So you want a food forest? Bushes - My top 6
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- Опубліковано 28 тра 2024
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Many people coming to this channel are only now getting exposed to the wonderful world of regenerative permanent agriculture called permaculture. I thought what better time to start a new series... So you want a food forest?
Instead of starting with trees, I am going to jump to bushes - the hidden MVP layer of a food forest. Gardeners love herbaceous layer plants (lettuces, broccoli, cabbage, collards, etc). Orchardists love their trees (and for good reason). But what about those poor bushes who just sitting there out-producing trees and getting no recognition for it?
Here are my top 6 bushes for your new zone 4-9 food forest. (many of these can survive zone 3).
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It seems that 8 months after making this video, the UA-cam algorithm is suggesting it to a bunch of new people! Welcome to everyone new. For all the new viewers, I have created an "essentials" playlist here - if you enjoy this video, make sure to check the playlist out, as it will give you a good idea of what this kind of regenerative gardening looks like:
ua-cam.com/play/PLWcGSYiimOLxSGAkqn1OYnf8nE2auy3y6.html
Specifically, I suggest starting with a few particular videos:
1) Who we are, what is permaculture, what it's all about:
ua-cam.com/video/39_V9d5t_Xg/v-deo.html
2) This will change how you garden forever - which really talks about my 2 golden rules of gardening:
ua-cam.com/video/cFLyGVhu0bY/v-deo.html
3) No land, no problem? This is one about planting TONS of trees, and is a soft-intro to Guerilla Gardening in a responsible way:
ua-cam.com/video/oiIJkzahH1k/v-deo.html
If you enjoy those, then feel free to dig deep into some of the deeper permaculture videos in there on pest control, pruning, water management with swales and ponds, etc.
Thanks for watching!
I'm glad they did :) Try the rosa rugosa flower petals in salad too. I just eat the petals like candy when I walk by them. So yummy :)
Well grateful for the algorithm I guess! Glad to have found you. Newest sub!
Thanks 😊
Im new also!! Thanks :)
I'm so fortunate. Whatever happened, I'm ao grateful for it. I hope you all enjoy my videos. I can't wait for this spring, to see all the really young trees start growing more!
I had a large thornless blackberry in my back yard for years. A skunk moved in under it when the plant was about three foot around. I never had a problem with him. He only came out at night and kept the bugs in check. 20 years later and 10 feet across. We still live in peace.
Haha thats a great story.
What is this black magik thornless blackberry bush!!? I've only seen the wild hella sharp ones
The skunk might have keeping some other critters or birds away to that are not wanting to get sprayed. Sounds like the scene for a children's story on sharing and compassion :)
The house is in the high desert in Arizona, on the edge of a small town. All kinds of animals visit our yard. We have found large toads and bats by the front door. I always keep a large bowl under the garden hose connector to catch any leaking water hose. That small amount of water has saved many animals from the heat. With no fence and the property completely covered with as many of my favorite plant’s that I could manage. Many animals that were abused found comfort in this yard as they passed through. Many memories indescribable joy.
Wow! Thanks for the reminder, we can co-exist together 🐬💦 Beautiful! Beautiful!
1) Blackberries,
2) Black Currants (shade loving),
3) Elderberries,
4) Haskap berries
5) Raspberries,
6) Sea buckthorn berries (purchase thornless)
7) Blueberries
I bought blueberry, blackberry, raspberry and strawberry bushes yesterday.
I'd love to have all of them but would they grow in the desert southwest? 110 in summer -10 in winter.
@Shaggy Dog: In most northern and eastern states, every county has a county extension agent and office where the employees give advice and help to people with the plants they grow. They are usually connected with whatever state university in your state has the agricultural school. I recommend checking to see if your state has a County Extension Service. If so, call your local office and ask your questions. Sometimes they will do soil testing for you, and evaluate your land, especially if you have changes in elevation or other unique challenges that might impact the success of different fruit varieties. Often they have free publications and really good, county specific advice. If you do not have a County Extension Service, investigate your state universities and find out which one teaches agricultural science. They are the people who know what plants will be successful in different areas of your state, which varieties to purchase, and they can give you really good advice on methods of planting to get a good crop. Blessings!
@@salyluz6535 Thanks much. I'll have to check into that. God bless.
Wish I could grow blue berries, but my soil isn't acidic enough. I have all the others except honey berries that will be planted when the snow melts and my local seed store gets them in
If you actually want to heal the soil you have, there are a LOT native bushes with edible berries. Viburnum, serviceberry, Spicebush, chokeberry, gooseberry, and highbush blueberry to name a few. And some are nitrogen fixers and grow incredibly fast. So maybe think about planting some native stuff in order to get more beneficial insects. Studies have shown that pollinators are extremely more likely to be attracted by native plants than nonnative ones.
Thank u for this list. I've been looking for cold region spices and have never heard of spice bush! I'll definitely check it out.
Thank you for your list we are trying to for native choices as much as possible, also biodiversity as well
This reminds me of our garden back in Russia. I was born in Russia Rostov-on-Don, and in that city, much like in all of Russia people grow much of their own food. Even today in modern times a large part of Russian population still grows parts of their own food. It’s a normal thing in Russia. The Russians who live in densely populated urban cities grow food in their “Dachas” (Дача) which is like a Summer vacation house located somewhere in remote country area. Russians go away for the summer to live in their country houses. Wealthy people don’t grow their own food but for fun they keep flower gardens in their dachas. The reason why I said this video reminds me of our garden back in Russia, is because one of our plots which we utilized for gardening/ food growing was surrounded by a fence made out of raspberry bushes. I could never describe in words the difference between homegrown berries and veggies and fruits and store bought . There is no comparison!
Thanks for posting that. I am really enjoying my Russian watchers. It is so cool to connect to people on the other side of the planet who are choosing to live the same way.
В каждой фразе рашн. Это секта "Рашн" и рашн-пропаганда?
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Thank you! I’ve enjoyed watching your videos.
@@hobogardenerben Thank you!
Song playing in the back of my mind while watching video about bushes:
"Everyday I worry all day.
About what waiting in the bushes of love.
Something's waiting in the bushes for us.
Something's waiting in the bushes of love."
The rose petals make tea, marmalade, oils for massage, filling for cushions... and the bees love the pollen...don't underestimate your roses.
And keeps deer pressure out. Great useful plant for so many reasons.
And rosehips - vitamin c
And a cold extrication process (rose water) can be done with the petals.
Rosehip had more vitamin c than orange.
So do strawberry leaves. Is rose hip marmalade actually...good? I made a spoonful of jelly as a test a couple years back and it was nothing to write home about.
2020: The year of the food forest permaculture prepper
And 2021 and 2022 and 2023. I think 2020 just showed us how VALUABLE prepping can be. The challenges that we face in the next few decades will make Covid look like child's play.
Its never been a better time to start a garden and plant some fruit trees!
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Definitely. Our friends used to think we were weird preppers and just accepted home grown organic vegetables without knowing their true value. That has changed and they are now asking for space to grow their own.
The puppet masters have already disclosed that the crisis' to come will make Covid seem like a minor inconvenience.
If this whole pandemic and lockdowns help create more growers and build resiliency into families all over the planet, then that is a very nice silver lining to a terrible thing. And its exactly what humankind needs right now.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy 100% correct. CDC saying this wasn't even "the Big One". Social systems will collapse when the big one hits. You can protect yourself somewhat by divesting from *all* animal products in your diet. Nearly all of the horrid epidemics of mankind have zoonotic sources, including COVID. You know what doesn't give us really deadly diseases? Plants.
Elderberry jam is my absolute favorite
I vehemently agree, bushes are vastly under rated, but my reasoning is their use as wind breaks and wind diversions and wind channellers, so much of micro climate is wind dictated. Wind can create arid regions, absence of wind drops evaporation exponentially. Ground cover can alter ground temperatures by enormous amounts.
Black current jam is my all time favorite, too! I make a "raw" jam without cooking, just blend the berries with sugar and keep the jar in the fridge. Vit C is a bomb here if keep it uncooked.
Oh wow
Thank you for this...
Can this be done with any fruit?
And
How long can you keep it?
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@@nevermind7253 try it 😁
@never mind: Look up recipes for freezer jam. You don’t have to freeze it, but if you want to store it longer you can. The fresh taste it retains and the increase nutrition are awesome and really worthwhile!
You can also make a fermented jam, using just fruit and honey. Tastes awesome, still has all the Vit C and stores for longer than just regular blended/freezer style jams!
Every bush is his number 1 favorite!
Lol it's definitely true.
Great bushes. I'm squeezing in a few of these in my tiny garden. I like food forests
Awesome! They are life changing thats for sure!
You didn’t mention gooseberries. Since you like tart berries I’m sure you’d love these. They also have a TON of pectin so they’re awesome to combine with other fruits for jam. I concocted something called “ Bluegoose jam” last year from blueberries and gooseberries. It’s sooooo good.
Jam combos are something I'm going to mess around with a lot this year.
Love gooseberries. Another thorny plant, but makes a bigger sweeter currant (ribes family).
also: Josta berries. They are a hybrid of black currants and gooseberries. The Berries look like black gooeseberries (a little smaler) taste is also a good mix but : no thornes. There are also gooseberry cultivars without thornes.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Try blackberry and red plum jam......delicious.
I love em! I’ve got 4 varieties.
@@two-sense Try huckleberry jam. Got a jar from Idaho. FANTASTIC!
Blackcurrant has been my favorite since I was a child. Lovely to see someone else planting them!
Definitely underappreciated because its not a massive sugar bomb. They are so good though. Really enjoyed them this past season.
Bend the raspberries over, anchor to the soil with a rock and they will root. Easy! Same with blackberries. In fact, many cane plants will propagate this way.
I'd be concerned they may snap?
We call hascap bushes honey berries here in Vancouver, Washington.
Veery late comment, but! You can also make rose jam out of the rose hips. That's what traditionally we have our pączki stuffed with here in Poland ;) Yummy
To eat rosehips, cut open the ripe hip (bright orange or red, flower has completely vanished, usually mid to late autumn), scrape out the seeds and the spiny inner material, and eat the remaining flesh of the fruit. Rosehip jam and rosehip marmalade are delicious, but most importantly, rosehips contain a lot of vitamin C (which is why they're so strong when not sweetened into a jam, syrup, or jelly).
Rosa acicularis has the best hips, sweet and not hairy.
Great addition to smoothies!
Do the rabbits leave them alone in winter? We live in the city and I have a problem to pick bushes, too many have been completely destroyed by rabbits during our cold MB winters. Also, any suggestion for a shadowy place to put an edible bush in?
@@natalieklassen9775 Honeyberry, or haskap is shade tolerant.
@@ferniek5000 Also rabbit resistant?
Black current jam is very popular around the world.
Just found you. Thank u for going to zone right off . I know you can vary things but , most never mention it right off the bat .
This dude is great i have wild raspberryin my back yard
This is GREAT! Much needed advice for our Northern Climate.
Thanks 😊
Elderflowers make amazing syrup/cordial and jelly, and you can batter and fry them.
Black currant and plum jam will rock your world
For sure. So good!
Rabbits , one winter, ,before we fenced in the garden, decimated our entire raspberry patch by eating the bark at 'snow' level. When they also repeatedly ate all the bean seedlings we quickly learned to keep bunnies out of the garden .
I definitely can see why people think that way. I like them myself. They do damage but they also leave so much fertility behind. I find for me they mostly eat my kale and clover that I plant for them, so for me that's manageable. I'm sure that doesn't work everywhere though.
I found some raspberries growing near a spring I get water at and transplanted them. A few years later the neighbors were harvesting raspberries, and a year later their neighbor behind them too. There was no way they could complian since we all had hollyhocks coming up everywhere. That's not even close to mint I had growing once though. That stuff made the entire neighborhood smell like mint, especially if I mowed the "grass." Mint spread rampant and fast but somehow didn't go into everyone else's yards too much and keep going endlessly.
My number 1 choice is everbearing strawberries. They are sweet abundant and delicious)
And NOTHING like the storebought ones that are picked green and packaged and sent for a week's journey in a truck, sit on a shelf for a week, etc.
This was my first year gardening and I had so much fun growing ground cherries. They are very invasive, which is why I chose them and so cute. They were a big hit at work. Now all my coworkers want to grow ground cherries.
So tasty too. Amazing in salads.
I just found out about them and collected thousands of seeds, I hope to grow many of them this year
i LOVE SO CALLED INVASIVE EDIBLES! THEY ARE A SERIOUS NO BRAINER! Glad you have Blackberries! My bees would love your food forest! Most Food Foresters reject all the so called invasives! I guess they like to shoot them selves in the foot. Try Medlar and Black Current Jam seriously best jam I have ever tasted! As for the Hascap it depends what type though. We have developed a very sweet tasting one from crossing two different cultuvars from different regions. Correction the Bumble Bees created them. Great Video!
Funny you mention medlars. I'm looking to pick some up this spring!
Here we call Eribotrya Japonica: Loquats.
My mom grows about 15 different types of berries. Her absolute hands down favorite in terms of abundance, taste is the Illinois mulberry. The only problem is keeping the size in check.
How big does here's try to get? I have one but it's still young.
Black currant jam is really common in Germany, it is sooo good!
I love it man, this was a great list!
I live up in zone 3a, north of Bancroft Ontario and I find my favourite wild berries to pick here are saskatoon/service berries, blueberries, blackberries, cranberries, elderberries, chokecherries, sumac, etc. While in the garden, raspberries are my favourite hands down both black and red, currants, grapes and strawberries.
I plant them with hardy pears, plums and apples. Maple Syrup production is king in spring here though! All the berries are frozen to be crepe sauces with maple syrup.... yumm!
Do you know the varieties you plant for the pears, plums and apples? I will be in a 5a zone soon and really want some extra cold-tolerant varieties so a plum that survives in 3a would be amazing!
Subscribed. Knowledge of my country is so important.
Definitely. Thanks for watching:)
Black currant is my favorite 🤗 it does very well here in Finland, taste is amazing and the yeild is always good. Even harvesting it is pretty fast compared to some other berries.
I'm pretty fond of Juneberries/Saskatoons & trimmed down mulberry.
"The thorns have thorns, guys!" Lol
This is so awesome, making plans for these right now.
Black currants make an excellent fruit juice, too! Toss in a blender with some sugar/honey/sweetener of your choice with some water, blend, and strain! Stick the pulp in the freezer or dehydrate to use in baking. Drink the juice! Can the juice if you want as well (Be safe with your canning methods please!)
Elderberries are also loved by chickens. I've been growing some elderberry bushes from seed that I collected from some spectacularly productive elderberry bushes growing in a hedge here in the UK.
Finding this much later, but I'll post, anyway. I found your channel from a comment on The Weedy Gardener. 🤗 I bought a 107 yr old house with a deep lot that has the original sewer line. Well, trees can disrupt those old lines and until I can afford the cost of replacibg it, I cannot plant trees that may disrupt it. So, in the meantime, bushes it is! My first step is to haul in as much bark mulch (free from the city yard) to enrich the soil and plant bushes and flowers, in the meantine. So, fibding this video is very timely for me! Zone 5a Colorado.
You have it exactly right! 💯
Good luck Joanie!
Sweden here (lat 64, about the height of Fairbanks Alaska)! Try to make coldbrewed black currant lemonade, delicious. Half a bucket of berries, fill up with boiling water, slice a lemon and put them on the surface (or stirr in citric acid). Keep cool for 2-3 days and then sift it. 4-6 dl...I guess that is about 1,5- 2 cups...of sugar and stirr until the sugar has disolved. Less sugar = keep the lemonade in the freezer. More healthy than boiling or steaming the berries.
Bought garden raspberry does not taste as good as the ones I pick in the forest, have gotten rid of all of mine...but I have them in the forest around our village. Sea buckthorn has not wanted to live in my garden but I will give them another try. Rose hips are very wholesome; vitamin C/A/E, folate, calcium, potassium, magnesium and antioxidants.
Oooh this is right up my alley
My food forest includes Oregon grapes, Salmonberry & Thimble berries. Also I grow my greens most of the year especially in shade of the trees in summer. 😋
I need to try some salmon berry, if for no other reason than they are in stardew valley.
We have the red huckleberry on the coast and the blue/ black huckleberry all over BC.
We have so much Oregon grape but not a fan!
Ha! I just came across your channel. Did my first guerilla gardening this weekend - planted a rock rose and lavender bush in a park opposite my house where the council had ripped out some shrubs. Hoping to plant sunflowers in a lawn opposite my house. Lockdown native flower planting to bring happiness to neighbours. 🌻🌹🌼
Haha awesome! Make sure you check out this video, sounds right up your alley: ua-cam.com/video/oiIJkzahH1k/v-deo.html
You’re opening skipped straight to Haskaps. And we have a wonderfully abundant crop of delicious berries on the property we got last year. And the hugest most juicy Saskatoon berries as well. The previous owners had a “U Pick”. I need to get the business side of it sorted out, but last year it was a “come on over and help yourself Pick” farm. 😂
I can't imagine my garden without red currants,literally have more than 10 bushes for sure.I also like raspberries,and their hybrids.I growing some golden currants (ribes aureum)cuz I have some troubles with black currants.(taste is really nice,more sweetier from black currants,but berries size is much smaller).
Goseberries is really nice bush,modern varieties have good imunity and big sized berries.
I really want to grow haskapberries (I think canadian varieties on the top now)
Chaenomeles is really underrated,ppl should use it not only for decorative.
I must not have ever had a really good quince, because I'm not really a huge fan. I may pick up a tree just to say I have them - and that I'm not judging it based on storebought quince. I mean... I'd be silly to judge strawberries based on storebought ones.
If you like tart berries with complex flavors you should try Oregon grape, Mahonia aquifolium, which isn't a grape at all. Zones 5-9. When I had access to some I'd juice them, dilute with lots of water and some sugar, to make the best beverage I've ever had. You made me realize it'd have made the best jam or jelly I've ever tasted too.
Oh wow thanks, I will check them out. I've never heard of them.
I'm thinking of buying land that can't be built on and creating food forests for my family and also to flip. Great channel.
Nice! I've thought about one day buying abandoned warehouses, knocking them down and putting up food forests on them.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy It very well may come to that. It's unacceptable that we take the best farmland in Ontario and build on them. Surely we can develop (or redevelop) homes that are more harmonious with nature. Thanks for your videos. Time to learn!
Sea buckthorn is a miracle plant glad you have it . Every tree has different flavour .The berries won't spoil . no sugar . A true keto berry
Finally found haskaps in france. With our calciferous soils blueberry was a no go. I’ll try to expand our bushes even more
here in ohio elderberries are everywhere like weeds
Thanks so much for this - I'm loving these videos!
for refrence in descending order:
* blackberry ( ua-cam.com/video/RkLLnyvQTwg/v-deo.html )
* currants ( ua-cam.com/video/RkLLnyvQTwg/v-deo.html )
* elderberry ( ua-cam.com/video/RkLLnyvQTwg/v-deo.html ) tall
* haskap lonicera caerulea ( ua-cam.com/video/RkLLnyvQTwg/v-deo.html )
* raspberries ( ua-cam.com/video/RkLLnyvQTwg/v-deo.html )
* seabuckthorn / seaberry ( ua-cam.com/video/RkLLnyvQTwg/v-deo.html )
Nice!
Where I lived in zone 9 before, it was too subtropical and humid for a lot of these plants to thrive well. Wherever you saw them, they were covered in rust and bacteria splotches, and they HATED the six-month summers. But now that I live in a colder place, I’m excited to try these.
I would add to the honorable mentions Huckleberry, and a vine Hardy Kiwi. Thanks
Good list! This year I added Nanking Cherry bushes. Never stop planting in the food forest. 😀
Just bought some berry bushes two days ago, although i only have a little balcony and have to plant them in pots. Now UA-cam showes me this video. Funny
I love the taste of berries. They always were a great thing in my childhood at our garden and my grandma's garden. Of course, we always grumbled a little when we had to harvest a full bush or to fill our bucket with berries before we were allowed to play outside. But we grew up with all these flavours and enjoyed the taste of jams, cakes, fruit jellies and other canned summer harvests. That was so great. I still have these pictures in my mind and can even smell and taste it in my memories. 😊🍇
Awesome! If you have any questions let me know, I try my best to answer them all
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy
Thanks for your nice offer. 🌱
I was pretty excited the other day to wander around, what we call a berm. We have huge spruce and balsam growing on the berm but underneath it’s like …..THIS AWESOME WHOLE other WORLD. I found so many different plants and bushes, but to my surprise I found wild raspberries, highbush cranberries and wild gooseberries. Anyways great video. 🇨🇦🐝
Hascaps are only sour on certain varieties or if you don't let them ripen. They can be some of the sweetest berries out there. you probably just have a tart variety. all types taste different
Always remember that a West Coast zone 8/9 (long but mild winters, often cool or low humidity summers) is very different than the same zones in the US Southeast and other continental-influenced climates (short but sharp & often irregular freezes, generally torrid summers). If you live in the Southeast, make sure you know your area's Chilling Hours (essentially, how long winter is) and try to find the winter chilling requirements for the crops you are interested in, though this is more reported for conventional/marketable crops (usually your [or nearby] state's landgrant [have Agricultural colleges] universities do a good job with that) than for oddities like jelly palms and pineapple guavas that fewer people know as foods. If you see something grow well in your area as an ornamental, and it happens to be edible, and you are growing for your family rather than for the market, that is worth investigating.
I’m in Oregon our summer are very dry and quite hot. The air isn’t dry enough to make your nosebleed like further inland, but spill a glass of water in August and you won’t find a trace in ten minutes.
Go out to water trees at midday you better have a space blanket in case you start feeling faint. Give people some time to find you.
Wow!!!👀❤ I remember that!!! So beauriful!!!
i agree with you about sour fruits making good jam - plum especially. if it's not a sour fruit, add lemon juice.
Ugh - I had a fail with currents here in St. Louis, and I love them remembering that my grandmother grew them. The gooseberries nearby have done well. Great video!
rugosasmake a fantastic jelly from the petals - it tastes like they smell!!
Another underutilized fruit bearing shrub is the chokeberry (Aronia family). These shrubs are well behaved, have great fall color, and are very cold hardy. The berry is blue black, astringent like cranberries, but with great flavor. The seeds are a rare natural sources of vitamin K. Native Americans would make a fruit leather (seeds and all) for winter consumption. A super food too. Many juice combos in your supermarket will use chokeberry as an ingredient. Not sweet, but has a delicious taste to it. Great in fruit smoothies. OH and because it is native with early flowers, is an important pollinator plant for native bees.
Man spitting straight facts
A very informative video, I've taken notes about the fruit bushes! Thanks for sharing
Awesome thanks 😊
Re-watching as a few things in our yard are starting to poke their heads out. Currants we bought and planted in October are budding, saffron we planted at the same time are sprouting out of the ground too. Very excited for everything to "wake up" as you said!!
Exciting! I'm still 2 months away. I'm going to go in the corner and cry a bit.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy hahaha well we're not totally out of the woods for freezes or cold temps yet so we'll see, it always seems to come March/April (just as you're getting excited for warm weather). We are getting a spot prepared for quails though so hopefully that'll help make any cold snaps seem more bearable!
Hang in there though, my husband and I love watching your videos and are greatly anticipating any updates this year! Maybe in the meantime a few games of hockey will help? 🏒
lol. Font size justified. I also enjoy your videos because I like your energy. Greetings from Germany.
Thanks Sven :)
You got every berry bush that I have. Just ordered the sea buckthorn.
Don’t forget roses are berry (hip) producers too! Too many youtubers speak of them as if their only value is “appearance” but never mention their production values
Absolutely. I mention this in a few videos. It's hard to talk about everything in every video :) A lot of new people came to my channel through youtube suggesting this bush video to them. If I would have known that when I made the video a year ago, I certainly would have made this video longer (about 20 odd plants) and talked about more things about each bush. Just as an example, I later did a full 10-ish minute long video just on ONE of these, seabuckthorn. There is so much to talk about with plants!
Nanny berries too. Also, rose hip jam!!!
Thorns have thorns 🤣 best line ever. Planted a male and female last year 2022.🇨🇦🧡
Good luck!
I tried to find this video again a few months back but couldn't remember who was the creator. I googled "top 6 bushes" then musta got distracted. So I'm glad the algorithm suggested that I watch it again!
Neighbors, lol. We bought a lot to build on. On day I was working with my husband cutting and burning dead brush, we also cut down a dead pine and burned it. While doing this a neighbor stopped over to tell us we needed to cut down the live pines. Why? Because large 5-6 foot black snakes would sleep and hang from the branches. I mentioned that no one lived on the property so it should be fine. He corrected me. Everyone uses the lot for their dogs to go poo 💩 and that the rest used it as a walking path. None of this with permission. I asked the past owner of 12 yrs if they gave permission. Clueless. And it is illegal, with prison terms and 10,000 fines per tree to take down those trees. The lot was 30-40 feet from a large river. The county and state take pictures every year and just waiting for home and lot owners to take down live trees. And, if they miss it, neighbors will turn you in. LisaBissett
Terrible neighbors !
I planted a yellow raspberry bush last year and although we only got a few fruits from it, they were delicious! I can't wait to grow more.
The bush layer is my favorite. All the delicious berries are the best part of this stuff. I wish strawberries grew on big bushes like blueberries
The bush layer is my favorite. All the delicious berries are the best part of this stuff. I wish strawberries grew on big bushes like blueberries 😆😆
You can use the seabuckthorn to make very good fish hooks.
So grateful to follow a Canadian Permaculturist! Thank you for this awesome video! I hope you do one on cold hardy fruit and nut trees too.
Oh you bet! I am going to do one on each and every layer, all 7 layers of the food forest.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I hope you include some Arctic or Siberian kiwis. I bought a pint once in a local grocery store that were unlabeled. Most delicious, complex fruit I ever tasted. The size of a grape. I know there's a big difference in their culture, but I can't find the book now.🥴
Indeed, have many kiwi
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy That's inspiring to know! Have you had fruit from them yet? If so, are they the grape-sized fruit, or the blueberry-sized fruit, which I've not tasted?
I've had a few. They are grape sized and very tasty!
we just had to clear our 78ft long by 30ft wide backgarden from blackberry bush :( left a small amount in one corner where my composting bins will eventually be, if the blackberry dont make it then i will not be sad! bloody stuff gets everywhere! much love from the uk xxx
WW2 Rosa rugosa hips were used to supply vitamin c on the home front. Learned that one from Grandma when I was a little girl.
Indeed!
Thank you very much for mentioning the cultivation area. Your wonderful work, inspires me to watch what I could do at home. May the year 2021 be a year of plenty
I agree! 2021 will be even better than 2020 was (for my garden, and hopefully also for the rest of the world as well!)
My personal top six are raspberry, blackberry, serviceberry (saskatoons), currants, gooseberry, and Damascus roses but this year I'll add some native grapes and haskaps. I grow on a 1/6 acre town lot in PEI.
I have almost 40 berry bushes. I have every last one of these bushes in the video even the seabuck thorn. I plant them in between, and in front of the trees too. Can't wait for my small food forest to produce.
Black currants as jam or cordial are great. I'm from Scandinavia and we always had them. Cordial made from 2/3 black currants and 1/3 red is great. Cordial with 2/3 raspberries and 1/3 red currants is also very good. The red currants add a freshness to it. The leaves of black currants are also often used in the brine for pickled cucumbers.
I recommend the Triple Crown Blackberry. They are delicious, thorn-less, and will not spread much like other varieties I've grown.
I'm 99% sure that's the variety I have. It's been there 5 years and it's barely spread. Also thornless.
Whoa!!! For some reason YT unsubscribed me from you. I've missed a ton of content because I wasn't getting notifications...i will be catching up tonight!!!
String him up girls n boys, and go get me my lashing stick
I was that found you today! I live in zone 7 so your site will help me learn. Love it!
That's great! Yoy can grow everything i grow here. Some of the stuff gets harder in zone 8/9 but pretty much anything you see on my channel will also work in zone 7.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Great!
FYI - USDA zone 4 = Canadian Zone 5... For Canadian Prairies - Utilize Microclimates as much as possible and try to utilize nursery stock rated for Canadian zone 2/3, and source from local nursery growers, not imported nursery stock from big box stores!
Oh boy, I agree with this comment SO much.
You walmart tree may have come from a nursery in South Carolina. What kind of genetics are they picking when they grow their trees? Do they have cold hardiness as the number one concern?
Compare that with a local nursery where the trees you buy are bare root, and litearlly already survived a Canadian winter in their first year. I know which one I want.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Just discovered you, and looking forward to watching more of your videos. Where are you located? I’m currently in NE Alberta (zone 2/3), but my wife and I want to move closer to my brother near Cranbrook BC (zone 5) - WOULD LOVE to live in a warmer growing zone!
I'm in Ontario between Toronto and Ottawa. I'd love to live on Vancouver Island, somewhere like Courtenay. Or mainland somewhere like Chilliwack or Prince Rupert or that whole coast. ZONE 8 in Canada? Man, I'd love it.
I can’t wait to see all of the yields that you get out of your food Forest this year with those established food forest bushes
Last year was already more than I can get to, even with 3 boys (1 teenager) eating their bodyweight in berries every day. At this point I am planting more just to flesh out the food forest and donate more to my caretakers (natural beings).
I suppose at some point I could retire early and take this up as my retirement gig, and have a food stand at the local market, or open the food forest up as a you-pick one day per week.
For now though I am just doing it for nature. I already can't pick it all, and I've at least tripled the bush layer this past winter.
I'm in zone 4 in Nebraska and my bush layer is about 200 black raspberry bushes, 24 red or white raspberries, 12 blueberry bushes, Goji Berry bushes i can't even count anymore. But they made 700 pounds of goji. Its now December and they are still producing. For trees i have 3 cherry trees, 3 plumb trees, 3 pear trees, 3 apple trees, 5 Hazelnut trees, and 12 pawpaw trees. The reason i have so many black raspberry bushes is because i freeze dry them and sell them. They go for almost 60 dollars a pound due to their medicinal value.
Awesome! You are pushing the zone for goji. I'm glad to hear it's doing well in zone 4. Hope for me here... for some reason gojis want to die each winter.
We make mead from our currants. I'm looking up the sea buckthorn, thank you.
I've heard that cutting the thorns off new growth each year is a good way to make seaberry a little nicer.
In your honorable mention list I noticed autumn olive. I'm a huge fan of autumn olive and would plant them in my back yard if it were legal in Michigan! Instead I go to public land where it's growing wild to harvest them. I like to eat them raw and make jam.
That's great. I'm a big fan of harvesting the wild ones. Also check out goumi berry. It's related to autumn olive but bigger berries and not invasive.
I tend to have a talent for finding wild black berry and mulberry plants around there's a big mulberry on the furtherest corner of my grandparents property and a whole thicket of black berry separating her land from the neighbors though given the straight line they seem to go in I have a feeling the previous owners put them in and they where forgotten :p the spot her house is on was a part of a cow field so who knows but yay berries to pick and propagate
Evans Cherry beats them as do all the hardy cherries. Alberta here -50 C. We suffer deer incursion on most everything. Buckthorns grow 15 feet wide & high. Wax wings eat all haskaps here or invasive starlings. Nankings are awesome as well we have a ton. I guess my faves are kelsey crab apples, zone 2 hardy apples & the hardy cherries which have suffered in past few years. Drop by I built a food forest from a barren field. My worst pest may have been meadow voles. They ate 160 blue spruce!
Purchasing land in jorthern Ontario as i write! Thank you for this video cant wait to start my own food forest !
Awesome!
Try growing Goumi berries. Very early, right after haskap. Very delicious, just let them fully ripe. On top of that they are also nitrogen fixers. And they look great.
Have goumis also. Very good plant also, especially since it's a nitrogen fixer as you say :)
They "look" a bit average to me, but I definitely enjoy the scent of their tiny flowers.
Thanks for the suggestion, I’ve added this to my list. 😀
I agree raspberries are awesome but mine got small, white worms that after researching are the larvae of the spotted wing drosophila. I tried everything to get rid of them I finally burned them all down replanted in another area and darn things turned up there too. I gave up, they are disgusting! Thanks for some more ideas.
The key to these is that they overwinter in fallen fruit. So as long as you can keep fruit from rotting on the ground, then you will break the pest cycle as they try to get into the ground to overwinter.
We have them really bad in my blackberries, but not until I leave some fruit well past ripe, and have some on the ground. But after that moment, the rest of the crop for the whole year has them inside. They are super tiny.
Now, you can eat them completely safely. So for those people adventurous enough, it's not actually a health concern. It's literally just more protein. Small, tasteless. And also, all fruit you eat has microscopic bugs on it, even if you can't see them, they are there. There are bugs in your eyelashes right now. Tiny bugs are everywhere.
But that doesn't help my wife eat the fruit once the fly larvae gets in, so I totally get it.
You could snip the long thorns from the plants
Indeed, anytime I'm out pruning I prune some thorns off. I just chip away at it instead of making a job of it.
So glad to see several of my working standby plants in this video--blackberry, elderberry, raspberry and currants. 100% correct about the currants--they make the best jam, hands down. This spring, I'll be planting the roses for the rose hips (want to try rose hip jelly). Lots of great suggestions, and I can't wait to check out the rest of your videos! Thank you.
Awesome! I'm also on the lookout for more wild roses. So many comments on roses!
Rose hips can be two completely different things sure one of them is immature rose flowers but that is not the type you would make jelly from. The dog rose tree produces flowers and then makes these small red fruits called rose hips (they type you make jelly from) the seeds inside are usually pressed for their oil which has the smallest molecule size of all oils and is great for breaking up scar tissue and healing stretch marks.