I actually live in Tempe, and my husband and I have been talking about turning our front lawn into desert landscaping. You’ve inspired me to just plant a bunch of native edible trees, bushes, and cacti 👍🏻
Tendré que investigar acerca del cactus de Perú, no he sabido de él. Hay una especie similar por las calles de Lima pero no ha de ser la misma. Al menos nunca he visto que de frutos. En el Cerrado (semiárido) del Brasil tienen una especie similar, con frutos comestibles , conocida como Mandacarú. Allá tienen una variedad de frutas y nueces nativas de los dos semiáridos, Cerrado y Caatinga, incluidas palmeras. Esta el Jujube, la Moringa. Y Vitis arizónica, su especie de viña propia. Se me olvidaba, en Perú tenemos una especie de Papaya del desierto, muy rústica, conocida como "Mito", su nombre científico es Vasconcellea sp. Tal vez los del vivero la puedan conseguir.😢
Great video. Love the way you showed native edible plants that don't take a lot of water in the desert! One suggestion: The best bet for mesquites is our native velvet mesquite - not to be confused with non-native Chilean mesquite trees that grow too quickly and have been known to fall over during a storm.
Awesome video I live in Phoenix Arizona and hung out at Tempe nightclubs for 2 years I'm originally from Florida I'm currently in Missouri but I liked your video good video! I am in to herbs and survival food kind of thing so thank you for your video!
Great video! I live in South Texas which is similar to your area. Some native plants that would thrive in Arizona and give some excellent fruit are: La Coma Tree (saffron plum) , Texas persimmon, Brasil tree (bluewood), ebano tree (ebenopsis). Maybe you already have some of these. Highly recommend!
I can confirm the power of aloe Vera as a burn treatment. I am a burn survivor, I was severely burned when I was young, and one of the things my parents used to treat my wounds was aloe. My wounds were dressed every 30 minutes. I was burned over most of my face and arms. But, I healed and survived when the doctors had sent me home to die.
Great video! Lots of inspiration for me. One thing to note, I believe that you should collect the mesquite pods off the tree (or have something to capture them as they fall). They can carry disease once they are on the ground
I'm moving to Arizona this month and this is totally inspiring! I love that those trees grow SO fast! I can be creating shade within a year at my new place. Exciting. :)
Many types of Wolfberry in the Sonoran Desert and thruout the west in the hottest poorest soils. Seen 6 varieties around Tucson with most producing fruit at different times from early spring to late autumn, best producers are in spring. Hackberries are delicious, watermelon taste, but contain a tannin that is hard on the stomach, only eat a few at a time. Interesting tip about Ironwood!
Hi Jake! Greetings from Avondale, AZ...Very inspirational!!!!! Just a note on the Aloe Vera also known as " Sávila", never eat or use the yellow part of the Aloe Vera because that part is poisonous. Regarding the Indian Fig Nopal, you can also make salads with it...cut a raw chunk of it and add it to your orange or grapefruit natural juice with a bit of honey, blend them all together and enjoy, great to control weight and prevent diabetes and several kinds of cancer.... regarding the Mesquite pods, boil them with a plenty of water like when you boil Hibiscus flowers aka "Flores de Jamaica" or the Tamarind pods to make iced sweet infusions just add your fav sweetener and a few drops of lemon or lime to any drink or infusion after boiling them, deshelling and deseeding them, blend all with Ice add your fav sweetener and voilà! you have a very delicious (Agua fresca de Mesquite) or Mesquite drink. There are a lot of recipes for cactus leaves and its fruit known as "tunas" ( pronounced: too-nah in singular or Too-nahs pl) ) that is prickly pears, like salsas with chiltepin peppers (also native ( very expensive if your buy them in the store) and hot small peppers, cilantro, tomatillos milperos also native those are small green/yellowish tomatoes, normally grown wild near the corn crops, sea salt, garlic, onion... except for the tuna, roast everything and then use your mortar set ( molcajete and mano) or use your food processor or blender a few drops of green lime or lemon and enjoy with your fav meal, also "Pitahayas" that is Dragon fruit... and many more for all your edible delicious garden plants and fruits. You will find tons in Spanish recipes for all this edible plants you have in your lovely garden, not that many in English unfortunately here in youtube. I also suggest add to your lovely healthy and delicious garden plants that normally people throw away as an unwanted weeds and they are very healthy and medicinal and use them as normal food, cook with them or use them raw in salads or juices those are: Purslane in Spanish: "verdolagas" and "malva" or the infamous Marshmallow weed that grow everywhere, especially during spring, they are amazing edible plants; the later one even the flowers and the fruits that look like small divided cheeses when tender before they turn hard and become seeds are edible and great for your health, controls blood pressure and keeps the body in shape amongst others like Dandelion "Diente de León" and much more... Great garden loved your video. Blessings!🥰🙏🙏🙏
you did a fantastic job on putting your trees and bushes in ..I live in Arizona and doing our back yard ..you yards are just amazing thank you for posting this
Hey dude, I am not a vegan but your videos are awesome! I am moving to Arizona in a few months and I love watching your videos. Thank you for being so informative and easy to listen to. Have a good day brotha!
Super useful. I live in the Mohave Desert region of AZ at 3,500' elevation in Zone 8B for plantings. On a quarter acre but a lot of that is septic field. I have been here 1-1/2 years and have some veggies in large containers in part of the yard. Will be doing some renovations on the yard so your tips are helpful. Thanks. Congratulations on your new Fatherhood! Will you be growing Moringa at your tropical homestead property with Nicolle? I am thinking of it myself.
your so right about our landscape in Tucson, if I wanted a little snack bam there it is. the Flowers and mesquite trees are my fav! have to try the other plants.
Thank you for "teaching" us how to grow, find and live off the land with these amazing plants. We will be heading that way to live off the grid and needed to know more about what and how to grow a garden in AZ. We look forward to watching more of your channel!
In Tucson go to the Tohono Chul Gardens you can check them out it's Northwest Tucson and they will tell you when they have the sales all rare specimens
Oh and I'll recommend your channel to my homeschool moms, would be most interesting topic for the kids. Also your garden site. I wish you a successful journey.
Ironwood trees keep ground temperatures, on average, 15 F cooler than sun-exposed soil temperatures which can reach 148F+ here in the Sonoran desert. Like mesquites, ironwoods, members of the legume family (peas et al.), also fix nitrogen in the soil. Additionally, because of their density and (unlike yours, so far) slow growth, the heartwood of an ironwood is actually toxic to termites leaving healthy ironwoods relatively unaffected by such pests, the wood from a desert ironwood weighs in at a whopping 66-75 lbs per cubic foot. Lastly, it is thought they can live up to 800 years, however because of their density, ring-count dating is difficult. So, trim that bad-boy back and give yourself some shade on a hot summer day.
I didn't know the Peruvian Apple Cactus flowers were edible!!!! I have so much in my back yard! The arm do fall over tho.... Otherwise it's super pretty! Thanks so much! All those plants you mentioned I have in my yard... So I'm super excited to know you eat them all! 👍
The Saguaro is also a psychoactive. Microdosing with it is being looked at as a possible treatment for depression, ptsd, etc. Exciting new possibilities for those who are suffering. It's very cool that you have defied your regional climate and successfully created your own food forest.
excellent..iam trying very hard to add more edible and native plants to my small yard..as a tucson resident i found this to be exactly what i was looking for. a huge thank you !
Your soil has been well amended Jake hence the fast growth on those new plants. Its makes all the difference. So that's the thing about being lost in the desert. You'll die of thirst long before you die of hunger. Great video. Thanks.
Oh thank you!!! I needed this information. I’m back to the desert after living in western Washington for a long time. I’m missing my gardening I did up there. This helps.
This is so awesome!!! I just moved to Arizona from Washington a few months ago and have been looking for this knowledge base! Keep posting these videos and I'll watch them all :) thanks for the knowledge brother. Cheers!
I just subscribed. I was looking around for people who gardened in phoenix. You're the best I've seen. I live in north phoenix in the sunburst farms district. I'm fortunate to have well irrigation in Phoenix, and with the wood chips and compost, I don't use city water at all even in July. I think you're a genius, and I can't wait to watch more videos.
I do live on Desert Ca. I am going to try your ideas on my SAND grow . Mix stuff with sand. Lets see if works. I know this is an old video but Thank you for these ideas. I also Know you are on a better location with your beautiful family.
Hey! i am a student at ASU: Lake Havasu City and i have been doing a ton of research on the subject of permuculture and Food Forests. I am absolutely obsessed with the ability to grow such productive gardens by using the benefits of multiple plants together. I have been working on a project to design a Food Forest to build up here on an empty lot on the campus and was thinking of using a fish pond as an additional water storage and nutrient source for the plants. Right at the end of the video i noticed you have one in your lot and it looks very similar to what i have in my mind's eye. Just wondering if you have any tips or advice for that between the construction and utilization of the pond if you have done so or thought about it. Leme know any and all advice is gold!
awesome video I have been looking for edible plants of the desert for a while. I am originally from Europe where there is an abundance of wild edibles and I am familiar with. This is quite the change, new territory. Thank you so much.
Dam I am learning so much. I live in Tucson and just found a 5gal Peruvian Apple Cactus for about $40. I'm picking it up tomorrow. Thanks bud for increasing my plant vocabulary.
Great video I sure wish that I would've known about some of those plants when I lived in East Phoenix just off of 48th street and Thomas I would've planted a few in my back yard, again really great video Take Care and Best Wishes
May I have an arm? Please? We just moved to Arizona from Chicago, not to far from Tempe. To be honest, for us it was like moving to Mars. Everything is so incredibly different from where we grew up, but I can't imagine ever leaving. We absolutely love it here.
I'm vacationing in CA and found a honey meskeet in front of a brewery. I grabbed some pods on our way out, thanks for the info Jake. Cant wait to try growing them!
I have recently tried Net Leaf Hackberry because of your video. Found a bush while hiking. Had to watch the video for the second time before eating, to make sure I am not going to get poisoned by accident. The first time I watched this video was a year ago.
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Trip! I was thinking of the hackberry I learned about in boy scouts at age 13. Tastes like sweet tea. The one we tasted from growing wild in the desert near Mescal, AZ, and was a tree, not a shrub. This was over 50 years ago.
Excellent video Jake. I believe there are edible parts of the Cholla cactus too. I know your title is "top 10" but I just thought I should mention that since it grows so abundantly out there.
Jake, I know you've moved on from Arizona, so I don't know if you're still looking back on these older videos and responding to them. Have you ever heard of any communities challenging their Community Associations in order to break free from the requirement of having decomposed granite or similar materials in front yard spaces or xeriscapes in accordance with community guidelines? Did you encounter any initial limitations with your community in establishing your "food forest" landscaping? Thank you if you ever have a chance to respond to this question! Take care on your new venture!
Beautiful desert garden......outstanding! I live in the Pacific Northwest rainforest of Oregon and believe it or not we have two desert cactii species that grow very well here; The CHOLLA and the OPUNTIA (beaver tail). Just give them a little gravel and/or pumice for some drainage and they grow very fast.
Thanks Jake I'm definitely going to at least get one of these plants the Apple cactus sounds soon good, keep on making videos your very informative I really enjoyed this video.
awesome, thank you very much. just moved to sedona and I am going to start doing some edible landscaping in my yard. super excited about your channel :)
The other thing that is good about the Mesquite, is that it is a good source for firewood, if you were ever in a position to need firewood often.... they regrow rapidly
Hey Jake. Did you amend your soil before you planted your cactus? I want to start an edible desert plant garden on the south/west side of my house. Nothing grows there. I'm thinking maybe I should amend the ground before I put anything in there.
you left out one of the best cactus fruits in the state... strawberry pincushion oh so tasty! nice videos Jake very inspirational keep them coming and oh yeah take some cutting of that moringa tree and Ill buy them
Fantastic video, Jake. Just a point: for those who follows you but are not native english speakers (as me), sometimes is difficult to understand the names of the plants or the ingredients of your garden or recipes. If you could write it in the screen or the description below, will be a great help for us, in order to google it later. Thanks again
I actually live in Tempe, and my husband and I have been talking about turning our front lawn into desert landscaping. You’ve inspired me to just plant a bunch of native edible trees, bushes, and cacti 👍🏻
Thanks for this video!! Saguaro cactus, Netleaf Hackberry, Ironwood tree, Wolfberry, Chupa Rosa, Prickly Pear (Indian Fig variety), Aloe Vera, Florida Blue Palo Verde, Peruvian Apple Cactus, Mesquite tree.
Thank you for the names
Tendré que investigar acerca del cactus de Perú, no he sabido de él. Hay una especie similar por las calles de Lima pero no ha de ser la misma. Al menos nunca he visto que de frutos.
En el Cerrado (semiárido) del Brasil tienen una especie similar, con frutos comestibles , conocida como Mandacarú.
Allá tienen una variedad de frutas y nueces nativas de los dos semiáridos, Cerrado y Caatinga, incluidas palmeras.
Esta el Jujube, la Moringa. Y Vitis arizónica, su especie de viña propia.
Se me olvidaba, en Perú tenemos una especie de Papaya del desierto, muy rústica, conocida como "Mito", su nombre científico es Vasconcellea sp. Tal vez los del vivero la puedan conseguir.😢
it's clear to see you're a proud plant dad who connects with the plants, thanks for the tour!!
Your front yard is like an oasis in the desert!
Great video. Love the way you showed native edible plants that don't take a lot of water in the desert! One suggestion: The best bet for mesquites is our native velvet mesquite - not to be confused with non-native Chilean mesquite trees that grow too quickly and have been known to fall over during a storm.
Awesome video I live in Phoenix Arizona and hung out at Tempe nightclubs for 2 years I'm originally from Florida I'm currently in Missouri but I liked your video good video! I am in to herbs and survival food kind of thing so thank you for your video!
Great video! I live in South Texas which is similar to your area. Some native plants that would thrive in Arizona and give some excellent fruit are: La Coma Tree (saffron plum) , Texas persimmon, Brasil tree (bluewood), ebano tree (ebenopsis). Maybe you already have some of these. Highly recommend!
i love you how you outlined the negatives of the rocks ... I live in southern California desert and people are going rock left and right
Same going on in Idaho. People don't know about plants that can handle the heat.
I can confirm the power of aloe Vera as a burn treatment. I am a burn survivor, I was severely burned when I was young, and one of the things my parents used to treat my wounds was aloe. My wounds were dressed every 30 minutes. I was burned over most of my face and arms. But, I healed and survived when the doctors had sent me home to die.
Great video! Lots of inspiration for me.
One thing to note, I believe that you should collect the mesquite pods off the tree (or have something to capture them as they fall). They can carry disease once they are on the ground
I'm moving to Arizona this month and this is totally inspiring! I love that those trees grow SO fast! I can be creating shade within a year at my new place. Exciting. :)
Really, I'm moving in a week. Maybe you'll share your shade until I can get my own established
What did you end up planting?
Many types of Wolfberry in the Sonoran Desert and thruout the west in the hottest poorest soils. Seen 6 varieties around Tucson with most producing fruit at different times from early spring to late autumn, best producers are in spring. Hackberries are delicious, watermelon taste, but contain a tannin that is hard on the stomach, only eat a few at a time. Interesting tip about Ironwood!
Thanks! Agreed!
Hey man, really great video. Vegan Sonoran desert botanist here.
Hi Jake! Greetings from Avondale, AZ...Very inspirational!!!!! Just a note on the Aloe Vera also known as " Sávila", never eat or use the yellow part of the Aloe Vera because that part is poisonous. Regarding the Indian Fig Nopal, you can also make salads with it...cut a raw chunk of it and add it to your orange or grapefruit natural juice with a bit of honey, blend them all together and enjoy, great to control weight and prevent diabetes and several kinds of cancer.... regarding the Mesquite pods, boil them with a plenty of water like when you boil Hibiscus flowers aka "Flores de Jamaica" or the Tamarind pods to make iced sweet infusions just add your fav sweetener and a few drops of lemon or lime to any drink or infusion after boiling them, deshelling and deseeding them, blend all with Ice add your fav sweetener and voilà! you have a very delicious (Agua fresca de Mesquite) or Mesquite drink. There are a lot of recipes for cactus leaves and its fruit known as "tunas" ( pronounced: too-nah in singular or Too-nahs pl) ) that is prickly pears, like salsas with chiltepin peppers (also native ( very expensive if your buy them in the store) and hot small peppers, cilantro, tomatillos milperos also native those are small green/yellowish tomatoes, normally grown wild near the corn crops, sea salt, garlic, onion... except for the tuna, roast everything and then use your mortar set ( molcajete and mano) or use your food processor or blender a few drops of green lime or lemon and enjoy with your fav meal, also "Pitahayas" that is Dragon fruit... and many more for all your edible delicious garden plants and fruits. You will find tons in Spanish recipes for all this edible plants you have in your lovely garden, not that many in English unfortunately here in youtube. I also suggest add to your lovely healthy and delicious garden plants that normally people throw away as an unwanted weeds and they are very healthy and medicinal and use them as normal food, cook with them or use them raw in salads or juices those are: Purslane in Spanish: "verdolagas" and "malva" or the infamous Marshmallow weed that grow everywhere, especially during spring, they are amazing edible plants; the later one even the flowers and the fruits that look like small divided cheeses when tender before they turn hard and become seeds are edible and great for your health, controls blood pressure and keeps the body in shape amongst others like Dandelion "Diente de León" and much more... Great garden loved your video. Blessings!🥰🙏🙏🙏
Thanks 🙏
you did a fantastic job on putting your trees and bushes in ..I live in Arizona and doing our back yard ..you yards are just amazing thank you for posting this
Hey dude, I am not a vegan but your videos are awesome! I am moving to Arizona in a few months and I love watching your videos. Thank you for being so informative and easy to listen to.
Have a good day brotha!
Que bonito se le escucha decir nopales, nopalitos. Me encantan los nopales. Viva México 🇲🇽 Hermooooso jardín. Bendiciones 🕊
Super useful. I live in the Mohave Desert region of AZ at 3,500' elevation in Zone 8B for plantings. On a quarter acre but a lot of that is septic field. I have been here 1-1/2 years and have some veggies in large containers in part of the yard. Will be doing some renovations on the yard so your tips are helpful. Thanks. Congratulations on your new Fatherhood! Will you be growing Moringa at your tropical homestead property with Nicolle? I am thinking of it myself.
your so right about our landscape in Tucson, if I wanted a little snack bam there it is. the Flowers and mesquite trees are my fav! have to try the other plants.
Just found you and so happy I did.
I moved from Virginia Beach to Tucson September, 2019 and in the process of doing away with the horrible gravel..
Thank you so much for sharing these awesome edible desert plant garden tips !
Thank you for "teaching" us how to grow, find and live off the land with these amazing plants. We will be heading that way to live off the grid and needed to know more about what and how to grow a garden in AZ. We look forward to watching more of your channel!
Hi there ..can you write name ofv10 trees please
Wow! I live in black canyon city AZ.... all those plants, cactus and trees are all around me....
Thanks for the info ✨
God Bless You Bro....
That Peruvian apple cactus is Amazing!
I am clearing my property in Tempe. Going to be mapping out the yard to take advantage of the native plants.
This was the most helpful and inspiring video I've ever seen on native plants. Thank you so much.
Great video Jake. I love how you lead into each plant and its uses. Thanks you for sharing your knowledge and planting new ideas's (Peruvian Apple).
In Tucson go to the Tohono Chul Gardens you can check them out it's Northwest Tucson and they will tell you when they have the sales all rare specimens
Oh and I'll recommend your channel to my homeschool moms, would be most interesting topic for the kids. Also your garden site. I wish you a successful journey.
The edible cactus is actually very good and it has a very unique texture!
Dude you are awesome! Thank you so much for all of the information! I’m so glad to find someone who is passionate about native plants like I am!🙏🏻
Ironwood trees keep ground temperatures, on average, 15 F cooler than sun-exposed soil temperatures which can reach 148F+ here in the Sonoran desert. Like mesquites, ironwoods, members of the legume family (peas et al.), also fix nitrogen in the soil. Additionally, because of their density and (unlike yours, so far) slow growth, the heartwood of an ironwood is actually toxic to termites leaving healthy ironwoods relatively unaffected by such pests, the wood from a desert ironwood weighs in at a whopping 66-75 lbs per cubic foot. Lastly, it is thought they can live up to 800 years, however because of their density, ring-count dating is difficult. So, trim that bad-boy back and give yourself some shade on a hot summer day.
I didn't know the Peruvian Apple Cactus flowers were edible!!!! I have so much in my back yard! The arm do fall over tho.... Otherwise it's super pretty! Thanks so much! All those plants you mentioned I have in my yard... So I'm super excited to know you eat them all! 👍
The Saguaro is also a psychoactive. Microdosing with it is being looked at as a possible treatment for depression, ptsd, etc. Exciting new possibilities for those who are suffering.
It's very cool that you have defied your regional climate and successfully created your own food forest.
Thanks for sharing this video. I would love to plant all of the top 10 native plants in my yard in the high desert of California.
Chupa Rosa in Spanish is “Hummingbird “
excellent..iam trying very hard to add more edible and native plants to my small yard..as a tucson resident i found this to be exactly what i was looking for. a huge thank you !
I'm not an athlete I'm a nerd so I love these videos about dessert plants
Your soil has been well amended Jake hence the fast growth on those new plants. Its makes all the difference.
So that's the thing about being lost in the desert. You'll die of thirst long before you die of hunger.
Great video. Thanks.
Oh thank you!!! I needed this information. I’m back to the desert after living in western Washington for a long time. I’m missing my gardening I did up there. This helps.
I love your channel. Well done. Very informative!
Denise Murray Thanks Denise!
Ty so much!!! I am going to go all and I mean all of the plants you suggested!! I am so excited to find edible and dessert friendly plants !!
Food Forrest in Arizona? Brilliant!! Peace Love and Light to you ;)
This is so awesome!!! I just moved to Arizona from Washington a few months ago and have been looking for this knowledge base! Keep posting these videos and I'll watch them all :) thanks for the knowledge brother. Cheers!
I just subscribed. I was looking around for people who gardened in phoenix. You're the best I've seen. I live in north phoenix in the sunburst farms district. I'm fortunate to have well irrigation in Phoenix, and with the wood chips and compost, I don't use city water at all even in July. I think you're a genius, and I can't wait to watch more videos.
You are enjoyable to watch and you know your stuff very well.You need your own TV Program. Thumbs up.
Awesome! I visit my parents in Florence twice a year and I’m always looking for edible native healing plants. This helped me so much! 👍🏼😁
I do live on Desert Ca. I am going to try your ideas on my SAND grow . Mix stuff with sand. Lets see if works.
I know this is an old video but Thank you for these ideas.
I also Know you are on a better location with your beautiful family.
Hey! i am a student at ASU: Lake Havasu City and i have been doing a ton of research on the subject of permuculture and Food Forests. I am absolutely obsessed with the ability to grow such productive gardens by using the benefits of multiple plants together. I have been working on a project to design a Food Forest to build up here on an empty lot on the campus and was thinking of using a fish pond as an additional water storage and nutrient source for the plants. Right at the end of the video i noticed you have one in your lot and it looks very similar to what i have in my mind's eye.
Just wondering if you have any tips or advice for that between the construction and utilization of the pond if you have done so or thought about it. Leme know any and all advice is gold!
+VeganAthlete your video is by far most helpful single video i have found so far.. especially for a desert climate!
A used above ground swimming pool will hold several "thousand gallons.I plan on using 4 of them for my desert oasis.
make sure it is not a drowning hazard for kids in the neighborhood
Hi there .we have same desert in my country ..can you write the 10 trees ..god bless you
More videos like this would be great. Thank you!
Arizona is such a beautiful place
Im not vegan,but I can respect the info given. I wanna grow these in the Mojave desert.
Omg, I love you..lol.. your tips are great and your choice in plants is fantastic !
🌿🌵💯🌿🌵
awesome video I have been looking for edible plants of the desert for a while. I am originally from Europe where there is an abundance of wild edibles and I am familiar with. This is quite the change, new territory. Thank you so much.
THANK YOU so much for this excellent info - all in one place!!! Very grateful. :)
Thank you, I live in the high desert mule mountains. what eatables will take the high winds and cold winter nights?
Dam I am learning so much. I live in Tucson and just found a 5gal Peruvian Apple Cactus for about $40. I'm picking it up tomorrow. Thanks bud for increasing my plant vocabulary.
Great video I sure wish that I would've known about some of those plants when I lived in East Phoenix just off of 48th street and Thomas I would've planted a few in my back yard, again really great video Take Care and Best Wishes
Great video Jake. Amazing. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Thanks Lee! :)
VeganAthlete
fuck buying a cactus, i am a just go cut a piece of my neighbor and stick it in the ground in my backyard.
I dont usually give videos a "like" , but you deserve atleast that.
Good job, and nice garden
i live in Vancouver but i was born and raised for 14 years in AZ. i miss home a lot.
Real nice what a blessing!
Great video with tons of great info. I will share this with my friends. Thank you. I just subscribed .
May I have an arm? Please? We just moved to Arizona from Chicago, not to far from Tempe. To be honest, for us it was like moving to Mars. Everything is so incredibly different from where we grew up, but I can't imagine ever leaving. We absolutely love it here.
I'm vacationing in CA and found a honey meskeet in front of a brewery. I grabbed some pods on our way out, thanks for the info Jake. Cant wait to try growing them!
I have recently tried Net Leaf Hackberry because of your video. Found a bush while hiking. Had to watch the video for the second time before eating, to make sure I am not going to get poisoned by accident. The first time I watched this video was a year ago.
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How do you spell "Chupa Rosa"? (I'm just guessing.)
I also saw the plant above that I said (⬆️) on a hiking trip
+Shadepaw TheWolfGirl you pretty got the spelling right (i think)... if I remember correctly, it's "Chuparosa"
What tree does your neighbor have at 11:09 ???
Use cactus as a hamburger if you beleive in his opinion. Use it in stir fry or omelettes if you want to eat roughage like a Chupa na bra!
i love all what you 're saying guy ! i 've found my twin really about talking about the eatable fruit and berries i can find !
Calista Klein 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Trip! I was thinking of the hackberry I learned about in boy scouts at age 13. Tastes like sweet tea. The one we tasted from growing wild in the desert near Mescal, AZ, and was a tree, not a shrub. This was over 50 years ago.
Excellent info on edible native plants! Thank you!
Thank you so much I'm just getting started now and I wish I had started a year ago when I first thought about it.
I can watch this over and over, again
Thank you so much, for sharing - amazing
keep up the good work ( no matter what ) - Have a good one !
So much great information. Thank you!
Wonderful garden a real credit to you and your partner. The tortoise is excellent, does it have a pond to swim in?
Great video. Thanks for sharing.
Very cool! I'm hoping to move to AZ someday and I will definitely come back to your videos for help! =)
Very nice! You have a lot of space around the house! Wonderful !! You gave me an idea of consuming aloe vera. Thank you Jake! :)
Cool! Good luck!
Very Nice Presentation Jake, awesome!
I didn't realize there are so many native to AZ that are Edible, thx for the info.. :)
Excellent video Jake. I believe there are edible parts of the Cholla cactus too. I know your title is "top 10" but I just thought I should mention that since it grows so abundantly out there.
Jake, I know you've moved on from Arizona, so I don't know if you're still looking back on these older videos and responding to them. Have you ever heard of any communities challenging their Community Associations in order to break free from the requirement of having decomposed granite or similar materials in front yard spaces or xeriscapes in accordance with community guidelines? Did you encounter any initial limitations with your community in establishing your "food forest" landscaping? Thank you if you ever have a chance to respond to this question! Take care on your new venture!
Great video dude. Really awesome yard. Thank you
Very cool video and you've done a great job on your yard. Thank you for sharing.
Moving to AZ. This is highly useful info!!
Deffinatley helpful. Thank you! Im moving to the Pacific northwest but very helpful as i want a very diverse landscape when it comes to flora.
Wow thanks for this video I see these plants often in az. It's really cool how long you've had them!
Beautiful desert garden......outstanding! I live in the Pacific Northwest rainforest of Oregon and believe it or not we have two desert cactii species that grow very well here; The CHOLLA and the OPUNTIA (beaver tail). Just give them a little gravel and/or pumice for some drainage and they grow very fast.
Thanks Jake I'm definitely going to at least get one of these plants the Apple cactus sounds soon good, keep on making videos your very informative I really enjoyed this video.
Thanks for watching Eric!
This is so great, I have to relocate and will be living in the desert.
awesome, thank you very much. just moved to sedona and I am going to start doing some edible landscaping in my yard. super excited about your channel :)
absolutely beautiful property!! I am moving back to the desert to assist in the spreading of this knowledge! So inspiring :)
Your garden is beautiful its giving me so much inspiration ❤
The other thing that is good about the Mesquite, is that it is a good source for firewood, if you were ever in a position to need firewood often.... they regrow rapidly
Hey Jake. Did you amend your soil before you planted your cactus? I want to start an edible desert plant garden on the south/west side of my house. Nothing grows there. I'm thinking maybe I should amend the ground before I put anything in there.
Thank you for the info. 😉
I love ur thinking. Excellent information
you left out one of the best cactus fruits in the state... strawberry pincushion oh so tasty! nice videos Jake very inspirational keep them coming and oh yeah take some cutting of that moringa tree and Ill buy them
21eculby Nice! Cool, I'll try to root some!
Fantastic video, Jake. Just a point: for those who follows you but are not native english speakers (as me), sometimes is difficult to understand the names of the plants or the ingredients of your garden or recipes. If you could write it in the screen or the description below, will be a great help for us, in order to google it later. Thanks again
Namaste ty🙏✌️🦀🌵💞
Beautiful place and view thanks for sharing
Very informative. Thanks.