Farm and Homestead Resiliency Principles in Practice

wow, some people are actually finally doing this! there is so much resistance in NC where I live. i'm thinking of moving back to the west coast, just from frustration.

Just bought your book, gobbling up your YouTube talks too! We are working on our own homestead in WV and excited to learn from your experience. I rarely post on YouTube, but thought you should know 2 ads for herbicides came on before your talk. I know most of the folks watching your vids know better, but if it were my content I wouldn't want it in any way connected to something so abhorrent. Here's one of them: https://www.bayercropscience.us/products/herbicides/capreno

Fantastic presentation, +Ben Falk, thank you for sharing!

Another great presentation, Ben! But goats and trees co-evolved. As with everything else... management is the key. Have you seen the video or heard about the place in California that used a herd of goats to prune their trees? Olive and fruit trees. They control the weeds underneath, limb them up, and keep the centers of the mature trees open to allow the sunlight and air circulation the trees need to remain healthy and productive.

Thank you for sharing your insights.

Thank You, Ben; for all your hard work for us. There are a lot of good ideas for creating our own Land preps for our future food productions the way God and Mother Nature intended.

did you know about Azolla? maybe you can organize this waterferns for your Ricefield,Chickenfood e.t.c.

I have one entire side of my property, in fact, the largest part of the land as I'm on a mountainside and there isn't much flat area.. well my leech field runs up at the top of it, and I have grey water down below, which grows bountiful weeds! But I'm just so worried about growing food there that I may be contaminating myself and my family so I don't do it.. I even worry about the areas around the outhouses that were there 20-30 years ago and the area around the septic tank and everything below it.. I know no toxins were put in it, the family has been adamant about that. While chlorine does get poured in the well at regular intervals the septic has not been pumped in the 30 years since it has been installed and works just fine. The shower and washer go to the grey water line and we haven't been picky about using biodegradable soap so there is likely some contaminant issues there.. I've thought about growing willow or bamboo there and trying out grain or any type of biomass like you commented about.. I've heard that trees are the safest thing to grow near a black waste system, yet on the other hand I hear that trees will destroy a leech field too so I'm at a loss for what to do. This is the second time I've watched this film and I thank you for sharing it.

hey ben
i see your growing wheatgrass, whats your take on doc william davis's claim that most (95%up)is geneticaly mutated wheat introduced in 1985 worldwide ? he claims it has a poison chemical in it that causes all types of disease, mental and emotional dis ease, check out his lecture wheat:the unhealthy wholegrain on youtube, and visit wheatbellybog for sources to his claims. thanks, great vid by the way

i wonder is the geoengenering actually contributing to "climate change"

Thanks for all info! Im just little curious about your sewage and gray water system. I assume that you´r not hooked up on any centralized (govt.) system. I saw an youtube clip with Paul Stamets he used mushrooms as a purifier (reed bed I think) but it was just very brief instructions. Do you have any info on that in your book perhaps? Would love a complete guide on such a system but it´s not too easy to find. // cheers

Isn't Ben such a great communicator? I've been immersing myself in Geoff Lawton and Paul Wheaton. But its all coming together with this fellow. "Farm resiliency" is a clearer concept then "permaculture."

Have you tried growing cranberry in the patties? Maybe a mix would be better than this because it's an (albeit small) monoculture.

Buy his book: ground breaking information, not another book that tells you to lime the soil.. hehe. Me and my partner are working on establishing a homestead in the gulf islands that uses rotational grazing, perennial food systems, fungi and other gems in transitioning to a life less reliant on fossil fuels. . . so much inspiration from Ben's systems. Thanks for posting this...

Yeah Geoff Lawton is the one who says" You don't have a slug problem, but a duck deficiency"

Excellent understanding of natural systems and principles, thanks for sharing. I will be including some of your ideas to my landscape design, and will be integrating pasture animals like your said, to increase cycling, and as a result fertility and productivity.
I cant wait to see an update of what the farm will look like in spring 2014

+daarnit Hey man, Google has owned Youtube since 2006. So, I guess what I am getting at is that Google can do what they please with Youtube.

Perhaps you could even grow peanuts, they are grown in Nova Scotia :) You could search for it, I want to try them next year.

Thanks so much... really appreciate you saying this. Best, Ben

I don't think it's quite as simple as you say - though I wish it was. I tried this approach for the first 5 years in my landscape over 8 of the 10 acres. Didn't result in nearly the kind of healing action I've seen where effort and human energy has been applied, plants seeded, trees put in the ground, animals grazed, water captured. Check out some of my other videos for more on this process.

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