Permaculture Food Forest Tour - August, 2023. What's growing now?

Come check out what we are harvesting out of our food forest in mid August. It's been a great season, so much food all year long, despite the warm Feb week that ruined all our peaches. When you plant diversely, you still get rewarded, as each year, different fruit will pull their weight for your food forest.
Come explore the food forest with me and our new pup Rosie.
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[@djmoulton1558]

A good way to encourage more snakes is to build a pile of rocks 6-10". Snakes will inhabit this and range out about your property from there. If it is in a sunny location they will use it to heat themselves.

[@Acts-1322]

Maybe they can nab the chipmunks that inhabit those rock piles too then lol.

[@pattibando3104]

Our apples don't look good either. So what we did was peeled ,cut the apples, put real lemon juice on them , bag them and freeze. We had froozen apples 🍎. Just made a pie with apples from last year. Apples had kept their colour and a firm texture.

[@pattibando3104]

Great tour. Rosie is loving your food forest.

[@busygardenmama]

My apples have been mostly worm free since yarrow started growing under them!😊

[@jodytrimmel579]

You looked like a little kid at the candy store munching and enjoying the "fruits" of your labour's. Your food forest looks fan-freaking-tastic 👌 😊 Thank you for the frequent walk-throughs to show the progress over the seasons.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

❤️

[@bradlafferty]

Loved the “Dramatic Reenactment” of harvesting Sea Buckthorn leaves for drying! Great drollness!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Haha glad someone appreciated that. I like adding a little dry humor into the videos.

[@kevinchiles9638]

Embossed or corrugated sheet metal in that sunny grass will do wonders for snakes habitat as well as the rock suggestion.

[@julie-annepineau4022]

Rosie is adorable. So cute at the must mouth everything to learn her environment stage. She will be a great companion in the food forest. Love the inspiration. Mine is just a couple guilds and still needs lots of filling in. Fingers crossed for sun for both of us!

[@jackiekjono]

I just have a couple of small apple trees. If you get a couple of packets of those nylon footie socks they use a shoe stores for trying on shoes and loop the socks over an apple around mid June when they are an inch wide, it will keep the birds and wasps from going after them. Way fewer holes. It’s not exactly organic but, beats spraying. A Little time consuming though

[@denarisnoctem4562]

Please, show us the garden in the winter, too.

[@donnaduhamel6004]

Great job..your evolution is so fun to see. A Canadian tour de force...in permaculture🥰💗

[@chandrikatilwalli4741]

I totally agree with your philosophy. Wish more people felt like you. Predators are also part of nature and life cycle.

[@lynnmoss2127]

Thank you so much for the wisdom about disrupting ecosystems by eliminating predators. All is necessary

[@leonsaquaponicsandhomegard6793]

Looks fantastic 😊😊😊

[@Ok-vj3dw]

I'm definitely a plant collector as well. I'm limited by space and shade so I cant have absolutely everything that I want, but those limitations have provided a fun challenge of finding characters that will thrive in those conditions. One thing that I have found that I think that you would like as well is hablitzia tamnoides; caucasian spinach. Same family as spinach and it's kind of like a mild spinach in flavor, but the real kicker is that it's a very cold hardy and very shade tolerant perennial. Over the years it makes a great big crown that you can harvest potentially hundreds of shoots from each spring like asparagus.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

I planted both before and they did really poorly. Caucasian Mountain Spinach didn't live over my winter.

[@rebeccajackson2690]

How big will your Hazelnuts get to be? I hope to see you harvest them!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

They can get to about 20 ft by 15 ft.

[@estoniangardeneer]

I agree with most things You say, except the mink just "trying to survive" :D. It's a psychopathic killer...

[@lppoqql]

This is one happy Canadian, there is so much land in Canada. We should all spread out.

[@Usasa-ej3ym]

dog love😂😂

[@caitegraceify]

My puppy loves blueberries, strawberries and broccoli, peas and beans. Surprisingly she’s not a fan of carrots, most dogs I’ve had like carrots.

[@caitegraceify]

Oh and I think she eats raspberries that are lower on the bush but I haven’t caught her doing it yet

[@caitegraceify]

Oh and she loves apples but they make her fart

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

LOL

[@cherylwelch6431]

Just FYI...We have a chicken and an Axolotyl named Rosie...lol...And Also 3 AUSSIES ! OH! And a food forest!!! Small world Lol 😅 Thanks for sharing all the knowledge my friend, from Lancaster PA

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

I've never heard of someone with an axolotyl!

[@keithnotley2440]

G'day Keith. Great to see you so happy and energized giving us an update on your thriving food forest! I am sure that you and your intrepid garden overseer (Rosie!) will enjoy many hours together doing all things required to manage The Forrest! A suggestion for you regarding plant labels, cutting 1" strips from aluminium beverage cans, punching a wire hole, then writing the plant names onto them is a long-term resilient plant identification solution! Your "infotorials" continue to inspire and educate us and you DO NOT need a new camera,,,,! 🥰🙏🍀🥰

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Thanks Keith! Great idea! I wonder how expensive it is to get a metal imprinter, to punch the name into the metal. It would last forever that way.

[@keithnotley2440]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Hey Keith, you can just "write" on the label with a blunt lead pencil and the pressure applied easily imprints into the aluminium, to make a very permanent and resilient description! 🍀🙏

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

@keithnotley2440 Awesome

[@Wisald]

You always give me ideas for new things to try, thanks. I tried Jerusalem artichokes this year because of your video and they are so big while also being maintenanceless, can't wait to harvest them.

[@lorebrown5307]

I added the seaberry variety to my list for next year, from the ringing endorsement

[@deborahjudyboucher1072]

A long time friend of mine told me that the reason apples develop scabs on them is that the owners allow the apple that are on the ground to rot instead of removing them. I know if you search it on the internet it says it's the leaves but he comes from along list of farmers and he says it's from the rotting apples.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

It's possible. It's a fungal disease, so it needs somewhere moist to overwinter. Rating fruit would do it, but I would leaves would also. Either way, it can travel a hundred kilometers in the air when it sporulates, so, unless you can control that size of a radius around you, you don't have much of a say in the matter. It's fungicides or scab. Scab only makes things look ugly, so I'd never spray.

[@JoelKSullivan]

The new puppy is adorable and wildflower hill looks incredible! I appreciate and respect your ethic to not catch the mink. I fully agree! We got our first harvest of tomatoes this year. I've never grown them before. They are delicious.

[@emmavik-fredriksson640]

Didn't now that you can use the leaves from sea buck thorn ! My bushes are very small still and no berries yet, but will harvest a small amount of leaves then and try!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

very very healthy tea 😀

[@AnnaGandsuk]

Замечательный плодородный и очень красивый участок!

[@denarisnoctem4562]

You are so inspiring. I have a tiny garden, but it is wonderful to see what can be done to support yourself with a garden.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

So kind, thank you 😊

[@mistymounthomestead8594]

Reusable silicone freezer bags and mason jars are good option for storing food environment friendly 😉

[@johnransom1146]

Inspirational

[@user-wx1eb5ws4x]

This is haven....what else do you want....

[@doinacampean9132]

You managed to show a grand total of zero Egyptian walking onions :) Mine finally got a foot in the door (so to speak) this (second) year! I'm now sowing red beard onions, they look so cool and, apparently, they benefit from a bit of a frost before harvesting! My beets are coming along well, Ethiopian kale, too and, oh, did I mention radishes? :) My sunchokes are coming back with a vengeance, from 2 areas I was confident I harvested all tubers last fall. I think the tubers-in-progress is what made them come back. James Prigioni sprays his plum curculio prone trees with kaolin clay, not poisonous at all, you could give it a try if you want your apples to be protein free :) I was thinking that maybe you should bag some of your hazelnuts if you want to keep some from the squirrels... :) I forgot, do you have hardy persimmons? (To be harvested after a hard frost...) I think those apples on the ground will make some awesome cider and perhaps vinegar, later. How are you eating frozen grapes later? (other than straight from the bag, like candy)

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

For the grapes, we use them in smoothies, kombucha 2nd ferments, and also just nibbling straight from the bag as you say. For persimmons, we have a couple, but they aren't of producing age yet. Our Egyptian walking onions were just harvested and picked and dehydrated/ powdered, we do have some that we never showed that are still in the garden though.

[@trishwalton6628]

I, too, have had issues with worms in my apples, but I don't spray nor will I. Apple sauce it is! Good tasting and healthy. No additives. What more do we want? Everything needs to eat and multiply. Can't blame the worms! So let's learn to live with them. I love your channel ❤ thank you!

[@mikkeljylland9153]

I am the happy owner of a 10 year old food forest. But I think its quite easy to have a small food forest perhaps producing 10% of what you eat. But going to 30 or40 % means you have to put in a lot of time, and for one person it is almost impossible if you work full time. (I have 2 acres).

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

💯

[@growinginportland]

Always a pleasure. Thanks for sharing.

[@GimmeADream]

That is what I named my Aussi..., "My little Shadow".

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

❤️

[@basilsmith62]

+, благодарю за экскурсию! У нас на Руси есть праздник 19 августа - яблочный спас, считается что с этой даты можно собирать яблоки, в них полный комплекс космических энергий, если ты понимаешь о чём я. С праздником!:) П.с.: есть ещё 2 праздника: медовый спас - 14 августа, и ореховый спас - 25 августа, после этих дат можно собирать соответствующие продукты.

[@deewhite0612]

What a fantastic garden. How much clearing and removal of dead plants do you do in the winter? Do you just leave everything to die back and thereafter go back into the soil and compost?

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Exactly, the latter. Dying dead plants are important habitat for insects, so I never clean up in the winter, I clean up late late spring, almost summer.

[@wholesystems]

Where are you guys located? nice to see paw paws!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Oooh Ben, you are one of my biggest inspirations. I'm honored to see you here. We are between Toronto and Ottawa, zone 5 Canada (which is kind of sort of not really equivalent to USDA zone 4)

[@wholesystems]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy thanks so much… awesome. Have seen your stuff and thought you were further west.. paw paws gotta be pretty mild. We’ve tried em every 3-5 years for 20 years here and just ain’t happening so I’m done spending time and money trying hahah. What kind of soil you have em in and any special varieties?

[@lynnmoss2127]

Adorable puppy. What are you looking to add?? please share.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Lingonberries, Tayberry, Cloudberry, Chokecherry, medlars, and a few others I can't think of at the moment.

[@robertboesch3966]

I just purchased 7 acres of old hay fields and would love to turn it into your property. What state or zone are you in? We have families of deer passing through that my wife loves! What a way too grow free food and bring it to the soup kitchen.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Ontario Canada, Zone 4.

[@shahedayeasmeen8089]

Wow! That's really a cool food forest.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

❤️

[@mariamayer182]

Hi Kieth, I’ve been following your channel for a while now. I’m also creating a food forest, but my trees are still tiny. We have no water on the property, so I bring rainwater from home, which makes it hard when the weather gets realky hot. I was wondering, how old are your paw paw trees? Thanks for all the info you share.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

We are on year 6 with the paw paws, and they were probably 3 years old when I bought them.

[@robpaton7]

You got salal!! Keep us posted on how they do, mine have completely failed as our soil is way too alkaline for them but I may try again one day as we build organic matter

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

I suspect this will happen to me also, as our soil is alkaline also. So far they are just tiny sprouts (planted this spring). The next hurdle is keeping them alive this winter.

[@littlehomesteadbythebeach]

How do you deal with all the picking? I love growing and eating but really not picking. I come from work and I don't want to take time to pick the fruits. And the mosquitoes are not helping. And you are reassuring me with your big pear tree that is not fruiting. I have one of those and every year I hope it will flower but not yet. Maybe next year.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Picking is definitely the worst part. I just try to forage constantly, so it's spread out over time. Also, picking sucks, but if food shortages come, I'm going to be happy having full freezers and pantries, so I just remind myself of that if I need a little motivation.

[@elizabethperez8818]

Everything is beautiful! Is your waterfall natural or is man made?

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Man made. A LOT of work!

[@elizabethperez8818]

Wow , how it looks so natural!!!

[@MsCaterific]

💛

[@marziechar]

Do you have mosquitoes? When I planted that densely, mosquitoes were my problem. I didn’t have a pond-I considered trying that.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

No, we have way too many roaming dragonflies from the pond to have mosquito problems.

[@melodymoonforager12]

Hi from North Alabama! I have been watching your channel for a few years and am a patron. I would love a consult from you on how to turn my .59 Acre urban neighborhood yard into a homestead/food forest. I recently moved here from another property where I had built a pretty solid food forest. But the light is different here and I'm a little stumped. Do you still do paid consultations?

[@jennifferhurlburt642]

Hi! I'm looking for a bit of advice. I moved to a 1/3 acre property, I have 3 American Hazelnut I want to plant along the property line. I also have 3 paw paw trees that are 2 years old I would like to put in the same area. What spacing do you suggest? Thank you for all of your content, it inspired me to plant many native, food sources on this new property! Rosie is adorable!

[@matulala2000]

Love the videos. Still trying to figure out where I start with my 1/2 acre blank slate.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Try to figure out where you want larger features, whether that's a pond, gazebo, raised beds, barn, and then slowly design around those.

[@valentin9764]

you can give what you want from you r garden to the dogs, i have 5..they eat all tipes of fruit and legums :)

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Grapes are poisonous to dogs.

[@nicoledoucet6125]

What plants are you still wanting to add?

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Chokecherry, Naniberry, Salal (have some from seed, but I'd love to find a fully grown bush), salmonberry, cloudberry, and a few others can't think of off the top of my head.

[@nicoledoucet6125]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy want some choke cherries? There's so many around here but maybe not now with all the fires burning, really scary knowing this is the new norm.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

@nicoledoucet6125 I actually found some in the wild last week. I'm going to transplant some seedlings.

[@heidiroycroft9465]

Where do you plant your garlic? Do you also grow onions?

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Everywhere. I plant garlic like a squirrel. It's a good aromatic confuser for pests, so it goes all over the place. For onions, I don't plant annuals, because I have plenty of Egyptian walking onions that self plant each year.

[@4beauty4food]

When are grapes ready? I have a bunch of a cultivated variety. I'm in New Brunswick, 5a

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Here mid Aug to Mid Sept, depending on variety.

[@MrAnderskrieger]

16:02 what is the small threes all around you? :)

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Staghorn sumac

[@UnityMMODevelopers]

Couple questions... First it looks like you have planted your peppers pretty close together. How close do you plant them? In my pepper raised bed I plant one per square foot. I had a bunch left over this season and so I took laundry baskets and planted like 3 or 4 per basket. They actually did better then the ones in the raised bed that had more room per plant. The baskets I did have lined with a black plastic bag so I figured it was a result of that. Sun being absorbed and warming the soil more. A lot of the summer it was rainy and cool and during those times the baskets thrived while the raised bed peppers did really poorly. Also for someone who only has an acre what are your suggestions for a small food forest in Zone 4?

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

I usually put my peppers about a foot apart as well. These were about that, maybe 8-10 inches. As far as your second question, almost everything I grow will work. Peaches and persimmons may be rough, but there are cold hardy varieties. Check out my guild guide video if you haven't already, because I got into some detail in that one with many of the plants I grow.

[@bonniemosher7199]

I am about to attempt peach trees for the 2nd time. How did yo keep yours alive? I am in the Smiths Falls area zone 5.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

What varieties? Do you have frost hardy varieties? Contender, frost, Reliance, etc

[@bonniemosher7199]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I tried redhaven and reliance 2 years ago both died. But trying again with intrepid and reliance.

[@lwjenson]

Just curious as to why you are bagging the paw paws? I plan to bag my apples and pears because of county laws. But I havent heard if bagging paw paws before.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

We keep losing them to deer.

[@RN-nl1iy]

Did you ever get a soil analysis test done on your soil/property, and do you think it is worth getting one. thanks

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

I think its worth it but also not needed in 99% of cases. It depends on your lands history mostly, but also your location. If I bought an old farm, 100% I would test.

[@RN-nl1iy]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy thank you sir!

[@skeletalbassman1028]

Can you still eat the scab and blistered apples?

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Yes absolutely, it's perfectly safe still for human consumption, it just looks ugly. Sometimes it can also cause apples to crack, and bugs can get in, so be extra aware for bugs also.

[@bmarcelf]

how do you decide which trees to use in each guild?

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Check out my complete guide to guilds. I discuss plant functions in that video. I make sure all functions are covered.

[@lynnmoss2127]

Hey Keith help me please. I've been Googling for information if the ornamental Elderberries like 'Black Lace' yield a fruit as nutritionally and medicinally rich as non-ornamental types and I've found no solid information. What do you think?

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Unfortunately I don't have any expertise in this area, so I cannot comment confidently.

[@djmoulton1558]

I can't speak for anyone else, but I know I would appreciate you talking a bit more about what you are calling "guilds." What's a guild? Why do those particular plants make a guild? Are you going by plant type? Are you going by growth habits or height? Thx.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Have you seen my complete guild guide? It's 50+ minutes of exactly that.

[@djmoulton1558]

Yes, I have, thx. But the key to real instruction is context and repetition. And repetition. And repetition. And...

[@Arrras]

Great video! But you really need to get a better camera

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Oh really, this is the first comment I've heard on that. What do you mean, what parts are lacking? Considering that's a massive investment, I want to make sure to truly needed before I would upgrade.

[@Arrras]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I've been watching various youtube channels lately, especially those related to gardening. I've noticed that the video quality is better on some of those channels, and they have hired a camera operator. While that's a minor point, what matters most is that your content maintains its quality. By the way, I've had success with high-density growing in a food forest for my allotment:)

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

@Arrras Oh yes for sure, there is room for improvement. These things cost money though. Many youtube channels that invest in people and equipment make hundreds of thousands per year. I still make less than minimum wage making videos. So my expenditures have to be based on the reality of my economics also.

[@Luckie337]

Yes you are nieave ! When a bear comes in and kills your kid ? Oh! That's just nature!

[@josephinerichardson543]

Do you have mulberries?

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Yes, but just one black mulberry tree. I have a few wild ones near me that I can forage off of, so I never planted many of them. I do really enjoy them though.

[@joeyspijkers9867]

​@@CanadianPermacultureLegacyyou can also use the leaves to make dolmas. Tried it once, really enjoyed that. Love when you can use multiple parts of the same plant.