Well produced. Your content is as densely and nearly layered as your garden. Mostly watching for nostalgias sake, as I grew up in Northern CA. But it's also fascinating to compare my own systems 17 years into the tropics. It took me a decade to learn to build large scale systems from scratch without any outside inputs. In my case, it's because outside inputs aren't an option. No industry and no road here. It's fascinating to see all the ways that it's so difficult to truely unplug from unsustainable systems, especially within industrialized economies like North America. It's so easy to get hooked on inputs with the excuse of building towards something sustainable. Great job with water conservation too. A note on terracing contours: if you A-frame a steep slope into beds, even with ample connections and mulch, the whole thing can wash out in a heavy rain. Happened to me years ago. A property as flat as yours doesn't need contouring for catchment. You did great with just berms and swales.
why? it makes sense. as a teen in the seventies, read mother earth news...married young, three sons later, no decent money, had trouble pulling together dinners...kids in school went to work, rushed home no energy to do more. fast forward, kids grown and worked more hours than did before, ridiculous cycle, widowed and married again, couldn't slow down still and stress was high. asking what did I want to do I never did. live as close to the land as possible. retired 2019, bought 13 acres and had a tiny cabin built and a greenhouse and off grid solar and said I am done. I do not work a job. I am a senior. I garden and preserve. I try to fine ways to do with less and minimal lifestyle is perfect. I am at peace finally. why not?
Me too! I was always too tired & now retired my 3 yr dream was walk the entire Appalachian trail but 4 miles & im dead. Plus, I’d miss my family. Now this is my goal & I can’t wait. Fixing to cover my 6’ chain link fence w/ hardy kiwi & honey berry first layer after maybe Sadges under fencing (unless I can find perfect edibles). Happy retirement!
My Why is creating a healthy, balanced food source for me and my connections + regenerative and supportive biodiversity practices to create a sustainable loop. Working within - not against.
We've also been too fast on putting in the fruit trees and not nearly enough support species. Your food forest looks great. We don't bother with all the planning, instead we take a really anarchistic, iterative approach, by planting lots of things and then slashing down the losers and feeding them to the winners later.
Yup. I have a small backyard garden and it was the same, give em all the best start, and what ever goes gangbusters, I seed save and re sew the next year, what struggles and dies, no Buenos.
Suggestion: When drawing over your basemap, you can use multiple layers of tracing paper, each with sketches and notes on a different topic, so you can be as detailed as you wish without getting confusing or messy. Then you can overlay them as needed to check on how they interact.
Observing nature and imitating it is the way to sustain and propagate life. All our ancestors knew this and followed this. We unlearned this but now we are slowly awakening up to it once more. 😊
I can feel the love she put in this project thru this video. When I saw the length of the video thought that will not watching it. But once start hearing I couldn’t stop until the end
You, my dear, are a wealth of information and a delight to watch. And your voice is kind to sensitive ears. Goldifarms is particularly relevant to me because I am relocating from Washington state, essentially starting over. My new husband is an architect and wants to build in San Diego County. I have always known only of abundant water, so you are teaching me from the ground up how to create a beautiful and sustainable landscape!
My human was watching this video and I also found it very fascinating! I have no idea what you are talking about but the pictures and video are so pretty 😹😹😹 I had my human subscribe to your channel for me 😸
Interesting and well thought out, here where I am in Alaska we dont have the longest growing seasons and species that will thrive are limited. I happen to own a previously forested piece of property in which we strategically cleared away the excess trees and kept trees that were already doing a service thT i didnt need to plant others to do the same job. Some were left as wind breaks some as chop and drop biomas some as hub trees. And the rest of the trees that were perceived as filler trees were removed and replaced with fruit trees and shrubs. All of the trees that were removed were chipped into mulch and spread out where they grew. My second year i spread wildflower seeds and started building my guilds/consortiums and chickens free range the property as the fertilizers and cleaners. I was luckey enough to not have to plant any overstory or support species and was able to use what was already onsight.👍🏽 We have also been experimenting with water collection ponds and closing our waste loops.
Wow! This is exactly what I needed to watch as I get ready to close on 6acres of hill/forest land in Barboursville, Virginia (a little north of Charlottesville). Thank you!
Thank you for this precious video, dear. Being in the process of creating a food forest right now it was a treat to experience everything in a time lapse. Keep on going, you've got it all.
Don’t really have a comment just want to throw a shout out for the YT algorithm and help get this out to more people so that more people follow your lead! Keep up this awesome work!
Its taken me almost 5 years to get my rented house's garden to feel like its finally becoming lucious.. Which is a shame because we move in 3 months to our much more perminant home and I start my journey again. I am so excited to take all my failures with me and build bigger and better than ever! (it took 5 years due to very poor soil and very overgrown evergreens)
You'll be fine as long as you focus on the learning component of that first garden; it's not 5 wasted years! I did the same, living with my parents-in-law and helping with their existing dense and varied food garden, and adding to it. Now I have taken the best ideas (and clippings and roots) to the new place 2 km down the road. I will never regret that 'apprenticeship'.
Same, except for ten years, and we will probably move next year. Not having f soil is tough. My landlady scraped off two foot of soil and dumped it for me she was doing me a favour. Between me saying yes and going to get my stuff to move in. I cried for six days. Lol.
My WHY is the same as yours AND to help revive the earth and all ecosystems it holds. One of my favorite things of all time is to rebuild ecosystems and watch all the critters return, I have the tiniest bit of native flowers, a few native shrubs, a annual garden, I also always put out bird seed and sugar water next year is the year I really get to go nuts with planting. Something I wish I had done when I first started is meeting more local gardeners, I'm going to check out a farmers market soon, and im going to try to make some connections there.
I am shocked how well put together this video is. Your guide shows how scientific your thinking process is while maintaining a deep almost spiritual connection and love for a thoughtful and cooperative relationship with the land. Thank you for sharing that with us.
Lifelong resident of SLO County here. I’ve been dreaming of a garden and stumbled across this video. I have a catering business in Atascadero and we just got our first honey harvest. I’d love to connect sometime!
Just stumbled on your video and this is exactly what I was looking for. It's very insightful. Perfect for some who has dreams but doesn't know where to start
Thank you for helping me to slow down. There's forces (people, culture) that give me the feeling like there's a hurry... It's been so hard for me to admit that I'd rather just spend time on my land observing things before jumping into moving stuff around... I'm going to follow your design process... once the inside of the house is ready 🙂
Let us know how you progress with observations and how you note them down… this is the biggest part of making a successful gardening in my mind and not so obvious to beginners like me.
Thank you for Sharing. I‘m from Germany and I practice permaculture here. You are amazing. Humus is extremely important. Unterstand nature and work with it and see yourself as a part of it.
hello there. i'm a soil researcher. and i have to say i'm really happy that you teach ppl how to take care of their soils. the best thing is that you don't use any peatland organics. there are too many ppl around claiming to do "sustainable" agriculture while using imported peatland soil to ameliorate. installing a sustainable ecosystem should not harm other ecosystems. cheers :)
I would love to hear more about consortium combinations. I too planted fruit trees right right away, figs, apple, pear, plum, peach, grapes on my residential lot. Then added shade trees the next year. At 4 years now, I'm getting solid fruit production and shade trees are slowly coming along. Glad to have the abundance of fruit GREAT vid!
When my exhaustion becomes overwhelming I recall my "why" to keep me going. It's best to have more than one "why" so at any given time one of the "why"s resonates with you and helps you to keep going. My "why"s are chemical/hormone free meat (protein). For that we raise grassfed beef. Another "why" is prairie restoration. With prairie restoration I'm rewarded when we see a new wild flower or a new bird species on our property.
I dream of caring for my own garden one day. I'm often afraid, because here in zone 4 (Quebec), it is hard to do anything with the aoil during winter and goung plants must develop a good root system in order to survive. However, I had never imagined we could create such an amazingly beautiful foodforest in a dry land; I'm so used to water abundancy. So I find this very inspiring. Thank you so much! I'll keep dreaming and planning and, one day maybe...
Loooks like you learned a lot and appreciate you sharing! Where you’d be interesting to listen to and talk with! But you’re over my head! You’d probably do good working with Bruderhof and Mennonites! Growing Forest Gardens is a good thing, I just got a couple of books, but pushing 60. I’m a bit late, but someone will want to! You’re doing what others of us desired! But make self sufficient!
Oooo, im 30 mins from austin and its rare to see ppl in our climate do this. Im stoked to learn. Its 2024 and we are going all in on permaculture and market gardening. We wanna sustain ourselves financially by sustaining others health and happiness.
Wow! I don't know why this popped up in my feed, but the voice is PERFECT. I really struggle with focus. Many voices I unintentionally, zone out. I hung on to every word. Heard every word. Was able to process what was being said. Ma'am. Excuse me, can you narrate my life, please? 😊 Thank you for this. I have a lot of extenuating factors that are beyond my control. My key tip when searching for land, is search the neighbors too! I didn't buy my land, I was blessed with a wedding gift. The neighbors don't spray their pasture. But they leased it out to a guy who does. There's a dirt road between us. Spray drifts. Nothing is more crushing than watching your fruit trees just fall apart just so the neighbors hay doesn't have "weeds".
Thank you so much for your beautiful video! Im Currently in a permaculture design certificate program and cant wait to have a beautiful medicine food forest like yours! Yes on acheiving our permaculture paradise dreams!
I don’t think I’ve ever seen such thorough coverage of the elements of creating a vibrant permaculture. Great video. Probably the best I’ve ever seen. Thanks!
Two years ago I moved from Sacramento to Georgia. The extreme weather in CA is no small thing to deal with. Thank you for sharing all your advice and journey. Georgia has its own challenges with growing here, its been a journey to learn how to work with the soil. The soil in CA is so beautifully rich in a lot of places. Thank you for sharing!
I really enjoyed your video. I live on land that was once part of an old tobacco farm. The soil is awful. I am going to be using ideas from your video to help fix over a hundred years of abuse of the soil. Thanks for posting this
Love your video......I too started a food forest and have started the task of developing my property.. I have fallen in love with the whole process.... this was inspiring
Fine job sister! I love everything about you. Many thanks for the ideas and information. I have 3.3 acres in middle Tennessee that is destined to become a food forest. I live on the property in a big army tent. You wouldn't believe how much rain we get.
No rain for TWO YEARS?? In Minnesota, Zone 4A, we get rain every TWO DAYS. LOL While winter here is fierce, life is necessarily hardier. We live in opposite worlds, yet it's nice to see nature can thrive anywhere there's a worthy human steward. God's blessings be upon you.
Nice job with explaining this stuff... I was born in Portland Oregon, I have a lot of family throughout Oregon. As I live and work in Brazil, I don't understand the strategic plants for that climate. I think I understood what you said about zone 9 (you were talking about climate hardiness I think), however, I noticed you avoided talking about permaculture zoning (0-5) in this video, probably because that is too off topic. I will be hunting around this channel for more info about Mesothermal conditions and plants... Saying Mediterranean Climate was huge news to me though... I need to understand more... Working in the subtropics, tropics and deserts of Brazil for so long really makes me see how little I know about California climates... Great content! Definitely sending to my relatives:-) ☺️
Absolutely love your video’s you have so much great information & i love the way you story tell. Your voice is so soothing & you are very inspirational! Keep up the great work. Much gratitude & warm greetings from Australia 🇦🇺 🥰🌺
We’re in zone 9 closing on land in 2 months. I’m looking up ideas now. I grew very successful in zone 10 for five years looking forward to starting on Homestead in a few months. All these ideas are greatly appreciated.
Thank you, Goldifarms! Most informative and inspiring. I started my Permaculture adventure about 3 months after you did in 2020, and for similar reasons. I have also used many of the same strategies, though I have not been nearly as methodical as you have -- for which I have repeatedly paid the price :). May you continue to prosper and thrive in your Permaculture paradise.
wow...we love the same collection of photos..i love your picture picks! i also can't figure out the best design for our small garden...i can't stop thinking of a better design..but when i went to the garden to start cleaning it yesterday, my body aches until now...but that's the beauty of it...i slept well last night!
It's been my dream to grow a food forest for years now but I haven't managed it yet for a variety of reasons. At this point, it has started to feel both like the only way my life will be bearable at all again, and like I'll never manage it at all. The more time has passed the more I have lost sight of why I wanted that in the first place, and why I thought it'd be possible. Your video reminded me that it's doable, and that I actually would love to do it and it wouldn't just be an escape. You explain everything so clearly that even when I already knew the thing, it makes so much more sense it seems almost obvious, and your clear love and care for what you do reminds me that it doesn't have to be just about survival. Thank you so much for sharing some of your knowledge and experience with us! I hope everything goes well for you.
One moment at a time. Tiny actions taken consistently add up so much over time. Even just 5 minutes a day adds up to hundreds of hours over a three year period. There’s no end when working with nature, she teaches us to be present in the moment.
I got my small garden 10 years ago. I started simple with a few berry bushes. By replacing a few species a year, my garden is now basically a food forest. Start small.
You are so wonderful! What a great video, with a lovely flow, comprehensive overview, and a narrative that is so easy to listen to and understand! I will show my 6 year old, thanks and thanks again so much!
I can't thank you enough for making this video. I've had visions of making my own video some day and what that might look like as I daydream through the drudgery of chaos my life currently is as we continue trying to recover from a shady contractor for renovations. This has now put me two years behind during a time in our world when it is so very important to have this going already! Anxiety is climbing higher as things continue to get in the way and I struggle through, shall we say, neurodivergent issues making it very difficult for me to grasp things, let alone plan anything! Life has been chaos since 2018 and I've longed for the day when my world looks ..... like your video. There is just no other way to say it. THIS is the vision I keep playing in my head that keeps me going. It gets me out of bed every day instead of allowing depression pin me to the bed and anxiety paralyzing me there. It is my belief that this goal... this vision is keeping me out of a padded room with a self-hugging jacket (said humorously, but absolutely seriously). Of course it hasn't been this EXACT vision. It's still vague as to what it will end up like... but it is like this rather than traditional gardening with straight rows of monocrops. Also... every time I saw you frolicking in your garden... I have envisioned me doing the same with *this* song as the background. (th-cam.com/video/p-Ggji8TuVE/w-d-xo.html) I've finally got a little pile of compost as my "learner" pile while trying to construct raised beds out of pallet boards. I'm currently helping my sister and her elderly husband who has dementia. I'm hoping to create a garden that will invite him out of his bed and into nature more, maybe even interacting with the garden. So, before I get to what I envision (like what is in your video), I will be using raised beds for a while. While I do these things, I'm trying to puzzle out some things ahead of me in the not too distant future. Maybe you could help! I live in Alaska, zone 4b. I tend to focus on what it will take to survive the winter. So when I try to figure out where compost is going to live permanently I would like to take advantage of the heat it produces. There are a lot of options to consider. Also, with water storage in Hugelkulture mounds... it will freeze solid. I have not researched yet about the effect of that on the plants within, etc... but I just wonder about it. There are also frost heaves to consider which can be quite damaging. It's what causes the waves in the roads up here, which are more noticeable on longer straight stretches like between Anchorage to Fairbanks. I'm sure there are many other things I've yet to consider in regards to my climate and the things I learn about permaculture... I am quite new to all this. I'm just wondering what insight you might have to doing permaculture in such an environment or... if you have no personal insights, perhaps you know where to direct me?
I am so thrilled to see someone as young as you so in love with gardening and everything that applies to it. Keep up the good work, you're in the right path! Thank you for everything
I'd like to chip in that many young people are interested in gardening. It just isn't accessible to them. There are few available gardens or properties to rent and buy; I've signed up several years ago and had no luck yet. As a university student I don't have the money for a property either. Our options are houseplants, hoping for a balcony, or waiting. I'm doing the last bit. Learning from youtube and helping others when I visit them, but it can take years before I'll be able to tend my own garden. Anyway, thank you for being excited about young people trying to learn this craft. Many just roll their eyes thinking we are scared of physical work and won't last.
its been three years and some things are growing finally. simply herbs and a few veggies makes me so happy! im finally making a worm pile and compost pile!
Your visual explanation of guilds is amazing! I've had a tough time understanding guilds and you really helped put together how they are built and why.
I love this video. I stumbled upon this tonight , just at sucha good time in my life. I wish I had started when I was younger. However I am motivated to continue on my foodie path and pass it down. Tku, I really enjoyed this.
Thank you 🙏🏼for sharing your knowledge, this is gold for those who like me, are trying to learn to grow most of our veggies and fruits. Your video inspired me to do what I need to, to fulfill my dream. 🤗🥰
This video is amazing and I found it at just the right time!! I just bought my property and I am super anxious to get started - with everything!! But this video calmed me down a bit and now I want to take it slowly, plan, organize.....Thank you!!
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Well produced. Your content is as densely and nearly layered as your garden. Mostly watching for nostalgias sake, as I grew up in Northern CA. But it's also fascinating to compare my own systems 17 years into the tropics. It took me a decade to learn to build large scale systems from scratch without any outside inputs. In my case, it's because outside inputs aren't an option. No industry and no road here. It's fascinating to see all the ways that it's so difficult to truely unplug from unsustainable systems, especially within industrialized economies like North America. It's so easy to get hooked on inputs with the excuse of building towards something sustainable.
Great job with water conservation too. A note on terracing contours: if you A-frame a steep slope into beds, even with ample connections and mulch, the whole thing can wash out in a heavy rain. Happened to me years ago. A property as flat as yours doesn't need contouring for catchment. You did great with just berms and swales.
why? it makes sense. as a teen in the seventies, read mother earth news...married young, three sons later, no decent money, had trouble pulling together dinners...kids in school went to work, rushed home no energy to do more. fast forward, kids grown and worked more hours than did before, ridiculous cycle, widowed and married again, couldn't slow down still and stress was high. asking what did I want to do I never did. live as close to the land as possible. retired 2019, bought 13 acres and had a tiny cabin built and a greenhouse and off grid solar and said I am done. I do not work a job. I am a senior. I garden and preserve. I try to fine ways to do with less and minimal lifestyle is perfect. I am at peace finally. why not?
Good for you!! I am so happy for you. You deserve a happy retirement.
Me too! I was always too tired & now retired my 3 yr dream was walk the entire Appalachian trail but 4 miles & im dead. Plus, I’d miss my family. Now this is my goal & I can’t wait. Fixing to cover my 6’ chain link fence w/ hardy kiwi & honey berry first layer after maybe Sadges under fencing (unless I can find perfect edibles).
Happy retirement!
I want a beautiful garden, healthy soils, and plenty of food for my family and our chickens. I also want a haven for the native birds.
My Why is creating a healthy, balanced food source for me and my connections + regenerative and supportive biodiversity practices to create a sustainable loop. Working within - not against.
We've also been too fast on putting in the fruit trees and not nearly enough support species. Your food forest looks great. We don't bother with all the planning, instead we take a really anarchistic, iterative approach, by planting lots of things and then slashing down the losers and feeding them to the winners later.
compost your enemies
kudzu vs bamboo vs miscanthus in the great biomass wars
@@NewsChannel-y4g bad bad. Lol. No enemies.
Yup. I have a small backyard garden and it was the same, give em all the best start, and what ever goes gangbusters, I seed save and re sew the next year, what struggles and dies, no Buenos.
@@NewsChannel-y4gDavid the Good?
Suggestion:
When drawing over your basemap, you can use multiple layers of tracing paper, each with sketches and notes on a different topic, so you can be as detailed as you wish without getting confusing or messy. Then you can overlay them as needed to check on how they interact.
I do something similar, but with pieces of (recovered) clear poly plastic. The visibility through multiple layers is better than with tracing paper.
Yep. You all are geniuses. I wouldn't have dreamed up using tracing paper. Many blessings everyone.
If you have an IPad, pro create us another easy way to add in layers and drawings as well as pictures.
@@Ubiquinode those recovered plastic from things like cake boxes?????
Geniuses
Observing nature and imitating it is the way to sustain and propagate life. All our ancestors knew this and followed this. We unlearned this but now we are slowly awakening up to it once more. 😊
I love the idea of consorteums!
Best video on the subject. Got entire parmaculture basics covered in 20 minutes. What an awesome job!!!
I am blown away by how well crafted this video is. Thank you for the effort you put into it!
I can feel the love she put in this project thru this video. When I saw the length of the video thought that will not watching it. But once start hearing I couldn’t stop until the end
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Agreed! I’m sharing this video on facebook etc.
Amazing❤
And all in 20 mins, this lady should write a book! Bravo 👏
This video connected with me so deeply that I am in tears. I am working hard and saving money for this dream. ❤
I’m a trained permaculture gardener and do that for a living. Excellent video
What a compliment! Thank you 🙏
@@Goldifarms I agree, excellent video, I learned a lot - or more like you reminded me of a lot (And I watch Geoff Lawton).
You, my dear, are a wealth of information and a delight to watch. And your voice is kind to sensitive ears. Goldifarms is particularly relevant to me because I am relocating from Washington state, essentially starting over. My new husband is an architect and wants to build in San Diego County. I have always known only of abundant water, so you are teaching me from the ground up how to create a beautiful and sustainable landscape!
More info on designing with swales and berms would be much appreciated 😊
My human was watching this video and I also found it very fascinating! I have no idea what you are talking about but the pictures and video are so pretty 😹😹😹
I had my human subscribe to your channel for me 😸
Interesting and well thought out, here where I am in Alaska we dont have the longest growing seasons and species that will thrive are limited. I happen to own a previously forested piece of property in which we strategically cleared away the excess trees and kept trees that were already doing a service thT i didnt need to plant others to do the same job. Some were left as wind breaks some as chop and drop biomas some as hub trees. And the rest of the trees that were perceived as filler trees were removed and replaced with fruit trees and shrubs. All of the trees that were removed were chipped into mulch and spread out where they grew. My second year i spread wildflower seeds and started building my guilds/consortiums and chickens free range the property as the fertilizers and cleaners. I was luckey enough to not have to plant any overstory or support species and was able to use what was already onsight.👍🏽 We have also been experimenting with water collection ponds and closing our waste loops.
To always have healthy food. To spend more time with earthy spirit. To teach others these important lessons
How r u
Will have to rewatch while I take notes! Great video!
Wow! This is exactly what I needed to watch as I get ready to close on 6acres of hill/forest land in Barboursville, Virginia (a little north of Charlottesville). Thank you!
Thank you for this precious video, dear. Being in the process of creating a food forest right now it was a treat to experience everything in a time lapse. Keep on going, you've got it all.
Don’t really have a comment just want to throw a shout out for the YT algorithm and help get this out to more people so that more people follow your lead!
Keep up this awesome work!
Its taken me almost 5 years to get my rented house's garden to feel like its finally becoming lucious.. Which is a shame because we move in 3 months to our much more perminant home and I start my journey again. I am so excited to take all my failures with me and build bigger and better than ever! (it took 5 years due to very poor soil and very overgrown evergreens)
You'll be fine as long as you focus on the learning component of that first garden; it's not 5 wasted years! I did the same, living with my parents-in-law and helping with their existing dense and varied food garden, and adding to it. Now I have taken the best ideas (and clippings and roots) to the new place 2 km down the road. I will never regret that 'apprenticeship'.
Five years of practice to make an even more successful garden and a gift to whomever has the rented place now!
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Onward and upward!!
Same, except for ten years, and we will probably move next year. Not having f soil is tough. My landlady scraped off two foot of soil and dumped it for me she was doing me a favour. Between me saying yes and going to get my stuff to move in. I cried for six days. Lol.
My WHY is the same as yours AND to help revive the earth and all ecosystems it holds. One of my favorite things of all time is to rebuild ecosystems and watch all the critters return, I have the tiniest bit of native flowers, a few native shrubs, a annual garden, I also always put out bird seed and sugar water next year is the year I really get to go nuts with planting. Something I wish I had done when I first started is meeting more local gardeners, I'm going to check out a farmers market soon, and im going to try to make some connections there.
There are also face-group pages of permaculture folk sharing their dreams, successes, failures, and solutions.
This got me imagining different ways I could interact with the land around me.
my why is the Most High! HalleluYah for your video!
I am inspired. I am doing exactly the same thing in my tiny property (500 sam), already got the output, amazing.
I am shocked how well put together this video is. Your guide shows how scientific your thinking process is while maintaining a deep almost spiritual connection and love for a thoughtful and cooperative relationship with the land. Thank you for sharing that with us.
Lifelong resident of SLO County here. I’ve been dreaming of a garden and stumbled across this video. I have a catering business in Atascadero and we just got our first honey harvest. I’d love to connect sometime!
Just stumbled on your video and this is exactly what I was looking for. It's very insightful. Perfect for some who has dreams but doesn't know where to start
As a fellow permaculturist this is a lovely and inspiring reminder. Thanks for sharing xx
OH MY! That view at 1:49 is astonishing
I really like how you go into the mindfulness aspect. Learning to imagine things. Thanks :)
Great advice on set up a garden!!!!
EXCELLENT and SUPER INFORMATIVE video!
Im getting a land in portugal and start living the life i want. Thanks for the inspo❤❤❤❤
Amazing. Legend. So much Gratitude.
Thank you for helping me to slow down. There's forces (people, culture) that give me the feeling like there's a hurry...
It's been so hard for me to admit that I'd rather just spend time on my land observing things before jumping into moving stuff around...
I'm going to follow your design process... once the inside of the house is ready 🙂
Grand planning, there. Many blessings everyone.
Let us know how you progress with observations and how you note them down… this is the biggest part of making a successful gardening in my mind and not so obvious to beginners like me.
When you live with an abundance of water it's always interesting hearing from those who don't.
Thank you for Sharing. I‘m from Germany and I practice permaculture here. You are amazing. Humus is extremely important. Unterstand nature and work with it and see yourself as a part of it.
Gratitude for this! Send blesses for you🙏🙏
hello there.
i'm a soil researcher. and i have to say i'm really happy that you teach ppl how to take care of their soils.
the best thing is that you don't use any peatland organics. there are too many ppl around claiming to do "sustainable" agriculture while using imported peatland soil to ameliorate. installing a sustainable ecosystem should not harm other ecosystems.
cheers :)
This is such a breathtaking and well-done video. Thank you for the lesson, given in such a peaceful and educational manner. Thank you!
That’s was refreshing to view
how sweet to imagine a food forest! 💚🦌🪶🌳🌼🌳🧚♂
undoubtedly , you are the prettiest flower in the whole garden !
brilliant...thanks for sharing your wisdom...rokk on!
I would love to hear more about consortium combinations. I too planted fruit trees right right away, figs, apple, pear, plum, peach, grapes on my residential lot. Then added shade trees the next year. At 4 years now, I'm getting solid fruit production and shade trees are slowly coming along. Glad to have the abundance of fruit
GREAT vid!
Ooo! Excited to find a CA channel with the sameish zone! Up in Nevada County so not lovely coastal humidity, but still. Cant wait to see more.
Excellent presentation in this video.
When my exhaustion becomes overwhelming I recall my "why" to keep me going. It's best to have more than one "why" so at any given time one of the "why"s resonates with you and helps you to keep going. My "why"s are chemical/hormone free meat (protein). For that we raise grassfed beef. Another "why" is prairie restoration. With prairie restoration I'm rewarded when we see a new wild flower or a new bird species on our property.
I dream of caring for my own garden one day. I'm often afraid, because here in zone 4 (Quebec), it is hard to do anything with the aoil during winter and goung plants must develop a good root system in order to survive. However, I had never imagined we could create such an amazingly beautiful foodforest in a dry land; I'm so used to water abundancy. So I find this very inspiring. Thank you so much! I'll keep dreaming and planning and, one day maybe...
Loooks like you learned a lot and appreciate you sharing! Where you’d be interesting to listen to and talk with! But you’re over my head!
You’d probably do good working with Bruderhof and Mennonites!
Growing Forest Gardens is a good thing, I just got a couple of books, but pushing 60. I’m a bit late, but someone will want to! You’re doing what others of us desired! But make self sufficient!
Oooo, im 30 mins from austin and its rare to see ppl in our climate do this. Im stoked to learn.
Its 2024 and we are going all in on permaculture and market gardening. We wanna sustain ourselves financially by sustaining others health and happiness.
This video is an excellent introduction to permaculture, thank you for putting it together.
Very good in-depth video!
Wow! I don't know why this popped up in my feed, but the voice is PERFECT. I really struggle with focus. Many voices I unintentionally, zone out. I hung on to every word. Heard every word. Was able to process what was being said. Ma'am. Excuse me, can you narrate my life, please? 😊
Thank you for this. I have a lot of extenuating factors that are beyond my control. My key tip when searching for land, is search the neighbors too!
I didn't buy my land, I was blessed with a wedding gift. The neighbors don't spray their pasture. But they leased it out to a guy who does. There's a dirt road between us. Spray drifts. Nothing is more crushing than watching your fruit trees just fall apart just so the neighbors hay doesn't have "weeds".
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Thank you so much for your beautiful video! Im Currently in a permaculture design certificate program and cant wait to have a beautiful medicine food forest like yours! Yes on acheiving our permaculture paradise dreams!
I don’t think I’ve ever seen such thorough coverage of the elements of creating a vibrant permaculture. Great video. Probably the best I’ve ever seen. Thanks!
Nice tips, and nicely said philosophical words in between intertwine to make a really nice video to watch!
i’d love a full vid about consortiums vs guilds with some more examples 😊
What a beautiful video, food forest, voice, and person. New sub.
thank you for sharing all the knowledge. your videos are a source of both information and inspiration
You're inspiring don't give up
Two years ago I moved from Sacramento to Georgia. The extreme weather in CA is no small thing to deal with. Thank you for sharing all your advice and journey. Georgia has its own challenges with growing here, its been a journey to learn how to work with the soil. The soil in CA is so beautifully rich in a lot of places. Thank you for sharing!
Where did you move to in GA? Near Serenbe, by chance?
I really enjoyed your video. I live on land that was once part of an old tobacco farm. The soil is awful. I am going to be using ideas from your video to help fix over a hundred years of abuse of the soil. Thanks for posting this
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The best ever food Forest video explained 🎉
Love your video......I too started a food forest and have started the task of developing my property.. I have fallen in love with the whole process.... this was inspiring
Fine job sister! I love everything about you. Many thanks for the ideas and information. I have 3.3 acres in middle Tennessee that is destined to become a food forest. I live on the property in a big army tent. You wouldn't believe how much rain we get.
I enjoy your narration and word choice what a great video!
No rain for TWO YEARS?? In Minnesota, Zone 4A, we get rain every TWO DAYS. LOL While winter here is fierce, life is necessarily hardier. We live in opposite worlds, yet it's nice to see nature can thrive anywhere there's a worthy human steward. God's blessings be upon you.
Huge accomplishment!
Very impressive and knowledgeable ! Congratulations!
Very inspiring. It’s my dream too
I’d love to see a video solely on layering and succession!
Nice job with explaining this stuff... I was born in Portland Oregon, I have a lot of family throughout Oregon. As I live and work in Brazil, I don't understand the strategic plants for that climate. I think I understood what you said about zone 9 (you were talking about climate hardiness I think), however, I noticed you avoided talking about permaculture zoning (0-5) in this video, probably because that is too off topic.
I will be hunting around this channel for more info about Mesothermal conditions and plants... Saying Mediterranean Climate was huge news to me though... I need to understand more... Working in the subtropics, tropics and deserts of Brazil for so long really makes me see how little I know about California climates... Great content! Definitely sending to my relatives:-) ☺️
Absolutely love your video’s you have so much great information & i love the way you story tell. Your voice is so soothing & you are very inspirational! Keep up the great work. Much gratitude & warm greetings from Australia 🇦🇺 🥰🌺
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We’re in zone 9 closing on land in 2 months. I’m looking up ideas now. I grew very successful in zone 10 for five years looking forward to starting on Homestead in a few months. All these ideas are greatly appreciated.
I like the word consortium I had never heard of it. Great knowledge "high level"
Thank you, Goldifarms! Most informative and inspiring. I started my Permaculture adventure about 3 months after you did in 2020, and for similar reasons. I have also used many of the same strategies, though I have not been nearly as methodical as you have -- for which I have repeatedly paid the price :). May you continue to prosper and thrive in your Permaculture paradise.
wow...we love the same collection of photos..i love your picture picks! i also can't figure out the best design for our small garden...i can't stop thinking of a better design..but when i went to the garden to start cleaning it yesterday, my body aches until now...but that's the beauty of it...i slept well last night!
This is going in my garden tips album! Love calendula so much! I will definitely check it out! ❤
EXCELLENT, thank you! 👏🏼👏🏼 We have a row of mature trees including 4 peach that we plan to start building guilds around.
Woohoo 🙌 that’s excellent 🧡🍑
It's been my dream to grow a food forest for years now but I haven't managed it yet for a variety of reasons. At this point, it has started to feel both like the only way my life will be bearable at all again, and like I'll never manage it at all. The more time has passed the more I have lost sight of why I wanted that in the first place, and why I thought it'd be possible.
Your video reminded me that it's doable, and that I actually would love to do it and it wouldn't just be an escape. You explain everything so clearly that even when I already knew the thing, it makes so much more sense it seems almost obvious, and your clear love and care for what you do reminds me that it doesn't have to be just about survival.
Thank you so much for sharing some of your knowledge and experience with us! I hope everything goes well for you.
One moment at a time. Tiny actions taken consistently add up so much over time. Even just 5 minutes a day adds up to hundreds of hours over a three year period. There’s no end when working with nature, she teaches us to be present in the moment.
I got my small garden 10 years ago. I started simple with a few berry bushes. By replacing a few species a year, my garden is now basically a food forest. Start small.
You are so wonderful! What a great video, with a lovely flow, comprehensive overview, and a narrative that is so easy to listen to and understand! I will show my 6 year old, thanks and thanks again so much!
This was truly a great video. Structured well. A concise review of what was talked about, & great music as well. Thank you for paying it forward.
Thank you for sharing, very helpful video. 😊
The commentary in this video is A grade! Very inspiring work, I have very small terrace that I am inspired to design with such ideas - Imagination!!
I can't thank you enough for making this video. I've had visions of making my own video some day and what that might look like as I daydream through the drudgery of chaos my life currently is as we continue trying to recover from a shady contractor for renovations. This has now put me two years behind during a time in our world when it is so very important to have this going already! Anxiety is climbing higher as things continue to get in the way and I struggle through, shall we say, neurodivergent issues making it very difficult for me to grasp things, let alone plan anything! Life has been chaos since 2018 and I've longed for the day when my world looks ..... like your video.
There is just no other way to say it. THIS is the vision I keep playing in my head that keeps me going. It gets me out of bed every day instead of allowing depression pin me to the bed and anxiety paralyzing me there. It is my belief that this goal... this vision is keeping me out of a padded room with a self-hugging jacket (said humorously, but absolutely seriously).
Of course it hasn't been this EXACT vision. It's still vague as to what it will end up like... but it is like this rather than traditional gardening with straight rows of monocrops. Also... every time I saw you frolicking in your garden... I have envisioned me doing the same with *this* song as the background. (th-cam.com/video/p-Ggji8TuVE/w-d-xo.html)
I've finally got a little pile of compost as my "learner" pile while trying to construct raised beds out of pallet boards. I'm currently helping my sister and her elderly husband who has dementia. I'm hoping to create a garden that will invite him out of his bed and into nature more, maybe even interacting with the garden. So, before I get to what I envision (like what is in your video), I will be using raised beds for a while. While I do these things, I'm trying to puzzle out some things ahead of me in the not too distant future. Maybe you could help!
I live in Alaska, zone 4b. I tend to focus on what it will take to survive the winter. So when I try to figure out where compost is going to live permanently I would like to take advantage of the heat it produces. There are a lot of options to consider. Also, with water storage in Hugelkulture mounds... it will freeze solid. I have not researched yet about the effect of that on the plants within, etc... but I just wonder about it. There are also frost heaves to consider which can be quite damaging. It's what causes the waves in the roads up here, which are more noticeable on longer straight stretches like between Anchorage to Fairbanks. I'm sure there are many other things I've yet to consider in regards to my climate and the things I learn about permaculture... I am quite new to all this. I'm just wondering what insight you might have to doing permaculture in such an environment or... if you have no personal insights, perhaps you know where to direct me?
What the F*^%#K Was That Jimmy!! 😮. Neatly Done With the Video Though Thank You!.
Using it as a reference for the Shegenerators permaculture Hub.
I am so thrilled to see someone as young as you so in love with gardening and everything that applies to it. Keep up the good work, you're in the right path! Thank you for everything
I'd like to chip in that many young people are interested in gardening. It just isn't accessible to them. There are few available gardens or properties to rent and buy; I've signed up several years ago and had no luck yet. As a university student I don't have the money for a property either. Our options are houseplants, hoping for a balcony, or waiting. I'm doing the last bit. Learning from youtube and helping others when I visit them, but it can take years before I'll be able to tend my own garden.
Anyway, thank you for being excited about young people trying to learn this craft. Many just roll their eyes thinking we are scared of physical work and won't last.
wow very beautiful video and full of important info and advices 💗😍👍
its been three years and some things are growing finally. simply herbs and a few veggies makes me so happy! im finally making a worm
pile and compost pile!
Your visual explanation of guilds is amazing! I've had a tough time understanding guilds and you really helped put together how they are built and why.
Excellent video! Thank you so much.
I love this video. I stumbled upon this tonight , just at sucha good time in my life. I wish I had started when I was younger. However I am motivated to continue on my foodie path and pass it down. Tku, I really enjoyed this.
What a beautiful garden ! thank you for sharing!
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Great video.
God the algorithm brought me to this video for your moisturizer THANK YOU 💝
Thank you. Just start my hillside food forest. Very inspiration
This is one of the best explanations of permaculture. Thank you and all the best with your amazing forest!
Thank you 🙏🏼for sharing your knowledge, this is gold for those who like me, are trying to learn to grow most of our veggies and fruits. Your video inspired me to do what I need to, to fulfill my dream. 🤗🥰
This video is amazing and I found it at just the right time!! I just bought my property and I am super anxious to get started - with everything!! But this video calmed me down a bit and now I want to take it slowly, plan, organize.....Thank you!!