I’m not in my forever home but I’m currently in the process of creating a food forest of sorts. It’s going to mostly be structured with raised beds and container gardening but I’m going to use up as much of my space as possible to grow a huge variety of food year round
Oooh my goodness, Im a Uni student in South Africa and my whole being longs to have my own garden with a food forrest. The amount of times Ive watched Geoff Lawson or Gotche videos and literally cried. Glad to hear its not just me!
People don't even know how these food forests help the environment. This is so important guys if you have space just plant! Plant mint, plant kale, plant trees just whatever. Pls plant! This is so important for the future.
I love the kiss to the first mango! I waited 8 years to get persimmons on trees from seed. It was elation picking 541 persimmons several years later. Last year we picked our first and only pawpaw. It was a holy moment. May God’s glory fill the earth. Thanks for sharing your family garden experience!
I can't put into words how amazing I find u guys. This is beyond words. In such a short time to accomplish this and with such difficult terrain. I am in awe. God bless you all and I pray I can convince my husband to go on a similar journey with me by using you as our inspiration. Thanks a million for sharing.
This is the best way to live in this world. I grow all my veges and fruits in my small back yard. Persimmon, Avocado, Grapes, berries, Pomegranate, Black palms, sugar palms. lemon, mandarins.5 kinds of Apples, 4 guavas ,9kinds of bananas. All of them now give fruits.
I live in urban environment, space is very less, I've recently planted beans and corn in a small space and now they're all growing, it's exiting to watch them grow. Hoping to one day migrate to my village and do it in a bigger scale
It’s amazing what can be done on even a small piece of property. We did the same thing and turned our average sized back yard into a food garden. We grow so much that we have easily fed our family, extended family, and give to friends and neighbors constantly! The more we give the more his provides and our plants and trees absolutely thrive!
I just had to comment on how beautiful this looks! Wondering if you realize how truly blessed your family is! Hard work for the body, and look at the outcome, hard work for the soul, and the spirit of God will dwell in your heart. Love, always love! I pray that your neighbors and everyone will be inspired by the beauty and bounty God has blessed you with! Lots of love 💘 from a northern grandmother .
A huge blessing of the past two years is it has brought to our consciousness what brings us lasting happiness. These home-grown foods are priceless, to the stomach and the soul.
Absolutely love this! I love too that it started as creating a small lawned area for the kids yet they’ll likely interact more with the rest of what you’re creating as they grow ❤️ Plus teaching them so many lessons with growing your own food
This video feels like a glimpse into our own potential future; filled with connection to the earth and to one another. Beauty, nature, nurturing, respect, gratitude. I like this world. This world will sustain us in health and happiness. Let's keep manifesting this world until it's a reality...
Aside from creating a hillside garden of Eden of fruit trees, passion vines, grapes, garden veggies..what a wonderful environment for your children!! I was raised by an absentee military father, and a depressed introverted mom, but both loved some form of gardening and that is some of my best childhood memories. You are giving this gift to your children, how wonderful
This is one of the best gardening videos that's super motivating and encouraging that nothing is impossible, it has put an positive view of I can do anything irregardless of landscape or soil. I started gardening since young age and that's the one thing I have never gave up and I will continue until I reach more than my imagination and vision into reality 💯
Kodus for the couple who decided to do this! Gives their children the chance to see a proper fruit tree and and appreciation for letting them walk on bare feet as well!!! Going back to where we're before all those big supermarket were built!!!!
“The remedy in the dirt” I love that line I sure did and God led me to start growing my own in my little container garden. After you talk about our God I had to subscribe lol Bless you and the family
true blessing is not the garden or the house. its a spousal bond you and your husband have. To work together with joy and love your kids. That is real blessing that God has bestowed
What an awesome video, and such an inspiring story! Everyone should be doing this with their families, it teaches the next generation that hard work pays off more than just cars or other unimportant material possessions. The most important things in this world are not what most people claim. Great job!
Amazing. I started gardening too during the lockdown except, I’m in a townhouse with just a balcony. My balcony though is filled with over 50 pots. I love it.
Hahaha, the same here-I started a balcony garden during lockdown! Our balcony became a mini-farm with enough space to walk through and water plants but the harvest was a treat. lol
@@temitopeoshokoya4906 I graciously predict my gardens yield could sustain a family of four mice for a week. Lol. It’s still worth it. My weed grows there too. 🤫
What a beautiful and inspiring video! We moved to Puerto Rico and live in the true tropics on a little finca (farm) and are growing many, many trees and plants as well. Unfortunately there are no large size tree nurseries so all of ours are taking a long time, but we are finally reaping the harvest of our labor over the years too. I need to make a food forest video like this. We have some videos about our gardens in general, but the food forest alone would be great to showcase.
What a beautiful family! And talk about healthy and wholesome living, it doesn't get any better than this. Very inspiring, and Just what we needed during these difficult times.Thanks for the video! Keep on growing, keep on glowing, and may God continue to bless your family. Greetings from Los Angeles.
It is so healing, i cant throw any vegetable or fruit seeds out!!! Im always amazed at how much God loves us just by seeing how abundantly there are seeds in one fruit or vegetable!!
I would love to see more about how you layered your food forest (eg. ground covering plants, bushes, any other vines) and which plants you chose to grow next to each other. Also, which companion flowers did you go with? Lovely and inspiring video!
June 2021 we moved from Colorado to coastal Southwest Florida. We are turning our 1/2 acre property into combinaton food forest and pollinator sanctuary. Anyway, I planted a passion fruit vine for the fritillary butterflies and it's the wildest growing plant ever. It's used up all the space of an oak and palm trellis I built -- and now it's reaching out trying to grab onto other trellises.
Marvelous! ~ You and yours, took eye-sore and/or wild-grown & neglected land, and through much hard-work and loving care, turned it into, well, "A Food Forest" planted by hand. ~ Happy growing!
I just have to say what an incredible story. I love how you turn your home land into a fantastic feast of fruits, vegetables and flower to keep the bees happy. I love the video. ❤️
This is sooo beautiful!! You should feel really proud of yourself!! You did not only create something good and beneficial and healing for yourself but you helped the whole earth and environment at the same time and your plantings will bless many many generations to come!! 🧡✨🕊️🌸🙏🏼💐
Wow so beautiful! Yes I agree with you, we can fill the negatives around with playing in the dirt that God created, get grounded and grow beautiful food! Awesome video! Thanks for sharing, how u n hubby created food forest! Loved it!
This is so inspiring. I've been looking for a huge land space to do this but i see you have so many different variety of plants and trees on a 1/2 acre of land. What?!! So amazing. Thank you for doing this. And your children will benefit from the education and the organic foods. I love love love this!!!
Oh my goodness!!! What a blessing and pure awesomeness !!! Truly amazing!! We were just blessed with lots of land and this is my dream !!! congratulations and magnificent work ! With love from NC☺️
This is so inspiring. I also have a property on a very steep hill with similar rocky soil. I have started a small garden bed that I wish to expand on, but it is a slow process. So nice to see that you have transformed this impractical space into something so productive and full of life. Well done. 👍💗
@@chargedminds3069 It's a ground cherry. Look up the difference. And calling people cute little insulting names doesn't make you right; it just makes you insulting.
Stoked that you guys are on it. A year ago ,I decided to dig up all the weeds(hard) & ww some soil amend. Was on my way to front yard gardens. Every day my mind is blown looking at what a garden can do. Mentally the CHI is flowing, and the neighbors gawk. Just add water 💧 ( EASY). THANK YOU. P.J. SIGNS, CARPINTERIA, CA.
I love this so much. I just got into gardening at the age of 25 and I am still learning but its so much fun and seeing your produce and flowers/plants mature is so satisfying. I would love to live in a warmer place though, growing things in Ontario (Canada) is very hard I feel.
Beautiful video ❤ my family and i have just moved to a new home and i am discovering my new garden and planning. My heart and soul feels so refreashed when gardening, it makes me smile when i think of Eden and that God was the master gardener. Happy gardening from New Zealand 🇳🇿 ❤🙏
I feel so Overjoyed that I found your Garden you are well on your way to making heaven on Earth here's a real big sin I'm so envious because it is done with so much love I'm crying saying this you are so blessed and peace be with you and your little family because you inspire us all thank you and thank you again for sharing
Nice work. I'm in Riverside county doing the same thing on my 2.5 acres. I'm doing rare fruit trees primarily, Mulberry, ice cream bean, guavas, black and white sapote, mango, Jamaican cherry. I hope those suggestions are beneficial to you. It's amazing
@@adunning6925 very cool, always good to meet like minded folks. Exotic fruit trees, they're mostly in Fallbrook and Vista. Exotica or Exotic fruit tree nursery off the top of my head. For great prices and standard fruit, Dice Growers or DLM. Both in the valley area. 👍
We are building our retirement home in a community ruled by an HOA. We applied for an exception to put some fruit trees on our lot and were turned down, so we planted various different fruit 'bushes' instead! They weren't happy about it, but they didn't have anything in their silly rule book against the type of bushes we could plant! We also put up a lovely arbor and somehow we now have grape vines growing on it! I think birds must have dropped some seeds in the 'wrong' place one night...around 3 am if I'm not mistaken! And my neighbors LOVE it so we are working to get some of these rules changed. I have some raised beds that are allowed so I also grow some different greens and lots of herbs.
Holy shit this is so beautiful, this video really brought tears into my eyes. I really really love it and I want to live like you and have my own food forest. Really you made my whole day, especially when you showed the before pictures, it shows how much potential there is!
We've been slowly doing the same thing too. It's a constant work in progress! Hope to see another video giving us an update on how your food forest goes.
Thank you for sharing. What you guys have done is just amazing. What a blessing for your family plus you bless others. Being in Ohio, most of what you've done is not available to us without lots of building. Great job.
I’m in the process of doing this very thing up in Redding, CA. And yea, all that you said about this project being so healing and hopeful in a time of fear and loneliness is right on. There’s something so magical about planting and planning food. Would love to see and learn more! We do get snow here so I think the mangoes are out. My ice cream bananas are doing much better than our cavendish ones… I’ll plant the avocados (little cado and zutano) and hope they make it. I’m tired of carting them back and forth each summer and winter to the greenhouse. 😆 Details like what zone you’re in and irrigation, direction of your yard, etc, I’d love to hear! Thanks for posting.
This is so encouraging! I'd begun to feel almost crazy as my garage and driveway become overrun with bags of dirt, rocks, and mulch. It's felt as though I was crazy for even starting something so ridiculously huge that I and no one I know has ever done. Thank you for the reminder that it's possible!
This is so beautiful... I'm so elated with tears right now listening to your story... And it warms my heart they're happy tears... You're teaching your children how to survive on this planet... Peace be with you in your family God bless
Gorgeous garden! I am loving my own yard but Alberta Canada just doesn’t give us as many tropical fruit growing ops… so a few berry bushes and fruit trees are a happy alternative. Thanks for sharing its growth so nice to look at!
WELL! God has richly blessed the work of your hands and the sweat of your brows! I LOVED this curious video tour of how you transformed your small, sharply sloped yard areas into the most busy oasis teaming with such variety of edibles. Amazing! I see your focus and determination as you learned and applied what you spent hours researching to accomplish. I love that the little children can wander to their hearts' content, strengthening their bodies and benefiting from the nourishing produce fresh as possible. No doubt your whole family sleep deeply at night! I pray your gardens continue to flourish, and the root structures reinforce the soil to hold in heavy rains should they occur. I am located in northern Canada with just a few months yearly for outdoor gardening of any kind, so I appreciate your continuous growing season and abundant sunshine. THANK YOU for sharing your agricultural experiences with us; truly an inspiration! God Bless You and protect your land!
I enjoyed watching your video, I am in the process if trying to start gardening, so far I have killed 2 Basils, 3 pepper trees, an eggplant and an Onion plant .. trying not to get discouraged, looking at what you and your husband was able to do has inspired me to not give up. Can you tell me what you used to keep oest and fungus away because that has been my biggest problem. I am from the Caribbean by the way.😊
Hi! We opt for organic treatments for pests and fungus . For pests we have released thousands of lady bugs (easily purchased from a garden center). Neem oil spray helps with some fungus 🤍
Fungus can be addressed by spraying with a baking soda and water solution on leaf undersides and atop the foliage, and cutting down leaves underneath that aren't needed for the fruit; this lets air circulate, lets sun in to quickly dry the dampness. Be Frequent! Lay out leaves beneath or rot them as a foot path through your plot; nutrients return to the soil quicker. Dishes of cheep beer entice slugs away from plants. Sharp egg shells on the soil surface cut them and other crawlies. It's worth researching further. Companion planting with flowers like Marigolds are natural pesticides set in amongst your veggie plants, just notice in videos. I'm in northern Canada where the season is so short. Have fun and remain Blessed!
We are anxious waiting for the last of the snow to be done. Today there is a snow storm and Saturday it will be 70 degrees. The baffling Midwest temps and lake affects. Sunshine heals all
I love that you made this investment. What's staggering to me is that the cost of all these plants is easily into the thousands by my guess work. If I could, I would be planting so many more food forest friends in my yard, but the money hasn't been there with surprises life has sent. I love seeing people do this with their yards, and thank you for sharing this.
HI! Thank you for watching :) I talk a bit about the cost and how we afforded it in my Q &A video that you can find on my channel. In short, we spread the cost out over a year, all of our "disposable income" went into it, and we hunted out a lot of bargain nurseries and small growers in our area. For example, the fruiting olive trees in the front were around $130/ each. Which is a lot less than most people imagine for such large trees. Manny of our trees were even less expensive, coming in around the $50 range. So instead of going out to eat - we were going out to plant 😂
@@TaylorRaine you did well with those prices! I can tell y’all hunted around for it all, and I love that. You’ve obviously done super well with the place and I love how many varieties of things you have. I’m in zone 6, so it’s got me a bit jealous that you have olives, avocados, and bananas. I’m doing a lot of berries, stone fruits, and apples here.
@@Conceptsexplainedsimply I moved here from zone 7a so I get ya! We did have great peaches over there though. My mother in law is still in Arkansas and has had a ton of luck with asian pears! maybe that is something you could add to your mix if you don't already have them. I've read about bananas that can grow in Zone 6, but I'm not sure if they produce any fruits. Could make for some fun summer foliage though. Good luck out there!
You guys are dragons. Such an amazing creation. I've been doing the same to our yard since around quarantine also. I don't regret spending my time this way and I'm sure you all don't either! Beautiful!
I’m a 20 year old uni student studying business and property in New Zealand, but creating a food forest on my forever home is my dream!
Same here that's where my heart is suppose to be.
I’m not in my forever home but I’m currently in the process of creating a food forest of sorts. It’s going to mostly be structured with raised beds and container gardening but I’m going to use up as much of my space as possible to grow a huge variety of food year round
Check out Geoff Lawtons food forest. He is one of the best here in Australia
Oooh my goodness, Im a Uni student in South Africa and my whole being longs to have my own garden with a food forrest. The amount of times Ive watched Geoff Lawson or Gotche videos and literally cried. Glad to hear its not just me!
@@majasmith3578 look into container gardening.
It wont get you the food forrest vibes but it will satiate the longing a little bit
People don't even know how these food forests help the environment. This is so important guys if you have space just plant! Plant mint, plant kale, plant trees just whatever. Pls plant! This is so important for the future.
YES!! 🙌
Ideally plant local natives or non-invasive! I say that mainly cuz mint can be quite invasive in my area so they should be in containers (in my area).
Great advice
I will, when I moved into my new house with a garden. At present, I can only plant in containers.
Mint will grow like crazy, only grow it in containers to keep it under control.
I love the kiss to the first mango! I waited 8 years to get persimmons on trees from seed. It was elation picking 541 persimmons several years later. Last year we picked our first and only pawpaw. It was a holy moment. May God’s glory fill the earth. Thanks for sharing your family garden experience!
541!!! Thats crazy!
I can't even imagine 500 mangos...maybe one day :)
The 541 persimmons are the native to Pennsylvania variety; smaller but tastier than the Asian varieties that I also enjoy from market😁.
bud persimmon trees give fruits within two years.
@@dimpalkimbulapitiya9377
His was from seed, and perhaps under adverse conditions. It can varry according to particular genetics.
We planted pawpaw last year. We hear it will be 6 years. Can’t wait, but looks like patience is a virtue.
The footage of your kids interacting with the food forest is just amazing. I'd love to one day give my kids the same chance
I can't put into words how amazing I find u guys. This is beyond words. In such a short time to accomplish this and with such difficult terrain. I am in awe. God bless you all and I pray I can convince my husband to go on a similar journey with me by using you as our inspiration. Thanks a million for sharing.
Thank you! Good luck!
The "maybe just" have started a lot of amazing things in this world.
Gardening and botany are definitely two of the most soul soothing, calming things. I loved how peaceful this was!!!
This is the best way to live in this world. I grow all my veges and fruits in my small back yard. Persimmon, Avocado, Grapes, berries, Pomegranate, Black palms, sugar palms. lemon, mandarins.5 kinds of Apples, 4 guavas ,9kinds of bananas. All of them now give fruits.
I live in urban environment, space is very less, I've recently planted beans and corn in a small space and now they're all growing, it's exiting to watch them grow.
Hoping to one day migrate to my village and do it in a bigger scale
I'm so so so glad more are realizing the importance of food forestry!
What a wonderful way to turn a "negative" into a positive thing that keeps on giving!
It’s amazing what can be done on even a small piece of property. We did the same thing and turned our average sized back yard into a food garden. We grow so much that we have easily fed our family, extended family, and give to friends and neighbors constantly! The more we give the more his provides and our plants and trees absolutely thrive!
I am making a food forest in my garden. This beautiful video was so inspiring and wonderful. Bless you! Thank you. 🙏💜💫🪴🐝
I just had to comment on how beautiful this looks! Wondering if you realize how truly blessed your family is! Hard work for the body, and look at the outcome, hard work for the soul, and the spirit of God will dwell in your heart.
Love, always love! I pray that your neighbors and everyone will be inspired by the beauty and bounty God has blessed you with!
Lots of love 💘 from a northern grandmother .
Thank you for this sweet comment. :)
So nice that you gave our creator credit for these amazing gifts. Good girl.
A huge blessing of the past two years is it has brought to our consciousness what brings us lasting happiness. These home-grown foods are priceless, to the stomach and the soul.
you mentioned watching youtube videos to learn, I would love recommendations! Thanks for sharing your wonderful food forest with us!
Absolutely love this!
I love too that it started as creating a small lawned area for the kids yet they’ll likely interact more with the rest of what you’re creating as they grow ❤️
Plus teaching them so many lessons with growing your own food
This video feels like a glimpse into our own potential future; filled with connection to the earth and to one another. Beauty, nature, nurturing, respect, gratitude. I like this world. This world will sustain us in health and happiness. Let's keep manifesting this world until it's a reality...
How rewarding and beautiful. Addictive isn’t it? Love the concrete planter idea. Time for a new channel based on your gardening perhaps?
Amazing how your family has loved the earth God gave, which continues to in turn...love you all back🥰🍇🍈🍉🍊🍋🍌🍍🥭🍏🍐🍒🍓🍎🥝🍅🥥🥑🍆🥔🥕🌽🌶🥒🥬🥦🧄🧅❣
Aside from creating a hillside garden of Eden of fruit trees, passion vines, grapes, garden veggies..what a wonderful environment for your children!! I was raised by an absentee military father, and a depressed introverted mom, but both loved some form of gardening and that is some of my best childhood memories. You are giving this gift to your children, how wonderful
Incredible. Thank you for sharing.
This is one of the best gardening videos that's super motivating and encouraging that nothing is impossible, it has put an positive view of I can do anything irregardless of landscape or soil. I started gardening since young age and that's the one thing I have never gave up and I will continue until I reach more than my imagination and vision into reality 💯
Kodus for the couple who decided to do this! Gives their children the chance to see a proper fruit tree and and appreciation for letting them walk on bare feet as well!!! Going back to where we're before all those big supermarket were built!!!!
“The remedy in the dirt” I love that line I sure did and God led me to start growing my own in my little container garden. After you talk about our God I had to subscribe lol Bless you and the family
true blessing is not the garden or the house.
its a spousal bond you and your husband have. To work together with joy and love your kids.
That is real blessing that God has bestowed
What an awesome video, and such an inspiring story! Everyone should be doing this with their families, it teaches the next generation that hard work pays off more than just cars or other unimportant material possessions. The most important things in this world are not what most people claim. Great job!
I couldn’t agree more, especially in these times when everything is going up. I am in awe of this “team”
The most satisfying thing to me is watch your kids eat the plants you grew. I never say don’t eat them. We’ll grow more if we don’t have enough.
Wauw that is amazing!! Living in Denmark I get a little jealous of the year round garden!! Would love more garden content 🤗
Awww thank you ! Yes I used to live somewhere with cold winters and it was definitely tough! You could always go for the indoor jungle vibe ❤️
Beautiful. What a great idea. I will do it too but I don't have the place. Congratulation. ...😀😁😄😃
Hy👍👍
Go vertical indoors with grow lights!
fabulous! Thank you for sharing your journey!! Love it!!!
Amazing. I started gardening too during the lockdown except, I’m in a townhouse with just a balcony. My balcony though is filled with over 50 pots. I love it.
Hahaha, the same here-I started a balcony garden during lockdown! Our balcony became a mini-farm with enough space to walk through and water plants but the harvest was a treat. lol
@@temitopeoshokoya4906 I graciously predict my gardens yield could sustain a family of four mice for a week. Lol. It’s still worth it. My weed grows there too. 🤫
You are so lucky to have a great husband who cooperated with you to do your dream garden. God bless you both and keep you together. ❤️✌🏽
What a beautiful and inspiring video! We moved to Puerto Rico and live in the true tropics on a little finca (farm) and are growing many, many trees and plants as well. Unfortunately there are no large size tree nurseries so all of ours are taking a long time, but we are finally reaping the harvest of our labor over the years too. I need to make a food forest video like this. We have some videos about our gardens in general, but the food forest alone would be great to showcase.
Yes, it is definitely a labour of Love. Thank you for sharing your most amazing creation and addition to the positive planning of our Universe.
You are awe inspiring. The progress of your food forest is simply amazing.
this was too inspiring ! I cant stop crying I want this for myself and my son . I cant wait to at least get 1 acre to start .
What a beautiful family! And talk about healthy and wholesome living, it doesn't get any better than this. Very inspiring, and Just what we needed during these difficult times.Thanks for the video! Keep on growing, keep on glowing, and may God continue to bless your family. Greetings from Los Angeles.
It is so healing, i cant throw any vegetable or fruit seeds out!!! Im always amazed at how much God loves us just by seeing how abundantly there are seeds in one fruit or vegetable!!
I would love to see more about how you layered your food forest (eg. ground covering plants, bushes, any other vines) and which plants you chose to grow next to each other. Also, which companion flowers did you go with? Lovely and inspiring video!
Great ideas for future videos :)
That you did it on a hill is the most impressive! You saw a space and conquered it! One patch at a time!
June 2021 we moved from Colorado to coastal Southwest Florida. We are turning our 1/2 acre property into combinaton food forest and pollinator sanctuary. Anyway, I planted a passion fruit vine for the fritillary butterflies and it's the wildest growing plant ever. It's used up all the space of an oak and palm trellis I built -- and now it's reaching out trying to grab onto other trellises.
WOW that is so beautiful and fabulous! thank you for sharing your lovely garden and family with us! Truly Amazing, so inspirational!
Thank you for sharing!! What a wonderful story and family!!! I love gardening
Thank you for watching :)
Superb!!
Well done! - the modern 'appreciation' of real quality life of the old ways for healthy, happy family. God Bless.
More garden content please! This was amazing
What your family did was truly amazing. You honor God by what you do for our Mother Earth.
Well, that is great and fun and you are teaching your kids a lot too! Blessings to you!
Marvelous! ~ You and yours, took eye-sore and/or wild-grown & neglected land, and through much hard-work and loving care, turned it into, well, "A Food Forest" planted by hand. ~ Happy growing!
I just have to say what an incredible story. I love how you turn your home land into a fantastic feast of fruits, vegetables and flower to keep the bees happy. I love the video. ❤️
I really enjoyed your video. Southern California is blessed with such a superb climate that supports all these different fruit bearing plants.
Wonderful. Health and exercise! I found quarantine a great experience.
It’s so awesome. Absolutely you turned mourning into dancing.
great job guys...I think you should mulch around the trees with leaves or wood chips.. if not already..it will help to add organic matter to soil..
Inspirational and beautiful video. Thank you for sharing your food forest. God bless you and your family 👪 🙏 ❤
This is sooo beautiful!! You should feel really proud of yourself!! You did not only create something good and beneficial and healing for yourself but you helped the whole earth and environment at the same time and your plantings will bless many many generations to come!! 🧡✨🕊️🌸🙏🏼💐
Wow so beautiful!
Yes I agree with you, we can fill the negatives around with playing in the dirt that God created, get grounded and grow beautiful food! Awesome video! Thanks for sharing, how u n hubby created food forest! Loved it!
This is so inspiring. I've been looking for a huge land space to do this but i see you have so many different variety of plants and trees on a 1/2 acre of land. What?!! So amazing. Thank you for doing this. And your children will benefit from the education and the organic foods. I love love love this!!!
It's so Beautiful Great team work guys.I love how all the kiddie's were in involved too .So Beautiful .
Thank you :)
Oh my goodness!!! What a blessing and pure awesomeness !!! Truly amazing!! We were just blessed with lots of land and this is my dream !!! congratulations and magnificent work ! With love from NC☺️
When this video came on my first thought was, " They have to be in San Diego or at least in SoCal" and I was right. I miss home 😩
This is so inspiring. I also have a property on a very steep hill with similar rocky soil. I have started a small garden bed that I wish to expand on, but it is a slow process. So nice to see that you have transformed this impractical space into something so productive and full of life. Well done. 👍💗
I could listen to this for hours on ending, we thank God for his bountiful provisions and for sure he will turn our mourning into dancing!!
The "gooseberry" you mention is actually a ground cherry. Both are good! You've made a beautiful garden. Thanks for sharing it!
Wow I have been calling it the wrong name since we bought it. lol. Thanks for letting me know. Now I need to hunt out seeds for a real gooseberry :)
I found a ground cherry plant growing in the middle of my burn pile last year lol. I thought it was tomatillo at first :p
@@TaylorRaine Look up starberry instead. Your kids will love them.
It is called cape gooseberry dear
@@chargedminds3069 It's a ground cherry. Look up the difference. And calling people cute little insulting names doesn't make you right; it just makes you insulting.
I just love your style of gardening....just as it was meant to be.
I love this! What an amazing proj ect to do during quarantine. Thank you for sharing. 🧡🌳🍑
Stoked that you guys are on it. A year ago ,I decided to dig up all the weeds(hard) & ww some soil amend. Was on my way to front yard gardens. Every day my mind is blown looking at what a garden can do. Mentally the CHI is flowing, and the neighbors gawk. Just add water 💧 ( EASY).
THANK YOU.
P.J. SIGNS, CARPINTERIA, CA.
I love this so much. I just got into gardening at the age of 25 and I am still learning but its so much fun and seeing your produce and flowers/plants mature is so satisfying. I would love to live in a warmer place though, growing things in Ontario (Canada) is very hard I feel.
Beautiful video ❤ my family and i have just moved to a new home and i am discovering my new garden and planning. My heart and soul feels so refreashed when gardening, it makes me smile when i think of Eden and that God was the master gardener.
Happy gardening from New Zealand 🇳🇿 ❤🙏
Beeeeeautiful garden! Your hard work has paid off and all the best for the future !
It’s totally addictive in a food for the Soul kind of way. I watch hours and hours of These videos and just can’t get enough of them.
She has a lot more now on her channel
So inspiring! I started my little food forest last year. Your garden is GOALS!
I feel so Overjoyed that I found your Garden you are well on your way to making heaven on Earth here's a real big sin I'm so envious because it is done with so much love I'm crying saying this you are so blessed and peace be with you and your little family because you inspire us all thank you and thank you again for sharing
Nice work. I'm in Riverside county doing the same thing on my 2.5 acres. I'm doing rare fruit trees primarily, Mulberry, ice cream bean, guavas, black and white sapote, mango, Jamaican cherry. I hope those suggestions are beneficial to you. It's amazing
ooo would love to see that one day! ice cream bean is delicious!!
Wow! same here Adam and same area! What are some good nurseries you have found locally? I’m trying to find nearby exotic fruit trees
@@adunning6925 very cool, always good to meet like minded folks. Exotic fruit trees, they're mostly in Fallbrook and Vista. Exotica or Exotic fruit tree nursery off the top of my head. For great prices and standard fruit, Dice Growers or DLM. Both in the valley area. 👍
We are building our retirement home in a community ruled by an HOA. We applied for an exception to put some fruit trees on our lot and were turned down, so we planted various different fruit 'bushes' instead! They weren't happy about it, but they didn't have anything in their silly rule book against the type of bushes we could plant! We also put up a lovely arbor and somehow we now have grape vines growing on it! I think birds must have dropped some seeds in the 'wrong' place one night...around 3 am if I'm not mistaken! And my neighbors LOVE it so we are working to get some of these rules changed. I have some raised beds that are allowed so I also grow some different greens and lots of herbs.
Holy shit this is so beautiful, this video really brought tears into my eyes. I really really love it and I want to live like you and have my own food forest. Really you made my whole day, especially when you showed the before pictures, it shows how much potential there is!
Ugh California is magic. What a dream climate!!!
Aren’t you two clever, innovative, and amazing! Congratulations! What a fabulous result!
We've been slowly doing the same thing too. It's a constant work in progress! Hope to see another video giving us an update on how your food forest goes.
Check her channel now. She has a lot of updates 😊
Thank you for sharing. What you guys have done is just amazing. What a blessing for your family plus you bless others. Being in Ohio, most of what you've done is not available to us without lots of building. Great job.
I’m in the process of doing this very thing up in Redding, CA. And yea, all that you said about this project being so healing and hopeful in a time of fear and loneliness is right on. There’s something so magical about planting and planning food. Would love to see and learn more! We do get snow here so I think the mangoes are out. My ice cream bananas are doing much better than our cavendish ones… I’ll plant the avocados (little cado and zutano) and hope they make it. I’m tired of carting them back and forth each summer and winter to the greenhouse. 😆 Details like what zone you’re in and irrigation, direction of your yard, etc, I’d love to hear! Thanks for posting.
This is so encouraging! I'd begun to feel almost crazy as my garage and driveway become overrun with bags of dirt, rocks, and mulch. It's felt as though I was crazy for even starting something so ridiculously huge that I and no one I know has ever done. Thank you for the reminder that it's possible!
This is amazing. Please post more of these videos.
I have two new ones 🤍 check them out on my channel
Mediterranean climate is so great for growing food, you get a lot of the best of both temperate and tropical
Amazing! This is the only thing that makes me want to live in CA. I love the variety of produce you can grow!
This is so beautiful... I'm so elated with tears right now listening to your story... And it warms my heart they're happy tears... You're teaching your children how to survive on this planet... Peace be with you in your family God bless
Love this! My husband and I are on the same track 🥰 Thanks for sharing 🤗 Love the inspiration 🥰
❤️💕 Food forests are soo lovely. So resourceful rewarding and beautiful. Well done x
Gorgeous garden! I am loving my own yard but Alberta Canada just doesn’t give us as many tropical fruit growing ops… so a few berry bushes and fruit trees are a happy alternative. Thanks for sharing its growth so nice to look at!
WELL! God has richly blessed the work of your hands and the sweat of your brows! I LOVED this curious video tour of how you transformed your small, sharply sloped yard areas into the most busy oasis teaming with such variety of edibles. Amazing! I see your focus and determination as you learned and applied what you spent hours researching to accomplish. I love that the little children can wander to their hearts' content, strengthening their bodies and benefiting from the nourishing produce fresh as possible. No doubt your whole family sleep deeply at night! I pray your gardens continue to flourish, and the root structures reinforce the soil to hold in heavy rains should they occur. I am located in northern Canada with just a few months yearly for outdoor gardening of any kind, so I appreciate your continuous growing season and abundant sunshine.
THANK YOU for sharing your agricultural experiences with us; truly an inspiration! God Bless You and protect your land!
I enjoyed watching your video, I am in the process if trying to start gardening, so far I have killed 2 Basils, 3 pepper trees, an eggplant and an Onion plant .. trying not to get discouraged, looking at what you and your husband was able to do has inspired me to not give up. Can you tell me what you used to keep oest and fungus away because that has been my biggest problem. I am from the Caribbean by the way.😊
Hi! We opt for organic treatments for pests and fungus . For pests we have released thousands of lady bugs (easily purchased from a garden center). Neem oil spray helps with some fungus 🤍
Fungus can be addressed by spraying with a baking soda and water solution on leaf undersides and atop the foliage, and cutting down leaves underneath that aren't needed for the fruit; this lets air circulate, lets sun in to quickly dry the dampness. Be Frequent! Lay out leaves beneath or rot them as a foot path through your plot; nutrients return to the soil quicker. Dishes of cheep beer entice slugs away from plants. Sharp egg shells on the soil surface cut them and other crawlies. It's worth researching further. Companion planting with flowers like Marigolds are natural pesticides set in amongst your veggie plants, just notice in videos. I'm in northern Canada where the season is so short. Have fun and remain Blessed!
We are anxious waiting for the last of the snow to be done. Today there is a snow storm and Saturday it will be 70 degrees. The baffling Midwest temps and lake affects. Sunshine heals all
I hope you are on the tail end of it! Reminds me of the crazy weather we had in Arkansas 😂.
So cool and inspiring! Great job. I would definitely like to see more :)
Glad to see that Pakistani variety of Mulberry tree. That's really sweet.
Absolutely loved this! Your garden is stunning and you have such a beautiful family! Sending love! 🙏🏻💞
wow! thank you so much!
I love that you made this investment. What's staggering to me is that the cost of all these plants is easily into the thousands by my guess work. If I could, I would be planting so many more food forest friends in my yard, but the money hasn't been there with surprises life has sent.
I love seeing people do this with their yards, and thank you for sharing this.
HI! Thank you for watching :) I talk a bit about the cost and how we afforded it in my Q &A video that you can find on my channel. In short, we spread the cost out over a year, all of our "disposable income" went into it, and we hunted out a lot of bargain nurseries and small growers in our area. For example, the fruiting olive trees in the front were around $130/ each. Which is a lot less than most people imagine for such large trees. Manny of our trees were even less expensive, coming in around the $50 range. So instead of going out to eat - we were going out to plant 😂
@@TaylorRaine you did well with those prices! I can tell y’all hunted around for it all, and I love that. You’ve obviously done super well with the place and I love how many varieties of things you have. I’m in zone 6, so it’s got me a bit jealous that you have olives, avocados, and bananas.
I’m doing a lot of berries, stone fruits, and apples here.
@@Conceptsexplainedsimply I moved here from zone 7a so I get ya! We did have great peaches over there though. My mother in law is still in Arkansas and has had a ton of luck with asian pears! maybe that is something you could add to your mix if you don't already have them. I've read about bananas that can grow in Zone 6, but I'm not sure if they produce any fruits. Could make for some fun summer foliage though. Good luck out there!
I think when your garden develops. You will find the micrclimate will change and plants you couldn't grow before will have the protection to grow.
This is beautiful and I love seeing the little ones participating
This is astounding! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for watching ❤️
You guys are dragons. Such an amazing creation. I've been doing the same to our yard since around quarantine also. I don't regret spending my time this way and I'm sure you all don't either! Beautiful!
Wooow, I saw your garden before in videos, it really looks different!!
Thank you! Yes huge changes were made!