Up next - How to make a blacksmith hammer! Should be up next week.
@paddysscrapshop7182
5 жыл бұрын
Nice looking forward to see you make a cross peen hammer
@saimanie6739
5 жыл бұрын
I've already saw that on Alec Steele channel but I would like to see how you would do that.
@workwithnature
5 жыл бұрын
@@saimanie6739 Sure it turned out quite nice, am working on editing right now.
@workwithnature
5 жыл бұрын
@@paddysscrapshop7182 actually is a rounding hammer. We will do a peening hammer at some point, would be great to use up the left over piece.
@3basketliving
5 жыл бұрын
I just really like the fact that people consider all the other opinions and experiments out there but then experiment themselves to find out for themselves to see what works in Their location with the ground and environment given to grow as natural as we can all the while growing and growing ourself. Nice! ;)
@workwithnature
5 жыл бұрын
It really is the only way as in truth any science project with replicates is technically only valid in your area at a certain time with a specific methodology. Simply because there are always way to many factors to say for sure. In the lab it is fine but out in the field to many variables can show up. But what it really does is teach you through experience and in gardening that is king and that you can not learn from any book.
@grandadz_forge
5 жыл бұрын
Impressive work. Good luck on the new land!
@tension888
5 жыл бұрын
Hi bro. Any update on your honeybees or stingless bees?
@WsFood
4 жыл бұрын
The hat is unique. Did you make it yourself🙂👍🔔
@MyFamilyGarden
5 жыл бұрын
Been waiting for your latest upload! Great stuff, really good idea on the way you did this.
@workwithnature
5 жыл бұрын
Glad to be back, had a lot of stuff to move and do.
@MyFamilyGarden
5 жыл бұрын
@@workwithnature learned loads from you when you used to do your early videos gardening more locally.
@workwithnature
5 жыл бұрын
@@MyFamilyGarden EXCELLENT glad you picked up a few tricks. Sure some of the gardening is definitely only useful if you live in the same area. Maybe one day we will head back hey and will have more time to focus on gardening technique in the videos and not so much trying to find interesting projects that are more for a broader audience. It has been hard finding that here and so I just opted in doing videos on projects I am interested in. Growing here in Kerala is manly using perennial food crops and what can I say am the seed guy.
@MyFamilyGarden
5 жыл бұрын
@@workwithnature i built my first compost pile watching your tutorials! when moved into my new house, first time we had a garden started my own food garden. still keep going over your earlier stuff from time to time
@workwithnature
5 жыл бұрын
@@MyFamilyGarden That makes me the happiest when I can do a little to pass on the know-how. Thanks for letting me know, made my day that ;)
@anupanuni
5 жыл бұрын
Good to see you back with videos. Is there any way i can volunteer in your farm!.
@sharadajoshi8920
5 жыл бұрын
I just used 10 seeds of which 5 germinated. I did the 3 sisters method with sorghum bean and ginger. The bean blasted so much to cover all except one sorghum plant. The bean vines twisted around the 6 foot tall sorghum holding it strong. It got a flower also than heavy winds made it fall it got cut. Now new shoots have come and other 4 plants are picking now. May be you can try 3 sisters type too
@workwithnature
5 жыл бұрын
We did a six sister experiment when we were in Switzerland and I think I called the videos that and you can find them somewhere on this channel. Stuck them in a playlist. You doing beans and Sorghum and Ginger, that is an interesting experiment. Sounds like the ginger got smothered then by the beans. The sorghum is pretty strong. Do you have the eating kind without tannin or the broom type? Incidentally just finished today with the sowing of the new sorghum semi no - dig patch in the new place and inter cropped it with a low growing bean. Used mung bean. Had to lightly fork the soil as it is clay.
@VeganChiefWarrior
5 жыл бұрын
hey man, is chop and drop enough to put plants at max production or is a fertiliser like urine a god send, cheers
@workwithnature
5 жыл бұрын
It does depend on if the nutrient is in there to begin with. Chop and drop can be enough by itself. Nitrogen for instance is needed in greater quantity and is fixed by certain plants and as long as you grow them as part of your cycles, you can chop and drop them. This then will add N to your soils without the need of urine or other N rich fertilizers. Generally microbes will make minerals available to your plants over time especially if you have added some compost or mulch you got from elsewhere. Think of them as little storehouses of nutrients. But it is often enough to do just chop and drop as 95% of elements plants need actually come from the air. O2, carbon, nitrogen, water and all nutrients are already in the plants you chop to drop.
@VeganChiefWarrior
5 жыл бұрын
thanks for the reply man you are awesome, how about in unworked soil or potted plants would a faster acting nitrogen be helpful at least at the beginning untill the soil gets to be a healthy system? cheers man@@workwithnature
@meehan302
5 жыл бұрын
Good to watch your video, Dave. No dig is the way forward. I let the worms do the digging, Merry Christmas. Patrick
@workwithnature
5 жыл бұрын
Hi Patrick Merry Christmas to you and yours.
@fexummuk
5 жыл бұрын
I have planted 2 rows of carrots in a no dig bed. I sprinkled the seeds along the top of the soil and covered it with a layer of sugar cane mulch and left it. 98% success rate :D I have SO MANY carrots now! And i literally spent about 10 minutes on it :)
@workwithnature
5 жыл бұрын
Good job, Sugarcane is such a great mulch.
@fexummuk
5 жыл бұрын
@@workwithnature :) indeed it is.
@josebenitez3732
5 жыл бұрын
I'm in the Tropics and composting using horse manure, which is all I can get, and having great results. The worms are as thick as a No. 2 pencil. Loads of life. Also have very hard clay soils. Mulching everywhere I can.
@workwithnature
5 жыл бұрын
Interesting where abouts are you roughly. If you use compost in a tropical rain forest area like here in Kerala then it is gone out of the soil in 6-12 month. The ants and other insects and microbes just love gobbling it all up. But then we have just sand to grow in. Do you find it to be true that the compost you add dissipates fast where you are? Great you really have to use anything you can find, bonus if it is free too.
@simonallins6010
5 жыл бұрын
I experimented with black sorghum and beans this year. The sorghum was a huge success, fist size seed heads, the beans completely failed, sorghum is allelopathic to some plant species, and does not seems to bother others...
@workwithnature
5 жыл бұрын
Great info, just what i have sown yesterday. Will be interesting to see if we have the same problems with it suppressing the beans.
@simonallins6010
5 жыл бұрын
Great, looking forward to see your results...
@CanadianPermacultureLegacy
5 жыл бұрын
No dig is the only way to go. It's what we teach in cold climate permaculture. Same thing as you, we run experiments with controls and no desire to push it either way. It just so happens that all the no dig beds do better. Dont kill the soil life, its what drives the whole system. Whether its green covers or mulch covers, as long as you aren't digging you are doing it right. Also a big fan of open pollinated, especially in the long term. Eventually you get specialized genetics for YOUR land, YOUR climate. The whole system gets stronger. Great video, keep them up. Check us out too if you are interested, we talk about similar things to you.
@workwithnature
5 жыл бұрын
It is great that the trend is changing in regards to soil erosion and respect for nature. Just hope we don't loose to much diversity in the process, well and this world, that has gotten a wee bit crazy of late, does not implode :) Definitely will check out the channel and see what you are doing. Used to manage a small permaculture farm back in Ireland. Just a very smart approach to design projects, farms, cities.
@CanadianPermacultureLegacy
5 жыл бұрын
@@workwithnature I subbed to you as well. I enjoyed this video, right up my alley. Loved the content, keep producing it!
@CanadianPermacultureLegacy
5 жыл бұрын
@City Homestead yes, that's just simply genetics. For example, you plant a bunch of tomatoes. One plant in particular does really well through the drought. That could be caused by something local to the tree or it could be that it grew slightly deeper roots, or more fine root hairs, or anything else driven by genetics. So you save those seeds. Most of the offspring should have this trait now. Some wont but many will. Next season, save the best of those. Msybe the best ones were able to handle the acidity of your soil, or resist specific bacteria in your soil, or handle specific nutrient overload or depletion of a certain element specific to your soil, etc. Do that for 10 years, and you will have seeds from plants that have been the strongest genetics which have proven best for YOUR soil. Either that or buy some seeds from 5 states over, grown in a completely different climate, different soil chemistry etc, and hope for the best. Saving seeds is a life skill that shouldn't be overlooked.
@MrCrazyChemist
5 жыл бұрын
Yes, new content
@MobaCry
5 жыл бұрын
Master Masanobu Fukuoka is the reference !
@workwithnature
5 жыл бұрын
You mean the one straw revolution guy. He covers some of this in his book. I think the reference here is Master Mother Nature if there is to be one. Is like when some people talk about permaculture and say in permaculture we do this thing called mulching! Trust me I get it. But fairly, this is not just book knowledge, have spend years experimenting for myself in all sorts of places and everything we have ever used/ made/ invented was first inspired by nature.
@MobaCry
5 жыл бұрын
@@workwithnature sure that's exactly what he says too ... You sure need to experiment for yourself but you can also learn from others experiment. In my case I learn from him. But I do agree with your comment just wanted to introduce this person books to anybody interested into this subject.
@workwithnature
5 жыл бұрын
@@MobaCryHe studied microbiology for many years and the way he grows food is pretty amazing. The idea to not cut / prune apple trees at all, I think is very good. One needs to come up with a different crop rotation if one is to try his method of succession, as in the west it is more challenging to get this right with a winter and all. Plus you have to factor in the fast metabolism of the soil, due to the humid tropical climate and sandy soils he was probably growing on. Another excellent source of information that is mentioned in the videos is Elaine Ingham and her work. The soil food web.
@MobaCry
5 жыл бұрын
@@workwithnature sure, however he doesn't advice crop rotation. More a mix of crops that help/feed/protect each other. That is the way I follow. Anyway love people like you trying new stuff experimenting, I am 100% supportive. Hope to see more video from you, keep it up brother !
@workwithnature
5 жыл бұрын
@@MobaCry Ah yes, meant the rice and the other crop he used (forgot now what it was). Always thought that was nifty timing though. Now thinking of it, I actually even did mention him and his method in the first or second video as part of this mini series. But then I do do retakes sometimes and it could have been in one of those too. Have a good one :)
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