How to Grow Ginger for Profit in a Food Forest "Living Permaculture" Episode 3
To learn more about How to Grow Ginger for Profit in a Food Forest click here: http://youtu.be/yAZH_M5GnXk Agroforestry has become my greatest passion on our permaculture homestead. It is such an amazing and dynamic system, and in my opinion, is one of the technologies that can help save the planet. Perennial (AKA - Permanent) tree and plant systems offer so much stability to our natural landscapes. In permaculture, one of our biggest goals is to mimic nature. Agroforestry, sometimes called food-forests, is designed to mimic nature while simultaneously provide an amazing abundance for humans and animals. Unlike traditional orchards, agroforestry systems incorporate a large variety of tree and plant species to create a dynamic symbiotic relationship. In this video we will be exploring the idea of inter-planting the open spaces of these systems that exist in the early succession period. There are endless possibilities for plants that you can use and your choices will be determined by your climate and needs. Today we will look at one of the most healing medicinal plants on the planet...Ginger! Ginger is the underground rhizome of the ginger plant with a firm, striated texture. The flesh of the ginger rhizome can be yellow, white or red in color, depending upon the variety. It is covered with a brownish skin that may either be thick or thin, depending upon whether the plant was harvested when it was mature or young. Growing ginger is very easy if you are in the right climate. It is a very robust plant and will continue to reproduce once it is started. Native to southeastern Asia, a region whose cuisines still feature this wonderfully spicy herb, ginger has been renowned for millennia in many areas throughout the world. Ginger is mentioned in ancient Chinese, Indian and Middle Eastern writings, and has long been prized for its aromatic, culinary and medicinal properties. After the ancient Romans imported ginger from China almost two thousand years ago, its popularity in Europe remained centered in the Mediterranean region until the Middle Ages when its use spread throughout other countries. Although it was a very expensive spice, owing to the fact that it had to be imported from Asia, it was still in great demand. In an attempt to make it more available, Spanish explorers introduced ginger to the West Indies, Mexico and South America, and in the 16th century, these areas began exporting the precious herb back to Europe. If you want to try this at home, you can start your ginger plant from any fresh ginger root you buy at the store. It loves deep loose soils and will continue to spread and reproduce once you get it started. Thanks for tuning in and please LIKE,SUBSCRIBE and SHARE our channel with your friends. Brendon McKeon.........................Permaculture Designer Stephen Orth.................................Video Production Soundtrack by Kevin Zacek Growing Ginger click here: http://youtu.be/yAZH_M5GnXk Subscribe to our EcoOasis Youtube channel for weekly permaculture informational and adventure videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNkBt25gu98VskkM-SjickQ/featured Follow us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/EcoOasisCost... Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/EcoOasisCR Follow us on Google: https://plus.google.com/u/0/ Follow us on Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/ecooasis/ To learn more about EcoOasis: http://Ecooasis.org How to grow organic ginger click here: http://youtu.be/yAZH_M5GnXk 1:44 Medicinal properties of ginger 2:17 Preparing the soil to plant ginger 2:40 Laying out contour beds to plant ginger 2:50 Contour swales for planting ginger 2:57 Planting ginger 3:23 Amending beds for ginger 3:54 How much ginger to plant 4:25 How much ginger you will yield 4:52 How big of pieces of ginger to plant 5:51 Mulching ginger 6:38 When to mound ginger 7:02 Digging out swales of ginger beds 7:15 Chop and drop mulch for ginger beds 8:18 Weeding ginger beds 8:24 Organic foliar spray for ginger 9:28 Digging up ginger rhizomes 9:45 Food forest~agroforestry To learn more about how to grow ginger click here: http://youtu.be/yAZH_M5GnXk
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I badly want a small forest all my own! Great video, mate!!
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how did you set your export
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Thanks for sharing this video
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Gardening in the Hillside, how often you encounter a snake?
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I will definitely keep watching your videos.
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can you plz tell me for how long will it to harvest the ginger and will it be ok to replant after the harvest..
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Such a amazing video. I definitely loved watching this. I hope you have a great day.
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Great video. Thanks for sharing and keep up the good work. Hope you continue sharing more videos.
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Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Awesome project!
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Dudeee this is my dream
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Hi I just came across with your videos and found it very interesting. I am from the northern of Brazil however I live in New Zealand and I have been curious about permaculture since last year when I went back home for holiday and heard a story about my father's friend that lost 20 cows due to the lack of water and fooder. and he said that it was very sad see them die.I have plans to go back there for good and start a permaculture design in my father"land, so I can give some contribution to him and others farmers.I saw your comment somewhere that you have some paddocks for pasture.Do you have videos talking abou this subject?you have done a great job in your farm.Thanks
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Awesome farm! That's my dream! Way to heal the earth! I'm trying to get ginger established before I start harvesting. I'm in semi trop florida and they are dying back a bit for winter but I split them and hopefully they will be ok I am chopping and dropping everything and they could get buried a bit but I feel they will be ok.. They really started taking off this year now with the partial shade from my moringas and dichondra ground cover instead of grass.. Check out my garden of liberty and peace and love Bradenton Florida Awesome info!
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video was really informative..In my country (India) small formers follows the same method from centuries. yet they don't see big profit in that.. is agriculture always profitable? if we take ginger also the market price fluctuates heavily. how to be always in profit irrespective of market condition?
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There's hope for the future. We can serve ourselves, the environment, and each other all at the same time. In fact, it looks like we can serve all three the best. I'd like to see this become the standard. Wonder if I will.
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I live in the tropics where 80% of the population depends on farming- substance in nature and the people have remained poor. i think this method of farming would change my local village.
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I've watched several of your videos and I think what you are doing is outstanding, especially the segment on planting trees so that people passing by can access them. Exceptional. Definitely worth a subscription and a thumbs up. Best wishes from Pennsylvania.
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Nice video-- looking to growing mirco-greens in Fla.--Use to live in Costa Rica beautiful place. Still have friends in Cuidad Colon.
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What/how was the land used before you bought the farm?
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Good effert.Thank u,
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