Chantal and her garden are delightful and an inspiration to me. Also, a Senior late bloomer here and it's been a steep learning curve. My goal is much the same of a permanent food forest. Her achievement in one year is a great ray of hope for another granny gardener. 😊
I am 75 yrs old and shared a dream w my husband who recently passed to Green the Arizona property I purchased some ten yrs ago. I am now in a position to make our dream happen.
I would love to see another tour of the garden with the focus on the landscape and garden with a voice-over comment as you are both exploring this wonderful forest as it matures.
There's a good thing to know about chokos. I don't think many people in Australia know, but you can eat the tuber at certain parts of the year. They call it "chinchayote". I had it in a restaurant in Mexico. I think the fellow had boiled it, sliced it in two and grilled it with cheese in the middle. I liked it It's a way to get even more out of a plant that grows quite easily.
I too am short & have begun pulling my branches of my trees down & tying them down to create all kinds of "weeping willow" fruit trees so I can reach my fruit.
Love to see and hear about experimental gardening. I only started gardening last year by necessity. I had to leave the nsw south coast temporarily to do home palliative care for my father on his 4.5 acre property on the southern tablelands in nsw where it’s currently very cold and frosty. I never had time for gardening in the past raising a family and running a business which I had to drop and leave behind for the time being. I had no idea what I was doing and emotionally stressed and very isolated with virtually no human social interaction so, gardening became my therapy or my key to sanity. Suffice to say, I never expected to be here for a whole year and now just taking each day at a time. I virtually had and still have no budget and can’t afford to buy seeds, seedlings etc. I collected seeds from kitchen scraps, found seeds at my local tip, (which is now my major supplier of pretty much all my gardening needs! Lol) when plants go to seed, I collect them. I have no idea what I’m doing and just experiment and work with what I have from weeds to collecting seeds from bird poo from the hand made lopsided bird feeder! I even dig up my own worms and made a compost heap for them that I feed with whatever scraps, leaves etc I can find. I mainly set out to grow food but have fallen inlove and appreciate and utilise whatever plants and animals that surround me (including the snakes, that I used to fear terribly), I feel at one with nature and hope my dad is proud of what I’m trying to achieve out here and thank you especially to Morag and your channel. You present beautifully and even though I’ve only just discovered your channel, watching it has given me hope that what I am doing with his property, is sort of on the right track…thank you for taking the time to make these videos and visiting other nature embracers and sharing their journeys. I would love to see something from the colder regions, I struggle to grow a lot of veggies due to the cold and frost then the harsh heat in summer where water can be scarce…🪴
Chantelle was adorable. Part of me is quite envious of the style of garden she's chosen to cultivate, but we each only have so much space to work with, and for me the focus has been and remains on creating restoring a native ecosystem as much as possible. I've got a separate area with a few raised beds for conventional food crops, but everything that goes into the ground is native to my specific area. Of course, I'm learning a LOT about what native plants are edible and how to eat them.
this was very encouraging to me. I've been on my spot for 3 yrs, and for this year, focused on soil remediation and infrastructure. Now, I'm starting plants from seeds, cuttings, and so on -- in the hopes of building up a food forest over time. I will be buying trees, eventually, but that's a big expense for me. So, starting where I am, adding things in as I go, and always learning and observing. :)
Absolutely amazing how you accomplished so much in a short space of time. I am truly inspired to forge ahead and create my own food forest. Thank you both 🙏🏽💕
Yes. She has shown just how much we can do in a short space of time. It's really quite inspirational, and it shows too how quickly we can regenerate degraded lands if we put our hearts, minds, and hands to the task.
Wonderful! I done similar here in zone 6b. This Spring (early March), I laid several layers of cardboard on top of grass. I continued to layer as I gathered more cardboard. On top of the cardboard I scattered fruit and veggie scraps, grass clippings, tiny sticks and a small amounts of dirt, then more cardboard (as I got it). In May & June I added several seeds and small plants, done by digging holes through the broken down cardboard layers). Finally, after everyone was planted I added tomato cages (most I made from ♻️ materials) and covered everything w mulch.
Thank you for this tour Chantelle …..“ I wanted to be part of the solution ….lots of observations….….“ ❤️❤️❤️and Morag❤️🔥❤️🔥. I have watched this 3 times! I have also rewatched all of Morag’s masterful videos. I find Morag to be the best educator and interviewer. THE BEST! There is so much information you provide to absorb, and I learn something new each time I re watch you. It also lifts my spirits and makes me feel much more hopeful. Forest floor, mulch, mulch, mulch stunning changes here. “The soil is the foundation”. Swales , berms, permaculture and the recycling of all sorts of organic matter🔥🔥. I love both of your gardens for wildlife , the beneficial insects, the permaculture chat and recipes too. Great tips about soil creation, and enlivening the soil at the end too. “They are so lucky they are so pretty” re pidgeon peas and King Parrots 👑🦜🤣🤣🤣 I LOVE your channel Morag and I am so grateful for you excellent and inspiring content. I did my first permaculture course in the 80’s the knowledge gained just increases in value and never dates.
Grannie Cyndy from South Australia here again. Ohhh yes. The understanding that a garden tells you what it wants. So true. Just be open to it. Chantal feels that intuitively.
You're so right - and the thing is, the hard word is done now - it's more about managing the abundance, plugging the gaps and noticing what's happening - more time to sit back with a cuppa!
Beautiful inspirational gardener and garden. It's a living proof of how abundant the earth is and given thought,and the right conditions plants just want to grow. Beautiful ❤️
Such a beautiful garden. It was hard to see it though. Maybe if you turn the camera around so it concentrates on the garden and every now and then back on Chantal it would be easier to see the full extent of the garden. Some close up and distance shots would make it great to watch. Or have someone else doing the camera work perhaps. Thanks for sharing.
So inspiring, beautiful garden, In a year... ty for sharing. I'm speachless. So inspiring, looks so rewarding. I hope to start. Thankyou for your tips.
Getting my husband to keep all cartoon boxes( from furniture) to put over weeds near swell and also amend the soil around rocks in the garden( in the mountains). Will mulch it later. Can’t spray any chemicals as Neibourghs expect…. as I love my little frogs and 2 water lizards in the garden( my helpers with snails and bugs:) can see craze looks of the neighbours as it is doesn’t look pretty for 4-5 weeks but I care for my wildlife more:)
Hi Morag. Grannie Cyndy from South Australia here. Just found your channel. I'm 72 yrs old and developing a food forest garden on my steep 1/4 acre block in a subdivision. No lawn at all any more. But multiple fruit trees, vines, berries, veggie garden, chooks and a beehive that set itself up in a birdhouse my grandsons made for me a few years ago. I love the whole permaculture principle. Never used my green bin disposal in 17 yrs. Love your content and newly subscribed although I am in a Mediterranean climate with potential for frosts in winter. So this video is out of my climate zone. But will follow you regardless. If you are national you will have my undying love and support!!
That's a wonderful, heart warming, inspiring and a very beautiful food forest and interaction. Chantal is obviously a very deep and talented artist.... and beautiful person. I can just picture her early in the morning 'communicating' with her garden... It so inspires me to use my own talents and instincts to build a food forest. There's sooo much to learn. I'm still in the process of wrapping my mind around the whole permaculture thing. I gotta say though, it is a whole lotta fun! But the more I learn, the less I know... Heh.
A tasty Aibika Spinach recipe to change your mind. Perfect for winter and sore throats 1. On a deep base frying pan fry chicken thigh fillets (skin on) on both sides till golden with olive oil Put lid on and fry for 5 mins. 2. add 1 1/2 cups of water to chicken and add aibika bunch and put lid on. 3. Once aibika has simmered down add a clove of chopped garlic and 2 chicken stock cubes. 4 Toss aibika and chicken around in pan until aibika is soft 5 Best to serve in a bowl if you want to drink the soup with it. # For variations add chilli, grated ginger, etc to taste # Pick only the younger softer aibika leaves for cooking # instead of 1 cup of water you can use a can of coconut cream for even more amazing taste
Once again...you have me excited!! We started on a block of heavily compacted rocky clay, probably a heavily used path to an implement shed on an old farm. And heavy clay to boot. It was the worst of soils you could imagine. But after years of horse and cow manure, chicken compost and allowing the propagation of rogue trees to break up the soil it's finally starting to happen. The micro climates begin to form. It's finally happening and boy!! Does it take patience!! But it's worth every minute.
Congratulations Chantal, I’m a bit older than you and am looking for land to embark on virtually the same project, I’m a bit jealous of your drive, energy and intelligence.
Morag and Chantelle, thank you so much for the wonderful video. I watched it two times. Very informative! I am going to use many ideas in my Florida garden!
What a beautiful and inspiring video. Chantal's garden is as wonderful as she is. So much enthusiasm. I loved how Chantal explained her choko recipes and the willingness to try new plants.
I saw the original video and now to see this beautiful video of how Chantal's garden has developed--very grateful. I'm beginning my journey here in the US. Thank you Morag. So encouraging. ❤❤
The two of you are adorable. You’ve given me the courage to really get into mine and make my own dream come into fruition. I’m so excited to see the things she has created here. Very beautiful and well done. I can Certainly relate to the concept of being a late bloomer I’m 63 and just beginning. Thank you for the wonderful information.
Thank you for this inspiring garden tour! I live in a more 'moderate' climate, so I planted other trees, shrubs and herbs. The permaculture principles are always the basics, whatever climate or personal circumstances. I do have an 'avocado tree', as a house plant (grown from a seed I planted years ago). I know now I can prune it, so it never outgrows the room!
I'm just getting started... in an area nearby... we have started on our fenceline and planting our favourite foods thank you for showing me whats possible...
Beautiful garden, and so inspiring. So lush, so abundant! Our food forest will be a year old on 6th of July. We started with earthworks to create berms and swales, and then got planting. However, due to our climate (cool temperate, in NSW Northern Tablelands) there is no chance that our garden will be this well formed and lush at the end of the first year (though it is coming along nicely). We just don't have the climate for it. Our frosts started a few weeks ago, and will continue through to November. Between now and about October, not much growth will be added in that time, other than our carefully chosen winter vegies. It's just too cold for anything else. It's our garden's sleepy time, now. Food forests and gardens in warmer climes, with their abundant growth year round, will never be our reality. It would be so lovely to see videos of cool temperate food forests. We have the advantage of high chill hours so can do lots of nuts, stone fruit, pome fruit and cool climate berries, and frost that kills pathogens. In Australia, I don't know of any channels featuring cool temperate permaculture. Would you like to come and see our garden at one year old, for a cool temperate feature? ;-)
Morag, hello from Georgia in the US. Thank you for sharing this beautiful garden; so inspiring. She has truly done an amazing job; please keep us abreast of future viewings of her garden. Thank you again, and stay well.
🌳 I can see you put a lot of work and love into growing!I hope gardening brings you as much joy as it brings me. b It’s the start of my 3 year gardening but there is still so much for me to learn and I appreciate you sharing your food forest. It’s inspirational to me. I’d love the idea of a growing that way. I look forward to hopefully learning more from each other as we grow!
What a beautiful, sustainable garden and ecosystem. Proof also to those new to food forests, that you can progress it very quickly if you choose the right plants according to climate for all levels of the garden. Great video Morag & Chantel.
Late bloomer here, too. Moving from Alaska to Portugal. Creating a food forest is my new career. I’m just starting. It’s very exciting! Thanks for your videos.
Thank you so much Morag for having this information available on UA-cam, and especially thanks to Chantal for sharing your lovely garden. I see there are a few comments from "mature age" gardeners, and this is so inspiring for me, and although I have had veg gardens previously ,at 71, I am just starting out with Permaculture on my 1 acre block of land. I am so looking forward to this journey with you Morag. So down to earth and knowledgeable.
You’re lucky to live where you do, I’m in southern Colorado (USA) and I’ve been trying for five years to transform our patch of rocks and clay into a garden… everything dies. That’s not to say we haven’t had some success with permaculture techniques, ours is probably the greenest property in our area now, but still a long way to go and it’s definitely no “garden”. If we had the resources to shape the land and add mulch & manure… but that takes time and money, two things I ain’t got much of. 🥴🙏
I love this! I especially love hearing her talking about her garden…and what she said about the garden training your intuition. I’m putting in a garden now and I put two plants too close and it really bothers me, but I keep trying to ignore it…but I can’t. I’m going out to trust my “gut” and move those plants!😂
Those "slimy" greens would be a lovely way to thicken gumbo, if you don't have okra or arrowroot starch on hand! I think I may keep these in my list of things to plant when I have a garden, and try that out.
I stumbled across your channel, this video by accident. I must say I am blown away by the content. This is the 3rd time I have found a video on natural water harvesting. I am in Geraldton in Western Australia. Working with limestone sand that is aquaphobic. It has taken 12 years to make 20cm of topsoil organically. I believe that every yard should have atleast one fruit tree.
Thanyou I am in awe of your channel and am very grateful to have come across it. I have been am organic gardener since the 90s, we had our first sand scorpion in the yard today. Some people may shudder but it shows we are making a difference here. I am glad that they made our place their home.
Amazing & inspirational! She is a growing Machine. I, on the other hand, am motivated but it's a bit daunting. Working on a borrowed, previously Well Weeded (cleared by me), wasted space, in Port Stephens NSW. Hugelcultur beds on Mostly sand w top 2" of nice, black, sandy soil, removed from paths & placed on beds. I found an old (around 3yrs) woodchip pile, locally, which I started digging up. Black & Full of fat worms & mushrooms (GOLD!) but a new woodchip pile dumped on top. Took some to expose the "Gold", covered it & later, dug that up. Nobody else knows it's there. Shh. That is my top layer (under woodchips) & my planting media! Just starting to plant up now. Oh, & got given 5 huge fiberglass bathtubs for rainwater 👌
I am another one in my early 60s!! I am thinking you may be in 7b, but like New Jersey? I am in 7a , in North central Arkansas. Some cold over winter- just went thru my first- but like 3 or 4 months. Now, I have been planting for about one month here and mostly containers now, as building a small house. But stating with a raw palette, like Chantal. It's exciting, but a bit overwhelming to try and plan it all. i have not taken any permaculture classes, but decades of gardening, in general.
Exciting project. I think the key things, like shared in this film, of focussing on the soil and water, adding diversity, noticing what is going on, creating the structure of the garden with things that are robust and hardy, and add lots of things that you love. All act as great guides.
This is very inspiring. Ill be starting my own food Garden in Suriname..... I now live in the Netherlands,but im thinking of also having lots of fruit trees. I have already bought some. I also have my own tea threes....im very excited and now more now that i have found this video. Thank you 🍀🍀🍀
Wow. She did a beautiful job. Hers is the prettiest garden I have ever seen. Thank you two. Could she do a separate video on the water collection/swells. How to construct and how to plan them?
Very inspiring to start an eatible garden, I am in Phoenix, is really dry, but I'm trying to have some some herbs, figs, pomegranate and I have two beautiful Mesquite tree wich it's give a lot of filtered sun combine with shade. Thanks for sharing 👍 🙏
I wish I could live in Australia..i love it... Great idea to keep the fruit trees and plants lower..easy to reach for getting older! Cheryl on spinach....if it is slimey like postelain, you simply pluck it and just like water rest put it in your mashed potatoes..yellow ones..all fresh just from the land..i grow my strawberries, stone leeks and garlic and potatoes in between...as soon as the strawberries are done the leaves of potatoes take over for a month or so .and flower...and maybe you can use earlier potatoes..in big buckets .easier controllable..and just mash those 3 veggies but almost everything in fresh raw in cooked mash potatoes..put some estragon vinegar and homemade butter in it and salt..yummy .. lolz.. Another crazy tip to grow good soil...is throwing a lot of seeds for the birds in that empty spot..and all seeds will pop up..buy good quality because then you will see they spare you from putting in not so good seeds..but they all pop up..i love it..you a extract the plants you like..i had e sorts of kale, mustard seeds, broccoli,basil, linseed they have such beautiful light lavendelolie flowers...glovers (eatable) well all sorts..it's incredible...the big birds eat the young plants..doves.. maybe you can keep quale's in a treeshouse with small stairs..they shuffle the loose stuff around but don't trash it so much unlike chucks . Thank you for showing so much abundance! Loved it
Thanks Daisy. There are so many lessons in Chantal's garden. I was so grateful for her taking the time to show me around and let me share this with everyone.
Chantal and her garden are delightful and an inspiration to me. Also, a Senior late bloomer here and it's been a steep learning curve. My goal is much the same of a permanent food forest. Her achievement in one year is a great ray of hope for another granny gardener. 😊
That's so wonderful, and I think also for people of any age, this kind of garden makes so much sense - for the planet too.
Yay for Granny Gardeners! I am 62, and just starting a permaculture garden journey as well.
I'm 52 and just learning about food forests, myself. Now I need my own home to get going!
I am 75 yrs old and shared a dream w my husband who recently passed to Green the Arizona property I purchased some ten yrs ago. I am now in a position to make our dream happen.
The world needs more Morag Gamble.
Yes, definitely more food forests!
Yes
such a healthy looking happy lady, she is part of the lovely garden and garden is part of her. Gardens are good for the soul.
I'm a late-in-life gardener, too. Chantal is definitely an inspiration. Thanks, Morag for a wonderful video.
All the best with your garden 🌳
I would love to see another tour of the garden with the focus on the landscape and garden with a voice-over comment as you are both exploring this wonderful forest as it matures.
There's a good thing to know about chokos. I don't think many people in Australia know, but you can eat the tuber at certain parts of the year. They call it "chinchayote".
I had it in a restaurant in Mexico. I think the fellow had boiled it, sliced it in two and grilled it with cheese in the middle. I liked it
It's a way to get even more out of a plant that grows quite easily.
Great recipe! Thanks. I love how versatile it is
I too am short & have begun pulling my branches of my trees down & tying them down to create all kinds of "weeping willow" fruit trees so I can reach my fruit.
Great idea. In smaller spaces we can include so much more abundance if we work with our plants, and you'll end up with more fruit in your belly too!
Amazing that this garden has grown for only one year!
Love to see and hear about experimental gardening. I only started gardening last year by necessity. I had to leave the nsw south coast temporarily to do home palliative care for my father on his 4.5 acre property on the southern tablelands in nsw where it’s currently very cold and frosty. I never had time for gardening in the past raising a family and running a business which I had to drop and leave behind for the time being. I had no idea what I was doing and emotionally stressed and very isolated with virtually no human social interaction so, gardening became my therapy or my key to sanity. Suffice to say, I never expected to be here for a whole year and now just taking each day at a time. I virtually had and still have no budget and can’t afford to buy seeds, seedlings etc. I collected seeds from kitchen scraps, found seeds at my local tip, (which is now my major supplier of pretty much all my gardening needs! Lol) when plants go to seed, I collect them. I have no idea what I’m doing and just experiment and work with what I have from weeds to collecting seeds from bird poo from the hand made lopsided bird feeder! I even dig up my own worms and made a compost heap for them that I feed with whatever scraps, leaves etc I can find. I mainly set out to grow food but have fallen inlove and appreciate and utilise whatever plants and animals that surround me (including the snakes, that I used to fear terribly), I feel at one with nature and hope my dad is proud of what I’m trying to achieve out here and thank you especially to Morag and your channel. You present beautifully and even though I’ve only just discovered your channel, watching it has given me hope that what I am doing with his property, is sort of on the right track…thank you for taking the time to make these videos and visiting other nature embracers and sharing their journeys. I would love to see something from the colder regions, I struggle to grow a lot of veggies due to the cold and frost then the harsh heat in summer where water can be scarce…🪴
Chantelle was adorable. Part of me is quite envious of the style of garden she's chosen to cultivate, but we each only have so much space to work with, and for me the focus has been and remains on creating restoring a native ecosystem as much as possible. I've got a separate area with a few raised beds for conventional food crops, but everything that goes into the ground is native to my specific area. Of course, I'm learning a LOT about what native plants are edible and how to eat them.
Your garden sounds wonderful!
Elements of your own self sufficiency are great. Ecosystems really need what you are doing….regenerative restoration with indigenous plants 🙌🙌
this was very encouraging to me. I've been on my spot for 3 yrs, and for this year, focused on soil remediation and infrastructure. Now, I'm starting plants from seeds, cuttings, and so on -- in the hopes of building up a food forest over time. I will be buying trees, eventually, but that's a big expense for me. So, starting where I am, adding things in as I go, and always learning and observing. :)
Absolutely amazing how you accomplished so much in a short space of time. I am truly inspired to forge ahead and create my own food forest. Thank you both 🙏🏽💕
Yes. She has shown just how much we can do in a short space of time. It's really quite inspirational, and it shows too how quickly we can regenerate degraded lands if we put our hearts, minds, and hands to the task.
Wonderful! I done similar here in zone 6b. This Spring (early March), I laid several layers of cardboard on top of grass. I continued to layer as I gathered more cardboard. On top of the cardboard I scattered fruit and veggie scraps, grass clippings, tiny sticks and a small amounts of dirt, then more cardboard (as I got it).
In May & June I added several seeds and small plants, done by digging holes through the broken down cardboard layers). Finally, after everyone was planted I added tomato cages (most I made from ♻️ materials) and covered everything w mulch.
That's so wonderful. Thanks for sharing! All the best with your garden as it continues to evolve and become more abundant.
Thank you for this tour Chantelle …..“ I wanted to be part of the solution ….lots of observations….….“ ❤️❤️❤️and Morag❤️🔥❤️🔥. I have watched this 3 times! I have also rewatched all of Morag’s masterful videos. I find Morag to be the best educator and interviewer. THE BEST! There is so much information you provide to absorb, and I learn something new each time I re watch you. It also lifts my spirits and makes me feel much more hopeful. Forest floor, mulch, mulch, mulch stunning changes here. “The soil is the foundation”. Swales , berms, permaculture and the recycling of all sorts of organic matter🔥🔥. I love both of your gardens for wildlife , the beneficial insects, the permaculture chat and recipes too. Great tips about soil creation, and enlivening the soil at the end too.
“They are so lucky they are so pretty” re pidgeon peas and King Parrots 👑🦜🤣🤣🤣
I LOVE your channel Morag and I am so grateful for you excellent and inspiring content.
I did my first permaculture course in the 80’s the knowledge gained just increases in value and never dates.
Thank you for this wonderfully encouraging message. I love that you share my passion for this 🌏🌳🐝🌿😀
Grannie Cyndy from South Australia here again. Ohhh yes. The understanding that a garden tells you what it wants. So true. Just be open to it. Chantal feels that intuitively.
What a beautiful garden you’ve created! I would love to sit an observe all the birds an insects enjoying it too. You have created a place of beauty ❤️
You're so right - and the thing is, the hard word is done now - it's more about managing the abundance, plugging the gaps and noticing what's happening - more time to sit back with a cuppa!
that's a very lovely comment
Beautiful inspirational gardener and garden. It's a living proof of how abundant the earth is and given thought,and the right conditions
plants just want to grow. Beautiful ❤️
Wow! This is amazing I live in Britain and the thought of having something HALF as beautiful as yours is almost getting me going! Thanks 👍
Such a beautiful garden. It was hard to see it though. Maybe if you turn the camera around so it concentrates on the garden and every now and then back on Chantal it would be easier to see the full extent of the garden. Some close up and distance shots would make it great to watch. Or have someone else doing the camera work perhaps. Thanks for sharing.
So inspiring, beautiful garden, In a year... ty for sharing. I'm speachless. So inspiring, looks so rewarding. I hope to start. Thankyou for your tips.
I wish you all the best with your food forest. It’s amazing how quickly you’ll notice a distinct change
Getting my husband to keep all cartoon boxes( from furniture) to put over weeds near swell and also amend the soil around rocks in the garden( in the mountains). Will mulch it later. Can’t spray any chemicals as Neibourghs expect…. as I love my little frogs and 2 water lizards in the garden( my helpers with snails and bugs:) can see craze looks of the neighbours as it is doesn’t look pretty for 4-5 weeks but I care for my wildlife more:)
Hi Morag.
Grannie Cyndy from South Australia here. Just found your channel.
I'm 72 yrs old and developing a food forest garden on my steep 1/4 acre block in a subdivision. No lawn at all any more. But multiple fruit trees, vines, berries, veggie garden, chooks and a beehive that set itself up in a birdhouse my grandsons made for me a few years ago. I love the whole permaculture principle. Never used my green bin disposal in 17 yrs.
Love your content and newly subscribed although I am in a Mediterranean climate with potential for frosts in winter. So this video is out of my climate zone. But will follow you regardless. If you are national you will have my undying love and support!!
That's a wonderful, heart warming, inspiring and a very beautiful food forest and interaction. Chantal is obviously a very deep and talented artist.... and beautiful person. I can just picture her early in the morning 'communicating' with her garden... It so inspires me to use my own talents and instincts to build a food forest. There's sooo much to learn. I'm still in the process of wrapping my mind around the whole permaculture thing. I gotta say though, it is a whole lotta fun! But the more I learn, the less I know... Heh.
A tasty Aibika Spinach recipe to change your mind. Perfect for winter and sore throats
1. On a deep base frying pan fry chicken thigh fillets (skin on) on both sides till golden with olive oil
Put lid on and fry for 5 mins.
2. add 1 1/2 cups of water to chicken and add aibika bunch and put lid on.
3. Once aibika has simmered down add a clove of chopped garlic and 2 chicken stock cubes.
4 Toss aibika and chicken around in pan until aibika is soft
5 Best to serve in a bowl if you want to drink the soup with it.
# For variations add chilli, grated ginger, etc to taste
# Pick only the younger softer aibika leaves for cooking
# instead of 1 cup of water you can use a can of coconut cream for even more amazing taste
Sounds delicious thank you Collin Kupul shall make it for sure...I am open to new recipes
Once again...you have me excited!! We started on a block of heavily compacted rocky clay, probably a heavily used path to an implement shed on an old farm. And heavy clay to boot. It was the worst of soils you could imagine. But after years of horse and cow manure, chicken compost and allowing the propagation of rogue trees to break up the soil it's finally starting to happen. The micro climates begin to form. It's finally happening and boy!! Does it take patience!! But it's worth every minute.
So Happy to see this vídeo...
Blessings......
Congratulations Chantal, I’m a bit older than you and am looking for land to embark on virtually the same project, I’m a bit jealous of your drive, energy and intelligence.
Do nothing pest management - love it. Nature provides everything we need!
Yes. Natural balance. An ecosystem's approach to gardening.
a true cottage garden, absolutely beautiful! thanx for sharing
Morag and Chantelle, thank you so much for the wonderful video. I watched it two times. Very informative! I am going to use many ideas in my Florida garden!
Wonderful! Wishing you all the best with it.
Amazing garden, I couldn't concentrate though after she said that man shed was a converted shipping container. I'm so making one!! 👌
Chantal is so awesome. I love what she's done!
👍 agreed
What a beautiful and inspiring video. Chantal's garden is as wonderful as she is. So much enthusiasm. I loved how Chantal explained her choko recipes and the willingness to try new plants.
Yes - I think moving from the ‘standard diet’ is essential for sustainability
Oh, please do come back again! It has been a delight to watch the two of you, and to learn from you.
I saw the original video and now to see this beautiful video of how Chantal's garden has developed--very grateful. I'm beginning my journey here in the US. Thank you Morag. So encouraging. ❤❤
The two of you are adorable. You’ve given me the courage to really get into mine and make my own dream come into fruition. I’m so excited to see the things she has created here. Very beautiful and well done. I can Certainly relate to the concept of being a late bloomer I’m 63 and just beginning. Thank you for the wonderful information.
Thank you for this inspiring garden tour! I live in a more 'moderate' climate, so I planted other trees, shrubs and herbs. The permaculture principles are always the basics, whatever climate or personal circumstances.
I do have an 'avocado tree', as a house plant (grown from a seed I planted years ago). I know now I can prune it, so it never outgrows the room!
Your comment is so heart touching yes I agree with you, can we be friends if you don’t mind?
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Amazing to see what she has accomplished in 1 year! The garden is so well established, it looks much older. This inspires me! Subscribed
Lovely lady and very creative in her design.
These two beautiful people makes me smile:) so much love and harmony
This is the auntie everyone should have... so inspiring.
All blessings and love, Madam!
I'm just getting started... in an area nearby... we have started on our fenceline and planting our favourite foods thank you for showing me whats possible...
Hows your garden growing? Thanks for tuning in
What a lovely garden tour - so many unfamiliar plants from the other hemisphere! We are all learning as we grow!!
So true!
My climate in Central Florida is almost identical to Shantell’s. This video motivated me to start my own food forest.
Fantastic. Yes, we do have similar climates but also this concept works in most climates - just looks different
Beautiful garden, and so inspiring. So lush, so abundant! Our food forest will be a year old on 6th of July. We started with earthworks to create berms and swales, and then got planting. However, due to our climate (cool temperate, in NSW Northern Tablelands) there is no chance that our garden will be this well formed and lush at the end of the first year (though it is coming along nicely). We just don't have the climate for it. Our frosts started a few weeks ago, and will continue through to November. Between now and about October, not much growth will be added in that time, other than our carefully chosen winter vegies. It's just too cold for anything else. It's our garden's sleepy time, now.
Food forests and gardens in warmer climes, with their abundant growth year round, will never be our reality. It would be so lovely to see videos of cool temperate food forests. We have the advantage of high chill hours so can do lots of nuts, stone fruit, pome fruit and cool climate berries, and frost that kills pathogens. In Australia, I don't know of any channels featuring cool temperate permaculture. Would you like to come and see our garden at one year old, for a cool temperate feature? ;-)
Yes - there’s a growing number of food forests and more films of them would be wonderful - when I travel again I will visit them
We in Ceylon, add the Ceylon spinach to lentils and make curry. Then it is not as slimy:)
Wonderful. I love it that way too.
Oh wonderful to see. The bale with the soil in the middle is a sweet tip.
So much beauty in the garden and also the gardener 🌼
Yes indeed. Chantal has created an amazing space, and is just such a kind and generous gardener.
Thank you both for sharing! 🤍
Chantel is lovely!
Morag, hello from Georgia in the US. Thank you for sharing this beautiful garden; so inspiring. She has truly done an amazing job; please keep us abreast of future viewings of her garden. Thank you again, and stay well.
Yes, I look forward to going back in a year or two, and will share another short clip
What an inspiration. Thank you Chantal so much.
Glad you enjoyed it!
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I can see you put a lot of work and love into growing!I hope gardening brings you as much joy as it brings me. b
It’s the start of my 3 year gardening but there is still so much for me to learn and I appreciate you sharing your food forest. It’s inspirational to me. I’d love the idea of a growing that way. I look forward to hopefully learning more from each other as we grow!
Thanks for your lovely comment. Chantal's garden really is wonderful
What a beautiful, sustainable garden and ecosystem. Proof also to those new to food forests, that you can progress it very quickly if you choose the right plants according to climate for all levels of the garden. Great video Morag & Chantel.
Yes - and to keep watching and adapting- it’s a journey
Late bloomer here, too. Moving from Alaska to Portugal. Creating a food forest is my new career. I’m just starting. It’s very exciting! Thanks for your videos.
Older women gardening is so cute 🥰
Beautiful garden and Chantal ! Thank you Morag Gamble ! Greetings from Canada :)
Hello across the ocean!
Pineapple sage is a great plant, love your garden, I wish there was more people like you, hopefully people will become educated
Thank you for your lovely comment.
Thank you so much Morag for having this information available on UA-cam, and especially thanks to Chantal for sharing your lovely garden. I see there are a few comments from "mature age" gardeners, and this is so inspiring for me, and although I have had veg gardens previously ,at 71, I am just starting out with Permaculture on my 1 acre block of land. I am so looking forward to this journey with you Morag. So down to earth and knowledgeable.
You are so welcome! That's wonderful Louise.
What a delightful place ,so inspiring. All of that in one year with a bit of preparation time !
It is always so inspiring how quickly we can regenerate soils, bring them to life, and grow abundance.
how lovely,you two...and the garden!💚❤️💚💚❤️thx for sharing🙏
So nice of you
Beautiful!
Wow! Her garden is gorgeous! She is a great inspiration!
Thank you so much!
She definitely has blessing hands, love 😍🪴 that beautiful healthy edible garden! 🪴
Yes, certainly she has a gift for this!
You’re lucky to live where you do, I’m in southern Colorado (USA) and I’ve been trying for five years to transform our patch of rocks and clay into a garden… everything dies.
That’s not to say we haven’t had some success with permaculture techniques, ours is probably the greenest property in our area now, but still a long way to go and it’s definitely no “garden”. If we had the resources to shape the land and add mulch & manure… but that takes time and money, two things I ain’t got much of. 🥴🙏
Absolutely beautiful garden & ladies!! I love my pineapple sage as much as the pollinators & the birds do!💚very interesting video..
Pineapple sage is fabulous!
I love this! I especially love hearing her talking about her garden…and what she said about the garden training your intuition.
I’m putting in a garden now and I put two plants too close and it really bothers me, but I keep trying to ignore it…but I can’t. I’m going out to trust my “gut” and move those plants!😂
Absolutely stunning. Want to do this at Tennant Creek!! Vastly different ecosystem but will enjoy the journey sooiooo much. 🎉
Those "slimy" greens would be a lovely way to thicken gumbo, if you don't have okra or arrowroot starch on hand! I think I may keep these in my list of things to plant when I have a garden, and try that out.
Great idea!! Thanks for the suggestion. I wonder how others use 'slimy' plants
Beautiful results for just one year! Thank you for sharing this inspiration 😍 bravo Chantal, vous avez accompli un travail magnifique!
It's amazing what she's done isn't it!
I stumbled across your channel, this video by accident. I must say I am blown away by the content. This is the 3rd time I have found a video on natural water harvesting. I am in Geraldton in Western Australia. Working with limestone sand that is aquaphobic. It has taken 12 years to make 20cm of topsoil organically. I believe that every yard should have atleast one fruit tree.
Yes!
Thanyou I am in awe of your channel and am very grateful to have come across it. I have been am organic gardener since the 90s, we had our first sand scorpion in the yard today. Some people may shudder but it shows we are making a difference here. I am glad that they made our place their home.
Chantal Is adorable and her hard work and experimentation are a great inspiration. Thanks for sharing. 🌻
You are so welcome!
Your comment is so heart touching yes I agree with you, can we be friends if you don’t mind?
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Amazing & inspirational! She is a growing Machine. I, on the other hand, am motivated but it's a bit daunting. Working on a borrowed, previously Well Weeded (cleared by me), wasted space, in Port Stephens NSW. Hugelcultur beds on Mostly sand w top 2" of nice, black, sandy soil, removed from paths & placed on beds. I found an old (around 3yrs) woodchip pile, locally, which I started digging up. Black & Full of fat worms & mushrooms (GOLD!) but a new woodchip pile dumped on top. Took some to expose the "Gold", covered it & later, dug that up. Nobody else knows it's there. Shh. That is my top layer (under woodchips) & my planting media! Just starting to plant up now. Oh, & got given 5 huge fiberglass bathtubs for rainwater 👌
Wow she is blessed with great soil and climate .
She started with a pretty tough degraded site though and added so much life to the soil.
Beautiful. I'm 60 and started gardening seriously last year but we have short seasons, cold winter. USA zone 7b. It's hard to grow food for long
I am another one in my early 60s!! I am thinking you may be in 7b, but like New Jersey? I am in 7a , in North central Arkansas. Some cold over winter- just went thru my first- but like 3 or 4 months. Now, I have been planting for about one month here and mostly containers now, as building a small house. But stating with a raw palette, like Chantal. It's exciting, but a bit overwhelming to try and plan it all. i have not taken any permaculture classes, but decades of gardening, in general.
Exciting project. I think the key things, like shared in this film, of focussing on the soil and water, adding diversity, noticing what is going on, creating the structure of the garden with things that are robust and hardy, and add lots of things that you love. All act as great guides.
Lovely garden thank you for sharing
I’m so glad you liked it. I must go back again and see what another years growth looks like
This is very inspiring.
Ill be starting my own food Garden in Suriname.....
I now live in the Netherlands,but im thinking of also having lots of fruit trees.
I have already bought some.
I also have my own tea threes....im very excited and now more now that i have found this video.
Thank you 🍀🍀🍀
Absolutely lovely! Such an inspiration. Thank you for sharing. I will be devouring your videos now.
Thanks. I hope you enjoy the garden tours and tips, and keep coming back for the new films too - another garden tour coming soon!
@@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife Morag I cannot wait!❤️
Lovely lovely garden, thank you so much for the share :)
Thank - Chantal's garden is indeed so lovely.
Amazing! Great job. Such a beautiful food forest.
I loved this video. it's so inspiring. I teared up a little. just so beautiful. thank you both for sharing.
So inspiring! Thanks! 🎉🎉🎉
Thanks Max. really must go and visit her and film part 2
Just beautiful. Very inspiring. Thank you so much for posting this ladies ❤️
You're welcome. So glad you enjoyed this walkabout.
Wow. She did a beautiful job. Hers is the prettiest garden I have ever seen. Thank you two. Could she do a separate video on the water collection/swells. How to construct and how to plan them?
Your comment is so heart touching yes I agree with you, can we be friends if you don’t mind?
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Very inspiring to start an eatible garden, I am in Phoenix, is really dry, but I'm trying to have some some herbs, figs, pomegranate and I have two beautiful Mesquite tree wich it's give a lot of filtered sun combine with shade. Thanks for sharing 👍 🙏
Good luck!
Amazing...she inspired me a lot.
Simply wonderful, love from Borneo.
Thanks for tuning in from Borneo - I can just imagine what would be possible in your climate and soils!
Just beautiful. Well done. I too am about to start on my Home Block of a similar size. wish me luck.
VERY inspiring garden & human!! Brava, Chantel👏!
Thank you so much! Wonderful video 🥰🙏👍🌿🌳🌴🌾🍄🌻🌺☀️🌈
This is very inspiring. I would love to see this type of video with high mountain dessert
Great suggestion! When I get to a high mountain desert, I will look for a garden to visit.
What an amazing garden!!!
Yes, it is. She's done such an amazing job in a just over a year!
This is just incredible. Thank you so much.
You're very welcome!
I wish I could live in Australia..i love it... Great idea to keep the fruit trees and plants lower..easy to reach for getting older!
Cheryl on spinach....if it is slimey like postelain, you simply pluck it and just like water rest put it in your mashed potatoes..yellow ones..all fresh just from the land..i grow my strawberries, stone leeks and garlic and potatoes in between...as soon as the strawberries are done the leaves of potatoes take over for a month or so .and flower...and maybe you can use earlier potatoes..in big buckets .easier controllable..and just mash those 3 veggies but almost everything in fresh raw in cooked mash potatoes..put some estragon vinegar and homemade butter in it and salt..yummy .. lolz..
Another crazy tip to grow good soil...is throwing a lot of seeds for the birds in that empty spot..and all seeds will pop up..buy good quality because then you will see they spare you from putting in not so good seeds..but they all pop up..i love it..you a extract the plants you like..i had e sorts of kale, mustard seeds, broccoli,basil, linseed they have such beautiful light lavendelolie flowers...glovers (eatable) well all sorts..it's incredible...the big birds eat the young plants..doves.. maybe you can keep quale's in a treeshouse with small stairs..they shuffle the loose stuff around but don't trash it so much unlike chucks .
Thank you for showing so much abundance! Loved it
Your comment is so heart touching yes I agree with you, can we be friends if you don’t mind?
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Chantal is so young in her soul
Feeling very inspired, great to watch or sharing
Thanks Daisy. There are so many lessons in Chantal's garden. I was so grateful for her taking the time to show me around and let me share this with everyone.
Your comment is so heart touching yes I agree with you, can we be friends if you don’t mind?
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Fantastic what you were able to achieve in such a short time!
I wonder how much the minerals from all the gravel has helped? I find this interesting.
It is so, so impressive and inspiring, thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
It all seems overwhelming but exciting
Start small - micro food forests are still amazingly beautiful and beneficial