is there any fruit trees you recommend for partial shade?

keep making videos of your new project, although we don't have the same climate conditions and that I use chickens, absolutely enjoy your journey and progress with the new land..going to take until Spring, I imagine, until life will start bouncing back..we also let our medicinal and food weeds to flourish when they pop up..beautiful land and cute pets, made me research zebu..

nice hat & great video !

Great video. Those tall orinoco bananas sure are hardy.

In one of your videos you talked about soil probiotics and prebiotics, that told me alot about what im doing wrong in terms of farming. I was wondering if there was anything you would recondemnt in terms of anuals and soil pro and prebiotics, because i would think that anual plants are like a prebiotic themselves so they wouldnt need too much preobiotics, but more probiotics to innoculate the soil.

Our calves that stay on their mothers for long periods out grow the others which may have lost their mothers. We bottle feed such calves but the ones on their mothers grow at literally twice the speed. Love the video as always. Just sharing your knowledge is better than almost all KZbin channels. So I don’t think you have to worry in which direction your channel goes. It will always be appreciated by those who really want to understand how to properly grow plants.

5:57 game changer to stop watering. We stopped because locally it’s becoming an issue as our aquifer runs dry. In my opinion it was the best decision I’ve made so far I have to really think about what’s going on on my property now and I have to try to accumulate as much organic matter and water as possible or keeping living roots in the ground for as long as possible. It’s just a mine shift once you get it there’s no turning back.

I always really enjoy watching your videos, someday I would love to be able to come take a tour of your place as well as many other places that I adore!

Good morning from New Amazonia, New Eden ✌️ 🌎

Good morning ! Thanks for sharing !

What a beautiful farm. Looks like Zebu heaven.

Hey, Congratulations on selling your farm, I’m new to the channel and have to do some exploring to get to know you better. I heard you used to sell fruits or atleast the madroño fruit, if you somehow still do that, even though you sold the farm, I would be interested to purchase many different fruits. If not i totally understand you. Greetings from Germany.

AWE.

Awesome about the sale!! I find giving our cattle no supplements at all is only positive. Combined with no poisons and nice long grass is the best way to go. Also we have learnt that having the right breed makes a lot of difference.

Congratulations Eric to you and your partner. I hope the buyers realize they bought a gold mine. I know it's a bitter sweet feeling for you but life marches on. Keep doing what you do. The world needs more people like you.

Wow!! Congratulations!!! I know they will enjoy It. I have memories there and I will miss it.

Sending you a huge hug Eric! Forever grateful for our friendship all the growth that’s come out of you sharing FVF with us all. ❤️Congrats on finding a well suited family to pass the torch to. Love seeing the new zebu additions and excited for what you’re now creating at Ups & Downs Zebu Ranch. 🌸❤️

Congrats Eric! Also looks like you're going to have a massive banana jungle at the new spot!

What! Congratulations 🎉

It's suoer sad for me .. totally wish I could have been the lucky family.. hope I'll still get to visit them.. always much love Eric💞🐸

25:36 I’m definitely a little bummed about the old farm but I’m also really excited to watch your process from the beginning this time since I found your page so late into your system last time. It’ll be a blessing to my knowledge that’s for sure.

19:59 I thought the reason people did biodynamic preps was to be self sustainable to be able to cultivate everything yourself on site in situ. Just like Korean Natural farming. It’s just like turn off though there are input ideas that do not allow you to stay in Scituate but there are workarounds for it it’s longer processes and you have to eliminate fermented plant juice and replace it with fermented plant extracts as it doesn’t require sugar. But then you have to consider that some climates don’t allow you to create all of the prep for a OHN so you’d have to cultivate plants indoors in order to even achieve the preps in some environments. So I get where you’re coming from The natural farming ideas makes sense but at times they also don’t make sense because people are trying to ship them across the country and they’re not actually following the principles of keeping things in situ.

They are lucky that you've created such a beautiful forest!

Farm looks good! Hey, that weed at 19:40 that you are pulling on, try it. It is so good. I think it's called "wood sorrel".

Congratulations on the sale...

I just bout a 2 feet imbe..and found out that i need a male and female to get fruits 😢😢..then i have to wait 2-3 years to flower..any advice ?? I want to keep it

The newly planted bananas doing great too

Greetings Brother Eric ... The Fall garden looking really nice, especially the lettuce and potatoes

Lol, all the fruit forums I am in on facebook people are freaking out spraying chemicals to try and protect their trees from a *possible* freeze. Brassinolide or whatever its called is the chemical. Crazy that people are going to be eating fruit from that tree a few months afterward after dosing it with chemicals

Also i know a women up the road who just throws raw cow manure and her whole yard is growing like crazy , Port St. Lucie Fl

Around how much did it cost to drill a well that deep ?

I am planning on getting a decent size lot like yours, as you mentioned, it would be a ridiculous amount of work trying to mulch it with wood chips , it takes a full 7 days of work trucking and wheelbarrowing mulch just for a normal size house lot (.3 acre) , probably would cost several thousand to hire someone to wheelbarrow it all in (only access is a door size opening ), sure we mulched but at first and built alot of black soil but probably have enough now, i'm definitely glad to see your system working without all that extra work which could actually be wasted time, its not a good quality of life mulching too much like on a larger lot as recommended unless that is your job or something, great tour as always learned alot, i havent seen any of your shows for a while , ive been on food tours that kept me too busy to see youtube , its nice to relax and enjoy a walk through your orchard again ! good luck with the cold winter !

Hi Eric, Did you trim the flowers off your mango trees when they were young, or did you just let the tree decide whether to hold flowers/fruit? I have a 7g M-4 thats been in ground for a year now, and its flowering but I was wondering if I can let the tree try to hold fruit or if you trimmed the fruits of your trees at first?

Back from Xmas travels. Great to listen to your video. That’s very deep for a “Well” ours is only 50ft deep . Very lucky when tested the long time drilling company said it was the purest water they had ever tested , 200 ppm . Doing some planting today and generally catching up. Things growing so fast here now we are getting some good rain combined with the heat. Will be interesting as our system grows to see how much more frost resistant and how much more the frosts are kept at bay. An old bushman’s trick is to hug a tree if you are cold and lost in the bush. As they naturally are a lot warmer than freezing air temperature. So makes sense that Food Forest will be warmer than open pasture or bare ground. Appreciate as always.

Happy New Year! Everything looks so beautiful! 😀 When does your gold caimito fruit? I’d love to get seeds.

Happy New Year, Brother Eric. Sending you good vibes and great health to you and your family for 2025 and beyond.

would the jaguar cacao grow in deep shade as well? i have a good amount of oak trees on my lot and therefore a lot of shaded land

Yeah Florida would have been a sight to behold back when it got its name. Happy New Year Eric! Looks great. We're going to try to make it over there sometime soon.

Any thoughts on using bamboo in your systems?

Can’t wait to listen to, but traveling atm. Maybe later tonight.

Nice! You said it was just lawn. How long did it take to grow?

Your place is amazing..I'm 7 years on 1 acre and always in awe of your tropical forest and looking forward in '25 to see what you can do with your new canvas up north.Happy New Year..all the best.

Happy new year !!

It is funny how different soil problems in different regions have the same solution

The two achacha you gave me I planted and are doing well!

When do you spray on your BD 500? What time of the year ?

Mines , blooming too chances are early varieties might bloom twice this year

Mulch=cover. Your food forest is full of living mulch! What an aspiration for our small backyard garden. Thank you for the tour.

Awesome as always. You are 100% correct living roots are the best mulch. I saw a study recently that showed that living roots were up to 500% more efficient at turning soil around than compost or dead mulch. I’ve been super keen on living roots. Yes I use some chop and drop , but that’s just to help my system get going. We have an enormous mango tree on our place ( one of the few that were on our place on arrival) we have been harvesting lately and only got about 200 mangos. We have had well over a 1000 in years passed. I was thinking of giving it a major major prune this year as we simply can’t reach the mango. What’s your thoughts on pruning a tree like this. I’d find it offensive if someone said they would introduce hydroponics to my place. People are clueless, that’s for sure.

A lot of people are saying that there is a very severe cold front coming in January. Projecting 20 degree weather to southern Florida. If something like this does happen will you do anything to protect certain species of trees and other plants you have or do you believe that since you have the correct microbiology your plants would survive without any help?