This Legendary Florida Farm Has Changed The Way We Grow Food

(Part 1 of 2) The #1 Place To Visit If You Want To Grow Food In Warm Climates!

This latest video tour has been a goal of ours for quite some time. We bring you along to ECHO Global Farm in Fort Myers, FL, one of the first places to break open our passion for permaculture, tropical fruit production & perennial food crops! We found it nearly impossible to pack so much useful information into just one video, so we made it into a 2-part!

Where’s the best place to visit when you want to learn about sustainable agriculture? Every top-tier speaker, author or teacher would agree that ECHO has been a catalyst for so many essential parts of ecology-minded tropical & subtropical agriculture.

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[pedrogonzalesgonzales]

Not only do they grow fruit, they have an orchestra playing in the background. Truly versatile people

[colinstagner]

ECHO is AWESOME Great community of believers sharing God's goodness and kindness across the globe. Much LOVE

[wendyrobertson]

I lived right down the street from Eco and I can tell you I learned new and exciting things every time I went for a visit. Great seeing my fav place on earth

[BbjmL]

Holy cow! Stacy Swartz is a natural. She should stay in front of a camera. Natural gift — to us

[lonetraveller]

Pete Kanaris has taken gardening educational videos to a whole new level, a level that all other gardening videos will be judged by. Well done Pete!

[lynnepeyton]

This is on my bucket list. There's so much to learn I love Florida and I'm proud to be a native Floridian

[Leisma]

I saw the picture and immediate recognized it was ECHO. I'd never been to there or even Florida but absolutely understand their impact to many subsistence farmers and gardeners throughout the Global South.

They were kind enough to send me Tarwi almost a decade ago which grew well in the cool subtropical climate of San Francisco.

[naplescajun]

Lived there for 35 years and spent many days at ECHO. Thank you for whisking me away from my new homestead back to my roots!

[brandy]

I just visited Homestead. I was shocked at how much food was growing in that direction. Never seen any of this fruit or leaves sold central FL up through Georgia. It is a shame since so many people are being forced to eat processed foods or unaware of what can be grown.

[thomasreto]

Pete, thanks for letting Stacy explain all the very adaptable natural systems in this very beautiful botanical garden...I am addicted...onto part 2...🍄😃🌈🤙

[eric_andrews]

This place in unreal. Recycling every input, experimenting, open-sourcing these natural technologies for everyone. Watching this for the second time now to try to absorb all this info ... 🙏🙏 thanks Pete for making this and getting it out to us all

[ruthalbright]

So well done! ECHO is an amazing place, helping millions of farmers worldwide. This is known as the ECHO ripple effect.

[harrykersey]

Thailand is amazing when it comes to food and fruit production ! They are the best in maxing out yields!

[fadlihashim]

Hai buddy, I'm from Malaysia. That is a great Tropical garden. She got everything from the Napier grass to the Logan tree. The exciting thing is the Paddy, That was perfect.

[R.A.K.W.]

The production value of this video is really great. Awesome stuff. Thank you.

[واديطريب]

The owner of the farm expresses his longing spirit of heaven and peace

[brianpendez]

She’s wonderful, they got the right person for the job there for sure.

[teenguyen]

I live in St.Augustine and ive been inspired by your videos and ive recently took up gardening because of you. I absolutely love your videos. Keep up the great work.

[dandan]

50 years in Florida... now I'm between our NC farm and our family farms in Guangxi, China... an autonomous region located north of Vietnam.
Nanning is called the "Green City", the size of NYC; as it's a tier 2 city or medium size city for China. It's our capital city and the gateway of SE Asia.
Guangxi should be on every bucket list as a must visit!
Don't be surprised when you visit, you'll want to stay like I did in 2004!
LIFE IS GREAT!

[DL-lrri]

I appreciate all of these videos on how to grow veggies in FL. I'm still looking for a way to grow tomatoes in FL. Apparently it really is a hit & miss project here. In MO I've raised 12 tomato plants and harvested as many as 300 (roma) from one plant. The difference in climate/soil is unreal. The peppers are easy to grow here. I've so much to learn about this climate. I'm watching different videos on how to grow veggies here and everything is different. Since I've moved here I would starve without a store. Thankfully, videos such as this are helping me adjust to this very different climate. Thank you Pete Kanaris!