Today’s episode is truly EPIC. I met up with Summer Rayne Oakes doing an in-depth tour of her incredible house in Brooklyn, NYC. Summer is known for her website, Homestead Brooklyn and her wildly-popular YouTube series, Plant One On Me.
What makes her house so epic, you ask? She’s created a veritable urban jungle, with 500-700+ houseplants in just about every nook and cranny of her house.
She’s growing some rare and difficult to cultivate species, but also growing in a variety of methods. From sub-irrigated plant walls, to a Biopod, to classic containers, there’s something to learn in this video, no matter what type of indoor gardening you’re into.
Plus…she has Kippee the hen as a pet! I was thoroughly impressed by Summer’s breadth and depth of plant wisdom, as well as how she connects it to a deeper way of life. Truly something special.
I hope you all enjoy today’s video and if you’d like more tours like this, please let me know who I should visit next!
0:38 – Intro
2:17 – Kitchen & Dining Area
6:19 – Living Room
8:02 – Sub-Irrigated Living Wall
12:06 – Biopod
15:21 – Converted Closet Garden
17:35 – Cacti Corner
18:26 – Outro & Conversation
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Thanks for sharing my space (and my feathered friend) Kevin
in 2 years time she has 1000 plants wow!
What do you do if your plants get pests? To me that would just be way too stressful having that many plants crammed together.
Yaaaaaaay!!
I am glad to know your in my backyard but I hate to tell you Brooklyn is NOT in NYC. Brooklyn in fact is on long island. So is queens FYI.
This is a nice video. What is the name of that beautiful hanging vine about above the stove?
What a great and unique space. I subscribed to both of you. Also she is subconsciously flirting with him at 22:50 . She catches herself and stops at 23:02.
OMG, quit interrupting her; that's so rude. Clearly, he doesn't respect botany, as a science, & is only interested in function!
Two of my favorite garden influences together in one video. OMG
Fantastic!!! Dream home!
Im still waiting for another collab between the two of you!!!!!
Maybe do a Collab between Flock Finger Lakes? Its her new channel 🙂
Love from India❤️
Love the irrigated plant wall and the grow box thing. Laughing at the “I cook all the time” statement then seeing she has a 6”x18” piece of countertop left open.
You two make a good couple
I just wanted to find out how it works to live with a hen, because I would like to rescue one in the future, but when I searched for it on youtube a lot of the top videos were people burning and grinding chickens alive. What the FUCK is wrong with the world. When will we live up to our humanity and actually treat others morally
…when you are doing an online interview and a chicken is pecking at your feet. LOL I Love it! What an amazing space she has created.
When they’re chatting and the chicken is pecking her leg. I don’t know why but that’s so cute to me just a little chicken trying to get attention
She has her plants down! I love that giant one the most. How many square feet is the apartment? 700 plants is awesome
LOOOOOVE this video. would love to see an update
Roosters are male. Lovely plants though
Ok that’s an obsession, with an issue. I would never eat at your place. Those plants in the kitchen seem unclean. Yikes.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHH I SAW ALL YOUR VIDEOS AND THATS SO COOL that you came to nyc, i live in brooklyn and have tons of plants and 2 chickens.