Stefan Sobkowiak - The Permaculture Orchard
Stefan Sobkowiak - The Permaculture Orchard
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To bring the WOW factor back into growing food while attracting wildlife.
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Loved the video .Watched the whole thing. New subscribe!!
Free flowers! Why wouldn't I love dandelions, morning glories, wild violets!
I love how over the time, the orchard doubles as a nursery
Mid-Missouri, USA We have one mature Juliet bush cherry and one mature Carmine Jewel bush cherry. This week, I have picked 6 1/2 gallons of cherries and there is probably 3 gallons left on the bushes, I have grown cherries all my life and this year are the best that I have seen. I would not have believed that a bush could produce so many cherries. I have 10 more younger bushes growing.
To add to what I said, you can eat them raw. .. Like I said I'm lazy.
Thank you for all your inspiration! We started our permaculture orchard in North Texas in Jan. Managed to get the first 48 fruit & nut trees planted in guilds. Have to pause on the planting until Fall as it has warmed up. It's been one of the wettest Springs which has helped us in keeping things watered. We planted the onions & garlic as soon as we planted the trees & it has helped keep pests away so far.🤞 Now we are adding the support plants: comfrey, fragrant herbs & pollinators. Land had lots of trees which were thinned out but put in giant piles so we are doing hugelkultur to again help keep things from drying out in the hottest months of the summer. Trying to use what we have on the land to best advantage. Also came across many bird houses at a former woodworker's estate sale. Thanks to you for the birdhouse idea for attracting more birds. I cant wait to install all of them on our small, 5 acre, permaculture orchard. 🌳
Dandelion saved my liver from certain doom when I accidentally took too much comfrey root. 😅
Where to buy whey ?
I love your videos but am wondering how you will ever get rid of the plastic.
Don’t pick them? Bro I can pick whatever dandelion I want. I pick them for medicine
Looking forward to the video. I'm intending introducing a Permaculture Orchard style linear orchard alongside my food forest and coppice this winter.
Love your orchard. I don't think you should run your mushroom soup through the irrigation system. You risk ending up with a fungal monoculture and that's as bad as a plant monoculture. If the fungus runs out of food, they then begin on the plants. I'd collect a whole series of edible fungi . Make your soups and water in various areas with a watering can going across the rows of trees rather than down a tree row. It's the trio idea but using fungi. Fungi can eat other fungi before turning on the living plants.
I am so glad you showed us the newer area with the seedling trees. I based my spacing on what you were doing there.
Glad it was helpful!
It looks so springy there 😂, we are in infernal season here already ☀️🏜️ 🔥
Thank you, Stefan. Absolutely stunning
Where can i buy Goumi berry bush in ontario?
Whiffletree nursery
You have the most informative and relaxing videos. God bless!
Thank you! You too!
I look forward to every video you put up! Something i can learn each time. Bought a bare root mont royal plum you suggested this year! Just leaves so far. Made the codling moth trap with molasses for my only apple tree.
That is awesome!
Still lost after 25 yrs. Must be a left hand opening box, or not! Should have been on the blupper real.
Its great his daughter had safety glasses on, just in case a raptor jumped out of one of those boxes.
Dantdeleon is French Dant de leon in English lion tooth. Hence please call names in original language. Or change it in to English lion tooth.
What is your tree/ row spacing? I'm getting ready to plant a small orchard and like the spacing in your orchard.
All different ones, depends on rootstock, soil and climate.
Looks to be about 12-14 feet between rows?
Hello Stefan, thank you for the walkabout! Your channel is so precious to me as I live in a very similar climate, albeit on another continent :) You have grapes on a lot of your nitrogen fixers. Which grapes are those, that they do not need to be taken down for winter? I only know of Amur grape which can withstand such cold winter temps.
There are many North American hybrids developed in the last 30 years. Look up the cultivars of Elmer SWENSON.
@@StefanSobkowiak Will look into it, thanks! Hope I can find some of his selection around these parts.
What’s the name of the machine
Flail mower
Too much noice canceling. We want to hear the birds. Great video otherwise.
Noted!
Plant some pawpaws!
I am trying pawpaws this year first time in 4b. Same as Stefan. I wonder if they will survive in this climate, we get -32 celsius spikes for a few days every winter in January. Do you have any knowledge on which cultivar is most cold hardy?
I'm in 4b/5a. I planted 8 Pawpaw seeds last spring. 4 sprouted. I kept them in gallon pots up close to the house and covered them with leaves. They all came through! I think Kentucky or Ohio has a university that specializes in Pawpaw varieties. Good luck!
I have and am waiting
zone 3b-4a ish i planted 2 last year put mulched leaves over top in nov with woodchips on the ground around them. ground is pretty cold have not woken up, scratched them with fingernail still green
@@grantsilzer4460 That is wonderful news, wow! Thanks for sharing.
Is anyone else curious about his economics and if his orchard makes money? Is this a good business model or side hustle?
If his making money with orchard he won’t bother making KZread! 😂😂😂
Any complex system, with lots of duversity, like permaculture, are beautiful, ecologic, perfect for homesteading...and comercially unviable!
@@srantoniomatosI wouldn't say unviable but certainly difficult if not impossible to scale currently. With the right marketing and venue he could probably do pretty well. It's just he is only getting so far with that model with how things are. He also has less cost compared to more conventional operations which use lots of heavy equipment, large infrastructure sites, synthetic soil inputs, herbicides, insecticides etc. At the very least he is keeping a much higher percentage of his income. He probably won't be a millionaire/billionaire but when you have no grocery bill and make thousands it can be pretty decent for normal people.
@@malikjackson9337 certainly...nothing is impossible. Its just that complexity and diversity makes all managment (prunning, harvesting, and all parts of the comercial side) much more ineficient. But good marketing, selling direct, at higher price can make it possible, even for a small operation like this. Maybe not to live on it (its too small) but to make some, or at least dont get under the costs... But to live off the farm and compete directly on the markets with professional producers, well, its a all different game, in size, efficiency, and on the comercial size. To some markets this would even be illegal. And at this size he couldnt even feed a small store trough out the 4 month season. Amateur homestead self producing is completly different from comercial farmming.
The orchard is profitable but I’m not pushing it like I used to. Educating is more fun for me.
I used elderberry as a nitrogen fixers, also blueberries; I trust thats not a no no.
As trios, I should say.
Hello Erwin, do you have anywhere I could read about elderberry being a nitrogen fixer?
Elderberry is not a nitrogen fixer.
Any diversity is a positive step.
@@MalinaImportI googled it.
Watching this video while I wait to have my semi trlr tire fixed.
Your joy at the morels is so wonderful! Your videos are always a pleasure to watch + so much learning and validation of how this system REALLY works!
Thank you so much!
Should you put some kind of spore catcher under the mushrooms before they open completely? That's it thanks. Remember the children, and never say no one told me. Don't forget all of the Russians who abused children and their families in Ukraine. From the mass graves (in Izium) to the stolen children. Now if Ukrainian parents don't become Russian citizens and go to flight against their brothers and cousins Russia will take their newborn children at birth. Speaking of Izium. What did those 414 people see? The Russians thought it was better to murder them and bury them all in a mass grave instead of letting them testify. Whatever they saw must have been truly horrific. If Russia want's to sign a treaty they must first prove they will stand by one. If Russia wants to negotiate, start with your original written agreement. Pull back all of their troops back behind their original boarder and then you can start negotiations. If they don't show they will honor the original agreement how can you expect them to honor any further agreements. It's our war to lose. Russia can NOT win. Unless we choose to not support Ukraine of course. It is on us in the global West to pick the world we want to live in. Choose wisely. Thanks. Glory to Ukraine. God Bless Ukraine and her people. 🇺🇦🇺🇸
A question - is there any possibility of grafting a haskap into a blueberry/huckleberry base - or - vice versa and grow both species from a single plant ? Much like a Franken-bush.
If I can step in - nope, I very much doubt it, haskap is completely unrelated to blueberry, it's actually in the same family as honeysuckle. I mean, you can try, that's part of the fun..!
I'm almost certain it won't work but please try it and report back.
Try. But since shrubs are so easy to multiply just have one of each.
God bless you sir, can’t overstate how much stress relief I get from watching this guy talk ship on orchards
Wow, thanks
that's neat there are morels growing! I've only got ugly looking yellow mushrooms growing under my trees, but I seem to recall hearing something about mushrooms being an indication of a good ecosystem for trees so I'm taking it as a good sign.
Did you lose any fruits with all the strong winds in Quebec these past days, because I lost all my fruits
How sad!
Do you still run chickens down the rows between the fruit trees?
No, There is always next year in fruit growing.
How do you keep your trees in such straight rows? Do you prune them back heavily when growing over the path?
Training and some pruning yes.
how do the nitrogen fixing treees work? do they just improve the soil by growing there? or we need to cut and drop them on the ground????
Both ways, plus the leaf fall makes excellent mulch.
I have a tree farm with heavy deer density. 5' tree tubes and wire cages around individual trees works best for me. The tree tubes also make the trees grow much faster.
My neighbour has been getting rid of her dandelions this way for 7 years. Looks like she must still have bad soil issues from what your saying lol
conifer needles in fact are fairly poor at creating acidity . Conifers tend to grow on acidic soils hence the confusion .
Our soil is 6.8 but close to 5 under our pines.
Why does My fruit tree only fruit on one limb?
Look at the branch angle, is it the only one that’s flat or below horizontal
I absolutely love dandelions, especially dandelion coffee from roasting the roots. I'm getting too old to dig the roots because my yard is all rock.😢
Dandelions are not native to North America. They do not belong here, and the bird you used as an example who eat its seed is an invasive House Sparrow, another species native to Europe that doesn’t belong here
First time I ever smelled locust tree I followed my nose all the way up my hill and was so excited to find that the smell was coming from a tree on MY property. We had just moved in that year and I also found pears and persimmon. An ice store took out the last two but I have plans to create a permaculture orchard now, 19 years later.
I pick dandelions to eat them
Do you chop and drop everything or is it just fertilized from the plant exudates feedinb soil life?
Both
@StefanSobkowiak awesome. Do you put the branches adter pruning trees through chipper or just lay them on ground in tree Line to brake down?
1:53 hehehe
Wonderful! I enjoy and appreciate you, your channel, thank you 🙏 So much gratitude 😊
I kerp them especially for the insects and let them work in the soil.
Dandelion are an invasive species that choke out native plants. They are harmful.