A fruitful family farm | Becoming self-sufficient | Gardening Australia
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- Опубликовано: 28 фев 2021
- When Marcelle and Carl decided to embrace sustainable living, they bought the family farm where Marcelle had grown up and set about showing their kids “the good life”: producing and preserving their own fruit, vegetables, eggs and meat.
The area is very windswept and the ornamental borders favour hardy succulents and perennials that can handle the harsh conditions. Most of the flowers are there to feed their bees.
Productive fruit trees include avocadoes, apples citrus, stonefruit, a hedge of macadamias, and pistachios. In hindsight she thinks espaliering the trees would have made them easier to net and manage.
The vegie beds are laid out in large squares and Marcelle says if she was doing it again she would make them long and thin, for easier access. Marcelle used to try
The chooks are excellent for their personalities as well as manure, weed control and egg production. There are also alpaca, sheep, cattle, guinea fowl and ducks.
Marcelle is dedicated to the process, but also refreshingly honest about the work it takes and the lessons they have learned: “Truly if it wasn’t for the kids, we wouldn’t have done it, it is lots of work. But there is nothing quite like knowing where your food comes from.”
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This is the best legacy a parent can give. Love to see your garden.
They seem like a great bunch of kids.
I love your channel! So much good stuff! Please keep cranking out the content. Keeps me happy and informed. I've learned a lot of useful gardening tips on here. :D ✌&❤
One Powerball I be of 2 the country and grow fresh food 😛😛😛👍👍 les from Perth
My future project 🤩
Inspiring life
This is my kind of life style 😀
Am a zambian, but this is life style I live too.
Good
I'd love to learn to do this personally for my family
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I need this job.
From India, I really loved to live like this peacefully rather noise highly densed populated states. In India today very difficult to get 2000 sq feet land to create backyard. Any solution from any one apart from population control.😢!
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What flowers does this woman use in her garden as all the plants look great.
Not sure if this is helpful but I saw achillea, salvia, penstemon and russian sage plants in this clip. They are all good plants for a drought tolerant garden.
I eat salvia leaves and flowers in my garden.
The flowers make plenty of nectar for bees, to the point that it's easy to eat the nectar even as a human by pulling them gently and eating it from the base. The other flowers I have less experience with.
@@ryancarr4988 very good observations! They are most definitely excellent drought tolerant plants and grow well here in my garden in California. :) happy gardening! :D
Isn't it heavan?
bounty farming