Okay, I'm going for it. A few, along the road as an extension of a well-established beach plum hedgerow. But I'm leaving a break in the row to be able to mow down any escapees, and will probably be obsessively diligent about it. I appreciate that you addressed the issue of invasiveness; I've battled (and continue to battle) invasives that have obviously deleterious effects. I firmly believe that good physical health increases the probability of good mental health--both are needed to drive us all forward in creating a better world. So keep planting to eat well and eat well to keep planting.
Interesting video! Just purchased a variety named "Friesdorfer Orange", which is self fertile.. perhaps I'll get fruits next year (70-80 cm tall). The runners is one thing worrying me a bit, but I guess weeding them away will work just fine.
Thank you so much! And for the articles. I would love to hear more about the medicinal and nutritional benefits of the plants you grow. You explain things in a way I get and it invites me to look deeper into things!
Thanks! I may do more of that in the future, but its not my expertise, I would be doing lots of research and just reading what they say. There is also a ton of misinformation out there in that area.
We have a chemical-free, organically grown Sea Buckthorn orchard just north of Uxbridge, Ontario. We are trying to educate people about this wonderful berry and its many health benefits. We'd love to talk to anyone who would like to come up and try some of our berries, we have them fresh right now and frozen year round. Juice too! The name is Montgomeryshire Orchards - in Leaskdale.
Awesome thanks for sharing! I may visit you the next time I'm in the area. Are you ever open in the winter time? I'm usually up that way for kids hockey, although probably not this year with covid.
Loved how you described the health benefits and how to manage a potentially invasive species. Perhaps you could make a berry picker on a stick with a small mesh cup and stiff wires that catch and pluck the fruit. This way you don't get your arns scratched with the prickles. I have a bigger version fruit plucker for jujubes because I find their prickles very irritating.
My God that pond! It's absolutely beautiful. It looks as though Mother Nature put it there just for you. Amazing design. A water feature just brings everything together perfectly. O.k. I'm jealous :) But good on you guys. What a great place to bring up kids!
Awesome video and thanks for the advice. Just ordered some looking forward to trying Seaberry. I’m 38 and I already feel like an old man! Also I really love the landscaping on your property!
Hi Keith, Thanks for this video. I am designing an expansion to my existing food forest in Albany NY and I am correcting some mistakes as I go. One mistake was planting many fruit trees without nitrogen fixing support trees. I wanted to add sea buckthorn but didn't know how to do it properly. This video makes me feel comfortable that I should add a bunch of the plants quite close to my primary fruit trees. That way, I'll be sure to get the necessary male / female cross polination. Even though they spread, that can be managed without too much problem. I am looking forward to eating the berries but not looking forward to the thorny harvest :-) Anyway, seeing how you have incorporated and managed them gives me the confidence to move forward with what I am doing. Thanks!
Indeed, you can plant nitrogen fixers near trees - just try to minimize disturbance. Also a word of warning - most nitrogen fixers have developed that symbiosis because it was the method they used to out-compete other plants in a nitrogen depleted ecosystem. Those tend to be early succession lands like disturbed soils, with no trees. For that reason, most nitrogen fixers also tend to hate any kind of shade whatsoever - so depending on how old your trees are, they may not survive under the tree's shade. Also keep in mind that one doesn't NEED nitrogen fixers. The goal of a forest is to transition from depleted or new soils towards a forest soil. N-fixers are planted, but then slowly chopped/dropped and replaced with non N-fixing trees. If the soil you have is already transitioned to forest soil, then there's actually no need at all to plant nitrogen fixers. Just sprinkle some clover as a covercrop and you are good to go.
Thanks for your informative video. You state that sea buckthorn is non-native/invasive to North America. In your experience, is it displacing other native berry-producing plants? Are all your strawberries surviving under the shade of the sea buckthorn? Which pollinators have you seen on the sea buckthorn? Do you have video or photos of the insects that use sea buckthorn as a habitat or hunting ground? Looking forward to follow-up videos.
I don't see much insect activity on them, but I will look closer. I wouldn't notice insect activity on Yarrow for example until I look closer and see its swarming with tiny insects. I suspect because SBT flowers so early, I'm usually busy doing infrastructure projects in the cool early spring, that I'm not as observational at that time of season. However I can say that almost nothing eats the SBT leaves. There is never insect damage on them. That's surprising too because they make great tea, and have solid nutritional properties. The plants around and under them do great. Strawberries grow literally underneath them, due to the dappled shade. They do definitely spread HARD via rhizome. They are a 10/10 aggressive spreaders. I have not found them to spread much via seed.... I.e. 4 years later and I don't have a single plant that popped up anywhere I didn't plant it, that wasn't a runner from a nearby one I DID plant.
Great video! Glad to hear of all the health benefits. I had only heard about sea buckthorn oil because it’s good for acne and scarring. I’m off to research it and see if will grow well in my area. Thanks for another informative video!
Its crazy that it is not only so healthy to eat, but also for creams for skin, for hair health and shine, for memory and cognitive function, so many things. What an amazing plant.
I love this video! How were the berries dehydrated and how did you use them(cooking? plain snack?)? Good to hear that the berries improve as the shrub matures. Mine just started fruiting this summer, three years after planting tiny saplings.
I would say the blackberries and raspberries diminished in quality when dehydrated, they are much better off fresh. Strawberries, peaches, apples, were all great dehydrated, but are also great fresh, so I will always do a little both ways. They turn into a different food, of substantial quality. Seabuckthorn, tomatoes, grapes and especially pears get taken to a whole other level. Im sure I will still eat all those as fresh fruit, but they are absolutely mind blowing when dehydrated. Their flavor gets amplified by a million. We gave some of everything to my betrothed and sister in law (Gardening in the North channel) and all of those four fruits were recieved with the "holy crap! WOW!" reaction.
Thank you so much. This seems like hard plant to get a hold of- but I am glad that I have time to research and order ahead for spring. Thank you. Love your content and kinda jealous of your awesome food forest.
I've taken Seabuckthorn oil for years, primarily for omega-7, but THE healthiest? Depends on one's criteria: the highest ORAC rating of any individual fruit yet measured is for Amla, which when combined with Haritaki and Vibhitaki, is known as Triphala, which has the third highest ORAC score of anything yet measured, trailing only Sangre De Drago and Astaxanthin.
Hello from Michigan, how i love the way your garden design the contour is beautiful it seems like you and your wife, kids put a lot of labor in your yard as well as your vegetable garden. Thank you for your input and knowledge about eco system. It helps me and enlightening my know how to’s in gardening. God Bless!! ps. can’t help notice some of your viewers are nothing to do about gardening but flirting. What is your wife’s reaction. I think they need to learn more about gardening..😯
I transplanted some from ones infound in the wild on a hike. The recent named varieties I planted around the pond wee purchased from a nursery. I will save seed from the naked varieties and plant those on my land, and likely slowly prune out the wild ones from my land to prevent cross pollination.
Why do you want to have different varieties of the same plant? What does the cross polenating manage to achieve? I LOVE your videos by the way, thank you for getting me hooked on food forests, cant wait to get my own place one day and start one up!
Often trees will produce larger, sweeter, more nutritious and more numerous fruit when cross pollinated from various varieties. Another really important point is flower blooming time. If you only have say 2 varieties, one may bloom for 2 weeks, then 13 days later the other one blooms, and they are both only blooming together for 1 day. However if you have multiple varieties, you will have more chances of having multiple trees in bloom at the same moment in time. Always better with more types of fruit, more varieties of them, tons of diversity and variety is a big secret trick.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy All of the above is true, but probably need to clarify that sea buckthorn in particular is a dioecious plant, meaning that there are male and female plants, with only females bearing fruit. Need a male pollinator plant to accompany the female cultivars.
Forgive me if you addressed this in the video, but if you could only see to the management of your seaberries once a year, when would that be? I don't know if I mentioned this before or not, but my couple of seaberries died last year during our heat waves.😑 I am looking into replacing them and fall would be the best time. However, there is a possibility that we will move overseas again for 4 years, only coming home once or twice a year. I don't know if installing a potentially invasive plant is a good idea in such circumstances, but like you say: Superfood! And the sooner I get them in the ground, the better.
Well, they will spread, but over the course of years and years. The spread itself is slow. You can kind of see it in my area, thats 4 years of zero management, and I'm starting to get a few runners now. Its definitely very forgivable to even completely neglect them for 3 to 5 years. If you can only go back home once, then sometime in the fall is probably best. They are resilient to fall pruning (normally not a good idea to cause wounds just before cold winters). And then you can clean the runners up, and also harvest some berries at the same time. It could be anytime from like August to January probably
Been thinking about planting some sea buckthorn - where do you get them from? Where I find them online they are over $30/ plant, that just seems a little high to me...
I get mine from my local nursery. I convinced them to try to find them. I'm not sure where they source them from. I have found them on treetime.ca for anywhere from $6 to $3.50 Canadian per tree, depending on how many you buy.
Hello Keith I am from Alberta, Canada. Is it possible for me to grow sea bulk thorn for me? Please let me know what variety I can grow and where do I find plants. Thanks. Neelam
No, but I think most that have been tested are in the same ballpark. But yes, like all fruit, different varieties will have slightly different nutrient profiles.
Well I just bought 2 sea buckthorn plants....I'm hoping to use them as a wind break. Do you think they could be guided/cut back into a long hedgerow, over time? Thanks for the videos man.
My seabuckthorn windbreak bent severely down last year (but didn't break) in a really strong wind. Fact is that the buckthorn trees were 18 years old, 5-6m high AND got some shade from other trees. I live in central Poland.
Speaking of health organic health foods grown in the back yard. What’s your thoughts on moringa trees and eating raw moringa leaves? I know your climate is too cold for them but I think you might be able to push it
Moringa is probably number 1 tree I can't grow that I wish I could. There is no way I could get it to survive -40C winter nights. We get COLD here. That being said, if I ever build a tall greenhouse, that will be the very first plant I grow in it. The very first.
That’s awesome I’m glad to hear your pro moringa, would you eat it raw or refine it into poweder? I just planted 200 seeds on my property in North Carolina in guilds to create some shade and break up my hard red clay soils. They are all popping up and growing quick. Here in N.C. we get to 30F degrees in dead of winter so they should die back to roots and come back in spring.
I would try to eat as much raw as possible, I think the butritional value is always higher. Depends on what it tastes like though. Then dry and powder and store as much as possible for soups and such.
I have tried to grow Moringa from seeds here in Scotland. While they germinated on the windowsill happily enough, they quickly died. I think they dislike high humidity and the typically lower light levels in the North as well as the cold. I reckon it would mean adapting a greenhouse or part of a greenhouse to mimic their ideal conditions - could be expensive to do and not really worthwhile when you can buy Moringa powder cheaply enough. It does work wonders though. My 15-year-old dog appeared to be dying a few months ago, and we were doing all sorts of things to improve his last days - that included adding Moringa powder to his diet. Now he's bounced back, stands up straight, goes for long walks, and has fully recovered his appetite. He has it mixed with gravy as a drink. Marvellous stuff. Fit for another 15 years by the look of it.
I do now, I talk about that later in the video. When I started the food forest, I found wild seabuckthorn and transplanted some. Thats why I have wild varieties. Going forward, I will pock up a few more varieties and cut the wild ones back HARD, and transplant the named varieties in their place. If I was starting again, I would definitely go exclusively with naked varieties that are known to have small or fee thorns. But to be honest, as long as yoy are careful its not that bad. I picked fruit off the wild ones for an hour yesterday and only pricked myself a couple times, and none too bad.
That I have no idea. I only have experience digging them up. I'm not sure how easily they are to start from seed. I think of them kinda like potatoes. Sure you can start from seed, but might as well just start it from roots because its so super easy and foolproof. The only reason I can see starting these from seed is either if its your only option, or if yoy are trying to genetically choose trees with favorable genetics and try to create a new variety.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Since I don't have a lot of space and would only want to plant one male and one female, my thought is to germinate a bunch of seeds in pots and select from the group to plant in my yard. I'm trying to do that with kiwis. Unfortunately, it is the hard way!
I think they sell only to nurseries. Try whiffletree, that my favorite local one. But I jist Google seabuckthorn nursery and I got at least 10 hits in Google.
You have told us, what your job is right? You are an engineer, if I remember correctly? I would also home office at your place and take nice walks in between work
Yes, nuclear engineer. Working from home is temporary during covid19. It has been wonderful though, and honestly I get more work done at home because there are no people coming into my cubicle. I think companies should be looking at continuing that where it makes sense.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy most people I talk to, share the same opinion. They are way more productive and not having to commute is a big plus. Nuclear energy, very interesting. Are you already off grid? :D
Going off grid for me was a rather low priority because our grid is extremely green already, and also the governments incentive programs ended just as I was looking. I'm in a holding pattern now waiting for the next incentive program to come along. With climate change being an increasingly popular issue, I think its inevitable. Solar is going to be the next big project I do.
Okay, I'm going for it. A few, along the road as an extension of a well-established beach plum hedgerow. But I'm leaving a break in the row to be able to mow down any escapees, and will probably be obsessively diligent about it. I appreciate that you addressed the issue of invasiveness; I've battled (and continue to battle) invasives that have obviously deleterious effects. I firmly believe that good physical health increases the probability of good mental health--both are needed to drive us all forward in creating a better world. So keep planting to eat well and eat well to keep planting.
Exactly. Nailed it.
I hope it goes well! Make sure you update me now and then on them.
Interesting video! Just purchased a variety named "Friesdorfer Orange", which is self fertile.. perhaps I'll get fruits next year (70-80 cm tall).
The runners is one thing worrying me a bit, but I guess weeding them away will work just fine.
Thank you so much! And for the articles. I would love to hear more about the medicinal and nutritional benefits of the plants you grow. You explain things in a way I get and it invites me to look deeper into things!
Thanks! I may do more of that in the future, but its not my expertise, I would be doing lots of research and just reading what they say. There is also a ton of misinformation out there in that area.
We have a chemical-free, organically grown Sea Buckthorn orchard just north of Uxbridge, Ontario. We are trying to educate people about this wonderful berry and its many health benefits. We'd love to talk to anyone who would like to come up and try some of our berries, we have them fresh right now and frozen year round. Juice too! The name is Montgomeryshire Orchards - in Leaskdale.
Awesome thanks for sharing! I may visit you the next time I'm in the area. Are you ever open in the winter time? I'm usually up that way for kids hockey, although probably not this year with covid.
I’m going to come check you guys out this year!
Loved how you described the health benefits and how to manage a potentially invasive species. Perhaps you could make a berry picker on a stick with a small mesh cup and stiff wires that catch and pluck the fruit. This way you don't get your arns scratched with the prickles. I have a bigger version fruit plucker for jujubes because I find their prickles very irritating.
My God that pond! It's absolutely beautiful. It looks as though Mother Nature put it there just for you. Amazing design. A water feature just brings everything together perfectly. O.k. I'm jealous :) But good on you guys. What a great place to bring up kids!
Thanks!
Awesome video and thanks for the advice. Just ordered some looking forward to trying Seaberry. I’m 38 and I already feel like an old man! Also I really love the landscaping on your property!
Cheers 🍻
Added some to the fruit tree guilds this year for nitrogen fixing and also some selected varieties with bigger berries for berry harvesting.
Hi Keith, Thanks for this video. I am designing an expansion to my existing food forest in Albany NY and I am correcting some mistakes as I go. One mistake was planting many fruit trees without nitrogen fixing support trees. I wanted to add sea buckthorn but didn't know how to do it properly. This video makes me feel comfortable that I should add a bunch of the plants quite close to my primary fruit trees. That way, I'll be sure to get the necessary male / female cross polination. Even though they spread, that can be managed without too much problem. I am looking forward to eating the berries but not looking forward to the thorny harvest :-) Anyway, seeing how you have incorporated and managed them gives me the confidence to move forward with what I am doing. Thanks!
Indeed, you can plant nitrogen fixers near trees - just try to minimize disturbance. Also a word of warning - most nitrogen fixers have developed that symbiosis because it was the method they used to out-compete other plants in a nitrogen depleted ecosystem. Those tend to be early succession lands like disturbed soils, with no trees. For that reason, most nitrogen fixers also tend to hate any kind of shade whatsoever - so depending on how old your trees are, they may not survive under the tree's shade.
Also keep in mind that one doesn't NEED nitrogen fixers. The goal of a forest is to transition from depleted or new soils towards a forest soil. N-fixers are planted, but then slowly chopped/dropped and replaced with non N-fixing trees. If the soil you have is already transitioned to forest soil, then there's actually no need at all to plant nitrogen fixers. Just sprinkle some clover as a covercrop and you are good to go.
One of the best and most informative videos I can find on this plant thank you.
Thanks for your informative video. You state that sea buckthorn is non-native/invasive to North America. In your experience, is it displacing other native berry-producing plants? Are all your strawberries surviving under the shade of the sea buckthorn? Which pollinators have you seen on the sea buckthorn? Do you have video or photos of the insects that use sea buckthorn as a habitat or hunting ground? Looking forward to follow-up videos.
I don't see much insect activity on them, but I will look closer. I wouldn't notice insect activity on Yarrow for example until I look closer and see its swarming with tiny insects. I suspect because SBT flowers so early, I'm usually busy doing infrastructure projects in the cool early spring, that I'm not as observational at that time of season. However I can say that almost nothing eats the SBT leaves. There is never insect damage on them. That's surprising too because they make great tea, and have solid nutritional properties.
The plants around and under them do great. Strawberries grow literally underneath them, due to the dappled shade.
They do definitely spread HARD via rhizome. They are a 10/10 aggressive spreaders. I have not found them to spread much via seed.... I.e. 4 years later and I don't have a single plant that popped up anywhere I didn't plant it, that wasn't a runner from a nearby one I DID plant.
Great video! Glad to hear of all the health benefits. I had only heard about sea buckthorn oil because it’s good for acne and scarring. I’m off to research it and see if will grow well in my area. Thanks for another informative video!
Its crazy that it is not only so healthy to eat, but also for creams for skin, for hair health and shine, for memory and cognitive function, so many things. What an amazing plant.
I love this video! How were the berries dehydrated and how did you use them(cooking? plain snack?)? Good to hear that the berries improve as the shrub matures. Mine just started fruiting this summer, three years after planting tiny saplings.
I would say the blackberries and raspberries diminished in quality when dehydrated, they are much better off fresh.
Strawberries, peaches, apples, were all great dehydrated, but are also great fresh, so I will always do a little both ways. They turn into a different food, of substantial quality.
Seabuckthorn, tomatoes, grapes and especially pears get taken to a whole other level. Im sure I will still eat all those as fresh fruit, but they are absolutely mind blowing when dehydrated. Their flavor gets amplified by a million.
We gave some of everything to my betrothed and sister in law (Gardening in the North channel) and all of those four fruits were recieved with the "holy crap! WOW!" reaction.
Thank you so much. This seems like hard plant to get a hold of- but I am glad that I have time to research and order ahead for spring. Thank you. Love your content and kinda jealous of your awesome food forest.
I have much respect for you and your knowledge.
Wonderful bits of very useful information.
Another fantastic and useful video. Thank you keeping us educated 🌱👍
Thanks Jay 😊
Interesting fruits . The fact they spread like wild fire is kinda concerning but I guess they have there place in the landscape
I've taken Seabuckthorn oil for years, primarily for omega-7, but THE healthiest? Depends on one's criteria: the highest ORAC rating of any individual fruit yet measured is for Amla, which when combined with Haritaki and Vibhitaki, is known as Triphala, which has the third highest ORAC score of anything yet measured, trailing only Sangre De Drago and Astaxanthin.
Hello from Michigan, how i love the way your garden design the contour is beautiful it seems like you and your wife, kids put a lot of labor in your yard as well as your vegetable garden. Thank you for your input and knowledge about eco system. It helps me and enlightening my know how to’s in gardening. God Bless!! ps. can’t help notice some of your viewers are nothing to do about gardening but flirting. What is your wife’s reaction. I think they need to learn more about gardening..😯
Haha I think those are bots. Not real accounts. What a strange world we live in.
Healthiest fruit in the world is........................
Home grown fruit. 👍
Absolutely true. But when you pit all homegrown fruit against eachother, this bad boy comes out on top.
Did you grow the sea buck from seed or did you start with a plant .
I transplanted some from ones infound in the wild on a hike.
The recent named varieties I planted around the pond wee purchased from a nursery.
I will save seed from the naked varieties and plant those on my land, and likely slowly prune out the wild ones from my land to prevent cross pollination.
I’m going to put some in, Grimsby ON. Wiffle Tree and Silvercreek Nursery have nice options.
I planted a hand full of Sea Buckthorn in the fall. I hope to get positive results this spring.
Why do you want to have different varieties of the same plant? What does the cross polenating manage to achieve? I LOVE your videos by the way, thank you for getting me hooked on food forests, cant wait to get my own place one day and start one up!
Often trees will produce larger, sweeter, more nutritious and more numerous fruit when cross pollinated from various varieties.
Another really important point is flower blooming time. If you only have say 2 varieties, one may bloom for 2 weeks, then 13 days later the other one blooms, and they are both only blooming together for 1 day. However if you have multiple varieties, you will have more chances of having multiple trees in bloom at the same moment in time.
Always better with more types of fruit, more varieties of them, tons of diversity and variety is a big secret trick.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy All of the above is true, but probably need to clarify that sea buckthorn in particular is a dioecious plant, meaning that there are male and female plants, with only females bearing fruit. Need a male pollinator plant to accompany the female cultivars.
So which of the two named varieties is the best, would you say, two years onwards.. ? The Hergo or the Chuyskaya ?
Both are amazing. I think maybe Hergo is my favorite though.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Thanks, I think we have two female and one male of that one in our garden already, so I'm glad to hear that ;)
Forgive me if you addressed this in the video, but if you could only see to the management of your seaberries once a year, when would that be?
I don't know if I mentioned this before or not, but my couple of seaberries died last year during our heat waves.😑 I am looking into replacing them and fall would be the best time. However, there is a possibility that we will move overseas again for 4 years, only coming home once or twice a year. I don't know if installing a potentially invasive plant is a good idea in such circumstances, but like you say: Superfood! And the sooner I get them in the ground, the better.
Well, they will spread, but over the course of years and years. The spread itself is slow. You can kind of see it in my area, thats 4 years of zero management, and I'm starting to get a few runners now. Its definitely very forgivable to even completely neglect them for 3 to 5 years.
If you can only go back home once, then sometime in the fall is probably best. They are resilient to fall pruning (normally not a good idea to cause wounds just before cold winters). And then you can clean the runners up, and also harvest some berries at the same time. It could be anytime from like August to January probably
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Thanks, that is helpful to know, especially getting an idea from your system.
We have an all organic Local farm where we can go pick some. I love it!
Wonderful!
Been thinking about planting some sea buckthorn - where do you get them from? Where I find them online they are over $30/ plant, that just seems a little high to me...
I get mine from my local nursery. I convinced them to try to find them. I'm not sure where they source them from. I have found them on treetime.ca for anywhere from $6 to $3.50 Canadian per tree, depending on how many you buy.
I found some 1 gallon size plants at Canadian Tire for under $20
Any suggestions where to buy trees like that in the US? I love the pond. Do you have a video on how you made it?
I'm not sure, I hear Raintree is good. For the pond, I have a pond playlist you can check out.
Burnt ridge nursery online
Seabuckthorn!
Hello Keith
I am from Alberta, Canada. Is it possible for me to grow sea bulk thorn for me? Please let me know what variety I can grow and where do I find plants.
Thanks.
Neelam
Yes, they are very cold hardy. Look at treetime nursery, as they are near you and have seabuckthorn.
Since they are coming out with different varieties, are they all equally healthy?
No, but I think most that have been tested are in the same ballpark. But yes, like all fruit, different varieties will have slightly different nutrient profiles.
Well I just bought 2 sea buckthorn plants....I'm hoping to use them as a wind break. Do you think they could be guided/cut back into a long hedgerow, over time? Thanks for the videos man.
Maybe. I'm not sure how much wind they will break though. Better than nothing I suppose? Anyone else have any experience using them as a windbreak?
My seabuckthorn windbreak bent severely down last year (but didn't break) in a really strong wind. Fact is that the buckthorn trees were 18 years old, 5-6m high AND got some shade from other trees. I live in central Poland.
Wow, good to know! They are hardy trees!
Speaking of health organic health foods grown in the back yard. What’s your thoughts on moringa trees and eating raw moringa leaves? I know your climate is too cold for them but I think you might be able to push it
Moringa is probably number 1 tree I can't grow that I wish I could. There is no way I could get it to survive -40C winter nights. We get COLD here.
That being said, if I ever build a tall greenhouse, that will be the very first plant I grow in it. The very first.
That’s awesome I’m glad to hear your pro moringa, would you eat it raw or refine it into poweder? I just planted 200 seeds on my property in North Carolina in guilds to create some shade and break up my hard red clay soils. They are all popping up and growing quick. Here in N.C. we get to 30F degrees in dead of winter so they should die back to roots and come back in spring.
I would try to eat as much raw as possible, I think the butritional value is always higher. Depends on what it tastes like though.
Then dry and powder and store as much as possible for soups and such.
I have tried to grow Moringa from seeds here in Scotland. While they germinated on the windowsill happily enough, they quickly died. I think they dislike high humidity and the typically lower light levels in the North as well as the cold. I reckon it would mean adapting a greenhouse or part of a greenhouse to mimic their ideal conditions - could be expensive to do and not really worthwhile when you can buy Moringa powder cheaply enough.
It does work wonders though. My 15-year-old dog appeared to be dying a few months ago, and we were doing all sorts of things to improve his last days - that included adding Moringa powder to his diet. Now he's bounced back, stands up straight, goes for long walks, and has fully recovered his appetite. He has it mixed with gravy as a drink. Marvellous stuff. Fit for another 15 years by the look of it.
Where would I find seabuckthorn in the forrest, or a field? I know it grows around here but I don't remember ever seeing any on my walks.
Hmmm I replied but its not showing up. These should appear in grasslands turning to bushland. They are Pioneer bushes.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I can see your reply! Thanks!
Is there some reason that you don't use thornless sea buckthorn? Thx.
I do now, I talk about that later in the video. When I started the food forest, I found wild seabuckthorn and transplanted some. Thats why I have wild varieties.
Going forward, I will pock up a few more varieties and cut the wild ones back HARD, and transplant the named varieties in their place.
If I was starting again, I would definitely go exclusively with naked varieties that are known to have small or fee thorns.
But to be honest, as long as yoy are careful its not that bad. I picked fruit off the wild ones for an hour yesterday and only pricked myself a couple times, and none too bad.
Okay, thx.
I know you said these are not usually spread by animals but can these be grown easily from seed?
That I have no idea. I only have experience digging them up. I'm not sure how easily they are to start from seed.
I think of them kinda like potatoes. Sure you can start from seed, but might as well just start it from roots because its so super easy and foolproof.
The only reason I can see starting these from seed is either if its your only option, or if yoy are trying to genetically choose trees with favorable genetics and try to create a new variety.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Since I don't have a lot of space and would only want to plant one male and one female, my thought is to germinate a bunch of seeds in pots and select from the group to plant in my yard. I'm trying to do that with kiwis. Unfortunately, it is the hard way!
As far as I know there are thornless cultivars.
Indeed. There is a place in Ontario who specialize in this, and they have a bunch of them.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I live in Northern Germany. ;)
Canadian Permaculture Legacy Can you give their name? I’m hoping they can ship to the US. Thank you for the great video.😊
I think they sell only to nurseries. Try whiffletree, that my favorite local one.
But I jist Google seabuckthorn nursery and I got at least 10 hits in Google.
Do the fruits come your triglycerides for raise up?
Sorry, I don't understand what you are asking
You have told us, what your job is right?
You are an engineer, if I remember correctly?
I would also home office at your place and take nice walks in between work
Yes, nuclear engineer. Working from home is temporary during covid19. It has been wonderful though, and honestly I get more work done at home because there are no people coming into my cubicle. I think companies should be looking at continuing that where it makes sense.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy most people I talk to, share the same opinion.
They are way more productive and not having to commute is a big plus.
Nuclear energy, very interesting.
Are you already off grid? :D
Going off grid for me was a rather low priority because our grid is extremely green already, and also the governments incentive programs ended just as I was looking.
I'm in a holding pattern now waiting for the next incentive program to come along. With climate change being an increasingly popular issue, I think its inevitable.
Solar is going to be the next big project I do.
Did you see the vid on Tony Heller's channel about the woman who got arrested for posting on face book about a mask protest?
No