Nature tends to inspire and invoke passion in everyone that exposes themselves to it. Sadly we are ever increasingly avoiding it and it will be gone before they realize it was something they wanted... That said he is a permaculture champ for what he knows and teaches and has accomplished on such a small space. Even tidbits like this video where he points to the idea to plan a food forest that gets easier over time. This is also why I'm big on cover cropping btw not simply mulching with source like wood chips becaUe you aren't gonna have the source on site for free wood mulch every year on a small property. It's also not ideal from a diversity and nutrient standpoint etc. Use diverse cover crop, which is often edible or useful in its own right, and kill it back or let It die back each year to feed your raised beds bro. Also cook with that pruned fruitwod and Dump the pot ash from the grill in there or phosphorus during fruiting set and your golden bro 😃stop working so hard, kidding man you do excellent work but it could be easier. I'm setting up deep hugleculture beds this fall using all the foliage and wood I clean off the property in my re-landscaping of this house. Imma just cover crop it and keep a compost pile of grass clippings and rake leaves into it each fall and just top the cover crop with the compost once a year or every other but really that isn't needed but I will mulch back the cover crop with it occaasionally You should make large batches of lump lump charcoal from those fruit woods and then cook with it and recycle the potash into beds and trees. It's a better use of wood as phosphorus is the hardest to come by. Rock dust is a scam.mostly. you need soluble phosphorus in larg amount s for best fruiting and since youre cutting and pruning soany fruit trees you need to make large batches of biochar aka lump charcoal and cook and garden with it that way. Mulching that fruit wood would sadden me. Pro tip, never let the potash get wet till you apply it as it is soluble P and you lose it in run off. Sprinkle dry when applying and let rain.rinse it in or water it in but only do this when the plants need the P as again it drains away fast being soluble. But if applied right before fruit set and for a little in the early phases you will be happy I promise. The world has a shortage of soluble P and sourcing your own responsible by repurposing your pruned wood etc is the move
my grandparents (now both deceased R.I.P.) owned (fam still does) farm property in Illinois that has blackberry, raspberry and gooseberry bushes plus, apple, pear and peach trees that have been there since the 1880's. It is now 2019 and they are still growing there.
This is THE MIND and KNOWLEDGE every man and women should have: to grow THEIR OWN FOOD at HOME! "Hanging out with the bees!" Good approach, JAMES PRIGIONI. Love it!
Great channel. Just stumbled across you. I live on an 80 X 160 foot piece of land in a neighborhood in Temple Terrae, Florida, and have been planting, planting, planting like a mad woman! Learning daily about permaculture and intend to cover my land with trees and shrubs for the pollinators and food for me. I'm retired now and live alone so I can work for hours. Learning so much from you. Be blessed James in the work you are doing and for sharing your knowledge with us. I am most grateful for my relationship with Mother Earth.
“Growing a garden is like printing you own money.” ~quote I heard. “Sometimes you need a doctor, sometimes a dentist, sometimes a lawyer or attorney, but you need a farmer 3 times a day.” ~Another food quote. I tried pretty hard one year, put some seeds in water and glass. Never worked. My girlfriend dumped it in the side yard at some point and we discovered a peach tree the other day!😆😃😉
Doctor dentist and lawerys are needed... Because farms don't grow the right way...they use chemicals that ruins our health....and lawyers? Why do people do crimes? Why do dogs bite sometimes? Why do people commit suicide? Why do we fight? What makes us do things that aren't right? Living an unnatural life has MESSED UP OUR MINDS We are turning cruel from kind Messed up by the city life Controlled by government economy and technology Just because it's in front we follow it Not seeing the problems that then follow us We are letting these black holes swallow us We need to realise We don't need these rules That make us fools We can grow own food 🥔🥕🌽🍠🍅🥦🥒 In the heavenly woods 🏞️ We don't need a city To live a life of pity? Why live with regrets? When we can live with pets🐈🐕🐇 Why to live with chemicals that leads to diseases? 🧪☣️ Why not among nature that just gives and pleases 🥥🥭🍌🍓🍊🍉🍏🍐🍑 Why live with jealously? When we can live with harmony So let's save the naturals and KILL MONEY! 🌏🌎🌍 This is how →th-cam.com/video/gA1GUBTx030/w-d-xo.html
As a bee keeper and a first time viewer, I watched this video and thought, “I’d love to have a hive or 3 there”. Do, yes, put 2 hives there after you spend the winter studying bees. Start with Keith Delaplanes book. Then go to lil bits honey bee channel and watch joe mays beginner series. Build your equipment this winter, get your bees in the spring, and go for it.
Or adopt the Warre method which worked fine for thousands of years without using the treatment of chemicals and invasive methods. And No, I don't suggest you register. Its just another reason for a State inspector to come onto your property and suggest chemical treatment. Ever had a State Bee inspector open your hives on an October day and break all of the propolis seals? He said it was okay because it was 50 degrees. Three days later it was 22 degrees and windy.
We just started with Bees this past Spring 2019. It is fascinating. They are doing really well. Our neighbor gave use a lot of produce because he says his garden has increased by 60% .
Dude, you had me with your positive attitude and love of your garden and what youve created, but, when you brought out your 🐕, it took it to a whole nother level. Keep including your dog in your vids, great job!
I agree with Marie! I’d love to see an overhead map of how plants are laid out! Hoping to see the forest in real life one day.. please check your IG messages! 😁
A little trick with squash blossoms. There are male flowers and female flowers. Only the female flowers will produce squash anyway, so you pick and eat the male flowers. Female flowers are swollen below the base of the flower, and almost look like a miniature zucchini or squash Etc
That's it, first section of grass just got the cardboard and 6 inches of woodchips! Just a small beginning until Chip Drop arrives, then it's on for front and back yards for sure! This channel and the Back to Eden video convinced me to start this food forest when my aquaponics system was seemingly unattainable, so big thanks and shout out to Tuck! 🐶🥕
Hello James, I'm so inspired by your channel!! This is my first year with a garden plot at my local community garden. I am currently growing lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, strawberries, squash/zucchini and beans. I am a student with 1 more year to go, but I am now planning to buy a house and have my own food forest in the next 5-10 years. Amazing how much information can be found on youtube that would have been so difficult to find before.
I live in NJ and im making a backyard fruit forest too. So far i have about 15 perennial fruit plants. Cant wait for the growing season to get more perennial fruit! Great videos bro!🙏💚🤙
It's so sweet that Tuck digs up his own veggies. When I was a child we used to go out to my grandparent's huge gardens and grab our own veggies. I'm forever grateful that we were blessed to have these experiences to enrich our youth.
Same here. We used to play outside all day at my grandmother's, and grab veggies fresh from the ground when hungry. Washed in the rain barrel and eaten. Those were the best times and most precious memories!
Great vid James. Im growing a front garden food forest here in Scarborough UK. I love answering peoples confused questions about what im doing. Its great to put into practice what I learned as a conservation student and several jobs as a gardener. I love your positivity and encouragement. Thank you!
If food prices triple and they will, you boys will do well, I got a new hobby farm, I'm just getting it ready, land is clear, I'm laying out mulch, I'm 60 this year so need hurry, as old has arrived for me, I'm doing raised beds this summer, and this fall putting in an orchard. Next chicken, I'm surround by fish, game and wood, I believe food will be scarce in due to solar mins, and flooding
We are following your principals, James, but with minor (ha) variations: high arid desert, low juniper forest, Pueblo land, caliche soil. Wild dent flowers
@@jamesprigioni Do you buy organic seeds to ensure your crops aren't genetically modified with pesticides? Also, do you worry about chemicals being sprayed from the sky onto your food? I got a small greenhouse to try to eliminate the sprayed toxins but if I ever grow a little forrest like you have, it will be too big to cover.
Watched this video a couple of months ago and it inspired my wife and I to plan out such an area on our homestead for this coming spring. We’re ready to get started!
Your forest ( both of them ) are beautiful !!! I will go into your older videos and find when you planted your second year fruit trees. I think you mentioned where you bought them !!! I've never seen young fruit trees that look so healthy !
a beehive would be an outstanding addition, you could easily support one, maybe two in that garden, the pollinators would make your garden better and of course, the honey
Get honey, wax, royal jelly - but honeybees have a minimum distance they travel before they collect pollen. A hive in his garden won't help pollinate his own plants because they go something lie 30-50 yards minimum to 2 miles plus to gather pollen. By not collecting pollen close to the hive they cut down on predators that eat bees. That being said, it's not a bad idea. Even better would be to add housing for native pollinators as they are declining.
@@wendie8290 Possibly he'd get a little effect but the vast majority of pollinators to his plants are going to come from outside his property, and the vast majority of nectar his bees collect will come from outside it. One hive means tens of thousands of worker bees, each visiting hundreds of flowers on every collection trip and flying up to 4 miles round trip! I'm not at all trying to discourage adding a beehive. Every block in the residential part of the city ought to have at least one IMO :)
@@markadowdy agreed. I wanted to set one up. Homeowners association said 👎. There is a reason the abbreviation for it is ass. LOL so I buy local honey instead. Helping by support.
I'm definitely transitioning from a more conventional organic based system to a back to Eden/ Ruth stout method. Seeing your results and the older I get the more practical it becomes.
This is amazing. I moved out of Jersey a year and a half ago after growing up there... I'm learning gardening down here in TX and I will say I miss that South Jersey Soil!
Literally just got in from working on my fledgling Food Forest all day, here in Western Massachusetts, and am greeted with a new video from my inspiration, Mr. Prigioni. Love your channel and all the bountiful knowledge you drop, James! Thank you so much! I hope one day, that every household has their own Food Forests on their property.
I love to hear that my friend! Thank you for the kind words, I'm glad me and Tuck are encouraging you to put the work into your Food Forest. I share the same hope :)
Oh wow, so many people so close. It would be awesome if could all possibly pool some ideas and tips for our Forests. I haven't found to many people in my area that know what Back to Eden Gardening is, which alright, because I kinda get really easy access to a good quantity of some great quality, raw wood chips.
Hey James, you asked us to comment about adding a beehive... I would suggest not, as honeybees will gladly travel long distances, and likely already know your food forest is there. But they don’t do all the work by a long shot. Instead, i suggest adding a number of breeding spaces for smaller pollinators. This would be things like bamboo tube houses and drilled wood blocks. Many of the smaller pollinators need breeding space near their pollen sources because they don’t travel as far - in some cases a few hundred yards max. But they do a lot more pollinating of the small flowers than honeybees do. Some of the very (very very) small bee pollinators and parasitoid wasps need breeding space within the garden where they work. It’s a great study to see how much of the pollinating work is done by these types of native species. And they’re way more beautiful than honeybees, too! Keep it up! We love watching your videos!
Also, honey bees normally work when it's warm out. The other pollinators, like ground bees, even pollinate when it's cold out. They're the first ones out in the spring - long before the honey bees. Definitely worth it to set something up for them...
That is Correct. Honeybees only pollinate about 20 or 30 % of what you have in your garden. They mostly go to sources of great abundance, which would be Trees. When the Trees bloom that is mostly what they hit. This has NOTHING to do with Honeybee "extinction". Which is not true. The Honeybee problems in the United States are due to the way they are kept Commercially (Just like most livestock). It is the commercial beekeepers that are killing honeybees. Backyard Beekeepers and small scale hobbyists keeps bees more naturally and do not have the same problems of the monocrop migratory honeybee operators.
I planted a peach tree last year, and there was a pear tree on the property. I planted a cherry tree and apple tree in April, and I planted a macadamia nut tree, I also have a pomegranate tree.. Yes I want more fruit..
I found that out by accident my first year with a garden, at the end of the season I just buried the old plants, leftover tomatoes and all, next year I had free tomatoes plant, great surprise!
Your videos are so inspirational! I’m a new gardener in NJ and took this stay at home opportunity to grow some food; so far 3 raised beds. Watched many of your videos and learned so much. Last year planted a goji berry bush and a fig tree, they both survived the winter. After watching this video, I’m going to plant a few more berries and fruit trees! Thank you!
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Your enthusiasm is priceless I'm still trying to get my husband to let me do something like this
Here in Germany there is tendency not to put honex bees into the gardens because they outcompete the wild bee species. Instead we try to give them their their own habitats. Old blackberry canes, claysand etc. As always I love your videos. This forest is soooo beautiful, James!
First year planting: planted 3 strawberry plants and today I saw runners! I knew what a “runner” until you... now I’m trying to convince my husband to dump wood chips in our backyard like yours 🤣. Thanks
Great! Thank you! I will make my little garden this way. At first I will put in a lttle self sewn wine peach tree. Now I will be brave to do my old ideas! Thank you sooooo much🌈
Yes, by all means have beehives if your local ordinances don’t prohibit this. Failing that, put in some “bee hotels” for the many solitary bees that are also great pollinators.
The wood chips need to be about an inch deep at the minimum. keep adding them until you achieve total weed suppression. If you keep this top dressing up for as long as you can, the soil will soften, and weeds can be pulled much more easily. A sharpened spade with a long handle can be use to slice weeds off at ground level if they are too tough to pull. If you persist at this, and plant under the wood chip, it winds up like the garden in this video. When the vegetation and trees get established, the weeds diminish. If you do proper composting, you will regard the weeds as just another crop while you are getting rid of them. This attitude makes a big difference.
Fold the weeda down to the ground and then pull slowly. . They think its the wind blowing them and they wont expand the roots.. they know ya trying to pull them.
Thank you James and Tuck. Since I was in Seattle in 2016 I went to see Paul Gautschi's garden (had been following him since I watched Back To Eden). He was welcoming, informative and let us sample what he had at the time. Even the weeds tasted good! And he sent us away with fresh water. Very kind man. Unbelievably beautiful garden and home.
I just found you and I AM HOOKED! FANTASTIC! I LIVE IN CENTRAL FLORIDA AND WE JUST MOVED HERE AND WE JUST STARTED OUR GARDEN ABOUT TWO YEARS AGO AND TO DATE WE HAVE 11 DIFFERENT FRUITS LOOKING INTO NUT TREES THIS YEAR! ADDING YOU TO OUR EDUCATION IS SO EXCITING! THANK YOU SO MUCH!
THAT'S FREAKIN AWESOME. And yes, get a bee hive. There are several types available for purchase or that you can build so pick the type that works for you.
@@stephaniebach__12-24 let them grow in a seedling plastic pot, and when they are tall enough give them to your relatives which is what im planning to do now. And after 5 to 6 years your tree will start to fruit. Im hoarding many different varieties of fruit seedlings and will be planting them in my lot where i plan to build my own house. Im 19 and before my house is finished i would have fruit bearing trees already haha. If you dont have enough space try to plant a citrus tree and graft many citrus varieties on that tree also try other types of trees.
@@Hugo-lm7ed I am working on sprouting some hickory nuts, and might start ramping up the rate I start sprouting trees when I get closer to being able to purchase my own land.
I love this guy! Looking toward the future, loves dogs, thinking of helping & feeding others. I too would love to see the “ floor plan “ . I wish you much success, you should be given your own show. Love to little pup Tuck!
I have a few raised beds and I let seeds fall and plant a few new things now and then but nothing on the scale that you’ve got going. You’ve done an amazing job there.
I might start to develop some "outdoor rooms" Some bistro tables or concrete benches places to stop and contemplate all the life around you. Maybe Tuck needs a solar-powered pond. The falling water noise would be beautiful.
EXCELLENT VIDEO - I ENVY THE SPACE THAT YOU HAVE - CONGRATS ON THE WAY YOU HAVE ALLOWED THE FOREST TO GROW NATURALLY.... HOWEVER, I COULDN'T SEE HOW YOU WATER SUCH A VARIETY OF TREES AND PLANTS !
Love ya work bro! I've been keeping bees for 30 years in North New Zealand, similar climate by the looks so Ill be happy to give tips any time. A question I'd love to hear from you fullas is.. Where are all the weeds??? My attempt at a similar idea is a constant battle! Or more like a war!.. and I'm loosing ;) 😝
Put down a layer of cardboard first and then a heavy mulch/wood chip layer. This is what I did in my yard and rarely see a weed. When i do get one, it pulls out very easily
I planted a lot on different places too, so i can learn which plant wants what kind of light and moisture conditions. It is growing fast, first flowers are out, fun times.
I have been watching your garden and what I learned is that when vegetables grow themselves then everything lives and helps itself the real reason you call it a food forest my respect ✊ everything coming together so natural the future of farming
Beautiful! Had my goats and chickens clear more area and increased my BTE garden from 300 sq ft to 3000 sq ft last fall. Since I just planted my trees and bushes and some annuals this spring, it looks pretty skeletal...so heartening to see what it might look like in a few years! Thanks!
I love your little 🐕❤️ eating geeen beans!! You are a good example of what we all need to be doing!! No matter how small the space!! Thanks for sharing!! You inspired me!! The least I can do is grow my own 😉 lettuce!!
This guy is my fave. I only recently subscribed but I'm so proud of his success! He is fun to watch, knows what hes doing, (and is sharing his knowledge with us which saves a lot of trail and error) and is very optimistic. Keep up the great work! You are an inspiration.
@Jeffery Allen Seville oh brother, so many worry about the silliest stuff and believe everything is a conspiracy. The real problem, too many, too lazy to do the work needed. No secret there.But easier to create a reason.
I became a bee keeper last year. The trick is to get them through the winter and I’ve also learned that a top bar hive is more natural and healthier than a Langstroth hive and I plan to make one in the spring.
I would suggest anyone interested in keeping bees Google "Bee Guardians". You will find out why the way they keep bees is one of the reasons bees are dying. You will discover that a great many companies that sell honey, and residential beekeepers.....feed bees sugar water in the winter, stealing their honey that they need to nourish and raise more bees, has a trickle down effect in each succeeding generation, weakening the gene pool. Bee Guardians do not need to smoke the bees, or wear bee suits because the bees are happy and when they are happy......they share willingly. If you would like to see what a hive should look like please check out Backyardhive.com
@@Elementaldomain I agree with you. Commercial bee growers also kill a lot of bees. I watched a documentary on commercial production of honey and the first thing I noticed was all the bees they kill when they harvest the honey. They move so fast in their harvesting that they are stacking hives so fast a lot of bees are being harvested with the honey. You could see the dead bees in the honey when they were throwing the chucks of wax into the spinning machine that pulls the honey out of the combs and you could see the dead bees in the vats. Shameful. Bee keepers that respect their bees do not handle them so haphazardly. Made me get really angry at commercial harvesters.
James I recently retired from my job and I must say you have put purpose to my day. Although I live in a community I really enjoy building my garden in an area between two of our buildings. Thanks you for all the great tips on gardening I always wanted to do. Best Tom Petillo
"The best time to plant a tree is 7 years ago, the 2nd best time is today."
that is a great quote.
I too came to the comments because of this quote.
It's an old one.
Great stuff
@Rashmi Bhattarai I've heard 10.
Here is another one. 'Put your ten dollar tree in a hundred dollar hole.'
This guy is a champ, you can hear his passion in the tone of his voice.
I,8,2 much , with back to eden garden practice which the Vietnamese have been doing forever!
I,8,2 much he emphasized diversity in terms of relying on each others and to build that ecosystem in the soil (like back to Eden garden concept).
How you see people says something about you, so maybe it's you~
Nature tends to inspire and invoke passion in everyone that exposes themselves to it. Sadly we are ever increasingly avoiding it and it will be gone before they realize it was something they wanted...
That said he is a permaculture champ for what he knows and teaches and has accomplished on such a small space. Even tidbits like this video where he points to the idea to plan a food forest that gets easier over time. This is also why I'm big on cover cropping btw not simply mulching with source like wood chips becaUe you aren't gonna have the source on site for free wood mulch every year on a small property. It's also not ideal from a diversity and nutrient standpoint etc. Use diverse cover crop, which is often edible or useful in its own right, and kill it back or let It die back each year to feed your raised beds bro. Also cook with that pruned fruitwod and Dump the pot ash from the grill in there or phosphorus during fruiting set and your golden bro 😃stop working so hard, kidding man you do excellent work but it could be easier. I'm setting up deep hugleculture beds this fall using all the foliage and wood I clean off the property in my re-landscaping of this house. Imma just cover crop it and keep a compost pile of grass clippings and rake leaves into it each fall and just top the cover crop with the compost once a year or every other but really that isn't needed but I will mulch back the cover crop with it occaasionally
You should make large batches of lump lump charcoal from those fruit woods and then cook with it and recycle the potash into beds and trees. It's a better use of wood as phosphorus is the hardest to come by. Rock dust is a scam.mostly. you need soluble phosphorus in larg amount s for best fruiting and since youre cutting and pruning soany fruit trees you need to make large batches of biochar aka lump charcoal and cook and garden with it that way. Mulching that fruit wood would sadden me.
Pro tip, never let the potash get wet till you apply it as it is soluble P and you lose it in run off. Sprinkle dry when applying and let rain.rinse it in or water it in but only do this when the plants need the P as again it drains away fast being soluble. But if applied right before fruit set and for a little in the early phases you will be happy I promise. The world has a shortage of soluble P and sourcing your own responsible by repurposing your pruned wood etc is the move
These guy is excited when he shares his knowledge bless you sir
my grandparents (now both deceased R.I.P.) owned (fam still does) farm property in Illinois that has blackberry, raspberry and gooseberry bushes plus, apple, pear and peach trees that have been there since the 1880's. It is now 2019 and they are still growing there.
its 2019 yep
Wow
@KillswitchOwnsAll glad you noticed
I bet there are a lot of interesting heritage breeds among those old trees- very cool! :)
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Was there something to notice beside your poor troll abilities?
And this is an example of living life fully.
Plant "once" is a great idea. Thinking of aging seems to be culturally & subconsciously ignored. You're a blessing.
This is THE MIND and KNOWLEDGE every man and women should have: to grow THEIR OWN FOOD at HOME!
"Hanging out with the bees!" Good approach, JAMES PRIGIONI. Love it!
Great channel. Just stumbled across you. I live on an 80 X 160 foot piece of land in a neighborhood in Temple Terrae, Florida, and have been planting, planting, planting like a mad woman! Learning daily about permaculture and intend to cover my land with trees and shrubs for the pollinators and food for me. I'm retired now and live alone so I can work for hours. Learning so much from you. Be blessed James in the work you are doing and for sharing your knowledge with us. I am most grateful for my relationship with Mother Earth.
“Growing a garden is like printing you own money.” ~quote I heard. “Sometimes you need a doctor, sometimes a dentist, sometimes a lawyer or attorney, but you need a farmer 3 times a day.” ~Another food quote. I tried pretty hard one year, put some seeds in water and glass. Never worked. My girlfriend dumped it in the side yard at some point and we discovered a peach tree the other day!😆😃😉
Farming is hard...
@@lilbarry1212 have you tried micro greens? ...you're welcome
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Doctor dentist and lawerys are needed...
Because farms don't grow the right way...they use chemicals that ruins our health....and lawyers?
Why do people do crimes?
Why do dogs bite sometimes?
Why do people commit suicide?
Why do we fight?
What makes us do things that aren't right?
Living an unnatural life has MESSED UP OUR MINDS
We are turning cruel from kind
Messed up by the city life
Controlled by government economy and technology
Just because it's in front
we follow it
Not seeing the problems that then follow us
We are letting these black holes swallow us
We need to realise
We don't need these rules
That make us fools
We can grow own food 🥔🥕🌽🍠🍅🥦🥒
In the heavenly woods 🏞️
We don't need a city
To live a life of pity?
Why live with regrets?
When we can live with pets🐈🐕🐇
Why to live with chemicals that leads to diseases? 🧪☣️
Why not among nature that just gives and pleases 🥥🥭🍌🍓🍊🍉🍏🍐🍑
Why live with jealously?
When we can live with harmony
So let's save the naturals and KILL MONEY!
🌏🌎🌍
This is how →th-cam.com/video/gA1GUBTx030/w-d-xo.html
As a bee keeper and a first time viewer, I watched this video and thought, “I’d love to have a hive or 3 there”. Do, yes, put 2 hives there after you spend the winter studying bees. Start with Keith Delaplanes book. Then go to lil bits honey bee channel and watch joe mays beginner series. Build your equipment this winter, get your bees in the spring, and go for it.
Steve Jackson
Absolutely!
and register your hives with your local authority; fighting diseases and invasive predators is a community effort.
Or adopt the Warre method which worked fine for thousands of years without using the treatment of chemicals and invasive methods. And No, I don't suggest you register. Its just another reason for a State inspector to come onto your property and suggest chemical treatment. Ever had a State Bee inspector open your hives on an October day and break all of the propolis seals? He said it was okay because it was 50 degrees. Three days later it was 22 degrees and windy.
We just started with Bees this past Spring 2019. It is fascinating. They are doing really well. Our neighbor gave use a lot of produce because he says his garden has increased by 60% .
Dude, you had me with your positive attitude and love of your garden and what youve created, but, when you brought out your 🐕, it took it to a whole nother level. Keep including your dog in your vids, great job!
I’d love to see a map or labeled overhead shot of your garden to see what you planted close to what etc
Love your forest! Could u talk about what u do for winter. I'm trying to decide if I should move to new england or north carolina
I agree with Marie! I’d love to see an overhead map of how plants are laid out! Hoping to see the forest in real life one day.. please check your IG messages! 😁
Agreed! Great idea!
Yes please
For sure!!!! I’d also be interested to know where to get good fruit trees and at what age to plant.
You are on the right path my friend... :-) Your face and attitude are glowing so positive.. The garden project is amazing.. very inspiring... .-)
If your squash is producing yellow flowers; you can eat the flowers. We use them in quesadillas with yellow corn tortillas.
those flowers are medacine in most cases
@@davidwalesby2426 interesting. For what ailments ?
Squash blossoms are the best!!!
A little trick with squash blossoms. There are male flowers and female flowers. Only the female flowers will produce squash anyway, so you pick and eat the male flowers. Female flowers are swollen below the base of the flower, and almost look like a miniature zucchini or squash Etc
@@charlesbeehner5378 yes. Thank you for saying so. That us the method we apply.
That's it, first section of grass just got the cardboard and 6 inches of woodchips! Just a small beginning until Chip Drop arrives, then it's on for front and back yards for sure! This channel and the Back to Eden video convinced me to start this food forest when my aquaponics system was seemingly unattainable, so big thanks and shout out to Tuck! 🐶🥕
Let’s Goooo!!!! Sorry you couldn’t do the aquaponics, but me and Tuck are so happy to hear you are now a back to eden forest gardener!!! ❤️❤️❤️
@@jamesprigioni I'm super stoked to build this forest up now, and aquaponics can happen when the time is right! 🐟🌱
Chipdrop was awesome for me. I got an email and they arrived an hour later with over 6 yards of fresh mulch. Awesome service to have.
Hello James, I'm so inspired by your channel!! This is my first year with a garden plot at my local community garden. I am currently growing lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, strawberries, squash/zucchini and beans. I am a student with 1 more year to go, but I am now planning to buy a house and have my own food forest in the next 5-10 years. Amazing how much information can be found on youtube that would have been so difficult to find before.
😁😁❤️
I live in NJ and im making a backyard fruit forest too. So far i have about 15 perennial fruit plants. Cant wait for the growing season to get more perennial fruit! Great videos bro!🙏💚🤙
Shalom! You have a beautiful garden. Thank you much for teaching us so many wonderful things for life. Blessings!
It's so sweet that Tuck digs up his own veggies. When I was a child we used to go out to my grandparent's huge gardens and grab our own veggies. I'm forever grateful that we were blessed to have these experiences to enrich our youth.
Same here. We used to play outside all day at my grandmother's, and grab veggies fresh from the ground when hungry. Washed in the rain barrel and eaten. Those were the best times and most precious memories!
My grandparents and my parents had gardens too.
Both of my Grandfathers were Gardeners. There is nothing like fresh tomatoes, string beans, lettuce & cucumbers. Man have times changed
Does ur family still have that garden?
'and the lion shall lie down with the lamb, and they shall both be led by a little child.'
Great vid James.
Im growing a front garden food forest here in Scarborough UK.
I love answering peoples confused questions about what im doing. Its great to put into practice what I learned as a conservation student and several jobs as a gardener.
I love your positivity and encouragement. Thank you!
Hey James. I'm getting my first place in a couple weeks. Gonna make a small food forest like you're doing. Thanks for the inspiration.
Let’s gooooo!! Me and Tuck love to hear that ❤️🐕💕
If food prices triple and they will, you boys will do well, I got a new hobby farm, I'm just getting it ready, land is clear, I'm laying out mulch, I'm 60 this year so need hurry, as old has arrived for me, I'm doing raised beds this summer, and this fall putting in an orchard. Next chicken, I'm surround by fish, game and wood, I believe food will be scarce in due to solar mins, and flooding
We are following your principals, James, but with minor (ha) variations: high arid desert, low juniper forest, Pueblo land, caliche soil. Wild dent flowers
@@sylviagolden7542 You find any limes will grow there? I;m in Southern New Mexico,,wondering about fruit trees? Thanks
@@jamesprigioni Do you buy organic seeds to ensure your crops aren't genetically modified with pesticides? Also, do you worry about chemicals being sprayed from the sky onto your food? I got a small greenhouse to try to eliminate the sprayed toxins but if I ever grow a little forrest like you have, it will be too big to cover.
could be considered the getting older garden, cause the older you get and the garden gets the less work you need to do, Great idea. Thanks
Amazing, bringing back memories when we were young back in Punjab,my dad would've loved seeing this. Please continue with this work, well done.
Watched this video a couple of months ago and it inspired my wife and I to plan out such an area on our homestead for this coming spring. We’re ready to get started!
Might want to check out IVorganic also, on grafting and planting fruit trees from good stock.
Your forest ( both of them ) are beautiful !!! I will go into your older videos and find when you planted your second year fruit trees. I think you mentioned where you bought them !!! I've never seen young fruit trees that look so healthy !
Think he said he got them from raintreenursery.com
a beehive would be an outstanding addition, you could easily support one, maybe two in that garden, the pollinators would make your garden better and of course, the honey
Get honey, wax, royal jelly - but honeybees have a minimum distance they travel before they collect pollen. A hive in his garden won't help pollinate his own plants because they go something lie 30-50 yards minimum to 2 miles plus to gather pollen. By not collecting pollen close to the hive they cut down on predators that eat bees. That being said, it's not a bad idea. Even better would be to add housing for native pollinators as they are declining.
@@markadowdy perhaps on the other side of the yard?
@@markadowdy perhaps on the other side of the yard? Hopefully that would be far enough away if he goes diagonal Maybe
@@wendie8290 Possibly he'd get a little effect but the vast majority of pollinators to his plants are going to come from outside his property, and the vast majority of nectar his bees collect will come from outside it.
One hive means tens of thousands of worker bees, each visiting hundreds of flowers on every collection trip and flying up to 4 miles round trip!
I'm not at all trying to discourage adding a beehive. Every block in the residential part of the city ought to have at least one IMO :)
@@markadowdy agreed. I wanted to set one up. Homeowners association said 👎. There is a reason the abbreviation for it is ass. LOL so I buy local honey instead. Helping by support.
I'm definitely transitioning from a more conventional organic based system to a back to Eden/ Ruth stout method. Seeing your results and the older I get the more practical it becomes.
When my hands are in the dirt planting something it calms my soul......I love this channel and I love James excitement for gardening.
This is amazing. I moved out of Jersey a year and a half ago after growing up there... I'm learning gardening down here in TX and I will say I miss that South Jersey Soil!
Literally just got in from working on my fledgling Food Forest all day, here in Western Massachusetts, and am greeted with a new video from my inspiration, Mr. Prigioni. Love your channel and all the bountiful knowledge you drop, James! Thank you so much! I hope one day, that every household has their own Food Forests on their property.
I love to hear that my friend! Thank you for the kind words, I'm glad me and Tuck are encouraging you to put the work into your Food Forest. I share the same hope :)
Hello from Auburn, MA !
Hello from Lake George New York
@@samuelmjlfjell Hey Sam hello from Rexford NY!
Oh wow, so many people so close. It would be awesome if could all possibly pool some ideas and tips for our Forests. I haven't found to many people in my area that know what Back to Eden Gardening is, which alright, because I kinda get really easy access to a good quantity of some great quality, raw wood chips.
Absolutely dig your style of growing. Recently bought some property and in the process of starting my food forest. Subscribed!
Good James Prigioni quote. "It's nice to be part of the system like this."
Wow! Very inspiring! I'm going to start my own mini food forest. Thanks for sharing.💙
What a lovely space you've created, nice work James, thanks for the tour.
Hey James, you asked us to comment about adding a beehive... I would suggest not, as honeybees will gladly travel long distances, and likely already know your food forest is there. But they don’t do all the work by a long shot.
Instead, i suggest adding a number of breeding spaces for smaller pollinators. This would be things like bamboo tube houses and drilled wood blocks. Many of the smaller pollinators need breeding space near their pollen sources because they don’t travel as far - in some cases a few hundred yards max. But they do a lot more pollinating of the small flowers than honeybees do.
Some of the very (very very) small bee pollinators and parasitoid wasps need breeding space within the garden where they work.
It’s a great study to see how much of the pollinating work is done by these types of native species. And they’re way more beautiful than honeybees, too!
Keep it up! We love watching your videos!
vizwhiz100 i guess it’s because honeybees are about to get extinct that is why.
Also, honey bees normally work when it's warm out. The other pollinators, like ground bees, even pollinate when it's cold out. They're the first ones out in the spring - long before the honey bees. Definitely worth it to set something up for them...
That is Correct. Honeybees only pollinate about 20 or 30 % of what you have in your garden. They mostly go to sources of great abundance, which would be Trees. When the Trees bloom that is mostly what they hit. This has NOTHING to do with Honeybee "extinction". Which is not true. The Honeybee problems in the United States are due to the way they are kept Commercially (Just like most livestock). It is the commercial beekeepers that are killing honeybees. Backyard Beekeepers and small scale hobbyists keeps bees more naturally and do not have the same problems of the monocrop migratory honeybee operators.
what keywords do I use to search for how to do this? what are the little pollinators called?
David Villalobos try a youtube search for “native bee houses” or just “bee houses”...that should get you started
I planted a peach tree last year, and there was a pear tree on the property. I planted a cherry tree and apple tree in April, and I planted a macadamia nut tree, I also have a pomegranate tree.. Yes I want more fruit..
Rian Reese - Thats wonderful..
You should plant an apricot tree!
how are they doing and were an experienced gardner?
Try paw paw tree
I thought you needed two different peach, two different apples, etc to make them pollinate.
Beautiful!! Tomatoes reseed too. I have at least 8 that reseeded from last year.
I found that out by accident my first year with a garden, at the end of the season I just buried the old plants, leftover tomatoes and all, next year I had free tomatoes plant, great surprise!
Careful. If you did not plant heirlooms,the tomato plant that volunteered may not be true to type.Could be anything from its parents genes.
Your videos are so inspirational! I’m a new gardener in NJ and took this stay at home opportunity to grow some food; so far 3 raised beds. Watched many of your videos and learned so much. Last year planted a goji berry bush and a fig tree, they both survived the winter. After watching this video, I’m going to plant a few more berries and fruit trees! Thank you!
Your enthusiasm is priceless I'm still trying to get my husband to let me do something like this
LET'S GO!!!!...💕💕💕 You and Tuck are my inspiration....I'm getting better every year...Blessings brother !!! Thank you !!!🤗💕
Here in Germany there is tendency not to put honex bees into the gardens because they outcompete the wild bee species. Instead we try to give them their their own habitats. Old blackberry canes, claysand etc. As always I love your videos. This forest is soooo beautiful, James!
Old blackberry canes - brilliant! I hadn't thought of using them. Glad I haven't cut mine back yet - now I know what I'll be doing with them!
stick them upright into the soil, the bees need open entrances
Oh crap, that's a really good point about the wild bees...! Thanks! 🐝
Where do you get your honey from Kroeger?
Nature can be wonderful if we treated fair. It’s good to see someone is proud of his work. Thank you
First year planting: planted 3 strawberry plants and today I saw runners! I knew what a “runner” until you... now I’m trying to convince my husband to dump wood chips in our backyard like yours 🤣. Thanks
Taking care of your plants/trees is probably a full time job once the food starts to be ready. You are literally a farmer. Thank you for the video.
Great! Thank you! I will make my little garden this way. At first I will put in a lttle self sewn wine peach tree. Now I will be brave to do my old ideas! Thank you sooooo much🌈
The images of your food forests are impressive. That shot at 5:50 was awesome.
Thanks Derek 🙏❤️
Yes, by all means have beehives if your local ordinances don’t prohibit this. Failing that, put in some “bee hotels” for the many solitary bees that are also great pollinators.
I have never heard of a bee hotel, I read this comment and 5 minutes later I ordered one. Thanks!
Do you have to book on AirBee n Bee ?
Planted 6 asparagus plants on Fathers Day. All are up and about 10 inches tall. Plus third year of planting Garlic. Woohoo.
Let's Gooo!! I love to hear that Mike! Keep planting brother, and the harvests will keep getting bigger
Beautiful set up and the energy of your attitude, assist in the expansion of the food forest, my good man. Excellent!!!
Congratulations very well done . It's good to see more people doing permaculture.
Good luck
You have great philosophy James !!! Keep growing.
What a wonderful channel, inspiration and knowledge for something worthy and valuable. Love it!
Do you get many weeds? Also how deep do your wood chips go?
Great video, I'm in love with your food Forest, very inspiring. Thanks
The wood chips need to be about an inch deep at the minimum. keep adding them until you achieve total weed suppression. If you keep this top dressing up for as long as you can, the soil will soften, and weeds can be pulled much more easily. A sharpened spade with a long handle can be use to slice weeds off at ground level if they are too tough to pull. If you persist at this, and plant under the wood chip, it winds up like the garden in this video. When the vegetation and trees get established, the weeds diminish. If you do proper composting, you will regard the weeds as just another crop while you are getting rid of them. This attitude makes a big difference.
Fold the weeda down to the ground and then pull slowly. . They think its the wind blowing them and they wont expand the roots.. they know ya trying to pull them.
Thank you James and Tuck.
Since I was in Seattle in 2016 I went to see Paul Gautschi's garden (had been following him since I watched Back To Eden). He was welcoming, informative and let us sample what he had at the time. Even the weeds tasted good! And he sent us away with fresh water. Very kind man. Unbelievably beautiful garden and home.
Love the vibes, I already started mine, that my retirement goals, keep doing it until...... love it!!!!
Haha good stuff Wayne!! ❤️😁👍🏻
I get excited about getting free groceries from my lovely garden too. 🌱🥕🥦🍐
Gardening in Hawaii is extra easy, plus you can throw a rock into the wilderness and hit something to eat.
What do you have in your garden 🌹
❤️❤️❤️❤️ Little Tuck the guardian of the garden! That’s what I call my husky Bella! She keeps the bunnies and the chipmunks out.
Instead of bee hive or in combination. Put beneficial bee houses out make or buy your own. They are great for solitary bees that pollinate
I just found you and I AM HOOKED!
FANTASTIC!
I LIVE IN CENTRAL FLORIDA AND WE JUST MOVED HERE AND WE JUST STARTED OUR GARDEN ABOUT TWO YEARS AGO AND TO DATE WE HAVE 11 DIFFERENT FRUITS LOOKING INTO NUT TREES THIS YEAR!
ADDING YOU TO OUR EDUCATION IS SO EXCITING!
THANK YOU SO MUCH!
THAT'S FREAKIN AWESOME.
And yes, get a bee hive. There are several types available for purchase or that you can build so pick the type that works for you.
This is great. I read "The Secret Life of Plants".
That's a great book!!! What did you think of it Kris?
Love that book!
The Gardening Channel With James Prigioni have you read Anastasia: the Ringing Cedars of Russia series?
Instead of beehive support solitary bees and masonry with their habitat like sandy containers and holey bamboo sticks / drilled in holes in old wood
Lately ive been addicted to planting trees and propagating trees.
Joseph Kaolin Hugo Lately I’ve been addicted to sprouting the seeds of fruit I eat but not got enough room for trees which sucks
@@stephaniebach__12-24 let them grow in a seedling plastic pot, and when they are tall enough give them to your relatives which is what im planning to do now. And after 5 to 6 years your tree will start to fruit. Im hoarding many different varieties of fruit seedlings and will be planting them in my lot where i plan to build my own house. Im 19 and before my house is finished i would have fruit bearing trees already haha.
If you dont have enough space try to plant a citrus tree and graft many citrus varieties on that tree also try other types of trees.
@@Hugo-lm7ed I am working on sprouting some hickory nuts, and might start ramping up the rate I start sprouting trees when I get closer to being able to purchase my own land.
Can you splice a cherry tree branch onto an old oak tree ?
Me too
I love this guy! Looking toward the future, loves dogs, thinking of helping & feeding others. I too would love to see the “ floor plan “ . I wish you much success, you should be given your own show. Love to little pup Tuck!
I have a few raised beds and I let seeds fall and plant a few new things now and then but nothing on the scale that you’ve got going. You’ve done an amazing job there.
Thanks Connie! Yeah a lot of people garden just as a little hobby, I get a little crazy with it cause I love doing to so much lol
I might start to develop some "outdoor rooms" Some bistro tables or concrete benches places to stop and contemplate all the life around you. Maybe Tuck needs a solar-powered pond. The falling water noise would be beautiful.
Sounds beautiful. Can see it in my mind's eye.
Sounds good but would not have time
Sadly people who say they’re going to do something, don’t.
I love your excitement it's contagious
PS.... steamed and then sauteed green beans in oil with garlic and black salt...my favorite !!!!🤗
Thank you! I love what you’ve done and the fact that you were sharing it with all of us!
EXCELLENT VIDEO - I ENVY THE SPACE THAT YOU HAVE - CONGRATS ON THE WAY YOU HAVE ALLOWED THE FOREST TO GROW NATURALLY.... HOWEVER, I COULDN'T SEE HOW YOU WATER SUCH A VARIETY OF TREES AND PLANTS !
You have a Beautiful Garden.
What a Inspirational Garden. 💕🏡
Love ya work bro!
I've been keeping bees for 30 years in North New Zealand, similar climate by the looks so Ill be happy to give tips any time. A question I'd love to hear from you fullas is.. Where are all the weeds???
My attempt at a similar idea is a constant battle! Or more like a war!..
and I'm loosing ;) 😝
Put down a layer of cardboard first and then a heavy mulch/wood chip layer. This is what I did in my yard and rarely see a weed. When i do get one, it pulls out very easily
The shade and chip- mulching give the weeds zero growth!
Of the myriad reasons to grow a varietal food forest, one is that it confuses the bugs, i.e., no infestation will ever wipe out all the crops.
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I planted a lot on different places too, so i can learn which plant wants what kind of light and moisture conditions. It is growing fast, first flowers are out, fun times.
I love this!
@Kyle Castloo You realize they are going to catch those grasshoppers and eat them .. right?
@Kyle Castloo learn how to harvest, cook and eat grasshoppers. There is a silver lining in every cloud.
I have been watching your garden and what I learned is that when vegetables grow themselves then everything lives and helps itself the real reason you call it a food forest my respect ✊ everything coming together so natural the future of farming
Beautiful! Had my goats and chickens clear more area and increased my BTE garden from 300 sq ft to 3000 sq ft last fall. Since I just planted my trees and bushes and some annuals this spring, it looks pretty skeletal...so heartening to see what it might look like in a few years! Thanks!
Thanks for the inspiration, as always! Working that perennial angle with my garden as well!
I love your garden concepts! I'm hoping to put in trees this year. We do have wild grapes, blackberries and elderberries. Great video! 🤗
That's cool!!! How do you make a forest floor? Thank you for sharing! This is magnificent! Your awesome!
Loving this video! ♥️ I wish I had my own land! This is wonderful to see! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
I love your little 🐕❤️ eating geeen beans!! You are a good example of what we all need to be doing!! No matter how small the space!! Thanks for sharing!! You inspired me!! The least I can do is grow my own 😉 lettuce!!
Do a bee hive. Honey has many uses. Thank you for sharing your beautiful garden.♡
Start growing Guava, they also live more than 50 years.
Gourishetty Neelima he lives too north for that
Gourishetty Neelima Ganga not legal here
@@rodgeraarons8997 Guava not legal?
I plant anything that has seeds and can grow lol 😂
This is so cool! I have a pear tree that is 40+ years old
same here but got rotten before edible
Graft a few of the cuttings from the tree to preserve it's dna
Tuck is a joy to see :-) I love how the two of you interact and care for the garden together.
This guy is my fave. I only recently subscribed but I'm so proud of his success! He is fun to watch, knows what hes doing, (and is sharing his knowledge with us which saves a lot of trail and error) and is very optimistic. Keep up the great work! You are an inspiration.
You make growing your food seem so attainable hope I can do it one day.Love this channel.Keep it up.
Draw us a layout of what u have so we can follow an get an idea...thnks and freethe weed2020
Smoke it too
It's awesome , but it looks so unorganized or just crazy and wild . It would drive me nuts .
It's so shady, how is anything growing under the trees... I really want to do this, not only is it food, but the entire garden is beautiful
It’s all so beautiful! And knowing how useful it is, it’s even more lovely! thank you for sharing this with us!
Yess get 🐝!!!! I wish I had a forest like yours. So amazing. Dream come true.
The Nature Force is Strong with this One!
The Government probably hates this video good job bro
Nah. You'd die PDQ if you tried to live on this.
@Jeffery Allen Seville oh brother, so many worry about the silliest stuff and believe everything is a conspiracy. The real problem, too many, too lazy to do the work needed. No secret there.But easier to create a reason.
Sigh... Gubmint isn't the real problem, the real problem is the capitalist corporate economic structure that has complete control of the Gubmint.
Yes, this is what will defeat the mongrels. This and nothing else, I think.
Why? Is government against growing your own food?
yes! no watering or mowing your manicured keeping up with the joneses lawn
What a great legacy for your children! Not just the food forest itself but the knowledge and understanding.
I became a bee keeper last year. The trick is to get them through the winter and I’ve also learned that a top bar hive is more natural and healthier than a Langstroth hive and I plan to make one in the spring.
Love this. G-d is truly in his life and in his garden.
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You should get bees. We did 3 years ago and they are amazing creatures. They are surprisingly gentle and easy to take care of.
I would suggest anyone interested in keeping bees Google "Bee Guardians". You will find out why the way they keep bees is one of the reasons bees are dying. You will discover that a great many companies that sell honey, and residential beekeepers.....feed bees sugar water in the winter, stealing their honey that they need to nourish and raise more bees, has a trickle down effect in each succeeding generation, weakening the gene pool. Bee Guardians do not need to smoke the bees, or wear bee suits because the bees are happy and when they are happy......they share willingly. If you would like to see what a hive should look like please check out Backyardhive.com
And beeflow hives!
@@Elementaldomain I agree with you. Commercial bee growers also kill a lot of bees. I watched a documentary on commercial production of honey and the first thing I noticed was all the bees they kill when they harvest the honey. They move so fast in their harvesting that they are stacking hives so fast a lot of bees are being harvested with the honey. You could see the dead bees in the honey when they were throwing the chucks of wax into the spinning machine that pulls the honey out of the combs and you could see the dead bees in the vats. Shameful. Bee keepers that respect their bees do not handle them so haphazardly. Made me get really angry at commercial harvesters.
He should get himself pair of sheeps or goats plus the bees hive too will keep the dog company and why not a few 🐔
@@planetaryqueenrulerofallel3461 he has a few chickens. he got some old battery hens and gave them a better life :)
❣️your vids. I learned so much can't wait to start my garden!
Glad to hear that Chris!! Thanks for the kind words 🙏😁❤️
James I recently retired from my job and I must say you have put purpose to my day. Although I live in a community I really enjoy building my garden in an area between two of our buildings. Thanks you for all the great tips on gardening I always wanted to do. Best Tom Petillo