There is always something to eat in our permaculture food forest

There is always something to eat in the food forest. Come see what is ready to eat in late August!
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[@sparkywatts3072]

Soo glad to see your wife really enjoying you harvesting! You will never taste a better tomato than one you planted. I've bought hundreds of tomatoes from the store and not one measured up to the ones I picked in my own garden.

[@jamiebaker6516]

Canadian accents are so funny. The way y'all day "process" makes me giggle every time.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Pro-cess versus Praw-cess? Funny, praw-cess sounds so weird to me LOL

[@jamiebaker6516]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy exactly! I'm married to a Canadian and she pronounces it like you do. I saw praw-cess instead. There's also the pop vs soda and touk vs beanie stuff too.

[@lars_larsen]

guess which sounds weirder when heard from the other side of the pond

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

No idea, which?

[@lars_larsen]

the level of weirdness is indistinguishable

[@debbiehenri345]

One point about anyone planning to grow Sea Buckthorn/Seaberry - if you live in an area where there are pheasants, they will absolutely destroy them, picking off the leaf shoots and eating down the softer top growth (thorns are no deterrent). I planted a dozen new plants this year and discovered only yesterday they are getting smaller rather than taller. Will have to surround each one with fine wire mesh until they can grow above the destructive reach of these birds.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Thanks for the info

[@a4000t]

Here in Centrtal Texas my tomatos and cucumbers and such are in 1.5ft. deep beds of grass/leaf clippings,its been 95-100f for a month and i havent watered them,they are still producing,amazingly! no work,no tilling,no weeding. Just make holes in the grass and drop the plants in with a little compost.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

It's all about keeping that water from evaporating!

[@SAROXBAND]

This dynamic is fantastic guys! It was not terrible it was so much fun and educational. Thanks as always many blessings 🙌🌹🌹

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

So kind, thank you so much.

[@gaarnchadug6560]

Hi, Another way of harvesting seabuckthorns without spikes issues is cuting pieces of branches with fruits, freeze them, and hit them. The fruits will come off easily. ;)

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Thanks, I did also mention this in the video.

[@gaarnchadug6560]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy My bad. I shouldn't answer the phone while i'm watching videos. :D:D:D

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

No worries! Haha

[@JessicaJLandi]

Loved this video! Now I see Trish has a great, slightly wacky sense of humor like Keith. This video is a treasure.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Haha thanks. Yeah she's a riot. She doesn't really like being on camera, but who does? I cringe watching myself.

[@regenterra5259]

I’m looking forward to eating out of our food forest! You inspired us so much, it changed our life🙌 🥰

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Thanks so much for all the wonderful comments over the past few months. It really inspires me to keep making videos, knowing that it's having an impact on people, and helping them find their true lives. I'm forever grateful to the people who "woke me up". My life is infinitely better because I started doing this, and I just want other people to find their true happiness also. I know there are a lot of people who get sucked into the "corporate machine" and have their lives designed by their jobs... designed to be wage slaves. There's just so much MORE to this life, and so much of that is found in the forest.

[@regenterra5259]

Although new to your channel, my husband & I have watched many of your videos & continue to watch them. We even use your videos as a reference guide. “What was it Keith said about ___?” And then we search out that video to rewatch. You give far more than information & instruction, Keith. From a viewer’s perspective, you give what we all need right now…hope & a connection to something deeper. Anyone would have to admit, the last 2 years have been tough on us all. You paint a full picture of what is possible and you do it with kindness, humility & humor. You make my husband & I feel we’re learning “with” you. In other words instead of striving to be a KZbin celebrity, you are building community as if to say, “Let’s do this together” by participating & connecting with your followers, making us feel we’re all equally a part of this, and that’s refreshing. You allow input & show you learn from us as well and as a whole we’re all learning together. You disclose not only your successes, but your failures. It’s a pleasure seeing your family, and your dogs bring warmth & entertaining surprises to your videos. You pause & allow us to experience those moments. Sorry about such a lengthy comment. I just want to encourage you to keep doing what you’re doing because personally speaking, I connect to that humanness. 🥰

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Thank you so kindly. Indeed, being a celebrity is actually the last thing I want. Infact if this channel ever did get really large, I would have a very hard time with it. I just want to live a quiet life in solitude. That's what makes me happy. I'm really only doing this because I think it's the most important thing humanity faces, and we need everyone on board fighting for our world.

[@annburge291]

Lovely to see Trish helping with the commentary... the kitchen scene was a prequal for what's to come...move over Keith.. For your next video, include all the edible greens and mushrooms that your garden offers on that particular day. I disagree with the online tendency to interpret an orchard of fruit trees as a food forest because fruit is only a small part of a human's diet. Healthy food forests are so much more. When you were off hiking, how much of the native forest provides food? Perhaps you could talk about this on your next trip. The Australian bush has so little tucker if you exclude eating animals. One has to be very informed to find anything. The botanical gardens now have bush tucker sections. Ironically, I know how to find more edible weeds in the Chihuahua desert than I knew about finding food in native Australian bush. Australian city foraging is pretty easy in comparison because there are many Chinese and European plants.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

I'm glad you are all enjoying Trish talking in videos. I think its always nice to have another perspective on changing your land like this. Hers was very hesitant and resistant to doing this, and she has been converted as it grew and grew. I think that's very valuable to show. For the other comment, it's something I should work on more. Getting more mushroom diversity in here. The main thing is that I'm the only one who likes them. On the fishing trip, the woods there had at least 10-12 different visible mushrooms. Other than those though, almost nothing was edible. I saw blueberry bushes but its after blueberry season. There was Holly and pines and alder, that's about it. We saw almost no wildlife up there, and the most notable missing life was birds.

[@belieftransformation]

Wonderful vlog; it was great to get input from Trish! I’m excited to see if my baby sea buckthorn trees make it through their first winter in Central Alberta. I think wrap them for the winter. Good overall info, thanks! I planted a Valiant grape plant from Canadian Tire but the town deer came & trimmed it.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Good luck! They are super winter hardy. For the grapes, they should bounce back. I had deer eat one of mine and it popped back up the next year.

[@branchingoutpermaculturewi4766]

great video. seabuckthorn is one of the plants next to prissimon that i need for this years goal in planting my food forest

[@renatehaeckler9843]

I was surprised at how much I liked my dehydrated onions. I wasn't sure I'd even use them, but I blended them into onion powder and when I"m cooking it's really nice to just scoop some out instead of cutting up an onion when I'm in a hurry. The flavor changes, too, and is sort of caramelized (sweet). I can *almost* enjoy them straight.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

We have enjoyed dehydrated onions also. Completely agree.

[@PaleGhost69]

You should engineer a tool to grab the sea berries while keeping your hands free. Like the extended fruit picker but capped PVC pipe and all the berries fall in the tube as they get picked.

[@PaleGhost69]

Why do I always have deja vu with my comments lately. Have I been repeating myself?

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Not that I remember.

[@alp8409]

Eat the rainbow

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Haha indeed. 😄

[@alterkaye]

Love your videos. Watched to the end and heard you recommend eating elderberries raw. They contain cyanide (every variety is apparently a bit different, but the American elder is included) and it’s always recommended to cook them, which can actually bring additional antioxidant benefits.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Thanks for this. It's a good point for most elderberries, however, it's now actually believed that American elderberries do not have sufficient levels of cyanogenic glycosides (which then metabolize into cyanide). A research paper (which I'll link below, so that youtube doesn't delete this comment: Cyanogenic glycosides (CNGs) are naturally occurring plant molecules (nitrogenous plant secondary metabolites) which consist of an aglycone and a sugar moiety. Hydrogen cyanide (HCN) is released from these compounds following enzymatic hydrolysis causing potential toxicity issues. The presence of CNGs in American elderberry (AE) fruit, Sambucus nigra (subsp. canadensis), is uncertain. A sensitive, reproducible and robust LC-MS/MS method was developed and optimized for accurate identification and quantification of the intact glycoside. A complimentary picrate paper test method was modified to determine the total cyanogenic potential (TCP). TCP analysis was performed using a camera-phone and UV-Vis spectrophotometry. A method validation was conducted and the developed methods were successfully applied to the assessment of TCP and quantification of intact CNGs in different tissues of AE samples. Results showed no quantifiable trace of CNGs in commercial AE juice. Levels of CNGs found in various fruit tissues of AE cultivars studied ranged from between 0.12 and 6.38 µg/g. In pressed juice samples, the concentration range measured was 0.29-2.36 µg/mL and in seeds the levels were 0.12-2.38 µg/g. TCP was highest in the stems and green berries. Concentration levels in all tissues were generally low and at a level that poses no threat to consumers of fresh and processed AE products.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7961730/

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Still, even with this, I think it's a good idea to be very cautious. The main reason is that I haven't been able to find a peer reviewed study that tried to repeat the results. So far it looks like it's only one research paper that tried to determine the actual cyanide levels. So because of that, it's best to exercise caution. If someone likes them cooked first and made into syrup then definitely still do that. And if you eat them raw, just don't go nuts and eat a ton of them. Great comment, thanks for making it. Can never be too safe.

[@thesleepofdeath]

Keith: Screaming KZbin captions: [Music]

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

LOL. KZbin you are drunk, go on home now ya hear.

[@djmoulton1558]

Those were some pretty girly screams I heard coming from the seabuckthorn bushes. :D Something that really works well to sweeten sour or bitter foods is stevia. It can have a bit of a bitter taste itself, but that's unnoticeable when you're using it to sweeten something that is worse. Of course, as a purist, you must grow your own stevia. Or sweet cicely can be grown for a sweetener, as well.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

LOL

[@frederickanderson8778]

I really enjoyed the kitchen footage. I am glad you included it. I actually really like seeing you two interact together - very wholesome.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@southsidecarly7427]

At least you know what you’re getting when you grow it yourself. The more I hear about the food industry it just makes me sick! I definitely will look for valiant grapes. Thanks for the video

[@denisebishop9276]

Nice to see a family effort. Despite the thorns harvesting is very therapeutic. Nice video.😊

[@carolschedler3832]

Maybe the maturity of the buckthorn is making the fruit taste better over the years.

[@billybones956]

15 minutes in and I think I may start again but take a drink every time someone gets stabbed by the sea buckthorn

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Definitely a dangerous game

[@abdullahvonsnarkenson2442]

I enjoy this video. Day life in forest are good one.

[@emdorris3319]

Your wife is funny!

[@coreynweiss]

Hey! So if the grape seeds are small, you don't notice the seed when processed into raisins? Second, I looked around on your website to see if you had a reading list! I'm wrapping up The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan which has been a great read and looking for suggestions! Thanks! Also hahahaha about your wild berry syrup medicine XD

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Indeed, in the raisins you can't even notice the seeds For the reading list, I link to it in the description of every video, where I'm talking about my Amazon affiliate link.

[@Tsuchimursu]

I love cold pressed seabuckthorn juice. I'm buying it off the store, as I don't have my own bushes yet. it's got the bitterness, but that just helps me wake up in the morning I guess... xD

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

😄

[@banksarenotyourfriends]

If you're going to use the berries for juice, look up Ray Mears' way of harvesting them (clean leather gloves on, then with one hand grab a branch at the stem end of the branch, and pull that hand along the branch towards you, squeezing off the berries - flattening the spines - as you go. In the other hand you hold a jug that catches what falls off. Once done, sieve the lot to get rid of any bark in your juice).

[@banksarenotyourfriends]

It's in episode 2 of his 'Wild Food' series (I can't post links, but KZbin has it)

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

His must be named cultivars because I can 100% guarantee he wouldn't do that with these ones. The thorns come off at all angles, they are hard as nails, and they have spikes on the nails. I would do that on my named variety ones, but not a chance I would do that on these ones.

[@banksarenotyourfriends]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy the ones in the video are growing wild on the UK coastline. I've no idea of any information further than that though sorry! I guess you maybe aren't aware who I'm talking about - Ray Mears is a wilderness skills instructor, Canadian equivalent would probably be Mors Kochanski. His TV show was about stone-age Britain, trying to take educated guesses at what people might have been eating on the British Isles back then. You would probably enjoy it (and maybe get some new ideas for useful crops that are suitable for your climate!).

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

I will definitely check him out. I like that kind of thing. My yoytube suggested videos are half permaculture and half wilderness survival videos.

[@haywoodfarmorchard9101]

It’s not exactly health food but I make a Seaberry jelly or curd from juice I’ve strained and top Panna Cotta with it. Have also used them in marmalade as lemon replacement. The seeds aren’t pretty but flavour is A-1

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Sounds amazing

[@saltriverorchards4190]

I always find your videos to be relaxing. Thank you for uploading them for us.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Glad you like them!

[@TheWBWoman]

For everyone stuck in an apartment who can't have a food forest yet, I hope you'll be in a place to have one soon! Meanwhile you can grow some herbs & other small food bushes in your apartment. After years of wanting one, I bought a little key lime baby plant for my front window. We'll see how it goes. Don't feel discouraged if you kill some plants or many plants as you're learning how to keep them alive in the house. These days there are so many videos that can help you troubleshoot plant issues.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

There are also so many skills you can work on before you have any land. You can practice grafting on wild trees. Practice seed starting and seed saving. Get a mushroom grow bag and get comfortable growing mushrooms in your basement. So many real life skills that you can work on before you ever get started planting a tree!

[@Mikhail-Caveman]

Great to see a garden video! those grapes are insane!! lol. Very dangerous in the forest!

[@martybartfast1]

Another great one. And the mistakes make it even better, more real. Many thanks.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Thanks. I woke up with 5 more mistakes in my mind. I may put out a part 2 on this. One is a big one... getting horse manure from a place that fed horses hay sprayed by Herbicide. I have a dead corner of my annual garden, and it may remain dead for years because of that mistake. I can't grow ANYTHING there, and I suspect the problem was the horse manure I got when I made the bed.

[@lars_larsen]

extra high protein spider grapes, yummy

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

LOL, not my spiderbros!

[@donnahansen3844]

I loved the processing part of the video.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Good to know, thanks for the feedback 😀

[@OnlyFactsPlease]

Ah, this is the good life

[@karenjones9422]

Thanks for the variety names but I didn't see the Asian Pear. What variety was that?

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Shinko, Hosui and Chojuro are the main ones. Chojuro are our favorite.

[@karenjones9422]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Thanks so much for your reply. I really want that one now. It's really helpful to hear how things taste when I don't have the chance to try them

[@nmnate]

Man, that yarrow is hanging on in that pot. Can't say I'm super surprised (I'd have to go back and look at my comments, I think I'd bet on the yarrow and chives if it got really dry). The cultivated varieties in our front yard have been described as indestructible. I have some clumps that I've watered 1-2x a week for less than a month after planting and promptly ignored. Not bad for what looks like less than 10" of rain this year. I wouldn't be surprised if those raspberries weakly pop back up. We had a pack rat eat our patches to the ground two springs in a row, but they still came back after 3 months of what appeared to be nothing happening at all.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Yeah, I honestly can't believe anything in that pot is still alive after what the last 3 weeks have been like.

[@younggary7849]

are you stone😁🌳🌎🌸👽

[@Konradafunk]

I wonder if his dog knows Tuck Prigioni.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

I love tuck. Tuck has nothing on Harry. Come @ me James! Lol

[@PaleGhost69]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I was actually thinking about you leaning into dog tv like James did. I wouldn't be surprised if at least half his views were for tuck.

[@GrimbolTheDruid]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy 😂😂😂

[@formidableflora5951]

'Bluebell' is another very hardy purple grape--with good flavor and disease resistance to boot. I highly recommend; reputedly popular with many Fedco (Maine, USA) customers. Curious why you were so disappointed with dried apples, as I find them to be a wonderful addition to many baked goods, hot cereals, desserts, etc. over the winter. I dry a bunch just as they're ripening, so they're a tad tart. The riper apples that follow are destined for cider, sauce, and (limited) storage.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

I'm not sure. I found they tasted like rubber when eaten after being dehydrated. I suppose they would be good if rehydrated, like soaking in oatmeal.

[@williammcduff6531]

Keith, I see the missus is enjoying your discomfort of getting stabbed by the buckthorn bushes....glad to see I'm not the only one with a spouse with a diabolical sense of humour....lol.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

LOL send help