Food Forest THRIVING On Neglect! (2021 Summer Update)

[@jettyeddie_m9130]

This channel and David the good’s channel Rocks! 😎

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Thanks 👊

[@amyrea4451]

Agreed!

[@FloridaHappyHarvestGarden]

This channel makes me move to florida

[@champagnegardening5182]

Nothing like snacking in the garden. Yes, the rainy season is crazy here in Florida

[@barefootlivin]

We can't wait to move back to Florida and be a regular customer for all those permaculture plants. Keep up the great work Pete!

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Awesome! Thanks 🙏

[@pamb7560]

Thanks Pete! You’ve inspired me to plant fruit trees. In 2019, I stated with the 3 fast growing trees you recommend. Now I have over 20 fruit trees!

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

That’s awesome! Thanks for sharing 🙌

[@pamb7560]

@@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL You’re welcome!

[@gregrendek]

Pete & GreenDreams team, I just wanted to drop a BIG thank you! I am 1 year into transforming what was once a 100% dirt backyard, into 100% food forest, and it's going beautifully (San Tan Valley, AZ). You have no idea how much I appreciate the rare stuff you sell online and how much easier you've made it for me to complete my "to buy / plant" list on my master food forest plan. Thank you for the constant stream of knowledge bombs in your videos - keep up the great work. I'm 100% hooked on fruit trees & food forest design now and I'm getting other people in my life to start planting fruit trees and grow food.

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Thats awesome!

[@sabrinawanderer7560]

Thank you for being an inspiration...i love to have a food forest someday... Because of you, we have turned our small space here in the city into a beautiful garden.... Most of our neighbours started planting vegetables too after seeing us do it first... We filled wornout shoes with fertile soil to plant our onions...people passing by got intrigued and who knows probably they are planting too... You are the one who started the ripple effect of this awesome growing plant foods! God bless! 😇😇😇😇

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

I love it!! Thanks so much for sharing. The fact you’re inspiring ours too warms my heart 🙌

[@milkweeddreams8828]

I normally jump right on these videos, but I saved it for this morning CUZ I wanted to be super pumped about getting out to the forest this morning and getting some trimming done on my quarter acre, my biggest drawback is my age, at 72 the energy level is short so this old(er) gal has to pace. But I have learned so much from you, now I have no guilt about my forest neglect, literally my main plan was not to mow and to produce shade where once was a sugar sand desert and in 4 years, my yard is amazing, beautiful, cooler then my grasshole neighbors, plenty of fruits and edibles and is a sight to behold and it inspired another young person to grow, my air conditioner repair man actually said 'I love your food forest'...to me that was WOW, it's working...turned him on to you and he is pumped to get started...so thanks totally for this video...I'm waiting on sun-up to start poundin' on you know what...DIRT...!!!

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

You’re amazing!!! Keep it up 👊

[@barrybr1]

Pete, you are simply THE BEST. You kept saying you'd keep this short but your love for plants just urged you on and on. Love it! Thanks mate. Peace from Sydney, Australia

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Wow thanks!! 🙌

[@MZapps]

Beautiful landscape! Its good to know that you did not used any chemicals and herbicide for your farm.

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Thanks for watching! "With rainy season here for the Summer, there is no better time to plant a Food Forest! Our system has been thriving on neglect being that it is fully established and heavily mulched. Even without much attention, the amount of edible plants, flowers and fruits coming out of the Food Forest is totally abundant! Enjoy this Food Forest update video; let us know if you want to see more frequent updates and tours around our Farm! " Check out Our Live Plant Selection! Online Store Link- www.greendreamsfl.com/online-... __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ Playlist Links: Our MOST POPULAR Videos - bit.ly/2LOVp4X Our Client Projects - bit.ly/2NWYMU2 Best of Growing Fruit (Tropical/Subtropical) - bit.ly/2EeCytW ____________________________________________________________ To learn more about us, as well as our products & services: www.greendreamsFL.com Follow us on Social media Facebook: bit.ly/3wRYYLe Instagram: bit.ly/2RwdsQL ____________________________________________________________ Have we made a difference for you? We would much appreciate your contribution to keep improving upon the quality, content & consistency of this channel. Support Us @ www.patreon.com/greendreamsFL

[@nicholasnapier2684]

I represent that remark I love that that you actually enjoy growing like all this so you have it for the rest of your life and the way you teach it you will be blessed cuz this is what our creator wanted to start with not depend on a grocery store...

[@trangtraihongdien]

It is big garden. There are many kind of fruit and flower. Eting at garden is very perfect. Love you Pete

[@Crageton]

Keep them coming , Thanks for motivating me to start my own garden .

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Awesome man! 👊

[@nicholasnapier2684]

You really a good teacher about the the Food Forest out of all the people I know on KZbin that do this kind of method...

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Thanks 🙏

[@fezwhy]

Love it. Keep the videos coming man. This is proof Pete practices what he teaches.

[@autumnmeadows4079]

Hey, so good to see that your land is doing so well. We recently planted a mulberry, guava, and mango at our daughters home. You are an inspiration. Thank you

[@blaze92091]

.

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Awesome! Keep it up 👊

[@lawntofoodforest]

Very inspirational Pete. I’m in my 1/4 acre food forest every weekend. I broke dirt on the project 3 years ago and I’ve been inspired by your videos every step of the way. I’m putting in swales and a syntropic system on a couple of rows. Also based my nutrition on woodchip mulch. Trying to ease off on that now and transition to green ground cover. Keep up the good work, it’s saving the world one garden at a time.

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Thanks Vincent! Keep it up man 👊

[@TheDabamman]

Most excellent!! The way it should be.

[@armandodesousa6375]

Thanks for sharing your passion- clearly I am not the only one infected with a love of plants.

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

It’s addictive! 😬

[@bjstark5069]

WOW, that is beautiful, looks like paradise to me, I'm so jealous, would love to live there!

[@ilaisaanewest7313]

Food forest indeed Pete love the variety of fruit trees from tropical to rare plants 🪴😀

[@danielapettus7693]

Dear Pete I can never get enough of your videos

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

♥️

[@carosolis586]

Just received two of your best Mulberry trees, looking forward to planting them soon!. Muchas gracias from Ohio!.

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Awesome!!! Thanks for the support

[@nickrostogolea9233]

Such an inspiration I can’t wait to get a piece of land crest my own food forest . Thank you for the videos you are a legend

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Thanks man 👊

[@josephstone5287]

Thank you Pete. Really inspiring. Appreciate you sharing your food forest

[@daveschreiner413]

Your property is amazing! Yes, more food forest tours. And... you are no slacker!

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Thanks! 🤣

[@drpk6514]

Excellent! Thank you so much. Cant get enough of your fruit jungle.

[@Rebecca.Robbins]

Since I started following you, I have turned my entire (small) backyard into a tiny food forest. I'm up in Canada, so I'm pretty limited, but everything is growing by leaps and bounds every day! I'm eating from my backyard daily. Oh I wanted to ask you what a water sucker is as opposed to a sword, and how can you tell one from the other?

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

I would love to feature a small northern food forest one day! Thanks for sharing. The water suckers are quite skinny and weak, they also have large leaves. The sword suckers are very fat a the base and have small skinny leaves compared to the water sucker.

[@Rebecca.Robbins]

@@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL you are welcome here any time Pete! My property transformation has been dramatic, but like I said, it’s small. There is another person not far from me (Canadian Permaculture Legacy…he also follows you) who has a much much larger AMAZING property that he has transformed as well. You could visit us both!

[@sabrinawanderer7560]

Me too... I love what he's doing to inspire people to try permaculture...

[@maisis.2139]

Nice fruit garden… thanks for sharing.. watching from Montevideo.

[@nicholasnapier2684]

Love a lot of the stories about the bananas like the kind different kinds of vanilla that can die from the cold but now you give me an idea to start filling in around them keep their nutrients in there and I didn't know what you were just talking about in there now I have the idea and I keep feeling it around them I do use the shop and drop methodology..

[@MDonat-mg8ox]

Love your videos of your gardens. Keep making them.

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

OK the response has been really great from this video! I will definitely be doing more farm features.

[@maryse8]

Pete, I love your videos! You and your crew work really hard, so I hope you and the family will be able to take a vacation soon.

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Thanks so much! We’re hoping for a vacation in August.

[@gcxred4kat9]

Just met Jim Kovaleski in NPR today thanks to seeing him in your videos. Great guy and let me talk his ear off.

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

That's awesome! 🙂

[@nyanamiller2409]

Love love love your channel! You have fed me so much knowledge and it is paying off in my little suburban food forest style garden! Now I’m starting a school garden and paying it forward 🥰 I’d love to hear you talk a bit more about the growth habit of your favorite plants. (I found your video about the invasive ones really helpful). I can freely experiment in my own yard, but now that I’m thinking about what to plant at the school, I really have to think about what those plants will look like long after my kid has outgrown the school and those plants really do have to thrive on neglect.

[@OskariTrueHipHop]

Wow you got yourself a nice jungle over there! Really nice to see some of your plants.

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Thanks 😊

[@lizpoin463]

Looks great, I love your property and what you’ve done to it!

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Thanks 😍

[@Danfoodforest]

Always great checking out your food forest .. tons of bananas

[@Justin-lg1qb]

I found you from tik tok and I’m so happy I did. I live in citrus springs and I’ve been wanting to start growing my own food and I can always use more plants. Thank you for being you. I’m gonna sit back and learn for a bit then I’ll definitely be making a order soon.

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Awesome man! Glad you found us too 👊

[@nicholasnapier2684]

I live in Tavares Florida let you know that you can grow fruit trees people say you can't do nothing here in Florida that's not true you can grow anything I've done it but I think that was a neat idea where you had the tumeric plants that gave me a good idea for some Landscaping in the front of my house I want to have a yard that I can eat out of it year around....

[@laurenlynch2442]

LOVE the updates! Would love to see what you do for your summer pruning. I'm a little north of you and wasn't sure if rainy season was a good time to prune.

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

We actually just did some major printing this week. I’ll make another video shortly to feature it.

[@TheMillennialGardener]

Very nice tour. I know you’re not a fan of citrus with the whole greening problem, but I’d love to see if citrus can thrive in your understory environment, especially with all that mulch as an added benefit. I bet the oak canopy would be protective.

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Thanks! I have tried a few and gave up. That was early on when we first moved in. I should really give it a try again 👊

[@edenhomestead5382]

Au Naturalé! Love the natural look of the food forest! I am going to be going hard after some more mulch, and seeing this only inspires us more for feeding our Food Forest ;)

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Thanks 🙏

[@glort4671]

OMG this is my dream to have one day. Keeping the faith it will happen.

[@49testsamiam49]

wow Pete looks great growing a big garden here this year ... thanks

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Thanks! Keep it up 👊

[@Nkjones1]

Love these. Keep 'em coming.

[@Hansulf]

What really impress me are those oak (I think) trees that shade all your plants. They are massive!

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

We love the oaks too!

[@jenn6838]

Another great video! Do you have a master plan of your property? or a video of how your food forest developed over the years? What did you think about when you were starting? What do you wish you would have considered that you had to fix later?

[@lisalph8922]

I love these videos. Keep 'em coming!

[@ritabeitz9598]

Thanks Pete, great video. We should be arriving in mid to north central Florida by this June 22. I hope to visit your place soon. Take care and thanks for all the great tips.

[@Samthemancharles]

This is a really good looking example of a food forest because if you let it go it will develop on its own. So many people don't understand this, you Do 👌👏👍. Especially when you refer to the trees and plants that are grown with little care meaning they are native to your climate. Thanks for this great tour. I subscribed fyi.

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Awesome! Thanks for watching and subscribing! 👊

[@jeff6899]

I thought you had a "food forest" from my first viewing of your farm in the earliest days ! 🤗 Love it then !! And I see You brought back the Main Star, Kiki ! 😂😁😊 Us viewers with full-time careers can understand the neglect aspect !! 😉😁

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

We actually just spent a few days pruning and resetting this mess. She always steals the show.

[@kimmekim8042]

Love your farm thank you

[@MegaBreyergirl]

Toomerick? Turmeric, we love it! Love that food forrest!

[@octavianus4483]

I have several shrimp ponds (salt water), one of which (1, 5 ha) two years ago I converted into a various fruit garden, including avocado, jengkol (blackbead), durian, star fruit, srikaya (sugar apple) , mango and so on as well as several types of bananas. But unfortunately, in early 2021 the sea tide was very high, so that several points of the embankment broke and the land was submerged by salty water for several days. As a result, 80% of the plants die. A few weeks ago, I rehabilitated the garden embankment with an excavator. Now I start again from scratch to plant various fruit trees again

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Dang! That’s a bummer. Glad to hear you didn’t give up 👊

[@cindylousinn9041]

Thanks for the update! Before/after videos would be awesome.

[@charlotteking8123]

Hi Pete, loved this, you're so relaxed and it's good to see what's growing on in its natural sequence. T minus one WEEK and I'll be in Hudson! Can't wait to be planting trees in my very own food forest. Mahalo and much aloha for your work and sharing!!

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Thank you. That’s awesome! Welcome to the area 😊

[@kelkysjourney2738]

thanks! always great to see your place! Blessings!

[@avtspeech]

Thanks for sharing - really enjoyed it!

[@protozaba]

What an amazing place you have, Pete!

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Thanks 🙏

[@brucedownunda7054]

Mark Shepard , STUN . Sheer &, Total Utter Neglect

[@halbblutstante]

Wooow thats soo Amazing!!! i need a Forest like that

[@Mrbfgray]

BIG slice of paradise. Love it! Yeah it's a desert in Cali half the yr, situation normal for us but a little extra dry.

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Crazy dry man! I feel like it’s getting worse too…

[@claudiaperea]

Awesome. I’ll be starting in zone 4. Looking into passive heating greenhouse builds. Would love to know where to start when choosing what you can grow? I don’t know all the species like you do. It’s amazing!

[@callmewhenyouaredone]

we all love you Pete!!

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Thanks ♥️

[@dr.rev.lindabingham]

Blessings to all!

[@Reefahholic]

Excellent update. I’d love to see you push a job or two back and focus on your own property. It needs some TLC and how fun would it be to work on your own forest! 🤗

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

I just spent a few days here hard pruning and resetting some areas 😊

[@mediocrefloridaman]

Love the long videos.

[@Kwalk1989]

Could watch your videos all day Pete, unless I'm in the garden😎

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Thanks buddy 👊

[@benitaedge201]

I would love to turn part of my yard into something similar!

[@luzgarcia52]

TY for the great ideas and for sharing, I'll what I can do with my small place.

[@sarala1jan]

Pup Kiki has grown so fast

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

She’s a beast! Honestly the best dog ever too.

[@snowbirdgardener1]

I have a little white, fuzzy dog named Kiki. Hi, to your Kiki!

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Great name. Sounds like a complete opposite! 🤣

[@1d1hamby]

Wow, your carambola is ripening already and mine just down the street is just starting to flower. My fruit production was hard to keep up with last year, gave away bags of fresh fruit.

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

That’s a great problem to have David! Abundance 🙌

[@coopshopdesigns4890]

Best way to have it

[@UrbanBounty]

Liked, shared! Brilliant mate

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Thanks 😊

[@sellingroanoke]

I enjoyed the tour. Thanks!

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

😊

[@MagnificentHomesteading]

I usually plant fruit trees in summer time here in FL. Any kind of plant does well but creating a ground cover drives me nuts because everything gets washed away due to rains.

[@Glitches001]

MORE FARM UPDATES PLEASE!!

[@luzoniahardin4157]

Love it thanks it is very beautiful

[@andresamplonius315]

Have you heard of Canna edulis ( Achira)? The roots are delicious when you bake them like potatoes... So sweet...

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Yes, I’m grow it here on the farm.

[@72weesiong]

Great sharing Pete, from Malaysia here.

[@nicholasnapier2684]

I've been trying to teach my wife's mother this you know it's obvious the old saying low-hanging fruit it's literally just that keeping the food close to where you can get to it instead of having to go and drive everywhere to get it the collected we should be doing with everywhere in every city around the country....

[@trudymautz4388]

Great video Pete, love your food forest. Oh I will take a jack fruit!!! I don't think it will like NJ winters though. I assume you will just chop them down? Not dig them up?

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

If they freeze we cut them way back. We might actually get fruit one of these days.

[@valeriebaldino4720]

Pete, have you done any videos on converting your typical Florida subdivision property into a food forest or at least partial food forest? I know some subdivisions have rules but mine doesn't. I have three raised beds for a winter veg garden, but would love to lessen the grass areas in the front (on a very limited budget). I live in New Port Richey. I love your channel and all the information you share. It shows how much you care.

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Hey Valerie! I’ve done lots of small backyard transformations. The Permaculture mullet job comes to mind when thinking about small scale.

[@bullsfoodforest347]

I love that food forest. I am building one of my own and it is getting real good. But when are going back to Paul Zinks place because that is the video that made me strat my food forest.

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Good question. I’ve been avoiding traveling out of the country the last year.

[@melanielinkous8746]

I need to get more Jaboticaba from you! I'm hooked. Lol. Also gotta check if y'all have starfruit. The fruits at the grocery store look like hell.

[@ceibosoundz]

epic property Pete! stoke!

[@paulplantu]

Dude, this place is unreal. I have to order some bananas from you and plant them in the understory of my oaks. Gah, I love to see everything thriving for you!

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Thanks Paul! We just got a bunch of new varieties in. They should be on the online store within the next week.

[@lasoul680]

Would love to come n visit, I’m based in Ft Lauderdale. I can’t wait to build my own.

[@Marblegrass]

This was dope. Thanks for making the vid.

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Thanks 🙏

[@lodgefamilyhomestead8038]

it would be cool to see you and your son go on another bicycle tour ride!

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

We’re definitely due!

[@natebecerra9847]

Very inspiring!

[@unconventionalme8048]

Coming your way at the end of July!!!! So excited!!! 😁😁😁👏

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Awesome man! 👊

[@tribelsun4091]

I love all your videos! Thanks for all the knowledge! Your videos helped me direct my own plans for my property and business I've been building. TribelSun "Welcome to the Tribe. Where everything revolves around the sun."

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Love it! 👊

[@sw1ft3]

Just wondering if you add any fungus spawn into the wood chip to grow different edible mushrooms.

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

I’ve tried that a few times but the native strains seem to out power anything I’ve tried inoculating.

[@ayina114]

Tropics = weeds. It's never ending battle. But it is also paradise to grow food. I live in tropics. I have only 30m2 lot that I plant 3 mangoes, mulberry, barbados cherry, guava, 3 citrus, avocado, lemongrass, pineapple. Try to make the trees not to big by constantly prunning them. Most annuals and vegetables are in pots. Hope one day could move to bigger place.

[@BrianTheLog]

If I lived in Florida I would work for you no problem

[@JonnyDee-uh1eo]

BUSY PETE! Can we get an update? 😀 Id really like to see how that Monstera up front looks.

[@edsutton276]

Video Topic : how do you air layer your giant "Hawaiian dwarf" star fruit ? (you said it's the best tasting variety ) How much do you want for a rooted cutting from it ? Will it self pollinate ? Maybe I can build a greenhouse by then. In zone 7 A - a video on that one tree.

[@TheKalokagathia]

Hey, I loooove your amazing videos. Minding moving to the wet tropics ;-) really! Is there any part of the year it is not possible to harvest fruits? Or it is like all time there is some fruit to harvest? Thank you for the answer from the bottom of hearth from central Europe

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

There is always something to harvest and eat around here 😊