Let’s compare food forests with Grocery Row Gardening. What are the pros and cons? What might work best for your backyard? Will either work?
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Thank you all for joining us. So – what's right? A food forest? A Grocery Row Garden? Today we discuss the pros and cons and the usefulness of both systems.
Join the Food Forest Challenge here: http://www.skool.com/the-survival-gardener
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The Florida Food Forest Cookbook: https://amzn.to/4eebI3P
CJ's Sickles: https://davidthegood.gumroad.com/l/CJForgedSickle
Have a wonderful week.
I planted a syntropic food forest (ala Takota Coen) this year, but am keeping my trees short, well some are still very short. Then I planted all my watermelon and winter squash etc every 6 ft along the 4 rows. I got a good amount of production. Next year I'm planting the squash etc between the food forest rows. It was a lot of work keeping the vines in line along the rows and they took down lots of branches.
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Right now my food forest is more of a grocery row garden right now. I saved my biggest row garden as annual. My high tunnel is mostly annual except a Chicago fig. Food forest are not normally grown in a grid, but that was how they were planted when I move in. There was an orchard apx 50 years old with a 100 yr old apple tree. I have started the food forest concept last fall and my orchard seems to like the food forest concept. It's beautiful with trees and shrubs from 100 years to 6mth. This process,so far has been awe inspiring and fun
I whacked off all my trees at 6ish feet a few years ago. Took a while, but now my fruit trees are all less than 7 feet tall and I can reach the top produce from the ground. I got more fruit this year than I ever did on the big trees that required multiple people and ladders to harvest.
Replay crew here. I am sad I missed it. Maybe next time yall.
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Transitioning to grocery row from raised beds. Now if I can only get the deer from moving on my yard like it's the frippin' red carpet at the Met Gala…..
Well, that was fun! Sorry about your car…😂
I have too much personality for one garden type… I’ve started a food forest, raised beds,(because I was given the frames-otherwise I’d have been too lazy😆), grocery rows AND I’m trying to get stuff growing in the pond.
There is still room to run my chicken tractor, grow some grains and I want to plant a bazillion trees…(okay, I’ll stick to a few dozen, for now.)
I’m 62 and racing against the clock!😉
Rubbery eggs. I like it
Your Jamaican Sorrel is Roselle hibiscus. The calix have multiple uses. They are most often dried and used as a tea, but Australian farmers wives, make Jam out of them. There is another Roselle that is called Asian sour leaf, and the leaves are added to soups to add a sour note.
My land is too steep for a large garden. I have to do what I can in 20'x20' in 4 beds. It's the next crop planted immediately after the last gets harvested. Stick a plant in there because what was there before, got eaten by bugs.. Lots of growing UP fences or trellises. Lots of replant that cause nothing germinated or the sun fried the seedlings.
11?!!!! Wow!!! Congratulations Sir!
Don't know why your songs remind me of The President's of The United States of America so much, but they do, lol
me food forest.. you jane
Simple answer is to buy the grocery row gardening book and plant both
I have 15 Chestnut trees planted more than a decade ago and we have only harvested a few pounds of nuts. Last Spring a late frost nearly killed the trees.
@davidthegood I literally just came inside after about 6 straight hours of chop and drop, and topping some trees. Getting ready for the high winds from the storm that's coming. I miss these live streams! And the subject tonight is so appropriate for me personally. Thank you sir, I appreciate you and the DTG gang so much.
As you know we had 340 pounds of Cushaw from 5 plants. Even If I planted 10 seeds and 5 failed… 340 pounds of belly filling food is a good start.
And… I can convert some of these to chicken feed which will give us eggs.
People forget that crops can be converted to protein like eggs, Chicken, Pork, Lamb. Goat, Milk and Beef just by tossing excess to the animals.
Part of my wants to grow year round in the tropics, but I cannot take the heat.
So we are sort of stuck with only 4-6 months of growing in the North.
It's a joke, but it's a legit good tune!
Always enjoying your videos David. Don't spread yourself out too thin. God first then spouse and family. Thanks for all the information.
Pumpkins, purple sweetpotatoes. Artichokes corn, green beans. Aa few raised beds using one foot spacing for tomatoes, basil carrots, pak choy, ginget, dailon etc. Then hundreds of pineapple. A numbre of avocado trees cut annually.cherry bushes 5 feet high. Bananas. About 6 stands. Bamboo, cut to ground and grew back vigorously. Arugula and cucumber and basil on lanai. Quail manure making monster tomato plants .
Really interesting discussion on their differences. I learned a few things that I can apply to my small food forest. I can't afford to join skool but still glean from your YouTube.
Rubbery eggs song goes hard brother.
I think a huge part of this discussion has to be where you live. I absolutely envy people who live in a sufficiently sub-tropical/tropical climate where plants really want to grow in an understory. If I plant even annuals in an understory in my region, they simply do not get enough heat and sun. I had some spaces in between dahlias and whacked some vegetables in there. They are maybe 1/8th the size of those grown in exact same conditions except for the shading. I think the further you go north, the harder it becomes to get any kind of understory crop to truly thrive. I have come around to just separating my trees and annuals and pondering life where the sun shines….
Don’t take velcipity if you have vascular edema … I learned this on the commercial… I watched the whole thing… just doing what I can
Here in central florida I have a food forest in my urban backyard. I only have a few vids up at the moment. I have learned a lot from your books. God bless ya'll.
I accidentally left cassava in the ground too long. Was told it would be too fibrous to eat, so I peeled it, fermented it, cooked it, blended it, dehydrated it, and blended it again. Homemade cassava flour is SO great in Dutch baby pancakes, waffles, cookies, muffins, bread, etc.