Canadian Permaculture Legacy
Canadian Permaculture Legacy
Permaculture, regenerating and healing your land. Self sufficiency and preparedness. Gardening, homesteading, earthworks, biochar, propagation, building soil and cultivating diversity. Food security with a focus on inviting nature in, and sharing the abundance with a focus on smart systems design. Come join my family and I on our move to the Canadian (zone 5) countryside.
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If you can see dirt you're doing it wrong < Doug Tallamy
Amazing work by you and mother nature
So beautiful! Hopefully one day I can make a pond like that. ❤❤❤
I am letting a lot more of the native, or nature sewn plants stay this year. Some due to time and energy constraints keeping me from weeding. I do notice a bit more bug pressure on some of the berries but less on the trees so far. Each year I am trying too add to the early flowers as we have been trending to warm and dry much earlier than normal. My native bees love crocus and muscari especially.
Just before a minute & a half, what are those white flowers? There were some in the wildflower mix seed packet I sowed, but they don't list all the plants that are included. I see I have seed heads to harvest on them...not yet, they're still green, but I'd love to know what they are because I seed swap. Hmmm, you talked more about them after I posted the question, but mine differ from yours now that I see them more closely. Did some digging and I'm thinking I either have Bishop's Weed or Cow Parsley (not cow parsnip).
Love your videos. I see a Tesla in your garage in a video. So it takes burning coal to make electricity, or solar panels - which are made in China due to their toxicity for the environment in manufacturing. I'm not an engineer - but Teslas probably are not any more environmental than a gas burning vehicle, when you think about how the electricity was made to power them, and the cost to the environment getting rid of their batteries when they die - right?
I am wondering what the electric cost it is to run your pond pump?
This is so well thought out and executed, yet looks and functions so naturally - your stuff should be seen by anyone thinking about doing real permaculture gardening. I miss the Queen Ann's Lace and chicory that grew wild where we used to live in central NY. Here in Colorado I hardly ever see it, although there is chicory higher up in the mountains but for some reason, not here in the foothills. Am going to winter sow some seed again, also goldenrod and nettles, around the yard to try to get it going here - so far, have not been successful. Would love to get a water feature happening, but it is so dry and the soil is mostly clay and rocks, us old folks would need to hire help and excavators to get it going and not sure we are up for that financially. But we keep tossing the idea around. We live on a fairly steep hillside, so would have a natural flow downwards.
Exactly what I needed. With the crazy world we live in today. Edit : I always learn so much in your videos, its extremely appreciated.
Нейро-переводчик странно выдаёт "клюква", хотя я вижу "калину". Очень полезная ягода от всяких простуд. Ну а "киви" является актинидией. Поздравляю с урожаем. Кит, поищи лемонник, это аралиевое(жень-шень), тоже лиана, растёт у нас на Дальнем Востоке. Скорее всего в Канаде тоже он должен расти.
Лимо́нник кита́йский (лат. Schisándra chinénsis)
Thank you, very inspiring 🌿🙂
OK, so, part 4 will be chicken TV, yes? :) How old are the ladies, how you patched the old secret way into their fortress, what breeds are they, what colour are the eggs, etc... Which one is a ballerina, which one speaks 2 languages, etc.. :)
Ivory Sasso, and Easter Eggers. Brown and Blue eggs. Yes the crack was closed up!
At 22:55, looks like a quick glimpse of the exoskeleton left behind by a dragonfly nymph when it climbed up out of the water and emerged as an adult.
Our dogs love haskaps too ...and one of them prunes them in the winter - funny enough, the haskaps the dog prunes are the most productive!!
Fantastic video! Love the tours throughout the different seasons
Superbly helpful video! I'm planning sub irrigated container gardens (can't manage normal irrigation due to lack of water and health), and I was going to line them with pond liner (PVC). I'll go with IBCs instead which are high density polyethylene. I'd rather use no plastic, but it's the only way I can see to keep plants alive through summer and grow food. Thanks so much for this.
What did you with the pawpaw small fruit you took off tree? Can you eat them immature?
I just threw it. It wouldn't be any good, it would taste like wood.
This is similar to my retirement plan
Thank you for your video and honest chatting about food forests!
What do you do with all the food produced? No way a single family could consume it all!
We give away a lot of it. Way more than we eat. I've sold some in past seasons, but I find it very rewarding to give it to people who need it.
I would love to do something similar on our property and this is very inspiring, thank you. My first burning question is about the liner, you say it is one of the most critical pieces. However, obviously ponds come together in nature without liners, so it has to be possible to do one without. Would you think it would just be cost and time-prohibitive to import the right material to get it to seal without a liner? My other thought that makes me to want to go without a liner is that, from an ecosystem perspective, I do want some of the water to leech out into the surrounding ground, that's part of the point. My big fear with a liner is that it will inevitably tear at some point (especially if my livestock manage to get into it), and will need to be replaced, which sounds even more expensive and disruptive than the initial installation.
I listened again and noticed that you did address this question to some extent late in the video. I would still be curious of any additional thoughts you may have
It depends on pond location. In nature, ponds happen where geological (including subsoil morphologies) allow for them. That may or may not be where you want your pond. For me and my pond, it would just instantly drain, or would erode away a bank then cut a channel and I could have a pond failure. Those things happen all the time in nature, but near homes, you could be liable for millions of dollars in damage.
Great video, Sir. Cheers from Ottawa 🍁
I have learned so much from you! I watch your videos almost daily; sometimes a few a day, sometimes I re-watch. So much to absorb. This is by far, my favorite channel on permaculture and food foresting. I've gotten outside now the last 6 months, my yard is starting to take on a new look. I had given up 20 years ago, after spending thousands of dollars on plants, watering constantly, and watching them die in the frost. Your channel and others has given me an understanding of how to take care of the soil, so it will take care of the plants. Thank you so much!
Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to BLAST positivity out there. You made my week!
I don't know why am here but thank you❤ Am looking for a Wild asparagus😅
LOL get ready, in the fall look for bright yellow plants in ditches, then go back and find them in the spring. The late fall is when you want to find all your local spots, and that's a few months away.
The orange flower you have are butterflies milkweed.
I am fortunate to be living on a piece of land that my grandparents owned. There is a field where my grandfather grew potatoes every year for decades. He died in 1988. This patch of ground is still largely bare three plus decades later, compared to neighbouring soil that has reforested. When we dig in that area, it is the worst soil on the property. My grandfather farmed all his life and generously gave surplus to others, but I am certain he had no idea what the long term effects would be on the soil.
You should add purple flowering thimbleberry to your food forest. The bees go absolutely crazy for it!
Thanks! I will see if I can find some and do some research on it, if it's appropriate for my area.
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hey man, I bought some pawpaws the other day after being inspired by your videos. I bought Asimina Triloba as it's been advertised as suitable for the UK climate. I was told it's self-fertile, but other sources are telling me I have to have different varieties or they won't pollinate? Can you confirm whether just having 3x Asimina Triloba will mean they generate fruit?
I could not have said your last minutes closing statements, any better. We are in a very sad state of affairs. Thank you for being brave enough to tip-toeing around this subject.
I live in upstate NY and we also did not get a single strawberry this year. I suspect there is some sort of a fungus or disease that hit them this year but am not certain? Perhaps the very mild winter played a role in this?
Man, this is really inspiring. I want to be able to read the landscape like that. I have a lot of work to do. Thanks!
Thanks for the great information. As you’ve said, it just makes sense. Watch what happens in nature. Agri-business, finally, move over.
Excellent point regarding nitrogen depletion!
Earliest nesting birds on the West Coast are the resident Anna's Hummingbird. I keep a feeder going all year, the bonus is there are far fewer spider webs and insects in spring and through the summer. Cedars here are all over 3 metres high.
Do you water the chips and keep them moist?
Hey thanks dude, you rock!
Where I live in Woodacre CA, due to water issues, the county has left a 157 acre golf course to die. It has been about 3 years now. It is so ugly. Most of the cedars and pine trees have died. The ponds still remain alive with bullfrogs. Evasive weeds surround the landscape. I feel if there was some sort of organization, that could come in a restore land to a natural habitat for wildlife would be amazing. I just don't know why when things like this happen across our states, we don't have some sort of organization (private or public) to come in and fix this mess, and restore it to something the wildlife can benefit from, and the public can enjoy viewing as a natural sanctuary, instead of an eye sore. I guess we need a military budget to make this happen...........................It seems like you could be an amazing consultant to properties such as this - to help counties help restore land that has been damaged from "us" and help nature take it back through proper plantings and seeding.
"A forest grows on a fallen forest."
If you spray paint your hardware cloth in the chicken run it will “disappear “
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I live in an apartment... I guess I'm fucked.
3yrs late but it seems like a cerambycidae, some sort of longhorn beetle
It's easy to blow off dealing with dead trees but two days ago we had one come down directly in front of a car in front of us. It happened so fast, they had NO time to do anything but plow through it an it destroyed their car. Even though we're surrounded by big trees, it was a dramatically reminder of how they can be up and down with no notice.
Just incase you didn't know I recently found out that Day Lilies and most Lilies are very toxic to Cats.
I would compost most of the abundance and try to preserve the rest and whatever is left give away to whoever you like and let the rest fall and feed the trees.
This is a great video- thanks! Really good explanation of why to maximize photosynthesis. I'm new to permaculture and your channe. Working on a design to transform my small property in my neighborhood. Thankfully no HOA to worry about. I feel like I'm horrible at landscape design so struggling to figure out where to place different parts of my wish list while also figuring out how to move standing water after storms to a more useful area like storing water in soil by the garden. It is fun though:)
Composting and worm casting IS fun lol
Raised beds are a perfect spot for winter vegetables if you get them sown...
If you like pistachio nuts then collect Maple Samara, (Those helicopter seeds ) and peel them and roast them with salt. They have a similar taste.