Thank you for all the interest in consulting services. Consulting is unfortunately closed for now, due to time constraints on my life at the moment. This was something that I dabbled in during 2019-2021 lockdowns, as I had an abundance of time when I no longer had to spend 20 hours per week driving to my office for my real job (engineering). If the world ever sorts out the creation of a work from home economy and I can get that transportation time back again, or, if this channel gets large enough for me to walk away from my main job, I may reopen consultation. So if you enjoy this content, please spread the word to your social groups, and consider joining us on patreon (link in the video description). Maybe one day I can devote more of my life to helping people out in this way, without sacrificing the financial future of my kids by leaving an engineering job to do gardening. ❤ much love everyone! 😅 /edit: I'm also going to add into here my response to a great comment about the trees near the pool - my specific concern is the mulberry. Hopefully people see this response: Indeed, I've already contacted them. I filmed this video about a week ago, and if you look at the designs which were included at the beginning of the video, the design had put bushes around the pool for that exact reason. For the nectarine, I'm a little afraid that having a tree that close to the pool could cause problems, but this one might be okay. In the design, I tried to keep trees about 15 feet away from the pool, for fear of any concrete cracking due to expanding roots over the next 20 years. The nectarine may be okay, as it is semi-dwarfing root stock. I recommended that they keep an eye on this and look for any displaced tiles, and at first sign of anything like that, remove the tree. You won't get any warning for cracking concrete, which is the problem, so looking for any tile displacement may be their only warning. In the original plan we just had fragrant sumacs there, which have softer roots and don't grow very large. In the video I mentioned something like "growing peaches next to a pool gives a neat aesthetic" and I was borrowing from why I put peaches next to my pond. However, growing a tree into a 2 ton granite boulder and flexible (yet strong/durable) EPDM liner is one thing. Growing it next to brittle inflexible concrete of a pool is very different. It IS still cool to grow a fruit tree there, but cracking concrete with a tree is a very real concern. I'm less concerned about displacing tiles, as I am about cracking the pool concrete. At my childhood house, we had a large maple next to our pool, which cracked our concrete and it was a full summer dig and full pool repair to fix it. Very costly. That maple was 50 feet tall, so definitely a little more force than a dwarf fruit tree, but still, it's best to play it safe. The Mulberry was the main concern that wasn't sitting right in few days since shooting. In the plan we had haskaps, gooseberry and bayberry there. Those are all bushes and don't get very large. Mulberry however is a massive tree - likely the largest one that they have, and it can get 50+ feet tall. I actually didn't include a mulberry in this design at all, because they can be a nuisance for dropping fruit on driveways and causing discoloration. I think this is a tree that you want to plant only if you have about 50 feet of "nature" all around it. I recommended to them that this tree should actually be transplanted this fall into another location. The cedar area that they cleared out next to the neighbours would be the best place for it on their property, but an even better place would be to transplant it to a local park or school, stake it, make it look official. I recommended replacing that tree with another haskap, or bush cherry, or lilac, as per the plan, or if they wanted to keep some height there, an elderberry - but it should be some kind of bush plant. If they really wanted a tree, it should be a small dwarf fruit tree. A mulberry however is going to rip up the tile work over the years, and could even be an issue for the pool itself over time. A mulberry even 30 feet from a pool could be a problem, just like a willow from even 40 feet away could also. Great comment. I've already addressed it, but it's good to get confirmation that this was a good set of recommendations.

Stunning! What a beautiful garden and garden plan. This is definitely one of your videos that I will rewatch probably many times! I am amazed by how quickly the transformation has happened. My food forest is zone 5A in Vermont and is also three years old. My plants are not so far along, but I am loving the lushness that is already present. Most of my food forest is out by the street, and when I'm out there harvesting asparagus or strawberries, people are always so complimentary. I love these conversations with neighbors. Something I was not expecting was their gratitude. It amazes me how many people will thank me for having done this. Yesterday, a man called me the DaVinci of gardening and said how he loves walking by; every day, something new would catch his eye, and he loved seeing the daily changes. He couldn't get over the fact that it was all edible and yet so beautiful. The day before that, I had a woman pull over who lived up the mountain. I ended up giving her a tour of the entire property and giving her websites where she could order plants and watch videos (Canadian Permaculture Legacy at the top of the list!). She had no idea that so many edibles could be grown in this climate and couldn't wait to get started. (Kiwi, pawpaw, persimmon, oh my!) She wanted to know if I could help her, and I said that I would love that. I feel like I've met so many neighbors that I never would have without the garden. You give a passer-by a few strawberries and you've made a friend for life! I purposely planted herbs at the corner of my driveway and sidewalk, so that people can easily harvest some for their dinner. That, and it's a hot, dry location ideal for them to grow! I give tours at least once a week it seems to people just driving or walking by. I think it is really important to be a good ambassador and help people realize that they can do this, too. Now that things are growing and filling in, I know that I am making an impact on people far and wide. It's fun to sit on the porch and watch people point or take video as they are driving by. This is a big reason I wanted to place the garden along the street. I knew it would be beautiful and that it might spur others on to grow something more than the lawn they have now. It's like the greatest Ponzi scheme ever! Last winter, a woman I never met sent me a beautiful card, with a note inside saying how my garden is the highlight of her commute and how much she has enjoyed watching it grow. Wow. People tell me that they never thought about growing asparagus, but since seeing mine, have planted some crowns! Same with using strawberries as a ground cover. Whatever is in season when people see the garden is what they gravitate toward. Right now, the serviceberry hedge is glorious with its multitude of colors. The pinks and blues are almost florescent. The Cedar Waxwings and other birds fly in and out and it is a sight to behold. The daily changes are something to see! When the quinces, pawpaws and persimmons start producing fruit, I know it will take my breath away. The fall colors will light up those dreary fall days. The red fall color of aronia is prettier than any burning bush ever thought of being and it's not invasive. The winter structure of plants create such a beautiful architecture and the blue shadows cast on snow brighten even the darkest days. In the spring, when the clove currants are blooming alongside the daffodils, it will make the cold and drabness of winter seem like a distant memory. I particularly love the learning that has occurred and is yet to be realized with all things Permaculture. Just this morning, I was reading up about garlic scapes: what to do with them, how to harvest and preserve them...I have so many interests and hobbies, but I have to say that I have never felt the deep, deep passion that permaculture has evoked. Every day surprises me. Just yesterday, I had a young bunny who hopped right up to my door and peered in at me while taking a break from nibbling some weeds from my stone patio. Eventually, he hopped away and was happily grazing on the white clover I'd planted throughout the lawn. The wildlife has increased and diversified so much that I feel like I'm in a Disney movie; for me that is such a gift. Nature's bounty is so generous if only we give it some room to be.

I love this. It shows what our world can and should look like if we want to get serious about climate change and food insecurity in our own communities.

The production quality in this video was outstanding for a gardening/permaculture channel. Maybe one of your best. Well, the collapse video was the best you've ever made, but this one is really close. It felt like I was watching a home show, or an episode of cribs, but permaculture.

Keith I don’t have adequate words to describe the awesome design you have done. If I could achieve just 10% of the beauty of this I would be happy.

I love all the use of Corten steel, contained wildness and edible landscaping. It'samazing that the garden is only 3 years young! We don't have HOA restrictions in the UK. There are a few Garden Cities that insist you maintain a hedge in front of your property and Tree Preservation Orders on big old trees. But otherwise we are able to grow anything that doesn't block a neighbour's light or damage a foundation/drain/road.

That backyard is lit. Seriously gorgeous this inspires me to do the same thing on my property but on a smaller scale. Thanks for sharing.

What a true masterpiece. I'm sure the clients are out there every minute of the summer, I know I would be. The amount of naps I would take...

I'm so going to use this video to show others what growing food can look like.💛💛💛

Beautiful! That's goals right there!

That thumbnail. This man ages like a fine wine.

I walk past this garden every weekend it’s very nice, good job

What a beautiful urban garden! Felt like the beauty just kept on going. I would love to have an urban garden similar to this on my small plot of land. Garden goals definitely!

Great tour! Can't believe the size of the haskap fruit and the fact they were still on the plant. Birds in my hood love eating mine about 2 days before I want to harvest

Absolutely stunning, so jealous with how big your gardens are in Canada. British gardens are like postage stamps in comparison.

Looks amazing bud. A guy tried that in Moncton or maybe Dieppe I think, and got reported to the bylaw officers and was forced to take everything down. Pretty sad. Glad this couple isn't having issues like that.

Such an awesome transformation This gives me lots of ideas and inspiration! Great job!

Incredible job! I love all of the metal work and mix between traditional landscaping and permaculture.

I love how they mixed it up with art and made the common features into art beautiful

Great job! This garden looks so good! I agree, the 'contained wildness' is very important to get other people on board

Amazing transformation! I love how they have managed to balance the wild look with the beauty of straight lines and different sections. Thanks for sharing, this was very inspiring! ❤️

That property really does look fantastic and I am envious. 👍

Gorgeous Nature!

I’m so glad I recently got 5 has laps and can’t wait! They look hardy and growing a few inches already. So proud of them

Wow, their yard look amazing, a totally contained nature oasis.

This is gorgeous! Thank you so much for sharing. 🤗💛🤗

Uploaded seven days ago and it only appeared for me just now? Wow. What a special garden! Great design/consulting work Keith. What I particularly loved about this upload is that it contrasts with Keith's wild woolly garden and shows that permaculture spaces can be geometric, tidy, formal, with pieces of art, defined rooms with individual uses and atmosphere and relatively low maintenance. I loved the rusted steel work reminiscent of a gallery garden in Los Angeles. The before and after photos really highlighted how well designed spaces look proportionally bigger and when you add multilayer functions the garden seems enourmous. Loved the flow through 'paths' where you can approach a garden room from various angles. The choice of plants is what you would expect in a permaculture garden, lots of variety and plants that grow well in your area, but this design masterfully highlighted the beauty of plants such as the Jerusalem artichokes infront of the cut metal wall. Out of all this excellence, the only slight modification I'd make, if it was my garden, is that I would change the garden edge boarder near the table tennis area by perhaps adding a slightly higher timber inner edge so if somebody is really concentrating on the. ball, they don't trip and slice themselves on a metal edge. It will be interesting to see how the garden develops when the green house is up and running. I'm guessing that they will be slotting in some artichokes, frilly collards, thyme onion plants into some of the wood chip areas as edible ornamentals. The owners obviously love their garden... there wasn't a leaf out of place. Thanks for sharing.

It's gorgeous, and such an impressive project! Good work!

Absolutely love this consultation!

Great video. Everything captured well and such a beautiful space. Love it!!

supercool! thank you for sharing .. so great to see this in execution

Just like others have said, This is so helpful to see what permaculture/edible landscaping can look like in a suburban yard. It really does have so much beauty.

I hope this video inspires folks who live in a suburban area to get into permaculture. Great to see how it works in a more formal yard versus a primeval 😂 yard like yours Keith !

This is so inspiring! Huge yard for the city - I'm very jealous looking back at my 30 foot by 30 foot space! I'd love to know more about the spacing between the fruit trees and bushes, especially the peach, haskaps and elderberries. I can never seem to figure out what's OK for pushing the limits!

Hey Keith, long time viewer here. Love your videos, when we found them 2 years ago they were our inspiration for learning more about permaculture and starting our own food forest, so thank you for being our catalyst. I was wondering if you ever do harvest dinners with your yields? I work as a chef and had a concept where you could showcase different guilds by creating dishes with only their components. It's something I hope to do with our food forest when it is more established.

I love a good design site follow up :)

Thanks for the great tour! Love to see other gardens like this. One of my favorite things (of many) was the way the compost bays were hidden. Such a smart idea!

I wish these were my neighbours!

Looks amazing, the woodchip is also so important here to keep things fairly tidy and limit growth largely to the species you want, it's why my garden looks more like a jungle, lol, I don't have ready access to woodchips. About the fig, here in South-Eastern Europe we have very hot summers but winter can get as cold as -20c (though it's getting less common these days), and figs flourish outside here. I THINK the trick might be to get them to a certain girth, maybe a few inches, by taking them indoors in winter, and once the trunk is thick enough planting them out and they ought to survive the frost a lot better, though don't take that as Gospel, I don't know what happens if you get down to -35c or something. I mean, this is to avoid the hassle of moving them in and out - at the end of the day we are trying to get roots in the soil on our land, right, and I think that could work.

crazy how many things i have in my small garden of this...

Amazing!

Respect. For me, living at Spadina and Dundas in Toronto, working with 500 sq ft, I kinda cringed when you called this "downtown Toronto".

This is absolutely gorgeous and so inspiring! I'm in a new location with lots of grass that needs to be replaced with native pollinators and food forest plants.

So beautiful❤

Gorgeous!!

That garden is massive compared to Australian urban blocks, and they’re getting smaller. 350m2 total (without the house) is a common house block size now, if you can get anything over 500m2, that’s considered a good size. Older houses with larger blocks are being bulldozed and subdivided into smaller and smaller blocks. I find it very troubling.

I planted two lilacs in my hedge and I regret it because apparently they only flower when neglected. I put a thick layer of woodchips last year and my soil is full of worms and fungi. They don't flower.

Wow, amazing! This is so inspiring!

Beautiful job. Thanks to everyone for sharing.

Fabulous we’ll done😊

Very inspirational. Love so much including the art! Thank you sir. New follower here, Master Gardener, and fruit guild/forest newbie. I'll be back.

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Very cool, thanks for this video. Spirea are edible by the way. The leafs can be used as a tea replacement without the caffeine.

Wow! I’m the first to like this video? Crazy. Must be a brand new one hahah I’m a long time follower, first time commenter. Your videos are so inspiring and informative! I’m curious how you got started consulting, and if you have information about your services/prices - I’d love to hire you if I could afford it. I’m also looking to make permaculture a side gig of some kind also, maybe replace the full time gig eventually. I have no formal education in regards to gardening or Permaculture however I’ve been designing and planting my own property, making my VT mountain into a food forest. I’ve been gardening for about a decade and I absolutely love it and I want to teach the world and help people learn that they can do this for themselves - hopefully help feed the hungry in my town, etc. I know you’ve had a great influence on me, so I can only imagine how many people I can help and influence as well. Maybe the whole world will be growing their own food soon, wouldn’t that be nice? Anyway, thanks for doing what you do and encouraging us all. I beyond appreciate you! One other question, what design program are you using to make your plans? I’m trying to narrow down the best choices in the arena. Thank you, thank you, thank you, you rock!

just catching up on some of your videos. i really liked this one the before and after looks amazing. those haskaps are gigantic. when was this taken cause my haskap stopped producing two weeks ago. cheers keith youll have to come to my farm in the future

This property is beautiful, organized but wild. The metal gateway is absolutely genius!!. I love the transformation. I may have missed it, but what is the size of this property?

Great video and I really like that illustration that you had made. Do you happen to know any good software tools for designing a complex food forest/garden systems? I'm reading Edible Forest Gardens series and just wonder how can I put all this together in a way that I can edit it and make changes to it as my design vision and understanding develop.

Awesome work on this project. Long time follower first time commenter - I may have missed, but what USDA zone equivalent is this in CA? Curious based on the nectarine tree that seems to be thriving.

What a great garden! In my garden I also use corten steel for borders, but I've never seen the waved wand from corten steel. Do You know how the name of such product? Or did the client used some product which is not ment to be a fence? It looks absolutely stunning... P.S. I mean the wand on the right side in video at minute 9:31

I love the video I myself in Scotland have the same idea here in Scotland but property is rented through all of my fruit plants and berries are in containers but I also have a vision and a dream of using an unused piece of land to use as a natural fit for you no like guerrilla gardening and plant is many different fruit and berry things where as I can sort it will grow a natural food forest so it will so it will take care of itself and feed the people in the community and wildlife and be good for nature do you have any videos or have you came across any natural food forest it is not maintained thanks

Amazing work! Such good idea’s! I do have a question for ya Keith…the cor-ten steel yall used for the beds; did you buy it as edging metal from like home despot, and Lowe’s…or did yall cut it from a sheet. I really like the look of it and am going to use it as a border. Ultimately I guess whatever is most cost effective. Thank you in advance! Brilliant I hadn’t even thought about cor-ten! Protect with rust.

Your work is beautiful! We are starting a food forest in an urban yard, in the United States. Do you do online consulting via photographs and garden plans? We would love to have you plan it.

I pruned to the soil level all female asparagus plants in my patch this year. I've never done this before. I'm hoping it will make for a more robust harvest next year. Anyone tried this before?

11:59 is that planted in some soil on top of concrete or was the concrete removed from that area? im curious if the tree roots expanding would break the concrete or even the pool? it looks like there is a crack in the concrete coming from the corner of that garden area.

It looks like they had some trees with limb spreaders on them. What brand are they please?

What program did you use for the planning?

I’m curious about the mulberry, is it the native red mulberry or the white mulberry (which is invasive).

I cant plant near the sidewalk because the people in my town let their pets pee and poop wherever they want.

Not 100% on topic but thought you would know the answer been looking and can't find the answer (uk 01:19) bedtime 😅 can self fertile cherry trees pollinate non fertile cherry trees please?