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This video is packed with valuable information that will help you create your own food forest and develop a deeper understanding of syntropic agroforestry.
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The video is broken down into chapters that cover the following chapters:
Chapter 1: Transition the Orchard into a Food Forest
Chapter 2: Understanding Syntropic Agroforestry
Chapter 3: Support Species are KEY
Chapter 4: Edible Species List
Chapter 5: Goldilocks Climate + Diversity
Chapter 6: Diluting Syntropy
Chapter 7: Why Rows?
Chapter 7.5: Row Orientation
Chapter 8: Tree Lines + Support Lines
Chapter 9: Planting a High-Density Food Forest
Chapter 10: Prioritise Early Biomass Species
Chapter 11: This takes LOTS of plants
Chapter 11.5: Reduce the COST of your Food Forest
Chapter 12: Iterative Food Forests
Through these chapters, you will learn about the importance of diversity, reasons and layout details for planting your rows, the application of syntropic agroforestry, and ways to plant a high-density food forest. You'll also discover why it's essential to prioritize early biomass species and learn cost-saving techniques to make your food forest more affordable.
I'll explore my early experiments with more 'traditional permaculture' techniques like companion planting, and why I've found the most success with applying permaculture frameworks, alongside syntropic agroforestry principles.
Whether you're an experienced gardener or just starting, this video is a must-watch for anyone interested in creating their own syntropic food forest.
I like how every permaculture video is like "Permaculture is easy! Step 1: inherit property in the tropics from your family." XD
Really? This guy is really doing a good job of explaining what he has done and sharing the info. There are lots of people who sell the idea of permaculture being a walk in the park, but I don’t think that’s happening here at all.
As someone who did not inherit land and my land is in zone 4, Im here to tell you its doable! You will just have a different situation that requires different solutions. Buying land that is more remote or smaller are some ways to work around the costs, it surprising how self sufficient you can be on a small plot of land and choosing land further out from population centres might make selling fresh produce not an option but there are other products to sell that don’t require selling the day you harvest, I highly recommend selling seeds for rare and heritage varieties or growing specialty wood species such as apple and cherry and coppices or pollarding them to sell as specialty wood for smoking, or growing basket willow to sell for craft and decoration or even selling hand made baskets, selling bare roots nursery plants for rare species, or/and even breeding of rare/endangered breeds of heritage animals(especially rare fowl, rabbits, or dwarf ruminants) as they command a premium. Basically anything that earns a far amount even in small spaces and is lower input so can be done without expensive equipment it would take having inherited land to afford. Personally i advise avoiding fresh produce like the plague unless u mange to find land close to the city because investing in any product that spoils quickly if u don’t sell it immediately is not a good investment. People tout selling high value products like berries and salad greens but personally i find them finicky and require to many imputs, so i only grow enough for my own needs and instead if annuals i adapted my diet to focus on lower input perennials instead. Due to low food bill, lower property tax due to being remote, being off grid, and not having overbought equipment i can support my self off of very little land. It’s doable don’t give up yet, just look for things more applicable to your situation
The bigger point is that the vast majority of people who get to do it inherit land
That makes sense because agro forestry and permaculture is a decades long process. Inherited land is a fast way to get into it. A neglected orchard already has established trees and infrastructure to build onto and rework. If you started off with purchased land there’s likely going to be land clearing, brush and dead or invasive forest to remove, landscaping, irrigation, etc. unless you can shell out a lot of money for already developed land the only way most people will get into it is through generational development or getting into it while you’re young and have a great work ethic. I mean as you can see this guy started out with something already set up as a orchard and had just been neglected for a few years and he’s already spent over 5 years on it and it’s still in a relatively early stage
@@RoflMcCoptrson probably true, but also true that the vast majority of people who inherit land do nothing with it, or develop it, or sell it off and do something more lucrative. People who stay on the land and treat it with respect are privileged, no doubt, but it also takes a lot of work and dedication. I could work much less hard and make much more money if I just sold my farm and went and got a decent job.
This video was the video I needed 5 years ago when I first started learning about permaculture. It combines a lot if not all of the best principles and practices from all my favorite permaculture pioneers without all the guru jargon. I love it. Once I have a property and can start my own system I will definitely be pulling this video up again!
Love to hear that Theodore! Doing my best to provide free food forest / agroforestry content that's better than any paid courses out there. Glad you got some value from this!
Grande maestro! I would love to hear your insights on Mediterranean lands like Portugal.. Heavy rains for 2 to 3 months and then almost nothing for the rest of the year with heavy winds.. So watering and wind shelter is always an issue here.
@@byron.in.new.zealandthank you for this
Exactly
"you WANT to make small mistakes as quickly as possible".. what a great life lesson.. ;8)
Learn before you have to DEPEND on success…
i'm brazilian, i'm proud that you are teaching to everyone the Ernest Gotsch's system.
Amazing. Would love to come learn from people directly in Brazil
I’m in a local food forest permaculture group here in Texas - this video just explained concisely and clearly the concepts it takes folks months to learn on their own. I appreciate your breadth of knowledge and that you’re willing to take the time to share it with others.
Happy it helped 🤝
We have some challenges depending where you are in Texas like 106f temps and less water,but it can still be done,it just needs to be tailored to our states climate.
do you need fertiliser in your garden? or just biomass? thank you
No. No. This is not the gardening plot you are looking for (waves hand left to right between their eyes.
Please disregard. Running out of oxygen up here.
Night, y’all.
I'm in Southern California and have great interest in developing a few acres of family owned property into a Noah's Arch of fruit trees. I'm so glad your video popped up on my timeline, I gained lots of good information from you presentation and the least I can do is drop a like and leave you the appreciative comment you deserve!
Mmm... Date palms. Jujubees, oaks for acorns, etc
Fairly basic yet high impact concepts that most, myself in particular, would have otherwise overlooked, start small and build on it. Great advice!
Thank you.
Love to hear it! Thanks for the feedback 🙏
Good job Byron! I had a permaculture farm in the middle of the Shawnee National forest in S. IL. My garden and food forest was only around 2.5 ac. The rest of my property consisted of ponds and horse pasture. Even on such a small farm we had more production than we could ever use. We have since moved back to a small- to mid-sized town the S. Appalachians. I plan to build up my permaculture farm at my residence in the town and at a small property that we will buy outside of town. We feel that urban and suburban permaculture farms in small- to medium-sized towns are the way to go. You are close to markets, labor, potential students and potential clients and there is more opportunity to influence people as more people will actually see what you are doing and get to experience for themselves the successful alternative ecologically-based lifestyle that you can provide for them. That’s our focus now. Food forests on small farms, community gardens and small suburban and urban properties. Having a smaller property means less maintenance and more time to design, teach, write and consult. You don’t need a huge tract of land to do this. You just need good design, fertile soil, available water and sunlight - all of which is easier to achieve on a small holding.
I think the small acreage style homestead is definitely better if you can manage the abundance. Sometimes it’s nice to have extra land for diversifying microclimates and even for storage of scavenged building materials etc. on the other hand small acreages in suburbia have greater access to markets, closer to towns and small cities to educate like you mentioned. The more people know how food is grown the better. Running for the hills might not be the best for anyone if you are too far from anything to benefit from the strength a community provides.
I'm an aspiring court reporter/stenographer/closed captionist. I cannot tell you how thankful I am for all of the challenging vocabulary. This is a weird thank you, but thank you! Interesting video!
That’s awesome! I’m so curious how this helps your haha
Yes it's absolutely wonderful to be not talked down to, as an intelligent adult.
I have been a book editor and more. So I get it.
It's good for our brain, it increases the growth of neurons, it's enjoyable beyond description. It's comfortable to let your mind be how it is, and not be talked down to, as everything nowadays is dumbed down so badly it's like people are talking to a retarded two-year-old anymore.
@@byron.in.new.zealand oh I have to be able to 'type' 225 words per minute in a year or two. Sometimes having a lot of new/phonetically long words helps me because it makes casual speech seem slower/easier!
I found this a neat way to practice. I'm impressed.
@@arichards33 Do you also practice steno?
Your clarification of terms, and you listing the plants that you have used is incredibly valuable to me. Thank you very much.
You are very welcome
Great stuff! This approach is perfect to pair with electro and magneto culture. I bought my home almost a year ago and finally have opportunity to transform a bit of the world into a functional edible yardening hobby. Truly appreciate the knowledge and perspective to get started.
thank you byron for simplifying syntropic farming. you are an inspiration
Dude, your awesome. I'll keep watching. Syntropic Agroforestry, Edible Forest Gardens, and natural catchment of water are the foundations of sustainable civilization. The movement is finally rising to noticeable popularity and more and more people want to get involved. Thanks for sharing your research and expertise.
More than happy to be sharing. Thanks for watching!
I should have found the video like this six years ago. I will start doing what I have learned from you from this rainy season. The most beautiful part is that your food forest is full of the kind of food trees we grow in our land. Thank you for sharing. Big heart from Thailand
Hello from Cambodia. I would love to learn about what you are doing and hopefully passing it onto an agriculture cooperative that I am helping.
@@Benjaminoism Let's exchange our experiences. Let's keep in touch. I will go back to my LMK Tiny Forest after finishing the project in the factory. I have been supporting a machine installation as a Japanese interpreter. This project will complete by the end of June. Thank you very much for your kind words.
Thank you Byron for your support and all the positive input. Your teachings changed my perspective on Permaculture to another level. SAF
Great video! It's unbelievable what you've achieved in such a short space of time. Well done!
Awww. These Videos are food for the Soul. Lifts the Spirits and reminds us , It’s all connected.
Man. This was really useful. I never realized this. Rows going north south. Thank you for that.
very good video, thank you very much for all the information, how nice to see how food forests grow year after year
Wonderful video ! Subscribed to your channel. Keep up the good work.
Epic Video !!
Very Sharp and Solid , Pura Vida to that Food Forest inspiring other food forest around the world
Imagine how many food forests our ripple effects will create ✨🌳
Pura Vida!
Loving your videos! You express these ideas with so much clarity. Thanks!
So thankful I found your channel! I’ve been casually researching permaculture the last 2-3 years but this past year I’ve realized I need to take it more seriously and truly learn all I can to successfully steward a food forest system for not just me but my community.
Awesome to hear! Thanks for the feedback - good luck with your project!
The most practical explanation, thank you
Tree Fountain (aka Tree of Life)
1- Bore a hole into and up a tree being careful not to bisect the core of the tree.
Alternative: Use bamboo or grow sugar cane as a natural and permeable plumbing and cultivate it so that the tree grows around it.
2- Coat the inside of the hole with beeswax. I would highly recommend making a place to put a beehive in the tree near some water. The natural hum of the bees can promote health throughout the structure and through the water.
3- Put a water basin at the top and a fire pit or fireplace at the bottom.
The water basin can actually be used for a secondary water source that would promote growth and potentially allow for the tree to grow taller.
4- Put copper pipe around the inside of the fire pit or up the chimney for a fireplace. This will act as a pump. (You can also use a hotplate if you prefer) The copper pipe should only be used close to the intense heat of the fire. Any amount of heat promotes upward movement in this case.
5- Add water wheels (fidget spinners can be used for some decent mini water wheels) for electricity. This electricity can also be used to promote growth in the structure and in gardens. Check out how electricity is used to directly and drastically improve plant growth.
6- Add hanging gardens for fresh produce. A vertical style garden will do several things to improve overall health and productivity.
7- Splice other saplings and/or fresh tree cuttings using the tongue and groove method for shelter. This can be done with roots as well as branches. Encouraging roots to intermingle and cultivating a healthy mycelium bed are both ways that allow all the plants to share nutrients and different forms of protection. This would create a natural network that can be used similar to a computer for both the plants and people if a computer interface is plugged into the chemical language of the plants.
This design provides food, filtered and conditioned water and air, electricity, shelter and SO much more! Everything a person needs for life and survival. Hence the "Tree of Life" nickname!
In addition to the benefits listed and the techniques described, this structure will grow and get stronger over time.
Crystals can be used as a natural source of low level energy creation and as forms of transistors.
Cymatics can be used as a form of communication directly with the plants.
There is SOOOOO much more that can be done using this method for creating structures and homes BECAUSE it is living.
-This idea will eliminate 90% of the demand for large corporations and industries.
- This idea will reverse air pollution and filter the world's air naturally and beneficially.
- This idea will reveal the counterproductivity of governments and starve the governments of their power. Your fear and desperation.
There will be no need to clear cut entire forests to build ever again and this will encourage the natural ecology in our world instead of fighting with it.
Be a part of the change.
Not a part of the problem through government.
We have made excuses for ignoring the fact that we are supporting all the problems we state we are against. Let's be the change!!!
Thanks for sharing.
Extremely useful info while you have no degree. You sir have done your homework and schooled yourself. So much free info out there. Well done
Appreciate that feedback Michelle! Doing my best to provide as much free value as possible
Excellent.
Lots of valuable information in a relatively short time.
This is awesome! Thank you so much and looking forward to the video on "support species"
i am SO excited for this (and all the coming) seasons! man thank you so much for the research & information, this was a great watch!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I am in Nebraska started off with some fruit trees, chestnut and thornless honey locust last year. This year adding hazelnut, more chestnut and after watching this video I am going to try to get some divisions of the goose berries that grow rampantly in my area, maybe some elderberry and mulberry as well since those are all local ecotype that I can multiply off my land. Thanks for the video! Gotta figure out what I am going to do for herbaceous material to support the tree lines now.
Awesome!! Glad you got something from this video 🙏
I plan of turning my land into a food forest. I learned much from you. I'll definitely consider your style. Thank you so much for sharing. It's going to be a big help for starters like me. New subscriber here from the Philippines
Brilliant video Byron. Really informative and helpful. Can't wait to buy your book.
Thank you! 🙏
Awesome video bro. Thanks for providing open source info and all the mistakes you have made. Some many great learning points. All the best.
Good explanation Byron of a complex topic. Especially your sequence graph. Nice to be in the subtropics.
Thanks Stefan! I remember originally watching your video a few years ago when I was doing lots of online learning - Super valuable! Hope you're enjoying a warm spring
Loved this, had to watch it again to make sure I understand what to do in the garden. Awesome mate, cheers from Brisbane Australia zone 11a
Glad you enjoyed it
One of the more elegantly presented descriptions of syntropic that I've seen. Lots of great practical tips.
Much appreciated.
Appreciate your comment - Thank you!
I like how you worked with me th what is already there. The result is a linear layout, that is a reminder of the old orchard.
Amazing Byron love your work 👏
Definitely learnt a few things. Very useful for where I'm at with larger scale property conversion. Eradication of grass here we grow...
Happy to hear that! So far it seems like Mexican sunflower and bana grass will be my two most effective species for the ‘large scale’ conversion away from grass
Amazing intro! Reflects the lessons I’ve learned developing food forests and takes it to the next level which is being organized to scale. Thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
Byron, what I like is your combination of acute observation of which plants work well together and an organized system that can be iterated and optimized over time, so you are both horticulturalist and systems engineer. This is the future of agriculture
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Thanks so much for this video Byron. This information is perfect for one of the permaculture properties I manage her in Perth, Australia. I'll be following along from now on. I've created a great microclimate by adding 10 ponds, and now we're able to grow tropical, subtropical, and temperate fruit trees.
Cheers
Great video. Lots of useful information.
Excellent breakdown. I've watched much of the permaculture info freely available you broke it down very succinctly and I learned a few things. Many thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
This is EXACTLY the solution I need. We bought land with a 7 acre mature citrus grove last year and have been throwing around ideas of how to manage it well…turning down all the traditional management techniques “experts” in the area have thrown at us. They told me to pour Round Up on all the weeds around the trees and I accidentally laughed out loud. We’ve been chopping and dropping the weeds in the meantime, but I can definitely start strategically planting more desirable species in there. I have lots of the ones you mentioned in my garden closer to our home so it will be easy for me to get it all going.
Nice. Biomass producers will be your best choice to get started
I have wanted to move to NZ since 2015. I went to school for a master's in ecology and evolutionary biology. Thank you for this video and hope my dream stays alive after putting my children through college.
Yoooooo thank you so much. I've been making a word document with as much information about permaculture and food forest i can compile, making this extremely helpful.
Absolute beginner here, little to no formal bio background, looking to pivot from engineering eventually. The ways you’ve presented these concepts are clear and exciting. Feeling hopeful, thanks!
Very happy to hear it was helpful and digestible!
Fantastic information! Thank you for sharing your personal experience - inspires me to look deeper into agroforestry!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for sharing, lots of helpful knowledge
I am in tamilnadu India brother universal blessings always
The best video providing indepth knowledge to grow a food forest
Love getting videos like this recommended
Thanx for this legend, clearly a smart fella, lots of people want to do this sort of thing . Im doing my own experimentation with preanuals her in northern NSW AUS
Good stuff giving inspiration to people is a good offering to life. I wish everyone would do this
My goal is to make that information accessible to everyone for free
SUPER valuable information, thank you so much. Your clarity about how and why to plant this way has given me good insights into how to fill in my own food forest. I'm in a temperate desert climate, though, which makes it more difficult... and hopefully all that more rewarding as time passes.
Awesome challenge you've got for yourself! Hopefully something valuable in this video you can take away and apply to your site. Thanks for the great feedback!
Thanks for the video. I liked all of it. Particularly I liked when you stressed the importance of networking.
A few months back we went to a little agro fair here in Jalisco, and my friend said we should bag up some cherry tomato seeds that I'd dried. Cherry tomatoes are common in Mexico, really quite a basic plant, one of the first things we managed to grow. Even so, almost everyone that had seeds at the fair was willing to trade with us, even giving us much more than we'd given them.
Partly it's Mexican hospitality, partly it's something about brotherhood and goodwill. They see that you're serious about growing plants and they want to see their plants propagate, and acknowledge the camaraderie of really being a gardener.
A little note about the audio. Your voice is coming through quite clear, but the wind noise can be distracting. If you buy a basic lav mic for about $30-40 and put it under your shirt, it will improve your sound quality a lot.
Love the energy and the diversity! So stoked to see more of these systems manifest in Aotearoa.
Thanks mate! More and more agroforestry systems being installed here every month - Very exciting indeed
The knowledge.... Grateful to land on the channel 😊
Glad to hear that
Love your enthusiasm, wishing the best for you brother.
Thank you 🤝
thanks a lot!!! awesome video and information. I am giving courses on syntropic ag and abundance farming in mediterranean Portugal. And loved to hear your angle on all of it.
I was surprised to hear your take on not adding the comfrey in the treelines (but rather on the side) I was just so happy they were outshading those funky creeping grass species that are taking up any open spot. Any way i wish you a lot of succes with the second plot! Its inspirational!
That's amazing, would love to come visit your site when I'm in Portugal next. Thanks for the great feedback!
So awesome man! Great vid! Thanks for putting this together.
Appreciate that Chris, thanks for watching! Hope you got some value from it 🤝
@@byron.in.new.zealand The ONLY food forest video you need to watch! (for now) 😜
Chat with you soon man!
@@ChrisKay-ln8jl Exactly! Until my next upload 😂 Looking forward to a chat!
Brilliant video. As many have said, I wish I had learnt this at the start!
Would love a playlist of more in-depth video on each chapter from this one for those of us who are absolute beginners. Thanks!
Good idea
Great information, easy to digest and explained in such a natural way. Your forest is talking through you, thank you!
Appreciate your comment & support!
This is a really good video. Good advices !
Thank you, it helps for my food forest development. Wish you success for the next !
I will be applying this to 30 hectares soon, the hardest part is researching and planning based on all the hundreds, if not thousands, of varieties of various tropical fruits and spices I want to grow and what order/spacing to plant based on their future sizes.
You explain everything beautifully.
I had your thinking b4 I even saw your video, but to hear you saying the actual ideas is amazing!!!
Awesome video Bro. Very well put together and informational.
Appreciate it!
I have been watching your video over and over. 7:17 I love the concept of planting various kinds of Papaya, bananas etc. I will apply your idea for my LMK Tiny Forest too. Thank you for sharing. Big heart from Thailand
Wonderful!
Great info thank you for sharing. 😊
Cant wait for a climate/species recommended video!
Very good , well thought video. Thankyou for sharing
I was watching a video on Pbs Terra about deforestation and replanting tree program large failure rates that are not equalling any success. I think this is what they need to understand whether is for food or for climate change efforts to reduce carbon. Thanks for sharing what you've learned.
a lot of interesting information and insights . new sub . thanks , look forward to following the journey and one day starting my own .
Welcome aboard!
theodore, it works beautifully ln small scale, so you can start practicing or using your knowledge even in the burbs
Finally. Already watch your Reels and this is great.
I've never even seen this, i've never even heard about it, but as soon as I saw the picture, I realized what a good idea this is.
The fact that I can see the value of something simply from a picture speaks loudly about how we should be planning our land from now on.
I'm definitely going to consider doing this on my new land when I plant. It's already made me rethink my planting locations for certain things. I wonder how it'll work in Canada. There's lots of different plants I can put it, but they are so different from what you've chosen.
That’s awesome! Glad you found it helpful. Lots of the plants you’ll include are probably already being grown by others in your local region! Connect with other people to see what they’re growing successfully
Amazing. Thanks!
AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
KEEP TEACHING AND SHARING WITH THE WORLD PLEASE... WE NEED DEDICATED AND ENTHUSIASTIC FOOD GROWERS LIKE YOURSELF TO SECURE OUR EDIBLES FOR THE FUTURE!!
Amen
Retired/Veteran
Appreciate that my friend 🤝
Good Morning yeay nice ideas.
Short time , Medium Time and Long Time .. Plant and plan ..
Thanks You for sharing
This is great for the tropics. Im in zone 5b. Definitely NOT the only video people need to watch.
Thank-you ❤
This is the most valuable video on food forest/permaculture/syntropic agroforestry. So many videos on the theory, but this one has the steps to do. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge!
Amazing feedback - Thank you!
i think he s arrogant, and it is theoretic
great! Thank you :)
As I finish your video and I also sent you an email I also see that I’m already doing a lot of what you’re doing but not in the rows like you’re talking about… but I see myself incorporating my farm into this kind of thing I’m going to expand this into the northern regions of my other place here in Florida is perfect for those temperatures. We both get a little bit of cold in a little bit of hot, which is good and plenty of rain.
bloody brilliant man.. thank you..
Thank you for sharing 👍🏽
Brilliant thanks so much for this information!
Great video, thank you
Thanks.
Lines are the best, have you seen how fast trees on the side of the road or tree lines of pastures grow? And the diversity. Then you walk into the woods and the diversity drops.
Great video thanks for sharing….
Nice buddy 👍
I have a 4 hector orange grove in northern Mexico. Looking forward to learning. This is your first video that came up on my feed. I just subscribed. Unfortunately Im not in goldilocks zone. My area is border line desert with cold fronts that come down out of Colorado, we get as close to killing orange trees with cold as possible and then the temp goes up to 48 through the summer. We also skip the wet season every couple of years. Pretty hostile. During the wet season I let the grass grow about 2.5 meters and then cut it, i have lots of organic matter on the ground.
Nice! Sounds like slightly more challenging conditions, but a worthy goal to be transitioning into a more diverse agroforestry system! Organic matter is key
Please share more I’m grateful and curious about your journey please keep a video log with progression and development and growth
This guy is living my dream life ❤
Good talk. Gave me some ideas for my food forest system. Like that you promote growing from seeds and self production. I help install food forests for a nursery near where I live. People put out huge money on the grafted trees and irrigation systems etc. If only they would do things themselves but hey I get paid for their lack of effort on their own land.
grand advice!
It looks like a great system for humid climates. It could also work in drylands but in the fire season if you do not have a big anti-fire zone around this system, If the fire arrives,it's doomed because, of the chop and drop but also the layers will start transmitting the fire from herbaceous layers to the trees.
I’m a visual learner. Thank you for explaining with drawings.
Happy to help!