How To Manage Your Young Food Forest

Frida unpacks the process of managing a young 1-2 year old food forest with the living example of her and Sean managing their food forest they installed a year ago at Ngararatunua, Kamo.

Covering:
-Observe, then interact
- Observing stata dynamics
- Tools to use for what job
- What weather to prune in
- The difference in 'chopping and dropping' in summer vs spring or autumn.
- The importance of density and diversity
- Seed grown vs transplanted
- Wild life integration
- The joys of FOOD FORESTING!!!!

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[peterellis]

Living in cold temperate Michigan, I look out my window into our very early spring and can see two hundred meters into our woodland. Your tropical growth is intoxicating ;)

[sharonhoffer]

Thank you for all this lovely information, and actually showing us what and where you do things in the forest. I’m still at the planning stage of my food forest, but the fact that you did yours on a certain sized area made me happy, as that is what I’m planning and hopefully one day, mine will look somewhere as good as yours.

[syntropicfarms]

I love you guys you changed my life completely. I’m now living the machete life in Puerto Rico

[benjaminklenner]

Thanks. This is great info! I've gotten into the basics of syntropic agriculture, but this video explained management very well, and in a way that I can understand. Cheers!

[AlanaGovender-dj]

Such a beautiful little food forest and really inspirational and well explained. I can't wait to visit- we are moving to Kamo in a couple of years from Australia:)

[djazt.]

Such a beautiful food forestry show-and-tell, Frida and Sean, thank you very much! (Also, that forest spot with the play of light was a great setting for Frida's narration!) I learned a lot. Though I will probably have to modify some techniques for my future food forest (… just got the land!). For example, I can't plant such a dense food forest that needs intense management, as I'll only be there for one period in most years.

[jobleijh]

Thank you so much for sharing, great to see the progress, amazing results!!!

[melissab]

Thank you for explaining this so well, and rekindling my motivation! I get tired of explaining why my yard is such chaos. My very orderly mother "cleaned up" after my last chop and drop smh

[celt]

I have just started to plant an area for a food forest - timely video and really helpful. Thanks!

[funkitupyo]

Wow thanks so much! Amazing food forest and amazing tips that really offer help and direction in so many areas of maintaining a FF of a bigger scale. Absolutely loved this one. You guys rock !

[Deacon]

Merci pour vos vidéos.
J'espère vraiment que vous allez continuer. Ici, dans le sud de la France c'est encore l'hiver et le vert des vidéos comme celle-ci fait du bien !

[githakakaruri]

Highly informative and inspirational. Ahsante.

[CreciendoentreRocas]

Amazing video! Thank u so much for all the info ❤️

[maltawildlife]

This is amazing. So happy to have found this very informative video. Keep them coming

[АндрейЙердна-чи]

Брльшое спасибо за информацию, было очень интересно!

[terewam]

People will love to help you with the work, to learn and experience the richness of life through your positive outlook. I'd even pay to be a part of it. May God bless you for sharing.

[rogerkenworthy]

What a great accomplishment! And in such a short time...congrats. Question - how do you plant bananas? Seeds? Transplants? Cheers Roger

[antoniohache]

Wow! What is the distance between the tree rows in this video?

[philinitpiazza]

Just wondering how do you deal with rats and or possums/wildlife with young trees?

I planted out a small 10m row and everything has been getting demolished by rats, i even fenced off and netted the row to keep out wallabies and possums but the rats got every last leaf of anything valuable. Including things like cover crops, eucalyptus, acacia, and all my fruit trees, planted by seed or seedlings..
Maybe i need an established placenta 1 first but seems like everyoneelse can just plant all at once.

[BlessedBeYourName_John]

It was mentioned in the video that you did a spring chop and drop in hopes the plant bounce back strong before summer.
I am thinking does to method applies to tropical countries like Malaysia? We don't have 4 seasons here, it's hot and wet all year round. How can we help our plants bounce back stronger? Thanks!