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You guys loved PaleGhost and Tom so much, here are some updates of their gardens. Also, I'd like to introduce you to Sam (I called him Frank to protect his identity, but then he outed himself in his own video!). Sam is a wonderful guy who is expanding gardens around his house in Germany. I forgot to add his video to the last viewer vids, so I added it here, and also asked him if he had an update. I wanted to see how his pond sealing was going. I hope you guys enjoy these videos. Also, I'm accepting more videos for a fall viewer vids which I will publish at the end of the growing season. The next one will be the last viewer vids of the year, so feel free to take a video anytime you want - now or in a bit, if that works better. I will target the next release of the edited video for sometime in early winter. So get those cameras out and share your gardens with the community! And whatever you do, if you have a garden now, if you don't have a garden yet - make sure you are on the path you want to be on, and if you aren't there yet, make sure you are headed in the right direction. Only you can change you life. Make every decision one which brings you closer to where you want to be. In order to get to where we want to go, sometimes we have to walk away from where we are. Peace and love friends, Keith Link to research on K accumulation of comfrey: Page 4 (199) of https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325078608_The_Nutrient_Content_of_Organic_Liquid_Fertilizers_in_Zimbabwe. Timestamps: 0:40 Talking about Potassium deficiency 5:18 Tom's Garden update 18:32 Sam's Garden part 1: Spring 20:49 Sam's Garden part 2: Summer 25:08 PaleGhost update 6:25 Comment for the Plum here... some trees like to grow straight up like this - apples and pears are notorious for this. A good idea to help shape the tree is to try to tie these branches sideways a bit. You can do this by running a wire horizontally and tie the branches to it. they do this in orchards. Alternatively you can buy or make sticks to push them apart. Something like this: Canada: https://amzn.to/3B7NogK US: https://amzn.to/3Fo2Fwu The above are from affiliate link, and while it won't cost you a penny to use that link, it will earn me a small commission, taken straight from Jeff Bezos' pockets. ______________________ Want to become a member and earn perks? Check out our membership program here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfz0O9f_Ysivwz1CzEn4Wdw/join Want CPL merch? https://CanadianPermacultureLegacy.com... 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 for an old school walkabout of a 5 year old Canadian Permaculture Food Forest. ______________________ Want to become a member and earn perks? Check out our membership program here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfz0O9f_Ysivwz1CzEn4Wdw/join Want CPL merch? https://CanadianPermacultureLegacy.com... 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

Timestamps for today's video: 2:58 Mushrooms 8:02 Hazelnuts 14:00 What is my favorite tree? 18:32 Politics, it just wants us divided. Nature unites. 21:45 What is my favorite song/band/music? Info on Moringa tree food, medicinal and utility: https://pfaf.org/User/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Moringa+oleifera For more info on Mangrove trees, check this amazing video out and spread the word of the importance of mangrove ecosystems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vh7CoPBLQa8 Political spectrum test: https://www.politicalcompass.org/test Ideology based on results of political spectrum test: https://twitter.com/Vincredible__/status/1255933607237095426/photo/2 Sarox band: Consider supporting a fellow subscriber and artist doing what they love (I receive nothing from any of this): Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Sarox&i=digital-music&search-type=ss&ref=ntt_srch_drd_B002VGYSTA Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7GAlpgpsq648p3bftNAeIt?si=mII-e_Q7RmCzMMn7bwDwlA&dl_branch=1 Apple: https://music.apple.com/us/album/sincroniz%C3%A1ndome/336182189 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSofSgKfazxDsxtUpraO9TQ I reached out to Sara to ask her if I could put her song in this video and here is what she sent me: My goodness well of course! This really warms my heart and motivates me to get back on track with our new CD! Bless you! I included a few pics so you can chose whatever fits best for your video! I downloaded them from google pics so let me know if you need a higher resolution. I'm not sure which song you would like to chose, but the song: El Arbol, La Luna y la Nube is a from a short story I wrote when I was 15 about a tree that died because the land was barren... Seems to me like a gigantic synchronicity that that's the song you liked, not even understanding Spanish! lol Here's the Lyrics if you think you want to use it: Lyrics to El Arbol, La Luna y la Nube (By Saray Vega©)- translation from Spanish The dry leaves of a tree fell again the thirsty earth incapable of offering what the tree needed to survive... it was not demanding much... And the moon was shinning in a very particular way The sky that covered was a blanked made of crystal millions of little stars bursting in it's heart a galaxy of emotions evolved it It only wanted to live, it only wanted to continue It only wanted to live... but it had to die A dark cloud full of water passed over the scene Fighting against the winds it tried to stay there It was not able to withstand and it went far away and there it dissipated... it never poured... And the moon was shinning in a very particular way The sky that covered was a blanked made of crystal millions of little stars bursting in it's heart a galaxy of emotions evolved it It only wanted to live, it only wanted to continue It only wanted to live... but it had to die _______ I must say that reading the lyrics hits me. It's a story of the time we find ourselves in, and a warning of where we are headed if we fail to act. Thanks to everyone for watching, commenting, and being amazing people. I truly believe this community here is one of the most wholesome, but also driven and engaged communities I've seen. I wish you all the best of luck in building independence and resilience in your life, in changing your communities, and in healing the planet. Whether it's by growing food, replanting nature, or fulfilling your life with passion and love and sharing your art with others. I will help any way I can. Keith ______________________ Want to become a member and earn perks? Check out our membership program here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfz0O9f_Ysivwz1CzEn4Wdw/join Want CPL merch? https://CanadianPermacultureLegacy.com... 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

More details on Aminopyralids here: https://www.ncagr.gov/spcap/pesticides/documents/AminopyralidGardenerResponse29Apr09.pdf This will give more examples of leaf damage, and also includes directions on how to perform a bioassay test. One thing I VERY much disagree with is that tilling will help speed up break down by microorganisms. That makes a lot of sense... the best way to help microorganisms is to kill them all by tilling? I mean, come on. And even IF it did, I still wouldn't till, because tilling is stupid. Cut off your nose to save your face, type of thing. Other than that though, that link has pretty good information. edit: i mentioned clovers are dangerous dangerous cattle, but apparently not all clovers are bad for cattle, only white and yellow. _________________________ 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 Want to become a member and earn perks? Check out our membership program here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfz0O9f_Ysivwz1CzEn4Wdw/join Want CPL merch? https://CanadianPermacultureLegacy.com... 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

Every day the kindness of the community here blows me away. ______________________ 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 Want to become a member and earn perks? Check out our membership program here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfz0O9f_Ysivwz1CzEn4Wdw/join Want CPL merch? https://CanadianPermacultureLegacy.com... 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

Learn from me! Don't do these 7 things that I've done. It's easy for a creator to show all the best parts of their gardens. But the plants you see are the survivors. The true lessons are learned in what you don't see - because those sum beeches ded. Today I show you 7 mistakes (really 10, four of them are lumped together) that I made while making my food forest. I'm sure the years will teach me many more. Thanks for watching. A few things I cut out in editing to improve video flow, but are worth mentioning: - When collecting plants in the wild, I follow a 95/5 rule. That means that I always leave 95% of the plants or foraged food I come across alone, for nature. So when I mention that I went to the abandoned Lowe's parking lot and dug up some wild seabuckthorn plants, it was a FIELD of seabuckthorn. They were doing what they do - being pioneer plants - turning a parking lot back into a forest. - When you transplant plants, be very careful. You are spreading plant genetics and most of the invasives we have today are invasive because they were displaced from their stage in ecological development in a specific area, and put outside of that. In this new area, they may vastly out compete other plants and could become problematic. - I cut out some lower impact mistakes such as not planting densely enough, not maintaining a good winter covercrop, and more. The video was just too long. I may include these in a future video, because overnight I remembered a really big mistake I made - bringing in horse manure from a place that I didn't know. They must use herbicide on the hay they feed their horses, because I have a dead patch of my garden (for 3 years now) because of it. Aminopyralids are terrible and will last in your soils for a LONG time. ______________________ 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 Want to become a member and earn perks? Check out our membership program here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfz0O9f_Ysivwz1CzEn4Wdw/join Want CPL merch? https://CanadianPermacultureLegacy.com... Or help me plant trees directly through Patreon by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=15912954 Want consultation services? Chat 1 on 1 and ask questions about your own project? Or do you want something bigger, like full out consultation? Want me to design your own project? I now offer those services on my website: https://permaculturelegacy.wixsite.com/website 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

There is always something to eat in the food forest. Come see what is ready to eat in late August! -------------- 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 Want to become a member and earn perks? Check out our membership program here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfz0O9f_Ysivwz1CzEn4Wdw/join Want CPL merch? https://CanadianPermacultureLegacy.com... Or help me plant trees directly through Patreon by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=15912954 Want consultation services? Chat 1 on 1 and ask questions about your own project? Or do you want something bigger, like full out consultation? Want me to design your own project? I now offer those services on my website: https://permaculturelegacy.wixsite.com/website 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

In Part 4 we head off and hike whst I personal think is the best trail off Hwy 60 in Algonquin. On today's video we hit the Track and Track and Tower Trail. We are trying to vacation locally, and enjoy our beautiful country. So many Canadians have no idea how beautiful Canada is. We truly live in one of the most amazing countries on the planet. I have hiked in Algonquin for my whole life. I normally hike in the interior, but as a compromise for our vacation, we are going RV camping! Come along with us as we hit all the best trails along the Hwy 60 corridor. So how nice is Ontario? This upcoming mini hiking and camping series will put Ontario's most beautiful Provincial Park on full display. Thanks for watching and get out there and enjoy nature! ----------------- 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 Want to become a member and earn perks? Check out our membership program here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfz0O9f_Ysivwz1CzEn4Wdw/join Want CPL merch? https://CanadianPermacultureLegacy.com... Or help me plant trees directly through Patreon by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=15912954 Want consultation services? Chat 1 on 1 and ask questions about your own project? Or do you want something bigger, like full out consultation? Want me to design your own project? I now offer those services on my website: https://permaculturelegacy.wixsite.com/website 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

In Part 3 we head off and hike some of the best waterfall and rapid trails in Algonquin. We are trying to vacation locally, and enjoy our beautiful country. So many Canadians have no idea how beautiful Canada is. We truly live in one of the most amazing countries on the planet. I have hiked in Algonquin for my whole life. I normally hike in the interior, but as a compromise for our vacation, we are going RV camping! Come along with us as we hit all the best trails along the Hwy 60 corridor. So how nice is Ontario? This upcoming mini hiking and camping series will put Ontario's most beautiful Provincial Park on full display. Thanks for watching and get out there and enjoy nature! ----------------- 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 Want to become a member and earn perks? Check out our membership program here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfz0O9f_Ysivwz1CzEn4Wdw/join Want CPL merch? https://CanadianPermacultureLegacy.com... Or help me plant trees directly through Patreon by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=15912954 Want consultation services? Chat 1 on 1 and ask questions about your own project? Or do you want something bigger, like full out consultation? Want me to design your own project? I now offer those services on my website: https://permaculturelegacy.wixsite.com/website 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

A common question I get is "how much does it cost to make a food forest"? I think it's a video worth doing, so in this video I attempt to answer this question. However, make sure that you understand the difference between the cost of a food forest and the cost of a swimming pool. One of these things is an investment, an asset in our lives, and one of these things is a liability. Often we weigh decisions between choices based on what they cost us to buy, but we never consider if one of these things actually MAKES us money in the long run, versus if one just keeps costing us more and more and more. Okay, you get that, but still want to know certain things, like, how much will it cost me to install a food forest, how much money will I save, how long it will it take me to make my money back (return on investment (ROI)). Well that's also not easy to answer, because it's going to be completely different based on where you live! So what I can do is talk about some of the costs, talk about some of the things that impact cost. Talk about ways you can save money in your installs, by say, fleshing out your herbaceous layer through foraging, or looking for end of season sales. Or tapping into free waste streams that are of incredible value to you (cardboard, woodchips, etc). But then I can also run some numbers based on what it cost me to get this puppy up and running, and I can feed you back info on how much food I'm making per square foot, and we can at least come close to some kind of ballpark number that you can expect to be in the general vicinity of. And trust me, there's enough wiggle room in the numbers to almost guarantee that no matter where you are and how you do this, that installing a food forest is going to be one of the best financial investments you can ever make. I then also touch on an extremely important point at the end of the video - make sure you watch the section on "nutrients", because at the end of the day, when we buy food, are we buying "apples" or are we buying the nutrients contained in the apple? One thing I didn't touch on (edited it out due to length of video) so I will mention it here... also remember that this food forest is likely DISPLACING what used to be there. If what used to be there is a grass lawn that cost you time and money to "keep looking perfect", then for complete accuracy you want to factor that into your calculations. If you are now saving $200 per year because you aren't subscribed to some green lawn fertilizing maintenance company, or you aren't spending gas and hours on a lawnmower, then what is that worth? For a little upfront money and time, you can gain both of those back, one hundred fold in the years that follow. Thanks for watching everyone, and I'll see you on the next one. Keith ______________________ 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 Want to become a member and earn perks? Check out our membership program here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfz0O9f_Ysivwz1CzEn4Wdw/join Want CPL merch? https://CanadianPermacultureLegacy.com... Or help me plant trees directly through Patreon by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=15912954 Want consultation services? Chat 1 on 1 and ask questions about your own project? Or do you want something bigger, like full out consultation? Want me to design your own project? I now offer those services on my website: https://permaculturelegacy.wixsite.com/website 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

In Part 2 we head off and hike some of the best trails in Algonquin. On today's video we hit: 1:08 The Lookout 6:37 Old Rail Bike Trail, with a side-track to Provoking Lake and it's lookout. We are trying to vacation locally, and enjoy our beautiful country. So many Canadians have no idea how beautiful Canada is. We truly live in one of the most amazing countries on the planet. I have hiked in Algonquin for my whole life. I normally hike in the interior, but as a compromise for our vacation, we are going RV camping! Come along with us as we hit all the best trails along the Hwy 60 corridor. So how nice is Ontario? This upcoming mini hiking and camping series will put Ontario's most beautiful Provincial Park on full display. Thanks for watching and get out there and enjoy nature! ----------------- 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 Want to become a member and earn perks? Check out our membership program here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfz0O9f_Ysivwz1CzEn4Wdw/join Want CPL merch? https://CanadianPermacultureLegacy.com... Or help me plant trees directly through Patreon by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=15912954 Want consultation services? Chat 1 on 1 and ask questions about your own project? Or do you want something bigger, like full out consultation? Want me to design your own project? I now offer those services on my website: https://permaculturelegacy.wixsite.com/website 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

There are always lessons to learn and observations to make. every time I go outside my forest teaches me something. Today I observed a cycle of tent caterpillars going to plan. Another important thing in designing your food forest is to design in continuous cascades. Design in time. Do this for food but also flowers and herbs. Diversity is key here, not only in crops and flowers, but also in varieties of the same. This ensures that insects always have forage, and that your harvest season is the entire growing season. Early season berries transitioning into midseason berries, into main season fruit, into fall season berries, fruit and veggies, into late season fruit and veg, and then finally into end of season soil building photosynthesis machines. Don't forget this soil restoration cycle. This is something that I always need to improve on also. But also work on that diversity for your pollinator and predator attracting plants. Diversity there is key also, because not only do you want to be eating all year long, so do they. And you want them here, on your land, not on someone else's land. Thanks for watching and happy gardening. The growing season is only so long. Enjoy every moment because we're covered in ice again. Tick tock. ----------------- 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 Want to become a member and earn perks? Check out our membership program here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfz0O9f_Ysivwz1CzEn4Wdw/join Want CPL merch? https://CanadianPermacultureLegacy.com... Or help me plant trees directly through Patreon by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=15912954 Want consultation services? Chat 1 on 1 and ask questions about your own project? Or do you want something bigger, like full out consultation? Want me to design your own project? I now offer those services on my website: https://permaculturelegacy.wixsite.com/website 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 deeper into permaculture I get the more my life changes. One complication with living a sustainable life is: vacationing. We are trying to vacation locally, and enjoy our beautiful country. So many Canadians have no idea how beautiful Canada is. We truly live in one of the most amazing countries on the planet. I have hiked in Algonquin for my whole life. I normally hike in the interior, but as a compromise for our vacation, we are going RV camping! Come along with us as we hit all the best trails along the Hwy 60 corridor. So how nice is Ontario? This upcoming mini hiking and camping series will put Ontario's most beautiful Provincial Park on full display. Let's start off Part 1 with a detailed tour of the Mew Lake campground. Part 2 will then take place on the trail, as we explore the majestic Algonquin Provincial Park. ----------------- 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 Want to become a member and earn perks? Check out our membership program here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfz0O9f_Ysivwz1CzEn4Wdw/join Want CPL merch? https://CanadianPermacultureLegacy.com... Or help me plant trees directly through Patreon by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=15912954 Want consultation services? Chat 1 on 1 and ask questions about your own project? Or do you want something bigger, like full out consultation? Want me to design your own project? I now offer those services on my website: https://permaculturelegacy.wixsite.com/website 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

We have so many peaches!! the varieties are Reliance, Contender, and Frost. These trees I also amend with my biochar. Make sure to check those videos out. I'm not saying this production level is because of the biochar, but I'm sure it is planting a factor! Biochar video can be found here: https://youtu.be/0vkUevM7LzM ----------------- 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 Want to become a member and earn perks? Check out our membership program here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfz0O9f_Ysivwz1CzEn4Wdw/join Want CPL merch? https://CanadianPermacultureLegacy.com... Or help me plant trees directly through Patreon by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=15912954 Want consultation services? Chat 1 on 1 and ask questions about your own project? Or do you want something bigger, like full out consultation? Want me to design your own project? I now offer those services on my website: https://permaculturelegacy.wixsite.com/website 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

My morning bike ride path goes by this every day. I use it as fuel for my passion to drive change. It hurts to see these beautiful majestic creatures like this. ______________________ 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 Want to become a member and earn perks? Check out our membership program here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfz0O9f_Ysivwz1CzEn4Wdw/join Want CPL merch? https://CanadianPermacultureLegacy.com... Or help me plant trees directly through Patreon by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=15912954 Want consultation services? Chat 1 on 1 and ask questions about your own project? Or do you want something bigger, like full out consultation? Want me to design your own project? I now offer those services on my website: https://permaculturelegacy.wixsite.com/website 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

Everyone once in a while I will do these clips, mostly for myself and my family honestly, so that we can look back on this time and see more than just gardening clips and lectures about soil science. Let me know if anyone enjoys this vlog style video. I think a lot of youtubers end up making a separate channel for different topics. I may do it that way, I may do it this way, I'm not sure what is best. This way is easiest, that's for sure, but I also want to be aware that some people just want to see gardening, and not a family's vlog. I do want to get Trish and the kids in here more often though, so that I have something nice to look back on, and I don't use Zuckerbook. There are 3 clips today - the first is where we get our free range eggs from. These are some friends we met through Jackson's school. Jackson and their son are in the same class, and at Jackson's birthday party they came to pick up their son, and saw my gardens and we started talking gardening. They are cash crop farmers nearby (corn, soy), and I know I'm hard on that industry sometimes. The truth is that this industry may be devastating, but the farmers are just trying to survive, and the world needs to eat. I don't think the world is ready to instantly transform to permaculture farms. This is a rabbit hole I don't want to jump down in the description of a video, but maybe it's worth it's own video. The Cole's notes version is that I believe we need these farms and we're way too hard on them. They are a big problem (less so a smaller farm like this), but they are also required based on where we are TODAY. The world today starves without them. The second clip is from the pond, we had a pretty scary (fish eating) visitor. They came back 7 times in 1 hour, and each time I went out to the porch to try to scare it off. I doubt it will work, but so far no fish loss. I turned on the bubblers to help obfuscate the surface. The third clip was just me deciding to bring my phone on our morning bike. All the time we say to ourselves "I can't believe we get to work out in this" as we see beautiful rolling hills that define our province (at least in this area). It's absolutely stunning, and I decided to film some of it. I figured I'd toss it in here... in the winter I'll enjoy pulling this video up and reminding myself why I live in the tundra. The summers are amazing. One last thing... This year has been extreme for weather. Obviously the forest fires just north of us are MORE extreme (and the fires out west put those fires to shame). The heat wave that the west dealt with was nuts. Europe is experiencing one now, upwards of 50C (120F). Our weather extremes here was that for the first 40 days of the year starting from mid April we didn't get a drop of rain. It was very hot (35-40C) all May long. Everything died. I didn't think my lawn would survive (most of it didn't, the clover did okay though). Then after that, it didn't stop raining and we haven't had any sun. We have had rain in 55 of the last 60 days, many times it was absolute downpours. I have filmed a few of them in clips in my videos. It has been CONSTANT. Talking to my farmer friend, it's hitting them very hard. Many farmers are expecting 10% yield this year. ______________________ 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 Want to become a member and earn perks? Check out our membership program here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfz0O9f_Ysivwz1CzEn4Wdw/join Want CPL merch? https://CanadianPermacultureLegacy.com... Or help me plant trees directly through Patreon by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=15912954 Want consultation services? Chat 1 on 1 and ask questions about your own project? Or do you want something bigger, like full out consultation? Want me to design your own project? I now offer those services on my website: https://permaculturelegacy.wixsite.com/website 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/

Who would have thought I would have gone into a physical science in school, and ended up LOVING plants this much? Short background info on me, which will help shed light on just how stupid we can be as teenagers... I was approaching the "choose your career" fork in life - choosing what I wanted to do post-secondary school (highschool), and I had no idea what I wanted to do. Play baseball was right up there, and competing with what I wanted to do for an education. I had a scholarship to Michigan State University if I wanted to pursue the baseball career path. Deep down I knew I wasn't big enough to go that route, and likely wouldn't make it. So I was at least smart enough to turn away from that road. But what DID I actually want to do for my life? I hadn't discovered permaculture or my love of the outdoors yet. My life consisted of playing video games and playing baseball. Part of me wanted to go into computer science to design games, but you have to remember at that time, the internet didn't even exist. People didn't have cell phones yet. So going into this field felt like a potential disaster. I ended up choosing pre-med, and the reason was that I wanted to tell people at a party that I was a brain surgeon. No, seriously that was actually my reason. I wish I was kidding. I am not. Well, after a year into taking biology in school, I realized just how much I hated learning biology and chemistry. And this is why I'm telling you guys all this. How funny is it that I would later find my greatest passion in life, and that it would be almost all biology and chemistry related?! This is why it's so hard for kids to choose their careers using a teenager brain. So I switched into physics, because I figured if I couldn't tell people I was a brain surgeon at parties, then I could still tell them I was a rocket scientist. Again... I wish so much this was a joke. It is not. I then kicked butt my first year and swapped into engineering after I did a work term in some labs working on quantum dots, and all my colleagues were some of the smartest people on the planet and they were in abject poverty, making roughly what you make as a walmart greeter, but doing world class science. So I swapped to engineering and the rest is history. Wow that ended up longer than I thought... my main goal was to highlight that it's funny how I ended up making youtube videos about biology and chemistry and plants in my free time. What a plinko journey I took to get here. Today's episode is just how cool the biochemistry in plants are, and how humans may actually never even understand JUST HOW COOL it is, because, well, we aren't plants. Humans trying to understand plants is like some alien rock-based-lifeform (who communicates through vibrating dark matter) trying to understand human language. Lets start the video at this point... by looking at what is maybe the smartest organism on the planet Earth... Corn. ______________________ 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 The quickest and easiest way to support the channel is to become a member and earn perks. Check out our membership program here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfz0O9f_Ysivwz1CzEn4Wdw/join Want CPL merch? https://CanadianPermacultureLegacy.com... 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

It's time for the summer edition of viewer vids! If you want your garden featured in the next viewer vids, keep an eye out on the channel for the fall viewer vids announcement. Also, start taking that phone out to your gardens - you never know what you'll catch! Starting a new youtube channel of your own garden? This is a great way to advertise your channel to a bunch of gardeners! This is a way I can give back to you guys for all you do, watching, commenting, etc. Happy Gardening! Viewer vids is back! Quickly want to point out that the Second Laura K is actually PaleGhost69! I must have missed that in editing. My mistake. I would take it down and fix it, but it's an 8 hour upload for me (yay country internet) and I have more videos coming that I need to upload. I hope you don't mind PaleGhost! If you want in on the next viewer vids, make sure to watch for the announcement on the channel. Start taking your phones out to your gardens, you never know what you'll capture. Happy Gardening! ______________________________ 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 Want to become a member and earn perks? Check out our membership program here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfz0O9f_Ysivwz1CzEn4Wdw/join Want CPL merch? https://CanadianPermacultureLegacy.com... Or help me plant trees directly through Patreon by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=15912954 Barn Boots and Country Roots: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRevkfe3phDB0bKeJ1wW2Yw 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 single most impactful thing a gardener can do is learn about how plants work. To do that, you must learn about the soil food web of life. I hope to cover this topic in detail in this video, but also keep you awake and entertained while doing so. This is just really important information to put into your gardening tool kit, because it will save you from making many mistakes - some of which can cost you decades. This video represents years (literally) of reading books (including university textbooks), podcasts, research papers and digging that I have done. This isn't me talking here, this is me simply relaying the information I've learned in my own journey. So much of this information seems like it's "book info" and not useful in the garden, but it's simply not true. If a soil test came back high in nitrates but low in ammonium, what FUNDAMENTAL THINGS would that tell you about your soil? After watching this video you will be able to answer that question with ease, and then take specific action to move the system and soil to where it needs to be. If you enjoy this content, if you got value out of it, please consider supporting this channel by joining the membership program below. Thanks for watching and happy gardening everyone! Keith Timestamps: 3:14 Dirt vs Soil 4:10 Bacteria and Fungi role in the soil. Glues, Soil aggregates, nutrients out of stone. 6:12 Chelation: the act of taking those nutrients and making them bio available. 6:30 Plant Root exudates. I.e. how plants trick microbiology to do all the work for them. 10:29 Soil tests, Soluble vs insoluble nutrients. How soil tests can be misleading. 14:50 The nitrogen cycle and what your nitrites, nitrates and ammonium concentrations can tell you about your soil food web of life. 17:50 How ecological transition and the nitrogen cycle tie in together. Note that I cut out a long winded section on pH here, and that Nitrates make alkaline soils (the bacterial glues are very alkaline) but fungi and ammonium make acidic soil. 19:36 A continuation of the above, but what that means for weeds and what plants you will create the environment to grow. I suggest if this topic is of interest, that you start at 14:50 so that you have all the information you need to understand this section. 22:14 A Dog in a cowboy suit 22:45 How the soil food web of life can solve your sand, silt or clay problems and create a loam. You will still have heavy clay, you just won't care. Nor will your plants. This is why something like a carpet of daikon radishes is the ultimate clay solution. 26:54 Tilling 28:14 The larger organisms of the soil food web of life. I.e. this is where chelation happens. 30:25 We are all just spaceships carrying around the smaller lifeforms. 32:31 Fertilizers and microbiology 36:27 Every piece is as important as every other piece. I.e. balance in all things. 38:50 Okay okay, enough already I get it. I need a soil food web. How do I make one? 41:20 Aerobic vs Anaerobic. 46:08 Three things you should do today after learning this. _________________________________________________ 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 Want to become a member and earn perks? Check out our membership program here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfz0O9f_Ysivwz1CzEn4Wdw/join Want CPL merch? https://CanadianPermacultureLegacy.com... Or help me plant trees directly through Patreon by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=15912954 Barn Boots and Country Roots: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRevkfe3phDB0bKeJ1wW2Yw 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 Boat by Vlad Gluschenko | https://soundcloud.com/vgl9 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

Suburban Permaculture in Southern Ontario, Canada, Zone 5. You can do a lot in a small space. We just need to make a focus on space saving techniques like Espaulier, vertical growing, etc. Come see one of my consultation clients and their updated backyard food forest. It will be fun to check back in on this property over the years, and see how this food forest has changed the life of not only the person who planted it, but also the creatures of nature who will benefit from it. Thanks for watching, and consider doing something like this on your own properties. The more we can decentralized the food chain, even if just a little bit, the greater chance we have of making it out of this alive. There is no greater fight that we have ever faced as the human race, and we need all hands on deck. ______________________ 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 Want to become a member and earn perks? Check out our membership program here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfz0O9f_Ysivwz1CzEn4Wdw/join Want CPL merch? https://CanadianPermacultureLegacy.com... Or help me plant trees directly through Patreon by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=15912954 Want consultation services? Chat 1 on 1 and ask questions about your own project? Or do you want something bigger, like full out consultation? Want me to design your own project? I now offer those services on my website: https://permaculturelegacy.wixsite.com/website 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

July food forest walk-around. talking about jam, pollinators, predator insects, apples, peaches, and more. ______________________ 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 Want to become a member and earn perks? Check out our membership program here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfz0O9f_Ysivwz1CzEn4Wdw/join Want CPL merch? https://CanadianPermacultureLegacy.com... Or help me plant trees directly through Patreon by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=15912954 Want consultation services? Chat 1 on 1 and ask questions about your own project? Or do you want something bigger, like full out consultation? Want me to design your own project? I now offer those services on my website: https://permaculturelegacy.wixsite.com/website 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

Did you know that it isn't just bees that are collapsing but the entire insect biome is collapsing? What can the average person do to help? Plant flowers/plants that are native to your area. That's really important! See what grows naturally around you. Don't mow down dandelions in the spring. That's the first food source bees have access to. Make a sugar water pitstop for them. Making faux nectar just like we do for hummingbirds. Support the right farmers! and that doesn't mean organic farms, because organic farms can spray Copper Sulphate as insecticides. Support permaculture farms. If you find a hive that needs to go, don't just destroy it! Call around and you should be able to find someone more than willing to collect it for relocation. Look for local bee keepers. Buy local honey and wax products. Supporting bee keepers supports happy, healthy bees! A note on native wildflower bees vs honeybees: We need to move the conversation from trying to save honey bees specifically. They are a symptom of a much larger problem, native bee population decline. Please understand that honey bees are not native for those of us in North America. They are actually livestock. That means keeping a bee hive is not going to save the bees. What’s more of a concern are native pollinators they are usually solitary bees or ones like bumblebees. The big thing for them is habitat. Some are ground nesting, but others like to nest in debris like leaf litter, hollow sticks, etc. If you just have a lawn that gets mulched all the time by mowing, etc. that’s not really helping them out. Whether it’s honey bees or native bees, food sources are the other main factor. Many bees have troubles because they don’t have a consistent food source throughout the growing season. If you have just one type of flower that blooms in July with not much else, those bees are going hungry. You want a variety of flowering plants that also bloom at different times. There’s no silver bullet really, but that’s about as close as it gets with maintaining habitat and not just having bee food deserts, especially in cities. Political impacts of industrial agriculture and money and power: *Write to your local council or political representative.* Tell them about the need to save the bees, and ask them to stop the use of pesticides in public spaces and on public owned and managed land (from parklands to community planting schemes). Ask them to include more bee-friendly plants, and shrubs, and to make space for wildflowers along verges etc. Ask them to reduce the mowing. Bees love clover, and it's a great, low-growing, drought-resistant flower to include in lawned areas and along verges. Ask your council to use more clover. Ask them to put in place a strategy for pollinators. We can do this, and there are many ways for everyone to help out. Credit for all the above goes to all the various entomologists on reddit for this information which I have collected over the years. ______________________ 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 Want to become a member and earn perks? Check out our membership program here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfz0O9f_Ysivwz1CzEn4Wdw/join Want CPL merch? https://CanadianPermacultureLegacy.com... Or help me plant trees directly through Patreon by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=15912954 Want consultation services? Chat 1 on 1 and ask questions about your own project? Or do you want something bigger, like full out consultation? Want me to design your own project? I now offer those services on my website: https://permaculturelegacy.wixsite.com/website 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

How will my overloaded fruit trees handle a massive rain and windstorm? ______________________ 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 Want to become a member and earn perks? Check out our membership program here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfz0O9f_Ysivwz1CzEn4Wdw/join Want CPL merch? https://CanadianPermacultureLegacy.com... Or help me plant trees directly through Patreon by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=15912954 Want consultation services? Chat 1 on 1 and ask questions about your own project? Or do you want something bigger, like full out consultation? Want me to design your own project? I now offer those services on my website: https://permaculturelegacy.wixsite.com/website 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

Want to pay for an hour long comprehensive permaculture course on guilds? How about instead I make the content available to everyone for free? I was hesitant on making this video, because a big misconception is that we need certain combinations of plants to work optimally. I hopefully shatter that misconception here. Instead, the proper approach is to learn which plants you have available, in which plant functions, and then stitch them together. So in this video we spend time teaching the various plant functions. Then we go and tour some guilds I have set up on my property. Let's get going! The most comprehensive guide on permaculture guilds in the history of humankind. future historians will look back on this video to rebuild a shattered society. that is, unless you get started today, reforesting your little square of the planet, and building your own edible food forest paradise. Timestamps 1:00 Introduction 4:43 Plant functions 25:48 Tour of some guilds As promised here is some research showing nutrient analysis for various liquid manures, done by the Department of Environmental Sciences & Technology, Chinhoyi, University of Technology, Zimbabwe: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.416.3849&rep=rep1&type=pdf. What this paper shows is the tremendous nutrient value of comfrey leaves. Additionally it analyses some others. As another example, pigweed, also known as Amaranth, is rather high in phosphorous. Since plants want nitrogen when growing leaves and phosphorous when fruiting, a smart gardener could use a comfrey tea in the beginning of a season to promote large leafy growth, and an amaranth tea just before fruiting, to promote large fruit and veg. How to make those? I have a video on that also! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw7FuUvxXd0 ‐----------------- 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 Want to become a member and earn perks? Check out our membership program here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfz0O9f_Ysivwz1CzEn4Wdw/join Want CPL merch? https://CanadianPermacultureLegacy.com... 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

Wildflower hill update. At the end I discuss the benefits of having a wild space like this in and around your gardens. Flowers in this video: 1:54 Leucanthemum vulgare - Field daisy 2:18 Echium vulgare - Viper's Bugloss 2:20 White groundcover around Viper's Bugloss is Trifolium Repens - Dutch White clover 2:27 Achillea millefolium - Yarrow 2:36 - Asclepias tuberosa - Butterflyweed 2:43 - Penstemon digitalis - Foxglove Beardtongue 3:00 Lupus Lickmeus 3:10 - Coreopsis lanceolata - Lance Leaved Coreopsis 3:31 - Sambucus nigra - Elderberry 3:46 - Hypericum perforatum - St. John's Wart 3:52 - Oenothera biennis - Evening Primrose 4:00 - Hypericum perforatum - St. John's Wart 4:17 - Oenothera biennis - Evening Primrose 4:22 - Hemerocallis fulva - Orange Day Lily 4:28 - Rudbeckia hirta - Black Eyed Susan 4:39 - Saponaria officinalis - Wild Sweet William 4:50 - Saponaria officinalis - Wild Sweet William 4:55 - Lavandula angustifolia - English Lavender (with yarrow behind it) 5:08 - Dianthus gratianopolitanus - Cheddar Pink 5:12 - Cichorium intybus - Chicory 5:31 - Rudbeckia hirta - Black Eyed Susan, just prior to opening up 5:56 - Echium vulgare - Viper's Bugloss 6:18 - Stachys byzantina - Lamb's Ear (possible mis ID, see below) 6:27 - Rosa rugosa - Rugosa Rose 6:39 - Rudbeckia hirta - Prairie Sun Rudbeckia 6:47 - Gaillardia - Blanket Flower 6:58 - Phlox paniculata - White Phlox 7:10 - King Stropharia Mushrooms with White Clover groundcover. For the lambs ear, the foliage ID I get is Lambs ear. The flower looks like lambs ear but it is white (normally purple). Often lambs ear has flowers more like mullein flowers (a bunch along a stalk), but these are different. It's possible this is a different variety of lambs ear, but also possible it's another plant completely? ----‐------ 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 Want to become a member and earn perks? Check out our membership program here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfz0O9f_Ysivwz1CzEn4Wdw/join Want CPL merch? https://CanadianPermacultureLegacy.com... 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