YOU CAN DO THIS! Easy Food Forest Tips & Tricks - Get Started TODAY🌿

[@davidthegood]

You can plant a #foodforest in a weekend and have food for life! Today we take a food forest tour and I share tips and tricks that make forest gardening EASY! Come join our community here and get the awesome new food forest video course: www.skool.com/the-survival-gardener/ Create Your Own Florida Food Forest: amzn.to/3UULk7Y CJ's hand-forged sickles: davidthegood.gumroad.com/l/CJForgedSickle Daisy's seed store: www.etsy.com/shop/GoodGardens Thanks for watching!

[@thegracefulacrehomestead]

Hi David! My husband is a big fan of your channel! (So am I, but he binge watches lol!) We are currently building up our own food forest in zone 9a using some of the tips and methods from your videos. Just wanted to say thanks for your content and sharing your knowledge and making us laugh! Lol! If you're ever in Louisiana in the Baton Rouge area, look us up! We'd be honored for you to come check us out and give us some tips! Thanks!

[@davidthegood]

Thank you

[@TheEmbrio]

The sickles are sick as the kids say ! Ha ha

[@numberonepal]

I'd pay top dollar for one of these made from copper.

[@timhelgerson1513]

I don't know a better way to contact you. We love you're videos and advice. We are creating a sustainable homestead here in South Mississippi. So far bio-char has been a game changer. Have you seen the "country living vlog youtube on making grill charcoal? It might just be a game changer

[@doreengreen3782]

When I bought my house on 1.3 acres, five years ago, my son put in a food forest or the beginning of one at least. Then he went back home to Colorado. I am 63 and on my own. I can’t possibly keep up with all the maintenance. I love watching your show because I realize my garden does not have to be perfect to be productive. Thank you for showing me. I am not a bad gardener after all.

[@ArtistCreek]

It's as easy as a pocket full of mixed up random seeds. You can do it.

[@TaxEvasion777]

Most of gardening is gambling as well. Never know what nature will bring. If you are overwhelmed by plants, that means your soil is healthy and you are doing a good job.

[@gardengatesopen]

You ARE a GOOD Gardener and I know it to be true bcuz YOU HAVE a true food forest!! There's no need for perfection! Besides, perfection is a time waster ! Chop n drop what you can, everything else will take care of itself!! Think of all the harvesting you'll be doing- and quite soon too!!! I envy you and your already installed forest of food!! You Lucky Duck You!!!

[@patriciafisher1170]

What a wonderful son to do that for you. I wish I was only 63 again I’m in my 70s and my garden is a jungle but I love it and it’s such a blessing to be out in my yard taking care of my trees. I think we have been programmed to think that neat is acceptable or people will look down on you. Those of us growing a beautiful messy food forest are the ones who will survive. God bless start seeing yourself as a young 60s not old.

[@numberonepal]

@@patriciafisher1170 my food forest is budding in the front yard of a pretty nice neighborhood. It's raddy right now, but it will be a jungle soon. The neighbors LOVE it. They walk by and exclaim, "is that CORN growing over there?" Corn on the beach. Who'd a thunk it. I would have never thought it possible were it not for @davidthegood and @WildFloridian.

[@johanna8206]

DTG: "You get these happy accidents" Me: Suddenly realizing DTG is the Bob Ross of food gardening

[@williamvillar2519]

It's actually deeper than that. I've admired other people's lawns and even wood lines for years because they had beauty berry and elderberry but then the birds seeded both of those in my food forest.

[@johanna8206]

@@williamvillar2519 so cool!

[@TaxEvasion777]

@@williamvillar2519 if you ask the owners when they are fruiting so you can get some seeds I assume they would be okay with that if they aren’t busy.

[@poorwotan]

He's got a lot of "happy trees" here... and there.... :)

[@rbrack54]

Sometimes he can be the Bob Marley of Gardening too. Very diverse guy. 😁

[@prubroughton1864]

I started not quite a year ago in an old cow paddock over grown with strong running grass. Lots of cardboard laid loads of old hay as mulch was picking veg within 4 months small berries by Christmas and have now joined up all my islands to have a young food forest covering about 300 sq metres. About 40 fruit trees in now and strawberries making an amazing ground cover. I am 76 and do this on my own. Plenty of pollinators and picking flowers too. Grown like topsy round lots of small islands which are now joining up. Just plant s few trees and make the islands and as you get time and have the energy join the dots/islands. Lots of birds and bugs and bees now about what was a very barren spot ( I have 4 mulberries!)😊😊

[@testtest-gz7jl]

thank you for this

[@patriciafisher1170]

Good on you I am same age and found that we are as old as we think we are. I have grandchildren that I help care for I can’t afford the luxury of thinking I’m too old. Growing our own veges and being super careful of what I eat and work hard makes me young. Love David with his no nonsense way of growing 😊

[@TexomaPrepper]

Buy David’s books, they’ll make you brilliant!

[@davidthegood]

Thank you.

[@beverlyaten1775]

He has Books!? Where are they sold?

[@davidthegood]

www.amazon.com/stores/David-The-Good/author/B00TUQK5R8

[@peterjames2580]

"Raised Bed Peter" Thanks you for preaching the freedom to do anything , just plant and see what happens.

[@professionalpainting6804]

Thank you for saving me from being a perfectionist. You are a good teacher

[@davidthegood]

It goes with the artistic personality, sometimes. I have faced it too. Thank you.

[@Suzanna-wh3nr]

This is why I can’t start as I’m a Virgo perfectionist!

[@TaxEvasion777]

@@Suzanna-wh3nr I’m an aquarium

[@gardengatesopen]

​@@Suzanna-wh3nr What!!!?? You CAN'T even START???!!! Auuhhhggg!! NO! And WHAT!!???!! NOOOOOOO!!! I feel you've got it all backwards my straight lined Virgo friend!! Simply use those strong Virgo strengths you're so plentifully made of, use them to UNLOCK your LOVE OF NATURE'S WILD SIDE!! Simply turn your mind around to see the OTHER SIDE of the coin you're standing on! It's as easy as 1, 2, 3 ! Just Repeat After Me: Perfection is when: Nature is growing wild and free! No strings tightly tied onto THAT tree! Perfection is when: Humans are no longer running interference in the name of Nature by cleaning & straightening the natural scene! When you straighten and clean, THAT makes it easy for the bad bugs to move in! Keep those beds MESSY on the ground floor!! It makes THE PERFECT camouflage!! Perfection is dropping the leaves directly on to the ground so they can immediately feed the soil microbes, who are starving for those very leaves - right this very minute!! Perfection is personally witnessing the pollinators NOT flying in straight lines! Like, EVER!!! Stop, Watch, and See!!! They're not neat & tidy! And perfection is YOU witnessing those gorgeous, untidy details, which when left alone, make everything work like a well oiled machine! For instance, let's take the Bumble Bee and the drunken effect which happens to the Bumble after filling up on that delicious nectar. It stumbles around inside a large flower's cup of nectar, soaking it all in, THAT'S its job! The beauty of it is literally INTOXICATING! No straight lines for that Perfect On-The-Job Bumble!! PERFECTION IS MESSY: The Bumble will soon be falling asleep on its drunken journey, afterall, one can only take SO MUCH Besuty all in one trip! As it finally stumbles upon that PERFECT curve of a strong flower petal's base, it just happens to make THE PERFECT hammock, just the right size, it's been waiting to be used in JUST that messy bed way! You can almost hear the Zzzzz's coming from the Bumble as the scene unfolds right in front of you. Just as Nature planned it. Right down to that last bedtime detail. THAT'S Nature at its detailed BEST! THAT'S PERFECTION!!! ❤ THAT'S a Strong Virgo using their very best qualities, all for the greater good, helping lend a hand in this ultimate plan Nature has. Get in there Virgo! Notice those perfect little details which have been PERFECTED since the beginning of time! You Virgo, you LOVE the details, and moving them about, making it all fit together "JUST SO". YOU Virgo, can be THE CREATOR of those detailed natural systems which heavily rely on the chop-n-drop messes, all made on purpose! THINK OF ALL THE WONDEROUS SCIENCE HAPPENING DOWN THERE UNDERGROUND VIRGO!!! That's right up your alley Virgo!!! You'll GLADLY give a few minutes of your time to be the orchestra leader of what LOOKS LIKE chaos to those who don't know any better, but in reality, you know it's Good Ordered Science in Motion! Get in there Virgo!! The time is NOW! Mess up those overly manicured garden beds! Hide those plants from the bad bugs with chop-n-drop camouflage!! Your creative, detailed cup runneth over Virgo!!

[@skittletitsmcskittles6498]

Ive been combining your food forest and grocery row gardening theories with edibles acres' techniques for growing around chickens and it's working so far. I just use logs and big sticks to make my islands so the chickens can't scratch them away

[@chessman483]

Almost everything u r saying is exactly what we did 2.5 years ago. It’s been neglected the last few months and unusually wet. Been brush cutting the last two days. Fantastic mulch . Fruit trees and especially bananas are huge now. We lost a few trees , but overall things are really thriving now. From dead soil to abundance. Your video is perfect.

[@GrandmomZoo]

You are my glorious food forrest chop and drop, grocery row garden, compost everything hero!!!!!❤

[@numberonepal]

I was choppin' and droppin' sunflowers 30 minutes ago.

[@Gkrissy]

I totally agree with you about it not having to be perfect. My fussy mother when she visits my house criticizes my backyard and I'm like this is my food forest, I'm not going for hgtv design aesthetics.My garden is productive and that's what matters the most to me. I use chop and drop, and i have young apple and plum trees in now. People criticize and say your yard has potential and I'm like its all about growing food, and farm-to table use in my backyard. The birds or wind have self seeded some hibiscus flowers which is so cool to me. Yup I let nature do its thing in my backyard and trim the weeds.

[@rkm4342]

Thank u it gives me hope ❤

[@beverlyaten1775]

The perfect is the enemy of the Good! ❤ you help inspire people who really want to grow food, flowers, encourage beneficial insects and pollinators, birds and wildlife,etc, but lack time and knowledge.

[@WildOrchardOasisFarm]

We have a food forest in NW Arizona that we've been working on for the last 3 years since we moved here. I'm so grateful to the previous owner (RIP) who planted hundreds of trees and shrubs. I've added new fruit trees, strawberries, blackberries, elderberries, perennial vegetables and medicinal herbs. We have tons of Palo Verde and Desert Willow happy accidents that require no water and provide much appreciated shade. He even planted random asparagus under some of the fruit and nut trees.

[@rustedoakhomestead]

I'll have you know... since I've been following you all these years... my thumbs, have in fact, always been green. Thank you.

[@mammyoffgrid]

" I walk around with a pocket full of beans. " ❤

[@sujo0603]

I needed this right now. Very close to a panic attack for various reasons and I need to focus on things I can control. I planted my first mulberry the other day. I can’t wait to start propagating more. I have just kind of gone bananas this year putting things here and there with no real plan. Analysis Paralysis will get me if I don’t. I planted peanuts and rhubarb. I have no idea whether they will ultimately produce, but what the hey… let’s just see what happens. Medicinal herbs, tomatoes, cukes, beans, potatoes, peppers, strawberries, figs, berries, corn, pumpkins, ground cherries. I dug the biggest rocks I could find around our property and have created new raised beds. I have taken both dead and living river cane from relatives property (by permission of course) and made stakes and trellises. And I have a volunteer persimmon at the edge of one garden plot. After many struggles trying to start cuttings, have finally successfully propagated two wild elderberries. Never had so much growing at one time and still sowing. Bottom line is don’t overthink it and NEVER give up. I can control those things. And I can control how much effort I commit to it.

[@baneverything5580]

I planted four Dwarf Everbearing Mulberry this year...mainly because they were very cheap for the four and I heard they were very easy to root with young cuttings. I topped one after the two main branches grew about two feet to see what happens. One of the others has about 7 branches and I think I`m gonna root at least one of them and transplant it somewhere. I started asparagus and strawberries too and 5 more fig trees and planted two types of "ground cherries" because they`re supposed to be prolific producers. I hope I like them because I have at least 20 plants.

[@sujo0603]

I planted ground cherries last year. They were very prolific. This year, after recycling soil from the container one of them was growing in, I have many volunteers growing in the new container that I did not expect. They are doing better than the ones I intentionally started this year. Good luck! I hope yours do as well.

[@baneverything5580]

@@sujo0603 I weeded out the lower growing type (Pineapple Tomatillo) over and over because the plant and leaves looked totally different from the Cape Gooseberry plants but I guess they included two types in the seed pack. I finally left one to grow trying to identify it and it began making fruits before it was 4 inches tall. The other plants are over two feet tall and have no sign of blooms and they have large fuzzy leaves.

[@baneverything5580]

@@sujo0603 The reason I planted so many is because I have armadillos rooting up plants. I`ve started using red pepper to melt their noses.

[@Dirt-Fermer]

@@baneverything5580 if you don’t like the mulberries, everything else will eat them for you

[@KK-FL]

I like this advice. I had a Barbados cherry dying in the pot it was in, waiting on me to come up with a plan for it. I decided to dig a hole in a higher part of my ground in very sandy soil (I hear they don't like to be too wet) so I knew it would drain well with these storms we're about to get for the next couple of months. Threw in some amendments, did some untangling of the very potbound roots and put it in the ground. 4 days later there's leaf buds all over it! I know I'll need to move it when I DO come up with a plan but better to move a live tree than throw away a dead one.

[@davidthegood]

You made it happen!

[@dianadeejarvis7074]

Why will you need to move it? Plan around where it is now.

[@brockberrick2727]

LOVE these walk and talk and chop and drop videos, thanks David!

[@cleonawallace376]

I so needed to watch this video! We bought 9 acres of semi-overgrown land in Umbria Italy, and after a lot of work clearing it, we've started a food forest on an area that I guess must be an acre or two. But I work full time, have autoimmune arthritis, two kids who are not as engaged in the whole process as yours, and that's before dealing with the intense heat. Last year the weeds overwhelmed us, and we don't have access to that lovely free chipdrop service everyone from the US keeps talking about, so I got fairly down about it all at some points. But amazingly this spring, most of our baby trees have sprung back to life, and we've managed to get things under control, and I'm feeling more optimistic! I love the idea of not getting too stressed, strimming some pathways, and just cutting down the weeds as mulch. Feels much more manageable and realistic. Sadly we can't do too much beyond trees until we get permission to fence the area, as the wild boar dig up everything, but I feel like each year the trees grow, we're getting a little bit more established.

[@lcm0578]

Lol Garden Scott just mentioned you and the benefit of doing things simply. Doing what you can (not analysis paralysis) go ahead and plant those trees. Love it!

[@benmoffitt7524]

You’re so right about the pumpkins. Very prolific! Some of ours seem to have cross-pollinated with our neighbor’s zucchini and created a pretty tasty “pumpkini”.

[@barbaralong8665]

❤ You inspire me to plant more trees and food. I live with small yard so took out front yard and gone crazy with small trees. I’m 77 years old but I put family to work helping me. I share knowledge, plants and lots of produce. Everyone loves my Avocados. I going to take food preservation glasses including pickles and canning.

[@slowpoke4557]

I absolutely love your way of doing things, mind, and sense of humor! Keep up the awesome work!

[@ussgil]

I have decided to grow a Forest. 30 trees. 11 berries. 3 vines. And growing.

[@aussiebushhomestead3223]

Thanks David. Once again you've inspired me to just get stuff done. Logical, practical and common sense gardening. Love it!

[@victornicklow9792]

I was watching this video in my semi after a long day.I have been growing stuff inside.I was planting stuff as I watch.Thinking about my mini food forest the wife and I started on 5 acres over a year ago in perry florida

[@user-ic2ug8ys1z]

Those volunteer pumpkins look amazing!😀🌱🐢

[@davidthegood]

They always look better than the ones I plant on purpose!

[@slowpoke4557]

I have volunteer pumpkins growing in my compost bin. Without sounding completely ignorant, what's the best way to transplant them? I tried to carefully do that to a couple of them earlier, but they died

[@timothypollard4332]

​@@slowpoke4557let them grow.. or catch them before you see the first true leaves and very carefully to not disturb the roots, try. But all cucurbits resent their roots disturbed.

[@user-ic2ug8ys1z]

Slowpoke I agree, just let them grow in place is best. I have transplanted gourd plants before but you have amend to soil(Bone meal and blood meal) and loosen the soil well for root growth. They lived but we're stunted for a few weeks after transplanting.

[@slowpoke4557]

Thank you for that advice. I guess I'm not turning that bin then 😆

[@melcarter6422]

I often suffer from analysis paralysis. What I’ve learned is that just things can be moved. I moved my lavender 3 times until I found the right spot. I have 2 honey berries struggling and 2 others doing fine. I’ll move the 2 strugglers. I’ve decided to stop stressing over possibly killing plants that I move.

[@avacadman2155]

I planted a trailing thornless BlackBerry. Huge fruits too! A variety of Fruits for jam making. Also Apple trees, Plum,Cherry, and Pear. It has been very wet weather this season and the plots were waterlogged! Hi from the UK! I love to grow..many veggies too. 👍👍👍👍👍🐝🌸

[@breaking_bear]

Osage orange is a gorgeous wood for unique woodworking and can even be used to make smaller hardwood tool handles, for hatchets, hammers, and other tools with small wood handles. The grain of osage orange is not reliably straight enough to be used in most larger tool applications, though you may be fortunate enough to get a boys axe sized handle from it. You can also process the fruit into bug repellent.

[@4587Spartan]

I love your videos dude. Your layed back attitude is great.

[@joanneoverstreet72]

Great video! You’re the best! Love your channel. 😊🌱💚🌻🐝

[@ArtistCreek]

We have family work day this upcoming week. I found kittens in the shed we had planned to dismantle so my kids are going to be making 'islands' where I planted my trees. I have a crap ton of transplants ready as well as over a dozen berry bushes and some seeds like beans , melons , squash and watermelon. I think this is the best way to get it moving. I love mystery plants. I never remember to label my starts so it's always a surprise anyway. If it lives awesome...if not well we'll try something else next time.

[@KerbyDaFrog]

Starting my own food forest in Arkansas.

[@Southern195]

Hello fellow Arkansan!!!

[@tamicory1082]

Just love this! Love the attitude and have gotten rid of, mostly that is, my paralysis.... I'm in your area down in S AL.... Appreciate your work and have your books

[@brokenmeats5928]

I love ALL David The Good videos!

[@ChavsADV]

Osage is an amazing bow wood as well as great for post wood, and I’ve used it to make some wooden spoons and handles and it’s incredibly durable wood.

[@davidthegood]

I have planted about eight so far, and plan to plant more. Love them.

[@TheDjman1106]

Really appreciate your work Mr Good

[@olsonlr]

I have a brilliant idea to real get your food forest trees off with a bang! Dig a hole and build a light weight portable outhouse. Throw the dirt back in often till refilled. Leave it decay a year or so and plant your favorite tree in that spot. Keep moving your privy till all your trees are planted.

[@patar4149]

Same great chill attitude that's in your new book, Minimalist Gardening, which I love (and have learned much)! Thanks for being the anecdote to "analysis paralysis."

[@davidthegood]

Thank you.

[@walkstheman98]

We have a cottenwood tree that drops a lot of leaves, my brother was paying to have them removed every year. I decided to start using them as much, and so far it's been keeping our plants happy! I live in the high desert, and even this time of year we are normally watering once a day, sometimes more, even with good soil. Now I have only watered three times since late March.

[@davidthegood]

Awesome

[@theadventuresofjerryandjodi]

Thank you for the inspirational push! As you were counting em down at the end of the video I was saying, “I got that or, I’ve tasted that.”

[@vivianking8143]

Refreshment for a weary soul today. In Joy

[@angelaobrien7698]

Nature is amazing. I love your approach to gardening ❤

[@baneverything5580]

I bought prickly wild lettuce seeds and let the plants go to seed in my garden and blow around the area. I mulch so heavily with grass clippings, cardboard and mowed chopped leaf dust in fall that weeds are no problem. My gardens look like yours...a jungle. I toss seeds around and let leafy greens, tubers, carrots, tomatoes, ground cherries, peas and herbs grow where they want, especially in fall, but I have a few barren rocky red clay spots in my yard where I fill cardboard boxes with soil and they`re more organized. Still I grow multiple types of food in each box. I started fruit trees there that way....rooted cuttings in boxes and began adding thick grass clippings, more soil, rotting log chunks, cardboard and forest debris. From spring into early fall I grow Red Ripper Peas under the trees. The bunnies nibble the vines and stay out of my main garden and I get lots of peas and fresh seeds. In winter I grow greens and tubers in the tree mounds. I have mint under one tree. It can`t spread there because the area around the trees is like a rocky desert. But I`ve been adding boxes of dirt 3 feet wide in front of the trees and that row is 18 feet long now. Gets good fall/winter sun for greens, green beans, herbs, cucumbers and tubers.

[@maroosk]

Know i said so but my everglades from the shop are the size of a sofa now. From one teeeeny tiny seed. I love it! Thank you.

[@bjornstacy9590]

You gave me the idea of using cardboard and I must say it has served well at keeping some of the most aggressive grass I have ever seen, thank you good sir

[@Carolynfoodforest355]

You are doing a great job and your property will feed you forever 😊

[@margonyman7530]

It was great to meet you today. I thoroughly enjoyed talking with you. Margo (and Bryan)

[@Carolynfoodforest355]

@@margonyman7530 It was good to meet you too.

[@Alaytheia]

Another great food forest tree is Jamaican Cherry or Strawberry tree. I have a few 3 year old trees growing like gangbusters! Very prolific little berries that taste delicious! Thanks for sharing all the tips 😃

[@aanassazool]

Thanks for keeping it simple

[@ChavsADV]

Also we have “invasive” white mulberry around here that is almost impossible to kill. I’ve taken a hard wood cutting and started to make a new tree that I can put in an appropriate spot.

[@user-ic2ug8ys1z]

White mulberry is good fodder for animals, look up Nick Ferguson.😀🌱🐢

[@gardeningtroutmaster]

i made a food island.. ended up as a berry bush island thx for the knowledge

[@texasplumber1]

That hand sickle your son made is pretty cool!

[@karenlombardi8242]

I needed this video - today! You totally got me with “analysis paralysis” 😂 I can’t wait to get out there tomorrow morning and plant my first fruit tree and the couple of blueberry bushes that are not liking the pots they’re currently stuck in. Thanks, and cheers to your camera person 👏 for a great walk and talk … and chop 🪓

[@kevinh6008]

Glad for the update on the food forest! I was very curious what it turned into.

[@TakingBack40]

Working on converting already forested land, infested with invasives, into a food forest. It's a lot of work, but luckily there's some existing edibles present.

[@acebilbo]

I am just noticing pokeweed here in WA state. We use it to dye wool.

[@crab_aesthetics]

lol I bought 60 yds wood chips last fall and let them sit over winter figuring I would probably have a use for them in spring. Months went by and then I looked more into food forests, permaculture, deep mulch, long story short I bought 11 bare root fruit trees, 6 haskaps, 10 nitrogen fixers, and a ton of other perennials and started this spring. It'll be a little bit before I harvest anything, but all the ground work was basically laid in a season. oh and I definitely got mulberry trees, 5 in addition to the other 11 fruit trees, so hopefully in another year or so I'll actually have a decent amount of berries.

[@baneverything5580]

American Beauty Berry grows wild everywhere here. Mimosa too. A Mimosa tree has grown 30 ft branches in the corner of my yard in 2 years. Makes great trellis poles.

[@Mushroomwizardx]

When I first moved to my property I found the wild blackberries growing around most of the border of my yard. I thought wow free berries and let them grow. They have spread everywhere now. I chop them up and down, put 8 inches of mulch on top and they still pop up. I hate those brambles but they make great jams lol. I love the growing seasons I have in 8b. But I could do without those brambles and fire ants. Can’t keep those 🔥 🐜 out of my compost pile 😡

[@hiltonhillhomestead]

Id love some Tennessee food forest info!!!!!

[@NerffedLivin]

You’re the man. good talk

[@DancingTreetopsFamilyFarm]

Always an inspiration. Thank you.

[@Stream7ine]

"Occasional snapping turtle", hilarious brother, Very nice work

[@chrisk1669]

I have a regular sized town lot to work with, so i grow around the edge of the yard about 3ft out from the edge of my fence. I call it a food hedgerow.

[@davidthegood]

Awesome. You can do a lot with edible hedges!

[@mattpeacock5208]

That'snot a turtle! That's Gamara! He needs some Godzilla fight action right now!

[@williamvillar2519]

All kinds of cool things happen, insects and birds show up that didn't before I put in a food forest. I forget to fill the bird feeders but the birds still come for the berries and things growing now. Dragonflies have places to perch, bees have plenty to pollinate, butterflies and hummingbirds, too. I really want to make more mini ponds around the property for the turtles that have shown up and for opossums, rabbits and other creatures to drink from. We saw several die of heat exhaustion during the crazy heat wave and drought the last two years. More water sources to keep things out of our small family pool. I lost one of three Malanga, apparently, but am hoping to get to a Publix in the Pensacola area this summer to get more. Great video, David. Really glad you touched on this subject again. I needed the inspiration to keep working on mine. Analysis paralysis is real.

[@baneverything5580]

I planted Purslane here to get it started. The plants in pots look amazing compared to the ones I`ve seen in random sidewalk cracks and the taste kinda reminds me of fresh spinach. But bugs seem to like them...the rollie pollies. My garden contains billions of the things. I can move a small patch of mulch and they`re an inch deep.

[@MyTi824]

Love the video and hey Shelly does make good soup in times of desperation.

[@mictooraw6536]

We are a lot more in tune than we give ourselves credit for I just love how David the Good highlights our own intuition. Just feel it once you get into the details. The science is a huge help, but when it comes to starting We are just as good as any professional landscaper There’s already a flow Just highlight it Or reset everything and do whatever you want, things come and go

[@Bluegill_Hill]

Working on it! But right now picking mulberry and dewberry in the rain.

[@anthonylaws1725]

David the goat

[@benneptun4054]

"...an occasional snapping turtle." 🐢 Thank you for the fabulous contemplative food forest walk, Good sir. I'm over the analysis paralysis now. 😊

[@chrisreck2195]

I love the cardboard then mulch over it idea. Trying it in my yard. Thanks!

[@patti2969]

DTG.. We love in Ga, and our little acre of land is mostly rock and red clay instead of nutrition. I listened to you and buried our kitchen scraps in a lottle fenced-in area. The difference is like night & day! Every winter, I bury in the area. By planting time.. the ground is so rich and dark! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us! I tell my friends and family about you and your KZbin!

[@davidthegood]

Fantastic. Thank you.

[@hiltonhillhomestead]

I love this!!!!! So therapeutic!!! Im seriously gonna start thinking this way!!!!

[@ursamajor1936]

I'm loving my food forest. It's small but it's producing big time! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and wisdom. My fruit trees, apples, pears, peaches, cherries, following your pruning advice, are about 5 feet tall and loaded with blossoms. I'm also doing no-mow May in regards to the huge influx of pollinators this year. 😊 Win-win, all the way around! TY!!

[@happyhobbit8450]

I like your style -- thank you for your sensible tips and tricks!!!

[@tkimutis]

What an awesome video. Been following you David for a while now and starting my own food forest in TX

[@thehillsidegardener3961]

Thanks for this video, it is definitely liberating not to get hung up on the details. I took on a traditional orchard and I can't just replant the trees in a more "natural" configuration (as opposed to straight rows) and plus building these little islands or guilds around 50 established trees (not sure how many there are actually) isn't something I can just do overnight, actually it's taking me years, I don't have the time or resources. So part of it is just letting it go wild and seeing what pops up. The result is a far less tidy but also far GREENER garden than that of my neighbours, plus lots of interesting volunteers like black locust, elder, and a couple of mulberries, one of which will produce for the first time this year! The constant, albeit occasional chopping and dropping is also very sound advice, I should get out there and do that more.

[@betty8173]

Thanks!! Always great info, and fun! Glad to see your progress

[@foodforestfolderol]

If you mow, make sure your "exhaust" sprays the grass where you want mulch.

[@TXJan0057]

Its pretty dry here and our back field only has mesquite trees. We are planting young trees but wondering if we can plant under the mesquite trees in the mean time. Since its hot and dry the little shade the mesquite gives may make things grow better.

[@tammiedyer3225]

Mesquite is beautiful when trimmed up . In south Texas I watched a gardener dig rectangular beds about a foot deep. and I did the same. So when the heat hits, makes for easier watering. Flood the beds. From Wichita Falls and now live in East Texas in sugar sand, low ph, high iron, very low nitrogen, tons of moles. Ugh

[@TXJan0057]

@@tammiedyer3225 we trim up our mesquite but wondering about using them to help me grow. After all full sun does not mean full Texas sun. South of San Antonio

[@timothypollard4332]

Mesquite is a nitrogen fixer... Sure trim it up and enjoy... But those thorns are 🤢

[@ChavsADV]

You’ve given us the confidence to expand our garden even further than planned this year Nd we have picked up some persimmon trees which are native here in the Great Lakes region as well as add berry bushes and start our own islands.

[@davidthegood]

Excellent work.

[@southofthesticks]

I'm going to check out those knives and see if they can be sent to Australia. 💜💚💜

[@Xv7RaVeN7vX]

Great video mate! thanks so much for listing the plants!

[@dhanson4698]

Perfect just means all inclusive. Love to u n yours. My islands are growing, no borders included.

[@qualqui]

Mexican Sunflower? Funny how here we call them Gerberas, 😂 and the African honey melon, just hearing its name and seeing the vines makes me drool imagining the sweetness of the melon.😋🤣@your IRIE Rap on what all is growing in the Good Family's food forest! 😂Thanks for sharing David, and since you have your own sugarcane, maybe making some jaggery and now all you need for a yummy Tepache(fermented pineapple rinds with jaggery)is the pineapples🍍🍍! 😁Alligator snapping turtle cameo,so COOL!

[@koicaine1230]

Everything looks amazing!

[@adamcsillag6058]

How to start: Pull up a chair a good wine and just sit for 2-3 days. Look around and ideas will come to ur mind. Examine how the sun moves where u need shades etc. It really moves a lot from winter to summer.

[@shodson314]

Thank you for the encouragement

[@tanyawales5445]

You can also sorghum to make sugar syrup from. Sorghum seeds can be popped like popcorn. A great pumpkin to plant is 'Lady Godiva'. Ferry-Morse seeds are $1.96 packet from WalMart. The flesh isn't edible but is a pretty pale yellow striped with green/pale orange. The seeds up to one pound by weight per fruit are hull less and you can harvest up to 12 - 14 fruits per plant. The seeds are 163 calories/ounce and 8 grams of protein/ounce. If you can't grow root vegetables like potatoes/sweet potatoes due to rocky soil this is a good way to be able to grow extremely nutritious calories either dried or roasted and not take up a lot of shelf or freezer space.

[@davidthegood]

I have some seeds but haven't planted them yet. Thank you.

[@Nocare89]

Sickle is such a good tool. Last year I attacked blackberry vines with clippers. This year a sickle. I can do at least 3x more work in an hour. It can't really handle any wood thicker than a pencil though :P But its especially good on the grasses. Hopefully people jump on those that your son is making. I think its one of the most effective garden & yard tools you can have. At least without machines. So cool to see the turtle

[@AuntNutmeg]

My life is a lie....the fountain is stock footage! 😂 Still think of you, David, every time I pass a fountain (which is frequently because IN has them in every single subdivision! ).

[@avacadman2155]

Lady bugs love Greenfly! 👍👍👍

[@trumpzilla4193]

Love the message! Winderdome Resort BC

[@debrabeghtol4332]

Nice T-shirt! I have the pink one! 😊

[@fabricdragon]

my advice? find out when the "best planting" times are for things you want, and haunt the nurseries just after that. i routinely picked up plants for half price or less because they were returned (damaged) or looking a bit scraggly and past their prime. i also of course stalk the native plant sales, and the plant swaps! bring the extra seedlings and cuttings you have and get something in exchange

[@davidthegood]

Good advice.

[@sandrabeck8788]

The chop and drop makes me nervous! We have 4 dogs with high prey drive. I’m afraid of providing cover for snakes and toads. One episode with a bufo toad and my little female Doxi cost me almost $900 in vet bills. I feel very guilty putting banana leaves and weeds in the barrel, but don’t know what else to do.

[@karen-hillshomestead]

Thanks! Great presentation!

[@davidthegood]

Thank you very much.