Amazing Urban Permaculture Food Forest Garden with Edible Exploding Impatiens
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2011
- John from www.growingyourgreens.com/ goes on a field trip outside Portland, Oregon to visit one amazing Urban Permaculture Food Forest Garden. In this episode, John will share just some of the techniques and unique edible plants that are being grown in this permaculture garden. You will learn about the edible Impatiens balfourii... aka Poor Man's Orchid which explode when you touch them and so much more
This is exactly how I want my yard to be. This is fantastic. This is how people should live.
I watch tons of youtube vids and NEVER comment. That permaculture garden is outstanding and inspirational. I worked all day in a community garden but your vids make me wanna go back outside in the dark to make up for lost time! Love all your videos btw. Keep 'growing on' and motivating subscribers like me.'
Great permaculture systems! The bees, duckweed, watering, interaction with the forest,.etc. Definitely an inspiration John. Thanks for showing me. I watched you go all over the place in many different environments, show us great examples of what is possible, and explain all of the many different functions of each component in those systems and how it’s all gently guided by 5he property owners.
Permaculture is the way to go. I've been working on mine for two years now, and cant wait to finish
This garden is AWESOME! I didn't want the video to end. You have inspired me with all of your videos and this one is closest to what I have always dreamed of having. Thanks!
I would suggest start small, and start easy-- growing sprouts in your kitchen is a good way to start growing your own food. They are packed with protein and other nutrients.. such as sunflower sprouts, clover sprouts, radish sprouts, etc. then graduate to herbs.. but you gotta remember to water them.. or set up an automatic watering system..
Dan, I just want to note how much I admire you. Keep posting videos! :D
This is very inspiring
John, watching your videos has inspired me to make my own and also got me to go "exploring" nurseries and garden stores to see what interesting things I can find and maybe grow my own. Keep up the great work!
My interest in permaculture is "growing" and more so when I see gardens such as this one. The mulching and riprap idea seems to be very productive. Getting started is a big hurdle that most "monoculture" gardeners have blockage with. Yet seeing this garden in it's most natural looking form is great.
This is about 15 miles from where I live and an outstanding use of the land, I would love to go and check it all out first hand but my legs won't allow it now days. All in all just viewing this place on video gives so many idea's for a starting gardener could wish for. A lot of thought and love. Thanks for Sharing John!
Looks like you had your lunch. LOL.. that's great!
I really enjoyed this video and plan to watch more of your offerings. Thank You for posting this.
Wow! What a great place! Best gardening videos I've ever seen!!
I have seen almost all your vids and this is by far the most abundant GORGEOUS garden we have seen on your channel. I too would love to experiment with permaculture. Once I get outta the city, and onto some land, you better believe I will be growing all my food this way. Thanks again John for your amazing insight and focus on gardening and plant-based diets for all! You are one of my heroes. I would love to visit your home in Santa Rosa one day, since my family is from there :)
Absolutely amazing abundance and variety. Great video.
Hi John,
Big huge fan. I'm in NAPA and was hoping if I can stop by and just shake your hand. You have hanged my life.
Watching this while I wait for the ice to melt outside. But spring flowers are already out - at least 3 varieties of the first ones ;)
This video gives me great ideas for the coming season! I can't wait until I harvest my blackberries too - I miss them - winter is too long :)
Wow! That place is beautiful!!
This is awesome, the mecha hippy narrating is more awesome. Fun game to play, drink everytime he nabs a fruit or veggie ;P
Thanks for the video, I just got in some Pawpaw, Tree Tomato, & Stevia seeds in the mail today. I planted 2 pecans, 3 different types of Satsuma, 1 pomegranate, 1 pineapple guava, 1 moro blood orange, 3 rio read grapefruit, 1 BlackBerry, some strawberry's, one apple, & etc. this year alone. My best producer so far is a tangerine tree that was started from a seed about 12 years ago, I get around 500+ a year with almost no care needed (1/2 shaded) I have my shower & bathroom sink going to it... :)
Linden trees grow very well here on the east coast of Canada, and quite tall. The blooms are fragrant and I believe you can use the fresh blooms as tea. They are one of my favorite trees!
This is a great video. Thanks for making it! This is the way to go...
whenever I look up permaculture you only get to see people starting their gardens, laying down mulch and what not, you never get to see such beautiful end results!
Linden trees smell heavenly. They are used for perfumes. They also make a tea from them and the leaves and blossoms are used for pillows, because they 'cure' insomnia and bad dreams and nervousness ( a neurosedative !) You can put in baths for your kids if they are sleepless, or hyper excited. They can live a 1000 ( thousand yes) years, and were used a thousand years ago too !
LOL John, scat *is* an S word too! :-D Love those thorn-less blackberries! Going to look into getting some of those!
Thank you so much for this informative video!
Thanks John! Great video.
Hey john, this was an excellent video and an amazing garden. I have truly been inspired by your videos and have started growing myself. actually about 6 months ago i saw the video where you were in south florida ( i live near tampa), and the person you visited was growing moringa and i thought that was such a interesting tree. so i went to the website recommended in the video and oredered some seeds now i have 5 established moringa trees. thank you for your hard work and dedication!
Great video John
Lindon tree has flowers in spring that are great for making tea and have medicinal properties too. Lindon tree leaf is also a national symbol of Slovenia.
1. Buy some books on gardening, particularly fruit and vegetable growing, and learn the basics.
2. Start small, as John said - find what you can manage and try to focus on that and get at least one positive result for the season. Maybe try a trough of salad greens, spinach or herbs, which should be easy.
3. Do a search here for "how to be a gardener" - someone has uploaded all of this excellent and extremely educational series!
What an impressive place!
Amazing garden!
oh, how i miss you, harvest season.
Great Video John! I hope to have a Garden like this one day as well.. But in a more tropical setting.. Thanks, Eat Well, Be Well ! :-)
I live in the Portland area, I love this garden. Are they open to public? I would love to wander their paths and see what I can identify.
Morgan D me too. Did you ever figure it out?
@growingyourgreens Hey man, what a killer garden. As you mentioned, "Laid back", and that's what a garden should be. I'm in the same boat, the one filled with folks that want to get some land of their own and grow a sustainable garden, similar to what you show in this video. I'm trying with what I've got and have had decent success. I'm really happy with the "Bulgarian Carrot Pepper" plant I grew this year. The peppers look nice, you get a lot of them, and are not "mild"...they're hot!
Amazing food forest!
Wow! thornless Blackberrys! Thats Great!
WOW... Paradise.
john you are the coolest dude!!!
I'm using free woodchip and horse manure on the front garden beds to try and grow some food crops next year.
I'll be adding about 6 inches of compost/manure as a start and growing a green manure.
Later I'll add some compost and rockdust etc. and hopefully I'll get some food out front.
Already have raised beds out back.
that was truly amazing.
In the PNW we call the "rip rap" urbanite. Portland gets a lot of winter rain so people are encouraged to capture rain water so the sewer systems don't overflow in heavy rains.I really wish the home owner had helped with the tour, because his newness to the site meant he missed some really interesting things happening there. Like the bee hive is a warre hive and I would have liked to hear the owners thoughts on it. I wish he had said where the site was, not an address, but a better idea of altitude and if it is near the gorge or in Clackamas county.
I feel healthier just watching the video... grocery store in the yard.
This is amazing. IT seems like it would be good to have a bit more organization(not sure how) to make it a bit more workable. Obviously it works well for them! Thanks for the tour. Awesome!!!
We have been searching for quite some time to describe what it is we want to do with our property.
THIS IS IT!!! It will be a challenge for us in the high desert of Southern Idaho but we WILL figure out a way. Plant selection and water will be the biggest thing to resolve.
figs are so easy to grow and propagate. We cut off wayward branches ever fall and cut them up into sections about 6-12" long and stick them right in dirt, no hormones, and put them in the shade and water well and wait. we get 50% success with rooting by spring.
First! Wow. Amazing Episode!
Epic garden.
I Love You Man !!!
I believe that one is Red Orach or Atriplex hortensis.
great video!! thanks!
very nice ....i wish i could have a piece of land like that
Awesome Video! My Bees would love that garden haha You have a great channel just subbed!!! How big are those Black Berries they look huge and Juicy! You must have lots of bees pollinating them! Here is a Tip if you plant Thornless blackberry next to Thorny one they will cross pollinate and the seeds from the Thorny will be less thorny! I have developed a semi thornless Himalayan Variety with tastey large fruit, takes 3 years to accomplish! Bees will do the cross pollinating for you!
Awesome!
Nice John
This is a great inspiration John! Can you recommend some information resources on learning how to grow some of these plants and on permaculture? I'll be taking a permaculture course in the spring but wanted to get some background on the concepts. Thanks for all you do!
you are tearing me apart winter
"nutrient dense wrapper" hahaha lovin the turd description
knew i recognized the bus sign behind you- its my 2nd home
Athena Chase where's it at?
Hostas are popular in Japan as a vegetable known as urui and prepared in a number of different ways including boiling in water and frying in a tempura batte
I want to make one of these up in Seattle!!! Or just outside Seattle on Whidbey or Vashon...
Luther Burbank was the first? person to develope thornless blackberries. Not sure if his plant is available commercially, but there are several different thornless types availible here in the MidWest from Stark Nursery in Missouri.
lots of these gardens seem to have large imputs of free woodchip and animal manure. Will they retain the same level of production when mature without such imputs? Also the bus stop gave me an idea; a public composting toilet, could be a valuable addition, particularly when manure starts getting expensive. best wishes
amazing garden! thx so much for posting!
lol what did u do with that cuke?
I think this is your best video . I grow a lot of my food this way . I really can use your help , I live in central California and am willing to drive to get specific plants . I would love the thornless black berry and I need a great bee hive that keeps healthy bees what would you suggest .
Bought a juicer from you...you must be branching out! LOL! Juicer's workin' well....what's next....natural composting technology....
fun video!
Research hugelkulture. These will help you in the long term for reducing the amount of watering and will really help with improving the soil for optimal growing. Permies.com has a lot of information on it along with many other topics that will help you in your endeavors. Good luck!!
Are all these food plants native to the Portland Oregon landscape? I'm new to Portland, and I want to sart my own food garden, but I'm only interested in native Oregon plants.
I think they need to use some nice big roses and make a natural boundary around the property...
john if your still in Oregon and are coming down Interstate to come home.. let me know when you are i would love to get together with you and do a video on wild edibles.. i have a great area to go and forage.
and i think their fruit trees theyre trying to keep high from the deer should have a 3-4' high raised bed around them filled with compost. would that make the buried part of the trunk shoot new roots?
Great garden tour! thank you so much! (How do u get the money to travel around & do all that you do??)
What camera are you using to record and do you have a microphone? Love your vids
10:40 you could trap and correl the deer that way for food too !
Hi, please read the "One Stray Revolution" book by Masanobu Fukuoka, you will find the PDF in the web.
Also, try to plant directry in the soil, and dont use pots, because you will need a lot of more water for plants in pots.
Vivero Bosque de Alimentos true watering can be more important with pots, however, some people can't plant in the ground for whatever reason. If someone can't, please don't let that stop you from growing! Use pots, pallet walls, used plastic food trays, whatever you can come up with!
hey john really amazing garden you have found there they got some nice plants there, but can you tell me the exact name of this red plant @ 34:03 please?
thx =)
With all the standing water and doesn't seem to have fountains in it, don't they have a problem with mosquitoes? Super garden but even if I were in good shape, I couldn't manage it as I don't know what things are if they are not all labeled.
Is this garden their fulltime job? It seems like the upkeep would be tremendous. Harvesting must be very difficult as well since things are not planted out conventionally. I LOVE this garden, but I am having a little bit of a problem wrapping my brain around the logistics.
also you do know exactly what's in it and the source of most of the urine is the garden. it starts out there and goes right back in there to do more work keeping everything green and growing.
motion sensor lights might help keep the critters out of there.
do you compost and use compost tea??..how do you make it??
hey john do you plan to go to the Woodstock fruit festival?
Beautiful ~ thank you (=
I'm curious about those "west indie bergerkins" is that what it was? Please share where you found those!!
I really like the look, but not sure about the efficiency. Seems like allot of food would go to waste by not being able to locate and harvest it all. Or is the point more about looks than feasibility?
i wonder what it takes to regrow tomatoes, peppers, and other annuals each year using the seeds
After picking a whole cucumber just to take a bite, I half expected him to do the same for the watermelon right afterward. (snicker)
was wondering if you've ever considered urine as a possible fertilizer or additive in the mix you use when watering? from what i've seen fresh urine is very good when diluted for watering vegetable plants. it cuts down on water use for flushing your toilet and cuts back on how much store bought fertilizer you need to use when watering there-by saving money. from what i've seen a ratio of 20 parts water to 1 part urine is perfect. i know to most this sounds really gross but it is a renewable resource and urine is full of the stuff our bodies either couldn't use or didn't need at the time so why waste it? your thoughts?
as long as you are drug free :D
I wish he got the people that grew this to give the tour
What is the name of the plant for making the medicinal tea? Ekon Accon sp.?
that size of car is very normal in the UK. Americans are used to super-sized gas guzzling cars.
John, that plant you identified as Impatiens looks more Columbine to me.
rock dust? what composition?
thanks
ed
2:18 Oooh froggy!
@rawer77 Righto. Even though if you kill them humanely (note: not the way factory farms do it) they will experience less pain than they would living naturally in the wild, given that the way animals kill eachother is incredibly brutal and often needlessly cruel (see: cats, dolphins).
This looks more fun than minecraft