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Arcadia Permaculture
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Добавлен 21 июн 2020
A startup permaculture farm in the beautiful Murray Hills of Quinte West, Ontario, Canada. Zone 5.
Phases of Abundance with Stefan Sobkowiak of the Permaculture Orchard - Ep. 1
This summer, we visited @StefanSobkowiak at his famous cold climate Permaculture Orchard near Montreal, Quebec (Zone 4) to learn more about his farm as an ecosystem, his farm as a business, and how his farm fits into his life.
This is the first in a series of short videos resulting from our visit. In this video, Stefan shares how he's applied Bill Mollison's "Three Phases of Abundance" in designing and evolving his project over the past 30 years, and shares numerous valuable lessons he's learned along the way.
Stefan's RUclips Channel: www.youtube.com/@StefanSobkowiak
The Permaculture Orchard Movie: miracle.farm/product/educational-film-the-permaculture-orchard-beyond-organic-2/
Stefan's Mast...
This is the first in a series of short videos resulting from our visit. In this video, Stefan shares how he's applied Bill Mollison's "Three Phases of Abundance" in designing and evolving his project over the past 30 years, and shares numerous valuable lessons he's learned along the way.
Stefan's RUclips Channel: www.youtube.com/@StefanSobkowiak
The Permaculture Orchard Movie: miracle.farm/product/educational-film-the-permaculture-orchard-beyond-organic-2/
Stefan's Mast...
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Modifying Suscovich Tractor for Free Ranging & Cutting Firewood
Просмотров 33511 месяцев назад
A few simple modifications allowed us to free range 50 meat chickens using our existing @farmmarketing chicken tractor. Plus some things we observed around the farm this growing season, and how we help our woodlot by cutting firewood. Original Suscovich Chicken Tractor Plans: farmmarketingsolutions.com/stress-free-chicken-tractor-plans
Fixing New Farmer Mistakes - Arcadia Permaculture - Spring 2023
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In our third spring on this land, we're really starting to see the impacts of the work we've done so far. In doing that work, we've made a lot of mistakes that create even more work for us through the growing season. This spring we set about fixing several of them, and applying the lessons we've learned from the farmers, gardeners, and permaculture practitioners we've met along the way. This vi...
A Year In the Life of a Pastured Chicken
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The people who buy eggs from us always want to know why the eggs are so friggin' delicious. The answer is deceptively simple - we honour the chicken-ness of the chicken. We respect our birds by mimicking the conditions of a wild flock, and gently steering their natural instincts towards things that help make our farm more fertile and productive as a whole. There are few things more important th...
Tour of A Scavenger's Food Forest
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Four years ago, our brother in law Patrick started a food forest on his semi-rural 1 acre lot in Quebec, Canada, north of Ottawa (Zone 4). Working on a limited budget, his project has grown by leaps and bounds through plant trades, seed swaps, grafting, cuttings, and scavenging materials. We visited in late summer, 2022, to check in on the project, see how he's applying permaculture principles ...
Farm Update - Arcadia Permaculture - Summer 2022
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As we mark the end of our third full year on this land, it's time to take a look at some of the things that are new on the farm, and some successes and failures from this year's growing season. Links mentioned: Elmwood Harmony (band): ElmwoodHarmony/ Our Lucky Stars Cafe, Warkworth, Ontario: ourluckystars.ca/ Grimo Nut Nursery: www.grimonut.com/ American Elm Recovery Project: arbor...
Cold Climate Food Forest - Canadian Permaculture Legacy
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This July we visited@CanadianPermacultureLegacy - a 2 acre food forest in growing zone 5, in Ontario Canada. Keith was kind enough to give us a full tour of the property, and share a bunch of lessons learned over 6 years of working on growing more food for his family. Keith's channel has been a great resource for us as far as what's possible around here, and applied permaculture principles in a...
Natural Themes Native Plant Nursery - Farm Tour
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Natural Themes Farm near Frankford, Ontario is a real treasure. Run by Bea Hessler, she is a one-stop shop for plants native to North-Eastern North America - trees, shrubs, flowers, vines, and even cacti - as well as an inspiring philosophy on natural farming. We visited for a tour last summer, and left with a whole new perspective on our garden goals. We'll be planting a whole lot of native pl...
Arcadia Spring 2021 Farm Tour
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We've had a busy spring, and we're only getting busier. An update on how we're adapting from last year's fails, the challenges of late frost & gypsy moths, and a look at what's new this year. 2021 is our second year of establishing our perennial systems, while still growing lots of annual crops to bridge us from here to there. Links: Arcadia Permaculture Website: www.arcadia.farm/ Arcadia Perma...
Arcadia Permaculture - Winter 2021 Farm Tour
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A quick video this time, since there's not much going on around the farm during winter. A little tour of the "deep litter" winter quarters for the laying hens, our outdoor rink, and a check in on the cats. The rest of the time we're spending planning, working on projects, and having leisurely morning coffees by the wood stove.
Arcadia Permaculture Summer 2020 Farm Tour
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An update on the farm - successes, failures, and a whole lot of animals. Arcadia is a startup permaculture farm nestled in the Murray Hills north of Trenton, Ontario. This is our first full season on the farm, and we've been hard at work establishing systems. Visit our website to learn more: www.arcadia.farm Or follow us on Instagram:
Arcadia Spring 2020 Farm Tour
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For those friends, family, and neighbours who can't come and see us because of the COVID, here's a video tour of what we've been up to in our first season at Arcadia. Our farm is a startup permaculture farm in the beautiful Murray Hills, Quinte West, Ontario, Canada. We started here in 2019, so 2020 is our first spring, in which we're establishing the "Zone 1" gardens that will sustain us, and ...
Your peach varieties?
Balanced sustainability. Really nice.
I grew up in Cambridge Ontario and there were lots of fruit trees in backyards. Lots of Portuguese people gardened and planted fruit trees and it was awesome. I just bought a small piece of land and will be planting edible plants. I want to really think about it first and take my time.
Patience is a virtue, for sure.
Great content. We purchased our home 8 years ago and we now have +75 fruit trees and fruiting bushes. We are making "pear preserves" today from our trees. This year, we picked apples, pears, figs, cherries, chestnuts, Concord grapes, blackberries, blueberries, gooseberries, etc. Mid-Missouri zone 6b
Stefan's great, eh? Kudos on your work so far. What a great investment in your future - and the futures of everyone who lives there for decades, if not centuries to come.
I planted a lot of fruit and now nut trees in the last couple years. Now I need to take a couple years and fill in the shrub and herbaceous layer. Those are getting to good propagation stage in the ones I did originally plant. I am starting to see the ecosystem development too which is nice. Stefan has been a big inspiration and teacher for me. Thanks for putting this together.
Thanks for watching! We planted the trees first too, but made the mistake of trying to mulch the whole area under them without planting the rest of the layers. Since we didn't put a plant there, nature did - we've since had to do a bunch of work to weed it, re-mulch, and then plant when we had the resources to plant our shrubs/herbaceous/groundcover. If we had to do it over, we'd have done everything at once like Stefan recommends - dense planting, outcompete the grass, and probably be farther ahead. Hope your site bears fruit soon!
Last year I planted 3 elderberries. I was told it would take 2-3 years to produce. All are producing and 2 put out shoots big enough to move. I'm excited
They sound happy! They grow like weeds for us too, and are native - so we're sticking dozens of cuttings all over the farm for the birds, and bought a cultivar (Bob Gordon) which we'll propagate for our own use. A dose of Elderberry syrup once a week in the winter does the body good!
Hey if getting into this builds and helps one's life better with hard times and could become income f ya eh! Im north of perth with a nice property almost 2 acres. We already do herb gardens and have always had a bug for growing and didnt realize i was one with nature's way.... along with the other half that does herbal remedies and natural stuff. Im just getting into your content and love it dude! Its crazy your living my future life
love it!!!! I am just beginning a food forest .....
Good luck! We'll be uploading some new videos soon from Stefan Sobkowiak's permaculture orchard, with lots of amazing tips for getting started!
Dealing with age and disability so my dream of a homestead is remote. But I have a couple of black raspberry plants ao going to see if I can get them to spread with minimal exertion and inputs. If that works maybe will try to put in some American Hazelnut.
Good luck! Black raspberry grows like a weed around here, so it's a fine choice for minimal/no input food.
the survivalist gardener @survivalistgardener ( Rick and Jane Austin )
Ditch the corny music bro
I can watch this a million times... we started our garden this year after we moved to a house with a yard, we planted 10 trees and 14 shrubs. Our yard is not big, 0.3 acres, I wished it was bigger.
In a way, having a smaller site really forces you to focus on using every available niche. The bigger the space, the easier it is to overstretch your resources. Check out the "Scavengers Food Forest" for a tour of my brother in law's 1 acre property where he's really cramming it in there!
@arcadiapermaculture974 I appreciate your reply, I am gonna watch that now. Thank you for your great content.
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I really need to pick your brain bro. For the last 30 plus years, I've had a highly productive, closed loop, produce and small livestock gorilla Food Forest, here in the high Mojave Desert. 2500 FT elevation, zone 9B. Unfortunately, soon, I'm having to move up to the foothills of the Colorado Rockies. 6000 ft elevation, zone 5B.
To ensure pawpaw pollination put rotting food or manure below the trees right before or during flowering
Thanks for this tip
Hey man, watching your channel and learning from you. Thank you
Thanks. We all do what we can do to share knowledge!
@@arcadiapermaculture974 just starting to switch from tilling my soil every year and doing the whole 9 yards. Just made my lab serum and fish hydrolysate will be another month. Is it warm enough to start applying lab on 0+ days to get the microbiome going? Working with about 2 acres of planting areas in Ontario
@@khalidyusuf6979I don't know about that stuff man - we're not much into additives beyond compost tea and kelp meal. Hope you find the answers you're looking for though.
Awesome video! I loved seeing the scythe at work. Much more enjoyable than a noisy machine, and with minimal maintenance it’s a “life time investment”.
Thank you! It takes a while to pick up the feel for the scythe, but when you get it, you feel it. Great for hillsides and cutting new trails too, and good exercise!
Great video - thank you! We are doing very similar things! :) Hello from Quebec!
Thanks! Always glad to connect with people pulling in the same direction!
lambsquarters is easily spread - however - is super healthy and a great green to freeze for soups all year long. I grow it on purpose. :) If kale doesn't work out - lambsquarters always will. :)
Yeah, we harvested some for salads - but the biggest problem we had with it was that it wasn't the wheat and field peas that we'd planted. Gardens have a great way of managing our expectations!
ha yes!!@@arcadiapermaculture974
Permaculture zone 8a
OMG, I was DYING at 17:25... any parent knows baby car seat is a chicken food goldmine! LOL
Especially when the dog won't clean the floor like a real dog should. Waste not, want not!
Great idea, I have been growing food since the 90's..Food supplies, we are already have shortages happening, you have a yard grow food..
Cheaper, healthier, better for the environment, fresher, more delicious... it's just a series of wins!
I am a stranger but I am very proud of this man for the sustainable full circle practices he is doing successfully with plan and patience! I am building an edible landscape garden for my communtiny with a low budget. However I believe in the power of the community getting together. We don’t want to have to buy seedlings and trees because they cost a lot at the nursery. So my plan of action is to do a major workshop on Seed starting so everyone can start seeds at home for themselves and for the our community garden. It requires patience but i think that is going to be success. I do want a lot of fruit trees but they require more time to grow. I hope that we will be able to get cutting and seedlings from many neighbors for fruit trees.
Good for you! Patience is a difficult thing to cultivate in a world of immediate gratification - but plants grow how they grow no matter what. All we can do is nurture them and wait. When we don't have money, we can spend time, right?!?
I'm in northern NY by Lake Champlain. I've been watching you and Stephen Sebkowiack on permaculture and biodiverse orchards, thank you! Most RUclipsrs are in the south or west, not my climate. Your content is very relevant for us short- season growers. Best wishes for a new year ahead.
Speaking of flooded out areas, Bryce and Misti of Ontario Permaculture channel did a video on Chinampa (ruclips.net/video/0QVucw8wNfA/видео.htmlsi=1Ie_-eLAlQEhiJYl), not sure if you've already seen it, but I was surprised to learn that it's possible to plant them in Ontario as well!
I hope ur neighbours sees ur video , and stops poisoning the water..... great videos !!! Very interesting ❤🙂👍🏼🍃
You do not have to feed the world, only yourself and your family.
So, I finally find out what your name is, Keith! 😁
I take burdock root for sinus allergies
managing the volume level is not your big strength :) here is room for improvement. keep on, doing the good work
Thanks for the feedback. We bought microphones to try and solve the volume issues, but we can't get them to work with our phone, unfortunately. :(
This is exactly the sort thing I’d like to do once I buy some land
That's exactly what we hope for too! :D
I just watched your visit to Canadian Permaculture Legacy, very well done! So, I decided to check out your channel and have now subscribed. I look forward to watching more of your videos. A couple of times the audio was difficult to hear, other than that, I enjoyed watching 🙂. Thanks
Thanks Sherry! Appreciate the feedback. We've been having trouble getting microphones to work with our phones, unfortunately, but still trying to find a solution, especially for upcoming interviews/farm tours.
Do u sell mu shroom logs?
If you're in Ontario, we could for next year's inoculation, sure. How many are you looking for?
Possible suggestion for future videos : Find some local musicians you're keen on who don't have copyrighted work, feature them in the videos as backing soundtracks, credit them in the video to help drive some traffic to their channels, they'll hopefully be excited to have their content featured and will drive traffic to yours - plus you're supporting some local musicians!
Way ahead of you. The song we feature in all our videos is by Belleville's Elmwood Harmony. Link in the bio. ;)
Looking forward to this weekend's visit!
After they run through is there any benefit to laying down quality forage seed to sprout?
There should be, over time - we seed a mix of red and white clover, and alfalfa in the bare patches they scratch up, for both our laying flock and meat birds. Chickens don't get much of their diet from foraging, but it definitely rounds out the diet. It will be of more benefit when we add other grazing species - cows, geese, ducks, etc -
What a beautiful piece of property- truly a diamond that will create so much abundance. My dream is to find a piece of land like this. Congrats on starting your journey on such a fabulous property!
Thank you! We're privileged to be here, and doing our best to pay it forward as well! Best of luck on your search as well - let us know how it goes!
Hey, I was wondering if you could give me a tip on where I can order comfrey seeds?? Thanks! Love all your videos. I just planted three fruit varieties and a deer just ate about 6 inches off my newly planted plum tree and I was so upset. Looks like I will have to fence up my newly planted trees!
Most people grow one of the sterile "Bocking" varieties of comfrey, which propagates from root division instead of spreading by seed - otherwise it'll spread everywhere. Where are you located?
TOO MUCH INTRODUCTION, MUSIC AND RECAP , BUT THE TOUR WAS VERY INTERESTING
amazing!
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Are you from eastern Ontario 😮me to do you know were to find mayapple and maypops? Ive been looking for awhile but can find them anywhere in eastern Ontario.
If they're native, then Natural Themes Native Plant Nursery either has them or can source them. Otherwise, you'd have to message Keith and ask - I can't tag him here for some reason.
Black flys pollinate paw paw also.
Did not know that. We should get great pollination at our place then - the black flies are crazy at this time of year!
For your kiwis, find a great location for them and trellis them. Theyll get sturdy and heavy and will seek to climb as vines do. Ive trellised my grapes too and have others overhanging an archway over a birdbath. Ive had birds build nests in those grape vines LOL
Yeah, the support they need is crazy. Pat has built a new trellis this year for them, which is looking great.
"Everything doesn't have its proper home yet," Haha! I can relate to that comment 1000%!! I'm in Quebec Zone 5b (Cantons de l'Est) I also grow flowers for pollinators and smaller birds.... and it's pretty so that's a nice bonus! It's kind of amazing how one little thing leads to another. How planting a small garden can lead you to notice other parts of wildlife and broaden your perspective unintentionally.
It's a slippery slope for sure!
This was a fabulous tour! Thank you.
Thanks! He's got a great project, and we learned so much just seeing everything!
I know it’s not great when it grows where you don’t want it to but Lamb’s Quarters is a delicious green- essentially wild spinach. I’ve never had luck growing spinach so I always let some of the lambs quarters grow as a spinach crop.
We've heard that before - but never did get around to eating any of it last year. I can already see it popping up in bare patches this year again, so I'm sure we'll have our chance 😖
We're in Quebec and have been doing the same thing. Digging was insane here as there was just so much rock and stone in the soil. Planted cherry and pear trees. We have blueberries and gooseberries and raspberries.... but now I've attracted a bunch of birds and rabbits (soninhave to orotect a lot of trees and bushes in the winter) which means that this year we have tons of hawks flying over.... it's been a lot of work but has been so worth it.
Attracting birds, rabbits and their predators is a sign you're doing something right! Our brother in law is in Quebec as well, Zone 4 - check out the "Scavenger's Food Forest" video for our visit to his place last year.
@@arcadiapermaculture974 Will do!
I'm a big fan of Keith!
So are we!
ive learned so much from keith. if you ask questions he usually responds. hes a great teacher especially when you want the science of it all. nice video
He's the same in real life! We're glad he's just down the road from us!