Do you have a video about how to prune an espalier tree after a couple of years of growing?

Tomatoes (nightshades) have anti-nutrients that rob the body of calcium so the egg shells will be thin.

thank!!!!

Excellent video.

I’m glad I stopped at 25 trees. But I still want to add understory fruit bushes and shrubs…!!…??…

I watched this from start to finish and would have watched more if it was longer. So definitely not too long - at least for me! Thanks

they stole everything that was not tied down. so, f it

Very Helpful, thank you

Have you ever read Heidegger’s essay “The Question Concerning Technology”? I think you might enjoy it. I was reminded of it when you were explaining how access to more/cheaper energy wouldn’t solve our problem - that our relationship to (and really our perception of) nature needs to change. Heidegger suggests that modern technology reveals nature to us only as consumable units of energy at our command - valuable only as a means to our own ends. In so doing, modern technology obscures any other value of nature and conceals from us that there is a reality beyond human use and action. It’s an interesting read for a more philosophical/historical take (originally given as a lecture in 1949, but I think it still holds up).

can you use walnuts and pecans as hunting ammo for slingshots or airguns

you get used to pruning. We are doing what the deer might do for us

It’s not a problem to have too much food. Sell your fruit to someone else who wants to harvest it.

Why is peat moss bad as a Mulch? I was considering mulching the entire garden with it, so I'm pausing to find out more.

How about zone 2?

Lovely tour, thank you! I'm getting some ideas for new trees from your videos, like Sea Buckthorn and Serviceberry.

Thank you for discussing this important topic! I've heard the term 'nitrogen fixer' so often without understanding what it was about. Just watched a video by Jimi Sol channel (kzbin.info/www/bejne/d2nUhYV4mJ11rdUsi=v4aczcV2MrCnVgHN) on how nitrogen fixing works. It explains how the nitrogen fixing plants do not directly supply nitrogen to other plants, but do create a habitat for the bacteria that process nitrogen from the air into ammonium, nitrite and nitrate that are plant nutrients. This video also explains the role of fungi on roots and of worms in nitrogen processing and absorption. (It's a little fast so I had to play it multiple times before I got it...) Bottom line, the health of plants depends on life in the soil: adding nitrogen and other nutrients in the form of fertilizer produces short term results but long term trouble.

To me, that 's more like hash browns, but exactly what I was wanting to do. Thanks :)

I think the key factor that people miss in Paul's successful Back to Eden garden method is in the use of clippings with the leafs in it. In my 18 years of trying to garden, my first place had heavy red clay that set up like concrete in the summer. My newer place has a lot of sand. The most important thing i have learned is to have massive amounts of greatly diversified types of organic materials worked into the soil. Wood chips alone is peoples miss understanding, of missing the point. You have to consider leaf, and all kitchen scraps, but dont use meats because the varments will till up every thing. Consider that every thing that lives will die and return to dirt along with all of the nutrients it contained. It is all a life cycle. When i first started trying to garden an elder coworker explained his success this way. Every year he gathers all of the leafs he can get in the fall and tills them a coupple of times during the winter. He never uses feterlizer and has been doing this method for manny years. Be very aware of contaminated hay, straw, and all types of mature. Make sure you know the source. Do some research about this problem.

This is my kind of people to live with. I can hear my grandparends trew him. Our minds works like his.

You said nature will plant things in bare spots and it won't be what you want. Yet nature does everything else perfectly for our garden. Just not plants part for you. Sometiems the plants nature puts there are fine!!

How come chopping weeds weakens it over time but not turf grass. The more we cut turf grass the thicker it gets as far as a front lawn

So when gardeners experiment you believe that's misinformation and hope? What do you call experimenting and having fun etc as a home gardener

Are saskberry bushes problematic with disease, fungus or pests like fruit trees are? Do they need regular sprays?

This is why I like your channel - EVIDENCE! While I love many of the ideals of permaculture, some of the claims are aspirational

Thank you for this video. It gave me a lot of great information. I have learned so much and I guess I’m a plant geek now.

What a smart system you've come up with! Thanks for explaining it in such and articulate and illustrative way! We had to unlearn modern gardening and agricultural methods that are inefficient, expensive, and harmful, to go back to God's intelligent design.

Also, you don't need to sacrifice your plant. In most nitrogen fixers leaves have more than 80% of the N of the plant. If you shred/chip the ramial parts and create a big mulch then much of this nitrogen will be incorporated to the soil

Very interesting video. Are only grasses growing around fruit trees detrimental to its growth and fruit production? I thought the ground should be clear around trees in order to avoid competition for water and nutrients. Thank you very much for your work.

What permaculture books or resources have you found most usefully, especially getting started? Thanks in advance

How do you keep the clover contained in a strip? It spreads quite a bit for me. I’m in zone 6b…

can you please tell me what the cold hardy peachs could?

As a fellow Canadian I really appreciate your channel! Greetings from kelowna

Plant native - thanks so much for spreading the message

Thank you for this video! I have been needing a science first gardening channel

Can you put netting over hazelnuts to protect them from the critters?

It’s interesting that all but one are non-native plants. That’s been my contention with Permaculture. I don’t like to introduce non-native plants into the ecosystem. I’m trying to restore. I feel like it’s counterproductive. That said it is very tempting to grow some of these abundant non-native food sources. But I have so many other vases that I just can’t conscience adding another one.

Im in Ohio, zone 6 and have had very similar experiences with figs and persimmon (barely living).

I agree completely about tilling woodchips into soil,big mistake.Natural succession thru stages on top.I made the tilling mistake.I just layer everything and do no tilling at all.Thanks for the great vid.

I have a whole bunch of evergreen hollies and it does so much for the birds and other critters

When I’m tying my limbs down I like to use a slip knot with a square knot bump stop. That way it leaves a large loop around the branch to prevent girdling as the branch grows and the slip knot allows for easy removal of the string the next year and it’s easy to reuse. Also I use orange high visibility twine so I can see it when I’m mowing. Just a few tips. I also find it amusing when people freak out over how much material is cut off the trees at this stage when you are pruning and shaping.

Great information!!

Hi from South Africa. Thank you for this video. We are literally taught in school that plants get nutrients from the soul through their roots and we need to remove weeds and we Must remove the roots or they will just grow back. Wow. I'm never pulling a weed again. I'll chop and drop rather. My question is, we don't have access to wood chips, would grass clippings be OK to use as a much instead, or will it "burn" the plants or rob the soil of nitrogen as it breaks down? I'm on a small holding(27 acres) and would love to turn my dad's vegetable garden into a food forest.

Mother's Day 2024, and this video was very helpful as I begin my permaculture food forest from an empty field. Thank you. Going to binge watch your other videos now.

The thing about scare-mongering is that it is infectious, scared people try to scare others. That's where the "bots" come from. Good job trying to be objective.

I watched this video about a month ago, and watched it again today. Interesting for me because of the timing. I am just beginning to build my own "forest". (there is probably a different definition for "forest" living in Denver). Watching this video again has made me realize how important it is for us to be as self sufficient as possible. I have a greater desire to educate myself and your channel/information is the best thing that I have found. Thanks a ton!!, Keith!!

My chickens will not eat things that everyone says chickens love like marigolds, camomile, sorrel, mint, algae and comfrey. My chickens won't touch them. They love kale, tomatoes, meat and squash. What's up with my chicken's??

The elderberry is blooming in the Czech Republic right now. A few days ago we made the first syrup from its flowers, it is also very healthy. We also make the syrup or jam from the berries. The poisonous substance which they contain (especially when unripe) is sambunigrin. It can cause nausea and digestive problems. When heated above 80°C, sambunigrin decomposes. Elderberries should only be harvested when all the berries are dark. And yes, expose to a temperature above 80 °C to be sure.