IN-DEPTH Tour of Our Regenerative Agroforestry Farm in Comayagua, Honduras 🇭🇳

[@Dust2LivingSoil]

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

[@Dust2LivingSoil]

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 😂

[@Dust2LivingSoil]

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

[@Dust2LivingSoil]

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

[@Dust2LivingSoil]

There’s 90 mph winds outside right now 😅

[@emiltrydegard8848]

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?

[@Kevin-Cruz]

The main reasoning behind working with Lemongrass is accessibility; our property is somewhat remote so plant selection can be limited. We already had lots of it growing close to the house which facilitated propagation. Another reason we like it is because it doesn't require as much labor to keep it maintained. Other grasses tend to produce canes and can quickly grow in unwanted areas whereas Lemongrass mostly keeps to itself. This factor is important because this project sometimes goes many weeks at a time without any management.

[@emiltrydegard8848]

@@Kevin-Cruz cool, thanks for answering

[@Dust2LivingSoil]

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

[@hertabuss289]

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....

[@Kevin-Cruz]

I've never actually planted Guazuma ulmifolia. Every tree on this property has either seeded itself naturally or has come back from it's original root mass. From what I've read online it seems like it's possible to grow from cuttings, not sure how effective it is though.

[@hertabuss289]

@@Kevin-Cruz I will try and report back...

[@everydayanimalswithrainfor1315]

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

[@Kevin-Cruz]

I would imagine it’s lucrative, but it does require lots of processing. It’s something I’ve thought of doing later down the line when we have more infrastructure set up.