Permaculture Garden Tour & Planting Plan - Self Sufficient Living UK

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2 ай бұрын

Join us for a FULL TOUR of our PERMACULTURE GARDENS - What crops we are harvesting and growing in early Spring and our planting plan for the season ahead. Self sufficient living saves us a LOT of MONEY, which gives us a non financial security and rewards us with the irreplaceable gift of TIME and FREEDOM 💚
We are Dan & Laurie and our land is called Freedom Forest - Its 3 acres in the South of England where we are creating an edible oasis and trying to provide as much for ourselves, from our land as possible, where we are completely off grid.
Our food growing journey began together in 2017 when we created our first No dig lasagne bed. Every year we grow more and more and now we are currently around 60-80% self sufficient in our food needs.
Our style and methods are inspired by permaculture and we try to be thoughtful about how and what we do, to be as gentle on the planet as possible.
We are MASSIVELY grateful that you choose to watch our Videos and support us in this way, however, If you appreciate and get value from what we share and would like to help us a little more, you can become a Freedom Forest Patreon (link below).
It takes us about a day to film some video and another few evenings to edit it, Patreon provides a way you can support what we do with any size donation you wish, it could simply be the value of a packet of seeds! We have many projects coming up, as well as wanting to improve our videos with better camera equipment... maybe even a drone one day to make our videos even more detailed and better quality for you to enjoy! You can help make it viable for us to keep putting the time into making these videos by becoming a Patreon. In return your name will appear in the end credits of our videos and we'll message you a password for the 'members area' of our website where we share more of our favourite recipes exclusively for our Patreon's 💚
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Other KZfaq Channel Mentioned:
Craig from @GrowParadise
Enjoy & Thanks for Watching
✌️🌿 Peace and Plants
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@freedomforestlife 20 күн бұрын

Thanks for watching folks - if you enjoyed this video and would like to see more tours of our Permaculture inspired gardens - check out this playlist here: 👉kzfaq.info/sun/PLOidPRQofoMPNWq9QrkWmf5JP4Dr0AKCO 💚✌🌿

@NnekaOchonogor 2 ай бұрын

Glad you’ve made the 10k mark. Very well deserved 👏 👏 👏 🎉🎉🎉

@freedomforestlife 2 ай бұрын

🙏🌟🙏

@user-in1ik6tx4h 2 ай бұрын

I use lager/beer traps for the slugs and tip it back out on to the soil.

@lynnerobinson6425 2 ай бұрын

Loved the tour. Everything is looking really good. Its reassuring to see what you're growing and that for the most part, I'm not too far behind. ✌️🌿

@freedomforestlife 2 ай бұрын

Good on you Lynne ... It feels like we've JUST got to where we need to be ... just in time, as always, I am sure the weeds and seeds will be hot on our heels though and will continue to keep us busy 🤣✌️🌿

@user-in1ik6tx4h 2 ай бұрын

Jerusalem artichokes are an amazing propagator, I quadrupled my crop 👍

@user-in1ik6tx4h 2 ай бұрын

I use Nasturtiums to protect my tomatoes 👍

@user-in1ik6tx4h 2 ай бұрын

I only have a limited amount of growing space, so it's wonderful to see 👍

@NnekaOchonogor 2 ай бұрын

Another fab tour. Can’t wait to see the new additions this year!

@freedomforestlife 2 ай бұрын

Thanks Nneka - Glad you enjoyed the tour 💚 I look forward to hearing how your garden grows for you this year too, hope you've been feeling the Spring vibes too ✌️🌿

@andreea9id 2 ай бұрын

I really enjoyed this video! Thanks for this! From Romania, Europe, a big hug!

@freedomforestlife 2 ай бұрын

Hi, Glad you enjoyed it - thank you for letting us know - really appreciate it 🙏 and so cool to hear where people are watching from - Sending love and hug to you in Romania 💚✌️🌿

@karenharkness4847 2 ай бұрын

Happy spring beautiful. Very very wet here in Wales. I've just eaten my first harvest of nine star broccoli. Yummy. Living our best lives ❤️

@freedomforestlife 2 ай бұрын

Hey Karen, Yeahhh loving the 9 star broc 🙌🥦 good on you 💚 OMG the rain and wind seems relentless atm!!! At least things are warming up though and Spring growth in still happening - Love it 🌸 Thanks for watching and for your lovely comments 🙏✌️🌿

@jackstone4291 2 ай бұрын

You guys are great for doing all that ! Hope you love it and it brings you much success and happiness and a great sense of of achievement too. Peace

@freedomforestlife 2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much Jack! Gives us an amazing sense of purpose asnd belonging for sure 🙏

@mariawhite1328 2 ай бұрын

The excitement is building!

@freedomforestlife 2 ай бұрын

For sure 🙌🙌🙌 the joys of spring freshness! 💚 thanks for watching g/commenting lovely 🙏✌️🌿

@evafredriksson-lidsle4909 5 күн бұрын

Looks so nice! I'm halfway up in Finland and we didn't get any reasonable spring before mid May, and then we suddenly got 27°C 😅. So practically nothing grew outside beginning of May. Spring is the season I most am considering moving south 😂...

@freedomforestlife 4 күн бұрын

Hi Eva, we have just starting learning a little about the Finnish climate, via one of our favourite youtube channels Mossy Bottom - I can see it could be a very challenging climate for gardening! I hope the rest of the season is better for you 🤞 Thanks so much for watching and commenting 🙏 We have a new tour video of our Food Forest out on Sunday, which you may enjoy too 💚✌️🌿

@cresentiae 2 ай бұрын

Thank you #SaveSoil #Consciousplanet

@freedomforestlife 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching 🙏

@user-in1ik6tx4h 2 ай бұрын

It's a wonderful plot, It's very refreshing to see 👍

@freedomforestlife 2 ай бұрын

Hi David - Thank you for your lovely comments and sharing ideas - its really great to hear what works well for other too 🙏 Glad you enjoyed the tour. Thanks for watching 💚✌️🌿

@user-in1ik6tx4h 2 ай бұрын

@@freedomforestlife I'm a Brummie lad, but my hearts always Welsh ❤️👍

@user-in1ik6tx4h 2 ай бұрын

@@freedomforestlife great watch mate ❤️👍

@wesleydavis8786 2 ай бұрын

Really enjoyed that tour! Can't wait for the next vid 😊

@freedomforestlife 2 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it Wesley - thanking for letting us know too 🙏 full food forest tour coming soon and more updates as growth progresses 💚✌️🌿

@gardentothekitchenwithtracy 2 ай бұрын

Brilliant tour thank you with lots of brilliant ideas thanks for sharing with us

@freedomforestlife 2 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it - really appreciate you letting us know 💚✌️🌿

@lifeoutnumbered 2 ай бұрын

This is so interesting because here in Florida zone 9 April is really late for sowing veg. We are very limited to tropical plants here shortly. Our days are already in the 80's Fahrenheit most days

@freedomforestlife 2 ай бұрын

Hi, So glad you enjoyed our vid - nature is super interesting 💚 We are zone 9a, so not that different, the zones relate to your lowest temp I believe, so at that end we will be quite similar - wish we had your upper end though, then we could grow some really cool tropical stuff 😁🙌🥭 Thanks watching and commenting 🙏✌️🌿

@LesleyStobbart-gi6cu Ай бұрын

I feel suitably shamed now 😊 so I'll be over to finish my weeding soon 🌻xx

@freedomforestlife Ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣 birdy - nothing to be ashamed of now - you’ve done some great work on it already … we know it’ll come good with all the beautiful flowers later in the year too 💚🌸✌️🌿

@MansurTalas 2 ай бұрын

Nice

@Randyb4ut 2 ай бұрын

Excellent tour. Thanks for sharing. New subscriber from Tennessee USA 😊

@freedomforestlife 2 ай бұрын

Hi 👋🏼 Great to have you with us in Tennessee .. Wow!! Thanks for watching and commenting - so cool hear how far we connect 🙏✌️🌿

@Randyb4ut 2 ай бұрын

@freedomforestlife Thanks again, and happy growing 😊

@Floridamanfoodforest 2 ай бұрын

NEW SUBSCRIBER: Beautiful work! Stoked to have found your channel it’s a dream of mine to work if some gardens in the UK, I’m from the states here in Florida and I grow a lot of perennials influenced by agroforestry/food forest principles as well as permaculture and make videos about my experiences.

@freedomforestlife 2 ай бұрын

Welcome aboard Earthling Drew - great to have you with us - wow bet you grow amazing crops in Florida, we can only dream of 💚 Good on you. You might enjoy checking out some of our Food Forest Vids too - Very different sytle to the food forest you can grow, exciting working with different conditions 👉 kzfaq.info/sun/PLOidPRQofoMO0DE7TSR7WXi14EsPi8Fd_&si=nLZARs7pgueLLKot 💚✌️🌿

@user-in1ik6tx4h 2 ай бұрын

A hanging shelf can help with rodent attack ?,I keep my seedlings indoors in propagators and I manage my garden from there👍

@SmallholdingUK 2 ай бұрын

Just subscribed, I need to work my way through your videos looks very interesting and very similar to what I’m doing 😊 have a good season

@freedomforestlife 2 ай бұрын

HI - Glad you found us 💚 Will check out your vids too - just had a quick scan and will be watching your firewood plantation one for sure - this is something keen to put into place here with Euc's - which interesting grow fine for us here .. my partner often starts them from seed or we grow on from small plugs, have lots on the property already now for various purposes - Happy watching, have a great season too and thanks for Sub 🙏✌️🌿

@Godisincontrol325 2 ай бұрын

Excellent 🎉🎉🎉 I subscribed to your channel 😀🙏

@freedomforestlife 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for sub and for watching/commenting 💚✌️🌿

@Godisincontrol325 2 ай бұрын

@@freedomforestlife You're very welcome 😁 Many blessings to you and your family 🙏

@jackstone4291 2 ай бұрын

What a lovely great garden/allotment/food forest kind of thing you guys got going on ! Any perennial veg….? like Asturian tree cabbage and cottagers/daubenton kale? Globe artichokes, Jerusalem artichokes, perennial onions like walking onions and chives, wild garlic, saffron crocus? I’d personally rip out that laurel hedge as minimal as environmental benefit - replace with native or non-native edible hedging like sloe berries, quince, hazel, crab apples,

@freedomforestlife 2 ай бұрын

Hey Jack, thanks for watching - Yeah we have HEAPS of perennials too 🙌 I think we showed the JA bed in this vid, have chives, Taunton Deane Kale, Yacon, OMG lots in our Food Forest, I'm currently making an inventory actually and will share more in our next Food Forest Tour vid as been adding LOTS of new plants over winter - Check out some of our past F.Forest tours for a look 💚 👉 kzfaq.info/sun/PLOidPRQofoMO0DE7TSR7WXi14EsPi8Fd_ Ha - we do have quite a few other wild/edible/native hedges on the property also - the Laurel is there for a very good reason ... mainly screening/privacy (hence dense evergreen needed) and tbh honest the wildlife LOVE it ... way more then people seem to think 💚✌️🌿

@kimberleychapman8416 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for the tour… looking forward to seeing more. ❤

@freedomforestlife 2 ай бұрын

Thanks Kimberley, More to come for sure 💚 Thanks for watching 🙏✌️🌿

@gardennonsense 2 ай бұрын

👍 looking beautiful!😎🐢 I need to get more organized. I appreciate you sharing 💚💚💚 30:11

@freedomforestlife 2 ай бұрын

Thank you 🙏 Glad you enjoyd the tour, thank you for watching and commenting too 🙌 hope you have a great growing season ahead. ✌️🌿

@samanthabrown9671 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for the tour. Everything looks great.

@freedomforestlife 2 ай бұрын

Thanks Samantha - Glad you enjoyed the tour - Its so refreshing at this time of year 💚 Thanks for watching/commenting 🙏✌️🌿

@vanessaevans3401 2 ай бұрын

Love the video. Peace and plants x

@freedomforestlife 2 ай бұрын

Thanks Vanessa 💚🙏✌️🌿

@nigelchant2263 2 ай бұрын

Brilliant tour, love what you are doing

@freedomforestlife 2 ай бұрын

Thanks Nigel, Glad you enjoyed it 💚 Apprecicate you commenting 🙏✌️🌿

@cheaputhyvan4705 2 ай бұрын

❤❤

@freedomforestlife 2 ай бұрын

🙏

@daina7665 2 ай бұрын

Really enjoyed your tour. It must be amazing to have so much space to grow. Can I ask where you source your Taro from? I would love to try growing some.

@freedomforestlife 2 ай бұрын

Hi Daina, So glad you enjoyed the tour 🙏 We went to asian/world food stores and bought as many different varieties of Taro as we could find. Dan also spoke to people in there and found out where each variety came from and got any info he could.. The ones we have overwintered should give us a great headstart this year, its going to be fun to compare this years harvest 💚 We have another video about the Taro you might like 👉 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oOCbZd2kmqrahJc.htmlsi=CMdyrt2FAHnExy1i Thanks for watching ✌️🌿

@daina7665 2 ай бұрын

@freedomforestlife Thanks! I'll check out the video and give it a go this season. I'm looking forward to seeing how yours turns out.

@alittleheavenonearth 2 ай бұрын

We need some 🌞 Portugal 🇵🇹 😫

@freedomforestlife 2 ай бұрын

I know! Sunlight hours have been so low ... The plants don't seem too phased by it ... yet... it has been sooo wet since the middle of last summer! Hopefully it won't be followed by drought 🤞 Thanks for watching 💚✌️🌿

@alittleheavenonearth 2 ай бұрын

@@freedomforestlife ;)

@alittleheavenonearth 2 ай бұрын

@@chrisgartenn it has been

@samatronn 2 ай бұрын

I wish you'd have picked a Leek! Picking prn lol

@freedomforestlife 2 ай бұрын

🤣 I'll remember this next time!! ✌️🌿

@samatronn 2 ай бұрын

Also, do you have a drone for drone shots? I have one if you'd like a go... I'm Southampton/Basingstoke based

@freedomforestlife 2 ай бұрын

Thanks - thats really kind. We don't have a drone yet, but my Nephew has just moved home from overseas and I think he has one, so will hopefully get some footage soon 💚