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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. :)
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!
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 ❤
New subscriber here. I was looking for a video on the ice cream bean and caught a video of yours from 12 years ago. You seemed like such a sincere young person with a genuine appreciation for nature that I was curious if you had retained your essence 12 years later. You certainly have and what a wonderful food forest you have created that supports you and the environment. Thanks for sharing these amazing tours and information with us. I hope you stay blessed.
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.
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.
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!
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! 😊
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. 👍🥰
Which part of nth Canterbury are you in? I've got ten acres here too...Loburn. Also put in a food forest, a bit less troppo than this one but it's doing well.
@@killjoyredux8361 We are in Cust, food forest still mostly in planning phase, budget constraints (ans over thinking) dictate slow implementation but it's on it's way :)
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🤞🙏
This garden is where forests will reset after apocalypse 😂😂😂. My man has all plants varieties he can put his hand on. Great job, man! I hope you keep going! I wish you all the best!
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!
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.
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
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
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 🍒😁
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 🤞
You’ve done an amazing job with your food forest, congratulations with your success. Keep the videos coming as they are so full of information, Happy 2024 🎉
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.
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.
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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. 😎🌴🌿🌺💐🥭🥝🥥
This channel is pure calmness.
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. :)
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!
Would love another food forest video (full pong tour) 🙏🏼
Me too
Thank you, love the layout of multiple diverse islands. I find this more aesthetically exciting than rows.
You live in a paradise, mate! I'm so jealous! Greetings from Berlin. 😊
Rest assured, you’re appreciated by many. Wow, so much growth
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.
You Inspire Me!❤😊
What a great farm and garden!❤
Yeah bro gardening is soooo good for the mental health! Love gardening and seeing what works and what doesnt!
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!
You are so fortunate to have such a nice space of land to grow your wonderful garden and raise your sheep.
Looks great, its amazing how fast you can transform a piece of land. Eight years and 250 fruit trees has transformed my block.
Beautiful garden and adorable cat ❤
I've loved watching your garden grow over the years :) It's looking AMAZING!
Oooh!. My Wonderful Garden. Is growing really well. Thankyou. 🎉👌🎉💃🤩
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! :)
If you haven’t yet you should consider adding a Lowquat tree, super easy to grow from seed and the fruit is amazing
New subscriber here. I was looking for a video on the ice cream bean and caught a video of yours from 12 years ago. You seemed like such a sincere young person with a genuine appreciation for nature that I was curious if you had retained your essence 12 years later. You certainly have and what a wonderful food forest you have created that supports you and the environment. Thanks for sharing these amazing tours and information with us. I hope you stay blessed.
amazing to see the transformation of the land. Honestley, having land to do this is my dream.
Love this video!!! ❤
beAuTiFuL deAR ❤
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.
Beautiful garden!! You’ve taken very good care of it. I’m very envious.
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 .
I'm so envious, ha! xD You are an absolute force, Kalem!!!
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.
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!
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! 😊
Amazing food forest. Living the dream. 🤩
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. 👍🥰
Which part of nth Canterbury are you in? I've got ten acres here too...Loburn. Also put in a food forest, a bit less troppo than this one but it's doing well.
@@killjoyredux8361 We are in Cust, food forest still mostly in planning phase, budget constraints (ans over thinking) dictate slow implementation but it's on it's way :)
Love your garden and what a cool cat.
It looks beautiful!! I love what you've done!
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🤞🙏
Nicely done 👍👍👍
Yay new video!
Awesome and inspiring.
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 ❤
Thank you for sharing this with us.. You are an inspiration and an interesting person... Howdy from Texas 🤠
Your property looks great! And it's amazing your climate allows you to grow both tropicals and temperate fruits and veg all together!
It’s a wonderful variety of trees and plants 💚I love it, wish I could try everything 😅😋
This garden is where forests will reset after apocalypse 😂😂😂.
My man has all plants varieties he can put his hand on.
Great job, man!
I hope you keep going!
I wish you all the best!
Interesting - those tamarillo really look like the eggplants we grow in my village
Great to see how things have developed. Keep up the good work!
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!
Wow!!... thanks for the tour....your garden is Amazing !!!!
What a wonderful tour, thank you for that!
Supporting fellow Kiwis.
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.
Please please please an update on the multi graft apple tree!! Happy to see it’s happy and still going strong (:
It's paradise, well done!
Happy new year to you all 😊🎉🎉🎉
Waited so many decades for this video man😮
The cat in the video for me is the win! ❤ well done on your garden!
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
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
Just love the land you have. goals.
Awesome forest garden!
Amazing tour I really enjoyed it wow thanks for sharing
... just an amazing video, as always! :-) thank you for the beautiful 17 minutes! :-)
Thankyou. Happy New Year 2024. 👌🎉🎉🎉👌
WOW that comfreys got massive leaves! I grow it too but it must be some kind of different variety...
Kalem I love your videos. You are really inspiring ❤
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
How is the dragonfruit plant going? Didn’t see it in the video
Welcome back and great to see your forest doing well!!! Great job
I always learn something new watching your videos. Stay well friend. Happy New Year and may God continue to bless you with abundance.
Your garden looks nice with all that variety of trees and veggies
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 work, well done 😊
Great video, again! Have even more successful new year, Kalem!
Well done that looks amazing!!
Great update. Those artichokes are amazing. Happy New Year.
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 🍒😁
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.
great dude . great inspieation . enjoy man ! great plants
Awesome sharing 😮
Solid video. Quite like this style of video.
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.
Incredible what you can grow outside in your region Kalem ! Fantastic tour
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
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!
Great video! Thanks for sharing. Cheers.
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.
I look forward to watching your videos. Thanks and have a Happy New Year!
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.
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.
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 🤞
amazing! huge congrats!
Pretty sure we going to have a hot and wet summer
You’ve done an amazing job with your food forest, congratulations with your success. Keep the videos coming as they are so full of information, Happy 2024 🎉
This is paradise! How do you keep the possums and mice away from the veggies?
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.
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.