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thank you for the kind words. I also watch other CT gardeners for inspiration. This project has certainly been a long process of trial and error; wins and losses. I will check out Bigelow Brook's channel. I was not familiar.

Honestly there's a lot of things I would be interested in buying (elderberry cuttings, that spinach-like swiss chard, comfrey, couple clumps of echinacea, mulberry cuttings to name a few) LMK if that is a possibility

I don't, sorry!

The persimmons I purchased online from a terrific family owned nursery named "Just Fruits and Exotics". Unfortunately, for flowers, "Futners" on Silver Lane in East Hartford, closed their doors during Covid. I don't know if anyone took over the operation, but there was nothing like them, so much so that P. Allen Smith did a tour of their operation, which is on TH-cam. You can look on Craigslist, some residential perennial flower garderners sell flowers out of their home...Once you have them there is always an over abundance; I've composted so many over the years. If cost is a concern just start them from seed and wait an extra year...

@@Viva_la_natura Thank you! I've heard of that nursery, I'll have to check it out!!!

Thank you for the kind words. I plan to do a garden tour this year. I put some new trees in the ground, and I'm planning to diversify my vegetable garden. OYR is a great channel!

@@Viva_la_natura Subbed! You're cool man, love the cats. I planted some berries bushes and an allium patch (with Egyptian Walking Onions as per OYR's recommendation) this year after a few years of messing around. Much more interested in perennial bushes and trees now that I've realized replanting everything every year is not really my style. Any recommendations on really easy fruit trees? I am really digging the mulberry's vibes, I just want something that won't fuss about a CT winter.

@@FindTheFun contrary to the opinion of others in the area who complain of fire blight, I've had a lot of luck with Asian pears which are delicious fruit! So many varieties. Apples... I'm cursed with the exception of Pristine. I would almost recommend common macintosh varieties (get disease resistant like Liberty). When it comes to stone fruit, same, I'm cursed with pests. I've had luck with common varieties, Red Haven peach etc, but at the time, I didn't know to prune them down to 18" to keep the scaffolding low because harvesting peaches from high up is a nightmare. I'm new to persimmon, but they also seem like winners, some cold tolerant Asian varieties and American hybrids. Let me know if I can advise anything else you have questions about. It's no trouble, youtube isn't my primary gig..

@@Viva_la_natura I planted a northern highbush blueberry, a red currant, and two raspberries (caroline and red ruby I believe). Really I'm just looking for reliable and easy perennials two grow my garden with bit by bit every year. If you have any advice for those bushes I mentioned or any good perennials I'd love to hear it. Like I said I'm starting a patch of Walking Onions as well as a few large pots for Sunchokes.

@@Viva_la_natura Forgot to mention, I just started some rhubarb seeds I got from my cousin as well, but it will be a while for them to mature.

I'm very sorry for my delay to your insightful post; For some reason I don't always get notifications. It seems that TH-cam is the neighborhood we're relegated to due to our cultural obsession with lawns as status symbols which I believe dates back to the English and French aristocracies. My belief is that most people are tribalistic and don't want to challenge the lawn status quo because they fear being different. If the gov says "grow a victory garden" during a horrendous war, they're all for it, but otherwise.. don't stick out. Suburbia could be a utopia, filled with gardens, bakeries etc, but people are wedded to the industrial paradigm.. that's why I chose "metabolic rift" as the name for my channel. We have greenhouses in the burbs filled with mums, baby pine trees, when this wasted land could easily feed everyone for cheap, and provide jobs tp the community while enhancing beauty everywhere. Its really all about profits for corporations. We need more conscious Davids to take on Goliath.

Wow! that's awesome info Tammy. I didn't know it could be pruned back to different heights. I had a small concern about it growing too tall and shading out other plants. thank you!

I don't know of anyone doing a food forest specifically, but there are Permaculture Meet Up groups on Meet Up engaged in green advocacy around climate change.

Make. If you go on "ourfigs.com" and research "winter fig proection" they have a lot of great ideas.

Yes, thank you

In California, it's a different ball game because you have the wasp to pollinate the figs, and a long dry growing season. so you're in fig paradise. I noticed figs like Desert King (2 crops), Strawberry Verte, yellow long neck, Panache (tiger striped fig), Pastiliere Unknown, and Italian 258 are all popular.

We purchased our first brown turkey from a box store. We are intrigued by the wide variety and fig community out there. We really want to invest in rare types. PaulD thanks for taking the time to send some suggestions. Looking forward to adding these types to our garden. May peace be with you.

I agree with you. Whole foods and staying away from highly packaged processed food also. In my fall garden tour 2021 I show my pantry if you're interested in how I do it. I bulk order organic legumes and beans and healthy flours. And then whatever is growing in the garden I incorporate into those dishes.

Thank you!!

You have many options in 8b because you have a longer season. I would recommend French figs such as Colle de dame blanc, RDB or Bourjassotte Gris. Others would be Smith, Strawberry Verte, or Italian 258 (I-258) . These are all very high quality figs and don't require pollination. I don't grow many of these varieties with the exception of a few because we have such a short season and they wouldn't ripen in time.

Wonderful!

You got it! That's it. Now I remember the tag. Thank you!

I'll definitely check your channel out. I enjoy the gardening community on TH-cam very much. Thank you for your kind words also!

That's awesome! I order from growitalian.com ( which is seeds of italy or franchi), raintree nursery, peaceful valley organics, and baker creek

Hey Paul D! I definitely have some recommendations for you. All are early or mid season and tolerate our humid summers 1) Florea 2) RDB 3) Blue and Black Celeste 4) LSU Improved Celeste ( most LSU figs) 5) Peter's honey or Izbat An Naj and 6) Smith. I'll have plenty of cuttings in autumn.

They do. But in-ground they require some winter protection

Thanks for your comment Chance. However, how do you account for the fact that in all of the Blue Zones (people living to a very old age, beyond 100+ )around the world people eat "mostly whole, plant-based foods, and limited meat and animal products. That means fruits, vegetables, whole grains, beans, and nuts"." www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6153574/ For example, the Okinawans', are some of the healthiest people in the world with high longevity, and the main staple of their diet is a carb, which is the sweet potato. When you talks about "carbs" are you referring to simple or complex carbs? Highly processed white breads and enriched rice or whole grains, such as lentils and barley? Why do vegetarians and vegans have lower rates of diabetes and heart disease? In traditional villages in Southern Italy, they raise a pig, and consume it all year long, eating only small amounts of meat in their diet. I agree that exercise and social connections, in addition to lower environmental stress and pollutants account for positive health outcomes, but I'm not sure where you're getting your info, but when Matt Damon was trapped on Mars, he wasn't growing bacon, he was growing potatoes, which you can survive off of alone...just ask the Irish, who do not do well without them. When you get sick, does the doctor say eat more grass fed beef? no, because the research doesn't support it, unless it's industry funded. They say eat more fruits and vegetables, all carbs...Does wonder bread and other highly processed processed breads destroy your gut? yes, especially when you put factory farmed meat on them in heaps.

thank you for asking. I plan to put a video or two this year, but I have no intention of growing my youtube channel. Originally, I just did this to share my project with a few friends and to document my own journey. However, I have a few things left to say and I will do an update 1-2x per year. Ironically, one of the best TH-cam channels for gardening/backyard orchard since the early days is DMCDMC (search dmc dmc gardening). He has few very videos since 2011 but his Canadian backyard is beautiful. I recommend checking out his videos for inspiration.

I didn't take your comment as trolling; however I have to point out there is no definitive scientific evidence suggesting what your proposing is correct. I'm a doctor also...but not a medical doctor (mental health), and MD's and PhD's take ZERO courses in nutrition. I believe what your describing is the paleo diet, or the ketogenic diet which are basically the Atkin's diet repackaged. Advocates of a vegan diet versus a paleo diet have the tendency to cherry pick research that supports their underlying theoretical assumptions, such as LDL suddenly is not the cause of heart disease etc suppressed

For example, if you read the China Study or Dr. Michael Greger's book "How Not to Die", he compiles dozens of peer reviewed articles on the link between heart disease, many forms of cancer, and the consumption of animal products (dairy and milk). The meat and dairy industry are a revolving door between the FDA , and they aren't exactly a group that is being suppressed by big gov...they are big gov. When advocates of veganism talk about the consumption of carbohydrates they are referring to complex carbs (starches), such as sweet potatoes, beets, grains, legumes etc, not highly processed simple carbs such as processed sugars, enriched white rice, etc What I'm saying is if you want to find research supporting the nutritional benefits of eggs, most if not all are funded by the egg industry; whereas the leafy green and beet industry are not exactly a group of prominent lobbyists spending billions to fund their own research www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7958219/

You should check out a book called Deep Nutrition by Dr. Catherine Shanahan. She certainly agrees that the processed foods that we eat are awful for us. But she presents a very strong case against the argument that animal fats are what’s causing the problem. Many of the studies used to argue against animal fats were poorly constructed, used a population size so small that nothing definitive could be ascertained from them, or completely misrepresented. Being a practicing medical doctor herself, she fully admits that nutrition is completely neglected in modern medical science and had to do a deep dive on her own to resolve some of her personal health issues. If you want to see a serious problem, look at the effects of vegetable oil on our health. Vegetable oils are added to nearly everything that we eat off the shelf and the studies on them are buried and hidden, much like studies on sugar were for a long time. The more research I do on the effects of vegetable oil‘s in our diet the more I am shocked and appalled at the miss information that is push in our culture. Dr Pradip Jamnadas is a cardiologist and has a wonderful TH-cam channel discussing a lot of these topics. He has been a practicing physician for many years and is appalled at the demonization of animal fats and pushing of vegetable oils. We have been taught the opposite all our lives so it can be difficult to wrap your head around, but as someone who has studied nutrition deeply in an effort to help Close family members with their health issues, these are the findings I find most convincing when you look at the studies. You should really take a look at these resources because I think they are quite valuable!

@@rustieshackleford9457 LOVE your comment!!! Thank you, I'll check them out!!!

I would recommend anything "Mt. Etna" which is Hardy Chicago, MbVS etc. They are all very similar berry figs, cold hardy, and resist splitting in wet/humid climates. Also the figs from the Louisiana State University breeding program, which are all variations of Celeste. That's a good place to start. You want early varieties, humidity tolerant. The thing is, most figs won't survive 15f for very long without dying back to the ground.

I'm really glad you found this suggestion helpful; it's great in case of an emergency. I've done bulk orders of lentils, beans, farro, flour, rice, polenta etc from webstaurant, nuts.com etc. People think that they have to soak their beans still but these new pressure cookers get the job done in 40 minutes with way better quality than cans. Also to your point about growing and storing... I plan to process a lot of fruit, cabbage, egglplant etc this year. Things are so unpredictable right now and food prices may go through the roof

Everyone is just waking up. I've been doing the fig shuffle for the last week or so. I didn't wake anyting up early in the greenhouse because I've been so busy this spring. All of the covers come off May 1st.. I peeked under the cover and inspected for mold and damage but everything looks good so far. We'll see ... it's been a really cold winter

@@Viva_la_natura Looking forward seeing the unwrapping and fingers crossed 🤞 for good result!

No, luckily..

Ah, I'm a Nassau County native myself. Celeste is great inground; Blue Celeste, or Improved Celeste or any of the LSU program figs, O'Rourke etc. Also, I recommend Florea or Teramo Unk (early, reliable and cold hardy)., any Mt. Etna or Hardy Chicago type, such as Norella. St. Ritas, Mbvs. Malta Black etc. You can find all of these figs really cheap on figbid or read the "ourfigs" forum

veronicastrum. Hope that helps

Hi Maria, I'm on a 1/2 acre. If you have a brown turkey you could put it in the ground and winter protect it but you may want to check what variety of brown turkey you have because some of them are very late bearing for 6b. You may be better off with a fig like florea or a Hardy Chicago

@@Viva_la_natura i think the thick guy is dead 😆

@@sharoncourt75 6b also ...Arkansas . Wouldn't surprise me if your fig will be growing soon. Before I started to cover mine , it would die to the ground and then come back.

@@LittlePieceOfHeaven. I hope so it was almost 5 ft, last year outof 2 small ones 1 came back 1 was gone, it took forever and it fruit it

@@sharoncourt75 oh man , that's a pretty good size one. fingers crossed 🤞