"There is no substitute for experience." But my subscription to your channel has given me the benefit of your experience and I really appreciate it. Thank you, a lot.

I'm thinking of getting a pretty large flock of chickens for my pear orchard. I figured all that space on the ground might as well be put to good use and make me some extra income. But the chickens will (hopefully) also do the job your sheep used to do. Clean up fallen fruit and I think they may even be better because they will also eat insects and weed seeds and such.

After watching this I made sure to pick up the fruit this year under the peach/plum tree. I put the plums that had fallen in a bucket. A few days after that we had rain for about a week and it filled the bucket up 3/4 with water. There it sat for another week or so. My husband said, “did you see all the worms in the bucket?” Lo and behold there were tons of little white worm drowning in the water. I was flabbergasted 😲 but happy that all those worms were not going into the ground to haunt next years harvest. Thanks Stefan

Two years ago we collected all the windfall apples and dumped them in the forest for the deer. Had an amazing year of bug-free apples. Last year we didn't do this and the bugs were terrible this year. Now we see why. Thanks for this amazing tip!

exactly why i planted my orchard's floor with deer salad. i have a family of deer who give birth and rear their young on my orchard. they eat all my dropped fruit and any trimmings from my orchard and garden beds. their poop is also one of the best fertilizers around. and since they are at home here and protected and well fed, they do not mess with my trees. of course i protect young trees anyway but i have seen the local deer chase away non-resident deer from my orchard because they don't follow the rules. i made friends with the 3 sisters mom in 05 and have watched all three sisters be born right in front of me. they have a very interesting social structure. the females are the boss. the male offspring usually stick around for a couple of years then wonder off but the females stay a unit. these ladies eat out of my hands because they have never known a world without me in it always making sure they have water and food. they could easily jump my 6ft fence around my garden but they never do. i had to train them mind you... started when they were babies. they follow me everywhere but once i go in the fenced area, i leave to gate open but they will not come in because every time they did, i loose my smile and speak to them without my usual love. they recognize the look i am sure. when they get fighting amongst themselves over food i give them the look and they stop. it is hilarious. i believe a balanced eco-system has to work with native animals. they can help the soil and the trees because they are part of the natural system. i also have bird houses on every tree. i have so many birds and some even land on me and eat out of my hands... i have a special whistle i call the animals for food with. the wild turkeys come running like dinosaurs... my little oasis and a place of peace. cheers 🙂

I'm going to be watching a lot more of your videos because I just leased an organic orchard that has 40 fruit and nut trees! My first orchard and I'm so excited and I'm so glad that I've been watching you the last few years :-) The orchard has; Apples, Pears, Nectarines, Apricots, Pomegranates, figs, Walnuts, and Almonds (and grapes too). The orchard hasn't been maintained too much over the past 10 months and so I hope I can get things in order for this coming spring!

I've heard several teachers say that tossing the little apples into a bucket of water for 24 hours or more will kill the larvae inside. So even without a hot compost it's easy to eliminate the pest and be able to use the fallen apples in (not hot) compost or some other way.

It's amazing what you can learn being a student of nature, you just have to learn it's language! Or tune into this channel 🤙

Do I want better and more fruit next year? You betcha! I'm all ears!

Thank you for sharing your knowledge...truly grateful!

Another wonderful video, Stefan. We have sheep and you are correct. - they are great for cleanup and mowing. For a smaller number of trees geese will do the same job.

💚You're such a wealth of knowledge!

brilliant. I had just heard about this and you've now confirmed it for me

Great video as always! You are such a fantastic teacher and have a wonderful way of imparting practical knowledge and a simple way to implement those practices! Thanks again!

Good to see you again Sir! :D

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Always learn something from watching your videos. Everything about your videos is excellent.

thank you! awesome videos, just subscribed and have been binge watching. i’m learning so much thank you!

Awesome information! Thanks! 🙂

You are a wise guy! 😁👍🏿

Great vid!!

Thanks so much

0:34 prepare .. the pear.

We're putting our chickens through in the fall, after the tree is finished.

Great information! I just bought property and there are 5 apple trees and 1 pear tree that we've found so far that have gone feral and neglected for at least 8-10 years (forclosure property). Many of the apples look bug infested and partially rotted. I'll start clearing under the tree this season and plan on pruning them in late winter/early spring.

Interesting, Thanks!

Makes sense...thanks 4 your shared time/talents with us Stefan. I wish 4 U a good nights sleep...counting some future sheep! Health and God's continued blessings upon you n' yours!

Wow you have some very interesting information.

My Grandmas' used to call these jam fruits. We'd collect. They'd cut the insect trouble out. Then they'd cut and cook. At one Gran's it was apples and cherries. At the other's, where we lived, pears, peaches and cherries.

Hello I love your channel

I've been subscribed to your channel for probably 4 years now and enjoy the info that you put out. I did not know that you had sheep previously. I'd like to know more about how that setup worked. I really want to set up a polyculture orchard/ Savannah prairie w/fruit and nut trees rotating livestock.

I got myself a rolling nut gatherer (Garden Weasel) for the day my nuts start producing, and I'm thinking that it may work for picking up some hard fruit. It would have to be a fairly decent size, though...a 50 cent piece or so.

Yes! Also put a ring of petroleum jelly on the trunk

I pasture our pigs & chickens through the 1acre orchard about once a month. Chickens more often. Haven’t got into raising lambs yet. I wouldn’t mind 4 lambs in my freezer.

Thanks

Just put apples in the barrel, leave on rain and fertilizer is done.

If I don't have sheeps and hot composte should I grind up the ground fruits and press them for cider?

Hello Stefan, thanks for sharing your knowledge with us! I have a question, maybe you can help me. I have my compost pile directly next to one apple tree and I used to collect the apples and throw them in there, because I knew about the problem of leaving them directly on the ground. Now the pile is not necessarily hot enough to destroy the larvae. But is there a chance that other predator bugs are eating the bugs in the pile? Or did I create a perfect environment for these pests to multiply? Is it possible to stop the bugs with traps from climbing up the tree again?

This is the sort of schooling I need for my many fruit trees as an amateur front/back yard weekend gardener.

There are lots of people that do land clearing with sheep and will be happy to pen up their sheep on your land for a desired time.

Cette semaine, en jetant les prunes abîmées au pied des arbres, je me suis dit que ce n'était peut-être pas une bonne idée. Vous m'en donnez confirmation aujourd'hui. Je sais donc quoi faire en fin de semaine... Merci encore pour toutes ces infos!

Hi, do the chickens not do the same job as sheeps? Would they not scratch and eat the insect larvae?

The sheep are also fertilizing the trees as they go....

Hi Stefan, Does Guava, pomegranate will have buds this year which will be converted to fruit next year. I see some at grapes.

How do I access the wasp video. I am still trying to figure out UTUBE. Where do I go? Thank you.

Geese !!

Can lantana be planted in citrus orchard as ground cover and to attract bees and butterflies? Please advise

Would you say it’s a good idea to have sheep in the permaculture orchard, or would they damage the lower plants?

So will the sheep eat the other plants under your fruit trees if you are doing the fruit tree guild?

What kind of sheep did you have? I had Shetland sheep and put them in with fruit trees and they ate the trees and destroyed them.

Hi Stephan, I was intuitively doing this with my cherry this year. All my fruit trees did not have any fruit this year but my cherry. It had fewer fruit that normal. We had a very harsh winter last year here in Calgary. On top of that, we had summer weather up to the third week of September last year, and snow the last week of September and. It was winter weather after that. All the poor trees did not get time to prepare for winter. Their green leaves froze and fell. That is why I am thinking they did not produce any flowers or any fruit. I would like to know if there is anything I can feed them before winter comes this year so they have a better chance of thriving next spring? What do you suggest? I have my backyard mulched with wood chips. Thanks Stephan! Another great video!

We bought a land this year with an old orchard of diversified cultivars of apples and pears that has been abandoned for a couple of years. So i would say lots of fruits affected by insects. We brought in a big flock of chickens and have been moving them around in the orchard all summer so that they could feast off the apples on the ground. Will the chicken get the same results the sheep had on your orchard?

What about the chickens? Won't they scrap and eat those buried larvae?

Mine aren’t producing because I haven’t yet planted any. Trying to find the extra money to buy them with all of the other expenses of setting up. I’ll have sheep and chickens, then some pigs later on. I just don’t want the sheep to eat my guild plants and shrubs. Suppose I’ll need to fence each guild.

OK but what do you do with the yellow jackets on the windfalls?

Squirrels eat all our pears every year 🙁 they go over night 😳 before there even ripe 🌱

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Hi Stef! One personal question, how much fruit do you eat daily and do you do it every single day throughout year? Thanks and cheers from Croatia!

Would sheep eat/damage the shrubs and perennial layers though?

We tried sheep in an apple orchard. Inside of 5 years they killed/ate 70 apple trees. Nothing fazed them, not fencing, not repellent sprays, nothing.

Its not rocket science. But if you watch nature it certainly has that level of intensive interaction. But its worth it to be fed properly.

Is like to get SOME..SQUIRRELS BIRDS AND WHAT EVER EAT THEM ALL

Healthy leaves big leaves on new fruiting wood no scab or insects feeding on leaves mulch cut grass short regularly micro nutrients little nitrogen dormant oil spray

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Our squirrels eat every bit of fruit we’ve ever grown ... along with the yellow hornets that infest them, we never get to eat any fruit we grow. 😕

Sir,I have a doubt about Apple, pear and plum cultivation,in our region have tropical climate so we don't have any chilling hour's during winter season,I would like to know is it possible to cultivate these plants in polyhouse so we can control the temperature and maintain cooling temperature in winter season (less than 7 digree), Kindly advise Ani gopinath India

What if you have chickens?

What was the easiest way to kill your lamb and fast?

How about chickens?

With animals doing the job, you also get free fertilizer in return.

Pick up fallen fruit, is that it?

Can chickens make the job instead of sheeps?

I would rather keep the sheep instead of having them for meat

Feed em to your chickens

I bet all the sheep poo didn't hurt any either

Kill the squirrels?

You seemed sincere about not playing these games anymore. I've had it. Goodbye forever.