Man...i really really really wish we were neighbours...

I’m so amazed hearing you call the trees children and parents....makes my heart sing.....

Another great video. I've been watching your content closely for a few years now. My food forest is now at the 1 year mark. I'm in Hawaii and attempting tropical permaculture, but I'm still learning a lot from you and incorporating what I can. Our winters a little less harsh than yours in zone 11. :) I'd love to see a detailed video on the nursery bed area you showed that was right past the rabbit fencing.

what a gorgeous property!...thank you for the tour!...:D

So nice to wander around your growing space & see it maturing . I think I might do a video tour of mine to see how it progresses 😀

I'm amazed at the variety that you can grow in your area which is not far from me although I'm still in the city this is a very inspiring video of what can be done thank you.

Rhubarb is a rhizome barrier? Wonderful tour. Nice to see nature and humans living in peacefully together.

I love the ending moments of the video that show the perfect contrast of dualities with property owners across the street. On the left a neighbor that "let it all go" after it was clear cut many years ago. On the right, the perfect pristine pasture. Your project , (and permaculture or natural farming/gardening in general) the complete perfection of those two dualities and so far beyond that, a continuous expansion, in beneficial work, and beauty. - Always love your videos, very encouraging and we are working towards what you are creating more and more. Please continue with the wandering rambling walks, and the observations/teachings of what has really "worked" or lessons you care to share. I am becoming increasingly interested in air prune boxes/beds and always was inspired by your collaboration with twisted tree. How do we quickly, expansively propagate millions of beneficial trees and "woodies" as you call them, and get them out there in the hands, and earth where they are needed.? I'm aiming to build more of these hardware cloth on the bottom, and a matching box with hardware cloth on the top. Localized protection and simultaneous air pruning. So helpful, for mass propagation and mass sharing of great beings. Okay please continue. Hare Krsna.

More long videos like this Shawn please. I love it

Spring is finally here.

So great to see it all!

Thanks for sharing, very nice looking! I'm planting a hedgerow this spring, getting lots of good ideas from seeing what you have going on.

Night king cherry? That is beautiful!

Awesome. I just got home after planting the shipments from Twisted Tree and Rain Tree with minimal overwhelm. Moving right along. Appreciating being home mending my splinters and a nasty tick bite on my wrist. Trying not to get freaked out by that. A LOT of stuff planted now. I'm feeling good about things. I also slipped in a bunch of stropharia sawdust spawn. The one red currant I received from you guys is like the most beautiful and lively plant in the meadow right now. What a cutie. Also, the pound of garlic I got from you guys last year is growing BEAUTIFULLY. I never would have guessed that it would be so happy. Also, the bronze fennel took to the ground running; looks happy, cool plant. Hope this coming frost doesn't damage the early growth on whatever has started opening up. Looking forward to continuing efforts. :)

Inspiring as always, looking forward to those Quince and Medlar Seedlings,at the nursery in germany i work at we graft those on hawthorn seedlings for smaller trees, excited what those seedlings are going to produce, Medlar are beautiful when they almost break under the weight of the fruit in late autumn.

Love hearing and seeing the walk through, awesome set up. Thanks brother. Ha man I've gone crazy within last two years I've planted what I think will be top varieties Ive planted prime ark freedom, black satin - blackberry. Boysenberry, Royal purple, golden Ann raspberry. Regent serviceberry, Nanking and Juliet bush cherries, Royal Ann/Stella/north start cherry. Jostaberry, welcome/captivator/ red-yellow hinnomaki/ black velvet gooseberry. Primus/imperial/pink champagne/jonkeer von tets, blackdown currants. Collete/seckle pear, Elberta peach, apricots, nectarine, persimmon, baby mt. Ash shipova, 3diff columnar apples trees, indgo treat-gem/aurora-borialis, sweet mountain and kalinka honeyberries. Reliance/Marquis/Somerset grapes. Issai kiwi, clove currant, crimson star goji, black lace elderberry and happy to say last year I planted 5different figs in the ground (in mid michigan) and with a lite leave at the base for insulation wrapped in burlap was enough for all 5 figs to survive the winter in ground so that's awesome.... Lol and if that's not enough I'm now making duplicates of everything to plant for me and pushing them on other people ha if u got any questions about any varieties I'm here. Planted everything with native and a lite compost/azomite mixed in, the. Top dress with comost and rabbit manure and mulch everything with 50/50 greens woodchips and everything is loving life...

Loved tour today Sean 🌷🌱🌻🥀🌲

Beautiful! Thanks for sharing

Beautiful! Thank you! I really hope you continue doing this throughout the growing year.

thank you for sharing!

absolutely beautiful !!! what a care and eye for detail... thank you for sharing this

The nanking cherries are so pretty. Hopefully mine bloom finally this yr. I think 4th yr since I got from you along with apricot.plum. Carpathian walnuts etc. I'll snap a picture if they bloom!!

That sounded like a tasty meal.

love it!

Love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is awesome! I'd love to see a summer / seasonal uodates!

I think I'd pollard the fruit trees, making it easier to pick and many more fruiting branches. It's an older process, but still valid.

The nettles are nice under the walnuts...until you need to gather the walnuts :/

I wish I had some of those Nanking cherries

Those Nanking cherries are lovely! If you could say what you plant that works well under the trees that'd be useful. Gooseberry under a cherry or apricot does sound rather tempting!! Hi Stanley!!

Hey, this isn't really related but I've been having a hard time getting raspberries to survive in my yard. Last year I put them up against our fence with sun coming from the south and west and they lived pretty steady for a month or two and then started dying off. I want to try again this year but I'm not sure what would help them survive. I mulch them pretty heavily with grass clippings as well but wonder if maybe they didn't get enough water (the sun gets pretty intense on that side in the middle of the summer even though we're a zone 5-6) and wondered if planting them closer together would help protect them or if they need to be further apart (I spaced about 1-2 feet between plants).

Inspiring balance of intense planting and space. Thank you very much for the tour. What do you use for mulch?

Great stuff as usual. Can i stool layer nanking or blueberry? Trolls are thankful for bridges providing them food.

This is inspiring work. I moved to S.E Finland and bought a farm from the UK. So learning from you and your climate hardy plants will help me a great deal. What zone are you in? I would love to see you describe all the Siberian plants in more detail as I am keen to grow many of them ;)...thanks and have a great growing season!

ya mon! praise jah!

When is your last frost there? There is lots of variety there and it is lovely. Do you have to deal with quack grass in the lawn grass?

I have an apricot tree too and my one attempt to save seed and start saplings failed (I think I started them too early). It would be nice to see you starting apricots since it would probably help me figure it out. Why apricots can tolerate Canadian winter I don't know but I'm not complaining.

I'm worried about your apricots with the frost we're supposed to get Sunday :[ hopefully it will be a little warmer than expected.

Have you ever thought about converting all the grass walkways to woodchip or gravel paths?

You may be documenting DNA Methylation in that Honey Locust. It's an epigenetic phenomenon that has some really fascinating implications. If that's what it is, it may have a similar purpose as is achieved by Holly plants; when they're grazed upon, they develop more spines on the lower leaves in response to the pressure.

This is a wonderful video and very inspiring. We are starting our own little food forest on our 1.4 acre property. We have a number of the same plants that you are growing and I can't wait to see our forest in 10 years. We live in Weastern Washington in a zone 8 b and I'm trying to get a raised bed set up for some opuntia cacti, I saw that you had some growing and I was wondering what your rain fall is like there. Do you get fruit from your cacti?

That was a wonderful tour. I like your comments on the problems as well as the successes. You have an email list? How does one get on it? (I don't like facebook.)

Do you notice any takeaway when you plant around stumps? I lost a 1/4 acre of spruce trees to bark beetles and would like to turn the lot into food forest without disturbing ground or removing stumps.

DO you do anything to protect fruit trees from frost other than micro climate provided protctions?

What's the Deal with the rhyzome barrier

So what do you do with the mushrooms after harvesting shitake?

How many hours per day do you work on your gardens?

Do you have any Siberian apricot seedlings to spare/sell? I'm local. Thank you

I worry about roots seeking out water and sewer pipes growing that close to a house.. you haven't had problems? Or don't think you will in 20 years?..

Curious about how you use Fuki?

What kind of pear did you say? A pertonic pear?

What is your total acerage that is cultivated?

1st viewer...

what kind of peach do you grow?

Have you heard of Che fruit? It's quite rare, but it's related to Osage Orange and you can graft it onto OO to get single-stemmed trees. If grown on its own roots, it is hardier than OO and suckers with multiple trunks. It is also a host to the silk moth, like mulberries. There are male and female trees, but there are a number of female varieties that supposedly set seedless fruit without a male pollinator but take a few years to hold onto their fruit. So similar to self-fertile hardy kiwis. The most common variety is "Seedless", followed by "Norris", "Darrow" and "Parthenos". Supposedly "Norris" is superior to the more common "Seedless" variety. www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/che.html

2nd viewer...

Watching your videos outside is very confusing; do you have crows cawing and birds chirping or is it me?

Look man, this is really nice and all but calling plants beings is awfully strange.