Before and After Food Forest and Aquascape Ecosystem Pond video - as part of a site wide tour!
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Love the flashback video inserts. It is inspirational to see how much progress has been made in a relatively short period of time.
I enjoyed the flashbacks in this. It's incredible how much its changed over the years.
FANTASTIC video! I love the flashbacks, it really makes the point that in not too long a time one could transform a monoculture lawn into something supernaturally beautiful. Very, very well done sir
I also love the flashbacks.... Next flashback video mention what you had anticipated and what surprised you with the results a few years later. For me, in my situation, I tend to imagine a great variety of plants because it's closer to my childhood experience of rainforest. The result in the desert is half that is planted stays stunted and eventually dies, and a monoculture tends to take over. I end up with islands of different 'monocultures'. For example one island is a pecan tree with shortish grass, alfalfa, daisies, wild sunflowers, seedling mulberrys, and a pumpkin plant. I am not managing many levels of complexity ...a two level food forest if you ignore what's happening underground.
Ooooh that's a great idea Ann! Therr is always an opportunity for learning... even from myself. I remember being in my head when filming some of these videos... when the pond idea was just a 2AM intrusive thought that I let bloom. It has turned out way better than I even could have imagined, because there's just something about being INSIDE it, in real life. I've had people visit, and they always say that. They say they thought it would be nice, but nothing could prepare them for BEING here.
I love the idea of saying "when I was making this video, my plan was to do _____, but then _____ happened, and we had to do ______ instead.
So encouraging to see before and later !
Thanks! This was a really fun one to make.
Incredible video! You live in paradise. Amazing what you can do with knowledge, drive, and time. Congratulations 🎉
Thank you very much!
Such a fantastic soil you've created.. I'm moving forward to the same treasure, hopefully :)
By the way, I saw a video from a woman from Ukraine, she's growing pawpaws. She discovered that it is best pollinated by black flies, so she has hung a spoiled sausage on her blooming pawpaw tree to attract them, and finally the tree was loaded with fruit :)
Indeed, the flowers are said to smell like a dead body for the same reason, it attracts flies and beetles. I haven't noticed it though. I've heard people hang up roadkill also. LOL
@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Isn't it amazing that the fruit are so delicious :) Hope you'll get a nice harvest of pawpaws this season :)
It does, in fact, look really nice. Way to go younger CPL! Older CPL is proud of you and we are too :)
LOL
What an amazing job you have done developing the land. How you learnt where all your plants are and how to use them remains a mystery in my head. I can't even find a marker that has an ink that doesn't run off over time. If it isn't labelled I don't have a clue. What is your approach with the birds and the produce. I love the bird life on our property but to get tree ripened anything is impossible without netting at this point.
It's amazing how much you pick up as you do this. Even just learning 1 plant a day is 4000 plants after 8 years.
It’s really beautiful all the fruition of your hard work. It is helpful to me for ideas and letting go of the old fashioned ideas of neatness and order that a garden should look like. No more straight rows ; ) thank you
Haha! That's great! Now, don't get me wrong, having a neat and tidy place is great also. I LOVED the permaculture consultation in my recent video. Their backyard is paradise. It's just different, that's all. Both are amazing.
Amazing transformation! I don't know if you already have some planted, but I think it's a great idea to get some calorie/protein dense foods going, such as quinoa, amaranth, dry beans, sunflowers etc. That is the my most recent focus for my annuals. Just found your channel and it is excellent! Watched your "Wake up call" video multiple times because it blew me away. Already climate collapse aware, now this!!
Oooh definitely check out my Jerusalem Artichoke videos! We do also have amaranth. No quinoa (very labour intensive), but we do beans and sunflowers also.
You are correct about the chickory. Good video
Thanks!
My food forest is only 3 years old and has reduced the temperature of my yard, I imagine it will be an even bigger difference when the trees are mature.
Trees do make a huge difference. We have a large non grafted pistachio tree shading half the house with its roots hugging a septic tank at our city house in Chihuahua Mexico. Our temperatures are in the high 3Os to 45C range for at least 40 days around the summer solstice and on rare occasions the temperatures have hit 50C. We don't air-condition our house with evaporative cooling because water is extremely expensive in the desert. Water comes for two hours per day and I have better uses for that water. We have ceiling fans. We shut most windows by 9:00 am. I hang the washing under a porch under the pistachio tree and we ventilate the whole house with an open door from this porch. I start feeling uncomfortable when the outside temperatures are over 43C. The chickens are under a large mulberry tree and the coop is tall and draped with shade cloth and the southern side is a masonry wall. The mass wall controls the radiant temperature swings. It's much cooler under the mulberry tree because there seems to be a slight constant upwards flow of air even when there is no wind.
People in extreme climates always are so much smarter in how they live. This post is fantastic, although I suspect you (Ann) love smarter than most.
I can't imagine only having water for 2 hours a day, but I suppose you get used to it after working around it.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy a tank and a hydro go a long way... but a collection of water bottles in the freezer, fridge and bathroom help out when the tank is empty.
What a huge difference in just a few years.
I have like 8, year old pawpaws in full sun, got ready to give them some shade (with wire rings and cloth material/cardboard), but they've been totally fine. KSU and Neil Peterson both have said they really only need shade year one, and then a little shade helps in the second year (where I'm at), but after that full sun is totally fine.
I hear "tour" I click thumbs up!
HAHA!
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy btw - the before and after comparisons are amazing. Shows what a little time and a lot of work can produce. Cheers
Thanks!
I need to comment. I am 70. Due to life crap etc., I am finally at a house I love, a yard that is awesome (except the deer who eat my hostas and daylillies), and time on my hands. Searching and searching for a house, paying way more than I ever wanted to, having to deal with neighbors - who are so far nice, but who knows if they would be if pushed by me planting Jerusalem artichokes to distract the deer - and dealing with joints and loss of muscle due to age and pandemic. What you said about having decades to wait for trees to grow...I don't have that. But does it matter if I am doing what I love? I am old enough to say put up the fence for the deer and answer to the Homeowners Association later. You are so blessed to have arrived at this place decades before I was able to!
Aww thank you, that is so kind. Indeed it's never too late to build a legacy, or continue it. My father in law is in his 70s and he is planting trees that he may never see in their epic majesty, but someone will, and that's what matters!
Half the stuff I plant, I know I will never watch it grow. But I will know that some of my trees will vastly outlive me, especially all the oaks that I've snuck all around my community.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy thank you for your kind words. I continue to work at it!
Thank you for everything you teach us, very appreciated man.
I appreciate you too, all your awesome comments over the years, it helps so much to spread the channel. This channel wouldn't have grown like it has without all of you. I also really enjoy chatting in the comments. There aren't that many permaculture nuts around me, so it's a nice little online community that has been fantastic for my mental health over the past few years, and going forward to the challenges we face. It gives me hope that we can pull out of this tailspin when I see so many people interested and caring.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I could not agree more, I had several hobbies in my life the people in those hobby I had a hard time connecting with but in permaculture the community is really awesome, bunch of cool folks down to earth :)
Sorry I have been less active lately my friend its pretty crazy here I have a lot to do haha, working very hard on the food forest planting stuff every single days, and with the garden and the compost station and everything its quite a lot!
But a lot of fun, helps me a lot with my mental health as well. This morning it took me like 2 min getting out of bed lol my body is destroyed. I lost like 8 pounds which I needed to lose. Man, best hobby + community I ever been with. Cheers
looks like chicory to me. beautiful ecosystem, well done! ❤
Thank you for the confirmation! Cheers!
love the tours
A beekeeper conscious of the environment is way better for native pollinators than the average average person with a monoculture turf grass lawn!
Exactly. And monoculture orchards, grain crops, city avenues... It's the huge variety of plants that makes the difference. I have noticed that it's a different bee type that pollinates zucchini to our large 'Hindenburg' pumpkins and we are talking about plants in the same family. When one has many plant families flowering at the same time and throughout most of the year, you will have specific bee, fly, wasp, and bat types for those plants. Bees aren't the only pollinators.
Pretty cool time perspective
Thanks :)
Love this tour showing the difference between then and now and how much growth in only a few years. Just goes to show what can happen if you give nature half a chance! How old were your paw paws when they start fruiting? Do you prune them? I just planted my first ones this spring and am excited to see them growing. Thanks for all the great vids, I had to watch this twice to take it all in!
I don't prune them. I've heard they don't like being pruned. They also don't grow in ways that necessitate a lot of pruning (I.e. lots of crossing branches, verticals, inward growers, etc).
I got my first fruit set somewhere around 7-8 year old tree. Now, HOLDING onto the fruit is another question. I've had them get about 2x as big as this and then they are gone. I'm not sure if the tree dropped them, or if deer ate them.
I love your deer deterrent artichoke patch… honestly last week I got very angry at Geoff Lawton in a reel 😂😂😂… he was commenting on the use of electrical current fences with peanut butter so the deer lick and get shocked and don’t return for a year… it’s way too much for me… here in the tropics we have iguana issues. And our team of 12 cats take good care of them 😆🙌 Your problem is your solution!
Yeah, I like my way better. Deer are just trying to survive too.
I've found yellow jewelweed (Impatiens pallida) is a great trap crop for Japanese beetles. Between the jewelweed and the tachnid flies, I don't pay much attention to Japanese beetles at all anymore. Their damage is minimal. However, it's the spotted orange jewelweed (Impatiens capensis) that grows rampantly in the same areas where the poison ivy thrives. The rabbits also seem to prefer I. pallida over anything in the garden except for white clover.
That's SUPER interesting. I read somewhere that yellow geraniums have been used against Japanese beetles, because they are attracted to the yellow flowers, and fall in them and can't get out. So it's interesting that the yellow jewelweed is what you mentioned here 🤔
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Jewelweed doesn't bloom here until August, so there's no yellow color to attract the Japanese beetles yet. They just love the leaves. The poor plants look like they could never survive, but they do and they push out new growth and flowers. The beetles completely ignore the smaller spotted jewelweed, however.
I convinced my landlord to 0lant a few trees a few years ago, now I see I created a monster. 😅 He's excellent at growing from cuttings to the point where he needs to sell off about 50 of them.
He doesn't seem capable of letting go. 🙄
The temperature difference from the street to the back is extremely noticeable, far cooler, less effort to breathe.
The difference is amazing. Nice work! p.s. I wonder if the higher ph of the pond water will actually be beneficial when considering parasites in the fish?
Possibly
Really cool seeing the progression. To what extent would you say you're self sufficient in regards to food?
Somewhere around 30%. Short growing season is the biggest problem. Actually, the biggest problem is kids who don't want to eat greens all the time. If it were just myself, I'd say maybe 80%.
The biggest thing is that a lot of my real estate is used up growing fruit and nut trees that are not into production yet. I have hundreds and hundreds of non producing trees. As that situation matures, I could realistically trade for anything I don't make myself.
Full 100% self sufficiency isn't really a goal for me, as I don't really believe it's worthwhile for my time. For example, growing wheat/flour/sugar/salt, some of these things are 1000x easier to just buy. So 100% is never going to be my goal here. I'm more looking at simply increasing my resiliency and income streams, for trade and barter, etc.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy awesome, thanks for your in-depth response. That gives some nice insight. Makes sense if you have kids. I'd say 30% is very decent for a family with kids actually. I aspire to create something like what you have in a few years, when I get my own place. Around 80% is kind of my goal actually, so it's nice to know I could do it with something similar to this (assuming I only have to provide for myself). As you said, some grains, sugar, salt and some other stuff is just not worth it, so I don't think I'd strive for 100% either.
Thanks again and good luck on everything you're working on. I'll gladly keep following along :)
Yeah it's definitely doable. I would say, if this was truly a goal to maximize, the best way is a higher percentage of dedicated annual beds.
The fruit trees are nice and all, and give tremendous food, especially in the longterm. Annual beds however are where you will grow most of your calories. Root crops especially are huge for becoming as self sufficient as possible. Potatoes, carrots, beets, yams, etc. All those will really go a long way to feeding you from you land. More than say raspberry bushes.
That being said, the thing I love about the fruit trees and bushes is how they are almost zero work. Because of this, I think they are the best options for growing as much as possible for as little effort as possible, then trading or bartering that stuff for other things.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy My vision is a mix of annuals and perennials. I want to get a pretty sizable plot of land so I can have a lot of diversity (bio- and food-wise). More annuals in the first years, and slowly transitioning more and more to perennials where possible as everything matures, while always keeping the most important annuals.
Prickly lettuce is also a great pain killer
I tried to dig back in the older videos but I couldn’t find it. What’s a swail (sp?)
Swale. If yoy use that spelling, you should find many of my videos. I also talk about swales in my complete water guides.
Do you ever use the prickly lettuce medicinally? I've heard you can use it as a painkiller.
No, I didn't know that!
@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I only heard about it recently on a Facebook group I joined. Interested in trying it out, but i don't have any on my property. Also Interested in trying mullen for lung congestion - and I DO have that.
How can we protect our properties from neighbour's pesticide (and other toxin) drift? Can fences, stone walls, certain trees and bushes create a protective barrier?
Yes, it's the only way. Hedgerows and treelines to block wind, and swales/trenches to block surface runoff.
One permaculture consultation I did was adjacent to a farm field, so we dug out a swale, lead it into a pond that was to be planted out to reeds to act as a holding pond, and biological filter, then overflowed into a second pond that could be used as irrigation. The second pond had a test garden next to it with sensitive plants like lettuces and beans that would be watered, observed, and then he would know the water was okay to irrigate with.
The tree line would take time to grow, but was sowed to sumac and cedar. Sumac for fast growing, then cedar which would take 5 years or so to become useful as a block.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Thank you!
If you were to stick your sumac upside down, chances are it would not root. Plants are pretty smart about that kind of thing.
Indeed, but the shape wouldn't work. The branching is really handy for trellis (I'm pretty sure that's what this is in reference to).
What are pawspaws?
Asimina Triloba, tree.
I have no audio - is there something wrong?
Audio is fine here
That happened before to a video. I think its on TH-cam post-processing side, and lasts a few minutes when the video first goes live. Try again now and it should be okay?
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacyYes it works now 👍
Do you have bird visitors looking to eat frogs or fish?
Oh yeah. We had a crane landing on our gazebo almost every day last year. We also had a few kingfishers visit. We've seen minks hiding in rocks.
A "weed" is a gift of Nature that global pirate capitalism has not found a way to monetize.
William Garden Door, Donkey brayer etc have certainly found a way to monetize weeds... not exactly in the way you are thinking but with robots that scan the field and laser zap any microscopic plant that isn't the desired cash crop plant and the common herbicides... with the last, the same companies make a fortune with their investments in healthcare. Declaring a plant a weed, or even better a drug is extremely lucrative.
LOL ❤️ that definition haha
Deer find pawpaw foliage unpalatable and, therefore, avoid browsing pawpaw seedlings and saplings. Instead, they preferentially browse species such as spicebush (Lindera benzoin), oaks (Quercus spp.), red maple (Acer rubrum), and blackgum (Nyssa sylvatica). Deer avoidance of pawpaw is evident in NCRN forest data.
I wish european deer would know that and leave the plants alone. The little pawpaw I had planted two years ago was nibbled to death the following spring, I didn't have enough plants around to teach them. Last year, after the young sweet chestnut trees got reduced to bonsai trees I learned to fence each sapling individually, so next year I'm ready to give pawpaws another try...
Yeah, I've read that deer hate the plant also, but most people I know who has tried it had deer munching on them. Either way, I think the deer ate the fruit last year. I'm probably going to have to net a few, to hopefully get one this year last until maturity.
bro the way you say pecan
Ha! We say pee-can here.
How should it be? Peh-cahn? Right?
You could cycle the pond water through your hottub and you'd have a place to chill in water in the summer
I chill in the pond :)