Masanobu Fukuoka Is In My Food Forest
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Masanobu Fukuoka would not remove and any weeds. He taught about supressing weeds not eliminating them. He said weeds had their own purpose in natural system. Masanobu would not have a grown he food in that way. He taught having a natural mulch growing on the ground with nitrogen fixing plants. He would not use wood chips on the ground. Masanobu never pruned his trees. He never grew his tomatoes on a trellis he let his tomatoes grow on the ground.
This video has none of Masanobu Fukuoka teachings
Awesome, just awesome!
How does your garden handle the change of the seasons?
So inspiring!
Masanobu is one of my prime influences with how I've created and maintained my fruit growing and native plant composition at my property, since the late 1980s, after I read his book, One Straw Revolution. I understand.
Nice!
Did you ever have a chipmunk problem?
Pruning is often used to open up the tree so more energy goes into fruit, making larger, sweeter fruit. Limbs being shaded by other limbs really aren't helping much and can be removed. You either remove the above limb, or below. Normally above unless you want to harvest with a cherry picker!
The fruit will generally be on the limbs that are exposed to sunlight, so if you don't prune, guess where the fruit will be? Good for the birds, not so good if you want some apples for yourself.
Wood trees by the way are pruned the opposite of fruit trees. We do a lot of both.
Remember, almost every fruit tree you have is not natural. Large sweet apples aren't what you get in nature, you would get crab apples.
You take out the central leader mainly because you don't like to harvest with a cherry picker.
If you want to see how well not pruning works, find an abandoned orchard. There will be almost no fruit. Also, not pruning will often get you in a bi-annual pattern of harvest. Huge harvest one year, almost nothing the next. This is because a huge harvest will exhaust the tree so much it won't put on many flowers the next year.
All of this is from my observations of fruit trees by the way – and we have a lot of them!
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Fukuoka's techniques have proven difficult to apply, even on most Japanese farms, and have been described as a sophisticated approach despite their simple appearance. In the initial years of transition from conventional farming there are losses in crop yields. Fukuoka estimated these to be 10% while others, such as Yoshikazu Kawaguchi, have found attempting to strictly follow Fukuoka's techniques lead to crop failures and require many years of adaption to make the principles work.
thank you !
Hi James LOVE watching ur videos you get rite to the topic! Starting my own food forest planting from seeds I'm using a small green house, I have a lot of space so just getting started. We r on lock down pretty much in So. Cal. So using my time as best as I can.
Thank you
P.S. LOVE Tuck
Do you do any biological control?
I was looking at the veggie areas you had planted like one just had a cabbage spaced out then something else 30cm beside it. I was wondering if you would be able mske some videos on more interplanting.
Eg you could grow row radish/rocket and lettuce under the cabbages.
And some videos on what veggies go under what tress.
I'm currently a market gardener and trying figure out what trees and bushes to build up into a food forest and create microclimates
James: you are always "talking crazy"…'s why your'e awesome..Thank you for the inspiration. I shall be re-reading Masanoba's works …today. Earth is raining Love on you. …
For the past 3 days I have been "hanging out" in your forest garden with you and tuck for hours straight. I have virtual visited Charles Dowding (another favorite of mine), Jim Kovaleski, and others, but I finally wanted to comment to you what is my favorite thing about this channel. I am a philosopher transforming into a gardener for life. I deeply enjoy your gentle intertwining of philosophy, references to permaculture masters, and allowing your garden to speak for itself. This "seeing" mentioned is especially close to my heart. Kovaleski does this too. Your style of synthesizing philosophy and spiritualism speaks loudly to me, especially how you talk about getting started, investing in systems, and having faith in what you want to do. Go away from naysayers and play like a child. ALL of this brings me back to root foundations of feeling what I am thinking, which is more pronounced if in a garden or wilderness. I also think your produce (those rainbow table spreads) are the most beautiful harvests I have seen. Just watching you go through and pick them, seeing how they looked on the plant, in your hand, then to the table is a very real inspiration.
Your videos are full of spirit, quality, and filled with clear insight from clean experience. Your master inspirations are perfectly versatile, the eastern mystic (Fukuoka), the western mystic (Mollison), and the true Christian (Gautschi). All so culturally different, yet all so relavent to modern times, and all talking about the same awe and reverence through that "seeing" without desire and reason, without human knowledge.
Thank you! Oh, and, thanks Tuck! Good god I'm glad I found this channel! Keep going James!!!
Hey James
Man, you are displaying some golden nuggets of knowledge in this one. I’ve been watching your vids for a few months now, devouring you’re content and pretty much everything you recommend. This spring I started my food forest in the backyard, throwing anything that caught my attention into the ground. I was both playing like a child and enjoying it with my children. Been messing around with plants and fruit trees for years, but never really had a goal or focused on them till recently. Just had my ninth and final child last night. While baby and mama slept, I swallowed “One straw revolution”. Now, there’s no turnin’ back. I’ve been looking for this kind of endeavor for a long time. Thanks for all the practicality and passion. Keep it up!
For the curculio, have you tried planting alliums, edible or ornamental, around the base of the trees in circles to discourage curculio from climbing back up the trees come spring?
I have a few friends dealing with it and I was looking into companion planting for curculios.
My garden has a good bit of James Prigioni in it. Thanks so much for what you do.
After watching your video , makes me wonder how connect you're to your garden
I totally get you my fellow permaculture brother! I often sit in our food forest and just watch and listen. Thank you for sharing.
Hey…YouTube brought me (a seed method vid )…the trail led to you-Fukuoka references.
I’m learning so much.
You are truly a young master in your own rights…only masters-of-the-gardens know FukuTeachings!
Have you ever thought of hanging finch nesting round baskets all underneath the branches of the your plum and nectarine trees, the time of the year that those curcullio caterpillars hatch out is about the time that wild finches are mating an looking for nest areas, puttimg them up in the trees, gives them shade and safety, and the caterpillars are a close birds eye view resource for them to eat and feed their young! Just a thought, these wild finches eat grains and worms, caterpillars and will leave fruit alone, well maybe not the currants, but as long as they have a protein source they don't eat berries! Just a thought to improve your forest and bring some native beneficial birds! Hang them in the trees in early spring before or when the leaves start coming back on the trees!
Good fruit
Great things to be with and understanding the nature!
We are a part of the nature!
Be in it and to be awareness of it, to be in the Happiness and Peace!
Lol…! Good work! Enjoy!
James, where can I learn how to do natural farming like this? I live in India, I have a nice piece of land near my house, but I don't know how or where to get started! Can you please share your advice?
Love it
Fantastic history bombs. Much love.