Chantal and her garden are delightful and an inspiration to me. Also, a Senior late bloomer here and it's been a steep learning curve. My goal is much the same of a permanent food forest. Her achievement in one year is a great ray of hope for another granny gardener. 😊

@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife

2 жыл бұрын

That's so wonderful, and I think also for people of any age, this kind of garden makes so much sense - for the planet too.

@laurieasmus9998

2 жыл бұрын

Yay for Granny Gardeners! I am 62, and just starting a permaculture garden journey as well.

@MsMonica38

Жыл бұрын

I'm 52 and just learning about food forests, myself. Now I need my own home to get going!

I am 75 yrs old and shared a dream w my husband who recently passed to Green the Arizona property I purchased some ten yrs ago. I am now in a position to make our dream happen.

The world needs more Morag Gamble.

@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, definitely more food forests!

@eswaribalan164

2 жыл бұрын

Yes

I'm a late-in-life gardener, too. Chantal is definitely an inspiration. Thanks, Morag for a wonderful video.

@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife

2 жыл бұрын

All the best with your garden 🌳

such a healthy looking happy lady, she is part of the lovely garden and garden is part of her. Gardens are good for the soul.

I would love to see another tour of the garden with the focus on the landscape and garden with a voice-over comment as you are both exploring this wonderful forest as it matures.

Absolutely amazing how you accomplished so much in a short space of time. I am truly inspired to forge ahead and create my own food forest. Thank you both 🙏🏽💕

@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. She has shown just how much we can do in a short space of time. It's really quite inspirational, and it shows too how quickly we can regenerate degraded lands if we put our hearts, minds, and hands to the task.

this was very encouraging to me. I've been on my spot for 3 yrs, and for this year, focused on soil remediation and infrastructure. Now, I'm starting plants from seeds, cuttings, and so on -- in the hopes of building up a food forest over time. I will be buying trees, eventually, but that's a big expense for me. So, starting where I am, adding things in as I go, and always learning and observing. :)

Amazing that this garden has grown for only one year!

I too am short & have begun pulling my branches of my trees down & tying them down to create all kinds of "weeping willow" fruit trees so I can reach my fruit.

@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife

2 жыл бұрын

Great idea. In smaller spaces we can include so much more abundance if we work with our plants, and you'll end up with more fruit in your belly too!

Love to see and hear about experimental gardening. I only started gardening last year by necessity. I had to leave the nsw south coast temporarily to do home palliative care for my father on his 4.5 acre property on the southern tablelands in nsw where it’s currently very cold and frosty. I never had time for gardening in the past raising a family and running a business which I had to drop and leave behind for the time being. I had no idea what I was doing and emotionally stressed and very isolated with virtually no human social interaction so, gardening became my therapy or my key to sanity. Suffice to say, I never expected to be here for a whole year and now just taking each day at a time. I virtually had and still have no budget and can’t afford to buy seeds, seedlings etc. I collected seeds from kitchen scraps, found seeds at my local tip, (which is now my major supplier of pretty much all my gardening needs! Lol) when plants go to seed, I collect them. I have no idea what I’m doing and just experiment and work with what I have from weeds to collecting seeds from bird poo from the hand made lopsided bird feeder! I even dig up my own worms and made a compost heap for them that I feed with whatever scraps, leaves etc I can find. I mainly set out to grow food but have fallen inlove and appreciate and utilise whatever plants and animals that surround me (including the snakes, that I used to fear terribly), I feel at one with nature and hope my dad is proud of what I’m trying to achieve out here and thank you especially to Morag and your channel. You present beautifully and even though I’ve only just discovered your channel, watching it has given me hope that what I am doing with his property, is sort of on the right track…thank you for taking the time to make these videos and visiting other nature embracers and sharing their journeys. I would love to see something from the colder regions, I struggle to grow a lot of veggies due to the cold and frost then the harsh heat in summer where water can be scarce…🪴

Grannie Cyndy from South Australia here again. Ohhh yes. The understanding that a garden tells you what it wants. So true. Just be open to it. Chantal feels that intuitively.

Chantelle was adorable. Part of me is quite envious of the style of garden she's chosen to cultivate, but we each only have so much space to work with, and for me the focus has been and remains on creating restoring a native ecosystem as much as possible. I've got a separate area with a few raised beds for conventional food crops, but everything that goes into the ground is native to my specific area. Of course, I'm learning a LOT about what native plants are edible and how to eat them.

@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife

2 жыл бұрын

Your garden sounds wonderful!

@wildlifegardenssydney7492

2 жыл бұрын

Elements of your own self sufficiency are great. Ecosystems really need what you are doing….regenerative restoration with indigenous plants 🙌🙌

Thank you for this tour Chantelle …..“ I wanted to be part of the solution ….lots of observations….….“ ❤️❤️❤️and Morag❤️🔥❤️🔥. I have watched this 3 times! I have also rewatched all of Morag’s masterful videos. I find Morag to be the best educator and interviewer. THE BEST! There is so much information you provide to absorb, and I learn something new each time I re watch you. It also lifts my spirits and makes me feel much more hopeful. Forest floor, mulch, mulch, mulch stunning changes here. “The soil is the foundation”. Swales , berms, permaculture and the recycling of all sorts of organic matter🔥🔥. I love both of your gardens for wildlife , the beneficial insects, the permaculture chat and recipes too. Great tips about soil creation, and enlivening the soil at the end too. “They are so lucky they are so pretty” re pidgeon peas and King Parrots 👑🦜🤣🤣🤣 I LOVE your channel Morag and I am so grateful for you excellent and inspiring content. I did my first permaculture course in the 80’s the knowledge gained just increases in value and never dates.

@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this wonderfully encouraging message. I love that you share my passion for this 🌏🌳🐝🌿😀

Wonderful! I done similar here in zone 6b. This Spring (early March), I laid several layers of cardboard on top of grass. I continued to layer as I gathered more cardboard. On top of the cardboard I scattered fruit and veggie scraps, grass clippings, tiny sticks and a small amounts of dirt, then more cardboard (as I got it). In May & June I added several seeds and small plants, done by digging holes through the broken down cardboard layers). Finally, after everyone was planted I added tomato cages (most I made from ♻️ materials) and covered everything w mulch.

@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife

2 жыл бұрын

That's so wonderful. Thanks for sharing! All the best with your garden as it continues to evolve and become more abundant.

Beautiful inspirational gardener and garden. It's a living proof of how abundant the earth is and given thought,and the right conditions plants just want to grow. Beautiful ❤️

Wow! This is amazing I live in Britain and the thought of having something HALF as beautiful as yours is almost getting me going! Thanks 👍

There's a good thing to know about chokos. I don't think many people in Australia know, but you can eat the tuber at certain parts of the year. They call it "chinchayote". I had it in a restaurant in Mexico. I think the fellow had boiled it, sliced it in two and grilled it with cheese in the middle. I liked it It's a way to get even more out of a plant that grows quite easily.

@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife

5 ай бұрын

Great recipe! Thanks. I love how versatile it is

So Happy to see this vídeo... Blessings......

That's a wonderful, heart warming, inspiring and a very beautiful food forest and interaction. Chantal is obviously a very deep and talented artist.... and beautiful person. I can just picture her early in the morning 'communicating' with her garden... It so inspires me to use my own talents and instincts to build a food forest. There's sooo much to learn. I'm still in the process of wrapping my mind around the whole permaculture thing. I gotta say though, it is a whole lotta fun! But the more I learn, the less I know... Heh.

a true cottage garden, absolutely beautiful! thanx for sharing

So inspiring, beautiful garden, In a year... ty for sharing. I'm speachless. So inspiring, looks so rewarding. I hope to start. Thankyou for your tips.

@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife

7 ай бұрын

I wish you all the best with your food forest. It’s amazing how quickly you’ll notice a distinct change

Once again...you have me excited!! We started on a block of heavily compacted rocky clay, probably a heavily used path to an implement shed on an old farm. And heavy clay to boot. It was the worst of soils you could imagine. But after years of horse and cow manure, chicken compost and allowing the propagation of rogue trees to break up the soil it's finally starting to happen. The micro climates begin to form. It's finally happening and boy!! Does it take patience!! But it's worth every minute.

Do nothing pest management - love it. Nature provides everything we need!

@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. Natural balance. An ecosystem's approach to gardening.

Oh, please do come back again! It has been a delight to watch the two of you, and to learn from you.

I saw the original video and now to see this beautiful video of how Chantal's garden has developed--very grateful. I'm beginning my journey here in the US. Thank you Morag. So encouraging. ❤❤

Paradise!

Amazing garden, I couldn't concentrate though after she said that man shed was a converted shipping container. I'm so making one!! 👌

The two of you are adorable. You’ve given me the courage to really get into mine and make my own dream come into fruition. I’m so excited to see the things she has created here. Very beautiful and well done. I can Certainly relate to the concept of being a late bloomer I’m 63 and just beginning. Thank you for the wonderful information.

Congratulations Chantal, I’m a bit older than you and am looking for land to embark on virtually the same project, I’m a bit jealous of your drive, energy and intelligence.

Chantal is so awesome. I love what she's done!

@miramirez3574

Жыл бұрын

👍 agreed

What a beautiful garden you’ve created! I would love to sit an observe all the birds an insects enjoying it too. You have created a place of beauty ❤️

@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife

2 жыл бұрын

You're so right - and the thing is, the hard word is done now - it's more about managing the abundance, plugging the gaps and noticing what's happening - more time to sit back with a cuppa!

@selenaclarke

2 жыл бұрын

that's a very lovely comment

What an inspiration. Thank you Chantal so much.

@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

What a beautiful and inspiring video. Chantal's garden is as wonderful as she is. So much enthusiasm. I loved how Chantal explained her choko recipes and the willingness to try new plants.

@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife

2 жыл бұрын

Yes - I think moving from the ‘standard diet’ is essential for sustainability

This is the auntie everyone should have... so inspiring. All blessings and love, Madam!

What a delightful place ,so inspiring. All of that in one year with a bit of preparation time !

@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife

2 жыл бұрын

It is always so inspiring how quickly we can regenerate soils, bring them to life, and grow abundance.

🌳 I can see you put a lot of work and love into growing!I hope gardening brings you as much joy as it brings me. b It’s the start of my 3 year gardening but there is still so much for me to learn and I appreciate you sharing your food forest. It’s inspirational to me. I’d love the idea of a growing that way. I look forward to hopefully learning more from each other as we grow!

@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your lovely comment. Chantal's garden really is wonderful

Lovely lady and very creative in her design.

These two beautiful people makes me smile:) so much love and harmony

What an inspiration you both are !!

Hi Morag. Grannie Cyndy from South Australia here. Just found your channel. I'm 72 yrs old and developing a food forest garden on my steep 1/4 acre block in a subdivision. No lawn at all any more. But multiple fruit trees, vines, berries, veggie garden, chooks and a beehive that set itself up in a birdhouse my grandsons made for me a few years ago. I love the whole permaculture principle. Never used my green bin disposal in 17 yrs. Love your content and newly subscribed although I am in a Mediterranean climate with potential for frosts in winter. So this video is out of my climate zone. But will follow you regardless. If you are national you will have my undying love and support!!

Thank you both for sharing! 🤍

Morag and Chantelle, thank you so much for the wonderful video. I watched it two times. Very informative! I am going to use many ideas in my Florida garden!

@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife

27 күн бұрын

Wonderful! Wishing you all the best with it.

Beautiful!

Awesome tour thanks for sharing

Amazing to see what she has accomplished in 1 year! The garden is so well established, it looks much older. This inspires me! Subscribed

So inspiring! Loved this video! Thank you!!

Amazing! Great job. Such a beautiful food forest.

Very inspirational

So much beauty in the garden and also the gardener 🌼

@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife

2 жыл бұрын

Yes indeed. Chantal has created an amazing space, and is just such a kind and generous gardener.

Getting my husband to keep all cartoon boxes( from furniture) to put over weeds near swell and also amend the soil around rocks in the garden( in the mountains). Will mulch it later. Can’t spray any chemicals as Neibourghs expect…. as I love my little frogs and 2 water lizards in the garden( my helpers with snails and bugs:) can see craze looks of the neighbours as it is doesn’t look pretty for 4-5 weeks but I care for my wildlife more:)

Beautiful results for just one year! Thank you for sharing this inspiration 😍 bravo Chantal, vous avez accompli un travail magnifique!

@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife

2 жыл бұрын

It's amazing what she's done isn't it!

What a lovely garden tour - so many unfamiliar plants from the other hemisphere! We are all learning as we grow!!

@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife

2 жыл бұрын

So true!

What a beautiful, sustainable garden and ecosystem. Proof also to those new to food forests, that you can progress it very quickly if you choose the right plants according to climate for all levels of the garden. Great video Morag & Chantel.

@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife

2 жыл бұрын

Yes - and to keep watching and adapting- it’s a journey

So beautiful and encouraging

@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. I think Chantal's garden is really inspiring.

Beautiful.

Wow that was great garden

Thank you so much Morag for having this information available on KZread, and especially thanks to Chantal for sharing your lovely garden. I see there are a few comments from "mature age" gardeners, and this is so inspiring for me, and although I have had veg gardens previously ,at 71, I am just starting out with Permaculture on my 1 acre block of land. I am so looking forward to this journey with you Morag. So down to earth and knowledgeable.

@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife

2 жыл бұрын

You are so welcome! That's wonderful Louise.

What an amazing garden!!!

@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, it is. She's done such an amazing job in a just over a year!

Thank you for this inspiring garden tour! I live in a more 'moderate' climate, so I planted other trees, shrubs and herbs. The permaculture principles are always the basics, whatever climate or personal circumstances. I do have an 'avocado tree', as a house plant (grown from a seed I planted years ago). I know now I can prune it, so it never outgrows the room!

@craigmarshall5280

Жыл бұрын

Your comment is so heart touching yes I agree with you, can we be friends if you don’t mind? 😊

Morag, hello from Georgia in the US. Thank you for sharing this beautiful garden; so inspiring. She has truly done an amazing job; please keep us abreast of future viewings of her garden. Thank you again, and stay well.

@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, I look forward to going back in a year or two, and will share another short clip

Oh wonderful to see. The bale with the soil in the middle is a sweet tip.

Love it!!

Very inspiring! thank you both!!

Chantel is lovely!

I'm just getting started... in an area nearby... we have started on our fenceline and planting our favourite foods thank you for showing me whats possible...

@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife

3 ай бұрын

Hows your garden growing? Thanks for tuning in

Such a beautiful garden. It was hard to see it though. Maybe if you turn the camera around so it concentrates on the garden and every now and then back on Chantal it would be easier to see the full extent of the garden. Some close up and distance shots would make it great to watch. Or have someone else doing the camera work perhaps. Thanks for sharing.

This is just incredible. Thank you so much.

@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife

2 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome!

I love this! I especially love hearing her talking about her garden…and what she said about the garden training your intuition. I’m putting in a garden now and I put two plants too close and it really bothers me, but I keep trying to ignore it…but I can’t. I’m going out to trust my “gut” and move those plants!😂

Late bloomer here, too. Moving from Alaska to Portugal. Creating a food forest is my new career. I’m just starting. It’s very exciting! Thanks for your videos.

how lovely,you two...and the garden!💚❤️💚💚❤️thx for sharing🙏

@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife

2 жыл бұрын

So nice of you

Just beautiful. Very inspiring. Thank you so much for posting this ladies ❤️

@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome. So glad you enjoyed this walkabout.

Thank you. that was a delightful tour.

Wow! Her garden is gorgeous! She is a great inspiration!

@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

Love watching this video

@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Myrna - I really loved visiting her and wandering around her garden with her

Beautiful

Wow she is blessed with great soil and climate .

@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife

2 жыл бұрын

She started with a pretty tough degraded site though and added so much life to the soil.

Beautiful garden, and so inspiring. So lush, so abundant! Our food forest will be a year old on 6th of July. We started with earthworks to create berms and swales, and then got planting. However, due to our climate (cool temperate, in NSW Northern Tablelands) there is no chance that our garden will be this well formed and lush at the end of the first year (though it is coming along nicely). We just don't have the climate for it. Our frosts started a few weeks ago, and will continue through to November. Between now and about October, not much growth will be added in that time, other than our carefully chosen winter vegies. It's just too cold for anything else. It's our garden's sleepy time, now. Food forests and gardens in warmer climes, with their abundant growth year round, will never be our reality. It would be so lovely to see videos of cool temperate food forests. We have the advantage of high chill hours so can do lots of nuts, stone fruit, pome fruit and cool climate berries, and frost that kills pathogens. In Australia, I don't know of any channels featuring cool temperate permaculture. Would you like to come and see our garden at one year old, for a cool temperate feature? ;-)

@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife

2 жыл бұрын

Yes - there’s a growing number of food forests and more films of them would be wonderful - when I travel again I will visit them

So inspiring. Thank you!

Pineapple sage is a great plant, love your garden, I wish there was more people like you, hopefully people will become educated

@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your lovely comment.

I’m so inspired by this!! Morag & Chantill thank you so much for sharing. Im looking forward to creating my own food forest in the near future 🙏🏼

Très joli jardin, merci pour ce beau partage!👍

Fantastic food garden, well done.

Wonderful! Great job it’s magical! ❤️

@craigmarshall5280

Жыл бұрын

Your comment is so heart touching yes I agree with you, can we be friends if you don’t mind?

It is so, so impressive and inspiring, thank you!

@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Chantal Is adorable and her hard work and experimentation are a great inspiration. Thanks for sharing. 🌻

@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife

2 жыл бұрын

You are so welcome!

@craigmarshall5280

Жыл бұрын

Your comment is so heart touching yes I agree with you, can we be friends if you don’t mind? 😊

Lovely work bien fait!

I am inspired! Walking in your foosteps🎉🎊

@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for coming along for the ‘walkabout’

That was awesome! Thanks for sharing 🤗

@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife

2 жыл бұрын

yes- Chantal has done an amazing job at creating this beautiful garden.

It was beautifull garden in small space.

What a lovely garden! Great inspiration thank you for sharing it. 👏

@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife

2 жыл бұрын

You are so welcome!

This is very inspiring. Ill be starting my own food Garden in Suriname..... I now live in the Netherlands,but im thinking of also having lots of fruit trees. I have already bought some. I also have my own tea threes....im very excited and now more now that i have found this video. Thank you 🍀🍀🍀

This was really delightful and inspiring. Thank you.

My climate in Central Florida is almost identical to Shantell’s. This video motivated me to start my own food forest.

@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife

3 ай бұрын

Fantastic. Yes, we do have similar climates but also this concept works in most climates - just looks different

Fantastic work.

Amazing...she inspired me a lot.

She definitely has blessing hands, love 😍🪴 that beautiful healthy edible garden! 🪴

@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, certainly she has a gift for this!

Lovely lovely garden, thank you so much for the share :)

@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife

2 жыл бұрын

Thank - Chantal's garden is indeed so lovely.

Amazing!

@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

Lovely garden thank you for sharing

@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife

7 ай бұрын

I’m so glad you liked it. I must go back again and see what another years growth looks like