Inspiring Food Forest Tour - Turning a Grass Paddock into an Edible Oasis!
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- Join me for an immersive food forest tour and see the other garden projects that I've been working on!
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I can't wait to take you on an adventure to discover all the changes and growth in the garden!
The food forest is bursting with growth and there is such a diverse range of plants that I'm excited to show you. This garden has been a lot of fun (and a lot of work) to create, but seeing it go through the recent growth and changes has been relly enjoyable and satisfying. I feel very lucky to have been able to create this beautiful garden and develop this land and I really appreciated the ability to share all the gardening projects, the different plants and fruits with you all.
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Hi, I'm Kalem, and this channel features all sorts of unusual and exotic fruiting plants with tips of how to successfully grow them. I'm interested in all things gardening and love growing my own food and all types of edible plants.
I live on a 2 acre piece of land in New Zealand where we are turning a grass paddock into and abundant, edible paradise and food forest! So come along on this journey with me as I experiment with growing, and try to push the limits of what I can grow. I'll share with you my successes and failures so hopefully you'll learn from them and have a go yourself! Come learn with me and Subscribe to join this awesome community :)
0:00 Intro
0:21 Cardoons & Artichokes
1:02 Food forest layout
1:43 Herbs in the food forest and making dry tea
2:40 Chop & drop of support plant species
5:19 Subtropical fruits
8:03 Peach trees from seed update
8:44 Rare & Unusual fruit trees
10:56 Nectarine harvest
11:37 Polyculture gardens
14:50 Tree Growth (Gums & Natives)
15:47 Paddocks & Turkeys
16:10 Thank you for your support :)
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Thanks everyone for watching and for your continued support! Happy gardening and have a great rest of the year :)
-Kalem
My garden is my therapist it is so good there that I can spend hours and hours❤❤ big fan bro
Hi I just asking do you have any finger lime can you send me some seeds I will send you money
@@yilengyang3325 Seeds would be useless. You need a scion for grafting.
I've watched your old coconut sprouting video from years ago. Do you still got that tree?
I just clicked the video and it ended in no time.. 😮
Such amazing, informative and inspiring videos Kalem. I’m 69 years young and getting stronger everyday to care for our 8 acre farm on the big island. Your food forest is so diverse and lush. Mahalos and blessings. 😎🌴🌿🌺💐🥭🥝🥥
I’ve been watching you for almost 3 years and because of you I've started growing all sorts of weird stuff,clementines, dragon fruit, mangos, oak trees, kiwis, apples, grapes, you name it. You’ve made a big impact on my life, every video i look forward too keep up the great work and keep on making amazing videos thank you. :)
My dream is to be reincarnated as one of Kalem's turkeys
Your 'blue ribbon ' gardens are like seeing The Garden of Eden! I am so impressed!! You've done a magnificent thing!! Thank you so much for sharing!
This channel is pure calmness.
Rest assured, you’re appreciated by many. Wow, so much growth
The cat in the video for me is the win! ❤ well done on your garden!
What a great farm and garden!❤
So cool to see your food forest developing! I always love to see what you're growing. I followed your directions / advice for stratifying peach seeds and have my fingers crossed the seeds will survive the winter (it's a bit borderline for peaches here). A fun experiment. Your place looks gorgeous!
Just stunning. Amazed at what you produce and love your animals!
Looks great, its amazing how fast you can transform a piece of land. Eight years and 250 fruit trees has transformed my block.
Yeah bro gardening is soooo good for the mental health! Love gardening and seeing what works and what doesnt!
I've loved watching your garden grow over the years :) It's looking AMAZING!
Beautiful garden and adorable cat ❤
Hi Kalem, every time I see your garden it makes me think of the Garden of Eden from the Bible. It is amazing to see all of the unusual fruits that you can grow there. The cut Celery in all the different colors looked like a real work of art. Surprised the bugs don't eat the celery but it looks really fresh and beautiful. The Pink or Red Pineapple sounds very interesting and I'm sure they taste awesome being home grown. The plant that looked like Artichokes with the Purple flowers seemed to really flourish well in the environment in New Zealand. Best wishes as you enter the Summer season down in New Zealand.
If you haven’t yet you should consider adding a Lowquat tree, super easy to grow from seed and the fruit is amazing
You live in a paradise, mate! I'm so jealous! Greetings from Berlin. 😊
Love this video!!! ❤
Hey Kalem, so nice to hear from you! Your forest looks better than ever, you should be very proud ❤ Looking forward to more videos from you next year🤞🙏
You are so fortunate to have such a nice space of land to grow your wonderful garden and raise your sheep.
Waited so many decades for this video man😮
Kia ora! Thank you so much for sharing your amazing knowledge! It is me and my husband’s dream to move to NZ and start our own food forest & I have taken SO much inspiration from your channel. It’s so important for us coming from the USA to stay away from capitalism and what that does (and has done) to our soil and beautiful Mother Earth. I hope one day when we make it there that we can meet to sponge up some of your knowledge to start our own food forest! 😊
Yay new video!
Awesome and inspiring.
So beautiful! I just discovered your page while searching for growing peaches from seed and I can already tel I will be binge-watching your channel! Wonderful content and I love the island design with grass walkways of your food forest ❤
Thanks so much, and welcome to the channel! :)
Love the idea of thorning up the trunks of trees to stop the possums... we get hammered in the sounds, even with a fort Knox fence..I might just try that with good old blackberry or bush lawyer.
Thank you, love the layout of multiple diverse islands. I find this more aesthetically exciting than rows.
It looks beautiful!! I love what you've done!
Great to see how things have developed. Keep up the good work!
Oi Mate LTNS. Glad to see you! ❤
Your property looks great! And it's amazing your climate allows you to grow both tropicals and temperate fruits and veg all together!
We're just getting started on our food forest. We have enough land that, ideally, we'd be able to grow enough food for our whole family. Just a few months in now!
Oooh!. My Wonderful Garden. Is growing really well. Thankyou. 🎉👌🎉💃🤩
One day when im have a family ,i want to own a patch of land and start to grow alot of plant and veg just like you .
Thank you for sharing this with us.. You are an inspiration and an interesting person... Howdy from Texas 🤠
I can't believe how many things that you grow that I have never heard of. God has really made such an amazing diverse world.
Beautiful garden!! You’ve taken very good care of it. I’m very envious.
I love watching your videos! Thanks for putting them together. Love seeing the diversity you’re able to grow there and seeing just how different everything compared to my area here in the states. Hang in there brother!
You Inspire Me!❤😊
Welcome back and great to see your forest doing well!!! Great job
Your food forest is looking lush! Thanks for talking about the importance of mental health, I struggle with anxiety/depression and have found therapy really helpful. Gardening even in a tiny section is such a great way to get out of my head and connect with nature. Was wondering if Dock plants have the same effect as Comfy?
Happy New Year and thanks for your cool uploads. Keep shining 🍒😁
I'm so envious, ha! xD You are an absolute force, Kalem!!!
WOW that comfreys got massive leaves! I grow it too but it must be some kind of different variety...
Just wonderful! I have been hanging out for a tour of your food forest for ages. My 10 acres in Nth Canterbury is very bare and you have just given me LOADS of ideas, thanks Kalem. 👍🥰
Amazing food forest. Living the dream. 🤩
Loved the quick time lapse of the property change over the years at the start of the video. Great to see so much greenery as we head into winter where I live. Thanks for sharing and Happy New Year.
Please please please an update on the multi graft apple tree!! Happy to see it’s happy and still going strong (:
Love your garden and what a cool cat.
Wonderful to see this tour of you garden, and that your doing well. Cheers from Idaho.
Be careful with kale, it will concentrate any heavy metals in the soil. Kale also has a lot of oxalic acid, which contributes to kidney stones.
How is the dragonfruit plant going? Didn’t see it in the video
Nicely done 👍👍👍
Supporting fellow Kiwis.
HI Kalem, your food forest is looking sooo lush, it really inspires us, we are in the south island so I think our conditions are cooler than yours, but just seeing what you have been doing makes us want to do more, especially more fruit trees, we do have a small patch that we chop and drop on and it is doing OK, thanks for making great content, love the cat 🥰big licks from Colin the dog
Kia ora. It may be worthwhile putting in a small pond or ponds with large rocks around the edges for capturing heat in Winter and cooling the block in Summer; also as a bed for aquatic plants like water lilies (there are fragrant water lilies); you can also try planting some NZ natives like Pukatea and other swamp dwellers like Rimu and Kahikatea just next to the ponds. The ponds should attract frogs and birds. A grape vine like Lakemont Seedless trellised next to the house will provide shade in Summer and let sun through in Winter and its green grapes are delicious.
Kia kaha e te paruauru.
What a wonderful tour, thank you for that!
It's paradise, well done!
Your garden is so incredible. I live in a condo in New Jersey in the USA and I’m allowed to have three pots and they can’t be bigger than 2 foot across and 2 foot high but the flowers in them early the herbs can be big but I have to contain them. So seeing your garden, just makes me want to go move somewhere where there’s space and a little bit of freedom.
If you can’t tell, I really do like gardening shows. I look forward to your next video and I hope you’ve had a wonderful holiday season. Kathy.
Just love the land you have. goals.
Thankyou. Happy New Year 2024. 👌🎉🎉🎉👌
I'm so glad to see that you've put up another video and see the update on the native forest plantings. Are you going to make a video featuring the animals sometime in the future? Everything looks so healthy and happy. Hopefully, the possum will find somewhere else to forage. Thanks for all of your hard work. It is appreciated.
Wow!!... thanks for the tour....your garden is Amazing !!!!
I always feel inspired with your food forest.. you have done so well with your land. Your land is literally your fruit and veg supermarket ❤
Great garden and video, chap!
beAuTiFuL deAR ❤
Awesome forest garden!
Love seeing what you have grown. I wish I had as much luck with my seed plantings. Have you thought about trying these:
The Jersey cabbage (Brassica oleracea longata) is a variety of cabbage native to the Channel Islands that grows to a great height and was formerly commonly used there as livestock fodder and for making walking sticks. It is also known as Jersey kale or cow cabbage,[1] and by a variety of local names including giant cabbage,[1] long jacks, tree cabbage and the French chour and chou à vacque.
We use the leaves to make caldo verde soup in Portugal.
Wow, I absolutely love your food forest Kalem! It's incredible how much everything has grown in such a short space of time! Very inspirational! I hope one day I can replicate something similar 🤞
Interesting - those tamarillo really look like the eggplants we grow in my village
I always learn something new watching your videos. Stay well friend. Happy New Year and may God continue to bless you with abundance.
It’s a wonderful variety of trees and plants 💚I love it, wish I could try everything 😅😋
You always make me wish I had a huge property like yours so have an amazing New Year’s Eve and an even better 2024
Happy new year to you all 😊🎉🎉🎉
Great video, again! Have even more successful new year, Kalem!
Great update. Those artichokes are amazing. Happy New Year.
Kalem I love your videos. You are really inspiring ❤
Was a nice show and tell. I do look forward to a tour. That possum will take massive chunks out of your trees if you dont kill it. All the best.
Amazing tour I really enjoyed it wow thanks for sharing
I hope to do what you in the future. I just gotta learn more about my different Canadian species of plants.
Love your vids. Take care!
... just an amazing video, as always! :-) thank you for the beautiful 17 minutes! :-)
Well done that looks amazing!!
Beatifull garden , and now i build my own garden, you inspiration me bro
This looks amazing!
love getting a taste of summer while I'm stuck in the northern hemisphere having to deal with winter. Beautiful gardens all around
A corner of heaven right there! Beautiful. I noticed a patch of nasturtiums there, not only are the seeds for capers, the leaves make an excellent alternative to vine leaves for the stuffed Greek snack dolmades.
You can make a tea with comfrey by steeping the leaves in a bucket of water, use a brick to weigh the leaves down. Takes 4-6 weeks but then you'll have a tea that can be watered down and used for indoor or outdoor plants. The leaves can still be used in the garden and will break up faster as the water already started the process.
Your garden looks nice with all that variety of trees and veggies
I look forward to watching your videos. Thanks and have a Happy New Year!
Gardens come along way from a bare paddock good job .can't wait till our gardens are planted and established.youve given us many ideas over the years.thanks
Pretty sure we going to have a hot and wet summer
well done Kalem your food forest is looking amazing! i love the idea of little islands with paths between something im trying doing myself. will have to plant more herbs around the trees i have in i think!. thanks mate and all the best for next year!👍👍
Bruv life is so simple 💯🙌🏾, we just choose over complicated things
So nice to see your forest grow every year! You might be interested in trying to turn your red sichuan pepper into a powder, that you can then use as pepper all year long! You can wait for the fruits to dry naturally on the tree and grind them with a coffee grinder for example (you can leave the seeds if you like, but I like to remove them). But you can also pick the fruits while they are green, dry them in your dehydrator or in the sun (same for the seeds, as you like), grind them, and voilà, a delicious pepper you can use with any dish! It is surprising how different the green and red versions differ in taste, so I would recommend you try both! I do about half and half every year, it is so good.
great dude . great inspieation . enjoy man ! great plants
Solid video. Quite like this style of video.
Wow i remember when you moved there. Everything has grown so fast. All the bees in my area swarmed off several weeks ago. I'm having to hand pollinate everything. Not a single bee on my lavenders, flowers or escallonias. My baby plum and blackboy peach are loaded this season. The sultan plums are ripening early. Well done with your stunning gardens.
Great video! Thanks for sharing. Cheers.
Great as always!
amazing! huge congrats!
Awesome sharing 😮