Tree Guilds - Understanding Patterns and Relationships
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Would love to hear more discussion on here guilds. Go as in depth as you please, don’t hold back! I’ll stick around for it all.
100% Agree I would watch a 4 Hr guild tour in your garden... Just saying lol
Us too!!
I concur
Ditto!
Same here.
Let's replace american lawns with nutritious guilds !! :)
I'm 100% on board with that.
Your original guild tours (feels like maybe 4 years ago?) are the videos that made me go: "I'm going to do this here". There's just something so fun about them.
I really enjoy you coming back to this space here, because it's almost like seeing a long time friend at a high school reunion. Your guilds just inspired so much passion in me, and that passion has burned like the sun for 4 years now and has completely transformed my life and my land. Please revisit these spaces and do a video like this each year. I adore this property and love to see it develop and change.
Wow! Such amazing sentiment here. Really appreciate all the kindness you've shared towards the work we do over the years :)
I was so excited this year to finally able to add nut trees into our context here in the subtropics. I swear I am part squirrel because seeing all those nut trees lights up my brain: "security! Fat! Protein! Collect all the little treasures!"
We're on the same page. I'm hoping for a huge mast crop of nut trees this year and plan to clear the calendar for at least a few weeks in the fall :)
I was also happy to plant some hazelnut bushes in the garden. The Squirrels planted some walnut trees. 🐿🐿🌰🌰🌰🤗
If you ever had a desire to teach a class this would be your topic. Yes please to more of these type of videos. Perhaps at different times of the year.
Different times of the year would be very interesting !
Please do more videos on guilds! This was fabulous! In the next couple years I’d like to try my hand at a few, but haven’t settled on the species yet.
Seconding this. Guild videos are amazing
Happy to offer more!
If I can offer one piece of advice on this - I'm sure Sean will back me up here... don't sweat the details. There's very few ways your guilds will go wrong.
When I first started this, I was kind of where you are - thinking I had to discover and unlock the perfect combinations before I started. That's massive paralyzer. There's no perfect combo, they all are. What matters most is the shape of the plants, and just trying to cram them together as best as they can fit. Almost everything will play nicely together, baring a few exceptions (juglans being the most notable one). However it's far worse to lose years by not planting while you try to figure out the optimum combo. Understand that there's really not an optimal combo and that almost no matter what you end up doing, it will work fantastic.
This is just fascinating. I picked up plants today to help fill in the lower parts underneath my fruit trees. Hopefully I can fill out my lonely trees.
Feel free to share more about guilds, I have a young grandson that will be going down the wonderful Edible Acres TH-cam rabbit hole!!
Very well done and informative tour and breakdown of permaculture guilds and different ideas. I just dabbled into polyculture a year and a half ago and you have completely simplified the concept making it easy for me to apply to my already permaculture plot. Thank you
Missed this one before, just watching now as I am setting up some guilds in my existing orchard so wondering how it will work adding lower-storey plants after the fact. But it cracks me up how you always know which compass directions things lie in. "There's my wife, over to the north-east and, oh, where are my pruners? Oh, there they are, just due south-south-west of here, next to me on the bench".
Let’s see the guilds 2023!
I loved this and would always enjoy hearing more! I binge watched all of your guild videos last year and learned so much! I especially appreciated your encouragement not to frantically write the guilds down. That’s what I would have been doing last year, but your videos have made me much more confident in experimenting with what I have available and growing well rather than spending a lot of time and money duplicating someone else’s setup. Thank you!
Just when I needed something to cheer me up!🤗
I’ve been hoping for a video exactly like this! I’ve got about 3 dozen fruit trees backed up ready to be planted on contour
Awesome, happy planting!
Love it.
I've been working on grafting multiple varieties of pears on to callery pear "weed" trees. Now that the grafts are taking, I'm going about mulching and then establishing the guilds around the trees. I'm having fun building top soil and guilds at the same time.
I like the idea of the long lived trees nearby. It seems to work.
That sounds like fun. I was just checkinig out all our top worked apple seedling trees to see how they are waking up. So much fun to top work!
Really really enjoyed this! It was so beneficial to actually see it in action. Thank you 😊
So glad!
Like some others have commented, I keep coming back to this (and several other) videos. ❤
Really good to know. We'll try to share more as time allows :)
Guilds guilds guilds!!!! Would love more discussion on this topic.
A much needed video! Thank you! I have many young native to Michigan fruit bearing trees and shrubs going in the ground this week...and I want to start guilds around some of them this year. ❤️
Thank you Sean this is fantastic... Just the sort of info I've been looking for now that I'm planting my little food forest/nursery 🌲🌳
Hell yes. Like guilds, more is better. I can't imagine video length being an issue
love your channel. I'm on the other side of the world in oz and i watch all your uploads, Mike.
Thats great!
Enjoy guild videos very well done 👍 thank you
I would love to see more! You’re showing a lot of us our dream landscape and helping us see the potential.
Packed so tight! Thanks for the tour!
Really happy to share
Absolutely! You can do longer videos and I'll still watch each of them at least twice :) thank you for sharing so much insight with us all.
What a lovely video. Thank you!
I'm always SO happy when you post guild videos!! It's so helpful and gives me an idea of what to do
Excellent!! I’d love to learn more about fruit tree guilds and companion planting. Please!
Thanks for sharing your experience, love to see more like this.
You've taught me so much. Keep up the good work! love & light
Loved the info on the video. Please make more videos like this . Thank you.
Thank you! Will do!
Thank you for the beautiful and helpful variety of examples!
Always love to hear about them
Love this video. Thank you!!
I love your vids! They are very inspirational to me! Thank you for sharing your Garden Life to us all !!
Yes! We love the guild discussions and food forest talks. The complexity and variations are so cool to see 😁
I really enjoy your videos and everything you guys are doing with the land. Always calming videos to watch.
I lost count of how many knowledge nuggets you dropped in this vid. Thanks for sharing.
I just love spring!
I'm doing the research now to turn my fruit orchard into fruit tree guilds. This was so helpful! I'd love more videos like this.
If you want to you can check out a playlist we made called 'Polycultures and Guilds' for other videos on the theme...
Thank you for all of these beautiful guild examples! I would love to hear much more detail about them. Our proto-food forest would be forever grateful.
Great topic! Thanks. The more the better.
NEVER TOO LONG OV A VIDEO!!! The Guild Videos Are My Favorite!!!!! The More Guilds The Merrier!
Thank you for this video!
Aye, more on this please Sean. I've access to a very wee plot with two apple trees and want to keep that area useful and decorative.
Hello Stanley!
Great video. Thanks. Great concepts
Yes, please do a deeper dive into tree guild details!
We are finally planting some experimental guilds under our trees this year. After seeing what works for you we have some better ideas and inspiration so thank you! This was very helpful.
Excellent timing - again 💚. Your explanations are both clear and in depth and I appreciate it a lot. I tend to succumb to analysis paralysis quite often so seeing all of these different scenarios helps my brain let go long enough to pick up a trowel and a seedling. Thank you. Any time you want to put up a guild video I’ll be right there in the audience. Think I’ll get the garlic chives into the ground under the new apple trees tomorrow, I hope they deter scab here in our wet, wet climate.
Learned a lot from this vid, thanks and please post more on this topic!
I just love your videos. 🙂
Excellent video! Thank you SO much for your always helpful and interesting information and for sharing what you guys do. We moved on to our property late last year and got some trees in this year (wanting to develop the property with permaculture design). This was very succinct and understandable and helpful for us moving forward. So, per your request, YES please, more guild discussion.
Great video. This is the kind I'm searching these days. Thanks for sharing!
No problem!
This was awesome to watch!
So glad you felt that way
Amazing as always!
Thank you! Cheers!
Love to see these guilds in action & would love to see more of them - thanks for making this.
It's great to know that folks enjoy these videos. I've gotten a fair bit of positive feedback from people. I'll plan to keep it in mind to make more of them as time allows. Thanks for the support.
Hi!! More those videos please. Thx a lot
Good stuff. Y'all have so much knowledge. Thank you for sharing that with us.
Our pleasure!
Yes, please share more! This is something I've been studying over the last few months on our property to get an idea of where to place plants for them to thrive together; plant relationships under sweetgum and magnolia
Happy to share more.
I agree with everyone else. Can’t get enough of the guild tours.
Awesome tour, thankyou!
Very happy to share
Yes this is fantastic! The in depth walk arounds explaining the plant’s purpose within the guild and showing examples of groupings is great. We just bought a forest in southern Ontario that we are going to build our homestead on so I am new to this. I’m hoping to begin planting in the fall but don’t really know where to start. I guess one guild at a time! I don’t want to fall prey to analysis paralysis so my plan is to just start putting things in the ground and learning from the outcomes. Your videos have given my the confidence to do this and not be so afraid of failing.
Inspiring. I'm in North Wales UK with a long, narrow (around 12 foot wide) sloping slate terraced dry syone walled garden with a sunny south facing edge and a shaded north facing edge. I am implementing some of the same ideas with many of the same species (apart from pawpaw, which I am having difficulty sourcing). I will continue to be inspired from your ideas on guilds and look forward to your other posts.
I love this! I’m looking to build some guilds this spring, with apple, cherry, plum, rhubarb, and a few other assortments in a few spots in my yard. I love this video, and as a first time guild builder I learned a lot and would love to see more
Thank you for the information. It is extremely helpful as I develop my food forest.
Wonderful information I can use in my own garden setting.
Perfect topic. I'm working on my plans for guilds around a plum & a different area with a cherry.
Very interesting and very helpful thank you. Lots to think about and certainly lots of things we could Implement in our own garden.
Very interesting, thank you!
Yes, please do more on guilds! I'll be working through the Polycultures and Guilds playlist you linked. I'd like to second (or third, or fourth..) the request for more on rhizome barriers too! Thanks so much!
Good nudge here. Thank you and I'll keep it in mind for sure.
Great job
Guilds guilds guilds! I could watch your videos on guilds all day! Would love to see more! Thank you for sharing.
They seem super popular and are fun to make so you can definitely expect more.
Beautiful.
It has been some time since commenting, I hope all is well with you both.
This way of thinking is vital to homeowners that live on postage stamp size lots! To have a fruit tree, a couple of berry bushes, rhubarb, and even strawberries in one area is wonderful!
We can pack it in just like how nature does!
yes yes! more in-depth guild tours over here, please! :D :D
Not sure under which video to write this but wanted to thank you for the great tree words man. With a tailwind from your ideas today I finally started my project to regenerate some tree cover in the ocean of farmland near my village.
This is a great place to share the sentiment, anywhere is really... Wishing you and the trees you are helping set in motion deep roots, wide reach and abundance. Thank you for planting!
Cheers man. It's a great feeling to have your support.
Thank so much for all the information about guilds! I never thought about this way, NOW I AM ON A MISSION! Great video, thank you again. I will appreciate some guilds ideas for us who lives in North Florida, lots of sun, humidity, and lots of clay soil.
Guilds are so wonderful, we're thrilled you are finding them of value.
congrats!
I’d love more videos like this. I’d especially love more about the patterns of food forests.
We plan on it.
Love this video! Got here from reading mycelium running and being fascinated by the mutual relationships between garden giants and other fungi, and various food crops. Anything else having to do with synergy between different plants, fungi, or both, would be an instant thumbs up from me!
I really enjoyed the 'Mycelium Running' book too. Really made me think about what I was doing in the garden.
I'm not sure if the fungi forms 'Deceivers' and 'Amethyst Deceivers' grow wild in your country, but I did find them the easiest ones to grow from 'stubs' after I foraged for them in my local (Scottish) forests. Now they pop up around the garden without any help from me; and where they grow, the plants do well.
I do find it quite difficult to raise mushrooms from spawn and inoculated dowels, because I live in an area that is heavy with natural spores from a mass of different fungi species. Usually, all trees are already inoculated by the time they are seedlings. So transplanting stubs is the best way to start for me.
Yes Please!!! Do more in depth tours! I have a lot of planting ahead of me and am sometimes paralyzed/slowed by indecision or doubts...especially with regards to spacing
Definitely have learned you can plant without over thinknig and it tends to generally work out. Worst case it doesn't and you've learned something, so still valuable to just try...
Thank you!
great concept you have got there
Superb! I've been looking for more comprehensive exploration of companion planting, and this is it. Would love to see more.
We'll be sharing more as time allows
Great video and let’s not forget one of if not the biggest producer of fruit trees Dave Wilson nursery recommend backyard orchards to do three in one tree planting. Planting three trees of like variety has many benefits like space saving, smaller manageable trees, extending the fruiting season with early ripening thur late ripening being a few. Really like what your doing and only adding to the question shouldn’t trees be spaced. Have a wonderful spring cheers
I have learned so much from you guys. Thank you. We had 50 mph wind and my dwarf trees held. Rain now and still cooler than normal. You appear 4 to 6 weeks behind 7a philly suburbs. Your grass is so beautiful 😍
Philly is crazy warmer than us. I've seen huge figs down there, we'd never have that up here!
@@edibleacres I would tend to agree. But we are getting some strange weather (philly suburbs) it snowed in June 2020! I recall a saying about when hell freezes over! Lol..
Pa high elevations similar to you. I'm from NYC my father kept a place right where you are for 20 years (southern transplants that loved country living). I spent my childhood there on weekends. (Wild!) What you guys accomplish there is nothing short of magic! PA farm land is relatively cheap! COME ON DOWN!
Great video. Learned a bunch from it.
Glad to hear it!
Great information thank you !
Our pleasure.
Wow. Very good. : ) Thanks.
I really appreciate this video because if you just look at guides or pictures of tree guilds, there are often 5+ species - helpful for illustrative purposes but I was intimidated thinking that you needed "every" aspect of a tree guild. Starting off by planting two or three beneficial plants together is much more manageable especially for a beginner.
Yes, please do more on the tree guilds and what & why you plant around your guilds.
Can do!
The main trouble I have with guilds is creating them _ex nihilo_. So often a Permaculture book will talk about guilds with no description of how you get there in terms of which plants to put together. "Plant stuff together and see what happens" is at best a LONG term strategy, fraught with failures. This is why your videos are so great, and why we need more people doing the same. We need recipe books for guilds before they are useful to most growers.
I hear you. To be honest, many many of these guilds are simply experiments set in motion years ago, adjusted a bit here or there and for the most part a lot of plants get along with one another. Always worth trying I think.
a lot of good ideas
Yes please!
Thanks for the great info on guilds, I'm about to plant my first ones with a plum and apples so I'm very interested. Also appreciate the info about juglone tolerant plants as I have 10! Have a great day!
check out the playlist he mentioned. There is one (or even two) video in there about a Walnut guild.
Perfect timing! I'll be planting out this new homes first guilds this month and next month, and getting this kind of reminder / inspiration is exactly what i would hope to see :D I have to set up some guilds to include cherrys, pawpaws, black & honey locusts, high bush cranberries, raspberries, gooseberries, currants, strawberries, rhubarb, roman chamomile, and tons of perennial flower varieties... I have all kinds of information, and no idea what I'm doing.... but it wont stop me from putting things in the ground :D
So many of these guilds were just playful experiments that seem to have proven healthy and beneficial. Go for it!
@@edibleacres I think your success comes more from sailing with nature at the helm, and not in the brig :) I'll plot a course with what I plant, but it's nature who will decide if we end up there hah! it's why I love your content, you do really well guiding nature to destinations that benefit both
I'd love to know what other trees would substitute for your pawpaw, shade-loving when young but more sun-loving when the other tree dies. This whole video was so helpful. Thank you!
Loved this. I appreciate you sharing your experience, would definitely watch more on gilds xx
Very good