How America's Youth Is Transforming Food Deserts into Food Oases!

True weeds (Weedus Weedicus) are actually very rare. Thanks for the video in praise of weeds! It's a message that must be shared.

Yes, I would like a tour and I do like the forest you've got there. It's nice.

George Davis

I allowed my yard to weed this year and was blessed by so many medicinal weeds! Plus a wild raspberry bush. Cannot wait to see what sprouts next year! I live in NJ in the US.

Beautiful! I started going wild this year and was surprised with a lot of milk weed which I didn’t plant. The Monarch butterflies had a feast👍👍

I would like to see you cook and eat the plants that most call weeds.

What app did you use to identify those plants. Very cool concept and good to know some new edible plants as well.

I love this! We live on 5 acres, and purposely only use 1.5 acre for ourselves. The local wildlife are welcome and our food scraps are never wasted. I also created a small "wildlife oasis" (we reside in a Mediterranean chaparral biome) with fresh water, moist ground, and all kinds of seeds. My husband, cat, and I are thoroughly entertained on a daily basis. 😊 Rats and mice that threaten our home are live-trapped and brought to the nature reserve next to us. My crops are in raised beds and protected with hardware cloth. Love thy neighbor - even the animals. 😁

Let’s just say, I’m old now, gardened all my life, including permaculture, and lol 😂. It’s alright, I went through all of this many years ago, you have to find out somehow. Have fun.

I look at weeds as the unofficial cover crop...

So enjoyable to learn how to understand what the plants are revealing about the soil, and how you've helped to increase the presence of wildlife. I wonder if you could boost your garden's social acceptability by putting up official signs stating that this is a rewilding project. Maybe a university might allow you to do this as a horticulture project. That might cause others to see your efforts in a different way. Am looking forward to your future garden videos.

That Shaggy Soldier reminds me of a native plant we have here in North America, called Bidens alba. It looks very similar and is very aggressive re-seeder and in the same family. It's edible and considered a medicinal. Every pollinator is attracted to this plant, it's considered one of the top pollinator plants here in Florida.

Looking at all those lawns.... If only the tide would turn and people en masse embrace a more relaxed and nature-connected approach to their yards and gardens (a shift I believe is happening right now, but I would like it to speed up a bit), all this disgusting green waste lands, will be low hanging fruits in a small scale rewilding of entire landscapes. Creating habitats and corridors for small wild life.
And there is nothing more rewarding (and addicitve) then watching what appears when you stop keeping the area sterile. A garden aimed at connecting to the land, not shutting your territory away from it.

I'm sorry but the definition of a weed is simply a plant that is growing somewhere that you don't want it to be growing... therefore if they are the "solution to your problems" and "friends not foes" then they aren't weeds by definition.

You have a beautiful little plot there, full of life.

A Poem quickly inspired by you mentioning the invent of the lawnmower:
We wanted to sell lawn mowers
So we vilified the dent-de-leon.
Did away with the achillea, mullein, and violet.
We wanted to sell pesticide,
So we dimmed the stars of clover,
Chickweed and ground ivy.
Mosquitoes, flies, butterflies, and bees
Get rid of them all, nothing will stop money.
Caterpillars on the trees be gone,
Don’t care about the birdsongs,
Let them dwindle due to nothing to eat.
No need for fireflies,
Making memories with our children.
No need for chirping crickets
While we sit fireside, enamored crackling melting our stress.
No need to smell peppermint,
Or feel lamb’s ear.
They are useless because we don’t know them now.
Comfrey doesn’t do anything for muscles or skin,
Not because it lost its power, but because we gave ours away.
And we’re not a lost cause.
In a generation, we can connect again.

Some of the weeds are edible in Indonesia 😮

Bah... We had a lot of weed in the garden - and they were full of slugs and voles.

At night the slugs moved to the vegetables - eating all salat plants, half of the paprika and zucchini and a lot of bean plants. And in the ground the voles ate up many roots of the beans and the plants died and the roots of more than half of the strawberry roots and plants died.
And the high weed plants are full with mosquitos!

This year I started to rip out all of the sucking weed stuff to get rid of the slug and mosquito pest and I will set up traps for the voles!

Yeah, if you have no pest animals in your area - go one with growing the weeds! But I will get rid of those plants, because I want to have a yield again!

I love that house. I need more information about the development

After research I discovered that 80% of my garden weeds are edible. This changed my view of weeds completely.

I stopped mowing the lawn 2 years ago and it's so nice to see how many different species of flowers were hiding in plain sight among the "green desert" just waiting for a chance to grow and not be cut down. And natural pathways have formed on where I walk.

The people in the "ecological development" got mad about you having a lush garden. We are doomed.