Why I focus on the science of soil fertility. Biochar, compost, chickens. October Food Forest tour.

Healthy harvest.

So much to learn, and it's all good to eat! Thanks for this.

We do the same thing with Lamb's quarters! They make a gorgeous and thick ground cover, our birds love eating it too! So do we!

I don't particularly care for Lambs Quarter but from a sustainability pov, it's a great crop. Easy to grow, easy to propagate, nutritious, etc

Here in Maine in zone 4b we still haven't had our first frost yet. Still got peppers growing.

Wonderful variety and outcome of so much food! Just started small guilds under 3 existing, 4 y.o. fruit trees. Already the trees require less watering and soil fertility has improved! Do the guild and forest models deter pests such as coddling moth on apple trees?

Have you watched Geoff lawtons videos about creating swales? I have recently from the weedy gardens video he posted last week and it makes me want to build a lot now as it is a great way to prevent erosion and keep trees watered naturally within time and to build up the resiliency and roots of all trees and build up all soil types weather it be clay or sandy soil types. And Lee Reich has a really good book aboit strenghtning branches of fruit trees to grow larger branches to support heavier fruits its a really good book to read its called "Grow Fruit Naturally."

How old are your pawpaws that are producing? We have some young (two year old seedlings) in our garden. Curious to see how long it might take.

I like the wild flower invitation / welcome mat idea

You just got your first frost. We just got a taste of summer in the middle in the middle of October. It was actually 71 in Portland today. Getting all my fall activities done thanks for Sharing on. Hope all is well. Take care.

Amazing fall harvest! Do you have to worry about the juglone toxicity from the black walnut hurting the other plants?

Call me crazy but I would be totally fine with the scientific eradication of Sanguinivorous insects.

Where did you get your Biochar kiln? Are you happy with it? I’d love to start making some

I brought my peppers indoors, gave them a very heavy pruning and potted them down... they will be great in next year’s garden.
As for the tiny carrots-Juice them, whole.
I’m grateful to know of the freeze coming.
I’ve been wondering how much time we have here, in Tennessee, US. I’ve been hurry scurrying you get all my plants ready.
I so enjoy these virtual chore shares. Haha!
Wish we could travel through and help fellow gardeners.

That is pretty dense and close to the house do you have plans for wild fires. It is not an if but a when. I love the way you plant the forest though. The strong will grow it is a good way of breeding for health and vigor. I do seedlings and plant them out in more of a planed for harvest wind control and manage in mid
Sorry to hear about your father. Hoping all go's well.

I love watching Autumn/Fall videos from over here in Australia - it makes me look forward to the harvests coming my current garden work. I really enjoy the interactivity of your design - like one big, engaging foraging adventure.

Been watching you at least a year and shared you with a friend who agrees that you’re a phenomenal teacher. I really do like your style and inspiration and stern warnings to care for Earth. Thanks!

Hey Keith, great video, thanks! The black tubes in the raised beds, are they in situ composting?

I love the yellow, tired wild ragged look of the autumn garden. It's always a bit of a rush to get the harvest in and the seeds collected before the freeze.

I am super excited, we got our neighbour to help us with his excavator, to dig our first swale, it's beautiful! For now we might have to sow something on the disturbed soil in the swale and on the berm, maybe clover, but we've had our first frost here already, just like you, and I don't know if clover will still sprout. We're in Sweden in zone 6b, last winter it got down to -18°C.
Hopefully we will be able to start planting next fall. In the meantime I'm trying to make a list of fruit/nut trees and bushes and other plants we want to have. Oh, and a couple of days ago we made our first batch of charcoal for biochar, in a barrel, just like you showed in one of your videos. I'm unsure of how much charcoal to put in my pile of compost though, got any tips?

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I'm sorry your dad was sick. I hope he's better ♥️

Very cool to have the food falling into the chicken coop!!

Enjoyed the video, thanks for sharing.

I also feel like I am finally dialing in my soil fertility program. I was able to grow carrots, parsnips, and rutabagas this fall that exceeded all expectations. I started some January King cabbages perhaps a little bit too late. They have started to head up....whether they will make it all the way, I don't know. If not, plenty of encouragement for the potential of the winter garden. But the vigor and color of the leaves is incredible. Chicken + vegetable compost + biochar + some rock minerals seems to have pushed things to another level.

What kind of seed trees are you planting?

Your videos are very worth watching. I will not be able to use the information yet but when I do, I will show you...thank you.

Why have I not been getting your videos?Goddamn algorithms!