be great if you could list the names of the plants in your videos:)
@dawienatral70835 күн бұрын
hw do you spell the Namwa bananas?
@dawienatral70835 күн бұрын
kzbin.info/www/bejne/b3O0fpuXjth3gbc
@dawienatral70835 күн бұрын
you maybe intered in this channel
@dawienatral70836 күн бұрын
does irrigation just lead to surface rooting?
@ainabearfarm80755 күн бұрын
I only water them with irrigation during drought and I water deeply once a week so it doesn’t encourage shallow roots or constant water dependence
@dawienatral70836 күн бұрын
you said about mongoose in another video,why dont you expadite them there not native and a pest!!!
@dawienatral70836 күн бұрын
are you saying Gliricidia🤔
@ainabearfarm80755 күн бұрын
Yes that is one of our support species
@dawienatral708317 күн бұрын
your drip line comes from mains water or you have something like 4000 ltr water tank that you collect rain?
@ainabearfarm807517 күн бұрын
I have a tank that holds about 5600 liters that I use for hand watering and making compost teas. Right now my irrigation is connected to my main line but I hope to get another bigger tank in the future and hook up to that.
@dawienatral708317 күн бұрын
why did you pick that name ,curious
@ainabearfarm807517 күн бұрын
I’ve had a lifelong love of bears and I had a farm in Maryland where we grew Elderberries for making syrup; we called that farm “Elder Bear Farm.” My wife is Hawaiian and she had the idea of using ʻĀina Bear as a way of connecting to our past and emphasizing our Hawaiian connection to the land. 🤙
@dawienatral708319 күн бұрын
why are all your Red draceana so spindly none seem to have branched out?
@dawienatral708319 күн бұрын
if you can grow Compfrey you should plant loads more ,one of the best plant teas going
@dawienatral708319 күн бұрын
i Love it when they say goverment funded😂,there no such thing its tax payer funded!!!
@ainabearfarm807519 күн бұрын
🤮so many crooks
@dawienatral708319 күн бұрын
looking goood
@dawienatral708319 күн бұрын
Glycosmis pentaphylla/aka gin berry.Sophora chrysophylla Nitrogen fixer and native.Coprosma ernodeoides, native bedible berries though very small ,you do need male and female plants
@dawienatral708319 күн бұрын
also im not sure if it would work on all grass species but the annual/Rhinanthus is parasidic on a lot of grasses thus weakeing and slowing down once you cleared /mowed.just a thought.not much too lose and something maybe to gain
@ainabearfarm807519 күн бұрын
That is interesting. I can’t find any information about that plants status in Hawaii so I’m not sure it’s been introduced.
@dawienatral708319 күн бұрын
what about species of pine that will over time increase the acidity of the soil in those more wild places and help with wind protection🤫
@ainabearfarm807519 күн бұрын
We don’t have any native pines and I don’t get any wind from the west where zones 4 and 5 are. Our soil is also naturally acidic so I’m usually trying to neutralize it a little more.
@dawienatral708319 күн бұрын
what about Kennedia as a ground cover,know as running postman?Also fixes nitrogen
@dawienatral708319 күн бұрын
Malabar chestnut can be struck with cuttings in case you didnt know:)
@dawienatral708319 күн бұрын
you get any mildew issues with growing comfrey?
@ainabearfarm807519 күн бұрын
Yes and I usually try to chop and drop it when it gets mildewy
@dawienatral708319 күн бұрын
have you planted any metrosideros?
@ainabearfarm807519 күн бұрын
I have planted a lot of polymorpha species which is our native ʻOhiʻa. I have at least one more species which is variegated but I’m not sure what exactly it is.
@dawienatral708319 күн бұрын
how do you cut that thick grass brush cutter or scythe:)and does constant mowing eventually weaken the grass?
@ainabearfarm807519 күн бұрын
When it’s thick I cut it with a BCS tractor with a sickle bar mower but it does weaken. The section in the middle I can cut with a standard lawn mower now
@dawienatral708319 күн бұрын
great space
@florenciohtabancuraedt7065Ай бұрын
Amazing food forest you have in there my friend
@ainabearfarm8075Ай бұрын
Thanks so much. We’re into year 6 now and it’s so cool to see the evolution. 🤙
@guiller23712 ай бұрын
I guests they should have more information about the oil. How, why and what it actually suppresses or kills. About a week; I killed my punkins with neem oil. I followed the instructions and it wasn't the first time I used the oil. It was fine before. I noticed the leaves and flowers were a bit smaller, but healthier. But the punkins are kind of fungi in nature. You can see by the fast they grow and how they do it. In my opinion; the giant punkins are not too compatible with neem oil. Also, they were attracting plenty of pollinators previously. After the oil application; the few coming wouldn’t stepped on the flowers. I never saw so many different pollinators over a single set of plants, not even in Lavenders or other flowers.
@wMerlinw2 ай бұрын
How's everything? I know you say you have wind problems and this weekend must have been particularly windy. I got some rain. Wind knocked over a few things. All in all I'm still in one piece. Could have been worse.
@ainabearfarm80752 ай бұрын
Aloha! Not too bad here. We got 11 inches of rain and I had a few tothonia and bananas go down in the wind but nothing major. I’m stoked for the water; it’s usually bone dry this time of year for us. Looks like there’s another storm heading this way. Stay safe 🤙
@GrowAllTheFruits2 ай бұрын
Wow congrats on the peanut breakthrough! Your Envira Caju looks good, should fruit soon. Mine fruited this year and the fruit was... interesting. Let me know how you like it when yours fruits.
@ainabearfarm80752 ай бұрын
Haha interesting huh? Thanks Joe! I’ll definitely let you know when it starts fruiting 🤙
@mariap.8942 ай бұрын
Aaww, you could have given those flowers to your wife😢. They are so pretty❤ Question: Tithonia is a soil fixer? Only while chopped/dropped? Or also planting it? Thanks in advance ❤
@ainabearfarm80752 ай бұрын
They are pretty and the bees love them too so it is hard to chop them sometimes. They pull up a lot of nutrients from the soil but are not nitrogen fixers so you have to chop them to get their benefits for the soil.
@mariap.8942 ай бұрын
@@ainabearfarm8075 Good to know! Blessings your way and thanks again💜🙏🌻🪻🦋
@epiphyte86462 ай бұрын
can't remember you mentioning these... chrysophyllum imperiale - gorgeous tree with tasty fruit mammea americana kwai muk dovyalis caffra ficus auriculata - there’s a variety that will ripen without pollination, taste like strawberries butia capitata (jelly palm) spondias tuberosa (and other species) davidsonia pruriens - sour fruit but beautiful tree garcinia luc’s garcinia russell's sweet pitomba (eugenia luschnathiana) syzygium malaccense (mountain/malay apple) saw your comment regarding durian, here are the gateway drugs... durian ice cream -> durian smoothies -> frozen durian -> fresh durian (bsf premium quality) -> other fresh durians
@ainabearfarm80752 ай бұрын
Mahalo for this great list! I do have some very good mountain apple trees but the others would be new to me. Do you have any good recommendations for sources?
@chriskeaton6032 ай бұрын
The trees you planted in the pukas look really good. It can be tough to keep the grass from devouring your plants. Do you use the county compost? If so, do you get it delivered? And for cinder, do you haul that or get a big delivery? I’m at that stage where I can start planting and was wondering how you managed that.
@ainabearfarm80752 ай бұрын
Thank you and great questions. I don’t use the county compost but mostly just because I am in Hāmakua so it would be a long trip/ expensive delivery. I also don’t use cinder because we are fortunate to have deep, well-draining soil (I spent all my money on the land 😂) We do make a modest amount of wood chips and compost from grasses, food scraps and rabbit manure and our “chop and drop” supplies are really picking up with all of the gliricidia, tithonia and pigeon pea. 🤙
@edrivera-pc4mb2 ай бұрын
might want to keep some bamboo in pots, and as they grow, divide them, sticking some in the ground and leaving some of the division in pots to be divided in the future.
@ainabearfarm80752 ай бұрын
Thank you. That’s a good idea!
@hightyd32 ай бұрын
Kudos to you for having a plan to deal with all that guinea grass. For small weed encroachment I use pond liners to kill things off, then hand removal. I've done this for small amounts of cane grass and wedelia. If you were to do this, even if you can't remove all the roots, it might give the other things you're planting an edge so they can get tall and shade out the guinea grass a little?
@ainabearfarm80752 ай бұрын
Thank you. I have been doing something similar with tarps in zone 2 and it’s been working well; just slow going. I’m going to also try using cardboard and wood chips in some places so I can come back and plant right into it. It’ll be interesting to see how that goes. 🤙
@hightyd32 ай бұрын
@ainabearfarm8075 yes, please keep us posted!
@Lukes__foodforest2 ай бұрын
Looking good
@AgroecologicalSystems2 ай бұрын
‘Ilie’e would be awesome
@ainabearfarm80752 ай бұрын
I have one growing now and just going to wait for it to seed. I guess they are prolific seeders so I’m hoping to grow a lot from there
@destini48322 ай бұрын
I just want to say, in 2024, thank you for highlighting our need to respect indigenous practices and values more. A comrade shared a holistic homesteading book with me and I immediately jumped to the permaculture and they credited 2 Australian men for coming up with the word permaculture and its ethics....I will be showing this video to share how incorrect that statement is.
@Danfoodforest3 ай бұрын
Aloha ahiahi, I really like growing pigeon peas. They are a perfect multipurpose plant. Nice Breadfruit Tree
@1fokisi3 ай бұрын
How many seeds in one hole when you plant them.
@hightyd33 ай бұрын
Good thing you decided against the Wedelia. It is such a pain, and would definitely takeover.
@ainabearfarm80753 ай бұрын
Yeah, I knew it wasn’t what I wanted but I always left the idea out there thinking I would take anything over guinea grass. Patience pays off though 🤙
@hightyd33 ай бұрын
Rollinia is supposed to be a water guzzler, i know mine sufflers whenever there isnt consistent rain. Ive only gotten once small fruit from my 3 yr old tree. Question: What tree has been your best producer?
@ainabearfarm80753 ай бұрын
Absolutely! I try to keep them well watered but this time of year it seems like I can never keep up. So far my best producer (not counting bananas) in terms of pounds of fruit would be the star fruit. The most promising in terms of future production and marketability have been Ulu and mango so we have doubled down on planting those and have 10 varieties of mango and 4 varieties of Ulu now to try to catch at least one winner of each every season.
@hightyd33 ай бұрын
@ainabearfarm8075 oh yeah, I've heard starfruit is super prolific. Oh, that's great that you've got the different ulu and mango varieties in! Thanks for the zone 2 tour! It's looking great!
@AgroecologicalSystems3 ай бұрын
Looks good, next time I’m there it would be cool to get some new aerial photos to compare the progress.
@ainabearfarm80753 ай бұрын
Absolutely! So much has changed it would be wild to see from above.
@kcc.92993 ай бұрын
Do you put cardboard or mulch on top of the post-tarped-guinea areas, so that seeds underneath dont start to germinate? Or does tarping essentially sterilize the soil from those weed seeds, so you can put stolons of the perennial peanut right into the dried out weeds/guinea grass and use that essentially as growing medium? Or do you rake out all that material.. curious what your process is to move from tarping to turning it into perennial peanut area. Thank you for sharing your experience!
@ainabearfarm80753 ай бұрын
Thank you for the great questions. From what I can tell, tarping for about 2 months seems to kill most of the seeds. I’ve tried 1 month and had a lot more weeds come up. I do think the dry grass roots work well to plant into but they suck up a lot of water initially so you may need extra water. I just dig trenches into the dead material and plant. If I’m planting during a dry, sunny time of year I add some mowed grass clippings to help keep in some moisture. If you have access to wood chips it is amazing how fast the peanut will spread into them. Hope that helps. 🤙
@hightyd33 ай бұрын
The drooping banana stalks make it easier to chop down racks! Nice rabbit enclosure too. Nice Z1 tour, looking forward to Z2.
@ainabearfarm80753 ай бұрын
Haha yes it sure does, mahalo!
@danielnaberhaus53374 ай бұрын
Anything that attracts ladybugs is a win
@chriskeaton6034 ай бұрын
Great to see what’s going on. Where do you get your plants?
@ainabearfarm80754 ай бұрын
Mahalo! I get things from all over; I’m always on the lookout. I have gotten a bunch of “Plant it Hawai’i” grafted trees from Michael at “Elemental.” I sometimes find cool stuff for good prices at “Garden Exchange” in Hilo. Quite a few of my Ulu have come from the Ulu Coop. I also grow from seed and cuttings, trade plants with people and have been gifted quite a few things from other farmers. Lmk if there are good sources I should check out 🤙
@chriskeaton6033 ай бұрын
@@ainabearfarm8075I’ve been to Elemental and plan to go back. We now live in Honoka’a so it’s pretty handy :) I will check out the other places. Thanks!
@DelbertBroomfield4 ай бұрын
Honestly, used Neem oil +soap+water 4 days ago for the first time ever: Neem oil killed my two young grapevines, one Zucchini plant and made my plum tree looking very sad, returned neem oil back to Amazon and I hope this product is band coming to the US.
@AgroecologicalSystems4 ай бұрын
Looks so good!
@ainabearfarm80754 ай бұрын
Thanks man. It’s been a good balance of rain so far this year. Hopefully that continues
@AgroecologicalSystems4 ай бұрын
@@ainabearfarm8075 same here, really nice growing conditions so far
@JeromeArmstrong4 ай бұрын
Nice, grreat tips. I have started 200 of them in my orchard this season.
@ainabearfarm80754 ай бұрын
Nice!
@wiseguy44574 ай бұрын
I’ve watched your videos since you started and it inspired me to get land and start a food forest. But it’s awesome to see the progression not only of the food forest but the design changes as well
@ainabearfarm80754 ай бұрын
Thanks so much! I learned so much from other KZbin channels that I wanted to share my own experiences in the hopes that it would help others. So awesome to hear you have your own forest going. 🤙
@punaforager4 ай бұрын
Potassium. High potassium like a 0-0-50 will get you wonderful flowering. Potassium sulphate which contains 5% sulphur your trees will love it. Organic.
@punaforager4 ай бұрын
Many blessings in your garden endeavor here. It was really interesting to watch your walk and talk. Your olace looks great. I live in Pahoa area and for 18 years, bought my own five acres 7.5 years ago. I posted a similar video to yours recently and you are very welcome to watch my tree collection. I plan to post a 30 minute video every other month while I’m getting some good fruits to showcase. kzbin.info/www/bejne/naOnYq2nqLCUmq8si=1tjwcWTyvl5iXPiC