Productive windbreak and shelterbelt design
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- čas přidán 20. 08. 2024
- This video is a deep dive into the design of our shelterbelt systems.
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Hi from Waikato in New Zealand. Like you we are high wind area, mixed alder zigzag into our belts with mulberry, olive and macadamia with citrus and fejoa as lower story have been a real win for us. Very much enjoy your content. Your tip on comfrey was very valuable. Thanks and keep them coming.
Fantastic! Thank you.
Two Cairn of Dunn Croft vids in one day - what a treat!
I recently tried to replicate your success with hazelnuts with the only things I could get my hands on - supermarket nuts. I tried to stratify them in the fridge/freezer for a couple of months but must have kept them slightly too damp as after a month or two in potting compost they turned to mush - oh well, it's an iterative learning process!
I did manage to get a few very strong hazel saplings planted in our croft recently though - from Christie Elites in Forres. They were much further along and more sturdy than the ones I previously got from Alba Trees for a similar price - highly recommend them.
Definitely give them another try!
So lovely to see how big some of the trees have grown already! Especially the trees at the 5 year mark are starting to really look like a little woodland. Another 5 years and you won't be able to recognize the place! It's come a long way from being an empty overgrazed field! You must have so much wildlife visiting you too surely? Have you considered setting up trail cameras? Would be really curious to know all the different species that you've been attracting with your work!
That's a good idea, I should dust off the trail camera.
It's going to be amazing when it gets going. I have intuited that there is a fancy camping operation being aimed for? Hence the solar powered shower block and the little hut type structures? How are the guests going to know when the water is hot enough for a shower? Will there be an app? Will they have to put themselves in a queue to use the hot water? Such a progressive idea to let the sun create the hot water. It'll be beautiful, too. Having a shower and looking out on all the trees and the loch... It could become the star of the show.
A campsite I visited, near Edinburgh a few years ago, was not great as it was very close to the main motorway north/south. It had a toilet block. The toilet block - one side of it was a tree and the tree had been augmented with corrugated sheets of steel and plastic. One toilet. Sawdust toilet. Lots of wasps and no locking door! It wasn't nice. Interesting view from inside. Not the kind of room one necessarily wants to have a view, though..
We have a camping pod business yes. The shower will run on wood biomass we grow on site, rather than solar.
Looking amazing.
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Fantastic work. Looking forward to seeing how your wonderful croft develops , suppose I'd better subscribe 😊
Welcome aboard!
Considering how dirty solar panel production is, this way of growing solar panels seems to be even better.
Carbon negative, self replicating, storable energy.
@@CairnOfDunnCroftPermaculture also looks better.
@@mkeyx82 true!
Some before and after would be very useful. A lot of videos could do with context from previous years.
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What's your plan with all those currants? U-pick, farmers market, fodder crop, wholesale, consumption for you and your guests? I fear (?) you will get several literal metric tonnes of currants :o
We might do u pick eventually, but we'll also pick and process plenty for our own use. We haven't finished yet either, there are several types I still want to plant.
@@CairnOfDunnCroftPermaculturePlenty being the cue here :) My aunt has some old, super-prolific red currants bushes (three bushes, but they act more like a 10m hedge). My aunt picks those in 10 liter buckets (plural) - and are super-happy if we ask if we can steal some berries from the bushes. Filling up a few 2 liter boxes doesn't even make a dent (unlike my small red currant bushes that only gives 2 liter each). Her bushes (well, my grandmothers) were quite old when I were young, so might take some time to get to that stage :)
@@saethman That's the long term goal really, to have more food than we can possibly use ourselves. It opens up a lot of possibilities when we can feed others too.
@@CairnOfDunnCroftPermaculture True, and that "problem" isn't really a problem :) What I find strange is when people point to a fruit tree with fallen fruit and call it wasteful - what is wasteful is to NOT grow that fruit tree in the first place...
Is that impenetrable layer of stone, from the old trackway, not protected for it's archaeological worth? Don't you, rather than robbing it out for building materials, think it could be re-exposed and used as your path instead of you tripping over hummocks on the one you currently use? Less work, needed. Shouldn't annoy the archaeologists. Free, already 'paved', path! Maybe, it's historically unimportant. What do I know?!! It depends when it was installed, and why, I suppose. And, you must have good reasons for not wanting to use it.
All tracks on site I built with stone from a nearby quarry. None of it is archaeology.