Thanks John. Can you plug your course? Feel free. Website, link, plug it all. Indeed that Yarrow mis-Id has been pointed out before. I like to leave my mistakes up though (plus, source footage is gone). I think I pinned the comment that originally pointed it out. I could be wrong though.

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Thanks for the reply (sorry I don't know your name). I didn't see any previous comments about the yarrow, but it seemed a nice 'excuse' to connect with you. We had to cancel (postpone) the PDC for 2020 but expect to run it next summer. Details at TerraKula.org. I'd like to connect more directly with you - if you're open to it you can message me through TerraKula. We seem to have a lot in common. E.g. I met Sean in Vermont and NY; he is a friend and true inspiration.

It has actually worked incredibly well.

Thank you so kindly

In the Garden of Eden even other animals just eat plants. Genesis1:29-31.

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They are incredible. One of my staples for sure. It's just so insane to have onions every year - more than I could ever eat - and I didn't plant any. They just multiply and spread and I have food growing everywhere. I think I bought 4 bulbs of roughly 5 onion bulbits about 4 years ago and I easily have a thousand walking onions now. I've been giving them away like crazy too, using them in soups, they are awesome. Best thing about them is that the greens pop up really early, so we're eating onion soup a few weeks after the frost is out of the ground.

Awesome! Welcome to Ontario

Good luck to you. I want to do same. But i am feeling lost . Dont knw where to start or how...

Sure I can definitely do more of that this year.

Awesome thanks for watching:)

I work with a lot of Romanians at work, and I can attest to that. When people found out I was doing this stuff, one of the first suggestions of plants to add was lovage from my co-worker Chris who is Romanian. So I added it, and have been using it for 4 years now. Love it.

Thanks for your generosity in sharing! Much needed knowledge.

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I have planted a few lovage plants that are doing really well. I never knew they have antidepressant properties. I find the taste to be too strong compared to celery which means I have to use less. Interestingly, the rabbits have stayed away from them and they haven't touched the inter-planted kale either. I suspect the rabbits don't like the smell of lovage. They have mowed down my other Kale.

Thanks! Wait until you see the new pond!

Indeed you are right.

I noticed that, too, but there is valerian next to it. You can see the leaves coming into the frame on the right at times.

That is so incredible to hear! Thank you so much, for watching but also for the work you are doing there! Making a difference in a big way!

Thanks for the info!

Also have you heard of using your own blood/saliva on your plants so they can produce antibodies for you?

Never heard of that. I must admit I'm VERY skeptical of that, but would be interested in reading more about it. Skeptical but open minded.

Maybe a chapter. Not that much to say which would fill an entire book

Awesome 👌

Ooooh thanks for the idea! I have been wondering how to cook with it, but in a way that doesn't make the thing taste like black licorice.

Many thanks!

Awesome!

Lol, yes I'm being pursued by a peach tree sapling and a couple of comfrey cuttings. I'm expecting them to show up on my doorstep any day. A paw-paw sapling showed up last month. I'm like a plant magnet now.

No not yet. Infact, my basil this year just ended up getting forgotten about! I felt horrible. Too many plants, not enough time :)

Indeed. This is a very old video, and I was only getting started and still had some plants mixed up because I planted them in the same area but hadn't worked with them before. How I got these two mixed up I'll never know LOL they look nothing alike.

Sure! Thats a great video and one that I've never done before... and one that is easiest to do in the winter time!

Indeed, this was a long time ago when I was first learning plants.

Indeed.

I design exactly this kind of thing in the river areas of my pond stream. I purposely asked to have one side of it slightly higher elevation, so that I can put a lot of river rock and have bees land on the rocks and drink from them. A great comment thanks as always D.W.!

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Ah, you're already a light-year ahead of me. When do you place your orders for stuff you have to order, such as fruit tree sapling and such? I know you have to do it in the fall to get them in the spring but it seems like everything is always sold out when I check. I'm wondering what the optimal time window is.

As soon as possible. Most nurseries will have a mailing list you can sign up for. That way you can order as soon as their catalogue open up.

No it is not. Lovage is how he said. I am romanian...we love lovage

The biggest thing is to increase airflow and light. Pruning is the best way to deal with these. I should make a video on this.

I am going off this: pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Valeriana+officinalis Of which reference 9 is this: Launert. E. Edible and Medicinal Plants. Hamlyn 1981 ISBN 0-600-37216-2. If you have published research showing that is not true, you should submit it to pfaf so that they can update their information. For now, I would certainly recommend caution.

I just use my phone, and Google lens, then double check with 2 apps, plant net and picture this. You can also plant to reddit at r/whatsthisplant

I just plant more food. They provide valuable water and air pathways for plant roots. I haven't had any take down entire trees yet, but if they did I would just keep planting more. Other than that, the only possible thing yoy can do is have animals. Outdoor cat, etc.

Thank you for the tip!

Are you talking about burdock at 20 min in vid? I have heard it's very edible, but I havent tried it yet. It's on my radar though, just have to get around to it. I hear the roots are quite good, and that stuff is everywhere in the wild, so I really want to know what it tastes like. I havent tried prickly lettuce, I will look it up. I'm always looking for more diversity. Thanks a ton for the suggestions! It's nice to chat with other plant lovers!

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I can tell you wild lettuce definitely works for sleep. I have made it myself. I followed this guy's instruction: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hJ-Gatt8sNrJpY0.html My wild lettuce does not look the same as his. The stuff in my yard is smaller. It was the first medicinal I ever made and it works very well!

Look up all pants on plants for a future. It is a great website that has very good references to back up what they say. Here is the page for valerian. pfaf.org/USER/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Valeriana+officinalis

I’ve taken it often for sleep, and the downside for me is my dreams are so intense I might as well be tripping. I sleep deeply in a physical way but am maybe emotionally exhausted.

Yeah, I've always been the kind of person who was just happy being myself, and if I'm nice to people and they still don't like me, then that says more about them than me. Breaking from the norm is really important. Especially when the norm is ignorance.

I haven't mowed the lawn in the 18 months since we moved in here and constantly feel like townspeople are judging me, but so far everyone is super nice and chatty and hasn't said a thing. 🤯 We also don't take the leaves. This is the second leaf fall and much of the front yard is reverting to a fern-covered woodlands already. Very cool to watch.

Indeed! This has been pointed out a few times, thanks for noticing and correcting. I was still learning those 2 plants at this stage. It feels so funny to me watching it back now lol.

Exactly :)

I was going to do a bit of that, but there are actually some legal implications locally about doing drone footage like this. And I also want to he a bit careful showing too much and having people be able to find my exact location. Lots of crazies out there. The opening shot in this video shows about half of the planted areas: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r8qjY92EqrCqcWQ.html

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Thanks for the reply and it is understandable, something I hadn't considered. I've dug deeper into your videos and can glimpse more. And thanks for the direct on your aerial, it is very helpful, great job! Thanks a bunch for your abundant useful info and for the suggestion on you tube channel "Edible acres". You are all extremely helpful. Big love. All safety encouraged.

Большое спасибо!

Definitely go with Dutch White clover then. Thanks for the comment, and welcome to the family! Great people here, especially in the comment section. It's a true badge of honor for me that I attract so many amazing people to come and chat about gardening!

There are references to studies over at pfaf on the valerian page.

I'm a Herbalist and it's not addictive in the traditional sense. Valerian needs to be taken only two weeks at a time because it builds up in your system and good luck with pain relief .Great for insomnia and anxiety.

That valerian looks much more like common yarrow.

Indeed, I misspoke on this video. I had a pinned comment there, but it seems the person who first made it has since deleted the comment.

Am in Southern Ontario

Indeed, very old video, but that Yarrow looks nothing like valerian LOL, super surprised I got that wrong at the time.

We are all learning all the time. I greatly admire the work you are doing, and I follow your youtube channel with interest. I, too, have a permaculture farm with many food forests planted in Ontario-- on Manitoulin Island in zone 4b. I apologize for my nerdy, permaculture and herbalism teacher need to correct the misidentification of that plant. I assumed from observing your character on many videos that you would want to be advised of it, as you seem to be a person interested in reality, as any good engineer would be. LOL. Keep up your good work. The world needs you.

PS. Valerian is not chemically addictive. Its name sounds like valium, which is very addictive, but that is misleading.

I found a really good one, but it's in french. Other than that, I don't really know of one (it's a pretty big list, especially when you get into the berries and herbaceous layer!). What I did was just walk around various nature trails taking pictures of everything and looking them up on pfaf.org (plants for a future). Learn about them, their uses, etc. Also, visiting various plant nurseries, especially "off the trail" ones that specialize in native wild plants, such as Grow Wild! Native Plant Nursery www.nativeplantnursery.ca, which is a place somewhat close to me. It's a bit of a drive to get there, but the plant catalogue in a place like that is a great place to start. Cross reference those plants with pfaf.org, learn about them, etc. Then contact nurseries around you to see if they carry those plants. A great way to flesh out your collection.

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy thank you so much, sir

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Please share the PDF list, even if it is in French.

Egyptian walking onions. Perennial onions. Maybe in my top 5 of favorite plants. The plant I took from was planted this same way last fall. They make bulbits on their very first year.

Dutch white, Trifolium repens

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Many thanks for replying. It looks so healthy! I tried Dalkeith mix (It was formulated by the CSIRO - Which is our Australian national science research centre: www.diggers.com.au/shop/edibles/clever-clover-kit-csiro/sclc/) but it didn't do well here. I'll give yours a try. Cheers.

Hockey and dream of spring

we are about 2 hours from Toronto

Man, that's unfortunate. The worst thing is they will sell this topsoil for profit, then leave you with backfill and an inch of moderately good soil. It's literal theft. So disgusting. The best thing is soil building practices. Just VOLUME. Get as much chop and drop going as you can. As an example, I have a local forest near me that has wild comfrey growing. When I first started, I would go and harvest that comfrey fairly regularly. Just try to be conscious of overharvesting. But this can be a great way to use an existing fertility source and helping to restore your soils with it. Riverbanks are great fertility sources and will bounce back very quickly. See if you can tap into something like that - and don't tell anyone I told you to do that. Infact, I'm telling you not to do that, so don't do that and don't get me in trouble. It really does come down to just dumping organic matter down as much as possible. Plants will help, but if you want to QUICKLY succession this, it's all about finding organic matter and dumping it down. You can do it 100x faster like this. As far as what plants to do (say, if the above wasn't possible or desirable), then you are looking at all pioneer species. Pretty much if it's considered a weed, it will help heal that wound. Try to find the weeds you like, and plant those. Even the plants you mention, they are all decent plants to use for this. Just chop and drop them as regularly as possible and use them to transition the soil towards fertility. And understand that this will get better every year that passes, and soon you will find that the scotchbroom, thimbleberry, lemonleaf and huckleberry may struggle in the newer more fertile soils. Not so much as struggle, but rather that other plants will do really well there and will finally be able to compete against them. They can't now, but they will be able to after a few years of this. For now, try to tap into ANY organic material you can. Heck, even if it's just going to restaurants and picking up their food waste, dumping that down and covering it all with woodchips and just taking the hit on the next year or so of having "refuse" in your backyard. That would actually transition to great soil very quickly. One thing you don't want to do it hit the hills too hard before they transition. The weeds may be unsightly, but they are holding the soils there. If you cut back too much there, you may actually destabilize the hill. Roots are super important on hills. Try to maximize plants on any hills that you can. Woodchips can also help because they absorb the energy of raindrops, and let the water move without picking soils up. Oh and also, thanks for supporting the channel! That's so awesome, I appreciate it so much Debra :)

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy That's great, helpful info. Thanks. Will the veggies I grow (sandy soil ok veggies) help via their roots? Along with the weeds I plant. I suspect that is exactly what happened; he scooped up the topsoil and probably used it on the development or sold it. There is a lot of level land like that. It is growing grass. The water nearby is on our land, too, so I won't sue you if I cut the plants back. ;) I will be careful to keep the plant-life going there. I'm so looking forward to helping to restore this land and also managing the forest land. I will be using homeopathic remedies on diseased and injured plants, including the upper slope primative plants as I can get at them. I'll be writing a blog post on the remedies soon.

Indeed any plants that grow (veggies or otherwise) will help stabilize the soil. Make sure you come plug your blog when you start it. And let me know if youtube takes the comment down.

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Thank you! Here is the blog: www.paradiseorganicplants.com/ I have posted the homeopathic plant help article; it is meant to let people know of the value of homoepathy for plant care (amazing, really!) It is not comprehensive, but it gives the general idea and points to a book that covers the topic well. And I'm happy to answer questions on the blog. I started the blog after watching your videos, and some posts star you! Thanks for your videos.

Wonderful! Make sure to advertise (subtly and sparingly or people will get peeved) every now and then on newer videos.

Lol. Haven't had that problem yet, but I would think the only fitting end would be to wrap them in some plaid dinner jacket, pour some maple syrup on the body, grab a pint and play a good game of hockey to cellie.

Indeed :)

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@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy thank you so much! I am in the process of clearing out a wooded area full of walnut trees and planting apple trees in another part of the yard. The deer crack will help to keep the apple trees alive😁💃

lol

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy is there a shrub or some understory plant that the deer will seek out versus your garden or trees? I heard one person say it is like "crack" to deer😁.

Hi Mohammed, you can send me an email to permaculturelegacy@gmail.com.

Stream is natural low point of the land. Rain catchment is from farm fields above my property, so it has who knows what in it (unfortunately). If you wanted to create one that is very natural the bad news is that if that were possible, it would likely already be there. So the only way to "create one" is to basically create an artificial reservoir and use a pond liner to line the stream, and a pump to recirculate the water. Top up the basin anytime it's low (from evaporation, splashing, plant take-up) and try to get a natural water flow to deposit itself there. The other option would be to find out how low your water table is. It's possible if it's not too low that you can create a stream by just digging deep enough.

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Pond Liner 100% not necessary. Sepp does it with clay and an earth mover. Dig out an area for water catchment, cover with clay, put smallest available digger on the earth mover, push it down into the ground until it lifts the front of the mover off the ground. Repeat across the entire pond, compacting the clay into a hardpan layer that will hold water naturally. Boom. No plastic.

Agree, but since there is no clay here, I would have to truck it in. That clay comes from somewhere, is harvested, likely clear-cut trees then dug out like a mine, then transported. It's not like clay is natural and plastic is unnatural, if the clay isn't naturally here. Support and Geoff Lawton have also had major dam breaks. So it works, but not as well as a liner. Last part is cost, and trucking clay in was 2x as expensive as an EPDM liner. I personally think plastic sucks, but if there is a good spot for it, it's in a pond liner on land with no clay. That's just my opinion though.

It's possible. It looks like it. That area I sowed with a wild seed mix in that year, so it could be anything. Amaranth is a good guess. Could also be a variety of goldenrod, but I think amaranth is the most likely.

It doesn't have to be chips. What do you have local in abundance? Use that. Down in the tropics they use seaweed and palm leaves. It just needs to be organic. Try to tap into someone's waste stream. Leaves in the fall also work well. It could be old moldy hay. It could be coffee grinds, juice peels and newspaper. You won't make friends with the neighbours with that one though. But all that matters is that it used to be alive. There was a story of a forest regrowing in the tropics from a orange peel dump site. Literally 20 foot deep orange peels for acres. 10 years later its an orange Grove

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I feel like mostly what grows here is maple trees. I'll see about trying to get maple leaves from people's yard waste, but I then have to worry about fertilizer, pesticide spray, etc. don't I?

Yeah, but you can minimize that by doing some smart selection criteria. I think I talked about some of that in my aminopyralids video. Basically, a few things... asking them if they spray is the easy way. If that's not possible, then going to somewhere with no grass but lots of trees (common in Olde rear time homes where the large tree shade the grasses).

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I appreciate your stuffing with me on these comments, Keith. I'm trying really hard to get the motivation and wherewithal to get started here in Western Mass. It's overwhelming at times. Tried starting some red dosier dogwood for coppice and basket making last fall but not one of them came up this year so I got discouraged. But watching Edible Acres, I've seen how the just plants a nutty amount of everything and then even if only 10% works he's got like 200 hazelnut saplings. I just need to find out how to get bulk amounts of stuff on the cheap. I like your scientific approach to things as I'm a trained scientist too (physicist). It would be cool if ever I get my shit together to have you guys over for a visit or you're down this way. I'll definitely stay in touch.

Indeed, video is 3 years old and I was just learning both those plants and got this one mixed up in this video.

I'm the wrong person to ask for that one! I'm just passing information down. There are lots of links and resources at pfaf.org though.

If they are rare definitely try to protect them indoors and under grow lights or something. Get a few established in pots under control and only then put them out in the wild to fend for themselves.

None that I know of, but that doesn't mean there aren't any. Alfalfa is about the closest thing that would match most of that.

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy ya, I looked a lot after asking. Can't eat much of them. No problem with clover though, it grows a lot already and I love seeing them anyway! Plus I just found a nursery with seabuckthorn so I can add that back into my plans ^_^

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy oh ya!! I just found that fenugreek/methi is nitrogen fixing and it's my absolute favorite herb and seed spice ever! It grows about the same height or maybe a tiny taller than clover, looks like clover, tastes amazing dried, fresh, and the seeds are used in a lot of things I cook. Woot! I also use it as a substitute for cilantro because that's the true devil's weed. Not perennial but should spread by seed. Grows back several times each season after harvest, releasing nitrogen along the way I'm guessing.

I've never grown fenugreek because it's an annual, but I should try it. I'm curious how well it naturalizes and self seeds? Maybe I will try it this year. :)

4 acres, but only 1 is planted

No, this one was basil my wife bought me from the nursery for Father's Day last year. Just annual basil.

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy that's crazy cant wait until my soio building starts to pay off! :) love this channel

They do! Not the first year, but last year they did. Wild bees.

Canada, it's right in my name :)

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy it a big country with varioua climate....

@@filipou1000 oh I didn't see you say Area. I'm in zone 5, Ontario.

Indeed, those are staghorn sumac. For weed fabric, I would caution against it. All it does is create a problem down the road. Weeds will just grow on top of it, and even through it (trust me, I know from experience) and now you have this interwoven fabric of weed roots that is impossible to remove, removes in pieces, and is garbage in the soil. The best way to fight weeds is either from above, or moving up. From above means sheet mulching right on top of them, with a very thick smothering layer (2-3 cardboard layers for really nasty areas), or even just spending a season dedicated to a smother, such as with plywood or repurposed billboards. Smother smother smother. Reset. Then begin anew. The second is going up. Raised beds. Get the planting area up off the ground, where weeds won't climb in from the side. This one is a bit more work to set up, but it really pays off when it's done, and 10-year from now you will love that 10-year earlier you did this project. We aren't getting younger. Those are your only 2 options that will actually work. The first may need a refresh every 5 years or so. The second one should last the rest of your life.

They are really similar. I've touched this many times and haven't had any reactions - but I do when I touch poison hemlock. The environment is also very cold and dry, and hemlock likes quite wet sunny environments. I'm 99% sure this is QAL. Still, not gonna eat it!

Honestly, now that we have Lucy and Rosie (Aussie shepherds) who are outside most of the day, I never see deer anymore.

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy what a shame, that's a lot of sustainable and high quality protein.

And as good as you can get ethically speaking. The deer you can harvest in a food forest system (also rabbit trapping) are animals that lived INCREDIBLE lives until they were eaten.