How I Select Plants for my Permaculture Food Forest

[@Goldifarms]

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[@skades7286]

looks so much bigger for 2,000 square feet!! super helpful to me, i have so much unused garden space! I will be planting much more this year! Keep up the amazing work!🍀💫🌈😇 **I used to think i had to leave a lot of space between plants, so it will be interesting to see how this all turns out!🙏

[@robertromatowski6938]

The garden is the best place to be adventurous, and go for things that are not the norm.....the garden is my "go crazy place", trying things that test the boundaries, and let nature decide. Love your videos, and have a great night!

[@KeepOnGrowin]

This gives me lots to think about and is very helpful. We may only be in our current place for a few years before we move to a "forever home" but I want to transform this small yard into something wonderful before I leave. This will be valuable practice before moving on. Thank you.

[@MartinaSchoppe]

Leaving the place better then you found it! I like that!

[@melissagoodwin2602]

Information provides me with things to consider when growing

[@Linda-o2c5t]

We love your videos!!!❤❤❤ So inspiring and you help us keep our dreams alive🥰 The psychological part is so important and you have such a beautiful way of looking at living life ❤

[@CMR308]

I like the size of this food forest. Makes me believe that I too can pursue this wonderful lush technique.

[@MartinaSchoppe]

Go for it! 🙂 I started mine in 2018 in a completly different climate (Germany, hardiness zone 7a-ish), much more rain, heavy clay soil). It is still smaller then Goldifarms. The plot is about 830 square meters (including the house and garage) but the food forest is about a third of that. I might expand it a bit more, not sure yet.

[@hackhackandaway4060]

I enjoyed, and learned a lot from this video. Thank you 😊

[@SonjaSannert]

Thank you so much for another very useful and heartwarming video! I also appreciate very much the spreadsheet. I didn't take serious the importance of being structured that way but it absolutely makes sense. 🙏🧡🙋🏼‍♀️

[@jennie22.02]

thank you for talking about the chill time! that was a new concept to me

[@mahashakti_turtle_dandelion]

Thank you dear Erin. Allways al pleasure to see and hear your contents. ❤🌿🔥🍀🌒🌕🌘🍀🔥🌿❤ Namasté and Blessed Be.

[@godisincontrol32]

Lovely food Forest 😊

[@rootmother]

Love this Erin! Some of your trees are so tall, I can’t believe you planted them in the past few years or so!

[@Goldifarms]

Those acacias just take off!!

[@aprilbreen9207]

My advise to Californians wanting to grow mugwort is be very careful, it is powerfully hardy and spreads by runners. It is therefore like mint but much a much larger plant. It wants to take over and is likely Allelopathic. It might be best in a pot which absolutely has a place in a permaculture plan. Also consider Malabar spinach I’m in a different area, 7b on the east coast where Mugwort is invasive but have also gardened in coastal California.

[@tyrexpolie]

@Goldifarms I jut want to say a massive thank you for sharing your plant spreadsheet. I've been trying to make one, but not getting much done as I'd rather prefer to be out there mucking with my compost :). I finished my PDC a year ago but haven't done much apart from growing a veggie patch and this winter, I decided to do a bit more in terms of planting a small food forest. I'm in Southern Europe and we have drought for the last 2 years with water restrictions so it has been a challenge to grow anything. I've watched with great sadness dying plants even young trees who succumbed to lack of water. I've been thinking yes, it's nice to build a swale and water catchment, but it's nicer if we get rain first. But it looks like we're getting some rainy days this autumn so I thought better get on with it. Thank you again for your helpful videos, new sub here.

[@dominicrichlevien]

This is a fantastic video, I really enjoyed watching it. Thank you for you effort!❤

[@MariaHanulova-v2n]

Thank you so much for sharing your spreadsheet! I'm in a similar climate, just in Europe, so it is very useful.

[@LawOfNewton7]

Love your vids! Clear, succinct and informative. Great stuff

[@JeremyThomas_Environmentarian]

Great video. Thanks for all your work! Well done :)

[@j.r.mythical1238]

Thank you!

[@butternut_squish]

Your friend's garden is so beautiful! It would be wonderful to have a video walking through the space and talking about it with her

[@aprilbreen9207]

Malabar spinach is a good use of space and loves heat

[@nancyhewitson4729]

Living in suburbia in Cape Town in the Southern Hemisphere with a Mediterranean climate in the amazing Fynbos biome I have am reworking my very small food forest (`~ 70 square meters) and plan to try grafting stone fruits onto a peach tree and apple varieties onto an apple tree, etc and using some fynbos for under stories. My thinking is that it will support our insects for pollination and beauty, be beneficial to my local environment/ecosystem and I'll learn more about our indigenous edibles. .

[@koogoogle]

thank you for this video 😊 the spreadsheet idea could be super helpful for all the plants I've tried and failed with lol

[@raykingston4354]

fantastic advise. Thanks

[@PlantRelated]

hi! first I select by what I want to grow. then I see if it grows well, it stays. If it doesn't, I don't try to plant it again. I place the same plant in a few different spots to see where it will do best. Then I keep propagating and multiplying the plants that I love, that do well. and start all over again!

[@thefoodforestnamibia]

Awesome videos! You just got a new subscriber!

[@jaycruzsemple]

My olive tree I had for 6 years my longest tree was destroyed by the frost or the dock leaf weeds which invaded the plant pot and sucked up all of your nutrients and moisture I was very sad my other little mini olive tree also lost all its leaves through winter and I lost all six of my citrus trees so very sad but everything else is doing ok I just wish I had more passionate people who were willing to be more helpful and help me in and around the garden it is very challenging with the visual impairment not having any usual eyesight and having to try feel your way around especially when you get your hand cut up or Jag by brambles or overgrown jaggy nettle weeds lol I keep positive and faithful my eyesight will be restored one Way Or Another and I can actually watch your videos other than just listen to them and how nice day sound and be able to see my little boy's face again and also be able to see what I am going

[@MissBetsyLu]

I pray with you. Grand Blessings everyone

[@jamesbassett8470]

Excellent video! Love the succession planning. ❤ "NI"

[@shl9560]

I would like to be able to save this vid to my "food forest" list, but I don't see that option.

[@user-ut4zw6so6o]

Thank you. Zone 7a Long Island here. I have the problem of being close to a natural woods and regularly have deer, rabbits, raccoons, squirrels and groundhogs harvesting what grows in my yard. A day or two ago put some strawberry “groundcover” in a bare spot and within 10 minutes looked out the window and saw a groundhog literally running toward the strawberries! So at the moment have most vulnerable food plants growing in small fenced in areas or hidden spots the animals don’t seem to visit, or in waist-high raised beds (although makes it convenient for the deer to browse.)

[@aprilbreen9207]

I’d love strategies for this situation…. Permaculture designers are thinkers After many decades, deer finally found my lots of concrete Union county NJ town. Arrrrgh! Also had first groundhog too.

[@caranicolewilcox]

Just watch the acacia- they are very invasive as well as flammable in our coastal California.

[@gratitude354]

I watched your last video... about design of food forest... Could you please make a detailed video on initial earth works before planting...

[@jaycruzsemple]

Great video as always what do you use to edit KZbin videos and put music on it to make them look really good would love to know is it a free application you can use or do you need to pay for it and also would be great to get another tour of the guarding I got Cherry's for the very first time in 5 years of having my container cherry trees still not got any apricots or peach from my little to trees I got all of them but maybe not warm enough in Scotland and still nothing from my King James black Mulberry but other things are going good and try get about you up at some point once I have someone who can help me record it

[@debbi945]

Dies your friend Catherine have website or YT channel? I'd love to see more of her garden too

[@RisenUponTomorrow]

Do all plants have a use in permaculture? I'm excited to start a food forest and want to include my collection of horticultural plants but I haven't been able to find uses for things like lillies, dahlia, bird of paradise, etc

[@Goldifarms]

Yes! Those would be excellent for providing pollen for bees, adding beauty to the garden and some you mentioned are even medicinal.

[@MissBetsyLu]

Dalhas and daylilies are both edible for us. Blessings everyone.

[@MartinaSchoppe]

"Being beautiful" is a function, too. And as MissBetsyLu pointed out already, daylilies and dahlias are also edible.

[@pongop]

Amazing and helpful video! Beautiful farm! Shout out to Central CA. Did I see a Pacific Madrone with a butterfly? I also spy a copy of Ishmael by Daniel Quinn! It's one of my favorite and most influential books! I was just thinking about his books and getting to meet him and have him sign my books once.

[@Goldifarms]

Yes and yes! One of my favorite trees and yes an excellent book. ✨🫶✨

[@pongop]

@@Goldifarms Ishmael is amazing. And I like Pacific Madrones too. My mom's neighbor in WA has one, and my new neighbor in CA has one, too. Very pretty tree.

[@kimburns6694]

I have trouble with pocket gophers eating the roots on all my plants. Any ideas on what I can do?

[@Goldifarms]

Pesky gophers! We plant our trees in gopher baskets. I can’t say I enjoy making them or planting in them but it does make a huge difference. We also have cats to hunt rodents. People seem to have a lot of success with the gopher hawk but it’s not something I use much here at Goldifarms.

[@skades7286]

@@Goldifarms use wire to protect the roots when planting....get a "mouser" cat, they keep things in check in my garden

[@carolyneoconnor5029]

Hi! I have quite a small area that I'd like to use for a permaculture garden. I wanted to have a couple of apple trees and some clementine trees/bushes since they grow well in my location. Could I have different variety of apple trees so they harvest at different times, or would I need two trees of the same variety so they pollinate?

[@Goldifarms]

Hi Carolyn 💛 that sounds wonderful! I definitely recommend different apple trees- For the reason you stated. Typically the tag on the tree will indicate what varieties it will pollinate with. And if it’s not on the tag, you can always look online. Happy Gardening ✨💛🦋🌷

[@ecocentrichomestead6783]

Cold hardy kiwi fail.... That's the issue that has not been much researched. While a plant may survive the minimum temperature of the local climate, all plants need a certain temperature regime during the growing season to grow and, especially, to produce fruit/seeds.

[@PlantRelated]

"Feeding the acacia to the fig..." Savage lol

[@jackred2362]

Do you have a list of plants you would avoid because it may poison your cats? Is Mint ok for cats?

[@Nini51963]

I live in central California San Joaquin county how do you find plant nurseries that have permaculture plants ?

[@Goldifarms]

All plants can be used in permaculture!

[@tulsiramdagur9580]

आपके नर्सरी बहुत सुंदर है। आप भी बहुत स्माइली, सुंदर है

[@tulsiramdagur9580]

आपकी नर्सरी धरती पर स्वर्ग से कम नहीं हो सकती

[@mena2138]

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[@Goldifarms]

Yeah! Would love to see what you’re up to ✨☀️✌️

[@ghumakkad509]

I just found out about your channel and your videos are therapy followed you on insta as well 😊🙌🏼🙌🏼

[@GilJ-u1k]

Blessings 🌠🕊️🍄