Yes !

+1 this idea!

This would be a more time consuming production, or it would need more planning and later editing, and who knows how often the interns change, that act as camera person. He uploads the videos ad free and is busy. so doing it on one occasion and they are done with collecting the footage is the easier way to go. But I agree, I would be interesting.

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Seems really good for the chickens also so a very big win-win

This is really helpful to know! I'm researching having land/horses, and manure larvae are a concern of mine...

Hilarious.

Geoff already had that connection, that you put the land (and ponds) to good use ;) Sepp Holzer from Austria had that motivation too. He grew up on a mountain farm (160 days with freezing temps, and 50 days where the temps never go above freezing point - and that is RECENT, I think it must have been more severe in the 1950s. Mostly dairy). 1 hour walk to school (and 90 minutes or more uphill in the afternoon. Winter, rain or heat). Sepp Holzer is now into his His mother had a vegetable garden and he was fascinated when he was able to grow something. then his (very strict) father gave him a very meagre steap plot of land. Steep, lots of stones, little water, he did not care to make hay there, and you could not let cattle in there they would have destablized the hill. And goats were not kept. This was not done - so the Holzer family did not do it. you also can't have chickens out there unsupervised - the birds of prey might get them. He realized that his father had given him the plot because he did not like to mow it with a skythe (the land nearby was manually mowed by humans and the cows crazed higher up or in the difficult spots and foraged for their fodder). So he extended the area he "leased" from his father by putting stones in the meadow adjacent to it. Then it gets harder to mow. Sure enough, his father ruined one of the skythes and was done with it and little Joseph (Sepp is the short form of Joseph) got an even larger allotment for his projects. Kids did not get an allowance, but their godfather or godmother gave them a little money in the holiday season and his father made him pay a "symbolic" lease for the land he was given. He had no water there, so he already and instinctively tried to "manage" water. That lead to a detection (happy accident) how to rehome a larger tree and after some time. The uprooted sapling he had seen had been out for a while and until Sepp got around to planting it it had already lost his leaves. Sepp was told the tree would not make it, but he planted it nontheless and he could not water it, there was no water nearby. But some morning fog, dew (nights are always cooler there even during hot "spells") maybe it rained. The tree losing the leaves was the saving grace and not watering it was crucial (or very little if the area is semi arid). That forces the tree to invest big time into roots and to establish itself. A tree can survive for a while w/o leaves. Sure it cannot do photosynthesis, but if there is not much water, except moist soil, whatever reserves the tree has, will go into growth of roots, not new leaves. So 2 - 3 weeks later the little tree showed the first new leaves and indicated that it was alive, and busy dealing with the shock and establishing itself. It also had to deal with the slope and relative lack of water (runoff, soil at that place did not have much water retention) by building deep roots. Which of course secures the slope and improves the water situation for other plants and builds biomass. He realized that strawberries were more sweet when they grew nearby a larger stone that half peeked out of the earth (heat retention, warmer micro climate). This is a principle he also used for instance making ponds for fish and cray at higher altitude and planting trees, bushes as windscreen. The moved large rocks into it that catch solar energy and increase the temperature in the pond - at least in certain niches of the pond. Which improves survival of young fish. In a time when the tradidionally working farmers (manual work, no machines, they had horses if they were lucky for ploughing and transport). were pushed to "modern" methods and use of machines. But the new methods were top down, technocratic and often failed - and more so in their region because it is more extreme. So the young farmer (he took over at age 20) fell back on his childhood experiences after a few years. he must be a stubborn man, and he was not afraid of being considered "weird" by doing things differently. He had learned as boy that you observe things that create niches in that harsh environment and provide better growing conditions - and then you try to copy that (with a tweak to achieve more yield for humans).

I'm on the phone to the authorities right now!

Just spray the area with organic disinfectant every 4 days

They make a hell of a racket though...

@Claire, That sounds like paradise!! Can I ask, do you copasture species together and which ones do well Grazing In The Same space?

From what I understand, it decreases parasite load in many cases. Like he was saying in the video, they stopped having tick problems when the chickens came in with the goats.

Bill Mollison said in his book something about certain animals not following chickens because they can get liver fluke. But I have since learned from Pat Coleby that sulphur and copper in the diet can assist with internal parasite management.

Sheep and cows are end species for parasites that affect the other, from what I understand. Move cows and then bring in the sheep. Cow parasites die in the sheep and vice versa. The rotation provides better forage and healthier critters. Don't let the cows graze too low or there might be problems. Greg Judy discusses a lot of this.

@@cletushatfield8817 Joel Salatin talks a lot about it too

@@nessav7258 That’s true, she talks about it in her book.

use a water though. just move them around or have many.

Pigs are very good for clearing overgrown ground. They root below the soil and manure the area too. Pigs are actually better than goats for clearing ground

It’s not just the matted leaves that keep weeds from growing it’s also the thick root structure that prevents other plants growing

The chickens will survive on plants and bugs alone. No need for grains.

@@herodotusofhalicarnasis2394 but they weren't in the video, Geoff fed them from the red container. That's what I was referring to.

@@ricos1497 I think he was trying to enticing the goats up with the fodder from the red bin

@@stevewest9327 that was exactly what he was attempting to do, get the goats to come up to him! So he reached into the red bin and grabbed some fodder

I wonder about this too. I think that the size of the field and the herd reflect the difference. In Allan Savory's method, you use massive herds and manage them the way predators would. As I understand, he is talking about thousands of animals on hundreds of acres and they are not used year round. Each case is different, but the goal there is to return a land to productivity after it is has been reduced to desert, not necessarily for permaculture at smaller scale.

Manure

Beauty, transport (especially now with the price of fuel) leisure, fun, manure, ploughing paddocks, the list goes on.

One use he has for it is a wind break. Haven't heard him mention other uses.

The variety in the video is called Oldhamii. It is a clumping non spreading variety that is great for shade, screens, has edible shoots, can be used for building things.

@@rorymagnatheredking yes. I know it well. I had bambusa olhami in my back yard in Long Beach California. It made a great privacy screen between my back yard and the 3-story apartment building next door. In 5years it was 60 ft tall.