[Narrator] So this is tea break, is it?
Yes, but we're ready for class time.
[Narrator] Ah, lecture time.
We've got captured worms.
I can see we've got a bucket here.
A nice worm farm, and they're stacking this up.
Having taking out the casting.
They've captured the worms,
and they're ready to reset it.
Each week we capture a worm farm,
and reset it with new manure
and reposition the worms.
The worm castings, unlike compost are a lot stickier.
And this looks like worm castings here.
It's kind of gloggy.
But it's just as good of fertilizer.
It doesn't have so much fungi in it.
And has lots and lots of beneficial bacteria.
There's the captured material
and our nursery is going well.
Everything we have on the floor here in the middle
is going to be planted in the project somewhere.
And all the seedlings are going in the gardens.
And we have quite a bit to plant
in the last week of the course.
There's quite a bit coming through as well still.
We're going to leave the project with plenty of seedlings.
We're reassembling the irrigation
to handle all the extra trees.
All these seedlings.
And they'll be full blast when worm casting come through.
They'll be four cubic meters of compost produced
in our gardens and our crop garden is quite a lot larger.
We're harvesting our first tomatoes and eggplants
are already coming through.
It's quite a lot bigger than the last time
I walked through on film.
And then up here,
we got some very sophisticated-looking
compost coming through.
Chicken track on steroids.
Up there it's a picture of compost health.
One compost has already left.
There's three beautiful composts up in there.
Maggot bucket is going well.
Our rabbits are going good up the other end.
Chickens are already going up to roost.
And there's a major choop and drop
happening on the project.
Our rabbits.
Rabbits here.
They're a little bit under ground, the rabbits.
Keeps them a bit cooler.
But the manure is easy to collect.
It goes through to the chickens on the other side.
And our citrus trees have already
taken off with the cooler weather.
The little bit of rain we've had.
Our new spiky pits fill in.
It's be a lot more full next week.
'Cause we'll have the big chop and drop underway.
Our reed bed has taken off with all the showers
over the last month.
Place is generally a lot more fertilized.
It's compost and mulch.
Tidy everywhere.
That's someone camping next to the spiky pit,
but I'll show you.
The spiky pit here.
And it'll be overfull by next week.
Here's our reed bed,
just as it's all finishing.
But there's another course starting
with the Jordanian government.
We've been fueling our rocket stove here.
So the little rocket stove that
we've made with our previous courses.
Every day we're making Biochar.
It's got a simple Biochar burner.
Nice enough to fire our central drum.
A very crude lid there.
And altogether one of these comes out every day.
And that's just about a perfect burn that one.
A little bit of that goes into our compost tea.
That's every day we're making compost tea.
20 liters.
We're making a small barrel of Biochar every single day.
We're turning compost every day.
Getting one cubic meter a week out.
Of course going into the cooler time of year,
winter when things are less stressed.
And they grow better,
and we are going to help boost
this project forward into another year
and safe journey through next summer hopefully.
And let me just take you down,
I think they've already displaced the compost.
Been used, in the garden.
[Narrator] Okay, doesn't hang about around here.
That's our little air pump.
That little air pump,
pumps 20 liters of air every minute.
And that's how much liquid we have.
We have the same amount of liquid
as air every minute going through.
It gives you a highly oxygenated liquid.
So the aerobic organisms can live in that liquid.
The electrician has been here.
He's wiring up a new solar panel system on the roof.
Our new solar panel is next door on the kitchen roof.
It's our beds and they're starting to take off.
New seedlings in.
That's Dead Sea Valley.
And there's the Dead Sea.
You can actually see the Dead Sea today in the distance.
Lowest place on Earth, that water.
There's the view down to our beds.
Down below.
Now just to give you one more shot
of the comparison around us.
We're most definitely in a dry landscape.
And yet, we're in an abundant green forest.
And it'll be a lot, lot greener in the next few weeks.
Because the temperature is still dropping.
We're going to get a little bit of rain.
Things are going to get even more lush as this compost,
mulch, worm castings, Biochar kicks in.
We've got 11 days left.
I'll report to you as we go through the chop and drop.
A lot of that canopy behind me is coming down.
I'll explain why.
Temperatures are going to cool.
Going to get a bit more rain, a little bit of rain hopefully.
And we can afford to expose the system,
and boost it forward for next summer's...
struggle through the following winter.
But it's all going great.
And hopefully it's going to get better
every year from now on in.