Always such useful information and clearly presented. I used leaf mold in some of my containers in the garden this year. Kind of did a side by side comparison, some with leaf mold, some without. Huge difference. In the containers with leaf mold, the plants thrived. Also, the soil was less compacted. Very rich soil. Thanks for another great video!
Here is a warning I came across for some organic protein, Do not eat if allergic to shell fish. Do not eat if allergic to lobster. Crickets don't even need to be listed on the ingredients label. One is Chocolate Chirp Cookies. Other labels not so obvious.
@@unaffiliated_x9279 I support my local dairy farm and local butcher. I was bored. lol. I looked at conspiracies. Operation fishbowl, Operation Dominic videos and others. You can see the air dispersion in waves when rockets hit against something.
To all the people in dessert settings , with very little water , I’d research into swales , desert farming techniques used in places like Iraq where they get little to no water every year but sometimes they’ll get a big flood and they’ll have to capture this water and store it via deep root systems that will allow the water to go deep down into the earth and give the tree enough water for there harsh climates. To be able to farm In a desert climate you most first make a micro climate , allowing water to be stored and saved more effectively then an open Aired system that needs water to survive.. there’s many videos on this and on plan on trying it out my self with conventional ways and old ancient ways. I live in Murphy oregon and I’m 19.
Thanks for the video Nate. I live in a densely populated area in Dublin so leaf mold is hard to come by. I did find some leaves which had gathered over a number of years trapped by two abandoned cars. It was only short of turning into leafmold because of the concrete. As I pulled back the layers of leaves they became damper with lots of worms. I filled a plastic bag of most of it and placed it in my garden. I was collecting some nice brown leaves which had gathered outside a church around the corner from me to use in my compost bin, I found another pile of leaves at the kerb and lo and behold there was leafmold! There was a crack in the kerb where worms had access to the leaves and soil. That lot went straight into my fish fertilizers...😁 I added some compost from my bin to help it along. So, seek and you will find no matter what your circumstances.
I think I am known in my area(Wales) as that guy who goes round picking up horse shit or dandelions, nettles, comfrey and the like. I love to forage and will ask people for their bags of grass cuttings(grass cuttings when left in the bag in the sun are super fast at producing mycelium and the I use as a cover crop so that fungi inoculate my soils). Peace and unity in the green community.
man am i ever glad i found your channel. i was getting a little bored of same old content and wasnt really learning anything or finding my interest peeked. This is all next level for me and i love the way you present. thank you for your efforts you put into your content. Much appreciated
I know exactly what you mean and it's a great feeling to find a whole new stream of knowledge that resonates with us!... thank you for the positive energy my friend!!
We were blessed with much wooded acres from my dad un law where we now live (yes, I was city born an bred). I have been doing this and my God! I'm obsessed with the smell of the duff (what we call it in the Texas stix). Then we had saved some money for some land cleaning and what is left behind is so abundant its amazing! Thank you Nate!
I found easy to get rich forest soil today and have been gathering it with my wagon and great leaf mold plus white sand from a wash to put in my terrible garden the previous people ruined. Things are looking up! I can`t believe it! I`m thrilled!
I just want to thank you for taking the time to teach people about the things that you do. It's incredible how much we can use from nature. All while preserving it instead of destroying it.
Great example of how to teach the natural order of things. Well explained. My area(Wales) has a ragwort problem and covers for miles; but every year they break down into amazing leaf mold. They believe Turkey tail mushrooms have a cure for cancers in their compounds. I make a tincture out of them.
~I have watched soooo many different people that do gardening videos, but you have become my favorite!!!~Youve helped me reach a new & exciting level!!!~Compost is fascinating!!!~
The Johnson-Su Bioreactor (fancy name, but fairly easy composting method) produces fungal dominant compost anywhere on Earth (YES, it's been tested all around the globe). So, if you don't have forests around, you can just do that. Even large scale farmers are starting to use it to inoculate their crops with fungal dominant biology, with great results.
Great video, I feel for a thriving garden you don't want purely fungal dominance, you want a nice balance of the two, as fruit trees and trees will do better with fungal, but the rest of the garden, veggies ect.. rely more on bacterial, so ideally you want both, cause that's how nature is, balanced, perfect, simple. Blessings
Great presentation of the diversity of life below "grade-level," which contains as many living beings in a cubic centimeter as there are living people on Earth today. Some of our most industrious allies are invisible to our eyes. Helen and Scot Neering turned a hard granite slab into rich raised beds of thriving vegetables using leafmold which Scot carted out of the forest, just a few cubic feet at a time, using a wheel barrow.
2 weeks ago I just collected old leaves, dead branches, empty walnut shells, and twigs from a park I always go and take a walk. I will use this for my container garden on the bottom of my containers. Thanks for sharing your informative video.
Hi, Nate. We live in a country where we will most likely experience total grid collapse soon. We often have 8 hours of no electricity per day. You have an amazing amount of knowledge and I'm asking if you could please do a video on medicinal plants to grow. Also, is it too late to start a veggie garden now? We are moving into fall now.
I take it you're in SA?... it depends what your winters are like... please watch this video and let me know what you think because I bet you can grow all of these if the frost stays away long enough... when is your first frost date? ua-cam.com/video/TkDW70BbrbQ/v-deo.html
Thank you for the prompt response. I've never paid much attention to frost dates as we have a really, really small garden and we've never felt the need to grow our own produce, but with the threat of grid collapse, we've done our homework on raised gardens and vertical gardens. We should start planting very soon. Thanks for the link. I've watched it and you've mentioned most of my favourite veggies. If you could please do a video on medicinal plants that would be awesome.
I went to the forest near my house and I collected some soil under some of the big deciduous trees. We also have a lot of coniferous trees. Will that affect the quality? I see now what I want to collect. I did not bring home any of that white stuff - ancestorial microorganisms. Thanks for the info!
I have access to my own property and have mulched leaf and grass clippings for years but did not seek out the mycelium, didn't even know what it was. We've already spent several days, raking, mulching and burning leaves. We still have several days of cleaning up the property around our home and I'm going to search through for mycelium to add to my mulch piles. I've always burnt it thinking the decayed wood would attract termites and now I see how valuable it can be. Thanks for the lesson!
Thanks Nate, I didn't realise it was under dead trees too, plenty of them about, I've been watching endless videos on wild mushrooms and bought a book, haven't had the chance to look at it yet, it's very dry here in Ireland and the ground is very dry, its coming into Autumn and it's all about to kick off in the forests when the rain comes, there'll be wild mushrooms everywhere I don't want to miss anything as I've never picked any as I didn't know what was what, as my friend who does outdoor survival courses told me they're all edible but some you'll only eat once, that's a good enough warning for me.
Another great video, Nate! I gain so much new knowledge from you and I love your dedication to Mother Nature. I live in Sweden and it seems we have just about the same conditions as you. Winter is coming! Keep up your great work!
Greetings from a fellow Indiana gardener! Thanks for once again sharing the knowledge. I'm relatively new to gardening but I discovered some of the amazing benefits of leaf mold myself this year and I cant say enough about how versatile and useful it is. I used it this year as an amendment for my raised beds and for my in ground beds and I was really impressed with its ability to hold moisture. I also found it worked really well as a top dressing in areas that I direct seeded. I'm going to try using some next year when I start some of my seeds indoors and see how it does. Thanks again!
The back of my land has old trees I have been racking up the leaves and mulching my beds. One of the areas a year later has soft dark soil on what used to be Florida sugar sand.
So wunderful, you showed the treasures of the wood. And yes, the best way is to use the things around us and learn, how mother nature does it. My experience with compost: I shred all my cuts from bushes and small branches from my friut trees, mix it in the compost material. Fungi will come. Btw: the turkey tail mushrooms are a great medicine. I know a lot of people who buy expensive powder from asian medicine mushrooms. With "superfoods" and EMs it's the same. I share your philosophy to prosper from the gifts of our environment.
@@gardenlikeaviking Thanks for your words. "To make the real deal ourselves" sounds so great and it's the way. And I hope that people, who read my comments, can learn or think about it. And I know a lot of gardeners, who say EM's are the best for the garden. Even a simple compost pile is better than expensive EM. But they believe EM is the holy grail. My compost pile is worth nothing...in their opinion. They do not understand soil. They need laboraties to tell them whats the matter. I look, take it in my hand to feel it, smell it, take it in my mouth to to taste it. And I know.
another great source - woodchip playgrounds after a good rain dig away the chips and youll love what you see underneath 😉(not really necessary for rain but the mycelium reaches up to the top woodchip layer once they're wet, no rain just dig a big deeper)
I found some. About 40 minutes north of me( 2 hrs in a longboat, its against the current LOL!) I am near Lake Ontario, but my mold is from up north in Canadian Rocky Bush... Lots of iron in tye ground near where I got it. A huge iron mine was found nearby around 100 yrs ago so the boulders are above ground and covered in leaf mold. I got a garbage bag, and will add it to the leaf mold composter in my yard, that I just started before winter. It should be great for making liquids. We had a nice warm stretch for a week so that was great. I started my LAB yesterday, so I should have some Lab in days. I cant wait to see it all in the bucket getting lidded making Fish Hydrolysate. Very excited, and its really helping get me throught the waiting for spring...now I am waiting for fish juice! 🇨🇦👊🏻👨🏻🏭✨💖🙏🌞😉👌
Yes,regarding micro organisms. However, different areas may lack certain minerals in the soil. For instance, an area around the Great Lakes was known as ‘The goitre belt’ for its lack of iodine. Indigenous peoples would travel great distances to trade for certain coastal foods, like oolichan AKA candlefish. It makes sense to add some input from mineral rich regions or the sea. Meanwhile, great channel.
I love all the ways you explain to get leaf mould! I am echoing the other comments in wanting to know the Turkey Tail Mushroom medicine. I know the cooking videos don't do as well, but maybe talk about it during a live stream? Either way, love the content! Appreciate all that you do.
Hi sir i have training and research on natural farming all of them only show the procedure but in your video i understand the functions and understand the purpose.... I love it.... I don't have money sir to support ur video but i can propagate ur knowledge to others for education and views... From Philippines
thank you for the positive energy and feedback my friend!!... no need for money you can support the channel by sharing the videos and telling your friends about it!!
I have tall old pine trees in my yard......I seems to hate the pine needles, I read they take 3 years to decompose.......wish I could chop them up.......sometimes in the kitchen I ferment some old fruit with liquid and I put it on my plants....not much, but it is strong.
Thanks for this! I’ve been on a hiking/foraging kick for a while but didn’t have leaf molds on my list to watch out for. Definitely gonna be looking for it now.
Cool man! Hey guess what I actually live on nottingham and I visit sherwood forest on my lunch hour to take my boston terrrier for a walk. I been gathering it at base of 800 year old oak trees. Its immense. Much appreciated your scientific info love it subbed!
@@gardenlikeaviking Yeh we are very lucky to be near it google 'major oak' and you will see an ancient one nottingham has some of the biggest concentration of some of the oldest oaks in the world I dont think people realise because of the films etc nottingham castle is real too its right in the centre of nottingham city centre. But it burnt down years ago and was rebuilt I think so.not all original. All the best and loving the vids
Hello new friend here! Thank you for sharing your garden with me. I just love how it’s all coming 🫑🍅🪴👍together and growing so nicely! I love to garden and I also make garden videos. I wrapping up my 3rd year gardening. I’m sad it’s coming to an end. I have so much to still learn. I’d love it if we could learn more from each other! My plans for my off season is to learn as much as I can about gardening and making videos.
Nate, I've been following your videos for about month plus. The one thought /question I have around leaf mold is about its survival. It seems to me that leaf mold which survives in a moist enviroment would drown in a bucket/barrel of water. Tell me I'm wrong. I just started my first barrel of jdam with fish and shrimp heads.
Some species of microorganisms will thrive, others will not survive. Just like Nature! Watching Jadam videos, I got the idea that anaerobic microorganisms get the advantage as the purpose is to bring them to your soil. As you probably know, there is not much oxygen 50 centimetres under the surface of the soil. And you want to have life there.
we were in extreme drought [ EXTREME] blazing heat now its raining there will be some grasses mostly grass burrs soon trying to bring back my farm soil now i need large batches of everything to bring back good vegetation for planting grasses for my cattle would like to do this in as natural state as possible and need advise, can not grow any vegs, grasses at this point.
So today I got off my duff finally and went out and knocked the soil off of a couple of birch stumps that I pulled last fall. I ended up with 9- 5 gallon buckets full.
thanks-- took my kids hunting and we found some on our property left it for now as we are starting leaf piles under some madre de agua trees and will soon transplant, as well we will ring our young fruit trees at drip line bury in a layer of carbon and start more there
In studying this very thing I came up with an idea. The bacteria around the roots of plants help deliver nutrients to the plant. Our digestive tract is basically our root. So what would be the chance that what we need to live and thrive longer is right where you are getting it. Time to feed this to some mice and see what happens.😉
This is relating to other videos about making JMS. But apparently many cities put chloramine in water not chlorine. The difference is that chloramine is much more stable and DOES NOT off gas if left to sit for 24-48 hours. Obviously the water treatment people don’t actually want that, so they use the other more stable form of chlorine. So letting tap water sit doesn’t necessarily help much! I bought a fish tank water dechlorinator that is supposed to bind to chlorine and chloramine and make it none toxic. If it makes the water safe for fish and fish water related microbes, then I imagine it is the best bet for treating tap water for making JADAM solutions. Some fish tank water treatments also bind to heavy metals which is a nice bonus. But yeah, look into chloramine and potentially telling people to buy a fish tank dechlorinator because that’s all that would truly help. They are easy to buy at any local pet store or the pet / fish section at big grocery store chains.
awesome. comprehensive video. From your previous videos, I started using leave mold in my starters, which grew twice as fast. Now I'm finding new leaf mold pockets all over the farm, under different types of old-growth trees like macadamia, mango, noni, etc.) Now, thanks to your content I've been experimenting with fertilizers with this powerful LEAF MOLD! Mahalo my friend. Yassu!
your videos are amazing and it makes sense after listening all the JDAM lectures. I got a question, can we store the leaf mold collected in fall, through the winter. If so do we need to maintain any temperature?
Please do a video on the Medicinal properties of the Turkey tail Mushrooms!
Turkey Tail is amazing and in abundant supply all over these Appalachian PA woods. 🪵🍄
Yes, please do a video on the 🍄 🙏👍
Yes, please
Always such useful information and clearly presented. I used leaf mold in some of my containers in the garden this year. Kind of did a side by side comparison, some with leaf mold, some without. Huge difference. In the containers with leaf mold, the plants thrived. Also, the soil was less compacted. Very rich soil.
Thanks for another great video!
Helps kill cancer!!
Support your local growers/farmers or we will all be eating bugs. Awesome video my friend.
Here is a warning I came across for some organic protein, Do not eat if allergic to shell fish. Do not eat if allergic to lobster. Crickets don't even need to be listed on the ingredients label. One is Chocolate Chirp Cookies. Other labels not so obvious.
@@smas3256 Disgusting! Spread the word. Herbivores have been on this planet forever for a reason. God bless
chocolate chirp cookies hahaha that's a clever one!
@@unaffiliated_x9279 I support my local dairy farm and local butcher. I was bored. lol. I looked at conspiracies. Operation fishbowl, Operation Dominic videos and others. You can see the air dispersion in waves when rockets hit against something.
Are you a teacher? Your ability to explain and describe is unbelievable!
He’s a natural and he loves his subject. Lucky us!
he has lots of love for God and nature, we see that
If you’ve learned from him ,he is a teacher😊
You know it's a good channel when you want to like it before you watch it. Every time it's great knowledge. Thank you for your insite.
To all the people in dessert settings , with very little water , I’d research into swales , desert farming techniques used in places like Iraq where they get little to no water every year but sometimes they’ll get a big flood and they’ll have to capture this water and store it via deep root systems that will allow the water to go deep down into the earth and give the tree enough water for there harsh climates. To be able to farm In a desert
climate you most first make a micro climate , allowing water to be stored and saved more effectively then an open Aired system that needs water to survive.. there’s many videos on this and on plan on trying it out my self with conventional ways and old ancient ways. I live in Murphy oregon and I’m 19.
Thanks for the video Nate. I live in a densely populated area in Dublin so leaf mold is hard to come by. I did find some leaves which had gathered over a number of years trapped by two abandoned cars. It was only short of turning into leafmold because of the concrete. As I pulled back the layers of leaves they became damper with lots of worms. I filled a plastic bag of most of it and placed it in my garden.
I was collecting some nice brown leaves which had gathered outside a church around the corner from me to use in my compost bin, I found another pile of leaves at the kerb and lo and behold there was leafmold! There was a crack in the kerb where worms had access to the leaves and soil. That lot went straight into my fish fertilizers...😁 I added some compost from my bin to help it along.
So, seek and you will find no matter what your circumstances.
I think I am known in my area(Wales) as that guy who goes round picking up horse shit or dandelions, nettles, comfrey and the like. I love to forage and will ask people for their bags of grass cuttings(grass cuttings when left in the bag in the sun are super fast at producing mycelium and the I use as a cover crop so that fungi inoculate my soils). Peace and unity in the green community.
@@garywillow6578 Wow! I guess I made a mistake of throwing a leaf mold because I thought they have disease in it. I'll save them next time.
@@Pausereflectandbreathe my mistake it is knotweed.
How many miles can I go away from my house to get the lead mold.
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@@garyneubert7099 oh, I bet you mean leaf mold....look at this again, it is very interesting and clear...
Excellent! And yes, I would love a video about turning Turkey Tail mushrooms into medicine. I have a lot of them.
It reminds me that there is a Creator. Your site is one of the best I have ever watched. Fascinatin. Thanks.
man am i ever glad i found your channel. i was getting a little bored of same old content and wasnt really learning anything or finding my interest peeked. This is all next level for me and i love the way you present. thank you for your efforts you put into your content. Much appreciated
I know exactly what you mean and it's a great feeling to find a whole new stream of knowledge that resonates with us!... thank you for the positive energy my friend!!
I am surprized schools don't compost.What a great on going learning tool for all ages.
All Primary schools in Ireland compost and recycle as part of the criculum.
We were blessed with much wooded acres from my dad un law where we now live (yes, I was city born an bred). I have been doing this and my God! I'm obsessed with the smell of the duff (what we call it in the Texas stix). Then we had saved some money for some land cleaning and what is left behind is so abundant its amazing! Thank you Nate!
I found easy to get rich forest soil today and have been gathering it with my wagon and great leaf mold plus white sand from a wash to put in my terrible garden the previous people ruined. Things are looking up! I can`t believe it! I`m thrilled!
I just want to thank you for taking the time to teach people about the things that you do. It's incredible how much we can use from nature. All while preserving it instead of destroying it.
thank you for the positive energy my friend!
@@gardenlikeaviking well, I so agree with her, you are a very special man and Gardner.....
Thank you for this much needed video. Would appreciate any videos on growing mushrooms!
Who ever thought! Would have never thought of leaf mold unless I found your channel. Amazing and so inspiring!!! Subscriber from NW Florida.
thank you for your positive energy my friend!
Thanks for clarifying this process. It'll be much easier now that i have a visual reference 👍great stuff
Great example of how to teach the natural order of things. Well explained. My area(Wales) has a ragwort problem and covers for miles; but every year they break down into amazing leaf mold. They believe Turkey tail mushrooms have a cure for cancers in their compounds. I make a tincture out of them.
~I have watched soooo many different people that do gardening videos, but you have become my favorite!!!~Youve helped me reach a new & exciting level!!!~Compost is fascinating!!!~
You bring up and explain topics so clearly for me!!! Thank you. 🙂
The Johnson-Su Bioreactor (fancy name, but fairly easy composting method) produces fungal dominant compost anywhere on Earth (YES, it's been tested all around the globe). So, if you don't have forests around, you can just do that. Even large scale farmers are starting to use it to inoculate their crops with fungal dominant biology, with great results.
Great video, I feel for a thriving garden you don't want purely fungal dominance, you want a nice balance of the two, as fruit trees and trees will do better with fungal, but the rest of the garden, veggies ect.. rely more on bacterial, so ideally you want both, cause that's how nature is, balanced, perfect, simple. Blessings
As always Nate, great video. With the $ crunch people need to DIY . Thank you
Viking plants....💪🏽🌱
I really like your videos
Thanks for another great video, and for taking us into the forest with you on this one.
I have 40 acres of new hayfields put in and am looking into scaling this method up. Central Indiana. Do you have any sources on this size application?
Thank you for your amazing videos, very informative!
THis is exactly what I do. I got the idea from JADAM.
Great presentation of the diversity of life below "grade-level," which contains as many living beings in a cubic centimeter as there are living people on Earth today. Some of our most industrious allies are invisible to our eyes.
Helen and Scot Neering turned a hard granite slab into rich raised beds of thriving vegetables using leafmold which Scot carted out of the forest, just a few cubic feet at a time, using a wheel barrow.
2 weeks ago I just collected old leaves, dead branches, empty walnut shells, and twigs from a park I always go and take a walk. I will use this for my container garden on the bottom of my containers. Thanks for sharing your informative video.
Really enjoying your approach and info!
Hi, Nate. We live in a country where we will most likely experience total grid collapse soon. We often have 8 hours of no electricity per day. You have an amazing amount of knowledge and I'm asking if you could please do a video on medicinal plants to grow. Also, is it too late to start a veggie garden now? We are moving into fall now.
I take it you're in SA?... it depends what your winters are like... please watch this video and let me know what you think because I bet you can grow all of these if the frost stays away long enough... when is your first frost date? ua-cam.com/video/TkDW70BbrbQ/v-deo.html
Thank you for the prompt response. I've never paid much attention to frost dates as we have a really, really small garden and we've never felt the need to grow our own produce, but with the threat of grid collapse, we've done our homework on raised gardens and vertical gardens. We should start planting very soon. Thanks for the link. I've watched it and you've mentioned most of my favourite veggies. If you could please do a video on medicinal plants that would be awesome.
Thanks for the images! Helps the visual learner. Would enjoy mushroom video
I would love to see videos on mushrooms
I went to the forest near my house and I collected some soil under some of the big deciduous trees. We also have a lot of coniferous trees. Will that affect the quality? I see now what I want to collect. I did not bring home any of that white stuff - ancestorial microorganisms. Thanks for the info!
Such a concise and thorough explanation for how to harvest the leaf mold! Thanks!
I have access to my own property and have mulched leaf and grass clippings for years but did not seek out the mycelium, didn't even know what it was. We've already spent several days, raking, mulching and burning leaves. We still have several days of cleaning up the property around our home and I'm going to search through for mycelium to add to my mulch piles. I've always burnt it thinking the decayed wood would attract termites and now I see how valuable it can be. Thanks for the lesson!
you have a new subscriber Sir love your videos im a horticulturist from Ireland
welcome to the channel my friend!!
Man im glad i came across your channel im like geez where have u been whole time lol real natural guru thank you my friend
Thanks for your getting your viewers out in the woods! Will be listening and watching! Thanks again for sharing!
Thanks Nate, I didn't realise it was under dead trees too, plenty of them about, I've been watching endless videos on wild mushrooms and bought a book, haven't had the chance to look at it yet, it's very dry here in Ireland and the ground is very dry, its coming into Autumn and it's all about to kick off in the forests when the rain comes, there'll be wild mushrooms everywhere I don't want to miss anything as I've never picked any as I didn't know what was what, as my friend who does outdoor survival courses told me they're all edible but some you'll only eat once, that's a good enough warning for me.
Thanks lad, warm greetings from ireland 😂
Another great video, Nate! I gain so much new knowledge from you and I love your dedication to Mother Nature. I live in Sweden and it seems we have just about the same conditions as you. Winter is coming! Keep up your great work!
Greetings from a fellow Indiana gardener! Thanks for once again sharing the knowledge. I'm relatively new to gardening but I discovered some of the amazing benefits of leaf mold myself this year and I cant say enough about how versatile and useful it is. I used it this year as an amendment for my raised beds and for my in ground beds and I was really impressed with its ability to hold moisture. I also found it worked really well as a top dressing in areas that I direct seeded. I'm going to try using some next year when I start some of my seeds indoors and see how it does. Thanks again!
I been looking for this information .
Thanks.
The back of my land has old trees I have been racking up the leaves and mulching my beds. One of the areas a year later has soft dark soil on what used to be Florida sugar sand.
Thank you Nate for referring me to this specific video!!! Completely answered my question for desert dwellers!!! You the best! Be well my friend.
Very helpful for a newbie with 110 acres jungle forest Yucatan Mexico
So wunderful, you showed the treasures of the wood. And yes, the best way is to use the things around us and learn, how mother nature does it.
My experience with compost: I shred all my cuts from bushes and small branches from my friut trees, mix it in the compost material. Fungi will come.
Btw: the turkey tail mushrooms are a great medicine. I know a lot of people who buy expensive powder from asian medicine mushrooms. With "superfoods" and EMs it's the same.
I share your philosophy to prosper from the gifts of our environment.
I always appreciate your input Dagmar!!... no need to purchase any EM's or "superfoods" when we can make the real deal ourselves!
@@gardenlikeaviking Thanks for your words. "To make the real deal ourselves" sounds so great and it's the way. And I hope that people, who read my comments, can learn or think about it.
And I know a lot of gardeners, who say EM's are the best for the garden. Even a simple compost pile is better than expensive EM. But they believe EM is the holy grail. My compost pile is worth nothing...in their opinion. They do not understand soil. They need laboraties to tell them whats the matter. I look, take it in my hand to feel it, smell it, take it in my mouth to to taste it. And I know.
Your Turkey Tails are beautiful! Love this video! Thank you!
another great source - woodchip playgrounds after a good rain dig away the chips and youll love what you see underneath 😉(not really necessary for rain but the mycelium reaches up to the top woodchip layer once they're wet, no rain just dig a big deeper)
Yes, turkey medicine, please!! Awesome, thank you for sharing your knowledge.
I found some. About 40 minutes north of me( 2 hrs in a longboat, its against the current LOL!) I am near Lake Ontario, but my mold is from up north in Canadian Rocky Bush... Lots of iron in tye ground near where I got it. A huge iron mine was found nearby around 100 yrs ago so the boulders are above ground and covered in leaf mold. I got a garbage bag, and will add it to the leaf mold composter in my yard, that I just started before winter. It should be great for making liquids. We had a nice warm stretch for a week so that was great. I started my LAB yesterday, so I should have some Lab in days. I cant wait to see it all in the bucket getting lidded making Fish Hydrolysate. Very excited, and its really helping get me throught the waiting for spring...now I am waiting for fish juice! 🇨🇦👊🏻👨🏻🏭✨💖🙏🌞😉👌
Yes, please do a video on Turkey Tail
New viewer and subscriber and I am loving you back to basics information!
Thanks for the best tutorials on leaf mold. This should my garden without using any chemicals
Yes,regarding micro organisms. However, different areas may lack certain minerals in the soil. For instance, an area around the Great Lakes was known as ‘The goitre belt’ for its lack of iodine. Indigenous peoples would travel great distances to trade for certain coastal foods, like oolichan AKA candlefish. It makes sense to add some input from mineral rich regions or the sea. Meanwhile, great channel.
I appreciate your sharing. Thank you from the garden of my heart.
Great information. I am going to go to the forest by my house and find the leaf mold . 👍👍👍👍👍
I love all the ways you explain to get leaf mould! I am echoing the other comments in wanting to know the Turkey Tail Mushroom medicine. I know the cooking videos don't do as well, but maybe talk about it during a live stream? Either way, love the content! Appreciate all that you do.
great idea my friend thank you and yes I can do that!
This man is awesome! Love from Rwanda 😊
Hi sir i have training and research on natural farming all of them only show the procedure but in your video i understand the functions and understand the purpose.... I love it.... I don't have money sir to support ur video but i can propagate ur knowledge to others for education and views... From Philippines
thank you for the positive energy and feedback my friend!!... no need for money you can support the channel by sharing the videos and telling your friends about it!!
I have tall old pine trees in my yard......I seems to hate the pine needles, I read they take 3 years to decompose.......wish I could chop them up.......sometimes in the kitchen I ferment some old fruit with liquid and I put it on my plants....not much, but it is strong.
Yes please do a video on the medicinal properties of the mushrooms you pointed out!
Yes to the turkey tail mushroom medicine! :)
Agreed
Thanks for this! I’ve been on a hiking/foraging kick for a while but didn’t have leaf molds on my list to watch out for. Definitely gonna be looking for it now.
First video of yours and subbed! So articulate!
welcome my friend!!
Great show, I always learn learn what I need to know from you my friend...✌🌎🍄
Cool man! Hey guess what I actually live on nottingham and I visit sherwood forest on my lunch hour to take my boston terrrier for a walk. I been gathering it at base of 800 year old oak trees. Its immense. Much appreciated your scientific info love it subbed!
wow I didn't know Nottingham is a real place!!... what a beautiful thing that oak tree must be!!
@@gardenlikeaviking Yeh we are very lucky to be near it google 'major oak' and you will see an ancient one nottingham has some of the biggest concentration of some of the oldest oaks in the world I dont think people realise because of the films etc nottingham castle is real too its right in the centre of nottingham city centre. But it burnt down years ago and was rebuilt I think so.not all original. All the best and loving the vids
Thumbs up 295 keep going bud been on your live stream before
Hello new friend here! Thank you for sharing your garden with me. I just love how it’s all coming 🫑🍅🪴👍together and growing so nicely! I love to garden and I also make garden videos. I wrapping up my 3rd year gardening. I’m sad it’s coming to an end. I have so much to still learn. I’d love it if we could learn more from each other! My plans for my off season is to learn as much as I can about gardening and making videos.
Love your channel bro. All NATURAL!
You,re my Hero
Nice content sir... these are new to me cause I always Ihear traditional composting ...
Awesome info. Yes please do a Turkey-tail
video. Thank You.
You are a good teacher thank you
Nate, I've been following your videos for about month plus. The one thought /question I have around leaf mold is about its survival. It seems to me that leaf mold which survives in a moist enviroment would drown in a bucket/barrel of water. Tell me I'm wrong.
I just started my first barrel of jdam with fish and shrimp heads.
Some species of microorganisms will thrive, others will not survive. Just like Nature! Watching Jadam videos, I got the idea that anaerobic microorganisms get the advantage as the purpose is to bring them to your soil. As you probably know, there is not much oxygen 50 centimetres under the surface of the soil. And you want to have life there.
Going to do this asap and start it on the bottom of the pile! Thank uou
we were in extreme drought [ EXTREME] blazing heat now its raining there will be some grasses mostly grass burrs soon trying to bring back my farm soil now i need large batches of everything to bring back good vegetation for planting grasses for my cattle would like to do this in as natural state as possible and need advise, can not grow any vegs, grasses at this point.
So today I got off my duff finally and went out and knocked the soil off of a couple of birch stumps that I pulled last fall. I ended up with 9- 5 gallon buckets full.
thanks-- took my kids hunting and we found some on our property left it for now as we are starting leaf piles under some madre de agua trees and will soon transplant, as well we will ring our young fruit trees at drip line bury in a layer of carbon and start more there
Wow excellent video, thanks for sharing. Greetings from India
thank you my friend what part of India are you living?
Would love to see you make medicine from mushrooms!
In studying this very thing I came up with an idea. The bacteria around the roots of plants help deliver nutrients to the plant. Our digestive tract is basically our root. So what would be the chance that what we need to live and thrive longer is right where you are getting it. Time to feed this to some mice and see what happens.😉
Another awesome video. Thank you so much ❤
I don’t know anything about mushrooms so itd be interesting to see your process of how to go about identifying.
Yes, turkey-tail medicine recipe; thank you.
Definitely Nat, please, show how to make use of the turkey mushrooms as well as reishi mushroom if you have some..
Fascinating, and so easy to do.
Thank you. This is so informative and very clear
Just tried making the poke berry JHS today. We'll see how it goes. I didn't get it hot enough to boil but I did let it cook down over a few hours.
Leaf mold is definitely in my future. Thanks for the video. Lots of old trees in my area.
Thanks for the videos Nate. So mush information here. Grow, glow and go my friend.
I have a really big old tree in my backyard, can i use the leave mould from there?
Looking forward to all your future mushrooms videos ! Many thanks Nate!
This is relating to other videos about making JMS. But apparently many cities put chloramine in water not chlorine. The difference is that chloramine is much more stable and DOES NOT off gas if left to sit for 24-48 hours. Obviously the water treatment people don’t actually want that, so they use the other more stable form of chlorine. So letting tap water sit doesn’t necessarily help much! I bought a fish tank water dechlorinator that is supposed to bind to chlorine and chloramine and make it none toxic. If it makes the water safe for fish and fish water related microbes, then I imagine it is the best bet for treating tap water for making JADAM solutions. Some fish tank water treatments also bind to heavy metals which is a nice bonus. But yeah, look into chloramine and potentially telling people to buy a fish tank dechlorinator because that’s all that would truly help. They are easy to buy at any local pet store or the pet / fish section at big grocery store chains.
Makes perfect sense. I’ll have to try this.
Thanks
Thanks for the gr8 information... You Rock...
awesome. comprehensive video. From your previous videos, I started using leave mold in my starters, which grew twice as fast. Now I'm finding new leaf mold pockets all over the farm, under different types of old-growth trees like macadamia, mango, noni, etc.) Now, thanks to your content I've been experimenting with fertilizers with this powerful LEAF MOLD! Mahalo my friend. Yassu!
its wonderful to know you're growing with these ancient techniques as well my friend.... I think of you guys often!!
your videos are amazing and it makes sense after listening all the JDAM lectures. I got a question, can we store the leaf mold collected in fall, through the winter. If so do we need to maintain any temperature?