Sustainablity
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How I live Off Grid In Puerto Rico January 2022 update
Here is a video from my youtube channel. Please subscribe to the channel if you enjoy what I do. I have been living off grid in Puerto Ricoon this beautiful farm since Fall of 2019 and have been living off grid ever since. I live a simple life and so it is hard for me to get things. It has not been as easy as I probably make it seem. But little by little things in my farm and home are taking shape. Thanks to everyone who follows me on my journey. Please leave comments down below and please share and subscribe to my channel and newsletter down below.
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Video: Failed Attempt at Selling Avocados in Puerto Rico
I had an abundance of Avocados on my farm. I attempted to go on selling avocados alongside the road to make extra income. Stood there 2 days but to no avail. Check out the video to see what I did with them. For the next time, I have a better plan on selling avocados here. If anyone would like to donate to help me oput on the farm. I would greatly appreciate any help. I accept donations on paypal
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Video: First Harvest of Plantains on my Food Forest in Puerto Rico
What a lovely feeling it is to harvest your the first harvest of plantains of my food forest in Puerto Rico. After a year of waiting for the harvest. The best part is the pups that I get to continue planting more and more and more. I want more plantains and more bananas and more of everything. The food forest I am creating here is taking shape. Things are growing wonderfully. If anyone would like to help donate gift certificates from etsy to help me get more plants. I would appreciate it very much and would be very grateful. I also accept donations on pyapal here. Please Subscribe Please subscribe…
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Off Grid Puerto Rico Food Forest Nov. 2021 Update
Here is a quick update at the beginning of my Puerto Rico food forest . Things are taking shape at my farm here in Boriken. It feels wonderful to see everything growing. I had this farm for 2 years now. I live a simple life without much money because I enjoy living this way, but it has been hard to get many things. I get things when I could. Little by little building my masterpiece. I look forward to the next chapters on this journey of growing a food forest here. Look forward to continue getting different fruit trees of all types. Also Many different flowering shrubs for the pollinators.…
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Using Seaweed As Fertilizer Mulch on Farm In Puerto Rico
On my farm I have started using Sargassum seaweed as fertilizer. I will be making another video talking about how to use it. For now below I will tell you how I to use it. How to Make Seaweed Fertilizer There is disagreement amongst gardeners about soaking or rinsing fresh seaweed to remove sea salt. Some experts suggest soaking the seaweed for about an hour and/or rinsing it. Other experts argue that the salt is minimal and rinsing removes valuable nutrients. Nonetheless, fresh seaweed is generally dried before being tilled into garden, mixed into compost bins, laid as mulch, or made into DIY seaweed fertilizer tea or powder. Once dried,…
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Tour of the Start of Food Forest in Puerto Rico
In this video I give you a walk through of my food forest in Puerto Rico and what I plan on doing. It has been a long journey to get to this point and I look forward to continue making more videos showing everyone the progress of my food forest in Puerto Rico So please follow me on this next chapter. Subscribe to my youtube channel. If anyone would like to send donations. They could be sent through my website click here Or through paypal jivanlothario100@gmail.com I also take gift certificates for seeds and plants on that same email https://www.etsy.com/giftcards https://www.rareseeds.com/store/garde… Thanks all for the support. Please follow me on…
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Video: Starting A food forest In My Farm In Puerto Rico
I have been living in the beautiful paradise that is Puerto Rico for the last 8 years. Click here to read why I moved here fromBrooklyn, NY. For the past 5 years, I decided to be the guardian of the beaches and rivers of Puerto Rico. I was recently going to leave the island because I recently was shot at my face for defending this beautiful beach. But after finding this land, I have decided to stay in Puerto Rico to grow my food forest. Which you can read more about here. A new chapter begins for me here in the beautiful paradise that is Puerto Rico as I was…
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Video: The Forested Garden: What is a Food Forest? By Geoff Lawton
What is a Food Forest… A food forest, also called a forest garden, is a diverse planting of edible plants that attempts to mimic the ecosystems and patterns found in nature. Food forests are three dimensional designs, with life extending in all directions – up, down, and out. Generally, we recognize seven layers of a forest garden – the overstory, the understory, the shrub layer, the herbaceous layer, the root layer, the ground cover layer, and the vine layer. Some also like to recognize the mycelial layer, layer eight (mushrooms). Using these layers, we can fit more plants in an area without causing failure due to competition. Forests are ecosystems with a…
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Why I Decided To Become Vegan And Why You Should Consider It Too
Revised 3/15/2024 Over 8 years ago I began a journey to become a more conscientious human as I began to start to getting to know myself as my wild roots started to grow as connection to the natural world. I started to live a more conscious simple life I became an activist for the environment as I would go on becoming the guardian of the beaches and rivers of Puerto RIco (click here to read about that), I quit drinking alcohol, went barefoot and started disciplining myself and removing all the negative qualities about myself. “My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.” leonardo da vinci One of…
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Documentary: Thriving 23-Year-Old Permaculture Food Forest – An Invitation for Wildness
My vision is to create my own food forest one day, to leave something behind instead of those footprints we leave behind going no where. We should strive to leave positive footprints behind. In the small town of Riverton at the bottom of New Zealand’s South Island is Robert and Robyn Guyton’s amazing 23-year-old food forest. The 2-acre property has been transformed from a neglected piece of land into a thriving ecosystem of native and exotic trees where birds and insects live in abundance. Robert and Robyn are a huge inspiration to us, not only for their beautiful approach to healing the land and saving heritage trees and seeds, but…
