"It's just down to intuition and common sense to learn forest gardening." Our species lost touch with our natural innate senses when these large corporate companies sold us convenience: low cost, low quality "food." It has slowly eroded our connection with mother nature and all of the other beings that inhabit it working cooperatively and symbiotically together with the earth. Permaculture, Seed saving, Syntropic Farming, Community... this is the solution that was already there to begin with(Native Americans). Nature is our true teacher, healer and Life giver!
Fantastic video Huw, great editing and you have such an eye for texture shots. I know it was probably a lot of work, but the more of these types of videos you can make the better!
great video, I did the same thing with my back yard. Thanks so much for your channel love it and learn alot. I am from West Virginia which is about the same climate.
Loved your video!! I have just started developing my forest garden, and being 60, I wished I had learnt about this 40 years ago!!! But never too late I think.
Amazing! I'm well on the way to converting my acre property. Imagine how happy Mother Earth would be if we all employed at least some of these practices. God bless 💚
Thanks for your channel. I just bought an acre in the hill country of Texas. I am determined to make it into a food forest however due to the growth of cedar trees it virtually stripped the land of all the good soil and left the clay which runs off and goes down the mountain “big hill”. I just trimmed all the oak trees in my yard and have created a hugelmound which I will be growing comfrey. Wish me luck mister, happy growing.
Get a tree removal Company to deliver wood mulch also search Ruth Stout growing on hay or straw or leaves mulch from neighbours. Search Sheet mulching with cardboards.Toss in michorizza...Feed the soil with compost and food waste.Feed the SOIL to feed the plants.
Look into creating swales. They will serve as water catching slowing and spreading. They will keep the ground watered. Think also about creating ponds as well. It should be easy to creamatching ay soil. Also plant pio er trees in the swales and follow with fruit trees. I believe you need water systems in Texas. Cheers!
Wow so impressed with the quality of your videos, Huw. You are going from strength to strength - goes to show how much can be accomplished when you are passionate about what you do. Very keen to see what else you have in store for us as time goes on :)
This is Fantastic! Permaculture and Huw Richards channel is Massively increasing awareness and Knowledge of Permaculture around the World! These Videos give Millions of People Hope and Tools to Heal themselves the land and Planet Earth! Great Job!
Looks beautiful, we are in year two of a cold climate food forest. I don't know if our everbearing mulberry made it, but most did so things are moving in the right direction! Click the peach tree on the left to follow the journey!
I have wanted to have a forest garden ever since I read Bill mollison's report on one back in the 1980's. But I felt trapped in a system created by that oversized parasite that calls itself a wise ape. It just generated more and more stress illness till I couldn't take it anymore. Now, at 43, I am finally building my forest garden.
The Nepalese Sichuan Pepper he was talking about is called Timur pronounced Tee Moor. The bush is very thorny and the spice is very pungent. The plant is ideal for fencing.
beautiful people, so generous to share their private space, ingenious land use, like masters of ancient times, we all should forest garden and save the planet. a huge thankyou to all!!!
I love this. Here in the US we are restricted from planting food in our front yards because of HOAs (Home Owners Association). One of the worst things ever created here in the United States.
Wow just found you. So excited because we are helping our son with his permaculture yard right now and it has so many of the plants that you have but it has been very neglected. We love that you do things that are not labor intensive. We are Jim and Rhenda with Heartiness Approach and we are working to teach people how to have sustainable living in place. We have subscribed to you and feel we will learn much. Check us out.
Goodness! I have only just discovered this gem of a video! I have subscribed to you for ages now Huw, keep up the good work. I follow these principles but am only 4 years into my experiment.
A favourite topic of ours, permaculture, and this is a great example, shared / added to our playlist. Thanks for uploading and promoting permaculture on your channel.
I have been using a scythe for many years. Instead of maintaining a pretty lawn with a lawn mower I allow the winter grass to grow until I can barely walk through it then I scythe it and turn it into compost.
How exciting to find you. What part of Hampshire are you in? Im on the Wiltshire Hampshire border so you are not too far away from me though my soil is clay and you say yours is chalk.
You have a lovely forest garden. Very similar to the one I have created. The only thing I would warn folks against is the use of comfrey. In its place it can serve a purpose but it is an invasive weed that will out compete with & kill many plants. I see you have it growing around fruit trees. It will steal nutrients from the fruit trees and it is almost impossible to eradicate. Thumbs up on an excellent forest garden.
This couple are such an inspiration..great video loads of ideas and info thank you. Bit irked by a round up advert coming up beforehand...i really hope anyone new to permaculture would not think there is any connection to the awful round up company
How fascinating! I would love to do some forest gardening in my backyard. I need to experiment more. So far the blackberries and blueberries were a failure. The raspberry bush has survived but is straggly. Fruit trees are on my list to try when I get a dead tree removed. What I need is a book/guide more specific to my area since we do get very cold winters.
Wonderful food forest that would be lovely to have in the city I grew up in. Unfortunately government regulations do not allow organic growth fruit trees. They must all be sprayed or removed. Living in the country has given us much more freedom to grow and thrive. Thank you for the beautiful tour!
@@YS-jk2zb I lived in Penticton BC CAnada when I was young. About 10 years ago a friend with fruit trees in her yard was told to remove her two apricot trees if she would not spray. It became illegal to have fruit trees unless you were on the list to have them sprayed. They would remove them if she did not comply and send her the bill! With all the other crazy things happening I now see why they are doing all this and nothing surprises me any longer.....
Great video! Lovely forest garden. I was curious about the "parabolic arc" that she was talking about that surrounds the bee hive. What is that exactly?
Wow this is exactly what I want to do in the back of my garden! It hadn't been touched for 25 years so it was an overgrown wild forest until this summer. We've slowly been clearing it out and now all we're left with is bare soil and a few trees. Didn't fancy just having a grass lawn so something wild and edible like this would be excellent.
Might need to talk to my landlord about it though, since he owns the property. That being said, he's rather lenient, with a policy of "Grow anything you want, as long as it's legal". Then again, he's a farmer, with a nice supply of livestock, which will be useful for fertilizer, if you get my meaning.
The future is the past in a not very complicated way because time is a cycle, our ancient ancestors studied nature and would have used the same processes.
+Timothy O'Brien Hi Timothy thank you very much! Haha that would be nice. I think it's going to be hard to increase the Patreon number as I did a whole video about it which gave me 9 extra Patreons so I'm just going to continue to say at the end of my videos. No real strategy really ;) Also not many people have heard of Patreon so they might be a bit skeptical about it :) Best wishes
Yikes! You are growing highly invasive Meadow Knapweed, easily identified in the video at minutes 4:29 - 4:31, 4:37 - 4:44 and 4:51 - 4:58. Knapweed Facts: Knapweeds are aggressive, spread quickly and are difficult to control. One knapweed plant produces 1,000 - 25,000 seeds each year; it's seed bank lasts 5 years. Knapweed invades pastures, forest openings, roadsides, parks, lawns, industrial sites, tree farms, vacant lands, railroads, waste areas and banks of rivers, lakes and streams; basically knapweed will grow anywhere and everywhere. Knapweed produces a toxin at its roots which stunts the growth of nearby plants, ultimately replacing all desirable forage and/or native plants and altering the surrounding ecosystem. Other than the knapweed... I love all you have done with your little piece of this wonderful planet.
"It's just down to intuition and common sense to learn forest gardening."
Our species lost touch with our natural innate senses when these large corporate companies sold us convenience: low cost, low quality "food." It has slowly eroded our connection with mother nature and all of the other beings that inhabit it working cooperatively and symbiotically together with the earth.
Permaculture, Seed saving, Syntropic Farming, Community... this is the solution that was already there to begin with(Native Americans).
Nature is our true teacher, healer and Life giver!
LOVE THEM ! so wish they had their own channel to share the journey and knowledge. glad you got the chance Huw, thanks for sharing their story.
Go to PermacultureMedia for a few more videos about their forest garden :) Thank you so much for watching my friend!
great show buddy! I love how they have worked with nature over the last couple decades to create a beautiful food producing paradise!
Thank you so much Blake! Yes it is fantastic!
What a wonderful video. It's great to hear about their experimentation and adaptive practices. Thanks!
Thank you, Sylvia
Fantastic video Huw, great editing and you have such an eye for texture shots. I know it was probably a lot of work, but the more of these types of videos you can make the better!
lovely garden -an inspiring permaculture model!!
Beautiful place!!! Very well done video, too. Thank you!
Thank you :)
Great inspiration for all of us wanting to achieve the dream of a Permaculture life.
Thankyou for sharing and inspiring.
Very inspiring to others. Loved every second of the video.
great video, I did the same thing with my back yard. Thanks so much for your channel love it and learn alot. I am from West Virginia which is about the same climate.
Oh that is awesome! Thank you very much Richard!
Thank you for sharing this video! I saved it for future reference. I love all the knowledge you share!!!!
Loved your video!! I have just started developing my forest garden, and being 60, I wished I had learnt about this 40 years ago!!! But never too late I think.
I like the plants for a future database I designing one for idaho a very dry climate almost officially a desert.
Amazing! I'm well on the way to converting my acre property. Imagine how happy Mother Earth would be if we all employed at least some of these practices. God bless 💚
Fantastic! Good thinking. Let's keep inspiring those around us to grow our own food and benefit from the free exercise/stress reduction!!
Thanks for your channel. I just bought an acre in the hill country of Texas. I am determined to make it into a food forest however due to the growth of cedar trees it virtually stripped the land of all the good soil and left the clay which runs off and goes down the mountain “big hill”. I just trimmed all the oak trees in my yard and have created a hugelmound which I will be growing comfrey. Wish me luck mister, happy growing.
Get a tree removal Company to deliver wood mulch also search Ruth Stout growing on hay or straw or leaves mulch from neighbours. Search Sheet mulching with cardboards.Toss in michorizza...Feed the soil with compost and food waste.Feed the SOIL to feed the plants.
Look into creating swales. They will serve as water catching slowing and spreading. They will keep the ground watered. Think also about creating ponds as well. It should be easy to creamatching ay soil. Also plant pio er trees in the swales and follow with fruit trees. I believe you need water systems in Texas. Cheers!
i also want to devlop permaculture and i m trying
fabolous!!
Wow so impressed with the quality of your videos, Huw. You are going from strength to strength - goes to show how much can be accomplished when you are passionate about what you do. Very keen to see what else you have in store for us as time goes on :)
Thank you so much for your lovely comment! Saturday 26th I have a really cool video about Charles Dowding No Dig Gardening! :)
I loved how she said chickens love it and how she included insects being fad with fruit.
This is Fantastic! Permaculture and Huw Richards channel is Massively increasing awareness and Knowledge of Permaculture around the World! These Videos give Millions of People Hope and Tools to Heal themselves the land and Planet Earth! Great Job!
Looks beautiful, we are in year two of a cold climate food forest. I don't know if our everbearing mulberry made it, but most did so things are moving in the right direction! Click the peach tree on the left to follow the journey!
I have wanted to have a forest garden ever since I read Bill mollison's report on one back in the 1980's.
But I felt trapped in a system created by that oversized parasite that calls itself a wise ape.
It just generated more and more stress illness till I couldn't take it anymore.
Now, at 43, I am finally building my forest garden.
EcoCentric Homestead congrats on starting! One plant at a time! 😊 Best of luck in your plans!
The Nepalese Sichuan Pepper he was talking about is called Timur pronounced Tee Moor. The bush is very thorny and the spice is very pungent. The plant is ideal for fencing.
Thanks Shishir for expanding on this. I will have to get some for my food forest.
Nice thank for you time
beautiful people, so generous to share their private space, ingenious land use, like masters of ancient times, we all should forest garden and save the planet. a huge thankyou to all!!!
I love this. Here in the US we are restricted from planting food in our front yards because of HOAs (Home Owners Association). One of the worst things ever created here in the United States.
Wow just found you. So excited because we are helping our son with his permaculture yard right now and it has so many of the plants that you have but it has been very neglected. We love that you do things that are not labor intensive. We are Jim and Rhenda with Heartiness Approach and we are working to teach people how to have sustainable living in place. We have subscribed to you and feel we will learn much. Check us out.
What a wonderful interview and couple! So inspired here in the USA.
Goodness! I have only just discovered this gem of a video! I have subscribed to you for ages now Huw, keep up the good work. I follow these principles but am only 4 years into my experiment.
This is my first time enjoying your RUclips channel. Great work! I’m looking forward to more great content from you.
A favourite topic of ours, permaculture, and this is a great example, shared / added to our playlist. Thanks for uploading and promoting permaculture on your channel.
I have been using a scythe for many years. Instead of maintaining a pretty lawn with a lawn mower I allow the winter grass to grow until I can barely walk through it then I scythe it and turn it into compost.
How exciting to find you. What part of Hampshire are you in? Im on the Wiltshire Hampshire border so you are not too far away from me though my soil is clay and you say yours is chalk.
They are in the South Downs in the Meon Valley, close to the Sustainability Centre (another great demonstration site).
I have 2300sqft garden and want to make a little food forest. Whether that area is sufficient ?
Fab except you have to be well off to afford the house and land first
Good afternoon Tim & Maddy,
Amazing and very helpful, thank you for sharing and caring.
How can I contact you directly?
Kind regards,
Afzaal
Brilliant people and forest garden, excellent problem solving, so well thought through, well done!
I always dream this kind of place surrounded with food...it inspires for everyone..thank you for Sharing such inspirational videos...
You have a lovely forest garden. Very similar to the one I have created. The only thing I would warn folks against is the use of comfrey. In its place it can serve a purpose but it is an invasive weed that will out compete with & kill many plants. I see you have it growing around fruit trees. It will steal nutrients from the fruit trees and it is almost impossible to eradicate. Thumbs up on an excellent forest garden.
Wow! Love this video. This would be my ultimate dream to have garden like this. Thanks for the video.
+Simply by Ellika No problem at all thank you so much for watching! :)
Wouldn't it make sense to do all or at least mostly native plants?
Hey, this is what we're doing on our third of an acre, but we're in the city. Can't wait until our property looks like this!
Thank you Huw! Very informative, and you must've had a wonderful time filming!
It was a lovely time thank you :)
Love it, where do I get the NepaleseS/zechuan pepper brush???
Try otterfarm.co.uk or agroforestry.co.uk
Ryan Sandford-Blackburn fantastic, thank you, we use these everyday so I’m going to give them a go in the garden!
How do you create a parabolic arc in a food forest?
This couple are such an inspiration..great video loads of ideas and info thank you. Bit irked by a round up advert coming up beforehand...i really hope anyone new to permaculture would not think there is any connection to the awful round up company
FIND YOURSELF AN AD BLOCKER. YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE TO SEE SUCH THINGS IN A PERMIE VIDEO!
Dang Huw, are you standing on a box? 😆
That's the sort of garden I want. Excellent episode, very inspirational.
I'd like to learn more about the parabolic arc Maddy mentions when talking about the beehive. Do you have any more information?
good work huw! catching up with your videos (finally!). hope all's well.
Could someone link me to where to buy comfrey seeds for this large of a leaf?
I didn't understand what she was saying about the parabolic, vegetative arc she mentioned concerning the bees. Can you clear this up for me?
How fascinating! I would love to do some forest gardening in my backyard. I need to experiment more. So far the blackberries and blueberries were a failure. The raspberry bush has survived but is straggly. Fruit trees are on my list to try when I get a dead tree removed. What I need is a book/guide more specific to my area since we do get very cold winters.
Just found this, 2 years late lol! This couple are brilliant! Very good to camera, so informative and easy to watch. More please!
Excellent video, good quality, good info. Thanks for this post.
Thank you so much! :)
Wonderful food forest that would be lovely to have in the city I grew up in. Unfortunately government regulations do not allow organic growth fruit trees. They must all be sprayed or removed. Living in the country has given us much more freedom to grow and thrive. Thank you for the beautiful tour!
Which country are you in, that government doesn't allow organic fruit trees?
@@YS-jk2zb I lived in Penticton BC CAnada when I was young. About 10 years ago a friend with fruit trees in her yard was told to remove her two apricot trees if she would not spray. It became illegal to have fruit trees unless you were on the list to have them sprayed. They would remove them if she did not comply and send her the bill!
With all the other crazy things happening I now see why they are doing all this and nothing surprises me any longer.....
What a fantastic garden, definitely some great and inspirational ideas here!!
Great video! Lovely forest garden. I was curious about the "parabolic arc" that she was talking about that surrounds the bee hive. What is that exactly?
Amazing. Great work, keep spreading healthy habits & info like this!!
The only foraging I’ve ever done is for magic mushrooms, thought I’d branch out a little.
Wow this is exactly what I want to do in the back of my garden! It hadn't been touched for 25 years so it was an overgrown wild forest until this summer. We've slowly been clearing it out and now all we're left with is bare soil and a few trees. Didn't fancy just having a grass lawn so something wild and edible like this would be excellent.
Ese How’s it going?
Do it! It would be amazing
ESE, WATCH THE BACK TO EDEN FILM
Can you please explain how the parabolic arch was constructed under the beehive. Or is there somewhere I can read about it?
Thank you,
Valerie
The quality of this video is really super. Thanks for sharing!
+John OBrien Gardener Thank you so much!
great stuff. when you scythe the meadows, how does it reseed if you've cut it all?
fascinated by that nepalese pepper, didn't realise they were able to grow over here, might even try it myself. Thanks Huw!
Beautiful project 👍 great job 👍
Fantastic episode my man!
I am inspired. I have my 1/3 acre and like that Nepalese pepper.
Lazy buggers (wink).
Comfrey as super mulch! TY!
Marvelous! Have a go, indeed. 🌲🌿🌻🌞
Great even I can HEAR what you are saying .
Do you have deer there?
very cool
Those purple flowers they put everywhere are a terrible nacious weed. Russian knap weed
The Lady has a lovely voice.
Very inspiring ! ❤️❤️
Looks interesting - hope to make something like it.
Awesome!
Might need to talk to my landlord about it though, since he owns the property. That being said, he's rather lenient, with a policy of "Grow anything you want, as long as it's legal". Then again, he's a farmer, with a nice supply of livestock, which will be useful for fertilizer, if you get my meaning.
The future is the past in a not very complicated way because time is a cycle, our ancient ancestors studied nature and would have used the same processes.
Any idea where this is? That's some pretty important information.
What is Nepalese pepper ?more details please.
How does your meadow turn immediately into a monoculture grass in permaculture
Lovely.
Such a beautiful place ❤
Hey Huw! As usual, excellent video. You should have thousands of Patreon sponsors. Do you have a strategy for increasing your patronage?
+Timothy O'Brien Hi Timothy thank you very much! Haha that would be nice. I think it's going to be hard to increase the Patreon number as I did a whole video about it which gave me 9 extra Patreons so I'm just going to continue to say at the end of my videos. No real strategy really ;) Also not many people have heard of Patreon so they might be a bit skeptical about it :) Best wishes
Wow this is great!
very beautiful property
I really love this
Someone I referred this video to says it says to them "Comments Disabled" - how odd.
+Martin Houston Very odd indeed because they're not disabled
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Very nice.
Thank you :)
Awesome video!
Yumo
🌻🌻🌻
god bless you !
Yikes! You are growing highly invasive Meadow Knapweed, easily identified in the video at minutes 4:29 - 4:31, 4:37 - 4:44 and 4:51 - 4:58.
Knapweed Facts:
Knapweeds are aggressive, spread quickly and are difficult to control.
One knapweed plant produces 1,000 - 25,000 seeds each year; it's seed bank lasts 5 years. Knapweed invades pastures, forest openings, roadsides, parks, lawns, industrial sites, tree farms, vacant lands, railroads, waste areas and banks of rivers, lakes and streams; basically knapweed will grow anywhere and everywhere.
Knapweed produces a toxin at its roots which stunts the growth of nearby plants, ultimately replacing all desirable forage and/or native plants and altering the surrounding ecosystem.
Other than the knapweed... I love all you have done with your little piece of this wonderful planet.
It is native on chalk - so not a problem. This is where it belongs and chalk downland in the south of England and the insects love it.