In this video, I take you on a tour of Liz Zorab’s beautiful, self-sufficient food garden in the UK’s Welsh countryside. As we walk around, we share gardening tips and stories about growing food at home.
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G'day, Everyone! Thanks for your ongoing support and for taking time out of your busy day to watch my videos. Liz has a fantastic food-oriented property, but remember, you only need a little space to reduce your food bill significantly by growing your own at home. You don't have to be self-sufficient in everything – just be self-sufficient in something… Cheers 🙂
I loved Liz's garden, all the plants growing together. That was the biggest rose hip I've ever seen! What a lovely, warm person she is.
That was a wonderful tour. The lunch looked scrumptious! 😊one of my favorite videos of hers is of her ducks from her first property. I find it beautiful and meditative. Thanks for the video Mark and Liz. Great seeing Nina again. 🌸🌿🦋
Wow! Welcome to Wales……
Liz is wonderful…person and gardener!
What a great video and such a nice lady, had to laugh about the home made wine. ❤❤
Wow so good to see you this side of the world mark
Helloooooo Mark. Well Liz indeed is a very wonderful gardening lady with lovely varieties of plants, herbs and fruits she's growing. Not easy job to maintain such a huge garden. A real gem of a food forest indeed. Ty. Mark, Nina and Liz for showing us around. Stay blessed and safe always.
Love from Mauritius island.
Thanks so much Liz for sharing your amazing garden and your wealth of knowledge. Much love from Queensland Australia
Letsssss GOOOOOOOO, always keen for a SSM vid
I love the UK ! IF my husband would leave California. We’d move sufficient to Wales. UK that’s my dream. ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
Hi all, that was a brilliant episode I loved every moment of it, so much info and pleasantness, you couldn't ask for more, thank you and cheers !!!! 🥰😘👍👍🙏🙏
Very nice video. On another note, perhaps you could find your way to explain how gardening can help a family prepare for an extended grid down event. There are many people in North Carolina who are suffering in the aftermath of the hurricane there. Within two weeks of the power being gone, their food in refrigerators and freezers have gone bad. Many people with generators have run out of fuel and find their roads are washed away and they have no way to get supplies. The only people who are doing well food wise are those with large gardens. It is an extreme event, but it is unfolding on many YouTube videos right now. Thank you!
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ I love how that dear sweet lady takes the animals and insect into account and is okay with sharing some of her bounty with them. I do the same thing in my raised bed and ground gardening. I mostly do raised beds now. I switched to raised beds because the deer here are prolific and it was a battle between them and the bird life. I still give up my blueberries and strawberries and dogwood berries to many of the birds but there's only my husband and I so there's plenty to share.
Good to know about sweet cicely. I'll try to grow it in fall/winter. Here in south Texas we are semi-arid with lots of heat (it's 35 Celsius 95F right now for the high).
You have a boot jack! I haven't heard what we call them here, but we have them and boot scrapers cemented in by the porch steps, too! Thank you for spending part of your vacation recording for your followers, too! Such a wonderful garden! Nice to see you Nina! Enjoy yourselves and best wishes!
Love this!! I too am developing a small food forest. I've been adding something every year. Love Liz's gardens! Thanks for sharing!!
what a beautiful garden!! so inspiring
That was awesome to see, thank you for sharing 😀
Another wonderful video, very much appreciated. You guys are awesome!
Thank you for taking us on the tour 😄
Love.
So good you learned what a boot jack is!!!! LOL
Was lovely seeing Liz on your show.
18:08 It looks like that plant is called "sweet cicely" but it doesn't seem like anyone is selling it in Australia. Any idea whether it grows here? EDIT: Found it – the magic Google keywords are "Myrrhis odorata seeds"
Really interesting and lovely to see ideas to pick up based on my own climate …. good old wet cold and windy Blighty!! 🙂
Also fascinating that you were not familiar with Rose Hips – often forget that things like that are not world wide and that our countryside old style recipes and foraging recipes are alien to others.
Superbe vidéo
À bientôt
I absolutely loved this video!! You and Liz are two of my favourite Youtube gardeners and to have you both in one video was a treasure! It was also fun how you filmed it so simple. Felt like we were there with you. Wonderful! Huw, Toni, Ben, all are so fun to watch on here on Youtube too. You'll have to make another trip over there for more tours 😉📱 With us of course to tag along! 😀
Great to see you over in the UK! Hope you got used to the rain 🌦️😅
Alpine strawberries do well in Tasmania, I love them and grow heaps here Launceston.
Loved it. Liz is so great. My favourite gardens are food gardens, I lovevthem and could watch them all day long.
Shame you never went over in late Spring. Could've foraged and tried some wild garlic (ramsons)!
We love the Aussies 🇬🇧🍻🇦🇺
So jelly of the fresh raspberries tasting
🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
You two don't look so very healthy though I'm afraid.
तो चलो मेरे साथ मेरी छत पर सब्जी कैसे उगाते हैं मैं आपको दिखाती हूं 😢
Liz's garden is beautiful. Thank you for taking us all❤
Love that I am not the only one trying to outwit the neighborhood 🐿️s! I need a plan to keep them from eating my grapes!
Loved her set-up. And her poly tunnel.
cracks me up when the wesh say it's so hot and it's like 21 degrees, they talk like we do on a 30-40 degree day
After my brain injury I had to stop eating rasberries as they are high in lectins, with trauma and inflammation you get a break down of endothelial cells in the gut lining, so the lectins were inflaming me further adding to my headaches, malaise and a rash. Perhaps that variety the birds avoid is higher in lectins and they can't tolerate it. I loved rasberries and peanuts, had to get off all of it.