Food Forest Transformation Underway and Other Garden Projects
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- Опубліковано 27 тра 2024
- 3 years ago, we bought this piece of bare land and we're continuing to expand the food forest and work on a bunch of other garden projects. Today I'll be sharing with you what we've been working on over the Winter and Spring as well as show you some of the rare fruit trees we've got growing. I'll also explain the methods we're using for the food forest expansion, show you the full process of growing a food garden for our animals and give you a look at the vegetable gardens, plus more!
We're gardening in a way to create a diverse system of edible plants, fruit trees, vegetables and a bunch of other useful and beneficial plants. Hope you enjoy! :)
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0:00 Intro
0:36 Food forest expansion
3:28 Vegetable Gardens
5:05 Rare & Unusual Fruit Trees
6:57 Growing food for animals
7:56 Propagating fruit trees
8:54 Fails...
10:11 Fruit trees in Spring
10:42 One of my favourite trees
11:32 Turkey gobble lol
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Thanks heaps for coming along to see what we've been up to - I hope you enjoyed it! If you'd like to see more, feel free to check out the video I made of the land back in Summer which shows some of the other cool stuff we're growing :) ua-cam.com/video/gkoic01w6pk/v-deo.html
i have been growing a dragon fruit not grown I just put the seeds they haven't sprouted yet
Banana? avocados
See my post below
Truly. When I watched this I thought (vegetable sky) from toriko
Have you considered a "setting up the property " video discussing building yalls house and the start of the food forest ? I think it would be really interesting and help push more people into doing this sort of thing
try mix plants " pumpkin root and watermelon top ' those watermelon will become so strong and big , start in spring time can harvest 3 to 4 time in summer.
Many people still don't know the importance of native trees and plants and what role they play in local ecosystem and how many animal species are dependent on those native plants and trees, awesome video and nice updates 👍🏼.
Thanks Benny, definitely agree. Planting more native trees is something we're going to continue working on more and more. There's a real lack of them in the farmland that surrounds us unfortunately.
@@TheKiwiGrower I can't wait for that! I am very interesting in New Zealandian flora 😊 though I am from Austria
I’ve been planting native fruit trees on my property as well. I’ve been putting them close to my property line so the squirrels will spread the seeds to other properties. I planted 25 bare root pawpaw trees a couple months ago. I gathered wild persimmon seeds from a friends property to add to mine. I’m going to find spots in my woods that get sunlight and plant the seeds. Then I will let nature take its corse.
They attract natural wildlife and pollinators
We really need a revolution in education…. I would like to know Americas educational system history and if nature based information was taught even 100-150 years ago… seems like reading writing arithmetic and history, social studies, and geography came eventually, but why is it that people don’t really learn about plants until college (horticulture, ecology, landscape architecture?)
The cardboard is a wonderful idea,the thought of weeds really put me off,thank you for that tip
No worries! So easy and works so well :)
I adore birds, really. They're really something when you've raised them from the egg no matter what species it is! Loved the excited gobble in the end!
Haha yea they're a lot of fun to raise and have as friends :)
"Hey turkeys! Gobble gobble!"
Somehow, it was really fascinating seeing sheep eat bamboo of all things.
I am at the exact point you were 3 years ago, building my food forest and veggie garden in Kaitaia. Thanks for being an inspiration! Hopefully my garden will look as amazing as yours in three years.
Awesome, exciting journey ahead! :)
After 6 years of gardening I decided a no dig garden, we bought like 60 tones of compost so we can reduce weedings. I put the cardboard first then the compost. I cover weed mat to my tomato beds a 1 meter wide and 40 meters in length. This time the tomato got no weeds because I used a 1.83 wide weed mats but the walk way have some weeds. You inspired me with the no dig and I believed next season will be less work because after harvest this summer we will cover them with weed mat so next planting will just create the holes and plant our seedlings. Planning to cut trees to shredded so we create mulch for the walk way in winter.
Nice, definitely good idea to cover walkways with mulch, sounds good!
Kalem, you are a Zookeeper!! I am in deep awe of you. You are truly a holy man. May you live a very very long and lovely life. We need people like you in world leadership.
Loved the update. Can't wait to see more throughout spring and summer!
Cheers Mike, glad you liked it!
@@TheKiwiGrower i love nature and i thank you for giving me need ideas for planting i love your fruit garden 😍♥️🇹🇹 i will love to see this garden in person so beautiful unique 😍😍😍
Sometimes we think back to what we’ve done over the past 5 or 10 years. And I’m amazed at what we got through. Doing a recap on how far you’ve come is amazing. Congrats on your progress. I still remember early days when the Feijoas went in.
Thanks Janine, yea it’s easy to get caught up in the things that need to be done and looking forward, so it’s good to be able to stop and reflect :)
Love to see how devoted are you to this garden, and it actually repays. Plants knows when you care well about them, it makes them grow healthy.
Just found your channel recently been binging all your vids. So jealous with your section and green fingers, veg patch and plant looks great. Would be keen to see what you plant in the summer :)
Thanks heaps, glad you like them. Will definitely share more and thanks for checking out all my other vids! :)
Man I'm a City guy but damn you have a great place to live , Amazing job thanks for the update
Thanks mate! :)
You are building a natural world in your homestead while big corporations driven by greed and power are destroying the natural resources like forest in order to get rich. The guardians of the natural world salute your efforts. Whatever you are doing now will be celebrated and enjoyed by generations and generations to come. Please keep it up and God Bless
You are living in heaven! Nature around you is amazing ❤️
You’ve got a beautiful plot of land! So nice to see the updates to your gardens. Thanks for sharing.
Cheers Brendan!
Yours is the most beautiful vegetable garden I've ever seen, so inspiring
Wow it's really starting to look like a forest! I was gutted to see what happened to your cherimoya. I've got a grafted cherimoya down here in Wellington and I've been protecting it with my life! Looking forward to seeing how your food forest takes off this summer 😊
Glad to hear you’ve been protecting yours. I got a bit busy with other things and never really gave it what it needed, poor thing. Nevermind, lesson learnt!
@@TheKiwiGrower sometimes you just get too tired
Love it! Food Forrest is what I’m going for on 1 acre here in Northern California. My plants made it through the summer of constant heat 110 - 120 so I am doing a happy dance. I mean a HAPPY dance! It was brutal. We are experiencing a mild fall so everything looks pretty good. I worked like a fool to stay ahead of the heat. I have chickens and a rabbit too. They had misters, shade, shade cloth, ice and a fan. It was still hotter than blazes but we made it!
It’s great to see just how much you’ve developed your property! Congrats mate
Thanks heaps!
Dude you have the life I want to live damn it! Awesome stuff man, just getting into gardening and this is a great channel!
Cheers and glad you're getting into it! :)
this is so great , fantastic to see kiwis on here
One of the rare channels with no dislike! Weel deserved and more power!
So thankful I caught your video!!! I'm taking my farm in the same direction, meaning creating a food forest. :) It's a beautiful way of gardening, very intuitive aa well. Thank you for the visuals! It's even more beautiful than I imagined! The bees and beneficial insects must be extremely happy as well! :)
My absolute favorite garden companion…..young turkeys. I trained mine to look for tomato horn worms. They are amazing at it, I tried teaching the geese and they will not cooperate.
That's some well trained turkeys! :)
@@TheKiwiGrower I believe that they may know that this is the easiest way for them to get a treat, otherwise they have to fight the chickens, ducks, and the very entitled(in her own mind) female goose. Turkeys are not nearly as fast as the rest of them.
"Labor of love"
And there are many in the club :)
You get a like just for the gobble-gobble at the very end.
someeee years agoooo i took a class of horticulture and I remember that the teacher spoke about a farmer that started to have issues with wild animals eating his crops...so he decided to plant half of acre at one corner of his property and he let the animals know that the food growing in that part of his property was only for them but he wanted them to stop eating his crops...long and behold...the wild animals ate from their garden and never bother the farmer's crops ever again...nice...and the story is real
Thankyou so much for sharing your experience!! I swear most 'gardening books' and websites just cut and paste what has been written before. My mountain paw paw melted too, even though I planted it alongside a gabion wall (stone filled) that I had put in to help my avocados cope with winter in Dannevirke. I shall go out now and see if there is any sigh of life at the base!!
QUE HERMOSA ES LA CREACIÓN. GRACIAS POR COMPARTIR ESTAS IMÁGENES.
Literally my dream for when I get old
I think I am falling in love with your food forest. I am planning on something simular in my garden.
Thanks heaps, sounds cool! Good luck with it :)
Man, your videos are a huge help in getting my own little garden project to survive. Northern Germany has seen drought after drought in recent years and the parts of my backyard, that I don't water like every other day already are literally just dust for the first 20cm down which is insane for these parts. I've been trying to get a miniature version of how things looked around here like 200 years ago before agriculture sort of turned 80% of open space into farmland to take foot and even the plants, that should be absolutely A-OK with the sandy soils have struggled beyond believe. I mean, even the damn juniper I planted has. Mulching as much of the ground as I can to at least give the bigger plants a chance to establish themself has been a huge help because no way any sort of natural groundcover is going to survive without hundreds of liters of water every week for the whole summer and our well has been running dry cause groundwater levels are at an all time low, lmao
Oooh this is amazing! Absolutely love it! I'd love to have a huge food forest like this one day
Thanks Bethany! :)
Your property is like my absolute dream.
I’m trying to do my best version of a food forest on my suburban houseblock in Australia.
This year Im expanding into my front yard & putting in a bunch of trees which I’m going to grow in grow bags with raised beds in between each tree.
Very nice...... And control of human fertility also very very importent, helping nature to recover itself.....
Lots of progress since you first started, excited to see this place develop into the future.
Cheers Toby!
Finally the garden! It's so beautiful
Thanks Ethan!
@@TheKiwiGrower I always wanted a farm. Maybe someday 😌
This is a great way to garden. I am in the process of doing it this way. I have planted my trees and shrubs in different guilds and planted herbs, veges, flowers etc around the shrubs and trees. I have vines growing along the fences. A voulnteer choko is growing over one tree in my garden. I have other volunteers popping up everywhere, including sunflowers, wheat and corn in the chicken run from where I broadcast the seeds for the chickens lol. Love your garden. So inspirational.😁
Nice job mate good to see fellow kiwis going down this path. I'll have to go check out marvelous fruits
Taking tiny steps. So far my succulents haven't died, mind you, I had to replace a few before I knew what I was doing. So their thriving. My first attempt at growing something. I also planted spring onions, to my amazement they grew. Growing confident now. Next, more veges. Auckland weather is so dang unpredictable, so I'm more inclined to grow items in pots then the ground. Small steps.
When you hit max level on farmville and start a real life one 👍👌🙏
The turkeys at the end made me laugh 😂
Wow the animals you have on thy land look so happy! :)
Beautiful 👌🏾I am about to binge watch all your videos
Hope you enjoy :)
Loved the food forest. Cant wait to see all tge growth in the coming year.
Thanks, same here!
Just found you, love your work! Great, simple explanation of the two types of lasangne gardening!
6:17 they had me in the first half.
This is brilliant. I understand the concept of planting Canopy trees and really thinking of the Pathways.,. What a beautiful Food forest. My Ponies demolished my Broadbeans. They do a lot of pruning. Little rascals. I love the garden dedicated to animals. Amazing information.
Nice to see your patch of green amongst the farmlands, love it. Can't wait to see what it looks like in a few more years.
Maybe start keeping your own bees ;)
Thanks Charlie, hopefully one day it's completely consumed with trees haha.
We've got a few hives here, have been beekeeping for around 3-4 years now :)
Wow! The farm is looking great thanks to all the hard work you two put into it. I am really enjoying this gardening information. Thank you very much.
Cheers Jef! Glad you think so :)
Hello from Eastern Bay of Plenty. Love the videos. Thanks for sharing 👊
Thanks for watching! Hi from the upper Waikato :)
Slowly im obssessed with your videos
Ahh, I was looking forward to seeing the loquat tree
Looks good!
The light is so beautiful!
Awesome 🤩👍
Awesome video, 😀
great info
Beautiful ! Bravo!
Amazing
Fantastic
It's looking fabulous! Well done!
Excellent 👍
Great job! What a beautiful garden.
Excellent💯
AMAZINGNES!!!
Awesome job sir!!
💗💗💗
Watching from Philippines 🇵🇭
Love your channel!
Awesome work man!!
woww wonderful great!! :)
Such a lovely place, so relaxing!
Love your videos. They fun entertaining and I learn heaps, keep up the good work
Thanks a lot, glad you enjoy them!
I love your work
Wow that’s amazing 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️
What a joy to watch, I wish I had something like this.
I salute you! Great job
Great work I like all your stuff.
Beautiful and amazing video
All is beautiful, really love it👍
What a beautiful food forest you have.
What a dream!
Brilliant 👏 loved the update such good progress - thanks for sharing 👍
I really enjoyed to watch it.
Wow! Amazing place love it's
Love your garden ,sir
Loved your comments on all d gardening
So inspiring... Thanks for sharing your journey
what a transformation looking amazing you are a true inspiration
Absolutely awesome what you're doing there keep it up
Green zone, i love it
I think it’s really cool
Very inspirational, thank you for sharing your experience. 👍
Love your work! Bula from Fiji 😍🖐🏾
i cant imagine how beautiful the garden is in spring! 😭✨✨
Lovely sir I really like your garden
Repeat watching. Really inspirational. Thank you
amazing farm,, success always🙏🙏🙏
Just found your channel and I'm geeking out over it lol...instantly subscribed. Great videos, thank you.
Thanks heaps and welcome to the channel 😁