Ever since we got introduced to Permaculture some 10 years ago we had a dream to start and grow a beautifully productive food forest. We’ve made the first steps on our new off grid homestead in Portugal to realize this dream and planted close to 400 productive and support species. We built 5 new swales with the help of a small excavator and have planted a wide variety of trees on them.
The trees we planted include:
Figs, Apricots, Cherries, Plums, Apples, Hazelnut, Chestnut, Walnuts, Peaches, Nectarines, Mandarins, Lemons, Lime, Pomegranate, Feijoas, Persimmons, Mulberries, Oranges, Avocadoes, Loquats, Olives and a bunch of other species.
With the help of drip irrigation, deep mulching and seed mixes our goal is to convert an abandoned hillside into a thriving food forest and off grid homestead.
Follow our journey and learn with us as we experiment different strategies to make this place into a beautiful and productive small family farm.
Thanks for passing by and hope you've enjoyed watching this project unfold! It's such a pleasure to share this here with you. We've been dreaming of starting a food forest for so long and I can't believe we've finally planted the beginning of hopefully something incredibly abundant. Will definitely do update videos on how the food forest will grow overtime!! Thank you for all the support and kind comments! We really appreciate it!
I love your project, I've been looking for land for a long time and it's very difficult. I would love to have more information on costs and preparation about swales and ponds.
Thank so much!
Amazing work, so elegantly simple! And the joy of a swale filling up, zero water movement. Doggie has a play-pond!
Do you have a well in your property or just what you dug?
Looking good with the new plants. You are making so easy.. we are so encouraged. Any cherry trees?
Beautiful landscape design! Hope all the family is adapting to the new life! Can you make a update of how is all behaving in the 1st spring!
Да уж, один чернозем вокруг ))
Удачи вам.
Your project is truly inspiring. I recently left South Africa to be with my now wife and we bough a small holding together in France. Although our land is a lot smaller than yours we also have a dream to create an abundant food source from it. We have zero experience but we see and learn a lot by watching your videos. It would be so great to get some advice from you.
Happy to see your videos again. Keep going.
Awsom job,
This from Bangalore Bangalore India
This is so helpful to see the process; it would be fantastic to have some commentary for extra detail 🙂
Please can anyone tell me the name of that grass
Five swales will collect a lot of water and 387 trees is going to e a lot of produce in five years.
Amazing & inspiring content! Am I the only one who is missing a nice voice over with some explanations, background information and thoughts?
Very nice to see the progress, would be nice to have a little more info on what and why you are doing things this way.
From a desert to an oasis, beautiful.
Fascinating to watch. Trees are key components and often the small ones are easiest to get established. I love your swales because you natural resources, unlike agribusiness in the US where everything is designed for the use of large equipment. You are developing biodiversity which reduces the need for pesticides. I love observing your progess.
Which seed those
Dis nou leersaam. Wat noem mens die groot passer wat jul gebruik om vlakke te bepaal?
Amazing! How did you plan all this so it works out so good?
Thank you for sharing!
I guess you will be planting nitrogen fixers on these banks as well?
Wonderful Transformation of your farm and your thought. Wish you all the best for this journey
The soil where you live is humus, so it has a high moisture content. I guess so. You can plant breadfruit. That's a delicious fruit
You know the acorn tree?
Are you ever going to explain what you're doing? Am I supposed to guess? Is this a music video?