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Snow in the forecast means that I need to move my kumquat and fig tree into the garage to hibernate over the winter. These trees would not be able to survive the cold weather that we get, but do okay with the insulation of my garage. To slow them down, I only water them occasionally.…
Knowing how to prune raspberries is vitally important to getting a good harvest. There are a few different types of raspberries, which require various pruning methods. Today I break the raspberries into three different categories and go over my methods of pruning and maintaining them. Raspberries are a must have when gardening, they provide delicious…
Wondering how to make yogurt? Join Serina for Fermentation Friday, as she shows you her first attempt at making her own yogurt with really simple home tools – which was actually a success! I was a little intimidated by making yogurt because no one wants to mess around with stinky dairy, but this recipe was…
It is getting cold, and I’m losing faith in it warming up again, so the leeks need to get out of the garden and into the freezer before I lose them to bad weather. Join Serina as she pulls the leeks and talks about how she grows them, and the satisfaction that comes from growing…
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…
It is time to plant the garlic. We plant a hardneck variety called Red Russian, that goes into the ground now for a summer harvest. Garlic is especially fun to grow because you get to replant some of your harvest. Every year our garlic gets happier growing in our yard, and we always get a…
I am away at work, but I took a moment to film a glimpse at my life in the bush running a chainsaw as a faller. On this job Im falling danger trees around helipads, or I would be if there were any around today, haha.
These are my 10 secret gardening tips. This is the kind of information that can save you years of frustration and aggravation. These secret gardening tips will lead you to high consistent production because they are based on principles. I have been gardening for 7 years and the experience that I have gathered, both by…
Fermented pickles seem like magic to me, but ideally I would like to be able to preserve pickles over the winter in my cold storage, and I’m not quite there yet. Serina shares how her summer pickles are doing for fermentation Friday. Some have gone moldy, but the sauerkraut is still going strong. With improved…
Sunflowers – my favorite weed in the garden. They add so much drama with all their height and colour that we can spot our yard from a block away. But the season is over, and since it was a nice day, I decided to start in on the clean up. Join Serina and the kids…
Ian is home from Alberta for 24 hours, lol. But we sat down and had a quick chat about something that we truly believe in: compromise. It’s common advice to say “never settle” but I think there is more practical value in “prioritizing value”. In the balance of time vs money, Ian and Serina lean…
Welcome to #fermentationfriday Today I am showing you all the ways that I have learned to flavor kombucha during the second fermentation. With some many different possibilities, the flavors are endless. What are your favorite flavors?
MAKE CHANGE… tomorrow? When the goal is to keep moving forward, and to make positive sustainable changes to your life and your community, it can leave you feeling like a failure when you hit a setback. Life can be stressful, and it is important to find ways to deal with that stress. And simple living…
“Look at that cute deer” is words I haven’t said since I started gardening at my current home, where deer will wander into our GATED URBAN backyard! Our local deer are so tame, that I worry about them attacking my small children, because they will stand their ground even against cars, lol. Our main garden…
Gardening is so regional and specific, that trying to follow any one system in the exact same way that a garden guru does it will lead to disappointment. If you don’t find ways to adapt advice to your specific garden, then those “tips and tricks” might be big failures. There is great value in learning…
Join Serina for a quick update on how the garden is doing now that we have officially entered fall. Things are still growing well, but the weather has changed, and there is only a few weeks of strong growth left.
Serina and Lia are picking herbs to stock up for tea in the winter. It won’t be long before the fall frost comes and kills all the tender leaves, so you have to be prepared and harvest while you still can. Lia is clearly due for a nap, and is full of her own ideas,…
Kombucha is all about having a symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast, and my yeast is currently not at a healthy balance. To try and get my brew back to the best balance possible, this week I am cleaning my continuous brew kombucha vessel. There is too much yeast, and the yeast that is in…
Pawpaws are my secret go to fruit. In fact you may have never heard of them, but pawpaws are a fruit you should have in your permaculture garden. These aren’t the kind of fruits you can buy in a store, in fact I don’t know of a place that I can ever buy them. The…
I don’t care what the calendar says, it can’t possibly be fall yet. I’m not ready to give up on summer, so I’m insisting that summer isn’t over. To celebrate that it is still summer, Serina and the kids go on a massive harvest, and attempt to create the perfect harvest picture. We are on…
The second round of grapes are ready, but the concords aren’t as nice of a eating grape as what Lia is used to. So her and Serina pick a bucket to make some grape juice instead. It’s a super simple recipe with tasty results! At least Lia thinks so, lol. There is nothing like using…
Ian is off to work. He got the call, and is leaving to start his winter season. Whenever he goes off for his shift work, we don’t have a solid date for when he will come back. We are hoping to see him home before Christmas, but if he works straight to Christmas, we will…
We LOVE pesto, and grow basil every year specifically to stock our freezer with a year long supply. It is such a delicious and easy way to preserve our basil harvest. Join us as we make up a big batch, and show you how we do it and our “recipe”, as well as our trick…
This week I give brewing kombucha without a scoby a try. I have been seeing conversations about not needing the scoby culture mat to successfully ferment kombucha tea, and just using the starter tea, or even a store bought kombucha, so I gave it a try. And it was a great success! The kombucha brewed…
The Permaculture Food Forest is still producing a lot of food and it sure is delicious. This is beyond organic gardening. This type of gardening is as close to natural farming as you can get. At this time of year the amount of food each week is to much to keep up with, so its…
Ian, Serina, and Sam pull up the onion crop. Sam is still better at eating onions that harvesting them, but he gets a few tips. Ian tries out a new technique for drying the onions after harvest. Join us as we make space in the garden.
The Permaculture Food Forest gardening has made huge strides the last 5 years. Every investment has been worth it and using natural farming techniques learned from Masanobu Fukuoka, and Permaculture techniques learned from people like Bill Mollison and Geoff Lawton have truly payed off. Also Back To Eden techniques, common organic gardening techniques, and other…
I always say that it only takes an hour a day. Here’s some video proof that I found, that sometimes your hour doesn’t have to be that hard, lol. The tomatoes in the greenhouse are going crazy, so Serina had to get out and do some picking and trellising. The tomatoes have reached the very…
Those sunflowers are sure pretty, but did you know you could eat them too? I quickly show you how long you need to leave them on the plant, and how to beat the birds to a great harvest.
Wondering how to pick basil to keep the plant bushy and productive, and to keep it from going to seed? I quickly let you know. I talk about some general basil care, and then show you with clear close video where exactly you should be picking your basil from.
