Thanks heaps for coming along to see what we've been up to - I hope you enjoyed it! If you'd like to see more, feel free to check out the video I made of the land back in Summer which shows some of the other cool stuff we're growing :) th-cam.com/video/gkoic01w6pk/w-d-xo.html
Have you considered a "setting up the property " video discussing building yalls house and the start of the food forest ? I think it would be really interesting and help push more people into doing this sort of thing
try mix plants " pumpkin root and watermelon top ' those watermelon will become so strong and big , start in spring time can harvest 3 to 4 time in summer.
Many people still don't know the importance of native trees and plants and what role they play in local ecosystem and how many animal species are dependent on those native plants and trees, awesome video and nice updates 👍🏼.
Thanks Benny, definitely agree. Planting more native trees is something we're going to continue working on more and more. There's a real lack of them in the farmland that surrounds us unfortunately.
I’ve been planting native fruit trees on my property as well. I’ve been putting them close to my property line so the squirrels will spread the seeds to other properties. I planted 25 bare root pawpaw trees a couple months ago. I gathered wild persimmon seeds from a friends property to add to mine. I’m going to find spots in my woods that get sunlight and plant the seeds. Then I will let nature take its corse.
We really need a revolution in education…. I would like to know Americas educational system history and if nature based information was taught even 100-150 years ago… seems like reading writing arithmetic and history, social studies, and geography came eventually, but why is it that people don’t really learn about plants until college (horticulture, ecology, landscape architecture?)
Kalem, you are a Zookeeper!! I am in deep awe of you. You are truly a holy man. May you live a very very long and lovely life. We need people like you in world leadership.
I adore birds, really. They're really something when you've raised them from the egg no matter what species it is! Loved the excited gobble in the end!
Thankyou so much for sharing your experience!! I swear most 'gardening books' and websites just cut and paste what has been written before. My mountain paw paw melted too, even though I planted it alongside a gabion wall (stone filled) that I had put in to help my avocados cope with winter in Dannevirke. I shall go out now and see if there is any sigh of life at the base!!
After 6 years of gardening I decided a no dig garden, we bought like 60 tones of compost so we can reduce weedings. I put the cardboard first then the compost. I cover weed mat to my tomato beds a 1 meter wide and 40 meters in length. This time the tomato got no weeds because I used a 1.83 wide weed mats but the walk way have some weeds. You inspired me with the no dig and I believed next season will be less work because after harvest this summer we will cover them with weed mat so next planting will just create the holes and plant our seedlings. Planning to cut trees to shredded so we create mulch for the walk way in winter.
I am at the exact point you were 3 years ago, building my food forest and veggie garden in Kaitaia. Thanks for being an inspiration! Hopefully my garden will look as amazing as yours in three years.
Sometimes we think back to what we’ve done over the past 5 or 10 years. And I’m amazed at what we got through. Doing a recap on how far you’ve come is amazing. Congrats on your progress. I still remember early days when the Feijoas went in.
My absolute favorite garden companion…..young turkeys. I trained mine to look for tomato horn worms. They are amazing at it, I tried teaching the geese and they will not cooperate.
@@TheKiwiGrower I believe that they may know that this is the easiest way for them to get a treat, otherwise they have to fight the chickens, ducks, and the very entitled(in her own mind) female goose. Turkeys are not nearly as fast as the rest of them.
You are building a natural world in your homestead while big corporations driven by greed and power are destroying the natural resources like forest in order to get rich. The guardians of the natural world salute your efforts. Whatever you are doing now will be celebrated and enjoyed by generations and generations to come. Please keep it up and God Bless
@@TheKiwiGrower i love nature and i thank you for giving me need ideas for planting i love your fruit garden 😍♥️🇹🇹 i will love to see this garden in person so beautiful unique 😍😍😍
someeee years agoooo i took a class of horticulture and I remember that the teacher spoke about a farmer that started to have issues with wild animals eating his crops...so he decided to plant half of acre at one corner of his property and he let the animals know that the food growing in that part of his property was only for them but he wanted them to stop eating his crops...long and behold...the wild animals ate from their garden and never bother the farmer's crops ever again...nice...and the story is real
Just found your channel recently been binging all your vids. So jealous with your section and green fingers, veg patch and plant looks great. Would be keen to see what you plant in the summer :)
Your property is like my absolute dream. I’m trying to do my best version of a food forest on my suburban houseblock in Australia. This year Im expanding into my front yard & putting in a bunch of trees which I’m going to grow in grow bags with raised beds in between each tree.
This is a great way to garden. I am in the process of doing it this way. I have planted my trees and shrubs in different guilds and planted herbs, veges, flowers etc around the shrubs and trees. I have vines growing along the fences. A voulnteer choko is growing over one tree in my garden. I have other volunteers popping up everywhere, including sunflowers, wheat and corn in the chicken run from where I broadcast the seeds for the chickens lol. Love your garden. So inspirational.😁
Love it! Food Forrest is what I’m going for on 1 acre here in Northern California. My plants made it through the summer of constant heat 110 - 120 so I am doing a happy dance. I mean a HAPPY dance! It was brutal. We are experiencing a mild fall so everything looks pretty good. I worked like a fool to stay ahead of the heat. I have chickens and a rabbit too. They had misters, shade, shade cloth, ice and a fan. It was still hotter than blazes but we made it!
So thankful I caught your video!!! I'm taking my farm in the same direction, meaning creating a food forest. :) It's a beautiful way of gardening, very intuitive aa well. Thank you for the visuals! It's even more beautiful than I imagined! The bees and beneficial insects must be extremely happy as well! :)
This is brilliant. I understand the concept of planting Canopy trees and really thinking of the Pathways.,. What a beautiful Food forest. My Ponies demolished my Broadbeans. They do a lot of pruning. Little rascals. I love the garden dedicated to animals. Amazing information.
Man, your videos are a huge help in getting my own little garden project to survive. Northern Germany has seen drought after drought in recent years and the parts of my backyard, that I don't water like every other day already are literally just dust for the first 20cm down which is insane for these parts. I've been trying to get a miniature version of how things looked around here like 200 years ago before agriculture sort of turned 80% of open space into farmland to take foot and even the plants, that should be absolutely A-OK with the sandy soils have struggled beyond believe. I mean, even the damn juniper I planted has. Mulching as much of the ground as I can to at least give the bigger plants a chance to establish themself has been a huge help because no way any sort of natural groundcover is going to survive without hundreds of liters of water every week for the whole summer and our well has been running dry cause groundwater levels are at an all time low, lmao
Wow it's really starting to look like a forest! I was gutted to see what happened to your cherimoya. I've got a grafted cherimoya down here in Wellington and I've been protecting it with my life! Looking forward to seeing how your food forest takes off this summer 😊
Glad to hear you’ve been protecting yours. I got a bit busy with other things and never really gave it what it needed, poor thing. Nevermind, lesson learnt!
Nice to see your patch of green amongst the farmlands, love it. Can't wait to see what it looks like in a few more years. Maybe start keeping your own bees ;)
Thanks Charlie, hopefully one day it's completely consumed with trees haha. We've got a few hives here, have been beekeeping for around 3-4 years now :)
Eleagnus hedges would be an amazing wind break for your property we grew a hedge about 200 feet long from our neighbor and it has turned into a sheltered place for birds and the fruits are loved by one and all…
I got recommended your channel at the same time a lot of others have, been hooked ever since! Your content is great! Can't wait to see what's to come :D
I had to chuckle at the silverberries xD They're considered noxious weeds in a lot of places and people go to great lengths to eradicate them. They are tasty though, enjoy them! Lots of lycopene and other minerals
You and your videos inspire me in my own garden. Have you investigated the benefits of biochar? I never learned about in my Agronomy studies, but I now believe in it the emerging science. I love when age-old, low tech methods prove better than our chemical fixes. Thanks!
Hey Kalem! Its all looking really great. I look forward to seeing how things are progressing down the track and what you have planned for the summer veg garden. Cheers as usual from Oz!
wow man!. that is a wonderful work you have done in that time. your place looks so full of life and diversity. won't forget medicinal plants greenhouse!.
Love this! I have no space where I am to grow much (save a few pots of basil, parsley, mint, and some tomatoes out the front). Going to see if my parents would be okay with me commandeering their yard... 🤔😅
Taking tiny steps. So far my succulents haven't died, mind you, I had to replace a few before I knew what I was doing. So their thriving. My first attempt at growing something. I also planted spring onions, to my amazement they grew. Growing confident now. Next, more veges. Auckland weather is so dang unpredictable, so I'm more inclined to grow items in pots then the ground. Small steps.
I’ve been planting native fruit trees on my property as well. I’ve been putting them close to my property line so the squirrels will spread the seeds to other properties. I planted 25 bare root pawpaw trees a couple months ago. I gathered wild persimmon seeds from a friends property to add to mine. I’m going to find spots in my woods that get sunlight and plant the seeds. Then I will let nature take its course.
Thanks heaps for coming along to see what we've been up to - I hope you enjoyed it! If you'd like to see more, feel free to check out the video I made of the land back in Summer which shows some of the other cool stuff we're growing :) th-cam.com/video/gkoic01w6pk/w-d-xo.html
i have been growing a dragon fruit not grown I just put the seeds they haven't sprouted yet
Banana? avocados
See my post below
Truly. When I watched this I thought (vegetable sky) from toriko
Have you considered a "setting up the property " video discussing building yalls house and the start of the food forest ? I think it would be really interesting and help push more people into doing this sort of thing
try mix plants " pumpkin root and watermelon top ' those watermelon will become so strong and big , start in spring time can harvest 3 to 4 time in summer.
Many people still don't know the importance of native trees and plants and what role they play in local ecosystem and how many animal species are dependent on those native plants and trees, awesome video and nice updates 👍🏼.
Thanks Benny, definitely agree. Planting more native trees is something we're going to continue working on more and more. There's a real lack of them in the farmland that surrounds us unfortunately.
@@TheKiwiGrower I can't wait for that! I am very interesting in New Zealandian flora 😊 though I am from Austria
I’ve been planting native fruit trees on my property as well. I’ve been putting them close to my property line so the squirrels will spread the seeds to other properties. I planted 25 bare root pawpaw trees a couple months ago. I gathered wild persimmon seeds from a friends property to add to mine. I’m going to find spots in my woods that get sunlight and plant the seeds. Then I will let nature take its corse.
They attract natural wildlife and pollinators
We really need a revolution in education…. I would like to know Americas educational system history and if nature based information was taught even 100-150 years ago… seems like reading writing arithmetic and history, social studies, and geography came eventually, but why is it that people don’t really learn about plants until college (horticulture, ecology, landscape architecture?)
The cardboard is a wonderful idea,the thought of weeds really put me off,thank you for that tip
No worries! So easy and works so well :)
Kalem, you are a Zookeeper!! I am in deep awe of you. You are truly a holy man. May you live a very very long and lovely life. We need people like you in world leadership.
Somehow, it was really fascinating seeing sheep eat bamboo of all things.
this is so great , fantastic to see kiwis on here
I adore birds, really. They're really something when you've raised them from the egg no matter what species it is! Loved the excited gobble in the end!
Haha yea they're a lot of fun to raise and have as friends :)
"Hey turkeys! Gobble gobble!"
Thankyou so much for sharing your experience!! I swear most 'gardening books' and websites just cut and paste what has been written before. My mountain paw paw melted too, even though I planted it alongside a gabion wall (stone filled) that I had put in to help my avocados cope with winter in Dannevirke. I shall go out now and see if there is any sigh of life at the base!!
Nice job mate good to see fellow kiwis going down this path. I'll have to go check out marvelous fruits
You are living in heaven! Nature around you is amazing ❤️
One of the rare channels with no dislike! Weel deserved and more power!
After 6 years of gardening I decided a no dig garden, we bought like 60 tones of compost so we can reduce weedings. I put the cardboard first then the compost. I cover weed mat to my tomato beds a 1 meter wide and 40 meters in length. This time the tomato got no weeds because I used a 1.83 wide weed mats but the walk way have some weeds. You inspired me with the no dig and I believed next season will be less work because after harvest this summer we will cover them with weed mat so next planting will just create the holes and plant our seedlings. Planning to cut trees to shredded so we create mulch for the walk way in winter.
Nice, definitely good idea to cover walkways with mulch, sounds good!
I am at the exact point you were 3 years ago, building my food forest and veggie garden in Kaitaia. Thanks for being an inspiration! Hopefully my garden will look as amazing as yours in three years.
Awesome, exciting journey ahead! :)
Love to see how devoted are you to this garden, and it actually repays. Plants knows when you care well about them, it makes them grow healthy.
QUE HERMOSA ES LA CREACIÓN. GRACIAS POR COMPARTIR ESTAS IMÁGENES.
Yours is the most beautiful vegetable garden I've ever seen, so inspiring
Sometimes we think back to what we’ve done over the past 5 or 10 years. And I’m amazed at what we got through. Doing a recap on how far you’ve come is amazing. Congrats on your progress. I still remember early days when the Feijoas went in.
Thanks Janine, yea it’s easy to get caught up in the things that need to be done and looking forward, so it’s good to be able to stop and reflect :)
Absolutely awesome what you're doing there keep it up
My absolute favorite garden companion…..young turkeys. I trained mine to look for tomato horn worms. They are amazing at it, I tried teaching the geese and they will not cooperate.
That's some well trained turkeys! :)
@@TheKiwiGrower I believe that they may know that this is the easiest way for them to get a treat, otherwise they have to fight the chickens, ducks, and the very entitled(in her own mind) female goose. Turkeys are not nearly as fast as the rest of them.
You are building a natural world in your homestead while big corporations driven by greed and power are destroying the natural resources like forest in order to get rich. The guardians of the natural world salute your efforts. Whatever you are doing now will be celebrated and enjoyed by generations and generations to come. Please keep it up and God Bless
I think it’s really cool
Loved the update. Can't wait to see more throughout spring and summer!
Cheers Mike, glad you liked it!
@@TheKiwiGrower i love nature and i thank you for giving me need ideas for planting i love your fruit garden 😍♥️🇹🇹 i will love to see this garden in person so beautiful unique 😍😍😍
someeee years agoooo i took a class of horticulture and I remember that the teacher spoke about a farmer that started to have issues with wild animals eating his crops...so he decided to plant half of acre at one corner of his property and he let the animals know that the food growing in that part of his property was only for them but he wanted them to stop eating his crops...long and behold...the wild animals ate from their garden and never bother the farmer's crops ever again...nice...and the story is real
Very nice...... And control of human fertility also very very importent, helping nature to recover itself.....
Beautiful 👌🏾I am about to binge watch all your videos
Hope you enjoy :)
Just found your channel recently been binging all your vids. So jealous with your section and green fingers, veg patch and plant looks great. Would be keen to see what you plant in the summer :)
Thanks heaps, glad you like them. Will definitely share more and thanks for checking out all my other vids! :)
You’ve got a beautiful plot of land! So nice to see the updates to your gardens. Thanks for sharing.
Cheers Brendan!
Your property is like my absolute dream.
I’m trying to do my best version of a food forest on my suburban houseblock in Australia.
This year Im expanding into my front yard & putting in a bunch of trees which I’m going to grow in grow bags with raised beds in between each tree.
Just found your channel and I'm geeking out over it lol...instantly subscribed. Great videos, thank you.
Thanks heaps and welcome to the channel 😁
Hello from Eastern Bay of Plenty. Love the videos. Thanks for sharing 👊
Thanks for watching! Hi from the upper Waikato :)
I think I am falling in love with your food forest. I am planning on something simular in my garden.
Thanks heaps, sounds cool! Good luck with it :)
This is a great way to garden. I am in the process of doing it this way. I have planted my trees and shrubs in different guilds and planted herbs, veges, flowers etc around the shrubs and trees. I have vines growing along the fences. A voulnteer choko is growing over one tree in my garden. I have other volunteers popping up everywhere, including sunflowers, wheat and corn in the chicken run from where I broadcast the seeds for the chickens lol. Love your garden. So inspirational.😁
Love it! Food Forrest is what I’m going for on 1 acre here in Northern California. My plants made it through the summer of constant heat 110 - 120 so I am doing a happy dance. I mean a HAPPY dance! It was brutal. We are experiencing a mild fall so everything looks pretty good. I worked like a fool to stay ahead of the heat. I have chickens and a rabbit too. They had misters, shade, shade cloth, ice and a fan. It was still hotter than blazes but we made it!
So thankful I caught your video!!! I'm taking my farm in the same direction, meaning creating a food forest. :) It's a beautiful way of gardening, very intuitive aa well. Thank you for the visuals! It's even more beautiful than I imagined! The bees and beneficial insects must be extremely happy as well! :)
This is brilliant. I understand the concept of planting Canopy trees and really thinking of the Pathways.,. What a beautiful Food forest. My Ponies demolished my Broadbeans. They do a lot of pruning. Little rascals. I love the garden dedicated to animals. Amazing information.
Finally the garden! It's so beautiful
Thanks Ethan!
@@TheKiwiGrower I always wanted a farm. Maybe someday 😌
Dude you have the life I want to live damn it! Awesome stuff man, just getting into gardening and this is a great channel!
Cheers and glad you're getting into it! :)
Man I'm a City guy but damn you have a great place to live , Amazing job thanks for the update
Thanks mate! :)
You get a like just for the gobble-gobble at the very end.
Just found you, love your work! Great, simple explanation of the two types of lasangne gardening!
The light is so beautiful!
Thank you for your lovely videos!! We get inspired even in another part of the world!! Aegina island - Greece!! Thank you :-)
Wow the animals you have on thy land look so happy! :)
Man, your videos are a huge help in getting my own little garden project to survive. Northern Germany has seen drought after drought in recent years and the parts of my backyard, that I don't water like every other day already are literally just dust for the first 20cm down which is insane for these parts. I've been trying to get a miniature version of how things looked around here like 200 years ago before agriculture sort of turned 80% of open space into farmland to take foot and even the plants, that should be absolutely A-OK with the sandy soils have struggled beyond believe. I mean, even the damn juniper I planted has. Mulching as much of the ground as I can to at least give the bigger plants a chance to establish themself has been a huge help because no way any sort of natural groundcover is going to survive without hundreds of liters of water every week for the whole summer and our well has been running dry cause groundwater levels are at an all time low, lmao
It’s great to see just how much you’ve developed your property! Congrats mate
Thanks heaps!
Oooh this is amazing! Absolutely love it! I'd love to have a huge food forest like this one day
Thanks Bethany! :)
Loved the food forest. Cant wait to see all tge growth in the coming year.
Thanks, same here!
💗💗💗
Watching from Philippines 🇵🇭
"Labor of love"
And there are many in the club :)
new subscriber here from Philippines, I am happy to see your garden, it motivates me do my own. Thank you for sharing this very informative video.💚☘️
Wow it's really starting to look like a forest! I was gutted to see what happened to your cherimoya. I've got a grafted cherimoya down here in Wellington and I've been protecting it with my life! Looking forward to seeing how your food forest takes off this summer 😊
Glad to hear you’ve been protecting yours. I got a bit busy with other things and never really gave it what it needed, poor thing. Nevermind, lesson learnt!
@@TheKiwiGrower sometimes you just get too tired
Lots of progress since you first started, excited to see this place develop into the future.
Cheers Toby!
Loved your comments on all d gardening
wow! I wish I knew even a small fraction of the things you know about nature
Wooow, what a garden this guy have😯 I love it 😍🌱🌿🍊
Nice to see your patch of green amongst the farmlands, love it. Can't wait to see what it looks like in a few more years.
Maybe start keeping your own bees ;)
Thanks Charlie, hopefully one day it's completely consumed with trees haha.
We've got a few hives here, have been beekeeping for around 3-4 years now :)
Wow! The farm is looking great thanks to all the hard work you two put into it. I am really enjoying this gardening information. Thank you very much.
Cheers Jef! Glad you think so :)
Repeat watching. Really inspirational. Thank you
When you hit max level on farmville and start a real life one 👍👌🙏
What an amazing garden you have there. thumbs up.
Thanks man!
Looking forward to see new videos and to follow the development of your food forest… greetings from Brazil!!!
Cheers Bruno, hi from NZ! :)
@@TheKiwiGrower I love your videos!!! Keep it up!!!
Literally my dream for when I get old
As a brazilian, I recommend to you plant "jabuticaba", our sweetner blueberry. Is delicious
Eleagnus hedges would be an amazing wind break for your property we grew a hedge about 200 feet long from our neighbor and it has turned into a sheltered place for birds and the fruits are loved by one and all…
Slowly im obssessed with your videos
I got recommended your channel at the same time a lot of others have, been hooked ever since! Your content is great! Can't wait to see what's to come :D
Thanks so much, glad you like it!
Ahh, I was looking forward to seeing the loquat tree
Love your garden ,sir
i cant imagine how beautiful the garden is in spring! 😭✨✨
Love your videos. They fun entertaining and I learn heaps, keep up the good work
Thanks a lot, glad you enjoy them!
What a beautiful food forest you have.
I had to chuckle at the silverberries xD They're considered noxious weeds in a lot of places and people go to great lengths to eradicate them. They are tasty though, enjoy them! Lots of lycopene and other minerals
Omg. At 2:48 in the bottom left corner, is that VARIEGATED MINT?! If so, I am in love.
Looks like your EDEN is coming right along…best wishes in your journey…
You and your videos inspire me in my own garden. Have you investigated the benefits of biochar? I never learned about in my Agronomy studies, but I now believe in it the emerging science. I love when age-old, low tech methods prove better than our chemical fixes. Thanks!
Hey man thanks for being so educational and broadening our horizons with exotic items. Don’t think I’d ever get to learn about this in college.
Hey Kalem!
Its all looking really great. I look forward to seeing how things are progressing down the track and what you have planned for the summer veg garden.
Cheers as usual from Oz!
Hey Mark, thanks heaps, look forward to sharing more as things continue to progress :)
Amazing Information and best maintenance of plants of an expert gardener. Thanks
All is beautiful, really love it👍
Lil' fat turkeys in time for Thanksgiving 😁 Terrific gardens, and an owner as cute as a box of puppies! A perfect Sunday morning 'wake me up'.👍 🇺🇲🇦🇺
Thanks Marc, lucky for them they're safe on this farm :)
@@TheKiwiGrower I kind of thought so. Just funny watching them ride on your shoulders. 👍
wow man!. that is a wonderful work you have done in that time. your place looks so full of life and diversity. won't forget medicinal plants greenhouse!.
Thanks a lot! :)
Hi.. I'm from India . Awesome video.. updates are good...
Love this! I have no space where I am to grow much (save a few pots of basil, parsley, mint, and some tomatoes out the front). Going to see if my parents would be okay with me commandeering their yard... 🤔😅
brilliant.. really enjoying your videos.. so much great info.. thanks
Wow Amazing ! My dream is to have my own farm ! Even a small one ! Someday !
That's awesome, an exciting thing to work towards! :)
How inspirational! I’ve been trying to get closer to the source of my food/eat more plant based, and your farm is my dream!
Thanks Charlotte! Sounds good, a great goal to work towards :)
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
what a transformation looking amazing you are a true inspiration
Very good example how one can change a lawn to a food forest 🌱👍
Thank you!
Hand pollination incredible
Taking tiny steps. So far my succulents haven't died, mind you, I had to replace a few before I knew what I was doing. So their thriving. My first attempt at growing something. I also planted spring onions, to my amazement they grew. Growing confident now. Next, more veges. Auckland weather is so dang unpredictable, so I'm more inclined to grow items in pots then the ground. Small steps.
Brilliant 👏 loved the update such good progress - thanks for sharing 👍
Love what you've done! Taking it as inspiration to start my own on our farm. Love from Morocco 🇲🇦 !
I’m so glad to hear 😊. Good luck with it and love from NZ
Ive never seen someone who puts cardboard unter the soil…good to know that it helps
I’ve been planting native fruit trees on my property as well. I’ve been putting them close to my property line so the squirrels will spread the seeds to other properties. I planted 25 bare root pawpaw trees a couple months ago. I gathered wild persimmon seeds from a friends property to add to mine. I’m going to find spots in my woods that get sunlight and plant the seeds. Then I will let nature take its course.
That sounds awesome! What a cool thing to see take shape and a great legacy to leave
Omg! I want to live with you! You have my kind of garden ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ love your garden so much
Haha thanks Kay! :)
Love your work! Bula from Fiji 😍🖐🏾
So inspiring... Thanks for sharing your journey
I'm just mindblown. You've perfectly created my dream property ❤
Glad you enjoyed it!
Are we gonna get a 4 year update in a few months!?
ពិតជាស្រស់ស្អាតខ្លាំងណាស់❤