In this episode we finally finish the fence and are so pleased with the results. We also document the events of the forest fire.
Food Forest Begins: • Turning our ABANDONED ...
Building a Fence Part 1: • HOMESTEAD in the MOUNT...
Recently we planted our first food forest. A masterful step forwards for our homestead, a thing of dreams soon to be a luscious forest, laden with fruit, berries, and everything our family would need to survive. However, just like everything we try on this mountain, it all started to go spectacularly wrong when the mountain beasts decided to descend up it and create destruction. The jabali dug up all the small trees, broke down terraces, and used our apricots as scratching posts.
Week in week out we’ve been trying new methods to keep them out, then this week, the straw that broke the camels back, the mouflon broke in and nibbled the branches off pretty much every tree in the forest. We have had enough, the mountain beasts are about to get a serious shock, we’re going to build a proper fence, we’re talking galvanised steel posts, tensioned steel, fancy expensive fasteners, concrete, something that could stop an elephant.
00:00 Intro
02:41 Wooden fence for the pond
12:38 Removing an old fence
18:02 Creating a new terrace for fruit trees!
19:59 Making an almond wood bench
20:53 FOREST FIRE
29:31 Continuing the fence
33:34 Toad in the garden
34:10 Emilia’s compost factory
36:01 Planting new trees
36:48 Using mouflon poo & Mycorrhizae
39:59 Finding a rare frog
40:24 Finishing the wooden bench
44:08 Finishing touches
46:47 Final reveal
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