How to Start A Food Forest Garden! Organic Gardening

How to start a food forest garden is a question I get more then any other. Today I go through in detail how to start a Permaculture Back to Eden Garden. This style of gardening is not till, and works with nature rather then against it. Investments are key to no till Gardening, every year fertility increases and so does production!

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[Swtjne]

I'm here 5 years after this vid was made. I decided to binge watch your content because it's all so helpful for me and my husband. These older videos are still good, but you're much more outwardly enthusiastic now. Maybe it's gained confidence with speaking on camera...maybe it's happiness that you live in such a beautiful food forest. Either way, so many people are grateful that you're here.

[numinous]

I was listening without qatching and this popped up in my auto play. I could tell without checking this was an older video. Your energy is so high now. Keep up the good work.

[D_A_D_]

Man, you have become so much more comfortable in front of the camera since this video was recorded, haha

[yLeprechaun]

Dude!!! I'm subscribing. Why? Because you're the first person to say, "dust to dust" in reference to what kind of wood chips. You, Sir, are an altruistic genius, and I agree and relate to those types of folks. That is not saying that I am one.
Shalom

[imogenbegns]

You really seem like a good human; like how God wants us to be. Good to the Earth, good to animals, to to people. That sounds weird maybe, but watching you in your forest makes me think of how the first profession/love God wanted us to have was for nature.

[ForestKnight]

If there is a costco in your area.. you can ask for "Slip sheets" which are just large squares 48" x 40" (i believe, the same size as a pallet board) of cardboard used to slip inbetween levels of product, so they have plenty.... easy to overlap

[julianbell]

James, it was such a god send to find your channel - sound advice based on evidence and you clearly study and understand the science and the biology of the plants you talk about. Unfortunately there is so much mambo jumbo talked about gardening so channels like your deserve to get the recognition. Regards Julian from Scotland

[naumikaur]

Watching this from UK, I wish to thank you for this. You are an inspiration. I have actually watched almost all of your new ones and catching up on the old ones. This is my first year and I have learnt so much from you. I have grown or attempted to grow food from my heart ! I feel like I can relate to you as one of us and a genuine human being who wishes to spread the learning, joy and goodness. Thank you so much.

[organicthug]

Videos like this are so important for improving the environment, and the world in so many ways! I love your channel. I have a pretty established front and backyard food forest. It’s fun to see others;)

[ncougars]

Man I'm watching this video 4 years after and i have to say you have grown a lot with your presentation. Great content.

[icantchooseaname]

I love the whole concept of creating a food forest and gardening

[Marie-orhz]

I look forward to starting my own forest garden next year. Thank you for this detailed information on how to start one. I've always felt grass was a waste of space.

[JJ-vbsv]

Thank you so much for a chilled relaxing video that has really encouraged me to give this a go

[LetThePumpkinsFLY]

I wish I had seen this when we first moved onto our property.

In the end we went with metal raised beds. I love them, but would have loved growing things in the ground when I was younger.

[mvlmeco]

I never had access to woodchips, so for years, i used newspaper for mulch, topped with grass clippings from my huge yard and leaves from all the trees (except the nearby black walnuts!). The first time I ever heard of this was from Fred Wiche, the local tv Weekend Gardener. He said it was a great way to start a garden with little or no tilling...folks thought he was just a wee bit nutz, but I was convinced to give it a try.
I had neighbors who did not use chemicals on their yards so their grass clippings and trees were free of chemicals. they were also very happy to dump onto my compost piles. they didn't mind giving up their newspapers either... but after they saw how much success i had with my small 15x25 garden, they started using their newspapers for their own small gardens. LOL another thing I did was ask one of my neighbors for the water out of their freshwater fish tanks. Like you I started my no till garden in the early fall with a heavy layer of newspapers, some fresh and some composted grass and leaves and soaked it all down with about 30 gallons of "fishy water". The first garden of simple tomatoes, beans, beets, carrots, peppers, and squash was surprisingly bountiful. The second year, that little garden took off like a rocket. I had half a bushel of Thai peppers... I was giving the dried peppers from 4 plants away. LOL
My biggest success was I grew something no one thinks to grow here, because they almost always fail, honeydew melons. I had two successful plants that sat about six fruit. I was overjoyed. I did something else. I planted a tiny 6x4 sacrifice garden. I just broadcast a handful of seed, sprinkled it with compost, and let it go. did nothing to it. no water, no attention at all. Because the plants were stressed they drew away harmful bugs and pests from the main garden. I did, however, end up with a zucchini the size of a junior-sized baseball bat and just about had hard. LOL

[KS-ysvu]

I'm readying myself. Actually really excited. This is the perfect time to start. I hope I can pull this off by myself!

[nickhammersonrocks]

BEST GARDENING CHANNEL ON YOUTUBE IN THE HISTORY OF THE PLANET AND EVEN OUR PARALLEL

[AcornHillHomestead]

We have poor sandy soil upper midwest US zone 4 and suffocated all the grass inside our large fenced in garden over three seasons starting mostly in the fall using clean cardboard from recycle dumpsters. We needed lots of cardboard, it was free and worked very well. We wet it using the rain water we collected, topped it with compost leaves grass clippings and any other amendments we had left over in the garage and finally wood chips. I could not believe the worms we got the first spring. We get nice yields so far and have only been at this since fall 2016. Summer of 2018 I saw different mushrooms growing and that fibrous web gardeners hope to get in their gardens. We look forward to adding more garden space wherever we can find it. The focus for 2019 is medicinal herbs, a couple fruiting trees and elderberry shrubs. I love your approach to gardening. Keep em coming! TFS 😀

[japanwithMaikin]

I am completely new to gardening and I started getting addicted into it. love your videos buddy, keep it up.. I am learning so much from you. starting in a small way with veges and after successful stint gonna buy a big land to start food forest

[sharonallen]

What a fantastic video. I'll be watching this over and over until all this info. is permanent in my brain! I love the video at 15:04 - the happy boyish grin when you say "when you water you are feeding the plants compost tea". So obvious you love what you do. Thanks. ~Sherrie