Organic Self Sufficiency with Liz Zorab / Growing a nutrient-rich, abundant garden on a small budget
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- Learn how Liz Zorab from @Liz Zorab - Byther Farm turned 0.8 acres of compacted pasture into a bountiful and wildlife-friendly smallholding/homestead.
This beautiful transformation has taken five years. Liz shares how she started by creating nutrient-dense raised beds to improve the unhealthy soil and concentrated on making her own compost to feed the garden.
As the garden evolved, Liz explains how she created a mix of annual vegetable beds, fruit areas, a food forest, perennial veggie beds and beautiful flower area for pollinators. She even grows sacrificial brassicas to keep a healthy population of cabbage white butterflies as food for birds, bats and hedgehogs.
Here Liz shares her journey and top tips for no dig, organic gardening. To find out more about her techniques and journey, see Liz's first book 'Grounded: A Gardener’s Journey to Abundance and Self-Sufficiency' here: shop.permacult...
Liz's second title, 'The Seasoned Gardener' explains how to grow organic food with the seasons, understanding your own microclimate, weather patterns and seasonal changes. She includes best plants, how to make the most of your time and energy, how to be creative with resources and how to find pleasure in doing less. Shop here: shop.permacult...
To purchase Liz's book see shop.permaculture.co.uk/grounded.html
LOOK AT YOU !! YOU are such a success story, on so many levels. You do us proud.
We are proud of Liz too. She’s worked miracles on many levels.
Great video, I love Liz’s story, she is so easy to listen to and such an inspiring lady, thanks for sharing 😁
You are so welcome! Thank you for your comment.
Love Liz's way of gardening and growing! Working with and always thinking of wildlife and nature and using what she has to create such a beautiful 'haven' that provides abuntly in return. 🌞🌿🦋🐝😃🌼🌸🦆🐞🐛🐦🦃🐤
Liz, you are my hero!! I hope to do just as you have done!
What a great garden. I didn’t know we weren’t able to feed chickens kitchen scraps in the UK. I’m hoping to get chickens someday so I found that interesting.
Great Job, Liz!
I really like what you are doing with the wood chips in the garden paths, also the rotating of the ducks
You have such a calming way of speaking, I could listen to you all day. Love what you've done in your garden! Very inspiring
Good on you for getting rid of your walking sticks and getting better. I was told by my physio to use trekking poles to walk. I have been good since August 2020 after about 5 years of being unwell. Instead of a wheelbarrow I am using a trolley with a cage around it so I could use my trekking pole and push my trolley. I have finally started my no dog garden in Septembe 2020 and am going slowly. Unfortunately I need my husband to dig my holes to grow my fruit trees due to fracturing my foot when I first got ill. Your garden is so fabulous and hope in a few more years we will be a bit more self sufficient like yourself. Soon we want to get chickens and geese.
Thank you for your informative ideas, even though we live in Australia
Thank you for your comment. We hope you will be digging holes for trees soon. Glad you found Liz's techniques useful. Do head over to @Bytherfarm for more practical videos.
Great video Liz.
Amazing transformation. Congratulations to you regarding your successful gardens!
Nice Video!
My copy of ‚Grounded‘ has arrived last week, but I have to still wait a bit, as it will serve as my birthday present. So excited!
Thank you so much for all the inspiration, Anne.
I love your videos and your story. I am buying your book to support your work.
Thank you!
What an inspiring story!
Hi Liz, is the plant in the background, with the red flowers, at the beginning of the video, a Lobelia? It looks very beautiful, just as the rest of your garden. You have done an amazing job and an inspiring story to tell. Thanks a lot and wishing you well.
I love Liz💚🌿She's amazing and so inspiring! Thank you 🌼
Thank you!
well done
Great Garden..
Inspiring..😊
Nicely done. I just pre-ordered the book.
Thank you. Hope you enjoy it.
Very excited to watch this 😍
Liz is brilliant!
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She really is 😁
Open, honest and down to earth... just what we need right now. She is truly inspiring ❤
Liz, how do you (1) keep track of everything, and, (2) how do you get it all harvested & preserved? I'm totally blown away by your perfect garden & just cannot fathom how I would ever manage 20+ beds! How do you do it? Love your channel.
Do head over to Liz's channel @bytherfarm where she reveals all her tips - and of course her book is full of how she has developed the gardens and how she manages them.
@@PermacultureMagazine Already a subscriber. Thanks for the video.
Love your videos and hope to buy your book soon!
Awesome! Thank you!
it shows this video was uploaded in February, but the scenery and garden development doesn't look to jive with that timeframe -- what season was it when this was filmed?
Is there a way to purchase you book in the USA, Liz? I'd love to read or listen to it!
The kitchen scraps law is bizarre, are you allowed to put them into your own compot?
I beg your pardon, did you say it's illegal to give your chickens food scraps?
Yes. It is to prevent animals from eating meat and developing illnesses. Same with pigs and pig swill and cows being fed animal products and getting BSE. The law stems from malpractice in industrial farming system. But in a home system selected left overs were all part of the circular system.
I ignore the nonsense that comes out of the Govt and it’s idiotic departments both for myself and my chickens. They are nothing short of tyrannical and should ignored as much as possible.
Hi, could you make an odysee account and sync the video's?