The best gardening & homesteading channels on Youtube
Forbidden fruits: Berries, banned? That’s right. In the USA currants were banned from being grown or sold for many years. This ban has since been lifted, and while UK and European gardeners are familiar with this fruit in their gardens, many Americans are yet to discover the wonders of currants. In this week’s episode, Ben…
Hydroponics Made Easy! Today, we’re going to grow some lettuce in just water! No soil, no digging, no mulching, and no worrying about watering! As a soil-lover, this is going to be an interesting one! Join me today for part 2 in this 3 part series where we grow lettuce, right from seed, and then…
Hydroponics Made Easy! Today, we’re going to grow some lettuce in just water! No soil, no digging, no mulching, and no worrying about watering! As a soil-lover, this is going to be an interesting one! Join me today in this 3 part series where we grow lettuce, right from seed, and then transplant into the…
Everyone loves crunchy carrots! But aren’t they really hard to grow..? It’s easy, if you know how! Ben gets to the root of the matter in this week’s episode in his complete guide to growing the best carrots from sowing to harvest. Get your crunch on! If you love growing your own food, why not…
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Nut based agroforestry offers a huge potential to increase the ecosystem functions of human habitats. Osker Brown, of Glorious Forest Farm, will discuss all aspects of nutrition, harvest, storage, processing, and culinary use of acorns, hazelnuts, chestnuts, hickories, and black walnuts. We will show and tell tools and methods for processing, and sample some treats.…
The farm is exploding with so much food! But we have nowhere to sell it! But don’t worry, we have a plan – we will donate all the beginnings of the harvest and get ready for when all of our summer crops start producing in July. Till then, the gardens are looking great and we…
Organic Growers School, based in Asheville, NC and serving the Southern Appalachians, offers sustainability consulting to all land-owners, land-seekers, growers, and sustainability seekers of all scales and styles. This interview is with Brandon Greenstein, the OGS Sustainability Consultant in order to help explain the importance of land and site planning and design. From the website:…
Organic Growers School, based in Asheville, NC and serving the Southern Appalachians, offers sustainability consulting to all land-owners, land-seekers, growers, and sustainability seekers of all scales and styles. This interview is with Brandon Greenstein, the OGS Sustainability Consultant in order to help explain the importance of land and site planning and design. From the website:…
I LOVE shopping farmers markets to supplement the produce I grow at home…and as a gardener I’m always curious as to a farmers growing methods. But in talking with a few of my farming friends, I’ve learned that many “farmers” at the market are anything but. Some are resellers of purchased produce, selling under the…
Consider supporting our channel on Patreon, to help us create more frequent videos. https://www.patreon.com/backtoreality — Over the past few years, we’ve been covering our entire growing area with thick layers of organic plant-based mulch. And so far, we’ve not yet had to pay for any of it. So, since we receive a lot of questions…
Consider supporting our channel on Patreon, to help us create more frequent videos. https://www.patreon.com/backtoreality — After nearly four years of gardening, we’ve finally decided to plant some asparagus and strawberries! But as usual, we’ve also decided to skip the fertilizer, compost, and manure. We also decided to flip the sod, rather than using a tiller.…
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Help support our channel: https://www.patreon.com/backtoreality Now that we’ve doubled our growing area, it’s time to plant our garlic. Also: Crop rotations, our homemade hole poker thing, lessons learned, etc. Plant Hardiness Zones, Annual Rainfall, and Other Important Information https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrAJbE0ZTA8 Instant Raised Garden Beds by Flipping Sod: Expanding our Garlic Patch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tay9Mi7XM4U No Dig Garlic: Planting,…
In this video, I show you how I prune my basil plants for the best growth and bushiness, and I show you the optimal range of conditions in how to grow your plants. Basil can be grown indoors or outdoors, and if given the right conditions, is an excellent companion plant for tomatoes, peppers, and…
Is it possible to live off just your own chickens and vegetable garden? In this short video, I explain how it is possible to live off keeping chickens for eggs and by growing your own fruit & vegetables. Subscribe to my Blog/Website: https://www.selfsufficientme.com/subs… Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/selfsufficientme Help support the Channel and buy a…
Help support our channel: https://www.patreon.com/backtoreality The results (and lessons learned) from our first attempt at companion planting carrots, radishes, and onions using a first-year Ruth Stout Garden. The Ruth Stout Method of Permaculture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfi-n0Oq38E Companion Planting Carrots, Radishes and Onions in a Ruth Stout (HAY-ONLY) Garden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMkn5b0jHhE Garden Update: Companion Planting Carrots, Radishes and Onions…
In part 5, we begin day two with Dan Kittredge; farmer and Executive Director of the Bionutrient Food Association and the annual Soil & Nutrition Conference. His passionate discourse expands to include more audience participation with questions being answered as we explore the many ways we can increase quality in the food supply and transform…
Permaculture gardening means focusing on Design. A Functionally Designed system creates more then it consumes. Gardening with nature and working with its natural cycles allows you to design an ecosystem that works for you! Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/user/thepermaculturgarden?sub_confirmation=1 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/james.prigioni LAWN TO HIGH PRODUCTION FOOD FOREST: https://youtu.be/7ByAh_0CIW8 CUCUMBERS, Everything You Need To Know! https://youtu.be/2dq2OQsFCjM 5 TIPS FOR…
This video on whether the production of organic food is a scam/lie or at best a big waste of money is in response to a video I saw produced by Prager Unervisity and narrated by Bjorn Lomborg called “Is Organic Food Worth the Cost?”, which practically argues that the whole organic food industry is fake…
Do wood chips tie up nitrogen in the soil? That is one of the questions I am asked most often, and today we will look into it. Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/user/thepermaculturgarden?sub_confirmation=1 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/james.prigioni BOTANICAL PERMACULTURE FOOD FOREST https://youtu.be/xEUHsfRDFJY GET PLANTING!!! https://youtu.be/WmTfvg8Y45s
We were out in our garden, “hilling” our potato plants with mulch, when we discovered something pretty cool… POTATO FRUIT! Did you know that regular old potato plats sprout little green tomato-looking fruit? Check it out!
Dan Kittredge and the Bionutrient Food Association are on a mission to increase quality in the food supply through educating growers, raising awareness among consumers and conducting research on the nature of crop quality and the correlation between soil health, plant health and human health. In part 2 of this journey of discovery, we continue…
We continue our Ruth Stout permaculture experiments by companion planting carrots, radishes, and onions. The Ruth Stout Method of Permaculture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfi-n0Oq38E&t=3s Planting Garlic in a Modified Ruth Stout Permaculture Garden: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1TXfeq9wdc&t=34s Winter Ruth Stout Permaculture Update and a Bit of Q&A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-A1gNNjen0&t=1s Spring Garden Update: Hugelkultur, Ruth Stout, and Garlic Sprouts! : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t1FCsF-iAI Planting Potatoes…
Starting second growing season on my Permaculture system at the Farmer’s Grove in Tennessee.
In our continuing quest to experiment with a multitude of permaculture techniques, this time we decided to construct a Back to Eden style garden bed… and in doing so, also prevented desertification! Back to Eden Film: http://www.backtoedenfilm.com Our past videos… Constructing Our Hugelkultur Vegetable Garden : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR7wMao-PxI Planting our Hiugelkultur vegetable garden: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gm69Cqs-tw Hugelkultur Vegetable…
We previously constructed our new germination station in our basement. But now it’s time to start planting some vegetable seeds indoors, so that they can eventually be transplanted into our permaculture gardens later in the spring. This is our definitive guide to starting seeds indoors.
We were a little late to harvest our corn, but we were able to salvage enough to cook. But instead of peeling the husks and dropping them in a pot of boiling water, we decided to show you our favorite method of cooking corn on the cob… IN THE CAMPFIRE!
Tory from the Permaculture Homestead came to visit the food forest and we did a little collaboration. I hope you enjoy watching 🙂 SUBSCRIBE TO TORY! https://www.youtube.com/user/torymorton
After completing the construction of our Hugelkultur mound in the previous video, we finally got around to planting some vegetables and covering the entire thing with straw mulch.
