LOW EFFORT, Easy To Grow Plants in a Permaculture Food Forest, Circle Garden & Perennial Hedge
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- čas přidán 13. 09. 2024
- Basic explanations of how to plant and grow easy low effort crops in a permaculture food forest, circle garden & perennial hedge
Some of the plants I cover in this video are Tapioca, Elephant Foot Yam, Papaya, Kandhari Chilli, Rosella, Manatakkaali, banana, Bluebellvine and chicken Spinach
The Perennial Hedge:
A Perennial Edible Hedge is a great way of turning empty unused lands into mini food forests.
The hedge consists of a diversity of plants with different physiologies and time durations that are easy to grow and require less water.
The hedge can be created along fences, community/public spaces, schools and offices etc.
The Perennial Hedge can be easily integrated within space and landscape designs making them very interesting for architects and designers.
By establishing such hedges as a common feature in our urban landscape we expose ourselves and our community to local food and help redefine our collective nutritional narrative.
The hedge can be 1-2 m wide and as long as the space available.
Water is absolutely essential for this garden. Wastewater from the communities can be used for this purpose if natural soaps and bio-enzymes are adopted. Mulching on the bed and in the trenches will also reduce irrigation needs. A number of drip lines can be laid along the bed and the water consumption can be precisely defined. This is a list of plants according to their layer in the hedge. The exact configuration of the hedge will depend on the availably of space, water, saplings, time and people . This graphic is just a framework based on our own experiences. There is a lot of scope to be creative and play with these and other plants.
GROUND: Spinaches (Chicken, New Zealand, Ponnangani, Portulaca, Manatakkaali)
HERBS: Long Pepper, Karpurvalli, Lemongrass
SHRUBS:: Pineapple, Kandhari Chilli, Sundakkai, Sweet Leaf, Chaya, Roselle
TUBERS: Tapioca, Elephant Foot Yam,. Diascorea, Taro, Sweet Potato
SMALL TREES: Curry Leaf, Drumstick, Agathi, Papaya, Banana
FRUIT TREES: Jackfruit, Coconut, Bael, Soursop, Custard Apple, Ramphal, Citrus, Amla, Pitanga, Acerola
(Larger fruit trees like Mango and Chikoo can also be added but they will create a lot of shade after 5-10 years and redefine the understory)
Some communities have already reached out and there is a lot of scope to implement this all over Auroville.
We are happy to provide full consultation, a plan and an implementation roadmap as well as plants, seeds, contacts for composts, biomass and ideas and energy to start. We will also follow up on the progress of the gardens and offer continuing support.
Contact us at solitudepermaculture@gmail.com
Watch these videos to learn more about starting a food forest, circle garden or perennial hedge
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You are today's sir Fukuoka for me☺. Perfect example of a food forest and your way of describing simply superb!
So nice of you
Enake ungala pakum podhu unga kooda join panni en life ha journey pananum pola iruku....
Love your enthusiasm and your wonderful farm
MR KRISHNA MCKENZIE !!!! YOUR IDEAS ARE GREAT. ONLY NOW I AM SEEING YOUR VIDEOS. I BECAME INSTANT FAVBOURITE OF YOU. GREAT JOB. MANY PEOPLE WILL FOLLOW YOU. MAY BE ME IN THE FIRST PLACE. GREAT JOB. GREAT EXPERTISE. WONDERFUL.
Thanks so much for your inspiring words, happy that you found the channel.
I’m very happy to see
traditional truly appreciate your natural resources
I believe Permaculture will be a great solution to address unemployment issue....Krishna, I would likely to honestly admit that your videos are awesome and experienced unique happiness in learning about Mother Nature
You are Divine! Krishna!!🙏🙏🙏💐💐💐🌹🌹🌹😍😍😍😍
Thank you, brother!
My questions:
1. How do you start if you don't know anything about permaculture?
2. I often see people composting, having worm farms for the compost and using humanure for trees, collecting rain water. In your experience, what are the things we should do to build soil organically?
3. I also saw people diluting human urine to fertilise plants. How and when is a good idea to do it?
Thank you!
🌻🌞😉
Great
thanks
Love the humility Krish. Keep it up
Great information, and insights - and sincere appreciation of the priceless interconnectedness of it all. Thankyou. 😊
Thank u for your revolution's plants
Awesome video, a wealth of information for circle gardens, perennial hedges and food forsts, fantastic!
You are my friend... You remained me many things...
Hellow Sir, Excellent. I'm Batma Paume.M from France. Extraordinary Yielding without cold water.
I do have a Garden space in my home at France, i do lombricompost also. No results. After 2 leaves they give seeds. I pour cold water often every morning. Can you give me helpfull hints Sir for yield and to eat healthy.
I was born at Pondicherry 45 minutes away from Auroville. Truely proud of you and the people who works with you. Thankyou.
Thank You.
you are encouraging me to see the light...thanks...
:)
i have got so much information from you...i would like to thank you so much.🤗
So happy!!
Great video, full of knowledge... one question, for a layman, how do I find out which plant is beneficial, just by looking at it, the wsy you do, it has to come with experience and being amidst them surely, but for people like me, we need some help on starting up to learning about these plants. The problem is that in cities we have very less space exposed, mostly covered with concrete and people hardly can make out which plant is which., thanks again for the informative video.. I have subscribed to your channel and feel motivated to do something like this...
I have had an amazing teacher and done a lot of investigating myself. Also there is an amazing coloring book which helps adults as well as children identify edible weeds/plants. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfFmT44USM72SWU6EXfNt1hC7berK_fs-CdWABYmcpF6rrKEw/viewform
@@KrishnaMckenzie Thank you🙏🙏
tapioca is delicious
super kirushna sir
Thank u for ur trevolution
Wonderful. Thank you!
Hi bro I just happened to watch your videos. There is nothing in the world better than being with nature.
Nice , work, I am planning to work a lot more on my farm
Your food garden is beautiful I want come to u and learn gardening.
Thank you so much for all the explanation.
So inspiring, Krishna - your exuberance and veneration for earth and its gifts is uplifting. Thank you!
Thank you Sir for what you are. We, as an organization, try to learn from you and implement it in Delhi. Thank you. We are taking small steps but we have miles to go.
I really enjoy learning about permaculture, No question at the moment, just absorbing the knowledge. Your food forest is beautiful 🙏
So nice of you
Very good video on plants that can be grown easily. Lots of people give names but you are sharing your experience in Tamil Nadu.
Krishna as always interesting videos. May I ask that your camera zooms in on the plants and leaves so we can identify them in our own countries as names may differ in regions. In our country they are known b y different names. Many thanks.
Please make a video on weed management
Hey Krishna..I'm just trying to get around the concept of permaculture and your videos are informative and fun to watch! More power, more prosperity to you!!
your enthusiasm is a killer . thanks for sharing
thankyou!! :)
I would suggest you to conduct a session physical or virtually .fee or free.We can learn priceless things and will transform generations to gain from our valuable culture sir
Hi krish.. the knowledge you have is abundant... and knowledge sharing you are doing now is incredible.. its like re introducing our traditional values.. what we have forgotten now.. thanks you for this wonderful video.. keep growing keep going...... cheers...
So nice of you
Papaya and Tapioca leaves can be cooked and eaten as vegetable. We do it in SE Asia
You inspired us living as great human. Thank Bro. For remind the nature.
Feel good seeing the nature and how amazing it help us thank you Krishnaji
For show such amazing video.
Excellent Krishna ji. I am a beginner in permaculture. Your videos are permaculture tutorials for me. It gives me a great insight in understanding permaculture. I watch it with a great interest.
So nice of you
This is how I need to change my whole coconut farm I love this whole place ..here near madurai so dry and very few water ..with mulching nature gives me so well. Only challenge I face is initial requirement of seed, stem , and saplings I am doing with as much as I get ❤️🙏🏼🙏🏼🌿
copme and visit after lockdown we can talk.
Krishna Mckenzie sure waiting for that day😍
Can you share your contact number
Quran നിത്യജീവിതത്തിൽ my number??
@@gowthamvegan3135 sure..why not..krishna's too if he don't mind
A wealth of information for circle gardens, perennial hedges and food forests. Brilliant, your natural 'walk and talk' adds to its authenticity. You are another Fukuoka for me, keep reading his book for all of us.
very sweet thanks! :)
Learned lot from you sir,I have an acre land and in one of your video you said you will help in set up the food forest.What is the cost sir?.We can do it after this corona.Please reply sir.Thanks
Very interesting !!
Glad you think so!
Great Job, I am so much interested to learn about permaculture
You're doing an amazing work quite effortlessly.... Every word you speak comes from your soul... There's lot to learn from you and unlearn a lot of our learned strategies too... Hope this Corona situation eases out quickly so that I may visit your farm, learn from you about this endless bounty of Nature and most likely replicate the same in my village.... Way to go man...All the best... 😊🙏
So nice of you
you are amazing! i am coming to you in couple of weeks with my family to learn natural farming and to show my kids who we are, what is our legacy and where we came from...
looking forward to your visit:)
My goal is to work outside with edible plants and trees shoeless! You got it down brotha!!
:) thanks do what your heart calls you to do!
Hi. thank you Sir for sharing and good information. 😍 watching your video
Only 1 feedback
Could you do a close up on the wild weed that benefit to eat . I am from Malaysia , I only know blue flower - and the Turkey berry other weeds I not sure
Thank you in advance
You are becoming my role model.. I have been watching your interviews and videos for past 6 months, you are such a source of information.. first of all thanks for you to loving our culture and following it and making awarness to peoples. because people from here losing their originality and getting far from nature... One day I will become a farmer like u... Good luck with the youtube..I wish you to have success here as well..
Wow, thank you!
Waiting for the lock down to finish to start planting more fruit trees and circle gardens in a small 4 acre farm in Hassan. Krishna Sir, will surely visit you after travel restrictions are lifted to get more guidance from you
Thank you Krishna , this is so inspiring ! My garden is taking a new turn with your shared knowledge and experience. Those precious plants will spread and bring abundance for all !
My pleasure 😊
Learned so much 💐🙏
awesome! :)
Dear. friend i want to do this kind of farma culture in aurovile .Thanks a lot for your garden visit.
Commedable ! I have started adopting some of these principles after being inspired by your work and the huge amount of time at hand thanks for lockdown ! :-)
Wonderful! go for it, the ideas are simple and easy to do :)
Beautiful.. brother...
Awesome.Missing India so much. I am in Ireland and managed to grow manathakkali. Does well for 3 to 4 months. I want to know if it can be grown with cuttings. So I can use the little grow time I hv.
How do you deal with snakes in your farm.
Well , snake help farmers , they eat rats and protect product
Snake not dangerous
@@Rajbharath10 how can u say so? I am from Bengaluru... There are so many snakes crawling around our house in empty sites....
very informative and inspiring, hoping to start something like this when I go home to the farm. thank you and more power!
Go for it!
Vanakam!
Thanks for your valuable efforts to keep our mothers earth live 🙏
thank you very much Anand 🙏
Krishna Mckenzie Will meet you once lockdown is over and I am able to travel back to India.
Hai Krishna! Really heartening to see your work and happy to to see you parting your knowledge. I am interested to see or know about ice-creams you have prepared. Do you have a video on that, or can you part with you technique. I have some butterfly peas (shankupushpam) on my plot. Perhaps I could make some ice creams for kids with those.
Do you have any suggestions for hibiscus plant part other than shampooing hair with them?
Please look on my channel there is a butterfly ice cream video.
We are growing garlic that has been growing with the family for 50+ years, I didn't know the nature of the plant and propagated it too much, so now it grows in lots of places here and there in the area. Today I put lots of potato peelings in the surface of a few planting buckets, as we were otherwise just throwing them out. If they grow we will have potatoes again.
I think that is a bit optamistic but I love the story of your garlic!! that is honoring nature honoring garlic!! :)
Super brother 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
Thanks 🤗
Dear krisna. Nice messages. Please share some informations on kallurukki, kizhanall and kuppameni. U are doing great. God bless u.
Will do. Thanks for the enthusiasm ☺️
Living life 🌽🌾💐🌴🏜️
banana is a very easy plant to grow especially like heavy clay soils that have poor drainage. Banana grows well in such soils and transforms the area into very beautiful soil to grow other crops.
Thanks for this video.. Usually I don't comment on videos, but the work you seem to do really inspires me to start one (although I'm a newbie) and making me think visit once to get started... You truly sir are making a difference and vaazhga valamudan 🙏🙏🙏
You can do it! come and visit after lockdown. this is the essence of what we are showing, anyone can do this. be well :) K
@@KrishnaMckenzie sure I will visit soon once the lock down ease.
i want to meet you sir
Thanks a lot for educating us about the plans around us, we would love to see more such videos, the best thing about such videos is that you also inform us about how to use these plants, in my views a series on the plants around us and how to use them and their benefits would be awesome, as now a days its very difficult to know a person who understand plants so well, ..... you are doing a great work, keep it up, one day I wish I can do something like this.
More to come!
🙏❤️ is it good to plant tepiyoca horizontally and how much nodes should inside soil 🙏
well I learnt here from local Tamilians and they put it in at a slight angle with a few nodes sticking out. In Kerala however they plant them vertical. Ask local people for best results. :)
If I have a areca nut farm. What are things that I can grow along with it to compliment?
Hi Krishna, I start now a permaculture food forest in Uganda.
Where can I get the seeds of the plants you show? Can you really eat tapioca raw? Here they say it is poisonous when raw.
Greetings from Dehradun...what plants will grow in the hills which are subtropical areas. I would love to grow tapioca but not sure if it will grow here
How do you water all your plants?
🙏🌹👏
Dear Krishna
Please tell me how to cook the wild brinjal vegetables minus the bitter taste.
Here in Adyar, Mangalore these grow by themselves and has excess of water. I used to use them as organic manure for the coconut grove.
Excess Banana yellowed leaves when placed as a ground cover, inhibits growth of weeds. Useful as a garden pathway.🙏
Please search on CZcams sundakai or turkey berry
Great video Krishnaji. One question - How do I improve the quality of my soil naturally. Its very sandy and doesnt retain moisture.
Returning organic mater to ground in form of Bhakthi automatically soil becomes healthy
you really have to return lots of organic matter. see in thi9s video how we made a trench and how we put wood and branches and leaves and grass and ANY organic matter in the trench that will change the structure and thus the fertility and thus the water retaining ability of your soil. good luck. come visit after lockdown! :)
absolutely!
Hi sir... Can we earn our living through orgonic forming...is it better than pesticide forming?
Thanks, Krishna, quite informative and entertaining video, as usual. I've seen a handful of your videos over the last few weeks. What is the Tamil and botanical / scientific name of the blue flower? Shankhupushpam in Tamil? I think we had it in our garden when I was a kid.
Cheers.
Clitoria ternatea
clitoria ternatea
Tamellla pasunka sar 🇱🇰🇱🇰🇱🇰🇱🇰nan
Nice video. We visit puducherry regularly. How to visit this farm?
Saturday 11.30 free farm tour every week
How big of land do we need to feed four people by doing permaculture?
Quarter acre
Hi sir..What is the plant name you are talking about at 13th minute?
hello nice work, i want some seeds from your garden, can i get them.i will pay money,
How to irrigate all these plants?
You are remembering me Jim Corbett, how a white guy gradually became a native.
Krishna I want to meet you soon
after lockdown!
Hi Krishna, can I have some kandhari chilli seeds you mentioned in this video ? Thanks…
Please send whatsapp message 9843319260
Hi. When you say Manatekali, is it Solanum nigrum?
Yes
Thanks Krishna! Keep sharing and enlightening!
Is the blue flower shank pushpi?.can we just eat like that will it help in memory …..or we have to fry powder , or boil…..my son can eat like that ….he like salad but has autism ……now he has GERD issue , regurgitation….we put him on GFCF diet but not helping we are in US want to come back to india…….what herb good for reflux …..regurgitation
As a tea is great but we also have it in salad.
18:16 what's that tree you mentioned that grows a 3 meters tap root?
Pigion pea
Thank you.
I dint get the name of the autism plant rich in omega 3 ‘pothalaka”???
Portalaka locally known as parapukerali
Do papaya plants need watering everyday?
During starting stages need some water later in such mulching process need very little amount of water
@@gowthamvegan3135 I nurtured two papaya trees, then they turned out to be male ones. 😔 Now have planted more. Still babies, any way to identify male and female ones.?
absolutely not!!!! They taste good when watered less. but watering needs is relative to soil fertility which is relative to soil structure which also affects taste. so mulch mulch mulch and grow papayas in a simple way.
salonika commar don’t worry about male or female just grow nature takes care of its own we will use some of it
Krishna Mckenzie nice 😊 Thanku
What a pitty that you don't live in temperate climate like me. I would love to watch you teaching about colder climate plants.
Hai we want come to visit ur farm how ?
Saturday 11,30 free farm tour
@@KrishnaMckenzie actually yesterday we came there to visit ur cafe.... but we dnt knw the path.....somebody told... that u need to get prebooking....then we move another cafe
@@KrishnaMckenzie can i get ur contact no pls...
it is better to add small animals to your garden
Talk in Tamil sir, so your idea could reach more people locally and you may get more viewers
ok this week a Tamil Video!! :)
How do you deal with snakes in your farm.
All is God! Snakes as well. they have an important role to play!
@@KrishnaMckenzie But, what to do when we unknowingly step on a snake's back, when it's basking in the sun?
It rained here in Bangalore, since then I sighted 6 snakes. 1 very large black snake (escaped), 3 different sized small cobras (rescued) and 2 water snakes (killed by neighbours). All of them I saw first in distinct places around my home. Everybody are frightened here of snakes entering their homes.
One of the solution is Rearing big ducks at fields.