NEW YORK FOOD FOREST W/ MICHAEL JUDD

Excellent Review of Easy to Grow Fruits & Nuts for New York and Beyond.

Covered in this video are:

Hybrid Hazelnuts

Cornelian Cherry

Bush Cherry

Hardy Kiwi

Rose Hips

Pine Nuts

Paw Paw

Goumi

Good Fruits & Nuts to Start Learning & Growing!

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What is a Food Forest?

A Food Forest is a low maintenance gardening technique that mimics a woodland ecosystem but substitutes woodland species with edible trees, bushes, perennial vegetables, herbs, vines, and annuals.

Benefits

There are many benefits to creating food forests. Food forests:

• Can be squeezed into the smallest of plots
• Can be built around an existing tree
• Create a balanced ecology
• Pump out fruit, nuts, flowers, herbs
• Are simple to create and maintain
• Provide habitat, pollination, fertilizer & pest management

How To Grow a Food Forest??

Food Forests are grown like a forest, not in the forest. By observing the natural patterns of a healthy forest ecosystem, we see a lot of intimate, successful relationships. A healthy forest converts solar energy into biomass, so why not learn from it to grow our own food systems? This may take a moment to process since we are used to hearing and reading about spacing between plants and rows, nutrient and light competition. In short, we have a traditional view of agriculture that holds back natural succession and biodiversity.

When I look at a healthy forest, it looks like everything is blasting out of the same hole! There are tall, overstory trees, mid-sized trees, small understory trees, shrubs, herbs, ground covers, and mushrooms, with vines climbing up through it all! It’s all pumping and working together, not neatly spaced out. Where there is sufficient water, land wants to become forest and return to ecological diversity. The forest may not necessarily be full of the species we favor for food, medicine, and drinks, but we can take the idea and the pattern and design our own food forest.

[BrianBurns-otwq]

This was a very helpful video, especially since I live a few miles away from there. I used to take yoga there 20+ years ago. A friend of mine used to perform Indian dance there as well. It is a beautiful place!

[trumpetingangel]

So excited to see this - I'm further south in NY with tons of shale! I'm taking notes.

[amandaroth]

We have worked hard to add each year to our 3 (will be 4 this spring) year food forrest. This year we are adding the goumi, some hascap, and honeyberrys, native plum, pilgrim cranberry, apricot, and nectacot trees, hearty kiwi (we got a male and female 2 years ago, but one of them died.) carmine jewl bush cherry, and probably a few I’m missing.

I am also growing 2 pawpaw trees from seed, as well as 8 apricot trees. (Just for fun, if they don’t do well, I’ll be getting grafted variety’s of the pawpaw. We already have grafted variety’s of the apricot.)

We also got another apple tree, because my husband LOVES apples. I still have serviceberry, and jujuberry on my list of wants. But I’ve been cut off from getting more for this year.😂

We currently have 21 fruit trees (apples, cherry, peach, pear, mulberry, and plum.), grapes, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, strawberries, kiwi, elderberry, and almond.

We’re packing as much as possible onto our 3 acres. We’ve got seeds to do wildflower areas, and I have roses, and other flowers going as well.

(We also have goats, chickens, and rabbits)

[lisanowakow]

I have a six year old cherry in the high desert, no fungus so far and it’s first successful fruiting!😊

[ANT]

Mr. Judd are you available as a consultant to help me cultivate my property in Delaware county?