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The Farm That YouTube Built

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Lets build a skill share community. I'm inviting growers, builders, permaculture gardeners, anyone who's about self sufficiency and sustainability

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6 contributions to The Farm That YouTube Built
Came across this GEM had to share it here
https://youtu.be/vI6dwkjHFwM?si=nSWwAaVzYxcUETC2
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Growing with Fishes
My ultimate system is definitely aquaponics and all its various offshoots. Growing fish and vegetables all in one system? That's just cheating at this point surely ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚. I can blame my foray into aquaponics to landing me in this world of sustainability and permaculture. The moment I saw it, it just made sense. A system where biological process defines every element of the growing processes? Whaaaaat?!! ๐Ÿคฏ๐Ÿคฏ๐Ÿคฏ๐Ÿคฏ. You allow the biology to naturally grow, you add the fish, the fish waste feeds the microbes, the microbes convert the fish waste into food for the plants.... The plants filter the water and reoxygenate the water, that same water is used to grow the plants and you pump the water back into the fish tank.... Understanding that cycle ,led me squarely into permaculture. It's the same process. Understanding the biology, the soil, what we,animals and plants need .... Then working towards allowing nature to do its thing... The fish water has had massive part to play in the successes we have had to regeneration of our land. And it doesn't have to cost an absolute fortune to build your own... Have you heard about aquaponics?
Growing with Fishes
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@Emil Moldovan worms are integrated into the sand beds and we have a separate worm colony section as feed for the fish. When start up again after the expansion, it's something I want to explore more(worm teas etc)
Just start
I really don't think this can be said enough. ... Just start. Whatever your context or circumstances , get your hands dirty and start. Overthinking and analysing every little detail will eventually become the excuse to not get on with that dream to live the life you actually want. Procrastination becomes an anchor that tightens around every 'problem' you calculated or presumed wasn't possible. My dream has been to live off the land, live in a home I designed and built myself. I didn't have a penny saved.... Still live paycheck to paycheck like most of us. The only difference is, I just started. I'm a YouTube 'connoisseur' of sorts๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ. If I'm interested in a topic, I will binge watch as much as humanely possible until the idea cements then .... I will scale whatever it is into a small enough project and replicate what I've watched. If it works, great.... That's my excuse to go big or go home. I'll tweak and prod till it makes sense and then just do it. There's so much information on-line now. We don't have any excuses not to try things. What's that project you want to do but keep finding an excuse to not start.? Mine..I began with bare land and I'm starting to see the fruit of what "Just start" can become...
Just start
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@Emil Moldovan It's strange how modernity has completely brainwashed most of us to completely ignore nature hey. People would rather walk into a store to buy fruit they could pick off a tree fresh. Spaces like Skool are a breathe of fresh air. It's quite therapeutic talking to people living a shared experience like yourself. I'm sure there's a way for you to make good use of that spoiled fruit? I've started a black soldier fly colony recently to process waste and create rich feed source for my animals. Maybe you could go down that route as well....๐Ÿซฃ
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@Emil Moldovan I love that.... My hope is to start processing and preserving as well soon. My guys will benefit from learning all those skills fermentation etc. Once the processing unit is done later on this year, I'll investigate how to start introducing that aspect as well for sure
Satisfying watching something you plant grow
I had no inkling what I was doing starting out. Seeing the fruit of your Labour flourishing.,,.. nothing like it. What are you growing?
Satisfying watching something you plant grow
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@Emil Moldovan all our fruit trees we have planted from seed. What works for us is starting them off in our nethouse and avoid direct sunlight those first few weeks. They don't do very well in hot sun. We have a spot now where they are shaded for a good part of the day and only sun them briefly either early morning or late afternoons. Just pick a spot that avoids that afternoon blaze and you should do okay. The potting mix as well we use well aged compost and our 'secret weapon' is the fish waste watering daily in those early stages and our success rates speak for themselves really. It's the format we basically use for all our tree starts really. It's working well thus far.
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@Emil Moldovan the first year once we plant them is the same daily watering. Before planting we dig 2 feet holes and a shovel in aged chicken manure then compost and seedlings and cover as you normally would. Every one of our trees has started fruiting in the second season at which point we prune quite aggressively and drop the leaves in place after we add same mixture of aged chicken manure and compost just before the rains start annually. After that its just harvesting the fruit, storing the seeds for next season and repeat... Only the seeds from the best production trees make it back into the nursery. That goes for all our fruit trees basically
I can't be the only one thinking like this..
Hi there. I'm just an average Joe, trying to make it work in a world that doesn't make sense to me anymore. I have been on a journey to find the key to escaping the rat race we all have been taught is 'normal'.... It's borderline crazy to me I have to leave my loved ones everyday (sometimes weeks at a time) so that I can house and feed them. Is that just me??? Maybe I'm the crazy one...๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚. The world where I can't feed my family with healthy nutrition without chopping off an appendage first to earn the privilege to do so by the way...A world where poison is 'the right way' to grow that nutrition even when we all can see it's poisoning us to do so.... If I want to build sustainably, it's going to come at a premium because someone else says so.... And on and on it goes.. I've always loved building things, but life in modernity says you need another appendage lopped off to afford that 'luxury'.. It feels like I live in an alternate reality if we are being honest.... What happened to community? What happened to quality family unions? What happened to shared interests and common sense? I'm still trying to find the answers to those questions. Fortunately.... For me at least, I found like minded people online. On YouTube to be exact. I'm just an ordinary guy living from hand to mouth though, I can't afford a lot of these things outright so........ I decided to watch how these legends were creating solutions and copy them, and do it myself. I'm not a purist, just practical. YouTube is building me the Life I have long imagined for the longest time. Come and join me to see how I'm going about it and maybe, just maybe, you can take some shortcuts I had to learn the hard way NOT to do. I'll be building stuff with rammed earth, compressed earth bricks, ferrocement and many more. We can explore how I'm building greenhouses with a combination of those methods. Black soldier fly houses, Catfish hatchery tanks, biogas domes, workshops and many more using these and other tried and tested techniques on a shoe string budget.
I can't be the only one thinking like this..
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@Emil Moldovan these last few days finding other trail blazers like yourself has cemented my resolve for sure. It's often been a lonely journey to be honest. Nobody, and I mean NOBODY believed in what I was doing in the beginning. ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ˜‚. Everyone thought I'd lost the plot and was wasting my time attempting to farm at all yet alone farming naturally. I've had lots of stop and starts but I'm stubborn like that and I just kept on pushing forward. Now that it's all starting to create abundance, the rewards are bringing in interest. This next year the big project is to complete the permanent nethouse and mass produce fingerlings so I can mass produce cuttings, seedlings, fish and starters to share out to future partners in the community. I'm slowly getting buy in as they recognise that natural farming is really the best way to go.. Exciting times ahead
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@Emil Moldovan I really love this stuff man. Finding like-minded souls to share ideas and thoughts with is EVERYTHING..
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Edwin Bomani
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Road to retirement. Creating resilient systems in wellness and wholesome living. Natural building methods , permaculture, aquaponics, biogas and more

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