Morning Wander - Overview of Guilds and Food Forest

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[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Really appreciate the lengths you spent discussing dying trees. That's just part of a forest. They also aren't a fire hazard, provided the entire forest isn't the same age and all dying. Great video as always.

[@brockberrick2727]

thank a lot for videos, you're my favorite permaculture channel. you give me an escape from my stressful life. Peace and love

[@allylothman9334]

We love a good wander.

[@coarsegoldguy7414]

The complexity is comforting.

[@frasersgirl4383]

Not that it’s important but I’m seriously interested in where you were educated about plants? Serious over-simplification but I’ve been gardening for fifty years and have never heard anyone speak about the plant world with as much knowledge as you have? Seriously amazing…..I also love the way you have of referring to plants and animals as co-inhabitants of this world. Your gentle soul searching way of speaking is mesmerizing.

[@manjawarner3162]

I truly appreciate the walk around and your explanatory talks. The verbiage you use is very helpful to me as you point out the usefulness of each specimen. Your voice and mannerism is very nice on the senses as well. I could listen to you all day. Thank you for taking the time and making the effort to put this out to the world.

[@edibleacres]

So glad you enjoy and find it valuable.

[@brent3611]

It's amazing how much diverse life dead and decaying standing trees can provide. From mushrooms to insects/woodpecker food, bird dwellings etc etc

[@edibleacres]

It is miraculous and lasts for years and years.

[@robertlarsonwoodford]

Paul Stamets inspired my partner and I to allow more wood to rot and decompose on our property rather than having it removed/chipped/etc.. I think the true adversary to this approach might be the sterile (golf course like) visions folks have for their landscapes.

[@cg5071]

We jave a nice poplar forest next to us on the neighbors. All the standing dead and fallen trees are really nice. It's an animal trail and woodpecker haven. Mushrooms will come soon on my side and white morales show up regularly.

[@farwoodfarm9296]

As we are transforming our yard, we've focused on the front yard first not enough grass to mow out there anymore. The back still is full of grass and the chicken yard and I also have some goats back there. When we cut the grass, my kids go out and rake up the clippings for the chickens, this gives them a nice job that is very helpful to my wife and I and obviously the chickens :) Hopefully it will help to teach them about sustainability and using what you have and not being wasteful. There is an area near me where the city plants sunflowers every year right along an overpass....My plan this year is that once the flowers are wilting go and collect as many as I can to bring back for the birds. Otherwise they just come and cut them down.

[@kylenmaple4668]

Might not be great food, as all the air pollution from the road might settle and collect on the sunflowers

[@MrDuffy81]

Do the Sasquatch people ever come down and eat at your property? Have you ever seen them lingering on your land?

[@jwysass]

I tried to keep a dead tree as a dominant member in a guild, but the Colorado wind blew it over! Haha! No harm done.

[@gregorys447]

Thank you! A few more things to add to my wish list. Enjoy the complexity information and relationships 🌿

[@ponypetedm]

Coming to the end of the day here in Cyprus I hope you have a productive one, my chicken compost system has now finally started. Moral of the story always build a coup and run on flat ground unless you want to build a wall and inadvertently a chicken flight path which they love.

[@malaleuca6620]

Thank you...I really like the dead tree sentiment in this video, our neighbors have a huge dead cherry tree in their yard as well I love looking at it and how it adds another layer of reality to the landscape, especially on a moonlit night...amazing! Large birds and I am sure a myriad of other creatures (including myself) enjoy it very much. Long live beautiful decay!

[@truman4771]

That K should be a M in views a very informative video.

[@TheEbc123]

Lovely. Thanks for sharing

[@fourdayhomestead2839]

Great video. Cutting grass as "green hay crop" for chicken is great idea. I take notes on the guild videos, so much to learn🌿👍..

[@edibleacres]

So glad!

[@ThomiBMcIntyre]

Garlic mustard is all over, but I have discovered my rabbits really enjoy it. This time of year I welcome any greens for them to help transition from winter pelleted feed. I got chicks this year and they have decided they love it, too!

[@CatherineandRob]

Fantastic!

[@gretahancock4725]

Yes i love this!! So helpful for my own learning to have someone with a similar stewarding philosophy

[@timmyjacobs0]

I really like the thought process about the almond tree. Allowing nature to do what it does in a way that let's everyone do better and win

[@edibleacres]

Always worth exploring that.

[@johnrobholmes]

I love the spring tour and quick guild recaps!

[@amyr505]

Another great video! thank you.

[@edibleacres]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@JoyoftheGardenandHome]

How are you going to protect the understory of the cherry from the trampling of the electric company? Anytime laborers enter our property, damage is sure to be...

[@debbiehenri345]

Oh yes, I had the power company cut some of my trees - and that was a bitter lesson learned that day. They took no notice of what I asked them to do, said they had the 'right' to cut trees as low as they wanted, chopped the heads right off some valuable pine trees (that weren't anywhere near the lines) - and claimed they'd grow back. (I knew they wouldn't grow back, said so, but they were adamant. You guessed it - they never grew back). After that episode, I tackle my own trees. It takes much longer, and it's no fun for me up a ladder, but at least I know what I'm doing.

[@cg5071]

Luckily our power company is pretty observant. They had to take the tops off of a couple of cedars that were getting close to the wire but no real damage.

[@charlesbale8376]

Enjoyed the video, great information.

[@edibleacres]

So glad!

[@StreetMachine18]

great video!!!!

[@debbiehenri345]

Dead trees make a great support for some other plant anyway. I lost a pear after repeated deer attacks, so I let a nearby Rubus just have its way and drape its stems through the branches. I've been considering planting a pea plant or two through it, just to see if they do okay.

[@dcsblessedbees]

--Lived in Alaska for years, up there nature and your home are so intertwined even in subdivisions, with natural growth gardens spaces. I miss that style, your properties remind me of my Alaskan home. --For the lawn area, have you looked into the pollinator lawns? Not sure if I saw it on your channel, I've been watching so many for the last 6+mo. From the little bit I've read it's a clover based lawn seed that only needs to be mowed a few season then it becomes height trained. --Ty for sharing your time, Blessed Days...

[@the_other_apg]

Our question is: how's Sasha, when shall we see her again and does she have any more culinary gems to share? For example, we had only tried saurkraut once before and it was gopping! Then we saw Sasha's vid and now make it on a regular basis. So, much so, that we rarely run out! Looking forward to seeing her soon! Dafydd & Ann x

[@onlyintime9914]

It's really telling of how good of a Gardner you are by hiding highly sought after crops out in the open with dead branches and distraction crops. Those critters spend their whole lives learning to identify and find them but they can't get past Sean's tricks! Luckily though you are also smart enough to value and take care of them in other ways

[@13ccasto]

Ooh I would love to hear more about your experience with the hardy almond!! I've been dreaming about getting one for a while now

[@allisondennis8257]

Thank you so much for the tour. I learn so much about permaculture just from listening. Could you tell me more about your almond tree please (cultivar/variety)? I looked on your site, but don't see the details on that one. Thank you!

[@edibleacres]

We grow 'Halls Hardy Almond' that someone gifted us a ways back. Lovely tree.

[@miabagley2202]

Wonderful as always. I really need to do a consultation the next time you offer them.

[@edibleacres]

Looking forward to doing them again either mid summer or next winter

[@digmatology]

I have lawn chickens. I dump all my grass clippings in the chicken pen and it disappears. It's like magic

[@Gabi-lt4mx]

Great. one question, beside of comfrey what is your recommendation to grown in the garden for mulch.

[@ameeraljadie1282]

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[@bot-ip1lu]

Nice vid! S Did you pruned the pecan when he was young to have the first 2meters of trunk without branches ? They do this in orchads,and I was wondering if it’s risky for survival of the tree to do that ?

[@danweddle4044]

Is there any issue with planting pumpkins or winter squash near young trees?

[@slaplapdog]

Do you sell the peach/ almond trees? Standard almonds apparently want plenty of water but also a dry atmosphere. Your place seems plenty humid, and I live in a notoriously humid place. I'm hopeful that almonds that are happy where you are will probably thrive where I am. Neither of us lack for water,

[@edibleacres]

We are growing a bunch of them from seed, we'll see how that all works out... They cropped nicely this last year, even though it was a very wet year.

[@BostonBonsaiIdiot]

Would you typically pull the garlic mustard and the creeping charlie if it weren't serving the purposes you describe?

[@nateanderson5289]

I have the same question. Tons of creeping charlie in my perennial beds and I don’t know how much I should be focusing on removing it. Taller plants seem to poke through it okay.

[@BostonBonsaiIdiot]

@@nateanderson5289 Yup, same boat here. Once the charlie gets into you ground covers it's such a pain to get it out, so I've just had a full on "anti-charlie" attitude for a while now.

[@buckaroobonzai2909]

I'm surprised you don't have a living willow fence. It seems like the kind of project you'd do.

[@edibleacres]

We do in informal ways here or there, but no, no formalized and specific design in that way...

[@williambentley5877]

I have some black locust trees I would like to relocate. When is the best time of year to do that? And when is the best time to take tree cuttings for propagating?

[@vonries]

I know on a commercial monoculture grove they have special machines to shake the trees. how to you shake full grown trees (almond?)?

[@BrianZable1]

Super psyched that you've switched to a scythe. Curious what style of scythe you're using? We used a European style last year and it was great. Found a really nice American style with a large grass blade and thin grass snath at a garage sale and am going to try that this year.

[@edibleacres]

One Scythe Revolution has incredible tools. Pricey but very nice, and I just got a grass blade one from them that is amazing.

[@cg5071]

I've been looking at that same place for a scythe. It is a bit pricey but I also see the value in scything and making use of 2 acres of nice barnyard hay and an acre of Veatch and others.

[@orowizard1369]

What kind of grass is in your lawn that chickens really like? I am making my 2nd attempt at a mixed fruit tree orchard on about 1.5 of my acres. First attempt, I made the mistake of putting around 40 bought trees in the pasture with my cows. They ate/broke all of them before they got large. I have started several Mulberry, Fig, ginkgo biloba, paw paw (from bareroot, not budding yet May 09, 2022, failed?), and others I went blank on, interspersed with blueberry, blackberry, and clover. No, I don't have a real plan, lol.

[@TheTrock121]

We live on a hill, and after a hard rain we have a small creek running through our upper chicken run. I buried flashing outside the fence which helps somewhat. I also just ripped black locust boards to install a raised bed inside the fence to grow Red Currants and hopefully slow the water down more. My question is - would Comfrey work as a planting on the uphill side of the fence to slow and divert water even more? My wife would like to plant Willow cuttings there, but I'm thinking Comfrey might work better, wouldn't have to be controlled in height, and would also feed the chickens.

[@edibleacres]

Perhaps both. Comfrey wouldnt' slow down a fast moving water flow, willow could over time.

[@cletushatfield8817]

5:25 "aromatic confusion" to protect the little chestnut?

[@edibleacres]

Pungent plants like mustards, garlic, mints, etc., can be helpful to protect young trees from rabbits and voles. Absolutely not a 100% guarantee but it can be helpful

[@cletushatfield8817]

@@edibleacres Interesting. Thanks!

[@wolfebilt]

Always love your guild talks, great stuff. With the continual deer visits, as well as other animals, do you ever see ticks? I never hear you talk about them but I just wonder. I'm in a similar zone in Michigan. When I go out to work on our property, I encounter ticks frequently. Great video, 😊, thank you!

[@cg5071]

Ticks are becoming more and more problematic in MI. Growing up I never saw any and now atleast a few times a year we're picking them off us and pets. Ducks and chickens helped but we can't let them fully wander anymore as we have a fox family in the area.

[@envoiret]

I love Cornus Mas, its flowers are really something else. But I never heard of anyone harvesting from them. What exactly do you use them for? Do you eat the berries?

[@tagagan8523]

Here in Austria we usually forage the berries & make jam. Learning how to mash the large pits out took a few tries & finding the right size strainer. It seems to be an extra necessary step. But it's so worth it, esp. if you like a tarty jam.

[@envoiret]

@@tagagan8523 Thank you for your reply! Might look to forage some this year (if the birds dont get them before i can).

[@EvanMorgan7]

It helps to let them sit for awhile before eating. They benefit from betting, becoming much more sweet to eat raw. They keep for quite a long time too on a counter in the fall

[@jd1no]

What scythe did you get? I'm wanting to get one but I'm having the damndest time!

[@johnrobholmes]

Winter squash direct sown or planted as seedlings?

[@edibleacres]

Most likely we will direct sow. They seem to do best that way.

[@johnrobholmes]

@@edibleacres with my little experience with squash, I agree. As long as I can keep the squirrels off it!

[@davidmalinowski7930]

utility technicians should be understanding, they put up bat boxes for me when they were climbing the poles

[@edibleacres]

Sounds like nice folks!

[@cg5071]

I'd say. I'll jave to try that.

[@alicebacon5612]

what kind of chestnuts? thank you

[@edibleacres]

Wide mix!

[@colinmcgee5931]

Does feeding Garlic Mustard to your chickens give you garlic flavored eggs?

[@edibleacres]

Not that we've noticed.

[@NaT-wl8ru]

Did anyone else see the knotty face at the bottom of the old cherry ? 😮

[@elizabethmatheson-sugarloaf]

Yes! I was thinking of mentioning it. Glad someone else saw it too.

[@briangrantackert1732]

Lfg

[@joannc147]

Ouch…. Usually love your sweet videos and the respect you hold for flora and fauna. But, I can’t finish this video - bamboo, garlic mustard and creeping Charlie? Nope. Not a fan of non-native, invasive species. You may be able to control these…for now…but I think it rather irresponsible to include in a permaculture theme. Please be careful out there.

[@edibleacres]

The garlic mustard is existing in the landscape already, I am actively managing it as much as is reasonable, the creeping charlie already exists there, I don't think I have to obliterate every single plant, right? The bamboo are dead canes being leveraged for protecting young trees. We are both non-natives here, it seems pretty important to be generous with attributions to ourselves and other beings out there. Huge money in an aggressive response to 'non-natives' both plant, animal and human, following the coin and questioning seems reasonable...

[@joannc147]

@@edibleacres Thank you for that clarification! I’m sure you are aware that some of your followers may hear a species and add that to their gardens without doing their own research. Dead bamboo is a whole lot different than planting live bamboo! I have some lovely non-native plants that play beautifully in my landscape. I’ve also removed native Passion flower vine 🥲 and an aggressive native viburnum as both lovely plants were taking over too much territory with active suckering. I like your word “manage”….yup, that’s a good one.