The Food Forest has progressed well this summer, especially the trees.
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The Food Forest has progressed well this summer, especially the trees.
The Food Forest has progressed well this summer, especially the trees.
Very, very nice. Yes indeed the perennial food is coming along nicely. First year they SLEEP, second year they CREEP and the third year they LEAP.
I think your father now knows he was right to let you and your brother do this
good work on a great Idea
The forest is coming along fantastically; but so is your production savvy. This is by far your best video with the music and captioning etc… Good job.
Great garden!
It does look "a little messy" but I'm sure the design would stand out more if I were actually there. Messy or not, good job.
Inspiring, always love seeing your food forest.
Very nicely done food forest. I don't believe that it is really necessary for us to know where everything is or why you did it. The only person that has to remember is you 🙂
That being said, showing plants living together in the same area and thriving the way they were meant to is just one of the things to me that a natural food forest represents. Well done indeed.
Love how cosy your young garden looks! – I'm inspired:)
its been so hot here ive lost most of my annual veggies, however the perennial trees and berries are all thriving, even the perennial herbs are hangin in there. nice share. thx James.
looks good James, how are your new fruit trees doing ?
Beautiful do-nothing food forest, James!
Loving this project. Do you ever have issues with blight or mildew with such dense planting? Could you do a video of the nuts and bolts of how and where you sow your seed?
I enjoy seeing updates of your garden James and I'm following a similar model to yours all be it mine is smaller and has less fruit trees. The only criticisms I have of your videos is that I often miss what you're saying because you slur your words heavily and you tend to speak in a low tone mono-tone. Also, no need for apologies for making long videos – the longer the better and would be even better if you looked into insect life in your garden, pH levels of your soil would be interesting and perhaps a close examination of what's living on and within the soil e.g. fungi, worms and other such creatures.
No fertilizer, no watering! It's truly great food forest! I wonder how I can do this in a tropical environment, like in Malaysia. Our main concern is…Snakes!! Last thing you want is reaching out into a food bush to pluck beans, tomatoes and been bitten by a green viper which was using the same cover for getting its food, or spat /bitten by a black spitting cobra. Personally I have not encountered green vipers but cobras, many times! Also we have large centiped, spiders, hornets. Guess we' ll just have to take extra care in design and harvest.
nice garden James.
i love your videos. i have a garden in georgia i am attempting to do in this style. however, we have red clay here and little soil, so i am building soil, using tap root plants, etc., and expect it to take a couple years to get the thing really kicking along. looks pretty good after one year, but we do have to water during the hottest days, as the sun will bake the ground into concrete. i have heard you say on another video that if the plants look bad you have to water sometimes and that is definitely true in the hot hot south. i have found that a mini hugulkulture style, building mounds above the clay with branches and covering these with compost is the best way to approach highly compacted clay and to get results the first season. thanks for the very educational videos, james coming to you live from jersey. have a good one.
Looks awesome! That is exactly what I want to create. Thanks for sharing your videos.
good job is that woodchips your using
Unruly? depends on how you look at it – from the point of view that we (humans) should be so arrogant as to attempt to micro-manage every minute detail of the natural world – then, yes. From the point of view that we (humans) could never come close to improving on that which nature does for herself – then, HELL NO. Great job on your unruly food forest, keep up the good work!