EDIBLE FOREST GARDEN · Grow Food & Heal the Earth · Lessons Learned
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- čas přidán 31. 05. 2024
- 10 years of successes and... learning experiences. Lincoln is here to share what we've learned about forest gardening so far, and introduce you to some rock star plants growing at Forested. Ask us any forest garden questions in the comments and we'll try to answer!
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--- CONTENTS OF THIS VIDEO ---
0:00 - The Young Forest
1:43 - Build Soil with Plants
4:29 - The Right People
5:34 - The Importance of Paths
6:53 - The Land Tells You What to Plant
10:42 - A Very Special Tree: Persimmon
13:13 - Vegetables in the Forest Garden
15:24 - Native Plants Take On Invasives
17:47 - Acorn Food
22:33 - Scythe Maintenance
24:31 - Chop & Drop Fertility
25:18 - Grafting Invasive Pears
27:02 - Growing Mushrooms
28:53 - Extra Tasty Mulberries
29:45 - Phasing a Forest Garden
31:11 - Helpful Insects and Their Habitats
36:36 - New Wetland Forest Garden
40:42 - Community Garden
41:39 - Forest Agroecology - Looking Ahead
I came across a food forest channel on CZcams a few years ago and it was really interesting to me. I was in the process of buying my homestead but didn’t live on it yet. I watched videos and did a lot of research so I knew what I could grow when I did move onto it. I paid it off in February of 2019 and moved a mobile home onto it in June or July of 2019. I started planting my 1st trees around that time. I was excited. Now I have over 100 food producing trees,vines and bushes growing. It’s not even half way done yet.
Wonderful!
Wow! You are truly blessed! Good on you for making that dream happen!
I think the Chanel is Robert Fuller, in England - his estate is beautiful, and he's so knowledgeable on plants and wildlife.
I always enjoy watching P. Allen Smith's channel, fyi.
Hmm, so he uses a scythe but doesn't till up the soil to disrupt unwanted roots? I enjoy learning these things.
Brother your Pragmatism is refreshing in a world full of Dogma!
Hi you can make elderberry syrup. You will need 40 flowers, just opened or unopened; 3kg of sugar; 4 lemons; 5lit of water. No pasteurization needed. 36-48h and filter it before bottling.
Pruned foliage of elderberry can help your potatoes you can use it for mulching and as raw food for the tubers
As a food forest gardener, orchardist, flock keeper, I learned something new in every minute of your video. The inserted clips that demonstrated the concept discussed were so helpful, too! I hope you'll continue to give updates, show your brilliant care tips, and know you're helping many who seek the same goals! Thank you so much! Can't wait to enjoy the whole channel, brilliant!
What state/country do you live in? Do you have a CZcams channel?
we need you to visit and pay us for helping you. donate to the wild
I totally agree about the paths.
If you can walk on a forest, you enjoy it more and are therefore more inclined to want to keep it.
Also the paths provide an environment for some plants that need a little bit more sun, usually grass, bushes and they bring flowers, who bring insects.
Paths help to enrich your forest.
This is what our government should be subsidizing.
I accidentally stumbled onto this video and am so glad I did. 🤗
I used to spend my summers in Bowie with my Aunt as a child. I remember my uncle being so mad about the building up of the area he lived in. It's so nice to see someone reclaiming some of the land in a positive way.
Thank you for healing a little piece of the earth and for teaching others how important it is to do so. The land and the animals thank you. 😊
Hi Kelly - that's so good to hear. I grew up in Bowie and was sad to see so many forests and fields get developed. I see forest gardening as one way that people and the forest can thrive together. If you're ever in Bowie please stop by the garden!
I definitely will 😊
Great video
We make syrup in Switzerland out of elderberry…nice diluted in water with ice .. kids love it. Or over Prosecco for adults
This video is so underrated.
Your literally creating your own Garden of Eden 2.0 .. thats awesome 👌
Acorns are difficult to process but! U can break them up between an old pare of jeans with a hammer or rock and feed a protein/fat Rich food to ur chickens because you don’t have to leach out the tannins for them (the bitter part)
When we moved into our place it was full of mice. We put down a live trap and collected them. Then we took the lot to our town compost site where pumpkins and gourds had reseeded themselves. The compost heaps were warm in the middle. I felt such peace.
I have my little urban food forest going at my home in the city and it's been able to produce a bit of food for me already. Many things won't produce for years to come, but once they do, I believe I'll have some pretty incredible foods that travel nowhere to get to my kitchen.
I always hear people say they spend $500 to make $2 of lettuce, but it's far more than that. It's trucks not having to drive that lettuce. It's tractors and many other gas powered vehicles having to work towards growing them on a commercial farm. It's having produce that's grown in the exact environment that I live.
Elderberries was a big deal for the Vikings. A symbol of fertility and the plant of Freja, the goddess of fertility and love.
In the middle ages and later there was a lot of superstition surrounding it. Dont sleep under it! You will go cracy.
And its bad luck to chop it down.
Still today it is used for many kinds of food here in Denmark.
So cool! I love the old stories and special connections to plants from traditions around the world. And point well taken - I will make sure I don't sleep under my Elderberry bushes!
Love seeing the forest so alive. The time lapse is amazing😍. Looking forward to seeing the next 10🧚🏿♀️
Thanks for bringing your capable, creative and supportive spirit to the garden!!
Maypop flowers are euphorics, too. Eat one and you may feel calm and happy, like everything will be OK.
Usually the YT algorithm suggests videos that really miss the mark. Nice surprise. Thanks.
Lots of good insights! I’m working on my 4 acre silvopasture with fruit, nut, and legume trees along with sheep, chickens, a pig and one cow. Prunings become fodder for the animals and then the woody leftovers become biochar feedstock which then gets spread back on the silvopasture. Seems to be working well!
Sounds like an awesome system!
I think a mulch path would save you a lot of time and money. While also increasing organic matter
I live the idea of a food forest. I planted one last year but it looks more like twigs than anything else!!!
Persimmon yogurt smoothies are my favorite way to use the fruit. The sweet/tart balance is amazing, and frozen persimmons work well.
Thank you!!
I love that.
I'm a jobless and penniless person.
I wish God to Bless me with some fortune to Have this type and amount of land where I could create my oasis.
This video inspires me to spend my life growing nutritious food for my family and others while embracing a sustainable lifestyle connected to nature. It's amazing how fulfilling life becomes with this perspective.
Pickerel Weed stalks can be cured and weave into very nice basket and mats.
I really like the footpaths being covered with grass. 🙂
I have a TON of yaupon holly, dewberries and maypop that grow wild in my back yard. I didn't know you could eat the flowers on the maypop! They are very pretty but I never thought to try and eat them. I live in East Texas on 1 acre but the surrounding 20 acres belong to my parents so I have pretty free access to a lot of wooded area and pasture.
A lot of the times, I feel that native plants get treated as weeds to get rid of in yards and I think that's kinda sad.. I am trying to learn more about native plants in my area especially ones that were important to the Native American Caddo who lived here before.
Great points! We certainly seem to ignore the wealth of useful plants all around us - something I keep finding new examples of. Like right now here in Bowie, MD, anytime the snow melts, I find tons of sweet delicious nutritious chickweed growing. But for some reason I tend to eat lettuce instead. Crazy!
Your land sounds beautiful and productive! All the best to you.
The CZcams algorithm suggested this video to me, and I'm glad it did. I'm near Frederick, MD and in the process of converting my just over 2 acre property into a forest garden. Very cool stuff you're doing over in Bowie!
You changed my world! So yes rediscovering aNd sharing that earth and life are a paradise is real An example of a good person, gratitude
As argentinian i drink lots of mate every day, and i find amazing having your own caffeinated species in the garden i would love to taste them
All of the Food Forest videos are a learning adventure.
That is a great start to a plentiful food forest
In the south of Brazil there are several poisonous snakes that would hide in the tall grass and bite people and animals. Clearing walkable paths makes the forest much safer and more confortable to walk by, garden/plant/weed, retrieve food or just enjoy the place. It is a need.
What kinds of snakes?
@@kylespeaks7401 venomous.... There are four groups of venomous snakes in Brazil, of which the genus Crotalus is considered the most dangerous with 0.96% lethality, followed by the genus Lachesis (0.61% lethality), the genus Bothrops (0.37%), jararaca, and the genus Micrurus (0.27%) cobra coral.
Your project is amazing. All North Americans need to be educated about going green.
Thank you!
That tree house is a great place for meditate.😊
Yeah - somehow I seem to find it easier to build places to meditate than to meditate in them, but whenever I do it's time well spent :-)
Can confirm that maypop leaves make some of the most relaxing, soporific tea to sip at the end of the day. Highly recommend
Thanks!
Can't wait for the next update on the swamp vetables next time in a few years. Good luck and good weather
Composting and biochar, inoculating with larger variety of fungi will
Allow different flora to be cultivated . Amazon rainforest is classical example of well designed soil
Great to see the continuing evolution. My first trees and shrubs go in this spring. Hope they look as good as yours in 10 years.
Holy moly, so glad youtube told me to watch this! I'm barely getting my food forest started (
Was not ready for the Bryan Regan clip 😂 I forgot he existed!!
I planted 25,000 fruit trees on 1 acre of land so far this year in individual pots so I can sell them and make some money and feed the world but my whole entire place is nothing but trees that produce food. I have no weed so I have no grass not bad for one person😊
You got heaven on earth.
I am so impressed. Community and healthy food. The way it's meant to be.❤
Congratulations 🎉,we need more such projects
Amen to feeding the world with forest gardening. Also, I loved watching your video. Is it weird that I could smell the differences between the shaded and sunny areas? I miss the forested yard and garden in which I spent my childhood. City living has it's perks, but home is where the soil is alive.
Nobody expects the Montey Python cut away.
Well, one of the black locust cross beams has gone out askew on the treadle.
Turning a negative into a positive. You are brilliant.
Awesome video, Lincoln, really well done! I could watch this over and over and learn something new each time. And so great to see the garden looking so lush and green. Thank you for this inspiring video!
should be taught at the public school level on up through university
student gardens
heal the earth
yay
I hope to have a garden like yours one day. Thanks for sharing!
It looks you may have the kind of persimmons that need to be super ripe. If you'd like to eat them more firm, harvest them still fairly green with a slight tinge of orange or yellow. Trim off the stems, wash, then put them in a thick trashbag, sprinkle them with cheap vodka, squeeze out as much air as possible, tie the bag closed. Put it in an airtight container such as an Igloo for 7 days. After the 7 days, check one to see if it's no longer astringent, if not close the bag & check again in 2 days. ENJOY!
I can't wait to try this thank you! One problem we have is that some persimmon branches are so full of fruit that they break. We've had mixed success ripening those fruits on the broken branches. Your method sounds more reliable - thanks for mentioning it!
I love you! This is a GREAT TOPIC. I want to listen to you! 🥰🥰🥰 Maybe not do! But watch! ✌️✌️✌️
I really enjoyed this tour. And I admire your dedication. You ARE changing the world. 🌞🌱 What you have accomplished moves out in ripples, touching more and more people as it goes.
Lincoln and team, it is so fun to see where you are 10 years later. I have always loved walking the garden and seeing all progress you have made. Well done! Keep up the great work.
Locust is also the hottest burning wood for your wood stove as far as BTU’s go.
What a terrific video. Would love to see this property in person
This is a really good video. no fluff and tons of good info.
Heavenly.
The cranberry bit got me 😂
ill never not be surprised that so many people forget that as social animals, one of our biggest strengths is community knowledge.
like talking to the local farmers shouldve been one of the first steps because they would be the most familiar with the land and what grows in the area
That is good stewardship, well done.
10:14 My favorite part
This is hands down one of the best food forest videos I have ever seen… and I have seen a lot! Very inspiring and informative. Thank you for sharing
We appreciate your gift to the planet.
Hey Lincoln, I stumbled across your video and loved it. We moved to our country place here in Texas...within the last two years... goal is to have a food forest. The climate changes are very extreme these last years. We get very cold and also very hot
All the best to you!
That Bradford pear tip is crazy. Great thinking.
You are living my dream.
Cool place
Persimmon cookies, yum!
Thank you for letting me look at gardening in a different light. I am planning on hitting my swamp for some stinging nettle, which is very nutritient
persimmons and maypops! Just wonderful!!
Yum!! Love me some persimmons! Lucky duck just grazing t/ o the garden! I love doing that! Great video! Ty!
Love seeing food forest in Maryland I have just started my own just north of Baltimore and would love to come down for a work day or a tour or something and maybe get some cuttings great video keep it up
Glad to have you visit for any and all of those things!
I’m just north of Baltimore as well. Glad to see Marylanders rewilding our land.
@@DerekScottOHara Maryland has a “Maryland’s Wild Acres,” through DNR. They have backyard programs and acres + programs.
@@kenyonbissett3512 awesome, thanks
holy sht, that mushroom session was so short but so interesting
Beautiful🌹 zabardast sharing
Love the beautiful dog .
Hehe I was just your 6,000th subscriber my friend. Beautiful work you are doing here
I love what you have done here... the process is awesome 👌. I will visit this garden when I come to the USA. I am doing the same in Kenya... would like a knowledge exchange program with you guys... to share experiences. 🎉
There's a grass that looks like my favorite vetiver grass 😊
Thank you, this was so inspirational and information. I had no idea about Youpon Holly, and replacing coffee makes this an even better plant.
Love your stuff kick on love it
This was done 6months ago. I would love to know how many pounds of food you were able to harvest by year’s end. I don’t know if there is a formula for food provided for insects, birds and other animals but I would be interested in that also. A food forest in England got 1500-2000lbs per acre. Amazing!
I’m sure you know that oaks release different amounts of acorns each year. I wonder if the schedule varies by type of Oak?! Diversity is the key. 🥳
Pear grafting! I love the idea!
This is a healthy and upright video. Thank you for teaching me about these.
I am so impressed. Amazing site and amazing people.
Really cool to see it again, even if virtually. Thank you for the update.
I live in Henry County, Virginia, I have access to as far as I can tell, native Persimmons of some variety.
This is awesome, Lincoln. Great video - thanks so much for all this experimenting and for sharing what you're learning!
I support you
Great mission. I really like your mission where social as well as economical aspects are addressed! More of it :-) Proud member
Aloha Lincoln! This is Joe Ludes watching from Hawaii. Everything looks incredible; so grown up since the last time I saw it. Entering year 3 of our 4 acre food forest here and it’s been amazing. Stuff grows so fast but I do sometimes miss having a down season. Good to “see” you. Keep up the amazing work. 🤙
Hi Joe good to hear from you! Yeah I do look forward to the winter here for things like sharpening tools and editing video ;-) I'd love to visit Hawaii and see your place and meanwhile it looks great in your videos!
@@ForestedVideo would love to have you visit. You are welcome anytime.
Great content I love all your tips the only thing I can suggest that I know is I recommend adding a biochar filter for your pond it is Just biochar in a cloth bag It helps with all the access nutrients in the pond it will exorbit and then you can use it in your garden
Native grapes also will destroy Japanese honeysuckle. And make a go at winter creeper as well
You're doing a great job!
I love everything about this, thanks for giving us the tour!
THIS IS MY VIBRATION 🏝️🌍😇THANK YOU
PSA Indians are people from India. More fitting to say indigenous people of America. Thank you and nice video
Not sure. Looking up "Indigenous American or American Indian," the sources I find are saying either term is acceptable, and it should be according to the preference of the person being addressed. For example, from the website of the National Museum of the American Indian:
"What is the correct terminology: American Indian, Indian, Native American, Indigenous, or Native?
All of these terms are acceptable. The consensus, however, is that whenever possible, Native people prefer to be called by their specific tribal name. In the United States, Native American has been widely used but is falling out of favor with some groups, and the terms American Indian or Indigenous American are preferred by many Native people. Native peoples often have individual preferences on how they would like to be addressed. When talking about Native groups or people, use the terminology the members of the community use to describe themselves collectively."
If you can point us to a source indicating a broad consensus about using the term indigenous people of America, we'll be glad to start using that term.
Wasps take care of Japanese beetles 😄🐝
Red Clover is delicious as well.. top your salads or garnish soup etc... loads of Vit C
Aye I'm your guy for repairing soil, Korean natural farming
Beautiful , beautiful food forest!!! Thanks ,a lot of good information in this video . I have a small food forest around my house in South India and this is an inspiring video! I just planted a mulberry tree- and looking forward to see the fruits