From sod and rocks to an abundant food forest!! Tour our permaculture paradise- A garden tour
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ส.ค. 2024
- Learn all about how we regenerated a depleted landscape from sod, weeds, and no topsoil to an abundant, productive food forest permaculture system. Join us on a comprehensive tour of this rich regenerating food forest complete with bees, ducks, chickens, and dozens of rare fruit trees.
Part 1: The front yard.
Part 2: • How to do permaculture...
Part 3: • Permaculture Garden To...
Part 4: • Backyard orchard parad...
Part 5: • Chicken-Proof plants f...
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That's what I always told my dad, when he talked about function as the only thing important. I said "but beauty IS a function!" Nice video, thanks!
function is beauty and beauty is function
Thank you. So many food forests just look ugly and unkempt. This is the first pretty one I've see. Kudos.
This is one of the better farm forest tours on TH-cam. I really enjoy it. Permaculture, just like art or anything else, can get dogmatic. No need to apologize for anything that you are doing. It's wonderful. You're legit! And more importantly you actually live it. You've put a lot of time and energy into it and I really enjoy watching it. I've watched it many times. Thanks.
Thank you for talking about the false dichotomy. Yes, function and beauty CAN go together.
My 7-year-old says your yard looks beautiful!
I agree at first I only had such a small growing space I thought I should only plant “useful” vegetables but I realized also that flowers not only make me so happy but also attract and provide food for all the beneficial insects so they are in my opinion very necessary
Greetings from Australia. Enjoyed this very much. Diversity and whole of life approach…no apologies necessary. Thoughtful. Onto the side garden. Many thanks.
Pollinators like beautiful plants too!
Flowers in a food forest are great! I call them neighborhood "clickbait" ;) Only time such a term is positive LOL
Flowers are awesome for pollinators, plus in my opinion beauty is a critical component of any permaculture setup. Congratulations on your very successful efforts!!
I used to feel conflicted about adding plants just for aesthetic value, your videos helped me get over that. I love to mix beautiful flowers with fruiting plants. It draws people in (particularly neighborhood children) and my kids get to feel like they live in a fairy garden. Thanks for the inspiration, after watching you and other various youtubers I came to this eureka moment. My yard can be exactly how I want it- if I want to grow edibles I don't have to do it in rows. If I want to grow edibles it can still be beautiful. It can be exactly what I want and should meet my needs which includes a need for beauty.
Yes!! Your garden is for you! Put in what you enjoy!!
flowers exist in natural environments, why shouldn't they be in a permaculture garden? they add diversity and can attract beneficial insects, some are edible too. it's your garden so make it how you love it :-)
Amen! :o)
Just think of them as "pollinator and beneficial insect attractors"... 😁 Suddenly they ARE serving an important function!
I just watched it again for the 3rd or 4th time since you first posted it. You inspire me.
can't imagine anyone complaining about this amazing garden! I probably won't go full out permaculture but so many great ideas here to choose from! I'm 78 - coastal central California -most likely don't have 20 years or so to develop a food forest like yours but - can use so many of your great ideas!
Angela: I enthusiastically agree that it is important for your yard to be beautiful! Even if the wildlife takes all of your food, you would still get the beauty and other environmental benefits! I am struggling to figure out how to make permaculture beautiful--particularly because I get a lot of traffic of all kinds going by my property. I find that beauty gains immediate acceptance and respect; anything else may never be accepted or respected.
A very nice video. I live in a HOA managed area, and tree height is 12". I have a large, sloping lawn, but have just spread a load of wood chips over half of it. I have noticed landscape plans for native plants can be beautiful, too. I think the key is having "a contained look" by using clear pathways and/or raised bed areas (like you've done) and/or short blooming plants surrounding planting areas, used almost like boxwood to contain the madness. It means giving up a little more space to aethetics,
Flowers are good for pollinators. That's a function too! = )
I totally Love this.
I was just saying on another comment about Jan Spencer's permaculture property that I would like to know where all the permaculture and food forest people are in Northern Cal. Very pleased to find two in a matter of 5 minutes. Thank You.
Thank you! Your videos are so inspiring to me!
This was somehow more helpful than so many professionally filmed videos. Thanks. The organization of things around a tree really made the jungle make sense.
One thing that I love to grow in my garden for beauty are medicinal plants like echinacea, bee balm, melissa, red clover - I see you have some valerian growing in your front garden. I think all plants are beautiful but I love that you have flowering plants in amongst the "functional" plants. It makes the garden a sheer joy when you look out and see all of that lushness and color. Thank you for sharing your beautiful garden and teaching at the same time.
Thank you for the video - what an inspiration! :) Well done!
I'm sorry to hear that people criticized you for having a car. Just because some permaculturists are off-grinders doesn't mean that people that live ON-grid cannot follow principles of sustained gardening that benefit them and the entire planet as a whole. About the flowers: they also bring in pollinators, which are essential. We need to have flowers blooming throughout the growing season, so there is no reason to apologize for having flowers. Like you, I am concerned about making my yard look nice. I have already been told that I ruined the nicest looking house in the neighborhood- that was all grass that the previous owners spend $100 a month to water here in the Semi-arid desert. They watered their grass every other day, for 20 minutes a zone. Besides, we are in a drought, and we are facing one of the biggest ecological disasters in the USA- the drying up of the Great Salt Lake. In the lake bed, that was safely covered with water, are heavy metals that are now exposed and have turned to dust that blows all over the state and beyond. Why would I want to contribute to that?? People are not paying attention to the cancers that will be caused because we are more concerned about growing useless grass (grass that is not used for recreation, but is only there for "looks") and "looking pretty" than doing something that helps.
I think you'd like Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't.
Hello from Eugene, Oregon. Nice Food Forest
Your videos are so helpful! I am also in Portland, and this is very inspirational in helping us think about our own (much smaller) space. I love that you address how to approach the quirks of living in this city.
This is fantastic; your yard is fantastic! Beauty aside, flowers have a role in the ecosystem as well. Well done. 👍👍
I am just starting out with a very small yard and I am so overwhelmed as I see all you have done. The learning curve may be very steep for me, have so much to learn about my new home, plants, trees, even flowers. Just beginning to dig into it all. Hope to see the vision becoming reality in a couple of years. Thanks so much for your work. Its inspiring.
Spectacular!
This was great! It's inspiring me because I am dealing with some garden beds that have such poor soil. Looking forward to the next one.
I so agree with you! Permaculture can be both functionible and beautiful! So do I try to build up my Foodforrest! Keep up your good work! Lot's of love from Sweden!
You are so knowledgable! Such an inspiring video. Thank you for sharing!
We also have a significant number of native wildflowers and other native wildlife plants because they are beautiful and support the vital pollinators in my system. I love the birds and others pollinators that it brings and I get to look at beautiful flowers. Having beautiful flowering native plants in the front of my property also makes my neighbors happy as well. Your property is gorgeous. Thank you for sharing your passion.
Good video and I agree about the function/beauty thing. It's the same as the no-dig and other things. People get so hung up with a particular thing, they forget that nature will work with what you do, so do what you enjoy, had a friend who is really heavy into permaculture, look at my front yard we converted to an orchard and now moving to a food forest and got grumpy about how manicured my trees etc are. But I enjoy that aspect.
I did have to laugh about the carbon aspect, where you are trying to go to zero, I am doing the opposite, making mine go as high as it can go. Better for the forest.
Love the urbanite!
You have a beautiful and bountiful yard! Thank you for sharing.
Your garden is so beautiful - thanks for sharing your experience and joy of permaculture 💚
I'm often surprised receiving kind comments on my rambling cottage garden yard!! Lots of herbs, several roses (a couple of Austin heritage, and a Pioneer moss, ninebark, flowering Quince, and herbs 🌿 and one of my favorite trees - Ivan's Belle mt ash (cross with Hawthorne) from One Green World! So good - I need to net the fruit clusters to get a harvest ...(birds or squirrels usualy pick them green!!)
I'm also in the PNW
Great overview of Permaculture in Action, covering great concepts and tips!...thank you so much for your videos!...👏👏👏☺️
I really enjoyed this tour! I would love to know more about growing morels under apple trees. I’m very interested in attempting that!
Learned something new with the wood chip and fungi relationship
Love your viewpoint, you are a true artist.....Gorgeous garden....:)
I agree with you on aesthetics in the food forest. I am just starting my food forest in the front garden and I have hibiscus because they grow very well in our subtropical environment and you can make hibiscus tea. I enjoy cooking with mushrooms and so I am now planning on including a few of them by design or volunteering (as long as they are edible). Thanks for sharing your food forest progress. Cheers!
This was such a good summary of a permaculture journey! I appreciate you always identifying the plants on your walk-throughs, I learn so much. Thank you!
I really enjoyed watching this video.
Such useful practical lessons. Thank you so much for sharing this paradise.
Tree suggestion: Desert King Fig from Burnt Ridge Nursery. Mine survived winter in 7a zone in AZ, and do get ripe in zone 7 in WA too. Its the one Paul Gautschi grows. Thanks for the video, well done! God Bless!
Never mind! I just saw your video that shows you already have a huge one!! I just found your channel today. Thanks for all the really good info.! God bless!!
Flowers are pollinators, that's one function. Many provide ground cover or shade. That's two permaculture functions for your favorite flower! I bet we can find more!
There's one kind of wild current, Ribes viscosissimum I believe, which smells like rich, perfectly seasoned haggis.
Beauty and your joy are functional! Thank you for the tour. People are always shocked when I mention my edibles in my front yard… now-haha- a bunch of neighbors have edibles in the front flower bed. Love it.
From Alabama, I'm fascinated that you are also 8B. I'm guessing the cold is similar but the summer is very different? How often are y'all in the 100's? Your garden is completely fabulous!! I just finished mulching in my front yard and I am so excited to start planting it out with native perennials. :D
Just started following your channel. Really appreciate you're stating your location and zone. Frequently end up trying to guess locations when I'm watching videos. Looking forward to seeing you greenhouse this coming summer.
Hi Angela. Thanks so much for sharing your wonderful front garden with us. I was heartened to hear you talk so positively about the aesthetics of the your permaculture approach because, similarly, I haven’t seen that focus in the reading and research that I have done. Like you, we enjoy flowers for loads of reasons including being surrounded by beauty as well as their benefits for bees and other organisms. I was surprised to see feijoas in your yard because not many people from the US seem to know about them. They are very popular fruit trees here in New Zealand with most gardens having at least one plant.
Thank you, Bruce!!
I have heard that from a Kiwi friend, its the same as most Aussies have a lemon or an orange tree.
I love this. It shows me what to look forward to.
Really admire your work!
Omg!!!! This is exactly what I wished to see literally earlier today! YOU ARE AWESOME! I started making my food forest a year ago and intuitively knew I wanted it to be functional & aesthetic. Beauty helps captivate people, and once you have their attention you can use that as a means to educate. I’m doing a 50/50 split, all flowers/herbs in the front and edibles in the back. I’m so glad I found your channel since I have the same amount of space that you have and you’re a similar zone. I think female permaculture/food forest creators intuitively understand this and have gardens that are very different from permaculture gardens built by men. Not to make gender binary but you know what I mean. Is your property 100% sun?
I've been trying hunt down a lot of those plants for a couple of years now. Crandall Clove currant is almost always sold out in Portland.
Certainly a little more focus on the aesthetic will likely entice and encourage more people into the permaculture world, and more importantly, food security centred on nature based solutions. Thank you.
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I think the messiness of some permaculture gardens can discourage people from trying it. Some people want to see beautiful landscapes especially in the city.
and you have done this so well. always include some beautiful flowering plans that bring you joy!
There is no need to defend urself for ur cars. Whatever u do is wonderful.
I love your detailed information, and found some ideas I can incorporate into my garden.
Hello from Portland! Thank you for the tour of your lovely urban food forest space. Grounding & inspiring to see what's possible with time, work & planning.
Just found your channel and I’m binge watching...I’m in 8 a panhandle Florida...what is the white flower at 2:15 in right front corner..thank you
I learned so much from this one video! Your garden is lovely and you have set it up so well 😍 Thank you for sharing 💜
very cool! i just found you last month so i think i got to when you planted up the driveway. very cool to see the progress!
BEAUTIFUL PROPERTY!
I just subscribed to your channel today.
2020 was the year I started my backyard food forest.
I enjoy it so much and can't wait for spring so I can add more and more and more. Hahaha!
Great video.
Lots of info.
Thanks.
Have you considered putting in a reed bed to curb the flow of flood water? Reeds are used in UK eco villages to clean water as well as store it. Might be worth a shot. Also highly recommend tiger nuts. Loved your video. Amazing what you've done so far!
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Looks like a lot more than a quarter acre 😃 way to do so much with the space!
Video Idea- Easiest and fastest method for bringing up damaged ecosystems and open land to anchor the water table and sequester carbon
Thank you. I appreciate how you showed the great stuff and the stuff in progress. This is my second year and it is sometimes discouraging. However, your video and calm wisdom are inspiring. Some of the fruits you have sound fabulous. I will have to investigate what I can get in my area.
Yay for minivan permaculturalists! Ya gotta do what ya gotta do to make the day work when ya got 4 kids! We have 2 and 1 minivan-love the minivan. Question for you: I Noticed you have treated lumber in your garden. Can you share your thoughts on that? Pros/cons etc. Many thanks!
(love the kids too of course, goes without saying :)
I am new to your channel and I love your channel, you are encouraging me to grow more in my front yard, I live in SW Florida and live in a community but my backyard is my veggie and flower garden, my front yard is mostly grass with a large oak tree and some plants around the border of my house, started planting a lot of cranberry hibiscus and a lot of pigeon peas with some lemongrass that I am propagating as well as propagating most of my other plants, your garden is given me a lot of great ideas and courage to just plant more in the front, mostly all the neighbors around me have just grass front lawns, I am in zone 9b so I have the luxury of gardening most of the year which I should just do that and not worry what people think, keep up the great work you are doing on your property and have a great day :0)
Beautiful garden! I love your use of flowers. I have a very similar philosophy regarding the inclusion of flowers in my food forest; I never understood how plants that provide biodiversity and attract all kinds of beneficial insects aren't "functional"? After seeing dutch landscape designer Piet Oudolf's perennial garden designs, there was no way I wasn't going to incorporate that into my design. I look forward to watching your complete tour... now 😊 p.s. I never tried Hudson's golden gem, but I have a 4 year old tree that should fruit this year so I'm very excited..
Beautiful garden. Loved the tour. Learned a lot. Many thanks. This is my first time watching, so I'm going to watch more.
Very encouraging to hear about what you started with, as far as soil/dirt. I'll be moving soon to an area of the country that similarly has no top soil, so I'll be starting from scratch.
I'm leaning more & more toward the same idea of permaculture with food forest design, rather than just a traditional vegetable garden. So again, thank you for the inspirational video.
BTW, I had no idea Portland, was Zone 8. Fascinating.
I've been enjoying quite a few of your videos lately! I'm pretty sure you have lots of experience growing in dry shade, I'm hoping you show a tour of what you grow in those areas. I have lots, and tend to exclusively grow natives in those areas of my yard.
23:05' how about a gherry tree as you main thing in the guild? I think theyy do well in humidity and can hanfle cold, it gives them great flowering later in spring....:)
I know this is an old video, but I *think* honey locust could be cut back or pollarded, and I've heard that ducks love their leaves, probably chickens, too!
Been looking around for a good in depth food forest tricks and tips, and just getting to see your set up was more educating than most anything else I’ve seen.
What a beautiful yard, way to go!
Kumquat are small, great for an entry tree, and are fairly cold hardy, but not sure about your area. I'm 8b but in Texas.
They aren’t Hardy here but are great for pots
cherry tree is what I meant
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I think Beauty is also a yield and I think it will make permaculture more appealing to people who like it a little bit more tidy. No reason why great function and design cannot look pretty for me.
Hi. Beautiful garden. I moved into a rental house that has a wonderful diversity of plants but not edible. I'm at liberty to do what I like with the garden and take out plants and plant other species, but I'm wonderful if it's worth it since I don't own the land. What do you think? Shall I learn from this small bit of land and see what I can do in a couple of years or just keep pruning and leave whats there?
Beautiful. You don’t need to ever justify flowers! One question I have is about that water running off the road and neighboring lawns. Does that worry you at all? I would be concerned with chemicals and petroleum products washing into my food plants. What are your thoughts about that? Lovely home, so lovely.
You can keep water from going to basements by getting plants to take care of it? Nice.
Well in my case it has worked wonders. Instead of a river from the properties across the street straight into my basement, the garden beds slow and sink the water and the plants absorb it and it never reaches my basement I have yet to have water in my basement since I have taken out half my driveway.
Angela: I'm in the PNW as well and always wondered about coniferous softwood chips given our environment. Do you have a way to get hardwood chips from Chip Drop or PGE? Or do you just use whatever is on the truck, and find that King Stropharia and other mushrooms do just fine in them? Thx.
Angela, super helpful and useful to me as a newbie permaculturist. One question I do have: when you first started, your trees were tiny, so were your guilds all short, small affairs? No actual level 6 or 7 until things started to get taller? What did you do about creating the shady areas that some of those plants required that were being planted in as part of a guild? Thanks so much for sharing and not being just about productivity ("My garden gave me a thousand pounds of zucchini!") but also about balance and beauty.
Would you be able to speak a little more on the type of light your property gets, where the light enters/exits and how long each section gets sunlight for? I’m totally going to copy your U Shape Orchard design (if it’ll work on my property) and I’m stunned at how you fit so many fruit trees without them shading one another out. Surely you must have a 100% sun property, no?
How do the blueberries get enough sunlight to fruit surrounded by such amazing lush?
Just starting to look into Permaculture in Seattle.
My 2 blueberries didn't fruit this year I assume because they are in partial shade from our big cedar tree and a neighbors big maple. They fruited both of the 2 years prior
I want to plant white clover as a ground cover and Nitrogen fixer. Like your gardens, I'm covered in wood chips. When you planted your clover did you move the chip out of the way first to get direct soil contact or did you just scatter the seed on top?
Great video. How do you manage planting all the fruit trees in your front yard with city utility lines? Do you worry about the roots infiltrating your water line? I've had this happen in a past house in another city. I would really like to put as many trees as my Portland front yard can handle, but I worry about the water line.
I definitely have to keep things short bc of power lines. I was careful not to plant things that get tall right under them.
My water line actually runs next to my driveway and out of the way of all my trees except one quince. I lucked out that way.
That's so lucky. My water line runs down the middle of my small front yard. I might have to stick with the backyard, but my backyard has much less sun due to big pine trees on the other side of the fence.
HI, that was a great tour and front yard food forest. Nice climate to have the extravagant variety of things you can grow (I'm in Alberta).... but everyone has issues for their areas. Two questions: First, I'm wondering about your bush cherry issues, like why? I grow lots of sour cherries, both trees and bushes and have no issues. Might it be the lack of airflow? Just asking. Secondly, I noticed that your guilds usually do not include vining layers, as I only recall the grape arbor and raspberries, but multiple guilds. I have the same issues. Have you considered utilizing the fruit trees as trellises for some vining crops?
This is beautiful. We are in a similar climate and this is very doable in our suburban yard!! Thank you! What is the purpose of the canopy layer? It's hard for me to want to add shade to an already shady area.
Driving a used car until the wheels fall off is more energy efficient than buying a new electric car due to the manufacturing energy required. Don't let stupid people beat you over the head with things they don't understand.
Not driving a used car till the wheels fall off is like only taking a scoop out of a pint of ice cream and then tossing the rest in the trash.
For the self seeding plants, are they able to germinate on a thick layer of wood chips?
THE CARBON THING IS SIMPLY FEAR-MONGERING BY THE WEF.
I have a question (i hope you seen this despite it being an older video).
I here you speak about plants resoling themselves in your garden. Do you help those seeds bypass the woodshops in anyway, or do they manage on their own?
Thank you.
In case you haven't found an answer yet, it can depend on the type of plant. And mulch thickness. In general you'll need to help them out. One idea is to remove woodchip where you want seeds to grow (or find a volunteer you want to keep).
@@dutchgallagher4428 thank you for your reply (and for deciphering the question accurately despite all the typos) . I had asked the same question in another video and and received a similar answer :)
I'll will be puting it to use this spring 🌱!
Where do you get your mushrooms spawn? Is there a video you've made about mushrooms?
Northspore!