I come from a war generation that couldn't afford to waste anything so I have always had a self-sufficiant mind set. I find it joyful watching your channel and realizing that many young people are coming to the conclusion that we are being nudged into an apalling unhealthy life style. For years my family and friends have been amused by my thirst for knowledge and a driving need to be able to survive when the colapse comes and if history teachers us anything, it surely will. In the West our priorities have been warped and almost everything is put before the production of food. If there are no farmers there is no food and yet they are always at the end of the queu. When we were all under house arrest for what was just a flue and people were panic shopping my friends and family were no longer amused, instead they were envious of my full larder and store. Although I am now in my 80s, I can still learn from people like you, so I hope you will continue to be a beacon of self sufficiency, it's such a rewerding way to live. God bless you bothe.
Thank you for your lovely message Lynn really enjoyed reading it 💚 I hope my Larder is still full with all my own produce and preserves when I am in my 80's too. Thank you for sharing a little of your journey and wisdom 🙏✌️🌿
@@mrzoukdotcomzouklambadaboo8212 I freeze lots of thing in glass jars, since I discovered its ok to. As long as there is some room left in jars for expansion has things freeze all is good 👍Thanks for watching 💚✌🌿
My Grandparents were in the war and I remember real hardship no supermarkets and all was fresh food.Unlike today.I support the farmers protesting in various locations UK Weds 11th.Love your post.
My first visit to your channel. I am 80 years old and you are living my kind of life. All my meals are home cooked/home grown where possible and I still peg my own rugs and make quilts etc for the family. It is a busy but peaceful and satisfying life. I love what you are achieving and wish you much success. We need more people like you.
So nice to hear from you, I hope we are like you at 80 doing these things for ourself too. Very satisfying indeed. Appreciate you watch and commenting 💚✌️🌿
I started an allotment with my sister 6 years ago. We now have 5 including a huge pollytunnel. We grow all the usual and also melons, chillies, cucumber, chard, kale ect. We have now moved into presserving and drying. We have a large herb garden with mint, chamomile, basil, Lemombalm to make a few. It is so easy to dry them and make tea. This has all led to us doing a weekend bee course and we now have a plot where we keep our hives. The honey is not the only bonus. The wax is awesome to and we are now making solid lotion bars, beard balm and lipbalm. We have been doing a few markets and they are going very well. We were both in our 50s when we started this journey and honestly it's the best thing we have ever done. I am now making tincture with the herbs, elderberry syrup for building our immune system. We still work our normal jobs but maybe one day this will be sufficient that we won't need to. Even if you only have a small garden I encourage you to grow some herbs or flowers. It is very rewarding. I am chuffed to see a video like this for UK.
🌟 Good on you (both) Andrea, what you are doing sounds AMAZING ... Elderberry Syrup is a firm fav of mine too. What great inspiration you are putting out there 🙏💚✌️🌿
@@andreawelsh6786 I would love to keep bees , it’s the best feeling growing all your own produce . You’re right it is amazing how much you can grow in a small space even a few pots . I’ve been elderflower cordial over the last few years this year I’ve made it from the black elderflower and it’s the best shade of pink , I am sure that would be a good seller 👏
Hi just found your channel, I am 70 I am one of the lucky ones my father taught me how to grow fruit and veg and my mother taught me how to preserve it . I so agree that more of us need to be in control of our food source if we can, it’s so dangerous as a society and a nation not to be . In my back garden I have 16 fruit and nut trees and I would say that I am about 90% self sufficient in veg, my garden would be a med size and my fruit trees are mostly pillar trees that have been planted in what was a lawn . I bottle, pickle and jam most things and into canning in a big way so I am not dependent on electricity to preserve all my foods . It’s so good to see you both working to get more people doing the same . I’ve liked and subscribed so will be looking forward to your next video 😊
Really enjoyed reading this message - thank you for sharing a little of your story and experience 🙏 Very inspiring. Thank you for watching & subscribing, hope you enjoy more of our videos 💚✌️🌿
@ I did two things this year as I don’t use any chemicals at all … invest in insect netting, the very fine stuff as it doesn’t harm the birds . It’s really good and on most things I didn’t have to spray at all. The spray I use is the old fashioned one of a dessert spoon of washing up liquid, a dessert spoon of olive oil, a dessert spoon of baking soda mix into 2 litres of water . You might have to keep spraying over a few days but it doesn’t harm the pollinators. Hope that helps
How have I not seen this channel before now! I love what you are doing and the message you are conveying ❤ In the UK and I have grown my own for nearly thirty years and practiced self sufficiency and self reliance for around 15 of those. I never managed to get off grid but I have the skills to manage if the lights went out 😂 This last year I have taken up pressure canning for the first time to add to dehydrating and preserving and be less reliant on the freezer. I have spent many years trying to convince people to grow their own (even if its just a few tomatoes) and the perils of supermarkets and large corporations. High five ✋ to you for getting the message out there, I shall be following from now on 😊
Great to have you with us and hear the amazing journey you have been on for many years already. Well done for encouraging folks along the way too - defo feels like a growing movement in the last few years 🙌💚✌️🌿
What a wonderful treat to stumble across you here on the RUclipsz :) The thing that strikes me most powerfully is how you don't allow setbacks to dispirit you and instead take the lessons from what failed and carry on :D
Hello. Just sprung upon your channel, came up on my feed. I’m an allotmenter who loves growing, gardening, flora and fauna. My passions are trees, along with the soil, water and fungi. It’s so refreshing to see people so interested in permaculture and heading towards self sufficiency. It’s hard work and not everyone’s ‘cup of tea’, but it’s a healthy and rewarding one. If a few more of us would get together and share our knowledge, encourage others to get involved and be generous with our produce, we would be healthier and happier. Keep doing what your doing and thanks for sharing ❤
Your Living my dream , After 4 brain operations i am finding solace on my allotment. We wish you the greatest of success and i will live my dream vicariously via your channel xx
So nice to know you can enjoy our channel in this way 🙏 and lovely to hear that your alloment brings you comfort, happy growing and good one you for finding a way to make the most 💚✌️🌿
After years of searching and a determined will and intent I have finally found a farm to partner with to begin to produce raw dairy. At home we have a forest garden and now we will have a source of good natural fats and proteins which will help us survive the craziness that is to come. Everyone needs to get out and start helping the farmers wherever and whenever they can. THank you for teaching others how it's done.
We DO need to support the Farmers!! No Farmers....No Food! 19th Nov there's a Gatheting 11am at Whitehall/Parliament Square...to Show our Support! 🌟👨🌾❤👩🌾🌟
Hi; new subscriber. Forgotten irrigation; in a past job I worked in a heavy industry setting, when machines under maintenance were 'locked off' with a padlock to prevent anyone using it until the maintenance was complete. Rather than a padlock, collect a few keyring labels and attach them to items like the irrigation tap which you need to remember by the end of the day. When you turn it on, remove the keyring label and add it to a keyring you keep on you. At the end of the day, you look at your keyring as you take it off and say I forgot the water! This could be developed into a wider organisational method. HTH
Loved your vlog. I have two allotments and grow a lot of my own food. The taste and nutritional value far out weigh shop bought. The sense of well-being from being outside close to nature is priceless. Thanks again for your video, look forward to seeing you again 💞
New Subscriber, Love what you are both doing, HATE what the obvious control agenda are doing to farmers (taxing them into oblivion and stealing their land). I grow a few things here in Liverpool, but I'm just one fella in a city house so I have to buy from supermarkets and shops still. If 'they' say it's good for you, do the opposite and you'll be sound. Keep up the good work, I literally harvested some Carrots yesterday here at scouse Farm, so at least I know they weren't sprayed with any chemicals. All the best.
How did you prevent carrots from getting " bugged" ? I got good carrots the first year I grew them, but then, even netted, the roots had brown/ black infestation.
@@pingupenguin2474 Pure Luck mostly, even netting can't stop tiny root fly. Best way to reduce the chances is to plant them outside of the months root fly are most active (quick Internet search will give the dates), and then don't disturb the soil. 'flyaway' is apparently a resistant variety you can try if you have a lot of Root Fly. Enjoy!
Thank you. I am from California where we get very little if any rain in the summer. I always had a vegetable garden. Now I live in in Germany where it rains ALL summer long. I am finding it impossible to do the style of organic gardening I did in Calif, or grow the way I did period. Your channel is helpful. 🙏🏽
HI, so glad you are finding our videos helpful - I can imagine the growing conditions must be very different for you - and if Germany has been similar to us, we have just had 2 particularly WET years in a row and this year for us had very much reduced sunlight, causing a very noticable effect on some plants/crops in particular. Every year is always so different and this is why diversity really does feel like the key 💚 Appreciate you watching & commenting ✌️🌿
@ I have never worked so hard, spent so much money, and planted so many things that yields zero harvest. Honestly, in California, you just put it in the ground and water it and it flourishes. You will have to give away harvest, there is just so much. It’s making me crazy. It is so dry in California, that when it rains in summer, it is a disaster, because we have many crops that mold with humidity, like soft skin fruit trees and furry nuts. This is a whole new thing, so I really appreciate your wet summer wisdom. 🌸🙏🏽🌸
Great channel. I wish I could be self sufficient but my back can’t take it. I’m lucky enough to have seen my grandparents preparing for winter. My grandad grew lots of vegetables, we ate blackberries, wild strawberries and nuts picked from hedgerows. They had a big piece of salted bacon hanging up in the kitchen ready for winter. Jams and chutneys, wines and whisky were made. Ask the older generation everyone, we remember.
If you have a garden get a friend to help plant a few fruit bushes and trees. Then you can enjoy the fruit each year without any digging. Same applies to edible perennials and herbs.
Hi I found you via Hue Richards page. I live on 3/4 acre property in NZ & have been learning & developing a permaculture garden. It's my favorite place to be.
Hey! Greetings from Down Under! I would use the blue corn to make flour as you say and then make tortillas. Remember that any food that is brightly colored is a superfood. Cheers!
Hi Craig, great to have you with us from the other side!!! 😊 For sure we total hope to do our own tortillas soon as we can get organised with good methods for shucking and griding ...we have the press already ... just need a few more hours in the day 🤣 Thanks so much for watching and messaging, much appreciated 💚✌️🌿
Here in Ky (USA) the weather is getting chilly. I so enjoy sitting on my front porch looking at the many roses still blooming about the apple trees. Must winterize the birdbaths and put pine needles about the blueberry bushes. Edible landscaping is the way to go. A hot pepper plant is beautiful by the peonies . Rather fun to see what I can do. Vegetable garden in the back which I "can" and dry from. Home grown has a flavor that simply can not be beat. I share with my family and they with me. Too many people have no idea about where their food comes from. Or even how to grow it, rather sad. But then again I do buy some things because it is easier than raising them...space wise. Each year is different .
That was beautifully put together well done guys. I’m totally hooked on your channel now… it ticks every box of the right way to be… I’ll be sharing with my friends for sure
Hi Flip, thanks for the lovely comment and glad you are enjoying the channel, means a lot 🙏 hope everything has grown well for you and now all nicely tucked up - i chopped and dropped our now sorry looking Yacon foliage yesterday and will get some more woodchips on the crown soon too 💚✌️🌿
Now this is the kind of video i love to watch. Your love for the soil, the food you grow and preserve is the way forward. Keep it up, greetings from Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Great idea - thanks, I do like to keeping some whole to use in stirfrys and nut roasts etc... I would love to one day make my own flour from them too 🙏 appreciate you watching & messaging 💚✌️🌿
Hi, I can't afford the land in the UK that you both have, but I do my best to grow about 20% - 30% of my food consumption in my modest back garden, & with a solar PV system providing the energy for a relatively normal life. I can't find any plot suitable to self-build my own little eco-house (Earthship style) in my area in Essex that I can afford. I'd dearly love to spend my twilight years living a similar lifestyle to yours. Thank you for your video; very inspirational. Regards, JohnnyK.
Hi Johnny, how lovely to hear your story, growing any % of food for yourself is brilliant and a massive step in the right direction … the difference that world make to the world if anyone that can, did… !!!! 😍🤩💚 good on you. Thanks for your lovely message - enjoyed reading it ✌️🌿
What a great way to live! It's my dream to have a bit of God's earth to grow my own! You are fortunate to have that.. Glory to God for nature and all its intricacies! Did I see Taro plants? Such an incredible plant if it is..and excellent medicine.. I grow food but as my job.. The satisfaction from doing what you do is very wholesome and so necessary in this world of poisons! You are doing a wonderful thing! Long may you thrive..God bless.❤
Thank you for your lovely comment 🙏 Yes you did see Taro ... stay tuned for our next video, out tomorrow morning 9am (UK time). Appreciate you watching 💚✌️🌿
For sure 🤣 The amount of times I plant something and try to tell myself I'll remember what it is/the order !!!!! Learning slowly !! Thanks for watching 💚✌️🌿
@@freedomforestlifeI have that problem too. This year I made sure to label all my tomato seed trays. My mistake was not labelling ALL the pots when I eventually potted them on. I kept what I thought was each set of potted seedlings together, but once they started fruiting, I could see I'd somehow got it wrong! Ah well, not a mistake I'll make next year!
@@gypsygem9395 Yeah, done exactly that with Tomatoes too!!! 🤣 I literally have conversations with myself sometime about labeling, one side telling me i'll remember, the other saying, 'come on, you know you won't, just label it all properly'!!! Each year is progress 😉✌🌿
Many grandparents worked in mills, down mines, etc so never had any time for this. Lived in 2 up 2 down, if lucky, so had no space to hang washing let alone space to grow... Millions had to abandon land for city exsistance to survive. None of my grand parents ever grew or preserved a single thing. Great grandparents, dug railway lines by hand... Worked in Mills, and down mines also...
Ok, well done the grandparents, shoved off the land by agricultural changes and greedy landowners, but the mills are mostly closed now, so we can't depend on them anymore, and other changes in the world nowadays mean its important that as many of us as possible become more independant of imported food. So the challenge is to your generation, and the rest of us ( I am retired just 1 years ago) assuming you have, or can gain the use of, land, or containers and compost ( or straw/ wood for mushrooms !) That is the bit I find hardest as modern gardens are tiny, land is expensive and allotments not always easy to find. But I had 3 fruit trees in pots, on dwarf stock, in my city flat, some years ago now, plus herbs in trays on the window ledges. I have heard that tomatoes grow well on balconies and in high flats as the bugs can't fly that high and they like the heat of the city. Now I have a small garden with three deep beds. Deep means you can plant a bit closer together, so root veg, peas, leeks, onion, and garlic, ramble around borage and calendula for colour, bug protection and drinks. I tried netting but the local cats just tore it, enabling bugs to get in, so brassicas not so good, but you do what you can. Hope you can find something satisfying that you enjoy. Getting out there is certainly good for your health, physically, mentally and spiritually.
@pingupenguin2474 in my tiny space, lack of sun etc, I can only grow blackberries, red vein sorral, dandilions (both too bitter for me to enjoy), nastirtium, too peppery for me and jasmine. I have tried several small trees, not fruited. Onions, potatoes come out same or less quantity, tomatoes... Nothing too little sun and warmth. Currents and gooseberries no fruit. Spent a fortune on failed plants and compost, organic support to poor soil. Allotments if I could physically manage about a 5 year waiting list plus. Will trying micro greens and bean sprouts, however only have one very thin windowsill where potentially enough light... So limiting but trying. Last year even cut and grow lettuce I tried mid November for Christmas... Finally ready in March lol!!
I have a very small patch which I’ve been by growing tomatoes. By trial & error I’ve grown this year a cherry tomato variety - super sweet. Unfortunately I think the time is up as the temperature today was 8. My raspberry plant did me proud again this year with many more fruit than last year. I’m growing garlic which now is nearly a foot tall. That will only be ready about July. Must make a plan with sweet potato as I’m sure they’re much easier to grow than ordinary potato & a whole lot nice tasting. Love your set up!
Hi Mary, Sounds like you've had a good year growing and you garlic is going strong, Elephant garlic is one of my fav things to grow, so a rewarding crop pulling out the massive bulbs 💚 Sweet potatoes have done great for us, until the rodents got a taste for them, very tasty crop though indeed... I'll drop a link in here for our sweet potato growing playlist which you might find useful ... Are you in the UK too?? Glad you enjoyed the vid and seeing our place, Thanks for watching & happy growing ✌️🌿 ruclips.net/p/PLOidPRQofoMMQnV_40S6dUq7nxtcMY5w9
So much still to learn from others. This is fantastic. We are just starting our journey later on in life and this is great inspiration. Greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪 Grand job! Best of luck
Great energy guys. Another crop to consider would be chayote - I’ve grown it in wetter islands of the Caribbean as well as Galicia - it likes water! This is from Wikipedia: Chayote or Sicyos edulis (previously placed in the obsolete genus Sechium), also known as christophine, mirliton and choko, is an edible plant belonging to the gourd family, Cucurbitaceae. This fruit was first cultivated in Mesoamerica between southern Mexico and Honduras, with the most genetic diversity available in both Mexico and Guatemala.[4] It is one of several foods introduced to the Old World during the Columbian Exchange. At that time, the plant spread to other parts of the Americas, ultimately causing it to be integrated into the cuisine of many Latin American nations.
Hi Andrew, we did have 2 Chayote seeds this season, but the plants just didn;t get going well/grow strong enough.. defo something we would like to try again in the future though, thanks for the info and for watching 🙏💚✌️🌿
Hi, just came across your video and was impressed with your ethics and attitude towards gardening so I've subscribed. Looking forward to future videos. I wish you best of luck with your endeavours. Warm greetings from Greece.
Another new subscriber here! Loved this video which is akin to my own thoughts of growing in the south of England. Look forward to catching up with all your videos ❤
Hi, great to have you with us and hear of more people embarking on this type of journey - it is a big commitment, but very very rewarding ... and exciting 🙌 💚✌️🌿
I don't know how well your storage worked for the spuds but a technique I use is to bury them in tubs of sand, it helps keep them moist without getting mouldy. You can keep them right through until spring like that. I think other root crops will benefit from a similar treatment. Those sunflowers were very impressive! With regards to outdoor tomatoes I've had success with some super early dwarf varieties from real seeds, not only do they crop really quickly (earlier than the ones I had in the greenhouse!), they avoided the blight and also are lower maintenance as you don't need to tie up as much and you don't need to prune off the side shoots. It looks like you've made a great garden, best of luck for the future
Loved your video, have always tried to be as self sufficient as possible and its great to see the next generation embracing this way of life, keep going!
Just found your channel, so much knowledge! I'm hoping to buy a small plot but have little experience. What abundance, as many people as possible need to be learning and growing for food security
Sendin love from Harmony Haven in Vriginia US! How refreshing and motivational to hear you talk about and see what you are doing there! Thank you so much for sharing!!
I've been growing my own veg for around 10 years ...more to show my children than anything else but now its turned into a real passion...you had me at squash 😂 subscribed 👍
Very inspiring both of you. Just got my second allotment this year so hope to get more tips from you. Grew lots if squash like you, very envious of your storage shed, mine are occupying the windowledges in the house!
Hi, glad you enjoyed the vid 🙏 yes, the storage shed has been a pretty epic addition for us!! Especially after we retro fitted insulation last year, it’s a real multi function space for us, I’ll drop a couple vid links in Here with blogs showing it unfolding. Appreciate you watching and happy growing in both your allotments 💚✌️🌿 Jan vlog: ruclips.net/video/cldxdd_4S9U/видео.htmlsi=pfd-5J67zZUtPBzY Feb vlog: ruclips.net/video/Ckx8Rj73sqU/видео.htmlsi=-PmxvfSxSITwHvEC
Enjoyed your video. I used to buy the permaculture magazine and always enjoyed the ideas contained within. Chickens are great at removing weeds and they fertilize at the same time! I miss my chickens..
Hi, glad you enjoyed the vid 💚 Appreciate you watching & commenting 🙏 I do miss havibg chickens and ducks too, I used to keep them when I lived in NZ. Maybe we'll get some again one ✌️🌿
Just found and subscribed to your channel. I needed cheering up and your video did the job. Onset of winter and putting the garden to bed is sad, but looking forward to next year is great! Thank you !
Hi, Great to have you with us - its made my day hearing that our video has cheered you up too 💖 I understand what you mean ... its grey weather that gets to me the most ... I do look forward to elements of winter though now... more rest & snuggling up ... Planning and research and winter salads from our polytunnel 💚 Appreciate you watching & messaging ✌️🌿
Just found your channel and I'm so pleased I have. Over the past 20 years I have been teaching myself how to grow enough food for my family so we do not have to rely on the supermarkets too much, we are nearly there with being able to produce 90% of our food with some of them being available all year through storage and bottling. It is challenging especially here in NE Scotland but we are making it work. I was amazed to see you had sweet potatoes and would love to know what varieties you are growing as that's one vegetable I have not tried yet but would love too.
Good on you 90% is EPIC and in Scotland - Wow ... it can be done for sure 🙌 Here's our Sweet Potato growing playlist for lots more on that 💚 Thanks for watching/messaging ✌️🌿 ruclips.net/p/PLOidPRQofoMMQnV_40S6dUq7nxtcMY5w9&si=pj4diIx9pVIuPtg-
I've just found your channel and subscribed. It's great to hear you're doing this in the south of the UK. Seeing all the varieties you can grow in this climate is really inspiring. I'm near London, hardiness zone 8b and looking to buy my first walk-in greenhouse, big enough to house my compost heap. So excited!😁🫐🍋
Hi Belinda, great to have you with us, we're zone 9a here, so very similar. We LOVE our undercover growing spaces, so valuable. We did do a hot bed in one of our tunnels a couple of years ago and it worked really well, we used it to mulch everything in our food forest in late winter 💚 let me know if you'd like the video link from when we made it. 😊 Thanks for watching and great to have you with us ✌️🌿
@@belinda888 small segment that may be good to be away of in this vid too 💚✌️🌿 enjoy Forest Garden Additions | Forgotten Perennial Potato Bean | Hot Bed Issue & Spring Plantings - V5 ruclips.net/video/D5EMOGvzFfs/видео.html
I do allot of wild harvesting along the bike trails. each trail has something different to offer. For example pine needles for tea with vitamin C or English ivy leaves with saponin to do your laundry with instead of polluting soap.
Great video mate. If you grow so many different varieties of open pollinated plants like pumpkins and corn, do you save your own seed? Doesn’t this result in a hybridising of the different varieties?
Hi, glad you enjoyed the vid - appreciate you taking the time to say 🙏 We save some seeds from certain plants, but not pumpkin/squash currently due to the need to be very on it with Cucurbits, we do hope to in the future though when we are in a position to give it the focus it needs. We did save one year and there were definite crosses!!! We save the easy seeds like Parsnips, Coriander, Corn and we do save watermelon and Trombone Courgettes as they do not cross with other varieties we grow here 💚✌️🌿
Hi Cheryl, glad you enjoyed this vid - great to have you with us💚 Here’s our latest vlog we just put out and we have lots of other more specific vids too, let us know what you think 🙏✌️🌿 The Beauty Of Growing Food - OFF GRID Winter Prep UK ruclips.net/video/KxP0I1tbZpc/видео.html
Hi just found you and sub"ed. I am from South Africa, and we also make jam from the Cape Gooseberry, its yummy. love the vlog and will be going to watch your others.
Hi, great to have you with us in South Africa!!! 🙌 so glad you enjoyed the vid, we love cape gooseberry jam too … it’s my fav. Hope you enjoy our other vids too. Appreciate you watching 💚✌️🌿
Hi! Really glad to have found your channel.🙂 I saw you've planted sweet potatoes succesfully in the UK and I would love to know what type/name are they? I would love to grow them, but thought it would be tough to grow them in our (UK) climate. Thanks if you can make the time to reply. Best wishes 🙂
Glad you found us 🙌 Check out this vid here for more on our SP growing journey & varieties. There is a also a Sweet Potato playlist on our channel that you may find useful 💚 Thanks for watching ✌️🌿 ruclips.net/video/_u68dgswM3Q/видео.html
I wouldn’t have thought spaghetti squash stored well! Amazing!! How often do you check for rotting produce? How do you choose which potatoes are “seed”? ❤
Hi Holly, If the skins go nice and hard without blemishes Spaghetti squash have store right through winter for us some years. Seed potatoes we select by size and cleanest to ensure they store through. Hope that helps - Appreciate you watching 💚✌️🌿
Hi, Fire cider is such an AMAZING benefical brew... I just bottled this years today infact - just in time for grifting at Christmas. Here is a video recipe I made .... a very long time ago, I do intend to do a re-make video sometime soon as this one makes me cringe a little 😂 But the recipe is still the same and the info is all there - Let me know what you think? 💚✌️🌿 ruclips.net/video/Y8HZq1WR27Q/видео.html
What a great channel - thank you.. my local sweet chestnut had lots of fruit cases but the chestnuts were all tiny/hollow. It’s quite a large tree - any idea what i can do to encourage fruiting, please?
Hi Anna, Glad your enjoying our channel. I'm wondering with the Sweet Chestnuts if its just some years they have a kind of off year ... a bit like Apples and other fruit trees do, We've had a least 3-4 solid years from our trees here, then this year had a lot of cases like you are describing too... either that or it could be the reduced sunlight that we had this year, not giving them chance to fully develop perhaps ... I'm feeling more the other though, following a conversation last year with someone further north experiencing what we are this year. My plan is to just monitor and see what happens next year 💚 Thanks for watching & for joining us on Patreon too 🙏✌️🌿
We’ve just moved to the vale of Evesham and are surrounded by neglected apple trees - looking forward to lots of windfalls next year as no-one seems to pick the fruit! And I have a huge blank canvas of a garden to start planning.. so your channel is perfect!!
I come from a war generation that couldn't afford to waste anything so I have always had a self-sufficiant mind set. I find it joyful watching your channel and realizing that many young people are coming to the conclusion that we are being nudged into an apalling unhealthy life style. For years my family and friends have been amused by my thirst for knowledge and a driving need to be able to survive when the colapse comes and if history teachers us anything, it surely will. In the West our priorities have been warped and almost everything is put before the production of food. If there are no farmers there is no food and yet they are always at the end of the queu. When we were all under house arrest for what was just a flue and people were panic shopping my friends and family were no longer amused, instead they were envious of my full larder and store. Although I am now in my 80s, I can still learn from people like you, so I hope you will continue to be a beacon of self sufficiency, it's such a rewerding way to live. God bless you bothe.
Thank you for your lovely message Lynn really enjoyed reading it 💚 I hope my Larder is still full with all my own produce and preserves when I am in my 80's too. Thank you for sharing a little of your journey and wisdom 🙏✌️🌿
How do you put glass jars with chestnuts in the freezer?
@@mrzoukdotcomzouklambadaboo8212 I freeze lots of thing in glass jars, since I discovered its ok to. As long as there is some room left in jars for expansion has things freeze all is good 👍Thanks for watching 💚✌🌿
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My Grandparents were in the war and I remember real hardship no supermarkets and all was fresh food.Unlike today.I support the farmers protesting in various locations UK Weds 11th.Love your post.
If everyone lived this life, the world would be a much better place!
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My first visit to your channel. I am 80 years old and you are living my kind of life. All my meals are home cooked/home grown where possible and I still peg my own rugs and make quilts etc for the family. It is a busy but peaceful and satisfying life. I love what you are achieving and wish you much success. We need more people like you.
So nice to hear from you, I hope we are like you at 80 doing these things for ourself too. Very satisfying indeed. Appreciate you watch and commenting 💚✌️🌿
The simple things in life are so precious x❤
Sounds like we need more people like you too! ❤
I started an allotment with my sister 6 years ago. We now have 5 including a huge pollytunnel. We grow all the usual and also melons, chillies, cucumber, chard, kale ect. We have now moved into presserving and drying. We have a large herb garden with mint, chamomile, basil, Lemombalm to make a few. It is so easy to dry them and make tea. This has all led to us doing a weekend bee course and we now have a plot where we keep our hives. The honey is not the only bonus. The wax is awesome to and we are now making solid lotion bars, beard balm and lipbalm. We have been doing a few markets and they are going very well. We were both in our 50s when we started this journey and honestly it's the best thing we have ever done. I am now making tincture with the herbs, elderberry syrup for building our immune system. We still work our normal jobs but maybe one day this will be sufficient that we won't need to. Even if you only have a small garden I encourage you to grow some herbs or flowers. It is very rewarding. I am chuffed to see a video like this for UK.
🌟 Good on you (both) Andrea, what you are doing sounds AMAZING ... Elderberry Syrup is a firm fav of mine too. What great inspiration you are putting out there 🙏💚✌️🌿
@@andreawelsh6786 I would love to keep bees , it’s the best feeling growing all your own produce . You’re right it is amazing how much you can grow in a small space even a few pots . I’ve been elderflower cordial over the last few years this year I’ve made it from the black elderflower and it’s the best shade of pink , I am sure that would be a good seller 👏
Hi just found your channel, I am 70 I am one of the lucky ones my father taught me how to grow fruit and veg and my mother taught me how to preserve it . I so agree that more of us need to be in control of our food source if we can, it’s so dangerous as a society and a nation not to be . In my back garden I have 16 fruit and nut trees and I would say that I am about 90% self sufficient in veg, my garden would be a med size and my fruit trees are mostly pillar trees that have been planted in what was a lawn . I bottle, pickle and jam most things and into canning in a big way so I am not dependent on electricity to preserve all my foods . It’s so good to see you both working to get more people doing the same . I’ve liked and subscribed so will be looking forward to your next video 😊
Really enjoyed reading this message - thank you for sharing a little of your story and experience 🙏 Very inspiring. Thank you for watching & subscribing, hope you enjoy more of our videos 💚✌️🌿
what is the best natural way to keep bugs off of veg ? my cabbages were all eaten 😢
@@BethanyLloyd-h6t Net cabbages/kale etc with butterfly net best natural way 💚✌🌿
@@freedomforestlife Hi , thanks so much , i was doing so well then the cabbages were "got" by some bugs and grubs !! thanks so much 🥰
@ I did two things this year as I don’t use any chemicals at all … invest in insect netting, the very fine stuff as it doesn’t harm the birds . It’s really good and on most things I didn’t have to spray at all. The spray I use is the old fashioned one of a dessert spoon of washing up liquid, a dessert spoon of olive oil, a dessert spoon of baking soda mix into 2 litres of water . You might have to keep spraying over a few days but it doesn’t harm the pollinators. Hope that helps
How have I not seen this channel before now! I love what you are doing and the message you are conveying ❤ In the UK and I have grown my own for nearly thirty years and practiced self sufficiency and self reliance for around 15 of those. I never managed to get off grid but I have the skills to manage if the lights went out 😂 This last year I have taken up pressure canning for the first time to add to dehydrating and preserving and be less reliant on the freezer. I have spent many years trying to convince people to grow their own (even if its just a few tomatoes) and the perils of supermarkets and large corporations. High five ✋ to you for getting the message out there, I shall be following from now on 😊
Great to have you with us and hear the amazing journey you have been on for many years already. Well done for encouraging folks along the way too - defo feels like a growing movement in the last few years 🙌💚✌️🌿
What a wonderful treat to stumble across you here on the RUclipsz :) The thing that strikes me most powerfully is how you don't allow setbacks to dispirit you and instead take the lessons from what failed and carry on :D
Glad you found us and thank you so much for your kind comment too - really appreciate that 💚✌️🌿
By their fruits ye shall know them... well done for being the change you want to see in the world - excellent! 🌻💚🙌
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Hello. Just sprung upon your channel, came up on my feed. I’m an allotmenter who loves growing, gardening, flora and fauna. My passions are trees, along with the soil, water and fungi. It’s so refreshing to see people so interested in permaculture and heading towards self sufficiency. It’s hard work and not everyone’s ‘cup of tea’, but it’s a healthy and rewarding one. If a few more of us would get together and share our knowledge, encourage others to get involved and be generous with our produce, we would be healthier and happier. Keep doing what your doing and thanks for sharing ❤
Hi, Great to have you with us and couldn't agree more with everything you said - hope you enjoy watching 💚✌️🌿
Your Living my dream , After 4 brain operations i am finding solace on my allotment. We wish you the greatest of success and i will live my dream vicariously via your channel xx
So nice to know you can enjoy our channel in this way 🙏 and lovely to hear that your alloment brings you comfort, happy growing and good one you for finding a way to make the most 💚✌️🌿
You’ve been through a lot. God bless you and bring you peace and healing. I’m so glad you’re finding joy in gardening.❤
Everything about self-suffiency is appealing, but especially sitting with others processing the goodies like shelling legumes, etc is heartwarming.
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Thank you. I live in northeast Arizona, USA, a high desert. I appreciate your life.
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I've been growing most of my food for decades and really like what you're doing. It's always good to learn about different methods.
After years of searching and a determined will and intent I have finally found a farm to partner with to begin to produce raw dairy. At home we have a forest garden and now we will have a source of good natural fats and proteins which will help us survive the craziness that is to come. Everyone needs to get out and start helping the farmers wherever and whenever they can. THank you for teaching others how it's done.
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19th Nov there's a Gatheting 11am at Whitehall/Parliament Square...to Show our Support!
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Inspiring video all that sustainable food all year round and nature giving you a hand.
Glad you enjoyed the video Margaret- appreciate you watching & commenting 🙏💚✌️🌿
Hi; new subscriber. Forgotten irrigation; in a past job I worked in a heavy industry setting, when machines under maintenance were 'locked off' with a padlock to prevent anyone using it until the maintenance was complete. Rather than a padlock, collect a few keyring labels and attach them to items like the irrigation tap which you need to remember by the end of the day. When you turn it on, remove the keyring label and add it to a keyring you keep on you. At the end of the day, you look at your keyring as you take it off and say I forgot the water! This could be developed into a wider organisational method. HTH
Hi, great to have you with us and thanks for the idea, could be adapted for sure 👍💚✌️🌿
Irrigation in the UK?????? 🙂
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Loved your vlog. I have two allotments and grow a lot of my own food. The taste and nutritional value far out weigh shop bought. The sense of well-being from being outside close to nature is priceless. Thanks again for your video, look forward to seeing you again 💞
Great words at the end. Thank you 🥦 🍎 🥔
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New Subscriber, Love what you are both doing, HATE what the obvious control agenda are doing to farmers (taxing them into oblivion and stealing their land). I grow a few things here in Liverpool, but I'm just one fella in a city house so I have to buy from supermarkets and shops still. If 'they' say it's good for you, do the opposite and you'll be sound. Keep up the good work, I literally harvested some Carrots yesterday here at scouse Farm, so at least I know they weren't sprayed with any chemicals. All the best.
Growing whatever you can is better than growing nothing at all. Good on you for 💚 apprecaite you watching & commenting ✌️🌿
@@freedomforestlife Cheers. Take it easy 👍
How did you prevent carrots from getting " bugged" ? I got good carrots the first year I grew them, but then, even netted, the roots had brown/ black infestation.
@@pingupenguin2474 Pure Luck mostly, even netting can't stop tiny root fly. Best way to reduce the chances is to plant them outside of the months root fly are most active (quick Internet search will give the dates), and then don't disturb the soil. 'flyaway' is apparently a resistant variety you can try if you have a lot of Root Fly. Enjoy!
Thank you. I am from California where we get very little if any rain in the summer. I always had a vegetable garden. Now I live in in Germany where it rains ALL summer long. I am finding it impossible to do the style of organic gardening I did in Calif, or grow the way I did period. Your channel is helpful. 🙏🏽
HI, so glad you are finding our videos helpful - I can imagine the growing conditions must be very different for you - and if Germany has been similar to us, we have just had 2 particularly WET years in a row and this year for us had very much reduced sunlight, causing a very noticable effect on some plants/crops in particular. Every year is always so different and this is why diversity really does feel like the key 💚 Appreciate you watching & commenting ✌️🌿
@ I have never worked so hard, spent so much money, and planted so many things that yields zero harvest. Honestly, in California, you just put it in the ground and water it and it flourishes. You will have to give away harvest, there is just so much. It’s making me crazy. It is so dry in California, that when it rains in summer, it is a disaster, because we have many crops that mold with humidity, like soft skin fruit trees and furry nuts. This is a whole new thing, so I really appreciate your wet summer wisdom.
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Great channel. I wish I could be self sufficient but my back can’t take it. I’m lucky enough to have seen my grandparents preparing for winter. My grandad grew lots of vegetables, we ate blackberries, wild strawberries and nuts picked from hedgerows. They had a big piece of salted bacon hanging up in the kitchen ready for winter. Jams and chutneys, wines and whisky were made. Ask the older generation everyone, we remember.
If you have a garden get a friend to help plant a few fruit bushes and trees. Then you can enjoy the fruit each year without any digging. Same applies to edible perennials and herbs.
Like the way you highlight your mistakes as well as successes. Really good channel.
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Hi I found you via Hue Richards page. I live on 3/4 acre property in NZ & have been learning & developing a permaculture garden. It's my favorite place to be.
Hi Lesley, Great to have you with us. What part of NZ are you in ... such an awesome growing climate there 💚✌️🌿
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❤ a beautifully shot video with an inspiring sentiment. Thank you for taking the time to share
Hey! Greetings from Down Under! I would use the blue corn to make flour as you say and then make tortillas. Remember that any food that is brightly colored is a superfood. Cheers!
Hi Craig, great to have you with us from the other side!!! 😊 For sure we total hope to do our own tortillas soon as we can get organised with good methods for shucking and griding ...we have the press already ... just need a few more hours in the day 🤣 Thanks so much for watching and messaging, much appreciated 💚✌️🌿
Here in Ky (USA) the weather is getting chilly. I so enjoy sitting on my front porch looking at the many roses still blooming about the apple trees. Must winterize the birdbaths and put pine needles about the blueberry bushes. Edible landscaping is the way to go. A hot pepper plant is beautiful by the peonies . Rather fun to see what I can do. Vegetable garden in the back which I "can" and dry from. Home grown has a flavor that simply can not be beat. I share with my family and they with me. Too many people have no idea about where their food comes from. Or even how to grow it, rather sad. But then again I do buy some things because it is easier than raising them...space wise. Each year is different .
That was beautifully put together well done guys. I’m totally hooked on your channel now… it ticks every box of the right way to be… I’ll be sharing with my friends for sure
Hi Flip, thanks for the lovely comment and glad you are enjoying the channel, means a lot 🙏 hope everything has grown well for you and now all nicely tucked up - i chopped and dropped our now sorry looking Yacon foliage yesterday and will get some more woodchips on the crown soon too 💚✌️🌿
Glad to have found your channel. Great attitude to food and the symbiotic relationships with nature. Thank you.
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Now this is the kind of video i love to watch. Your love for the soil, the food you grow and preserve is the way forward. Keep it up, greetings from Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Great to have you with us in SA !!! So glad you enjoyed the vid 💚✌️🌿
Totally inspiring! Glad I've found your channel.
Great to have you with us John - appreciate you watching and commenting 💚✌️🌿
I absolutely loved this video and the information you kindly shared. Thank you
Thank you for the lovely comment, glad you enjoyed it - means a lot 🙏💚✌️🌿
What a joy to watch you grow ! Huge love for all that you do x x x
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If you run the cooked chestnuts through a meat grinder, it can be dried down or frozen. Takes less space.
Great idea - thanks, I do like to keeping some whole to use in stirfrys and nut roasts etc... I would love to one day make my own flour from them too 🙏 appreciate you watching & messaging 💚✌️🌿
Hi, I can't afford the land in the UK that you both have, but I do my best to grow about 20% - 30% of my food consumption in my modest back garden, & with a solar PV system providing the energy for a relatively normal life. I can't find any plot suitable to self-build my own little eco-house (Earthship style) in my area in Essex that I can afford. I'd dearly love to spend my twilight years living a similar lifestyle to yours.
Thank you for your video; very inspirational. Regards, JohnnyK.
Hi Johnny, how lovely to hear your story, growing any % of food for yourself is brilliant and a massive step in the right direction … the difference that world make to the world if anyone that can, did… !!!! 😍🤩💚 good on you. Thanks for your lovely message - enjoyed reading it ✌️🌿
Great work. A wealth of knowledge.
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Yes Dan, looking forward to some chilli roulette in the kitchen 👑💚⚕️
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What a great way to live! It's my dream to have a bit of God's earth to grow my own! You are fortunate to have that.. Glory to God for nature and all its intricacies! Did I see Taro plants? Such an incredible plant if it is..and excellent medicine.. I grow food but as my job.. The satisfaction from doing what you do is very wholesome and so necessary in this world of poisons! You are doing a wonderful thing! Long may you thrive..God bless.❤
Thank you for your lovely comment 🙏 Yes you did see Taro ... stay tuned for our next video, out tomorrow morning 9am (UK time). Appreciate you watching 💚✌️🌿
Absolutely inspiring, what a great place and you are a great team. Kia ora from Mohua, Aotearoa
Great to have you with us from the beautiful land of the long white cloud - Thanks fot watching/commenting 💚✌️🌿
lol I love hearing about your mistakes with the watering and labelling hah. So relatable
For sure 🤣 The amount of times I plant something and try to tell myself I'll remember what it is/the order !!!!! Learning slowly !! Thanks for watching 💚✌️🌿
@@freedomforestlifeI have that problem too. This year I made sure to label all my tomato seed trays. My mistake was not labelling ALL the pots when I eventually potted them on. I kept what I thought was each set of potted seedlings together, but once they started fruiting, I could see I'd somehow got it wrong! Ah well, not a mistake I'll make next year!
@@gypsygem9395 Yeah, done exactly that with Tomatoes too!!! 🤣 I literally have conversations with myself sometime about labeling, one side telling me i'll remember, the other saying, 'come on, you know you won't, just label it all properly'!!! Each year is progress 😉✌🌿
Many grandparents worked in mills, down mines, etc so never had any time for this.
Lived in 2 up 2 down, if lucky, so had no space to hang washing let alone space to grow...
Millions had to abandon land for city exsistance to survive. None of my grand parents ever grew or preserved a single thing. Great grandparents, dug railway lines by hand... Worked in Mills, and down mines also...
Ok, well done the grandparents, shoved off the land by agricultural changes and greedy landowners, but the mills are mostly closed now, so we can't depend on them anymore, and other changes in the world nowadays mean its important that as many of us as possible become more independant of imported food. So the challenge is to your generation, and the rest of us ( I am retired just 1 years ago) assuming you have, or can gain the use of, land, or containers and compost ( or straw/ wood for mushrooms !) That is the bit I find hardest as modern gardens are tiny, land is expensive and allotments not always easy to find.
But I had 3 fruit trees in pots, on dwarf stock, in my city flat, some years ago now, plus herbs in trays on the window ledges. I have heard that tomatoes grow well on balconies and in high flats as the bugs can't fly that high and they like the heat of the city. Now I have a small garden with three deep beds. Deep means you can plant a bit closer together, so root veg, peas, leeks, onion, and garlic, ramble around borage and calendula for colour, bug protection and drinks. I tried netting but the local cats just tore it, enabling bugs to get in, so brassicas not so good, but you do what you can.
Hope you can find something satisfying that you enjoy. Getting out there is certainly good for your health, physically, mentally and spiritually.
@pingupenguin2474 in my tiny space, lack of sun etc, I can only grow blackberries, red vein sorral, dandilions (both too bitter for me to enjoy), nastirtium, too peppery for me and jasmine. I have tried several small trees, not fruited. Onions, potatoes come out same or less quantity, tomatoes... Nothing too little sun and warmth. Currents and gooseberries no fruit. Spent a fortune on failed plants and compost, organic support to poor soil. Allotments if I could physically manage about a 5 year waiting list plus. Will trying micro greens and bean sprouts, however only have one very thin windowsill where potentially enough light... So limiting but trying. Last year even cut and grow lettuce I tried mid November for Christmas... Finally ready in March lol!!
Such hard times and hard workers. I hope you can find a little patch to grow some veggies.
I have a very small patch which I’ve been by growing tomatoes. By trial & error I’ve grown this year a cherry tomato variety - super sweet. Unfortunately I think the time is up as the temperature today was 8. My raspberry plant did me proud again this year with many more fruit than last year. I’m growing garlic which now is nearly a foot tall. That will only be ready about July.
Must make a plan with sweet potato as I’m sure they’re much easier to grow than ordinary potato & a whole lot nice tasting.
Love your set up!
Hi Mary, Sounds like you've had a good year growing and you garlic is going strong, Elephant garlic is one of my fav things to grow, so a rewarding crop pulling out the massive bulbs 💚 Sweet potatoes have done great for us, until the rodents got a taste for them, very tasty crop though indeed... I'll drop a link in here for our sweet potato growing playlist which you might find useful ... Are you in the UK too?? Glad you enjoyed the vid and seeing our place, Thanks for watching & happy growing ✌️🌿
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You’ll get plenty of subs quickly because we should all be seeking this out now. God bless you and your family 🇬🇧
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Greetings from Ireland, the other Island! Great work, looks like a special place.
Hi, great to have you with us in Ireland 🍀 Beautiful place Thanks for watching ✌️🌿
So much still to learn from others. This is fantastic. We are just starting our journey later on in life and this is great inspiration. Greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪 Grand job! Best of luck
So glad you enjoyed the vid and great to have you with us in Ireland (such a magical country) all the best with your adventure 💚✌️🌿
Look forward to following your journey, and mirroring the approach in my own land. 🌱
Love hearing of more people doing this - good on you - are you in the UK too? Appreciate you watching💚✌️🌿
Great energy guys. Another crop to consider would be chayote - I’ve grown it in wetter islands of the Caribbean as well as Galicia - it likes water! This is from Wikipedia: Chayote or Sicyos edulis (previously placed in the obsolete genus Sechium), also known as christophine, mirliton and choko, is an edible plant belonging to the gourd family, Cucurbitaceae. This fruit was first cultivated in Mesoamerica between southern Mexico and Honduras, with the most genetic diversity available in both Mexico and Guatemala.[4] It is one of several foods introduced to the Old World during the Columbian Exchange. At that time, the plant spread to other parts of the Americas, ultimately causing it to be integrated into the cuisine of many Latin American nations.
Hi Andrew, we did have 2 Chayote seeds this season, but the plants just didn;t get going well/grow strong enough.. defo something we would like to try again in the future though, thanks for the info and for watching 🙏💚✌️🌿
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Amazing video! thanks.
Glad you liked it! Appreciate you watching/commenting 🙏💚✌️🌿
Hi, just came across your video and was impressed with your ethics and attitude towards gardening so I've subscribed. Looking forward to future videos. I wish you best of luck with your endeavours. Warm greetings from Greece.
Thank you 🙏 Its great to have you with us Helen - glad you enjoyed the video and great to have you with us in Greece 🙌💚✌️🌿
great garden, great mindset. keep on doing!
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Another new subscriber here! Loved this video which is akin to my own thoughts of growing in the south of England. Look forward to catching up with all your videos ❤
Great to have you with us Angie - Glad you enjoyed the vid and happy binge watching!! 🤣💚✌️🌿
@@freedomforestlifethanks guys and yes, the binge watching will get me through the current storm and winter season! Well done the pair of you ❤❤😊😊
Hey just found your channel ,
I hope to be following you guys in the near future from Portugal .
Wish me Luck
Hi, great to have you with us and hear of more people embarking on this type of journey - it is a big commitment, but very very rewarding ... and exciting 🙌 💚✌️🌿
I don't know how well your storage worked for the spuds but a technique I use is to bury them in tubs of sand, it helps keep them moist without getting mouldy. You can keep them right through until spring like that. I think other root crops will benefit from a similar treatment.
Those sunflowers were very impressive!
With regards to outdoor tomatoes I've had success with some super early dwarf varieties from real seeds, not only do they crop really quickly (earlier than the ones I had in the greenhouse!), they avoided the blight and also are lower maintenance as you don't need to tie up as much and you don't need to prune off the side shoots.
It looks like you've made a great garden, best of luck for the future
Some real good info there, thank you, love your storage area!
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Loved your video, have always tried to be as self sufficient as possible and its great to see the next generation embracing this way of life, keep going!
Hi Lorraine, thanks for the lovely comment and good on you for the self sufficiency too🙌 appreciate you watching 💚✌️🌿
Just found your channel, so much knowledge! I'm hoping to buy a small plot but have little experience. What abundance, as many people as possible need to be learning and growing for food security
Thankyou for the wonderful video, I really enjoyed it
Sendin love from Harmony Haven in Vriginia US! How refreshing and motivational to hear you talk about and see what you are doing there! Thank you so much for sharing!!
Hi, great to have you with us in Virginia 🙌 So glad you enjoyed the vid - means a lot and appreciate you watching 🙏💚✌️🌿
Well said Dan. Beautiful video,as always. What an abundance of Autumn /winter nourishing food!Thankyou x
Glad you enjoyed it 💚 Thanks for watching as always ✌️🌿
Hi just found this video, love your ethos, growing what we can also in nz. A tip is when storing pumpkins they do better not touching.
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Hey Deb, where abouts in NZ are you? I used to live in Raglan 💚✌️🌿
I've been growing my own veg for around 10 years ...more to show my children than anything else but now its turned into a real passion...you had me at squash 😂 subscribed 👍
Great to have you with us Gavin 💚 growing is a great addiction for sure 😁✌️🌿
Brilliant and useful video and one I intend to keep to refer back to later. I am finding this channel very inspirational, thanks.
Thats so nice to know - So glad you are getting something from our videos 💚 Thank you for watching too ✌️🌿
Very inspiring both of you. Just got my second allotment this year so hope to get more tips from you. Grew lots if squash like you, very envious of your storage shed, mine are occupying the windowledges in the house!
Hi, glad you enjoyed the vid 🙏 yes, the storage shed has been a pretty epic addition for us!! Especially after we retro fitted insulation last year, it’s a real multi function space for us, I’ll drop a couple vid links in Here with blogs showing it unfolding. Appreciate you watching and happy growing in both your allotments 💚✌️🌿
Jan vlog: ruclips.net/video/cldxdd_4S9U/видео.htmlsi=pfd-5J67zZUtPBzY
Feb vlog: ruclips.net/video/Ckx8Rj73sqU/видео.htmlsi=-PmxvfSxSITwHvEC
I’ve only just found this channel, looking forward to following you guys. Thank you for sharing!
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Enjoyed your video. I used to buy the permaculture magazine and always enjoyed the ideas contained within. Chickens are great at removing weeds and they fertilize at the same time! I miss my chickens..
Hi, glad you enjoyed the vid 💚 Appreciate you watching & commenting 🙏 I do miss havibg chickens and ducks too, I used to keep them when I lived in NZ. Maybe we'll get some again one ✌️🌿
Just found and subscribed to your channel. I needed cheering up and your video did the job. Onset of winter and putting the garden to bed is sad, but looking forward to next year is great! Thank you !
Hi, Great to have you with us - its made my day hearing that our video has cheered you up too 💖 I understand what you mean ... its grey weather that gets to me the most ... I do look forward to elements of winter though now... more rest & snuggling up ... Planning and research and winter salads from our polytunnel 💚 Appreciate you watching & messaging ✌️🌿
Love this! I'm going to start an allotment next season and everything is so new and exciting!
Such a good feeling - Good on you. Thanks for watching 💚✌️🌿
First time finding this channel. Love it. Will be back. Liked and subscribed
Great to have you with us Julia 🙏✌️🌿
beautiful thanks love john and jane
Beautiful way to lead a sustainable life. Appreciative of the messaging, peace and plants
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Your place is beautiful
Thank you - appreciate your comment and thank you for watching 💚✌️🌿
I really like your video, thanks to that, I have more motivatinon to star building my own garden for my family
So glad the video has given you motivation 💚 this is exactly what we hope for - happy growing and thanks for watching ✌️🌿
Inspiring. Thank you.
Just found your channel and I'm so pleased I have. Over the past 20 years I have been teaching myself how to grow enough food for my family so we do not have to rely on the supermarkets too much, we are nearly there with being able to produce 90% of our food with some of them being available all year through storage and bottling. It is challenging especially here in NE Scotland but we are making it work. I was amazed to see you had sweet potatoes and would love to know what varieties you are growing as that's one vegetable I have not tried yet but would love too.
Good on you 90% is EPIC and in Scotland - Wow ... it can be done for sure 🙌 Here's our Sweet Potato growing playlist for lots more on that 💚 Thanks for watching/messaging ✌️🌿 ruclips.net/p/PLOidPRQofoMMQnV_40S6dUq7nxtcMY5w9&si=pj4diIx9pVIuPtg-
@@freedomforestlife Thank you, I know what I'll be doing this evening !
I've just found your channel and subscribed. It's great to hear you're doing this in the south of the UK. Seeing all the varieties you can grow in this climate is really inspiring. I'm near London, hardiness zone 8b and looking to buy my first walk-in greenhouse, big enough to house my compost heap. So excited!😁🫐🍋
Hi Belinda, great to have you with us, we're zone 9a here, so very similar. We LOVE our undercover growing spaces, so valuable. We did do a hot bed in one of our tunnels a couple of years ago and it worked really well, we used it to mulch everything in our food forest in late winter 💚 let me know if you'd like the video link from when we made it. 😊 Thanks for watching and great to have you with us ✌️🌿
@@freedomforestlife yes please to the video link
@@belinda888 Making A Hotbed - With Humanure!!! Off Grid Heated Propagator
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@@belinda888 small segment that may be good to be away of in this vid too 💚✌️🌿 enjoy Forest Garden Additions | Forgotten Perennial Potato Bean | Hot Bed Issue & Spring Plantings - V5
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Most of them are my favourite veg and fruits! They must have the most delicious taste !
Homegrown and fresh ALWAYS tastes best 💚 thanks for watching & commenting ✌️🌿
Dream of many. Stay blessed.
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Thanks for your content, it was really inspiring ❤
Glad you enjoyed it - Thanks for watching & Commenting 💚✌️🌿
I do allot of wild harvesting along the bike trails. each trail has something different to offer. For example pine needles for tea with vitamin C or English ivy leaves with saponin to do your laundry with instead of polluting soap.
Thats some great tip Donald - thanks heaps for sharing & for watching 💚✌️🌿
Love it !! Thanks
oh, what a wonderful and vast place, I really like to eat chestnuts, but in my country it is very difficult to grow them.
Glad you enjoyed seeing our gardens, we are very lucky to have such beautiful & abundant chestnut trees here for sure 🙏 appreciate you watching ✌️🌿
Lovely to have you health & strength . Enjoy !😊
Blessed for sure - thanks for watching 💚✌️🌿
I take it you like pumpkins & squash 😂😂.. just subscribed cool video..
We sure do - such great winter food - versatile and stores so well 🙌 great to have you with us Paul 💚✌️🌿
Great video mate. If you grow so many different varieties of open pollinated plants like pumpkins and corn, do you save your own seed? Doesn’t this result in a hybridising of the different varieties?
Hi, glad you enjoyed the vid - appreciate you taking the time to say 🙏 We save some seeds from certain plants, but not pumpkin/squash currently due to the need to be very on it with Cucurbits, we do hope to in the future though when we are in a position to give it the focus it needs. We did save one year and there were definite crosses!!! We save the easy seeds like Parsnips, Coriander, Corn and we do save watermelon and Trombone Courgettes as they do not cross with other varieties we grow here 💚✌️🌿
Keep up with the amazing work !
Thank you! Will do! Thanks for watching 💚✌️🌿
New here and wow I love it, gonna see whatelse I can find
Hi Cheryl, glad you enjoyed this vid - great to have you with us💚 Here’s our latest vlog we just put out and we have lots of other more specific vids too, let us know what you think 🙏✌️🌿 The Beauty Of Growing Food - OFF GRID Winter Prep UK
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@ it’s good to find people in the uk tbh x
Hi just found you and sub"ed. I am from South Africa, and we also make jam from the Cape Gooseberry, its yummy. love the vlog and will be going to watch your others.
Hi, great to have you with us in South Africa!!! 🙌 so glad you enjoyed the vid, we love cape gooseberry jam too … it’s my fav. Hope you enjoy our other vids too. Appreciate you watching 💚✌️🌿
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Great video. Would be interested in seeing some of the more the unusual plants to grow in the uk
Hi, next video out should be one you'll like - stay tuned 😊 Appreciate you watching & commenting 💚✌️🌿
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Hello Freedom Forest,so beautiful ❤❤
Hi, great to have you with us ✌️🌿
@freedomforestlife thanks 🙏
Hi! Really glad to have found your channel.🙂 I saw you've planted sweet potatoes succesfully in the UK and I would love to know what type/name are they? I would love to grow them, but thought it would be tough to grow them in our (UK) climate. Thanks if you can make the time to reply. Best wishes 🙂
Glad you found us 🙌 Check out this vid here for more on our SP growing journey & varieties. There is a also a Sweet Potato playlist on our channel that you may find useful 💚 Thanks for watching ✌️🌿 ruclips.net/video/_u68dgswM3Q/видео.html
I wouldn’t have thought spaghetti squash stored well! Amazing!! How often do you check for rotting produce? How do you choose which potatoes are “seed”? ❤
Hi Holly, If the skins go nice and hard without blemishes Spaghetti squash have store right through winter for us some years. Seed potatoes we select by size and cleanest to ensure they store through. Hope that helps - Appreciate you watching 💚✌️🌿
@ thanks so much, excellent content 💚
Would love to see the recipe for your firesider tonic. Great video.
Hi, Fire cider is such an AMAZING benefical brew... I just bottled this years today infact - just in time for grifting at Christmas. Here is a video recipe I made .... a very long time ago, I do intend to do a re-make video sometime soon as this one makes me cringe a little 😂 But the recipe is still the same and the info is all there - Let me know what you think? 💚✌️🌿 ruclips.net/video/Y8HZq1WR27Q/видео.html
I lovey your channel thank you. Keep it up :-)
🙏 We appreciate you watching - thanks for the lovely comment 💚✌️🌿
What a great channel - thank you.. my local sweet chestnut had lots of fruit cases but the chestnuts were all tiny/hollow. It’s quite a large tree - any idea what i can do to encourage fruiting, please?
Hi Anna, Glad your enjoying our channel. I'm wondering with the Sweet Chestnuts if its just some years they have a kind of off year ... a bit like Apples and other fruit trees do, We've had a least 3-4 solid years from our trees here, then this year had a lot of cases like you are describing too... either that or it could be the reduced sunlight that we had this year, not giving them chance to fully develop perhaps ... I'm feeling more the other though, following a conversation last year with someone further north experiencing what we are this year. My plan is to just monitor and see what happens next year 💚 Thanks for watching & for joining us on Patreon too 🙏✌️🌿
We’ve just moved to the vale of Evesham and are surrounded by neglected apple trees - looking forward to lots of windfalls next year as no-one seems to pick the fruit!
And I have a huge blank canvas of a garden to start planning.. so your channel is perfect!!