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Happy growing!

[@SpectreTheHorseman]

Starting a Food Forest in 2014. It has reached exponential expansion. Finally getting apples, plums, pears, goumi, walnuts, hazelnuts, mulberry, blackberry, aronia berry, wild strawberry and wild grape moved in. Still no production for chestnuts, pecan, goji berry, paw paw, peach. I did the same as you and let it go to meadow/forest understory (under wild honey locust selectively allowed to grow and crop to prune roots from time to time), mowing path walkways through everything. After letting it go to meadow, I have zero japanese beetle problems because crazy populations of praying mantids.

[@later_daze_4080]

Sean's hair deserves a channel of it's own. I kid I kid! Love Sean and Sasha!

[@edibleacres]

It's a silly hair cut I think... I bought a cheap buzzer kit and cut it so it looks OK from the front. I never see the back so I have no idea and I kinda don't care!

[@Ghost2743]

@@edibleacres Grow it back out! \m/

[@jrandall2375]

I think his hair is great! It’s totally in style! He looks cool with the silver and the young man’s cut! Young at heart!

[@CatherineandRob]

“Just because” and “just meandering through” need greater recognition as vital permaculture principles. Great video.

[@edibleacres]

Yes! Thank you!

[@dramatriangle]

That’s true, Catherine! Vital parts of the process. In fact, I may meander through my own permaculture area just because, in a few minutes here.

[@jrandall2375]

I don’t have my food forest yet. Still dreaming, but I meander through my garden space/area. And just dream!

[@robertboesch3966]

Just bought 6 acres and I’m super jealous! You’re my new mentor

[@davidgoffredo1738]

best thumbnail. Eye-catching and 100% accurate.

[@amnajoudi5393]

The bamboo groves are super compelling! I'd love to see more update videos on their successional path.

[@jrandall2375]

The very first of your meander videos, I was over overwhelmed. (Over the last year) But now that I am recognizing more and more plants, I love these videos! It would be great to let us see more of each plant. I.e. plant size, leaf identification, I’m realizing today that, things require about twice as much space as I think requires. So these videos are great.

[@edibleacres]

So glad you are feeling like your understanding of plants is deepening. I have been at it for 20 years or so and every year there are still MANY plants that feel new to me or that I can't remember their name, it definitely takes time!

[@fourdayhomestead2839]

Enjoyed the in depth tours. Learning about the plants as they thrive in the woodland setting.

[@rosehavenfarm2969]

"Mow and Plant." Sounds like my life the last month!

[@edibleacres]

For real!

[@petrosros]

It is interesting that in the UK, the Sea Berry's principal use is as an anti burglar shrub. Its natural habitat of course is on the coast, and we have lots of coasts;ergo, Buckthorn. It will grow practically anywhere and does well in London. The point is almost nobody eats it, I understand that in Japan it is one of the most popular pre-packaged fruit drinks, and a better form of C-complex than pasteurized Orange.

[@edibleacres]

There are so many plants that make amazing fruit and medicine that no one eats. It is pretty remarkable!

[@rossmail5924]

Best thumbnail ever!❤

[@edibleacres]

Thanks, took me days to put together, ha!

[@julienauger7745]

Don't worry too much about the pond being empty, its capacity will be very high if a large amount of rain comes!

[@veronicabell1738]

Thanks for the exceptionally beautiful walk through your woods. Wonderful plants and trees. Interesting to see how your forest grows. Thank you

[@BalticHomesteaders]

Looks like you got away lightly with that frost, all the way over here we had the same late frost (our weather patterns are often similar) and it his us hard. We have lost nearly all our fruit bush potential harvest and pretty much all our apples. Some local farms were hit really hard I heard one 18 hectare site lost everything. Now we have a crazy hot long dry spell we've had 13mm of rain in the past 8 weeks so the forest foraged fruit won't be great this year. Thanks for your long tour, always inspirational :)

[@edibleacres]

Wow, that is a tough combination of events, I'm really sorry to read all that :( Hoping things swing around for a more abundant later summer and fall, you never know how things wind up in the end!

[@dimitrinoahutz9547]

I love the honesty about the creating of interest by your trees..

[@jonathonalsop2120]

Nice thumb nail, great tour.

[@jacobwenzler3615]

Hi Sean! I just finished a half year pruning course in the style of Oeschberg. This type of pruning will keep your trees very old and sturdy with good, even quality fruits. When I see some of the wounds or the statics of your trees I doubt they will get very old. This is just something that comes to mind, thank you for all your passion and input

[@allonesame6467]

I'll bet the land will be bustin' out with fireflies soon! I'm in zone 7B so the lightning bugs are just starting to flash here, even in suburbia we have some thanks to the wooded verge and some small feral brush piles I manage discretely tucked away. That along with tall wildflowers in the front yard, red bud, short elderberry, rhubarb, day lilies, your currants, yellow sienna, comfrey!, and other plant friends have contributed to the diversity and ground cover and nutrient cycling and water holding capacity of an otherwise barren rocky bank. Thank you and Sasha for the inspiration, information, and sweet healing vibe that mimics Mother Earth, which is not a resource. She is the Source of All Life. Happy Midsummer's Eve.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Glad to see you didnt get hit as badly with the late frost/freeze as we did. It ended up killing aomost all our pears, apples, peaches. Oddly enough certain pear branches are loaded with fruit, but nothing on the rest of the tree. South most branch. So it seems like we were just on the brink of temps cold enough to kill flowers and buds.

[@edibleacres]

Yeah, really intense and specific freeze we experienced!

[@markkristynichols845]

I need to order goji and currant again because I lost all mine from last year😢 USER ERROR 🙄.A combination of waiting too long to plant and my chickens not being blocked from garden 😡. So once I get the area chicken proof, I’ll be ordering again 😃. ❤ from Kristy in Missouri zone 6b 😃🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@silverf1sh951]

Would you ever do a more botanical tour of some more wild parts of your property? Just to see what kind of natural community is forming on this land in terms of species composition and structure. Love hearing you talk about ecology and succession/disturbance!

[@edibleacres]

Neat idea, something to consider for sure. THank you for the suggestion/request and I'll see how/if I can fit it in!

[@chrisk1669]

That late frost here in pa was rough. Full sized 80ft trees that were leafed out had there leaves turned brown overnight. They are recovering, but it is slow due to the lack of rain we are getting.

[@edibleacres]

Yeah, fingers crossed the plants will recoup, they seem to almost always do it!

[@StreetMachine18]

when you mentioned those plants from ort family farm my interest was peaked! a red jostaberry? very interesting

[@williampatrickfurey]

If you can get leaf-cutter ants to your area without risking your business (I'm unsure if they're considered unlawful), think about vining vanilla bean up honey mesquite bean pod trees and permitting the ants to traverse the vanilla as i believe they may actually do some pollination(long story about the full plan and reasoning but feel free to ask)😊 Meant for forage and other flavors of milk from sheep in my plans. They look like such great animals.

[@henningerflats]

Tick wonderland.

[@hawkspiritweaver6664]

Fantastic... don't believe I've ever seen that area... Put in Elders and Seaberry last year... This year has been normal garden plus building a pollinator garden and have a swarm trap out in the yard in hopes of making a beeeeeeeee home...

[@gardeninggal249]

Can't wait to see your cabbage harvest

[@edibleacres]

Fingers crossed that works out!

[@tacticlSport]

I look forward to red current cuttings this year I've had a hard time finding any of the small berries

[@adamtash2891]

how do you avoid waste? seems like it would be so easy to forget or not harvest enough/properly. how do you keep track of everything and what needs to be done when? I think I'd go crazy trying to figure out what to prioritze when. speaking of which, there should be an app for farms like yours to suggest what to do when and keep track of everything!

[@Madamoizillion]

I like your thumbnail, because my playlist that I save all the garden videos I find into is called "Plants Plants Plants" 😁

[@edibleacres]

Fits right in!

[@veganbean2552]

Love this video format. It’s so inspiring.

[@lucschoonen]

beautyful!

[@CookBrookCountryLife]

Thank you! Many good ideas. I would love to hear your take on the still on-going ban on currants and gooseberries in some parts of the USA (like our neck of the woods.) Clearly, (white?) pine and currants are growing in close proximity at your site.

[@ajjamesberning]

Diversity is the key!

[@markkristynichols845]

Now I must go to your site and SHOP! 😃🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@russellpaige4459]

Love your channel Sean!!! Thank you for sharing. We will be buying some of those surplus red currant cuttings for sure this fall! Best, Russell and Robin MTNS. of NC

[@bitethebullet8213]

great tour! the hair is on point once again!

[@edibleacres]

Thanks and thanks :)

[@yassinetorchi2505]

Great

[@kira8334]

Nice

[@bookswithatwist-vanvelzerp9262]

Yeah man , that late HARD frost in Vermont actually didn't just harm buds - it TOOK OUT fully leafed out trees - my Chestnuts & Mulberry crumpled, sycamore tree - brown .... and the trees were mad LOL they didn't even try to put out a new leaf for a month after that - now they are starting - but I imagine no fruits or nus this year. It looked like a grove of dead trees against the green grass for a long time.

[@edibleacres]

We had a similar picture with Chestnuts and Mulberry... Sycamore as well. It was a record breaker that strange freeze!

[@mandersson6754]

You are such a great inspiration, thank you! I am struggling with severe deer pressure on my lands now again and it seems to increase every year. I can see in in the forest around my garden that most rowan, sallow and cherry is browsed down rather heavily too and I wonder if that is correlated with a clear cut some years ago making ways for those species for some years before the conifers will dominate again. Maybe the deer are running out of browse there and look into my garden now to feed themselves better? What is your experience and advice? Can I hope for a succession soon when the deer move on to other areas which will ease their browsing in my garden or should I fence everything I want to grow here more definitely? The deer population is increasing generaly here.

[@BroadShouldersFarm]

If that Apple tree yields in December for you, I might be able to get some in late January, or even February! Be interested if you guys ever decide to offer scion!

[@samirdadi3569]

الطبيعة رائعة

[@travelinventor9422]

I love all your nitrogen fixing berries, I especially need seaberry and goumi! Your pawpaws are amazing!

[@edibleacres]

We're really happy with these plants

[@cherifichihebeddine7026]

Good

[@dasher5529]

Love to see the pond you and Juan slaved over..just curious how its holding up

[@farwoodfarm9296]

Some premier One electric fencing and a few Goats would take care of that bamboo in only about a week. They would absolutely love it! Mine unfortunately got into my elderberry this year :( They are coming back strong though and I've foraged some cuttings from a nearby forest.

[@robpaton7]

I have used woven willow “fedges” (fence/hedge) to protect valuable areas from deer - we only have muntjac deer, so bigger species may be more of a challenge but it’s working for us! Also has the benefit of being a bit of a sacrificial offering, in that they can chew on the fedge without destroying the whole structure. Takes a lot of willow to make and pruning to maintain, though…

[@edibleacres]

Really nice design idea, glad it is working for you

[@mountainfigsperennialfruits]

Inspirational labyrinth, of perennials especially. Would be interesting to see bush & fruit ripening closeups of the different black currant varieties. Any reason not to pollard most of the male persimmon and graft in a female trunk?

[@travelinventor9422]

Cutting back the smaller ones in the spring and grafting would be good, or even frameworking them with various or experimental varieties.

[@edibleacres]

We could do VERY well to cut the males back a bunch and graft in females. Just need to make time and get the timing and technique right!

[@shawnfromportland]

fire video thumbnail

[@slaplapdog]

So much fruit! Do y'all eat all that fruit or do something else with it?

[@edibleacres]

We eat and share

[@ilinelona2180]

رائع

[@uhhcyborg]

What do you do about voles in your hugelculture beds? Everywhere I have one they colonize and pull plants down into them. Very frustrating

[@edibleacres]

I have had that experience too. The mounds mature over time and the issue seems to resolve so it may be a waiting game!

[@DarenCullimore]

Thanks for the tour. I'd love to hear your thoughts on pine trees. Seems like you have quite a few on your site. What plants grow well around them? What plants do poorly? I've got three large ones and I'm considering having them removed because the pine cones and needles seem to inhibit growth of my other plants.

[@edibleacres]

Pine are tough... They do seem to slow down a lot of the other plants around them. That said, when they are in a place to help block winter wind or shelter plants from late day sun they are amazing and we enjoy them. I have removed a large number of them on this site but try to keep them where they could be helpful...

[@DarenCullimore]

@@edibleacres Thank you!

[@floatingleaf9672]

I have a row of pines and we have planted potatoes pretty close to them for the past couple years. We don't plant directly under them but less than 2 feet away from the tree tips. I have built a bit of a loose dirt berm between the potatoes and the trees and add compost under the trees sometimes - big stuff that takes up space in the bin like watermelon rinds and squash.

[@MartinaSchoppe]

there are red Jostas??? 😍

[@ademzakariya1417]

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[@trumpetingangel]

I'm curious about the little elderberries at about 15:25. Were the cuttings just taken (or perhaps they just got a recent dose of compost). I see elders blooming in the neighborhood and wonder if I should grab a cutting or two.

[@edibleacres]

Those are all 'Wyldewood' elder that I believe were dormant hardwood cuttings we plugged in this early spring. The struggled and stuttered a bit and now have had weeding and compost and watering applied and they are popping!

[@theredl]

Just starting my nursery, still thinking about the size it will have in area. About how many squaremeters do you use for your nursery growing space about in total?

[@thebeanwitch2609]

Awesome wander, as always! I'd actually like to hear a little about your t-shirt though. Which language is that?

[@edibleacres]

It was given to me by a Tuscarora man. They have a bunch of nice shirts they made in their language.

[@TaylorinShirewood]

I was wondering about the 3rd year pawpaws, how deep/long of a taproot do you guys witness when digging them up come dormancy - I heard they are especially sensitive if the taproot is damaged at all. Also wondering about how you folks go about propagating bronze fennel, do you cut up the roots and chuck/bury them that way, or is there actual seed you can harvest, I have one plant of bronze fennel and I've never seen it flower all throughout the 3 years its been growing there. 🤔

[@edibleacres]

Good questions! - Yeah the Paw Paws will take a bit of digging to get down nice and low. The taproot can definitely be cut without the plant dying, that is more about suckers and runners being super sensitive... They should be pretty alright to dig up and offer this fall... Bronze Fennel we collect seed and sow it in the spring and it comes up nice and strong! Not sure why yours hasn't flowered, I believe they generally do in year two?

[@thehillsidegardener3961]

Do things not get super hot in your climate? We are set to hit 36 C this week, that's over 95 F and so basically we are done with most annuals like brassicas, they just get fried over summer, or at least struggle to the point it's not worth growing them (yes, I mulch heavily and also shade as much as possible). You seem confident the cabbages will do well!

[@edibleacres]

We are a MUCH more mild summer context in general. It will hit that sometimes, but rarely. In semi-wooded and forest framed context like this it is more mellow overall... Not a guarantee but worth trying here.

[@misterdubity3073]

Are black currants still a problem for white pines? If not is it because it is a special strain of black currants resistant to that fungus (ribis I think) or some other reason? Thanks.

[@edibleacres]

Most Black Currants that are out there are 'White Pine Blister Rust' Resistant. WPBR resistant is something you can look for when getting currants...

[@yLeprechaun]

I'm jealous' I lost all of my nanking cherry cuttings I fit from Ort farm. So sad. I have to have a much better system next year. :(

[@tammymccaslin4787]

The thumbnail made me cackle. 😂

[@edibleacres]

:)

[@rahmazarouk4649]

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[@4beauty4food]

Is the king stropharia growing in the leaves around the garden beds?

[@edibleacres]

That is the idea. I haven't checked explicitly this last time but it should be under there expanding and locking in!

[@4beauty4food]

@@edibleacres cool I'm interested in seeing if it takes hold

[@huckp7773]

🔥 🔥 🔥

[@fourdayhomestead2839]

Question: have you had issues with rhubarb grown from seed tending to bolt earlier than more mature plants?

[@edibleacres]

I'm not sure that I've seen that... Something to keep an eye out for I suppose

[@Limogi]

How are you planning on getting rid of the bamboo? I found once it's there, it's forever and quite invasive with their root system.

[@edibleacres]

No plans to get rid of the bamboo

[@eriknotz4982]

Do you think that eventually you'll harvest some of the male persimmon to open space for other plants or just leave them since you have ample space at this location?

[@edibleacres]

To be determined, but we may graft them over or eventually harvest for firewood

[@salihasaliha287]

جميل

[@TaliaBoukassi-nh3sc]

جميل جدا

[@memdass747]

What are the leafless trees poking out of the huglemound beds at the first of the video?

[@edibleacres]

Those are bamboo stalks being used as dried trellis stakes for beans to climb up

[@1christylynn]

When are you open for plant sales? And do you still do consultations? Thank you.

[@edibleacres]

Plant sales tend to be fall and spring. Our next sale will be March 1st of 2024 for spring shipping. I can still offer consultations, feel free to reach out through the site

[@mollynewland27]

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[@kahae9858]

Do your red currants sucker? Where I am in New Zealand (sub-alpine area) they become quite invasive and can colonise large areas (whereas black currants are very well behaved up here.) I'm assuming your red currants don't have expansionist ambitions, otherwise they could become problematic in longer term. I've started growing them in pots.

[@edibleacres]

Some types sucker and run, but not very much and it is easily managed in our context. Most types are bushes like the black currants.

[@joannewolfe5688]

Will you have hazelnuts to ship in late summer or early fall this year? C. americana, or ? Thx

[@edibleacres]

We will have plants for next spring, March 1st 2024. Thank you for your interest!

[@FakirSa-zo1gu]

👍

[@beckymay439]

Ya, I got a question! Just before the 3 min mark you point across the pond and a small white creature scurries past your finger! What the heck was that?

[@edibleacres]

I think that was just a flower head you were seeing!

[@TABTISLIMANE-ss5zf]

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[@Bigtooth-Forest]

How do you deal with mosquitoes in your open water tanks?

[@edibleacres]

Haven't had issues with them for some reason...

[@AbderrezakBarkat-tp6tt]

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[@MostefaSlh-th4pu]

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[@HamzaRezouali-nk8wn]

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[@SpectreTheHorseman]

I have 5 pawpaws (3 at 8 years) but I cannot get any fruit. They started flowering 2 years ago. Any advice?

[@edibleacres]

They take a while to 'kick in' and be productive. It could be a pollination issue and you may need to take flowers from one of the trees and tickle flowers on the others

[@DeborahSch]

Hi! What kind of bamboo is that? I live in NY too, close to Seneca lake, and would love to host some bamboo in my yard.

[@edibleacres]

We have a few varieties we lost the names of but are technically 'legal' to offer and a few we can only keep in house :) I think we have 8 varieties, all hardy to zone 5B which is pretty amazing

[@DeborahSch]

Love it! Order in the fall?

[@mounirait4939]

Salut tout le monde

[@MrRJS27]

Is there a risk that the bamboo will get over to places you don't want it? I've been warned away from it unless I could put barriers three feet deep, which of course I can't do.

[@MrRJS27]

@Disabled.Megatron That could work but I'd still worry about the roots getting out via the drainage holes :)

[@edibleacres]

These can absolutely spread and are serious plants. We have an unending need for trellis material, fencing, biomass, animal feeding, etc etc. so I am excited to have this resource expand. But that may be just me.

[@markkristynichols845]

Oh and I want to buy GUMI!!!

[@abdelwahabbarkat4534]

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[@ZinaguendouzMimi-md2td]

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[@josephnewlon7908]

15:24 What is that big leaf plant?

[@chrisk1669]

Good question

[@edibleacres]

Elecampane type plant. This is Pushkarmool, or Inula Racemosa. Pretty amazing perennial!

[@josephnewlon7908]

@@edibleacres Nice! Thank you for answering.

[@1isaM111er]

Where is your personal garden?

[@edibleacres]

This landscape doesn't really have it as it is our 'remote' site

[@kissthechickensfarms]

Grow hemp

[@NadiaNessal]

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[@Yah-xn1qz]

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