How to Grow a Food Forest & Market Garden for Free and Cheap

John from www.growingyourgreens.com/ takes you on a field trip to Planet Claire Farmacy to show you how you can grow a food forest and market garden for free and cheap.
In this episode, you will learn about many techniques that can be used to build soil fertility. You will discover how this farmer is able to grow crops in the sandy soil of Florida.
You will learn how she is using a free resource to build organic matter in the soil throughout her entire garden.
You will learn a technique for making a pile of fungal dominated soil every year using only woodchips.
John will then give you a tour of this food forest and share the top fruits, roots, shoots and leafy green vegetables that will grow well in South Florida.
You will also learn how to protect your garden from rodents, deer and other creatures with free materials that may be available near you.
You will get a tour of many areas of the farm including the market garden and Microgreens area that is growing in the soil instead of trays. You will learn how you can better benefit from growing your own grains for your chickens.
You will discover how wood chips and logs and how they can be used in the garden to build a garden that conserves and holds moisture.
You will discover how free wood pallets and logs are used to make a hugelkultur bed, Raised beds with no sides using mulch as borders
You will see examples of many different structures that are used to grow food and trellis plants up off the ground to use more vertical growing space.
Finally, John will sit down with the farmer, Annette and ask her the following questions about her farm:
0:56:27 Interview with Annette
0:56:50 What motivates you to get up and work in your garden everyday?
0:57:37 What are some of the foods you grow that grow well? What do you grow instead of zucchini that gets squash bugs?
0:59:45 Tell us about the loofah gourd and how you grow it, eat it and use it?
1:00:16 Share with us a little about the Seminole Pumpkin?
1:01:01 What is the best tomato to grow in South Florida?
1:02:00 How do you use all the food that your grow here?
1:02:50 What do you feed your dogs? and how do you make it?
1:04:05 What have you learned about brix testing?
1:05:33 Tell me more about the low brix hydroponic lettuce?
1:08:09 What is one gardening practice that you think everyone should do?
1:09:00 Any final words of wisdom for my viewers?
1:09:37 How did you learn how to garden?
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[@pollywog1983]

Hi Everyone. This is Planet Calire Farmacy. A shout out to John. Come back to the Farmacy please. You won't believe the change! It is so fun watching how fast everything grows and now we are doing a market garden with raw superfood snacks!

[@scottsmith913]

WTG Annette! One wheelbarrow at a time, I can relate. As a Tampa area gardener I struggled with "northern" vegetables and I too have gone Asian on many varieties. Loofah was a cool crop last year, but didn't eat them as I wanted sponges. I know now I don't have to worry about not having enough sponges! Asian long beans do real well too. Hope to visit one day. John thanks again for sharing!

[@mlovestx10]

cool lady .. I like her enthusiasm !! I learned how to grow things from youtube too and now growing food in my city back yard.

[@ThePlantBasedHomestead]

As usual, love your Vlog John! We started a bigger garden and eating more veggies with your helpful video's when my husband transitioned to plant-based eating. I love RAW more that cooked but delve into both and while he's 100%, I'm about 85% there. We're changing our family history of medical illness because of folks like you, Dr. Esselystyn, Chef AJ, Mcdougall, etc. YOU however, have taught us a wealth of information and initiated our then infant daughter to LOVE eating her greens at an early age because we introduced them to her early on. Thank you and KEEP Growing and teaching your Greens!

[@vegannursepractitioner9629]

I just bought 5 acres in Punta Gorda, I will be moving down there in a year and a half and I CANNOT WAIT to start my food forest!!!!

[@annmarie2964]

are you there yet?

[@heathere8488]

Wow

[@pollywog1983]

Planet Claire Here for a quick update. Really building up the soil life with compost,biochar and worm castings. Lots of chop and drop in the food forest. The growth rate is amazing and the food forest has definitely popped.

[@tigrlily]

Love your style Annette. Nice use of everything working together and not taking things for granted. Great job "garden-sister".

[@pollywog1983]

@@tigrlily always happy to have "garden sisters". I dig it!

[@909undead]

Thanks for the video John! I started gardening last year with only a few raised beds. I can't tell you how many cans of salsa I have. Gardening has changed my life a lot, and I thank you for showing me how I can make it work. Having all these fresh vegetables and canned foods makes me feel so much healthier. I wish you the best of luck with your garden this year, and thank you for sharing what you have learned with everyone! Gardening can change everyone's lives. We need healthier foods in our lives, and you have inspired me to make that for myself and possibly grow for my community in the future. Jason

[@mikkeljylland9153]

KZbin is not enough to learn how to garden. But youtube and personal experience like this woman has is enough.

[@MSKCCooke]

Yes, please go visit the Farmacy again!

[@GardeningWithLauren]

I live here in swfl and I love your videos!! I have three kids now who are all under age 4 and your videos always give me the inspiration to get outside and teach them gardening! Right now we're growing a flower garden, rainbow colored carrots, strawberries, and radishes.

[@homegardens7682]

Lauren Hawley A most excellent plan.

[@connietaylor504]

John, I was so excited when you said you were filming your video in Punta Gorda... its only 30 minutes from my house!! Your video was AWESOME and Annette's garden is FANTASTIC! I definitely plan on calling her to see if I can visit her farm. Please keep sharing your knowledge and gardening know-how John...you're an inspiration to so many gardeners! THANK YOU SO MUCH!! My motto is "Keep on sowing and growing!!." God bless you John! Connie T.

[@barbarahogan4796]

One of the best videos yet. Thanks

[@reneenewfrock5743]

I learned a lot of my gardening skills the same way Annette did.

[@mihkupaul6765]

Hey John, After watching your videos I started using rock dust in my raised box beds and I can now cram so many veggies in those boxes and succession plant. The plants get huge! I am now a convert for rock dust and azomite. I compost with hen manure, straw and all my garden debris, and now grow through the winter in Maine, in my greenhouse. Thanks for the positive attitude and inspiration. I especially admire how accepting you are to people doing their own thing.

[@thesiblings3736]

Love wearing your "Growing your greens" shirt!!! One of my faves!

[@ScreminFlea]

I love Annette's setup! I've been researching / planning for several years now, and we're in the process of getting some acreage right now. This is EXACTLY the kind of approach I have been planning to take. It's so cool to see that someone has already done it and is having such success.

[@crazygardeners241]

This is my most Favorite video yet. Awesome job Annette, so inspiring!

[@philipschwartz3205]

good to see people succeeding with Spodisols!

[@timehasbegun5828]

Love it. Thanks JK. great job Annette. I have learned so much from John 😉👏🌴

[@BernardViolinTeacher]

Great interview, John. I always learn something when I watch your vids. Thanks for making them.

[@lieblee3063]

I love this lady she’s wonderful !!! Wow what a great life. Thank you for sharing 👍🙏😘

[@patriciarussell8450]

Love this, I'm going to send her some seeds,, paying it forward. Thanks John for your ventures and good stuff for gardening☺

[@swhite8381]

This is so awesome. I watch you every day and this is my home town!

[@totallydomestic433]

Just Awesome ! Greatly enjoyed. Want to try making wood chip paths to break down for garden quickly. Florida is kind of difficult to grow in. Just started 1st Permaculture garden this week. You Tube student too🥰

[@rockypointrabbitry3749]

Beautiful farm! and it is going to continue to blossom. best wishes!

[@timsteckel2832]

Free wodchips are my favorite gardening material, too :)

[@LandmadeFL]

Great video John! You've definitely helped a lot of people. I love these type of videos to see how others grow. How about coming to North Florida!

[@debbib5383]

Annette should make her own channel! Great vid, enjoyable even for us up north!

[@markemyshibukawa9254]

Thanks John & Annette for teaching us new cool things. We've started doing the same thing in a VERY SMALL scale as Annette & her husband. 👍😀

[@mycedarridge]

I loved this! What a sweet lady! She looks so excited to be next to you. 😊

[@rosewood513]

John thank you excellent.. And thank you Annette for the lovely tour and your gardens are amazing. I also go to the school of youtube.... especially John's

[@kitsurubami]

experimenting is the best! Thank you John and Annette!

[@judyalexander]

Thank you John, as usual, a really great video.

[@petern5565]

What a lovely lady Claire is and I just would like to encourage others like Claire by complimenting your view of "Being successful" .Here we go this is my spin on Being successful, as follows : . Success is all about "SOLVING PROBLEMS" a FAILURE only occurs when you cannot solve a problem. Now that does NOT mean that whatever your doing is the right way, sometime you have solve the problem by doing something else completely different to obtain the same goal, other times an adjustment is necessary, either way you can obtain your initial goal by simply "SOLVING PROBLEMS" and that is what I call being "Successful". So thank you both Claire and John for your efforts, because by this definition you are a SUCCESS story for OTHERS.

[@Mandolin523]

You are so fun and I love watching your videos.

[@gobigrey9352]

Ha, truck bed liner. I remember my dad cutting one of those up and burning the whole thing in the burn barrel. God that stunk and we lived in town. The neighbors probably hated us. He burned a shop vac once too. And all the oil from his lawn mower. No wonder they banned burn barrels.

[@janicejurgensen2122]

Great video!! Lots of great information and well taught!

[@amyhoang9140]

Hi John, thank you for all your knowledge and the work you do for humanity!

[@janicejurgensen2122]

Loved this vid and I really hope to see more! Annette u rock!! I wish I could visit.

[@HeirloomReviews]

i deff want to start forest gardening soon !! great video

[@thetandog121]

John, Great entertaining video as always. Annette, You are a real inspiration to anyone just starting out gardening. Your passion and drive for what you do was obvious during the interview. The world would be a better place if it had more people like you. Keep up the good work!

[@pollywog1983]

thetandog The farm has it's own life and is always evolving. Right now I am doing more perennials and adding more food forests too.

[@janicejurgensen2122]

Very good shape and inspiring! I agree it’s amazing to do what u like best and enjoying your life!! I learned a lot and I thank you both!!

[@janicejurgensen2122]

Claire you are amazing!!! I’d love to watch your videos and learn from u too!! I agree with your style and logic!!

[@pollywog1983]

Hi Janice. Thank you. Moved to North Florida to start another food forest adventure.

[@richpuppy1319]

Loved it, keep them coming.

[@Dr.JulieJames]

that's my style too I work what moves me that day..Free and cheap is the old way that is new again..

[@hollandspinehaven2634]

This is a great video. Thank you John..

[@quashiesuzanne]

Great video!

[@hayestack01]

Thank you for this great Florida Video

[@SarahPerine]

Thanks for all your videos! You do a great job :)

[@Lew_and_Phyllis_White]

I am KZbin inspired and instructed as well. Just starting.

[@Wanda_Jannette]

LOL! Kikis think translate to babies too-that was cute. Well this video came to my notification just on time. I moved to FL from Southern California 4 years ago and farming has been on my mind; been learning through a lot of your videos & other farmers tips to say you guys are a blessing. Thank you for all the great videos and yeah my stress was all the sand throughtout the state but watching this I feel better. Wow she has Cassava, Green Bananas- Jicama you also cut Mango, cucumber pieces, Papaya, Coconut & Water Melon sprinkle some Pico de Gallo Powder over fruit, a couple of pinch of salt and squeeze a lime over fruit shake or turn and good eats- yum!!

[@safffff1000]

I learn so much stuff in depth on many fields quickly by sitting on my butt and watching tv, youtube univesity. It's so much easier watching other people fail to see what works best before starting yourself. Once you begin a project the trouble is you become too busy to further research. See farmers doing the same thing for decades because they are too busy to learn new.

[@lisacraig1894]

“Coleslaw with greens and broccoli” mixes are great! And usually cost $4 dollars if organic

[@DeBiotuin]

Thanks John, great video

[@SteveSmekar-ll6ln]

Just my type of gal. Shes got it growin on

[@darlenep5206]

Beautiful !! Garden Of Eden !! Great Job Annette, I NEED More Land !

[@Jefferdaughter]

While there is no such thing as too much land... :- Let's start where we are with what we have!

[@NonieK2267]

Last August I've laid wood chips all over my front yard looked great grass that had never grown good came up like velvet through the wood chips lol this spring I got another load of wood chips for my front yard but this time we laid cardboard down all over the yard.. this time we only have to go out and pull a few pieces of grass unfortunately we have Bermuda here in Glendale Arizona. But that's just from the wind blowing the seat I guess. The one mistake that I made is not watering the cardboard first should have put it down with a cardboard wet because it's very slippery and I think it would have conformed to the yard better and I wouldn't have to worry about people slipping and falling on it so I had to make a pathway through it but that will be remedied eventually. I love your videos and have learned so much from them. I have been watching your videos since my young grandson introduce them to me a number of years ago.

[@UniCarCycles]

Love this!! 👍👍

[@michelepaccione8806]

Great video. I do the same thing Anette does...I put mulch down on my paths and then rake it up into my beds in the spring once it's broken down. It's compost right where you need it.

[@tommyknockerparanormalinc]

omg LOVE LOVE LOVE, but doesnt fair to my desolate cold climate property. Im incorporating some similar ideas though. THANK YOU JOHN, for your time and efforts, this was a lovely video

[@NonieK2267]

The city of Glendale will not allow me to just have dirt in my front yard and I hate rocks and watching you I learned about the wood chips. So right now I only have two pomegranate bushes a grapefruit that I put in last year a seemingly dwarf moringa tree I think it's due to location and aloe vera. But planning to add a lot more and some gardening elements to my yard

[@mzzvaughn]

Great video...

[@Shiro46AV]

I've been watching you for a long time. 😶

[@judyalexander]

Thanks John

[@RobertGatesC]

Damn you, John. You caught me. As you were interviewing the property owner, I was munching on a bag of chips. lol You should have seen my face drop when you said that. lol #johnthementalist

[@abideenturky]

Thank you your gorgeous Video demonstration, on gardening& sustainability, Over your several hundreds video, we leaned some basics, how to grow things, In your future episodes, could you incorporate the knowledge on how to own farming lands, and how to start small farm/ garden from scratch, thank you,

[@ayersclimber]

Dude!!! This is Jean my wifey watching your video on my computer, this is one of theee best videos ever John, I loved the video of the Greek guy in Texas too, growing on the cheap... this lady is amazing, Miss Annette is inspiring me, so much that I want to go outside and start shovelling all the wood chips that the arborist left on the driveway even though it is 9pm at night here. Also , I am a banana fan- having only ever eaten store bought organic bananas- I was wondering if I set up a greenhouse in La Honda will I be able to grow bananas- and red lady papaya in zone 9b...maybe I should sell up and move to La Honda just so that I can grow every variety of banana known to humankind and enjoy banana fruits and bees !! love this video please go back and show us some more, Jean

[@repurposedart9897]

I love her garden property....very nice. Would like to see an update

[@racebiketuner]

Yup. Please do update!

[@ward26102]

I make an egg-based dog food with our own organic eggs. I add kale, flax, rice or rolled organic oats, blueberries and sometimes whatever other whole foods we have available. I bake it in a ductch oven. The dogs love it, they think they are getting treats. Kibble is mostly junk but admittedly I'm not completely off it yet. It's tough to find time to cook for the dogs with everything else we have going on. I do usually make a large batch and freeze a portion.

[@wendydrummond7395]

Thank you for you valuable advice it's very helpful. I also learn from watching youtube videos as no one wanted to teach me. Thank you God bless you all and your families love from Wendy Drummond from Adelaide South Australia and congratulations on your videos and magnificent gardens

[@Brandi.Nicole]

I’m in Iowa. No papaya or bananas but I love the permaculture concept. I moved to an over grown farm a couple years ago. We are still working on it Year by year turning it into a sustainable permaculture environment. It’s so hard. We have our traditional garden but the rest we experiment just like her.

[@josephconroy8531]

ya got truck liner i love it,so easy to work out of it

[@mpatrick743]

Green papaya tastes like squash. They use the green papaya like a vegetable in the Philippines.

[@traddymom4368]

I so want to do this! Thank you for sharing. On a side note, dogs are meant to eat a RAW meat prey diet. I have been feeding my dog and cats a prey diet for almost a year now and have studied and researched to learn what is best for them....what nature meant for them to eat. There is so much info out there. Please don't cook your dog's meat. Give him a whole chicken and see a happy dog.

[@faerefolke]

I plan on using as many small space methods as possible. I might only have room for a small greenhouse. Year-round, baby!

[@MKathyONeal]

This has really inspired me! l too learned my gardening techniques from you John. Love your videos !

[@cherry-annwilliams7297]

We say bunch of bananas instead of rack. We tie an unstable plant to a sturdy one to keep it from falling over. You could also drive a stake into the ground and tie the plant to it to keep it from falling over.

[@pajhavzoovyang9033]

I need a land in Florida to do garden because I love to plant flowers, and grow my own vegetables you grow every thing that I always wish to grow,thank you showing Annette's garden John may be or can I visit your garden Annette?

[@Ferelmakina]

Video starts at 8:00

[@Jefferdaughter]

Among temperate climate trees, many are edible when the first emerge in the spring: elm, maple, basswood/linden, redbud, etc. Redbud is one of our favorite, along with basswood. Basswood, aka linden, leaves are edible for a longer period of time, basically all summer, though they can be tougher and stronger in flavor during periods of hot or hot and dry weather. Redbud trees are a wonderful small ornamental tree that also produce pea flavored blossoms - in abundance! The young pods are also tasty when cooked, a lot like snow peas. An ornamental tree for your front yard that produces 3 edible crops! Plant hostas underneath and use the leaves like spinach, or instead of breads to make wraps. Add some daylilies (shoots, buds, and blossoms all edible), and you have an ornamental planting for the front yard that also produces food - even where growing food in the front yard is banned. There are many more edible ornamental perenniels - nut and fruit trees, fruiting shrubs and vines, etc!

[@kathypaaaina7957]

Aloha I have saved this for my friends that have more space. UTUBE School supper

[@babylongate]

Hey John , to buy your farm sell some gardening tools so people buy and start growing and also you make some money to buy your farm, MIgardener selling these stuff for instance :- ((hand pruners, peat pallets to start seeds, gloves, containers, clip supporters , transplanting trowel, spray nozzle )) thanks I hope you get the farm and save heirloom seeds for the world, and I click your adds almost every day so you get more money, long live John the great for humanity.

[@brain288]

MischievousKittie may I ask what happened

[@racebiketuner]

Please consider making a follow-up vid. I'd really like to see how things are coming along.

[@70kimber]

I live in Florida and we have layers of cardboard and wood chip mulch. Yes the soil is literal fine beach sand, particularly in my area I live next to sand plants. You can't grow anything that doesn't like the sand in the ground. Raised beds out of concrete because if it's out of wood, it only last one season until it rots. Raised beds need to be off the ground or the soil amendment is leeched away and pests are voracious. It's uphill battle to farm in Florida organically, (without fertilizer and pesticides),which I refuse to use. So, I eat almost entirely bananas lol!

[@ScouseJack]

Hope you're into bio-char, growing in those conditions. Terra Preta is a good idea for you i think.

[@andrewmartin6445]

Gardening puts us in touch with God!

[@funnyepictv7472]

moringa tree is easy to plant too just like cassava ,you just stick on the ground and it will start growing easily

[@Knuisance]

great work as always

[@FOR8YESHUA]

ANNETTE ads C90 Ocean Solutions, Kelp & Compost tea spray to bring up the brix level that brings up the mineral, sugar and protein content in plants. Tip is to put mulch in the pathways, and let it compost down there. Then after the rainy season put the mulch into the grow beds. Rinse and Repeat putting new mulch in the pathways. THE FARM MOTTO IS: "LIFES A GARDEN, SO DIG IT!"

[@Jefferdaughter]

Love the channel, but what about the people who live in temperate climates, instead of desert (Las Vegas, So Cal), Mediterranean, or sub-tropical regions - all areas that see little frost and no snow.

[@nancyfahey7518]

I hope PLANETCLAIR made it thru Irma.

[@KK-nv7es]

that's the best use for those wire closet racks, they are horrible in the closet!

[@retnal08]

WOW.

[@kathypaaaina7957]

Aloha awesome will you adopt me hugs from Hawaii Annette I will learn about bricks I have learned so much this is information for Tropical I understand bless you and your family hugs from Hawaii

[@solfeinberg437]

If her fruit trees are spitters, she could get some cuttings and graft, at least some branches of better varieties. I bet she has some friends in the community that would give her some. Or that someone would sell their prunings, which are garbage or woody compost for them.

[@donovanvasta9779]

If your grow a seedling tree and the fruit is bad you could always top work it and graft it to a better variety.

[@willg9015]

Great video, when do you think you'll actually buy farm? Because I know the best place to get one. Queensland Australia, it is the sunshine state of Australia and is reasonably cheap and is perfect for growing tropical edible plants! In my opinion it is a much better option to create a farm for cheaply than Costa Rica or Florida or some other northern hemisphere place.

[@Jefferdaughter]

The cast iron tub should be up on bricks, blocks, or even wood to prevent rusting out on the bottom. Adequate drainage can be obtained by making sure the bottom slants toward the drain hole. These tubs were lined with porcelain and are about as non-toxic as you can get! (They are even better used for bathing. Their depth allows healthful soaking. Modern tubs are most all made of PLASTICS.)

[@vegannursepractitioner9629]

That deep of wood chips (several feet) may become anaerobic. In one area I had 18 inches deep of chips and underneath it, next to the soil, it became a sewer smelly dead zone as no oxygen could get thru. I love woodchips though, that is my go-to, but I now keep them no more deeper than 10-12 inches, but what ever works

[@loycemarch8409]

Try netting or tuille from fabric store. Ca. Even wrap fruit with it.

[@Jefferdaughter]

Dear John - It is not 'larger parts of plastic' but the chemicals that plastics are made from and with that transfer to the air, soil, water, food, skin... -whatever plastics come into contact with- that are the issue when growing food in plastic containers. And yes, these chemicals and/or their 'breakdown products' are taken up by plants. Mercury is also used in the manufacture of some plastics, which can also be taken up by plants. Whenever possible, plastic containers, like pressure-treated lumber, should be avoided... especially where one is growing food. There are plenty of cheap and free options. UNTREATED pallets, for one. (Check to see that they have not been chemically treated or sprayed.)

[@ogadlogadl490]

Jefferdaughter How do you check to see if the pallets are untreated?