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Yardfarmer was created to help people bring sustainable landscaping into their yards. Traditional landscaping in the US has created monocultures that are harmful to native wildlife, and ensure that people end up spending a lot of time watering to keep high maintenance plants happy, and spraying or weeding when they could be enjoying their time with their landscape.
Yardfarmer's mission is to change our relationships with our landscaping in a sustainable, enjoyable way! Daryl Lindsey founded Yardfarmer to help folks transition their yards from high maintenance, water hungry chores to something both people and wildlife can benefit from.
For more information, please visit us at yardfarmer.co/
Yardfarmer's mission is to change our relationships with our landscaping in a sustainable, enjoyable way! Daryl Lindsey founded Yardfarmer to help folks transition their yards from high maintenance, water hungry chores to something both people and wildlife can benefit from.
For more information, please visit us at yardfarmer.co/
YardFarmer's May 2024 Questions & Answers SUPER CUT! Let's Talk Landscaping Tips!
This Q&A super-cut is an edit from our YardFarmer LIVE! session on May 24, 2024. We have edited the original 90 minute recording down to a succinct, easy to follow video, with time stamps for each topic to help you navigate directly to topics that you're interested in!
#nativeplants #sustainablelandscaping #utahlandscapedesigner #utahnativeplants #capcut #shorts #permaculture #permaculturedesign #sustainablelandscaping #sustainability #xeriscaping #aridlandscaping #smallgarden #ecoregions
0:00 Intro
1:24 Soil Prep Basics
5:04 Solarizing to Control Weeds & Grass
7:31 Mulch Recommendations
12:10 Problems with Red Mulberry
15:16 Shade Friendly Native Plants
17:05 Plant Hype!
19:47 Do You Need a Landscaping Plan?
22:01 Where to Find Utah Native Plants
24:41 Water Management and Native Plants for Colorado and Great Planes
26:54 Native Flower Mixes for Utah
27:56 Native Plant Recommendations for Las Vegas Area
30:06 Is Summer a Bad Time for Planting?
31:22 Getting Rid of Russian Olive Trees (Invasives)
33:31 Flowering Plants for Boggy Conditions in the Midwest
36:02 Are There Bio-Diverse Sods for Utah?
38:35 Best Native Non-Grass Ground Cover for Kentucky
40:33 Best Climbing Vines for Utah
41:31 Best Ground Cover for Erosion Control in Utah
43.15 Getting Started in Landscape Design
45:53 Good Deciduous Tree for Central Idaho
47:11 Native Plant Suggestions for Southern Arizona
50:21 Yard/Lawn Options for Colorado and How to Transition to Them
51:14 Getting Rid of Quack Grass
52:15 Is Clover Good to Cover a Berm?
54:44 Full Shade Native Options for Utah
56:20 How Densely Can You Plant Flowers in a Flower Bed?
57:23 Getting Rid of Garlic Mustard
58:10 Oregon Grape Alternatives for when Oregon Grape is too Aggressive
59:28 Outro
Buy Daryl a Coffee!
yardfarmer.hbportal.co/public/sustainablegarden/1-Sign_Up_
Daryl's Booklist:
bookshop.org/lists/sustainable-landscaping-resources
#nativeplants #sustainablelandscaping #utahlandscapedesigner #utahnativeplants #capcut #shorts #permaculture #permaculturedesign #sustainablelandscaping #sustainability #xeriscaping #aridlandscaping #smallgarden #ecoregions
0:00 Intro
1:24 Soil Prep Basics
5:04 Solarizing to Control Weeds & Grass
7:31 Mulch Recommendations
12:10 Problems with Red Mulberry
15:16 Shade Friendly Native Plants
17:05 Plant Hype!
19:47 Do You Need a Landscaping Plan?
22:01 Where to Find Utah Native Plants
24:41 Water Management and Native Plants for Colorado and Great Planes
26:54 Native Flower Mixes for Utah
27:56 Native Plant Recommendations for Las Vegas Area
30:06 Is Summer a Bad Time for Planting?
31:22 Getting Rid of Russian Olive Trees (Invasives)
33:31 Flowering Plants for Boggy Conditions in the Midwest
36:02 Are There Bio-Diverse Sods for Utah?
38:35 Best Native Non-Grass Ground Cover for Kentucky
40:33 Best Climbing Vines for Utah
41:31 Best Ground Cover for Erosion Control in Utah
43.15 Getting Started in Landscape Design
45:53 Good Deciduous Tree for Central Idaho
47:11 Native Plant Suggestions for Southern Arizona
50:21 Yard/Lawn Options for Colorado and How to Transition to Them
51:14 Getting Rid of Quack Grass
52:15 Is Clover Good to Cover a Berm?
54:44 Full Shade Native Options for Utah
56:20 How Densely Can You Plant Flowers in a Flower Bed?
57:23 Getting Rid of Garlic Mustard
58:10 Oregon Grape Alternatives for when Oregon Grape is too Aggressive
59:28 Outro
Buy Daryl a Coffee!
yardfarmer.hbportal.co/public/sustainablegarden/1-Sign_Up_
Daryl's Booklist:
bookshop.org/lists/sustainable-landscaping-resources
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From FRUSTRATION to FOOD FOREST: A Sustainable Landscape Design Client Walkthrough
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Juliette came to us with a pretty big project- her property is packed with potential, but has a large slope, a lot of invasives, and there is a very high energy dog who needs room to run! Throw in an intensely busy work schedule, and the need for a low-maintenance yet lush and sustainable yard (with a food forest) starts to emerge! #nativeplants #sustainablelandscaping #utahlandscapedesigner #u...
CLOSE THOSE LOOPS! How to Grow Your Own Garden Savings! (webinar excerpt)
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Daryl and the YardFarmer team recently held a webinar that detailed a lot of sustainable garden basics, and we're sharing the section on Closed Loop System, which help you use bio-mass that you've already grown to help in other parts of the garden!. The original webinar is an hour of information followed by a Q&A session, which can still be found on our website! yardfarmer.hbportal.co/public/su...
YardFarmer Discusses Artificial Turf Concerns with Provo City Council
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Artificial Turf has been growing in popularity for the last decade, largely due to how easy it is to maintain. But that ease comes with a ton of ecological and biological risk that more people need to know about. The City Council of Provo, Utah, is holding a vote on whether artificial turf should be outright banned. Daryl from YardFarmer.co was invited to speak on the matter, but was already bo...
Learn How to Say "Goodbye Grass!" with YardFarmer! (webinar excerpt)
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Daryl and the YardFarmer team recently held a webinar that covered all of the benefits and methods of removing traditional turf lawns from a landscape. The original webinar is an hour of information followed by an hour long Q&A session, which can still be found on our website! yardfarmer.hbportal.co/public/65fb156ba043b30019e39547/1-Sign_Up_ This excerpt from the webinar covers a little bit of ...
Daryl from YardFarmer Talks About Sustainability on NPR's RadioWest!
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Daryl from YardFarmer was recently invited to visit Doug Fabrizio at the RadioWest studio at KUER. The interview was a lot of fun, and sustainable landscaping and gardening practices were covered at great length! RadioWest is an hour-long radio show and podcast and is hosted by Doug Fabrizio. Episodes are recorded at NPR member station KUER in Salt Lake City, with the program focusing primarily...
PLEASE WATCH Before Using Logs or Stumps as Garden Fill!
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There is a lot of debate about whether people should bury logs and stumps in there garden beds to bulk out the space. Before you decide on using logs or stumps as garden fill, take three minutes and watch this for information on what you should do instead! #nativeplants #sustainablelandscaping #utahlandscapedesigner #utahnativeplants #permaculture #permaculturedesign #sustainablelandscaping #su...
YardFarmer's February 2024 Questions & Answers SUPER CUT! Too Early for Gardening? NEVER!
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This Q&A super-cut is an edit from our YardFarmer LIVE! session on February 6th, 2024. We have edited the original 90 minute recording down to a succinct, easy to follow video, with time stamps for each topic to help you navigate directly to topics that you're interested in! #nativeplants #sustainablelandscaping #utahlandscapedesigner #utahnativeplants #capcut #shorts #permaculture #permacultur...
The YardFarmer Design Process! (Behind the Scenes PART 2!)
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Join Daryl and Kyra as they continue the process of designing a sustainable landscape for a home in Northern Utah! Each landscape we design at YardFarmer takes a whole lot of work from the initial consultation all the way through the final presentation to the client! Bonus content for those of you that stay till the end! We have added Kyra's conceptual drawing that we present to the client for ...
The YardFarmer Design Process Behind the Scenes! (part 1)
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Join Daryl and Kyra as they start the process of designing a sustainable landscape for a home in Northern Utah! Each landscape we design at YardFarmer takes a whole lot of work from the initial consultation all the way through the final presentation to the client! Here you can see the first half of the design meeting between Daryl and Kyra as they plan out the layout of the yard! The next video...
Helping a Mystery Chimney Vibe with an Arts & Crafts Landscape! (part 3)
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Helping a Mystery Chimney Vibe with an Arts & Crafts Landscape! (part 3)
Tackling a GIGANTIC Park Strip for this Landscape Design! (part 2)
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Tackling a GIGANTIC Park Strip for this Landscape Design! (part 2)
Planning for Some Serious Whimsy in this Landscape Design! (Part 1)
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Planning for Some Serious Whimsy in this Landscape Design! (Part 1)
Let's Transform this Maryland Landscape with 100's of Native Plants!
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Let's Transform this Maryland Landscape with 100's of Native Plants!
We're Unboxing 420 NATIVE Plants from Garden for Wildlife!
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We're Unboxing 420 NATIVE Plants from Garden for Wildlife!
Let's Transform this Maryland Landscape with Native Plants! (project Kick-Off)
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Let's Transform this Maryland Landscape with Native Plants! (project Kick-Off)
Taking a Landscape from Blawn to Rad Sustainable Awesomeness!
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Taking a Landscape from Blawn to Rad Sustainable Awesomeness!
Make This EASY, FAST, DIY Water Feature for Local Wildlife!
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Make This EASY, FAST, DIY Water Feature for Local Wildlife!
Can You Make a Pollinator Friendly Garden on Your Patio (or any other small space)?
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Can You Make a Pollinator Friendly Garden on Your Patio (or any other small space)?
Transforming a Maryland Landscape with AMAZING Native Plants!
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Transforming a Maryland Landscape with AMAZING Native Plants!
Get Vertical with this INEXPENSIVE DIY Trellis Tunnel! #shorts
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Get Vertical with this INEXPENSIVE DIY Trellis Tunnel! #shorts
CHANGE OF PLANS: Redesigning My Front Yard Native Wildlife Habitat
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CHANGE OF PLANS: Redesigning My Front Yard Native Wildlife Habitat
A Gentle Beer Fueled Rant to Change YOUR Partner's Mind (about Lawns)
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A Gentle Beer Fueled Rant to Change YOUR Partner's Mind (about Lawns)
Creating an Urban Wildlife Habitat with Garden for Wildlife!
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Creating an Urban Wildlife Habitat with Garden for Wildlife!
We RIPPED OUT an Entire Lawn with Sod Cutting (in Four Brutal Hours!)
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We RIPPED OUT an Entire Lawn with Sod Cutting (in Four Brutal Hours!)
Get Rid of BAD BUGS with these AMAZING Garden Buddies! (and Do a Good Deed While You're at it!)
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Get Rid of BAD BUGS with these AMAZING Garden Buddies! (and Do a Good Deed While You're at it!)
BUDGET DIY: This HUGE Cedar Garden Bed Won't Break the Bank!
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BUDGET DIY: This HUGE Cedar Garden Bed Won't Break the Bank!
Artificial Turf is Bad for YOU, Bad for your YARD, and Bad for the PLANET!
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Artificial Turf is Bad for YOU, Bad for your YARD, and Bad for the PLANET!
Why BioChar is One of the BEST THINGS for YOUR Yard & Garden! (Bonus Field Trip Edition!)
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Why BioChar is One of the BEST THINGS for YOUR Yard & Garden! (Bonus Field Trip Edition!)
Yardfarmer LIVE! Your Permaculture & Sustainable Questions Answered!
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Yardfarmer LIVE! Your Permaculture & Sustainable Questions Answered!
Wait until you learn why everyone has a grass lawn
"For free, for free!" Nothing is for free. Someone paid for it with cash or labor. You may not know who, but someone paid.
Do you have a recent video showing what your gorgeous garden looks like this summer? Thanks for the great video! Getting ready to plant a native garden in MN this coming weekend.
That’s not a swale. A swale captures water.
Are there not subspecies and strains that may be smaller?
I accidentally found you. Im rapt
Hi
Loving this! Ditto on being anti-lawn!
She is clueless…and wrong
Hope they come back soon 😢
Thank you
I have listed to Radio West three times this week. Great content!
Lawn haters all have a few things in common. 1. Hippie 2. Idealist 3. No idea how much work anything takes. 4. Couldn’t grow an actual lawn if they tried.
Arcs and tangents... I don't need mathematics to build a bed. But please keep bending over.
Yay! What a good video! I didn't have to ff. I didn't mind your voice, no music and just enough talking to let us know what's going on and so we can get to know you a bit. Great job! Beautiful fountain annnd enjoyable to watch! Thank you for the smiles. See you soon.
Love this!
You are so hot.
Thanks for being vulnerable and sharing part of your life. Keep doing the good work and channeling your energy into it.
Wow you should have washed the aquarium rocks, the glass marbles and those other things first. Even though they said they are pre-washed, they are not. And many of those glass stones, leech. I tried all three for my Beta fish and they ALL were all miserable. Your fountain looks great and your personality is awesome!
I love it, I’m researching do it yourself fountains right now and I really like this one.
Inspiring work! Looks like you need at least twice as many plants though. Too much space in between for weeds. This will be a maintenance nightmare if you don’t add more. Packera, Pussytoes, Sedges, Green-and-Gold, Heath Aster, Purple Love Grass are great groundcover options throughout. Also, the stepping stones should‘ve been spaced how a normal person walks, not so spread out and awkward. Pay attention to how people walk.
Hi 👋. Fabulous job 👌👏. I too am a landscape gardener and tend to neglect my own, that is until i’m forced to act when it starts to resemble a jungle ( not the best advert really lol 😆) . In the UK 🇬🇧 we call it ‘A Busman’s holiday’ when having to apply our specific trades, such as gardening, car mechanics,plumbing, electrics etc to working for ourselves 😆.
Will painting the unglazed sides of the pots prevent them cracking apart when the temperatures drop below 0? All of my unglazed pots have cracked and broken in our cold weather. Also, how will you keep it clean? I have a bird bath that I refill daily. Birds come, raccoons come, feral cats and coyotes come and the water gets quite dirty , especially when the birds play in it. They , of course, defecate wherever they are and drink from the water too. Dirt and debris fall into the birdbath as well. I would love to know how your fountain fares in all these situations.
Oh, wow! We live right in the middle of the city, so we don't see what you're seeing in your yard! We're also in a really arid climate, so as long as the water is moving we're not likely to see algae. We'll do some research!
This is beautiful and I love it! But as a DIY, you lost me at "drill bits." 😊
So it’s not a scam ?
Well done! Our backyard has become such a birthing, sleeping, grazing spot for our local deer herd that nothing manages to escape their appetite. A simple dish birdbath quickly become their summer source of water. Our deck, therefore, is our garden spot with containers and some of my newly constructed solar fountains. Not as extensive a habitat as yours, but the fountains have already been popular with squirrels, wrens, butterflies and flying insects. I have yet to catch the hummingbirds using the fountains, but I am hopeful. Thanks for sharing - and if anyone is curious about small scale fountains for decks and patios, I have a few DIY videos.
Your channel literally made my mouth water with those bread videos! I'll be checking out your totem fountain videos later, they are stunning!
Im goin looking for you, Doig and Jackie. Sounds gorgeous. Im assuming your UA-cam channel is same as your monicker here. See you soon
Where could I find blue matt penstemon?
Hi! Depending on where you are, a local native nursery SHOULD have it on hand. Otherwise, High Country Gardens has a pretty great selection, here's a link! Happy planting! www.highcountrygardens.com/product/perennial-plants/tushar-bluemat-penstemon
how amazing! Even better, NO invasive creeping Bermuda grass
So interesting to see how you build the garden vision section by section, step by step, so it's a lot less overwhelming than having to think about the large space as a whole. This is such a useful video!
Thank you so much, I'm glad it was helpful! Have a great day!
What a great job! How/where did you run the power cord for the pump?
Thank you! It was a really fun project. At first we just ran an extension cord, but now we have it hooked up to its own little solar panel. It's still a bit of a work in progress project, even a year later!
When you talk scraping to get rid of Bermuda, is that done with a sod cutter? It’s invaded at least 1/2 of our lawn and overtaken some of the beds! 😢
Oh, no! That's the absolute worst! We've used a sodcutter to remove Bermuda before, and had success with it. If you have the budget for it, though, nothing beats an actual excavator. They can get deeper, faster, and you'll still have some muscles left in your back afterwards! Good luck!
Yes! I'm putting together a plan for this right now. We have stiltgrass, clover and dandelion on almost the entire 7000 sq ft lot, and I ignorantly spread seeds from bags for birds without thinking so you can imagine how bad it got lol
Im In 78526. Very hot Tip of Texas! My soil is hard to dig, heavy clay like, I have to jump in my shovel to dig a hole even my husband has a hard time! What kind of grass or buffalo grass or clover etc would be good? Tia
I can’t kind anything or this map! you show here on their site. I’m at 78526
Buffalo grass will be your best friend! It really loves that clay Texas soil!
Yes! How?
Im getting so OBSESSED by that apron! 😂 I feel like such a dork!
Thank you! I'm obsessed with it, too!
Who is she? I live in South Texas and she had mentioned one she recommended for this area and I thought I had it in my Amazon basket but I don’t. 😢 so now I’m trying to find what she recommends it started with a s. 😔
Brownsville texas literally the tip of the state! “Tip of Texas”. Tia! She is awesome! Her and Garden Answer lady are 👸🏻!❤
would love to see progress photos and update on this project!!
What was the adjustment to the flow that you made and why?
Need to know the technique being used here. I wanna say I heard you say recently that the water needs to be routed at least ten feet from the house? I live in Texas and absolutely hate turf(Bermuda and Saint Augustine grass🙄). Last few years I’ve probably pissed off the neighbors because I’ve had it and I don’t maintain my yard like everyone spending a fortune on irrigation and such but I want to transform my lawn badly.
Okay but that Big empty bottom pot literally is a hazardous area where little creatures such as Chipmunks or other animals that can drown very easily, because they will have no way out. You need to put rocks in their in a manner that any code or chipmunk or mouse or anything that gets in that pot can climb its way out!
They can’t get in if they can’t get out.
We have added a layer of mesh to the top of the pot to stop this from happening, sadly, this video has had so many comments on it that there hasn't been a way for folks to see that we have made changes!
I dug some sod to plant four trees in my backyard. It is a ton of work and my body hates me now 😂😂
It's a TON of work! Here's to a speedy recovery for you!
I just purchased a pot and a couple of saucers to make my own birdbath/pollinator fountain!!!! I'm working on native plants. I love your design. Adding the aquarium gravel under the marbles was perfect. I'm so glad I found your channel... it's been a life long dream of mine to have my yard as a certified wildlife habitat!! PS--GO FOR THE POND!!!!! 😉😁🤣
Thanks for finding us! Have all the fun in the world building your fountain!
Can’t see .. . . 😟 what you bought and what you were demonstrating. I think it’s the camera person trying to capture what you were describing 😮
We have a view from our deck, and while looking out over our lawn and the neighbor's lawns, it occurred to me that all that mown grass was like a desert for wild creatures. No wonder the deer that venture finto our yards from a nearby greenbelt eat our rose bushes and vegetable crops. I never much liked grass before that, but now I'd really rather have something else. I told my husband that I want to put in a garden, just for the wildlife. I didn't connect that thought with creating a wildlife sanctuary until I found your channel, but I'm all in. Thanks for sharing your expertise.
It sounds like you have an amazing and rewarding landscaping project coming up, and your native wildlife is going to be so happy! Best of luck to you!
Hallelujah! You are saying everything I want to hear about landscaping!
Lovely design. How often would you need to clean the fountain---marbles and rocks? And what did you do about winterizing it? Thank you.
Oh, it's lovely all right. We have a pond like that. Even put in a little uv unit to kill algae and keep the water healthy. Good variety of aquatic plants, goldfish, small waterfall. The first year, a great blue heron ate all the fish. Back to the store for goldfish. Bought the fake heron, the flashing reflective disks, the motion sensitive water sprayer ...fed a lot of fish to a lot of herons with those heron-proofing purchases. And be aware, I live on a quarter acre in a heavily populated suburb. This isn't rural. Bought a big netting thing and covered the pond. That pond environment is exceptionally healthy, the fish are thriving and I love it. Gotta clean the filter multiple times a week. Pump breaks down periodically. Isn't maintenance free at all. But super healthy. The birds can't water in the pond, but they bathe and drink on the waterfall and the water we put out for them. I advise against putting in a pond till you know more about the pitfalls. Like the frogs. I like the sound, but my yard is frog central so I hear them a lot in the summer. Oh, and when you attract birds to your yard, they crap on everything, especially grackles. I hate grackles. But I see a lot of dragonflies and hummingbirds come by, many other types of birds drop in, it's nice to relax to the sound of the water.
Not me seeing this months too late! 😢
I built something similar for my yard. I would suggest putting more rocks or aquarium gravel in mesh bags to put in the base. It adds a lot of surface area for beneficial bacteria, which keep the water fresh and clean for the critters.
On that point, I was thinking you’d have to pull the whole fountain apart every week to get rid if mould, bacteria, etc. You mention special gravel? I was wondering if you could reply to me. Because in my mind it all has to be scrubbed out all the time. Don’t I have to put special water plants in the fountain to clean the water? Or-what am i missing here? Thank you
Probably a breeding ground for mosquitos when off