2021 Food Forest Tour in Connecticut. Zone 6b Part II: Fall Tour; Thrive in scarcity
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ส.ค. 2024
- Tips to thrive during a pandemic:
Purchase staple foods (calorically dense) items in bulk, such as beans, lentils, rice, polenta, flour and pastas. Also grow potatoes, squash, corn, many types of beans and legumes etc but only if you have the space. Grow your micronutrients, such as leafy greens, brassicas, ,tomatoes, peppers, and herbs in your garden. Plant early, mid and late season fruit trees and bushes.
Thank you for sharing your garden. And most importantly, thank you for sharing your food storage and discussing the importance of it!!! This is something that needs to be on everyone's radar. Growing as much as you can and storing the rest that can't be grown. Where do you order your grains and beans from?
The Instapot tip is a pro tip. It's a definite game changer for cooking beans. ❤️
I'm really glad you found this suggestion helpful; it's great in case of an emergency. I've done bulk orders of lentils, beans, farro, flour, rice, polenta etc from webstaurant, nuts.com etc. People think that they have to soak their beans still but these new pressure cookers get the job done in 40 minutes with way better quality than cans. Also to your point about growing and storing... I plan to process a lot of fruit, cabbage, egglplant etc this year. Things are so unpredictable right now and food prices may go through the roof
I am in 6B too. Thank for sharing your inspiration to so many.
Would love to hear/see an update on your winter experiment. Located just north of you in MA.
Your garden is really beautiful. Sooo many fruit trees. Nice that you showed how you protect your fig trees. I still have to cover mine. Last year we had -15 C / 5 F and only the part that was covered with leaves 🍁🍂🍁🍂 survived.
In spite of the fall browning I can see a beautiful garden. Unfortunately I am in zone 4 (at least for a while) so I will be sticking with Canadian permaculture legacy. Saw your comment there good luck with your channel.
do you do tours of your food forest garden? we are moving back to CT in a few years, hoping to start permaculture garden, I'm going through the Elaine Ingham soil food web course, and it has a permaculture section, which I just finished. very exciting
Thanks for your interest! sounds like a great course you're taking also. I may do a group tour in the future or use my garden for horticultural therapy groups. I mainly document my garden tours online to inspire others to transform their lawns into more useful spaces. However, when your back in the area, feel free to shoot me a message.
I just found your channel and I am sooo inspired!! Your backyard looks like my dream! Any chance you're selling any cuttings from trimming any of your perennials this season? I'm super inspired and looking to start a food forest myself, I'm in CT and I would love to start with plants that are clearly proven to perform well :)
Beatifull place, how big is you yard, I never tough about barrel in a fig, I am in zone 6b kansas, my biggest fig came back from the floor level. The little ones died, I bought a very tick brown turkey and I covering with a bag,, it seem alive we wil see, but I dont like the idea of a heavy pot thank you for sowing us you eden
Hi Maria, I'm on a 1/2 acre. If you have a brown turkey you could put it in the ground and winter protect it but you may want to check what variety of brown turkey you have because some of them are very late bearing for 6b. You may be better off with a fig like florea or a Hardy Chicago
@@Viva_la_natura i think the thick guy is dead 😆
@@sharoncourt75 6b also ...Arkansas . Wouldn't surprise me if your fig will be growing soon. Before I started to cover mine , it would die to the ground and then come back.
@@LittlePieceOfHeaven.65 I hope so it was almost 5 ft, last year outof 2 small ones 1 came back 1 was gone, it took forever and it fruit it
@@sharoncourt75 oh man , that's a pretty good size one. fingers crossed 🤞
Hello. I was enjoying every of your videos, very helpful and informative but I haven't see any new videos lately I hope everything is ok with you and family, God bless
thank you for asking. I plan to put a video or two this year, but I have no intention of growing my youtube channel. Originally, I just did this to share my project with a few friends and to document my own journey. However, I have a few things left to say and I will do an update 1-2x per year. Ironically, one of the best TH-cam channels for gardening/backyard orchard since the early days is DMCDMC (search dmc dmc gardening). He has few very videos since 2011 but his Canadian backyard is beautiful. I recommend checking out his videos for inspiration.
I live in Brewster. Do you think I can come tour your backyard?
Great garden. Do you have a link to your fig tree hats? My Chicago Hardy died back to the ground. I espaliered and covered with mulch, but I think a late frost caused die back. Thanks!
At 14:30 you're talking about chronic diseases and processed foods and about minimal animal protein. I'm not here to troll, but just wanted to say that is incorrect. I'm a pharmacist and my son (11) was diagnosed with T1 diabetes just before his 10th birthday. Since then I've learned SO much. It's the high carbohydrate American standard diet that's causing disease. There are tons of buried studies out there that drug companies don't want you to see, about how cholesterol and LDL isn't the problem. Fats from animals are actually inherently healthy for us. Beef, chicken, pork, butter, bacon grease, ghee, etc....we've all been duped for sure.
I didn't take your comment as trolling; however I have to point out there is no definitive scientific evidence suggesting what your proposing is correct. I'm a doctor also...but not a medical doctor (mental health), and MD's and PhD's take ZERO courses in nutrition. I believe what your describing is the paleo diet, or the ketogenic diet which are basically the Atkin's diet repackaged. Advocates of a vegan diet versus a paleo diet have the tendency to cherry pick research that supports their underlying theoretical assumptions, such as LDL suddenly is not the cause of heart disease etc suppressed
For example, if you read the China Study or Dr. Michael Greger's book "How Not to Die", he compiles dozens of peer reviewed articles on the link between heart disease, many forms of cancer, and the consumption of animal products (dairy and milk). The meat and dairy industry are a revolving door between the FDA , and they aren't exactly a group that is being suppressed by big gov...they are big gov. When advocates of veganism talk about the consumption of carbohydrates they are referring to complex carbs (starches), such as sweet potatoes, beets, grains, legumes etc, not highly processed simple carbs such as processed sugars, enriched white rice, etc What I'm saying is if you want to find research supporting the nutritional benefits of eggs, most if not all are funded by the egg industry; whereas the leafy green and beet industry are not exactly a group of prominent lobbyists spending billions to fund their own research www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7958219/
You should check out a book called Deep Nutrition by Dr. Catherine Shanahan. She certainly agrees that the processed foods that we eat are awful for us. But she presents a very strong case against the argument that animal fats are what’s causing the problem. Many of the studies used to argue against animal fats were poorly constructed, used a population size so small that nothing definitive could be ascertained from them, or completely misrepresented. Being a practicing medical doctor herself, she fully admits that nutrition is completely neglected in modern medical science and had to do a deep dive on her own to resolve some of her personal health issues. If you want to see a serious problem, look at the effects of vegetable oil on our health. Vegetable oils are added to nearly everything that we eat off the shelf and the studies on them are buried and hidden, much like studies on sugar were for a long time. The more research I do on the effects of vegetable oil‘s in our diet the more I am shocked and appalled at the miss information that is push in our culture.
Dr Pradip Jamnadas is a cardiologist and has a wonderful TH-cam channel discussing a lot of these topics. He has been a practicing physician for many years and is appalled at the demonization of animal fats and pushing of vegetable oils.
We have been taught the opposite all our lives so it can be difficult to wrap your head around, but as someone who has studied nutrition deeply in an effort to help Close family members with their health issues, these are the findings I find most convincing when you look at the studies. You should really take a look at these resources because I think they are quite valuable!
@@rustieshackleford9457 LOVE your comment!!! Thank you, I'll check them out!!!
ay bro im zone 6b in ct too, getting started for the first time in my back lot with some of this stuff. Ive prepped some beds etc. Any tips on some go-to veggies/herbs for spring? I have a large amount of space but about half of it is 50% shade under giant white pines. Otherwise I've got decent sun. My front yard is south facing unfortunately, so I have the least amount of property in full sun
Hey Fiori, for spring, leafy green vegetables are great, and even better in partial shade. The spring goes from super cold to hot so quickly now that things have the tendency to bolt fast due to heat..so shade is great. I would recommend going on seeds of italy (franchi) for italian greens: mesclun mix, spring onions, radish, arugula, lettuce, cabbage, kale, swiss chard, spinach and chicory. Also, early spring you have asian greens: Pak Choy, and Tatsoi. Herbs: Parsely, sage, rosemary and thyme (lol)...and basil. Around May15h after the last frost, put in eggplants, peppers, tomatoes, squash or anything frost sensitive. In CT; start cold crops indoors around Feb 15h, summer crops: March 15th - April 1st, and Fall August 15th - Sept 15th.
Great videos but there's nuance to the meat/animal protein/fat statements. It's the carbs* (metabolic shift and glucose competing for uptake with many nutrients like vitamin c)* that get you. Wild meat (with enough fat) is the only food you can survive on by itself and the data on the health ramifications of doing just that would blow your mind. Look into the Inuit diet and their health statistics before the introduction of western vices. There are other examples from all overt the world as well. As for the Italian's health, a lot of that has to do with the social aspect, small amounts of alcohol consumption, a diet rich in dark green vegetables and fish, consistent light-exercise, and specifically life-long friendships. This also applies around the world.
Thanks for your comment Chance. However, how do you account for the fact that in all of the Blue Zones (people living to a very old age, beyond 100+ )around the world people eat "mostly whole, plant-based foods, and limited meat and animal products. That means fruits, vegetables, whole grains, beans, and nuts"." www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6153574/ For example, the Okinawans', are some of the healthiest people in the world with high longevity, and the main staple of their diet is a carb, which is the sweet potato. When you talks about "carbs" are you referring to simple or complex carbs? Highly processed white breads and enriched rice or whole grains, such as lentils and barley? Why do vegetarians and vegans have lower rates of diabetes and heart disease? In traditional villages in Southern Italy, they raise a pig, and consume it all year long, eating only small amounts of meat in their diet. I agree that exercise and social connections, in addition to lower environmental stress and pollutants account for positive health outcomes, but I'm not sure where you're getting your info, but when Matt Damon was trapped on Mars, he wasn't growing bacon, he was growing potatoes, which you can survive off of alone...just ask the Irish, who do not do well without them. When you get sick, does the doctor say eat more grass fed beef? no, because the research doesn't support it, unless it's industry funded. They say eat more fruits and vegetables, all carbs...Does wonder bread and other highly processed processed breads destroy your gut? yes, especially when you put factory farmed meat on them in heaps.
What variety of figs? I didn't realize you could keep them outdoors!
I would recommend anything "Mt. Etna" which is Hardy Chicago, MbVS etc. They are all very similar berry figs, cold hardy, and resist splitting in wet/humid climates. Also the figs from the Louisiana State University breeding program, which are all variations of Celeste. That's a good place to start. You want early varieties, humidity tolerant. The thing is, most figs won't survive 15f for very long without dying back to the ground.
Do you sell fig cuttings or better yet plants? I live right by CT and would totally be down to purchase some from you since they've been tested and proven to work there
Honestly there's a lot of things I would be interested in buying (elderberry cuttings, that spinach-like swiss chard, comfrey, couple clumps of echinacea, mulberry cuttings to name a few) LMK if that is a possibility
I don't, sorry!
how are your figs doing?
Everyone is just waking up. I've been doing the fig shuffle for the last week or so. I didn't wake anyting up early in the greenhouse because I've been so busy this spring. All of the covers come off May 1st.. I peeked under the cover and inspected for mold and damage but everything looks good so far. We'll see ... it's been a really cold winter
@@Viva_la_natura Looking forward seeing the unwrapping and fingers crossed 🤞 for good result!