This is S-Tier level food forestry for sure! You should write a book on permaculture gardening in northern climates to capture all the knowledge you've gained into one place. Sign me up for a copy! You inspired me to build a food forest on my land. I'm three years into it and it is finally coming together. It isn't on the scale of yours, and having rocks for soil hasn't helped, but it has certainly given me an appreciation for the huge amount of work you must have put into your place. Where do you find the energy? What do you have for breakfast!?!?!?!
Haha, thank you! To me this is more of a hobby, it's a purpose. I feel like I'm here to spread this message. I drive my inspiration from many people who felt the same way, who did more than I will ever be able to do. Much love ❤️
Glad you mentioned importance of oaks - Tallamy’s The nature of oaks is a wonderful month by month guide to the ecological significance of oaks. Wondrous.
Goldenrod makes a lovely tea to help with ragweed issues. Harvest, bundle, and dry it upside down. When it’s dry, remove the flowers and store them in a jar.
Funny how in Florida things look relatively the same in some of the non developed areas around me!! I think it’s pretty insane how much more similar the entire worlds growing conditions are than we’ve been trained to think of them so vastly different!!🤙🤙 love seeing what i suspect is sumac back there(staghorn or winged?) they’re fruiting all over here in Florida! Enjoy the unedited style and will definitely keep watching!!
i think you need to spend more time with your chickens on a balmy sunday afternoon i will take my camp chair into their enclosure and just be with them. some hop up for a cuddle, some tolerate a pat whilst the rest squawk if you look sideways at them. after a short while they tend to settle down under the chair and preen. it is very peaceful.
Great walk about & forests! I have a small urban food forest in my front & backyard. I plant my annual vegetables between my perennials in the front yard, where I get all day sun. It has worked well, except the mule deer think I planted for them😅 This year, I tried 6 foot garden rods with fish line at different levels to deter the deer but they have figured it out & have bent some of my poles! I need a permanent page wire fence, I guess.
It is amazing how your food forest changed to the wilder level in last few years. Amazing! I’m based in Poland, Europe. Looks like I have here similar selection of plants and very similar climate, zone 5. Only have never seen a pawpaw, can you recommend any varieties to start with?
The pollinators in my backyard are so comfortable with me they sometimes bump into my arm (as I'm harvesting raspberries or beans) as they move from one blossom to the next. I do avoid the yellow jackets, but I have a handful in my house every year and they've never been agressive. I even have a bunny that will nibble on a windfall apple less than ten feet from where I'm working.
I’ve seen multiple sources say that you should not dehydrate pawpaw. People who have eaten dehydrated pawpaw have developed nausea and vomiting. This is the first year that I’ve had pawpaws on one of my trees. I made several loaves of pawpaw bread and then froze the rest of the pulp to use later. Thanks for another great video 👍🏼
Freeze drying and dehydrating concentrates pawpaw and causes nausea and vomiting when consumed. Although many freeze pawpaw and consume it and are fine, I find frozen pawpaw bitter and off-putting. I love pawpaw fresh!
The back part of my property is overrun with goldenrod. Now that I know what it is, I'll leave it be! Your plum tree makes me miss my old house--it came with two beautiful old plum trees, very productive. I lost a bunch to wasps, but we still had more than we could eat. I've planted plums here, of course, but it will be a few years before they produce...
I've actually frozen pawpaw as little cubes in a Ziploc, not even vacuum sealed, and they were pretty fantastic as a smoothie ingredient even months later.
This is beautiful. I have a small food forest that I started this year and I had a question on expansion. Do you think it is better to increase the varieties of existing fruit or increase the types of fruit?
Both for sure, but as for a priority on one over the other, I would say types of different fruit. Going to heavy on the same fruit opens you up to imbalance (see my pest videos), and also temperature fluctuations that could wipe an entire crop for the year.
There are so many frogs in there, no mosquitos anywhere. Also, the main pond has so many dragonflies everywhere, I wouldn't want to be a mosquito here, that's for sure!
Thanks for the unedited tour. Really enjoy that. You definitely inspire us to wild our world as it were. I have lots of long grasses and flowers in and among my fruit trees and bushes, habitat, habitat, habitat eh? All thanks to your guidance on being mindful of the real world around us. I try to pass on that lesson as much as I can. If everyone cared about what they do in relation to the world they live in we would head in a much better direction as a species. Thank you my friend ❤ Please don't stop teaching these truths.
I had a lined spring fed pond at my farm, somehow two gold fish showed up, I asked my neighbor if he was pranking me, swears he didn't bring them. 💁 I have no idea except for birds stocking it for me.😊
They are my favorite. I do really like treetime and try to give them some business every year because I really love what they are doing, but they are farther away, and I try to focus on local.
Hi Keith. I live in Nova Scotia and am just starting my permaculture planning for when I move to a rural area next year. I just watched your video where you debunked release of nitrogen from cutting back the foliage and that deep taproots dredge up nutrients. Sad but good to know. Have you questioned the scientific basis that floating seeds are not viable? Seems to be a lot of opinions on this.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I suppose it doesn’t matter much in the grand scheme of things, unless I happen to splurge on some expensive seeds. Anyway, really enjoy your channel, thank you for sharing. I’ve been contemplating lately how I might plan to incorporate annuals into guilds rather than limiting them to raised beds. Is this something you do?
I'm somewhat close to Lake Ontario. That about as much info as I tend to give about my exact location. But peaches can grow all along the south border of Canada if you pick the correct varieties. Search my channel for "peach varieties" for videos on them.
This is S-Tier level food forestry for sure! You should write a book on permaculture gardening in northern climates to capture all the knowledge you've gained into one place. Sign me up for a copy!
You inspired me to build a food forest on my land. I'm three years into it and it is finally coming together. It isn't on the scale of yours, and having rocks for soil hasn't helped, but it has certainly given me an appreciation for the huge amount of work you must have put into your place. Where do you find the energy? What do you have for breakfast!?!?!?!
Haha, thank you!
To me this is more of a hobby, it's a purpose. I feel like I'm here to spread this message. I drive my inspiration from many people who felt the same way, who did more than I will ever be able to do. Much love ❤️
Glad you mentioned importance of oaks - Tallamy’s The nature of oaks is a wonderful month by month guide to the ecological significance of oaks. Wondrous.
Goldenrod makes a lovely tea to help with ragweed issues. Harvest, bundle, and dry it upside down. When it’s dry, remove the flowers and store them in a jar.
I froze whole pawpaws one year and ate them about 6 months later. They were surprisingly still good. I like them fresh better but still not bad!
Funny how in Florida things look relatively the same in some of the non developed areas around me!! I think it’s pretty insane how much more similar the entire worlds growing conditions are than we’ve been trained to think of them so vastly different!!🤙🤙 love seeing what i suspect is sumac back there(staghorn or winged?) they’re fruiting all over here in Florida! Enjoy the unedited style and will definitely keep watching!!
Amazing always love seeing gardens with tons of fruit trees, especially in a permaculture system of course!
i think you need to spend more time with your chickens
on a balmy sunday afternoon i will take my camp chair into their enclosure and just be with them. some hop up for a cuddle, some tolerate a pat whilst the rest squawk if you look sideways at them.
after a short while they tend to settle down under the chair and preen.
it is very peaceful.
Love this, I eat my lunch out with them every day
Great walk about & forests! I have a small urban food forest in my front & backyard. I plant my annual vegetables between my perennials in the front yard, where I get all day sun. It has worked well, except the mule deer think I planted for them😅 This year, I tried 6 foot garden rods with fish line at different levels to deter the deer but they have figured it out & have bent some of my poles! I need a permanent page wire fence, I guess.
Always makes my day to see a new video
It is amazing how your food forest changed to the wilder level in last few years. Amazing! I’m based in Poland, Europe. Looks like I have here similar selection of plants and very similar climate, zone 5. Only have never seen a pawpaw, can you recommend any varieties to start with?
Unfortunately I haven't been growing them long enough to give a good answer to this, best of luck!
I just found this channel 🎉 exciting to find a Canadian homesteading channel 🎉❤
Welcome to the family! It try to answer questions in the comment section as much as I can, so any questions just shoot!
Yess and Trudeau should go to prison
The pollinators in my backyard are so comfortable with me they sometimes bump into my arm (as I'm harvesting raspberries or beans) as they move from one blossom to the next. I do avoid the yellow jackets, but I have a handful in my house every year and they've never been agressive. I even have a bunny that will nibble on a windfall apple less than ten feet from where I'm working.
This!
I’ve seen multiple sources say that you should not dehydrate pawpaw. People who have eaten dehydrated pawpaw have developed nausea and vomiting. This is the first year that I’ve had pawpaws on one of my trees. I made several loaves of pawpaw bread and then froze the rest of the pulp to use later.
Thanks for another great video 👍🏼
Thanks!!
Freeze drying and dehydrating concentrates pawpaw and causes nausea and vomiting when consumed. Although many freeze pawpaw and consume it and are fine, I find frozen pawpaw bitter and off-putting. I love pawpaw fresh!
The back part of my property is overrun with goldenrod. Now that I know what it is, I'll leave it be!
Your plum tree makes me miss my old house--it came with two beautiful old plum trees, very productive. I lost a bunch to wasps, but we still had more than we could eat. I've planted plums here, of course, but it will be a few years before they produce...
👍👍 Recognizing a plant in the wrong place (weed) 😢,may NOT be a curse, but a (nutritious, self-sufficient) blessing!! ❤❤✌️🇨🇦
Pawpaws freeze great, just vaccuum seal the pulp before freezing. Dehydrating pawpaws isnt recommended a lot of people get sick from them.
Awesome thanks for the info!
Trudeau should go to prison
I've actually frozen pawpaw as little cubes in a Ziploc, not even vacuum sealed, and they were pretty fantastic as a smoothie ingredient even months later.
That canopy is starting to come together, very nice.
I think so too!
I really love your tours. thanks for sharing. question. do you ware any boots when you wonder over in the garden? just to avoid any snake bites.
No venomous snakes here. I'm often barefoot outside
Cheers for the video buddy
This is beautiful. I have a small food forest that I started this year and I had a question on expansion. Do you think it is better to increase the varieties of existing fruit or increase the types of fruit?
Both for sure, but as for a priority on one over the other, I would say types of different fruit. Going to heavy on the same fruit opens you up to imbalance (see my pest videos), and also temperature fluctuations that could wipe an entire crop for the year.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Good insight! Thanks so much.
Beautiful piece of land. I’d love property. I have a backyard that’s nearly all garden. I do what I can 🙂
My plums were in the spring down here in Florida. Your first pond looked like mosquito heaven.
There are so many frogs in there, no mosquitos anywhere. Also, the main pond has so many dragonflies everywhere, I wouldn't want to be a mosquito here, that's for sure!
Yes, It's amazing how nature balances itself out if you allow ALL of its creatures to be and to play out their roles. @@CanadianPermacultureLegacy
Thanks for the unedited tour. Really enjoy that. You definitely inspire us to wild our world as it were. I have lots of long grasses and flowers in and among my fruit trees and bushes, habitat, habitat, habitat eh? All thanks to your guidance on being mindful of the real world around us. I try to pass on that lesson as much as I can. If everyone cared about what they do in relation to the world they live in we would head in a much better direction as a species.
Thank you my friend ❤ Please don't stop teaching these truths.
Thank you so much for being a helping hand in this fight!
Lovely
I had a lined spring fed pond at my farm, somehow two gold fish showed up, I asked my neighbor if he was pranking me, swears he didn't bring them. 💁 I have no idea except for birds stocking it for me.😊
I say some birds brought you their future food
Do you buy most of your trees from Whiffletree?
They are my favorite. I do really like treetime and try to give them some business every year because I really love what they are doing, but they are farther away, and I try to focus on local.
Hi Keith. I live in Nova Scotia and am just starting my permaculture planning for when I move to a rural area next year. I just watched your video where you debunked release of nitrogen from cutting back the foliage and that deep taproots dredge up nutrients. Sad but good to know.
Have you questioned the scientific basis that floating seeds are not viable? Seems to be a lot of opinions on this.
I haven't no ! I never heard this may be contentious.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I suppose it doesn’t matter much in the grand scheme of things, unless I happen to splurge on some expensive seeds. Anyway, really enjoy your channel, thank you for sharing.
I’ve been contemplating lately how I might plan to incorporate annuals into guilds rather than limiting them to raised beds. Is this something you do?
What??? Where in Canada can you have Peach trees??? ❤🎉
Where 80% of the population lives😊
I'm somewhat close to Lake Ontario. That about as much info as I tend to give about my exact location. But peaches can grow all along the south border of Canada if you pick the correct varieties. Search my channel for "peach varieties" for videos on them.
Ontario is known for its peaches!
Exactly! Winona peach festival.
I don't have many paper wasps this year. Thus there's a million web caterpillars!😡
Definitely dehydrate pawpaw
Good to know!
Why do you keep your chickens locked up? Predators in the food forest?
Yes, look up our video "they are all dead"
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy problems.thank you. I will watch. We have had chickens for 4 years, but no predators
I have 30 acres in Shenandoah mountains of Virginia… I’m building my food forest now…. But slow going