Self-Sufficient PERMACULTURE Garden WINTER TOUR + Winter Gardening Inspiration - UK

[@PJJoys]

The more I watch you two, the more I love your positivity and enthusiasm for your beautiful gardens. I love your supportive and kind attitude towards each other. Merry Christmas to you both and have a happy new year.

[@freedomforestlife]

Thank you so much for your lovely comment - we are so glad you enjoy what we share. Hope you had a great christmas & wishing you a very happy new year too 💚🙏✌️🌿

[@selenanieto8152]

Wow! Beautiful!

[@freedomforestlife]

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[@davidrock9978]

Your rainforest looks great, it's giving me ideas for the space I have, Have a great 2025

[@freedomforestlife]

Thanks David 🙏 Did you see this recent video here, Where Dan shared more about the Jungle? 👉 kzbin.info/www/bejne/n6C7cnqZa9x6hK8 Sending you all the good vibes for 2025 too 💚✌️🌿

[@vanessaevans3401]

You’re quite the inspiration. Peace and plants 🌱

[@freedomforestlife]

☺️ Thanks Vanessa 🙏💚✌️🌿

[@WeAreAllOneNature]

17:50 ''... made these beds for easier maintenance''. Hmmm - I think that edging beds with rocks = ultra difficult weed maintenance . Great video and garden. Your pink chard really glow with positive warmth in mid winter. Bananas are herbaceous perennials, so even if the tops die back, they should sprout again from the base later in the spring.

[@esquirehancock6937]

It looks amazing

[@freedomforestlife]

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[@kerryl4031]

I did enjoy. I love your lush jungle as it is so disheartening to see the weeds running rampant with all the bad weather. I have subbed before (after seeing Huw's video a while back) but I've now changed it to all notifications. I'm rather interested in the banana plants! I've been experimenting on our wild flowers, eating, making tinctures and infusions. Now that is exciting too! Never too old to learn new things! Thank you. Love the pupster too.

[@freedomforestlife]

Hi Kerry, so glad you found us through Huw 🙏 so pleased you are enjoying what we share. Learning and discovering is infinite for sure. Appreciate you watching 💚✌️🌿

[@HomesteadInFrance]

Wow that is really a big permaculture garden. Will be take some time to have something like that here. First we will start small with lots of companion planting and using materials we have. But very inspiring to see how it can become someday :) Happy new year with lots of succes with the new growing season!

[@freedomforestlife]

Hi, Its defo been a gradual process for us, moving in to one new bed/area at a time... Other than the Jungle, which was already in, we've pretty much done everything else since 2017, so not a crazy amount of time... and still going 🤣 The creative side is a lot of fun, especially if a blank canvas. Enjoy the journey and have a great 2025 - Thanks for watching 💚✌️🌿

[@chrissiehart22]

Happy New Year guys x

[@freedomforestlife]

Happy new year to you too Chrissie 💚🎉✌️🌿

[@SteveJones-gz4vd]

WoW what a paradise, I have loads of trees surrounding my garden , I leave them where they fall, great compost

[@freedomforestlife]

👍 Thanks for watching 💚✌️🌿

[@juliehartley3652]

Hi thank you for showing around your gardens, they look lovely. I am a trial and error gardener - plant it and see if it grows, I have had a lot of success and I'm learning all the time. I really like the idea of allowing nature to do it's thing, I mean it's had plenty of practice hasn't it? 😊

[@freedomforestlife]

Totally agree Julie 🙌💚✌️🌿

[@cherylhowker1792]

Hope you have have had a great Christmas and next week for new year xx I love seeing what you guys achieve as I’m in thebb by uk and not many channels I’ve found based here that show what is actually achieved. Xx

[@freedomforestlife]

Thanks Cheryl, yes - thank you.. and the same to you 💚 So glad you are enjoying what we share 🙏✌️🌿

[@cherylhowker1792]

@ I need to find time to sit and watch some of the yacon videos you have up as would love to know more and understand more and hopefully try to grow it ourselves here in southeast Kent. Haven’t got the space you have but have areas that could be used to grow it if I put some compost down etc.

[@medi40]

Impressive what you have achieved.

[@freedomforestlife]

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[@cipriantodoran1674]

Great tour! 12:05 - nicest part for me.

[@freedomforestlife]

Ahh you liked all the Brassica's 💚 Glad you enjoyed - Thanks for watching ✌️🌿

[@offgridirishhomestead]

Great tour, beautiful. Hope you guys had a great xmas! What did you meal comprise of - interested to know how much was from your harvests.

[@freedomforestlife]

Glad you enjoyed the tour, we had a great xmas thanks you, for dinner we had; Potatoes, Parsnips, Sprouts, Kale, Leeks & roasted pumpkin that was all homegrown... I also made stuffing balls using home harvested chestnuts and a nut roast that also had chestnuts in, both had homegrown garlic onions & herbs in too (and of course a few non homegrown ingredients also). We had a big box of homegrown salad and homemade/grown chutneys too, so not a bad effort I feel 🙌 We dropped a few veggies to our Neighbours too & the veg boxes above went to both of our Parents for the meals across the 2 days for all. Hope you had a lovely Christmas too. 💚✌️🌿

[@joanflemmingkendrick1107]

Fantastic video as per usual. Wishing you a happy new year 2025 ✌🏾🪴💚🎉🍾🥂

[@freedomforestlife]

Thanks Joan, all the best for 2025 to you too 💚✌️🌿

[@stuarthall8905]

Yet another year of wonderful films . I have followed you from almost the beginning and grown in knowledge thankyou and I look forward to the new year with you.Will there be any garden tours for people who would like to visit .

[@freedomforestlife]

Hi Stuart, So glad you enjoyed the tour and means a lot that you have been with us for so long 🙏💚 We really do want to start doing a few face to face tours and it is something we are hoping to make more plans for this year, can't promise when it will happen yet ... but we will get there. ✌️🌿

[@SkincaregardenKaraB]

Wishing you a very Happy New Year! Your gardens are beautiful as always. 💚🌱💚🎉

[@freedomforestlife]

Hi Kara, seasons greetings and all the best for the NY to you too - Appreciate you watching 💚✌️🌿

[@maryhairy1]

Always enlightening. I didn’t think banana could grow in the uk. I’m gonna get me one.

[@lovetaikolovelife9794]

My uncle has banana trees but the bananas are not edible. I wonder if these ones are 🤔

[@freedomforestlife]

They create such a stunning looking structure, we love it when the big leaves begin to unfurl in early summer 💚 Enjoy and be sure to get the hardy variety - Musa Bajo (may be spelt slightly wrong) 🤣 ✌️🌿

[@freedomforestlife]

Hi, no they are not exactly edible, we have had clusters of fruits, but they are very small and seedy ...I an yet to experiement but the big Beautiful Banana flowers do have various culinary uses though I believe 💚✌️🌿

[@maryhairy1]

@ that’s a pity. I thought I’d struck ‘gold’!

[@starsdell1789]

I'm in NZ. Our lows are -2 celcius . I have bananas (misi luca maybe?) Mine are tucked under a huge evergreen pittosporum tree so the leaves grow up through them and I have fruit!! It took 5 or so years as they grow slower here but I did it. My red flowered non invasive banana passionfruit tangles through it and has also got flowers. It's entirely thanks to the evergreen tree protection.

[@mandyburns-iy7lx]

Fabulous ❤

[@freedomforestlife]

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[@suzilouden5964]

You have such an awesome garden, well done! Do you sell some of your huge produce harvest?

[@freedomforestlife]

Glad you enjoyed seeing the our gardens 🙏 We mostly gift surplus to our family and neighbours - We do occassional sell a few bits, without doing it on scale though it is very hard to actually make it worth while selling and I get so much more from gifting it and sharing the goodness 💚✌️🌿

[@suzilouden5964]

That is so good. We live in France with about 300m² of veg garden and we grow way too much for 2 people so I understand. Bon courage...😁

[@yavuzZz4652]

Muhteşem. Your garden looks amazing! This video is truly inspiring and impressive. 🌿 At what spacing did you plant your hedge plants, and how long did it take for them to reach this size? Thank you for sharing your beautiful garden with us! 😊

[@freedomforestlife]

Hi, So glad you enjoyed the tour, we plant the hedging about 50cm appart, they were 40cm tall when planted, it depends on the sunlight for how quick they will grow, it took about 4 years with formative pruning to get to head high. 💚✌️🌿

[@yavuzZz4652]

@@freedomforestlife Thank you so much for your reply! Your hedge looks amazing, truly impressive. I was wondering which plant variety you used? It looks so healthy and beautifully grown!

[@freedomforestlife]

@@yavuzZz4652 it’s cherry laurel 💚🙏✌️🤣

[@yavuzZz4652]

@@freedomforestlife Thank you! I really loved your hedge, and I’m planning to try something similar here in Turkey. Wishing you a Happy New Year! 🎉😊

[@theresabisson1040]

Hi guys - great update video thanks. We are developing a community food forest in Devon. Can I ask, what is the plant that you show at 19.15 please - can't make out what Laurie says, sorry!

[@freedomforestlife]

Hi, is it the Feijoa’s … silvery Green coloured evergreen foliage ? Sometime know as pineapple guavas, outside of NZ. All the best with your project and thanks for watching 🙏 💚✌️🌿

[@grahamhassall4675]

I'm always so impressed by your garden and how much you are able to produce. Can I ask if it is all for personal use or whether you are also selling on?

[@freedomforestlife]

Hi Graham, so glad you enjoy seeing what we grow 🙏 What we grow is mostly for us... we do totally over grow though, as a back up to never know where you may get crop failures year to year. We always mean to sell some crops, but it is difficult getting it 'to market' in a cost and time effective way when in small quanities, so mostly we gift surplus to family and neighbours and I actually much prefer doing this and sharing on the benefits 💚✌️🌿

[@grahamhassall4675]

Thank you. Very impressive. Always useful videos for those of us who aspire to do the same.

[@freedomforestlife]

@@grahamhassall4675 🙏💚🙏

[@excemptfrombs2124]

Hi love what you’re doin .have you considered a walipini style greenhouse to extend your grownig season even more ? I’m on a private allotment and waiting to see if I can get permission to dig one .

[@freedomforestlife]

Hi, there are a great idea ... we've kinda half done that here in our third polytunnel, weve dug it out at one end as far as we can, to hopefully create more warmth & height because we intend to grow marginal trees in there when we evenually complete that project. We can't go any further down because our land is on a gentle slope and very low on the water table. 🤞 for your permission 💚 Appreciate you watching ✌️🌿

[@LittlePetieWheat]

Loving the coat! Where did you get it?

[@freedomforestlife]

Hi - Thanks, the coat was a gift from my mum a few years back - not sure where it came from 🙏💚✌️🌿

[@fouziyahhoseiny1868]

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[@freedomforestlife]

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[@seanH1768]

Is this method feasible in very cold, wet Yorkshire? Especially so when the garden is north facing

[@freedomforestlife]

Hi Sean, our gardens are on a North facing slope also, however never experienced growing further up north to be able to advise... Ever garden will have its own micro climate, so its part of the fun to play around and see what works for you 💚✌️🌿

[@seanH1768]

@ Hi again, which permaculture book would you recommend as they’re are so many & a £20 a pop I’d rather just get one reference book. Many thanks

[@emmakavanagh3485]

Great job! So is the 3 acres for purely growing food for just you two? Or do you sell excess produce? I don’t have 3 acres of land to be self sufficient, but have an allotment and poly tunnel and green house. So have achieved growing an amount!! 😅

[@freedomforestlife]

Hi Emma, thats a great question. We only grow food on approx 1 acre or so,. what we grow is mainly just for us, (we do eat mostly plant based diet so prob eat more veggies than most) 🤣 We always plan to sell any surplus' but find its just much easier to gift it and I much prefer doing this. We always have enough salad, potatoes, pumkins and garlic to share most years... and lots of other stuff too - we always overgrow because you never know when youll have a crop failure in one of your other staples. Good on you for growing what you can - you can make a huge difference even with a smaller space 💚✌️🌿

[@emmakavanagh3485]

@ ah yes, 1acre is a good amount of land to manage on a daily basis! That’s so nice that you gift excess food too. I’m learning about preserving food I grow and skills such as water bathing/canning. As well as dehydrating etc. a whole new world! 😁

[@nathanaelstunt7317]

Which perennial kake do you recommend?

[@nathanaelstunt7317]

And where do you get the seeds?

[@freedomforestlife]

Hi, We grow Taunton Deane here ... and thats the only one I've ever had. I bought 1 plant on line several years ago and now just take cutting every year to make more plants, which is very easy ... I think seed is harder to come by, but try 'Real seeds' maybe ... Thanks for watching 💚✌️🌿

[@joywhite439]

However did yo afford those massive polytunnels

[@cipriantodoran1674]

If you are looking for cheap polytunnels, you could try to get some of those imported from China - it isn't realy that expensiv.

[@freedomforestlife]

Hi Joy, we are just very careful with our money, we live a simple life, with fairly moderate spending, so everything we have goes back into this place. We bought 1 first and probably in a year or 2 that saves enough on food shopping to cover its cost, then we bought 2 more the following year. Appreciate you watching 💚✌️🌿

[@freedomforestlife]

I can't vouch for the quality of others, we bought these from a UK company - Premier Polytunnels - There is definitely always a way to make things work though 🙌 💚✌️🌿

[@rickthelian2215]

2025🎉

[@freedomforestlife]

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[@Uskutce]

Merhaba mutlu günler efendim, harika paylaşımlar emeklerinize sağlık. Size destek için abone oldum desteğim tamdır. Sizde bize buyurun. Türkiye'den selamlar sevgiler.

[@freedomforestlife]

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