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@MrRoots974 2 күн бұрын
Mate keep posting please !! cheers from Reunion island
@CF1091 13 күн бұрын
Looking as awesome as ever my friend, these update videos are always great to see
@thechief762 13 күн бұрын
Try rolling the okra in some olive oil to coat then seasoned salt, put in dehydrator. The best natural crunchy chips you've ever had. I took them to a party they were gone in minutes.
@rogueregenerativeagriculture 14 күн бұрын
Nice Thanks for the tour.. Amazing to see Florida systems..
@hertabuss289 15 күн бұрын
Nice video, as always! An idea for a future video would be to mention all the trees that do not like pruning (e.g. Native mahagony I think)
@roughgrousse247 16 күн бұрын
Beautiful!
@roughgrousse247 16 күн бұрын
What’s a China berry?
@mwnemo 17 күн бұрын
Kevin a pest control guy told me with wasps nest he just uses a long pole to knock down the nests. They won’t keep going back to the nest on the ground.
@BazethCamp 20 күн бұрын
Watching for support brother
@iu-mienhfuntv5418 20 күн бұрын
Thanks ❤🎉❤🎉❤😢❤🎉❤🎉
@mena2138 20 күн бұрын
amazing
@natebecerra9847 23 күн бұрын
Do you find north south rows better in florida or east west rows ?
@Kevin-Cruz 23 күн бұрын
Haven't noticed enough of a difference to have an opinion. That being said, I like the logic of North South rows. The Western sun is usually the harshest so you can strategically plant sun loving plants on the Western side of the system and shade loving plants on the Eastern side of the system. The North South orientation will act like a "wall" of vegetation from the Western sun...hope that makes sense.
@brittanyrogers4183 25 күн бұрын
Fennel helps with mosquitoes, dragonflies hover above the flower stalks and hunt all day.
@vietpham8456 26 күн бұрын
Just so amazing! Thanks you for the video and specific name out each individual plant.
@scottburgle2169 27 күн бұрын
Kevin. How do you cure then store yours sweet potatoes?
@hertabuss289 28 күн бұрын
Que diverso... Se ve genial ese sistema, ya despegó!! Una pregunta que me surge es, si en Honduras tienes esa variedad de plantas también? O es otro enfoque ahí? Y como harías/ haces para conseguirlas ahí? Saludos...
@Kevin-Cruz 27 күн бұрын
En Honduras la sistema es similar, tal vez no tan denso. Consigo muchas plantas y semillas por mis familiares del pueblo o en los senderos de las montañas. Tambien hay muchos arboles que nascen solos :)
@Braddy_Daddy 28 күн бұрын
System looks great!
@TheMarkvq Ай бұрын
Muy bueno
@devdeuce93 Ай бұрын
I always get motivated to plant more while watching these. Much love from southern California
@jpoornakumar5262 Ай бұрын
Hi, Kevin. What is the use of mahagani trees? With lots of love from India.
@Kevin-Cruz Ай бұрын
Mainly for native reforestation. If I am still on this property in 10 years I may harvest the wood as well.
@jpoornakumar5262 Ай бұрын
Thanks for the reply
@humanbeingnotahumandoing1 Ай бұрын
Thank you for the videos, definitely very helpful for the decision-making process. Enjoy your trip to oregon :)
@jeppeleth3888 Ай бұрын
very helpful:)
@merrickb9559 Ай бұрын
Love the decision making video. Thank you
@SANjeewascience Ай бұрын
Beautiful garden ❤
@izyrobin3022 Ай бұрын
Really appreciate this type of video:)
@dallassweet6182 Ай бұрын
first, love your vids
@mwnemo Ай бұрын
Kevin do you think Moutain Soursop has more cold tolerance than Atemoya/Cherimoya? I’ve been tempted to try them in Jacksonville. Mangos were killed two years ago during that bad freeze Christmas 2022. White Sapote and Sapodillas/Chico Sapote survived.
@giuseppeperilli8284 Ай бұрын
@@mwnemo they definitely can…from my research they can last to 24 degrees
@Kevin-Cruz Ай бұрын
Yes Mountain Soursops are fairly cold hardy compared to most tropical trees. I'm very impressed by these trees
@mwnemo Ай бұрын
My wife and I love Guanabana. I’ll have to order some from you. If you have any fruit that could pass for regular Guanabana in a shake. My mother in law makes a great jugo de Guanabana.
@brentsims9114 Ай бұрын
Im in jax and my mango was killed as well during the 2022 freeze! My sapodilla survived until a Rottweiler decided to dig it up 😭 Glad to hear other people here pushing grow zones
@giuseppeperilli8284 Ай бұрын
Those mountain soursops can survive anything. Flooding, cold, scorching heat with no protection. It’s an amazing species 🔥
@xJohnnyBloodx Ай бұрын
Damn this visual mod for green hell looks great!
@MarviRafaelMontecillo Ай бұрын
the mexican sunflowers are gone it seems... you're an inspiration Kev. altho i dont think this style of farming is profitable for small scale farming in the Philippines (sadly, food here is cheap and we need to go large scale with machineries if possible), i want to do this in a small area of my cacao farm (perhaps with ginger instead of turmeric)
@Kevin-Cruz Ай бұрын
Thanks man, it's definitely a labor of love. I would love to see more profitable versions of these systems as well. I'm glad there are farmers like you trying to figure it out!
@aidandavies7232 Ай бұрын
I've always known china berry as saringa. I never really considered using it as a support tree, but thinking about how bloody quickly it regrows, it makes alot of sense. I'm definitely going to use it now! They grow like mad in Cape town. Thanks for sharing 🎉
@humanbeingnotahumandoing1 Ай бұрын
Hi kevin, thanks for the video. I like the idea of using castor. Sorry for the question, but what does planting castor as a succession plant mean, in this context? You mentioned that it shares some similarities to the eucalypts, in the way that it grows very fast, vertically. Here in southwest andalucia, Spain it grows as a weed literally everywhere. Which surprises me, that it is able to thrive in our 4-6 months of no rain hot summer environment and also in florida with your very humid, monsoon like summer. And is there a particular reason why there are no eucalypts in this system in particular, because you mentioned them. (like climate conditions, too humid etc?)
@Kevin-Cruz Ай бұрын
An "Early Succession Plant" is any plant that grows extremely fast and can handle direct sun and crappy soil/growing conditions. They help shelter slower growing, more sensitive plants until they are no longer needed. Castor is an ideal early succession species and will be removed from the system in a few months when the Moringas are fully established. There are no Eucalyptus in this section mainly due to logistics and cost. There is no Eucalyptus industry where I live so sourcing it can be difficult. I am trialing Chinaberry (Melia azederach) as a cost effective alternative to Eucalyptus and so far I am liking the results.
@humanbeingnotahumandoing1 Ай бұрын
@@Kevin-Cruz thanks a lot for the detailed answer! Chinaberry is used as an ornamental here too on the streets, its very interesting that those plants grow in Florida and the southern iberian peninsula, even though they have got some different extremes of conditions. I am going to note that 🙏
@SerRegenera Ай бұрын
epic bro! amazing to see how you are arriving in lot of spaces with white patches of sugarsand converting them in beautiful food forest / agroforestry systems. Pura Vida
@Anythingforfreedom 2 ай бұрын
I'm impressed they let you plant fruit trees in a state park. I asked my local park if I could plant a few fruit trees and they said absolutely not.
@Kevin-Cruz 2 ай бұрын
So this is a private property located within the grounds of the state park but not technically part of the park.
@Anythingforfreedom 2 ай бұрын
@@Kevin-Cruz oh ok
@SaritasGarden33412 2 ай бұрын
Great video Kevin! I am curious about your plan for the fenceline after removing the mexican sunflower. What are you thinking of planting there next? Thanks for sharing the propagation tip I didn’t know that 👍.
@Kevin-Cruz 2 ай бұрын
I might try some lemongrass but I'm leaning towards leaving it mostly empty and using the space for access. Having clean and accessible fence lines make life much easier.
@Adnancorner 2 ай бұрын
You should try lemon grass instead of Mexican sunflower. The chopped material last fairly long. I live in Dubai and its hot and humid here even its a desert. if you have irrigation the plants grow real fast and bugs eat every leaf that fall under the plants. The lemongrass we had did really good and did not need a lot of chopping and dropping. It also helped in turning the sandy soil into brown fluffy soil, mind you we have saline sand here. for chop and drop lemon grass, napier grass should be the plant for your situation. If it falls into the neighbors you should definitely give a though about the plants I suggested. Thanks
@Kevin-Cruz 2 ай бұрын
Yes Lemongrass is an amazing plant, it might be the perfect plant for that section of the fence. My only issue with lemongrass is that it gets shaded out easily and doesn't grow well in dense systems like mine. I specifically like working with Mexican Sunflower because of how tall it grows. It does an amazing job pushing up in order to find sunlight in dense situations, Lemongrass can't do that.
@humanbeingnotahumandoing1 2 ай бұрын
Thank you for the video kevin, it's amazing that you are pushing yourself after work to use the milder weather conditions 🙏. I wanted to ask about the nappier grass: Do you know if this grass would be able to survive in a place with around 550mm of rain per year (southwest iberian península) CSA climate Hardiness Zone 10a (-1.1- 1.7 °C)
@Kevin-Cruz 2 ай бұрын
I think Napier Grass will be able to handle those conditions. Might be slow to start but once it gets going it will most likely grow great. My suggestion is to explore your area and find wild clumping grasses that you can dig out or take cuttings from. You know for certain those grasses will grow good since they are already growing in your conditions.
@humanbeingnotahumandoing1 2 ай бұрын
@@Kevin-Cruz thank you for the answe that's a very nice suggestion, have a great one :)
@legalyzeit 2 ай бұрын
bro i been cutting tithonia and bananas, etc, like crazy this week. nice video
@shrimuyopa8117 2 ай бұрын
How old is your food forest?
@Kevin-Cruz 2 ай бұрын
About 3.5 years old
@humanbeingnotahumandoing1 2 ай бұрын
Amazing video Kevin, thank you for the tour of the summer chop & drop 🙏
@Adnancorner 2 ай бұрын
Why dont you keep some goats and use the bananas and other plants that grow like weeds as fodder for them ?
@Kevin-Cruz 2 ай бұрын
I travel often, sometimes for many weeks at a time so keeping animals is not something I'm interested in. But yes, goats would be perfect animals to work with in agroforestry systems.
@humanbeingnotahumandoing1 2 ай бұрын
@@Kevin-Cruz how would you theoretically integrate goats in a agroforestry system, because I read some people explaining that they could eat young objective species etc.? Always an inspiration seeing ur work Kevin, thanks for that!
@Kevin-Cruz 2 ай бұрын
@@humanbeingnotahumandoing1 I would keep goats in their own separate pen with the idea that you can harvest ample amounts of vegetation from your agroforestry system to feed them. When the system is mature maybe you can think about incorporating them inside as well but yes they can be very destructive.
@humanbeingnotahumandoing1 2 ай бұрын
@@Kevin-Cruz great, thank you for the response :)
@escapetheratrace4798 2 ай бұрын
how many sunflowers are you planting per fruiting tree? do you have a general rule you follow or just the more the better as long as you can manage it?
@Kevin-Cruz 2 ай бұрын
Yeah I opt for the latter honestly. As long as they are a considerable distance from my target plants too. I ended up removing and relocating the Mexican Sunflowers in this video because it ended up being WAY too dense...Grateful for the biomass and shade it produced though.
@humanbeingnotahumandoing1 2 ай бұрын
Dude, I was so happy when I saw the video with byron!! And I was chuckling when I found out that you guys know each other for some time already, so it's very beautiful how the community is misteriously connected🙏❤️
@AntonColores 2 ай бұрын
hi Kevin, lovely video again. but what's the name of the tree you mention at 5:22 ? the transcript says "culia fua" and later you mention "shisha", but none of these give any clue of what plant it might be. and that's actually the fun thing about your vids that you show so many plants you're using also in your own garden/food forest.
@Kevin-Cruz 2 ай бұрын
tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Sterculia+foetida
@TheDiversifiedFarmer 2 ай бұрын
Nice, I like the term diversified 😅
@everydayanimalswithrainfor1315 2 ай бұрын
It was a pleasant surprise seeing you on Byron grows! Really awesome you met him. His page is pretty big. I was thinking that would boost your exposure and clientele a bit, which you deserve mi amigo. Much love from Quintana Roo, Mex.
@Kevin-Cruz 2 ай бұрын
Gracias hermano!
@AntonColores 2 ай бұрын
hi Kevin, found you some days ago and going through all your videos. wonderful content. some plants are hard to determine from your words. the transcript has a difficulty with it as well 😁 but you've started put some names in the video, so that would help a lot 👍 one question about these rows on the Honduras land in this video. they don't seem to be on contour (though that's sometimes difficult to see from a KZbin-video). so are they not on contour? cheers, Antón 😘
@Kevin-Cruz 2 ай бұрын
@@AntonColores So these rows are not on contour, they are somewhat random and wherever the digging was easy as it can be very rocky in Honduras.
@Hobnobble 2 ай бұрын
Sounds like on the FMNR family farm mother nature is the lead project manager and teacher. Sounds amazing.
@MarviRafaelMontecillo 2 ай бұрын
I've learned a lot from what you've been doing. Great job. We're doing commercial banana regenerative farming