Nitrogen Fixing Trees at the Miracle Farm

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[@StefanSobkowiak]

Thanks for the post Curtis. You did a great job of extracting nuggets.

[@jhenson5168]

Sorry I'm so late to the party, but I have a question. Black locust is toxic to livestock, would honey locust have the same effect?

[@dismantledbrain5910]

@@jhenson5168 The plant in the video IS honey locust.

[@MicroUrb]

Ha! This was probably the most cool, most exciting guy you have interviewed and you cut it off so fast! Love it!

[@rkourik]

one peer-reviewed paper I have says cowpeas give 20% of their nitrogen to corn/maize during the current growing season. probably via fungi. don't know about trees. but locusts produce around 60 pounds per hectare. but clover do up to 100-150#/hectare. so I'd use them to prevent wasting space for the N-fixing trees. mowing the clover "releases" the nodules to make the N2 available. see my book Sustainable Food Gardens for. a list of the N2 product by woody n-fixing plants - trees and shrubs.

[@cameronjames8914]

Beautiful. Definitely picked this up early. A nitro per fruit tree (give or take). Love this. It’s happening yal!!

[@HenrijsEglitis]

wow that idea is something new to me... combining fruit tree with one that is helping grow.

[@thenewyorkredneck4735]

This guy is great. He's going to make my next land investment awesome

[@Isaacmantx]

In my area, honey locust and black locust are borderline invasive. Though they are native, the lack of fire in the modern landscape leaves no natural control to slow down their expansion. I would be absolutely mortified if a neighbor intentionally planted that many of them. Good thing his climate doesn’t let them bear seed!

[@StefanSobkowiak]

Isaac they bear viable seed here but we used thornless honey locust which is a true variety, so no thorns.

[@Leo-eb1wl]

It’s not actually the trees that do the nitrogen fixing but the bacteria that hangs out with them. People need to give more credit to the bacteria and fungi.

[@MrMercer101]

Very cool stuff mate. I just wanna say but, when was the last time you checked property in Australia cause finding cheap land is non existent unless your in the dead centre and buggggggger that. Keep up the good work mate, respect

[@bradcavanagh3092]

In my part of Australia (a premium wine region) bare land goes for over CAD25,000/acre!

[@MrMercer101]

@@bradcavanagh3092 which state or territory mate? How far inland.

[@bradcavanagh3092]

​@@MrMercer101 South of Adelaide

[@MrMercer101]

@@bradcavanagh3092 id say more like 45, 000 aud for an acre unless your talking about land being sold privately or picking up a steal. Realestate.com.au isnt showing much around those figures

[@bradcavanagh3092]

@@MrMercer101 Depends on the soil, which dictates the quality of the grapes and wine. I know some recent sales (in last couple of years) around me were between $24,000 and $36,000/acre, but they were for small 20 acre blocks that are barely commercially viable for vineyards.

[@markusmarkstaler1039]

Great concept! I will build up 30 Trios in the alps. Honey locust is not native, here. Is there a data-source (Stefan mention a handbook in the video, but I didn't understand) for quantitative comparison on plants for nitrogen fixing like rowan or speckled alder...?

[@flatsville1]

He's referring to this - Permaculture A Designers Manual Bill Mollison idoc.pub/documents/permaculture-a-designers-manual-bill-mollison-on23r1v7opl0

[@scottfraser706]

Are you from eastern ontario? Can i visit your farm

[@brianpeterson510]

Where is the link at please? Wekk produced video.

[@natureboy6410]

Moringa works best for that in the sw.

[@mohamedahmed4511]

Can anyone tell me pls the name of tree nitrogen fixers, whether I can plant tropical area like Africa thanks ?

[@charlescoker7752]

That works in Canada. What about in the Lower 48?

[@StefanSobkowiak]

Charles Coker if it works north of you it actually works better for you in lower 48.

[@kanneenah]

13k per acre is dirt cheap. I paid equivalent to 70k per acre in Malaysia.

[@lubobir]

Stefan is great!

[@Brahmdagh]

How exactly does it "fix nitrogen"?

[@Brahmdagh]

@@beans2411 Thanks. I'm reading about it right now.

[@organicgrow4440]

@@Brahmdagh isn't it amazing?

[@Brahmdagh]

@@organicgrow4440 bruh whats that in your profile pic?

[@organicgrow4440]

@@Brahmdagh It's Jabuticaba aka Brazilian Grape tree habib, I grow them, they are unique & delicious

[@Brahmdagh]

@@organicgrow4440 Cool. They look kinda, freakish.

[@selvaraj426]

Great Video, but too short a version !

[@mixingrecords]

Lovely 😊

[@opreapetru404]

symbiotic relationship

[@erwinbrubacker7488]

😊

[@lostpony4885]

Tweeeez!

[@torokitoroki]

Curtis do you still do all your own music for these videos? This tune's jammin'!

[@offgridcurtisstone]

I don't. And some, like this one, I demonetize the video so I can use it.

[@torokitoroki]

@@offgridcurtisstone ha 80/20ing it :)

[@bahouse7]

wow thats the canadian bill murray