YOU CAN DO THIS! Easy Food Forest Tips & Tricks - Get Started TODAY🌿

You can plant a #foodforest in a weekend and have food for life!

Today we take a food forest tour and I share tips and tricks that make forest gardening EASY!

[davidthegood]

You can plant a #foodforest in a weekend and have food for life!

Today we take a food forest tour and I share tips and tricks that make forest gardening EASY!





Thanks for watching!

[doreengreen]

When I bought my house on 1.3 acres, five years ago, my son put in a food forest or the beginning of one at least. Then he went back home to Colorado. I am 63 and on my own. I can’t possibly keep up with all the maintenance. I love watching your show because I realize my garden does not have to be perfect to be productive. Thank you for showing me. I am not a bad gardener after all.

[johanna]

DTG: "You get these happy accidents"
Me: Suddenly realizing DTG is the Bob Ross of food gardening

[prubroughton]

I started not quite a year ago in an old cow paddock over grown with strong running grass. Lots of cardboard laid loads of old hay as mulch was picking veg within 4 months small berries by Christmas and have now joined up all my islands to have a young food forest covering about 300 sq metres. About 40 fruit trees in now and strawberries making an amazing ground cover. I am 76 and do this on my own. Plenty of pollinators and picking flowers too. Grown like topsy round lots of small islands which are now joining up. Just plant s few trees and make the islands and as you get time and have the energy join the dots/islands. Lots of birds and bugs and bees now about what was a very barren spot ( I have 4 mulberries!)😊😊

[peterjames]

"Raised Bed Peter" Thanks you for preaching the freedom to do anything, just plant and see what happens.

[chessman]

Almost everything u r saying is exactly what we did 2.5 years ago. It’s been neglected the last few months and unusually wet. Been brush cutting the last two days. Fantastic mulch . Fruit trees and especially bananas are huge now. We lost a few trees, but overall things are really thriving now. From dead soil to abundance. Your video is perfect.

[Gkrissy]

I totally agree with you about it not having to be perfect. My fussy mother when she visits my house criticizes my backyard and I'm like this is my food forest, I'm not going for hgtv design aesthetics.My garden is productive and that's what matters the most to me. I use chop and drop, and i have young apple and plum trees in now. People criticize and say your yard has potential and I'm like its all about growing food, and farm-to table use in my backyard. The birds or wind have self seeded some hibiscus flowers which is so cool to me. Yup I let nature do its thing in my backyard and trim the weeds.

[professionalpainting]

Thank you for saving me from being a perfectionist. You are a good teacher

[baneverything]

I planted four Dwarf Everbearing Mulberry this year...mainly because they were very cheap for the four and I heard they were very easy to root with young cuttings. I topped one after the two main branches grew about two feet to see what happens. One of the others has about 7 branches and I think I`m gonna root at least one of them and transplant it somewhere. I started asparagus and strawberries too and 5 more fig trees and planted two types of "ground cherries" because they`re supposed to be prolific producers. I hope I like them because I have at least 20 plants.

[beverlyaten]

The perfect is the enemy of the Good! ❤ you help inspire people who really want to grow food, flowers, encourage beneficial insects and pollinators, birds and wildlife, etc, but lack time and knowledge.

[GrandmomZoo]

You are my glorious food forrest chop and drop, grocery row garden, compost everything

[TexomaPrepper]

Buy David’s books, they’ll make you brilliant!

[WildOrchardOasisFarm]

We have a food forest in NW Arizona that we've been working on for the last 3 years since we moved here. I'm so grateful to the previous owner (RIP) who planted hundreds of trees and shrubs. I've added new fruit trees, strawberries, blackberries, elderberries, perennial vegetables and medicinal herbs. We have tons of Palo Verde and Desert Willow happy accidents that require no water and provide much appreciated shade. He even planted random asparagus under some of the fruit and nut trees.

[KK-FL]

I like this advice. I had a Barbados cherry dying in the pot it was in, waiting on me to come up with a plan for it. I decided to dig a hole in a higher part of my ground in very sandy soil (I hear they don't like to be too wet) so I knew it would drain well with these storms we're about to get for the next couple of months. Threw in some amendments, did some untangling of the very potbound roots and put it in the ground. 4 days later there's leaf buds all over it! I know I'll need to move it when I DO come up with a plan but better to move a live tree than throw away a dead one.

[rustedoakhomestead]

I'll have you know... since I've been following you all these years... my thumbs, have in fact, always been green. Thank you.

[sujo]

I needed this right now. Very close to a panic attack for various reasons and I need to focus on things I can control. I planted my first mulberry the other day. I can’t wait to start propagating more. I have just kind of gone bananas this year putting things here and there with no real plan. Analysis Paralysis will get me if I don’t. I planted peanuts and rhubarb. I have no idea whether they will ultimately produce, but what the hey… let’s just see what happens. Medicinal herbs, tomatoes, cukes, beans, potatoes, peppers, strawberries, figs, berries, corn, pumpkins, ground cherries. I dug the biggest rocks I could find around our property and have created new raised beds. I have taken both dead and living river cane from relatives property (by permission of course) and made stakes and trellises. And I have a volunteer persimmon at the edge of one garden plot. After many struggles trying to start cuttings, have finally successfully propagated two wild elderberries. Never had so much growing at one time and still sowing. Bottom line is don’t overthink it and NEVER give up. I can control those things. And I can control how much effort I commit to it.

[lcm]

Lol Garden Scott just mentioned you and the benefit of doing things simply. Doing what you can (not analysis paralysis) go ahead and plant those trees. Love it!

[cleonawallace]

I so needed to watch this video! We bought 9 acres of semi-overgrown land in Umbria Italy, and after a lot of work clearing it, we've started a food forest on an area that I guess must be an acre or two. But I work full time, have autoimmune arthritis, two kids who are not as engaged in the whole process as yours, and that's before dealing with the intense heat. Last year the weeds overwhelmed us, and we don't have access to that lovely free chipdrop service everyone from the US keeps talking about, so I got fairly down about it all at some points. But amazingly this spring, most of our baby trees have sprung back to life, and we've managed to get things under control, and I'm feeling more optimistic! I love the idea of not getting too stressed, strimming some pathways, and just cutting down the weeds as mulch. Feels much more manageable and realistic. Sadly we can't do too much beyond trees until we get permission to fence the area, as the wild boar dig up everything, but I feel like each year the trees grow, we're getting a little bit more established.

[brockberrick]

LOVE these walk and talk and chop and drop videos, thanks David!

[barbaralong]

❤ You inspire me to plant more trees and food. I live with small yard so took out front yard and gone crazy with small trees. I’m 77 years old but I put family to work helping me. I share knowledge, plants and lots of produce. Everyone loves my Avocados. I going to take food preservation glasses including pickles and canning.