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Hi this is Looey Tremblay from Better In Belize. We are standing in the, the one major garden
center that we have here. And we are going to compete with a little bit of noise because
we have some of our free-range chickens beside me, they want to speak up a little bit. But
behind myself here you see that we have done our first example of an earth bag building.
Totally natural product, for building purposes to use, using the earth that's around you.
There's very little wood that has gone into it. We had had to put on a metal roof which
also has a sky light in it to allow natural light, and that is for the collection for
water. Water for rain water purposes, because we do drink some of that water. In around
this garden area right here just in this little area I have coleus, we have a palm here. We
have palms behind. I have vetiver grass here, as well as lemon grass. Daffodils and we have
some herbs and spices that are in here. As well we have bananas, blogos, plantains, pineapple
behind, mango tree, avocado tree, you see papaya trees and a number of other things
just in this small area. We have five acres of gardens here which is a community garden.
You can come in as an owner here and take your own private plot and we will help you,
teach you the permaculture principles, as well as organic gardening. All our gardens
are organically minded and we do everything from creating vermipost which is basically
compost on steroids. We have an aquaponics system here. So we have aquaculture where
we are raising tilapia and their faeces are phenomenal for fertilization purposes. We
bring in micro-organisms from the surrounding forest and create them and multiply them.
We have done organic fungicides and pesticides from the neem trees that we have planted here,
as well as onions and hot peppers, and orange sprays. So it's very interesting. We have
two very talented gardeners here that are full time - as well, we have a number of part-timers
that add their abilities and expertise. We have an organic gardener straight across the
road from us, Roberto, that has also done a lot for us in helping us teach us what works
in the area here. So, we are glad that you came in. We are going to do a little bit more
of a tour of the gardens. We have also created swales, as well as berms on contour for tiering,
natural tiering of the gardens. We've got our herb spiral here. We've got bamboo planters
that are up on the side that are all done in bamboo. So we are really putting a lot
of the permaculture principles in concept together here. We've been able to have university
students from Waterloo University, University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada come down on
co-op programs to assist us and they were very instrumental in setting up the aquaculture
setup as well as a number of other things here. So we thank them also for their assistance
and their volunteering here at Better In Belize. So thank you very much! Bye Bye!