WELCOME TO BIO-ORGANIC FARMING!
PLEASE STAY TUNED FOR REGULAR UPDATES,
as more videos and resources are plowed into the earth of this ancient
body of knowledge. AND PLEASE GO THROUGH THE ENTIRE ...
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A basic description of the physical aim of this course.
Consider please this concept, Bio-Farmer, this discussion as
ongoing. YOU are ever invited to attempt verbal capture and modification of ...
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Just, a little food for thought, sponsored by the beings underfoot.
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A little note on our Curious Little Reality, April 2020.YOU, as ORGANIC FARMER, now stand in FoodWorld Center Ring.That is to say,the people are with you,demand is with you,the FUTURE certainly is wit ...
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The drastic differences between the two main forms of practiced farming in the world, as it pertains to the life of a modern human.
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whatever does ORGANIC mean, anyway? this is one abused & overused word in the English language nowadays.
and mostly it gets,well, lost in translation.
poor 'organic' our friend, is at once a ...
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AN OFFERING on changing the heavily-controlled "organic" label, to put responsible, high-quality food production back in the hands of farmers.(something quite valuable that i learned, is brought to mi ...
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HERE IS an info-bank on several subjects, that you can peruse and use as yourpersonal resource or info-bank. HOPING that these files may find usefulness with any of yous who are needing specifics.... ...
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Knowing what you have for soil is valuable- or invaluable- for a continued good produce throughout the growing season, year after year. Here is a way to observe your surrounding environment, to unders ...
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A chat on what makes hot composting hot, and introduction to the ingredients which will instigate this microbial majic.
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Got trench dug, got players got soil got water.
Throw it all together in 2 minutes- no more- and we got
composting, the way it oughta be. SimPL.
next!
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Almost as many ways to get bacteria together, as there are to skin a cat.
here a few common composting arrangements. do it fast do it right, but... to do it.
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Soil treats must be processed PRIOR to the farm rising up in existence, as the good stuff must go into the soil before the seeds.
HONOUR and NURTURE thy workstaff (the subsoil gang), and thou shal ...
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SWITCHING gears in order to give you some biodiverse exampling, we insert a visit to Saipan island, where we see a windrow - or wild pile- in a clearing for a new bio-org farm effort there. Tropical, ...
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Filmed in BaanKai, on the island of Koh Pha-Ngan, Thailand, early
2015. This island is where tropical application to the Ladakhi Method
was carried out, from 2013 to 2015.
In this lecture, we ...
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This is an example how-to, so just sit back and take it in, prior to doing your own plannage...
...from using the hoe, to clearing the field, to creating those first cells and canal in your Lad ...
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A nice take-along list, as a reminder of what you might need out there, and as clues or tips for ideas you might take on.
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Companion plantings bring biodiversity & creativity to the farmfield. How about the FUN factor for the farmer, as well? Let's explore these wildly different topics in the same document...
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it's a lot of fun to just creatively combine seeds, and change ideas
and conditions from cell to cell, just to see what'll happen. so why not
MAKE A RECORD OF EVERYTHING
when things go ho ...
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A pictorial guide for how you might consider laying out that Ladakhi
style farm structure, which will house those fabulous
vegetables-to-come.
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ROW FARMING- ahh, REALLY, Folks? am i the only one who is aghast at the chem-soup we've made of our waterways, or the crap soil which gets left behind, or the washed-out veg we get at commerci ...
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WHEN i first heard of this- and everyone thought it was the coolestthing since sliced bread- i admit, i was somewhat enraged. sorry.BUTT- the ins and outs are discussed, and well, let me know whatYOU ...
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SO, WHAT TO DO.......watch and give me YOUR solutions, if that's alright.AS SAID, we're just brushing the tip here on the nature-abuse whichthreatens all of us, though many may not agree. ...
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This series of farming details was filmed in Likir village, Ladakh, in 2015. This lecture introduces you to the farm scenario- the fields, location, climate, and the people inhabiting the farmscap ...
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All about the Ladakhi clay soil & its properties, and how to lay down & maintain that planting surface within the cell.
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To augment previous cell structure demonstrations, here is a chat on a simpl-small farm layout, from Ladakh in 2019. Most of the work has been completed, so here we're describing a scenario and h ...
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NOT HERE the latest videos are necessarily presenting the freshest material, in the case of farming (seeing as how this is all ancient, sensible practice)....BUT HERE we have the full-monty small farm ...
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How does the Ladakhi Method handle large-volume production?
Here, a few examples of afterseason Ladakhi grainfields, shown empty in order to see the complete field layout.
Shown
here, prime canals ...
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Here, a huge jug of icky urine is actually sloshed upon the cells, during the soil treatment process.
DO try to maintain a scientific curiosity.
Also, we get into using the SimPLife HOT planting ...
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This is a quick how-to, for turning nutrients under the soil.
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A discussion on what will be planted, and why.
Also, some vital info on the seeds themselves, and why seeds are one primary focus of SimPLife.
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OK, time for a quiz on applying what you have learned about BioDynamics.
Real life, hard-hitting facts are thrown down, and your executive
decision sets the whole farm process going the way YOU de ...
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Responses to BD questions asked in the previous lecture.
The official SimPLife opinions are given, based on experience and highest probabilities.
However, NO wrong answer really exists- there ...
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This is somewhat of a hodgepodge of other factors to consider in this scenario, and in farm scenarios in general. Having a bit o fun...
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Describes seed factors: of planting depth, early and full-growth plant spacings,
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companion planting guidelines.
NOTE: a companion planting chart is recommended, to choose the right
combinati ...
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More discussion on getting nutrients and seeds into the soil.
Planting Demo: organic Ladakhi brassica superseeds are planted whilst straddling a cell.
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ON to maintaining that planted farm! Discussion on the activities and health of your farm's subsoil, whilst we perform the first afterplant hose-watering of the cells.
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At this point in our earthly journey together, we now consider the definition of "farming", and of the "farm". Yes, both have entries in dictionaries around the world, and we can quote those to no ...
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Amalay the mother, head of the local family, helps us to understand the regular Ladakhi watering practice. Also, when to water via canals vs. hosefeed watering, is discussed and exampled.
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Where were we? Farming. right. This is a quick sweep of the planted cells, 5 weeks into the future, and how it compares to the neighbouring Ladakhi cells.
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This shows the SimPL process of how overplanting can turn one cell into many, as we find more time to expand the farm.
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Mulching: The essence of Multiplicity, merely by covering the soil around valuable plants with straw or dead cellulose. see how....
Green Manures: freshly cut green plants, laid in among the crops, ...
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A discussion on thinning, and how this process is at the center of various cell maintenance activities.
The first farm HARVESTING also occurs here- the small or baby plants singled out for the ...
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Speed thinning - or using a tool to quickly chop through close planting, is discussed and exampled.
Also, more discussion of the thinning process - how multiplicity, if
properly utilized, can resu ...
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Here are a few random farm tips, offered as useful short clips rather than as discards on the cutting room floor.... In this lecture: Bacterial Beer, Garlic planting, and Thai Stick technique (per ...
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THESE ARE the most common techniques i've used over the years.....having said that, i have found that by planting using strict BD principles, i have been blessed with not many horrible cases to ...
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THESE ARE MORE common techniques i've used over the years.....TWO MINED, NATURAL SUBSTANCES from Earth, that are effective killers of the ground-crawlers and earth-burrowing pests. FIRST, I discu ...
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DIATOMACEOUS EARTH ALSO KNOWN AS D.E., diatomite, or kieselgur/kieselguhr – is a naturally occurring, soft, siliceous sedimentary rock that is easily crumbled into a fine white to off-white powder. ...
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Adding in a few notable pests- which sometimes double as allies- to offer a few more pest control solutions.
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Tossing in the building trade to the pest control hodgepodge , with an added mention for our good friends, the pollinators. DON'T MISS the cheat sheet attached, to get you going on pollinator att ...
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Suggests a balance, on how much influence BD has on our actions.
When do we harvest vegetables, vs. root crops, for storage?Do we rely on BD to tell us when we can pick crops to eat right now?
Human ...
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BioDynamically: HARVEST - that most
glorious time of ultimate farm success and plenitude - occurs at the
time of optimum moisture upon the Earth.
For most all vegetables, seedplants, herb ...
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...those happy days of simpl harvest, taking daily abundance from the
fields, SHARING all around, and treating yourself and others to the best
gifts one can give...
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Apples & Apricots are featured here in Ladakh, but fruits are adored
worldwide, and are perhaps the best examples of PERENNIAL farming-
which, once established, generally produces high-value crops ...
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One technique to put a bio-farmer on the map, is to UP-MARKET crops.
Produce crops in a form which involves preparation or process, and the
harvester thus kicks them into a higher energy category, w ...
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Ladakh, as in most mountain kingdoms, is known for its prolific production
of organic grainstuffs, such as barley (nas), buckwheat, and most
recently wheat (troe).
All rural Ladakhi habitations ar ...
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In rural Ladakh, a common sight is to see browned grasses
adorning the roofs of most buildings. Wild, robust alfalfa &
grainstalks are piled up to stay dry and protected, as feed for the
various fa ...
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Shows our little farming strip at season's end, which despite less than perfect human conditions, has supplied quite a lot of food this season all told, actually a success story.
Also, a rundown ...
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This series was filmed in Itaewon-dong, Seoul, Korea, in early summer 2015.
Although this example is not what most city dwellers are experiencing -
to have a small plot of land outside your elev ...
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Discussion on farm tool choices, and the annoyance of weedgrasses, particularly in tight spaces.
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Whither it be a soiled plot, a tub, box, or bucket, we start with the
farm essentials, and mix it together to create our smallish urban farm
layout.
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Another scintillating BD quiz: this time for the particular conditions of the urban farmette.
A few questions or conditions are posed here, for your consideration,
regarding the BD calendar, lo ...
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Here, opinions regarding the BD quiz, are offered, based on experience, and overall conditions that come to bear on the farmette. Also, a brief but essential chat on rocks. err, were we not suppo ...
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A worst-case look at urban results, more or less:This is the result of the farmette existing
on its own - with smatterings of watering in between local rains- and
being subject to local abuses, as i ...
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After the long offseason sleep, a field or urban growing project is brought back to life. soil treats, slowly converting to useable nutrient over the long months, mud & fireplace ashes dumped on, the ...
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WHY do we plant seeds? to eat.
why must we choose what to plant? some things grow better than others in our areas, some things we prefer over others, in our diet.
why is it so much better to cho ...
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one take, in an urban setting, of how our precious-most seeds go into our Earth.this, according to the ladakhi method of cell farming, as opposed to the outmodedrow farming which stripped our planet o ...
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A summing-up of what we just did out there. how the BD factors in,what companions were chucked in to each cell together- and YOU are asked to check my decisions, please....
and what have we learned? ...
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GET the scenario: 5EOB Panauti, Nepal, late-season maybe October. farm is coming off a major, severe brutal pummelling on a scheduled, daily basis from the grouchy Thor that Nepal is known to sport.th ...
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on-site with your host Charlie Baba T 5EOB, we discuss surviving crops, and show a renutrifying & replanting quick makeover for a few of the beds on one of the many terraces here at the farm.
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the banter:chatting up the case for letting life live, the plants we know nothing about, which fill in the spaces between crops and functionals on every farm, and the opportunity we have, as gods and ...
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HERE is a pdf of guidelines and suggestions for monsoon farming based on experiences and observations of our own, and as discussed in the previous videos. A planting list is included, although it cann ...
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A PREVIEW example from the Third Course in the SimPLife Triad, Living Farm! HERE is a lovely piece of protected ground, for a family that lives across the street.Just the sight of this much GIFT and ...
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AT Elysia Boutique Resort in Koh Samui, Thailand- one simpl technique to get vital organic matter into your stubborn, persistently sandy soil- by using the local ACACIA tree as a green manure. Acacia ...
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AT Elysia Boutique Resort in Koh Samui, Thailand- one simpl technique to get vital organic matter into your stubborn, persistently sandy soil- by using the local ACACIA tree as a green manure. Acacia ...
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