Water Saving Tropical Permaculture Garden Tour

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John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shares with you a Tropical Permaculture "Wonderland" that grows over 100 varieties of edible crops as well as uses many permaculture design techniques. In this episode, you will get a tour of the Amazing Permaculture Garden of Coconut Chris on the Big Island of Hawaii on how he took pastureland and transformed it into a Food Wonderland growing many rare, unique and little known varieties of fruits and vegetables with goals of sharing seeds with the community, and by teaching interns with real-world day-to-day permaculture gardening experience. http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=growingyourgreens/ In this episode, John will take you for a tour around the many different areas of the garden, including the food forest, the fruit forest, the banana orchard, the water saving vegetable garden and much, much more. You will learn some specific varieties of fruits and vegetables you may want to grow if you live in the tropics. This is a must-watch episode for anyone that lives in the tropics, such as Hawaii, South Florida, or otherwise to empower them to grow and use some of the tips that Coconut Chris employs on a daily basis to keep his plants growing. At the end of this video, John will interview Coconut Chris where he will share some of his wisdom about becoming a better gardener and much,much more Referenced Videos: Gac fruit video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-_8x5LdGqQ Passion Fruit video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHJerRgRScE Permaculture Fruit Forest Feeds off Grid Family: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uAmdB7nxuc Subscribe to GrowingYourGreens for more videos like this: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=growingyourgreens In this episode, you will get a tour of the Amazing Permaculture Garden of Coconut Chris on the Big Island of Hawaii on how he took pastureland and turned it into a Food Wonderland growing many rare, unique and little known varieties of fruits and vegetables with goals of sharing them with the community, and by teaching interns how to do what he did through actual real-world day-to-day permaculture gardening experience. In this episode, John will take you for a tour around the many different parts of the garden, including the food forest, the fruit forest, the banana grove, the water saving vegetable garden and much, much more. This is a must-watch episode for anyone that lives in the tropics, such as Hawaii, South Florida, or otherwise to empower them to grow and use some of the tips that Coconut Chris employs on a daily basis to keep his plants growing. At the end of this video, John will interview Coconut Chris where he will share some of his wisdom about becoming a better gardener and much,much more Referenced Videos: Gac fruit video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-_8x5LdGqQ Passion Fruit video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHJerRgRScE Permaculture Fruit Forest Feeds off Grid Family: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uAmdB7nxuc Subscribe to GrowingYourGreens for more videos like this:

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At around the 42 mark, where there was corn, beans and squash, that growing is in the three sisters farming technique. The corn acts as a trellis for the beans and the squash acts as a ground cover. Sometimes sunflowers are added as a pollinator and additional trellis.

I'm adoring Coconut Chris.

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was that wild banana actually good? it looked like you were kind of making yourself eat it to be nice or am i reading into things too much?

Tropical permaculture design ...! Can we have some diagram /design as illustration or something

This is incredible! ✌️🌱🔆

Is chris available for speaking in the 4 season summer months?

That's called "furrow irrigation" and has very high evaporation rates. It's actually about the most inefficient way to use water. Permaculture is about care for the earth and that means utilizing the latest technology.

What is the name of that edible hibiscus? Is it ABELMOSCHUS MANIHOT (Hibiscus manihot)?

I LOVE this! Hilarious "Coconut Chris''" tree climbing abilities!

Wow! This video is packed full of great information, thank you!! I love to garden but find it hard to find drought restraint plants and flowers or plants and flowers that don't need a lot of water to thrive.
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At 52:49 is that a juicy rat running past??? ;-)

Aren't you worried about the rat lungworm when you're nibbling on unwashed veggies from the Big Island?

How is his riverlike flood irrigation (minute 38) efficient? The evaporation surface is actually very high. Maybe I'm missing something, but it looks like one of the most inefficient irrigation systems to me. Furthermore, in the video he is watering seedlings whose roots barely reach the wet soil, so most of the water must be lost through evaporation. It looks pretty for sure, though.

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At 36 min he's describing what ice cream bean is like when a cow says mooooo.

this should air these on tv for everyone to see. then imagine how many more people would get interested in growin their own food and learning how.

Actually- Chaya mansa, the first vegetable leaf with the sap, is one of the highest in protein vegetable leaves- 2-3 times more than any other land-based vegetable, and has proven blood sugar lowering effects for diabetics (reliable research). It is as nutritious as moringa- and is more delicious. It is one of the super-foods. The Katuk that is mentioned, or Vietnamese Sweetleaf can be toxic in high amounts because of the alkaloid papaverine and can damage the lungs. I don't know how much is "high amounts" but is it's not recommended to eat a lot every day over a long period.

how can i wwoof on his farm?! this is fantastic!! I would work my ass off for this guy. He's awesome

What this guy is doing is ultra dangerous. It's nice to be self sufficient, but when u start inviting plants from across the planet into our eco system that is unknown to other native species you are allowing our bacteria and plant diseases to exist within our eco system that could be catastrophic. There's a reason why the airports in our country and through out the world specifically ask if you are transporting anything organic!