In this video, we gather several food clips together for some inspiration about what is growing and to celebrate humble, organic, low scale, community food production in places I’ve visited around the world (this video primarily France).
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G'day Everyone, this video is the first in a series of clips I will be releasing about different locations that have inspired me around the world. If there is not a lot of broader interest in this raw content I may slip more of this kind onto my second channel here: https://www.youtube.com/selfsufficientme2 Cheers 🙂
Interesting, love travel! If I could only get to Antarctica, that would make all 7 continents.
I could do without the music though… 🙂
Omaha Beach is where 1 of 5 invasions the allied armies did against the nazis in ww2
Omaha Beach wasn't so pretty during WW11 . But the Mirabelle Plum are always good , and grow like weeds . Great eaten straight off the tree but also make fantastic conserve or a delicious liqueur
Lavender – French rather than English…. … and cobnuts (hazelnuts).
And yes the tour is a good addition, and in restricted travel part 2 might have to be down the supermarket : ))))) there is often a whole world of produce there : ))))
I felt the wishfulness in your voice taking about those plums being so perfect, pest free with no one caring. We put so much work into our farms/gardens and deal with constant ups and downs and pests being at the top of those frustrating problems. For me anyway. As much as I hate to say this, those plums are able to grow pest free like that because they use pesticides on their lawns and shrubbery etc.. It would be so nice to be able to keep pests away without harming our beloved pollinators and other wildlife and environment. But a perfect world doesn't exist.
Extraordinary!!! Many thanks
I’ve noticed that you don’t grow okra, unless I’ve missed it. One of my faves especially as a summertime succession planting. Not much bothers them and they produce until frost
Cherry Plums! We used to have a green variety at our previous house, and we absolutely loved them. Fast forward 22 years, and I've got a nearby friend who's got a tree too close to his house and he wants to remove it. We'll be relocating it to my property next month. 🙂
Thanks for the tour Mark. Watched with envy and regret that we had to cancel our trip to Paris in July due to the pandemic.
I'm sure they're all been answered by now but here's a summary
3:39 Mirabelle (They come in a variety of colours and tend to be sweeter than plums in my experience)
6:30 Hazelnuts (I've never picked them at that stage, they look a bit unripe)
6:55 Currants. (They come in red, white, and black as far as I've seen, can be quite sour but are really fun to pick and nibble at. white ones are the sweetest)
The first fruits are a native species here in southern Europe we love the here in Greece and they are a type of wild apple
Kids please dont follow what marc does and go eat "wild" fruit you dont know the origin of because that can be the start of a bad day
Cob nuts of the hazel nut family
"The Outback of France."
If you want good beer, you should come to Austria! =) (or Bavaria, which is almost as good :P)
The small plums look like Prunus cerasifera, common names myrobalan plums or cherry plums.
Love love love this video. My idea of a perfect holiday.
6:34 These are hazelnuts. They seem still a little too green to be edible, though…
Thought I spotted some red currants in there at the market (I think he said gooseberries or cranberries…).
Did you bring any seeds back?
Did you save the pits from those small plumbs to try to grow back home?
Thank you, for taking me with you to visit a beautiful country. I so enjoyed it.
I need some Rhubarb
Prunus cerasifera. Mirabelle plum…g'day!