So glad these videos resonate with you! I subscribed to your channel a little ways back but youtube never shows me your new stuff, so I finally went back and hit the notification button so I get everything. Hoping anyone reading this comment feels inclined to check out what you are up to and SUBSCRIBE to ya!
I love these videos as we are starting a food forest wanting to do the whole acreage with animals as well mixed into our homestead for our permaculture design. Perfect video.
Wow, that's some high praise coming from someone like you Stefan! Just watched your vole/rabbit video today and got some nice ideas and reminders about how to provide them food during the winter. You've got a really nice channel :)
From the first time I had to mow the lawn as a kid, a dream began forming in my head, a dream that you have shown fully realized , here. I long leave my own tiny version of this as a legacy to my children and their children. Thank you for leading the way, thank you for the inspiration.
Such a pleasure to listen to an articulate, well-spoken and passionate permaculture practitioner. You have helped both human and animal needs with this transformation of your land.
You are so blessed having such a fertile temperate place to grow. Where I live in Ontario the conditions are not so kind. I have building a food forest for 40 years and can only dream about growing the varieties you have in this garden. Well done!
Love seeing the before picture and current dense growth. Just shows your talent and mother nature's strength. I have a two year old conversation of lawn to food forest and the growth is insane. Great information and thanks for sharing. Love the wild, natural growth and it's doing nicely with what little time you have available for tending to. Also in upstate NY 5b and love the diversity. 👍🌱😁
Very nice to see a food forest well into development. There are no shortage of videos that show the early stages where everything is young or just planted. Thumbs up!
The crazy thing is 10 years old is a BABY for a food forest. This system is just beginning to come into adolescence! But you are right, more than enough videos of the year 1 install... We need to see the decades old sites so we have ideas of whats to come.
I've been at it for 35 years but in 10 years I was no where near your level. I am lucky having 30 acres to play with so mine is quite spread out with lots of wild untouched areas. If I ever get the time, between weeding cutting and planting and my other crazy hobbies, I would like to do a video. I really appreciate folks that make the time to make videos for the rest of us to enjoy.
This is an incredibly valuable video. As one who is working hard in the early years of establishing perennial systems, it is an asset to have your effort and insights showcased here. It's like a little fast forward to what can be accomplished if things are put in motion and allowed to evolve as nature intended. We're working from a slightly different place as we began our journey on our property 10 after being left alone post brush hogging, but the observations are practices are applicable across the board. I can fully relate to thing "getting away on me" and indeed this is simply part of the life process that is so magical on this planet.
This gives a view into a garden that is started at high density and then left to go a bit wild due to less time available to it. Good reminder this type of garden can take care of itself AND that if you want access and a space that makes sense you may need more time in it to keep it in check!
I hope my food forest looks like yours in 10 years! I need to learn more on the root divisions and cuttings and I’ll be good to go! Just seen your stool layering videos and that was a wonderful learning experience!
We have sea kale working under an almond tree in the central valley (regular temp in Jul/Aug is skirting 100 f. I also suspect it is tolerant of alkali soils.
love this. I also love a food forest to be dense and feral and adundant. Ours is 11 yrs old but we've only got 1/4 acre. So cool to see what you've accomplished on 6
Great video and it is amazing the transformation of the land that you have enabled. Are you a botanist by chance? You really seem to know your stuff! I will be looking forward to more videos from you as I really enjoyed this one.
How did you take the first steps of this garden? Was the soil good to start planting in or did you fully cover it with any type of biomass or nutrition?
That would be a good follow up video! I chipped away at this whole project slowly but surely, and there were MANY wheelbarrow loads of compost/chips/hay/etc that came in over the years for sure.
I LOVE IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Soooo inspiring!!!!! The mycorrhizal fungi LOVE the density, as do I :) Although the trusted nursery One Green World says that Autumn Olive is self fertile, I got no fruit in a large shrub until I planted 2 varieties close together and they are soooo productive after only planting them in 2016
I feel like any time a plant is noted as self-fertile it's best to plant 2 more!!! MANY times I've planted self-fertile plants, got nothing for a while, added more, and then fruit. Who would have figured all the beings prefer partnership :)
Just saying, if you have taller canopy trees and let them grow, there will be less density in the weedy fruiting bushes (respectively) and may have better water holding quality, as moisture in the air won't evaporate as fast. Although your forest in inspirational and gives me joy to see what you have done. Keep up the good work.
I started with a piece of almost totally barren land with only a couple of ornamental trees, ornamental shrubs, and some roses. I didn't even have grass in many areas cause of chemicals, gophers, voles, wild rabbits, ... 7 years ago. I got addicted to an online war game for 5 years cause my wife passed away in a traffic accident. I only planted trees and did very little farming. Now, I have some fruit trees. I have most of the barren areas filled up with some wild grass, timothy and tall fescue. If you have so many trees and and all your grass to start with, 10 years is a lot of time. Don't do food forest. Grow everything. Allow your grass to grow tall. Everything will grow. Then you can start practicing natural farming, without importing any organic matter from outside. LOL
Would you perhaps do a vid on identifying the goji vs autumn olive? We have a wild seedling growing that I thought was a.o. But if they're that similar, perhaps we have a wild goji. Same for the viburnum vs cranberry. I know what we have is viburnum, but it would be interesting to hear what beneficial plants it could be replaced with.
I could do a video, but I'd suggest that if you looked up images online you'll find the difference. Goumi has distinctly wider leaves, thicker, darker color as well, and seems to be more densely shrubby in form where AO tends to go upward a bit and form a shrub/tree form more... Which Viburnums are you talking about? HUGE family there!
People say Sunchokes are invasive. I've had Sunchokes and they do grow prolific. If you want to get rid of them, just chop them while they are small. After 2 seasons, they're gone. Don't let them grow more than 1ft tall. Worms love them, if you don't pull them out of the ground. They make great biomass and breaks down quickly. Plant them in crappy soil, chop and drop it for 2 season. And then kill it. You will have the best soil for a fruit tree or a vegie patch. This goes for any invasive plants... Put goats in there, or rotortill continuously it until they die (can take up to 2 season).
I need growers of organic cherries and specialty berries like serviceberry, black currant, and honeyberry in bulk because I am trying to start commercially making wine.
@@edibleacres yeah that's the long term plan! I'm studying aquaculture and business management at school now so I can have a project business when I graduate. I am going to try to farm wetlands for trout and walleye in Wisconsin and I want to grow bilberry and other water loving berry crops and vegetables for nutrient control. A little permaculture meets aquaculture action for the future. In the meantime I am working with local brewers to develop my nontraditional wine production which at first will just be based on serviceberry and black raspberry but I figured this community would be a good place to start asking around for berries.
Hi, just wondering if you can recommend any courses or resources for food forests? I’m new to this and still have everything to learn. Even climate area... in on the equator at 2500 meters altitude (in the Colombian Andes) any help is gratefully revived!
Personally I think exploring the wide and various world of youtube videos on all the different subjects you may be interested in feels like a great direction to explore... Thats what I lean into the most.
Humifusa is who we have... Eastern Prickly Pear. Pretty decent fruit. Nothing incredible but a nice surprise to find a cactus fruit in the snow in early winter!
I want to make a food garden one day. I'd have to make it as hardy and diverse as I could, along with cultivating some plants that are outside of my current planting zone. The climate change apocalypse and stagnating wages are going to hit my generation hard. I'm not sure my brother and I will be able to get a couple acres and build a small house or two but I want to try. I understand that this dream of owning land and growing stuff on it to save my family from disaster is a bit colonialist and eco-fascist of me. Honestly though, I think that building a foothold within capitalism that can aid others to do good is not a bad cause. If I can use my privilege to provide food and shelter for people that are tangibly fighting against capitalism, then why wouldn't I try to do it? I still support giving land back, and abolishing the entire concept of private property, but in the meantime, some ideological concessions need to be made for survival's sake. I mean, I can't avoid buying unethically farmed foodstuffs if I want to eat. Switching to a less unethical means of survival and providing a little bit of food that's more or less independent from capitalism seems like a decent redundancy. Yeah yeah, I'm a crazy kook and conspiracy theorist. But at least my insanity is geared toward helping others and providing stability in my community.
Doesn't seem crazy at all and certainly doesn't seem like a colonialist mindset to want to steward land to facilitate resilient and nourishing systems for your immediate needs and the community around you. Seems incredibly sane and thoughtful! I hope it comes to fruition, keep a wide lens of what may be possible to manifest that vision and it most likely will...
These are my favorite type of videos. Just walking the land, finding things others plant that I want to include in my systems. Great stuff.
So glad these videos resonate with you! I subscribed to your channel a little ways back but youtube never shows me your new stuff, so I finally went back and hit the notification button so I get everything. Hoping anyone reading this comment feels inclined to check out what you are up to and SUBSCRIBE to ya!
this is my favorite kind of permaculture video, too. Really enjoyed it.
I love these videos as we are starting a food forest wanting to do the whole acreage with animals as well mixed into our homestead for our permaculture design. Perfect video.
Some can see a chaotic place, I see Garden of Eden (a delightful place, a paradise, a state of great delight, happiness, contentment and bliss) 🤗
I am crying happy tears watching this Divine garden.
Nice tour. You’ve got a great understanding of the plants, a true plantsman.
Wow, that's some high praise coming from someone like you Stefan! Just watched your vole/rabbit video today and got some nice ideas and reminders about how to provide them food during the winter. You've got a really nice channel :)
This is my favourite type of forest garden space - dense, lush & truly alive
Hey thanks!
From the first time I had to mow the lawn as a kid, a dream began forming in my head, a dream that you have shown fully realized , here.
I long leave my own tiny version of this as a legacy to my children and their children.
Thank you for leading the way, thank you for the inspiration.
Such a pleasure to listen to an articulate, well-spoken and passionate permaculture practitioner. You have helped both human and animal needs with this transformation of your land.
What a beautiful improvement over a lawn!
This is exactly what I and surely many others love to see in your video's!
Your footsteps I follow.
We're simply experimenting as we go, learning as we go, trying our best to work with nature as much as possible.
I love that you call the plants "beings".
You are so blessed having such a fertile temperate place to grow. Where I live in Ontario the conditions are not so kind. I have building a food forest for 40 years and can only dream about growing the varieties you have in this garden. Well done!
I can already feel me wanting to walk through the screen into your garden to explore...🙂
:)
Love seeing the before picture and current dense growth. Just shows your talent and mother nature's strength. I have a two year old conversation of lawn to food forest and the growth is insane. Great information and thanks for sharing. Love the wild, natural growth and it's doing nicely with what little time you have available for tending to. Also in upstate NY 5b and love the diversity. 👍🌱😁
great tour, was waiting for this one, it all looks so good, great density and diversity
Gratitude for filming/sharing the awesomeness you are cultivating on Gaia ~ inspiring, educational & REAL!!!
Very nice to see a food forest well into development. There are no shortage of videos that show the early stages where everything is young or just planted. Thumbs up!
The crazy thing is 10 years old is a BABY for a food forest. This system is just beginning to come into adolescence! But you are right, more than enough videos of the year 1 install... We need to see the decades old sites so we have ideas of whats to come.
I've been at it for 35 years but in 10 years I was no where near your level. I am lucky having 30 acres to play with so mine is quite spread out with lots of wild untouched areas. If I ever get the time, between weeding cutting and planting and my other crazy hobbies, I would like to do a video. I really appreciate folks that make the time to make videos for the rest of us to enjoy.
I agree that some harvesting videos would be great! Awesome wild space.
Thanks James! We've got some more 'Sashaaaaa' videos in the pipeline :)
Great job! I love what you have done with a lawn. You are an inspiration! Thank you.
This is an incredibly valuable video. As one who is working hard in the early years of establishing perennial systems, it is an asset to have your effort and insights showcased here. It's like a little fast forward to what can be accomplished if things are put in motion and allowed to evolve as nature intended. We're working from a slightly different place as we began our journey on our property 10 after being left alone post brush hogging, but the observations are practices are applicable across the board. I can fully relate to thing "getting away on me" and indeed this is simply part of the life process that is so magical on this planet.
This gives a view into a garden that is started at high density and then left to go a bit wild due to less time available to it. Good reminder this type of garden can take care of itself AND that if you want access and a space that makes sense you may need more time in it to keep it in check!
SO inspiring! Beautiful. I am so appreciative to all the beings there whom you introduced!
Wow you are so lucky!!! I wish I could walk to my backyard and see a Beautiful food forest ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I hope my food forest looks like yours in 10 years! I need to learn more on the root divisions and cuttings and I’ll be good to go! Just seen your stool layering videos and that was a wonderful learning experience!
Plants start really taking off after a while for sure!
Good job ...diversity galore. Yummy
Change a lot. Congrats 👏👏👏👏
Amazing transformation!
Thank you again kind and knowledgeable person!
We have sea kale working under an almond tree in the central valley (regular temp in Jul/Aug is skirting 100 f. I also suspect it is tolerant of alkali soils.
Good notes here, thanks on the Sea Kale observation!
Astonishingly user pleasant video. Tremendous info offered on couple of gos to.
Amazing, can’t wait to start my own
Great space.....I love it!
Beautiful!
I love how much you love your plants! They are all soo cool!
I'm on my way to grow my own! thanks as always. Love learning
Really excited for you! It's an incredibly rewarding path.
Stunning! Blessings
So inspirational!! Thanks for sharing :)
love this. I also love a food forest to be dense and feral and adundant. Ours is 11 yrs old but we've only got 1/4 acre. So cool to see what you've accomplished on 6
Love it! I've started my own but I am restricted so it might take more than 10 years.
Everything takes its own time. You might be surprised how fast things take off once they get going!
So beautiful!!!
This video is AMAZING 😍
So glad you enjoyed.
Great video and it is amazing the transformation of the land that you have enabled. Are you a botanist by chance? You really seem to know your stuff! I will be looking forward to more videos from you as I really enjoyed this one.
I went to school for fine art... Ha!
Any/all skills I have around this came from experimenting and learning slowly as the system evolved.
@@edibleacres well this is a FINE ART of using nature's abundance to benefit the land and the humans.
Is it possible to grow mushrooms the way you are in a Mediterranean climate? Or is it to warm?
Great video!
I bet there are mushrooms that would do very well in a warmer climate but I don't know them.
It's beautiful!
Beautiful :)
Although I already have a dense,old,forest garden,I still want to plant more trees,bushes,and undergrowth,consider me inspired
How did you take the first steps of this garden? Was the soil good to start planting in or did you fully cover it with any type of biomass or nutrition?
That would be a good follow up video! I chipped away at this whole project slowly but surely, and there were MANY wheelbarrow loads of compost/chips/hay/etc that came in over the years for sure.
What is a sun choke. What does goomie berry look like and what does it taste like. I live in high desert of Arizona 3320 elevation.
Awesome!
I LOVE IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Soooo inspiring!!!!! The mycorrhizal fungi LOVE the density, as do I :) Although the trusted nursery One Green World says that Autumn Olive is self fertile, I got no fruit in a large shrub until I planted 2 varieties close together and they are soooo productive after only planting them in 2016
I feel like any time a plant is noted as self-fertile it's best to plant 2 more!!! MANY times I've planted self-fertile plants, got nothing for a while, added more, and then fruit. Who would have figured all the beings prefer partnership :)
@@edibleacres Interesting. Do you mean that you added more plants of the same variety, or plants of another variety of the same species? Thank you.
I’m learning so much from these videos. Would you mind going through some of the vocab and techniques they indicate? I would love that!
Need some harvesting videos.
I just learned what cowboy toilet paper is and now I'm obsessed with identifying "weeds" in my yard.
This is what I want to get too! Just love it! Let's groooow
Amazing .
very cool
I’m in the same zone- I will have to try the cactus . We have a 50 year old cactus living in our house. Do you mulch them for the winter?
We don't.
Just saying, if you have taller canopy trees and let them grow, there will be less density in the weedy fruiting bushes (respectively) and may have better water holding quality, as moisture in the air won't evaporate as fast. Although your forest in inspirational and gives me joy to see what you have done.
Keep up the good work.
Although only if that's want you want of course.
I started with a piece of almost totally barren land with only a couple of ornamental trees, ornamental shrubs, and some roses. I didn't even have grass in many areas cause of chemicals, gophers, voles, wild rabbits, ... 7 years ago. I got addicted to an online war game for 5 years cause my wife passed away in a traffic accident. I only planted trees and did very little farming. Now, I have some fruit trees. I have most of the barren areas filled up with some wild grass, timothy and tall fescue. If you have so many trees and and all your grass to start with, 10 years is a lot of time. Don't do food forest. Grow everything. Allow your grass to grow tall. Everything will grow. Then you can start practicing natural farming, without importing any organic matter from outside. LOL
Would you perhaps do a vid on identifying the goji vs autumn olive? We have a wild seedling growing that I thought was a.o. But if they're that similar, perhaps we have a wild goji. Same for the viburnum vs cranberry. I know what we have is viburnum, but it would be interesting to hear what beneficial plants it could be replaced with.
I could do a video, but I'd suggest that if you looked up images online you'll find the difference. Goumi has distinctly wider leaves, thicker, darker color as well, and seems to be more densely shrubby in form where AO tends to go upward a bit and form a shrub/tree form more... Which Viburnums are you talking about? HUGE family there!
@@edibleacres All I know is that I was told it was a Maple Leaf Viburnum.
great video! Do you know which optunia grow there in your food forest ? best greatings from Germany!
Another great video of what is possible. QUESTION: what is stool layering?
ua-cam.com/video/hbxC6L2Gg7k/v-deo.html - Detailed description of the process...
People say Sunchokes are invasive. I've had Sunchokes and they do grow prolific.
If you want to get rid of them, just chop them while they are small. After 2 seasons, they're gone. Don't let them grow more than 1ft tall. Worms love them, if you don't pull them out of the ground. They make great biomass and breaks down quickly.
Plant them in crappy soil, chop and drop it for 2 season. And then kill it. You will have the best soil for a fruit tree or a vegie patch.
This goes for any invasive plants... Put goats in there, or rotortill continuously it until they die (can take up to 2 season).
I was wondering if you had prunus tomentosa fruit Nanking cherry ?
We do. THey are lovely plants!
Did you have to fence out the deer?
Have you found an olive tree that will produce in your zone? I am in semi arid 6b. You are pretty I think but not quite as dry.
We need to do a drive to get you a nicer camera to pick up those colors. :)
I think at this point I may keep my eye out for a used, quality camera we can fold into the operation.
I need growers of organic cherries and specialty berries like serviceberry, black currant, and honeyberry in bulk because I am trying to start commercially making wine.
Best of luck, hope you find some great folks. Maybe you want to plant your own, too!
@@edibleacres yeah that's the long term plan! I'm studying aquaculture and business management at school now so I can have a project business when I graduate. I am going to try to farm wetlands for trout and walleye in Wisconsin and I want to grow bilberry and other water loving berry crops and vegetables for nutrient control. A little permaculture meets aquaculture action for the future. In the meantime I am working with local brewers to develop my nontraditional wine production which at first will just be based on serviceberry and black raspberry but I figured this community would be a good place to start asking around for berries.
Hi, just wondering if you can recommend any courses or resources for food forests? I’m new to this and still have everything to learn. Even climate area... in on the equator at 2500 meters altitude (in the Colombian Andes) any help is gratefully revived!
Personally I think exploring the wide and various world of youtube videos on all the different subjects you may be interested in feels like a great direction to explore... Thats what I lean into the most.
EdibleAcres thank you for the reply, I’m a seasoned UA-cam veteran so that should be a problem!!
do you know what species of opuntia? are the fruit any good? im looking for a good tasting opuntia, so far my choice is humifusa
Humifusa is who we have... Eastern Prickly Pear. Pretty decent fruit. Nothing incredible but a nice surprise to find a cactus fruit in the snow in early winter!
@@edibleacres ok nice thanks
Is is it possible to Grow current Bush In a 25 to 50 gallon pot?
I suspect you could if you had to, but it would be a sad plant over time.
What type of prickly pears are they, opuntia humifusa?
I believe so
He's got all this, and my 1st year Arborvitaes are all dying...
Plant some other plants this fall and see what happens!
What is your growing zone?
We're zone 5b
name cultivar
I want to make a food garden one day. I'd have to make it as hardy and diverse as I could, along with cultivating some plants that are outside of my current planting zone. The climate change apocalypse and stagnating wages are going to hit my generation hard. I'm not sure my brother and I will be able to get a couple acres and build a small house or two but I want to try.
I understand that this dream of owning land and growing stuff on it to save my family from disaster is a bit colonialist and eco-fascist of me. Honestly though, I think that building a foothold within capitalism that can aid others to do good is not a bad cause. If I can use my privilege to provide food and shelter for people that are tangibly fighting against capitalism, then why wouldn't I try to do it?
I still support giving land back, and abolishing the entire concept of private property, but in the meantime, some ideological concessions need to be made for survival's sake. I mean, I can't avoid buying unethically farmed foodstuffs if I want to eat.
Switching to a less unethical means of survival and providing a little bit of food that's more or less independent from capitalism seems like a decent redundancy.
Yeah yeah, I'm a crazy kook and conspiracy theorist. But at least my insanity is geared toward helping others and providing stability in my community.
Doesn't seem crazy at all and certainly doesn't seem like a colonialist mindset to want to steward land to facilitate resilient and nourishing systems for your immediate needs and the community around you. Seems incredibly sane and thoughtful! I hope it comes to fruition, keep a wide lens of what may be possible to manifest that vision and it most likely will...
what climate is this in?
Temperate humid continental
Central NY state zone 5B. 34 inches of rain a year.