GROWING ABUNDANCE Using BIODIVERSITY: NO ANIMAL FORAGERS, NO PESTICIDES, NO HERBICIDES, NO CHEMICALS

[@asbjorgvanderveer5050]

You've done a wonderful job restoring your land into an abundant paradise. Thank-you for sharing it with us!

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you!

[@barbsoddznendz1896]

Wow your gardens are just bursting with life! Loved the video.

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you Barb!

[@Tiffany-Rose]

So many helpful tips! I'm definitely saving this video to look back on. Thank you for sharing. Your garden is so diverse and abundant! 🙏

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you Tiffany-Rose!

[@usethatherb4913]

Diversity rules! It keeps us harmonious with nature. Thank you for sharing your abundance. Blessings!

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

It’s a real pleasure! Blessings to you too!

[@raddasra7084]

hey i got one of your videos recommened a few month back and subscribed instantly, watching on and off. I do like that you radiate very positive energy. I also watch Exploring Alternatives, saw a thumbnail of a garden and was like, that looks familiar. Who would have guessed, it was your garden! I might be very lucky in the near future to have my own garden. Keep it up sir! :)

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you! You know, even if all you have is a window sill, you can grow stuff! Welcome to Willows Green Permaculture!

[@Welcometothewild]

My sir i hope you have many children and may they have many more. We need more people just like you on this planet. Never cease to be amazing

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you!

[@rachelhobbit]

Just amazing, so inspiring. Love the fish pedicure!

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you!

[@GrandmomZoo]

Fish pedicures are fabulous!❤❤❤

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

You bet!

[@GrandmomZoo]

You are rocking the permie badge friend! Everything looks fantastic!❤

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you!

[@jessebluehouse]

So lovely to hear your voice & be granted your teachings, sir. Blessings on you & this land!

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you! Blessings to you too!

[@CoastalGardensNW]

Amazing love your garden new sub here 👍

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you! Welcome to Willows Green Permaculture!

[@JunkyardGold]

You've got a nice garden

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you!

[@AlsanPine]

man! what would i give to have water going through my little orchard! looking really great. do you have any ginseng? you have perfect spots for it. great as always to see the magic. nice ending 🙂

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you for this suggestion. No I don’t. Are there different kinds? What would you recommend?

[@AlsanPine]

@@WillowsGreenPermacultureamerican ginseng would be the native choice. it is less potent and has milder taste. asian, ie. chinese, ie. korean ginseng is more potent and tastes more of dirt🙂that is only a problem if you want to consume it as tea. i am not a fan so i take it in capsules. they need to be under tree canopy. dapple shade. protected from harsh direct sun. it takes at least 7yrs for good potency so you might get started if you want some 🙂

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

@@AlsanPine Thank you! I have a local grower of native plants whose plant material is of excellent quality. Natural Themes Nursery in Frankford. I'll see if I can get some from her.

[@SpecialSP]

Thanks for sharing your toes with us! I loved the fish …

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you!

[@aaronschmidt9753]

Looks amazing! I'd love to work on your farm!

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you! What region do you live in? I might start getting woofers at some point.

[@aaronschmidt9753]

@@WillowsGreenPermaculture That's awesome! I'm in southeast Kentucky. Looking to relocate in the near future.

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

@@aaronschmidt9753we’re in Ontario. 😊

[@aaronschmidt9753]

@@WillowsGreenPermaculture Would love to visit sometime!

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

@@aaronschmidt9753that would be great. 😊

[@samanthabrown9671]

The gardens look awesome

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you!

[@Greenmahn333]

👍

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

😊

[@AlmostaGreenAcre-zs5eu]

Beautiful garden 🙂

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you!

[@ayelean9397]

Another great and informative video! I haven’t tried to use jewelweed as a mosquito repellent but now I’m definitely going to try that, we have an abundance of it growing in our yard. I’ve also been trying to let our wild lettuce grow too. Your forest inspires me to get more plants in the ground and grow many plants together - like your patch of dill, calendula and cilantro. Thanks!

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you! The plants love to grow together. It’s like they’re having a party!

[@lucschoonen]

you are doing so many unusual things, I love it! I don't know how you manage all this tho

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you! If you have a look at more of our videos, you will start to see how we set it up so nature helps us manage in so many ways.

[@lucschoonen]

@@WillowsGreenPermaculture I will, thanks

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

@@lucschoonenthank you for watching!

[@danielapettus7693]

Very healthy and beautiful ❤

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you!

[@laurakamal8842]

Wonderful video! Thank you so much!

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you!

[@drrahilakurdi5943]

Good morning ❤❤❤❤

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Good morning! 😊

[@Laura-Redrockgsp]

I've got so much grass that took over.

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Yes. Grass can take over quickly. When I see it, I pull it out. After a rain is best. You look for the base of the grass plant, gather together the base of all the stems, and pull. You can usually get it all out this way. Don’t use it as mulch, and don’t put it in your regular compost pile.

[@sheamaloney5527]

Great video! Can you talk about the Daylily’s some time please?

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Yes. Absolutely. That’s a good idea!

[@ssgmymslife]

❤❤❤ such diversity. Love it.

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you!

[@rogerkenworthy6380]

What an amazing garden and with loads of useful information. Thanks, Roger

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you Roger!

[@rogerkenworthy6380]

@@WillowsGreenPermaculture I hope we can be half as successful in our endeavor. Cheers Roger

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

@@rogerkenworthy6380all the best! I’m sure it will go great!

[@rogerkenworthy6380]

@@WillowsGreenPermaculture Thanks, we'll keep following for more sage comments. Cheers Roger

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

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[@garrettpeters3438]

I will have to find some jewel weed at our garden! I have never heard of using it as an insect repellent.

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

It seems to work!

[@KellySandra716]

What is your planting zone? how magnificent!!!

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

5b. But the map needs updating. I think we’re 6a at least.

[@creekwoodfarmandhomesteadc6440]

Cool stuff

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you!

[@doinacampean9132]

28:13 - what berries are those?

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

They’re a non-native honeysuckle. Apparently not edible. The plant is considered invasive here, however, I’ve had to pull one or two out where something else needed the space, and I didn’t find it difficult to pull out at all. Nothing at all like buckthorn, for example.

[@grandfatherrabbit]

Such a beautiful garden!

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you!

[@bonstar3221]

I always learn something from you THANK YOU😊

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

I’m very glad to hear it. Thank you! 😊

[@florincemasapit7695]

Wow, everything looks so nice and i love it so much

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you!

[@shames59]

love your show working on my back yard planting pollinators and veges perennials and annuals retired now so looking to make a little paradise

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

That’s great! All the best! Thank you for watching!

[@lindaclough9234]

We live in Texas, have those fire ants all over, I use to go bare footed when I lived in Washington State Miss that!

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

We have those too, but not everywhere. Curly dock, plantain or Jewelweed all help in case of fire ant bites.

[@happyhobbit8450]

The birds don't eat much -- the saying 'you eat like a bird' :) My Amaranth is a burgundy red -- would it be better at attracting pollinators or some pests will go for it rather than your more edible plants? Thank you for the tour through that wonderful garden! I would like to try making ponds and chinampa ... I think it would be possible here but it's just me -- I'll have to research it more.

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Amaranth is definitely a plant animals can browse on. I’m pretty sure some dear are some of ours last week. Trimmed off the top. We have burgundy and also green amaranth. For ponds, all you really need to do is find where water collects after a rain. If it stays there longer than anywhere else, you’ve got a spot where you can bit by bit start creating a pond and later chinampa.

[@Returntothesoil]

I live using hay in my garden. But I've had issues finding a source that hasn't been sprayed by pesticide in Demossville KY. Have you heard of the grazon / gliphosate issue??

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

I have to admit, I haven’t been paying attention to the news. I am aware, however, of the major problems with glyphosate and have been aware of it since the beginning. It is poison after all and should not be in our food. Wouldn’t want to touch it with a ten foot pole as they say. What is the grazon/glyphosate issue?

[@Returntothesoil]

@@WillowsGreenPermaculture Grazon is a persistent broadleaf herbicideforever chemical that they spray on the hay fields. It stays in the hay and when it starts to break down on your soil it kills your plants. Not for just that year either. It stays in the soil for years!! So Im afraid to use hay from here. I ask places if they know if it's been sprayed and no one has an answer. Then I ask the growers and they all say yes they spray. Ugh

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

@@Returntothesoilrather than use hay in the garden, I would suggest leaves, and also compost you can generate from kitchen scraps and the weeds you pull and so on. I collect the bags of leaves people put out in the fall for the municipality to pick up. I cover the garden with them.

[@ManivaHouse]

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[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

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[@pilgrimshodl8628]

What were you using for mosquito repellent in at the start? I did not catch what you said. Thank you

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Jewelweed. You can also use yarrow, or burdock. In the same way. Also, any aromatic herb might even work. I haven’t tried herbs yet, because I would use too many of our herbs to do this. However, we now have a ton of catnip, so I am going to start using it. Apparently it keeps ticks away too.

[@kleineroteHex]

Jewelweed, I think also called touch me not. I have lots/had lots before I pulled it out of my walkway and before we had hot and no rain. Once what is left goes to seed it will be everywhere again😊. I tend to rub catmint and lemonbalm over my skin, grows all over as well.

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

@@kleineroteHexyes. I use those too.

[@bitethebullet8213]

any concerns with ticks? that's an ongoing issue with my property.

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you for your comment. I am no more worried than I am with any of the other wildlife. We have ticks here. We also have catnip growing everywhere, and when I think of it, I wipe myself down with it. Ticks dislike catnip. Of course, it’s the summer now. Ticks are inactive here in the summer. Spring and fall is when we find them. I rarely think about them in the summer. Even in the spring and fall, I don’t worry too much. It’s a small percentage of some kinds of ticks that carry lime disease. I could also worry about coyotes, bears, falling trees, cars, pesticide runoff from local farms in the creek, and more. But then, I wouldn’t find time to start living, and enjoying life. I’m not careless, but I do believe we are all here for a reason, and until we have fulfilled what it is each of us is here for, we’re here for the duration. I’m tempted to go on, but this is a gardening and living guided by nature channel, not a spiritual channel. 😊

[@kleineroteHex]

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[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

@@kleineroteHex😊

[@august1731]

I’m having real trouble with powdery mildew on my courgettes, cucumber and squash’s. What would you recommend?

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Try watering from below. If you water by hand, you can use a wand that will allow you to water from below comfortably. Also, avoid watering too much. Now I get powdery mildew every year on my squash and they they get through and give me a Harvest anyway. It just doesn’t look as nice.so long as I’m watering below, it doesn’t spread. Another thing you can do to make your plants stronger, and therefore more resistant to powdery mildew, and so on is to bury the vines at the leaf nodes, using mulch, or soil, or leaves, or even weeds. The vines will sprout roots at the leaf nodes and make your plant stronger it will grow new vines. It will get more fruit

[@august1731]

@@WillowsGreenPermaculture thank you so much!

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

@@august1731you’re welcome!

[@happyhobbit8450]

I thought you would have talked about 'no animal foragers' ... all the other permaculture people say you need animals to complete the cycle. I have chickens and it's great to have fresh eggs and the poop for fertilizer but I buy the feed and wanted to figure out how to not buy feed or just do away with them because they tie me to the place.

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

I talked a little bit about the fact that animals take very little from our garden because we plant native species for them outside the garden. In a sense, the animals that complete the cycle for us and help us out are the wild ones. The birds. The frogs. The deer. Etc. You are right the raising goats or chickens makes it hard to leave home for a few days. I would like a couple of goats for milk, cheese and yoghurt, but I haven’t considered myself ready for that adaptation.

[@Judi-CA]

Love what you both have done to your land. However, it’s bothersome that YT gardeners don’t show what zone they’re gardening in! I had to dig in your “About” it shows Canada but what Zone? I want to watch successful permaculture gardens that thrive in my zone 9b.

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Unfortunately, I can’t even get an accurate idea of my climate zone. I am convinced our current map is totally out of date. It says we are 5b. But I think we are at least 6a, if not 6b. I used to live in Toronto and it feels like Toronto here. Some parts of Toronto are 7a. So as you can see, you’re starting to get the picture… I’m doing my best to help people to learn to grow their food using nature as guide, living with with, inviting nature into the gardens. The principles are the same in all climate zones. The details will vary.

[@michaelgroves3460]

You're funny if you think no animals are involved in your garden.

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

It’s just the opposite. I am always talking about how I attract animals to the garden to help us. All kinds of animals.

[@michaelgroves3460]

@@WillowsGreenPermaculture Good... the title with no animal foragers made me think you didn't think you had animals taking part in your garden. I love animals in my gardens, though ground hogs are not really welcome in most of mine. I don't really love vole infestations either... but with time the predators will balance them out. I guess I should have spent the time to watch more, though my gardens take most of my time and I don't have much to spare. Nice garden! The vines in the garlic are called mile a minute, a very nasty invasive worth keeping out of the garden.

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

@@michaelgroves3460 Yeah. The title would be better if it's said 'relatively speaking' but of course that would make it too long, if it isn't too long already. I try to give as much info as I can in the title. We call mile a minute 'bindweed' here. At least, that's what I think it is. In the morning glory family.