Inspiring Food Forest Tour - Turning a Grass Paddock into an Edible Oasis!

[@TheKiwiGrower]

If you’re struggling, consider therapy with our sponsor BetterHelp. Click betterhelp.com/thekiwigrower for a 10% discount on your first month of therapy with a licensed professional specific to your needs. Thanks everyone for watching and for your continued support! Happy gardening and have a great rest of the year :) -Kalem

[@gaytridewangan4512]

My garden is my therapist it is so good there that I can spend hours and hours❤❤ big fan bro

[@yilengyang3325]

Hi I just asking do you have any finger lime can you send me some seeds I will send you money

[@funkblack]

@@yilengyang3325 Seeds would be useless. You need a scion for grafting.

[@funkblack]

I've watched your old coconut sprouting video from years ago. Do you still got that tree?

[@saurabhkashyap1335]

I just clicked the video and it ended in no time.. 😮

[@spockster202]

Such amazing, informative and inspiring videos Kalem. I’m 69 years young and getting stronger everyday to care for our 8 acre farm on the big island. Your food forest is so diverse and lush. Mahalos and blessings. 😎🌴🌿🌺💐🥭🥝🥥

[@assafcohen3173]

This channel is pure calmness.

[@marisaphoenix1893]

Would love another food forest video (full pong tour) 🙏🏼

[@samueleghiani1444]

Me too

[@just_outsideiru]

I’ve been watching you for almost 3 years and because of you I've started growing all sorts of weird stuff,clementines, dragon fruit, mangos, oak trees, kiwis, apples, grapes, you name it. You’ve made a big impact on my life, every video i look forward too keep up the great work and keep on making amazing videos thank you. :)

[@fibi8346]

Thank you, love the layout of multiple diverse islands. I find this more aesthetically exciting than rows.

[@barbwells5605]

Your 'blue ribbon ' gardens are like seeing The Garden of Eden! I am so impressed!! You've done a magnificent thing!! Thank you so much for sharing!

[@rebeccah.5096]

You live in a paradise, mate! I'm so jealous! Greetings from Berlin. 😊

[@handelhan7264]

What a great farm and garden!❤

[@aerthman]

Rest assured, you’re appreciated by many. Wow, so much growth

[@felinetherapy4782]

Just stunning. Amazed at what you produce and love your animals!

[@jonobuckley]

Yeah bro gardening is soooo good for the mental health! Love gardening and seeing what works and what doesnt!

[@jonaseckardt4952]

You Inspire Me!❤😊

[@brendancull]

So cool to see your food forest developing! I always love to see what you're growing. I followed your directions / advice for stratifying peach seeds and have my fingers crossed the seeds will survive the winter (it's a bit borderline for peaches here). A fun experiment. Your place looks gorgeous!

[@teresasuderman2199]

I can't believe how many things that you grow that I have never heard of. God has really made such an amazing diverse world.

[@veiragumintang9435]

Beautiful garden and adorable cat ❤

[@jillgerardi4740]

So beautiful! I just discovered your page while searching for growing peaches from seed and I can already tel I will be binge-watching your channel! Wonderful content and I love the island design with grass walkways of your food forest ❤

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Thanks so much, and welcome to the channel! :)

[@dougs_urbanfarm]

Looks great, its amazing how fast you can transform a piece of land. Eight years and 250 fruit trees has transformed my block.

[@em_pen]

I've loved watching your garden grow over the years :) It's looking AMAZING!

[@Pengalen]

You are so fortunate to have such a nice space of land to grow your wonderful garden and raise your sheep.

[@greenhillsparadise]

Love this video!!! ❤

[@Urbanfishing05]

If you haven’t yet you should consider adding a Lowquat tree, super easy to grow from seed and the fruit is amazing

[@N.N-Dimethyltryptamine]

Hey Kalem, so nice to hear from you! Your forest looks better than ever, you should be very proud ❤ Looking forward to more videos from you next year🤞🙏

[@benburns5995]

Hi Kalem, every time I see your garden it makes me think of the Garden of Eden from the Bible. It is amazing to see all of the unusual fruits that you can grow there. The cut Celery in all the different colors looked like a real work of art. Surprised the bugs don't eat the celery but it looks really fresh and beautiful. The Pink or Red Pineapple sounds very interesting and I'm sure they taste awesome being home grown. The plant that looked like Artichokes with the Purple flowers seemed to really flourish well in the environment in New Zealand. Best wishes as you enter the Summer season down in New Zealand.

[@decembercat8524]

Yay new video!

[@barron204]

Awesome and inspiring.

[@sharynhughes1061]

Oooh!. My Wonderful Garden. Is growing really well. Thankyou. 🎉👌🎉💃🤩

[@JenniferA886]

Nicely done 👍👍👍

[@arfaabbas]

beAuTiFuL deAR ❤

[@_MSD75_]

amazing to see the transformation of the land. Honestley, having land to do this is my dream.

[@YOOTOOBjase]

We're just getting started on our food forest. We have enough land that, ideally, we'd be able to grow enough food for our whole family. Just a few months in now!

[@aquarius1000]

New subscriber here. I was looking for a video on the ice cream bean and caught a video of yours from 12 years ago. You seemed like such a sincere young person with a genuine appreciation for nature that I was curious if you had retained your essence 12 years later. You certainly have and what a wonderful food forest you have created that supports you and the environment. Thanks for sharing these amazing tours and information with us. I hope you stay blessed.

[@shannonmartinez8036]

It looks beautiful!! I love what you've done!

[@rogermckenzie2711]

Great to see how things have developed. Keep up the good work!

[@adamolsen6411]

Your property looks great! And it's amazing your climate allows you to grow both tropicals and temperate fruits and veg all together!

[@Holymn]

The cat in the video for me is the win! ❤ well done on your garden!

[@capcats]

Beautiful garden!! You’ve taken very good care of it. I’m very envious.

[@unclebubbaknowseverything9143]

Thank you for sharing this with us.. You are an inspiration and an interesting person... Howdy from Texas 🤠

[@Rumrunner4me]

Welcome back and great to see your forest doing well!!! Great job

[@ralfielicious]

It's paradise, well done!

[@gardeningwithkay]

I always feel inspired with your food forest.. you have done so well with your land. Your land is literally your fruit and veg supermarket ❤

[@jeaninegibbonsart2939]

Love the idea of thorning up the trunks of trees to stop the possums... we get hammered in the sounds, even with a fort Knox fence..I might just try that with good old blackberry or bush lawyer.

[@mrvalski]

Amazing food forest. Living the dream. 🤩

[@Levi-kc9pv]

I love watching your videos! Thanks for putting them together. Love seeing the diversity you’re able to grow there and seeing just how different everything compared to my area here in the states. Hang in there brother!

[@RJBond121]

What a wonderful tour, thank you for that!

[@DavidS5118]

Loved the quick time lapse of the property change over the years at the start of the video. Great to see so much greenery as we head into winter where I live. Thanks for sharing and Happy New Year.

[@MaDMaXGroW]

Just love the land you have. goals.

[@randomguy6868]

One day when im have a family ,i want to own a patch of land and start to grow alot of plant and veg just like you .

[@matadaniel6520]

Wow!!... thanks for the tour....your garden is Amazing !!!!

[@kathybrandt6060]

Your garden is so incredible. I live in a condo in New Jersey in the USA and I’m allowed to have three pots and they can’t be bigger than 2 foot across and 2 foot high but the flowers in them early the herbs can be big but I have to contain them. So seeing your garden, just makes me want to go move somewhere where there’s space and a little bit of freedom. If you can’t tell, I really do like gardening shows. I look forward to your next video and I hope you’ve had a wonderful holiday season. Kathy.

[@tarnr5713]

Just wonderful! I have been hanging out for a tour of your food forest for ages. My 10 acres in Nth Canterbury is very bare and you have just given me LOADS of ideas, thanks Kalem. 👍🥰

[@killjoyredux8361]

Which part of nth Canterbury are you in? I've got ten acres here too...Loburn. Also put in a food forest, a bit less troppo than this one but it's doing well.

[@tarnr5713]

@@killjoyredux8361 We are in Cust, food forest still mostly in planning phase, budget constraints (ans over thinking) dictate slow implementation but it's on it's way :)

[@ramthian]

Happy new year to you all 😊🎉🎉🎉

[@nikismith1871]

Your food forest is looking lush! Thanks for talking about the importance of mental health, I struggle with anxiety/depression and have found therapy really helpful. Gardening even in a tiny section is such a great way to get out of my head and connect with nature. Was wondering if Dock plants have the same effect as Comfy? Happy New Year and thanks for your cool uploads. Keep shining 🍒😁

[@JaimeBird-n8m]

Gardens come along way from a bare paddock good job .can't wait till our gardens are planted and established.youve given us many ideas over the years.thanks

[@cairozulu6700]

Your garden looks nice with all that variety of trees and veggies

[@pikashroom1]

love getting a taste of summer while I'm stuck in the northern hemisphere having to deal with winter. Beautiful gardens all around

[@brooklynmort6023]

Kia ora! Thank you so much for sharing your amazing knowledge! It is me and my husband’s dream to move to NZ and start our own food forest & I have taken SO much inspiration from your channel. It’s so important for us coming from the USA to stay away from capitalism and what that does (and has done) to our soil and beautiful Mother Earth. I hope one day when we make it there that we can meet to sponge up some of your knowledge to start our own food forest! 😊

[@arieswildchild]

Great video, again! Have even more successful new year, Kalem!

[@gt2023a]

I'm so envious, ha! xD You are an absolute force, Kalem!!!

[@Cha11engeCha5er5]

You always make me wish I had a huge property like yours so have an amazing New Year’s Eve and an even better 2024

[@marycampbell4160]

Amazing tour I really enjoyed it wow thanks for sharing

[@viclarock5321]

Love your garden and what a cool cat.

[@annhans3535]

I always learn something new watching your videos. Stay well friend. Happy New Year and may God continue to bless you with abundance.

[@sharynhughes1061]

Thankyou. Happy New Year 2024. 👌🎉🎉🎉👌

[@Megatron_20]

Waited so many decades for this video man😮

[@sello-lawrence]

Great update. Those artichokes are amazing. Happy New Year.

[@lyonheart84]

Incredible what you can grow outside in your region Kalem ! Fantastic tour

[@TheRexfenris]

Such diversity and colours! Just beautiful.

[@PeterEntwistle]

Wow, I absolutely love your food forest Kalem! It's incredible how much everything has grown in such a short space of time! Very inspirational! I hope one day I can replicate something similar 🤞

[@mcervantes824]

I look forward to watching your videos. Thanks and have a Happy New Year!

[@rockspyder3970]

A corner of heaven right there! Beautiful. I noticed a patch of nasturtiums there, not only are the seeds for capers, the leaves make an excellent alternative to vine leaves for the stuffed Greek snack dolmades.

[@AgroecologicalSystems]

Awesome forest garden!

[@cazzzzzzzzzzzzzz]

This looks amazing!

[@susannevieira]

It’s a wonderful variety of trees and plants 💚I love it, wish I could try everything 😅😋

[@oltedders]

I'm so glad to see that you've put up another video and see the update on the native forest plantings. Are you going to make a video featuring the animals sometime in the future? Everything looks so healthy and happy. Hopefully, the possum will find somewhere else to forage. Thanks for all of your hard work. It is appreciated.

[@bangadangfarm]

Well done that looks amazing!!

[@TanamTanamku]

Beatifull garden , and now i build my own garden, you inspiration me bro

[@TobyJin]

Amazing end of year update. It's great to see the food forest and the native plants do so well. It's crazy how diverse the food forest is, there's so many different types of plants from all over the place, even some tropical ones such as the banana.

[@angietaylor5311]

You’ve done an amazing job with your food forest, congratulations with your success. Keep the videos coming as they are so full of information, Happy 2024 🎉

[@janlerl7076]

... just an amazing video, as always! :-) thank you for the beautiful 17 minutes! :-)

[@mannfamily4366]

Your food forest turned out wonderfully dude. I really appreciate your videos and all the variety of plants you grow. I have learned a lot about plants that I never knew about prior to watching your videos. Also, my kids love your videos too. Keep up the good work! 🎉

[@stephenwilling7287]

You can make a tea with comfrey by steeping the leaves in a bucket of water, use a brick to weigh the leaves down. Takes 4-6 weeks but then you'll have a tea that can be watered down and used for indoor or outdoor plants. The leaves can still be used in the garden and will break up faster as the water already started the process.

[@_orodrigofernandes]

This garden is where forests will reset after apocalypse 😂😂😂. My man has all plants varieties he can put his hand on. Great job, man! I hope you keep going! I wish you all the best!

[@matthewjamestaylor]

Great video! Thanks for sharing. Cheers.

[@edstraker8451]

Kia Ora. Good to see you and your garden thriving, mate. Looking forward to more of your brilliant content.

[@lucamartinelli1156]

Kalem I love your videos. You are really inspiring ❤

[@itaytal9337]

great dude . great inspieation . enjoy man ! great plants

[@thecraftiekiwi4919]

well done Kalem your food forest is looking amazing! i love the idea of little islands with paths between something im trying doing myself. will have to plant more herbs around the trees i have in i think!. thanks mate and all the best for next year!👍👍

[@gosiapuciowska1071]

Amazing video Kalem! Whenever a new one comes out it brings me so much warmth, it's good to see you and your garden grow :)

[@Semiicolin5]

Thank you so much for your videos. You inspired me to start gardening with your "grow from seeds videos". I love what you've done with your garden and hope to have my own just like yours one day!

[@coralynbull]

Kia Ora. It has been a long time so good to catch up. Great forest. Thank you for the tour. ❤❤❤

[@le.farquad608]

I hope to do what you in the future. I just gotta learn more about my different Canadian species of plants. Love your vids. Take care!

[@TheKegtwo]

Happy New Year my kiwi cousin. We wish you and your family the very best for the coming year. We love your content and envy the space you enjoy. Keep up the good content and we will be very happy to come back again and again to watch your growth.

[@Wellwhatevernevermind]

Loving the update video. The growth looks amazing. Keep up the good work!

[@BeIlG]

amazing! huge congrats!

[@joshlovegood9392]

This was an awesome tour mate. Keep it up!! Can't wait to see more like this. Would love to see a detailed video on your annual beds too.

[@MitchK_]

Thanks for sharing your food forest, and all the cool plants you worked so hard to grow and care for man! You're definitely an inspiration for people to have a unique backyard. 👍🏻🌿

[@Felix-.-G]

Great as always!

[@alina2715]

wow amazing thanks for taking us on that journey and letting us witness this amazing transformation of your property. You are a great inspiration! Thanks to you I got myself a nice finger lime tree which bloomed for the first time this year. Unfortunately the temperatures here in Germany don’t allow me to grow such exotic plants outside but your channel is also a great inspiration for my vegetable garden. Thanks! 😊❤️ Watching your videos feels like a relaxing day on holiday!

[@brodiemiller4747]

How is the dragonfruit plant going? Didn’t see it in the video