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Alright, hit me. Alright.
Is this the regular? Original.
This is the, this is the rich, dark chocolate blend original cacao?
Cacao. Drink.
I needed that.
I really did need that.
Time to cool off.
So good.They serve watermelon samples in, on that long table over there all
day long. Um!
Four different varieties.
Umm!
I just met Leslie Lowe, who is a landscape architect, at the Expo, and I want you to
hear about what she does. She designs food forests in the wilds of.. Whitefish
Montana and southeastern British Columbia. That's amazing, and you were
saying there about one acre each, yeah, that you design,
yeah, but very different clients, right? Yeah, one is a Buddhist meditation
center, the other is an organic farm that has both lamb and chicken, also. So they
wanted something that they can use for the future, right, not just today but
ongoing. Right! And uh, and it's cold hearty, so they're designed for our winters,
through our rough winters with lots of snow and cold temperatures.
How much summer do you have, like three months? From say, April it starts to get warm,
and we can plant in the end of May, generally, and but we could have frost by the
middle of August. This year it'll probably be more like the end of September.
Okay, so you only got three good months to grow. Yeah, but we can grow apples,
pears, plums, cherries, all sorts of, different kinds of berries. So in your
food forest, do you focus more on perennials than annuals? Yeah, mostly just
because of the economics of it, right? We're looking for something that year
after year after year produces, and annuals are are, whether it's tomatoes or
vegetables there's a lot of work every year to rejuvenate that, to restart it.
So we want something that continues. Right, that's awesome.
And you were saying you're one of your biggest challenges is... bears!
Bears. And elk. I don't have that problem in L.A. So, bears and elk, yeah, we have to have -
or elk - six to seven foot high fences and we have to hotwire the top and the bottom
so the bears can't climb underneath that fence. They'd get zapped on their back or
their noses. Do they get trained to kind of know that that's the wire and they
don't want to go anywhere near it? We hope so. You know, or is it always a new bear?
Yeah, it could be. Oh gosh. It could be. So, and we've got badgers. Oh! At Clear Sky, this
is a food forest in British Columbia. Let me hold that while you talk about it. And
they have badgers and they're dancing in the in the food forest. They have a
little video of the badger actually dancing. It's quite cool. Well, is, are
badgers welcome in your garden? They are, because they take care of the vole
population and,.. Voles are a huge problem. Yeah. Yeah between that and raptors, you know
it, it really helps. Did you say raptors? Yeah.
What kind of raptors are we talking? Eagle. Okay. Hawks. Okay.
You got any snakes up there? No, garden snakes. Oh, good. No rattlers. Okay good.
Well, are you enjoying the expo? I'm having a
fantastic time. What do you like best about the expo? Oh, it's like eye candy everywhere,
all these fantastic colors, I've heard some amazing speakers. Dr. Vandana Shiva
was extraordinary, and I am just so excited. That's awesome. Well, thank you
so much for talking to us! My pleasure! Alright!
Hi, we're the sustainable AG strip with a whole bunch of group vendors with
Boogie Brew at its center just because we're local. This is one of my vendors. This is
Bryan from OGS and his beautiful wife Carmen. They make the world's best worm
castings. This is not their first rodeo with us here at the sustainable AG strip.
This is Leah, the real boogie boss, by the way I'm Josh. We're here to help
people with high-octane organic natural and extremely affordable bulk granola
recipes to make their plants dance, to add life to their soil. Happy soil is
made by happy worms, etc., so, OGS from Malibu, California, Boogie Brew right here
from 707 Grow Coast. I have just run into two more of my fans at the National
Heirloom Expo. This is... Ubaldo Solorio, Ub Solorio, and this is... Lazy Garden Bee
via Instagram, Sapna. And, do you have a YouTube
channel? No, I don't. Okay. But, you're watching my channel.
Yes, thank you, oh my gosh, and do you have a garden? Yes. Where do you live? Bay Area.
Where? Bay Area. In the Bay Area. Are we connected through Dennis from @gardeninginontario ?
Yes, yes, yes. Dennis! GardeninginOntario. Ha, ha, ha.
And he's gonna give me seeds, Huaycatay, yeah, seeds from this.
Thank you!! Ha, ha.
Hi, I'm Miguel Elliott, with Living Earth Structures,
and I'm here at the Heirloom Expo in Santa Rosa, working on sharing natural
building with people. So we're doing adobe construction, right, so we have a
material of earth we've been mixing up with our feet and
just using local clay mixed with sand and straw and I have a little mobile mud
hut here the kids have been enjoying going into, and I have a little adobe
oven over here, that we've been cooking squash. There's lots of squash all over, so
we've been letting people choose a squash and then they put it in the oven
and then in an hour it's cooked to perfection. This morning we had so many
students here from all over the county, coming here, and so we made the house
models using earth and it's been a lot of fun. So, teaching people about natural
building. This is a structure made out of wooden shipping pallets insulated with
straw and covered in an adobe mixture, cob, so I call it the Little Brown
Caboose. So I've been driving this around and children have been enjoying being
inside and amazed at how cool it is on a hot day like this. And so this is to
demonstrate the idea of using pallets as a building material, which I think is
about the best solution i've come across for low-cost housing, because it's very
well insulated, very durable, and cheap. It doesn't really cost me anything at all
to build these, and so I can build structures all different sizes using
pallets with straw and earth.
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