Syntropic Agroforestry In Australia: Video 27

Some technical aspects of intercropping - several approaches

[@Thepeacefulpermi]

Thanks for taking the time to make your videos so descriptive enjoy watching them. What I have found what works in the shady rows as well is Taro

[@mick5594]

Great video, the farm is looking healthy mate!

[@thisearththeonlyheaven]

Your blue flowered weeds look like one of the Ageratum species, Billy goat weed or Blue Billy goat weed. Thanks for sharing your learning. Cheers.

[@mirleydamazio628]

Que lindo, o trabalho de Ernest Goetsch sendo replicado pelo mundo.

[@k8m883]

Incredibly excited to find your channel! Loving the content hope your channel gets the recognition it deserves.

[@farmerjones2766]

Thanks

[@danmeiers3368]

You are a natural host. I hope you are aiming for a million subscribers. You should be.

[@adamjones905]

Thanks Dan

[@mopi852]

Many thanks for sharing your experience!

[@leonieshanahan6439]

Very impressive growing Adam, thanks for sharing all your wisdom

[@eltoncarvalho9456]

that's a beatiful farm, from a farmer to another Great work!!!

[@Balaji0596]

Thanks for your valuable videos. Keep them coming♥️

[@andraetkula6044]

Legend! Thank you for the thorough explanation 🙏💪🙌

[@zorothesigma]

amazing. where are videos #1-15? i dont see them on youtube

[@pygwatt]

Mate that was fantastic and utterly inspiring! I’m so happy to have stumbled across you and look forward to watching your previous and future videos. So good to have an honest glimpse of your experiments in Syntropics. Many thanks! Andrew the Lazy Farmer

[@adamjones905]

Thanks Andrew. Its all new for me as well and learning along the way.

[@jdejde4876]

great host. easy to watch and informative

[@sustainableconnectionscq1214]

Your weed that the flower mower hadn't killed right before the broad fork looks like Gotu Kola an edible that will absolutely thrive in those conditions. Loving your videos.

[@noelenejephcott6954]

Great video. Where did you buy your sickle.

[@pollyangel8564]

Love gotu kola, just gave some to a neighbour this morning. I eat the leaves and chew on the stems whilst gardening. Great for brain function, skin healing, varicose veins, nerve tonic and much more .. some people would pay a fortune for these benefits if it was conveniently packaged in a pill at the chemist 😂

[@macw2234]

Hi from the Netherlands. I planted mak choi in dappled shade this summer. We've had some very hot weather. Great success. its called celtus or Chinese lettuce. Good luck squire

[@WadeZwie]

Thanks for the explanations. 🧡

[@graleyf7830]

hi farmer Jones we are from gympie too (curra ) i think thats blue billiegoat weed ....thanks for your video its great to see what youre doing we are newbies to syntropic farming and quite excited about it.. Damien

[@heidipaterson6286]

Awesome info!! 👍

[@Simple.life.on.16acres]

Such a great informative video and very easy to understand. Have you tried growing yacon? I think it could go well in this system. I’m currently starting a new growing venture on 16 acres in the manning valley and very interested to adapt these methods you have shown.

[@marketbazaar9162]

Legend. Trying these systems in FNQ. Cheers.

[@mattyd3691]

Thanks so much for sharing your syntropics journey.. I am about to go to a syntropics workshop and would love the opportunity to see your farm up close .. very interested in growing food in tune with nature’s cycles.. I’m in Tewantin so please let me know if you have an open day in the future.. cheers Matt 👌🏾

[@adamjones905]

No worries Matty. We will have a planting day soon and let you know.

[@kolapyellow7631]

great system. i will use this in a few years, i want to farm after retirement.

[@corazoncook1950]

I would like to see additional plots, beside the veggie plots, planted with grasses that will be used as mulch to the planted vegetables. Thanks for sharing!

[@farmerjones2766]

Yes that is covered in video 25, were we have redesigned our rows to include bio mass rows.

[@Str0ng255]

amazing

[@SerRegenera]

awesome thanks for sharing! how did you prepare the beds at the very begining? did you till them and then plant it? and the vegetable beds on the mid rows also ? thank you greetings from Uruguay

[@farmerjones2766]

Hi. I deep ripped each row line first to 600mm deep. I think this will help tree roots go deeper and faster. Plus trap water into this rip line. We rotary tilled in the beginning when we set up but for the last time. After tilling the alley ways I cast cover crop seed and laid a thin layer of hay over them to protect from sun and set up irrigation. When this cover crop was ready to cut down but we left the roots in the grounds. I then used tractor discs to for raised beds. I thought it was important to leave the cover crop roots in the ground. Some cover crop (lucerne) grew back through the vegetable rows but this worked out ok. Because they were nitrogen fixing. I have now cut that lucerne down ten times in a the last year. But that's cool because we got allot of cover crop hay mulch and nitrogen for the one cost of our seed. And it doesn't disturb the vegetables. We used a rotary tiller to incorporate chicken manure, rock dust and lime then formed all the the beds with tractor discs. I made the tree rows a little bit higher so it was easy to plant into them and hold the trees up. The vegetable beds same but I used a smaller walk behind tractor to till them flatter to 900mm wide. After this first time tilling we will never till again. The worms, tree roots and weed / vegetable roots will do the tilling. Always leave the roots in the ground when you cut anything down.

[@MrRoots974]

woaw !! thx for sharing !! good video !! i'll follow for more ! cheers

[@arfaabbas]

beAuTiFuL

[@davidhobbs5679]

I will say that your theory on root cavaties maintaining low soil density/consistency is at least theoretically plausible, a common occurance in my line of work (engineeering geology) is that trees and recently mowed/cleared areas tend to have soft areas around large roots and rootlet layers. This however, only happens if the roots die and rot.

[@farmerjones2766]

Yes but as long as there are constant root growth going on, secreting sugar exudates. Once the crop stops or is mulched I've recent found the rows became rock hard during this winter. Requiring tilling or the hard way using a broad fork to break it up.

[@davidhobbs5679]

@@farmerjones2766 interesting

[@akusayangkamudia3535]

Mantap sekali master

[@mena2138]

Great great video, the 7 months capsicums will be very happy with a 50-60% pruning.

[@davidhobbs5679]

As far as clays are concerned, the hardness of a clay is directly linked to its moisture content. Perhaps instead of lifting the soil, maybe use some sort of irrigation method that punctures the soil and pentetrates to depth and allows the clay to gradually increase its water content. Something like an unside down cup to stop the water from evaporating. That comibine with a good top layer of multch should be able to rejuvinate and soften hardend clap soils.

[@amitbarikeri3449]

Nice video !!! One hedgerow row of vetiver for producing some mulch, root structure attracting AM fungus etc could be done by the banana and papaya you think ? Growing some velvet beans 🫘 also an option. For chop & drop, n other benefits

[@farmerjones2766]

Yes i'm playing with vetiver grass now. They use it extensively in UN sponsored soil regen programs in Viet Nam where I first heard about it. Deep roots hard to kill.

[@amitbarikeri3449]

@@farmerjones2766 , oh I see. 👍🏻. Yeah very hardy and deep rooted.

[@mrcarosinjean-pierre7966]

Thanks for this Video. I have 1 question. What kind of fertilisera are you putting in? Finaly may I suggest as ground cover some varieties of « Sweet poataos » to keep grass down and still producing good foodstuff.

[@farmerjones2766]

Hi. Yes sweet potatoes are doing well now. And we now use almost no fertilizer on veggie rows and none at all on the tree rows they feed themselves with the chop and drop.

[@axesantexmonero6628]

Syntropic Forest Farm look for Ernest Gotsch.( The Master )

[@mollybedingfield6498]

What is a tilfer. ?I can’t find anything with that name in the UK

[@farmerjones2766]

Tither. www.activevista.com.au/product/tilther-drill-powered-cultivator/?v=24d22e03afb2

[@joepeeer4830]

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[@kmg9802]

👍🇱🇰

[@eltoncarvalho9456]

If you said that was here in Brazil I'd believe you

[@pronoia.]

Might cause a bit more work and compaction but I'd love to run a small herd through overgrown rows like this. Goats like dappled shade😅

[@farmerjones2766]

Yes I reckon. They would compact it too much but you have to Hotwire them they will tear the trees apart

[@kanouolandry2597]

hey,i like job in the farm. do you need someone for help maybe?

[@faustocabanas2387]

How wide are your rows

[@farmerjones2766]

Tree rows? About a meter. Width of raised beds? 8-900mm. Distance between trees? 3 m

[@joniindo6127]

I didn’t get that. Root and staud method?

[@adamjones905]

Ruth Stout. Hay only garderner

[@cedriccbass-jp8ky]

the flowers are Phacelia ? nitrogen fixers

[@farmerjones2766]

Not sure mate

[@francisdr916]

Do you plan on transitioning from bananas and papaya?

[@adamjones905]

No they will be a staple in the system. Especially bananas as they hold many liters of water in the system and are essential for biomass production. We sell allot of these fruits at our weekend markets.

[@effoffutube]

Just read 'one-straw revolution'. Funny everyone seems to be rediscovering wholistic farming before [$] CHEM [$] got their hands on it.

[@farmerjones2766]

The one book that most influenced my thinking. It completely changed my view of farming. Fukuoka San was a genius.

[@stevespeak1007]

👏🏽👏🏽 amazing

[@juanpablobenavidesmaturana6773]

Hi jones, I want to get in contact with you, I am in australia for now and would love to see your experience in person, and maybe if I could, help you too for some time... I am writting through here because I don't know how else to get in contafct with u, I have looked in the facebook group but didn't find You.. Well hopefully we could talk and share!

[@farmerjones2766]

Hi Juan. That's possible. Why are you interested in Syntropics?

[@juanpablobenavidesmaturana6773]

@@farmerjones2766 Hi Jones. Oh, mostly I think because it allows us to do things different... Relate different, move different... Create different..

[@traoredaouda5416]

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