G'day Everyone, Happy New Year! May your vegetable gardens be productive, and I wish you all the best health for 2025. Thanks for your support, and I'll see you next year! Cheers :)
For Christmas my oldest asked me what I wanted. Gift certificate to Bakers Creek. It blew me away the amount of the gift certificate. My son asked what I wanted. We have a local research scientist/ landrace farmer. His seed and plants are bred specifically for my mountain valley, high desert that is very hot, for a short time in summer. Cold winters. I don't know what seeds I will get from him. He's making up a package because he said I had to have some surprise for Christmas. If it doesn't have sun chokes and prickly pear, I'll have to add them on. I've got a baby food forest that I'll plant annuals in before it gets filled in. I'm ready to plant, but the only things that I can start in the house this early are sweet potatoes and leeks. I tried to get things growing early winter in the high tunnel. It wasn't warm enough to get anything to sprout. I was told the seeds should start coming up in early spring in there
I know. I am having major withdrawals from little green things right now. I'll be able to plant leeks and sweet potato slips about early to mid February.
Thank you so much ❤ Got diagnosed with PPMS (Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis) over a year ago. It is not a friend you would ever wish for! My psychiatrist suggested looking at growing et cetra. I landed at your wonderful You Tube channel. Without exaggerating yourself and a few wonderful others have provided the focus to carry-on. Bless you all 🎉 have wonderful New Year 2025😊
I have something 'similar', I empathise. Good soil, good food is crucial, VitB12 comes from the soil, mainly bacteria in worm's guts, _nowhere else,_ breathe it in! Have a HNY!!!
I read a study a few months ago that used Vitamin D3. 10,000 IU daily for three months. 25% of people saw no improvement. 50% saw some improvement. 25% of people became symptom free. Vitamin D3 is cheap. Try it. Blessings and best wishes.
Check out lazy dog farms and the the millennial gardener. Two channels I also watch. One is in Carolinas the other one in Georgia I live in North Florida so they help a lot with gardening as well. Love self sufficient me as well .
Plant some native flowers/shrubs/trees indigenous to your area. Low to no maintenance and helps create an ecosystem of predatory insects that keep the pests under control.
In my land taxes over seeds goes up from 9% to 21% , Jan. first 2025. Next to that they have fruits and veggies now that don't make seeds anymore at all, I am worried a bit that they want to make seeds too expensive for us too... We may be totally depending on them for food soon, if we don't learn to save our own seeds and grow things ourself. They can make it as expensive as they please, since we can't live without it. Don't underestimate the greed of those people, and their hunger for power... Wishing you all a beautiful, free, healthy and happy 2025! ❤
@@meganlalli5450 No, I do not, most people here paved their garden with tiles, concrete or grit. I only have a balcony, but manage to get a bunch of food and (medicinal) herbs from that most years. This year, over the very wet weather here, we had a ton of slugs and snails. I live on first floor, and did not expect many to find me up here, but man, they did, and I realized too late. They ate near all my seedlings. I did buy a lot of seeds now, on the old taxes still, all different kinds, and I have learned to save seeds of a lot of plants already. The one friend I have here refused to prepare for anything, and told me he knows where I live if he needs something... The neighbours, I tried to tell them a few years ago, hard times are coming, they better fix their garden en learn how to grow for themselfs, but they laughed in my face, and are not even greeting me anymore. (I warned them about a lot, since I already saw on TH-cam things would change fast over all kinds of reasons. I can't make them do anything, nor do I want to. If SHTF I will see what I can share.) Wishing you a happy, wonderful new year!! ❤
To my surprise the mental health benefits have been huge for me. Got hit hard this year with a relapse in depression so I decided to randomly pick up a grow light and started growing some lettuce, spinach and bell peppers. I always thought the mental health improvement was because of the physical exercise aspect but there’s definitely something more to it when it comes to bettering your mood 😁
G'day, we have been trying out anything that is edible for years. Even when it turns out that it's not so palatable to us,there isn't a lot that chooks won't eat. We have also planted thousands of natives to keep the wildlife happy, even though seeing your white cockys made me immediately think of the passionfruit! They have a particular liking for them. Hope you inspire more people to become less dependent on the Multinationals. Happy gardening and stay safe, cheers mate 😊
I entirely agree that more people need to be self sufficient in rural areas, albeit that is not possible currently for everyone, so....in order to combat food issues there needs to be a multilateral approach to world food hunger and one of those opportunities is retrofitting commercial farms into more sustainable and ecofriendly operations. I can relate to what you are saying in your geographical location that self sufficiency is required due to logistics and shipping cost. This is why youre leading the charge in your area into what you are dedicated so much towards. Make a bunch of farms with the people you can rely on spreading the process and make AUS mostly self sufficient.👍
Happy New Year from a Yank. We started gardening in 2020 with two 4x8 ft raised beds. In 2021 we added a 20x30 ft tilled garden in our yard. Now we have three 4x8 raised beds and the tilled garden has expanded to 24x30. We canned 50 quarts of green beans last year and froze 40 cups of sweet corn. We also produced 20 quarts of pickles. Every year we expand a little. Our radish crop was amazing last year and we had to resort to giving garlic away! Still struggling with tomatoes, but plan to try again this year!
Hey Mark, I'm retiring in January and my new hobby is raised bed gardening. You are my inspiration in that endeavor. Thanks for all you do and Happy New Year!
All the best for your retirement! I know you will love your new hobby because raised bed gardening will challenge you enough to keep you interested and reward you plenty to keep you motivated. Cheers :)
Loved this channel for years, grew spuds, lettuce, tomato, cucumber, peas, and broad bean for the first time following this channels instruction. I'm still figuring out garlic, corn and ginger. Unfortunately I had to move into a rental and will now have to start over in 2025. Hope your garden goes well for another year mate.
Thank you so much, Mark! My small garden seems to get a little better every year, with failures as well as successes. Either way, I'm *learning* along the way. I wish you the very best in the New Year!!! 👍 (Edit to add a big Thumbs Up!)
Happy New Year from the state's. I quit making new year resolutions because I never planned on what or how to accomplish them. About 2 weeks ago I made plans for my gardens, house & farm. I don't know if they'll work, but I'm just going to start with 1 at a time. Good for job's in the house, not so good with job's on the homestead that require multiple projects worked & a time limit for some. But I'm also work on putting the fun or joy back into the thing's I use to enjoy. If it doesn't turn out the way it should or I want it too. That's ok. Hopefully I learned something.
After a recent surgery I filled half my beds with garlic. Now I have to wait till June to plant out those beds. So my spring won’t be so hectic trying to plant all the beds at once.
Happy new year to you, started my veggie patch in my back yard in August 2021 and a permaculture food forest in my front yard. The food forest is slowly getting there.
This is my new year resolution. My wife is having our first child in June, and I want to make sure now more than ever that we all have access to healthy food
Thanks Mark. Love watching your videos. I’m a nurse, new mum and I have chronic illness so I have little time or energy to get out. I have 4 small raised garden beds. I’ve spent the year watching your videos and my technique has improved greatly. I’ve focused more on soil health and noticed an increase in my harvests. My focus on my garden is to grow things for my daughter which I certainly have. We snack on the garden good for our mental and physical health ❤. Happy New Year 🎉 keep up the great content.
Happy New Year to you too! Thank you Mark for all the helpful information you have shared with us over these past years. Your wonderful humor and knowledge has made my life more purposeful than it would have been without you cheering me on! I turn 81 in March, hopefully , and I am planning to have my veggie garden growing wonderful things this season!
Great points. The cost of food alone is the greatest reason to grow your own. There are many solutions for small areas and vertical planters as well. Your enthusiasm is encouraging.
We have a food garden that we are always working on !! We are trying to grow veggies and fruit so we are not relying on supermarkets plus its cheaper to grow organic food. We do our own compost plus worm farming. Gardening is a space for my mental health and exercise and the joy and achievement I get from growing !! I love your content and your advice and just love watching your videos !!!. Thanks 👍👍❤
Thanks Mark, for the motivational clip. Makes so much sense to me. I like to do some of my gardening in bare feet. Feeling the earth also helps to see the earth thru her eyes!! Happy new year 🎉
Hi! I need every day to go outside and walk through my garden, touch the leaves, see the flowers, take out pests or whatever... also in winter time,... the contact with nature has something magical and difficult to explain, it's like charging your internal battery! Bye
Hi Mark, I am 56 and have always had a vegetable garden. My parents first, then myself when I left home. There is no greater joy than sitting down to a plate of new potatoes, peas, carrots etc. I do live in Tasmania so maximum production time is limited however I can still manage a few thing in our cold winters and there is always the frozen produce from the previous summers garden😊. Thanks Mark for spreading the word about gardening and home grown food.
Thanks, Lisa, and there's something about Tasmania's produce makes it extra fresh and tasty. I remember our honeymoon in Tassy 20 years ago, and we still rave about the food! We are looking to go back again soon for a visit. Happy New Year :)
It’s been our new year’s resolution for about three years now Mark and at our home, you’ve been our education and mate along the way. Our compost pile is working at optimum now…no smells and a quicker ‘turnover’ haha…😂…not to mention your HILARIOUS ‘DAD’ JOKES…😝😝😝👍 P.s…now we’ve actually begun to save at least 29% at the supermarket on VEGGIES!! Tahhh mate! 🎉🇦🇺 Wishing you and your family a great ‘25! 🍻🕊️💐
My Grandfather had a huge vege garden and I suppose I got that from him. I have always had some sort of vege garden and just love growing veges. Somehow it just seems normal to have one and it does not need to be big. When I lived in a flat as a young fella I had tomato plants and lettuce in pots. Lets face it having some sort of garden is not that hard. The other benefit apart from the obvious produce is that my Grandkids love coming to see how the veges are growing and helping plant new ones and harvesting when ready. I also know that the veges they are getting are wholesome and organic. All the best to you for the New Year and I look forward to more videos.
loved this! been growing food for many many years. 8 years ago we bought a small homestead in the east of Sweden. We now have chickens. Happy new year!
You have really kept me going with my garden and now I eat by seasons from my backyard and I know what's in my veggies. I'm preparing for the Northern hemisphere spring and looking forward to continuing to eat well. Thanks for all your work!!
this is true! but i've discovered one caveat -- i used to think there's NO point in growing anything i couldn't eat, including flowers. but i've finally learned this year you HAVE TO have flowers to help your edible plants!
You are so right if Man touches our food it’ll make us sick if God touches our food it’ll make us well. It’s a simple as that. Thank you for your video. I love gardening it is so much fun.
Thank you. I like to share the term "productive recreation" with people. Gardening is a hobby that is enjoyable and productive. This is not to say that one can't enjoy and get benefits from painting or biking, but having the by-product of a hobby give you food to furniture is more rewarding to m
I started over last year after turning my new house into a home. My garden was and continues to be instrumental in improving my mental health after my ex cheated on me. I started last year shattered. I ended it way better and with the core of a garden. It is also a great help to me as I am a counselor and I can potter a bit after I help someone with something hard. This channel has been on my watch list a while and a great help for me. Keep up the good work.
Just finished watching “My dinner with Andre” old movie but had parts discussing how modern society makes us numb (prophetic). purposeful gardening takes us back to something that makes us more human.
Oh yes...no chemicals on the food I grow makes me feel good about what I'm eating, and the taste is so much nicer. My tomatoes pop up each year when the time is right for them and are healthier than the last one I bought
I grow my staple crops- potatoes, tomatoes, collards, squash, beets, carrots, lettuce, grapes (when I have a good year). I also grow melons (if I'm lucky to have a warmer year). We don't have very few diseases or insect problems up here in Maine, just weather problems.
Started my food garden a few years ago with just 1 Apple tree and have since filled it up with tough, resistant plants - resistant to heat, cold, drought, and disease. Apples, Nuts, Berries, Figs. I imagine a time where every house would have even just 1 kind of big fruit tree and a few veges, we'd have enough to be self sufficient together
Live in Norway, last year it was 9 degrees at night, and only 15 during the day, in the middle of our summer. I needed long johns to not freeze. My plants didn't like it, so no harvest, because it didn't go past spring temperatures. 😢 I'm really looking into moving to warmer places in southern Europe. Just so I can grow food all year. Since I have been making a food forest, I had plenty of mushrooms to harvest in August and September. They thrived with the cold wet weather.
All the best to you and your family Mark, I salute your mighty attitude to good living and gardening. You've been a valuable component of my gardening efforts & it's associated mental health. Cheers mate. ❤
Absolutely love your vids mate, I’m 25 and have recently started my own food forest, and garden I’m going to be completely self sufficient I’m living off grid at the moment, hopefully one day you’ll be able to come and visit, you are a huge inspiration, thank you.
Happy New Year from Canada. Saw on the news another recall of carrots. Now I am building another 2 more raised bed boxes to increase my supply of veggies for winter. A country boy can survive. Cheers
Thing is, most people don't know how to garden or don't have the space. There needs to be a free program/course in every city as possible & community lots for anyone who doesn't have space to grow.
Thanks for all over the years Mark and Dogs. Let us hope more people hook in and follow your bonza suggestions. Look after yourself and those precious to you. Like you still have my old trenching tool lets go hard 2025 Up the guts and nags of smoke :):):)
LOL... Hard to beat the old ET Phil! Having said that, I've been working on making my own but it's still a long way off production (if it ever happens). Up the guts mate for 2025 you bet! Cheers :)
I was just thinking about starting a small garden for the new year, how ironic I literally have it written on my vision board for stuff I wanna try to start
At 1:26 everything you’ve said has already occurred to our tomatoes. The tomatoes we ate 50 years ago had flavour, but now not so much. That was done for mechanical harvesting. They changed the tomatoes for that reason.
Happy New Year to you and your family Mark.... Last year i started work on a large veggie patch at home and couldn't agree more on the point that by growing your own you know what is going into the soil and how they have been handled....and what more could you want than to just step outside your back door to collect your own veggies for dinner every night :) Love your videos, and the humour that goes along with them, and always recommending them to anyone i talk to about gardening.
Here's to you for providing wonderful content and helping some of us discover more about the garden. I have learned a lot from you over the last couple years and make me want to grow more food (fruits and veggies). So from me personally, THANK YOU MARK :)
I'd love to see you do a video on heirloom varieties and seed providers. People who get their vegetables from supermarkets have never tasted a real tomato.
We just recently moved into a new home so I will be starting from scratch and making a new garden. I'm already making plans on what I need to get. I can't imagine not having a garden.
Lovely video! Between you and Marty Ware from Marty's Garden, I'm pretty pumped to get growing. I live in a very hot (at the moment) part of WA, inland now. It's so very different from living on the coast. I potted up a heap of guava trees today in the heat, got a few drops of rain but I put out more in sweat!! I have four cape gooseberries that are growing from seed, hoping to plant more if I haven't missed the season. I struggle with short term crops like veggies. They sprout amazingly, then die with little harvested. The trees are hanging on to life..just. Looking forward to cracking the growing code for out here. We need it!! An hour from town and stupid prices with questionable quality. Looking forward to learning more in the new year❤❤ thank you for what you do, it's making a difference.
Happy New Year Mark, I hope you have a year filled with Unicorns🦄 & Rainbows🌈, or at best regular rain. I am busy this morning updating the lights & fans in the chook house, all solar/battery powered, and then to check on our garden, Cheers
G'day Everyone, Happy New Year! May your vegetable gardens be productive, and I wish you all the best health for 2025. Thanks for your support, and I'll see you next year! Cheers :)
Looks like you are about to be the president of garden growing expansion in your country. Steward it well...❤👍
Happy New Year all the way from California, we love you New Zealander’s & Australians keep it up 👍
Thank you from Florida!🍀
Thank you so much🎉🎉🎉
For Christmas my oldest asked me what I wanted. Gift certificate to Bakers Creek. It blew me away the amount of the gift certificate. My son asked what I wanted. We have a local research scientist/ landrace farmer. His seed and plants are bred specifically for my mountain valley, high desert that is very hot, for a short time in summer. Cold winters. I don't know what seeds I will get from him. He's making up a package because he said I had to have some surprise for Christmas. If it doesn't have sun chokes and prickly pear, I'll have to add them on. I've got a baby food forest that I'll plant annuals in before it gets filled in. I'm ready to plant, but the only things that I can start in the house this early are sweet potatoes and leeks. I tried to get things growing early winter in the high tunnel. It wasn't warm enough to get anything to sprout. I was told the seeds should start coming up in early spring in there
“Did you fart oxygen??” -“Mmmhmmmm” had me laughing out loud. Love when you sneak a dad joke in 😂
Same 😂
Haha same. So funny 😂
I did, in fact, fart oxygen
😂
A man who has a library and a garden ,is a rich man. Cicero
I think it is" If you have a library and a garden you have everything you need.." Nearly but not quite the same.
Being in the garden is my happy place. I can't imagine not growing my own food. Thank for inspiring me.
I know. I am having major withdrawals from little green things right now. I'll be able to plant leeks and sweet potato slips about early to mid February.
@maryjane-vx4dd I start peppers in February. I actually mourned the garden at the end of my first year. I haven't since.
Thank you so much ❤ Got diagnosed with PPMS (Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis) over a year ago. It is not a friend you would ever wish for! My psychiatrist suggested looking at growing et cetra. I landed at your wonderful You Tube channel. Without exaggerating yourself and a few wonderful others have provided the focus to carry-on. Bless you all 🎉 have wonderful New Year 2025😊
I have something 'similar', I empathise. Good soil, good food is crucial, VitB12 comes from the soil, mainly bacteria in worm's guts, _nowhere else,_ breathe it in! Have a HNY!!!
G'day Kerry, thanks for sharing your story with us. You are an inspiration, and I wish you blessings and all the best for 2025! Cheers :)
I read a study a few months ago that used Vitamin D3. 10,000 IU daily for three months. 25% of people saw no improvement. 50% saw some improvement. 25% of people became symptom free. Vitamin D3 is cheap. Try it. Blessings and best wishes.
Sending healing wishes to you!
Check out lazy dog farms and the the millennial gardener. Two channels I also watch. One is in Carolinas the other one in Georgia I live in North Florida so they help a lot with gardening as well. Love self sufficient me as well .
I had to give up my allotment for health reasons and have a tiny garden. So I’m gonna … get into it! Flowers out, veg in! Happy new year!
Hang on to a couple of flowers, get the ones you can eat. The colors will be good for your peace of mind. Blessings.
Plant some native flowers/shrubs/trees indigenous to your area. Low to no maintenance and helps create an ecosystem of predatory insects that keep the pests under control.
In my land taxes over seeds goes up from 9% to 21% , Jan. first 2025. Next to that they have fruits and veggies now that don't make seeds anymore at all, I am worried a bit that they want to make seeds too expensive for us too... We may be totally depending on them for food soon, if we don't learn to save our own seeds and grow things ourself. They can make it as expensive as they please, since we can't live without it. Don't underestimate the greed of those people, and their hunger for power... Wishing you all a beautiful, free, healthy and happy 2025! ❤
I hope you have friends and neighbors who save seeds so all of you can trade with one another.
What country is this?
@@sblauss The Netherlands, Europe.
@@meganlalli5450 No, I do not, most people here paved their garden with tiles, concrete or grit. I only have a balcony, but manage to get a bunch of food and (medicinal) herbs from that most years. This year, over the very wet weather here, we had a ton of slugs and snails. I live on first floor, and did not expect many to find me up here, but man, they did, and I realized too late. They ate near all my seedlings. I did buy a lot of seeds now, on the old taxes still, all different kinds, and I have learned to save seeds of a lot of plants already. The one friend I have here refused to prepare for anything, and told me he knows where I live if he needs something... The neighbours, I tried to tell them a few years ago, hard times are coming, they better fix their garden en learn how to grow for themselfs, but they laughed in my face, and are not even greeting me anymore. (I warned them about a lot, since I already saw on TH-cam things would change fast over all kinds of reasons. I can't make them do anything, nor do I want to. If SHTF I will see what I can share.) Wishing you a happy, wonderful new year!! ❤
Yes indeed. Buy heritage seeds on line. Then save the seeds. Then you'll always have a supply of seeds fir next year.
To my surprise the mental health benefits have been huge for me. Got hit hard this year with a relapse in depression so I decided to randomly pick up a grow light and started growing some lettuce, spinach and bell peppers. I always thought the mental health improvement was because of the physical exercise aspect but there’s definitely something more to it when it comes to bettering your mood 😁
Nature is beautiful
Being self sufficient is confidence building.
Five good reasons! Home gardening has brought me into the 80's with a very healthy lifestyle, and I hope to continue it for a number more years.
G'day, we have been trying out anything that is edible for years. Even when it turns out that it's not so palatable to us,there isn't a lot that chooks won't eat. We have also planted thousands of natives to keep the wildlife happy, even though seeing your white cockys made me immediately think of the passionfruit! They have a particular liking for them. Hope you inspire more people to become less dependent on the Multinationals. Happy gardening and stay safe, cheers mate 😊
Homesteading showcases the beauty of simple, mindful living!
HAPPY NEW YEAR
2025 peace prosperity and abundant bumper crops 👍🏻
Amen
Cheers to that.
heck yeah, even a video on new years eve, you give the people what they want Mark. Thanks for the upload.
💙 Happy Holidays 2024 ☮️ Peace and Organic Love in the New Year 🌎🌏🌍 🖖
Merry Christmas!
Yep, happy New Year 🍻 every shop needs a “not perfect” fruit and veg section so everyone can afford fresh food.
i agree! the closest thing i've found is looking up "CSA boxes" in your area!
I entirely agree that more people need to be self sufficient in rural areas, albeit that is not possible currently for everyone, so....in order to combat food issues there needs to be a multilateral approach to world food hunger and one of those opportunities is retrofitting commercial farms into more sustainable and ecofriendly operations.
I can relate to what you are saying in your geographical location that self sufficiency is required due to logistics and shipping cost. This is why youre leading the charge in your area into what you are dedicated so much towards. Make a bunch of farms with the people you can rely on spreading the process and make AUS mostly self sufficient.👍
Happy New Year! Too Every one . May your garden grow well .
Happy New Year 🎉
We love you!! Happy holidays all!! Lets get into it!!!
Happy New Year and greetings from Indonesia!!! ❤❤❤❤❤
Happy New Year! :)
Happy New Year Mark! 🎉🎉🎈🎈🍺🍺🍻🍻👍👍
Happy New Year from a Yank. We started gardening in 2020 with two 4x8 ft raised beds. In 2021 we added a 20x30 ft tilled garden in our yard. Now we have three 4x8 raised beds and the tilled garden has expanded to 24x30. We canned 50 quarts of green beans last year and froze 40 cups of sweet corn. We also produced 20 quarts of pickles. Every year we expand a little. Our radish crop was amazing last year and we had to resort to giving garlic away! Still struggling with tomatoes, but plan to try again this year!
Happy new year 🥳, hope 2025 is a productive year for everyone.
TY
Happy New Year!!! Greetings from a Dutch guy in Spain 🇪🇸👋
I'm going to start with lettuce this spring and tomatoes this summer. Everyone has to start somewhere!
Hey Mark, I'm retiring in January and my new hobby is raised bed gardening. You are my inspiration in that endeavor. Thanks for all you do and Happy New Year!
You will soon find that it is not a hobby, but a way of life! 🤠
All the best for your retirement! I know you will love your new hobby because raised bed gardening will challenge you enough to keep you interested and reward you plenty to keep you motivated. Cheers :)
@Selfsufficientme Thank you, Mark. You are the man!
Another good reason is being a gardener is a great excuse to keep watching your videos! Thanks for the hard work and happy new year!
That's nice... Thank you and Happy New Year! Cheers :)
The variety alone is a great reason to grow your own food garden. Cheers! Thanks for another great video and I hope you and yours have a great 2025!
In front of corporate greed, growing food has to become a veg-roots movement. Happy New Year!
LOL... Nice :)
Loved this channel for years, grew spuds, lettuce, tomato, cucumber, peas, and broad bean for the first time following this channels instruction. I'm still figuring out garlic, corn and ginger. Unfortunately I had to move into a rental and will now have to start over in 2025. Hope your garden goes well for another year mate.
Just love your enthusiasm, have been growing food and flowers for over 40 yrs, one way or other.Happy growing for all of this coming year.
Happy New Year, Mark. U.S. East coast has 16 more hours of of 2024.
Happy New Year Mark and all the family 🥳🥳🥳🥳
All the best for 2025 from down Southern NSW 🇭🇲🦘🙏🦘🇭🇲
Happy new year 🎉 ill be extending my vege patch the next few days your such an inspiration
Thank you so much, Mark! My small garden seems to get a little better every year, with failures as well as successes.
Either way, I'm *learning* along the way. I wish you the very best in the New Year!!! 👍
(Edit to add a big Thumbs Up!)
He doesn't need to convince me, I just enjoy hearing all his podcasts 😂 Happy New Year from American 🎉
I love the positive attitude about warming. We'll enjoy "old world carbs" while volcanos go off and glaciers melt. I love it.
Happy New Year from the state's. I quit making new year resolutions because I never planned on what or how to accomplish them. About 2 weeks ago I made plans for my gardens, house & farm. I don't know if they'll work, but I'm just going to start with 1 at a time. Good for job's in the house, not so good with job's on the homestead that require multiple projects worked & a time limit for some. But I'm also work on putting the fun or joy back into the thing's I use to enjoy. If it doesn't turn out the way it should or I want it too. That's ok. Hopefully I learned something.
They actually proved that sticking your hands in a healthy soil microbiome helped combat severe PTSD. God made dirt and dirt dont hurt. 😂
I need a bumper sticker saying that, thanks. Blessings..
That's very interesting! I believe it, too! Cheers :)
I use to say that when I was a kid. Blessings 🙏❤️❤️🩹
i sincerely believe that spending my childhood playing in dirt is the reason i rarely get common illnesses as an adult!
After a recent surgery I filled half my beds with garlic. Now I have to wait till June to plant out those beds. So my spring won’t be so hectic trying to plant all the beds at once.
Happy new year!
You are so rightt Mark!!!!
My garden and greenhouse are my happy place.
The exercise and sweating really detoxes my body.
I'm addicted.
Happy new year to you, started my veggie patch in my back yard in August 2021 and a permaculture food forest in my front yard. The food forest is slowly getting there.
Happy New Year and stay healthy
Happy New Year down under
😂❤🎉 what a sweet sentiment, you inspired me so much for years and there you go again. Thanks Mark have a great year
Need more guys like you on this ball of dirt 👍
Happy New years and I will definitely keep the New Year's resolution🎉
This is my new year resolution. My wife is having our first child in June, and I want to make sure now more than ever that we all have access to healthy food
A very happy 2025 everybody! And thank you, Mark, for all the great videos.
Thanks Mark. Love watching your videos. I’m a nurse, new mum and I have chronic illness so I have little time or energy to get out. I have 4 small raised garden beds. I’ve spent the year watching your videos and my technique has improved greatly. I’ve focused more on soil health and noticed an increase in my harvests. My focus on my garden is to grow things for my daughter which I certainly have. We snack on the garden good for our mental and physical health ❤. Happy New Year 🎉 keep up the great content.
Happy New Year to you too! Thank you Mark for all the helpful information you have shared with us over these past years. Your wonderful humor and knowledge has made my life more purposeful than it would have been without you cheering me on! I turn 81 in March, hopefully , and I am planning to have my veggie garden growing wonderful things this season!
Happy Birthday for March, and Happy New Year! Here's cheers to many more years in your veggie garden! :)
Great points. The cost of food alone is the greatest reason to grow your own. There are many solutions for small areas and vertical planters as well. Your enthusiasm is encouraging.
We have a food garden that we are always working on !! We are trying to grow veggies and fruit so we are not relying on supermarkets plus its cheaper to grow organic food. We do our own compost plus worm farming. Gardening is a space for my mental health and exercise and the joy and achievement I get from growing !!
I love your content and your advice and just love watching your videos !!!. Thanks 👍👍❤
Dear Mark! Please continue to speak out! 👍 Thank you!
Thanks Mark, for the motivational clip. Makes so much sense to me. I like to do some of my gardening in bare feet. Feeling the earth also helps to see the earth thru her eyes!! Happy new year 🎉
Hi! I need every day to go outside and walk through my garden, touch the leaves, see the flowers, take out pests or whatever... also in winter time,... the contact with nature has something magical and difficult to explain, it's like charging your internal battery! Bye
Hi Mark, I am 56 and have always had a vegetable garden. My parents first, then myself when I left home. There is no greater joy than sitting down to a plate of new potatoes, peas, carrots etc. I do live in Tasmania so maximum production time is limited however I can still manage a few thing in our cold winters and there is always the frozen produce from the previous summers garden😊. Thanks Mark for spreading the word about gardening and home grown food.
Thanks, Lisa, and there's something about Tasmania's produce makes it extra fresh and tasty. I remember our honeymoon in Tassy 20 years ago, and we still rave about the food! We are looking to go back again soon for a visit. Happy New Year :)
It’s been our new year’s resolution for about three years now Mark and at our home, you’ve been our education and mate along the way. Our compost pile is working at optimum now…no smells and a quicker ‘turnover’ haha…😂…not to mention your HILARIOUS ‘DAD’ JOKES…😝😝😝👍
P.s…now we’ve actually begun to save at least 29% at the supermarket on VEGGIES!!
Tahhh mate! 🎉🇦🇺
Wishing you and your family a great ‘25! 🍻🕊️💐
My Grandfather had a huge vege garden and I suppose I got that from him. I have always had some sort of vege garden and just love growing veges. Somehow it just seems normal to have one and it does not need to be big. When I lived in a flat as a young fella I had tomato plants and lettuce in pots. Lets face it having some sort of garden is not that hard. The other benefit apart from the obvious produce is that my Grandkids love coming to see how the veges are growing and helping plant new ones and harvesting when ready. I also know that the veges they are getting are wholesome and organic. All the best to you for the New Year and I look forward to more videos.
loved this! been growing food for many many years. 8 years ago we bought a small homestead in the east of Sweden. We now have chickens. Happy new year!
You have really kept me going with my garden and now I eat by seasons from my backyard and I know what's in my veggies. I'm preparing for the Northern hemisphere spring and looking forward to continuing to eat well. Thanks for all your work!!
this is true! but i've discovered one caveat -- i used to think there's NO point in growing anything i couldn't eat, including flowers. but i've finally learned this year you HAVE TO have flowers to help your edible plants!
You sir always have a beautiful garden I love the raise beds. Have a Happy New Year
You are so right if Man touches our food it’ll make us sick if God touches our food it’ll make us well. It’s a simple as that. Thank you for your video. I love gardening it is so much fun.
Hi :)
Happy new year from France, we are still in 2024 but will be back to the futur soon ;)
Happy gardening everyone :)
“Mmhmmm” while aggressively swinging made me cackle at 3 am. Just started my seeds can’t wait for a productive year!!!
Happy New Year! CaliKim!
Happy New Year CaliKim! All the best for 2025, your garden, and your excellent, inspiring Channel! Cheers :)
Thank you. I like to share the term "productive recreation" with people. Gardening is a hobby that is enjoyable and productive. This is not to say that one can't enjoy and get benefits from painting or biking, but having the by-product of a hobby give you food to furniture is more rewarding to m
Happy New Year and all the very BEST for 2025!!
I started over last year after turning my new house into a home. My garden was and continues to be instrumental in improving my mental health after my ex cheated on me. I started last year shattered. I ended it way better and with the core of a garden. It is also a great help to me as I am a counselor and I can potter a bit after I help someone with something hard.
This channel has been on my watch list a while and a great help for me.
Keep up the good work.
G'day Jason, thanks for sharing your story mate. Your resilience and positively is an inspiration. All the best for 2025 👍🙂
Just finished watching “My dinner with Andre” old movie but had parts discussing how modern society makes us numb (prophetic). purposeful gardening takes us back to something that makes us more human.
Oh yes...no chemicals on the food I grow makes me feel good about what I'm eating, and the taste is so much nicer. My tomatoes pop up each year when the time is right for them and are healthier than the last one I bought
I grow my staple crops- potatoes, tomatoes, collards, squash, beets, carrots, lettuce, grapes (when I have a good year). I also grow melons (if I'm lucky to have a warmer year). We don't have very few diseases or insect problems up here in Maine, just weather problems.
I just started my first veggie garden in November. Looking forward to growing and learning more
You are a champion. Id go nuts without my garden. I grow far too much but the Sharing shed takes the surplus. Keep it up.
Started my food garden a few years ago with just 1 Apple tree and have since filled it up with tough, resistant plants - resistant to heat, cold, drought, and disease. Apples, Nuts, Berries, Figs.
I imagine a time where every house would have even just 1 kind of big fruit tree and a few veges, we'd have enough to be self sufficient together
Live in Norway, last year it was 9 degrees at night, and only 15 during the day, in the middle of our summer.
I needed long johns to not freeze.
My plants didn't like it, so no harvest, because it didn't go past spring temperatures. 😢
I'm really looking into moving to warmer places in southern Europe.
Just so I can grow food all year.
Since I have been making a food forest, I had plenty of mushrooms to harvest in August and September.
They thrived with the cold wet weather.
All the best to you and your family Mark, I salute your mighty attitude to good living and gardening. You've been a valuable component of my gardening efforts & it's associated mental health. Cheers mate. ❤
Im a wood farmer it work's for me in such delicious ways.
Absolutely love your vids mate, I’m 25 and have recently started my own food forest, and garden I’m going to be completely self sufficient I’m living off grid at the moment, hopefully one day you’ll be able to come and visit, you are a huge inspiration, thank you.
🎉Happy New Years Mark thanks for the incouragement 🥳
Happy New Year from Canada. Saw on the news another recall of carrots. Now I am building another 2 more raised bed boxes to increase my supply of veggies for winter. A country boy can survive. Cheers
Thing is, most people don't know how to garden or don't have the space. There needs to be a free program/course in every city as possible & community lots for anyone who doesn't have space to grow.
Happy New Year Mark and thanks for your videoz last year. I look forward to see how your electro bed is going 🫵🏻👍🎥😁
Thanks Dave! Let's hope 2025 is as electrifying as last year! ;)
Look at your fruit trees. They are enormous ❤
Yes, most of them are getting too big to properly manage, so after this summer, we will be pruning them back. Cheers :)
Anyone else find yourself doing the thumbs up when Mark does it? No? Just me? 😂😂
Hahaha I just noticed I do that too!
LOL... 👍
Thanks for all over the years Mark and Dogs. Let us hope more people hook in and follow your bonza suggestions. Look after yourself and those precious to you. Like you still have my old trenching tool lets go hard 2025 Up the guts and nags of smoke :):):)
LOL... Hard to beat the old ET Phil! Having said that, I've been working on making my own but it's still a long way off production (if it ever happens). Up the guts mate for 2025 you bet! Cheers :)
I was just thinking about starting a small garden for the new year, how ironic I literally have it written on my vision board for stuff I wanna try to start
At 1:26 everything you’ve said has already occurred to our tomatoes. The tomatoes we ate 50 years ago had flavour, but now not so much. That was done for mechanical harvesting. They changed the tomatoes for that reason.
Happy New Year to you and your family Mark.... Last year i started work on a large veggie patch at home and couldn't agree more on the point that by growing your own you know what is going into the soil and how they have been handled....and what more could you want than to just step outside your back door to collect your own veggies for dinner every night :)
Love your videos, and the humour that goes along with them, and always recommending them to anyone i talk to about gardening.
Just set up my birdies garden beds! And filling now. Been watching your channel for years, can’t wait to start my garden for a new year 😊
All the best with your new Birdies beds! Fantastic! Cheers :)
Here's to you for providing wonderful content and helping some of us discover more about the garden. I have learned a lot from you over the last couple years and make me want to grow more food (fruits and veggies). So from me personally, THANK YOU MARK :)
I agree with Mark end of sentence.
I'd love to see you do a video on heirloom varieties and seed providers. People who get their vegetables from supermarkets have never tasted a real tomato.
Happy New Year's buddy, all the very best to U & family in 2025 🎉
We just recently moved into a new home so I will be starting from scratch and making a new garden. I'm already making plans on what I need to get. I can't imagine not having a garden.
Lovely video! Between you and Marty Ware from Marty's Garden, I'm pretty pumped to get growing. I live in a very hot (at the moment) part of WA, inland now. It's so very different from living on the coast. I potted up a heap of guava trees today in the heat, got a few drops of rain but I put out more in sweat!! I have four cape gooseberries that are growing from seed, hoping to plant more if I haven't missed the season. I struggle with short term crops like veggies. They sprout amazingly, then die with little harvested. The trees are hanging on to life..just. Looking forward to cracking the growing code for out here. We need it!! An hour from town and stupid prices with questionable quality.
Looking forward to learning more in the new year❤❤ thank you for what you do, it's making a difference.
Happy New Year Andrea! It's great to hear that a few failures in the garden are not deterring you in the slightest. All the best :)
having an aussie's advice has convinced me to give it a go. i'll be growing my first veggies from seed as soon as they're ready :D wish me luck!
What a beast. Look at the legs on this guy! Greetings from Westland, Michigan USA.
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Happy New Year Mark, I hope you have a year filled with Unicorns🦄 & Rainbows🌈, or at best regular rain. I am busy this morning updating the lights & fans in the chook house, all solar/battery powered, and then to check on our garden, Cheers