Growing a Greener World Episode 1005: Modern Homesteading - Transforming the Urban Garden Experience

Homesteading is about much more than just establishing a place and growing food. The differing styles that the two women featured in this episode will inspire you to view your own landscape from a fresh perspective.
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[@cynthiaclinton1519]

Every show is full of information . It's like getting a college education from the best teacher and his guest

[@CatherinesGardenHomeLWS]

I am an urban cottage gardener. I think that growing in the city is important to the health of the city dwellers. I also think that teaching children and encouraging communities to know where their food comes from. Thanks for sharing this info.

[@maureen3621]

Children can be taught from a young age about the environment. From the earthworms, insects, different birds and bird songs, their environments and the biology that makes it all happen. Schools cannot teach all of this, but it is these added lessons that stay with us for the rest of our lives and we carry on learning from.

[@Just-Nikki]

I absolutely agree. I have a young man who lives near us ( he’s 21 ) but he asked if he could watch me garden and I was delighted. We have now helped him put in 3 raised beds and I shared a couple of fig cutting and blackberry bushes with him. He also makes soap with me and apple cider vinegar. I would love to teach children but it’s been rewarding teaching this young man and watching him grow in his knowledge and confidence. Happy planting, I wish you good health and abundance.

[@missannetteslittlefarminth9069]

That is completely my mission, to get kids and their families outside to garden and raise animals responsibly.

[@nachig4754]

Thanks!

[@flowerpower3618]

That is the hugest urban lot I’ve ever seen.

[@NBCon]

Thanks Joe and team!

[@x4ku]

THAT is how you do a sponsor ad. One quick, unintrusive brand and slogan flash and we're done. Good job, Growing a Greener World. Good job, Subaru.

[@ggwtv]

Zach McAuliffe thank you Zach! 👍👏👏👏

[@TheFragrantBunch]

So happy that Growing a Greener World is available on KZbin!

[@debramurphy4295]

3-7-2022 I am so ready to start my garden I leave in a mobile home lot. Lots of pots.

[@hgdon-homeiswheretreesare-9239]

A greener world, I like that !

[@krisanderson4137]

Love all these wonderful ideas

[@ggwtv]

Glad you like them!

[@kimmartin2522]

I could watch urban farming all day!

[@onlygreen]

a great life style...worth emulating by all of us...and move towards a greener world....loved it..

[@Farida-A.R.]

Amazing gardening information. Thanks.

[@maritabradford9838]

Great episode,thank you

[@ggwtv]

Happy to hear this. Thanks.

[@atefbasha1809]

Thank all the team work..so much teacher me

[@selvarajkannan9923]

Beatitude 💅.you have beautiful positive thoughts in ur heart and living with green mute nature .Literally luminary walk greenway proudly boasting of its eye soothing beauty.I am Thankful for the opportunity to be great full 🙏.

[@opperman818]

So much great information 👍

[@barbaracole4314]

That's so cool to have such a productive little farm just outside of Seattle... I lived there for a little while very nice place to live

[@jamesthai4062]

Easy to understand the way you speak thanks

[@lindamckeown2830]

Please interview Jess Sowell of Roots and Refuge Farm. She is such a joy to watch as a homesteader.

[@anissadiggins945]

I adore here

[@STEAMLabDenver]

I agree!

[@althea1462]

Yes please!!

[@donnareed3822]

She and her family would be awesome to interview

[@jsddf8455]

I agree

[@rasbijalpatel310]

1/3 rd of an acre,what matters is your ability to grow and feed freshness. Very nice to see how the perspectives change as to what is available and ready(in its prime)will be on the table. Unspoiled raising of the kids.

[@bounimlakhal23]

Very Nice 👍🇲🇦🙏

[@JorgeT-sn7hw]

Excellent. Good ideas for me. Thanks

[@GCGomez]

I love this show very much ❤️ AWESOME!!!!

[@atefpasha817]

It's a great Baby 😻❤️

[@richienicolas571]

inspiring. love the way you look at things around and how your outlook pass through to you own kids

[@deatraparks4739]

i used to watch this on tv--theonly station i could get--and miss this. no tv for me. happy to find this again on utube. deatra parks

[@ol4509]

Great. Love the KZbin format with longer overall videos. Please keep them coming.

[@melanieshields8056]

What an inspiration! She demonstrates some great innovative tips!

[@shelly5596]

Great video. We took the leap into living off grid with solar, composting toilet, and we currently haul water, but plan to capture water for crops and animals in the future. We started raising some of our own foods, including, meats and eggs 6 years ago as I had also begun approaching gardening and landscape the permaculture way. We now live in the mountains in Eastern Wa at a high elevation with a shorter growing season, then what we had when we lived closer to town but in a frost pocket. As much as I love growing vegetable and herb gardens, what excites me most is learning about wild edibles and medicinals are in our local area.

[@ggwtv]

Wow. That's quite the plunge Shelly. This all sounds fantastic. Thanks for sharing and the kind words.

[@hollyw2499]

What an AWESOME chicken tractor! Totally copying this design today! Thanks for inspiring!

[@jenisetaylor1906]

Jess is The Best!😇😚

[@sheilabrewster6810]

Everytime I see Jack, he makes me smile and feel so happy. The Bees are such workers busily going from one beautiful flower to the next.

[@maureen3621]

When I was a child our playground was in between the bee hives. We used to play cricket. The bee's were too busy making honey to be bothered by us and back then we were fearless.

[@maureen3621]

CHANGING ONE'S CLIMATE not the other way around. We have limited movement at this moment in time due to a little virus, one good thing is vegetable seed sales have rocketed in the UK. I can totally understand what you're trying to deliver as a sustainable message. I grew up in a family that didn't have money for needful things so they made best use of what they had. They worked very hard for their worth. We always had a roof over our heads, good home cooked food on the table and hand made or thrift shop clothing to wear. Living on the 'Never, Never' was seen as shameful as it was a sign of bad house keeping. Charles Darwin wrote about how life adapts to survive. I think we all are so homogeneous that rather than being self sufficient we are unable to live without being told how to think for ourselves, to live with successes and failures in equal measures. Forgive me for sounding too preachy but when we get told by the "jet setters" that we should all believe in climate change because their data modelling has come up with forecast figures I automatically am sceptical. When was the last time you ever bought vegetables that weren't wrapped in plastic? In my little part of the world it's not about climate change globally, it's more of a degree of my change of climate. I have grown my own vegetables since I was a child. Our playground was in between the bee hives.

[@mswriterfly]

, great info thanks

[@thevikingwolfpack836]

She looks great .

[@unyika3]

Joe, what a great episode! Thanks for the videos and television show. Always enjoy.

[@gothic_ace2037]

Last year was a bit of a bust with my impromptu garden but this year im gonna do it right. Compost, garden boxes, the whole shebang

[@glycojim]

Excellent subject mater. I loved it. from Zone 9A, Central FL.

[@jamesgrant6056]

My soil is teeming with ants Help!

[@glycojim]

@@jamesgrant6056 Have you identified what kind of ants you are dealing with? Red, Black, or Fire ants?

[@ajb.822]

I'm imagining a big pottery thing made like the the store bought in-ground composting system. Or 2 clay pots, a few wooden stakes around perimeter, coming slightly above lip of bottom pot, so up-turned top one is secure when placed back on for the cover. Or just a pot tray for the cover. Use a masonry drill bit ? ( I'm not a drill expert, but am guessing).

[@josevictorvelez2824]

Thank you! This is so informative and inspiring!

[@bestcrossroad]

Thank you Joe for bringing us very practical and innovative gardeners! Amazing human beings! Your channel always have great content and inspiration. God bless you and all what you do.💝 from Zone 7b, northern NJ.

[@YayensHomeAndGarden]

Thank you for sharing your excellent work...I hope I can apply this in my farm one day...love farming...from Brunei

[@charlesbale8376]

Fabulous, I really enjoyed the video and information.

[@HippocratesGarden]

Practical Permaculture was the textbook for my Oregon State Univ. PDC

[@gigineri1609]

Thanks ❤️❤️❤️

[@sellingroanoke]

I enjoyed this so much. Really something to inspire to. Though I may not actually create such a beautiful growing oasis as they have, it is certainly something I’d like to strive for. No criticism here.

[@mywoolmitten]

What an interesting episode, really enjoyed it! And I love the idea of drying the herbs in the car ;)

[@TrickleCreekFarm]

We have dyed wool that way too! The heat sets the dye - it's a fun children's project when you incorporate various kool-aid colors!

[@lisabanasiak1198]

Joe, thank you for a great video! I have been following you since you were on Garden Smart!

[@ggwtv]

Thank you Lisa. Garden Smart was so long ago!!!

[@krzysztofrudnicki5841]

Love it. But about the chickens... I would rather make a Justin Rhode's chickshaw than standard coop. Less messy work. And I would put a compost area to the run.

[@sunilchelladurai8140]

Amazing

[@juneillee1561]

You should have James Prigioni on the show!

[@anantsinghrajput6315]

You're making future bright and use compost for farming it is very good

[@jenniferjarvis1207]

About the little box-top greenhouse, anyone have any suggestions for allowing rain to come through, so we don't have to water using mains or stored water? Is there a way to have a kind of greenhouse roof but still capitalize on rainfall? Perhaps leaky wooden windows? ;)

[@EmbracingHarvest]

lovely tour. thanks for sharing!

[@leslieollerhead1114]

👍🏻🤗ty awesome video

[@Mailladymo1]

would love to see more time invested in this "food digester system" ?

[@shelly5596]

Can you offer any helpful solutions to pack rat issues? We moved off grid and our garden was destroyed by pack rats after the plants matured and started producing. We live in Eastern wa on 20 acres at a high elevation in the woods, mostly douglas fir and pines.

[@jeanque04]

I love it, thank you, greetings from Belgium

[@californiagardeningmom3441]

Love it!

[@pacificpermaculture]

This was a great video ! !

[@austin2842]

How long are the chickens and ducks kept before they become food too?

[@CCCC-tq8yo]

Nice

[@loreneknight9755]

Perennial foods? Please explain. Love this video. We need to know more...thanks so much.

[@randyc754]

Amazing woman!

[@nestof3]

I would love to hear what perennial foods she’s planting.

[@daviddawson1718]

Blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, all of the fruit trees. I add pecans and oaks, acorns for deer and pecans for people. This morning I had 13 whitetail deer in my yard

[@flowerpower3618]

Makes a difference being in the pacific north west- rain, mild temp.

[@precisiont5188]

I love strong women.

[@jimk1577]

I hate when people, the the first guest, ask "What's in what you're eating, can you pronounce it?" like that is the measure of food safety. I have a degree in Biology so yes, I can pronounce the ingredients, if I posted a list of everything in an apple, most people couldn't pronounce them. To say something is bad just because you can't pronounce it is assinine.

[@cathysoukup2398]

The point is that the more words you can't even pronounce, the less you really know what's in the food. When you buy a bag of oats, it should simply say "oats" (or better yet, "organic oats". If there is anything else listed, you have to then ask, "what is that? What's it for? Is it necessary? Is it harmful?", etc. Takes way more time, and how many of us are going to go to all that trouble? Additionally, manufacturers are "hiding" undesirable ingredients in our food - and I know I don't have time to track all of that!

[@charliezicolillo]

Joe the garbage pail in the ground.Should I do that with my eight plastic garbage pails.That I weedwack leave in the fall for leafcompost.7 are 33 gal. and one is a blue 55 gal.

[@Lookingtobuildforwillow]

Does the first person they interviewed have a youtube? She has so much information.

[@kurtcooper3699]

This is not a city fenced off plot for a small garden. It's countryside living off the land. Not concrete. Back to basics. When someone is labeled "an authority" on permaculture farming, etc we need to look back a generation & see that the real authorities have already lived like this for generations. Just no videos back then. There are farmers that live off the land & use the resources while giving back. And there are farmers who grind the soil into dust, cover it with man made fertilizer & spray every ounce of soil then take what grows to market abroad. U don't have to have pigs, cattle, etc to be a farmer. Farm what the land provides.

[@md6397]

Number one input here is ....$$$$$ lots of $$$$$$

[@KB-mk9lv]

Well said

[@RealJudyi]

Not really. In the northwest there's many many many nurseries, landscaping companies, farmers with animals which means they all compete with low prices. No need to pay for much water as it rains pretty much all year round. We also have a lot of help from counties because in Washington state they help you out if you want to collect your own water, have solar panels ect because it means you need to use less of their own services and if you have more than you need the county will "buy back" the excess

[@soilbellefarm3210]

Use ecosia search engine. My family and I do!! It is beautiful. I just bought a tshirt from them. And that will be my holiday gifts for my family And friends

[@gilshelley9183]

The background music is too loud

[@GrandmaKarenHasAFarm]

I have Ancona ducks, too. Love them!

[@californiagardeningmom3441]

awesome!

[@atefpasha817]

Hallo Jeaurny and your family so so much

[@sungwayliu4421]

8:15 A simple

[@doctorguss]

Oh yeah, the cops will definitely believe that I'm just "drying herbs" in the backseat of my car

[@rivergrrrl1256]

I have property that is planted in trees for tax breaks. Could you find people to interview who know what to plant in a fir tree understory to harvest for food? I have wild blackberries, and an elderberry tree. I am considering blueberries and mushrooms. I would appreciate any help given. I think there is a lot of acreage in trees (for the tax break) that could also be managed for additional productivity. (Even if just along the edges of the access roads.) I don't know anyone else who's even considering doing this, can you find anyone? Again I'd appreciate any help offered. Thanks

[@KB-mk9lv]

Ha! Very effective and clear communication @Rivergrrrl

[@zarahprater]

I didn’t know Seth Rogan was into homesteading

[@vnickcolvin4971]

Would share how make the chicken run?

[@wendysgarden4283]

google "chicken tractor design" and you'll see several plans

[@tanyahanna6523]

Modern homestead.. prescription..the brothers Grimm..🧙...

[@catnip1487]

Whoa, this actually makes me wanna have ducks, because the messiness is what has been steering me away from it before. Thank you!

[@KimSenior]

Try doing it in the UK climate!

[@simondelaney2958]

I tried the chicken garden!, but after putting the chickens in the garden, 2 days later there was no garden 🤔

[@plezilakay1214]

Lol

[@folklover-405]

Too bad Erica is no longer pursuing her homesteading, at least publicly. Her segment is at least a couple years old.

[@greenthumbbrownbag]

It’s a bummer that she has stepped back from the blog (and yes this interview is quite a few years old) but I hope she is still at it!

[@alexandrazhu9666]

If you go out for a vacation,who take care of your chickens?

[@TheMisselizabeth369]

Pet/farm sitters.

[@Andrea-cy9pn]

How do you protect the plastic sheet from a stone storm? Could I put a metal sheet on top or something?

[@trevorstolz8580]

I grew up in small town British Colombia. My grandparents had 2 1/8 acres in town. They had more than 30 fruit trees in addition to a large raspberry patch, black berries, and a large garden. We almost never had candy at home and never missed it. I don't know why everyone does this. You see people in town with trees in their yard. Whey don't they chop them down and plant fruit trees? Where I live now, raspberries cost $5 for a little box!!! You but it with AFTER tax income. IF ... the goverment is taking 60% of your income away, anything you produce become more cost effective. It's essentially tax free income. Also, there are so many children nowadays that are fat and diabetic. When I was a child and even now today, fresh fruit satisfies my sugar cravings and it's all natural. I think even cities should plant fruit trees all over the city rather than trees that don't produce anything. That would 1) help the homeless, 2) provide good food to school children or anyone else that could pick it and 3) it might even help with the problem of disappearing bees.

[@ggwtv]

There is definitely a lot of under-utilized garden space in every yard. Totally agree, Trevor!

[@undernetjack]

Wow just go ahead and put a commercial in the video... I pay KZbin for zero commercials. I am sure this violates you terms of service.

[@farmerjones5479]

Fantastic episode! I have a tiny micro HOMESTEAD and urban farm. I found the answer to several concerns and problems. Thank you. New subscriber! @Farmer_Jones_1880

[@atefpasha817]

Hallo!! Together!! jassee how are you 😹☺️💓🐱😊❤️

[@wolfmooch]

Not sure I would have shown a horse when she says her animals are also food. Just me maybe.

[@harrrytoool1391]

Good advice just. Too much music. It’s annoying🥴🐸🦜

[@Pipebomb666]

She's got an excavator for her compost... Not fair!

[@joansmith3492]

Why is it that permaculture people act like there is no such thing as rats/mice. Gardens, animal feed, manure all bring in rats and you have to plan for that too.

[@koribwrs1961]

Hmm Cats?

[@victorybeginsinthegarden]

@@koribwrs1961 yes cats

[@tomhancock541]

she looks like my next wife

[@fionar1656]

I rather give my foodscraps to my chickens.

[@FoxyCAMTV]

Buy a Subaru,that sure will grow a greener world.

[@daviddawson1718]

I bought my Chevy pickup 25 years ago, and I see no reason to discard an item just because it has a little age.