a lot of folks doing it so sometimes seems unattainable.
Brendon McKeon How much of the property and how many trees/plants would you say you use to eat off of and how many people do you feed? (Trying to get an idea of property size to successfully eat off the land) this is my goal. I am really tired of work and city life. So I am doing everything I can to figure out a self sustaining way of life. Good point about rice. I’ve seen some growing rice in their water catchments, but it’s a not easy. But rice is cheap :) Would love to talk more about seasonal crops and how to stay abundant throughout the year.
Hard to say because we have a big ole farm which is way beyond Homestead size. You can feed a family on a very small parcel with around 5 acres being a super fat spread. One main consideration on size is if you want animals and what kind. When you get into raising pasture fed cows and pigs your land requirements go up a bit. We are creating ridiculously abundant family Homesteads on parcels as small as 1-2 acres. Check out www.EcoOasis.org to see one of our projects that is a good example of this. These small 2-3 acre Homesteads can feed a lot of people and way beyond 1 family.
Breaking even is not a good strategy. You always have to have more resources ex. Money to create whatever. People need to know organics and food forest development should be driven by financial goals, otherwise the conventional farmers win. The aim should be to out evolve conventional chemical farms. We can do it by making the gains real.
+englishcoach777 From a broad worldview I can agree with you, and of course Permaculture Principal # 3 "Obtain a Yield" speaks to that idea. That said, I don't think there is only one way to practice permaculture in one's life, as we all have different circumstances and goals. In our case, "breaking even" comes with a lot of benefits, including.... providing full time jobs for 5 local families (they are not breaking even), having a Huge amount of food for my family and to share with friends and neighbors, having a living seed bank with great diversity to share in my region and promote a stronger more resilient community, having my land and food systems maintained in a beautiful and abundant state, opportunities for endless micro-businesses should I or another friend/neighbor be interested in this, and the list goes on and on. I think it's important to understand my statement and goal was speaking only to a "money" return scenario, as of course there is no "breaking even" with a well managed and cared for 40 acre permaculture farm. All of my animals are fed from this "breaking even" and my fridge and freezer is always full of meat, dairy, etc. I didn't review the video, but I also think I explained that this was just my original base level goal, as I was much more interested in a self sustained homestead then I was in direct money returns. I'm pretty sure I also mentioned that it has become apparent that "breaking even" was not what was going to happen, and actually the farm is becoming very financially lucrative. Again, this is all based on personal needs and desires. Certainly if you set out with the goal to have a commercial production farm then making a financial return is the goal. Many people practicing permaculture to know where their food comes from and feed their family will be quite happy and successful "breaking even" from a money perspective, and still be able to pursue their chosen passion for working for money, as I do. It has never been my dream to be a full time farmer, or even run a commercial farm. This requires many many things beyond just having a love for permaculture and your land, and is a full time demanding business. My personal passion is to help other establish permaculture farms of their own, and share all of my experience, both successes and failures. What drives me, is the goal to cover as much Physical land as possible with permaculture based food systems, supporting a more resilient community, and creating models that help forward the Permaculture movement. I am able to make a comfortable income doing this, which gives me money to "create whatever". I know this was a long response, but this is a very important subject to me, and I think it's integral to spread the message that Permaculture comes in many shapes and sizes, it is a way of life, there is no right or wrong way to do it, and each individual will find how it can blend with their life circumstances and bring more joy and abundance however that works for them. Thanks for your comment, I think this is a very interesting subject to discuss as we all search for ways to make our world a better place!
Awesome video Pete!! Thanks so much for visiting us on your Epic tour of CR. Look forward to hanging out again soon! Your doing Awesome work Brother!
Brendon McKeon - we had a blast! Can't wait to return! Sooner than later - no worries my friend. I'm just glad to be able to get your message out there again 👊
your a beast Brendon, glad we got some more footage of the projects down there, looks great, God bless.
Look at the dog right at the beginning, mad chillin, thats how you know the owner is a good man! Look at its face...pure relax.
slinky9632 haha I didn't notice that!
As a pioneer in Paraguay I can really appreciate what he is doing by forming a central source for plants. Although many different plants are available in this country you have to go 'hunting' for it and hope for good luck. And we are lucky a lot of the time in this 'invisible' country in the heart of South America but it could be more efficient.
I'm more than grateful to have found you through Justin Rhodes.
Your work is a true inspiration and fo those wanting to go further in the way, there is true educational
content!
Costa Rica is making me dream, as my native country is Colombia and the nature is quiet similar.
Congratulations to you all for the true amazing work you are doing!
Arbol del pan, guanabana,pitaya, papayas, zapote,bananos, plàtanos, yuca, cacao,nueces...
and many others you are making me discover...
tamara Acosta Valois I'm so glad Justin challenged me also. This channel has been one of the best things that's ever happened to me. I really love where it has taken in the last year. I appreciate your support and feedback, I couldn't do it without y'all! Thank you 👊
tamara Acosta Valois I am from Panamá 🇵🇦, but lived in the US for 33 years, however, I do want to go back to my native country and do what these young men are doing, I am in Fl and I build a backyard forest.... however my heart is to go back home and continue with my ancestors legacy, to work the Land the natural way.
Health it’s not in medicine, health it’s in NATURE, nature heals the world 🦋🇵🇦
been watching Justin Rhodes since he started his first 100 days of growing food. it was at the exact same time I bought a small house in the netherlands (100 m2 on a 300 m2 property) when I bought the place the entire garden was covered with stone tiles. now there are over 14 fruit trees (espalier) and many other edible crops and still growing. these guys are a true inspiration and I'm glad UA-cam brought us together.. hopefully one day I can buy a bigger piece of land (though that probably won't be happening in the Netherlands anytime soon. we have some of the most productive farms in the world yes, but land prices are really expensive
3:00 "We have what we call 'snack fruits' all over the yard." 14:30 " My goal, When we first started this, was to create a living seed bank with as much diversity possible."
This is the stuff dreams are made of! 👊🌱 Grown on Pete & Friends!
calendula fields nursery yes it is! I've been daydreaming about CR since I left. Thank you👊
The only thing I regret is occasionally not having the time to get thru some of these great Pete Kanaris posts the 1st time...as always, Pete, you humbly put up some of the best fruit/food/perm/garden posts on youtube ! -CostaRicaEnvyJeff :) ps...yes, subcribed to that guys channel some time back. I recall a pretty cool video he had previously posted--became an instant subscriber !
Jeff I know these epic stops are getting longer and longer. The fun in CR has just begun, hold tight buddy. I wanna put together a group permaculture tour around the country, I'm thinking next year. I think that same video you watched with Brendon is the one that inspired me to go see his site. He has the eco oasis page on UA-cam with the tune key permaculture homesteads.
:) :)
Awesome!
Brendon McKeon & family are amazing people doing amazing work in CR! I’m so happy you were able to meet him while down there!
Discovery Duo thanks bro! So glad I made this trip happen. Brendon and family awesome people! I must say the climate where he was located was superb.
It looks like his son is really into what his daddy is doing, I think that's great. Thanks Pete, it looks like i have missed seeing a lot of your videos.
Good to see your catching up! Brendon is the man in CR 🙌
am New here in this magnificent channel. I am from Costa Rica and my parents live very very close of that place called Tambor. This really was a surprise for mi watch this beautiful video. Thanks
It really makes me mad that that almost everywhere I travel has more fuel efficient trucks then the US. Loving these vids though. You guys are the best.
Our Florida Garden me too! I would love to have one these little toyota's in the states. Glad you enjoyed! :)
@@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL I drive a Toyota Hilux in Australia. It's done over 300,000 miles and nothing ever goes wrong with it.
my country looks beautiful in all your videos. Love the content. Cant wait to start growing... Pura vida maes! Gracias:)
Pura vida Daniel! 🙌
Jesus dude! These Costa Rica videos are awesome! I have a playlist called “permaculture” for my research and every one of these vids is in there. Love seeing these guys doing cool permaforest designs.
11219tt thank you! We barely scratched the surface here, I'm going back very soon to visit some other sites. The climate and diversity here was something else.
Hey, could you share your per a culture playlist with me? 😊
Branko Dobrasinovic sure! Here it is
ua-cam.com/play/PLRjkWb598SeUf7SUYcnO0wc6HgZZ6Q15Q.html
It’s all cool, but recently I’ve been enjoying the stuff toward the bottom. The natural farming from japan and the Indian food forest stuff.
It's an extensive list, seen only some.of them. Really appreciated 🙏
Pete another awesome, video keep rocking it man I totally enjoy your videos, you`ve got a smooth natural genuine way, you and your son keep it up bro. I`m following you from Barbados
This is exactly the video I needed to help propel my ideas. Thanks Pete. You are truly a gem.
Richard Alvarado I appreciate the feedback! The next one might even be better 👊
Great video, Greeting from Bali-Indonesia (Salak, Rambutan, Pisang, etc)
So awesome! Let's go back!
What's Ripening? Ready when you're! 😬
YES!!!
Productive and attractive system Brendon-so much useful information shared. Once again thanks Pete and team for taking us along. This is a really interesting, informative series set in a country that seems mind-blowing in the extent to which it has embraced permaculture.
Thanks Trish! This stop was a real treat for me also, I learned a ton from Brendon! I can't wait to go back :)
Thanks Trish, so glad you enjoyed it!
This is fantastic the small boy is cool. We will also develop this type of facilities in Nepal. Prayers and faith God bless and more power to the video owner and to the farm owner.
Living legend Brendon McKeon!! Been waiting for this one!! I had goosebumps looking at this because it's so similar to what I'm trying to accomplish and seeing videos like these get me so motivated to push forward!
Commercial permaculture where you can not only produce crops but get some type of processed food item out of it, is what is needed to propel permaculture to the next level. Maybe then we can actually compete with the large monoculture growers and in the process make a huge dent in helping our planet.
I can't wait for permaculture to go mainstream! And thanks to guys like you Pete and Brendon, it's happening!! I just wish Brendon could resume making videos! He is such a wealth of information and motivation for people trying to get into permaculture in the tropics!
Brad Suarez you aren't lying, Brendon is the man! So glad the I made the connection, can't wait to go back 👊
Brad Suarez I just saw the other two paragraphs. I believe that tipping point is coming my friend. I'm just trying give that push.
Excellent!!! Your attention to detail/ information, Wisdom and Understanding! Is impeccable. Thank you for sharing, I am stoked. May God continue to Bless! you all.
Thanks Daniel! Brendon is an awesome dude! I’ve learned so much from him.
Wow! The children are so hands on. They're so cute too
Really inspiring videos Pete! I've always been interested in plants, trees and farming since I was a kid, but I never really thought of following this passion and make my job out of it. I'm still only 23 now, but watching your videos really opened a lot of new perspectives for me and convinced me that I really should follow this passion. On top of that I'm heading to Central America end of this year (one way tickets already booked) and I was wondering if people like Brendon are open for visits to their foodforests? A guided tour of Finca la isla is already on my list!
epic - interesting to note that you provide an income stream for clients through your bananas. truly inspiring. will definitely be looking to implement similar systems of development in South Africa.
I feel like I keep repeating myself...another great video thank you pete👊👊
This one is fire bro! 👊
I am in love with Costa Rico, and what you are doing their! ♥️
Me too! Thanks
Absolutely awesome video! Thanks!
Thanks for sharing guys, much appreciated> Excited to go to Costa Rica next month to look for farms to work with
Glad you enjoyed! Man I’m jealous, have fun! 👊
This was a really amazing video
Brendon McKeon for the win!
Natural Living Designs and Permaculture Planet...BIG things are happening!
Permaculture Planet true that! 👊
My grandfather was right. He planted several species of fruits and vegetables all over our place here in Cebu, Philippines. His family expanded and left as they have their new families including my mother. Now the property was subdivided and slowly houses creep on it... we buy our fruits and veges in the market from different points of the country... whew!
8:11 Brendon's boy loves his little Fiskars branch pruner, yeah. 12:27 These Fiskars power pruners just steal the show from the big guys 👊 Go Finland 🇫🇮 20:15 Julian is stealing the show again, next time, Pete, you have to take Gavin with you to Costa Rica 29:24 I mean, why be on the ground when you're young when you can be up there with the jack fruits
Great video!
Enjoyed.
Awesome!
nice and mind blowing
Oh wow I'm enjoying this
Simon Bennett I've watched it a few times myself. Brendon is doing some amazing work.
Awesome vid! Is there a reason to keep the dead dried up leaves on the banana tree?
Thanks! I’d say only if you live in a cold sensitive climate during the winter, they probably just haven’t pruned these yet.
@@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL Noted. Thanks
Important to show how Permaculture can be considered a large scale food production as well; revolution from the inside of industrial farming. But don't forget the social component...
15:45 , one of my lifetime goals is to be a part of creating a massive scale commercial permaculture farm on Hawai'i island. Main crops could be Ulu, bananas, kalo. Plus loads of other fruit trees
Let’s plant 1 million fruit trees while also diversifying the landscape with nitrogen fixing trees, native plants, etc
awesome!
Cool place to grow up, as a kid.
Amazing
Sorry if this has been answered but does this project produce income? Can you support a family doing something like this? Would a cacao focused system in Puerto Rico work, specifically.. or is this mainly funded by Brennons other ventures? Thank you 🙏🏼
31:39 And again: great shirt, Pete 🏀
Nice!
Have you ever looked into Ernst Gotsch's method in South America? (spelling may be off) I'd love to commercialize permaculture in addition to having a private 5-10 acres
Lol love it !! In a good way I am sooooooo Jealous!!
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❤️Toyota
Pete, are you able to bring one of those trucks into the US from Costa Rica? Or would the cost to ship it and duties/tariffs make it prohibitive? Also do you know of anyone using a Mark Sheppard style silvopasture in the tropics, im thinking the thinner soil would make it able to carry less animals, but I rarely see any in tropical settings, just the trees, thanks!! Love the videos, great work :)
goofy roofy not to my knowledge. I've heard the vehicles have to be at least 20yrs old before they can come here.
goofy roofy good question on the animal integration out here. I haven't came across him yet but I'm sure someone exists. Glad you're digging the series 👊
I've heard that they are built to different standards, meaning that they would crumble in an accident more than a car made to us standards.
Can I tour your farm? Have 7.5 hectares in Cabuya and want to learn more.
Vive le gros michel!
how much did it cost to start to building the property from scratch to an establish garden.?
Can you ship to small markets in the USA?
🍌🍌🍌looks like hardly gotime to housekeeping all the banana trees
Living in banana land 🤣
What are those cacao relatives he mentioned ? Can someone spell the two out for me ? Thanks for the video Pete. Great as always 👍
Cupuacu and Pataste
Dario Piazza thanks bro!
Scouting for land after Farmageddon? lol. I'm looking forward to seeing Green Dreams recent progress. Costa Rica may be the next garden of eden. Anyone know of any permaculture happenings in Chile?
Tim DeJohn I'm actually making some moves this year. Both for business and personal reasons. No not Chili off the top of my head.
Awesome, happy to be part of the journey. You and everyone you visit are a huge inspiration.
Brendon says we make our own fertilizers, and then explains cow and chicken manuer- I didn't see much cows of chickens there? Does he import that stuff or have cows there as well? Interesting in the Certified Organic movement and maybe he knows where his poop comes from or maybe that isn't important in the cert. process. ?? Thoughts?
Abundalanced Life yes brendon is on 40 Acres, we only toured a few of them. I’m not exactly sure how many types of animals but I know they had cattle and chickens.
+Abundalanced Life Good question. We do have a farm-full of Animals..cows (Meat and Dairy), chickens, pigs and horses, so we are
able to gather majority of our own manures for Soil Ammendment and liquid fertilizer bases. We grow almost all of the food for our animals, whether it be pasture, root crops, green fodder, clabbered milk for the chickens and pigs, etc. If your interested to hear more on this, heres a video where I talk about it: ua-cam.com/video/E_cMSNDnJoI/v-deo.html We also make our Micro-organism mixes
from the forest on our land, which then become bases for our liquid ammendments. Costa Rica also has an abundance of natural resources as we we live in a rural area with lots of farms, so easy to source from people we know if we need additional manure. As far as the Organic certification, they do require that we have a certificate from the manure we use that meets certain requirements. But to be honest on that subject, the Organic certification oversight leaves a lot to be desired and the enforcement of regulations is pretty lax, as I would imagine it is in many countries. I feel it's important to know where your food comes from, whether you can grow some of it
yourself or visit the farms where you are sourcing. I think commercial organic is pretty much a joke, though obviously a step in the
right direction.
Does anyone know how to spell the name of the tree mentioned by Brendon at 19m:45s please, the one with the soft bark. I presume it is ideal for growing vanilla on.
+Emmanuelle Coway, Iwish I knew the scientific name for this to share with you. The local name we use is Huatite. Let me see if I can find out for you, and yes it is a great base to use for things like Vanilla, Black pepper, dragon fruit, etc.
+Emmanuelle Conway, ok so it's Guititi (Acnistus Arborenses) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acnistus_arborescens
Acnistus arborescens, known as the tree “güitite” in Costa Rica.
our FL USA we can create too.
seem like alot of americans are fleeing down that way lol i no if my land ws connected to somewhere tropical id be heading that way, but im happy pushing zones theres pride in it :)
Time to bring some Depends.
Im from NEW JERSEY my family lives in PEREZ ZELEDON quizarra like 30 minutes from there
Wow! I love that area.
I want to buy a small pc of land there and move with my son &/or his wife if he has one.
2:28 How tall are you, Pete?
larolimu 6ft1in. I think Brendon was standing in a hole. 😂
Pete Kanaris GreenDreamsFL Right, the good thing about holes is, if you're in one, the only way you can go is up, haha.
hahaha :p
How much do you charge?
Email Brendon, link in description.
Hola tiene número para comunicarse
"Epic Diversity University" 😁
Can you help in nzas well please.
That bridge! Oh, hell no! Lol
For real!
Does he know about the Black Sigatoka on his bananas?
zfallon84 I'm not sure about that one.
Ya, pretty much everywhere here. We combat it with regular applications of mycelium, micro-organism and sulfur sprays, and cutting the affected parts off the leaves. Check out my video "5 tips on how to grow healthy bananas" for more info on this! Thanks for looking out(-:
+zfallon84 Yes, this is a widespread problem in the tropics. We do regular monthly maintenance by trimming off the affected areas of the leaf. It actually doesn't take to much effort, and we have 5k banana plants, and we still get big heavy racks. I actually have a video where I explain more details on how we care for the bananas if you are interested to see more on this: ua-cam.com/video/h4N-QLhXjjY/v-deo.html
You can feed the world with permaculture, but could someone feed their family 90%-100% from their own permaculture farm?
I'd say we are at 80% but could easily be at 100 if we just gave up some of the "treats" we like to buy. All of our meat, dairy, fruits, veggies come from the farm! Some things are just to much work to grow when it's readily available from other local farmers..ex-rice, but certainly could be done if that was the goal. Great question though, not a lot of folks doing it so sometimes seems unattainable.
Brendon McKeon
How much of the property and how many trees/plants would you say you use to eat off of and how many people do you feed? (Trying to get an idea of property size to successfully eat off the land)
this is my goal. I am really tired of work and city life. So I am doing everything I can to figure out a self sustaining way of life. Good point about rice. I’ve seen some growing rice in their water catchments, but it’s a not easy. But rice is cheap :)
Would love to talk more about seasonal crops and how to stay abundant throughout the year.
Hard to say because we have a big ole farm which is way beyond Homestead size. You can feed a family on a very small parcel with around 5 acres being a super fat spread. One main consideration on size is if you want animals and what kind. When you get into raising pasture fed cows and pigs your land requirements go up a bit. We are creating ridiculously abundant family Homesteads on parcels as small as 1-2 acres. Check out www.EcoOasis.org to see one of our projects that is a good example of this. These small 2-3 acre Homesteads can feed a lot of people and way beyond 1 family.
Brendon McKeon dude thanks so much for the info! I’ll definitely follow up when. I’m ready to make the leap.
Breaking even is not a good strategy. You always have to have more resources ex. Money to create whatever. People need to know organics and food forest development should be driven by financial goals, otherwise the conventional farmers win. The aim should be to out evolve conventional chemical farms. We can do it by making the gains real.
+englishcoach777 From a broad worldview I can agree with you, and of course Permaculture Principal # 3 "Obtain a Yield" speaks to
that idea. That said, I don't think there is only one way to practice permaculture in one's life, as we all have different circumstances and goals. In our case, "breaking even" comes with a lot of benefits, including.... providing full time jobs for 5 local families (they are not breaking even), having a Huge amount of food for my family and to share with friends and neighbors, having a living seed bank with
great diversity to share in my region and promote a stronger more resilient community, having my land and food systems maintained in a beautiful and abundant state, opportunities for endless micro-businesses should I or another friend/neighbor be interested in this, and the list goes on and on. I think it's important to understand my statement and goal was speaking only to a "money" return scenario, as of course there is no "breaking even" with a well managed and cared for 40 acre permaculture farm. All of my animals are fed from this "breaking even" and my fridge and freezer is always full of meat, dairy, etc. I didn't review the video, but I also think I explained that this was just my original base level goal, as I was much more interested in a self sustained homestead then I was in direct money returns. I'm pretty sure I also mentioned that it has become apparent that "breaking even" was not what was going to happen, and actually the farm is becoming very financially lucrative. Again, this is all based on personal needs and desires. Certainly if you set out with the goal to have a commercial production farm then making a financial return is the goal. Many people practicing permaculture to know where their food comes from and feed their family will be quite happy and successful "breaking even" from a money perspective, and still be able to pursue their chosen passion for working for money, as I do. It has never been my dream to be a full time farmer, or even run a commercial farm. This requires many many things beyond just having a love for permaculture and your land, and is a full time demanding business. My personal passion is to help other establish permaculture farms of their own, and share all of my experience, both successes and failures. What drives me, is the goal to cover as much Physical land as possible with permaculture based food systems, supporting a more resilient community, and creating models that help forward the Permaculture movement. I am able to make a comfortable income doing this, which gives me money to "create whatever". I know this was a long response, but this is a very important subject to me, and I think it's integral to spread the message that Permaculture comes in many shapes and sizes, it is a way of life, there is no right or wrong way to do it, and each individual will find how it can blend with their life circumstances and bring more joy and abundance however that works for them. Thanks for your comment, I think this is a very interesting subject to discuss as we all search for ways to make our world a better place!
Pronounced Gra Michelle
Love the gardening content, not a fan of the music.
Thanks! I’ve never had a complaint on music, that’s a first.