Greetings! You asked for video ideas! We would like to see a video about sea kale germination and growing. Also, we would like to see more food preparation videos with Sasha--we found the black currant soda and other fermentation videos to be very informative.
I've just began watching and I really enjoy your channel. One idea I'd like to share is using crock pots during the freezing weather for watering my chickens. You can buy used ones for just a few dollars compared to heated dishes at the feed store which run upwards of $35.
This is awesome! I love your walking tours and never think they're too long! Listening to your musings teaches me so much. Thank you for your work and all you share. Looking forward to seeing your adventures continue to evolve. Y'all are truly making waves in the permaculture farming world!
Your work is amazing and so happy I stumbled upon you and Sasha via Flock Finger Lakes. I have been watching many of your older videos and would LOVE to see more of Sasha's cooking, preserving, etc. videos. The work you both do and your humble approach to it all is so inspiring and refreshing. Thank you for wanting to share it all with us.
Since the Angelica is already planted, I would suggest blocks of ice. Ice cubes would melt too fast. I am thinking it might just cool that soil down enough to mimic the right conditions. Since it is conveniently on the end, you can keep the plastic off of it to localize the cooling affect. Worth a shot.
I appreciate you pointing out the names of all the seedlings with close up shots, including the ragweed. I am trying to learn how to do this as I feel it is an important gardening skill to learn that is not discussed much. I am hoping you can continue to point out the names of different plants for us as they grow and change shape.
Hey I've been watching your videos for a couple of years now, and I just wanted to thank you for all of these. They're informative, but they're also just... really comforting. I was a "frontline worker" throughout this pandemic, and I was pretty exposed. It was sort of hard to process at the time. After I'd get home from a full shift and do a thorough sterilization of my body (we didn't know how it spread at that point) I remember I'd find myself watching your videos, and just zoning out for hours while you spoke about your high tunnels, hugel mounds, your various composting experiments, the chicken yard and all of your strategies to help them live happy lives. Your videos felt safe, and they seemed like they existed outside of this chaos we all just went through. I'm wondering if this life is for me. I feel a real pull to be doing the things you've shown on your channel. Right now I'm training to be a mental health therapist, and I'm wondering if there's a realistic way to combine that career with doing some farming in this manner, or homesteading a little bit. Or just going to live in the woods. Some serious Walden Pond shit. I don't know. I just wanted to thank you and let you know I love your stuff.
Thank you for doing such hard and important work in the world. It feels good to know we can provide a little break from the intensity of it all. At the moment we are in the crazy busy time of the season, but after early May it settles a bit. If it would be helpful to brainstorm on paths you could potentially explore in the plant/growing world as a next step in life, I'd be more than happy to do that with you. Maybe make a note to email sean @ edibleacres.org around mid-May and let's chat... If we can support your next steps that would feel good! Take care of yourself Jay.
Angelica goes into dormancy if not sown immediately. I believe they also have pretty short shelf-life, perhaps only two years or so. Always a pleasure following your garden and nursery.
My wife is cold stratifying Angelica seed, planted in a little yogurt cup, in the fridge. A friend said 30 days of fridge, and it should germinate when put back on the plant shelves. Good luck!
We'll share notes, but the key note I have is get a few plants established in lovely rich soil, keep good compost around them weed free and let those 'mother' plants drop their seed all around themselves over and over and you'll be swimming in seedlings in good time.... More notes to follow :)
I found your channel through Flock Finger Lakes as well. Such an inspiring and calming energy. What is the inspiration for all of yours and your partner's knowledge? Overwhelmed with amazement. Reminiscent of a documentary I saw a few years back called the 'the biggest little farm'. A gentle reminder about how much we can accomplish when we work in harmony instead of against nature and one another.
I need to update on that. I'm embarrassed to say it's semi abandoned somehow. We plan to get it back on track but somehow it seems the places that are closest to home can get the least TLC in our world!
It's always a shock to me to see a mainly dormant garden. In Australia for the most part it doesn't get cold enough and our growing season is all year round except maybe in the heat of summer where little can handel the heat.
Thank you again for sharing your knowledge and experience. I have a request, can you remember to demonstrate how you transplant GKH. I would like to try this technique next year.
@@katherinefritz3411 Search flock finger lakes on TH-cam. It's a channel where there are two videos about edible acres. One focuses on the garden the other the chickens.
It was after your Q&A last year that I really started to really think about Gardening / Sustainability, anyway it's been a constant learning experience. After working on a variety of different projects I now see the benefit of having a box of extra hinges 😅
would love to see your most successful longest running hugelbeds/mounds with the most diversity and abundance, as they wake up in the spring. Deep mulched hugelbeds are awesome. Also love to see how your airprune experiments and also garage propogation bed is going with the heat cable, and curious how long into the spring you use that set up?
We need to do a bunch of update videos it seems! The propagation bed needs an update, we've learned more and have a lot of moving parts in there now... Thanks for the requests.
I’ve got Angelica archangelica that is semi naturalized in my garden (it is sowing itself but not prolifically so I am caring for the young plants when I notice them to help them out) I didn’t have much success with keeping and sowing the seeds, and I heard that they lose their germination power fast after ripening. If they do enter dormancy and are still actually able to germinate, it would be great I news! if I find some old seeds I think I’ll try it. It’s such an amazing plant, beautiful, aromatic and medicinal. I never tried propagating them from root or crown division.
Eliot Coleman has said every layer of protection in a hoop house changes the microclimate one zone south. Here in NE Ohio , I have found that to be true.
Thanks for the video mate!! Big support from Melbourne. I’m waiting patiently to get out into my patch. It’s 5am and I have an hour and a half until sunrise hahaha
Always interesting! Good King Henry grown from seed, matured enough in our vegetable polyculture to seed itself by the thousands. Still waiting (for third year plants) to taste it❣️Hope like heck we like it! What does Sasha cook with it?Still lusting after your high tunnel. Built a nice big cold frame to do what you're doing there...only to have last years hurricane winds smash the glass. Maybe next spring?
We love eating Good King Henry, a very favorite perennial green for sure. We'll do more videos on our perennial plant friends this spring I'm sure.. Sorry that happened with the cold frame. We've been very satisfied with these structures even in crazy weather for what it's worth.
Very cool! If you have the ability to do timelapse, would you mind pointing the camera at yourselves while you're doing some of the mail order packing so we can see what that looks like?
I have an angelica plant started in a milk jug about 3 winters ago(winter sowing). it never got tall. it grows in the shade at my house, and every fall I cover it with old hay or leaves. its the same one, never had flowers to get more seeds either. so I don't know what I'm doing honestly. I purposely pick the top off cause I was hoping it wouldn't die. well, thats how I got mine from seed. I did cut off some branches and candied them. so I have those in a tin.
Voles can be super challenging at times in these structures. Sometmies we can let it be, but when we are starting seeds I do set traps for them unfortunately. Snakes come in later in the season and resolve it.
FREE garden this is my goal to in autumn I touch nothing in the garden when the soil temperature is warm anough everything grow up again......and its Free !
@@edibleacres It’s just funny that it came up because recently my wife tried cocktail sauce and the hot mustard from our local Chinese restaurant for the first time and both of them have horseradish.
Do the seaberry that you are growing from fruit produce 'true-to-type' reproductions of themselves? Asked another way: Will the seedlings have similar characteristics to the parent plant that you took the fruit from?
Ideal scenario is to sow the fresh seed in something like a small air prune box (1x2'x6" deep is nice) that can have a 1/2" hardware cloth mesh on it to protect from rodents. You can bury it in leaves in the fall outside and then 'reveal' it in the spring to let them grow for a season...
Regarding your Chestnut sprouting videos. I’m planning an Eagle Scout project in a year or so and I would like to do something for future generations. I have always admired furniture made with Chestnut wood. Being a fourth generation Scout I would like to do something with four Chestnut trees. I would like to uniquely place them. What age tree is the best place with the best chance of them to make it in life? My grandfather has been watching your videos almost from your 1st one. He found y’all by researching Chickens. I am in NE Ohio near Cleveland so we are just about in the same zone as your place. I am sending this request through my grandfather’s eMail to stay in line with Scouting rules. I am not looking for a donation from you but I would like to purchase the seedlings from you. It would be a good day trip to your place. Any and all suggestions will be appreciated. My name is Jackson Lamson and I love trees.
Angelica, if it's the same as Angélique in France, grows fine with very mild very wet/rainy, above freezing winters, on borders of salt marsh or freshwater marsh. I have also had difficulties sowing them, but once out in 'the wild' they resow themselves quite prolifically.
So in your case that high tunnel seems well adapted (perhaps you have a different variety that needs freezing stratification) And your pond borders will be great for it. I would say 100% full sun
Great notes from observation, thank you. I suspect I would have had the best results if I had simply sown seed where I'd hope they can grow ini the fall and let nature work out the details!
@@edibleacres Perhaps, but i like to baby plants, especially rare varieties, I wouldn't want to 'weed' them out, because I don't recognize them, or maybe i feel i'm giving them a head start. Angelica and parseley have shown me they naturalize better than if carefully sown !
Is it just me or does your face have some strange resemblance to Jordan Peterson? :D Really nice to see this footage of the polytunnels, they are such amazing low-cost, passive, life boosting structures. Do you know if there are any bioplastics that can be used in this setting?
@@edibleacres no problem, I think its an area where is is hard to replace oil based plastics, as growers specifically need plastics that are not going to degrade easily in damp spaces. But worth thinking about
I'm super convinced your garden is so beautiful and productive because you speak with the plants and the other beings.🤗💛🤗
Greetings! You asked for video ideas! We would like to see a video about sea kale germination and growing. Also, we would like to see more food preparation videos with Sasha--we found the black currant soda and other fermentation videos to be very informative.
I've just began watching and I really enjoy your channel. One idea I'd like to share is using crock pots during the freezing weather for watering my chickens. You can buy used ones for just a few dollars compared to heated dishes at the feed store which run upwards of $35.
This is awesome! I love your walking tours and never think they're too long! Listening to your musings teaches me so much. Thank you for your work and all you share. Looking forward to seeing your adventures continue to evolve. Y'all are truly making waves in the permaculture farming world!
Thanks for being such a consistent and positive part of our community Chelsea!
Your work is amazing and so happy I stumbled upon you and Sasha via Flock Finger Lakes. I have been watching many of your older videos and would LOVE to see more of Sasha's cooking, preserving, etc. videos. The work you both do and your humble approach to it all is so inspiring and refreshing. Thank you for wanting to share it all with us.
There is a 'Sasha' playlist you may have found :)
We hope to do more videos with her soon!
Since the Angelica is already planted, I would suggest blocks of ice. Ice cubes would melt too fast. I am thinking it might just cool that soil down enough to mimic the right conditions. Since it is conveniently on the end, you can keep the plastic off of it to localize the cooling affect. Worth a shot.
I appreciate you pointing out the names of all the seedlings with close up shots, including the ragweed. I am trying to learn how to do this as I feel it is an important gardening skill to learn that is not discussed much. I am hoping you can continue to point out the names of different plants for us as they grow and change shape.
We only know but so many ourselves but I agree fully it makes so much sense to keep learning how to identify!
Hey I've been watching your videos for a couple of years now, and I just wanted to thank you for all of these. They're informative, but they're also just... really comforting. I was a "frontline worker" throughout this pandemic, and I was pretty exposed. It was sort of hard to process at the time. After I'd get home from a full shift and do a thorough sterilization of my body (we didn't know how it spread at that point) I remember I'd find myself watching your videos, and just zoning out for hours while you spoke about your high tunnels, hugel mounds, your various composting experiments, the chicken yard and all of your strategies to help them live happy lives. Your videos felt safe, and they seemed like they existed outside of this chaos we all just went through.
I'm wondering if this life is for me. I feel a real pull to be doing the things you've shown on your channel. Right now I'm training to be a mental health therapist, and I'm wondering if there's a realistic way to combine that career with doing some farming in this manner, or homesteading a little bit. Or just going to live in the woods. Some serious Walden Pond shit.
I don't know. I just wanted to thank you and let you know I love your stuff.
Thank you for doing such hard and important work in the world. It feels good to know we can provide a little break from the intensity of it all. At the moment we are in the crazy busy time of the season, but after early May it settles a bit. If it would be helpful to brainstorm on paths you could potentially explore in the plant/growing world as a next step in life, I'd be more than happy to do that with you. Maybe make a note to email sean @ edibleacres.org around mid-May and let's chat... If we can support your next steps that would feel good!
Take care of yourself Jay.
Angelica goes into dormancy if not sown immediately. I believe they also have pretty short shelf-life, perhaps only two years or so. Always a pleasure following your garden and nursery.
Good notes, thank you!
My wife is cold stratifying Angelica seed, planted in a little yogurt cup, in the fridge. A friend said 30 days of fridge, and it should germinate when put back on the plant shelves. Good luck!
Interesting. Good note here, thanks.
Erie, PA here. Got my plants and they will be going in soon. Thanks Sean and Sasha for all you do!
So exciting!
I am looking forward to your Good King Henry video. I've been trying to GKH from seed with very minimal germination. I would love to see your system.
We'll share notes, but the key note I have is get a few plants established in lovely rich soil, keep good compost around them weed free and let those 'mother' plants drop their seed all around themselves over and over and you'll be swimming in seedlings in good time.... More notes to follow :)
So many great ideas in this video!
Glad you think so!
I found your channel through Flock Finger Lakes as well. Such an inspiring and calming energy. What is the inspiration for all of yours and your partner's knowledge? Overwhelmed with amazement. Reminiscent of a documentary I saw a few years back called the 'the biggest little farm'. A gentle reminder about how much we can accomplish when we work in harmony instead of against nature and one another.
We've just been experimenting and learning as we go. No formal training at all, just learning.
Great one! How about an update on the greenhouse that is connected to your house. It has been a while.
I need to update on that. I'm embarrassed to say it's semi abandoned somehow. We plan to get it back on track but somehow it seems the places that are closest to home can get the least TLC in our world!
I loved your interview with Five Finger Lakes! 👍
It's always a shock to me to see a mainly dormant garden. In Australia for the most part it doesn't get cold enough and our growing season is all year round except maybe in the heat of summer where little can handel the heat.
The landscapes in our region can be asleep for more of the year than not (as far as what we see!)
Here from the Flock channel...loving your content.
Welcome!!
Last year I winter sowed Angelica (in milk jugs outside) - worked really well and was very little work (I think I sowed in March).
The cold stratification seems important. Luckily I sowed a bed outside in early March to them so we'll see...
Thank you again for sharing your knowledge and experience. I have a request, can you remember to demonstrate how you transplant GKH. I would like to try this technique next year.
For sure.. We'll do a thorough video on Good King Henry soon.
Absolutely love your work, thank you for sharing brother
Thanks Sean Started watching your hour long show on Flock Finger Lakes really good Let everyone here know
Where can I find this?
@@katherinefritz3411 Search flock finger lakes on TH-cam. It's a channel where there are two videos about edible acres. One focuses on the garden the other the chickens.
Would love to see more chicken, compost and chicken around the garden... cause I love having chicken around me when I'm working in my garden...
It was after your Q&A last year that I really started to really think about Gardening / Sustainability, anyway it's been a constant learning experience. After working on a variety of different projects I now see the benefit of having a box of extra hinges 😅
would love to see your most successful longest running hugelbeds/mounds with the most diversity and abundance, as they wake up in the spring. Deep mulched hugelbeds are awesome. Also love to see how your airprune experiments and also garage propogation bed is going with the heat cable, and curious how long into the spring you use that set up?
We need to do a bunch of update videos it seems! The propagation bed needs an update, we've learned more and have a lot of moving parts in there now... Thanks for the requests.
So nice.. I am Jelly....I need to do those tunnels...so helpful
I’ve got Angelica archangelica that is semi naturalized in my garden (it is sowing itself but not prolifically so I am caring for the young plants when I notice them to help them out)
I didn’t have much success with keeping and sowing the seeds, and I heard that they lose their germination power fast after ripening.
If they do enter dormancy and are still actually able to germinate, it would be great I news! if I find some old seeds I think I’ll try it. It’s such an amazing plant, beautiful, aromatic and medicinal.
I never tried propagating them from root or crown division.
We love Angelica and hope to understand how to support them becoming naturalized a bit in areas of our landscape.
Eliot Coleman has said every layer of protection in a hoop house changes the microclimate one zone south. Here in NE Ohio , I have found that to be true.
That has been our experience.
Happy growing.
There is a lot growing in your high tunnels already.
Most of the plants are carryovers from last fall...
Great information thanks so much for it !!!
My pleasure!
Thanks for the video mate!! Big support from Melbourne. I’m waiting patiently to get out into my patch. It’s 5am and I have an hour and a half until sunrise hahaha
Aho for my brother who cares for the one legged.
Always interesting! Good King Henry grown from seed, matured enough in our vegetable polyculture to seed itself by the thousands. Still waiting (for third year plants) to taste it❣️Hope like heck we like it! What does Sasha cook with it?Still lusting after your high tunnel. Built a nice big cold frame to do what you're doing there...only to have last years hurricane winds smash the glass. Maybe next spring?
We love eating Good King Henry, a very favorite perennial green for sure. We'll do more videos on our perennial plant friends this spring I'm sure..
Sorry that happened with the cold frame. We've been very satisfied with these structures even in crazy weather for what it's worth.
Very cool! If you have the ability to do timelapse, would you mind pointing the camera at yourselves while you're doing some of the mail order packing so we can see what that looks like?
I have an angelica plant started in a milk jug about 3 winters ago(winter sowing). it never got tall. it grows in the shade at my house, and every fall I cover it with old hay or leaves. its the same one, never had flowers to get more seeds either. so I don't know what I'm doing honestly. I purposely pick the top off cause I was hoping it wouldn't die. well, thats how I got mine from seed. I did cut off some branches and candied them. so I have those in a tin.
Sounds like you have a lovely relationship with that Angelica!
Has anyone ever told you that you sound and look like Jordan Peterson?
I love your channel ❤️
Do you have any mouse, mole or vole issues thoughout the year in your beds inside the tunnels? Snakes? Thanks
Voles can be super challenging at times in these structures. Sometmies we can let it be, but when we are starting seeds I do set traps for them unfortunately. Snakes come in later in the season and resolve it.
7:47 Which species from Angelica genus you have?
I believe Angelica Archangelica
Good king Henry great in soups
It is a wonderful green. We plan to do some more videos sharing how great a crop it is.
FREE garden this is my goal to
in autumn I touch nothing in the garden
when the soil temperature is warm anough everything grow up again......and its Free !
I hope that works beautifully for you!
How do you prepare the horseradish? What do you make with it?
Thats a video for Sasha in the future. We'll add it to the list of videos we hope Sasha will share with us all!
@@edibleacres It’s just funny that it came up because recently my wife tried cocktail sauce and the hot mustard from our local Chinese restaurant for the first time and both of them have horseradish.
Do the seaberry that you are growing from fruit produce 'true-to-type' reproductions of themselves? Asked another way: Will the seedlings have similar characteristics to the parent plant that you took the fruit from?
Remains to be seen, but should be in the general ball park.
How do you handle Nanking cherry seed since they ripen in the summer? Do they need to be kept moist all the way until spring?
Ideal scenario is to sow the fresh seed in something like a small air prune box (1x2'x6" deep is nice) that can have a 1/2" hardware cloth mesh on it to protect from rodents. You can bury it in leaves in the fall outside and then 'reveal' it in the spring to let them grow for a season...
Wonky? WORKS.
Regarding your Chestnut sprouting videos. I’m planning an Eagle Scout project in a year or so and I would like to do something for future generations. I have always admired furniture made with Chestnut wood. Being a fourth generation Scout I would like to do something with four Chestnut trees. I would like to uniquely place them. What age tree is the best place with the best chance of them to make it in life? My grandfather has been watching your videos almost from your 1st one. He found y’all by researching Chickens. I am in NE Ohio near Cleveland so we are just about in the same zone as your place.
I am sending this request through my grandfather’s eMail to stay in line with Scouting rules. I am not looking for a donation from you but I would like to purchase the seedlings from you. It would be a good day trip to your place. Any and all suggestions will be appreciated. My name is Jackson Lamson and I love trees.
Angelica, if it's the same as Angélique in France, grows fine with very mild very wet/rainy, above freezing winters, on borders of salt marsh or freshwater marsh.
I have also had difficulties sowing them, but once out in 'the wild' they resow themselves quite prolifically.
So in your case that high tunnel seems well adapted (perhaps you have a different variety that needs freezing stratification)
And your pond borders will be great for it.
I would say 100% full sun
Great notes from observation, thank you. I suspect I would have had the best results if I had simply sown seed where I'd hope they can grow ini the fall and let nature work out the details!
@@edibleacres Perhaps, but i like to baby plants, especially rare varieties, I wouldn't want to 'weed' them out, because I don't recognize them, or maybe i feel i'm giving them a head start. Angelica and parseley have shown me they naturalize better than if carefully sown !
Is it just me or does your face have some strange resemblance to Jordan Peterson? :D Really nice to see this footage of the polytunnels, they are such amazing low-cost, passive, life boosting structures. Do you know if there are any bioplastics that can be used in this setting?
I don't know much about bioplastics, sorry...
@@edibleacres no problem, I think its an area where is is hard to replace oil based plastics, as growers specifically need plastics that are not going to degrade easily in damp spaces. But worth thinking about
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