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So many people email me directly asking for more pond videos, so here you go. I will also address the single most common question I get asked... how much did it cost? This pond was a lifetime work in progress, thinking of different aspects I wanted, design features, etc, then spending 20 years saving up for it. Today I will go over all the various design features in this pond, many of which cannot be seen at a surface level. I started my journey looking at "natural swim pools" from the 1954 Austrian designer Gottfried Kern. I then started leaning towards EU style natural swim pools. However starting about 5 years ago, I got really excited looking at more directly integrated ecosystem ponds as designed by Ed Beaulieu who has a BS in Zoology with an emphasis in Limnology, and a masters in Marine Biology, specifically fresh water systems. When I started seeing these integrated designs, I fell in love with the idea, because to me it was as tightly integrated with nature as possible, but while also bypassing many risks of an actual hole-in-the-ground pond (which arguably is the closest connection to nature, but comes with potentially life threatening risks. I talk about these in today's video. So for anyone who wanted "more cowbell", here you go!! Thanks for watching, and happy gardening everyone! ______________________ Want to become a member and earn perks? Check out our membership program here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfz0O9f_Ysivwz1CzEn4Wdw/join You can now also find Canadian Permaculture Legacy on Odysee here: https://odysee.com/@CanadianPermacultureLegacy:3 Odysee will automatically import any videos from here, and is a blockchain streaming service - so once my videos are there, they are there forever. Unhackable. Permissionless. Want CPL merch? https://CanadianPermacultureLegacy.com/merch Doing shopping on Amazon? If you start your shopping by clicking on my Amazon affiliate link, it costs you nothing (not even a penny) but I receive a small commission of anything you buy. The link here takes you to my website blog on my favorite permaculture books. However, if you click on any link there as your starting point, then go buy ANYTHING, it helps support me. https://permaculturelegacy.wixsite.com/website/post/my-favorite-permaculture-books-of-all-time-part-1 Or help me plant trees directly through Patreon by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=15912954 Moving to the country to start a new life. Young Family trades sodgrass for a horse farm over at Barn Boots and Country Roots: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRevkfe3phDB0bKeJ1wW2Yw For great recipes, cooking, storing, canning, and growing tips, check out Gardening in the North: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHk8xZzWYjZv0pjfr9iOjxw Music credits: Epidemic sound: https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/qfqvpi/ Closer by Jay Someday | https://soundcloud.com/jaysomeday Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US

Harriet is my favorite so far. ______________________ Want to become a member and earn perks? Check out our membership program here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfz0O9f_Ysivwz1CzEn4Wdw/join You can now also find Canadian Permaculture Legacy on Odysee here: https://odysee.com/@CanadianPermacultureLegacy:3 Odysee will automatically import any videos from here, and is a blockchain streaming service - so once my videos are there, they are there forever. Unhackable. Permissionless. Want CPL merch? https://CanadianPermacultureLegacy.com/merch Doing shopping on Amazon? If you start your shopping by clicking on my Amazon affiliate link, it costs you nothing (not even a penny) but I receive a small commission of anything you buy. The link here takes you to my website blog on my favorite permaculture books. However, if you click on any link there as your starting point, then go buy ANYTHING, it helps support me. https://permaculturelegacy.wixsite.com/website/post/my-favorite-permaculture-books-of-all-time-part-1 Or help me plant trees directly through Patreon by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=15912954 Moving to the country to start a new life. Young Family trades sodgrass for a horse farm over at Barn Boots and Country Roots: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRevkfe3phDB0bKeJ1wW2Yw For great recipes, cooking, storing, canning, and growing tips, check out Gardening in the North: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHk8xZzWYjZv0pjfr9iOjxw Music credits: Epidemic sound: https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/qfqvpi/ Closer by Jay Someday | https://soundcloud.com/jaysomeday Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US

If anyone finds this video is a little too heavy, I suggest checking out a few videos as a primer to watching this one: The soil microbiology video here: https://youtu.be/LO-ostC1q-4 and the permaculture guide to guilds (where I parrot some of this stuff!!): https://youtu.be/XLPUN2wGbwA. Some of these topics will be discussed at an medium-expert level. And what I mean by that is, in order to get deeper into these topics, it's assumed that the viewer already has a firm grasp of some of these deeper concepts such as how nitrogen fixing works, what a deep tap rooted nutrient accumulator is, etc. In fact, did you know that since coining the term "deep tap rooted nutrient accumulator", Robert Kourik, who originally coined the term in his book "Designing and Maintaining Your Edible Landscape", actually himself spent the rest of his career backing off on that phrase. Now, there's a difference between a plant bio-accumulating nutrients and those nutrients coming from DEEP down via the taproot. There's plenty of research on various plant's bioaccumulation, such as this one from Zimbabwe: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325078608_The_Nutrient_Content_of_Organic_Liquid_Fertilizers_in_Zimbabwe. But these articles only talk about the nutrient composition of the plants, and don't address some assumptions made in permaculture about WHERE those nutrients actually came from. But first we discuss nitrogen fixation, and the very high likelihood that it's a myth that we can chop and drop a nitrogen fixer and release nodules under the ground. But also why that may not matter. And if it does matter, how to do it PROPERLY. And speaking of "proper", lets ignore starting sentences with prepositions and conjunctions). Thanks for watching. ______________________ Want to become a member and earn perks? Check out our membership program here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfz0O9f_Ysivwz1CzEn4Wdw/join You can now also find Canadian Permaculture Legacy on Odysee here: https://odysee.com/@CanadianPermacultureLegacy:3 Odysee will automatically import any videos from here, and is a blockchain streaming service - so once my videos are there, they are there forever. Unhackable. Permissionless. Want CPL merch? https://CanadianPermacultureLegacy.com/merch Doing shopping on Amazon? If you start your shopping by clicking on my Amazon affiliate link, it costs you nothing (not even a penny) but I receive a small commission of anything you buy. The link here takes you to my website blog on my favorite permaculture books. However, if you click on any link there as your starting point, then go buy ANYTHING, it helps support me. https://permaculturelegacy.wixsite.com/website/post/my-favorite-permaculture-books-of-all-time-part-1 Or help me plant trees directly through Patreon by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=15912954 Moving to the country to start a new life. Young Family trades sodgrass for a horse farm over at Barn Boots and Country Roots: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRevkfe3phDB0bKeJ1wW2Yw For great recipes, cooking, storing, canning, and growing tips, check out Gardening in the North: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHk8xZzWYjZv0pjfr9iOjxw Music credits: Epidemic sound: https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/qfqvpi/ Closer by Jay Someday | https://soundcloud.com/jaysomeday Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US

Maybe my last one tonight - to avoid spamming the channel. Shorts are a good way to give a quick update and clip of what's going on RIGHT NOW!

Lets see what they like best. So far it looks like the Lambs Quarters, Duckweed, Dandelion and Kale. Oh wait, they are fighting over currants.

Have you also seen this in other people's gardening videos? Permaculturists attacking someone for using fertilizer or tilling? Why do we do this? We should CELEBRATE someone gardening with fertilizers. Why? Because it's better than the alternative. Is it the best? No. But it's better. Lets start there. I am going to be doing sub-par things with Chickens for a while. And that's okay. Why? Well, tune in to find out. ______________________ Want to become a member and earn perks? Check out our membership program here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfz0O9f_Ysivwz1CzEn4Wdw/join You can now also find Canadian Permaculture Legacy on Odysee here: https://odysee.com/@CanadianPermacultureLegacy:3 Odysee will automatically import any videos from here, and is a blockchain streaming service - so once my videos are there, they are there forever. Unhackable. Permissionless. Want CPL merch? https://CanadianPermacultureLegacy.com/merch Doing shopping on Amazon? If you start your shopping by clicking on my Amazon affiliate link, it costs you nothing (not even a penny) but I receive a small commission of anything you buy. The link here takes you to my website blog on my favorite permaculture books. However, if you click on any link there as your starting point, then go buy ANYTHING, it helps support me. https://permaculturelegacy.wixsite.com/website/post/my-favorite-permaculture-books-of-all-time-part-1 Or help me plant trees directly through Patreon by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=15912954 Moving to the country to start a new life. Young Family trades sodgrass for a horse farm over at Barn Boots and Country Roots: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRevkfe3phDB0bKeJ1wW2Yw For great recipes, cooking, storing, canning, and growing tips, check out Gardening in the North: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHk8xZzWYjZv0pjfr9iOjxw Music credits: Epidemic sound: https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/qfqvpi/ Closer by Jay Someday | https://soundcloud.com/jaysomeday Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US

So I go out to film an update of us getting bees and chickens, and I get lost in the gardens and all the wonderful life that is coming back into my land. The thumbnail: For a video of the lunch today, check out my recent #shorts: https://youtube.com/shorts/Ll3IpO8C5lI This property was just grass lawns 5 years ago, until I found permaculture and dove head first in. Now, just a short while later, nature has already returned. Healing has begun. And it's changing me with it. Thanks for watching. ______________________ Want to become a member and earn perks? Check out our membership program here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfz0O9f_Ysivwz1CzEn4Wdw/join You can now also find Canadian Permaculture Legacy on Odysee here: https://odysee.com/@CanadianPermacultureLegacy:3 Odysee will automatically import any videos from here, and is a blockchain streaming service - so once my videos are there, they are there forever. Unhackable. Permissionless. Want CPL merch? https://CanadianPermacultureLegacy.com/merch Doing shopping on Amazon? If you start your shopping by clicking on my Amazon affiliate link, it costs you nothing (not even a penny) but I receive a small commission of anything you buy. The link here takes you to my website blog on my favorite permaculture books. However, if you click on any link there as your starting point, then go buy ANYTHING, it helps support me. https://permaculturelegacy.wixsite.com/website/post/my-favorite-permaculture-books-of-all-time-part-1 Or help me plant trees directly through Patreon by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=15912954 Moving to the country to start a new life. Young Family trades sodgrass for a horse farm over at Barn Boots and Country Roots: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRevkfe3phDB0bKeJ1wW2Yw For great recipes, cooking, storing, canning, and growing tips, check out Gardening in the North: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHk8xZzWYjZv0pjfr9iOjxw Music credits: Epidemic sound: https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/qfqvpi/ Closer by Jay Someday | https://soundcloud.com/jaysomeday Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US

When food is foraged off your own land, it's full of microbiology that ends up in your gut, and makes us healthier.

Offset your carbon footprint on Wren: https://www.wren.co/start/cpl. The first 100 of you who sign up using the link in the description will get their first month of the subscription covered by Wren for free! There has never been something that is so critical to understand and as important as the topics in this video. We discuss the life works of brilliant minds such as MIT fellows Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jørgen Randers, William W. Behrens III, but also Richard Heinberg, Dr Albert Bartlett, and others. The End of Growth. The fundamental thing this video tries to highlight is the disparity between global systems which assume constant growth is possible and the reality that we live on a finite planet. It doesn't matter if the growth rate of something is 0.01% per year, if it NEVER goes below zero (or if the long term average is above zero), then it is fundamentally unsustainable. This is not an opinion piece. This is simply reality. One question that may pop up is "doesn't growth rate matter?". It does, but it also doesn't. It does because it buys us time to find solutions. It doesn't, because it won't address the root cause of the problem - that no matter what we will still outstrip the planet if we don't stabilize. It doesn't matter if we "approach" stability. We must HIT stability. And that stable endpoint MUST be beneath the carrying capacity of whatever we are discussing: landspace, energy, resources, etc. And if we overshoot any of these limits (and we often don't know where they are), then there are things that get triggered in order to keep us within them. These things are war, disease, famine, drought, starvation. To understand why, we look at the "infinity argument" and if that is possible or not. For example, assuming only 1 planet (for now ignore the ability to spread into space), and lets look at population growth. If human population keeps increasing, then we have humans packed so densely that each human has 1 square foot of space on the earth. We can build skyscrapers, but that only buys us more time - if we keep growing, then we have skyscrapers every sq ft, zero other land use, and we use the entirety of the worlds resources building them. We still hit THAT limit. So if we KNOW that we cannot go infinite, then AT SOME POINT, it is guaranteed that SOMETHING will happen to prevent it. These manifest in the real world as starvation, disease, wars over resources, etc. If we continue ignoring the hard questions, and refuse to stop living unsustainable lives, then this is the endpoint. Because it has to be. That doesn't mean the situation is hopeless. What is DOES mean, is that we need to stop being mad when we are told we are living unsustainable lives, and we need to start DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT. I'm talking in CAPS because it's that important. It's the future of humanity. It's our childrens future. We've ignored it, collectively, for generations. The MIT study came out in the early 70s, and we've only continued to INCREASE the rate of our consumption since then. Our kids deserve better. We CAN stop it. Us. Everyone reading/watching this right now. We can stop this. We need to wake everyone we know up. And we need to get started. Today. ______________________ Want to become a member and earn perks? Check out our membership program here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfz0O9f_Ysivwz1CzEn4Wdw/join You can now also find Canadian Permaculture Legacy on Odysee here: https://odysee.com/@CanadianPermacultureLegacy:3 Odysee will automatically import any videos from here, and is a blockchain streaming service - so once my videos are there, they are there forever. Unhackable. Permissionless. Want CPL merch? https://CanadianPermacultureLegacy.com/merch Doing shopping on Amazon? If you start your shopping by clicking on my Amazon affiliate link, it costs you nothing (not even a penny) but I receive a small commission of anything you buy. The link here takes you to my website blog on my favorite permaculture books. However, if you click on any link there as your starting point, then go buy ANYTHING, it helps support me. https://permaculturelegacy.wixsite.com/website/post/my-favorite-permaculture-books-of-all-time-part-1 Or help me plant trees directly through Patreon by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=15912954 Moving to the country to start a new life. Young Family trades sodgrass for a horse farm over at Barn Boots and Country Roots: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRevkfe3phDB0bKeJ1wW2Yw Also check out Gardening in the North: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHk8xZzWYjZv0pjfr9iOjxw Music credits: Epidemic sound: https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/qfqvpi/ Closer by Jay Someday | https://soundcloud.com/jaysomeday Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US This video was sponsored by Wren.

We have an update of the chicken setup, and also a reminder to get out there and thin your fruit off your trees. ______________________ Want to become a member and earn perks? Check out our membership program here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfz0O9f_Ysivwz1CzEn4Wdw/join You can now also find Canadian Permaculture Legacy on Odysee here: https://odysee.com/@CanadianPermacultureLegacy:3 Odysee will automatically import any videos from here, and is a blockchain streaming service - so once my videos are there, they are there forever. Unhackable. Permissionless. Want CPL merch? https://CanadianPermacultureLegacy.com/merch Doing shopping on Amazon? If you start your shopping by clicking on my Amazon affiliate link, it costs you nothing (not even a penny) but I receive a small commission of anything you buy. The link here takes you to my website blog on my favorite permaculture books. However, if you click on any link there as your starting point, then go buy ANYTHING, it helps support me. https://permaculturelegacy.wixsite.com/website/post/my-favorite-permaculture-books-of-all-time-part-1 Or help me plant trees directly through Patreon by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=15912954 Moving to the country to start a new life. Young Family trades sodgrass for a horse farm over at Barn Boots and Country Roots: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRevkfe3phDB0bKeJ1wW2Yw For great recipes, cooking, storing, canning, and growing tips, check out Gardening in the North: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHk8xZzWYjZv0pjfr9iOjxw Music credits: Epidemic sound: https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/qfqvpi/ Closer by Jay Someday | https://soundcloud.com/jaysomeday Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US

Welcome back to the "day in the life of" series, which are a more informal style of video with the goal of conveying what it feels like to live inside a permaculture food forest. Lets take the camera out at lunch and pick some strawberries. ______________________ Want to become a member and earn perks? Check out our membership program here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfz0O9f_Ysivwz1CzEn4Wdw/join You can now also find Canadian Permaculture Legacy on Odysee here: https://odysee.com/@CanadianPermacultureLegacy:3 Odysee will automatically import any videos from here, and is a blockchain streaming service - so once my videos are there, they are there forever. Unhackable. Permissionless. Want CPL merch? https://CanadianPermacultureLegacy.com/merch Doing shopping on Amazon? If you start your shopping by clicking on my Amazon affiliate link, it costs you nothing (not even a penny) but I receive a small commission of anything you buy. The link here takes you to my website blog on my favorite permaculture books. However, if you click on any link there as your starting point, then go buy ANYTHING, it helps support me. https://permaculturelegacy.wixsite.com/website/post/my-favorite-permaculture-books-of-all-time-part-1 Or help me plant trees directly through Patreon by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=15912954 Moving to the country to start a new life. Young Family trades sodgrass for a horse farm over at Barn Boots and Country Roots: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRevkfe3phDB0bKeJ1wW2Yw For great recipes, cooking, storing, canning, and growing tips, check out Gardening in the North: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHk8xZzWYjZv0pjfr9iOjxw Music credits: Epidemic sound: https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/qfqvpi/ Closer by Jay Someday | https://soundcloud.com/jaysomeday Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US

Offset your carbon footprint on Wren: https://www.wren.co/start/canadianpermaculturelegacy. The first 100 people who sign up will have 10 extra trees planted in their name! We have a bunch of new subscribers over the past year, and I thought it's a good idea now and then to do a "back to basics" type of video. I start this video talking about basic propagation details, then break into things we are doing to live more in tune with nature. Solar panels, EV, and eating less meat are all things we're working on to help reduce our load on this planet. Planting the seedlings may in a small way help restore some genetic diversity to the food we grow. Who knows, maybe I'll get a CPL Paw Paw that is the best paw paw on the planet?! What things are you doing to help live more in tune with our beautiful planet? Want more info on solar? Are you hearing criticism about the cost of making solar panels, disposal, production decrease over time, and all the various fear, uncertainty and doubt circling the anti-solar sites on the internet? Here is a great meta analysis that debunks many of the myths and skepticisms regarding solar, and panels are even MORE efficient today than the information even in this meta analysis: https://kubyenergy.ca/blog/the-positive-and-negative-environmental-impacts-of-solar-panels. ______________________ Want to become a member and earn perks? Check out our membership program here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfz0O9f_Ysivwz1CzEn4Wdw/join You can now also find Canadian Permaculture Legacy on Odysee here: https://odysee.com/@CanadianPermacultureLegacy:3 Odysee will automatically import any videos from here, and is a blockchain streaming service - so once my videos are there, they are there forever. Unhackable. Permissionless. Want CPL merch? https://CanadianPermacultureLegacy.com/merch Doing shopping on Amazon? If you start your shopping by clicking on my Amazon affiliate link, it costs you nothing (not even a penny) but I receive a small commission of anything you buy. The link here takes you to my website blog on my favorite permaculture books. However, if you click on any link there as your starting point, then go buy ANYTHING, it helps support me. https://permaculturelegacy.wixsite.com/website/post/my-favorite-permaculture-books-of-all-time-part-1 Or help me plant trees directly through Patreon by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=15912954 Moving to the country to start a new life. Young Family trades sodgrass for a horse farm over at Barn Boots and Country Roots: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRevkfe3phDB0bKeJ1wW2Yw For great recipes, cooking, storing, canning, and growing tips, check out Gardening in the North: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHk8xZzWYjZv0pjfr9iOjxw Music credits: Epidemic sound: https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/qfqvpi/ Closer by Jay Someday | https://soundcloud.com/jaysomeday Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US

Offset your carbon footprint on Wren: https://www.wren.co/start/canadianpermaculturelegacy. The first 100 people who sign up will have 10 extra trees planted in their name! ______________________ Want to become a member and earn perks? Check out our membership program here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfz0O9f_Ysivwz1CzEn4Wdw/join You can now also find Canadian Permaculture Legacy on Odysee here: https://odysee.com/@CanadianPermacultureLegacy:3 Odysee will automatically import any videos from here, and is a blockchain streaming service - so once my videos are there, they are there forever. Unhackable. Permissionless. Want CPL merch? https://CanadianPermacultureLegacy.com/merch Doing shopping on Amazon? If you start your shopping by clicking on my Amazon affiliate link, it costs you nothing (not even a penny) but I receive a small commission of anything you buy. The link here takes you to my website blog on my favorite permaculture books. However, if you click on any link there as your starting point, then go buy ANYTHING, it helps support me. https://permaculturelegacy.wixsite.com/website/post/my-favorite-permaculture-books-of-all-time-part-1 Or help me plant trees directly through Patreon by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=15912954 Moving to the country to start a new life. Young Family trades sodgrass for a horse farm over at Barn Boots and Country Roots: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRevkfe3phDB0bKeJ1wW2Yw For great recipes, cooking, storing, canning, and growing tips, check out Gardening in the North: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHk8xZzWYjZv0pjfr9iOjxw Music credits: Epidemic sound: https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/qfqvpi/ Closer by Jay Someday | https://soundcloud.com/jaysomeday Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US This video is sponsored by Wren.

______________________ Want to become a member and earn perks? Check out our membership program here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfz0O9f_Ysivwz1CzEn4Wdw/join You can now also find Canadian Permaculture Legacy on Odysee here: https://odysee.com/@CanadianPermacultureLegacy:3 Odysee will automatically import any videos from here, and is a blockchain streaming service - so once my videos are there, they are there forever. Unhackable. Permissionless. Want CPL merch? https://CanadianPermacultureLegacy.com/merch Doing shopping on Amazon? If you start your shopping by clicking on my Amazon affiliate link, it costs you nothing (not even a penny) but I receive a small commission of anything you buy. The link here takes you to my website blog on my favorite permaculture books. However, if you click on any link there as your starting point, then go buy ANYTHING, it helps support me. https://permaculturelegacy.wixsite.com/website/post/my-favorite-permaculture-books-of-all-time-part-1 Or help me plant trees directly through Patreon by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=15912954 Moving to the country to start a new life. Young Family trades sodgrass for a horse farm over at Barn Boots and Country Roots: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRevkfe3phDB0bKeJ1wW2Yw For great recipes, cooking, storing, canning, and growing tips, check out Gardening in the North: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHk8xZzWYjZv0pjfr9iOjxw Music credits: Epidemic sound: https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/qfqvpi/ Closer by Jay Someday | https://soundcloud.com/jaysomeday Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US

The last video people kept commenting on those monstrous asparagus, so I thought I would do a quick video on them. The best part about them is that they weren't fibrous at all. Even those 2 foot long asparagus weren't fibrous! These are "Jersey Knight" asparagus. ______________________ Want to become a member and earn perks? Check out our membership program here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfz0O9f_Ysivwz1CzEn4Wdw/join You can now also find Canadian Permaculture Legacy on Odysee here: https://odysee.com/@CanadianPermacultureLegacy:3 Odysee will automatically import any videos from here, and is a blockchain streaming service - so once my videos are there, they are there forever. Unhackable. Permissionless. Want CPL merch? https://CanadianPermacultureLegacy.com/merch Doing shopping on Amazon? If you start your shopping by clicking on my Amazon affiliate link, it costs you nothing (not even a penny) but I receive a small commission of anything you buy. The link here takes you to my website blog on my favorite permaculture books. However, if you click on any link there as your starting point, then go buy ANYTHING, it helps support me. https://permaculturelegacy.wixsite.com/website/post/my-favorite-permaculture-books-of-all-time-part-1 Or help me plant trees directly through Patreon by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=15912954 Moving to the country to start a new life. Young Family trades sodgrass for a horse farm over at Barn Boots and Country Roots: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRevkfe3phDB0bKeJ1wW2Yw For great recipes, cooking, storing, canning, and growing tips, check out Gardening in the North: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHk8xZzWYjZv0pjfr9iOjxw Music credits: Epidemic sound: https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/qfqvpi/ Closer by Jay Someday | https://soundcloud.com/jaysomeday Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US

Today we clean up, organize, design and expand the annual garden. We're going to take some permaculture principles into this design, such as contour, water flows, energy flows, polycultures, biochar, manures, compost, and more! Oh, and a quickie before I continue, midway through the video I'm walking up the path next to the pond, pointing out mint along side the path and I say "mint and garlic" when the garlic is Egyptian Walking Onion. My brain and mouth betray eachother sometimes, and my brain thinks Onions and my mouth says garlic. I think it's a funny dyslexia thing maybe? Also, good news! My land is now officially certified as a wildlife habitat! What does that mean, in a practical sense? To be honest, not really a whole lot. However, one thing I'm hoping that it does is that people who walk by see my place as contributing positively to the Earth. Sometimes changing someone's perception of that big woodchip pile, or all those weedy looking plants like Dandelions that I leave growing in my lawn and garden... maybe it is the trigger that opens their mind, and unplugs them. Worst case? It's a cool sign and it makes me feel good, so "Imma do it." Then we take a wander around and show more food forest updates. The updates come quick this time of year. Each day is a new tree blooming. ______________________ Want to become a member and earn perks? Check out our membership program here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfz0O9f_Ysivwz1CzEn4Wdw/join You can now also find Canadian Permaculture Legacy on Odysee here: https://odysee.com/@CanadianPermacultureLegacy:3 Odysee will automatically import any videos from here, and is a blockchain streaming service - so once my videos are there, they are there forever. Unhackable. Permissionless. Want CPL merch? https://canadianpermaculturelegacy.com/merch Doing shopping on Amazon? If you start your shopping by clicking on my Amazon affiliate link, it costs you nothing (not even a penny) but I receive a small commission of anything you buy. The link here takes you to my website blog on my favorite permaculture books. However, if you click on any link there as your starting point, then go buy ANYTHING, it helps support me. https://permaculturelegacy.wixsite.com/website/post/my-favorite-permaculture-books-of-all-time-part-1 Or help me plant trees directly through Patreon by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=15912954 Moving to the country to start a new life. Young Family trades sodgrass for a horse farm over at Barn Boots and Country Roots: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRevkfe3phDB0bKeJ1wW2Yw For great recipes, cooking, storing, canning, and growing tips, check out Gardening in the North: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHk8xZzWYjZv0pjfr9iOjxw Music credits: Epidemic sound: https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/qfqvpi/ Closer by Jay Someday | https://soundcloud.com/jaysomeday Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US

Come with me for an early morning walkabout, and see what we have growing in our cold hardy permaculture food forest - USDA zone 4/5. Edit: I said Fred was on a Lupine, but that could be a goldenrod now that I look at it again. There are lupines in that area, and the single-leaves look similar, but this appears to be a goldenrod. Not all my favorite plants were here, but a walkaround showing all my plants would take 2 hours! Hopefully this video gives you some ideas of plants you can put in your own food forests, and other tips with pollination of your fruit trees and shrubs. Much love, and keep planting! The world depends on us to be good stewards of the Earth. ______________________ Want to become a member and earn perks? Check out our membership program here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfz0O9f_Ysivwz1CzEn4Wdw/join You can now also find Canadian Permaculture Legacy on Odysee here: https://odysee.com/@CanadianPermacultureLegacy:3 Odysee will automatically import any videos from here, and is a blockchain streaming service - so once my videos are there, they are there forever. Unhackable. Permissionless. Want CPL merch? https://canadianpermaculturelegacy.com/merch Doing shopping on Amazon? If you start your shopping by clicking on my Amazon affiliate link, it costs you nothing (not even a penny) but I receive a small commission of anything you buy. The link here takes you to my website blog on my favorite permaculture books. However, if you click on any link there as your starting point, then go buy ANYTHING, it helps support me. https://permaculturelegacy.wixsite.com/website/post/my-favorite-permaculture-books-of-all-time-part-1 Or help me plant trees directly through Patreon by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=15912954 Moving to the country to start a new life. Young Family trades sodgrass for a horse farm over at Barn Boots and Country Roots: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRevkfe3phDB0bKeJ1wW2Yw For great recipes, cooking, storing, canning, and growing tips, check out Gardening in the North: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHk8xZzWYjZv0pjfr9iOjxw Music credits: Epidemic sound: https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/qfqvpi/ Closer by Jay Someday | https://soundcloud.com/jaysomeday Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US

Today our treetime delivery came in! We have some cool new varieties of trees that we've never tried before, and I'm so excited! Treetime.ca is a cold hardy nursery located in Alberta Canada, and I've used them many times before. When I need cold hardy plants, there's no better place to look than Alberta. This isn't only a nursery that works with cold hardy trees (fruit, nut, landscaping, shrubs, etc), but these guys also "get it" in terms of permaculture. I've had many conversations with folks over there, including Holly, who was absolutely fantastic (seriously, if anyone from treetime is reading this, Holly deserves a raise!). These guys were absolutely thrilled to be able to donate some trees to my food forest, and they love what we're doing over here. And before you ask, YES they DO ship to the USA! So if you want some cold hardy trees, I can personally vouch that every single tree time tree I've ordered has survived my winters. The only times I've lost any at all were due to rabbits, but thems the chances you take when you buy 1-2 year old whips. On the other hand, you saw that serviceberry in the beginning of this video. When I planted the peaches they were 3 feet tall, and this serviceberry was 3 inches tall. And now it towers over them. Buying younger trees does require a time investment, but don't forget about them. Although you'll get fruit sooner with a larger tree, it will be much more expensive and in the long-run, the longer a tree lives in it's forever home, the stronger it will be. After about 5-6 years, you will find that those little 4 inch whips you bought are now larger than the 4 foot trees you bought. So check out treetime if you want some cold hardy trees, and possibly some varieties you don't yet have: https://treetime.ca/?linkid=headerLogo ______________________ Want to become a member and earn perks? Check out our membership program here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfz0O9f_Ysivwz1CzEn4Wdw/join You can now also find Canadian Permaculture Legacy on Odysee here: https://odysee.com/@CanadianPermacultureLegacy:3 Odysee will automatically import any videos from here, and is a blockchain streaming service - so once my videos are there, they are there forever. Unhackable. Permissionless. Doing shopping on Amazon? If you start your shopping by clicking on my Amazon affiliate link, it costs you nothing (not even a penny) but I receive a small commission of anything you buy. The link here takes you to my website blog on my favorite permaculture books. However, if you click on any link there as your starting point, then go buy ANYTHING, it helps support me. https://permaculturelegacy.wixsite.com/website/post/my-favorite-permaculture-books-of-all-time-part-1 Or help me plant trees directly through Patreon by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=15912954 Moving to the country to start a new life. Young Family trades sodgrass for a horse farm over at Barn Boots and Country Roots: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRevkfe3phDB0bKeJ1wW2Yw For great recipes, cooking, storing, canning, and growing tips, check out Gardening in the North: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHk8xZzWYjZv0pjfr9iOjxw Music credits: Epidemic sound: https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/qfqvpi/ Closer by Jay Someday | https://soundcloud.com/jaysomeday Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US Disclosure: This video wasn't sponsored by treetime, however they did donate trees. However, my review of them is not whatsoever biased by this, as I've ordered from them many times before and will do so many times again.

WARNING: Although not graphic, this video does have a description of an injury - a deep cut. If this is something that will bother you or your children, this may be a video to skip, however I will also include 2 timestaps, 1 just before the description and 1 just after the description. It's honestly not that bad, but I do know some people watch these videos with their kids. Timestamps: 1:50 Description starts 5:20 Description and showing the injury (3 days later) ends _____________________________ Video description: These are 2 plants that you need to have, for emergency purposes. These are the 2 best healing plants, possibly on planet earth. Everyone knows of Aloe.... but do you know of Boneknit and Plantago? These should be in your food forest, because you never know when you may need some quick healing, and it's not possible to go to a hospital. Wouldn't it be nice to have a medicine cabinet in your yard? ______________________ Want to become a member and earn perks? Check out our membership program here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfz0O9f_Ysivwz1CzEn4Wdw/join You can now also find Canadian Permaculture Legacy on Odysee here: https://odysee.com/@CanadianPermacultureLegacy:3 Odysee will automatically import any videos from here, and is a blockchain streaming service - so once my videos are there, they are there forever. Unhackable. Permissionless. Doing shopping on Amazon? If you start your shopping by clicking on my Amazon affiliate link, it costs you nothing (not even a penny) but I receive a small commission of anything you buy. The link here takes you to my website blog on my favorite permaculture books. However, if you click on any link there as your starting point, then go buy ANYTHING, it helps support me. https://permaculturelegacy.wixsite.com/website/post/my-favorite-permaculture-books-of-all-time-part-1 Or help me plant trees directly through Patreon by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=15912954 Moving to the country to start a new life. Young Family trades sodgrass for a horse farm over at Barn Boots and Country Roots: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRevkfe3phDB0bKeJ1wW2Yw For great recipes, cooking, storing, canning, and growing tips, check out Gardening in the North: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHk8xZzWYjZv0pjfr9iOjxw Music credits: Epidemic sound: https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/qfqvpi/ Closer by Jay Someday | https://soundcloud.com/jaysomeday Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US

Offset your carbon footprint on Wren: https://www.wren.co/start/canadianpermaculturelegacy. The first 100 people who sign up will have 10 extra trees planted in their name! Today we are off to get more trees! Why do we need more trees? Because reasons. Sure we have one food forest, but what about another food forest!? The old man walking trail is an extension of my existing food forest, utilizing some lower lands where my upper lands rainfall runoff would feed. When I first got this land, this lower area was almost a complete monoculture of dog strangling vine, except for the prolific poison ivy growing through it. Over the years I cleared it out, mowed it constantly and re-seeded it to grass and clover. The constant cutting eventually starved out the dog strangling vine and poison ivy, yet the grasses and clovers (and other low vegetation like plantain, dandelion, etc) took back over. Then 2 years ago I decided to now convert this lower area into a food forest, drastically reducing the mowing requirements (in the long term it will completely eliminate it). It also now functions as a demonstration site for "resetting an area full of nasty plants". The area was sheet mulched using leaf bags in a 5 part series of videos beginning here in November 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aKH5moZJ9M. Now that it has spent a full growing season (and 2 winters) building soil (converting grasslands bacterial dominated soils towards fungal dominated soils that trees want), it's the best time ever to plant into it with tree species. Today is the day where the course of this land is changed forever, and led towards a forest. The species planted today are chosen to maximize diversity and food sources for wildlife as the highest priority. I will also add more and more to this area over the years, taking cuttings from existing plants, collecting seeds and spreading them, and building up the herbaceous and bush layer in that area over the next decade. The long term plan for this space is to function as a wild corridor of food, which can house my favorite pest predators (birds, bats, snakes, wasps, ladybugs, green lacewings, preying mantis, dragonflies, etc), and also be an area where I can go on long meandering walks, foraging serviceberries, cherries, raspberries, and mushrooms, and then returning in the fall for the heavier crops of paw paws, etc. I hope you all enjoy this video, and get to work making change on your own land. We evolved in the savannahs and forests of this world. Today I take further steps to return to that history. (minor note: on the wren screen it says I'm from America. I'm not sure why, *shrug*. If you thought that looked odd, you aren't wrong!) ______________________ Want to become a member and earn perks? Check out our membership program here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfz0O9f_Ysivwz1CzEn4Wdw/join You can now also find Canadian Permaculture Legacy on Odysee here: https://odysee.com/@CanadianPermacultureLegacy:3 Odysee will automatically import any videos from here, and is a blockchain streaming service - so once my videos are there, they are there forever. Unhackable. Permissionless. Doing shopping on Amazon? If you start your shopping by clicking on my Amazon affiliate link, it costs you nothing (not even a penny) but I receive a small commission of anything you buy. The link here takes you to my website blog on my favorite permaculture books. However, if you click on any link there as your starting point, then go buy ANYTHING, it helps support me. https://permaculturelegacy.wixsite.com/website/post/my-favorite-permaculture-books-of-all-time-part-1 Or help me plant trees directly through Patreon by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=15912954 Moving to the country to start a new life. Young Family trades sodgrass for a horse farm over at Barn Boots and Country Roots: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRevkfe3phDB0bKeJ1wW2Yw For great recipes, cooking, storing, canning, and growing tips, check out Gardening in the North: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHk8xZzWYjZv0pjfr9iOjxw Music credits: Epidemic sound: https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/qfqvpi/ Closer by Jay Someday | https://soundcloud.com/jaysomeday Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US Experimental Ambient Trap Lo-Fi | VOICES by Alex-Productions | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx0_M61F81Nfb-BRXE-SeVA Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US Erik Satie - Gymnopédie No. 1, Year 1888. Stardust by Jay Someday | https://soundcloud.com/jaysomeday Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US This video was sponsored by Wren.