r/Permaculture • u/Nikzboz • 3d ago

Our house is inside this food forest!

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Hey folks!

Took us some time to grow all of these and still growing a lot of new plants and trees.

Here's our food forest in Kerala, India! Being a Permaculture practitioner I rely on natural succession than any other methods of regeneration.

Observe-design-observe again- then implement!

Thank you for the support and love.

Nikhil Bose,

Kerala, India.

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u/Straight-Excuse7621 3d ago

The mix of concrete pillars and dense foliage is such a cool contrast

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u/Nikzboz 3d ago

Thanks I guess. My parents build the house planted some trees and are my inspiration. Now we plant together with my kid :)

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u/BigDaddyYuzu 3d ago

Looks very inviting! What are you growing? :)

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u/Nikzboz 3d ago

Thank you so much! We are growing almost all sorts of native plants and trees, have a well, a pond and fish in it. Used to have poultry and a dog. We also sell vegetable seedlings and compost from our home :)

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u/BigDaddyYuzu 3d ago

One day I wish to be in the situation that I feel like I have enough compost to sell!

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u/Nikzboz 2d ago

Oh we won't have anymore homemade compost to sell as our major canopy trees have been harvested. Wishing you the best 😊👍💚

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u/RiddickulousRadagast 3d ago

That's really cool!

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u/Nikzboz 2d ago

Thank you. It feels cool too even in harsh summer!

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u/Easy-Grocery6896 3d ago

How big is this?

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u/Nikzboz 2d ago

It's about 20 cents, less than a quarter of an acre.

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u/Tomato_Middle 2d ago

Hey that is amazing. And very similar to what I plan to do in India itself. Do you have any youtube channel where you document about it? Would love to know so I can do it too.

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u/Nikzboz 2d ago

Hey there. Yes indeed. Am active on Insta and YT. You can check out bte_permaculture.

Thank you so much. Hope you will find something useful 😊

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u/KaleidoscopeKey8187 2d ago

Shape the plants like entrance with flowering plants invluded

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u/Nikzboz 1d ago

If I shape it, it will lose the forest feel and look like a landscape design. Thank you, i would do it for a client, but not for my home 😁

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u/Juat1morethrowaway 3d ago

I see a haven for cobras....

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u/Nikzboz 2d ago

Sorry, the water monitor lizard, falcon, cat, dog, mongoose beg to differ 🤣

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u/Juat1morethrowaway 2d ago

I knew mongoose was a natural predator for cobras, I didn't know water monitor lizards are. YOu just taught me something new. Won't the venom kill a cat or a dog, though?

In North America the only marsupial is an oppossum and they can take up to 75 venomous strikes from both rattlesnakes and copperheads, so their blood is a good source of antivenom.

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u/Nikzboz 2d ago

Thanks. Yes most of the cats and dogs (locally) have been battling snakes since time immemorial. Most of the strikes they can dodge. My dog (rip) has killed two vipers, that was it. Then no more vipers here. Yes they do get bitten at times. I have seen them recovering from bites, mostly because they got only a portion of the venom due to their fur coat.

We do have a rat snake which belongs to the constrictor family and eats other snakes like cobras and vipers.

Yes water monitor lizards can eat snakes and their eggs. We also have birds which alert when there is a snake.

Then you have me and my parents who can listen to the sound of the leaves and identify it it's a rat or a snake. .

Also the food forest is designed with clear walkways and visibility around edges and snake probable areas. Still the same rule of working in a jungle is applied while working here. Like when you pick up a stone or move a pile of wood.