Permaculture Food Forest deep dive on support plants, herbs, and deer protection.

[@johnspencer7724]

You're making some of the most comprehensive permaculture videos I've seen. Well done! We host a PDC in Ontario. Suggestion, for what it's worth: check your identification of yarrow. Looking forward to watching more of your vids! Thanks.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Thanks John. Can you plug your course? Feel free. Website, link, plug it all. Indeed that Yarrow mis-Id has been pointed out before. I like to leave my mistakes up though (plus, source footage is gone). I think I pinned the comment that originally pointed it out. I could be wrong though.

[@EarthShiftGratiDude]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Thanks for the reply (sorry I don't know your name). I didn't see any previous comments about the yarrow, but it seemed a nice 'excuse' to connect with you. We had to cancel (postpone) the PDC for 2020 but expect to run it next summer. Details at TerraKula.org. I'd like to connect more directly with you - if you're open to it you can message me through TerraKula. We seem to have a lot in common. E.g. I met Sean in Vermont and NY; he is a friend and true inspiration.

[@3PMedia]

I’ve seen a lot of your videos and have been observing for a while. These style walkthroughs are amazing. I like seeing all of your hard work come to fruition as well as your thought process behind why you paired and planted species where you did.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

🍻 ❤️

[@vickimorris3957]

With lots of hard work, you have built a beautiful garden of Eden.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Thank you so kindly

[@peterjones2917]

In the Garden of Eden even other animals just eat plants. Genesis1:29-31.

[@naturelovegoodhabits]

The more I watch Permaculture videos, I notice how much the farmers are not able to focus on a specific subject. The food forest is so diverse that they can’t stop and focus. They get distracted so quickly, I and keep on talking about so many different things because it’s so rich of content therefore the video is very informative. it’s kind of cool to watch and funny as well lol

[@veronicajacobi8779]

brilliant deer and late apples etc plans

[@maximgeerts]

Bob ross of permaculture!

[@Greentrees60]

Brilliant to use the raspberry to protect the cherry!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

It has actually worked incredibly well.

[@iamthewelcher]

I say the same thing every time I'm plucking basil flowers! it smells Soo good

[@millennialhmong7121]

Love the education

[@amyjones2490]

Strawberry really likes wood mulch. I once set a strawberry pot on a big maple stump and the crawled put and colonized the stump and it was gone and completely surrounded by strawberries in a couple years.

[@eliterachelle]

This is great ! We are moving to southern Ontario to grow a food forest very soon.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Awesome! Welcome to Ontario

[@mohammadshahid9998]

Good luck to you. I want to do same. But i am feeling lost . Dont knw where to start or how...

[@jennifer6198]

Fantastic! Please do more long vids like this! I bought a notebook 1day just 4ur knowledge

[@andreaburgard6736]

Egyptian Walking Onions... You the first person I have heard mention them. I have been growing them for years. Every time I tell someone what they are, they give me that look and say, "What is a walking onion?" :)

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

They are incredible. One of my staples for sure. It's just so insane to have onions every year - more than I could ever eat - and I didn't plant any. They just multiply and spread and I have food growing everywhere. I think I bought 4 bulbs of roughly 5 onion bulbits about 4 years ago and I easily have a thousand walking onions now. I've been giving them away like crazy too, using them in soups, they are awesome. Best thing about them is that the greens pop up really early, so we're eating onion soup a few weeks after the frost is out of the ground.

[@saltriverorchards4190]

I absolutely love this video. Thanks for posting!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Awesome thanks for watching:)

[@making.fronds]

Would love more videos on support species, including how everything works together to make healthier soil

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Sure I can definitely do more of that this year.

[@mashdemdown]

Thank you thank you for sharing your knowledge. 🙌🏾 Hello from your neighbour to the east!

[@mashdemdown]

Also have you heard of using your own blood/saliva on your plants so they can produce antibodies for you?

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Never heard of that. I must admit I'm VERY skeptical of that, but would be interested in reading more about it. Skeptical but open minded.

[@dancingcedar]

Thank you. Super helpful to our project of a permaculture food forest in Portland, Oregon USA. Blessings

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

That is so incredible to hear! Thank you so much, for watching but also for the work you are doing there! Making a difference in a big way!

[@jlfoodforest]

BEAUTIFUL! My food forest is in South Texas, we been having a drought for a year already. I LOOOVE your creek

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Thanks! Wait until you see the new pond!

[@rtom675]

Love the support plant videos!

[@skeletalbassman1028]

For pesto, just get a food processor. I invested in a decent model years ago and it’s been my most-used kitchen appliance.

[@johnskillen6208]

hope one day to have a part of what you have created

[@CMarshall-r5b]

Enjoying your videos. Nice to see Ontarian. My zone is a Zone 5/6. Can you please suggest where to source some of your plants you are featuring?

[@kerryl4031]

Good video (I'm trying to catch up with older ones) - I also have a wild bun that is down by our barn. It sits under an old wheelbarrow and I'm pottering around down there. I don't know if it is old or just used to me - because he legged it when I caught him coming up from a different angle! But I talk to him and he usually doesn't budge. I also have a pheasant that comes up close - usually for bird food, and the other day I looked behind me and I had two collared doves walking along behind me - also after wild bird food! Well, it has been sub-zero temperatures, although not as cold as Canadian winters!

[@patriciaakley1379]

I teach classes on some of these plants that we find in the wild! Thank you. This is a lovely video.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Awesome 👌

[@ninixiao3858]

So abundant! 💖I should wait for my land is ready for me during this time I can only plant in my apartment first 🪴

[@hellykat5820]

So lovely

[@soutpilaar]

Lovage us the "Maggi" herb. To flavour food. It is family of Cellery. The stwms are hollow and can be used as a straw if when make green juice or any juice

[@doinacampean9132]

Romanian viewer here: traditionally, lovage is used in sour soups, soured by either bors (borsh, borscht) - fermented wheat bran, or any other souring agent such as lemon juice, or vinegar, or whathaveyou. It adds WHOLENESS (no other word for it) - and is a natural antidepressant (same as capers).

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

I work with a lot of Romanians at work, and I can attest to that. When people found out I was doing this stuff, one of the first suggestions of plants to add was lovage from my co-worker Chris who is Romanian. So I added it, and have been using it for 4 years now. Love it.

[@hhwippedcream]

Thanks for your generosity in sharing! Much needed knowledge.

[@RayMirshahi]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I have planted a few lovage plants that are doing really well. I never knew they have antidepressant properties. I find the taste to be too strong compared to celery which means I have to use less. Interestingly, the rabbits have stayed away from them and they haven't touched the inter-planted kale either. I suspect the rabbits don't like the smell of lovage. They have mowed down my other Kale.

[@charlesbale8376]

I always enjoy a garden walk. I would appreciate it if you would flash the genius and species on the screen.

[@amandabarnes7961]

Umbels are the flower types that you are loving. They are like bee landing pads. Daisies of all kinds are also loved by hover flies and all the gorgeous native bees like blue banded bees (Australia, not sure if you have them). ;-)

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Thanks for the info!

[@doinacampean9132]

22:48-ish - I believe that would be yarrow, not valerian, judging by the leaves...

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Indeed.

[@Leonard73rr4]

Muy buenos videos, gracias , saludos y un gran abrazo desde argentina, amo la permacultura from Canadá

[@crunch42]

The one you call valerian looks like yarrow. Yarrow has feathery leaves and valerian has more flat-leaf-parsley-like leaves. Very similar flowers though.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Indeed you are right.

[@thedodgestreetrings]

I noticed that, too, but there is valerian next to it. You can see the leaves coming into the frame on the right at times.

[@loisthomas8764]

New to channel, what type of Clover do you prefer, we have Deer and I was not wanting to attract them to the yard. Enjoying your videos.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Definitely go with Dutch White clover then. Thanks for the comment, and welcome to the family! Great people here, especially in the comment section. It's a true badge of honor for me that I attract so many amazing people to come and chat about gardening!

[@Woodchipengineer]

I hope you are writing a book about your deer stuff, because no one else is.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Maybe a chapter. Not that much to say which would fill an entire book

[@kcoker9189]

Basil is definitely one of my favorite plants... Did you ever get a pesto video out? I know there's plenty of recipes out there but I enjoy your content immensely. Thanks again for all you do, cheers!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

No not yet. Infact, my basil this year just ended up getting forgotten about! I felt horrible. Too many plants, not enough time :)

[@luzrodriguez5773]

Beautiful video. Thanks

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Many thanks!

[@samanthamariah7625]

I’m heading to the plant nursery right now 🤣

[@sheilarobbe4895]

Have been enjoying your videos. Noticed something that you may want to re check. The plant you called Valarian I believe is Yarrow.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Indeed, this was a long time ago when I was first learning plants.

[@yLeprechaun]

I would like to see a deep dive on the creek you have. Course, I'm a new Sub, so maybe I should look thru the library

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Sure! Thats a great video and one that I've never done before... and one that is easiest to do in the winter time!

[@StephanieBacks]

i always knew hyssop as 'licorice plant'. it taste like a mild black licorice. try adding it to coconut curry at the very end. brings the flavour to a whole new level. you might recognize the flavour if you have ever eaten coconut curry at a decent restaurant. :)

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Ooooh thanks for the idea! I have been wondering how to cook with it, but in a way that doesn't make the thing taste like black licorice.

[@drawyrral]

That rabbit poop made it's second trip though the rabbit. The first poop is re-eaten to get all the nutrients they missed on the first go around.

[@doinacampean9132]

If your stew is too greasy, you may want to drink some yarrow tea to relieve your liver... - removing grease from your stew would also help...

[@westrose586]

Really appreciate your show, but At 21 minutes, you are talking about Valerian, but the plant you are showing us is yarrow. Confusing because the plant beside the yarrow is the Valerian. (the one turning slightly yellow)

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Indeed! This has been pointed out a few times, thanks for noticing and correcting. I was still learning those 2 plants at this stage. It feels so funny to me watching it back now lol.

[@Sc0Op-tr0Op]

Your videos are so informative and peaceful to watch. What can be done about fruit trees with fungal diseases? I’m trying to grow apple, cherry, peach & nectarine trees and most get one or more fungal diseases. Peach leaf curl and cherry black spot. Rust disease is big in my humid Summer climate, too. I’m in coastal New England. Cold winters and humid hot Summers.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

The biggest thing is to increase airflow and light. Pruning is the best way to deal with these. I should make a video on this.

[@mordyfisher4269]

I tried cropping the flowers off about two dozen blueberry bushes this year, only had about 50 percent success in additional growth, the rest was a detriment. Im thinking i might get an additional fruiting season or two out of the older canes... Next year im only going to crop the flowers off the older stems and see if that does the trick

[@verdikulk6193]

Is there a pdf list, for cold climate vegetables, fruits and Trees ?

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

I found a really good one, but it's in french. Other than that, I don't really know of one (it's a pretty big list, especially when you get into the berries and herbaceous layer!). What I did was just walk around various nature trails taking pictures of everything and looking them up on pfaf.org (plants for a future). Learn about them, their uses, etc. Also, visiting various plant nurseries, especially "off the trail" ones that specialize in native wild plants, such as Grow Wild! Native Plant Nursery www.nativeplantnursery.ca, which is a place somewhat close to me. It's a bit of a drive to get there, but the plant catalogue in a place like that is a great place to start. Cross reference those plants with pfaf.org, learn about them, etc. Then contact nurseries around you to see if they carry those plants. A great way to flesh out your collection.

[@verdikulk6193]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy thank you so much, sir

[@XyZ98768]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Please share the PDF list, even if it is in French.

[@ecocentrichomestead6783]

You have a lot of grass in some places too. I am wondering how much the natives grasses here will cause a struggle for me and the plants I want to grow as my food forest becomes developed. Guess we will see in time. Deer don't mind jumping things. Moose might push through an obviously weak barrier. But proper planting creating an easy walkway guiding away from one's garden works to keep them, mostly, out.

[@kimanderberg1106]

Do you have any footage, drone footage maybe, of your entire permaculture landscape? I am about to take on what is, to me, a large plot of land- 3.5 acres - as my permaculture paradise design and am a bit overwhelmed with the exciting work ahead. I have already envisioned many things that can happen to what is currently a barren over grazed horse pasture with a lot of deer activity. This video is inspiring of "Plants for a Future". I am interested in seeing the total layout of your design.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

I was going to do a bit of that, but there are actually some legal implications locally about doing drone footage like this. And I also want to he a bit careful showing too much and having people be able to find my exact location. Lots of crazies out there. The opening shot in this video shows about half of the planted areas: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r5XWYa2Jeq95d5I

[@kimanderberg1106]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Thanks for the reply and it is understandable, something I hadn't considered. I've dug deeper into your videos and can glimpse more. And thanks for the direct on your aerial, it is very helpful, great job! Thanks a bunch for your abundant useful info and for the suggestion on you tube channel "Edible acres". You are all extremely helpful. Big love. All safety encouraged.

[@maryyett4637]

May I suggest that you check the id on the plant you discussed as being valerian?. It looks a lot more like a yarrow plant than a valerian plant to me. It has the small, fluffy " squirrel tail" shaped leaves of yarrow. Valerian leaves are deeply divided as well. However, valerian leaves are bigger and flatter. The shape of the flower cluster is also more like yarrow.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Indeed, very old video, but that Yarrow looks nothing like valerian LOL, super surprised I got that wrong at the time.

[@maryyett4637]

We are all learning all the time. I greatly admire the work you are doing, and I follow your youtube channel with interest. I, too, have a permaculture farm with many food forests planted in Ontario-- on Manitoulin Island in zone 4b. I apologize for my nerdy, permaculture and herbalism teacher need to correct the misidentification of that plant. I assumed from observing your character on many videos that you would want to be advised of it, as you seem to be a person interested in reality, as any good engineer would be. LOL. Keep up your good work. The world needs you.

[@maryyett4637]

PS. Valerian is not chemically addictive. Its name sounds like valium, which is very addictive, but that is misleading.

[@mordyfisher4269]

Also i just wanted to let you know that i found the perfect solution for my mosquito larva problem that came along on its own... And its salamander infestations, they have a prolonged aquatic stage in there life cycle and consume the larva all day long and in my situation are tolerating the stagnant ponds perfectly fine

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Awesome!

[@d.w.stratton4078]

Consider a bee watering station. They are like bird baths, but you out solid, dry stuff in them so the rest have a safe spot to land and won't drown yet can reach the water safely for a sip. Really helps pollinators!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

I design exactly this kind of thing in the river areas of my pond stream. I purposely asked to have one side of it slightly higher elevation, so that I can put a lot of river rock and have bees land on the rocks and drink from them. A great comment thanks as always D.W.!

[@d.w.stratton4078]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Ah, you're already a light-year ahead of me. When do you place your orders for stuff you have to order, such as fruit tree sapling and such? I know you have to do it in the fall to get them in the spring but it seems like everything is always sold out when I check. I'm wondering what the optimal time window is.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

As soon as possible. Most nurseries will have a mailing list you can sign up for. That way you can order as soon as their catalogue open up.

[@gernotfrohlich6978]

I am pretty sure what you called a valerian is common yarrow - the leaves are clearly yarrow. but a valerian spotted at the right side of the frame for a short period of time :D - best regards.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Indeed. This is a very old video, and I was only getting started and still had some plants mixed up because I planted them in the same area but hadn't worked with them before. How I got these two mixed up I'll never know LOL they look nothing alike.

[@lorigarcia844]

Just found your channel, I love all the information! We live in a mountain forest, starting a food forest as well. I was wondering what your thoughts are on keeping voles, moles and gophers at bay.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

I just plant more food. They provide valuable water and air pathways for plant roots. I haven't had any take down entire trees yet, but if they did I would just keep planting more. Other than that, the only possible thing yoy can do is have animals. Outdoor cat, etc.

[@lorigarcia844]

Thank you for the tip!

[@jenniferfrederick2456]

Do you have a video on deer control? I thought you had, but I am unable to locate it. Thank you

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Yes I do! kzbin.info/www/bejne/oYqvoXafipKWb6c kzbin.info/www/bejne/fobVmWyudsaLldE kzbin.info/www/bejne/a2PVnWytnrWqapI

[@jenniferfrederick2456]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy thank you so much! I am in the process of clearing out a wooded area full of walnut trees and planting apple trees in another part of the yard. The deer crack will help to keep the apple trees alive😁💃

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

lol

[@jenniferfrederick2456]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy is there a shrub or some understory plant that the deer will seek out versus your garden or trees? I heard one person say it is like "crack" to deer😁.

[@joebobjenkins7837]

What do you do in the winter?

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Hockey and dream of spring

[@doinacampean9132]

20:20 - is that a dwarf sort of amaranth?

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

It's possible. It looks like it. That area I sowed with a wild seed mix in that year, so it could be anything. Amaranth is a good guess. Could also be a variety of goldenrod, but I think amaranth is the most likely.

[@MaryannePeters]

I love this video identifying useful plants to have around. I'm moving to a house with a yard (in s. Ontario) so I'll be starting on a garden this summer (so stoked), but I also have always been keen on trying to id whatever is growing around me. I have found trees to be more difficult to identify - maybe you have a good source?

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

I just use my phone, and Google lens, then double check with 2 apps, plant net and picture this. You can also plant to reddit at r/whatsthisplant

[@lindamurray1406]

Great content! Where are you located? I’m on BC coast.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

we are about 2 hours from Toronto

[@n1mbusmusic606]

love sepp!

[@amandabarnes7961]

What kind of clover do you use? Clover Dalkeith or a different one. Thanks for your information btw. Great, very detailed info.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Dutch white, Trifolium repens

[@amandabarnes7961]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Many thanks for replying. It looks so healthy! I tried Dalkeith mix (It was formulated by the CSIRO - Which is our Australian national science research centre: www.diggers.com.au/shop/edibles/clever-clover-kit-csiro/sclc/) but it didn't do well here. I'll give yours a try. Cheers.

[@jessicalandi6750]

That first system was inspirational. Did you help create the rocky stream, too? Oh wait, I just saw you answered that question on a previous comment. So this isn't your ideal stream due to what pollution it could contain from properties above it. And if a stream could be possible to create naturally, it likely would be already. Thanks.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Exactly :)

[@PrairieJournals]

I wonder if you've thought about prickly lettuce (wild lettuce)? I grow a few plants a year for it's young leaves and sap. Sap is medicinal. See if that's something for your gardens. Also, around 20 mins, you have a dock type plant. Have you checked out making flour from the dock seeds? Delicious.🇨🇦. Really enjoying these vids.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Are you talking about burdock at 20 min in vid? I have heard it's very edible, but I havent tried it yet. It's on my radar though, just have to get around to it. I hear the roots are quite good, and that stuff is everywhere in the wild, so I really want to know what it tastes like. I havent tried prickly lettuce, I will look it up. I'm always looking for more diversity. Thanks a ton for the suggestions! It's nice to chat with other plant lovers!

[@Renee-cd3sm]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I can tell you wild lettuce definitely works for sleep. I have made it myself. I followed this guy's instruction: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hGq5aKuBgNmYq7s My wild lettuce does not look the same as his. The stuff in my yard is smaller. It was the first medicinal I ever made and it works very well!

[@jessicalandi6750]

"Compulsive collector of plants" haha, classic!

[@jessicalandi6750]

Lol, yes I'm being pursued by a peach tree sapling and a couple of comfrey cuttings. I'm expecting them to show up on my doorstep any day. A paw-paw sapling showed up last month. I'm like a plant magnet now.

[@TheDavewalery]

I've heard of vignerons using human hair as a smell barrier for boars and deer in the vineyard. It might help with certain prized trees for you. Free from the barber and think of trying to use it made into a tea and sprayed as a perimeter and or in the same way Sepp Holzer does w/ bone tar. Cheers

[@RayMirshahi]

Is Anise hyssop perennial in your zone? I planted some this year.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Indeed :)

[@christopherhorn5274]

The spice known as celery seed is really lovage.

[@oanarusuungureanu1309]

No it is not. Lovage is how he said. I am romanian...we love lovage

[@fergusfarm3793]

Horseradish, common garden sorrel, rhubarb, goldenrod, chicory, cardoon, mint!,.......

[@kescah]

In this video you talked about improving the soil-- my gardening area (there are also forest soil areas where my trees and berries will go) is unfortunately soil that has been excavated for a development above, very sandy, doesn't hold water. I've put down cardboard and covered it with great foresty soil from where our house will be and planted clover, but for a few years I assume it will be poor soil. The slopes, same bad soil, are covered with scotchbroom, thimbleberry, lemonleaf, and evergreen huckleberry. Can you suggest plants I can grow to improve that kind of soil? I have done research on what veggies I can grown there for now, so that is handled.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Man, that's unfortunate. The worst thing is they will sell this topsoil for profit, then leave you with backfill and an inch of moderately good soil. It's literal theft. So disgusting. The best thing is soil building practices. Just VOLUME. Get as much chop and drop going as you can. As an example, I have a local forest near me that has wild comfrey growing. When I first started, I would go and harvest that comfrey fairly regularly. Just try to be conscious of overharvesting. But this can be a great way to use an existing fertility source and helping to restore your soils with it. Riverbanks are great fertility sources and will bounce back very quickly. See if you can tap into something like that - and don't tell anyone I told you to do that. Infact, I'm telling you not to do that, so don't do that and don't get me in trouble. It really does come down to just dumping organic matter down as much as possible. Plants will help, but if you want to QUICKLY succession this, it's all about finding organic matter and dumping it down. You can do it 100x faster like this. As far as what plants to do (say, if the above wasn't possible or desirable), then you are looking at all pioneer species. Pretty much if it's considered a weed, it will help heal that wound. Try to find the weeds you like, and plant those. Even the plants you mention, they are all decent plants to use for this. Just chop and drop them as regularly as possible and use them to transition the soil towards fertility. And understand that this will get better every year that passes, and soon you will find that the scotchbroom, thimbleberry, lemonleaf and huckleberry may struggle in the newer more fertile soils. Not so much as struggle, but rather that other plants will do really well there and will finally be able to compete against them. They can't now, but they will be able to after a few years of this. For now, try to tap into ANY organic material you can. Heck, even if it's just going to restaurants and picking up their food waste, dumping that down and covering it all with woodchips and just taking the hit on the next year or so of having "refuse" in your backyard. That would actually transition to great soil very quickly. One thing you don't want to do it hit the hills too hard before they transition. The weeds may be unsightly, but they are holding the soils there. If you cut back too much there, you may actually destabilize the hill. Roots are super important on hills. Try to maximize plants on any hills that you can. Woodchips can also help because they absorb the energy of raindrops, and let the water move without picking soils up. Oh and also, thanks for supporting the channel! That's so awesome, I appreciate it so much Debra :)

[@kescah]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy That's great, helpful info. Thanks. Will the veggies I grow (sandy soil ok veggies) help via their roots? Along with the weeds I plant. I suspect that is exactly what happened; he scooped up the topsoil and probably used it on the development or sold it. There is a lot of level land like that. It is growing grass. The water nearby is on our land, too, so I won't sue you if I cut the plants back. ;) I will be careful to keep the plant-life going there. I'm so looking forward to helping to restore this land and also managing the forest land. I will be using homeopathic remedies on diseased and injured plants, including the upper slope primative plants as I can get at them. I'll be writing a blog post on the remedies soon.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Indeed any plants that grow (veggies or otherwise) will help stabilize the soil. Make sure you come plug your blog when you start it. And let me know if youtube takes the comment down.

[@kescah]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Thank you! Here is the blog: www.paradiseorganicplants.com/ I have posted the homeopathic plant help article; it is meant to let people know of the value of homoepathy for plant care (amazing, really!) It is not comprehensive, but it gives the general idea and points to a book that covers the topic well. And I'm happy to answer questions on the blog. I started the blog after watching your videos, and some posts star you! Thanks for your videos.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Wonderful! Make sure to advertise (subtly and sparingly or people will get peeved) every now and then on newer videos.

[@charlenekociuba7396]

What did you pull of and plant when you were commenting on Yarrow? It looked like some kind of onion bulb but you planted four nearby. I'm curious. How old was the plant you took them from?

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Egyptian walking onions. Perennial onions. Maybe in my top 5 of favorite plants. The plant I took from was planted this same way last fall. They make bulbits on their very first year.

[@christopherhorn5274]

I've never heard of valerian being addictive or hallucinogenic. To my knowledge, it is a very mild sleep aid (much more gentle than synthetic sleep aids), and a cat stimulant (similar to catnip).

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Look up all pants on plants for a future. It is a great website that has very good references to back up what they say. Here is the page for valerian. pfaf.org/USER/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Valeriana+officinalis

[@muffininorbit]

I’ve taken it often for sleep, and the downside for me is my dreams are so intense I might as well be tripping. I sleep deeply in a physical way but am maybe emotionally exhausted.

[@mohammadshahid9998]

K love your video.. i see u hv subscription option. May i talk in details a bit?

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Hi Mohammed, you can send me an email to [e-mail].

[@Tarlzan]

That looks more like Yarrow. I have Valerian and it does not look like that. A simple google image search can verify.

[@SgtScourge]

Are there little nitrogen fixing plants that cover similar to clover, about that same height, that are edible?

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

None that I know of, but that doesn't mean there aren't any. Alfalfa is about the closest thing that would match most of that.

[@SgtScourge]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy ya, I looked a lot after asking. Can't eat much of them. No problem with clover though, it grows a lot already and I love seeing them anyway! Plus I just found a nursery with seabuckthorn so I can add that back into my plans ^_^

[@SgtScourge]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy oh ya!! I just found that fenugreek/methi is nitrogen fixing and it's my absolute favorite herb and seed spice ever! It grows about the same height or maybe a tiny taller than clover, looks like clover, tastes amazing dried, fresh, and the seeds are used in a lot of things I cook. Woot! I also use it as a substitute for cilantro because that's the true devil's weed. Not perennial but should spread by seed. Grows back several times each season after harvest, releasing nitrogen along the way I'm guessing.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

I've never grown fenugreek because it's an annual, but I should try it. I'm curious how well it naturalizes and self seeds? Maybe I will try it this year. :)

[@Олег_Морозов]

Это видео заслуживает два лайка 👍

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Большое спасибо!

[@stevenfeil7079]

I have NEVER heard of valerian being addictive.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

There are references to studies over at pfaf on the valerian page.

[@maxinemcclurd1288]

I'm a Herbalist and it's not addictive in the traditional sense. Valerian needs to be taken only two weeks at a time because it builds up in your system and good luck with pain relief .Great for insomnia and anxiety.

[@erikgillies5319]

That valerian looks much more like common yarrow.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Indeed, I misspoke on this video. I had a pinned comment there, but it seems the person who first made it has since deleted the comment.

[@soutpilaar]

It is stronger than Celery. So use little not to much

[@samanthamariah7625]

Is your stream naturally there or did you help create it? I am wanting to create a stream. I don’t think my property is big enough to nurture a stream solely from nature but I think I could create one as natural as possible and as close to nature as possible. So....curious as to the origin of your stream? Maybe I missed a video on it too? If so, could you place the name of it here....and if there’s not one, could you make one 🤣😊

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Stream is natural low point of the land. Rain catchment is from farm fields above my property, so it has who knows what in it (unfortunately). If you wanted to create one that is very natural the bad news is that if that were possible, it would likely already be there. So the only way to "create one" is to basically create an artificial reservoir and use a pond liner to line the stream, and a pump to recirculate the water. Top up the basin anytime it's low (from evaporation, splashing, plant take-up) and try to get a natural water flow to deposit itself there. The other option would be to find out how low your water table is. It's possible if it's not too low that you can create a stream by just digging deep enough.

[@d.w.stratton4078]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Pond Liner 100% not necessary. Sepp does it with clay and an earth mover. Dig out an area for water catchment, cover with clay, put smallest available digger on the earth mover, push it down into the ground until it lifts the front of the mover off the ground. Repeat across the entire pond, compacting the clay into a hardpan layer that will hold water naturally. Boom. No plastic.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Agree, but since there is no clay here, I would have to truck it in. That clay comes from somewhere, is harvested, likely clear-cut trees then dug out like a mine, then transported. It's not like clay is natural and plastic is unnatural, if the clay isn't naturally here. Support and Geoff Lawton have also had major dam breaks. So it works, but not as well as a liner. Last part is cost, and trucking clay in was 2x as expensive as an EPDM liner. I personally think plastic sucks, but if there is a good spot for it, it's in a pond liner on land with no clay. That's just my opinion though.

[@cherylbibbee2143]

Lol... menstral? Im not sure why you would use it for that. Can you explain how it helps

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

I'm the wrong person to ask for that one! I'm just passing information down. There are lots of links and resources at pfaf.org though.

[@juliegogola4647]

When I try to plant desired plants, I always have trouble with a million weeds popping up constantly. My back won't allow me to bend over much to pull them either. I'm thinking that using a heavy duty weed cloth on the ground, and planting in huge tubs, several of them, a couple of, or just 1 per container, could help me weed easier than planting in the soil. Each huge planting tub would have an open bottom, so that worms and bugs that help nourish the soil could still do that. There would be a hole in the weed mat under each huge tub of course allowing worms to get into the tub. I already have a few tubs like that in my yard, BUT, the weeds grow under my current weed mat, despite it being thick and black. I need to use some more weed blocking mat that is more substantial to stop it for good. My current weed mat is a geotextile weed mat. I need something that is NOT porous, and lets any light through that weeds will take advantage of. I wish that I could plant a bunch of plants and have them all compliment each other, as in this video, but, keeping the weeds from taking over is just too hard. I mean the big thug weeds that I don't recognize as a thug until it gets big and the roots are deep down in the soil. Is that "Tree of heaven" in the background at about 6:00, and a bit before? That is a weed here. I see lotta weeds we have here too in zone 6a Pa, USA. I have 2 Hazelnut bushes,. the wildlife gets those before I do. Okay, so instead of "Tree of heaven", those are Sumac's? They look really similar to me. Velerian root can be addictive? And can make you hallucinate? Don't let that get out or many people will be trying it out! But seriously, with the herbal medications, the dosage isn't known usually when you try it to help you with a condition. I see how all of that organic mulch helps keep weeds down, if a person can collect or make a mulch of fall leaves and some shredded wood, that should help keep weeds down. I'll try that on top of my huge containers. I can go to the leaf dump in fall and get a bit of it. This is all really cool and must be a ton of work to keep weed free. When I had pet bunnies, my compost was just great. Now, I just have food scraps and coffee grounds to mix with fall leaves. We do get deer and bunnies here too, but, I don't have all of those food sources you have, just some wild plants they eat. And, a few things I've planted.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Indeed, those are staghorn sumac. For weed fabric, I would caution against it. All it does is create a problem down the road. Weeds will just grow on top of it, and even through it (trust me, I know from experience) and now you have this interwoven fabric of weed roots that is impossible to remove, removes in pieces, and is garbage in the soil. The best way to fight weeds is either from above, or moving up. From above means sheet mulching right on top of them, with a very thick smothering layer (2-3 cardboard layers for really nasty areas), or even just spending a season dedicated to a smother, such as with plywood or repurposed billboards. Smother smother smother. Reset. Then begin anew. The second is going up. Raised beds. Get the planting area up off the ground, where weeds won't climb in from the side. This one is a bit more work to set up, but it really pays off when it's done, and 10-year from now you will love that 10-year earlier you did this project. We aren't getting younger. Those are your only 2 options that will actually work. The first may need a refresh every 5 years or so. The second one should last the rest of your life.

[@dennis7511]

The proof of the pudding is in the eating!

[@gatherlove]

Wondering what part of Canada you're in? I'm in Colorado so sometimes some of the Alberta plants apply. Thanks!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Am in Southern Ontario

[@carsonunroe]

#goals

[@owlwing212]

I assume, you are talking about Valeriana officinalis, when talking about valerian. I am very sure, that you are wrong about the dangers and also the uses. Most commonly, it is used for sleep and nerve problems, not for pain. But it can enhance the effects of pain medication and also have negative side effects if consumed with medication or alcohol. Another important point is: It will NOT make you addicted!!! That is, why you should use this plant, rather than prescribed medication. (After doing your research and talking to health professionals of course.) I hope to have cleared that up. Don't fear valerian!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

I am going off this: pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Valeriana+officinalis Of which reference 9 is this: Launert. E. Edible and Medicinal Plants. Hamlyn 1981 ISBN 0-600-37216-2. If you have published research showing that is not true, you should submit it to pfaf so that they can update their information. For now, I would certainly recommend caution.

[@craigmetcalfe1749]

Hey Keith! What do you do with wildlife who have thrown off their mortal coil in the food forest? Like me, you probably get overlooked when it comes to being a pall bearer in the company of taller permaculturalists, but do you take the time to add the dearly departed to the soil beneath a tree. I am always a little disheartened when wildlife have to be dispatched and my wife and I always try to say something nice about the deceased out of respect. There are times, I have to admit, when the only nice thing I have heard at the dispatching ceremony was "His brother was worse!"

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Lol. Haven't had that problem yet, but I would think the only fitting end would be to wrap them in some plaid dinner jacket, pour some maple syrup on the body, grab a pint and play a good game of hockey to cellie.

[@Renee-cd3sm]

Is that perennial basil?

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

No, this one was basil my wife bought me from the nursery for Father's Day last year. Just annual basil.

[@Renee-cd3sm]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy that's crazy cant wait until my soio building starts to pay off! :) love this channel

[@MaryannePeters]

I love how you recognize how weird it is to do this stuff - I moved into my house in April, and my front lawn is now all sheet mulched (I've checked the bylaws for this area), and I constantly feel like the neighbours are scowling at my pile of dead wood (without evidence). I'm used to not fitting in, and this is still hard. I'm going to plant stuff next year, and it'll come together eventually, but breaking away from the norm is rough, even for an outcast - I can't imagine how it would feel for someone who is used to belonging. Being the person who shows others that it's okay to deviate is a difficult but an important role. kzbin.info/www/bejne/opPElqCNftGdm7M

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Yeah, I've always been the kind of person who was just happy being myself, and if I'm nice to people and they still don't like me, then that says more about them than me. Breaking from the norm is really important. Especially when the norm is ignorance.

[@d.w.stratton4078]

I haven't mowed the lawn in the 18 months since we moved in here and constantly feel like townspeople are judging me, but so far everyone is super nice and chatty and hasn't said a thing. 🤯 We also don't take the leaves. This is the second leaf fall and much of the front yard is reverting to a fern-covered woodlands already. Very cool to watch.

[@d.w.stratton4078]

Would you be able to take us through a spot design from initial concept through design and implementation? I always get stalled out trying to figure out how to make rubber hit the road and it's usually that South Park Underpants Gnome unknown third step. Like step 1 is fine up with the idea, step 2 is design it after lots of observation, and step 4 is plant things, wait, and get a harvest. But step 3 is always something like "get tons of free wood chips, it's super easy, everyone has them, it's not hard" but like...I live in the foot hills of the Berkshires. Chip Drop doesn't come here. I've posted signs asking for chips and talked to the service people begging. Arborists will bring me huge logs but not chips. I don't know how to get the stuff I need to much aggressively. I got 20 yards one time for about $400. I can't afford that kind of thing for the 2 acres in trying to convert to peaculture food forest and I'm so frustrated not knowing how to find a solution.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

It doesn't have to be chips. What do you have local in abundance? Use that. Down in the tropics they use seaweed and palm leaves. It just needs to be organic. Try to tap into someone's waste stream. Leaves in the fall also work well. It could be old moldy hay. It could be coffee grinds, juice peels and newspaper. You won't make friends with the neighbours with that one though. But all that matters is that it used to be alive. There was a story of a forest regrowing in the tropics from a orange peel dump site. Literally 20 foot deep orange peels for acres. 10 years later its an orange Grove

[@d.w.stratton4078]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I feel like mostly what grows here is maple trees. I'll see about trying to get maple leaves from people's yard waste, but I then have to worry about fertilizer, pesticide spray, etc. don't I?

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Yeah, but you can minimize that by doing some smart selection criteria. I think I talked about some of that in my aminopyralids video. Basically, a few things... asking them if they spray is the easy way. If that's not possible, then going to somewhere with no grass but lots of trees (common in Olde rear time homes where the large tree shade the grasses).

[@d.w.stratton4078]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I appreciate your stuffing with me on these comments, Keith. I'm trying really hard to get the motivation and wherewithal to get started here in Western Mass. It's overwhelming at times. Tried starting some red dosier dogwood for coppice and basket making last fall but not one of them came up this year so I got discouraged. But watching Edible Acres, I've seen how the just plants a nutty amount of everything and then even if only 10% works he's got like 200 hazelnut saplings. I just need to find out how to get bulk amounts of stuff on the cheap. I like your scientific approach to things as I'm a trained scientist too (physicist). It would be cool if ever I get my shit together to have you guys over for a visit or you're down this way. I'll definitely stay in touch.

[@nilasspasov8417]

This is a fantastic video. How to replicate this picture in Pennsylvania? Your voice is great and you could make perfect radio host or actor using your natural beautiful timbre of voice. It is pleasant to watch video end hear your voice. Congratulation. I love your videos.

[@lavendercottageflowerfarm3281]

How many acres do you have?

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

4 acres, but only 1 is planted

[@denisechavis4820]

Does the bees 🐝 actually use your bee hotel?

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

They do! Not the first year, but last year they did. Wild bees.

[@GimmeADream]

What you are calling Valerian looks like Yarrow to me. The leaf doesn't look like a Valerian leaf.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Indeed, video is 3 years old and I was just learning both those plants and got this one mixed up in this video.

[@friendlyfoodforest8033]

Let's groooow

[@ZE308AC]

I freak out about snail when they are eating my few seedlings of rare plants.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

If they are rare definitely try to protect them indoors and under grow lights or something. Get a few established in pots under control and only then put them out in the wild to fend for themselves.

[@filipou1000]

in wich contry-area are you?

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Canada, it's right in my name :)

[@filipou1000]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy it a big country with varioua climate....

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

@@filipou1000 oh I didn't see you say Area. I'm in zone 5, Ontario.

[@kamparamvlogs]

👍💐👌

[@MonkeyBoy-sd9vc]

You don't harvest any of the deer?

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Honestly, now that we have Lucy and Rosie (Aussie shepherds) who are outside most of the day, I never see deer anymore.

[@MonkeyBoy-sd9vc]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy what a shame, that's a lot of sustainable and high quality protein.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

And as good as you can get ethically speaking. The deer you can harvest in a food forest system (also rabbit trapping) are animals that lived INCREDIBLE lives until they were eaten.

[@glennfiedler6236]

It would be cool to develop photosynthesis. Eat more yarrow :)

[@Klavier7]

18 minutes in: looks more like poison hemlock than QAL to me. You didn’t focus on it so good chance I’m wrong. The pattern of the flowers is what I’m going off of.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

They are really similar. I've touched this many times and haven't had any reactions - but I do when I touch poison hemlock. The environment is also very cold and dry, and hemlock likes quite wet sunny environments. I'm 99% sure this is QAL. Still, not gonna eat it!

[@liceous]

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