FOREST GARDEN HEDGEROWS | Our take on the PERMACULTURE ORCHARD | FARMVLOG 37

[@harriettejensen479]

I love your farm. I discovered permaculture about 5 years ago, very late in life (age 69) and have been reworking my urban back yard since then. I have a very small piece of land to work with, but I have planted 17 fruit trees, some fruiting bushes and lots of herbs in addition to the veggies I have always grown. I'm finding that because I live in a coolish mediterranean environment, the trees are doing much better than the "garden". I plan to add some autumn olive and a bunch more comfrey and make the north side of my lot very similar to the orchard rows you have. I would love to let my chickens free range like yours, but at the present time I don't have the fencing to keep them out of the garden area and when they escape their run they destroy my garden. Watching this video inspired me to get the fencing done and let them freerange in the orchard that runs all along one side of the lot. Thanks for being an inspiration!

[@zerrinekinci9219]

It is never late to discover permaculture Harriette. You are lucky because you can combine your previous experiences and observations with permaculture design and that must be a great joy. :)

[@TapoNothFarm]

Thanks so much Harriette - sounds like you're doing a cracking job at getting a lot in to a small space! Thanks for watching and for your lovely comment.

[@jessicaarancibia6477]

Never it’s late in the life 💪🏻

[@lepsychiatre8455]

As someone trying to transform a rather overused and nondiverse urban garden into an ecologically more adapted one, this video is as much of a helpful advice as it is a beautiful inspiration! Also, coming from a climatic difficult landscape as well (Austrian highlands, much wind, few rainfalls), lots of respect for your thriving project! I'll definitely be following coming content! :) Greetings from Vienna🤙

[@TapoNothFarm]

Thanks so much, glad this video has been helpful, best of luck with your own project!

[@toddsherfey3652]

Love watching y'all's garden on y'all's homestead. And there's nothing more prettier than a pretty young lady in a pair of bib over-alls..

[@rungus24]

The camera work is a timeless ode to love.

[@TapoNothFarm]

Nice observation, thank you.

[@rungus24]

@@TapoNothFarm I might have been drunk when I wrote that. I shouldn't be allowed near the internet. soz.

[@TapoNothFarm]

rungus24 Ha, ha! Nah, wear those beer goggles! 🍺😍

[@rungus24]

@@TapoNothFarm I remember what I meant. When you film each other, it seems like weird, but quite charming, voyeurism into how crazy you are about each other. But I shouldn't have mentioned it, because it's probably quite a weird thing for a stranger to mention, and I only did because I was drinking. Quite why I phrased it as a 'timeless ode to love', I have no idea. Maybe drunk me is a poet, or just really pretentious.

[@TapoNothFarm]

We thought it was very poetic :)

[@kensmithler5965]

Beautiful informative video! The photography is gorgeous, thank you.

[@TapoNothFarm]

Thanks so much Ken, glad you enjoyed it!

[@MrScoresby]

Two comments from an old guy at 79: If you put your fore finger at the junction of the spur and the stem of the apple. Then lift up the fruit will come free; twisting can snap off the spurs. A NO NO! Have you considered a single 30" bed north of your forest garden hedges (with a 12" path to straddle the bed) for summer growth in a cooler environment of spinach, lettuce etc. to reduce bolting. This bed would only get full sun in the morning and afternoon. the old guy Bert ( spent my years from 10 to 18 working in the orchard and picked tonnes of fruit)

[@TapoNothFarm]

Thanks so much for your tips Bert and for watching, all the best from us!

[@poolfield2]

I’m so impressed that you have plums after only 2 years, it took us 5 years! I love the forest garden rows, such abundance.

[@TapoNothFarm]

Thanks for watching, hope you're plums are good this year?!

[@avonlookmire3500]

Thanks guys, we loved gaining inspiration from this video :)

[@TapoNothFarm]

You're welcome, that's great to hear!

[@wendysgarden4283]

you're living the dream!

[@narrowboatfarm6218]

really enjoyed this, our forest garden and hedgerow trees are arriving to be planted this winter so I'll be using your tips!!!

[@TapoNothFarm]

Yeah! Cheers fella, best of luck with the planting, exciting times getting trees in the ground. What you planting?

[@narrowboatfarm6218]

@@TapoNothFarm got 100 🍎 🍐 🍒 and plum trees for orchard, a fruiting hedgerow mix and cobnut/hazelnut/chestnut/wild service/mulberry/damson/quince/medlar for forest garden. I'd be keen to check out your spot in the winter and swap some graft for.some advice if you were cool with that...

[@TapoNothFarm]

Sounds great! Would be great to have you up here and show you around.

[@andyhyde5576]

great to see the goat-faces and the farden (farm/garden)

[@TapoNothFarm]

'Farden' - I like it!

[@ZeljkoSerdar]

Love you guys, all the best from Croatia, EU. Your new 🐾

[@TapoNothFarm]

Thanks so much!!

[@007MSmith]

You have to write a book or release a DVD before we can add Linear Forest Garden or Forest Garden Hedgerows to the list of Permaculture Orchard, Forest Garden, Agrorestry, Silvoarable, Syntropic Farming, Food Forest, Holistic Orchard, Woodland Gardens, Perennial Polyculture,...... Sorry, my annoyance at how much humans love a good re-labelling . Either way, mimicking nature and using more perennial plants can only be a good thing imho. They look healthy and have grown well for such young trees and shrubs. Love how you got carried away with your photography in the first part, new camera or something? You seem to get away with hanging out in bushes with a camera. When i do it I get called "perv" or get arrested. Loved the VLOG guys.

[@TapoNothFarm]

Watch this space for the book ;) Easy to get carried away filming when there's so much beauty to film. Thanks for watching!!

[@sylviabradley7355]

Great editing 💥

[@TapoNothFarm]

Thank you!

[@kirstenwhitworth8079]

Love this video! Thank you. I agree about both putting the forest garden in rows (I'm beginning to do that on my homestead) and about the 7 layers. Mine currently has 4 layers, but I am adding to it every year. I'm planting grapes this autumn, so I suppose I am adding another layer. Actually, I have always quibbled with the 7 layers concept because I think there are more than 7 possible layers, especially when one considers fungi (as being distinct from root crops), epiphytes, lichen/moss, aquatic plants, etc. 7 seems a bit arbitrary and poetic. Can you grow strawberries? I've started using them as a ground cover. (My ducks keep the slugs at bay.) So far so good. Since you mentioned lovage, I would dearly love to see a video about it. I've been growing it for 3 years now, and am not very fond of it. Could you speak about it a bit and perhaps describe how you use it? I'd like to appreciate it more than I do. Currently, I use it for chop and drop.

[@TapoNothFarm]

Hi Kirsten - great points! Your forest garden rows sound great. Yes, we have some strawberries in the most southerly row (this video featured shots mostly from the northern one), along with cardoon and a few other odds and sods! We mostly use lovage chopped up on eggs (scrambled and poached) maybe mixed with other herbs such as fennel. Great idea to use it like a mulch though, plenty of it!

[@minhthanh9857]

The garden so great... Like the gardens in VN , I want to go your farm... From Vietnam !

[@TapoNothFarm]

Wow, thanks for watching all the way in Vietnam!

[@minhthanh9857]

@@TapoNothFarm ,Im making youtube, I hope to be supporttive...

[@zinnialady5153]

Beautiful garden

[@TapoNothFarm]

Thank you!

[@simonrowe3124]

Lovely explanation of your Forest Garden Hedgerows... thank you. We’ve just bought 4.5 acres up near Occumster, KW3, and are planning the layout of the land from a permaculture perspective. What species of Plum tree did you plant? ... and do your goats like Cumfrey?

[@TapoNothFarm]

Thank you, glad you enjoyed watching it. In the tree rows we have Victoria and Czar, also some damsons. Yes the goats love comfrey, we feed it to them regularly and the hens and ducks too! Best of luck with your 4.5, exciting times!

[@fezwhy]

You guys have lots of nice colors in your orchard. I thought I would pass on something to you. Goumi plants grow in your zone and are also nitrogen fixers with edible berries. Not sure if they are well known in your area. We plant them near our garden and near our fruit trees. It works really well. There is nothing quite like eating the food that you nurtured and grew.

[@TapoNothFarm]

Thanks for that, we have researched Goumi before, the hard thing is sometimes acquiring these harder to find shrubs! Thanks for watching.

[@IwillloveU4ever10]

I like Plants🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

[@robinmcmillen7917]

Your apples look so yummy

[@varietasVeritas]

Is it just me, or does everyone fall in love with her?

[@aloisiquirino7947]

Hey, compliments for such a beautiful, healthy, sound farm and gorgeous pictures! Your wonderful videos give me the impression that you must have very much time ;) At least for me it takes quite some time to watch 20 mins of various topics in every episode in order to catch the 3-5 mins of content that the title was promising ;) However, and as we know everything has two sides, the 20 mins are crammed with beautiful pictures of the environment that our human souls want to be in (and are made for), so I have to thank you for this experience too! I try to consider it as a welcome relaxing pause for the soul in our modern world where everybody is always looking for maximizing time efficiency. Can I ask how much of your income are you getting from actual farming? Not saying that courses, accomodation etc are not very valuable contributions too, just wondering because I've seen very few permaculture farms being open about how much permaculture actually contributes financially to their livelihood. In the end permies have to pay bills too. Hoping that soon I can realize my dream of putting my version of the permaculture orchard into the ground too :) Keep up the good work!

[@TapoNothFarm]

Thank you for the compliments :) this long comment must have taken quite some time to write ;) vlog stands for video log, it is a log of our lives and the work that we do and the title aims to capture the main subject of what was filmed. Currently we earn 100% of our income from our CSA veg box scheme, which we talk openly about in some of our other videos. Thanks for watching!

[@TapoNothFarm]

Also, are you familiar with chapters and their usage in YT? We're starting to implement them in our videos, allowing people to jump to specific ares of interest or chapter.

[@farmyourbackyard2023]

The Laminacea family Is especially beneficial to bees. They come to that Jesus to heal themselves when they need to do so. We always include species from that family in our permaculture designs.

[@4philipp]

Those berries at the 3:59 minute mark, what are they? I have them on my property too. Love seeing hazelnuts growing. It’s such a European thing. Here in the US you only find them in Nutella. Lol. How do you control the mint? From my experience they are hard to kill. I love mint for tea, but I think I’ll keep it in big movable pots.

[@TapoNothFarm]

That's Rowan (Sorbus) or mountain Ash. We love the hazels too, they would probably do better for us if we were a bit further south but quite a good harvest this year. Thanks for watching!

[@4philipp]

Tap o' Noth Farm it’s an Ent Tree. You might find hobbits around, they are friends with the Ents :)

[@jancrous6193]

Excellent video, as usual! Always new thing to learn. What kind of cheese did you make? Enjoy this beautiful time of year.

[@TapoNothFarm]

Thanks very much! It was the start of a soft goats cheese. Have a great autumn!

[@denicemoffat]

What awesome photography. Would you share what kind of camera you use? and the editing program? You two are great! We have a permaculture farm and were also inspired by the Permaculture Orchard video but like you, we have to figure out what ripens when in our climate before we start putting in some linear rows.

[@TapoNothFarm]

Thanks so much Denice! We started off using an iPhone 6 but now film with a Cannon M50. Best of luck with your project!

[@Supwiyaman]

This vlog is what my bro sent me then gave me the idea to start my food forest at the moment it looks like chernobyl

[@Axelcat11]

6:49 of music and fluff That is a very long intro

[@TapoNothFarm]

One persons fluff is another persons art/enjoyment/hobby. Not an intro actually - but an insight into our morning chores set to music, not everything needs narration to be understood - our regular viewers gain a lot through these montage scenes as they are familiar with our day to day patterns and gain a lot from observing the changes that occur through out the week (between filming). If we had too explain every little thing we wouldn't get much farming done! Goat milking, chicken systems, grazing systems and cheese making, all before 6:50. Then you get 16 minutes of detailed explanation of one of our orchards here on the farm. As we always say in our vlogs, we are not a 'how to' vlog series, but a fly on the wall style of filming. Some will like it, others not...though you seemed to watch it ;) Thanks for giving viewers the option to jump to the forest garden explanation, I've always meant to put that in.

[@ardenthebibliophile]

My god six and a half minutes is far too much for an intro

[@TapoNothFarm]

If that's your opinion, maybe this channel isn't for you as the style of filming is often showing our life through montage. We aren't typical youtube how to videos that feature only one subject throughout the video. There is often a subject that culminates during the video but certainly not restricted to this theme - check out our other videos for even longer intros! But thanks for getting through those long six minutes!