Partly paid my way through college guerrilla gardening/foraging! I’d harvest blackberries, thimble berries, apples, huckleberries, wild garlic, and more from industrial areas and alongside the brushy areas along the interstate near my apartment in Portland. With a little yeast, water, and sugar added to the fruit, I had a product that fetched a good cash price and paid a good chunk of my tuition. Remember, government land is your land!
Be aware that along industrial areas the soil may be polluted with metals or whatever, so the fruit that grow there also could be contaminated. Good that it worked out for you though
The church I go to has a lot of open area around it and I have been thinking about asking for space for fruit trees. After what you are showing, I think it is time for me to just jump in and ask. Thanks for the gentle push.
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 wow! Idk why I’m surprised though. I hung out with a few of my old college buddy his weekend and they hadn’t heard anything about a food shortage. And a few hadn’t heard much about inflation outside of gas being high. Seriously. And since I know they wouldn’t listen to me I didn’t say anything. But you’d think that by the time the mainstream media and the president have mentioned food shortages and increasing inflation, that everyone would have at least gotten the hint that there are hard times ahead. I understand “tuning it all out” but food shortages and inflation should qualify as REAL NEWS!! to everyone. I think people are in denial. You’d think their intuition would guide them a little, but they’re officially zombies. Sometimes they make me question myself. Am I the one who’s crazy and brainwashed by prepping and gardening channels? I just can’t believe everyone doesn’t see and sense what’s coming.
I should change my name to Anna Robic, because my compost was white as snow in the middle and I had just flipped it 3 days ago. Pipe going back in. I must’ve overwatered it. Forgot to tell you that when transplanting some seedlings in the food forest today, I noticed a dramatic improvement in the soil under the cardboard, compost, straw and wood chips that I put down months ago. I was pleasantly surprised at the friability, color and the number of worms encountered! This is fantastic because last year I couldn’t get a shovel through the clay. Huge Thanks to you!
Rob Greenfield published a video with Ron Finley very recently on how Ron has made a project of “gangster gardening” in south central Los Angeles. Same ideas, different locations. I particularly like one of his sayings, “I’ll take a cup of opportunity over a boatload of hope.” In plain language, get out and DO something! You can be pitiful or you can be powerful; you cannot be both.
My sweet hubby gave 21 years of our life to service in the navy. We lived quit often in government. Housing. They do not allow you to till up the grass and plant a garden. They will ticket you. So I planted in the flower gardens close to the house. I interspersed tomatoes, cakes, spinach, onions, etc with my flowers.
Dude! You're my hero! I've heard many people talk about doing this but you are the first I have seen to actually do it. Joel Salatin talked about in a book I read of his. Every time I drive down the parkway to work I think about all the things that could be grown there. If gas prices keep climbing, the state will be wanting animals to graze the sides of the roads just so they don't have to put fuel in tractors to mow them. We have built a new facility where I work and we have a huge pond that had to be installed behind us for water run off. I am deliberating on whether or not to go to our management with the idea of putting a food forest in around that pond for employees to have access to.
100% agree on thinking of those large lots of just grass could be some much more for growing food. So many churches could add fruit trees in their parking lot islands. Then berry bushes mixed in with their boxwood bushes. Building and ground committees need to get creative with their grounds.
Churches, schools and businesses by my house have huge monocultures of lawn. What a waste. Native plants for the ecosystem and fruit trees and bushes would be so much more beautiful and useful.
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 I know that’s a fact. Our building and grounds at our old church didn’t like any of my ideas. It’s sad, b/c what better way to spread the gospel than to come alongside the community and garden together. We are called to be His hands and feet, but many need to be smacked in the head with His word as a reminder.
I have been pondering things along this line for a while now, and am so glad God directed me to this video for my continuing education serving today! It really was a "matrix settling" kind of moment. A lot of pieces fell into place, and I am going to be planting tons of things all over Tucson, AZ! Greening up the Sonoran Desert!
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 I am glad to hear that! We have identified 7 target locations close to my home in Tucson, AZ to begin planting sweet potato slips (I have tons exploding in my front yard!), moringa trees, fruit trees, and ... well ... hmmm... perhaps some COMFREY! We are looking forward to ordering some from you real soon, and will be propagating it all over! My plan is to identify, and establish perennial footholds, in 153 locations by the end of this calendar year. I approach this having learned, and successfully run and built, businesses. So, getting a nice schedule of "rounds" will make tending all these gorilla food forests relatively easy.
Brilliant! Also there are so many elderly that live in communities that would be grateful to have young families ask to plant in their spaces. They could eat fresh food daily from them until you make the big harvest. Another huge blessing to them would be the human interaction while you are on their property.
Thanks Billy for showing how simple it is. I live next to a lake next to corps of engineer land. I know how simple it is to make a stealth garden close to a fishing spot. Go fishing, throw fish waste on the garden, water plants with lake water. I tried this a few years ago and found out how simple it is. I've expanded to several gardens since. Remember, no uniformity, diversity, natural setting, remember what you planted and reap the benifits. The fish waste useally keeps most folks away because of the smell LOL
Totally agree. I live in an apartment and I have been doing this. I suggest looking on Google Satellite maps to research spots near your home and work. My balcony is nowhere near enough space for me. ☺ I am sure you can TH-cam easily how to use it. ID spots online then explore foresty / green spaces in person. Or just walk roads you usually take in your car. You will be surprised on what you see on foot or find on foot. My car way in for repair and I walked a torturous 12 mile roundtrip (6 each way) journey one day to and from work in April. I picked seeds, saw trees and plants up close to take photos of and ID later. I use Google Lens for this. I also saw some wild daylilies starting, dug them up with a stick and transplanted them at my job. I read you can eat the bulbs, so why not. Commercial areas or office parks where businesses shut down at a certain hour are really good (type of place where my job is at). I planted potatoes in an unused bed on a far and ignored side of my work building. There's a dead space at the back if my work parking lot and a subdivision, a landlocked "no man's land", where I have been growing stuff for a year. I found a survey stake there so I am in a 4 points area no one is going to really claim or use anytime soon. I have established asparagus plants that are 4 ft tall now, propagated strawberries from 2 small $3 pots, garlic chives+++ & a small compost pile there. It can be done. I will be trying my hand at grafting fruit scions on public trees. I have about 20 sweet potato slips going in water and dirt at the moment which will be my next planting project. Nice video. It can be done. I agree, don't ask permission. If anything, act like you're cleaning up garbage or pulling invasives, are doing indie nature cleanup charity work if anyone asks or spots you and sends the cops. There are lawn guy channels out there who do cleanups like that.
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 I also found that planting onions and garlic in the spots where things are growing get left alone. Even better when you grow them out in a pot with dirt for a little bit. It stinks the dirt up good. There are 2 skunks, a Groundhog, and squirrels that live in the immediate area. I made sure to put the garlic and onion starts in both of my potato areas and near my propagated Chandler and Honeyoye (sp?) strawberries that I am letting fruit out for the 1st time this year. Initially, I had some (curious?) digging, but nothing super destructive. If something was pulled out and still looked viable, I just shoved it back in the dirt. My potatoes haven't been touched like that in weeks now. I am presuming due to the established dirt stink. Wish I could show you how tall some of the potato bag plants are. Those are sitting on the ground and a few of my plants are at hip level (am 5'2"). I have that bag grouping surrounded with a folded and clipped Harbor Freight tarp since some of the bags are kinda bright. Some bad news: I do have a bug I still can't identify eating the potato leaves of my in ground plants at the front bed of my work building, so I gotta figure that out. It's not a potato beetle based on pictures. I got over 20 plants there. Some haven't been chomped on at all. So still observing to troubleshoot (outside of the hand smushing). Anyway, I would suggest that the smaller onion sets or garlic cloves one wouldn't plant for real-zees be relegated or bought as in-ground pest repellents. I let them sprout roots in water 1st before putting them in soil. I'm the type that likes to see roots 1st. I will be painting stunt rock strawberries this week as extra insurance against birds. Got some crafty blue jays around.
@@cathyrobi3891 Thank you, I'm trying ☺ I was SO excited that the asparagus came back this year. Well, 2 out of 6 or so. There was a notable larger one out if those which I can only imagine is the 4 ft. one. The other is like 2 ft. Going to make sure to get and save seeds from 'Gigantor' when the time comes.
I’m a new follower. Gotta say, I love your videos. I recently have taken over state property that has never been taken care of by the state. A major wall and highway and wall is a portion of my backyard. Invasive ivy has killed my oak trees so I removed 1500”” sq ft of ivy and I took down the state fence and turned it into my native woodland garden.
I do this evey summer even in the summer heat here! Use those (not herbicde treated) grass clippings and make hot compost. Ammend my beds all summer with this BLACK GOLD, and am ready for fall planting! Hot composting is awesome stuff! Compost everything! And resources, yes the resources around you! Use them! 👍. Oh my I love it how you went and planted the potatoes! 👍 Great idea !
If you're nervous...have a (metal) clipboard, hard hat (perhaps), safety glasses, boots, and a non-high-vis vest with some pens in your pocket (or cargo pants) and people will think you're official. A self-appointed landscape project manager or horticultural assessor...of sorts.
I’ve been following along and after taking my tarp off my pile a little mouse ran out as well🤣 y’all didn’t even flinch, luckily my cat wasn’t far behind me. 💪🏼
Wow I didn't know this was a thing or that it had a name. I was talking about planting food around in random spots in case I was ever on the move. Thanks for sharing 🌱
I love this ! Live in the city but my heart is in Canton NC where I spent a month every summer during my childhood. My gramma taught me to harvest, can, ferment, and cook. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
I really love this. I've been able to grow an amazing amount of food in borrowed space in other people's yards. Even non-gardeners like being able to look out their windows and see a beautiful lush garden space. When I have the means to, I intend to do quite a bit of work with the department of unauthorized forestry. 🙂 If you're not quite so bold, it's easy to just go to your local tax assessor's website and find out who owns a particular piece of property so you can reach out and ask for permission to use a lot for a few months. Somebody's bound to say yes. You can offer the nextdoor neighbor $10 a month or something to use their hose for watering, or if you have a truck, you can put a barrel or tote in the back and bring your own water. I'd be over the moon to see this type of thing take off everywhere. For years now I've been thinking about how much food could be grown and how many jobs could be created by turning those huge swaths of turf next to on-ramps and along highways into food forests. There's a little one here in Tulsa on the Tisdale highway, but it's a little sad and easy to miss. Hopefully somebody can pull it off somewhere that really packs a punch of wow-factor. Then it'd start to spread.
I love the idea of planting sweet potato slips, since I have experienced how easy it is to propagate them! I rip them out without care, scrape the dirt from a place to plant them, lay them across that scraped area, and cover the roots with the dirt. Then, I cover that with woodchips, and do not even water them in. And, they grow! I see pure genius in your use of sweet potato slips!
I heard "Leavenworth VA in Kansas" and my ears perked up! from Kansas City and as you can tell im learning about doing similar things in the metro area.
She's really great with her doable, low-cost techniques, isn't she. Very low on the gloom and doom aspects. I like that her techniques are very inclusive of seniors, people with disabilities, and the greenest of beginners.
Very cool , in past I’ve have got land to plant by just asking , most people where glad for someone farm it , I once used a church property for field peas and gave the church peas from it that year , but then new preacher comes , he didn’t like it , said church wasn’t benefiting from it , I was like what you mean , I gave half the peas to church members and saved them from having cut acre of grass behind the church , Great video
I am so glad to find other people who are publicly talking about this ! There is SO much underutilized land all over the place, where something edible could be grown I am part of an organization that has been guerilla planting little micro food forests/permaculture installations in vacant lots, along bike trails,and in all sorts of other little neglected/ underutilized urban spaces. Collectively we have planted thousands of fruit trees and a crapload more edible and/or medicinal herbs and other rugged low maintenance edible/useful plants over the past 10 years We set up these places with the grand plan of putting the food and medicinal species we are going to need close by to actually where the people are to create better local community/ecological resilience for the times which are coming where we are going to need that. And i totally agree with you on this point. When trying to do the work of feeding people and otherwise making the world better, it is far better to act and ask forgiveness than permission ;)
“You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.” Thomas Merton
I’ve been cultivating the spot behind my place in the back lane….it needs to be ‘clear’ of any permanent structures and no weeds so I put in beans & sunflowers.
+ wall hangings, outdoor shelves, and I even saw a lady on TH-cam with a circular pyramid shelf in her garden to use space Edit: Beware of leeching materials (containers and etc), accidentally boiling plants (some people use plastic bottles), root area and growth type (some roots may need enough soil layer to cover from sunlight if see-through container), and if anyone is using plastic bottles maybe swap them for new ones every 2 months, I'm just guessing (this bit) and not really sure because I Googled a bit whether plants could absorb plastic through their roots but it seemed ignorable (the amount), I still wouldn't risk it though tbh or put it in shade
Omgosh, the guerilla gardening sweet potatoes, lol! Love it!! But you've incriminated yourself on film! 😁 Jag background coming into play, haha. Well, we're at Riley so if times get really tough, I may be contacting you about Leavenworth hotspots!!🌱 How likely is it that rodents would eat the potatoes out there? Really awesome ideas and video! 👍 God bless y'all!
I live in the north (Indiana). For those of us with shorter growing season, my go to sweet potato is vardaman. It's pretty enough to be ornamental, has about a 90 day maturity, can be lightly harvested from the leaves...and more important for me it sets tubers right under the plant, making harvest quick and easy. And they taste great.
Regenerative ranching. Exactly! We just need to un fence the lands and make connected corridors. We can give ranchers a schedule, or calendar for lots or their path. They going broke for the feed cost and market fixes
Awesome idea! You've got me thinking as we have numerous areas really close to our home that would be suitable!! I love this idea as we don't have much gardening space, so have been using moveable planters as we rent this home.🥰 Blessings from South Australia💕🐨
I have sweet potato slips coming out of my ears this year! I wasn’t sure what to do with all of the ones left after I’ve maxed my typical garden space…but this is encouraging me to get them planted somewhere!
I died laughing when you were pointing spots to plant in. I told Patty, watch, he's planting there. This is pure inspiration for folks to follow suite. You are a rebel brother, keep at it.👍
Planting a few pretty little annuals along the front of the guerrilla spots would make it pretty as well. A lot of people would not recognize the sweet potato vines as a food crop with the flowers in position. I also think that some fruit trees... planted in the middle of a divided road or near a parking lot... with a little flower ring around it... would likely not be mowed down or destroyed and could provide food for a lot of people for many years to come.
Billy won't the maintenance crew that is supposed to look after these areas just keep mowing it down when they eventually come to chop & mow??. Over here in Australia they would. I wish we could plant beautiful vege & fruit trees for the homeless on our Footpaths. Cheers Denise- Australia
When we first bought our land we walked alongside the road and found tons of dewberries growing wild there. The county maintains our road and they came along and cut it all down. Dang! I was bummed. Next year when they pop up, I’m grabbing some of the plants to transplant or propagate elsewhere on my property! Those are mine! Lol. Seriously though this is awesome advice and I keep wondering how there could ever be an food shortage when we have such abundance and potential all around us, everywhere! 🥰I’ve also considered going around scattering cover crop seeds in bare areas I see. Just for fun.😉I mean why not spread abundance?
Love how your test gorilla garden gave you a bigger opportunity! My sister gorilla gardened a couple sunflower seeds into my yard one year. I had no idea where the sunflowers had came from. She said she and one of my sons friends had planted it there when my sons birthday party was happening. He was 4 at the time. 😆
My plan is to plant along a cemetery hedge row. I already harvested seeds from their yucca but they didn't grow... It was a couple years ago and I was kinda new to gardening... In winter and birds already had at them so... Need to try again... But the hedge route is grown up and they wouldn't notice. Still thinking about what I'll plant. I watch the channel... Crime pays but botney doesn't... He's a riot and very educational about all kinds of plants I never heard of. He's planted tons of trees and stuff gorilla style out west. Highly recommend his channel! Another idea is to carry a pocket of Bush beans in your pocket and when you see a good spot, just drop n step them into the ground. 🌱🌱🌱💯😏👍🌼🌻👌🌱
I seen people grafting fruiting varieties onto ornamental varieties. For example grafting a seckle pear onto a Branford pear. This was done on city trees next to the sidewalk.
My thoughts are my riverbank- overgrown no one messes w it even me. My elderly neighbor who has 125a partially wooded & has a riverbank as well w a steep hillside that runs about 500ft in length
Yeah, it makes it easier if it's near somewhere you're at all the time. I have a spot near my job in a commercial zone where it's easy to tend to afterhours or on weekends. It helps to plant things that arent high maintenance. But there are DIY 5-gallon bucket drip irrigation systems that can possibly set up if the space you find is hidden. They sell camo buckets or they can always be spray painted camo style. My one set of potatoes that I set up in 20-40 lbs rolled down bird seed bags bags are now set up with a AZ ice tea bottle drip system I came up with that's a hybrid of ideas I saw online. It holds 48 oz. of H20. Gatorade and Powerade bottles are good alternates.
@@-NorthernMan- I have a short video showing what the AZ tea set up looks like. Nothing instructional, but I do list the components. It's only 48 seconds. The 5-gallon bucket vids are easily found on YT. There is one where a guy has 3 buckets connected sitting up on a not too complicated wooden platform. He's being interviewed by a lady from a horticultural org.
Up in Stillwater, Oklahoma near the college they had a precarious water run off spot that was impossible to keep fully clean. They used goats instead of manpower or machinery.
Good luck getting this across. Alot of people around me don't even have a tomato plant in their yard. Just grass and weeds. Well see when there's no food.
I have an idea / plan to create a small, encouraging booklet for all the tenants in my apartment building on food growth, easy prepping, basic op sec, and a small prep item should anything ever look to be SERIOUSLY on the horizon. We all have balconies and are only stacked 3 high. Not a bad area. I grew up in the South Bronx so I know how to differentiate and pick the opposite. 😝 For me personally, I don't find that time to be now or super soon, but I do have a draft active. I mean, it's taken me since 2016 (lightly) and 2020 (heavily) to learn a # of things and I'm still gathering and testing stuff out and with. But I can only imagine the *oh-$hite* feeling one would feel when you realize you failed to plan BIG TIME. I would rather have the people immediately around me leaning in a more task oriented place of hope and doing vs. absolute desperation. It's all still primarily based and done to serve my own self-interests, but there is a community side benefit to a degree. My personal plan is to put one every door knob, including mine. The whole complex even, if I can swing it. One could conceivably drop or mail such a thing anonymously to everyone on your street, around and above you, or to your whole subdivision or whatever. To me, it's also got to be non-political and far from all the eye-rolling conspiracy theories & religious chapter & verse. Just Helpful Things / Facts. I think if you have the info laid out in a practical / worthy presentation it will more propel people to keep such a thing on hand and put it in a drawer. Versus the opposite effect of visceral disgust and immediately chucking the thing in the garbage. I know all the private homeowners directly on the lake in SFH & the condo complex right next door are naturally going to be Very Apprehensive, to say the least, of the lot of renters in their midst. I know I would be if I were in their shoes. But I will do my part and share my skills as much as I am able to mitigate fall out in the immediate sense and area all around.
I love this idea but I'm pretty sure on state property especially where the wildflowers are growing you're not allowed to touch ..I was thinking though..green cemeteries 😆
I live in an apartment complex with some weird angle unattended land bits here n there. It's hard to start at first coz it's under people's noses. But I started small. I pick up the garbage on the space, clean the weed, clear the drain. And people seem not to mind me. Just curiously watching. I plant some greens in pots first, next to side wide walks where there's lots of wild banana plants growing also, and next to my unit where I can watch them. Some of the neighbors plant casava, curry plants and other ornamentals next to their units. So I don't feel embarrassed too much. Now that people seems don't mind or wanna use the land, im venturing into more space. I got my seeds all started on my window sills and transplant them inground once they are bigger to handle the pest pressure. unattended lands always have high pest pressure. I'm planning to plant extra so I can offer to the wildlife and for the neighbors too. Hopefully I could find same minded neighbors and built a garden together.
Billy, I found your video on gorilla gardening. I was looking for it by title, but it was in the thumbnail photo of it. How fun. There are thousands on acres on grass that could be bailed or at least be made into silage and hauled off the same day it was cut. One problem I see with a public right-of-way is that it is so often spread with herbicides. Love how you did this video. You made it a lot of fun!😍
There is a freight train hopping hobo who's youtube channel I enjoy watching.. Shout out Hobo Shoestring. He has done this near rail yards where he frequently camps out waiting for a train to hop on. The whole thing kind of reminds me of the Johnny Appleseed story I remember hearing in my youth. If we all randomly planted edible stuff in the most random of places imagine the good it could do for all humankind. In the past I've ventured out into heavily wooded areas near me to collect just teaspoon sized samples of the soil there to add to my compost system. Just in case I might be missing any of the local microbes. It's amazing how even nature or probably the birds pooping out seeds does it's own gorilla gardening. I've found the random blueberry bush, or wild blackberries, or honeysuckle growing deep in the woods. I even know where there is a weeping willow tree near me. They're not indigenous to my area, but in an emergency situation the bark can be used like aspirin. If nothing else just getting out in the fresh air and exploring is good for you,. if you start making mental notes of the resources available in your area it could even save your life if the excrement really does hit the spiny thing in a major way. Heck I don't even use weed killer on my lawn because I consider most of the weeds that grow there to be a potential resource. Every part of a dandelion is edible or useful in some way, yellow wood sorrel makes a fine tea. White clover aside from being a nitrogen fixer is also edible or medicinal I believe. Plantain weed can be quickly chewed into a poultice and applied to a bee or other insect sting. Yup even the wild weeds can be our friends.
This is exactly how folks used to grow pot you plant it on someone else’s land and check on it occasionally until someone else finds it or it’s ready for harvest. I’ve seen guys make six figure profits annually and never be employed on a regular job…
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 I wasn’t implying that what you were doing was wrong and I apologize if you thought so but your video struck an old memory and I thought I would share it with you. I will remove the post but I wanted you to see this reply before I do. I enjoy your videos and you offer a lot of valuable information and I thank you for doing that. Thanks
Your last spot is what I've been intrigued by lately...planting in the forest. Have you done any of this in masse and had luck? I'm sure you are limited by what you can plant there. Cheers
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Partly paid my way through college guerrilla gardening/foraging!
I’d harvest blackberries, thimble berries, apples, huckleberries, wild garlic, and more from industrial areas and alongside the brushy areas along the interstate near my apartment in Portland.
With a little yeast, water, and sugar added to the fruit, I had a product that fetched a good cash price and paid a good chunk of my tuition.
Remember, government land is your land!
Thank you very much for pointing that out my friend!
Ha! That's great, I love it.
Be aware that along industrial areas the soil may be polluted with metals or whatever, so the fruit that grow there also could be contaminated. Good that it worked out for you though
BATF is looking for you even as we speak.
The church I go to has a lot of open area around it and I have been thinking about asking for space for fruit trees. After what you are showing, I think it is time for me to just jump in and ask. Thanks for the gentle push.
Go for it Nancy you won’t know unless you try 🤙🏻😃
I tried hitting up the pastor at the church I used to attend and he told me “I don’t see a food issue….“
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 Where has he been living????
Do it!! In fact, our church just started a community garden on our property. Bc we’re getting prepared to help people who didn’t prepare.
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 wow! Idk why I’m surprised though. I hung out with a few of my old college buddy his weekend and they hadn’t heard anything about a food shortage. And a few hadn’t heard much about inflation outside of gas being high. Seriously. And since I know they wouldn’t listen to me I didn’t say anything. But you’d think that by the time the mainstream media and the president have mentioned food shortages and increasing inflation, that everyone would have at least gotten the hint that there are hard times ahead. I understand “tuning it all out” but food shortages and inflation should qualify as REAL NEWS!! to everyone.
I think people are in denial. You’d think their intuition would guide them a little, but they’re officially zombies. Sometimes they make me question myself. Am I the one who’s crazy and brainwashed by prepping and gardening channels? I just can’t believe everyone doesn’t see and sense what’s coming.
Hoping you bring us back in Harvest season.
Thanks Billy.
I definitely will. I have other things to plant also.
I was thinking the same thing 🙂
I should change my name to Anna Robic, because my compost was white as snow in the middle and I had just flipped it 3 days ago. Pipe going back in. I must’ve overwatered it.
Forgot to tell you that when transplanting some seedlings in the food forest today, I noticed a dramatic improvement in the soil under the cardboard, compost, straw and wood chips that I put down months ago. I was pleasantly surprised at the friability, color and the number of worms encountered! This is fantastic because last year I couldn’t get a shovel through the clay. Huge Thanks to you!
I’m glad it’s working out Scott!
Rob Greenfield published a video with Ron Finley very recently on how Ron has made a project of “gangster gardening” in south central Los Angeles. Same ideas, different locations. I particularly like one of his sayings, “I’ll take a cup of opportunity over a boatload of hope.” In plain language, get out and DO something! You can be pitiful or you can be powerful; you cannot be both.
I am definitely a big fan of Ron family
Thanks Vicky. I just googed Rob and Ron, and an going to check out their work.
My sweet hubby gave 21 years of our life to service in the navy. We lived quit often in government. Housing. They do not allow you to till up the grass and plant a garden. They will ticket you. So I planted in the flower gardens close to the house. I interspersed tomatoes, cakes, spinach, onions, etc with my flowers.
I forgot about on post housing.
Quite anarchy is lovely. 💖💪
Dude! You're my hero! I've heard many people talk about doing this but you are the first I have seen to actually do it. Joel Salatin talked about in a book I read of his. Every time I drive down the parkway to work I think about all the things that could be grown there. If gas prices keep climbing, the state will be wanting animals to graze the sides of the roads just so they don't have to put fuel in tractors to mow them. We have built a new facility where I work and we have a huge pond that had to be installed behind us for water run off. I am deliberating on whether or not to go to our management with the idea of putting a food forest in around that pond for employees to have access to.
That sounds like a wonderful idea to meet my friend!
100% agree on thinking of those large lots of just grass could be some much more for growing food. So many churches could add fruit trees in their parking lot islands. Then berry bushes mixed in with their boxwood bushes. Building and ground committees need to get creative with their grounds.
Believe it or not, churches are rather reluctant to let you use the space.
Churches, schools and businesses by my house have huge monocultures of lawn. What a waste. Native plants for the ecosystem and fruit trees and bushes would be so much more beautiful and useful.
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 Wonder why. That could bring community together.
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 I know that’s a fact. Our building and grounds at our old church didn’t like any of my ideas. It’s sad, b/c what better way to spread the gospel than to come alongside the community and garden together. We are called to be His hands and feet, but many need to be smacked in the head with His word as a reminder.
@@peacefulcedarhomestead5242 AMEN!!!
I have been pondering things along this line for a while now, and am so glad God directed me to this video for my continuing education serving today! It really was a "matrix settling" kind of moment. A lot of pieces fell into place, and I am going to be planting tons of things all over Tucson, AZ! Greening up the Sonoran Desert!
Now that just made my day William
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I am glad to hear that! We have identified 7 target locations close to my home in Tucson, AZ to begin planting sweet potato slips (I have tons exploding in my front yard!), moringa trees, fruit trees, and ... well ... hmmm... perhaps some COMFREY!
We are looking forward to ordering some from you real soon, and will be propagating it all over! My plan is to identify, and establish perennial footholds, in 153 locations by the end of this calendar year.
I approach this having learned, and successfully run and built, businesses. So, getting a nice schedule of "rounds" will make tending all these gorilla food forests relatively easy.
You're a regular Johnny Appleseed! Love this idea!
Thank you so much my friend
THANK YOU FOR COMMON SENSE AND SURVIVAL.
Thank you for the vote of confidence my friend!
Brilliant! Also there are so many elderly that live in communities that would be grateful to have young families ask to plant in their spaces. They could eat fresh food daily from them until you make the big harvest. Another huge blessing to them would be the human interaction while you are on their property.
Thanks Billy for showing how simple it is. I live next to a lake next to corps of engineer land. I know how simple it is to make a stealth garden close to a fishing spot. Go fishing, throw fish waste on the garden, water plants with lake water. I tried this a few years ago and found out how simple it is. I've expanded to several gardens since. Remember, no uniformity, diversity, natural setting, remember what you planted and reap the benifits. The fish waste useally keeps most folks away because of the smell LOL
That’s what I’m talking about Dave
Sun chocks would work great for this also because of the flowers the produce. Food hidden in plan site.
That’s what I’m talking about Donald
Chayote. It's a vine but most people have no idea what it is. Even if they pick it, there's plenty for everyone.
Still very happy with my comfrey purchase. Got more than what I paid for and that stuff is awesome. It's multiplied and I gave some away.
Totally agree. I live in an apartment and I have been doing this. I suggest looking on Google Satellite maps to research spots near your home and work. My balcony is nowhere near enough space for me. ☺
I am sure you can TH-cam easily how to use it. ID spots online then explore foresty / green spaces in person. Or just walk roads you usually take in your car.
You will be surprised on what you see on foot or find on foot. My car way in for repair and I walked a torturous 12 mile roundtrip (6 each way) journey one day to and from work in April. I picked seeds, saw trees and plants up close to take photos of and ID later. I use Google Lens for this.
I also saw some wild daylilies starting, dug them up with a stick and transplanted them at my job. I read you can eat the bulbs, so why not.
Commercial areas or office parks where businesses shut down at a certain hour are really good (type of place where my job is at).
I planted potatoes in an unused bed on a far and ignored side of my work building. There's a dead space at the back if my work parking lot and a subdivision, a landlocked "no man's land", where I have been growing stuff for a year. I found a survey stake there so I am in a 4 points area no one is going to really claim or use anytime soon.
I have established asparagus plants that are 4 ft tall now, propagated strawberries from 2 small $3 pots, garlic chives+++ & a small compost pile there.
It can be done. I will be trying my hand at grafting fruit scions on public trees.
I have about 20 sweet potato slips going in water and dirt at the moment which will be my next planting project.
Nice video. It can be done. I agree, don't ask permission. If anything, act like you're cleaning up garbage or pulling invasives, are doing indie nature cleanup charity work if anyone asks or spots you and sends the cops. There are lawn guy channels out there who do cleanups like that.
Those are some great ideas
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 I also found that planting onions and garlic in the spots where things are growing get left alone. Even better when you grow them out in a pot with dirt for a little bit. It stinks the dirt up good.
There are 2 skunks, a Groundhog, and squirrels that live in the immediate area. I made sure to put the garlic and onion starts in both of my potato areas and near my propagated Chandler and Honeyoye (sp?) strawberries that I am letting fruit out for the 1st time this year.
Initially, I had some (curious?) digging, but nothing super destructive. If something was pulled out and still looked viable, I just shoved it back in the dirt. My potatoes haven't been touched like that in weeks now. I am presuming due to the established dirt stink.
Wish I could show you how tall some of the potato bag plants are. Those are sitting on the ground and a few of my plants are at hip level (am 5'2"). I have that bag grouping surrounded with a folded and clipped Harbor Freight tarp since some of the bags are kinda bright.
Some bad news: I do have a bug I still can't identify eating the potato leaves of my in ground plants at the front bed of my work building, so I gotta figure that out. It's not a potato beetle based on pictures. I got over 20 plants there. Some haven't been chomped on at all. So still observing to troubleshoot (outside of the hand smushing).
Anyway, I would suggest that the smaller onion sets or garlic cloves one wouldn't plant for real-zees be relegated or bought as in-ground pest repellents. I let them sprout roots in water 1st before putting them in soil. I'm the type that likes to see roots 1st.
I will be painting stunt rock strawberries this week as extra insurance against birds. Got some crafty blue jays around.
@@wmluna381 that is awesome
@@cathyrobi3891 Thank you, I'm trying ☺ I was SO excited that the asparagus came back this year. Well, 2 out of 6 or so. There was a notable larger one out if those which I can only imagine is the 4 ft. one. The other is like 2 ft. Going to make sure to get and save seeds from 'Gigantor' when the time comes.
You are an inspiration and so clever!
Billy- this is genius and darned easy to do. You aren’t hurting anything. Go for it!
Thank you so much Rebecca!
When I see those grassy hills I’ve always been tempted to toss a few Mellon seeds near the top to see what happens 🤣
You just read my mind
Great video Billy.I have gourds and berries all over the mountains of Arizona.Some that are wild and some that have been planted.👍🏼
I plan on putting in a few of those myself.
Nice going, Johnny!
Been planting pumkins all over morenci and clifton AZ
@@bobertcronos8433 Nice!
@@wmluna381 Thank you
I’m a new follower. Gotta say, I love your videos. I recently have taken over state property that has never been taken care of by the state. A major wall and highway and wall is a portion of my backyard. Invasive ivy has killed my oak trees so I removed 1500”” sq ft of ivy and I took down the state fence and turned it into my native woodland garden.
I'm growing in the woods at work. Prob not getting the best amount of sunlight but we will see.
I do this evey summer even in the summer heat here! Use those (not herbicde treated) grass clippings and make hot compost. Ammend my beds all summer with this BLACK GOLD, and am ready for fall planting! Hot composting is awesome stuff! Compost everything! And resources, yes the resources around you! Use them! 👍. Oh my I love it how you went and planted the potatoes! 👍 Great idea !
Thank you very much Florida girl!
Good night! I just love you! What a fantastic idea that I have never thought of.
I’m glad it helps Joan!
Thanks for sharing 🙏 😎 🏖 🏝
Thank you very much Nancy!
You're my hero. May God bless you, your family, your friends and every single thing you do.
Some really enlightening ideas.
Thank you very much Kurt
If you're nervous...have a (metal) clipboard, hard hat (perhaps), safety glasses, boots, and a non-high-vis vest with some pens in your pocket (or cargo pants) and people will think you're official.
A self-appointed landscape project manager or horticultural assessor...of sorts.
No that is a genius idea
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I’ve been following along and after taking my tarp off my pile a little mouse ran out as well🤣 y’all didn’t even flinch, luckily my cat wasn’t far behind me. 💪🏼
I need to borrow your cat
Wow I didn't know this was a thing or that it had a name. I was talking about planting food around in random spots in case I was ever on the move. Thanks for sharing 🌱
Go ahead and do it my friend!
I love this ! Live in the city but my heart is in Canton NC where I spent a month every summer during my childhood. My gramma taught me to harvest, can, ferment, and cook.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Thank you so much my friend
I really love this. I've been able to grow an amazing amount of food in borrowed space in other people's yards. Even non-gardeners like being able to look out their windows and see a beautiful lush garden space.
When I have the means to, I intend to do quite a bit of work with the department of unauthorized forestry. 🙂
If you're not quite so bold, it's easy to just go to your local tax assessor's website and find out who owns a particular piece of property so you can reach out and ask for permission to use a lot for a few months. Somebody's bound to say yes. You can offer the nextdoor neighbor $10 a month or something to use their hose for watering, or if you have a truck, you can put a barrel or tote in the back and bring your own water.
I'd be over the moon to see this type of thing take off everywhere. For years now I've been thinking about how much food could be grown and how many jobs could be created by turning those huge swaths of turf next to on-ramps and along highways into food forests. There's a little one here in Tulsa on the Tisdale highway, but it's a little sad and easy to miss. Hopefully somebody can pull it off somewhere that really packs a punch of wow-factor. Then it'd start to spread.
I like the way you roll Lisa!
I love the idea of planting sweet potato slips, since I have experienced how easy it is to propagate them! I rip them out without care, scrape the dirt from a place to plant them, lay them across that scraped area, and cover the roots with the dirt. Then, I cover that with woodchips, and do not even water them in. And, they grow! I see pure genius in your use of sweet potato slips!
Thank you my friend
I heard "Leavenworth VA in Kansas" and my ears perked up! from Kansas City and as you can tell im learning about doing similar things in the metro area.
Want space to garden watch Robbie and Gary gardening. Such good ideas!!
She's really great with her doable, low-cost techniques, isn't she. Very low on the gloom and doom aspects. I like that her techniques are very inclusive of seniors, people with disabilities, and the greenest of beginners.
ive been planting potatoes and squash on creek and pond edges, especially ones after a flood and the water receeds leaving bare nutrient rich soil.
That’s what I’m talking about
You are so cool..would love to be your neighbor next to your family…so inspiring
Great video and some neat ideas appears that 2nd spot has some wild raspberries growing also which gives you a chance to forage also.
That’s what I’m talking about William
PLEASE, PLEASE Do a follow up video on harvesting the sweet potatoes in the fall
I surely will my friend!
Love these idea's! You're right there's an abundance of unused open land out there. Happy gardening everyone!
Very cool , in past I’ve have got land to plant by just asking , most people where glad for someone farm it , I once used a church property for field peas and gave the church peas from it that year , but then new preacher comes , he didn’t like it , said church wasn’t benefiting from it , I was like what you mean , I gave half the peas to church members and saved them from having cut acre of grass behind the church , Great video
I ran into the same issue at the church I was attending. Pastor didn’t see the need for it.
Great going having the experience to the wind as well have a good one growmies 💯
There are areas around here that allow hay growing and baling next to the highway. the state doesn't have to mow it.
I just seems like common sense to me.
I am so glad to find other people who are publicly talking about this !
There is SO much underutilized land all over the place, where something edible could be grown
I am part of an organization that has been guerilla planting little micro food forests/permaculture installations in vacant lots, along bike trails,and in all sorts of other little neglected/ underutilized urban spaces.
Collectively we have planted thousands of fruit trees and a crapload more edible and/or medicinal herbs and other rugged low maintenance edible/useful plants over the past 10 years
We set up these places with the grand plan of putting the food and medicinal species we are going to need close by to actually where the people are to create better local community/ecological resilience for the times which are coming where we are going to need that.
And i totally agree with you on this point.
When trying to do the work of feeding people and otherwise making the world better, it is far better to act and ask forgiveness than permission ;)
That’s what I’m talking about Craig
“You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.”
Thomas Merton
Excellent quote Lance!
I’ve been cultivating the spot behind my place in the back lane….it needs to be ‘clear’ of any permanent structures and no weeds so I put in beans & sunflowers.
Guerrilla gardening 🤔 Love it!
Thank you so much my friend
Wonderful video Billy!
Thank you so much my friend!
I like how you think brother!!! Grow on , my man!!!
Thank you so much Jedi!
I like the way you think.
Thank you so much Cindy!
+ wall hangings, outdoor shelves, and I even saw a lady on TH-cam with a circular pyramid shelf in her garden to use space
Edit: Beware of leeching materials (containers and etc), accidentally boiling plants (some people use plastic bottles), root area and growth type (some roots may need enough soil layer to cover from sunlight if see-through container), and if anyone is using plastic bottles maybe swap them for new ones every 2 months, I'm just guessing (this bit) and not really sure because I Googled a bit whether plants could absorb plastic through their roots but it seemed ignorable (the amount), I still wouldn't risk it though tbh or put it in shade
Great points my friend
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Now this is sparking the minds to many!!! Thank You Sir. Keep following your passion
Thank you so much my friend! On another note, I see that I’ve been unsubscribe yet again…
Omgosh, the guerilla gardening sweet potatoes, lol! Love it!! But you've incriminated yourself on film! 😁 Jag background coming into play, haha. Well, we're at Riley so if times get really tough, I may be contacting you about Leavenworth hotspots!!🌱 How likely is it that rodents would eat the potatoes out there? Really awesome ideas and video! 👍 God bless y'all!
Rodents can be a problem but we will have to wait and see.
I live in the north (Indiana). For those of us with shorter growing season, my go to sweet potato is vardaman. It's pretty enough to be ornamental, has about a 90 day maturity, can be lightly harvested from the leaves...and more important for me it sets tubers right under the plant, making harvest quick and easy. And they taste great.
The possibilities are endless!!
I just turned my compost pile it was warm and not hot going to turn it again next week.
You might need some nitrogen my friend
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 thank you I’m adding some chicken manure tomorrow
I love this concept!! Great video. Thanks
Thank you so much my friend!
Regenerative ranching. Exactly! We just need to un fence the lands and make connected corridors. We can give ranchers a schedule, or calendar for lots or their path.
They going broke for the feed cost and market fixes
That makes entirely too much sense
Wow! I did exactly this last week on some land. I planted potatoes and sweet potatoes.
That’s what I’m talking about
Awesome idea! You've got me thinking as we have numerous areas really close to our home that would be suitable!! I love this idea as we don't have much gardening space, so have been using moveable planters as we rent this home.🥰 Blessings from South Australia💕🐨
I was just yesterday talking to someone about guerilla planting. Important topic bro. Great.
Give it a shot my friend
I have sweet potato slips coming out of my ears this year! I wasn’t sure what to do with all of the ones left after I’ve maxed my typical garden space…but this is encouraging me to get them planted somewhere!
Billy, we're so close to Leavenworth. I would love to drive around on post or off and see if your gardens are still there!
great video OUT OF THE BOX
Thank you very much Arden
Love this. Everywhere I see weeds growing and a stream, lake, river, etc. I see food... Grapes/elderberries
Dang dude! I love it ❤️
Thank you my friend
Thank-you for turning me on to the self reliance festival. I’ll spread the word!
I died laughing when you were pointing spots to plant in. I told Patty, watch, he's planting there. This is pure inspiration for folks to follow suite. You are a rebel brother, keep at it.👍
It takes one to no one brother!
Bucket list permission
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Kool channel ✌️
Thank you very much my friend!
Planting a few pretty little annuals along the front of the guerrilla spots would make it pretty as well. A lot of people would not recognize the sweet potato vines as a food crop with the flowers in position. I also think that some fruit trees... planted in the middle of a divided road or near a parking lot... with a little flower ring around it... would likely not be mowed down or destroyed and could provide food for a lot of people for many years to come.
Great ideas there my friend!
Great video and tips! As always thanks for sharing your knowledge with all of us.
Thanks for taking time out of your day to watch and respond my friend!
Excellent info!!! Thanks again!
Thank you so much my friend
Awesome idea
Thank you very much Marcy
Loved this video! Great idea
Thank you very much Cindy!
Props to you g
Thank you so much my friend
This is an awesome idea! Love it so much!!!
thank you as always
Billy won't the maintenance crew that is supposed to look after these areas just keep mowing it down when they eventually come to chop & mow??. Over here in Australia they would. I wish we could plant beautiful vege & fruit trees for the homeless on our Footpaths. Cheers Denise- Australia
What a cool video this is. Learnt a lot.
My husband who was SF says to plant out in the woods all the time.
When we first bought our land we walked alongside the road and found tons of dewberries growing wild there. The county maintains our road and they came along and cut it all down. Dang! I was bummed. Next year when they pop up, I’m grabbing some of the plants to transplant or propagate elsewhere on my property! Those are mine! Lol. Seriously though this is awesome advice and I keep wondering how there could ever be an food shortage when we have such abundance and potential all around us, everywhere! 🥰I’ve also considered going around scattering cover crop seeds in bare areas I see. Just for fun.😉I mean why not spread abundance?
Love how your test gorilla garden gave you a bigger opportunity! My sister gorilla gardened a couple sunflower seeds into my yard one year. I had no idea where the sunflowers had came from. She said she and one of my sons friends had planted it there when my sons birthday party was happening. He was 4 at the time. 😆
This is GOLD💚🌾💛🌱
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Thank you very much Jessica
My plan is to plant along a cemetery hedge row. I already harvested seeds from their yucca but they didn't grow... It was a couple years ago and I was kinda new to gardening... In winter and birds already had at them so... Need to try again... But the hedge route is grown up and they wouldn't notice. Still thinking about what I'll plant. I watch the channel... Crime pays but botney doesn't... He's a riot and very educational about all kinds of plants I never heard of. He's planted tons of trees and stuff gorilla style out west. Highly recommend his channel!
Another idea is to carry a pocket of Bush beans in your pocket and when you see a good spot, just drop n step them into the ground. 🌱🌱🌱💯😏👍🌼🌻👌🌱
I'm doing that here in South Florida in the canals
I seen people grafting fruiting varieties onto ornamental varieties. For example grafting a seckle pear onto a Branford pear. This was done on city trees next to the sidewalk.
My thoughts are my riverbank- overgrown no one messes w it even me. My elderly neighbor who has 125a partially wooded & has a riverbank as well w a steep hillside that runs about 500ft in length
Nice Technique I love it!!! Depending on rainfall I guess you would have to come and go couples times a week to water the plants?
Yeah, it makes it easier if it's near somewhere you're at all the time. I have a spot near my job in a commercial zone where it's easy to tend to afterhours or on weekends.
It helps to plant things that arent high maintenance. But there are DIY 5-gallon bucket drip irrigation systems that can possibly set up if the space you find is hidden.
They sell camo buckets or they can always be spray painted camo style.
My one set of potatoes that I set up in 20-40 lbs rolled down bird seed bags bags are now set up with a AZ ice tea bottle drip system I came up with that's a hybrid of ideas I saw online. It holds 48 oz. of H20. Gatorade and Powerade bottles are good alternates.
Great point! I pass by there a couple times a week, but then again, I live in a temperate rainforest also.
@@wmluna381 Good idea with the slow drip system. I will look into that. Thanks !
@@-NorthernMan- I have a short video showing what the AZ tea set up looks like. Nothing instructional, but I do list the components. It's only 48 seconds. The 5-gallon bucket vids are easily found on YT. There is one where a guy has 3 buckets connected sitting up on a not too complicated wooden platform. He's being interviewed by a lady from a horticultural org.
We put cattle on the sides of highways in Australia it makes a mess when road train hit them you should check them out there 52 meters long.
Up in Stillwater, Oklahoma near the college they had a precarious water run off spot that was impossible to keep fully clean. They used goats instead of manpower or machinery.
Good luck getting this across. Alot of people around me don't even have a tomato plant in their yard. Just grass and weeds. Well see when there's no food.
I totally see where you’re coming from Kenny.
I have an idea / plan to create a small, encouraging booklet for all the tenants in my apartment building on food growth, easy prepping, basic op sec, and a small prep item should anything ever look to be SERIOUSLY on the horizon. We all have balconies and are only stacked 3 high. Not a bad area. I grew up in the South Bronx so I know how to differentiate and pick the opposite. 😝
For me personally, I don't find that time to be now or super soon, but I do have a draft active. I mean, it's taken me since 2016 (lightly) and 2020 (heavily) to learn a # of things and I'm still gathering and testing stuff out and with.
But I can only imagine the *oh-$hite* feeling one would feel when you realize you failed to plan BIG TIME. I would rather have the people immediately around me leaning in a more task oriented place of hope and doing vs. absolute desperation. It's all still primarily based and done to serve my own self-interests, but there is a community side benefit to a degree.
My personal plan is to put one every door knob, including mine. The whole complex even, if I can swing it. One could conceivably drop or mail such a thing anonymously to everyone on your street, around and above you, or to your whole subdivision or whatever.
To me, it's also got to be non-political and far from all the eye-rolling conspiracy theories & religious chapter & verse. Just Helpful Things / Facts.
I think if you have the info laid out in a practical / worthy presentation it will more propel people to keep such a thing on hand and put it in a drawer. Versus the opposite effect of visceral disgust and immediately chucking the thing in the garbage.
I know all the private homeowners directly on the lake in SFH & the condo complex right next door are naturally going to be Very Apprehensive, to say the least, of the lot of renters in their midst. I know I would be if I were in their shoes. But I will do my part and share my skills as much as I am able to mitigate fall out in the immediate sense and area all around.
I call it. Covert crops lol. I thought bone sauce was something you throw down on your steak. Danny says it's deer repellent lol
Ha ha! You definitely don’t want to eat it!
I dig!!!
Thank you so much my friend!
I love this idea but I'm pretty sure on state property especially where the wildflowers are growing you're not allowed to touch ..I was thinking though..green cemeteries 😆
There’s an idea…
I live in an apartment complex with some weird angle unattended land bits here n there. It's hard to start at first coz it's under people's noses. But I started small. I pick up the garbage on the space, clean the weed, clear the drain. And people seem not to mind me. Just curiously watching. I plant some greens in pots first, next to side wide walks where there's lots of wild banana plants growing also, and next to my unit where I can watch them. Some of the neighbors plant casava, curry plants and other ornamentals next to their units. So I don't feel embarrassed too much. Now that people seems don't mind or wanna use the land, im venturing into more space. I got my seeds all started on my window sills and transplant them inground once they are bigger to handle the pest pressure. unattended lands always have high pest pressure. I'm planning to plant extra so I can offer to the wildlife and for the neighbors too. Hopefully I could find same minded neighbors and built a garden together.
It definitely sounds like a great start my friend!
This is really cool I have a garden but many don’t I hope this reaches a few people and it takes off
Kinda wanna do this with all the leftover plants I have
I truly hope so Tim
Billy, I found your video on gorilla gardening. I was looking for it by title, but it was in the thumbnail photo of it. How fun. There are thousands on acres on grass that could be bailed or at least be made into silage and hauled off the same day it was cut.
One problem I see with a public right-of-way is that it is so often spread with herbicides. Love how you did this video. You made it a lot of fun!😍
Wow, you are up to 278 comments on this one already. What a popular idea you have in this one. Way to go Billy. 👌
There is a freight train hopping hobo who's youtube channel I enjoy watching.. Shout out Hobo Shoestring. He has done this near rail yards where he frequently camps out waiting for a train to hop on. The whole thing kind of reminds me of the Johnny Appleseed story I remember hearing in my youth. If we all randomly planted edible stuff in the most random of places imagine the good it could do for all humankind.
In the past I've ventured out into heavily wooded areas near me to collect just teaspoon sized samples of the soil there to add to my compost system. Just in case I might be missing any of the local microbes. It's amazing how even nature or probably the birds pooping out seeds does it's own gorilla gardening. I've found the random blueberry bush, or wild blackberries, or honeysuckle growing deep in the woods. I even know where there is a weeping willow tree near me. They're not indigenous to my area, but in an emergency situation the bark can be used like aspirin.
If nothing else just getting out in the fresh air and exploring is good for you,. if you start making mental notes of the resources available in your area it could even save your life if the excrement really does hit the spiny thing in a major way.
Heck I don't even use weed killer on my lawn because I consider most of the weeds that grow there to be a potential resource. Every part of a dandelion is edible or useful in some way, yellow wood sorrel makes a fine tea. White clover aside from being a nitrogen fixer is also edible or medicinal I believe. Plantain weed can be quickly chewed into a poultice and applied to a bee or other insect sting. Yup even the wild weeds can be our friends.
This is exactly how folks used to grow pot you plant it on someone else’s land and check on it occasionally until someone else finds it or it’s ready for harvest. I’ve seen guys make six figure profits annually and never be employed on a regular job…
This is definitely not a bad gig.
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 I wasn’t implying that what you were doing was wrong and I apologize if you thought so but your video struck an old memory and I thought I would share it with you. I will remove the post but I wanted you to see this reply before I do. I enjoy your videos and you offer a lot of valuable information and I thank you for doing that. Thanks
thanks
Your last spot is what I've been intrigued by lately...planting in the forest. Have you done any of this in masse and had luck? I'm sure you are limited by what you can plant there. Cheers
I’ve been doing it for years my friend! Great success