Evening Wander - SO much potential this year!

[@calvinjonesyoutube]

The way you make a living, feed yourselves and create habitat is incredible to see. The fact that you share all of this with us is all the better. I`m sure people will be following your lead and improving our environment and our collective wellbeing. Thanks.

[@edibleacres]

Thanks so much for the kind words. We are getting to meet more and more people who are stewarding productive and wild spaces where they live and it gives us a lot of hope!

[@calvinjonesyoutube]

@@edibleacres Long time fan. Particularly of the chickens and your compost system!

[@jsivanataru]

Thank you so much for these videos. They are so informative, and so calming. I love how you refer to plants as "characters".

[@JardinFoto]

We love the wanders around your beautiful garden. Do more videos like this one!

[@edibleacres]

Sounds good. They are the easiest to do since we can just wander and talk!

[@maryelizabethcalais9180]

Hi Shawn, Keep up the good work!! I"m following your way of gardening. At 80 and w/small yard I'm growing all organic and gardening very much as you do. My several children help with expenses for my gardening (I was a teacher and a gardener for years). I'm hopeful to start a small rare and organic seedling business along with some of my harvest. I am a cancer and radiation patient and eat all organic. I'm learning a lot from you, although I've gardened since a very young child. It's beautiful to know that an "ole grey mere" can still learn new tricks if she enjoys to do so" :):):) Tonight for dinner, I ate a sweet potato that I grew in my organic garden. It's delicious :):):) Many Blessings to you and Sash and family.....

[@cadair4736]

Thanks Shawn, I always learn so much from your videos! Also, was feeling super stressed this morning and your way of being is so calming🙂

[@garygrimm2097]

Always appreciate hearing from you all. Thanks for all you do!

[@edibleacres]

Thanks for being part of our extended community.

[@denisemarshall2432]

Thankyou for your regular injection of inspiration and your positive way of being, into out lives. Your ideas are such useful examples of thinking outside the box, and trying to work in better ways with the natural world...you truly are a 'green man ', (so is Sasha, I take 'man' in this medieval context to mean human!). Love from New Zealand.

[@edibleacres]

Thank you so much!

[@waykeeperfarmandnerdery]

I love your organization of nursery plants in the middle and more annuals around the edges. Thank you for sharing your world and experience with us!

[@edibleacres]

You are so welcome!

[@larajeletzky4232]

Absolutely beautiful and inspiring! Thank you 🙏

[@edibleacres]

You are so welcome!

[@kathyc3312]

I’m working the “feral vibe” here in my autumn garden. Your soil looks so dark and rich! Bless those chooks. x

[@edibleacres]

It's a lovely vibe to explore!

[@carbro6334ify]

Your voice is so calming. I love all the stuff you share

[@PartTimePermies]

I'm excited that we are starting to see spring growth!! All my brassicas are planted as well as alliums and I have a new shady rain garden that I started with transplanted wild edibles (and a couple cultivated ones) that I will be posting a video on soon. I just need to find more time to film and edit everything this time of year (my husband and I work full time and we have a toddler at home).

[@dramatriangle]

A shady rain garden! Now I'm curious. That is a great idea.

[@jennifermansfield9327]

I'm amazed at your energy at the end of the day to do these - thank you for your inspiration!

[@edibleacres]

Very happy to share. I'm not sure I"m bringing high energy to these videos but glad it seems like it! :)

[@susanjordan2130]

Thank you. Beautiful gardens.

[@robb5984]

Very excited for this growing season. Just picked a salad of mustards, various lettuces, arugula, spinaches, radishes, and their greens, peas and pea shoots. Parsnips are sprouting. Brassicas are doing well. Just planted carrots before these last couple of days of rain - I see you got the rain that we did, as well. Onions are *everywhere*. Taters are getting planted this week. The prize though? Three pear trees that I started from seed have popped through the soil! I am utterly thrilled. All the best from Syracuse!

[@fredroulin5215]

Impossible to get bored when listening to you.! Thamks you very much for you're work and you passion. Always a ton of information to get while enjoying your video

[@555Jordan]

watching this is making me hungry. Al this delicious looking food.

[@peterellis4262]

Glad to hear that you're feeling rejuvenated. Our space is coming alive and having a similar effect on me this spring, although it seems like we're always a couple of weeks behind everyone else ;) Our mint root started exploding over this past week, sweet cicely is coming on, bronze fennel and fuki, all from you last fall ;) Loads of not yet identified volunteers popping up, but I'll wait to see what they are before taking action. I loved your comments about the yellow dock and chickweed - letting them have the space early, then cutting back and planting a succession that can succeed in the same space with them. This is what I think of as intelligent and energy efficient gardening. Mark Shepard speaks of all the effort farmers make to kill things that want to grow and keep alive things that want to die. Instead, it makes so much more sense to work with things that want to thrive and succeed.

[@johnrobholmes]

I love it! What a fun space! I hope it brings you immense joy I'm finding my own rhythm of gardening now. It's interesting to witness the yearly progression as well as critical mass of perrineals come into play. I'm doing the same with perrineal vs annual! This year I just pushed corn and squash to the south of the honeyberries to hopefully shield them from summer sun. I'm taking heavy notes of what you are doing, it's beautifully packed and diverse!

[@HolmesHobbies]

This is my personal accnt above, btw

[@christinereeves3796]

Thank you for sharing this. You gave me much to think about. 😊

[@coarsegoldguy7414]

Looking forward to watching the boxes and raised beds develop. My strawberry patch is going bonkers right now. My neighbors think I'm the best! 🍓

[@sandykemp7080]

Your videos are never too long. It's great watching you build a beautiful community around your property

[@jkochosc]

Looking wonderful out there! Who could ever eat that many greens in the tunnel :)

[@JohnDoe_88]

As always. Awesome

[@nathanchristopher8585]

LOVE the mixing of feral vibes and production-minded practices - intensely cool! And WOW your soils are looking SO dark, rich and beautiful. I am continually stunned by the fertility that y'all have been managing. My garden is young, by my systems share a fair bit in common with some of yours (mine at a smaller urban scale) and I truly hope that my soils are looking that rich when their ages are closer to those of the soils in your garden =) Lovely stuff - keep it up

[@edibleacres]

So happy to share with lovely folks like you. The growth of the soil took years and years, it's a long game for sure :)

[@christineortmann359]

Everything looks great 😁

[@kerem7546]

thanks for this update! we are well into the growing season down south (in Georgia), we have had quite a lot of weather extremes over the past couple months with high temps, cool temps, extreme high winds, a few nice cool windows to transplant plants. haven't gotten much rain over the past 6+ weeks, glad indeed that I've put down some heavy mulch and have some rain barreled.

[@edibleacres]

So important to plant diverse, dense, mulch deeply and plant on contour whenever we can... Help smooth out so so many variables!

[@wifemamateacher]

I'd be super interested in any videos on root cellars-how to build, how you store produce within, or whatever other info you may have! We've been so helped by your videos before, and are working within a few families in our church to barter eggs for scraps to generate our own compost with our chickens-so exciting, and so appreciative of you sharing your ideas! Keep up the great work, and God bless!

[@anitapenney4990]

inspirational thank you

[@jessicaj8148]

I love watching your videos. New subscriber. Your voice is very soothing as well as the background noises. And your garden is really my goals. I have chickens and want to have them help me more

[@hashkeeper]

looks beautiful!!

[@amyr505]

Thank you so much! I always learn a lot from you.

[@edibleacres]

You are so welcome!

[@shahedayeasmeen8089]

I have been watching every vlog - you have created. Its kind of soothing to see and your description is awesome. So many to things to learn. Thank you for your contribution to our society.

[@nathaliewood5087]

I’m really excited to watch the process on your new air pruned bed and how Sasha uses all those greens ❣️ Thank you for the tour and sharing your thoughts and knowledge. Awesome work you all are doing over there🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@foxfireforest]

Thank you for the wandering updates Sean! I love to just have you on in my headphones while I walk around outside on our land. Helps get my head in the right spot! 🙏🙏🙏

[@dbandersonjr]

So exciting to hear your neighbors are getting into the garden with you! I’m definitely going to borrow your annual/nursery stock design for some of my wider beds 😉

[@edibleacres]

I hope it serves you well!

[@mycatalanhomestead]

Always a pleasure :) Thank you.

[@kaixosunshine]

Favorite KZbin channel by far!! You are so inspiring ✨ I always want to get out & work in the garden after watching your videos! Thank you for being a great teacher ☺️

[@funluvinthe3rd]

Thank you for doing what you do. I think It's amazing that I can somewhat live vicariously through you. I hope you keep putting out great videos. Thank you.

[@edibleacres]

Thank you, I will

[@deepfriedcherrypie5366]

Keep it up!

[@fourdayhomestead2839]

Its amazing how much that be grow in a small area. With proper planning & knowledge of what grows where, so much variety can be grown! Great job!!

[@pandahead9274]

Love seeing the forest farm come back to life

[@fourdayhomestead2839]

Looking forward to the updates on each project.

[@edibleacres]

Looking forward to filming them!

[@jordanwj19]

super awesome!!! I love seeing the various aspects and flows of your garden - I think that we are so like-minded, btw - I would love to see more of how, if at all, you have your permaculture ‘zones’ sorted … 🙏🏼

[@yorkshirecoastadventures1657]

Great to see your ever expanding progress. To say we've had zero rain this April the plants here seem to be buzzing just from the light. Rhubarb,raspberry leaves and mint leaves are the only harvestables here so far.

[@tmzumba]

I have papyrus going in a grey water system, and it’s great to harvest for mulch. I love it!

[@denislosieroutdoors]

great garden tour there eh! very inspirational

[@k.r.5400]

Another banger. Cannot wait for more!

[@karenbuckner1959]

I enjoy your gardens, chickens and compost systems... so peaceful. I want to incorporate more food forest/edible landscape. As you walk thru, perhaps you could give a bit more "this plant produces this type of edible/medicinal" info. I'm learning, but don't know what plants to consider. Std, basic fruits/veg I know. There are many more I don't. Thanks!

[@thescottishwildman3245]

Well done to you all, truly amazing. 👏. I'm learning so much from all of your videos. This is a bit off topic, but here's a great heating or cooling tip, Please look into solar air heaters made from aluminium soda cans, I think you'll like it. Could help yourselves or chickens on those cold or hot days (run it in reverse to cool an area). Really cheap to make & I'm pretty sure you've got everything needed to build it. Free heat or aircon once built, 👍😆 keep up the great work. 👊😆

[@tdokta]

knowing that you are in a cold climate, similar to ours here in the mountains of south island, nz. we have great success with and recommend growing Feijoa sellowiana varieties, they fruit after only a few years. fruit harvest comes mid to late autumn, we are just harvesting now late april, early may (october-november for you) .. these trees are bird pollinated and are resilient; if they break anywhere they easily re-graft and heal the break with some support; we're going to look up seaberries and honey berries as they might be suitable to our environment also; thanks for this tip; inspired by the nursery, great success from the apricot stones, awesome

[@juliastempko]

Novice gardener here! Thank you for sharing your work and encouraging the growth of food to be shared with community. I'm looking forward to seeing how you encourage potatoes! We live at 8000 ft in the high desert of Colorado, and landscape gardening for food production is something I endeavor to provide, however it's TRICKY being so arid here. We have a greenhouse going and that too has been a learning experience. It's really hard to maintain humidity in there, any tips? I look forward to learning more from local gardeners, and educators like you about how to nourish the landscape to regenerate, produce, and provide. Thanks again!

[@tesha199]

I know that in many areas in South America, where it's high desert, people set up dew capturing structures, which are basically plastic mashes with small holes spread across 2 poles.

[@SeeStuDo]

Going into my 4th year trying to permaculture in containers outside and inside in a small attic room, and the perennials and self seeded bounty already popping up outside has definitely boosted my soul. I'm very near having flower buds open on some of my chives and horseradish , so looking forward to seeing those provide food for the critters soon.

[@growshakephil]

I'm looking forward to seeing some more cooking videos.

[@edibleacres]

I am too!

[@ThomasElmore]

Inspiring video (once again)! Nice set-up of the garden beds by dividing them in different zones. And those airprune beds look great! What will you put on top of them? And I have a more general nursery question: What is the difference between plants for autumn or spring shipping? Any characteristics that decide whether plants will be available in autumn or spring?

[@edibleacres]

We try to focus more on shipping woody perennials like trees and shrubs in the fall, mainly because fall is a great time for establishment and most importantly because rabbits and voles hammer them in our landscape over winter! Herbaceous perennials and grasses do best with spring planting we find so we weight our inventory more towards those for spring... Great question!

[@victorialg1270]

Hope you will show the cover you will make for the water tank. Also more tips for vole and mole pressure.

[@vonries]

You are right, I'm in the south and I'm most excited about my banana plants.

[@justinp1773]

So inspiring to see how your space and your neighbors space has revolved in such a short period of time. Would you mind sharing where you sourced the new air prune beds from?

[@yLeprechaun]

I wanna see the air prune updates!!! Now!! 😀 We just sold our Montana acerage and bought an acreage in Ohio. Big changes, and want to nursery up about 4000 trees quickly.

[@edibleacres]

Congrats on the move... We will share notes on that for sure.

[@robertmcauslan6191]

I am in RI and am months behind for me but we got our first salad this week so am happy about that. Found some old magazine racks to make tree guards out of. Fanged rabbits lol

[@drmystique]

I love your tour updates! I would like to know more about how you manage slugs, snails, moles, voles. These are decimating my plantings to the point that I can't do much straight in the ground like you do. Almost everything has to be transplanted starts and raised and protective barrier underneath for moles and voles (and rabbits). And even that is in danger of slugs and snails in just hours. Yet I have similar growing climate. Even the Robin's, like yours can wreak havoc, none of which i have experienced in past gardening locations. I feel like my area has been starving for so long that my garden has become nature's buffet. I'm cool with that, as long as they save me some which is definitely not happening.

[@tmzumba]

The slugs have wiped out my carrots four times this year. 😕 It’s like woah guys! Save some for me.

[@drmystique]

@@tmzumba oh no, that's a bummer! I lost peas 3x trying different ways to avoid all the eager pests. I hadn't planted carrots yet but I had read somewhere that some varieties are more tasty than others to their companion pests. It may help to try a different variety? I find everything loves peas, no matter what variety I plant!

[@drmystique]

@@tmzumba yup, EVERYTHING loves peas🤷‍♀️. But this is certainly a long wet spring.

[@stonedapefarmer]

I'd really love to see what harvests look like throughout the season. I've seen some cooking stuff from you, but I'd be curious what kind of yield you get in a typical day and how that changes over time.

[@RagbagMcShag]

that mist must look amazing IRL

[@edibleacres]

It feels like a nice space to us.

[@teresamexico309]

Good videos of yours, thank you! I am a bit south-ish from you (MX), with warm climate to do gardening but, too early start and animals (including insects and birds) will finish up what ever planted even if there is mesh/fence around the garden and that is because there are no greens for them to feed on. The rainy season usually starts in June although this year there was a light rain in April(unusual). Also, I do try to plant close to the rainy season to avoid using tap water to irrigate my garden/orchard, because here it is a dry place. I do have planted one squash that I got seed from Peru (Zapallo) so it will not crossbreed with others. Later on, I will plant other squash/pumpkin (among other veg) and pollinate them by hand and enclose them to avoid cross-pollination but if not successful, I can always order those seeds from USA. People that do gardening for a living must be nice and happy mutants :) because it is a never ending and hard work yet so fulfilling.

[@edibleacres]

So cool how deep into the squash world you are getting!

[@briangrantackert1732]

Curious about the seaberry as a pioneering species for newly observed sites, in general: how well has the seaberry served in the forest gardens that you have related with, and does/can it function as a living wall?

[@ziglerridge3656]

I really enjoy your videos and am also trying to live with native plants and nature. What recipes do you like to use your bitter dock in?

[@farwoodfarm9296]

Chick weed is so good, reminds me of sweet corn, excellent addition to any salad. Look up how to harvest cork bark ;) would work wonderfully for some floating surface in your water basin.

[@edibleacres]

Chickweed like sweet corn, yeah, wow, what an interesting comparison!

[@nickkitchener6155]

I was reading a document on seabuckthorn propagation, and it said that for male cuttings, you should remove all the buds except for the top 2. They also recommend IBA water (rooting hormone) at 4,000 ppm which is strong.

[@nickkitchener6155]

www.agrireseau.net/documents/Document_97710.pdf

[@edibleacres]

Really helpful note here. Can you email a link to that if it's available? sean @ edibleacres.org ... Thank you for sharing!

[@mickdhein6180]

Id be interested in seeing more of your larger tree species and how you integrate those into your overall system?

[@zepguwlthistle7924]

I tell everybody you are my food forest and chicken gardens hero :) I learn so much and trying do use a lot of your ideas. what zone are you in?

[@edibleacres]

So kind! We are in zone 5B central NY state, Finger Lakes area

[@yellowbird5411]

Beautiful garden! Your soil is so dark and crumbly, I can only be envious. Living on "dirty sand" it's often a struggle to get anything out of the ground. But I've found that fruit trees seem to do the best. Which is fine, because the option is to be out there in 90+ heat pulling weeds. I have planted several semi-tropical fruit trees, and am propagating a lot of the everbearing mulberry trees. What I will do with all of them is a mystery. But I have reconciled that even if we are successful with only a handful of different plants and trees, that it's OK, and to propagate that which works well pays off. I will probably have an entire yard full of mulberry trees. Is that bad? : )

[@edibleacres]

Sounds good to me! Our soils started as incredibly dense and super saturated clay. This fertility takes years and years of slowly working towards... I suspect your soils are growing and deepening immensely too!

[@anaeccles7951]

Very nice…. How do you manage slug pressure?

[@dafureallythough4960]

If there's any knock on your videos, it's when you apologize for running long. Not asking for exclusively detailed/long videos, knowing how busy you get but, when you do go long, I learn more so, no need to apologize.

[@janxious]

Curious after seeing this, what is your diet? Like what's a typical set of meals you might eat. Are you bringing anything from offsite into your diet or is it all from the garden? etc. Thanks!

[@edibleacres]

We eat a large amount from our own space but also eat meat and dairy and grains that we get from elsewhere.

[@SerRegenera]

beautiful tour!! thank you Sean, one question, do you make all your anual vegetable plants seedlings together on beds and the you replant them on definitive spaces? love from Uruguay

[@edibleacres]

We tend to sow seed for annuals in groups and then tease them apart by soaking and transplant them into their final position. Not always but often.

[@charlenekociuba7396]

Very nice tour. Yes, I'd be interested in honeyberry. I'm wondering, how much space apart? How many for fruit?, how long before seeing first fruit?

[@edibleacres]

You need two different types for pollination, they can be as close as 2-4' apart in little clumps but more like 5' is best. 2-3 years in and they start producing nicely.

[@danweddle4044]

I'd like to see more of up slope from the pond on your neighbor's property. Have you ever grafted goumi onto autumn olive?

[@edibleacres]

We haven't tried that grafting, I've seen it is possible but I haven't explored it.

[@simeon1802]

Got to harvest first the asparagus shoots of the year... its summer baby

[@edibleacres]

You are ahead of us! Soon, we'll have asparagus soon...

[@aibell4800]

I wish I had known about you before I tried buying trees and shrubs from online nurseries. What an expensive disaster that ended up being. When/where do you sell your plants locally? On site or farmer’s markets? We are about 1.5 hours or so away. We’d be interested in getting some fruit and nut trees as well as a few perennials.

[@edibleacres]

We will be offering plants again in the fall when we get into dormancy season. Sometime around mid-October. We also can ship happily and ordering for that opens Sept. 1st. Have a great sason!

[@wesz45]

I'm fascinated by this perennial third, and it makes a lot of sense to me. The only trouble I'm having is deciding what fits in that space, especially for me because I am contending with a mild slope and I can't shade out the backside of my beds. Are there any shorter fruiting shrubs that don't sucker aggressively? Love the cane fruits but their tendency to spread would make them poor sports as a middle third, I would think

[@edibleacres]

One way to think about it is middle third for cane layer that doesn't get very large (and also can provide cuttings for propagation) and then shade adoring plants to the north /shade side of them... Sorrel, Good King Henry, Myoga, etc come to mind for that context. Lettuce, cilantro, Tatsoi, etc come to mind as annuals for that context in the heat of summer. MANY options!

[@wesz45]

Thanks, I suppose if Im cutting them out of the annuals all the time then I'll have a lot of cuttings to plant out elsewhere. And if it is strawberries it isn't too difficult to grab the runners and orient them longways once a year

[@peacetham83]

How was your rice growing?

[@noah786]

You said juanderful production lol, which I’m sure is accurate. Do you think sea berry would do ok in arid sandy conditions?

[@edibleacres]

:) I'm not sure about Seaberry in that condition...

[@newAntigon789]

A bit offtopic, but I am really curious: what is your opinion about hemp? Is it legal in your state? Hope, this has not been answered before. Thanks!

[@edibleacres]

I understand it is much more legal in NYS now, but I don't know details. I think it is an amazing plant, we don't grow it since so many other folks in our circles do if we ever wanted harvested parts, but I would be interested to see how it could integrate with other aspects of our growing...

[@hivolco151]

AT time mark --- 8 :18 I could not exactly understand what you called the purple -_____ -Nettle??? I thought that plant was called "self heal"?????

[@galarzaAdonis]

Are online sales still happening?

[@edibleacres]

Not until fall.

[@BobSmith-un5mw]

How did you start those beds? Do you have an old video link I can check out?

[@edibleacres]

Sort our videos by oldest first and you can poke around... THis area was initially sheet mulched with cardboard and woodchips, but the first year was INCREDIBLY bad for production of crops, but did an amazing job in erasing the lawn...

[@tatekohmni]

Yes just discovering that the wood chips + cardboard works great to lay out the beds but not so good for the plant starts. Now I add horse & rabbit manure, sawdust & old hay bedding in the layers with the chips. Because I want that gorgeous soil as soon as possible too!! Happy mulching!

[@robyoung7923]

How do you harvest eggs ???

[@mr.skipper4544]

I miss the chicken TV videos 👍

[@frantisek_heca]

What about slugs? When I am mulching in my vegetable garden, I have all veggies eaten by slugs :(

[@edibleacres]

It is less about mulch and more about soil health I'd think... FOcus on more compost and soil building and it should resolve itself over time.

[@hugelpook]

How do you use the sea berries?

[@edibleacres]

We look forward to sharing some videos of harvesting in the summer.

[@Ashley-dv3uo]

Anybody have any tips for red leaf curl on a peach tree. I can not get rid of it. HELP!!!

[@edibleacres]

We've had that before, most of the time the peach grows out of it. If you focus on fertility around the peach that can be a way to help them grow out of it... Lots of nice balanced rich compost to feed them!