WHY we are ACCELERATING SUCCESSION in the MARKET GARDEN | PERMACULTURE FOOD FOREST GARDEN

[@StefanSobkowiak]

Nice gradual transition. From my experience teaching about the Permaculture Orchard across Europe I’ve seen dozens of students who are veg growers when they reach or approach 40 years old and start to question how long they want to work bent over. They realize working with perennial fruit allows them to work standing up. A natural progression with age.

[@TapoNothFarm]

Stefan, you got me, I’m gonna be 42 next year! 🤣 It does seem to be a trend, I hear Martin Crawford had the same progression. Thank you for commenting, your work has been a great inspiration to us here. Especially a big thank you for saving me money by showing me how to graft my own fruit trees, I’m now addicted and is the main way that my vision of a forest garden farm will likely occur. Have you ever taught in/ visited Scotland? Cheers, James.

[@ned1177]

fertility is amazing!!! those raspberries!!! incredible work and stewardship... so inspiring!!!!

[@TapoNothFarm]

Thank you!

[@Evpat2000]

I just found your channel the other day, I love what you guys are doing.

[@waykeeperfarmandnerdery]

Really exciting update!

[@veronicabalfourpaul2288]

Lots of thinking!

[@potagermalo]

Superbe vidéo bravo 👍 👍 👍 👍 A bientôt 😉 😉 😉

[@TapoNothFarm]

Thank you very much!

[@potagermalo]

@@TapoNothFarm De rien c'est avec plaisir

[@yeagerxp]

Good job 👍👍👍Thank you for sharing. Take care of yourselves, be safe, and healthy 🇨🇦

[@TapoNothFarm]

Thank you!

[@ThatBritishHomestead]

I can’t wait till my apple tree starts to produce!!

[@marking-time-gardens]

Wow! Your fruit harvest is very impressive! Apples already and the gooseberries are huge! The hard work, patience and good care of your soil is truly shining forward now! Thank you for bringing us along. Blessings on your day Kiddos!🥰🌻🐛🍁🍂

[@TapoNothFarm]

Thanks so much for your kind words, hope you're having a great autumn season!

[@DavidMartin-ym2te]

Great to see. Perennial veg is something we are trying in addition to fruit trees and bushes. Good King Henry, sea spinach, sea beet, things like that. We are near Aberfeldy. So impressed with your experiments and energy and enjoy sharing your journey. Blessings to you all.

[@englishhomestead]

Have you got some Caucasian spinach David? It's growing well here and seems like such a good perennial, the young shoots can be eaten in April when they get big enough as well.

[@TapoNothFarm]

Thanks so much for the kind words! We'd like to get to the point of experimenting with more perennial veg/greens. How have they been working out for you?

[@englishhomestead]

@@TapoNothFarm for me the perennial kale has been a wonder, in its third year and created quite a bed of leaves. Quite a few holes in them, just because I didn't net it, but leaves there all year when we want them. Survived the cabbage whites. Only trouble is pigeons in the winter. Lots of others though, like lime leaves in spring for easy salads and stuff.

[@ArcsandSparks315]

I don’t blame ya market gardens are a lot of work. Good luck on your future endeavors.

[@TapoNothFarm]

Cheers!

[@ericroadking7564]

Fantastic you have done such a great job!!!!

[@TapoNothFarm]

Many thanks!

[@ecocentrichomestead6783]

When talking about a forest garden, there's many trees that can be planted for wood. I'm planting osage orange and locust that I intend to copice to get wood for tool handles and other wood working. Mulberry is a multi purpose tree that is said to produce good wood for lumber, firewood and woodworking.

[@carolbulmer8253]

Hello to the Tap Team! It is good to see you. The east forest garden looks great.

[@TapoNothFarm]

Hello! Thank you kindly!

[@sylviabradley7355]

Perennial plants are a brilliant idea💥

[@englishhomestead]

Looks great. At my place the areas I'm really proud of are those with perennial crops, mainly fruit trees, where as with the annual veg garden every year seems like a battle at the moment, even getting enough fertility to import in is a challenge! Your place looks great though and I enjoy watching how you progress and adapt it over time.

[@TapoNothFarm]

Thank you so much for watching!

[@DavidMartin-ym2te]

A few khaki campbell ducks are great pets, give massive eggs, gobble up your slugs and their used bedding material is OK to use straight away on beds. I find chicken bedding is too powerful and needs to compost.

[@englishhomestead]

@@DavidMartin-ym2te I have Aylesbury ducks but if they ever go in the veg garden they seem to cause carnage! They're in lock down at the moment but I am sure they (and the chickens) are the main reason our apples are so perfect every year.

[@petesmit33]

Fascinating Guys; we're 60 years + and having done vegboxes for 15 years want a change; the fruit thing really appeals as you can't get decent fruit for love nor money BUT are there enough folk in Aberdeenshire who care about that??

[@TapoNothFarm]

Hi Peter, thanks for watching. Yes I reckon there’s people who care, it’s just making sure you can get to them and get them onboard to support the enterprise. Also plenty of value added products to derive from fruit.

[@patrick_laslett_allotment]

Howgate Wonder - I have one on my shelf next to me just two feet away. My current favourite apple is Blenheim Orange - as a large eating apple. The best cropping plum in the orchard is Marjorie’s Seedling - but in my front garden Oullins Golden Gage is a reliable cropper and gives me ripe plums over weeks. Trees are expensive - but if you are into grafting then scionwood will often happily be given away in January. Gooseberries? My favourite is a white one - but I also like my late red one. If I was giving advice to myself as a young man - I'm now an old man - it would be to grow more fruit trees from seed. I know that most will not be as good as what we already have - but you could be surprised. I have a plum grown from plum stone that I really like (and many cherry plums). Lastly are those that don't need grafting but grow true to type from suckers. They are really useful - my greengage tree and my bastard Victoria now have many children in hedges, gardens and allotments.

[@TapoNothFarm]

Thanks for your comment - we started growing our own grafted fruit trees last year and have been bitten by the grafting bug, very interesting and satisfying skill to learn.

[@az55544]

Air pruner boxes for a tree nursery @edibleacres style.

[@suzieguthrie8379]

Brilliant work as always!

[@TapoNothFarm]

Thank you Suzie!!

[@suzieguthrie8379]

@@TapoNothFarm Go Team Tap! Cheering on from afar !

[@_SunRa_]

Wonderful!

[@BioGartenReich]

Great!

[@ricos1497]

Have you guys read: A food forest in your garden by Alan Carter? Fantastic book about perennials in Aberdeen city centre. Well worth a read if you haven't already (I'd happily send you a copy in return for your excellent videos). Just doing my online PDC at the moment and hopefully do some gardening proper early next year. Look forward to seeing what you do. Also, I noticed Tim Spector recently talking about the science around the benefits of eating a greater variety of plants. It makes sense, obviously, given that's what humans did forever. He seemed to think around thirty different types (or more) would be optimal for the various bodily systems.

[@TapoNothFarm]

Hiya, not read it yet actually but heard good things! Alan recently gave a days workshop at a friends place nearby, would be interested in seeing what he gets up to for sure. How's the PDC going, who are you doing it with? That's really interesting about the thirty different types of plants, something I think we can manage here! Many thanks!

[@ricos1497]

@@TapoNothFarm I ended up just doing online PDC through Geoff Lawton. I wasn't what was best, but I don't have the right setup here, yet, to start anything practical anyway so I thought the theory would be useful. I'm the type that goes head first into things, so I'd likely make a lot of stupid errors without the basics at least (I compost and grow a few things, bit there's no system thinking involved). I'm hoping to finish early in the new year but hope to have a good working knowledge to start some design and minimal planting in December time. I'm going to try and merge in the perennial suggestions from Alan's book as I don't have the space to do something like you guys have. I'm working on persuading the family!

[@ricos1497]

@@TapoNothFarm I've sent you a copy of Alan's book today, as an appreciation of your videos. I should say that I'm not affiliated in any way to the author, I just loved the book! Hopefully it'll make for as interesting reading for you as it has for me (although you'll likely be able to skip the basics at the beginning!). It's fantastic to see detail relevant to the Aberdeen area, especially regarding perennials. You can gift to someone else once you've got what you want/need/like from it (or not, whatever suits!).

[@TapoNothFarm]

Awesome, that's very thoughtful, thank you so much! Let us know if we can help in anyway with your PDC and if you ever fancy a visit here in the spring we'd love to show you around.

[@TapoNothFarm]

Hi Richard! Thanks so much for the book which we received with a nice hand written card from Alan. It’s a good book and great to read about someone else in the shire who is experimenting with similar approaches. Many thanks again.

[@kerem7546]

do you have the name of the intro song? very relaxing :)

[@TapoNothFarm]

It's called Midnight Square Dance by Heartland Nights .

[@oonikown5998]

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[@rensspanjaard]

the stages of succesion at: 17 min from grass to foodforest by Geoff Lawton kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZmKxXp54iMmckKs maybe some inspiration to slow transition into perennial production and long term vision