That is exactly what I'm trying to do in south Mississippi I'm about 30 minutes from the Gulf Coast but I'm finding out the hard way what can't take the small freezes that we get so I've lost a few trees but im also growing what nobody else has around my area and its so wonderful i would recommend food forests to anyone
@moniquegebeline4350
2 жыл бұрын
So I was told by a friend in Georgia with a nursery that citrus should be UNDERSTORY and in dappled light I moved mine into morning sun and all day dappled light through an oak and the leaves doubled in size within a week.
@meropee9994
2 жыл бұрын
I got my son to drop his huge load of landscape clipping in my yard last week. It looks rough, but I am hoping it will break down into some sort of usable humus.....I have even resorted to chopping at my friends houses and lugging home to drop. I love your books and channel. Thank you for sharing how to grow on this swfl sandbar!!!! Although I must admit to killing my two Seminole pumpkin seedlings....I started them late and didn't realize full sun...doesn't mean full florida sun....trial and error, learning to steward God's green earth🙏🌎🌱
@LB-vl3qn
2 жыл бұрын
You've set a wonderful example of the smart way to grow food without fuss. Not without failure, which every garden suffers, but with more production and no waste. My Fetid Swap Water is ready and I'm about to water my plants with it. There's a wicked irony in using the weeds to feed my garden. Makes it harder to hate the nut sedge. Congratulations on the new edition of your book! ~ Lisa
@melanieallen3655
2 жыл бұрын
Just beautiful..happy memories4you..youu need2 take a few buckets of this soil home.💚
@gardenweedsgrower
2 жыл бұрын
Beautiful tour. I’m here doing the same in Pompano Beach but my whole yard, front and back. People don’t realize is you can be outdoors in the hot summer heat and you won’t feel the affects because you’re so insulated by all the trees and that also make your house cooler because you’re getting cooler breeze coming in through your window If you have the window open to the Food Forest.
@TheVigilantStewards
2 жыл бұрын
We're about to move to Costa Rica on the caribbean side, so your channel has taken on a whole new meaning to me in the past few weeks! Glad I've been watching for years from Texas
@mamagrotgrows
2 жыл бұрын
I do so love your tours of this beautiful jungle. It's a wonderful legacy of the work you and your Dad did together.
@mamagrotgrows
2 жыл бұрын
Gets me in the feels every time.
@EarthTrips
2 жыл бұрын
Awesome video! Sure is good to have all that to eat, especially with the price of everything going up. It's also beautiful landscaping! We love our Florida!🌞🌴
@nightflight41
2 жыл бұрын
Welcome back south Florida Dave. I am here in South Florida also I would love to have you come by my house and see my food Forest. You would be absolutely amazed of what I have done. There's no yard in my entire neighborhood like mine.
@davidthegood
2 жыл бұрын
Awesome work, Ken. I would love to see it.
@g-man9684
2 жыл бұрын
What hood you reppin Ken?
@Dremundo
2 жыл бұрын
Minute 7... AMEN BROTHER... being a resident of West Miramar, I have battled the horrible grass, dirt and construction debris! I loved this video and wanted to give you a shout out for the inspiration to just grow things! BIG FAN here.
@HomeandGardenHoesLLC568
Жыл бұрын
Love this so much, just starting my own food forest in north Florida
@homesteadaquarius
2 жыл бұрын
This was fun! Back to the place where an ordinary young man started something incredible. I remember when you showed us the tile projects you did there and everything has grown a lot. One of the amazing things about making a good food forest is how it almost maintains itself and simply grows more food plants. Thanks for taking us back here and good luck with your book.
@Alaytheia
2 жыл бұрын
Always nice to see the Great South Florida food forest project thriving! Would also love to see the Great North FL FF as well, if at all possible. Thanks for sharing DtG! 💖✌️😁
@jamesclaire115
2 жыл бұрын
Great video. I envy production. I really want to do something similar in The Texas Gulf Coast. Thank you for sharing what can be done give time and the will to do what you have done. God bless America.
@carolinekloppert5177
Жыл бұрын
Lovely selection of plants !
@ramthian
2 жыл бұрын
Because Aberdeen is so cold 🥶 in the winter ❄️ you know!.🥰🙏
@MayraRodriguez-id5rm
2 жыл бұрын
I so much love your context and what you do! God Bless Y'all. I'm in the process of retiring-praying God he gives me the strength needed to create a survival food heaven for me and my beloveds. Granny with adult grandchildren... Survival and thriving for the present and future. Love Y'all 🌟
@fernandezfarm
2 жыл бұрын
Awesome, glad to see the Avacado tree finally fruiting 👍
@eastcoastnews9529
2 жыл бұрын
We love to have u back home . 👍🏻🇺🇸👍🏻I’m learning so much from you. I’m from Boston and PR. But learning about FL gardening.
@lukelints9776
2 жыл бұрын
Reading your book and then having the video for the reference really helped bring the vision alive for me David. I am growing a food forest in Michigan & then heading down to Florida for the winter, my aunt is allowing me to convert her backyard to a food forest, not much room but I'm gonna pack it in!
@FreeAmerican-mm2my
2 жыл бұрын
I had an uncle that moved from North Alabama to Pensacola when I was a kid. He would have loved your ideas. He finally solved the problem by moving to North Georgia where he could grow things like in North Alabama,
@janmanning4628
2 жыл бұрын
Dear Florida....Can't grow grass? Well....Grow a food forest!!! Greetings from North Fla.🌱👒🌿🌻
@carolschedler3832
2 жыл бұрын
Delightful to tour your parents’ yard!! A picture is worth a thousand word. I have no clue what most of those food trees and bushes are. It’s mostly food that northerners aren’t exposed to. I hope, at my age, I’ll be able to implement some of the permaculture principles with perennials that will be happy in zone 6. We have a 25x30 (shady) garden now and hope to grow more on our next property. I’ll be starting at 70 years old, but I already see walnut trees on the new property. We’ll figure out how to work around them. Lol. 😂. Thanks for the inspiration!
@lynettetucker5236
2 жыл бұрын
I enjoyed the walk through very nice fruit trees and plants.
@ss-kz9ee
2 жыл бұрын
Great timing I was just watching the other day a chop and drop you did here. So good to have update.
@mccardieclan1755
2 жыл бұрын
Shalom shalom !! The garden is spectacular; Oh how we desire to get back to the first garden!
@davidthegood
2 жыл бұрын
I agree.
@deannewilliams3321
2 жыл бұрын
Very nice! I woke up this morning to a picture my cousin sent of me in the garden at 8-9 yrs old lol. It’s a nostalgic kind of day 🙂
@obtainingmercycroft
2 жыл бұрын
You should feel really proud (in a good way!) of that food forest. It's easy to see it's been a real labor of love for you. We're in central FL and working on our forest, too. Our Jamaican cherry is a yellow one and is fruiting now. I think the fruits taste like toasted marshmallows! 😋
@Dom10Sage5
2 жыл бұрын
That is beautiful. Thank you for that tour. What a backyard paradise. I just planted a bunch of fresh jackfruit seeds in hopes even 1 will survive. I'm in central Arkansas, so the odds are against me, however, I feel like I have a chance. No harm in trying anyway. I may just end up with a unique house plant for our new house.
@jenniferperry7481
2 жыл бұрын
I am grateful for our Food Forest. Thank you for helping us transform our backyard. Miss Dad.
@davidthegood
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Mom. I miss him too.
@Savingusnow
2 жыл бұрын
Good video. Not too long like so many property tours are.
@samk6051
2 жыл бұрын
This is heaven.
@JediJingleMaker
2 жыл бұрын
My dude, this was an amazing video, I felt like you were in my neighborhood.
@davidthegood
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you.
@prayerwarrior424
2 жыл бұрын
I love your no fuss approach to making food:) however we’re in Massachusetts- tropic envy!
@caffeinatedengineer7993
2 жыл бұрын
I love this
@ramthian
2 жыл бұрын
I love it man x
@oklagrowmie
2 жыл бұрын
I do alittle bit of backyard gardening too lol🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲
@franzb69
2 жыл бұрын
Those Jamaican cherry trees are called aratiles in my country. They grow here natively. Philippines.
@timothyblazer1749
2 жыл бұрын
My friend, I suggest you try inoculating your plant juice with lacto bacilli. Apparently it increases efficiency and is super easy. 1. Get rice wash water and put it in jars, covered with cloth. Leave them out for a few days all over your property. 2. Mix that 1:10 or more with milk. Let it curdle. Remove the curd. The whey is the thing. You have your inoculant. :-) if you have raw milk, you don't need to do the rice water thing. The milk will have lactobacilli in it already and you can just let it curdle under cloth and use the whey. I'd try putting in a cup of it per barrel when your start them. Apparently a little starch helps as well, so maybe spent potato water, bread scraps, etc. Bet money you'll get better results!! FYI I never connected this is my head, but I used to make lacto fermented sauerkraut like this! Recipe is in nourishing traditions by the Weston price foundation.
@davidthegood
2 жыл бұрын
Sounds like fun. I have added kefir and yogurt to my swamp water barrels before.
@timothyblazer1749
2 жыл бұрын
The real trick is that lacto bacilli eat sugars. If you add starch or sugars it will power up the process in the early phase. That's why JADAM adds boiled potatoes. The bacteria produce lactic acid, which is what you want to break down minerals and nutrients into bio available forms. In your swamp water you probably also have yeast converting sugars into small amounts of alcohol. That will also get converted to acetic acid by acetobacter until the O2 runs out. Lots of happy stuff happening in there :-)
@MikeisRelic
2 жыл бұрын
Live Oak tree leaves as a mulch will aid your citrus goals.
@SCOTTBULGRIN
2 жыл бұрын
Love this.
@Mars21681
2 жыл бұрын
Truly inspiring. Thank you for sharing... How can we apply those principals to central north Texas ????
@palmtide
5 ай бұрын
Helpful tips.
@BarbaraFischer4
2 жыл бұрын
Very cool! I love how you embrace the Florida climate and the space available! How do you make sure the plants don’t get into pipes or anything underground?
@davidthegood
2 жыл бұрын
I don't worry about it.
@BarbaraFischer4
2 жыл бұрын
@@davidthegood oh really? I guess I need to lighten up. 😂
@ramthian
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks 🙏
@Carolynfoodforest355
2 жыл бұрын
It's beautiful. Great job.
@PegsGarden
2 жыл бұрын
I agree with you David I live in Pasco county and I have a small backyard garden with 2 Moringa trees growing a loquat tree I grew from seed 4 years ago it finally fruited this year, also I grow a ton of Everglades tomatoes that are thriving in this crazy high heat weather we having, tons of herbs a small alpine strawberry plant lots of lemongrass plants just started some Mexican sunflowers that are growing and finally I have muscadine grapes that have been growing for the last 4 years that have given me a ton of fruits, thanks for sharing and encouraging us to keep growing 🌱🌱🌱🌻🌼
@melanielinkous8746
2 жыл бұрын
Looks better every time! Thank you for sharing.
@ramthian
2 жыл бұрын
I love tamarin trees 🌲 too
@roryf.1349
2 жыл бұрын
That black, sandy soil near that poinciana is incredible. I was born and raised in the WPB area, and I'm blown away by that rich black soil! Definitely a stark contrast to that typical sugar sand that you see in sand dunes on and around the coast. Great video Dave, I really appreciate it.
@tomsensible3999
2 жыл бұрын
Wowie-Zowie! That place is thick and lush.
@fernandezfarm
2 жыл бұрын
Regarding citrus I’ve had had pretty good success with red grapefruit/ grapefruit hybrids in south Florida it’s pretty resistant and resilient
@visnuexe
2 жыл бұрын
Looks like my old back yard in Ft Myers, only without so many fruit trees. I was working on the addition of more fruit trees and xerescaping so the natives could have a chance! Then i sold it to move Into a nicer house. My old place was built in 1941. I" modernized" into a house built in 1976, back in 2002. I could have had a yard like yours if I knew about food forests. Can still do this.
@visnuexe
2 жыл бұрын
Ps: when I can, I will buy your book!
@dylan8285
2 жыл бұрын
I mean wow! I would expect at least a couple palm trees in a Florida backyard not just nothing. Like you can grow so much cool stuff down there that we cant grow in the north
@karen-hillshomestead
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@davidthegood
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Karen!
@assamfoodforestnursery4010
2 жыл бұрын
Beautiful garden
@karensterling5246
Жыл бұрын
Where did you guys get the arrowroot? Every nursery here in south fla that I’ve asked about it doesn’t carry them and tell me how invasive they are. My family is from the Caribbean and I’m dying to get some for my mom.
@davidthegood
Жыл бұрын
We've never found them to be invasive at all. A friend gave me the first roots I planted. You might find them on Etsy.
@anniegaddis5240
2 жыл бұрын
Wow, thankyou for sharing that! Loved the tour!
@BeautifulEarthJa
2 жыл бұрын
I've never heard of a Jamaican cherry tree....and I live in Jamaica. The acerola cherry is the one I know. Can I get the botanical name of that second cherry tree you showed?
@terber12392
2 жыл бұрын
So exciting to see the South Florida Food Forest again. I noticed the "faux almond" tree was gone? The star fruit has gotten huge and FINALLY your avocado tree is fruiting. The difference between the soil within the forest and the soil outside the forest was amazing.
@rehoboth_farm
2 жыл бұрын
Since black sapote is a species of persimmon do you think that it would grow as far north as zone 8a? Persimmons, native american persimmons, grow wild like weeds where I live. I think that many of mine have been planted by my donkeys, deer and other animals from a mother tree near the back of my property. I'm currently allowing a huge number of them to grow with the idea of top working them with some Fuyu or other improved varieties later. I plan to plant a few fuyu etc. and just cut my own scions at will. Are black sapote genetically compatible with common persimmons?
@davidthegood
2 жыл бұрын
I doubt it, but it would be worth trying.
@fenrirgg
2 жыл бұрын
Awesome gigantic backyards, imagine not having a single tree there?! How?!
@davidthegood
2 жыл бұрын
It's really sad.
@FloridaGirl-
2 жыл бұрын
Awesome David! So glad you posted this one! I’m slowly working on mine! Got some awesome seminoles growing too outta those squash pits you showed as well! This is way better then trying grow grass! 🤣
@ramthian
2 жыл бұрын
I may retired her with you guys folks. You’ve never known. 😘 xxx.
@monsurbanpatch
2 жыл бұрын
LOL i thought I was going to be looking at an actual tiny backyard, this yard is pretty big to me haha
@davidthegood
2 жыл бұрын
It's small by most standards - about 1/10 acre.
@monsurbanpatch
2 жыл бұрын
@@davidthegood I'll have to upload a video of my backyard and get your suggestions on what I should be planting along the fence line etc. I'm so unsure about it.
@darecofreedomfarm3
2 жыл бұрын
I’ve been planting and experimenting a lot since discovering this channel. I am in east Texas just below I-20 zone 8b. I tried building a small hoop tunnel over some tropical trees “pushing the zone” . I just threw some plastic over some pvc pipe, but the first good winter blow blew it away. Surprisingly a moringa and an avocado tree came back from the roots. So you David, being far better at these things, may be able to grow moringa where you live?
@mollytrap
2 жыл бұрын
If you train yams up trees instead of trellises like that, how far from the base of the tree do you plant the yams so they can be dug up eventually without upsetting the tree?
@davidthegood
2 жыл бұрын
I usually use trees I don't care much about as trellises. I often plant 18" - 24" out.
@southfloridagardener5357
2 жыл бұрын
ugh in the freeze this winter i lost my black sapote and mulberry i got from your house a few years back when you did the tour/class. so damn sad, now i have to find a reputable person selling the black sapote.
@davidthegood
2 жыл бұрын
I'm sorry - that was a bad one.
@rebellionpointfarms6140
2 жыл бұрын
ohh the jabo
@woosta45
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah something for me to feel like I'm falling off a cliff every time I roll over.
@apadilla23
2 жыл бұрын
Beautiful 🪴 garden!☺️
@markbiggs7689
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for taking us back to see this. It looks amazing!
@justinarnold7725
2 жыл бұрын
Is the Moringa tree a nitrogen fixer
@ramthian
2 жыл бұрын
We’re looking for the place that form enough for us that all.
@koicaine1230
2 жыл бұрын
Beautiful! I want my Food Forest to look like this!
@Shane_O.5158
2 жыл бұрын
@David, what is a katook ? botanical name ? are they frost hardy ?
@davidthegood
2 жыл бұрын
Sauropus androgynous. Not frost hardy.
@JD-uc1es
2 жыл бұрын
So inspiring!!!!!!
@sherrylingenfelter8991
2 жыл бұрын
Oh that soil is amazing.
@JimmyFloridatube
2 жыл бұрын
North Florida and South Florida have two different problems. In South Florida where the climate is warm enough to grow coconuts, the dirt is mostly just sand. Here in North Florida our soil is much richer from the forests and woodlands that we clear to make homes and gardens, but our temperatures are 8a zone which limits us from growing lots of trees and plants that grow in South Florida. In the winter, I wish I was in South Florida for the warmer temps, but otherwise I am quite happy with our little property here at Fort White. All in all, I love it here in this area, but would love to migrate to the Keys in the winter. But, I can't afford that lifestyle and am quite happy here in lovely Columbia County on the Santa Fe River.
@davidthegood
2 жыл бұрын
I agree!
@yo388
2 жыл бұрын
Hopefully the next time you make a trip to ft Myers you’re Abel to give more heads up! I would have loved to come to your presentation!
@babetteisinthegarden6920
2 жыл бұрын
TFS
@laurachatfield4142
2 жыл бұрын
That's what my land looks like, grey sand. I have a huge mango tree that grows giant sweet mangoes
@kushcraft9914
2 жыл бұрын
Amazing my friend just amazing! ✌️🤠
@lauramac4846
2 жыл бұрын
Great video! If you want to come and make a pit stop over here in sunrise to assist with my struggling garden/food forest I wouldn’t be against it! Lol
@tunyarenfrow8443
2 жыл бұрын
David, I am absolutely loving this tour. I can't tell you how big of a fan I am of your channel. My husband calls you my garden super hero, LOL. He isn't wrong. I live in Southern Mississippi and am trying to make my little garden area into a grocery row/food forest combo sort of thing. I have asparagus, comfrey, blue berry, strawberry, borage, sunchokes and beauty berry. I also have my annuals planted , tomatoes, peppers, okra, potatoes( in buckets. There are cosmos, zinnias, cannas ect. Is there anything else you would advise me to try to grow. I kind of would like to try a lemon tree.
@vonries
2 жыл бұрын
Dave is NOT kidding! That is exactly what Florida soil looks like. It's not unusual at all. That is a very typical yard patchy sand and patchy weeds/grasses. You don't need to live at the beach to build sand castles in Florida. Great work Dave!
@deannasellinger8430
2 жыл бұрын
Awesome food forest, everything looks amazing. You have a true green thumb. I'm glad I found your channel, by the dynamics of the KZitem algorithm. This time they got it right 😊. I've learned sooo much. Thanks a bunch
@isabeauskorski9961
2 жыл бұрын
David, I’m willing to pay you to do this on our property. I’M SERIOUS! What would it take for you to get one started for me?I’m 66 and so is my disabled veteran husband (Parkinson’s), in Live Oak FL. I’d love to have a food forest (need one, to be more precise) on half an acre of our 5 acre property, but don’t have the strength after caring for hubby, house chores and chicken chores, not to mention all other chores/maintenance needing my attention. Please?
@davidthegood
2 жыл бұрын
You would have to find someone local - there has to be a food forest lover out there.
@kaybonette
2 жыл бұрын
So glad you are visiting your folks. I was thinking you might be sick. I don't see banana plants here south of Jax. Guess it's not tropical enough?
@HealthyDisrespectforAuthority
2 жыл бұрын
I did something after a while back in a video you said.. just try it. Last fall, when I went to eat an avocado, I found that inside it had already browned and got fibrous. I closed it back up and put the whole thing in dirt. it happened with a few more avocados so I put them in dirt too.. big ones.. small ones.. 8 all together that were past the eating stage. I had 4 of those come up from whole avocados. Three are sticks that I think birds got the leaves from and the 4th is beautiful. Only about 6" tall but must have 30 leaves and it's in .. do you know the stack-able planters from dollar-and-a-quarter tree? I used one of those and now I have the urge to transplant to something bigger.. probably not the right season but I don't want it to get pot bound.
@sharonkeef0522
2 жыл бұрын
David will the morginia grow I. Ne bama
@brittrathbunwoo7370
2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely beautiful. Inspiring. Do you & your pop have time to come to So Cal & start a food forrest for me? I'll put you up, feed you & provide transportation. Kidding.....maybe. 😉 Ocean view? Pool & jacuzzi?? BBQ steaks galore??? Let me know!!!!
@franzb69
2 жыл бұрын
I grew up eating aratiles.(Jamaican cherry)
@ismaelvelez7071
2 жыл бұрын
Please help David looking for bread fruit tree And tropical fruit on a budget.thanks
@davidthegood
2 жыл бұрын
Try the nurseries down in Homestead.
@staceymccabe6199
2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely loved it… Jealous…wish I could grow all those tropical in N.C.
@Harry-gf6dx
2 жыл бұрын
Very therapeutic video great stuff do u get much fungus or mushroom growth on floor
@CIB8282
2 жыл бұрын
Your backyard food forest is awesome. Not only for the food and medicinal value, but for the biodiversity as well.
@robinlillian9471
2 жыл бұрын
How's your Mom? Hope she's doing OK. Keep visiting her.
@davidthegood
2 жыл бұрын
She is very well, thank you.
@mioasisfrutal2634
2 жыл бұрын
I live in the area and recently got a moringa tree but I'm terrified to plant it on the ground. I don't have much space and I am not sure I can manage its size. So I'm planning to keep it in a pot. Can you offer some insight? I need a fruit tree to shade an area of my backyard, my first option is a mamoncillo (quenepa, Spanish lime) but I keep going back and forth if I should put the moringa instead. I have power lines in that area and the gas line is about 6 feet from where the tree will be planted. So I'm afraid to go with the moringa because I've seen how they grow So aggressively
@davidthegood
2 жыл бұрын
They are super easy to prune down - I wouldn't worry about it at all.
@mioasisfrutal2634
2 жыл бұрын
@@davidthegood thanks for your response =) I will give it a try 😀
@mioasisfrutal2634
2 жыл бұрын
@Jacintha George it does extremely well here. I put it in the ground and it has surpassed all my other trees in size in less than 2 months
@mioasisfrutal2634
2 жыл бұрын
Moringa does pretty well here. I would say most tropical trees. Some have even become invasive. The only thing not doing well is citrus due to citrus greening. The soil is not beach sandy. Is just mostly sand, is called Myakka. Some places there a lot of shells too. I mean this was under water for thousands of years until maybe 100 years ago or so after they drained the everglades to settle here.
@mioasisfrutal2634
2 жыл бұрын
@Jacintha George I live very close to fort Lauderdale
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