Those ponds are a good idea, but beware that if you don't have a way out, small animals like hedgehogs can drown in them. What an inspirational garden, I dream of having one someday :)
Hi Gerri, thank you for watching, I was so pleased that Maddy and Tim agreed to film in place of my postponed visit. I can hardly wait until I can go in person and capture more of it on film!
a beautiful film and I think my back garden which is tiny has elements of a food forest with a pear tree and herbs, wild flowers in the borders and a sense of abundance to it. I have even planted lettuce and am about to plant climbing beans as a result of wanting to do something positive during lockdown.
I buy Permaculture Magazine and find it wonderful. There was a brilliant article the other month on permaculture gardening in a refugee camp in Africa in which the people were growing their own food. So positive, and not something they will show on the mainstream news! Maybe all schools should have growing food and permaculture on the curriculum; this along with a policy of enabling people to have a proper house with some land, where possible,( rather than cramming everyone into overpriced flats) would make a more resilient, abundant, happier community.
Thank you for this generous comment. We hope you have found issue 104 interesting - out end of April - we couldn't supply shops but we sent them to subscribers who are our life blood, especially at the moment.
It is a great magazine David, I agree with you! I've learnt so much from it and I like that it's thought provoking and often challenging (in a good way).
Wonderful video! Thank you for sharing their channel! Will subscribe for sure! I've been gardening since I was about 18 yrs old, and didn't really think of myself as a novice gardener until I started watching you and then Huw, and then Charles D... I have learned SO MUCH from you all and am so grateful your channels exist and you share your knowledge and ideas and fellow TH-cam channels with us.🙏 ...there is always something new to learn, and something new to try. 🙌💚
Hi Jessica, it's so true, there is always something to learn - that's one of the things that I like so much about gardening and working with the environment! If you have questions, please feel free to ask, I think I can safely say that all of us are very happy to answer questions where we can.
Hi, the farm is not open to the public except on days that we run courses here or by prior arrangement to collect items for sale. As Wales is still in lockdown, there are currently no visitors to the farm. You can find more info on our website www.bytherfarm.com
Love this video, thank you Liz. That red cowslip in the Spring meadow may well be just that and not a hybrid. Where I live in Lincolnshire we have wild red cowslips the botanists get rather excited about. We've been watching since lockdown and you have reignited my passion for gardening and my daughter is working on the cubs gardening badge, it turns out she's rather good at it.
So a forrest garden is the temperate climate equivalent to traditionnal oasis gardening: date palms (highest), orange trees (medium), flowers climbing (jasmine and hibiscus) or not, then vegetables and herbs, finally bees. Of course in the desert this is the one and only way to garden.
Our interrupted travel plans stopped us visiting people too. ☹️ How lovely to see those wildflower fields. We can’t have fields like that as for one, we don’t get enough rain & two, the wallabies, kangaroos & possums would munch them all. I started reading of what Bill Mollison was doing back in the early 80s & when we sold our house in 1989, & were cashed up before buying another property, the first thing I did was to buy Bill’s Permaculture Manual.
What a wonderful transformation to the field. A permaculture garden produces great food. So interesting. The birds singing in the background. Beautiful. Thank you to your guests for sharing and thank you Liz. We are wilting here in 41 c temperatures but we are thankful for being as well as can be expected. I am swimming every day. I have tiny cucumbers on my plant and hoping the heat doesn't kill it. Hope you are both well living in the green green grass of home. Have a wonderful week xxx Margaret in Cyprus
Hi Margaret, it's a gorgeous garden! So pleased to read that you are both well, I don't envy you the heat, but I wouldn't mind it being warm enough to swim each day. 😊
Hi Kirsten, I don't know which part of the world you are in, but if you are able to plant currant bushes and raspberries, you may find it suddenly looks very full! I planted some herbs as a ground cover layer and they took off quickly (as did the pernicious weeds!), but it all makes for a fuller garden area.
@@LizZorab I'm in the PNW - Washington State, USA just across the Strait from Victoria BC. I'm about 20 minutes away from the place that the Back to Eden (wood chip) film was made. I have been planting currants & gooseberries - both native and cultivated - for the past couple of years. It's so dry here (~40.64 cm/year) that they are slow to take off, even with heavy wood chip mulch. I'm just an impatient gardener, lol. Thanks again for the video. I've been watch you and Huw for quite some time now.
Following on from Liz's comment at the end about brambles: a question for Maddy and Tim - how do you manage the meadows to stop them from getting overrun with thorny scrub like bramble, blackthorn etc?
We scythe the meadow every year, pile up the scythings in stooks and mulch the soft fruit or young trees with it. The Spring meadow is cut once in summer once the flower seeds have dropped and then kept cut. It is a useful area for a tent or a hang out zone in summer as it is quite flat. The summer meadow further up is cut in autumn, again once the seeds drop. I may cut it early Jan if I think the grass is competing with the flowers. Our main problem is not brambles which we remove by hand but blackthorn which suckers. We planted it in the hedge in Year 1. Big mistake. So we make sure we keep it cut and by late spring it stops trying to establish a thicket around the edge. Field maple is less invasive and less thorny and resilient but it also suckers. So the meadow is 'managed' with a hand scythe and cut with a robust mower but compared to a lawn, it is minimal. If the meadow was bigger I would send in sheep at critical times! The art is allowing the seeds to drop but the invasive species not to establish.
not to be weird or picky but what do you do about the dog feces and urine.our old dog that we refused to put down just because his eyesight was getting bad. we let him just wander around the front yard because he was familiar with it then one day. he just laid down and died in his little kingdom but we are still trying to recover from the damage he did in that area he was free to roam. he never dropped his feces in the area he lived. he would go into the woods around our property to do that. but the urine damage, he was a typical male dog: urinating everywhere that was his kingdom and what a mess. it has been 2 years and we are just now seeing recovery. we have a rule absolutely no dogs! enough of our neighbors dogs come into our yard and they always urinate on the fruit and vegetable stuff. please if you have any ideas or thoughts about the whole thing of having a dog that inevitably pees in the worse places.
Bocking 14 comfrey - does it still produce seed but the seed don't germinate? Or is it that seed isn't produced? I'm trying to establish whether what I have, supposedly Bocking 14, actually is or not.
Hi Ryan, did you grow it from seed? If so, it's not Bocking 14 as that has to be propagated by cuttings or root cuttings. Bocking 14 will have seeds but they aren't viable, so won't grow.
most enjoyable
Thank you Steven! I hope you are keeping well.
Those ponds are a good idea, but beware that if you don't have a way out, small animals like hedgehogs can drown in them. What an inspirational garden, I dream of having one someday :)
Lovely, thank you!
Thanks, Maddy & Tim for the tour of your BEAUTIFUL land! ❤ Liz, what a great treat....thanks!
Hi Gerri, thank you for watching, I was so pleased that Maddy and Tim agreed to film in place of my postponed visit. I can hardly wait until I can go in person and capture more of it on film!
You are doing very good Liz . We are proud you are a Food Forester !Much love and respect . Howie and Missy
Thank you so much!
Just fabulous
Hi Josephine, I hope you are well, thank you for dropping by again and I'm so pleased that you like Tim and Maddy's garden.
Kudos for providing the bees' nectar and frogs' habitat!! XOXOXO
a beautiful film and I think my back garden which is tiny has elements of a food forest with a pear tree and herbs, wild flowers in the borders and a sense of abundance to it. I have even planted lettuce and am about to plant climbing beans as a result of wanting to do something positive during lockdown.
It sounds lovely! That feeling of wanting to do something positive is a great incentive to do a little bit more - I hope they grow well for you 😀
I buy Permaculture Magazine and find it wonderful. There was a brilliant article the other month on permaculture gardening in a refugee camp in Africa in which the people were growing their own food. So positive, and not something they will show on the mainstream news! Maybe all schools should have growing food and permaculture on the curriculum; this along with a policy of enabling people to have a proper house with some land, where possible,( rather than cramming everyone into overpriced flats) would make a more resilient, abundant, happier community.
Thank you for this generous comment. We hope you have found issue 104 interesting - out end of April - we couldn't supply shops but we sent them to subscribers who are our life blood, especially at the moment.
It is a great magazine David, I agree with you! I've learnt so much from it and I like that it's thought provoking and often challenging (in a good way).
Wonderful video! Thank you for sharing their channel! Will subscribe for sure!
I've been gardening since I was about 18 yrs old, and didn't really think of myself as a novice gardener until I started watching you and then Huw, and then Charles D... I have learned SO MUCH from you all and am so grateful your channels exist and you share your knowledge and ideas and fellow TH-cam channels with us.🙏 ...there is always something new to learn, and something new to try. 🙌💚
Hi Jessica, it's so true, there is always something to learn - that's one of the things that I like so much about gardening and working with the environment! If you have questions, please feel free to ask, I think I can safely say that all of us are very happy to answer questions where we can.
Nice video
Thanks Caroline, glad that you enjoyed it!
Lovely video and tree garden Liz.
Glad you enjoyed it and thank you for stopping by again, it's much appreciated 😊
Saved to my play list Food Forest
Yay!
Brilliant video. I love the Harlands work. I've subbed xx
Awesome! Thank you!
Hi Liz , I love watching your videos .
I was wondering if it's possible to visit your farm on weekends.
I want to learn few tips . Xx Thanks
Hi, the farm is not open to the public except on days that we run courses here or by prior arrangement to collect items for sale. As Wales is still in lockdown, there are currently no visitors to the farm. You can find more info on our website www.bytherfarm.com
@@LizZorab thanks.
You are rapidly becoming my favorite You Tube video...thank you for all the delightful education
What a lovely thing to say - thank you!
Love this video, thank you Liz. That red cowslip in the Spring meadow may well be just that and not a hybrid. Where I live in Lincolnshire we have wild red cowslips the botanists get rather excited about. We've been watching since lockdown and you have reignited my passion for gardening and my daughter is working on the cubs gardening badge, it turns out she's rather good at it.
So a forrest garden is the temperate climate equivalent to traditionnal oasis gardening: date palms (highest), orange trees (medium), flowers climbing (jasmine and hibiscus) or not, then vegetables and herbs, finally bees. Of course in the desert this is the one and only way to garden.
Awesome update thank you for sharing Liz
Thanks for watching again Linda, it's much appreciated!
Your welcome Liz
Amazing ! What an inspiring couple ! 🌻🐝🌼🐛
Thank you Liz! New to your channel and looking forward to learning and using the plants in my garden
Hello Maria, and welcome, I hope you'll enjoy getting to know us and our gardens.
Our interrupted travel plans stopped us visiting people too. ☹️ How lovely to see those wildflower fields. We can’t have fields like that as for one, we don’t get enough rain & two, the wallabies, kangaroos & possums would munch them all. I started reading of what Bill Mollison was doing back in the early 80s & when we sold our house in 1989, & were cashed up before buying another property, the first thing I did was to buy Bill’s Permaculture Manual.
I know Lyn, I thought of you when you should have been here visiting, such a shame, but maybe one day!
That's a Beautiful garden
It is beautiful, I admire what they've created and hope that in years to come our place will look just as lovely.
What a wonderful transformation to the field. A permaculture garden produces great food. So interesting. The birds singing in the background. Beautiful. Thank you to your guests for sharing and thank you Liz. We are wilting here in 41 c temperatures but we are thankful for being as well as can be expected. I am swimming every day. I have tiny cucumbers on my plant and hoping the heat doesn't kill it. Hope you are both well living in the green green grass of home. Have a wonderful week xxx Margaret in Cyprus
Hi Margaret, it's a gorgeous garden! So pleased to read that you are both well, I don't envy you the heat, but I wouldn't mind it being warm enough to swim each day. 😊
Thank you, Margaret. The garden gives us great pleasure!
Thanks for this video. I started planting a food forest 4 years ago, and sorely needed some encouragement as mine still looks very bare.
Hi Kirsten, I don't know which part of the world you are in, but if you are able to plant currant bushes and raspberries, you may find it suddenly looks very full! I planted some herbs as a ground cover layer and they took off quickly (as did the pernicious weeds!), but it all makes for a fuller garden area.
@@LizZorab I'm in the PNW - Washington State, USA just across the Strait from Victoria BC. I'm about 20 minutes away from the place that the Back to Eden (wood chip) film was made.
I have been planting currants & gooseberries - both native and cultivated - for the past couple of years. It's so dry here (~40.64 cm/year) that they are slow to take off, even with heavy wood chip mulch.
I'm just an impatient gardener, lol.
Thanks again for the video. I've been watch you and Huw for quite some time now.
Binge Watching tonight! ☮️
Like # 36 and we love this Video Content Liz Zorab . Much love and respect . Howie
I thought that you might like this!
great video just a shame its in 720p everything looks so blurry
Following on from Liz's comment at the end about brambles: a question for Maddy and Tim - how do you manage the meadows to stop them from getting overrun with thorny scrub like bramble, blackthorn etc?
We scythe the meadow every year, pile up the scythings in stooks and mulch the soft fruit or young trees with it. The Spring meadow is cut once in summer once the flower seeds have dropped and then kept cut. It is a useful area for a tent or a hang out zone in summer as it is quite flat. The summer meadow further up is cut in autumn, again once the seeds drop. I may cut it early Jan if I think the grass is competing with the flowers. Our main problem is not brambles which we remove by hand but blackthorn which suckers. We planted it in the hedge in Year 1. Big mistake. So we make sure we keep it cut and by late spring it stops trying to establish a thicket around the edge. Field maple is less invasive and less thorny and resilient but it also suckers. So the meadow is 'managed' with a hand scythe and cut with a robust mower but compared to a lawn, it is minimal. If the meadow was bigger I would send in sheep at critical times! The art is allowing the seeds to drop but the invasive species not to establish.
@@PermacultureMagazine That's interesting, thanks. I quite fancy having a go with a scythe!
@@ephemerian This is what I use shop.permaculture.co.uk/basic-scythe-set.html
We walk a fine line between allowing the brambles to grow and being totally swamped by them, most of the time we are swamped!
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Hi, your friends must live somewhere near me because I have sloe worms too, and there are only a few areas of the south coast that have them.
Hampshire near Petersfield.
not to be weird or picky but what do you do about the dog feces and urine.our old dog that we refused to put down just because his eyesight was getting bad. we let him just wander around the front yard because he was familiar with it then one day. he just laid down and died in his little kingdom but we are still trying to recover from the damage he did in that area he was free to roam. he never dropped his feces in the area he lived. he would go into the woods around our property to do that. but the urine damage, he was a typical male dog: urinating everywhere that was his kingdom and what a mess. it has been 2 years and we are just now seeing recovery. we have a rule absolutely no dogs! enough of our neighbors dogs come into our yard and they always urinate on the fruit and vegetable stuff. please if you have any ideas or thoughts about the whole thing of having a dog that inevitably pees in the worse places.
Bocking 14 comfrey - does it still produce seed but the seed don't germinate? Or is it that seed isn't produced? I'm trying to establish whether what I have, supposedly Bocking 14, actually is or not.
Hi Ryan, did you grow it from seed? If so, it's not Bocking 14 as that has to be propagated by cuttings or root cuttings. Bocking 14 will have seeds but they aren't viable, so won't grow.