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Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas Keith.

Merry Christmas buddy. I watch all your videos at least twice. Keep up the good work.

Merry Christmas, Keith! Wish I could show you the food forest I've been creating

Merry Christmas from Croatia!

if you want to learn about growing plants and their nutritional needs read (everything you need to know about plant nutrition) Rodale Press....lots to learn from this book..

Merry Christmas to all fellow earthlings 💚

And same to you my friend and to your family and to all the subscribers here!🌲🌲🌲

Merry Christmas! Thank you for the way you help make the world a better place.

I grew reliance and contender. The first harvest I just had to munch down 2 peaches, under the tree immediately. They were delish.

So, I'm down in Kentucky and the peache trees have issues with blossoms freezing and health issues. Would you grow it in an area like this?

Merry Christmas! 🎄

Back at ya! Have a great holiday with your family!

I totally agree that on using non-natives only if they support local fauna. I love what you're doing and really appreciate the effort you put into sharing it.

I understand why it's smart to leave politics out videos, except if you run a channel about the subject. In an ideal world, people would just listen anyway, think critically, and move on. However, the stakes are really high, and you probably know that. While you care about the environment -- and so does every sane human being -- you apparently don't care much about freedom. To me, freedom is more important than anything else. You're not getting a clean environment if you don't have freedom. The people you support want to take your freedom away. For sure, they'll take your chickens first. They always come first for those who can't defend themselves. You are very knowledgeable about growing plants. I don't think you're knowledgeable about politics and the science you so defend. If I remember correctly, you own a Tesla car or maybe more. That car is much more damaging to the environment than a gasoline car. American politics are a joke, a complete clown show. It's hardly worth talking seriously about. The two parties are two heads of the same bird. There are cosmetic differences. Both sides have zero principles. While I think the Democrats are totally evil these days, there are a few snippets of sanity on the other side. These are very tiny snippets. Trump is probably a band-aid on a gaping wound. He does stand for some basic common sense, which can't be said for the Democrats. He's not very likeable. If you separate his persona from his views and present these to people, they'd say these views are quite normal, at least up until quite recently. The mass media over there are setting people up against each other. It's divide and conquer. Whatever the cost. If the mass media, which are all owned by a few corporations, are so in a hissy fit about Trump, that should tell you something. Unfortunately, it won't matter much. Trump or any other man or woman who gets to be so high up there is not going to be allowed to threaten the system. It's business as usual. I'm sad to hear you probably got jabbed in 2021. I hope for you your children aren't. There's not much hope for your legacy if you did poison them, too. I know you meant well, but the greatest evils are perpetrated by those who mean well. You should apply the wisdom you learn from organic/natural gardening to your own healthcare. As you don't, that's what pushes people away; they don't want to see the damage you're causing and being obnoxious about it. You'll be left with a bunch of rabid fans in your channel. I've seen their comments. They are the ordinary progressive hacks, useful tools of the establishment. These simply wear a green cape. Well, wishing you a happy 2025 anyway and let's hope I'm delusional. However, I'm not jabbed and I don't drive an EV and I never am sick. I have noticed people who are plugged into the matrix are slowly or not so slowly being devoured by it. We each make our own choices, and it's easier if the government is a fearful servant of the people.

I've planted 2 male sea buckthorn (BIG thorns), 3 female with little thorns and sweeter berries. I'm waiting for star of alti ( no thorns, edible without adding sugar) to be in stock. I will purchase 3 or 4 of these. After that I will plant suckers from my plants. PS All the females have the larger berries

Hi Keith, does live fertility mean you don’t add leaves, bark, or biochar anymore to your food forest? What would you define as the setup vs the maintenance of your food forest? Thank you.

So, watering lawns. In general, I agree that lawns are silly...except for one very specific edge case. My family lived in the Tri-Cities, Washington, US. This is a sagebrush desert. We had a wildfire season. You know what a green lawn is if you live in a desert? It's basically a moat, protecting your house. The ideal setup around buildings is a green lawn surrounded by a firebreak. As the climate gets hotter and continues changing, more people are going to need to figure out a similar technology for protecting themselves and their homes when the fires come their way.

Can you respond to the loud climate change skeptic narrative that Jordan Peterson pushes?

Great video, I agree with not disturbing the soil, what about the invasive grasses? Robe grass, crab grass. I really want to dig the up lol I have sandy soil so it isn't a hard task just a lot of work.

'welcome to earth, third rock from the son."

Too bad I don't really like strawberries.

Based on your description, the right way to gather protein from nut trees is to grow hazelnuts and then capture and eat the squirrels raiding the trees.

I became disillusioned by capitalism after seeing how COVID was exploited by corporations and private interests for profit (with the help of the government), while innocent people suffered and died.

I'm from Britain. I've never seen dry leaves before, lol.

I've watched this video before, but got so much more out of it this time! Outstanding video, Keith. Thanks a ton!

I prefer to dry rose petals. They make beautiful decor, popourri, can mix with Epsom salts for fragrant bath soak. So many uses for rose petals! Love what you have created! Incredible!

Just want to deeply thank you for all your work and content for the past years to now. I just finally supported and subscribed and sorry I didn’t sooner. The world needs this more now than ever. I’ve been watching for years and have learned and been inspired by you. I started a food forest in northern Minnesota in the region of Superior National Forest (a slightly colder zone than you, I think) It’s been uplifting and joyous. And so hard. And so fulfilling. Post election has hit so hard especially being in one of the few blue state where natural resources still abound, It’s so heart breaking. I’m seeing decline in real time. And yet, nature has surprising resilience and humans can observe and learn and we can do things to help. I finally decided that I’m not going to let it change me. I’m not going to let it beat me down or steal my joy. But I am going to let it inspire more work and be a stronger advocate for the earth. So thank you for being a voice of reason and an inspiration. Keep faith in humanity. Keep faith in nature.

I see that propaganda does work. Good luck with batteries and windmills.The globalist are destroying england with immigration by the way.Trump was not a rapist ,insurrectionist or felon.Biden used every tool to destroy his opponent .They were going to pick a president for us.He was senile, selfish old man that wanted to get money for political favors.Kamala was a dei hire that rainbow doods supported.

Oh by the way in the next 125 years everyone on this earth that you are aware of will be dead 😊 so humanity is just a blip on the screen of time.

We don't even know where Carbon came from 😊

We will ween off of anything when 70 % of the population dies 😊 we don't know enough about the environment to predict anything, and it would be good if we lose about 6 billion humans on this earth, and we still have no clue how the dinosaurs died , and oil does not come from dead plants, because there's oil on other planets that never had trees 😅😂😅

I think a big problem is that this system only really rewards scammers or the corrupt at this point. Capitalism is great in the early stages, but as people try and get onto the last few life rafts in the later stages it seems that it actually slows innovation and produces inferior products. Maybe it requires a flush or something so it partially resets to allow capitalism to work functionally indefinitely.

Thanks so much for explaining guilds in terms of system functions and for providing a variety of examples. As a designer/coder new to permaculture, your terminology helped me understand the concepts easily and apply them. Always enjoy watching this channel and learning from you even though I'm based in subtropical Australia, so a totally different climate 😊

Fun fact, you can also eat the clover leaves and flowers.

Hey Keith, I wrote a comment the other day asking about resources you have suggested. Just found them here! Once again, I was to thank you for your hard work and sharing with all of us!

I just want to say that I am a U.S. science teacher and have enjoyed your videos over the last year, both for the permaculture and the science/climate content. Since the election though, it’s so hard to care anymore. It’s to the point that I will probably encourage my grandchildren not to have kids because of where we are headed.

You didnt to this? Looks great. Best regards from Germany!

"You will never get all those" Prolific! lol. I Live in a Burb of Cleveland Ohio with a small yard so sadly haven't the space to sacrifice. What I wouldn't give to turn my Treelawn into a bed of these <grin>. Will to try them in a barrel. Thanks!!!

Outstanding and inspiring video! My main goals are the same as yours, but our priorities are a bit different. Good healthy food is #1, but developing a healthy ecosystem and contributing to improving our environment are right up there. Thanks for your hard work and sharing! You are the man!

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just found you. sorry about the ticks. one of the things that allowed me to rid my property of them was liberal plantings of certain plants like tansy (tanacetum vulgare). as for trump, he is just a symptom of our collapsing human systems. it may seem negative, but the collapse of the old system is the only way humanity can build a better civilization through the lessons learned from the impending collapse. we have ignored the warnings in the late 1800's, we ignored the science in the 1970's, and humanity still has its head up where it should not be, but mistakes are opportunities for learning. i hope more people will wake up when by the end of the 2050's human death toll due to climate change surpasses a billion people. if not, it will not be long after that as the exponential effects of our hubris and persistent ignorance brings humanity to its knees. sadly, our species needs catastrophes to learn 🙂

Will Paw Paw do well in S. California?

Hai, for the old mans paths, if you like the grass and weeds to be gone, you could apply solarisation? Could also have been done before adding the cartboard and wood chips? Thanks for the great video!

Hey Keith, I hope that you still get these messages. I am going through your entire "essentials course"! I am enjoying your videos a ton!! Thanks for all of the hard work and sharing. I am trying to find where you talk about several of the books that you have read. Could you let me know which video this is in?

No matter which one was elected, the environment would be screwed, as it has been for decades and decades despite "changes" in which party is in power. Both serve the established capitalist narrative and until that changes (aka collapses under its own infinite resources logical fallacy), the environment and all of our future is f***ed. Doesn't stop me from doing the permaculture that I love, but it will always be frustrating.

Commenting for the algorithm!! Didn't know about the mesquite root rot, thanks for the info!

If you start of with just some dead junk soil do you think it’s good to use some synthetic fertilizers while I improve the soil in other ways?