Homesteading Done Right with Angela Ferraro | The Beet

Angela is an expert homesteader in every sense of the word - she uses permaculture techniques to cultivate a perfectly self-sustaining food forest that extends beyond plants to include a wide variety of animals as well.
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[@not1moreinch332]

What i like about permaculture/food forest is the amount of creativity that can go into it. After you learn some fundamentals there is so much uou can do without making hige mistakes

[@catiepower3550]

Great episode! I became interested in permaculture after I poisoned my garden. I over sprayed se7ven trying to battle aphids and poisoned my soil. I couldn’t get a harvest for two years. I stopped using miracle grow soil and started using compost mixed with chicken compost, at the time I used peet moss and some basic top soil. Mixed it all together in a hugelkulture bed and I had the best garden production ever. I never went back after that. I started building native plant and pollinator beds to get birds and pollinators in. Stopped raking leaves and now I see so many beneficial bugs. I found a wheel bug in my cotton plants. It’s an assassin bug that goes after aphids. Never saw one before. Praying mantises are all over. I now have snakes and frogs for the mice and mosquitoes. I’ll be adding a bat house and birdhouse gourds for purple Martin birds to go after the mosquitoes. It’s really worth it and my garden has been a source of beauty and wonder ever since. The poison took two years and a complete scrap of the soil to fix. I did have to spray a roundup on an invasive Ivy that a neighbor planted. It traveled and was trying to take my fence down. That area is just now starting to come back to life. I sprayed that about 3 years ago. It was very localized so the rest of the yard wasn’t affected. I’ve been heavy with mulch and organic material to heal the soil.
My food forest trees are peaches and new to come this year are two apple trees. I have two blueberry bushes, blackberries and raspberries. Grapes. Dimension and layering was the goal to pull all that together.
This is a really important subject and I feel our carbon footprint can be reversed by implementing it in our home gardens. No dig, permaculture food forestry can really have a significant impact on healing the earth one yard at a time.

[@trayvixk4642]

Just a thought: I think the reason why a lot of beginner gardeners are attracted to annuals are because they're worried about investing time into caring for a perennial that might die. Maybe there's this reputation that perennials need some special care or research for them to thrive.

[@latebloominghippie]

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[@juliehorney995]

Excellent program Kevin and Angela! I'm a Master Gardener in the Midwest who last year put fruit guilds around our young fruit trees. Already working on joining them into a food forest strip this year! I hope these growing systems "grow" for all gardeners everywhere. Our tall Birdies raised beds are a great compliment too in a separate area of our backyard but you bet there will be mushrooms in their shade between them this year. Yay God!
Julie Horney'

[@user-lx6sj7tt5i]

Great video

[@brandoncrawford8358]

I dont see any links for Angela in the description!