Incredible Permaculture Food Forest Tour - Big Island, Hawaii

[@dirtyjarhikes]

Love it! We learned so much 🌱

[@OffGridHawaii]

Yay I’m glad you learned things! 🤓

[@shadwells460]

What great content. Great to see examples of growing in puna. So glad you two are making videos again.

[@OffGridHawaii]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it. We’re stoked to collaborate with wade some more

[@Arthur-Silva]

That’s the most beautiful and abundant “garden” I’ve ever seen. A small home and a large piece of land to grow food, hat’s my dream!

[@ainabearfarm8075]

Very Cool to check out this maturing system and all the great information! Mahalo 🤙

[@OffGridHawaii]

Mahalo for watching! 🤙🏾🤙🏾

[@edwardpoling2307]

Love the living fence solution.😊

[@KawoaDogClub]

My two Big Island youtube teachers in one vid!

[@OffGridHawaii]

Cool! Hopefully we put out more collabs soon 😎😎

[@hightyd3]

Awesome video! Go Wade!

[@OffGridHawaii]

Thanks for watching! 🤙🏾🤙🏾

[@jasonrig]

awesome you guys

[@OffGridHawaii]

Thank you very much!

[@roneldastrydom2077]

I really enjoy this! Greetings from South Africa

[@OffGridHawaii]

Thank you!

[@simplysimple7628]

We live in HPP. Our place isn’t near this dense and plentiful. But we do grow 80% of our veggies in containers. Works great. But boy is this property a dream. We are slowly throwing down lots of mulch and chop n dropping. Lots of fruit trees that produce ok. Not great but we do get enough. When I watch these videos, I think to myself “why is this so rare?” We are in time in human history that scared me. I only will be around for a short time, but my kids and their kids, and their kids, kids and so forth have to live in it. Having a piece of land to live on and live off of should be something that every single person should have access to and benefit from. Just crazy how dependent the world is to buying food 100% of the time.

[@andersjorgensen2674]

Malanga is Xanthosoma sagitifollium. It's a kalo relative from S. America.

[@TheDiversifiedFarmer]

Oh, that was nice, this tour and a coffee, quail egg breakfast pizza and a slice of honey melon. Thanks for posting ✌

[@OffGridHawaii]

That does sound really nice ☕️🍳 🤙🏾🤙🏾

[@anthuriumcactus]

Thanks for the great info! Where did you get the coconut prying tool, Wade? That's awesome.

[@FruitHunters]

Great video !

[@OffGridHawaii]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed 🤙🏾🤙🏾

[@abeybaby29]

Excellent. Mahalo!

[@OffGridHawaii]

Glad you enjoyed it 🤙🏾🤙🏾

[@oneacrealaska8136]

Love this! I have a little place in the acres and need to reach out for help. Thank thank thank you!

[@J9coughlin]

Great video.I will be moving to Fern Forest next year. Janine Mahalo

[@OffGridHawaii]

Thank you! Good luck with your move :)

[@suzannepoffel2160]

Mahalo Puna neighbors 🎉

[@genevievegreene1595]

This is inspiring.

[@OffGridHawaii]

😃 yess! Glad you are inspired 🤙🏾🤙🏾

[@RenitaB.B.]

This video is a gem. Much wisdom and evidence of growing our own food in Hawaii while we still can. Growing edible pandam but didn't properly identify it until watching this video. Your living fence post is brilliant. Used to grow panax with my father as a young child while growing up at Pepeekeo Mill Camp. I plan on duplicating what you're sharing. The roots of the herb plants intertwine with milkweed roots in the soil. I'm making an educated guess that the toxins from the milkweed don't transfer into the herb roots. Let me know. In need of much needed space in my garden and would start planting herbs and veges with milkweed too. How are you preparing for the onset of CRB in your own food forest and where do you source credible information? Just learned I grow all four crops this beetle thrives on. I'm just starting to deep dive into everything CRB and looking for knowledgeable leads.

[@OffGridHawaii]

Cool! Have you used it for its vanilla flavoring ? Thanks for the nice comment 🤙🏾🤙🏾

[@RenitaB.B.]

​@@OffGridHawaiiMy spouse remembers his mother cooking pandam in rice. He wasn't a big fan of the flavor so I haven't utilized it in our cooking yet but I still grow it. My vanilla vines kept declining in the past six years so this year I'm growing it differently. The pandam will now be my go to vanilla substitute.

[@kellyhartman7667]

What is the name of the plant/tree he is using for fense posts?

[@OffGridHawaii]

Panax

[@wMerlinw]

I like how he did the fencing. What did he call it? Hedge panix? Also, where does he get that rock dust from? I'm on Big Island too.

[@OffGridHawaii]

Aloha, it is called Panax 🌿. The rock dust was probably from Sanford but I don’t remember asking him specifically. Will update comment if it’s not.

[@wMerlinw]

@@OffGridHawaii Thanks 🤙

[@malamaainapermaculture9912]

Hedge panax, Polyscias guilfoylei. I believe I got the blue rock dust or finest sand possible from puna rock. Sanfords may also have.

[@Idorosen-mv4ko]

Beautiful! What's the elevation?

[@andersjorgensen2674]

Early on he says 160ft.

[@ifagalz]

Beautiful

[@joshlovegood9392]

wow what a garden!!!

[@OffGridHawaii]

I know right?? 😍 Wade’s place is definitely goals

[@malamaainapermaculture9912]

Thank you!

[@dawienatral7083]

pls tell me the name of the fence plant

[@OffGridHawaii]

Panax

[@dawienatral7083]

@@OffGridHawaii Polyscias guilfoylei?

[@alfredbalauro3215]

Years ago, I raised talapia and used the cheapest dry dog food from Walmart.

[@OffGridHawaii]

🤔

[@patwcummins]

How do you keep your buffo toad population down around the pond?

[@dreamqueen9909]

in florida?

[@OffGridHawaii]

This is in the big island, Hawaii

[@katie7546]

I appreciate this tour, and totally respect not wanting to use anything on fruiting plants (for fire ants). However, Hawaii Ant Lab says "The insect growth regulator, Tango (methoprene), affects the reproductive system of queens and is labeled for use on fruit trees and around food crops. Tango is a liquid that must be mixed into a bait to be attractive to the ants." Is this information incorrect?

[@OffGridHawaii]

On the bottle of tango it says to not spray it on fruiting trees/plants. This is the information we got from wade.

[@malamaainapermaculture9912]

Tango can be used on fruit trees but according to the label not while the trees actually have fruit on them. Bananas and papayas almost always have fruit on them so almost never safe to spray. Many other fruit trees have fruit on them half the year is some stage of development. I believe label also reccomendeds a specific distance that is safe from vegetable crops. I have used antix which is rated organic and spinosad based and is granular, which one might explore as an alternative.

[@hilostateofmind]

You can treat for fire ants naturally. The bait houses work and also black ants are the endemic natural enemy and they kill the fire ants off

[@dawienatral7083]

it looks great ,But,USING A BULLDOZER THERE REALLY REALLY HEAVY MACHINES ,COULDNT HAVE a heavyer machine on the land doing untold damage to soil structure

[@agentbarron9768]

I'll trade you a metric ton of Florida's sandy nematode infested soil , for a bucket that beautiful lava rock soil you guys got there

[@OffGridHawaii]

Bet.

[@michaelvonfeldt9629]

Great vid!