You Want THESE Tree Crops on Your Farm or Homestead

Come take a tour with me as we look at some of the secret sources of tree crops and perennials that we have scattered around here at Gold Shaw Farm.
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[@GoldShawFarm]

So last week I screwed up and forgot to post this video. Sorry about that! So the good news is that you get a bonus Tuesday video today!! (And for all of those wondering about the chronology, I think I shot this video the day before I shot the duck ramp video.)

[@joncen2658]

What do you usually feed them?

[@kevinwilson510]

Tysm Morgan extra video and making your video longer I really enjoy it

[@apm9507]

We have 8 chickens, 2 Guinea fowl and 13 Embden geese free ranging on our 2/3 acre property in Idaho Falls. Thank you Gold Shaw Farms for leading us on this fun. We also have about 12 raised garden beds. We got our first frost last week and our zucchini, tomato, and cucumber leaves are dying. But our free ranging birds are doing great!

[@jasonscottjenkins]

lol. I noticed that.

[@piplupcola]

I think the new ramp is still too high for old Jemima, especially the part connecting the ramp to the duck house. You might wanna adjust the ramp a bit more to suit her old quackity bones.

[@imanmohamadi2827]

Me taking events of golden shaw farm more serious than my own life events 😂

[@tarryncooper4742]

That's literally the mood lmaooooo

[@savedbeliever]

😄🌻🐈🐕🌳🐓🦆Luv it too,,, 💌❣️💌 I can forget my reality for a while

[@nordicpink]

Same

[@janjelicab]

😊😊

[@anda2839]

Just landed a deal on a 227 acre homestead, thinking of planting all sorts of nuts and berries to bring back bird and other animal life on the homestead. Hasn't been lived on since 1958🙌🏼

[@NoPantsBaby]

Latitude?

[@sharontracy2151]

Hi from Whitby, Ontario. Congratulations. I just subscribed to your channel

[@freedomfighter4990]

Congrats to you, Anda! Hope you'll start a channel once you get on the property.

[@Flash-pl7mc]

I am happy for you

[@WillLightfoot]

You may have a lot of wild blueberries already, learn to identify them without their berries, because it takes a lot of light for them to berry well, and old bushes may be sitting under a canopy of larger trees for the past couple decades. If you clear the trees and vegetation around them, they'll explode with growth and berry out nicely the next year. But it's a lot of work and skill to walk through an overgrown area and be able to recognize every species around so you know what to keep and what to eliminate.

[@umangdalal3203]

Is it just me or someone else also wanted this video to not end and just continue seeing it? This video is so wonderful and Morgan's farm is so wonderful like he says an ecosystem. Loved seeing every second of it.

[@pammurphy9311]

Yes, people are concentrating on their animals, birds etc. rather than their "wild"er assets. trees. Loved this video!

[@knoahbody69]

They'll be more videos.

[@minnahumble2294]

Yes. It’s like the Garden of Eden. Something to be jealous of, but happy for Morgan and Alison.

[@joylynne1343]

👍 Me too.

[@darlouthia5153]

Love the phrase: “Being committed to farming is being committed to being a lifelong learner. “ ❤️

[@dandan8333]

A great lifestyle!

[@theallenshire268]

There used to be a ton of wild apples around the settling ponds at my dads work and one year mom, dad, and grandma went apple pickung and brought home several hundred pounds of them. We made applesauce for weeks after and that was the year I learned to use a sharp knife. I was 8. That was the applesauce we ate till I was in college and when I bought storebought it was so bland and plain I couldn’t even eat it. If I make applesauce now I always try to get some crabapples to add in to make it a bit tart but nothing compares to my memory of that years apple haul and the delicious sauce we made.

[@lilolmecj]

What a wonderful memory. Once you find out how easy it is to make, and tasty to eat, it is hard to go back to store bought.

[@tinaisthinking]

As much as I love seeing the animals in the farm, I really enjoyed learning more about the trees and vegetables in the farm as well! So calming to see the patience of a good farmer like you :)

[@susanhunley3697]

Unfortunately he knows nothing about trees I come from a family of orchard owners and he is not at all a tree person and should not be telling you anything about any such thing as wild apple trees he knows nothing whatsoever he's pleasant to watch but do not do not take anything he says on how to care for fruit trees or his nut trees or any of that

[@tattooedwitch7885]

@@susanhunley3697 people learn by making mistakes no one knows everything we are all learning. He has yielded pretty good harvests in the past.... we all get knocked off our high horses if we're up there too long.

[@helenscott8202]

Every minute of this video shows someone who has found what they were meant to do. Love these visits about the farm!

[@montanateri6889]

I love coming to the farm. I walk with you. I nod as you talk and teach me so much. But mostly, I revel in the sunshine and rain, the snow and the cold, the sheer lushness of the farm. And the weight of worries and pressures vanish from my shoulders and I find I breath easier. You are my yoga, nature counciler, my Zen. My worries wash away for long moments and I am suddenly in the now, and taking joy in the purity of nature. Thank you. You do not know how much this can mean to people who just need this breath of time to regroup and see that all is still right with the world, in places like yours.

[@LeuxSeveN]

The Apples at 14:30 look exactly like an old veriety here in Germany "Weizen Äpfel" wheat apples, if they are ripe they taste devine, but if you harvest them early they keep, properly stored, for years!

[@susanmacdonald4288]

I am, as always, impressed with how intelligent you are about the farm, your willingness to learn, and if you make a mistake, you say so. Your farm is wonderful, and you're smart enough to recognize it's current natural value, as well as its potential.

[@gsp0113]

Your farm is looking so beautiful in this video. Also, in terms of life-long learning, I'll say this: If you continue down this path, in another decade, you are going to be an absolute _wizard_ when it comes to homesteading and farming. In the past five years, you've learned an incredible amount -- and you're just getting started. Thanks for the content.

[@JMPDev]

7:17 the perfectly timed bucket duck cluck XD

[@rustybrazenfire]

I'd be curious if you can get the wild apple trees tested to see if they are a specific type. Love your perspective on them!

[@0xFF48]

Wild apples almost never look or taste like the tree it came from. Most are undesirable to be eating apples, at best they can be pressed into cider. Something like 1 in 10,000 wild apple trees produce an eating apple. Make apple cider, use the pulp to feed livestock.

[@janiefox3458]

Oh those old apple trees remind me of the orchard out behind our sawmill as a kid. We called that part of the farm "Wish Wish Washes" (I have no idea why) But every year we were sent back there to pick all we could manage and then Mom made applesauce out of them. Once I asked Dad where the trees came from, and he actually convinced me that Johnny Appleseed had planted them - - he never let the truth interfere with a good story.

[@yoopermann7942]

i harvest " wild " apples every year and plant the seeds, the trees that grow from those seeds get re-planted all around the county i live in so i spread the wealth and soon every one and the animals get a share,, i do that with plums and pears also

[@mollymanneh852]

Please forgive me for poking my nose in your business but after over 20 years Of being married and also raising and feeding many feral cats ,my own house cats and dogs, plus a well fed husband, I think Toby dog would appreciate it if you took a couple of seconds to mix those yummy additives that you add to his food into the dry dog food rather than just dumping it on top of it. I know you probably won't want to use the silverware from your home since the kitchen is so far from where you feed Toby, so might I suggest maybe a stick, not too dirty and use it to give the food a couple of quick stirs! I'm sure Toby will appreciate it, especially if the cat gets there first and eats most of the meaty topping off of it! With just a few stirs I think Toby will be happier and I'll bet it will taste better for all! Please forgive my intrusion!

[@AnthonyGrabin]

lol, just maybe shake the bowl a bit 😆 disperse the goodies throughout

[@minnahumble2294]

Be careful to remove the seeds, right? Isn’t it true that Apple seeds are toxic?

[@kimyork6774]

You bring such light hearted joy to the chaotic daily grind. Thanks Morgan!

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

I just discovered 7 European plum trees, this year they produced a good amount of small plums. Last year they didn’t produce which is why I didn’t even know they were there. Your apple trees are as old as our. I call em antique apple trees. I’m going to plant a few more apple trees next spring to regenerate. Great video Morgan. Cheers, Chad.

[@nox5555]

There are many different European plums, you make marmelade from the red ones, dry or eat as cake with the blue ones and make schnaps from the yellow ones.

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

@@nox5555 wow that’s good to know, they are very small and are a red colour. We’ve just been eating fresh but I like marmalade. Thank u. Do you happen to know if they are biennial or should they produce yearly?

[@nox5555]

@@HiddenSpringFarm they produce every year, but some years its very low and others its insane to a point were they break apart from the load.

[@KenS1267]

@@HiddenSpringFarm They should produce every year. But drought or other weather conditions can effect them. We had small plum "bushes" on our property as a kid and they'd produce almost every year. Some years they'd be very juicy and sweet and some years they'd be very sour and not juicy at all and there wouldn't be many fruit at all. We never made marmalade, I've never heard of plum marmalade before now, but we made jam and jelly with them every year (except when they were really sour and it would take adding lots of sugar then it was just cobblers).

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

@@KenS1267 thank u Ken maybe these are just bushes too they about 7-10 feet tall and don’t have one main trunk… more like a shrub bush. They haven’t been tended to in years so they need a hard prune which I’ll do later this fall. That should help with the growth I think. These are golf ball sized reddish pinkish fruits. Fairly sweet when eaten fresh, but it was a nice surprise to find these this yea. Cheers, Chad.

[@Purplesquigglystripe]

I like to throw my apple cores into the forest behind my house. Maybe I’ll start seeing apple trees growing there lol

[@sswwooppee]

How quickly do you think the chickens will dispose of the bodies of trespassing hound hunters?

[@crypticmirror]

I know Morgan has said he doesn't want pigs, but...

[@user-pl3eu]

@@crypticmirror 🤐

[@kaerligheden]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@nightkraken7257]

Hunting the hunters...new game show :-)

[@deed5811]

Pigs and an army of opossums.

[@GoodPersonTestWebsite]

Love Toby running along side you in the fence 😍

[@jaridkeen123]

You really need to cover the ground with Straw if you are growing potatoes

[@susanhunley3697]

Where did you get that from my family are Farmers Ben farmers generations probably all the way back down to the 1600s I have never seen anybody put hay out there and we're on the East Coast we go all the way from New York down to the Carolinas and I never seen nobody do that

[@jaridkeen123]

@@susanhunley3697 You are not trying to turn pasture into farm land. He needs the straw to suppress the weeds from coming back so the Potatoes can have a head start. If you hill the potatoes with more straw halfway through the season you get more of a yeild than not hilling.

[@mary-ruthflores4107]

Had a buddy in College who’s father started covering the potato hills with hay and really increased his yield

[@samsadowitz1724]

@@jaridkeen123 in my experience the only exception to that are most sweet potato varieties sold. If you are familiar with the plant called kudzu, the plants will act like it and cover the entire plot in a carpet that effectively shades out weeds. If Morgan likes sweet potatoes, that would be a good alternative as a good "set and leave" plant that provides its own shading.

[@silverdragoneyes]

​@@samsadowitz1724 Just to throw in a fun tidbit of info to this conversation; I'm not sure if sweet potatoes should be considered an exception because sweet potatoes aren't potatoes at all. Potatoes and sweet potatoes are both edible tubers but that's where the similarities end, they're not in the same family. Potatoes are in the nightshade family while sweet potatoes are in the morning glory family. Sweet potatoes aren't yams either even though a lot of people like to call them that.

[@Teaganderry]

Love the idea of 'wild growing food trees. We used to have a crab apple tree in the back yard and mom made pies. They were great pie apples!!

[@scringle535]

having naturally occurring wild apples that are that tasty is basically like winning the genetic lottery.

[@mayac8985]

Dang Toby got played by that groundhog, how did he miss that?? He’s always so alert 😂

[@ganon01ryanoutsen92]

He might miss that hole 😆

[@johndeere1951a]

Vintage farms are a treasure. Your right about all the wild trees and bushes that can feed you. Once experienced, you dislike large towns and cities. New England country is good for your body and mind. 💚🐔💚🦃💚🥚💚🦆💚🐄

[@FLOWERSANDSLOTS]

Morgan, team up with a hornet/wast removal person and ask them to preserve larvae for the foul :) (with no use of pesticide of course). If you start to follow The Hornet King, you'll see that's what he does with this own chickens as he removes nests also. :)

[@moritamikamikara3879]

Ah yes, that is definitely a good idea. Is Hornet King the asswipe one or is he the cool one?

[@Ladypuppy510]

@@moritamikamikara3879 he’s definitely not an asshole. Super nice guy. Used to be a critical care nurse

[@lunarsma8446]

Big recommend for Hornet King. Nice guy, too.

[@lunarsma8446]

@@moritamikamikara3879 Very thoughtful responses in my experience.

[@samsadowitz1724]

Another thing he can do is make a "maggot trap" for his fowl. I hear it's Another great way to repurpose meat scraps to feed your birds without actually giving them the meat (and tainting the meat).

[@jennifersvitko5997]

Very nice patch of milkweed you have there. I am sure the monarch butterflies really appreciate them.

[@Unitedflyier]

How about some goats to keep the weeds down? Fence them in on a different area each week.

[@jmacd8817]

Goats are great for brush, but for grassy and low growing weeds, sheep are better

[@Unitedflyier]

@@jmacd8817 Exactly. Didn't you see all the weeds he wanted to clear?

[@msminx_]

So I used to live on a farm and I miss it so much and by watching your videos I can vicariously live through you

[@plankface]

It’s cool to watch Molly acclimate...what a dream job!! 🤍🤍💛. (It feels like fall in Nor CA too )

[@avilacanario]

Hallelujah!!! An extra video for the week. This is awesome.... Yeah....

[@sunnyjozani8421]

I hope you add some cherry varieties in the mix. Since we can't grow them in SoCal, I always make sure to remind anyone in the colder climates to grow cherries. They're just so beautiful in every season.

[@blakewharper]

Hey Morgan, my experience with beech is that they will germinate prolifically. They don’t last long, hence their numbers! I’d suggest you don’t waste your time collecting and germinating, what I do is take a screw driver with me in the spring and pop the seedlings out of the ground when the first set of leafs pop out and the tap root is small. Just put the seedling in a cup of water while you pick so they don’t dry out. You’ll see that in 10min you can grab as many as you want for the season.

[@alethaandvorpalbunny]

We also had a late warm September, but the trees turned over night last week. Nice to see your garden, again.

[@SeekingTheLoveThatGodMeans7648]

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how we turn day old bread into poultry. It's not just for stuffing.

[@koenvandeneynde315]

hello morgan, another very nice video, with nice tips and tricks. I also have a suggestion. nettles. taste like spinach/chervil. contains a lot of iron (almost double of spinach). easy to pick. I boil the young leaves (you'll need them) and freeze them in the freezer in ice cubes. give it a try and you will be sold too

[@kevinhall8025]

When the grape leaves get big enough, you can make stuffed grape leaves. There are many recipes to be found. Growing up in New Hampshire, my Mom used to have us kids pick the large ones. They seemed to grow everywhere during the Fall months.

[@MMichaud93]

I love wild apples too as a venture because they are adept to the soil properties of where they are planted. For everyday varieties often times the soil needs heavy chemical modification to support those cultivars. But for wild apples they're happy growing where they're growing!

[@Dreamydazefarm]

My kids make our goats salad for the woods greens ferns and things they like I also have a video showing how much my chickens love Japanese Beatles a lot of folks just let them die in a bag but I like to gather them off my fruit trees and feed them to the raptors 😎 great video I love the sustainable ideas

[@VallornDeathblade]

Some advice on the hard cider front. My family had 6 or 7 big apple trees in our garden growing up, and we made a lot of cider. For mashing them, a basic woodchipper (sterilized with sterilizing fluid of course) does a fantastic job of turning them into pulp with minimal effort. For fermenting them, we ended up preferring to ferment the whole pulp, both the juice and the other parts, and strain it off later. Also, adding pears to your mix can be great for a depth of flavour. Do with that as you wish, just thought I'd pass along those lessons we learned doing it ourselves. P.S. You can make ANYTHING into 'wine' with a bit of effort, everything from "hedgerow wine" made with mixed wild berries (that you know are safe), to making a mix with Lemon Balm herbs and sugar for Lemon Balm Wine.

[@simonesmit6708]

In the 1800s there were over 2000 known apple cultivars. As grocery stores became popular they would only buy certain types so many cultivars were lost. However someone in Colorado just found an old cultivar. The colorado orange apple. It's very orange.🧡👍

[@stepheniewillen9838]

I glad you updated us on the bees…..apples look delicious

[@nitaleach6816]

I'm new tobyour channel, but I have to say it has given me many hours of enjoyment. Please don't get discouraged buy perfect people and there negative opinions. Remember there was one one perfect and they nailed him to the cross. When you stop learning, that is a very sad day. You and your wife, and your fur babies are an enjoyment. to every shut in that lives in the GREAT USA. GOD Bless you,and my prayers are with you. Thank you for sharing.

[@janetyurkin822]

We had a beech tree 95 feet high with a 12 foot trunk diameter that was blown down 3 years ago in a storm. It was big enough in 1915 that someone had carved WET YEAR on it, so using that as a guide that tree was well over a hundred years old. I think about all the history it lived through. It was partially rotted in the center, but was still producing nuts every other year. The deer and other wildlife loved the nuts. We bought our property in south western Pa. in 1969.

[@frodobagholdins2277]

Bucket Duck! Hero of song and story! Bucket Duck!

[@frederickmoller]

Up here in northeastern Ontario, the only apple available for growing is the Crab apple and one of my favorite when pickled in a clove, cinnimon, sugar brine if that is what it's called. My Mom used to do this for special occasions like Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter as a condiment to the Turkey that goes really well together, I really miss my Mom!

[@candicewdub2269]

What are you talking about? I am from NE Ontario and we grow tons of different types of apples!

[@kkr5428]

Love what you are doing! Growing up on our small farm, we had two peach trees in our garden. Just those two trees produced SO many peaches for us! Enough to freeze and eat all winter long. Best days were spent climbing up a pear or apple tree and eating fruit off the tree while cows stood below hoping I’d throw down some cores!

[@gerimartinez2737]

I like that your learning and teaching at the same time for you there is just not enough hours in a day and now the days are getting shorter keep on doing your thing I will keep watching love your channel ❤

[@mirandasaralyn]

Another excellent use for apples is making apple butter, which can provide another source of homegrown food over the winter when canned.

[@lockedin60]

Morgan are you a write-it-down scheduler? It would help you prioritize your daily task. Those bee hives are not in a central location so it may not be something that is top of mind on a weekly basis. There is a lot going on on your farm so a schedule would help you keep your mind on certain task. You have a very good routine with your fowl crew but a little mind cheat would help. You don't even need to write it down. Those smartphones are excellent tool for those types of things.

[@karensmith4336]

Looking forward to learning about propagating beech trees!

[@robertfallows1054]

Nice to see your consideration of the whole lifecycle of plants and animals. I am sure there are many who do the same but I’m also sure that there are others who don’t and I think that increases as the scale of a farm increases until the you get mega farms and GMOs.

[@consultingdetective6310]

I just started watching your videos recently, and I loved getting to learn about the different trees and plants on your farm! Plus, happy for a bucket duck update!

[@philtrumble]

You can take the yeast off of your grapes to make sourdough bread. I love watching your farm grow. Thanks for reminding me of the grapes in the backyard.

[@timparker7062]

I grow in my appreciation for your thoughtfulness in MANY various forms Brandon. Amongst the favorites, is your treatment of animals. The permaculture garden is growing in my appreciation column as well as on Gold Shaw farm.

[@batpherlangkharkrang7976]

Hi..... Morgan nice to see you love watching your videos, thank you for showing your video homestead chicken Duck Goose farmer garden 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 👕🐔🐓🐥🐩🐈🐝🌱🏡🎥👍👍👍

[@cogsandglimmers]

The wild harvesting in this video just makes you really seem like a Stardew Valley character-- I'd love to try wild apple cider. It sounds pretty neat!

[@pamelaremme38]

OMG you are so right Morgan. I put a fence around an acrea and a half of my property. The rest is wooded with trails. Well...right where I put up the fence I have ELDERBERRY bushes all along my fenced property. The surprises that you get in the spring and summer is amazing!

[@joledo2264]

I am so,so looking forward to watching you and your friend Alfred build the hoop house. I cant wait I'm so excited about it.

[@lindatisue733]

The story of the real Johnny appleseed was he distributed seeds all over the US. There used to be hundreds of varieties of apples. Apples are not native to the US, originated in Asia, they are in the rose family.

[@SwimCoach8]

Some of your fruit trees seem to have growth below the graft area. Can really hurt and slow production of the main graft species. If you clean them off when they are just buds or freshly leafed out, it saves a ton of time. Don't need a saw or pruners and there is almost no wound to heal.

[@nikkireigns]

Great advice, thanks

[@kaedydoyle9727]

Love seeing a different part of the farm, and the wide variety of trees.

[@Rose-bi2rg]

I watched this whole video in one sitting, I found it so interesting! I didn’t know that fact about Apple trees and I like how you’re living off the land.

[@JacobCanote]

Nothing but love.

[@karenspeer7378]

Wow!!! You have all kinds of food on your property!!! I'm learning Tons from you!!! Very Cool!! God Bless and have a Wonderful Day!! 😀❤⚘

[@Jenny1954]

HI Morgan!! I just got finished watching your last three videos. They were so wonderful! I love your your story for the children's book, I'll definitely be buying one. It does remind me of Charlotte's web. I'm 66 BTW. I particularly loved THIS video and seeing ALL the food trees you have. With all of your forest trees, do you harvest them for wood for building? Do you mow all your land by your selves? One thing I would have loved to see was a detailed look at Allison's Garden and what she grew. I KNOW you were very busy this year, but maybe next year. I grew two types of cherry tomatoes on my deck this summer. Yeah me. Morgan great vids, keep up the great work.

[@valarielewis9501]

Beautiful!

[@susanreiter7852]

We had two kinds of crab apple trees on our property. One very sweet and one tart as anything. Mixed, they were wonderful. I made juice out of many of them and using the sweet ones no sugar was required, but we did have to freeze them for keeping. The apples that fell fed the bunnies, deer, coyotes, and anybody else who wandered through the yard. I loved that yard, had wild Saskatoon berries in the bush, plumbs, choke cherries as well as other goodies. Oh, and a lot of tiny fruit bearing bushes for the animals and birds. Loved it there. Unfortunately had to move, but great memories. I love your videos. Thank you for sharing your farm with us.

[@8910d]

Hi Morgan, another great video! Thank you! About the BOOK, have you considered the story ending isn't easy because you are still living it? My idea is the book would wrap up nicely with another dog coming and Toby teaches the new pup everything. Just my 2 cents since you asked. I have a 9 and 11 year old kids and they love your videos and I bet they will love the book too. Best Wishes and keep up the good work!

[@aerattay]

dehydrate and can produce for long term storage. Also fun. loved the walkabout today and see the natural and cultivated areas. Love your eye on conservation. If things go south, you could truly be self sustaining based on how you are learning and looking to having a self sustaining eco system

[@Corey-gb1rx]

waiting a year before making changes on your land is so freakin smart thank god circumstances didn't let me till the field because what was already growing was wild blueberries lol.

[@helenthomas6716]

Thank you!!!!🤩 Reminds me of my grandmother's farm.

[@kking470]

Thanks so much for your channel! I just love it ❤️

[@karimonster]

This is such a timely video if only because 2 nights ago, my son found almost half a dozen native persimmon trees IN FRUIT in the drainage ditch that's at the edge of the road right in front of the house. We had no idea they were there!! They might have bigger seeds and be not quite as sweet as Fuyus, but the fact that they grow wild here is so awesome! And it means I don't have to consider buying and babying persimmon seedlings! LOL

[@scifrygaming]

I love all your names for your animals!! Quacky Chan! lol :)

[@robertfaucher3750]

Mulberries are awesome! Super cold hardy, and every part of the plants can be used. East to get cuttings off of them AND Silkmoths love them.

[@Ghostfrog]

I live in British Columbia, Canada. It's usually rainy and chilly this time of year, however today was actually very warm. By mid day it was 21 degrees and sunny.

[@table004]

I have been seriously depressed lately and these videos really do brighten my day. I enjoy everything you post.

[@annrejda-wolfe6358]

Some places have made it illegal to grow black locust due to its invasive nature. They will also prevent other trees from producing. It’s really has more cons than pros. My advice would be to get rid of it sooner rather than later. But mad props in bringing back the mighty chestnut!

[@CornfedLady1]

Thanks for the drive around the property! I've always wondered what the back half looks like.👍😊

[@crypticmirror]

A forever crop that you need give almost no maintenance to is Jerusalem Artichokes, also called sunchokes or girasoles, it is in the sunflower family but is perennial and almost totally hardy anywhere short of the actual arctic. They produce a huge amount of edible tubers, and they always sell well at farmers markets. They are great for people with diabetes [both kinds] and gut disorders because the produce inulin instead of starch to form their tubers. As long as you leave a few tubers in the ground then they'll come back year after year after year. And the dried stalks can be used for animal bedding, burned as dry kindling, or just composted.

[@Purplesquigglystripe]

That’s really cool!

[@wandagrayson646]

What a great video! I enjoyed seeing things from the perspective of harvesting the resources around the farm to meet the various needs.

[@Hiyori___]

This is so beautiful.. and your property is huge! I didn’t know it is so big!

[@ccinndierella9]

I know someone who bought a house from 1700's and the most amazing apples from the trees from their property. Just Amazing!

[@snowflake4339]

13:34 That bush looks like a lion laying down!

[@kevinwilson510]

Wow your farm has a lot wild edible stuff for the animals too and the cattles

[@maggievedrenne7379]

I think you guys are doing a great job. I'm working with chickens. It was really hard in the beginning. You guys are working great together. Even your animals are working great with you guys.

[@lindanicholas1705]

Hi ... found your utube today and have Bing watched around 9 videos. A long time however I enjoyed them all..... I an from Australia, rural. Know a bit about farm life and the animals. Had working dogs, cattle, so I enjoyed your feathers babies beign protected by Tobi dog.... Good food production ideas and use of the food from the land... love your attitudes...... looking forward to future videos.... thank you....

[@jax33881]

Yes to writing children's books...Great idea. Toby is great hero.

[@dawndrake5833]

What a treat!

[@celestekittie]

That's a really good piece of advice. Watch your property a whole calenders year before making changes. I will keep that in mind when we get ours! Any chance you could send me some crabapple seeds? Lol

[@jessicaoppegard6578]

Toby is so cool using his doggie door!

[@sallyweiner4180]

Beautiful farm!!!

[@debbieclarke7116]

One of your best videos

[@hschultz123]

Great video. Please post more of this type of video.

[@melaniesmith9290]

my husband and i live in MO 30 miles west of STL. we’re in the process of building a glass greenhouse and establishing elevated garden boxes. we plan on having ducks and getting a Mareema like Toby. thank you so much for your guidance!

[@miladwolfster4309]

I like how you think everything

[@savedbeliever]

I always enjoy the awesome picture quality.,,,,, 💘