At around 15:00 or so, when the barn cat jumped up on your shoulder and you mindlessly loved on them, they kept saying, "pay attention to me, will ya?" It was so cute.
Well that was kind of you to share Morgan, I’m sure it will help those who are thinking about the tree business. Always appreciate the way you explain the steps and the final breakdown. Thanks for taking us along for a mini class in agriculture.🌳🌲💕👍
the permaculture orchard is one of my favorite spots to see you cover on the farm, once the canopy grows larger and the shade is more significant it'll be interesting to see what forest-dwelling plants start to show up, maybe a home ramp garden is in order
I recommend the goats be named the Mischief Crew just as you have the Parks and Recreation Crew. Ah, yes, there she is! Ginny Barn Cat, the GSF scene stealer! Terrific video, Morgan. What a great business idea! Thanx for the advice and tips, Morgan.
I'm SO OBSESSED with the apple tree we used to have when I was growing up here. My dad and mom said it was a 6 variety tree and that they had a dog (way before I was born) who broke off a few of the grafts. When I was a kid, we had these apples all over the tree...they were the MOST DELICIOUS things ever. They were red/green speckled, and had that weird corking near the stem...yah know, the rusty brown stuff that's rough and looks like a scab? Anywho, they were the best! You could eat them raw and sliced or bake them...pretty much anything. They were sweet and somewhat tart, and were juicy and somewhat crisp and dry, but juicy! No mealiness whatsoever. I don't even know what the rootstock was, and/or if the whole tree reverted. Anyway...I dream of finding those apples again!
I am trying to grow some cherry trees after being inspired by you and one other guy who starts his own trees. I hope to see them come up this spring. Cherries are our "weed tree" in Salem, Oregon.
Absolutely loved this episode! And would love a follow up. I live in almost identical habitat as you do in the mountains of PA, although you guys probably are a bit colder and get more snow, at least with recent climatic trends. One year we’ll have 40 inches of snow over the winter and the next 12 inches. Which frankly is how it’s been my entire life (I’m almost 50). But while I’m not in the climate change camp (at least man made) I have noticed extended summer weather and then a quick flip to winter. Anyway, this is one of my all time fav videos not just from Gold Shaw but all homestead and small farm channels. Kudos.
In the uk we do the same as you for wild hedging ie hawthorn, blackthorn, hazel etc. This mix makes a stock proof hedge and is also medicinal and great for wildlife. Look into growing Holly its also a tree feed option and can be harvested at Christmas.
Thank you Morgan. Please, yes, a follow up video as well! My friends and I are buying a few acres soon and we'd all love a low lift ongoing business as we grow older. So excited! ❤❤❤
I agree that the world needs more trees, which is why my husband and I are going to put some native species on our land, as well as a couple of fruit and nut trees. We're just using our backyard to our advantage
"The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago" reminds me of a saying that my granpa told us: "El abuelo planta para sus nietos" in spanish, which roughly translates to "The granpa plants for his grandsons". It is hard to believe humans have a tiny lifespan if you think about it. Nature is brutal.
I’ve had a Spy apple once. A friend brought it to me, let me eat a tiny slice of it. It was so good. They’re not sold here, climate is wrong. Great video. Ty.
Yes, you need to name your goat crew. But also write a book about the goats antics. From what i can tell, this would cover a number of different micro environments and places around the fsrm, plenty of adventure, and I'm sure an over-all theme which may be the most difficult part as you select a single one.
I spent much of my younger years volunteering to transplant native plants. many of the plants are still around decades later. I do recommend planting trees where it's appropiate.
Can't wait to have a chestnut orchard some day. So far I'm just cloning American chestnuts, but soon I plan on learning the rootstock aspect of it all.
"Chestnuts and sand and chestnuts and sand and chestnuts and sand..." It's a Chestnut lasagna in a bucket! And it's the return on Ginny's butt on your shoulder.
my mom planted an apple tree in the backyard from some random store apple she had about 4 years ago. The first couple years the top kept getting eaten or trampled by various animals but it always survived. It made it through last winter completely unprotected and through this year its finally grown big enough the animals don't touch it anymore, its almost chest height now. Seems like the roots are good and strong now so hopefully next year it has some good growth too. She's aware the apples are unlikely to be any good but regardless its excellent food for the local animals and bees so its a win regardless. Its much the same here in canada as you describe in vermont. Crab apple trees are common and there are lots of orchards around the countryside, they really thrive in the climate.
Thank you for mentioning the apple varieties! So many underrated and unknown kinds are going extinct and it's nice to know you're promoting as much of the 'wild' ones as possible!
WE PLANT ABOUT 200 TREES EVERY YEAR ON OUR FARM WE DO NOT SELL ANY OF THEM. HERE IN PENNSYLVANIA IF YOU OWN LAND, THE DCNR WILL GIVE YOU FREE TREES AND BUSHES ETC TO PLANT. ❤
Buying trees in fall is much cheaper! I bought three 6 foot nearly dormant trees in soil from an online nursery website. I let them sit in an unheated 50F workroom in the shipping burlap and plastic bag packaging all winter long, with infrequent waterings. (True confession. Not a recommended practice) As soon as they showed little leaf buds emerging in spring I planted them. I had a Crimson Maple and two London Plane trees, and they did great.
I lived in Tacoma, Washington and there were old chesnut trees that poured chesnut pods down and could damage cars , I gathered them for decorations on wreaths , wish I had saved some now !
Not sure if you are familiar with Sean at Edible Acres in the Finger Lakes region of NY. He is doing a lot of tree farming as well as other permaculture stuff and does amazing things with his chickens, plus his narration is one of the calmest on TH-cam if you need to de-stress. Not fancy, just real folks living as economically as possible while running what I would consider to be an important business. Check it out, he does a lot of experimentation as well, which I love.
Well we just got 2 Deci-meters of snow over 24 hours , so unfortunately i won't be able to plant trees but i do live next to a Forrest! No i am inspired to read up on every edible seed, nut and berry!
How do you protect against deer or any other wildlife. I started a permaculture fruit forest about 5-6 years ago. As well as berry bushes including aronia berriesg. The #1 super fruit. I have one plant that produces 4-5 lbs and is immune to predators . Deer have devastated my apple trees the most. My peach and pear trees seem immune to deer but this year somehow right before harvest, I lost my entire harvest. Only my berries have really succeeded. Admittedly my apple trees were planted in a poor area and prob need moved. But like you I have them mixed around my 1 acre. Pro tip. Hit up like a Walmart (who I never shop at) or at a Lowe’s at the end of the season at huge discounts. Most trees produce the following year and by year two they are loaded. I live in central PA.
Hey, Morgan! I'm not entirely sure (correct me, if I'm wrong, please, ppl) but I've heard too many conifers for goats is not really healthy, so include deciduous trees/bushes into their diet too.
How deep do you have to dig the hole for your chestnut seedling? I want to order from you but I have soil with large rocks under the ground in NJ. There was a lot of dynamite when we built our home.
Really interesting. My question: what kind of chestnut trees do you grow that are reisitant to the chestnut blight that wipped out millions of American Chestnuts?
what about hazel nuts, i know you are cooler than GB, but they grow really well here and food trees are my thing. i have a damson, a fig, two apples and a bay tree. i also have 7 fruit bushes and room for two more
Hopefully one day I get my own land and get chestnuts from you. Also, just a question for fun, have you considered other tree species? Sugar Maple? Black Walnut? American Persimmon?
i wonder how you keep those seed/saplings safe from other foragers. i assume the guardian dogs keep all manner of animal away from the most vulnerable areas of the farm, but even with three dogs in my suburban backyard (a couple who are great varmint eradicators), keeping critters and birds away from my few seeds and sprouts is always an exercise in futility for me. a farmer i am not 😂 i wonder if it's a matter of scale/volume? some seeds may succumb to foraging but there's so many that odds are high for a good yield anyway?
More trees need more CO2 to eat. More trees is also a warmer world because they create a micro climate with less extreme temperatures up and down. Ever wonder why trees hate green light?
Thank you for getting more people into growing trees instead of cutting them down ❤
"Do you have any B-roll of packaging trees seedlings?" Editor
I saw that 😂 im guessing the answer was no lol
The B roll didn't make it gang 😔 funny little Easter egg though
Came to comments to see if anyone else was confused lol
A society grows great when old men plant trees, whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
Reminds me of my Dad who in his 80s was planting peach trees for the deer.
HERE FOR TREE AND PLANT CONTENT EVERYONE SAY THANK YOU MORGAN AND GATEKEEP YOUR SEED PROVIDER FORVERRR
the Portuguese guy has the chestnuts, joking maybe.
At around 15:00 or so, when the barn cat jumped up on your shoulder and you mindlessly loved on them, they kept saying, "pay attention to me, will ya?" It was so cute.
Well that was kind of you to share Morgan, I’m sure it will help those who are thinking about the tree business. Always appreciate the way you explain the steps and the final breakdown. Thanks for taking us along for a mini class in agriculture.🌳🌲💕👍
the permaculture orchard is one of my favorite spots to see you cover on the farm, once the canopy grows larger and the shade is more significant it'll be interesting to see what forest-dwelling plants start to show up, maybe a home ramp garden is in order
I recommend the goats be named the Mischief Crew just as you have the Parks and Recreation Crew.
Ah, yes, there she is! Ginny Barn Cat, the GSF scene stealer!
Terrific video, Morgan. What a great business idea! Thanx for the advice and tips, Morgan.
Wow, you know your stuff. Very informative and I can feel your passion about planting trees.
I'm SO OBSESSED with the apple tree we used to have when I was growing up here. My dad and mom said it was a 6 variety tree and that they had a dog (way before I was born) who broke off a few of the grafts. When I was a kid, we had these apples all over the tree...they were the MOST DELICIOUS things ever. They were red/green speckled, and had that weird corking near the stem...yah know, the rusty brown stuff that's rough and looks like a scab? Anywho, they were the best! You could eat them raw and sliced or bake them...pretty much anything. They were sweet and somewhat tart, and were juicy and somewhat crisp and dry, but juicy! No mealiness whatsoever. I don't even know what the rootstock was, and/or if the whole tree reverted. Anyway...I dream of finding those apples again!
Morgan, have you ever considered writing a book about how to start, grow, and sell seedling trees?
LOL, you just had to show the barn cat wizzing at the very end! Also, I love your Stormy Kromer.
I am trying to grow some cherry trees after being inspired by you and one other guy who starts his own trees. I hope to see them come up this spring. Cherries are our "weed tree" in Salem, Oregon.
Excellent episode Morgan, useful information and I agree: The world needs more people growing trees!
Absolutely loved this episode! And would love a follow up. I live in almost identical habitat as you do in the mountains of PA, although you guys probably are a bit colder and get more snow, at least with recent climatic trends. One year we’ll have 40 inches of snow over the winter and the next 12 inches. Which frankly is how it’s been my entire life (I’m almost 50). But while I’m not in the climate change camp (at least man made) I have noticed extended summer weather and then a quick flip to winter. Anyway, this is one of my all time fav videos not just from Gold Shaw but all homestead and small farm channels. Kudos.
In the uk we do the same as you for wild hedging ie hawthorn, blackthorn, hazel etc. This mix makes a stock proof hedge and is also medicinal and great for wildlife. Look into growing Holly its also a tree feed option and can be harvested at Christmas.
Thank you Morgan. Please, yes, a follow up video as well! My friends and I are buying a few acres soon and we'd all love a low lift ongoing business as we grow older. So excited! ❤❤❤
I guess you can say Morgan is ‘branching’ out
You can say he's laying down roots
😂
I await for your vids lately Morgan. It's like craving chocolate or bread 🍞 ❤
Same 😂
more tree videos please!!! also please show how Abby dog helps you cultivate trees.
Been waiting for this one! Getting my tree nursery going now too!!!!
Of course I thought of you while watching this. I’m excited to see what you do with your orchard.
Thank you so much for the tree video!!! Always happy to see how that part of your farm is doing!!
Finally a tree video :)
6:16 Morgan, you forgot about teh packing B-roll!
I agree that the world needs more trees, which is why my husband and I are going to put some native species on our land, as well as a couple of fruit and nut trees. We're just using our backyard to our advantage
"The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago" reminds me of a saying that my granpa told us:
"El abuelo planta para sus nietos" in spanish, which roughly translates to "The granpa plants for his grandsons".
It is hard to believe humans have a tiny lifespan if you think about it. Nature is brutal.
Very interested in seeing the apple seedlings in spring. If that works well you're going to have cider and trees from one crop of apples. VERY cool 🙂
I’ve had a Spy apple once. A friend brought it to me, let me eat a tiny slice of it. It was so good. They’re not sold here, climate is wrong. Great video. Ty.
Yes, you need to name your goat crew. But also write a book about the goats antics. From what i can tell, this would cover a number of different micro environments and places around the fsrm, plenty of adventure, and I'm sure an over-all theme which may be the most difficult part as you select a single one.
I’m making air prune beds while watching this
Love the timing
I spent much of my younger years volunteering to transplant native plants. many of the plants are still around decades later. I do recommend planting trees where it's appropiate.
3:17 Your dogs are the best.
Please post a video of just your barn cats exploring freshly dug up ground. :)
Pick a couple of acres in the back and start growing Hemp! Easy money making crop
Thanks for the tree video!
Fascinating subject. If I ever move to the country I will give it a try.
Amazing tutorial. We all need to plants trees.
Can't wait to have a chestnut orchard some day. So far I'm just cloning American chestnuts, but soon I plan on learning the rootstock aspect of it all.
I LOVE your tree content Morgan! Though I totally understand why it’s a more annual video sort of thing, trees are a slow business 😂❤
Amazing....when the cat jump in and the way you treat....so beautiful 😍❤️😂
I love that Ginny Barn Cat decided to guest star in your video 😂❤
We have not seen Ginny cam in a long time
Hi Morgan, you have been a great inspiration to our little block in rural Tasmania. Thanks for the awesome content.
It's been a long time Morgan since I've seen a cat on your shoulder. I mean the outdoor ones. I remember recently when Lil got your sniffles going 😅❤❤
Jinny is the star of the show.
your content disappeared off my page for about a year and I'm so excited to see you again! the content is so inspiring and interesting
Hell yeah, spread the good word brother!
"Chestnuts and sand and chestnuts and sand and chestnuts and sand..."
It's a Chestnut lasagna in a bucket!
And it's the return on Ginny's butt on your shoulder.
Funny, Morgan say's "Up there in Quebec". Fun fact Peacham is a 3 hour drive to Boston but only a 1 hour drive to the Quebec border.
my mom planted an apple tree in the backyard from some random store apple she had about 4 years ago. The first couple years the top kept getting eaten or trampled by various animals but it always survived. It made it through last winter completely unprotected and through this year its finally grown big enough the animals don't touch it anymore, its almost chest height now. Seems like the roots are good and strong now so hopefully next year it has some good growth too. She's aware the apples are unlikely to be any good but regardless its excellent food for the local animals and bees so its a win regardless. Its much the same here in canada as you describe in vermont. Crab apple trees are common and there are lots of orchards around the countryside, they really thrive in the climate.
Awesome, love these tree videos in particular. Maybe some more wildlife documentaries in and around the farm?
In my tiny little garden I planted 15 trees!
Love the channel, the animals and all the amazing work that you do day to day. Cheers from Estonia
you should have a Chestnut forest they are so rare
Thank you for mentioning the apple varieties! So many underrated and unknown kinds are going extinct and it's nice to know you're promoting as much of the 'wild' ones as possible!
WE PLANT ABOUT 200 TREES EVERY YEAR ON OUR FARM WE DO NOT SELL ANY OF THEM. HERE IN PENNSYLVANIA IF YOU OWN LAND, THE DCNR WILL GIVE YOU FREE TREES AND BUSHES ETC TO PLANT. ❤
Life Goals!!! Thank you for sharing your how to. I guess I need to get to work.
Very interesting but really love seeing the goats.
Always good to see when it's shoulder cat season 😂
damn gotta love trees
Buying trees in fall is much cheaper! I bought three 6 foot nearly dormant trees in soil from an online nursery website. I let them sit in an unheated 50F workroom in the shipping burlap and plastic bag packaging all winter long, with infrequent waterings. (True confession. Not a recommended practice) As soon as they showed little leaf buds emerging in spring I planted them. I had a Crimson Maple and two London Plane trees, and they did great.
I’d love to see your grafting system. I’ve tried to graft with little success.
I really enjoy your videos they keep my mind distracted
I’m going to steal some chestnuts from my neighbor this fall and plant them this week.
I lived in Tacoma, Washington and there were old chesnut trees that poured chesnut pods down and could damage cars , I gathered them for decorations on wreaths , wish I had saved some now !
Not sure if you are familiar with Sean at Edible Acres in the Finger Lakes region of NY. He is doing a lot of tree farming as well as other permaculture stuff and does amazing things with his chickens, plus his narration is one of the calmest on TH-cam if you need to de-stress. Not fancy, just real folks living as economically as possible while running what I would consider to be an important business. Check it out, he does a lot of experimentation as well, which I love.
16:40 make sure those seed beds are locked away from the goats next spring/summer
Hey Morgan, are you planning on getting more barn cats?
Love those trees
Thank you for such an informative video
You should offer the permaculture kit, a pack of all the sister trees together.
Very informative. Thanks :)
Love trees!!! Hope to be one in next life🎉❤
Well we just got 2 Deci-meters of snow over 24 hours , so unfortunately i won't be able to plant trees but i do live next to a Forrest! No i am inspired to read up on every edible seed, nut and berry!
Yessir treesss ❤
Here to ask for the packaging b-roll 😄🌳🌳🌳
How do you protect against deer or any other wildlife. I started a permaculture fruit forest about 5-6 years ago. As well as berry bushes including aronia berriesg. The #1 super fruit. I have one plant that produces 4-5 lbs and is immune to predators . Deer have devastated my apple trees the most. My peach and pear trees seem immune to deer but this year somehow right before harvest, I lost my entire harvest. Only my berries have really succeeded. Admittedly my apple trees were planted in a poor area and prob need moved. But like you I have them mixed around my 1 acre. Pro tip. Hit up like a Walmart (who I never shop at) or at a Lowe’s at the end of the season at huge discounts. Most trees produce the following year and by year two they are loaded. I live in central PA.
I really think you should revisit the hazelnuts. They did not take in the first years. Would be invaluable for you, stock and sales.
Hey, Morgan! I'm not entirely sure (correct me, if I'm wrong, please, ppl) but I've heard too many conifers for goats is not really healthy, so include deciduous trees/bushes into their diet too.
Were about to cull our first batch of roosters today, any tips?
i am always interested & curious in the trees even tho they are not the scene stealers ~
Thank you!
Morgan, what do you think about conifers? Christmas trees, for example?
Great video Morgan. Thanks!
Can you use the chestnuts that you buy at the farmers market for sprouting
I'm inspired by the Stormy Kromer
6:12 I guess no B-roll footage of packing trees
*sad viewer noises*
Thanks!
How deep do you have to dig the hole for your chestnut seedling? I want to order from you but I have soil with large rocks under the ground in NJ. There was a lot of dynamite when we built our home.
Do you keep trying to sprout the unsprouted chestnuts after you dig them up or are they pretty much unusable at that point?
Really interesting. My question: what kind of chestnut trees do you grow that are reisitant to the chestnut blight that wipped out millions of American Chestnuts?
What about air strikes from birds like eagles or falcon ?? Do you lose some birds from that ?? All the best from Iceland
what about hazel nuts, i know you are cooler than GB, but they grow really well here and food trees are my thing. i have a damson, a fig, two apples and a bay tree. i also have 7 fruit bushes and room for two more
Seriously, apple trees don't produce a consistent type of apple unless you graft? That's news to me.
Hopefully one day I get my own land and get chestnuts from you. Also, just a question for fun, have you considered other tree species? Sugar Maple? Black Walnut? American Persimmon?
Would buy a GSF Fudd hat!
Treeeeeee videoooooooo
Are the blight resistant?
i wonder how you keep those seed/saplings safe from other foragers. i assume the guardian dogs keep all manner of animal away from the most vulnerable areas of the farm, but even with three dogs in my suburban backyard (a couple who are great varmint eradicators), keeping critters and birds away from my few seeds and sprouts is always an exercise in futility for me. a farmer i am not 😂 i wonder if it's a matter of scale/volume? some seeds may succumb to foraging but there's so many that odds are high for a good yield anyway?
Very interesting.
More trees need more CO2 to eat. More trees is also a warmer world because they create a micro climate with less extreme temperatures up and down. Ever wonder why trees hate green light?