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agroventuresperu

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High Jungle Food Forest Update
« on: May 23, 2021, 10:21:35 AM »
Hello Everyone,

I've been meaning to join this forum for a long time. I used to be a member of the cloudforest garden forum back in my backyard gardening days in Santa Barbara, CA. Well that was a decade ago. As we all know the world is a different place today.

Since then, I've thrown caution to the winds and decided to dive head first into my dreams. So, I made a contract with a local nurseryman to grow a number of different saplings, and bought a piece of land in the high jungle of Peru where my wife and I planted ten hectares of pasture with 40 different species of fruit trees.

Here's my update after one year of planting everything.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwoAY1jrgaw&t=11s

This is the total plant count of what we planted a year ago:

« Last Edit: May 23, 2021, 10:30:07 AM by agroventuresperu »

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Re: High Jungle Food Forest Update
« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2021, 06:05:10 PM »
Very nice!
Small South Florida Urban Permaculture Food Forest with ~50 different species of tropical edible perennial plants

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Re: High Jungle Food Forest Update
« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2021, 08:25:03 PM »
There’s a fair number of cloudforest cafe’ers here.
What was your handle, or “username”?
Lorax here.

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Re: High Jungle Food Forest Update
« Reply #3 on: May 24, 2021, 06:52:56 AM »
Scott that is a lot of work and looks well done. Keep us informed by coming back at least yearly, but I'd enjoy seeing much more. Maybe a discussion of how you maintain such a large space.

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Re: High Jungle Food Forest Update
« Reply #4 on: May 24, 2021, 09:20:07 AM »
That's amazing! Must be really tough to take care of thousands of trees.

Please make many more of these update videos!

I have the exact opposite problem to yours, my PH is around 8.6.
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Re: High Jungle Food Forest Update
« Reply #5 on: May 24, 2021, 10:44:07 PM »
Thank you for sharing and acting on your passion. Let me know if you see anything interesting in the skies up there. Maybe you have already?

Allow yourself to know, if you wish, that this is a multi dimensional communication.
See what happens.

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Re: High Jungle Food Forest Update
« Reply #6 on: May 27, 2021, 11:27:49 AM »
What are you going to do with the fruit from a thousand mango and a thousand avocado trees? That place is beautiful, must have taken a lot of courage to go through with it and move down there?

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Re: High Jungle Food Forest Update
« Reply #7 on: May 27, 2021, 11:58:26 AM »
Great video, thank you.
Wonderful place, wonderful dream, becoming a reality.
Easy to get help there, labor cost low.
You are cultivating riches in more ways than you know.
Hope we get another video, maybe drone video as trees get bigger.
Thanks, rock on.

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Re: High Jungle Food Forest Update
« Reply #8 on: June 04, 2021, 11:44:08 AM »
We'd be so lucky to actually end up with a thousand productive mangos and a thousand productive avocados. The long-term plan is to harvest for personal consumption mostly, and raise pigs as well as Pacas (a local jungle animal) to eat the fallen fruit and produce meat. Obviously the trees will need to be at least 10 years old before that's even feasible. Aside from Mangos, we focused mostly on fruits that would produce keto food, which will provide better sustenance, than just sugary dessert-type fruits. We planted some Metohuayo, which is a native jungle nut. The Majambo (a species I showed in my video) produces really good seeds that people roast over fire. They are basically like a fat, giant version of pumpkin seeds.

Maintenance is the most difficult topic. I wish I had one of those forestry mulchers, and a reliable mechanic for it. Our property is so steep though, that I wonder if even one of those skidsteer forestry mulchers wouldn't flip over. We own three weedwackers, which are time consuming, and it's not always easy to find help. The Husqvarnas we own have not been very reliable. We bought a Maruyama recently, which is a Japanese brand...supposed to be more reliable.

To help with maintenance:

Short-term: Pastured Poultry (Muscovies, Geese, Chickens)

Mid-Term: Cattle, Water Buffalo, Sheep, Goats, Kunekune pigs?

Long term: Fruit pigs, Pacas, Pacaranas, Goats?

The trees need to be a certain size before we can start using some of the animals.

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Re: High Jungle Food Forest Update
« Reply #9 on: June 04, 2021, 07:55:05 PM »
Very interesting project wishing you best of luck growing out your food forest!