I'm glad I found your channel. You've been very helpful.

You should add purple flowering thimbleberry to your food forest. The bees go absolutely crazy for it!

I love how permaculture systems produce more and more over the years - supporting not only ourselves, but our chickens (and in my system ducks!) and or course the wildlife. Birds and bees, deer or wombats (in my garden) are all drawn to the abundance! Humans as a positive impact in our world - heartwarming!! Thanks for sharing your amazing abundance.

FYI Keith; my mother has cold hardy Kiwi's as well, growing in partial shade. The male grows between 3 and 5 meters a year, one or two vines occasionally will make it out to 9 meters before I manage to trim them back. The females grow nearly as vigorous, but they also send out a fair amount of fruit spurs. Up against a house, with that kind of growth rate, they will get under the siding and rip it off if you give it the smallest of chances, and those vines will climb up under the eves and wreak all kind of havoc to the structure.

Yes for mulberries. I got to grow some from seeds and just transpot 8 of them. I want to put some around the chicken coop so the fruits fall directly to their place but I'm not familiar with that tree, if it will survive here too. So far, survived one winter.

I agree - support the plants that want to grow and cross your fingers for the others, but don’t waste your precious time and energy too much! Good luck though to the peach tree - it’s always a win to get a peach harvest 😊

I'm saving mustard seeds this year too, for next year, but also going to use my mortar and pestle and try making my own mustard. We'll see if it works!

My raspberries as well blew up this year. I have harvested so many raspberries. My freezer is filled up I’ve given baskets to all my neighbors. And that and the thing is still pumping out raspberries, mined blown. Now I’m picking blueberries. Having a Homestead and home forest is a must.

Unrelated to the video today but I tried making some of those salad “toquitos” from last vid and it’s one of my favorite snacks. Funny how just making a salad a wrap makes it so much more fun to forage and eat

You should add caucasian spinach into the collection if you don't have it already. Edible (almost invasive) perennial climber that produces copious amounts of food. I still can't fathom how much food a two years old plant of mine is producing, maybe it's just well suited to my site dunno.

Nature loves to keep all ground covered in plants you have mastered that.

Super incredible! I'm enjoying your positive attitude and enthusiasm. Is your family on board with all of this? I have a hard time getting anyone to help me.

Man your permaculture is absolutely fantastic. Really great work, wish mine was 15% as great. Edit : I swear those are the happiest chickens on planet Earth. Well done man, i'm very imppressed.

I think the black mulberry can grow here as well I can't wait to have those trees I recently watched a video on Pecan Grove or Deep Sourh Homestead on how to air layer a mulberry. I love the variety you have growing! And the little compost drainpipe tube in the polycuture garden I definitely am going to try that that's a good idea.

Great stuff. I guess I’ll be planting jerusalems to distract the deer on our new property. Thank you for the tour.

So good to see your food forest. I noticed that a lot of your produce is in shaded area and yet it is all growing so well. So many plant tags say they need full sun and I find that they don't survive well in full sun. My plant have been struggling in full sun. I will have to transplant to shaded area. Thank you for all your videos.

I've been waiting, mostly patiently, for another video...signed on today and found two! I'll save my question for the part II video.

Tomatoes are mostly cultivars now designed to be trellised or supported. You may find these don't work so well producing fruits. There are obviously heritage varieties, which once did sprawl. Depending on the climate/growing zone you might try "Manitoba" tomatoes. Bred obviously in Canada to withstand our climate, short season steak tomato. Blight is probably the worst thing for killing off tomatoes, peppers, cukes. Of course potatoes can be hot, Ireland can prove the results of what happened. It's been a decent year for berries so far. Do you see/get slugs? In the UK it's been a devastating for their gardens. I have a few, but very little damage.

Very nice, lush!

I've been working towards having living mulch in our food forest but I've also been looking into the syntropic system where they chop and drop a lot so you can't maximize living mulch. At first, I thought that since living roots build soil much better than above-ground measures like chop and drop but then wondered whether the latter would increase fungal ratio more, thus being better for the trees that are eventually planned to take over. Thoughts?

3:58 I believe that's actually bird's-foot trefoil, not buttercup. Air conditioning? What's that? That's not natural, is it? :D

Awesome as always. What variety of grapes do you have that are that far along in zone 5? Do you do anything special to the raspberries in the heat? I'm in N.Idaho U.S and my food forest is dealing with 92- 100 degree heat for over a week. Do you have any suggestions for dealing with a food forest in the heat? Mine is deeply mulched in places but with an acre it's hard to get enough mulch everywhere. Thanks, always love your videos

What peach variety are you growing? What varieties would you recommend for a similar but slightly milder climate (south germany, alp foothills). Thank you. P.S. We've had such a wet and cold year everything is a month behind and there has been a huge explosion of slugs.

do your EWO work in same places year after year?

Is that a Selkirk hat I see!!!