Leucaena: Permaculture miracle tree! chop not drop.
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- This tree Leucaena wil form a big part of my perma culture plans. Not only as a chop and drop tree but to feed livestock feed the land and suply shade and wood to the people and animals. #namibia #otjiwarongo #permaculture #africa #foodforest #chopanddrop #namibia
Called a wonderboom in #afrikaans this is a must have tree for your permaculture project.
Your English is fine. Prickly pear (Opuntia) fruit are called tunas and the leaf pads are called nopales. Since they are primarily native to Mexico and the North American deserts (most of which used to be part of Mexico) the names for the prickly pear fruits and pads are in Spanish. To eat the fruits and pads they must be peeled first. The pads cut up into thin strips and fried taste like tart green beans. Watch out for the fine hairs called glochids! They can burrow into the skin and are worse than the spines. Your leucaena gets a lot taller than the leucaena retusa (yellow flowers that bloom after every rain) I am going to growing from seed to provide organics and small trees/shrubs for my yard. I live in Kentucky USA and the conditions here are the opposite of yours. We get 1.2 meters of precipitation/year and are USDA Zone 7 which means we have four seasons with fairly mild winters with snow and warm/hot humid summers. My part of the USA except for farms and towns is deciduous forest full of nut trees with streams, lakes and lots of wildlife.
Your house is nice. Very practical for the desert. $150/month or $150,000/total price? I live in a modest two bedroom two bath Craftsman house made of wood with a full basement on 0.6 acres of land in a fairly rural area. My home cost me $75,000 and I put an additional $27,000 into it to upgrade the electrical and water/plumbing systems which ranged in age from 60 - 102 years old. Realistically, my home is worth $100,000 now. In the USA the cost of homes is dependent on a lot of factors - one of which is location. In built up urban areas and vacation sites the prices can be totally outrageous!
Leucaena is also called "stinky beans". The beans and leaves are edible. The beans are consumed by people in places like India. In North America we have a lot of desert and parts of Texas are very hot and arid. I have been trying to find legume/bean trees and shrubs suitable for my area because my soil is made up of chunks of sandstone and clay. I need more organic material in my soil. At least it drains well! I noticed your yard doesn't have any decorative plants in it. One plant you might consider growing is bauhinia lunaroides which is a small bauhinia tree with white flowers. Once established it doesn't need to be watered. I am going to be growing it from seed. Bauhinia (orchid tree) has edible seeds, flowers and beans. Normally, Bauhinias are grown in the lush tropics where there is a lot of rain. Bauhinia lunaroides is adapted to arid conditions.
One plant that is really worth having around and would do well in Namibia is aloe vera in a pot placed in a bit of shade since it is so sunny where you are. It is a succulent and great for placing on cuts, scrapes, up to 2nd degree burns and sun burn. The aloe vera gel is very cooling. I fell and got deep scrapes on my palms. I applied aloe vera gel and the scrapes healed quickly without scars.
I'm from Irvine, California. $450 will allow you to rent a small closet in a storage warehouse. A 1 bedroom apartment will cost $3000 (yes, three thousand dollars) per month. So if you hear about crazy high salaries over this way, know that most of it goes for rent, health & automobile insurance, and car payments. P.S. I'm starting a permaculture farm in our local desert ...40 acres. Will put in drip irrigation this year. Good blessings to you! KH
Awesome! Nice to hear from you! I though about it yesterday, i support 17 families but my take home is about what a minimum wage Macdonald worker make in the USA . On the other side that money takes me allot further than it would in the USA.
From the uk. Have watched a few of your videos this afternoon. Your climate and conditions are obviously very different from what we have over here. Like your balance of plan, do, review and repeat (or if doesn’t work) change. From a social aspect the support of local families, not just through employment but also education (not just digging holes but learning new skills eg basic surveying techniques) is impressive. Thank you sir for sharing this.
Thank you for your comment! It means a lot to me to hear from people on the other side of the world. It really gives me motivation to continue!
@@thefoodforestnamibia as they say in the uk….go for it youth. Best wishes to you, your family and your team of working partners!
Wonderful tour, thanks for sharing
Thank you! I newer asked, where are you from?
In the US, we use the same word for that cactus: prickly pear. Here in West Virginia, there is one native species of prickly pear, that I am trying to propagate for my yard. They are small, so you can't use them for fences or barriers, but they are the only cactus that is winter-hardy in my area of the US, where the winters are too cold for most cacti.
The fruits from our native prickly pears are good eating, though. The little seeds are hard as steel and will crack your teeth, but if you mash the fruits, they make a fantastic fruit juice.
great stuff man keep on growing , we need more people like you !!!
Wonderful tour, thanks for sharing. We have 2 types of prickly pear. We have about 7 different cactus on our property that are native. Rabbits are really wrecking prickly pear.
Try roasting the dark dried seeds then grind them and use them as a coffee substitute. In English the plant you were protecting is generally called a cactus and its fruit is called prickly pear. Where do you source your water on your land?
Currently we depend on rain water and water from the municipal systems
Have you tried the coffee?
I appreciate the tour of your farm. I had a farm in West Virginia for 10 years, and we had goats. At one point we had 22 goats. I really enjoyed them - they are very smart and personable animals.
My pleasure. Why are you no longer on the farm? Do you miss it?
We have similar trees in the East Coast of the United States. They are considered ornamental and they don't have thorns. We call them Honey Locust trees. I think they are in the legume family. We also have a native relative of Honey Locust called Locust trees, and they do have thorns. Locust trees have wood that is almost rot resistant, so over here, farmers use the wood to make fence posts for their fields.
I see the honey locust trees named allot in videos. This one is very prone to rotting but still a very useful tree.
I really enjoyed the video and learning about cultures inside of Namibia.
Love the horses and sheep. It's wonderful that your wife is teaching kids about horsemanship as it is a valuable art which also offers great mental health bonuses.
We've had sheep since April 22 and love them very much. Soon it will be that tough time to harvest some of them. Before raising our own, we bought lambs from 4H kids at the Junior Auction. Love improves the flavor.
Here in NE Arizona, we can add 5 more feet of pitched roof to our shipping container barn for $500 if we do it ourselves.
Interesting video, thank you. Watching from the southern bank of the Orange River, so, neighbours in a way.
Is the invasive thorn tree called the presopis? We have it here as a problem too, though the seedpods are great fodder. The wood makes great fire wood, even braai wood, though not as good as Namibian hardwood.
I'm interested in your permaculture videos as you do it from a dryland perspective.
Hi we have presopis here as well but mostly in the locations etc. The one on the video is sekelbos and swarthak.
So gratefull that you like my videos. Are you also doing sone permaculture things there?
@@thefoodforestnamibia I am trying to influence in that direction, against a lifetime experience of conventional growing, but I have made some headway😅
Also have the problem of every sprouting green veg being eaten up by birds or rodents - our friends near Keetmanshoop put everything under net to protect it: the fruit trees and the veg, only the citrus they could grow "free range".
Thanks! It is so fascinating to see your corner of the world. We have prickly pear cactus here too.
I'm so sorry about some of your land being confiscated 😢. I would be so upset.
It was so cool seeing all the things you are doing on your land.
In Australia $500 would buy you the dunny and handbasin for the bathroom. Pleased to have found your channel, I am always interested in other. cultures
So glad you are here! Thank you for watching
preckly pear in my languge is aknary morocco
What language do you speak?
About 2 months worth of groceries for a family of 4 will run 400-500$ USD
Interesting!
Thanks man! Are you from Namibia?
@@thefoodforestnamibia Pretoria.
That house was beautiful. In my area in phoenix, that house would be atleast $500,000, probably more.
Probably $2500/month to rent...
So cool to know. I am. Always surprised at the differences in our lives. We have maybe 5 houses in our town above 500 000 usd. And then the biggest most expensive house in town is currently up for rent for 2069 usd.
Thanks for sharing!! Looking forward to future vids. In Greece, for 550usd, it would be a about 50% smaller place that you can rent.
Cool man. Where is greece are you and do you also do some permaculture things?
Prickly pear, hulle noem dit "drooping pear" in Wes Australië.
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Can you feed the seeds to chickens
You can feed some, but the plant contains a poison called mimosine altought they can eat allot and be OK and I have not yet killed chickens by feeding them leucaena I would strongly suggest doing some research before doing it yourself
Haven’t you got a chainsaw.😂
That would for sure make life easier 😂😂😂
Wat se tipe skape is die?
$550 for a big house like that? You couldn't even make a single month's payment on a house that size here in the States! Of course, the downside is that you get a nice house in an area where there's no real work and lots of two-legged jackals that you have to think about.
The price actually lowered. We could not find tenants so the owner agreed to lower the price. The tenants are now paying $350per month to rent it. It is always amazing to me if I see the shows one what people spend per week. For instance I've seen people pay 6usd for a coffee. For me I can feed my wife and three kids a very good meal with that...
@@thefoodforestnamibia You're absolutely right. And I use stories like yours to illustrate all that's gone wrong in the Western Nations. People ask how things could be so cheap over your way, but I point out how Namibia doesn't have even a 1/10th of the taxes, regulations, laws, unions, and other things that unnecessarily drive up the cost of doing business, and thus drive up the cost of living for people.
In 1900, people in the US could a ton with just $6. In 1950, those same people could do a lot less, but still orders of magnitude more than they can today. So what changed? All you have to do is look at the ungodly increase in the amount of taxes, regulations, laws, and whatnot that every business has to deal with. Add insane levels of immigration that increase the demand for a limited supply, and it's no wonder the costs are through the roof and poverty is climbing.
Folks refuse to admit it, though. They don't want to acknowledge that all the things they thought were good ideas were really naught more than a slow destruction of what was once good.
@@threeriversforge1997 it feels like there is two factions in the permaculture world when it comes to this. The pro socialism kind and the free market capitalist kind. I lean towards the free market capitalism model as is believe everyone should forge their own path and that we should have the smallest government possible. Even if you take something like buildings. I can't even put a brick on top of another in the townships where it's all shacks without getting permission. If I build a corgated iron shack then they don't mind, if people crap in the bush they don't mind but if I want to build a toilet using bottles then it is the end of the world.
@@thefoodforestnamibia That's exactly how it starts. The people who work in the bureaucracy have to justify their jobs, and will work to protect their own employment, so they create a miniature fiefdom. That then grows like any other cancer. They demand your obedience because they know you'll obey the rules, and they'll crush you underfoot if you dare to try breaking free because they cannot allow you to set an example for others who might also be thinking as you're thinking.
In US history, and much of the Western Nations, there used to be such a thing as "tar and feathering" or "riding someone out of town on a rail". These were painful torments that sent a message to everyone - the politicians had to step lightly because they would feel very real and very personal retribution if they overstepped. Notice how ideas such as that have been carefully edited from common knowledge and folks have been taught to revile the behavior as though it was somehow crude and beneath what a civilized society should do? Yeah, that was intentional because it results in good people not wanting to be seen as not-good people by standing up for themselves. The end result is that the corrupt are left to do what they want because all the good people are too afraid to do what good people are supposed to do -- stand up.
Edmund Burke famously wrote, "All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." We are living in a time when good men have been taught that doing nothing is the good thing, the right thing, the proper behavior for good men. And we can see the results of that.
550 dollars a month ?
Hi yes rental is 550 per month on that house
Interesting video. I wanted to ask if you have the Ana tree in your area, and if so what is your opinion on it?
Hi yes we do have Ana trees here. Infact it is one of my favorite profile pictures on fb facebook.com/danouvr?mibextid=ZbWKwL it is also my mothers favorite tree. She grows them by simulating a elephants stomach. She rubs the eges of the seedsof with fine sanding paper and then have them in luke warm water for a week and then she plants them. They are one of our elephants favorite food and they grow better once they have gone through that process. If i remember correctly they are green in the winter when everything els dont have leaves. They give food to the animals in winter and times of drought. The seed pods are sweet and nutritious. The main reason i personaly dont grow them is becuase they like river beds and they dont grow as fast as i woild have loved.
If however i have a bigger piece of land one day i wil feed the pods to the cattle and that wil cause them to grow all. Over the farm.
@@thefoodforestnamibia Thanks for the information. I wasn't aware that the elephant was key to helping it to germinate, that's greatly appreciated information. The reason I'm asking is that I'm thinking to plant a few Ana trees on a desert property I have here in the state's. I've spent the last couple years researching the best plants to have that can survive in a dry, and arid environment. The Ana tree seems like the number one choice. From what I've found it can survive a light frost as well as long dry spells. The Ana tree could very well be a huge game changer for stopping desertification in heavily populated areas of the world.
@@never2late454 i wil see if i vlcan get my mother to make a video on how to sand them down and how to plant them. But yes i think i you plan for long term they are a awesome tree that the next generations wil be grateful for
@@thefoodforestnamibia A how to video would be great! Thanks.
Ever tried to feed the Ana tree seeds to chickens? May serve to "scarify" them.