Grow More Locally and Produce Food Anywhere
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- Опубліковано 14 лип 2024
- Our food system comes at a cost. Often the food from our grocery stores has to travel long distances to get to our tables. If gardeners in Inuvik and Iceland can grow food in those extreme areas why cant we all do our part to improve food security and reduce the carbon cost of the food we eat.
I am going to start a new series that will expand past back yard gardening and look at other methods we can all grow our own food and see if those methods reduce, are equal too or have a higher carbon footprint.
I am also going looking to do more public speaking engagements. Tomorrow I will be speaking at the Sangudo Garden Day. (link below) If you know of any speaking engagements please feel free to shoot me an email at albertaurbangarden@gmail.com
I am also going to expand my video blog series to bring you along during the 2017 season so you can follow along with my Zone 3 garden!
Sangudo Garden Day:
www.townpost.ca/events/sangudo...
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Hi Stephen, as a fellow zone 3 grower I can appreciate your posts. With our grow season so short, anything we can do to maximize it is always welcome. Looking forward to this years vids.
Thank you my friend! I am glad you enjoy the northern videos :)
Getting started on a vegetable garden for the first time in Spruce Grove this year. Absolutely love these videos! Been really helpful to learn all your tips and tricks. So nice to hear someone talk about growing in Zone 3.
I love meeting locals! Hope you have a great season. Feel free to ask any questions you may have !
Way to go! I am 100 percent in agreement. Why can't we grow food everywhere. With help and understanding everything and anything is possible! Go you. Support everyone! You rock!
Go for it Stephen ,I'll be with you. Grow local is the best policy
Thank you my friend!
It may be good to differentiate between practices that are location specific and those that are more general. Most of your viewers probably live in warmer zones. I myself live in Tucson, Arizona, but still find your content useful. Even here learning how to deal with the cold can be very useful. I would suggest looking up the Walipini on youtube, it is a semi-underground greenhouse used in the far north to grow year-round. Maybe a video on the basic science of heat transfer?
If I had a little more access I would have already dug myself one but alas I don't have the space ;) I want to do a video anyways!
I hope to keep my content as useful as possible to our world wide community :)
Good to see you, Stephen! I hope y'all are doing well!
Its always good to hear from a friend! Everything is well up here. Hope the south is treating you well!
I just found your channel. I'm in Calgary and I'm really interested to see some tips for growing in colder climates. So many channels are in California, and although interesting, don't address the issues of shorter growing seasons and colder nights. Thanks for sharing your garden and your experiences!
Great ideas! I started with one hoop bed several years ago just to extend the seasons on both ends and became a four season gardener. Amazing what you can grow in the colder months with the right plants.
It certainly can help a fair bit :)
I love your ideas. I am parallel to you, just in British Columbia. We used to live in Edmonton, so I know exactly what you were talking about when it comes to Alberta weather. I have had a learning curve coming to British Columbia, because the weather here is different. I look forward to watching all your videos, and I have already learned so much from you. So thanks. Also wanted to note, your weight loss is going fantastic. Can definitely tell in your face. Keep up the good work :-)
Stephen I like your concepts in this video. You might want to consider adding a additional section on UA-cam gardeners cross pollination of our ideals, because I'm in zone 8A and I have more issues with heat and I do with a cold
I have worked with other channels in the past. I may have to take a look at re-invigerating that work!
They are all great. I especially like the testing garden assumption series. Best wishes Bob.
Thank you my friend ;)
keep on keeping on. I'm totally stoked
Thank you my friend ;)
New sub here, a fellow zone 3 from Saskatchewan. I am a beginner gardener, and I love the idea of following along your gardening season as you work through it, in a more real time way. I look forward to the 2017 growing season! :D
So much great stuff to come! How exciting! I like all your ideas 😊
Thank you my friend!
I'm looking forward to more workshops this year, your perennial one last year was great! Permaculture may be something to look at in the future too!
Thank you my friend! I had a lot of fun teaching the Sangudo one. I think I have begun to hone my skills ;)
Looking forward to the new series and hope someone videos your talks and shares on youtube too.
I am looking at ways I can do an online workshop.
great job!!! would love to support your mission...thanks for sharing..we are in zone 4! well said!
like and sub!
Welcome to the community and I thank you for supporting the channel!
Don't go away, stay with us.
God bless
I'd love to hear how carbon footprints compare with technologies vs transported produce. That'll take a lot of research, but I think it's of value to us all, especially if we all can apply your calculations with our own local data. Thanks for the scientific approach you share with us on your channel.
Stephen! Hi, and have a great new growing season! :D
Maybe you could investigate this i have heard. I have heard that it takes much more energy in the *growing process* (farm equipment, fertillizers, and other embedded energy) than actually shipping the stuff. That was only a small percentage and that 'going local' is not actually the part people should be focussing on because the biggest problem is in the growing process. I am not good at finding papers but i know you are.
I am certainly going to investigate that ;)
Thank you for this channel. I am a beginner and next year is my second year trying to grow a garden. You channel has given me tips that hopefully will increase my yield. Next big garden investment is: Mason jars for pickles. Take care and thanks for sharing your knowledge
I am glad I can help!! Hopefully this year is a smashing success !
We have a fair collection of mason jars now and it sure makes for some nice preserves for winter !
Looking forward to your vlog and garden assumptions videos. I would also like to see more about your weight loss journey. (Great job btw!)
Thank you my friend! I will keep all three series going now :)
You come from some *cold* places my friend! I like this concept and look forward to the rest of the series! Of course with me way down in zone 8 the ability to grow in cold doesn't really apply, but the thought processes behind it can help us think of ways to cope with the heat as well. Gets those creative juices flowing.
I am working to make it useful for my fellow cold gardeners but also so the concepts are transferable!
Wow Great timing. Stephen. I am looking into growing food over the winter months in zone 3 Ontario. Eliot Coleman's methods in four season gardening are great but as you know we face a higher degree of difficulty in our zones. I have done much research in applying his methods with other innovations but the costs and the limited resources are challenging in my province. Some ideas for you to look into apart from cold frames and hoop houses are rocket mass heaters. passive heating and geothermal heating. The list goes on. If I had the money I would invest in large greenhouses that could provide year round crops for my community since I have a 40 acre farm. Dreaming big. LOL I am looking forward to your ideas and what you can find that other gardeners can implement that would be cost efficient. Thanks
if you take a look at the One Yard Revolution channel he has taken Eliot Colemans work to a much more practical set of methods. he produced all winter with no issue. I just don't have the sun between fall and spring solstice.
Also just outside Edmonton, and excited to find gardening vids for our climate. Finally had a great veg garden last year due to the excellent soil I've been able to build with the manure from my sheep. Hoping to incorporate chickens this summer, and get them to do the composting for me. Looking forward to exploring your channel more.
Wonderful and great to meet you !
Sounds like its time to turn an entire room in your house into an indoor garden!
I'm looking forward to learn more about gardening technologies in 2017!
Great video! Good luck in the new season! Have a wonderful weekend!
Thank you!
Can't wait to hear about your speaking engagement!
Alexander Legaree same here!
Thanks ! I hope it goes well !
Can't wait to see the new series! Keep up the great videos!
Thank you my friend !
Aleays willing to learn to better myarlf and health..big like my friend!!!
I had forgotten what snow looked like. I think I am a couple of hundred miles north of you, but luckily the Scottish West coast has a winter average of -4C. I am looking forward to what you come up with.
Here in the states and here in Wisconsin libraries are always looking to have speakers come talk and most will pay we have over the last 2 year simply email them telling them who we are and what we do and last year we had 20 library talks
That is a wonderful idea my friend. Thank you! I'll have to reach out to the libraries here and see how it goes !
Always looking for varieties of perennial fruit and veggies for zones 4 and 3. thanks for all your info.
Here is a video I did on just that :) my perennials are the pride of my collection !
ua-cam.com/video/fgQZNpZf0CQ/v-deo.html
I'm finally growing too..
Thats wonderful! Glad you are getting some plants going!
Fun fact... zone 3 in canada is zone 2 in the USA. I live in zone 4b ( 3b in the USA ) and I could grow artichoke successfully ( just to tell you that it is possible to grow a lot of things even with a short season )
Wouldnt hate a longer growing season though
I would like to see some emphasis on propagating local forage
Oh that's a good idea ! Thanks !
I live in the Adirondacks, and local forage is a huge market that I e been slowly immersing myself into. this year I will be exploring ways to bring all that to one property. Hoping, if done right, should be low to no maintenance, and provide life long foodstuffs
I'd love seeing what you're doing as you're doing it.
Also, have you ever tried Winter Sowing? I'm trying that this year but haven't found very many good videos on it. Patrick has something on it, but I'd like more. Most progress videos aren't as methodical as you two do.
Good luck and thanks for the video! 😀
I dont do much fall/winter planting as I don't have any sun in the winter. That said I have experimented and love doing it. Patrick has some great content on the subject.
I pause on the polar bear and cry that what we are loosing due to our ignorance and stubbornness. I don't see many tree growers in NE corner of Calgary, this community mostly consisting south Asians grow only a handful of greens and that's all. I am going to conduct some experiments on air-pruning planters and starting most of veggies 8 weeks or more prior to last expected frost day (May 23rd)
What I would like to see from your end is seed savings and sharing. I have saved a few seeds for this year and among them is a single pole bean seed (first in 2 years) a few tomatoes and red lettuce. Though I will be moving in late spring but I think I will establish a small garden quicker than this existing one.
I will start posting some of my experiments and verity of different veggies.
Following you pepper pruning technique I have establish a fair sized bell pepper plant.
Glad you are getting prepared for this next season.
Glad you are getting prepared for this next season.
Cool
Sounds like a good year of videos coming up! I have been toying with the idea of posting a few videos of my own but I need to manage my time better plus I can be a bit hard to understand at times. If you have any tips on how you manage your time and/or on making the clips I would appreciate it!If you're ever in the area and you want to do an aquaponics clip let me know 😀 I can probably help out with the clip.
generally I script and research my clips and make sure to dedicate time to it. I too struggle with managing life and videos but really its about getting into a habit.
Sounds like some interesting videos are on the way. By the way, do they sell coloured paint in Alberta? Sorry. Noticing the bland colours on the houses in your neighbourhood. Good thing for greenery. :)
Stephen, for the testing garden assumptions series, can you do "Organic Pest Control, What Works and What Doesn't" My Scotch Bonnet Pepper plants that I brought in last fall are now covered in aphids. First thing anyone said to me was "Try Cayenne Pepper Spray" (sigh) they are sucking on the fruit of a pepper 10 hotter! I've tried the home made Safersoap, Essential Oil of Peppermint, Essential Oil of Rosemary, Essential Oil of Teatree. and I feel like an episode of Juste pour rire Gags, because the aphids just laugh at me...
I went looking for neem oil and thyme oil and couldn't find any without having to drive into the big city.
I mentioned your reply to my wife, and she said "I have a big bottle of neem oil in the downstairs bathroom." So I have just tried Safer's Neem Oil Spray...
I'll put that on the list. I have not really had too many pest issues. Have you tried ladybugs ?
Neem oil is not permitted here in Canada so I don't have much experience with it.
I'll ponder how to address this issue.
Well good beer seems to be illegal in the US :)
Stephen, I think that might be provincial law (unless you mean the essential oil). Safer's Neem Oil Spray is available at Home Hardware in Ontario.
Can you show more growing food indoors and balcony food growing, thanks
Will Donny friend.
What would you suggest for a animal and kid friendly ground cover lawn replacer in Calgary? Thank you in advance for any advice you may offer. :)
I have been thinking of this too,I'm in zone 7 NY and would like to know at what temp or degrees would I have to keep a grow tunnel or green house to grow tomatoes and cucumbers?i have been growing lettuces all winter in 40-45 degrees and using solar into batteries into convert for small heater.there may not be enough sun light .thats my 2cents,any helpful info would really help,thanks for this video
Can the mineral waste water from herb distillation, and hydrosol be used for beneficial plants sprays and or compost/soil fertilizers. Should the waste material be compost
Yup add them to the compost
Is this channel still running?
I'm looking for pereñial vegetables that do well in dry conditions.
What might work best is looking for native crops to your area. It's the same thing I do for cold hardy ones.
Grapes are pretty good in dry climates and I am sure there are more.
if you are doing this research. Could you please let us know if aquaponics is really useful or manageable in small scale.
I certainly will put that on my list :) I think it can be done usefully on a small scale however for meat producing fish you will need a minimum tank size.
I grow in bedroom 🌿👽🌿✌
I am interested in the different fruits and berries that get the best results in AB.
Well my friend I can help you out for sure :) here is a video I did on just that subject this last spring. ua-cam.com/video/fgQZNpZf0CQ/v-deo.html
Thank you so much. I am doing urban balcony gardening, are there any dwarf apple trees you would suggest?
IAM IN ZONE 7B AND IAM ALLWAYS LOOKING FOR FRUITS AND VEGETABLES TO GROW IN MY ZONE
monster gardens has a tissue culture kit..
What's the purpose of the kit ?
I'm very excited to be able to follow along with when and how you plant.
I don't know if you've seen this - but it seems the Edmonton area has been upgraded to zone 4a! (www.planthardiness.gc.ca/?lang=en&m=24&speciesid=1000000&phz=phz1981-2010&bc=1)
Lastly, if you're interested in filming a tour or a trouble shooting video I've got a community plot I'd be happy to have you visit. :)
Having huge problems in Calgary .. for some reason EVERY year we get BUGs that just kill our garden and leave the flowers alone ... WHY? AHHHHHG ... driving us us nuts. THE BUGS .. potato bugs ... on the peppers .. not sure but we get large holes that have been ate ... the tomatoes the same thing ... and our lettuces .. when its young birds ... WE CAN NOT WIN ... huge yard .. but does not produce crap because of the bugs . If you are ever in Calgary ... please drop in and you can see ... its just stupid.
Our yard is 160 by 80 .. its a huge reverse pie and we should be able to get at leased a harvest that helps us through the winter .. but know .... you can use our yard for your vids ... yours in one thing .. but when you see mine .. you will be amazed.
L Gorman do you use insect netting?
never heard about insect netting? thus .. no .. no I have not .. I will look into it ... Thanks;)