The secret with forest gardening: prepare a small piece of land, put down various seeds for food (vegetables including onions and tomatoes) you use regularly at home as long as they are healthy for you. Don't try to nurse ones that are struggling, rather capitalise on the ones that are flourishing and ditch the struggling ones; at the same time start a small nursery of fruit, medicinal trees and herbs. Onces they are grown at enough height to get sunshine in your vegetable garden, bring them in into within your vegetable garden and replace the ones that don't do well with what does well. This will build up your food forest quickly. I like to eat from my food forest very quickly. Bananas ans papaya will produce fruits quite fast. And cassava is usually of less care.
Here's a thoughtful question: How do you balance out not planting trees before they want to be there with the idea that if you had them in and they're there waiting as soon as you drop those row 4 pigeon peas the stuff will explode in growth hopefully? Where is the give and take there? I think for me I'll do maybe one big row on the new property fully planted, then the rest just do like this.... low pressure, let nature guide a bit more, not as big of a rush. I just really want to see the bananas and eucalyptus and support species all really showing off within a year or two here.... but I really also want to keep in mind the point is to get food! And if I can do that along the way it makes it even more exciting. I'm renting land and not owning it, so a lot of the times things happen and I have to leave what I've started within a year or two.... so I'm really wanting to utilize these principles economically as well.
Thank you for sharing, in my first syntropic system here, I basically planted napier grass with bracharia, planted a cover crop hodge podge in the rows for chop and drop.... and then went straight into eucalyptus , banana, gliricidia, leucaena, mexican sunflower, pineapples etc. I think I took more of a food forest approach and missed out on cycle leading/building, and placenta 1 and 2 and understanding the advanced consortiums and options in syntropic agroforestry. I had a lot of success, but those are the areas I can improve upon the most.
Thanks for the video. I’m going to look into the course to understand the terminology used in the video. I live in a completely different climate as you, high desert southwest US, but many of of the principals must be transferable.
I love this stuff, watching this video again. After thinking about my system and watching yours here, I think my thinking is how can I get more food production out of p1 and the lead in phase. How can I set up that I'm making money within 6-9 months on selling crops out of a system like this in Kenya so that I can show feasibility faster instead of waiting several years for production.... especially in areas where soil is already fairly rich
Indeed, there is a system to this....and to start reaping as soon as possible...the first step is to have a physical plan of your farm. Then identify the various layers (with knowledge of maturity timelines) such that you can actually start having produce in as little as 3-4 weeks, especially if you are in a rainy area. It will be fairly intense as you will need to have several components running concurrently but the positive will be sharing of resources. A little technical knowledge of diseases and pests will be necessary, but the attitude of letting strugglers go also works. All the best.
Thanks Scott, really informative video mate, I'm going to try the pigeon peas and see how they go between my little banana patch to build up that biomass and get me a couple of rows going, I grow my own veges but this syntropic way of gardening has me on the hook, you just don't know what you don't know, everything will happen, all in good time
Congratulations Scott. Just to be clear, the main breakthrough is the discovery that you don't have to push for trees. You can add later, even in placenta II when you make a pruning and they will bust into the system. Is that correct?
Hey Roger, the main gist is the cycles and their consolidation. There are important phases that must complete for better things to follow from, and awareness and husbanding of this is key
I'm in Kenya and really trying to learn more and up my syntropic knowledge. I've been putting all the free videos I can find into practice, best I can, but looking forward to being able to learn more formally later when finance and time allows
Check out the soil food web by dr elaine ingham and the BEAM compost system by Dr Johnson, will rock your world and open up new possibilities and understanding of the whole plant world.
@@mirsidorov5112 Totally agree, I've watched her lectures for years and am familiar with jonhson-su bioreactor I'm actually in a course in Kenya right now that is affiliated with that school. I've been glad to get a partial scholarship but still not at a point where I can go all in to the SFW school at the moment, but I'm very much looking forward to that.
@@syntropia_regenerator Hey Scott, I really appreciate that. I emailed you about a week ago, just wanted to let you know that I followed up ... still waiting on a reply. Very kind of you
Looks like you will be safe in the future. I just missed more diversification of plants for the emergent and high plants, and hardwood for retirement as an investment
Have not watched you before. We do a similar thing. Pigeon peas and QLD arrowroot were our base . We have a lot of bananas. But my question to you is would things work like they are currently if we go back into serious drought? The last 7-8 months have been the best growing season with huge amounts of rain. Our bananas were decimated when we bought this place because they had no irrigation and had been a two year drought.
ua-cam.com/video/i-_T96hwhYg/v-deo.htmlsi=yGiR_s4NIg229zDB This was the 2019 drought and the bananas did well but the bunches were smaller. They are on each side of the zucchini
The secret with forest gardening: prepare a small piece of land, put down various seeds for food (vegetables including onions and tomatoes) you use regularly at home as long as they are healthy for you. Don't try to nurse ones that are struggling, rather capitalise on the ones that are flourishing and ditch the struggling ones; at the same time start a small nursery of fruit, medicinal trees and herbs. Onces they are grown at enough height to get sunshine in your vegetable garden, bring them in into within your vegetable garden and replace the ones that don't do well with what does well. This will build up your food forest quickly. I like to eat from my food forest very quickly. Bananas ans papaya will produce fruits quite fast. And cassava is usually of less care.
Thanks for the update Scott! Keep up the good work :)
There's a lot of things in here that will change how I farm in the next few years
Here's a thoughtful question: How do you balance out not planting trees before they want to be there with the idea that if you had them in and they're there waiting as soon as you drop those row 4 pigeon peas the stuff will explode in growth hopefully? Where is the give and take there? I think for me I'll do maybe one big row on the new property fully planted, then the rest just do like this.... low pressure, let nature guide a bit more, not as big of a rush. I just really want to see the bananas and eucalyptus and support species all really showing off within a year or two here.... but I really also want to keep in mind the point is to get food! And if I can do that along the way it makes it even more exciting. I'm renting land and not owning it, so a lot of the times things happen and I have to leave what I've started within a year or two.... so I'm really wanting to utilize these principles economically as well.
Thank you for sharing, in my first syntropic system here, I basically planted napier grass with bracharia, planted a cover crop hodge podge in the rows for chop and drop.... and then went straight into eucalyptus , banana, gliricidia, leucaena, mexican sunflower, pineapples etc. I think I took more of a food forest approach and missed out on cycle leading/building, and placenta 1 and 2 and understanding the advanced consortiums and options in syntropic agroforestry. I had a lot of success, but those are the areas I can improve upon the most.
Thanks for sharing the importance of observation, and adapting what we plant and how we manage our agroforestry systems for our unique circumstances.
Thanks for sharing your experiences Brother ✌
Place looks real good 👍
Thanks for the video. I’m going to look into the course to understand the terminology used in the video. I live in a completely different climate as you, high desert southwest US, but many of of the principals must be transferable.
Yes they are transferable
Great work, Scott. Great video, thanks.
I love this stuff, watching this video again. After thinking about my system and watching yours here, I think my thinking is how can I get more food production out of p1 and the lead in phase. How can I set up that I'm making money within 6-9 months on selling crops out of a system like this in Kenya so that I can show feasibility faster instead of waiting several years for production.... especially in areas where soil is already fairly rich
Indeed, there is a system to this....and to start reaping as soon as possible...the first step is to have a physical plan of your farm. Then identify the various layers (with knowledge of maturity timelines) such that you can actually start having produce in as little as 3-4 weeks, especially if you are in a rainy area.
It will be fairly intense as you will need to have several components running concurrently but the positive will be sharing of resources. A little technical knowledge of diseases and pests will be necessary, but the attitude of letting strugglers go also works. All the best.
Thanks Scott, really informative video mate, I'm going to try the pigeon peas and see how they go between my little banana patch to build up that biomass and get me a couple of rows going, I grow my own veges but this syntropic way of gardening has me on the hook, you just don't know what you don't know, everything will happen, all in good time
Congratulations Scott. Just to be clear, the main breakthrough is the discovery that you don't have to push for trees. You can add later, even in placenta II when you make a pruning and they will bust into the system. Is that correct?
Hey Roger, the main gist is the cycles and their consolidation. There are important phases that must complete for better things to follow from, and awareness and husbanding of this is key
@@syntropia_regenerator got it. Thanks for the clarification. I can feel your enthusiasm. Super happy for you!
Great projet!!!
Great update thanks Scott :)
I'm in Kenya and really trying to learn more and up my syntropic knowledge. I've been putting all the free videos I can find into practice, best I can, but looking forward to being able to learn more formally later when finance and time allows
Contact me for free access
Check out the soil food web by dr elaine ingham and the BEAM compost system by Dr Johnson, will rock your world and open up new possibilities and understanding of the whole plant world.
@@mirsidorov5112 Totally agree, I've watched her lectures for years and am familiar with jonhson-su bioreactor
I'm actually in a course in Kenya right now that is affiliated with that school. I've been glad to get a partial scholarship but still not at a point where I can go all in to the SFW school at the moment, but I'm very much looking forward to that.
@@syntropia_regenerator Hey Scott, I really appreciate that. I emailed you about a week ago, just wanted to let you know that I followed up ... still waiting on a reply. Very kind of you
@@TheVigilantStewards I saw that. When I’m back on my laptop I’ll sort it. Could you please email me again? This will help me
Looks like you will be safe in the future. I just missed more diversification of plants for the emergent and high plants, and hardwood for retirement as an investment
@@arcanoime they’re coming
Looking great 👌
inspiring again:) great work!
Love your work, Scott, really fascinating. Would love to come work with you in the future. I believe we live fairly close to each other.
Have not watched you before. We do a similar thing. Pigeon peas and QLD arrowroot were our base . We have a lot of bananas. But my question to you is would things work like they are currently if we go back into serious drought? The last 7-8 months have been the best growing season with huge amounts of rain. Our bananas were decimated when we bought this place because they had no irrigation and had been a two year drought.
ua-cam.com/video/i-_T96hwhYg/v-deo.htmlsi=yGiR_s4NIg229zDB
This was the 2019 drought and the bananas did well but the bunches were smaller. They are on each side of the zucchini
Do you have issues with subterranean masti termites.? A major hurdle for us in NT.
Not here, no
What zone are you there?
@@michaelbrewer1472 subtropical
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Mate where is this?
@@BetterWorldEcosystems Gold Coast Australia
But ... Do you have corm weevils? 😅
@@PassTheGreenPlox no
@@syntropia_regenerator wild. It's hard to keep em off the bananas in Hawai'i
@@PassTheGreenPlox oh yes, we actually do have them. They’re not a problem at the farm, we call the “the beetle”
Pigeon peas ❤
Not my cup of tea but thanks for sharing some useful information
Could you do coffee there ?
Yes, coffee will go well after around 3 years of accumulation
Otherwise you could fertilise and speed things up
@@syntropia_regenerator awesome thats big income generator.
Are you never afraid of getting bitten by a snake in that under story? 😅
No, they hear me coming from miles away
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No real need for lax
Ck of food or beauty anywhere. Choices