Food Forest Transformation Underway and Other Garden Projects

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Thanks heaps for coming along to see what we've been up to - I hope you enjoyed it! If you'd like to see more, feel free to check out the video I made of the land back in Summer which shows some of the other cool stuff we're growing :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZzSmpZmZtxpps0

[@Dang_Man]

i have been growing a dragon fruit not grown I just put the seeds they haven't sprouted yet

[@Gazzasore]

Banana? avocados See my post below

[@Poison.Ivy_]

Truly. When I watched this I thought (vegetable sky) from toriko

[@riversdudley4650]

Have you considered a "setting up the property " video discussing building yalls house and the start of the food forest ? I think it would be really interesting and help push more people into doing this sort of thing

[@roommate2630]

try mix plants " pumpkin root and watermelon top ' those watermelon will become so strong and big , start in spring time can harvest 3 to 4 time in summer.

[@benny7257j]

Many people still don't know the importance of native trees and plants and what role they play in local ecosystem and how many animal species are dependent on those native plants and trees, awesome video and nice updates 👍🏼.

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Thanks Benny, definitely agree. Planting more native trees is something we're going to continue working on more and more. There's a real lack of them in the farmland that surrounds us unfortunately.

[@klug_d]

@@TheKiwiGrower I can't wait for that! I am very interesting in New Zealandian flora 😊 though I am from Austria

[@rickershomesteadahobbyfarm3291]

I’ve been planting native fruit trees on my property as well. I’ve been putting them close to my property line so the squirrels will spread the seeds to other properties. I planted 25 bare root pawpaw trees a couple months ago. I gathered wild persimmon seeds from a friends property to add to mine. I’m going to find spots in my woods that get sunlight and plant the seeds. Then I will let nature take its corse.

[@deadtreebark]

They attract natural wildlife and pollinators

[@RichardColwell1]

We really need a revolution in education…. I would like to know Americas educational system history and if nature based information was taught even 100-150 years ago… seems like reading writing arithmetic and history, social studies, and geography came eventually, but why is it that people don’t really learn about plants until college (horticulture, ecology, landscape architecture?)

[@vancegilmore245]

Kalem, you are a Zookeeper!! I am in deep awe of you. You are truly a holy man. May you live a very very long and lovely life. We need people like you in world leadership.

[@lee-rentiaarnoldus4500]

The cardboard is a wonderful idea,the thought of weeds really put me off,thank you for that tip

[@TheKiwiGrower]

No worries! So easy and works so well :)

[@Sh1roNekoshi]

I adore birds, really. They're really something when you've raised them from the egg no matter what species it is! Loved the excited gobble in the end!

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Haha yea they're a lot of fun to raise and have as friends :)

[@pacojuanrico]

"Hey turkeys! Gobble gobble!"

[@tipiwhenuatanirau8105]

this is so great , fantastic to see kiwis on here

[@sarahclemson7587]

Somehow, it was really fascinating seeing sheep eat bamboo of all things.

[@ednaofeliasabile5737]

After 6 years of gardening I decided a no dig garden, we bought like 60 tones of compost so we can reduce weedings. I put the cardboard first then the compost. I cover weed mat to my tomato beds a 1 meter wide and 40 meters in length. This time the tomato got no weeds because I used a 1.83 wide weed mats but the walk way have some weeds. You inspired me with the no dig and I believed next season will be less work because after harvest this summer we will cover them with weed mat so next planting will just create the holes and plant our seedlings. Planning to cut trees to shredded so we create mulch for the walk way in winter.

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Nice, definitely good idea to cover walkways with mulch, sounds good!

[@arieswildchild]

Love to see how devoted are you to this garden, and it actually repays. Plants knows when you care well about them, it makes them grow healthy.

[@kiwitexan6022]

I am at the exact point you were 3 years ago, building my food forest and veggie garden in Kaitaia. Thanks for being an inspiration! Hopefully my garden will look as amazing as yours in three years.

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Awesome, exciting journey ahead! :)

[@janinehenderson854]

Sometimes we think back to what we’ve done over the past 5 or 10 years. And I’m amazed at what we got through. Doing a recap on how far you’ve come is amazing. Congrats on your progress. I still remember early days when the Feijoas went in.

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Thanks Janine, yea it’s easy to get caught up in the things that need to be done and looking forward, so it’s good to be able to stop and reflect :)

[@Odennyd]

QUE HERMOSA ES LA CREACIÓN. GRACIAS POR COMPARTIR ESTAS IMÁGENES.

[@denisemarshall2432]

Thankyou so much for sharing your experience!! I swear most 'gardening books' and websites just cut and paste what has been written before. My mountain paw paw melted too, even though I planted it alongside a gabion wall (stone filled) that I had put in to help my avocados cope with winter in Dannevirke. I shall go out now and see if there is any sigh of life at the base!!

[@enjoyyourlife3082]

You are living in heaven! Nature around you is amazing ❤️

[@grouchPotato]

One of the rare channels with no dislike! Weel deserved and more power!

[@ohseedeemunky]

Loved the update. Can't wait to see more throughout spring and summer!

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Cheers Mike, glad you liked it!

[@teashawnaperry5366]

@@TheKiwiGrower i love nature and i thank you for giving me need ideas for planting i love your fruit garden 😍♥️🇹🇹 i will love to see this garden in person so beautiful unique 😍😍😍

[@rachellewis6492]

Yours is the most beautiful vegetable garden I've ever seen, so inspiring

[@acaciagrove4204]

Nice job mate good to see fellow kiwis going down this path. I'll have to go check out marvelous fruits

[@lila2k03]

I think it’s really cool

[@brendancull]

You’ve got a beautiful plot of land! So nice to see the updates to your gardens. Thanks for sharing.

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Cheers Brendan!

[@catherinegrace2366]

Love it! Food Forrest is what I’m going for on 1 acre here in Northern California. My plants made it through the summer of constant heat 110 - 120 so I am doing a happy dance. I mean a HAPPY dance! It was brutal. We are experiencing a mild fall so everything looks pretty good. I worked like a fool to stay ahead of the heat. I have chickens and a rabbit too. They had misters, shade, shade cloth, ice and a fan. It was still hotter than blazes but we made it!

[@Hopolangify]

Beautiful 👌🏾I am about to binge watch all your videos

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Hope you enjoy :)

[@Irishjay-gu5pb]

So thankful I caught your video!!! I'm taking my farm in the same direction, meaning creating a food forest. :) It's a beautiful way of gardening, very intuitive aa well. Thank you for the visuals! It's even more beautiful than I imagined! The bees and beneficial insects must be extremely happy as well! :)

[@haley5154]

Just found your channel recently been binging all your vids. So jealous with your section and green fingers, veg patch and plant looks great. Would be keen to see what you plant in the summer :)

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Thanks heaps, glad you like them. Will definitely share more and thanks for checking out all my other vids! :)

[@awesomebro3659]

I think I am falling in love with your food forest. I am planning on something simular in my garden.

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Thanks heaps, sounds cool! Good luck with it :)

[@selvarasuyuvaraj4655]

Very nice...... And control of human fertility also very very importent, helping nature to recover itself.....

[@ethanalkiny3452]

Finally the garden! It's so beautiful

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Thanks Ethan!

[@ethanalkiny3452]

@@TheKiwiGrower I always wanted a farm. Maybe someday 😌

[@gazzabethyname]

Hello from Eastern Bay of Plenty. Love the videos. Thanks for sharing 👊

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Thanks for watching! Hi from the upper Waikato :)

[@moonorchid9242]

Your property is like my absolute dream. I’m trying to do my best version of a food forest on my suburban houseblock in Australia. This year Im expanding into my front yard & putting in a bunch of trees which I’m going to grow in grow bags with raised beds in between each tree.

[@mapd6831]

It’s great to see just how much you’ve developed your property! Congrats mate

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Thanks heaps!

[@joshendy]

Wow it's really starting to look like a forest! I was gutted to see what happened to your cherimoya. I've got a grafted cherimoya down here in Wellington and I've been protecting it with my life! Looking forward to seeing how your food forest takes off this summer 😊

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Glad to hear you’ve been protecting yours. I got a bit busy with other things and never really gave it what it needed, poor thing. Nevermind, lesson learnt!

[@catherinegrace2366]

@@TheKiwiGrower sometimes you just get too tired

[@PJ-sh3nh]

Just found your channel and I'm geeking out over it lol...instantly subscribed. Great videos, thank you.

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Thanks heaps and welcome to the channel 😁

[@bethanyc5712]

Oooh this is amazing! Absolutely love it! I'd love to have a huge food forest like this one day

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Thanks Bethany! :)

[@rajishmaharaj7552]

Loved the food forest. Cant wait to see all tge growth in the coming year.

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Thanks, same here!

[@MaxMustermann-cq8bl]

Man, your videos are a huge help in getting my own little garden project to survive. Northern Germany has seen drought after drought in recent years and the parts of my backyard, that I don't water like every other day already are literally just dust for the first 20cm down which is insane for these parts. I've been trying to get a miniature version of how things looked around here like 200 years ago before agriculture sort of turned 80% of open space into farmland to take foot and even the plants, that should be absolutely A-OK with the sandy soils have struggled beyond believe. I mean, even the damn juniper I planted has. Mulching as much of the ground as I can to at least give the bigger plants a chance to establish themself has been a huge help because no way any sort of natural groundcover is going to survive without hundreds of liters of water every week for the whole summer and our well has been running dry cause groundwater levels are at an all time low, lmao

[@janetbransdon3742]

This is a great way to garden. I am in the process of doing it this way. I have planted my trees and shrubs in different guilds and planted herbs, veges, flowers etc around the shrubs and trees. I have vines growing along the fences. A voulnteer choko is growing over one tree in my garden. I have other volunteers popping up everywhere, including sunflowers, wheat and corn in the chicken run from where I broadcast the seeds for the chickens lol. Love your garden. So inspirational.😁

[@wendyburgess2962]

This is brilliant. I understand the concept of planting Canopy trees and really thinking of the Pathways.,. What a beautiful Food forest. My Ponies demolished my Broadbeans. They do a lot of pruning. Little rascals. I love the garden dedicated to animals. Amazing information.

[@TobyJin]

Lots of progress since you first started, excited to see this place develop into the future.

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Cheers Toby!

[@misssophie6515]

The light is so beautiful!

[@lilspittin313]

Wow the animals you have on thy land look so happy! :)

[@mahmoudsharafan2934]

Man I'm a City guy but damn you have a great place to live , Amazing job thanks for the update

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Thanks mate! :)

[@charlotteking8123]

Just found you, love your work! Great, simple explanation of the two types of lasangne gardening!

[@lumiere20075]

Love your garden ,sir

[@gardentours]

Very good example how one can change a lawn to a food forest 🌱👍

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Thank you!

[@bane5807]

Dude you have the life I want to live damn it! Awesome stuff man, just getting into gardening and this is a great channel!

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Cheers and glad you're getting into it! :)

[@jocylenebrillo1756]

💗💗💗 Watching from Philippines 🇵🇭

[@kennedynthiwa5100]

You are building a natural world in your homestead while big corporations driven by greed and power are destroying the natural resources like forest in order to get rich. The guardians of the natural world salute your efforts. Whatever you are doing now will be celebrated and enjoyed by generations and generations to come. Please keep it up and God Bless

[@121homestead9]

My absolute favorite garden companion…..young turkeys. I trained mine to look for tomato horn worms. They are amazing at it, I tried teaching the geese and they will not cooperate.

[@TheKiwiGrower]

That's some well trained turkeys! :)

[@121homestead9]

@@TheKiwiGrower I believe that they may know that this is the easiest way for them to get a treat, otherwise they have to fight the chickens, ducks, and the very entitled(in her own mind) female goose. Turkeys are not nearly as fast as the rest of them.

[@najmaht.a.1314]

i cant imagine how beautiful the garden is in spring! 😭✨✨

[@eneko4562]

Literally my dream for when I get old

[@martinamedina2981]

Loved your comments on all d gardening

[@tjandhuri]

Absolutely awesome what you're doing there keep it up

[@auroraborealis9191]

Wooow, what a garden this guy have😯 I love it 😍🌱🌿🍊

[@lisacebu274]

Slowly im obssessed with your videos

[@jefsimpson8129]

Wow! The farm is looking great thanks to all the hard work you two put into it. I am really enjoying this gardening information. Thank you very much.

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Cheers Jef! Glad you think so :)

[@naumikaur7459]

Repeat watching. Really inspirational. Thank you

[@victoryinhim9689]

What a beautiful food forest you have.

[@einosky]

Nice to see your patch of green amongst the farmlands, love it. Can't wait to see what it looks like in a few more years. Maybe start keeping your own bees ;)

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Thanks Charlie, hopefully one day it's completely consumed with trees haha. We've got a few hives here, have been beekeeping for around 3-4 years now :)

[@danacoleman4007]

wow! I wish I knew even a small fraction of the things you know about nature

[@hayscib03]

What an amazing garden you have there. thumbs up.

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Thanks man!

[@lolitabonita08]

someeee years agoooo i took a class of horticulture and I remember that the teacher spoke about a farmer that started to have issues with wild animals eating his crops...so he decided to plant half of acre at one corner of his property and he let the animals know that the food growing in that part of his property was only for them but he wanted them to stop eating his crops...long and behold...the wild animals ate from their garden and never bother the farmer's crops ever again...nice...and the story is real

[@Takurugki]

new subscriber here from Philippines, I am happy to see your garden, it motivates me do my own. Thank you for sharing this very informative video.💚☘️

[@sarirooftop7369]

All is beautiful, really love it👍

[@bvazdiniz]

Looking forward to see new videos and to follow the development of your food forest… greetings from Brazil!!!

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Cheers Bruno, hi from NZ! :)

[@bvazdiniz]

@@TheKiwiGrower I love your videos!!! Keep it up!!!

[@Krfification101]

You get a like just for the gobble-gobble at the very end.

[@ΙΩΑΝΝΗΣΚΑΛΑΜΑΚΗΣ-υ3δ]

Thank you for your lovely videos!! We get inspired even in another part of the world!! Aegina island - Greece!! Thank you :-)

[@Farida-A.R.]

Amazing Information and best maintenance of plants of an expert gardener. Thanks

[@markj1107]

Hey Kalem! Its all looking really great. I look forward to seeing how things are progressing down the track and what you have planned for the summer veg garden. Cheers as usual from Oz!

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Hey Mark, thanks heaps, look forward to sharing more as things continue to progress :)

[@huntingwithgrandma]

Love your videos. They fun entertaining and I learn heaps, keep up the good work

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Thanks a lot, glad you enjoy them!

[@nateb9768]

Hey man thanks for being so educational and broadening our horizons with exotic items. Don’t think I’d ever get to learn about this in college.

[@matadaniel6520]

Brilliant 👏 loved the update such good progress - thanks for sharing 👍

[@tosstoness]

what a transformation looking amazing you are a true inspiration

[@carolineg5807]

Ahh, I was looking forward to seeing the loquat tree

[@farmstrong5434]

Love what you've done! Taking it as inspiration to start my own on our farm. Love from Morocco 🇲🇦 !

[@TheKiwiGrower]

I’m so glad to hear 😊. Good luck with it and love from NZ

[@BeyondEcho95]

I'm just mindblown. You've perfectly created my dream property ❤

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@vitorpacheco3519]

What a joy to watch, I wish I had something like this.

[@charlottehart311]

How inspirational! I’ve been trying to get closer to the source of my food/eat more plant based, and your farm is my dream!

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Thanks Charlotte! Sounds good, a great goal to work towards :)

[@matthewgoetzka8855]

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@justcarineinparis]

Beautiful ! Bravo!

[@86Nebraska]

I really enjoyed to watch it.

[@tonymccombs]

So inspiring... Thanks for sharing your journey

[@MrCow579]

I got recommended your channel at the same time a lot of others have, been hooked ever since! Your content is great! Can't wait to see what's to come :D

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Thanks so much, glad you like it!

[@brianhurt3801]

Hand pollination incredible

[@lucamartinelli1156]

Wow that’s amazing 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️

[@vlogsbykhadija]

Beautiful and amazing video

[@bharathiperumal5432]

Hi.. I'm from India . Awesome video.. updates are good...

[@paulflute]

brilliant.. really enjoying your videos.. so much great info.. thanks

[@imankhan9106]

Love your work! Bula from Fiji 😍🖐🏾

[@kelvinespinosa1430]

wow man!. that is a wonderful work you have done in that time. your place looks so full of life and diversity. won't forget medicinal plants greenhouse!.

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Thanks a lot! :)

[@alyoshakaramazov1537]

When you hit max level on farmville and start a real life one 👍👌🙏

[@thomaskrafft9890]

You and your videos inspire me in my own garden. Have you investigated the benefits of biochar? I never learned about in my Agronomy studies, but I now believe in it the emerging science. I love when age-old, low tech methods prove better than our chemical fixes. Thanks!

[@mcn295]

Wow! Amazing place love it's

[@ppkgaming210]

Great work I like all your stuff.

[@hanadebengek1629]

The food forest is looking good. Keep up the good work.

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Thanks Hana! :)

[@isabelladavis1363]

Looks like your EDEN is coming right along…best wishes in your journey…

[@crochetingaroundnewzealand]

It's looking fabulous! Well done!

[@jamesheke7182]

Very inspirational, thank you for sharing your experience. 👍

[@nbfarmandpets]

Such a lovely place, so relaxing!

[@JLFamilySong]

Kalem, I have used newspaper before, and it didn't seem to break down well. I have used just mulch, but it didn't kill the weeds. I love the idea of the cardboard! That's pure genius!

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Cheers Joe, same here with newspaper, I've also found it takes much longer to break down. I guess with cardboard the corrugation allows water to soak through better and it can then break down much quicker.

[@brentgreeff1115]

@@TheKiwiGrower - Seems like a great idea, but I was wondering what chemicals are used in the manufacture of cardboard. A quick google search seems to indicate that there are quite a few toxic chemicals involved. - I guess its all a matter of degrees.

[@kayvong6397]

Omg! I want to live with you! You have my kind of garden ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ love your garden so much

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Haha thanks Kay! :)

[@KoncoTaniDolanSawah]

Green zone, i love it