Wonderful job james. The soil in your lawn was total sand! I never would have expected that. Wonderful soil, beautiful growth, and I can't tell you how much we appreciate someone like yourself putting this information out to help educate!

@jamesprigioni

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks you so much Luke! A comment like this is so encouraging to hear. Your one of the people who inspired me to create better content. I love the gardening community on KZread and I want to do whatever I can to help contribute.

@xxzackxxthexzmusic7284

4 жыл бұрын

OMG MY HATERR

@feliciaGrant1259

4 жыл бұрын

Yes!... Thank you so much for the videos! Can you please show me step by step Start to finish. how to do the soil because my soil is Sandy as well. Or could you link me one of your videos? If you're done so already I couldn't find it.

@Farisboss

4 жыл бұрын

#farisboss👍

@tinawindham6958

2 жыл бұрын

Hi mIchigan gardener! ✌️👊🏻

What a crisp explanation without wasting time, exactly what I was looking for.

My earthworms charge time and a half to work in Texas weather.

@seaofmadness2622

4 жыл бұрын

LOL!!!

@tusseriesfavoritas7441

4 жыл бұрын

This is glorious, I been tryin to find out about "what soil do you put in raised garden beds?" for a while now, and I think this has helped. You ever tried - Fonillian Uncomplex Future - (do a search on google )? It is a great one of a kind guide for growing up to 10 times more produce using aquaponics without the hard work. Ive heard some extraordinary things about it and my mate got excellent success with it.

@jennhoff03

4 жыл бұрын

I like the period after your name! I totally read it as "Mona." instead of "Mona" . :)

@nickziolkowski9757

3 жыл бұрын

Same in alabama lol

@duke2011ful

2 жыл бұрын

My earthworms wear hard hats - they have to. The ground is that hard.

Awww man I am a new gardener. My dad entrusted me with the design and maintenance of the garden. Your videos are such a help and I love the energy!!😁

2:43 "No health insurance benefits" haha that part got me

@jayrob7418

4 жыл бұрын

I'm still lol

We have adobe soil. We put leaves in our food forest and now the soil is starting to look like potting soil. I agree to everything you said. You got everything looking so beautiful. I look forward seeing more videos

*Been coming back to this video to see the bug flip over at **2:02**. Very cute😂*

I have 2.5 acres of land and you are making me want to create a food forest! I am inspired by your awesome videos!

@georgewilliams8136

2 жыл бұрын

Hello Melanie Joy how are you doing today?

@Cybil017

2 жыл бұрын

Please do it. The Earth will thank you.

@kingsleyzacharias6623

2 жыл бұрын

Fertilizer is destroying our soils and this way Will help much

What a difference between the soil in the lawn versus the food forest! Great job, James!

@jamesprigioni

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah going organic is beautiful thing. You know what its like though, you have experienced similar or better results. Thanks for watching :)

@johnnydespert7070

5 жыл бұрын

OYR Frugal & Sustainable Organic Gardening 1

I remember when you first started this garden. I am so impressed with what you have been able to accomplish. Congratulations James.

@Farisboss

4 жыл бұрын

#farisboss👍

@georgewilliams8136

2 жыл бұрын

@@Farisboss Hello Rhoda K how are you doing today?

@bennoah1673

Жыл бұрын

It is obvious it was not free, it is by the sweat of your Brow . As it should be

@mq-r3apz291

Жыл бұрын

So I can just throw random compost like eggshells or dead plants and it becomes better? Or is there a certain process?

1 - Conserve Water 0:26 2 - Organic Matter 1:09 3 - Mulch 1:37 4 - Soil Structure 1:49 5 - Go organic 2:15

I'm so happy I found your channel. I live in Jersey by the shore as well and I'm starting my first garden. I have been so overwhelmed by the sandy soil. I feel so much more confident now after watching your videos! Thank you!

thx bruh, i too turned a sand pit into a lush forest. great tips i use them all

@jamesprigioni

7 жыл бұрын

+Permaculture Homestead yeah you did! Thanks bro

@Farisboss

4 жыл бұрын

#farisboss👍

WHAT AN AMAZING TRANSFORMATION FROM THE SAND TO THE FOOD FOREST. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TAKING THE TIME TO SHARE IT ALL WITH US. GOD BLESS.

@jamesprigioni

7 жыл бұрын

Your welcome! Thank you for taking the time to watch and comment :)

@georgewilliams8136

2 жыл бұрын

Hello Grandma how are you doing today?

With this guide i bet i can make a batch of healthy soil in middle of sahara and grow my own garden :)

perfect healthy soil garden 🪴

Dude, I've been watching you for about a year now and last spring a got 20 cubic yards of arborist wood chips delivered to my house and my soil is already better! I have tons of worms now and when I dig into the ground it looks like dirt and not sand. Thanks for the tips! Very thankful I found your channel. Keep up the good work.

I really like the creative way that building the perfect healthy soil for free is done, you begin to see a pattern and learn so much about dirt and the various ways dirt can build a wonderful foundation of healthy growth. Thanks for sharing, once again! I am so grateful for this network!

Great advice! I love the ending, watching Tuck eat a vegetable!

James, the change you made on your property is utterly amazing. Keep the videos coming!

@jamesprigioni

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you my friend, I appreciate the support!

thanks for helping me to make a perfect soil .now i can grow my own gardens

Thankyou! Number 4 (soil structure) - you showed a great example of this with the water running off. Taught me quite a lot. Thankyou very much.

Beginning of winter this year I went nuts getting every bit of Mulch I could get. I made Many garden beds that I could use , now it’s spring here the soil is amazing already. Not much rain so I watered it to help the breaking down process and my veggies are wow, it make sense when you look at nature and copy it. I’m a believer seeing the results, now there established I will just add on top and harvest abundance. . Love your videos , keep them comeing..

“You do have to pay them or anything” I love that line.

@RossPatzelt

4 жыл бұрын

i loved that!

You get me so hype to start my adventure

@dopeboii_ytgames9372

4 жыл бұрын

Me to lol I'm make side my house garden

Sigh…. I’ve now watched about 10 of your videos over the last couple weeks. a) I click cause you are talking about what I want to know about and b) I stay through the whole damn thing cause have good advice. You’ve earned my sub.

@successfulusername

2 жыл бұрын

With bell notification.

So glad I found this video. Prepping new beds and watching different videos they're showing like 5+ different products I "need" to buy to grow my food. Knew it was simpler than that.

Words can not say- How much the knowledge from your videos have been a benefit to me? Thank you 😊 👍 Awesome service...To : Tuck & of coarse James ,too!

I am watching the videos of numerous 'garden KZreadrs' and at first I thought "this is a funny guy, having some interesting ideas in gardening". After watching many of his videos I really have to say, this guy has an insane knowledge about all the processes and gets his information to the point, how to garden the best way.

Beautiful ! We are also aiming to have a food forest. I have been following your harvest videos! Thanks a lot. Happy planting to all!

Maybe could add up one more thing even you a following the pahmacuture system to work with natural. I found earth worm is key factor to supply air and function a awesome fertilizer. Since I live in cold climate .I raise them in door and put in soil at spring time.it difinitly provide us 3 times production

James, I remember that in one of your videos you have a hazel (?) nut tree which squirrels raid continuously. We have mango trees, which squirrels like to raid. While it's not foolproof, this method helps. We have a string leading maybe 30 metres to a large biscuit tin lid placed high in one of the mango trees. We pull the string from the house or from outside during the day and the noise seems to scare away any thieving squirrels that happen to be about. I dare say there is some simple technology that achieves the same result.

your´re an isnpiration for me. Thank you so much for this Information. You´re living my Dream.... and i will live it too somedays. GOLD!

@Farisboss

4 жыл бұрын

#farisboss👍

We’re having the same problem in southern az on our yard.

My soil currently looks worse than that sand I'm shook, thanks for the tips!

"looking at the lawn" ha ha ha I love that! I like your videos. Thanks a lot!

Had to like for the pretty lights intro. Great info!

I am glad I found this video, here in CO is also mostly sand.

0:27 Conserve water 1:11 Organic matter (1:26 5% increase in organic matter will quadruple the soil's ability to hold water) 1:37 Mulch 1:51 Soil structure 2:15 Go organic

Leaf mulch is amazing. Compost heap soil. Loam.

I’m surprised you have the same problem as Florida. I have not used any chemicals and I love worms it all starts beneath the plants. I love letting nature balance itself instead of me dealing with it. I have so many bees and butterflies I think their magic keeps the grow cycle on point. I wonder if you were an admirer of Ruth stout? I like the no till, layering method myself. I recycle 90% of my paper towels and so I don’t feel guilty. I love your energy. I wonder where your pint size better half is? I have 3 myself and also 4 bunnies. Getting ready to eat some loquats, they are just getting ripe. My tortoises and box turtles love them, also. Very easy to grow from seed..,thank you for all your videos!

Starts off the Thievery Corporation....yep I'm sold.

sorry, guy, i had no idea the comment i just left was so long!!!! I am so stoked to get a better garden, and aside from our Father, you are my go-to!!!!

I have sandy soil too. This is a great way for me to get the life in the soil and make it better.

@jamesprigioni

6 жыл бұрын

Yup!! That’s what it’s all about bringing in the life, they will change your soil 😁👌

Back to Eden. It gives me a good feeling.

Great information, thank you for sharing.

Good to know. Gracias Guey

Usually don,t learn anything. but in this video I learned everything! even things you are not really supposed to learn like how a raspberry plant looks like !

So damn true. Organic matter is the key to success!

One of the best tutorials. Very informative.

Love your food forest! I will try your method. I live in northeast florida where it's all sand.

I have some land in the pinelands of NJ. It's sandy. Great advice.

Thanks james 😍 very informative video.. This video help us very much..

Great tips.

Excellently done. Concise, on point.

@georgewilliams8136

2 жыл бұрын

Hello 👋

It seems like my soil is deteriorating vs building up. I’m going to marathon watch, beginning with this one. The basics a good place to start. Thank you.

"No health insurance benefits " lmao , this was an informative video, you broke it down quickly and clearly bruv , great job

Thanks james

Can you put dates on your Videos with you & Tuck, get one Raised Garden & walk us through it, soil , mulch, plant food and whatever else, Your Food Farm is Beautiful !! 4-18-22

Recommend that you should buy the testing soil kit for testing soil. You can understand more about your soil before you plant anything. you can provide the nutriions for your soil. Off course, you need Mulch, soil structure.

great video! Concise and informative

@jamesprigioni

7 жыл бұрын

+New Earth Cooking Thank you my friend! More vids coming out soon 😁

You are the best.

Awesome!

Watched your short video on DaddyKirb's channel today and decided to check out your channel, watched a few of your videos and subscribed!!

amazing work!

Brilliant video!

Love your pacing and delivery style. Staccato. Punch. Punch. No fluff. If you haven't seen it already, you'll get a major buzz from what Dr. David C Johnson (New Mexico State Univ.) and his wife, Hui with fungal dominant compost/innoculant

@crpth1

5 жыл бұрын

+ Dr. Elaine Ingham. ;-)

Thank you from NJ!!

You explain these things better than most people.Great video ! !

@jamesprigioni

7 жыл бұрын

+Pacific Permaculture that's awesome to hear. Thanks for the encouragement. Anything you think I should improve on? It a topic you would like to hear?

@pacificpermaculture

7 жыл бұрын

I hear there's lots of cool stuff in the Atlantic region.Just keep educating and entertaining us.

@kazzana9013

7 жыл бұрын

Wonderful video. A few seconds pause between segments would give us time to digest the information. The speed you talk is fine, as you are very clear and concise, I just found my brain was still processing, when you jumped to the next topic. Perhaps a 3 second silent shot of the topic, before moving to the next one. I subscribed as you have excellent informative instructions, thank you.

Worms work 24/7 . They dont need health insurance. Awesome

Very good video James, thank you for these fantastic tips.

I live in the dessert, so my dirt is hardcore sand. But I really want nice healthy trees in the back.

Let the work work for you. Just replicate the first floor and Tuck will be digging up your giant carrots in no time 😊 great content my man!

Love your videos, James! I've been binge watching your food forest from scratch videos and I'm really excited to plan out a food forest. I'm in northern NJ, but my soil is very much clay (I could practically make a clay pot out of it). Would the heavy mulch approach work the same way with clay soil?

Amazing work, keep it up

Thanks for the clear explanation. One question though, Do we upheave native ground soil few layers mix the compost and plant the tress ?

“May the true God give you the dews of the heavens and the fertile soils of the earth and an abundance of grain and new wine.”

I’d love to see what you’d do with knf (Korean natural farming)combining it with this would be crazy

This is great experience and main is to do organic method

I'm going to take a shot everytime this guy says Wudder

GREAT video!!! What organic matter did you add besides mulch?

@georgewilliams8136

2 жыл бұрын

Hello Jan Doolin how are you doing today?

Do you have any video where you explain in detail what those layers are and how can we find them please? I am a beginner 🙂

great job mate

Now all I need to do is figure out how to do THAT with my clay-y pasture and I (and my horses) will be golden 🤔

@evanharrison4054

4 жыл бұрын

Same principle. Grow deep rooted, leafy plants, chop their leaves, and spread them around the place. If you have some old hay and horse manure, you can also spread that around. Wait a few weeks, and sprinkle some grass seeds that typically grow very strong roots. That's about it. The guy's right. Even a measly 5% of organic matter can quadruple the water retaining capabilities, and that's about enough for the grass. Next winter, you can go nuts covering the place with "organic matter", but until then, a bit works in a pinch. Don't even think about loosening the clay. Not only is it hard as heck, not bothering it can work out long term. As long as you can, over the period of months or years, build a proper layer of nutritious topsoil on top of that, you will have the perfect pasture, which is a few inches of loose soil on top of a hard clay bed that prevents draining during the summer. Most modern agriculture is a scam and a horrible misapproriation and misapplication of tools and resources. If you do what they teach you in a "college of agriculture", then you will be just like Sisyphus, trying to push that boulder up the mountain. Give my regards to your horses.

@seaofmadness2622

4 жыл бұрын

JUST having horses in a potential garden area is really healthy for the soil! Their manure is a very good foundation to help the soil thrive. My next door neighbor had a beautiful thriving garden because years before she planted the garden there were horses there which created a healthy soil

@downbntout

4 жыл бұрын

Just keep adding every kind of plant matter. Grass clippings, hay, wood chips, cornstalks, even straw, just laid on top the ground. As it rots underneath your earthworms will carry it deeper. A tunnel made by an earthworm is a highway for rainwater to go underground and your layers of plant matter keeps that rain from baking away. Keep on adding more, let your horses stomp and pre and drop manure all over it, and every year the true black topsoil will be deeper with plants performing well in it. Works on every soil type. Edit: add seed every fall to one section and keep horses off there until it's established. Have you learned when to put horses on grass and when to take them off? It is critical.

Great video, amazing what ground cover will do.

@jamesprigioni

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks. Yup, it’s so simple and I think that’s why some people don’t do it lol

1:03 “oh yeah look at the structure” me: oh yeah look at the structure 😍

Nice channel. I live in Maryland, where the soil in my yard is identical in composition to what you started with.... Sand. I'm assuming your no-till method means you'd add in layers. I'm envisioning adding newspaper followed by top soil followed by mulch/wood chips. Anyone can clarify on this... I realize it's an older post.

I have watched your video from earlier and everything i love about the videos

I like the part of not having to pay them or provide health benefits...Very informative fertilized with a hint of humour..

Didnt really talk about how to build good soil, but spoke well about what good soil was.

Great job. Nice melody this Sundtrack. I remember back for many years but forgot the name.. 😊

Our soil is mostly clay. Only weeds liked it. How can I make it healthy like yours? And how are you watering your plants? Do you have irrigation system?

In California we don't offer worms health insurance...but they are planning to unionize.

The no-tilling method makes more sense to me now as I realize the worms will do all the work once you invite them with all the mulch.

Wonderful summary James. I'm a fan. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

Earthworm castings is one of the best amendments for soil

I like your style bro cool seeing you on camera, love the vids

@jamesprigioni

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks bro, I appreciate the encouragement!

What happens when you keep throwing on compost and the soil level keeps rising? Or will the soil level drop when nutrients are being used up?

Wow. You really encouraged people like me in Rajasthan India where many of its regions are considered dry either with Sandy or Clay soil. Rainfall is sufficient where i live. With your food forest system and local fruit trees and veggies, one can grow the healthiest and tastiest food everr!!!

Very helpful! Thank you! God bless