This is what our entire country should be doing, and teaching this in all schools, the fact that we have hunger is totally unnecessary when we have a planet waiting to provide us with abundance if we care for her she cares for us, you have an awesome channel! Thank you!!
Those photos from back in the day are like a little Treasure Trove and to see how far you guys have come is just absolutely amazing. The garden you and Tuck have created is beautiful
Thanks! Yeah they bring back a lot of memories, I wonder where all the years went. Between my old photos and my old journal entries its fun to take a stroll through memory lane sometimes, so I can help appreciate where I am now.
@jamesprigioni would love to see what you do with all this food. I would assume by your abundance that you would possibly have more than you could eat during the season.
I am so glad you showed your garden over a period of 10 years because I have to remind myself that it does take time and effort. I also keep reminding myself that you can’t buy food as good as you can grow. The work is well worth it.
Your parents have to be proud of you, what you were able to achieve in less than ten year, truly I just enjoy your enthusiasm seeing you all ways happy and proud of your hard labor, I wish more people in this country would do the same things as you are doing.
Thanks Levon your words mean a lot to me and Tuck. My dad is proud, and me and Tuck wish there were more out there gardening, but that’s why we love making videos to try and encourage others to get growing 😁🐕❤️
@@jamesprigioni Joe, you and Tuck are always encouraging, and your joy is infectious :). Thank you for this great channel! I have learned a lot from you :-)! God Bless you both :-)..
Dude, you are the happiest person on planet earth. Thanks for sharing your positive joy and your garden. I just started turning my front and backyard into a garden and I’m looking forward towards the process and what will happen.
Here I am also in Jersey looking at my yard, sad face:( I grew up in the Caribbean, Barbados and my grandad had the entire property planted with fruit, vegetables and herbs. He used the water from the kitchen sink to water most of it and made a complex aqueduct-like complex of stone streams to water the rest. It was beautiful and delicious. I do not have a lot of fruits or veggies at home but I do have a plot in our town's community garden that is flourishing. One day James I will do as you have done, no grass period! At home I have planted lots of native pollinators and have a blast watching the birds, the bees and the butterflies feed.
Native pollinators are where it’s at, thank you! Lots of edible native plants that feed everyone- currants/ribes, raspberries/rubus, blueberries, huckleberries, cranberries, aronia (which i love the taste of)1- list goes on and on!
@HrhSophia TheFirst I would love to see how your Grandad's stone streams worked! Is there any way or place where we can earn about building them? TYVM! God Bless us all
I am 65, just retired from Maine to Alabama. I had my first garden this year. You think your first one was small…. my first one is only 6ft radius. Hopefully it will quadruple next year and I’m planting my first trees asap. Thanks to my daughter for showing me your food Forest. You sparked my interest and now I’m going to start my own food forest.
Few questions… 1. What is the size of your garden? 2. That’s a lot of tomatoes and cucumbers. What do you do with them all? Great stuff and love watching you and Tuck. Our bassets are going to be part of our garden.
Really good seeing the old footage overlaid as a comparison. I wish I would've documented my yard better when it was just a grasshole. You can't beat that before-and-after effect. It's very uplifting to see how far things have come.
Food paradise! You said it! Bravo Man! I am on my way….One plant at a time. You are so inspiring. My dad passed 2 years ago, but before he died he had a yard that I grew up in , just like you. I am so so grateful for all the hard work he did. Just brilliant!
Tuck cracks me up, eating a cucumber. He is adorable. I planted three cherry trees this year and it seems so far from "forest" but i have a vision. Thanks for the encouragement, energy and inpiration.
I have a huge garden and it's just grass. I hate looking at all the grass!!! So watching you and other youtube gardeners has inspired me to get rid of the grass and go full permaculture. Ive already bought a polytunnel, planted 2 apple trees, 3 blackcurrant bushes, loganberries, tayberries, raspberries, gooseberries, and all kinds of vegetables in my new raised beds!! I have the most beautiful spaghetti squash thriving and producing so much food!
This garden has inspired me. Continue to add to the garden. It's peaceful. The work is worth the fresh food fruits and vegetables and having a food paradise.
James, you and Tuck are such an inspiration to all gardeners everywhere. I have been gardening for many years, and I am still trying new foods in the garden because of you and Tuck. ❤️❤️❤️
James, Chris from the Isle of Wight UK. I have been greatly inspired by your gardening prowess. My wife Jenny and I moved to the house and garden we are in now last year and with 250 feet of garden and me reaching 70 I needed some guidance. You have been my inspiration and mentor as I’ve adopted many of your ideas. The best being the use of wood chips as a base. I had to clear a mountain of thumb nail size stones which was apparently used as a labor saving idea by the last occupants. Now the food forest is starting to take shape and I Thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing your wonderful ideas.
Thank y’all for this incredible video! There are so many gardening videos online and so many new gardeners that it’s good to have videos like these showing that nothing happens overnight and it didn’t always look like this. I find myself getting discouraged quite often as well. It’s easy to fall into the trap of negative self talk. Noticing what’s wrong is so much easier than giving credit for what’s right. Telling yourself you don’t know what you’re doing, it’s too hard, there is too much to learn, or the garden is not as good as everyone else’s and it’s time to just quit is a struggle. It’s easy to forget how our concept of time and how our environment’s concept of time are two opposing forces. The time that nature takes is much longer than ours. I heard somewhere that the 3rd year is really when there’s a noticeable shift in the garden. After taking time to develop the soil and attract beneficial insects-which may not have been around in any big numbers to begin with-the microclimate established in the garden is really beginning to noticeably balance itself out around that time. So again, thank you James and thank you Tuck! Keep growing on!!
This is the MOST inspirational video ... i just started a garden and have a long way to go. Love the before and after pictures which proves it can be done Thanks 😀😀😀
Love your garden, love your channel. I consider you my neighbor since I was born and raised in Philadelphia. I now live farther north in Pennsylvania and love growing food. My parents had apple, pear and peach trees, grapes and berries. In addition my dad created the most beautiful vegetable garden. I remember the ropes he braided with harvested garlic and onions. He would hang them on the rustic wood shed. I now have the pleasure of growing vegetables in the garden that my father worked foe 40 years before my son and I started. I love gardening and am so glade that so many people started growing their own food during the pandemic. One very good thing that came from it. I wish you all happy growing and love Tuck! ❤️
Hey James! My determinant heirloom tomato plants have reached 6’ tall and 5’ wide full of fruit due to all the info I’ve got from your videos!! You are awesome!
This has grown so much from the time it started. It is absolutely gorgeous. I also love "the boss". Love his being in the videos. You are a true inspiration to all of us and thank you for taking the time to make the videos for us. I found your channel by accident over a year ago and so glad I did. Much love to you and Tuck from Locust, North Carolina.
Amazing what you and Tuck have done with the garden. Astounding the amount of other people (and pups) you have inspired to do the same. Keep it up as long as you can you two.
Let's Gooo Danielle! Know you know I wasn't kidding about how good they are, such a delicious fresh snack. If you have space I hope you planted some sun gold cherry tomatoes or some supersweet 100's those ones are candy flavored fruits HAHAH
Thank you for sharing what was and what can be! Wish I could give this more than one like! Tuck in 2012 peeking out of the patch of clover is priceless. What an amazing journey you've had together ❤🌻.
Let’s growwwwww!!! Summer 2022!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ tuck the boss and 🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄 James the king. Thanks for being such an inspiration!!!! God bless you 🙌
This makes me so happy @James Prigioni! You inspired me to change my attitude towards my garden which I am slowly turning into our own food forest! Thanks for all you and Tuck do and for your amazing camera guy! ❤️ from Kristy in Missouri zone 6b 😃🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Your comment about Tuck not wanting to hire a cat just cracked us up! My partner Mike absolutely loves your videos. He discovered your channel this past winter and has gotten many great ideas from you. Keep up the good work!!
You certainly inspired me to get mine growing in Australia. I have specialised in rare fruits and herbs but have common ones too. Juniper berries, creeping thornless raspberries, cranberries, bill berry, gumbi gumbi, ginkgo and chaste tree berry are among the rare.
James, thank you for sharing your gardening journey!! Totally understand your enthusiasm & energy as your garden grows into a backyard paradise!! KUDOS to you & Tuck !! 👩🦲🐕🍇🍅🥬🥒🥕🐝🐞🦋
I don't know where you got your knowledge on gardening but wow what a beautiful garden I've probably watched at least 15 of your videos and I enjoy them very much ( give tuck a treat for doing a great job)😊
I really appreciate this. I'm starting again after being sick for four years, and although it's a tiny patch now, I'll be adding on every year until all 1/3 acre is covered with food. Thank you!
James, I love this videos! Please tell me, how do you preserve all this wonderful food? Canning, drying, freezing? I bet your neighbors are blessed with some. ❤️💕💓💞💚🧡 To you and the little boss. From Martinsburg WV.
watched all your videos, its good to see the growth you made as a gardiner! thanks for inspiring and being so positive! i watch your videos with my nine year old daughter, shes a big fan of you and tuck!!!
Thanks! you words mean a lot to me and Tuck. That's awesome, hopefully we can subtly get her addicted to gardening so she can be growing you fresh veggies for the remainder of your life, sounds like a decent food insurance policy to me 🤣
Wow, this is so inspiring. I'm trying to convert my backyard into a food forest. It's a lot of hard work, cutting back all the overgrown hedges and vines, but I'm trying to do a bit every few days (takes a few days to recover in between). Definitely need to be fit and healthy to start a food forest garden from scratch, but hope to get there, eventually!
I'm very impressed. I am year one. Easy to be discouraged by pests, and yellow leaves and a tree that is shading and sucking away the moisture. But when I see your results, I will push on!
I started this journey myself a month ago, started by getting wooden pallets, making little planters and checking out videos about replanting store bought stuff. My arms are starting to beef up from trying to build things with only a hammer, handfull of nails and a crowbar. I can tell ya though, the sweat you're putting in will have beautiful results! Good luck!
That's great! Happy planting, it's such a joy. I'm on the same conversion journey. Don't forget, healing your gut microbiome & building muscle is just as important for health as it is to build a healthy food forest soil!! 💪❤️
I can't remember ever seeing a more amazing garden James. Thanks for sharing and please give Tuck a bark and a sniff from Ginger and Penny our two bosses. Great stuff James.
Gives me hope as we continue transforming our yard into a food scape. Definitely made a bunch of mistakes but we’re making adjustments. Between James’ enthusiasm and Gardner Scott’s knowledge of our unique CO challenges, I think we’re going to start seeing some good production next summer. Side note- If anyone in the TR area fishes, hit me up. I’ll be in the Ortley surf and on the docks behind Stewart’s on 35 in a just a couple weeks.
What a beautiful transformation of your yard to now your Food Forest!! It show your drive and passion for growing. I'm impressed by what you've done in 10 years. Congratulations!! The garden brings such goodness into our lives. I wish more folks would try it. Have a great day. Thanks gir for sharing. ❤❤ 4 Tuck
Absolutely gorgeous food forest. A lot of hard work I can tell but definitely worth it. Super Sweet 100s are my favorite cherry tomato, but will try Sungold next year
It so incredible how much you have achieved in ten years, I loved watching this video tour, I think you had a nice breakfast as you made the video, I assume you are able to sell your produce , it’s so abundant , I love how Tuck is quality control testing the cucumbers, you are an amazing team thanks for sharing .
Our yard is just exactly like your yard 10years ago. We have more fruit trees at the fruit orchard which is a bi far from our house and we’re planning to turn it into food forest in the near future. Thanks for sharing you truly inspired us.
Really cool, and teaches us how to use what we have. Even in a suburban / urban setting. Takes work, learning, and drive, but that's no different than anything else. Nice job.
What you've done there is awesome! In talking about your produce, you say such positive things about all of them. Reminded me of an old Chinese saying I heard - "The best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow'. Your shadow, and of course, Tuck's, is all over... That's why you have such a productive food forest - great fertilizer.
💚 What a huge difference in your yard-to-food forest in 10 years! I commend you for your efforts 👌. Yes, we should all be doing something like this-what a difference it would make on our Planet Earth 🌏 💚
I love gardening and I miss it a great deal. The squirrel ray up our pecans. We have about 4 trees. When I was younger and living at home, I grew squash tomatoes etc but the squirrels eat everything now. My parents don’t even bother anymore.
I cant tell you how much I love growing fruit trees the way you showed everyone. Its just so satisfying and fun! I'm very happy that you started this channel to inspire more people like me! Much love from Washington states!
Best channel on youtube! Discovering James Prigioni is possibly the greatest resources a backyard gardener can discover, James and Tuck are an imperative resource for new/amateur/blossoming gardeners for so many different valuable ideas it's crazy! I have evolved from a container gardener to building my own raised beds (from pallets) thanks to James and his extreme knowledge and enthusiasm. This channel is a true treasure, keep up the great work kind sir!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ for tuck of course! Thank you for all your amazing work, you area true inspiration!
Ha! I immediately thought of the movie James and The Giant Peach when you harvested that peach lol. The garden has come a long way after 10 years, huh? Good job, James!
I've been following your channel for a while now. I think this video does a great job of showing the progress made in your food forest. Thanks for sharing this
Just amazing what you've created in your backyard! Just love love love and look forward to watching you (& Tuck) go through your food forest, showing your viewers the incredible amount of fruits and vegetables you are growing. And sharing what the area looked like before and after is so inspiring. 👍😊❤️❤️❤️
I'm so impressed I'm speechless. I just bought a house because it had a huge backyard with full south exposure and no shade. I'll see you in ten years.
I have a lot of land that I have turned into a garden rather than a yard I do have a small area of grass to sit in and enjoy usually going over garden stuff. But I enjoy having my massive gardening area
I completely agree that this is what we should be doing as a nation. Here in my local community, we've decided not to mow our lawns or use Roundup or other pesticides. Instead, we're letting our lawns grow. So many edible weeds and plants you can grow in your own backyards. We're also letting the lawns grow in a couple of abandoned houses, to supplement our neighborhood stockpile and donate the surplus to local food banks and church pantries. Thank you so much for caring and for sharing the previously unseen footage.
Dude, I have to say I think your channel is hands down better than all of the privileged “homesteader” channels on RUclips. What you do is achievable by a much larger segment of the population. Your backyard multiplied would be revolutionary. Keep up the great work.
I’ve been watching you guys for like the last 3-4 years and I am ALWAYS impressed (by what you share and teach OF COURSE) by the camera person!!! These pans are SOOO SMOOTH and the transitions are so seamless. The video production is A+👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
You've been an incredible inspiration to me James. I began my vegie and fruit garden by starting to revive my mothers old garden last year. My daughter was born in April smack in the middle of the season so it made it difficult to really care for it all like I wanted to. But this spring I'm going at it again with my daughter (now 11 months old) keeping me company while I work. Thank you for inspiring me. It's such a joy to harvest and give our bodies what we nurtured and cared for ourselves!!!
This is amazing!! This is my second year gardening and I feel in love with it and doubled my garden size from last year!! Learned how to can and everything. Ur story and the garden progression is encouraging!! There really isn’t anything better than growing your own food you can taste the love!! Thank you for all your help and insight
@James…enjoying getting acquainted with your channel. Your excitement is infectious!! One quick question: when you first laid down wood chips and planted something in them, did you put down cardboard first or just super thick chips? I’m trying both ways in my yard. Thanks again!!
It is people like you that inspired me to start growing my own food in my small backyard. I started this year and growing in grow bags and planters but have over 25 varieties of tomatoes, few pepper varieties, and will be planting greens in fall. Thank so much!
I remember when you cut that Bradford pear. I was shocked! Ha! How things have changed - your garden, my attitude toward knowing what has to be done and doing it! Can you talk a little about what you do with your harvests?
Wow, I feel like a turtle compared to how you have progressed. I have been working in my garden for about ten years now and I didn't start my fruit trees until about five years ago. This year I lost three trees to peach leaf curl and my third Bing cherry. Yes, Bing cherries are suppose to be able to grow in Zone 7, but they won't grow in my back year. I guess they must hate my clay, hard , wet soil. Oh well, out with the dead trees and in with more pears. I finally have three apple trees that can deal with the cedar rust in my area. It has been a slow upward trip, but even with these problems and the Bermuda grass in my yard, I'm not giving up!! God bless y'all and keep growing!
I would appreciate more info on how you got from lawn to food forest. Did you just put down wood chips? No compost or other amendments? What do you do annually now for the soil? Thanks. Your harvests are amazing.
I love your garden. It's amazing ❤️😍😍. I also wish to grow one day. Your garden is my dream too. I have seen your channel three days ago. I have seen lots of videos. I have seen how much you love your plants, harvest like a mother. Have a wonderful day ❤️❤️❤️.
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This is what our entire country should be doing, and teaching this in all schools, the fact that we have hunger is totally unnecessary when we have a planet waiting to provide us with abundance if we care for her she cares for us, you have an awesome channel! Thank you!!
Exactly the city could be planting fruit trees in the parks for the homeless
yes...we should ditch the big lawns for food plants....
Yep! Community Gardens are great!
We’ll said!
@@leelaural Sure would be a lot less mowing and pollution.
Those photos from back in the day are like a little Treasure Trove and to see how far you guys have come is just absolutely amazing. The garden you and Tuck have created is beautiful
Thanks! Yeah they bring back a lot of memories, I wonder where all the years went. Between my old photos and my old journal entries its fun to take a stroll through memory lane sometimes, so I can help appreciate where I am now.
Keep video s of my little garden at Bonnie s kitchen garden
@jamesprigioni would love to see what you do with all this food. I would assume by your abundance that you would possibly have more than you could eat during the season.
I am so glad you showed your garden over a period of 10 years because I have to remind myself that it does take time and effort. I also keep reminding myself that you can’t buy food as good as you can grow. The work is well worth it.
Your parents have to be proud of you, what you were able to achieve in less than ten year, truly I just enjoy your enthusiasm seeing you all ways happy and proud of your hard labor, I wish more people in this country would do the same things as you are doing.
Thanks Levon your words mean a lot to me and Tuck. My dad is proud, and me and Tuck wish there were more out there gardening, but that’s why we love making videos to try and encourage others to get growing 😁🐕❤️
@@jamesprigioni Joe, you and Tuck are always encouraging, and your joy is infectious :). Thank you for this great channel!
I have learned a lot from you :-)! God Bless you both :-)..
Dude, you are the happiest person on planet earth. Thanks for sharing your positive joy and your garden. I just started turning my front and backyard into a garden and I’m looking forward towards the process and what will happen.
Here I am also in Jersey looking at my yard, sad face:( I grew up in the Caribbean, Barbados and my grandad had the entire property planted with fruit, vegetables and herbs. He used the water from the kitchen sink to water most of it and made a complex aqueduct-like complex of stone streams to water the rest. It was beautiful and delicious. I do not have a lot of fruits or veggies at home but I do have a plot in our town's community garden that is flourishing. One day James I will do as you have done, no grass period! At home I have planted lots of native pollinators and have a blast watching the birds, the bees and the butterflies feed.
You can do what I am doing, time and adding a little here and there makes a big difference
Your Grandfather's watering system and his garden sounds incredible. Do you share pictures anywhere?
THATS SO COOL!
Native pollinators are where it’s at, thank you! Lots of edible native plants that feed everyone- currants/ribes, raspberries/rubus, blueberries, huckleberries, cranberries, aronia (which i love the taste of)1- list goes on and on!
@HrhSophia TheFirst I would love to see how your Grandad's stone streams worked! Is there any way or place where we can earn about building them? TYVM!
God Bless us all
I am 65, just retired from Maine to Alabama. I had my first garden this year. You think your first one was small…. my first one is only 6ft radius. Hopefully it will quadruple next year and I’m planting my first trees asap. Thanks to my daughter for showing me your food Forest. You sparked my interest and now I’m going to start my own food forest.
Few questions…
1. What is the size of your garden?
2. That’s a lot of tomatoes and cucumbers. What do you do with them all?
Great stuff and love watching you and Tuck. Our bassets are going to be part of our garden.
I just noticed that you finally hit 1 million followers! Congratulations!
Really good seeing the old footage overlaid as a comparison. I wish I would've documented my yard better when it was just a grasshole. You can't beat that before-and-after effect. It's very uplifting to see how far things have come.
Food paradise! You said it! Bravo Man! I am on my way….One plant at a time. You are so inspiring. My dad passed 2 years ago, but before he died he had a yard that I grew up in , just like you. I am so so grateful for all the hard work he did. Just brilliant!
James, you being excited gets me excited! Thank you for being such a wonderful guide and inspiration for us.
Since 2018, been building my homestead food forrest. Thanks for the continued inspiration. Thanks.
Tuck cracks me up, eating a cucumber. He is adorable. I planted three cherry trees this year and it seems so far from "forest" but i have a vision. Thanks for the encouragement, energy and inpiration.
I have a huge garden and it's just grass. I hate looking at all the grass!!! So watching you and other youtube gardeners has inspired me to get rid of the grass and go full permaculture. Ive already bought a polytunnel, planted 2 apple trees, 3 blackcurrant bushes, loganberries, tayberries, raspberries, gooseberries, and all kinds of vegetables in my new raised beds!! I have the most beautiful spaghetti squash thriving and producing so much food!
Tuck doesn’t feel like hiring a cat as an employee just yet!! I love the respect shown to the little boss. What a team!
This garden has inspired me. Continue to add to the garden. It's peaceful. The work is worth the fresh food fruits and vegetables and having a food paradise.
And yes, James and Tuck's garden is amazing and inspiring.
You and Tuck are a blessing! So inspirational!!
James, you and Tuck are such an inspiration to all gardeners everywhere. I have been gardening for many years, and I am still trying new foods in the garden because of you and Tuck. ❤️❤️❤️
Amen
James, Chris from the Isle of Wight UK. I have been greatly inspired by your gardening prowess. My wife Jenny and I moved to the house and garden we are in now last year and with 250 feet of garden and me reaching 70 I needed some guidance. You have been my inspiration and mentor as I’ve adopted many of your ideas. The best being the use of wood chips as a base. I had to clear a mountain of thumb nail size stones which was apparently used as a labor saving idea by the last occupants. Now the food forest is starting to take shape and I Thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing your wonderful ideas.
This is honestly insane. I can see how much time, love and effort you put into your garden. Truly inspiring.
Thank y’all for this incredible video! There are so many gardening videos online and so many new gardeners that it’s good to have videos like these showing that nothing happens overnight and it didn’t always look like this. I find myself getting discouraged quite often as well.
It’s easy to fall into the trap of negative self talk. Noticing what’s wrong is so much easier than giving credit for what’s right. Telling yourself you don’t know what you’re doing, it’s too hard, there is too much to learn, or the garden is not as good as everyone else’s and it’s time to just quit is a struggle. It’s easy to forget how our concept of time and how our environment’s concept of time are two opposing forces. The time that nature takes is much longer than ours.
I heard somewhere that the 3rd year is really when there’s a noticeable shift in the garden. After taking time to develop the soil and attract beneficial insects-which may not have been around in any big numbers to begin with-the microclimate established in the garden is really beginning to noticeably balance itself out around that time.
So again, thank you James and thank you Tuck! Keep growing on!!
Hello how are you doing?
This is the MOST inspirational video ... i just started a garden and have a long way to go. Love the before and after pictures which proves it can be done Thanks 😀😀😀
I love seeing how your food forest progressed. You have the best food forest ever. Thank you.
Love your garden, love your channel. I consider you my neighbor since I was born and raised in Philadelphia. I now live farther north in Pennsylvania and love growing food. My parents had apple, pear and peach trees, grapes and berries. In addition my dad created the most beautiful vegetable garden. I remember the ropes he braided with harvested garlic and onions. He would hang them on the rustic wood shed. I now have the pleasure of growing vegetables in the garden that my father worked foe 40 years before my son and I started. I love gardening and am so glade that so many people started growing their own food during the pandemic. One very good thing that came from it. I wish you all happy growing and love Tuck! ❤️
Hey James! My determinant heirloom tomato plants have reached 6’ tall and 5’ wide full of fruit due to all the info I’ve got from your videos!! You are awesome!
Thank you for the inspiration! Whenever I feel uninspired in my garden, I watch your videos. Love seeing Tuck grow in the garden as well 🧡
This has grown so much from the time it started. It is absolutely gorgeous. I also love "the boss". Love his being in the videos. You are a true inspiration to all of us and thank you for taking the time to make the videos for us. I found your channel by accident over a year ago and so glad I did. Much love to you and Tuck from Locust, North Carolina.
I’m from NC also! Wake Forest! 👍🏻
@@southerncharmed4118 We're neighbors. Nice to meet you!!! I would go to the Lawrence Joel coliseum every year for conventions.
Amazing what you and Tuck have done with the garden. Astounding the amount of other people (and pups) you have inspired to do the same. Keep it up as long as you can you two.
I just harvested my first dragons tongue beans in my first ever garden. Thanks for the recommendation and congrats on 10 years!
Let's Gooo Danielle! Know you know I wasn't kidding about how good they are, such a delicious fresh snack. If you have space I hope you planted some sun gold cherry tomatoes or some supersweet 100's those ones are candy flavored fruits HAHAH
Thank you for sharing what was and what can be! Wish I could give this more than one like!
Tuck in 2012 peeking out of the patch of clover is priceless.
What an amazing journey you've had together ❤🌻.
Let’s growwwwww!!! Summer 2022!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ tuck the boss and 🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄 James the king. Thanks for being such an inspiration!!!! God bless you 🙌
Truly inspiring James! This really gives hope to so many aspirational gardeners. Thanks for sharing your journey and knowledge with us all!
Started eating your videos in the first year! So happy what this channel has become!
This makes me so happy @James Prigioni! You inspired me to change my attitude towards my garden which I am slowly turning into our own food forest! Thanks for all you and Tuck do and for your amazing camera guy! ❤️ from Kristy in Missouri zone 6b 😃🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Blessings to all!
Your comment about Tuck not wanting to hire a cat just cracked us up! My partner Mike absolutely loves your videos. He discovered your channel this past winter and has gotten many great ideas from you. Keep up the good work!!
You certainly inspired me to get mine growing in Australia. I have specialised in rare fruits and herbs but have common ones too. Juniper berries, creeping thornless raspberries, cranberries, bill berry, gumbi gumbi, ginkgo and chaste tree berry are among the rare.
James, thank you for sharing your gardening journey!! Totally understand your enthusiasm & energy as your garden grows into a backyard paradise!! KUDOS to you & Tuck !! 👩🦲🐕🍇🍅🥬🥒🥕🐝🐞🦋
Isn't his tomato alley strut hilarious? He just makes people happy to watch him n Tuck.
You and Tucker make me happy. I wish i live in your neighborhood.
I don't know where you got your knowledge on gardening but wow what a beautiful garden I've probably watched at least 15 of your videos and I enjoy them very much ( give tuck a treat for doing a great job)😊
I really appreciate this. I'm starting again after being sick for four years, and although it's a tiny patch now, I'll be adding on every year until all 1/3 acre is covered with food. Thank you!
James, I love this videos! Please tell me, how do you preserve all this wonderful food? Canning, drying, freezing? I bet your neighbors are blessed with some. ❤️💕💓💞💚🧡 To you and the little boss. From Martinsburg WV.
This video is so inspiring James! Love seeing what you and Tucker have built and thank you for showing us what we can achieve also! 🙌🏻🍅🍓
Congratulations on 1000000 subscribers! I have been watching you and Tuck since you started
Thanks Sydney!! That means a lot to me and the little boss 🐕😁❤️
@@jamesprigioni 🙌😳😳😳
watched all your videos, its good to see the growth you made as a gardiner! thanks for inspiring and being so positive! i watch your videos with my nine year old daughter, shes a big fan of you and tuck!!!
Thanks! you words mean a lot to me and Tuck. That's awesome, hopefully we can subtly get her addicted to gardening so she can be growing you fresh veggies for the remainder of your life, sounds like a decent food insurance policy to me 🤣
Amazing James , a backyard paradise. Thank you for showing us. 💜👍
I feel your passion for growing food, keep up the positive energy my brother.
This video put a smile on my face. I'm so happy for the squirrels. Who doesn't love fresh hazelnuts?
This was definitely encouraging to me. All my peaches disappeared and the deer have wrecked havoc on everything this year.
Wow, this is so inspiring. I'm trying to convert my backyard into a food forest. It's a lot of hard work, cutting back all the overgrown hedges and vines, but I'm trying to do a bit every few days (takes a few days to recover in between). Definitely need to be fit and healthy to start a food forest garden from scratch, but hope to get there, eventually!
I'm very impressed. I am year one. Easy to be discouraged by pests, and yellow leaves and a tree that is shading and sucking away the moisture. But when I see your results, I will push on!
I started this journey myself a month ago, started by getting wooden pallets, making little planters and checking out videos about replanting store bought stuff. My arms are starting to beef up from trying to build things with only a hammer, handfull of nails and a crowbar.
I can tell ya though, the sweat you're putting in will have beautiful results! Good luck!
That's great! Happy planting, it's such a joy. I'm on the same conversion journey. Don't forget, healing your gut microbiome & building muscle is just as important for health as it is to build a healthy food forest soil!! 💪❤️
I can't remember ever seeing a more amazing garden James. Thanks for sharing and please give Tuck a bark and a sniff from Ginger and Penny our two bosses. Great stuff James.
Gives me hope as we continue transforming our yard into a food scape. Definitely made a bunch of mistakes but we’re making adjustments.
Between James’ enthusiasm and Gardner Scott’s knowledge of our unique CO challenges, I think we’re going to start seeing some good production next summer.
Side note- If anyone in the TR area fishes, hit me up. I’ll be in the Ortley surf and on the docks behind Stewart’s on 35 in a just a couple weeks.
What a beautiful transformation of your yard to now your Food Forest!!
It show your drive and passion for growing. I'm impressed by what you've done in 10 years. Congratulations!! The garden brings such goodness into our lives. I wish more folks would try it. Have a great day. Thanks gir for sharing. ❤❤ 4 Tuck
Absolutely gorgeous food forest. A lot of hard work I can tell but definitely worth it. Super Sweet 100s are my favorite cherry tomato, but will try Sungold next year
You inspired me to start my own rooftop garden, it's an amazing feeling when you simply pick a fruit or vegetable that you grew yourself..
It's amazing what you can grow in a small space.
James, I just want you to know that you are a constant inspiration for my family and I. Thank you for being you!
It so incredible how much you have achieved in ten years, I loved watching this video tour, I think you had a nice breakfast as you made the video, I assume you are able to sell your produce , it’s so abundant , I love how Tuck is quality control testing the cucumbers, you are an amazing team thanks for sharing .
Our yard is just exactly like your yard 10years ago. We have more fruit trees at the fruit orchard which is a bi far from our house and we’re planning to turn it into food forest in the near future. Thanks for sharing you truly inspired us.
My mouth was literally watering waiting for you to take a bite of that peach!!
Really cool, and teaches us how to use what we have. Even in a suburban / urban setting. Takes work, learning, and drive, but that's no different than anything else.
Nice job.
Your thumb is so green James! Incredible! Beautiful garden! Love your videos, very inspiring 👏
👋Hello from Haddon Heights,NJ
Hello 👋 how are you doing?
Excellent posts, thanks for sharing!
I wish I could have a garden like yours!
What you've done there is awesome! In talking about your produce, you say such positive things about all of them. Reminded me of an old Chinese saying I heard - "The best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow'. Your shadow, and of course, Tuck's, is all over... That's why you have such a productive food forest - great fertilizer.
I love that Nana! Wise words for sure. Thanks for the support ❤️
💚 What a huge difference in your yard-to-food forest in 10 years! I commend you for your efforts 👌. Yes, we should all be doing something like this-what a difference it would make on our Planet Earth 🌏 💚
This is such a pleasure to watch! 19min walking around an incredible paradise of abundance and munching goodness! Love it!
IMPRESSIVE JAMES. I AM EQUALLY TRYING TO TURN MY BACKYARD INTO A MINI FARM. THANK YOU. I AM IMPRESSED AND PUMPED UP TO CONTINUE.
I love gardening and I miss it a great deal. The squirrel ray up our pecans. We have about 4 trees. When I was younger and living at home, I grew squash tomatoes etc but the squirrels eat everything now. My parents don’t even bother anymore.
I cant tell you how much I love growing fruit trees the way you showed everyone. Its just so satisfying and fun! I'm very happy that you started this channel to inspire more people like me! Much love from Washington states!
You’re incredible! You inspired me to grow a lemon tree from seed. It’s in a pot because we get freezes in north Texas. Hope it makes lemons next year
Best channel on youtube! Discovering James Prigioni is possibly the greatest resources a backyard gardener can discover, James and Tuck are an imperative resource for new/amateur/blossoming gardeners for so many different valuable ideas it's crazy! I have evolved from a container gardener to building my own raised beds (from pallets) thanks to James and his extreme knowledge and enthusiasm. This channel is a true treasure, keep up the great work kind sir!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ for tuck of course! Thank you for all your amazing work, you area true inspiration!
Been watching your channel for 2 yrs. I’ve learned so much from you. Thanks James 👍
Ha! I immediately thought of the movie James and The Giant Peach when you harvested that peach lol. The garden has come a long way after 10 years, huh? Good job, James!
I've been following your channel for a while now. I think this video does a great job of showing the progress made in your food forest. Thanks for sharing this
Thanks Maxwell, and thanks for the continued support and encouragement 🐕😁❤️
Just amazing what you've created in your backyard! Just love love love and look forward to watching you (& Tuck) go through your food forest, showing your viewers the incredible amount of fruits and vegetables you are growing. And sharing what the area looked like before and after is so inspiring. 👍😊❤️❤️❤️
I'm so impressed I'm speechless. I just bought a house because it had a huge backyard with full south exposure and no shade. I'll see you in ten years.
I have a lot of land that I have turned into a garden rather than a yard I do have a small area of grass to sit in and enjoy usually going over garden stuff. But I enjoy having my massive gardening area
love watching your garden tours - so inspiring. The overlay of historical photos and footage - excellent.
Congrats on 10 years and one million subscribers! What a great resource you and your channel are!
I enjoyed watching 10 years later from normal backyard to permaculture very nice ✨✨💚♥️♥️👌
You have done an amazing job. It is impressive.
Thank you for showing this. I really enjoyed it.
Glad to hear that Aribella, thanks for the kind words 🐕😁❤️
@@Godwinpounds4333 NO!
Love when you eat your harvest. Makes it feel more real.
I completely agree that this is what we should be doing as a nation. Here in my local community, we've decided not to mow our lawns or use Roundup or other pesticides. Instead, we're letting our lawns grow. So many edible weeds and plants you can grow in your own backyards. We're also letting the lawns grow in a couple of abandoned houses, to supplement our neighborhood stockpile and donate the surplus to local food banks and church pantries. Thank you so much for caring and for sharing the previously unseen footage.
Dude, I have to say I think your channel is hands down better than all of the privileged “homesteader” channels on RUclips. What you do is achievable by a much larger segment of the population. Your backyard multiplied would be revolutionary. Keep up the great work.
that’s crazy in just ten years you have such a huge patch of food. well done sir well done!!!
I’ve been watching you guys for like the last 3-4 years and I am ALWAYS impressed (by what you share and teach OF COURSE) by the camera person!!! These pans are SOOO SMOOTH and the transitions are so seamless. The video production is A+👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
You've been an incredible inspiration to me James.
I began my vegie and fruit garden by starting to revive my mothers old garden last year.
My daughter was born in April smack in the middle of the season so it made it difficult to really care for it all like I wanted to. But this spring I'm going at it again with my daughter (now 11 months old) keeping me company while I work.
Thank you for inspiring me. It's such a joy to harvest and give our bodies what we nurtured and cared for ourselves!!!
This is amazing!! This is my second year gardening and I feel in love with it and doubled my garden size from last year!! Learned how to can and everything. Ur story and the garden progression is encouraging!! There really isn’t anything better than growing your own food you can taste the love!! Thank you for all your help and insight
@James…enjoying getting acquainted with your channel. Your excitement is infectious!! One quick question: when you first laid down wood chips and planted something in them, did you put down cardboard first or just super thick chips? I’m trying both ways in my yard. Thanks again!!
The grapes are amazing
Hello 👋 how are you doing?
It is people like you that inspired me to start growing my own food in my small backyard. I started this year and growing in grow bags and planters but have over 25 varieties of tomatoes, few pepper varieties, and will be planting greens in fall. Thank so much!
10 years of gardening really paid off!!!!!!☺️☺️😲😀😆
Yes it did, and the knowledge and experience makes it so I can grow more every year, my own journals are some of my favorite garden advice
I remember when you cut that Bradford pear. I was shocked! Ha! How things have changed - your garden, my attitude toward knowing what has to be done and doing it! Can you talk a little about what you do with your harvests?
Wow, I feel like a turtle compared to how you have progressed. I have been working in my garden for about ten years now and I didn't start my fruit trees until about five years ago. This year I lost three trees to peach leaf curl and my third Bing cherry. Yes, Bing cherries are suppose to be able to grow in Zone 7, but they won't grow in my back year. I guess they must hate my clay, hard , wet soil. Oh well, out with the dead trees and in with more pears. I finally have three apple trees that can deal with the cedar rust in my area. It has been a slow upward trip, but even with these problems and the Bermuda grass in my yard, I'm not giving up!! God bless y'all and keep growing!
I would appreciate more info on how you got from lawn to food forest. Did you just put down wood chips? No compost or other amendments? What do you do annually now for the soil? Thanks. Your harvests are amazing.
I love your garden. It's amazing ❤️😍😍. I also wish to grow one day. Your garden is my dream too. I have seen your channel three days ago. I have seen lots of videos. I have seen how much you love your plants, harvest like a mother. Have a wonderful day ❤️❤️❤️.