Urban Foraging: The Antidote to This Cost of Living Crisis?

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  • Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024

Комментарии • 23

  • @chelsgardening
    @chelsgardening 3 месяца назад +5

    Hey Ben, I came across your chicken video today then watched the other 2. Love the video format so keep up the good work 👍

    • @ben.strong
      @ben.strong  3 месяца назад

      Hey thanks for watching! I really appreciate the encouragement

    • @Wonderland_Homestead
      @Wonderland_Homestead 3 месяца назад

      SAME, glad to be here

  • @aanassazool
    @aanassazool 3 месяца назад +3

    you and your videos looks clean i mean literally

    • @ben.strong
      @ben.strong  3 месяца назад +3

      thank you, I shower daily

  • @siobhancapell
    @siobhancapell 3 месяца назад +2

    The falling fruit site is fantastic. Thanks so much for the tip.
    I hope we can get more people onto it and more people planting edibles in public spaces (I've just added the little community garden that I planted in the park next door to my place.)
    I've only foraged for Lillipilly berries for making jam up until now, but I will definitely be looking more and trying to guerilla plant more edibles in public places.

    • @ben.strong
      @ben.strong  3 месяца назад

      Hey no worries, thanks for watching! Yes I was thrilled when I stumbled upon it, it seems like a great open source tool. That’s also really cool that you’re trying to plant edibles in public spaces around you, I love this idea, and I’ll think about how i can too!

    • @MosaicHomestead
      @MosaicHomestead 3 месяца назад +1

      During the summer, you can pick up mangoes 🥭 everywhere around here off the floor 😂

    • @siobhancapell
      @siobhancapell 3 месяца назад +1

      @@MosaicHomestead are you on north Queensland or NT?

    • @MosaicHomestead
      @MosaicHomestead 3 месяца назад +1

      @@siobhancapell Puerto Rico 🇵🇷, 4 growing seasons here.

  • @newenergyawakening
    @newenergyawakening Месяц назад

    Would be good to take a couple of cuttings from that fig tree - the fruit looks amazing!

    • @ben.strong
      @ben.strong  Месяц назад

      agree! I have since planted a fig tree in my backyard, I'm running out of space to plant trees!

  • @michaelcooney7687
    @michaelcooney7687 2 месяца назад

    The green walnut add grappa and sugar and treat it as lemon for lemoncello except walnut flavour… leave for 1-2 years to mature .. magnificent aperitif’.

    • @ben.strong
      @ben.strong  2 месяца назад

      Oh wow, great tip! I will definitely have to try that :) thanks for watching

  • @itslowtide4690
    @itslowtide4690 3 месяца назад

    Those figs look so good. I just can’t eat figs knowing a wasp crawls inside every single one and dies there, which ultimately allows the fig to become a fig.

    • @ben.strong
      @ben.strong  3 месяца назад +1

      I know it’s crazy! But it certainly doesn’t stop me haha

    • @itslowtide4690
      @itslowtide4690 3 месяца назад

      @@ben.strong My mom loves them. I don’t tell her about the wasp thing. Lol.

    • @newenergyawakening
      @newenergyawakening Месяц назад

      most modern fig varieties make fruit without needing wasp pollination - so unless you get unlucky the fruit is bug free 😄

  • @MosaicHomestead
    @MosaicHomestead 3 месяца назад +1

    I have a food forest, I can easily get over 100 pounds of food like nothing 😂, I got bananas 🍌, coconut 🥥, star fruit, bread fruit, custard fruit/ star apple, tropical almond, bread fruit, lime, grapefruit, hobo, annatto ,strawberry guava, acerola ect...I don't want to show off, but I also have a creek full of giant red tilapia 😂

    • @ben.strong
      @ben.strong  3 месяца назад +1

      wow that sounds ideal!

  • @janeballinger2117
    @janeballinger2117 3 месяца назад +1

    how did you know the blackberries weren't sprayed? Thanks

    • @ben.strong
      @ben.strong  3 месяца назад +2

      Hey thanks for watching! And good question. These bushes are close to my property and I monitor when and where the council have sprayed. It’s usually very obvious where they have in my experience as you can see the vegetation dying back.

    • @MosaicHomestead
      @MosaicHomestead 3 месяца назад +1

      I know because he replied to this comment 😂