We Turned Our Yard Into A Food Forest During Quarantine | Epic Garden Tour
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- Опубліковано 7 лис 2021
- This is a long overdue tour of our quarantine garden project. We used the time at home to turn our overgrown "lawn" into a massive garden and the start of a food forest that is providing tons of food and exotic fruits! I hope you enjoy the garden and have a lovely day! Thanks for watching!
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Hi! My name is Taylor, and I am a mom of two living in sunny Southern California. I love gardening, finding fun things to do around Los Angeles, and of course, making videos for parents for my UA-cam channel! You can check out more of my videos here: bit.ly/2q4mgff - Навчання та стиль
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I’m a 20 year old uni student studying business and property in New Zealand, but creating a food forest on my forever home is my dream!
Same here that's where my heart is suppose to be.
I’m not in my forever home but I’m currently in the process of creating a food forest of sorts. It’s going to mostly be structured with raised beds and container gardening but I’m going to use up as much of my space as possible to grow a huge variety of food year round
Check out Geoff Lawtons food forest. He is one of the best here in Australia
Oooh my goodness, Im a Uni student in South Africa and my whole being longs to have my own garden with a food forrest. The amount of times Ive watched Geoff Lawson or Gotche videos and literally cried. Glad to hear its not just me!
@@majasmith3578 look into container gardening.
It wont get you the food forrest vibes but it will satiate the longing a little bit
People don't even know how these food forests help the environment. This is so important guys if you have space just plant! Plant mint, plant kale, plant trees just whatever. Pls plant! This is so important for the future.
YES!! 🙌
Ideally plant local natives or non-invasive! I say that mainly cuz mint can be quite invasive in my area so they should be in containers (in my area).
Great advice
I will, when I moved into my new house with a garden. At present, I can only plant in containers.
Mint will grow like crazy, only grow it in containers to keep it under control.
I love the kiss to the first mango! I waited 8 years to get persimmons on trees from seed. It was elation picking 541 persimmons several years later. Last year we picked our first and only pawpaw. It was a holy moment. May God’s glory fill the earth. Thanks for sharing your family garden experience!
541!!! Thats crazy!
I can't even imagine 500 mangos...maybe one day :)
The 541 persimmons are the native to Pennsylvania variety; smaller but tastier than the Asian varieties that I also enjoy from market😁.
bud persimmon trees give fruits within two years.
@@dimpalkimbulapitiya9377
His was from seed, and perhaps under adverse conditions. It can varry according to particular genetics.
We planted pawpaw last year. We hear it will be 6 years. Can’t wait, but looks like patience is a virtue.
true blessing is not the garden or the house.
its a spousal bond you and your husband have. To work together with joy and love your kids.
That is real blessing that God has bestowed
The footage of your kids interacting with the food forest is just amazing. I'd love to one day give my kids the same chance
I'm so so so glad more are realizing the importance of food forestry!
I can't put into words how amazing I find u guys. This is beyond words. In such a short time to accomplish this and with such difficult terrain. I am in awe. God bless you all and I pray I can convince my husband to go on a similar journey with me by using you as our inspiration. Thanks a million for sharing.
Thank you! Good luck!
What a wonderful way to turn a "negative" into a positive thing that keeps on giving!
It’s amazing what can be done on even a small piece of property. We did the same thing and turned our average sized back yard into a food garden. We grow so much that we have easily fed our family, extended family, and give to friends and neighbors constantly! The more we give the more his provides and our plants and trees absolutely thrive!
Gardening and botany are definitely two of the most soul soothing, calming things. I loved how peaceful this was!!!
Important for all our futures. Not wars, greed, and looking for the next country to undermine and demonise. Let's allow Mother Nature to nourish us as children that sprung from her bountiful resources. Well done, you two - and your much-involved children, too.
A huge blessing of the past two years is it has brought to our consciousness what brings us lasting happiness. These home-grown foods are priceless, to the stomach and the soul.
Aside from creating a hillside garden of Eden of fruit trees, passion vines, grapes, garden veggies..what a wonderful environment for your children!! I was raised by an absentee military father, and a depressed introverted mom, but both loved some form of gardening and that is some of my best childhood memories. You are giving this gift to your children, how wonderful
I just had to comment on how beautiful this looks! Wondering if you realize how truly blessed your family is! Hard work for the body, and look at the outcome, hard work for the soul, and the spirit of God will dwell in your heart.
Love, always love! I pray that your neighbors and everyone will be inspired by the beauty and bounty God has blessed you with!
Lots of love 💘 from a northern grandmother .
Thank you for this sweet comment. :)
Amazing how your family has loved the earth God gave, which continues to in turn...love you all back🥰🍇🍈🍉🍊🍋🍌🍍🥭🍏🍐🍒🍓🍎🥝🍅🥥🥑🍆🥔🥕🌽🌶🥒🥬🥦🧄🧅❣
So nice that you gave our creator credit for these amazing gifts. Good girl.
What a beautiful and inspiring video! We moved to Puerto Rico and live in the true tropics on a little finca (farm) and are growing many, many trees and plants as well. Unfortunately there are no large size tree nurseries so all of ours are taking a long time, but we are finally reaping the harvest of our labor over the years too. I need to make a food forest video like this. We have some videos about our gardens in general, but the food forest alone would be great to showcase.
June 2021 we moved from Colorado to coastal Southwest Florida. We are turning our 1/2 acre property into combinaton food forest and pollinator sanctuary. Anyway, I planted a passion fruit vine for the fritillary butterflies and it's the wildest growing plant ever. It's used up all the space of an oak and palm trellis I built -- and now it's reaching out trying to grab onto other trellises.
The "maybe just" have started a lot of amazing things in this world.
What your family did was truly amazing. You honor God by what you do for our Mother Earth.
This is one of the best gardening videos that's super motivating and encouraging that nothing is impossible, it has put an positive view of I can do anything irregardless of landscape or soil. I started gardening since young age and that's the one thing I have never gave up and I will continue until I reach more than my imagination and vision into reality 💯
Absolutely love this!
I love too that it started as creating a small lawned area for the kids yet they’ll likely interact more with the rest of what you’re creating as they grow ❤️
Plus teaching them so many lessons with growing your own food
this was too inspiring ! I cant stop crying I want this for myself and my son . I cant wait to at least get 1 acre to start .
It is so healing, i cant throw any vegetable or fruit seeds out!!! Im always amazed at how much God loves us just by seeing how abundantly there are seeds in one fruit or vegetable!!
Amazing. I started gardening too during the lockdown except, I’m in a townhouse with just a balcony. My balcony though is filled with over 50 pots. I love it.
Hahaha, the same here-I started a balcony garden during lockdown! Our balcony became a mini-farm with enough space to walk through and water plants but the harvest was a treat. lol
@@temitopeoshokoya4906 I graciously predict my gardens yield could sustain a family of four mice for a week. Lol. It’s still worth it. My weed grows there too. 🤫
Wauw that is amazing!! Living in Denmark I get a little jealous of the year round garden!! Would love more garden content 🤗
Awww thank you ! Yes I used to live somewhere with cold winters and it was definitely tough! You could always go for the indoor jungle vibe ❤️
Beautiful. What a great idea. I will do it too but I don't have the place. Congratulation. ...😀😁😄😃
Hy👍👍
Go vertical indoors with grow lights!
Yes, it is definitely a labour of Love. Thank you for sharing your most amazing creation and addition to the positive planning of our Universe.
Love that you gave thanks to the Creator at the end of your video! God loves a grateful heart! 💚
“The remedy in the dirt” I love that line I sure did and God led me to start growing my own in my little container garden. After you talk about our God I had to subscribe lol Bless you and the family
What an awesome video, and such an inspiring story! Everyone should be doing this with their families, it teaches the next generation that hard work pays off more than just cars or other unimportant material possessions. The most important things in this world are not what most people claim. Great job!
I couldn’t agree more, especially in these times when everything is going up. I am in awe of this “team”
You are so lucky to have a great husband who cooperated with you to do your dream garden. God bless you both and keep you together. ❤️✌🏽
I just have to say what an incredible story. I love how you turn your home land into a fantastic feast of fruits, vegetables and flower to keep the bees happy. I love the video. ❤️
Thank you for sharing!! What a wonderful story and family!!! I love gardening
Thank you for watching :)
Superb!!
What a beautiful family! And talk about healthy and wholesome living, it doesn't get any better than this. Very inspiring, and Just what we needed during these difficult times.Thanks for the video! Keep on growing, keep on glowing, and may God continue to bless your family. Greetings from Los Angeles.
Inspirational and beautiful video. Thank you for sharing your food forest. God bless you and your family 👪 🙏 ❤
Wow so beautiful!
Yes I agree with you, we can fill the negatives around with playing in the dirt that God created, get grounded and grow beautiful food! Awesome video! Thanks for sharing, how u n hubby created food forest! Loved it!
More garden content please! This was amazing
Wonderful. Health and exercise! I found quarantine a great experience.
I really enjoyed your video. Southern California is blessed with such a superb climate that supports all these different fruit bearing plants.
Marvelous! ~ You and yours, took eye-sore and/or wild-grown & neglected land, and through much hard-work and loving care, turned it into, well, "A Food Forest" planted by hand. ~ Happy growing!
I would love to see more about how you layered your food forest (eg. ground covering plants, bushes, any other vines) and which plants you chose to grow next to each other. Also, which companion flowers did you go with? Lovely and inspiring video!
Great ideas for future videos :)
great job guys...I think you should mulch around the trees with leaves or wood chips.. if not already..it will help to add organic matter to soil..
Beautiful video ❤ my family and i have just moved to a new home and i am discovering my new garden and planning. My heart and soul feels so refreashed when gardening, it makes me smile when i think of Eden and that God was the master gardener.
Happy gardening from New Zealand 🇳🇿 ❤🙏
Well done! - the modern 'appreciation' of real quality life of the old ways for healthy, happy family. God Bless.
Well, that is great and fun and you are teaching your kids a lot too! Blessings to you!
This is so inspiring. I've been looking for a huge land space to do this but i see you have so many different variety of plants and trees on a 1/2 acre of land. What?!! So amazing. Thank you for doing this. And your children will benefit from the education and the organic foods. I love love love this!!!
This video feels like a glimpse into our own potential future; filled with connection to the earth and to one another. Beauty, nature, nurturing, respect, gratitude. I like this world. This world will sustain us in health and happiness. Let's keep manifesting this world until it's a reality...
I just love your style of gardening....just as it was meant to be.
So inspiring! I started my little food forest last year. Your garden is GOALS!
Aren’t you two clever, innovative, and amazing! Congratulations! What a fabulous result!
Stoked that you guys are on it. A year ago ,I decided to dig up all the weeds(hard) & ww some soil amend. Was on my way to front yard gardens. Every day my mind is blown looking at what a garden can do. Mentally the CHI is flowing, and the neighbors gawk. Just add water 💧 ( EASY).
THANK YOU.
P.J. SIGNS, CARPINTERIA, CA.
It is beautiful that you acknowledged God for his wonderful gifts to us!!!!🙏🏻🌷
You are awe inspiring. The progress of your food forest is simply amazing.
I love this! What an amazing proj ect to do during quarantine. Thank you for sharing. 🧡🌳🍑
That you did it on a hill is the most impressive! You saw a space and conquered it! One patch at a time!
WOW that is so beautiful and fabulous! thank you for sharing your lovely garden and family with us! Truly Amazing, so inspirational!
I love this so much. I just got into gardening at the age of 25 and I am still learning but its so much fun and seeing your produce and flowers/plants mature is so satisfying. I would love to live in a warmer place though, growing things in Ontario (Canada) is very hard I feel.
The "gooseberry" you mention is actually a ground cherry. Both are good! You've made a beautiful garden. Thanks for sharing it!
Wow I have been calling it the wrong name since we bought it. lol. Thanks for letting me know. Now I need to hunt out seeds for a real gooseberry :)
I found a ground cherry plant growing in the middle of my burn pile last year lol. I thought it was tomatillo at first :p
@@TaylorRaine Look up starberry instead. Your kids will love them.
It is called cape gooseberry dear
@@chargedminds3069 It's a ground cherry. Look up the difference. And calling people cute little insulting names doesn't make you right; it just makes you insulting.
Ugh California is magic. What a dream climate!!!
Kodus for the couple who decided to do this! Gives their children the chance to see a proper fruit tree and and appreciation for letting them walk on bare feet as well!!! Going back to where we're before all those big supermarket were built!!!!
Oh my goodness!!! What a blessing and pure awesomeness !!! Truly amazing!! We were just blessed with lots of land and this is my dream !!! congratulations and magnificent work ! With love from NC☺️
This is so inspiring. I also have a property on a very steep hill with similar rocky soil. I have started a small garden bed that I wish to expand on, but it is a slow process. So nice to see that you have transformed this impractical space into something so productive and full of life. Well done. 👍💗
I could listen to this for hours on ending, we thank God for his bountiful provisions and for sure he will turn our mourning into dancing!!
We are building our retirement home in a community ruled by an HOA. We applied for an exception to put some fruit trees on our lot and were turned down, so we planted various different fruit 'bushes' instead! They weren't happy about it, but they didn't have anything in their silly rule book against the type of bushes we could plant! We also put up a lovely arbor and somehow we now have grape vines growing on it! I think birds must have dropped some seeds in the 'wrong' place one night...around 3 am if I'm not mistaken! And my neighbors LOVE it so we are working to get some of these rules changed. I have some raised beds that are allowed so I also grow some different greens and lots of herbs.
Love this! My husband and I are on the same track 🥰 Thanks for sharing 🤗 Love the inspiration 🥰
How rewarding and beautiful. Addictive isn’t it? Love the concrete planter idea. Time for a new channel based on your gardening perhaps?
Greetings from another climate similar to yours. Down here in a currently cold Melbourne lol.
We did the same thing when the lockdowns started, planted a food forest and a backyard orchard. It has been an amazing journey, and the kids love the food coming out, only a few weeks ago we stopped getting two punnets of raspberries a day.
For me the most rewarding is finding new plants, I know juneberries are common to Americans but here took me a year to find a single tree and so worth it. Or the best yet is discovering our native bushfoods, things you will never find in the shops.
If you ever get a chance check out Australian bush tucker plants, Midyims, Muntries, apple berries, the salt bushes (old man and ruby), native elderberry (ours can be eaten freely no toxicity at all), lilly pillies (bush cherry and riberry). All of them should grow there easily and I promise will add a unique flavour.
This is the best way to live in this world. I grow all my veges and fruits in my small back yard. Persimmon, Avocado, Grapes, berries, Pomegranate, Black palms, sugar palms. lemon, mandarins.5 kinds of Apples, 4 guavas ,9kinds of bananas. All of them now give fruits.
I live in urban environment, space is very less, I've recently planted beans and corn in a small space and now they're all growing, it's exiting to watch them grow.
Hoping to one day migrate to my village and do it in a bigger scale
Amazing! This is the only thing that makes me want to live in CA. I love the variety of produce you can grow!
Nice work. I'm in Riverside county doing the same thing on my 2.5 acres. I'm doing rare fruit trees primarily, Mulberry, ice cream bean, guavas, black and white sapote, mango, Jamaican cherry. I hope those suggestions are beneficial to you. It's amazing
ooo would love to see that one day! ice cream bean is delicious!!
Wow! same here Adam and same area! What are some good nurseries you have found locally? I’m trying to find nearby exotic fruit trees
@@adunning6925 very cool, always good to meet like minded folks. Exotic fruit trees, they're mostly in Fallbrook and Vista. Exotica or Exotic fruit tree nursery off the top of my head. For great prices and standard fruit, Dice Growers or DLM. Both in the valley area. 👍
I mean I can feel the joy and love put into this land you guys call home!What a blessing
❤️💕 Food forests are soo lovely. So resourceful rewarding and beautiful. Well done x
This is sooo beautiful!! You should feel really proud of yourself!! You did not only create something good and beneficial and healing for yourself but you helped the whole earth and environment at the same time and your plantings will bless many many generations to come!! 🧡✨🕊️🌸🙏🏼💐
Beeeeeautiful garden! Your hard work has paid off and all the best for the future !
Good for you guys, so blessed to have the weather for it. Prayers and blessings.
Beautiful, thanks for sharing! I always feel the most satiated and grateful after a long day of hard work in the garden, it's like pure joy for me...🌱
Absolutely loved this! Your garden is stunning and you have such a beautiful family! Sending love! 🙏🏻💞
wow! thank you so much!
Holy shit this is so beautiful, this video really brought tears into my eyes. I really really love it and I want to live like you and have my own food forest. Really you made my whole day, especially when you showed the before pictures, it shows how much potential there is!
I love everything about what you have shared, centered around the family and environment. You are blessed and thank you for sharing that blessing with us.
This is so encouraging! I'd begun to feel almost crazy as my garage and driveway become overrun with bags of dirt, rocks, and mulch. It's felt as though I was crazy for even starting something so ridiculously huge that I and no one I know has ever done. Thank you for the reminder that it's possible!
We've been slowly doing the same thing too. It's a constant work in progress! Hope to see another video giving us an update on how your food forest goes.
Check her channel now. She has a lot of updates 😊
This is astounding! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for watching ❤️
Loved your video! God provides! Lately, I've been watching foraging videos. God forbid that I'm ever homeless and destitute but it brings so much hope knowing that you can, at least find something to eat if you're completely broke.
Extremely inspiring and looks like something fun and outdoorsy for the whole family to partake even the little ones which is great.
Gorgeous garden! I am loving my own yard but Alberta Canada just doesn’t give us as many tropical fruit growing ops… so a few berry bushes and fruit trees are a happy alternative. Thanks for sharing its growth so nice to look at!
This is amazing. Please post more of these videos.
I have two new ones 🤍 check them out on my channel
Thank you for sharing. What you guys have done is just amazing. What a blessing for your family plus you bless others. Being in Ohio, most of what you've done is not available to us without lots of building. Great job.
OMG! I am so in love with your garden. Enjoy the fruits of your labour with your family.
I think when your garden develops. You will find the micrclimate will change and plants you couldn't grow before will have the protection to grow.
So cool and inspiring! Great job. I would definitely like to see more :)
It’s so awesome. Absolutely you turned mourning into dancing.
I loved how you change your yard to fruits basket❤ I really enjoyed watching it. Its a dream for every family. you did an amazing job. Godbless your family.
I’m in the process of doing this very thing up in Redding, CA. And yea, all that you said about this project being so healing and hopeful in a time of fear and loneliness is right on. There’s something so magical about planting and planning food. Would love to see and learn more! We do get snow here so I think the mangoes are out. My ice cream bananas are doing much better than our cavendish ones… I’ll plant the avocados (little cado and zutano) and hope they make it. I’m tired of carting them back and forth each summer and winter to the greenhouse. 😆 Details like what zone you’re in and irrigation, direction of your yard, etc, I’d love to hear! Thanks for posting.
Wooow, I saw your garden before in videos, it really looks different!!
Thank you! Yes huge changes were made!
This is so beautiful... I'm so elated with tears right now listening to your story... And it warms my heart they're happy tears... You're teaching your children how to survive on this planet... Peace be with you in your family God bless
This is beautiful and I love seeing the little ones participating
I enjoyed watching your video, I am in the process if trying to start gardening, so far I have killed 2 Basils, 3 pepper trees, an eggplant and an Onion plant .. trying not to get discouraged, looking at what you and your husband was able to do has inspired me to not give up. Can you tell me what you used to keep oest and fungus away because that has been my biggest problem. I am from the Caribbean by the way.😊
Hi! We opt for organic treatments for pests and fungus . For pests we have released thousands of lady bugs (easily purchased from a garden center). Neem oil spray helps with some fungus 🤍
Fungus can be addressed by spraying with a baking soda and water solution on leaf undersides and atop the foliage, and cutting down leaves underneath that aren't needed for the fruit; this lets air circulate, lets sun in to quickly dry the dampness. Be Frequent! Lay out leaves beneath or rot them as a foot path through your plot; nutrients return to the soil quicker. Dishes of cheep beer entice slugs away from plants. Sharp egg shells on the soil surface cut them and other crawlies. It's worth researching further. Companion planting with flowers like Marigolds are natural pesticides set in amongst your veggie plants, just notice in videos. I'm in northern Canada where the season is so short. Have fun and remain Blessed!
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I am making a food forest in my garden. This beautiful video was so inspiring and wonderful. Bless you! Thank you. 🙏💜💫🪴🐝
Amazing share thank you so much. Terrace gardening has always been something I have been in total awe of. Your love and hard work should be so proud. I have learnt so much about all kinds of new fruits living in England. So so inspiring xx