We live in Western NC, 13 yrs now on 3 acres Im truck drvr so been away from home a lot, killed 3 colonies of yellow jackets 😢 no more killing . Planning our permaculture orchard. Seen yer video 2 wks ago, had never heard of permaculture orchard. I grew up in Lancaster Co PA on 30 acre farm, we had fresh vege produce rd side stand, w young orchard. Just starting to bear & sold farm. Im delightwd to learn so much from your efforts. Lord bless you.
I'm learning so much from these videos. Just the little gem about BOGO vs giving away bushels was a great piece of insight, which I wouldn't have expected to get from a walkabout video. Thank you!
Thanks for your videos, I love learning from you. May I share my shock of hearing that Quebec can't make as much money as Alberta? I keep hearing that we're the "have" province and goodness, I've always been jealous of what you "farmers" can grow in the east. Congrats on your wonderful harvest this year, I'm so happy for you! Get more working at things like that to take advantage of your wonderful climate...Ontario and Quebec can produce much more than we can in our growing season out here...know that from farm friends out there.
Thank you Stefan for generously sharing your knowledge and experience. I’ve been subscribed for about two years now and have learned so much from you. Last year I planted my first trio, this year I planted five more. I think I’d like to add tree more trios next year, to include some nuts and some more uncommon types of fruit. It’s because of you that I started. I look forward to watching my little orchard of trees, berries, and herbs grow and mature over the next few years. It’s exciting. Again, thank you.
I have reciently subscribed to your casts. Just wow about your knowledge and abilities to explain what you are doing. Amazing and I hope to plant fruit trees for the future of my new house. God bless you.
Growing up here in CT my most enjoyable times was going to an Orchard picking apples, peaches and pears. I invited my family and friends to celebrate one of my birthdays picking apples then having a picnic. Don't tell anyone but I specially ordered perfect blue skys and temperture. Glad to hear you have a good population of frogs, they're having some trouble globally. Take care and stay well.
I planted 4 trees this fall, that makes 7 (hey I had an extra) still looking for a couple more legumes to plant, there is a pretty desert tree that grows here that I'm trying ot find a couple of, but anyway, thought I'd share. another 6 or more next year. maybe 9, we'll see.
Paul Wheatons permaculture forum site has videos on home made driers, sun heated driers, with a long tongue sort of, peice of square tube with metal on top, metal to heat the air within, whihc air will move up into a cupboard in which you can dry fruit . Not that they are much use at the time of first frosts.
You might like, you really should look up Habit aid a somerset in England based site for buying special trees, heritage ones but with a lot of information on when the fruit ripens on late and early varieties and such, how good they are for juice or as cookers or for cider. Also yiou might like the great English permaculturists Martin Crawford´s in his Forest garden, you seem a bit depre, maybe they might have something new for you.
Fall and Spring, my 2 favourite times of the year. Thanks for sharing ... its lovely. Hoping that maybe you can do a video about Black Knot I have a large plum tree full of it and don't really know what to do about it. Biggest harvest ever of plums on it this summer so its still wanting to be vibrant and productive.
Things hanging in the trees are fruit 🍎 pears, plums. I guess you’re asking about the different traps (codling moth and apple maggot fly traps). Power lines along the road. Overhead spray lines in the orchard.
I always wondered what happened to the Bleu Jays in the summer. I observed them this summer. They were squawking about but not coming for peanuts. They will come visit my ledge in the winter! This year I will try to go outside and feed them like Lesley the Bird Nerd does. The Pennsylvania whitetail deer would've eaten ALL the low hanging fruit. I am guessing that those wires are used to control the deer? Wasps are excellent pollinators and I'm glad they saved your orchard! "Free" is never good. It makes people either skittish or greedy:-) Paula Red and Empire apples are delicious cultivars of the MacIntosh:-) I fell out with (2) garden clubs bc I told them that weeding did not make any sense. I sheet mulch at my latest club. They got all up in arms, smh:-) I compost in place. I found I was to lazy to drag compost over a fence and up a rolling hill:-) Sebastian has beautiful sun kissed hair and James looks like he gets down to business:-) Merci Beaucoup.
Saw a wine making video, there are always more scientists on products that produce intoxicating stuff, that said, if you water them they go sour again and take two weeks or so to re-ripen and then you get their full flavour.
good to hear 2019 harvest went well....as I just watched your 2018 video of things not going well. Great you never gave up! $1 a pear is a reasonable price. It cost me $2.25 for 2 Bartlett pears the other day in the store - and they weren't even that good. I have a neighbour with a pear tree that I prune and they don't use chemicals - and it makes delicious pears!! better than anything i've tried in the stores!
Hey bud! love your videos. I started with just 2 "trios" 2apple 2 pear 1 plum and several seabuck horn and lots of shrubs and herbs. It's at a school in Montreal, the corner of cavendish and terrebonne in NDG. Would love to have your feedback about what we did if you're ever in the big city. Keep up the good work!
Incredible farm! Which apple varieties are you using for cider? I read they aren't necessary the same varieties as eating apples... (I'm in New Brunswick and planning on planting some apple trees for homemade cider)
I will buy 50 new trees.30 apples.summer, autumn, winter.Bulbs and plums.I have some sea buckthorn. Do you have them in Canada? I think I have 120 fruit trees. Chestnut too. you come to Genf.Hello to Sebastian. Greetings from Germany.
What variety is that plum that you ate? One of my favorite summer memories from childhood is eating sun hot plums from the tree. But have no idea what varieties we had. That one looks right, & we had a red one with red flesh (i think)
@@StefanSobkowiak oh. Well that definitely isnt the variety i had growing up 😔 I guess ill just have to plant lots of plum varieties! Thank you for responding tho!
Are you creating green house effect with honey locust branches over fruit trees? I have cherry tree under spruce with cutting back branches on south side. Cheery get leaves 14 days earlier than other unprotected cherries. It is also protected from frost in spring, with no damage to the flowers.
Hey Stephan great looking harvest this year! I'm just curious, is their any intervention you do to beat down apple maggot and coddling with pressure? What would be your average crop loss to these insects?
M’y spacing and yours will be different. Space further than recommended since you will hesitate to remove trees if their to tight. Mine are too tight in the end.
Stefan, can you grow good eating plums from seed? I have one plum in my orchard and expect to get fruit in a couple more years. I am a little surprised that you are saving seeds. Are they true to type/close enough to type?
If you are permaculture should not you plant some trees that are not eating ones. Dont maples help other trees and poisonious plants, dont theyhave a place too. Rosemary and such to ward off insects and are a good bee food. Rosemary flowers in early spring or late winter and lavender in summer when it is too hot for many flowers: Strawberry tree arbutus uneda i think its called flowers in winter which helps bees which come out on a warm winters day but then I live in Spain.
You talk of having plenty, too much, enough for a time of famine somewhere else or in some other disde of food production. I live in Spain a Catholic country and am amazed to find here an enormouse disapproval of having more trees than you need, so much so that if you plant an early apple and a autumn apple and a late one, they get annoyed. Why not have a lot, enough for critters too, maybe you can give it to friends and relations in town, or make and freeze apple sauce or apple filling for pies. Everyone is complaining about people eating too many hamburgers and here I am, in a place were people get upset if you grow too much fruit! Maybe you have to find somone to truck the apples out to a poor district, some local gypsies perhaps who might pick and carry it off, to sell the fruit there. Saw a TV show of a Spanish cook traveling in South America, talking of the food there and he went to a lama farm where the lama farmers said the same, "We only have as many lama as we need". In South America! Where there is so much hunger! Crazy. There you have it again, another Catholic country and people only growing as much as they themselves need to have a bit of money. HOw much fruit do such places have for everyone on a bad year. Suppose there are enough protestants in Poland or that you are near enough to Protestant countries for that part of Catholic ideas not to take root: I suppose that in a year of too much, the charities wil take fruit. Trouble is they are so aggressive about sharing that they will want to clean you out all the time, their suggestion is tha tyou can live in a hovel. I dont dare go anywhere near them, they will want to take all your fruit all the time. I hope what I say does not offend you. I myself was educated as a Catholic. I cant stand them any more, my sister is in the Legion of Christ and htey hav emade her so mean it just isnot true. That lot are so horrible to people. I understand that religious people are offended if their religon is insulted but I think all religions have their crazy side and such sides need to be commented on.
Nothing wrong with abundance, it’s there to share. Start with neighbors, local kids will enjoy taking abundance. Just do what you have on your heart. Don’t pay attention to what others say.
We live in Western NC, 13 yrs now on 3 acres Im truck drvr so been away from home a lot, killed 3 colonies of yellow jackets 😢 no more killing . Planning our permaculture orchard. Seen yer video 2 wks ago, had never heard of permaculture orchard. I grew up in Lancaster Co PA on 30 acre farm, we had fresh vege produce rd side stand, w young orchard. Just starting to bear & sold farm. Im delightwd to learn so much from your efforts. Lord bless you.
Thank you. Enjoy the journey.
I'm learning so much from these videos. Just the little gem about BOGO vs giving away bushels was a great piece of insight, which I wouldn't have expected to get from a walkabout video. Thank you!
Glad to help
I am a widow with 'dreams' of living in SUCH a paradise! My, how you are blessed! Thank-you for sharing Stefan, God Bless you and yours!
Ah chouette, un walkabout. Merci Stefan !
Thank you, you’re a gift of nature! :)
What a fun time of year!
Thanks for your videos, I love learning from you. May I share my shock of hearing that Quebec can't make as much money as Alberta? I keep hearing that we're the "have" province and goodness, I've always been jealous of what you "farmers" can grow in the east. Congrats on your wonderful harvest this year, I'm so happy for you! Get more working at things like that to take advantage of your wonderful climate...Ontario and Quebec can produce much more than we can in our growing season out here...know that from farm friends out there.
Yes we have a more favorable climate zone but everyone should focus on what they can grow and grow that. Hard to beat your Saskatoons.
It looks like our Ukrainian apple gardens. All the best to you, Stefan! You are a very nice and kind person!
Thank you Stefan for generously sharing your knowledge and experience. I’ve been subscribed for about two years now and have learned so much from you. Last year I planted my first trio, this year I planted five more. I think I’d like to add tree more trios next year, to include some nuts and some more uncommon types of fruit. It’s because of you that I started. I look forward to watching my little orchard of trees, berries, and herbs grow and mature over the next few years. It’s exciting. Again, thank you.
I have reciently subscribed to your casts. Just wow about your knowledge and abilities to explain what you are doing. Amazing and I hope to plant fruit trees for the future of my new house. God bless you.
Received thanks. Blessings to you
i really love your place Sir
Growing up here in CT my most enjoyable times was going to an Orchard picking apples, peaches and pears. I invited my family and friends to celebrate one of my birthdays picking apples then having a picnic. Don't tell anyone but I specially ordered perfect blue skys and temperture.
Glad to hear you have a good population of frogs, they're having some trouble globally. Take care and stay well.
I planted 4 trees this fall, that makes 7 (hey I had an extra) still looking for a couple more legumes to plant, there is a pretty desert tree that grows here that I'm trying ot find a couple of, but anyway, thought I'd share. another 6 or more next year. maybe 9, we'll see.
Fantastic. You’ve done the hardest part. Starting.
Paul Wheatons permaculture forum site has videos on home made driers, sun heated driers, with a long tongue sort of, peice of square tube with metal on top, metal to heat the air within, whihc air will move up into a cupboard in which you can dry fruit . Not that they are much use at the time of first frosts.
I love thoes plums I'm really hoping I have some growing in the next few years from pit...
Looking forward to your pruning vids. Thanks for the info.
Me too.
You might like, you really should look up Habit aid a somerset in England based site for buying special trees, heritage ones but with a lot of information on when the fruit ripens on late and early varieties and such, how good they are for juice or as cookers or for cider. Also yiou might like the great English permaculturists Martin Crawford´s in his Forest garden, you seem a bit depre, maybe they might have something new for you.
Awesome information!
Fall and Spring, my 2 favourite times of the year. Thanks for sharing ... its lovely. Hoping that maybe you can do a video about Black Knot I have a large plum tree full of it and don't really know what to do about it. Biggest harvest ever of plums on it this summer so its still wanting to be vibrant and productive.
Hope to do one on black knot before winter. Waiting for all the leaves to fall.
@@StefanSobkowiak Wonderful, I'll be watching for it, Thanks : )
Wow look at all those colors. Absolutely beautiful. What kind of green grapes are those at the beginning by the parking lot?
Kay gray.
Have you ever thought of running cows or pigs through to aid with end of season cleaning?
Yes have had sheep, up to 100. I would not use pigs w mulch.
Please explain all the things I see hanging in your trees and the lines I see strung down the road.
Things hanging in the trees are fruit 🍎 pears, plums. I guess you’re asking about the different traps (codling moth and apple maggot fly traps). Power lines along the road. Overhead spray lines in the orchard.
I always wondered what happened to the Bleu Jays in the summer. I observed them this summer. They were squawking about but not coming for peanuts. They will come visit my ledge in the winter! This year I will try to go outside and feed them like Lesley the Bird Nerd does. The Pennsylvania whitetail deer would've eaten ALL the low hanging fruit. I am guessing that those wires are used to control the deer? Wasps are excellent pollinators and I'm glad they saved your orchard! "Free" is never good. It makes people either skittish or greedy:-) Paula Red and Empire apples are delicious cultivars of the MacIntosh:-) I fell out with (2) garden clubs bc I told them that weeding did not make any sense. I sheet mulch at my latest club. They got all up in arms, smh:-) I compost in place. I found I was to lazy to drag compost over a fence and up a rolling hill:-) Sebastian has beautiful sun kissed hair and James looks like he gets down to business:-) Merci Beaucoup.
They do. Haha you’re a modern day Ruth Stout.
@@StefanSobkowiak Yes, Her story and Masanobu Fukuoka intrigue me:-) They did so much with what was right in front of them:-)
Saw a wine making video, there are always more scientists on products that produce intoxicating stuff, that said, if you water them they go sour again and take two weeks or so to re-ripen and then you get their full flavour.
good to hear 2019 harvest went well....as I just watched your 2018 video of things not going well. Great you never gave up! $1 a pear is a reasonable price. It cost me $2.25 for 2 Bartlett pears the other day in the store - and they weren't even that good. I have a neighbour with a pear tree that I prune and they don't use chemicals - and it makes delicious pears!! better than anything i've tried in the stores!
Hey bud! love your videos. I started with just 2 "trios" 2apple 2 pear 1 plum and several seabuck horn and lots of shrubs and herbs. It's at a school in Montreal, the corner of cavendish and terrebonne in NDG. Would love to have your feedback about what we did if you're ever in the big city. Keep up the good work!
Fantastic you started. The hardest part is done. Will keep it in mind next time in NDG.
Incredible farm! Which apple varieties are you using for cider? I read they aren't necessary the same varieties as eating apples... (I'm in New Brunswick and planning on planting some apple trees for homemade cider)
We only do sweet cider or apple juice as it’s called here. We mix 20-25 cultivars in juice. All are good. Different for hard cider.
I will buy 50 new trees.30 apples.summer, autumn, winter.Bulbs and plums.I have some sea buckthorn. Do you have them in Canada? I think I have 120 fruit trees. Chestnut too. you come to Genf.Hello to Sebastian. Greetings from Germany.
Fantastic yes we have sea buckthorn. Great job.
What variety is that plum that you ate?
One of my favorite summer memories from childhood is eating sun hot plums from the tree. But have no idea what varieties we had. That one looks right, & we had a red one with red flesh (i think)
Canada plum
@@StefanSobkowiak oh. Well that definitely isnt the variety i had growing up 😔
I guess ill just have to plant lots of plum varieties!
Thank you for responding tho!
Do you offer classes on what to do with large amounts of fruit, that might also encourage ppl to take a large amount home with them.
Classes not yet but it's a good idea. We've done a video on drying fruit.
I think alcohol making is a great use
Soil 4 Climate 👍group
Are you creating green house effect with honey locust branches over fruit trees? I have cherry tree under spruce with cutting back branches on south side. Cheery get leaves 14 days earlier than other unprotected cherries. It is also protected from frost in spring, with no damage to the flowers.
Yes they help keep off frost, especially in fall.
Hey Stephan great looking harvest this year!
I'm just curious, is their any intervention you do to beat down apple maggot and coddling with pressure? What would be your average crop loss to these insects?
Trapping both. Good question never thought as an average probably 10-25% have had 3% and had 95% in a really low fruit year.
Another great site but for the science of things is that of Harvey Smith.
First frost? Where are you? I had my first frost a month ago in northern nevada
Yes we’ve had several now this was filmed sept 19.
Allô! J'aime beaucoup tes vidéos!
Je me demande pourquoi les plastiques a la base de tes arbres fruitiers?? mauvais herbes? Gèle? Merci!!
Oui mauvaise herbes et réduction de travail.
Merci 🙂
RIP to your fingernail! O.O
how did you smash it?
I didn't know drying fruit could be such a dangerous business!
Jenna I don’t even remember. Farming is hard on the body and the hands. That’s ok I’m not looking to be a hand model. Hahaha.
Why are you planting autumn olives?
To see if they grow in our climate. They are certainly not invasive here. Plus they are a nitrogen fixer that fits into our trios of trees.
How far apart are your tree rows and how far apart are your trees within your rows?
M’y spacing and yours will be different. Space further than recommended since you will hesitate to remove trees if their to tight. Mine are too tight in the end.
Stefan, can you grow good eating plums from seed? I have one plum in my orchard and expect to get fruit in a couple more years. I am a little surprised that you are saving seeds. Are they true to type/close enough to type?
Stay tuned for the next 3 weeks as we plant our next orchard from seed.
Dobra robota :)
If you are permaculture should not you plant some trees that are not eating ones. Dont maples help other trees and poisonious plants, dont theyhave a place too. Rosemary and such to ward off insects and are a good bee food. Rosemary flowers in early spring or late winter and lavender in summer when it is too hot for many flowers: Strawberry tree arbutus uneda i think its called flowers in winter which helps bees which come out on a warm winters day but then I live in Spain.
Yes we planted honey locust.
Why are all your apples red?
I noticed that when traveling in Europe where most apples are yellow. Good question it seems in North America people associate apples with being red.
You talk of having plenty, too much, enough for a time of famine somewhere else or in some other disde of food production. I live in Spain a Catholic country and am amazed to find here an enormouse disapproval of having more trees than you need, so much so that if you plant an early apple and a autumn apple and a late one, they get annoyed. Why not have a lot, enough for critters too, maybe you can give it to friends and relations in town, or make and freeze apple sauce or apple filling for pies.
Everyone is complaining about people eating too many hamburgers and here I am, in a place were people get upset if you grow too much fruit! Maybe you have to find somone to truck the apples out to a poor district, some local gypsies perhaps who might pick and carry it off, to sell the fruit there.
Saw a TV show of a Spanish cook traveling in South America, talking of the food there and he went to a lama farm where the lama farmers said the same, "We only have as many lama as we need". In South America! Where there is so much hunger! Crazy. There you have it again, another Catholic country and people only growing as much as they themselves need to have a bit of money. HOw much fruit do such places have for everyone on a bad year. Suppose there are enough protestants in Poland or that you are near enough to Protestant countries for that part of Catholic ideas not to take root:
I suppose that in a year of too much, the charities wil take fruit. Trouble is they are so aggressive about sharing that they will want to clean you out all the time, their suggestion is tha tyou can live in a hovel. I dont dare go anywhere near them, they will want to take all your fruit all the time.
I hope what I say does not offend you. I myself was educated as a Catholic. I cant stand them any more, my sister is in the Legion of Christ and htey hav emade her so mean it just isnot true. That lot are so horrible to people. I understand that religious people are offended if their religon is insulted but I think all religions have their crazy side and such sides need to be commented on.
Nothing wrong with abundance, it’s there to share. Start with neighbors, local kids will enjoy taking abundance. Just do what you have on your heart. Don’t pay attention to what others say.
For a walkabout, 90% of the video is your face :-(
Good point will reverse the camera next time.
Dommage que ça ne soit pas en français ! Je vais donc me désabonner.