I would love to see how the ponds respond after a big rain...

Love seeing a variety of locations with your systems installed. Would be cool to have more information regarding the different levels of the Syntropic systems and why.

I came over from Byron’s channel, I like your passion for environmental regeneration & native plants while producing food. Keep it up dude! 👍🏼

I hope they didnt get any flood damge in their home.

Looks great! That’s an amazing upgrade

Great video I’ve been doing this daily for two months! It works amazing! In place composting to start my system. Restores a area really quickly with lots of brown mulch

too much effort to reveal your long term annual rainfall ?

Use aloe in your water for hydrophobic soil.

Yes, having a resilient food forest is nice, however, wouldn't you want to double your production by supplying water to it all year long instead? I have 2 thousand drippers around my food forest keeping things moist all year long and things grow like crazy all the time. By the way, you should "tip" your mangoes to get more bushy trees instead of lanky ones. They'll use less water, produce more, and be less prone to a hurricanes knocking them down.

Don’t u guys get enormous amount of rain. Don’t irrigate and what I can see u get around 52 inches. I know a guy who doesn’t irrigate and gets only 16 inches. Those in the desert get under half that again. So if u do get 52 inches then it’s really not worth a mention. Please let me know if I have this information correct?

My canna edulis has mostly tennis ball sized tubers. You can eat them raw or cooked. They are very fibrous (especially on the outside) and don't have much flavor. Slow roasted they do get a little sweetness but still very mild. I think the best way to use it is to blend with water, sieve out the fibers and use the starch water as a thickener in foods.

It looks great! How old is your starfruit? And, what about Tamarind? Have you had fruit on the Tamarind? Here in our corner of Northeast Florida, we've barely had any rain this past year....with the exception of when Hurricane Milton stopped by. We don't have irrigation either, so we've added 4 rain barrels.

Love it! Wish i had a property like this. So gorgeous.

Have you experimented making biochar to help the water retention of your soil? It can be made in an open pit, or from a pile of brush no need for oil drum burners and the like. In the open pit method, you start a small fire of twigs at the bottom of your pit (circular is optimal), then as soon as white ash appears on the surface of the fire, you add a thin layer of sticks. Repeat process until pit is full or fuel exhausted, then extinguish the fire thoroughly by hose. Pile method is where you start the fire at the top of your brush pile, then after it is established, you hose the surface flames down lightly, to push the fire down through the pile. Once the entire pile has turned to red embers, you can extinguish it.

Great idea, and your compost looks amazing 😊

did you ever hear of the YT channel Florida natural farming? They have a completely non irrigated food forests and he grows citrus, garcinias, mangoes, and like I think he says he grows like 105 different verities of fruit trees or something crazy like that. The only thing is his system is definitely less of a permaculture based system than yours but still has some really great dry farming ideas.

Where are you?

Do you do any pruning in winter at this site since you have irrigation?

What varieties of bananas are you growing?

Good stuff, keep it up Kevin!

Are you planning on coming to any temperate regions like the UK?

Great advice and method for managing these tall banana varieties. Another option for beginners or people more intimidated by these varieties is to select a variety that won't grow as tall, if it's available to you of course.

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is ok to plant them too close to each other (avocadoes)?

I got a new project Kevin, going to use a lot of banana bio mass as well.

just found iut the property im growing on has a lot of brazilian pepper. just pruned some for mulch. i read they were somewhat toxic. that doesn’t pose a problem for what im growing around it does it?

I'm glad you don't kill the LC ants either. Since I moved here to the Yucatan five years ago my neighbors also have been telling us to kill them but I cannot. I love them. Beautiful property, wow.

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What is the best way to contact you personally

I’m super excited to watch the update!

Thank you for sharing this video and introducing luis to us, much love to both of you, feeling super blessed to be connected to such amazing human beings🙏

Is utilizing the cashew nuts instead of the fruit not a lucrative idea. Cashews are not cheap.

59:44 loved checking out your place with you! The knowledge and efforts will help generations to come! ❤

24:06 I always forget to mention this but this is for anybody that deals with the windy climate great way to actually keep your mulch from blowing away is using Pineneedles strangely enough their interlocking pattern really holds things together and does not let anything underneath it blow away I said a couple bigger rocks on top of those as well as a few sticks on the edges and we don’t have stuff blow away anymore

22:15 exactly there’s no wrong answers in agriculture I’m already looking to fix things that I messed up this year next year 😂

22:04 I have a suggestion, Geoff Lawton inspired.. maybe focus on the hat, the skirt, the boots of the land. There’s a lot of ways to capture things at the top mid levels and the bottom. I only say this because I realized a few weeks ago how much material I’m losing out on by not going from the outside of my property towards the inside we lose probably 45% of our resources on the skirts of our property and I’ve always really focused on the areas that I chose to focus on But instead I’ve really been trying to fix areas and create new niches I recently installed a few swells a few rock dams stick catchment centers I am also utilizing the same thing as you with putting logs on the ground to help slow the flow of water and capture things on hilly sides and I’ve really been trying to plan areas that have Highwinds to capture organic matter or utilize random bits of wood scraps to basically make catchments I think the property looks amazing I just had noticed a significant difference in our property once we started focusing on particular areas doing what nature needs done rather than what I want to get done I’m out here in Oklahoma hilly landscape so it’s not at all the beautiful climate that this is in. But definitely also learning that timing things with seasons light patterns water patterns has really made a difference and for the first few years I was taking taking taking and not returning to certain spots and the last few months we’ve been returning to those spots and not taking anything just adding from another source or chop and drop in place. I believe the reason that that works is a healthy forest that has fires and other natural disasters has different aged areas so that’s why after you get the flow right. Which is getting those in place chop and drops until those areas recover and then alternating in videos I’ve seen people say they take from an area and then they drop in place back to that area the other time and they alternate however I think it would be best if we replicate natural systems and sometimes leave it for three and plays Chopin drops and then one and then two and then maybe five kind of like rotational grazing done properly where you’re not just owning 52 acres of land breaking it up in to 52 areas and each week the cows move to a different area instead do a better plan where they stay on one plot for three weeks and maybe they stay on another plot for a week some plots get a 90 day rest whereas other plots might get 250 days of rest. Another thing that made a huge difference I’ve been doing natural farming for three years that’s what even got me into this but it clicked in my brain after watching the weedy garden that lactic acid bacteria or lab it’s probably one of the best things you can use to really jumpstart life in the soil and allow things to thrive beyond belief. Areas that just no matter what I did would not take off when I applied lactic acid bacteria last week things are going crazy I’m doing my second application later tonight

1:40 yeah here in Oklahoma there are still native tribes that burn to this day it’s just much more complicated now because they have to go through five different branches of local and federal government

Hi Kevin, thanks for the extended video from Honduras. I was wondering how you put Guazuma ulmifolia out into your syntropic rows? By seed or by cuttings? I know they got a lot of seeds, but do you by any case know if cuttings work too? As I did not collect seeds during the dry season, but wanted to have it as a service tree....

great video, gave me lots of ideas. I'm sure once the benefits of this method become more tangible the community will take note. Was wondering about the reasoning behind the lemon grass. What are the pros and cons as opposed to napier/bana etc grass in your oppinion?

Loving the videos!! Been watching em all!

can you sell any achiote seeds

I have been adding activated charcoal powder to my bottle of pee, it’s an easy habit to start. Great content btw.

Hey Kevin Did Luis say it was 2 acre site? Or that 2 acres burned? Looks bigger. Thanks.

The garden looks awesome thanks for sharing Mashaa Allah

Great video, I just can’t hardly hear you.

I’m excited to watch all your videos. Watch the progress ❤

Looks alive! Keep it up Kevin. Proud of u. ❤

There's always "tree-age" in agroforestry 😆

awesome work, keep it up!

Mate keep posting please !! cheers from Reunion island